It's obviously going to make things worse. But the real problem is that people can love cheap trashy food and enjoy it day after day. Have these people ever experienced a quality meal? Who knows, seems to me if your uneducated and inolved in trashy culture/society watching reality tv, reading rubbish celeb mags, your more prone to all the other screwed up stuff that's not good for your health. But who are you going to blame, the stupid kids or the parents who didn't raise them with a sense of education/culture/whatever ?
Anyone who thinks it crashes regularly or that more than 1% of units are overheating is simply a moron. A lot of people here seem to have a fixated fantasy that they are so desperate to believe that they ignore the facts. The fantasy basically consists of that MS has rolled out an overheating worthless machine that when not overheating 95% of the time is crashing. Get real, I'd imagine the failure rates for units are about the same for any piece of consumer electronics.
Whilst this discussion was inevitably going to end up about rootkits instead of cameras as all Sony articles will be for the forseeable future it might not have such a big affect on Sony as people will still get their favourite music irrespective of the label it's on and Sony will continue to do what it does best, expensive sleek looking stuff that certain people cant get their hands off. I mean the idea of a major company shipping viruses with its product knowingly is beyond horrible as it's the kind of behaviour you expect from some teenage morons.
Stock price is irrelevant to the quality of the product. Remember that article that on/. that google was worth more than Time Warner? Well they're not but that wont stop profiteers and lunatics trying to make money. Stock markets aren't about informed decisions half the time.
toto: woof woof bark bark
dorothy: what's happening !?
fundamentalist: we're teaching the sinful epicurean a divine lesson
dorothy: toto, i think we're still in kansas
dorothy: oh the horror, i cant handle this horrendous sight, where's my barbituates to dull the pain:((
Maybe because it's not so buggy? Whilst nothing will be bug free it's kinda moronic to see the same bullshit modded +5 funny day in day out along with the BSOD jokes in 2005 and clippy jokes. They really aren't funny to the majority of people who will find the current MS OS stuff to be pretty stable assuming their not stupid enough to open freesex.exe and whatever else. Cue for someone to tell me their stories about spontaneously combusing registries that always seem to happen to MS haters.
I use open office as it does the job fine for my basic needs and it's free but in general with open source your going to get less refined stuff that's dependant more upon random people putting in a few hours here and there unless a company like IBM donates paid workers. I mean proprietary capitalistic stooges out of college may not be l33t visionaries but they are in teams being paid to do stuff and they do stuff... guaranteed weekly $ attracts many quality people in the world who will work 9-5 to get stuff done. This is why at the end of the day Linux will have an equivilant for EVERYTHING that exists on OSX or XP or whatever but it's always going to lack the refined standardized feel that most people like in a finished product.
There is only one purpose to Microsoft Research: To hire off all the computer scientist before they can invent something that would compete with Microsoft. (Or make them irrelevant.)
Of course, no way would MS want to hire smart guys to invent stuff to improve their own software, why would they want to improve their stuff, or you really want to moronically argue that they never care about improving anything and 2k was no different from nt4, xp no different from 95, whatever?
I use a lot of open-source and free stuff and enjoy it but if you truly believe in your moronic personal conspiracy you have serious problems.
You should read "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer. As a zealot your merely filling the void in your life with some utopian technology beliefs and admonishing a website for not subscribing 100% to your misguided point of view. Furthermore you have a need for an enemy and therefore Gates & MS become the earthly embodiment of satan in your mind. In the long term you might be better off losing a bit of the anger and doing more productive things because even if Gates is a convicted monopolist he doesn't come across half as hateful or bitter as you. But of course when you have self-proclaimed total morality with a completely pure system it's ok to be what you ostensibly despise when dealing with the "ultimate evil".
Many people use.NET and it's an interesting enough language to warrant a story on using it more efficiently. Slashdot is not designed to be reporting 100% on free stuff and for good reason, if you want an IT news site that doesn't report on ANYTHING that isn't free RMS style your going to have a site that will appeal to a much smaller audience though it could be a good narcotic for zealots. Most people want news on everything IT of interest irrespective of its philosophical status.
