Too bad you are anonymous. If there is one thing that Windows is poor at, its, well, windowing. No Tabs in the File Manager, No split view? No out of box ability to greenbar in the filemanager? It is the LEAST productive workflow environment I have ever used.
I really dislike Microsoft, I have no need for windows anything, but I dislike MPEGLA even more. As far as I am concerned, its good news that they will no longer be recieving license fees automatically from Microsoft.
The cost? The fricken cost? WTF are they smoking? Linux only costs on the desktop for business if you follow the windows paradigm. Throw it out the window. Linux is perfect for business on the desktop. Get rid of all employee computers, replace with 3d accelerated thin clients (or re-use the desktop machines as the thin clients). Centralize applications, centralize document management.
This is the IT dream: Users cant install applications, they must focus on their work. Software only gets installed in one location. The actual hardware lasts a long time, and there are no licenses to track. All documents and emails are centrally stored, and with a modified workflow they all are tagged with metadata with the users name, edit history and date.
This is a no brainer, but IT in most places are a bunch of microsoft drones that cant get oout of the rut that Microsoft has trained them to stay in. Be inventive, use the current tools, think thin and simple.
Dont forget it can go both ways. I have a laptop that has the wireless crippled, there is no driver for WPA. But on linux, since it followed the hardware spec of the intel board, it does do WPA. Or the fact that my windows boxes choke on these massive printer drivers, while cups works perfectly. Go figure.
Sucks you are anonymous, you could learn something here.
This is the mindset that needs to die. You dont get it. Most businesses arent in the business of making software. The GPL makes complete sense, you want to enhance a software package, and contribute back to the community, of which you know will also contribute back making everyone have better software so you can get on with YOUR BUSINESS. Think of it as a global software pool that just gets better.
Dont think that can work? Here is a case study for you from real life: Business needs to get its information out to a website, the content is important, Apache, Postgres are simply tools. They pay 50,000 a year for support to a vendor. The vendor provides patches and fixes. At the end of the year, if they have support hours left over, they add "nice to haves", which enhances Apache and Postgres for everyone. There are businesses doing this today, right now, and they are more productive and have better support. Why? Because there is no lock in, they could choose a different support team next year if they weren't satisfied, and the enhancements and bugfixes are coming from everywhere on the planet.
In my work, the number of features of an application I use regularly has increased exponentially, because different business interests are paying to enhance the suite, something we couldn't afford individually.
And if they are willing to extradite for acting like google, I see no reason why a person wont get extradited for this either. Except, of course, that some game I have never heard of is not nearly as interesting as media copyright.
It amazes me how few public employees actually know these sites exist. When I am consulting I find that the public sector is so f-ing brain dead when it comes to partnering and saving money that it hurts.
Just like all the "vendor" awards people are always going on about at my work. Stupidist. Thing. Ever. "Look I managed to use your software to do what it said I could do!"
Every year a company comes drops down a freedom of information act for a particular piece of software in our state. They take it and go out and make money with it. Every year I argue that we should just put it out on the Internet so we can save the freedom of information act request time and money. Whats wrong with giving back the tax dollars in research to help put someone (and their employees) to work?
I agree with you completely. People who actually like sharepoint are the ones I always ask: compared to what? What do you use it for? They have no idea that it really is a crapfest of things that others have figured out how to do better elsewhere....and usually for free.
Office would sell that many copies if they removed the user interface and replaced it with random bouncing icons. With lock-in nothing really matters, no metric of usability counts.
Yes, LibreOffice is the king here, but I at least Caligre is trying new things. Look at the sidebars in the spreadsheet program. This is an interesting placement for extra functions, and there are quite a lot of them. This is an alternative to menu's and ribbons, that is a different (no judgement on better or worse yet) approach, and is consistent throughout the application suite. I have to hand it to them for using the power of QT and will want to see how that works for me.
