It's fine and dandy to talk about "victories", but the whole picture is not the same if you don't talk about what does go wrong. You never hear about the hundred of applications that die a painful slow dead on SourceForge (the place where software is placed to die). You never hear about the wonderful TurboPower components that died after they went Open Source. You won't hear about Cobian Backup which was pulled back from OS because it was dying that same slow painful dead, and it's now going strong again when the author took the command back. You see, Open Source is not a magic word. It's not a magic solution. Sure there are some victories , but as well as with commercial software, for every "victory" there are thousand of deaths. So this article says actually nothing.
The paper clip was the default, but the dog (as well as a wizard, a cat and some more) were included as well. Of course you needed a little bit of brain to know that you could change it (or disable them all). But people, as almost always prefer to bitch than to think a little.
That's not unusual at all. With every new version the avatars has been changing. I guess they have been trying to fine-tune it to try to find some use for it, but with every new release their function and space is less and less. Today Clippy is almost inexistent. Of course, there are million of people who still use Office 97, so there are million of Clippy users still today.
As a software developer you should know that some ideas are good and some are bad....but sometimes you never know if you don't try. The key here is innovation and experimentation. The problem is, often nobody remember your little small innovations that went well: nobody now remembers who introduced the small waved underlines that are now standard in every spell checker in the world. Nobody now remembers who introduced tutorialized tasks. In 10 years nowbody will remember who introduced the ribbon. But everybody will remember the innovations that went wrong, like clippy and friends.
You sir don't understand a thing about the way Vista memory manager works. So you have, say 4 gb RAM. You are running WoW and on linuzz and it is taking 700 Mb. On Vista it takes all 4Gb. Now tell me, WHICH system is working more effective? Linuzz which is leaving your memory unused or Vista, which is using all the memory you have purchased with your hard earned money?. Don't worry, if another process is started, Vista will free some memory from WoW for the new one.
Better experience for who? I have been a Mac and Windows user since MacOS 7 and I still dislike both MacOs and OSX with all my heart. It's not a bad system, but there are lots of those little irritating things that makes a mac, oh so Fisher pricish....
But it is really Steve Jobs which, paradoxically, is holding Apple in the position of being the MOST closed company out there. Not only their software is historically hold as closed source, but their hardware/software/mentality is a vicious circle of control freakness that is very unusual in any other company today.
Maybe when Steve is gone, somebody else will take the steps necessary to introduce a little fresh air into that unhealthy (and unholy) position.
The practical value of all this may not be that great for 99% of the users out there, but I really understand the geek value of this all. It's like when I experimented calling a Volume Shadow Copy provider I wrote in C# from my Delphi application. Just for fun. I could have done this easier using only Delphi or C# only, but my point was just to see if it was possible. And it was cool, for me anyway.
Yes, when I saw this article on the Firehose I really really hoped that no editor would pick it. Not only is a variation of a million times seen joke: it's a very mediocre variation as well. I mean, the "jokes" are unimaginative, feel forced and most important: the little bit of objective (no pun intended) truth that any self-respected list of this kind must contain is not present at all here. A waste if you ask me... Or maybe I just don't get it.
The warning in the manual is also a security measure against suing trolls. In this world there are no stupid warnings. A company here in Sweden was sued years ago because a child ate a piece of soap and got a bad pain in the stomach. Fortunately the court refused the charges, but next month the soap's envelope had a little wonderful warning: "Not for eating".
Anyway, this is just a non-story, but as any MS story, it seems like it's our job to bash them at any price.
While what Sir Paul did is commendable, you shouldn't expect the same from every other musician out there. Paul McCartney's fortune is worth several milliards pounds even after the one-legged gold-digger left with her portion in her pockets. So for him it really doesn't matters if 10 or 1000 people buy the album.
Now , Joe Metal who has an underground band and doesn't even have a penny gets a contract with EMI...if EMI wants it to be DRMed, guess if Joe will agree or not.
