My girlfriends mother bought a laptop about two years ago. She struggled with Windows as she had never used a computer much before. I installed gOS and she's doing fantastic with it.
Just because you are used to Windows and find it hard to transition, don't blame the OS, blame yourself.
Well, why isn't this article and countless articles and blogs talking about you and how you did it if it's that easy to figure out? Give the lad credit...
It's most likely another step towards Google creating their own OS, where all machines are thin-clients and applications are run from a server such as the way Google Apps are at the moment.
From the article:
Like Google Apps, Postini's services are entirely hosted, eliminating the need to install any hardware or software.
Personally I wouldn't go for it, but it makes sound economic sense to a lot of companies. Thin clients are alot cheaper than standard PC's and instead of paying thousands of euro to microsoft for licensing, they can pay a small subscription to Google instead. Maybe they will receive the service free from Google, with Google making money from advertising within it's OS.
Actually, Sony didn't try to
force the market to use your proprietary format that none but your own hardware can read with the minidisc. Many companies from Sharp to AIWA produced minidisc players, recorders and discs that were all cheaper than Sony's versions. In fact, I own one and still use it with a mic as a portable sound recorder and it does a damn good job. The minidisc failed because of the price and the poor selection of music available.
I believe that the demise of the UMD is mainly down to the fact that if you want to watch movies on the go you can buy them on DVD, rip them and transfer to your mp4 (or similar) player. That way you still have the DVD that at SD resolution and will play on your TV, you can watch it on the go, and it cost you about three times less than the UMD.
On my forum somedays we'd get 5/6 bots per day. It's a vB board and it used the standard vB captcha. One day I installed a plugin called NoSpam! which asks the user a simple question when registering. Questions such as 2+2=, what do you do when a traffic light goes red, etc. The questions are simple, if somebody can't answer them I'd be suprised that the made it as far as the registration page. Since I've installed it there hasn't been even one bot through so it is 100% efective so far.
I know it won't last forever and that bots will be programmed to circumvent it but I'll deal with that when it comes to it.
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My girlfriends mother bought a laptop about two years ago. She struggled with Windows as she had never used a computer much before. I installed gOS and she's doing fantastic with it.
Just because you are used to Windows and find it hard to transition, don't blame the OS, blame yourself.
If ya don't like it then why don't ya fuck off and post somewhere else?
Well, why isn't this article and countless articles and blogs talking about you and how you did it if it's that easy to figure out? Give the lad credit...
A revolt is sweeping the intergoogle as googledotters dismay at googlesofts purchase of diggoogle.
It's most likely another step towards Google creating their own OS, where all machines are thin-clients and applications are run from a server such as the way Google Apps are at the moment.
From the article: Like Google Apps, Postini's services are entirely hosted, eliminating the need to install any hardware or software.
Personally I wouldn't go for it, but it makes sound economic sense to a lot of companies. Thin clients are alot cheaper than standard PC's and instead of paying thousands of euro to microsoft for licensing, they can pay a small subscription to Google instead. Maybe they will receive the service free from Google, with Google making money from advertising within it's OS.
On my forum somedays we'd get 5/6 bots per day. It's a vB board and it used the standard vB captcha. One day I installed a plugin called NoSpam! which asks the user a simple question when registering. Questions such as 2+2=, what do you do when a traffic light goes red, etc. The questions are simple, if somebody can't answer them I'd be suprised that the made it as far as the registration page. Since I've installed it there hasn't been even one bot through so it is 100% efective so far. I know it won't last forever and that bots will be programmed to circumvent it but I'll deal with that when it comes to it.