Yes, my hardware is capable of running a Linux distribution. The computer's operator, however, does not wish to take the time to learn the inner workings of Linux so that he (I) can do simple things like install a new piece of hardware. Make Linux as simple to use as Windows -- in all respects -- and you'll have my ear. Until such time, busy moderately-savvy folks like myself will continue to use Windows. I don't want or need to know how an OS works. An OS should be seamless, simply a conduit for running software and using hardware.
If I'm going to upgrade Windows, yes, I do indeed need a faster computer. No question.
Here's a crazy idea. Make Linux easy enough for the average person to set up, use and install hardware on and it will dominate the marketplace. Until such time, this is a Windows world.
I'm a writer working from home. As much as I hate WinME, I'm not upgrading my computer until it dies. And I'm certainly not upgrading simply to use a new web browser. It's a shame Firefox is abandoning support for computers that are perfectly capable of viewing 99% of web sites in existence. It's a shame Firefox has the viewpoint that progress means leaving people behind. If Firefox supported as many computers as possible, it would be a monstrous advantage over Internet Explorer. IMHO, a growing number of home users who don't play cutting edge games are getting tired of upgrading to a newer computer which offers little functional advantage over their old one. I saw nothing in this announcement that provided incentive for me to spend hundred of dollars (or more) to use Firefox.
Hmmm, I wonder if I was thinking of my state's tax system. I can't find any reference to the issue in that realm though.
But to answer the lingering question, I've never tried to take that deduction. No use complicating life by going beyond the EZ form.
If you are compensating a volunteer for his time, think like a tax collector. If I volunteer professional services for a nonprofit, I'll take a tax deduction equal
to the pay I would have received if I had been originally paid for my time.
Hey, all I know is that the majority of the hits to my blog come from Yahoo and MSN. My page titles are crystal clear about what you'll be seeing before you arrive, so I'm not too worried about a lack of "quality" in my site traffic. My hits from Google are from people who search 2 to 5 pages deep in search results before finding me. Much of the time, Google ranks other blogs linking to my post higher than my posts, even for searches which involve my web site's name. So I humbly suggest that Yahoo and MSN aren't popular merely because people are sheep, but because those sheep have found contentment in being fed.
It is news. If we don't talk about it, and no one talks about it, and it turns out to be a real problem, the only folks who know about it are the individual, separated, noncommunicative customers and Microsoft. People deserve to know this information. Stop trying to silence critics. They serve a legitimate and important purpose.
My problem with all of this is that we are entrusting Google with everything without guarantees that the issues we hold dear will be valued and respected. Google is great at PR and looking good while escaping responsibility for owning up to the fine details.
This is the issue that will keep Google from monopolizing the market. At some point they have to make promises to us users, or someone who truly respects us will come along and wipe them away.
Sorry, I like to own software, or at least have free software that resides on my workstation without fear of intervention. Communal software I never really own -- that I use on a temporary "as long as Google feels like it" basis -- sounds a lot like a M$ rental plan.
I don't hear Google announcing free-for-life software, nor anything coming close to a trustworthy privacy policy for all the data they collect about me. Google's Achilles heal is its disregard for privacy protections. I won't hand over my keys to the kingdom no matter what "we're not evil" unsubstantiated promises they tell me.
Google's database has less than half of my blog postings since the beginning of Google's June 2005 logging. When I search for many of my postings the only sign they exist is the search results that show OTHER blogs linking to my entries. Technorati is complete. Google is a newbie. I'll stick with the pros.
You want people to return their PCs to factory defaults so that their PCs just get infected again while you takes hours to download all your Windows security patches? Not bloody likely. Are you being serious, or do you work for a spyware company?
It's far simpler to buy a new PC that has a year or two's worth of security patches already in place -- less for you to download. My uncle has already replaced one PC because of spyware. He's on a dial-up connection. He's not going to sit for hours upon hours so his old PC can reinstall security patches.
Yep, I'm guessing micropayments with a special emphasis on courting newspaper web sites. It would finally make Google News profitable, sending Google users to Google clients.
Sure, the newspaper's wiki service was sure to be abused, and sure, Slashdot excelerated that abuse. But still, what a smug response for the author who posted this discussion topic! He seems to delight in the fact that we can't have a free and open society because some people are bent on destroying nice things.
