I don't know where you are getting these prices... please post them. Just yesterday I was pricing MACs out from their website and local vendors (ie Micro Center) and could not find a decent price when comparing to x86 hardware.
If you can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Because I have been considering getting a MAC for my next laptop, but at the prices I was seeing... it would be insane not to get an HP with an AMD 64 and install linux on it.
I agree with you completely. Simply enough example would be, Shinobi vs Ninja Gaiden. I absolutely LOVED the Shinobi series back in the day, Ninja Gaiden was liked but not loved. However, the graphical superiority in the modern day versions can be attributed to many things, and thus my LOVE for the modern-day Ninja Gaiden, and complete disdain for the modern-day Shinobi.
Am I the only one that remembers this Billy Gates quote? I believe he will make Sender-ID a requirement in Exchange and Outlook... This will force feed it's adoption unless Microsoft continues to lose market share to alternative desktop OSes.
Trying to sneak a pantented standard in, then later charging for it after wide-spread adoption seems more likely, if you do remember that quote.
Depending on the size of your organization, Nitix http://www.net-itech.com/ offers ExchangeIT with it's servers, but it doesn't seem to scale too well past 150 users. It's been tested and works very well. It does the conversion over for you. Your current Exchange users shouldn't notice anything.
Hey I'm in Boston too... and as a high tech black professional who runs his own business... *ahem* will you hire me for some contract work!? *cheese*
All joking aside... when I was continuously looking for work here in Boston, all the interviewers stressed that they didn't want me to get bored etc etc... the over-qualified spcheille... and all I have to say to that is... "How can a hungry person be over-qualified?"
Being a black male who also doesn't believe in affirmative action, the plain and simple point is that there isn't a better alternative to it.
A lot of people say it's a bad idea this, and a bad idea that... however, history has shown, that companies supporting the "good ole boy" type of infrastructures have keep the minorities out through very shady practices.
My alternative to affirmative action would be that all interviews are recorded and stored off-site as they happen along with candidates resumes. Disputes in this case would have more merit without the need for affirative action. However, not all the hiring process goes on during the interview, so even this is not a 100% fool-proof. It would just give more merit to someone who thought they were discrimanted against.
Because in my experience, give someone the opportunity to pick what they are comfortable with over what may be better... they'll pick what they are more comfortable with.
The last thing I remember... was their Entripise filesystem. Before that being a big proponent of tieing together the Gnome and KDE interfaces *which many distros have followed suit* and being the first to implement it well (imho). They do contribute... but not everyone can innovate everyday.
I could care less what they think is right for me... spatial... I hated it in Windows 95/98 (the first frigging thing I changed)... and I still hate it now. I don't want 20 million windows on my desktop.... and I don't want a window to open for every single directory I open... because eventually I have to close all of them, and that makes my carpal tunnel act up. o.0
I once asked in a Comp Sci class about 14 years ago... well why do they call the screen a "desktop"?
My professor explained it thus (parapharsed of course), "Think of the desktop as the top of your office desk. A desktop if a place you work. You sometimes have pictures of families there, files you can grab, pencils etc. What you don't need right away... you hide away in drawers. Put files in folders. Now you can go in everyones office in the world, and almost every desktop will be different. People use their desktops how they wish... putting what they want on it, normally not caring what others think.
All a computer desktop allows you to do is store and access things the way you wish."
I use Gnome/KDE with FC2... upgraded from FC1 and despite what the article says... my system now runs faster.
Would I use one of those... I need to be a geek desktops to figure out... NOPE! Can I compile a kernel edit config files by hand, and administer all system functions. Yes it's what I do. But my desktop... since it's not strictly for work and definitely not for all play... must be pleasing yet functional since I have to look at it the majority of the day. Complete efficiency is boring and undesireable... pretty without functionality is useless... but Gnome and KDE strike a happy balance.
At long last we ALL can actually setup our desktops the way we want.
Why would I buy CDs and not be able to copy them, when I could download them off the net?
Also, I guarantee the first person who buys a CD and decides to burn a copy and can't for whatever reason will sue!
A) Directly contributed to the Growth of the video game market.
Reasoning... I've seen many people who pirate a good game and love it, eventually by the game. Why? Because after awhile you get tired of looking for cracks for the latest patch etc. And most people pirate because of a lack of money... when they get older, the tend to buy if they can.
B) Piracy of Computer Games and Software made Microsoft the monopoly it is today.
