Even Soul Calibur IV is annoying. My favorite part of the game is the character creator, but getting through the stupid "Tower of Soul" levels and having to figure out the extremely vague and unhelpful "clues" to unlock equipment is annoying as hell (and takes ages). I just want to play dress-up damnit!
I'd pay $5 or $10 to just have all the equipment and characters in the game unlocked.
Because your post brought up, from the other side, the complaint.
No it didn't.
Nobody in this thread said anything about Office. Not even "the other side" of it, whatever that means. If you're going to make this crazy claim, please link to the posting in which it was brought up-- Slashdot helpfully lets you link to every posting individually, let's see it.
I was responding more to an attitude than your specific claim.
No, you're responding more to imaginary dancing fairies dancing around in your water-filled brain.
Also, I'm 99.44% sure that Twitter is already using Amazon S3-- a cloud computing service-- and the summary itself says that they have to disable some features to keep up with the traffic. How come their cloud didn't help them?
What the holy fudge does "HTH, HAND" mean? I've Googled it, I've even Binged it, and the only thing I can come up with is HTH stands for "Hand-To-Hand" as in combat. Hand-To-Hand, HAND?
Compare our energy use to GDP and we come out looking like heroes. We're not just wasting it (well, not most of it), we're using that energy to increase wealth. If you're measuring energy use vs. population, then yah we look bad, but that's a dumb way to measure it.
Or to complete your sentence: the USA needs 25% of the world's energy because the USA provides 25% of the world's GDP.
A developer would use their MSDN Windows license. They wouldn't be buying a box at retail. Unless they're really stupid. That marks D off your list.
From my experience, businesses don't upgrade their hardware to a new OS version any more than the average user does. (i.e. hardly at all.) Meaning, business Windows cost would be rolled-in to the hardware cost, knocking B off your list.
I'd wager build-your-own-ers are more likely to pirate than to buy, unless they know a MS employee who can get Windows at MS Store prices.
I'm guessing the main market here is your C) computer enthusiasts.
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From my experience trying to roll out a pharmacy system at a regional hospital, the nurses were the big opposition. The doctors and pharmacists not only adopted the system quickly, but they frequently gave us positive feedback on how well it worked.
Sorry, you're right, it was flame-y. On the other hand, you'll have to excuse me if I don't count Slashdot posters as reliable sources when it comes to Microsoft's reaction to security-related bugs.
If you read, for example, Raymond Chen's blog, he frequently talks about the hundreds of non-security-related things that people report as security holes.
The great part was the first Microsoft engineer who saw it, and declared that it was impossible for SSMS to open windows off-screen. He didn't even try it!
Further thanks from this quarter, but you sort of made the GGP's point: the bugs you reported that got solved were usability bugs, not security ones.
So you're claiming that Microsoft *only* addressed my bug reports because they related to usability and not security? And further you're assuming that if I did submit a security bug using the same channel it would have been ignored?
Come on, we're trying to have a discussion here.
With their resources they really ought to be able to do both.
Prove they aren't. So far you're just asserting your own assumptions with absolutely no data to back them up.
I didn't say anything about office suites. You're not replying to me, you replying to some communication from Martians, or something.
If you trying to suggest that *I* believe that Microsoft Office is the only real office suite, then you completely wrong. I didn't say that, and I don't believe it.
Where to begin. The UI sucks, with unreadable text in many places. It constantly tells me my video card drivers are out of date when they aren't. Ditto with DirectX versions (it's upgraded my DirectX three times this week alone!) Half the time when you start it up, it just shows a blank white screen and you have to close and restart it to see your games list. The pricing in the store is frequently wrong, and they don't respond to tickets when you ask to buy a product at it's advertised price. In fact, support is non-existant. There is no quality control for games, meaning they'll gladly list games that are ridiculously broken (like Americas Army 3.) There is no auto-installer for mods that I've discovered- you just have to copy the files manually.
Valve gets away with all this because PC gamers generally assign very little value to software quality. Although I don't get wh nobody calls them out on the lack of customer service. I've seen a lot more bugs then the ones listed, BTW.
You didn't read my original post so I suppose it's hopeless to explain it again- but what the hell, it's a long train ride.
The point I was making is that the majority of malware out in the world now does not spread by exploiting security holes in windows. It either spreads via social engineering, or through holes in other software. Given that, what is it you want Microsoft to be doing that they aren't already doing?
BTW, since you're on slashdot, I'll just go ahead and assume your one of those "vista sucks" kind of people- try moving some of your users to vista instead of the decade-old, only-secured-with-service-packs XP. You'll notice a world of diference.
Someone didn't learn about the "ring of fire" in high school. Washington State gets those little quakes quite often, too. They only hit the news if they get up to magnitude 4 or so.
Maybe you weren't paying attention: I just compared their security to Sun and Adobe. Or are you now arguing that Sun and Adobe don't make "enterprise" software?
I've reported more than a couple bugs to Microsoft. My track record on getting them fixed is significantly better than for bugs I've reported to open source projects. (Admittedly, the place to report them is hard to find for most products, and Windows itself. Some are easy though.)
