It doesn't have to be difficult to work with, and going assembly is certainly not the solution. But using managed code is not a solution either. Those are particularly wasteful. Yes, it does matter!
How does it matter? Can you even tell the difference?
Look, compare, say, Paint.NET using managed code (.net natch) with old-school Paint written in native code. Do you *seriously* notice that Paint.NET is slow and bogged down? Ever?
Now consider that Paint.NET has ten times the features, with the exact same performance.
Look, your problem is that you think managed code = Java. Java sucks for desktop apps, always has and always will. There are managed programs that work, and work very well.
But Windows won't run on the next generation of netbook computers (the ARM-based ones, such as what Freescale/Pegatron is comming out with).
Oh yeah, the mythical ones that don't exist. Well, there's one single model around, but it sucks compared to the Atom and AMD-based netbooks that dominate the market. In any case, Windows runs on ARM *gasp!* so it's not like having an ARM netbook, even if they existed which they don't, would suddenly and instantly make Microsoft shrivel and die.
Congratulations. Every time somebody brings up netbooks on Slashdot, some delusional person has to chime in with, "but-- but-- but-- ARM!" Today you're that person.
Using Windows XP with antivirus running takes at least a P4 2.5GHz HT CPU to successfully emulate a DUMB terminal without lag from the local computer.
Bullshit. I worked at a hospital, where many computers were 5250 emulators to an AS/400. Even on crappy networking links (10 mbit), even using Windows XP SP2 with Symantec anti-virus, even on *400 mhz* computers with 512 MB RAM, even using IBM's undoubtedly bloated-beyond-belief Client Access tools, there was zero latency.
And yes, Windows XP will run fine on a 400 mhz machine as long as it has enough memory to work with.
Yes... this tends to happen less and less often these days. Worth mentioning, this also isn't quite comparable to Windows, in that if you buy a machine with Linux preinstalled, your resolution will be set properly, just as it is with Windows preinstalled.
Linux can't auto-detect what resolution the monitor is, but it *can* somehow telepathically tell which monitor consumers are going to buy with their new computer?
Your point applies to laptops, well, until the user makes use of the conveniently-placed VGA/DVI port on the side of it, but for desktops, just admit it: Linux *sucks* at configuring monitors. It sucks at doing it automatically, it sucks at doing it manually, it just sucks at it.
Have you ever fired up a modern distro, like Ubuntu? It is possible to use it without once opening up the commandline, except perhaps to copy and paste some commands -- and I think even people paranoid of the commandline know how to copy and paste.
Unless you have a super-strange, 1-in-a-million, freak configuration... like more than one monitor!
Although I guess you're right, technically: it's possible to use it. The experience just sucks ass compared to an OS that can automatically detect and configure multiple monitors.
I've always found Synaptic to be a better user experience, even for Windows People, because at the very least, it is safer than downloading random EXEs from the Internet.
How does that follow?
I mean, it's correct on the technicality that nobody (or almost nobody) writes malware for Linux compared to Windows, but that doesn't make it safer by design.
I'm going to say that Linux actually has a better GUI, in many respects, than its competition.
Which one?
GNOME isn't better, nor is KDE. So you must be referring to some GUI I've never used before. Or are you just totaling up the features of both and putting the checkmark on the largest column?
In any case, none of those "many respects" are "usability" or "consistency".
Exchange is just part of the massive lock-in that Windows generates -- all the things that have been built on the Windows platform over-the-years. Accountants are on Windows because of Quickbooks. Graphic designers are on Windows because of Photoshop. Gamers are on Windows because of Half-Life 2 -- I mean, Crysis -- I mean, Bioshock 2 -- insert game of the week here.
And it's been decades, and Linux hasn't been able to beat any of these applications. Where's the Linux killer-app for the desktop? Sure, there are dozens in the server room... but if you want desktop users, you need desktop applications, and if you want to recruit people from Windows, you need *better* applications than Windows.
