A CPU performing in the P2 class is barely powerful enough to run a modern PDA, much less a desktop system.
All of our machines run W2K, a point of sale system, Quickbooks, music, email clients, etc. Like I said, I think that most of them are PS2's. I'm not really sure where you're getting your information...
If history shows anything, it's that people who aren't gamers just don't really care too much about upgrading any more. Intel is going to have to raise its prices as sales due to upgrades slow dramatically. I'm still running mostly Pentium 2's in my business... I think. I don't even know or care. For what we do here, just about any computer that was made in the last 10 years is just fine. When it's time to get a new machine, we always just buy the cheapest oen we can find.
Data format is not the issue. CSV has been around for at least 20 years, and that never got standardized. XML is like CSV, except with a shitload of overhead.
Ah, that's very idealistic. Unfortunately, whether or not a company has morals is a moot point if they're finacially bankrupt. Change is only possible with money and power. Good people who actually have real impact on society: Larry Flynt, Howard Stern, Michael Moore. Notice that all of them have either a lot of money, a lot of influence, or both. A 60 person company on the verge of bankruptcy can't have very much impact on much of anything.
I couldn't agree more. The largest, most profitable, arguably most successful company in history should definitely follow the shining example set by a bankrupt startup.
Oh, there will always be hacks, I have no doubt about it. I've got my PS2 modded, and it does all kinds of things it wasn't designed for. But as far as buying something over the counter, out of the box? Again, it's the same thing that Apple has been doing for many, many years, and they're beyond popular with their legions of fanatics. Again, the hacks are cute, but nothing that you want to rely on if you're say, paying your bills with said computer. But lock-in, schmock-in. As soon as this happens, there might even be a manufacturer making Linux-friendly motherboards (if there's enough volume to support it).
Kinda' like what Apple has been doing for 20 years... You run their software on their hardware, and that's it. No software will readily run on their hardware, and their software won't run on other hardware. Not so scary.
How is PDF an open standard? You have to buy Adobe Acrobat to alter a PDF! Plus, it's an absolute nightmare to work with. The files are huge, the readers (in my experience) are buggy as hell and slow. Why is PDF better?
Have you ever worked in an office environment? Work in an office for a printing company, and you probably have specialized layout and estimating software. Work in an office for any manufacturing company, and you probably have tools for time estimation and scheduling. I've never been in an office where people did nothing but create Word documents. Ever.
This isn't true at all. There are many, many specialized business apps that don't run on Linux and that don't have anything close to an equivalent. I'm running one right now that's gonna keep our company on Windows for the forseeable future. Your assumption that most business computers just run Office is ridiculous.
Has anybody tested it over a long period of time, along with other electronic devices, etc.? I haven't seen uptime numbers in real life environments before, so I'm not sure what they are. I've seen one wi-fi connection go really flaky due to a cordless phone, and that was enough to scare me off. Are they doing some kind of redundant wireless setup, maybe?
I use RAID 1 on all of my machines. They don't have the one that I use any mroe, but something like this is only $250 for complete hardware RAID (the best kind). It's absolutely seamless. http://www.raidexpert.com/RAID/DynaBack er.htm
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Absolutely. Wi-Fi is no where as near as reliable as good ol' ethernet, and won't be for a while. Certain cordless phoens even disrupt wi-fi. It's cute for home use, but I would *never* rely on wireless for a business use. It's just not reliable enough. I *need* my network up 100%, or my rent doesn't get paid. Wi-fi is cute, but it doesn't cut it for me. On top of that, ethernet is cheap, and very, very easy to run. At my business, we have suspended ceilings with hundreds of feet of Cat 5, and a few $20 switches.
The ability to make something that touches not ten people, not a hundred people, not a thousand people but a hundred million people. I want Mozilla to be there again. IE is a browser with no soul. I want it to be Mozilla because I think that people who care deserve a browser with a soul.'"
Sorry to rain on his parade, but I can just about guarantee that there aren't a hundred million people who care whether or not their browser has a "soul". When are geeks gonna realize that just because THEY give a shit, that other people do. This is a very immature mode of thought, namely "Well, I like this, so everybody else does." If he wants to waste his time, that's his business, but he's kidding himself if "hundreds of millions of people" give a shit what browser they're using, never mind whether or not it has a "soul".
Well, you're assuming that the "masses" are always correct, and that in no way, shape, or form is true. There are experts in every imaginable subject matter, and you can't just say that the "mob" knows better than an expert. That's just not true. If this existed a few hundred years ago, I'm sure that biology textbooks would have included Creation, and the "Inferiority of the Negroe". Most people eat McDonald's. That doesn't make them right or smart. I wouldn't want the masses writing books on nutrition. Or how about great music of the late 20th century? We'd get Britney Spears and n'Sync.
How will bad information be "naturally eliminated"? I think that this is a mantra that is repeated by the Open Source people so much that they think it's true without thinking about what it means.
