I agree with another poster here, perhaps a beginner(only the main things) vs. expert (every damn item) mode is in order?
I don't really kare that there are 4 text editors installed when downloading KDE from kde.org.
Menu organization and what applications are installed, as well as "application defaults" are set by the distribution.
Just because the kde.org download has 4 text editor means nothing. The default Mandrake install may only have 1 editor while Fedora may have 7 or 8.
This is how it should be. A distribution can target power users, i.e. a full install to get all of their goodies, a "lite" install for when they are slapping a system together for some newbie. Or a distribution can target beginners and give a one-click install with only the basic aps.
As far as too many menu options. It would not be a bad idea to have a basic/power user setup. I am a power user and I LIKE not having to go to the control panel everytime I want to change some options in Konqueror, I like them all there at my fingertips.
I would like to see embeded java applets in Konqueror stay inside of Konqueror instead of opening up in their own window when I am running Fluxbox as my desktop.
I am looking forward to about 6 months from now and getting my hands on Fedora 1.0 or Mandrake 10.0 running a 2.6 kernel and KDE 3.2 the performance is going to be stellar.
This is only a problem if IBM drops their countersuit. Heck if SCO drops their suit, their stock drops, they file bankruptcy, IBM may still pursue them, both to make a point (don't try to blackmail IBM) and to shutdown the FUD with a soild ruling on the GPL.
Actually, I do. The main problem is that the customer throws a fit if the page doesn't display 'correctly' in a browser with the largest market share,
Hell, I would be happy if they went with marketshare. The CEO uses IE 6, the CFO who pays the bill uses IE 5.01 and the manger in charge of the product line uses Netscape 4.7.
When I started working for them, Netscape 4 had 60% market share. So to do the work I am paid for, making the site accesable for the customers, I always make sure the site is accessable to the browser used by the majority of customers.
Give a man a fish, and he will be bound to MicroSoft products. Teach a man to fish, and he can use any program he wants.
Instead of teaching general word processing concepts. I.E. text can be selected, then cut, copied, pasted, files can be saved and opened. Margins need to be set. Text can be delt with on a character level, word level, sentence level, paragraph level, then in some programs in "sections" or pages" or with "styles".
If you teach these concepts, then someone can set down at a new wordprocessor they have not seen before, take an inventory of the tools available, and they style (Word is paragraph based, built around sections, Wordperfect is character based, built around pages). Then they can get to work and be productive.
If you have been trained in how to use Word (or any other wordprocessor), click here, pick this menu option, you are lost in a new program, especially if you rely on where things are at on the menu.
A vocational school should teach MSWord, or WordPerfect or OpenOffice, or whatever a student would feel is the WordProcessor they need to learn how to use to get a job. Or what the local job market is demanding for entry level word processing skills.
A regular school or college should teach WordProcessing concepts and theory. Students should be exposed to several different word prcoessors and DTP programs after having some theory, and then the class should focus on basic mastery of one product.
It depends on two things
1) that the hardware of the computer at the cafe is linux/knoppix compatible
2) the networking/proxy setup of the cafe
If the cafe has a proxy that requires a MS windows domain type login to use, then knoppix will not be able to log into the domain.
It is much more likley that the machines either use a static IP address or DHPC to get their IP address.
If they use DHPC, then knoppix will autoconfigure and everything will be fine.
If it is a static IP address, the user will need to know the correct IP address for the machine and the correct IP address for the gateway and nameserver to get a good net connection. There is a configuration option to set this up, once you have that information.
I worked for Symantec. Do you know how many ways there are to infect a windows box? Do you know how many diffrent load points there are for a virus?
As I recall, there are 6 ways a Mac can be infected by a virus. No one has found a new way since 1995. Every single Mac Virus has to exploit one of those 6 ways. Virrus detection and removal on a Mac is trivial.
Not so for Windows. Every time you think you have figured out all of the ways a virus can infect the system, someone finds another way in.
Duh, the virus/worm is run. The fun part is there are so many ways to get windows to run arbitrary code. Tell your web browser not to execute arbitrary code. No problem, there are several known bugs that will allow arbitrary code to be run without the users permission, and more waiting to be discoverd all the time. That is, if you are running Microsoft Windows.
