This is beyond all reasoning and common sense. Whats next, landmarks, animals and people? Hell, ill copyright my ass and declare it a piece of art and walk around naked all day!
I have tried most 3D desktops and one thing has been common amongst them. After the first week its not that useful anymore. Eycandy deluxe is nice for the newbie but often just slows the more experienced user down. I suspect that is why none of the ones done on linux has taken off, its just not useful.
Actually, as a proffessional admin i have found myself having much better support from OSS in general than from any high level support. Its a different kind of support but still it works out really well. It mostly depends on how good you are at googling. Mailing lists are also very underestimated because who answers a quiestion better, the developer or some call-center ape who reads out loud from some stupid database?
Most often when you cant find a solution the problem depends on a bug in the software and access to the developer in some way is the only thing that can resolve the issue. Thats where OSS excels tremendously compared to most companies i know of.
High level support in the form of a guy who goes to your company and fixes things for a silly amount of money is another thing. There are plenty of people who sells support contracts on OSS software so that isnt that big of an issue. Its just that its perceived as a big advantage to be able to play the blame game and have someone fix things when management yells.
As a swede i dont really understand why you would need an application to do your banking. We just connect to the web and use a small code generator to log into our bank. Well inside its just a matter of paying the bills and be done with it. All transactions is saved and can be viewed online. The need for an application eludes me so please enligth us non Americans.
What does quicken/MS Money do and why are they needed? Am i wrong in assuming the American banking system is a fairly bit behind those in use in other parts of the world?
I dont really see that as a big threat anymore. With the huge uptake linux has right now alienating itself with that kind of technology could as well create an island for Microsoft. Im not that certain it wouldn result in people just avoiding Microsoft instead because it would cement Microsoft as a supplier for life. I see many people wanting off the train today that cant because they are locked into MS. Imagine what a migration would be like with trusted computing putting all kinds of barriers up?
The only thing i can remember came 1993 was Windows NT. To my knowledge NT wasnt designed inhouse. If you delve down into it you will soon see that most if not every product has been a complete ripoff. Microsoft just dont have it in them to innovate. Without small companies to get things from the state of computing would stand firm as a mountain on the same spot.
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The only people who thinks it was Microsoft who brought cheap PC to the market is those who have no knowledge of computers whatsoever. The PC became cheap because the open standard that let anyone do a clone without expensive patents and copyrights standing in the way except for the bios. The competition that enabled was what drove the PC price from 8000$ down to todays prices.
Software had absolutely nothing to do with the price. Infact the price of software hasnt fallen much at all. Go figure.
Not much. When was the last time you saw something useful spring out of MS R&D? They just buy/rob some little company that has done all the hard work as always before.
You must be joking right? The OSS community dont wage a war but we recognize that someone doesnt want us around.
Linux poses an enourmous threat to Microsoft because it opens the market for other competitors. If you make an OS today and make it run Linux applications you have come more than halfway over the applications barrier to entry. Thats whats so scary about linux to Microsoft.
"It seems that many GNU/Linux people don't understand that if the big corporation can charge for a modified version of my software, it means that the modifications they made are *worth* that price."
The modifications themselves may not be more than an effort in making the source incompatible with their product. Thats hardly something i want to fork the dough for. Can you say Kerberos?
Because releasing something under a BSD license will result in a big corporation taking your hard work, smack a logo on it and after having made it incompatible with your version, charge YOU for it.
BSD under a GPL license would make all the difference.
Ill hammer it in again, its the friggin license that puts everybody off, BSD is nice otherwise.
Much of portals and intranets are made up of activex. Ugly hacks to hide the fact that they cant code very well.
What IBM should have done is to switch the backends first and then gone for the desktops. Regardless of what the future would hold the effort on making the backend more flexible would be an excellent investment to get return on later on.
This could serve as an exemple for everyone, dont lock yourself in and throw away the key, use open standards whereever humanly possible.
IE has done more to harm the web than anything i can imagine, virii and spyware included. Why on earth would you want to mimic a browser that is utterly broken to begin? The owners of the sites that are broken should fix them and spank the ones who did them silly. The web should work with every browser that adhere to html standards, not just Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Active X is a horrible thing i wouldnt want in my browser for my life.
I bought a dell d505 laptop and i was a bit anxious about getting everything to work. It has a ipw2200 wlan mini pci nic. Gladly everything worked out of the box except the ipw2200 wich worked perfectly after i had d/l the right firmware.
It would be nice if the firmware could be easier to install, like nvidias drivers. I dont think any ordinary user would be able to do what i did. Its pretty hard to see wich version a specific module has and what firmware i should load.
