If I could pay to get Illustrator and Photoshop on my linux box...Hell Yes. Gimp is not there, tho it is free. Not everything sold is of poor quality. Sometimed the !free stuff is just better.
Not if they follow proper accounting rules. Each station still has to have its own copy. (Unless you want to break your own EULA. IAgain, I am not sayint that this cost the company money...just the department "buying" their equipment. The IRS WILL AUDIT if it does not see payments made for equipment being used. I know this through first hand experience.
Yes you do. Out of your departmental budget for supplies/equipment. As a way of auditing, accounting (and IRS) will want to see expenses for everything. When The tech support co I used to work for wanted some additional test and measurement equipment (data acquisition systems), we had to BUY THEM out of our budget. Yes, the cash went to corp as sales, but the dept will still have to pay out of their budget. FreeBSD is still free.
OK, first off, I use Mac OS-9, Mac OS-X DP4 and Linux. I also use NT4 SP5 at work. Just to state my personal bias out front, I prefer to use the Mac OS for daily use.
What ESR does not egt is that Apple is NOT a competitor to Windows in the same way that Linux is. The normal rules of competition do not apply. The reason is simply that Apple is a Hardware company.
Windows has always had competition. They have all (so far) failed. Forgive in advance my simplificatin below...but it does have a point:
Late 80s Microsoft faced DR-DOS and Mac OS. Guess which is still here. Mid 90's Windows faced Mac OS and OS/2. Guess which is still here. Late 90s Windows faced BeOS and Mac OS. Guess which is still here. Late 90s and early 2ks, Windows is facing Linux and Mac OS.
I am not predicting doom...but that Linux is another x86 OS may not necessarily make it easier to face Redmond.
But, I am one unique user. I went to Google over 100 times this month. Even at your average of 2.5 views, I would have seen 2500 ads. multiply by 6.6 million now.
I do not know anyone who only visits Google once a month. Rather than base your figure on unique users, you should base it on user sessions...at least for trying to figure revenue.
Where do you get the stat for 90% of households sitting down and watching the eve news? Also, what does "a few" years ago mean?
If you mean the 60-70's, I should remind you that it was only in 1988-89 that 90% of homes even HAD a tv. If you mean the 90's, I am afraid CNN (where cable had penetrated +50% of homes by the time of the Gulf War) was already eating into the share of abc, nbs, cbs nightly news.
Also, Alot of people work nights. Many students are in class at that hour. There have always been commuters on the road at 6:00pm.
In short, I DO NOT trust that stat at all, and would like to know where you got it.
I do not know how hard/tedious this would be. I also do not know how broadly you need the net access to be.
That out of the way...
Can you, instead of 'censoring out' the 'bad' stuff, set up a way to only allow access to allowed sites. I am thinking about Apple's 'KidSafe' service. Apparently they have a list oa 'approved' sites that can be accessed. If a site is not on the list, you can not get there.
I was just thinking that you can add to the list of approved sites ad the need arises, and as the use increases, you may find your work getting MORE accurate and useful as people keep recommending 'clean' sites and they get added.
It is rather harder to do the opposite and keep track of the latest pr0n sties.
Tell that to grad students. EVERY grad student knows that ALL info is free. We go to the library, get journals/books/etc and copy away. THOUSANDS of pages...a month/every month. Bind them in a Looseleaf binder.
Obviously you have never been a liberal arts grad student.
This has saved me at least 100K in books. Profs do this too...especially in content rich fields like philosophy and history or literature.
Part right...but you are part wrong too.
There are alternative OS that run on Macs. SuSE, Yellow Dog, Linux PPC distributions all run just fine on Apple's PPC Macs. Apple did not aid in their development. Yet these firms made Linux on the Mac work. BeOS simply could not be bothered, and it is Be's loss, not Apple's or Apple's users.
I think Gasse simply could not fit his own large ego into working on a project for a platform led by Jobs (who does have his own large ego). Apple does not have any reason or obligation to help Be. It is up to them. If Linux PPC could do it, and Be Programmers are so hot, they could do it too.
Also, Apple rectified the mouse.
I think this suit needs to happen. Someone signed an NDA. This someone let the Mac out of the bag. S/He should be STOMPED...HARD.
Tom
Well, I have seen Aqua themes. But a theme is not a GUI. Although you can make X purty but getting an Aqua theme, and there are other themes with pretty widgets, a GUI is a whole nother kettle o' fish. Apple/linux coders will not/may not be able to port the real Apple GUI (Quartz) over as easily. This is a postscript display engine, something only seen prior in NeXT Cubes. So, the look is ported, but the feel will not be there in any kind of nearterm future.
Yeah. But this is no different that the government not understanding psychology, sociology, economic theory, physics, biology, nutrition, education issues, but yet making laws and regulations for the medical fields, aerospace, food (im)purity, schools and airlines. So, they have just added another area to screw up. This is no more dangerous than any of the other examples above.
