"Ubuntu is up-to-date, easy to install, easy to keep working properly and comes with a ton of applications right out of the box."
Imagine the pure outrage there would be in the nerd community if Microsoft bundled an "Office Lite" into Windows. They'd be accused of leveraging their monopoly again.
Yet when an office suite comes pre-installed with Ubuntu, that's just providing convenience for the user...
Legacy support can easily be virtualised. That's how Apple managed the jump from OS9 to OSX (the "Classic" environment was launched on-demand), and that's how Windows 7 should be built.
Sure, legacy apps will run marginally slower, but new apps will be free of the built-up cruft.
Actually, trying to migrate from Eudora to ANYTHING is a pain in the ass. Users are essentially locked-in because the file format they use for storing messages is so botched that nothing can properly import it.
We have a guy at the office who really wants to switch to Outlook, but we just can't transfer over his messages from Eudora.
Only if you allow it to. You can un-check the option that allows iTunes to manage your files, so they stay in the same places and no duplicates are made.
Personally, I drag files into iTunes, and then delete the originals.
That's the only reason one of the guys at our office is still using Eudora: It's damn near impossible, unless you want to pay $50 for an app, to convert the database to any other mail program.
While I did take that into consideration, and there's a chance it may be true, I only like using that example because I managed to get a major newspaper to remove the ad from their site with a single, acknowledged complaint. (I assume they loaded it up on a worker's computer, saw the issue, and decided it may deter people from visiting.)
But the Dell ad aside, there's plenty of other Flash ads that like to hog my CPU for unoptimized shit like lens flares and confetti.
What pisses me off are badly designed Flash ads. They use plenty of CPU power just to animate something completely useless. Last year Dell was running this ad on my local newspaper's site that took 80% of my CPU just to animate FALLING SNOWFLAKES. I complained to the website, and they took it down.
Some Flash ads barely take any CPU at all, and those are honestly fine by me, but some just hog my resources. The problem is that the people who DESIGN these ads typically have cutting-edge machines, so they don't know what it's like to run them on a shitty office machine. So, please, TEST your ads on a shitbox average computer before you force them on us!
Oh, we have one holdout in our office. Everyone else is switched over to IE7, and I use Firefox, but this guy is unbelievably stubborn and refuses to allow me to upgrade it for him despite all explanations of why it's a good idea.
He's one of the company owners, and gets all pissy if I even install a security update on his machine. But if he wants to risk losing his QuickBooks when his computer eventually gets 0wned through IE6, well, that's his problem then.
I worked as an intern for a company developing a marketing CD-ROM, in Shockwave, for Bayer back in the '90s. I did the video content, and some widgets. All that stuff would be done through the web with Flash now...
As a serious reply to this, all my mousing is done with my wrist. With "acceleration" on, I can reach the edge of the screen with a flick of my wrist, yet still have fine control down to pixels.
I never understood people who use their whole arm to move a mouse...
Distribution prices would come down before the producers gave up their venue...
You'd be surprised. The theatre I worked at closed-down about a year after I quit, despite being in a busy, easily-accessible plaza in an affluent town. Now the only option we have is one of those suburban megaplexes on the edge of town that you can realistically only get to by car.
Anyway, I expect the cam films to be mostly inside jobs.
I totally agree. That's the only way you'd be able to properly setup a tripod. We were slackers, but we'd notice stuff like that during regular shows.
I don't know what theatre employees do these days, but I expect it's still a shit job, the kind of job that you go in every day hoping to get fired from, whose only perk is free movies and free fountain drinks.
Basically. I quit before I let them fire me, though. (I knew it was coming.) Our manager was a complete pain in the ass, and our employee turnover rate was astronomical.
I did have a few good times, though. Wish I'd bonded with my coworkers a bit better so I could have kept contact... (I was going through a bit of a rough spot in my life.)
But, it took forever to get the artificial butter smell out of my work pants.
I cannot put a sign up saying by entering you have to have gay sex within the next week and expect people to be bound by it because they entered my building.
Yes, but you CAN put up a sign saying, for instance, that unless a person's dog is a seeing eye dog, they can't bring it in. No matter how much they wuv widdle preshuss.
There is nothing in the law that allows them to exclude portions of the public because they hold a right dear to them.
Would you defend a bar's right to refuse entry to someone who looks underage and refuses to show ID? Or theatre barring a group of non-accompanied obviously young teens who refuse to show ID from seeing the latest blood-soaked slasher flick?
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"Ubuntu is up-to-date, easy to install, easy to keep working properly and comes with a ton of applications right out of the box."
Imagine the pure outrage there would be in the nerd community if Microsoft bundled an "Office Lite" into Windows. They'd be accused of leveraging their monopoly again.
Yet when an office suite comes pre-installed with Ubuntu, that's just providing convenience for the user...
Legacy support can easily be virtualised. That's how Apple managed the jump from OS9 to OSX (the "Classic" environment was launched on-demand), and that's how Windows 7 should be built.
Sure, legacy apps will run marginally slower, but new apps will be free of the built-up cruft.
My brain automatically filters out most of the lame jokes. Try it.
