I suggest you read Jared Diamond's latest book Collapse http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnIn quiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780143036555&itm=2 and it will show you that the idealized view of happy primitive societies living in harmony with nature is for the most part completely untrue. Easter Island, Chaco Valley, and a few other examples are used very effectively to debunk this "noble savage" myth.
I am still trying to figure out how buying used CDs is pumping more money into the "industry"? RIAA only makes its cut off the initial sale of the CD and could care less if you or anyone else subequently sells/purchases that CD.
Not to appear trollish, but that article's logic totally exonerates Microsoft in the browser war that killed Netscape. In fact, any feature/functionality that a closed OS dev wants to add in is ok as long as a slightly different inplementation scheme is used. Hmmmmmm....
I think the point is that after an install you are dumped at root and it is not intuitively obvious how to create a user account. Fortunately Fedora/Mandrake/etc have slapped at GUI in place to direct the noob installer to not use root.
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Forgot about printer, speakers, keybaord, mouse, and case. As well as the mb.
If I had mod points, this would be +1 right now. Maybe I've been working on error-checking and proofing stuff for way too long, but this totally cracked me up.
I only wish that we had that kind of video power in our corporate machines. Brand new 1.6GHz desktop machines are arriving with Nvidia TNT2 cards stuffed into them. Having said that, however, the TNT2 is more than powerful enough to drive my powerpoint presentations and display my excel spreadsheets and stuff. I have even on occasion played a game of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RTCW) on it.
Trying my hand at a first time post. The point that has not been stressed enough is that the apps are what is the reason that MS has the desktops. For most of the corporate world the OS is not as important as the "productive software" that is loaded onto it. For the vast proportion of the corporate world out there that is an "office" suite of programs.
At our company we have upgraded a couple of times following the MS Office trail. The new MS office suite demanded more from the hardware/OS so they were upgraded or replaced. As a relatively new *NIX user (approx. 1 yr.) who forced himself to learn *NIX by manually setting up everything in Slackware, I still have not found any of the open-source "office" suites (including all of the ones mentioned in other posts) a satisfactory replacement for MS Office. A very noticable deficiency is a replacement for Power Point. This program is a clunky resource hog, but it is the best out there to hack together a quick presentation to show the boss or the board. I haven't found anyting that even comes close to the ease of use of PP (please offer suggestions if you know of something.)
My personal opinion is that MS is not dominant because of its OSs, but because of Office.
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Might fit the bill.
I suggest you read Jared Diamond's latest book Collapse http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnIn quiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780143036555&itm=2 and it will show you that the idealized view of happy primitive societies living in harmony with nature is for the most part completely untrue. Easter Island, Chaco Valley, and a few other examples are used very effectively to debunk this "noble savage" myth.
I am still trying to figure out how buying used CDs is pumping more money into the "industry"? RIAA only makes its cut off the initial sale of the CD and could care less if you or anyone else subequently sells/purchases that CD.
Not to appear trollish, but that article's logic totally exonerates Microsoft in the browser war that killed Netscape. In fact, any feature/functionality that a closed OS dev wants to add in is ok as long as a slightly different inplementation scheme is used. Hmmmmmm....
I think the point is that after an install you are dumped at root and it is not intuitively obvious how to create a user account. Fortunately Fedora/Mandrake/etc have slapped at GUI in place to direct the noob installer to not use root.
Forgot about printer, speakers, keybaord, mouse, and case. As well as the mb.
If I had mod points, this would be +1 right now. Maybe I've been working on error-checking and proofing stuff for way too long, but this totally cracked me up.
Like anyone pays for MS Office that they use at home anyways. Everyone takes a copy from work or their buddy, etc.
I only wish that we had that kind of video power in our corporate machines. Brand new 1.6GHz desktop machines are arriving with Nvidia TNT2 cards stuffed into them. Having said that, however, the TNT2 is more than powerful enough to drive my powerpoint presentations and display my excel spreadsheets and stuff. I have even on occasion played a game of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RTCW) on it.
SUNY at Buffalo from Long Island, as some people from Upstate call it (where everything north of Rockland county is cow country or Upstate).
I just bought a Mag 17" monitor from Best Buy for $89 (after $30 instant rebate) and + tax came out to under $100.
Trying my hand at a first time post. The point that has not been stressed enough is that the apps are what is the reason that MS has the desktops. For most of the corporate world the OS is not as important as the "productive software" that is loaded onto it. For the vast proportion of the corporate world out there that is an "office" suite of programs.
At our company we have upgraded a couple of times following the MS Office trail. The new MS office suite demanded more from the hardware/OS so they were upgraded or replaced.
As a relatively new *NIX user (approx. 1 yr.) who forced himself to learn *NIX by manually setting up everything in Slackware, I still have not found any of the open-source "office" suites (including all of the ones mentioned in other posts) a satisfactory replacement for MS Office. A very noticable deficiency is a replacement for Power Point. This program is a clunky resource hog, but it is the best out there to hack together a quick presentation to show the boss or the board. I haven't found anyting that even comes close to the ease of use of PP (please offer suggestions if you know of something.)
My personal opinion is that MS is not dominant because of its OSs, but because of Office.