We get databases from clients that are in Access 2002 (aka Office XP). Access 2002 unfortunately was the only product which is not binary compatible with the older versions. However once 1 person goes to the new version of office then everyone else needs to as well.
However some of the XML export and import features are also quite usefull.
However the harder that Microsoft makes it and now that Microsoft "checks up" on the software that is being installed has made people choose different things.
I cannot beleive that people are willing to buy a $1000 (Aussie Dollar) computer and then spend more than that on Office XP Pro ($1200 AUD). However the work of the BSAA (Bus Software Assoc Australia) has put the frighteners on enough people to want to get legitimate with there software.
I think you will see more and more people choose products like OpenOffice & StarOffice because they do nearly everything that they want.
Think about it:
The rocket is travelling toward the moon at 10000 mph.
A charge is fired that shoots the booster away from the main command module at 100 mph.
Therefore the spent rocket is travelling at 9900 mph.
Remember when you see the video of the rocket ejection that the camera is mounted on the main rocket and is travelling quite quickly.
I don't know if this is a victory or not for Slashdotters, but the more stringent Microsoft licensing becomes the more people will be driven to open source products.
Now the subscription license was a pretty good deal.
In Australia the Office XP Pro Subscription was ~$350, now a upgrade to Office XP Pro from Office 2000 pro is $645, and the full version is $1120.
So that means that you could pay the subscription for what is effectively a third of the cost of the full product or just under half the upgrade.
Considering that M$ is now upgrading office every 18 months that is a pretty good deal, especially if you don't have office already.
I believe that the reason M$ office is fast is there is a process (OSA*.exe) that starts up and loads office code into memory.
So while offices app start fast they are cheating. Similar to the situation with Mozilla and its fast start. Everyone compared it to IE but IE gets loaded up at login.
I have seen a Centronics 50 (SCSI I Connector) which is like the connector on a PC Printer just twice as long, jammed upside down. Now as you know the outer casing on these is ~5mm longer on the top to the bottom. This had strechted and broken the connector.
Pity it was an expensive gold plated connector aswell.
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Reminds me of a guy on a tech support line who was helping a guy with a problem with floppy disks.
Basically, the guy could format a floppy disk, copy files to it, read files from it. If he took the disk to another computer it was fine. However if he 'left' the disk for a while it would no longer work.
Tech support guy couldn't work this out (remembering he is phone based support), they shipped the guy a new floppy drive, new floppy disks nothing worked.
One day after the new drive had been installed, he was getting the guy to swap disks in the drive and he heard a 'clack' as he swap disks. Asking the guy what that noise was, the guy responded that he had set up a disk holder on his shelf. A magnetic disk holder. Basically he had a strip magnet which he had stuch to a shelf on the bookshelf and stored the disks using the metal disk cover.
There was an interview in one of the local papers with one of the big discount retailers of CD's here in Australia (JB-HiFi).
They were asking the sales manager about the drop in CD sales (aprox 80% of previous years) and he squarely pointed the finger at DVD sales.
He said they have seen a drop in CD sales but DVD have exploded. Previously they only sold a couple of Videos (eg a small percentage of CD sales) but DVDs are growing in leaps and bounds. They have even taken over the shop next door to one of there city stores to cater for the selection of DVDs and it is always full.
The sales manager beleive that DVD's were taking up a fair proportion of the CD budget that people spent on entertainment, and believed that downloading and coping of songs has nothing or very little to do with it.
That is what the window menu is good for. When you have 6 websites open all that start with the same name (eg surfing a portal site) you still have to click through the whole list.
Have to admit Mozillas tab browsing rocks. UI done right for sure.
The more people who use this and the more machines that use this the more 'value' it provides to apple customers.
Imagine:
I walk into a company and hook up my Mac Notebook. I need to get printer access, one of the guys has a linux machine running rendezvous code, I can now print.
