trivia: the longest suicide note in history

[bugzpodder]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/vista_drm_analysis/

Quote:

"If users accept the domination of centrally-controlled data, free software faces two dangers, each worse than the other: [our emphasis] that users will reject GNU/Linux because it doesn't support the central control over access to these data, or that they will reject free versions of GNU/Linux for versions "enhanced" with proprietary software that support it. Either outcome will be a grave loss for our freedom."

[bugzpodder]

Vista EULA Analysis

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/29/microsoft_vista_eula_analysis/

[bugzpodder]

http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2006/11/18/1046/

Quote:

13. Bill Gates earns $250 every second, $20m a day and $7.8BN a year.
15. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country in the world.
18. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, scored a perfect 1600.

[md]

Were I still a windows user I would definitely not be migrating to vista. The security model is still flawed, DRM protection is so built in that it can completely cripple your computer (and potentially delete your files) with a single command from Microsoft, and it uses a rediculous amount of power to do nothing. Even idling with no installed applications windows uses more CPU time and more memory then my entire linux install running normally.

[rdrake]

md wrote:

Were I still a windows user I would definitely not be migrating to vista. The security model is still flawed, DRM protection is so built in that it can completely cripple your computer (and potentially delete your files) with a single command from Microsoft, and it uses a rediculous amount of power to do nothing. Even idling with no installed applications windows uses more CPU time and more memory then my entire linux install running normally.

I wonder if one could emerge X and still use less CPU time than Vista sitting idle.

[bugzpodder]

*sign* i was going to shell out to buy a copy of vista, but i guess I'll wait a few years now and stick to my (legit) XP

[Craige]

I have been saying for a long time that I think Vista is going to fail, and this just adds to the evidence of that statement.

[bugzpodder]

and how would you know that? 90% of the new PCs sold runs windows. And they will be running Vista pretty soon.

[CodeMonkey2000]

Well everyone said XP will fail because it still has too many security holes, its requirements are really high and it is very expensive. Yet it still became the dominant OS. So i doubt vista will fail.

Oh and is it just me or is linux MUCH faster then windows? My friend has a linux and his computer is a lot older than mine, yet his computer runs much faster. the ofice program he used seemed more advanced too.

[md]

spearmonkey2000 wrote:

Well everyone said XP will fail because it still has too many security holes, its requirements are really high and it is very expensive. Yet it still became the dominant OS. So i doubt vista will fail.

Oh and is it just me or is linux MUCH faster then windows? My friend has a linux and his computer is a lot older than mine, yet his computer runs much faster. the ofice program he used seemed more advanced too.

Windows XP is not the dominant OS, Win2k is. Windows XP dominates only consumer computers because consumers tend to buy new computers quicker then they really need to. Businesses have by far the most computers and they almost all run windows 2000.

And yes, linux is that much faster.

[wtd]

Vista will succeed. It'll succeed hugely.

Considering the monopoly Microsoft has, and the deals with OEMs which prevent other operating systems from gaining traction, it can't possibly fail.

[md]

wtd wrote:

Vista will succeed. It'll succeed hugely.

Considering the monopoly Microsoft has, and the deals with OEMs which prevent other operating systems from gaining traction, it can't possibly fail.

The problem is that if big businesses start demanding say linux on their computers OEMs will make it happen. Big business is where microsoft makes money; consumers are a much smaller market.

[neufelni]

Linux is definitely faster than Windows. It uses a lot less memory than Windows does. I checked how much memory Firefox uses on Linux and then on Windows. It used 6MB on Linux, 24 on Windows.

[CodeMonkey2000]

strange it uses 36mb on my computer...

[md]

203mb of virtual memory, of which 73mb is resident. The problem with linux is that it's very hard to measure actual memory usage... many apps share the same libraries, so things get counted many many times... some apps I have say I am usign twice as much memory and swap space as I have.