Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ Jim ] on Monday 31 July 2006 12:32 \__
>
>> Tim Smith wrote:
>>
>>> In article <1154329060.371179.277480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> Want to make sure your operating system isn't pulling any obscure or
>>>> undocumented tricks behind your back? Use Linux!
>>>
>>> If Linux had this feature and Windows didn't, I bet you'd be posting how
>>> it is a Linux advantage.
>>>
>> TBH, I can't see the advantage. Maybe I'm just being blonde. I gotta ask
>> though, how many times does one need to tell the file manager that he
>> doesn't need the file anymore, that he needs the space for something else
>> (think: digital video/DVD images, which takes a LOT of space)?
>> I only want to tell it ONCE.
>> SHIFT+DELETE (which on my Dell C840 is pretty hard to do by accident) gives
>> me my space back. IFAICT, this new feature in Vista doesn't, in fact it
>> uses /more/ space than the file itself to store it, hidden away somewhere.
>> Not a good situation if you're doing video work on the road and you only
>> have a hundred Gig drive.
>
> Linux can achieve all of this /upon demand/. It just doesn't
> do this by default; I am not sure it can present a
> simplified UI, either (albeit a day or two with GTK or
> Trolltech Qt Designer can 'fix' that). I thought about this
So, like any SW : it can be done? But Linux does do all this too through
trash cans, Synaptec installed backup managers. All configurable of course.
> feature while walking down the street. To be honest with
> you, that demo which shows a picture of a flower with some
> transitions (that which you see in various articles about
> this new feature)... I just can't see how it becomes useful.
> My mother, for example, will only ratate an image 90/270
> degrees. That's the most she would do. No manipulation of
> any kind. So why revert to old(er) versions? For text it's
This might surprise you, but your mothers "rotation needs" dont
generally guide leading edge OS & GUI desogn decisions.
> rather impractical for reasons I mentioned in an earlier
> post on the subject.
I fail to see how (if disk space is an issue), action rollback can ever
be a liability or impractical.
>
> The idea is neat in theory. What's to gain? To most of us --
> nothing. What's to lose: privacy; disk space; performance;
How so privacy? Did I miss something? Its not saving your private info
on MS servers is it? Performance? Nope. There tends to be a lot of spare
cpu and disk suage spare when we're typing documents.
> complexity. Vista remains "too little too late"^tm. People
Complexity is gained not lost.
> could find better uses for a rational database-based
> fileystem, which Linux has already got (as well as the
> semantic one), unlike Windows Vista. Beagle and other
> similar tools complement this further.
database file system are all well and good in theory : wasnt Vista
supposed to feature one and decided that it wasnt viable for real time
file access?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
>
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