For example, SQL Server Management Studio shouldn't open windows off-screen anymore, it'll sanity-check the saved window coordinates with the current monitor layout. (Last version would gleefully open windows off-screen if its saved position was on a no-longer-present monitor.)
Expression Web 3 should no longer install a duplicate copy of "Office Picture Manager" and clutter-up the "Open With..." menu with a pointless entry. (A bug I reported with Expression Web 2 that was resolved.)
And playback of MP4 over a network drive is *greatly* improved in recent versions of the Zune player software. I'm not going to take credit for that one, of course, as I'm sure it was on their "to-do" list, but at least by putting in the bug report, Microsoft can gauge how important that feature is for the product. (Unfortunately, Zune still has *many* unresolved issues with plug-and-play USB headsets.)
I think my open source record for bugs fixed is hovering around 2/15 or so. Maybe more, but I no longer have an OS X box so I can't check a couple of them. In my experience, open source projects (and psuedo-open source projects like Slashdot) are a heck of a lot more likely to ignore bug reports.
A real shell? Having to install cygwin is kinda a pain. No powershell does not count.
Way to craft your requirements in such a way that they're impossible to meet. What is a "real" shell? And what features does your "real" shell require that PowerShell doesn't have?
Let me guess, a "real" shell is defined as "a shell that Microsoft is not currently shipping."
On the other hand, Anti-virus products shouldn't even be needed. MS should be able to write software with fewer holes in it. They have piles of static analysis tools, piles of research, and piles of other stuff. They just don't want to take the time and fix things (including testing), so they put wrappers like UAC around things instead of fixing it.
Microsoft software is already more secure than most vendors. Recent major viruses have either:
1) Spread via social engineering. (The kind of thing UAC is supposed to help with, contrary to what you seem to think it's for.)
2) Spread via non-Microsoft software. For example, I got a lovely copy of the Vundo virus courtesy of Sun's Java VM. Sun and Adobe software have been major spreaders recently.
What would you suggest Microsoft do about either of those issues that they aren't already doing? Make it impossible to run Sun or Adobe software? Yeah, right.
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Even Soul Calibur IV is annoying. My favorite part of the game is the character creator, but getting through the stupid "Tower of Soul" levels and having to figure out the extremely vague and unhelpful "clues" to unlock equipment is annoying as hell (and takes ages). I just want to play dress-up damnit!
I'd pay $5 or $10 to just have all the equipment and characters in the game unlocked.
Because your post brought up, from the other side, the complaint.
No it didn't.
Nobody in this thread said anything about Office. Not even "the other side" of it, whatever that means. If you're going to make this crazy claim, please link to the posting in which it was brought up-- Slashdot helpfully lets you link to every posting individually, let's see it.
I was responding more to an attitude than your specific claim.
No, you're responding more to imaginary dancing fairies dancing around in your water-filled brain.
Also, I'm 99.44% sure that Twitter is already using Amazon S3-- a cloud computing service-- and the summary itself says that they have to disable some features to keep up with the traffic. How come their cloud didn't help them?
Has there ever been a runaway popular software product that wasn't poorly-written? At least initially?
Coin it as "Blakeyrat's Law."
What the holy fudge does "HTH, HAND" mean? I've Googled it, I've even Binged it, and the only thing I can come up with is HTH stands for "Hand-To-Hand" as in combat. Hand-To-Hand, HAND?
Compare our energy use to GDP and we come out looking like heroes. We're not just wasting it (well, not most of it), we're using that energy to increase wealth. If you're measuring energy use vs. population, then yah we look bad, but that's a dumb way to measure it.
Or to complete your sentence: the USA needs 25% of the world's energy because the USA provides 25% of the world's GDP.
Perhaps, but *I DID NOT SAY IT* so why the fuck is it a reply to my posting? Christ.
I suspect your post qualifies as "annoying pedantic bullshit." If you don't have anything to contribute to the conversation, please don't bother.
A developer would use their MSDN Windows license. They wouldn't be buying a box at retail. Unless they're really stupid. That marks D off your list.
From my experience, businesses don't upgrade their hardware to a new OS version any more than the average user does. (i.e. hardly at all.) Meaning, business Windows cost would be rolled-in to the hardware cost, knocking B off your list.
I'd wager build-your-own-ers are more likely to pirate than to buy, unless they know a MS employee who can get Windows at MS Store prices.
I'm guessing the main market here is your C) computer enthusiasts.
From my experience trying to roll out a pharmacy system at a regional hospital, the nurses were the big opposition. The doctors and pharmacists not only adopted the system quickly, but they frequently gave us positive feedback on how well it worked.
Sorry, you're right, it was flame-y. On the other hand, you'll have to excuse me if I don't count Slashdot posters as reliable sources when it comes to Microsoft's reaction to security-related bugs.
If you read, for example, Raymond Chen's blog, he frequently talks about the hundreds of non-security-related things that people report as security holes.
The great part was the first Microsoft engineer who saw it, and declared that it was impossible for SSMS to open windows off-screen. He didn't even try it!
