If you were the IT head of a company, would you want your users switching to Linux on their laptops? I wouldn't. I wouldn't want them using Windows either. Preferably they'd be using OSX.
But back on point, you would need a separate staff to offer support to those laptops. Anything from configuring Xorg, to trying to get the wireless card to work, to actually joining a network. And a large number of cards are not supported under linux.
There's also the fact that most people are familiar with Windows. Fewer are familiar with linux. And familiarity with linux is a very wide spectrum, between wireless, hybernation/sleep, X, the myriad of WMs, etc. Would you, as an IT manager, responsible for the budget, spending, and use of your resources, the overhead of trying to support another platform?
And fortunately you were technologically savvy enough to check that the link they sent was a legit one, leading to Vachovia's servers. Many do not know where to even begin to do that.
And you're right. Welcome to the 20th century, where requests to "confirm everything," to "update your personal information," or to change your ATM's PIN number because of an information breach can be sent to thousands of mailboxes in an instant, at no cost at all. Sending out a legitimate looking letter via mail, and trying to extract information from the recipient is much harder, takes much longer, and costs much, much more, and more easily tracked down.
I dn't believe Microsoft EVEr sent out patches via email to anyone. So your analogy is not correct, in that there is no vlaid expectation and awareness of a patch being emailed to you from Microsoft on the 1st of every month.
Running with your milk delivery premise, I'd propose the analogy of opening the door one morning, finding a beer on your doorstep, assuming the milkman delivered it, opening the beer and drinking it, only to realize it contained some poisonous substance and you dropped dead.
No one ever heard of morning beer delivery (except maybe in Germany, I don't know), so you, the recipient, have no reason to blindly trust the contents of that beer and the benevolent motives of the one that delivered it, only to then complain when the bottle did not contain fresh beer.
In that same report, the BSA do show that the percentage of all used software that was pirated dropped in 2004 from 2003. I do not recall the numbers, but the percentage drcrease was there, albeit a small one.
But in absolute dollar terms, as the entire software industry grew, so did piracy.
It is all a power grab, I think. By the time they start awarding these titles to the movie inspired games -- surprise, surprise -- the DVD version of the said movie will probably be hitting the shelves.
It is a nice way to gain "assets" (marketing money, the stars of the movies, brand association, legitimacy, and so on) out of the movie industry, and help the award spectacle in general.
Maybe I'm cynikal, but c'mon. A musuc channel, on its music award show selecting best video games, and the games they award are the movie based ones - the dullest and most hated category by any gamer?
People will be queueing up to get Windows because there is still no other alternative, not because of marketing. Macs, albeit having a great OS, come at a premium price, and are still slow in comparison (try as he might, my boss just couldn't use Mail.app for email - way too slow, and locked up trying to handle to load).
And Linux is not desktop ready yet. If most people think configuring Windows should be left to the experts, what will they think when they're faced with arcane version numbers of this thing everyone calls the kernal (sic). And to burn CDs and DVDs, I have to add the what line to my bootloader what? Vertical and horizontal sync rates to change my refresh rate? You gotta be kidding me.
There's also the fact that Windows is well established and ingrained in all corners of computing: the most software is made for Windows, and everyone else uses Windows. Windows won the OS was at a critical time when general computing was taking off, and having gathered all that market share right at the root of the evolution, it will take a lot of things coming together in order to amount to a significant change.
Who's to say? The only other person to corroborate or disprove the defendant's story is dead. Fact is that there was a fatal accident while this guy was driving drunk.
I'm sure that in his drunken stupor, he did all he could to stop his friend from goofing around. Cough.
Some fine people ported BlackBox to Windows. bb4win.org. It comes with your default 4 virtual desktops, and you can configure bbkeys to Alt+{1,2,3,4,n+1} between them. And it is lightning fast; much faster than Microsoft's.
It looks like BlackBox runs instead of the default Explorer process, so the OS ends up feeling overall more responsive. So you might want to check it out. You can easily uninstall it by using a sinple batch script.
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I don't think that anyone that knows about GPL wouldn't know about GTR.
I own GTR, and I suppose the physics engine is very accurate. But watching a few replays or spinouts and other offroad excursions, the behavior of the car in GTR looked somewhat more canned than in GPL, where it looked extremely authentic, with every small bump affecting how the car moved about its 3d axis.
