One of the big problems with the EU is it's total inconsistency. It supports privileged cartels on the one hand and then hammers companies for operating in the same way but in a different market sector on the other.
Eg, if I buy a book from Amazon they will deliver it practically anywhere. Electronics from the same site are restricted to the country that the site represents.
I think the principle should be that something sells for the same price in a given format and can be delivered anywhere. There are too many artificial restrictions in the market place. Exceptions would be for instance having to pay more for a french version of a given piece of software or a film to cover localisation.
last time I messed with Linux was Xebian on my xbox.
You make Ubuntu sound interesting, so I might give it a try, although for some reason I wanted to try a BSD when I found some time - 3 kids is a killer on the spare time front.
I have also been rempted to try out Mac, but they are too pricey just to go out and buy - so it will be (if at all) when my current system is in dire need of replacing.
in my opinion Windows isnt a decent desktop environment, especially once all the crap has had time to settle and a load of software has been installed.
if Linux has become as 'user friendly' as Windows then fair enough, but I reckon even this isnt good enough.
The average punter out there find windows pretty problematic, most would find Linux a nightmare, even a Mac would be hard enough.
btw I am a parent, and I only consider using Linux where I have to - if at all - so far certainly not as a desktop - if it has progressed since my last dalliance then I reckon we are back to the old chestnut called marketing...
I remember the first decent desktop I used - was a Mac back in 1990/2... was first system I ever saw that could drive 2 monitors. We used workstations a lot (Sun, Apollo, VAX), which was just as well as PCs were utter shite.
I worked at a place in 95 that had Macs on the desktop as corporate policy. All I can say is that it worked, and everyone down to the secretaries could get on whith their jobs with a minimum of fuss - which was a damn sight more than you could say of PCs at the time. Needless to say the beancounters decreed a move to PCs - even worse all the servers went to NT.
I'm not sure how their IT survived that - but certainly in the short term it was a disaster, MS exchange was full of problems for instance.
Anyway I guess the points I'm trying to make are 1) Linux is not a desktop OS (if it has changed in the last couple of years perhaps I should take a second look) 2) Macs have been and I guess are used in corporations here and there - so what exactly is the story. The reason they are not widespread is for the same reason PCs predominate int the Consumer market, ie cheapest option.
Which is ironic considering at one point the Amiga was cheaper and better than the PC... all down to marketing I suppose... I guess earlier in my rant i discounted the Amiga as a desktop system;-) but that is ok, most other people did as well.
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I heard Vista was awful for games, so DX10 or not it seems to be a total waste of time.
once you get to the shipping page you find out that your FREE upgrade costs 80 euros in shippng and handling fees. There must be an awful lot of manuals in there....
I have an Acer laptop and personally wouldn't be that impressed with one as a gift - if I could I would return mine. Looks like Microsoft is on a budget !
It's just as likely that a company merges and finds that all the J2EE is redundant as the new company uses.NET.... BUT all that SQL99 compliant sql is still useful - or that both systems run Oracle or MySQL.
1 database ? Which planet are you from ? Why on earth do you think they invented 2 phase commit in 1990 or so ?
At the end of the day, if you need to write SQL and do anything remotely complex with it, then the best place (not to mention the easiest) to do that is the database.
Pity the stae-less nature of the web makes DB transactions almost impossible, as the db handles these much better than any apps server.
J2EE seems to be about manually cranking what Dbs have been doing automatically for years.
In fact there are some arguments about the To Boldly go etc.
Apparently written English Grammar varies so much from how it is often spoken as the rules were written down by a Scholar in latin who firmly believed that English should conform to the same rules - even though it doesn't
A careful poke at this 17th century book ( thereabouts - which sets the standard for modern grammar ) means that even Shakespeare wrote bad grammar, and he isn't the only one.
So in fact correct grammar isn't so correct at all and should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Offtopic ! whichever lunatic modded that down hasn't got a clue what drives many mangement decisions - some berk from Harvard just gives them reassurance.
I work in a Business where everything is standard off the shelf build or outsourced.
In fact I later elaborated on this point and got +3 insightful.
Offtopic. Ignorant peasant. Best stop before I really start ranting.
Can't disagree with you, but I dont think it contradicts what I have said either - but is rather another spoke in the old wheel.
Same is true of the Developers. They would much rather see Oracle and Java and Unix type keywords on their CV, especially the more recent versions.
At least developers are tempted by cool stuff, eg in the old days of MS C v6 and Borland Turbo C++ v2 - Borland was the clear winner on every front except that they didn't right the OS, and weren't seen as the current managerial bandwagon ( ie exscuse not to makea decision )
Slashdot Mirror
starts with cutting what off .... I know where I would start...
The domain I wanted to register has already been squatted :-(
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Apparently there is a nice expensive appeals process if I feel strongly about it - despite the fact that the domain has been idle since registration.
Why are domains not considered important for individuals
One of the big problems with the EU is it's total inconsistency. It supports privileged cartels on the one hand and then hammers companies for operating in the same way but in a different market sector on the other.
Eg, if I buy a book from Amazon they will deliver it practically anywhere. Electronics from the same site are restricted to the country that the site represents.
I think the principle should be that something sells for the same price in a given format and can be delivered anywhere. There are too many artificial restrictions in the market place. Exceptions would be for instance having to pay more for a french version of a given piece of software or a film to cover localisation.
Wicked game for at the time, and sadly missing.
Too many geeks who think if they find it easy then it must be easy.
I just stuck Ubuntu 6.1 on my old spare Dell Inspiron, and I am not totally impressed.
Looks nice - some good tools. BUT I had to fiddle to get the wireless working, AND picking a screensaver it crashed out.
