In both this and Open Office, I don't see a replacement for Outlook, which in my opinion, is the best part of the MS Office suite. There are 50,000 text editors out there (I use Textpad), many different spreadsheet programs (I don't use any), but there's nothing that even comes close to Outlook. Outlook clones, anybody?
All he said was it's going to look neat. More Microsoft FUD and vapor.
You're absolutely right. Microsoft *never* comes out with good products. Largest software company in the world has no need for vaporware. XBox? Their mice & keyboards? Of, I dunno... all of their software. You're a moron.
Here's a suggestion: MS intentionally paid for this shitty device to be built, in order to show the/. community (after all, who is ever going to hear about this device, never mind the fact that it runs Linux) that Linux based things can suck, too. It's all a giant conspiracy. [Conspiracy theories tend to be popular here]
Oracle DBA's do installations. Oracle is not designed for average computer guy to install and use at all, and I don't think that they pretend to be. It's a large, complex, expensive product, and to expect an Installshield click-through install is pretty silly. Any Oracle DBA with his salt can do an installation for you easily.
As far as highly specific platforms that it runs on... that's true. A mission critical database isn't going to be running on multiple versions of an OS. Various versions are optimized for various OS's.
Card counting is virtually useless these days. Most casinos will use a 6-deck shoe, out of which they only deal about 3 1/2 decks. Card counting only pays when you get to see most of the cards.
Last time I went to Vegas, some tables were using 8 deck shoes, and would only deal 1/2-3/4 of the shoe. Virtually no way to count effectively, since by the time enough cards have gone by to make a statistical difference, it's time for a new shoe....
My point is that email is by no means a necessity to do most business. It's often a *huge* time waster for employees, too. Plus, with no paper trail, it's not really good for important communications.
I actually don't use email for my business. It's just not reliable. Vendors will ask if they can email me PDF's and other nonsense and I just say "no". We have email, of course, but I don't use it. It's a real hassle. Fax machines and the US Mail work just fine for us.
Software is an infrastructure cost. Whether or not you threw away another ~$500 for the latest version of the Mighty Spiffy Office suite has little noticeable affect on the quality of the memo you wrote, but it does have a vampiric effect on the quartely earnings statement.
So is plumbing. Anyone who charges for plumbing work is pure evil, and plain greedy. All plumbing should be done for free.
Who says that Linux isn't ready for the desktop? I say, "of course it is!". I mean really... what's the big deal about a tiny little boot problem? I'm a better person just for having a machine, powered off, with Linux installed than I would be if I had W2K on a working computer.
Buying online is a good way for a manufacturer to alienate their wholesalers. Selling online is nice and all, but it's not nearly as effective as having an army of real retailers selling your product. As a retailer, I am *much* less likely to carry a product that is also sold online, undercutting my own business.
Call me nuts, but playing MP3's these days is about as basic as being able to copy a file from one place to another. And no update? It sounds like Red Hat releases are getting *worse*. But what's with the no xfree86? I remember that the last time I got a Linux distro working, the GUI was *slow as hell*. Is this new way of doing guis better than the old way? Is it faster and more stable? Is there any kind of consistency yet, between windows/applications? I know that it couldn't get much worse.
I personally don't do caffeine. I was physically addicted pretty bad back in college, so much so that I *needed* caffeine every 2 hours, otherwise I'd get a splitting headache, and I needed some to get to sleep. I realized that that was probably not a good thing, so I quit. Withdrawl for me was 2 days of headaches and nausea, and I haven't gone back since.
Personally, I think that caffeine is a bad thing. It's been linked to a few long term problems, such as heart problems. And it makes sense that people wouldn't know that. The coffee/cola market is big beyond belief, and I can't believe that a scientist that came out with a conclusive "caffeine is bad" study would be alive for very long afterwards.
First off, Windows is the ONLY software that's used both in commercial, industrial, specialized applications, AND on Timmy's computer in his bedroom. Of course it's going to be attacked more than say, a program that runs a CNC machine. I'm betting that many more specialized programs are even MORE vulnerable, but they're not exposed to anywhere near the abuse that Windows is. (ie: I've never heard of anybody hacking or even attemting to hack an elevator's software).
Secondly, we have the entire legal system behind software. You have a problem with the software that runs your x-ray machine? You can 1. Sue the manufacturer or 2. not buy the damn thing again. It's already in place.
Google is a smart company. They're not going to go out of their way and spend resources on an Os that captures a whopping 1-5% of the desktop market. They're growing, profitable, and they make great products. Thus, they wouldn't make such a stupid business move. My guess is definitely: Windows only.