I think generally a lot of stuff out there is full of tony robbins style generic and vague bs . I mean nothing particularly insightful, just like "eat your vegetables" style of philosophy.
This is the kind of thing that has manual solutions. If you actually need a device to be with you all the time to stay "private" you have bigger problems, namely a low IQ. And realistcally if your discussing anything that you don't want other people to here then for good reason you should be discussing these things when your off on lunch break on your cell or something. Under no circumstances should you talk about stuff that you don't want other people to here with other people around. And if it's some company secrets I'm sure your allowed to take a private room or something for that kind of discussion.
Good sound is important, I mean stuff like the default sounds on GAIM for example sound really awful, I'm sure there's a lot of stuff out there like that and a huge database of beeps means in all probability quite a few nice beeps to increase user sanity.
A lot of people/companies find when they outsource their savings are huge but they get software disasters. There's no use saving a huge ammount of money outsourcing to India or some rural American villiage if you don't get what you wanted. Which brings me to my next point, if these guys cost 1/3rd of the price it brings the question who actually wants to earn one third what they could in life? Practically nobody even if cost of living is cheaper. So most rural people you'd imagine move to where they can earn big money leaving only the morons behind. $100 may buy you a great guy and $35 might get you a code-monkey moron that will take many more hours and give you a screwed up job.
As they InDoctrinate their kids with amish ideology and all their land begins to resemble a rural backwater they can rural source their whole state to their richer neighbours. Great way to get the comeptitive advantage.
Our primary concern is to use software and not all software is going to run on all platforms so we choose the platform that runs the software we want, very redundant. Until this changes the status quo wont change. And a lot of people aren't going to move stuff to linux because it's not worth the expenditure, remember the nightmare ID software wrote about supporting a huge number of unstandardized distros/configurations and how problematic it was for them. Similarly a lot of stuff isn't going to be ported to windows for whatever the reasons. But you cant just use *any* OS and for the forseeable future that aint changing.
Remember the vast majority of people will do nothing but ruin there lives trying to make a professional career out of playing video games at this stage in time. Only a handful of reflex freaks are going to be living it up and there livelihood will depend on maintaining those skills. The vast vast vast majority of computer geeks are better off getting a programming job or something. You have more chance of making a career in the NBA, at least then a few thousand people make huge money as opposed to a handful making good money as is the case with this "career option".
Whilst if the company is found to be guilty they should be punished I really hope this guy doesn't get a big payout personally, there is something sickening about society when you can sue your way to multi-million $ retirement through class-action suits because something stupid happened to you in life. I mean in any other era of society it would be laughed off but now yesterdays jokes can make todays millionairs while other people have to work for a living. I Really think this idiot should've just reported the sites to whatever advertising regulatory agencies there are and got on with his life... but that couldn't give him a chance to retire now could it!
Did you have any luck getting amazon to pull the reviews that mention the Oprah episode where your wife is exposed about lying with regards to being an Ivy League graduate? How do you feel about her lying to sell more books and never recanting on that fact?
Tin Foil is more symbolic and his intention was to make a visible stand against the technology in general as opposed to protect him personally. I guess this sybolic gesture he figured would resonate and give him more publicity for his crusade.
It would appear you don't need the latest version of MS Office since your considering moving to OO in which case based on what your saying it would seem better to stay put with what you have now.
You mention "we absolutely must retain the Microsoft Office 97/2000/2002 file formats (for interoperability with the public and other entities). ".
Do you really want the possibility of the "public and other entities" getting stuff that isn't going to render perfectly? It could have a terrible affect on your business image.
Is sane capitlists will profit immensely on this lunatic who spent a good ammount of his life doing that. Soon you can see colored bubble bath and whatever else bubbles come in.
Sarcasm aside your missing one point. People use console for simplicity and ease of use. 95% of console users are going to prefer something like battle.net with a game list than going around trying to find servers and people to play with like on a lot of pc games.
The Saturn and Dreamcast both had generally inferior hardware but sold more in Japan than rivals and did really well there. Many ppl in the west still love the dc including myself. The most important thing in my opinion is how good xbox live is , if ms can nail that and make it real easy and fun then they could have a huge hit.
