It seems to even try to function as a business professional without Windows you're asking for HUGE headaches.
I am a business professional. My desktop is 100% Linux (Ubuntu) and has been for a long time. I've never bothered to tell anyone I was using Linux, and as far as I'm aware no one has any clue. My pain level is zero. (Actually, my pain level is "negative," since from time to time tasks crop up like mass file renaming, which I get done in a few moments but the Windows users take hours and hours to do. Manually. One file at a time. For hundreds and hundreds of files. THAT is pain.)
His job isn't to exterminate Linux, just get accurate info about it to M$.
In other news, the AEGIS radar system on a DD(G) guided missle cruiser doesn't kill enemies. It just gives fire control information to the ship, which then uses surface-to-air missles to kill the enemies.
How true. Sadly, the best question Mr. Hilf could have been asked is "Why do you think Microsoft are paying your salary?"
Gah, what is with this. Instead of using the plain old horror story plot where a doorway to Hell gets opened up (i.e., although this is a run-of-the-mill horror plot it's still perfectly good stuff), it looks like they've turned this into yet another anti-science movie. Oh noes! Our creations are turning against us! Fear science! Fear progress!
the 26-year-old software programmer gets annoyed by the appearance of such digital alter egos as...the belly-baring Wu the Lotus Blossom of 'Jade Empire.'
I wonder if the next generation of war subs will not have any people, but will be robots. To think, wars fought and decided 20,000 feet under the sea, but by robots, no people.
Yeah but what about when one of them gets a random electrical charge and becomes self aware? Then what, mister smarty pants? Haven't there been enough movies about this subject that people are aware of the dangers of robots!
This prevents you from being able to take your knowledge of a product that you were working on at company A to company B. This kind of practice is completely ethical. Taking your knowledge from 1 company to another is very unethical and these type of rules prevent these thigns from happening.
In theory this is fine, because a company doesn't really want to invest a lot of time and money and customer mindshare in a higher-end employee just so that their competition can get all the benefits. The same with customers -- you don't want key customers running off with the valuable employees you charge them high hourly rates for!
But what I've experienced is that no company will put a limit on the term "customer" or "competitor." Every entity is potentially a customer or a competitor, so your ex-employer really doesn't want you working for anyone else ever again. So call it ethical if you like, but the kind of total control over ideas companies want these days is just stupid, and creates a great deal of harm.
Just in case you missed the sarcasm, because you may have never tried to set up LDAP before, this is a reflection of what LDAP is like. It is not a product, it's a set of (impossibly arcane) tools with which you can create a product, over the course of several human lifetimes, that might have the same features as Active Directory. And it's got "Isla de Muerte" documentation -- nobody can understand it unless they already know how it works.
It's going to be a chance for each country's "Way of Life" to be exported abroad
Aha! See, while it's easy to feel like we shouldn't be having such petty conflicts, what you've hit on is the magic of it. We'll have a lot of different strategies going outward. A lot of different motivators. It's evolution in action, keeping us viable into the stars.
On the surface, it's seems unfortunate. But in the long run it will mean we survive.
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Sound. I have to kill -9 the ESD process to get some applications to work. A lot of applications had to be tweaked individually after install.
But of course you didn't state which applications those are, or what sound hardware you've got, or any details that could allow people evaluate this claim. The truth is that sound is autodetected and automatically set up by Ubuntu at install time for the vast majority of hardware. Unlike Windows where no sound hardware is autodetected.
Synaptic. Synaptic does its job, I can say that. But the user interface leaves a lot to be desired. I upgraded to Hoary yesterday. Why did that have to involve editing sources.list by hand?
I don't know why you had to do that either. Because you don't. Choose Settings > Repositories from the menu. Are you making up lies on purpose?
Applications. Why the hell do newly installed applications need to be added to the menus manually? This is Ubuntu's biggest flaw. When you install a new program, you'd better know how to invoke it from the command line.
Ah, yes, the ever-popular command line FUD. Except it's not true. Menu items are added to the main menu by an application's installer, just like in Windows. You also conveniently failed to name the application that didn't provide you with a menu item. Big surprise.
Firefox. Ubuntu's web browser of choice, Firefox, is unresponsive after opening new tabs. Firefox is much nicer in Windows. And IE for Windows is far more responsive than either.
So now at least we know who you're working for. Once again, though, you're just making stuff up. I'm typing this from an Ubuntu desktop right now, from within a perpetually-running Firefox, and it never becomes unresponsive.
