How is aero on w7? One problem I have with vista is the dark colors on low end laptops such as mine. I hate the dark colors when you maximize with vista.
I am wondering if the gui is more configurable? I still use windows classic as a result of this
The problem is we had a chance to break from ms standards with XO. If it took off Linux will now be a targetable market and these students likely will prefer it in the office when they get older.
Since they chose Windows developers will now say go install Windows we wont port to sugar
The loans are too expensive and yes its like servitude in the way that the debt build up. Sure a degree can quadruple my salary but now I need to come up with $2,500 a month and lose the right to own a home until I am 45. Add $650,000 in interest I lose and I wonder if it is seriously worth it?
The costs are the problem and you are right too with kids not taking education seriously. If they had to work and go to school their opinion would change. Being in poverty is not fun and is a great incentive to get a degree... even if the costs are multitudes higher than what my parents paid (adjusted for inflation). Europeans have little to no debt at all so I am pretty bitter about this.
In many places all employers in an area require you to sign it.
In an economic depression like ours they can do it and you are screwed if you refuse to sign it. Someone else will and your family will starve if your out of work.
As more companies do this sort of thing the problem will continue when it improves. Pretty soon you wont have a choice and its kind of like minimal wage. Employers pay it because you have no choice but to take it with your education level and the large pool of applicants for the job.
How experienced are you? I know I can not get away without signing one.
I used to work in a place that consulted with banks and ssh was not even allowed (BSD based) because the PHB's thought it was gnu which meant Sarbanes Oxley violations because of what might happen (unlicensed gnu is scary)which in return was then reported from an MS salesmen with a scary brochure claiming all free software was the copyright of SCO or some bs. It worked and they switched to Windows and Unix.
Crazy as this sounds many people hear license and they think lawyer fees and lawsuits and they refuse to learn about it. We are developers and know what it means but the ones in charge of decision making are not. Many Canadian banks have replaced Linux with Solaris and Windows as a result of this.
Why rock the boat and use dangerous unknown software. I may add banks are extremely conservative institutions but it does have an adverse effect in many companies.
The software companies claim you should hire a lawyer before installing any program to review the license for $200 an hour. Pfft
Why does software get this special treatment?
Imagine not buying anything and just buying a license to use products like groceries or your car? People may actually want to hire a lawyer before buying a car if they pull this crap but its not worth it for a $45 game.
But webmasters only write to IE still and will ignore the other 80/120. Yes its slowly begining to change but most of them just write the code for IE and then run a test for Firefox and keep twinking the css tages and javascript so it runs on Firefox without an error. Then its done.
Webmasters do not target firefox at all but rather just use it to test agaisn't. If the code doesn't work on IE 6,x,7,or 8 then its never released. Yes the 80 out of 120 do not matter as MS still owns too much of the market because it comes with Windows.
How many banks out there have policies agaisnt gnu linux or even free BSD software like ssh?
The answer is quite a few because of the viral nature of the GPl and fud from SCO and MS. Many pay for $$$ older proprietary versions of ssh just for this reason.
This is a risk and news of linksys, netgear, and other companies being sued for using GPl violations without giving the source code make companies uncomfortable. Yes we know how to use GNU the proper way but many PHB's find this confusing and scary as they do no tudnerstand this.
ok I will bite and freely admit I am a democrat here.
The reason congress has not done anything is because the republicans have filibustered everything so nothing can get past.
They have filibustered at least 60 times and this is unprecedented. The republicans have become quite extreme and feel very threatened.
So yes I voted straight democrat to weasel these guys out so we can get things done. With Obama (sorry republicans)as our next likely president we need both houses to work with him and not filibusterer and cry to the media its the liberals fault for being incompetent.
Its crazy and I feel that the neoconservatives have their own agenda that they viciously oppose anything else and it doesn't matter what it takes other than to get their way or no way.
I would be cuddling with Vista in a heartbeat if that was the situation.
Because of DRM and lack in I am boycotting the iphone and others should do it too. I know I am probably not going to be effective but I purchased a Samsung Instinct.