Yes, and if you use Olympic/s/iad to describe any non-sporting or non-competitive event (like a park name, it is ok. Same deal with, say, Apple. It is an old word. And you can call anyting you make AppleX, unless it is a computer/OS/Peripheral/SW.
Every TM starts out as just another word...until someone MARKS an item for TRADE.
"So the question is, given that Linux and the *BSD's have the basis of a GUI as good as Aqua in the form of X"
But the real problem is not that we have themes that look as good as Aqua, and may in fact not have some of Aqua's shortcomings. The real gap is in the rendering. If we aim for Aqua, and neglect to also aim to duplicate Quartz, we lose.
Quartz is the real power for OS-X. It generates the OpenGL, QT and Postscript display. Aqua is just a theme, like Afterstep, Gnome, K. It's useability and power come from Quartz, X Window's real competitor.
One thing I know we do lose when we keep plugged in while on vacation/weekends is respect. Respect for our private space. No boss can respect staff that answers the call from vacation. They can like them, value them, etc, but respect is gone.
I unplug every weekend. I take all of my sick/vacation and personal days. I refuse to work more than an 8 (7 if you do not count lunch as work time) day.
I know I have the utter respect of my boss, as an individual. Simply because I unplug.
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If I could pay to get Illustrator and Photoshop on my linux box...Hell Yes. Gimp is not there, tho it is free. Not everything sold is of poor quality. Sometimed the !free stuff is just better.
Cheers,
Tom
Wop stands for _With _Out _Papers, as in arriving at Ellis Island without identification of any kind.
Cheers,
Tom
Why, Jonathan Ive...designer of the iMac, G4 cube, etc.
Either he or Avadis Tevanian should rep Apple on that list.
But, it was Jobs who cleaned house....and made their work possible.
Cheers,
Tom
to be the girl with the most cake!
Cheers,
Tom
honestly, from AOL's perspective...(Not Mine)
fsck them.
AOL is not about to compromise $$$ to become impartial or, hell, even accurate.
Cheers,
T
Actually, yes. Ever had an area-wide blackout because some idiot started excavating in the wrong place?
Know what happens when shops lose power?
What about an ice-cream parlour?
How about (I live in Chicago) rolling brownouts causing our mercantile exchange to go down for 3 days.
Power grid problems cost money too.
Tom
John Locke died in 1704. I doubt he was still writing in the late 1700s.
Cheers,
Tom
Not if they follow proper accounting rules. Each station still has to have its own copy. (Unless you want to break your own EULA. IAgain, I am not sayint that this cost the company money...just the department "buying" their equipment. The IRS WILL AUDIT if it does not see payments made for equipment being used. I know this through first hand experience.
Cheers,
Tom
But the money HAS TO come from somewhere. Generally, when you use your own products as resources, your department PAYS the company.
The balance for the company is zero. you are right.
The balance for your department is -250K (to use your total.
I am not saying it costs MS nothing, but it can sure cost one of their divisions some of their budgets.
Cheers,
Tom
Yes you do. Out of your departmental budget for supplies/equipment. As a way of auditing, accounting (and IRS) will want to see expenses for everything. When The tech support co I used to work for wanted some additional test and measurement equipment (data acquisition systems), we had to BUY THEM out of our budget. Yes, the cash went to corp as sales, but the dept will still have to pay out of their budget. FreeBSD is still free.
Cheers,
Tom
OK, first off, I use Mac OS-9, Mac OS-X DP4 and Linux. I also use NT4 SP5 at work. Just to state my personal bias out front, I prefer to use the Mac OS for daily use.
What ESR does not egt is that Apple is NOT a competitor to Windows in the same way that Linux is. The normal rules of competition do not apply. The reason is simply that Apple is a Hardware company.
Windows has always had competition. They have all (so far) failed. Forgive in advance my simplificatin below...but it does have a point:
Late 80s Microsoft faced DR-DOS and Mac OS. Guess which is still here. Mid 90's Windows faced Mac OS and OS/2. Guess which is still here. Late 90s Windows faced BeOS and Mac OS. Guess which is still here. Late 90s and early 2ks, Windows is facing Linux and Mac OS.
I am not predicting doom...but that Linux is another x86 OS may not necessarily make it easier to face Redmond.
Cheers,
Tom
But, I am one unique user. I went to Google over 100 times this month. Even at your average of 2.5 views, I would have seen 2500 ads. multiply by 6.6 million now.
I do not know anyone who only visits Google once a month. Rather than base your figure on unique users, you should base it on user sessions...at least for trying to figure revenue.
Cheers,
Tom
Jon,
Where do you get the stat for 90% of households sitting down and watching the eve news? Also, what does "a few" years ago mean?
