Smoking good business sense I'd say. Freelance programmers can easily do work for schools or it could be hired out to contractors as it is already. And once that is done since every one is in the shary fuzzy feel good mood the software will most likely be OSS as well; meaning that other schools and even families of school children can use the software (and modify it) at no charge. It will open up a whole new market that is yet to be tapped.
Agreed, the local gaming cafe started out trying to make big bucks but failed painfully. Soon after they redefined their business model and made it a fun place to go crash after school or work and built up a core group of dedicated gamers who I would suggest are the ones keeping them afloat. When added with the 'off the street' crowd that you get anyway they are now doing well for themselves and slowly getting better. And I'll be clear on that - VERY - slowly getting better but it will continue. I believe the same thing can easily be applied to a game store.
I wish you luck and I only wish you were down the road from me instead of our crappy EB where you have to await 30 mins to buy a game.
At my work place we are (painfully) slowly moving away from our existing Microsoft Windows Servers and replacing them with Linux and Solaris solutions. Note things like our Exchange servers are staying in place as there are no suitable equivalents though most other things are being moved across. Why? Because Microsoft's support is a joke compared even to unofficial IRC support channels for FOSS, it costs far to much when compared to Free* (*plus training, installation, support) solutions, and we dislike the vendor lock in Activation and licenses that are forced on those using Microsoft Server software; we paid good money only to be treated like pirates and have to deal with those systems failing and causing server problems, it is Microsoft's problem and making it our problem is a punch to the face.
Right now as I type this I'm converting a Windows 2k3 Server to Ubuntu 5.10 (yes I know...) for another company in towns that I'm mates with the boss as they simply can't afford to deal with support issues on a mission critical server. They need some thing that Just Works(tm) and that is Linux (I tried pitching Solaris 10! I really did!).
From my look on the Industry (note I'm in Australia) I see it as being more of a case that people are looking at Linux seriously, testing the water, liking it, and then attempting to migrate their servers. Along with hardcore Linux users who refuse to move to Microsoft (Rubbish) Software I see this as the Linux server market growing and I seriously doubt Microsoft dominance over Unix really exists. (Then again...There are a lot of Exchange servers out there...)
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...I am so turning my phone off when we roll over to this version of MS Office. The cries of pain from people in the offices when they try to make sense of this new (borked!) UI will be horrid. Dibs not retraining them or pushing for OpenOffice which will keep the existing UI!
Because our whole city wide wireless network relies on hacked up antennas of many descriptions including cantenna's... Heh, lucky we live in Australia where stupidity comes in smaller doses from our law enforcement and thanks to the Free Trade Agreement our new American Overlords!
I have to agree as well. (Linux plug coming up, though in a suggestive fashion, not a "use Linux" because it is better way.)
We have a Ubuntu Linux test box here at work for our proxy (which has a similar configuration). We click the nice little red icon in the top right hand corner and then click update. This is followed by all of the hard work of forgetting about it completely and going onto more important things while it automatically does everything (updating etc) for us, which let me tell you is a huge strain compared to how easy Windows Update is... (*Ahem*)
Though the ability to only have two or three small patches at a time allows us to _directly_ notice and quickly find out which patch caused the problem on our test box. This means we are far more willing to update as soon as patches are out to test them on our box and then - if they work nicely - update our main ubuntu proxy.
When it comes to fighting with Windows Update or having a very nice and smooth update with Aptitude (or RPM, or Emerge, or...etc...) I know which I prefer. So Microsoft really needs to look at this angle of things as it is possibly a cause of the lack of regular updating on the side of home users and sys admins.
I personally think people are also looking at this the wrong way. If Microsoft had a 24 hour turn around it means they _would_ patch their software, some thing I could only dream of as a sysadmin...
Open security holes that have no chance of being patched in msie anyone?
My point of view - as a sys admin of a mainly Windows with some UNIX and Linux servers network - is that if Microsoft started releasing patches and fixes to start with (and then maybe we could look at doing it regularly) the web world and Windows itself would be a safer place.
Also less stressful, though I guess my sanity isn't their concern...:|
I'm guessing that is USD...
