Yes it is. It's about a company that is just guessing. The Linux offering was terrible. People didn't buy into it because it had poor reviews/comments.
It played better under Wine than the native client. It was everything short of honest.
They don't have to. But limiting their efforts to Windows reduces their market potential. There are more people gaming on other platforms than Windows PC's. It's their choice to ignore it.
The problem with Linux is that there is no way to determine market share. All Eve has proven is if you don't provide the same level of entertainment on every platform you support, then you are only doing yourself harm. It's what stopped me. My research on user experience on Linux concerning Eve was a definite NO. It's not my loss, I'm not bored for lack of entertainment.
Oh please stop. I've had my share of driver issues with ALL OS's especially Windows. "My so ans so doesn't work on Linux."????? I have equipment here that doesn't work on Windows. If I blame MS I'm just an idiot. If the company chooses to not support Linux and you use Linux then don't buy their hardware.
I have scanners, cameras, cell phones that are poorly supported in windows. I don't care. Why? I don't use Windows.
USB head set not supported in Linux contact the vendor and ask why?
OK first thing first legacy is not 3 year old software. Legacy used to mean over 10 years.
Second I don't need the new and improved quickbooks which supports less that the old and "legacy" Quickbooks of 2007. The fact of the matter is that most software that we are discussing is not even 10 years old. Everyone is heading into this software as a service that they forgot that most people don't really care. They just want their business to run.
I don't care about apple or ms or any hair brained company that thinks it will make money off products that don't even work or lock in the users to a one size fits all solution. There are solutions out there that do not require this lock in even on windows and mac. It is a choice that we make to buy into this fad. People don't want the "new" ACCPAC at $15,000 they are willing to pay for the old reliable one that only cost them $1,500. They want a Quickbooks that doesn't loose features over time, ie multicurrency. They don't care about the newfangled DRM that slows down the network because they are viewing the company marketing material or a tutorial.
Lets be honest, my optometrist does not need windows to run his office. I wonder why HP started to support linux on the desktop? Could it be that that people like me no longer buy equipment that is not supported by linux even if we intend to run windows on them. When you spend hundreds of thousands on equipment and you study what you buy and do not even consider suppliers that do not support linux it starts to hurt. Not you but them. The fact of the matter is if you are running an office and you need someone soooo bad that there are no other options it means you have done a poor job as an IT professional. Phone/flash/sync/update, why? why would I ever need such sh!t? I need standards and access and I have Linux support, Mac support, FreeBSD support and Windows support. Give me any Mac and almost any phone and I can sync more in just minutes out of the box than I would be able to with an off the shelf windows box.
STOP these stupid lies. If you don't know how just say it. Any Mac of the shelf has at least bluetooth and WiFi, iCal, Address book. Thats a lot more than any Windows box that's off the shelf. Use some standards and some common sense and you have your own cloud computing and you don't even need a fixed IP and you can make it as secure as you choose. Activesync????? Does it support Mac, Linux, FreeBSD? Can it sync the whole OS? The whole disk? I have clients where there whole systems are synced over the net and could go live on their backup by a change of a DNS entry, and this solution is over 10 years old, and we don't even care what OS it runs. It's called standards./rant
I'm not here to teach or preach but if you open your mind you will see that the only obstacle is this proprietary lock in that most people get themselves into.
Then they would NOT sell. Could you imagine people returning set because they can't watch their holiday videos?
First thing I'd do is bring it back and call it broken. I would make such a stink that not only would I demand my money back I want to be compensated for my wasted time due to the salesman's greed for commission that he neglected to inform me of the defect.
It's called contract law and you need to abide by it's terms. If the ISP was taken off-line without merit then legal recourse is available to recuperate any loss. TOS is part of a binding contract.
Now I'm up for publishing IP's of the botnets control centers so we can DoS them. Once your address is in one of these lists it just gets unbearable. Especially since there is no way to stop a spoofed add.
Yeah I like the one where you right/drag a file in XP SP3 and a new window comes up first asking if you wish to copy or move the file and then you need to once again select if you wish to move or copy the file.
That's a fun one to explain. User friendly my A**.
Try me. Because I bought the software means that a support person on the other end will hear from me. If I find that the company intentionally misled me in order to sell the product then a full refund is in order as well a potential legal action.
When you have a corporate legal team at your disposal miracles do happen. Or at least refunds.
Or kids who wish to upgrade the software who need to annoy their parents for a credit card because you can't buy a gift card to upgrade.
