How many Linux engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
None. They all stand around complaining that the socket isn't compatible with the lightbulb they created from scratch, then demand that the makers of the socket tell them exactly how they built it or they'll sulk in the dark.
So 64-bit is worse than 32-bit because "8388608-bit processors would have 1 meg pointers".
If you really developed a 8388608-bit processor you could technically address 524TB of RAM. At that stage I don't think 1 meg pointers are as much of an issue as you're pretending they are.
You should have just gotten an Apple and you are able to run most any OS that you want Wow, for a minute there you almost had me believing that the only reason I can't do that on any other machine is because of artificial restrictions that Apple enforce.
How about I stick to what I have now so I don't have to buy an overpriced desktop, and then if Apple decide that I'm allowed to run OS X on something they didn't build, I might consider booting it.
The articles all describe a scenario that you have to click through a UAC prompt ONCE to add a network printer, and if it's turned off you won't be able to add it. It is a bug, yes, but it's in the process of being fixed.
That's certainly not "I have to click a UAC prompt every time I print something." In your case something actually is seriously wrong.
"harrass"[sic] That is what we call in the industry a 'mistake'. This you would know from the fact that you typed 'nowhere' as two words. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Indeed I even went to the length of typing *stands well back* in order to distance myself from what people wish to do with the information I provided. Whatever you need to tell yourself to help you sleep at night. Considering that the article is in fact a hoax, I hope you're prepared to accept the consequences of doing so.
There is no true discipline but self-discipline. Bullshit.
Never, ever breed, for the good of the rest of us. If you really think your child can only get through life on the lessons he or she learns by themselves, then you are not only sorely mistaken but the worst kind of parent.
Anybody with half a brain will tell you that discipline is critical for kids when they're growing up, and here you are telling people to harrass a teacher who dared to punish a disobedient student.
Ah, you're right - my problem was assuming it would be with every other option, which it's not - for some reason it's located at almost the exact opposite end of the screen.
With a perfectly good, free online alternative (i.e., Google Docs), why should anyone put their data at risk by having it stored in only one place (i.e., at home) and likely not backed up? Because, and of course this is my opinion, Google Docs is not 'perfectly good' unless you want very, very little.
Take their presentation software. Say I want to create a simple square on the screen, something that a lot of presentations need. On Google Docs, I have to go to a graphics package, make a picture of a square, and then import that as a picture in to the presentation. You'd better hope that it's the right size too because it's a picture, and if you resize it your line thicknesses will be changed as well. Next simple thing is fading. Snapping from one slide to another is hard on the eyes for a long period - fading from one slide to another makes it easier. Google's presentations have no transitions whatsoever.
That's just the first two obvious things that sprang up when I tested. The spreadsheet app supports enough in the way of Excel formulae to be usable but it's incredibly slow to update with changes I make, sometimes up to 2-3 seconds to do something that a desktop app would do instantly. Conditional formatting is incredibly limited and macroing is right out the window. Similarly the Word app does enough to be usable but doesn't do anything that I would consider normal on a day to day basis.
The keyboard shortcuts don't work on Firefox 2.0.0.11. A choice of somewhere between 4 and 10 fonts without the option to import any more. I mentioned the interface lag which is annoying enough to mention twice. No support for Opera, which generally means it's not web standards compliant. No spellchecker that I could find.
I could go on and on, but I won't. It might be fine for somebody to pull together a few quick sums, or write a very basic list of things to do, but for anything more than that it's crap. I've used more functionality than Google Docs provides compiling City of Heroes data on a spreadsheet and writing my resumé, and that's saying something.
So yes, use Google Apps to store your documents, but sure as hell don't try and edit them. If Google Docs is the future of web-based applications, Microsoft aren't in for any problems at all.
Actually, if you'd taken 5 minutes even to check the stories on the front page, these posts appear on allkinds of articles, not just 'anti-MS' ones.
