Maybe this is what it is, but I would like to see a DNS/Phonebook service that associates a url(voip://X/Y/Z, or something) to the user's IP address and can quickly update/adpat to dynamic IPs.
" If I'm forced to pay $129 for a distro, why not just go pick up XP Home? What, if any, is the incentive for people to switch then?"
Well, it may sound like a troll, but 'its not windows' is a fair answer. There are certain companies that specifically want non-windows workstations(in part or in their entire enterprise).They don't mind paying money.
Besides, TCO of Windows, when including Office and subscriptions to AV software, can, in the right situation(not needing to retrain your staff if they are already knowledgable, for instance) can be much higher. It all depends on the company, the needs and the assets. Paying 130 bucks per seat for an OS, but saving X because it was Xandros and not Windows, can be well worth it.
If they would release a local application that indexed(or worked off the windows index) silently in the background the contents of my harddrive, then let me search those files, I would just about make love to google. Heck, they could even add a quick search field in the explorer window.
Oh, and don't add the little clippy dog. No one likes him.
You are right, my mistake. So my point would then become, why the hell did they begin to require ID checks in response to a mechanical failure in a plane?
Heh. You jest, but one of the 'security'features of traveling within the states(state to state) is having to show valid ids, sometime 2. What I don't understand is, why? If these security features were in answer to 9-11 attacks, and all the attackers had valid ID, why make the rule.
It is(apparently) not overly hard to get valid ID, a dozen Saudis did it, so what were they trying to accomplish?
If you forwarded all your mail, then the original headers(including date) will be put into the body of the text, and new headers (the date uploaded) will be placed in the mail's header.
"He said that as a geographer himself it was depressing that Americans had a reputation for being particularly unaware of the rest of the world. The annual National Geographic Survey had thrown up the sad fact that only 23 out of 56 young Americans knew the whereabouts of the Pacific Ocean."
"This has all died out now, with CISC (read: Intel) coming out as a winner."
Except that the core of modern Intel chips are RISC based, with an abstraction layer to morph them into a CISC frontend to preserve backwards compatability. RISC is superior, that is not questioned, even the biggest CISC processor developers(Intel) recognize RISC's superiority.
No kidding. IBM and the POWER line of chips, Motorola and the PowerPC(very similar to POWER), AMD with their x86 -32 and even cooler -64 bit processors. Sun and the SPARC processors...
Sheesh, I think processor options still exist and I wouldn't call ANY of those companies 'niche guys' in any respect.
"The biggest advantage of using x86 systems over anything else isn't that they're the fastest chips, cycle-for-cycle, or that they're a particularly elegant solution. It's that they're CHEAP and FAST ENOUGH."
Because in the highend, world-wide enterprise datacenters, they look for 1. Cheap and 2. Fast Enough. God Bless America.
So, you know the product has poor security, but because the company says it plans to fix those issues(in an unspecified timeframe, with no accountability) you decide to use that product...
Why not choose the product that actually HAS the better security and not rely on a promise for a feature set to be added later.
Couldn't 'other' just qualify as anything that didn't fit the exact match of Mac/Win/Lin? I don't know what goes into making a web browser spit out what OS it runs on, but if that string of text, for whatever reason, was not matching the exact result expected from Google's stats machine, than it would just drop to other. I would assume many of the 'other' category were Win/Lin/Mac, but for whatever reason, failed to be categorized as such.
Yes, well, NOONE I have talked to ever relates Excel to 'ExCEL, like spreadsheets have cells'... They think of it as excel, an in excellence. But whatever.
Yes, I agree, Microsoft is great at taking generic words and trademarking them like Word or Windows.
what if your laptop is the box that you want to bridge connections on... so you have this AP plugged into your rj-45, providing NAT and bridges connections from your... where, bluetooth?
This being USB powered means I can route my ehternet connection to my USB AP, and share a connection.
How about more colleges become internet backbones... Or how about doubling the root name servers from 13 to 26? Why not? Why not have 100 root name servers?
Big deal. If your company were smart, they would deploy the logon script to all workstations(provided by Microsoft) that blocked the download of SP2 for 4 months. In that time, they would use test machines and registry settings to roll a script that can then be deployed with a preconfigured firewall and security settings... Also, the third-party companies whose software is affected will have time to release a patch.
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It will be running QEMU, an emulator, that will be closely tied to Winelib, which will then run Windows executables.
It is sad that even on slashdot this question is still ask.
Why do they do it?
Because they can.
You must have bought the silver subscription, the premium subscription upgrades you to the "???" step 2.
Maybe this is what it is, but I would like to see a DNS/Phonebook service that associates a url(voip://X/Y/Z, or something) to the user's IP address and can quickly update/adpat to dynamic IPs.
