Sorry if it was too subtle, but that was the whole point of my comment. He USED to read a paper a day, now he reads SEVERAL papers a day. I'll be more blunt:
He checked the websites of the newspaper instead of purchasing the paper, reading the paper, and dealing with the mountain of paper he would accumulate each week.
Now he reads several papers a day. It's a lot easier and faster to scan the paper for articles you're interested in on a website than flipping through a few papers. And the ads on the website can be just as effective as the ones in the paper if done right.
I wouldn't buy it for 100 times the quality. However, teens and freshman college students will buy this crap because their parents pay the cell phone bills. $2.50 is a complete ripoff for anyone with any sense, but the people they're targeting to don't.
Boss: Jimmy, We need a database. What do you recommend? IT Guy: Well, I used Oracle for a few projects in college. I'm comfortable with it. Boss: Good! Let's get it. Done. Who wants take out?
people pay TiVo for a recurring service. The use of windows is not a recurring service. and nobody I know has ever paid $500 for for office/xp (whatever that is). Everyone either gets it from Dell at a discount or from the kid down the street. People put value on tv listings, not on word processors.
And nobody feels they are getting value from windows updates. They are bug fixes to correct problems that they customer paid for, not new and great features.
these are B2B services. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. But this is never going to work for home users. Nobody is going to pay a monthly fee. For one reason, everyone is used to either getting the program on their computer when they buy it, or borrowing someone's CD. People aren't used to the idea of going into a store and actually paying for software. They still see it as, "hey, can you set that up for me" when they really mean can you give them the CD and violate copyright laws.
This also won't work because it gives absolutely no incentive for Microsoft to ever improve the products they sell to home users. They might cave for a corporate or government client who demands a feature or something fixed, but not for mom and pop.
I switched because I was bored with Windows. I like trying new distros for fun. I enjoy learning something new because I feel it adds to some imaginary tool box of "things I can do and might need someday." I didn't do it to be cool because just about everyone I know has no clue what Linux is other than that it looks different than Windows. I've been using it exclusively for well over a year now. I keep a dual boot in case I ever need to do something in Windows, which is a rarity these days. I've gotten used to it and Windows seems foreign at this point so there's no "comfort" reason to switch back as there was when I started using it in the first place.
Yeah, but assuming it's not crippled compared to the native format, I could see a company start thinking about setting ODF as the default format. Figure in a few years this makes them in a much better and cheaper position to consider changing platforms. Of course if they don't want to, the research didn't cost them too much.
I remember back in the day 2.5 was the first to offer the "www"
I agree with you though. I'm sick of seeing beta referred to anything other than a testing version. Why has it become the publics' job to test software? Google puts everything in beta. Now yahoo puts their crap in beta since they figure people must think it means something cool or "very cutting edge technology." Don't worry, hopefully it's just a fad and in a few years programs will go back to integer numbering. Although 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, NT 3.1, NT 4, 95, 98, 2000, Millennium, XP Home, XP Pro, Server 2003, and Vista (and I'm sure I forgot a few) is the worst versioning system ever thought of.
That's a really good idea. I wonder if it would also help absorb the vibrations caused by all the fans, cd/dvd, and hard drive? It might also help to cushion the shocks caused by anything hitting your desk. I've banged into my desk many times thinking "oh, so that's why dmesg keeps giving me errors on hda."
I think mandriva is one of the few major distros where wireless will work out of the box. I got wireless running on my laptop with gentoo, ndiswrapper, and a lot of freakin patience. It works, but it's no where as easy as with windows. But I believe most of this is because drivers aren't open source and there are difficulties in making them open source.
The nanos I've seen in pictures look great. I saw one in real life this kid at my college had and it was scratched to shit. He commented on how he wished he could have purchased the nano tube with it. This is a problem for apple. They released a product that was too susceptible to cosmetic damage and that's a big part of their promotion. This shouldn't be settled in courts. They should find better materials and offer their customers a replacement. It'll cost them, but customer loyalty has kept apple in business during the hard times so they can't forget about it now that they're doing well all of the sudden in the past few years.
And the other iPod models can just as easily be scratched. But there was never a black ipod to bring it out.
