If only it were true that companies wanted people to be able to trust them.
If that were the case, would car dealerships have been able to get away with all the slimy things they do?
Unfortunatly, people succumb to the pressure. They resent the heck out of it, but few companies of any size do the right thing ( and if they did, how would you know it? ). And people always seem to make their purchases on price alone. So, it works for them. I hate it, and wish it were otherwise, but that is where that is at.
MS is always attempting to drag developers and (more importantly) customers to the latest version of their OS.
I can see an NT/Win2K ( no, no, PLEASE not XP ) compatible OS as something that many companies and people will see as a way off the MS treadmill of "another new OS that doesnt do much more for me, but is going to cost me a bunch in new hardware and new OS licencing".
It would give them a low cost ( hardware costs, training costs ), low overhead ( retraining issues ) option. A lot of companies already dont like MS's schedule of releases, and dont like the licensing terms, but the current option set while staying on PC hardware is to go Linux ( which they *should*, but is perceived, with some justification, as being "hard" ).
After Longhorn ships, and compatibility is broken anyway, I'm betting that a large number of people decide to stay close to what they consider home, and chose to use React. Add in no DRM.... Assuming they know about it....
How relevant will all the new Longhorn features be? Does it matter for anyone? What non-MS agenda items does it enable for Joe Company and Joe User?
Think of it as a half-step up to Linux for those of small "computer stature".
Bit of a time lag, but, hey, all that profit will go to make the bottom line better, so we will all benefit. And sovereign immunity will take care of the lawsuit. So, it is all good, right!
The hardware around the CPU is not. As someone who has seen both, the AS/400 ( in the days I was involved with it ) was very good. Very expandable, lots of throughput. We had the corp office, and about ~200 external users, and things ran pretty well. Hardware to replicate this in the PC world? Way more than one machine. And we would have had to pay to have admin folks at each external site. Cost in aquisition and in ongoing maintainance would have ( and did ) make the AS/400 look like a bargain. Not to mention that we would have had to pay thru the nose to get the software needed written.
Hardware: yes, it has the same CPU, but that CPU is doing business, not waiting for IO completion. All that kind of stuff is pushed out to the devices, which are generally very smart comparied to PC hardware. *That* is part of what you are paying the extra for. Dont buy it if it isnt usefull to you, but dont say dont buy it, if it is. One size does not fit all.
I used to work with an AS/400. Had a drive failure ( dolts ( not IBM ) installing drives had set the input voltage to wrong setting, messed up controller ). The machine halted, warned us about the problem. Dolts came back, made temp fix, got the drive array back up. Machine just resumed what it was about, no additional problems.
We decided to upgrade the processor in our AS/400. The new one was the PowerPC based unit. The old one was whatever was in use before that. I had worked with the IBM service person before, so he let me do the upgrade. Did a PTF like HAL upgrade, shut down the machine, slid out old card with CPU on it, slid in new card with CPU on it. IPL, and away we went. Everything worked just as before, except faster.
Not so long ago, recalling the good experiences I had had in the past with HP printers, I made the decision to replace a malfuntioning Xerox printer with an HP printer. Got the printer, connected it to the wife's machine, no problems at this print. Didnt keep track of the setup card. 149.95 or something very like that, thought I had a good bargain.
Some time goes by, we are moving and we pack up the wife's machine, and just run from mine. Connect the printer to my machine, right? Right, except see the point about not keeping the setup card from the above. I try to connect it, it isnt the straightforward "connect the USB cable, install the software" I had expected. Well, then I remember/ am refered to the setup card. Thought to myself, "i'll search the HP help site, it's gotta be there". No, it is not. A reference to where I can *buy* the card is there. I think I must be misreading things, so I email their tech support. Get an email with very bad instructions on how to find what I need. Except that I needed to re-email to get clarification as the instructions were not correct. Amended instructions ( finally ) take me ( suprise ) back to the "buy the card" link.
Price? 104 USD. Oh, nice glossy stock and all. Does not seem like a good price to me.
So, two things follow from this.
A: ( In two parts yet. ) Submit email on my experiences, letting them know that that does not sit well with me. P2, shortly thereafter, I get a followup email, how did I like the tech support, did they answer the question. Send in response that no, while the tech support nominally answered the question, that the question should not have needed posing in the first place, and what do they think they are doing? ( all nice and professional... ) Never did get a response to either. I am sure it was all deleted soonest by someone in the heirarchy.