And yes, one of those is the CLI. And yes, it is under active development -- just a month ago or so, I installed a set of scripts which adds a git status into my command prompt. Just yesterday, I wrote a new alias for a common (longer) command I often run.
Oh that'll bring the accountants and gamers running.
The saddest thing is that PowerShell *is* actually a new CLI, written from scratch, and it completely rocks. Linux is in this position where it's simultaneously burdened by backwards-compatibility concerns, and in a state of constant flux.
I mean, look at the Linux world: it's perfectly acceptable and ok to change the C Standard Libraries, breaking dozens of applications in the process. On the other hand, do anything to BASH that would break a single obscure shell script written in 1976, and you'd get run out of town. What is up with that?
It doesn't make any damned sense. It's like some tacit belief that it's *impossible* to create a better CLI environment than BASH. Well, that belief is wrong-- PowerShell is better. If a Linux group wrote a new CLI environment, it'd be a dozen times better. So why is Linux still using this ancient technology?
It's backwards-compatibility-- with their brains. Linux users, while generally excited by technology, hate learning new things. Look at all the backlash against Microsoft when they changed the Office interface for 2007. Oh my god, the toolbars look slightly different! Panic! Look at the obsession Linux users have with BSODs (gone for a decade, except for faulty hardware), look how often Microsoft Bob is brought-up for God's sake! A program that was on the market for like 3 months, 15 years ago! They aren't computer enthusiasts, they're dinosaurs.
(That said, people in general hate learning new things. But at least most people can look past their knee-jerk reaction and judge something on its merits; that rarely happens here.)
But it has to be one of the oldest bits of FUD that you somehow can't use Linux wi
I can make up stories, too. Want to hear one? It's about a commenter in Slashdot who called BS on another post, and suddenly a brand new Ferrari showed up at his garage with the title and keys inside. When taking it on a cruise, he met a supermodel and they were married the next day. The end.
Yeah, and if that kid watched "Loose Change," he'd storm into his local Army recruiting office with a bomb strapped to his chest. Sounds like a nutcase to me if a single movie could change his mind. (Or he was humoring you.)
Except Apple had that particular insight first, or at least created products aimed at the general market to address it first. Hell, even Commodore's GEOS beat Windows to market, and Commodore didn't know jack about computers.
So while your post is very... long... I'm not sure it indicates anything at all unique to Microsoft.
What's the point of "killing Flash?" are you suggesting that we should make software just to be vindictive towards other software? Or is there some actual benefit to the user/consumer?
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Case Insensitive collations are default on many database systems. But more to the point, if you don't set the collation to what you need, you really aren't qualified to be using a database... this isn't new, or unique to MySQL.
It's not something you need to "work around"... for columns you want case sensitive compares on, set their collation correctly instead of just ignoring it and using the default!
Seriously, if you're going to bother to use a database, spend a few hours learning how they work. Please.
Can anyone give an example of another common modern environment where "=" (or "==" as appropriate) is case insensitive?
In SQL, you can choose whether it is or not. No, it's not a "modern environment", but sometimes you just have to cope, eh?
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String comparisons are a collation. If you want CI (case insensitive) you set a CI collation. If you don't, you don't. You can apply collations to entire databases, tables, or individual columns.
That's true of *every* database vendor. (Yes, even MS SQL.) If you're surprised by this, you need to go back to database school.
Eh? No, you tax the site providing a service. No solid idea of how it should work, but I just want the goverment to get their cut for schools/education, hospitals/health-care, infastructure, etc.
Well, when you figure out how this mythical system would work, please let me know so I could critique it. Right now you're basically saying "piracy sucks, then magic happens, then it doesn't! Yay!"
As far as I know allofmp3.com was trying to pay via this Russian system but the payment was refused because they didn't want to support the system.
That's what AllOfMP3 claims. I seriously doubt the payment was refused. I don't believe a word they say. And the only reason they offered to pay in the first place is because the IFPI (the "Russian system" as you put it) were investigating them for massive copyright infringement.
