I think products that suck are under-rated! Specifcally, I don't believe that the quality of a product is more important than price. Microsoft got where they are because of price rather than quality.
Anyway, rather than get into an argument over what I _think_ is more important, I'll just give my thoughts on what will happen:
Computer prices will continue to decrease. The OS cost will become increasingly the most expensive "component" of the package.
At this point, _either_ someone will simply release a computer that breaks a phycological price barrier (e.g. a $99 computer) by using Linux _and/or_ a new market segment will be opened (a la iPod) e.g. (obviously this is an example) a pocket sized tablet, wirelessly connected, but marketed in a maner like the iPod to make it consumer desirable.
I believe that once this happens and is low cost enough to become very pervasive in consumer space, it will likely work its way into corporate culture that way, rather than via corporate down through small-biz to consumer.
I normally like to be optomistic about FOSS's chances, but take a realistic position... and have to conclude it isn't going to happen soon. However, I do truly believe consumers are more than ready to adopt portable, digital, wireless, "convergance"** devices, and I think open standards are the only way to make these things work and I think FOSS is the only way to make this economical! The pisser is, someone will do this and become fantabulously rich from it.... and it won't be me!:-/
**Appologies for using buzz words, but I'm trying to describe a product that doesn't exist and that I can't imagine!
should not be named "humanity, caring, and harmony" in any language (no offense to the Ubuntu guys; but CEO's would probably something that implies 'unfair competitive advantage'...
But "Microsoft" has already been taken?!
*Appologies - I don't normally do the MS bashing thing but the temptation was too great!!
I can't find it either, even using their "search". So I imagine it must be free.
Yeah... and I wish that too, but nope it isn't free!**
Most likely it will only tell you once you've given your address, by which time you've presumably already given you email address, user-name, password, mothers pets favourite colour.
It does irritate the hell out of me that they don't make this info clear. I believe for UK delivery it's circa £50.... but I can't confirm this! Although it does explain why their advertised prices tend to be quite a bit less than most competitors, and it's also a tad deceptive in my book.
**Except Dell do sometimes have promotions where delivery _is_ free.
Interesting. I'm UK based, and I've found Dell manage to hide their delivery prices very very well. If anyone knows where they publish this information I'd love to know!
The problem for most people is that websites they develop do need to work with IE! And that does kind of include IE5/5.5 right now because together I think they still acount for ~20% of users.
Personally, I don't worry about pixel-perfection on IE5 (its CSS support is far too pants these days!), but even so, websites still need to look reasonable and be functional.
I agree that "AJAX" type stuff does work much better and consistently on the _other_ browsers, but even here, they tend to need to be relatively up to date versions.
Wolfenstein... or specifically punk-buster now *requires* administrator access! It used to be possible to just set full access to certain things, but now it requires full admin.
I'm going to insist on strong programmery layers in future, particularly the nearly impenetrable ones!:D
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The last SuSE that I tried was 8.2 Pro (it is quite a few years old now) and that one didn't do the resize for me. However, I was able to boot the CD into a recovery console and use the command line tools to do the resize.... but it wasn't easy. I know I had to boot into Windows XP first, remove the swap file and defrag since the "resize" appears to just make the partition smaller without too much regard to the actual file system!
I believe things are a bit easier now, but I'd be interested in hearing confirmation of this!
The only real downside is that webdevs like me who use Win2k for IE testing are going to have to get XP now too. Teh suck. Gotta make sure it works in IE 7 too. Bleh.
Naaa, if your site works in any standards compliant browser then it'll be sure to work fine in IE7! Teh suck indeed!!
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Ha ha ha... only joking. Yes you _will_ have to use XP for testing!:-D
As an exercise, I looked at some of the photos on the BBC news articles during the referendum on the constitution in France. The photos of the 'YES' campaign usually showed smiling, often young, people, whilst the photos of the 'NO' campaign generally showed either no people or angry-looking people.
But maybe "yes" people are generally happier and "no" people generally more miserable!
On the subject of these cards, the expected cost is supposed to be about £80 (~$140) which is really not going to be popular with the public when it launches.
It's even worse, it's [now] £93 (~169 USD)... although they're probably uping the estimate now so they can drop it a little when/if they're ready to roll!
Thank God both countries contain (some) sane people!
Yeah... but we (the British) still managed to vote our silly government back in even after giving the Americans a hard time for doing the same!! You'd think we'd have learned from their experience, but oh no....;)
I had this exact problem with ".java" files and eventually googled the same hack.
I've also discovered since that ".asp" files are searched in a *special* way. The scripted parts of an ASP file cannot be searched whilst the markup can!
I don't know of any work-around for this though, so I've just been using the directory search function in my editor (jEdit).
I know there is likely a good reason... probably because the same search functionality is available on IIS websites and therefore shouldn't index the scripts. But that doesn't help me as a desktop user searching my own files! Bloody Microsoft!;)
I don't know much about networking, but I think you can get around this by setting up static routes. Obviously, that means it isn't going to work out on the int0rweb, but it should work on a private network.
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I think products that suck are under-rated! Specifcally, I don't believe that the quality of a product is more important than price. Microsoft got where they are because of price rather than quality.
:-/
Anyway, rather than get into an argument over what I _think_ is more important, I'll just give my thoughts on what will happen:
Computer prices will continue to decrease. The OS cost will become increasingly the most expensive "component" of the package.
