Who modded this "offtopic"? The site requires the latest and greatest flash player to look at a freaking image when everyone knows that Flash has big fat holes in it. They might as well made it IE only.
I've seen one and only one in the wild. It was bought by someone on some kind of internet firesale site. The owner was pleased but it was clunky and he'd have been better off with a much smaller and better built iPod for what he spent. He made it sound tempting to the ignorant and I half wondered if he was not tied into M$'s sleazy marketing program.
The burning explosion analogy is hard to follow. Is Yahoo's escape like a giant flame out and Vista's implosion like a piece of styrofoam that pops out of the side due to buoyancy? How many hours did it take to simulate Microsoft's supernova? Will most of the mass be thrown off leaving a devastated solar system with a dark core, or will it become a black hole?
Software licensing still eats up 20% of business income. A business in Brazil could care less if half of that was taxes so long as they have a less expensive alternative.
When you combine that with a lower per capita GDP, you get real punitive pricing. Other publishers try to take the difference in earnings power into account. Textbook publishers in India, for example, publish cheaper paperback texts with exactly the same contents for the local market and put a bigger margin onto US sales. The effect is to profit in every market by demanding almost the same amount of real effort from the purchaser. M$ has no excuse because they have almost no physical costs to recover. Their price point is just greedy and that drives people away.
Well, you could point to a feature comparison or something like that. I'm not very fond of that article because it only looks at what features other clients have if Outlook has it and ignores the many excellent features that Kontact has on it's own, but that would be a nice start at rational discussion. Alas, it was eaten by a domain squatter that blocked access to Archive.org like so many other free software sites. That seems to be the M$ way of talking.
There are many other such references because anyone who likes Outlook loves Kontact. The replacement is more sensible than you imagine. You should try it out some time and think of the money your company could save replacing the entire stack of software it takes to make Outlook work. The larger the organization, the more money and heartache you will save.
KDE's got better for what people actually use. Outlook had something to offer nine years ago but it's been outclassed big time since. The only thing Outlook really had going for it was device sync but most people gave up PDAs when M$ conquered the market. The things were an expensive toy and people did not buy new ones when their old ones got broken. KDE's Kontact supports most of them now and KDE 4 promises even better sync for the few people left who actually use these devices. For the rest, KDE kicks ass with rational file formats and excellent GUIs. The next time one of your people hits Outlook's arbitrary database size limit and loses everything remember that KDE would have kept going.
Trust a company that demands the right to delete any file they suspect of violating copyright? No thanks, not on any machine much less as a sync service to ruin other OS.
Sure, but that's stuff you want to have. You can have it once efficiently with free software or multiple times inefficiently on Microsoft. Vista's indexing system will make slow your system to a crawl and make backups of it all that will eat multiples of what you think you are starting with.
It's funny how it always seems as if the next drive we purchase offers virtually limitless and impossible to use storage space but is never really enough.
A large percentage of all that storage space has been sucked up by Windows and other binary files. Each time storage space expands considerably, Microsoft's storage demands do too. Vista starts at 10GB, roughly 1% of of the average 1TB drive, but their new indexing mechanism will suck multiples of that. "Backups" must be made of every system because of Microsoft's obnoxious registry and other anti copy technology won't allow for centralized image repositories.
Free software, by way of comparison, still takes up less than 2GB and it's always better to install fresh binaries from networked repositories. The savings in storage requirements start at an order of magnitude and get better depending on how large an organization you are. Tools like Red Hat's Global File System take advantage of all that extras storage space to provide users with high capacity and reliable storage for things that matter - the files and information created by people using their favorite tools.
Your account is dedicated to offtopic twitter crap, but you seem to be well rewarded for your effort. This is because you are part of a sock puppet army dedicated to crapflooding Slashdot. You hate twitter for hijacking and otherwise subverting your efforts.
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More of the same from your favorite monopoly.
Who modded this "offtopic"? The site requires the latest and greatest flash player to look at a freaking image when everyone knows that Flash has big fat holes in it. They might as well made it IE only.
