Your laptop will be old. Do you think your laptop at that point will be able to run that version of Windows? You know it's going to be utilising graphics cards, etc.
Might I suggest some kind of Linux to switch to if you're in such a hurry to "upgrade" to something new.
When Vista betas came out, I thought I would be eventually using it at first. But I tried it for a week, just trying to use it as my normal OS and I would not care about bugs. I did the same with the final version when the business final (same as retail in January) came out in September of 2006. It was nearly the same. Not usable by my standards. My notebook is fully capable of Vista (bought my notebook in May 2006).
I figured I cannot hold onto Windows XP forever. So I moved to Linux and this time decided I would seriously learn Linux and no going back to Windows for some time. I know a lot more now because I took the time to learn it and it was worth it. I can do programming and web design much more easily than I ever could in Windows; Wine suffices for a lot of what is missing in Linux (other than VirtualDub). I dual-boot Windows, but 90% of the time I am in Linux (Gentoo now), using KDE. I love it.
My computer (a laptop) is on 24/7 and I would never want to be bothered with waiting for it to come back on. It takes about a minute, but I don't want to spend it. I do not pay the bill really either at home or at college, but my computer is never doing nothing. I always have torrents seeding and downloading, other downloads, things to encode, all kinds of things. Sometimes, I recompile big packages in Gentoo (definitely an overnight procedure). It's incredibly useful to have it on all the time.
The only times this computer goes off is for a few ms when it's rebooting to go into Windows or just rebooting (not very often). Often this computer is in either Windows or Linux for days before another reboot.
However, I do hate when computers are on and are not doing anything at all. My room mate would leave his laptop on all the time doing NOTHING other than being connected to AIM. I guess if he wants to receive messages while he's gone (a modern answering machine). But to me it's entirely useless. I hardly ever receive messages while away (yes I may not be equally social as my room mate, other than IRC all the time).
I guess if I had NOTHING to do with computers then I would not have mine on much, but I do A LOT.
Please see what I wrote in the parentheses. I am aware firewire is technically better, but the royalties (IEEE is pro-patent, pro-royalty organisation) for firewire do not outweigh the slightly lower speed of USB 2.0.
As an electrical engineer student, I almost do not wish to join IEEE (even the university's chapter) if they are going to act as such when it comes to "their" standard technologies. However, I might be forced to in order to secure any references for the future. Strange how things are today.
Agreed. Hopefully W-USB will entirely replace Bluetooth, much the way USB 2.0 has replaced all the benefit that Firewire had. I love how royalty-free always wins.
(Yes, I know IEEE 1394 spec has some things better than USB in general, but there's no royalty on USB).
Doubt TransferJet will work on Linux any time soon.
Find a WHAT ? Nope, sorry, no way, I'm not breaking laws for you.
It's true. Many people who have no idea about computers have often got their copies of Office (and perhaps other software) from friends, "the company", etc for free back when it was easy (before activation). I agree and would take the same stance against someone if they asked me for free Office. These people assume Office is somehow free.
Now that there are suitable alternatives, I could never just give away Office for free again. I would much rather promote OOo or KOffice.
I think OOo should make subsets of code for GTK and Qt (I would use Qt). UNO seems to be EXTREMELY slow in comparison to native KDE/Qt apps, and slow in Gnome as well (in comparison to native GTK/Gnome apps). I know why UNO was chosen as the GUI framework but people would have far less to complain about with regards to speed if OOo just had separate Qt code and separate GTK code. OOo takes about 15 sec to load on my PC but the menus and other parts of the GUI are just slow the first time you click them. Of course, after that they are in the memory so they are decently fast.
In Windows, OOo isn't quite like this but it still isn't as fast as other Windows apps, probably because of UNO.
I think it would be better to teach these children how to use LaTeX. It offers the openness of OO.o, but allows for the preparation of much more professional documentation. It would also be very useful for those students who wish to pursue university studies, as most math, science and engineering papers are formatted using LaTeX.
