Can you please clarify me on this subject? How Vista's DRM affects you if you don't have media "protected" by drm ? What happens to my mp3s and divx files which are unencumbered with DRM? How Vista handles this type of content?
I remember that when Windows 98 was out, people in U.S. were waiting FOR HOURS in front of the stores to grab a copy.Now this is what I call a success. Microsoft has a lot of guts to call Vista a success too, relying on the fact that people nowadays buy more computers and they came with Vista preinstalled, most often, against people's will.
If I had a hardware issue, big or small, and I called Tech Support for a place like Dell, HP/Compaq, etc, and they asked what I was running for an OS I'd happily lie to them and tell them it was Windows XP or whatever came pre-loaded.
Yeah, but what happened to the idea of putting pressure on vendors so they realize that people use other OSs besides Windows?
These days I will buy a laptop. For EVERY SHOP I will visit, I'll ask the staff if they sell laptops with linux installed (of course they don't), with no OS installed (I know that if they do, it will be more expensive), or at least without Vista. I'll ask them if they know which laptops have all the drivers available for linux and that I want a laptop without that annoying "designed for Windows" sticker. Most likely they will look clueless at me saying that Windows is the ONLY operationg system, but I'll tell them kindly that there are people who choose to use other operating systems and that I'm one of them. If they act arogant, I'll tell them that I'll go to someone else who supports Linux.
If everyone lies and say that "Yeah, I use windows", how do you expect vendors to give a shit about alternate operating systems? They will do that when they realize that they lose money if they continue to only support windows. Bad press helps too so kudos to slashdot:)
It's so rare to find these days a good album which you could listen to it from start to finish without getting bored.. I'm too young to be nostalgic, but in the old days you had albums like Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Dark side of the moon, The Wall, Blonde on Blonde, Are you experienced?, Rumours and so on. Today you have 50 cent's or britney crap albums. Of course there are exceptions, but these are isolated cases. We need figures like Bob Dylan, John Lennon and the like to create quality albums and 50 cent might be good, but he could do better.
Sorry, but it's the other way around. 1. Install Fedora 2. Try to figure out why it hangs during the bootup process 3. Boot into single mode 4. Remove with chkconfig all the bluetooth and zeroconf junk 5. Repeat 3 and 4 after it finally boots. 6. Try to yum install anything 7. Wait... 8. Wait... 9. Wait... 10. Try to figure out why yum doesn't find anything useful 11. Add 3rd party repositories. 12. yum install anything 13. RPM HELL! 14. Give the fuck up and install Gentoo.
Does anyone remember Rav antivirus?
It was a very good antivirus program developed by Gecad, a romanian company. It had support for Linux, BSDs, Solaris and it was highly appreciated in its days. It's so sad that Microsoft killed this fine product, removing support for rival platforms and turning it into this lame thing called Onecare.
This is a 32-bit multitasking operating system for x86 computers, with GUI and filesystem, support for loading and executing user applications in elf binary format, with ps2 mouse and keyboard drivers, and vesa graphics. And a command shell. And an application - a simple text-file viewer."
Granted, it may not be the must useful (or maintainable!) OS...
Piece of cake... According to Andrew S. Tanenbaum "you'd have to be real dumb not to be able to write an operating system in a month.".
Sorry, but that dont impress me much. Anyone can do it in a month. Unless you're real dumb, in which case you write an obsoleted monolithic kernel instead. *ducks*
Dear Microsoft,
Today I want to go to any of the following states: Massachusetts, Minnesota, Texas, California. Should I expect any chairs thrown in my direction along the way?
I had many customers who were unhappy about moving to Windows XP, and we still support numerous servers running Windows 2000 for mission critical (not THIS critical, though) applications that are running strong and haven't had to be restarted in over a year or longer (one customer hasn't rebooted their Win2K installation in 3 years).
Ok, I agree with you. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Windows, I think that 3 years without a reboot means that the system was last patched exactly 3 years ago. I wouldn't want this to happen on a mission critical application...
I'd rather not start a debate on why communism is evil and corporations and banks having indirectly killed millions in africa are fine, so let's say al qaeda uses a linux infrastructure. Does that mean you would boycott linux for that?
Well, if Linux can be used by mad scientists on sharks with lasers to take over the world, why wouldn't al qaida be allowed to do the same? All they have to do is conform with the license.
Perhaps it will be something like: Vienna0 = Longhorn0-Vista_final
Vienna_intermediate = Vienna0 - WinFS
and, in the end:
Vienna_final = Vienna_intermediate - the Mono shell.
OMG, Vienna_final is void!
