The biggests mistake that America made was "free-trade" and dropping their tarifs and duties.
It is only a mistake if you are trying to keep one country on top of all the others. Free-trade has made the WORLD a better place, at the expense of the USA. Now it's up to you to decide if that is a good or bad thing.
Threads introduce all sorts of extremely subtle timing-based logic and security bugs which even the smartest programmers in the world think they can handle but in practice don't.
To be fair, you don't even need multithreaded programming to see all the subtle timing issues that poor programers don't understand and make daily. It really isn't that difficult to write multithreaded programs, and ones that don't having "subtle timing-basic logic and security bugs".
And if it was, what is it that keeps an employee who invents/discovers something during normal work hours from burying it for a few hours, then miraculously thinking of it at 5:01pm?
I'm not sure why you would want to install a start menu replacement unless you really really hate change that much. The start screen is just like a start menu, but instead of it taking up a very small part of your screen, it now expands to fill your entire screen, which makes sense. If you are actively trying to start an application, why wouldn't you?
I take that back. I don't think the atari basic that ran on the 2600 with it's awesome 9 lines of code, and only 128 bytes total of usable memory could do multiple statements per line, but that was so long ago I'm not totally sure.
Business Basic on AT&T Unix also supported multiple statements per line. There were many basics that came later that I used, but as far as I can recall, they all supported it as well.
It attempts to keep private data private. To do so completely, the network operators themselves must not be able to track back the data to the original request or view the contents.
No, it doesn't. One is keeping people from being able to see what is being sent, the other is keeping people from knowing WHO sent it. Big difference.
But you aren't tethered to a power outlet. Portable doesn't mean you can use something while moving it, just that it is easier to move.
Most people don't need ungodly amounts of battery. For me, 4 hours is plenty. Enough to allow me to carry it from the office to the train, sit on the train and use it for an hour, then carry it from the train to my car. I have power both at my house and at the office, so for 95% of my use cases, the extra weight of a full laptop (or larger battery) is unwanted.
In fact, there have been many years in which I would have taken a laptop/tablet with *NO* battery. I didn't need to use it while moving it, and all I cared about was a powerful, portable device that I could move from home to office and I would never have used it when I wasn't at one or the other. However, faster internet speeds and decent syncing software has eliminated my need for most of that (albeit, there are cases in which I would have liked owning my own hardware rather than the company supplied pieces of crap, and would have bought it for my own use if the company didn't directly tell me that they wouldn't allow me to connect it to the network AT ALL when I got to the office -- sigh).
For clarification, when I said "unproven" I meant proven false. Unproven was not the correct terminology to use because theories are already unproven, but not proven to be false.
Looks like someone doesn't understand the basics of science.
Evolution (as most people think of it) isn't a fact. It's a theory. That's why it is called the theory of evolution. Theories aren't facts. They are hypothesis that have undergone review and have yet to be unproven. When the day comes that we can prove it, then it becomes a scientific fact or law.
Science is never wrong, but some of it's theories may be incorrect, or incomplete. When a theory is proven such, it is then revised so that it fits out best current understanding. Rinse, repeat until it can be proven.
This is the basis of science, and you should have learned it by the 6th grade (or before).
<sarcasm>I know it's difficult to learn new things with a new operating system. For example, running ipconfig. Under windows 7, you would click the mouse on the bottom left corner of the screen, and type "cmd" <enter> and then when the command prompt comes up, you type ipconfig. Under windows 8, you would click the mouse on the bottom left corner of the screen, and type "cmd" <enter> and then when the command prompt comes up, you type ipconfig. </sarcasm> I can see how the difference would be confusing. I've bolded the difference for you so you can see the difference more clearly.
Of course, if you are a keyboard wizard, it gets even more confusing: Under windows 7, you would hit win-R, then cmd<enter>. Under windows 8, you would hit win-R, then cmd<enter>.
Again, I've bolded the differences for you so you can follow along here.
Even on the standard desktop, there's no start menu.
You are right, now you've got AN ENTIRE START SCREEN. Completely customizable, you can add any program you want to it, rearrange them in any order you want, and there is plenty of space for your most 50 used programs if you want. Still not enough, I know, it's a hard thing to learn to get to your "other stuff".
To get to stuff not listed on the Windows 7 start menu you would: Under windows 7, you would click on the bottom left of the screen to call up the start menu. Then click "All programs" and scroll to find the program you want. Then click on it. Under windows 8, you would click on the bottom left of the screen to call up the start screen. Right click anywhere not on a tile. Then click "All programs" and scroll to find the program you want. Then click on it.
I've bolded the difference for you so you don't miss it. That extra right click to access your 51-whatever least used programs that you don't know the name of is your reason for hating windows 8? Just wow.
I am not going to go putting 20 to 30 freaking programs "pinned" to the task bar.
Ok, is that what you do NOW under windows 7? I'm not following you here. Why would you need to do that in windows 8? Is the 40-50 things you can now pin on your start menu I mean screen confusing you because it goes over the 10 or so you could in windows 7?
