Have you used Linux? Your statement makes it sound as though you just looked at it and made up your mind.
As a metter of fact YES you can just check off some check boxes, but most programes realise that it make no sense to be obliged to start the app in order to configure it, or if you have multiple stations to configure a simple cp of a file can save an enourmous amount of time, or even better an NFS mount of the config files.
What stops you from poping in a CD? Most people get frustrated when an installer starts as soon as they slide the CD in because most of the time they are not installing anything they just want to acces that stupid clip art or such. If you wish it to autostart thats not an issue either, lame but not an issue.
I will stick to my FreeBSD example above;
Install new package: pkg_add
Remove package: pkg_delete
LIst of what is installed: pkg_info
I need something which I have installed but do not remember what: apropos
I could also go on an on and on and on. Windows does some things well provided you give up your freedom but most tasks can be done easier using another OS. I make a living in computers I do not have the time to play on them and most of the time I prefer to play on PS and Nintendo. If you like Windows, good for you, just stop telling me it's great. It took MS 8 years to catch up to Linux in stability, I'm hoping it will take them less time to fix the security.
Oh! You need not wait for the install to finish you can continue doing other things such as installing other packages.
Depending on which Linux version you are using it can be almost as simple. The last time I waited for an app to install was at a clients location on windows.
Windows has no advantage over Linux except for the limitation which it places on it's users. I'll use you own example to demonstarte; once you have chosen Direct X do not ever expect that it will run on anything but windows (and as long as M$ chosses to support it) but if you choose a standard there is always a possiblility of it running on all you future hardware.
Windows comes with a LOT of limitations and the only way you realise them is once you start using other products.....
Joe user has been told from the start that Windows is easy. That he needs the latest and greatest, and that he can not do without this shit feature which he will never use.
No bud I think you've got it all wrong...it's in the marketing. The only products which I purchased that did not make unsupported claimes have been open source products.
It seems that spring is when Microsoft comes out and WILL make the world a better place. This has been happening since I can remember. There is nothing new here just more MARKETING. More FREE advertising for Microsoft. What surprises me is that the media is stupid enough to beleive it!!!
I agree with you. I would like a royalty for every system that I put together when it gets resold. I would like to be paid every time my work is reused, sold etc...
If you do not want me to copy it keep it to yourself.
There are extreams to everything, look at the other side of the coin and you will see that it makes sense also.
The reason that copyright has a value is because people give it value otherwise it is only worth the time you spent on it. It seams to me that we no longer have culture, it seems to be owned by some one. Can anyone define American culture for me?
What I find frustrating on the Mac is that it tries to control all behavior. Stupid but frustrating examples:
You can only resize the window from the lower right hand side. Who the hell only works in one window? And if you only work in one windows why would you need to resize it?
While I find the the one button easy to use, I find it lacks the efficiency of the right click menu of NeXT, or the middle mouse cut and paste on X.
I have been using Apple products since Apple ][ and I find that they keep trying to force you to do it their way even when it does not work for you. What most people find cool I find lame. Just how many times does a bouncing icon impress you? And why can I not replace this file by a save as? Why do I need to go into the finder to delete it?
I don't use a computer for the sake of using a computer. I use one because I have work to do...it's why I can't stand windows... and I'm starting to feel this limitation on the Mac.
Your freindly neighborhood lawn care specialist, in this case Pedro, would have to continue spraying without any negotiations if the new owners decided to keep it.
Microsoft on the other hand claims that the service for this lawn care contract would be/dev/null and void but you would still be required to make your payments.
When you make a comparison take the whole issue into account please.
If you are trying to intergrate to a Windows environment I would agree. That is not a limitation on Linux it's the way MS works.
Start standardizing your documents and you will be very suprised how much more you can acheive. I no longer worry about what app has created the document just what I need to do with it.
You cannoy force MS to comply but you can change how you run your business to acheive a greater effeciancy.
Tell that to my Father in law who is pratically blind and still has his resolution set to 800x600. It has it's good points in entertainemnt but as a marketing tool, I think not. When I'm looking for something on the web I do not want to spent 10min going through flash in every site I visit. That is why I mostly skip it.
Now, YTV for the kids, it's great and entertaining and before anyone corrects me YES YTV Flash is mostly advertising.
I'm standing in line and the person in front of me states his name, address and that stupid code in oredr to confirn a URU. Now how does it stop me again?
I go through your garbage and find a elecrtic bill, now I have your name and add. How does it stop me?
I am employed at joe blows video rental bonanza. You come to open an account. How does it stop me?
I fail to see how this is going to work. Please someone explain how any of this is secret?
It is a monopoly because noone else may produce it let alone reproduce it. The holder of the IP may restrict the property from future distrubution.
Double entry accounting was a creative idea and all busines now benefit by it. Could you imagine that this idea belonged to someone. And why should there be a limit to the number of years. Democracy was invented by the Greeks why not pay them royalties for this invetion. So was the idea of human flight why not pay them for that too.
