Author should learn how to write better sites. IE7 works jsut fine - as far as or so poor small businesses go - they are choke full of absilutely horrid sites that did not work well in any browser. It seems the site in question belongs to that category.
"Genuine advantage" or DVD mandatory screens never bothered anybody and do not jeopardise owners health. When it goes overboard (DivX anyone?) it eventually fails.
The only reason for it not to fail is government intervention. Is it what Toyota is banking on?
Why would anybody buy a car that may just die on you if you happened to use an common hand disinfectant (96% ethanol - the one they use in hospitals) - all the while you can easily defeat it with a pair of gloves when you are really drunk.
[p] This is beyond insane. It is stupid.
>isn't Russia getting lots of money from the IMF and/or World Bank anymore?
No, they do not. They have a positive trade balance bigger then china and foreign reserves larger then Taiwan.
Every time you fill up your car, somebody in Moscow smiles.
I am glad that I am using IE7. Killer feature that made me switch is a much nicer zoom for pages, compared to FIrefox, which heps on my 1900x1200 laptop screen on some sites where developers insisted on adding flash content sized for a 800x600 screen... IE7 tabs are also a bit nicer and interface is less cluttered then Firefox.
That is my opinion and I do not care about yours.
>And that's another thing I don't understand: Why do companies complain about having to re-train employees for Linux, when they have to re-train them for each new version of Windows and Office anyway?
Well, retraining is much easier, tehre is actually quite some decent continuity, and more important - there is one thing to learn, and most new hires will know it.
Office works quite well. Alternatives are just approaching its functionality, and they are much more in flux, and frankly there is NO advantage on switching. Support contracts for Linux based alternatives are far from cheap, experts are not cheap, and finding and hiring anybody who is familiar with it is not easy or cheap.
Trust me - if it was actually obviously beneficial to business, people would be doing it. Nobody holds on to Microsoft for nastalgic reasons.
Try hiring few thousands of non-technical workers who have any experience with one particular (out of a few zillions) versions of a Linux desktop that you may plan to roll out. Or try dealing with your shareholders afer overpaying Apple for such a rollout.
I recently briefly worked with a small company that used Gnome desktop on most their available desktops (science types like to suffer)- I could hardly tolerate this, as I always used KDE. With Windows - it is always a known thing, and when I hire a secretary, she is likely to know Excel, not some particular of a zillion spread sheet wannabies.
Well, that is until the new Office and Vista start rolling out..
Honestly, I would rather have a late patch from MS, then a rootkit from Sony.
99% of users are not hackers. They will click and istall anything. At least now they will not be able to install a rootkit easily - so there will be one company to be kept accountable.
Better Microsoft then RIAA.
Yeah, right. My 10 year old Linux programs work and compile just fine under latest kernel/glibc/gcc - NOT. Quit bitching - backward compatibility is a major hassle, and unlike open source project MS got contracts and they can not just tell us - no luck, recompile and redo all your apps - as Linux forced us to do many time over.
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A voice of reason on Slashdot. Incredible. Moderate this up.
I will explain you how - you are a dumb mofo who does not know how to do his job and just posts absolutely unsubstantiated BS on Slashdot.
No, you still have to click on EULA and agree on installation. IT is not automatic like the rest of the updates.
Bingo. IE7 leapfrogged Firefox in usability, and for sure is much improved over IE6. I bet Firefox will catch up ASAP, but IE7 is a nice piece of kit.
Author should learn how to write better sites. IE7 works jsut fine - as far as or so poor small businesses go - they are choke full of absilutely horrid sites that did not work well in any browser. It seems the site in question belongs to that category.
The only reason for it not to fail is government intervention. Is it what Toyota is banking on?
Why would anybody buy a car that may just die on you if you happened to use an common hand disinfectant (96% ethanol - the one they use in hospitals) - all the while you can easily defeat it with a pair of gloves when you are really drunk. [p] This is beyond insane. It is stupid.
Certainly they do not sell it here directly. But the price they get elsewhere has a direct connection with the consumption level around here.
Oil and gas is around 60% of the Russia's export. If they find some smarts to invest this windfall, they will do OK.. No about that smarts thingy...
>isn't Russia getting lots of money from the IMF and/or World Bank anymore? No, they do not. They have a positive trade balance bigger then china and foreign reserves larger then Taiwan. Every time you fill up your car, somebody in Moscow smiles.
I am glad that I am using IE7. Killer feature that made me switch is a much nicer zoom for pages, compared to FIrefox, which heps on my 1900x1200 laptop screen on some sites where developers insisted on adding flash content sized for a 800x600 screen... IE7 tabs are also a bit nicer and interface is less cluttered then Firefox. That is my opinion and I do not care about yours.
Utah has Moab and Zion. Everything north of freeway 70 should be sanitized and repopulated. :)
Just because you are not paranoid, does not mean that they are not out to get you.
Mormons are out to get us.
It has nothing to do with Google. What a retarded story.
The horror. The horror.
Well, retraining is much easier, tehre is actually quite some decent continuity, and more important - there is one thing to learn, and most new hires will know it.
Office works quite well. Alternatives are just approaching its functionality, and they are much more in flux, and frankly there is NO advantage on switching. Support contracts for Linux based alternatives are far from cheap, experts are not cheap, and finding and hiring anybody who is familiar with it is not easy or cheap.
Trust me - if it was actually obviously beneficial to business, people would be doing it. Nobody holds on to Microsoft for nastalgic reasons.
Try hiring few thousands of non-technical workers who have any experience with one particular (out of a few zillions) versions of a Linux desktop that you may plan to roll out. Or try dealing with your shareholders afer overpaying Apple for such a rollout. I recently briefly worked with a small company that used Gnome desktop on most their available desktops (science types like to suffer)- I could hardly tolerate this, as I always used KDE. With Windows - it is always a known thing, and when I hire a secretary, she is likely to know Excel, not some particular of a zillion spread sheet wannabies.
Well, that is until the new Office and Vista start rolling out..
How about every frigging time they issue a bunch of patches that you can download and install.
At least monthly, and it works pretty darn good.
Honestly, I would rather have a late patch from MS, then a rootkit from Sony. 99% of users are not hackers. They will click and istall anything. At least now they will not be able to install a rootkit easily - so there will be one company to be kept accountable. Better Microsoft then RIAA.
Run them in userspace, where they belong.
Yeah, right. My 10 year old Linux programs work and compile just fine under latest kernel/glibc/gcc - NOT.
Quit bitching - backward compatibility is a major hassle, and unlike open source project MS got contracts and they can not just tell us - no luck, recompile and redo all your apps - as Linux forced us to do many time over.
..as in "works on PowerPoint"..
Yes, I do.
13 sattelites on board of a "Satan" rocket. They should have scheduled the launch on July 6, 2006. 06/06/06.
I should stop screwing around with my cars too much...