B: Used vague recollection from previous install to wife's machine to poke and prod until I have it working.....
Bottom line: Not buying another. Extortion should not be rewarded in my opinion.
I let my son use my wife's computor to go look up airplane pictures. He is 11, is beginning to learn how to use a browser and search engines. So, I figure OK, let him learn. Well, what happens when he accidently clicks on a web page that has one of the "do you want to install" things on it? This is not unsolicted email, not p2p. And these sites are such that you cant tell you are going to get the treatment until *after* you have clicked the link.
OK, I can tell him to always click no. But they word the text such that persons of average adult learning and intelligence think that saying yes is a good thing. So what is an 11 year old going to do? And how about if it is one of those sites that continually brings the "do you want to install" prompt back up if you answer "no". Try it sometime, it is not fun for me. He is going to get fed up and answer yes ( which is exactly what they want... ).
I think that "pure software" act I saw here on/. was right on for this problem.
Has a turbo-prop engine, not a turbofan. Dont know about the bombardier, but it may be the same. The 747 has turbofan engines.
The C-130, designed for short field, rough field existance is likely more "proof" from FOD to the engines.
Some visuals/descriptions on the engines for you.
Nothing is illegal until we as a society decide that we do not wish to accept the behaviour in question. Likewise, nothing need remain illegal once we as a society decide that the behaviour in question is not wrong / bad / hurting of others.
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a company using confusion to mislead?
Should companies be free to be dishonest?
If only it were true that companies wanted people to be able to trust them.
If that were the case, would car dealerships have been able to get away with all the slimy things they do?
Unfortunatly, people succumb to the pressure. They resent the heck out of it, but few companies of any size do the right thing ( and if they did, how would you know it? ). And people always seem to make their purchases on price alone. So, it works for them. I hate it, and wish it were otherwise, but that is where that is at.
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Simply because you have a mind of your own.
:-)
Havent you been paying attention?
You need to suspend your disbelief for just a moment. Like when you watch a movie. Sorry, I guess I should have spelled that out. :-)
MS is always attempting to drag developers and (more importantly) customers to the latest version of their OS.
I can see an NT/Win2K ( no, no, PLEASE not XP ) compatible OS as something that many companies and people will see as a way off the MS treadmill of "another new OS that doesnt do much more for me, but is going to cost me a bunch in new hardware and new OS licencing".
It would give them a low cost ( hardware costs, training costs ), low overhead ( retraining issues ) option. A lot of companies already dont like MS's schedule of releases, and dont like the licensing terms, but the current option set while staying on PC hardware is to go Linux ( which they *should*, but is perceived, with some justification, as being "hard" ).
After Longhorn ships, and compatibility is broken anyway, I'm betting that a large number of people decide to stay close to what they consider home, and chose to use React. Add in no DRM.... Assuming they know about it....
How relevant will all the new Longhorn features be? Does it matter for anyone? What non-MS agenda items does it enable for Joe Company and Joe User?
Think of it as a half-step up to Linux for those of small "computer stature".
His cellmate is "in" for killing a spammer.
Hmmm.
Open source movies?
Use @home idea to make this cost effective.
Hot air works as a lifting method in hot air balloons.
How about heating helium? Would that add additional lift? I hesitate to propose this with Hydrogen, but... ?
Sorry.
Bit of a time lag, but, hey, all that profit will go to make the bottom line better, so we will all benefit. And sovereign immunity will take care of the lawsuit. So, it is all good, right!
So, the CPU is the same...
The hardware around the CPU is not. As someone who has seen both, the AS/400 ( in the days I was involved with it ) was very good. Very expandable, lots of throughput. We had the corp office, and about ~200 external users, and things ran pretty well. Hardware to replicate this in the PC world? Way more than one machine. And we would have had to pay to have admin folks at each external site. Cost in aquisition and in ongoing maintainance would have ( and did ) make the AS/400 look like a bargain. Not to mention that we would have had to pay thru the nose to get the software needed written.
Hardware: yes, it has the same CPU, but that CPU is doing business, not waiting for IO completion. All that kind of stuff is pushed out to the devices, which are generally very smart comparied to PC hardware. *That* is part of what you are paying the extra for. Dont buy it if it isnt usefull to you, but dont say dont buy it, if it is. One size does not fit all.