Before you blame their user base lets ask a simple question. Who has used their power as a monoply so that the only type of computer besides and expensive Apple would be a commodity PC loaded with their software. No dual boots, no major retailers or computer manufactures able to offer another OS to these clueless folks?
I would say Microsoft has made sure that these people without the technical sophistication to find something else like OS/2, BEOS, FreeBSD or Linux, could only choose Microsoft Windows. Then in addtion to that, they sell them an out of the box insecure OS and encourage them to use the free web browser (IE) and free email client (Outlook Express).
I would say that when Microsoft stoped updatiing their Anti-Virus program for Windows 3.1 was a good clue that they did not really care about end user security.
There are just to many viruses out there to keep track of. So we are not going to bundle and maintain Antivirus software for our OS.
If I had my choice, I would rather fix a broken linux box than a broken windows box. Especially if I had two systems with identical hardware....don't even think about doing that with windows
No error messages, no debug scripts, no way to redirect output to be looked at later. One 3 meg closed source binary file with all critical system information in it. No way to rebuild it if it is damaged. Usefull entries like {3F72B3386AD23EAF37}
Sure, I would rather fix a windows box.
I will take a linux box any day. It can be very nice to boot off of a CD, chroot a drive and update an RPM to get things back to a stable state.
One of my favorite tricks is to log into the user account I have on my system for web development, So I have 4 virtual windows for user B. Then I open a console and su to my normal account and do a "nohup gaim &" and "nohup kmail &"
So here I am with my 4 (virtual) desktops, running 2 apps from another users account.
Just another feature in addition to virtual desktops that I can not live without.
As an administrator, it is almost impossible not to hate Windows.
Hmm, lets see why.....
Having to reinstall windows on systemst that just "stop working".
Having to take care of Antivirus software.
Having to maintain license information for a company that may very well raid your facility with armed government agents if they feel you need an audit.
Once the dog and pony shows are done..the reality is no matter where you purchase it, there is really only ONE vendor. MicroSoft.
Not having the ability to get inside an modify any drivers or other OS software to meet company needs
Need I go on?
The Citrix farm solves some of problems above. The workstations are just "boxes", if one dies, just toss another one in there. Everything that is important lives on the server. Licence's are easier to track if everything is installed on the server. Installing apps, taking care of virus isues,etc, all easier to handle on the Citrix farm.
Then of course, there are the advantages of a *nix based system over the Citrix farms....
Linux is NOT a company. There is no way for linux to make a bad marketing decision. Put programmers on projects the public does not care about, add features that no one wants.
Besides....Linux is not underfunded. It is spending ust as much on marketing as it ever has.
The main problem with Office and Exchange is that they also tie you to a specific OS. Yet they seem to have done rather well.
However, by leverging the ability to force what comes preinstalled on a new PC, and bundeling MS Office for only a few dollars more with a new system. As opposed to having to purchase an office package like WordPerfect. Microsoft was able to take over the PC Offfice application arena.
With the volume of web servers that can run Apache/PHP/My SQL for free on the low end, or competing against products like Apahce/Java/Oracle on the high end, along with not giving away.NET for an extra 2 dollars per new PC, they have not been able to hijack the "web services" market.
My favorive book on programming is "Thinking Forth". One of the things the book covers, is whenever possible try to do a rapid prototype of the problem, get a feel for it. Go back and try several different ways to solve it. The goal is elegance. The elegant solution is not always the most obvious, but once found, is the easiest to understand, implement and maintain.
The major way to get there, is to prototype, and then toss out ALL code and start again from scratch. Also, not to get caught up in the superficiality of control structures.
Anyways, the point being, if you have expierence in a domain, you already know how to write and optimize a solution. When you do not have expierence in a domain, write a prototype, try several solutions, and then throw away all code and start from scratch.
Important lessons from Engineering, for both papered and unpapered CS folks.
There is an ART to writing manageable, easy to maintain code, and may programmers have no skill at it. It is not taught in school, and is not just picked up automatically by the self taught.
I was just saying that the point where it should start to come out is during DISCOVERY, which is PRE-TRIAL.
