Uh. Click the knowledge base link RIGHT NEXT TO THE SUMMARY for the full report. Did you not notice that there were links there or something?
Talk about going out of your way to complain about something Microsoft does... criminy. They've always done it this way for every single service pack before.
If you called the US activation number, you were talking to somebody in Washington State. If not... well, it's possible Microsoft has outsourced support for other nations (and I know they are planning to outsource more in the future).
Bullshit. The ape-like interaction (interaction by force) is exactly what government imposes.
I call bullshit on that. What about the nations that have warlords driving around in their Cadillac SUVs aiming AK-47s at their "serfs" who are basically performing slave labor to keep them supplied with drugs? Don't you consider a situation like that closer to "ape-like" behavior than the situation in the US? And which nations have warlords? The nations with WEAK GOVERNMENTS.
Nations with strong governments prevent warlords like that from taking power because they have well-funded police, investigative agencies, and a well-trained military. Like, lo and behold, the United States of America! (Along with the rest of North America, pretty much all of Europe, most of Asia, most of South America, etc.)
The point of the United States government is that it is FOR the people BY the people. That is to say the government exists because the citizens of the United States want it to exist, and it behaves like it does because the citizens want it to behave that way.
(This is opposed to a situation where a nation is colonized and their government is imposed by another nation, or where a single "noble" (or warlord, there's nothing noble about them) forcibly takes control of a group of people against their will.)
Is it perfect? No, of course not. But to say that government is the source of all our problems and that it imposes "ape-like" behavior, that's so ridiculous it drowns out whatever other point you might have been trying to make.
Uh. No. On my stock install of OS X 10.3, any admin user on the system has read-only access to that file unless they authenticate. So they can certainly *look* at the settings, but they can't change them as you imply.
You must have either authenticated that application before you opened it, or have some weird configuration of OS X.
No joke. If Slashdotters stepped back and looked at Windows XP from a neutral standpoint they'd realize that, hey, it's actually not a very bad OS at all... it's fast and responsive, it's stable, and although it had some security holes, Microsoft is working to fix them all.
No, instead they say stuff like, "well, Windows has all the viruses!" (95% of which are passed on by users who open the damned email attachment; no OS is immune to that.)
Windows crashes all the time! (Uh, no. Sometimes you might have a device driver that crashes, or faulty hardware, but you can't rationally blame Microsoft for that.)
Windows is insecure! (Yes, the default install of Windows XP is less secure than OS X or Linux distros... but there's nothing *preventing* Windows from being secure and, in fact, a savvy Windows users will follow the same advice you give to Linux users: don't run in an admin (root) account, use Run As... (sudo) to run installers, check signatures of downloaded programs, etc.)
The paperclip in Office is annoying! (Please! This is the lamest reason to hate Windows EVER. It's annoying sometimes, yes... sometimes it's helpful. It's ALWAYS about 10 seconds and 3 mouse clicks away from being turned off for good... if someone thinks it's annoying and they didn't bother going through the 10 seconds of effort to turn it off, that they're own damned fault.)
Microsoft Bob! (I correct myself: THIS is the lamest reason to hate Microsoft ever. Forgetting for a moment that Microsoft Bob was *actually a very good idea* and that it might be quite successful if resurrected today, it was a decade ago... what was Linux like in 1994? Was it as feature-rich as Microsoft Bob? No? Then shut up.)
Forget that Microsoft's an monopoly. Forget that they're "evil." And you'll realize that, hey, Windows XP is a pretty damned good product and certainly the best OS that runs on x86 right now.
Same as Sygate Personal Firewall or most other firewall packages...
The first time the program tries to connect, it asks.
If the program, or any component of the program (DLLs, for instance) if modified, it asks again.
Why should it ask me if I want the *exact same version* of the exact same application every single time? That would be stupid, and, more importantly, would REALLY encourage people to turn off the firewall to get it to stop annoying them.
