People are looking at things like G5 and thinking "home machine". Sure, not everyone - you can buy a PC for much less.
It could be that long term, Windows could end up losing share. Macs appeal to the aesthetics (like they look nice in your lounge) whilst Linux is what geeks want. If I wanted a machine for just surfing the web, word processing, email and I didn't want every game under the sun, I'd seriously consider a Mac.
So instead, the candidates pander to those seats that are marginal?
Is Texas big on Kerry's campaign? Or New York important to Bush? Bottom line - these states are sidelined because they don't matter to candidates. So, instead of your "meat growers get screwed" you have "non swing areas get screwed".
The problem (and we have it here in the UK) is it's a vicious cycle.
People won't vote for smaller parties because they feel it's a wasted vote. And because they don't vote for them, the parties don't get a say.
Parties like the Lib Dems poll at something like 20+% but end up with less than 10% of the seats because their vote is spread across the country, and so they lose a lot of seats.
My Tungsten E gives me plenty of charge. OK, not as long as batteries, but plenty of charge. Has SD card slot for putting your ebooks on/off or use the internal memory (even with a PDF reader, Java, real player and a whole bunch of stuff, it's still got 17mb of memory left).
In the UK, cost around $200 but probably less there.
I had a pocket PC for a short time (accidentally trashed it) and I hated using it.
Sure, it had x, y and z features, but it just wasn't as easy as a Palm.
To me, a PDA isn't about processor speed, memory and all that. It's much more about a human experience. Like, when I use a mobile, the menu navigation is one of the most important things to me.
The proof of the pudding is that it didn't organise me, and I didn't record the things in it I should have.
I've now got a Tungsten E, and I'm smiling. It's just a joy to use and not very expensive.
For me, I use it as the time and address organiser mostly.
I work on client sites, as well as home and meetings with people, and can keep that information with me whereever I go. Whether it's sitting on a train, on a site or in a meeting. I can sync the information up and down with my PC too.
The problem with phones - not enough richness of information and (this is the clincher) can't check someone else's number while I'm talking to someone else.
The problem with just using a laptop - bootup times and not to hand. I don't want to have to get my laptop out so that I get someone's number when I'm standing in an airport terminal.
I also have a few little apps for things like timesheets and I store a few little PDFs with reference material on. One thing is sometimes remember equivalent commands between different programming languages, or ASCII code tables. I should put a regex on in there too.
I often feel uncomfortable taking a laptop out at a client site which I don't with a PDA.
One thing to be said, though. I just bought a new one, and I'm not prepared to spend huge amounts of money on it. I've skipped out on bluetooth,wi-fi and I don't know about video, because I don't care. I don't want to use if for word documents or excel. If I want to do anything like input, word, excel, surfing the net, or viewing video, that's what my laptop is for.
I had this discussion with someone a few years ago and how it was illegal. When asked, the guy couldn't tell me what law I would be breaking, though.
One thing that gets people to buy R1/R3 is lack of choice, not so much price.
Ironically, I think the whole thing has backfired. People who maybe had never thought of buying from companies in the Far East find that the process isn't difficult and that the company delivers well. And the next time, maybe it won't be because of choice, but because of price. The media companies have probably opened the market in a way that it wouldn't have happened naturally.
Granted, he was one of the pioneers in the Free Software movement, but what's he done in the past 12 months? I'd say that PJ on the Groklaw site has achieved more in the past 12 months.
I'm normally sceptical when someone applies "at least" to numbers as small as these.
If someone says "at least 100 times a year", that's fair as it suggests a large number, where saying "125 times one year, 136 times the next" would be a bit pointless.
But saying "at least 2 or 3 times a year"... what? You stopped counting after that? You can't recall whether it was 2, 3 or maybe even 4 times a year?
Most of the problems don't sound like Linux problems per se.
