If you release a new OS that adds features and stays "as fast" on the same hardware, when you put that OS on new hardware, it will seem much "faster" to the end user.
Windows really needs to push 64bit, as a box with a quad core processor and 8gb of ram will be standard in 2010. On that hardware, 7 should run fairly well (until the average user has used it for 6 months).
Have you taken into account the change that these will invoke in user experience? ipods came out when there was already many portable mp3 players available (but I think mine at that time could only hold 64 megs). Even if you didn't have an mp3 player, you were probably used to portable music players. This isn't true with e-readers. People are not used to downloading the paper to a device and using it again and again. They pick up the paper (from driveway, store, stand or whatever) read and discard. No thought to the medium. Now can you see how it might not be *ONLY* incompetence that prevents them from gaining massive adoption right away. If it's that easy I look forward to seeing the wonkavader e-reader out by 2010 and in the hands of everyone.
But it's a private website. It is the website's call if they want to ban pirates or ninjas. I do some coding for a social networking site and we will delete accounts if they don't meet our guidelines (the site targets a specific audience, and we want it that way). The 'net is a big place... big enough to allow site owners the right to keep out unwanted parties. Don't like the site's way of doing things, go elsewhere. It isn't like there aren't a dozen social networking sites trying to fill the big boy's shoes.
But I'm an asshole I guess, as I have also never seen the problem with an apartment not renting to people with kids, or restaurants not seating kids, but that is illegal.
I mean first of all Windows 2000 is currently still the most rock solid, impenetrable OS you can use. There is no reason to think a more secure OS has been released since that time.
No, that is a typo. Grammar errors would be actual misuse of the language, not simply forgetting a word. Also why the fuck does someone tag with typoinsummary? You know we're gonna point it out in the comments. Why not use that tag for something useful that can aid in searching articles and what not. Pedantic bastards.
Weed isn't addicting in the physical sense that you are probably referring to. I have stopped for years when necessary with no trouble. The drug you are looking for is crack/meth/coke.
Also he mentions the contract in the first sentence, but I wonder if he realized that the cell phone companies are far worse about lock-in and IME, more likely to come after you (or report to credit bureaus).
And there are far better solutions than a PDF *display* application to accommodate all of those. Have an application that does that and spits out the PDF. That was the point of the OP; we don't need Adobe to be a be-all-end-all for computer programming. We simply need it to display data.
There's also a stick: The feds will cut Medicare reimbursement for hospitals and practices that don't go electronic by 2015.
I know that might seem like a really bad thing at first, but consider this. Wal-Mart, Supermarkets, and any retailer with shelf space to "sell" to companies trying to get their product sold to the end user have major pull. Most all of these stores require some form of electronic invoicing. Many will require you to pay fees if you do not, and some will simply not carry your product.
That isn't much different from Medicare. If you want to accept patients with medicare, and get paid for the service you provide, you need to use *insert desired service here*. The government is the one with the pull (they have the cash), and so they can require you to do this. All I am saying is this might not be a case of the Big Brother, but just simple market forces.
Well built "open data" proprietary software can prevent vendor lock in and will keep me happy. Have you ever tried to access the raw data in MS Exchange, or Sharepoint? It's a pain, in case you don't know. Some FOSS stuff isn't much better, even though you *can* drudge through the code and figure it out.
Give me a well designed, well named, *relational* DB and as a Sys Admin I couldn't care less what you do with the source. I will write my own add-ons in whatever language/method I like, accessing the well formed DB through SQL. This also has the ability to prevent a "dead fork", as I am merely adding on to the program, not attempting to change any of the core programming.
If MS would do this for Sharepoint, I would probably recommend it to everyone I see... but they make the db so hard to navigate and access, I would just rather use Drupal, although it does lack some of the nice features of Sharepoint. This is also the reason I don't like the new wave of using key-value pair DBs as it reduces my ability to easily use that data for other purposes.
Now some of you developers might be cringing at me mucking around in your apps data, but dammit, IT'S MY DATA! I can do as I please.
Since when have you had to agree 100% with 100% of your party's beliefs to claim it? You are telling me that everyone that claims rep/dem thinks they are 100% correct, 100% of the time? Since when was it not a smart idea to play the game? Do you really think it is smart for a person in 2009 to try to fund college on your own? That's just crazy to claim that your belief in something means you can't use the system as it currently is. That would be like a football coach refusing to use instant reply; it just doesn't make sense.
now you are support to desktop enviros for every user software has to be installed to the server (and sometimes it is licensed different for desktop/rdp) roaming profiles is a real pita especially for occasional remote access and there are many other issues.
WHOA, Whoa, whoa... You have SMS and wake on lan enabled and working and you can't get a simple batch file to remotely shut down the computers? Something is wrong with that; shutting down the computer is the EASY part.
Classical decision Theory *does* account for human's decision making. "Personal bias" (aka values) are very much accounted for.
Yeah the summary (obviously didn't RTFA) is dumb. Adding to your point, wishful thinking IS decision making!!! If x is a sure thing, but there is a glimmer of hope for 10x, then you will probably have a proportional amount of people attempt for 10x, even though the failure rate is high.