There's no "magic computer voodoo"... maybe you just have "reports" from people who don't know what the hell's going on. Or maybe those "reports" are from drunk people, who even knows?
XP can read drivers from a CD if you hit F6 while booting. It works fine... the problem is a lot of numbskull companies (like Dell) who put the drivers on the CD in a compressed format so you HAVE to use another working PC to decompress them and either burn another CD or use a floppy drive to move them over. Oh, and that CD with the compressed drivers? There's like 300 MB free. Criminy.
Oh, and BTW, IE *does* run on MacOS X. And no, this site doesn't work in it. Stop saying that it "only works in IE" is incorrect... at best, you could say it "only works in IE in Windows."
It doesn't run on *any* browser that runs on MacOS X, I just tried it. So it doesn't really matter what browser I'm running, does it? The site PLAIN DOES NOT FUCKING WORK.
Remember, I think like a Mac user: either something works or it doesn't, and this doesn't, making it a waste of my (and everyone else here's) time. Make it work, THEN promote it.
While you're at it, add AT LEAST a "help" link so people know what the hell is going on. I mean, if you expect people to use this website on a regular basis, you need to actually make it a teeny bit friendly... oh and it helps if it works.
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Sure, the bargraph site icon is lovely, but all I get is a couple tables, a big blank blue background, a W3C verification link, a field labelled "Speed" and a checkbox labelled "reload images." There's no documentation, no "what the hell is a spam vampire site?" no image, contrary to the checkbox's assertion...
What the hell is this? Maybe a "help" link or a "why doesn't this site do jack shit?" link would help a bit, eh?
If you total up the two 1.8 ghz G5 CPUs inside my PowerMac, I have a 3.6 gigahertz computer. I don't know how many people do now, but by the time this codec is in wide-use, 3 ghz will probably be midrange or low for home computers.
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I'd just like you to know, as a sysadmin who works in a Domino/Notes environment, that I hate you. That is all.
Ok, but that doesn't change the fact that pretty much everything you wrote in that last post is plain wrong.
Here's a handy tip: if the last version of Windows you've used is NT4, mention that in your post so you don't look like such a dumbass.
Also, since you have anecdotal evidence, here's some of mine: Out of the 10-12 friends I have who run Windows at home, zero of them have any of the problems you're describing. Since my anecdote has 10-12 people and yours only has 6, that must make me right.
Look, it's not Microsoft's fault if your friends and relatives there are too dumb to run a firewall and virus scanner. You're missing the point of my previous post: Blame Microsoft for the things they *do* actually get wrong. But don't blame Microsoft for dumb users, and definately don't spread lies about Windows... you'll just make yourself look like an idiot.
Hello person who's never used Windows ever in their life, how are you? Let's go through some of your points:
Linux comes with many printer drivers. Windows relys on vendor-provided driver disks, which tend to get lost.
Windows comes with many printer drivers, also. Windows doesn't *rely* on vendor-provided disks, as you can easily use a generic driver to run any printer you come across. The vendor-provided driver simply enables advanced features of the printer (duplexing, collating, whatever). I haven't counted the list, but Windows XP comes with at least 150+ printer drivers when installed.
Note that already Linux comes with generic printer drivers that can be used to drive most printers, many times your printer won't be able to use advanced features because the Linux driver lacks support.
Sometimes Linux comes with a nice mp3 player in the menus. Windows doesn't have this.
Since you've never used Windows, I guess you've also never heard of Windows Media Player which has been included in every version from Windows 98 up.
Linux might "sometimes" have an MP3 player, but Windows ALWAYS does.
Windows can't rip a CD-ROM. In trying to install something for this, the Windows user will usually end up installing spyware, adware and a spamming engine.
Windows Media Player can easily rip a CD "out of the box." Since it doesn't need to be installed, there's absolutely no risk of spyware, adware, or a "spamming engine."
You'll have to pay extra to burn a CD from Windows. Also, see above: spyware, adware...
