"I'm glad Microsoft has assumed that we'd need retraining, because obviously everyone was originally trained using MS Office."
Well, that the truth isn't it? For every slashdot headline about some school, college or course teaching some 'other' Office suite, there's hundreds teaching MS Office. Even if they had no training at all, Microsoft Office is what most people have had prior expeirence of, so some readjustment will be required.
I agree that for computer literate users the move would go unnoticed, and so MS' argument is a bit weak, but so much of Office (Word in particular) is learnt parrot fashion. For the person who thinks Word is the computer, retraining would be required.... but not too much!:)
I don't even know of anyone running 2.4 anymore actually. I mean, why not upgrade?
I have two machines that are never going to run 2.6
One of them runs 2.2.something on RedHat 6.2. It acts as an MP3 jukebox for an office of about 25 people. It just works, and if it ever stops working then I get shouted at:)
The other also runs 2.2.something on Woody, and acts as a fileserver, serving a snapshot of our coders' source control system. This also 'just works', and if that ever goes down, there are ten artists who might as well go home. Now I think about it, might run 2.4. I don't know.
Anything that requires me to ever log into either one of those two machines is time wasted.
"I'm constantly told that I have an extremely high intelligence."
Yeah, we're only kidding though, we want to see how you'll react. It's this experiment, see. Your whole life is basically one big maze and you're the white mouse.
We thought you'd ask slashdot 3.92765 seconds before you actually did.
Quite possibly nothing technically, but when a company with the sort of customers Sun has says it will support something, they have to be damn sure it'll work.
If your LinBSD chroot experiment screws up, you can get told to RTFM by the resident "expert" on your favourite mailing list. If your Sun box goes tits up, Mr. Sun engineer comes round and fixes it for you before you've finished typing the mail.
I'm not saying one method is better than the other for all people, but when you're betting a zillion pounds an hour on it working, it's nice to have backup:)
No, I think he means inconsistent like the mess formerly known as HTML.
A monopoly (be it Microsoft or anybody else) could, through marketing a better product for a period of time (which, like it or not, is what they did with IE), gain effective control over what people refer to as Java, in the same way as they have done with what every webmaster worth his salary refers to as correct HTML; does it look right in IE?
There might be some standards group who think they're defining what Java really is, but whoever has the dominant VM is going to be the one in charge. At the moment that's Sun; they win by default. I imagine they want to keep it that way.
There are so many horror stories about the license folks that I thought I'd post about my own non-horrific experience with them.
At the end of January my license ran out. Seeing as I don't have a TV any more, I phoned the license people and told them I don't need a license. They were very polite, apologied for any letters that might already be in the post to me, and I've not heard from them since.
I'd wonder if by the time big business starts becoming interested in selling software to small countries with obscure languages, English will be the first language of the target market anyway.
"Aside from the NFS utilities, how does the environment compare to Cygwin?"
I would imagine that unlike cygwin, the average user would be able to install MS SFU and have the slightest fucking clue what was going on during the installation progress.
"found Java to perform significantly worse than C on Linux/Athlon."
I know it's petty, but...;)
You found your particular combination of compiler and Java Virtual Machine to perform significantly worse.
Native compilers and (to a lesser extent) JIT compilers could eventually be written that make the speed different negligable. Perhaps they already have been; It's been nearly 3 years since I coded in Java.:)
I went on holiday, and the apartment didn't have any coffee. I'd noticed how much coffee I had been drinking a few weeks before going, so decided it would be a good time to just stop.
I was tired and had a headache for a few days, but it didn't matter because I was just lying on the beach all the time:) By the time the holiday was over, I didn't have any craving for caffeine, and I've been on the decaf ever since.
That's right kids, being told to RTF Source Code by an elitist stranger on a mailing list two weeks after you gave up and did something else is far better support that having a rational professional tech support group on a direct line.