Ask any restaurant manager in NY or LA about the availability of waitresses to see this demonstrated in the real world.
This, the Facebook TOS, and I am sure there are several other examples of how new technology, (ironically) such as Twitter and Facebook, have allowed people and companies to voice their concerns with a product and produce results. I am willing to bet that 10 years ago if some company wanted to screw you over (even if they sent a letter to all customers) there would not have been a way to get that info out to the world in a quick and efficient manner as to get said company to change it's policy.
There were no marches, no organized rallies; just a bunch of people complaining in a way that is heard by millions, including those they are complaining about and other users/customers of that company. This is the power of information.
The ipod and OSX were both released in 2001. I think there is a bit of causation there. OS9 sucked hard compared to W2k; even 10.0 was pretty terrible (buggy as hell). The press had just about every reason to hate Macs in the late 90's and through the release of 10.1 (also in 2001, but you got a freebie upgrade on that one, IIRC... again cuz 10.0 sucked).
Yet D&D gamers grew up and they don't run amok in our streets fighting imaginary orcs and dragons
Wrong. The nerds actually do do this, only it usually happens in city parks (but you have to go to the "secret ravine" to see them). I saw an ad for some repo show and the guy showed up when they were playing "wizards" or whatever the hell you call it. One lady kept trying to cast a spell on the repo guy... I didn't catch the show, but I am sure it didn't work. BTW, it was a prius he was repoing; I thought that was fitting.
His first point is you can use it with FF and Safari. Nice, but not a really big deal to most admins.
Then his second favorite feature is that you can do database level real time replication - you know, without having to know about all that REALLY hard stuff, like RAID, or what this SCSI crap is, or backups.
Well if it IS giving the appearance of neutrality, then what is the problem?
But I understand you point... however, do you REALLY, REALLY, think it would be smart of our government to provide computer training on ANYTHING BUT the OS that has 90% market share (yeah, out of thin air, but it has to be close, especially for business). I would argue that giving Mac training would be a considerable waste of tax payer money, and it is probably far more familiar to these people than Linux.
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If windows controls the fans, you could possibly make the system work really quiet :-] ...
That's why I still have that old fan in my computer that makes a knock at every revolution! It's a sensory malware detection tool!
As informative. never knew about the reactos project... just burned the live cd to try it out!
If you release a new OS that adds features and stays "as fast" on the same hardware, when you put that OS on new hardware, it will seem much "faster" to the end user.
Windows really needs to push 64bit, as a box with a quad core processor and 8gb of ram will be standard in 2010. On that hardware, 7 should run fairly well (until the average user has used it for 6 months).
I think this way sounds much more fun... http://xkcd.com/576/
Have you taken into account the change that these will invoke in user experience? ipods came out when there was already many portable mp3 players available (but I think mine at that time could only hold 64 megs). Even if you didn't have an mp3 player, you were probably used to portable music players. This isn't true with e-readers. People are not used to downloading the paper to a device and using it again and again. They pick up the paper (from driveway, store, stand or whatever) read and discard. No thought to the medium. Now can you see how it might not be *ONLY* incompetence that prevents them from gaining massive adoption right away. If it's that easy I look forward to seeing the wonkavader e-reader out by 2010 and in the hands of everyone.
Where are the insightful and informative mods?!?
You must be new here... there are no insightful and informative moderators on /.
But it's a private website. It is the website's call if they want to ban pirates or ninjas. I do some coding for a social networking site and we will delete accounts if they don't meet our guidelines (the site targets a specific audience, and we want it that way). The 'net is a big place... big enough to allow site owners the right to keep out unwanted parties. Don't like the site's way of doing things, go elsewhere. It isn't like there aren't a dozen social networking sites trying to fill the big boy's shoes.
But I'm an asshole I guess, as I have also never seen the problem with an apartment not renting to people with kids, or restaurants not seating kids, but that is illegal.
I mean first of all Windows 2000 is currently still the most rock solid, impenetrable OS you can use. There is no reason to think a more secure OS has been released since that time.
And everyone knows that hardcore web designers use MS Paint.
No, that is a typo. Grammar errors would be actual misuse of the language, not simply forgetting a word. Also why the fuck does someone tag with typoinsummary? You know we're gonna point it out in the comments. Why not use that tag for something useful that can aid in searching articles and what not. Pedantic bastards.
Weed isn't addicting in the physical sense that you are probably referring to. I have stopped for years when necessary with no trouble. The drug you are looking for is crack/meth/coke.
Also he mentions the contract in the first sentence, but I wonder if he realized that the cell phone companies are far worse about lock-in and IME, more likely to come after you (or report to credit bureaus).
And there are far better solutions than a PDF *display* application to accommodate all of those. Have an application that does that and spits out the PDF. That was the point of the OP; we don't need Adobe to be a be-all-end-all for computer programming. We simply need it to display data.
Yeah, I had to check that math too. Even Office would have been cheaper at full price, much less the massive discount you would get for that quantity.
