And, pray tell, in what way is the remark either slanderous or libelous? Or should Jimmy sue him because he's too much of a wimp to just simply beat the snot out of him?
Apple designed and built a system (remember, there was a hardware component to Apple's GUI - the Toolbox ROM).
Good point. Apple runs on proprietary hardware. By comaprison, gluing puctures onto DOS and making run on every POS IBM-compatible was just a walk in the park, right?
The numbers of Macs involved in secure and classified work in the Federal government have been exploding
Exploding? Do you have a citation somewhere?
Remember a huge percentage increase off a small installed base is still a small installed base. i.e., if you atart with 1 computer, a 10000% increase is adding 100 machines.
What a great company. Too bad they were late with both the R6000 and the R4000 processors, back-to-back. That pretty much killed them, or drove them into SGI's arms (same thing). Don't know much about v2, but v1 was a damn fine place to work. The buildings on Arques in Sunnyvale also went on to house Crescendo (remember CDDI?), Cisco's first acquisition, and Mosaic/Netscape in it's early time.
The Google desktop program includes an update feature that permits the company to automatically install new versions of the program on users' computers without user intervention or knowledge.
Many will not like this concept, but I am happy to learn, I don't have to uninstall, re-install, and re-index to ensure I have it fixed.
Goodness has nothing to do with it. MS Office is a de facto standard, whether one likes it or not. If one wants to interoperate with the majority of the civilized world, OO has to act like MS Office.
Further, if one ever hopes to convert the great, unwashed masses from MS to OS, they will expect to have an office automation suite that acts just like it did on their Windows box.
A look at the new features page doesn't mention it. This is my major criticism of OO. It's frustratingly slow to open documents. With email attachments, it's a major PITA. I'll stick with abiword and gnumeric.
More significantly, H1-B workers, as legal immigrants to the U.S., have the dubious privilege of paying the same taxes as other Americans (and more than most), with a far smaller chance of reaping their benefits. Most are single, and send no children to the U.S. schools they help underwrite, and most will never collect on the Social Security system or medical-care systems their payroll taxes help prop up.
Hogwash!
Did they help pay for the existing infrastructure that they get to take advantage of?
Perhaps you should read some of my other postings before calling referring to me as commie/socialist. Apple could have worked something out with Real in a way that did not affect the customer, if they so chose.
If this were the leader in another segment blocking out their competitors's access, folks would be screaming bloody murder. When Apple does it it's fine, when Microsoft does, it's heinous. You can't have it both ways, much as you'd like to.
No, I'm snarky because their CIO said, "we don't use competitors products". I don't recall Intuit's CIO making a similar claim and my coffee shop on the corner fired their CIO when the dot-com bubble burst, so I can't ask them.
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And, pray tell, in what way is the remark either slanderous or libelous? Or should Jimmy sue him because he's too much of a wimp to just simply beat the snot out of him?
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and your statement makes it a fact? Citations?
I guess that would explain their near ubiquity.
Good point. Apple runs on proprietary hardware. By comaprison, gluing puctures onto DOS and making run on every POS IBM-compatible was just a walk in the park, right?
Exploding? Do you have a citation somewhere?
Remember a huge percentage increase off a small installed base is still a small installed base. i.e., if you atart with 1 computer, a 10000% increase is adding 100 machines.
Yeah, you'd just have to worry about barrel stabilization and beam diffusion due to particulate matter in the air. But hey, why bother with details?
What a great company. Too bad they were late with both the R6000 and the R4000 processors, back-to-back. That pretty much killed them, or drove them into SGI's arms (same thing). Don't know much about v2, but v1 was a damn fine place to work. The buildings on Arques in Sunnyvale also went on to house Crescendo (remember CDDI?), Cisco's first acquisition, and Mosaic/Netscape in it's early time.
without my knowledge? Sounds like it from a discussion above.
From then they did the trial right before SBC bought them. Too bad they discontinued it. It was way better than AT&T (now Comcast)
So, as opposed to asking somebody at the desk, I spend $50 and figure it our for myself? I guess some people have more free time than I do.
What's the advantage over running a wireless detection app on my laptop or PDA? Why spend $50 on something when I already have a tool that works?
Many will not like this concept, but I am happy to learn, I don't have to uninstall, re-install, and re-index to ensure I have it fixed.
My complaint was geared more to my Linux machine. My Wintel machine already has Office 2k3 installed.
Further, if one ever hopes to convert the great, unwashed masses from MS to OS, they will expect to have an office automation suite that acts just like it did on their Windows box.
A look at the new features page doesn't mention it. This is my major criticism of OO. It's frustratingly slow to open documents. With email attachments, it's a major PITA. I'll stick with abiword and gnumeric.
Other than that, I can't think of anything offhand that it does better/easier than Photoshop.
He owns his shares outright.
More significantly, H1-B workers, as legal immigrants to the U.S., have the dubious privilege of paying the same taxes as other Americans (and more than most), with a far smaller chance of reaping their benefits. Most are single, and send no children to the U.S. schools they help underwrite, and most will never collect on the Social Security system or medical-care systems their payroll taxes help prop up. Hogwash! Did they help pay for the existing infrastructure that they get to take advantage of?
albeit differently. Good synergy here and probably more market consolidation in this space to follow
If this were the leader in another segment blocking out their competitors's access, folks would be screaming bloody murder. When Apple does it it's fine, when Microsoft does, it's heinous. You can't have it both ways, much as you'd like to.
After all, you already have their money, why would you care about giving them choices?
No, I'm snarky because their CIO said, "we don't use competitors products". I don't recall Intuit's CIO making a similar claim and my coffee shop on the corner fired their CIO when the dot-com bubble burst, so I can't ask them.
100% Microsoft my foot.
Windows XP is an operating system. The 2.6 kernel is a kernel. A more fair comparison would be the RHEL or Suse distro versus XP.