There is simply no way for them to do that without alienating TONS of business customers.
Look at it this way, I work at a college, we have thousands of computers. Only maybe 100 of which replaced in the last year are able to support 64bit operating systems and those still only have 1 -2 gigs of ram. If they released 64bit only the chance that we would switch anytime in the next 7 years (which would be how long it is going to take on our 5 year amortization cycle) is zero. We would be forced to continue to use XP, or migrate to linux.
I suppose vista could be an option in that case. However, our plan was to skip vista in the hopes that by the time Win7 was released many of our software vendors would have upgraded their applications to run properly on vista and windows 7. If microsoft released a 64bit only win7 then many of those vendors would probably skip fixing their 32bit apps to run on vista and thus require us to move to 64bit windows 7. Faced with such a huge cost in hardware to do that, I'm not sure what we would do.
It is a shame you can't play the native mac version of these games on any recent mac. Instead you have to use wine and the windows version. Apple decided to break products that worked just fine on osX prior to 10.5.3 just because.
The best solution is developing a system that doesn't require your users to do anything. It's trivial to reboot every workstation on campus at midnight.
Yet you could buy the same music from amazon. Pay the same price (most of the time) and not have to worry about the future of your music. What if your ipod dies? What if apple shuts down their music service? What if you want to play your music on 6 computers?
Same price, more freedom, can your music service do this?
You mean no defragging tools to do the necessary defrag.
Sure if you only work with small files HFS takes care of itself. But with the large files some of us work with the filesystem will not defrag them. And you can start to hear the seeking growing over time.
I was speaking of basic ideas. Like all people do not believe what you believe. That people with opinions that differ from you are not always wrong. That you can be a good person and not be a christian. That science exists and can explain why things happen. That kids have a social structure and interact differently when their parents are away. That not all adults agree on what is true and what is not.
I was required by state law to attend school, not public school.
In my area the growing trend is to home school the childrens because exposing them to ideas that are not your own might cause them to think.
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I wish they did. Then our support reps wouldn't have to go out and uninstall java updates when some tech accidentally updates java while he is out fixing another problem.
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Yes, we have one we payed a few hundred grand for. SungardSCT can suck my balls. Not only does it only work with java 5, but it has to be the exact right version. Do the wrong patch and its all over.
My grandma managed to get windows xp installed. But then had a startling realization. She had no network drivers. It made it impossible to get a office application or any drivers to fix the problem. She thought about maybe driving to a library to get try to download them there, but she was without usb stick.
A quick google shows if you have a jailbroken phone (and who doesn't) then all you need to do is self sign the app and you can test it on your phone. Then you could even deploy via Cydia if you don't want to pay the 99.00 to use apples delivery method for your customers.
This is good info for me because I am about to start writing a application for my phone for personal use.
I have the exact problem in the other direction. I have a computer with onboard nvidia graphics that constantly locks up on me when it had windows. Installed ubuntu, no problems.
I have a wireless card that constantly loses connection (linksys card) on my wife's computer. Never loses connection (or requires setup) in ubuntu. My work laptop (dell D830 fully works without installing any drivers after the install). In windows I have to hunt down drivers to get things to work smoothly. Dells website has bad drivers for sound that disable line-in.
I have a computer with a nvidia 8800GT that I use to play games on. One day after a driver update to the latest nvidia driver it started getting tearing. I could not fix it, even after going back to older drivers. For fun I put ubuntu on it (assuming a reinstall of windows might fix the problem). I then installed the game in cedega and found it worked just fine with no tearing (team fortress 2).
On 5 machines using ubuntu 8.10 I have yet to have a need to touch a single file using the command line. Every change I've needed to make was done though a gui. In 8.04 I was able to do about 90% of my changes via gui. Only one computer required ndiswrapper on 8.04 and it no longer requires it on 8.10.
It seems to me it's only harder because you want it to work like windows. But linux is not a clone of windows. It works differently. I don't feel that it is more difficult, just different.
Here's another problem with windows I can't fix. It simply will not do what I tell it to do. My work requires automatic updates. This morning I came in the office and it wants to reboot. I was jumped with a problem to fix the moment I walked in the door. I did not have 15 minutes to wait for a reboot (all the novell crap we have). So I clicked later. Now every 5 minutes it tells me I need to reboot.
The problem is you guys want it to work like windows.
I know this because of my switch to mac. My mom check it out and got one too. She said everything was so hard to do on a mac. Why? Because she wanted it to work like windows.
I however use the blank slate approach to computing. I do not expect anything to be like windows or linux. I've never had any trouble be it windows, linux, bsd, solaris, or osx. They are all very simple to use after you spend just a little bit of time learning how they work.
As long as you keep expecting things to work like windows you are never going to be happy with anything but windows.
Not that there is anything wrong with running windows.
Such as? Can you give me a few examples in ubuntu 8.10 that require expert level of skill that an average computer user would want to do and would be able to do on windows or mac?
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Two things. One we buy our licenses as a volume license from microsoft, not tied to computers. So when we upgrade to vista, we upgrade.
Two, vista 32bit still has incompatibilities with software that runs fine on xp. If they can't even do that right do you trust them to do 64 to 32?
Yes, we would not do a 100% shift, but if it's not greater then a few dozen computers it's not worth the shift at all.
Yea, comic book writers really really want to write history novels and not well you know, comic books.
You do realize that 300 was a comic book right? It was not about telling a historical story, it was about turning a great comic book into a movie.
There is simply no way for them to do that without alienating TONS of business customers.