I used to work with an AS/400. Had a drive failure ( dolts ( not IBM ) installing drives had set the input voltage to wrong setting, messed up controller ). The machine halted, warned us about the problem. Dolts came back, made temp fix, got the drive array back up. Machine just resumed what it was about, no additional problems.
We decided to upgrade the processor in our AS/400. The new one was the PowerPC based unit. The old one was whatever was in use before that. I had worked with the IBM service person before, so he let me do the upgrade. Did a PTF like HAL upgrade, shut down the machine, slid out old card with CPU on it, slid in new card with CPU on it. IPL, and away we went. Everything worked just as before, except faster.
Not so long ago, recalling the good experiences I had had in the past with HP printers, I made the decision to replace a malfuntioning Xerox printer with an HP printer. Got the printer, connected it to the wife's machine, no problems at this print. Didnt keep track of the setup card. 149.95 or something very like that, thought I had a good bargain.
Some time goes by, we are moving and we pack up the wife's machine, and just run from mine. Connect the printer to my machine, right? Right, except see the point about not keeping the setup card from the above. I try to connect it, it isnt the straightforward "connect the USB cable, install the software" I had expected. Well, then I remember/ am refered to the setup card. Thought to myself, "i'll search the HP help site, it's gotta be there". No, it is not. A reference to where I can *buy* the card is there. I think I must be misreading things, so I email their tech support. Get an email with very bad instructions on how to find what I need. Except that I needed to re-email to get clarification as the instructions were not correct. Amended instructions ( finally ) take me ( suprise ) back to the "buy the card" link.
Price? 104 USD. Oh, nice glossy stock and all. Does not seem like a good price to me.
So, two things follow from this.
A: ( In two parts yet. ) Submit email on my experiences, letting them know that that does not sit well with me. P2, shortly thereafter, I get a followup email, how did I like the tech support, did they answer the question. Send in response that no, while the tech support nominally answered the question, that the question should not have needed posing in the first place, and what do they think they are doing? ( all nice and professional... ) Never did get a response to either. I am sure it was all deleted soonest by someone in the heirarchy.
B: Used vague recollection from previous install to wife's machine to poke and prod until I have it working.....
Bottom line: Not buying another. Extortion should not be rewarded in my opinion.
Misspelling intentional.
Population control, extra oil, additional land being freed from being used for burial grounds. All good, right?
The problem with that is that you perpetuate the "average lay user". I.E. without the education, they stay dumb.
In the request there was a clause about not reordering documents pages and such. But nothing about it being encrypted.
Sorry, good idea, but we have a blockage there.
Send them all that, but encrypt it. Then it will be a DCMA violation for them to read it!
I shouldnt have to add to the subject.
Thanks!
I have stumbled on them myself from time to time. I dont know how to avoid them completely myself. Do you? If so, how?
Open source gets one speaker *chosen by MS*.
Let someone affiliated with Open Source chose their champion, then the "open and honest" becomes a bit more believable. As it is, it is propaganda.
Not to take away from your good point about the inequality in the numbers....
I let my son use my wife's computor to go look up airplane pictures. He is 11, is beginning to learn how to use a browser and search engines. So, I figure OK, let him learn. Well, what happens when he accidently clicks on a web page that has one of the "do you want to install" things on it? This is not unsolicted email, not p2p. And these sites are such that you cant tell you are going to get the treatment until *after* you have clicked the link.
/. was right on for this problem.
OK, I can tell him to always click no. But they word the text such that persons of average adult learning and intelligence think that saying yes is a good thing. So what is an 11 year old going to do? And how about if it is one of those sites that continually brings the "do you want to install" prompt back up if you answer "no". Try it sometime, it is not fun for me. He is going to get fed up and answer yes ( which is exactly what they want... ).
I think that "pure software" act I saw here on
I would reserve that as the name for the induction process.
"You have been EnDarle'd in the SCO hall of shame. Here is your Elmer."
Has a turbo-prop engine, not a turbofan. Dont know about the bombardier, but it may be the same. The 747 has turbofan engines. The C-130, designed for short field, rough field existance is likely more "proof" from FOD to the engines. Some visuals/descriptions on the engines for you.
Nothing is illegal until we as a society decide that we do not wish to accept the behaviour in question. Likewise, nothing need remain illegal once we as a society decide that the behaviour in question is not wrong / bad / hurting of others.
Nothing in the law ought to be cast in stone.