The thought to ditch my VCR never crossed my mind until this discussion thread. I'm not aware of a mass-market DVR that doesn't require a monthly subscription. If such a product exists, how do I share or back-up recorded shows? Likewise, I've never even HEARD of a DVD TV recorder until this thread. My VCR fills my need. If VCR tapes will disappear, then I'll buy up a large supply of tapes and a couple spare VCRs before I'll consider crappy subscriber-based DVRs and DRM-crippled DVD recorders.
Let's cryogenically freeze ourselves for 800,696 years. Corporations will have selectively bred the population into sheep, devoid of creativity. The Morlocks will have long forgotten about enforcing copyrights, so we'll be free to rebuild our culture based on principles freedom of thought and expression.
Don't relegate simplicity to a senior citizen issue. I'm young and hate every cell phone I've ever used. I don't have the time or patience to wade through a million menus with features I don't want and will never use. I would love to use a cell phone that is only a phone.
When I share my address with established, "respectable" web sites, they spam me. It seems that if I buy something from a store, the store feels it can spam me whenever it wants. Sometimes "respectable" corporations (car manufacturers, movie companies, etc.) buy my address from another "respectable" corporation and then spam me.
I've learned to NEVER give any dot-com my permanent address no matter how much I trust them or how much stuff I'm buying from them.
1) Get your own domain name.
2) Use three addresses - one for business, one for friends and one for listservs.
3) Set up a forwarding address for blogs and web retailers.
4) When the first spam arrives, delete the forwarding address or the listserv address and create a new one.
5) Put a comment form on your web site. Anyone who has your defunct forwarding address can visit your web site to track you down. Anyone looking for you on a listserv can grab your new address from a recent posting.
6) Accept that you'll still receive some worm e-mails from infected fools. Thankfully, these are easily deleted by a filter.
This system has worked for me for four years. I don't use a spam filter. I only need anti-virus software to detect and delete worms as they arrive.
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Yes, my hardware is capable of running a Linux distribution. The computer's operator, however, does not wish to take the time to learn the inner workings of Linux so that he (I) can do simple things like install a new piece of hardware. Make Linux as simple to use as Windows -- in all respects -- and you'll have my ear. Until such time, busy moderately-savvy folks like myself will continue to use Windows. I don't want or need to know how an OS works. An OS should be seamless, simply a conduit for running software and using hardware.
If I'm going to upgrade Windows, yes, I do indeed need a faster computer. No question. Here's a crazy idea. Make Linux easy enough for the average person to set up, use and install hardware on and it will dominate the marketplace. Until such time, this is a Windows world.
I'm a writer working from home. As much as I hate WinME, I'm not upgrading my computer until it dies. And I'm certainly not upgrading simply to use a new web browser. It's a shame Firefox is abandoning support for computers that are perfectly capable of viewing 99% of web sites in existence. It's a shame Firefox has the viewpoint that progress means leaving people behind. If Firefox supported as many computers as possible, it would be a monstrous advantage over Internet Explorer. IMHO, a growing number of home users who don't play cutting edge games are getting tired of upgrading to a newer computer which offers little functional advantage over their old one. I saw nothing in this announcement that provided incentive for me to spend hundred of dollars (or more) to use Firefox.
Hmmm, I wonder if I was thinking of my state's tax system. I can't find any reference to the issue in that realm though. But to answer the lingering question, I've never tried to take that deduction. No use complicating life by going beyond the EZ form.
If you are compensating a volunteer for his time, think like a tax collector. If I volunteer professional services for a nonprofit, I'll take a tax deduction equal to the pay I would have received if I had been originally paid for my time.
We're in a pretty 'ucked up world if someone has to ask who is at fault. Lock him up.
Because within a few years I will have no choice but to use RFID-tagged cards if I want to participate in society in even a remotely normal manner.
Hey, all I know is that the majority of the hits to my blog come from Yahoo and MSN. My page titles are crystal clear about what you'll be seeing before you arrive, so I'm not too worried about a lack of "quality" in my site traffic. My hits from Google are from people who search 2 to 5 pages deep in search results before finding me. Much of the time, Google ranks other blogs linking to my post higher than my posts, even for searches which involve my web site's name. So I humbly suggest that Yahoo and MSN aren't popular merely because people are sheep, but because those sheep have found contentment in being fed.