Oh come on. Yes, for rubbish kids movies, LIKE THE NEW STAR WARS MOVIES;-), but for grown up stuff that will never work, it will be product placement (think iRobot or Back-To-The-Future-with-a-sane-company), burnt in overlay adverts (something already in many torrents copied from TV), movie experiences (including going to cinemas), gift sets and collections items, etc etc. It's not hard, it's all happening now.
Ok, let's take two great Kubrick movies: A Clockwork Orange, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Please explain to me how Kubrick could have used your methods to fund these masterpieces.
What about an indie movie like Primer? What change would those guys have to get product placement dollars? Slim to none.
Should something that such a large section of the population do be illegal? Who is the law serving then?
Very alarmist.
But have you ever looked into traffic laws? Do you know a single person who doesn't speed regularly? The amount of people who pirate movies is nothing in comparison. WHO IS THE LAW SERVING THEN! OMG PANIC!
I say bring it all out in the open so it can be regulated and taxed.
How? Taxing the media that "might" be used for piracy like so many non-US countries do? No thanks; I've never bought a blank DVD or CD with the intent of pirating something in my life, and I sure as hell aren't going to pay extra for it.
Money can still be made, if the service is good enough and the price is reasonable enough, people will pay, allofmp3.com demonstrated this, as do many private torrent sites.
allofmp3.com only made money because the people who actually *created* the product, the people who actually deserved the money, got jack-shit. Also they were run by the Russian mafia and probably mostly used for money laundering. That's not a good example for other companies to follow.
On top of this, people will always want real world stuff to go with their data (think how much money the Star Wars toys made).
So you're saying go the "80s saturday morning cartoon" route and make every show/movie just a commercial for toys? Bye-bye what little art and craft remains in the medium.
or if I said I didn't have an incentive to grow cotton unless I could own slaves on the plantation, most people would see this is these as the worthless shallow arguments that they are.
That "worthless shallow argument" killed over 620,000 Americans alone. (I don't have the historical knowledge to know how many world-wide.)
I'd continue reading your post, but if you're the type of person to just piss all over history like that, I'm pretty sure you have nothing useful to say on the topic.
The reality is that a "solution" that requires thousands of people to change thousands of websites from their default behavior, and leaves more thousands of abandoned websites out in the cold, isn't a real solution at all.
I mean, which sites have the majority of those spam comments? Abandoned sites. By definition, abandoned sites aren't going to have their link behavior changed. And, frankly, how many actually legitimate sites are going to do it? The only reason my WordPress does it is because WordPress happens to do it by default-- I'd never bother on my own, since it doesn't get me anything.
I'm not saying that I have a better solution, I'm just saying that any solution that doesn't take human nature into account isn't really a solution.
I think everybody replying to me mis-read what I said.
The grandparent was saying that Vista's problems make OS X 10.0's problems look insignificant by comparison. I was replying, "no, you're wrong" and saying that OS X 10.0 was actually much worse than Vista at launch.
But now I've gotten three responses trying to "convince" me that 10.0 was bad. Hello, I've used both Vista and 10.0. I know it's bad. It was worse than System 7.0.0 (remember that piece of trash?) I agree with you, stop replying. Learn to read.
Because obviously rsync is the *only* way to *ever* backup *any* software *ever!*
I use Mozy to back up: http://mozy.com/ It's just quicker and easier than everything else out there. But there are a billion non-rsync backup options for Windows. And of course there's a Windows port of rsync, so there you go.
PowerShell isn't much like Bash, it's really only "like" itself... it's basically an Object Oriented CLI system which access to most/all of the.net library functions. I haven't worked with it much, but it's pretty much entirely new as far as CLI concepts go. (Which is good, because I think Bash sucks ass.)
The control panel in Vista/Windows 7 is *MUCH* easier to navigate, and much better-laid-out than the XP control panel.
With that complaint on your list, I can safely file you away into the "I hate change" group. You don't hate the new control panel, what you hate is that it's different than the old one-- that's fine, but it disqualifies you from reviewing an OS.
