I know some people who would be horridly offended if you were to tell them the results of every football/baseball/basketball/soccar/nascar/rugby/w ater polo/cricket/volleyball/bullfighting
I would be horridly AMAZED seeing as how many of those sports are aired live (:
What do they mean by "shipped"? is this only the units sold by people like Redhat, IBM, etc.. Or does it take into account all the versions of Linux download and used?
Def a good question. But on another angle, I'm also wondering if this counts servers that are shipped with no OS installed or OS software included. Where I work, we just bought a couple of servers from a smaller vendor that did offer linux installs, but only Red Hat or SuSE, neither of which we wanted. And I imagine of lot of business will do the same; I'd much rather do my own linux install than let some interns do it for me.
I sort of agreed with this thought at first. But then I remember back to my interning days (ok, only a few months ago) at Miles Kimball company. A huge part of my job was doing new PC rollouts for all 300+ employees. And every PC has pretty much the same setup, all wires are just hanging without any support from the back of the machine. Granted, those Dells were not PC+Monitor, but a lot of people would put them on top of their desks and just let wires hang and show everywhere. And the ones who would want them tucked away in a corner would always cause trouble trying to keep the cords from pressing against a wall because the longest ones would usually come out about an inch or more. Anyway, just noting that this isn't an uncommon practice at all, PC user's should be used to it. (Maybe that's the point?)
If you want good deals on DVDs, and aren't concerned about ordering stuff online, check out deep discount dvd. Almost always has the lowest prices on dvds, free shipping, and I have never had a problem with them.
Why is it then when people KNOW they are writing a comment aimed directly at being modded up, they always end with "Yes I know this is flamebait/troll/etc etc?" You bitched about slashdot on slashdot, wow that's so original! I was about to mod this flamebait, but decided not to waste the point (:
Not to sound like a troll but it's really not a matter of enough apps but rather the right apps.
That's a two way street. I could search google right now for some generic Windows application and get an abundance results. Only to find that 9/10th's of them are bogus, covered with spyware, big $$$, poor UI, or just plain useless.
This isn't the first time I've seen this argument, and I fail to see how people distinguish between Windows and Linux when it comes to volume of apps. Both have a ton, and both have a ton that suck.
Apple said Thursday it is looking into Real's actions under various laws, including the Digital Copyright Millennium Act (DMCA), which prohibits the manufacture, sale, or distribution of code-breaking devices used to illegally copy software.
Looking into !== threatening. If they find something in the DMCA that gives them a case, THEN maybe they will decide threaten Real. Don't twist words so you can follow in the hundreds of other posts on this story about "hypocrisy." That's pure FUD.
I recently emailed Sprint PCS to point out a problem I was having on its website, and here is the responce I got:
Dear Chris,
I am sorry to know that you are experiencing error while checked the PCS Advantage Agreement.
Our service sometime becomes slow the heavy network traffic rush. This might be the reason due to which you have experienced the error. I request you to retry to access the agreement hyperlink again to view the agreement.
If you have two-year agreement on your account, please follow the steps given below to view the entire agreement:
http://www1.sprintpcs.com/NVP-Online/popUp.html? PC S%20Advantage% 20Agreement
If you have two-year agreement on your account, please follow the steps given below to view the entire agreement:
http://www1.sprintpcs.com/NVP-Online/popUp.html? PC S%20Advantage% 20Agreement
To me this just seems absolutely unacceptable. If they want to out source their tech support, I won't support it, but so be it. But AT LEAST do something to make sure the tech support people can put together a grammatically correct email response. This pretty much entirely took Sprint PCS out of my consideration for cell phone service.
But, it would work with any Mp3 player, so it's a little annoying that they focused on the iPod exclusively, when any digital audio player would work.
Maybe because the person happen to have an iPod.....
God forbid they don't write this blog entry for every type of musicald evice, PocketPC, and IR device combination and translate it into every language. Sheesh people.
