Yes, there was a time when owning a Trinitron set was just the awesomess...
I remember the day when I got my first Nokia monitor with Trinitron technology.... The screen was heavy and took a lot of space, but hell, the quality of the image was just incredible for that time... My games never looked so good.... Gotta love Sony.
Yes, people seem to be afraid of **androids***(robots with a human shape), but seem to naturally accept other kind of robots. Hmm... let me see: trafic lights, alarm clocks, car soldering machines, etc are more or less complicated robots.
Interesting, but in Korea, years ago, there was an experiment when trafic lights (or semaphores, whatever) were substituted by an android (a robot police man, showing some Stop and Go signals). The results were very negative. The respect that traficants normally have for ordinary trafic lights was sometimes nearly gone when the android was used... Fear? Disrespect? Whatever...
let the bashing begin. I mean, it's MS and this is/. Hmmm... what could we bash them for this time.. Oh . I know... Nahhh... there is no Linuzz or Abble telescope...
Hmm... let me see... Oh, I know! ***IF**** Abble could make one it would be better. I mean, it would be shining white and **cool***.
Ohh...or better, let's bashing them by not making it OS!
and he is half wrong. As always the "truth" is not in any extreme. not everything is black and white, there are a lot of shades there in between. The free software is not paradise (says me, who developes freeware) and open Source is not the cure against cancer, and commercial development is not the hell either.
Both worlds are perfectly valid and can (and NEED) to co-exist. The problem is when we have taliband like Stallman in one band and Job and the other.... THERE we have a problem.
I know you are using irony, but actually this kind of sarcasm with Apple is often not fully understood here, so don't be surprised when the "flamebait" or "troll" moderations begin to rain on you.
back OT, back in 1999 (I think, don't remember it exactly), one at my university user was publishing some Windows XP themes created by him which gave Aquas look and feel to XP (OK a far look and feel but anyway). After a week we got 5 (F I V E !!!!) letters in 2 days from Apple's hounds trheating us with legal actions if we don't inmediatelly deleted those icons and themes from our servers.
We obviously deleted them because nobody likes legal problems here for nothing, but anyway, that was overeacting: all other themes from BeOS, OS2/WARP, Super Mario, The Coke theme are still inplace and nobody reacts. Hey, that's free ads for them anyway... But hey, that's Abble for you!
Actually my mother used to be a secretary (now retired) and was used to type the whole day on her old mechanical Olivetti typewriter. That old thing had massive keys and you had to literally hit the thing with power to type something.
After 30 years working on those typewriters she is still not confortable with modern computer keyboards. Her hands just fly to fast (and hard) and she is always talking about "those old good times" when you needed to actually PRESS a key and not touch it to write.
So I guess this keyboard will appeal to some people anyway.
THAT, my friends is what is different between Windows and Mak. Sure MakOz must test some combination of hardware/software but it will never be as huge as the combinations in which Windows is run.
I say that because we have been Beta testing SP1 on 350 machines here at my university for some months now. Machines with different graphic cards, processors , extra hardware like scanners, different printers, graphic input tablets, and so on. That problem in our 350 machines was never detected.
So, sure, that proble may exists, but it must be some special combination that non of the testers was available to reproduce. Let it be only a 0,5 percent of Vista users who have that problem. You will read about it anywhere and think "oh, that sucks, they do not test, blah blah". Sure, only the press doesn't write about the 99,5% who didn't have any problems with it. It's a problem with proportion: do you want to see the glass half-full or half-empty. And here in/. you sure want it to be half empty.
I'm not saying that it's *bad*. I'm saying that I don't like it. I am a mac user at work back from OS8 times, unfortunatly. I don't like the Mac way, that's all, but that doesn't mean that it's necesarly bad.
I am only saying that i don't understand when people say "ohhh MacOs!!" like if it was obviously that everyone should like and praise the Gods that it exists. Well, not. I think it's dull, and boy I have worked on it for years now.
There's nothing wromng with the Mac (well, a little underpowered and overpriced, but nothing else is wrong). OSX on the other hand....I have been using it for 5 years now and even today I wonder why do people prizes it so much. Yes, it's pretty and elegant, but in my eyes, there are a lot of problems with it (technical AND of design type). Yes, it's not worse than any Linux Distro or Windows but in many things it is not better.
And it's definitly a thing of taste: after all this years I have never (and I may never will) like this system. I find it dull in many ways. So when I see people talking like if this was the best thing since fried chicken, I can only smile for myself: "Maybe for you, but not for me and many others".
