The problem was not that he couldn't get Linux working; it was that he couldn't get Linux working with Microsoft Windows. The problem was that he couldn'g get Evolution to work with Exchange Server which it was designed to do.
This is like me taking a fine American car to UK and complaining that the car sucks because I have to drive on the other side of the road! This is like you taking a fine American car to the UK and finding that no one will buy it because the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car. And then complaining that the Brits are stupid because they won't buy such a fine car.
Which brings it into line with every other appliance (except maybe my can opener) and electronic device sold in the last 10 years. Hell, my car even has a flashing red light to warn miscreants that a force field is in place and any disturbance will will wake the neighbors.
One of the biggest threats the USA faces today is a serious shortage of energy. I flip a switch and the light comes on. I bump up the thermostat and the furnace comes on. I need to drive to Toledo so I fill the tank. The stores are full of food and manufactured goods from around the world. I can order up a computer, cell phone or HDTV, have it flown in and delivered by a man in a shiny brown truck with no pain, delay or unreasonable expense.
If MS doesn't apply for/receive a patent, someone else will. That pantentholder will then sue the pants off anybody and everybody (with money) who tries to use anything that resembles bluej. That's the game and those are the rules. If you don't like the game, don't play. If you don't like the rules, get 'em changed.
It takes more than whining on Slashdot to fix this.
I think I'll stick with regular gas until they come up with something like a hydrogen powered car. And just where do you think the hydrogen is going to come from? Steam reforming from methane (a fossile fuel) or electrolysis which uses electricity.
Sagar Island (Sunderbans), October 29: An annual 3.14 mm rise in sea level at Sunderbans due to climate change is eating away 12 islands on the delta, says a study by a group of scientists from Jadavpur University.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsi d=207247/ (Kolkata Newsline) Careful measurements of sea level change around the globe show similar numbers. Larger reported changes are usually due to subsidence (sinking land), erosion, annual rain (monsoon, hurricane) related flooding and poor land management. Talk a walk on your nearest beach and figure out how many years it would take at three mm/year before anything interesting would happen. Or be noticed.
Because they've been plugging away all year creating Free and Open Source portable MP3 and video players, games for Linux and web-connected refrigerators. Which they're building, documenting and sharing freely with all their friends. Great holiday season ahead for FOSS.
MS has over 60,000 employees and not all are programmers, developers, engineers, testers etc. Those that have no need to run as admin shouldn't. Their feedback on how Vista performs in a non-admin environment is valuable also.
From MS: This technology supports two models today: a pay-as-you-go model enabled by prepaid cards or a subscription model with monthly payments.
Pay as you go is just like getting a free cell phone and paying for the minutes. Subscription is like getting a free phone and paying a flat fee for unlimited calling.
Now, with business models enabled by FlexGo, Microsoft is removing these [financial] barriers to PC ownership.
Here's a guy who ran a market-leading motorcycle company into the ground in the days of carburettors, coil ignition and chain drive. Now he's in charge of technology for the good old US of A.
The much ballyhooed $100 laptop (handcrank, mesh network and all) ain't gonna happen. Nine months from volume production and no working model. Pretty plastic cases but no input, no output and no computing between.
Intel, on the other hand, knows a few things about actually shipping product.
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The problem was not that he couldn't get Linux working; it was that he couldn't get Linux working with Microsoft Windows.
The problem was that he couldn'g get Evolution to work with Exchange Server which it was designed to do.
This is like me taking a fine American car to UK and complaining that the car sucks because I have to drive on the other side of the road!
This is like you taking a fine American car to the UK and finding that no one will buy it because the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car. And then complaining that the Brits are stupid because they won't buy such a fine car.
Goddamn managers and their shared calendars.
It's always the customer's fault. Stupid customers.
Which brings it into line with every other appliance (except maybe my can opener) and electronic device sold in the last 10 years. Hell, my car even has a flashing red light to warn miscreants that a force field is in place and any disturbance will will wake the neighbors.
One of the biggest threats the USA faces today is a serious shortage of energy.
I flip a switch and the light comes on. I bump up the thermostat and the furnace comes on. I need to drive to Toledo so I fill the tank. The stores are full of food and manufactured goods from around the world. I can order up a computer, cell phone or HDTV, have it flown in and delivered by a man in a shiny brown truck with no pain, delay or unreasonable expense.
Where's the energy shortage?
If MS doesn't apply for/receive a patent, someone else will. That pantentholder will then sue the pants off anybody and everybody (with money) who tries to use anything that resembles bluej. That's the game and those are the rules. If you don't like the game, don't play. If you don't like the rules, get 'em changed.
It takes more than whining on Slashdot to fix this.
I think I'll stick with regular gas until they come up with something like a hydrogen powered car.
And just where do you think the hydrogen is going to come from? Steam reforming from methane (a fossile fuel) or electrolysis which uses electricity.
Use the battery (charged off the grid) for "around town" and gas up to go over the river and through the woods to Granny's house.
This is me not holding my breath.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?news
(Kolkata Newsline)
Careful measurements of sea level change around the globe show similar numbers. Larger reported changes are usually due to subsidence (sinking land), erosion, annual rain (monsoon, hurricane) related flooding and poor land management. Talk a walk on your nearest beach and figure out how many years it would take at three mm/year before anything interesting would happen. Or be noticed.
Quick -- copies to the Unrefined Musician!
Its the hair, man.
A View Source Key -- now there's a top level UI component that hundreds of millions of computer users have been begging for.
Because they've been plugging away all year creating Free and Open Source portable MP3 and video players, games for Linux and web-connected refrigerators. Which they're building, documenting and sharing freely with all their friends. Great holiday season ahead for FOSS.
MS has over 60,000 employees and not all are programmers, developers, engineers, testers etc. Those that have no need to run as admin shouldn't. Their feedback on how Vista performs in a non-admin environment is valuable also.
From MS:
This technology supports two models today: a pay-as-you-go model enabled by prepaid cards or a subscription model with monthly payments.
Pay as you go is just like getting a free cell phone and paying for the minutes. Subscription is like getting a free phone and paying a flat fee for unlimited calling.
Now, with business models enabled by FlexGo, Microsoft is removing these [financial] barriers to PC ownership.
Asymptote: Always closer, never quite getting there. See: Broadband over Powerlines; BPL
Shouldn't this have its own section and icon by now?
MIT = More Irrelevant Technology.
A result of the sensationalist junk about poor job prospects for IT professionals.
Profit and revenue are two different things. There is no such thing as "profit revenue."
Billion what? Dollars? Euros? Yuan? Since they're "untold" I guess nobody knows how many billions MS has spent on the Chinese market.
Here's a guy who ran a market-leading motorcycle company into the ground in the days of carburettors, coil ignition and chain drive. Now he's in charge of technology for the good old US of A.
I loved those BSA motorcycles.
The much ballyhooed $100 laptop (handcrank, mesh network and all) ain't gonna happen. Nine months from volume production and no working model. Pretty plastic cases but no input, no output and no computing between.
Intel, on the other hand, knows a few things about actually shipping product.
QED
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon
What exactly is a "self-replicating zero-day spyware threat?"
Honestly, there are too many email options out there.
How many is "too many?" Three? Five? 21? 256?