Look at it this way, I work at a college, we have thousands of computers. Only maybe 100 of which replaced in the last year are able to support 64bit operating systems and those still only have 1 -2 gigs of ram. If they released 64bit only the chance that we would switch anytime in the next 7 years (which would be how long it is going to take on our 5 year amortization cycle) is zero. We would be forced to continue to use XP, or migrate to linux.
I suppose vista could be an option in that case. However, our plan was to skip vista in the hopes that by the time Win7 was released many of our software vendors would have upgraded their applications to run properly on vista and windows 7. If microsoft released a 64bit only win7 then many of those vendors would probably skip fixing their 32bit apps to run on vista and thus require us to move to 64bit windows 7. Faced with such a huge cost in hardware to do that, I'm not sure what we would do.
I thought Net Neutrality was a bad thing and we should just trust that big business always have our best interests at heart.
It is a shame you can't play the native mac version of these games on any recent mac. Instead you have to use wine and the windows version. Apple decided to break products that worked just fine on osX prior to 10.5.3 just because.
The article the parent linked had the line I quoted above.
Thus my comment.
The best solution is developing a system that doesn't require your users to do anything. It's trivial to reboot every workstation on campus at midnight.
Wow, that link you have shows how far behind ubuntu has gotten.
"As always, things can easily change between now and Ubuntu 9.04 (due out April 2004)"
We are just now on 8.10 and they predicted 9.04 to have a 2004 release...
Exactly what I thought. Just with less features.
Yet you could buy the same music from amazon. Pay the same price (most of the time) and not have to worry about the future of your music. What if your ipod dies? What if apple shuts down their music service? What if you want to play your music on 6 computers?
Same price, more freedom, can your music service do this?
You mean no defragging tools to do the necessary defrag.
Sure if you only work with small files HFS takes care of itself. But with the large files some of us work with the filesystem will not defrag them. And you can start to hear the seeking growing over time.
Baulders Gate was released in 1998. I still play it and enjoy it about once a year.
I was speaking of basic ideas. Like all people do not believe what you believe. That people with opinions that differ from you are not always wrong. That you can be a good person and not be a christian. That science exists and can explain why things happen. That kids have a social structure and interact differently when their parents are away. That not all adults agree on what is true and what is not.
Little things you learn in school.
I see what you did there.
I was required by state law to attend school, not public school.
In my area the growing trend is to home school the childrens because exposing them to ideas that are not your own might cause them to think.
I wish they did. Then our support reps wouldn't have to go out and uninstall java updates when some tech accidentally updates java while he is out fixing another problem.
Yes, we have one we payed a few hundred grand for. SungardSCT can suck my balls. Not only does it only work with java 5, but it has to be the exact right version. Do the wrong patch and its all over.
Isn't todays default mail client internet explorer?
My grandma managed to get windows xp installed. But then had a startling realization. She had no network drivers. It made it impossible to get a office application or any drivers to fix the problem. She thought about maybe driving to a library to get try to download them there, but she was without usb stick.
Then I bailed her out. So xp failed the test.
I have apple. I enjoy apple products. They make products that work the way I would want products to work 90% of the time.
It's that other 10% of the time I'm bitching a fit trying to hack around their limitations.
But it's better then the 50% of the time with windows.
A quick google shows if you have a jailbroken phone (and who doesn't) then all you need to do is self sign the app and you can test it on your phone. Then you could even deploy via Cydia if you don't want to pay the 99.00 to use apples delivery method for your customers.
This is good info for me because I am about to start writing a application for my phone for personal use.
Seems like something that should not require an expert computer user to change. I mean start run, type in a command!!!! What is this, Linux?
I have the exact problem in the other direction. I have a computer with onboard nvidia graphics that constantly locks up on me when it had windows. Installed ubuntu, no problems.
I have a wireless card that constantly loses connection (linksys card) on my wife's computer. Never loses connection (or requires setup) in ubuntu. My work laptop (dell D830 fully works without installing any drivers after the install). In windows I have to hunt down drivers to get things to work smoothly. Dells website has bad drivers for sound that disable line-in.
I have a computer with a nvidia 8800GT that I use to play games on. One day after a driver update to the latest nvidia driver it started getting tearing. I could not fix it, even after going back to older drivers. For fun I put ubuntu on it (assuming a reinstall of windows might fix the problem). I then installed the game in cedega and found it worked just fine with no tearing (team fortress 2).
On 5 machines using ubuntu 8.10 I have yet to have a need to touch a single file using the command line. Every change I've needed to make was done though a gui. In 8.04 I was able to do about 90% of my changes via gui. Only one computer required ndiswrapper on 8.04 and it no longer requires it on 8.10.
It seems to me it's only harder because you want it to work like windows. But linux is not a clone of windows. It works differently. I don't feel that it is more difficult, just different.
Here's another problem with windows I can't fix. It simply will not do what I tell it to do. My work requires automatic updates. This morning I came in the office and it wants to reboot. I was jumped with a problem to fix the moment I walked in the door. I did not have 15 minutes to wait for a reboot (all the novell crap we have). So I clicked later. Now every 5 minutes it tells me I need to reboot.
Thanks microsoft.
The problem is you guys want it to work like windows.
I know this because of my switch to mac. My mom check it out and got one too. She said everything was so hard to do on a mac. Why? Because she wanted it to work like windows.
I however use the blank slate approach to computing. I do not expect anything to be like windows or linux. I've never had any trouble be it windows, linux, bsd, solaris, or osx. They are all very simple to use after you spend just a little bit of time learning how they work.
As long as you keep expecting things to work like windows you are never going to be happy with anything but windows.
Not that there is anything wrong with running windows.
Such as? Can you give me a few examples in ubuntu 8.10 that require expert level of skill that an average computer user would want to do and would be able to do on windows or mac?