yeah, but do you NEED to do this refresh is the question. Everything I've seen of Vista looks like XP without the usability/stability (I know, still beta). These cotsts would be part of a cycle, but why do the cycle inthe first place?
let's think for a second... Russia has about 20,000 nukes. 20,000. They are a politically unstable nation (or have been).
Are you going to tell me they can account for every single one of those, and that none of them managed to wind up in... let's say another communist nation? Such as... North Korea?
ComScore's rating system is based in part on a traffic-tracker they get on people's computer by pairing it with ad-blockers and other things... it's pretty much spyware. So the users that have it installed are, more than likely, idiots that will install anything. I don't trust their numbers.
I'm a firm believer that most people act in the best intrests of others. I think this is something that geeks hold especially true, so when I see some sort of error with a computer system, I try to figure out what the developers were thinking when they put the thing together.
But when it comes to some windows issues... I'm at a loss. I actually have to ask myself how, in good faith, a developer implemented something that either works poorly or not at all. Why keep that "feature" in there (espeically when talking about a GUI) when it doesn't work as adertised?
I'm the parent poster, and I actually totally agree with you. I had not thought about the 3rd party crap that Dell installs. Thanks for pointing that out.
Now, how long before AOL, Real, Earthlink et al start making Linux versions of their stuff? (ok, it will be awhile, but I think it will happen.)
I think Vista might be a factor in this. If it stinks, and continues to stick for awhile, people (I hope) will start looking for an alturnative.
I used to play with Red Hat in 2003, and I found it just a little too hard for everyday use to keep using, so I went back to Windows/OSX
A few weeks ago, I started playing with Ubuntu, and I gotta say, there is no reason why it can't replace windows on the desktop. If Dell will start installing it on systems (thus knocking $100 buck off the price of a machine), then it can make some serious in-roads, and knock Windows back.
I don't know if it's ready for a corporate enviroment, though. Although I don't like MS, their combo of Exchange, AD, and DC is pretty powerful.
If only Apple new that I like 10 minute songs, 4096x3072 pics, and 3 hour movies.
Hear hear! Tech is boiled down so freaking much for most people, it makes me mad. I can remember having this conversation about 20 times in the late 90's:
Person: How many songs can you put on a recordable CD?
ME: CD's hold 80 minutes of music, so it depends on the length of a song.
I agree with you on OS X. If things are working, they are working well. Start running into errors, and you'll want to kill yourself... never played with FreeBSD, but maybe I'll look into it.
I'm going to agree with you there. Whenever I see a Blue Screen in XP, my first thought tends to be a hardware problem. XP is pretty darn stable, although it runs slow as shit after you have been using it for about a year. Why can't MS build an OS that doesn't need significant work just to keep it running smoothly?
You're being funny, but I think you might have a point there. How much money does the US spend on sporting events in a year? How many possibilities are there for weightless sports? I think once you bring your cost of launch down, this could become a sigificant revenue stream, but it's still at least 40 years away.
A Note on email: We use a service called Postini, www.postini.com, that acts as a third-party mail server. our MX records point to their servers, which filters spam and viruses into an account for each user (which they can check through a browser), and then delivers good mail to to our exchange server. A side benefit of this is that if our server goes down, Postini holds into the mail indefinitely. It gives me a little piece of mind to know that if/when email goes down, we are not loosing mail, although it's not accessible to us until i get the servers up again.
I think there are some really intresting places you can go with workflow with an online suite. Suddenly you don't have people emailing links to documents on a file server or changing a file name to denote a new version... yes, they are managers that will do that work for you, but these systems can make that flow effortless.
I've seen serveral groups of people already setup a basecamp and a writely account in order to colaberate on personal or non-work related projects, and it's starting to work. It's a new way of thinking that will take some time to bring to the light of day, but should make for an intresting "upgrade" to the current ways in which people work.
People also need to learn the Google way of thinking, which in my mind is to let the computer do the work, and you just tell it what you want to see... I rarely tag emails in gmail, because the search function pulls up any email that I need to look at. that saves me time sorting through all my email, but at the same time there are a lot of people who don't "get" that yet. It's going to be even harder for spreadsheets and Writely to get in there, too. YOu really need to change your thinking in order to "get" the app.
Just like they'll let anyone with a basic driver's license rent and drive a 26' cargo truck, they'll let anyone with a credit card buy a domain name and rent server space. Is it a good idea? No. Does it happen? Constantly.
You need one more part to that analogy- If you were in charge of moving something very valuble across the country VIA that cargo truck, would you get some idiot off the street to do it? No, you'd probably go with an experienced trucker or company, and that's what Lieberman should have done. Looks to me like they had some intern set this up, and the kid just did what he did for his personal site, and figured that would be good enough.
