Not too long ago, monitors were sold in this fashion where the screen size was marketed as being a 17" monitor but in reality you got 15" of "view-able" area.
We all know what a class-action did; we ended-up with a refund and a label on the monitor box (and advertisement) explicitly telling us the true view-able size.
I think printer manufactures are not too far behind.
Why is rape so high in Africa? Because there is this stupid belive that if you do have AIDS and if you do have sex with a virgin, than you will be cured.
5 years ago Netscape was the king of the browsers -- nothing else came close. When MS released it's browser they out leaped Netscape by offering faster JVM and better compatibility. If Netscape didn't just sit back and watch it's browser being eroded from the market and Sun didn't just put all it's eggs in one basket (Netscape) things could have been different.
I am sorry, but all this is not entirely M$'s fault -- the other "big" boys did nothing but enjoyed their short lived fame while M$ continued its assaults.
Questions like those can't be answered by/. readers -- you need a lawyer and some one who understand both the HIPAA and Windows domain to help you out.
Asking such questions on/. will give you nothing but opinions on HIPAA and Windows and how/. views Windows and MS as evil.
Slashdot is becoming "news for making news" (and it can easly be done by throwing MS in the mix) not "news for nerds...".
But, but, but... what about those adds on shop-at-home TV channels that keep telling me how much faster, better, etc. my dial-up^M^M^M^M^M^M^M web browsing experience will be once I buy their state-of-the-art faster-than-a-speeding-bullet PC?
Are you sure that only "games" will run faster on my new high-end PC but not browsing?!!
Well, I got Solaris 8 x86 few years ago (I still have the CDs) -- I got it installed, running, etc., etc. but that was it, end of story!
Other than the OS and the very few applications that came with it, there was nothing else I could do. So what good is an OS on any hardware if it doesn't come with any real world applications to run on it, be it for free for for $$$.
Where are Donald Knuth's books? You should have all three volumes: "The Art of Computer Programming" if you are serouse about writting code. They are the 'blue-print' of programming.
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The best Java book that I have seen so far is "Thinking in Java" by Bruce Eckel. Here is why.
While Mr. Eckel's book does covers the syntax of the language (java in this case) et. al, it also cover the meaning of the language and most of all, it covers how to think in the language (hence: the title).
Almost any developer can pickup a language and become knowledgeable with it by working on one or two projects. However, being *proficient* at your domain, and understanding coding-principles of the language for your domain, and understanding the business of being a programmer is much more difficult goal to achieve -- only time, experience, and dedication will ever get you there. It is this quality that I look for first, the knowledge of a language comes third.
Here is a link that I point people at to high-light my point: Chicken Soup for Your Modeling Soul -- I specially like item 21: "A fool with a tool is still a fool".
From you statements, I take it that when I walk into Burger King, where they have a deal with Coca Cola, Burger King must offer me a choose of Pepsi too. If so, than what happens to the special deal that Cola and King have worked so hard at?
Please don't give me the crap that MS is a monopolist, and thus, this would not apply to them. If so, than the US is a monopolist in the eye of the rest of the world and thus, it should give up a lot of things that it achieves by working so hard for it for the past 100's years just to level with the rest of the world.
It seems to me that if the States that are suing MS were NOT backed up by another greedy big corporation like AOL, Sun, etc. the Government would have had a much better chance at getting MS than it is now.
If the public can bring a class action suit against MS and it is backed by the States as it is now, MS would not be able to stand the trial as it is doing now.
The fact that AOL, Sun, Netscape, etc. have gotten so involved in this case, it makes the case questionable.
"gobeProductive 3.0 - Office XP killer?" and "While gobeProductive isn't as full-featured as OfficeXP, it certainly does garner a whole lot of Bang-for-the-Buck (especially with the FamilyLicense). The author does a great job of summarizing the superiority of gobeProductive in his conclusion when he says,"
In my view, it is a bit too late to speak of "features" and "prices" as an MS Office killer (of any version). Why? For years, corporate office (average Joe/Jane employee/consumer) users have gotten used to the "look-and-feel" of MS Office -- it is a tool that they have become so familiar with for better or worse. Asking them to convert now based on price and feature set of a competing product is like asking them to re-learn walking all over again. Not an easy thing to sell.
I always ignore such bullsh*t comment coming form troller on/. -- but this one needs a reply.
Have you been to a computer store lately? Check the number of titles available for Mac vs. Windows. What about the hardware? And need I mention the price difference?