Actually, trying to migrate from Eudora to ANYTHING is a pain in the ass. Users are essentially locked-in because the file format they use for storing messages is so botched that nothing can properly import it.
We have a guy at the office who really wants to switch to Outlook, but we just can't transfer over his messages from Eudora.
In a scottish accent, "Ever heard of a shortcut?"
Only if you allow it to. You can un-check the option that allows iTunes to manage your files, so they stay in the same places and no duplicates are made.
Personally, I drag files into iTunes, and then delete the originals.
I drag and drop my music... in iTunes.
I find the music I want in my library, drag it to the iPod icon on the side, and drop.
You can do that, you know. "Syncing" is only optional.
All I have to say is: "Yes, Dr. Scott, a laser capable of emitting a beam of pure anti-matter."
That's the only reason one of the guys at our office is still using Eudora: It's damn near impossible, unless you want to pay $50 for an app, to convert the database to any other mail program.
What we really need is a CF-card sized "phone module" we can move between various devices...
Well, if North America had standardised on GSM, the answer would be simple: a SIM chip.
But, that's another argument for another time.
That doesn't just got for software. It goes for hardware in many cases, too.
That's reserved for the next version of Windows.
While I did take that into consideration, and there's a chance it may be true, I only like using that example because I managed to get a major newspaper to remove the ad from their site with a single, acknowledged complaint. (I assume they loaded it up on a worker's computer, saw the issue, and decided it may deter people from visiting.)
But the Dell ad aside, there's plenty of other Flash ads that like to hog my CPU for unoptimized shit like lens flares and confetti.
What pisses me off are badly designed Flash ads. They use plenty of CPU power just to animate something completely useless. Last year Dell was running this ad on my local newspaper's site that took 80% of my CPU just to animate FALLING SNOWFLAKES. I complained to the website, and they took it down.
Some Flash ads barely take any CPU at all, and those are honestly fine by me, but some just hog my resources. The problem is that the people who DESIGN these ads typically have cutting-edge machines, so they don't know what it's like to run them on a shitty office machine. So, please, TEST your ads on a shitbox average computer before you force them on us!
Most iPod owners don't know that you can load Linux on their iPod.
Honestly, most PC owners don't know you can load Linux on their PC.
Oh, we have one holdout in our office. Everyone else is switched over to IE7, and I use Firefox, but this guy is unbelievably stubborn and refuses to allow me to upgrade it for him despite all explanations of why it's a good idea.
He's one of the company owners, and gets all pissy if I even install a security update on his machine. But if he wants to risk losing his QuickBooks when his computer eventually gets 0wned through IE6, well, that's his problem then.
Don't forget a lack of sex education and contraceptives...
- facial recognition for *everyone* you meet, pops up their wikipedia page
Until some asshole declares them "not notable". At which point, it auto-redirects to their MySpace, and you have a seizure.
Personally, I'm excited to see what Newfies from outer space are like!
It's more efficient to move two fingers than your whole arm to nudge the mouse.
I've been using these things for 20 years, and only the keyboard gives me any sort of irritation after prolonged use.
That brings back memories.
I worked as an intern for a company developing a marketing CD-ROM, in Shockwave, for Bayer back in the '90s. I did the video content, and some widgets. All that stuff would be done through the web with Flash now...
Ah, so the same reason someone drives an SUV to their office.
As a serious reply to this, all my mousing is done with my wrist. With "acceleration" on, I can reach the edge of the screen with a flick of my wrist, yet still have fine control down to pixels.
I never understood people who use their whole arm to move a mouse...
Distribution prices would come down before the producers gave up their venue...
You'd be surprised. The theatre I worked at closed-down about a year after I quit, despite being in a busy, easily-accessible plaza in an affluent town. Now the only option we have is one of those suburban megaplexes on the edge of town that you can realistically only get to by car.
Anyway, I expect the cam films to be mostly inside jobs.
I totally agree. That's the only way you'd be able to properly setup a tripod. We were slackers, but we'd notice stuff like that during regular shows.
I don't know what theatre employees do these days, but I expect it's still a shit job, the kind of job that you go in every day hoping to get fired from, whose only perk is free movies and free fountain drinks.
Basically. I quit before I let them fire me, though. (I knew it was coming.) Our manager was a complete pain in the ass, and our employee turnover rate was astronomical.
I did have a few good times, though. Wish I'd bonded with my coworkers a bit better so I could have kept contact... (I was going through a bit of a rough spot in my life.)
But, it took forever to get the artificial butter smell out of my work pants.
I cannot put a sign up saying by entering you have to have gay sex within the next week and expect people to be bound by it because they entered my building.
Yes, but you CAN put up a sign saying, for instance, that unless a person's dog is a seeing eye dog, they can't bring it in. No matter how much they wuv widdle preshuss.
There is nothing in the law that allows them to exclude portions of the public because they hold a right dear to them.
Would you defend a bar's right to refuse entry to someone who looks underage and refuses to show ID? Or theatre barring a group of non-accompanied obviously young teens who refuse to show ID from seeing the latest blood-soaked slasher flick?