Comment He wrote for eWeek... (Score 1) 175
... and he considers himself above the fray of bad journalism?
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Talk about the irony of narcissism.
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Talk about the irony of narcissism.
For starters, nested folders are gone. In All Apps, shortcuts are grouped based on a single folder, and everything is in one view.
That everything in one view aspect is not an advancement, but a step backwards.
The stupid Company Name > Program Name > Program hierarchy is gone.
If you don't want nested folders, then don't use them.
But why take the ability to use them from people who want to use them?
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Well, hardware improvements have slowed down --- when's the last time you heard anyone gushing about a new Intel CPU?
And with Windows 8, Microsoft has put Windows' progress in reverse.
If you want to find out why PC sales are slowing, don't ask columnists, ask PC customers.
Customers who, btw, are saying that Windows 8 sucks.
I bet you say the same thing about stack traces, right?
No. I prefer such safety back-stops.
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The reason why I wrote my prior comment was that I read the reason the GNU-Linux people do not want to adopt BSD's strlcpy function is that the strlcpy encourages sloppy coding. The rationale given for that assertion is that strlcpy checks for the destination buffer being too small and zero-terminates regardless (unlike strncpy, which returns a non-zero-terminated buffer if the destination buffer is too small).
I think such types of rationale for not implementing safety checks are ridiculous.
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Such a conundrum for Redmond.....
And we need to come to terms with that fact and work towards improving the 'Linux Inside' brand image.
That is the wrong focus unless, of course, you are selling to buyers who are more concerned about Linux than whether or not the computer they are buying will serve their needs.
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A big problem that Linux faces is that it is fragmented, and the "marketing" focus has been that it is Linux. What is really amazing is that most of the pro-Linux crowd do not see the fragmentation as a disadvantage.
With more and more computing being done on the web and in the cloud, why does it matter whether or not a computer runs Linux, Windows or whatever? That is the point that Google has realized. Consumers want functionality, not an OS.
The sooner the Linux crowd understands that, the better off Linux will be; of course, presuming Linux is not so far gone in the public's eye that it is not redeemable.
...Home essentially is a custom start screen for your Android phone, replacing the home screen with one centered on Facebook....
So everything you run on the Facebook phone-Home device is a sub-process of Facebook's snooping program. Zucky must be beside himself with all the extra data that will be collected on the Facebook sheeple.
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Give it up, Microsoft. Your time was Windows 95, and that time has passed.
Offer $1k for the heads of anybody who runs one of these organizations
It would be better to expensively fine the businesses who use the robo-callers to advertise their products and services. Once the revenue stream of the robo-callers dries up, the robo-calling will stop.
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Is it at all possible that the technical community allows him to rest in peace instead of trying to exploit his name for page hits and SEO?
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