Agreed, I had two files left over from installing Bioshock that couldn't be moved if I used a sledgehammer, for all I know. Nothing I did worked and I ended up giving up trying to move or remove them.
Few efforts? They only kept the radio addresses and White House Press Secretary out of tradition, not because of some sort of desire to help you or I make better decisions or stay informed.
Microsoft shipping a browser wouldn't be that problematic. Opera gives away their browser, so they couldn't...
Microsoft shipping a media player wouldn't be that problematic. [Everyone except Nero] gives away their media player, so they couldn't...
Microsoft shipping a text editor wouldn't be that problematic. [Almost no one] gives away their text editor, so they couldn't.
Three examples with different parties and wildly different legal situations. They've -been- sued for IE, they've -lost- a suit for IE, they've -lost- a suit for Windows Media Player and no one contests the fact that a useful OS requires basic components like a calculator and a notepad.
Yet every single one of those things is a free, optionally used component of their OS package. Sure, removing notepad or Windows Media Player is a lot easier than IE, but if you really want to remove more than just the outward IE application, good luck running more than a few basic programs that never make any calls to it.
Ok, let me clarify that I posted like that to mock the guy above. Figuring out who invented what is obviously a useful UI paradigm and then pointing fingers at everyone else for copying is childish, immature, adolescent, etc.
Are you talking keyboard shortcuts, or just the quality of the stock keyboards you get with PCs these days?
It's only in the past 2-3 years that the stock keyboards from most OEMs have been any good, in my opinion. Previous to that, you hoarded the good keyboards you found or you went online and bought one you saw had good reviews. But I'm typing this on a Dell stock keyboard and I've had really no complaint with it for three years.
Apple actually makes their keyboards so you can blame them (and associate their name with) their crappy products. But Microsoft is only to blame (or congratulate) for Microsoft keyboards.
Is Linux kernel 2.6 'completely new' or an incremental improvement over 2.4?
If you find it difficult to answer one way without conceiving of the possibility that the other could also be true, then imagine being one of the world's wealthiest men and having your answer judged by many, many individuals.
7 is an incremental improvement, it happens to represent a fairly significant step with regards to performance issues and kernel improvements, modularity and services. The user interface is another place with incremental improvements across the board.
The result is a cleaner, nicer looking OS that happens to get out of your way more easily so you can do work.
Is Ubuntu 9.04 an incremental improvement to 8.04? Is Ubuntu 9.04 an incremental improvement to 6.04? Difficult questions!
Windows XP has been out for -eight years-, can you name a Linux distro that old that you can still get support on? Not in terms of upgrades, but can you tell me a Linux distro that is 8 year olds and still has security updates applied regularly to -that specific version-.
Windows XP general support ends in another five years, in 2014. That's 13 years after release.
Name a Linux distro that offers that time period. Name one. Even the Debian project, the one most likely to actually pull that off because of their fetish for highly detailed and organized project management, doesn't offer support for any distribution older than a year. Red Hat supports 7 years maximum, about half the lifecycle of Microsoft.
Just get rid of the shortcut, it's a lot easier than trying to rip out vital parts of the OS because you'll just get all whiny when removing the only web accessing part of the OS too.
You'll whine that you can no longer use FTP, you'll whine that for some reason you can no longer connect to network shares, etc. What you want to get rid of, sir, is the shortcut. After all, IE is basically a wrapper around the internal engine (Trident.)
Anyway, there are still some applications you should not remove from most distros. Remove apt from Ubuntu and have fun setting it up again, stuff like that.
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Winamp is still around for free.
Sure beats the heck out of iTunes.
I'm not advocating his crazy ideas about keeping the wheels rigid and parallel to the frame, it sounds like an awful good way to wreck the car.
I personally don't understand why each wheel can't turn independently.
Did I say charcoal was made from coal? No.
The rest, yeah, you're right and I screwed up. But don't start your post with an unfounded assumption.
Boot CDs can corrupt the volume shadow copies because they don't correctly deal with them.
This means you can lose your system restore functionality in one fell swoop.
I presume you also forcibly remove your power steering because it's scary and new, right?
If we're going to attribute intentionally harmful applications, then charcoal, being a component of gunpowder, would win.
Agreed, I had two files left over from installing Bioshock that couldn't be moved if I used a sledgehammer, for all I know. Nothing I did worked and I ended up giving up trying to move or remove them.
So why not use every opportunity to show people that Windows and all the applications built on it can be run on Macs too?
Few efforts? They only kept the radio addresses and White House Press Secretary out of tradition, not because of some sort of desire to help you or I make better decisions or stay informed.
Microsoft shipping a browser wouldn't be that problematic. Opera gives away their browser, so they couldn't...
