The reason RealPlayer is a maybe is because they have been doing some pretty shoddy tactics to get their marketshare and profits up. Things like hiding the free cut-down version on the site, so that you have to download other nonsense that you don't want.
Actually, walk into any Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. Pretty much all new PC's have a trial version of Rhapsody pre-installed. OF course the Realplayer's going to be installed as well.
It's much better in Ubuntu...
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For whatever reason, every time I've tried to get menu editor running on a distro other than Ubuntu, it never works as expected. I've tried with SUSE and FC4. Whoever put together the Ubuntu package clearly has done something right that others have not.
But I've never needed an iPod either. About the only time I really need a music player is in the gym - about an hour/hour and a half worth of my day. On the train I'm usually too busy reading the Red Eye (Chicago, here) so I don't care so much about a music player. So I've had this Creative Nomad forever that does everything I need.
In the gym I usually tune my Nomad to whatever station (mostly news) the TVs above the cardio machines have on, since it has an FM tuner. If the Nano had an FM tuner I'd probably get it, but to only play songs or podcasts, DRMed or not, it isn't worth it to me. I can always do that at home. I can't possibly be alone in thinking this way, can I?
3dstudio max, or maya, or softimage, or Rhino. Blender does not count.
Photoshop. [be serious and don't mention the Gimp.]
Any 3d game with easy installation (you need a degree to use Wine to run games).
iTunes.
Quicktime.
A DMCA legal DVD player.
I would think that if I spend the money on something like photoshop, I'd want to continue to use it. Well worth the 60-some-odd bucks to purchase a copy of Crossover Office. I can't speak for games, but iTunes and Quicktime also run in Crossover.
I see no reason why you can't have a mixture of free AND retail software running on the same machine. They're not mutually exclusive.
And that was a pretty bad flaw, IMO. Try and install VMWare. Once you figure out it's a GCC issue, you can always go out and get the correct version, but it's a pain. Lord help the brave Windows soul who decides to try Ubuntu and then goes out and buys a copy of VMWare (not cheap) to ensure s/he can still run Windows and apps when s/he wants, only to run up against that error.
Has anybody tried Caledarhub (http://www.calendarhub.com? What sets Google apart from this? I was a pretty staunch Yahoo calendar user until I found Caldarhub.
I've only used Novell setups a bit, but in my experience, they don't have nearly the functionality or sophistication of some of the other Linux configurations out there.
Honestly, you're quite entitled to your opinion, but if you're going to criticize something as less than the other distros, you should really make sure you're up on what you're criticizing.
For example, what's better (real-world examples would be best) in your preferred distro and worse in SUSE?
I work with both SUSE and RHEL daily, and both have their strengths and weaknesses, but either one is quite up to the task of providing sophisticated funtionality and configuration.
ON the other hand, why on earth would you want to work for a company that demands to see previous pay stubs? Seriously. That should be a major red flag. Not worth the trouble.
If you're paying that much for crappy broadband, have you checked into something like Speakeasy's Onelink? I don't know if they're available in your area or not, but they lease the line from Sprint, so you don't have to worry about an actual voice line. For what you're paying, you could get faster speeds and VoIP from Speakeasy.
Really. Instead of relying on windows libs to port a program, they should be working on making their code more portable to other platforms, including the Mac.
Don't get me wrong, Codeweavers are doing a great job with Office-type programs, but they're still far from perfrect in execution. If you've used Crossover for any length if time, you'd know that running most apps for more than a few minutes at a time requires multiple "Terminate Windows Applications" per day. And they probably will never run as well as they would natively precisely because of the necessity of windows libs.
Well, yes, they're getting there by process of imitation.
Who are they imitating? Certainly not the MySQL folks, and certainly not for drag-n-drop db creation and development. To my knowledge, there is nothing comparable in the opensource world to these two companies' development products. I truly would love to see something similar (particularly for Postgresql), but to date I've not found anything.
MySQL as it now stands is probably the simplest real RDBMS for the casual shopper. It's just as easy as MS SQL server, and MS is the only vendor who understands the importance of the casual shopper. Postgres is not far behind.
