And as a Linux apologist, I have to ask everyone to recall the "ease of use" that DOS/Windows had before Win95.
You're right. So are you saying that Linux is approximately a decade behind the times? And, if we all wait, then in another 10 years or so, then Linux will be about as useful as Windows XP is today? Wow. That sounds like a great deal. So, I save a hundred bucks or so per machine, and I get 10 year old functionality? Wow! That's how I want to run my business! Sign me up!
I'd get a Sandisk. Somebody handed me an extra iPod Nano that they had the other day, and I've since had it lock up on my twice, and iTunes (the software... not the store) sucks balls. If I wanted an MP3 player right now, I'd get a Sandisk one. They're cheaper, they do a lot more (hopefully, without locking up), and you don't have to use that god-awful iTunes software.
Maybe things are so mixed up on Windows that you need full disk, but on OS X, Linux, and other Unixes it should be sufficient to encrypt only the home directory of users.
should be? You gonna personally guarantee that every possible Linux and Mac application store all of their information in the same place? If we're talking "should be"'s, then there wouldn't be this problem in the first place, because no sensitive data should be stored on laptops that walk out of buildings. "Should be" is what causes these problems in the first place.
This is gonna be the next big thing in all kinds of PC's. Flash drives. We'll be able to say bye-bye to the last of the important moving parts in a PC, that happens to be the most defect prone (because of moving parts), and also the most important (assuming your data is worth more than your hardware). I've been wanting these for years for reliability reasons at work. I can't wait until these things get shoved in a vanilla IDE (or is it SATA these days?) format. Hard drives with platters will be completely extinct in 5 years.
There's really no reason to waste time messing around with Linux anymore. Just get a Mac. You'll be able to work out of the box, and you can spend a lot more time doing work (and having fun), rather than fixing problems.
I give all of my people AT LEAST $200 in no-strings-attached cash, tax-free in an envelope. And $200 is for a new, part-time employee. I would never dream of giving them a $15 gift card. That's just shitty.
Last time I checked, it said "News for Nerds" at the top of this page. Why not write up the technical reasons why it's happening? Is it rebuilding indexes on some crappy MySQL servers that we can laugh at? Is it applying weekly Microsoft patches to servers? I've never played the game so from my perspective, it seems absurd that the game has to shut down on a weekly basis. I just got finished playing OGame (see sig), and all hell broke loose if the servers ever went down (which they did on occasion, but it wasn't weekly... it was like once a year).
undeniable cost and quality improvement over closed source software
Quality? Just because it's Open Source? Puh-lease. Take a look at the current financial software offerings in the OSS world, for example. None of them can hold a candle to the $200/year Quickbooks that you can buy in Wal-Mart.
The law only allows classification of information related to national security, and that's not something the President is legally above reproach on.
That's complete and utter horse shit. The Administration has added countless things to the list of "top secret" documents that have absolutely NOTHING to do with national security. I don't have time to document right now, but feel free to look. These days, EVERYTHING that the government does is related to "National Security"
Books are one of the last remnants of real humanity, in our temporary, disposable, generic, fast-food culture. No matter how much of the rest our lives becomes generic, sterile, and commoditized, I think that people will *never* give up their real books. I know that I never will. This machine isn't nearly as good as my local used book store where I can go through the books, and pick up fantastic books for a few quarters.
OTOH, I once heard a business professor say that competing on price alone is not a sound business strategy.
He's absolutely right. Linux is in no way a perfect replacement for Windows, hence, companies cannot even give Linux away for free. If it's free, and people still don't want it, then I gotta say that the product is a dud. Linux on the desktop was DOA. I own a business, and I gladly buy all of my software (the only OSS thing we use is VNC, and that's in one tiny instance).
It does solve one problem. Lowering costs.
For who? Windows is *cheap*. It's a few hundred bucks. Big deal.
What bubble? In order for there to be a "bubble" in the first place, there would have to be widespread acceptance and usage. Linux on the desktop has *never* has anywhere near widespread acceptance and usage. It's never taken off, and won't any time in the forseeable future, because Linux on the desktop isn't solving a problem. Windows works. OSX works. Nobody cares about desktop OS's any more. The "OS wars" have been over for 10 years.
Why would they? Why would they want two different support deals, each one supporting just their own products, or potentially, one support deal, to support their whole system, and the integration. I think that's a no-brainer. Heck, I don't know why anybody would pay for Novell support at this point.
Microsoft isn't enforcing, or mandating anything. They're just making best-guess suggestions. At this point, anything like this will only help users. I agree with the parent. If you can't get your shit together enough to form a simple LLC, then I know that I wouldn't spend money with you.
