As someone who has moved its business to Linux, it wasn't exactly a walk in the park. Employees needed to be retrained and things that was normal to do in Windows is just missing in the linux/bsd world. PDF manipulation being the biggest issue right now for me, OCR's, adding pages to PDF's, etc. Though, people get by without it, but its a missing feature for what was easy to do in Adobe Acrobat. A lot of PLC programming software relies on Windows, especially Siemens, with their God forsaken ridiculous requirements to use their software, but VMware solved those problems for me. But I've been slowly dumping Siemens for alternatives (Yes, you hear that Siemens, I don't like your crap and your ridiculous SD card licenses) that work just fine in Wine.
Machine manufacturers have been hostile towards me at first until I told them I won't ever buy from them, now they're all coming back to me willing to make their HMI's and software run in Linux or BSD (You'd surprised how many critical software for machines runs on top of Windows, or major industries, even power stations).
All in all, it wasn't a difficult move, but it wasn't an easy move either. If it wasn't for my enjoyment of using Linux, it probably would have been very difficult to transition to it. I wish more businesses would move away from Windows. Industrial automation is dominated by Microsoft Windows, but it doesn't have to be if more owners would simply refuse to purchase machines with it. Machine manufacturers will do it, especially when it means they make a sale.
Don't forget you can actually rent videos and stream them if they're not available on prime. Something Netflix completely neglects and why their selection is diminishing.
Isn't that every company lately? If it's not that, it's the other extreme, they expect you to work for minimum wage and expect miracles like a 30 year experienced engineer.
Most home owners don't care. They want to plugin their device and use it. They don't worry about security or even care about it most of the time because they don't understand it at all. When you make your device to restrictive, they complain.
I'm curious how you were able to pay a company $3000 to have fiber installed? I can't even get fiber installed to my warehouse where fiber is available a street away, even if I payed them a million dollars, they would spit on me.
Interesting metric. There was an article from Amazon how mobile shopping approached 60%, so pretty close to your numbers. I'll still use a desktop PC for my purchases. It would be interesting to see a break down of the OS versions being used as well. I wonder how many outdated Android or IOS devices are being used.
But how many mobile devices are actually doing something useful on the web? I end up going to a PC if I'm going to purchase stuff off of Amazon for example. I may occasionally read some news through my phone, but I try not too because of the small font. Tablets? If every website didn't switch to a damn mobile phone style format on a 10-12" tablet, I might find it useful. I have to click a button to "Request the desktop version". I don't think they're replacing desktop PC's yet, for now, they just compliment my PC when I don't want to lug around my laptop.
And then we have all the bots on android devices, not even google knows how many there are.
Quite tired of these click bait slashdot articles. Now it's all about Trump will destroy this and that. Trump will destroy humanity. Trump isn't even in the Whitehouse yet and already people are speculating how the world is going to end.
Which is why I'm still hopeful for that Ubuntu phone. Seems they haven't given up on it yet, hopefully the new release will be a lot better than before and not using an older phone model. Supposed to be out this year. I hope they resolve the manufacturing issues keeping people from purchasing it (It seems they've underestimated how many people would buy it).
What I find amazing is to what extent these manufacturers go to stop people from doing anything useful with these locked down devices. Seems to much time and effort is being put into obfuscation (Using even opensource software to do it) than actually making a useful product. My question is, why? Just seems silly and creates a lot more waste. There's so many of these devices out there right now, that doing this is completely pointless and doesn't even guarantee the customer is going to buy your product again.
But it hasn't. A lot of commercial software have offered alternatives (Very cheap alternatives), without having to worry about legal issues, and it pretty much all backfired on Stallman. Free or not, everything has a cost.
The problem with these stores, they already cover themselves by selling products that are listed only. They absolve themselves out of all responsibility and the listing companies just claim it was built to specific standards. Everyones ass is covered.
We just have lousy import controls that let these products through like nothing. US Customs is simply not doing their jobs to prevent these products from coming in. Somehow Europe manages to stop a lot more of this than we do. This cheap crap also has a high cost to many other industries, including insurance. Our building and fire codes have been upgraded to deal with the cheap stuff which has caused a lot of things to literally explode in price astronomically when it used to be that we could trust certain products. The fire sprinklers in homes didn't just get thrown in there out of nowhere. I can't even trust my coffee maker anymore, many counterfeit brands being sold with no high limit controller, because 30 cents is already too expensive. I've already had one coffee maker melt itself (Bought by an employee), with a supposedly "counterfeit" UL mark bought from the local store (Shows how much that UL mark is helping too, completely useless).
Also, China also abuses the crap out of that CE mark (Which only works in Europe, the US has no laws for CE), but have managed to convince a lot of people this is acceptable in the US. I get so many machine sales guy trying to convince me of this, which I promptly kick out of my building.
Amazon makes this a little worse as well. A lot of "Amazon Warehouses" are actually third party sellers that Amazon has made deals with to ship products out. So expanding on point #2, you'll find counterfeit products being sold by Amazon. I was waiting for someone to sue Amazon for this, eventually someone is going to hit them for not selling listed products. All one has to do is order a coffee machine from Amazon that's not listed and simply burn their own house down, easy payout (Did I just give someone an idea?). Home Depot was hit the same way and now they require every electrical product they sell to be listed.
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Cities are well within their rights to require a permit. The state may not be able to enforce a permit, but the city can.