The myth is IP. There is no such thing when you publish something. Keep it to yourself untill you die.
Oh and before I forget people will always continue to invent. They do not create for the sake of money. They may create for the sake of need. They may create for pleasure. I have yet to hear of someone claiming that he/she created someting so they could be rich.
In some cases it can do more. You do not seem to mention it. Why is it that I have less trouble in OOo than in Word? Because word does not run on *NIX.
Give me a monopoly for 20 years and I'll install fiber to your home. Most telcos have had a monopoly on the local telecomunications infrastructure for over 50 years. These lines have been bought and paid for. It seems you do not understand how the infrastructure has been created. When was the last time that the line was changed in your are. I can show installations that date over 50 years.
What I find petty is people not bothering to read the story and calling something petty.
Imagin your employer paying you in canadian dollars when you could have sworn you are in the good ol'USA. MSn was going after their livelyhood. What they have proven, as well as brought to everyones attention in a very entertaining way, is that a big BULLY was attempting to put them out of business deliberately.
What would you have them do? Hire a lawyer? That's a fight that the will never win. Now the media and public attection will be focussed on this and it might be more harmfull to MS then the DOJ.
He will impresse me the day he gives away more than a token amount.
I am more impressed when a family (or an individual), living on just enough money to get by, is able to help out in time and money in his comunity than a stuck up rich person who has to control who gets his gift.
Philanthropy is not defined as stealing from some to give to others.
What a stupid example. Who would spend $100,000 on someone who has nothing to show but a stupid piece of paper.
Yes a business card will most likely get him some contracts. What will get him a living is if he knows what he is talking about. If he can fix the problems that his client has he will be able to grow the business. After five years and hundreds of clients who should be able to vouch for him he will be able to get the contract even if he has no degree.
The paper only states that this individual has accomplished the minimum required from this particular institution. It does not claim that the individual knows what he is talking about.
Software is a set of instructions and the explanation provided above is a set of instructions, therefore making it illegal because it has now become evident how to bypass the car manufacturers anty piracy protection.
Your argument makes no sense. We the consumer are loosing our legal rights. We are no longer sure if we purchased or rented a product. We have completed our legal obligation (PAYMENT) only to find out after the FACT that the terms of the contract were not those which were presented upon the sale of the product.
Could you imagine having to pay the architect who designed your house a royalty when you sell it because you have sold his intellectual property. Or that the builder of the car you just sold claims that you infringed on ther Copyrights because you painted the car Pink when that car does not originally come in pink.
Everything we build is based on a set of instructions (software) therefore your argument applies to all and everything.
Once the SALE, and note I did not say RENTAL, is finalized, the manufacturer of the product no longer has a say in what I do with his product.
Nautilus is the slowest piece of crap...but it has it's uses. If you have mutiple open file formats(png, gif, jpeg, txt, html...) you can reduce search times when working in multimedia projects. If you know of a simpler way of searching through different files please reply.
Other business uses for nautilus.
Viewing printed documents. When sending a letter to a client why print one for a physical file just print as pdf/ps/txt.
Have Hylafax save in a shared mount and browse the faxes as they enter.
Instead of making a physical photocopy scan an original into the system save under an open format. You can then browse the documents.
It just saves the time required to open multiple apps to just view files.
Yes there are other ways of doing things but in some cases it makes sense.
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As a metter of fact YES you can just check off some check boxes, but most programes realise that it make no sense to be obliged to start the app in order to configure it, or if you have multiple stations to configure a simple cp of a file can save an enourmous amount of time, or even better an NFS mount of the config files.
What stops you from poping in a CD? Most people get frustrated when an installer starts as soon as they slide the CD in because most of the time they are not installing anything they just want to acces that stupid clip art or such. If you wish it to autostart thats not an issue either, lame but not an issue.
I will stick to my FreeBSD example above;
Install new package: pkg_add
Remove package: pkg_delete
LIst of what is installed: pkg_info
I need something which I have installed but do not remember what: apropos
I could also go on an on and on and on. Windows does some things well provided you give up your freedom but most tasks can be done easier using another OS. I make a living in computers I do not have the time to play on them and most of the time I prefer to play on PS and Nintendo. If you like Windows, good for you, just stop telling me it's great. It took MS 8 years to catch up to Linux in stability, I'm hoping it will take them less time to fix the security.
Oh! You need not wait for the install to finish you can continue doing other things such as installing other packages.
Depending on which Linux version you are using it can be almost as simple. The last time I waited for an app to install was at a clients location on windows.
Windows has no advantage over Linux except for the limitation which it places on it's users. I'll use you own example to demonstarte; once you have chosen Direct X do not ever expect that it will run on anything but windows (and as long as M$ chosses to support it) but if you choose a standard there is always a possiblility of it running on all you future hardware.
