Luckily my dad is an IT professional, so he generally gets the queries; not that there are too many, just a few. Which is nice. Of course, I always am asked by my mum "It's asking me to click something!" or "Why don't I have any sound?" to which I reply "You clicked on the wrong icon" or "You quadruple-clicked". To solve these problems, though, I changed her wallpaper to some text ("CLICK TWICE ONLY!!!") and some big arrows pointing to the icon. It works.
True, but the information is already out there. People can google for it if they want. You are simply charging for the time it took to find this knowledge and put it together.
And open source projects are written becuase the _PERSON_ wants to, not because they've been asked, and there is no obligation to do it.
[dave@tc11 dave]$ touch my_file [dave@tc11 dave]$ ed my_file 0 a Ed rocks!!! Ed combines ease of use and fuctionality in one program! It rules! . 2 Ed combines ease of use and fuctionality in one program! s/fuctionality/functionality/ 2 Ed combines ease of use and functionality in one program! w 80 q [dave@tc11 dave]$
</sarcasm>
(BTW, someone posted the source for a great clone of ed, indistiguishable from the standard version for normal users on everything2.com:
Then, surely, they'd have to export this (and probably loads more URLs) to many many libraries all over the place... it'd probably be easier to just change the domain for them.
Although, if you think about it, if that person visits web sites they'll log that he/she's using Linux and the percentage of Linux users will rise, meaning that developers will see that Linux is gaining popularity etc...
The point being made above was that although MS apparently loses money, MS don't care. If a developer doesn't want to make a game for all formats and wants to sell the most copies they'll look for the one with the larger user base. It doesn't matter WHAT it's used for; for MS that's just another user to push to the developers.
Is everyone bored today or something?
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First that WINE/Cygwin story, now this... I think some people have far too much free time on their hands:P.
[dave@tc4 ~]$ x Display all 183 possibilities? (y or n) x11perf xkbvleds x11perfcomp xkbwatch (a whole load of "x" programs...) xkbevd xxgdb xkbprint [dave@tc4 ~]$ x
Meh...
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There is Norton Commander for DOS (used it when I was 8 or something to delete a long-filename program in Win 3.1...) and I guess Windows Commander is a Windows version.
"Giant lizards are cool Much more exciting than a blue e."
I think they started to run out of ideas of things you can do in Mozilla - this one doesn't even make sense!/me adds a bug report to Bugzilla - "I can't giant lizards are cool"
(And I've been trying to submit this for about 30mins... And someone just phoned cutting me off the net...)
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Luckily my dad is an IT professional, so he generally gets the queries; not that there are too many, just a few. Which is nice. Of course, I always am asked by my mum "It's asking me to click something!" or "Why don't I have any sound?" to which I reply "You clicked on the wrong icon" or "You quadruple-clicked". To solve these problems, though, I changed her wallpaper to some text ("CLICK TWICE ONLY!!!") and some big arrows pointing to the icon. It works.
True, but the information is already out there. People can google for it if they want. You are simply charging for the time it took to find this knowledge and put it together.
And open source projects are written becuase the _PERSON_ wants to, not because they've been asked, and there is no obligation to do it.
Hmm... perhaps you should have intercepted a few of her pay cheques... I virtually guarantee that'd stop that happening in the future ;).
(BTW, someone posted the source for a great clone of ed, indistiguishable from the standard version for normal users on everything2.com:Oh crap, I'm really off-topic here...
Is this a troll? OpenOffice.org has a graphical installer which is easier to use than Office's. No compiling required.
Then, surely, they'd have to export this (and probably loads more URLs) to many many libraries all over the place... it'd probably be easier to just change the domain for them.
For those who don't want to type it in, real links:
archive.org
Everything2.com
Although, if you think about it, if that person visits web sites they'll log that he/she's using Linux and the percentage of Linux users will rise, meaning that developers will see that Linux is gaining popularity etc...
*ahem*
Great... you just gave me the image of Bill Gates as CMOT Dibbler.
:P
Thanks a lot
The point being made above was that although MS apparently loses money, MS don't care. If a developer doesn't want to make a game for all formats and wants to sell the most copies they'll look for the one with the larger user base. It doesn't matter WHAT it's used for; for MS that's just another user to push to the developers.
First that WINE/Cygwin story, now this... I think some people have far too much free time on their hands :P.
1) Get Windows everywhere
/me puts on some asbesdos.
2) Start to lose Windows for Linux
3) ???
4) Loss of profit!
Sory, couldn't resist...
Damn you
It was a Win95 program which didn't tell you and didn't make any checks - the only thing I could use was Norton Commander.
There is Norton Commander for DOS (used it when I was 8 or something to delete a long-filename program in Win 3.1...) and I guess Windows Commander is a Windows version.
Even this isn't too much of a problem
/me grabs snew.com
;).
Damn, already taken
Beware! They may have been fake!
In a seriously shitty reference to an old story...
And to the most-likely trolling AC:
Uhh... Didn't Netscape make <blink> ?
Yeah, I was just joking - hence cutting the last bit ;) /. :P
I tried to reply to this when you posted... But it didn't work, as it often doesn't... Damn
Hehehe... I remember Space Quest III. You would press the boss key and have something like this popup:
:P.
"So you don't want your boss to know you've been
playing Space Quest III for X minutes?
Tough!"
Well, I was about 5 when I played it, so forgive me for not remembering
Again, I've tried posting this from Linux/Moz, WinXP/Moz, now WinXP/IE... Only this one works...
Hehehe... I remember Space Quest III. You would press the boss key and have something like this popup:
:P.
"So you don't want your boss to know you've been
playing Space Quest III for X minutes?
Tough!"
Well, I was about 5 when I played it, so forgive me for not remembering
"Giant lizards are cool
/me adds a bug report to Bugzilla - "I can't giant lizards are cool"
Much more exciting than a blue e."
I think they started to run out of ideas of things you can do in Mozilla - this one doesn't even make sense!
(And I've been trying to submit this for about 30mins... And someone just phoned cutting me off the net...)
"Supports blinking text
You can make text blink."
*blink*
This is GOOD?
It was a joke. Laugh. It's funny.
:P)
(at least, I assume it was