I don't know why I fed you really. I troll enough myself to spot when somebody else is fishing:)
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And can anybody either tell me where to buy it or point me towards mp3
Well, that the truth isn't it? For every slashdot headline about some school, college or course teaching some 'other' Office suite, there's hundreds teaching MS Office. Even if they had no training at all, Microsoft Office is what most people have had prior expeirence of, so some readjustment will be required.
I agree that for computer literate users the move would go unnoticed, and so MS' argument is a bit weak, but so much of Office (Word in particular) is learnt parrot fashion. For the person who thinks Word is the computer, retraining would be required.... but not too much! :)
Customs didn't take kindly to this girl's efforts at humour.
Over here in the UK, plumbers make an absolute fortune (well above your average code monkey) because their skills are so in demand.
I didn't know apple sold CPUs.
I have two machines that are never going to run 2.6
One of them runs 2.2.something on RedHat 6.2. It acts as an MP3 jukebox for an office of about 25 people. It just works, and if it ever stops working then I get shouted at :)
The other also runs 2.2.something on Woody, and acts as a fileserver, serving a snapshot of our coders' source control system. This also 'just works', and if that ever goes down, there are ten artists who might as well go home. Now I think about it, might run 2.4. I don't know.
Anything that requires me to ever log into either one of those two machines is time wasted.
Yeah, we're only kidding though, we want to see how you'll react. It's this experiment, see. Your whole life is basically one big maze and you're the white mouse.
We thought you'd ask slashdot 3.92765 seconds before you actually did.
Yes, that's true. I guess I was being too cynical!
If your LinBSD chroot experiment screws up, you can get told to RTFM by the resident "expert" on your favourite mailing list. If your Sun box goes tits up, Mr. Sun engineer comes round and fixes it for you before you've finished typing the mail.
I'm not saying one method is better than the other for all people, but when you're betting a zillion pounds an hour on it working, it's nice to have backup :)
A monopoly (be it Microsoft or anybody else) could, through marketing a better product for a period of time (which, like it or not, is what they did with IE), gain effective control over what people refer to as Java, in the same way as they have done with what every webmaster worth his salary refers to as correct HTML; does it look right in IE?
There might be some standards group who think they're defining what Java really is, but whoever has the dominant VM is going to be the one in charge. At the moment that's Sun; they win by default. I imagine they want to keep it that way.
At the end of January my license ran out. Seeing as I don't have a TV any more, I phoned the license people and told them I don't need a license. They were very polite, apologied for any letters that might already be in the post to me, and I've not heard from them since.
If you're a smoker, don't let this worry you!
I sure hope so
I'd wonder if by the time big business starts becoming interested in selling software to small countries with obscure languages, English will be the first language of the target market anyway.
Great Article :)
I would imagine that unlike cygwin, the average user would be able to install MS SFU and have the slightest fucking clue what was going on during the installation progress.
Sorry, pet peeve of mine ;)
I know it's petty, but... ;)
You found your particular combination of compiler and Java Virtual Machine to perform significantly worse.
Native compilers and (to a lesser extent) JIT compilers could eventually be written that make the speed different negligable. Perhaps they already have been; It's been nearly 3 years since I coded in Java. :)
I was tired and had a headache for a few days, but it didn't matter because I was just lying on the beach all the time :) By the time the holiday was over, I didn't have any craving for caffeine, and I've been on the decaf ever since.
10% is such a HUGE amount that we'd have noticed.
Don't tell anybody, but when the adverts start, I'm going to CLOSE MY EYES! heheheee!
For too long, the moon and Mars have been a partnership of evil in today's solar system.
Of course, if they do their job properly then you wouldn't be able to tell that it runs linux. It would just do phone stuff.
Wish I had mod points today :|
Phew, I'm glad something like that could never happen in the US or the UK.
*bite*
That's right kids, being told to RTF Source Code by an elitist stranger on a mailing list two weeks after you gave up and did something else is far better support that having a rational professional tech support group on a direct line.
I don't know why I fed you really. I troll enough myself to spot when somebody else is fishing :)
Congratulations, IHBT, IHL HAND