A. I AM the company. I don't pay for every byte I send.
B. If, in this day and age, you're worried about a 10K page vs a 8k page, then you might as well also be designing with the original 256 color web pallette, and testing on Mosaic.
Wow! CSS has been son incredibly inconsequential, that I have gone 10 years, running income-producing web sites, with no CSS, whatsoever. That's pretty amazing, when you think about it, that CSS has made such a lack of impact.
What was "this" article about, exactly? It made no sense, whatsoever. How are these "crimes"? What are the top 10 of? Why in the hell was this piece of crap posted?
See, Slashdot is just another blog now. A big one. An old one. But now, it's just another plain ol' vanilla blog. Blogs live and die on popularity, and the popularity is generally related to the quality of the articles posted. If Slashdot continues down this long, editorial spiral of shit for much longer, I'm about to strike out to find some better reading.
In a professional environment you can not afford 99% compatible.
It's really like that for any business. You ever wonder why the "business" or "commercial" version of anything is almost always better than the "consumer" version (if there is a counterpart)? It's not about money. I know that most non-business people think that every business is Wal-Mart or Microsoft and can afford to waste money. But even so, that's not it.
I own my own business. It's the source of income for myself, and for 6 other people. There is no room for error anywhere. Any part breaks down, and that's 7 people without pay. I don't care if it's something as simple as a broom or as complicated as software. I always buy the best, and ignore the cost. I know I'm paying more than I have to. But, you can't nickel and dime your livelihood. If it's critical, it's critical.
A few hundred bucks for softwware is negligible. Hell, my business is tiny and new, but if my manager asked me if he should spend $300 on some software that we needed, I'd probably bitch slap him for thinking twice.
Wait a sec... I thought that a rootkit on *nix was impossible? At least, that's what I've read many thousands of times over the years here at Slashdot. Could somebody please explain what's up with this?
MS has never expressed an interest in "conquering" the MP3 market.
From the article: Microsoft expressed little concern about the sales. Jason Reindorp, director of product marketing for Zune, said, ``We are happy with the position Zune currently holds in the market, and are on track to meet our sales projection of 1 million units by end of the fiscal year.''
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And as a Linux apologist, I have to ask everyone to recall the "ease of use" that DOS/Windows had before Win95.
You're right. So are you saying that Linux is approximately a decade behind the times? And, if we all wait, then in another 10 years or so, then Linux will be about as useful as Windows XP is today? Wow. That sounds like a great deal. So, I save a hundred bucks or so per machine, and I get 10 year old functionality? Wow! That's how I want to run my business! Sign me up!
iTunes is a great piece of software.
If you call a program that installs Quicktime, Java, and is HUGE and buggy, "great", then I've got some "great" shit to sell you...
I'd get a Sandisk. Somebody handed me an extra iPod Nano that they had the other day, and I've since had it lock up on my twice, and iTunes (the software... not the store) sucks balls. If I wanted an MP3 player right now, I'd get a Sandisk one. They're cheaper, they do a lot more (hopefully, without locking up), and you don't have to use that god-awful iTunes software.
Maybe things are so mixed up on Windows that you need full disk, but on OS X, Linux, and other Unixes it should be sufficient to encrypt only the home directory of users.
should be? You gonna personally guarantee that every possible Linux and Mac application store all of their information in the same place? If we're talking "should be"'s, then there wouldn't be this problem in the first place, because no sensitive data should be stored on laptops that walk out of buildings. "Should be" is what causes these problems in the first place.
This is gonna be the next big thing in all kinds of PC's. Flash drives. We'll be able to say bye-bye to the last of the important moving parts in a PC, that happens to be the most defect prone (because of moving parts), and also the most important (assuming your data is worth more than your hardware). I've been wanting these for years for reliability reasons at work. I can't wait until these things get shoved in a vanilla IDE (or is it SATA these days?) format. Hard drives with platters will be completely extinct in 5 years.
I have a really great comment to make on this article.... but, I'll get around to posting it tomorrow at latest.
I have no idea what "Tex" is.
There's really no reason to waste time messing around with Linux anymore. Just get a Mac. You'll be able to work out of the box, and you can spend a lot more time doing work (and having fun), rather than fixing problems.
I give all of my people AT LEAST $200 in no-strings-attached cash, tax-free in an envelope. And $200 is for a new, part-time employee. I would never dream of giving them a $15 gift card. That's just shitty.
Last time I checked, it said "News for Nerds" at the top of this page. Why not write up the technical reasons why it's happening? Is it rebuilding indexes on some crappy MySQL servers that we can laugh at? Is it applying weekly Microsoft patches to servers? I've never played the game so from my perspective, it seems absurd that the game has to shut down on a weekly basis. I just got finished playing OGame (see sig), and all hell broke loose if the servers ever went down (which they did on occasion, but it wasn't weekly... it was like once a year).
undeniable cost and quality improvement over closed source software
Quality? Just because it's Open Source? Puh-lease. Take a look at the current financial software offerings in the OSS world, for example. None of them can hold a candle to the $200/year Quickbooks that you can buy in Wal-Mart.