If you mean the 60-70's, I should remind you that it was only in 1988-89 that 90% of homes even HAD a tv. If you mean the 90's, I am afraid CNN (where cable had penetrated +50% of homes by the time of the Gulf War) was already eating into the share of abc, nbs, cbs nightly news.
Also, Alot of people work nights. Many students are in class at that hour. There have always been commuters on the road at 6:00pm.
In short, I DO NOT trust that stat at all, and would like to know where you got it.
Tom
I do not know how hard/tedious this would be. I also do not know how broadly you need the net access to be.
That out of the way...
Can you, instead of 'censoring out' the 'bad' stuff, set up a way to only allow access to allowed sites. I am thinking about Apple's 'KidSafe' service. Apparently they have a list oa 'approved' sites that can be accessed. If a site is not on the list, you can not get there.
I was just thinking that you can add to the list of approved sites ad the need arises, and as the use increases, you may find your work getting MORE accurate and useful as people keep recommending 'clean' sites and they get added.
It is rather harder to do the opposite and keep track of the latest pr0n sties.
As I said,
Just a thoght.
Tom
Did not steal a thing.
Always cited the source. Fair Use and all that.
Also, I often got handed reprints/photocopies FROM THE AUTHOR Her/Himself.
They know how crappy TA pay is.
You apparently do not.
Tom
Tell that to grad students. EVERY grad student knows that ALL info is free. We go to the library, get journals/books/etc and copy away. THOUSANDS of pages...a month/every month. Bind them in a Looseleaf binder.
Obviously you have never been a liberal arts grad student.
This has saved me at least 100K in books. Profs do this too...especially in content rich fields like philosophy and history or literature.
Tom
Part right...but you are part wrong too. There are alternative OS that run on Macs. SuSE, Yellow Dog, Linux PPC distributions all run just fine on Apple's PPC Macs. Apple did not aid in their development. Yet these firms made Linux on the Mac work. BeOS simply could not be bothered, and it is Be's loss, not Apple's or Apple's users. I think Gasse simply could not fit his own large ego into working on a project for a platform led by Jobs (who does have his own large ego). Apple does not have any reason or obligation to help Be. It is up to them. If Linux PPC could do it, and Be Programmers are so hot, they could do it too. Also, Apple rectified the mouse. I think this suit needs to happen. Someone signed an NDA. This someone let the Mac out of the bag. S/He should be STOMPED...HARD. Tom
That's because according to the chart...Mac OS wins big time. Confirming what I knew all along...Mac OS rulez j00!
Seriously, now.
Mac OS does not come installed with ANY remote admin tools. Kinda hard to exploit a Mac Box.
But, (and do not flame me, I love my Macs above all else) the OS is far from "best" n anything buy GUI/Useability.
Tom
Mac OS and Mac OS-X Server Win by a BIG margin. 8 bugs COMBINED for 4 years!
heeheehee.
Tom
Well, I have seen Aqua themes. But a theme is not a GUI. Although you can make X purty but getting an Aqua theme, and there are other themes with pretty widgets, a GUI is a whole nother kettle o' fish. Apple/linux coders will not/may not be able to port the real Apple GUI (Quartz) over as easily. This is a postscript display engine, something only seen prior in NeXT Cubes. So, the look is ported, but the feel will not be there in any kind of nearterm future.
Tom
Yeah. But this is no different that the government not understanding psychology, sociology, economic theory, physics, biology, nutrition, education issues, but yet making laws and regulations for the medical fields, aerospace, food (im)purity, schools and airlines. So, they have just added another area to screw up. This is no more dangerous than any of the other examples above.
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Tom
Yes, and if you use Olympic/s/iad to describe any non-sporting or non-competitive event (like a park name, it is ok. Same deal with, say, Apple. It is an old word. And you can call anyting you make AppleX, unless it is a computer/OS/Peripheral/SW.
Every TM starts out as just another word...until someone MARKS an item for TRADE.
Tom
"So the question is, given that Linux and the *BSD's have the basis of a GUI as good as Aqua in the form of X"
But the real problem is not that we have themes that look as good as Aqua, and may in fact not have some of Aqua's shortcomings. The real gap is in the rendering. If we aim for Aqua, and neglect to also aim to duplicate Quartz, we lose.
Quartz is the real power for OS-X. It generates the OpenGL, QT and Postscript display. Aqua is just a theme, like Afterstep, Gnome, K. It's useability and power come from Quartz, X Window's real competitor.
Tom
But Win allows you to "wipe your entire system with one simple command too".
It is called
format c:\
Tom
One thing I know we do lose when we keep plugged in while on vacation/weekends is respect. Respect for our private space. No boss can respect staff that answers the call from vacation. They can like them, value them, etc, but respect is gone.
I unplug every weekend. I take all of my sick/vacation and personal days. I refuse to work more than an 8 (7 if you do not count lunch as work time) day.
I know I have the utter respect of my boss, as an individual. Simply because I unplug.
Tom