The title of the article is "Zune doesn't shake iPod's market lead - MICROSOFT MP3 PLAYER HAS DECENT 1ST MONTH". That's a far cry from "Zune Sales Continue to Weaken".
Hell, the article summary isn't even correct. Slashdot spin version: "Apple remained unchanged at 62.2%". Actual article text: "Apple's share of the hard drive market fell to 82.7 percent from 86.8 percent a year ago, its share of the overall market came in at 62.2 percent, essentially even with the 63 percent it posted a year ago."
Instead of trying to spin existing articles, I personally think that it's time for Slashdot editors to just start making shit up. This attempt at spin is pretty sad. Why not just make up an article that says, "Bill Gates went on a shooting spree today, killing 100 orphan children, before turning the weapon on himself".
People hate being offered items that are "free". To most, that word usually translates as "promotional item" or "stuffed full of ads and marketing surveys".
Or "Dear god, this crazy religious nut is trying to recruit me into his cult. How awkward!"
I like how The Register is trying to slam the NYT for not being impartial. I have read some of the absolute worst "articles" on the Register (most of which, are surprisingly posted on Slashdot). I wouldn't trust The Register to correctly report the current weather conditions outside of their office.
This is kind of a dumb question. If you need the processing power, then switch. If not, then don't.
I have no need for 64 bit processing in my business (retail and web). Computer upgrades have to be worth it, from a financial standpoint. There's no reason for my business to spend any money on 64 bit processors.
The agency's director, Mark Myers, and its communications office also must be told -- prior to any submission for publication -- "of findings or data that may be especially newsworthy, have an impact on government policy, or contradict previous public understanding to ensure that proper officials are notified and that communication strategies are developed.''
Yeah. They have to be sure that the public isn't unneccessarily exposed to things like "facts". What kind of "communication strategies" need to be developed to communicate a new finding? What's wrong with just reporting the science? I guess that some facts have too much "truthiness" behind them:
In 2002, the USGS was forced to reverse course after warning that oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would harm the Porcupine caribou herd. One week later a new report followed, this time saying the caribou would not be affected.
Jet has been depricated or ODBC? Oy! Do you happen to have a link to any more info? I just got finished writing an app with an Access back end (easy and cheap). Not that it would be tough to port over, but Access does have some non-ansi standard SQL, and if I'm going to have to switch over to MSDE or PostGre, then I'd rather plan for that now.
like my company is rolling out Vista business between christmas and new year on all desktops, and is inthe middle of testing that.
I'm just curious... is your company's CIO brain damaged? You guys are gonna have a really shitty welcome back to work after the new year. Hung over, and having to deal with a completely new platform. Ugh. Good luck!
OK, then let me re-phrase. Anybody moving an important database to an OS that has been released within the past year should be summarily shot and disemboweled. That's just waaaaay too soon to have any of the bugs worked out. At this point, if I needed to set up MS SQL Server, it would go on Windows 2000 as my first choice, then possibly Windows 2003. I wouldn't consider using Vista for anything more than a home PC for another year (I just started allowing Windows XP into my business recently).
If anybody is moving critical databases to an OS that isn't even officially released yet, then they deserve to have their eyeballs poked out with hot, metal pokers, and then promptly fired.
In other breaking news, Oracle does not work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux V.5.
The biology part of the lab definitely needs equipment to run gel electrophoresis. Um...ok, so I can't think of anything witty to say, but everybody loves running gels! Besides, how else are you going to be able to do cheap and easy DNA analysis?
Smart businesspeople would never call it a "war" or choose to pick sides. Just support the big ones, whatever they are. The customers are important. Google could care less what browser their customers use. Only geeks care about "the browser war".
A car tyre is like a network card - not an os. The OS for a car is the human that drives it - so yes, the car is sold without an OS.
You can't use a car for its intended purpose without tires. You can't use a computer for its intended purpose without an OS.
You CAN use a car without a stereo. You CAN use a computer with no network card.
Speaking of network cards, somebody needs to hurry up and sue motherboard makers for not selling a motherboard without a network connection, these days. I might want to buy a computer with no network connectivity.
Seriously... what happens in a few years when you want an absolutely secure computer, and you can't buy one without wireless? Nobody outside of engineers could be SURE that the wireless connection wasn't doing something intentional or not.
You're confusing choice with no choice. You have the choice to buy any computer that you want. Buy one without Windows, if you want. Nobody is forcing you to buy a Windows machine. This law FORCES people to have to install their own OS'es. This law is about taking away people's choice.
