I think Steve Jobs has the edge here too, but for another (though related) reason. Apple tends to adopt new technology before it becomes mainstream features in the Wintel world. For example IEE1394, wireless networking, 64bit processor, hard drive mp3 players, wide-screen "media notebooks" and bluetooth.
I think if you look at the features on apple machines today such as 64bit processors, back-lit keyboard on notebooks and the one-button mouse (ok I jest) it's a good indicator of where the wintel world will be in the near future.
I think the time is the biggest issue here. Their systems are down, Even if software is available, they don't have the time or manpower to test and impliment their system on Linux.
This is an emergancy situation. The best thing they can do is get their trusted system running again and then look for other options.
It is now very clear that we need a very competent person to get us out of the Iraq quagmire. Bush has to demonstrate that he is that person.
On the contrary, Bush is already involved and thus knows more about the situation then Kerry (or any of us for that matter) do. To me, Kerry has to prove that he can do a better job then Bush on the Iraq issue among others. I am no staunch Bush supporter but Kerry has yet to convince me he can do better.
This may be true for "people." I don't know all of Sun's products but as far as servers and workstations go, no serious corporation is going to make a significant purchasing decision based on emotion or buzzwords.
I won't deny that there are non-techinical reasons for purhcasing a product (such as cost, familiarity, and political reasons) and Marketing plays a huge role. They are still going to look at the actual product though.
It's jargon and buzzwords and nothing more. All companies do that. Nobody buys products based on that. Any company looking at sun will look past the "marketingspeak" and look at the product.
And they had no reason to be scared of losing the browser wars either (which they had assumed they had won), but lately IE has been losing quite a lot of market share to the likes of FireFox, Mozilla and Opera (but especially FireFox).
That is different. Changing a browser does not require you to get and learn new applications. Changing a browser is changing a piece of the picture as opposed to the whole picture.
All the military people that I know of (all who served in Iraq,) regardless of political affiliation, dislikes Kerry for turning his back on the troops in Vietnam. They say that the would have had no problem with his testimony after the war. But during an already contriversal war, he helped degrade what little popular support was left for them (not the war.)
Xorg 6.8 has already been released with some interesting features and enhancements (including the drop shadow and translucency eye candy!). I wonder why it wasnt included.
My guess would be because the ATI drivers don't support it (though I have yet to get them tow work with 6.7).
I agree completely. As it stands though, the two parties have too much of a hold on the political system. In order to be elected, you almost have to run as one.
This could happen, but it will almost have to come very gradually. That or a possible major issue that splits both parties down the middle. I don't see that happening though. I was kind of hoping the Iraq war might. It seems that it created a slight temporary rift but it's back to the same-old-same-old politics again.
Nope, they've created the 21st century equivalent of a global radio network where each user can decide the programming line-up for themselves, or defer to the judgement of others, rather being limited to the programming decisions of the program directors at a few national or regional media companies.
Well for it to be an equivilant, it would have to have existed before. It's a simple comparison.
Not true. In Windows, as long as you have a computer running on an ATX motherboard (that should be everyone by now, I would hope), hitting the power button causes Windows to initiate its normal shutdown procedure, as if you had selected it from the Start menu.
Err.. Not on any machine I have ever used. Perhaps that's an option that can be enabled. It's definitly not a standard feature
What would be interesting to me would be to see the trend of IE browsers on Mozilla's site over the past six months or so. If it shows an increasing or even steady trend, then it is excellent news for the Mozilla folks.
I know I'm going against the crowd, but has anyone found anything quite as good as MusicMatch's Smart Tagging capability?
Musicmatch has had that for years and I am very suprised that none of the other major players have picked it up. That was THE reason that I had musicmatch installed on my machine. I used it to tag downloaded mp3s then winamp to play them.
The "Tag from internet" (or something like that) was also incredibly useful for getting missing album information such as (album name and date of release) and album artwork.
In terms of features, it was at the top and perhaps still is. The non-standard interface was one of the worst that I have ever seen and the resource usage was entirely too high.
After I got my ipod, a bug in the bundled version cut a letter of of each field in the tag of every mp3 in my collection on each sync. It was off my machine after that.
Some specific ideas off the top of my head:
- Navigation systems in cars
- Decent automated phone system
- Microwave Ovens (tell it to cook two baked potatos)
- PDA calander entries.
But I believe that if you take the time to make sure you are using the language correctly, it indicates that you are more careful in your other thoughts, and are probably (although certainly not definitely) a smarter person.
I wouldn't go that far. I do believe that it raises your credibility. I tend not to take posts seriously that have blatent gramatical errors and intentional mispellings (such as windoze and the like.)
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I think Steve Jobs has the edge here too, but for another (though related) reason. Apple tends to adopt new technology before it becomes mainstream features in the Wintel world. For example IEE1394, wireless networking, 64bit processor, hard drive mp3 players, wide-screen "media notebooks" and bluetooth.
I think if you look at the features on apple machines today such as 64bit processors, back-lit keyboard on notebooks and the one-button mouse (ok I jest) it's a good indicator of where the wintel world will be in the near future.
