Comment Re:Why migrate from XP to vista? (Score 1) 309
Congratulations, a link posted in slashdot comments has been slashdotted. Well done, slashdotters!
A child lying to parents about what he/she is doing at a given time is often simply a defense mechanism for obtaining some privacy and a degree of control over their own life and therefore making themselves feel more adult, even though the parents might in fact know better.
That does not somehow make it right, IMHO.
This points to a major systemic flaw in our certification programs for voting machines. Period. End of discussion.
Go deeper. This points to a major systemic flaw in a large portion (>50%?) of humanity, in that on the whole humanity would rather have ${whatever_it_is_they_want} rather than have less but more quality stuff. Not everyone has as much attention to detail of computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, scientists in general, etc.
I wish I could believe in that, but I think it's the beginning of a monopoly. Then, in about two decades, people will finally wise up and start to do something. Then, another decade will pass, and a better successor will finally take hold.
The same thing is happening currently in the software industry.
Why would anyone choose to run Windows 2008 Server as their desktop OS
Apparently Server cuts out a lot of the bloat: http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/2008/03/16/why-should-i-use-a-server-os-for-my-workstation/
and pooped up a message on their screen
Really? What is the system call for that? Is it in the Win32 API?
Oh, I wouldn't have minded, but I got the humor anyway
I was genuinely surprised to see the Java download manager. When I followed the link in the source I saw some ActiveX stuff mentioned and assumed it was going to be IE only, but then the Java stuff popped up. I'd have to do more research, but I think the problem I had was more of a javascript problem where clicking on the download button did not change the current page as MS's web developer had intended it to, than an intentional IE lock-in.
You also have to be downloading on a windows machine. You can't do it on a Mac. Apparently Microsoft thinks Macs still can't burn DVDs.
Actually, I downloaded it on a Linux machine. The download button did not work, but I was able to look at the page source to figure out the link to go to, which then brings up a Java download manager through which the ISO downloads (which, incidentally, looks a lot like a bittorrent client, even telling me how many connections I was downloading through).
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long. -- Howard Kandel
