The "you wouldn't steal a car" thing makes me really mad. I've rented/bought the film, idiots. You don't need to tell me.
How about something at the start with the cast and crew saying "Thank you for paying for this film. We appreciate it". Real customers feel better, and those who ripped it might feel some guilt if they see it.
I was about to say "so what exactly are the problems".
This would be a great thing for slashdotters to do. Approach this organisation and say "what do you need, accessibility-wise with ODF", and get them to detail how it impairs particular disabilities, solve them, and make the problem go away.
I too worked with a blind programmer. I remember his concern that as software development was going towards GUI-based development, how this would affect him.
The problem is that they are providing an unlimited IP service for the price.
This is like a lot of things. Someone provides an "unlimited" service, but actually can't do it as "unlimited", so they have to restrict how you use it.
Personally, I like simple, honest and transparent pricing that are based in reality. There's always a trade-off, that some customers on a price plan will cost you more than others, but when I see "unlimited internet" deals, you know there's small print. They aren't going to want customers who are constantly plugged in, constantly downloading, because they'll lose money on them.
Capitalism has failed? Are you kidding? There's only one system that's failed in the past 100 years - communism.
Most ex-communist countries are taking on capitalism. China, Vietnam, Cuba, Russia and Eastern Europe.
There's nothing wrong with the system. The problems are more about people being willing to let cronyism take place. To let government grant priveledges to one group over another. Because they are more worried about dumb stuff like what a president did with an intern than how something affects their own rights.
If you opt for the short-term, and go proprietary, you'll perhaps have a lot less trouble right now. But in the long term, you'll pay for it in lots of ways, like broken protocols, product support ending, and so forth.
The key thing is to understand the downside of proprietary solutions. ASP.NET is very sophisticated and has a fast time-to-market, but what happens if Microsoft decide to abandon it like they did with VB6?
A lot of corporates are going to stick with XP, because it works, and because they have no need for Vista features. The time when people would move up an OS because version X required a new OS are over. There's nothing compelling for an upgrade.
Moving to Vista is expensive in terms of product and time for upgrade. The most likely thing is that businesses will upgrade when their hardware dies.
I've worked in a number of corporates, and I've never seen anyone use Word in any more of an advanced way than me. And I run OOo Writer for my own developments.
It's got numbering, table of contents, styles and tables. It's advanced enough.
EP IV is a regular action film, not a million miles away from old entertainment starring Errol Flynn.
But, it's a really well executed action film, and completely gripping from the moment that the imperial star destroyer appears on the screen. But underlying the fact that it looked like nothing else before is that you watch it and get interested in the story.
Toy Story, The Matrix and Star Wars are nothing without the story. The technology, in all cases created a visual impact, but they also had strong stories.
Personally, I think that Tron is shit. As a concept, it's a great idea, technically groundbreaking, but it's poorly executed. It needed more work on the script, and perhaps needed to be a bit darker. In a better Disney period, it could have been a lot better.
Disney could remake it as a great movie. They've got the rights. They've just got some great people on scripts and computers.
I, and some others are moving more towards open source.
A lot of VB6 people feel some strong resentment that a lot of their indepth and detailed experience in building VB is going down the trash can. Go FOSS, and things evolve.
I'm surprised that no-one is offering a subscription-based web database equivalent to MS Access. It seems to me like a winning idea, particularly as it could then be more easily shared around the world.
That 40 billion is owned by the shareholders of Microsoft.
If I had shares in Microsoft, and the price hadn't moved in years, and I wasn't getting earnings to match the current P/E, I'd either be selling my shares (and deflating the price) or wanting a piece of that.
Capital doing nothing is not a situtation that shareholders want.
If Microsoft make same profits as last year, shareholders won't be happy. Even if MS make a small profit gain, they won't be happy.
Microsoft stock has quite a high Price/Earning ratio. If people think that the stock doesn't have a lot further to go, people will start thinking it's overvalued.
I was only saying to a friend the other day about my ICL mainframe days, and how it ran completely rock solid (crashed once in 7 years due to a disk head crash). When Windows came along, and we got our first servers, I was quite shocked. They were rebooting twice a week.
