"I guess I'll not only have to teach the Microsoft applications" - but you "volunteer to teach classes on the computers" . If you don't like it - you could leave - or approach a local university and get paid part-time lecturing at evening classes. There's always a shortage of competent staff in that area.....
Companies won't provide an option unless they think there's a demand. They won't do that until their customers get stropy with them in enough numbers to force an option..... despite people's grumbles about Windows - most people aren't prepared to do much to change the status quo. It's the larger companies (with OS licences for thousands of employees) that they large cost savings could be made though - not just in initial cost - but ongoing savings.
I connected with a dial up client on the Amiga. Surely once you have phone number, username & password - it shouldn't matter which computer you're using (although I'll admit that a dial up client for Linux can be difficult to track down - although these are things you should think about before installing an OS).
You're right though - but they said the same thing about supporting the Mac - and look how many peripherals there are now with PC/Mac drivers. That's mainly where the problems lies - manufacturers not writing drivers for Linux - not a lack of basic software.
Well yes computer literacy is a problem - and yes people are shocked when they find out the price of MS products - there are large gaps in people's computer training though......
Libraries AFAIK have a budget for buying new books - but not computers..... they'd have to apply to somewhere for the money for computers (or have them donated - as in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).
Firstly I live in the UK. Only one out of those three (Walmart) own supermarkets here - and as far as I know they don't sell computers through them. Things may be changing quickly in the US - but the rest of the world is on a time lag...... also notice that MS started giving its shareholders dividends (it used to be just a growth share). Every business wants to save money.;o) The quickest way to profits is to reduce overheads. Regarding RCA, US Steel or Lucent - I have only vaguely heard of the last.
I didn't say that & I don't have any children. I don't expect a majority for Linux - that's an unachievable goal - it's just that lack of true competing OSes has led to many of the problems we have today. Microsoft hasn't had to innovate, bring down prices etc as they haven't had competition (and have done their best to avoid anybody being in a position to compete).
That's a matter of opinion - I meant it to mean extra as in extra memory, extra CD-rewriter - things not part of the bog standard specification that you have to pay extra for. By extra it just meant something extra - not implying that it added extra value.
Here the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation donate computers (with yes Windows) to at least one local library. I think the Microsoft way is - get people used to Windows - in school, college & university - then people know of no other OS - let alone its benefits or how to use it. It's a shame really that the OS market has ended up in this mono-culture. I blame it partly on the computer illiteracy of managers. Often they're the ones who have to authorise IT purchases - and yet they often know next to nothing about what they're buying.
Once Linux is the main OS sold with new computers and Windows is the "optional extra" - then I'll regard it as a success. At the moment the market share of Microsoft means that most people know of one OS - Windows - and that is what they ask for with new computers....
I'm sure someone's writing a blockbusting film using this plot as we speak.;o)
A West Palm Beach county resident - annoyed that his vote for Gore in the presidential election wasn't counted - decided to get back at the world by being the most notorious, infamous spammer in West Palm Beach county....... pursued by people all over the world.....
Talking of technical writing - what about grammar? "There's some additional papers also available." should be "There are some additional papers also available."
Sorry yes - it was a bit of an in joke. The fact that I'd just recently been on the C++ module at university had something to do with it. The rest of the comment was written in such a way as to fool the reader that I was serious.;o) Anyway - wasn't one of my best jokes.
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There is no bill of rights in Wales. This is Wales in the United Kingdom we're talking about - not America. The BBC is a British based organisation....
I just use Babelfish if needed. It's ok for IRC - helps to translate what they're saying into English - even if you can write in a different language. Translators don't have much common sense though - and they are very literal....
Don't mess with a funeral/wedding organist - you never know when you might need one. The other half of my job is in computers. I stopped playing computer games when I left my teens...... suppose it's my lack of imagination. *grins*
I have had a job for the past 9 years - it just isn't in America (although strangely I get paid partially in US dollars - after they've been converted to pounds). We don't have a basement lol. America is thousands of miles away....... I'm in Europe.
I neither know what size a nickel or half-dollar is. *grins* I've lived in England all my life you see. The only American currency I see at work is in the form of foreign currency cheques & automatic payments.
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"I guess I'll not only have to teach the Microsoft applications" - but you "volunteer to teach classes on the computers" . If you don't like it - you could leave - or approach a local university and get paid part-time lecturing at evening classes. There's always a shortage of competent staff in that area.....
