Virtual directories, while cool, doesn't make me want to migrate..Net interoperability with all new gizmos doesn't make me want to migrate.
Have business needs changed remarkably in the past four years to necessitate changing something as fundamental as your server/desktop OS? No. If anything, my business needs for cheaper, more open software are greater because of the cash crunch brought on by the tech sector. Why do I want to feed them any more cash?
I just don't get it.
Somewhat unrelated... my needs for at home are simple...
- Home budgeting/accounts - Kapital/GnuCash... - CD Burning software - K has this. - Browsing capability - Mozilla/Opera/Konqueror.. - Program development - Python + Qt (or any number of desktop managers and languages). - Gaming - The big ones are available in Linux - Wine works for some other ones.
Put another way....
When I was in college in '91, I was eying buying a computer and SimCity 2000 was out. I still play that game. Anyhow, I had no money for it. I bought the game. I even bought a mouse pad. The girlfriend at the time knew it was a matter of time before I'd buy the box to run it. She was right, naturally. I put the buggy in front of the horse to buy what I eventually wanted.
I refuse to do that if my needs (business or consumer) are already satisfied with a more affordable, customizable, nonlicensed alternative. If I want to purchase a quality product for Linux, I am more than willing to... I purchased Kapital, Komodo, and still buy open source books for programming even though they are available to help the cause.
MS cannot create demand that does not exist in perpetuity. They also can't screw people over forever. I have VB5/6 standard at home and a paid version of Office on my own which runs on Windows 98. My setup has done me well for years and my needs have not changed. Why should I be forced to upgrade if what I'm using my PC for does not change.
I shouldn't. Businesses realize this and if users didn't go around chasing butterflies all day, they'd see through the haze and either not buy (which I suspect might happen if OEM's exercise their options in the settlement) or abandon.
Just like smoking and non-smoking sections. If you are overly conservative, you can think of it as smoking and nonsmoking in hell sections, so it has to fly!
... so Joe User is going to encrypt/decrypt zip files? And he'll pay for the this when it was offered as shareware before?
Joe User doesn't care. Joe user has an internet connection, MS Works, and couldn't tell the difference between a firewall and a firefly.
I think they'll lose money and people will use the regular format because its out there and you can encrypt it however you please now if you feel like it. Who would pay for this?
For all the spyware they crammed into their product, you would think their marketing department would have done a better analysis on future market share...
Personal experience with WP 2002 is that it runs sluggishly and I can expect it to crash every time I run it. Furthermore, the VBA module to automate WP is poorly documented at best.
We were trying to merge documents of different sizes and orientations into a single file per a client request... something MS Word is horrible with due to the alternating headers. Acrobat was not an option because they did not a document they couldn't alter/cut/paste and all that jazz.
After an entire week of development, we found that if you used late binding on some of the objects to activate a hidden parameter, you would get the desired effect of pasting a bunch of documents together. If you used early binding, the program would crash horrifically. The app is full of stuff like that.
Further parsing and automation via WP has been a nightmare. I honestly don't know why the law profession is still using it, other than the fact that the legal profession seems to stay behind the curve with technology anyways. It seems legal partners are not eager to blow money on IT. If someone could explain it to me, I'd appreciate it.
I'm surprised Corel is still around. They might not be around in another couple years if they don't fix their WP app quickly. OpenOffice is more stable and you can't beat the price. How can you compete with free or with Microsoft?
BMG announced release of a new media format called Polygraph Analog Disc or PAD for short. The new format will develop pops and crackles over time, however, it is a superior media because it has less distortion than the "bastard digital laser disc (BDLD)."
It was also announced that the PAD format allows playing at different speeds (33, 45, and an additional experimental 73) and is highly portable; it can fit in a flat shelving unit and is approximately one foot square.
"We feel that analog is the best since the sound quality of digital is regressing."
Where's the part about Steve Balmer sitting on Bill Gates until he screams "uncle?" Or the part where Bill Gates goes to hell and is forced to take a pineapple up the backside every day? Or the part where we can send all those illegal post-dated EULA's back to Redmond where they have to eat each one of them? What about the part where Microsoft has to use open source in their corporate headquarters? What about rewriting Visual Studio in Mozilla? What about the public apology? What about splitting in two because it was the right thing to do?
