20 hours ago, figuerres wrote

it's time for users to at least move to windows 7.

sure there are many points that we can debate but at the end of the day it's still time for them to move on.

Businesses have a very legitimate problem -- changing thousands (or tens of thousands) of computers to a new operating system is very expensive -- not just the cost of the OS itself but you have to pay people to do all the upgrading and deal with all the problems that come up.  And after you spend all that money, what do you have?  You have thousands of computers that look slightly different but work exactly the same as they did before.  So what benefit did your company gain from spending all that money?  This is a legitimate business concern.

Then there is the problem of software, and this is something that affects many companies both large and small.  Hospitals, doctors, dentists and many other businesses run specialized software that is very expensive and, unfortunately, in many cases, very poorly written, meaning that it runs on Windows XP but often won't work on never versions of Windows.  And so, in addition to all the expense involved in changing the OS, there is the additional expense of buying new versions of other software.  And once again, once you've spend all that time, effort and money, what do you have?  Computers that function exactly the same as they did before.

What you really have here is an inherent conflict between the software companies and the companies use use the software.  Software has matured to the point that 12 year old Windows XP,  10 year old Office 2003 and 8 year old Photoshop CS2 are still perfectly fine and able to do everything that most people need.  But the software companies need to keep selling software, so they keep making changes to create "new" versions.

But businesses don't want "new".  They want stability.  They don't want to be constantly changing things because that disrupts their business and costs them a lot of money, with little or no benefit.  And the same is true of consumers.  People drive 20 year old automobiles, sit on 20 year old furniture and live in 100 year old houses.  They see no reason to spend a lot of money changing their computer when what they have works and does what they need.

18 hours ago, PopeDai wrote

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2006.

I also like this comment by a reader in that article :

"If 10 GHz is the best that Intel can do by 2011, AMD or somebody else is going to eat their lunch. Intel better pick up the pace if they want to remain dominant. Besides, I want it NOW.  What will I do with it.  Well, I also want the applications now.  I guess I've been spoiled by the industry and expect incredible improvements every year. - by Allen"

Why predict so far... (3:00pm EST Wed Jul 26 2000)
Why predict so far in the future... They never predict things like this right... This is totally bogus - by Anon

[quote]3 days ago, figuerres wrote

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my top bets are:

made really cheap.

on 24x7

almost no UPS protection used

21 hours ago, blowdart wrote

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Follow the links down. The whole "Vista file copies are slow due to DRM" stuff came from his original article, which he wrote without ever having installed it.

15 hours ago, Sven Groot wrote

I've never had any problems with slow file copies in any version of Windows, not even Vista.

25 minutes ago, cbae wrote

Business Division revenues up 8% YoY.

Server & Tools revenues up 11% YoY.

Online Services revenues up 18% YoY.

Entertainment and Devices revenues up 56%.

And get this:

Windows Division revenues up 23% YoY.

Where the hell is all this money coming from?

4 days ago, Ian2 wrote

@MikeInOhio:VS2012 - If you have the Pro edition check under options (I think there is an option to enable tax returns in there)  

1 hour ago, Ian2 wrote

@Minh:Saw him speak last and he looks to have plenty of life left in him yet.

 

34 minutes ago, Proton2 wrote

I tried to do a whois, but the results were indeterminate.

3 hours ago, felix9 wrote

anyway, whats the problem with the name "windows.net" ? why do you think there should be problems downloading something from that name ?

https://nickandartie.blob.core.windows.net/podcasts/3.1.13-Hour-1-Nick-and-Artie.MP3

My knowledge about this sort of thing is pretty limited.  How is it possible to download something from "windows.net"?

but as a consumer I've never seen "If you don't like it, change it" pay off for me.

I can submit a bug, but I can't make them fix it.  Just a few days ago I received an email telling me that a bug I submitted for Google Chrome has been closed because "it is no longer valid".  Even though the bug still exists.

I could write a patch for something, but I can't make them accept it.   And writing a patch would require me to be knowledgeable in whatever programming language is being used, and, intimately familiar with the code base so that I know where to find the code that needs to be patched.

I could create my own fork of the program, which I actually tried once a few years ago.  But I gave up after awhile because:  I'm not an expert C++ programmer,  the source code was a mess with absolutely no documentation telling you where to find anything in the 30,000 files scattered across hundred of directories, all of which made maintaining my forked version a huge pain in the butt.  The whole thing was way too much work for far too little benefit.