Unfortunately, today, year 2008, this is not unusual. The FBI is opening a case of child porn against a 32-year old album of Scorpions (Virgin Killers). Just because of its cover:
I'm the last one here to sympathize with RIAA, but these headlines on slashdot are getting more and more sensationalist every day. When you see in the headlines some subject like RIAA, Microsoft, Sony or other corporation that get no love here, together with keywords like "cancer patient", transplant, blind, poor leprous boy, etc, my warning signal get automatically on. And when you see that the editor is kdawson, who is infamous for selecting inflammatory articles about some very specific subject you know that this probably will be another one side of the coin article.
We **really*** don't know the details about this case more than the one side story from that lady mentioned in the article. Sure , she claims to be innocent, but that's the judges work to determine. And no, being terminally seek doesn't give you free way to break the law.
That said, I hope the RIAA goes to hell, but I really hope that slashdot gets back to serious articles and stop being a yellow tabloid. or I really hope kdawson evaporates from that editor position.
The word of the master is the law. I will get moded a troll for this but that's nothing but the truth. Google has injected too much cash in Firefox, so they unfortunately need to obey as ships after only one word of command. Open Source is great, but corporation-financed open source... hmm...
Absolutely not true. You can even install and run Vista on a computer with 1Gb ram and no page file. And run applications. So it doesn't reserve 1Gb for itself and thus, your myth is busted. Vista's memory manager will use as much memory it can (free memory is a waste, so it will use it rather than watch it empty). But as soon as a process needs memory it will give it back.
While liquid cooling may be a better solution than air for laptops, there are studies that show that the energy used to pump the liquid and cool it is greater by a 10x magnitude relative to air systems.
The university of Chalmers in Sweden has been experimenting with liquid Nitrogen for some time now and their solution (while not cheap) is extremely effective for cooling of small electronic devices. Give it some time and I'm sure this will made it into mainstream (and Abble may very possibly claim that they invented the thing as well).
Sure the NTFS used by NT4 and the one Vista uses share the same name (and are *somehow* compatible: Vista understands the old NTFS and NT4 can use the new one in a limited way, but there is A LOT under the hood. The way security descriptors work, for instance is completely different in new versions. volume Shadow Copy, Hierarchical Storage Management, Junction Points, and other "extensions" are a HUGE step forward, and made the new NTFS in reality a new version, with the same old name.
Isn't interesting that every time there are news about some MS project, some people have the need to almost apologize for liking some of their products/ideas? DON'T DO THAT. Be proud. MS are like any other company out there: with some great ideas/ products mixed with some not so great ones. Sure, this is slashdot and it's not hip and cool to say that you are:
- A windows user and satisfied with it
- A.net developer who think.net is a great platform
- An user who thinks that the ribbon are is a great innovation
etc...
But hey, there is no need to apologize. Don't be part of that stupid trend.
"This sounds very civic-minded, innovative, and useful." - There, I fixed that for ya.
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It's fine and dandy to talk about "victories", but the whole picture is not the same if you don't talk about what does go wrong. You never hear about the hundred of applications that die a painful slow dead on SourceForge (the place where software is placed to die). You never hear about the wonderful TurboPower components that died after they went Open Source. You won't hear about Cobian Backup which was pulled back from OS because it was dying that same slow painful dead, and it's now going strong again when the author took the command back. You see, Open Source is not a magic word. It's not a magic solution. Sure there are some victories , but as well as with commercial software, for every "victory" there are thousand of deaths. So this article says actually nothing.
The paper clip was the default, but the dog (as well as a wizard, a cat and some more) were included as well. Of course you needed a little bit of brain to know that you could change it (or disable them all). But people, as almost always prefer to bitch than to think a little.
That's not unusual at all. With every new version the avatars has been changing. I guess they have been trying to fine-tune it to try to find some use for it, but with every new release their function and space is less and less. Today Clippy is almost inexistent. Of course, there are million of people who still use Office 97, so there are million of Clippy users still today.
I am a Delphi developer and has been such since Delphi 1, and if you thing the Delphi palette id a ribbon, you must be out of you mind.
As a software developer you should know that some ideas are good and some are bad....but sometimes you never know if you don't try. The key here is innovation and experimentation. The problem is, often nobody remember your little small innovations that went well: nobody now remembers who introduced the small waved underlines that are now standard in every spell checker in the world. Nobody now remembers who introduced tutorialized tasks. In 10 years nowbody will remember who introduced the ribbon. But everybody will remember the innovations that went wrong, like clippy and friends.