Actually, have you tried installing the latest "light" versions of boh Oracle and DB2? They're dead simple to install and administer. Not to mention writing the actual apps. They now have pretty much drag-n-drop GUIs for app creation. I think most vendors are now realizing the importance of this group of buyers.
With as much moolah as some of these stars rake in, I am seriously surprised that they dont retain their own tech support to go with them and live with them.
Maybe you missed this blurb in the article:
when Best Buy Co.'s Geek Squad of computer repair people asked him to accompany the Irish band and provide tech support to the 120 people traveling with the "Vertigo" world tour. He has been on the road in North America and Europe ever since.
That they contracted with Best Buy instead of hiring directly pretty much sums up business these days. Doesn't lessen the fact that they had full time tech support with them throughout the tour.
Also, just as food for thought, what if Google decided to drop 5% of their R&D into Wine? Just 2% then? The Wine guys have done miracles so far on a shoestring. Imagine what the result would be if Google paid a few of those guys to quit their day jobs and work on Wine full-time.
Actually, there are a couple of commercial versions of Wine out there that are already being worked on full time. The problem isn't throwing programmers at it full time. The problem is getting the literally thousands of programs that people want to properly work under Wine. Cedega's doing a decent job of getting games to work. Codeweavers' doing a decent job of getting office-type apps to work. There are SO many little programs that people have come to use and depend on that just aren't important to these two fairly major camps.
Unrelated, but I used to wish that Codeweavers (or some other group) would concentrate on some of the nice audio/midi apps out there, such as Sonar or Cubase. Now I'd just prefer an app like Rosegarden (or anything else that may crop up) to incorporate all the features I like into their own app.
The thousands of scientists who have degrees directly related to the field of climatology and atmospheric sciences -- and disagree with James Hansen -- get the same worshipful treatment from the media that men like Hansen regularly receive.
Yes, because one will always trump the other.
Good grief, is the world always so black and white for you? Both education AND experience (all 38 years of it in this case) have a place in this world. Hell, they can even coexist.
On the other hand, they've time and again shown they're a decent company as far as (human) equality goes. They're at least able to either say "no" to or ignore the religious right.
Yeah but most idiots that move to New York from out-of-town think that Manhattan is the only borough of New York and they are afraid to go to Brooklyn or Queens or The Bronx for fear of getting lost.
Most life-long Manhattan dwellers think the same way.
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That's my main issue with Skype... CPU Usage. It's fine on my uber computer, but my friend isn't so blessed and it's quite annoying. We never had a real problem with teamspeak, though... Gotta keep trying to get him to switch back.
This is why you shouldn't use stuff like Skype. They offer no Quailty of Service, as any decent provider would offer. But then again, I really don't care for Skype all that much either. It's phenomenally stupid to have to rely on a computer/usb combo at all for VoIP, much less other users for power and bandwidth.
I can't remember where I read it, but 20th Century Fox figured they could make more money off the show by selling it to Showtime. And with it's 4.something million viewers it would be Showtime's number 1 hit.
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It does, however, run in Wine, albeit an older version of itunes.
Actually, walk into any Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. Pretty much all new PC's have a trial version of Rhapsody pre-installed. OF course the Realplayer's going to be installed as well.
For whatever reason, every time I've tried to get menu editor running on a distro other than Ubuntu, it never works as expected. I've tried with SUSE and FC4. Whoever put together the Ubuntu package clearly has done something right that others have not.
Some of us make six figures, some of us don't. What's your point?
That the income matches the mentality?
Unlikely.
But I've never needed an iPod either. About the only time I really need a music player is in the gym - about an hour/hour and a half worth of my day. On the train I'm usually too busy reading the Red Eye (Chicago, here) so I don't care so much about a music player. So I've had this Creative Nomad forever that does everything I need. In the gym I usually tune my Nomad to whatever station (mostly news) the TVs above the cardio machines have on, since it has an FM tuner. If the Nano had an FM tuner I'd probably get it, but to only play songs or podcasts, DRMed or not, it isn't worth it to me. I can always do that at home. I can't possibly be alone in thinking this way, can I?
I would think that if I spend the money on something like photoshop, I'd want to continue to use it. Well worth the 60-some-odd bucks to purchase a copy of Crossover Office. I can't speak for games, but iTunes and Quicktime also run in Crossover.