And you think it's fair to force everybody else to have to do the same just because you're not smart enough to buy a computer that doesn't have Windows on it? You think that millions of people should have to pull their hair out installing operating systems because you don't want to be inconvenienced?
You're right. Geez, and I thought that my dad had it bad having to put together a bicycle every few years in the middle of the night. I can't imagine my poor dad having to stay up late to install an OS because he's not allowed to buy a working computer. Wow.
Here, working should be interpreted as the actual PC being able to respond as expected to the user when switched on, instead of displaying Windows related stuff.
A PC without an OS generally shows a black screen with "No Boot Record Found" or something like that in white letters. Are you really willing to pay $500+ for a machine that can only do that? That seems pretty absurd to me. I've never seen anybody staring at a monitor like that.
I can eat a pizza without onions. I can buy onions in the store. Two separate items. Both completely functional. A computer without an OS is not functional. An OS without a computer is not functional. It's a stupid law.
Of course, this is coming from a country where people *riot* if they are not guaranteed, by law, that they cannot be fired for two years.
He's pretty much shot himself in the foot, 'cause now he's got to prove that Windows works.
You know, you're right. That's gonna be tough. Everybody that I know that owns a computer just uses it as a doorstop, or a paperweight. I've never heard of anybody actually using Windows.
So, how are complicated things sold in France? Are cars sold without tires? Are lawnmowers sold without blades? Are shoes sold without laces? Are pizzas sold without toppings?
This sounds like a very confusing and difficult place to do business. Well, considering their unemployment rate, maybe it is.
Simple. My employees know not to open any file that they don't know what it is. I really don't know how you can get any simpler or more effective than that.
Sorry, dude, but there's no such thing as a "satanist". "Satan" is a Christian construct. All Satanists are actually dumber-than-average Christians who like to wear black.
Uh, actually MS has been famous for giving away tons of free stuff to developers for a long time now. They don't expect developers to plunk down a few thousand just to learn how to use their tools. Besides, a lot of MS "developers" aren't even IT professionals. I know tons of people who can work with say, VBA, and they've never had a job in IT.
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The title of the article is "Zune doesn't shake iPod's market lead - MICROSOFT MP3 PLAYER HAS DECENT 1ST MONTH". That's a far cry from "Zune Sales Continue to Weaken".
Hell, the article summary isn't even correct. Slashdot spin version: "Apple remained unchanged at 62.2%". Actual article text: "Apple's share of the hard drive market fell to 82.7 percent from 86.8 percent a year ago, its share of the overall market came in at 62.2 percent, essentially even with the 63 percent it posted a year ago."
Instead of trying to spin existing articles, I personally think that it's time for Slashdot editors to just start making shit up. This attempt at spin is pretty sad. Why not just make up an article that says, "Bill Gates went on a shooting spree today, killing 100 orphan children, before turning the weapon on himself".
People hate being offered items that are "free". To most, that word usually translates as "promotional item" or "stuffed full of ads and marketing surveys".
Or "Dear god, this crazy religious nut is trying to recruit me into his cult. How awkward!"
I like how The Register is trying to slam the NYT for not being impartial. I have read some of the absolute worst "articles" on the Register (most of which, are surprisingly posted on Slashdot). I wouldn't trust The Register to correctly report the current weather conditions outside of their office.
The most valid point for me is going to be the inability of wordpad to open .doc files but I don't use them so much anymore.
.doc viewer that works well.
a milyid=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displa ylang=en
"Evil" MS has a free
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?f
This is kind of a dumb question. If you need the processing power, then switch. If not, then don't.
I have no need for 64 bit processing in my business (retail and web). Computer upgrades have to be worth it, from a financial standpoint. There's no reason for my business to spend any money on 64 bit processors.
The agency's director, Mark Myers, and its communications office also must be told -- prior to any submission for publication -- "of findings or data that may be especially newsworthy, have an impact on government policy, or contradict previous public understanding to ensure that proper officials are notified and that communication strategies are developed.''
Yeah. They have to be sure that the public isn't unneccessarily exposed to things like "facts". What kind of "communication strategies" need to be developed to communicate a new finding? What's wrong with just reporting the science? I guess that some facts have too much "truthiness" behind them:
In 2002, the USGS was forced to reverse course after warning that oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would harm the Porcupine caribou herd. One week later a new report followed, this time saying the caribou would not be affected.
Damn facts... always getting in the way of MONEY.
