Its time we ban and boycott them. I never thought I would say this but maybe convincing our friends to use Windows instead of Apple products will be a step in the right direction. Microsoft is ethical compared to these mad men. Apple seems to want to stop all competition at all costs and is crazy! Didn,t they just fire their top lawyer because Samsung was allowed to still sell their phones?
I take it personally whe I pay $375 for a $150 phone so these a**holes can fill their their egos and buy more yatchs from their patent trolling. It is not profit Apple seeks but is marketshare. They want you to only buy an IPhone and NOTHING else and will stop at nothing to fullfil their mad vision. That is hostile and scary. I wish anti trust laws would stop this abuse.
In 5 years phone not from Apple will cost $50 to produce yet cost $800 retail. This assumes Android is still around. With no profit made on Google mobile due to Verizon using bing and billions and billions in licensing will put pressure on Google to leave the market.
It seems to me after many of the core developers left for Apple or quit the quality of FreeBSD when down by 5.x and never recovered. I never tried DragonFly, but FreeBSD today disregards stability with... oh yeah that unstable subsystem it will be fixed next release.
BSD used to be well written, small, and conservative with new features gradually being thrown in. GEOM and a few things they are trying are just terrible and making it unstable. It seems FreeBSD 4.x was its golden age
The only problem I had were Java apps 6 years ago. Netbeans and Eclipse were certainly problematic. Gnome was becoming linux centric and I believe I only had a problem or two with it. At the time I used WindowsMaker.
FreeBSD was excellent for me as a desktop. I wonder what recent changes happened?
BSD Unix invented TCP/IP practically with release 4.2 as it was integrated. Before then It arpanet was only PPP. The localhost as in 127.0.0.1 and many utilities in Linux are based from BSD Unix standard. Bill Joy wrote this who also became the founder of Sun Microsystems. Guess which OS Sun chose? SunOS was BSD Unix.
I used it 6 years ago last as it was frankly fun compared to boring Linux and it had a great handbook if you bought it at Borders or CompUSA. The config files in/etc were #remove this line to do something cool. It encouraged it unlike any other OS I have ever seen. The scripting was simpler and you had cool stuff like/usr/etc/cvsup #uncomment this line for real CVS updates automatically. The handbook explained these quite well. The man pages for FreeBSD were more unixlike and interactive where I can do man of a.config file./Usr/share/local/doc had real manuals and tons and tons more documentation than Linux where you had to google to go find it.
Linux uses RC (AT&T style) config files which were more cryptic and less command line friendly to do simply hacks to automate stuff. It is not the same with/etc on a Gnu/Linux system.
FreeBSD I found easier to learn and use. Ok that was a rant rather than if it was ever relevant on why it was supperior.... but yes BSD was relevent and if it were not for the AT&T lawsuit that canned it for 2 years you would be using it today rather than Linux. This was why BSD users flipped over the SCO lawsuit as it brought memories of death as FreeBSD as Linus wrote Linux instead of waiting for them.
It is a shame
Today, it is a niche and a dying one. I left because FreeBSD 5.x was really really horrible and I needed to learn Java for school. My USB keyboard wouldn't work for 2 years?? Java 5 had many new features and Java 3 with many patches from some guys website (literally), I had to bootstrap FreeBSD 4.12 (already obsolete because 5.x sucked ass) to get it to run. I went back to windows rather than try to use Linux again:-(
BSDi, was the defacto OS for small ISPs 10 years ago too and it was the commercial version of Free/net BSD. It went out of business or was bought by Walnut creek. Sun's were expensive and Linux was merely a toy compared to a real BSDI Unix.
BSD 10 years ago could run circles around Linux in network throughoutput and other benchmarks. Linux is just catching up today. It was 5 years ago that Samba even caught up under Linux as to what the BSD operating systems could do back in the early 90s.
The FreeBSD ports had a lot of applications bundled and if it were not more popular today I am sure it would be easier to use with preconfigured software to setup things like Lamp or Lapp (with BSD instead of linux).
In Alaska I got highspeed internet. Only far northern Ontario is it really nowhere.
Yes highspeed for me was maybe 600kb on a good day, but we are talking about people with 6kps dialups. That is unbearable and will get you infected within 1 minute with a worm. Software firewalls do not cut it. The grand parent should be lucky to get 3mbps if some farmer in northern minosota has 25 infections and gets 3-6 kps connection with a pc that takes 10 minutes to boot due to the worms. Access can be done if there are phones lines and cable TV.