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It's obviously going to make things worse. But the real problem is that people can love cheap trashy food and enjoy it day after day. Have these people ever experienced a quality meal? Who knows, seems to me if your uneducated and inolved in trashy culture/society watching reality tv, reading rubbish celeb mags, your more prone to all the other screwed up stuff that's not good for your health. But who are you going to blame, the stupid kids or the parents who didn't raise them with a sense of education/culture/whatever ?
Anyone who thinks it crashes regularly or that more than 1% of units are overheating is simply a moron. A lot of people here seem to have a fixated fantasy that they are so desperate to believe that they ignore the facts. The fantasy basically consists of that MS has rolled out an overheating worthless machine that when not overheating 95% of the time is crashing. Get real, I'd imagine the failure rates for units are about the same for any piece of consumer electronics.
Whilst this discussion was inevitably going to end up about rootkits instead of cameras as all Sony articles will be for the forseeable future it might not have such a big affect on Sony as people will still get their favourite music irrespective of the label it's on and Sony will continue to do what it does best, expensive sleek looking stuff that certain people cant get their hands off. I mean the idea of a major company shipping viruses with its product knowingly is beyond horrible as it's the kind of behaviour you expect from some teenage morons.
Stock price is irrelevant to the quality of the product. Remember that article that on /. that google was worth more than Time Warner? Well they're not but that wont stop profiteers and lunatics trying to make money. Stock markets aren't about informed decisions half the time.
toto: woof woof bark bark :((
dorothy: what's happening !?
fundamentalist: we're teaching the sinful epicurean a divine lesson
dorothy: toto, i think we're still in kansas dorothy: oh the horror, i cant handle this horrendous sight, where's my barbituates to dull the pain
If Windows is such a success, why is it so buggy?
Maybe because it's not so buggy? Whilst nothing will be bug free it's kinda moronic to see the same bullshit modded +5 funny day in day out along with the BSOD jokes in 2005 and clippy jokes. They really aren't funny to the majority of people who will find the current MS OS stuff to be pretty stable assuming their not stupid enough to open freesex.exe and whatever else. Cue for someone to tell me their stories about spontaneously combusing registries that always seem to happen to MS haters.
I use open office as it does the job fine for my basic needs and it's free but in general with open source your going to get less refined stuff that's dependant more upon random people putting in a few hours here and there unless a company like IBM donates paid workers. I mean proprietary capitalistic stooges out of college may not be l33t visionaries but they are in teams being paid to do stuff and they do stuff ... guaranteed weekly $ attracts many quality people in the world who will work 9-5 to get stuff done. This is why at the end of the day Linux will have an equivilant for EVERYTHING that exists on OSX or XP or whatever but it's always going to lack the refined standardized feel that most people like in a finished product.
There is only one purpose to Microsoft Research: To hire off all the computer scientist before they can invent something that would compete with Microsoft. (Or make them irrelevant.)
Of course, no way would MS want to hire smart guys to invent stuff to improve their own software, why would they want to improve their stuff, or you really want to moronically argue that they never care about improving anything and 2k was no different from nt4, xp no different from 95, whatever?
I use a lot of open-source and free stuff and enjoy it but if you truly believe in your moronic personal conspiracy you have serious problems.
You should read "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer. As a zealot your merely filling the void in your life with some utopian technology beliefs and admonishing a website for not subscribing 100% to your misguided point of view. Furthermore you have a need for an enemy and therefore Gates & MS become the earthly embodiment of satan in your mind. In the long term you might be better off losing a bit of the anger and doing more productive things because even if Gates is a convicted monopolist he doesn't come across half as hateful or bitter as you. But of course when you have self-proclaimed total morality with a completely pure system it's ok to be what you ostensibly despise when dealing with the "ultimate evil".
Many people use .NET and it's an interesting enough language to warrant a story on using it more efficiently. Slashdot is not designed to be reporting 100% on free stuff and for good reason, if you want an IT news site that doesn't report on ANYTHING that isn't free RMS style your going to have a site that will appeal to a much smaller audience though it could be a good narcotic for zealots. Most people want news on everything IT of interest irrespective of its philosophical status.