I want to add that I feel very fortunate that I have 3 free options for working with spreadsheets. I have found ideas and features not available in the others that do come in handy working with data that people provide in Excel format. I have worked around Excel numeric bugs, performed sheet counts, auto renaming sheets, provided quick data entry forms for example.
Well W3c defines speech input here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2011Feb/att-0020/api-draft.html and Webkit provides support. Voice controlled video players are already out there using HTML5. I have seen a facial recognition demo in HTML5 that uses a local computer webcam. I would much rather support Chrome or Firefox as a browser then Flash as a plugin. I wouldnt bother targeting IE anything, all the browsers microsoft makes are shit. Getting the boneheads who would use Microsoft at an enterprise level convinced of this is going to be hard, I agree. But if they are on XP and IE they dont give a rats ass about security anyway.
I have no idea why you are always on the tirade against FOSS software. My guess is that you are a clueless troll. I have noticed you dont seem to understand or be able to use Linux while my customers keep wanting Linux on their desktop because Windows keeps breaking.
Ubuntu (due to the sites you are linking) is not my favorite either, and I say so what? There are choices. Ubuntu is not the gold standard.
But more to your point, we have rode it out before, MPEGLA can slap around law suits and bitch and moan all they like, in fact, I would think bring it on. This is no surprise to the Linux community, we know they are going to play unfair. What you should be focusing on is how this will affect you. Microsoft pay your license? Sure today, but for how long?
Using Microsoft and Apple is like being a cheerleader for a team, learning Linux is knowing how to play the game.
Except you cant control the windows ecosystem. You cant modify or make better the software you use. I have consulted for groups that spend an equal amount of time talking about licensing and working around the vendors forced upgrades as they do getting work done. Contributing to open source is exactly what they need to do, the point being that my 10 hours of time to add a feature that everyone in the world can use is easily offset by the millions of hours others have already put in. Case in point, we coded a connector to a file type for a specific application. That code was accepted back into the the much larger then us project and now hundreds of people are using it in their work
Do you allow access to 'secret' data? Nothing anyone can do be logging into our environment would cause that. If that was the case, then just giving them a computer would cause that. Virus? How is an app that I make going to deliver a virus? These are thin client delivered applications, these are methods that keeps my network traffic separate from yours.
I take it you are in a windows environment. Shifting your way of thinking is the first step.
Or what if you let the employees work on any machine they want as long as the workflow is the same? I was impressed by the effort taken to allow users to bring iPads to work and use them if thats what they want. The trick is you dont let them choose their workflow or applications, you deliver those.
Every time I read Dave Richards blog I am at first astounded at how much they get done with so little money, and then ashamed that I call myself an IT professional. http://davelargo.blogspot.com/
What people in business, and government are beginning to realize is that software is not a scarce commodity.You cant use it up, but you can add to it.Once they realize that their business is not IT, its, well, doing business, contributing code doesn't make their competition any better, but just improves everyone equally.Additionally, with open software, all the dialogs and desktop items can be customized to suit your particular workflow. Linux + Open Applications + open standards are an awesome combination.
Microsoft always makes shit. Thats just the way they do things. And just when you think it wont be shit, its shit all over again. The have the license model agenda: They make stuff, you have the privlidege to use it until they are bored with that, and then you get something else. And if it breaks, thats okay it was never really yours, just buy it again. And in the end where are you going to go? They got the time and money to whittle down the competition to where you just wont have a choice, so hop on the bandwagon and get a plate o' shit today.
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Thank you for that. I use Linux, I buy the bundles. I will pay for Linux gaming. Thank you again.
And Adskip is now available to Hulu too if you look around for it. Sure there is a subtle time shift and a bit of lag, but it works.
They put ads in, people take them back out, no matter what the delivery method is.
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Too bad you are anonymous. If there is one thing that Windows is poor at, its, well, windowing. No Tabs in the File Manager, No split view? No out of box ability to greenbar in the filemanager? It is the LEAST productive workflow environment I have ever used.