Companies won't provide an option unless they think there's a demand. They won't do that until their customers get stropy with them in enough numbers to force an option..... despite people's grumbles about Windows - most people aren't prepared to do much to change the status quo. It's the larger companies (with OS licences for thousands of employees) that they large cost savings could be made though - not just in initial cost - but ongoing savings.
I connected with a dial up client on the Amiga. Surely once you have phone number, username & password - it shouldn't matter which computer you're using (although I'll admit that a dial up client for Linux can be difficult to track down - although these are things you should think about before installing an OS).
You're right though - but they said the same thing about supporting the Mac - and look how many peripherals there are now with PC/Mac drivers. That's mainly where the problems lies - manufacturers not writing drivers for Linux - not a lack of basic software.
Well yes computer literacy is a problem - and yes people are shocked when they find out the price of MS products - there are large gaps in people's computer training though......
Libraries AFAIK have a budget for buying new books - but not computers..... they'd have to apply to somewhere for the money for computers (or have them donated - as in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).
Firstly I live in the UK. Only one out of those three (Walmart) own supermarkets here - and as far as I know they don't sell computers through them. Things may be changing quickly in the US - but the rest of the world is on a time lag...... also notice that MS started giving its shareholders dividends (it used to be just a growth share). Every business wants to save money. ;o) The quickest way to profits is to reduce overheads. Regarding RCA, US Steel or Lucent - I have only vaguely heard of the last.
I didn't say that & I don't have any children. I don't expect a majority for Linux - that's an unachievable goal - it's just that lack of true competing OSes has led to many of the problems we have today. Microsoft hasn't had to innovate, bring down prices etc as they haven't had competition (and have done their best to avoid anybody being in a position to compete).
That's a matter of opinion - I meant it to mean extra as in extra memory, extra CD-rewriter - things not part of the bog standard specification that you have to pay extra for. By extra it just meant something extra - not implying that it added extra value.
Here the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation donate computers (with yes Windows) to at least one local library. I think the Microsoft way is - get people used to Windows - in school, college & university - then people know of no other OS - let alone its benefits or how to use it. It's a shame really that the OS market has ended up in this mono-culture. I blame it partly on the computer illiteracy of managers. Often they're the ones who have to authorise IT purchases - and yet they often know next to nothing about what they're buying.
Once Linux is the main OS sold with new computers and Windows is the "optional extra" - then I'll regard it as a success. At the moment the market share of Microsoft means that most people know of one OS - Windows - and that is what they ask for with new computers....
I'm sure someone's writing a blockbusting film using this plot as we speak. ;o)
A West Palm Beach county resident - annoyed that his vote for Gore in the presidential election wasn't counted - decided to get back at the world by being the most notorious, infamous spammer in West Palm Beach county....... pursued by people all over the world.....
There are some married slashdotters.... take CmdrTaco as one example....
Talking of technical writing - what about grammar? "There's some additional papers also available." should be "There are some additional papers also available."
Looks like you're a real karma whore as you posted this comment twice (admittedly the second time with a clickable URL).
I think you meant female not male.
For their next challenge they should try singing ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 ten times to the tune of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Sorry yes - it was a bit of an in joke. The fact that I'd just recently been on the C++ module at university had something to do with it. The rest of the comment was written in such a way as to fool the reader that I was serious. ;o) Anyway - wasn't one of my best jokes.
There is no bill of rights in Wales. This is Wales in the United Kingdom we're talking about - not America. The BBC is a British based organisation....
It was meant as a joke. Hence the +1 moderation point for being funny.
bah I still think a TARDIS or Star Trek Transporter pad are more efficent ways of travelling...... *grins*
I give Microsoft a C++ (a passing grade with room for improvement). The settlement was vastly watered down by their legal team anyway....
I just use Babelfish if needed. It's ok for IRC - helps to translate what they're saying into English - even if you can write in a different language. Translators don't have much common sense though - and they are very literal....
Don't mess with a funeral/wedding organist - you never know when you might need one. The other half of my job is in computers. I stopped playing computer games when I left my teens...... suppose it's my lack of imagination. *grins*
Sorry - UK still uses pounds, not Euros - although I have seen the odd Euro coin when I travel to the Republic of Ireland to visit relations.
I have had a job for the past 9 years - it just isn't in America (although strangely I get paid partially in US dollars - after they've been converted to pounds). We don't have a basement lol. America is thousands of miles away....... I'm in Europe.
I neither know what size a nickel or half-dollar is. *grins* I've lived in England all my life you see. The only American currency I see at work is in the form of foreign currency cheques & automatic payments.