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/offscreen_ssms_window.png (the image I submitted after the bug was declared "impossible")
Further thanks from this quarter, but you sort of made the GGP's point: the bugs you reported that got solved were usability bugs, not security ones.
So you're claiming that Microsoft *only* addressed my bug reports because they related to usability and not security? And further you're assuming that if I did submit a security bug using the same channel it would have been ignored?
Come on, we're trying to have a discussion here.
With their resources they really ought to be able to do both.
Prove they aren't. So far you're just asserting your own assumptions with absolutely no data to back them up.
I didn't say anything about office suites. You're not replying to me, you replying to some communication from Martians, or something.
If you trying to suggest that *I* believe that Microsoft Office is the only real office suite, then you completely wrong. I didn't say that, and I don't believe it.
Where to begin. The UI sucks, with unreadable text in many places. It constantly tells me my video card drivers are out of date when they aren't. Ditto with DirectX versions (it's upgraded my DirectX three times this week alone!) Half the time when you start it up, it just shows a blank white screen and you have to close and restart it to see your games list. The pricing in the store is frequently wrong, and they don't respond to tickets when you ask to buy a product at it's advertised price. In fact, support is non-existant. There is no quality control for games, meaning they'll gladly list games that are ridiculously broken (like Americas Army 3.) There is no auto-installer for mods that I've discovered- you just have to copy the files manually.
Valve gets away with all this because PC gamers generally assign very little value to software quality. Although I don't get wh nobody calls them out on the lack of customer service. I've seen a lot more bugs then the ones listed, BTW.
You didn't read my original post so I suppose it's hopeless to explain it again- but what the hell, it's a long train ride.
The point I was making is that the majority of malware out in the world now does not spread by exploiting security holes in windows. It either spreads via social engineering, or through holes in other software. Given that, what is it you want Microsoft to be doing that they aren't already doing?
BTW, since you're on slashdot, I'll just go ahead and assume your one of those "vista sucks" kind of people- try moving some of your users to vista instead of the decade-old, only-secured-with-service-packs XP. You'll notice a world of diference.
Who are you replying to? Nobody made that claim in this thread. Or are you just taking your strawman out for some exercise?
Someone didn't learn about the "ring of fire" in high school. Washington State gets those little quakes quite often, too. They only hit the news if they get up to magnitude 4 or so.
Maybe you weren't paying attention: I just compared their security to Sun and Adobe. Or are you now arguing that Sun and Adobe don't make "enterprise" software?
I've reported more than a couple bugs to Microsoft. My track record on getting them fixed is significantly better than for bugs I've reported to open source projects. (Admittedly, the place to report them is hard to find for most products, and Windows itself. Some are easy though.)
For example, SQL Server Management Studio shouldn't open windows off-screen anymore, it'll sanity-check the saved window coordinates with the current monitor layout. (Last version would gleefully open windows off-screen if its saved position was on a no-longer-present monitor.)
Expression Web 3 should no longer install a duplicate copy of "Office Picture Manager" and clutter-up the "Open With..." menu with a pointless entry. (A bug I reported with Expression Web 2 that was resolved.)
And playback of MP4 over a network drive is *greatly* improved in recent versions of the Zune player software. I'm not going to take credit for that one, of course, as I'm sure it was on their "to-do" list, but at least by putting in the bug report, Microsoft can gauge how important that feature is for the product. (Unfortunately, Zune still has *many* unresolved issues with plug-and-play USB headsets.)
I think my open source record for bugs fixed is hovering around 2/15 or so. Maybe more, but I no longer have an OS X box so I can't check a couple of them. In my experience, open source projects (and psuedo-open source projects like Slashdot) are a heck of a lot more likely to ignore bug reports.
A real shell?
Having to install cygwin is kinda a pain. No powershell does not count.
Way to craft your requirements in such a way that they're impossible to meet. What is a "real" shell? And what features does your "real" shell require that PowerShell doesn't have?
Let me guess, a "real" shell is defined as "a shell that Microsoft is not currently shipping."
On the other hand, Anti-virus products shouldn't even be needed. MS should be able to write software with fewer holes in it. They have piles of static analysis tools, piles of research, and piles of other stuff. They just don't want to take the time and fix things (including testing), so they put wrappers like UAC around things instead of fixing it.
Microsoft software is already more secure than most vendors. Recent major viruses have either:
1) Spread via social engineering. (The kind of thing UAC is supposed to help with, contrary to what you seem to think it's for.)
2) Spread via non-Microsoft software. For example, I got a lovely copy of the Vundo virus courtesy of Sun's Java VM. Sun and Adobe software have been major spreaders recently.
What would you suggest Microsoft do about either of those issues that they aren't already doing? Make it impossible to run Sun or Adobe software? Yeah, right.
For example, compare the number of system calls in the windows kernel with the number in the Linux kernel.
Where would I get data to compare these two items? I see from Wikipedia that Linux has around 320.
Valve on the other hand...well they haven't made a many mistakes, they built a complete distribution system that is the best around by far
Which is really sad, considering how crap Steam is.
The 'X' makes it sound cool.