If you've made an argument here on Slashdot that corporations will switch because new PCs come with Vista installed, you've apparently forgotten to take into account that we're talking about corporations, not small businesses.
Corporations tend to have fancy things like Volume Licenses and purchasing agreements with computer manufacturers so that they can get computers with similar models. That way, they can simply ghost machines when they provision them.
I'm not claiming to be a guru about corporate windows installs, but that's how it has been done in my experience.
I have to admit: I laughed when I saw the PEWPEWLASERBEAMZOMG text.
Anyway, yeah, it's funny how people ask that.
Speaking of which, I haven't played my Druid in a while, is Moonkin Form still a 31-point talent in Balance? I know some things got moved around when 2.0 went live...
Which other browsers and which versions of said browsers? I don't know about everyone else, but I like my statistics fully qualified (just like I like my domain names).
Where i'm at, the nearest circuit city is in the next city, the best buy usually has like 3 video cards, 1 sub-par motherboard, and approximately 23 hojillion music cd's, dvd's, and washing machines.
I'm glad that my Best Buy doesn't suck... for things other than motherboards and CPUs that is. Last time I was looking at video cards, they had 20 or so different models in stock.
BTW, you forgot to mention video games. My local Best Buy shrank its computer games sections to increase the size of its video games section. The video games section still isn't as large as the DVDs section (which is smaller than the CDs section), but it's getting there.
"The changes in Vista are significant enough that we think we can absorb the change going to Macs just as easily as going to Vista."
I doubt IT is going to suddenly fund the changeover of all your current machines to OSX or Vista without a damn good reason. I can see keeping your existing systems until such a time that they no longer fit your needs and you need to upgrade, then switching to Macs.
Changing from Windows to Mac incurs other costs, such as having to purchase new copies of Office suites. If you were going to do this anyway, then that's OK. Windows Domain servers may be a problem. Theoretically, with Samba, you don't need to change these over, but as long as you're dumping Windows, why not go whole hog?
I'm not going to claim that I'm an expert, but I've seen at least one Mac user say that they keep a virtualized copy of Windows around solely because MS Outlook has features that MS Entourage doesn't.
A discrete math course was offered, but I took AP Calculus instead, which I ended up hating... although that might have been more of a teacher thing than the course matter.
5) Raise instead of lower the requirements in order to graduate high school. One of my friends has a daughter who just started high school this year. The only math requirements for her to graduate are two semesters of math. What this means is that they're only required to take and pass Pre-Algebra I & II. Since most everyone on here are IT pros of some kind, I'm sure you're aware that this doesn't cut it for college. Algebra I & II, Geometry, and Trig should be the minimum requirements, IMHO.
Things really have gone downhill. I graduated from High School 10 years ago, and while you were required to take two semesters of Math, they had to be (depending on your math level) Algebra I and Geometry or Geometry and Algebra II.
Personally, I also took Trig and Statistics, but that's just me.
Switching Jobs out once was enough. At least Apple was smart enough to bring him back. The man really knows how to sell products.
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But the article asserts that DRM causes more piracy.
What would you say if it said "Cancer causes death" instead? It's assumed that piracy would still exist without DRM, just like it's assumed that death would still exist without cancer.
The burden would be on MS to show that they came up with the code first. Unless they have some clear evidence, it is going to be their word vs. Linus', and it is not going to go anywhere. Nah, the only viable attack vector is the patent law.
To start, IANAL.
However, given the presumption of innocense in legal proceedings, the burden of proof falls on the plaintiff, not the defendent.
Additionally, every single person that has done a hands on with the device has mentioned that the touch screen is "fantastic" (or some other equivalent gushing remark), and far exceeded the expectations the user had previous to actually trying it.
Do you have quotes to backup that statistic?
I don't know about anyone else, but I'd like to know who they were just so I can tell if they were sucking up to Apple or if it was a real, honest to $diety review.
Every OS written in a C-based language supports stdin, stdout, and stderr along with using input/output redirects and piping. That includes MS-DOS and MS Windows.
You can be as pedantic as you like, that does not make Photoshop output anything useful to the command line via stdout.
An ad hominem attack doesn't change the fact that you were wrong. This is a relevant point because you were using it as an example of what Photoshop could, but doesn't, do in OSX that it couldn't do in Windows.
They are one company now called "Adobe" This entire conversation was predicated upon MS's response to their merger. If they had decided to keep the name "Macromedia" for the new company and I referred to Dreamweaver as a product of the new company formed by the merger would you take issue with that? I don't see the point of your distinction in terms of this conversation.
I take issue with the irrelevant conclusion that, because Adobe bought Macromedia, everyone who ever bought Dreamweaver is an Adobe customer, then used this "fact" to help refute someone else's point.
It's akin to saying that, if Microsoft were to buy Intuit right now, that everyone who ever bought Quickbooks are Microsoft customers. Which would certainly surprise the Quickbooks for Mac users.
Either you have a tiny amount of RAM, or a huge amount of malware. Windows XP was released in 2001. The Pentium M was released in 2004. You are running XP on a CPU two Moore-generations newer than the fastest CPU available at the time of XP's launch.
You forgot to take into effect XP SP2. Service Pack 2 slowed things down considerably. It had a late 2004 release date. It replaced the original XP (or more accurately, SP1) as the version shipping on new computers shortly afterwards.