Why do I always read this crap? Slashdot always posted snippets of stories with one or two sentences of the editors opinion. If you can't shut your mouth and deal with that....click here.
Its understandable to say the media may have picked what they wanted to highlight. And maybe some people would love to check out Entertainment Weekly: The Greatest Hits 1971. But do you really think a library needs 375 copies of it? IMO, the problem here is quantity, not quality (although I am in no way implying that any of the quality is good, again, IMO).
Watch your inbox. Apple often upgrades orders when they release new product. They gave everyone who bought a mac with 10.2 an upgrade to 10.3 if the mac was purchased up to 3 months before 10.3's release. I noticed one post somewhere on this article mentioning a free upgrade.
There is actually an extension for Firefox and Mozilla to put it into a kiosk mode under any platform. XPI's are stupidly easy to install and manage. There is also Kiosk Project, which is working on a kiosk setup for linux that involves the browser and twm.
While this may have been true for a time, since the PCI bus has been around the mac has fallen behind. Macs used to ship with all SCSI drives, but now ship with standard IDE. Now with PCI express out, how soon before I hear a mac user try and tell me "WE HAD IT FIRST!"
This a statement, and IMO it is in no way "Interesting."
Quark runs on PC and mac. So does photoshop, so does every other major application put out by adobe.
Again, this is nothing but a statement. It niether proves nor disproves anything. Good work!
Mac *WAS* the only choice a few years back. Look at the renderfarms being built today though. Teams of MBA's and geeks go for the biggest bang for the buck, and i've yet to hear of a renderfarm on a major movie using a mac cluster. Final Cut is a good app for home/prosumer video editors, but for serious work like ILM LOTR stuff, get a renderfarm of PC's.
Quote from: here To meet the enormous film compositing needs in "The Trilogy," WETA Digital relies on Shake, the leading-edge compositing and effects software solution from Apple. Currently, the state-of-the-art facility deploys more than 80 GUI and 190 render-only Shake software licenses, which has enabled the visual effects teams to produce composites of unprecedented scope and volume.
Enough said.
I don't see much difference in ease of use between MacOS and XP. Then again, i'm a sysadmin, I can care less about the UI, just tell me where my network settings are so I can go to work.
Strictly an opinion, and you're entitled to it. As an intern who works for a large company with Windows XP on every machine, I feel the exact opposite.
Why not just run BSD and get it over with?
To a BSD user who likes OS X: Why not just run OS X and get it over with? As you can see, this is a pointless argument.
Dell's 1U and 2U rackmounts are very well done, and the optiplex line is amazing.
That may be what they want you to think. I currently work as an intern for a large catalogue company and for almost the past year now we have rolled out brand new Dell hardware for all our users and servers. The desktop choice is the Optiplex GX270 and since we recently merged with another company we also deal with Optiplex GX260's now. To date I have personally built and setup about 250 Dell machines. Now, when the things work, I have to admit they run well and get the job done. But while I can count the number of computers I've rolled out, I can't even think to count the number of times I've been on the phone with tech support, had hardware replacements sent, or entirely new systems sent.
As for the servers, the racks Dell sells are freakin awful. We basically payed top dollar for a bunch of plastic and screws that NEVER fit correctly. Setting up a rack yesterday took 3 IT people about 2 hours when it probably should've taken at most 2 people (UPS's could warrant a damn forklift) about half an hour. I haven't dealt directly with the servers, but from what I understand they are very nice, so I won't go "bashing" them.
Slashdot Mirror
Hah, that links to the oh so kind message...
Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.
There's one way to avoid being slashdotted (:
I know some people who would be horridly offended if you were to tell them the results of every football/baseball/basketball/soccar/nascar/rugby/w ater polo/cricket/volleyball/bullfighting
I would be horridly AMAZED seeing as how many of those sports are aired live (:
Why not just start posting all the endings for upcoming movies?
Main character stops bomb from exploding WITH ONLY 2 SECONDS LEFT, then takes female lead into bedroom. Start Barry Manilow music and......credits!
Done.
