If your boss wants to install the new whizzbang you install it or get fired. In such situations you don't have a choice. And trusting to someone who is posting on a forum... now isn't that a dumb idea...
No, if thats the situation, you quit and work somewhere where you're allowed to do *your* job.
You don't flat out say no - but you make it clear that "whizbang" is to be installed in a secure test environment first, before going into production.
To render the screen in the GPU requires an awful lot of memory to do optimally - 256MB is a happy medium, but you'll actually see benefit from more
Funny how MacOS X has managed just fine on a 32meg card for the past couple of years... even Tiger.
Microsoft is trying to tell us that rendering a Windows desktop requires more 3d memory capacity than the PS2 uses for something like Gran Turismo 4? That their own X box has 1/4 the capacity needed to render a Windows desktop?
It's 2005. Computers are fast enough to load the surrounding landscape's data in the background when you get near the edge of an area. If you want to know what good those up-and-coming dual-core CPUs will be for games, well, there's one answer.
Shit, Ultima7 could do this back in 1993. Ultima 6 before then even (and probably earlier ultimas as well):)
Admittedly graphics have improved a bit, but the whole continuous game world thing isn't new - simply that most developers take the easy way out... or trade graphics/audio for load time.
Most people are completely unaware that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist.
Most people have no idea what Linux is. By the way, who owns Linux again? Who exactly is going to sue Microsoft?
Instead of your $300AU windows license, buy a copy of Cedega (no it doesn't support *every* game, but a lot of good ones), and a wireless card that works.
Pocket the change, and go buy something nice:D
Thats what I just did recently, when i finally stopped multi-booting:)
You clearly have no idea how inaccurate (and poorly deployed) speed cameras are over here in Australia.
Whether or not they photoshopped it or not is irrelevant. They have no proof that the photo is legit, and therefore, no case.
Whether this is morally right or wrong is not relevant for the purposes of this discussion.
f you insist on murder-case like evidence for traffic tickets, then either there won't be a lot of traffic tickets, resulting in more people killed and injured due to reckless driving, or the cost of police enforcement will go up greatly. That's a bad tradeoff.
Thats your take on it. Speed camera studies show this is not the case. Also, our death rate did not drop drastically on the year speed cameras were introduced - but again, irrelevant for the point of this discussion. We're not discussing morals, we're discussing legality.
At the end of the day, when you get all the moral bullshit out of the way, its simple. They cannot provide irrefutable evidence, and therefore have no case.
I thought it was common knowledge that this was the motivation behind having a cross-platform browser that works...
Yes, as far as business apps go, it can all be done via a web browser.
Choice of platform is irrelevant. This is why MS is so hell-bent on making IE the "web standard" and is so dead set against competition in this area - even though they give it away for free.
- Thin clients are weird to administer, definately not the 'it just works' simplicity of Lindows - I doubt Linspire is designed to work with a thin-client model anyway. - A thin client is currently more expensive than a full PC, and uses about the same power as a low-power PC. - The biggest benifit to the thin-client plan can be accomplished with NFS home directories.
Wierd to administer? Perhaps for those who don't set them up for a living. Teacher's won't be administering them any more than plugging them in - a competent administrator should be able to automate this to a larger extent than with non-thin-clients
Who cares about what Linspire does? We're considering "other" options in this context - if they were going to go thin client, they'd pick thin clients, not Linspire.
Got sources for that info? Dumb terminals don't have fans, discs, or high power cpus. I can get a brand name (as in, well supported nationally, etc) thin client box for less than the cost of a new brand name PC.
NFS will give me machines with no moving parts, that don't become obsolete? When I need more power for Apps, i just upgrade the server - if you're going to run apps off a terminal/web server you might as well go the whole hog and use thin clients to get the full benefit of it
For a school, thin client is definately the way to go.
No one was even close to the ease of use that Windows offered. Sure, Mac OS was a lot prettier but then it cost the moon and the stars along with both your arms and legs.'"
One word:
Amiga.
And as for $$$... when I got my amiga for $800AU in 1989, the comparable PC was an XT costing about $1200AU at least (admittedly with mono monitor - but the amiga could use a TV and had *colour*).
Nice troll, but GNU doesn't prohibit you from selling your software. And nowhere did the guy say he was intending to use GNU libraries that are not under the LGPL, which expressly allows linking to commercial apps.
Granted, however those sites which *don't* sell stuff or are in that situation would be a start.
Out of all the web surfing I do personally, e-commerce probably makes up less than 10% of my activity.
If the sites where I (and I would assume, others) spend 90% of my time did this it would be great.
After all - some sites require quicktime/flash/etc... Firefox is about the same size, or even smaller than quicktime... and people seem willing enough to install that.
Data can be retrieved from drives for at least a couple of generations, if you have the tools.
I recall sending a dead drive off for data recovery, and the company (Disk Doctor, in western australia) calling me back and asking "which o/s do you want?". Apparently they were able to see at least 3 different O/S installations on the disk...
To be sure, you need to write crap over the disk several times...
I use Linux because it works. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on software in the last decade, and I'm not about to stop now.