The instinct looks very much like an iphone but has a camera and speech recognition and I can stay with sprint.... oh and its $50 cheaper than the iphone. It acts and looks just like the Iphone but its not as drmed.
I am a business student and I need a real version of Office to share MS Access, Excel, and Word files.
Not partial support or weird formatting with openXML or even legacy versions of.dba files. This is especially true in a Master's program where a poorly formatted spreadsheet can earn a 0 as it appears I did not work diligently on the assignment. (Especially if you have to prove you are a master)
I want a mac book pro but it looks like I will be using Vista and Office for quite awhile for financial reasons. A mac is the only real alternative os for average Joe and maybe a few companies.
ALso how many people work where the office has some weird MS Outlook groupware app? That is about as proprietary as you can get. Corporations do not want to leave Windows and do not see a reason why. It just works and they need to get stuff done. Not tinker with little menu's and operating systems.
I have used Linux and FreeBSD since 1999 and I am not computer illiterate. I am just aware of what customers know and need.
The Austrain school of thought which Ron Paul subscribes to studies mathmatical curves of supply and demand and how they should mathmatically balance (when the market is perfect). The problem is market perfection is like a limit in Calculus. You aim for it but its never there. You only get closer and closer to it (for those who do not know what limits are).
For a perfect market you need to have perfectly rational human beings who are well informed %100 of the time. Also in a perfect market there are no monopolies, no barriers of entry, no perfect substitutes, and eveything is always balanced out where if one person ruins the market another balances to offset any correction so everyone is happy in this perfect capitalist utopia.
Here is reality: - Economists do not take human/consumer behavior courses. Humans like to shop at the same place which is why chains are so popular and they may not always be the most informed or care if one place has what they need for cheaper. I go to Walmart and thats it.. etc. - Investors are not rational. That says it all... and look what they have done? - No laws against bad loans and no laws about disclosure of ARMS. Most of the time they are in page 21 of the contract in lawyer speak in very small print and the bank does not mention its an arm. Only WOW 500k for only $1600 a month!! - Yes its true taxes due change consumer behavior but what are you going to do? Have a volunteer pay system for the military, damns, bridges, hospitals, etc on all public goods? - People try to get ahead sometimes does not balance but rather tilts the economy so either ther corporations, home owners, or banks try to rig the system for maximum profits which destabilized the market rather than balanced it. - I do not like what Microsoft and Walmart are doing. I am sure we can just compete agaisnt them and take them down tomorrow right?... uh no. Monopolies are market failures and are not caused by the government. Barriers of entry are the problem by proprietary software or those who have insane power on suppliers
So sorry but regulation can be good... GRASP! . Ronald Reagan may have made it unpopular in the west but the only people who support this system are corporations and investors looking to make a quick buck. Its not socialism or communism to have regulations. People are not rational and do things that harm others and themselves. Normally I like to think if someone is dumb enough to shoot themselves in the foot that is their problem. However, we are all suffering indirectly from what a few irrational people did and that is not fair.
The feds only set the interest rate on borrowing money from the national bank. They can take it and leave it if they do not like it.
If the central bank didn't exist there would be no borrowing from them and the market would be very much like today accept it would have alot less capital and interest rates woudl be alot higher
Well no one is prosecuting them now and there are laws agaisnt fraud.
The problem is you need proof and many CEO's will just say they had no clue what their business has been doing with subprime loans. Infact the FBI is trying to prosecute some CEO's now and the excuse of ignorance is working as they can't draw up charges.
No this is not due to government regulation at all. THis is a market failure. People and investors are not rational and therefore do not fully follow the free market model. Sorry but this imperfection is a big problem and can't be ignored.
If it was a truly free market we would be in the second great depression as people would have no guarantee that there money will still be there when their bank closes. After all there would be no FDIC insurance on their accounts in a truly free market right?
No government bailouts would mean your account would vanish if you used wamu or wachovia. Also no credit to businesses which will cycle to many more lost jobs which in turn means more bank failures and even tighter credit... etc.
