It doesn't take a triple digit IQ to know the phone didn't have SSH and a terminal, so either you're trolling or really are an idiot if you bought the phone knowing that only to turn around and complain about it.
Hell, the thing doesn't even have MMS. To be honest he probably bought it for it's internet connectivity, but then again every other 3G device is capable of this as well.
Good thing AT&T doesn't offer the device on anything longer than a 24-month contract, otherwise the grandparent might be crying foul over how he didn't realise just how long three years was.
Reread it, and note the past tense. Customer Experience Improvement Program, Online Crash Analysis, and Windows Error Reporting are tools bundled with Vista SP0. They were able to look at the problems people were having from the word go.
Anyone have bets as to how long before a significant program of widespread use is broken
That's quite tongue-in-cheek since an xorg-server-core update broke half a dozen applications of widespread use in about 5 seconds. Microsoft has a much more thorough testing process, and a much larger testing base. The public beta method Microsoft uses means that nobody should have trouble with the service pack once it's installed correctly.
Also, one of the ideas behind Vista SP1 is increased compatibility:
Application compatibility, too, improves significantly with SP1. While this area includes consumer-oriented applications, incompatible enterprise applications were the big deployment blockers over the past year. In the past year, Microsoft and its partners have remediated over 150 enterprise application blockers: These are applications that previously prevented one or more corporations from upgrading to Vista.
D'oh!
Beyond that, has there been any actual basis showing that SP1 (of the testers) adds any form of significant performance enhancements?
If you read the whitepaper (a, b) for Vista SP1 performance wasn't high up on to-do list. Personally, Vista runs fine for me (except for file copying, where Microsoft fucked up big time). I put Vista on a Duron 850 with 512mb of RAM for shits and giggles, and it ran like a dog with three legs. I put Windows XP on there and it ran acceptably. I run Vista on a 1.8Ghz dual core machine with 1GB of RAM and it runs plenty fast.
So are we gonna take bets on if this will auto magically land on Iran. Also if it does fall on another country does this constitute a first strike since its military equipment.
Gee, I'd love to answer any questions you have but I don't see any question marks. Anywhere.
Open to hacking? Did you stop to think what you're typing? What's wrong with allowing the average person to tinker with a vehicle that is often used at 100km/h+ (60mp/h+) and weighs a tonne?
Here comes the clue train, last stop is you: Cars are potentially lethal even though they're designed by professionals to be as safe as they can practically make them and they have to conform to strict safety guidelines. Guess what's going to happen when John Smith thinks he can make his car work faster and smarter with his 2nd year knowledge of mechanics and high-school programming skills?
Also, think of the lawsuits. When a stock-standard car malfunction results in a death, it's not the drivers fault. When a car malfunction is caused by custom modification by the owner, whose fault is it? Do you need the answer for that, too?
MS is just looking more and more incompetent all the time.
You're saying Microsoft is incompetent, but the KDE team just shaved layers of bloat off of the core code and did more with it in 40% less memory? It's not like we should be patting them on the back for fixing their own code.
I'd assume Microsoft would be smart enough that if they're trying to avoid collecting personally identifiable information that they're not going to be sending the file names and your hard drive's file and folder heirarchy down the tube for analysis. I'd think they'd leave file/folder names out of it (aside from My Documents etc) and just have extensions:
Windows Vista minimum supported system requirements
Home Basic / Home Premium / Business / Ultimate
* 800 MHz processor and 512 MB of system memory
* 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for Super VGA graphics
* CD-ROM drive
Any computer than can run Home Basic can run any other edition. Yes, you won't get Aero without a graphics card that supports DX9+ hardware acceleration, and performance won't be ideal but you will be able to run any edition of Windows - the (minimum) requirements are identical.
The recommended requirements for Home Basic and the other editions are different, however. Please correct me if the Vista Capable sticker is only available to systems that meet the recommended system requirements (in which case Vista Capable != any edition), but I suspect that since Microsoft hasn't been afraid to cut corners before that it is awarded based on minimum system requirements and that Vista Capable is therefore universally applicable to all versions of Vista.