Jet has been depricated or ODBC? Oy! Do you happen to have a link to any more info? I just got finished writing an app with an Access back end (easy and cheap). Not that it would be tough to port over, but Access does have some non-ansi standard SQL, and if I'm going to have to switch over to MSDE or PostGre, then I'd rather plan for that now.
like my company is rolling out Vista business between christmas and new year on all desktops, and is inthe middle of testing that.
I'm just curious... is your company's CIO brain damaged? You guys are gonna have a really shitty welcome back to work after the new year. Hung over, and having to deal with a completely new platform. Ugh. Good luck!
OK, then let me re-phrase. Anybody moving an important database to an OS that has been released within the past year should be summarily shot and disemboweled. That's just waaaaay too soon to have any of the bugs worked out. At this point, if I needed to set up MS SQL Server, it would go on Windows 2000 as my first choice, then possibly Windows 2003. I wouldn't consider using Vista for anything more than a home PC for another year (I just started allowing Windows XP into my business recently).
If anybody is moving critical databases to an OS that isn't even officially released yet, then they deserve to have their eyeballs poked out with hot, metal pokers, and then promptly fired.
In other breaking news, Oracle does not work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux V.5.
The biology part of the lab definitely needs equipment to run gel electrophoresis. Um...ok, so I can't think of anything witty to say, but everybody loves running gels! Besides, how else are you going to be able to do cheap and easy DNA analysis?
Did Google ever pick a side in the browser wars?
Smart businesspeople would never call it a "war" or choose to pick sides. Just support the big ones, whatever they are. The customers are important. Google could care less what browser their customers use. Only geeks care about "the browser war".
A car tyre is like a network card - not an os.
The OS for a car is the human that drives it - so yes, the car is sold without an OS.
You can't use a car for its intended purpose without tires. You can't use a computer for its intended purpose without an OS.
You CAN use a car without a stereo. You CAN use a computer with no network card.
Speaking of network cards, somebody needs to hurry up and sue motherboard makers for not selling a motherboard without a network connection, these days. I might want to buy a computer with no network connectivity.
Seriously... what happens in a few years when you want an absolutely secure computer, and you can't buy one without wireless? Nobody outside of engineers could be SURE that the wireless connection wasn't doing something intentional or not.
You're confusing choice with no choice. You have the choice to buy any computer that you want. Buy one without Windows, if you want. Nobody is forcing you to buy a Windows machine. This law FORCES people to have to install their own OS'es. This law is about taking away people's choice.
And you think it's fair to force everybody else to have to do the same just because you're not smart enough to buy a computer that doesn't have Windows on it? You think that millions of people should have to pull their hair out installing operating systems because you don't want to be inconvenienced?
You're right. Geez, and I thought that my dad had it bad having to put together a bicycle every few years in the middle of the night. I can't imagine my poor dad having to stay up late to install an OS because he's not allowed to buy a working computer. Wow.
Here, working should be interpreted as the actual PC being able to respond as expected to the user when switched on, instead of displaying Windows related stuff.
A PC without an OS generally shows a black screen with "No Boot Record Found" or something like that in white letters. Are you really willing to pay $500+ for a machine that can only do that? That seems pretty absurd to me. I've never seen anybody staring at a monitor like that.
I can eat a pizza without onions. I can buy onions in the store. Two separate items. Both completely functional. A computer without an OS is not functional. An OS without a computer is not functional. It's a stupid law.
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Of course, this is coming from a country where people *riot* if they are not guaranteed, by law, that they cannot be fired for two years.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/jan-june06/
He's pretty much shot himself in the foot, 'cause now he's got to prove that Windows works.
You know, you're right. That's gonna be tough. Everybody that I know that owns a computer just uses it as a doorstop, or a paperweight. I've never heard of anybody actually using Windows.
So, how are complicated things sold in France? Are cars sold without tires? Are lawnmowers sold without blades? Are shoes sold without laces? Are pizzas sold without toppings?
This sounds like a very confusing and difficult place to do business. Well, considering their unemployment rate, maybe it is.
Simple. My employees know not to open any file that they don't know what it is. I really don't know how you can get any simpler or more effective than that.
So, you won't mind if I take a copy of your entire website, and post it on different servers, would you?
Sorry, dude, but there's no such thing as a "satanist". "Satan" is a Christian construct. All Satanists are actually dumber-than-average Christians who like to wear black.
Are you trying to be funny, or are you actually out of your mind?
Uh, actually MS has been famous for giving away tons of free stuff to developers for a long time now. They don't expect developers to plunk down a few thousand just to learn how to use their tools. Besides, a lot of MS "developers" aren't even IT professionals. I know tons of people who can work with say, VBA, and they've never had a job in IT.