Let's see, they prefer you get it for free to get you dependent on it, and then want to start charging you once you are... I fail to see how it's a useless comparison. Seems pretty much spot-on to me.
Word doesn't even work well with itself. I've saved documents in Word just to have it unable to open them minutes later. Same with Excel. It may be "standard", but don't try to pass it off as supremely interoperable.
When did a 5-10% un-recognized manufacturing defect rate become acceptable? Is it ok for 5% of stoves to spontaneously catch fire? Even something more benign, would you be ok with 5-10% of your pieces of paper being unable to work in your printer?
I don't have a Razr, nor have I ever owned one, but damn, that sounds like a hell of a lot of customers being ripped off...
Hell, it's not like they're gonna return the cocaine. The guy's probably already got a bullet with his name on it for losing that much. That's not a trivial amount of coke;)
But they're looking for Osama... anyone who has dialysis is suspect! I'd gladly give up all my privacy if they could find one cold-blooded killer of children... oh wait, no I wouldn't. Sorry, I was channeling Rush Limbaugh there.
Teaching content is slightly different than just learning enough of a subject to pass the midterm and final. Being an effective teacher isn't anywhere as easy as you'd like to think it is. Effective being the key word.
So send them "I'm running WindowsXP, SP2 (or later)" and get the list of drivers, etc. for just that sub-version, and then all applications. I mean, I do an update for my Ubuntu system, and that has MANY more packages that Microsoft even ships. And it still goes pretty quickly. There's no need to send them all kinds of info about your system unless something fails, and you click "Yes, of my own free will, I'll help this giant corporation that treats me like a criminal fix their buggy software for no recompense"
The difference is that yum can only infer that from data you voluntarily send to them every time you query for updates. Yum says "Send me the package list for FC6 on the x86 architecture", and that's it. The server gets your IP address as a side effect, and your system version. That's a far cry from that list of crap that Microsoft gets, and never says they're sending. I'm really not comfortable with sending all that info, especially since they don't explicitly state that it's happening. What other info can be asked for through their API? What about limits on info in the EULA? What other info might they send for "research" purposes?
Just because I'm curious, have you stuck an Ubuntu 6.10 (Dapper) LiveCD in there and seen what works? I'll bet at least one (or both) of your scanners and printers are supported, your external drive is, and I don't know your LAN, so that's a toss-up.
Sounds like the transcriptionist is an imbecile, to me. Or it's like a guy I used to work with at the school newspaper. He was dyslexic, so he'd just let spell check always pick the "correct" word for him. It got to the point where we'd tell him to not use spellcheck, just send us the raw version. It was easier to figure out what word he meant. Great writer, horrible speller...
Man, when will OO.o ever have the feature that allows it to save a file and then be unable to read it the next day and think it needs repaired? Excel is great at that.
Sorry, I'm bitter. I just lost a 50MB file to that bullshit.
So what you're saying is that it costs you $0.07AUS to masturbate, plus materials? You're losing $200 every night you have a full night's sleep? Your time isn't always worth money directly, no matter what your mommy says.
But if you WANT to know, it's there. That's what's different about Linux and Windows, the availability of the info. If you NEED to know, then there's something wrong with Linux that needs fixing (we already know Windows needs fixing because there are a lot of things you need to know that you can't find out, such as file formats and network protocols)
I was gonna say, don't throw all the blame for that on Linux. Hell, Broadcom chips suck under Windows, being unable to work in multiple modes that are kinda important for more than just web surfing, except under debug drivers. Linux devs do what they can, but if you want to run Linux, the best bet is to get good hardware, and that often means pretty much Intel chips throughout, because of their open source support.
I already get called out when Windows isn't working... what's the difference? Except for the fact that my laptop running Linux hooked up to the HP printer much easier than my mom's laptop running WinXP? I just clicked a few times, and it worked on my machine. For the Windows machine, you had to go find the correct driver from HP.com, make sure you get the network enabled version, and not the "regular" version, download it, install it, and hope it works. I've still got a printer port I can't delete, but it's not being used.
