I work for a television station and we bought 24 Panasonic DVCPro digital tape decks around four years ago. ALL have had to have every single surface mounted cap changed in them already (a few hundred caps per unit), and what really sucks, the replacements seem to be no better than the originals!
Panasonic of course denies any usage of cheap caps however. Surprised?
So... What exactly is your problem here? do you think you should be graduated ignorant of the OS with the *vastly* greater market share? What would *that* say about your school?
I don't have a "problem" with it, but whats wrong with a more general testing program that covers other manufacturers products as well?
If I were going into the Law field, I would probably want to learn WordPerfect, as this is what a large majority of Law Firms use.
When knowledge of Powerpoint is "REQUIRED", it most certainly emplants an early familiality of that program instead of more capable products such as MacroMedia's "Director," for example. It is a fact that most people continue to use the same software they learned in school, further fueling the M$ monolopy.
Lindows may not be the ultimate Linux users OS (I for one would never use it), but for a Linux newbie, it may be just what the doctor ordered.
1. They are obviously commited to getting PC manufacters to install it on store bought PeeCees, hence the Walmart deals. I'm certain we'll see many others doing the same thing, like Staples and CC.
2. They seem to have beaten almost everyone else to the punch with their desktop friendliness and usability (this is an assumption, as I have not used it).
3. They seem to have a better marketing dept. than the other Linux dists combined.
All these factors will eventually add up to success. The other Linux dists had better start concentrating on building a desktop that a five year old could use, or Lindows may very well take this market.
I beg to differ. You're forgetting that IBM and M$ both held the monolopy on the PC originally. It wasn't until Compaq reversed engineered the BIOS that common parts became available, and that was quite a bit later. By this time, M$ had already a strong foothold on the market, especially the business market.
"Oh, not another one explaining the success of Microsoft. Face it: Microsoft is successful because IBM gave them the OS-monopoly in 1981."
Not so. IBM actually was a latecomer to the home computer market, following successes such as the Commodore 64, Vic 20 and slew of others."
What Microsoft had was MARKETING. Yes, marketing is where it is all at. It really doesn't matter if you have a great product or not. It's all in how you market it.
M$ has proved that with marketing, not only can you sell shit sandwitches, people will actually think they like them!
If Redhat, or any other Linux company wants to succeed, they have to hire the best marketing director that money can buy. Period!
"You did listen to those warnings about installing unsigned drivers, right?"
Yea, I listen to them, but being a sysadmin of nearly 70 windows peecees, I have tons of problems with them, and out of the many many pieces of hardware I've installed on Win2K, I RARELY find a manufacturer's driver that is actually signed. Gimme a break!
I am an IT mgr at a televison station, and have worked in damn near every dept. there over the last 20 years, including production and engineering. Most folks here really do shoot from the hip in a hairy situation very well, bit there are still few who do simply cannot pull their own weight, but never get released.
We have one (not in my dept.) that helps out a bit in IT when things get hairy, and even though I have showed her how to set up a windoze pc into our domain numerous times, she still has to ask for all the ip address (ip, gateway, wins, etc) and domains, and she has worked there five years now.
Show me something once, and I will remember it forever. Some people just learn how to manipulate the system and do so their whole miserable lives.
Live televison is a perfect example of this. If you can function well in a live tv enviroment when things go to hell, you can pretty much do anything (I would imagine air traffic control would be similier).
I've been using TMPGENC under Winders (sic) to do this. I have been able to run it under WINE as well, but it cannot find the a/v codecs, so is rather useless. I have heard running under WINE is possible to do, but I've yet to figure it out. If any knows how to make TMPGENC run under Linux w/WINE, please, let us know.
I have used SCSI devices for years in a broadcast enviroment. For the most part, I've had really good reliability, but in one case, I junked the whole SCSI array in favor of IDE. The station I work for uses an ADTEC MPEG 2 playback system for commercial announcments. It contained 6 SCSI TWO Quantum HDs in an external RACK mount unit with redundant PSs. After about 6 months of operation, drives started failing at the rate of one per month. This gets very old when your paycheck depends on spots running correctly! I opened the playback unit one day and discovered that it contained 4 IDE controllers on the MB. I promptly purchased 2 30gb MAXTOR drives and replace the SCSI array. That was 18 months ago and I've not had a single failure or commercial going 'blocky' since. Perhaps now would be a great time to knock on wood!;)
I recently downloaded the new Sheryl Crow CD. I also sent her a personal check for $15.00, which was more than I could have bought it for at Circuit City ($11.99). Not only do I have the satisfaction of paying for the music I downloaded, and supporting an artist I truly enjoy (but nothing will ever top the Beatles), but I hope to get a returned check with Sheryl's autograph on it (yea, right!).
