When I'm researching products online and get a stupid flash animation MERKATING their product I get out of there as fast as I can. I learned this a couple of years back, FLASH = NO INFORMATION just MARKETING. It's just a waste of my time.
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Why should I have to learn how to administer a computer when I only wish to run a server?/SARCASM
The way I read it is that this has kept the cost down. MS is not charging for some features on its servers because they would lose market share. Here is what I see.
IIS is included in all their servers.
Front page which used to be a free download not cost $$$.
If it was not for Linux there would be a few $$$ with IIS. Chances are you would have to purchase it like exchange.
As in all FUD "industry leading" cna mean many things so i'll give you one example only many more can be listed. You are able to run an app on a system other than the one you are working on and have it display on another computer. Any X based app to any other X based system.Industry leading.
One example is DVDs. Another is encryption. This sounds to me as a patent on database lookup. Look at information from this database and compare it to this other one if there is a match do something with it. Oh WOW! how original....
If this happens and Gnome can show KDE that the have a better model I beleive they will adjust to that model. If both take the same direction we will never know which would be the best path to take. I beleive KDE is doing something right. Can they do better? Probably. I beleive that the needs of the developers are similar to the users. Stable easy to use apps that get a job done or increase productivity.
I wonder about your comments. You claim that KDE is going in the wrong direction and you would like it to follow Gnome and yet you prefer KDE to Gnome.
Mabey the KDE developers are doing the right thing.
I run both and use apps from the two constantly at the same time. Sometimes it just a matter of choice.
All I have to add is a big THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! to ALL the developers on ALL the OS projects even those that are too small to get any attention from the community.once againg THANK YOU and KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
You make it sound that Apple did this overnight...I'd like to point out that OS X has it's roots in NeXT. If I'm not mistaken, that is over 10 year of trial and error befor Apple bought it. It was hard to get people to look at it let alone use it.
I programed in JCL IBM 360/370, COBOL, Fortran, and I agree that at the time the TAb was used for this. As a matter of fact all you were doing was entering data within a punch card. At the time all programing was based on this 80 col system which was devised in the puchcard days. Unfortunately this still follows us until today.
An advanced accounting system today no longer requires that you enter the "." It is assumed. This reduces the time in keypuch entry.
My only point is that I wish that todays programs would allow us to configure the keyentry response so we can optimize for our own use.
In spreadsheets it makes sense that the Tab will advance to the next column and that enter will advance to the next line. But I would like to configure my browser to use the Enter key to advance to the next feild so that web based accounting apps would not slow down the entry of numerical data.
You see before we had GUIs, and windows, next feild was always Enter. While tab seems to work in text/word processing, keypunch entry is another matter.
If you ever had to use an older app where the Enter key was advance to the next feild you would understand what i mean. I've used both. I have seen no benefit except confussion to the TAB. In accounting the TAB key just slows you down. You have to use both hands for key entry. Since most of your time is spent in key entry and account equiry. If you look at any major company with more than 1000 clients you will notice the account numbers are numeric. Faster entry, faster search (Human) lower cost of labor.
I have also used Enter in other database apps. I never felt it slowed me down. I just wish that all software had an option to treat Enter as Tab.
I never understood TAB to advance a field. I can never get it to work properly in accounting.It feels un-natural. Advance to the next feild should be Enter. You should see the productivity in accounting with well writen software. Your fingers never leave the number pad.
I wathch these GUI based apps and god are they slow to work with. They take less time to learn but god forbid if you have a lot of transactions to enter.
So I will agree with you except for the TAB issue.
If you have the disk space install them both. Then you can decide for yourself. The diffs aren't much it's just the apps that require certain dependancies. As a metter of fact you can have both installed and choose on login which you would prefer for the day in this way you can also run KDE apps in GNOME and vise versa.
First which business would adopt this and cut out valid revenue from late adopters? The early adopters will just bomb. I know quite a few companies that are still running Win95 and most are on 98 hardly any are on ME or XP.
The only value to this anouncement that I see is that it will slow down the adoption of open source. People will question the logic of converting existing systems from Window$ due to fear that they would have to switch back when this is finally implemented.
Stop adding to this fear!!! Only stupid people would adopt/buy this technology. Granted that there are many that are stupid but quite frankly I'd say that that would be under 10%
All I can sys is that I love the stability of Linux, FreeBSD and MAC OS X. As far as intuitive goes its a question of what you are used to.
What I love about X on Linux and FreeBSD is the desktops. If you need to work on more than one app at a time and to cut and paste between apps nothing beats X.
As far as stability goes, I only reboot when I install new hardware or upgrade the system to a new version about once or twice a year.
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Based on your argument why not switch to Mac. No install required just click on the icon on the CD and viola! you are playing. If you wish to install it on your system just drag and drop it where you want it.
What gets me with Windows is that when you have something that you know works but that you have to keep reinstalling the software or to keep thing simple save your stuff on another system and reinstall. You do not know what is being installed and you have to take great care to insure that the system is running well. If you ever had a test system where you constantly install...test...deinstall you would have a hard time keeping this system running properly without problems for a year.
Now on linux you have the dependencies. It may require a couple of minutes more to install but in the end you never have to reinstall the OS to keep the stability. This also applies to FreeBSD and such.
Another: Your contributions as well as many others have permitted FREE (beer) software to develop which costs you nothing to get. And yet another: Friends -- the people who download your software may not be able to pay you but one day they may help you get a job by being a reference.
Linux got his job at transmeta because of what he did. Imagine if he charged for Linux from the start...
So yes there are payment methods other than $$$...
I would really like to see that quote as well as the conditions/restrictions. I have not been able to get any quotes form AT&T, Worldcom and Sprint for TRUE unlimited access under $1,500.