In anycase, look at the inside of the letter O in ClearType and the hump on the letter h. Compared to, OS X, it is jaggy. You can actually see square pixels on the inside of the Os.
You can? Seriously? I'm starting to think maybe your monitor is a POS, or it's set to a non-native resolution or something... or maybe you have some kind of superhuman eyesight us mortals aren't blessed with. There's no jaggies in the ClearType sample.
My main gripe with ClearType (other than my "white clouds" argument that it is hit or miss, depending on hardware configuration) is that it changes the shapes of the letters and the spacing erratically. Look again at the first picture, and look out how the word letter O in the word "font" is erratically spaced, compared to the "smoothing" where it isn't. Notice how "thing" in "smoothing" looks like somebody manually (and poorly) positioned the characters.
Looks like the same spacing to me.
Seriously, please check that your LCD is at its native resolution. I have absolutely no idea what you're referring to.
Saying climate "change" implies that we knew how it worked before-- surely we can't judge whether something is abnormal without knowing what normal is, right?
Reading articles like this (and the posts in this thread) makes it clear to me that climate scientists frankly have *no clue* what is normal and what isn't. Thus, the grandparent's claim that virtually every point of climate data is "for" Climate Change.
Installing solar panels and using water butts and various other green things can save money so why wouldn't people want to save money?
"Can" is an interesting choice of words. Sure they "can" save money, but in reality they "don't." I dunno, maybe if you live in Southern California or something both of those ideas will pay for themselves, but here in Western Washington, the solar is a total non-starter (you'd never re-coup the installation costs before they need replacing) and the water butts only make sense maybe once in 10 years when we're actually lacking rainfall for some reason.
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It doesn't have to be difficult to work with, and going assembly is certainly not the solution. But using managed code is not a solution either. Those are particularly wasteful. Yes, it does matter!
How does it matter? Can you even tell the difference?
Look, compare, say, Paint.NET using managed code (.net natch) with old-school Paint written in native code. Do you *seriously* notice that Paint.NET is slow and bogged down? Ever?
Now consider that Paint.NET has ten times the features, with the exact same performance.
Look, your problem is that you think managed code = Java. Java sucks for desktop apps, always has and always will. There are managed programs that work, and work very well.
But Windows won't run on the next generation of netbook computers (the ARM-based ones, such as what Freescale/Pegatron is comming out with).
Oh yeah, the mythical ones that don't exist. Well, there's one single model around, but it sucks compared to the Atom and AMD-based netbooks that dominate the market. In any case, Windows runs on ARM *gasp!* so it's not like having an ARM netbook, even if they existed which they don't, would suddenly and instantly make Microsoft shrivel and die.
Congratulations. Every time somebody brings up netbooks on Slashdot, some delusional person has to chime in with, "but-- but-- but-- ARM!" Today you're that person.
Using Windows XP with antivirus running takes at least a P4 2.5GHz HT CPU to successfully emulate a DUMB terminal without lag from the local computer.
Bullshit. I worked at a hospital, where many computers were 5250 emulators to an AS/400. Even on crappy networking links (10 mbit), even using Windows XP SP2 with Symantec anti-virus, even on *400 mhz* computers with 512 MB RAM, even using IBM's undoubtedly bloated-beyond-belief Client Access tools, there was zero latency.
And yes, Windows XP will run fine on a 400 mhz machine as long as it has enough memory to work with.
In short: bullshit.
Yes... this tends to happen less and less often these days. Worth mentioning, this also isn't quite comparable to Windows, in that if you buy a machine with Linux preinstalled, your resolution will be set properly, just as it is with Windows preinstalled.
Linux can't auto-detect what resolution the monitor is, but it *can* somehow telepathically tell which monitor consumers are going to buy with their new computer?
Your point applies to laptops, well, until the user makes use of the conveniently-placed VGA/DVI port on the side of it, but for desktops, just admit it: Linux *sucks* at configuring monitors. It sucks at doing it automatically, it sucks at doing it manually, it just sucks at it.
