You had better hope (if you're straight) that certain rumors haven't started
Then there are those of us that work in environments where no one cares what another person's sexual orientation is and don't really need to prove anything by dating "a few of the ladies in the typing-pool".
I wish they'd throw in support more that just a few of their "Z" printers, though. I can't really understand why they don't at least put out some drivers for their Optra series.
The "X" all-in-one series I can understand why there's no driver, but the Optras?
A very brief peek of Microsoft's career website shows that that's probably not Microsoft's standard practice. For one, do a job search on their page. A LOT ot bachelor's degrees there. Second, have a peek at their tuition reimbursement page.
... but because he's willing to remove himself from a position which forced him to violate his own sense of what's right.
He started and was the president of a USER GROUP, for crying out loud. How on earth is that being forced to violate his own sense of what's right?
I mean, did he contribute to some application that was used to detonate a bomb, launch a missile, whatever? No. Again, he was the president of a user group.
He did this to make a personal political statement, nothing more, nothing less.
Yes, I know what shorting stock means. My point was it's a rather stupid way to hurt a business. Instead of hurting a business by withholding your own money (by bypassing their products/services altogether), you try to use someone elses. All that really does is turn to market into one big Casino.
Call me naive, but I really think we'd have a better marketplace if investments were done on the basis of good business practices, not whether one can get rich quick or not.
You don't mind metal detectors at the movie theater?
I don't know where you're from, but in the SF bay area, metal detectors are being used in all sorts of public places these days. Just south of SF, in Gilroy, there's a summertime Garlic Festival where you enter through metal detectors. In the past they've had gang violence problems and felt the need for the detectors. It's helped a lot in this particular case.
Other outdoor celebrations around SF (Halloween comes to mind) employ them as well.
Chalk it up as the result of large numbers of human beings not being able to control themselves around others.
Again, easily done. You clearly have no experience working with OpenOffice (which is superior).
You missed the original point.
Sure it's doable. Did you bother to look at the Subject to which you replied? Rewriting macros (they don't call them scripts in Office) is time-consuming, not to mention just plain different than what users are used to. That clearly has a cost associated with it in a real work environment.
but until system changes are as simple to handle in Linux as they are in Windows, there is not much chance of Aunt Tillie feeling comforatable with Linux.
They actually are, depending on what tool you use: If you use SUSE you get YaST2/SaX2. Theye are both point and click system configuration/hardware discovery tools, much like anything you'd find in Control Panel. IMO YaST2 is better at GUI admin than Control Panel.
A lot of different answers here. What you might want to take a look into is how your BIOS is set up. Mine has an option to disable/enable legacy USB support. Another thing to check is during your install, SUSE gives you a couple of different options regarding ACPI which are confusing. You probably don't want to completely disable ACPI, but there should be an option to disable ACPI/USB interaction during the boot process.
Also, once you've rebooted and are in your Window manager (either Gnome or KDE), do't use YaST2 to set up your mouse - use SaX2. From there you can choose all your input devices.
If you purchased your copy of SUSE you should have also received two really good manuals, one for administration, the other for users. All of this information is covered in them.
The people who get spyware are the stupid and the elderly.
Or the Sales people in pretty much every office I know of. They take their laptops to hell and back, then get on the corporate network and drop all their viruses in their group shares. Then they decide to update their virus definition files.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but if they can take something and improve upon it, more power to 'em. Haven't really seen it happen with them yet, but if they can do it, just because it's them doesn't make it a bad thing.
SuSE recently GPL'd YaST, too, so actually, they might be totally free, too.
SUSE also ships with Java, Realplayer and Mpeg codecs, to name a few, so they're not completely free. Shipping with some commercial components does make it a bit easier for new users though.
A bonus by definition is not part of your salary, yet you expect it as part of your pay. It's taxed differently, for one thing. It's also handled entirely differently in payroll.
(~50% of yearly earnings for many of these consultants)
Say what you will about bonuses, but 50 percent of someone's yearly salary is NEVER good business sense. There are other ways to keep the employees happy besides bonueses. Yeah, they're nice to get, but come on. Next thing you know you have a bunch of employees thinking they earn 150% of what they actually earn.
There are very few things keeping my main desktop running windows now. One of them is the VPN client thing. Unfortunately we need some cooperation from vendors who sometimes aren't willing to release a Linux client for their VPNs. A *free* Linux client, at least free to people whose company pays for a Windoze client but want to use the Linux instead.
Cisco offers this. Is use their VPN client on SUSE 9 daily. And if you use Gnome as your desktop, there's even a nice little taskbar button you can use to configure/connect to a Cisco VPN.
You can install the same program on windows 98/2000/xp.
That's not entirely true. The dlls differ from one version to the next, and if you try to install a later version of an app onto an earlier version of Wondiws, you'll be unsuccessful. No different than any Linux distro with different library versions.
Drivers don't always port forward to more recent versions of Windows either. Try loading a Win98 driver on WinXP. Won't work if it's a hardware driver in most cases.
Or, if it's anything like the last PDP-11 I worked with, loads a tape of financial data once nightly, only to then be transfered to an IBM 3090 for processing.
I think any PHB who reads industry mags (not just the Windows mags, but Oracle, etc) would be quite willing to believe his/her competitors now be use Linux, at least in some limited fashion. 2003 and this year so far have given pretty much nothing BUT positive press to Linux.