I know it's difficult to learn new things with a new operating system. For example, running ipconfig. Under windows 7, you would click the mouse on the bottom left corner of the screen, and type "cmd" and then when the command prompt comes up, you type ipconfig. Under windows 8, you would click the mouse on the bottom left corner of the screen, and type "cmd" and then when the command prompt comes up, you type ipconfig.
I'm not sure what kind of cars you've been driving man, but in the past 23 years, I've owned 2 (Both GM). Granted, I am thinking about buying a new one again soon but, I've upgraded my PC a few more times than twice in the same time frame.
Windows 8 has the huge problem of them attempting to steal mobile markets while using the same OS as on the desktop. That's a huge mistake. The input devices are, and will most likely always be too different to make both appealing simultaneously.
Actually, if windows 8 had absolutely no touch capabilities, I don't see how it would change much. The new UI is great once you tell all the internet tards to stfu and actually try it yourself. Everyone that I've talked to that has tried it for more than 24 hours loves it. That is saying a lot.
When did you ever report a bug to microsoft AND GET A RESPONSE?
Yes, quite a few actually.
Linux out of the box detects more hardware easier than windows.
Um.. No. Not even close.
And unlike windows, doesn't decide it has to install another USB driver because you moved your mouse to a different USB port before it lets you use it.
Yes, that was quite annoying, although I haven't seen it happen on Windows 8 yet.
MS will tell you that NT is unsupported and you aren't allowed to fix ANYTHING if your USB camera doesn't work: You are now SOL.
You have the same options you do under linux. Fix it yourself. Although really? Windows NT? Perhaps you should consider upgrading.
And try using your Geforce2 card on your Win7 system.
Why? I can get a $10 video card that out performs it, produces less heat, and wastes less electricity.
all while ignoring how it's a relatively recent "innovation" in Windows that you don't have to reboot the computer just to change an IP address
Relatively new as in the past 10 years or more? You didn't need to reboot in windows 8, 7, vista, and I'm pretty sure you don't in windows XP either, but it has been a long time since I've tried.
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If I cared. Or had an edit button. Or if this was grammardot, news for grammar nazis.
The biggests mistake that America made was "free-trade" and dropping their tarifs and duties.
It is only a mistake if you are trying to keep one country on top of all the others. Free-trade has made the WORLD a better place, at the expense of the USA. Now it's up to you to decide if that is a good or bad thing.
Threads introduce all sorts of extremely subtle timing-based logic and security bugs which even the smartest programmers in the world think they can handle but in practice don't.
To be fair, you don't even need multithreaded programming to see all the subtle timing issues that poor programers don't understand and make daily. It really isn't that difficult to write multithreaded programs, and ones that don't having "subtle timing-basic logic and security bugs".
Yeah, that'll work, NOT.
And if it was, what is it that keeps an employee who invents/discovers something during normal work hours from burying it for a few hours, then miraculously thinking of it at 5:01pm?
Then hit Win-R
I'm not sure why you would want to install a start menu replacement unless you really really hate change that much. The start screen is just like a start menu, but instead of it taking up a very small part of your screen, it now expands to fill your entire screen, which makes sense. If you are actively trying to start an application, why wouldn't you?
I take that back. I don't think the atari basic that ran on the 2600 with it's awesome 9 lines of code, and only 128 bytes total of usable memory could do multiple statements per line, but that was so long ago I'm not totally sure.
Business Basic on AT&T Unix also supported multiple statements per line. There were many basics that came later that I used, but as far as I can recall, they all supported it as well.
Which basic was that? Because QBasic, GWBasic, the C-64 Basic, Apple basic, and Atari basic all supported it.
I can't think of a single basic that did not support multiple statements per line.
It attempts to keep private data private. To do so completely, the network operators themselves must not be able to track back the data to the original request or view the contents.
No, it doesn't. One is keeping people from being able to see what is being sent, the other is keeping people from knowing WHO sent it. Big difference.
But you aren't tethered to a power outlet. Portable doesn't mean you can use something while moving it, just that it is easier to move.
Most people don't need ungodly amounts of battery. For me, 4 hours is plenty. Enough to allow me to carry it from the office to the train, sit on the train and use it for an hour, then carry it from the train to my car. I have power both at my house and at the office, so for 95% of my use cases, the extra weight of a full laptop (or larger battery) is unwanted.
In fact, there have been many years in which I would have taken a laptop/tablet with *NO* battery. I didn't need to use it while moving it, and all I cared about was a powerful, portable device that I could move from home to office and I would never have used it when I wasn't at one or the other. However, faster internet speeds and decent syncing software has eliminated my need for most of that (albeit, there are cases in which I would have liked owning my own hardware rather than the company supplied pieces of crap, and would have bought it for my own use if the company didn't directly tell me that they wouldn't allow me to connect it to the network AT ALL when I got to the office -- sigh).
For clarification, when I said "unproven" I meant proven false. Unproven was not the correct terminology to use because theories are already unproven, but not proven to be false.
$2 for an edit button.
Looks like someone doesn't understand the basics of science.
