Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:51:20 +1000, Terry Porter wrote:
>
>> Thanks to Roy S for this link in one of his excellent [News] articles.
>
> Hardly excellent. The guy is an idiot.
>
>> "What struck me is how people are saying it boots faster than Vista, but
>> Vista was already like lugging around a dead elephant. It may have shaved
>> a few seconds off that, but in my testing it has still been twice as slow
>> from power on to login screen as compared to Jaunty. To my knowledge,
>> there is nothing like boot chart for Windows, but my Ubuntu Jaunty
>> clocked in at 24 seconds. I pulled out my cell phone and stop watched
>> Windows 7 coming in at just over 49 seconds. (1 minute 9 seconds after
>> coming up from a BSOD)"
>
> Gee... You mean a beta might have a bug? Wow. Hell, it's even a nightly
> build, not an official beta. I wonder what you'd say if I said Linux was
> a piece of shit based on a nightly build of Ubuntu or Fedora?
>
A beta being PUSHED as the next, best, improved, faster, more reliable....
blah, blah....
It's still, as has been characterized, a turd.
>> Microsoft can polish and sugar coat the Internet Explorer 8 turd with all
>> the cowbell they want, the fact is that it is simply pathetic. They also
>> excluded SVG image support (Mozilla supported since 2003) and support for
>> HTML 5 multimedia tags (Firefox 3.5 and Opera 10 will both support this)
>> to lure people towards their proprietary Silverlight pile of Flash
>> wanna-be crap plugin.
>
> SVG is not a required standard to implment HTML. And HTML 5 is not a
> standard either. Oh, and those "multimedia tags", are actually covered by
> an apple Submarine patent, which apple is refusing to license openly.
So it's Apples fault?
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