Good luck selling wireless speakers or any speakers for that matter. Speakers will always require a wire, most people have enough speakers already and the market is flooded with good quality speakers already. Wireless soloutions that work with most people's stereos are already available and work well.
My speakers will always require some wires because I don't want to power them with batteries.
To go wireless with any PC, get yourself a nice little stereo FM transmitter and tune in from the next room. Monster cable's model for cars works excellently. The cheap battery powered model from CompUSA looks great with that aluminum case, but it did not broadcast in stereo for me. I hope they fix that because it was perfect otherwise with an external power jack for an included car plug or any cheap transformer and AAA battery for walking around. You can be sure that others, such as the Belkin models for $15 at Walmart, will work or one that does will find it's way to the shelves soon.
Why did I want to buy another set of speakers again? So that someone could slip the RIAA encrypted streaming wet dream on me? No thanks.
A person at 80,000 ft. according to the lesson plan cited above, gets about 10 R/hr.
>That's during a severe solar flare, which is a relatively uncommon event. Otherwise, we would have a lot of dead astronauts and cosmonauts.
Could be, but that's beside the point.
Someone beneath the atmosphere during the same flare does not get 10 R/hr. The atmosphere is a nice shield against much but not all cosmic radiation.
The writer of that lesson plan must have been training people for submarines rather than space flight.
Thousands of cosmic rays do not pass through our bodies every day... They are stopped by the atmosphere. Cosmic rays are actually fairly dangerous radiation.
Cosmic Radiation makes up about 8% of the 360 mREM annual average background dose someone in the US receives. See the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements NCRP 93, 1988, for more information. Murray's "Nuclear Energy" has a pie chart of all sources and might be in your local library. This looks good too.
If you have a Sodium Iodine detector set and a scope, you can see it. Most common energies seen are around 20 MeV. They are big pulses next to the puny normal ones but you will detect one every twenty seconds or so.
You are correct, however, to note that most of these particles are blocked by the atmosphere and that you do get dosed at higher elevations. A person at 80,000 ft. according to the lesson plan cited above, gets about 10 R/hr. Each hour that's five hundred times the dose you get per year on the surface, ouch. By comparison, plants have a cow if you get more than a few unplanned mR.
HP, which discovered the defect during routine notebook testing, said the flaw could result in blue screens, which indicate a computer crash; intermittent lock-ups or memory corruption.
Gosh, I've seen a lot of that out there. They won't give you your money back, but free replacements which are easy to install have been getting rave reviews. After hundreds of similar replacements, I can say for sure that the RAM was not the problem. Every now and then there really is a hardware problem, like a dead back up battery ($3.00 at Walmart), but mostly it's bad software. So spin a CD before you pop the cover.
I really doubt that, had these folks run a legit business and didn't defraud people, that they'd have gotten such heavy sentences..
These people are being punished for annoying AOHell. Ordinary con men don't get 9 year in prison. There's not enough room there for violent people as is. Con men come and go from jail, till they flunk the three time loser limit. With so many ordinary frauds walking the street you have to wonder what this case represents. This is more AOHell flexing it's muscles than it is public outrage and it's unlikely to protect ordinary citizens.
I got to learn a lot about ordinary con men when one defrauded my mother in law's business. He burned her, her suppliers and her customers with bogus charges and every other manner or fraud in the few months he worked there, including a few spiteful last minute things like putting a chain of paperclips into the fax machine. He almost put her out of business and cost lots of people much more than he pocketed himself. The bozo ended up in jail for some other fraud he'd been involved in, but never spent more than a few months in jail. He'd been doing that kind of thing all his life, but he always gets out of jail and moves on. You can't level fines on the loser because he never has any savings. It's disgusting, but the damage such people do is not great enough for there to be widespread public knowledge and outrage.
Nine years in prison is the kind of punishment doled out by a company with Time Warner money and influence. It's much like the RIAA file sharing cases, where the victim loses their life savings as a "settlement". Sure, those people don't deserve the fines and frauds do, but there are a lot of other frauds that have yet to be punished. I'd like to see fraud taken more seriously but when it comes time to build more jails, AOL controlled media will remind us how expensive that is and nothing will change. Ordinary fraud does not harm big business, in fact it helps reduce start ups and other competition, so it will not be fought seriously.