Massive withdrawls and runs on the bank would have happened by now and we would be in a situation much much worse economically than today.
The problem with market purist idealogies is that the assumption is the market is always perfect %100 of the time. It assumes people are rational and educated which includes investors and consumers. The market can not regulate itself unfortunate and this is the third time since 1929 that bad loans and banking failures caused economic recessions. H
If a company is very profitable it can use a loan and pay it off quickly even if they can afford it.
The problem is if they spend their capital it subtracts earnings and the shareholders will have a fit. In such a case it makes more sense to borrow and have more capital on the books to make the investors happy.
Also supplies are very expensive and take up a huge portion of money. If you are a manufacturer and supplies take up 80% of your costs then its risky business to pay in cash. However if you borrow and make a profit a month later then you can pay off the debt easily and not have to spend over 50% of your capital each month. Many small businesses do not even have this capital and will go under as a result but are quite profitable normally.
My wife has an expensive Vaio with a true 8-bit screen. She laughes at my other notebooks with the dark tiny graphics which just suck for games or even using ms word for extended periods of time.
Does this unit have a true 8-bit screen or is it a 6-bit screen which emulates 8 bit in software that creates a bad picture?
Is it even possible to even buy a true notebook with 8bit graphics anymore? I want to know as her vaio is dying and I am looking to replace it.
8-bit is essential for any game. Any environment with light can make a screen too dark to play on.
I admit I have not run wine in years. It was terrible and a pain in the ass to get anything done.
If the apps I need are win32 I am going to use Vista. End of story and my time is more valuable to me than creating config file hacks to get my apps to run. Linus himself said he does not see a point of using non native apps in linux when windows apps are designed for windows.
Yes wine is a problem because it gives the excuse of go install windows or use wine. On the otherhand most software vendors wont port anyway due to the cost of porting expensive proprietary win32 code to other platforms. Until Linux or MacOSX gains 20% marketshare the vendors will ignore us.
Also the games on my el cheapo laptop run the same fps on vista as on XP. Vista has gotten a bad rap here on slashdot as pre-sp1 was bad with optimizations.
During the.com days there was a shortage of IT workers and people worked under these conditions due to a shortage of labor.
Then companies noticed that someone overseas is willing to fix things at night because its day in India. Now its expected.
Also I would argue that the pendulum has swung in the 1990's towards new age bosses who value employees and their time as a way to keep high morale and productivity high. Now the pendulum is swinging the other way as a result of not keeping costs down and being as productive. This is not just an I.T. phenomena. From what I read in political polls is that most Americans feel that they are treated as numbers rather than employees and they are bothered by a general lack of job security. Americans rate their job security as an old time low. IT is one example but with the shift from workers morale to shareholders and productivity is causing a squeeze of every once of work for the lowest cost by not hiring enough people. Many new managers now think its normal to view people as money making machines only that need to be terminated if they can't overwork and fill some magic numbers on a spreadsheet. Maybe this will change during the next decade.
My wife is a teacher which used to be a very secure job. Now with NCLB and accountability the same culture is creating turnover as high as 50% with new teachers after 5 years. If she can't meet the numbers with illegal mexican students on english test scores she is fired. Also she works 50 hours a week with no paid training, meetings, and a million recertifications.
Its the new norm to expect 110% off of everyone whether they work in I.T. or not.
When I graduate college I am going to try to work for a private or small company and not a public one where this bs and politics is expected to make some billionaire shareholder stock rise.3%.
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How is aero on w7? One problem I have with vista is the dark colors on low end laptops such as mine. I hate the dark colors when you maximize with vista.
I am wondering if the gui is more configurable? I still use windows classic as a result of this
The problem is we had a chance to break from ms standards with XO. If it took off Linux will now be a targetable market and these students likely will prefer it in the office when they get older.
Since they chose Windows developers will now say go install Windows we wont port to sugar
Most student loans are alot higher than $30,000.