Adobe apps tend to ignore the capable command line in OS X as much as possible, including stdout, limiting the use of Adobe apps in scripted workflows and automation, instead relying entirely upon input from the GUI, except where Adobe did not consider it at all and the system automatically lets you do things. I can pipe data to Photoshop, for example, but Adobe had nothing to do with that.
Every OS written in a C-based language supports stdin, stdout, and stderr along with using input/output redirects and piping. That includes MS-DOS and MS Windows.
There is one glaring problem with this statement. You're assuming Adobe's users are graphics people. Half the user base of Framemaker migrated from LaTeX. Dreamweaver is the favored Web development application of some pretty hard core nerds. Your generalizations are uninformed.
The latest version of Dreamweaver is Macromedia Dreamweaver 8. Until Adobe releases a new version, I won't consider it an Adobe product and I doubt anyone else will either.
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If you've made an argument here on Slashdot that corporations will switch because new PCs come with Vista installed, you've apparently forgotten to take into account that we're talking about corporations, not small businesses.
Corporations tend to have fancy things like Volume Licenses and purchasing agreements with computer manufacturers so that they can get computers with similar models. That way, they can simply ghost machines when they provision them.
I'm not claiming to be a guru about corporate windows installs, but that's how it has been done in my experience.
You could just use java-package to install Java.
I have to admit: I laughed when I saw the PEWPEWLASERBEAMZOMG text.
Anyway, yeah, it's funny how people ask that.
Speaking of which, I haven't played my Druid in a while, is Moonkin Form still a 31-point talent in Balance? I know some things got moved around when 2.0 went live...
I'll say this, Hotbabe has nice equipment.
True, but Armory is automatically done on the server end. While it's not always up to date, it's reasonably close.
Heck, it even knows which buffs my level 66 Mage had on him when I logged out an hour ago.
That only works if they understand the BASICs. :P
Which other browsers and which versions of said browsers? I don't know about everyone else, but I like my statistics fully qualified (just like I like my domain names).
Damn it, the one here is staying open.
I'm glad that my Best Buy doesn't suck... for things other than motherboards and CPUs that is. Last time I was looking at video cards, they had 20 or so different models in stock.
BTW, you forgot to mention video games. My local Best Buy shrank its computer games sections to increase the size of its video games section. The video games section still isn't as large as the DVDs section (which is smaller than the CDs section), but it's getting there.
To be honest, I hadn't considered that. I just assumed an MS Office -> MS Office switch.
I doubt IT is going to suddenly fund the changeover of all your current machines to OSX or Vista without a damn good reason. I can see keeping your existing systems until such a time that they no longer fit your needs and you need to upgrade, then switching to Macs.
Changing from Windows to Mac incurs other costs, such as having to purchase new copies of Office suites. If you were going to do this anyway, then that's OK. Windows Domain servers may be a problem. Theoretically, with Samba, you don't need to change these over, but as long as you're dumping Windows, why not go whole hog?
I'm not going to claim that I'm an expert, but I've seen at least one Mac user say that they keep a virtualized copy of Windows around solely because MS Outlook has features that MS Entourage doesn't.
A discrete math course was offered, but I took AP Calculus instead, which I ended up hating... although that might have been more of a teacher thing than the course matter.
Maybe if universities didn't require Calculus I-IV for CS degrees, more people would get them.
That's why I never got one. I tried (AP) Calculus in high school and hated it.
Things really have gone downhill. I graduated from High School 10 years ago, and while you were required to take two semesters of Math, they had to be (depending on your math level) Algebra I and Geometry or Geometry and Algebra II.
Personally, I also took Trig and Statistics, but that's just me.
Switching Jobs out once was enough. At least Apple was smart enough to bring him back. The man really knows how to sell products.
What would you say if it said "Cancer causes death" instead? It's assumed that piracy would still exist without DRM, just like it's assumed that death would still exist without cancer.
As SCO vs. IBM has surely shown, there isn't any legal reason stopping GNU from suing Microsoft.
On the other hand, there are economic reasons.
If they were using transparency, your point might have made sense.
However, JPEG doesn't support transparency either... perhaps you see where I'm going with this?
To start, IANAL.
However, given the presumption of innocense in legal proceedings, the burden of proof falls on the plaintiff, not the defendent.
Do you have quotes to backup that statistic?
I don't know about anyone else, but I'd like to know who they were just so I can tell if they were sucking up to Apple or if it was a real, honest to $diety review.
Who else was hoping that "XML dies and goes away" would be on the list? :D
An ad hominem attack doesn't change the fact that you were wrong. This is a relevant point because you were using it as an example of what Photoshop could, but doesn't, do in OSX that it couldn't do in Windows.
I take issue with the irrelevant conclusion that, because Adobe bought Macromedia, everyone who ever bought Dreamweaver is an Adobe customer, then used this "fact" to help refute someone else's point.
It's akin to saying that, if Microsoft were to buy Intuit right now, that everyone who ever bought Quickbooks are Microsoft customers. Which would certainly surprise the Quickbooks for Mac users.
You forgot to take into effect XP SP2. Service Pack 2 slowed things down considerably. It had a late 2004 release date. It replaced the original XP (or more accurately, SP1) as the version shipping on new computers shortly afterwards.
Every OS written in a C-based language supports stdin, stdout, and stderr along with using input/output redirects and piping. That includes MS-DOS and MS Windows.
The latest version of Dreamweaver is Macromedia Dreamweaver 8. Until Adobe releases a new version, I won't consider it an Adobe product and I doubt anyone else will either.
The first thing that comes to mind is database connectivity.