In the good old days, computers came with the OS built in. People still paid for applications. Most Windows users don't pay directly for Windows either - they get it with their computer.
No need to re-state the obvious. As to the problems with their browser (the "why" of "Microsoft Sucks"), there are many.
AtiveX. Lack of CSS support. Lack of alternative OS support. Poor security model. Deliberately incmpatible and broken Java virtual machine. Lack of vendor response to security problems. Etc.
Now, when the writing is on the wall, and Microsoft finally decides that it might be an idea to do something about the vast number of glaring problems with its product before it becomes totally irrelevant, we're supposed to be happy about it?
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"Pre-emptive" is a bit of a worry - whats to say that the US won't be wrong about WMDs or whatever *again* somewhere else?
smash (now don't confuse the above with support of Saddam - he's a prick. totally seperate issue though).
You don't flat out say no - but you make it clear that "whizbang" is to be installed in a secure test environment first, before going into production.
smash.
Thats a microsoft rep...
smash.
Funny how MacOS X has managed just fine on a 32meg card for the past couple of years... even Tiger.
Microsoft is trying to tell us that rendering a Windows desktop requires more 3d memory capacity than the PS2 uses for something like Gran Turismo 4? That their own X box has 1/4 the capacity needed to render a Windows desktop?
Pfft..
smash.
When the CEO cracks up like that, you know they're seriously worried about what's going on.
smash.
Admittedly graphics have improved a bit, but the whole continuous game world thing isn't new - simply that most developers take the easy way out... or trade graphics/audio for load time.
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Instead of your $300AU windows license, buy a copy of Cedega (no it doesn't support *every* game, but a lot of good ones), and a wireless card that works.
Pocket the change, and go buy something nice :D
Thats what I just did recently, when i finally stopped multi-booting :)
smash.
Whether or not they photoshopped it or not is irrelevant. They have no proof that the photo is legit, and therefore, no case.
Whether this is morally right or wrong is not relevant for the purposes of this discussion.
Thats your take on it. Speed camera studies show this is not the case. Also, our death rate did not drop drastically on the year speed cameras were introduced - but again, irrelevant for the point of this discussion. We're not discussing morals, we're discussing legality.At the end of the day, when you get all the moral bullshit out of the way, its simple. They cannot provide irrefutable evidence, and therefore have no case.
smash.
There was a big hoo-hah about it when they started setting cameras to that sort of tolerance... :|
smash.
The whole legal system is based on the requirement to *prove* guilt.
The RTA has an incentive (revenue raising) to book people.
They are unable to prove that the photo was legit - whats to say they *DIDN'T* photoshop it? Therefore, they have no proof of guilt.
It's his word against the RTA's the RTA has no proof - case chucked out.
It's brilliant. :)
More people need to do this... thing is most people just pay the fine because its less inconvenient to get someone to fight it.
smash.
Yes, as far as business apps go, it can all be done via a web browser.
Choice of platform is irrelevant. This is why MS is so hell-bent on making IE the "web standard" and is so dead set against competition in this area - even though they give it away for free.
Control the browser and you control the web-apps.
smash.
For a school, thin client is definately the way to go.
smash.
Amongst those that do run on it, they generally run quicker already anyway.
smash.
Amiga.
And as for $$$... when I got my amiga for $800AU in 1989, the comparable PC was an XT costing about $1200AU at least (admittedly with mono monitor - but the amiga could use a TV and had *colour*).
smash.
Linux/*NIX users care about things other than aesthetics.
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But the guy is already porting it to multiple platforms. He didn't ask if it was a good idea - he wants to know who to hire to do it.
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People do pay for linux software - i'm sure if its a decent game and say the first level is free with pay-for-download levels, there's a market.
There's very little shareware market at the moment, because there's very little shareware - not because of any aversion to it.
smash.
Out of all the web surfing I do personally, e-commerce probably makes up less than 10% of my activity.
If the sites where I (and I would assume, others) spend 90% of my time did this it would be great.
After all - some sites require quicktime/flash/etc... Firefox is about the same size, or even smaller than quicktime... and people seem willing enough to install that.
smash.
Data can be retrieved from drives for at least a couple of generations, if you have the tools.
I recall sending a dead drive off for data recovery, and the company (Disk Doctor, in western australia) calling me back and asking "which o/s do you want?". Apparently they were able to see at least 3 different O/S installations on the disk...
To be sure, you need to write crap over the disk several times...
smash.
I don't use Linux because it's cheap.
I use Linux because it works. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on software in the last decade, and I'm not about to stop now.
In the good old days, computers came with the OS built in. People still paid for applications. Most Windows users don't pay directly for Windows either - they get it with their computer.
smash.
Microsoft sucks?
No need to re-state the obvious. As to the problems with their browser (the "why" of "Microsoft Sucks"), there are many.
AtiveX. Lack of CSS support. Lack of alternative OS support. Poor security model. Deliberately incmpatible and broken Java virtual machine. Lack of vendor response to security problems. Etc.
Now, when the writing is on the wall, and Microsoft finally decides that it might be an idea to do something about the vast number of glaring problems with its product before it becomes totally irrelevant, we're supposed to be happy about it?
Right...
smash.