Where I work, we had to install a system by which a person calling 911 from a VoIP phone whould register at the 911 center, showing the address, and even the floor and side of the building.
For example, if you are on the east side of the 4th floor and you dial 911, this info is exactly what must show up on the 911 operators terminal.
I guess this story is true. It explains why the Palm and the Pocket PC have had no luck with sales, and the Zaurus has done so well./sarcasm
People want something that is easy to use, has lots of add of parts (camera, CF readers, network cards), and runs the software they want.
I don't see any reason anyone should buy an OSS handheld, unless they hate MS and Palm that much, or are going to port some of their apps to the device.
"The unit only will control IR sat receivers, half of ours are UHF(sat recv. is in a dif room)."
You mean your remote for the satellite uses UHF to change channels? Wow, never heard of that. How would a normal VCR do this then?
"The unit can not be set to record a program with out the subscription."
I think you are misinformed. (unless Series2 TiVos are VERY different from the Series1 I have had for 5 years). You can TOTALLY use TiVo to record without having program data. You simply select "Manually Record By Time" (or something), and it will ask you for a channel/start time/end time, along with repeat options (every monday, every tuesday and thursday etc..)
I agree that selling the program data is stupid, but I paid for the lifetime subscription when I got it (for 199) and have loved every minute of it.
It's great!
The government can't even figure out a way to keep me from getting a hundred penis enlargement spams a day, but somehow they are going to figure this out?
If someone emails you an exe, and you run it, and it does something to your computer, that isn't exactly Microsoft's fault.
I guess sobig is a.pif and so its kinda confusing to some people, but I don't think you can group SoBig in with other security holes that Microsoft has.
Yea, when I said MS Project, I wasn't sure if one of the linux office suites works with them or not, maybe some of them do.
My point about the tech support and the C:\winnt folder is that there is NO C: on a linux box. If you have a tech support group that has been supporting windows machines, then you are going to have to either have them learn to support linux computers, or hire people that can support them.
If at the end of the day, you are saving a few bucks, or breaking even by using linux, no companies are going to switch. Switching OS's is a "gamble" for an IT manager. If it doesn't work as advertised, then he looks like a total ass to his bosses, and could lose his job. If it works, it needs to be worth that gamble.
Also, (and this is the most important in my mind), big companies don't buy Windows licenses like the mom and pop shops. They buy 1 big ass license.
One of my clients has about 1000 employees (not very big, but not small either), and they have an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft. They pay a big fee at the beginning of they year, and then they can pretty much install all the MS software they want, including upgrading all versions for free.
If you are already paying a big up front cost for the right to upgrade for free, you arn't going to go through the growing pains to roll out linux.
Now, maybe this could convince some companies to move away from the EA with MS and use more linux, but I doupt it, espically with the rising cost of linux (see post on slashdot from 2 days ago).
I think linux is really cool as a product and as an idea, but you have to be more than "better", you have to be *so much* better that people will WANT to switch from what they know and use to what you are offering.
Even if linux were to get to 10%, MS would release a new stripped down version of windows and office for a reduced price to cut into the market that this study says is going to flock to linux because it only takes 2 days of training.
What happens when these people get sent a MS Project file and can't open it, or what happens when they call the support desk and the person tells them to open their c:\winnt folder??
I was recently asked by my client company about their overall processes. I thought to my self... hmmmmm, they could replace their 3000 computers with Macs, but then I wouldn't have a job because everyone knows how to use a Mac, and Mac's never have problems, so I suggested they stay with the platform and software they already paid for.
Seriously.... this is so faulty, so totally stupid, I can't believe it made to/.
There are so many things wrong, I can't even start. So I won't.
Sounds like an expensive, slow, low memory pocket pc.
Please don't say this is a troll because it isn't.
Why is Palm trying to make their devices into what pocket pc's already are?
Why not focus on making cheaper/better projects?
I understand that some people will want a high end palm device, and thats fine, but it seems like palm is really making a push to get back the high end market share from microsoft. Why would someone buy this device when they can get a Dell Axim for 199 bucks?
I think palm would be wise to start selling $50 devices, or continue their push into making the palm OS run on other devices, like the watch that runs PalmOS. (Now THAT is cool!) Build more/better smart phones!
Just my opinion.
Now you are just trolling....
Liberal or conservative, you simply can not make the argument that things are better than they were with Clinton in office. Not just tech jobs too, everything, everything to do with quality of life.
Man... you really don't get it.
I'm not going to bother explaining it to you, because you clearly won't understand the concept.
$400 is a lot? Where do you think the $30,000 that the rich guy gets is coming from? It isn't coming out of thin air, it coes at the expense of the poor people in the country, the ones that actually NEED the federal services that are going to be cut because of the the lack of funds.
I'm an American... and I have to say, although it sucks for me, this is the way it works.