Totally agree, but not necessarily children. Part of a science/engineering/mathematics major should be learning how to write using LaTeX. I've learned by myself and I use it for papers that are 2+ pages. I find it strange how people want to fight with the Office formula tool (many people find it difficult to use) or any variants to display things in their papers. I use KmPlot for my graphs and just use the PNGs generated for my papers as well. Everyone who writes papers needs tools that can display formulae correctly and graphs. Word is definitely not the answer (so many people think it is), especially for long papers. BibTeX is much better than any built-in bibliography manager I have ever seen in a word processor.
OpenOffice's formula programme is not great but I'm glad that it uses MathML instead of something proprietary. I wish they would add LaTeX support to it.
LaTeX is free! Not even my school's Linux partitions (for the few computers that dual-boot, about 20) have TeTeX or LaTeX installed.
Same at my university. Many people bought new laptops that came with the Office 2007 trial, used it up and then were forced into a choice between buying the programme or getting something free. Most everyone who did not buy it chose OOo, which I thought was neat. However they realised that their docx files could not be opened by OOo (yet), but converters are available online.
Regardless, because of the cost, I find that many students (many of my friends, not even by my suggestion) are choosing to use free software in one way or another. I've been using OOo for over 2 years now (although now I write 1+ page papers in LaTeX only). Great to see the improvements thus far and I cannot wait for more.
KOffice also looks nice and I think people will definitely consider that when it's fully ported to Windows and an easy download.
Well, I would click Tools -> Options and so forth to disable that if I wanted it to be disabled on the master box then copy that image to the other PCs. That saves a lot of time. If you seriously attempted to log in on 150 PCs, then you wasted probably a lot of time, bandwidth for Slashdot (now I feel bad for them XD), and bandwidth for the company (if that's how they buy it). That was a huge waste of resources regardless of cost, no offence. Could have saved some time and resources my man.
Windows (any version) viruses: thousands if not 10 thousands Vista viruses: 10 or more thus far OS X (all versions including Leopard): less than 10, and many require a user to be dumb enough to enter their password.
For fun:
Linux viruses: some vulnerabilities found, but always quickly fixed. Most require root privileges (entering password) which most users do not run in all the time.
Vista is going to be flopped as another ME and Microsoft will release a new OS and charge even more money. Meanwhile people in general are not liking the new pricing schemes of software much at all (parents of students who 'need' Office in particular).
On the other hand we have the more fine-grained security model. Yes, this means more popup boxes. But if I'm running Ubuntu, it's much worse. I'll have to type my passport so many times that it isn't even funny any more. Just clicking a popup box seems more user friendly to me.
Uh...are you stating that Vista's passive "allow" pop-up box is better than Ubuntu's? As far as I can tell, the only things that require me to type in my password is certain parts of the preferences (login screen, etc), and changing system configuration files. Vista seemingly is absolutely randomness. If the program has no such code to deal with Vista's security model, it assumes the programme is potentially bad and warns accordingly. This is basically 90% of the programmes out there right now, and 90% of the programmes people want to run (old apps, etc). The only things that don't pop up warning screens is Microsoft's new stuff (Microsoft ALWAYS trusts Microsoft), Windows Update, and relatively new software that handles the security model simply by saying 'we are trustable'. Seemingly Windows Update STILL requires reboots on Vista a lot.
The security design of Linux and Mac, based off the idea that certain things require root privileges to work, works great because relatively few things require root from a normal user's point of view. Here and there you enter your password to install new software and make system-wide preference changes; it's great because it blocks random people from installing software you do not want, changing settings, etc. Unlike MS's passive warning box, it requires a password to move forward. Nothing will happen without a password. Any user could go onto a Windows box and still cause havoc because all they'd have to do is click "Allow". Lastly, all users who do not turn of the setting will simply passively click "Allow" as if it's this normal thing and still end up installing all the crapware out there. If it required a password, perhaps this wouldn't happen. And certainly random people could not cause havoc on another person's Windows box.
