You do a disservice to "corporate suits who make the purchasing decisions." The technical community is moving from commercial to their own standards. The more M$ fouls commercial standards, the easier it will be to make the case for community standards. Believe it or not, corporate leadership often comes from engineering and they respect the opinions of their staff more than those of salesmen. Everyone now knows that OOXML is a deeply flawed and impossible to implement "standard". Business is more likely to move to cheaper and better ODF editors because of the ISO scandal.
The corruption is so obvious that the ISO's reputation has been harmed. This is a bigger win for M$ than the coo-coo standard they never intended to follow. It is as if RJR got the AMA to approve a cigarette through bribery and a truncated "fast track" process. OOXML is against everything the ISO stood for and that contradiction is the forest that should be seen through all the clear cut trees. Commercial standards are now obviously compromised.
Here's the blowback, that M$ may not have anticipated. It is now up to GNU, Debian and other community efforts to define reasonable standards. People who have "respect" for convicted monopolists will no longer be trusted. The more M$ abuses their power, the more people want to escape.
It might be easier if you explained that systems with encryption and other reasonable security will keep lists of dissidents they are trying to protect out of the hands of people who will kill them. Then they might get used to doing things on a system that works.
Outlook had a few nice interface ideas but it's underpinnings are rotten. It has not been updated in years and the single database for all of your information makes it little more than a toy. The atomized aproach taken by all the free software projects is superior, allowing for faster accesss, easy portability and data integrity. Years ago, they had a device advantage for sync but Open and portable are all the rage today. The only thing that Outlook has was good integration of information. Lightning should follow that and probably will, so that there may be a superficial resemblence to the interfaces.
KDE is already working on aspects of this. Kontact has html calendar, journal and free time exports. It would not take much to integrate this will more extensive blogging and server software.
Nothing should be ruled out. An Outlook like summary page, sync and what not could easily happen.
Thunderbird is somewhat like a supertanker. It's been sitting in port for a few years with only a maintenance crew on board, and now we're trying to take it out to sea with a bunch of new sailors on board â" it takes a while to grease all the machinery, fix the rusty pipes, get the old-timers to train the new folks, and agree on a course.
Do you think that Thunderbird has ambitions to compete with Microsoft Outlook in near future?
I'm less interested in specifically competing with any specific product, and more focused on figuring out what the best user experience we can give users is. I'm sure that for some users, Thunderbird 3 will be a better fit than other products, but taking on Outlook or any one product isn't how we're looking at product planning.
All we can be sure of is high quality and something users will like. I like Kontact's layout and feature set, which is much larger and more flexible than Outlook. It would not surprise me to see something better from the Mozilla team, but I won't be disapointed if the interface is what I'm used to. He goes on to mention social networks. This is exciting, but I'm not sure today's social networks do enough to protect their users from advertisers and other fraudsters.
Your rights are more important than YouTube. If Google wins, anyone can run a video sharing website the way Google does. If Google loses, no one can. The survival of YouTube and Google are less important than the principle being fought over. A Google that "pays a license fee" the way Napster did will be just as useless as the emasculated Napster was.
Apple reps tell us they're crowd-controlling iPhone buyers because otherwise they would be "screaming" at employees and clogging up the store."
It's funny but when Twitter visited an Apple store, he was the one who got screamed at. So yes, this stuff does happen in real live too.
In corporate America, staff screams at you!
Oh well, good for Apple - they can't make computers fast enough for demand. That's really what this is about and they deserve the marketshare. If only they would be more like Sun about free software.
So most companies are doing the shadiest thing possible. They all say that they can but 59% say that they don't. Add that to what I said about not being able to trust email from big companies. Their employees are forced to lie by the fact that they might be watched because the company says it can and most big companies lie about it.
Security has been "job #1" for Microsoft since the "I love you" virus back in 2000 or so. That job has obviously failed. Non free software companies can not afford to polish their code the way the free software world does, so this should have been obvious in principle from the start. Good for Cisco to say so.