Have you ever fired up a modern distro, like Ubuntu? It is possible to use it without once opening up the commandline, except perhaps to copy and paste some commands -- and I think even people paranoid of the commandline know how to copy and paste.
Unless you have a super-strange, 1-in-a-million, freak configuration... like more than one monitor!
Although I guess you're right, technically: it's possible to use it. The experience just sucks ass compared to an OS that can automatically detect and configure multiple monitors.
I've always found Synaptic to be a better user experience, even for Windows People, because at the very least, it is safer than downloading random EXEs from the Internet.
How does that follow?
I mean, it's correct on the technicality that nobody (or almost nobody) writes malware for Linux compared to Windows, but that doesn't make it safer by design.
I'm going to say that Linux actually has a better GUI, in many respects, than its competition.
Which one?
GNOME isn't better, nor is KDE. So you must be referring to some GUI I've never used before. Or are you just totaling up the features of both and putting the checkmark on the largest column?
In any case, none of those "many respects" are "usability" or "consistency".
Exchange is just part of the massive lock-in that Windows generates -- all the things that have been built on the Windows platform over-the-years. Accountants are on Windows because of Quickbooks. Graphic designers are on Windows because of Photoshop. Gamers are on Windows because of Half-Life 2 -- I mean, Crysis -- I mean, Bioshock 2 -- insert game of the week here.
And it's been decades, and Linux hasn't been able to beat any of these applications. Where's the Linux killer-app for the desktop? Sure, there are dozens in the server room... but if you want desktop users, you need desktop applications, and if you want to recruit people from Windows, you need *better* applications than Windows.
And yes, one of those is the CLI. And yes, it is under active development -- just a month ago or so, I installed a set of scripts which adds a git status into my command prompt. Just yesterday, I wrote a new alias for a common (longer) command I often run.
Oh that'll bring the accountants and gamers running.
The saddest thing is that PowerShell *is* actually a new CLI, written from scratch, and it completely rocks. Linux is in this position where it's simultaneously burdened by backwards-compatibility concerns, and in a state of constant flux.
I mean, look at the Linux world: it's perfectly acceptable and ok to change the C Standard Libraries, breaking dozens of applications in the process. On the other hand, do anything to BASH that would break a single obscure shell script written in 1976, and you'd get run out of town. What is up with that?
It doesn't make any damned sense. It's like some tacit belief that it's *impossible* to create a better CLI environment than BASH. Well, that belief is wrong-- PowerShell is better. If a Linux group wrote a new CLI environment, it'd be a dozen times better. So why is Linux still using this ancient technology?
It's backwards-compatibility-- with their brains. Linux users, while generally excited by technology, hate learning new things. Look at all the backlash against Microsoft when they changed the Office interface for 2007. Oh my god, the toolbars look slightly different! Panic! Look at the obsession Linux users have with BSODs (gone for a decade, except for faulty hardware), look how often Microsoft Bob is brought-up for God's sake! A program that was on the market for like 3 months, 15 years ago! They aren't computer enthusiasts, they're dinosaurs.
(That said, people in general hate learning new things. But at least most people can look past their knee-jerk reaction and judge something on its merits; that rarely happens here.)
But it has to be one of the oldest bits of FUD that you somehow can't use Linux wi
I call BS with no evidence whatsoever.
I can make up stories, too. Want to hear one? It's about a commenter in Slashdot who called BS on another post, and suddenly a brand new Ferrari showed up at his garage with the title and keys inside. When taking it on a cruise, he met a supermodel and they were married the next day. The end.
Yeah, and if that kid watched "Loose Change," he'd storm into his local Army recruiting office with a bomb strapped to his chest. Sounds like a nutcase to me if a single movie could change his mind. (Or he was humoring you.)
Except Apple had that particular insight first, or at least created products aimed at the general market to address it first. Hell, even Commodore's GEOS beat Windows to market, and Commodore didn't know jack about computers.
So while your post is very... long... I'm not sure it indicates anything at all unique to Microsoft.
