So it's a good idea to redesign the interface of the OS between each major use?
People get used to finding things in certain locations and moving them around or renaming them annoys them. This just increases the need for staff retraining.
Icons are always changing, at least with KDE you can use all the old icons should you wish.
Well this isn't going to halt the decline of IIS. I personally think the only reason to run a Windows web server to easily interface it with SQL Server. If you don't want SQL Server then there's plenty of alternatives.
I understand branding, however this isn't like McDonalds and Burger King. Many people walk into a PC store and buy what they think is a good price, they probably ask the sales guy if it can do XYZ. If there was an Intel PC store, or an AMD PC store I could understand the need for lots of advertising.
The fact that Lindows PCs have been selling well sort of proves that price makes a difference to some. The fact that the PC is running an almost alien OS doesn't put some people off.
Thing is, do Intel's adverts make any difference? the average user just buys a PC or laptop by looking at the price and the looks. Ask them what the difference between AMD and Intel is and they won't know. This is why Intel are so determined to stop AMD and Transmeta eating away at their laptop market. Comparing CPUs isn't like comparing cola.
Think about it, some projects just aren't economical. Open source removes the economic factor, people fix bugs, make improvements etc. to get credit and prove their talents to the community. With open source you get commercial companies working on the code as well as individuals (see kernel changelogs).
Mechanisms are repairable, metal, plastic etc. can be reproduced. It's the chips and storage mediums that cause the real problems, tapes start to flake and chips fail. It's becomes like old cars, just like you end up scrapping one or two computers to fix another one.
Cache memory tends to be section of the CPU that fails, it's hard to manufacture and this results in high failure rates when you have stacks of it. This is typically why Celerons and Durons have been so cheap. A poor yield puts up the cost of the good uns, hence why Xeons have always costs so much (plus they're aimed at high end servers)
This reason alone means I need a Windows box for music, or a Mac which I can't afford. I only need a spare motherboard to build up a music computer or a spare mortgage to get a decent Mac:)
The two cards in question are (or were, they're getting on a bit) professional cards. They can't see a professional Linux market exists, hence not worth the risk.
The codecs on both my cards are not Yamaha designs, so could have some driver written, it's the control ASICs that they wish to keep secret.
Get some decent apps and good drivers will appear, get some good drivers and decent apps will appear.
I wish Linux supported my Yamaha sound cards, Yamaha aren't interested in Linux drivers as I have asked them before. Something about giving away secrets of their chips etc.. bah.
Yes, but cars have much stricter safety tests. Plus use a fuel cell laptop as well as a car and you're increasing the risks.
Using a laptop puts you in closer proximity of danger, if you were to drop the laptop and the cell exploded you could be burnt. If it malfunctions on your knee you will get very serious burns.
Perhaps you should look at the serious damage possible with current technology before you call people "knucklehead".
They sound like a good idea, but they also have the potential to explode and inflict damage on the user. Even current batteries can do that as one female owner of a dell laptop found out first hand.
Fuel cells contain hydrogen and I would be pretty scared to carry around a laptop with that much energy potential in it. Suppose you leave it in the sun? what if it leaks.
Plus anyone going from an 7 to 8 year old OS is going to have to imagine where things will be in 7 to 8 years time. Microsoft's new license model isn't good for the infrequent upgrader, combine this with the increasing adoptance of Linux it's easy to see why they're keen to switch.
It might be a good or bad decision (depending on how well the admin guys are), but they will be able to say they've tried to save money.
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So it's a good idea to redesign the interface of the OS between each major use?
People get used to finding things in certain locations and moving them around or renaming them annoys them. This just increases the need for staff retraining.
Icons are always changing, at least with KDE you can use all the old icons should you wish.
The article is tainted by distro stupidness, KDE and Gnome can be setup badly on some distros as well as being slow.
A calculator is mentioned as being slow to start with Gnome (i think), if you use prelinking then such apps will start very fast.
Using Red Hat when doing a speed/usability test is a bit dumb, it's not the quickest distro in my experiences.
Well this isn't going to halt the decline of IIS. I personally think the only reason to run a Windows web server to easily interface it with SQL Server. If you don't want SQL Server then there's plenty of alternatives.