"the only option available to the company was one from Oracle Corp"
And the problem with that is what? Oracle doesn't do everything that SQL server does? OK, maybe they don't have 100% parity, but some fantastically huge companies manage perfectly fine with Oracle. For goodness sakes, it's a SQL database engine, and a very fine one at that.
I've worked on a lot of stuff since (VB, Access, PHP ,.net) and I see people having to use classes when in COBOL you could just use multiple levels in the data division to represent a complex data structure.
For data processing, there's still really not much better.
Most business users aren't spending their money on software, but someone else's. So, they'll buy whatever doesn't get them fired. It's also hard to change a business because interoperability with other companies is so important.
For home users, it's free and mostly they have far simpler requirements - letters, homework etc. I've already converted a few people. Small mom and pop businesses and charities are also a good bet.
"Any business that wants to do business with the EU needs to use ISO-compliant documents. Here's the software that works with this, or alternatively, here's the standard...".
I've been thinking about whether a server based mail merge solution would be possible with OOo. Get users to put some documents on a server with references to tags, and overnight, a program merges in the data from a database and the documents get generated and ready for printing the next day (or even mailed to a bureau).
Being on a server, you could even make it so that external people could control it via the web.
First, I'd never use a recommended word without double checking it elsewhere, regardless of the WP. If I've got a word wrong, I probably just got a typo and know the real word, anyway.
As for words missing, why not add them in, or submit them back to the OOo project?
It was also that historically the sources of media were in a very small number of hands. If you owned a newspaper or a TV station, you could get a story out to millions quite quickly. This also meant that various "arrangements" could be made. If you dish the dirt, what's the chance of your newspaper getting that celeb interview?
Now, anyone can publish. I can find thousands of blogs per day. OK, most of them will contain posts about "this week, my cat had a vaccination", but people will gravitate towards the good content.
About 4.5UKP here, so that's less than $9 (I think about 8 but check).
The thing is, don't buy a burner that can't do DL because the prices will go down. The DL burners are only about 5-10UKP more than single layer and personally I'd rather not have to go buy another one.
And anyone with a clue knows that it's going to be very profitable without Blockbuster or someone else being in the equation.
I had cable, and they were constantly plugging their pay-per-view (that is, view it right now only) and it cost a shade less than the video rental which I could watch anytime in about a 24 hour period (and non-top titles, can often rent for 48 hours).
How much is it? The site appears to be reluctant to tell me, like so many other bloody sites now. They all want me to sign up for a free subscription or enter my zip code/email address before they'll let me see.
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People are looking at things like G5 and thinking "home machine". Sure, not everyone - you can buy a PC for much less.
It could be that long term, Windows could end up losing share. Macs appeal to the aesthetics (like they look nice in your lounge) whilst Linux is what geeks want. If I wanted a machine for just surfing the web, word processing, email and I didn't want every game under the sun, I'd seriously consider a Mac.
Is Texas big on Kerry's campaign? Or New York important to Bush? Bottom line - these states are sidelined because they don't matter to candidates. So, instead of your "meat growers get screwed" you have "non swing areas get screwed".
People won't vote for smaller parties because they feel it's a wasted vote. And because they don't vote for them, the parties don't get a say.
Parties like the Lib Dems poll at something like 20+% but end up with less than 10% of the seats because their vote is spread across the country, and so they lose a lot of seats.
In the UK, cost around $200 but probably less there.
Sure, it had x, y and z features, but it just wasn't as easy as a Palm.
To me, a PDA isn't about processor speed, memory and all that. It's much more about a human experience. Like, when I use a mobile, the menu navigation is one of the most important things to me.
The proof of the pudding is that it didn't organise me, and I didn't record the things in it I should have.
I've now got a Tungsten E, and I'm smiling. It's just a joy to use and not very expensive.
I work on client sites, as well as home and meetings with people, and can keep that information with me whereever I go. Whether it's sitting on a train, on a site or in a meeting. I can sync the information up and down with my PC too.
The problem with phones - not enough richness of information and (this is the clincher) can't check someone else's number while I'm talking to someone else.
