This is assuming that every person has 100% web access, which just isn't true. I have several machines that don't have web access in my business for security and productivity reasons. Even if every machine did have web access, I'd still have to have 100% uptime, which is rare with ANY client net connection. If the Net connection goes down, you're stuck, whereas now, if you need to work on documents, and the Net goes down, you can still work. Call me nuts, but this is a bit too bleeding edge to be practical.
It's not that they can't write apps that are HTML based... it's just that Active X objects, when done correctly, make for very rapid development, good security, and allow for much mroe flexibility than could ever be gained by using HTML/JS/CSS.
Reading about his "company" struck me as being extortionist. To me (a business owner), it sounds like "There are many problems with Open Source Software. Pay us, and we'll protect you from all of them. If you don't, well, you're fucked."
Gee, whiz. I want nothing more than to start using wonderful OSS, now!!
Either I need indemnification, or I don't. Which is it? If there's any question whatsoever, I'm gonna err on the side of caution and stick with proprietary code.
For a blow-hard, do-nothing media whore, Perens sure can fuck things up.
Not even close to "good enough" for my business. Until I have fully functioning apps that I can run my business with, OSS is useless to me. At the current rate, my company will probably be with MS, Intuit, and several other closed source vendors for quite a while.
Actually, all the explosion of blogs mean is that people love to write about their mundane lives. Whether or not anybody actually reads them is another question altogether.
Wrong again. Wal-Mart is has several times the sales and cash that Microsoft has. And Wal-Mart isn't near the biggest company in the world. Microsoft is the largest and most profitable software company in the world, though.
Screw speed. At least for me, that's not an issue. I want a r-e-l-i-a-b-l-e hard drive. I've tried all the brands, but they all come down to this: You have moving parts. It's going to break, eventually. The bearings will go. The head will hit a platter, etc. Personally, I've been saying for years that a solid state hard drive will be the next big boost in PC technology, and I think this is the beginning.
I don't understand why the company isn't touting reliability. If I have a slow hard drive... eh. No biggie. I wait an extra second. If I have a hard drive crash, that's potentially days of lost work and business, even more if a backup failed recently. I'll be buying these just as soon as I can afford them. With these drives in place, the next reliaibility bottleneck are the stupid little cooling fans failing. Electronics (printed circuit boards, chips) rarely fail on their own. It's almost something with moving parts (like a fan) that leads to their death.
To me, this is the most exciting advance in computing since Ethernet.
Oh yeah, it'll be cheaper until Distribution X discontinues, then you're fucked. I haven't seen any studies here on/. about those millions and millions of users who used Red Hat on their desktop, and who are now fucked because little tiny Red Hat decided not to continue their product. I'm sure most had to re-install a new OS. If that's not expensive, I don't know what is.
True, you won't have a monoculture, but if companies start using Linux on desktops, and the Linux companies fold (as they always do), then they're especially fucked. At least with MS, I know they're going to be around tomorrow, and if a problem crops up, they're gonna fix it, because they have millions of customers. If I were using Red Hat a year ago, I'd be fucked today.
That being said, 99% of all viruses can be preventued by that automatic Windows Update, and employees not running stupid shit on my boxes. I run a small company, and my employees actually ask me before they open any email attachment (I hire good people).
Well, if you know some way of getting "uncompressed" movies from the studio, then you're a better man than I am. I wasn't aware that anyone, except for maybe the cast that worked on a movie has access to the full, "uncompressed" movie. Besides, I can't imagine quality much better than you can get on a DVD.
I'm not gonna get into it with you, but I'll just say that I own hundreds of DVD movies, and I back up all of them. Very, very rare is it that I find a movie that with all of the crap ripped out, won't fit, uncompressed on a 4.7 gig DVD. Most DVD's for movies released, say, before 2000, fit entirely on 4.7 gig, because I think that the movies weren't filmed in as high qaulity as they are now (or don't have nearly as much CGI crap).
The +R and -R are quickly becoming a moot point. Most burners these days support both formats, the media costs the same, and most players play both. I do a LOT of DVD burning, and quite honestly, I don't care which I use. Most get played in a modded PS2, and it doesn't seem to care what kind of media I use.
Hey Jerkoff... DVD Shrink doesn't just compress, it also allows you to rip out all of the extra shit like "special features", the menus, and French soundtracks so you don't have to compress the movies. And when you DO have to compress (because, say, you want all of the shit on the DVD), then DVD Shrink can do a deep analysis, and make an excellent copy, even with compression. DVD Shrink rocks.