Also, not a fan of.NET because of patents, so I am not for Gtk# or Mono really much at all. Novell makes those and the deal between Microsoft and them is so questionable. I like Java because it's FOSS now but I think managed code is not so popular on Linux/BSD because.NET patents, and speed of the software, especially loading time. I prefer to programme in C because I know the programme will be faster loading.
I agree with you 100% on the 'let's innovate instead.' Linux still has some catching up to do even after this long, but it's nearly there. Once it is, then innovation can truly start. It's useable for me, and I use it 90% of the time (Gentoo, KDE 3). I feel very powerful using it. For the time being I cannot see users using Linux to the full possible potential without learning a lot first (which is what I did). People, especially elderly, do not want to learn (in general) is also another problem.
I use version 8 (and did use 7) on Windows because a lot of PDFs would fail to load properly for me in Foxit Reader when I used it. Adobe did not hardcode all those new features in, they are all just extensions. I've disabled 90% of them, and just enabled reading and searching functions; best way to go for ultimate compatibility. Reader 8 is very fast now. Google it up.
On Linux, KPDF hasn't loaded a PDF incorrectly for me yet. As soon as it is available for Windows I'll probably use it.
xpdf is for people who like opposite way cursors on their menus and Motif-style interface, OLD PEOPLE. Oh yeah and
"GNOME users are idiots" ~Linus Torvalds (Google that up too)
However, I'm not a troll, but I do not like GNOME and I'm totally unwilling to support it now that de Icaza is a Microsoft shill. Qt is all GPL now (and still some people don't know, it's been quite some time). There's no reasons regarding licenses to use GNOME anymore. And besides, Xfce tends to be faster anyway.
Also, I generally avoid all the Motif-style or old-looking interface apps as much as possible. They are just an absolute eyesore, particularly xpdf and ghostview.
I'm starting to like Yahoo again too, but can they make a really clean homepage like Google? That's one of the reasons my homepage has been google.com.
2. I can run 12 year old software in Vista without modification. Can you run a 12 year old binary in Linux and have it still work? Unlikely. Most binary drivers break with a simple kernel upgrade.
I'm not sure UNIX/Linux were really built for running old binaries, unlike Windows, which strives to keep compatibility. In the end, this is a bad idea because it leads to security exploits (Windows has millions). And then, when Microsoft patches a piece of their OS to fix security, it can break compatibility for another application one company may be using. The developers should update the software to use the new libraries or changes to the libraries, and people should not expect Microsoft to just keep the libraries mostly the same. Apple does this, it's expected and the customers get a secure operating system (OS X) at the same time. At the same, Linux users expect that their might be library incompatibilities causing a binary to not run or source to not compile (deprecated functions, etc). Most of the time, these are resolved by the developer(s).
3a. Link? In my experience people choose php because frankly its piss easy, Java because its cross platform, and.Net if it can run on Windows. There's some cross-over, but not much. Additionally, Java probably is more popular, but only because it had a 10 year head-start..Net is a superb platform (for Win systems at least), I challenge you to try and spin that one..Net is just Microsoft's response to OS version incompatibility. In general a.Net program can run on 98-Vista without really a problem. But there is a problem, it's REALLY REALLY slow to load (just like Java most of the time). Personally I don't see why managed code is becoming so popular; I would much rather write native code and manage memory and do garbage collection manually, for the reason of speed and optimisation. Also, PHP is cross-platform as well. I would not really say.Net is so bad to use but it is technically proprietary, covered by patents, not an "open" standard, etc. I know about Mono, but I do not trust the Novell-Microsoft deal.
3b. Developer popularity around.Net tech is healthy thanks. A quick look on monster.com shows more or less the same results for.net and java positions.
I'm pretty sure the reason is that most paying jobs develop for Windows only for both Java and.Net. But again, what's wrong with native code? Perhaps if Windows was a platform built for building apps from source nearly every time you get one, then we would not have the compatibility issue. It would take a little while each time, especially big programs, but launching them won't have to wait for the framework to load.
I'm so sick and tired of these comparisons. I really don't care anymore, whether it's Linux vs OS X, Windows, Solaris, or whatever. It's so annoying and I won't even read TFA.