More than likely the mega telecoms shut it off forcing users to go 100x slower with dialup unless of course they are deregulated and can rape consumers. Then they will switch it on. Same story.
Agreed, and to answer Dunbai, look up this. People do bet agaisnt currencies with the purpose of getting even MORE MONEY. This man is well hated on Fox news and the Hannity show as someone who bets agaisnt' American and foreign curreinces by shorting it in strange tradings. So yes dollars are being manipulated and traded upon as well in financial products.
I agree with Dunbals postings as it is now gambling rather than investing, but I need money as do many others. Stock market may crash if Moody downgrades the US bond rating. My savings account pays.01% interest! Where do I go next? Bitcoins is the next wave. I personally wont invest in it as I missed the opportunities if I ran my FreeBSD partition and 8 months ago and could have generated a couple hundred dollars of free money.
If real jobs come in with affordab;e gas, housing, and lower debts then I wont have to look into such strange ways to generate income. But everyone else is doing it which means if you are there first you can cash in and make $$$. In Florida I knew people who made $300,000 and are set for retirement just from flipping houses before they were even finished being made. They stopped when it look overheated. Wouldn't you want tha kind of money?
If jobs come back to the US then I think people will act more sensibly. In these times people will always try to make a buck. I laughed at the lawyer copyrighting bitcoins when his wife has a collection.
I do not consider it real currency at all, but an interesting investing experiment.
Business is cutthroat and if he wont do these crazy things, then a competitor will and undercut him. If he has investors or is publically traded then it is downright illegal to not look after the share price and investor needs first. Substantial vs regular presence doesn't matter. Yes the SCOTUS ruled but it is hard to enforce. If one is based in the Caymen Islands then US law doesn't apply as it is not an American company.
I maybe thinking conservative here, but lowering taxes and regulations do attract business. Infact, many pig farms in Texas are swedish but are there to avoid taxes and environmental regulations which mean more jobs for ranchers. This is economics 101 whether you like it or not and want the beancounters who run the fortune 1000 companies look for when asking for their raises each year.
Texas can get its revenue from these companies hiring more people and raising salaries and having employers/workers buy more products in Texas.
Well if I want to do a startup I wont consider Califronia beacuse it is expensive to live and I have to pay taxes. Texas offers me a great climate, cheap cost of living, no sales tax, and access to one of hte largest universities in the world at Uof T in Austin! Many companies like Motorolla and Blizzard have offices there for that reason.
Now if this passes I will consider Alaska, North Dakota, and Florida instead. They all suck in terms of education or climate, but a 10% tax would kill me if I am a tiny startup and do not have the capital like EBAY or Google.
Yes I may only hire 5 people and go bankrupt within a year, but I am not alone and accountants at the big companies only care about cheap cheap cheap prices and tax writeoffs. The beancounters are the new wave of MBA's and if they can find a place that is cheap, but also offers great employees where they can only pay 50,000 a year and live better than paying 85,000 a year in California then all is good for everyone. If the tax goes in they wont even consider Texas at all and pretend it wont exist. After all taxes = bad.
You need a server to run the database and therefore you would pay in both states with taxes. I am not a lawyer and had a few drinks writting this so do not take my advice without consulting one. But it seems logical that of course agents in both states would LOVE your income and a server is a server whether it is just hosting HTTP connections or running ACID transactions in a database.
I was planning to use rackspace in San Antonio, but I wonder if I will be liable for taxes based on my provider? What a mess.
That is what bothers me in the recent trend is the fact that I would be double taxed depending on if more than one state deals with a transaction. For example if a customer purchases a widget from you or I in California, but it is hosted by rackspace how much do we pay in taxes. Do we pay California? Or Texas? Both states seam to scream BOTH! At that point I can't compete with brick and mortar stores unless they too pay both as a transaction is in multiple phases across several states.
I am no lawyer, but if these states get greedy and each one of course would want a piece of the action then we have a problem. What if I used a warehouse in New York... another tax internet site state... to complete the transaction between Texas and California? Do I pay triple?
This should be illegal as a violation of the interstate commerce clause in the constitution in which Amazon is fighting just this. It scares me and I can see traditional brick and mortar retail outlets banding together to shut e-commerce competition down.
