...for me to poop on! I run a small publish business that publishes specialized educational materials for high school students. We put out three large publications, plus two series of publications every school year. We are constantly complaining about Word and how difficult (and silly) the feature sets are to use. NOT to mention automatic formatting which never turns on when I need it but always messes up whatever I am typing. We are running a trial of OpenOffice this year. Our initial reaction is that we love it.
Mine costs 500 and it plays UT2004 just fine as well. What it comes down to: there are always people out there that will pay for fancy hardware when something much more simple will due. Remember, there are lots of people who buy fancy sports cars and SUVs who drive to the store and soccer games.
I get how useful it would be to cancel noise in certain situations, but outside of a server (and even my Dell 400SC is sooo quiet I can barely hear it), what is the big deal for the vast majority of applications???
adding the internet to this mix...streaming a station to 100 people who then broadcast it to a combined millions...someone could broadcast to a substantial audience from their basement
I was hoping to get sued in Canada instead of the States. After the exchange rate, I was hoping to pay about $0.78 per song, beating the iTunes price!!:)
I agree that is what you and I might do with it, but I think the power of selling these PC's at a place like Walmart is the happy-home-user that doesn't know enough to put Windows on a machine. Hell, many won't even know they don't have Windows ("I have Windows on my machine, I have to open a window to get to the three 'w' thingie.").
I am a teacher and I wish more PC's would ship without floppy drives. When my students bring in disks from home (and I sometimes have 150 disks to deal with at a time), 1 in 3 has an error, and another 1 in 5 has a virus. I'd much prefer email or a USB flash drive!
Reading the Walmart page (link in the article, or http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?cat=395 1&dept=3944&product_id=2592736&path=0%3A3944%3A395 1%3A41937%3A86796%3A132690) I finding it amusing that WalMart sells the Sun Linux OS as "the first viable Microsoft Windows alternative." Does this mean that Lindows and Mandrake, sold on other WalMart cheap-PC's isn't a viable alternative?
I can, of course, only speak for myself but I am fairly web-savvy and I was initially confused about the Passport system. It appeared to me that I needed an MSN account or Hotmail account to make it work, though I don't think that was/is the case. I always use my Hotmail account for junk; I'd never use it for e-commerce transactions. Perhaps that is the issue with a company with soooo many services.
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Dumb ass: I don't send spam, I send a purchased product via email. Think before you type!
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We just finished migrating to that!!:)
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I run a small publishing firm that relies on email to sent updates to our materials. Every email we send to customers has at least 10% bounce (sometimes as high as 30%); many of which worked a week before or a week after. However, I think the 19% number mimics my personal mail as well: messages allll the time get lost in the shuffle!!
Really, though, isn't this the case in Windows, too? A lot of developers refuse to make drivers for newer versions of Windows, too. I'm sure we can all think of examples in both Windows and Linux/OSS varients.
We're probably giving the rip-off site a lot of traffic, thus advertising revenues.:( On the other hand, perhaps we'll give a little offensive/. effect!:)
I can't speak to PaintShop but isn't this the case in Photoshop? There is spawning all over the place too and it has a similar learning curve. If this is a standard, perhaps you are looking for KidPix or the open source TuxPaint.
Actually, my experience has been that the driver set for Linux is in *some* ways more comprehensive than Windows. Case in point: I have a SCSI scanner that simply didn't work at all on a Windows 2000/XP box as no drivers were available. I put the card and scanner on a Red Had Fedora box and it auto detected it right away. I have had the same experience with a couple of NICs and a printer. However, I am not an advocate of a single platform school. My current classroom setup is two Windows XP boxes (two I brought from home) and 10 Linux thin clients. I have equipment plugged into both, including equipment donated from the community (in some cases, the community is my garage). Thanks for your thoughts!
I'd suggesting this was over modded down. These types of useability questions are important to desktop users and may prevent users from switching. Remember, a lot of the Windows user base are the completely tech dumb folks that find AOL a challenge.
Murphy writes that "For example, cost is usually important in business only if the products being compared are otherwise very similar." I work in education and cost is everything. I can really say that my Linux OS machines (running the K12LTSP) are equal to my Windows 2K/XP machines but cost is huge. I can literally put a lab in my classroom using Linux, I'd have to settle for a couple of PC's at best under the commercial software regime.
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...for me to poop on! I run a small publish business that publishes specialized educational materials for high school students. We put out three large publications, plus two series of publications every school year. We are constantly complaining about Word and how difficult (and silly) the feature sets are to use. NOT to mention automatic formatting which never turns on when I need it but always messes up whatever I am typing. We are running a trial of OpenOffice this year. Our initial reaction is that we love it.
