Symantec's Act! and Intuit's QuickBooks are Microsoft's ace in the hole. Until file compatible equivalents are developed, Linux will have a hard time capturing the small business desktop in the U.S.. Both companies are closely tied to Microsoft, so QuickBooks won't be ported until it's too late to save Intuit from Microsoft Great Plains.
If Intuit insist on forcing people to upgrade regularly the way that they already are, they're likely to be digging their own grave, anyway.
I personally will never buy another Intuit product since they threatened me with legal action after I indicated that since they would not provide me with a registration key for QuickBooks 7.3 (a product that has been discontinued by Intuit) I would use a crack available on the Internet to activate my legally bought product.
No doubt the review of the "Internet Decency" laws will include a clause that you may not be naked whilst your computer is connected to the Internet. It'd be on par with their pastefforts.
I am sorry when was that? i never even saw OS/2 on any desktop computer!!!
OS/2 was never a desktop OS and never had a marketshare there. It came bundled with ps/2s' and that's all it ever got.
You've obviously never paid any attention to what corporate users are doing. My current job involves auditing hardware for a large bank and OS/2 has only recently been phased out of the branches and is still widely used in the datacentres.
Moreover, OS/2 was fairly popular with the larger BBS sysops before Win95 showed it was stable enough for the job. My own desktop was OS/2 for years and I wouldn't have had it any other way. It was (even back then) more stable than Windows is today.
No, it never got widespread acceptance as a desktop operating system. More is the pity. I have no doubt we'd be bitching about IBM being the monopoly today, if it had, but at least we would have had an operating system worth using.
As far as I remembber the zx81 HAD sound, only had to put it near an AM radio and generate for next loops
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really sad thing is that I debugged a couple of programs that way on my first computer (not an Atari) Whenever I executed a particular POKE (memories, anyone?) I used to get a pulse on any nearby AM radio, so it was great for tracing the execution of programs...:-)
If 1.3b is so bad, might I suggest using a "stable" release?
1.3b is nowhere near that bad. I tried it out as an experiment about 6-8 weeks ago, and now only use IE when I have to. 1.3b is incredibly stable and predictable for a beta release. In all the time I've being using it, it has bombed on me twice.
What's the bet that in a week or two, Opera will release a statement detailing the number of downloads of their borked up version of Opera?
I switched from Opera to Mozilla some time ago, and it wasn't until now that I've been inclined to install it again. This is enough of a joke that I'll leave that version installed, and use it from time to time...:-)
On Windows, I have to agree that IE takes the cake.
Not for my money. I've been running Mozilla 1.3a for well over a month, and despite being a beta build, it has only ever crashed on me once. That's a far better record than IE, which incidentally, usually trashes Windows Explorer when it crashes itself.
Problem is, some of the apps I have to use will only run correctly on IE. Grrr.
Very few and far between in my experience. Even so, it's not Mozilla's fault that some webmins can't (or won't) write standards compliant web pages.
Gawd, I remember at one time running two Tradewars, one Tradewars 2002 and three Barren Realms Elite games on my BBS years ago... (ok, so this officially makes me an old fart...)
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but technical skills, and artistic skills are almost always mutually exclusive. That's part of the reason why technical documentation is so (relatively) rare.
...which explains why there are always significant holes in those really important configuration documents - they were written by someone who knows just enough to be dangerous, but not enough to know what the document will be used for.
(remind me to stop contributing to the occasional documentation project...)
The good news to all this is that it appears the initial reactions of the Aussie ISPs in question appears to be to extend the middle digit and to tell them to "Suck on this"...
It never ceases to amaze me just how many dumb and stupid laws that politicians put in place. We've all had a laugh at the laws which prohibit beheading your wife in public on Fridays and other such nonsense, but what we don't realise is that that these laws are still being passed.
Look at Australia's internet censorship laws. Less than two years later, it was pointed out that they had come in to effect, but were totally unworkable and had never seriously been applied. This sounds to me like very much the same kind of law.
If people believe I'm wrong that these proposed laws, I'd like to know why you think it and how you think it could be implemented and enforced.
They should just say "Only club members can Download Linux Mandrake, Join the Club or Leave the site"
The problem here, of course, is that it is contrary to the GPL licensing terms for them to do this. They must make the source of Mandrake available to anyone who wants it for no more than their distribution costs.
I think Mandrake (unfortunately) may have reached it's expiry date unless they can find some way of providing value added services to make cash from, same as RedHat. Restrict their automatic update servers to those who have club memberships.
