"In fact, open-source software is not free. It is very expensive because it shifts the cost to maintenance, services, integration and training," Microsoft France chief Christophe Aulnette said.
The scary part is, I highly agree with that statement. Price alone is not a factor for people going to open source, perhaps I should enlighten you people.
1) The upgrade trap, perhaps if people could upgrade on their schedule instead of yours.
2) The whole OPEN SOURCE part, or if I need a feature added or changed, I'll find a developer to do just that...
Yes, to the Slashdot community, I know you all know the best reasons for going open source, however I'm worried that MS doesn't:-p and that could do them in (like it would be a loss???)
So if they can deal with an English speaking power user who'll do his best to meet them half way linguistically I'd be positively delighted to spend the next year or four explaining to the secretaries, et al, that "See, In MS Word if you want to make something bold you highlight it and then click on this big B button right here, whereas in Open Office to do the same thing you have to highlight it and then click on this big B button right here. I know that's a shock, but just hold my hand and we'll get through this thing together."
Don't knock it, there's probably still people out there looking for the "any key" this is advanced training for them. However by definition those people looking for the "any key" are too dumb to have a computer anyway, no?
Ok Linux is a good OS, but they're about to have to retrain approx 16,000 workers, many of whom never heard of Linux and some are total creampuffs in computers. They will be retraining to a platform the users may not like as well. The long run costs will probably be worth it as upgrades are free. However the short term costs of re-training I shudder to think about. At 16,000 workers they need a whole university's capacity of retraining. In fact any Linux guru looking for a job? Munich sounds like a good bet...
I'm always amazed I hear such bad experiences from Sprint, my experiences are ok if not stellar. Granted:
1) Their customer service is ok, generally whatever I call with gets resolved in a fair manner.
2) Calls rarely drop, this is in Santa Ana, California for the most part
3) Their rate plans are fair if not dirt cheap
Some bad parts about them though:
1) The contracts, why do they have to keep locking me in dammit. No I have no real incentive to want to switch but I'd like to be able to cancel temporarily if needed (for example if I lose my job, take a long vacation in a remote area, etc.)
2) The ringers and downloads, the ones on Sprint's own site aren't all that hot, and they have limited time licenses. Though I've found sites that are cheaper with indefinite licesnses. And if I'm not so lazy, someday I'll make my own.
Overall Sprint gets a 3.5 outta 5 stars from me. Sure there's room for improvement but I'm not looking to switch.
can get OEM windows XP disks at many booths, but almost NONE sell linux, *BSD, or even Macs.
In a way that might make sense, many people who go to these computer fairs know a bit more about computers than your average Joe. These expert people, when looking for a version of Linux will probably download their favorite distro. However an (honest) expert will probably look to the computer fairs for the cheapest copies of WinXP available (I've seen them fairly well discounted at some booths).
However admittedly I'd like to see more people at the computer fairs (including the Fairplex one) with better knowledge and tools for Linux and company than it being an all MS camp.
Well ok but, is Linux easy to install today??? Opinions differ heavily enough in that subject to where I'd say it's harder than Windows anyways.
3rd party support is getting better for Linux, and is probably better than OS/2 3rd party support was then, but still doesn't hold a candle to what MS had then or now.
OS/2 warp had a requirement of Intel 486 DX 33MHz or higher processor 12MB to 16MB of RAM (according to: http://macarlo.com/warp4.htm), and was released in 1996, when Win3.1 was in its prime and Win95 was coming soon. Windows 3.1 ran optimally at 16MB RAM with a 486/33, and Windows 95 needed a good 16MB of RAM with a 486/33 to run adequately as well (preferably better).
In short Linux, in having the same problems OS/2 had, is fighting a more interesting battle vs. Microsoft, one where Linux is the victor? I would still like to argue that OS/2 Warp never got its fair chance.
Well, in between the maturation of Linux and the Atari systems was this little known, fairly stable OS available cheap for PC's called OS/2 *sigh* the OS that just could never really take off....or you can try BSD variants back then (or couldn't you? I'm not familiar with BSD history).
Well yeah but I can safely argue that there are infinity possibilities in a set that goes on for infinity. For example the infinity amount of primes an a field of numbers that goes on for infinity, no? Therefore infinity number of twin primes (thouh it does not follow my second point completely) in that same field. Only in a finite boundary could it be said that there are a finite number of primes, no?