If you read a lot of the security mailing lists, you'd be under the impression that the world was about to revert back to the stone age with the security threats. But the reality is, a huge amount of idiots exist that love to overhype the security risks when it comes to viruses and worms like "I Love You" and "Sasser". Most of us know when there is going to be a big problem, but there are a huge number of others that like to spread false info.
I'd say Microsoft has already harmed trust in the web and there are not enough reports about it. More than 80% of the world's spam is sent from broken Windows boxes. That in itself is a awefull but it's nothing to compare to the downfall of e-commerce that looms. New surveys are already showing that people are already getting skittish. When these automated scams start taking their victims, that skittishness is going to knock the bottom out of Microsoft or online retail, online banking and every other business that depends on taking money over the web. People are going to have their passwords stolen and their accounts abused and then they will tell their friends and that will be that for everyone. Between the misconception that PC==M$ and the barage of BS from Redmond about everyone else's software sucking as much as theirs, the trust will be gone for a long time.
By the way, that vmyths site itself looks like an email harvester for spammers or worse. I would never give them an email address or use the screen saver offered. I don't trust their flash. Their copy contains no useful or technical information and even looks like spam to me. Check out this deathless prose:
Still waiting for JPEGs to kill the Internet, part 2 We stand at 41+ days since Microsoft released a patch to fix a JPEG vulnerability. Based on what the experts predicted in September, you should be sprinkling lime over your loved ones by now.
It takes time for the Microsoft security dissaster to have it's effect but it's coming. People are not collecting these accounts and passwords for fun and bragging rights, they are doing it for money.
they believed that in this overly intellectual property-conscious land, they would get sympathy, but if so, that was a miscalculation.
Microsoft paid them to steal other people's work and try to make free softare look like a legal pain. The attempt was recognized for what it was and the actors for who they are. They are liars and theives and few people have sympathy for that.
They already have a website where they blither all they want. Nothing real or factual, of course.
For current information about SCO's suit against IBM, please visit www.sco.com/ibmlawsuit, and about SCO's suit against Novell, please visit www.sco.com/novell."
most smokers like smoking because it's more habitual. They're used to the act of having a cigarette in their hand and the act of blowing smoke.
They should try chewing gum. It's cheaper, better for your teeth and won't rot everything you use to breath and smell so that you smell like death before dying of heart dissease or cancer. Yes, that rotten smell is really dead tissue.
cigarettes have an illusion of being "cheap" and easily available. Not to mention the perceived (albeit ill-placed) "coolness factor".
They are as cheap as they can be and include a lot of paper and other garbage you would not eat off much less put to your mouth.
Chewing gum is much less expensive, though of equal quality. The downside is that you look like a cow. The upside is that's only about 1/100th as stupid as people who smoke look.
That's a good question, but what I wonder about are your claims of SCO executing Denial of Service attacks.
Astroturf is a form of DoS. It disrupts a real community by wasting it's resources and diluting their actual conversations. There's a thin line between that and other stuff, such as crap flooding, harassment, and offensive posts. People who do one have the morals to do both. Catching them is not my job, but sooner or later one of the bigger sources of garbage here is going to be proved to be some kind of M$ paid flunky outfit like SCO.
For those who haven't checked lately, SCOX has been trading at around 3.0 lately.
Dumber things have happened. Why mess around with plot when you can go to the conclusion? Pump followed by dump.
The DLoP (Distributed Lack of Purchasing) attack continues.
The real questions are, "who's buying that garbage" and "what do they think are they are buying?" After the largest investors expressed their misgivings and tried to get out, you would wonder who'd be dumb enough to buy SCOX.
I have a feeling that they knew they would have very few supporters on that site. They would probably spend more time astroturfing and fighting off the "bad" posts than they would "spreading the truth".
How many sites can they afford to astroturf and DoS? There's Slashdot, Kuroshin, Google, Grocklaw itself. All of those efforts cost money but have failed to one extent or another. I doubt they have the money to keep it up.
No one was going to read their goofey fanboy site anyway. It's hard to make a community out of brand loyalty to a product no one is buying. You can fool some all the time and everyone some of the time but you can't fool all the people all the time, not even the press.
The obfuscation was intentional and for your protection.
I'm sorry that you, like any other twelve year old, have discovered the secret to US election 0ownership. It's too bad you had to brag about it. We get more punks that way and each one breaks my heart. Bright enough to solve the puzzle, dumb enough to do it and then tell.
Our agents will be there to take care of your shorty. Stay where you are, running only makes things hard on you.