Apple has great products but likes to annoy the hell off some people. it doesn't always just work. Sometimes it's broken intentionally. iPhoto can't share one set of pictures unless it's running in every users profile. How many families can afford one computer for each member of the family. Ask the average user to use another software to sync with the ipod.
No one is migrating to OOXML because no one is supporting it. Not one product on sale today. Not even from Microsoft. They claim they will in the future but I will wait and see. If Microsoft holds true to form then there is no chance in hell that OOXML will ever be supported as written (and the written documentation is incomplete as it stands).
His head is in the clouds or is being paid to write crap like that. Get help???? Don't waste your time with this he's probably running norton to clean his system as we speak.
How many times can you buy Hotel California from the eagles? they have more compilations than they have songs.....
You have it on tape, on LP maybe on 8 track, on CD so why do they keep releasing the same albums and expect people to buy. Most new stuff sucks and people own the old stuff. Sales are where they should be. If I don't like the music I will not buy it. Most radio stations kill POP within a couple of weeks since they over play the songs.
On another point the cost of production, all the way to the cost of distribution has dropped off the scale. To produce a CD no longer requires expensive equipment. Home computers have gotten fast enough to process recordings. Software has improved that almost any Joe with skill can create. Not to mention that the cost of marketing and distribution to billions of potential customers is almost nonexistent compared to 10 years ago.
Please the P2P explanation is just an excuse to legislate a guaranteed salary.
When you treat people as thieves they become thieves. If the album was sold for $5 and you got a pretty CD with all the artwork why would you waste time getting music on P2P? Wasting time, energy all to find out that 1 in 5 was not worth your effort. A CD costs under $1 to produce, give $1 to the artist (they make less that that per CD now), $1 for the distributor and $2 to the greedy record label.
If they can filter illegal content then for sure they can filter child porn. Hold them responsible for all the content that passes through the network. Lets call these service providers Content Service Providers so the general public will not mix the 2 up. ISP are gust carriers and CSP will be responsible for ALL the content. If they can filter music then the can filter child porn.
It's not BULLSHIT. Lets make it a FREE market system and force every citizen to pay the same tax rates. Even the "MORAL" citizens.
Then we will see how menial certain jobs are. The fact that we use preferential treatment in our laws to prop up certain citizens does not mean that the janitor has a lower value than the CEO or a writer. Remove the TAX loop holes and lets make a uniform tax system.
In my experience it is rare that you will find people who achieved their position all by themselves. Most have received a hand here and there. It is easier achieving CEO status when you start off in a well to do family. Just the connections that your family established will help you climb faster.
This same rule applies to the menial tasks. If you are not connected or know influential people you may have the right degrees but may be unable to open the right opportunities. Maybe we should abolish inheritance and place job placement in a lottery.
The value of a society is in how it treats it's citizens. The idea that a person's EMPLOYMENT designates their worth is a repulsive idea to me. Unfortunately that is the direction we are headed and why we value a CEO more that the teacher who instructed the CEO. That is why we have an ACTOR of a governor signing a law that discriminates against IT (creators of p2p, mp3 DeCSS) Payback? Why just IT and not ALL overtime? Why not just abolish overtime pay?/RANT
A free market needs to include workers. Goods and labor must be able to cross the same border with the same restrictions or lack there of. The fact that the US is heading to more controlled border will limit the options and allow the wealth to move across bringing with the employment.
The rules must be the same for all. We need a new slogan equal representation for equal taxation or some such thing..... lets call it the iTea party....
Why don't we apply this to ALL works and not just selected fields. The suit should be available to ALL and not just the chosen ones.
In most cases a 40hr work week is discussed prior to employment with occasional other requirements. Occasional implies to the corporations as regular while to the employee it may mean one in three.
There is no negotiation here because there is no suit allowed.
What the true advice should be is find a job with the **AA so that Arnie will support your cause.
First and foremost Nokia is useless unless unlocked. That has been my experience.
Second Nokia Europe has some amazing Mac software for transferring iPhoto and iTunes content. They call the software beta but it works great. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/nokiamultimediatransfer.html
iSync on the Mac and some creative third parties add functionality where Apple and Nokia fail. (are you listening Apple and Nokia third party developers and hackers add value to your products).
All to say never buy or sign a long therm contract with a locked phone. They are crippled and do not work well because they ARE designed so that you spend money. The default nokia media player can read play lists and song information from you iTunes sync. The one that the carrier places on your phone is designed to only work with what you download. DON'T BUY A LOCKED PHONE.
The fact of the matter is that even when you remove Microsoft from the equation, Apple still is still full of themselves.