Once again, we come to the conclusion, that different operating systems do the same things differently! Wow! Yet another person wasted another few days trying out two OS's rather than getting any real work done. So cool!
Well, consider their other company practices, such as 'bait and switch', Geek Squad stories, etc. Newegg and other online retails beat Best Buy every time, even on 'black friday'.
I don't think I should have to run a 'quick-launcher' on any system (I use Linux too) to speed up the process of launching an Ooo app. It takes about 30 seconds for an Ooo to load, which is okay but the speed of the programs once they are running is really partially not okay. We all know they are eating up RAM.
I would hope this would help in getting things faster in general. I hate the idea of let's use more resources because their available (Vista). Seems to me that Ooo is just being feature-filled and no one is thinking about the slowness that can add to it.
I would love to purchase more music online as FLAC or WAVs or other lossless codecs, with covers to print in JPG. That way I can burn a lossless CD, print the covers, and it's close enough to the real thing. Then I would definitely store the data on my computer in the compression format I want. If I want to change it, I can get the original lossless data.
The 40 years part isn't even true. It's just there so people can THINK their information would be destroyed. I highly doubt it. Secondly, 40 years would be way too long anyway. How about 1 year (much more reasonable)? More reasonable would be to get rid of the whole government and restart this fucking country.
Is there anybody in the planet who wants to do something online today but can't because of problems with Windows?
Considering many Windows users end up with a trashed machine so often, that often kills the internet connection (by way of editing the UNPROTECTED hosts file, replacing UNPROTECTED dlls (using backdoors to avoid WFC), etc), yes. Windows sucks.
My set up of Windows is clean as a whistle and fast as hell (XP) but that's thanks to a lot of knowledge that most users do not have.
Blame Japan and Asia for not adopting UTF* so readily. Hong Kong wants Big5, China wants GB1830 or whatever, Japan wants Shift-JIS (or EUC-JP). There are not many pages in Asia that are in Unicode; in Japan it's Shift-JIS or bust. Asian countries claim that Kanji/Hanzi/Hanja are not showing up properly when written in a particular language; stroke order and other calligraphical disputes basically (historians also complain because ancient text was written differently than today sometimes). I hope Wikipedia can influence the world as a whole to use Unicode, regardless.
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Are there really that many new OEM licences for XP still out there?
Your laptop will be old. Do you think your laptop at that point will be able to run that version of Windows? You know it's going to be utilising graphics cards, etc.
Might I suggest some kind of Linux to switch to if you're in such a hurry to "upgrade" to something new.
When Vista betas came out, I thought I would be eventually using it at first. But I tried it for a week, just trying to use it as my normal OS and I would not care about bugs. I did the same with the final version when the business final (same as retail in January) came out in September of 2006. It was nearly the same. Not usable by my standards. My notebook is fully capable of Vista (bought my notebook in May 2006).
I figured I cannot hold onto Windows XP forever. So I moved to Linux and this time decided I would seriously learn Linux and no going back to Windows for some time. I know a lot more now because I took the time to learn it and it was worth it. I can do programming and web design much more easily than I ever could in Windows; Wine suffices for a lot of what is missing in Linux (other than VirtualDub). I dual-boot Windows, but 90% of the time I am in Linux (Gentoo now), using KDE. I love it.
My computer (a laptop) is on 24/7 and I would never want to be bothered with waiting for it to come back on. It takes about a minute, but I don't want to spend it. I do not pay the bill really either at home or at college, but my computer is never doing nothing. I always have torrents seeding and downloading, other downloads, things to encode, all kinds of things. Sometimes, I recompile big packages in Gentoo (definitely an overnight procedure). It's incredibly useful to have it on all the time.
The only times this computer goes off is for a few ms when it's rebooting to go into Windows or just rebooting (not very often). Often this computer is in either Windows or Linux for days before another reboot.
However, I do hate when computers are on and are not doing anything at all. My room mate would leave his laptop on all the time doing NOTHING other than being connected to AIM. I guess if he wants to receive messages while he's gone (a modern answering machine). But to me it's entirely useless. I hardly ever receive messages while away (yes I may not be equally social as my room mate, other than IRC all the time).