The user is "admin" and the password is "password". Just set the winner by state and percentage. There are a few bugs that make things unpredictable, however. Now that you know, I'm going to have to kill you.
I only wish that I was joking. Try this on for size:
The central servers are installed on unpatched, open Windows computers and use RAS (Remote Access Server) to connect to the voting machines through telephone lines. Since RAS is not adequately protected, anyone in the world, even terrorists, who can figure out the server's phone number can change vote totals without being detected by observers. The passwords in many locations are easily guessed, and the access phone numbers can be learned through social engineering or war dialing.
Yes. From those quotes, picked have little to do with the contents of the articles and present a distorted view. Just reading the titles is enough for most reasonable people. You know, titles like "Wall Street Embraces Linux" If Merrill Lynch and four other major trading houses using Linux for everything, and the NYSE using it for transactions is not enough for you, I'm not sure what is. The logical progression from experimentation in 2001 to adoption in 2003 by those banks and trading houses should not be a big surprise to you.
Get back under your bridge. No one legitimate posts AC.
I am not your God but if you insist on that status for me, I must exercise the usual free will doctrine to shed myself of responsibility for your obnoxious actions. Please give generously to valid charities and buy beer for anyone who identifies himself as Twitter.
I don't know what you mean by "Wall Street", but most brokerage houses, banks and even the actual NYSE never used Windows for anything except desktops. The business has always been run on big iron IBM OS/390 and Sun boxes.
You are wrong, but even if you were right, investment firms won't have any patience for companies wasting money on Windoze, desktops included. My point was that they had moved away from that themselves and I find an abundance of information to back up my vague memories. Given the wrongness and insult of your reply, it's easy to see why it was posted AC.
My memory was of a stampede away from Windoze on the desktop after the early M$ dissasters, Melissa and Iloveyou arround 2000, 2001. The worms might have helped. I can't put my fingers on those articles now but I do find these, which offer much more. The time frame is correct, 2001, but the speed of adoption is faster and wider than I remember. Read and enjoy:
I've worked here (in NY) for the better part of the past six years as a consultant and I've never come across a major financial institution using Linux except for web and file servers. The desktop is still Microsoft's and the business is still IBM's and Sun's.
From the above, I'd say you are out of the loop. Microsoft is not on the desktop anymore. Sun may still be around, but people think it's expensive and IBM is doing well because they reduced costs with free software. Who do you service, hot dog vendors or dopes like Bankone?
The topic of disccusion was responsiblity and accountability for "security". I identified the biggest security headache out there, it's ramifications and why no company employing fall guys is going to get away with it for long. The bankers know, from first hand experience, what the problem is and what the solution is. They are not going to fall for blame shifting and excuse making when they look at IT budgets bloated with Windoze induced costs. The bottom line is what's inspected.
Augmented reality... I don't think it's quite the same as visiting a place for yourself.
RTFA and think please.
AR is stuff superimposed on reality at the site. If you want the magisty of the site on it's own, take your headset off.
AR's greatest potential is in historical conservation. It should go far to eliminate botched "restorations" as any number of interpretations can be imaged over the actual object without ever touching it. That's very cool.
AR's greatest potential revenue will be in historical gaming. People already pay for laser tag and paintball. AR can take them to any battle field, give them grisly wounds and other fun effects. Others might prefer other illusions all will be willing to pay for them and many more will be willing to share what they make without charge.
why not use whatever they use to cool nuclear reactor cores to cool your computer
It's water, but it's too expensive and hot for you. It's de ionized and monitored for purity so that nothing plates out and it does not eat your cladding, that's the costly part. But, under pressure, it's hot enough to light paper on fire. That's a little too hot for your little cpu.
I'm not a car mechanic. Duh.
Do not, learn not. Your loss. Ask yourself what's the worst thing that can happen. If you can live with that, go for it. If not take steps to mitigate the worst. If that's not enough, then you might not do it.
Companies... go with closed source software instead of open source software so they have someone to blame/sue when something goes wrong.... the company is paying someone to take the fall when they have a security problem. If this person doesn't realize it, then they are clueless.
No one takes blame when their software does not work or loses your data. The clues are:
Microsoft's massive cash pile.
Everyone else's bloated IT budget.
Articles about a complete lack of "cyber security" in a place that runs mostly M$.
On the other hand, having the authority without the responsibility is a much larger disaster waiting to happen.
