..."proven TCO and ROI," a phrase designed for the acronymically inept. You can perhaps prove return on investment (if something repeatedly tends to pay for itself), but isn't total cost of ownership irrelevant without a quantifier? "Low TCO," or "TCO $5000 for lifetime of five years," are actual worthwhile data.
Except that Windows usually actually ISN'T the best for any standard task -- take Web browsing. What'll crash more...Windows, OS X, or Linux? Windows, followed by OS X on an old machine or Linux poorly configured. Especially as most folks don't have XP yet.
I'll have to agree on that last point. Yes, OS X requires proprietary hardware, but Apple hardware (MAYBE iBooks except) holds up for years...I can think of an old Powerbook 170 that just died this year, and there's lots of older Macs in great shape too. But a better example is all the iMacs that are still in use and working pretty well.
It's called...
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Palm Tungsten E. You have a color screen with pretty good resolution, a card slot, USB connectivity to Windows, Mac, and I think Linux...you can develop for free if you want to...all for $199. And you get a cheapo MP3 player, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint compatible office software, and of course an electronic organizer. Touchscreen, too!
And I must inform you that, despite the smaller game library, you get the same effect with an Apple Macintosh. If you have a relatively recent Mac, and haven't modded it a bunch, all OSX software and a lot of earlier stuff (almost everything if you have a dual booter, a bit less if you are using Classic instead of OS9) will run. And guess what? Then you have your word processor, web terminal, the ability to run real games like Baldur's Gate (which, incidentally, is available only for Windows and Mac). That is why I, for one, do not use consoles; I have nothing against those who do; I am not looking in the console direction until most games can make use of a full-size keyboard for efficiency's sake.
Perhaps because the products are a wee bit better, and piracy simply doesn't exist by definition with open source...and there's nothing save the expense stopping people from getting Windows and installing it themselves, as long as they're not a government agency. As for government agencies, it's called "standardization" and it happens all the time. If they want to standardize on certain open source solutions, that's no different (philosophically speaking) from standardizing on Windows or Mac OS.
That too. But keep in mind that in some academic situations, there are unlimited or otherwise large site license on Windows SPSS, in which case Virtual PC might be cheaper than getting SPSS for Mac...though I haven't checked the pricing in a while.
No, that's for developing for x86 on a Mac without a real x86. Well, actually, it's more for users than devs...it's for running Access and perhaps SPSS on Mac:)
Because something works (which is contestable, pending evidence) does not mean it is the best tool for the job. The pragmatic fallacy is alluring, but it must be avoided:)
The feature's been in Windows since 3.1 or even earlier, so Microsoft has prior art EVEN IF PROTERON HAD EVEN TRIED TO PATENT IT, which they haven't. Evidently in OS9, though I am too lazy to check. That is to say, you copy, you get copied back.
Polish notation reverse very efficient is. Like Latin it feels.
Hewlett Packards very good are, but I my TI-83 prefer. When RPN I need GNU dc I use then.
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Until they get a smartphone with every feature of the Palm Tungsten C -- including, in fact ESPECIALLY INCLUDING WiFi -- there is no reason for me to cease my current configuration: The aforementioned TC and a cheap Nokia with no PDAish features beyond a stripped-down version of my phone book. As is, if my PDA battery goes out, it's back to post-its or the little grey cells until I get home; my cell phone still works and I don't have that inconvenience as well.
The closest smartphone to what I'd need to be able to use it in exclusivity of my preexisting mobile hardware is probably the Palm Tungsten W, but its PDA workings are frankly aged for the price: Palm OS 4 and a Dragonball. I imagine this is for power conservation, but you are STILL running your palm pilot off the battery of your phone.
Wait, there's the new Handspring Treo 600. Still no WiFi though.
Whereas I will be flamed into Hades for suggesting, just suggesting, that "Actually, technology usually IS the solution":
Social engineering is the least of your worries. Cryptography, authentication et cetera create the need for social engineering: if you leave the computers without passwords and the serviceman's door unlocked, you can't worry about whatever-you're-protecting being unprotected from social engineering, bribery, and whatnot. Y'know why? What industrial spy (as an example) is going to bribe the guards when he can telnet?
I'm well aware that a lot of DOS stuff runs under 2k and XP -- heck, I've talked Visicalc and Wordstar into it. Longhorn, though, is a different matter.
Games, alas, happen to be my main legacy manifest -- I don't have much if any Wordstar stuff left.
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..."proven TCO and ROI," a phrase designed for the acronymically inept. You can perhaps prove return on investment (if something repeatedly tends to pay for itself), but isn't total cost of ownership irrelevant without a quantifier? "Low TCO," or "TCO $5000 for lifetime of five years," are actual worthwhile data.
I'd go for the Powerbook. If someone mandates a Windows laptop, you can get that too, but I doubt that'll happen.
Hey, what if Cox were your ISP? I get oodles of jokes about my e-mail address. :)
There is no "civil rights amendment" -- perhaps you are referring to the "equal rights amendment" which failed?
