This is about being intelligent and adaptable, not "smart". Stuff changes, even with Windows. If you really dedicated the last 15 years of supporting it, you could probably describe the evolution of the product in excruciating detail.
If you can't handle a little screwball, then you're going to be bailed out by those that can.
Those might be the competent NT admins or even a Unix admin.
...except that what most people blow their money on devalues even faster than money does.
It's one thing to buy land or gold. However, most people are just buying bling and making no consideration for the future when they might need a pile of cash.
Such piles may devalue but they are still handy (like for buying the aforementioned commodities).
No. Sometimes money is important and so is scalability.
If a system is too expensive to be built, it never will be built. The operational costs will drag down the entire operation to the point where it collapses.
Cheap solutions make some problems solvable. There's really no getting around that.
Fixating on SunOS is a great example because Sun hardware in general back in the day did not scale well enough for some tasks regardless of how much money you wanted to throw at a problem. It's a really poor example to bring up here.
Hard to say what to tell you since I recently had to do EXACTLY the same thing myself and had no trouble with the affair.
I didn't have to edit anything.
X tends to run at whatever your native panel resolution is assuming you don't monkey around with anything and there's no much to motivate that either these days.
> for every decent app in there there are 1000 broken chunks > of shit and 1000000000 options for each, unless you know > exactly what your looking...sounds a lot like Windows really. Plus, if you aren't careful you can end up installing stuff that's difficult or impossible to rollback properly. Windows can be very "subtle" this way. That's what happens when no one cares about a proper package manager.
Lack of caring about finer details leads to the subtle cracks you tend to see in Windows.
Even the Apple app store doesn't eliminate the problem of actually knowing what to install. You still have to try things out and evaluate them for yourself or find yourself a suitable source for recommendations.
Most places with an "IT staff" are already doing Unix and have been for decades.
Anyone able to be a competent NT admin will have no problem with Unix. It's the idiots that aren't really terribly good at supporting NT that would have problems with Unix.
Fanboys like to brag about 10% marketshare and they have a platform that was fully formed 7 years before the first line of the Linux kernel was written. Apple also effectively had a 10 year head start on Microsoft in terms of ease of use technology. Apple was competing against MS-DOS with a far better system.
"fracturing" has nothing to do with anything. PCs and Android phones are a great counterexample.
Market success is about marketing success. You have superbowl ads, effective TV ads, and your own stores.
Despite all of this, the best that Apple fanboys can brag about is finally breaking the 10% mark and how it's been 20 years coming.
Torpedoed by what Microsoft had to offer in 1991...
That sticker actually means a great deal to corporations.
Corporations are the biggest misers around. That is primarily why Linux has thrived so much. Corporations love to cut costs wherever they can.
In truth, Corporations don't "buy extra". They are more likely to be short a few. That is why the SBA is such a big problem. There will likely be a shortfall somewhere even if the company involved is trying to be more or less diligent.
You must be confusing a very vocal fanboy minority from the 90s with the user community at large.
I was here and I certainly didn't argue that Apple was right in it's actions.
Although many of us liked to point out the hypocrisy of "freedom to innovate" rhetoric. Doing that and advocating that "Microsoft should be punished" are two VERY different things.
The only cognitive dissonance here is in your own head.
Without the ability of competing projects to copy each other, we would all be stuck with System 6.
This simple fact is obvious to those of us that actually understand technology and have some experience with it.
Apple fanboys don't fully appreciate the situation that even Apple is in and what would happen in a patent MAD scenario with corresponding 17 year periods of TOTAL STAGNATION enforced by the current state of patent law.
Phones in general are a mature market dominated by entrenched players that are not Apple.
While Apple has had some initial success in a new area of phones, that success is rapidly being eroded by new products being introduced into a product category they mostly had for themselves. Their apparent advantage is diminishing in EXACTLY the manner that many Slashdoters predicted not so long ago.
Also, all of Apple's "statistics" look far less compelling when compared to the entire market. Even at their best, you have to "cook the books" to make them look better.
...except this is not some bank robber that had to be captured by the local SWAT team.
At least in the US there are standards that are supposed to be met for this sort of shenanigan. There's supposed to be some balance between harm done to the accused and harm alleged by the self-proclaimed victim.
Never mind the whole "burden of proof" issue that you just glossed over.
XP is the OS that was promised when 95 was delivered. While it still has it's issues, it's successors remain less than compelling upgrades. This is in stark contrast to it's predecessors (3.11, 95, 98).
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This is about being intelligent and adaptable, not "smart". Stuff changes, even with Windows. If you really dedicated the last 15 years of supporting it, you could probably describe the evolution of the product in excruciating detail.
If you can't handle a little screwball, then you're going to be bailed out by those that can.
Those might be the competent NT admins or even a Unix admin.
Past a certain point, some things don't pass the sniff test.
Making noises about resolutions that are 10 years out of date is that point.
Try making up more convincing lies next time. Google harder or something.
Yeah. Ignore the person actually forcing people to be precise.
I leave it to actual Flash developers to comment on this further. I rather doubt any of you pinheads fit that description.
...except that what most people blow their money on devalues even faster than money does.
It's one thing to buy land or gold. However, most people are just buying bling and making no consideration for the future when they might need a pile of cash.
Such piles may devalue but they are still handy (like for buying the aforementioned commodities).
Time do call bullsh*t on your nonsense.