Anyone have any idea when DVD Shrink will be available for DVD-9? I'm waiting for DVD Shrink to support the drives before I buy one.
This is a great little package to leave lying around your friends' workplace to convince them to go opensource.
Why in the hell would anyone make open source, in and of itself, a cause? It's a tool, like other tools. That's like somebody advocating the use of torx screws as opposed to phillips head. It's just plain silly. I'll use whatever tool is best for the job, open source or not. Software should be the end cause/product only for people who develop software. For everybody else, it's a tool like a screwdriver or a pair of pliers. Unexciting and useful not in and of itself, but what it can do.
I use free-av.com. Best virus app I've seen, and it's 100% free for personal use. It's updated almost daily, and it doesn't cause problems like Norton & McAffee.
Well, they did it with multiple redundant trackers, but it looks like they're all dead. That's what I hate about BT. It's great when it works, but finding a reliable tracker is about as easy as finding Osama Bin Laden. The tracker software apparently needs a massive re-write.
The only thing is that at least for me, Intel and AMC aren't interchangeable. For some bizarre reason, I haven't seen a stable AMD/W2K Server setup. I'm willing to pay more to get Intel, because a lack of stability is unacceptable.
There's no market for it. Why do you expect Dell to spend many thousands of dollars of R&D to produce, nice, high-end Linux machines, of which they may sell a handful? A. Most people don't want Linux for a workstation. That's a fact. B. Those few people who do are generally too cheap to pay for a nice, pre-configured system, and would rather buy a piece of shit and download Linux themselves and spend their own time wrestling with it.
It has nothing to do with MS other than the fact is that people want W2K and WinXP on their laptops, not Linux.
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This is assuming that every person has 100% web access, which just isn't true. I have several machines that don't have web access in my business for security and productivity reasons. Even if every machine did have web access, I'd still have to have 100% uptime, which is rare with ANY client net connection. If the Net connection goes down, you're stuck, whereas now, if you need to work on documents, and the Net goes down, you can still work. Call me nuts, but this is a bit too bleeding edge to be practical.
It's not that they can't write apps that are HTML based... it's just that Active X objects, when done correctly, make for very rapid development, good security, and allow for much mroe flexibility than could ever be gained by using HTML/JS/CSS.
Reading about his "company" struck me as being extortionist. To me (a business owner), it sounds like "There are many problems with Open Source Software. Pay us, and we'll protect you from all of them. If you don't, well, you're fucked."
Gee, whiz. I want nothing more than to start using wonderful OSS, now!!
Either I need indemnification, or I don't. Which is it? If there's any question whatsoever, I'm gonna err on the side of caution and stick with proprietary code.
For a blow-hard, do-nothing media whore, Perens sure can fuck things up.
Not even close to "good enough" for my business. Until I have fully functioning apps that I can run my business with, OSS is useless to me. At the current rate, my company will probably be with MS, Intuit, and several other closed source vendors for quite a while.
What a fucking troll.
Actually, all the explosion of blogs mean is that people love to write about their mundane lives. Whether or not anybody actually reads them is another question altogether.
Here is a picture of the dick doing this. Looks like he's pretty bitter about not getting laid. That'd explain everything.
Wrong again. Wal-Mart is has several times the sales and cash that Microsoft has. And Wal-Mart isn't near the biggest company in the world. Microsoft is the largest and most profitable software company in the world, though.
And have you ever seen a single, functional piece of software without bugs?
If a 18 year old kid can write a small piece of code which can lament and trembel a large part of our society, who should we blame?
The kid.
Screw speed. At least for me, that's not an issue. I want a r-e-l-i-a-b-l-e hard drive. I've tried all the brands, but they all come down to this: You have moving parts. It's going to break, eventually. The bearings will go. The head will hit a platter, etc. Personally, I've been saying for years that a solid state hard drive will be the next big boost in PC technology, and I think this is the beginning.
I don't understand why the company isn't touting reliability. If I have a slow hard drive... eh. No biggie. I wait an extra second. If I have a hard drive crash, that's potentially days of lost work and business, even more if a backup failed recently. I'll be buying these just as soon as I can afford them. With these drives in place, the next reliaibility bottleneck are the stupid little cooling fans failing. Electronics (printed circuit boards, chips) rarely fail on their own. It's almost something with moving parts (like a fan) that leads to their death.
To me, this is the most exciting advance in computing since Ethernet.
