AMD doing nice shit just makes it all the more heartbreaking when Intel releases better chips. I hope they get their shit together soon, I feel dirty with a Core 2 Duo.
Are other OEMs (HP, Toshiba, Sony, etc.) raising their XP downgrade pricing as well? If it's only Dell then it's likely just a result of Dell seeing XP demand decline, as opposed to Microsoft raising the fee to try to force people to use Vista.
Deletionists are horrible horrible people. Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia, it's a website with virtually limitless room for expansion. You don't have to fit everything inside a set of books. Guidelines for inclusion should be incredibly lax.
This hack is running benchmarks on a pre-alpha version of Windows 7 and you people are agreeing with his conclusions? I know you guys reach for straws when it comes to anything that makes Linux sound a bit better, but this is a new adventure in incompetence.
Yes, IE is horribly difficult to remove, but then again it serves a lot of functions in the OS. Removing it just causes a host of new problems. Plus it's really convenient to have IE installed so you can use IEtab in Firefox.
Lots of applications have been systematically removed from the base Windows install because of antitrust suits. If Microsoft could legally include any apps they wanted to, I'm sure it'd be a lot more useful right off the bat. Of course then you'd say it's bloated.
Vista is so slow as to be utterly useless - it came with my laptop, and after waiting 10 minutes for it to boot up, I reformatted and put Ubuntu on it.
It took 10 minutes for Vista to boot up? How did you manage to fuck up your computer before you even turned it on?
Very true, I used OpenOffice for a long time when all I needed to do was write things and print them off. It worked fine, plus Word's UI after 97 and before 2007 was awful (I am a fan of the ribbon). And while I am saying this having not tried OpenOffice 3, just transferring files from OO to Word on my university's computers didn't work well. I had all sorts of strange problems with the formatting (each paragraph would have different font sizes, for example).
Everyone is right to be suspicious. This is a distinctly un-Microsoft thing to do. But it is a little odd that this happens just a couple of weeks after Gates' last day. I know we all like to think as Ballmer as a crazy bastard, but it's still possible that perhaps Gates was holding Ballmer back from making some un-Microsoft-like decisions. Don't forget, Gates has a history of hating open-source, even before Microsoft. It's too out of the question to think that Ballmer's hatred of open-source is just a reflection of what Gates wanted him to believe.
Perhaps SSDs are just disappointing? If you look at the benchmarks for multiple brands of SSDs across multiple OSs, none of them match expectations. They might as well jump on the bandwagon, blame Microsoft, and save some face.
"There is no answer, it depends on what you want" is exactly right, but the rest of your post is useless. "Non free software doesn't get the attention it deserves." You mean the kind of software that people are paid are rewarded for doesn't get attention? Sure...
The fact of the matter is, Linux will not be widespread unless it adopts some closed-source code. Period. If you want to keep Linux pure then you also want to keep it restricted to a niche market.
Well Microsoft probably won't regain much of the market share they've lost recently, but that's not at all that much anyway. I think the only people who would go back to Windows are those college students who bought MacBooks with their parent's money because they wanted to be trendy, only to discover when their shiny computers break out of warranty that they don't want to spend two thousand dollars on a computer.
I fully believe that Microsoft management asked the engineers when 7 would be ready, they replied "January 2009" and the managers said "January 2010 it is." I find it highly unlikely that it will be significantly delayed again. No matter how much you want to believe it, Microsoft is simply not retarded.
Windows 7 won't suck. It won't be great either. It'll be pretty decent, probably above average. People will use it and say, "Hey this is better than Vista, and it's sorta fast too." Linux users will keep saying that Linux is better and hipsters will keep saying that OS X is better. Status quo antebellum; this is unlikely to change in the near future. Microsoft's market share will probably dip once Linux hits its stride, but there is definitely a wall for OS X adoption (closed-down software that only runs on high-priced hardware from one manufacturer? It must appeal to the masses).
I've tried to be less extreme in predictions than I usually am. It's just that you get a few people saying that Windows will dominate again, a few people saying that Linux will rise up and defeat them, and then another few saying that OS X will take over. All are equally laughable scenarios.
Normally I would just disagree with you quietly and move on, but your use of "M$" has forced my hand. You're a fool. And as a side note, while I'm here, you should try to realize that Apple presents much more of a obstacle to OSS than Microsoft ever will. You know how Microsoft already has that image in the public of an evil corporation? Well take Microsoft's opposition to openness, multiply it by 10, and then give it to a company that has the most undeservedly perfect reputation and is considered "cool" by 90% of teenyboppers. That's Apple. That's your enemy.
A lot of people are blaming the developers here for not creating a good UI. The example given in the enhancement ticket for why the input box needs to be bigger is to accommodate code. Source code that a developer would be sending, perhaps? So do we have developers complaining because because developers didn't create a UI that is good enough for developers? Did the universe just implode?
So someone goes and makes the most successful desktop Linux distro to date, and the community's first reaction is "but is it still really open-source?" Yeah, that's a great first step towards wide Linux adoption.
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AMD doing nice shit just makes it all the more heartbreaking when Intel releases better chips. I hope they get their shit together soon, I feel dirty with a Core 2 Duo.
Microsoft has a lot more things to work on in IE than Acid test compliance. A lot.
Are other OEMs (HP, Toshiba, Sony, etc.) raising their XP downgrade pricing as well? If it's only Dell then it's likely just a result of Dell seeing XP demand decline, as opposed to Microsoft raising the fee to try to force people to use Vista.