Windows XP includes out-of-the-box support for burning a CD. If the computer is pre-XP, the CD burning application is included free with the CD-RW drive. On the off chance you are missing your CD, you can download dozens of free CD burning software from a site like Tucows. You don't need to pay extra to burn a CD with Windows.
Linux typically comes up in high-resolution by default, while Windows is in 640x480. Why change?
Windows will *fall back* to 640x480 if it can't detect your video card and install the correct driver automatically. I've yet to see Windows XP boot at 640x480 unless I specifically told Windows XP to not load video drivers by entering 'safe-mode' at boot. (Windows 2000 and earlier will, primarily because there are few video card drivers available on the Windows CD for those versions.)
Windows won't let you find every file. Many are hidden by default. Some, like *.LNK files, are totally impossible to find. Linux can do it.
The files that Windows hides by default are used internally by system processes and the user shouldn't ever have to look at them. Hiding the files in this case is the correct option. (If you want to view them, however, a single toggle in the Exporer view settings will show them.).LNK files, also being used internally by the OS as a placeholder for other files, also shouldn't show up when browsing or when doing a normal search. That said, if you do a search for "*.lnk", you'll find every one on your disk.
If you're going to bash Windows, I recommend you spend a little bit of time actually using it. I'm a MacOS X user, and I recognized instantly that you're full of crap. There *are* things actually wrong with Windows... but your list contains none of them.
Also, if you were using Windows, maybe your web browser would do word-wrapping and you wouldn't have to manually enter carriage returns on every line.
Try a screenshot for MacOS X in GIF format... wow them's some ugly window titles. The gradients in Windows XP and 2000 seem to translate to 256-colors than the 'translucent bubble' look that Apple windows have in their title bars.
Dating yourself? By admitting that you were, at one time, on fourth grade?... you realize that probably 95% or more of the US population can "date themselves" by revealing that little tidbit of information, right?
Learning about how US Law works is *not* brainwashing. If you want to change the law, work to change it... but while that law exists, it should be taught just like any other.
If every person who illegally downloaded an MP3, movie, or piece of software instead wrote a letter to their congressman on their beliefs about copyright, then I could guarantee that the law would be changed. But breaking a law is not an acceptable way of changing a law.
I like how the Slashdot summary says "weasel" while the actual article says "ferret." That's quite a stretch on the submitter's part to make their mascot look bad.
Oh my God, that's hilarious! I'm laughing my ass off here! You know, just the other day I was watching the movie Airplane and I heard the line, "looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue" and I thought to myself, "that is perhaps the funniest line in any movie ever." But, man, you've shown me. This is much more hilarious! You could make a fortune on the stand-up circuit.
Why should I have to? Again, you're missing the point.
I could try Distro A, but now my wireless card doesn't work. So i switch to Distro B and now my wireless card works, but my firewire and iPod don't. Ok, so I switch to Distro C and now my firewire works, and my iPod syncs, but, oh wait, suddenly my video card lost 3D acceleration. There are, what, 20 distros out there? Are you expecting every user to try every distro until they find one that works correctly out of the box?
If you Linux people want to make any sort of impact on the desktop, you need to follow Microsoft's example. There are only three versions of Windows: Home, Pro and Server.
Home could be an easy-to-setup distro with only *one* application per function. One web browser, one email client, one text editor. ONE single DVD. And it shouldn't even use the entire DVD, I'd recommend a maximum of 2 gigs.
Pro could be the same as Home, but with several choices for applications and some basic server functionality plus network debugging tools. This could be as large as necessary.
Server is a no-brainer, nothing but a desktop, all the server apps needed, and some configuration tools.
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Uh. Click the knowledge base link RIGHT NEXT TO THE SUMMARY for the full report. Did you not notice that there were links there or something?
Talk about going out of your way to complain about something Microsoft does... criminy. They've always done it this way for every single service pack before.
If you called the US activation number, you were talking to somebody in Washington State. If not... well, it's possible Microsoft has outsourced support for other nations (and I know they are planning to outsource more in the future).