I didn't read the article (naturally), but doesn't the EULA for most Microsoft stuff explicitly forbid benchmarking.Net without prior consent from Microsoft?
Can someone explain this so I can read the article later?:-)
Being an primary exporter of anti-censorship software and utilities, I find this latest decision a concrete step in the right direction since we have been shut out of the domestic market by legislation. Fortunately, our pro-censorship software and utilities have been in great demand since the Patriot Act has gone into effect.
Formerly defunct Commodore Corporation has announced they will litigate against "mad modding bandits" who are taking their property and altering it claiming it was never meant to be run alternate hardware. The corporation hopes to come back via patent lawsuits to build the new Commodore Business Machine ][, or the CBM2-Box for short.
.... of that Blind Melon "Bee Lady" they had in one of their videos way back when. That video (and this advertising campaign) is annoying. They should pull her a55 out of retirement and have her buzz around and do ads.
I think its a toss up between Clippy and the Butterfly boys as to who is more annoying.
Leave it to Microsoft to take butterflies and paperclips and make them utterly annoying.
If I saw one of those ads on the street, I'd have to urge to urinate on it.
<xml> <clippy autoinstance="true" kill="false"> Hi, I'm Clippy! I'm inserted into every XML document to help you migrate to Microsoft products... </clippy> <virus> RunNimda()richedit.dll& </virus> <virus> RunNimda()richedit.dll& </virus> <staroffice runat="false"> Shouldn't you use Microsoft products? </startoffice> <linux runat="false"> See above. </linux> <datacheck> <DMCA> www.fbi.gov/reportmusictheft </DMCA> <MS> www.microsoft.com/reporteulaviolation   ; </MS> </datacheck> <clippy autoinstance="true" kill="false"> Hi, It's me again... Clippy! I'm inserted into every XML document to help you migrate to Microsoft products... </clippy> <doc> Yep... there's a ton of possibilities for Joe user with this one. Where can I buy me a copy of Office 11? </doc> </xml>
So goes the CD... I had a great cassingle collection once - poof!
/haiku
Seriously though... the phase out is gonna happen. I think the days of a physical format will be gone soon. There's too many IPods and Rios to say it won't.
Of course, the player of the future might not allow you to play your own stuff, but digitial is where its all going, baby.
PS: What the hell did happen to cassingles, anyway? You have a hard time finding CD-5's anymore, too. Singles are the same way.
VB.Net apps have little resemblence to their old ones. Most VB6 apps that would have required migration have stayed as COM because it would have been too costly to migrate. It is not even the same language in my opinion. It's like English - someone from Massachusetts has a hard time understanding someone from Kentucky. Sure, it's the same language, but they are both wacked out.
It would be nice if VB were ISO'd, but you'll never see that, and that's a shame... although it's a crappy language to some, it is (was?) relatively easy to pick up and run with. C# comes close, as does Java, but Basic is one of the first things people use, thanks to Office and all their other stuff.
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Virtual directories, while cool, doesn't make me want to migrate. .Net interoperability with all new gizmos doesn't make me want to migrate.
Have business needs changed remarkably in the past four years to necessitate changing something as fundamental as your server/desktop OS? No. If anything, my business needs for cheaper, more open software are greater because of the cash crunch brought on by the tech sector. Why do I want to feed them any more cash?
I just don't get it.
Somewhat unrelated... my needs for at home are simple...
- Home budgeting/accounts - Kapital/GnuCash...
- CD Burning software - K has this.
- Browsing capability - Mozilla/Opera/Konqueror..
- Program development - Python + Qt (or any number of desktop managers and languages).
- Gaming - The big ones are available in Linux - Wine works for some other ones.
Put another way....
When I was in college in '91, I was eying buying a computer and SimCity 2000 was out. I still play that game. Anyhow, I had no money for it. I bought the game. I even bought a mouse pad. The girlfriend at the time knew it was a matter of time before I'd buy the box to run it. She was right, naturally. I put the buggy in front of the horse to buy what I eventually wanted.
