We manage almost a thousand desktops and forty servers. I'd be leery of switching any of our users to Chrome because of the loss of top down control. Active Directory for logins, etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Chrome intended to only let you run web apps? If so, that's your 'top down management' right there.... the machine should contain little more than a web browser so there's really nothing much to 'manage'.
If you think that government-run schools want to produce people who are capable of critical thinking, then you're probably a product of the government-run school system.
You'd think that one of the largest and most talented software development companies based in a region of earth with some of the best, brightest and most educated software engineers with access to the best tools of the trade in the solar system could get such a minor piece of code right...
If you'd used Adobe Premiere prior to the total rewrite they did a few years ago you wouldn't be surprised that Flash is an insecure pile of poo.
Security problems exist everywhere. If you're too naive to assume that you don't need some sort of active filtering/scanning on your Linux PC, you're wrong.
So given that no Linux PC I'm aware of has an antivirus unless it's scanning shared folders to remove malware and viruses that Windows users upload there, we're all naive and Linux is a security nightmare?
No, let's be honest, most the reason people use Windows is simply because it's just that easier than the alternatives.
The reason most people use Windows is because it comes preinstalled on their PC. If Linux was preinstalled they'd be using that instead and Microsoft would be trying to convince people that Windows is much better.
if it's a system error, you can always look in the system log.
Because 'the fubar service failed to start' is so useful when you're trying to figure out why your system isn't working. Particularly when the service control panel claims that it's running.
BTW, the new Slashdot interface is definitely 'torturing users'. How can they keep screwing it up more and more with every update?
Then you must be doing it wrong. I have all my most used programs on the Taskbar, and when I need to open a program, I press the windows key, type a simple keyword and hit enter and I'm ready to roll.
I just love the 1980s nostalgia easter eggs that Microsoft has hidden in Windows 7. Like having to remember program names and type them in order to start them. It brings back such fond memories of DOS and pre-GUI Unix.
Alternatively maybe they've replaced all the old programmers who remember what a pain in the ass that was with new ones who think 'wow, dude, I could add an option to, you know, type the name of a program to start it! Then you wouldn't have to hunt through this huge list of crap to find it because we screwed with the menus to make finding programs easier!'
Common users switch of UAC, clearing the path for virusses.
Yeah, because there's no way they'd just click 'Yes' when Windows puts up a box saying 'Do you want to allow KittyKatScreenSaver.exe to: Do shit you don't understand?'
UAC isn't even a bandaid on Windows security, because the average user has no way to know whether a program should be allowed to do what it's trying to do because Windows gives nowhere near enough information to make that decision.
Then again, it's a fresh install without any vendor-supplied crapware on it. Maybe that explains it.
I had to replace the hard drive in my laptop recently. Windows 7 couldn't even install properly from the 'recovery disks', I had to manually download drivers from the manufacturer's web site and disable some of the vendor-supplied crap in order to get it to work.
Oh, and it took three hours. Twice, because the first time it installed and didn't work I thought maybe something had gone wrong that time due to a timing issue so I'd better do it again.
Plus the two hours required to find out that it was telling me that it couldn't load perfectly good signed driver files, claiming they were unsigned, not because they were unsigned but because some cryptography service wasn't running because some Intel add-on crap was screwing up disk accesses.
Reinstalling Linux took about half an hour and just worked.
It truly is a POS OS built upon a foundation of legacy crap.
Indeed. Microsoft's solution to 'DLL Hell' is to keep a copy of every possible version of every DLL, no matter how broken or insecure it may be... and if the winsxs tree gets screwed up somehow there's no way to fix it.
Ultimately the number of workarounds required to keep crappy old software running exceeds the comprehension ability of the human mind and then the whole thing collapses into a steaming heap of crap.
Communicating with other intelligent animals on Earth is something we should be doing.
First you need to find some intelligent animals that have a concept of communication and something interesting to say. I'm far from convinced that dolphins will ever say much more than 'Mmm, fish. Tasty fish.'
Hydrogen is NOT green - not until they find a "green" way to produce it. It is NOT an energy SOURCE (like fossil fuels, and nuclear), it is an energy CONVEYOR.
You seem to be under the impression that 'Green' is something other than a marketing label.
It costs them more to generate electricity during peak periods (because they save the most expensive power generation for when they really need it), so why shouldn't they charge more when it costs them more?
What incentive do they have to build more power stations to support peak demands, if they can just charge more and know that there's no real competition?
Arguing that they shouldn't collect that data, I think, is a bit silly, especially because it helps companies focus on what products to make or how to better tailor their resources to fit consumer needs.
Or, if they're the power company, it lets them screw their customers by charging more for power while not building more power stations and knowing customers have little or no other option unless they want to disconnect from the grid.
You do realize that the publisher actually provides services, right? Are you going to employ your own editors and copyeditors? They don't work for free.
They also won't demand that you give them 75% of all your royalties forever.
Now, this filtering doesn't have to be done by a publisher - one could easily imagine some kind of crowdsourced approach that would work, but there isn't one.
Um, it's call 'word of mouth' and is one of the largest drivers for book sales (possibly the largest).