Reasoning... People wanted DOS/Windows because Apple and other OS vendors didn't have the game support for all the pirated computer games we played. Many Others who saw the fun factor of Windows and weren't savvy enough to pirate, had to go out and BUY the stuff they wanted...
The average user is not even MAC or Windows savvy. If the current version of Gnome and KDE were shipped on every computer... already setup with shorcuts for all the poplar/common packages... most people will be able to use it.
If RPM all-dependencies-satisfied CDs were given to people, what would be the difference from using Windows or MACs other than being more secure?
This is not true unless you own or have a pre-existing partnership with a plant. An experienced hardware R&D firm, etc.
Sony as an established electronics manufacturer with in-house R&D teams was easily able to do it this way.
Microsoft is a software vendor, who's primary hardware technologies (joysticks, etc) have always been made 3rd party. If they were to try it the way you suggest... they essentially would be starting from square one, and trying to compete against a competitor who has a significant tiem advantage.
If I remember correctly, Sony didn't manufacture the PS1 or custom-design it.
Microsoft currently has a monopoly for their security flawed software... due to the fact that they WERE better in the past, than any of their competitors. There are more MS trained individuals due to this fact
Upgrading, training, and hiring linux admins IS going to cost more...
HOWEVER... most people are missing the simple fact... you can run a version of linux for X amount of years without upgrading... where as Windows upgrades almost every 2-3 years and usually has hardware costs attached to it. Also when you do upgrade the OS, more often than not, you have to upgrade all the Productivity and Development packages with it. Which will definitely be higher than 40%. Also, you're IT people have to get trained on the latest versions of the software... even more money. Then after a certain period of time MS will not support the older OSes and software
How often does a Linux users knowledge of the OS become outdated?
How often is support of and older version of Linux dropped.
How often do we have to relearn the OS?
How often is new hardware needed to upgrade the OS?
Intial cost may be prohibitive from switching to Linux... however, you can easily save money on upgrading hardware, software, and training with Linux over time. Also when you upgrade the OS... you get all the new packages with it. Once Linux becomes more prevalent in the market so will the amount of administrators, which will drive down demand, which will also drive down expensive salaries.
Anyone that argues that Linux is more expensive than MS is blind. Anyone can EASILY see the savings if they look.
Opportunity? 16 months in a federal penn is 16 months in a mentally and physically damaging environment, that even the hardest of people can never recover from. Don't forget the majority of people who go into the penn, come out worse than they went in...
Heck, what opportunity would you be thinking about after being a$s raped for about a year?
A lot of movies that just didn't advertise well I'll view the screeners... And if they are worthy... I'll buy them on DVD when they come out. But the fact is any movie like the Matrix, etc I really want to see, I spend the 10 bucks and go to a high quality theater for the experience.
A perfect example of that was Gladiator... with the sound effects and background music..s It was 10 fold better than when I bought the DVD and watched it at home on surround sound. And the stuff I watch on screeners... I would never go to the movies to see in the first place. But after watching it, I may want to buy the DVD for my massive collection. So they aren't losing money in my case... Can't lose what you never had.
has been moving towards linux inside corporations since 1998. I live in Boston and have worked on 128 (Technology Drive), and have seen more and more interest in Linux from small companies to large corporations. Politicians will always jump on the bandwagon that they see their constiuents wanting. So it's not surprising.
My small business (not to be posted here for fear of being/.ed:) caters to other small business with low cost linux server solutions and out-sourced IT Services. Unlike other states where I have lived... there is actually a very strong market here.
Wouldn't they be afraid that all the Linux hackers that have slaved their butts off to make this community work, will turn there eye towards UNIX and Linux in a more destructive manner?
Seriously, Windows hacker in general tend to be script kiddies. But Linux hackers tend to understand the in and outs of Linux.
If SCO did win... I could see every version of UNIX LINUX they ever release being more virus-ridden and attacked than any Windows OS ever was.
I mean 90% of spam wants you to go to a site... unless the SPAM is just malicious SPAM. It's not necessary to go after the emailer, but the company that allows it servers for relaying (dumbasses) or the company trying to sell me everythign from Penis enhancers to Breast Enlargers? Urr one of the other please!
As a Comcast subscriber, if I see it affects my gaming or downoading, or website... I'll switch to another carrier, and inform all prospective Comcast customers to steer elsewhere.
