At a store I went to. It looked like you had to purchase your iPod that way. Looking back, I would NEVER do this again. I never got my email receipt, and I don't want email receipts anyway. I want one printed up by them, in the store where I purchased the thing.
Uh, not the Gates I've heard talk. I've heard him talk about non computer related things and he sounds somewhat clueless to me. He might be rich, but outside of business, I don't think he's that smart.
So was General Motors 3 decades ago.
Remember the quote "What's good for GM is good for America"?
GM is still around mind you, but it's struggling like hell. MS will not remain the big dog forever. When you're at the top, the only place to go is down. It's a fact of history.
Sigh.... Do you research anything for yourself or just accept what you read on some anti-OSS site?
"Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can."
Selling Softwarehttp://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
I work for an engineering company and we MUST have the ability to install software on our machines. We tried not allowing people installing abilities and it ended up being more painful and productivity took a HUGE hit.
The downside that people don't talk about is that denying people the ability to install software other than the IT blessed software is that they are stuck doing things in the approved way. That means that you have a chosen few people who decide how things are done rather than letting people play and decide for themselves. Not everyone would do this anyway, but you have always have people who do figure out better ways of doing things and then the whole company benefits.
It basically boils down to this, in order for a Windows machine to be secure and easily managed, you have to strip people of their creativity.
For some companies and departments this is probably ok, for others this is a death nail.
"Iraq was invaded for many reasons, possibibly building WMD's was one small reason."
NO!!!!! THE reason for invading Iraq was because the USA had proof that Saddam had WMD. They even said he could launch them within 45 minutes. Did you forget the US ground troops wore chemical suits when they got near Bagdad? I specifically remember Rice and Rumsfeld and Bush all stating this.
In one of his speeches Bush even brought up how Nigeria had sold Yellow Cake to Saddam. Rumsfeld even said 'We know where they are.'
This is not 1984. you cannot rewrite history when you are wrong. Live with it.
Try running winword under Wine under Linux. It STILL loads in a couple of seconds. Much faster than OO.o.
THERE IS NO PRELOADING on Word. This is a myth.
It's either because word does not load all of its libraries on start or because it is linked more efficiently, but OO.o loads slower because of the way it is written.
Ok, I'll bite.
Yes, the US educational system is in dire straights. For example, I have several friends who are teachers and one of them gave a student a low grade. That kid's parents SUED the school to get the grade changed. The school didn't fight it and she was forced to change the grade.
That was not an isolated incident either. I know of nowhere else in the world where this shit happens.
So you do not do our kids any justice thinking that the US ed. system is on par with the rest of the world.
Oh yea, and how about we teach our kids to think rather than being mindless consumers.
I am NOT kidding. AD is a nice try but I stand by my statement. Have you ever even used CUPS?
With CUPS you don't even need to push to the clients. Everything resides on the server.
Plus you hook samba 3 up with CUPS and bam Windows clients are right there too. Granted you still have to 'Right-click->Connect Printer', but I'll take that over AD any day!!!!
You really should check out CUPS. You're truly missing out. www.cups.org
Thing about the statement you replied to. Then re-read your first question.
If they are building software built on Windows, then they do NOT have an internationally competetive s/w industry. If they start to build something profitable, the same thing will happen to them that happens to EVERY other company that builds something good on Windows. Microsoft will incorporate it into Windows and they'll be pushed out of the market.
"There are very, very few people qualified to run major corporations, compared to the positions available."
Funny, I'd say exactly the same thing about IT people. Just because you work in IT doesn't mean you're qualified to do it.
There are few good CxOs, just like there are few good IT people. Most are average and don't have any special ability or knowledge.
"An Israeli Ministry of Defense procurement delegation signed a framework agreement with Microsoft in New York and the deal will reportedly be subsidized by the United States."
The US gov. is subsizing MS software for another country?! Good grief! It's bad enought Bush made the anti-trust suit go away; now this?
@ $30,000/yr salary, that $39 million dollars can pay for 1300 teachers! Or hire less but give them all raises!!! WTF!?!?!?!
Which do I think is more likely to help the kids in the future; a nice new laptop or reduced class sizes and more teachers?? If the kids need computers, give them 400 MHz computers, they do NOT need brand new comps.
