I know lots of Hotmail users enjoy that email they receive as soon as an email arrives. I'd love to see google have such a service as well. Without it lots of people will continue to use hotmail.
I worked for a company who offered client cards for MacDonalds and Quick fast food joint in France. I worked there for a total of 22 days with one guy who implemented something he called affectionately XAS (XML Advanced Server) which was a little piece of software that received and sent some bastardized XML to another XAS until it went up all the way to the main server where we dealt with the data.
The XAS code was closed and only the boss had access to it. However he wanted us to develop some VB apps that would work with it. We had no documentation and when I asked why the boss told me that we don't work with documentation anymore but with UML. I asked where the UML models were and he muffled something about not having any.
I tried guessing what things did by their variable name but the boss enjoyed variable names like varTempOne, var1, var2, var3, generic1, generic2, myVariable, etc...
One day I asked if I could see the source code to XAS. I learned quickly that it was a mistake.
Clients were constantly calling because the XAS servers were going down unexpectadly. The problem was the logs growing to more than 2 gigs in size. Every second line of the logs would have a copyright description with the name of my boss all over the place. He was so proud of his XAS. Unfortunatly though his XML wasn't valid in any sense. He pissed me off so much!
After 22 days of this BS I had rashes from the stress of working there. I told the boss I needed XAS source code to work with or documentation to work with. That night I received a phone call telling me I didn't need to come in the next day, that they were going to do without me. I was so relieved I did a huge party.
I talked to the boss's boss the week after. I explained what was going on and a month later the boss I had trouble with got fired along with his bum buddy. I was so happy!:)
Last I heard the guy's wife left him too. I couldn't be happier!:)
All I see on TV nowadays is crappy shows for teenagers and women. Everything is a disgrace to men. Where are the gladiators, the boxing matches and the explosions? TV is now geared towards a woman's desire. I want blow em up stuff with the least possible emotions. That's right. No emotions at all!
Big stations thought they had it right with reality TV but that certainly drove more women to the small screen but moved men away from it. Now we're playing more video games than ever and hating TV. At least there aren't ads in the middle of my game.
ie a rich guy who says and do crazy stuff without anyone in his entourage to tell him that it ain't normal. Sorry Bill but you are delusional. In ten years Linux will be the desktop king and software will also be a commodity. Stop day dreaming publicly.
well it's an impression I get from looking at all the screenshots. Maybe the word crippled isn't the right one but it looks as though they removed the standard top panel which I happen to enjoy a lot. I'd like to have a standard Gnome DE and all I'm asking is if someone has any experience installing one on Fedora Core.
I have two hard drives on my computer. One is XP on which I play games and another is Slackware. I decided to install the Windows updates one day and since then it takes three minutes after reboot to do anything once I am in Windows. After 8 hours or so of being on my computer starts crawling to a halt and I need to reboot. I've tried defragmenting, having only essential services running but nothing would stop it from slowing down after a day's work. In linux I never have a problem with slow downs. This newtonian argument is still very true for me.
We all know how MS plans to take over the SE market. They'll :
make MSN Search the default browser page
send you to MSN Search if you mistyped a URL
use their marketing machine to concince people MSN Search is better
something else I haven't thought of yet...
If Google can convince enough people to start using Firefox, IE won't be something that MS will be able to use to force MSN Search down our throats. It's a win for FOSS, web standards and Google.
Try telling an employer you can only send in RTF. Better yet tell them you cannot open that Word file they sent you with the job description. Then they tell you "We use MS Office and we want someone capable of using it."
My sister chose Microsoft because it came with her Dell 3 years ago. She also chose MS Office because it opens MS Office documents. She would use OpenOffice except it doesn't open MS Word files with 100% accuracy in conversion.
People don't choose MS because they like it but because they need to. The nuance is what makes it an unfair monopoly.
if you did the same study in a country where they have 5 weeks of vacation (by law). I am pretty sure those French are happier than us. I worked there for 2 years. It was the best working years of my life.
The best Apple can do is a 1440x900 resolution on their 17" laptop which starts at USD $2,999. On Dell.com I can get a 1920x1200 display on a 15.2" laptop for USD $2500. Sure the 17" is bigger but the resolution isn't as good as what Dell offers. Now if Apple offered the same resolution to me and at the same price there would be no contest.
Remember the roots of Novell. They are a network administration company and this is what they want to do. By making a decent, freely(or cheaply) available linux distro more popular in the business and home world they are causing a threat to the MS monoculture model and will have an advantage with dealing with all the different types of systems out there. They'll be the ones calling the shots of the network, where all really happens.
I'm going back to university in a field completely unrelated to IT but a passion I've had since I was a kid. IT is a passion too but I find myself having more fun doing that on my spare time than any other time.
seriously what is the real issue here? Closed, proprietary formats. None of the unbundling will change the fact that people with Windows will have a system hostile to interoperability.
I just send emails or contact the companies/people who have outdated or crappy web sites using proprietary stuff. It seems to work half the time. If more people would do like I do we wouldn't have a problem.
I live far away from my parent's place but they keep on calling me long distance to get something fixed. The other day it was a virus that kept shutting down the PC. After one hour I was sick and tired of asking my father where to look, where to click, what to read, what to type and decided to get a plan in order. They're too scared to leave Windows alone though.