Distribution or printing costs are not the big factor. It's the marketing costs, salaries of everyone involved in the production, royalties to the author, etc. These costs don't just magically go away just because you publish a digital version of something.
From what published authors have told me, editing has largely been farmed out to agents, marketing and proofreading has largely been farmed out to the authors themselves, and of the 70% royalties publishers receive for selling an ebook they give around 15% to the writer. If they sell 10,000 ebooks for $10 each, they take over $50k while the writer gets less than $20k.
I think $50k is enough to pay for reformatting a word document into an ebook, checking for typos, sending out some review copies and putting a pretty cover image on the front, don't you?
I don't believe when one of the parent is was talking about Apple's 80% of the tablet market they were talking about Windows.
The part that said "no one thinks its a bad for a start up company with limited resources to put all its eggs in the Microsoft Windows basket" might have been a hint.
Actually, mine may be there by now; I haven't looked.
Why don't I self publish on my own website. That way by your logic I will get 100% of the profit.
Indeed. Of course unless your name is Stephen King or some other huge bestseller no-one is likely to go to your website to buy a book, whereas they may well find it if it's on big stores like Amazon and Apple's.
I just wonder, how long do you folks that think unbridled capitalism will last?
If only we had 'unbridled capitalism'....
Marx predicted that Capitalism can't last because it will basically keep eating it's young, with the wealth and power continually becoming concentrated among so few that eventually the populace would revolt.
If walmart doesn't want to sell yeast, they don't prevent me from buying yeast from a third party.
They prevent you from buying third party yeast _IN WALMART_.
You're still free to buy this app, then buy ebooks and load them into the app. Of course ebook readers are pretty much identical, so there's really no market for selling one.
Actually, even before eBooks, it cost so little to print a book that it was hardly an issue of cost. It costs pennies to print a book.
I'd be interested to see some figures for that. The numbers I've seen are more like $1-2 for a paperback and quite a few dollars for hardback.
The price you pay for books, even now, goes to other things (cover artist, author, publisher, marketers, etc). Going digital really doesn't save publishers any significant amount of money.
Except they've already paid that for the print version so there's very little extra cost for an ebook version and they get to take home over 50% of the cover price while giving 15% to the person who actually wrote it. Ebooks are a gold mine for publishers at the moment.
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We manage almost a thousand desktops and forty servers. I'd be leery of switching any of our users to Chrome because of the loss of top down control. Active Directory for logins, etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Chrome intended to only let you run web apps? If so, that's your 'top down management' right there.... the machine should contain little more than a web browser so there's really nothing much to 'manage'.
If you think that government-run schools want to produce people who are capable of critical thinking, then you're probably a product of the government-run school system.
You'd think that one of the largest and most talented software development companies based in a region of earth with some of the best, brightest and most educated software engineers with access to the best tools of the trade in the solar system could get such a minor piece of code right...
If you'd used Adobe Premiere prior to the total rewrite they did a few years ago you wouldn't be surprised that Flash is an insecure pile of poo.
Security problems exist everywhere. If you're too naive to assume that you don't need some sort of active filtering/scanning on your Linux PC, you're wrong.
So given that no Linux PC I'm aware of has an antivirus unless it's scanning shared folders to remove malware and viruses that Windows users upload there, we're all naive and Linux is a security nightmare?
Yeah, that makes sense.
Do you really not know that everything on Windows has an ACL?
Which is another way Windows tortures users when some program fscks up the AC and random things stop working for inexplicable reasons.
No, let's be honest, most the reason people use Windows is simply because it's just that easier than the alternatives.
The reason most people use Windows is because it comes preinstalled on their PC. If Linux was preinstalled they'd be using that instead and Microsoft would be trying to convince people that Windows is much better.
if it's a system error, you can always look in the system log.
Because 'the fubar service failed to start' is so useful when you're trying to figure out why your system isn't working. Particularly when the service control panel claims that it's running.
BTW, the new Slashdot interface is definitely 'torturing users'. How can they keep screwing it up more and more with every update?
Then you must be doing it wrong. I have all my most used programs on the Taskbar, and when I need to open a program, I press the windows key, type a simple keyword and hit enter and I'm ready to roll.
I just love the 1980s nostalgia easter eggs that Microsoft has hidden in Windows 7. Like having to remember program names and type them in order to start them. It brings back such fond memories of DOS and pre-GUI Unix.
Alternatively maybe they've replaced all the old programmers who remember what a pain in the ass that was with new ones who think 'wow, dude, I could add an option to, you know, type the name of a program to start it! Then you wouldn't have to hunt through this huge list of crap to find it because we screwed with the menus to make finding programs easier!'
Common users switch of UAC, clearing the path for virusses.
Yeah, because there's no way they'd just click 'Yes' when Windows puts up a box saying 'Do you want to allow KittyKatScreenSaver.exe to: Do shit you don't understand?'
UAC isn't even a bandaid on Windows security, because the average user has no way to know whether a program should be allowed to do what it's trying to do because Windows gives nowhere near enough information to make that decision.
Then again, it's a fresh install without any vendor-supplied crapware on it. Maybe that explains it.