What's the point of "killing Flash?" are you suggesting that we should make software just to be vindictive towards other software? Or is there some actual benefit to the user/consumer?
Case Insensitive collations are default on many database systems. But more to the point, if you don't set the collation to what you need, you really aren't qualified to be using a database... this isn't new, or unique to MySQL.
It's not something you need to "work around"... for columns you want case sensitive compares on, set their collation correctly instead of just ignoring it and using the default!
Seriously, if you're going to bother to use a database, spend a few hours learning how they work. Please.
Can anyone give an example of another common modern environment where "=" (or "==" as appropriate) is case insensitive?
In SQL, you can choose whether it is or not. No, it's not a "modern environment", but sometimes you just have to cope, eh?
String comparisons are a collation. If you want CI (case insensitive) you set a CI collation. If you don't, you don't. You can apply collations to entire databases, tables, or individual columns.
That's true of *every* database vendor. (Yes, even MS SQL.) If you're surprised by this, you need to go back to database school.
Eh? No, you tax the site providing a service. No solid idea of how it should work, but I just want the goverment to get their cut for schools/education, hospitals/health-care, infastructure, etc.
Well, when you figure out how this mythical system would work, please let me know so I could critique it. Right now you're basically saying "piracy sucks, then magic happens, then it doesn't! Yay!"
As far as I know allofmp3.com was trying to pay via this Russian system but the payment was refused because they didn't want to support the system.
That's what AllOfMP3 claims. I seriously doubt the payment was refused. I don't believe a word they say. And the only reason they offered to pay in the first place is because the IFPI (the "Russian system" as you put it) were investigating them for massive copyright infringement.
Oh come on. Yes, for rubbish kids movies, LIKE THE NEW STAR WARS MOVIES ;-), but for grown up stuff that will never work, it will be product placement (think iRobot or Back-To-The-Future-with-a-sane-company), burnt in overlay adverts (something already in many torrents copied from TV), movie experiences (including going to cinemas), gift sets and collections items, etc etc. It's not hard, it's all happening now.
Ok, let's take two great Kubrick movies: A Clockwork Orange, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Please explain to me how Kubrick could have used your methods to fund these masterpieces.
What about an indie movie like Primer? What change would those guys have to get product placement dollars? Slim to none.
Should something that such a large section of the population do be illegal? Who is the law serving then?
Very alarmist.
But have you ever looked into traffic laws? Do you know a single person who doesn't speed regularly? The amount of people who pirate movies is nothing in comparison. WHO IS THE LAW SERVING THEN! OMG PANIC!
I say bring it all out in the open so it can be regulated and taxed.
How? Taxing the media that "might" be used for piracy like so many non-US countries do? No thanks; I've never bought a blank DVD or CD with the intent of pirating something in my life, and I sure as hell aren't going to pay extra for it.
Money can still be made, if the service is good enough and the price is reasonable enough, people will pay, allofmp3.com demonstrated this, as do many private torrent sites.
allofmp3.com only made money because the people who actually *created* the product, the people who actually deserved the money, got jack-shit. Also they were run by the Russian mafia and probably mostly used for money laundering. That's not a good example for other companies to follow.
On top of this, people will always want real world stuff to go with their data (think how much money the Star Wars toys made).
So you're saying go the "80s saturday morning cartoon" route and make every show/movie just a commercial for toys? Bye-bye what little art and craft remains in the medium.
or if I said I didn't have an incentive to grow cotton unless I could own slaves on the
plantation, most people would see this is these as the worthless shallow arguments that they are.
That "worthless shallow argument" killed over 620,000 Americans alone. (I don't have the historical knowledge to know how many world-wide.)
I'd continue reading your post, but if you're the type of person to just piss all over history like that, I'm pretty sure you have nothing useful to say on the topic.
The reality is that a "solution" that requires thousands of people to change thousands of websites from their default behavior, and leaves more thousands of abandoned websites out in the cold, isn't a real solution at all.