They probably appear more often on anti-MS articles because you're guaranteed more 'eyeballs' on those comments, so it's a more widespread audience for these trolls to hit.
Mod me off-topic if you like, I just wanted to correct yet another silly Slashdot assumption - this time that Microsoft somehow has a team of people posting stories about black guys with huge cocks. There's never been an iota of proof that they have anyone on here at all, other than in a casual capacity like the rest of us.
2) I don't know how an 'attempt to use tabs' can be 'poor', it's kind of an on/off thing. Care to explain?
3) Which plugins can't you use? Any plugin I've found for Firefox or IE works just as well in Opera. I assume you're talking about plugins, by the way, and not extensions or add-ons which are a completely different kettle of fish.
Having said all that, no I don't agree with Opera on this one - but Opera is still my choice of browser for speed and compliance.
Actually, if you read below, there is a way of uninstalling it.
Like it or not, programs coded for Vista sometimes do use Internet Explorer or at least the Trident engine, thus keeping it up to date is just as critical as a program that uses DirectX or.NET.
So, just because you don't want to use it, doesn't mean you won't end up using it anyway.
Not in Vista. I have the IE icon removed and there's no sign of it, despite installing several updates.
Besides you still have to keep it up-to-date even though you do not use it. Why is that a bad thing? As mentioned earlier, there are programs that are hard coded to use it even if you don't have it set as default. Keeping things up to date is just good practice.
I have Vista and Opera, and Opera is set as default. If you click a link anywhere in Windows, it launches Opera. For example, if you get an error there is a link to an appropriate KB article on microsoft.com. Clicking this for me launches it in Opera.
The only programs I've found that don't honour the default are Yahoo Messenger and City of Heroes - apparently they prefer to hardcode to launch IE, which is their choice.
This smacks of the US government trying to circuitously put economic sanctions on China because of it's human rights issues, without going through the proper international channels. In the end, all it's going to do is damage US business - China won't even notice if these companies go away, they have their own solutions for the same problems.
Trying to legislate against another country's laws sounds like a terrible idea on paper, and it doesn't promise much more in practice either.
Yes, it's stupid but you can see where they are going Actually, you're kind of getting that the wrong way around. You think that's where they're going because you're stupid. There's no evidence from any of the what you mention that Microsoft are seeking to lock down the internet.
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Are you planning on boycotting Linux as well?
Linux kernel 2.6.23 to have stable userspace driver API.
How many Linux engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
None. They all stand around complaining that the socket isn't compatible with the lightbulb they created from scratch, then demand that the makers of the socket tell them exactly how they built it or they'll sulk in the dark.
So 64-bit is worse than 32-bit because "8388608-bit processors would have 1 meg pointers".
If you really developed a 8388608-bit processor you could technically address 524TB of RAM. At that stage I don't think 1 meg pointers are as much of an issue as you're pretending they are.
How about I stick to what I have now so I don't have to buy an overpriced desktop, and then if Apple decide that I'm allowed to run OS X on something they didn't build, I might consider booting it.
Unlikely, though.
I clicked your Google link.
The articles all describe a scenario that you have to click through a UAC prompt ONCE to add a network printer, and if it's turned off you won't be able to add it. It is a bug, yes, but it's in the process of being fixed.
That's certainly not "I have to click a UAC prompt every time I print something." In your case something actually is seriously wrong.
Creative Zen.
I'm all ears as to how that's proof that Microsoft doesn't obey it's own specification.
I never thought I'd see the day... *wipes away a single tear*
Do you have a source for that? I'd be interested in reading it.
Never, ever breed, for the good of the rest of us. If you really think your child can only get through life on the lessons he or she learns by themselves, then you are not only sorely mistaken but the worst kind of parent.
Anybody with half a brain will tell you that discipline is critical for kids when they're growing up, and here you are telling people to harrass a teacher who dared to punish a disobedient student.
Absolutely pathetic.
Ah, you're right - my problem was assuming it would be with every other option, which it's not - for some reason it's located at almost the exact opposite end of the screen.