Windows comes with a LOT of limitations and the only way you realise them is once you start using other products.....
No bud I think you've got it all wrong...it's in the marketing. The only products which I purchased that did not make unsupported claimes have been open source products.
It seems that spring is when Microsoft comes out and WILL make the world a better place. This has been happening since I can remember. There is nothing new here just more MARKETING. More FREE advertising for Microsoft. What surprises me is that the media is stupid enough to beleive it!!!
If you do not want me to copy it keep it to yourself.
There are extreams to everything, look at the other side of the coin and you will see that it makes sense also.
The reason that copyright has a value is because people give it value otherwise it is only worth the time you spent on it. It seams to me that we no longer have culture, it seems to be owned by some one. Can anyone define American culture for me?
What I find frustrating on the Mac is that it tries to control all behavior. Stupid but frustrating examples:
You can only resize the window from the lower right hand side. Who the hell only works in one window? And if you only work in one windows why would you need to resize it?
While I find the the one button easy to use, I find it lacks the efficiency of the right click menu of NeXT, or the middle mouse cut and paste on X.
I have been using Apple products since Apple ][ and I find that they keep trying to force you to do it their way even when it does not work for you. What most people find cool I find lame. Just how many times does a bouncing icon impress you? And why can I not replace this file by a save as? Why do I need to go into the finder to delete it?
I don't use a computer for the sake of using a computer. I use one because I have work to do...it's why I can't stand windows... and I'm starting to feel this limitation on the Mac.
Microsoft on the other hand claims that the service for this lawn care contract would be
When you make a comparison take the whole issue into account please.
Start standardizing your documents and you will be very suprised how much more you can acheive. I no longer worry about what app has created the document just what I need to do with it.
You cannoy force MS to comply but you can change how you run your business to acheive a greater effeciancy.
Now, YTV for the kids, it's great and entertaining and before anyone corrects me YES YTV Flash is mostly advertising.
What was clicking the mouse to READ the articles more effort then clicking on moderation.
GOOG ONE!!
I go through your garbage and find a elecrtic bill, now I have your name and add. How does it stop me?
I am employed at joe blows video rental bonanza. You come to open an account. How does it stop me?
I fail to see how this is going to work. Please someone explain how any of this is secret?
Double entry accounting was a creative idea and all busines now benefit by it. Could you imagine that this idea belonged to someone. And why should there be a limit to the number of years. Democracy was invented by the Greeks why not pay them royalties for this invetion. So was the idea of human flight why not pay them for that too.
The myth is IP. There is no such thing when you publish something. Keep it to yourself untill you die.
Oh and before I forget people will always continue to invent. They do not create for the sake of money. They may create for the sake of need. They may create for pleasure. I have yet to hear of someone claiming that he/she created someting so they could be rich.
I read Macish and hit the reply buttton. I need to stop reading
Nothing to read here, move on...
Why doesn't MSN work with Opera
It's within their press release
Imagin your employer paying you in canadian dollars when you could have sworn you are in the good ol'USA. MSn was going after their livelyhood. What they have proven, as well as brought to everyones attention in a very entertaining way, is that a big BULLY was attempting to put them out of business deliberately.
What would you have them do? Hire a lawyer? That's a fight that the will never win. Now the media and public attection will be focussed on this and it might be more harmfull to MS then the DOJ.
GOOD for them...
I am more impressed when a family (or an individual), living on just enough money to get by, is able to help out in time and money in his comunity than a stuck up rich person who has to control who gets his gift.
Philanthropy is not defined as stealing from some to give to others.
Yes a business card will most likely get him some contracts. What will get him a living is if he knows what he is talking about. If he can fix the problems that his client has he will be able to grow the business. After five years and hundreds of clients who should be able to vouch for him he will be able to get the contract even if he has no degree.
The paper only states that this individual has accomplished the minimum required from this particular institution. It does not claim that the individual knows what he is talking about.
Software is a set of instructions and the explanation provided above is a set of instructions, therefore making it illegal because it has now become evident how to bypass the car manufacturers anty piracy protection.
Your argument makes no sense. We the consumer are loosing our legal rights. We are no longer sure if we purchased or rented a product. We have completed our legal obligation (PAYMENT) only to find out after the FACT that the terms of the contract were not those which were presented upon the sale of the product.
Could you imagine having to pay the architect who designed your house a royalty when you sell it because you have sold his intellectual property. Or that the builder of the car you just sold claims that you infringed on ther Copyrights because you painted the car Pink when that car does not originally come in pink.
Everything we build is based on a set of instructions (software) therefore your argument applies to all and everything.
Once the SALE, and note I did not say RENTAL, is finalized, the manufacturer of the product no longer has a say in what I do with his product.
Other business uses for nautilus.
It just saves the time required to open multiple apps to just view files.
Yes there are other ways of doing things but in some cases it makes sense.