True enough. Typically Windows security has sucked...only up until XP SP2 did things start to change for the better. Why? Because everyone runs as admin. Why? Because software security is a hassle for your average Joe - look at the complaints of UAC in vista for proof of this. The default security model in Vista is (in my opinion) more 'secure' than that of even hardened unix, simply because there's no login you can use to ever get full-blown root-level access to the box. UAC has to be permanently disabled to allow even system admins to finally have free uninterrupted rein of the system.
So, my point is that most people don't run Vista, and many don't even have XP SP2 (which, for the least part, bugged you if you didn't have automatic updates, a firewall of sorts and AV running). That is why so many rooted Windows boxes exist.
The reason I mention drivers/codecs is because I had to replace both to get decent dvd playback. It's not flamebait; the fact is Vista is perfectly capable of smooth video/dvd playback.
Windows has 97% market penetration. Some of these will be idiots; it's an inescapable fact. That is, people that are most likely to download & run reallycoolscreensaverlol.exe (the one that kindly asks you click "yes" to all security 'warnings' that may pop up)
At that point, they go and see idiots like you. You do no favours to further open-source at all. What a shame.
I personally get very tired of hearing "OMG! F*ck you M$ - I'm going to Linux!" with every reported bug that gets plastered all over this site, like some sort of victory parade. It's sad.
It's a bug. There'll be others. It'll be fixed though, so for all the people that enjoy listening to music in WMP while maxing network bandwidth, I'm afraid you've got a painful wait in store.
There's one thing that makes OSX and Windows so much nicer on the GUI side than any Linux window manager:
Apple and (especially) Microsoft spend billions on finding out how the user interacts with thier software, and how to make it easier and more natural. GNOME and KDE don't and it shows in comparison.
Developers are definately vital, but unfortunately, it's a bit more complicated than that.
ok, well from my point of view, English has been English for the last 7 centuries, and even if you look at all the permutations of it from the point when the US got it's independence until now (to use your example), there's very few changes relatively speaking, and thus....we do kinda have a claim on it as "ours" in that respect...it was 'built' in England, has split out into many other countries since, and hasn't really changed from the original pre-empire days of the UK.
On the other hand, Latin is one example of a properly split language....Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and so are all derivatives (as I'm sure you know), and all have very common ground, but not enough to call all the languages just "Latin". That's why, as a Spanish speaker, I can go to the pub with an Italian and actually have limited conversation with them (which btw, I have done), having never studied a second of Italian.
If you take a look at the history of the English lingo, it was easily recognisable as far back as the 14th century, and discernible all the way back until 900 AD if you really don't mind squinting. My point is that essentially, US English really isn't much of a shift at all away from English English, which is why many Brits will say that "it's our language". Personally though, I don't think anyone 'owns' a language, but recognition of origin is always nice.
And yes, English language is more or less the same as it was when the US was colonised. Things have changed for sure, but if it's variations you're looking for, you need not look any further than the UK itself - every major city has a variation of English far more extreme than US English will probably ever be.
Wake me up when ANY IDE can come close to the functionality of VS2005 + Team Foundation Server. There's none, period. Sure Eclipse is a damned fine IDE in its own right, but, excuse the pun, but it's completely "Eclipsed" by the TFS extension to Visual Studio. And that's just 2005.
Solution files can be converted to & from various formats using 3rd part tools. Google it.
And jesus, what's this shite about one Window? That is just a plain lie - every single window is detachable, moveable for both debugging and editing modes independently.
The guy clearly got fucked in the ass by a Microsoft employee when he were a kid or something. The funniest thing is that despite being anti-Microsoft, I'll wager Microsoft consumes his every thought at almost every moment. I bet he can't even log into his computer with out thinking about Microsoft. And the best bit is that twitter, being an unashamed anti-MS troll, probably does more to scare away people from GNU/Linux and FOSS than any person I've met on this website, purely because all the pure bigotry he spouts every time he opens his mouth.
