As a fellow recent switcher, I have to agree. After almost 10 years of doing Wintel support professionally I decided my personal computing could use a change. Plus I get a chance to brush up on Unix and see what intuitive software feels like.
Switch, you bastiches, switch, you won't regret it.
abundantly clear to me after reading this thread, there are a lot of college kids with no real life experience frequenting these boards, and a lot of people with abudnant cash because they live in mom's basement.
Employers should not be allowed to check your credit, nor deny you a job based on a preference to keep that information private. Employers already have too much control of our lives, we should draw the line somewhere.
Star Trek anything gets made is indicative of why Sci-Fi blows so much now. Way to many sequels and franchises have just sucked the creativity out of the genre. It was nice to see LOTR done properly and The Matrix sequels may be promising, but I am truly tired of all the "properties" that the major studios keep milking. Thanks George Lucas, for perfecting the marketing and trending that has sucked the life from the genre.
The average consumer doesn't actually do his market research...he asks the sales person in the store, and thus buys something way overpriced/over-spec'd for what he wants.
This explains why my dad has a Dual PIV Xeon running 2 terrabytes of storage and Windows 2003 beta for his new desktop. Damn BestBuy sales drones.
and AMD can't reignite the market with faster CPUs that won't require special software and revamped OSs to take advantage of their features, what makes either company think this will work either?
I smell another marketing blitz leading to slow coroporate and consumer adoption. I can't wait until someone does a serious study of hardware and OSs still in use in like 2008? How many PII w/Win 9x will still be around? I'll bet far more than the industry will like.
really turned me off, sold most of my collection on eBay, keeping only about 25 really essential films. This repackaged version of The Matrix won't lure me in, and frankly, as long as I get anamorphic transfers of full theatrical cuts, I could care less about all the extras. Outside of something really amazing like the additional footage they are tacking back into the LOTR films, they can keep thier multiple versions of every release. Way to cannabalize your own market and dump on your customers. Oh wait, I forgot we are dealing witha **AA group, that explains it.
What fucking rock does someone live under that they havent' seen AOL, you useless puddle of fuckmustard? I thought he was the most clueless fuckstick on this board, but you just took the title assmaster.
what a useless post, thanks for giving an opinion when you start your argument with "I have never seen nor have any f'ing clue what we are talking about".
the RIAA is against individuals downloading music via the Internet. How long before these industries either up and die or realize the customer is always right? I'm hoping for up and die, then maybe we can avoid any more "Charlie's Angels" sequels and Drew Barrymore can be relegated to her rightful role in budget porn.
No doubt your point about USB is right on, and I'm sure if we thought about it we could find others. I'm not bemoaning all advances, maybe more the way we went about getting there.
Although I remember being absolutely in love with my paralell port Zip 100 that was daisy chained through me Epson Stylus=)
Cool, it's not just me. I agree, I'm not an Apple fan, but I am impressed with the latest OS stuff and the design of their desktops is just beautiful. Let's hope things keep spinning this direction.
and I'm sure it is, but has the past 5-8 years of massively faster development slowly sucked the joy out of computing. The mega-corporations and scumbags like Rambus who deal in little white lies and gray areas are making this a joyless industry and hobby.
Maybe if we would have slowed the pace, not tried to jump start the PC industry with clock speed wars and bus bandwidth statistics, and as an industry concentrated on elegant solutions, innovative design and bringing something truly new to the consumer the market for PCs and software would not have stagnated so brutally? It's more than obvious that the current approach failed.
The massive interest in the first wave of iMacs proves that consumers are hungry for something new, but marketing clockspeed and Apple's insane need to keep prices high killed that movement. Maybe a glimmer of hope from Small Form Factor or Mini-ITX (which I sit and type from at the moment)?
What the hell does this have to do with Rambus? Rambus is part of the brute force/clockspeed eccentric computing industry. They have zero interest in the customer or industry partners, just in money (I know, I'm a capitalist pig at heart too, but there's more to it then that). When their product doesn't sell, they sue their partners, partners gained under false pretense.
So would the industry be better off if we were just getting to 2gHz? If DDR was just taking off in the market place? If Microsoft concentrated on fixing Windows 95 instead of pushing out incremental upgrades every 18-24 months? Would processor upgrades feel really substantial if the architecture were more elegant and devs more concious of performance? If Linux devs stopped trying to emulate the Windows desktop and feature creep and tried to break away from the desktop metaphor? Would it be a better industry (and would the consumer still be interested) if Apple had 30% market share and users really had alternatives?