Jim Allchin worked for Microsoft for over 16 years before retiring in early 2007, on the day that Microsoft officially released the Windows Vista operating system to consumers. Today, Jim Allchin dedicates most of his time to evangelize Apple on Slashdot. You probably know him as Whiney Mac Fanboy
I think there will be many *issues* Vista will have in the next months. Maybe slashdot should compile a monthly digest and publish that instead. Am I the only one who got bored of Vista already? I'm a romanian, and I don't even consider getting a torrent of vista. Imagine how bored Vista makes me feel!
I spent a few months there a couple years ago. I haven't seen any properly licensed software being used. Not once. NEVER!
People invariably looked at me funny when I even mentioned this.
I live in Romania. I run Gentoo and sometimes a pirated version of XP. Should I feel ashamed? I'm not, sorry. It is true, most home users run pirated software. They buy World of Warcraft though:) I generally disagree with the pimp-style welcome Gates received (VIsta flags on boulevards and the like), but I agree with what the president said regarding piracy. I think that MS gained more by ignoring piracy.
Anyway, you cannot tell the same thing about businesses. Most of them run legal software.
Its very amusing to me the bias people have about this country. Theft, crime, child porn??? You do know that Romania is a member of the EU, don't you? Its like saying that America's full of teens who murder their school mates after playing CS.. Its not like that, right?
As to why MS would open a tech centre in Bucharest... it would become clear to you if you spent a couple days walking around the Redmond campus.
People say that romanian is the second spoken language at microsoft, after english. Could someone please confirm this? I think that MS opened this tech support center here because of:
- cheap and qualified workforce
- blackmail material to enforce its agenda in EU(software patents anyone?)
I am shocked! Damn you Bill, I really believed you when you said Vista is "dramatically more secure than any other operating system released". My world view is turned upside down now:(
Hello!
I am new to this Slashdot thing. I have trouble understanding this... Wasn't this story posted before? It's like the same story posted twice.What's the word for it? Doop?
Have you actually used visual studio? it degrades to a useless piece of rubbish after a few months.
I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you.
Microsoft says that consumers don't understand the risks of running virtual machines, and they only want enterprises that understand the risks to run Vista on a VM. So, Microsoft removes user choice in the name of security.
This just reminds me of the infamous quote:
This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
Once again Microsoft's attitude is an insult to its customers intelligence. Thank you Microsoft for letting us know that we are morons.
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Can you please clarify me on this subject? How Vista's DRM affects you if you don't have media "protected" by drm ? What happens to my mp3s and divx files which are unencumbered with DRM? How Vista handles this type of content?
I remember that when Windows 98 was out, people in U.S. were waiting FOR HOURS in front of the stores to grab a copy.Now this is what I call a success. Microsoft has a lot of guts to call Vista a success too, relying on the fact that people nowadays buy more computers and they came with Vista preinstalled, most often, against people's will.
If I had a hardware issue, big or small, and I called Tech Support for a place like Dell, HP/Compaq, etc, and they asked what I was running for an OS I'd happily lie to them and tell them it was Windows XP or whatever came pre-loaded. :)
Yeah, but what happened to the idea of putting pressure on vendors so they realize that people use other OSs besides Windows?
These days I will buy a laptop. For EVERY SHOP I will visit, I'll ask the staff if they sell laptops with linux installed (of course they don't), with no OS installed (I know that if they do, it will be more expensive), or at least without Vista. I'll ask them if they know which laptops have all the drivers available for linux and that I want a laptop without that annoying "designed for Windows" sticker. Most likely they will look clueless at me saying that Windows is the ONLY operationg system, but I'll tell them kindly that there are people who choose to use other operating systems and that I'm one of them. If they act arogant, I'll tell them that I'll go to someone else who supports Linux.
If everyone lies and say that "Yeah, I use windows", how do you expect vendors to give a shit about alternate operating systems? They will do that when they realize that they lose money if they continue to only support windows. Bad press helps too so kudos to slashdot
It's so rare to find these days a good album which you could listen to it from start to finish without getting bored.. I'm too young to be nostalgic, but in the old days you had albums like Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Dark side of the moon, The Wall, Blonde on Blonde, Are you experienced?, Rumours and so on. Today you have 50 cent's or britney crap albums. Of course there are exceptions, but these are isolated cases. We need figures like Bob Dylan, John Lennon and the like to create quality albums and 50 cent might be good, but he could do better.
This reminds me of Woody Allen's comment:
"Don't know masturbation. It's sex with someone you love"
Sorry, but it's the other way around.
1. Install Fedora
2. Try to figure out why it hangs during the bootup process
3. Boot into single mode
4. Remove with chkconfig all the bluetooth and zeroconf junk
5. Repeat 3 and 4 after it finally boots.
6. Try to yum install anything
7. Wait...
8. Wait...
9. Wait...
10. Try to figure out why yum doesn't find anything useful
11. Add 3rd party repositories.
12. yum install anything
13. RPM HELL!
14. Give the fuck up and install Gentoo.
Does anyone remember Rav antivirus?
