Comment Re:The short answer? Money. (Score 1) 156
AH! I saw what you did there.
I guess you'd expect people to use a PC from 20 years ago for modern times too.
Yea, that'd be crazy. That would never happen.
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".
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