Yes, the market would be more fragmented and support would be more challenging. Yes, 3gHz is cool, but who needs it? Yes, XP is better than 95, but could we have gotten there in 2 upgrades instead of 5, and caught the security holes along the way. How cool would the Linux desktop be if KDE was built from the ground up not to be like Windows (flame retardent boxers activate!)?
We would certainly have fewer 800lb gorillas, and a more interesting landscape. I think so...
You are correct, we use a third party payroll system on a SQL 2000 server. Every patch so far has broken some part of the payroll system, and those same execs screaming for security scream even louder when paychecks don't get cut.
I have come to dread every MS patch with a certain sense of dread. At least on the desktop you can build an image and test it with no real risk, but on production servers it's a total gamble, and I'm tired of bettig my ass (and personal life, and sleep, and job title) on Microsoft. Our SQL box is behind a firewall and no other SQL (developer or otherwise) runs in house, so I took a pass on this patch until the guys that code the payroll system have approved it. That might sound great until you know they are 3 guys who support 5 products (with multiple versions) and it takes them months to test anything.
I'm quite glad MS gets bit by their own bugs, now that's good karma.
Microsoft for keeping us on an upgrade treadmill? The last couple years of constant new distros have been a pain in the ass, frankly I was having a fine time with Red Hat 6.2, and 7.1 was equally pleasant. That alone has pushed Linux to my spare box. It was one thing to have to recompile the kernel every few months, a slightly more painful thing to have to track down all the stuff for a Gnome or KDE upgrade once a year, but one year support cycles are a bit much.
I can install any version of Windows, go through the Windows Update process, install Mozilla and be solid for a couple years, barring the regularly scheduled mad dash for security patches. Granted I can do the same thing with virtually any desktop platform and any Linux distro, but those other OS aren't trying to grow a user base to topple the evil empire. I don't really think Red Hat is trying to pull anything evil, just searching for a business model. But this is not the way.
Yes, I have to say I am a lot more concerned with IBM trying to co-opt Linux than I am Red Hat. Let's face it, IBM is a hardware company, and as soon as they bump up against something they don't like in the GPL we may see some behavior that will overshadow a lot of MS recent overtures.
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As a fellow recent switcher, I have to agree. After almost 10 years of doing Wintel support professionally I decided my personal computing could use a change. Plus I get a chance to brush up on Unix and see what intuitive software feels like. Switch, you bastiches, switch, you won't regret it.
abundantly clear to me after reading this thread, there are a lot of college kids with no real life experience frequenting these boards, and a lot of people with abudnant cash because they live in mom's basement. Employers should not be allowed to check your credit, nor deny you a job based on a preference to keep that information private. Employers already have too much control of our lives, we should draw the line somewhere.
and once again, Microsoft gives me a reason to hate them. Sorry, nothing more constructive.
Star Trek anything gets made is indicative of why Sci-Fi blows so much now. Way to many sequels and franchises have just sucked the creativity out of the genre. It was nice to see LOTR done properly and The Matrix sequels may be promising, but I am truly tired of all the "properties" that the major studios keep milking. Thanks George Lucas, for perfecting the marketing and trending that has sucked the life from the genre.
We can always crack on Red Hat for trying to make money=)
and AMD can't reignite the market with faster CPUs that won't require special software and revamped OSs to take advantage of their features, what makes either company think this will work either?
I smell another marketing blitz leading to slow coroporate and consumer adoption. I can't wait until someone does a serious study of hardware and OSs still in use in like 2008? How many PII w/Win 9x will still be around? I'll bet far more than the industry will like.
really turned me off, sold most of my collection on eBay, keeping only about 25 really essential films. This repackaged version of The Matrix won't lure me in, and frankly, as long as I get anamorphic transfers of full theatrical cuts, I could care less about all the extras. Outside of something really amazing like the additional footage they are tacking back into the LOTR films, they can keep thier multiple versions of every release. Way to cannabalize your own market and dump on your customers. Oh wait, I forgot we are dealing witha **AA group, that explains it.