I guess if I had NOTHING to do with computers then I would not have mine on much, but I do A LOT.
I'll continue playing XScrabble. :)
Please see what I wrote in the parentheses. I am aware firewire is technically better, but the royalties (IEEE is pro-patent, pro-royalty organisation) for firewire do not outweigh the slightly lower speed of USB 2.0.
As an electrical engineer student, I almost do not wish to join IEEE (even the university's chapter) if they are going to act as such when it comes to "their" standard technologies. However, I might be forced to in order to secure any references for the future. Strange how things are today.
Agreed. Hopefully W-USB will entirely replace Bluetooth, much the way USB 2.0 has replaced all the benefit that Firewire had. I love how royalty-free always wins.
(Yes, I know IEEE 1394 spec has some things better than USB in general, but there's no royalty on USB).
Doubt TransferJet will work on Linux any time soon.
Find a WHAT ? Nope, sorry, no way, I'm not breaking laws for you.
It's true. Many people who have no idea about computers have often got their copies of Office (and perhaps other software) from friends, "the company", etc for free back when it was easy (before activation). I agree and would take the same stance against someone if they asked me for free Office. These people assume Office is somehow free.
Now that there are suitable alternatives, I could never just give away Office for free again. I would much rather promote OOo or KOffice.
I think OOo should make subsets of code for GTK and Qt (I would use Qt). UNO seems to be EXTREMELY slow in comparison to native KDE/Qt apps, and slow in Gnome as well (in comparison to native GTK/Gnome apps). I know why UNO was chosen as the GUI framework but people would have far less to complain about with regards to speed if OOo just had separate Qt code and separate GTK code. OOo takes about 15 sec to load on my PC but the menus and other parts of the GUI are just slow the first time you click them. Of course, after that they are in the memory so they are decently fast.
In Windows, OOo isn't quite like this but it still isn't as fast as other Windows apps, probably because of UNO.
Totally agree, but not necessarily children. Part of a science/engineering/mathematics major should be learning how to write using LaTeX. I've learned by myself and I use it for papers that are 2+ pages. I find it strange how people want to fight with the Office formula tool (many people find it difficult to use) or any variants to display things in their papers. I use KmPlot for my graphs and just use the PNGs generated for my papers as well. Everyone who writes papers needs tools that can display formulae correctly and graphs. Word is definitely not the answer (so many people think it is), especially for long papers. BibTeX is much better than any built-in bibliography manager I have ever seen in a word processor.
OpenOffice's formula programme is not great but I'm glad that it uses MathML instead of something proprietary. I wish they would add LaTeX support to it.
LaTeX is free! Not even my school's Linux partitions (for the few computers that dual-boot, about 20) have TeTeX or LaTeX installed.
Same at my university. Many people bought new laptops that came with the Office 2007 trial, used it up and then were forced into a choice between buying the programme or getting something free. Most everyone who did not buy it chose OOo, which I thought was neat. However they realised that their docx files could not be opened by OOo (yet), but converters are available online.
Regardless, because of the cost, I find that many students (many of my friends, not even by my suggestion) are choosing to use free software in one way or another. I've been using OOo for over 2 years now (although now I write 1+ page papers in LaTeX only). Great to see the improvements thus far and I cannot wait for more.
KOffice also looks nice and I think people will definitely consider that when it's fully ported to Windows and an easy download.
Well, I would click Tools -> Options and so forth to disable that if I wanted it to be disabled on the master box then copy that image to the other PCs. That saves a lot of time. If you seriously attempted to log in on 150 PCs, then you wasted probably a lot of time, bandwidth for Slashdot (now I feel bad for them XD), and bandwidth for the company (if that's how they buy it). That was a huge waste of resources regardless of cost, no offence. Could have saved some time and resources my man.
Uh...what?
In general knowledge, how many of each?
