I wonder how much these designers get paid to sit in a padded room using their wealth of experience to create the funkiest designs.
Are they just extinct PR bunnies turn creators?
This latest offering certainly looks nice, but I still have to see _anyone_ walking around with any form of Sony PDA (clie). Come to think of it, Handsprings aren't exactly common (even though they're cheap). I know for one tha the iPaq is the PDA-to-have around here - even though most people just seem to use them as expensive mp3 players and meeting-announcers..
From my previous experience with the RedHat range, I can only come to the assumption that this latest incarnation will be surely even more bloated than the last.
Actually, I think I stopped using RH around v6.1 - blah blah please no "but you don't have to install all the rpm's" flames.
It won't be long before you will have RedHat in one hand and Windows in the other hand and they'll both weigh about the same. Long live bloatware:)
I've got a nice ACME case, very sturdy, currently sitting with two huge 120mm fans in the side sucking in with an 80mm blowhole on the top.. several other bits in there...
But it manages to keep my 1.0 AXIA running sweetly at 1.51 Ghz @ 38c on idle..
At a functional level, the thought of having customized patches made 'just for you' probably sounds quite appealing to most large scale MS users - to think that Microsoft are dedicating their time in some manner to cater for this company's needs to fine detail is pretty good.
Unfortunately I don't have any experience as an end-user of these apparent focus support promises, but i've never actually heard of this coming up before..
Of course, any large scale cluster on _any_ platform will create havoc if it is exploited - this news posting is just a troll to bring up the old iis-sucks-cos-of-vbs-etc hole yadda and view it in a different light and try and scaremonger people.
It all boils down to how good your admin is. Whatever platform you choose, you need to make sure your SysAdmin is as good as they need to be to make your shit secure - that's the bottom line.
Well... Macromedia might have done pretty well with Flash etc. but Adobe will always be the graphics champ, been around a little bit longer and have, some may argue, the best graphics suite going..
Who wants to write a flash plug-in for photoshop?:)
Maybe I asked too much? I doubt it. I've still yet to find a half-decent WAP Email provider that can give you a decent, free and fast email service that doesn't literally take you 10 minutes to write a 20 word email.. Do I think it'll take off? No. Maybe G3 will? Who knows.. Too many technologicial flops and licensing drama's of late..
I seem to remember I owned one of the Evesham Micro slimline drives - I think it was ex-x86 equipment somehow taped and stuck together to work on a C-64/128.. I believe they said "yes sir, we can assure you 80% compatibility with this drive..." - that was only after i'd sent it back 2-3 times as it didn't work with the software (GeOS) that they supplied with it.. nice sense..
And when comparing the complexity of something like the Windows O/S with something like Mozilla, 65k compared to 100k items in the tracking system (not necessarily bugs) is actually quite good..
I think the major thing that the Open Source community is failing to understand is that the percentage of ubergeeks compared to 'normal' users is extremely small. Yes, your normal 'pc user' does _not_ want to learn perl, or compile source code or even install packages - hell, the console would probably scare them.
Linux etc. does need to become more user friendly before the typical computer user will take to it - but surely this is the path that Microsoft took originally and now their o/s's are called BloatWare? It's a vicious circle.
So, the two options are: a) continue to provide a tricky platform for normal users to use, or b) turn Linux into bloatware to make it easy for users.
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I wonder how much these designers get paid to sit in a padded room using their wealth of experience to create the funkiest designs.
Are they just extinct PR bunnies turn creators?
This latest offering certainly looks nice, but I still have to see _anyone_ walking around with any form of Sony PDA (clie). Come to think of it, Handsprings aren't exactly common (even though they're cheap). I know for one tha the iPaq is the PDA-to-have around here - even though most people just seem to use them as expensive mp3 players and meeting-announcers..
From my previous experience with the RedHat range, I can only come to the assumption that this latest incarnation will be surely even more bloated than the last.
:)
Actually, I think I stopped using RH around v6.1 - blah blah please no "but you don't have to install all the rpm's" flames.
It won't be long before you will have RedHat in one hand and Windows in the other hand and they'll both weigh about the same. Long live bloatware
So what is the average case made of?
I've got a nice ACME case, very sturdy, currently sitting with two huge 120mm fans in the side sucking in with an 80mm blowhole on the top.. several other bits in there...
But it manages to keep my 1.0 AXIA running sweetly at 1.51 Ghz @ 38c on idle..
Pic here
Come on.
At a functional level, the thought of having customized patches made 'just for you' probably sounds quite appealing to most large scale MS users - to think that Microsoft are dedicating their time in some manner to cater for this company's needs to fine detail is pretty good.
Unfortunately I don't have any experience as an end-user of these apparent focus support promises, but i've never actually heard of this coming up before..
Of course, any large scale cluster on _any_ platform will create havoc if it is exploited - this news posting is just a troll to bring up the old iis-sucks-cos-of-vbs-etc hole yadda and view it in a different light and try and scaremonger people.
It all boils down to how good your admin is. Whatever platform you choose, you need to make sure your SysAdmin is as good as they need to be to make your shit secure - that's the bottom line.
What exactly do IBM do these days anyway? It's like when you're a kid and your father say's "When I was a lad... etc etc.."
Well... Macromedia might have done pretty well with Flash etc. but Adobe will always be the graphics champ, been around a little bit longer and have, some may argue, the best graphics suite going.. Who wants to write a flash plug-in for photoshop? :)
Oh well, I put Jedi Knight down on my census form.. I don't care, i'm still a Jedi ;)
And if anyone wants to show the world that they're a Jedi, i've setup a little online store with official jedi merchandise!
http://www.cafepress.com/jedi
:)
Be proud. Use the force.
sounds like hard work to me... especially on a monday morning.. ugh work..
I tried WAP.
It failed me.
Maybe I asked too much? I doubt it. I've still yet to find a half-decent WAP Email provider that can give you a decent, free and fast email service that doesn't literally take you 10 minutes to write a 20 word email.. Do I think it'll take off? No. Maybe G3 will? Who knows.. Too many technologicial flops and licensing drama's of late..
I seem to remember I owned one of the Evesham Micro slimline drives - I think it was ex-x86 equipment somehow taped and stuck together to work on a C-64/128.. I believe they said "yes sir, we can assure you 80% compatibility with this drive..." - that was only after i'd sent it back 2-3 times as it didn't work with the software (GeOS) that they supplied with it.. nice sense..
You were obviousely one of the priveleged users to own a blisteringly-fast Commodore 1541 floppy drive...
Does that mean I can re-write "Horace Goes Skiing" using some neato current day 3D engine?
;)
That'd be cool. 8-bit games transferred into 3D FPS types..
Not many people can argue that 8/16-bit days were the best for gaming
Indeed.
And when comparing the complexity of something like the Windows O/S with something like Mozilla, 65k compared to 100k items in the tracking system (not necessarily bugs) is actually quite good..
Totally.
I think the major thing that the Open Source community is failing to understand is that the percentage of ubergeeks compared to 'normal' users is extremely small. Yes, your normal 'pc user' does _not_ want to learn perl, or compile source code or even install packages - hell, the console would probably scare them.
Linux etc. does need to become more user friendly before the typical computer user will take to it - but surely this is the path that Microsoft took originally and now their o/s's are called BloatWare? It's a vicious circle.
So, the two options are: a) continue to provide a tricky platform for normal users to use, or b) turn Linux into bloatware to make it easy for users.
Either way Microsoft win. Go figure.