No. Sometimes money is important and so is scalability.
If a system is too expensive to be built, it never will be built. The operational costs will drag down the entire operation to the point where it collapses.
Cheap solutions make some problems solvable. There's really no getting around that.
Fixating on SunOS is a great example because Sun hardware in general back in the day did not scale well enough for some tasks regardless of how much money you wanted to throw at a problem. It's a really poor example to bring up here.
You mean like the next version of msoffice that requires retraining the entire company?
...except none of that explains why MS-DOS won the market and "the year of Macintosh" is just like "the year of Linux".
You are trying to hang your hat on Adobe AIR? You must be joking.
How exactly does that impact me as a Linux user? How would it impact you as a WinDOS user if a similar thing happened on that platform?
No. You are the one playing Linus Van Pelt. Perhaps the author is too.
Your AIR fixation is just plain sad.
Linux may not be taking over the world but it also isn't going anywhere.
Hard to say what to tell you since I recently had to do EXACTLY the same thing myself and had no trouble with the affair.
I didn't have to edit anything.
X tends to run at whatever your native panel resolution is assuming you don't monkey around with anything and there's no much to motivate that either these days.
Flash? You mean the browser plugin?
If you are trying to imply that Flash is not supported on Linux then you're really out of touch.
There is nothing at all confusing about an obvious lie.
Now if you are willing to provide something that is actually verifiable, then that's another matter.
> for every decent app in there there are 1000 broken chunks ...sounds a lot like Windows really. Plus, if you aren't careful you can end up installing stuff that's difficult or impossible to rollback properly. Windows can be very "subtle" this way. That's what happens when no one cares about a proper package manager.
> of shit and 1000000000 options for each, unless you know
> exactly what your looking
Lack of caring about finer details leads to the subtle cracks you tend to see in Windows.
Even the Apple app store doesn't eliminate the problem of actually knowing what to install. You still have to try things out and evaluate them for yourself or find yourself a suitable source for recommendations.
Most places with an "IT staff" are already doing Unix and have been for decades.
Anyone able to be a competent NT admin will have no problem with Unix. It's the idiots that aren't really terribly good at supporting NT that would have problems with Unix.
Fanboys like to brag about 10% marketshare and they have a platform that was fully formed 7 years before the first line of the Linux kernel was written. Apple also effectively had a 10 year head start on Microsoft in terms of ease of use technology. Apple was competing against MS-DOS with a far better system.
"fracturing" has nothing to do with anything. PCs and Android phones are a great counterexample.
Market success is about marketing success. You have superbowl ads, effective TV ads, and your own stores.
Despite all of this, the best that Apple fanboys can brag about is finally breaking the 10% mark and how it's been 20 years coming.
Torpedoed by what Microsoft had to offer in 1991...
You lost it with that last remark.
One third of big companies allowing Macs? What are you smoking? If you are going to make sh*t up, at least make it believable.
Make the story something that doesn't fly in the face of everyone's experiences.
The Microsoft entanglements (not even getting into the 3rd party stuff) alone would make that a dubious prospect.
That sticker actually means a great deal to corporations.
Corporations are the biggest misers around. That is primarily why Linux has thrived so much. Corporations love to cut costs wherever they can.
In truth, Corporations don't "buy extra". They are more likely to be short a few. That is why the SBA is such a big problem. There will likely be a shortfall somewhere even if the company involved is trying to be more or less diligent.
Extra licenses? Surely you must be joking.
All of those programmers working at MS and Apple are much like the guys at Initech.
They don't really get a cut.
A $50 image editor is NOT necessary.
If you are a professional, then a $500 image editor is necessary. However, that's another matter.
You must be confusing a very vocal fanboy minority from the 90s with the user community at large.
I was here and I certainly didn't argue that Apple was right in it's actions.
Although many of us liked to point out the hypocrisy of "freedom to innovate" rhetoric. Doing that and advocating that "Microsoft should be punished" are two VERY different things.
The only cognitive dissonance here is in your own head.
Without the ability of competing projects to copy each other, we would all be stuck with System 6.
This simple fact is obvious to those of us that actually understand technology and have some experience with it.
Apple fanboys don't fully appreciate the situation that even Apple is in and what would happen in a patent MAD scenario with corresponding 17 year periods of TOTAL STAGNATION enforced by the current state of patent law.
Yes. The facts.
Phones in general are a mature market dominated by entrenched players that are not Apple.
While Apple has had some initial success in a new area of phones, that success is rapidly being eroded by new products being introduced into a product category they mostly had for themselves. Their apparent advantage is diminishing in EXACTLY the manner that many Slashdoters predicted not so long ago.
Also, all of Apple's "statistics" look far less compelling when compared to the entire market. Even at their best, you have to "cook the books" to make them look better.
No. An injunction of this kind is clearly unjust.
It's a travesty of due process.
Yes. There are legal standards and principles here and they seem to have been thrown out the window.
...except this is not some bank robber that had to be captured by the local SWAT team.
At least in the US there are standards that are supposed to be met for this sort of shenanigan. There's supposed to be some balance between harm done to the accused and harm alleged by the self-proclaimed victim.
Never mind the whole "burden of proof" issue that you just glossed over.
XP is the OS that was promised when 95 was delivered. While it still has it's issues, it's successors remain less than compelling upgrades. This is in stark contrast to it's predecessors (3.11, 95, 98).