I went to a US Bank branch recently to open a new checking account and I was surprised to see that all their desktops are still running windows 2000. That's a 10+ year old OS. Kind of impressive when you think about it.
It really makes you wonder what the future of OS's will bring. We are starting to see signs that what we have is good enough and there will need to be very innovative features implemented in order to make people jump on the latest and greatest.
Hardware manufacturers will develop drivers for whatever system(s) provide them with the largest potential market. As long as XP has a substantial market share you can bet that hardware manufacturers will develop drivers and support their product under XP.
They have tons of talent in that company and some really superb products. They just need to figure out how to market themselves properly and make some money.
I work at an Oracle shop. Most of my job is writing web apps that obfuscate base Oracle (applications) craziness. On the rare occasion I've had to actually dig into Oracle's Java code I have found my self trying to figure what kind of strange world they are living in. Most of their code seems to not only defy best practices but any semblance of good design.
Maybe its just that the code I've seen has been outsourced stuff that came back in as unclean globs of code but it makes me a little leery to see where Oracle would take Java.
At the time it violated the laws of physics. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe physics still lacks an explanation for how honey bees are able to fly with their large bodies and small wings.
I wonder how many companies that have spent a lot of money on DRM schemes are publicly traded. Investing in DRM sure seems like a proactive (yet pointless) way of making sure your investors believe that you are protecting your sales.
Blame Adobe for that one. Flash player really sucks on any platform other than windows. It really takes a beating on your cpu in OSX and even more so in Linux.
It's part of Apple's strategy. They offer hardware that makes their machines operate at a level that they find acceptable. HP, Dell etc. build machines at price points that they think will sell.
I know I'll spark off a debate on this one but you never hear folks complaining that Macs are slow. Part of that is likely to do with OSX but the other part has just as much to do with the fact that Macs are NEVER sold under powered.
On the other hand we have PC manufacturers selling dirt cheap machines that "run" Vista but not well. If those same manufacturers only sold machines that ran their intended software well, the price point comparison would be pretty moot.
I own a small web development company. The company is basically 3 members and the occassional contractor. I run Ubuntu and the other two run vista and OSX on out development machines. We use Open Office so we can be platform agnostic.
Well if this does become the standard model the ad length will be something that competing services will have to balance in order to attract the maximum number of users.
I've been using 32 bit ubuntu (intrepid) just because historically its been more compatible with stuff. I've got a box hooked up to a 1080p tv and using an integrated nvidia 8300 for my video card. My Hulu performance is completely hit and miss. I spent the weekend watching quantum leap and that worked flawlessly. Shows like House, Fringe and 30 Rock are watchable but a little too choppy for my liking.
I dislike commercials during my shows as much as the next person but as a business model goes, I think hulu will be able to take it to the next level. As an advertiser you want to put your product in front of the eyes most likely to purchase your stuff.
Hulu should be able to put together a netflix style algorithm of users who like the shows you do and then match it up to a set of demographics you fall into and truly target ads to you. Advertisers should LOVE this model.
I don't even mind the ads on Hulu because they are 15-30 seconds instead of 2 minutes or more on regular TV. That's not even long enough to make it worth my while to skip past the commercials. By the time I could reach to my remote to skip passed it the commercial will be almost finished.
Now if Adobe would make a flash player for Linux that was able to play full screen 480p streaming from Hulu well, I would be all set to cancel my cable subscription.
I used to think that's what management wanted to hear too, but when they say what does the license cost and you say $0. The products are almost immediately dismissed as being "freeware" and hence not enterprise quality.
From my experience management really does love to hear buzz words as in, "This product will leverage the existing synergies in your collaborative workspace to create a global presence".
Now that might be a little extreme on the buzzword scale but my point is, to management it's all about marketing. Open source projects don't typically have big budget marketing departments built around them.
What you see is what you get in open source and that doesn't always make a good sales pitch.
I'm working through this issue right now. We are moving operating systems from HP-UX to AIX and there are thousands of lines of shell scripts and c code that haven't been maintained in a decade or more (Since 1981 in one case), but those systems have just worked so no one paid attention to them. Now that we need to address the legacy issues, we are scrambling to find people who can figure this stuff out.
I think you are underestimating your kids. Kids learn how to use a computer not how to use a computer program. They quickly adapt to new user interfaces and new features, just because you can't keep up with the younger generation doesn't mean we shouldn't teach them differently.
Because most organizations only allow access to their email outside of their intranet via the web. They do not allow you to use pop, imap etc... from home so using outlook isn't an option.
Because, people understand the concept of installing software. Most people don't understand that there are different browsers or if they do there is still a chunk of the population that thinks it will take you to a different internet.
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Typing something into a command prompt sounds a lot like the kind of "usability" that gets us linux people in trouble with the masses.
I went to a US Bank branch recently to open a new checking account and I was surprised to see that all their desktops are still running windows 2000. That's a 10+ year old OS. Kind of impressive when you think about it.
It really makes you wonder what the future of OS's will bring. We are starting to see signs that what we have is good enough and there will need to be very innovative features implemented in order to make people jump on the latest and greatest.