I paid $600AUD for my iPod which never leaves my right pocket. I cannot live without it. I'm looking at this and thinking this could take its place living in my left pocket as some thing I also wouldn't be able to live without.
Looking at the specs and the fact that it is all Linux/FOSS I think it is some thing worth supporting, if it comes in at under $1000AUD I'm going to be down at the shops first day it is out in Australia buying one.:)
I agree completely. Plus the huge cost we have at work when our main servers have to reboot to apply patches. 24 minutes is the fastest the 2k3 server w/ Exchange 2k5 server takes to reboot, it hurts.
Well ish. Microsoft has agreements and the state school system is done for. Though the private schools are looking at getting away from Microsoft. They are being shy of open source but many are working away at them to at least test a change.:) And if we get them to change public schools will follow. I'm currently pushing PHP/mySQL over ASP/Acess in schools in qld and working on getting Frontpage dropped (because it is rubbish). Plus some other projects.:) There is hope!
...It isn't that Intelligent. Like for Gods sake (I'm a Christian) we aren't made that well, one reason I'm questioning my faith, if we are made in Gods image damn he must be a mangle of evolution as well! So many mistakes, so many biological systems that you can look at and think "damn, I could do better than that." Look at our brains, they are a stupid mess of layers for each era that humans needed advancement in, from primitive layers to advanced thought layers, not just one system for advanced thought and control. Female periods, common, once a month is a huge waste of resources where as other animals that have evolved further have better ways of dealing with it while still having the same reproductive merit. The heart! No redundancy! At all! Legs with such limited shock tolerance that they wear out or get damaged easily. Does this sound like the work of a God? Or even some one Intelligent? I'm Intelligent and not even a biologist or an engineer and I can sit down and come up with better designs for many of these things. I believe that church and state should not be the same thing, in any regard, including schools.
"Linux now supports all Vidcon's in the one program." Would be a lovely catch line to my mates who currently use YIM, AIM, MSN (and one uses iChat) just to VIM to their friends. I personally think Linux should be about the choice, and the more choice the better it is!
You say they may have grounds for breach of contract, what part of the contract are you talking about?
I honestly cannot see how this site can be worse than say a blogger who hates x figure head for x government. And when x user pays x dollars they are then entitled to x service. Now I know over in the US of A things run on Capitalism but I thought there was still a thing called consumer rights (right?) and those protect deals. Eg x company can't run off with x users money just because the contract that both party's entered into is going to make them money or they don't feel like it.
I don't care what the sites about or who runs it, if they pay their monthly fees they should get a months worth of hosting subject to the AUP no matter what. (That is part of the free market other wise it wouldn't work.) Or has America lost that logic too?
Multitasking is achieved (as I'm sure you know) but dedicating amounts of concentration into each task, plus keeping up with where you are up to. It does not allow me or anyone to by pass limitations with the body. Just to note my music is low enough so I hear it and the words but also hear the TV which is louder. Plus the fact that I am dumping nearly all of the information as it goes through. Eg out of that TV report I kept 75,000 all up dead and could rise to 100,000 before infections, and that the train that had 800 dead was revised up to 1500 dead - and basically nothing of the song except that it was by INXS and the track was Original Sin (but I don't need to keep the information of the lyrics as I already know them).
I could how ever sing a long to a song while typing this reply (which I am, New Sensation by INXS (from the same cd)) and working out a response to an unrelated question to compiling a kernel without rivafb support from memory to type to another use once I press submit. So on the whole I think I am 'truly' doing the tasks - to the effectiveness that I think it warrants.
I have to be doing at least two things at once other wise I am terribly bored. Even when doing important things for work I have to have the TV on or music or chatting - if they aren't I cannot focus. Plus I enjoy it.
As some one who works in support staff I have never once seen any of the users I support multi-task. Some try but fail. It just isn't some thing that comes to them in their job.
And I disagree with the assumption that when you do several tasks that you are "multi-tasking" (OH NO, THE XMAS SHOPPING ON TOP OF GETTING THIS COFFEE!) as true multi-tasking is doing the actions at the same time. For example I am watching the news on the death tolls in India, listening to a cd of inxs, bitching about this link in irc and typing this reply all at once - all are being thought of at the same time while only limited by the speed of my fingers. (Note that grammar seems to have died.:|)
So yeah I think this is a load of rubbish, I have only seen computer geeks multi-task in any true fashion. Any one else is kidding themselves from what I have seen, if they are getting stressed pretending to multi-task that is their own fault.