Indians get jobs. Prices for software goes down (or at least should). Americans (and everyone else) can buy more for their $. If jobs for programmers in india shoots up, then so will the $ that they can demand. Hopefully this will lead to more US companies keeping their jobs in the US.
Or maybe I will be working in construction in 5 years...
When this came up a few days ago on slashdot, with the post about "Cylical downturn or new world order", I read a bunch of posts about people relating the software industry to the textile industry, or the steel industry.
Is this a valid comparsion?
When I think of a textile factory I picture a big *factory* with a bunch of low paid employees doing labor. Even if these factories were in the US, I never thought that someone with a Masters degree in Math would be applying for a job at a place like this. Same for the steel industry. My dad worked in a steel mill when he was 15, it wasn't exactly mentally challenging work.
Jobs are moving off shore. No doupt.
But, is the product (code) really comparible with the other industries?
If you think about it, almost any service can be moved off shore right??
Im just wondering about other slashdotters thoughts about the constant comparsion to the software development industry vs. the "making small plastic toys" industry that China totally owns.
When you say form factor, I assume you are talking about the landscape layout, not the height/width stuff, because there are PPCs that are much smaller than this thing.
For keyboards:
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/sep03/Images/Sept03_p18 _1.jpg
They already have integrated keyboards. True, they arn't in landscape mode, but WinCE can easily support landscape mode, you can tweak any ppc to run in landscape. I guess the deal is you wouldn't have the thumbboard in the right spot, and it wouldn't open like a laptop, but M$ has opened the WinCE code so anyone can develop their own CE device so I don't see why someone can't put out something just like what Sony made on CE.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't the best part of Google the way it uses the number of links to a specific website to help rate the supposed value of that specific page?
I don't link between my own documents on my computer, so that is out the window.
Of course, I do have the MS Search, so I am going to give it a try.
Where I work, we had to install a system by which a person calling 911 from a VoIP phone whould register at the 911 center, showing the address, and even the floor and side of the building.
For example, if you are on the east side of the 4th floor and you dial 911, this info is exactly what must show up on the 911 operators terminal.
... Desktop and/or laptop.
Argh... worst..joke..ever.
I quit.
"nm" means no message... so duh, there isn't anything here...
Ok well if you ARE reading this... why the hell would anyone want this? My god.
I guess this story is true. It explains why the Palm and the Pocket PC have had no luck with sales, and the Zaurus has done so well. /sarcasm
People want something that is easy to use, has lots of add of parts (camera, CF readers, network cards), and runs the software they want.
I don't see any reason anyone should buy an OSS handheld, unless they hate MS and Palm that much, or are going to port some of their apps to the device.
Don't you mean that this is the death of the cell phone?
The functionality of a cell phone is so small compared with todays mobile computer devices.
The simple cellphone capability is being absorbed into SmartPhones, Palms, and PocketPCs.
Cell Phones are dying, not PDAs. Duh!
"The unit only will control IR sat receivers, half of ours are UHF(sat recv. is in a dif room)." You mean your remote for the satellite uses UHF to change channels? Wow, never heard of that. How would a normal VCR do this then? "The unit can not be set to record a program with out the subscription." I think you are misinformed. (unless Series2 TiVos are VERY different from the Series1 I have had for 5 years). You can TOTALLY use TiVo to record without having program data. You simply select "Manually Record By Time" (or something), and it will ask you for a channel/start time/end time, along with repeat options (every monday, every tuesday and thursday etc..) I agree that selling the program data is stupid, but I paid for the lifetime subscription when I got it (for 199) and have loved every minute of it. It's great!
1.21 Giga-Watts!!!
The government can't even figure out a way to keep me from getting a hundred penis enlargement spams a day, but somehow they are going to figure this out?
"Oh Come On"
"Infected computers were programmed to automatically launch an attack on a Web site operated by Microsoft, which the software maker easily blunted"
I guess if taking the site offline counts, then this statement would be true.
So I get up and take a step toward the coffee machine, I guess I am ALSO "one step closer" to China!
If someone emails you an exe, and you run it, and it does something to your computer, that isn't exactly Microsoft's fault.
.pif and so its kinda confusing to some people, but I don't think you can group SoBig in with other security holes that Microsoft has.
I guess sobig is a
Yea, when I said MS Project, I wasn't sure if one of the linux office suites works with them or not, maybe some of them do.
My point about the tech support and the C:\winnt folder is that there is NO C: on a linux box. If you have a tech support group that has been supporting windows machines, then you are going to have to either have them learn to support linux computers, or hire people that can support them.
If at the end of the day, you are saving a few bucks, or breaking even by using linux, no companies are going to switch. Switching OS's is a "gamble" for an IT manager. If it doesn't work as advertised, then he looks like a total ass to his bosses, and could lose his job. If it works, it needs to be worth that gamble.
