It's about both really, although I've just paid £60 for Mandrake Linux 7.1 and after installing it I have yet to find a need to return to Windows 98 (perhaps when I want to watch 'the Matrix' again, but that's a whole other can of worms). You don't pay for the OS in OSS, you pay for the nice manuals, the 5 extra CDs full of applications and utilities, the 90 days support if you need it and privileged access to the update server, and the fact that you didn't have to download a 600MB ISO file at 6KB/s (god I hate British Telecom).
If Windows is so easy to use, why do I have to help my dad, who is a great deal more intelligent than me, keep his Win98 system going. Windows is easy until something goes wrong, or you want to do something harder than writing letters or playing games. As soon as you try something like networking, it becomes a bastard, due to the 5 minute reboot cycle, and the array of options you have that the Unhelp facility fails to explain properly, or Win98 has 'innovatively' bound your dial-up adapter to your network card which stops IP traffic getting through. Contrast that with Mandrake 7 - fill in the IP address, the device of your network card (defaulted to the first one) and hit OK. Hey ho, you are now connected to the network. I'd like someone like you to give me a few examples of Windows ease-of-use, not to troll, but to see how Mandrake compares. I rarely have to hand-hack a text file to do anything these days, although sometimes I do just to keep my hand in.
If people were actually given a summary of the finding of fact document in the media, instead of them pretending that Netscape just had a bad business model, I think those numbers in favour would drop a bit.
Considering that a large amount of Symantec's business is to make up for deficiencies in Windows, and since Linux has it's own diagnostic tools included anyway, they should not really be included. The only product I can think of from them that would be really handy would be Ghost, though I'm sure there's a similar thing for Linux already. And finally, what has Linux got to do with whether MS is broken up or not. They broke the law repeatedly and should be punished. That won't mean people will suddenly stop buying Windows or Office.
This has already discussed in a previous story today, and nobody came up with a satisfactory answer as to why there can't be 2 memory subtrees, one for big iron and one for desktops with the same API. I know that it's duplication of effort, but considering that the kernel is extremely well managed at the moment it wouldn't be as hard as it would be in a corporation where every manager has their own political agenda. It's obvious that there is a huge difference between the IA32 and S/390 architecture and different issues apply. It does make me smile though, to think of my favourite OS running every computer on earth at some point, especially when Bill Gates, at the launch of Windows 2000, stated that his product was now ready to take on mainframe-type jobs. That was probably the funniest IT-related statement I've heard this year.
I don't know about that. Any clothes cheaper than Italian designer ones are made in very similar conditions to those found in the 'dark, satanic mills' of the industrial revolution. Forced servitude in a death-trap is very much alive, but you won't see that in the mainstream media, you have to look for it on sites like this one. A lot of slashdotters curse the common herd, but more people than you'd think would be seriously unhappy about this if they knew the whole story.
Thank you Mr Sun PR person, but you forgot to use one or more of the following terms: robust; scalable; enterprise-ready; next-generation;
e-buzzword-ready; leverage; grow your business; and new millenium. Or I could just go to Sun and read it there.
My argument isn't about importing foreign workers or even outsourcing abroad, I just don't trust the big corps not to use them in order to drive down wages in the IT sector. After all, a lot of manufacturing jobs have been exported from the West to sweatshops in the Far East already and wages in that sector were less than the silly money that some IT staff get. And please don't try and pretend that the savings were passed on to the consumer, or else Nike trainers and Gap khakis would cost $5.
Of course it couldn't just be an attempt by large corporations to drive down the cost of IT staff in the US, that would be immoral, wouldn't it. Or do you think the likes of Gap, Nike and Dell, to name but a few, who have already 'outsourced' thousands of manufacturing jobs to far-eastern sweatshops, would hesitate to do the same to much more expensive IT staff. Funny how they haven't thought about training third-world people in US law to drive down the high cost of sueing people. But then the US is ruled by lawyers, not IT people.
Here is the page you wanted. You have to put up with 'scalable, reliable blah di blah di blah' (is that bumf a legal requirement for computer companies now?) on the first page, but there's quite a bit of useful info on it. I think I might give it a go when I've got a bit of spare time.
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I hope I'm not offending you in anyway, but what's a 'deltic'? Just curious.
That the US government have to come up with a bill to prevent the reactionary tactics of the music industry, when they could have done it on their own and not given lawyers even more money. If you don't change with the times you get left behind, unfortunately, with a legal system that favours the rich and powerful they can delay that to a certain degree. Sooner or later though, there are going to be mass defections of artists to MP3 labels, and then where will they be? But (cynicism-mode on) the cycle will begin again when the MP3 labels start making money and can afford their own pet lawyers.
I personally think that if you have made it to the position that Judge Rehnquist holds, you'd pretty much know what you are doing. I definatly wouldn't think a Supreme Court Justice would play favorites at that level.
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But if a user steps out of those bounds in Windows they tend to sink like a rock as well, so what's your point.
This is what I've heard, but I haven't actually tried it out. I've still got the X Men preview, so I'll give it a go and see what happens
Except for PHBs who would buy into stuff like PCAnywhere - another piece of software to make up for a Windows deficiency.
Doesn't look like anything's happened on this project ever. Does anyone else know anything about it?
