Of course, you would be hard pressed to find a real person with the same measurements as Aeon, however, they definitely could have done something more stylistically inline with the cartoon
Someone like Anne Parrillaud, the original Nikita? I know, years ago, but the look was right.
There has been no discussion (news blackout?) of the server ties and digital restriction management (DRM) issues that are part of MS Office 12. You get all the standard migration problems plus new functionallity, plus new interfaces, plus dependence on connectivity, plus dependence on server based responses. Not a recipe for a smooth transition. Going over to OpenOffice.org could even be cheaper and easier.
Amen, brother.
I have the feeling that MSOffice 12 could be the Itanic of MSFT.
Then there's the cost in staff turnover. Iif you're not using MS Office you may find a lot of your secretarial staff are keen to leave.. they need to keep their skills current just as much as the resident IT geeks.. and in the secretarial world 'current' = latest version of Office.
Do you really see Intel being pushed out of PCs by something that's not even close to the capability of their products?
No.
To recast the question - do you really see these laptops as competing with Intel?
Yes.
I didn't get that sense from the article at all - it was more like Intel saying "Go ahead, forge the market, and if there's anything there, we'll come in later."
What Intel said doesn't matter. When corporations talk, they do PR, disinformation, FUD or just plain old lies. What was interesting was that they felt the need to say anything at all. This fact speaks volumes.
I'll be honest with you, I'm not going to throw out my Toshiba and get one of these things.
Well, I own no Toshiba, and I'm going to run to get one, or rather two (for the wife) of these thingies. I even have a couple of friendly schoolkids to do the deed for me.
And not only because I'm a cheap bastard, but we have a house in the mountains, and it would be great to do a little work while on vacation.
OS X boots to the desktop on my Powerbook in 25 seconds from power on. Ubuntu, on the same machine, takes a minute and a half. You're clearly delusional.
I'm neutral in your fight with the Ubuntu guy (I use neither), but why this obsession with boot times? Unless you're booting all the day, Win98 style, you boot once and you're set. What difference does a 25s. or 90s. boot make, even if it were real? Shorter is nice, but hardly earth shaking.
And, since he was talking about system perfomance, the boot time argument was irrelevant.
People keep blaming Microsoft for Microsoft's monopoly, but that doesn't explain why organizations sometimes suddenly get into a "replace everything with Windows" frenzy.
Sorry to break the news to you, but doesn't the good people here in/. know that vendors routinely bribe the buyers on their customers, and not just in the software industry, but in each and every one.
I mean, idealism is good, but let's not overdo it.
The obvious ways to "correct" that are to increase the salinity by removing fresh water, or by adding salt, or some combination thereof. Doing such a thing would be a huge and expensive exercise,
Huge and expensive?...And the Understatement of the Millenium Award goes to...
Many us don't believe that. That's why there's a bit of a fuss developing.
Well, good for you. Better late...
And, in the spirit of collaboration, a counterexemple.
I live in a notoriously corrupt Latin American country. By corrupt I really mean CORRUPTION 'R US corrupt. Here nobody thinks but the worst of politicians, office holders and burocrats of every party. Came election time, is assumed that the party in power will use every dirty trick in the book ( a very large book ) to hold to dear power. And they do.
But, the ONLY thing nobody ever objects to is the vote count. Because from mistust a system evolved to adress these issues. Patching the bugs, if you want.
Nothing fancy, just the basics: automatic voter registration, paper ballots, open counting with representatives of the parties controlling. And, in a middle size country we have preliminary results (not a poll, results) in three or four hours after the voting ends.
I guess most countries with a democratic tradition use more or less the same system, and you don't ever hear about rigged elections in Switzerland, France, Britain, Canada, etc. It just works.
But even here, where the system isn't broke by any stretch of the imagination, last election the government made a trial of voting machines, in the name of speed ( shudders ). Trouble ahead.
Something must be very wrong if the supplier is threatening the customer. What happened to the free market?
