Every original ps2 had problems? What? So that one thats been in our house (I guess several houses,, as we moved house a few times) for all these years and still works fine doesnt count? I am no fan of Sony, but even I know that the PS2's worked fairly well, but you even walk by an xbox with a heavy step and bam red ring.
False. First I was asking directly about the reports and why they are cited. Second, open source has a huge advantage of making people more efficient. Lets take a frim I have been consulting with as an example: First meeting of the day was about licensing. We had 10 people in a room to discuss what licenses are in use, which ones are going away, and what we need to plan to spend next year. Many other people spent the last week gathering information, creating charts, and writing reports for this meeting. Lost productivity: about 120 hours * 15 people. Next, we worked on trying to mitigate upgrades that two vendors are requiring, leaving them with an unusable system, 4 people assigned full time for the last year. Add in the fact that the closed source vendor has a bug in their software, and our million dollar support contract doesnt cover vendor bugs if they are to fixed in some upcoming version, the ticket is closed and we can suck it. They cant go anywhere else easily, they are locked in nice and tight, the data cant get out and they have convinced management that training is always more costly then change. Next we review how two other offices have reduced thier support labor from 20 people / 200 desks down to 2 per 500 desks using Linux thin clients and open source apps. The users are more productive as the apps are tailored to their workflow, not some clump of apps slapped onto Windows like their counterparts.
So closed source apps and proprietary data formats are the big labor wasters.
Me too, I really hoped they would just go away, software with restrictive licenses matched to a business incentive to make money (through sales not just support) is never in the consumers best interest. Anyways....
But lets look at Microsoft's other "failure" the xbox: Early on they not only couldnt get market share, but they were shipping a literally high failure rate device. It was bulky and breaky. They even charged to play on line.
But they are such a big company that they can afford to lose money for a long time, eventually establishing them selves. Microsoft has enough people fooled into doing things their way that there always will be a sucker, and those adopters will pull in more suckers, and so on. Eventually they might even make a semi decent product.
Ah cut to the chase. Time travel sucks unless its integral to the show to begin with. Abrahms conveniently does things like this, and simply "reboots". I laughed at some of the refernces to the original, but otherwise was not impressed by lens flare effect after lens flare effect and really didint give a shit if they all died. Might have been a decent little short cartoon, but thats about it.
I agree with this completely. You dont communicate with other businesses with office documents, you send PDF's. You want something that maintains presentation, while giving you some piece of mind that some desk jockey isnt editing away at your document only to be picked up by a manager/executive and then wondering why you are offering low prices etc.
Swap you comments of 2000 with 7. 7 has far better stability then 2000 ever did, and thats by design. I hate them all as usability goes, give me a decent linux box any day of the week, but I have to be honest that they made a huge effort to protect the kernel, move as much as possible into the user space, and have really put an end to the system crash. Sure an app may go down, but in win 7 the system is not likely to go with it.
How this got modded interesting is beyond me. Linux desktops are far from a joke, they blow away anything Microsoft has offered. Working in windows makes me realize just how much windows isn't very good at, well, windows. There is so much missing from the OS that being productive is nearly impossible. Examples? Heres just a couple: Can I tab windows from different applications together? Can I have a file browser that can actually give me tabs/splitviews/decent filters/ and integrate with a command line so I can record my movements and use/review them later? Can I have a clipboard (or better still a dynamic one)? How about keeping all my work during a reboot - or better still, not requiring a reboot every week. Can I set up a desktop for an activity just the way I want it, and have that load with just one button and then close it with another? Can i have more then one desktop and possibly, just possibly Expose like effects? Can I push a thin client work station out to my workforce and not really care that some are on Arm, i386, x686 or whatever?
Windows on the desktop is a sad joke. Seriously, drag and drop a picture from a webpage onto your desktop. Nothing happens in windows. IN WINDOWS! A decent linux DE will just ask what you want to call it. Oh and dont get me started about the stupid windows file extensions. Oh and why is it right clicking a title bar not a way to set the windows properties? Whys is that buried under colors/advanced in win 7? And what is it about win 7 modal dialogs that seem to want to own everything, but the desktop lets you clear the whole screen in one click? WTF?
Look, you may complain that there are some things, like sound, that has been tricky on some systems. But if I was in a work environment I would gladly trade sound for some rational sense of functionality. (Although I dont think I have ever had a sound issue in the last 5 years on linux, and in fact was just this evening recording though a microphone on one linux box and passing it to another remote box using ssh and dev\audio. Try that with windows).
