Windows doesn't sell due to ease of use. It sells due support for commercial software and hardware. Given the choice between maintaining sendmail/postfix or exchange, I know which one is way easier, and its NOT exchange.
I still don't get the driver issue. I bought a brand new Canon all-in-one printer and found Linux drivers for the scanner and printer in a few minutes of googling.
As opposed to your end user taking their laptop home, plugging the device in, and having windows update automagically install it and configure a print queue (yes, in win7 this is reality more often than not).
It doesn't really matter HOW the solution works. Business doesn't care. If linux or anything else can't match that then its behind the 8 ball before the game even starts.
OS platforms are tools. Much like hammers and screwdrivers, one tool does not fit all. Pick the best tool for the job, move on. Ideology be damned. Hammering nails with a screwdriver just because of some religious devotion when you could get the work done far quicker with a hammer is retarded. In the business world, that sort of shit will get you fired (eventually).
There are things that linux (or bsd) do very well. There are others that they don't (and often these are areas where Windows or OS X excel). Work out what you want t do then choose the appropriate platform. Much of the time this will result in a mixed environment.
Sorry, but if you have a competent Windows admin, you can get a lot done with minimal daily "fiddling".
You spend the money on quality hardware (then a huge number of driver related stability problems just vanish), licenses and monitoring, then move on to something more interesting than fucking around with the platform.
The downfall of an open source platform is that if you've customized it in any way to get the job done (as you often are required to do) then you need a high-value ($$$$$) resource to fix problems if you are either unavailable or don't have time.
Windows resources grow on trees. You can easily hire one from a third party to fix the issue and shift blame^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H get on with something else.
Germans are well, germans, there is a reason why their industries are known for high quality. And it's a culture thing. Germans seems not the change easily. They seem to keep to ways of old, that have been proved to work.
So thats why they were "early" linux adopters, right?
No this is a symptom of the platform not performing as expected. The irony is that they're changing back just as cloud services are going to make their switch to linux more attractive.
Well, in the real world, seamless interoperability with hardware and other businesses (who, like it or not, are on Windows + Office) is important. Staff re-training is important.
The year of linux isn't quite here yet, however if google apps gain traction then it won't be far off. I think perhaps the germans were a little early and are perhaps just abandoning the platform as it comes of age. However after trying for *years* to realize promised savings, you can see why the bean counters have likely said "enough".
Once the "cloud" services take off, desktop os platform (for business use, anyway) becomes a lot less relevant and you'll see the cheaper alternatives flourish.
... just goes to show the abysmally sup-optimal implementations of javascript we've been living with for the past decade or so.
Chrome was already way faster than anything else (particularly upon first chrome release, it was like 10x faster than IE i thought?).
Surely some time soon we're going to stop seeing double-digit percentage improvements in performance, or were the original javascript implementations really THAT BAD?
Well, given that the bible is fictional, you've got a better chance of getting the straight dope from the newspaper. Still not anywhere near reliable though.
Uh, right. As opposed to sony/microsoft who let basically anyone get a developer license to write whatever they want to release on PSN as a mini...
Even since way back to the NES, Nintendo has wanted to control what is and is not allowed to be written for their platform much more stringently than anyone else.
My point is devs can put out a complete original game for a couple of dollars. Most of the code for rage is already written, porting it to iphone is a scaling issue. No, not trivial (not having seen the code, but I'm guessing not a major undertaking either, given it was written with the intention of porting to other platforms than PC), but nothing near writing it from scratch, either.
Their Cisco 800s and possibly other higher end models don't support ipv6 without the "advanced ip services" feature set.
Come on now... its been out for 10 years or so now, i'd hardly call a requirement for continued network connectivity post 2010 to be considered an "advanced feature".
You're trolling, right? Most nintendo consoles are sold on the strength of super mario XXIV. Nintendo is no more or less guilty of sequel-itis and no more or less innovative than sony or microsoft. At least sony/microsoft have traditionally been a fuckload more open to third party developers actually being granted development licenses for their hardware.
its a quick port, i'm betting that 99% of the code/content was already generated for the pc version of rage. The iphone port would have been a recompile/tweak and gameplay mod. Most of the code for games these days isn't written in assembly more, and the rage engine is allegedly very scalable...
... then you're going to need to provide something actually special for the cost of a console game aren't you? I have no problems paying a decent sum of money for something that will keep me entertained for say $2-5/hr.
However if your sole justification for charging 50-100 bucks per game is "oooh look at teh shiny!" and nothing else then kindly fucking die already.