That provides a heap of value to the person with a Mac. If it was MacOSX only it would be good for close shops.
Also I don't think that this technology would be a deal breaker/winner. Eg I have to get a MacOSX box so I can use Redezvous. I am guessing iTunes, iDVD, iPhoto, Final Cut Pro, are all thinks that add to the deal winner for Apple. My guess is you won't ever see them open sourced.
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I would ask the ISP to show you detailed info on there outbound bandwidth and the current performance.
Also ask about what there upgrade policy is as well.
A lot of people work on keeping there links at 80% utilisation and upgrade when they go above that.
This applies to the small guys as well as the big guys. The advantage is if you go with the big guys and a couple of people have sudden jumps in there bandwidth it is not going to make as big a difference to your throughput as it will with the little guys.
Often these restrictions are placed simply because of the amount of testing that is required.
Also the PCI cards are all non Apple standard (although some where sold in the apple store) but this means that you would have to test:
Each Different Video Card
In Each different Machine Type
In different slots
With different PCI setups
Now I am assuming that there are 5 dfferent video cards sold capable of QE (I just made this up), there are at least 6 setups of hardware architecture (counting revisions in G4 desktops (3), B&W desktops (2), Beige Machines). 3 slots per machine, and a standard set of PCI cards to test against (say 6 cards eg SCSI, IDE controllers, Video Input Cards).
Now that makes 540 different tests that needs to be performed. Now if each test only took 30 minutes from setup to pull down, that makes a month of testing for one person. Now that occurs assuming no problems are found! My guess it was to difficult, didn't provide any real benefit and therefore you can leave it out and people can modify there machines with an ***unsupported*** hack.
Thanks
Luke
My guess that while it will be running an intel processor it won't run on 'Commodity' PC hardware. The fact that Apple controls the hardware and the software is what makes a Mac so great.
Web Designers will be quick to give you an email saying that they will not support this browser blah blah blah. They have been doing it for a long time, they are used to it.
The best way is to complain to the web masters boss. Now most sites don't have webmastersboss@domain.com but most have sales@domain.com if a commerce site. Simply state your case, ie was going to do business with you but it doesn't work with my browser. Let me know when it is fixed and I might consider doing business with you.
You will find things get fixed quick smart. Especially stupid things, like sites that have a flash intro, & a skip intro button that is also don e in flash so if you don't have flash you can't get into the site.
I would have thought letting the piracy go unchecked would have been cheaper. Microsoft wouldn't have to worry about the support side of things, and they don't have to pay for the distribution!
The products are even less buggy than others, in terms of per capita usage, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has said.
So does that mean that because more people use Microsoft software they can have more bugs in it? This sort of statistic is like using "Revenue over number of employees named Frank" as an accounting measure for companies!
And the other one:
Mundie said. "Microsoft can't control that process. If the printer driver tanks the system, who do you hold liable?"
Now *that* explains what caused all those holes in my locked down IIS server!
I wouldn't be surprised if you see up and coming Macs with USB2.0 and FireWire (800mbs).
I don't think the two technologies compete that much. Everyone likes to make out that they are major competitors to each other.
I see it like this:
USB for your Printers/Scanners/Disk Drives/KeyBoard/Mouse etc, basically anything that is only usefull with a computer.
Firewire for your streaming devices, such as Hard Drives, Video Cameras etc. Of course there will be some devices that cross over but I don't think it will be that common.
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We get databases from clients that are in Access 2002 (aka Office XP). Access 2002 unfortunately was the only product which is not binary compatible with the older versions. However once 1 person goes to the new version of office then everyone else needs to as well. However some of the XML export and import features are also quite usefull.
However the harder that Microsoft makes it and now that Microsoft "checks up" on the software that is being installed has made people choose different things. I cannot beleive that people are willing to buy a $1000 (Aussie Dollar) computer and then spend more than that on Office XP Pro ($1200 AUD). However the work of the BSAA (Bus Software Assoc Australia) has put the frighteners on enough people to want to get legitimate with there software. I think you will see more and more people choose products like OpenOffice & StarOffice because they do nearly everything that they want.