1) There are an infinite number of numbers out there (hence the word infinite)
2) Therefore there would have to be infinite number of primes
3) Therefore there would have to be an infinite number of twin primes
4) Even if I have to go out to the numbers in the infinitieth range of digits, and the infinitieth range beyond that...and the *head explodes....brain stack overflow...*
Is it just me, or is NASA more of a marketing organization these days? Quit with the speeches and gimmicks and start working towards actually going somewhere interesting (aka Mars, Moon, etc.). I'd rather my taxpayer dollars do that than hype up going to one of these places:-/
They're bypassing the zillions of filters I have set up like they're bound and determined to enlarge my penis, and bypassing my filters at a rate of 30 messages/day these days. The Spammer is just as smart as the anti-spammer IMHO. Play your enemy as your equal people....
Great idea, only problem being is that these worms (such as Blaster, Sasser, et al) get you before the updates are installed (and RIGHT after the OS is installed), all that is really required is an Internet connection.
The best way to do this would be a very limited Internet connection install at first run that would only accept incoming/outgoing from windowsupdate.microsoft.com until the latest patches are applied would work better instead.
aaah but there is a greater responsibility there, not to the pirated user, but to the Interne community. IANAL but this is how I'd state my case vs. Microsoft:
1) Microsoft would know that there was a security issue on Windows
2) Microsoft would know that this security issue does not necessarily affect the individual holder of the computer, but the network space surrouning the holder of the computer.
3) Microsoft willfully denied at least some users the ability to patch their system properly, thus harming the Internet community. Therefore we'll have "A Bunch of people sick of these worms trying to infect our computers vs. Microsoft" hittting the Federal circuit courts in no time.
the article mentions what happens if the CD were left in hotter conditions persistently. However could leaving CD's in colder conditions (such as refrigerating or freezing) the CD do anything to preserve it? Just a thought...
Careful how you say that, we still don't know the full impact of E-Voting the India elections, why don't we ask how e-voting went in India one month after the election, like ourselves?
As far as quality assurance goes? Heh, nobody likes to test anymore these days do they?
I would think that if the unemployment rates increase in the United States, that the amount of people willing to subject themselves to clinical trials in exchange for $ would consequently increase (reducing the compensation for such trials). Leading to the return of the Biotech industries anyways, if not for entirely the same purpose.
So see, nothing to worry about here people! We'll all be test subjects soon:-)
But probably all they're doing is going to Terraserver and punching in addresses for each subscriber in bulk somehow. So unless you've already been photographed sunbathing nude when that satellite whizzed overhead, you're probably not gonna be able to pull that stunt.
However, yeah I'd want to know to if they're doing a fresh satellite pass, tho I'd probably do that with my arse in the air instead, go ahead and moon them (and ultimately myself):-)
Well there's 2 types of overtime that our difficult to prevent.
1) The emergency or surge situation. What do you do when the store gets more work than it is normally capable of handling?
2) The "whoops I'm 15 minutes late in clocking out" situation, where an employee may not have really worked any overtime, but maybe got a hair sidetracked on his way to the timeclock, or just didn't realize what time it was, his watch was out of sync with the time-clock, etc...
So a copy protection standard gets the name of a Mutual fund company whose investments in I've been questioning, I guess it's time to liquidate my shares in that fund completely now...
Ummmm technically no, as long as you are a United States citizen you are subject to the draft.
However somehow I doubt you'll see a bunch of suits coming after you in India because you're not reporting when drafted. After all they never went to Canada to collect the running draftees in the Vietnam war, nor would Canada let them if they tried (if it isn't Canada's or India's war, they won't be thrilled about Selective Service grabbing draft dodgers).
Also bear in mind if you run to India or elsewhere, you may not be coming back without facing criminal penalty. Only in recent times was an amnesty signed for allowing draft dodgers in Canada to come back.
That's a flawed argument, poor people is not the result of bad trade practices exclusively. Caste systems, corruption and lethargy in their government and still fairly agrarian economies in India are mostly to blame there.
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You just quoted in the article:
:-p and that could do them in (like it would be a loss???)
"In fact, open-source software is not free. It is very expensive because it shifts the cost to maintenance, services, integration and training," Microsoft France chief Christophe Aulnette said.
