Crap, I gotta get to bed. Santa's in Newark, NJ. Hmmm... better close the damper this year, don't want that Jersey stink in the house. I'll think up something to tell the kids....
"It's Cosmic Rays mutating the electrons."
anyone worth their weight as an admin wouldn't install Office Web components on anything.
Unless the PHBs think that it's Super Cool to embed Excel Sheets and
What about buttering my bread?
Yes! It will! You have to supply the butter, though. (Unless you're running body-levels/cholesterol >=200.0, then you'll need to downgrade to margarine, which will satisfy the =body-sense/taste-5.0" to prevent your flavor from being upgraded in the future).
Just sayin'...
[...]the big question is how many feet they have. If the answer is "two", then windows 7 is their last bullet.
You seem to be forgetting about ME...
Honestly, I would not doubt these guys invent something, let alone if they do come up with anything based on current trends will Obama go on TV and vilify people who working legally?
Who builds the FAA web apps?
The lowest bidder, of course!
Just out of curiosity, what mechanism does Linux use to do this?
The same one that Apple did 20 years ago. The same one that Microsoft bagged 15+ years ago. The some one discussed in the article.
If you're asking how it does it without "training", then you could read some of the other posts for solutions. Easiest being when the user clicks on the drive and there's a floppy in there, remember which flag meant a disc is there and do it from then on. Not perfect at first, but for the rest of the time (assuming no hardware change) it will be. If there's a hardware change, then remember that flag instead.
Why can't MS work this way?
Because Apple isn't able to arrange kick-backs from beige box companies (Dell, HP, etc.).
Hefty Minimum Requirements == New Hardware == More Hardware Sales.
Business 101
Does anyone know if 3.0 was the same way as 4.0?
No. 3.0 was a pretty good release (for it's time). HOWEVER, it was more of a "super bug fixed with some really nice features thrown in" version of the 2.* series. With 4.* they changed everything, scrapped what had come before and started with a clean slate. 3.* was just super stable version of 2.*.
2.*, on the other hand, could be seen as a 4.0. It was a complete rewrite from scratch, new thing compared to 0.* and 1.*.
I'm no developer so I have no real idea about the similarities or differences from that perspective, I've just been using KDE since 0.8.(something).
Yes, *if* you leave the stupid pointless unnecessary Aero Glass nonsense turned on. I suppose you use the Fisher-Price-esque theme in Windows XP too?
A) It is turned off.
B) No. I do prefer the Zune theme, but no to answer the question.
One theme for normal user accounts, one for domain admin, and one for non-domain admin accounts
How are you doing this? Are you doing it with scripts? I'd really like to know, that's a very good idea.
resource-intensive UI theme
It's deeper than that. I could bring up it's stellar file copy performance to start a list of things wrong with Vista, but I won't. I guess by my (and half of the planet's) saying "Vista's slow" only means "the UI is too slow", then I may just not get heard. I dunno. I don't know you, I don't know where you stand on the reality of "Vista's slow".
Vista ended the year with 21% of the desktop, up 8% in from February.
[..]
But those who are in the market are most buying Vista.
And what's the "Forced Upgrade" percent in that? I bought a new laptop in June. It shipped with Vista. Am I in that 21% even though I've booted to it a grand total of 6 times and haven't booted to it since August or so? I "bought" a Vista license, but only because I was forced to.
I tried to return my Vista license. Circuit City, after having to call two or three other Regional Managers (not the lowly multi-store supervisors, corporate managers) told me they refused to give me the money owed for a Vista License. I showed the Store Manager the EULA that states in the very first paragraph that I can return it to the store of purchase for a full refund. They refused to honor it. They said I had to go to Microsoft. After calling Microsoft three times (their server kept hanging up on me...), told me they wouldn't honor it since it states I have to go to the store of purchase.
Guess what. Circuit City, after I told them all that, told me "O-Well" (yes a direct quote), and hung up.
So now I'm in the 21% of Vista License holders?!? Pfffft... That's just corporate spreadsheet fixing...
Well, Vista isn't that horrible, it's just that it's a little slower
??? A "little". I have a dual-core 2.5Ghz laptop with 3G RAM (and a 7200 RPM 320G Drive). Id' say it's roughly half the speed of XP. I'm not saying my laptop is some major Speed Daemon or something, but with specs like that it should soar. It doesn't. I haven't booted to it since the summer sometime (I only keep the partition there so if I have to send the thing in for work, I can back up my Linux side out of and stretch the NTFS partition back out so it looks like it did when they shipped it)
And, yes, I 100% agree, there was no need to go to Vista from XP-SP3 (or SP2 at the time). XP has ended up maturing quite well. It only took them 6 or so years to get there, but they did (sort of). One of my favorite quotes about XP came from this very site:
"Windows XP - While easily the best OS they've released so far, that's not really saying much. That's like being the smartest kid on the short bus.
--sYkSh0n3 (722238) Oct 23, '07"
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
