People like to continue to whine about how MS must be evil. As you said, ODF 1.2 isn't finished. Who wants to target a moving standard? On the other hand, I've found that SP2's ODT support is quite good, to the point that I find I no longer need OpenOffice to open older files I have in that format. Even some complicated ones with equations and images.
Of course, because for the most part tags are worthless except for limited in scope items. The only possible use case I can think of is actually for photographs, which makes me a little confused why digikam doesn't want to integrate. But on the otherhand, who wants to tag documents or songs? Songs have metadata that should contain all the information you might possibly want to tag, same for documents, open them for a full text search when indexing. The idea of user input tags if a flawed one for all but the narrowest of use cases (or for people who are anal retentive about organization).
For some values of flawless. Seriously though, I doubt linux has much to do with it. MS is still mostly competing with XP and since Win7 doesn't have the negativity associated with it that Vista did, its a logical extension to get it out there more so that all the "Ooooh!@! Shiney@!@!" Tech Geeks can recommend it to their friends.
You have oversimplified. Israel's policy, which America supports, is that firing a missle into a block of flats full of civilians is okay, since blocks of flats full of civilians is the only place terrorists every hide/stash their weapons, and by extension, the civilians are aiding the terrorists.
Yes.
An attack results directly in the death of American citizens. Such a response would only indirectly result in the death of citizens if at all.
Whereas such an assault would cost lives and physical damage, the response would simply be an inconvenience. After all, what hospital or air traffic control system doesn't have battery backups. Making life miserable for an opponent is a sure way to curb future agression, and disabling an enemies civil infrastructure is a benign way of doing this.
Ah, but you still won't be able to get in the *buntu machines, because the ubuntus have backed themselves into a corner with the whole, one CD at all costs thing. The JRE is just too heavy to come on the CD.
Explain to me why requiring a re-compile of an application that depends on a newer ABI-compatible shared object is a good thing? That seems utterly pointless and renders ABI-compatibility pointless.
And whoever decided that the M1330n was a good idea is a moron. I bought one, and half the stuff doesn't work, or work correctly out of the box.
Cases in point:
- no microphone array
- no fprint reader (and at the time I got mine, the recommended solution was known to break gksudo in certain cases)
- wireless that can't connect to WEP with 8021x authentication, which incidentally, is worse than the previous notebook I had which used a broadcom wifi chipset. (OMG Broadcom works better?)
Dell still doesn't respect linux even though they have a linux tab, it was easier and more functional for me to just buy vista than to fight with their out of the box config and it was depressing as hell to think that Vista actually works better than something.
The thing about it is, you have to be willing to maintain a repository yourself. Given that if it works on an earlier version of windows, there is an extremely high likelihood of it working on a later version (unlike in linux where you do sometimes need a recompile or even patches) there is less motivation to store everything in a centralized location. I can understand this viewpoint, since, what is the point in maintaining a centralized repository of programs when a [specifically compiled] repository isn't necessary to install a program.
To me, the argument about ease of installation has always been about making lemonade from the huge lemon that software compiled for one distribution isn't guaranteed to work on a different one, or even a previous version of the same. On the windows side however (at least from my own anecdotal experience) it is trivially easy to compile things to run on previous versions of windows, within reason. Case in point, being firefox, which I think until recently supported all the way back to Win 98.
Ok, I'll give you a legitimate challenge. Name a major application category (web browsing, e-mail, music, scientific...) where most or all of the most popular applications aren't available on windows.
Sure, you're right, because making software that is visually appealing and leverages the underlying display technology for something as visually oriented and ubiquitous as web browsing on the most used lineage of OS is completely unimportant. Instead, they should rewrite the windows XUL backend in Tcl/Tk for kicks.
I seem to remember one of the targets for > 3.5 was an Aero theme on the windows platform. Its probably hard to make something Aero that would also work well on 2k.
I don't think that's what businesses are thinking. I think businesses are thinking lets hang onto our obsolete desktops running XP until the hardware itself physically breaks.
I am not a DBA (but I did stay at a holiday iinn express last night). But wouldn't it make more sense that the DBA's handle db performance and tuning since they are the ones intricately familiar with how it is set up. Isn't the whole point that the developers working on the db apps should just know what data they want not how the db is configured.
Its not the same kernel when the ABI changes even between security patch revisions. There is absolutely no reason why a kernel security update in the kernel should trigger re-installation of all the driver modules.
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People like to continue to whine about how MS must be evil. As you said, ODF 1.2 isn't finished. Who wants to target a moving standard? On the other hand, I've found that SP2's ODT support is quite good, to the point that I find I no longer need OpenOffice to open older files I have in that format. Even some complicated ones with equations and images.