You know Austin and Dallas were becoming quite an attractive alternative to California for starting a.com startup. Low taxes, low regulation, great climate, great universities, pro business politicians, very low cost of living, high tech industry, and a happy set of workers due to living in one of the cheapest cost of living areas. Austin is a very cool place to live in you ask anyone and why Blizzard moved part of their support from expensive Irvine. I love Austin. Great bars and nightlife and the fact that you can get a 1500 square foot house in there or Dallas when only making $40,000 a year. A steal compared to Calfironia where I would feel guilty paying entry level employees 40,000 a year knowing they will be in poverty in that salary.
Not anymore. If I have to pay taxes in Texas in addition to every liberal state which imposses additional taxes then I will look elsewhere. Maybe North Dakata, or maybe India?
I do not want to live in gawd North Dakota! Shudder, but a 10% sales tax will make or break my.com business I want to form. I love Texas the fact that I can get a mcMansion for pennies on the dollar compared to most of the country and get a sub tropical climate on top of that if I am as far south as Austin. But Texas is shooting itself in the foot. Maybe Florida with pro business govenor Scott can save me money instead?... sigh
Education sucks, but I need to make money doing e-commerce to survive. I heard Alaska has no sales tax? Face the music that business will always go where it is cheaper. Yes U of T at Austin has 50,000 graduates with a great MBA, engineering, and computer scinece program. But, besides workers I need to make a profit and investors will be screaming to move to somewhere cheap where I do not pay it. Stupid Texas
It has.MSI files. Most real software products use it rather than a winzip or.exe as the file offers AD integration and group policy support as well which is really cool for enterprise users.
I always download.MSI files because if the installation fails I can recover easier... back in the days of XP.
I can upload it to a server in China or India where the trademark is not observed and simply name it a higher version to fool the users to download my Mixx software instead of yours. That wont change unfortunately.
I do not remember which version but I reconized it as Gimp 3.02 for Windows when Gimp 2.x was on my Fedora 12 installation. I downloaded it and installed it and it tried to install some malware toolbars. I clicked cancel and ran a virus scan. Prettry clever and very cheap to do I may add for the average Joe to simply recompile it and create a website. FREE MONEY. With money for each installation of gatorsoft/claria or god know whats you can make money fairly easily. This was before Gimp 3.02 was out for win32 so it tricked me and probably others thinking this was the most modern version.
I wished I would have thought of it first, but I realized that is kind of slimy to do. I did more Google searching to find the real GIMP package from Gnome for Win32. When it comes to FOSS software other than Linux it is a good practice to run an anti virus scan. If you trust the host that is one thing, but I can see the average Joe thinking OpenOffice is OpenOffice.com... not OpenOffice.org.
One with windows 7 or 8 or hell Ubuntu like the Dell 9 minis. They have the apps and functionalty. If I want to save power I can use an Arm with linux or windows 8 snd still watch movies. I just dont understand the chrome book? Perhaps someone who used it can enlighten me on why they are better?
Replace bitcoin with housing, gold, or oil in your post? It is no different, heck most stocks dont even pay dividends anymore. People get rich as well as start great recessions and depressions. If the price keeps going up your 14 coins will be worth twice as much. Until wages and jobs reapoear people will try anything to get a buck.
You know, I created this name 11 years ago when MS was the bad boy and the borg icon was made. These days I am thinking my dream of Apple taking over has become a nightmare. Before I even read these comments I was going to say the same thing. It seems before MS IBM was evil. It comes to show what true colors each company is when they are given power. Google is the next monopoly and they are the least evil. All companies become less evil when they lose power..... With the exception of Oracle
I was going to say I would leave. The economy is going down the shitter again, and it maybe months before you land another job. I would start rather sooner or later and with people about to be laid off from this next recession starting they should have no problem filling the position sadly.
Many embedded and specialized systems use FreeDOS and it might be an idea. No you wont have support, but management frankly doesn't care. It seems your job is the support anyway. Management thinks their pcs are fine so Windows must be fine all the time too and if not well I wonder what confused one, did now etc.
You can't win in that kind of environment. If you have been there for 8 years you have the experience hopefully to land something elsewhere.
It should work fine as the rendering part is mostly hardware acceleration. The layout engine is unchanged. You do not freak out when each version of Chrome every 6 weeks is out do you? Chrome now makes up 20% of the North American market according to g.stat as of this month too.
Use standards and you are pretty good with layouts from IE 8 upwards, and keep the demonic scripts for IE 7. There will be much celebration when IE 7 finally goes away below 5% and can be ignored.