However, you probably are right. Instead of realizing that the most important thing to any business is actually doing that business, and that software should be seen as a common commodity and therefore development shared, people will keep believing the vendor offerings of shiny crap. And instead of implementing time and money saving ideas like this guy: http://davelargo.blogspot.com/search?q=ipad , the asshats that support windows in corporations will continue to believe that it cant be done, and cant be that simple. How could 2 guys support hundreds of peoples desktops (with opengl, effects, video/sound etc) with one server and no licenses. Oh heaven for fend. Nope, they will continue to buy the completely brain dead, virus hatching, nonsensical windowing, license chasing, reboot fest that is windows.
Its not poor, well let me rephrase that, it may be poorly written in places, but its not content poor. Nature compared Wikipedia to Britannica and guess what? They were about the same. Nature defended their study here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7084/full/440582b.html Subsequent studies have come to the same conclusion, its really not better or worse then anything in print. Fact is: you cant believe what you read. You must follow through with loooking up the facts or read the editing history and disputed facts.
Yep, I agree, and its one reason why I like the desktop paradigm KDE gives me, and why I see all of Microsoft's efforts as complete failure. With KDE I can create Activities, which are just one click buttons, that set up an entire desktop with the tools I need to do that task. In essence I have an "app" to click and launch a pre configured environment (pre configured by me I might add) for all the separate pieces I need for the DBA activity, the server monitoring activity etc.
Add to that the fact that windows desktop is fairly poor at providing a cohesive environment anyways (can I drag and drop something on the desktop or folder - well sometimes. Can I look at the clipboard? Can I make it interactive or Smart in anyway? Can I join two workflows together into a tabbed window? Can i set an application onto another desktop while I am doing something else?). Sure there are third party tools, but that is also part of the problem. Vendor applications, and hacks and tweaks to the desktop shell dont often play nice with each other. Just like my windows Expose I use, it sometimes causes the whole system to halt while it devotes resources, something I dont see in the Mac or in Linux.
The day of at least managing workflows, and having some semblance of a cohesive environment is out there in KDE (or in other DE's using scripts, tiles, what have you) but it has NEVER been in a windows environment, and it looks like it is just getting worse.
A full Chrome exploit will net you $60,000 from Google. They now have 3 pay ranges and offer substantialy more then they used to. I do think they upped this price after they pulled out of pwn2own in February.
I agree with the post that I want to know what the expoloit was. However I must say that you sure work hard to try and keep your computer safe from the internetz. Is windows land really that bad that you have to go to all that effort just to feel free to browse the web?
For those who are smartly using thin client and devlivered applications in their workplace, the ipad is just another screen. They can work at there desk or on any device they choose, and as soon as that cats out of the bag, people will realize they want devices they can work and play on, and that means the focues moves to size, battery life, and connectivity.
Yeah cause everyday users have a clue what an "image" is. Of those, most know that in many cases the image is just a zipped folder(s) and extract it and go from there.
Maybe get rid of the Windows 7 box. Spend more time getting applications to your users, less time configuring for windows crap. The trick is that for a large business, you should be making work flows and client apps for desktop thin client users. Otherwise you are wasting time and money.
Except spatial functions are just as much a part of a SQL database as any other function. It is just another SQL statement in any modern spatial column data type sql product. I would not do MSSQL not because they might change the function (they seem to have been sticking with standards, even if they implemented a very old one), but because they really arent very good at what they do, and dont play well with others. You should always be able to pull any component and replace it on any platform and get the same functionality with little or no effort.
MSSQL is a poor implementation of a spatial database, based on OGR standards from 2001. The geometry data type is expressed in CLR, and you cant enhance it or do any fancy GIS with it. Use PostGresql and enhance as necessary with PostGIS. You will have SO many more options for doing data presentation then you ever will with MSSQL. The software is robust, available, and there is a large number of people willing to support it. Take that 20K and buy a support contract if that makes you feel better.
Spatial data hosting with Linux and WAY out performs any windows implementation to boot. You just cant lose here, just like any Web technology, the Linux toolkit is far ahead of Microsoft.
I am in the same boat. Couple of hours in (started with a restored session) 8 tabs, 3 plugins. 256 megs. Not anywhere near what other people see. Wonder if using Noscript and blocking unnecessary javascript helps?
Nope. You could easily do this with less people, you still dont need to outsource, you DO need to leverage existing ideas and software. That's the difference.
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Every original ps2 had problems? What? So that one thats been in our house (I guess several houses,, as we moved house a few times) for all these years and still works fine doesnt count? I am no fan of Sony, but even I know that the PS2's worked fairly well, but you even walk by an xbox with a heavy step and bam red ring.
False. First I was asking directly about the reports and why they are cited.