Is your friend's name Yakov Smirnoff?
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If not, he might have ripped off that joke and taken credit for it.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/y/yak
Bullshit. The ape-like interaction (interaction by force) is exactly what government imposes.
I call bullshit on that. What about the nations that have warlords driving around in their Cadillac SUVs aiming AK-47s at their "serfs" who are basically performing slave labor to keep them supplied with drugs? Don't you consider a situation like that closer to "ape-like" behavior than the situation in the US? And which nations have warlords? The nations with WEAK GOVERNMENTS.
Nations with strong governments prevent warlords like that from taking power because they have well-funded police, investigative agencies, and a well-trained military. Like, lo and behold, the United States of America! (Along with the rest of North America, pretty much all of Europe, most of Asia, most of South America, etc.)
The point of the United States government is that it is FOR the people BY the people. That is to say the government exists because the citizens of the United States want it to exist, and it behaves like it does because the citizens want it to behave that way.
(This is opposed to a situation where a nation is colonized and their government is imposed by another nation, or where a single "noble" (or warlord, there's nothing noble about them) forcibly takes control of a group of people against their will.)
Is it perfect? No, of course not. But to say that government is the source of all our problems and that it imposes "ape-like" behavior, that's so ridiculous it drowns out whatever other point you might have been trying to make.
Uh. No. On my stock install of OS X 10.3, any admin user on the system has read-only access to that file unless they authenticate. So they can certainly *look* at the settings, but they can't change them as you imply.
You must have either authenticated that application before you opened it, or have some weird configuration of OS X.
No joke. If Slashdotters stepped back and looked at Windows XP from a neutral standpoint they'd realize that, hey, it's actually not a very bad OS at all... it's fast and responsive, it's stable, and although it had some security holes, Microsoft is working to fix them all.
No, instead they say stuff like, "well, Windows has all the viruses!" (95% of which are passed on by users who open the damned email attachment; no OS is immune to that.)
Windows crashes all the time! (Uh, no. Sometimes you might have a device driver that crashes, or faulty hardware, but you can't rationally blame Microsoft for that.)
Windows is insecure! (Yes, the default install of Windows XP is less secure than OS X or Linux distros... but there's nothing *preventing* Windows from being secure and, in fact, a savvy Windows users will follow the same advice you give to Linux users: don't run in an admin (root) account, use Run As... (sudo) to run installers, check signatures of downloaded programs, etc.)
The paperclip in Office is annoying! (Please! This is the lamest reason to hate Windows EVER. It's annoying sometimes, yes... sometimes it's helpful. It's ALWAYS about 10 seconds and 3 mouse clicks away from being turned off for good... if someone thinks it's annoying and they didn't bother going through the 10 seconds of effort to turn it off, that they're own damned fault.)
Microsoft Bob! (I correct myself: THIS is the lamest reason to hate Microsoft ever. Forgetting for a moment that Microsoft Bob was *actually a very good idea* and that it might be quite successful if resurrected today, it was a decade ago... what was Linux like in 1994? Was it as feature-rich as Microsoft Bob? No? Then shut up.)
Forget that Microsoft's an monopoly. Forget that they're "evil." And you'll realize that, hey, Windows XP is a pretty damned good product and certainly the best OS that runs on x86 right now.
Same as Sygate Personal Firewall or most other firewall packages...
The first time the program tries to connect, it asks.
If the program, or any component of the program (DLLs, for instance) if modified, it asks again.
Why should it ask me if I want the *exact same version* of the exact same application every single time? That would be stupid, and, more importantly, would REALLY encourage people to turn off the firewall to get it to stop annoying them.
There's no "magic computer voodoo"... maybe you just have "reports" from people who don't know what the hell's going on. Or maybe those "reports" are from drunk people, who even knows?
