My experience with Sun products - Star Office before being open sourced to Open Office, Java, Solaris, have all left a bad taste in my mouth for stability/reliability reasons.
sure I'm online now, but I'm also not crossing the canadian border as teh article describes, most people aren't doing both simultaneously... At least not yet.
Adobe: Crashybloatware. Ever time Acrobat reader comes up on any of my computers, I always worry about if it'll crash and burn (it doesn't take the OS with it, but it usually brings down associated apps like firefox). I use Corel Photopaint myself instead of Photoshop, *MUCH* faster.
Norton: One of three applications I've used in the past 5 years that has crashed windows (ignoring a bad SATA controler, which crashed windows, but was hardly windows' fault). It's also the only set up applications that/isnt/ a game.
Firefox: Ok, yeah, it's competition which is probably the main reason, but it's also worse than IE (since FF 1.5) in memory leaks. I still prefer it for security reasons though. 3 FireFox
Skype: never used it, but I can see the competition angle.
OOO: Yeah, definetly anticompetative here. If it were still the old Star Office 5, I would say it's crapware, but OOO is actually good.
Games: WTF, most games are rather poorly programmed, if you look at the bugs and crashes in them. Rarely have I seen a well programmed game.
HAHAHA, so Florida will actually be playing OU, who is in a lower ranking tournament, at a bowl game next year instead of OSU? How sad. Have a little confidence that you won't be so bad you drop in tournament at least...
enough people have covered the error in that, but OU is usually one of the more consistantly ranked schools at the top of the #1 school to party at, get drunk at, and get knocked up on accident at, if I remember correctly.
That depends on how much energy you put into the tachyon emitters... If you put in enough to drain your cities power grid, then it'll suck like normal radio signals... If you put in an amount that would take a year to drain an AA batter, then no.
no, time just progresses backwards for the tachyon, it doesn't travel back in time on our existance. Message sent: 11:30, message recieved 11:31, travel time for us: 1 minute, travel time for our tachy friend: -1 minute.
Nahh, wormholes and bending space time are too complex.
What you need is a good old fashioned tachon transmitter/reciever. They send signals faster than light, and best of all, the faster the signal, the lower the energy required.
They probably don't spend all of their time very deep in the water, and probably come up often enough for it to be relevant..
Or maybe God wanted to show the anti-evolutionists that the human eye is crap, contrary to one of their arguments, and left thema round as a nice counter-example of how to make a good eye instead of the POS pieces of crap we have stuck in our face.
I tend to lean towards the former and not the latter though.
and due to the broken legal system based on finance rather than right/wrong/legal/illegal (or if they want the willingness to pay royalties), MS can still do this right now if they'd like.
Except for one thing. If you bring a patent case against microsoft, you probably can't afford the legal costs to win, very few can.
The reverse is rarely true.
So, while in some ways it would be advantageous for Microsoft to be able to bring things to the market easier, they can afford to pay the royalties or legal fees, but they can also effectively keep others away from things that they have control over.
Oh, I had not read about that before. Dang, that's pretty good.
It's interesting that the nicer features of Vist so rarely get mentioned. I'm gonna have a friend try that oun on her vista box... I don't have one avaiable to me right now.
really? I've never once seen documentation of this feature, got a link? Does it automatically shunt file-write attempts to there if done by a underprivledged user? Does it read from there first (if something exists) rather than from the file elsewhere?
This would be in the lower levels of the operating system on an fopen type call.
fopen -> do you have privleges? yes -> write file no -> check to write to the virtual setup yes -> write to the virtual setup no -> fail with a no privleges error.
So legacy programs (or poorly written non-legacy programs) will still work, even if the coder doesn't know about %APPDATA%.
There are so many poorly written applications, form the bad ol' 9x days, or programmers who program like it's the bad ol' 9x days, that people often need admin just to use the application, because it wants to write files to protected parts of the FS, or to the registry. You can use tools like filemon and regmon to find this, but it's a pain in the but to find/fix it.
I just sent a suggestion to Microsoft. A virtual registry/file directory structure stored in each users profile, under the local settings folder. Whenever they try to write to one of those where they don't have privleges, it instead writes to the virtual system instead, transparently. If they have their settings set right it may prompt them to optionally write to the virtual system or fail, but most users won't want this, so it ought be off be default IMO. Next since the directory/registry-key structure is cached in memory (not the actual files!), or cached on a quick-to-read-file if there isn't enough memory, then it shouldn't add too much latency for the read-check. people who find they aren't using it should be able to turn the whole thing off without needing to give themselves administrator to keep the system working.
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My experience with Sun products - Star Office before being open sourced to Open Office, Java, Solaris, have all left a bad taste in my mouth for stability/reliability reasons.
sure I'm online now, but I'm also not crossing the canadian border as teh article describes, most people aren't doing both simultaneously... At least not yet.
phew, I'm safe...
I limit my theft to popsicles.
No, they aren't vanilla.
Simpsons- err... Southpark did it!
Slashdot really needs a "Your rights Offline" section... I've seen so many that really aren't online. Like this one.
That explains Firefox...