That's what having a fall guy is all about. Someone has the authority to fix the problem, but no real clue or budget. Enter the fall guy. Upper management "concentrates on the company's core business" while the fall guy eats the blame.
It's not something that can work forever. How many years can you go to the share holders with bloated IT budgets? Wall Street replaced their core infrastructure with Linux and other free software years ago after the some of the first big M$ worms. They will soon run out of patience for big dumb companies that flush millions down the upgrade toilet and are still prone to data loss and worm breakouts that resemble those of four years ago.
This eweek stuff is pathetic for ignoring the core problem. M$ makes an OS that has no place on a network. It is used, without the owner's knowledge, to send more than 80% of the world's spam and for all sorts of other crimes. Their data models are the roach motel of the digital world and they proudly remind their customers of the costs of migration while lying about the benefits their competitors have to offer. Until Eweek gets it, they are part of the problem.
The real problem is that you still cannot plug your digital camera in and have something intelligent happen. Devices are the roadblock.
Woops, Fedora does Digikam and other camera programs without a hitch. Works perfect for a plethora of digital cameras without additional drivers and other monkey business.
Devices a roadblock? Bull. If you get the device to work with Winblows, you will need to replace it a few years down the road when Winblows changes. The market is filled with equipment so "obsoleted" that works just fine, sometimes better than new equipment, under free software.
It's pretty hard to explain to a user who doesn't care about such things why the look-and-feel is so different among the KDE desktop, the Mozilla browser, OpenOffice and Evolution.
So what? Those applications have different looks/feel and menu items on Windoze too, unless you think that IE's menus are some kind of non changing standard. People learn how to use their tools. I had a good rant about how much better organized KDE is than Winblows yesterday.
"Oh, you can't cut and paste between X and Y because X is a ___ app, but Y is a ___ app." That's fine for those of us who understand the differences among X, KDE and GTK, but ordinary desktop users shouldn't have to be aware of such things.
I'm not really sure what you are talking about. I do cut and paste between GTK, KDE and X across platforms with ssh-X all the time. The only place I've had problems is with OO and some very specific programs. These problems, once again, are fewer than the average Windows user has to put up with.
But the user experience is not.
Then it is nowhere. RTFA again. Use synaptic instead of apt-get and you have the most feature filled, secure and easiest to install and use OS out there. The only way to get easier than that would be to have a Mac and all the resources of Apple at your disposal so you don't ever have to buy another CD.
These are my observations as a five-year exclusive desktop Linux user.
I think I'm in a better position to judge. I've been unable to avoid Winoze at work but have been an exclusive Linux user at home for about three or four years. More importantly, I've been using Mepis for about a year. I can say that computing has never been easier. Really, Winblows has gotten worse not better since your 98 experience. Part of it is viruses the other part is M$'s DRM control freak arrogance which has has made past EULAs look mild and has made the registry a true mess that will take your computer down. They have concentrated on that control freak stupidity instead of more useful and basic things such as real users, virtual desktops and network integration.
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My speakers will always require some wires because I don't want to power them with batteries.
To go wireless with any PC, get yourself a nice little stereo FM transmitter and tune in from the next room. Monster cable's model for cars works excellently. The cheap battery powered model from CompUSA looks great with that aluminum case, but it did not broadcast in stereo for me. I hope they fix that because it was perfect otherwise with an external power jack for an included car plug or any cheap transformer and AAA battery for walking around. You can be sure that others, such as the Belkin models for $15 at Walmart, will work or one that does will find it's way to the shelves soon.
Why did I want to buy another set of speakers again? So that someone could slip the RIAA encrypted streaming wet dream on me? No thanks.
>That's during a severe solar flare, which is a relatively uncommon event. Otherwise, we would have a lot of dead astronauts and cosmonauts.
Could be, but that's beside the point. Someone beneath the atmosphere during the same flare does not get 10 R/hr. The atmosphere is a nice shield against much but not all cosmic radiation.
The writer of that lesson plan must have been training people for submarines rather than space flight.
Cosmic Radiation makes up about 8% of the 360 mREM annual average background dose someone in the US receives. See the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements NCRP 93, 1988, for more information. Murray's "Nuclear Energy" has a pie chart of all sources and might be in your local library. This looks good too.
If you have a Sodium Iodine detector set and a scope, you can see it. Most common energies seen are around 20 MeV. They are big pulses next to the puny normal ones but you will detect one every twenty seconds or so.