All this does is prove that you can't trust people who work at big dumb companies. They can't tell you what they really think by email, so you have to assume they are lying to you. It's amazing that 41% of these companies admitted to the practice after the whole HP scandal.
If they don't give people what they want, which is honest standards, they will just speed migration away from them. The scenerio looks like this:
Having trouble reading that ODF? Why not download the real deal, Open Office?
That does not work well for you? Works great for me, try a nice GNU/Linux distribution.
With vendors jumping on the GNU/Linux bandwagon, the non free software game is almost over. Free software is in everyone's best interest.
They have admitted they need ODF and that will kill OOXML, Office and them. That's because everyone knows OOXML is not ready and will never be good enough. The usual trick of making ODF difficult will not work because people can simply download Open Office. People might do that anyway because Office is not worth the money [look a twitter reference]. If they don't really become an honest company, and they won't, things will get worse. Despite drastic measures they already have a hard time moving their new software. When they lose the document franchise, they lose the OS monopoly. The curtian is falling fast on their heads.
The key point is selling. Something with Vista has to have remarkably better hardware (good luck) to have a chance at the same price point Apple enjoys. The fact that Apple has captured 70% of the market - that's called domination. The rest of the makers put together can't sell half as many laptops as Apple does. Store shelves are littered with $500 losers that did not sell when they were hot.
It's all about pinning your opponent and cutting off their air supply.
How long will all the other laptop makers be able to hide the losses their "premium" laptops must be suffering because no one wants Vista? While they "race to the bottom" Apple is selling exactly the same hardware for twice as much. The only difference is software. The blackout will come soon.
Very funny, you flipped a troll conversation about Apple fanboys into a Windows fanboy send up. It is as if the entire energy and malice of the GP was turned onto the GP by a subtle shift in balance.
Powerbook G4s go for about $600 on Ebay and that sounds like a fair price and it is indeed better than you will get for all but the very best Intel based laptops from the same time period. Battery life is excellent, the screen is good and they are not too heavy. The author seems to be looking for something smaller and would probably not like the optical drive.
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You do a disservice to "corporate suits who make the purchasing decisions." The technical community is moving from commercial to their own standards. The more M$ fouls commercial standards, the easier it will be to make the case for community standards. Believe it or not, corporate leadership often comes from engineering and they respect the opinions of their staff more than those of salesmen. Everyone now knows that OOXML is a deeply flawed and impossible to implement "standard". Business is more likely to move to cheaper and better ODF editors because of the ISO scandal.
The corruption is so obvious that the ISO's reputation has been harmed. This is a bigger win for M$ than the coo-coo standard they never intended to follow. It is as if RJR got the AMA to approve a cigarette through bribery and a truncated "fast track" process. OOXML is against everything the ISO stood for and that contradiction is the forest that should be seen through all the clear cut trees. Commercial standards are now obviously compromised.
Here's the blowback, that M$ may not have anticipated. It is now up to GNU, Debian and other community efforts to define reasonable standards. People who have "respect" for convicted monopolists will no longer be trusted. The more M$ abuses their power, the more people want to escape.
It might be easier if you explained that systems with encryption and other reasonable security will keep lists of dissidents they are trying to protect out of the hands of people who will kill them. Then they might get used to doing things on a system that works.
How do you know it was not a Mac, like Al Gore walks around with?
Outlook had a few nice interface ideas but it's underpinnings are rotten. It has not been updated in years and the single database for all of your information makes it little more than a toy. The atomized aproach taken by all the free software projects is superior, allowing for faster accesss, easy portability and data integrity. Years ago, they had a device advantage for sync but Open and portable are all the rage today. The only thing that Outlook has was good integration of information. Lightning should follow that and probably will, so that there may be a superficial resemblence to the interfaces.
KDE is already working on aspects of this. Kontact has html calendar, journal and free time exports. It would not take much to integrate this will more extensive blogging and server software.
Nothing should be ruled out. An Outlook like summary page, sync and what not could easily happen.
All we can be sure of is high quality and something users will like. I like Kontact's layout and feature set, which is much larger and more flexible than Outlook. It would not surprise me to see something better from the Mozilla team, but I won't be disapointed if the interface is what I'm used to. He goes on to mention social networks. This is exciting, but I'm not sure today's social networks do enough to protect their users from advertisers and other fraudsters.
