What kind of support are you getting from Walmart?
Why do you need support for a run-off-the-mill computer?
What you (and I) need is a guaranty, meaning replacing the shit that brokes two weeks after sold. Nothing less, nothing more.
Support for consumer computers goes from non-existent to ludicrous, and is just a straw man created by big name sellers. You're going to have far better support from your neighbourhood white box assembler than from Dell et al.
I dunno... If we're going to pick on Star Wars and Star Trek for their errors, we should not play favorites, and takes even the old masters to task when they fumbled.;-)
Well, when SW and ST, put together, begin to approach the quality of the "Martian Chronicles" or "The Illustrated Man", we'll be inclined to cut them some slack;>)
I don't find the UI confusing at all. Albeit, I do adjust it to look nothing like the default settings.
Same thing here. The best part of Opera is its amazing configurability.
With a little work, you can tune the beast to your exact style, and from then on, you browse in heaven. The other browsers, no matter how good, just feel clunky.
Very pretty, but just leaves out the little matter of being right or wrong, if it is your business or not, if you are the good guy or just an oil grabber looking for an excuse to invade.
You see, your two paragraphs are so lacking in moral context that could have been applied to Gandhi or Hitler. I'm sure old Adolph saw himself in exactly this light.
And, having brought Godwin's Law to the thread, I must say adieu.
True, having the power to invade a Third World country doesn't make you a world leader. Being unable to project enought power to defeat a third world country does exclude you though.
Certainly on new PCs, as that's all that ships nowadays.
D'accord, but OLD PCs don't die after three years. They keep going, and going, and going. In the place I administer we still have 486s for word processing, and they are more than enough.
From time to time one of them dies, and we cannibalize the parts.
However, I must confess I'm posting from an Athlon 2.4, 768 MB, but with Mandrake 10 on it.
The "edge" to which the parent refers is that of letting Microsoft define the format all the time. If Microsoft constantly sets the standard, then other developers who are creating "clones" spend most of their time trying to fiddle with the file format, rather than improve/extend the functionality of the software.
Sure, the format's open now, but what do you do when the company decides to change their file format for the next release of their software?
What this argument fails to realize is that MS can't migrate 100% of its victims to the new format. Far from it. I don't know about you, but in my part of the world the VAST majority of people is running Office 97 on Win 98. Are they going to upgrade? Not in your life! A PC here costs serious money, and the most usual configurations couldn't even DREAM on having Win XP installed on them.
So, even the.doc format is fragmenting, and old Win users are unable to open documents written with the latest version. A majority of MS Word users is stranded with no intention to upgrade. The old versions of.doc are effectively frozen, and filters are NOT running behind a moving target, so they're getting better all the time. And the fun part is, OpenOffice is rather good at opening MS Office docs.
Go figure! Soon OO will be the tool of choice for navigating the multiple, more or less incompatible MS formats.
And the high end is a very small place, already overcrowded and getting smaller all the time.
Think on a flood: all animals go to high ground, and fight for a place. The sheep, the cows, the dogs, cats, goats, but also the wolves, the bears, the cougars.
That's what happening in the server high end right now, and I don't really think Sun is a cougar.
And I'm pretty sure that most people would consider sitting on your ass during all your free time to add skinning capabilities to a calendar that maybe three people use a total waste of time.
And most people would be wrong, you insensitive clod!
Microsoft had Scott McNealy quietly killed six months ago and replaced with an actor hired to impersonate him while running the company into the ground
Well, that was the best explanation of Suns's actions I've heard to this date.
Because companies don't have to push. Customers are pulling. And companies don't need to alienate Microsoft by a big ad campaign for desktop Linux. It's enough, a word to the wise, just to show that Linux is an option when you configure your box.
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I know that the majority of us are strongly opposed to software patents, but where would HP be right now without patents?
Who cares?
Cheers,
What kind of support are you getting from Walmart?
Why do you need support for a run-off-the-mill computer?
What you (and I) need is a guaranty, meaning replacing the shit that brokes two weeks after sold. Nothing less, nothing more.
Support for consumer computers goes from non-existent to ludicrous, and is just a straw man created by big name sellers.
You're going to have far better support from your neighbourhood white box assembler than from Dell et al.
Cheers,
I dunno... If we're going to pick on Star Wars and Star Trek for their errors, we should not play favorites, and takes even the old masters to task when they fumbled. ;-)
;>)
Well, when SW and ST, put together, begin to approach the quality of the "Martian Chronicles" or "The Illustrated Man", we'll be inclined to cut them some slack
Cheers,
2001, the book, and 2001, the movie, were developed at the same time.
You're right, but 99% of "2001" came from "The Sentinel" and "Childhood's End", two previous works from A.C.