/isnt/ a game.
Adobe: Crashybloatware. Ever time Acrobat reader comes up on any of my computers, I always worry about if it'll crash and burn (it doesn't take the OS with it, but it usually brings down associated apps like firefox). I use Corel Photopaint myself instead of Photoshop, *MUCH* faster.
Norton: One of three applications I've used in the past 5 years that has crashed windows (ignoring a bad SATA controler, which crashed windows, but was hardly windows' fault). It's also the only set up applications that
Firefox: Ok, yeah, it's competition which is probably the main reason, but it's also worse than IE (since FF 1.5) in memory leaks. I still prefer it for security reasons though. 3 FireFox
Skype: never used it, but I can see the competition angle.
OOO: Yeah, definetly anticompetative here. If it were still the old Star Office 5, I would say it's crapware, but OOO is actually good.
Games: WTF, most games are rather poorly programmed, if you look at the bugs and crashes in them. Rarely have I seen a well programmed game.
HAHAHA, so Florida will actually be playing OU, who is in a lower ranking tournament, at a bowl game next year instead of OSU? How sad. Have a little confidence that you won't be so bad you drop in tournament at least...
enough people have covered the error in that, but OU is usually one of the more consistantly ranked schools at the top of the #1 school to party at, get drunk at, and get knocked up on accident at, if I remember correctly.
That depends on how much energy you put into the tachyon emitters... If you put in enough to drain your cities power grid, then it'll suck like normal radio signals... If you put in an amount that would take a year to drain an AA batter, then no.
no, time just progresses backwards for the tachyon, it doesn't travel back in time on our existance. Message sent: 11:30, message recieved 11:31, travel time for us: 1 minute, travel time for our tachy friend: -1 minute.
Nahh, wormholes and bending space time are too complex.
What you need is a good old fashioned tachon transmitter/reciever. They send signals faster than light, and best of all, the faster the signal, the lower the energy required.
They probably don't spend all of their time very deep in the water, and probably come up often enough for it to be relevant..
Or maybe God wanted to show the anti-evolutionists that the human eye is crap, contrary to one of their arguments, and left thema round as a nice counter-example of how to make a good eye instead of the POS pieces of crap we have stuck in our face.
I tend to lean towards the former and not the latter though.
Ammonia has a boiling point of 34C or 36C doesn't it?
Cook it enough and the ammonia should go by-by (especially if you cut it into small enough pieces)
honestly, I don't think free software is at the top of his worries, he's probably more worried about other pieces of corporate software.
and due to the broken legal system based on finance rather than right/wrong/legal/illegal (or if they want the willingness to pay royalties), MS can still do this right now if they'd like.
I thought that things happened backwards in soviet Russia...
Wouldn't you confirm netcraft? (or rather, BSD's death confirm Netcraft?)
Except for one thing. If you bring a patent case against microsoft, you probably can't afford the legal costs to win, very few can.
The reverse is rarely true.
So, while in some ways it would be advantageous for Microsoft to be able to bring things to the market easier, they can afford to pay the royalties or legal fees, but they can also effectively keep others away from things that they have control over.
Some people get the book thrown at them, this lawyer will probably get the chair...
a car completely made of plant matter?
Someone's been watching too much Cheech and Chong.
rephrase, maybe I'm wrong about VB.NET, but isn't the CLR non-patented? I thought MS said that anyone could use it if they wished.
As long as they don't use MS code, patents shouldn't be an issue: both standards are documentd.
Oh, I had not read about that before. Dang, that's pretty good.
It's interesting that the nicer features of Vist so rarely get mentioned. I'm gonna have a friend try that oun on her vista box... I don't have one avaiable to me right now.
really? I've never once seen documentation of this feature, got a link? Does it automatically shunt file-write attempts to there if done by a underprivledged user? Does it read from there first (if something exists) rather than from the file elsewhere?
no, that still has to be programmed manually.
This would be in the lower levels of the operating system on an fopen type call.
fopen -> do you have privleges?
yes -> write file
no -> check to write to the virtual setup
yes -> write to the virtual setup
no -> fail with a no privleges error.
So legacy programs (or poorly written non-legacy programs) will still work, even if the coder doesn't know about %APPDATA%.
There are so many poorly written applications, form the bad ol' 9x days, or programmers who program like it's the bad ol' 9x days, that people often need admin just to use the application, because it wants to write files to protected parts of the FS, or to the registry. You can use tools like filemon and regmon to find this, but it's a pain in the but to find/fix it.
I just sent a suggestion to Microsoft. A virtual registry/file directory structure stored in each users profile, under the local settings folder. Whenever they try to write to one of those where they don't have privleges, it instead writes to the virtual system instead, transparently. If they have their settings set right it may prompt them to optionally write to the virtual system or fail, but most users won't want this, so it ought be off be default IMO. Next since the directory/registry-key structure is cached in memory (not the actual files!), or cached on a quick-to-read-file if there isn't enough memory, then it shouldn't add too much latency for the read-check. people who find they aren't using it should be able to turn the whole thing off without needing to give themselves administrator to keep the system working.