I really dislike Microsoft, I have no need for windows anything, but I dislike MPEGLA even more. As far as I am concerned, its good news that they will no longer be recieving license fees automatically from Microsoft.
I dont know about that, buit I do wonder why Toms Hardware wont let Archive.org's wayback machine show their old pages.....
The cost? The fricken cost? WTF are they smoking? Linux only costs on the desktop for business if you follow the windows paradigm. Throw it out the window. Linux is perfect for business on the desktop. Get rid of all employee computers, replace with 3d accelerated thin clients (or re-use the desktop machines as the thin clients). Centralize applications, centralize document management.
This is the IT dream: Users cant install applications, they must focus on their work. Software only gets installed in one location. The actual hardware lasts a long time, and there are no licenses to track. All documents and emails are centrally stored, and with a modified workflow they all are tagged with metadata with the users name, edit history and date.
This is a no brainer, but IT in most places are a bunch of microsoft drones that cant get oout of the rut that Microsoft has trained them to stay in. Be inventive, use the current tools, think thin and simple.
No, dont even say. We are going to get more sharepoint, and the only logic I can see is, it never was very good at anything, so lets get more of it.
Dont forget it can go both ways. I have a laptop that has the wireless crippled, there is no driver for WPA. But on linux, since it followed the hardware spec of the intel board, it does do WPA. Or the fact that my windows boxes choke on these massive printer drivers, while cups works perfectly. Go figure.
Sucks you are anonymous, you could learn something here.
This is the mindset that needs to die. You dont get it. Most businesses arent in the business of making software. The GPL makes complete sense, you want to enhance a software package, and contribute back to the community, of which you know will also contribute back making everyone have better software so you can get on with YOUR BUSINESS. Think of it as a global software pool that just gets better.
Dont think that can work? Here is a case study for you from real life: Business needs to get its information out to a website, the content is important, Apache, Postgres are simply tools. They pay 50,000 a year for support to a vendor. The vendor provides patches and fixes. At the end of the year, if they have support hours left over, they add "nice to haves", which enhances Apache and Postgres for everyone. There are businesses doing this today, right now, and they are more productive and have better support. Why? Because there is no lock in, they could choose a different support team next year if they weren't satisfied, and the enhancements and bugfixes are coming from everywhere on the planet.
In my work, the number of features of an application I use regularly has increased exponentially, because different business interests are paying to enhance the suite, something we couldn't afford individually.
I find that interesting. I am the opposite, 24 is way too slow and hurts my eyes.
Unless you get extradited for posting links to infringing material. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120313/10132918091/uk-govt-agrees-to-extradite-richard-odwyer-to-us-linking-to-possibly-infringing-stuff.shtml
And if they are willing to extradite for acting like google, I see no reason why a person wont get extradited for this either. Except, of course, that some game I have never heard of is not nearly as interesting as media copyright.
It amazes me how few public employees actually know these sites exist. When I am consulting I find that the public sector is so f-ing brain dead when it comes to partnering and saving money that it hurts.
Just like all the "vendor" awards people are always going on about at my work. Stupidist. Thing. Ever. "Look I managed to use your software to do what it said I could do!"
Hurray! Lets give em an award!
Every year a company comes drops down a freedom of information act for a particular piece of software in our state. They take it and go out and make money with it. Every year I argue that we should just put it out on the Internet so we can save the freedom of information act request time and money. Whats wrong with giving back the tax dollars in research to help put someone (and their employees) to work?
I agree with you completely. People who actually like sharepoint are the ones I always ask: compared to what? What do you use it for? They have no idea that it really is a crapfest of things that others have figured out how to do better elsewhere....and usually for free.
Office would sell that many copies if they removed the user interface and replaced it with random bouncing icons. With lock-in nothing really matters, no metric of usability counts.