Cheers,
In other words, it's the KDE of browsers
Exactly!
And I say it as a compliment.
Cheers,
I don't find the UI confusing at all. Albeit, I do adjust it to look nothing like the default settings.
Same thing here. The best part of Opera is its amazing configurability.
With a little work, you can tune the beast to your exact style, and from then on, you browse in heaven. The other browsers, no matter how good, just feel clunky.
Cheers,
Excelente!
Saludos,
Very pretty, but just leaves out the little matter of being right or wrong, if it is your business or not, if you are the good guy or just an oil grabber looking for an excuse to invade.
You see, your two paragraphs are so lacking in moral context that could have been applied to Gandhi or Hitler.
I'm sure old Adolph saw himself in exactly this light.
And, having brought Godwin's Law to the thread, I must say adieu.
Best wishes,
True, having the power to invade a Third World country doesn't make you a world leader. Being unable to project enought power to defeat a third world country does exclude you though.
And your point is...?
Aren't you confusing "leader" with "bully"?
Cheers,
And the US (I live there) at it's current rate will not stay as the world leader.
I hate having to break the news to you, but believe me, you're the world leader only in your (collective) imagination.
Having the power to invade some Thirld World country doesn't make you a leader, rather the opposite.
Cheers,
RTFA!
And the moron that moderated you to Insightful too.
Certainly on new PCs, as that's all that ships nowadays.
D'accord, but OLD PCs don't die after three years. They keep going, and going, and going.
In the place I administer we still have 486s for word processing, and they are more than enough.
From time to time one of them dies, and we cannibalize the parts.
However, I must confess I'm posting from an Athlon 2.4, 768 MB, but with Mandrake 10 on it.
Cheers,
The "edge" to which the parent refers is that of letting Microsoft define the format all the time. If Microsoft constantly sets the standard, then other developers who are creating "clones" spend most of their time trying to fiddle with the file format, rather than improve/extend the functionality of the software.
.doc format is fragmenting, and old Win users are unable to open documents written with the latest version. A majority of MS Word users is stranded with no intention to upgrade. .doc are effectively frozen, and filters are NOT running behind a moving target, so they're getting better all the time.
Sure, the format's open now, but what do you do when the company decides to change their file format for the next release of their software?
What this argument fails to realize is that MS can't migrate 100% of its victims to the new format. Far from it.
I don't know about you, but in my part of the world the VAST majority of people is running Office 97 on Win 98.
Are they going to upgrade? Not in your life! A PC here costs serious money, and the most usual configurations couldn't even DREAM on having Win XP installed on them.
So, even the
The old versions of
And the fun part is, OpenOffice is rather good at opening MS Office docs.
Go figure! Soon OO will be the tool of choice for navigating the multiple, more or less incompatible MS formats.
Cheers,
I agree about Sun's market is in the high end
And the high end is a very small place, already overcrowded and getting smaller all the time.
Think on a flood: all animals go to high ground, and fight for a place. The sheep, the cows, the dogs, cats, goats, but also the wolves, the bears, the cougars.
That's what happening in the server high end right now, and I don't really think Sun is a cougar.
I guess I'm in a minority, but, for my needs, Ami Pro was the best WP ever!
still being the operative word...
Cheers,
And how about Open Sourcing it?
It's difficult to believe IBM is making money out of Smart Office, so why not?
You'd be pushing another stake in BG's heart, and getting more brownie points with the OSS community.
Do it, IBM. Yes?
Cheers,
I think this is the first recorded instance of the ship leaving the sinking rats
Sir, hats off to you!
Cheers,
And I'm pretty sure that most people would consider sitting on your ass during all your free time to add skinning capabilities to a calendar that maybe three people use a total waste of time.
And most people would be wrong, you insensitive clod!
Cheers,
If Java was truely Open Source, then Microsoft could have forked it to allowed J++ to exist on Windows
That's what they did, and called the result C#.
Cheers,
Microsoft had Scott McNealy quietly killed six months ago and replaced with an actor hired to impersonate him while running the company into the ground
Well, that was the best explanation of Suns's actions I've heard to this date.
Cheers,
+1, Insightful.
Cheers,
Start blocking links and people will stop coming to your site.
+1, Insightful.
The guy just said all there's to be said about the subject. Let's move on.
Cheers,
Because companies don't have to push. Customers are pulling. And companies don't need to alienate Microsoft by a big ad campaign for desktop Linux. It's enough, a word to the wise, just to show that Linux is an option when you configure your box.
+1 Insightful.
Cheers,
+1, Informative.
Thanks for the tip. Now I have to find something like it in my country.
Cheers,