What fucking rock does someone live under that they havent' seen AOL, you useless puddle of fuckmustard? I thought he was the most clueless fuckstick on this board, but you just took the title assmaster.
what a useless post, thanks for giving an opinion when you start your argument with "I have never seen nor have any f'ing clue what we are talking about".
the RIAA is against individuals downloading music via the Internet. How long before these industries either up and die or realize the customer is always right? I'm hoping for up and die, then maybe we can avoid any more "Charlie's Angels" sequels and Drew Barrymore can be relegated to her rightful role in budget porn.
Although I remember being absolutely in love with my paralell port Zip 100 that was daisy chained through me Epson Stylus=)
Cool, it's not just me. I agree, I'm not an Apple fan, but I am impressed with the latest OS stuff and the design of their desktops is just beautiful. Let's hope things keep spinning this direction.
Maybe if we would have slowed the pace, not tried to jump start the PC industry with clock speed wars and bus bandwidth statistics, and as an industry concentrated on elegant solutions, innovative design and bringing something truly new to the consumer the market for PCs and software would not have stagnated so brutally? It's more than obvious that the current approach failed.
The massive interest in the first wave of iMacs proves that consumers are hungry for something new, but marketing clockspeed and Apple's insane need to keep prices high killed that movement. Maybe a glimmer of hope from Small Form Factor or Mini-ITX (which I sit and type from at the moment)?
What the hell does this have to do with Rambus? Rambus is part of the brute force/clockspeed eccentric computing industry. They have zero interest in the customer or industry partners, just in money (I know, I'm a capitalist pig at heart too, but there's more to it then that). When their product doesn't sell, they sue their partners, partners gained under false pretense.
So would the industry be better off if we were just getting to 2gHz? If DDR was just taking off in the market place? If Microsoft concentrated on fixing Windows 95 instead of pushing out incremental upgrades every 18-24 months? Would processor upgrades feel really substantial if the architecture were more elegant and devs more concious of performance? If Linux devs stopped trying to emulate the Windows desktop and feature creep and tried to break away from the desktop metaphor? Would it be a better industry (and would the consumer still be interested) if Apple had 30% market share and users really had alternatives?
Yes, the market would be more fragmented and support would be more challenging. Yes, 3gHz is cool, but who needs it? Yes, XP is better than 95, but could we have gotten there in 2 upgrades instead of 5, and caught the security holes along the way. How cool would the Linux desktop be if KDE was built from the ground up not to be like Windows (flame retardent boxers activate!)?
We would certainly have fewer 800lb gorillas, and a more interesting landscape. I think so...
You are correct, we use a third party payroll system on a SQL 2000 server. Every patch so far has broken some part of the payroll system, and those same execs screaming for security scream even louder when paychecks don't get cut.
I have come to dread every MS patch with a certain sense of dread. At least on the desktop you can build an image and test it with no real risk, but on production servers it's a total gamble, and I'm tired of bettig my ass (and personal life, and sleep, and job title) on Microsoft. Our SQL box is behind a firewall and no other SQL (developer or otherwise) runs in house, so I took a pass on this patch until the guys that code the payroll system have approved it. That might sound great until you know they are 3 guys who support 5 products (with multiple versions) and it takes them months to test anything.
I'm quite glad MS gets bit by their own bugs, now that's good karma.
Microsoft for keeping us on an upgrade treadmill? The last couple years of constant new distros have been a pain in the ass, frankly I was having a fine time with Red Hat 6.2, and 7.1 was equally pleasant. That alone has pushed Linux to my spare box. It was one thing to have to recompile the kernel every few months, a slightly more painful thing to have to track down all the stuff for a Gnome or KDE upgrade once a year, but one year support cycles are a bit much. I can install any version of Windows, go through the Windows Update process, install Mozilla and be solid for a couple years, barring the regularly scheduled mad dash for security patches. Granted I can do the same thing with virtually any desktop platform and any Linux distro, but those other OS aren't trying to grow a user base to topple the evil empire. I don't really think Red Hat is trying to pull anything evil, just searching for a business model. But this is not the way.
Yes, I have to say I am a lot more concerned with IBM trying to co-opt Linux than I am Red Hat. Let's face it, IBM is a hardware company, and as soon as they bump up against something they don't like in the GPL we may see some behavior that will overshadow a lot of MS recent overtures.