Yeah, that's exactly what I said they "could" do, but that's going to be a pain in the ass for many users. My point is many companies will be afraid from customer complaints and increased support costs until a very simple (pop in cd, click, click, click, installed) solution exists. There is nothing technically wrong with the method gentoo uses for distfiles it is not allowed to distribute, but practically it would be difficult for people. of course now gentoo isn't the best example since people who use it are generally more knowledgeable with how things like this operates (I didn't say smarter, I said more knowledgeable) so they might pick up on it faster.
It's all a matter of make it very simple so you don't have to spend time and money supporting all the "I put the cd in, nothing happened!" calls from frustrated users who just paid lots of money for that cd.
Yeah, but Sony is leading Blue-ray and they're a competitor to Microsoft so Microsoft would rather see HD-DVD win. It's certainly not leading the pact, but it is something to consider. They are probably neutral on this situation.
All these package managers are great for distributing OSS, but once you get into the situation of "I paid hundreds for this photoshop CD" things might get complicated. Releasing OSS and even "free" software like adobe reader is easier than something like photoshop. Free software can be distributed and it's up to the distros to make.debs,.rpms,.ebuilds, etc. But how do you do that with something like photoshop or illustrator? People want to buy the CD and pop it into any computer and install it. And adobe can't possibly make a different package for each distro, even the popular ones.
I'm using gentoo and ubuntu right now. I love them because thousands of software titles are available either with the click of the mouse or a few keystrokes in a console. But this works because people get those free packages and configure them for each distro either because their distro paid them or out of the goodness of their heart. But it'd be illegal for someone to make a photoshop ebuild that distributed all the files. And it's a pain to copy the photoshop files into/usr/portage/distfiles and have an ebuild work from there (as in sun-jdk, crossover office, etc.).
So yeah, this is a problem without an easy solution. Probably the best thing would be to make a common installer such as autopackage and leave it up to the distro to support it and work with it. Whether the distro wants to use autopackage exclusively isn't required.
It looks like companies, specifically Adobe, are realizing that people want to switch from windows to linux, but a big problem is still the native applications that are available. This is the long time chicken and egg problem facing linux growth. Adobe reader 7 for linux is great and works just as good as the windows counterpart so hopefully we'll see photoshop and the other parts of CS2 ported to linux. And if microsoft doesn't want to port their applications to linux (for obvious reasons) then I think people can still find good alternatives to their programs and use programs like photoshop that they are familiar with.
"Pay as you go" is the businesses model for just about every industry. How many companies in other industries charge you an up front fee just to for the ability to use their service? Just about every service industry is pay as you go. Buying food, gasoline, utilities, clothing, books, movies, etc. is pay as you go. Where is the innovation here? I hope they fight this ruling because this has been done for thousands of years and in my opinion, is a more fair way for the customer. By that I mean, "you deliver service X, I pay you amount Y" as opposed to, "You prepay amount Y for service X...if you think you would have talked for Q minutes but instead talked for Q+n minutes, we will charge you Y+25*n+service fee Z and additional fee A, B, and C."
I'm running firefox 1.0.7 on gentoo and it froze up. top showed 99% cpu usage just before I killed it. I also tried it on my ubuntu box with firefox 1.0.7 and it froze too. So it seems it's affecting firefox running on linux machines
I first thought it looked a little ostentatious too, however, it would probably make it easier to find the connector. I've worked in PCs in situations where the case blocks all the light from overhead and it's sometimes difficult to find the connectors or to distinguish them. So aside from looking a little weird, it might help out the guy who loves to swap stuff out a lot.
I got this in one shot. The first answer was pretty much a random number. Then I saw the correct answer, thought about the name of a game, thought about a rose, and found the pattern they were looking for. It's visual, other than adding the petals of roses, no complex math is involved.
People who try to run complex analysis on this problem aren't necessarily smarter. How does it make you smarter if you complicate a problem? Someone posted they ran Excel to find the answer. All this problem does is show how numbers are nothing special in mathematics, just another way of showing a relationship.
Anyway, here's the pattern. Look at all the dice that have a dot in the center. Using numbers to show this relationship, that'd be all the odd numbered dice. Now the "petals" are the dots around the middle dot. So 1 ==> no petals, 3 ==> 2 petals, 5 ==? 4 petals. And of course all even numbers are not a rose. How many people even thought of a rose when attempting to solve this puzzle? Take a look at this picture and you'll see how a "rose" must have a dot in the center.