Please write to the hardware manufacturers. Tell them you want Linux support and drivers. When I was building my machine my video card choices came down to NVidia GeForce4 and the Parhelia. At the time the Parhelia didn't have a linux driver so I went with the GeForce4 that did. I wrote both NVidia and Matrox explaining my choice, lack of linux driver on the parhelia side. I didn't hear back from NVidia but I did hear back from Matrox. They said the Linux drivers were on the way. A month later I saw them on their site. This was about a year ago.
If the manufacturers don't know there's a market they're not going to both. I like to think I had a little affect in getting that Parhelia driver out Remember, the manufacturers are interested in one thing, money. If you have it and will spend it, they will come.
I can relate to that. We've got a $1000 Linux box (AMD/Intel) that runs faster than a $12000 Sun box. I almost feel sorry for Sun because this is one market they are going to lose pretty quickly, unless they drop their prices by 90%.
We've set up an openmosix cluster and the linux native tools (Synplicity, ModelSim are two examples) migrate around the cluster very well so you don't have to be mindful of which machine you're running on. We got a 3GHz machine and effectively gave everyone with a linux desktop an upgrade too. It's pretty sweet!
Check into AMD boxes. They run EDA tools about 10% faster than equiv. Intel boxes.
I grew up in Kansas. If you've ever been in the west-central, southwest near Garden City and Scott City then you'll know that it is plain flat. There are NO hills! The curvature of the earth is the only thing preventing you from seeing forever.
At my workplace we setup a openmosix cluster. We use synplify_pro, for which there is a native linux port, for synthesis and it works BEAUTIFULLY on the cluster in batch mode.
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At a store I went to. It looked like you had to purchase your iPod that way. Looking back, I would NEVER do this again. I never got my email receipt, and I don't want email receipts anyway. I want one printed up by them, in the store where I purchased the thing.
Uh, not the Gates I've heard talk. I've heard him talk about non computer related things and he sounds somewhat clueless to me. He might be rich, but outside of business, I don't think he's that smart.
So was General Motors 3 decades ago.
Remember the quote "What's good for GM is good for America"?
GM is still around mind you, but it's struggling like hell.
MS will not remain the big dog forever. When you're at the top, the only place to go is down. It's a fact of history.
Sigh.... Do you research anything for yourself or just accept what you read on some anti-OSS site?
"Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can."
Selling Software http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
I work for an engineering company and we MUST have the ability to install software on our machines. We tried not allowing people installing abilities and it ended up being more painful and productivity took a HUGE hit.
The downside that people don't talk about is that denying people the ability to install software other than the IT blessed software is that they are stuck doing things in the approved way. That means that you have a chosen few people who decide how things are done rather than letting people play and decide for themselves. Not everyone would do this anyway, but you have always have people who do figure out better ways of doing things and then the whole company benefits.
It basically boils down to this, in order for a Windows machine to be secure and easily managed, you have to strip people of their creativity.
For some companies and departments this is probably ok, for others this is a death nail.
"Iraq was invaded for many reasons, possibibly building WMD's was one small reason."
NO!!!!! THE reason for invading Iraq was because the USA had proof that Saddam had WMD. They even said he could launch them within 45 minutes. Did you forget the US ground troops wore chemical suits when they got near Bagdad? I specifically remember Rice and Rumsfeld and Bush all stating this.
In one of his speeches Bush even brought up how Nigeria had sold Yellow Cake to Saddam. Rumsfeld even said 'We know where they are.'
This is not 1984. you cannot rewrite history when you are wrong. Live with it.
Sorry for the off topic post, but I feel it to be very crucial for everyone to be informed about recent event regarding EU software patents. There is movement again. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020 387,39185393,00.htm
Better question is why does it load just as fast under Wine on Linux as it does under Windows?
MS Word does not preload at start up.
Try running winword under Wine under Linux. It STILL loads in a couple of seconds. Much faster than OO.o.
THERE IS NO PRELOADING on Word. This is a myth.
It's either because word does not load all of its libraries on start or because it is linked more efficiently, but OO.o loads slower because of the way it is written.
What if I wanted to wave a flag with a big yellow smiley face on it? I bet you it would be allowed. Why the hell then restrict the Taiwanese flag?
Last I knew the flag didn't have to be a national flag.
Ok, I'll bite.
Yes, the US educational system is in dire straights. For example, I have several friends who are teachers and one of them gave a student a low grade. That kid's parents SUED the school to get the grade changed. The school didn't fight it and she was forced to change the grade.