Of course, because for the most part tags are worthless except for limited in scope items. The only possible use case I can think of is actually for photographs, which makes me a little confused why digikam doesn't want to integrate. But on the otherhand, who wants to tag documents or songs? Songs have metadata that should contain all the information you might possibly want to tag, same for documents, open them for a full text search when indexing. The idea of user input tags if a flawed one for all but the narrowest of use cases (or for people who are anal retentive about organization).
For some values of flawless. Seriously though, I doubt linux has much to do with it. MS is still mostly competing with XP and since Win7 doesn't have the negativity associated with it that Vista did, its a logical extension to get it out there more so that all the "Ooooh!@! Shiney@!@!" Tech Geeks can recommend it to their friends.
Please elaborate on lagging? My guess is since it is dynamic, your harddrive is slow.
You have oversimplified. Israel's policy, which America supports, is that firing a missle into a block of flats full of civilians is okay, since blocks of flats full of civilians is the only place terrorists every hide/stash their weapons, and by extension, the civilians are aiding the terrorists.
Yes.
An attack results directly in the death of American citizens. Such a response would only indirectly result in the death of citizens if at all.
Whereas such an assault would cost lives and physical damage, the response would simply be an inconvenience. After all, what hospital or air traffic control system doesn't have battery backups. Making life miserable for an opponent is a sure way to curb future agression, and disabling an enemies civil infrastructure is a benign way of doing this.
Ah, but you still won't be able to get in the *buntu machines, because the ubuntus have backed themselves into a corner with the whole, one CD at all costs thing. The JRE is just too heavy to come on the CD.
Explain to me why requiring a re-compile of an application that depends on a newer ABI-compatible shared object is a good thing? That seems utterly pointless and renders ABI-compatibility pointless.
And whoever decided that the M1330n was a good idea is a moron. I bought one, and half the stuff doesn't work, or work correctly out of the box.
Cases in point:
- no microphone array
- no fprint reader (and at the time I got mine, the recommended solution was known to break gksudo in certain cases)
- wireless that can't connect to WEP with 8021x authentication, which incidentally, is worse than the previous notebook I had which used a broadcom wifi chipset. (OMG Broadcom works better?)
Dell still doesn't respect linux even though they have a linux tab, it was easier and more functional for me to just buy vista than to fight with their out of the box config and it was depressing as hell to think that Vista actually works better than something.
The thing about it is, you have to be willing to maintain a repository yourself. Given that if it works on an earlier version of windows, there is an extremely high likelihood of it working on a later version (unlike in linux where you do sometimes need a recompile or even patches) there is less motivation to store everything in a centralized location. I can understand this viewpoint, since, what is the point in maintaining a centralized repository of programs when a [specifically compiled] repository isn't necessary to install a program.
To me, the argument about ease of installation has always been about making lemonade from the huge lemon that software compiled for one distribution isn't guaranteed to work on a different one, or even a previous version of the same. On the windows side however (at least from my own anecdotal experience) it is trivially easy to compile things to run on previous versions of windows, within reason. Case in point, being firefox, which I think until recently supported all the way back to Win 98.
Ok, I'll give you a legitimate challenge. Name a major application category (web browsing, e-mail, music, scientific...) where most or all of the most popular applications aren't available on windows.
Sure, you're right, because making software that is visually appealing and leverages the underlying display technology for something as visually oriented and ubiquitous as web browsing on the most used lineage of OS is completely unimportant. Instead, they should rewrite the windows XUL backend in Tcl/Tk for kicks.
Who cares how much there is. All the worthwhile free software that runs on linux also runs on windows.
I seem to remember one of the targets for > 3.5 was an Aero theme on the windows platform. Its probably hard to make something Aero that would also work well on 2k.
I don't think that's what businesses are thinking. I think businesses are thinking lets hang onto our obsolete desktops running XP until the hardware itself physically breaks.
The UK has a long glorious tradition of supporting a religion's offshoots. Or did you forget about the Anglican Church?
I am not a DBA (but I did stay at a holiday iinn express last night). But wouldn't it make more sense that the DBA's handle db performance and tuning since they are the ones intricately familiar with how it is set up. Isn't the whole point that the developers working on the db apps should just know what data they want not how the db is configured.
Cleartype is on by default in Vista.
Orly? I think the slack guys might disagree with you on that.
Really? I think the slackware guys might disagree with you as to the role of a package manager.
Its not the same kernel when the ABI changes even between security patch revisions. There is absolutely no reason why a kernel security update in the kernel should trigger re-installation of all the driver modules.
Congratulations. You, sir, have made me laugh far harder than I ever have before while reading an online posting.
And, of course, absolutely no actual critic with linux's best interests at heart has ever been shouted down as a Microsoft shill before.
Silly me for thinking highly motivated, intelligent people would (a) look for a way to fix it.
Er... IBM did once have a competing JVM implementation. You can still download it. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-56888