Mine costs 500 and it plays UT2004 just fine as well. What it comes down to: there are always people out there that will pay for fancy hardware when something much more simple will due. Remember, there are lots of people who buy fancy sports cars and SUVs who drive to the store and soccer games.
...like getting the mob with tax fraud, right?
I get how useful it would be to cancel noise in certain situations, but outside of a server (and even my Dell 400SC is sooo quiet I can barely hear it), what is the big deal for the vast majority of applications???
adding the internet to this mix...streaming a station to 100 people who then broadcast it to a combined millions...someone could broadcast to a substantial audience from their basement
How much distance are we going to get out of that /. article on the massive government memory upgrade? :)
Holy dog! Perhaps the RIAA is coming to my house now. :D:D
I was hoping to get sued in Canada instead of the States. After the exchange rate, I was hoping to pay about $0.78 per song, beating the iTunes price!! :)
I agree that is what you and I might do with it, but I think the power of selling these PC's at a place like Walmart is the happy-home-user that doesn't know enough to put Windows on a machine. Hell, many won't even know they don't have Windows ("I have Windows on my machine, I have to open a window to get to the three 'w' thingie.").
If the goal is Linux to the masses, I'm sad to report that the masses are at Walmart.
I am a teacher and I wish more PC's would ship without floppy drives. When my students bring in disks from home (and I sometimes have 150 disks to deal with at a time), 1 in 3 has an error, and another 1 in 5 has a virus. I'd much prefer email or a USB flash drive!
Reading the Walmart page (link in the article, or http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?cat=395 1&dept=3944&product_id=2592736&path=0%3A3944%3A395 1%3A41937%3A86796%3A132690) I finding it amusing that WalMart sells the Sun Linux OS as "the first viable Microsoft Windows alternative." Does this mean that Lindows and Mandrake, sold on other WalMart cheap-PC's isn't a viable alternative?
I can, of course, only speak for myself but I am fairly web-savvy and I was initially confused about the Passport system. It appeared to me that I needed an MSN account or Hotmail account to make it work, though I don't think that was/is the case. I always use my Hotmail account for junk; I'd never use it for e-commerce transactions. Perhaps that is the issue with a company with soooo many services.
Dumb ass: I don't send spam, I send a purchased product via email. Think before you type!
We just finished migrating to that!! :)
I run a small publishing firm that relies on email to sent updates to our materials. Every email we send to customers has at least 10% bounce (sometimes as high as 30%); many of which worked a week before or a week after. However, I think the 19% number mimics my personal mail as well: messages allll the time get lost in the shuffle!!
Perhaps you'd be interested in purchasing some licenses for me??
Really, though, isn't this the case in Windows, too? A lot of developers refuse to make drivers for newer versions of Windows, too. I'm sure we can all think of examples in both Windows and Linux/OSS varients.
We're probably giving the rip-off site a lot of traffic, thus advertising revenues. :( On the other hand, perhaps we'll give a little offensive /. effect! :)
I can't speak to PaintShop but isn't this the case in Photoshop? There is spawning all over the place too and it has a similar learning curve. If this is a standard, perhaps you are looking for KidPix or the open source TuxPaint.
Actually, my experience has been that the driver set for Linux is in *some* ways more comprehensive than Windows. Case in point: I have a SCSI scanner that simply didn't work at all on a Windows 2000/XP box as no drivers were available. I put the card and scanner on a Red Had Fedora box and it auto detected it right away. I have had the same experience with a couple of NICs and a printer. However, I am not an advocate of a single platform school. My current classroom setup is two Windows XP boxes (two I brought from home) and 10 Linux thin clients. I have equipment plugged into both, including equipment donated from the community (in some cases, the community is my garage). Thanks for your thoughts!
I'd suggesting this was over modded down. These types of useability questions are important to desktop users and may prevent users from switching. Remember, a lot of the Windows user base are the completely tech dumb folks that find AOL a challenge.
I guess I beg to differ. Many of the applications have outstanding interfaces, like the GIMP and OpenOffice.org.
Murphy writes that "For example, cost is usually important in business only if the products being compared are otherwise very similar." I work in education and cost is everything. I can really say that my Linux OS machines (running the K12LTSP) are equal to my Windows 2K/XP machines but cost is huge. I can literally put a lab in my classroom using Linux, I'd have to settle for a couple of PC's at best under the commercial software regime.
Wait! Does this mean it's all about money? NO!!!!!!!!!!!