If you want a good example of a company that has made a good run of this, check out SME Server. Given, this product is a server product, so value added services are more numerous and worth more, but it's an example worth looking at - release a GPL version with the basic working tools, and release an advanced version with many additional features and services. Provided those services have been written by the company, there would be no conflict with the GPL.
I can't tell if they announced the final decree in the Microsoft case, or if they're trying to say the employees of Microsoft caught some kind of new STD.
On the contrary, electricity is a totally predictable sort of thing. The problem comes when we overlook the most basic rule of electronics - it will follow the path of least resistance. Even though those paths may not be obvious at first and you might not notice them, be assured that electricity will.
They could be considered to be "stealing" your fax paper, or by circumventing your SPAM filter, hacking. Maybe someone can dream up a DMCA defense against spammers.
Now if this isn't the best idea I've heard in a long time, I don't know what is... problem being the expense in bringing such a suit...
a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because... b) VoIP phones cost so much because... a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because... b) VoIP phones cost so much because... a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because... b) VoIP phones cost so much because... a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because... b) VoIP phones cost so much because...
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I personally will never buy another Intuit product since they threatened me with legal action after I indicated that since they would not provide me with a registration key for QuickBooks 7.3 (a product that has been discontinued by Intuit) I would use a crack available on the Internet to activate my legally bought product.
No doubt the review of the "Internet Decency" laws will include a clause that you may not be naked whilst your computer is connected to the Internet. It'd be on par with their past efforts.
Moreover, OS/2 was fairly popular with the larger BBS sysops before Win95 showed it was stable enough for the job. My own desktop was OS/2 for years and I wouldn't have had it any other way. It was (even back then) more stable than Windows is today.
No, it never got widespread acceptance as a desktop operating system. More is the pity. I have no doubt we'd be bitching about IBM being the monopoly today, if it had, but at least we would have had an operating system worth using.
What's the bet that in a week or two, Opera will release a statement detailing the number of downloads of their borked up version of Opera? I switched from Opera to Mozilla some time ago, and it wasn't until now that I've been inclined to install it again. This is enough of a joke that I'll leave that version installed, and use it from time to time... :-)
Damn, this means I'll have to break my habit of answering the phone naked after leaping out of the shower.
Very few and far between in my experience. Even so, it's not Mozilla's fault that some webmins can't (or won't) write standards compliant web pages.
Gawd, I remember at one time running two Tradewars, one Tradewars 2002 and three Barren Realms Elite games on my BBS years ago... (ok, so this officially makes me an old fart...)
(remind me to stop contributing to the occasional documentation project...)
The good news to all this is that it appears the initial reactions of the Aussie ISPs in question appears to be to extend the middle digit and to tell them to "Suck on this"...
Great... now we've slashdotted Google's cache... :-)
I personally would love to see this guy's response to a message from the US government.
(Someone has waaaaay too much time on their hands)
It never ceases to amaze me just how many dumb and stupid laws that politicians put in place. We've all had a laugh at the laws which prohibit beheading your wife in public on Fridays and other such nonsense, but what we don't realise is that that these laws are still being passed.
Look at Australia's internet censorship laws. Less than two years later, it was pointed out that they had come in to effect, but were totally unworkable and had never seriously been applied. This sounds to me like very much the same kind of law.
If people believe I'm wrong that these proposed laws, I'd like to know why you think it and how you think it could be implemented and enforced.
I think Mandrake (unfortunately) may have reached it's expiry date unless they can find some way of providing value added services to make cash from, same as RedHat. Restrict their automatic update servers to those who have club memberships.
If you want a good example of a company that has made a good run of this, check out SME Server. Given, this product is a server product, so value added services are more numerous and worth more, but it's an example worth looking at - release a GPL version with the basic working tools, and release an advanced version with many additional features and services. Provided those services have been written by the company, there would be no conflict with the GPL.
We can always hope...
On the contrary, electricity is a totally predictable sort of thing. The problem comes when we overlook the most basic rule of electronics - it will follow the path of least resistance. Even though those paths may not be obvious at first and you might not notice them, be assured that electricity will.
Now if this isn't the best idea I've heard in a long time, I don't know what is... problem being the expense in bringing such a suit...
Yes - unfortunately, they tend to melt after a time...
Unfortunately, the reason is all too clear.
a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because...
b) VoIP phones cost so much because...
a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because...
b) VoIP phones cost so much because...
a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because...
b) VoIP phones cost so much because...
a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because...
b) VoIP phones cost so much because...
...and so on and so forth...
You forgot the required fibre connector that taps directly into the brain stem...
That *very* much depends on what one is spanked with...