Different it may be, but certainly for the better I'd say, and as my previously supplied link suggested - the "learning curve" has been vastly over-stated. Having upgraded a long time ago, I too found myself hunting for the odd feature here & there, but nothing the help system can't highlight in a matter of seconds and overall a far more intuitive interface. Either way, I'm not alone on this opinion.
And sorry, but personally the whole "M$ Windoze security suck0rz!" thing is frankly so out of date. There was a time when it was true, but not any more.
Yes I know it's only "reported" bugs, so I'm not about to say Windows is certainly more secure, but I think it's a strong argument for how it's at least equal to that of it's OS sibling.
Also, as it turns out the UI for Office 2007 isn't so bad after all - http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=201800612&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News Think logically for one second....Microsoft have in fairness spent a fair few billion on this new interface. That's more effort and investment than OO will ever get, ever, so the chances are it is going to be easier for users.
I would like to point out what makes good 'usability' comes down to personal preference and what you're used to. I don't know a single.Net dev that has ever complained about the UI VS2005 at least, and personally speaking having used Eclipse (a very good IDE) and Netbeans too, I much prefer Visual Studio. Features like edit & continue and the data-viewers for debugging make VS by far the best.
"Microsoft acknowledged that quality of premium content would be lowered if requested by copyright holders"
and I love this one.....
"...you could say Windows Vista causes global warming" - Peter Gutmann
Well, that's certainly a reason I've not heard in favour of avoiding Vista.
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Yeah? You would pretty much never get a job in a large corp with an attitude like that. Why on earth do you think Microsoft are any worse than say IBM for example? It's business, that's my point. "Moral justification" is an entirely new realm in business - frankly, people just want to get paid. It's not actual war.
....us Microsoft people actually have a lot of respect for FOSS products. I personally run a couple of machines on Linux because I think for their intended purpose, Linux is better. Most rational people think this way.
I rarely meet someone of the opposite polarity (software speaking).
Linux does not satisfy every need. Microsoft does do some things better. Much better. And the same for Linux too.
It's like yin and fucking yang - each side should compliment and respect the other, even if diametrically opposed.
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That's irrelevant. I don't believe for one second Microsoft are any worse than any other big corporate out there. I don't believe for one second either that it's the job of the workforce to have a consciousness about company strategies (of which, in Microsoft, there's a many). Business is business at the end of the day, people, like me just want to do a good job at work, get paid, and yeah, fuck it - why not have some pride in the company you work for?!
Personally, I don't care if you think Microsoft are 'evil'. To my mind, it's like hating an entire country based on some unpopular foreign policies. Ring any bells?
Seriously, name me one "house-hold" name website that uses Java applets anyway. Can't we just have it switched off by default? I like Java as a broad technology, but I'm finding applets increasingly irrelevant - interactive rich sites are being taken over by flash, ajax, and the probably-to-be-mainstream-soon Silverlight/Moonlight.
This isn't a flame....Java on the desktop is awesome and I love it.
Actually, it quite useful for developers if nothing else. If you know you application takes lots of resources up, you can check the WEI of the machine which will give you a far better indication of overall performance than trying to figure it out yourself.
In other words it gives n00bs the ability to see how shit or great their system is without know how to benchmark, and it gives devs the ability to know how well their app is likely to perform.
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True enough. Typically Windows security has sucked...only up until XP SP2 did things start to change for the better. Why? Because everyone runs as admin. Why? Because software security is a hassle for your average Joe - look at the complaints of UAC in vista for proof of this. The default security model in Vista is (in my opinion) more 'secure' than that of even hardened unix, simply because there's no login you can use to ever get full-blown root-level access to the box. UAC has to be permanently disabled to allow even system admins to finally have free uninterrupted rein of the system.
So, my point is that most people don't run Vista, and many don't even have XP SP2 (which, for the least part, bugged you if you didn't have automatic updates, a firewall of sorts and AV running). That is why so many rooted Windows boxes exist.
Thank god it's changing.
How's this flamebait?