The problem with just using a laptop - bootup times and not to hand. I don't want to have to get my laptop out so that I get someone's number when I'm standing in an airport terminal.
I also have a few little apps for things like timesheets and I store a few little PDFs with reference material on. One thing is sometimes remember equivalent commands between different programming languages, or ASCII code tables. I should put a regex on in there too.
I often feel uncomfortable taking a laptop out at a client site which I don't with a PDA.
One thing to be said, though. I just bought a new one, and I'm not prepared to spend huge amounts of money on it. I've skipped out on bluetooth,wi-fi and I don't know about video, because I don't care. I don't want to use if for word documents or excel. If I want to do anything like input, word, excel, surfing the net, or viewing video, that's what my laptop is for.
The only reason they aren't selling enough is partly the price, partly the number for sale (although I think that is gradually disappearing).
If Sony can deliver something cheaper that meets people's need, then maybe people won't save up for the iPod, but will buy the Sony instead.
One thing that gets people to buy R1/R3 is lack of choice, not so much price.
Ironically, I think the whole thing has backfired. People who maybe had never thought of buying from companies in the Far East find that the process isn't difficult and that the company delivers well. And the next time, maybe it won't be because of choice, but because of price. The media companies have probably opened the market in a way that it wouldn't have happened naturally.
I'm watching a lot of "alternative" movies. Things from Europe, US documentaries and independent cinema.
Some of the American TV is better than most American movies we get in the UK - things like The Sopranos and Nip/Tuck.
Jersey isn't in the EU.
Granted, he was one of the pioneers in the Free Software movement, but what's he done in the past 12 months? I'd say that PJ on the Groklaw site has achieved more in the past 12 months.
And of course, it won't be by a government who were just a little economical with the truth over Iraq.
If someone says "at least 100 times a year", that's fair as it suggests a large number, where saying "125 times one year, 136 times the next" would be a bit pointless.
But saying "at least 2 or 3 times a year"... what? You stopped counting after that? You can't recall whether it was 2, 3 or maybe even 4 times a year?
Most of the problems don't sound like Linux problems per se.
"the only option available to the company was one from Oracle Corp"
And the problem with that is what? Oracle doesn't do everything that SQL server does? OK, maybe they don't have 100% parity, but some fantastically huge companies manage perfectly fine with Oracle. For goodness sakes, it's a SQL database engine, and a very fine one at that.
I've worked on a lot of stuff since (VB, Access, PHP , .net) and I see people having to use classes when in COBOL you could just use multiple levels in the data division to represent a complex data structure.
For data processing, there's still really not much better.
Most business users aren't spending their money on software, but someone else's. So, they'll buy whatever doesn't get them fired. It's also hard to change a business because interoperability with other companies is so important.
For home users, it's free and mostly they have far simpler requirements - letters, homework etc. I've already converted a few people. Small mom and pop businesses and charities are also a good bet.
"Any business that wants to do business with the EU needs to use ISO-compliant documents. Here's the software that works with this, or alternatively, here's the standard...".
Being on a server, you could even make it so that external people could control it via the web.
As for words missing, why not add them in, or submit them back to the OOo project?
Now, anyone can publish. I can find thousands of blogs per day. OK, most of them will contain posts about "this week, my cat had a vaccination", but people will gravitate towards the good content.
I thought that they degraded quite fast? Then again, if the backups are per day/week, I guess that they'll be replaced in plenty of time.
The thing is, don't buy a burner that can't do DL because the prices will go down. The DL burners are only about 5-10UKP more than single layer and personally I'd rather not have to go buy another one.
I had cable, and they were constantly plugging their pay-per-view (that is, view it right now only) and it cost a shade less than the video rental which I could watch anytime in about a 24 hour period (and non-top titles, can often rent for 48 hours).
How much is it? The site appears to be reluctant to tell me, like so many other bloody sites now. They all want me to sign up for a free subscription or enter my zip code/email address before they'll let me see.