What has the free market to do with this?
This is a political issue, with political intent behind. Federal administration wants Diebold, some states resist. It is very obvious why.
USA citizens have a charming naivete about their political system that's kind of amusing. For the rest of the world, a government insisting on a black box voting machine, is shouting FRAUD! FRAUD! from the rooftops.
Why do you believe your govenment is somehow less corrupt than the rest is beyond me.
Even if it did, what would it do? Transfer thousands of dollars to Alpha Centauri? Dial galactic 1-900 numbers? Cause vacation snapshots to be transmitted via Arecibo into space?
Or the Goatse guy?
I'm afraid the next UFO abductees would be in for a surprise.
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Of course, you would be hard pressed to find a real person with the same measurements as Aeon, however, they definitely could have done something more stylistically inline with the cartoon
Someone like Anne Parrillaud, the original Nikita?
I know, years ago, but the look was right.
I think you'd be better off waiting for Michael Dell to get you a $100 laptop.
Go, Michael, go???
Somehow, it doesn't sound right.
Cheers,
There has been no discussion (news blackout?) of the server ties and digital restriction management (DRM) issues that are part of MS Office 12. You get all the standard migration problems plus new functionallity, plus new interfaces, plus dependence on connectivity, plus dependence on server based responses. Not a recipe for a smooth transition. Going over to OpenOffice.org could even be cheaper and easier.
Amen, brother.
I have the feeling that MSOffice 12 could be the Itanic of MSFT.
Cheers,
Then there's the cost in staff turnover. Iif you're not using MS Office you may find a lot of your secretarial staff are keen to leave .. they need to keep their skills current just as much as the resident IT geeks .. and in the secretarial world 'current' = latest version of Office.
Most stupid comment of the year?
You probably just shouldn't pay much attention to those "three letter" people anyway.
Ditto.
Do you really see Intel being pushed out of PCs by something that's not even close to the capability of their products?
No.
To recast the question - do you really see these laptops as competing with Intel?
Yes.
I didn't get that sense from the article at all - it was more like Intel saying "Go ahead, forge the market, and if there's anything there, we'll come in later."
What Intel said doesn't matter. When corporations talk, they do PR, disinformation, FUD or just plain old lies.
What was interesting was that they felt the need to say anything at all.
This fact speaks volumes.
If I'm logged in, I'm trolling.
That I can believe.
Cheers,
I'll be honest with you, I'm not going to throw out my Toshiba and get one of these things.
Well, I own no Toshiba, and I'm going to run to get one, or rather two (for the wife) of these thingies. I even have a couple of friendly schoolkids to do the deed for me.
And not only because I'm a cheap bastard, but we have a house in the mountains, and it would be great to do a little work while on vacation.
Hurry up, Negroponte! We're waiting!
Cheers,
Excellent post!
Cheers,
Oops! The rarest of Slashdot finds: a genleman. Good for you!
Cheers,
CC
Actually, I'm not a farmer, but I probably own enough land to feed my family, if it comes to that ;-)
;>)
Good for you, but if need arises, do you know how?
Owning land is fine and good, but...
Cheers,
OS X boots to the desktop on my Powerbook in 25 seconds from power on. Ubuntu, on the same machine, takes a minute and a half. You're clearly delusional.
I'm neutral in your fight with the Ubuntu guy (I use neither), but why this obsession with boot times?
Unless you're booting all the day, Win98 style, you boot once and you're set. What difference does a 25s. or 90s. boot make, even if it were real? Shorter is nice, but hardly earth shaking.
And, since he was talking about system perfomance, the boot time argument was irrelevant.
Cheers,
most registration is free and is only used to help focus the advertising efforts.
You mean somebody put anything remotely true besides a throw-away webmail adress when registering?
Cheers,
What makes Windows so great for noobs is that they install it and then they click to get on teh interweb.
You mean like Mandrake (now Mandriva) has been doing since at least 1999?