The reason I mention drivers/codecs is because I had to replace both to get decent dvd playback. It's not flamebait; the fact is Vista is perfectly capable of smooth video/dvd playback.
Windows has 97% market penetration. Some of these will be idiots; it's an inescapable fact. That is, people that are most likely to download & run reallycoolscreensaverlol.exe (the one that kindly asks you click "yes" to all security 'warnings' that may pop up)
At that point, they go and see idiots like you. You do no favours to further open-source at all. What a shame.
"I cannot play mp3s or video without stuttering on Vista with a dual core 2.4 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB SATA drive"
Have you considered the possibility some/one of your drivers/codecs may be at fault here?
Vista runs sweet for me. It's snappier than XP was in fact.
....it's got to be the biggest let-down of all time.
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The shut-down menu, that is...
"Bill, Bill! I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! Come back!"
*repents*
I personally get very tired of hearing "OMG! F*ck you M$ - I'm going to Linux!" with every reported bug that gets plastered all over this site, like some sort of victory parade. It's sad.
It's a bug. There'll be others. It'll be fixed though, so for all the people that enjoy listening to music in WMP while maxing network bandwidth, I'm afraid you've got a painful wait in store.
There's one thing that makes OSX and Windows so much nicer on the GUI side than any Linux window manager:
Apple and (especially) Microsoft spend billions on finding out how the user interacts with thier software, and how to make it easier and more natural. GNOME and KDE don't and it shows in comparison.
Developers are definately vital, but unfortunately, it's a bit more complicated than that.
A photo of a hole...in the the biggest emptiness in the universe. I can see that one winning competitions.
ok, well from my point of view, English has been English for the last 7 centuries, and even if you look at all the permutations of it from the point when the US got it's independence until now (to use your example), there's very few changes relatively speaking, and thus....we do kinda have a claim on it as "ours" in that respect...it was 'built' in England, has split out into many other countries since, and hasn't really changed from the original pre-empire days of the UK.
On the other hand, Latin is one example of a properly split language....Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and so are all derivatives (as I'm sure you know), and all have very common ground, but not enough to call all the languages just "Latin". That's why, as a Spanish speaker, I can go to the pub with an Italian and actually have limited conversation with them (which btw, I have done), having never studied a second of Italian.
If you take a look at the history of the English lingo, it was easily recognisable as far back as the 14th century, and discernible all the way back until 900 AD if you really don't mind squinting.
My point is that essentially, US English really isn't much of a shift at all away from English English, which is why many Brits will say that "it's our language". Personally though, I don't think anyone 'owns' a language, but recognition of origin is always nice.
And yes, English language is more or less the same as it was when the US was colonised. Things have changed for sure, but if it's variations you're looking for, you need not look any further than the UK itself - every major city has a variation of English far more extreme than US English will probably ever be.
Wake me up when ANY IDE can come close to the functionality of VS2005 + Team Foundation Server.
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There's none, period. Sure Eclipse is a damned fine IDE in its own right, but, excuse the pun, but it's completely "Eclipsed" by the TFS extension to Visual Studio. And that's just 2005.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718
Solution files can be converted to & from various formats using 3rd part tools. Google it.
And jesus, what's this shite about one Window? That is just a plain lie - every single window is detachable, moveable for both debugging and editing modes independently.
The following two links prove that sounds and networking are broken in Ubuntu?
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http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+sound+not+w
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/
Well, clearly not, but it's ok - I added a question mark to the end of the above statement, so I'm not spreading FUD ok?
Vista might have issues and quirks, but it basically works. Bad news travels faster than good, etc.
Story is this:
"A guy's pc he built himself doesn't work well with Vista".
Clearly a sign we should all switch to Linux, for the end is nigh for Microsoft.
The guy clearly got fucked in the ass by a Microsoft employee when he were a kid or something.
The funniest thing is that despite being anti-Microsoft, I'll wager Microsoft consumes his every thought at almost every moment. I bet he can't even log into his computer with out thinking about Microsoft.