So if Mr sonebody here is now whining about some problems , my question is: "And WHAT were you expecting?" When i upgraded tiger to leopard i was expecting the typical Abble problems, and that's what I got, but if he was just reading all the hype about Leopard and *believing* it... then he got what he deserved.
I know your'e trying to be funny, but at my university, our neighbour department has an (almost) wide open Xerox Workcenter 7245. I say *almost* because they have their Apache with the default 11111 password. Last april the 1rst I printed a 50 pages documetnt (100 copies) to their printer. It was actually the Administrator's guide for the Xerox Workcenter, as a pdf. To this day, they are still asking who the hell missused their printer that way...;-)
On a serious side, that machine can send a scanned document to any mail address using some external SMTP or an internal one (sendmail). If I were a spammer, i could make my day.
And **how** in the world can you be sure that the thousand of users using this versiuon kernel:
1) Know about the bug
2) Can change/recompile the kernel
3) Even know what a compiler is
4) Even care to fix it thinking about "I'm using Linuzz, I'm invencible"
That's the beauty of close Source. One Live Update service to fix them all. Not trolling. Just not everything is black and white. There are a LOT of shades of gray there in between.
Go to the wayback machine. The VERY first cached slashdot page (from 1998) there has this interesting article conviniently titled Linux Affecting MS Sales? " ( http://web.archive.org/web/19980113193017/slashdot.org/slashdot.cgi?mode=article&artnum=419 [archive.org] ):
From the article: "Could 98 really be the year Linux breaks into the main stream corporate world in a big way?".
Really, it's not funny anymore.
I have been trying for months to be selected by one of those scammers just for fun and to investigate the whole process. I answer every single strange letter from generous companies, rich princes, ex-gobernants of obscure countries, etc. I replay, playing a stupid character, and get so long as getting a few replies. Then, without a reason, they get absolutly silent.
I don't know if they get caught or if they just smell that something is fishy, but I guess they are smart and they are searching for a given profile: not too smart, not too dumb, just right....
The diffence being that Volume Shadow Copies works like a charm on Vista (and always had worked great, BTW even in XP when it was introduced 6 years before Abble) and so does WMP. Oh and Vista doesn't drop files when copying to a network drive like leopard. Oh and updating MP will never break anything because it's DRM code is not system wide used.
Nah, but Vista is bad. And Leopard is the greatest thing anyway, isn't it?
Oh wait, there is nothing to bash.... Well, let's invent, for christ sake, this is Slashdot. We sure can do better... Let's say... "Oh yeah, but they are convicted monopolists. Oh, and they replied to a bug 10 years later. Oh, and they suck.".
I simple don't care and let people use wherever they want. I am a programmer for an OS project, but I myself use Windows, Visual studio, MS Ofiice, MSSQL, Delphi, etc and I have not the minimal desire to change to OS alternative "just because". I use what I like and it's my money. Hey, I drive a Nissan and it's not your busines to tell me to ride a bike or take the buss. Leave my choices alone! IT*S MY FREEDOM!
of 300 computers at my university... Why should install Firefox when IE7 is rasoble secure, autoupdated via Windows Update and getting better with IE8?
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I remember the day when I got my first Nokia monitor with Trinitron technology.... The screen was heavy and took a lot of space, but hell, the quality of the image was just incredible for that time... My games never looked so good.... Gotta love Sony.
Rip...
Interesting, but in Korea, years ago, there was an experiment when trafic lights (or semaphores, whatever) were substituted by an android (a robot police man, showing some Stop and Go signals). The results were very negative. The respect that traficants normally have for ordinary trafic lights was sometimes nearly gone when the android was used... Fear? Disrespect? Whatever...
Hmm... let me see... Oh, I know! ***IF**** Abble could make one it would be better. I mean, it would be shining white and **cool***.
Ohh...or better, let's bashing them by not making it OS!
Both worlds are perfectly valid and can (and NEED) to co-exist. The problem is when we have taliband like Stallman in one band and Job and the other.... THERE we have a problem.
That's why I said "don't remember exactly when" Einstein.
back OT, back in 1999 (I think, don't remember it exactly), one at my university user was publishing some Windows XP themes created by him which gave Aquas look and feel to XP (OK a far look and feel but anyway). After a week we got 5 (F I V E !!!!) letters in 2 days from Apple's hounds trheating us with legal actions if we don't inmediatelly deleted those icons and themes from our servers.