...These quakes don't continue. We had a 8.3 down south of Taz (Australia) a few days ago and it is on the same plate. Got me slightly worried that there will be another bigger one. If not this post will probably be funny in a day or so.
I've been rather unhappy with Nvidia and Ati offerings in the way of drivers so I'd happily buy this card. I'm looking to change to a new card in the next six months so if its timing is right it will be good for me.:) Also I would be willing to pay a premium you would expect from R&D in this field plus for the effort. I wish this project well and hope it comes to completion.:)
Mandrake 10 is easier to isntall than windows xp. This is coming from a guy who installed windows xp pro twelve times last month by hand and mandrake 10 four times. So simple...
I recently went to a lan where I played most of the games natively in linux, given that they were opengl based. Some other games I simply booted into windows to play but I now know that these few games (specifically bfv) will run under winex4, at least according to reviews. So I'm not going to give up games just to be a linux user, I'll bring the games with me, even if they have to be emulated. As for 90% of apps? What rubbish, specific apps should run fine in wine if there is no equal in linux but so far I have switched all but two of my windows programs to better open source versions. Those two programs I can live without or emulate perfectly fine without troubles. So really I don't see what is stopping the home users except for the fear of something new. And they had that fear when they learnt to use windows so why not have it again?
I finally got sick of windows two months back. Tried mandrake 10 community and now half of the computers here run on several flavours of *nix. (Debian, slack and mdk.) Windows is now only used for directx games and that wont last long once we get a subscription to winex4.
I personally think linux is now good enough to challenge M$ in the desktop market.
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Smoking good business sense I'd say. Freelance programmers can easily do work for schools or it could be hired out to contractors as it is already. And once that is done since every one is in the shary fuzzy feel good mood the software will most likely be OSS as well; meaning that other schools and even families of school children can use the software (and modify it) at no charge. It will open up a whole new market that is yet to be tapped.
Agreed, the local gaming cafe started out trying to make big bucks but failed painfully. Soon after they redefined their business model and made it a fun place to go crash after school or work and built up a core group of dedicated gamers who I would suggest are the ones keeping them afloat. When added with the 'off the street' crowd that you get anyway they are now doing well for themselves and slowly getting better. And I'll be clear on that - VERY - slowly getting better but it will continue. I believe the same thing can easily be applied to a game store.
I wish you luck and I only wish you were down the road from me instead of our crappy EB where you have to await 30 mins to buy a game.
At my work place we are (painfully) slowly moving away from our existing Microsoft Windows Servers and replacing them with Linux and Solaris solutions. Note things like our Exchange servers are staying in place as there are no suitable equivalents though most other things are being moved across. Why? Because Microsoft's support is a joke compared even to unofficial IRC support channels for FOSS, it costs far to much when compared to Free* (*plus training, installation, support) solutions, and we dislike the vendor lock in Activation and licenses that are forced on those using Microsoft Server software; we paid good money only to be treated like pirates and have to deal with those systems failing and causing server problems, it is Microsoft's problem and making it our problem is a punch to the face. Right now as I type this I'm converting a Windows 2k3 Server to Ubuntu 5.10 (yes I know...) for another company in towns that I'm mates with the boss as they simply can't afford to deal with support issues on a mission critical server. They need some thing that Just Works(tm) and that is Linux (I tried pitching Solaris 10! I really did!). From my look on the Industry (note I'm in Australia) I see it as being more of a case that people are looking at Linux seriously, testing the water, liking it, and then attempting to migrate their servers. Along with hardcore Linux users who refuse to move to Microsoft (Rubbish) Software I see this as the Linux server market growing and I seriously doubt Microsoft dominance over Unix really exists. (Then again...There are a lot of Exchange servers out there...) 2 cents
Because as soon as it is I will own one! :D
Windows loving people above me. :| ..If I had the choice we would 'sidegrade' to openoffice.org2.