At this point, _either_ someone will simply release a computer that breaks a phycological price barrier (e.g. a $99 computer) by using Linux _and/or_ a new market segment will be opened (a la iPod) e.g. (obviously this is an example) a pocket sized tablet, wirelessly connected, but marketed in a maner like the iPod to make it consumer desirable.
I believe that once this happens and is low cost enough to become very pervasive in consumer space, it will likely work its way into corporate culture that way, rather than via corporate down through small-biz to consumer.
I normally like to be optomistic about FOSS's chances, but take a realistic position... and have to conclude it isn't going to happen soon. However, I do truly believe consumers are more than ready to adopt portable, digital, wireless, "convergance"** devices, and I think open standards are the only way to make these things work and I think FOSS is the only way to make this economical! The pisser is, someone will do this and become fantabulously rich from it.... and it won't be me!
**Appologies for using buzz words, but I'm trying to describe a product that doesn't exist and that I can't imagine!
And Simon Pegg was also in Big Train.... although I rather think that was on C4 too!
In the past, BBC developments have shaped (or at least steered) the adoption of technology in the UK
;)
Yeah, so I guess they owe us all big time for that!
Also from Channel 4 was Spaced, which if you'd probably like if you enjoyed "Shawn of the Dead".
should not be named "humanity, caring, and harmony" in any language (no offense to the Ubuntu guys; but CEO's would probably something that implies 'unfair competitive advantage'...
But "Microsoft" has already been taken?!
*Appologies - I don't normally do the MS bashing thing but the temptation was too great!!
I can't find it either, even using their "search". So I imagine it must be free.
Yeah... and I wish that too, but nope it isn't free!**
Most likely it will only tell you once you've given your address, by which time you've presumably already given you email address, user-name, password, mothers pets favourite colour.
It does irritate the hell out of me that they don't make this info clear. I believe for UK delivery it's circa £50.... but I can't confirm this! Although it does explain why their advertised prices tend to be quite a bit less than most competitors, and it's also a tad deceptive in my book.
**Except Dell do sometimes have promotions where delivery _is_ free.
Interesting. I'm UK based, and I've found Dell manage to hide their delivery prices very very well. If anyone knows where they publish this information I'd love to know!
The problem for most people is that websites they develop do need to work with IE! And that does kind of include IE5/5.5 right now because together I think they still acount for ~20% of users.
Personally, I don't worry about pixel-perfection on IE5 (its CSS support is far too pants these days!), but even so, websites still need to look reasonable and be functional.
I agree that "AJAX" type stuff does work much better and consistently on the _other_ browsers, but even here, they tend to need to be relatively up to date versions.
Wolfenstein... or specifically punk-buster now *requires* administrator access! It used to be possible to just set full access to certain things, but now it requires full admin.
I'm going to insist on strong programmery layers in future, particularly the nearly impenetrable ones! :D
The last SuSE that I tried was 8.2 Pro (it is quite a few years old now) and that one didn't do the resize for me. However, I was able to boot the CD into a recovery console and use the command line tools to do the resize.... but it wasn't easy. I know I had to boot into Windows XP first, remove the swap file and defrag since the "resize" appears to just make the partition smaller without too much regard to the actual file system!
I believe things are a bit easier now, but I'd be interested in hearing confirmation of this!
I think someone is trying to be funny... there's absolutely loads of cross posts.
The only real downside is that webdevs like me who use Win2k for IE testing are going to have to get XP now too. Teh suck. Gotta make sure it works in IE 7 too. Bleh.
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:-D
Naaa, if your site works in any standards compliant browser then it'll be sure to work fine in IE7! Teh suck indeed!!
Ha ha ha... only joking. Yes you _will_ have to use XP for testing!
VMware is much cheaper than it used to be (the workstation version anyway). Prices can vary though, so it pays to shop around.
Although in this case its more LA rather than LAMP!
As an exercise, I looked at some of the photos on the BBC news articles during the referendum on the constitution in France. The photos of the 'YES' campaign usually showed smiling, often young, people, whilst the photos of the 'NO' campaign generally showed either no people or angry-looking people.
But maybe "yes" people are generally happier and "no" people generally more miserable!
On the subject of these cards, the expected cost is supposed to be about £80 (~$140) which is really not going to be popular with the public when it launches.
;)
It's even worse, it's [now] £93 (~169 USD)... although they're probably uping the estimate now so they can drop it a little when/if they're ready to roll!
Thank God both countries contain (some) sane people!
Yeah... but we (the British) still managed to vote our silly government back in even after giving the Americans a hard time for doing the same!! You'd think we'd have learned from their experience, but oh no....
Firefox?
They write to you often then do they?
I had this exact problem with ".java" files and eventually googled the same hack.
;)
I've also discovered since that ".asp" files are searched in a *special* way. The scripted parts of an ASP file cannot be searched whilst the markup can!
I don't know of any work-around for this though, so I've just been using the directory search function in my editor (jEdit).
I know there is likely a good reason... probably because the same search functionality is available on IIS websites and therefore shouldn't index the scripts. But that doesn't help me as a desktop user searching my own files! Bloody Microsoft!
It really pains me to agree... but I have to!
That said, 10 out of 10 for polish. They really did do a good job in terms of quality (if we ignore the humour element completely).
I don't know much about networking, but I think you can get around this by setting up static routes. Obviously, that means it isn't going to work out on the int0rweb, but it should work on a private network.
Stuffing a server-side XSLT transformation shouldn't be too difficult though, so I don't see this as being a barier.
And someone do something about the Gimp at the same time please! ;D