Nice work Mods..."really crappy computer"..insightful..
Actually, we have no problems with our tablets, 70 of them are deployed to sales staff and they work just fine, there are such things as Car Chargers people..battery life is not an issue.
And oh yeah, the handwriting recognition is a big plus, which by the way the Linux distros don't offer.
"In my experience, anyone who is ready to try an alternative to Windows is going to be more turned off by the price of a boxed set than the amount of time it takes to download ISOs."
I didn't realize Windows XP....was only $89(Oem)...this makes it even harder for the boxed product of Red Hat to sell...Joe Consumer would probably opt for a more known name anyway and its advertised ease of use, but when he wants to write a simple document is when he pays the piper!..after reading some of the comments and checking the price of both Boxed products, perhaps it does indeed make sense for RH to leave the shelves....
"Red Hat clearly aren't making money in the retail channel and it makes no sense for them to be there"
You "may" be right, perhaps instead of being stocked at CompUSA, they need to go the Suse route.
"ask any number of helpful people in any number of Linux forums"
I have never used direct support from Red Hat, but when I was new to Linux, some of my most basic question were met with impatience and arrogance, or haven't you tried "this" yet, when I had no idea how to do, "this". It was only after tinkering a bit on my own and asking an somewhat intelligent question were the board or irc channels helpful, paid tech support on the other hand, will hold your, er.. hand, for the most basic questions
When someone is ready to try an alternative to Windows, its much easier to pick up the CDs rather than wait hours for a public download to finish...and lose the enthusiasm for a change in OS.
I never thought of that...although I do confide in my DBA who does the same thing with his procs, derived tables and jobs...he would handle it, I would come back like Swayze and help him out...
Windows Installer, was an effort in self "repairing" or "healing" , what ever you would like to call it. However, am the only one who has seen errors like "Please insert Microsoft Office XP CD.." blah blah, when nothing is wrong, and you have to cancel out of it just to use something totally unrelated, like say Excel or Word.
The Office 2000 self-repairing installations is another notorious one, if you remove something, the installer thinks it has been removed in error and tries to reinstall it...
Oh well, lets wish the recovery-oriented computing
guys luck...
iPod is Apple
iMac is Apple
iTunes, etc etc all Apples...
Steve, here is your chance to get even...
The iLoo by all means, should be an apple product.....if you didn't know who made it, wouldnt you think its something made by Apple?
This problem is solved with what are known as "strongly typed assemblies" (MS doesn't use that term). A Strongly named assembly consists of four attributes that uniquely identify the assembly: a file name (no extension), a version number, a culture identity and a public key token
There could be a 100 MyTypes.dll on the same machine..but using public and private key technology instead of guids, etc, also allows the checking of the integrity of the assembly's bits as they are installed on the hard drive. So any company that wants to mark its assemblies as unique must acquire a public/private key pair, and its this distinction that allows two companies to create assemblies that have the same name, version, and culture without conflict.
These word's are Richter's, not mine:)
Seems like a good idea but..
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Doesn't it seems like the market is being cluttered with a variety of devices that do essentially the same thing? PDAs already do this, my old cell phone delivers text alerts, hell my old pager did it as well, the tablet pcs will facilitate this...its just same content, different devices..
I already have one of these given to me by my employer, its much more convenient than a clunky watch, plus, sprint gives us unlimited data on our montly plan...
As far as MS goes..All of these devices center around their "software as a service" plan, which integrates into your.NET wallet which will efficiently handle this (-_-)
The bottom line is that they are too expensive. Do not look for anyone except the rich kids in college to flaunt them. A great concept, converting your handwritten notes to say MS Word, but they are too expensive, except for the affluent. Hell..I still can't afford a laptop..
Well, he is pretty much thinking along the lines of Microsoft, which is gradually shifting to an OS that really does not exist but gives you the functionality you need based upon the services you require.
For example, if you need to write a Word Document (yeah yeah XDocs in Office11), you would boot up your computer which basically would make a call to a Web Service that will show you what you call the desktop (i.e. presentation layer) of your OS today e.g WinXP, Win2k, etc.
You need to write a Word Doc? Do you subscribe to the Word Web Service? If so the menu item in the program group will be there (Start-Programs-blah blah), you consumed it when your WebServiceOS came up, because you subscribe to it so you can go ahead and make a word doc.
Thus, whatever data you need will be accessible when you want it, for a certain price that is.
Theoretically, this may seem like a great idea, software as a service, revenue for MS, you get only what you want i.e no bundled overpriced office products, but then again...oh nevermind.
And oh yeah, you can get your documents anywhere in the world since your profile will be associated with your ".NET my Services" account, so as long as a computer is using this next OS, which will probably come after longhorn, you have what you need everywhere..all you have to do is Consume and Subscribe! Theoretically although the vendor is Microsoft, is XML over HTTP really Microsoft Windows? No! Lets just call it MSWSVOS (Microsoft Web Service Virtual Operating System)...your.Net wallet has been charged, thank you.
XML is slowly but surely turning into the huge beast from where it came, SGML, I thought the point of XML was simplicity...forget the open standards of data exchange everyone is talking about, the bickering of the major players will never allow XML, or any specifications dervied from it to become the "one" format for efficient data exchange
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I always thought that movie was cool, i.e. the visual designer to catch bad guys.
Nice work Mods..."really crappy computer"..insightful.. Actually, we have no problems with our tablets, 70 of them are deployed to sales staff and they work just fine, there are such things as Car Chargers people..battery life is not an issue. And oh yeah, the handwriting recognition is a big plus, which by the way the Linux distros don't offer.
There is no handwriting recognition with Element or Lycoris..that sort of defeats one of the key points of the Tablet...