It's about both really, although I've just paid £60 for Mandrake Linux 7.1 and after installing it I have yet to find a need to return to Windows 98 (perhaps when I want to watch 'the Matrix' again, but that's a whole other can of worms). You don't pay for the OS in OSS, you pay for the nice manuals, the 5 extra CDs full of applications and utilities, the 90 days support if you need it and privileged access to the update server, and the fact that you didn't have to download a 600MB ISO file at 6KB/s (god I hate British Telecom).
You've got cable in the UK, you b*****d, I hate you :). Where do you have to live to get that?
If Windows is so easy to use, why do I have to help my dad, who is a great deal more intelligent than me, keep his Win98 system going. Windows is easy until something goes wrong, or you want to do something harder than writing letters or playing games. As soon as you try something like networking, it becomes a bastard, due to the 5 minute reboot cycle, and the array of options you have that the Unhelp facility fails to explain properly, or Win98 has 'innovatively' bound your dial-up adapter to your network card which stops IP traffic getting through. Contrast that with Mandrake 7 - fill in the IP address, the device of your network card (defaulted to the first one) and hit OK. Hey ho, you are now connected to the network. I'd like someone like you to give me a few examples of Windows ease-of-use, not to troll, but to see how Mandrake compares. I rarely have to hand-hack a text file to do anything these days, although sometimes I do just to keep my hand in.
If people were actually given a summary of the finding of fact document in the media, instead of them pretending that Netscape just had a bad business model, I think those numbers in favour would drop a bit.
You can play QT stuff on Linux using Xmovie IIRC.
How much does W2K Advanced Server cost, just as a matter of interest.
Considering that a large amount of Symantec's business is to make up for deficiencies in Windows, and since Linux has it's own diagnostic tools included anyway, they should not really be included. The only product I can think of from them that would be really handy would be Ghost, though I'm sure there's a similar thing for Linux already. And finally, what has Linux got to do with whether MS is broken up or not. They broke the law repeatedly and should be punished. That won't mean people will suddenly stop buying Windows or Office.
This has already discussed in a previous story today, and nobody came up with a satisfactory answer as to why there can't be 2 memory subtrees, one for big iron and one for desktops with the same API. I know that it's duplication of effort, but considering that the kernel is extremely well managed at the moment it wouldn't be as hard as it would be in a corporation where every manager has their own political agenda. It's obvious that there is a huge difference between the IA32 and S/390 architecture and different issues apply. It does make me smile though, to think of my favourite OS running every computer on earth at some point, especially when Bill Gates, at the launch of Windows 2000, stated that his product was now ready to take on mainframe-type jobs. That was probably the funniest IT-related statement I've heard this year.
I don't know about that. Any clothes cheaper than Italian designer ones are made in very similar conditions to those found in the 'dark, satanic mills' of the industrial revolution. Forced servitude in a death-trap is very much alive, but you won't see that in the mainstream media, you have to look for it on sites like this one. A lot of slashdotters curse the common herd, but more people than you'd think would be seriously unhappy about this if they knew the whole story.
The lax attitude of the U.S. Patent system is simply making a fortune for the lawyers!
And what job did many of the elected representatives in the US do before they went into politics? Guess.
And then they can start suing each other for infringing on their right to have all the pretend money, instead of having to share.
Thank you Mr Sun PR person, but you forgot to use one or more of the following terms: robust; scalable; enterprise-ready; next-generation;
e-buzzword-ready; leverage; grow your business; and new millenium. Or I could just go to Sun and read it there.
A Beowulf cluster of these....sorry, it's traditional and everything. Who was the originator of that saying, by the way?
My argument isn't about importing foreign workers or even outsourcing abroad, I just don't trust the big corps not to use them in order to drive down wages in the IT sector. After all, a lot of manufacturing jobs have been exported from the West to sweatshops in the Far East already and wages in that sector were less than the silly money that some IT staff get. And please don't try and pretend that the savings were passed on to the consumer, or else Nike trainers and Gap khakis would cost $5.
????? Is this a troll?
Of course it couldn't just be an attempt by large corporations to drive down the cost of IT staff in the US, that would be immoral, wouldn't it. Or do you think the likes of Gap, Nike and Dell, to name but a few, who have already 'outsourced' thousands of manufacturing jobs to far-eastern sweatshops, would hesitate to do the same to much more expensive IT staff. Funny how they haven't thought about training third-world people in US law to drive down the high cost of sueing people. But then the US is ruled by lawyers, not IT people.
Here is the page you wanted. You have to put up with 'scalable, reliable blah di blah di blah' (is that bumf a legal requirement for computer companies now?) on the first page, but there's quite a bit of useful info on it. I think I might give it a go when I've got a bit of spare time.
I hope I'm not offending you in anyway, but what's a 'deltic'? Just curious.
That the US government have to come up with a bill to prevent the reactionary tactics of the music industry, when they could have done it on their own and not given lawyers even more money. If you don't change with the times you get left behind, unfortunately, with a legal system that favours the rich and powerful they can delay that to a certain degree. Sooner or later though, there are going to be mass defections of artists to MP3 labels, and then where will they be? But (cynicism-mode on) the cycle will begin again when the MP3 labels start making money and can afford their own pet lawyers.
You could try buying one of those new-fangled answerphone thingies.
I personally think that if you have made it to the position that Judge Rehnquist holds, you'd pretty much know what you are doing. I definatly wouldn't think a Supreme Court Justice would play favorites at that level.
See politicians, also J. Danforth Quayle