Windows (any version) viruses: thousands if not 10 thousands
Vista viruses: 10 or more thus far
OS X (all versions including Leopard): less than 10, and many require a user to be dumb enough to enter their password.
For fun:
Linux viruses: some vulnerabilities found, but always quickly fixed. Most require root privileges (entering password) which most users do not run in all the time.
Vista is going to be flopped as another ME and Microsoft will release a new OS and charge even more money. Meanwhile people in general are not liking the new pricing schemes of software much at all (parents of students who 'need' Office in particular).
On the other hand we have the more fine-grained security model. Yes, this means more popup boxes. But if I'm running Ubuntu, it's much worse. I'll have to type my passport so many times that it isn't even funny any more. Just clicking a popup box seems more user friendly to me.
Uh...are you stating that Vista's passive "allow" pop-up box is better than Ubuntu's? As far as I can tell, the only things that require me to type in my password is certain parts of the preferences (login screen, etc), and changing system configuration files. Vista seemingly is absolutely randomness. If the program has no such code to deal with Vista's security model, it assumes the programme is potentially bad and warns accordingly. This is basically 90% of the programmes out there right now, and 90% of the programmes people want to run (old apps, etc). The only things that don't pop up warning screens is Microsoft's new stuff (Microsoft ALWAYS trusts Microsoft), Windows Update, and relatively new software that handles the security model simply by saying 'we are trustable'. Seemingly Windows Update STILL requires reboots on Vista a lot.
The security design of Linux and Mac, based off the idea that certain things require root privileges to work, works great because relatively few things require root from a normal user's point of view. Here and there you enter your password to install new software and make system-wide preference changes; it's great because it blocks random people from installing software you do not want, changing settings, etc. Unlike MS's passive warning box, it requires a password to move forward. Nothing will happen without a password. Any user could go onto a Windows box and still cause havoc because all they'd have to do is click "Allow". Lastly, all users who do not turn of the setting will simply passively click "Allow" as if it's this normal thing and still end up installing all the crapware out there. If it required a password, perhaps this wouldn't happen. And certainly random people could not cause havoc on another person's Windows box.
Also, not a fan of .NET because of patents, so I am not for Gtk# or Mono really much at all. Novell makes those and the deal between Microsoft and them is so questionable. I like Java because it's FOSS now but I think managed code is not so popular on Linux/BSD because .NET patents, and speed of the software, especially loading time. I prefer to programme in C because I know the programme will be faster loading.
I agree with you 100% on the 'let's innovate instead.' Linux still has some catching up to do even after this long, but it's nearly there. Once it is, then innovation can truly start. It's useable for me, and I use it 90% of the time (Gentoo, KDE 3). I feel very powerful using it. For the time being I cannot see users using Linux to the full possible potential without learning a lot first (which is what I did). People, especially elderly, do not want to learn (in general) is also another problem.
I use version 8 (and did use 7) on Windows because a lot of PDFs would fail to load properly for me in Foxit Reader when I used it. Adobe did not hardcode all those new features in, they are all just extensions. I've disabled 90% of them, and just enabled reading and searching functions; best way to go for ultimate compatibility. Reader 8 is very fast now. Google it up.
On Linux, KPDF hasn't loaded a PDF incorrectly for me yet. As soon as it is available for Windows I'll probably use it.
xpdf is for people who like opposite way cursors on their menus and Motif-style interface, OLD PEOPLE. Oh yeah and
"GNOME users are idiots" ~Linus Torvalds (Google that up too)
However, I'm not a troll, but I do not like GNOME and I'm totally unwilling to support it now that de Icaza is a Microsoft shill. Qt is all GPL now (and still some people don't know, it's been quite some time). There's no reasons regarding licenses to use GNOME anymore. And besides, Xfce tends to be faster anyway.
Also, I generally avoid all the Motif-style or old-looking interface apps as much as possible. They are just an absolute eyesore, particularly xpdf and ghostview.
I'm starting to like Yahoo again too, but can they make a really clean homepage like Google? That's one of the reasons my homepage has been google.com.
