Point taken. Don't get involved with OS disputes with ***moderated*** because he refuses to actually argue the points and instead, would rather just throw darts without concern as to what he's actually saying.
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
@asuffield said:
@ShadowWolf said:
As much as Linux can be great for some things, their driver support tends to be very nitche and it's not optimized for playing games.
For the linux drivers themselves, that's not actually true - they're usually far faster than the windows versions, and much less buggy. The utter crap that nvidia and ATI put out in binary bundles, on the other hand...
Vista is a higher quality, faster, and more streamlined kernel.
Why exactly do you think that? Is it because some MS sales droid told you that it was? I'm pretty sure it's not because you've examined the kernel.
It's just a matter of getting everything up to snuff and that ain't just Microsoft's job.
That attitude is precisely why windows continues to suck at this stuff.
As for the drivers, I think you're being incredibly optimistic if you think Linux drivers are truely leaps & bounds above what Windows provides. There are a ton of really buggy drivers out there for Linux and a lot of hardware whose support is a wasteland. Even the Reference Drivers for ATi/Intel/nVidia/3dfx put out by the open source community have been beyond abysmal. The driver authoring process is very, very difficult and time consuming in just design and testing alone. Probably less than half of the upper echelon of coders can truely handle it, which is the issue. Too much work for not enough people.
For the Windows kernel being faster and more streamlined, no I haven't looked at the code directly (snippets that make their way on the academic research kernel project though :-D); however, that doesn't make it any less true. Spend some time on channel9.msdn.com, read a few posts by the few Windows NT Kernel folk that do blog. Plus - how much do you really know about the Windows Kernel? There's actually a substantial amount of information, such that you could write an OS or API Emulation layer very, very similar to Windows without ever actually seeing the kernel. Just spending about 10 minutes on Wikipedia alone gives you a bulleted list of performance improvements. Even Windows XP 64-bit edition was substantially improved performance wise over Windows XP SP2. Normally, I would happily provide links; however, you're just being antagonistic about this, so I'm not going to bother. You can believe whatever it is that you feel like believing.
As far as the attitude thing...who is supposed to write the drivers? Microsoft writes reference drivers like everyone else, but they likely don't have the docs to write a full driver. Most hardware companies won't let them have it, so really: what are they supposed to do? It isn't a Windows or Linux issue. It's a Hardware device manufacturers being incompetent issue - and niether Windows or Linux gets a reprieve for that eg. the 2.6 Kernel release.
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RE: How many KB's are in a GB??
@Crispy Duck said:
@Cap'n Steve said:
Same here. I also refuse to pronounce SQL as sequel.An ex-colleague of mine pronounced it 'squirrel'. He had an elaborate backstory for this, where data values were considered 'nuts' and the squirrel code would go out foraging for the nuts and bring it back for you...
I still have to consciously stop myself from saying 'squirrel' when talking to the suits...
In school, we used to call it Squeal, because that's usually want we wanted to do after working with for a few hours.
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
The issue with Vista is that they need to fix the power management issues and driver authors need to stop sucking massive ass at authoring drivers for new operating systems. They (by they I mean nearly all video and sound card authors) failed when Win2k came out, failed again when Xp came out, and failed a 3rd time with Vista.
If you're complaining now, I'm going to bet a substantial sum of money that you said the _exact_ same thing when Windows 2000 was released. Drivers get better, performance gets better. I just up'd my World of Warcraft performance from 21 fps average in a gaming session to about 35 fps in a gaming session. 3 year old PC playing WoW at about medium detail on Vista. It's just about finding the right hardware, like anything. As much as Linux can be great for some things, their driver support tends to be very nitche and it's not optimized for playing games. Right now, Vista has some of the similar issues. Give it 6 months and Vista's performance will start eeking out XP's on higher end systems.
Vista is a higher quality, faster, and more streamlined kernel. It's just a matter of getting everything up to snuff and that ain't just Microsoft's job.
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RE: Challenge questions...
@ChZEROHag said:
@Cthulhu reencoded said:
I can translate candy but WTF is a 'wedding rehersal dinner'. Why would you need to practice eating?
Yeah you'd think Americans wouldn't need any more practice.
</american-bashing-again reason="because it's so damn easy">
I'll take digging up and beating an already dead and buried horse for $800. :-D
I like the wikipedia entry on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehearsal_dinner, specifically:
A rehearsal dinner is a pre-wedding ceremony in North American tradition
When else are you going to do it? I don't know about you, but I am more happy when the rehearsal dinner occurs after the wedding.