But I don't think an interface, per se, is going to qualify as a killer. app. The two examples you cited were considered killer apps because they allowed users to complete a job easier than with pencil and paper (and a calculator). A 3D desktop is nothing more than a glorified menu, really. Killer to me is more along the lines of removing a menu altogether and useing something like voice control (a la Star Trek).
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Then there are those of us that work in environments where no one cares what another person's sexual orientation is and don't really need to prove anything by dating "a few of the ladies in the typing-pool".
The "X" all-in-one series I can understand why there's no driver, but the Optras?
A very brief peek of Microsoft's career website shows that that's probably not Microsoft's standard practice. For one, do a job search on their page. A LOT ot bachelor's degrees there. Second, have a peek at their tuition reimbursement page.
He started and was the president of a USER GROUP, for crying out loud. How on earth is that being forced to violate his own sense of what's right?
I mean, did he contribute to some application that was used to detonate a bomb, launch a missile, whatever? No. Again, he was the president of a user group.
He did this to make a personal political statement, nothing more, nothing less.
Yes, I know what shorting stock means. My point was it's a rather stupid way to hurt a business. Instead of hurting a business by withholding your own money (by bypassing their products/services altogether), you try to use someone elses. All that really does is turn to market into one big Casino. Call me naive, but I really think we'd have a better marketplace if investments were done on the basis of good business practices, not whether one can get rich quick or not.
Do you believe in SCO's business model? What they sell?
Kind of a shame your attitude is what the stock market is all about these days.
I don't know where you're from, but in the SF bay area, metal detectors are being used in all sorts of public places these days. Just south of SF, in Gilroy, there's a summertime Garlic Festival where you enter through metal detectors. In the past they've had gang violence problems and felt the need for the detectors. It's helped a lot in this particular case.
Other outdoor celebrations around SF (Halloween comes to mind) employ them as well.
Chalk it up as the result of large numbers of human beings not being able to control themselves around others.
You missed the original point.
Sure it's doable. Did you bother to look at the Subject to which you replied? Rewriting macros (they don't call them scripts in Office) is time-consuming, not to mention just plain different than what users are used to. That clearly has a cost associated with it in a real work environment.
They actually are, depending on what tool you use: If you use SUSE you get YaST2/SaX2. Theye are both point and click system configuration/hardware discovery tools, much like anything you'd find in Control Panel. IMO YaST2 is better at GUI admin than Control Panel.
Also, once you've rebooted and are in your Window manager (either Gnome or KDE), do't use YaST2 to set up your mouse - use SaX2. From there you can choose all your input devices.
If you purchased your copy of SUSE you should have also received two really good manuals, one for administration, the other for users. All of this information is covered in them.
Or the Sales people in pretty much every office I know of. They take their laptops to hell and back, then get on the corporate network and drop all their viruses in their group shares. Then they decide to update their virus definition files.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but if they can take something and improve upon it, more power to 'em. Haven't really seen it happen with them yet, but if they can do it, just because it's them doesn't make it a bad thing.
So you're the guy that always climbs over me 1 minute into the movie.
SUSE also ships with Java, Realplayer and Mpeg codecs, to name a few, so they're not completely free. Shipping with some commercial components does make it a bit easier for new users though.
You're kind of making my point:
A bonus by definition is not part of your salary, yet you expect it as part of your pay. It's taxed differently, for one thing. It's also handled entirely differently in payroll.
Say what you will about bonuses, but 50 percent of someone's yearly salary is NEVER good business sense. There are other ways to keep the employees happy besides bonueses. Yeah, they're nice to get, but come on. Next thing you know you have a bunch of employees thinking they earn 150% of what they actually earn.
Cisco offers this. Is use their VPN client on SUSE 9 daily. And if you use Gnome as your desktop, there's even a nice little taskbar button you can use to configure/connect to a Cisco VPN.
That's not entirely true. The dlls differ from one version to the next, and if you try to install a later version of an app onto an earlier version of Wondiws, you'll be unsuccessful. No different than any Linux distro with different library versions.
Drivers don't always port forward to more recent versions of Windows either. Try loading a Win98 driver on WinXP. Won't work if it's a hardware driver in most cases.
You find apps that are inconsistent on Windows too... take iTunes for Windows. It doesn't behave like most other Windows apps.
Or, if it's anything like the last PDP-11 I worked with, loads a tape of financial data once nightly, only to then be transfered to an IBM 3090 for processing.
I think any PHB who reads industry mags (not just the Windows mags, but Oracle, etc) would be quite willing to believe his/her competitors now be use Linux, at least in some limited fashion. 2003 and this year so far have given pretty much nothing BUT positive press to Linux.
Stock SUSE 9 comes with 2.4.21 and Gnome 2.2, in addition to the defaujlt wm KDE 3.1. I'd say you've changed your distribution quite a bit, really.
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But I don't think an interface, per se, is going to qualify as a killer. app. The two examples you cited were considered killer apps because they allowed users to complete a job easier than with pencil and paper (and a calculator). A 3D desktop is nothing more than a glorified menu, really. Killer to me is more along the lines of removing a menu altogether and useing something like voice control (a la Star Trek).