Windows has sadly lowered the expectation amongst people. They expect problems, and it's appalling. You wouldn't expect a car to cut out when driving in the fast lane for no apparant reason.
Now, I don't get crashes or BSODs as such, but why should I have to reboot to install some software (something I've learnt I don't have to do in Ubuntu). Why does Explorer cack out on me sometimes. Why, after installing lots of applications, does it take up to 3 seconds from pressing the start button, to the preliminary menu appearing (even though maybe 1 of those applications is on there).
OK, my cross-platform experience is mostly deploying to LAMP. When I've done PHP/MySQL work in the past, the development has been on Windows boxes, then converted to Linux servers. I've not had much to do with the servers, beyond copying scripts over, generating some DB tables and then running some tests. I suppose I should put down that I've done AMP development to be fair.
With regards to my DB experience, that's mostly been on MS Access and MSSQL with some MySQL too.
The Python work was completely done under Windows, and deployed only to a Nokia Series 60 Symbian. That code's never been near Linux.
I would consider myself a new user to Linux, particularly desktop Linux. But I've been around all sorts of platforms.
With regards to your last point, I've not asked questions there, but ubuntuforums.org has frequently helped me when I've googled for certain keywords. I've never seen anyone acting like an asshole.
This name might raise the amount of marketing space for the console.
However, with a name that seems to be so bad, they are going to have to deliver an amazing console now. Something where people don't feel any embarassment telling their friends.
I've been predicting something a little like Sun's vision to appear. The problem with what Sun came up with is that they were too early. Connections were too slow, bandwidth too pricey, most internet users were still technical early-adopters who could maintain their machines and viruses/malware/zombies hadn't reached the point they are at now.
There is a question over how much people use Windows because of Office, though.
People want applications, and one of the biggest applications they want is MS Office, which in part means they have to run Windows. There's also other factors, too, and they may be more important, but Office does help to keep people using Windows over Linux.
In other words he is getting help because he has dared to be critical of The One True OS. They weren't 'just answering his question.' They had to have it squeezed and punched and trampled out of them.
The answers prove nothing. Just because people answered him doesn't mean that if he asked the same questions in a decent forum, that he wouldn't get an answer there either. I recently posted a question on a forum:-
Hi,
I'm something of a new user to Linux, and I'm running Ubuntu. I'd previously listed to LUG Radio via Windows and the Juice reader.
Can anyone suggest how I can do podcast stuff on Ubuntu?
I'd describe that as a sensible post, and I even declared my self as a new user.
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How about something at the start with the cast and crew saying "Thank you for paying for this film. We appreciate it". Real customers feel better, and those who ripped it might feel some guilt if they see it.
I was about to say "so what exactly are the problems".
This would be a great thing for slashdotters to do. Approach this organisation and say "what do you need, accessibility-wise with ODF", and get them to detail how it impairs particular disabilities, solve them, and make the problem go away.
I too worked with a blind programmer. I remember his concern that as software development was going towards GUI-based development, how this would affect him.
This is like a lot of things. Someone provides an "unlimited" service, but actually can't do it as "unlimited", so they have to restrict how you use it.
Personally, I like simple, honest and transparent pricing that are based in reality. There's always a trade-off, that some customers on a price plan will cost you more than others, but when I see "unlimited internet" deals, you know there's small print. They aren't going to want customers who are constantly plugged in, constantly downloading, because they'll lose money on them.
Most ex-communist countries are taking on capitalism. China, Vietnam, Cuba, Russia and Eastern Europe.
There's nothing wrong with the system. The problems are more about people being willing to let cronyism take place. To let government grant priveledges to one group over another. Because they are more worried about dumb stuff like what a president did with an intern than how something affects their own rights.
If you opt for the short-term, and go proprietary, you'll perhaps have a lot less trouble right now. But in the long term, you'll pay for it in lots of ways, like broken protocols, product support ending, and so forth.