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Windows doesn't sell due to ease of use. It sells due support for commercial software and hardware. Given the choice between maintaining sendmail/postfix or exchange, I know which one is way easier, and its NOT exchange.
As opposed to your end user taking their laptop home, plugging the device in, and having windows update automagically install it and configure a print queue (yes, in win7 this is reality more often than not).
Who said the user who takes their laptop home to work from home is plugging into a business class printer?
All macs have built in wireless. Next example?
It doesn't really matter HOW the solution works. Business doesn't care. If linux or anything else can't match that then its behind the 8 ball before the game even starts.
+1.
OS platforms are tools. Much like hammers and screwdrivers, one tool does not fit all. Pick the best tool for the job, move on. Ideology be damned. Hammering nails with a screwdriver just because of some religious devotion when you could get the work done far quicker with a hammer is retarded. In the business world, that sort of shit will get you fired (eventually).
There are things that linux (or bsd) do very well. There are others that they don't (and often these are areas where Windows or OS X excel). Work out what you want t do then choose the appropriate platform. Much of the time this will result in a mixed environment.
Sorry, but if you have a competent Windows admin, you can get a lot done with minimal daily "fiddling".
You spend the money on quality hardware (then a huge number of driver related stability problems just vanish), licenses and monitoring, then move on to something more interesting than fucking around with the platform.
The downfall of an open source platform is that if you've customized it in any way to get the job done (as you often are required to do) then you need a high-value ($$$$$) resource to fix problems if you are either unavailable or don't have time.
Windows resources grow on trees. You can easily hire one from a third party to fix the issue and shift blame^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H get on with something else.
So thats why they were "early" linux adopters, right?
No this is a symptom of the platform not performing as expected. The irony is that they're changing back just as cloud services are going to make their switch to linux more attractive.
Well, in the real world, seamless interoperability with hardware and other businesses (who, like it or not, are on Windows + Office) is important. Staff re-training is important.
The year of linux isn't quite here yet, however if google apps gain traction then it won't be far off. I think perhaps the germans were a little early and are perhaps just abandoning the platform as it comes of age. However after trying for *years* to realize promised savings, you can see why the bean counters have likely said "enough".
Once the "cloud" services take off, desktop os platform (for business use, anyway) becomes a lot less relevant and you'll see the cheaper alternatives flourish.
You lot do realise that the USA probably makes up only a small percentage of the /. population?
You forgot objective c. :-)
Chrome was already way faster than anything else (particularly upon first chrome release, it was like 10x faster than IE i thought?).
Surely some time soon we're going to stop seeing double-digit percentage improvements in performance, or were the original javascript implementations really THAT BAD?
Well, given that the bible is fictional, you've got a better chance of getting the straight dope from the newspaper. Still not anywhere near reliable though.
Notice how the bug is not present in FreeBSD?
So where can i get this magical "chrome" for my copy of os2 warp? Or Windows NT4?
Vista was, despite what bandwagon the media may have jumped on.
my low id agrees with him
Do any significant number of sites require this?
Uh, right. As opposed to sony/microsoft who let basically anyone get a developer license to write whatever they want to release on PSN as a mini...
Even since way back to the NES, Nintendo has wanted to control what is and is not allowed to be written for their platform much more stringently than anyone else.
Sorry, "radical new experience" is not "jump on enemies in 3d".
My point is devs can put out a complete original game for a couple of dollars. Most of the code for rage is already written, porting it to iphone is a scaling issue. No, not trivial (not having seen the code, but I'm guessing not a major undertaking either, given it was written with the intention of porting to other platforms than PC), but nothing near writing it from scratch, either.
Come on now... its been out for 10 years or so now, i'd hardly call a requirement for continued network connectivity post 2010 to be considered an "advanced feature".
You're trolling, right? Most nintendo consoles are sold on the strength of super mario XXIV. Nintendo is no more or less guilty of sequel-itis and no more or less innovative than sony or microsoft. At least sony/microsoft have traditionally been a fuckload more open to third party developers actually being granted development licenses for their hardware.
its a quick port, i'm betting that 99% of the code/content was already generated for the pc version of rage. The iphone port would have been a recompile/tweak and gameplay mod. Most of the code for games these days isn't written in assembly more, and the rage engine is allegedly very scalable...
However if your sole justification for charging 50-100 bucks per game is "oooh look at teh shiny!" and nothing else then kindly fucking die already.
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