I have yet to hear a single techie friend of mine complain about the differences in UI on Vista. They all complain about crashes (and no, they're not doing anything special - explorer crashes on their Dell desktops frequently).
The only people I've heard complaining about the UI changes are the end user types that want to get their wireless working or this,that,other problem that "end users shouldn't really encounter".
The/. crowd doesn't have a problem with the new control panels. The end users they support do.
s the 1.5 million for CD too much? Yes, I think that is outrageous. But so is saying the distribution rights for a CD are only worth $15 total. I agree $15 is outrageous. If distribution rights were free I think we'd see a world of good.
It's also worth pointing out that bundling in and of itsself is not a problem unless it benefits from a monopoly. Bundle a minority product with another minority product and you have no problems. Bundle any product with a monopoly product and you have lawsuits on hand - it's too much power. The product will succeed without question because the monopoly product has such high market share.
Because anyone who thinks KDE is crap has to be ignorant, biased, or trolling? No, because anyone that claims it's like stepping back to 1991 is. Even as an exaggeration, that comment is ignorant at best.
Some may find it too "heavy weight". Some may find the default KDE settings undesirable. I suspect that's what happened in your case - you tried it a few times with the default settings and decided you didn't like it (even though all the things you didn't like could be changed with config settings). KDE may not be your style, but outdated and backwards it certainly isn't.
I've had mixed experience with that. I walked into the IT department of my old university and talked to a few of their programmers, and the moment they heard I ran Linux as my primary desktop OS they were bowing.
Like it's so hard to pop an Ubuntu CD in the drive.
I felt like I was at a family reunion or something. Say something "technical" and everyone says "oooh, technical stuff, ok"
In college I set up a machine that had various virtual machines on it, each of which had a vulnerability to be exploited by class mates in my network security class.
It was a humble machine - Duron 900 with a gig of ram, I think - but it ran 9 VM's (each with 256 MB or so of RAM) on VMWare Server concurrently and did well because of intelligent swapping (and a huge swap partition). Mind that the actual traffic on these machines was very low and I'm sure it would tank in heavy loads, but for my low traffic needs it sure beat setting up 9 different computers.
Now if we were under the expectation that it would perform as well as 9 Duron 900's each with 256 megs of ram we would be lunatics.
Wal Mart: (whisper) "HP, could you please drop support?"
HP: (loudly) "WE ARE DROPPING SUPPORT."
Wal Mart: (also loudly) "OH NOES THEY DROPPED SUPPORT. We quit."
It would be very hard to infringe on trademarks using limewire or bittorrent in any way, and the same goes for patents unless the patents cover the implementation of the software. Not if Microsoft has anything to say about it. Downloading and using that linux ISO is apparently infringing their patents, even though you had nothing to do with the creation of the distro. I smell bullshit...
with a real video card, a dual layer burner, and guaranteed 802.11n Not to mention iMacs have bluetooth and an infrared remote. I didn't see anything about those on the XPSOne page, but then I didn't stay to look around very long because it's nothing I'm interested in anyway.
Well I don't know about you, but I sure as hell didn't know the OP invented everything and then died penniless in 1926. I now feel that I have been informed. Don't you feel informed?
I've been stunned by how often I'll be leading an older person around,trying to teach them how to find answers for themselves, and they can't tell the difference between the adsense ads and the normal results. I can't for the life of me figure out why, but it seems like they're so afraid of computers that they just don't bother applying common sense.
It's like they've been so acclimated to computers speaking tech babble ("Illegal operation at 0x00ff0e9a") that they don't realize that some things (like web pages) are written in plain English (or whatever your native language is).
I have a computer sitting at home hooked up to a stereo, with a webcam. I frequently remote desktop into it to retrieve some document or another. One day I got a diabolical plan, turned the webcam on and logged myself into two IM accounts, hooked up my microphone and started yelling "Here boy! Come here Sam (my dog's name)!", and laughed when my poor bewildered bullmastif showed up on a (very slowly refreshing) webcam wondering where the hell my voice was coming from.
The dude intently staring at his laptop saying "Here boy, come here!!" draws a lot of attention in a cafe, but it was worth it.
Why bother looking like a freak just to confuse a poor dog? Because I can! I'm hopeless.
