Yeah, it's got no tabs, no download manager, no pop-up blocking, poor CSS support - so 1990s. If I'm going to browse the web, I'd rather use one with standard modern features.
I'm not sure how much Windows XP costs, but I bough OS X Tiger recently and it was £89. I'd happily pas £5 less for a version that didn't have QuickTime included. I like VLC as my movie player. If I was to buy Windows to put on one of my PCs, I'd happily pay £5 less to get it without: MSN Messenger, MSN Explorer, Media Player, Movie Maker, Outlook Express and Internet Explorer.
I've not paid for Word or Excel either. I find iWork to be a superior word processor to Word. I'd rate OpenOffice.org and Word on a similar level for bloatedness. I don't think I've even used Excel other than to try the flight sim that's hidden in it:-)
The last computer I bought came with MacOS 10.3, and I bought MacOS 10.4. I treat software the same as I treat music... If the producer is selling it, and I like it and want it, then I'll buy it. Yeah, I've downloaded music from the Internet, but if I like it I'll buy the CD too.
Sure, some people pirating OS X and making it look more popular is a good thing, but if everyone does that, then where does Apple get their revenue from?
Piracy of the OS means that its userbase will increase exponentially. Then there are more people to lock in and sell other products to. I guess a few of the people who switch to OS X will also start to like iWork and some of the other apps that OS X allows them to run. More people using Apple's software will only benefit Apple. The people who run pirate copies will probably be the people who would never buy it anyway since they already have Windows... probably the same people that think they got Windows for free with their computer.
I don't have any iTunes music on my iPod, and I didn't use iTunes to put it there. I put a bunch of MP3s on it from my Kubuntu desktop, and ran a python script that updated the iPod's database.
Apple's music hardware/software has been around long enough for compatible open-source alternatives to become available, which is what made it more appealing to me.
Somehow I don't think Microsoft's music serivice/media players will be appealing in the same way.
I'd rather read a badly spelled insightful comment than most other comments, but I find the ones with bad grammar very difficult to read. I think bad spelling's easier to deal with because misspelled words at least sound like the word they're meant to be.
Winshit/Linshit, I use a Mac at home. I mainly use Solaris 9 and Kubuntu at work. I know people who are like "what's that on your computer? I've never heard of it". People who make fun of Linux as being a geeky thing. And you know what? that doesn't offend me. If only the same coule be said whenever someone made fun of Windows...
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Apparently even the non-geek computer users understand stuff that geeks think just they understand. Never underestimate the power of an average user :-)
If only Windows had something like the Debian packaging system :-)
Last time I installed FireFox it was from a cover disc on a magazine.
I see what you mean about it being more hassle though. Ideally a desktop OS would give a few options about web browsing, office and media software.
Yeah, it's got no tabs, no download manager, no pop-up blocking, poor CSS support - so 1990s. If I'm going to browse the web, I'd rather use one with standard modern features.
But Media Player is staying on my system even if I have the option to uninstall it. Real is flaming awful.
There are other media players. Take
VLC for instance. It's truly free, available for most operating systems, and performs well.
I'm not sure how much Windows XP costs, but I bough OS X Tiger recently and it was £89. I'd happily pas £5 less for a version that didn't have QuickTime included. I like VLC as my movie player. If I was to buy Windows to put on one of my PCs, I'd happily pay £5 less to get it without: MSN Messenger, MSN Explorer, Media Player, Movie Maker, Outlook Express and Internet Explorer.
He's more likely to be talking of GCC, cross-compiling, and the Qt and WxWindows toolkits.
.Net (in the form of Mono )is making significant progress on non-Windows platforms as well.
I've not paid for Word or Excel either. I find iWork to be a superior word processor to Word. I'd rate OpenOffice.org and Word on a similar level for bloatedness. I don't think I've even used Excel other than to try the flight sim that's hidden in it :-)
The last computer I bought came with MacOS 10.3, and I bought MacOS 10.4. I treat software the same as I treat music... If the producer is selling it, and I like it and want it, then I'll buy it. Yeah, I've downloaded music from the Internet, but if I like it I'll buy the CD too.
Sure, some people pirating OS X and making it look more popular is a good thing, but if everyone does that, then where does Apple get their revenue from?
Piracy of the OS means that its userbase will increase exponentially. Then there are more people to lock in and sell other products to. I guess a few of the people who switch to OS X will also start to like iWork and some of the other apps that OS X allows them to run. More people using Apple's software will only benefit Apple.
The people who run pirate copies will probably be the people who would never buy it anyway since they already have Windows... probably the same people that think they got Windows for free with their computer.
I don't have any iTunes music on my iPod, and I didn't use iTunes to put it there. I put a bunch of MP3s on it from my Kubuntu desktop, and ran a python script that updated the iPod's database.
Apple's music hardware/software has been around long enough for compatible open-source alternatives to become available, which is what made it more appealing to me.
Somehow I don't think Microsoft's music serivice/media players will be appealing in the same way.
You mean the Gentoo users?
Market testing is over
:-)
Now the proposal becomes proposal-RC1. Sevral months down the line it may eventually become Stable.
I was quite shocked today to see that Debian Sarge got there first though
I'd rather read a badly spelled insightful comment than most other comments, but I find the ones with bad grammar very difficult to read. I think bad spelling's easier to deal with because misspelled words at least sound like the word they're meant to be.
60% of your sentence was made up of real English words, not bad. The grammar's shocking though.
I presume you meant what the GP said was uncalled-for, but you gave no reason. Would you care to elaborate on that?
Yeah, but it's not a standard Unix thing. Solaris doesn't have it, for example.
lol
Winshit/Linshit, I use a Mac at home. I mainly use Solaris 9 and Kubuntu at work. I know people who are like "what's that on your computer? I've never heard of it". People who make fun of Linux as being a geeky thing. And you know what? that doesn't offend me. If only the same coule be said whenever someone made fun of Windows...
Actually you have four colors to fear: blue, red, green and yellow arranged to look vaguely like a flag blowing in the wind.
or...
How quickly can it start OpenOffice.org?
And it is on the frontpage of Slashdot so you KNOW it has to be true.
No, I just know that it's probably happened before... and been covered by Slashdot perhaps a year ago.
Striped spaces? Spaces: now even faster and more reliable than ever before!
Rumoured to be available in Linux 2.6.13
Erm, but it's a Dell.
Not sure why you'd want to
Are you new here?
Too bad "MS-root" can't watch over your grandmother when she opens emails.
Well, the UNIX-like permissions should mean she has to chmod u+x before running the attached virus. Who can be arsed doing that?
I was talking about my bedroom. This *is* Slashdot after all :-)
Pressurized with what? Air?