You disappointed me. I was expecting something more along the lines of, "For low-thread/process count tasks (unlikely here), I see a lot better performance out of stools than chairs."
The whole OpenSocial idea just reminds me of something Microsoft would do. Facebook is out there, it's great, people love it, and now Google is making their own version (well I guess they already have Orkut, but yeah) that will most likely be universally ignored. Microsoft does this over and over just to gain a foothold in every market. The only difference is that this will be one of the few times for Google that no one cares (whereas Microsoft is quite used to that).
All over Wikipedia, articles are being deleted just because, using incredibly strict guidelines, a few people find them not to be "notable." The level of bureaucracy in Wikipedia these days is absolutely absurd. Everything is done by policy, policy that in most cases is not thought out.
I created an article for Antec, and some editor (not even an admin) put it up for speedy deletion because he thought it wasn't notable (he just hadn't heard of Antec). But at this point, you have to go through the whole deletion process, even if your article is obviously not worthy of deletion. Basically, I was stuck dealing with useless bureaucracy rather than actually contributing to Wikipedia because one editor is a fool.
Possibly the worst problem are the deletionists, editors that come in and just want to delete an article if THEY don't think it's notable. The worst part about this is that they don't have to actually think that it isn't notable, just that it doesn't stress it's notability. Therefore, they can be wholly aware that an article is something that is relevant to Wikipedia, but is not yet up to standards, rather than trying to improve it they will just nominate it for deletion.
I encourage everyone to follow the Articles for Deletion section and fight against the rash of unnecessary deletions and ill-informed editors.
I save in RTF. ODF isn't widely supported enough yet. Sure I am essentially guaranteed of being able to open it forever, but that doesn't help if I can't open it in Word at school. RTF is basically universal.
They aren't forcing anyone to use anything. IU's system currently uses Google as its main search engine; on IU OneStart there options for both ChaCha and Google. Before, Google was the default. Now, ChaCha is the default. You can click a box and change it if you want. The point is that IU thinks ChaCha will search better, and I don't know about that, but it can't search any worse than Google was. I don't know if it was the type of information on IU pages or what, but Google never found anything I wanted. More often than not it was better just to look through the main IU directory/index page.
WinVista also has lots of eye-candy which eats up processor time. So it looks pretty, but runs slower. The eye-candy can be turned off, but then it looks a lot like WinXP.
Firefox and iTunes consistently use more resources than Vista's graphical effects (DWM). Hell, occasionally Pidgin even does. None of these programs have a significant amount of processor usage (looking at Task Manager for awhile, none got above 1%). The idea that Vista's eye candy sucks up resources is just blatantly, undeniably false.
Stupid people will always destroy the good qualities of every operating system. The only reason this hasn't happened on Linux is because stupid people cannot use it. It's not matured enough yet as an OS to be able to be fucked up by stupid people. Really, the best advice I could give to Linux developers is just...never get popular. It'll ruin Linux without anything having been changed. I've never used a Mac for more than five or ten minutes at a time (though I can say with some confidence that I don't enjoy it), but it took me something around four seconds to figure out how to bind Expose to a key combination. Meanwhile, my computer illiterate friends who all use Macs have no idea these features even exist. Do you realize what's happened here? Computer illiterates use OS X because it's "easier" (i.e. slightly more difficult to break), and end up never using the good features it has because they don't know how. The big difference between Windows and OS X (and I won't include Linux here because it's popularity isn't quite enough to feature with idiots) is that Windows is simpler to break than OS X. It's not worse. Don't go around saying Apple has made a better product than Microsoft, because that's a matter of opinion. A better fact to state would be "Apple has a made an operating system that is harder to break than Microsoft has." In a sense, Apple has "succeeded" by catering to just sheer idiocy.
But what am I getting at? All it boils down to is that you cannot judge any system based on what you hear about it. I've used Vista for a few months and it's great. It's definitely better than my times with OS X and better than any Linux experience I've had (Mandrake, Suse, Slackware, Ubuntu, and even a few BSDs). Is it slower than XP? Yes, if you have a mainstream machine, and that's the biggest problem: it doesn't run well on the average computer. Of course you can shut off all the pretty, but people don't want to do that, and that's fine. But if you haven't used Vista, and all you hear about it is from the average computer illiterate moron, then you shouldn't have an opinion. If I all I knew about OS X was from hearsay, it would just sound like a godawful OS ("Well it's grey, and it has some transparent buttons.")