Sure its cool. Respect from The Open Source Community? Maybe. Will it ever be used for something useful? NO. Kudos from peers? Minimal.
These projects are cool, but they serve no real purpose except for the "Oh yeah, you'll never guess what I did to my cube..."
Again WHY?
Probably because most of our jobs are in India now...we have plenty of free time...
Oh well, I wish being slashdotted and herds of geeks saying "WOW" paid bills.
"In my experience, anyone who is ready to try an alternative to Windows is going to be more turned off by the price of a boxed set than the amount of time it takes to download ISOs."
I didn't realize Windows XP....was only $89(Oem)...this makes it even harder for the boxed product of Red Hat to sell...Joe Consumer would probably opt for a more known name anyway and its advertised ease of use, but when he wants to write a simple document is when he pays the piper!..after reading some of the comments and checking the price of both Boxed products, perhaps it does indeed make sense for RH to leave the shelves....
"Red Hat clearly aren't making money in the retail channel and it makes no sense for them to be there"
You "may" be right, perhaps instead of being stocked at CompUSA, they need to go the Suse route.
"ask any number of helpful people in any number of Linux forums"
I have never used direct support from Red Hat, but when I was new to Linux, some of my most basic question were met with impatience and arrogance, or haven't you tried "this" yet, when I had no idea how to do, "this". It was only after tinkering a bit on my own and asking an somewhat intelligent question were the board or irc channels helpful, paid tech support on the other hand, will hold your, er.. hand, for the most basic questions
When someone is ready to try an alternative to Windows, its much easier to pick up the CDs rather than wait hours for a public download to finish...and lose the enthusiasm for a change in OS.
I never thought of that...although I do confide in my DBA who does the same thing with his procs, derived tables and jobs...he would handle it, I would come back like Swayze and help him out...
That sir, is a TRUE statement.
Everyone leaves some code that only they can fix...
My Standards for variables:
_needthis
_needthis1
_x
_uz
etc
People write sloppy code that makes them...
Windows Installer, was an effort in self "repairing" or "healing" , what ever you would like to call it. However, am the only one who has seen errors like "Please insert Microsoft Office XP CD.." blah blah, when nothing is wrong, and you have to cancel out of it just to use something totally unrelated, like say Excel or Word.
The Office 2000 self-repairing installations is another notorious one, if you remove something, the installer thinks it has been removed in error and tries to reinstall it...
Oh well, lets wish the recovery-oriented computing guys luck...
I know asp is .asp .aspx
.mspx???
I know ASP.NET is
WTF is
They have patented the Trash Icon....
iPod is Apple
iMac is Apple
iTunes, etc etc all Apples...
Steve, here is your chance to get even... The iLoo by all means, should be an apple product.....if you didn't know who made it, wouldnt you think its something made by Apple?
It won't be called the PS3 anyway, Sony will name it something else.....
This problem is solved with what are known as "strongly typed assemblies" (MS doesn't use that term). A Strongly named assembly consists of four attributes that uniquely identify the assembly: a file name (no extension), a version number, a culture identity and a public key token There could be a 100 MyTypes.dll on the same machine..but using public and private key technology instead of guids, etc, also allows the checking of the integrity of the assembly's bits as they are installed on the hard drive. So any company that wants to mark its assemblies as unique must acquire a public/private key pair, and its this distinction that allows two companies to create assemblies that have the same name, version, and culture without conflict. These word's are Richter's, not mine :)
missed Audblog?
Doesn't it seems like the market is being cluttered with a variety of devices that do essentially the same thing? PDAs already do this, my old cell phone delivers text alerts, hell my old pager did it as well, the tablet pcs will facilitate this...its just same content, different devices.. I already have one of these given to me by my employer, its much more convenient than a clunky watch, plus, sprint gives us unlimited data on our montly plan... As far as MS goes..All of these devices center around their "software as a service" plan, which integrates into your .NET wallet which will efficiently handle this (-_-)
By the way..I meant "TABLET"..damn desktop computer...
The bottom line is that they are too expensive. Do not look for anyone except the rich kids in college to flaunt them. A great concept, converting your handwritten notes to say MS Word, but they are too expensive, except for the affluent. Hell..I still can't afford a laptop..
Well, he is pretty much thinking along the lines of Microsoft, which is gradually shifting to an OS that really does not exist but gives you the functionality you need based upon the services you require.
.Net wallet has been charged, thank you.
For example, if you need to write a Word Document (yeah yeah XDocs in Office11), you would boot up your computer which basically would make a call to a Web Service that will show you what you call the desktop (i.e. presentation layer) of your OS today e.g WinXP, Win2k, etc.
You need to write a Word Doc? Do you subscribe to the Word Web Service? If so the menu item in the program group will be there (Start-Programs-blah blah), you consumed it when your WebServiceOS came up, because you subscribe to it so you can go ahead and make a word doc. Thus, whatever data you need will be accessible when you want it, for a certain price that is.
Theoretically, this may seem like a great idea, software as a service, revenue for MS, you get only what you want i.e no bundled overpriced office products, but then again...oh nevermind.
And oh yeah, you can get your documents anywhere in the world since your profile will be associated with your ".NET my Services" account, so as long as a computer is using this next OS, which will probably come after longhorn, you have what you need everywhere..all you have to do is Consume and Subscribe! Theoretically although the vendor is Microsoft, is XML over HTTP really Microsoft Windows? No! Lets just call it MSWSVOS (Microsoft Web Service Virtual Operating System)...your
XML is slowly but surely turning into the huge beast from where it came, SGML, I thought the point of XML was simplicity...forget the open standards of data exchange everyone is talking about, the bickering of the major players will never allow XML, or any specifications dervied from it to become the "one" format for efficient data exchange
..get used to it, and more articles like this.
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