I just got "Onimusha 3" for my PS2, and the opening movie was BETTER, in sheer visible quality, directing, and storyline than anything I've seen on a movie. The 10 minute CGI movie was reminiscent of Episode 1, except it was much, much better. Hell, the game even stars Jean Reno (The Professional, Wasabi, Ronin, etc.)! As soon as storage (DVD's) get better, we absolutely will have games that are 100% interactive, but the quality will be as good as if not better than movies.
Have you maybe forgotten all the hours it takes to patch MS OSes against the various worms that spring up, every couple of months or so ?
Windows Update is 100% automatic. It doesn't take any time, whatsoever. There's really very little need to ever do manual security updates in Windows any more. I haven't manually done one in several years (NT 4). With Linux, I'd have to open a console window and use apt or rpm or something like that every time a patch came out(after figuring out what to use, how it works, what to type in, etc.)
I agree completely. I think if you look at individuals pushing the "Linux is a great value because it's free!", you'll see mostly the unemployed, the underemployed, and students, none of which can put a decent value on their time. I don't think that I've ever seen a Linux company pushing price, because as any working person with a family realizes... time really is money. Spending an extra couple of hours trying to get Linux to work as well as it should, for working people, instantly makes Linux more expensive than XP, when it comes to desktops.
I'm in favor of it too... as long as the government *buys* the infrastructure at a fair price. The gov't can't (or shouldn't) just start seizing private assets because they feel like it, or even if they think that it's a great idea.
The development of a meta tag that stopped Google from indexing a blog (or any site, really) would keep them from interfering with people who don't care about it, but could be removed for applications like political blogs or news sites. (Most of the people who blog couldn't tell the difference between a meta tag and a meat tag, so including it by default wouldn't be a bad idea.)
robots.txt. It's been a standard for as long as I can remember.
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In both this and Open Office, I don't see a replacement for Outlook, which in my opinion, is the best part of the MS Office suite. There are 50,000 text editors out there (I use Textpad), many different spreadsheet programs (I don't use any), but there's nothing that even comes close to Outlook. Outlook clones, anybody?
All he said was it's going to look neat. More Microsoft FUD and vapor.
You're absolutely right. Microsoft *never* comes out with good products. Largest software company in the world has no need for vaporware. XBox? Their mice & keyboards? Of, I dunno... all of their software. You're a moron.
Like the one that MS is trying to implement?
Here's a suggestion: MS intentionally paid for this shitty device to be built, in order to show the /. community (after all, who is ever going to hear about this device, never mind the fact that it runs Linux) that Linux based things can suck, too. It's all a giant conspiracy. [Conspiracy theories tend to be popular here]
You're 100% correct. On top of that, nobody knows or cares what software is running their devices. Either it works, or it doesn't. This doesn't work.
Oracle DBA's do installations. Oracle is not designed for average computer guy to install and use at all, and I don't think that they pretend to be. It's a large, complex, expensive product, and to expect an Installshield click-through install is pretty silly. Any Oracle DBA with his salt can do an installation for you easily.
As far as highly specific platforms that it runs on... that's true. A mission critical database isn't going to be running on multiple versions of an OS. Various versions are optimized for various OS's.
Card counting is virtually useless these days. Most casinos will use a 6-deck shoe, out of which they only deal about 3 1/2 decks. Card counting only pays when you get to see most of the cards.
Last time I went to Vegas, some tables were using 8 deck shoes, and would only deal 1/2-3/4 of the shoe. Virtually no way to count effectively, since by the time enough cards have gone by to make a statistical difference, it's time for a new shoe....
Giving away CPU cycles so that a multi-million dollar company can improve its product is a wholly different thing.
This sounds vaguely sounds familiar...
I think there'd be plenty of people who'd be up for this. Just ask any OSS developer!
My point is that email is by no means a necessity to do most business. It's often a *huge* time waster for employees, too. Plus, with no paper trail, it's not really good for important communications.
I actually don't use email for my business. It's just not reliable. Vendors will ask if they can email me PDF's and other nonsense and I just say "no". We have email, of course, but I don't use it. It's a real hassle. Fax machines and the US Mail work just fine for us.
Software is an infrastructure cost. Whether or not you threw away another ~$500 for the latest version of the Mighty Spiffy Office suite has little noticeable affect on the quality of the memo you wrote, but it does have a vampiric effect on the quartely earnings statement.
So is plumbing. Anyone who charges for plumbing work is pure evil, and plain greedy. All plumbing should be done for free.