Folder Navigation. I don't like the fact that there is no back or up arrow when exploring file folders. This is massively stupid UI design.
(A) Just because the controls are different doesn't make the design stupid. (B) The nautilus browser most definitely has up and back arrows. So once more you are either making up lies or you have no idea what you're talking about.
It's a million years behind Windows in usability
Which you have "proven" by inventing a bunch of falsehoods? The only thing that's been established here is that Ubuntu autodetects more hardware than Windows.
Yeah, here's one of my favorite examples of a game with plenty of religion in it.
What? Oh, my mistake. You're not talking about games with religion. You're talking about games that evangelize American Protestant Christianity. Well, no, I don't want to play a game that is trying to convert me or get me "fired up for Christ!" or any of that. It's nothing to do with the fact that it's religious. PETA likes to produce "activities" that evangelize their viewpoint, and I don't want that junk either.
I will go out on a limb and suggest that the only people who want a game that promotes a moral viewpoint are the ones who are already zealots.
Um, no, you are wrong, my good AC. Your comprehension of history is truly miniscule.
None of the things you list are new developments. There have always been laws put on the books to protect monied interests. The first extension of the term of patents in the U.S. occurred pricesly when the first patents were about to expire -- the patent owners went to Washington, asked for the term to be retroactively extended, and their pals in Congress complied. It's the name of the game. It has always been this way and it will always be this way.
The gist of Glickman's argument boils down to the old 'we're taking our ball and going home' game
Then go.
This same tired argument is used by the airlines from time to time as well. "If government doesn't give us 52 billion dollars, we'll close up shop and then no one will have service." The reality is that if all the companies in the MPAA went away right this minute, the vacuum would be filled immediately as dozens of smaller studios suddendly received a torrent of investment capital. From the customers' standpoint, nothing would have changed.
Don't forget the hard drive: included on the 360, an expansion item for the PS3. You didn't overlook it on purpose, did you?:)
This advantage is easily cancelled by PS3's interactivity with the PSP. While Xbox 360 can interoperate with...huh, a desktop running a currently unreleased OS. Allegedly. If you buy the wi-fi expansion. And the "pro" version of the OS. Meh. I'll save my $200 for more PS3 games.
I am very curious about why you should have trouble moving this case forward and/or obtaining representation. It looks to me like a shark would pick up this case and bloody this company for a big, juicy paycheck in a hearbeat, with no upfront costs to you. If you have reasonable evidence of infringement and Lanham Act violation, get consultation from the most expensive ambulance chasers in town. They should be able to kick this CEO in the balls for a few mil plus compliance. They'll take 40-60%, but who cares?
I don't understand why there are some people that are so fascinated with the game, because for three days, every mission was "go escort this new-jack to an evaluation center" and "go kill this guy" and "go kill this other guy and get a data disk" and "escort this guy over here".
Yeah, I know what you mean. You know what other game was boring? Prince of Persia. Man, I could hardly stay awake. Every time it's "swing from a pole" or "run along a wall" or "dodge the spiky thing." Snore! How many times do they expect you to do the same thing over and over again?
The combat is alright, but a little stiff. That gets boring after awhile.
Yeah, in Prince of Persia, after the fourth or fifth time vaulting over an enemy I was, like, wake me when it's over! I don't know what they were thinking when they made that game.
It's a shame, because the potential is definitely there.
Same with that dumb-ass Prince of Persia game. Lots of potential, if only it hadn't been so incredibly boring and repetitive. Maybe -- maybe -- if they'd had it so every encounter and every puzzle was totally new and unique, like a whole new game every few minutes, then I could have tolerated it.
A lot of users aren't "happy with their Microsoft products." They hate them, and simply don't realize there are alternatives or are afraid that switching will somehow lead to bad consequences.
I don't evangelize software, but when someone asks me why their computer-using experience is so sucky, I am happy to provide them with information about non-sucky alternatives.
Heck, its a pain in the ass sometimes to get simple brain-dead stuff such as printing and mounting a drive working.
For some reason I always get modded down for saying this, but I'll say it anyway. I can't ever figure this opinion out. I have problems almost daily in Windows XP trying to print to a network printer (it randomly decides I don't have permission to print), but I never have a problem with this in Linux. I've also never had a problem mounting a drive. For example, I can plug my new Seagate external HD into the firewire port and an icon for the disk appears on my desktop. Where is this mythical "pain in the ass"?
the new CEO (and me too), were sick and tired of people trying to get things to work together properly.