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Panasonic of course denies any usage of cheap caps however. Surprised?
I don't have a "problem" with it, but whats wrong with a more general testing program that covers other manufacturers products as well?
If I were going into the Law field, I would probably want to learn WordPerfect, as this is what a large majority of Law Firms use.
When knowledge of Powerpoint is "REQUIRED", it most certainly emplants an early familiality of that program instead of more capable products such as MacroMedia's "Director," for example. It is a fact that most people continue to use the same software they learned in school, further fueling the M$ monolopy.
1. They are obviously commited to getting PC manufacters to install it on store bought PeeCees, hence the Walmart deals. I'm certain we'll see many others doing the same thing, like Staples and CC.
2. They seem to have beaten almost everyone else to the punch with their desktop friendliness and usability (this is an assumption, as I have not used it).
3. They seem to have a better marketing dept. than the other Linux dists combined.
All these factors will eventually add up to success. The other Linux dists had better start concentrating on building a desktop that a five year old could use, or Lindows may very well take this market.
So, I stand by my statement.
Not so. IBM actually was a latecomer to the home computer market, following successes such as the Commodore 64, Vic 20 and slew of others."
What Microsoft had was MARKETING. Yes, marketing is where it is all at. It really doesn't matter if you have a great product or not. It's all in how you market it.
M$ has proved that with marketing, not only can you sell shit sandwitches, people will actually think they like them!
If Redhat, or any other Linux company wants to succeed, they have to hire the best marketing director that money can buy. Period!
Yea, I listen to them, but being a sysadmin of nearly 70 windows peecees, I have tons of problems with them, and out of the many many pieces of hardware I've installed on Win2K, I RARELY find a manufacturer's driver that is actually signed. Gimme a break!
I am an IT mgr at a televison station, and have worked in damn near every dept. there over the last 20 years, including production and engineering. Most folks here really do shoot from the hip in a hairy situation very well, bit there are still few who do simply cannot pull their own weight, but never get released.
We have one (not in my dept.) that helps out a bit in IT when things get hairy, and even though I have showed her how to set up a windoze pc into our domain numerous times, she still has to ask for all the ip address (ip, gateway, wins, etc) and domains, and she has worked there five years now.
Show me something once, and I will remember it forever. Some people just learn how to manipulate the system and do so their whole miserable lives.
Live televison is a perfect example of this. If you can function well in a live tv enviroment when things go to hell, you can pretty much do anything (I would imagine air traffic control would be similier).
I've been using TMPGENC under Winders (sic) to do this. I have been able to run it under WINE as well, but it cannot find the a/v codecs, so is rather useless. I have heard running under WINE is possible to do, but I've yet to figure it out. If any knows how to make TMPGENC run under Linux w/WINE, please, let us know.
I have used SCSI devices for years in a broadcast enviroment. For the most part, I've had really good reliability, but in one case, I junked the whole SCSI array in favor of IDE. The station I work for uses an ADTEC MPEG 2 playback system for commercial announcments. It contained 6 SCSI TWO Quantum HDs in an external RACK mount unit with redundant PSs. After about 6 months of operation, drives started failing at the rate of one per month. This gets very old when your paycheck depends on spots running correctly! I opened the playback unit one day and discovered that it contained 4 IDE controllers on the MB. I promptly purchased 2 30gb MAXTOR drives and replace the SCSI array. That was 18 months ago and I've not had a single failure or commercial going 'blocky' since. Perhaps now would be a great time to knock on wood! ;)
I recently downloaded the new Sheryl Crow CD.
I also sent her a personal check for $15.00, which was more than I could have bought it for
at Circuit City ($11.99). Not only do I have the
satisfaction of paying for the music I downloaded, and supporting an artist I truly enjoy (but nothing will ever top the Beatles), but I hope to get a returned check with Sheryl's autograph on it (yea, right!).