Don't get me wrong. I love their products. What I can't stand is the attitude of not cooperating with their users. Yes! Not cooperating with their users unless they absolutely have to. What users want is that their products work well together. My TV is not an "Apple" TV but it plays well with Apple products because of the standards.
Apple plays well when it needs to and is worse than MS when it can. Try updating an iPod without a credit card. Buying a gift certificate, in other words paying cash in their store, does not permit you to purchase the software. Another example is that the only true document format that was an approved standard was not supported by iWorks.
Apple is not about creating the best user experience as they claim but rather how to tie people in on APPLE technologies.
If permitted by the Apple users Apple would be 100% about control.
My phone is a Nokia, my TV is a Toshiba, My DVR a Motorola, My printer an HP but all I care about is that they all work well together. I have 2 Macs and they have trouble playing well together with multiple users, just like Windows, unlike the Linux and FreeBSD systems which have no problems coexisting. Mac and Windows have more commercial apps but they are limiting.
Just as an Apple example, iPhoto does not share it's pictures well with users on the same computer let alone on other systems. It insists on reproducing the same images across all the users or that the main user activates sharing and starts the app and leaves it running.
iTunes same thing, you need to work around these limitations in an "Apple undocumented way" in order for these applications to play well together. I really don't need 5 copies of a CD in the system so all members of the family can listen to it. When you add 5 other computers, not all Macs, media centers and such, managing music becomes a chore if you use the Apple way.
The fact of the matter is that not ONE solution will meet everyone's expectations so please stop locking the equipment not just for your users sake but for your bottom line. I will not buy a DRM or otherwise locked product irrelevant on who makes it. The iPhone is broken and the iPod is going in the same direction not because they can't be used but because they can't be used as they could be used.
I'm starting to feel that I need to change my sig to Windows and Apple FREE for over 10 years because Apple is starting to look a lot like Microsoft. They need to start caring about the users and the $ will come. As they are now the only care about $ and so the users will leave and so will the $. A short term solution.
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youtube and the like probably takes more than p2p. The "NEW" video on demand will take more.
Yes it is. It's about a company that is just guessing. The Linux offering was terrible. People didn't buy into it because it had poor reviews/comments.
It played better under Wine than the native client. It was everything short of honest.
They don't have to. But limiting their efforts to Windows reduces their market potential. There are more people gaming on other platforms than Windows PC's. It's their choice to ignore it.
The problem with Linux is that there is no way to determine market share. All Eve has proven is if you don't provide the same level of entertainment on every platform you support, then you are only doing yourself harm. It's what stopped me. My research on user experience on Linux concerning Eve was a definite NO. It's not my loss, I'm not bored for lack of entertainment.
Oh please stop. I've had my share of driver issues with ALL OS's especially Windows. "My so ans so doesn't work on Linux."????? I have equipment here that doesn't work on Windows. If I blame MS I'm just an idiot. If the company chooses to not support Linux and you use Linux then don't buy their hardware.
I have scanners, cameras, cell phones that are poorly supported in windows. I don't care. Why? I don't use Windows.
USB head set not supported in Linux contact the vendor and ask why?
A/V on a mac? I hope you were talking about audio visual program.
OK first thing first legacy is not 3 year old software. Legacy used to mean over 10 years.
Second I don't need the new and improved quickbooks which supports less that the old and "legacy" Quickbooks of 2007. The fact of the matter is that most software that we are discussing is not even 10 years old. Everyone is heading into this software as a service that they forgot that most people don't really care. They just want their business to run.
I don't care about apple or ms or any hair brained company that thinks it will make money off products that don't even work or lock in the users to a one size fits all solution. There are solutions out there that do not require this lock in even on windows and mac. It is a choice that we make to buy into this fad. People don't want the "new" ACCPAC at $15,000 they are willing to pay for the old reliable one that only cost them $1,500. They want a Quickbooks that doesn't loose features over time, ie multicurrency. They don't care about the newfangled DRM that slows down the network because they are viewing the company marketing material or a tutorial.
Lets be honest, my optometrist does not need windows to run his office. I wonder why HP started to support linux on the desktop? Could it be that that people like me no longer buy equipment that is not supported by linux even if we intend to run windows on them. When you spend hundreds of thousands on equipment and you study what you buy and do not even consider suppliers that do not support linux it starts to hurt. Not you but them. The fact of the matter is if you are running an office and you need someone soooo bad that there are no other options it means you have done a poor job as an IT professional. Phone/flash/sync/update, why? why would I ever need such sh!t? I need standards and access and I have Linux support, Mac support, FreeBSD support and Windows support. Give me any Mac and almost any phone and I can sync more in just minutes out of the box than I would be able to with an off the shelf windows box.