The scary part is, I highly agree with that statement. Price alone is not a factor for people going to open source, perhaps I should enlighten you people.
1) The upgrade trap, perhaps if people could upgrade on their schedule instead of yours.
2) The whole OPEN SOURCE part, or if I need a feature added or changed, I'll find a developer to do just that...
Yes, to the Slashdot community, I know you all know the best reasons for going open source, however I'm worried that MS doesn't
So if they can deal with an English speaking power user who'll do his best to meet them half way linguistically I'd be positively delighted to spend the next year or four explaining to the secretaries, et al, that "See, In MS Word if you want to make something bold you highlight it and then click on this big B button right here, whereas in Open Office to do the same thing you have to highlight it and then click on this big B button right here. I know that's a shock, but just hold my hand and we'll get through this thing together."
Don't knock it, there's probably still people out there looking for the "any key" this is advanced training for them. However by definition those people looking for the "any key" are too dumb to have a computer anyway, no?
Ok Linux is a good OS, but they're about to have to retrain approx 16,000 workers, many of whom never heard of Linux and some are total creampuffs in computers. They will be retraining to a platform the users may not like as well. The long run costs will probably be worth it as upgrades are free. However the short term costs of re-training I shudder to think about. At 16,000 workers they need a whole university's capacity of retraining. In fact any Linux guru looking for a job? Munich sounds like a good bet...
I'm always amazed I hear such bad experiences from Sprint, my experiences are ok if not stellar. Granted:
1) Their customer service is ok, generally whatever I call with gets resolved in a fair manner.
2) Calls rarely drop, this is in Santa Ana, California for the most part
3) Their rate plans are fair if not dirt cheap
Some bad parts about them though:
1) The contracts, why do they have to keep locking me in dammit. No I have no real incentive to want to switch but I'd like to be able to cancel temporarily if needed (for example if I lose my job, take a long vacation in a remote area, etc.)
2) The ringers and downloads, the ones on Sprint's own site aren't all that hot, and they have limited time licenses. Though I've found sites that are cheaper with indefinite licesnses. And if I'm not so lazy, someday I'll make my own.
Overall Sprint gets a 3.5 outta 5 stars from me. Sure there's room for improvement but I'm not looking to switch.
can get OEM windows XP disks at many booths, but almost NONE sell linux, *BSD, or even Macs.
In a way that might make sense, many people who go to these computer fairs know a bit more about computers than your average Joe. These expert people, when looking for a version of Linux will probably download their favorite distro. However an (honest) expert will probably look to the computer fairs for the cheapest copies of WinXP available (I've seen them fairly well discounted at some booths).
However admittedly I'd like to see more people at the computer fairs (including the Fairplex one) with better knowledge and tools for Linux and company than it being an all MS camp.
I'll hook up my TV to the Internet, everybody decide what channels I'm watching please.
Somehow I think I'm getting a Cable bill for thousands of dollars in pay per view Porno channels.
Well ok but, is Linux easy to install today??? Opinions differ heavily enough in that subject to where I'd say it's harder than Windows anyways.
3rd party support is getting better for Linux, and is probably better than OS/2 3rd party support was then, but still doesn't hold a candle to what MS had then or now.
OS/2 warp had a requirement of Intel 486 DX 33MHz or higher processor 12MB to 16MB of RAM (according to: http://macarlo.com/warp4.htm), and was released in 1996, when Win3.1 was in its prime and Win95 was coming soon. Windows 3.1 ran optimally at 16MB RAM with a 486/33, and Windows 95 needed a good 16MB of RAM with a 486/33 to run adequately as well (preferably better).
In short Linux, in having the same problems OS/2 had, is fighting a more interesting battle vs. Microsoft, one where Linux is the victor? I would still like to argue that OS/2 Warp never got its fair chance.
Well, in between the maturation of Linux and the Atari systems was this little known, fairly stable OS available cheap for PC's called OS/2 *sigh* the OS that just could never really take off....or you can try BSD variants back then (or couldn't you? I'm not familiar with BSD history).
Well yeah but I can safely argue that there are infinity possibilities in a set that goes on for infinity. For example the infinity amount of primes an a field of numbers that goes on for infinity, no? Therefore infinity number of twin primes (thouh it does not follow my second point completely) in that same field. Only in a finite boundary could it be said that there are a finite number of primes, no?