XP can read drivers from a CD if you hit F6 while booting. It works fine... the problem is a lot of numbskull companies (like Dell) who put the drivers on the CD in a compressed format so you HAVE to use another working PC to decompress them and either burn another CD or use a floppy drive to move them over. Oh, and that CD with the compressed drivers? There's like 300 MB free. Criminy.
Oh, and BTW, IE *does* run on MacOS X. And no, this site doesn't work in it. Stop saying that it "only works in IE" is incorrect... at best, you could say it "only works in IE in Windows."
It doesn't run on *any* browser that runs on MacOS X, I just tried it. So it doesn't really matter what browser I'm running, does it? The site PLAIN DOES NOT FUCKING WORK.
Remember, I think like a Mac user: either something works or it doesn't, and this doesn't, making it a waste of my (and everyone else here's) time. Make it work, THEN promote it.
While you're at it, add AT LEAST a "help" link so people know what the hell is going on. I mean, if you expect people to use this website on a regular basis, you need to actually make it a teeny bit friendly... oh and it helps if it works.
Funny... but also kind of true.
This is great news! Now when are we going to get one for OS X?
That's great, but it doesn't show any images... just a blue background.
Thanks for at least explaining what the hell it is, but that doesn't really make it so I can use the site anyway, considering the site doesn't work...
What the hell are you linking us to?
Sure, the bargraph site icon is lovely, but all I get is a couple tables, a big blank blue background, a W3C verification link, a field labelled "Speed" and a checkbox labelled "reload images." There's no documentation, no "what the hell is a spam vampire site?" no image, contrary to the checkbox's assertion...
What the hell is this? Maybe a "help" link or a "why doesn't this site do jack shit?" link would help a bit, eh?
Thanks for wasting my time, I guess.
If you total up the two 1.8 ghz G5 CPUs inside my PowerMac, I have a 3.6 gigahertz computer. I don't know how many people do now, but by the time this codec is in wide-use, 3 ghz will probably be midrange or low for home computers.
I'd just like you to know, as a sysadmin who works in a Domino/Notes environment, that I hate you. That is all.
Ok, but that doesn't change the fact that pretty much everything you wrote in that last post is plain wrong.
Here's a handy tip: if the last version of Windows you've used is NT4, mention that in your post so you don't look like such a dumbass.
Also, since you have anecdotal evidence, here's some of mine: Out of the 10-12 friends I have who run Windows at home, zero of them have any of the problems you're describing. Since my anecdote has 10-12 people and yours only has 6, that must make me right.
Look, it's not Microsoft's fault if your friends and relatives there are too dumb to run a firewall and virus scanner. You're missing the point of my previous post: Blame Microsoft for the things they *do* actually get wrong. But don't blame Microsoft for dumb users, and definately don't spread lies about Windows... you'll just make yourself look like an idiot.
Hello person who's never used Windows ever in their life, how are you? Let's go through some of your points:
.LNK files, also being used internally by the OS as a placeholder for other files, also shouldn't show up when browsing or when doing a normal search. That said, if you do a search for "*.lnk", you'll find every one on your disk.
Linux comes with many printer drivers. Windows
relys on vendor-provided driver disks, which tend
to get lost.
Windows comes with many printer drivers, also. Windows doesn't *rely* on vendor-provided disks, as you can easily use a generic driver to run any printer you come across. The vendor-provided driver simply enables advanced features of the printer (duplexing, collating, whatever). I haven't counted the list, but Windows XP comes with at least 150+ printer drivers when installed.
Note that already Linux comes with generic printer drivers that can be used to drive most printers, many times your printer won't be able to use advanced features because the Linux driver lacks support.
Sometimes Linux comes with a nice mp3 player in
the menus. Windows doesn't have this.
Since you've never used Windows, I guess you've also never heard of Windows Media Player which has been included in every version from Windows 98 up.
Linux might "sometimes" have an MP3 player, but Windows ALWAYS does.
Windows can't rip a CD-ROM. In trying to
install something for this, the Windows user will
usually end up installing spyware, adware and a
spamming engine.