Hardware manufacturers will develop drivers for whatever system(s) provide them with the largest potential market. As long as XP has a substantial market share you can bet that hardware manufacturers will develop drivers and support their product under XP.
Not really. It's more like saying hey I like this app, but it only runs on windows.
See the gamers argument for not switching to Linux
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They have tons of talent in that company and some really superb products. They just need to figure out how to market themselves properly and make some money.
I work at an Oracle shop. Most of my job is writing web apps that obfuscate base Oracle (applications) craziness. On the rare occasion I've had to actually dig into Oracle's Java code I have found my self trying to figure what kind of strange world they are living in. Most of their code seems to not only defy best practices but any semblance of good design.
Maybe its just that the code I've seen has been outsourced stuff that came back in as unclean globs of code but it makes me a little leery to see where Oracle would take Java.
At the time it violated the laws of physics. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe physics still lacks an explanation for how honey bees are able to fly with their large bodies and small wings.
I wonder how many companies that have spent a lot of money on DRM schemes are publicly traded. Investing in DRM sure seems like a proactive (yet pointless) way of making sure your investors believe that you are protecting your sales.
Perception of money saved > Actual money saved
Blame Adobe for that one. Flash player really sucks on any platform other than windows. It really takes a beating on your cpu in OSX and even more so in Linux.
Then it is decided all programming languages will be based on Latin.
perscribo("Salve mundus");
print ("Hello World")....?
It's part of Apple's strategy. They offer hardware that makes their machines operate at a level that they find acceptable. HP, Dell etc. build machines at price points that they think will sell.
I know I'll spark off a debate on this one but you never hear folks complaining that Macs are slow. Part of that is likely to do with OSX but the other part has just as much to do with the fact that Macs are NEVER sold under powered.
On the other hand we have PC manufacturers selling dirt cheap machines that "run" Vista but not well. If those same manufacturers only sold machines that ran their intended software well, the price point comparison would be pretty moot.
I own a small web development company. The company is basically 3 members and the occassional contractor. I run Ubuntu and the other two run vista and OSX on out development machines. We use Open Office so we can be platform agnostic.
Well if this does become the standard model the ad length will be something that competing services will have to balance in order to attract the maximum number of users.
I've been using 32 bit ubuntu (intrepid) just because historically its been more compatible with stuff. I've got a box hooked up to a 1080p tv and using an integrated nvidia 8300 for my video card. My Hulu performance is completely hit and miss. I spent the weekend watching quantum leap and that worked flawlessly. Shows like House, Fringe and 30 Rock are watchable but a little too choppy for my liking.
I dislike commercials during my shows as much as the next person but as a business model goes, I think hulu will be able to take it to the next level. As an advertiser you want to put your product in front of the eyes most likely to purchase your stuff.
Hulu should be able to put together a netflix style algorithm of users who like the shows you do and then match it up to a set of demographics you fall into and truly target ads to you. Advertisers should LOVE this model.
I don't even mind the ads on Hulu because they are 15-30 seconds instead of 2 minutes or more on regular TV. That's not even long enough to make it worth my while to skip past the commercials. By the time I could reach to my remote to skip passed it the commercial will be almost finished.
Now if Adobe would make a flash player for Linux that was able to play full screen 480p streaming from Hulu well, I would be all set to cancel my cable subscription.
I used to think that's what management wanted to hear too, but when they say what does the license cost and you say $0. The products are almost immediately dismissed as being "freeware" and hence not enterprise quality.
From my experience management really does love to hear buzz words as in, "This product will leverage the existing synergies in your collaborative workspace to create a global presence".
Now that might be a little extreme on the buzzword scale but my point is, to management it's all about marketing. Open source projects don't typically have big budget marketing departments built around them.
What you see is what you get in open source and that doesn't always make a good sales pitch.
What features are you talking about? postgres is amazing and even the pgadmin tool is pretty good.
I'm working through this issue right now. We are moving operating systems from HP-UX to AIX and there are thousands of lines of shell scripts and c code that haven't been maintained in a decade or more (Since 1981 in one case), but those systems have just worked so no one paid attention to them. Now that we need to address the legacy issues, we are scrambling to find people who can figure this stuff out.
Also I'd like to point out that jumping down someone's throat for making a joke, especially as an AC, makes you an asshole.
There fixed that for you.
I think you are underestimating your kids. Kids learn how to use a computer not how to use a computer program. They quickly adapt to new user interfaces and new features, just because you can't keep up with the younger generation doesn't mean we shouldn't teach them differently.
You're getting back at one of the core philosophies of FOSS applications. It's not the application that has value, it's what you do with it.
There doesn't have to be a a centralized repository controlled by Microsoft. In apt you can add N number of repositories as-is applicable.
Because most organizations only allow access to their email outside of their intranet via the web. They do not allow you to use pop, imap etc... from home so using outlook isn't an option.
Because, people understand the concept of installing software. Most people don't understand that there are different browsers or if they do there is still a chunk of the population that thinks it will take you to a different internet.