I refuse to do that if my needs (business or consumer) are already satisfied with a more affordable, customizable, nonlicensed alternative. If I want to purchase a quality product for Linux, I am more than willing to...
I purchased Kapital, Komodo, and still buy open source books for programming even though they are available to help the cause.
MS cannot create demand that does not exist in perpetuity. They also can't screw people over forever. I have VB5/6 standard at home and a paid version of Office on my own which runs on Windows 98. My setup has done me well for years and my needs have not changed. Why should I be forced to upgrade if what I'm using my PC for does not change.
I shouldn't. Businesses realize this and if users didn't go around chasing butterflies all day, they'd see through the haze and either not buy (which I suspect might happen if OEM's exercise their options in the settlement) or abandon.
I'm off the soap box now.
Could a coalition government be far away?
:-)
We have one. It's a Democrat/Republican coalition.
Where's my mod button! This is a great idea!
Just like smoking and non-smoking sections. If you are overly conservative, you can think of it as smoking and nonsmoking in hell sections, so it has to fly!
(Trollish post coming...)
... so Joe User is going to encrypt/decrypt zip files? And he'll pay for the this when it was offered as shareware before?
Joe User doesn't care. Joe user has an internet connection, MS Works, and couldn't tell the difference between a firewall and a firefly.
I think they'll lose money and people will use the regular format because its out there and you can encrypt it however you please now if you feel like it. Who would pay for this?
For all the spyware they crammed into their product, you would think their marketing department would have done a better analysis on future market share...
I agree... but if you're the say it, more power to you!
J.
So I wonder what MS's lawyers use? :-)
(6) ?????
(7) Profit!
Ka-ching!
Not to sound trollish on Corel, but...
Personal experience with WP 2002 is that it runs sluggishly and I can expect it to crash every time I run it. Furthermore, the VBA module to automate WP is poorly documented at best.
We were trying to merge documents of different sizes and orientations into a single file per a client request... something MS Word is horrible with due to the alternating headers. Acrobat was not an option because they did not a document they couldn't alter/cut/paste and all that jazz.
After an entire week of development, we found that if you used late binding on some of the objects to activate a hidden parameter, you would get the desired effect of pasting a bunch of documents together. If you used early binding, the program would crash horrifically. The app is full of stuff like that.
Further parsing and automation via WP has been a nightmare. I honestly don't know why the law profession is still using it, other than the fact that the legal profession seems to stay behind the curve with technology anyways. It seems legal partners are not eager to blow money on IT. If someone could explain it to me, I'd appreciate it.
I'm surprised Corel is still around. They might not be around in another couple years if they don't fix their WP app quickly. OpenOffice is more stable and you can't beat the price. How can you compete with free or with Microsoft?
I don't think its possible.
sarcasm...
/end sarcasm
BMG announced release of a new media format called Polygraph Analog Disc or PAD for short. The new format will develop pops and crackles over time, however, it is a superior media because it has less distortion than the "bastard digital laser disc (BDLD)."
It was also announced that the PAD format allows playing at different speeds (33, 45, and an additional experimental 73) and is highly portable; it can fit in a flat shelving unit and is approximately one foot square.
"We feel that analog is the best since the sound quality of digital is regressing."
haiku...
/haiku
at the planned conference,
Mr. Halderman's Sharpie
is displayed; he leaves.
Where's the part about Steve Balmer sitting on Bill Gates until he screams "uncle?" Or the part where Bill Gates goes to hell and is forced to take a pineapple up the backside every day? Or the part where we can send all those illegal post-dated EULA's back to Redmond where they have to eat each one of them? What about the part where Microsoft has to use open source in their corporate headquarters? What about rewriting Visual Studio in Mozilla? What about the public apology? What about splitting in two because it was the right thing to do?
I see none of that!
Wait... that was never in there?
Rats. I was hoping...
haiku
/haiku
taking aim after
my fifth guiness, why is my
laser three feet wide?