What do they mean by "shipped"? is this only the units sold by people like Redhat, IBM, etc.. Or does it take into account all the versions of Linux download and used?
Def a good question. But on another angle, I'm also wondering if this counts servers that are shipped with no OS installed or OS software included. Where I work, we just bought a couple of servers from a smaller vendor that did offer linux installs, but only Red Hat or SuSE, neither of which we wanted. And I imagine of lot of business will do the same; I'd much rather do my own linux install than let some interns do it for me.
Actually the site is slashdotted, I have all the same questions and the FAQs and other information will not load fully, when they do at all.
I sort of agreed with this thought at first. But then I remember back to my interning days (ok, only a few months ago) at Miles Kimball company. A huge part of my job was doing new PC rollouts for all 300+ employees. And every PC has pretty much the same setup, all wires are just hanging without any support from the back of the machine. Granted, those Dells were not PC+Monitor, but a lot of people would put them on top of their desks and just let wires hang and show everywhere. And the ones who would want them tucked away in a corner would always cause trouble trying to keep the cords from pressing against a wall because the longest ones would usually come out about an inch or more. Anyway, just noting that this isn't an uncommon practice at all, PC user's should be used to it. (Maybe that's the point?)
So what does the GNU in "GNU's Not Unix" stand for? (:
If you want good deals on DVDs, and aren't concerned about ordering stuff online, check out deep discount dvd. Almost always has the lowest prices on dvds, free shipping, and I have never had a problem with them.
Where exactly did parent say he was boycotting anything...?
Why is it then when people KNOW they are writing a comment aimed directly at being modded up, they always end with "Yes I know this is flamebait/troll/etc etc?" You bitched about slashdot on slashdot, wow that's so original! I was about to mod this flamebait, but decided not to waste the point (:
Not to sound like a troll but it's really not a matter of enough apps but rather the right apps.
That's a two way street. I could search google right now for some generic Windows application and get an abundance results. Only to find that 9/10th's of them are bogus, covered with spyware, big $$$, poor UI, or just plain useless.
This isn't the first time I've seen this argument, and I fail to see how people distinguish between Windows and Linux when it comes to volume of apps. Both have a ton, and both have a ton that suck.
well than don't fucking read slashdot. christ you whinny trolls need to move on.
From the article, which I doubt you read:
Apple said Thursday it is looking into Real's actions under various laws, including the Digital Copyright Millennium Act (DMCA), which prohibits the manufacture, sale, or distribution of code-breaking devices used to illegally copy software.
Looking into !== threatening. If they find something in the DMCA that gives them a case, THEN maybe they will decide threaten Real. Don't twist words so you can follow in the hundreds of other posts on this story about "hypocrisy." That's pure FUD.
I recently emailed Sprint PCS to point out a problem I was having on its website, and here is the responce I got:
? PC S%20Advantage%
? PC S%20Advantage%
Dear Chris,
I am sorry to know that you are experiencing error while checked the PCS
Advantage Agreement.
Our service sometime becomes slow the heavy network traffic rush. This
might be the reason due to which you have experienced the error. I
request you to retry to access the agreement hyperlink again to view the
agreement.
If you have two-year agreement on your account, please follow the steps
given below to view the entire agreement:
http://www1.sprintpcs.com/NVP-Online/popUp.html
20Agreement
If you have two-year agreement on your account, please follow the steps
given below to view the entire agreement:
http://www1.sprintpcs.com/NVP-Online/popUp.html
20Agreement
To me this just seems absolutely unacceptable. If they want to out source their tech support, I won't support it, but so be it. But AT LEAST do something to make sure the tech support people can put together a grammatically correct email response. This pretty much entirely took Sprint PCS out of my consideration for cell phone service.
But, it would work with any Mp3 player, so it's a little annoying that they focused on the iPod exclusively, when any digital audio player would work.
Maybe because the person happen to have an iPod.....
God forbid they don't write this blog entry for every type of musicald evice, PocketPC, and IR device combination and translate it into every language. Sheesh people.