Absolutely. I happen to really like Yahoo, because they're the only service that has made good on the "single log on" promise that everybody was making years and years ago. I was thinking about switching to Google, but not now. 100MB is fan-fucking-tastic, plus I still get all of the good Yahoo stuff. Yahoo is integrated with my cell phone, I *love* their internet radio service (Launch), they're got a great calendar, messenger, etc. It's all in one very easy to sue package. I pay for some of their services, not others, but any way you slice it, Yahoo has got the portal thing truly figured out.
It's too soon. Normal people don't "upgrade" nearly as fast as geeks do. People are just now getting DVD players as home. There's going to be virtually *no* market for a new standard for at least another 5 years. Nobody will buy it!
As with every other Mozilla/Firefox/Firebird/Whatever-They-Call-It-Thi s-Week browser story, my question is... "So?". The review in no way mentions a single thing that makes this browser "better" or makes me want to take time to download and install a new program. Why? Give me a good, solid reason why I should download a new program, complete with potential problems, headaches, etc. to replace a perfectly good, functional program? I can't seem to think that the Mozilla developers are kind of like people developing new and better pencils. Except this special pencil is hard to find, takes time to figure out how to use, and does what, exactly, that a regular pencil doesn't do? "Come one and all! See our amazing new pencil! It'll revolutionize the hot, exciting pencil industry!! It'll change the way you use pencils! The lead is softer and the wood is harder! Can you imagine how much more work you could get done with this new pencil? " It's just silly.
Damn, you summed it up perfectly. We need more sensible people such as yourself as tech columnists, instead of these shrill, gadget-crazy hype-mongers that we have now.
Don't forget the geek hangouts... Best Buy, Fry's, Circuit City, etc.
I love/. Geeks saying how much they hate big businesses (like MS, Oracle, etc.), so they go out and buy their OSS stuff and hardware at Best Buy and Wal-Mart (which could buy MS with cash several times over). Brilliant. Fucking brilliant.
Yeah, they found that stuff over a year after the war started, so more than likely, it was brought in after the fact, and the quantities that were found were *trace* amounts that somebody probably made in their basement. Not enough reason to bomb the living fuck out of a country, in my opinion.
xml isn't a catch all, make-everything-perfect tool. All it is is a way to express data in flat files. That's it. Just because something is in XML doesn't necessarily mean it'll be interoperable or hell, even readable. Saying "xml" is like saying "C". Code in "C" and everything will be compatible. bzzt.
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A CPU performing in the P2 class is barely powerful enough to run a modern PDA, much less a desktop system.
All of our machines run W2K, a point of sale system, Quickbooks, music, email clients, etc. Like I said, I think that most of them are PS2's. I'm not really sure where you're getting your information...
Those of us who do things with our computers other than play games actually use those parallel and serial ports.
If history shows anything, it's that people who aren't gamers just don't really care too much about upgrading any more. Intel is going to have to raise its prices as sales due to upgrades slow dramatically. I'm still running mostly Pentium 2's in my business... I think. I don't even know or care. For what we do here, just about any computer that was made in the last 10 years is just fine. When it's time to get a new machine, we always just buy the cheapest oen we can find.
Data format is not the issue. CSV has been around for at least 20 years, and that never got standardized. XML is like CSV, except with a shitload of overhead.
Ah, that's very idealistic. Unfortunately, whether or not a company has morals is a moot point if they're finacially bankrupt. Change is only possible with money and power. Good people who actually have real impact on society: Larry Flynt, Howard Stern, Michael Moore. Notice that all of them have either a lot of money, a lot of influence, or both. A 60 person company on the verge of bankruptcy can't have very much impact on much of anything.
I think that this should be filed in the "Stupid shit that should never have existed" category.
I couldn't agree more. The largest, most profitable, arguably most successful company in history should definitely follow the shining example set by a bankrupt startup.
Oh, there will always be hacks, I have no doubt about it. I've got my PS2 modded, and it does all kinds of things it wasn't designed for. But as far as buying something over the counter, out of the box? Again, it's the same thing that Apple has been doing for many, many years, and they're beyond popular with their legions of fanatics. Again, the hacks are cute, but nothing that you want to rely on if you're say, paying your bills with said computer. But lock-in, schmock-in. As soon as this happens, there might even be a manufacturer making Linux-friendly motherboards (if there's enough volume to support it).
Kinda' like what Apple has been doing for 20 years... You run their software on their hardware, and that's it. No software will readily run on their hardware, and their software won't run on other hardware. Not so scary.
How is PDF an open standard? You have to buy Adobe Acrobat to alter a PDF! Plus, it's an absolute nightmare to work with. The files are huge, the readers (in my experience) are buggy as hell and slow. Why is PDF better?
Have you ever worked in an office environment? Work in an office for a printing company, and you probably have specialized layout and estimating software. Work in an office for any manufacturing company, and you probably have tools for time estimation and scheduling. I've never been in an office where people did nothing but create Word documents. Ever.
This isn't true at all. There are many, many specialized business apps that don't run on Linux and that don't have anything close to an equivalent. I'm running one right now that's gonna keep our company on Windows for the forseeable future. Your assumption that most business computers just run Office is ridiculous.