...I am so turning my phone off when we roll over to this version of MS Office. The cries of pain from people in the offices when they try to make sense of this new (borked!) UI will be horrid. Dibs not retraining them or pushing for OpenOffice which will keep the existing UI!
Because our whole city wide wireless network relies on hacked up antennas of many descriptions including cantenna's... Heh, lucky we live in Australia where stupidity comes in smaller doses from our law enforcement and thanks to the Free Trade Agreement our new American Overlords!
I have to agree as well. (Linux plug coming up, though in a suggestive fashion, not a "use Linux" because it is better way.)
...etc...) I know which I prefer. So Microsoft really needs to look at this angle of things as it is possibly a cause of the lack of regular updating on the side of home users and sys admins.
:|
We have a Ubuntu Linux test box here at work for our proxy (which has a similar configuration). We click the nice little red icon in the top right hand corner and then click update. This is followed by all of the hard work of forgetting about it completely and going onto more important things while it automatically does everything (updating etc) for us, which let me tell you is a huge strain compared to how easy Windows Update is... (*Ahem*)
Though the ability to only have two or three small patches at a time allows us to _directly_ notice and quickly find out which patch caused the problem on our test box. This means we are far more willing to update as soon as patches are out to test them on our box and then - if they work nicely - update our main ubuntu proxy.
When it comes to fighting with Windows Update or having a very nice and smooth update with Aptitude (or RPM, or Emerge, or
I personally think people are also looking at this the wrong way. If Microsoft had a 24 hour turn around it means they _would_ patch their software, some thing I could only dream of as a sysadmin...
Open security holes that have no chance of being patched in msie anyone?
My point of view - as a sys admin of a mainly Windows with some UNIX and Linux servers network - is that if Microsoft started releasing patches and fixes to start with (and then maybe we could look at doing it regularly) the web world and Windows itself would be a safer place.
Also less stressful, though I guess my sanity isn't their concern...
I'm guessing that is USD... I paid $600AUD for my iPod which never leaves my right pocket. I cannot live without it. I'm looking at this and thinking this could take its place living in my left pocket as some thing I also wouldn't be able to live without. Looking at the specs and the fact that it is all Linux/FOSS I think it is some thing worth supporting, if it comes in at under $1000AUD I'm going to be down at the shops first day it is out in Australia buying one. :)
I agree completely. Plus the huge cost we have at work when our main servers have to reboot to apply patches. 24 minutes is the fastest the 2k3 server w/ Exchange 2k5 server takes to reboot, it hurts.
Well ish. Microsoft has agreements and the state school system is done for. Though the private schools are looking at getting away from Microsoft. They are being shy of open source but many are working away at them to at least test a change. :) And if we get them to change public schools will follow. I'm currently pushing PHP/mySQL over ASP/Acess in schools in qld and working on getting Frontpage dropped (because it is rubbish). Plus some other projects. :) There is hope!
...It isn't that Intelligent. Like for Gods sake (I'm a Christian) we aren't made that well, one reason I'm questioning my faith, if we are made in Gods image damn he must be a mangle of evolution as well! So many mistakes, so many biological systems that you can look at and think "damn, I could do better than that." Look at our brains, they are a stupid mess of layers for each era that humans needed advancement in, from primitive layers to advanced thought layers, not just one system for advanced thought and control. Female periods, common, once a month is a huge waste of resources where as other animals that have evolved further have better ways of dealing with it while still having the same reproductive merit. The heart! No redundancy! At all! Legs with such limited shock tolerance that they wear out or get damaged easily. Does this sound like the work of a God? Or even some one Intelligent? I'm Intelligent and not even a biologist or an engineer and I can sit down and come up with better designs for many of these things.
I believe that church and state should not be the same thing, in any regard, including schools.
"Linux now supports all Vidcon's in the one program." Would be a lovely catch line to my mates who currently use YIM, AIM, MSN (and one uses iChat) just to VIM to their friends. I personally think Linux should be about the choice, and the more choice the better it is!
You say they may have grounds for breach of contract, what part of the contract are you talking about?
