1) If Linux becomes more popular than Windows, vendors would ship PCs with Linux preinstalled. It would be cheaper for them and more convenient for the user.
2) If Windows is preinstalled on nearly every PC, it will remain supreme. If you've already paid for windows, and you're not a geek, then there is no reason to switch. No normal person would even consider doing so as long as Windows does what they want it to, good enough (which it does).
2) Slap a $39.95 price sticker on those apps, write good documentation, stuff 'em in cute shrinkwrapped boxes and get them onto store shelves;
I've got to disagree here.. the fact that the software is gratis is a good thing for users. Money is tight these days and that could be a big selling point for linux. In fact, that's the main advantage of linux for the average user. Microsoft products are high enough quality for the average user who doesn't care about 500 day uptimes for servers. The only real reason to switch, for the average user, is to save a few hundred bucks by getting a product (linux) that does the same thing that Windows does for them (browse the web and write letters). Switch campaigns aren't gonna do it for linux anymore than they will for Apple (which is not going to replace Windows anytime soon).
You might want to check this page out. It has a bookmarklet which will automatically zoom in on all the images on the page. I haven't installed the new Mozilla yet but if it's automatic image resizing is half as annoying as it was in IE, I'd rather control it myself.
You can play games like Quake and UT without commiting 40 hours a week and clans still form..
I think they're so time consuming because they are following the example of UO and EQ even though the reasons to make the games so time consuming are gone.
My father was a professor. He was paid rather well, and the university paid for his computers anyway.
But for those of us who have to be price conscious, the advantages of a free OS on dirt cheap hardware outweigh "it just works and has a pretty orange case" issues.
*Running Linux on a 1998 era eMachines shitbox since 2002*
I tried it a few weeks ago, and it was so slow as to be unusable. A normal webpage took 10 minutes or more to download, and I can't imagine how glacially slow it would be to even find mp3s, let alone download them.
What browsers offer IPv6 support? Those pages would not work in either Phoenix or IE.
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Blank cards will be difficult to come buy, and will doubtless require special equipment to write on. I doubt counterfeiting these would be any easier than counterfeiting paper money.
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Sure it is. You live with 6 other losers in a crappy apartment and split the bills and live in squalor. Take the bus and eat lots of beans. Migrant workers not only live like that on their $6/hr jobs, they raise families and send money back to their families in (pick a Latin American country). How did you think people who work at places like McDonalds live?
Lots of middle-class Americans will get to find out how to make do with what seems like nothing if current economic trends continue
Why is it that when businesses look out for their own best interest, it's all well and good, but if when workers look out for theirs, they're greedy scumbag whiners?
Everyone's trying to get as much as they can for as little as possible.
The same arguments apply to any IT career. The job market looks like shit whether you're going for a CS degree or an A+ certification, or whatever.
Way to miss the point.
I don't know about that.. I'm going back to school soon, and computers are my hobby so I wanted to do a CS degree, but with all of the apocalyptic press you hear about the IT industry these days, I thought better of it (Pharmacy school for me, with it's roughly 100% job placement rate for graduates). 2 or 3 years ago I would have gone for the CS degree, and people who did so at the time are now pretty far along in their studies and probably reluctant to switch majors. But the people who are entering college now will probably avoid IT unless they looooove it and have a trust fund. Certainly it will not be perceived as a great career move. Expect the supply of new programmers to dry up in the future.
There could be lots of ways to get around that problem. Maybe one of these could be folded into a more compact size, and printed out in that compact size.
If it's going to be story-driven, does that mean you can play it reasonably well and still have a life, instead of running around for dozens of hours a week killing pixelated monsters to get to the next level?
I played DAOC and I felt like a hamster on a treadwheel. I think a game that doesn't focus on levelling, and that you could play a few hours a week without being left behind, could be fun.
The Houston library offers this as well, and it's lame. You have to download each page one at a time and it takes about a minute on DSL. There are some interesting books there, but netlibrary is virtually unusable.