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Sorry if it was too subtle, but that was the whole point of my comment. He USED to read a paper a day, now he reads SEVERAL papers a day. I'll be more blunt:
He checked the websites of the newspaper instead of purchasing the paper, reading the paper, and dealing with the mountain of paper he would accumulate each week.
Now he reads several papers a day. It's a lot easier and faster to scan the paper for articles you're interested in on a website than flipping through a few papers. And the ads on the website can be just as effective as the ones in the paper if done right.
I wouldn't buy it for 100 times the quality. However, teens and freshman college students will buy this crap because their parents pay the cell phone bills. $2.50 is a complete ripoff for anyone with any sense, but the people they're targeting to don't.
It's more like:
Boss: Jimmy, We need a database. What do you recommend?
IT Guy: Well, I used Oracle for a few projects in college. I'm comfortable with it.
Boss: Good! Let's get it. Done. Who wants take out?
Apparently the city has been reclassified.
people pay TiVo for a recurring service. The use of windows is not a recurring service. and nobody I know has ever paid $500 for for office/xp (whatever that is). Everyone either gets it from Dell at a discount or from the kid down the street. People put value on tv listings, not on word processors.
And nobody feels they are getting value from windows updates. They are bug fixes to correct problems that they customer paid for, not new and great features.
these are B2B services. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. But this is never going to work for home users. Nobody is going to pay a monthly fee. For one reason, everyone is used to either getting the program on their computer when they buy it, or borrowing someone's CD. People aren't used to the idea of going into a store and actually paying for software. They still see it as, "hey, can you set that up for me" when they really mean can you give them the CD and violate copyright laws.
This also won't work because it gives absolutely no incentive for Microsoft to ever improve the products they sell to home users. They might cave for a corporate or government client who demands a feature or something fixed, but not for mom and pop.
I switched because I was bored with Windows. I like trying new distros for fun. I enjoy learning something new because I feel it adds to some imaginary tool box of "things I can do and might need someday." I didn't do it to be cool because just about everyone I know has no clue what Linux is other than that it looks different than Windows. I've been using it exclusively for well over a year now. I keep a dual boot in case I ever need to do something in Windows, which is a rarity these days. I've gotten used to it and Windows seems foreign at this point so there's no "comfort" reason to switch back as there was when I started using it in the first place.
Yeah, but assuming it's not crippled compared to the native format, I could see a company start thinking about setting ODF as the default format. Figure in a few years this makes them in a much better and cheaper position to consider changing platforms. Of course if they don't want to, the research didn't cost them too much.
I remember back in the day 2.5 was the first to offer the "www"
I agree with you though. I'm sick of seeing beta referred to anything other than a testing version. Why has it become the publics' job to test software? Google puts everything in beta. Now yahoo puts their crap in beta since they figure people must think it means something cool or "very cutting edge technology." Don't worry, hopefully it's just a fad and in a few years programs will go back to integer numbering. Although 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, NT 3.1, NT 4, 95, 98, 2000, Millennium, XP Home, XP Pro, Server 2003, and Vista (and I'm sure I forgot a few) is the worst versioning system ever thought of.
Have you tried using ndiswrapper and the windows drivers?
That's a really good idea. I wonder if it would also help absorb the vibrations caused by all the fans, cd/dvd, and hard drive? It might also help to cushion the shocks caused by anything hitting your desk. I've banged into my desk many times thinking "oh, so that's why dmesg keeps giving me errors on hda."
I think mandriva is one of the few major distros where wireless will work out of the box. I got wireless running on my laptop with gentoo, ndiswrapper, and a lot of freakin patience. It works, but it's no where as easy as with windows. But I believe most of this is because drivers aren't open source and there are difficulties in making them open source.
You're right. In fact, much longer than the nano. I'll be the first on slashdot to admit I'm dead wrong. :)
The nanos I've seen in pictures look great. I saw one in real life this kid at my college had and it was scratched to shit. He commented on how he wished he could have purchased the nano tube with it. This is a problem for apple. They released a product that was too susceptible to cosmetic damage and that's a big part of their promotion. This shouldn't be settled in courts. They should find better materials and offer their customers a replacement. It'll cost them, but customer loyalty has kept apple in business during the hard times so they can't forget about it now that they're doing well all of the sudden in the past few years.
And the other iPod models can just as easily be scratched. But there was never a black ipod to bring it out.