I have this no name wireless mouse that's branded with the name of a drug... part of some promotion that got handed from a doctor to me... It runs on two AAA. I use it daily, and the batteries have been good for over 6 months... I guess sometimes those no-name tech outfits do a better job than the big ones.
To shrinkwrap OS X & sell it to the Dell users of the world, they'd have to either develop & test like crazy on the lowend hardware (and pull out their hair when asked why low-end systems can't do some of the really cool stuff) or they'd have to specify minimum system requirements which the average user might not be able to see if they meet.
Not if they don't want to. Apple is still in control here. They can still be a premium operating system that needs more than a low-end Dell to run. Who says they have to meet the lowest common denominator? If Dell wants to ship machines with OS X, than it can bend over and let Apple dictate hardware requirements.
I'm sure Ron Moore was in agreement with that, and that's why he moved on to Battlestar Galactica. You can't skip and episode of that show or you will be pretty lost. It also is pretty edgy, dealing with modern day ideas of terrorism, military power, and political espianage. And although this point gets argued, I'd say it has the best FX of any Sci-Fi show on TV right now.
wow. it had been years since I went in there, and ove the week-end I tried to use one of the certificates. The sandwich I got worked out to $6.50, and it was sub-par by New York City standards. This is why I stay away from brand names.
My problem with the fan films is fans thinking they can act, and they can't.
Lucas had shitty, crappy dialogue in the new trilogy, and that held a lot of the actors back... Natalie Portman and Ewan MccGreggor have done impressive stuff in the past, and the reason they looked so bad in these movies was due to the poor script, the actors did what they could with what they were given.
Now, when these indie SW films seem to get fans to play the parts. Even if you have a good script, these people have no idea what they are doing, and it shows. The same way that Lucas can make his actors look bad with a bad script, bad actors can make a good script look bad.
Here's to hoping he ropes in real actors, even if they don't give to shits about SW than using a bunch of fanboys who they they know what they are doing.
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yeah, but do you NEED to do this refresh is the question. Everything I've seen of Vista looks like XP without the usability/stability (I know, still beta). These cotsts would be part of a cycle, but why do the cycle inthe first place?
Not if it's designed for it. (think re-entry capsule from Apollo)
let's think for a second... Russia has about 20,000 nukes. 20,000. They are a politically unstable nation (or have been).
Are you going to tell me they can account for every single one of those, and that none of them managed to wind up in... let's say another communist nation? Such as... North Korea?
ComScore's rating system is based in part on a traffic-tracker they get on people's computer by pairing it with ad-blockers and other things... it's pretty much spyware. So the users that have it installed are, more than likely, idiots that will install anything. I don't trust their numbers.
Actually- I never have! I've stayed as FAR away from it as possible, based on other's reactions...
I'm a firm believer that most people act in the best intrests of others. I think this is something that geeks hold especially true, so when I see some sort of error with a computer system, I try to figure out what the developers were thinking when they put the thing together.
But when it comes to some windows issues... I'm at a loss. I actually have to ask myself how, in good faith, a developer implemented something that either works poorly or not at all. Why keep that "feature" in there (espeically when talking about a GUI) when it doesn't work as adertised?
I think my answer lies somewhere in management.
I thought everyone knew about Chipotle by now...
I just spit chipotle on my desk when I read the headline. Man, that's comedy.
Unfortunatly...
I'm the parent poster, and I actually totally agree with you. I had not thought about the 3rd party crap that Dell installs. Thanks for pointing that out.
Now, how long before AOL, Real, Earthlink et al start making Linux versions of their stuff? (ok, it will be awhile, but I think it will happen.)
I think Vista might be a factor in this. If it stinks, and continues to stick for awhile, people (I hope) will start looking for an alturnative.
I used to play with Red Hat in 2003, and I found it just a little too hard for everyday use to keep using, so I went back to Windows/OSX
A few weeks ago, I started playing with Ubuntu, and I gotta say, there is no reason why it can't replace windows on the desktop. If Dell will start installing it on systems (thus knocking $100 buck off the price of a machine), then it can make some serious in-roads, and knock Windows back.
I don't know if it's ready for a corporate enviroment, though. Although I don't like MS, their combo of Exchange, AD, and DC is pretty powerful.
If only Apple new that I like 10 minute songs, 4096x3072 pics, and 3 hour movies.
Hear hear! Tech is boiled down so freaking much for most people, it makes me mad. I can remember having this conversation about 20 times in the late 90's:
Person: How many songs can you put on a recordable CD?