Cheers,
You are so right! Millions of people worldwide use and swear by Outlook and other Windows mail clients because they are abominable pieces of shit!
Well, I wouldn't call those millions of people worlwide abominable pieces of shit.
Morons maybe, but not APoS.
Cheers,
People keep blaming Microsoft for Microsoft's monopoly, but that doesn't explain why organizations sometimes suddenly get into a "replace everything with Windows" frenzy.
Sorry to break the news to you, but doesn't the good people here in
I mean, idealism is good, but let's not overdo it.
Cheers,
If stone-age people can adapt to that, we should be able to adapt, too,
They can.
We (meaning you and me, and all the other urban people), certainly not.
Cheers?
Change? Yes, but will it be better or worse? Will the effect be a bad one or a good one overall for the fauna and flora.
Worse.
When an ecosystem is disrupted, all participants suffer.
Some will adapt to the new conditions, even flourish. Most will disappear.
If you worry about us, some humans will survive. Societies and civilizations (insert obligatory joke here) almost certainly not.
Cheers?
The obvious ways to "correct" that are to increase the salinity by removing fresh water, or by adding salt, or some combination thereof. Doing such a thing would be a huge and expensive exercise,
...And the Understatement of the Millenium Award goes to...
Huge and expensive?
Cheers,
Hands down, the best UI in any software i've used as of lately, never mind in browsers
At last! I was wondering if I was the only one.
Cheers,
Many us don't believe that. That's why there's a bit of a fuss developing.
Well, good for you. Better late...
And, in the spirit of collaboration, a counterexemple.
I live in a notoriously corrupt Latin American country. By corrupt I really mean CORRUPTION 'R US corrupt.
Here nobody thinks but the worst of politicians, office holders and burocrats of every party.
Came election time, is assumed that the party in power will use every dirty trick in the book ( a very large book ) to hold to dear power. And they do.
But, the ONLY thing nobody ever objects to is the vote count. Because from mistust a system evolved to adress these issues. Patching the bugs, if you want.
Nothing fancy, just the basics: automatic voter registration, paper ballots, open counting with representatives of the parties controlling.
And, in a middle size country we have preliminary results (not a poll, results) in three or four hours after the voting ends.
I guess most countries with a democratic tradition use more or less the same system, and you don't ever hear about rigged elections in Switzerland, France, Britain, Canada, etc. It just works.
But even here, where the system isn't broke by any stretch of the imagination, last election the government made a trial of voting machines, in the name of speed ( shudders ). Trouble ahead.
Cheers,
Something must be very wrong if the supplier is threatening the customer. What happened to the free market?
What has the free market to do with this?
This is a political issue, with political intent behind. Federal administration wants Diebold, some states resist. It is very obvious why.
USA citizens have a charming naivete about their political system that's kind of amusing.
For the rest of the world, a government insisting on a black box voting machine, is shouting FRAUD! FRAUD! from the rooftops.
Why do you believe your govenment is somehow less corrupt than the rest is beyond me.
Cheers,
And really, what would be the point of having access to half of the software stack?
The point would be that unless you have access to the WHOLE stack, the only vote that counts could be Bill Gates'.
Do you really think it's impossible? The Persian cat & monocle?
Cheers,
Even if it did, what would it do? Transfer thousands of dollars to Alpha Centauri? Dial galactic 1-900 numbers? Cause vacation snapshots to be transmitted via Arecibo into space?
Or the Goatse guy?
I'm afraid the next UFO abductees would be in for a surprise.
Cheers,
Bottom line: Some OSS is good, some is crap.
And this is different from propietary exactly how?
And, BTW, good troll!
Cheers,
(they asked how I'd heard of X10-- who hasn't heard of X10 that's used a web browser??!).
Well, I, for one, have been using Opera for many, many years, and never saw an X10 ad.
And I find difficult to believe I'm the only one.
Cheers,