I'm a big fan of OSS, but I don't have the thirty minutes it takes for OO.org to load on my 1ghz machine. Microsoft's products simply work.
I see this argument a lot, and frankly I don't understand it. I just fired up OO.org on my Athlon XP (2800) and it took 12 seconds to completely load. This is on a laptop.
OO.org 1.0 perhaps was slower, but 1.1 is just fine.
Well, what they probably really meant was multitasking (does OS 5 offer that? It's been a long time since I've used a Palm device, since 4). I've been using a Zaurus for a couple of years now and it wouldn't be nearly as useful to me if I couldn't have three-four apps open and running at once.
I can see a filesystem being useful too., but again, that may be my bias towards the Zaurus talking.
I understand that we don't all agree WRT our political beliefs, but...
Why on earth would you waste a perfectly good mod point to mod someone a troll just becuase it goes against what you believe (speaking, of course, to the person who modded you a troll)?
You are, in fact, reenforcing ACs point that if you disagree, you must be unpatriotic and a troll.
After reading his letter, I think I would have preferred the error. Anybody remember the SNL skit of Martha Stewart and her affected speech (Wassiling, anyone)?
Tell them what they are doing in immoral. It is not acceptable to user MS Office without obeying its license.
Remind that that it is not only immoral, but it is also illegal...
Most people already know it's illegal and immoral. Telling them so won't change anything. Your other points would have a much better chance of convincing them all on their own.
... There is simply no other explanation for going so long without any new innovation in the browser market, when other browsers are growing in features, stability, and security by leaps and bounds.
Implementing features already found in other browsers is not "innovation".
Maybe I've been lucky, but I've gotten increases (about 5 percent, plus bonuses) every year. I was out of work for 6 months in 2001. When i found a job the salary was about 4 grand below what I was making, but by the end of the year I had made it back with a raise.
I work primarily on Linux clusters for a biotech, but am responsible for all the unix machines - I don't know if that has much to do with it. We have separate admins for the various sets of Windows boxes, so I rarely have to deal with them.
I think it's good to know a bit about everything, but I think it's probably more important to know when to push your specialty.
About a month or so ago, slashdot was regularly dying while fetching pages. Anybody know what was actually causing the problem? I suspected it was Mysql, but don't know.
I've not had issues with it either. I really like it as well.
My guess is that the people that continue to complain about the player have not, in fact, spent much - if any - time with the newest version. A lot has changed.
Whether they're Windows geeks or linux geeks, it's still up to them to maintain a machine (at least in the corporate world where I live). Under your view, HP/Dell/Whatever would be in charge of applying service packs and updates. That ain't gonna happen, that's for sure.
Nor would vendors be the ones to install updates to any Linux system my company purchased (you do realize that HP/Dell/Whatever now sell servers with Linux preinstalled, don't you?).
And, what do you know, the Chinese ones will be 10x more accurate, 100x cheaper, and available in a variety of pastels.
Except they won't be 100x cheaper. If they're the only sellers on the block, you can bet they'll command top Yuan. Greed gets to everyone. Even communists.
I think as long as you have an underlying operating system such as Windows (or any other OS, for that matter) you'll never have solely a "web services" environment. Granted, Microsoft could pull their development environment from the general population, but I think that'd be unwise, considering the talent that's out there writing third party apps - which very often fill a need Microsoft can't. Couple that with the myriad of hardware out there (printers, scanners... anything attached to the PC) and I just can't see it ever working.
Necessity IS the mother of invention. Take something away that's already useful, and someone will come along and build a better one (Linux, anywone?)
Very interesting reading... now don the tinfoil and tell us why the tech isn't really pervasive...
Because, aside from the Tivos and Replays, until recently you couldn't build or buy anything that would sit and play nice in your component rack (which is why I mentioned that there is no Mac PVR solution, really).
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I see this argument a lot, and frankly I don't understand it. I just fired up OO.org on my Athlon XP (2800) and it took 12 seconds to completely load. This is on a laptop.
OO.org 1.0 perhaps was slower, but 1.1 is just fine.
I can see a filesystem being useful too., but again, that may be my bias towards the Zaurus talking.
Uh, no. That may describe 99 percent of the US, but get out of the country and you'll find plenty of alternatives.
And they're alternatives that people are quite happy to embrace.
Why on earth would you waste a perfectly good mod point to mod someone a troll just becuase it goes against what you believe (speaking, of course, to the person who modded you a troll)?
You are, in fact, reenforcing ACs point that if you disagree, you must be unpatriotic and a troll.
Jeezus.
Yeah. God help us if we're left with Alan Cox and RMS to duke it out.
Read the prenuptual agreement. You won't be so happy.
Kind of reminds me of it.
He obviously does, otherwise he would not have pushed for his amendment.
They've open-sourced AND GPL'ed a couple of things that SUSE had previously kept to themselves, YaST being one of them.
Implementing features already found in other browsers is not "innovation".
Depends on what you consider "entry-level". We just hired an entry-level admin. We also recently hired two "entry-level" helpdesk support reps.
From there they can easily move into other, more specialized positions. It doesn't happen in a year though.
I work primarily on Linux clusters for a biotech, but am responsible for all the unix machines - I don't know if that has much to do with it. We have separate admins for the various sets of Windows boxes, so I rarely have to deal with them.
I think it's good to know a bit about everything, but I think it's probably more important to know when to push your specialty.
About a month or so ago, slashdot was regularly dying while fetching pages. Anybody know what was actually causing the problem? I suspected it was Mysql, but don't know.
In any case, it seems to have quieted down some.
I just opened a work-email telling me to save the date for the annual holiday party.
Bah humbug. I'm not ready.
The reality is, the best marketed products generally make more money. Security has little to do with it.
My guess is that the people that continue to complain about the player have not, in fact, spent much - if any - time with the newest version. A lot has changed.
I thought it was the name of a Bondage/S&M organization.
I'm sure by now you realize they were talking about MS SQL, not MySQL, right?
Nor would vendors be the ones to install updates to any Linux system my company purchased (you do realize that HP/Dell/Whatever now sell servers with Linux preinstalled, don't you?).
Except they won't be 100x cheaper. If they're the only sellers on the block, you can bet they'll command top Yuan. Greed gets to everyone. Even communists.
Necessity IS the mother of invention. Take something away that's already useful, and someone will come along and build a better one (Linux, anywone?)
Because, aside from the Tivos and Replays, until recently you couldn't build or buy anything that would sit and play nice in your component rack (which is why I mentioned that there is no Mac PVR solution, really).
While you're at it, you might as well mention that a Windows PVR isn't mainstream either.
And then mention that there is nothing comparable running on a Mac.
Face it, a PVR using any standard, unmodified OS is not mainstream. Anywhere.
Sorry. Until I see open, published standards for things like the .doc format, I'm not convinced.