I see no reason why you can't have a mixture of free AND retail software running on the same machine. They're not mutually exclusive.
And that was a pretty bad flaw, IMO. Try and install VMWare. Once you figure out it's a GCC issue, you can always go out and get the correct version, but it's a pain. Lord help the brave Windows soul who decides to try Ubuntu and then goes out and buys a copy of VMWare (not cheap) to ensure s/he can still run Windows and apps when s/he wants, only to run up against that error.
Has anybody tried Caledarhub (http://www.calendarhub.com? What sets Google apart from this? I was a pretty staunch Yahoo calendar user until I found Caldarhub.
Honestly, you're quite entitled to your opinion, but if you're going to criticize something as less than the other distros, you should really make sure you're up on what you're criticizing.
For example, what's better (real-world examples would be best) in your preferred distro and worse in SUSE?
I work with both SUSE and RHEL daily, and both have their strengths and weaknesses, but either one is quite up to the task of providing sophisticated funtionality and configuration.
Personally, I'd love to see more local companies doing something like this. At the multinational level, it's not needed.
ON the other hand, why on earth would you want to work for a company that demands to see previous pay stubs? Seriously. That should be a major red flag. Not worth the trouble.
If you're paying that much for crappy broadband, have you checked into something like Speakeasy's Onelink? I don't know if they're available in your area or not, but they lease the line from Sprint, so you don't have to worry about an actual voice line. For what you're paying, you could get faster speeds and VoIP from Speakeasy.
Don't get me wrong, Codeweavers are doing a great job with Office-type programs, but they're still far from perfrect in execution. If you've used Crossover for any length if time, you'd know that running most apps for more than a few minutes at a time requires multiple "Terminate Windows Applications" per day. And they probably will never run as well as they would natively precisely because of the necessity of windows libs.
Who are they imitating? Certainly not the MySQL folks, and certainly not for drag-n-drop db creation and development. To my knowledge, there is nothing comparable in the opensource world to these two companies' development products. I truly would love to see something similar (particularly for Postgresql), but to date I've not found anything.
Maybe you missed this blurb in the article:
when Best Buy Co.'s Geek Squad of computer repair people asked him to accompany the Irish band and provide tech support to the 120 people traveling with the "Vertigo" world tour. He has been on the road in North America and Europe ever since.
That they contracted with Best Buy instead of hiring directly pretty much sums up business these days. Doesn't lessen the fact that they had full time tech support with them throughout the tour.
Still, money's usually enough of a deterrent to stop the majority of the abuse.
Once it gets to that point it most likely won't change, barring a CTO/CIO change.
It's infortunate, but that's how most companies operate. Top, down.
Actually, there are a couple of commercial versions of Wine out there that are already being worked on full time. The problem isn't throwing programmers at it full time. The problem is getting the literally thousands of programs that people want to properly work under Wine. Cedega's doing a decent job of getting games to work. Codeweavers' doing a decent job of getting office-type apps to work. There are SO many little programs that people have come to use and depend on that just aren't important to these two fairly major camps.
Unrelated, but I used to wish that Codeweavers (or some other group) would concentrate on some of the nice audio/midi apps out there, such as Sonar or Cubase. Now I'd just prefer an app like Rosegarden (or anything else that may crop up) to incorporate all the features I like into their own app.
Yes, because one will always trump the other.
Good grief, is the world always so black and white for you? Both education AND experience (all 38 years of it in this case) have a place in this world. Hell, they can even coexist.
On the other hand, they've time and again shown they're a decent company as far as (human) equality goes. They're at least able to either say "no" to or ignore the religious right.
Watch "That 70s Show". We all had that exact same poster on our bedroom wall when we were teens.
Most life-long Manhattan dwellers think the same way.
This is why you shouldn't use stuff like Skype. They offer no Quailty of Service, as any decent provider would offer. But then again, I really don't care for Skype all that much either. It's phenomenally stupid to have to rely on a computer/usb combo at all for VoIP, much less other users for power and bandwidth.
I can't remember where I read it, but 20th Century Fox figured they could make more money off the show by selling it to Showtime. And with it's 4.something million viewers it would be Showtime's number 1 hit.