The law only allows classification of information related to national security, and that's not something the President is legally above reproach on.
That's complete and utter horse shit. The Administration has added countless things to the list of "top secret" documents that have absolutely NOTHING to do with national security. I don't have time to document right now, but feel free to look. These days, EVERYTHING that the government does is related to "National Security"
Books are one of the last remnants of real humanity, in our temporary, disposable, generic, fast-food culture. No matter how much of the rest our lives becomes generic, sterile, and commoditized, I think that people will *never* give up their real books. I know that I never will. This machine isn't nearly as good as my local used book store where I can go through the books, and pick up fantastic books for a few quarters.
OTOH, I once heard a business professor say that competing on price alone is not a sound business strategy.
He's absolutely right. Linux is in no way a perfect replacement for Windows, hence, companies cannot even give Linux away for free. If it's free, and people still don't want it, then I gotta say that the product is a dud. Linux on the desktop was DOA. I own a business, and I gladly buy all of my software (the only OSS thing we use is VNC, and that's in one tiny instance).
It does solve one problem. Lowering costs.
For who? Windows is *cheap*. It's a few hundred bucks. Big deal.
What bubble? In order for there to be a "bubble" in the first place, there would have to be widespread acceptance and usage. Linux on the desktop has *never* has anywhere near widespread acceptance and usage. It's never taken off, and won't any time in the forseeable future, because Linux on the desktop isn't solving a problem. Windows works. OSX works. Nobody cares about desktop OS's any more. The "OS wars" have been over for 10 years.
Why would they? Why would they want two different support deals, each one supporting just their own products, or potentially, one support deal, to support their whole system, and the integration. I think that's a no-brainer. Heck, I don't know why anybody would pay for Novell support at this point.
Do I really have to say it?
Well, ok. Maybe I do.
Who is John Galt?
Microsoft isn't enforcing, or mandating anything. They're just making best-guess suggestions. At this point, anything like this will only help users. I agree with the parent. If you can't get your shit together enough to form a simple LLC, then I know that I wouldn't spend money with you.
A. I AM the company. I don't pay for every byte I send.
B. If, in this day and age, you're worried about a 10K page vs a 8k page, then you might as well also be designing with the original 256 color web pallette, and testing on Mosaic.
How's that bandwidth bill treating you, since your Intarweb pages are 20% to 60% more bloated than they could be?
Are you kidding? Bandwidth is near free, these days. Hell, it's about 1/10 of my phone bill. Who cares?
Wow! CSS has been son incredibly inconsequential, that I have gone 10 years, running income-producing web sites, with no CSS, whatsoever. That's pretty amazing, when you think about it, that CSS has made such a lack of impact.
What was "this" article about, exactly? It made no sense, whatsoever. How are these "crimes"? What are the top 10 of? Why in the hell was this piece of crap posted?
See, Slashdot is just another blog now. A big one. An old one. But now, it's just another plain ol' vanilla blog. Blogs live and die on popularity, and the popularity is generally related to the quality of the articles posted. If Slashdot continues down this long, editorial spiral of shit for much longer, I'm about to strike out to find some better reading.
This is pathetic.
In a professional environment you can not afford 99% compatible.
It's really like that for any business. You ever wonder why the "business" or "commercial" version of anything is almost always better than the "consumer" version (if there is a counterpart)? It's not about money. I know that most non-business people think that every business is Wal-Mart or Microsoft and can afford to waste money. But even so, that's not it.
I own my own business. It's the source of income for myself, and for 6 other people. There is no room for error anywhere. Any part breaks down, and that's 7 people without pay. I don't care if it's something as simple as a broom or as complicated as software. I always buy the best, and ignore the cost. I know I'm paying more than I have to. But, you can't nickel and dime your livelihood. If it's critical, it's critical.
A few hundred bucks for softwware is negligible. Hell, my business is tiny and new, but if my manager asked me if he should spend $300 on some software that we needed, I'd probably bitch slap him for thinking twice.
Wait a sec... I thought that a rootkit on *nix was impossible? At least, that's what I've read many thousands of times over the years here at Slashdot. Could somebody please explain what's up with this?
MS has never expressed an interest in "conquering" the MP3 market.
From the article:
Microsoft expressed little concern about the sales. Jason Reindorp, director of product marketing for Zune, said, ``We are happy with the position Zune currently holds in the market, and are on track to meet our sales projection of 1 million units by end of the fiscal year.''
Heck, you could say the same thing about Apple.