I'm relating this story to my local LUG. They deserve some respect for publicly denouncing MS
I don't know what kind of spin you're going to put on it, but a company was rightfully fined for using Microsoft software illegally. Yeah, they might have drawn the short straw for (what it sounds like from the article) accidently running a few too many copies of a piece of software, but what they were doing was illegal.
What's the point? All it can do is surf the internet and make phone calls. You can't save anything from the internet and you can't mount external media, making it's backup/restore functionality near zip. The author also laments the lack of media playback.
To me it would be much more logical for a user just to have Linux installed on their hard drive with full functionality. Where's the use in a crippled OS on a motherboard?
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Hell, the thing doesn't even have MMS. To be honest he probably bought it for it's internet connectivity, but then again every other 3G device is capable of this as well.
Good thing AT&T doesn't offer the device on anything longer than a 24-month contract, otherwise the grandparent might be crying foul over how he didn't realise just how long three years was.
Maybe on ./ it's all emotion and politics but on /. you're a dumbass.
What happens when you get a low-end PC with 8mb of integrated graphics and no sound?
Two days ago.
Reread it, and note the past tense. Customer Experience Improvement Program, Online Crash Analysis, and Windows Error Reporting are tools bundled with Vista SP0. They were able to look at the problems people were having from the word go.
If you read the whitepaper (a, b) for Vista SP1 performance wasn't high up on to-do list. Personally, Vista runs fine for me (except for file copying, where Microsoft fucked up big time). I put Vista on a Duron 850 with 512mb of RAM for shits and giggles, and it ran like a dog with three legs. I put Windows XP on there and it ran acceptably. I run Vista on a 1.8Ghz dual core machine with 1GB of RAM and it runs plenty fast.
Open to hacking? Did you stop to think what you're typing? What's wrong with allowing the average person to tinker with a vehicle that is often used at 100km/h+ (60mp/h+) and weighs a tonne?
Here comes the clue train, last stop is you: Cars are potentially lethal even though they're designed by professionals to be as safe as they can practically make them and they have to conform to strict safety guidelines. Guess what's going to happen when John Smith thinks he can make his car work faster and smarter with his 2nd year knowledge of mechanics and high-school programming skills?
Also, think of the lawsuits. When a stock-standard car malfunction results in a death, it's not the drivers fault. When a car malfunction is caused by custom modification by the owner, whose fault is it? Do you need the answer for that, too?
I'd assume Microsoft would be smart enough that if they're trying to avoid collecting personally identifiable information that they're not going to be sending the file names and your hard drive's file and folder heirarchy down the tube for analysis. I'd think they'd leave file/folder names out of it (aside from My Documents etc) and just have extensions:
C:\Users\****\Documents\
4 file(s)
+ DOCX (128kb)
+ DOCX (41kb)
+ DOCX (22kb)
+ MP3 (8.8mb)
Any computer than can run Home Basic can run any other edition. Yes, you won't get Aero without a graphics card that supports DX9+ hardware acceleration, and performance won't be ideal but you will be able to run any edition of Windows - the (minimum) requirements are identical.
The recommended requirements for Home Basic and the other editions are different, however. Please correct me if the Vista Capable sticker is only available to systems that meet the recommended system requirements (in which case Vista Capable != any edition), but I suspect that since Microsoft hasn't been afraid to cut corners before that it is awarded based on minimum system requirements and that Vista Capable is therefore universally applicable to all versions of Vista.
Geddit everybody? Hotmail has a 2GB storage limit and uh, oh, wait.
What's the point? All it can do is surf the internet and make phone calls. You can't save anything from the internet and you can't mount external media, making it's backup/restore functionality near zip. The author also laments the lack of media playback.
To me it would be much more logical for a user just to have Linux installed on their hard drive with full functionality. Where's the use in a crippled OS on a motherboard?
Clearly this marks the downward spiral of GPL's monopoly on FOSS!
It's true ;)
You realise Live has more or less the same amount of white as Google, don't you?