You are correct, however, to note that most of these particles are blocked by the atmosphere and that you do get dosed at higher elevations. A person at 80,000 ft. according to the lesson plan cited above, gets about 10 R/hr. Each hour that's five hundred times the dose you get per year on the surface, ouch. By comparison, plants have a cow if you get more than a few unplanned mR.
here. They even have a picture.
HP, which discovered the defect during routine notebook testing, said the flaw could result in blue screens, which indicate a computer crash; intermittent lock-ups or memory corruption.
Gosh, I've seen a lot of that out there. They won't give you your money back, but free replacements which are easy to install have been getting rave reviews. After hundreds of similar replacements, I can say for sure that the RAM was not the problem. Every now and then there really is a hardware problem, like a dead back up battery ($3.00 at Walmart), but mostly it's bad software. So spin a CD before you pop the cover.
These people are being punished for annoying AOHell. Ordinary con men don't get 9 year in prison. There's not enough room there for violent people as is. Con men come and go from jail, till they flunk the three time loser limit. With so many ordinary frauds walking the street you have to wonder what this case represents. This is more AOHell flexing it's muscles than it is public outrage and it's unlikely to protect ordinary citizens.
I got to learn a lot about ordinary con men when one defrauded my mother in law's business. He burned her, her suppliers and her customers with bogus charges and every other manner or fraud in the few months he worked there, including a few spiteful last minute things like putting a chain of paperclips into the fax machine. He almost put her out of business and cost lots of people much more than he pocketed himself. The bozo ended up in jail for some other fraud he'd been involved in, but never spent more than a few months in jail. He'd been doing that kind of thing all his life, but he always gets out of jail and moves on. You can't level fines on the loser because he never has any savings. It's disgusting, but the damage such people do is not great enough for there to be widespread public knowledge and outrage.
Nine years in prison is the kind of punishment doled out by a company with Time Warner money and influence. It's much like the RIAA file sharing cases, where the victim loses their life savings as a "settlement". Sure, those people don't deserve the fines and frauds do, but there are a lot of other frauds that have yet to be punished. I'd like to see fraud taken more seriously but when it comes time to build more jails, AOL controlled media will remind us how expensive that is and nothing will change. Ordinary fraud does not harm big business, in fact it helps reduce start ups and other competition, so it will not be fought seriously.
I'd say Microsoft has already harmed trust in the web and there are not enough reports about it. More than 80% of the world's spam is sent from broken Windows boxes. That in itself is a awefull but it's nothing to compare to the downfall of e-commerce that looms. New surveys are already showing that people are already getting skittish. When these automated scams start taking their victims, that skittishness is going to knock the bottom out of Microsoft or online retail, online banking and every other business that depends on taking money over the web. People are going to have their passwords stolen and their accounts abused and then they will tell their friends and that will be that for everyone. Between the misconception that PC==M$ and the barage of BS from Redmond about everyone else's software sucking as much as theirs, the trust will be gone for a long time.
By the way, that vmyths site itself looks like an email harvester for spammers or worse. I would never give them an email address or use the screen saver offered. I don't trust their flash. Their copy contains no useful or technical information and even looks like spam to me. Check out this deathless prose:
Still waiting for JPEGs to kill the Internet, part 2 We stand at 41+ days since Microsoft released a patch to fix a JPEG vulnerability. Based on what the experts predicted in September, you should be sprinkling lime over your loved ones by now.
It takes time for the Microsoft security dissaster to have it's effect but it's coming. People are not collecting these accounts and passwords for fun and bragging rights, they are doing it for money.
SCO clearly has no sense.
they believed that in this overly intellectual property-conscious land, they would get sympathy, but if so, that was a miscalculation.
Microsoft paid them to steal other people's work and try to make free softare look like a legal pain. The attempt was recognized for what it was and the actors for who they are. They are liars and theives and few people have sympathy for that.
For current information about SCO's suit against IBM, please visit www.sco.com/ibmlawsuit, and about SCO's suit against Novell, please visit www.sco.com/novell."
They have one really nice server. Why would they need another? It's not like they have anything new to say.
They should try chewing gum. It's cheaper, better for your teeth and won't rot everything you use to breath and smell so that you smell like death before dying of heart dissease or cancer. Yes, that rotten smell is really dead tissue.
cigarettes have an illusion of being "cheap" and easily available. Not to mention the perceived (albeit ill-placed) "coolness factor".