I can't see many large companies being interestesed. After all how can they protect their patents while giving away the secrets in their source?
Stored procedures make things easier too, many wont touch it until then.
But isn't MySQL best suited to being a lightweight database for webservers anyway?
I understand branding, however this isn't like McDonalds and Burger King. Many people walk into a PC store and buy what they think is a good price, they probably ask the sales guy if it can do XYZ. If there was an Intel PC store, or an AMD PC store I could understand the need for lots of advertising.
The fact that Lindows PCs have been selling well sort of proves that price makes a difference to some. The fact that the PC is running an almost alien OS doesn't put some people off.
Thing is, do Intel's adverts make any difference? the average user just buys a PC or laptop by looking at the price and the looks. Ask them what the difference between AMD and Intel is and they won't know. This is why Intel are so determined to stop AMD and Transmeta eating away at their laptop market. Comparing CPUs isn't like comparing cola.
Wonder if they'll miss the obvious advert?
:)
"Can't touch this....."
Think about it, some projects just aren't economical. Open source removes the economic factor, people fix bugs, make improvements etc. to get credit and prove their talents to the community. With open source you get commercial companies working on the code as well as individuals (see kernel changelogs).
Don't worry, XBox Live 95 XP Professional Server .NET will be much better.
Mechanisms are repairable, metal, plastic etc. can be reproduced. It's the chips and storage mediums that cause the real problems, tapes start to flake and chips fail. It's becomes like old cars, just like you end up scrapping one or two computers to fix another one.
Given that the German economy is very depressed, this is a bad time to be enforcing it.
If they were really daring they would only apply the tax to computers assembled outside of Germany. This wouldn't please Dell etc.. though.
Cache memory tends to be section of the CPU that fails, it's hard to manufacture and this results in high failure rates when you have stacks of it. This is typically why Celerons and Durons have been so cheap. A poor yield puts up the cost of the good uns, hence why Xeons have always costs so much (plus they're aimed at high end servers)
Maybe because it's a lot cheaper to make a P4 and the high clock is a marketing tool?
Hence my original posting :)
:)
This reason alone means I need a Windows box for music, or a Mac which I can't afford. I only need a spare motherboard to build up a music computer or a spare mortgage to get a decent Mac
But laptops do get knocked around, a leaking battery is a small risk, leaking fuel cell could be much worse.
The two cards in question are (or were, they're getting on a bit) professional cards. They can't see a professional Linux market exists, hence not worth the risk.
The codecs on both my cards are not Yamaha designs, so could have some driver written, it's the control ASICs that they wish to keep secret.
Not the Yamaha DSP Factory or SW1000XG.
Get some decent apps and good drivers will appear, get some good drivers and decent apps will appear.
I wish Linux supported my Yamaha sound cards, Yamaha aren't interested in Linux drivers as I have asked them before. Something about giving away secrets of their chips etc.. bah.
I'm voting with my wallet...
Yes, but cars have much stricter safety tests. Plus use a fuel cell laptop as well as a car and you're increasing the risks.
Using a laptop puts you in closer proximity of danger, if you were to drop the laptop and the cell exploded you could be burnt. If it malfunctions on your knee you will get very serious burns.
Perhaps you should look at the serious damage possible with current technology before you call people "knucklehead".
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Fuel cells?
They sound like a good idea, but they also have the potential to explode and inflict damage on the user. Even current batteries can do that as one female owner of a dell laptop found out first hand.
Fuel cells contain hydrogen and I would be pretty scared to carry around a laptop with that much energy potential in it. Suppose you leave it in the sun? what if it leaks.
Does flash allow people with disabilities to easily browse the web? only since version MX and I doubt everyone is using that yet.
Law seems to be where it's at, especially with all the bigwigs suing each other to defend their ridiculous patents.
Plus anyone going from an 7 to 8 year old OS is going to have to imagine where things will be in 7 to 8 years time. Microsoft's new license model isn't good for the infrequent upgrader, combine this with the increasing adoptance of Linux it's easy to see why they're keen to switch.
It might be a good or bad decision (depending on how well the admin guys are), but they will be able to say they've tried to save money.
But do they present themselves as drop down categories?
I never managed to do similar in either IE or Mozilla