Is their an equivalent of CTRL-ALT-DEL for Linux ? or do you need to know how to telnet/ssh in as root or suchlike ?
last time I messed with Linux was Xebian on my xbox.
You make Ubuntu sound interesting, so I might give it a try, although for some reason I wanted to try a BSD when I found some time - 3 kids is a killer on the spare time front.
I have also been rempted to try out Mac, but they are too pricey just to go out and buy - so it will be (if at all) when my current system is in dire need of replacing.
in my opinion Windows isnt a decent desktop environment, especially once all the crap has had time to settle and a load of software has been installed.
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if Linux has become as 'user friendly' as Windows then fair enough, but I reckon even this isnt good enough.
The average punter out there find windows pretty problematic, most would find Linux a nightmare, even a Mac would be hard enough.
btw I am a parent, and I only consider using Linux where I have to - if at all - so far certainly not as a desktop - if it has progressed since my last dalliance then I reckon we are back to the old chestnut called marketing
Oh great, the Linux whinge has started already.
... was first system I ever saw that could drive 2 monitors. We used workstations a lot (Sun, Apollo, VAX), which was just as well as PCs were utter shite.
;-) but that is ok, most other people did as well.
I remember the first decent desktop I used - was a Mac back in 1990/2
I worked at a place in 95 that had Macs on the desktop as corporate policy. All I can say is that it worked, and everyone down to the secretaries could get on whith their jobs with a minimum of fuss - which was a damn sight more than you could say of PCs at the time. Needless to say the beancounters decreed a move to PCs - even worse all the servers went to NT.
I'm not sure how their IT survived that - but certainly in the short term it was a disaster, MS exchange was full of problems for instance.
Anyway I guess the points I'm trying to make are
1) Linux is not a desktop OS (if it has changed in the last couple of years perhaps I should take a second look)
2) Macs have been and I guess are used in corporations here and there - so what exactly is the story. The reason they are not widespread is for the same reason PCs predominate int the Consumer market, ie cheapest option.
Which is ironic considering at one point the Amiga was cheaper and better than the PC... all down to marketing I suppose... I guess earlier in my rant i discounted the Amiga as a desktop system
I heard Vista was awful for games, so DX10 or not it seems to be a total waste of time.
A bit of an aside but I was told that Sun won't support Oracle Apps servers with their Identity management s/w Access Manager.
Is this a case of ganging up on Oracle by it's allegedly strategic partners.
once you get to the shipping page you find out that your FREE upgrade costs 80 euros in shippng and handling fees. There must be an awful lot of manuals in there ....
only it isn't free. I got asked to pay 80 euros in 'handling and shipping charges'. Thats a lot of shipping and handling by anyones standards.
Hey ! My HTC Wizard isn't 5 years old, and is pretty smart - well apart from running WinCE that is.
It would definitely be last generation from a smart phone perspective though.
PS. 5 years ago some systems were still running Dragonball at 33MHz....
I have an Acer laptop and personally wouldn't be that impressed with one as a gift - if I could I would return mine. Looks like Microsoft is on a budget !
The web wasn't designed for applications. FULL STOP. The fact that apps run on the web at all is a testament to the sheer stubborness of developers.
so you don't consider cold fusion server running flex clients as an integrated solution ?
How does Rails integrate the front and back end ?
How did this solve your problems ?
Insightful ? Which idiot modded this up.
.NET .... BUT all that SQL99 compliant sql is still useful - or that both systems run Oracle or MySQL.
It's just as likely that a company merges and finds that all the J2EE is redundant as the new company uses
1 database ? Which planet are you from ? Why on earth do you think they invented 2 phase commit in 1990 or so ?
At the end of the day, if you need to write SQL and do anything remotely complex with it, then the best place (not to mention the easiest) to do that is the database.
Pity the stae-less nature of the web makes DB transactions almost impossible, as the db handles these much better than any apps server.
J2EE seems to be about manually cranking what Dbs have been doing automatically for years.
I think it is a very fitting tribute.
Of course other things could be done, but that is not the point.
not true, nobody gives a toss about Ozzy rules except Ozzy.
In fact there are some arguments about the To Boldly go etc.
Apparently written English Grammar varies so much from how it is often spoken as the rules were written down by a Scholar in latin who firmly believed that English should conform to the same rules - even though it doesn't
A careful poke at this 17th century book ( thereabouts - which sets the standard for modern grammar ) means that even Shakespeare wrote bad grammar, and he isn't the only one.
So in fact correct grammar isn't so correct at all and should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Offtopic ! whichever lunatic modded that down hasn't got a clue what drives many mangement decisions - some berk from Harvard just gives them reassurance.
I work in a Business where everything is standard off the shelf build or outsourced.
In fact I later elaborated on this point and got +3 insightful.
Offtopic. Ignorant peasant. Best stop before I really start ranting.
Well at least where I come from.
No accident that the organising world body is Called FIFA, the european one EUFA and the English one FA.
Top marks to the person who can tell me what FA stands for !
Can't disagree with you, but I dont think it contradicts what I have said either - but is rather another spoke in the old wheel.
Same is true of the Developers. They would much rather see Oracle and Java and Unix type keywords on their CV, especially the more recent versions.
At least developers are tempted by cool stuff, eg in the old days of MS C v6 and Borland Turbo C++ v2 - Borland was the clear winner on every front except that they didn't right the OS, and weren't seen as the current managerial bandwagon ( ie exscuse not to makea decision )
I'm sure that happens and is a problem for consultancies.
I especially think that mnay clients vastly underestimate the cost of IT and don't know their requirements sufficently.
They want a magic solution on a budget and many problems both in-house and out-house ensue.