And that's why you use iTunes; you don't rent the music, you buy a copy with licensure for 3 computers, unlimited CDs and iPods.
Except that Windows usually actually ISN'T the best for any standard task -- take Web browsing. What'll crash more...Windows, OS X, or Linux? Windows, followed by OS X on an old machine or Linux poorly configured. Especially as most folks don't have XP yet.
I'll have to agree on that last point. Yes, OS X requires proprietary hardware, but Apple hardware (MAYBE iBooks except) holds up for years...I can think of an old Powerbook 170 that just died this year, and there's lots of older Macs in great shape too. But a better example is all the iMacs that are still in use and working pretty well.
It's called... the.... Palm Tungsten E. You have a color screen with pretty good resolution, a card slot, USB connectivity to Windows, Mac, and I think Linux...you can develop for free if you want to...all for $199. And you get a cheapo MP3 player, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint compatible office software, and of course an electronic organizer. Touchscreen, too!
And I must inform you that, despite the smaller game library, you get the same effect with an Apple Macintosh. If you have a relatively recent Mac, and haven't modded it a bunch, all OSX software and a lot of earlier stuff (almost everything if you have a dual booter, a bit less if you are using Classic instead of OS9) will run. And guess what? Then you have your word processor, web terminal, the ability to run real games like Baldur's Gate (which, incidentally, is available only for Windows and Mac). That is why I, for one, do not use consoles; I have nothing against those who do; I am not looking in the console direction until most games can make use of a full-size keyboard for efficiency's sake.
...in which case they are stealing code from developers.
Perhaps because the products are a wee bit better, and piracy simply doesn't exist by definition with open source...and there's nothing save the expense stopping people from getting Windows and installing it themselves, as long as they're not a government agency. As for government agencies, it's called "standardization" and it happens all the time. If they want to standardize on certain open source solutions, that's no different (philosophically speaking) from standardizing on Windows or Mac OS.
Nguyen is a common name in Vietnam, and GNU is FSF/Stallman's Unix replacement project.
I'd have to agree. There are already three GREAT free-software editors; nano, vim, and even emacs, anyone?
That too. But keep in mind that in some academic situations, there are unlimited or otherwise large site license on Windows SPSS, in which case Virtual PC might be cheaper than getting SPSS for Mac...though I haven't checked the pricing in a while.
No, that's for developing for x86 on a Mac without a real x86. Well, actually, it's more for users than devs...it's for running Access and perhaps SPSS on Mac :)
Exactly. If the GPL is invalid, they've mistaken public-source proprietary software 0for BSD-licensed free software, and they're gonna get sued.
Because something works (which is contestable, pending evidence) does not mean it is the best tool for the job. The pragmatic fallacy is alluring, but it must be avoided :)
The feature's been in Windows since 3.1 or even earlier, so Microsoft has prior art EVEN IF PROTERON HAD EVEN TRIED TO PATENT IT, which they haven't. Evidently in OS9, though I am too lazy to check. That is to say, you copy, you get copied back.
Yes, look into used. Used Macs are pretty good, actually; a good Mac holds up for a long time.
They still have G4 towers starting at $1300.
Polish notation reverse very efficient is. Like Latin it feels. Hewlett Packards very good are, but I my TI-83 prefer. When RPN I need GNU dc I use then.
Until they get a smartphone with every feature of the Palm Tungsten C -- including, in fact ESPECIALLY INCLUDING WiFi -- there is no reason for me to cease my current configuration: The aforementioned TC and a cheap Nokia with no PDAish features beyond a stripped-down version of my phone book. As is, if my PDA battery goes out, it's back to post-its or the little grey cells until I get home; my cell phone still works and I don't have that inconvenience as well. The closest smartphone to what I'd need to be able to use it in exclusivity of my preexisting mobile hardware is probably the Palm Tungsten W, but its PDA workings are frankly aged for the price: Palm OS 4 and a Dragonball. I imagine this is for power conservation, but you are STILL running your palm pilot off the battery of your phone. Wait, there's the new Handspring Treo 600. Still no WiFi though.
Whereas I will be flamed into Hades for suggesting, just suggesting, that "Actually, technology usually IS the solution": Social engineering is the least of your worries. Cryptography, authentication et cetera create the need for social engineering: if you leave the computers without passwords and the serviceman's door unlocked, you can't worry about whatever-you're-protecting being unprotected from social engineering, bribery, and whatnot. Y'know why? What industrial spy (as an example) is going to bribe the guards when he can telnet?
I agree. Better to use firewalls -- this is the work of BIOS or Open Firmware, and encrypting anything of extreme value.
I'm well aware that a lot of DOS stuff runs under 2k and XP -- heck, I've talked Visicalc and Wordstar into it. Longhorn, though, is a different matter. Games, alas, happen to be my main legacy manifest -- I don't have much if any Wordstar stuff left.