It was a very good antivirus program developed by Gecad, a romanian company. It had support for Linux, BSDs, Solaris and it was highly appreciated in its days. It's so sad that Microsoft killed this fine product, removing support for rival platforms and turning it into this lame thing called Onecare.
This is a 32-bit multitasking operating system for x86 computers, with GUI and filesystem, support for loading and executing user applications in elf binary format, with ps2 mouse and keyboard drivers, and vesa graphics. And a command shell. And an application - a simple text-file viewer." ...
Granted, it may not be the must useful (or maintainable!) OS
Piece of cake... According to Andrew S. Tanenbaum "you'd have to be real dumb not to be able to write an operating system in a month.".
Sorry, but that dont impress me much. Anyone can do it in a month. Unless you're real dumb, in which case you write an obsoleted monolithic kernel instead. *ducks*
Dear Microsoft,
Today I want to go to any of the following states: Massachusetts, Minnesota, Texas, California. Should I expect any chairs thrown in my direction along the way?
I had many customers who were unhappy about moving to Windows XP, and we still support numerous servers running Windows 2000 for mission critical (not THIS critical, though) applications that are running strong and haven't had to be restarted in over a year or longer (one customer hasn't rebooted their Win2K installation in 3 years).
Ok, I agree with you. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Windows, I think that 3 years without a reboot means that the system was last patched exactly 3 years ago. I wouldn't want this to happen on a mission critical application...
I'd rather not start a debate on why communism is evil and corporations and banks having indirectly killed millions in africa are fine, so let's say al qaeda uses a linux infrastructure. Does that mean you would boycott linux for that?
Well, if Linux can be used by mad scientists on sharks with lasers to take over the world, why wouldn't al qaida be allowed to do the same? All they have to do is conform with the license.
Perhaps it will be something like:
Vienna0 = Longhorn0-Vista_final
Vienna_intermediate = Vienna0 - WinFS
and, in the end:
Vienna_final = Vienna_intermediate - the Mono shell.
OMG, Vienna_final is void!
Jim Allchin worked for Microsoft for over 16 years before retiring in early 2007, on the day that Microsoft officially released the Windows Vista operating system to consumers. Today, Jim Allchin dedicates most of his time to evangelize Apple on Slashdot. You probably know him as Whiney Mac Fanboy
Once Microsoft has killed off the other major distributions,
they will buy and dismantle Novell. There, fix that for you.
I think there will be many *issues* Vista will have in the next months. Maybe slashdot should compile a monthly digest and publish that instead. Am I the only one who got bored of Vista already? I'm a romanian, and I don't even consider getting a torrent of vista. Imagine how bored Vista makes me feel!
I spent a few months there a couple years ago. I haven't seen any properly licensed software being used. Not once. NEVER! People invariably looked at me funny when I even mentioned this. :) I generally disagree with the pimp-style welcome Gates received (VIsta flags on boulevards and the like), but I agree with what the president said regarding piracy. I think that MS gained more by ignoring piracy.
Anyway, you cannot tell the same thing about businesses. Most of them run legal software. ... it would become clear to you if you spent a couple days walking around the Redmond campus.
I live in Romania. I run Gentoo and sometimes a pirated version of XP. Should I feel ashamed? I'm not, sorry. It is true, most home users run pirated software. They buy World of Warcraft though
Its very amusing to me the bias people have about this country. Theft, crime, child porn??? You do know that Romania is a member of the EU, don't you? Its like saying that America's full of teens who murder their school mates after playing CS.. Its not like that, right? As to why MS would open a tech centre in Bucharest
People say that romanian is the second spoken language at microsoft, after english. Could someone please confirm this? I think that MS opened this tech support center here because of:
- cheap and qualified workforce
- blackmail material to enforce its agenda in EU(software patents anyone?)
I am shocked! Damn you Bill, I really believed you when you said Vista is "dramatically more secure than any other operating system released". My world view is turned upside down now :(
Hello!
I am new to this Slashdot thing. I have trouble understanding this... Wasn't this story posted before? It's like the same story posted twice.What's the word for it? Doop?
He didn't directly kill her...
Of course he didn't... He just sent her a SIGKILL... kill -9 needs no justification
As you all know, Chuck Norris CAN divide by zero. He always could. Nothing new here, please move along
Have you actually used visual studio? it degrades to a useless piece of rubbish after a few months.
I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you.
Just look at the size of their patent portfolio. *ducks
Microsoft says that consumers don't understand the risks of running virtual machines, and they only want enterprises that understand the risks to run Vista on a VM. So, Microsoft removes user choice in the name of security.
This just reminds me of the infamous quote:
This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
Once again Microsoft's attitude is an insult to its customers intelligence. Thank you Microsoft for letting us know that we are morons.
If you look at the operating systems statistics , you can clearly see that the war is over and Linux has won :-)