You bring up Photoshop as Apple had it first -- well I can bring up 123 as x86 had it first. But this point is irrelevant and it looks at the past. You need to wake up and face the *today* and the future -- it's 2002 not 1982 any more.
PS: Next time watch your language. I too can use silly words like "bullsh*t".
For those who are looknig at Apple and syaing that it's hardware is expansive and that Apple gives away it's OS (low cost compared to Windows) you also need to point out that the number of softwares and flavor of hardwares on Apple are limited when it comes to x86.
This is also a big factor in buying an Apple vs an x86. I don't have data on this but I think it is save to say that there are more softwares for Linux than for OS X.
If 5 min. of foot pumping gives you 20 min. of battery life it seems to me that 20 min. of typing on the keyboard should give me 5 min. of extra battery life. I preface a keyboard solution as I won't have to think about the act.
At last the eXtreme Programming (XP) answer
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This is the answer for XP's peers development utilization question. As one developer would be coding, the second would be pumping up the battery -- no more questionable waist of developers' valuable time by just watching over the coder.
Just what the slow tech market needs!
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Think about it. All those tech workers who are looking for a job now can get a job to keep up the laptops of office workers up and running.
I want a manager who understands the many "parts" of the product that I am working on (the building blocks, components, systems, what ever you want to call them).
All too often, management sees the product as one big "black-box" (i.e.: marketing perspective) -- until when they understand the different parts that it is made up of, ONLY than will they appreciate the complexity of the system and hopfuly they begun to manage better.
Is this how we are going to deal with our laws from now on? Ask the public via polls and opinions as to how to deal with an issue and than use that as a fact to win a case?
I wander how many of those opinions came from people who *really* know what a computer is.
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"Actually, they changed directions a little while ago."
Now *this* is what I call smart marketing. Make big noise and PR to attract attention and then deliver anything to the original plan.
Lindows will become just another Linux distributor or will fade away.
Not too long ago, monitors were sold in this fashion where the screen size was marketed as being a 17" monitor but in reality you got 15" of "view-able" area.
We all know what a class-action did; we ended-up with a refund and a label on the monitor box (and advertisement) explicitly telling us the true view-able size.
I think printer manufactures are not too far behind.
... the US government has granted permission to an undisclosed public company to verify that stories posted on /. are real.
As an added bonus, this mission will weed out all duplicate submissions, spelling, grammars, etc. of the stories.
I mean, where's the creativity that patents are supposedly supposed to protect?
The creativity is in phase 2 where they are going to use the patent to auction off eBay -- on eBay.
Why is rape so high in Africa? Because there is this stupid belive that if you do have AIDS and if you do have sex with a virgin, than you will be cured.
5 years ago Netscape was the king of the browsers -- nothing else came close. When MS released it's browser they out leaped Netscape by offering faster JVM and better compatibility. If Netscape didn't just sit back and watch it's browser being eroded from the market and Sun didn't just put all it's eggs in one basket (Netscape) things could have been different.
I am sorry, but all this is not entirely M$'s fault -- the other "big" boys did nothing but enjoyed their short lived fame while M$ continued its assaults.
Questions like those can't be answered by /. readers -- you need a lawyer and some one who understand both the HIPAA and Windows domain to help you out.
/. will give you nothing but opinions on HIPAA and Windows and how /. views Windows and MS as evil.
...".
/. was news for nerds.
Asking such questions on
Slashdot is becoming "news for making news" (and it can easly be done by throwing MS in the mix) not "news for nerds
Gone the days when
"Gamers Drive High End PC Market"
But, but, but... what about those adds on shop-at-home TV channels that keep telling me how much faster, better, etc. my dial-up^M^M^M^M^M^M^M web browsing experience will be once I buy their state-of-the-art faster-than-a-speeding-bullet PC?
Are you sure that only "games" will run faster on my new high-end PC but not browsing?!!
Just like there are variations of Joe69@msn.com, can't they just come up with www.sex#.com?
Well, I got Solaris 8 x86 few years ago (I still have the CDs) -- I got it installed, running, etc., etc. but that was it, end of story!
Other than the OS and the very few applications that came with it, there was nothing else I could do. So what good is an OS on any hardware if it doesn't come with any real world applications to run on it, be it for free for for $$$.
Where are Donald Knuth's books? You should have all three volumes: "The Art of Computer Programming" if you are serouse about writting code. They are the 'blue-print' of programming.
The best Java book that I have seen so far is "Thinking in Java" by Bruce Eckel. Here is why.
