Don't know about you people but besides a handful of geeks, nobody installs new versions of MS Windows on old computers. It gets preloaded by OEMs
And so those thousands of boxes sold at Costco, Walmart and other retail outlets are all just bought by geeks? I seriously doubt it. But this time around, I think those people who DO purchase their copy over the counter are going to be returning alot of those boxes.
It boils down to which will make you happier. Money is good but I've found that as a developer, I will take a smaller salary for more control, more freedom, a better work environment and an easier commute.
It has little to do with the language unless you like one more than the other in which case that's another factor to take into consideration.
Almost all of our servers were being installed with SUSE. The second that was announced, the company announced it was now standardizing on Red Hat. We'll be spending the next year moving the servers over to Red Hat and all new servers are getting installing with RHEL
probably not. I use certain accounts for certain things. And this still isn't very descriptive. This is just general internet info. Again, nothing to incriminate, nothing to ID me.
And again, this is my whole point, should all info on an individual be in ONE place for everyone to easily access, that would be frightening. Having it all broken up and all over the place makes me comfortable since that data (though parsed and resold), usually doesn't coordinate with all the other databases that hold related information to me.
Well when you are the underdog in a market (like search), doesn't it make more sense to pander to the largest audience possible??? By deliberately ignoring a 20% of the market, they are causing those people to default to Google leaving them to fight over the remaining 80% with the dominant search company who is going to get that remaining 20% because they CAN!
First rule of business in any market is reach the largest audience possible and when there is already a dominant company in the market, to be able to do something better. This is neither better nor does it reach the largest audience possible.
Microsoft just shot itself in the foot being a bit too arrogant again.
Most of the time... yes. They may mine what they can but it's snippets which may or may not be related to what some other manufacturer may need. Speaking as someone who has had to do that kind of thing, data gts scrubbed and what is purchased is not the entire set of data but a specific view which may or may not have accurate info or may be outdated and no longer current.
So regardless of them trading, NO company sells theirs ENTIRE database of info to their competitors and nobody has completely current and accurate info on all persons in their DB.
Having my data in several different databases that don't work together or coordinate their data in any way makes me feel safer than having all my data in one database for everyone to easily access. Reminds me of MS Passport.
I've known people to get attacked via this method. Unscrupulous advertising companies have used it to install spyware on several occasions. Usually the link comes via spam.
I installed it on my 60 yr old moms computer and she's says it's the best computer she has ever owned (doesn't understand the difference between Windows and Linux)
She now calls every weekend and says 'Still up!' referring to the fact that her system hasn't crashed yet. It works with her scanner, her digital camera my brother bought her and doesn't have a single problem.
In order of excuse...
1) weapons of mass destruction which were never found
2) terrorism links that were never proven
3) liberating the iraqi people who are now worse off than before.
After having to constantly patch my moms system remotely every weekend for ever bug, viros, exploit, spyware and everything else, I installed Kubuntu on a spare box, shipped it on down there and hooked it up. It detected her Scaner, the digital camera my brother bought her, the speakers and everthing just fine. She now says it never crashes and is the best machine she has ever owned. Now every week, the phone call consists of her thanking me for 'fixing her computer'; she doesn't even know she's not running windows.
Don't offer it as a choice, just cram it down their throats and then let them deal with the after effects. Another classic example of customer service by Microsoft.
They should change there motto from "where do you want to go today?" to " You're going where we take you so sit back and shut up or your going in the trunk again"
No kidding. PDF, Word docs, Excel docs and open docs all open great and convert nicely. We use it within the workplace on several desktops and have plans to move completely to it before moving to Vista or the next gen of Office.
If you think these responses came straight from him your are fooling yourself. They were most likely filtered through spin doctors and approved by a marketing exec before release to Slashdot.
I defer the medal to the Ubuntu team that has done a great job in bringing Linux to the desktop. These guys finally figured out what all the others distros have missed entirely.
I used to work for a health care provider and managed to see Steve Ballmers psyche profile (before adding into a DB). Naturally I read it. Basically you could guess the issues he has just from reading Slashdot.
Not really. I could have installed Ubuntu on her current system. But hey, she's my mom. So I figured I'd upgrade her whole computing experience. She practically wigged when I showed her GIMP and Open Office and everything. She thought I paid a fortune and didn't understand how it could all be 'free'.
My mom ever so recently was told to upgrade by her ISP; in fact they told her to buy a whole new computer or else they wouldn't support her. After I screamed at them for this kind of attitude and for advising someone who is ignorant of such matters that they would need a whole new computer, I went out and bought her a new system and installed Ubuntu on it.
Now her scanner, printer, digital camera that my brother bought her and speakers all work great. She never worries about viruses and LOVES firefox. It took her awhile to get used to tabs but now that she is, she wouldn't switch back to IE even if you paid her to move to Windows.
I don't think it's unreasonable to think that at least 10% of these outdated systems may eventually switch. If they get fed up enough with things, they will. And I'm speaking as someone who has refused to upgrade my Win2k machine because it still works just fine for me including for playing games; I don;t have reason to upgrade but do want to use a decent browser.
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To paraphrase, "I hate Microsoft but they sure are keen and smart and I wish I was just like them."