That story was saying that the Official release was available to payign Mandrake Club members. Now it's freely available to anyone.
Who says that Linux isn't ready for the desktop? I say, "of course it is!". I mean really... what's the big deal about a tiny little boot problem? I'm a better person just for having a machine, powered off, with Linux installed than I would be if I had W2K on a working computer.
Buying online is a good way for a manufacturer to alienate their wholesalers. Selling online is nice and all, but it's not nearly as effective as having an army of real retailers selling your product. As a retailer, I am *much* less likely to carry a product that is also sold online, undercutting my own business.
Suing someone doesn't give you automatic Big-Brother rights. Especially if the stuff doesn't even remotely affect the suit.
It does if the judge says so. Hope the FSF has a good team of lawyers.
Call me nuts, but playing MP3's these days is about as basic as being able to copy a file from one place to another. And no update? It sounds like Red Hat releases are getting *worse*. But what's with the no xfree86? I remember that the last time I got a Linux distro working, the GUI was *slow as hell*. Is this new way of doing guis better than the old way? Is it faster and more stable? Is there any kind of consistency yet, between windows/applications? I know that it couldn't get much worse.
I personally don't do caffeine. I was physically addicted pretty bad back in college, so much so that I *needed* caffeine every 2 hours, otherwise I'd get a splitting headache, and I needed some to get to sleep. I realized that that was probably not a good thing, so I quit. Withdrawl for me was 2 days of headaches and nausea, and I haven't gone back since.
Personally, I think that caffeine is a bad thing. It's been linked to a few long term problems, such as heart problems. And it makes sense that people wouldn't know that. The coffee/cola market is big beyond belief, and I can't believe that a scientist that came out with a conclusive "caffeine is bad" study would be alive for very long afterwards.
First off, Windows is the ONLY software that's used both in commercial, industrial, specialized applications, AND on Timmy's computer in his bedroom. Of course it's going to be attacked more than say, a program that runs a CNC machine. I'm betting that many more specialized programs are even MORE vulnerable, but they're not exposed to anywhere near the abuse that Windows is. (ie: I've never heard of anybody hacking or even attemting to hack an elevator's software).
Secondly, we have the entire legal system behind software. You have a problem with the software that runs your x-ray machine? You can 1. Sue the manufacturer or 2. not buy the damn thing again. It's already in place.
Google is a smart company. They're not going to go out of their way and spend resources on an Os that captures a whopping 1-5% of the desktop market. They're growing, profitable, and they make great products. Thus, they wouldn't make such a stupid business move. My guess is definitely: Windows only.
I just got "Onimusha 3" for my PS2, and the opening movie was BETTER, in sheer visible quality, directing, and storyline than anything I've seen on a movie. The 10 minute CGI movie was reminiscent of Episode 1, except it was much, much better. Hell, the game even stars Jean Reno (The Professional, Wasabi, Ronin, etc.)! As soon as storage (DVD's) get better, we absolutely will have games that are 100% interactive, but the quality will be as good as if not better than movies.
Have you maybe forgotten all the hours it takes to patch MS OSes against the various worms that spring up, every couple of months or so ?
Windows Update is 100% automatic. It doesn't take any time, whatsoever. There's really very little need to ever do manual security updates in Windows any more. I haven't manually done one in several years (NT 4). With Linux, I'd have to open a console window and use apt or rpm or something like that every time a patch came out(after figuring out what to use, how it works, what to type in, etc.)
I agree completely. I think if you look at individuals pushing the "Linux is a great value because it's free!", you'll see mostly the unemployed, the underemployed, and students, none of which can put a decent value on their time. I don't think that I've ever seen a Linux company pushing price, because as any working person with a family realizes... time really is money. Spending an extra couple of hours trying to get Linux to work as well as it should, for working people, instantly makes Linux more expensive than XP, when it comes to desktops.
I'm in favor of it too... as long as the government *buys* the infrastructure at a fair price. The gov't can't (or shouldn't) just start seizing private assets because they feel like it, or even if they think that it's a great idea.
Monopoly abuse isn't a criminal offense. It's a civil one. Get your facts straight before trolling next time.
The development of a meta tag that stopped Google from indexing a blog (or any site, really) would keep them from interfering with people who don't care about it, but could be removed for applications like political blogs or news sites. (Most of the people who blog couldn't tell the difference between a meta tag and a meat tag, so including it by default wouldn't be a bad idea.)
robots.txt. It's been a standard for as long as I can remember.