As someone who has moved its business to Linux, it wasn't exactly a walk in the park. Employees needed to be retrained and things that was normal to do in Windows is just missing in the linux/bsd world. PDF manipulation being the biggest issue right now for me, OCR's, adding pages to PDF's, etc. Though, people get by without it, but its a missing feature for what was easy to do in Adobe Acrobat. A lot of PLC programming software relies on Windows, especially Siemens, with their God forsaken ridiculous requirements to use their software, but VMware solved those problems for me. But I've been slowly dumping Siemens for alternatives (Yes, you hear that Siemens, I don't like your crap and your ridiculous SD card licenses) that work just fine in Wine.
Machine manufacturers have been hostile towards me at first until I told them I won't ever buy from them, now they're all coming back to me willing to make their HMI's and software run in Linux or BSD (You'd surprised how many critical software for machines runs on top of Windows, or major industries, even power stations).
All in all, it wasn't a difficult move, but it wasn't an easy move either. If it wasn't for my enjoyment of using Linux, it probably would have been very difficult to transition to it. I wish more businesses would move away from Windows. Industrial automation is dominated by Microsoft Windows, but it doesn't have to be if more owners would simply refuse to purchase machines with it. Machine manufacturers will do it, especially when it means they make a sale.
Makes sense, considering all the ISIS posts they like to keep around and do nothing about.
Don't forget you can actually rent videos and stream them if they're not available on prime. Something Netflix completely neglects and why their selection is diminishing.
And then you're screwed when you do need the USB port to recover the computer.
Isn't that every company lately? If it's not that, it's the other extreme, they expect you to work for minimum wage and expect miracles like a 30 year experienced engineer.
That's what makes me sad with cellphones.
Most home owners don't care. They want to plugin their device and use it. They don't worry about security or even care about it most of the time because they don't understand it at all. When you make your device to restrictive, they complain.
I'm curious how you were able to pay a company $3000 to have fiber installed? I can't even get fiber installed to my warehouse where fiber is available a street away, even if I payed them a million dollars, they would spit on me.
Interesting metric. There was an article from Amazon how mobile shopping approached 60%, so pretty close to your numbers. I'll still use a desktop PC for my purchases. It would be interesting to see a break down of the OS versions being used as well. I wonder how many outdated Android or IOS devices are being used.
Until it crashes on you or starts crawling really slow for no reason. Firefox on android crashes on me like applications did back in the late 90's.
Out of curiosity, what was the practical use for it?
What a cool laptop.
I went on to buy a linux XPS 13, I've been quite happy with it. At least it has an SD card reader.
Put it in Vmware on a windows laptop then claim how slow it is compared to a natively installed version on the Mac?
But how many mobile devices are actually doing something useful on the web? I end up going to a PC if I'm going to purchase stuff off of Amazon for example. I may occasionally read some news through my phone, but I try not too because of the small font. Tablets? If every website didn't switch to a damn mobile phone style format on a 10-12" tablet, I might find it useful. I have to click a button to "Request the desktop version". I don't think they're replacing desktop PC's yet, for now, they just compliment my PC when I don't want to lug around my laptop.
And then we have all the bots on android devices, not even google knows how many there are.
Quite tired of these click bait slashdot articles. Now it's all about Trump will destroy this and that. Trump will destroy humanity. Trump isn't even in the Whitehouse yet and already people are speculating how the world is going to end.
So kind of like Xubuntu but with more of a light weight gnome flavor? I guess I could kind of dig it, looks interesting.
Nope, but someone is.
Which is why I'm still hopeful for that Ubuntu phone. Seems they haven't given up on it yet, hopefully the new release will be a lot better than before and not using an older phone model. Supposed to be out this year. I hope they resolve the manufacturing issues keeping people from purchasing it (It seems they've underestimated how many people would buy it).
What I find amazing is to what extent these manufacturers go to stop people from doing anything useful with these locked down devices. Seems to much time and effort is being put into obfuscation (Using even opensource software to do it) than actually making a useful product. My question is, why? Just seems silly and creates a lot more waste. There's so many of these devices out there right now, that doing this is completely pointless and doesn't even guarantee the customer is going to buy your product again.
But it hasn't. A lot of commercial software have offered alternatives (Very cheap alternatives), without having to worry about legal issues, and it pretty much all backfired on Stallman. Free or not, everything has a cost.
The problem with these stores, they already cover themselves by selling products that are listed only. They absolve themselves out of all responsibility and the listing companies just claim it was built to specific standards. Everyones ass is covered.
We just have lousy import controls that let these products through like nothing. US Customs is simply not doing their jobs to prevent these products from coming in. Somehow Europe manages to stop a lot more of this than we do. This cheap crap also has a high cost to many other industries, including insurance. Our building and fire codes have been upgraded to deal with the cheap stuff which has caused a lot of things to literally explode in price astronomically when it used to be that we could trust certain products. The fire sprinklers in homes didn't just get thrown in there out of nowhere. I can't even trust my coffee maker anymore, many counterfeit brands being sold with no high limit controller, because 30 cents is already too expensive. I've already had one coffee maker melt itself (Bought by an employee), with a supposedly "counterfeit" UL mark bought from the local store (Shows how much that UL mark is helping too, completely useless).
Also, China also abuses the crap out of that CE mark (Which only works in Europe, the US has no laws for CE), but have managed to convince a lot of people this is acceptable in the US. I get so many machine sales guy trying to convince me of this, which I promptly kick out of my building.
Amazon makes this a little worse as well. A lot of "Amazon Warehouses" are actually third party sellers that Amazon has made deals with to ship products out. So expanding on point #2, you'll find counterfeit products being sold by Amazon. I was waiting for someone to sue Amazon for this, eventually someone is going to hit them for not selling listed products. All one has to do is order a coffee machine from Amazon that's not listed and simply burn their own house down, easy payout (Did I just give someone an idea?). Home Depot was hit the same way and now they require every electrical product they sell to be listed.