In all seriousness after my other post, I sadly have to say not only is their still 10+ year old software is still maintained, but rather still actively developed that requires IE 6/XP being sold today!
Customers ask these software companies to make it run for IE 6 and it is misinterpreted as a make sure it only runs runs on IE 6. Never it is HTML 4.01 with CSS 2. The problem is 2 fold: 1. Companies in 2011 are being run by accountants turned MBA's vs engineers turned MBA's 2 decades ago. There job is only to cut costs and boast the price of the stock on Wall Street. In addition, they only will invest in software that will increase its sales or provide a ROI. Modern software does not being in more revenue so unless it magically makes more money and people work more productively they will avoid it and live in 2001.
2. Companies like Oracle and many intranet providers love double and tripple dipping their customers. If I were an executive at these firms I would encourage IE 6 only code, then double dip my clients again to support IE 7, then tripple for IE 8 and so on so on... I think Oracle should not still be developing software that requires activeX and IE 6, but they are either too cheap or plan to double dip its customers.
I am split on this. It pisses me off as these users are forcing all of us back from using cool HTML 5 features that we see with smartphones and could of had already for years on the desktop if it were not for these PHB's having such a sway in what webmasters develop. Same is true for gamers as Windows XP directX 9 with crappy integrated graphics almost killed the pc compared to the console. You can't tell 1 out of 10 users to go to hell if you owned a resturaunt or store so that means target your site for IE 6 and earlier and too hell with Chrome users.
On the otherhand, I am now 34 and older and more mature than I was when I was a gamer, with a business degree and see the phb's and accountants point of view. Windows 3.11 was next to useless for multitasking and was a hinderance with productivity. Windows 95 and even Windows XP offered cost savings and productivity gains. What can Windows 7 or 8 do that I can not with XP? The secretaries can type just as fast in Word 2000 as Word 2010 right? Cost center... waste of money etc. I would rather have a business hire more workers in this economy than waste it buying new pcs that at most can boot 2 minutes quicker with a shinnier AERO interface.
More than likely, I think we are just maturing. After cars (slashdotters hate this analogy) began maturing around the time of the model T, you did not have to keep upgrading and fixing them. People starting keeping them for years after they were reliable and did standard things like have windshield wipers and could go more than 15 mph. Computers are a century behind them.
With IPADs and smartphones mixed with IE 9 =>, Chrome, and Firefox 4= >, we are finally going to see upgrades and pressure on the PHB's to upgrade. But to answer your question yes, if a vendor supports a product for a long time then that business will keep using it almost indefinetely. Sometimes if the company is large enough they will run bulky old emulators to run IE 6 or even old 1970's IBM 370 software written 30 years ago! Why not? They are a business after all and not a fun charity for its workers to play with new toys. So hopefully they will cut support soon then.
Nice for those who want to play games and be burdened by shitty integrated graphics with 2002 era performance. These are integrated but it will fly with video, html 5 acceleration with IE 9/10/Windows 8 and can do flash 1080p HD full screen at 30 fps easily. All this for $700 is impressive. Macbook pro's have their own dedicated video cards but cost like $1600. That is a ton of money.
After bad experiences with some nVidia's I decided to switch to an ATI 5750 HD as my new system. I made sure it has an AMD chipset and CPU. It just seems like of course Nvidia would work best with their own chipsets and ATI is going to work the best with AMD chipsets and processors. So far my system is quite stable.
Not to mention the video card driver will be the next problem. Windows 7 BSODs and very poor Firefox 4 and IE 9 performance related to hardware acceleration show this. It is fine on a modern system with a decent graphics card and driver. Like I mentioned to another poster you are doing a crapshoot installing Windows 7 on a 5 or 6 year old system even it has dual core processors and decent 4 gigs of ddr1 ram. It will work or will be a nightmare making you want to run back to Windows XP.
The old saying is true, just replace the whole platform and save money by having it come with an OEM version of Windows x. Upgrading your OS is so 1990s these days. Of course during Vista and even with Windows XP brand new pc's were not Vista or XP ready at the time of the OS launch. It seems Dells were the only ones you could make sure XP ran well for the first few months. Same is true with Vista.
Either way I will install Windows 8 if my job requires me to eventually support it, if not I am going to wait. I do not trust a newer pc nor the one I have will work right with it.
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Its time we ban and boycott them. I never thought I would say this but maybe convincing our friends to use Windows instead of Apple products will be a step in the right direction. Microsoft is ethical compared to these mad men. Apple seems to want to stop all competition at all costs and is crazy! Didn,t they just fire their top lawyer because Samsung was allowed to still sell their phones?