There's also a stick: The feds will cut Medicare reimbursement for hospitals and practices that don't go electronic by 2015.
I know that might seem like a really bad thing at first, but consider this. Wal-Mart, Supermarkets, and any retailer with shelf space to "sell" to companies trying to get their product sold to the end user have major pull. Most all of these stores require some form of electronic invoicing. Many will require you to pay fees if you do not, and some will simply not carry your product.
That isn't much different from Medicare. If you want to accept patients with medicare, and get paid for the service you provide, you need to use *insert desired service here*. The government is the one with the pull (they have the cash), and so they can require you to do this. All I am saying is this might not be a case of the Big Brother, but just simple market forces.
Well built "open data" proprietary software can prevent vendor lock in and will keep me happy. Have you ever tried to access the raw data in MS Exchange, or Sharepoint? It's a pain, in case you don't know. Some FOSS stuff isn't much better, even though you *can* drudge through the code and figure it out.
Give me a well designed, well named, *relational* DB and as a Sys Admin I couldn't care less what you do with the source. I will write my own add-ons in whatever language/method I like, accessing the well formed DB through SQL. This also has the ability to prevent a "dead fork", as I am merely adding on to the program, not attempting to change any of the core programming.
If MS would do this for Sharepoint, I would probably recommend it to everyone I see... but they make the db so hard to navigate and access, I would just rather use Drupal, although it does lack some of the nice features of Sharepoint. This is also the reason I don't like the new wave of using key-value pair DBs as it reduces my ability to easily use that data for other purposes.
Now some of you developers might be cringing at me mucking around in your apps data, but dammit, IT'S MY DATA! I can do as I please.
Oracle President Safra Catz was also heard to remark... "all your database are belong to us"
"I can haz these mergers"
Since when have you had to agree 100% with 100% of your party's beliefs to claim it? You are telling me that everyone that claims rep/dem thinks they are 100% correct, 100% of the time? Since when was it not a smart idea to play the game? Do you really think it is smart for a person in 2009 to try to fund college on your own? That's just crazy to claim that your belief in something means you can't use the system as it currently is. That would be like a football coach refusing to use instant reply; it just doesn't make sense.
That's a whole 'nother ball of wax...
now you are support to desktop enviros for every user
software has to be installed to the server (and sometimes it is licensed different for desktop/rdp)
roaming profiles is a real pita especially for occasional remote access
and there are many other issues.
WHOA, Whoa, whoa... You have SMS and wake on lan enabled and working and you can't get a simple batch file to remotely shut down the computers? Something is wrong with that; shutting down the computer is the EASY part.
First google result: http://www.astahost.com/info.php/shut-down-restart-log-off-xp-using-batch-file_t3715.html
Classical decision Theory *does* account for human's decision making. "Personal bias" (aka values) are very much accounted for.
Yeah the summary (obviously didn't RTFA) is dumb. Adding to your point, wishful thinking IS decision making!!! If x is a sure thing, but there is a glimmer of hope for 10x, then you will probably have a proportional amount of people attempt for 10x, even though the failure rate is high.
Ask any restaurant manager in NY or LA about the availability of waitresses to see this demonstrated in the real world.
This, the Facebook TOS, and I am sure there are several other examples of how new technology, (ironically) such as Twitter and Facebook, have allowed people and companies to voice their concerns with a product and produce results. I am willing to bet that 10 years ago if some company wanted to screw you over (even if they sent a letter to all customers) there would not have been a way to get that info out to the world in a quick and efficient manner as to get said company to change it's policy.
There were no marches, no organized rallies; just a bunch of people complaining in a way that is heard by millions, including those they are complaining about and other users/customers of that company. This is the power of information.
The ipod and OSX were both released in 2001. I think there is a bit of causation there. OS9 sucked hard compared to W2k; even 10.0 was pretty terrible (buggy as hell). The press had just about every reason to hate Macs in the late 90's and through the release of 10.1 (also in 2001, but you got a freebie upgrade on that one, IIRC... again cuz 10.0 sucked).
Yet D&D gamers grew up and they don't run amok in our streets fighting imaginary orcs and dragons
Wrong. The nerds actually do do this, only it usually happens in city parks (but you have to go to the "secret ravine" to see them). I saw an ad for some repo show and the guy showed up when they were playing "wizards" or whatever the hell you call it. One lady kept trying to cast a spell on the repo guy... I didn't catch the show, but I am sure it didn't work. BTW, it was a prius he was repoing; I thought that was fitting.
His first point is you can use it with FF and Safari. Nice, but not a really big deal to most admins.
Then his second favorite feature is that you can do database level real time replication - you know, without having to know about all that REALLY hard stuff, like RAID, or what this SCSI crap is, or backups.
Well if it IS giving the appearance of neutrality, then what is the problem?
But I understand you point... however, do you REALLY, REALLY, think it would be smart of our government to provide computer training on ANYTHING BUT the OS that has 90% market share (yeah, out of thin air, but it has to be close, especially for business). I would argue that giving Mac training would be a considerable waste of tax payer money, and it is probably far more familiar to these people than Linux.