Second, open source has a huge advantage of making people more efficient. Lets take a frim I have been consulting with as an example:
First meeting of the day was about licensing. We had 10 people in a room to discuss what licenses are in use, which ones are going away, and what we need to plan to spend next year. Many other people spent the last week gathering information, creating charts, and writing reports for this meeting. Lost productivity: about 120 hours * 15 people. Next, we worked on trying to mitigate upgrades that two vendors are requiring, leaving them with an unusable system, 4 people assigned full time for the last year. Add in the fact that the closed source vendor has a bug in their software, and our million dollar support contract doesnt cover vendor bugs if they are to fixed in some upcoming version, the ticket is closed and we can suck it. They cant go anywhere else easily, they are locked in nice and tight, the data cant get out and they have convinced management that training is always more costly then change. Next we review how two other offices have reduced thier support labor from 20 people / 200 desks down to 2 per 500 desks using Linux thin clients and open source apps. The users are more productive as the apps are tailored to their workflow, not some clump of apps slapped onto Windows like their counterparts.
So closed source apps and proprietary data formats are the big labor wasters.
Can you really discuss the current offerings of software based on studies or surveys done from 1991 - 2007?
Me too, I really hoped they would just go away, software with restrictive licenses matched to a business incentive to make money (through sales not just support) is never in the consumers best interest. Anyways....
But lets look at Microsoft's other "failure" the xbox:
Early on they not only couldnt get market share, but they were shipping a literally high failure rate device. It was bulky and breaky. They even charged to play on line.
But they are such a big company that they can afford to lose money for a long time, eventually establishing them selves. Microsoft has enough people fooled into doing things their way that there always will be a sucker, and those adopters will pull in more suckers, and so on. Eventually they might even make a semi decent product.
We certainly know it isnt their advertising that gets people to buy their half-assed awful products: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E
Ah cut to the chase. Time travel sucks unless its integral to the show to begin with. Abrahms conveniently does things like this, and simply "reboots". I laughed at some of the refernces to the original, but otherwise was not impressed by lens flare effect after lens flare effect and really didint give a shit if they all died. Might have been a decent little short cartoon, but thats about it.
What are you talking about? I have evolution linked with calendars and addresses. Trolling are we? Maybe YOU are slow?
I agree with this completely. You dont communicate with other businesses with office documents, you send PDF's. You want something that maintains presentation, while giving you some piece of mind that some desk jockey isnt editing away at your document only to be picked up by a manager/executive and then wondering why you are offering low prices etc.
Swap you comments of 2000 with 7. 7 has far better stability then 2000 ever did, and thats by design. I hate them all as usability goes, give me a decent linux box any day of the week, but I have to be honest that they made a huge effort to protect the kernel, move as much as possible into the user space, and have really put an end to the system crash. Sure an app may go down, but in win 7 the system is not likely to go with it.
How this got modded interesting is beyond me. Linux desktops are far from a joke, they blow away anything Microsoft has offered. Working in windows makes me realize just how much windows isn't very good at, well, windows. There is so much missing from the OS that being productive is nearly impossible. Examples? Heres just a couple: Can I tab windows from different applications together? Can I have a file browser that can actually give me tabs/splitviews/decent filters/ and integrate with a command line so I can record my movements and use/review them later? Can I have a clipboard (or better still a dynamic one)? How about keeping all my work during a reboot - or better still, not requiring a reboot every week. Can I set up a desktop for an activity just the way I want it, and have that load with just one button and then close it with another? Can i have more then one desktop and possibly, just possibly Expose like effects? Can I push a thin client work station out to my workforce and not really care that some are on Arm, i386, x686 or whatever?
Windows on the desktop is a sad joke. Seriously, drag and drop a picture from a webpage onto your desktop. Nothing happens in windows. IN WINDOWS! A decent linux DE will just ask what you want to call it. Oh and dont get me started about the stupid windows file extensions. Oh and why is it right clicking a title bar not a way to set the windows properties? Whys is that buried under colors/advanced in win 7? And what is it about win 7 modal dialogs that seem to want to own everything, but the desktop lets you clear the whole screen in one click? WTF?
Look, you may complain that there are some things, like sound, that has been tricky on some systems. But if I was in a work environment I would gladly trade sound for some rational sense of functionality. (Although I dont think I have ever had a sound issue in the last 5 years on linux, and in fact was just this evening recording though a microphone on one linux box and passing it to another remote box using ssh and dev\audio. Try that with windows).
