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| Thread ID: 76914 | 2007-02-20 09:30:00 | Vista: Isn't it Ridiculous! | Chemical Ali (118) | Press F1 |
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| 526273 | 2007-02-24 11:13:00 | Well, if Boeing and Airbus delivered product like MS, there would be more undertakers and less travel agents fairly quickly. Frequent Fliers would each have their own Dodo. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 526274 | 2007-02-24 12:57:00 | The scary thing is R2x1, there are OSs in mission critical situations in traffic control (road, rail, sea and air), military fire control, space travel, power grid control, telecoms control, in almost every important aspect of our lives, and these numpties want to allow and support a slap dash approach to development. Someone else can avow to having no issues with a particular OS, while others are inundated with problems great and small, but that's ok because there is irrefutable proof that the OS is stable. I hope they never get their hands on anything more critical than passing fries. over the counter. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 526275 | 2007-02-24 18:55:00 | Well, if Boeing and Airbus delivered product like MS, there would be more undertakers Wait for it: Due to significant delays in the A380 production, several launch customers deferred their purchases of the A380, or switched their order to the competing Boeing 747-8, at significant cost to Airbus. Similarly, Airbus forfeited orders of the freighter version A380-800F, including from FedEx who switched to the competing Boeing 777F. While Airbus attributes the delays entirely to wiring, industry analyst Richard Aboulafia, noting that the first A380 will be around 5.5 tons heavier than intended, considers that the weight problems "[go] a long way in explaining the delay", and that "wiring alone did not explain what we were all hearing. It sounds like weight-reduction design changes are a big part of the delay, too." The only plane I've ever heard of that was designed first then when they realised that all the funecessary fluff made it so heavy they had to rip out the hydraulics, change the tail material etc to get it to fly. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 526276 | 2007-02-24 19:13:00 | Wait for it: Due to significant delays in the A380 production, several launch customers deferred their purchases of the A380, or switched their order to the competing Boeing 747-8, at significant cost to Airbus. Similarly, Airbus forfeited orders of the freighter version A380-800F, including from FedEx who switched to the competing Boeing 777F. While Airbus attributes the delays entirely to wiring, industry analyst Richard Aboulafia, noting that the first A380 will be around 5.5 tons heavier than intended, considers that the weight problems "[go] a long way in explaining the delay", and that "wiring alone did not explain what we were all hearing. It sounds like weight-reduction design changes are a big part of the delay, too." The only plane I've ever heard of that was designed first then when they realised that all the funecessary fluff made it so heavy they had to rip out the hydraulics, change the tail material etc to get it to fly. Greg will explain it all to us. He knows how aircraft fly. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 526277 | 2007-02-24 20:20:00 | Well, perhaps the difference is evident. The Airbus 380 is not being hawked around as a finished product. (even though the Airbus consortium is not a particularly brilliant example of a production team.) MS is a testament to one man's marketing genius, for his purposes the test is "does it make me richer". The customer, the product and a few other details are pretty much irrelevant. Windows doesn't need to work well, it needs to sell well. Snake oil in a designer bottle? Clothes for the Emperor? (For an example of an aviation project needing the MS marketing skills, chase down the Fairey Rotodyne. While it never hit the market due to an absolute failure to meet any of the many exaggerated claims; it did give the U.K. taxpayers a good squeeze. Bill Gates would have a line of them at the side of every runway in the world, wasting space and money while achieving almost nothing.) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 526278 | 2007-02-25 00:02:00 | Greg will explain it all to us. He knows how aircraft fly. There appear to be a lot of people who know how Vista should fly and where it should fly to but most of them stick with Gates and Windows.This launch has to be a lot worse than XP and much more expensive.The pre release hype was all based around security and that has not happened.McAfee and Nortons will continue to ride on the MS band wagon untill 2009 when the secure version of MS will fix everything and one will have to buy MS genuine as no copies will be available in Brazil for $10 any more. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 526279 | 2007-02-25 07:59:00 | Hey Chemical, I might have found some Vista mouse drivers for ya.... Well credit where credit is due, twas really Bryan who found em, see. (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) And as it's Bryan who found em, if they're no good, it's his friggin fault not mine. :thumbs: And a pox on the rest of you malingerers who've been arguing the toss rather than helping out poor old Chemical. :rolleyes: |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 526280 | 2007-02-26 08:57:00 | Cheers Murray I'll give them a try -- that page must be pretty recent because about a week ago you could only download Beta drivers from Microsoft which wouldn't work! I'll keep you posted Regards Chemical Ali |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 526281 | 2007-02-26 09:06:00 | I read today somwhere on the net that vista comes with 14,000 drivers installed and that microsoft are releasing 16,000 drivers a month obviously overtime this number will decline as more companies become vista compatible. | Hitech (9024) | ||
| 526282 | 2007-02-26 09:14:00 | :stare: | Murray P (44) | ||
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