So what you're saying is that Apple is going to completely collapse (in the throat) but somehow still continue to operate?
Deletionists are horrible horrible people. Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia, it's a website with virtually limitless room for expansion. You don't have to fit everything inside a set of books. Guidelines for inclusion should be incredibly lax.
Does this really matter?
Spirit and Opportunity simply cannot be broken. I wouldn't worry about it.
This hack is running benchmarks on a pre-alpha version of Windows 7 and you people are agreeing with his conclusions? I know you guys reach for straws when it comes to anything that makes Linux sound a bit better, but this is a new adventure in incompetence.
HTC will almost definitely stick with WinMo considering how much work they've put into TouchFlo.
Yes, IE is horribly difficult to remove, but then again it serves a lot of functions in the OS. Removing it just causes a host of new problems. Plus it's really convenient to have IE installed so you can use IEtab in Firefox.
Lots of applications have been systematically removed from the base Windows install because of antitrust suits. If Microsoft could legally include any apps they wanted to, I'm sure it'd be a lot more useful right off the bat. Of course then you'd say it's bloated.
Vista is so slow as to be utterly useless - it came with my laptop, and after waiting 10 minutes for it to boot up, I reformatted and put Ubuntu on it.
It took 10 minutes for Vista to boot up? How did you manage to fuck up your computer before you even turned it on?
Very true, I used OpenOffice for a long time when all I needed to do was write things and print them off. It worked fine, plus Word's UI after 97 and before 2007 was awful (I am a fan of the ribbon). And while I am saying this having not tried OpenOffice 3, just transferring files from OO to Word on my university's computers didn't work well. I had all sorts of strange problems with the formatting (each paragraph would have different font sizes, for example).
Unfortunately OpenOffice and Word are not identical pieces of software. Not by a long shot.
Everyone is right to be suspicious. This is a distinctly un-Microsoft thing to do. But it is a little odd that this happens just a couple of weeks after Gates' last day. I know we all like to think as Ballmer as a crazy bastard, but it's still possible that perhaps Gates was holding Ballmer back from making some un-Microsoft-like decisions. Don't forget, Gates has a history of hating open-source, even before Microsoft. It's too out of the question to think that Ballmer's hatred of open-source is just a reflection of what Gates wanted him to believe.
Perhaps SSDs are just disappointing? If you look at the benchmarks for multiple brands of SSDs across multiple OSs, none of them match expectations. They might as well jump on the bandwagon, blame Microsoft, and save some face.
And they won't even tell us how they do the time travel thing ...
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I've yet to meet a single person who doesn't use AIM. Perhaps it's just Indiana, but if you use anything other than AIM you are shit outta luck.
"There is no answer, it depends on what you want" is exactly right, but the rest of your post is useless. "Non free software doesn't get the attention it deserves." You mean the kind of software that people are paid are rewarded for doesn't get attention? Sure...
The fact of the matter is, Linux will not be widespread unless it adopts some closed-source code. Period. If you want to keep Linux pure then you also want to keep it restricted to a niche market.
Well Microsoft probably won't regain much of the market share they've lost recently, but that's not at all that much anyway. I think the only people who would go back to Windows are those college students who bought MacBooks with their parent's money because they wanted to be trendy, only to discover when their shiny computers break out of warranty that they don't want to spend two thousand dollars on a computer.
I fully believe that Microsoft management asked the engineers when 7 would be ready, they replied "January 2009" and the managers said "January 2010 it is." I find it highly unlikely that it will be significantly delayed again. No matter how much you want to believe it, Microsoft is simply not retarded.
Windows 7 won't suck. It won't be great either. It'll be pretty decent, probably above average. People will use it and say, "Hey this is better than Vista, and it's sorta fast too." Linux users will keep saying that Linux is better and hipsters will keep saying that OS X is better. Status quo antebellum; this is unlikely to change in the near future. Microsoft's market share will probably dip once Linux hits its stride, but there is definitely a wall for OS X adoption (closed-down software that only runs on high-priced hardware from one manufacturer? It must appeal to the masses).
I've tried to be less extreme in predictions than I usually am. It's just that you get a few people saying that Windows will dominate again, a few people saying that Linux will rise up and defeat them, and then another few saying that OS X will take over. All are equally laughable scenarios.
Normally I would just disagree with you quietly and move on, but your use of "M$" has forced my hand. You're a fool. And as a side note, while I'm here, you should try to realize that Apple presents much more of a obstacle to OSS than Microsoft ever will. You know how Microsoft already has that image in the public of an evil corporation? Well take Microsoft's opposition to openness, multiply it by 10, and then give it to a company that has the most undeservedly perfect reputation and is considered "cool" by 90% of teenyboppers. That's Apple. That's your enemy.
I guarantee you someone at Microsoft had to bake cupcakes when they found out they could justifiably classify an Apple product as a security risk.
A lot of people are blaming the developers here for not creating a good UI. The example given in the enhancement ticket for why the input box needs to be bigger is to accommodate code. Source code that a developer would be sending, perhaps? So do we have developers complaining because because developers didn't create a UI that is good enough for developers? Did the universe just implode?
So someone goes and makes the most successful desktop Linux distro to date, and the community's first reaction is "but is it still really open-source?" Yeah, that's a great first step towards wide Linux adoption.