Windows Media Player can easily rip a CD "out of the box." Since it doesn't need to be installed, there's absolutely no risk of spyware, adware, or a "spamming engine."
You'll have to pay extra to burn a CD from Windows. Also, see above: spyware, adware...
Windows XP includes out-of-the-box support for burning a CD. If the computer is pre-XP, the CD burning application is included free with the CD-RW drive. On the off chance you are missing your CD, you can download dozens of free CD burning software from a site like Tucows. You don't need to pay extra to burn a CD with Windows.
Linux typically comes up in high-resolution by
default, while Windows is in 640x480. Why change?
Windows will *fall back* to 640x480 if it can't detect your video card and install the correct driver automatically. I've yet to see Windows XP boot at 640x480 unless I specifically told Windows XP to not load video drivers by entering 'safe-mode' at boot. (Windows 2000 and earlier will, primarily because there are few video card drivers available on the Windows CD for those versions.)
Windows won't let you find every file. Many are
hidden by default. Some, like *.LNK files, are
totally impossible to find. Linux can do it.
The files that Windows hides by default are used internally by system processes and the user shouldn't ever have to look at them. Hiding the files in this case is the correct option. (If you want to view them, however, a single toggle in the Exporer view settings will show them.)
If you're going to bash Windows, I recommend you spend a little bit of time actually using it. I'm a MacOS X user, and I recognized instantly that you're full of crap. There *are* things actually wrong with Windows... but your list contains none of them.
Also, if you were using Windows, maybe your web browser would do word-wrapping and you wouldn't have to manually enter carriage returns on every line.
Most under-rated movie of all time. I LOVE Ghost Dog.
Try a screenshot for MacOS X in GIF format... wow them's some ugly window titles. The gradients in Windows XP and 2000 seem to translate to 256-colors than the 'translucent bubble' look that Apple windows have in their title bars.
Dating yourself? By admitting that you were, at one time, on fourth grade? ... you realize that probably 95% or more of the US population can "date themselves" by revealing that little tidbit of information, right?
Learning about how US Law works is *not* brainwashing. If you want to change the law, work to change it... but while that law exists, it should be taught just like any other.
If every person who illegally downloaded an MP3, movie, or piece of software instead wrote a letter to their congressman on their beliefs about copyright, then I could guarantee that the law would be changed. But breaking a law is not an acceptable way of changing a law.
I like how the Slashdot summary says "weasel" while the actual article says "ferret." That's quite a stretch on the submitter's part to make their mascot look bad.
Oh my God, that's hilarious! I'm laughing my ass off here! You know, just the other day I was watching the movie Airplane and I heard the line, "looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue" and I thought to myself, "that is perhaps the funniest line in any movie ever." But, man, you've shown me. This is much more hilarious! You could make a fortune on the stand-up circuit.
And the parent is the very definition of "assclown." Holy shit, man, get a grip. It's a piece of software, not a religion.
Why should I have to? Again, you're missing the point.
I could try Distro A, but now my wireless card doesn't work. So i switch to Distro B and now my wireless card works, but my firewire and iPod don't. Ok, so I switch to Distro C and now my firewire works, and my iPod syncs, but, oh wait, suddenly my video card lost 3D acceleration. There are, what, 20 distros out there? Are you expecting every user to try every distro until they find one that works correctly out of the box?
If you Linux people want to make any sort of impact on the desktop, you need to follow Microsoft's example. There are only three versions of Windows: Home, Pro and Server.
Home could be an easy-to-setup distro with only *one* application per function. One web browser, one email client, one text editor. ONE single DVD. And it shouldn't even use the entire DVD, I'd recommend a maximum of 2 gigs.
Pro could be the same as Home, but with several choices for applications and some basic server functionality plus network debugging tools. This could be as large as necessary.
Server is a no-brainer, nothing but a desktop, all the server apps needed, and some configuration tools.