Think about it: The rocket is travelling toward the moon at 10000 mph. A charge is fired that shoots the booster away from the main command module at 100 mph. Therefore the spent rocket is travelling at 9900 mph. Remember when you see the video of the rocket ejection that the camera is mounted on the main rocket and is travelling quite quickly.
I don't know if this is a victory or not for Slashdotters, but the more stringent Microsoft licensing becomes the more people will be driven to open source products. Now the subscription license was a pretty good deal. In Australia the Office XP Pro Subscription was ~$350, now a upgrade to Office XP Pro from Office 2000 pro is $645, and the full version is $1120. So that means that you could pay the subscription for what is effectively a third of the cost of the full product or just under half the upgrade. Considering that M$ is now upgrading office every 18 months that is a pretty good deal, especially if you don't have office already.
I believe that the reason M$ office is fast is there is a process (OSA*.exe) that starts up and loads office code into memory. So while offices app start fast they are cheating. Similar to the situation with Mozilla and its fast start. Everyone compared it to IE but IE gets loaded up at login.
I have seen a Centronics 50 (SCSI I Connector) which is like the connector on a PC Printer just twice as long, jammed upside down. Now as you know the outer casing on these is ~5mm longer on the top to the bottom. This had strechted and broken the connector. Pity it was an expensive gold plated connector aswell.
Reminds me of a guy on a tech support line who was helping a guy with a problem with floppy disks. Basically, the guy could format a floppy disk, copy files to it, read files from it. If he took the disk to another computer it was fine. However if he 'left' the disk for a while it would no longer work. Tech support guy couldn't work this out (remembering he is phone based support), they shipped the guy a new floppy drive, new floppy disks nothing worked. One day after the new drive had been installed, he was getting the guy to swap disks in the drive and he heard a 'clack' as he swap disks. Asking the guy what that noise was, the guy responded that he had set up a disk holder on his shelf. A magnetic disk holder. Basically he had a strip magnet which he had stuch to a shelf on the bookshelf and stored the disks using the metal disk cover.
Isn't V-Twin what runs/ran sherlock searching when you indexed and searched your hard drive?
There was an interview in one of the local papers with one of the big discount retailers of CD's here in Australia (JB-HiFi). They were asking the sales manager about the drop in CD sales (aprox 80% of previous years) and he squarely pointed the finger at DVD sales. He said they have seen a drop in CD sales but DVD have exploded. Previously they only sold a couple of Videos (eg a small percentage of CD sales) but DVDs are growing in leaps and bounds. They have even taken over the shop next door to one of there city stores to cater for the selection of DVDs and it is always full. The sales manager beleive that DVD's were taking up a fair proportion of the CD budget that people spent on entertainment, and believed that downloading and coping of songs has nothing or very little to do with it.
That is what the window menu is good for. When you have 6 websites open all that start with the same name (eg surfing a portal site) you still have to click through the whole list. Have to admit Mozillas tab browsing rocks. UI done right for sure.
How many CIO's don't even know they are running Linux??
The more people who use this and the more machines that use this the more 'value' it provides to apple customers. Imagine: I walk into a company and hook up my Mac Notebook. I need to get printer access, one of the guys has a linux machine running rendezvous code, I can now print. That provides a heap of value to the person with a Mac. If it was MacOSX only it would be good for close shops. Also I don't think that this technology would be a deal breaker/winner. Eg I have to get a MacOSX box so I can use Redezvous. I am guessing iTunes, iDVD, iPhoto, Final Cut Pro, are all thinks that add to the deal winner for Apple. My guess is you won't ever see them open sourced.