STOP these stupid lies. If you don't know how just say it. Any Mac of the shelf has at least bluetooth and WiFi, iCal, Address book. Thats a lot more than any Windows box that's off the shelf. Use some standards and some common sense and you have your own cloud computing and you don't even need a fixed IP and you can make it as secure as you choose. Activesync????? Does it support Mac, Linux, FreeBSD? Can it sync the whole OS? The whole disk? I have clients where there whole systems are synced over the net and could go live on their backup by a change of a DNS entry, and this solution is over 10 years old, and we don't even care what OS it runs. It's called standards. /rant
I'm not here to teach or preach but if you open your mind you will see that the only obstacle is this proprietary lock in that most people get themselves into.
Then they would NOT sell. Could you imagine people returning set because they can't watch their holiday videos?
First thing I'd do is bring it back and call it broken. I would make such a stink that not only would I demand my money back I want to be compensated for my wasted time due to the salesman's greed for commission that he neglected to inform me of the defect.
I AM NOT A THIEF! DO NOT TREAT ME AS SUCH!!!!
I will NEVER buy any product that is so encumbered!
It's called contract law and you need to abide by it's terms. If the ISP was taken off-line without merit then legal recourse is available to recuperate any loss. TOS is part of a binding contract.
Now I'm up for publishing IP's of the botnets control centers so we can DoS them. Once your address is in one of these lists it just gets unbearable. Especially since there is no way to stop a spoofed add.
How when we do not know we talk. Typical of Windows users.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303650
When you have a few it gets old. Hey ASS it's me talking.
Yeah I like the one where you right/drag a file in XP SP3 and a new window comes up first asking if you wish to copy or move the file and then you need to once again select if you wish to move or copy the file.
That's a fun one to explain. User friendly my A**.
There is a whole world out there and to assume that the DMCA which hardly applies to anyone outside the US is just fooling yourselves.....
Are you for real?
Your customer is looking for a solution that works. If your solution starts by misleading him then you better start looking for another job.
Try me. Because I bought the software means that a support person on the other end will hear from me. If I find that the company intentionally misled me in order to sell the product then a full refund is in order as well a potential legal action.
When you have a corporate legal team at your disposal miracles do happen. Or at least refunds.
Or kids who wish to upgrade the software who need to annoy their parents for a credit card because you can't buy a gift card to upgrade.
Apple has great products but likes to annoy the hell off some people. it doesn't always just work. Sometimes it's broken intentionally. iPhoto can't share one set of pictures unless it's running in every users profile. How many families can afford one computer for each member of the family. Ask the average user to use another software to sync with the ipod.
No one is migrating to OOXML because no one is supporting it. Not one product on sale today. Not even from Microsoft. They claim they will in the future but I will wait and see. If Microsoft holds true to form then there is no chance in hell that OOXML will ever be supported as written (and the written documentation is incomplete as it stands).
His head is in the clouds or is being paid to write crap like that. Get help???? Don't waste your time with this he's probably running norton to clean his system as we speak.
Microsoft... easy DRM. Lock in to Windows. Keep the market keep out Linux.
How many times can you buy Hotel California from the eagles? they have more compilations than they have songs.....
You have it on tape, on LP maybe on 8 track, on CD so why do they keep releasing the same albums and expect people to buy. Most new stuff sucks and people own the old stuff. Sales are where they should be. If I don't like the music I will not buy it. Most radio stations kill POP within a couple of weeks since they over play the songs.
On another point the cost of production, all the way to the cost of distribution has dropped off the scale. To produce a CD no longer requires expensive equipment. Home computers have gotten fast enough to process recordings. Software has improved that almost any Joe with skill can create. Not to mention that the cost of marketing and distribution to billions of potential customers is almost nonexistent compared to 10 years ago.
Please the P2P explanation is just an excuse to legislate a guaranteed salary.
When you treat people as thieves they become thieves. If the album was sold for $5 and you got a pretty CD with all the artwork why would you waste time getting music on P2P? Wasting time, energy all to find out that 1 in 5 was not worth your effort. A CD costs under $1 to produce, give $1 to the artist (they make less that that per CD now), $1 for the distributor and $2 to the greedy record label.
Net pollution = child pron
Since they claim to be able to filter content why do they permit child pron on their equipment. Hold them responsible for all content.
Yes "think of the children"
If they can filter illegal content then for sure they can filter child porn. Hold them responsible for all the content that passes through the network. Lets call these service providers Content Service Providers so the general public will not mix the 2 up. ISP are gust carriers and CSP will be responsible for ALL the content. If they can filter music then the can filter child porn.