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RE: Windows Mobile - Error not found
I'm a big fan of the error reporting pattern:
switch(result)
{
case ERROR_SUCCESS:
...
case ERROR_FAILURE:
...
case ERROR_SOMEOTHERTHING:
...
default:
LogMessage("Undefined Switch Case");
break;
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RE: Opensource? and free!
@tster said:
Many customers actually consider upselling a service! For instance, We sold bagels and cream cheese. Many customers do not know about all the flavors. So when they order certain bagels, I suggest a flavored cream cheese to go with that bagel. And they say, "Oh my, I never realized you had salmon (the most expensive ;) ) cream cheese, thank you!" What do you find dishonest about suggesting a larger size or higher quality product to a customer. That being said, If a customer specifically orders a certain size/flavor/brand whatever, I don't try to upsell. Obviously they know what they want.
Certainly, trying to sell your product is always what you need to do, but the difference is whether you're selling (providing products/services they might want) or up-selling (providing products/services for the purposes of making the sale more profitable). If the customer happens to want something that also makes the sale the most profitable then hey, that's just the best of all worlds.
There's nothing wrong with showing 'em the Salmon, but there is something wrong if that's all you show them in my opinion.
Personally, I have never met a customer who was happy to hear about the good ol' Gold USB Cables. They were confused and frustrated - typically only buying it because they didn't know better. That's kinda the case-in-point of up-selling.
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RE: Opensource? and free!
I just realized it's worthless arguing with you because you don't even bother to read the words that I write.
7 years of retail, grocery, and fast food jobs here. And yeah - I do read what you and basically everyone else writes, usually at least 2 times if I'm going to respond. Sure, I can miss something - we're all human here, right?
Because I interpret things you write differently than you originally intended doesn't necessarily mean that I didn't read it, contrary to your belief. Further, looking at the other responses, you might consider that you just wrote it differently than you intended; however, I'm not sure that you did. In my experience, and obviously that's subjective, the people I worked with never purposely tried to screw their customers by selling things they didn't want or need. I have no doubt that it works, but I guess the point is that I would rather go home knowing that I actually helped people rather than get an extra day off. But eh - maybe that's just me. I personally find the concept of up-selling dishonest, but again - just me.
Certainly, him arguing over the size isn't really a reasonable thing to do, but it does take two people to argue.
On the Starbucks thing, I've never had issues with them giving me a Medium sized drink when asking for a Medium or their Venti or whatever when I ask for a large. Often times I am not sure if I'm at Starbuck's or Caribou until I get the cup since I order the same thing at both places, so I don't always even think about it. As long as I get what I want, I'll keep ordering that way. If it stops then I guess I'll bother to learn the sizes.
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RE: Opensource? and free!
@asuffield said:
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
I don't know why Windows/Linux browsers all failed to resume downloads
Keyword: Windows. More or less all of the Linux/Unix web clients do it. It's just the ones ported from Windows that don't (both of them).
@ShadowWolf said:
If he's talking about the IE 5 days, there were no good download managers built in to any browser that I had ever seen.
I bet you didn't use anything other than Windows.
Incidentally, I ran on SuSE Linux for quite a long while during this time period, but never found any good download managers for Linux either and the ones built in to the browsers had little to no fault tolerance compared to GetRight. GetRight could resume downloads from multiple locations (server can't be contacted, type a new URL, don't have to redownload a 10MB file from scratch) and also worked better when I went LD abruptly.
Now'adays, though, I do not run Linux any longer. I ran Redhat at first, then Mandrake, SuSe, Gentoo, and lastly Ubuntu before Windows finally met all my wants.
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RE: Opensource? and free!
@asuffield said:
@Carnildo said:
@asuffield said:
"Download managers" are universally a load of half-truths and bad ideas. Most of what they do is just busywork, playing off the idea that more complicated things are somehow better.
Back in the dark ages when I used dialup, I found having a download manager absolutely essential. It supported resuming downloads (Netscape Navigator didn't, and IE's support was buggy), and it let me queue up downloads and then get them one at a time.The fact that all the browsers you tried were unspeakable outdated crap is not really a justification for anything.
Eh? If he's talking about the IE 5 days, there were no good download managers built in to any browser that I had ever seen. Having been on dialup until about 2001 starting around 1993 or so, I can say a download manager was better than anything else.
I believe I used one of the first versions of GetRight. Simple, easy, and didn't do much of anything aside from allow you to resume a download.