Actually, I would consider spellchecking to be incredibly basic functionality that most Office users use, and which isn't present in Google Apps.
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Maybe my assumption that people actually check their spelling is wishful thinking
Take their presentation software. Say I want to create a simple square on the screen, something that a lot of presentations need. On Google Docs, I have to go to a graphics package, make a picture of a square, and then import that as a picture in to the presentation. You'd better hope that it's the right size too because it's a picture, and if you resize it your line thicknesses will be changed as well. Next simple thing is fading. Snapping from one slide to another is hard on the eyes for a long period - fading from one slide to another makes it easier. Google's presentations have no transitions whatsoever.
That's just the first two obvious things that sprang up when I tested. The spreadsheet app supports enough in the way of Excel formulae to be usable but it's incredibly slow to update with changes I make, sometimes up to 2-3 seconds to do something that a desktop app would do instantly. Conditional formatting is incredibly limited and macroing is right out the window. Similarly the Word app does enough to be usable but doesn't do anything that I would consider normal on a day to day basis.
The keyboard shortcuts don't work on Firefox 2.0.0.11. A choice of somewhere between 4 and 10 fonts without the option to import any more. I mentioned the interface lag which is annoying enough to mention twice. No support for Opera, which generally means it's not web standards compliant. No spellchecker that I could find.
I could go on and on, but I won't. It might be fine for somebody to pull together a few quick sums, or write a very basic list of things to do, but for anything more than that it's crap. I've used more functionality than Google Docs provides compiling City of Heroes data on a spreadsheet and writing my resumé, and that's saying something.
So yes, use Google Apps to store your documents, but sure as hell don't try and edit them. If Google Docs is the future of web-based applications, Microsoft aren't in for any problems at all.
Actually, if you'd taken 5 minutes even to check the stories on the front page, these posts appear on all kinds of articles, not just 'anti-MS' ones.
They probably appear more often on anti-MS articles because you're guaranteed more 'eyeballs' on those comments, so it's a more widespread audience for these trolls to hit.
Mod me off-topic if you like, I just wanted to correct yet another silly Slashdot assumption - this time that Microsoft somehow has a team of people posting stories about black guys with huge cocks. There's never been an iota of proof that they have anyone on here at all, other than in a casual capacity like the rest of us.
1) Opera isn't adware.
2) I don't know how an 'attempt to use tabs' can be 'poor', it's kind of an on/off thing. Care to explain?
3) Which plugins can't you use? Any plugin I've found for Firefox or IE works just as well in Opera. I assume you're talking about plugins, by the way, and not extensions or add-ons which are a completely different kettle of fish.
Having said all that, no I don't agree with Opera on this one - but Opera is still my choice of browser for speed and compliance.
Actually, if you read below, there is a way of uninstalling it.
.NET.
Like it or not, programs coded for Vista sometimes do use Internet Explorer or at least the Trident engine, thus keeping it up to date is just as critical as a program that uses DirectX or
So, just because you don't want to use it, doesn't mean you won't end up using it anyway.
Windows Update is a separate program in Vista so it doesn't work with either.
Where does it say 'error logs'? I read 'IIS logs'.
This is demonstrably false.
I have Vista and Opera, and Opera is set as default. If you click a link anywhere in Windows, it launches Opera. For example, if you get an error there is a link to an appropriate KB article on microsoft.com. Clicking this for me launches it in Opera.
The only programs I've found that don't honour the default are Yahoo Messenger and City of Heroes - apparently they prefer to hardcode to launch IE, which is their choice.
This smacks of the US government trying to circuitously put economic sanctions on China because of it's human rights issues, without going through the proper international channels. In the end, all it's going to do is damage US business - China won't even notice if these companies go away, they have their own solutions for the same problems.
Trying to legislate against another country's laws sounds like a terrible idea on paper, and it doesn't promise much more in practice either.
So what?
Seeing as it frees that RAM up when you want to use it for programs, I don't see the problem.