2. I can run 12 year old software in Vista without modification. Can you run a 12 year old binary in Linux and have it still work? Unlikely. Most binary drivers break with a simple kernel upgrade.
.Net if it can run on Windows. There's some cross-over, but not much. Additionally, Java probably is more popular, but only because it had a 10 year head-start. .Net is a superb platform (for Win systems at least), I challenge you to try and spin that one. .Net is just Microsoft's response to OS version incompatibility. In general a .Net program can run on 98-Vista without really a problem. But there is a problem, it's REALLY REALLY slow to load (just like Java most of the time). Personally I don't see why managed code is becoming so popular; I would much rather write native code and manage memory and do garbage collection manually, for the reason of speed and optimisation. Also, PHP is cross-platform as well. I would not really say .Net is so bad to use but it is technically proprietary, covered by patents, not an "open" standard, etc. I know about Mono, but I do not trust the Novell-Microsoft deal.
.Net tech is healthy thanks. A quick look on monster.com shows more or less the same results for .net and java positions.
.Net. But again, what's wrong with native code? Perhaps if Windows was a platform built for building apps from source nearly every time you get one, then we would not have the compatibility issue. It would take a little while each time, especially big programs, but launching them won't have to wait for the framework to load.
I'm not sure UNIX/Linux were really built for running old binaries, unlike Windows, which strives to keep compatibility. In the end, this is a bad idea because it leads to security exploits (Windows has millions). And then, when Microsoft patches a piece of their OS to fix security, it can break compatibility for another application one company may be using. The developers should update the software to use the new libraries or changes to the libraries, and people should not expect Microsoft to just keep the libraries mostly the same. Apple does this, it's expected and the customers get a secure operating system (OS X) at the same time. At the same, Linux users expect that their might be library incompatibilities causing a binary to not run or source to not compile (deprecated functions, etc). Most of the time, these are resolved by the developer(s).
3a. Link? In my experience people choose php because frankly its piss easy, Java because its cross platform, and
3b. Developer popularity around
I'm pretty sure the reason is that most paying jobs develop for Windows only for both Java and
As if any Linux users in the US give a shit.
I'm so sick and tired of these comparisons. I really don't care anymore, whether it's Linux vs OS X, Windows, Solaris, or whatever. It's so annoying and I won't even read TFA.
Once again, we come to the conclusion, that different operating systems do the same things differently! Wow! Yet another person wasted another few days trying out two OS's rather than getting any real work done. So cool!
Well, consider their other company practices, such as 'bait and switch', Geek Squad stories, etc. Newegg and other online retails beat Best Buy every time, even on 'black friday'.
libmtp, it's not perfect but it's already used with Amarok :)
I don't think I should have to run a 'quick-launcher' on any system (I use Linux too) to speed up the process of launching an Ooo app. It takes about 30 seconds for an Ooo to load, which is okay but the speed of the programs once they are running is really partially not okay. We all know they are eating up RAM.
I would hope this would help in getting things faster in general. I hate the idea of let's use more resources because their available (Vista). Seems to me that Ooo is just being feature-filled and no one is thinking about the slowness that can add to it.
I would love to purchase more music online as FLAC or WAVs or other lossless codecs, with covers to print in JPG. That way I can burn a lossless CD, print the covers, and it's close enough to the real thing. Then I would definitely store the data on my computer in the compression format I want. If I want to change it, I can get the original lossless data.
When will the people understand?
The 40 years part isn't even true. It's just there so people can THINK their information would be destroyed. I highly doubt it. Secondly, 40 years would be way too long anyway. How about 1 year (much more reasonable)? More reasonable would be to get rid of the whole government and restart this fucking country.
Considering many Windows users end up with a trashed machine so often, that often kills the internet connection (by way of editing the UNPROTECTED hosts file, replacing UNPROTECTED dlls (using backdoors to avoid WFC), etc), yes. Windows sucks.
My set up of Windows is clean as a whistle and fast as hell (XP) but that's thanks to a lot of knowledge that most users do not have.
I use Linux (Gentoo) 90% of the time, however.
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