However, you probably are right. Instead of realizing that the most important thing to any business is actually doing that business, and that software should be seen as a common commodity and therefore development shared, people will keep believing the vendor offerings of shiny crap. And instead of implementing time and money saving ideas like this guy: http://davelargo.blogspot.com/search?q=ipad , the asshats that support windows in corporations will continue to believe that it cant be done, and cant be that simple. How could 2 guys support hundreds of peoples desktops (with opengl, effects, video/sound etc) with one server and no licenses. Oh heaven for fend. Nope, they will continue to buy the completely brain dead, virus hatching, nonsensical windowing, license chasing, reboot fest that is windows.
So you want KDE then?
Its not poor, well let me rephrase that, it may be poorly written in places, but its not content poor. Nature compared Wikipedia to Britannica and guess what? They were about the same. Nature defended their study here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7084/full/440582b.html Subsequent studies have come to the same conclusion, its really not better or worse then anything in print. Fact is: you cant believe what you read. You must follow through with loooking up the facts or read the editing history and disputed facts.
Yep, I agree, and its one reason why I like the desktop paradigm KDE gives me, and why I see all of Microsoft's efforts as complete failure. With KDE I can create Activities, which are just one click buttons, that set up an entire desktop with the tools I need to do that task. In essence I have an "app" to click and launch a pre configured environment (pre configured by me I might add) for all the separate pieces I need for the DBA activity, the server monitoring activity etc.
Add to that the fact that windows desktop is fairly poor at providing a cohesive environment anyways (can I drag and drop something on the desktop or folder - well sometimes. Can I look at the clipboard? Can I make it interactive or Smart in anyway? Can I join two workflows together into a tabbed window? Can i set an application onto another desktop while I am doing something else?). Sure there are third party tools, but that is also part of the problem. Vendor applications, and hacks and tweaks to the desktop shell dont often play nice with each other. Just like my windows Expose I use, it sometimes causes the whole system to halt while it devotes resources, something I dont see in the Mac or in Linux.
The day of at least managing workflows, and having some semblance of a cohesive environment is out there in KDE (or in other DE's using scripts, tiles, what have you) but it has NEVER been in a windows environment, and it looks like it is just getting worse.
Shirley the next name I am going to use in my next kids book will be Ann Incentive. I can see her leading the way.
A full Chrome exploit will net you $60,000 from Google. They now have 3 pay ranges and offer substantialy more then they used to. I do think they upped this price after they pulled out of pwn2own in February.
I agree with the post that I want to know what the expoloit was.
However I must say that you sure work hard to try and keep your computer safe from the internetz. Is windows land really that bad that you have to go to all that effort just to feel free to browse the web?
Play on LInux supports portal and portal 2 and can setup steam. It handles the setup for you.
For those who are smartly using thin client and devlivered applications in their workplace, the ipad is just another screen. They can work at there desk or on any device they choose, and as soon as that cats out of the bag, people will realize they want devices they can work and play on, and that means the focues moves to size, battery life, and connectivity.
Yeah cause everyday users have a clue what an "image" is. Of those, most know that in many cases the image is just a zipped folder(s) and extract it and go from there.
Maybe get rid of the Windows 7 box. Spend more time getting applications to your users, less time configuring for windows crap. The trick is that for a large business, you should be making work flows and client apps for desktop thin client users. Otherwise you are wasting time and money.
Except spatial functions are just as much a part of a SQL database as any other function. It is just another SQL statement in any modern spatial column data type sql product. I would not do MSSQL not because they might change the function (they seem to have been sticking with standards, even if they implemented a very old one), but because they really arent very good at what they do, and dont play well with others. You should always be able to pull any component and replace it on any platform and get the same functionality with little or no effort.
MSSQL is a poor implementation of a spatial database, based on OGR standards from 2001. The geometry data type is expressed in CLR, and you cant enhance it or do any fancy GIS with it. Use PostGresql and enhance as necessary with PostGIS. You will have SO many more options for doing data presentation then you ever will with MSSQL. The software is robust, available, and there is a large number of people willing to support it. Take that 20K and buy a support contract if that makes you feel better.
Spatial data hosting with Linux and WAY out performs any windows implementation to boot. You just cant lose here, just like any Web technology, the Linux toolkit is far ahead of Microsoft.
Let me know when there is a decent alternative. If Rekonq wasnt so crashy I would consider it.
I am in the same boat. Couple of hours in (started with a restored session) 8 tabs, 3 plugins. 256 megs. Not anywhere near what other people see. Wonder if using Noscript and blocking unnecessary javascript helps?
Nope. You could easily do this with less people, you still dont need to outsource, you DO need to leverage existing ideas and software. That's the difference.
LOL I had that backwards. I meant FOR software patents. Doh!