I'm going there this spring. I'll bring a Mandrake CD with me and a second HDD to backup all their files. I'm going to install Mandrake and Windows on their computer with a dual boot. I'll tighten their Windows and the day it screws up I'll ask them to choose Linux instead of Windows at boot time. I'll tell them it is all I can possibly do for now and let them have a go at it!:-) Hopefully they'll not bee too lost!:)
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I know lots of Hotmail users enjoy that email they receive as soon as an email arrives. I'd love to see google have such a service as well. Without it lots of people will continue to use hotmail.
The XAS code was closed and only the boss had access to it. However he wanted us to develop some VB apps that would work with it. We had no documentation and when I asked why the boss told me that we don't work with documentation anymore but with UML. I asked where the UML models were and he muffled something about not having any.
I tried guessing what things did by their variable name but the boss enjoyed variable names like varTempOne, var1, var2, var3, generic1, generic2, myVariable, etc...
One day I asked if I could see the source code to XAS. I learned quickly that it was a mistake.
Clients were constantly calling because the XAS servers were going down unexpectadly. The problem was the logs growing to more than 2 gigs in size. Every second line of the logs would have a copyright description with the name of my boss all over the place. He was so proud of his XAS. Unfortunatly though his XML wasn't valid in any sense. He pissed me off so much!
After 22 days of this BS I had rashes from the stress of working there. I told the boss I needed XAS source code to work with or documentation to work with. That night I received a phone call telling me I didn't need to come in the next day, that they were going to do without me. I was so relieved I did a huge party.
I talked to the boss's boss the week after. I explained what was going on and a month later the boss I had trouble with got fired along with his bum buddy. I was so happy! :)
Last I heard the guy's wife left him too. I couldn't be happier! :)
Big stations thought they had it right with reality TV but that certainly drove more women to the small screen but moved men away from it. Now we're playing more video games than ever and hating TV. At least there aren't ads in the middle of my game.
thanks for pointing that out. I'll remember to use "Unionize" from now on! :) thx
I'm sick and tired of people in the US winning about their job condition. Syndicate already!
ie a rich guy who says and do crazy stuff without anyone in his entourage to tell him that it ain't normal. Sorry Bill but you are delusional. In ten years Linux will be the desktop king and software will also be a commodity. Stop day dreaming publicly.
well it's an impression I get from looking at all the screenshots. Maybe the word crippled isn't the right one but it looks as though they removed the standard top panel which I happen to enjoy a lot. I'd like to have a standard Gnome DE and all I'm asking is if someone has any experience installing one on Fedora Core.
Has anyone installed a normal Gnome DE to replace the crippled Fedora Gnome?
I have two hard drives on my computer. One is XP on which I play games and another is Slackware. I decided to install the Windows updates one day and since then it takes three minutes after reboot to do anything once I am in Windows. After 8 hours or so of being on my computer starts crawling to a halt and I need to reboot. I've tried defragmenting, having only essential services running but nothing would stop it from slowing down after a day's work. In linux I never have a problem with slow downs. This newtonian argument is still very true for me.
If Google can convince enough people to start using Firefox, IE won't be something that MS will be able to use to force MSN Search down our throats. It's a win for FOSS, web standards and Google.
FireFox is still in Beta
Try telling an employer you can only send in RTF. Better yet tell them you cannot open that Word file they sent you with the job description. Then they tell you "We use MS Office and we want someone capable of using it."
People don't choose MS because they like it but because they need to. The nuance is what makes it an unfair monopoly.
So their GDP is lower. Who cares? They are happier and they aren't stressed out like may be. To them working is for living, not the other way around.
if you did the same study in a country where they have 5 weeks of vacation (by law). I am pretty sure those French are happier than us. I worked there for 2 years. It was the best working years of my life.
What good is Opera when Mac users already have Safari?
The best Apple can do is a 1440x900 resolution on their 17" laptop which starts at USD $2,999. On Dell.com I can get a 1920x1200 display on a 15.2" laptop for USD $2500. Sure the 17" is bigger but the resolution isn't as good as what Dell offers. Now if Apple offered the same resolution to me and at the same price there would be no contest.
Of course if they just released their OS to x86 I'd wouldn't mind paying 200$ to use it. Unfortunatly this won't happen.
Remember the roots of Novell. They are a network administration company and this is what they want to do. By making a decent, freely(or cheaply) available linux distro more popular in the business and home world they are causing a threat to the MS monoculture model and will have an advantage with dealing with all the different types of systems out there. They'll be the ones calling the shots of the network, where all really happens.
Microsoft pushed for the tablet thinking it would overtake the world by storm. Result... Not much change in the landscape of notebook PCs.
I'm going back to university in a field completely unrelated to IT but a passion I've had since I was a kid. IT is a passion too but I find myself having more fun doing that on my spare time than any other time.
can we learn from this? Does it mean we can go to court asking MS to release documentation for proprietary MS formats?
seriously what is the real issue here? Closed, proprietary formats. None of the unbundling will change the fact that people with Windows will have a system hostile to interoperability.
I just send emails or contact the companies/people who have outdated or crappy web sites using proprietary stuff. It seems to work half the time. If more people would do like I do we wouldn't have a problem.
I'm going there this spring. I'll bring a Mandrake CD with me and a second HDD to backup all their files. I'm going to install Mandrake and Windows on their computer with a dual boot. I'll tighten their Windows and the day it screws up I'll ask them to choose Linux instead of Windows at boot time. I'll tell them it is all I can possibly do for now and let them have a go at it! :-) Hopefully they'll not bee too lost! :)