Cable companies continually raise their prices. In metro areas like Boston it's just under $50 a month, and I don't really get the 3MB down 384K that they advertise. So if they decide to throtle that back, why won't I just switch to cheaper solution.
If all the companies decide to do it, and the speed is throttled down too much... many people will start to sask themeselves... What exactly am I paying this ever increasing cost for. It maybe cheap in some regards, but heck I can get a wireless T1 for $350 and then resell the connections in the neighborhood for up to $20 house.
If they try to stick it to us... what's to stop someone like myself in the know from sticking it to them? So why don't I do it now... because I don't want customers at the moment... but I will do it, if it comes down to it.
People are forgetting the obvious, in shutting down the sites. It wasn't a protest against the lawmakers per se, but to make all the users of the software aware of what is going on.
I for one knew nothing about it, or how it would affect me. Now I do, and if they ever needed a signature against it, I would sign. Because I was made aware though this protest.
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If you can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Because I have been considering getting a MAC for my next laptop, but at the prices I was seeing... it would be insane not to get an HP with an AMD 64 and install linux on it.
What is going to be the chemical effects on mood and body when mixing Caffeine with it? I'm sorry... but it seems quite the odd combination.
I agree with you completely. Simply enough example would be, Shinobi vs Ninja Gaiden. I absolutely LOVED the Shinobi series back in the day, Ninja Gaiden was liked but not loved. However, the graphical superiority in the modern day versions can be attributed to many things, and thus my LOVE for the modern-day Ninja Gaiden, and complete disdain for the modern-day Shinobi.
Trying to sneak a pantented standard in, then later charging for it after wide-spread adoption seems more likely, if you do remember that quote.
Depending on the size of your organization, Nitix http://www.net-itech.com/ offers ExchangeIT with it's servers, but it doesn't seem to scale too well past 150 users. It's been tested and works very well. It does the conversion over for you. Your current Exchange users shouldn't notice anything.
All joking aside... when I was continuously looking for work here in Boston, all the interviewers stressed that they didn't want me to get bored etc etc... the over-qualified spcheille... and all I have to say to that is... "How can a hungry person be over-qualified?"
A lot of people say it's a bad idea this, and a bad idea that... however, history has shown, that companies supporting the "good ole boy" type of infrastructures have keep the minorities out through very shady practices.
My alternative to affirmative action would be that all interviews are recorded and stored off-site as they happen along with candidates resumes. Disputes in this case would have more merit without the need for affirative action. However, not all the hiring process goes on during the interview, so even this is not a 100% fool-proof. It would just give more merit to someone who thought they were discrimanted against.
Because in my experience, give someone the opportunity to pick what they are comfortable with over what may be better... they'll pick what they are more comfortable with.
The last thing I remember... was their Entripise filesystem. Before that being a big proponent of tieing together the Gnome and KDE interfaces *which many distros have followed suit* and being the first to implement it well (imho). They do contribute... but not everyone can innovate everyday.
Also, parents may not want their children to see this stuff while browsing the web, and install it for that reason.
I could care less what they think is right for me... spatial... I hated it in Windows 95/98 (the first frigging thing I changed)... and I still hate it now. I don't want 20 million windows on my desktop.... and I don't want a window to open for every single directory I open... because eventually I have to close all of them, and that makes my carpal tunnel act up. o.0
My professor explained it thus (parapharsed of course), "Think of the desktop as the top of your office desk. A desktop if a place you work. You sometimes have pictures of families there, files you can grab, pencils etc. What you don't need right away... you hide away in drawers. Put files in folders. Now you can go in everyones office in the world, and almost every desktop will be different. People use their desktops how they wish... putting what they want on it, normally not caring what others think.
All a computer desktop allows you to do is store and access things the way you wish."
I use Gnome/KDE with FC2... upgraded from FC1 and despite what the article says... my system now runs faster. Would I use one of those... I need to be a geek desktops to figure out... NOPE! Can I compile a kernel edit config files by hand, and administer all system functions. Yes it's what I do. But my desktop... since it's not strictly for work and definitely not for all play... must be pleasing yet functional since I have to look at it the majority of the day. Complete efficiency is boring and undesireable... pretty without functionality is useless... but Gnome and KDE strike a happy balance.
At long last we ALL can actually setup our desktops the way we want.
Why would I buy CDs and not be able to copy them, when I could download them off the net? Also, I guarantee the first person who buys a CD and decides to burn a copy and can't for whatever reason will sue!