I take it personally whe I pay $375 for a $150 phone so these a**holes can fill their their egos and buy more yatchs from their patent trolling. It is not profit Apple seeks but is marketshare. They want you to only buy an IPhone and NOTHING else and will stop at nothing to fullfil their mad vision. That is hostile and scary. I wish anti trust laws would stop this abuse.
In 5 years phone not from Apple will cost $50 to produce yet cost $800 retail. This assumes Android is still around. With no profit made on Google mobile due to Verizon using bing and billions and billions in licensing will put pressure on Google to leave the market.
I wrote PPP, but my mind meant just IP. It is late ...
It seems to me after many of the core developers left for Apple or quit the quality of FreeBSD when down by 5.x and never recovered. I never tried DragonFly, but FreeBSD today disregards stability with ... oh yeah that unstable subsystem it will be fixed next release.
BSD used to be well written, small, and conservative with new features gradually being thrown in. GEOM and a few things they are trying are just terrible and making it unstable. It seems FreeBSD 4.x was its golden age
The only problem I had were Java apps 6 years ago. Netbeans and Eclipse were certainly problematic. Gnome was becoming linux centric and I believe I only had a problem or two with it. At the time I used WindowsMaker.
FreeBSD was excellent for me as a desktop. I wonder what recent changes happened?
BSD Unix invented TCP/IP practically with release 4.2 as it was integrated. Before then It arpanet was only PPP. The localhost as in 127.0.0.1 and many utilities in Linux are based from BSD Unix standard. Bill Joy wrote this who also became the founder of Sun Microsystems. Guess which OS Sun chose? SunOS was BSD Unix.
I used it 6 years ago last as it was frankly fun compared to boring Linux and it had a great handbook if you bought it at Borders or CompUSA. The config files in /etc were #remove this line to do something cool. It encouraged it unlike any other OS I have ever seen. The scripting was simpler and you had cool stuff like /usr/etc/cvsup #uncomment this line for real CVS updates automatically. The handbook explained these quite well. The man pages for FreeBSD were more unixlike and interactive where I can do man of a .config file. /Usr/share/local/doc had real manuals and tons and tons more documentation than Linux where you had to google to go find it.
Linux uses RC (AT&T style) config files which were more cryptic and less command line friendly to do simply hacks to automate stuff. It is not the same with /etc on a Gnu/Linux system.
FreeBSD I found easier to learn and use. Ok that was a rant rather than if it was ever relevant on why it was supperior. ... but yes BSD was relevent and if it were not for the AT&T lawsuit that canned it for 2 years you would be using it today rather than Linux. This was why BSD users flipped over the SCO lawsuit as it brought memories of death as FreeBSD as Linus wrote Linux instead of waiting for them.
It is a shame
Today, it is a niche and a dying one. I left because FreeBSD 5.x was really really horrible and I needed to learn Java for school. My USB keyboard wouldn't work for 2 years?? Java 5 had many new features and Java 3 with many patches from some guys website (literally), I had to bootstrap FreeBSD 4.12 (already obsolete because 5.x sucked ass) to get it to run. I went back to windows rather than try to use Linux again :-(
BSDi, was the defacto OS for small ISPs 10 years ago too and it was the commercial version of Free/net BSD. It went out of business or was bought by Walnut creek. Sun's were expensive and Linux was merely a toy compared to a real BSDI Unix.
BSD 10 years ago could run circles around Linux in network throughoutput and other benchmarks. Linux is just catching up today. It was 5 years ago that Samba even caught up under Linux as to what the BSD operating systems could do back in the early 90s.
The FreeBSD ports had a lot of applications bundled and if it were not more popular today I am sure it would be easier to use with preconfigured software to setup things like Lamp or Lapp (with BSD instead of linux).
PC is an IBM trademark referring to an IBM microcomputer or clone running DOS or OS2 with an x86 chip. That is a pc and a mac is seperate.
In Alaska I got highspeed internet. Only far northern Ontario is it really nowhere.
Yes highspeed for me was maybe 600kb on a good day, but we are talking about people with 6kps dialups. That is unbearable and will get you infected within 1 minute with a worm. Software firewalls do not cut it. The grand parent should be lucky to get 3mbps if some farmer in northern minosota has 25 infections and gets 3-6 kps connection with a pc that takes 10 minutes to boot due to the worms. Access can be done if there are phones lines and cable TV.