Also, (and this is the most important in my mind), big companies don't buy Windows licenses like the mom and pop shops. They buy 1 big ass license.
One of my clients has about 1000 employees (not very big, but not small either), and they have an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft. They pay a big fee at the beginning of they year, and then they can pretty much install all the MS software they want, including upgrading all versions for free.
If you are already paying a big up front cost for the right to upgrade for free, you arn't going to go through the growing pains to roll out linux.
Now, maybe this could convince some companies to move away from the EA with MS and use more linux, but I doupt it, espically with the rising cost of linux (see post on slashdot from 2 days ago).
I think linux is really cool as a product and as an idea, but you have to be more than "better", you have to be *so much* better that people will WANT to switch from what they know and use to what you are offering.
This will NEVER happen by 2008.
As another reader put it "Oh Come On".
Even if linux were to get to 10%, MS would release a new stripped down version of windows and office for a reduced price to cut into the market that this study says is going to flock to linux because it only takes 2 days of training.
What happens when these people get sent a MS Project file and can't open it, or what happens when they call the support desk and the person tells them to open their c:\winnt folder??
Come on people, you are starter than these posts.
You figured us out!
/.
I was recently asked by my client company about their overall processes. I thought to my self... hmmmmm, they could replace their 3000 computers with Macs, but then I wouldn't have a job because everyone knows how to use a Mac, and Mac's never have problems, so I suggested they stay with the platform and software they already paid for.
Seriously.... this is so faulty, so totally stupid, I can't believe it made to
There are so many things wrong, I can't even start. So I won't.
This was modded up as Funny...
/. would give??
But isn't this the response that a lot of people on
Isn't that part of the issue here?
I have a wireless account through TMobile, so I go to borders and start working... The distractions at home are too much sometimes.
Is this what it takes to get posted on slashdot.... making a bike out of bamboo?
What is the world coming to?
Sounds like an expensive, slow, low memory pocket pc. Please don't say this is a troll because it isn't. Why is Palm trying to make their devices into what pocket pc's already are? Why not focus on making cheaper/better projects? I understand that some people will want a high end palm device, and thats fine, but it seems like palm is really making a push to get back the high end market share from microsoft. Why would someone buy this device when they can get a Dell Axim for 199 bucks? I think palm would be wise to start selling $50 devices, or continue their push into making the palm OS run on other devices, like the watch that runs PalmOS. (Now THAT is cool!) Build more/better smart phones! Just my opinion.
Now you are just trolling.... Liberal or conservative, you simply can not make the argument that things are better than they were with Clinton in office. Not just tech jobs too, everything, everything to do with quality of life.
Man... you really don't get it. I'm not going to bother explaining it to you, because you clearly won't understand the concept. $400 is a lot? Where do you think the $30,000 that the rich guy gets is coming from? It isn't coming out of thin air, it coes at the expense of the poor people in the country, the ones that actually NEED the federal services that are going to be cut because of the the lack of funds.
I'm an American... and I have to say, although it sucks for me, this is the way it works.
Indians get jobs.
Prices for software goes down (or at least should).
Americans (and everyone else) can buy more for their $.
If jobs for programmers in india shoots up, then so will the $ that they can demand. Hopefully this will lead to more US companies keeping their jobs in the US.
Or maybe I will be working in construction in 5 years...
When this came up a few days ago on slashdot, with the post about "Cylical downturn or new world order", I read a bunch of posts about people relating the software industry to the textile industry, or the steel industry.
Is this a valid comparsion?
When I think of a textile factory I picture a big *factory* with a bunch of low paid employees doing labor. Even if these factories were in the US, I never thought that someone with a Masters degree in Math would be applying for a job at a place like this. Same for the steel industry. My dad worked in a steel mill when he was 15, it wasn't exactly mentally challenging work.
Jobs are moving off shore. No doupt.
But, is the product (code) really comparible with the other industries?
If you think about it, almost any service can be moved off shore right??
Im just wondering about other slashdotters thoughts about the constant comparsion to the software development industry vs. the "making small plastic toys" industry that China totally owns.
When you say form factor, I assume you are talking about the landscape layout, not the height/width stuff, because there are PPCs that are much smaller than this thing. For keyboards: http://www.pocketpcmag.com/sep03/Images/Sept03_p18 _1.jpg
They already have integrated keyboards. True, they arn't in landscape mode, but WinCE can easily support landscape mode, you can tweak any ppc to run in landscape. I guess the deal is you wouldn't have the thumbboard in the right spot, and it wouldn't open like a laptop, but M$ has opened the WinCE code so anyone can develop their own CE device so I don't see why someone can't put out something just like what Sony made on CE.
Too bad it's running ANY version of the Palm OS.
I think it would be really sweet if Sony started making something like the Zarius, or a PocketPC even.