" If I'm forced to pay $129 for a distro, why not just go pick up XP Home? What, if any, is the incentive for people to switch then?"
Well, it may sound like a troll, but 'its not windows' is a fair answer. There are certain companies that specifically want non-windows workstations(in part or in their entire enterprise).They don't mind paying money.
Besides, TCO of Windows, when including Office and subscriptions to AV software, can, in the right situation(not needing to retrain your staff if they are already knowledgable, for instance) can be much higher. It all depends on the company, the needs and the assets. Paying 130 bucks per seat for an OS, but saving X because it was Xandros and not Windows, can be well worth it.
Again, it all depends on the situation
a hybrid social network app, email app(realtime gmail, using jabber!) and search functionality... just because they are Google.
Mmm. Drool.
just forward the email to someone else, the invites still work for them.
If they would release a local application that indexed(or worked off the windows index) silently in the background the contents of my harddrive, then let me search those files, I would just about make love to google. Heck, they could even add a quick search field in the explorer window.
Oh, and don't add the little clippy dog. No one likes him.
You are right, my mistake. So my point would then become, why the hell did they begin to require ID checks in response to a mechanical failure in a plane?
That is not a google coding flaw, that is gross incompitence at your employer.
Heh. You jest, but one of the 'security'features of traveling within the states(state to state) is having to show valid ids, sometime 2. What I don't understand is, why? If these security features were in answer to 9-11 attacks, and all the attackers had valid ID, why make the rule.
It is(apparently) not overly hard to get valid ID, a dozen Saudis did it, so what were they trying to accomplish?
If you forwarded all your mail, then the original headers(including date) will be put into the body of the text, and new headers (the date uploaded) will be placed in the mail's header.
It works fine for me.
"He said that as a geographer himself it was depressing that Americans had a reputation for being particularly unaware of the rest of the world. The annual National Geographic Survey had thrown up the sad fact that only 23 out of 56 young Americans knew the whereabouts of the Pacific Ocean."
Wow.
Here is hoping Apple is the company that Buys Alias.. Seems like it would be a great compliment to the rest of their pro software lineup!
"This has all died out now, with CISC (read: Intel) coming out as a winner." Except that the core of modern Intel chips are RISC based, with an abstraction layer to morph them into a CISC frontend to preserve backwards compatability. RISC is superior, that is not questioned, even the biggest CISC processor developers(Intel) recognize RISC's superiority.
No kidding. IBM and the POWER line of chips, Motorola and the PowerPC(very similar to POWER), AMD with their x86 -32 and even cooler -64 bit processors. Sun and the SPARC processors...
Sheesh, I think processor options still exist and I wouldn't call ANY of those companies 'niche guys' in any respect.
"The biggest advantage of using x86 systems over anything else isn't that they're the fastest chips, cycle-for-cycle, or that they're a particularly elegant solution. It's that they're CHEAP and FAST ENOUGH."
Because in the highend, world-wide enterprise datacenters, they look for 1. Cheap and 2. Fast Enough. God Bless America.
So, you know the product has poor security, but because the company says it plans to fix those issues(in an unspecified timeframe, with no accountability) you decide to use that product...
Why not choose the product that actually HAS the better security and not rely on a promise for a feature set to be added later.
Couldn't 'other' just qualify as anything that didn't fit the exact match of Mac/Win/Lin? I don't know what goes into making a web browser spit out what OS it runs on, but if that string of text, for whatever reason, was not matching the exact result expected from Google's stats machine, than it would just drop to other. I would assume many of the 'other' category were Win/Lin/Mac, but for whatever reason, failed to be categorized as such.
Yes, well, NOONE I have talked to ever relates Excel to 'ExCEL, like spreadsheets have cells'... They think of it as excel, an in excellence. But whatever.
Yes, I agree, Microsoft is great at taking generic words and trademarking them like Word or Windows.
what if your laptop is the box that you want to bridge connections on... so you have this AP plugged into your rj-45, providing NAT and bridges connections from your... where, bluetooth?
This being USB powered means I can route my ehternet connection to my USB AP, and share a connection.
You have a good point, why have a fiber internet connection when almost everything internet backbone is only a fraction of that speed?
Couple reasons... have a big, massive proxy/caching server and make the internet FEEL like you are using that full fiber goodness.
Your LAN connection is always faster than your WAN, and the further something is away.
Light speed connections are sexy... You want to be sexy.
Just don't use UDP!
How about more colleges become internet backbones... Or how about doubling the root name servers from 13 to 26? Why not? Why not have 100 root name servers?
Big deal. If your company were smart, they would deploy the logon script to all workstations(provided by Microsoft) that blocked the download of SP2 for 4 months. In that time, they would use test machines and registry settings to roll a script that can then be deployed with a preconfigured firewall and security settings... Also, the third-party companies whose software is affected will have time to release a patch.