Not as simple or as inexpensive as you might think. First you should price a T1 it will come out around $1,000 to $1,500 per month. Now how many neighbors would be willing to share the cost 10, 15, 20. For this point I will give you the benefit and say it's only 10. That would be 150kbps if you all decide to use it at the same time. Total bandwidth in a given month (assuming 24h operation) aprox: 440G that would represent 44G per user based on 24 hours. Now we all know that most will use it between 6:00pm when they get home from work and 12:00am midnight since most people work the next day and need to sleep. This is only 6h but I will give you 8h. That is 1/3 of the total bandwidth available to you wich gives you a total of 147G. divide this by 10 and all you have is 15G per user at 1/10th the speed of DSL at more than twice the cost.
Don't get me wrong I do not agree with the cable/telcos but unlimited bandwidth was a carrot that helped them sell the service. In most cases you probably sold more for them than all their marketing. Now they do NOT need your marketing any more they have the idiots who do not need hog speed Internet and who use less that 1G per month. Since you probably transfered (and took your friends with you)from a mom and pop ISP who did not have the $$$ to compete in the high speed game you no longer have them to turn to because they have gone belly up.
"You just cant fit 10 pounds of SH1T in a 5 pound bag." Now that the mom and pops have gone out of business cabel/telcos can no longer afford to give it away and are starting to charge a $$$$$ rate.
So then all you have to de is encrypt prior to sending over the network. Oh! it's also capable of dercypting all known encryption methods. How much will this NIC cost $10,000 - $50,000. NSA would love one today and I bet they would be willing to pay a lot more than that for one.
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When I'm researching products online and get a stupid flash animation MERKATING their product I get out of there as fast as I can. I learned this a couple of years back, FLASH = NO INFORMATION just MARKETING. It's just a waste of my time.
IIS is included in all their servers.
Front page which used to be a free download not cost $$$.
If it was not for Linux there would be a few $$$ with IIS. Chances are you would have to purchase it like exchange.
Just my $0.02
One example is DVDs. Another is encryption. This sounds to me as a patent on database lookup. Look at information from this database and compare it to this other one if there is a match do something with it. Oh WOW! how original....
Miles away? from what? What does MSO do that is required by all. You would be quite surprised what people think they need and what they truly need.
Mabey the KDE developers are doing the right thing.
I run both and use apps from the two constantly at the same time. Sometimes it just a matter of choice.
All I have to add is a big THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! to ALL the developers on ALL the OS projects even those that are too small to get any attention from the community.once againg THANK YOU and KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
An advanced accounting system today no longer requires that you enter the "." It is assumed. This reduces the time in keypuch entry.
My only point is that I wish that todays programs would allow us to configure the keyentry response so we can optimize for our own use.
In spreadsheets it makes sense that the Tab will advance to the next column and that enter will advance to the next line. But I would like to configure my browser to use the Enter key to advance to the next feild so that web based accounting apps would not slow down the entry of numerical data.
If you ever had to use an older app where the Enter key was advance to the next feild you would understand what i mean. I've used both. I have seen no benefit except confussion to the TAB. In accounting the TAB key just slows you down. You have to use both hands for key entry. Since most of your time is spent in key entry and account equiry. If you look at any major company with more than 1000 clients you will notice the account numbers are numeric. Faster entry, faster search (Human) lower cost of labor.
I have also used Enter in other database apps. I never felt it slowed me down. I just wish that all software had an option to treat Enter as Tab.
I wathch these GUI based apps and god are they slow to work with. They take less time to learn but god forbid if you have a lot of transactions to enter.
So I will agree with you except for the TAB issue.
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The only value to this anouncement that I see is that it will slow down the adoption of open source. People will question the logic of converting existing systems from Window$ due to fear that they would have to switch back when this is finally implemented.
Stop adding to this fear!!! Only stupid people would adopt/buy this technology. Granted that there are many that are stupid but quite frankly I'd say that that would be under 10%
Intuitive Windows?
All I can sys is that I love the stability of Linux, FreeBSD and MAC OS X. As far as intuitive goes its a question of what you are used to.
What I love about X on Linux and FreeBSD is the desktops. If you need to work on more than one app at a time and to cut and paste between apps nothing beats X.
As far as stability goes, I only reboot when I install new hardware or upgrade the system to a new version about once or twice a year.
What gets me with Windows is that when you have something that you know works but that you have to keep reinstalling the software or to keep thing simple save your stuff on another system and reinstall. You do not know what is being installed and you have to take great care to insure that the system is running well. If you ever had a test system where you constantly install...test...deinstall you would have a hard time keeping this system running properly without problems for a year.
Now on linux you have the dependencies. It may require a couple of minutes more to install but in the end you never have to reinstall the OS to keep the stability. This also applies to FreeBSD and such.
One payment you received: experiance
Another: Your contributions as well as many others have permitted FREE (beer) software to develop which costs you nothing to get.
And yet another: Friends -- the people who download your software may not be able to pay you but one day they may help you get a job by being a reference.
Linux got his job at transmeta because of what he did. Imagine if he charged for Linux from the start...
So yes there are payment methods other than $$$...
Don't get me wrong I do not agree with the cable/telcos but unlimited bandwidth was a carrot that helped them sell the service. In most cases you probably sold more for them than all their marketing. Now they do NOT need your marketing any more they have the idiots who do not need hog speed Internet and who use less that 1G per month. Since you probably transfered (and took your friends with you)from a mom and pop ISP who did not have the $$$ to compete in the high speed game you no longer have them to turn to because they have gone belly up.
"You just cant fit 10 pounds of SH1T in a 5 pound bag." Now that the mom and pops have gone out of business cabel/telcos can no longer afford to give it away and are starting to charge a $$$$$ rate.
I don't think so.
Get real and Stop dreaming.