Your rights are more important than YouTube. If Google wins, anyone can run a video sharing website the way Google does. If Google loses, no one can. The survival of YouTube and Google are less important than the principle being fought over. A Google that "pays a license fee" the way Napster did will be just as useless as the emasculated Napster was.
are the ones going up Steve's nose.
Please note, this is parody. I'm sure Mr. Ballmer said no to drugs a long time ago and never looked back. Really.
It's been at least 15 years since anyone stood in line for a Microsoft product. CompUSA is notoriously clear of crowd control problems these days.
Yes, it must be tough to deal with such huge crowds.
Debate, social prank? Is that what you call market dominance?
It's funny but when Twitter visited an Apple store, he was the one who got screamed at. So yes, this stuff does happen in real live too.
In corporate America, staff screams at you!
Oh well, good for Apple - they can't make computers fast enough for demand. That's really what this is about and they deserve the marketshare. If only they would be more like Sun about free software.
Have another line of coke, Ballmer, it will steady your nerves.
The guy who serviced my house had what looked like a big pizza cutter on a stick. It buried the cable about two inches deep.
Conduit is neither required nor used for cable and phone in a residential setting. If you break it you patch it. This is simple and low cost.
So most companies are doing the shadiest thing possible. They all say that they can but 59% say that they don't. Add that to what I said about not being able to trust email from big companies. Their employees are forced to lie by the fact that they might be watched because the company says it can and most big companies lie about it.
Security has been "job #1" for Microsoft since the "I love you" virus back in 2000 or so. That job has obviously failed. Non free software companies can not afford to polish their code the way the free software world does, so this should have been obvious in principle from the start. Good for Cisco to say so.
All this does is prove that you can't trust people who work at big dumb companies. They can't tell you what they really think by email, so you have to assume they are lying to you. It's amazing that 41% of these companies admitted to the practice after the whole HP scandal.
If they don't give people what they want, which is honest standards, they will just speed migration away from them. The scenerio looks like this:
Having trouble reading that ODF? Why not download the real deal, Open Office?
That does not work well for you? Works great for me, try a nice GNU/Linux distribution.
With vendors jumping on the GNU/Linux bandwagon, the non free software game is almost over. Free software is in everyone's best interest.
They have admitted they need ODF and that will kill OOXML, Office and them. That's because everyone knows OOXML is not ready and will never be good enough. The usual trick of making ODF difficult will not work because people can simply download Open Office. People might do that anyway because Office is not worth the money [look a twitter reference]. If they don't really become an honest company, and they won't, things will get worse. Despite drastic measures they already have a hard time moving their new software. When they lose the document franchise, they lose the OS monopoly. The curtian is falling fast on their heads.
The key point is selling. Something with Vista has to have remarkably better hardware (good luck) to have a chance at the same price point Apple enjoys. The fact that Apple has captured 70% of the market - that's called domination. The rest of the makers put together can't sell half as many laptops as Apple does. Store shelves are littered with $500 losers that did not sell when they were hot.
It's all about pinning your opponent and cutting off their air supply.
How long will all the other laptop makers be able to hide the losses their "premium" laptops must be suffering because no one wants Vista? While they "race to the bottom" Apple is selling exactly the same hardware for twice as much. The only difference is software. The blackout will come soon.
Very funny, you flipped a troll conversation about Apple fanboys into a Windows fanboy send up. It is as if the entire energy and malice of the GP was turned onto the GP by a subtle shift in balance.
Powerbook G4s go for about $600 on Ebay and that sounds like a fair price and it is indeed better than you will get for all but the very best Intel based laptops from the same time period. Battery life is excellent, the screen is good and they are not too heavy. The author seems to be looking for something smaller and would probably not like the optical drive.
"Virtual Shield" and "Golden Shield" are hard to tell apart.
Red light cameras can be used for the same thing and are being put in almost everywhere. They are the vanguard of these programs.