You're not ridiculous? You tried to imply I was a secret ChaCha agent because I posted an opinion that was counter to and far more well informed than yours. You're not just ridiculous, you're borderline insane.
GoDaddy switched all their parked domains from Apache to IIS in March. But if you think about it, the parked domains were just inflating Apache's market share beforehand, and now it's just inflating IIS (to an extent, I think it looks like their market share is actually growing, just not as much as the numbers).
"No, there is back-room dealing going on here, for sure. And Indiana has a long, long, LONG history of deep-seated corruption and cronyism.
So, what is YOUR connection to Cha Cha?"
Two of the most ignorant statements ever put to text...
Yeah, I highly doubt that. IU has Macs all over the place. Their tech store obviously caters more to the Mac crowd.
This post is just another fantastic example of morons on/. pulling shit out of their ass and managing to bash Microsoft along with it.
ChaCha is based in Indiana (Carmel, to be exact). It's just the a state government's natural prejudice towards putting money back into the state economy. That could be one of the reasons IU has switched to it, given that it's a public university.
By the way, I use IU's Google search quite often, and it sucks. Badly. You can't find anything you're looking for. Perhaps it's the nature of the information their site has, but they probably think that ChaCha will work better.
You don't understand his point. Imagine if were trying to decide between buying an Accord and a Camry, and there were 5 different trim levels of Accord with just different features, but there were 407 different Camry models, and they varied widely in quality, ability to actually drive the thing, comfort features, etc. THAT is an actual comparison between Linux and Windows, not your bullshit.
Also, Linux users and "zealots" spread far more FUD than Microsoft and their users could ever even remotely hope for. It's ridiculous the amount of lies and deception there is promoting Linux.
I agree that these taxes are ridiculous - $75 being quite a hefty price increase - however, if this is a replacement for record companies suing random 12 year olds for $5000, I can't say it's totally bad.
If you look on Google Earth you can find exactly where it was built (near Area 51, by some large green circles) and there is no indication any logo was or is going to be built there.
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You disappointed me. I was expecting something more along the lines of, "For low-thread/process count tasks (unlikely here), I see a lot better performance out of stools than chairs."
The whole OpenSocial idea just reminds me of something Microsoft would do. Facebook is out there, it's great, people love it, and now Google is making their own version (well I guess they already have Orkut, but yeah) that will most likely be universally ignored. Microsoft does this over and over just to gain a foothold in every market. The only difference is that this will be one of the few times for Google that no one cares (whereas Microsoft is quite used to that).
All over Wikipedia, articles are being deleted just because, using incredibly strict guidelines, a few people find them not to be "notable." The level of bureaucracy in Wikipedia these days is absolutely absurd. Everything is done by policy, policy that in most cases is not thought out.
I created an article for Antec, and some editor (not even an admin) put it up for speedy deletion because he thought it wasn't notable (he just hadn't heard of Antec). But at this point, you have to go through the whole deletion process, even if your article is obviously not worthy of deletion. Basically, I was stuck dealing with useless bureaucracy rather than actually contributing to Wikipedia because one editor is a fool.
Possibly the worst problem are the deletionists, editors that come in and just want to delete an article if THEY don't think it's notable. The worst part about this is that they don't have to actually think that it isn't notable, just that it doesn't stress it's notability. Therefore, they can be wholly aware that an article is something that is relevant to Wikipedia, but is not yet up to standards, rather than trying to improve it they will just nominate it for deletion.
I encourage everyone to follow the Articles for Deletion section and fight against the rash of unnecessary deletions and ill-informed editors.
I save in RTF. ODF isn't widely supported enough yet. Sure I am essentially guaranteed of being able to open it forever, but that doesn't help if I can't open it in Word at school. RTF is basically universal.
I wasn't aware Sony made 75% of all the TVs in the world.
They aren't forcing anyone to use anything. IU's system currently uses Google as its main search engine; on IU OneStart there options for both ChaCha and Google. Before, Google was the default. Now, ChaCha is the default. You can click a box and change it if you want. The point is that IU thinks ChaCha will search better, and I don't know about that, but it can't search any worse than Google was. I don't know if it was the type of information on IU pages or what, but Google never found anything I wanted. More often than not it was better just to look through the main IU directory/index page.
WinVista also has lots of eye-candy which eats up processor time. So it looks pretty, but runs slower. The eye-candy can be turned off, but then it looks a lot like WinXP.