More than likely the mega telecoms shut it off forcing users to go 100x slower with dialup unless of course they are deregulated and can rape consumers. Then they will switch it on. Same story.
Agreed, and to answer Dunbai, look up this. People do bet agaisnt currencies with the purpose of getting even MORE MONEY. This man is well hated on Fox news and the Hannity show as someone who bets agaisnt' American and foreign curreinces by shorting it in strange tradings. So yes dollars are being manipulated and traded upon as well in financial products.
I agree with Dunbals postings as it is now gambling rather than investing, but I need money as do many others. Stock market may crash if Moody downgrades the US bond rating. My savings account pays .01% interest! Where do I go next? Bitcoins is the next wave. I personally wont invest in it as I missed the opportunities if I ran my FreeBSD partition and 8 months ago and could have generated a couple hundred dollars of free money.
If real jobs come in with affordab;e gas, housing, and lower debts then I wont have to look into such strange ways to generate income. But everyone else is doing it which means if you are there first you can cash in and make $$$. In Florida I knew people who made $300,000 and are set for retirement just from flipping houses before they were even finished being made. They stopped when it look overheated. Wouldn't you want tha kind of money?
If jobs come back to the US then I think people will act more sensibly. In these times people will always try to make a buck. I laughed at the lawyer copyrighting bitcoins when his wife has a collection.
I do not consider it real currency at all, but an interesting investing experiment.
Why are you bashing him?
Business is cutthroat and if he wont do these crazy things, then a competitor will and undercut him. If he has investors or is publically traded then it is downright illegal to not look after the share price and investor needs first. Substantial vs regular presence doesn't matter. Yes the SCOTUS ruled but it is hard to enforce. If one is based in the Caymen Islands then US law doesn't apply as it is not an American company.
I maybe thinking conservative here, but lowering taxes and regulations do attract business. Infact, many pig farms in Texas are swedish but are there to avoid taxes and environmental regulations which mean more jobs for ranchers. This is economics 101 whether you like it or not and want the beancounters who run the fortune 1000 companies look for when asking for their raises each year.
Texas can get its revenue from these companies hiring more people and raising salaries and having employers/workers buy more products in Texas.
Well if I want to do a startup I wont consider Califronia beacuse it is expensive to live and I have to pay taxes. Texas offers me a great climate, cheap cost of living, no sales tax, and access to one of hte largest universities in the world at Uof T in Austin! Many companies like Motorolla and Blizzard have offices there for that reason.
Now if this passes I will consider Alaska, North Dakota, and Florida instead. They all suck in terms of education or climate, but a 10% tax would kill me if I am a tiny startup and do not have the capital like EBAY or Google.
Yes I may only hire 5 people and go bankrupt within a year, but I am not alone and accountants at the big companies only care about cheap cheap cheap prices and tax writeoffs. The beancounters are the new wave of MBA's and if they can find a place that is cheap, but also offers great employees where they can only pay 50,000 a year and live better than paying 85,000 a year in California then all is good for everyone. If the tax goes in they wont even consider Texas at all and pretend it wont exist. After all taxes = bad.
You need a server to run the database and therefore you would pay in both states with taxes. I am not a lawyer and had a few drinks writting this so do not take my advice without consulting one. But it seems logical that of course agents in both states would LOVE your income and a server is a server whether it is just hosting HTTP connections or running ACID transactions in a database.
I was planning to use rackspace in San Antonio, but I wonder if I will be liable for taxes based on my provider? What a mess.
That is what bothers me in the recent trend is the fact that I would be double taxed depending on if more than one state deals with a transaction. For example if a customer purchases a widget from you or I in California, but it is hosted by rackspace how much do we pay in taxes. Do we pay California? Or Texas? Both states seam to scream BOTH! At that point I can't compete with brick and mortar stores unless they too pay both as a transaction is in multiple phases across several states.
I am no lawyer, but if these states get greedy and each one of course would want a piece of the action then we have a problem. What if I used a warehouse in New York ... another tax internet site state ... to complete the transaction between Texas and California? Do I pay triple?
This should be illegal as a violation of the interstate commerce clause in the constitution in which Amazon is fighting just this. It scares me and I can see traditional brick and mortar retail outlets banding together to shut e-commerce competition down.