Has anybody tested it over a long period of time, along with other electronic devices, etc.? I haven't seen uptime numbers in real life environments before, so I'm not sure what they are. I've seen one wi-fi connection go really flaky due to a cordless phone, and that was enough to scare me off. Are they doing some kind of redundant wireless setup, maybe?
I use RAID 1 on all of my machines. They don't have the one that I use any mroe, but something like this is only $250 for complete hardware RAID (the best kind). It's absolutely seamless.k er.htm
http://www.raidexpert.com/RAID/DynaBac
Absolutely. Wi-Fi is no where as near as reliable as good ol' ethernet, and won't be for a while. Certain cordless phoens even disrupt wi-fi. It's cute for home use, but I would *never* rely on wireless for a business use. It's just not reliable enough. I *need* my network up 100%, or my rent doesn't get paid. Wi-fi is cute, but it doesn't cut it for me. On top of that, ethernet is cheap, and very, very easy to run. At my business, we have suspended ceilings with hundreds of feet of Cat 5, and a few $20 switches.
The ability to make something that touches not ten people, not a hundred people, not a thousand people but a hundred million people. I want Mozilla to be there again. IE is a browser with no soul. I want it to be Mozilla because I think that people who care deserve a browser with a soul.'"
Sorry to rain on his parade, but I can just about guarantee that there aren't a hundred million people who care whether or not their browser has a "soul". When are geeks gonna realize that just because THEY give a shit, that other people do. This is a very immature mode of thought, namely "Well, I like this, so everybody else does." If he wants to waste his time, that's his business, but he's kidding himself if "hundreds of millions of people" give a shit what browser they're using, never mind whether or not it has a "soul".
Well, you're assuming that the "masses" are always correct, and that in no way, shape, or form is true. There are experts in every imaginable subject matter, and you can't just say that the "mob" knows better than an expert. That's just not true. If this existed a few hundred years ago, I'm sure that biology textbooks would have included Creation, and the "Inferiority of the Negroe". Most people eat McDonald's. That doesn't make them right or smart. I wouldn't want the masses writing books on nutrition. Or how about great music of the late 20th century? We'd get Britney Spears and n'Sync.
How will bad information be "naturally eliminated"? I think that this is a mantra that is repeated by the Open Source people so much that they think it's true without thinking about what it means.
Absolutely. I happen to really like Yahoo, because they're the only service that has made good on the "single log on" promise that everybody was making years and years ago. I was thinking about switching to Google, but not now. 100MB is fan-fucking-tastic, plus I still get all of the good Yahoo stuff. Yahoo is integrated with my cell phone, I *love* their internet radio service (Launch), they're got a great calendar, messenger, etc. It's all in one very easy to sue package. I pay for some of their services, not others, but any way you slice it, Yahoo has got the portal thing truly figured out.
It's too soon. Normal people don't "upgrade" nearly as fast as geeks do. People are just now getting DVD players as home. There's going to be virtually *no* market for a new standard for at least another 5 years. Nobody will buy it!
As with every other Mozilla/Firefox/Firebird/Whatever-They-Call-It-Thi s-Week browser story, my question is... "So?". The review in no way mentions a single thing that makes this browser "better" or makes me want to take time to download and install a new program. Why? Give me a good, solid reason why I should download a new program, complete with potential problems, headaches, etc. to replace a perfectly good, functional program? I can't seem to think that the Mozilla developers are kind of like people developing new and better pencils. Except this special pencil is hard to find, takes time to figure out how to use, and does what, exactly, that a regular pencil doesn't do? "Come one and all! See our amazing new pencil! It'll revolutionize the hot, exciting pencil industry!! It'll change the way you use pencils! The lead is softer and the wood is harder! Can you imagine how much more work you could get done with this new pencil? " It's just silly.
Damn, you summed it up perfectly. We need more sensible people such as yourself as tech columnists, instead of these shrill, gadget-crazy hype-mongers that we have now.
Don't forget the geek hangouts... Best Buy, Fry's, Circuit City, etc.
/. Geeks saying how much they hate big businesses (like MS, Oracle, etc.), so they go out and buy their OSS stuff and hardware at Best Buy and Wal-Mart (which could buy MS with cash several times over). Brilliant. Fucking brilliant.
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Yeah, they found that stuff over a year after the war started, so more than likely, it was brought in after the fact, and the quantities that were found were *trace* amounts that somebody probably made in their basement. Not enough reason to bomb the living fuck out of a country, in my opinion.
So, then, if Word made XML files that looked like:
qqweropiu2345lkj2345,.mnzxcv9 92345902345!!, how would that be useful? It's valid XML. XML can contain encrypted stuff, binary, etc.
xml isn't a catch all, make-everything-perfect tool. All it is is a way to express data in flat files. That's it. Just because something is in XML doesn't necessarily mean it'll be interoperable or hell, even readable.
Saying "xml" is like saying "C". Code in "C" and everything will be compatible. bzzt.