Yes, LibreOffice is the king here, but I at least Caligre is trying new things. Look at the sidebars in the spreadsheet program. This is an interesting placement for extra functions, and there are quite a lot of them. This is an alternative to menu's and ribbons, that is a different (no judgement on better or worse yet) approach, and is consistent throughout the application suite. I have to hand it to them for using the power of QT and will want to see how that works for me.
I want to add that I feel very fortunate that I have 3 free options for working with spreadsheets. I have found ideas and features not available in the others that do come in handy working with data that people provide in Excel format. I have worked around Excel numeric bugs, performed sheet counts, auto renaming sheets, provided quick data entry forms for example.
Ever ask windows if it understands a codec? It goes, looks, and cant figure it out. Typical of the crap fest that is windows.
As apposed to windows? May not be buggy, but its slow and crappy, and not near state of the art. Typical of the Microsoft movement.
Well W3c defines speech input here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2011Feb/att-0020/api-draft.html and Webkit provides support. Voice controlled video players are already out there using HTML5. I have seen a facial recognition demo in HTML5 that uses a local computer webcam. I would much rather support Chrome or Firefox as a browser then Flash as a plugin. I wouldnt bother targeting IE anything, all the browsers microsoft makes are shit. Getting the boneheads who would use Microsoft at an enterprise level convinced of this is going to be hard, I agree. But if they are on XP and IE they dont give a rats ass about security anyway.
I have no idea why you are always on the tirade against FOSS software. My guess is that you are a clueless troll. I have noticed you dont seem to understand or be able to use Linux while my customers keep wanting Linux on their desktop because Windows keeps breaking.
Ubuntu (due to the sites you are linking) is not my favorite either, and I say so what? There are choices. Ubuntu is not the gold standard.
But more to your point, we have rode it out before, MPEGLA can slap around law suits and bitch and moan all they like, in fact, I would think bring it on. This is no surprise to the Linux community, we know they are going to play unfair. What you should be focusing on is how this will affect you. Microsoft pay your license? Sure today, but for how long?
Using Microsoft and Apple is like being a cheerleader for a team, learning Linux is knowing how to play the game.
Except you cant control the windows ecosystem. You cant modify or make better the software you use. I have consulted for groups that spend an equal amount of time talking about licensing and working around the vendors forced upgrades as they do getting work done. Contributing to open source is exactly what they need to do, the point being that my 10 hours of time to add a feature that everyone in the world can use is easily offset by the millions of hours others have already put in. Case in point, we coded a connector to a file type for a specific application. That code was accepted back into the the much larger then us project and now hundreds of people are using it in their work
Do you allow access to 'secret' data? Nothing anyone can do be logging into our environment would cause that. If that was the case, then just giving them a computer would cause that. Virus? How is an app that I make going to deliver a virus? These are thin client delivered applications, these are methods that keeps my network traffic separate from yours.
I take it you are in a windows environment. Shifting your way of thinking is the first step.
Or what if you let the employees work on any machine they want as long as the workflow is the same? I was impressed by the effort taken to allow users to bring iPads to work and use them if thats what they want. The trick is you dont let them choose their workflow or applications, you deliver those.
Every time I read Dave Richards blog I am at first astounded at how much they get done with so little money, and then ashamed that I call myself an IT professional. http://davelargo.blogspot.com/
What people in business, and government are beginning to realize is that software is not a scarce commodity.You cant use it up, but you can add to it.Once they realize that their business is not IT, its, well, doing business, contributing code doesn't make their competition any better, but just improves everyone equally.Additionally, with open software, all the dialogs and desktop items can be customized to suit your particular workflow. Linux + Open Applications + open standards are an awesome combination.
Microsoft always makes shit. Thats just the way they do things. And just when you think it wont be shit, its shit all over again. The have the license model agenda: They make stuff, you have the privlidege to use it until they are bored with that, and then you get something else. And if it breaks, thats okay it was never really yours, just buy it again. And in the end where are you going to go? They got the time and money to whittle down the competition to where you just wont have a choice, so hop on the bandwagon and get a plate o' shit today.