While Mr. Eckel's book does covers the syntax of the language (java in this case) et. al, it also cover the meaning of the language and most of all, it covers how to think in the language (hence: the title).
Almost any developer can pickup a language and become knowledgeable with it by working on one or two projects. However, being *proficient* at your domain, and understanding coding-principles of the language for your domain, and understanding the business of being a programmer is much more difficult goal to achieve -- only time, experience, and dedication will ever get you there. It is this quality that I look for first, the knowledge of a language comes third.
Here is a link that I point people at to high-light my point: Chicken Soup for Your Modeling Soul -- I specially like item 21: "A fool with a tool is still a fool".
I don't know if this is how capitalism works.
From you statements, I take it that when I walk into Burger King, where they have a deal with Coca Cola, Burger King must offer me a choose of Pepsi too. If so, than what happens to the special deal that Cola and King have worked so hard at?
Please don't give me the crap that MS is a monopolist, and thus, this would not apply to them. If so, than the US is a monopolist in the eye of the rest of the world and thus, it should give up a lot of things that it achieves by working so hard for it for the past 100's years just to level with the rest of the world.
It seems to me that if the States that are suing MS were NOT backed up by another greedy big corporation like AOL, Sun, etc. the Government would have had a much better chance at getting MS than it is now.
If the public can bring a class action suit against MS and it is backed by the States as it is now, MS would not be able to stand the trial as it is doing now.
The fact that AOL, Sun, Netscape, etc. have gotten so involved in this case, it makes the case questionable.
As always, hardware is ahead of software
"gobeProductive 3.0 - Office XP killer?" and "While gobeProductive isn't as full-featured as OfficeXP, it certainly does garner a whole lot of Bang-for-the-Buck (especially with the FamilyLicense). The author does a great job of summarizing the superiority of gobeProductive in his conclusion when he says,"
In my view, it is a bit too late to speak of "features" and "prices" as an MS Office killer (of any version). Why? For years, corporate office (average Joe/Jane employee/consumer) users have gotten used to the "look-and-feel" of MS Office -- it is a tool that they have become so familiar with for better or worse. Asking them to convert now based on price and feature set of a competing product is like asking them to re-learn walking all over again. Not an easy thing to sell.
The "Spam" that I get from MS ("Windows Update" notification) is killing me. In the past two weeks I had to "update" my W2K TWICE.
And when ever I try to update, the process would break halfway because M$'s server can't keep up with the demand.
In my view, not only has M$ taken over 95% of the desktop, they will soon take over internet traffic with their daily "update".
"What do the folks on Slashdot think?"
/. that has to do with Linux or Windowz will give you tones and tones of posting.
This is easy: anything posted on
Nonsense -- your post is nothing but trolling.
/. -- but this one needs a reply.
I always ignore such bullsh*t comment coming form troller on
Have you been to a computer store lately? Check the number of titles available for Mac vs. Windows. What about the hardware? And need I mention the price difference?
You bring up Photoshop as Apple had it first -- well I can bring up 123 as x86 had it first. But this point is irrelevant and it looks at the past. You need to wake up and face the *today* and the future -- it's 2002 not 1982 any more.
PS: Next time watch your language. I too can use silly words like "bullsh*t".
For those who are looknig at Apple and syaing that it's hardware is expansive and that Apple gives away it's OS (low cost compared to Windows) you also need to point out that the number of softwares and flavor of hardwares on Apple are limited when it comes to x86.
This is also a big factor in buying an Apple vs an x86. I don't have data on this but I think it is save to say that there are more softwares for Linux than for OS X.
If 5 min. of foot pumping gives you 20 min. of battery life it seems to me that 20 min. of typing on the keyboard should give me 5 min. of extra battery life. I preface a keyboard solution as I won't have to think about the act.
This is the answer for XP's peers development utilization question. As one developer would be coding, the second would be pumping up the battery -- no more questionable waist of developers' valuable time by just watching over the coder.
Think about it. All those tech workers who are looking for a job now can get a job to keep up the laptops of office workers up and running.
I want a manager who understands the many "parts" of the product that I am working on (the building blocks, components, systems, what ever you want to call them).
All too often, management sees the product as one big "black-box" (i.e.: marketing perspective) -- until when they understand the different parts that it is made up of, ONLY than will they appreciate the complexity of the system and hopfuly they begun to manage better.
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Is this how we are going to deal with our laws from now on? Ask the public via polls and opinions as to how to deal with an issue and than use that as a fact to win a case?
I wander how many of those opinions came from people who *really* know what a computer is.
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