When I reinstall Windows for a friend, I put Ubuntu on their computer next to windows and tell them to boot it if windows fails again.
It takes a couple of months before they really need to fall back on it. And in the meanwhile, at moments when they feel brave, they take a peek in the rabbithole.
And they confirm; Ubuntu does a great job for a fresh user.
And I don't believe anybody would consider buying it to save money.
It would be even better if DELL would use another 50 dollar per sale for developers of the software of DELL's choice. That would give buyers a nice cosy Ubuntu feeling and it would be great marketing.
Games can be specialized to use 4 or more cores. Servers will really use it.
Mr. PC enthousiast who likes to rip DVDs and do other things in the meanwhile can do with 2 cores.
I'm a multitasker who converts audio and video and downloads a lot while intensively browsing the internet. I see no need for me to go more than dualcore. If you are like me; better yet use the money on more happy HD-space, quiet cooling and memory.
I'm really impressed if they dare to follow the standard.
Because with their good example, pages will render differently in opera than the author wanted it too as the pages are probably tuned for IE/Mozilla/Konqueror.
An open-format Rich Text Format writer was build by Microsoft but not adopted by users. Now people have to pay, both litteraly and in figure of speach.
I wouldn't be surprise if Ballmer will implode while doing a monkey dance out of rage shouting: "Com-mu-nist-de-ve-lo-pers-com-mu-nist-de-ve-lo-pe rs!"
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I have the same feelings as you towards OO.o and MS Office.
I use abiword for writing and gnumeric for making charts. Give it a serious try.
"In addition, you have no idea where open-source products are going, whereas vendors like Microsoft provide a roadmap for the future."
Why do I think the exact opposite? I have more faith in ODF being supported by multiple apps, say, twenty years from now.
'Digital Rights Management' gives the people almost the same warm, free and secure feeling they long for as 'Trusted Computing'.
Vuala, V U A L A, Vuala.
*BEEP*
The correct spelling is V O I L A.
Could mail me the decrypter so I can test the encrypter I just finished?
Well that's because they assumed there would never be software that interprets the CSS properly; 'till Opera's recent announcement.
You forgot the step that says 'Place a slogan that makes the target audience feel instantly comfortable and accepted'.
I had a laptop with windows, for school. Used it one and a half year without reinstall. No virusscanner.
I lend my laptop to one of those friends for a week because he immediately needed a computer and his windows was f*cked up.
Guess what, I had to reinstall my windows after that week because it was unfixable.
So you are right, thanks for backing me up.
I hope you see the irony of your comment?
With the grand choice you have in Ubuntu alone, the apps, and other distro's.
It's the distro I install for all my friends.
When I reinstall Windows for a friend, I put Ubuntu on their computer next to windows and tell them to boot it if windows fails again.
It takes a couple of months before they really need to fall back on it. And in the meanwhile, at moments when they feel brave, they take a peek in the rabbithole.
And they confirm; Ubuntu does a great job for a fresh user.
I believe it has great symbolic value.
And I don't believe anybody would consider buying it to save money.
It would be even better if DELL would use another 50 dollar per sale for developers of the software of DELL's choice. That would give buyers a nice cosy Ubuntu feeling and it would be great marketing.
The new flight simulator by Microsoft will support multicore for scenery rendering and stuff.
Games can be specialized to use 4 or more cores.
Servers will really use it.
Mr. PC enthousiast who likes to rip DVDs and do other things in the meanwhile can do with 2 cores.
I'm a multitasker who converts audio and video and downloads a lot while intensively browsing the internet. I see no need for me to go more than dualcore. If you are like me; better yet use the money on more happy HD-space, quiet cooling and memory.
I'm really impressed if they dare to follow the standard.
Because with their good example, pages will render differently in opera than the author wanted it too as the pages are probably tuned for IE/Mozilla/Konqueror.
Remember Napster and how companies warned that quality movies and music would come to an end if everybody downloads these off the internet?
I must say that there are still lots of great movies being made. And I think we can't complain about the quality of music either.
Ofcourse the most repetitively played music on television and commercial radio stations are the exception here and ought to be avoided.
Have you seen the movie fortress?
"this is an unauthorized thought process"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106950/
When you see the flash you count 'till there is the thunder.
When you take the number you counted and devide it by the distant of the thunder; you know exactly how fast you have counted.
So they have to define a meter
Which is exactly 1/299,792,458 of a lightsecond in a vacuum.
So they have to define a second.
Which is exactly the time in which light travels 299,792,458 meters.
So they have to define a meter
Which is exactly 1/299,792,458 of a lightsecond in a vacuum.
So they have to define a second.
Which is exactly the time in which light travels 299,792,458 meters.
^C
No no no!
I'd rather have distributions and programmers choose google as default because it's good.
What MS does now is saying: "We know other search options are better, that's why we pay you to make our's default".
This reminds me.
I use linux for 7 years now.
I have a laptop with dualboot windowsXP/debian on it. I use windows for school.
I used it for one and a half years without a problem.
A good friend borowed my laptop for a week to work on an essay, since he needed MS office, and I installed ubuntu on his PC.
After that week of normal use (firefox/office), it kept crashing and when I scanned virusses were all over.
He has no idea how that could have happened.
All kinds of strange things happen to windows Pcs of friends.
Can anybody explain?
An open-format Rich Text Format writer was build by Microsoft but not adopted by users. Now people have to pay, both litteraly and in figure of speach.
"I honestly wonder if they will eventually "get" that releasing MS Office code to the open source community is their only option"
Why in the hell would they do that or be enforced to do so?!
You can't enforce anybody to 'open up code'.
Supporting ODF or opening their own formats or codecs would suffice.
"then maybe they'll stop driving 35 in a 65!"
35 for you, is like 65 for them.
It's all relative.
Hello Doofus,
...
This is a post from yourself, in the year 2023.
To prove this to me, let me tell me something that only I (/you) know; that thing I did to the dog in uncle's basement on the 7th of February '07.
Follow the pink squirrel
Give it a year or five.
e rs!"
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I wouldn't be surprise if Ballmer will implode while doing a monkey dance out of rage shouting: "Com-mu-nist-de-ve-lo-pers-com-mu-nist-de-ve-lo-p
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