No offense but I think your demographic is not a good sample. For many of the people 30-60 that I've helped, most do NOT realize there is an alternative to Internet Explorer, many still get confused between IE and the windows explorer file manager. Even if firefox was rated whatever, those are companies not so much users. As it stands the biggest sections of web surfers are very non-techy. In fact I've found some AOL users think that the AOL-Browser (which is just IE running inside of AOL interface) *is* the Netscape Browser. And Netscape ISP only confuses the matter further.... As for teens influencing their folks, there isn't much you can draw from that.
Try visiting a country like India and ask them if they know these names.
Name is *very* important. And as a non-profit org/community, Mozilla still doesn't have that level of recognition.
As it is is people criticize Google severly for political issues, ad placing, lawsuits on pagerank etc. Google does a very good job. Could we trust Microsoft to deliver honest search results without manipulating them to serve their own capitalistic interests? They stand to gain (a lot) by controlling the main source that people go to search for info on the WWW.
Assuming there is a loudest or even if you could tell which one was the loudest. Even then the worse part is that there is no gaurantee that the alarm to which you respond will be the one that addresses the problem.... Look on google for some interesting info about human factors.
As part of an ergonomics class the professor made an issue that the radiation incidents like that may not be faulty coding or software, but just poorly designed user interfaces that lacked the proper feedback or something similar. He also made the point that if hundreds of seperate alarms went off at the same time at a nuclear power plant how is the operator supposed to repond to that? Human factors are easily overlooked by programmers and designers.
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Maybe a bit offtopic, but on my network I notice that Windows machines in the Network Neighborhood are slower to access than samba shares on linux machines. Go figure.
Previous versions of KOffice left a lot to be desired. And I was finding OO a bit too sluggish on old computers. Abiword seemed to be pretty decent though.
According to Computerworld MS is losing big in the embedded sector.
"To the tune of US$1.6 billion in fiscal year 2003, Microsoft bled money from its Business Solutions, Mobile and Embedded Devices, MSN, and Home and Entertainment divisions."
"The Mobile and Embedded device division remains Microsoft's smallest business unit after historic failures such as the collapse of a $5 billion deal with AT&T Corp. Despite years of development and some success in Europe, October was the first time a Windows Smartphone was introduced in North America."
So these devices maybe cool, but I guess no one buys them. The alternatives are probably better.
Get a life? Not sure I see the relevance. I'd hardly call that "bitching". Wit wasn't the intention nor was I bored, but I guess I can't please every anonymous coward.... Get a nick, will you?
Microsoft says it is secure, Linux companies say they are ready for the desktop and Matrix fans are completely happy with the latest movie. Propaganda is still propaganda.
One of the most troubling things to me is still Metacity WM. Maybe this has changed but last I recall you could not change the animation settings (that annoying minimize/maximize ani) and the redraw settings (dragging/resizing would show contents). To make it worse, Gnome in general made it difficult to change your WM. And what bothers me more still is that Sawmill(fish whatever) reduced its settings/options to be minimal like Metacity, although deep config settings could restore most settings back to the 1.4 days. I remember hearing some explanation that Metacity was the only Gnome2 compliant WM, so others were looked down upon.... Am I misinformed or has this changed?
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I'm curious how piracy plays into that proposed point.
No offense but I think your demographic is not a good sample. For many of the people 30-60 that I've helped, most do NOT realize there is an alternative to Internet Explorer, many still get confused between IE and the windows explorer file manager. Even if firefox was rated whatever, those are companies not so much users. As it stands the biggest sections of web surfers are very non-techy. In fact I've found some AOL users think that the AOL-Browser (which is just IE running inside of AOL interface) *is* the Netscape Browser. And Netscape ISP only confuses the matter further. ... As for teens influencing their folks, there isn't much you can draw from that.
Try visiting a country like India and ask them if they know these names.
Name is *very* important. And as a non-profit org/community, Mozilla still doesn't have that level of recognition.
As it is is people criticize Google severly for political issues, ad placing, lawsuits on pagerank etc. Google does a very good job. Could we trust Microsoft to deliver honest search results without manipulating them to serve their own capitalistic interests? They stand to gain (a lot) by controlling the main source that people go to search for info on the WWW.
Assuming there is a loudest or even if you could tell which one was the loudest. Even then the worse part is that there is no gaurantee that the alarm to which you respond will be the one that addresses the problem. ... Look on google for some interesting info about human factors.
As part of an ergonomics class the professor made an issue that the radiation incidents like that may not be faulty coding or software, but just poorly designed user interfaces that lacked the proper feedback or something similar. He also made the point that if hundreds of seperate alarms went off at the same time at a nuclear power plant how is the operator supposed to repond to that? Human factors are easily overlooked by programmers and designers.
Maybe a bit offtopic, but on my network I notice that Windows machines in the Network Neighborhood are slower to access than samba shares on linux machines. Go figure.
So which should I use? KDE Based OpenOffice or KOffice?
Previous versions of KOffice left a lot to be desired. And I was finding OO a bit too sluggish on old computers. Abiword seemed to be pretty decent though.
Get a life? Not sure I see the relevance. I'd hardly call that "bitching". Wit wasn't the intention nor was I bored, but I guess I can't please every anonymous coward. ... Get a nick, will you?
... or does it seem that many of the recent Slashdot posts are not very newsworthy? Read "Stuff that matters" lest you forget.
Microsoft says it is secure, Linux companies say they are ready for the desktop and Matrix fans are completely happy with the latest movie. Propaganda is still propaganda.
One of the most troubling things to me is still Metacity WM. Maybe this has changed but last I recall you could not change the animation settings (that annoying minimize/maximize ani) and the redraw settings (dragging/resizing would show contents). To make it worse, Gnome in general made it difficult to change your WM. And what bothers me more still is that Sawmill(fish whatever) reduced its settings/options to be minimal like Metacity, although deep config settings could restore most settings back to the 1.4 days. I remember hearing some explanation that Metacity was the only Gnome2 compliant WM, so others were looked down upon. ... Am I misinformed or has this changed?