ME: CD's hold 80 minutes of music, so it depends on the length of a song.
Person: But how many songs is that?
Me:
I agree with you on OS X. If things are working, they are working well. Start running into errors, and you'll want to kill yourself... never played with FreeBSD, but maybe I'll look into it.
I'm going to agree with you there. Whenever I see a Blue Screen in XP, my first thought tends to be a hardware problem. XP is pretty darn stable, although it runs slow as shit after you have been using it for about a year. Why can't MS build an OS that doesn't need significant work just to keep it running smoothly?
You're being funny, but I think you might have a point there. How much money does the US spend on sporting events in a year? How many possibilities are there for weightless sports? I think once you bring your cost of launch down, this could become a sigificant revenue stream, but it's still at least 40 years away.
A Note on email: We use a service called Postini, www.postini.com, that acts as a third-party mail server. our MX records point to their servers, which filters spam and viruses into an account for each user (which they can check through a browser), and then delivers good mail to to our exchange server. A side benefit of this is that if our server goes down, Postini holds into the mail indefinitely. It gives me a little piece of mind to know that if/when email goes down, we are not loosing mail, although it's not accessible to us until i get the servers up again.
I think there are some really intresting places you can go with workflow with an online suite. Suddenly you don't have people emailing links to documents on a file server or changing a file name to denote a new version... yes, they are managers that will do that work for you, but these systems can make that flow effortless.
I've seen serveral groups of people already setup a basecamp and a writely account in order to colaberate on personal or non-work related projects, and it's starting to work. It's a new way of thinking that will take some time to bring to the light of day, but should make for an intresting "upgrade" to the current ways in which people work.
People also need to learn the Google way of thinking, which in my mind is to let the computer do the work, and you just tell it what you want to see... I rarely tag emails in gmail, because the search function pulls up any email that I need to look at. that saves me time sorting through all my email, but at the same time there are a lot of people who don't "get" that yet. It's going to be even harder for spreadsheets and Writely to get in there, too. YOu really need to change your thinking in order to "get" the app.
Hello this is Slashdot. I don't think we really needed the 3rd grade scienst lesson.
Spelling, on the other hand...
Just like they'll let anyone with a basic driver's license rent and drive a 26' cargo truck, they'll let anyone with a credit card buy a domain name and rent server space. Is it a good idea? No. Does it happen? Constantly.
You need one more part to that analogy- If you were in charge of moving something very valuble across the country VIA that cargo truck, would you get some idiot off the street to do it? No, you'd probably go with an experienced trucker or company, and that's what Lieberman should have done. Looks to me like they had some intern set this up, and the kid just did what he did for his personal site, and figured that would be good enough.
I have this no name wireless mouse that's branded with the name of a drug... part of some promotion that got handed from a doctor to me... It runs on two AAA. I use it daily, and the batteries have been good for over 6 months... I guess sometimes those no-name tech outfits do a better job than the big ones.
To shrinkwrap OS X & sell it to the Dell users of the world, they'd have to either develop & test like crazy on the lowend hardware (and pull out their hair when asked why low-end systems can't do some of the really cool stuff) or they'd have to specify minimum system requirements which the average user might not be able to see if they meet.
Not if they don't want to. Apple is still in control here. They can still be a premium operating system that needs more than a low-end Dell to run. Who says they have to meet the lowest common denominator? If Dell wants to ship machines with OS X, than it can bend over and let Apple dictate hardware requirements.
They want "episodes", not stories.
I'm sure Ron Moore was in agreement with that, and that's why he moved on to Battlestar Galactica. You can't skip and episode of that show or you will be pretty lost. It also is pretty edgy, dealing with modern day ideas of terrorism, military power, and political espianage. And although this point gets argued, I'd say it has the best FX of any Sci-Fi show on TV right now.
wow. it had been years since I went in there, and ove the week-end I tried to use one of the certificates. The sandwich I got worked out to $6.50, and it was sub-par by New York City standards. This is why I stay away from brand names.
My problem with the fan films is fans thinking they can act, and they can't.
Lucas had shitty, crappy dialogue in the new trilogy, and that held a lot of the actors back... Natalie Portman and Ewan MccGreggor have done impressive stuff in the past, and the reason they looked so bad in these movies was due to the poor script, the actors did what they could with what they were given.
Now, when these indie SW films seem to get fans to play the parts. Even if you have a good script, these people have no idea what they are doing, and it shows. The same way that Lucas can make his actors look bad with a bad script, bad actors can make a good script look bad.
Here's to hoping he ropes in real actors, even if they don't give to shits about SW than using a bunch of fanboys who they they know what they are doing.
I got a card and $20 at Au Bon Pain.