The key thing is to understand the downside of proprietary solutions. ASP.NET is very sophisticated and has a fast time-to-market, but what happens if Microsoft decide to abandon it like they did with VB6?
Moving to Vista is expensive in terms of product and time for upgrade. The most likely thing is that businesses will upgrade when their hardware dies.
It's got numbering, table of contents, styles and tables. It's advanced enough.
Goes to show - I hadn't even noticed most of those enhancements. Then again, I first went aged 8, and the 2nd time I was about 28.
But, it's a really well executed action film, and completely gripping from the moment that the imperial star destroyer appears on the screen. But underlying the fact that it looked like nothing else before is that you watch it and get interested in the story.
Toy Story, The Matrix and Star Wars are nothing without the story. The technology, in all cases created a visual impact, but they also had strong stories.
Disney could remake it as a great movie. They've got the rights. They've just got some great people on scripts and computers.
If it's not there to help tell the story better, to give more depth to characters, then don't add it in.
EP1&2 (not seen 3) are CGI-fests with badly written stories about characters that you cannot form any interest with.
If people were just forgiving of films because they were kids, we'd have sp.editions of Battle Beyond the Stars and The Black Hole.
A lot of VB6 people feel some strong resentment that a lot of their indepth and detailed experience in building VB is going down the trash can. Go FOSS, and things evolve.
I'm surprised that no-one is offering a subscription-based web database equivalent to MS Access. It seems to me like a winning idea, particularly as it could then be more easily shared around the world.
I've been reading Microsoft's website for years telling me how much of a wet dream the new version of Office is, when all since 2000 have been tweaks.
If I had shares in Microsoft, and the price hadn't moved in years, and I wasn't getting earnings to match the current P/E, I'd either be selling my shares (and deflating the price) or wanting a piece of that.
Capital doing nothing is not a situtation that shareholders want.
If Microsoft make same profits as last year, shareholders won't be happy. Even if MS make a small profit gain, they won't be happy.
Microsoft stock has quite a high Price/Earning ratio. If people think that the stock doesn't have a lot further to go, people will start thinking it's overvalued.
Windows has sadly lowered the expectation amongst people. They expect problems, and it's appalling. You wouldn't expect a car to cut out when driving in the fast lane for no apparant reason.
Now, I don't get crashes or BSODs as such, but why should I have to reboot to install some software (something I've learnt I don't have to do in Ubuntu). Why does Explorer cack out on me sometimes. Why, after installing lots of applications, does it take up to 3 seconds from pressing the start button, to the preliminary menu appearing (even though maybe 1 of those applications is on there).
But I agree, applications are the key to it.
With regards to my DB experience, that's mostly been on MS Access and MSSQL with some MySQL too.
The Python work was completely done under Windows, and deployed only to a Nokia Series 60 Symbian. That code's never been near Linux.
I would consider myself a new user to Linux, particularly desktop Linux. But I've been around all sorts of platforms.
With regards to your last point, I've not asked questions there, but ubuntuforums.org has frequently helped me when I've googled for certain keywords. I've never seen anyone acting like an asshole.
However, with a name that seems to be so bad, they are going to have to deliver an amazing console now. Something where people don't feel any embarassment telling their friends.
I've been predicting something a little like Sun's vision to appear. The problem with what Sun came up with is that they were too early. Connections were too slow, bandwidth too pricey, most internet users were still technical early-adopters who could maintain their machines and viruses/malware/zombies hadn't reached the point they are at now.
People want applications, and one of the biggest applications they want is MS Office, which in part means they have to run Windows. There's also other factors, too, and they may be more important, but Office does help to keep people using Windows over Linux.
The answers prove nothing. Just because people answered him doesn't mean that if he asked the same questions in a decent forum, that he wouldn't get an answer there either. I recently posted a question on a forum:-
Hi,
I'm something of a new user to Linux, and I'm running Ubuntu. I'd previously listed to LUG Radio via Windows and the Juice reader.
Can anyone suggest how I can do podcast stuff on Ubuntu?
I'd describe that as a sensible post, and I even declared my self as a new user.
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