It's not BULLSHIT. Lets make it a FREE market system and force every citizen to pay the same tax rates. Even the "MORAL" citizens.
Then we will see how menial certain jobs are. The fact that we use preferential treatment in our laws to prop up certain citizens does not mean that the janitor has a lower value than the CEO or a writer. Remove the TAX loop holes and lets make a uniform tax system.
In my experience it is rare that you will find people who achieved their position all by themselves. Most have received a hand here and there. It is easier achieving CEO status when you start off in a well to do family. Just the connections that your family established will help you climb faster.
This same rule applies to the menial tasks. If you are not connected or know influential people you may have the right degrees but may be unable to open the right opportunities. Maybe we should abolish inheritance and place job placement in a lottery.
The value of a society is in how it treats it's citizens. The idea that a person's EMPLOYMENT designates their worth is a repulsive idea to me. Unfortunately that is the direction we are headed and why we value a CEO more that the teacher who instructed the CEO. That is why we have an ACTOR of a governor signing a law that discriminates against IT (creators of p2p, mp3 DeCSS) Payback? Why just IT and not ALL overtime? Why not just abolish overtime pay? /RANT
A free market needs to include workers. Goods and labor must be able to cross the same border with the same restrictions or lack there of. The fact that the US is heading to more controlled border will limit the options and allow the wealth to move across bringing with the employment.
The rules must be the same for all. We need a new slogan equal representation for equal taxation or some such thing..... lets call it the iTea party....
Why don't we apply this to ALL works and not just selected fields. The suit should be available to ALL and not just the chosen ones.
In most cases a 40hr work week is discussed prior to employment with occasional other requirements. Occasional implies to the corporations as regular while to the employee it may mean one in three.
There is no negotiation here because there is no suit allowed.
What the true advice should be is find a job with the **AA so that Arnie will support your cause.
First and foremost Nokia is useless unless unlocked. That has been my experience.
Second Nokia Europe has some amazing Mac software for transferring iPhoto and iTunes content. They call the software beta but it works great.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/nokiamultimediatransfer.html
iSync on the Mac and some creative third parties add functionality where Apple and Nokia fail. (are you listening Apple and Nokia third party developers and hackers add value to your products).
All to say never buy or sign a long therm contract with a locked phone. They are crippled and do not work well because they ARE designed so that you spend money. The default nokia media player can read play lists and song information from you iTunes sync. The one that the carrier places on your phone is designed to only work with what you download. DON'T BUY A LOCKED PHONE.
The fact of the matter is that even when you remove Microsoft from the equation, Apple still is still full of themselves.
Don't get me wrong. I love their products. What I can't stand is the attitude of not cooperating with their users. Yes! Not cooperating with their users unless they absolutely have to. What users want is that their products work well together. My TV is not an "Apple" TV but it plays well with Apple products because of the standards.
Apple plays well when it needs to and is worse than MS when it can. Try updating an iPod without a credit card. Buying a gift certificate, in other words paying cash in their store, does not permit you to purchase the software. Another example is that the only true document format that was an approved standard was not supported by iWorks.
Apple is not about creating the best user experience as they claim but rather how to tie people in on APPLE technologies.
If permitted by the Apple users Apple would be 100% about control.
My phone is a Nokia, my TV is a Toshiba, My DVR a Motorola, My printer an HP but all I care about is that they all work well together. I have 2 Macs and they have trouble playing well together with multiple users, just like Windows, unlike the Linux and FreeBSD systems which have no problems coexisting. Mac and Windows have more commercial apps but they are limiting.
Just as an Apple example, iPhoto does not share it's pictures well with users on the same computer let alone on other systems. It insists on reproducing the same images across all the users or that the main user activates sharing and starts the app and leaves it running.
iTunes same thing, you need to work around these limitations in an "Apple undocumented way" in order for these applications to play well together. I really don't need 5 copies of a CD in the system so all members of the family can listen to it. When you add 5 other computers, not all Macs, media centers and such, managing music becomes a chore if you use the Apple way.
The fact of the matter is that not ONE solution will meet everyone's expectations so please stop locking the equipment not just for your users sake but for your bottom line. I will not buy a DRM or otherwise locked product irrelevant on who makes it. The iPhone is broken and the iPod is going in the same direction not because they can't be used but because they can't be used as they could be used.
I'm starting to feel that I need to change my sig to Windows and Apple FREE for over 10 years because Apple is starting to look a lot like Microsoft. They need to start caring about the users and the $ will come. As they are now the only care about $ and so the users will leave and so will the $. A short term solution.