I had to replace the hard drive in my laptop recently. Windows 7 couldn't even install properly from the 'recovery disks', I had to manually download drivers from the manufacturer's web site and disable some of the vendor-supplied crap in order to get it to work.
Oh, and it took three hours. Twice, because the first time it installed and didn't work I thought maybe something had gone wrong that time due to a timing issue so I'd better do it again.
Plus the two hours required to find out that it was telling me that it couldn't load perfectly good signed driver files, claiming they were unsigned, not because they were unsigned but because some cryptography service wasn't running because some Intel add-on crap was screwing up disk accesses.
Reinstalling Linux took about half an hour and just worked.
It truly is a POS OS built upon a foundation of legacy crap.
Indeed. Microsoft's solution to 'DLL Hell' is to keep a copy of every possible version of every DLL, no matter how broken or insecure it may be... and if the winsxs tree gets screwed up somehow there's no way to fix it.
Ultimately the number of workarounds required to keep crappy old software running exceeds the comprehension ability of the human mind and then the whole thing collapses into a steaming heap of crap.
Communicating with other intelligent animals on Earth is something we should be doing.
First you need to find some intelligent animals that have a concept of communication and something interesting to say. I'm far from convinced that dolphins will ever say much more than 'Mmm, fish. Tasty fish.'
Weren't those exploding reactor buildings in Japan the result of hydrogen buildup?
Hydrogen is NOT green - not until they find a "green" way to produce it. It is NOT an energy SOURCE (like fossil fuels, and nuclear), it is an energy CONVEYOR.
You seem to be under the impression that 'Green' is something other than a marketing label.
But it's ATOMIC!
It costs them more to generate electricity during peak periods (because they save the most expensive power generation for when they really need it), so why shouldn't they charge more when it costs them more?
What incentive do they have to build more power stations to support peak demands, if they can just charge more and know that there's no real competition?
Arguing that they shouldn't collect that data, I think, is a bit silly, especially because it helps companies focus on what products to make or how to better tailor their resources to fit consumer needs.
Or, if they're the power company, it lets them screw their customers by charging more for power while not building more power stations and knowing customers have little or no other option unless they want to disconnect from the grid.
You do realize that the publisher actually provides services, right? Are you going to employ your own editors and copyeditors? They don't work for free.
They also won't demand that you give them 75% of all your royalties forever.
Now, this filtering doesn't have to be done by a publisher - one could easily imagine some kind of crowdsourced approach that would work, but there isn't one.
Um, it's call 'word of mouth' and is one of the largest drivers for book sales (possibly the largest).
Distribution or printing costs are not the big factor. It's the marketing costs, salaries of everyone involved in the production, royalties to the author, etc. These costs don't just magically go away just because you publish a digital version of something.
From what published authors have told me, editing has largely been farmed out to agents, marketing and proofreading has largely been farmed out to the authors themselves, and of the 70% royalties publishers receive for selling an ebook they give around 15% to the writer. If they sell 10,000 ebooks for $10 each, they take over $50k while the writer gets less than $20k.
I think $50k is enough to pay for reformatting a word document into an ebook, checking for typos, sending out some review copies and putting a pretty cover image on the front, don't you?
I don't believe when one of the parent is was talking about Apple's 80% of the tablet market they were talking about Windows.
The part that said "no one thinks its a bad for a start up company with limited resources to put all its eggs in the Microsoft Windows basket" might have been a hint.
Have you self published a book on apple?
Actually, mine may be there by now; I haven't looked.
Why don't I self publish on my own website. That way by your logic I will get 100% of the profit.
Indeed. Of course unless your name is Stephen King or some other huge bestseller no-one is likely to go to your website to buy a book, whereas they may well find it if it's on big stores like Amazon and Apple's.
Supplier of the goods deserves to get the cut.
But Apple only takes 30% of the price of an ebook. A trade publisher typically takes over 50%, and gives less than 20% to the writer.
So everyone in the chain other than the writer makes more than the writer does.
I just wonder, how long do you folks that think unbridled capitalism will last?
If only we had 'unbridled capitalism'....
Marx predicted that Capitalism can't last because it will basically keep eating it's young, with the wealth and power continually becoming concentrated among so few that eventually the populace would revolt.
Marx thought communism would work. LOL.
If walmart doesn't want to sell yeast, they don't prevent me from buying yeast from a third party.
They prevent you from buying third party yeast _IN WALMART_.
You're still free to buy this app, then buy ebooks and load them into the app. Of course ebook readers are pretty much identical, so there's really no market for selling one.
Actually, even before eBooks, it cost so little to print a book that it was hardly an issue of cost. It costs pennies to print a book.
I'd be interested to see some figures for that. The numbers I've seen are more like $1-2 for a paperback and quite a few dollars for hardback.
The price you pay for books, even now, goes to other things (cover artist, author, publisher, marketers, etc). Going digital really doesn't save publishers any significant amount of money.
Except they've already paid that for the print version so there's very little extra cost for an ebook version and they get to take home over 50% of the cover price while giving 15% to the person who actually wrote it. Ebooks are a gold mine for publishers at the moment.