The loans are too expensive and yes its like servitude in the way that the debt build up. Sure a degree can quadruple my salary but now I need to come up with $2,500 a month and lose the right to own a home until I am 45. Add $650,000 in interest I lose and I wonder if it is seriously worth it?
The costs are the problem and you are right too with kids not taking education seriously. If they had to work and go to school their opinion would change. Being in poverty is not fun and is a great incentive to get a degree ... even if the costs are multitudes higher than what my parents paid (adjusted for inflation). Europeans have little to no debt at all so I am pretty bitter about this.
In many places all employers in an area require you to sign it.
In an economic depression like ours they can do it and you are screwed if you refuse to sign it. Someone else will and your family will starve if your out of work.
As more companies do this sort of thing the problem will continue when it improves. Pretty soon you wont have a choice and its kind of like minimal wage. Employers pay it because you have no choice but to take it with your education level and the large pool of applicants for the job.
How experienced are you? I know I can not get away without signing one.
I used to work in a place that consulted with banks and ssh was not even allowed (BSD based) because the PHB's thought it was gnu which meant Sarbanes Oxley violations because of what might happen (unlicensed gnu is scary)which in return was then reported from an MS salesmen with a scary brochure claiming all free software was the copyright of SCO or some bs. It worked and they switched to Windows and Unix.
Crazy as this sounds many people hear license and they think lawyer fees and lawsuits and they refuse to learn about it. We are developers and know what it means but the ones in charge of decision making are not. Many Canadian banks have replaced Linux with Solaris and Windows as a result of this.
Why rock the boat and use dangerous unknown software. I may add banks are extremely conservative institutions but it does have an adverse effect in many companies.
There is no directx in bootcamp? I thought it ran natively but had Apple drivers?
Or do you mean no directx in macosx?
Not to mention the macbook pro that has an equilivant 17 inch screen is $2700!
MY wife wants these Toshiba babies and is looking at my macbook pro as ... you pay $$$$ for what??
The software companies claim you should hire a lawyer before installing any program to review the license for $200 an hour. Pfft
Why does software get this special treatment?
Imagine not buying anything and just buying a license to use products like groceries or your car? People may actually want to hire a lawyer before buying a car if they pull this crap but its not worth it for a $45 game.
But webmasters only write to IE still and will ignore the other 80/120. Yes its slowly begining to change but most of them just write the code for IE and then run a test for Firefox and keep twinking the css tages and javascript so it runs on Firefox without an error. Then its done.
Webmasters do not target firefox at all but rather just use it to test agaisn't. If the code doesn't work on IE 6,x,7,or 8 then its never released. Yes the 80 out of 120 do not matter as MS still owns too much of the market because it comes with Windows.
How many banks out there have policies agaisnt gnu linux or even free BSD software like ssh?
The answer is quite a few because of the viral nature of the GPl and fud from SCO and MS. Many pay for $$$ older proprietary versions of ssh just for this reason.
This is a risk and news of linksys, netgear, and other companies being sued for using GPl violations without giving the source code make companies uncomfortable. Yes we know how to use GNU the proper way but many PHB's find this confusing and scary as they do no tudnerstand this.
Actually macosx is insanely popular at any university and its marketshare is almost at 8%.
Also which gui should the voting machines run Gnome or KDE?
Lets see if we can get 2000 comments going
ok I will bite and freely admit I am a democrat here.
The reason congress has not done anything is because the republicans have filibustered everything so nothing can get past.
They have filibustered at least 60 times and this is unprecedented. The republicans have become quite extreme and feel very threatened.
So yes I voted straight democrat to weasel these guys out so we can get things done. With Obama (sorry republicans)as our next likely president we need both houses to work with him and not filibusterer and cry to the media its the liberals fault for being incompetent.
Its crazy and I feel that the neoconservatives have their own agenda that they viciously oppose anything else and it doesn't matter what it takes other than to get their way or no way.
Imagine if the macs were that restrictive?
I would be cuddling with Vista in a heartbeat if that was the situation.