I think generally a lot of stuff out there is full of tony robbins style generic and vague bs . I mean nothing particularly insightful, just like "eat your vegetables" style of philosophy.
This is the kind of thing that has manual solutions. If you actually need a device to be with you all the time to stay "private" you have bigger problems, namely a low IQ. And realistcally if your discussing anything that you don't want other people to here then for good reason you should be discussing these things when your off on lunch break on your cell or something. Under no circumstances should you talk about stuff that you don't want other people to here with other people around. And if it's some company secrets I'm sure your allowed to take a private room or something for that kind of discussion.
Good sound is important, I mean stuff like the default sounds on GAIM for example sound really awful, I'm sure there's a lot of stuff out there like that and a huge database of beeps means in all probability quite a few nice beeps to increase user sanity.
A lot of people/companies find when they outsource their savings are huge but they get software disasters. There's no use saving a huge ammount of money outsourcing to India or some rural American villiage if you don't get what you wanted. Which brings me to my next point, if these guys cost 1/3rd of the price it brings the question who actually wants to earn one third what they could in life? Practically nobody even if cost of living is cheaper. So most rural people you'd imagine move to where they can earn big money leaving only the morons behind. $100 may buy you a great guy and $35 might get you a code-monkey moron that will take many more hours and give you a screwed up job.
As they InDoctrinate their kids with amish ideology and all their land begins to resemble a rural backwater they can rural source their whole state to their richer neighbours. Great way to get the comeptitive advantage.
Our primary concern is to use software and not all software is going to run on all platforms so we choose the platform that runs the software we want, very redundant. Until this changes the status quo wont change. And a lot of people aren't going to move stuff to linux because it's not worth the expenditure, remember the nightmare ID software wrote about supporting a huge number of unstandardized distros/configurations and how problematic it was for them. Similarly a lot of stuff isn't going to be ported to windows for whatever the reasons. But you cant just use *any* OS and for the forseeable future that aint changing.
That's only half the price of a ringtone!!!!
Remember the vast majority of people will do nothing but ruin there lives trying to make a professional career out of playing video games at this stage in time. Only a handful of reflex freaks are going to be living it up and there livelihood will depend on maintaining those skills. The vast vast vast majority of computer geeks are better off getting a programming job or something. You have more chance of making a career in the NBA, at least then a few thousand people make huge money as opposed to a handful making good money as is the case with this "career option".
Whilst if the company is found to be guilty they should be punished I really hope this guy doesn't get a big payout personally, there is something sickening about society when you can sue your way to multi-million $ retirement through class-action suits because something stupid happened to you in life. I mean in any other era of society it would be laughed off but now yesterdays jokes can make todays millionairs while other people have to work for a living. I Really think this idiot should've just reported the sites to whatever advertising regulatory agencies there are and got on with his life... but that couldn't give him a chance to retire now could it!
Did you have any luck getting amazon to pull the reviews that mention the Oprah episode where your wife is exposed about lying with regards to being an Ivy League graduate? How do you feel about her lying to sell more books and never recanting on that fact?
Tin Foil is more symbolic and his intention was to make a visible stand against the technology in general as opposed to protect him personally. I guess this sybolic gesture he figured would resonate and give him more publicity for his crusade.
It would appear you don't need the latest version of MS Office since your considering moving to OO in which case based on what your saying it would seem better to stay put with what you have now.
You mention "we absolutely must retain the Microsoft Office 97/2000/2002 file formats (for interoperability with the public and other entities). ".
Do you really want the possibility of the "public and other entities" getting stuff that isn't going to render perfectly? It could have a terrible affect on your business image.
Is sane capitlists will profit immensely on this lunatic who spent a good ammount of his life doing that. Soon you can see colored bubble bath and whatever else bubbles come in.
Sarcasm aside your missing one point. People use console for simplicity and ease of use. 95% of console users are going to prefer something like battle.net with a game list than going around trying to find servers and people to play with like on a lot of pc games.
The Saturn and Dreamcast both had generally inferior hardware but sold more in Japan than rivals and did really well there. Many ppl in the west still love the dc including myself. The most important thing in my opinion is how good xbox live is , if ms can nail that and make it real easy and fun then they could have a huge hit.