Except for the fact that speeding has nothing to do with cashiering, yet sanity has EVERYTHING to do with cramped quarters with other people for long periods of time.
Or, just maybe, when the pilot hits the switch, it takes control away from him, and starts broadcasting emergency signals to the ground, and then starts responding to commands from the ground. Or from fighter jets that are scrambled on the emergency signal. Or the computer's smart enough to just pick the nearest airport, or military airbase? All kinds of things they could do. Why would everything have to be completely pre-programmed?
The DS Lite is $130 new. Get something like this with some basic apps and storage space, and it'd be everything I'd want in a super-portable machine. Then I can just plug it into my computer, and pull any data I created/changed/whatever off of it.
Dell sells a 12" XPS system with an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 in it. You might look into it. And as for 17/19" machines, those are for gamers and people who want a desktop-powered system that's mobile, so they can set up shop most anywhere. You'll see dual video cards in those machines, as well as high-resolution displays. Not what I want, but it's good for many people. If I were a developer at my company instead of solutions engineer, you can bet I'd want a larger machine that would give me higher res and faster performance, but I could still take it home and work from home when I don't feel like making the hour minute drive to the office (and then the other hour back)
What I've found I really like at times is the Targus USB keypad I have. It works as a USB 1.1 hub as well, so I'll chain the mouse off of it, but it's great when you really just want a number pad. You can also position it to a place that you find comfortable.
It makes sense because all configuration stuff is either in your home directory, or in/etc. On windows? Could be a.ini in the program directory, or a.ini in you home directory, or perhaps a registry setting under some obscure key, or a random file in your %SYSTEMROOT%/system32 directory, or it could be system, or maybe just %SYSTEMROOT%, or...
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Let's see, they prefer you get it for free to get you dependent on it, and then want to start charging you once you are... I fail to see how it's a useless comparison. Seems pretty much spot-on to me.
Word doesn't even work well with itself. I've saved documents in Word just to have it unable to open them minutes later. Same with Excel. It may be "standard", but don't try to pass it off as supremely interoperable.
Works doesn't work with .doc files, and Wordperfect did so clumsily, as compared to OO.o. I've used all 3.
When did a 5-10% un-recognized manufacturing defect rate become acceptable? Is it ok for 5% of stoves to spontaneously catch fire? Even something more benign, would you be ok with 5-10% of your pieces of paper being unable to work in your printer?
I don't have a Razr, nor have I ever owned one, but damn, that sounds like a hell of a lot of customers being ripped off...
Hell, it's not like they're gonna return the cocaine. The guy's probably already got a bullet with his name on it for losing that much. That's not a trivial amount of coke ;)
But they're looking for Osama... anyone who has dialysis is suspect! I'd gladly give up all my privacy if they could find one cold-blooded killer of children... oh wait, no I wouldn't. Sorry, I was channeling Rush Limbaugh there.
Teaching content is slightly different than just learning enough of a subject to pass the midterm and final. Being an effective teacher isn't anywhere as easy as you'd like to think it is. Effective being the key word.
So send them "I'm running WindowsXP, SP2 (or later)" and get the list of drivers, etc. for just that sub-version, and then all applications. I mean, I do an update for my Ubuntu system, and that has MANY more packages that Microsoft even ships. And it still goes pretty quickly. There's no need to send them all kinds of info about your system unless something fails, and you click "Yes, of my own free will, I'll help this giant corporation that treats me like a criminal fix their buggy software for no recompense"
The difference is that yum can only infer that from data you voluntarily send to them every time you query for updates. Yum says "Send me the package list for FC6 on the x86 architecture", and that's it. The server gets your IP address as a side effect, and your system version. That's a far cry from that list of crap that Microsoft gets, and never says they're sending. I'm really not comfortable with sending all that info, especially since they don't explicitly state that it's happening. What other info can be asked for through their API? What about limits on info in the EULA? What other info might they send for "research" purposes?
