The first hacker to take down their network, either internal or external facing, would be infamous. He'd also be killed in less than 24 hours by an army of angry geeks who want their porn back
Much of the success of Apple has nothing to do with Apple itself or Steve Jobs. Instead, Apple allows people to directly reject Microsoft That's partially accurate, though I must say that I liked Apple's OS a long time before I ever used a Windows based PC. I liked it better than Amiga OS at that time too. Apple were light years ahead of the game when it came to a nice solid feeling, professional looking desktop (in my limited experience and opinion, I was about 8 when I first used a Mac Classic)
IMO the show stopper is a lack of a decent Outlook replacement.. then again, I have done a few different DB applications for work, only one of them involved access and that's just because they wanted it "ASAP!!!!!!!" (they received it like a year ago and still haven't really started using it.. they're still mostly relying on their little excel trackers, it's sad)
Not really, but he could have massaged the conversation in the direction of spending of the money before complaining about it. What everyone wants to know here is if Google won or not.
As a web developer, I beg you, please install IE7 anyway Nice try, AC. I bet you're one of those people running a dodgy porn site that tries to exploit IE..:p FFS Microsoft, stop forcing your new trash on us just when your old trash is starting to get beaten into shape after several hundred patches. And stop making stupid interface designs. I don't care if it has supposedly better standards support if I have to look at *that*. In FF I get rid of the bookmarks bar, put everything else onto one line (back/forward buttons to the left of the file menu, address and google search bar to the right), and am left with lots of nice browsing real estate at 1680x1050 \o/ I don't care too much about memory leaks when FF just seems to run and render better, and I don't tend leave FF running for hours at a time either. It does have a fairly poor startup time but that's from all the addons I have installed. Microsoft don't seem to be able to render anything nicely, it always feels flimsy (for example dragging windows around in Windows, you get flickering even with an excellent graphics card and such - they need to double buffer or something.. Vista probably renders windows nicer, but that's a moot point considering that the rest of it is garbage)
Heck, a lot of AIs go completely mental when faced with unknown stimulus. That doesn't just stand for AIs - put your average slashdotter in a room with a naked woman, and prepare to watch the world go mad!
So you're saying that if you called a guy from china a 'chinaman' he'd find it offensive? I don't believe it tbh. I can't remember if my friend Jireh is originally from China or Malaysia (I know he stayed in Malaysia for a while but I think he may be originally Chinese), for some reason I think I've heard him use the word Chinaman before *shrug* I've never heard anyone say that term is offensive until now, I guess it's probably just not acceptable in America because that's where the derogatory usage happened (I live in the UK).
That's fine for intranetworking, but when it comes to sharing information with other companies, MS stuff is unfortunately the standard (unless you count PDFs, but there's no decent, inexpensive, well known software out there for editing PDFs). That's why there needs to be some level of interoperability, to ease the change. Kinda like having hybrid cars before moving to fully electric. Man I love car analogies:)
Actually I'm fairly happy with my Windows Mobile phone compared to using Windows on the destkop. That's probably more to do with the funky HTC hardware though rather than because it's Windows (though I like the fact that I can VPN and RDP into the work network, even though I never do that on my phone, so meh).
Microsoft are a convicted monopolist, you can't exactly say they play fair. The reason that they're doing so well is that most computer users are computer illiterate morons, that's all. It's basically the same reason that people buy unreliable french and italian vehicles rather than choosing some nice german or japanese equivalent - they don't care whether it works as long as it's flashy:P Linux isn't really a 'big player' in the desktop market sure, but it's growing and may get there one day. Things like WINE and SAMBA are very necessary parts of getting there. I'm using Mac OS basically all the time outside of work now. The only reason I've used Windows outside of work is to play games, but since PC gaming is so dull these days, and I'm fed up of constantly having to buy more hardware just to play games at a decent framerate/quality ratio, I'm going to get a PS3. Which coincidentally can also run Linux:)
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that it is all about history. I'm no expert either, but I think racism comes a lot down to intention rather than language. And wtf is wrong with 'Chinaman' when I'm happy being called a Scotsman. You're the type of person that probably thinks that blackboards shouldn't be called blackboards..? That's much more offensive than identifying something by its colour.. I have no problem with whiteboards, so why would a black person have a problem with blackboards? I doubt any do. I hope not anyway.. because being so obsessed by colours and political correctness is almost as stupid as being a racist. Fuck political correctness, fuck it in its stupid ass. Yes yes.