I would ask the ISP to show you detailed info on there outbound bandwidth and the current performance. Also ask about what there upgrade policy is as well. A lot of people work on keeping there links at 80% utilisation and upgrade when they go above that. This applies to the small guys as well as the big guys. The advantage is if you go with the big guys and a couple of people have sudden jumps in there bandwidth it is not going to make as big a difference to your throughput as it will with the little guys.
Often these restrictions are placed simply because of the amount of testing that is required. Also the PCI cards are all non Apple standard (although some where sold in the apple store) but this means that you would have to test: Each Different Video Card In Each different Machine Type In different slots With different PCI setups Now I am assuming that there are 5 dfferent video cards sold capable of QE (I just made this up), there are at least 6 setups of hardware architecture (counting revisions in G4 desktops (3), B&W desktops (2), Beige Machines). 3 slots per machine, and a standard set of PCI cards to test against (say 6 cards eg SCSI, IDE controllers, Video Input Cards). Now that makes 540 different tests that needs to be performed. Now if each test only took 30 minutes from setup to pull down, that makes a month of testing for one person. Now that occurs assuming no problems are found! My guess it was to difficult, didn't provide any real benefit and therefore you can leave it out and people can modify there machines with an ***unsupported*** hack. Thanks Luke
And these are likely to be the people with Dual Head AGP video cards. I am sure there is someone who can use it though. Thanks Luke
My guess that while it will be running an intel processor it won't run on 'Commodity' PC hardware. The fact that Apple controls the hardware and the software is what makes a Mac so great.
Thanks
Luke
Web Designers will be quick to give you an email saying that they will not support this browser blah blah blah. They have been doing it for a long time, they are used to it.
The best way is to complain to the web masters boss. Now most sites don't have webmastersboss@domain.com but most have sales@domain.com if a commerce site. Simply state your case, ie was going to do business with you but it doesn't work with my browser. Let me know when it is fixed and I might consider doing business with you.
You will find things get fixed quick smart. Especially stupid things, like sites that have a flash intro, & a skip intro button that is also don e in flash so if you don't have flash you can't get into the site.
I would have thought letting the piracy go unchecked would have been cheaper. Microsoft wouldn't have to worry about the support side of things, and they don't have to pay for the distribution!
I believe that GNOME came out of RedHat originally. Also there is: http://www.labs.redhat.com/projects.html
and
http://www.labs.redhat.com/index.shtml
Which explains what RedHat developers are giving back to the community.
Thanks
Luke
Couple of quotes in the article I like:
The products are even less buggy than others, in terms of per capita usage, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has said.
So does that mean that because more people use Microsoft software they can have more bugs in it? This sort of statistic is like using "Revenue over number of employees named Frank" as an accounting measure for companies!
And the other one:
Mundie said. "Microsoft can't control that process. If the printer driver tanks the system, who do you hold liable?"
Now *that* explains what caused all those holes in my locked down IIS server!
The NSA does disclose there systems. If I remember correctly the NSA had a helping hand in many of the publicly available crypto routines.
They also released Secure Linux
Also the NSA is also about *breaking* systems, which they thankfully don't release the source to.
I remember the instructions for an inner tube patch kit.
There was only a couple of lines in the instructions (some of which sounded like Yoda should have said them) but the absolute classic was:
Thwock it with hammer.
From now on wheneven I use a hammer a thwock stuff with it.
He is running point to point with IPSEC at either end
No dents for him!
I wouldn't be surprised if you see up and coming Macs with USB2.0 and FireWire (800mbs).
I don't think the two technologies compete that much. Everyone likes to make out that they are major competitors to each other.
I see it like this:
USB for your Printers/Scanners/Disk Drives/KeyBoard/Mouse etc, basically anything that is only usefull with a computer.
Firewire for your streaming devices, such as Hard Drives, Video Cameras etc. Of course there will be some devices that cross over but I don't think it will be that common.
USB 2 does have 'reserved bandwidth' (I believe they guarentee time slices like ATM).