In a small Finnish city of Vaasa, almost all the custormer terminals very migrated to linuxes some time ago. The computer support staff say now that one Windows terminal (saved so that certain CD-ROMS could be viewed) is causing them more work than 70 linux machines. Mind, that these computers are used by the Joe/Jane Does who want to browse the librarys catalog, surf the web and do some word processing. The support people also say that most of the users are OK with the linux systems and don't need any more assistance than they did with Windows machines.
..and most of all, the city is saving 100 k$ per year..
This is not what I need
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Something really useful would be a device that would help you find your way back home from the bar and/or make a taxi appear with a push of a button. Finding a bar has never been the problem, atleast for me:)
The symptoms people claiming to be electrically sensitive have are strangely almost identical to those people claimed to get from "Earth Radiation" ten years ago, and underground water channels twenty years ago and so on..
Instead of being hassled by paper communication, our MSN and Hotmail service will provide all means of communication for the people of the US in a safe and secure way." said Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates.
Calling Hotmail and MSN safe and secure is like givin Osama Bin Laden a Nobel's peace prize.
I guess the reason people are generally not outraged by this kind of marketing is that Microsoft Windows is not in a way considered to be a "product" in the traditional sense of the word by general public. If you would ask 100 Joe Random Users to draw a computer, 95 of them would draw a Windows desktop.
In peoples minds,MS Windows has become THE operating system instead of A operating system and a integrated essential part of any computer.
The Finnish city of Turku just few weeks ago published an research on the pros and cons of migrating from Windows/MS Office computers to Linux/OpenOffice environment (a short note about it can be found here. The verdict was that city would save considerate amounts of money by doing this and so migration is started first by installing OpenOffice to existing Windows systems and slowly starting to migrate tho OS as well (first Linux workstations should be running by 2003).
>Also, the CLR is closely tied to the.Net framework, which is far ahead of the Java class >library as you may mix and match classes across various languages.
I've allways wondered who would actaully do this in a real world situation. To me it seems that managing software projects is allready hard enough without every developer writing code in their own Language of Choice.
This must be an american problem, here in Helsinki(Finland) the IT department of the university has both linux and windows installed in every machine and the students mainly use the linuxes. Actually M$ users are considered to be "inferior" to linux users. Well, I guess this is appropriate for the alma mater of Linus Tornvalds.
I've the same experience also. I used to get a lot of spam few months ago, but it was sent through the SMTP server of some poor company who had not realised to protect their server. I sent an email to a manager in the company and in few days the spam stopped. Now I only get the 1 - 2 spams per week again.
>and a speculative article suggesting email will kill the fax machine (not any time soon)
I've worked in sofware industry for 2,5 years and in this time I have sent one (1) fax in total. I have no idea how many thousands of emails I have sent..
As far as I'm conserned FAX is allready dead.
Maybe this is a cultural thing and in US people use fax more, who knows..
To bad a genuinely helpful and uncommercally started SMS community will shut down. Atleast here in Finland most of the available SMS services are run by the operators and are generally shameless rip offs for your money..
"Order your biorythm to your mobile, only 1 per message"
I don't want to drag this discussion into a political debate, but just as a note:
Few years back an American company sued the Finnish government for protectionistic politics because they could not get a licence for building a TDMA (or CDMA or something, can't remember) network to Finland. The argument was basicly that free competition of different mobile phone standards would be in the best interest of the customers.
Comparing the mobile phone penetration and the wide usage GSM phones have in Europe and Asia this argument seems dubious at best. My phone works here in Finland and Hong Kong and I don't have to think about it, the only place it would not work is the USA.
It seems that a goverment enforced standard and free competition inside that standard is in the best interest of the consumers..
Actually there is somekind of foundation on the Santa Klaus legend. The legend is based on saint Nicolaus, on bishop in the now Turkish city of Myra. Nikcolaus is a historic person..
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Is Linux really as good as I have heard?
It's better.
Yeah, it's really surprising that a study done by Microsoft would come to that conclusion, isn't it? :)
Something really useful would be a device that would help you find your way back home from the bar and/or make a taxi appear with a push of a button. Finding a bar has never been the problem, atleast for me :)
Makes you wonder..
Calling Hotmail and MSN safe and secure is like givin Osama Bin Laden a Nobel's peace prize.
I guess the reason people are generally not outraged by this kind of marketing is that Microsoft Windows is not in a way considered to be a "product" in the traditional sense of the word by general public. If you would ask 100 Joe Random Users to draw a computer, 95 of them would draw a Windows desktop. In peoples minds,MS Windows has become THE operating system instead of A operating system and a integrated essential part of any computer.
or maybe the garbage is collected..
Does it also make coffee and take the garbage out?
The Finnish city of Turku just few weeks ago published an research on the pros and cons of migrating from Windows/MS Office computers to Linux/OpenOffice environment (a short note about it can be found here. The verdict was that city would save considerate amounts of money by doing this and so migration is started first by installing OpenOffice to existing Windows systems and slowly starting to migrate tho OS as well (first Linux workstations should be running by 2003).
>Also, the CLR is closely tied to the .Net framework, which is far ahead of the Java class
>library as you may mix and match classes across various languages.
I've allways wondered who would actaully do this in a real world situation. To me it seems that managing software projects is allready hard enough without every developer writing code in their own Language of Choice.
This must be an american problem, here in Helsinki(Finland) the IT department of the university has both linux and windows installed in every machine and the students mainly use the linuxes. Actually M$ users are considered to be "inferior" to linux users. Well, I guess this is appropriate for the alma mater of Linus Tornvalds.
I've the same experience also. I used to get a lot of spam few months ago, but it was sent through the SMTP server of some poor company who had not realised to protect their server. I sent an email to a manager in the company and in few days the spam stopped. Now I only get the 1 - 2 spams per week again.
I've worked in sofware industry for 2,5 years and in this time I have sent one (1) fax in total. I have no idea how many thousands of emails I have sent..
As far as I'm conserned FAX is allready dead. Maybe this is a cultural thing and in US people use fax more, who knows..
To bad a genuinely helpful and uncommercally started SMS community will shut down. Atleast here in Finland most of the available SMS services are run by the operators and are generally shameless rip offs for your money.. "Order your biorythm to your mobile, only 1 per message"
"Know your enemy"
I don't want to drag this discussion into a political debate, but just as a note: Few years back an American company sued the Finnish government for protectionistic politics because they could not get a licence for building a TDMA (or CDMA or something, can't remember) network to Finland. The argument was basicly that free competition of different mobile phone standards would be in the best interest of the customers. Comparing the mobile phone penetration and the wide usage GSM phones have in Europe and Asia this argument seems dubious at best. My phone works here in Finland and Hong Kong and I don't have to think about it, the only place it would not work is the USA. It seems that a goverment enforced standard and free competition inside that standard is in the best interest of the consumers..
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is subset of XML. Stating that something is stored in SVG AND XML format is a tautology.
Actually there is somekind of foundation on the Santa Klaus legend. The legend is based on saint Nicolaus, on bishop in the now Turkish city of Myra. Nikcolaus is a historic person..