I agree that the smart stratigy is to hold off giving away any of your evidence as long as possible. However, I was also saying that as long as possible is till sometime during the pre-trial discovery. Judges take a very dim view of "surpirses" during the trial.
That means that neither party wants to give away its strategy or interpretation of the facts until legally required
Right, and that time, is during the DISCOVERY process BEFORE THEY GO TO COURT.
None the less, those facts must be given away in discovery. SCO has the right do depose the programmers and "project team leaders" who appear to be responsible for inserting the code from AIX into Linux.
IBM is entitled to a list of evidence that is to be presented.
I worked for an Attorney once, he said it is not like it is on TV. You depose people, look at the evidence and then go to court. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER ask a question in court that you DO NOT ALREADY KNOW THE ANSER TO. If you get a different answer, haul out the deposition, and put the witness back in place. They either go back to the deposition, or get charged with purgory.
This is why people just don't walk up to you on the street and hand you court papers that say, "I am suing you, for an undisclosed sum, for undisclosed damages, show up in court on the 15th and find out why".
Even though IBM could twist the facts, attempt to falisify evidence and hide witnesses, none the less, at some point BEFORE trial, it is their right to know what they are being accused of, and what evidence they have to support that.
Nope, Robotech was just so cool, I made time every day to watch it. It was a cartoon that played like a drama. I just knew that Rick should take up with Lisa and forget that Lin Min Mai, she was nothing but trouble.....
And Inspector Gadget came on right after Robotech. When I was very young, I loved to watch Get Smart. With Don Adams voicing Inspector Gadger, it was just like a Get Smart cartoon.
So there was not need to get up and leave just because Robotech was over.
What was totally lame is that I watched it on UHF TV-53 in Fresno California. They did a comerical for the station where someone gets up to have breakfast, pours a bowl of cornflakes and there are nuts an bolts mixed in with the cereal and the anouncer says "New and Improved TV-53, now fortified with Iron". This station made the station that Wierd Al worked in in UHF look normal.
Yes it was great, fighing over what cartoons to wath, getting up early, eating plenty of chocolate frosted sugar bombs
I am 36, which means I remember Cartoons starting when I was 5 in 1971, up to when I left home at 19 and no longer had younger brothers and sisters watching them.
No one hear has mentioned Boomerang, the Cartoon Network spin-off which showcases Hanna-Barbara cartoons from 1958 to 1985.
Yes, now seen as an adult, some of the shows I thought were cool, are, well, junk. However, some things still hold up well. Like Johnny Quest
Also no one has mentioned such Jay Ward classics as Rocky and Bullwinkle. A show written for kids, with dialog for the adults and humor that cut to the heart of the cold war.
I remember back in the 70's when the networks would have a Friday night where they would show off their new Saturday morning linuep. One of the things we would look forward to after school started up again in September is seeing what new cartoons would be on.
Inspector Gadget and Robotech were worth watching. At 18, I grew tired of the He-Man,GI Joe tie-ins. They had enough bullets flying around to call it world war 3, but no one ever dies, They can't die, K-Mart had 100 units of each figure on the shelf, killing of the character would have been bad business.
Yes, the quality of the animation is terrible now days. There are a few modern gems. I find Ren and Stimpy funny and pretty incorrect.
I would have to agree that most cartoons are not very good, because they are not witty and there is no adult humor in them, or that they are so PC. Let's dialog about our feelings. The Simpsons has not been on so long because they dialog about their feelings, it's because they take no prisoners.
It's pretty sad realy, even back in the 70's most of the great cartoons had been made in the 60's.
When the 5 major lables die, it will be interesting. Radio is not going away.
What will Clear Chanel do when there are no media pimps who get $400,000 to promote a song? When there are no major lables with a "band of the week" to get airplay? What will they do?
FSM's are often used in FORTH. Since it is easy to create an array of functions to be called.
Create a buffer, fill it with input and call the function for the inital "state", which processes the input and passes it off to the next state in the array, till you hit a function which "finishes" the transformation of the input string.
I was once a happy alta-vista user. I searched and found what I needed. Then there came a day, where when I did a search for something, I would not find what I wanted till I dug down past the first 7 or 8 items linking to p0rn sites.