We obviously deleted them because nobody likes legal problems here for nothing, but anyway, that was overeacting: all other themes from BeOS, OS2/WARP, Super Mario, The Coke theme are still inplace and nobody reacts. Hey, that's free ads for them anyway... But hey, that's Abble for you!
After 30 years working on those typewriters she is still not confortable with modern computer keyboards. Her hands just fly to fast (and hard) and she is always talking about "those old good times" when you needed to actually PRESS a key and not touch it to write.
So I guess this keyboard will appeal to some people anyway.
Another big name (often forgotten). Last time I heard about him, he was an art collector and trader.
They will get bashed anyway. Bashed if they do, bashed if they don't. They can't win.
I say that because we have been Beta testing SP1 on 350 machines here at my university for some months now. Machines with different graphic cards, processors , extra hardware like scanners, different printers, graphic input tablets, and so on. That problem in our 350 machines was never detected.
So, sure, that proble may exists, but it must be some special combination that non of the testers was available to reproduce. Let it be only a 0,5 percent of Vista users who have that problem. You will read about it anywhere and think "oh, that sucks, they do not test, blah blah". Sure, only the press doesn't write about the 99,5% who didn't have any problems with it. It's a problem with proportion: do you want to see the glass half-full or half-empty. And here in /. you sure want it to be half empty.
I am only saying that i don't understand when people say "ohhh MacOs!!" like if it was obviously that everyone should like and praise the Gods that it exists. Well, not. I think it's dull, and boy I have worked on it for years now.
And it's definitly a thing of taste: after all this years I have never (and I may never will) like this system. I find it dull in many ways. So when I see people talking like if this was the best thing since fried chicken, I can only smile for myself: "Maybe for you, but not for me and many others".
So if Mr sonebody here is now whining about some problems , my question is: "And WHAT were you expecting?" When i upgraded tiger to leopard i was expecting the typical Abble problems, and that's what I got, but if he was just reading all the hype about Leopard and *believing* it... then he got what he deserved.
On a serious side, that machine can send a scanned document to any mail address using some external SMTP or an internal one (sendmail). If I were a spammer, i could make my day.
1) Know about the bug
2) Can change/recompile the kernel
3) Even know what a compiler is
4) Even care to fix it thinking about "I'm using Linuzz, I'm invencible"
That's the beauty of close Source. One Live Update service to fix them all. Not trolling. Just not everything is black and white. There are a LOT of shades of gray there in between.
Go to the wayback machine. The VERY first cached slashdot page (from 1998) there has this interesting article conviniently titled Linux Affecting MS Sales? " ( http://web.archive.org/web/19980113193017/slashdot.org/slashdot.cgi?mode=article&artnum=419 [archive.org] ): From the article: "Could 98 really be the year Linux breaks into the main stream corporate world in a big way?". Really, it's not funny anymore.
Hmm..the default installation of IE in Vista is "sandboxed", so it will be **very hard** to install a program from it.
From the article: "Could 98 really be the year Linux breaks into the main stream corporate world in a big way?".
Really, it's not funny anymore.
I don't know if they get caught or if they just smell that something is fishy, but I guess they are smart and they are searching for a given profile: not too smart, not too dumb, just right....
1- You are just a punk who give a shit about privacy and fuck everybody else
2- YoU R jUsT ShOwInG ThE wOrLd ThAt YoU ArE JuSt TeH ShIt aNd PoWn MySpAce. YoU R sO KoOl
3- Just to piss off MySpace, because it sucks and you think, you , of course suck less (or rule the universe)
Anyway, there are no legitime reasons for just doing that.
Nah, but Vista is bad. And Leopard is the greatest thing anyway, isn't it?
We bashed them when we read that they wante to drop it. let's bash them because they don't. Hell, this is Slashdor, isn't it?
Oh wait, there is nothing to bash.... Well, let's invent, for christ sake, this is Slashdot. We sure can do better... Let's say... "Oh yeah, but they are convicted monopolists. Oh, and they replied to a bug 10 years later. Oh, and they suck.".
I simple don't care and let people use wherever they want. I am a programmer for an OS project, but I myself use Windows, Visual studio, MS Ofiice, MSSQL, Delphi, etc and I have not the minimal desire to change to OS alternative "just because". I use what I like and it's my money. Hey, I drive a Nissan and it's not your busines to tell me to ride a bike or take the buss. Leave my choices alone! IT*S MY FREEDOM!
Sorry, we stay with IE at this moment.
This is actually good. Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end of the evil Abble music empire.