I invented the 80's phrase bookin' (running your ass off) and I'm going to sue every successful hotel and airline!
*rubs hands together* Man am I going to be rich!
A) Directly contributed to the Growth of the video game market.
Reasoning... I've seen many people who pirate a good game and love it, eventually by the game. Why? Because after awhile you get tired of looking for cracks for the latest patch etc. And most people pirate because of a lack of money... when they get older, the tend to buy if they can.
B) Piracy of Computer Games and Software made Microsoft the monopoly it is today.
Reasoning... People wanted DOS/Windows because Apple and other OS vendors didn't have the game support for all the pirated computer games we played. Many Others who saw the fun factor of Windows and weren't savvy enough to pirate, had to go out and BUY the stuff they wanted...
Did I say piracy was a bad thing?
If RPM all-dependencies-satisfied CDs were given to people, what would be the difference from using Windows or MACs other than being more secure?
Sony as an established electronics manufacturer with in-house R&D teams was easily able to do it this way.
Microsoft is a software vendor, who's primary hardware technologies (joysticks, etc) have always been made 3rd party. If they were to try it the way you suggest... they essentially would be starting from square one, and trying to compete against a competitor who has a significant tiem advantage.
If I remember correctly, Sony didn't manufacture the PS1 or custom-design it.
I'm black and have Haitian friends... most who love to play GTA. So if they aren't offended... who exactly is getting offended by this?
Microsoft currently has a monopoly for their security flawed software... due to the fact that they WERE better in the past, than any of their competitors. There are more MS trained individuals due to this fact
Upgrading, training, and hiring linux admins IS going to cost more...
HOWEVER... most people are missing the simple fact... you can run a version of linux for X amount of years without upgrading... where as Windows upgrades almost every 2-3 years and usually has hardware costs attached to it. Also when you do upgrade the OS, more often than not, you have to upgrade all the Productivity and Development packages with it. Which will definitely be higher than 40%. Also, you're IT people have to get trained on the latest versions of the software... even more money. Then after a certain period of time MS will not support the older OSes and software
Intial cost may be prohibitive from switching to Linux... however, you can easily save money on upgrading hardware, software, and training with Linux over time. Also when you upgrade the OS... you get all the new packages with it. Once Linux becomes more prevalent in the market so will the amount of administrators, which will drive down demand, which will also drive down expensive salaries.
Anyone that argues that Linux is more expensive than MS is blind. Anyone can EASILY see the savings if they look.
Heck, what opportunity would you be thinking about after being a$s raped for about a year?
A perfect example of that was Gladiator... with the sound effects and background music..s It was 10 fold better than when I bought the DVD and watched it at home on surround sound. And the stuff I watch on screeners... I would never go to the movies to see in the first place. But after watching it, I may want to buy the DVD for my massive collection. So they aren't losing money in my case... Can't lose what you never had.
My small business (not to be posted here for fear of being /.ed :) caters to other small business with low cost linux server solutions and out-sourced IT Services. Unlike other states where I have lived... there is actually a very strong market here.
Seriously, Windows hacker in general tend to be script kiddies. But Linux hackers tend to understand the in and outs of Linux.
If SCO did win... I could see every version of UNIX LINUX they ever release being more virus-ridden and attacked than any Windows OS ever was.
I mean 90% of spam wants you to go to a site... unless the SPAM is just malicious SPAM. It's not necessary to go after the emailer, but the company that allows it servers for relaying (dumbasses) or the company trying to sell me everythign from Penis enhancers to Breast Enlargers? Urr one of the other please!
As a Comcast subscriber, if I see it affects my gaming or downoading, or website... I'll switch to another carrier, and inform all prospective Comcast customers to steer elsewhere. Cable companies continually raise their prices. In metro areas like Boston it's just under $50 a month, and I don't really get the 3MB down 384K that they advertise. So if they decide to throtle that back, why won't I just switch to cheaper solution. If all the companies decide to do it, and the speed is throttled down too much... many people will start to sask themeselves... What exactly am I paying this ever increasing cost for. It maybe cheap in some regards, but heck I can get a wireless T1 for $350 and then resell the connections in the neighborhood for up to $20 house. If they try to stick it to us... what's to stop someone like myself in the know from sticking it to them? So why don't I do it now... because I don't want customers at the moment... but I will do it, if it comes down to it.
I for one knew nothing about it, or how it would affect me. Now I do, and if they ever needed a signature against it, I would sign. Because I was made aware though this protest.