I mean, which sites have the majority of those spam comments? Abandoned sites. By definition, abandoned sites aren't going to have their link behavior changed. And, frankly, how many actually legitimate sites are going to do it? The only reason my WordPress does it is because WordPress happens to do it by default-- I'd never bother on my own, since it doesn't get me anything.
I'm not saying that I have a better solution, I'm just saying that any solution that doesn't take human nature into account isn't really a solution.
I think everybody replying to me mis-read what I said.
The grandparent was saying that Vista's problems make OS X 10.0's problems look insignificant by comparison. I was replying, "no, you're wrong" and saying that OS X 10.0 was actually much worse than Vista at launch.
But now I've gotten three responses trying to "convince" me that 10.0 was bad. Hello, I've used both Vista and 10.0. I know it's bad. It was worse than System 7.0.0 (remember that piece of trash?) I agree with you, stop replying. Learn to read.
Because obviously rsync is the *only* way to *ever* backup *any* software *ever!*
I use Mozy to back up: http://mozy.com/ It's just quicker and easier than everything else out there. But there are a billion non-rsync backup options for Windows. And of course there's a Windows port of rsync, so there you go.
PowerShell isn't much like Bash, it's really only "like" itself... it's basically an Object Oriented CLI system which access to most/all of the .net library functions. I haven't worked with it much, but it's pretty much entirely new as far as CLI concepts go. (Which is good, because I think Bash sucks ass.)
But the first OSX made Vista's problems look like first day of school jitters.
As a user of both, I assure you: no it didn't.
The control panel in Vista/Windows 7 is *MUCH* easier to navigate, and much better-laid-out than the XP control panel.
With that complaint on your list, I can safely file you away into the "I hate change" group. You don't hate the new control panel, what you hate is that it's different than the old one-- that's fine, but it disqualifies you from reviewing an OS.
In anycase, look at the inside of the letter O in ClearType and the hump on the letter h. Compared to, OS X, it is jaggy. You can actually see square pixels on the inside of the Os.
You can? Seriously? I'm starting to think maybe your monitor is a POS, or it's set to a non-native resolution or something... or maybe you have some kind of superhuman eyesight us mortals aren't blessed with. There's no jaggies in the ClearType sample.
My main gripe with ClearType (other than my "white clouds" argument that it is hit or miss, depending on hardware configuration) is that it changes the shapes of the letters and the spacing erratically. Look again at the first picture, and look out how the word letter O in the word "font" is erratically spaced, compared to the "smoothing" where it isn't. Notice how "thing" in "smoothing" looks like somebody manually (and poorly) positioned the characters.
Looks like the same spacing to me.
Seriously, please check that your LCD is at its native resolution. I have absolutely no idea what you're referring to.
For example, either of last year's Libertarian candidates for President would have regulated the "financial industry" more, not less.
And the great thing is that since they weren't elected, NOBODY CAN DISPROVE YOUR CRAZY CLAIMS!!!
Seriously, there are some rational Libertarians, but they are few and far-between.
Saying climate "change" implies that we knew how it worked before-- surely we can't judge whether something is abnormal without knowing what normal is, right?
Reading articles like this (and the posts in this thread) makes it clear to me that climate scientists frankly have *no clue* what is normal and what isn't. Thus, the grandparent's claim that virtually every point of climate data is "for" Climate Change.
Don't forget that global warming causes more hurricanes except for years in which it doesn't.
Installing solar panels and using water butts and various other green things can save money so why wouldn't people want to save money?
"Can" is an interesting choice of words. Sure they "can" save money, but in reality they "don't." I dunno, maybe if you live in Southern California or something both of those ideas will pay for themselves, but here in Western Washington, the solar is a total non-starter (you'd never re-coup the installation costs before they need replacing) and the water butts only make sense maybe once in 10 years when we're actually lacking rainfall for some reason.
Please point out where, in my post, I claimed DRM helped the situation.
Or, continue to reply to something I never said-- if you want to waste more time. Make sure your post is a single gigantic impenetrable block of text.