You know what I'm sick of? I'm sick of FUD about how things "don't work right" in Linux and vague statements about it being "incomplete" when there is no basis for these claims in reality.
While Apple fiddles around with ridiculous improvements like these, Microsoft is hard at work breaking new ground in computing. I hear they're going to make it so icons act like previews of the document! You can keep your toy Macs, I'll wait for a real operating system, thank you.
I have used Xpdf exclusively for a long time. In what way is Adobe reader superior to Xpdf?
If all you're doing is viewing simple PDF documents, xpdf and its relatives are fine. But there are a few things the Adobe reader does that xpdf doesn't which I use all the time:
Document markup (this is the most important)
Non-sucky zoom in and out
Non-sucky text selection and copying
The grab hand for dragging the view around
Facing page viewing (this is a big deal when you are preparing documents for press)
Document security (this only comes up once in a while, when you're letting a client see your work before they've paid for it)
I think the core difficulty here is that you think you have a technology problem, when what you have is a management problem.
How absolutely, utterly true. What will you do in a few years when human sense data can be (and is commonly) directly stored as bits? A blind person gets optical implants and can now see. I supposed you would refuse to hire her because she might recover what she's seen from the storage buffers. You'll never overcome this "problem" with technological solutions -- eventually those solutions are going to spill over into human management problems anyway (i.e., the blind person).
Now there are two ways to think about this. (1) You have a management problem, as parent said. This is true in the limited term. But (2) there is something unnatural about trying to lock down ideas as if they were property. It can't be done, and crushing enabling technologies everywhere you find them isn't going to make it any more possible.
This guy apparently thinks Diablo II lacks long-term appeal as a game. Hit this guy with a cluestick. Diablo II, a 6-year-old game, is still occupying a lot of shelf space in stores and still selling far above bargain bin price. The only other game that has this much longevity is Counter-Strike.
Yes, poor, poor Blizzard. They have a "failure" on their hands just like Diablo II.
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I am a business professional. My desktop is 100% Linux (Ubuntu) and has been for a long time. I've never bothered to tell anyone I was using Linux, and as far as I'm aware no one has any clue. My pain level is zero. (Actually, my pain level is "negative," since from time to time tasks crop up like mass file renaming, which I get done in a few moments but the Windows users take hours and hours to do. Manually. One file at a time. For hundreds and hundreds of files. THAT is pain.)
How true. Sadly, the best question Mr. Hilf could have been asked is "Why do you think Microsoft are paying your salary?"
So play Scholar Ling. Duh.
Yeah but what about when one of them gets a random electrical charge and becomes self aware? Then what, mister smarty pants? Haven't there been enough movies about this subject that people are aware of the dangers of robots!
In theory this is fine, because a company doesn't really want to invest a lot of time and money and customer mindshare in a higher-end employee just so that their competition can get all the benefits. The same with customers -- you don't want key customers running off with the valuable employees you charge them high hourly rates for!
But what I've experienced is that no company will put a limit on the term "customer" or "competitor." Every entity is potentially a customer or a competitor, so your ex-employer really doesn't want you working for anyone else ever again. So call it ethical if you like, but the kind of total control over ideas companies want these days is just stupid, and creates a great deal of harm.
Aha! See, while it's easy to feel like we shouldn't be having such petty conflicts, what you've hit on is the magic of it. We'll have a lot of different strategies going outward. A lot of different motivators. It's evolution in action, keeping us viable into the stars.
On the surface, it's seems unfortunate. But in the long run it will mean we survive.
I sacrifice my moderator status to call upon my trusty Sword of Troll-slaying!
Sound. I have to kill -9 the ESD process to get some applications to work. A lot of applications had to be tweaked individually after install.
But of course you didn't state which applications those are, or what sound hardware you've got, or any details that could allow people evaluate this claim. The truth is that sound is autodetected and automatically set up by Ubuntu at install time for the vast majority of hardware. Unlike Windows where no sound hardware is autodetected.
Synaptic. Synaptic does its job, I can say that. But the user interface leaves a lot to be desired. I upgraded to Hoary yesterday. Why did that have to involve editing sources.list by hand?
I don't know why you had to do that either. Because you don't. Choose Settings > Repositories from the menu. Are you making up lies on purpose?
Applications. Why the hell do newly installed applications need to be added to the menus manually? This is Ubuntu's biggest flaw. When you install a new program, you'd better know how to invoke it from the command line.
Ah, yes, the ever-popular command line FUD. Except it's not true. Menu items are added to the main menu by an application's installer, just like in Windows. You also conveniently failed to name the application that didn't provide you with a menu item. Big surprise.