This will streamline the music even more than today. Rest asure that this will ignite a counter culture.
I really hope that the music industry misses that train and culture is being sold from artist to consumer. Whats missing is the liberation of the radio stations who currently seems to play anything the music bizz tosses at them.
Well it is interesting because it shows how well hardened the box is at first boot. You do want to have a chance to patch the box before it gets 0wn3d right? I havent seen any other OS vendor not telling their users to patch but i have seen plenty of unpatched systems in my days.
Build a brooker for mysql/postgree then or just put a hand into MySQL. Why not alter the bugzilla code to work with Postgree? That whining of yours, its pretty childish you know?
Have it ever occured to you that the bugzilla coders might actually prefer MySql and thus do it the way THEY like it to be? I dont think the will apologize for not tending to your specific needs man.
Well why they do it isnt as important as the fact that soon everybody is doning it. This will force the prices down and everybody is a winner. It will also force more interobability into MS products wich is much needed. The closed formats will be a nightmare for future generations that need Office 97 to read 40 years old documents on computers that cant even run Windows Longhorn.
Id rather see them spend the time they put into copying the MacOS X UI on getting a more secure and faster system. The system sucks today where the OS software drives performance instead of real applications that can do new things. Can we ever get a new system with power left over to do something new and cool?
Maybe its because we are sick and tired of NHL, NFL, Rally and whatnot 2001,2002,2003 and so on and really like the smaller shops that makes somewhat different games?
I think the reason they go after pirates is deeper than just being in the media industries pocket. Its pretty obvious that the third world is going to catch up with the rich world pretty soon, especially while we outsource anything labour intensive abroad be it industry or services. If the rich world holds all IP the third world will still be sucked dry by us maintaining status quo.
With the politicians thinking that media or "IP" will be the next big thing after the industrial revolution and the big export industry in the near future. Thus they are running around shitscared that it will just fail and everyone just share everything, effectivly killing an entire industri albeit a fictious one.
I wonder if they have made any investigation into the difference in car throughput? Traffic light may seem much better since they require computers and stuff but simple math gives that a traffic light cant ever route the amount of traffic that a roundabout can. Im amazed that the UK of all places is removing them when many countries are green of envy.
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This is beyond all reasoning and common sense. Whats next, landmarks, animals and people? Hell, ill copyright my ass and declare it a piece of art and walk around naked all day!
I have tried most 3D desktops and one thing has been common amongst them. After the first week its not that useful anymore. Eycandy deluxe is nice for the newbie but often just slows the more experienced user down. I suspect that is why none of the ones done on linux has taken off, its just not useful.
"high-level support options - No check"
Actually, as a proffessional admin i have found myself having much better support from OSS in general than from any high level support. Its a different kind of support but still it works out really well. It mostly depends on how good you are at googling. Mailing lists are also very underestimated because who answers a quiestion better, the developer or some call-center ape who reads out loud from some stupid database?
Most often when you cant find a solution the problem depends on a bug in the software and access to the developer in some way is the only thing that can resolve the issue. Thats where OSS excels tremendously compared to most companies i know of.
High level support in the form of a guy who goes to your company and fixes things for a silly amount of money is another thing. There are plenty of people who sells support contracts on OSS software so that isnt that big of an issue. Its just that its perceived as a big advantage to be able to play the blame game and have someone fix things when management yells.
As a swede i dont really understand why you would need an application to do your banking. We just connect to the web and use a small code generator to log into our bank. Well inside its just a matter of paying the bills and be done with it. All transactions is saved and can be viewed online. The need for an application eludes me so please enligth us non Americans.
What does quicken/MS Money do and why are they needed? Am i wrong in assuming the American banking system is a fairly bit behind those in use in other parts of the world?
I dont really see that as a big threat anymore. With the huge uptake linux has right now alienating itself with that kind of technology could as well create an island for Microsoft. Im not that certain it wouldn result in people just avoiding Microsoft instead because it would cement Microsoft as a supplier for life. I see many people wanting off the train today that cant because they are locked into MS. Imagine what a migration would be like with trusted computing putting all kinds of barriers up?
The only thing i can remember came 1993 was Windows NT. To my knowledge NT wasnt designed inhouse. If you delve down into it you will soon see that most if not every product has been a complete ripoff. Microsoft just dont have it in them to innovate. Without small companies to get things from the state of computing would stand firm as a mountain on the same spot.
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The only people who thinks it was Microsoft who brought cheap PC to the market is those who have no knowledge of computers whatsoever. The PC became cheap because the open standard that let anyone do a clone without expensive patents and copyrights standing in the way except for the bios. The competition that enabled was what drove the PC price from 8000$ down to todays prices.