You're right. People eat what is put in front of them. The news in this study is that Google has a huge barrier to overcome to attact the masses.
It is news. If we don't talk about it, and no one talks about it, and it turns out to be a real problem, the only folks who know about it are the individual, separated, noncommunicative customers and Microsoft. People deserve to know this information. Stop trying to silence critics. They serve a legitimate and important purpose.
Does anyone know if this rootkit stuff is preinstalled on VAIO computers? I'd like to know before I buy one.
My problem with all of this is that we are entrusting Google with everything without guarantees that the issues we hold dear will be valued and respected. Google is great at PR and looking good while escaping responsibility for owning up to the fine details. This is the issue that will keep Google from monopolizing the market. At some point they have to make promises to us users, or someone who truly respects us will come along and wipe them away.
Sorry, I like to own software, or at least have free software that resides on my workstation without fear of intervention. Communal software I never really own -- that I use on a temporary "as long as Google feels like it" basis -- sounds a lot like a M$ rental plan. I don't hear Google announcing free-for-life software, nor anything coming close to a trustworthy privacy policy for all the data they collect about me. Google's Achilles heal is its disregard for privacy protections. I won't hand over my keys to the kingdom no matter what "we're not evil" unsubstantiated promises they tell me.
Google's database has less than half of my blog postings since the beginning of Google's June 2005 logging. When I search for many of my postings the only sign they exist is the search results that show OTHER blogs linking to my entries. Technorati is complete. Google is a newbie. I'll stick with the pros.
The average user doesn't know how to burn a CD, let along a Windows CD. The average user doesn't even know they can get that CD from Microsoft.
You want people to return their PCs to factory defaults so that their PCs just get infected again while you takes hours to download all your Windows security patches? Not bloody likely. Are you being serious, or do you work for a spyware company?
It's far simpler to buy a new PC that has a year or two's worth of security patches already in place -- less for you to download. My uncle has already replaced one PC because of spyware. He's on a dial-up connection. He's not going to sit for hours upon hours so his old PC can reinstall security patches.
Yep, I'm guessing micropayments with a special emphasis on courting newspaper web sites. It would finally make Google News profitable, sending Google users to Google clients.
Sure, the newspaper's wiki service was sure to be abused, and sure, Slashdot excelerated that abuse. But still, what a smug response for the author who posted this discussion topic! He seems to delight in the fact that we can't have a free and open society because some people are bent on destroying nice things.
The thought to ditch my VCR never crossed my mind until this discussion thread. I'm not aware of a mass-market DVR that doesn't require a monthly subscription. If such a product exists, how do I share or back-up recorded shows? Likewise, I've never even HEARD of a DVD TV recorder until this thread. My VCR fills my need. If VCR tapes will disappear, then I'll buy up a large supply of tapes and a couple spare VCRs before I'll consider crappy subscriber-based DVRs and DRM-crippled DVD recorders.
Let's cryogenically freeze ourselves for 800,696 years. Corporations will have selectively bred the population into sheep, devoid of creativity. The Morlocks will have long forgotten about enforcing copyrights, so we'll be free to rebuild our culture based on principles freedom of thought and expression.
It was never about 'the search' anyhow, was it?
Don't relegate simplicity to a senior citizen issue. I'm young and hate every cell phone I've ever used. I don't have the time or patience to wade through a million menus with features I don't want and will never use. I would love to use a cell phone that is only a phone.
I've learned to NEVER give any dot-com my permanent address no matter how much I trust them or how much stuff I'm buying from them.
1) Get your own domain name.
2) Use three addresses - one for business, one for friends and one for listservs.
3) Set up a forwarding address for blogs and web retailers.
4) When the first spam arrives, delete the forwarding address or the listserv address and create a new one.
5) Put a comment form on your web site. Anyone who has your defunct forwarding address can visit your web site to track you down. Anyone looking for you on a listserv can grab your new address from a recent posting.
6) Accept that you'll still receive some worm e-mails from infected fools. Thankfully, these are easily deleted by a filter.
This system has worked for me for four years. I don't use a spam filter. I only need anti-virus software to detect and delete worms as they arrive.
Where's your data proving that Google News drives users to AFP's site? I mean, besides reading an isolated story, sucking up bandwidth, and leaving?
Amusing straw man argument. Now how about your actually discuss the issues?