Why do I always read this crap? Slashdot always posted snippets of stories with one or two sentences of the editors opinion. If you can't shut your mouth and deal with that....click here.
Its understandable to say the media may have picked what they wanted to highlight. And maybe some people would love to check out Entertainment Weekly: The Greatest Hits 1971. But do you really think a library needs 375 copies of it? IMO, the problem here is quantity, not quality (although I am in no way implying that any of the quality is good, again, IMO).
Because they're out there talking to law makers while we sit around at home eating pizzia and watching TV?
Correction: Because they're out there paying law makers while we work our assess off just to make enough money to pay rent?
Watch your inbox. Apple often upgrades orders when they release new product. They gave everyone who bought a mac with 10.2 an upgrade to 10.3 if the mac was purchased up to 3 months before 10.3's release. I noticed one post somewhere on this article mentioning a free upgrade.
Would you happen to be Jennifer Boyd? (:
There is actually an extension for Firefox and Mozilla to put it into a kiosk mode under any platform. XPI's are stupidly easy to install and manage. There is also Kiosk Project, which is working on a kiosk setup for linux that involves the browser and twm.
How do these trolls get modded this way?
While this may have been true for a time, since the PCI bus has been around the mac has fallen behind. Macs used to ship with all SCSI drives, but now ship with standard IDE. Now with PCI express out, how soon before I hear a mac user try and tell me "WE HAD IT FIRST!"
This a statement, and IMO it is in no way "Interesting."
Quark runs on PC and mac. So does photoshop, so does every other major application put out by adobe.
Again, this is nothing but a statement. It niether proves nor disproves anything. Good work!
Mac *WAS* the only choice a few years back. Look at the renderfarms being built today though. Teams of MBA's and geeks go for the biggest bang for the buck, and i've yet to hear of a renderfarm on a major movie using a mac cluster. Final Cut is a good app for home/prosumer video editors, but for serious work like ILM LOTR stuff, get a renderfarm of PC's.
Quote from: here
To meet the enormous film compositing needs in "The Trilogy," WETA Digital relies on Shake, the leading-edge compositing and effects software solution from Apple. Currently, the state-of-the-art facility deploys more than 80 GUI and 190 render-only Shake software licenses, which has enabled the visual effects teams to produce composites of unprecedented scope and volume.
Enough said.
I don't see much difference in ease of use between MacOS and XP. Then again, i'm a sysadmin, I can care less about the UI, just tell me where my network settings are so I can go to work.
Strictly an opinion, and you're entitled to it. As an intern who works for a large company with Windows XP on every machine, I feel the exact opposite.
Why not just run BSD and get it over with?
To a BSD user who likes OS X: Why not just run OS X and get it over with? As you can see, this is a pointless argument.
Dell's 1U and 2U rackmounts are very well done, and the optiplex line is amazing.
That may be what they want you to think. I currently work as an intern for a large catalogue company and for almost the past year now we have rolled out brand new Dell hardware for all our users and servers. The desktop choice is the Optiplex GX270 and since we recently merged with another company we also deal with Optiplex GX260's now. To date I have personally built and setup about 250 Dell machines. Now, when the things work, I have to admit they run well and get the job done. But while I can count the number of computers I've rolled out, I can't even think to count the number of times I've been on the phone with tech support, had hardware replacements sent, or entirely new systems sent.
As for the servers, the racks Dell sells are freakin awful. We basically payed top dollar for a bunch of plastic and screws that NEVER fit correctly. Setting up a rack yesterday took 3 IT people about 2 hours when it probably should've taken at most 2 people (UPS's could warrant a damn forklift) about half an hour. I haven't dealt directly with the servers, but from what I understand they are very nice, so I won't go "bashing" them.
$61million in profits can barely drive R&D for a company like Dell or Gateway.
What R&D exactly? Did it cost them $70M to make a bunch of cheap parts overseas, throw them in a black case, and slap DELL on it?
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."
-Gandhi