The point is that as long as searching at a search eninge returns the right result in the first 5-10 items, most of the time, with no spam showing up in the top 5, you stick with that engine until EVERYONE tells you there is a better search engine.
As long as it is working, you don't switch. I think both Microsoft and Yahoo! have a tough road to hoe. As long as goole returns relevant results without a lot of spam showing up and the page loads quickly. They will rule and people will not switch.
"Can you please explain to us how having two products that do basically the same thing competing for market share is a bad thing?"
Sure, glad I could help
Past performance is the best indicator of how something will perform in the future
Look at MicroSofts track record.
I know we have all benefited from MicroSoft telling PC manufactures that they cannot purchase OEM copies of windows at a discount if "the free market forces" of consumers having a chose to boot multiple OS, preloaded on a machine they purchase.
Then with a strangle hold on PC"s that are purchased for home and business, a wordprocessor is a must. So let's bundle in at discount MicroSoft Office for OEM's installs. This surely won't hurt wordperfect. Competition is good.
Let's all shout "Hurray" for the free market, MicroSoft will make a java runtime engine, and we know it will be compatible, because they signed an agreement with Sun.
Need I go on? Need any more examples?
Yes, competiton is good, But when a Monopoly uses it's power to further maintain it as being a monopoly, that is not considered being "competivie" and good for the consumer.
While I will admit that as times change, all monopolies lose that strangehold power (who want's to be railbarron?). In the meantime, with price fixing, genuine invovation being destroyed before it is brought to the market, and new "features" being added, not because they are a benefit to the user, but because they further the interest of the monoploy.
Case in point, when the new version of office comes out, it will only run on Y2k with SP3 or on XP. All news systems will have to be loaded with XP, and the new version office will be the only version available.
At this point, business will end up with a mix of "new office' and "old office", which will not be compatible. They will be forced to upgrade, because it is good for MicroSoft.
If MicroSoft was not a monopoly, abusing it's power, there would be real free market competion, and the consumer could, at cost, swith to different word processor that does not lock them in like that. However, lets face it, as all the MS zelots out there constantly remind us, neither WordPerfect or OpenOffice are viable alternatives for most business that are entrenched MS Office users.
Competition is good (and possible), when you are not competing against a monopoly.
...you know, what if people actually LIKE using Linux are are more than willing to spend a little time setting it up? Shocking as it sounds, it does happen.
Ok, they believe that there are 110,000 copies of windows in this province.
How many of these 110,000 copies arelegal copy of windows?
Yeah, I don't belive that there are many people here who have, or are going to spend money on Microsoft products.
I don't know any folks in Spain, so I do not know if they really feel purchasing MS software is contributing to Bill Gates ability to contribute to population control or not. However, if that is true, then I am not surprised at all that folks would be thrilled to have a chance to leave MS products.
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I don't really kare that there are 4 text editors installed when downloading KDE from kde.org.
Menu organization and what applications are installed, as well as "application defaults" are set by the distribution.
Just because the kde.org download has 4 text editor means nothing. The default Mandrake install may only have 1 editor while Fedora may have 7 or 8.
This is how it should be. A distribution can target power users, i.e. a full install to get all of their goodies, a "lite" install for when they are slapping a system together for some newbie. Or a distribution can target beginners and give a one-click install with only the basic aps.
As far as too many menu options. It would not be a bad idea to have a basic/power user setup. I am a power user and I LIKE not having to go to the control panel everytime I want to change some options in Konqueror, I like them all there at my fingertips.
I would like to see embeded java applets in Konqueror stay inside of Konqueror instead of opening up in their own window when I am running Fluxbox as my desktop.
I am looking forward to about 6 months from now and getting my hands on Fedora 1.0 or Mandrake 10.0 running a 2.6 kernel and KDE 3.2 the performance is going to be stellar.
This is only a problem if IBM drops their countersuit. Heck if SCO drops their suit, their stock drops, they file bankruptcy, IBM may still pursue them, both to make a point (don't try to blackmail IBM) and to shutdown the FUD with a soild ruling on the GPL.
Hell, I would be happy if they went with marketshare. The CEO uses IE 6, the CFO who pays the bill uses IE 5.01 and the manger in charge of the product line uses Netscape 4.7.