I didn't read the article (naturally), but doesn't the EULA for most Microsoft stuff explicitly forbid benchmarking .Net without prior consent from Microsoft?
:-)
:-)
Can someone explain this so I can read the article later?
I'm just looking for Python/Qt benchmarking.
Being an primary exporter of anti-censorship software and utilities, I find this latest decision a concrete step in the right direction since we have been shut out of the domestic market by legislation. Fortunately, our pro-censorship software and utilities have been in great demand since the Patriot Act has gone into effect.
I need to pay my lobbiest more money.
(No, I'm not serious.)
Formerly defunct Commodore Corporation has announced they will litigate against "mad modding bandits" who are taking their property and altering it claiming it was never meant to be run alternate hardware. The corporation hopes to come back via patent lawsuits to build the new Commodore Business Machine ][, or the CBM2-Box for short.
.... of that Blind Melon "Bee Lady" they had in one of their videos way back when. That video (and this advertising campaign) is annoying. They should pull her a55 out of retirement and have her buzz around and do ads.
I think its a toss up between Clippy and the Butterfly boys as to who is more annoying.
Leave it to Microsoft to take butterflies and paperclips and make them utterly annoying.
If I saw one of those ads on the street, I'd have to urge to urinate on it.
... that whenever someone brings one of these types of articles up regarding fair use that you never hear anyone on the other side of the debate?
No one. I can't find it, unless they are modded down to oblivion.
Maybe no one really likes it and the big corporate types don't visit Slashdot.
(ponder)
<xml>
<clippy autoinstance="true" kill="false">
Hi, I'm Clippy! I'm inserted into every
XML document to help you migrate to Microsoft
products...
</clippy>
<virus>
RunNimda()richedit.dll&
</virus>
<virus>
RunNimda()richedit.dll&
</virus>
<staroffice runat="false">
Shouldn't you use Microsoft products?
</startoffice>
<linux runat="false">
See above.
</linux>
<datacheck>
<DMCA>
www.fbi.gov/reportmusictheft
</DMCA>
<MS>
www.microsoft.com/reporteulaviolation
  ; </MS>
</datacheck>
<clippy autoinstance="true" kill="false">
Hi, It's me again... Clippy! I'm inserted
into every XML document to help you migrate
to Microsoft products...
</clippy>
<doc>
Yep... there's a ton of possibilities for Joe
user with this one. Where can I buy me a copy
of Office 11?
</doc>
</xml>
If you put up a gigantic pop-up telling a near-blind person to click there for a website, you would then get sued for discrimination.
I agree with the ruling, for what its worth.
haiku
/haiku
So goes the CD...
I had a great cassingle
collection once - poof!
Seriously though... the phase out is gonna happen. I think the days of a physical format will be gone soon. There's too many IPods and Rios to say it won't.
Of course, the player of the future might not allow you to play your own stuff, but digitial is where its all going, baby.
PS: What the hell did happen to cassingles, anyway? You have a hard time finding CD-5's anymore, too. Singles are the same way.
That's why it got slashdotted so quick, sillies... :-)
VB
You have to be kidding.
VB.Net apps have little resemblence to their old ones. Most VB6 apps that would have required migration have stayed as COM because it would have been too costly to migrate. It is not even the same language in my opinion. It's like English - someone from Massachusetts has a hard time understanding someone from Kentucky. Sure, it's the same language, but they are both wacked out.
It would be nice if VB were ISO'd, but you'll never see that, and that's a shame... although it's a crappy language to some, it is (was?) relatively easy to pick up and run with. C# comes close, as does Java, but Basic is one of the first things people use, thanks to Office and all their other stuff.
Microsoft..... why do I have to be your bitch?
haiku
/haiku
My buffer overflows;
I feed script kiddies so they
can auto-send mail.
Rats.... screwed up the last line...
How about...
Sure, it runs Linux,
But will their interop sys
be open source? Please?
Not much better, but technically more accurate...
haiku
/haiku
Sure, it runs Linux,
But will their interop sys
be open source? I hope!