They are as cheap as they can be and include a lot of paper and other garbage you would not eat off much less put to your mouth.
Chewing gum is much less expensive, though of equal quality. The downside is that you look like a cow. The upside is that's only about 1/100th as stupid as people who smoke look.
Astroturf is a form of DoS. It disrupts a real community by wasting it's resources and diluting their actual conversations. There's a thin line between that and other stuff, such as crap flooding, harassment, and offensive posts. People who do one have the morals to do both. Catching them is not my job, but sooner or later one of the bigger sources of garbage here is going to be proved to be some kind of M$ paid flunky outfit like SCO.
Dumber things have happened. Why mess around with plot when you can go to the conclusion? Pump followed by dump.
The DLoP (Distributed Lack of Purchasing) attack continues.
The real questions are, "who's buying that garbage" and "what do they think are they are buying?" After the largest investors expressed their misgivings and tried to get out, you would wonder who'd be dumb enough to buy SCOX.
How many sites can they afford to astroturf and DoS? There's Slashdot, Kuroshin, Google, Grocklaw itself. All of those efforts cost money but have failed to one extent or another. I doubt they have the money to keep it up.
No one was going to read their goofey fanboy site anyway. It's hard to make a community out of brand loyalty to a product no one is buying. You can fool some all the time and everyone some of the time but you can't fool all the people all the time, not even the press.
The obfuscation was intentional and for your protection.
I'm sorry that you, like any other twelve year old, have discovered the secret to US election 0ownership. It's too bad you had to brag about it. We get more punks that way and each one breaks my heart. Bright enough to solve the puzzle, dumb enough to do it and then tell.
Our agents will be there to take care of your shorty. Stay where you are, running only makes things hard on you.
I'd be crying if I were not laughing.
The user is "admin" and the password is "password". Just set the winner by state and percentage. There are a few bugs that make things unpredictable, however. Now that you know, I'm going to have to kill you.
I only wish that I was joking. Try this on for size:
The central servers are installed on unpatched, open Windows computers and use RAS (Remote Access Server) to connect to the voting machines through telephone lines. Since RAS is not adequately protected, anyone in the world, even terrorists, who can figure out the server's phone number can change vote totals without being detected by observers. The passwords in many locations are easily guessed, and the access phone numbers can be learned through social engineering or war dialing.
Unpatched Winblows, RAS, modems? Un-#######-believable!
Yes. From those quotes, picked have little to do with the contents of the articles and present a distorted view. Just reading the titles is enough for most reasonable people. You know, titles like "Wall Street Embraces Linux" If Merrill Lynch and four other major trading houses using Linux for everything, and the NYSE using it for transactions is not enough for you, I'm not sure what is. The logical progression from experimentation in 2001 to adoption in 2003 by those banks and trading houses should not be a big surprise to you.
Get back under your bridge. No one legitimate posts AC.
What a bunch of ridiculous tripe. Their "core infrastructure"?? My god. Care to provide a link to back this up, or are you just passing wind?
Sure, I looked up stuff to verify my impressions. It includes things like NYSE financial trading and total usage, desktop and server by most major trading houses. Is that core enough for you?
I am not your God but if you insist on that status for me, I must exercise the usual free will doctrine to shed myself of responsibility for your obnoxious actions. Please give generously to valid charities and buy beer for anyone who identifies himself as Twitter.
Here is your requested raz-berry, pththth-fit.
Is there anything else you want on Halloween?
I don't know what you mean by "Wall Street", but most brokerage houses, banks and even the actual NYSE never used Windows for anything except desktops. The business has always been run on big iron IBM OS/390 and Sun boxes.
You are wrong, but even if you were right, investment firms won't have any patience for companies wasting money on Windoze, desktops included. My point was that they had moved away from that themselves and I find an abundance of information to back up my vague memories. Given the wrongness and insult of your reply, it's easy to see why it was posted AC.
My memory was of a stampede away from Windoze on the desktop after the early M$ dissasters, Melissa and Iloveyou arround 2000, 2001. The worms might have helped. I can't put my fingers on those articles now but I do find these, which offer much more. The time frame is correct, 2001, but the speed of adoption is faster and wider than I remember. Read and enjoy:
I've worked here (in NY) for the better part of the past six years as a consultant and I've never come across a major financial institution using Linux except for web and file servers. The desktop is still Microsoft's and the business is still IBM's and Sun's.
