And a cell phone that doesn't ring. Contrast that to my "I am Windows" support team: they haven't left town yet being called back to the office to reboot machines, fix virus problems, mange servers, handle local applications.
WTF? CLI vs GUI? Forwarding X and virtual terminals are integral to the system. I am lost about how this fundemental design is inaccessible to applications, unless you are specifically speaking of audio, accelerated video, or certain other hardware devices. Used to be they were shortcut keys, but you could bind them to a GUI if that was your desire.
The bluefish editor has been using contextual tabs since 2000 or so. Ribbon is new for office, but contextual layout with a tabbing interface is not new at all.
You mean use WPF? No thanks, HTML5 + Canvas can do an awful lot, check out the NES emulator, or the 3d Rendering, or GPS and mapping, etc. And remember, for millions of us, Silverlight can do nothing as we are unsupported.
The bigger question is: they can see the pain IE6 is causing them through lock-in, yet they think their next salvation is to write apps using Silverlight?
During the Netflix contest to get more accurate predictions of movie rentals, the thought did occur to me that geospatial data might be useful to add the algorithm. More information, such as gender, income, and age, and past favorites may have a spatial component and add to the success of future predictions. This is at least a glimpse of this kind of analysis, so yes, I find it interesting.
I will never, ever, trust Quickbooks. Intuit can bite me and was one of 2 reasons that I began to really switch to open source. Quickbooks online offerings back in 2001-2 were trying to lock you into their product, changing policies on your personal data retention, selling and or losing your personal information and worst of all made you do all the work so you could give it to an accountant. I do not accept a cloud environment unless I own the cloud. Simply using templates of best accounting practices in spreadsheets, open source money management software, and remote access made things fairly easy. The accountant/tax adviser would actually do their jobs and theings went smoothly.
Oh it will. Companies that dont use a thin client model are just burning money. I cant work without a network connection (for file storage, email, or the licenses my software requires from a server). And we loathe our users saving anything on a local machine both for backups and for accountability.
Besides, I like having true roaming profiles and 3D desktops, dont you?
You mean like in KDE where you can maximize windows vertically, horizontally, or full screen? Or push to back? Or renaming without changing the filetype? Or single clicking? Or all the other things that are standard in an OSS DE but Microsoft still cant do right?
No oil changes, no air filters, no greasy parts, no visit to a gas station, less moving parts, it only consumes energy (stored) when its providing power, its quieter and can be very powerful with great torque. Much cheaper to power down the road.
More then one reason to switch already, throw in the kicker for me personally: I would get better parking at work, and they would supply the electricity.
Recent developments? Like when GM purchased the rights to use Ovshinsky's NIMH battery technology, but then GM sold that to the oil companies? Something doesnt smell right..........
Lets see, there is a pizza delivery vehicle around here that worked all year without any energy other then what it got from the sun.....how do you factor those in?
Complete bullshit. Owners of EV1's liked them so much many offered to pay full value, even more then the original sticker price. As with any product the initial purchasers lower the cost for the next round, it wouldnt always cost 80,000-100,000 to produce.
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Goes to your local bookstore and buys 1 of the 5 or so different magazines that offer DVD's with Linux Live cd's on them.
The real question is, does he learn NOT to use Windows for important things again, or does he go back to old habits?
And a cell phone that doesn't ring. Contrast that to my "I am Windows" support team: they haven't left town yet being called back to the office to reboot machines, fix virus problems, mange servers, handle local applications.
Ah....aren't thin clients and Linux grand :)
With the open ATI drivers working very well, why would you use the proprietary ones? You sure you just arent doing this right?
WTF? CLI vs GUI? Forwarding X and virtual terminals are integral to the system. I am lost about how this fundemental design is inaccessible to applications, unless you are specifically speaking of audio, accelerated video, or certain other hardware devices. Used to be they were shortcut keys, but you could bind them to a GUI if that was your desire.
Look at the screenshots of Bluefish from 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040715074025/bluefish.openoffice.nl/screenshots.html
The bluefish editor has been using contextual tabs since 2000 or so. Ribbon is new for office, but contextual layout with a tabbing interface is not new at all.
You are right. Microsoft has gone on to design much more then faulty calculators. Lets move on. Now they design faulty spreadsheets.
You mean use WPF? No thanks, HTML5 + Canvas can do an awful lot, check out the NES emulator, or the 3d Rendering, or GPS and mapping, etc. And remember, for millions of us, Silverlight can do nothing as we are unsupported.
The bigger question is: they can see the pain IE6 is causing them through lock-in, yet they think their next salvation is to write apps using Silverlight?
Oh I was hoping you were saying that sharepoint is no longer supported and going away like IE 6. Well one can only hope.
During the Netflix contest to get more accurate predictions of movie rentals, the thought did occur to me that geospatial data might be useful to add the algorithm. More information, such as gender, income, and age, and past favorites may have a spatial component and add to the success of future predictions. This is at least a glimpse of this kind of analysis, so yes, I find it interesting.
Visual Basic makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Worse, its inconsistent with any other reasonable language.
If you are going to recommend BASIC at least keep it modern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambas
Use whatever and share with samba. Done.
Seriously? NTFS (Nice Try at a File System)? I think I will pass on the defragging, thanks.
I will never, ever, trust Quickbooks. Intuit can bite me and was one of 2 reasons that I began to really switch to open source. Quickbooks online offerings back in 2001-2 were trying to lock you into their product, changing policies on your personal data retention, selling and or losing your personal information and worst of all made you do all the work so you could give it to an accountant. I do not accept a cloud environment unless I own the cloud.
Simply using templates of best accounting practices in spreadsheets, open source money management software, and remote access made things fairly easy. The accountant/tax adviser would actually do their jobs and theings went smoothly.
Oh it will. Companies that dont use a thin client model are just burning money. I cant work without a network connection (for file storage, email, or the licenses my software requires from a server). And we loathe our users saving anything on a local machine both for backups and for accountability.
Besides, I like having true roaming profiles and 3D desktops, dont you?
Not fighting with vendors about their crappy support for their half-assed software running on a poorly designed OS?
If mathematicians patented and held secret every theorem and proof where would you be today?
You mean like in KDE where you can maximize windows vertically, horizontally, or full screen? Or push to back? Or renaming without changing the filetype? Or single clicking? Or all the other things that are standard in an OSS DE but Microsoft still cant do right?
Too bad the reliability of the jetta is so much lower.........kinda breaks the deal doesnt it?
No oil changes, no air filters, no greasy parts, no visit to a gas station, less moving parts, it only consumes energy (stored) when its providing power, its quieter and can be very powerful with great torque. Much cheaper to power down the road.
More then one reason to switch already, throw in the kicker for me personally: I would get better parking at work, and they would supply the electricity.
Recent developments? Like when GM purchased the rights to use Ovshinsky's NIMH battery technology, but then GM sold that to the oil companies? Something doesnt smell right..........
Lets see, there is a pizza delivery vehicle around here that worked all year without any energy other then what it got from the sun.....how do you factor those in?
Complete bullshit. Owners of EV1's liked them so much many offered to pay full value, even more then the original sticker price. As with any product the initial purchasers lower the cost for the next round, it wouldnt always cost 80,000-100,000 to produce.
Maybe we need to grow more food on our own....and have a few less people.
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