That is hands-down the stupidest reason I have ever heard for not having an operating system patched.
I believe his name is Wile E. Coyote but I could be mistaken. Not that it really matters anyway...
All this talk of change is all well and good. But what congress is going to sign it into law?
You want to see bi-partisanship? Give congress a law that weakens the two-party system.
But what about the studies that say low gravity causes health problems (decreases bone densitiy I think?)
I think the time is the biggest issue here. Their systems are down, Even if software is available, they don't have the time or manpower to test and impliment their system on Linux.
This is an emergancy situation. The best thing they can do is get their trusted system running again and then look for other options.
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The creater has a sense of humor.
Good point- I wonder if this is like my major argument with Evangelical Christianity- the saved-at-a-single-prayer thing.
That is not true of Christianity in general as the Bible makes no mention of that.
It is now very clear that we need a very competent person to get us out of the Iraq quagmire. Bush has to demonstrate that he is that person.
On the contrary, Bush is already involved and thus knows more about the situation then Kerry (or any of us for that matter) do. To me, Kerry has to prove that he can do a better job then Bush on the Iraq issue among others. I am no staunch Bush supporter but Kerry has yet to convince me he can do better.
And thank God he doesn't.
Most people make their decisions emotionally.
This may be true for "people." I don't know all of Sun's products but as far as servers and workstations go, no serious corporation is going to make a significant purchasing decision based on emotion or buzzwords.
I won't deny that there are non-techinical reasons for purhcasing a product (such as cost, familiarity, and political reasons) and Marketing plays a huge role. They are still going to look at the actual product though.
It's jargon and buzzwords and nothing more. All companies do that. Nobody buys products based on that. Any company looking at sun will look past the "marketingspeak" and look at the product.
And they had no reason to be scared of losing the browser wars either (which they had assumed they had won), but lately IE has been losing quite a lot of market share to the likes of FireFox, Mozilla and Opera (but especially FireFox).
That is different. Changing a browser does not require you to get and learn new applications. Changing a browser is changing a piece of the picture as opposed to the whole picture.
All the military people that I know of (all who served in Iraq,) regardless of political affiliation, dislikes Kerry for turning his back on the troops in Vietnam. They say that the would have had no problem with his testimony after the war. But during an already contriversal war, he helped degrade what little popular support was left for them (not the war.)
Xorg 6.8 has already been released with some interesting features and enhancements (including the drop shadow and translucency eye candy!). I wonder why it wasnt included.
My guess would be because the ATI drivers don't support it (though I have yet to get them tow work with 6.7).
Sounds like the RAM's the problem instead of the video card. It might be worth running memtest86 if you haven't.
I agree completely. As it stands though, the two parties have too much of a hold on the political system. In order to be elected, you almost have to run as one.
This could happen, but it will almost have to come very gradually. That or a possible major issue that splits both parties down the middle. I don't see that happening though. I was kind of hoping the Iraq war might. It seems that it created a slight temporary rift but it's back to the same-old-same-old politics again.
Nope, they've created the 21st century equivalent of a global radio network where each user can decide the programming line-up for themselves, or defer to the judgement of others, rather being limited to the programming decisions of the program directors at a few national or regional media companies.
Well for it to be an equivilant, it would have to have existed before. It's a simple comparison.
Not true. In Windows, as long as you have a computer running on an ATX motherboard (that should be everyone by now, I would hope), hitting the power button causes Windows to initiate its normal shutdown procedure, as if you had selected it from the Start menu.
Err.. Not on any machine I have ever used. Perhaps that's an option that can be enabled. It's definitly not a standard feature
What would be interesting to me would be to see the trend of IE browsers on Mozilla's site over the past six months or so. If it shows an increasing or even steady trend, then it is excellent news for the Mozilla folks.
I know I'm going against the crowd, but has anyone found anything quite as good as MusicMatch's Smart Tagging capability?
Musicmatch has had that for years and I am very suprised that none of the other major players have picked it up. That was THE reason that I had musicmatch installed on my machine. I used it to tag downloaded mp3s then winamp to play them.
The "Tag from internet" (or something like that) was also incredibly useful for getting missing album information such as (album name and date of release) and album artwork.
In terms of features, it was at the top and perhaps still is. The non-standard interface was one of the worst that I have ever seen and the resource usage was entirely too high.
After I got my ipod, a bug in the bundled version cut a letter of of each field in the tag of every mp3 in my collection on each sync. It was off my machine after that.
I agree. The answer basically said, "We have listened to your complaints and have resolved the issues in our newest release."
If 10 does infact address this, then this was both the correct answer and correct action.
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I think you hit it on the head.
Any other cool ideas out there?
Some specific ideas off the top of my head:
- Navigation systems in cars
- Decent automated phone system
- Microwave Ovens (tell it to cook two baked potatos)
- PDA calander entries.
But I believe that if you take the time to make sure you are using the language correctly, it indicates that you are more careful in your other thoughts, and are probably (although certainly not definitely) a smarter person.
I wouldn't go that far. I do believe that it raises your credibility. I tend not to take posts seriously that have blatent gramatical errors and intentional mispellings (such as windoze and the like.)