And the best bit is that twitter, being an unashamed anti-MS troll, probably does more to scare away people from GNU/Linux and FOSS than any person I've met on this website, purely because all the pure bigotry he spouts every time he opens his mouth.
Different it may be, but certainly for the better I'd say, and as my previously supplied link suggested - the "learning curve" has been vastly over-stated. Having upgraded a long time ago, I too found myself hunting for the odd feature here & there, but nothing the help system can't highlight in a matter of seconds and overall a far more intuitive interface. Either way, I'm not alone on this opinion.
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And sorry, but personally the whole "M$ Windoze security suck0rz!" thing is frankly so out of date. There was a time when it was true, but not any more.
http://blogs.csoonline.com/windows_vista_6_month_
Yes I know it's only "reported" bugs, so I'm not about to say Windows is certainly more secure, but I think it's a strong argument for how it's at least equal to that of it's OS sibling.
"text document branch"? Sounds like rubbish to me.
r ticle.html?tk=nl_dnxnws - no mention of partial implementations there, or otherwise there's always the good old community to help out - http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter
j html?articleID=201800612&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
Have another article on it if you want - http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126331-page,1/a
Also, as it turns out the UI for Office 2007 isn't so bad after all - http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.
Think logically for one second....Microsoft have in fairness spent a fair few billion on this new interface. That's more effort and investment than OO will ever get, ever, so the chances are it is going to be easier for users.
...that MS Office supports ODF just fine. You'll probably find some of the docs on-line even came from Office.
I would like to point out what makes good 'usability' comes down to personal preference and what you're used to. I don't know a single .Net dev that has ever complained about the UI VS2005 at least, and personally speaking having used Eclipse (a very good IDE) and Netbeans too, I much prefer Visual Studio. Features like edit & continue and the data-viewers for debugging make VS by far the best.
"Microsoft acknowledged that quality of premium content would be lowered if requested by copyright holders"
and I love this one.....
"...you could say Windows Vista causes global warming" - Peter Gutmann
Well, that's certainly a reason I've not heard in favour of avoiding Vista.
Yeah? You would pretty much never get a job in a large corp with an attitude like that. Why on earth do you think Microsoft are any worse than say IBM for example? It's business, that's my point. "Moral justification" is an entirely new realm in business - frankly, people just want to get paid. It's not actual war.
....us Microsoft people actually have a lot of respect for FOSS products. I personally run a couple of machines on Linux because I think for their intended purpose, Linux is better. Most rational people think this way.
I rarely meet someone of the opposite polarity (software speaking).
Linux does not satisfy every need. Microsoft does do some things better. Much better. And the same for Linux too.
It's like yin and fucking yang - each side should compliment and respect the other, even if diametrically opposed.
That's irrelevant. I don't believe for one second Microsoft are any worse than any other big corporate out there. I don't believe for one second either that it's the job of the workforce to have a consciousness about company strategies (of which, in Microsoft, there's a many). Business is business at the end of the day, people, like me just want to do a good job at work, get paid, and yeah, fuck it - why not have some pride in the company you work for?!
Personally, I don't care if you think Microsoft are 'evil'. To my mind, it's like hating an entire country based on some unpopular foreign policies. Ring any bells?
One theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
Seriously, name me one "house-hold" name website that uses Java applets anyway. Can't we just have it switched off by default? I like Java as a broad technology, but I'm finding applets increasingly irrelevant - interactive rich sites are being taken over by flash, ajax, and the probably-to-be-mainstream-soon Silverlight/Moonlight.
This isn't a flame....Java on the desktop is awesome and I love it.
*runs to the hills*
Actually, it quite useful for developers if nothing else. If you know you application takes lots of resources up, you can check the WEI of the machine which will give you a far better indication of overall performance than trying to figure it out yourself.
In other words it gives n00bs the ability to see how shit or great their system is without know how to benchmark, and it gives devs the ability to know how well their app is likely to perform.