Software had absolutely nothing to do with the price. Infact the price of software hasnt fallen much at all. Go figure.
Not much. When was the last time you saw something useful spring out of MS R&D? They just buy/rob some little company that has done all the hard work as always before.
"War? What war?"
You must be joking right? The OSS community dont wage a war but we recognize that someone doesnt want us around.
Linux poses an enourmous threat to Microsoft because it opens the market for other competitors. If you make an OS today and make it run Linux applications you have come more than halfway over the applications barrier to entry. Thats whats so scary about linux to Microsoft.
"It seems that many GNU/Linux people don't understand that if the big corporation can charge for a modified version of my software, it means that the modifications they made are *worth* that price."
The modifications themselves may not be more than an effort in making the source incompatible with their product. Thats hardly something i want to fork the dough for. Can you say Kerberos?
Because releasing something under a BSD license will result in a big corporation taking your hard work, smack a logo on it and after having made it incompatible with your version, charge YOU for it.
BSD under a GPL license would make all the difference.
Ill hammer it in again, its the friggin license that puts everybody off, BSD is nice otherwise.
Much of portals and intranets are made up of activex. Ugly hacks to hide the fact that they cant code very well.
What IBM should have done is to switch the backends first and then gone for the desktops. Regardless of what the future would hold the effort on making the backend more flexible would be an excellent investment to get return on later on.
This could serve as an exemple for everyone, dont lock yourself in and throw away the key, use open standards whereever humanly possible.
IE has done more to harm the web than anything i can imagine, virii and spyware included. Why on earth would you want to mimic a browser that is utterly broken to begin? The owners of the sites that are broken should fix them and spank the ones who did them silly. The web should work with every browser that adhere to html standards, not just Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Active X is a horrible thing i wouldnt want in my browser for my life.
I bought a dell d505 laptop and i was a bit anxious about getting everything to work. It has a ipw2200 wlan mini pci nic. Gladly everything worked out of the box except the ipw2200 wich worked perfectly after i had d/l the right firmware.
It would be nice if the firmware could be easier to install, like nvidias drivers. I dont think any ordinary user would be able to do what i did. Its pretty hard to see wich version a specific module has and what firmware i should load.
This will streamline the music even more than today. Rest asure that this will ignite a counter culture.
I really hope that the music industry misses that train and culture is being sold from artist to consumer. Whats missing is the liberation of the radio stations who currently seems to play anything the music bizz tosses at them.
Well it is interesting because it shows how well hardened the box is at first boot. You do want to have a chance to patch the box before it gets 0wn3d right? I havent seen any other OS vendor not telling their users to patch but i have seen plenty of unpatched systems in my days.
Build a brooker for mysql/postgree then or just put a hand into MySQL. Why not alter the bugzilla code to work with Postgree? That whining of yours, its pretty childish you know?
Have it ever occured to you that the bugzilla coders might actually prefer MySql and thus do it the way THEY like it to be? I dont think the will apologize for not tending to your specific needs man.
Well why they do it isnt as important as the fact that soon everybody is doning it. This will force the prices down and everybody is a winner. It will also force more interobability into MS products wich is much needed. The closed formats will be a nightmare for future generations that need Office 97 to read 40 years old documents on computers that cant even run Windows Longhorn.
"By the time longhorn is out, if you don't have a 3D card with PS2.0 support, that would make your PC about 5 years old."
So, Longhorn will be out just a while after Duke Nukem Forever is released and everybody has gotten a new card to play a bit of pig killing?
Id rather see them spend the time they put into copying the MacOS X UI on getting a more secure and faster system. The system sucks today where the OS software drives performance instead of real applications that can do new things. Can we ever get a new system with power left over to do something new and cool?
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Maybe its because we are sick and tired of NHL, NFL, Rally and whatnot 2001,2002,2003 and so on and really like the smaller shops that makes somewhat different games?
I think the reason they go after pirates is deeper than just being in the media industries pocket. Its pretty obvious that the third world is going to catch up with the rich world pretty soon, especially while we outsource anything labour intensive abroad be it industry or services. If the rich world holds all IP the third world will still be sucked dry by us maintaining status quo.
With the politicians thinking that media or "IP" will be the next big thing after the industrial revolution and the big export industry in the near future. Thus they are running around shitscared that it will just fail and everyone just share everything, effectivly killing an entire industri albeit a fictious one.
I wonder if they have made any investigation into the difference in car throughput? Traffic light may seem much better since they require computers and stuff but simple math gives that a traffic light cant ever route the amount of traffic that a roundabout can. Im amazed that the UK of all places is removing them when many countries are green of envy.