I honestly cannot see how this site can be worse than say a blogger who hates x figure head for x government. And when x user pays x dollars they are then entitled to x service. Now I know over in the US of A things run on Capitalism but I thought there was still a thing called consumer rights (right?) and those protect deals. Eg x company can't run off with x users money just because the contract that both party's entered into is going to make them money or they don't feel like it.
I don't care what the sites about or who runs it, if they pay their monthly fees they should get a months worth of hosting subject to the AUP no matter what. (That is part of the free market other wise it wouldn't work.) Or has America lost that logic too?
Multitasking is achieved (as I'm sure you know) but dedicating amounts of concentration into each task, plus keeping up with where you are up to. It does not allow me or anyone to by pass limitations with the body. Just to note my music is low enough so I hear it and the words but also hear the TV which is louder. Plus the fact that I am dumping nearly all of the information as it goes through. Eg out of that TV report I kept 75,000 all up dead and could rise to 100,000 before infections, and that the train that had 800 dead was revised up to 1500 dead - and basically nothing of the song except that it was by INXS and the track was Original Sin (but I don't need to keep the information of the lyrics as I already know them).
I could how ever sing a long to a song while typing this reply (which I am, New Sensation by INXS (from the same cd)) and working out a response to an unrelated question to compiling a kernel without rivafb support from memory to type to another use once I press submit. So on the whole I think I am 'truly' doing the tasks - to the effectiveness that I think it warrants.
I have to be doing at least two things at once other wise I am terribly bored. Even when doing important things for work I have to have the TV on or music or chatting - if they aren't I cannot focus. Plus I enjoy it.
As some one who works in support staff I have never once seen any of the users I support multi-task. Some try but fail. It just isn't some thing that comes to them in their job.
:|)
And I disagree with the assumption that when you do several tasks that you are "multi-tasking" (OH NO, THE XMAS SHOPPING ON TOP OF GETTING THIS COFFEE!) as true multi-tasking is doing the actions at the same time. For example I am watching the news on the death tolls in India, listening to a cd of inxs, bitching about this link in irc and typing this reply all at once - all are being thought of at the same time while only limited by the speed of my fingers. (Note that grammar seems to have died.
So yeah I think this is a load of rubbish, I have only seen computer geeks multi-task in any true fashion. Any one else is kidding themselves from what I have seen, if they are getting stressed pretending to multi-task that is their own fault.
...For the rest of the world, who yes - do read slashdot, the speed achieved is roughly 209.2704km/h. (n * 1.6)
...These quakes don't continue. We had a 8.3 down south of Taz (Australia) a few days ago and it is on the same plate. Got me slightly worried that there will be another bigger one. If not this post will probably be funny in a day or so.
No nix version, well that puts me out of using it, unless of course they work with wine to allow it to be supported.
I've been rather unhappy with Nvidia and Ati offerings in the way of drivers so I'd happily buy this card. I'm looking to change to a new card in the next six months so if its timing is right it will be good for me. :) :)
Also I would be willing to pay a premium you would expect from R&D in this field plus for the effort. I wish this project well and hope it comes to completion.
Mandrake 10 is easier to isntall than windows xp. This is coming from a guy who installed windows xp pro twelve times last month by hand and mandrake 10 four times. So simple...
You are running a unix based os. You have no reason at all to switch. Mmm darwin goodness. :P
I recently went to a lan where I played most of the games natively in linux, given that they were opengl based. Some other games I simply booted into windows to play but I now know that these few games (specifically bfv) will run under winex4, at least according to reviews. So I'm not going to give up games just to be a linux user, I'll bring the games with me, even if they have to be emulated. As for 90% of apps? What rubbish, specific apps should run fine in wine if there is no equal in linux but so far I have switched all but two of my windows programs to better open source versions. Those two programs I can live without or emulate perfectly fine without troubles. So really I don't see what is stopping the home users except for the fear of something new. And they had that fear when they learnt to use windows so why not have it again?
I finally got sick of windows two months back. Tried mandrake 10 community and now half of the computers here run on several flavours of *nix. (Debian, slack and mdk.) Windows is now only used for directx games and that wont last long once we get a subscription to winex4.
I personally think linux is now good enough to challenge M$ in the desktop market.