I've seen one and only one in the wild. It was bought by someone on some kind of internet firesale site. The owner was pleased but it was clunky and he'd have been better off with a much smaller and better built iPod for what he spent. He made it sound tempting to the ignorant and I half wondered if he was not tied into M$'s sleazy marketing program.
Saving lives and money with more efficient killing.
The burning explosion analogy is hard to follow. Is Yahoo's escape like a giant flame out and Vista's implosion like a piece of styrofoam that pops out of the side due to buoyancy? How many hours did it take to simulate Microsoft's supernova? Will most of the mass be thrown off leaving a devastated solar system with a dark core, or will it become a black hole?
That's why it's immoral to project the limitations of physical objects onto electronic documents.
Software licensing still eats up 20% of business income. A business in Brazil could care less if half of that was taxes so long as they have a less expensive alternative.
When you combine that with a lower per capita GDP, you get real punitive pricing. Other publishers try to take the difference in earnings power into account. Textbook publishers in India, for example, publish cheaper paperback texts with exactly the same contents for the local market and put a bigger margin onto US sales. The effect is to profit in every market by demanding almost the same amount of real effort from the purchaser. M$ has no excuse because they have almost no physical costs to recover. Their price point is just greedy and that drives people away.
In the meantime, it's been 5+ years and no one has found an exploitable vulnerability in IIS.
What fantasy world do you live on? The rest of us see something different.
Well, you could point to a feature comparison or something like that. I'm not very fond of that article because it only looks at what features other clients have if Outlook has it and ignores the many excellent features that Kontact has on it's own, but that would be a nice start at rational discussion. Alas, it was eaten by a domain squatter that blocked access to Archive.org like so many other free software sites. That seems to be the M$ way of talking.
Here are some other useful Kontact reviews:
There are many other such references because anyone who likes Outlook loves Kontact. The replacement is more sensible than you imagine. You should try it out some time and think of the money your company could save replacing the entire stack of software it takes to make Outlook work. The larger the organization, the more money and heartache you will save.
KDE's got better for what people actually use. Outlook had something to offer nine years ago but it's been outclassed big time since. The only thing Outlook really had going for it was device sync but most people gave up PDAs when M$ conquered the market. The things were an expensive toy and people did not buy new ones when their old ones got broken. KDE's Kontact supports most of them now and KDE 4 promises even better sync for the few people left who actually use these devices. For the rest, KDE kicks ass with rational file formats and excellent GUIs. The next time one of your people hits Outlook's arbitrary database size limit and loses everything remember that KDE would have kept going.
Trust a company that demands the right to delete any file they suspect of violating copyright? No thanks, not on any machine much less as a sync service to ruin other OS.
Sure, but that's stuff you want to have. You can have it once efficiently with free software or multiple times inefficiently on Microsoft. Vista's indexing system will make slow your system to a crawl and make backups of it all that will eat multiples of what you think you are starting with.
It's funny how it always seems as if the next drive we purchase offers virtually limitless and impossible to use storage space but is never really enough.
A large percentage of all that storage space has been sucked up by Windows and other binary files. Each time storage space expands considerably, Microsoft's storage demands do too. Vista starts at 10GB, roughly 1% of of the average 1TB drive, but their new indexing mechanism will suck multiples of that. "Backups" must be made of every system because of Microsoft's obnoxious registry and other anti copy technology won't allow for centralized image repositories.
Free software, by way of comparison, still takes up less than 2GB and it's always better to install fresh binaries from networked repositories. The savings in storage requirements start at an order of magnitude and get better depending on how large an organization you are. Tools like Red Hat's Global File System take advantage of all that extras storage space to provide users with high capacity and reliable storage for things that matter - the files and information created by people using their favorite tools.
Your account is dedicated to offtopic twitter crap, but you seem to be well rewarded for your effort. This is because you are part of a sock puppet army dedicated to crapflooding Slashdot. You hate twitter for hijacking and otherwise subverting your efforts.
Twitter can keep doing this until you run out of mod points to abuse Slashdot. Have you found him yet, asshole?