When I started working for them, Netscape 4 had 60% market share. So to do the work I am paid for, making the site accesable for the customers, I always make sure the site is accessable to the browser used by the majority of customers.
Yeah, I would love to code for one browser.
Instead of teaching general word processing concepts. I.E. text can be selected, then cut, copied, pasted, files can be saved and opened. Margins need to be set. Text can be delt with on a character level, word level, sentence level, paragraph level, then in some programs in "sections" or pages" or with "styles".
If you teach these concepts, then someone can set down at a new wordprocessor they have not seen before, take an inventory of the tools available, and they style (Word is paragraph based, built around sections, Wordperfect is character based, built around pages). Then they can get to work and be productive.
If you have been trained in how to use Word (or any other wordprocessor), click here, pick this menu option, you are lost in a new program, especially if you rely on where things are at on the menu.
A vocational school should teach MSWord, or WordPerfect or OpenOffice, or whatever a student would feel is the WordProcessor they need to learn how to use to get a job. Or what the local job market is demanding for entry level word processing skills.
A regular school or college should teach WordProcessing concepts and theory. Students should be exposed to several different word prcoessors and DTP programs after having some theory, and then the class should focus on basic mastery of one product.
It depends on two things 1) that the hardware of the computer at the cafe is linux/knoppix compatible 2) the networking/proxy setup of the cafe If the cafe has a proxy that requires a MS windows domain type login to use, then knoppix will not be able to log into the domain. It is much more likley that the machines either use a static IP address or DHPC to get their IP address. If they use DHPC, then knoppix will autoconfigure and everything will be fine. If it is a static IP address, the user will need to know the correct IP address for the machine and the correct IP address for the gateway and nameserver to get a good net connection. There is a configuration option to set this up, once you have that information.
As I recall, there are 6 ways a Mac can be infected by a virus. No one has found a new way since 1995. Every single Mac Virus has to exploit one of those 6 ways. Virrus detection and removal on a Mac is trivial.
Not so for Windows. Every time you think you have figured out all of the ways a virus can infect the system, someone finds another way in.
Duh, the virus/worm is run. The fun part is there are so many ways to get windows to run arbitrary code. Tell your web browser not to execute arbitrary code. No problem, there are several known bugs that will allow arbitrary code to be run without the users permission, and more waiting to be discoverd all the time. That is, if you are running Microsoft Windows.
I would say Microsoft has made sure that these people without the technical sophistication to find something else like OS/2, BEOS, FreeBSD or Linux, could only choose Microsoft Windows. Then in addtion to that, they sell them an out of the box insecure OS and encourage them to use the free web browser (IE) and free email client (Outlook Express).
I would say that when Microsoft stoped updatiing their Anti-Virus program for Windows 3.1 was a good clue that they did not really care about end user security.
There are just to many viruses out there to keep track of. So we are not going to bundle and maintain Antivirus software for our OS.
Give me a break
No error messages, no debug scripts, no way to redirect output to be looked at later. One 3 meg closed source binary file with all critical system information in it. No way to rebuild it if it is damaged. Usefull entries like {3F72B3386AD23EAF37}
Sure, I would rather fix a windows box.
I will take a linux box any day. It can be very nice to boot off of a CD, chroot a drive and update an RPM to get things back to a stable state.
So here I am with my 4 (virtual) desktops, running 2 apps from another users account.
Just another feature in addition to virtual desktops that I can not live without.
Try that ONE on XP.
Hmm, lets see why.....
- Having to reinstall windows on systemst that just "stop working".
- Having to take care of Antivirus software.
- Having to maintain license information for a company that may very well raid your facility with armed government agents if they feel you need an audit.
- Once the dog and pony shows are done..the reality is no matter where you purchase it, there is really only ONE vendor. MicroSoft.
- Not having the ability to get inside an modify any drivers or other OS software to meet company needs
Need I go on?The Citrix farm solves some of problems above. The workstations are just "boxes", if one dies, just toss another one in there. Everything that is important lives on the server. Licence's are easier to track if everything is installed on the server. Installing apps, taking care of virus isues,etc, all easier to handle on the Citrix farm.