The tl;dr summary:  If you are an expert programmer, who is intimately familiar with the code base and who has commit access to the source tree, open source is wonderful.  If you aren't, it's meaningless.

23 hours ago, ScanIAm wrote

Listen to music while running.

Listen to podcasts while working around  the house or on the way to work.

GPS to find places that I've never been.

Reading news and other useless crap while eating lunch or waiting in line for stuff.

Texting/IM'ing a few friends.

Phone calls.

Listen to podcasts working around  the house or on the way to work.-- mp3 player

GPS to find places -- map

Reading news and other useless crap while eating lunch or waiting in line for stuff -- take medication for ADD

Texting/IM'ing a few friends -- take more medication for ADD

OK, I'm being facetious.  Maybe.

I suffered a serious illness.  I was in the hospital for along time and then unable to work for several months.  One of the things I did to save money while I was unable to work was get rid of my cellphone.   During my recovery I rarely left the house, and when I did my wife was with me and she has a phone.

That was 4 years ago.  Today I'm fully recovered and back to normal.  And I still don't have a cellphone.  Not only am I saving hundreds of dollars a year, but even better is the freedom.  Want to get in touch with me?  Send me an email.  Or call my home and leave a message on my answering machine.  I'll get back to you when I feel like it.

Best thing I ever did.

11 minutes ago, wastingtime​withforums wrote

Anyway, I sure as hell won't ever rent Office. Libre Office is, unfortunately, still a pile of freetard dung, but I would rather use that than signing up for Microsoft's extortion scheme. They are not luring by increasing value, but by making the traditional Office licensing a hassle - non transferable licensing (with the retail version! If your motherboard gets damaged, you need to pay the full price for Office again), one PC only licensing (Office 2010 and prior allowed one install on the desktop PC, and one install on your laptop. That's gone with Office 2013), massive price hike (Home and Student 2010 was installable on 3 PCs for 125$, you need to pay three times as much with 2013).

• It works well
• It does what I need - I used Office 2010 briefly and it provided me with no additional benefit.
• When I scrap my old computer and buy a new one I can easily install it on the new computer with no hassles
• Saves me money -- If the Windows 365 pricing scheme had been in place back then I would have paid $1000 so far
• Support?  What support?  I've been using Microsoft products since DOS 3.0 and have never a need for "support".
• And best of all, it doesn't have the ridiculous UI that was introduced with Office 2007 and as far as I am concerned, rendered it unusable.

3 hours ago, magicalclick wrote

I ended up doing an image restore to recover it back to the day we bought the notebook. And problem finally goes away.

20 hours ago, magicalclick wrote

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larissafaw/2013/01/09/is-apples-iphone-no-longer-cool-to-teens/

I don't know why she thinks Surface is the next big thing among youngsters. But, hope that is true.

56 minutes ago, Craig_​Matthews wrote

This is the very definition of doing it wrong.

7 hours ago, Sven Groot wrote

And I challenge anyone who has never used Windows 95 before to figure out how to start the old-style Program Manager without looking it up (iirc, there was no shortcut for it. You have to do start, run, progman.exe or browse to the file using Explorer).

And that's an important point that need to be made.   It's perfectly OK for some obscure or less frequently used features to not be immediately obvious.  But having no obvious way to do something as simple as turn off the computer or exit a program is a much bigger problem.

Sure the guy's video is too overly dramatic.  Unfortunately he made the video for the wrong reason -- he's a freelance writer trying to generate some buzz about himself.  However, other than the overly dramatic dramatization, he does make some very valid points.

I really wanted to like Windows 8, just as I've liked every other version of Windows   But I find Windows 8 to be a big disappointment.  The issue is not change.  No reasonable person is against change.  But not all changes are good.  And that's one of the big problems -- nobody seems to be willing to admit that it's possible to make changes that are bad.

Oh well, the good news is that my copies of Windows 7 aren't going to evaporate off my computers.

3 days ago, cbae wrote

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A 5 minute commercial? Looks more like a typical internal spoof video Microsoft has produced over the years.

why aren't Microsoft advertising windows 8 like they did with MS DOS 5

Worst commercial ever.

5 hours ago, blowdart wrote

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What did you not bing it to avoid video ads?

 

This search:  https://www.google.com/search?q=%22best+of+bread%22+saas

Returns 27,000 results, almost all of which are SaaS companies (Software as a Service) using the term "best of bread" when they actually mean to say "best of breed".  

Are there really that many people who don't know how to spell breed?

"Note  Applications cannot programmatically pin themselves to the taskbar. That functionality is reserved strictly for the user."