You sir don't understand a thing about the way Vista memory manager works. So you have, say 4 gb RAM. You are running WoW and on linuzz and it is taking 700 Mb. On Vista it takes all 4Gb. Now tell me, WHICH system is working more effective? Linuzz which is leaving your memory unused or Vista, which is using all the memory you have purchased with your hard earned money?. Don't worry, if another process is started, Vista will free some memory from WoW for the new one.
Better experience for who? I have been a Mac and Windows user since MacOS 7 and I still dislike both MacOs and OSX with all my heart. It's not a bad system, but there are lots of those little irritating things that makes a mac, oh so Fisher pricish....
The difference is: when it happens to Apple, then ..well "shit happens". When it happens with MS, then it's "haha" time on /.
Maybe when Steve is gone, somebody else will take the steps necessary to introduce a little fresh air into that unhealthy (and unholy) position.
The practical value of all this may not be that great for 99% of the users out there, but I really understand the geek value of this all. It's like when I experimented calling a Volume Shadow Copy provider I wrote in C# from my Delphi application. Just for fun. I could have done this easier using only Delphi or C# only, but my point was just to see if it was possible. And it was cool, for me anyway.
Yes, when I saw this article on the Firehose I really really hoped that no editor would pick it. Not only is a variation of a million times seen joke: it's a very mediocre variation as well. I mean, the "jokes" are unimaginative, feel forced and most important: the little bit of objective (no pun intended) truth that any self-respected list of this kind must contain is not present at all here. A waste if you ask me... Or maybe I just don't get it.
Anyway, this is just a non-story, but as any MS story, it seems like it's our job to bash them at any price.
Still living in 1997? Reality check...
Now , Joe Metal who has an underground band and doesn't even have a penny gets a contract with EMI...if EMI wants it to be DRMed, guess if Joe will agree or not.
http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=121&csid2=844&fid1=31286
We **really*** don't know the details about this case more than the one side story from that lady mentioned in the article. Sure , she claims to be innocent, but that's the judges work to determine. And no, being terminally seek doesn't give you free way to break the law.
That said, I hope the RIAA goes to hell, but I really hope that slashdot gets back to serious articles and stop being a yellow tabloid. or I really hope kdawson evaporates from that editor position.
Hmm... as sheeps, not as ships of course... Sorry..
The word of the master is the law. I will get moded a troll for this but that's nothing but the truth. Google has injected too much cash in Firefox, so they unfortunately need to obey as ships after only one word of command. Open Source is great, but corporation-financed open source... hmm...
Exactly. Is there a law now that says that we all must use Apple's crap now? I use a creative player and never been happier.
And for saying NO to the stupid Apple-pretty trend, Obama deserves kudos. Say NO to the dumb music Abble monopolization.
Absolutely not true. You can even install and run Vista on a computer with 1Gb ram and no page file. And run applications. So it doesn't reserve 1Gb for itself and thus, your myth is busted. Vista's memory manager will use as much memory it can (free memory is a waste, so it will use it rather than watch it empty). But as soon as a process needs memory it will give it back.
You never learn, do you? Abble INVENTED water.
The university of Chalmers in Sweden has been experimenting with liquid Nitrogen for some time now and their solution (while not cheap) is extremely effective for cooling of small electronic devices. Give it some time and I'm sure this will made it into mainstream (and Abble may very possibly claim that they invented the thing as well).
Sure the NTFS used by NT4 and the one Vista uses share the same name (and are *somehow* compatible: Vista understands the old NTFS and NT4 can use the new one in a limited way, but there is A LOT under the hood. The way security descriptors work, for instance is completely different in new versions. volume Shadow Copy, Hierarchical Storage Management, Junction Points, and other "extensions" are a HUGE step forward, and made the new NTFS in reality a new version, with the same old name.
- A windows user and satisfied with it
- A .net developer who think .net is a great platform
- An user who thinks that the ribbon are is a great innovation
etc...
But hey, there is no need to apologize. Don't be part of that stupid trend.
"This sounds very civic-minded, innovative, and useful." - There, I fixed that for ya.