Microsoft shipping a media player wouldn't be that problematic. [Everyone except Nero] gives away their media player, so they couldn't...
Microsoft shipping a text editor wouldn't be that problematic. [Almost no one] gives away their text editor, so they couldn't.
Three examples with different parties and wildly different legal situations. They've -been- sued for IE, they've -lost- a suit for IE, they've -lost- a suit for Windows Media Player and no one contests the fact that a useful OS requires basic components like a calculator and a notepad.
Yet every single one of those things is a free, optionally used component of their OS package. Sure, removing notepad or Windows Media Player is a lot easier than IE, but if you really want to remove more than just the outward IE application, good luck running more than a few basic programs that never make any calls to it.
Maybe I have stupidly high standards for what I consider a comfortable keyboard, so perhaps your signature should apply to my post as well. :)
Ok, let me clarify that I posted like that to mock the guy above. Figuring out who invented what is obviously a useful UI paradigm and then pointing fingers at everyone else for copying is childish, immature, adolescent, etc.
It's called "Windows 1.0." Look into it.
I did for you:
http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/e7/WindowsLiveWriter/HappyAnniversaryWindowsontheEvolutionoft_1365F/clip_image002_2.jpg
See that at the bottom? 1985 called, they want their dock back. (Nextstep "innovated" that in 1989, four years later!)
I'm confused, basic Vista keyboard?
Are you talking keyboard shortcuts, or just the quality of the stock keyboards you get with PCs these days?
It's only in the past 2-3 years that the stock keyboards from most OEMs have been any good, in my opinion. Previous to that, you hoarded the good keyboards you found or you went online and bought one you saw had good reviews. But I'm typing this on a Dell stock keyboard and I've had really no complaint with it for three years.
Apple actually makes their keyboards so you can blame them (and associate their name with) their crappy products. But Microsoft is only to blame (or congratulate) for Microsoft keyboards.
Just throw some words up
Into the air together
Refrigerator
Better/worse? I'm an aspiring poet.
Windows XP SP3 is very different from Windows XP and includes an almost completely changed system, at many, many levels.
Yet it's still XP.
Maybe the problem is you're pigeonholing Microsoft into what you think the world works like, and then intentionally ignoring all the counterexamples.
But the Explorer integration with FTP depends on IE which is a little bit smarter than ftp.exe.
Is Linux kernel 2.6 'completely new' or an incremental improvement over 2.4?
If you find it difficult to answer one way without conceiving of the possibility that the other could also be true, then imagine being one of the world's wealthiest men and having your answer judged by many, many individuals.
7 is an incremental improvement, it happens to represent a fairly significant step with regards to performance issues and kernel improvements, modularity and services. The user interface is another place with incremental improvements across the board.
The result is a cleaner, nicer looking OS that happens to get out of your way more easily so you can do work.
Is Ubuntu 9.04 an incremental improvement to 8.04? Is Ubuntu 9.04 an incremental improvement to 6.04? Difficult questions!
Windows XP has been out for -eight years-, can you name a Linux distro that old that you can still get support on? Not in terms of upgrades, but can you tell me a Linux distro that is 8 year olds and still has security updates applied regularly to -that specific version-.
Windows XP general support ends in another five years, in 2014. That's 13 years after release.
Name a Linux distro that offers that time period. Name one. Even the Debian project, the one most likely to actually pull that off because of their fetish for highly detailed and organized project management, doesn't offer support for any distribution older than a year. Red Hat supports 7 years maximum, about half the lifecycle of Microsoft.
Just get rid of the shortcut, it's a lot easier than trying to rip out vital parts of the OS because you'll just get all whiny when removing the only web accessing part of the OS too.
You'll whine that you can no longer use FTP, you'll whine that for some reason you can no longer connect to network shares, etc. What you want to get rid of, sir, is the shortcut. After all, IE is basically a wrapper around the internal engine (Trident.)
Anyway, there are still some applications you should not remove from most distros. Remove apt from Ubuntu and have fun setting it up again, stuff like that.
That rendering is part of the application, it just happens to be easier to serve HTML than create your own custom GUI.
This is a growing trend, it's a lot easier to swap out your GUI that way than to hire a developer to write a custom solution.
Ah, see, I offer a competitive command prompt and would sue to remove even that from Windows.
Future Windows installs will just be a blank screen with nothing running.
No, they removed the IE application, which is a wrapper around the IE engine which is very close to irremovable.
There are several taskbar alternatives, I'm going to sue Microsoft because their taskbar is infringing on my distribution of a free alternative.
Great, now to install Firefox I'm going to be expected to remember how to navigate their FTP.