Yeah, that's exactly what I said they "could" do, but that's going to be a pain in the ass for many users. My point is many companies will be afraid from customer complaints and increased support costs until a very simple (pop in cd, click, click, click, installed) solution exists. There is nothing technically wrong with the method gentoo uses for distfiles it is not allowed to distribute, but practically it would be difficult for people. of course now gentoo isn't the best example since people who use it are generally more knowledgeable with how things like this operates (I didn't say smarter, I said more knowledgeable) so they might pick up on it faster.
It's all a matter of make it very simple so you don't have to spend time and money supporting all the "I put the cd in, nothing happened!" calls from frustrated users who just paid lots of money for that cd.
Yeah, but Sony is leading Blue-ray and they're a competitor to Microsoft so Microsoft would rather see HD-DVD win. It's certainly not leading the pact, but it is something to consider. They are probably neutral on this situation.
All these package managers are great for distributing OSS, but once you get into the situation of "I paid hundreds for this photoshop CD" things might get complicated. Releasing OSS and even "free" software like adobe reader is easier than something like photoshop. Free software can be distributed and it's up to the distros to make .debs, .rpms, .ebuilds, etc. But how do you do that with something like photoshop or illustrator? People want to buy the CD and pop it into any computer and install it. And adobe can't possibly make a different package for each distro, even the popular ones.
/usr/portage/distfiles and have an ebuild work from there (as in sun-jdk, crossover office, etc.).
I'm using gentoo and ubuntu right now. I love them because thousands of software titles are available either with the click of the mouse or a few keystrokes in a console. But this works because people get those free packages and configure them for each distro either because their distro paid them or out of the goodness of their heart. But it'd be illegal for someone to make a photoshop ebuild that distributed all the files. And it's a pain to copy the photoshop files into
So yeah, this is a problem without an easy solution. Probably the best thing would be to make a common installer such as autopackage and leave it up to the distro to support it and work with it. Whether the distro wants to use autopackage exclusively isn't required.
It looks like companies, specifically Adobe, are realizing that people want to switch from windows to linux, but a big problem is still the native applications that are available. This is the long time chicken and egg problem facing linux growth. Adobe reader 7 for linux is great and works just as good as the windows counterpart so hopefully we'll see photoshop and the other parts of CS2 ported to linux. And if microsoft doesn't want to port their applications to linux (for obvious reasons) then I think people can still find good alternatives to their programs and use programs like photoshop that they are familiar with.
na, IE is like the village whore. After a few hours she's got tons of viruses.
"Pay as you go" is the businesses model for just about every industry. How many companies in other industries charge you an up front fee just to for the ability to use their service? Just about every service industry is pay as you go. Buying food, gasoline, utilities, clothing, books, movies, etc. is pay as you go. Where is the innovation here? I hope they fight this ruling because this has been done for thousands of years and in my opinion, is a more fair way for the customer. By that I mean, "you deliver service X, I pay you amount Y" as opposed to, "You prepay amount Y for service X...if you think you would have talked for Q minutes but instead talked for Q+n minutes, we will charge you Y+25*n+service fee Z and additional fee A, B, and C."
I'm running firefox 1.0.7 on gentoo and it froze up. top showed 99% cpu usage just before I killed it. I also tried it on my ubuntu box with firefox 1.0.7 and it froze too. So it seems it's affecting firefox running on linux machines
I first thought it looked a little ostentatious too, however, it would probably make it easier to find the connector. I've worked in PCs in situations where the case blocks all the light from overhead and it's sometimes difficult to find the connectors or to distinguish them. So aside from looking a little weird, it might help out the guy who loves to swap stuff out a lot.
People who try to run complex analysis on this problem aren't necessarily smarter. How does it make you smarter if you complicate a problem? Someone posted they ran Excel to find the answer. All this problem does is show how numbers are nothing special in mathematics, just another way of showing a relationship.
Anyway, here's the pattern. Look at all the dice that have a dot in the center. Using numbers to show this relationship, that'd be all the odd numbered dice. Now the "petals" are the dots around the middle dot. So 1 ==> no petals, 3 ==> 2 petals, 5 ==? 4 petals. And of course all even numbers are not a rose. How many people even thought of a rose when attempting to solve this puzzle? Take a look at this picture and you'll see how a "rose" must have a dot in the center.
Crossover office doesn't support office 2003. The latest is office xp. Not much of a big deal, but visio 2003 is pretty good.