Firefox. Ubuntu's web browser of choice, Firefox, is unresponsive after opening new tabs. Firefox is much nicer in Windows. And IE for Windows is far more responsive than either.
So now at least we know who you're working for. Once again, though, you're just making stuff up. I'm typing this from an Ubuntu desktop right now, from within a perpetually-running Firefox, and it never becomes unresponsive.
Folder Navigation. I don't like the fact that there is no back or up arrow when exploring file folders. This is massively stupid UI design.
(A) Just because the controls are different doesn't make the design stupid. (B) The nautilus browser most definitely has up and back arrows. So once more you are either making up lies or you have no idea what you're talking about.
It's a million years behind Windows in usability
Which you have "proven" by inventing a bunch of falsehoods? The only thing that's been established here is that Ubuntu autodetects more hardware than Windows.
What? Oh, my mistake. You're not talking about games with religion. You're talking about games that evangelize American Protestant Christianity. Well, no, I don't want to play a game that is trying to convert me or get me "fired up for Christ!" or any of that. It's nothing to do with the fact that it's religious. PETA likes to produce "activities" that evangelize their viewpoint, and I don't want that junk either.
I will go out on a limb and suggest that the only people who want a game that promotes a moral viewpoint are the ones who are already zealots.
Gyyeeaaach.
Then go.
This same tired argument is used by the airlines from time to time as well. "If government doesn't give us 52 billion dollars, we'll close up shop and then no one will have service." The reality is that if all the companies in the MPAA went away right this minute, the vacuum would be filled immediately as dozens of smaller studios suddendly received a torrent of investment capital. From the customers' standpoint, nothing would have changed.
This advantage is easily cancelled by PS3's interactivity with the PSP. While Xbox 360 can interoperate with...huh, a desktop running a currently unreleased OS. Allegedly. If you buy the wi-fi expansion. And the "pro" version of the OS. Meh. I'll save my $200 for more PS3 games.
Yeah, I know what you mean. You know what other game was boring? Prince of Persia. Man, I could hardly stay awake. Every time it's "swing from a pole" or "run along a wall" or "dodge the spiky thing." Snore! How many times do they expect you to do the same thing over and over again?
The combat is alright, but a little stiff. That gets boring after awhile.
Yeah, in Prince of Persia, after the fourth or fifth time vaulting over an enemy I was, like, wake me when it's over! I don't know what they were thinking when they made that game.
It's a shame, because the potential is definitely there.
Same with that dumb-ass Prince of Persia game. Lots of potential, if only it hadn't been so incredibly boring and repetitive. Maybe -- maybe -- if they'd had it so every encounter and every puzzle was totally new and unique, like a whole new game every few minutes, then I could have tolerated it.
P.S. Note heavy sarcasm.
I played a few beta weekends way, way back and it was one of the funnest games I've played in a long time.
I don't evangelize software, but when someone asks me why their computer-using experience is so sucky, I am happy to provide them with information about non-sucky alternatives.
For some reason I always get modded down for saying this, but I'll say it anyway. I can't ever figure this opinion out. I have problems almost daily in Windows XP trying to print to a network printer (it randomly decides I don't have permission to print), but I never have a problem with this in Linux. I've also never had a problem mounting a drive. For example, I can plug my new Seagate external HD into the firewire port and an icon for the disk appears on my desktop. Where is this mythical "pain in the ass"?
the new CEO (and me too), were sick and tired of people trying to get things to work together properly.
You know what I'm sick of? I'm sick of FUD about how things "don't work right" in Linux and vague statements about it being "incomplete" when there is no basis for these claims in reality.
If all you're doing is viewing simple PDF documents, xpdf and its relatives are fine. But there are a few things the Adobe reader does that xpdf doesn't which I use all the time:
How absolutely, utterly true. What will you do in a few years when human sense data can be (and is commonly) directly stored as bits? A blind person gets optical implants and can now see. I supposed you would refuse to hire her because she might recover what she's seen from the storage buffers. You'll never overcome this "problem" with technological solutions -- eventually those solutions are going to spill over into human management problems anyway (i.e., the blind person).
Now there are two ways to think about this. (1) You have a management problem, as parent said. This is true in the limited term. But (2) there is something unnatural about trying to lock down ideas as if they were property. It can't be done, and crushing enabling technologies everywhere you find them isn't going to make it any more possible.
Yes, poor, poor Blizzard. They have a "failure" on their hands just like Diablo II.