From the above, I'd say you are out of the loop. Microsoft is not on the desktop anymore. Sun may still be around, but people think it's expensive and IBM is doing well because they reduced costs with free software. Who do you service, hot dog vendors or dopes like Bankone?
The topic of disccusion was responsiblity and accountability for "security". I identified the biggest security headache out there, it's ramifications and why no company employing fall guys is going to get away with it for long. The bankers know, from first hand experience, what the problem is and what the solution is. They are not going to fall for blame shifting and excuse making when they look at IT budgets bloated with Windoze induced costs. The bottom line is what's inspected.
RTFA and think please.
AR is stuff superimposed on reality at the site. If you want the magisty of the site on it's own, take your headset off.
AR's greatest potential is in historical conservation. It should go far to eliminate botched "restorations" as any number of interpretations can be imaged over the actual object without ever touching it. That's very cool.
AR's greatest potential revenue will be in historical gaming. People already pay for laser tag and paintball. AR can take them to any battle field, give them grisly wounds and other fun effects. Others might prefer other illusions all will be willing to pay for them and many more will be willing to share what they make without charge.
It's water, but it's too expensive and hot for you. It's de ionized and monitored for purity so that nothing plates out and it does not eat your cladding, that's the costly part. But, under pressure, it's hot enough to light paper on fire. That's a little too hot for your little cpu.
I'm not a car mechanic. Duh.
Do not, learn not. Your loss. Ask yourself what's the worst thing that can happen. If you can live with that, go for it. If not take steps to mitigate the worst. If that's not enough, then you might not do it.
No one takes blame when their software does not work or loses your data. The clues are:
More direct clues can be found in your EULA.
That's what having a fall guy is all about. Someone has the authority to fix the problem, but no real clue or budget. Enter the fall guy. Upper management "concentrates on the company's core business" while the fall guy eats the blame.
It's not something that can work forever. How many years can you go to the share holders with bloated IT budgets? Wall Street replaced their core infrastructure with Linux and other free software years ago after the some of the first big M$ worms. They will soon run out of patience for big dumb companies that flush millions down the upgrade toilet and are still prone to data loss and worm breakouts that resemble those of four years ago.
This eweek stuff is pathetic for ignoring the core problem. M$ makes an OS that has no place on a network. It is used, without the owner's knowledge, to send more than 80% of the world's spam and for all sorts of other crimes. Their data models are the roach motel of the digital world and they proudly remind their customers of the costs of migration while lying about the benefits their competitors have to offer. Until Eweek gets it, they are part of the problem.
Woops, Fedora does Digikam and other camera programs without a hitch. Works perfect for a plethora of digital cameras without additional drivers and other monkey business.
Devices a roadblock? Bull. If you get the device to work with Winblows, you will need to replace it a few years down the road when Winblows changes. The market is filled with equipment so "obsoleted" that works just fine, sometimes better than new equipment, under free software.
So what? Those applications have different looks/feel and menu items on Windoze too, unless you think that IE's menus are some kind of non changing standard. People learn how to use their tools. I had a good rant about how much better organized KDE is than Winblows yesterday.
"Oh, you can't cut and paste between X and Y because X is a ___ app, but Y is a ___ app." That's fine for those of us who understand the differences among X, KDE and GTK, but ordinary desktop users shouldn't have to be aware of such things.
I'm not really sure what you are talking about. I do cut and paste between GTK, KDE and X across platforms with ssh-X all the time. The only place I've had problems is with OO and some very specific programs. These problems, once again, are fewer than the average Windows user has to put up with.
But the user experience is not.
Then it is nowhere. RTFA again. Use synaptic instead of apt-get and you have the most feature filled, secure and easiest to install and use OS out there. The only way to get easier than that would be to have a Mac and all the resources of Apple at your disposal so you don't ever have to buy another CD.
These are my observations as a five-year exclusive desktop Linux user.
I think I'm in a better position to judge. I've been unable to avoid Winoze at work but have been an exclusive Linux user at home for about three or four years. More importantly, I've been using Mepis for about a year. I can say that computing has never been easier. Really, Winblows has gotten worse not better since your 98 experience. Part of it is viruses the other part is M$'s DRM control freak arrogance which has has made past EULAs look mild and has made the registry a true mess that will take your computer down. They have concentrated on that control freak stupidity instead of more useful and basic things such as real users, virtual desktops and network integration.