Then of course, there are the advantages of a *nix based system over the Citrix farms....
Linux is NOT a company. There is no way for linux to make a bad marketing decision. Put programmers on projects the public does not care about, add features that no one wants.
Besides....Linux is not underfunded. It is spending ust as much on marketing as it ever has.
However, by leverging the ability to force what comes preinstalled on a new PC, and bundeling MS Office for only a few dollars more with a new system. As opposed to having to purchase an office package like WordPerfect. Microsoft was able to take over the PC Offfice application arena.
With the volume of web servers that can run Apache/PHP/My SQL for free on the low end, or competing against products like Apahce/Java/Oracle on the high end, along with not giving away .NET for an extra 2 dollars per new PC, they have not been able to hijack the "web services" market.
My favorive book on programming is "Thinking Forth". One of the things the book covers, is whenever possible try to do a rapid prototype of the problem, get a feel for it. Go back and try several different ways to solve it. The goal is elegance. The elegant solution is not always the most obvious, but once found, is the easiest to understand, implement and maintain.
The major way to get there, is to prototype, and then toss out ALL code and start again from scratch. Also, not to get caught up in the superficiality of control structures.
Anyways, the point being, if you have expierence in a domain, you already know how to write and optimize a solution. When you do not have expierence in a domain, write a prototype, try several solutions, and then throw away all code and start from scratch.
Important lessons from Engineering, for both papered and unpapered CS folks.
There is an ART to writing manageable, easy to maintain code, and may programmers have no skill at it. It is not taught in school, and is not just picked up automatically by the self taught.
In God we trust...all others we investigate
I agree that the smart stratigy is to hold off giving away any of your evidence as long as possible. However, I was also saying that as long as possible is till sometime during the pre-trial discovery. Judges take a very dim view of "surpirses" during the trial.
In God we trust...all others we invistigate
Right, and that time, is during the DISCOVERY process BEFORE THEY GO TO COURT.
None the less, those facts must be given away in discovery. SCO has the right do depose the programmers and "project team leaders" who appear to be responsible for inserting the code from AIX into Linux.
IBM is entitled to a list of evidence that is to be presented.
I worked for an Attorney once, he said it is not like it is on TV. You depose people, look at the evidence and then go to court. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER ask a question in court that you DO NOT ALREADY KNOW THE ANSER TO. If you get a different answer, haul out the deposition, and put the witness back in place. They either go back to the deposition, or get charged with purgory.
This is why people just don't walk up to you on the street and hand you court papers that say, "I am suing you, for an undisclosed sum, for undisclosed damages, show up in court on the 15th and find out why".
Even though IBM could twist the facts, attempt to falisify evidence and hide witnesses, none the less, at some point BEFORE trial, it is their right to know what they are being accused of, and what evidence they have to support that.
In God we trust...all others we investigate
And Inspector Gadget came on right after Robotech. When I was very young, I loved to watch Get Smart. With Don Adams voicing Inspector Gadger, it was just like a Get Smart cartoon.
So there was not need to get up and leave just because Robotech was over.
What was totally lame is that I watched it on UHF TV-53 in Fresno California. They did a comerical for the station where someone gets up to have breakfast, pours a bowl of cornflakes and there are nuts an bolts mixed in with the cereal and the anouncer says "New and Improved TV-53, now fortified with Iron". This station made the station that Wierd Al worked in in UHF look normal.
I am 36, which means I remember Cartoons starting when I was 5 in 1971, up to when I left home at 19 and no longer had younger brothers and sisters watching them.
No one hear has mentioned Boomerang, the Cartoon Network spin-off which showcases Hanna-Barbara cartoons from 1958 to 1985.
Yes, now seen as an adult, some of the shows I thought were cool, are, well, junk. However, some things still hold up well. Like Johnny Quest
Also no one has mentioned such Jay Ward classics as Rocky and Bullwinkle. A show written for kids, with dialog for the adults and humor that cut to the heart of the cold war.
I remember back in the 70's when the networks would have a Friday night where they would show off their new Saturday morning linuep. One of the things we would look forward to after school started up again in September is seeing what new cartoons would be on.