You know Austin and Dallas were becoming quite an attractive alternative to California for starting a .com startup. Low taxes, low regulation, great climate, great universities, pro business politicians, very low cost of living, high tech industry, and a happy set of workers due to living in one of the cheapest cost of living areas. Austin is a very cool place to live in you ask anyone and why Blizzard moved part of their support from expensive Irvine. I love Austin. Great bars and nightlife and the fact that you can get a 1500 square foot house in there or Dallas when only making $40,000 a year. A steal compared to Calfironia where I would feel guilty paying entry level employees 40,000 a year knowing they will be in poverty in that salary.
Not anymore. If I have to pay taxes in Texas in addition to every liberal state which imposses additional taxes then I will look elsewhere. Maybe North Dakata, or maybe India?
I do not want to live in gawd North Dakota! Shudder, but a 10% sales tax will make or break my .com business I want to form. I love Texas the fact that I can get a mcMansion for pennies on the dollar compared to most of the country and get a sub tropical climate on top of that if I am as far south as Austin. But Texas is shooting itself in the foot. Maybe Florida with pro business govenor Scott can save me money instead? ... sigh
Education sucks, but I need to make money doing e-commerce to survive. I heard Alaska has no sales tax? Face the music that business will always go where it is cheaper. Yes U of T at Austin has 50,000 graduates with a great MBA, engineering, and computer scinece program. But, besides workers I need to make a profit and investors will be screaming to move to somewhere cheap where I do not pay it. Stupid Texas
It has .MSI files. Most real software products use it rather than a winzip or .exe as the file offers AD integration and group policy support as well which is really cool for enterprise users.
I always download .MSI files because if the installation fails I can recover easier ... back in the days of XP.
I can upload it to a server in China or India where the trademark is not observed and simply name it a higher version to fool the users to download my Mixx software instead of yours. That wont change unfortunately.
I do not remember which version but I reconized it as Gimp 3.02 for Windows when Gimp 2.x was on my Fedora 12 installation. I downloaded it and installed it and it tried to install some malware toolbars. I clicked cancel and ran a virus scan. Prettry clever and very cheap to do I may add for the average Joe to simply recompile it and create a website. FREE MONEY. With money for each installation of gatorsoft/claria or god know whats you can make money fairly easily. This was before Gimp 3.02 was out for win32 so it tricked me and probably others thinking this was the most modern version.
I wished I would have thought of it first, but I realized that is kind of slimy to do. I did more Google searching to find the real GIMP package from Gnome for Win32. When it comes to FOSS software other than Linux it is a good practice to run an anti virus scan. If you trust the host that is one thing, but I can see the average Joe thinking OpenOffice is OpenOffice.com ... not OpenOffice.org.
One with windows 7 or 8 or hell Ubuntu like the Dell 9 minis. They have the apps and functionalty. If I want to save power I can use an Arm with linux or windows 8 snd still watch movies. I just dont understand the chrome book? Perhaps someone who used it can enlighten me on why they are better?
Replace bitcoin with housing, gold, or oil in your post? It is no different, heck most stocks dont even pay dividends anymore. People get rich as well as start great recessions and depressions. If the price keeps going up your 14 coins will be worth twice as much. Until wages and jobs reapoear people will try anything to get a buck.
You know, I created this name 11 years ago when MS was the bad boy and the borg icon was made. These days I am thinking my dream of Apple taking over has become a nightmare. Before I even read these comments I was going to say the same thing. It seems before MS IBM was evil. It comes to show what true colors each company is when they are given power. Google is the next monopoly and they are the least evil. All companies become less evil when they lose power. .... With the exception of Oracle
I was going to say I would leave. The economy is going down the shitter again, and it maybe months before you land another job. I would start rather sooner or later and with people about to be laid off from this next recession starting they should have no problem filling the position sadly.
Many embedded and specialized systems use FreeDOS and it might be an idea. No you wont have support, but management frankly doesn't care. It seems your job is the support anyway. Management thinks their pcs are fine so Windows must be fine all the time too and if not well I wonder what confused one, did now etc.
You can't win in that kind of environment. If you have been there for 8 years you have the experience hopefully to land something elsewhere.
It should work fine as the rendering part is mostly hardware acceleration. The layout engine is unchanged. You do not freak out when each version of Chrome every 6 weeks is out do you? Chrome now makes up 20% of the North American market according to g.stat as of this month too.
Use standards and you are pretty good with layouts from IE 8 upwards, and keep the demonic scripts for IE 7. There will be much celebration when IE 7 finally goes away below 5% and can be ignored.
