You can definitely see an improvement in the smaller font sizes. The 6, 7, and 8 point are much more readable with the cleartype. The larger ones are more crisp too. Not a huge difference but it does look better.
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Acutally if you read up on the 1987 crash you'll find that our banking system came very close to collapse. The banks weren't able to meet the margin calls from the brokerages on Monday. The Federal Reserve had to step in and guarantee that the banks would meet those obligations or else many of them would have gone out of business that day.
before making a complete ass of yourself. I was replying to a guy that claimed he had very few problems with the suite AND was using Corel's distro.
Oh BTW, I did read the reviews and they were almost completely contradictory. One described all sorts of problems and the other was a blowjob for Corel in which the reviewer oooh'd and aaah'd over the box, blew away his sytem TWICE to get it running and then proceeded to gush about how great it was.
I agree. The Intel bashing is lame. Even more so because Linux runs on a number of different architectures. People are always bashing the x86 architecture and Intel's prices. But hey, Linux runs on a lot of other architectures so let's take a look at why people DON'T abandon the x86 world. Off the top of my head I recall that Linux runs on SPARC, PowerPC and StrongARM among others. Oh you say SPARC is more expensive? And you can't get a PowerPC mobo? And StrongARM doesn't have the horsepower? Ohhhhhh.. I see. So what you have with Intel is a RELATIVELY cheap, respectably fast processor widely available through a boatload of resellers. Ya, I can see why you hate them so much.
Athlons are like Russian nukes, you know they're not as good because it's a reverse engineer hack of someone else's technology.
If Slashdot posted a story "AMD ships 1GHZ Athlon in quantity", there would be all sorts of "Go AMD" and "Woohoo, they've got Intel on the ropes" type posts.
Post the same story and switch the vendor to Intel and you get a dozen threads like "Who needs 1GHz?". Lame.
I don't know what this guy is talking about but sendmail doesn't have the features required to be considered groupware. At the minimum, you'd have to add calendaring to it.
Does it strike anyone else that saving the SF club scene is kind of shallow? He can do whatever he wants I guess but geez, I wouldn't go around advertising it.
and what's up with Bruce Twickler? I mean the guy takes his company public just a couple months ago and he's already throwing in the towel? And that is exactly what you're doing when you agree to be bought out. You are saying, "I can't grow this company as effectively as the CEO of company X". What about all the objectives they listed in their S1? Stuff like:
grow the size and share of our dominant Linux/Open Source position
facilitate and guide the transition of Windows developers to Linux/Open Source
expand our e-commerce offerings to our targeted, high volume traffic
acquire complementary Linux/Open Source web sites
expand the number and participation of major advertisers
strengthen the Andover.Net brand.
Boy I particularly like that last one. Surely being swallowed by VA will build your brand. Oh ya, the one about acquiring is nice too. I'm just glad I didn't buy any of this stock on the first day of trading. Talk about taking a bath. You have to wonder whether the heads of some of these companies (like Andover) are really interested in OSS or just cashing in. It certainly looks like Twickler is punching his ticket.
You're selling people way short. People know good products from bad ones. You don't have to know anything about computers to know if the software you're using is good or bad. Is it easy to use? Does it help you get work done? Does it crash often and cause you to lose work? These are very simple criteria that anyone can evaluate for themselves. I don't know anything about cars either but I know when I've got a lemon on my hands.
Believe me, people know that GPFs and BSODs are bad.
Just reading through a few of the top level posts on this topic, it's pretty astounding to see the arrogance displayed here. People immediately dismissing the survey because they think most americans don't know what's going on or don't use a computer. It's like you think your fellow americans are a bunch of stupid sheep and only the elite like you can possibly understand how evil Microsoft is and why it needs to be destroyed.
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You can definitely see an improvement in the smaller font sizes. The 6, 7, and 8 point are much more readable with the cleartype. The larger ones are more crisp too. Not a huge difference but it does look better.
Acutally if you read up on the 1987 crash you'll find that our banking system came very close to collapse. The banks weren't able to meet the margin calls from the brokerages on Monday. The Federal Reserve had to step in and guarantee that the banks would meet those obligations or else many of them would have gone out of business that day.
Oh BTW, I did read the reviews and they were almost completely contradictory. One described all sorts of problems and the other was a blowjob for Corel in which the reviewer oooh'd and aaah'd over the box, blew away his sytem TWICE to get it running and then proceeded to gush about how great it was.
So Corel Office works great with Corel Linux but people that run other distros are having lots of problems? Gee that rings a bell...
Just when you thought you'd reached the bottom of the credibility barrel, you lift up the barrel and there's Amiga.
Athlons are like Russian nukes, you know they're not as good because it's a reverse engineer hack of someone else's technology.
Post the same story and switch the vendor to Intel and you get a dozen threads like "Who needs 1GHz?". Lame.
I know it has something to do with MP3s but what exactly is it?
I don't know what this guy is talking about but sendmail doesn't have the features required to be considered groupware. At the minimum, you'd have to add calendaring to it.
Tom Green would rule as the tick.
Does it strike anyone else that saving the SF club scene is kind of shallow? He can do whatever he wants I guess but geez, I wouldn't go around advertising it.
You have a power supply on your mobo? Wow. It must be heavy.
- grow the size and share of our dominant Linux/Open Source position
- facilitate and guide the transition of Windows developers to Linux/Open Source
- expand our e-commerce offerings to our targeted, high volume traffic
- acquire complementary Linux/Open Source web sites
- expand the number and participation of major advertisers
- strengthen the Andover.Net brand.
Boy I particularly like that last one. Surely being swallowed by VA will build your brand. Oh ya, the one about acquiring is nice too. I'm just glad I didn't buy any of this stock on the first day of trading. Talk about taking a bath. You have to wonder whether the heads of some of these companies (like Andover) are really interested in OSS or just cashing in. It certainly looks like Twickler is punching his ticket.Believe me, people know that GPFs and BSODs are bad.
Just reading through a few of the top level posts on this topic, it's pretty astounding to see the arrogance displayed here. People immediately dismissing the survey because they think most americans don't know what's going on or don't use a computer. It's like you think your fellow americans are a bunch of stupid sheep and only the elite like you can possibly understand how evil Microsoft is and why it needs to be destroyed.