[management] taken a perfectly good distribution and absolutely destroyed its reputation
You're right and everyone is up in arms about it. I've never seen people get so riled up about software like that, so I'll just take your word for it. I mean, who would use something with a minor error for people in New Zealand who don't apply an easy fix? That just ruins it for me.
... and many others. You can start here, but the list goes on and on because free software is like that. If you count the Debian derivative users, you find that it's the most popular and widely used gnu/linux. That's because it's free and easy to modify. Ultimately, freedom meets user need better than anything else.
I don't use twitter and have no idea if twitter users can post to slashdot. I never got into the phone texting thing.
My point was that office is an expensive piece of software and that most people would rather spend the money on hardware. Home users don't need a $400 "professional" office suite, especially when they could buy a whole laptop and have two coppies of open office instead.
Other people have posted to tell me lots of confusing three for the price of one deals and that volume licenses to companies are even cheaper. Screw all of that. Free is always easier. Shame on M$ for dumping their office onto companies that might need and can afford it.
$400 is, IIRC, about the price tag of the Professional license bought one a time
Then this is the price of a word processor for home users. The limitations on bundled versions generally make them less than usable and no one is going to buy a volume discount for their family are they?
I have no problem using either "right away"
You are better at reading minds than I am. 2007's interface left me flat.
The only thing stopping droves from converting to linux from those live CD's is an easy network setup wizard that figures out your NDISwrapper settings and gets you connected.
That will work as soon as chipset makers abandon NDIS and use something sane instead. They will do that when people dump windows because microsoft releases a dud like vista. The only thing holding the microsoft empire together is money. When that's gone, hardware makers will have to do something honest.
The only way in which 2007 is "worse" than either 2003 or OOo in terms of interface is that its not the same as one would expect from prior versions of Office (which have been fairly constant back at least to Office 95)
How about the $400 per seat price tag? Is that still there? Do you want:
A desktop with M$ Office and it's snazzy interface.
A desktop and a laptop with Open Office, which you can use right away.
No group has gotten more money from the CIA than Google. Except Osama Bin Laden. Except Microsoft. OMG, did I just call M$ a CIA sponsored terrorist? What a smear. This internet thing, is not fair.
So it's "free" as in "you have to buy new hardware?" Even when the built-in adapter "just works" in Windows?
If "just works" means mostly does not work, yes. The fact is that Wireless is just as big or bigger a pain in the ass for Windows users and they have other larger problems too.
The easy way to deal with this problem is to bring a live CD to the store. If the laptop does not work, don't buy it. Be sure to try things like power management. Any modern distribution will use kde's new interface and the laptop should sleep and hibernate on demand. If it does work, you know the thing will work well for the life of the hardware which is more than you can say for any version of Windows.
The only time you want to go looking for wireless cards is when you get hardware second hand or at a substantial discount. Even then it's a good idea to take the laptop to the store and try out cards until one works. Makers will often swap chipsets out so the only way to really know a card works is to see it.
Unless AMD explicitly stated, "everything you see here is confidential" or, "this particular thing is confidential", the NDA has no force. NDAs are evil and stupid, and this one takes the cake for being so vague, but the conclusion the author then jumps to is worse.
It is highly probable that the same NDA will be used to force everyone to toe the line and publish only suitably-positive, pre-approved articles.
Right. AMD is going to sue papers for unfavorable reviews and it's all based on that flimsy NDA.
The only thing more pathetic than living to work is trolling message boards with said opinion. Get back to work, or you have violated your reason to exist. The rest of us will continue to enjoy life.
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You're right and everyone is up in arms about it. I've never seen people get so riled up about software like that, so I'll just take your word for it. I mean, who would use something with a minor error for people in New Zealand who don't apply an easy fix? That just ruins it for me.
... and many others. You can start here, but the list goes on and on because free software is like that. If you count the Debian derivative users, you find that it's the most popular and widely used gnu/linux. That's because it's free and easy to modify. Ultimately, freedom meets user need better than anything else.
OK, I give up. What are you talking about?
I don't use twitter and have no idea if twitter users can post to slashdot. I never got into the phone texting thing.
My point was that office is an expensive piece of software and that most people would rather spend the money on hardware. Home users don't need a $400 "professional" office suite, especially when they could buy a whole laptop and have two coppies of open office instead.
Other people have posted to tell me lots of confusing three for the price of one deals and that volume licenses to companies are even cheaper. Screw all of that. Free is always easier. Shame on M$ for dumping their office onto companies that might need and can afford it.
$400 is, IIRC, about the price tag of the Professional license bought one a time
Then this is the price of a word processor for home users. The limitations on bundled versions generally make them less than usable and no one is going to buy a volume discount for their family are they?
I have no problem using either "right away"
You are better at reading minds than I am. 2007's interface left me flat.
The only thing stopping droves from converting to linux from those live CD's is an easy network setup wizard that figures out your NDISwrapper settings and gets you connected.
That will work as soon as chipset makers abandon NDIS and use something sane instead. They will do that when people dump windows because microsoft releases a dud like vista. The only thing holding the microsoft empire together is money. When that's gone, hardware makers will have to do something honest.
The only way in which 2007 is "worse" than either 2003 or OOo in terms of interface is that its not the same as one would expect from prior versions of Office (which have been fairly constant back at least to Office 95)
How about the $400 per seat price tag? Is that still there? Do you want:
Take your time deciding, there's no rush to buy.
No group has gotten more money from the CIA than Google. Except Osama Bin Laden. Except Microsoft. OMG, did I just call M$ a CIA sponsored terrorist? What a smear. This internet thing, is not fair.
So it's "free" as in "you have to buy new hardware?" Even when the built-in adapter "just works" in Windows?
If "just works" means mostly does not work, yes. The fact is that Wireless is just as big or bigger a pain in the ass for Windows users and they have other larger problems too.
The easy way to deal with this problem is to bring a live CD to the store. If the laptop does not work, don't buy it. Be sure to try things like power management. Any modern distribution will use kde's new interface and the laptop should sleep and hibernate on demand. If it does work, you know the thing will work well for the life of the hardware which is more than you can say for any version of Windows.
The only time you want to go looking for wireless cards is when you get hardware second hand or at a substantial discount. Even then it's a good idea to take the laptop to the store and try out cards until one works. Makers will often swap chipsets out so the only way to really know a card works is to see it.
Unless AMD explicitly stated, "everything you see here is confidential" or, "this particular thing is confidential", the NDA has no force. NDAs are evil and stupid, and this one takes the cake for being so vague, but the conclusion the author then jumps to is worse.
Right. AMD is going to sue papers for unfavorable reviews and it's all based on that flimsy NDA.
The only thing more pathetic than living to work is trolling message boards with said opinion. Get back to work, or you have violated your reason to exist. The rest of us will continue to enjoy life.