Linux fulfills all your dreams silly man. :)
...and snow is white and Tom Cruise is a closeted homosexual. Tell us something we don't know.
It boils down to which will make you happier. Money is good but I've found that as a developer, I will take a smaller salary for more control, more freedom, a better work environment and an easier commute. It has little to do with the language unless you like one more than the other in which case that's another factor to take into consideration.
Almost all of our servers were being installed with SUSE. The second that was announced, the company announced it was now standardizing on Red Hat. We'll be spending the next year moving the servers over to Red Hat and all new servers are getting installing with RHEL
probably not. I use certain accounts for certain things. And this still isn't very descriptive. This is just general internet info. Again, nothing to incriminate, nothing to ID me. And again, this is my whole point, should all info on an individual be in ONE place for everyone to easily access, that would be frightening. Having it all broken up and all over the place makes me comfortable since that data (though parsed and resold), usually doesn't coordinate with all the other databases that hold related information to me.
Well when you are the underdog in a market (like search), doesn't it make more sense to pander to the largest audience possible??? By deliberately ignoring a 20% of the market, they are causing those people to default to Google leaving them to fight over the remaining 80% with the dominant search company who is going to get that remaining 20% because they CAN! First rule of business in any market is reach the largest audience possible and when there is already a dominant company in the market, to be able to do something better. This is neither better nor does it reach the largest audience possible. Microsoft just shot itself in the foot being a bit too arrogant again.
If ever single person who wanted to access my data had to lean over my shoulder, I'd be comfortable with that. :)
Most of the time... yes. They may mine what they can but it's snippets which may or may not be related to what some other manufacturer may need. Speaking as someone who has had to do that kind of thing, data gts scrubbed and what is purchased is not the entire set of data but a specific view which may or may not have accurate info or may be outdated and no longer current. So regardless of them trading, NO company sells theirs ENTIRE database of info to their competitors and nobody has completely current and accurate info on all persons in their DB.
Duh... but they don't know this is my handle. And you don't know where I work.
I dread the day that my workplace can read all my Slashdot posts.
Having my data in several different databases that don't work together or coordinate their data in any way makes me feel safer than having all my data in one database for everyone to easily access. Reminds me of MS Passport.
I've known people to get attacked via this method. Unscrupulous advertising companies have used it to install spyware on several occasions. Usually the link comes via spam.
I installed it on my 60 yr old moms computer and she's says it's the best computer she has ever owned (doesn't understand the difference between Windows and Linux) She now calls every weekend and says 'Still up!' referring to the fact that her system hasn't crashed yet. It works with her scanner, her digital camera my brother bought her and doesn't have a single problem.
In order of excuse... 1) weapons of mass destruction which were never found 2) terrorism links that were never proven 3) liberating the iraqi people who are now worse off than before.
After having to constantly patch my moms system remotely every weekend for ever bug, viros, exploit, spyware and everything else, I installed Kubuntu on a spare box, shipped it on down there and hooked it up. It detected her Scaner, the digital camera my brother bought her, the speakers and everthing just fine. She now says it never crashes and is the best machine she has ever owned. Now every week, the phone call consists of her thanking me for 'fixing her computer'; she doesn't even know she's not running windows.
Don't offer it as a choice, just cram it down their throats and then let them deal with the after effects. Another classic example of customer service by Microsoft. They should change there motto from "where do you want to go today?" to " You're going where we take you so sit back and shut up or your going in the trunk again"
No kidding. PDF, Word docs, Excel docs and open docs all open great and convert nicely. We use it within the workplace on several desktops and have plans to move completely to it before moving to Vista or the next gen of Office.
James Carvelle is the master of spin without spin. Karl Rove is the master of bullshit spin. Just ask yourself why we are in Iraq.
If you think these responses came straight from him your are fooling yourself. They were most likely filtered through spin doctors and approved by a marketing exec before release to Slashdot.
I defer the medal to the Ubuntu team that has done a great job in bringing Linux to the desktop. These guys finally figured out what all the others distros have missed entirely.
I used to work for a health care provider and managed to see Steve Ballmers psyche profile (before adding into a DB). Naturally I read it. Basically you could guess the issues he has just from reading Slashdot.
Not really. I could have installed Ubuntu on her current system. But hey, she's my mom. So I figured I'd upgrade her whole computing experience. She practically wigged when I showed her GIMP and Open Office and everything. She thought I paid a fortune and didn't understand how it could all be 'free'.
My mom ever so recently was told to upgrade by her ISP; in fact they told her to buy a whole new computer or else they wouldn't support her. After I screamed at them for this kind of attitude and for advising someone who is ignorant of such matters that they would need a whole new computer, I went out and bought her a new system and installed Ubuntu on it. Now her scanner, printer, digital camera that my brother bought her and speakers all work great. She never worries about viruses and LOVES firefox. It took her awhile to get used to tabs but now that she is, she wouldn't switch back to IE even if you paid her to move to Windows. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that at least 10% of these outdated systems may eventually switch. If they get fed up enough with things, they will. And I'm speaking as someone who has refused to upgrade my Win2k machine because it still works just fine for me including for playing games; I don;t have reason to upgrade but do want to use a decent browser.