In all seriousness after my other post, I sadly have to say not only is their still 10+ year old software is still maintained, but rather still actively developed that requires IE 6/XP being sold today!
Customers ask these software companies to make it run for IE 6 and it is misinterpreted as a make sure it only runs runs on IE 6. Never it is HTML 4.01 with CSS 2. The problem is 2 fold:
1. Companies in 2011 are being run by accountants turned MBA's vs engineers turned MBA's 2 decades ago. There job is only to cut costs and boast the price of the stock on Wall Street. In addition, they only will invest in software that will increase its sales or provide a ROI. Modern software does not being in more revenue so unless it magically makes more money and people work more productively they will avoid it and live in 2001.
2. Companies like Oracle and many intranet providers love double and tripple dipping their customers. If I were an executive at these firms I would encourage IE 6 only code, then double dip my clients again to support IE 7, then tripple for IE 8 and so on so on ... I think Oracle should not still be developing software that requires activeX and IE 6, but they are either too cheap or plan to double dip its customers.
I am split on this. It pisses me off as these users are forcing all of us back from using cool HTML 5 features that we see with smartphones and could of had already for years on the desktop if it were not for these PHB's having such a sway in what webmasters develop. Same is true for gamers as Windows XP directX 9 with crappy integrated graphics almost killed the pc compared to the console. You can't tell 1 out of 10 users to go to hell if you owned a resturaunt or store so that means target your site for IE 6 and earlier and too hell with Chrome users.
On the otherhand, I am now 34 and older and more mature than I was when I was a gamer, with a business degree and see the phb's and accountants point of view. Windows 3.11 was next to useless for multitasking and was a hinderance with productivity. Windows 95 and even Windows XP offered cost savings and productivity gains. What can Windows 7 or 8 do that I can not with XP? The secretaries can type just as fast in Word 2000 as Word 2010 right? Cost center ... waste of money etc. I would rather have a business hire more workers in this economy than waste it buying new pcs that at most can boot 2 minutes quicker with a shinnier AERO interface.
More than likely, I think we are just maturing. After cars (slashdotters hate this analogy) began maturing around the time of the model T, you did not have to keep upgrading and fixing them. People starting keeping them for years after they were reliable and did standard things like have windshield wipers and could go more than 15 mph. Computers are a century behind them.
With IPADs and smartphones mixed with IE 9 =>, Chrome, and Firefox 4= >, we are finally going to see upgrades and pressure on the PHB's to upgrade. But to answer your question yes, if a vendor supports a product for a long time then that business will keep using it almost indefinetely. Sometimes if the company is large enough they will run bulky old emulators to run IE 6 or even old 1970's IBM 370 software written 30 years ago! Why not? They are a business after all and not a fun charity for its workers to play with new toys. So hopefully they will cut support soon then.
"How many other companies are expected to maintain 10+ year old software, even after TWO new releases (Vista, Win7) are available?"
The same people who LOVE IE 6.
Nice for those who want to play games and be burdened by shitty integrated graphics with 2002 era performance. These are integrated but it will fly with video, html 5 acceleration with IE 9/10/Windows 8 and can do flash 1080p HD full screen at 30 fps easily. All this for $700 is impressive. Macbook pro's have their own dedicated video cards but cost like $1600. That is a ton of money.
After bad experiences with some nVidia's I decided to switch to an ATI 5750 HD as my new system. I made sure it has an AMD chipset and CPU. It just seems like of course Nvidia would work best with their own chipsets and ATI is going to work the best with AMD chipsets and processors. So far my system is quite stable.
Not to mention the video card driver will be the next problem. Windows 7 BSODs and very poor Firefox 4 and IE 9 performance related to hardware acceleration show this. It is fine on a modern system with a decent graphics card and driver. Like I mentioned to another poster you are doing a crapshoot installing Windows 7 on a 5 or 6 year old system even it has dual core processors and decent 4 gigs of ddr1 ram. It will work or will be a nightmare making you want to run back to Windows XP.
The old saying is true, just replace the whole platform and save money by having it come with an OEM version of Windows x. Upgrading your OS is so 1990s these days. Of course during Vista and even with Windows XP brand new pc's were not Vista or XP ready at the time of the OS launch. It seems Dells were the only ones you could make sure XP ran well for the first few months. Same is true with Vista.
Either way I will install Windows 8 if my job requires me to eventually support it, if not I am going to wait. I do not trust a newer pc nor the one I have will work right with it.