But all that aside, GPL is just a lot more fun. You can really get those cars sideways, and experience some great opposite lock. GTR is a lot more subdued. The Porsches gon't give out a lot of wheelspin even when the accelerator is all the way down coming out of a turn, and at the other end of the spectrum, the smallest bit of gas in a Ferrari in a turn and the smallest bit of rear end step out results in an unrecoverable spin (loss of aerodynamic grip, etc).
Besides, GPL has the greatest race tracks: the ones so unsafe by todays standards that no one would even think about driving.
And the extensive community that GPL created created a bigger market for other developers to create simulation games. Look at all the graphical updates, new tracks, car mods, that make this 1998 game look better than stuff being released today. Look at all the renewed interest in historic racing. People making trecks to France, Belgium, and Italy to take pictures and drive on long forgotten tracks, a lot of which are being torn down.
GPL has already gained the title of the greatest simulation game ever. Just wish Papy would have released the source.
I bought Thief 3 for the XBox because I didn't have a good enough PC to play it. I just couldn't take the interface, and the single speed with which to turn. So having bought it for the Xbox, I felt justified in downloading it for the PC. Nothing beats the mouse for a quick glance to your right to check for a guard, while staking out a doorway.
But I'm sure they'll make a keyboard and mouse for the Xbox (they probably have it now, but I don't care to check) so you might be in for a surprise:P
Speaking of System Shock, anyone have any news on Bioshock? Suppose it could be considered an FPS. I haven't seen any updates on the web recently, was hoping this article (or blurb) would have mentioned it.
Bouncing icons have an some sort of a purpose and practicality to them: an icon bouncing in the doc informs you that that application is either starting up or needs your attention.
I don't see any practical applications or use for wobbly windows, though. Maybe it can wobble when incorrect input is given, or an error occurs.
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http://f-prot.com/ is also free for non-commercial use, and is very good.
Well, its hosted in Florida.
Hey, if Philippe H., Tom T., and Jean V. think it is good, and that you should buy two while you're at it, then it must be great!
If you were the IT head of a company, would you want your users switching to Linux on their laptops? I wouldn't. I wouldn't want them using Windows either. Preferably they'd be using OSX.
But back on point, you would need a separate staff to offer support to those laptops. Anything from configuring Xorg, to trying to get the wireless card to work, to actually joining a network. And a large number of cards are not supported under linux.
There's also the fact that most people are familiar with Windows. Fewer are familiar with linux. And familiarity with linux is a very wide spectrum, between wireless, hybernation/sleep, X, the myriad of WMs, etc. Would you, as an IT manager, responsible for the budget, spending, and use of your resources, the overhead of trying to support another platform?
Linux and OO.o can be the right tool for such a job? That is a big deal.
For running some stupid PPT presentation that probably could have been authored by any high school or ollege student? Not realy a big deal in my eyes.
But don't let the facts ruin everone's fun. The hobby-developed underdog Linux supports the entire Microsoft corporation. Yup...
before anyone starts talking sh!t about NJ
I think you're a bit late there.
And fortunately you were technologically savvy enough to check that the link they sent was a legit one, leading to Vachovia's servers. Many do not know where to even begin to do that.
And you're right. Welcome to the 20th century, where requests to "confirm everything," to "update your personal information," or to change your ATM's PIN number because of an information breach can be sent to thousands of mailboxes in an instant, at no cost at all. Sending out a legitimate looking letter via mail, and trying to extract information from the recipient is much harder, takes much longer, and costs much, much more, and more easily tracked down.
Stop glorifying criminals!
But, but the media needs headlines! It's hard coming up with original stories.
Besides, stories like these are seksy.
I dn't believe Microsoft EVEr sent out patches via email to anyone. So your analogy is not correct, in that there is no vlaid expectation and awareness of a patch being emailed to you from Microsoft on the 1st of every month.
Running with your milk delivery premise, I'd propose the analogy of opening the door one morning, finding a beer on your doorstep, assuming the milkman delivered it, opening the beer and drinking it, only to realize it contained some poisonous substance and you dropped dead.
No one ever heard of morning beer delivery (except maybe in Germany, I don't know), so you, the recipient, have no reason to blindly trust the contents of that beer and the benevolent motives of the one that delivered it, only to then complain when the bottle did not contain fresh beer.
In that same report, the BSA do show that the percentage of all used software that was pirated dropped in 2004 from 2003. I do not recall the numbers, but the percentage drcrease was there, albeit a small one.
But in absolute dollar terms, as the entire software industry grew, so did piracy.
Heh. Funny that.
It is all a power grab, I think. By the time they start awarding these titles to the movie inspired games -- surprise, surprise -- the DVD version of the said movie will probably be hitting the shelves.