That was not an isolated incident either.
I know of nowhere else in the world where this shit happens.
So you do not do our kids any justice thinking that the US ed. system is on par with the rest of the world.
Oh yea, and how about we teach our kids to think rather than being mindless consumers.
Have you ever used MS Office under Wine on Linux?
It still loads MUCH faster than OO.o.!!!!
I'm tired of hearing that MS Office cheats. Face it, OO.o loads SLOWLY.
I use OO.o as much as I can and push it where I can. But it does load HORRIBLY slowly and denying one of its problems helps noone.
I am NOT kidding. AD is a nice try but I stand by my statement. Have you ever even used CUPS?
With CUPS you don't even need to push to the clients. Everything resides on the server.
Plus you hook samba 3 up with CUPS and bam Windows clients are right there too. Granted you still have to 'Right-click->Connect Printer', but I'll take that over AD any day!!!!
You really should check out CUPS. You're truly missing out. www.cups.org
Thing about the statement you replied to. Then re-read your first question.
If they are building software built on Windows, then they do NOT have an internationally competetive s/w industry. If they start to build something profitable, the same thing will happen to them that happens to EVERY other company that builds something good on Windows. Microsoft will incorporate it into Windows and they'll be pushed out of the market.
Damn, I'm way too tired. I read that as "Too many cocks spoil the broth." Dude, any cock would spoil the broth. Ewwwwww.
For this specific example you're completely wrong. Installing network printers under Linux and for linux clients is MUCH easier than for Windows.
Heard of CUPS? It's a thing of beauty!!! Windows Server Push Crapnology doesn't compare.
"There are very, very few people qualified to run major corporations, compared to the positions available."
Funny, I'd say exactly the same thing about IT people. Just because you work in IT doesn't mean you're qualified to do it.
There are few good CxOs, just like there are few good IT people. Most are average and don't have any special ability or knowledge.
"An Israeli Ministry of Defense procurement delegation signed a framework agreement with Microsoft in New York and the deal will reportedly be subsidized by the United States."
The US gov. is subsizing MS software for another country?! Good grief! It's bad enought Bush made the anti-trust suit go away; now this?
@ $30,000/yr salary, that $39 million dollars can pay for 1300 teachers! Or hire less but give them all raises!!! WTF!?!?!?!
Which do I think is more likely to help the kids in the future; a nice new laptop or reduced class sizes and more teachers?? If the kids need computers, give them 400 MHz computers, they do NOT need brand new comps.
GEEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please write to the hardware manufacturers. Tell them you want Linux support and drivers. When I was building my machine my video card choices came down to NVidia GeForce4 and the Parhelia. At the time the Parhelia didn't have a linux driver so I went with the GeForce4 that did. I wrote both NVidia and Matrox explaining my choice, lack of linux driver on the parhelia side. I didn't hear back from NVidia but I did hear back from Matrox. They said the Linux drivers were on the way. A month later I saw them on their site. This was about a year ago.
If the manufacturers don't know there's a market they're not going to both. I like to think I had a little affect in getting that Parhelia driver out
Remember, the manufacturers are interested in one thing, money. If you have it and will spend it, they will come.
I would like to sincerely say Thank You for your hard work. Please keep it up and know that there are a lot of us behind you.
I can relate to that. We've got a $1000 Linux box (AMD/Intel) that runs faster than a $12000 Sun box.
I almost feel sorry for Sun because this is one market they are going to lose pretty quickly, unless they drop their prices by 90%.
We've set up an openmosix cluster and the linux native tools (Synplicity, ModelSim are two examples) migrate around the cluster very well so you don't have to be mindful of which machine you're running on.
We got a 3GHz machine and effectively gave everyone with a linux desktop an upgrade too. It's pretty sweet!
Check into AMD boxes. They run EDA tools about 10% faster than equiv. Intel boxes.
MOD PARENT UP!!!
I grew up in Kansas. If you've ever been in the west-central, southwest near Garden City and Scott City then you'll know that it is plain flat. There are NO hills! The curvature of the earth is the only thing preventing you from seeing forever.
At my workplace we setup a openmosix cluster. We use synplify_pro, for which there is a native linux port, for synthesis and it works BEAUTIFULLY on the cluster in batch mode.