Evolution (as most people think of it) isn't a fact. It's a theory. That's why it is called the theory of evolution. Theories aren't facts. They are hypothesis that have undergone review and have yet to be unproven. When the day comes that we can prove it, then it becomes a scientific fact or law.
Science is never wrong, but some of it's theories may be incorrect, or incomplete. When a theory is proven such, it is then revised so that it fits out best current understanding. Rinse, repeat until it can be proven.
This is the basis of science, and you should have learned it by the 6th grade (or before).
Sorry, slashdot ate all my tags.
<sarcasm>I know it's difficult to learn new things with a new operating system. For example, running ipconfig.
Under windows 7, you would click the mouse on the bottom left corner of the screen, and type "cmd" <enter> and then when the command prompt comes up, you type ipconfig.
Under windows 8, you would click the mouse on the bottom left corner of the screen, and type "cmd" <enter> and then when the command prompt comes up, you type ipconfig.
</sarcasm>
I can see how the difference would be confusing. I've bolded the difference for you so you can see the difference more clearly.
Of course, if you are a keyboard wizard, it gets even more confusing:
Under windows 7, you would hit win-R, then cmd<enter>.
Under windows 8, you would hit win-R, then cmd<enter>.
Again, I've bolded the differences for you so you can follow along here.
Even on the standard desktop, there's no start menu.
You are right, now you've got AN ENTIRE START SCREEN. Completely customizable, you can add any program you want to it, rearrange them in any order you want, and there is plenty of space for your most 50 used programs if you want. Still not enough, I know, it's a hard thing to learn to get to your "other stuff".
To get to stuff not listed on the Windows 7 start menu you would:
Under windows 7, you would click on the bottom left of the screen to call up the start menu. Then click "All programs" and scroll to find the program you want. Then click on it.
Under windows 8, you would click on the bottom left of the screen to call up the start screen. Right click anywhere not on a tile. Then click "All programs" and scroll to find the program you want. Then click on it.
I've bolded the difference for you so you don't miss it. That extra right click to access your 51-whatever least used programs that you don't know the name of is your reason for hating windows 8? Just wow.
I am not going to go putting 20 to 30 freaking programs "pinned" to the task bar.
Ok, is that what you do NOW under windows 7? I'm not following you here. Why would you need to do that in windows 8? Is the 40-50 things you can now pin on your start menu I mean screen confusing you because it goes over the 10 or so you could in windows 7?
I know it's difficult to learn new things with a new operating system. For example, running ipconfig.
Under windows 7, you would click the mouse on the bottom left corner of the screen, and type "cmd" and then when the command prompt comes up, you type ipconfig.
Under windows 8, you would click the mouse on the bottom left corner of the screen, and type "cmd" and then when the command prompt comes up, you type ipconfig.
I can see how the difference would be confusing.
lulz
Ie6 users might be only a few percent now days BUT THEY KEEP BLOODY HIRING ME TO DO THEM A WEBSITE oh god kill me
ROFL, you know... I think that says something about both your clients and you.
Most people buy a new PC less often than a car
I'm not sure what kind of cars you've been driving man, but in the past 23 years, I've owned 2 (Both GM). Granted, I am thinking about buying a new one again soon but, I've upgraded my PC a few more times than twice in the same time frame.
Windows 8 has the huge problem of them attempting to steal mobile markets while using the same OS as on the desktop. That's a huge mistake. The input devices are, and will most likely always be too different to make both appealing simultaneously.
Actually, if windows 8 had absolutely no touch capabilities, I don't see how it would change much. The new UI is great once you tell all the internet tards to stfu and actually try it yourself. Everyone that I've talked to that has tried it for more than 24 hours loves it. That is saying a lot.
Hmm.. I seem to have issues trying to get support for my linux kernel version 0.6.8. My webcam drivers don't work. WTF?
When did you ever report a bug to microsoft AND GET A RESPONSE?
Yes, quite a few actually.
Linux out of the box detects more hardware easier than windows.
Um.. No. Not even close.
And unlike windows, doesn't decide it has to install another USB driver because you moved your mouse to a different USB port before it lets you use it.
Yes, that was quite annoying, although I haven't seen it happen on Windows 8 yet.
MS will tell you that NT is unsupported and you aren't allowed to fix ANYTHING if your USB camera doesn't work: You are now SOL.
You have the same options you do under linux. Fix it yourself. Although really? Windows NT? Perhaps you should consider upgrading.
And try using your Geforce2 card on your Win7 system.
Why? I can get a $10 video card that out performs it, produces less heat, and wastes less electricity.
all while ignoring how it's a relatively recent "innovation" in Windows that you don't have to reboot the computer just to change an IP address
Relatively new as in the past 10 years or more? You didn't need to reboot in windows 8, 7, vista, and I'm pretty sure you don't in windows XP either, but it has been a long time since I've tried.
Signs you haven't been out of the US: You think US beer is either good, or contains a normal amount of alcohol compared to the rest of the world.
foxconn. Duh
You do kinda realize not only did you just repeat what I just said, but that is the exact point of it, right?
They CAN repeal it at any time, but it has to be a conscience effort to do so. Any such motion would immediately get a more discriminating look.