It is a nice way to gain "assets" (marketing money, the stars of the movies, brand association, legitimacy, and so on) out of the movie industry, and help the award spectacle in general.
Maybe I'm cynikal, but c'mon. A musuc channel, on its music award show selecting best video games, and the games they award are the movie based ones - the dullest and most hated category by any gamer?
People will be queueing up to get Windows because there is still no other alternative, not because of marketing. Macs, albeit having a great OS, come at a premium price, and are still slow in comparison (try as he might, my boss just couldn't use Mail.app for email - way too slow, and locked up trying to handle to load).
And Linux is not desktop ready yet. If most people think configuring Windows should be left to the experts, what will they think when they're faced with arcane version numbers of this thing everyone calls the kernal (sic). And to burn CDs and DVDs, I have to add the what line to my bootloader what? Vertical and horizontal sync rates to change my refresh rate? You gotta be kidding me.
There's also the fact that Windows is well established and ingrained in all corners of computing: the most software is made for Windows, and everyone else uses Windows. Windows won the OS was at a critical time when general computing was taking off, and having gathered all that market share right at the root of the evolution, it will take a lot of things coming together in order to amount to a significant change.
You might want to keep that copy of the XISO release of Tiger sitting on your hard drive and indexed by Spotlight on the down low. (second screenshot)
Who's to say? The only other person to corroborate or disprove the defendant's story is dead. Fact is that there was a fatal accident while this guy was driving drunk.
I'm sure that in his drunken stupor, he did all he could to stop his friend from goofing around. Cough.
This is 666 in octal, the number of the Beast...
Great Maiden song. Great Maiden album.
Interesting way of spreading the word about and promoting a feature. "Don't know anything about it? Go read up on it already!"
'throw'.
You may call me a spelling nazi today, but you'll thank me when you use the proper spelling in work related communication.
Some fine people ported BlackBox to Windows. bb4win.org. It comes with your default 4 virtual desktops, and you can configure bbkeys to Alt+{1,2,3,4,n+1} between them. And it is lightning fast; much faster than Microsoft's.
It looks like BlackBox runs instead of the default Explorer process, so the OS ends up feeling overall more responsive. So you might want to check it out. You can easily uninstall it by using a sinple batch script.
I don't think that anyone that knows about GPL wouldn't know about GTR.
I own GTR, and I suppose the physics engine is very accurate. But watching a few replays or spinouts and other offroad excursions, the behavior of the car in GTR looked somewhat more canned than in GPL, where it looked extremely authentic, with every small bump affecting how the car moved about its 3d axis.
But all that aside, GPL is just a lot more fun. You can really get those cars sideways, and experience some great opposite lock. GTR is a lot more subdued. The Porsches gon't give out a lot of wheelspin even when the accelerator is all the way down coming out of a turn, and at the other end of the spectrum, the smallest bit of gas in a Ferrari in a turn and the smallest bit of rear end step out results in an unrecoverable spin (loss of aerodynamic grip, etc).
Besides, GPL has the greatest race tracks: the ones so unsafe by todays standards that no one would even think about driving.
And the extensive community that GPL created created a bigger market for other developers to create simulation games. Look at all the graphical updates, new tracks, car mods, that make this 1998 game look better than stuff being released today. Look at all the renewed interest in historic racing. People making trecks to France, Belgium, and Italy to take pictures and drive on long forgotten tracks, a lot of which are being torn down.
GPL has already gained the title of the greatest simulation game ever. Just wish Papy would have released the source.
I bought Thief 3 for the XBox because I didn't have a good enough PC to play it. I just couldn't take the interface, and the single speed with which to turn. So having bought it for the Xbox, I felt justified in downloading it for the PC. Nothing beats the mouse for a quick glance to your right to check for a guard, while staking out a doorway.
:P
But I'm sure they'll make a keyboard and mouse for the Xbox (they probably have it now, but I don't care to check) so you might be in for a surprise
Speaking of System Shock, anyone have any news on Bioshock? Suppose it could be considered an FPS. I haven't seen any updates on the web recently, was hoping this article (or blurb) would have mentioned it.
PhotoShop CS2? Not a very creative name for this Creative Suite.
Bouncing icons have an some sort of a purpose and practicality to them: an icon bouncing in the doc informs you that that application is either starting up or needs your attention.
I don't see any practical applications or use for wobbly windows, though. Maybe it can wobble when incorrect input is given, or an error occurs.