Because of DRM and lack in I am boycotting the iphone and others should do it too. I know I am probably not going to be effective but I purchased a Samsung Instinct.
The instinct looks very much like an iphone but has a camera and speech recognition and I can stay with sprint. ... oh and its $50 cheaper than the iphone. It acts and looks just like the Iphone but its not as drmed.
I am a business student and I need a real version of Office to share MS Access, Excel, and Word files.
Not partial support or weird formatting with openXML or even legacy versions of .dba files. This is especially true in a Master's program where a poorly formatted spreadsheet can earn a 0 as it appears I did not work diligently on the assignment. (Especially if you have to prove you are a master)
I want a mac book pro but it looks like I will be using Vista and Office for quite awhile for financial reasons. A mac is the only real alternative os for average Joe and maybe a few companies.
ALso how many people work where the office has some weird MS Outlook groupware app? That is about as proprietary as you can get. Corporations do not want to leave Windows and do not see a reason why. It just works and they need to get stuff done. Not tinker with little menu's and operating systems.
I have used Linux and FreeBSD since 1999 and I am not computer illiterate. I am just aware of what customers know and need.
So many KKK members support McCain.
Maybe just maybe one might have went to his fundraiser and speeches... gasp! Wow McCain is a radical biggot who hates all black people!
Guilt by association was tried in the 1950's and most Americans except those on the far right do not care. Its MCarthy -ism at its finest.
The Austrain school of thought which Ron Paul subscribes to studies mathmatical curves of supply and demand and how they should mathmatically balance (when the market is perfect). The problem is market perfection is like a limit in Calculus. You aim for it but its never there. You only get closer and closer to it (for those who do not know what limits are).
For a perfect market you need to have perfectly rational human beings who are well informed %100 of the time. Also in a perfect market there are no monopolies, no barriers of entry, no perfect substitutes, and eveything is always balanced out where if one person ruins the market another balances to offset any correction so everyone is happy in this perfect capitalist utopia.
Here is reality: .. etc. ... and look what they have done? ... uh no. Monopolies are market failures and are not caused by the government. Barriers of entry are the problem by proprietary software or those who have insane power on suppliers
- Economists do not take human/consumer behavior courses. Humans like to shop at the same place which is why chains are so popular and they may not always be the most informed or care if one place has what they need for cheaper. I go to Walmart and thats it
- Investors are not rational. That says it all
- No laws against bad loans and no laws about disclosure of ARMS. Most of the time they are in page 21 of the contract in lawyer speak in very small print and the bank does not mention its an arm. Only WOW 500k for only $1600 a month!!
- Yes its true taxes due change consumer behavior but what are you going to do? Have a volunteer pay system for the military, damns, bridges, hospitals, etc on all public goods?
- People try to get ahead sometimes does not balance but rather tilts the economy so either ther corporations, home owners, or banks try to rig the system for maximum profits which destabilized the market rather than balanced it.
- I do not like what Microsoft and Walmart are doing. I am sure we can just compete agaisnt them and take them down tomorrow right?
So sorry but regulation can be good ... GRASP! . Ronald Reagan may have made it unpopular in the west but the only people who support this system are corporations and investors looking to make a quick buck. Its not socialism or communism to have regulations. People are not rational and do things that harm others and themselves. Normally I like to think if someone is dumb enough to shoot themselves in the foot that is their problem. However, we are all suffering indirectly from what a few irrational people did and that is not fair.
The feds only set the interest rate on borrowing money from the national bank. They can take it and leave it if they do not like it.
If the central bank didn't exist there would be no borrowing from them and the market would be very much like today accept it would have alot less capital and interest rates woudl be alot higher
Gold fluctuates very rapidly in value and would have devasting economic consequences if we based our currency on it.
Well no one is prosecuting them now and there are laws agaisnt fraud.
The problem is you need proof and many CEO's will just say they had no clue what their business has been doing with subprime loans. Infact the FBI is trying to prosecute some CEO's now and the excuse of ignorance is working as they can't draw up charges.