It's a simple 32bit limitation According to this article 32 bit Linux seems to have overcome this limitation, so it's not just a 32-bit thing. A few good quotes from it:
PAE allows processors to access physical memory up to 64 GB (36 bits of address bus). However, since the virtual address space is just 32 bits wide, each process can't grow beyond 4 GB. So under Linux, each process can grow to 4 GB, and the system as a whole can deal with 64GB. This is all made possible by PAE, which is by no means a Linux-only thing. It's supported from Pentium Pro on up (both AMD and Intel lines), except for 400MHTZ FSB Pentium Ms for some reason.
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I have yet to hear a single techie friend of mine complain about the differences in UI on Vista. They all complain about crashes (and no, they're not doing anything special - explorer crashes on their Dell desktops frequently).
/. crowd doesn't have a problem with the new control panels. The end users they support do.
The only people I've heard complaining about the UI changes are the end user types that want to get their wireless working or this,that,other problem that "end users shouldn't really encounter".
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Uh, you did notice that in the late 90's Linux gained massive market share on servers, right?
It wasn't a joke.
This ought to be tagged as coming from the "Lack of Redundancy Department"
Two times two is only four, right? And two times that is only 8... Geez, we're getting nowhere fast.
Freaking slow-ass geometric growth rates. Good thing you got modded insightful - clearly you have a point.
It's also worth pointing out that bundling in and of itsself is not a problem unless it benefits from a monopoly. Bundle a minority product with another minority product and you have no problems. Bundle any product with a monopoly product and you have lawsuits on hand - it's too much power. The product will succeed without question because the monopoly product has such high market share.
Ok, perhaps it's the beer and perhaps my French is just that rusty, but now I have to know. Translation, please?
Yeah, that's why I suggest KDE fans tag it 'werefuckingdoomed'
Some may find it too "heavy weight". Some may find the default KDE settings undesirable. I suspect that's what happened in your case - you tried it a few times with the default settings and decided you didn't like it (even though all the things you didn't like could be changed with config settings). KDE may not be your style, but outdated and backwards it certainly isn't.
I'd like to reassure you that when your karma suffers for that comment, no it isn't unfair. You really are either ignorant, biased, or trolling.
I've had mixed experience with that. I walked into the IT department of my old university and talked to a few of their programmers, and the moment they heard I ran Linux as my primary desktop OS they were bowing.
Like it's so hard to pop an Ubuntu CD in the drive.
I felt like I was at a family reunion or something. Say something "technical" and everyone says "oooh, technical stuff, ok"
Am I the only one that thinks the now-volatile 700 Mhtz spectrum has something to do with this new "charity"?
A little part of me just died. Thanks, Mr. T.
Heard of Xen?
In college I set up a machine that had various virtual machines on it, each of which had a vulnerability to be exploited by class mates in my network security class.
It was a humble machine - Duron 900 with a gig of ram, I think - but it ran 9 VM's (each with 256 MB or so of RAM) on VMWare Server concurrently and did well because of intelligent swapping (and a huge swap partition). Mind that the actual traffic on these machines was very low and I'm sure it would tank in heavy loads, but for my low traffic needs it sure beat setting up 9 different computers.
Now if we were under the expectation that it would perform as well as 9 Duron 900's each with 256 megs of ram we would be lunatics.
Wal Mart: (whisper) "HP, could you please drop support?"
HP: (loudly) "WE ARE DROPPING SUPPORT."
Wal Mart: (also loudly) "OH NOES THEY DROPPED SUPPORT. We quit."
Well I don't know about you, but I sure as hell didn't know the OP invented everything and then died penniless in 1926. I now feel that I have been informed. Don't you feel informed?
May God have mercy on your soul.
I've been stunned by how often I'll be leading an older person around,trying to teach them how to find answers for themselves, and they can't tell the difference between the adsense ads and the normal results. I can't for the life of me figure out why, but it seems like they're so afraid of computers that they just don't bother applying common sense.
It's like they've been so acclimated to computers speaking tech babble ("Illegal operation at 0x00ff0e9a") that they don't realize that some things (like web pages) are written in plain English (or whatever your native language is).
I have a computer sitting at home hooked up to a stereo, with a webcam. I frequently remote desktop into it to retrieve some document or another. One day I got a diabolical plan, turned the webcam on and logged myself into two IM accounts, hooked up my microphone and started yelling "Here boy! Come here Sam (my dog's name)!", and laughed when my poor bewildered bullmastif showed up on a (very slowly refreshing) webcam wondering where the hell my voice was coming from.
The dude intently staring at his laptop saying "Here boy, come here!!" draws a lot of attention in a cafe, but it was worth it.
Why bother looking like a freak just to confuse a poor dog? Because I can!
I'm hopeless.
Deep pockets can't hold progress back forever. Their business model is arcane.