Oh yeah, it'll be cheaper until Distribution X discontinues, then you're fucked. I haven't seen any studies here on /. about those millions and millions of users who used Red Hat on their desktop, and who are now fucked because little tiny Red Hat decided not to continue their product. I'm sure most had to re-install a new OS. If that's not expensive, I don't know what is.
True, you won't have a monoculture, but if companies start using Linux on desktops, and the Linux companies fold (as they always do), then they're especially fucked. At least with MS, I know they're going to be around tomorrow, and if a problem crops up, they're gonna fix it, because they have millions of customers. If I were using Red Hat a year ago, I'd be fucked today.
Well, considering Windows Update can be done automatically (I think it's the default in XP now... I'm not sure... I run W2K), it's going to be much less of an issue. I know my W2K machines generally get patched the day the patch is released. Quite honestly, it's a non-issue for my company. The machines patch themsleves, and I don't even worry about security. On top of that, I run a free virus program that updates itself when it starts up. Only problem with that is that our machines are never rebooted, so the only time our machines get virus updates are when the power goes out.
That being said, 99% of all viruses can be preventued by that automatic Windows Update, and employees not running stupid shit on my boxes. I run a small company, and my employees actually ask me before they open any email attachment (I hire good people).
Well, if you know some way of getting "uncompressed" movies from the studio, then you're a better man than I am. I wasn't aware that anyone, except for maybe the cast that worked on a movie has access to the full, "uncompressed" movie. Besides, I can't imagine quality much better than you can get on a DVD.
I'm not gonna get into it with you, but I'll just say that I own hundreds of DVD movies, and I back up all of them. Very, very rare is it that I find a movie that with all of the crap ripped out, won't fit, uncompressed on a 4.7 gig DVD. Most DVD's for movies released, say, before 2000, fit entirely on 4.7 gig, because I think that the movies weren't filmed in as high qaulity as they are now (or don't have nearly as much CGI crap).
Hey moron. You CAN put 99% of movies uncompressed on a 4.7 GB DVD.
The +R and -R are quickly becoming a moot point. Most burners these days support both formats, the media costs the same, and most players play both. I do a LOT of DVD burning, and quite honestly, I don't care which I use. Most get played in a modded PS2, and it doesn't seem to care what kind of media I use.
Hey Jerkoff... DVD Shrink doesn't just compress, it also allows you to rip out all of the extra shit like "special features", the menus, and French soundtracks so you don't have to compress the movies. And when you DO have to compress (because, say, you want all of the shit on the DVD), then DVD Shrink can do a deep analysis, and make an excellent copy, even with compression. DVD Shrink rocks.
Anyone have any idea when DVD Shrink will be available for DVD-9? I'm waiting for DVD Shrink to support the drives before I buy one.
It's actually Slashdot FUD, since MS never said that. But hey, whoever said that /. was a reliable news source?
This is a great little package to leave lying around your friends' workplace to convince them to go opensource.
Why in the hell would anyone make open source, in and of itself, a cause? It's a tool, like other tools. That's like somebody advocating the use of torx screws as opposed to phillips head. It's just plain silly. I'll use whatever tool is best for the job, open source or not. Software should be the end cause/product only for people who develop software. For everybody else, it's a tool like a screwdriver or a pair of pliers. Unexciting and useful not in and of itself, but what it can do.
I use free-av.com. Best virus app I've seen, and it's 100% free for personal use. It's updated almost daily, and it doesn't cause problems like Norton & McAffee.
Well, they did it with multiple redundant trackers, but it looks like they're all dead. That's what I hate about BT. It's great when it works, but finding a reliable tracker is about as easy as finding Osama Bin Laden. The tracker software apparently needs a massive re-write.
Wow... so slashdotted a few K .torrent file won't even download...
.torrent somewhere?
Anyone have another copy of this
The only thing is that at least for me, Intel and AMC aren't interchangeable. For some bizarre reason, I haven't seen a stable AMD/W2K Server setup. I'm willing to pay more to get Intel, because a lack of stability is unacceptable.
There's no market for it. Why do you expect Dell to spend many thousands of dollars of R&D to produce, nice, high-end Linux machines, of which they may sell a handful?
A. Most people don't want Linux for a workstation. That's a fact.
B. Those few people who do are generally too cheap to pay for a nice, pre-configured system, and would rather buy a piece of shit and download Linux themselves and spend their own time wrestling with it.
It has nothing to do with MS other than the fact is that people want W2K and WinXP on their laptops, not Linux.