No this is not due to government regulation at all. THis is a market failure. People and investors are not rational and therefore do not fully follow the free market model. Sorry but this imperfection is a big problem and can't be ignored.
If it was a truly free market we would be in the second great depression as people would have no guarantee that there money will still be there when their bank closes. After all there would be no FDIC insurance on their accounts in a truly free market right?
No government bailouts would mean your account would vanish if you used wamu or wachovia. Also no credit to businesses which will cycle to many more lost jobs which in turn means more bank failures and even tighter credit ... etc.
Massive withdrawls and runs on the bank would have happened by now and we would be in a situation much much worse economically than today.
The problem with market purist idealogies is that the assumption is the market is always perfect %100 of the time. It assumes people are rational and educated which includes investors and consumers. The market can not regulate itself unfortunate and this is the third time since 1929 that bad loans and banking failures caused economic recessions. H
If a company is very profitable it can use a loan and pay it off quickly even if they can afford it.
The problem is if they spend their capital it subtracts earnings and the shareholders will have a fit. In such a case it makes more sense to borrow and have more capital on the books to make the investors happy.
Also supplies are very expensive and take up a huge portion of money. If you are a manufacturer and supplies take up 80% of your costs then its risky business to pay in cash. However if you borrow and make a profit a month later then you can pay off the debt easily and not have to spend over 50% of your capital each month. Many small businesses do not even have this capital and will go under as a result but are quite profitable normally.
My wife has an expensive Vaio with a true 8-bit screen. She laughes at my other notebooks with the dark tiny graphics which just suck for games or even using ms word for extended periods of time.
Does this unit have a true 8-bit screen or is it a 6-bit screen which emulates 8 bit in software that creates a bad picture?
Is it even possible to even buy a true notebook with 8bit graphics anymore? I want to know as her vaio is dying and I am looking to replace it.
8-bit is essential for any game. Any environment with light can make a screen too dark to play on.
I admit I have not run wine in years. It was terrible and a pain in the ass to get anything done.
If the apps I need are win32 I am going to use Vista. End of story and my time is more valuable to me than creating config file hacks to get my apps to run. Linus himself said he does not see a point of using non native apps in linux when windows apps are designed for windows.
Yes wine is a problem because it gives the excuse of go install windows or use wine. On the otherhand most software vendors wont port anyway due to the cost of porting expensive proprietary win32 code to other platforms. Until Linux or MacOSX gains 20% marketshare the vendors will ignore us.
Also the games on my el cheapo laptop run the same fps on vista as on XP. Vista has gotten a bad rap here on slashdot as pre-sp1 was bad with optimizations.
During the .com days there was a shortage of IT workers and people worked under these conditions due to a shortage of labor.
Then companies noticed that someone overseas is willing to fix things at night because its day in India. Now its expected.
Also I would argue that the pendulum has swung in the 1990's towards new age bosses who value employees and their time as a way to keep high morale and productivity high. Now the pendulum is swinging the other way as a result of not keeping costs down and being as productive. This is not just an I.T. phenomena. From what I read in political polls is that most Americans feel that they are treated as numbers rather than employees and they are bothered by a general lack of job security. Americans rate their job security as an old time low. IT is one example but with the shift from workers morale to shareholders and productivity is causing a squeeze of every once of work for the lowest cost by not hiring enough people. Many new managers now think its normal to view people as money making machines only that need to be terminated if they can't overwork and fill some magic numbers on a spreadsheet. Maybe this will change during the next decade.
My wife is a teacher which used to be a very secure job. Now with NCLB and accountability the same culture is creating turnover as high as 50% with new teachers after 5 years. If she can't meet the numbers with illegal mexican students on english test scores she is fired. Also she works 50 hours a week with no paid training, meetings, and a million recertifications.
Its the new norm to expect 110% off of everyone whether they work in I.T. or not.
When I graduate college I am going to try to work for a private or small company and not a public one where this bs and politics is expected to make some billionaire shareholder stock rise .3%.