We can all agree to this:
1) There are an infinite number of numbers out there (hence the word infinite)
2) Therefore there would have to be infinite number of primes
3) Therefore there would have to be an infinite number of twin primes
4) Even if I have to go out to the numbers in the infinitieth range of digits, and the infinitieth range beyond that...and the *head explodes....brain stack overflow...*
Is it just me, or is NASA more of a marketing organization these days? Quit with the speeches and gimmicks and start working towards actually going somewhere interesting (aka Mars, Moon, etc.). I'd rather my taxpayer dollars do that than hype up going to one of these places :-/
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Greedy Opportunistic Parasite
:-)
Interesting phrasing my friend.
Disclaimer, I am a republican and don't mean to slander their party in any way
They're bypassing the zillions of filters I have set up like they're bound and determined to enlarge my penis, and bypassing my filters at a rate of 30 messages/day these days. The Spammer is just as smart as the anti-spammer IMHO. Play your enemy as your equal people....
Great idea, only problem being is that these worms (such as Blaster, Sasser, et al) get you before the updates are installed (and RIGHT after the OS is installed), all that is really required is an Internet connection.
The best way to do this would be a very limited Internet connection install at first run that would only accept incoming/outgoing from windowsupdate.microsoft.com until the latest patches are applied would work better instead.
aaah but there is a greater responsibility there, not to the pirated user, but to the Interne community. IANAL but this is how I'd state my case vs. Microsoft:
1) Microsoft would know that there was a security issue on Windows
2) Microsoft would know that this security issue does not necessarily affect the individual holder of the computer, but the network space surrouning the holder of the computer.
3) Microsoft willfully denied at least some users the ability to patch their system properly, thus harming the Internet community. Therefore we'll have "A Bunch of people sick of these worms trying to infect our computers vs. Microsoft" hittting the Federal circuit courts in no time.
Yup, and thus it was due to failure :-/
the article mentions what happens if the CD were left in hotter conditions persistently. However could leaving CD's in colder conditions (such as refrigerating or freezing) the CD do anything to preserve it? Just a thought...
Careful how you say that, we still don't know the full impact of E-Voting the India elections, why don't we ask how e-voting went in India one month after the election, like ourselves?
As far as quality assurance goes? Heh, nobody likes to test anymore these days do they?
I would think that if the unemployment rates increase in the United States, that the amount of people willing to subject themselves to clinical trials in exchange for $ would consequently increase (reducing the compensation for such trials). Leading to the return of the Biotech industries anyways, if not for entirely the same purpose.
:-)
So see, nothing to worry about here people! We'll all be test subjects soon
Reveals Ethereal:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ethereal/
While I can't personally vouch for it, I know that it has a decent reputation, and well can't beat the price at $0.
But probably all they're doing is going to Terraserver and punching in addresses for each subscriber in bulk somehow. So unless you've already been photographed sunbathing nude when that satellite whizzed overhead, you're probably not gonna be able to pull that stunt.
:-)
However, yeah I'd want to know to if they're doing a fresh satellite pass, tho I'd probably do that with my arse in the air instead, go ahead and moon them (and ultimately myself)
Well there's 2 types of overtime that our difficult to prevent. 1) The emergency or surge situation. What do you do when the store gets more work than it is normally capable of handling?
2) The "whoops I'm 15 minutes late in clocking out" situation, where an employee may not have really worked any overtime, but maybe got a hair sidetracked on his way to the timeclock, or just didn't realize what time it was, his watch was out of sync with the time-clock, etc...
So a copy protection standard gets the name of a Mutual fund company whose investments in I've been questioning, I guess it's time to liquidate my shares in that fund completely now...
Ummmm technically no, as long as you are a United States citizen you are subject to the draft.
However somehow I doubt you'll see a bunch of suits coming after you in India because you're not reporting when drafted. After all they never went to Canada to collect the running draftees in the Vietnam war, nor would Canada let them if they tried (if it isn't Canada's or India's war, they won't be thrilled about Selective Service grabbing draft dodgers).
Also bear in mind if you run to India or elsewhere, you may not be coming back without facing criminal penalty. Only in recent times was an amnesty signed for allowing draft dodgers in Canada to come back.
That's a flawed argument, poor people is not the result of bad trade practices exclusively. Caste systems, corruption and lethargy in their government and still fairly agrarian economies in India are mostly to blame there.