How many ports can support communication to a single IPv4 address again?
Just because I'm curious, have you stuck an Ubuntu 6.10 (Dapper) LiveCD in there and seen what works? I'll bet at least one (or both) of your scanners and printers are supported, your external drive is, and I don't know your LAN, so that's a toss-up.
Sounds like the transcriptionist is an imbecile, to me. Or it's like a guy I used to work with at the school newspaper. He was dyslexic, so he'd just let spell check always pick the "correct" word for him. It got to the point where we'd tell him to not use spellcheck, just send us the raw version. It was easier to figure out what word he meant. Great writer, horrible speller...
pdf?
Man, when will OO.o ever have the feature that allows it to save a file and then be unable to read it the next day and think it needs repaired? Excel is great at that.
Sorry, I'm bitter. I just lost a 50MB file to that bullshit.
So what you're saying is that it costs you $0.07AUS to masturbate, plus materials? You're losing $200 every night you have a full night's sleep? Your time isn't always worth money directly, no matter what your mommy says.
So... you're either new here, or don't read many comments, right?
But if you WANT to know, it's there. That's what's different about Linux and Windows, the availability of the info. If you NEED to know, then there's something wrong with Linux that needs fixing (we already know Windows needs fixing because there are a lot of things you need to know that you can't find out, such as file formats and network protocols)
I was gonna say, don't throw all the blame for that on Linux. Hell, Broadcom chips suck under Windows, being unable to work in multiple modes that are kinda important for more than just web surfing, except under debug drivers. Linux devs do what they can, but if you want to run Linux, the best bet is to get good hardware, and that often means pretty much Intel chips throughout, because of their open source support.
I already get called out when Windows isn't working... what's the difference? Except for the fact that my laptop running Linux hooked up to the HP printer much easier than my mom's laptop running WinXP? I just clicked a few times, and it worked on my machine. For the Windows machine, you had to go find the correct driver from HP.com, make sure you get the network enabled version, and not the "regular" version, download it, install it, and hope it works. I've still got a printer port I can't delete, but it's not being used.
Except for the fact that speeding has nothing to do with cashiering, yet sanity has EVERYTHING to do with cramped quarters with other people for long periods of time.
Or, just maybe, when the pilot hits the switch, it takes control away from him, and starts broadcasting emergency signals to the ground, and then starts responding to commands from the ground. Or from fighter jets that are scrambled on the emergency signal. Or the computer's smart enough to just pick the nearest airport, or military airbase? All kinds of things they could do. Why would everything have to be completely pre-programmed?
The DS Lite is $130 new. Get something like this with some basic apps and storage space, and it'd be everything I'd want in a super-portable machine. Then I can just plug it into my computer, and pull any data I created/changed/whatever off of it.
Dell sells a 12" XPS system with an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 in it. You might look into it. And as for 17/19" machines, those are for gamers and people who want a desktop-powered system that's mobile, so they can set up shop most anywhere. You'll see dual video cards in those machines, as well as high-resolution displays. Not what I want, but it's good for many people. If I were a developer at my company instead of solutions engineer, you can bet I'd want a larger machine that would give me higher res and faster performance, but I could still take it home and work from home when I don't feel like making the hour minute drive to the office (and then the other hour back)
What I've found I really like at times is the Targus USB keypad I have. It works as a USB 1.1 hub as well, so I'll chain the mouse off of it, but it's great when you really just want a number pad. You can also position it to a place that you find comfortable.
It makes sense because all configuration stuff is either in your home directory, or in /etc. On windows? Could be a .ini in the program directory, or a .ini in you home directory, or perhaps a registry setting under some obscure key, or a random file in your %SYSTEMROOT%/system32 directory, or it could be system, or maybe just %SYSTEMROOT%, or...