Inspector Gadget and Robotech were worth watching. At 18, I grew tired of the He-Man,GI Joe tie-ins. They had enough bullets flying around to call it world war 3, but no one ever dies, They can't die, K-Mart had 100 units of each figure on the shelf, killing of the character would have been bad business.
Yes, the quality of the animation is terrible now days. There are a few modern gems. I find Ren and Stimpy funny and pretty incorrect.
I would have to agree that most cartoons are not very good, because they are not witty and there is no adult humor in them, or that they are so PC. Let's dialog about our feelings. The Simpsons has not been on so long because they dialog about their feelings, it's because they take no prisoners.
It's pretty sad realy, even back in the 70's most of the great cartoons had been made in the 60's.
If I only spend $5.00 a month downloading music, instead of buying 2 new CDs, that is $35.00 more I have.
I am going to Super Size it at McDonalds, or by some more CDR's, or a new motherboard, or soccer equipment for my kids.
Everyone working at BMI may have to get a job as a Nike or something.
As long as most consumers spend and not save, the money just moves to a different sector of the economy.
mod me up, this is insightfull
What will Clear Chanel do when there are no media pimps who get $400,000 to promote a song? When there are no major lables with a "band of the week" to get airplay? What will they do?
Create a buffer, fill it with input and call the function for the inital "state", which processes the input and passes it off to the next state in the array, till you hit a function which "finishes" the transformation of the input string.
The point is that as long as searching at a search eninge returns the right result in the first 5-10 items, most of the time, with no spam showing up in the top 5, you stick with that engine until EVERYONE tells you there is a better search engine.
As long as it is working, you don't switch. I think both Microsoft and Yahoo! have a tough road to hoe. As long as goole returns relevant results without a lot of spam showing up and the page loads quickly. They will rule and people will not switch.
Only Google will be able to kill Google.
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indiference. To Ignore someone, and neglect them, to not show love.
Sure, glad I could help
Past performance is the best indicator of how something will perform in the future
Look at MicroSofts track record.
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I know we have all benefited from MicroSoft telling PC manufactures that they cannot purchase OEM copies of windows at a discount if "the free market forces" of consumers having a chose to boot multiple OS, preloaded on a machine they purchase.
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Then with a strangle hold on PC"s that are purchased for home and business, a wordprocessor is a must. So let's bundle in at discount MicroSoft Office for OEM's installs. This surely won't hurt wordperfect. Competition is good.
- Let's all shout "Hurray" for the free market, MicroSoft will make a java runtime engine, and we know it will be compatible, because they signed an agreement with Sun.
Need I go on? Need any more examples?Yes, competiton is good, But when a Monopoly uses it's power to further maintain it as being a monopoly, that is not considered being "competivie" and good for the consumer.
While I will admit that as times change, all monopolies lose that strangehold power (who want's to be railbarron?). In the meantime, with price fixing, genuine invovation being destroyed before it is brought to the market, and new "features" being added, not because they are a benefit to the user, but because they further the interest of the monoploy.
Case in point, when the new version of office comes out, it will only run on Y2k with SP3 or on XP. All news systems will have to be loaded with XP, and the new version office will be the only version available.
At this point, business will end up with a mix of "new office' and "old office", which will not be compatible. They will be forced to upgrade, because it is good for MicroSoft.
If MicroSoft was not a monopoly, abusing it's power, there would be real free market competion, and the consumer could, at cost, swith to different word processor that does not lock them in like that. However, lets face it, as all the MS zelots out there constantly remind us, neither WordPerfect or OpenOffice are viable alternatives for most business that are entrenched MS Office users.
Competition is good (and possible), when you are not competing against a monopoly.
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Ok, they believe that there are 110,000 copies of windows in this province.
How many of these 110,000 copies arelegal copy of windows?
Yeah, I don't belive that there are many people here who have, or are going to spend money on Microsoft products.
I don't know any folks in Spain, so I do not know if they really feel purchasing MS software is contributing to Bill Gates ability to contribute to population control or not. However, if that is true, then I am not surprised at all that folks would be thrilled to have a chance to leave MS products.
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Type in knoppix screen=800x600
I have also found mousewheel is really nice to add as well.
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