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2) If Windows is preinstalled on nearly every PC, it will remain supreme. If you've already paid for windows, and you're not a geek, then there is no reason to switch. No normal person would even consider doing so as long as Windows does what they want it to, good enough (which it does).
I've got to disagree here.. the fact that the software is gratis is a good thing for users. Money is tight these days and that could be a big selling point for linux. In fact, that's the main advantage of linux for the average user. Microsoft products are high enough quality for the average user who doesn't care about 500 day uptimes for servers. The only real reason to switch, for the average user, is to save a few hundred bucks by getting a product (linux) that does the same thing that Windows does for them (browse the web and write letters). Switch campaigns aren't gonna do it for linux anymore than they will for Apple (which is not going to replace Windows anytime soon).
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You might want to check this page out. It has a bookmarklet which will automatically zoom in on all the images on the page. I haven't installed the new Mozilla yet but if it's automatic image resizing is half as annoying as it was in IE, I'd rather control it myself.
You can play games like Quake and UT without commiting 40 hours a week and clans still form.. I think they're so time consuming because they are following the example of UO and EQ even though the reasons to make the games so time consuming are gone.
Q: Add 34957 to 70764
A: (Pause about 30 seconds and then give as answer) 105621.
If you do the math you can see that the computer fucked up the addition, as well as taking an absurdly long time (for a computer) to do it.
You're not looking for the right answer, you're looking for the human answer. Any question is fair game. Read the paper here
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My only point is that Apple is for people who are willing and able to shell out cash, and not all Linux users can or will do that.
But for those of us who have to be price conscious, the advantages of a free OS on dirt cheap hardware outweigh "it just works and has a pretty orange case" issues.
*Running Linux on a 1998 era eMachines shitbox since 2002*
I tried it a few weeks ago, and it was so slow as to be unusable. A normal webpage took 10 minutes or more to download, and I can't imagine how glacially slow it would be to even find mp3s, let alone download them.
What browsers offer IPv6 support? Those pages would not work in either Phoenix or IE.
Blank cards will be difficult to come buy, and will doubtless require special equipment to write on. I doubt counterfeiting these would be any easier than counterfeiting paper money.
Sure it is. You live with 6 other losers in a crappy apartment and split the bills and live in squalor. Take the bus and eat lots of beans. Migrant workers not only live like that on their $6/hr jobs, they raise families and send money back to their families in (pick a Latin American country). How did you think people who work at places like McDonalds live?
Lots of middle-class Americans will get to find out how to make do with what seems like nothing if current economic trends continue
Why is it that when businesses look out for their own best interest, it's all well and good, but if when workers look out for theirs, they're greedy scumbag whiners? Everyone's trying to get as much as they can for as little as possible.
The same arguments apply to any IT career. The job market looks like shit whether you're going for a CS degree or an A+ certification, or whatever. Way to miss the point.
I don't know about that.. I'm going back to school soon, and computers are my hobby so I wanted to do a CS degree, but with all of the apocalyptic press you hear about the IT industry these days, I thought better of it (Pharmacy school for me, with it's roughly 100% job placement rate for graduates). 2 or 3 years ago I would have gone for the CS degree, and people who did so at the time are now pretty far along in their studies and probably reluctant to switch majors. But the people who are entering college now will probably avoid IT unless they looooove it and have a trust fund. Certainly it will not be perceived as a great career move. Expect the supply of new programmers to dry up in the future.
On-topic Greek history, at that.
There could be lots of ways to get around that problem. Maybe one of these could be folded into a more compact size, and printed out in that compact size.
If it's going to be story-driven, does that mean you can play it reasonably well and still have a life, instead of running around for dozens of hours a week killing pixelated monsters to get to the next level? I played DAOC and I felt like a hamster on a treadwheel. I think a game that doesn't focus on levelling, and that you could play a few hours a week without being left behind, could be fun.
The Houston library offers this as well, and it's lame. You have to download each page one at a time and it takes about a minute on DSL. There are some interesting books there, but netlibrary is virtually unusable.
Probably by sending microwaves from satellites into your brain.