Firefox and iTunes consistently use more resources than Vista's graphical effects (DWM). Hell, occasionally Pidgin even does. None of these programs have a significant amount of processor usage (looking at Task Manager for awhile, none got above 1%). The idea that Vista's eye candy sucks up resources is just blatantly, undeniably false.
Stupid people will always destroy the good qualities of every operating system. The only reason this hasn't happened on Linux is because stupid people cannot use it. It's not matured enough yet as an OS to be able to be fucked up by stupid people. Really, the best advice I could give to Linux developers is just...never get popular. It'll ruin Linux without anything having been changed. I've never used a Mac for more than five or ten minutes at a time (though I can say with some confidence that I don't enjoy it), but it took me something around four seconds to figure out how to bind Expose to a key combination. Meanwhile, my computer illiterate friends who all use Macs have no idea these features even exist. Do you realize what's happened here? Computer illiterates use OS X because it's "easier" (i.e. slightly more difficult to break), and end up never using the good features it has because they don't know how. The big difference between Windows and OS X (and I won't include Linux here because it's popularity isn't quite enough to feature with idiots) is that Windows is simpler to break than OS X. It's not worse. Don't go around saying Apple has made a better product than Microsoft, because that's a matter of opinion. A better fact to state would be "Apple has a made an operating system that is harder to break than Microsoft has." In a sense, Apple has "succeeded" by catering to just sheer idiocy. But what am I getting at? All it boils down to is that you cannot judge any system based on what you hear about it. I've used Vista for a few months and it's great. It's definitely better than my times with OS X and better than any Linux experience I've had (Mandrake, Suse, Slackware, Ubuntu, and even a few BSDs). Is it slower than XP? Yes, if you have a mainstream machine, and that's the biggest problem: it doesn't run well on the average computer. Of course you can shut off all the pretty, but people don't want to do that, and that's fine. But if you haven't used Vista, and all you hear about it is from the average computer illiterate moron, then you shouldn't have an opinion. If I all I knew about OS X was from hearsay, it would just sound like a godawful OS ("Well it's grey, and it has some transparent buttons.")
Anyone who is ignorant enough to think that in 22 years Apple, Google, and Facebook will still be important just doesn't deserve to use the internet.
You're not ridiculous? You tried to imply I was a secret ChaCha agent because I posted an opinion that was counter to and far more well informed than yours. You're not just ridiculous, you're borderline insane.
GoDaddy switched all their parked domains from Apache to IIS in March. But if you think about it, the parked domains were just inflating Apache's market share beforehand, and now it's just inflating IIS (to an extent, I think it looks like their market share is actually growing, just not as much as the numbers).
I'm 18 and I go to IU, you ridiculous motherfucker.
"No, there is back-room dealing going on here, for sure. And Indiana has a long, long, LONG history of deep-seated corruption and cronyism. So, what is YOUR connection to Cha Cha?" Two of the most ignorant statements ever put to text...
Yeah, I highly doubt that. IU has Macs all over the place. Their tech store obviously caters more to the Mac crowd. This post is just another fantastic example of morons on /. pulling shit out of their ass and managing to bash Microsoft along with it.
ChaCha is based in Indiana (Carmel, to be exact). It's just the a state government's natural prejudice towards putting money back into the state economy. That could be one of the reasons IU has switched to it, given that it's a public university. By the way, I use IU's Google search quite often, and it sucks. Badly. You can't find anything you're looking for. Perhaps it's the nature of the information their site has, but they probably think that ChaCha will work better.
You don't understand his point. Imagine if were trying to decide between buying an Accord and a Camry, and there were 5 different trim levels of Accord with just different features, but there were 407 different Camry models, and they varied widely in quality, ability to actually drive the thing, comfort features, etc. THAT is an actual comparison between Linux and Windows, not your bullshit. Also, Linux users and "zealots" spread far more FUD than Microsoft and their users could ever even remotely hope for. It's ridiculous the amount of lies and deception there is promoting Linux.
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HD-DVD wins because...we can buy them at Wal-Mart. That model has been $299 at the egg for awhile.
I agree that these taxes are ridiculous - $75 being quite a hefty price increase - however, if this is a replacement for record companies suing random 12 year olds for $5000, I can't say it's totally bad.
If you look on Google Earth you can find exactly where it was built (near Area 51, by some large green circles) and there is no indication any logo was or is going to be built there.