Remember when it use to be about family, apple pie, and fireworks and shit? Now it's all about the Benjamins. My rose tinted spectacles must be broken - I can't quite see this time when humanity wasn't all about the money..?
Caving in to patent threats is a little different to interoperating with MS protocols, enabling people to move away from proprietary Office apps, even if they are stuck with the same file format for a while.
Moderated over-rated? Clearly the mods have never experienced the divine ambrosia that is a first post, or they would understand the necessarily low-content, high fiber nature of my post.
You don't need 3D glasses and a headset for guitar hero though? Plus, after seeing some kids play it in a store, it's basically nothing like a real guitar.. looks more like playing DDR except with your fingers instead of your legs. If they had 6 rows of buttons instead of one, then it would start getting into simulating a guitar.
Damnit, you mean when I wanted to say that I love working with children on my pre-school assistant application form, I shouldn't have written 'paedophile' as one of my good features?
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IMO the show stopper is a lack of a decent Outlook replacement.. then again, I have done a few different DB applications for work, only one of them involved access and that's just because they wanted it "ASAP!!!!!!!" (they received it like a year ago and still haven't really started using it.. they're still mostly relying on their little excel trackers, it's sad)
Not really, but he could have massaged the conversation in the direction of spending of the money before complaining about it. What everyone wants to know here is if Google won or not.
Wow, just look at that IE torque curve compared to Firefox! I can definitely see when VTAK kicks in..
In geektopia Slashdot, kissing distance is infinity!
It'll probably be the Xxxx series first, then who knows.. XIxxx? XIIxxx? And maybe even XIIIxxx. Those crazy Romans!
I burned it to CD and it still let through water from the middle, ergo it leaks
Wow, I've never seen a dll linked from that position before! :o
So you're saying that if you called a guy from china a 'chinaman' he'd find it offensive? I don't believe it tbh. I can't remember if my friend Jireh is originally from China or Malaysia (I know he stayed in Malaysia for a while but I think he may be originally Chinese), for some reason I think I've heard him use the word Chinaman before *shrug* I've never heard anyone say that term is offensive until now, I guess it's probably just not acceptable in America because that's where the derogatory usage happened (I live in the UK).
150 years ago.. I think you need to let this go before you run out of words to use to describe things..
Someone doesn't know what 'troll' means, or has never used Vista..
That's fine for intranetworking, but when it comes to sharing information with other companies, MS stuff is unfortunately the standard (unless you count PDFs, but there's no decent, inexpensive, well known software out there for editing PDFs). That's why there needs to be some level of interoperability, to ease the change. Kinda like having hybrid cars before moving to fully electric. Man I love car analogies :)
Actually I'm fairly happy with my Windows Mobile phone compared to using Windows on the destkop. That's probably more to do with the funky HTC hardware though rather than because it's Windows (though I like the fact that I can VPN and RDP into the work network, even though I never do that on my phone, so meh).
:P Linux isn't really a 'big player' in the desktop market sure, but it's growing and may get there one day. Things like WINE and SAMBA are very necessary parts of getting there. I'm using Mac OS basically all the time outside of work now. The only reason I've used Windows outside of work is to play games, but since PC gaming is so dull these days, and I'm fed up of constantly having to buy more hardware just to play games at a decent framerate/quality ratio, I'm going to get a PS3. Which coincidentally can also run Linux :)
Microsoft are a convicted monopolist, you can't exactly say they play fair. The reason that they're doing so well is that most computer users are computer illiterate morons, that's all. It's basically the same reason that people buy unreliable french and italian vehicles rather than choosing some nice german or japanese equivalent - they don't care whether it works as long as it's flashy
You're paranoid about being paranoid, but you're also probably correct.
Microsoft don't need no stinkin' Beta designation - they have EULAs!
Caving in to patent threats is a little different to interoperating with MS protocols, enabling people to move away from proprietary Office apps, even if they are stuck with the same file format for a while.
Moderated over-rated? Clearly the mods have never experienced the divine ambrosia that is a first post, or they would understand the necessarily low-content, high fiber nature of my post.
And why not? :)
You don't need 3D glasses and a headset for guitar hero though? Plus, after seeing some kids play it in a store, it's basically nothing like a real guitar.. looks more like playing DDR except with your fingers instead of your legs. If they had 6 rows of buttons instead of one, then it would start getting into simulating a guitar.
Damnit, you mean when I wanted to say that I love working with children on my pre-school assistant application form, I shouldn't have written 'paedophile' as one of my good features?