If you set up the site, I will happily contribute idiocy worthy of The Man Himself.
Here are the titles of some of my brilliant future submissions:
"Microsoft Should Buy IBM" "Apple Should Buy Apple" "SCO Should Buy Enron" "IBM Should Buy All Copies Of Mariah Carey's 'Glitter'" "The Dvorak Keyboard Layout Should Buy Me"
the Palm T|X software platform is beyond obsolete, and Palm is in deep trouble since they still haven't figured out what to replace it with.
What makes Palm OS obsolete, in your opinion?
It is still the device that I turn to for portable information-management with long battery-life. I would buy a Treo if they worked with Grafitti.
I think Palm's biggest problem is software development tools -- I haven't tried their Eclipse-based studio yet, but I would like to know the comments of people who have used it.
you need to be able to seperate the technical parts from the fluff
Yes, the separate pieces of jargon have some purpose. "Front-end alignment" is also a technical term (automotive). The problem is that mixing jargon and catch-phrases from various domains is a damnably poor style of communication. I would say that anyone who mixes jargon like this has fluff for brains.
And is probably making at least $200 K a year. {sigh}
I'm glad you pinged Slashdot about this messaging challenge so we could touch base and send a heads up. This kind of meme is gaining mind-share. The metrics are showing more than just a blip, it's a sea-change!
Moving forward, I think it's clear that we need to leverage our wins and make them part of the overall story. I know that we can wrestle this problem to the ground and dominate several emerging ecosystems if we prioritise and deliver best-practices through the channel. Execution is key.
I really need your front-end alignment on this! Can you get your people on board?
I sue you and you sue me and so sue we and we are all together. See Apple sing for a piece of Jobs' bling, see how they fly. I'm crying.
Sitting with lawyers, waiting for the judge to come. Corporation success, stupid bloody iPod. Jobs, you been a naughty boy, you made ~your~ Apple rich. We want the profits, you have the profits. We are the bastards!
"Windows Vista -- Get The Facts" "Windows Vista -- A Powerful Combination Of Combined Powers" "Windows Vista -- Sheep Ready" "Windows Vista -- Because The Richest Bloke In The World Says So" "Windows Vista -- Almost Ready" "Windows Vista -- Or I Hit You With This Chair"
No, but there are thousands of companies with dozens to hundreds of users. And that, my dear sir, is a market of equal size.
Maybe equal in number, but corporate sales are where Microsoft is, where Apple would like to be, and where Linux is not. Corporate Winertia compelled the smaller businesses to conform and that's how the computing landscape evolved. Ubuntu ~could~ play well in these corporations today. Wireless or not.
Your comment really illustrates my biggest problem with Linux folk. Point out an issue and they'll do a song and dance about how that issue really isn't an issue because no one who's "intelligent" really needs to do it that way anyway.
I never mentioned your intelligence, Sir. I am also a shmo who can't sing or dance. You have obviously been traumatized by cruel Linux users.
Just wait until the Mac Fanatics get you!
Now go away. I'm adding 50 more Yiddish translation functions to PHP....
No, Sir, I have not. Wireless is not a major selling point for desktops in the enterprise. Secure-wireless networking is not a show-stopper for Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is junky for Bluetooth as well. But that hasn't stopped Ubuntu from gaining significant support.
The truth about these OSs is not brutal, anyway. In 2006, we are a long way from M-Windows 98, Linux with Fluxbox, and Mac OS 9.
M-Windows XP with SP2 is the best version of M-Windows yet. I find it stable but it is still vulnerable to infiltration. It's familiar to many long-time M-Windows users and its market-share won't be dropping sharply any time soon. Call this phenomenon, "Winertia".
OS X is a delight to use. TFA's author is right to say that the tight coupling to Apple hardware is its challenge. Apple will continue to serve a small percentage of computer users.
Ubuntu (Linux + Gnome + tweaks) is also very usable. That's why Ubuntu is (deservedly) the most popular Linux distribution. If anything is hurting Ubuntu, it is people's unfamiliarity with everything that a user can do -- and do easily -- with Ubuntu.
In this age of silly, vapid Challenges to prove the resilience of OS X, it's good to know that there is one formidable Challenge out there...
Come on, I dare you, come on I say and try to hack my G4 desktop running OS X 10.4.5 with Security Update 2006-001. It has FTP, SSH, Finger, Apache, PHP, VB running under WINE, and the extremely vulnerable Robots game running.
Oh! Had enough, eh? Come back and take what's coming to you, you yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!
the marketing machines of the software industry are zooming in on some of the mistakes bussiness have made when using f.i. GPL software
Any smart software consumer should "zoom in on" the fact that Monoposoft Office (a.k.a. The Enterprise Ready Virus-Development Environment) has cost the entire PLANET billions of dollars in downtime and that over 99% of all viruses are M-Windows viruses.
There is no mistake so dear as using Monoposoft products.
I've been using Ubuntu for several months now. I like it very much, but there is one problem I've encountered for which I can't find a fix, and it could affect a school installation: I can't install any keyboard language except US English. If I try, it generates an ugly error.
If not for this problem, I'd say that Ubuntu is the Linux distribution that is ready to conquer desktops everywhere.
Canada's music industry now gets rich from blank media instead of music content
Obviously you do not appreciate the melodies of Avril Lavigne, the emotional maturity and unpretentiousness of Alanis Morrisette, the economy of expression of the Bare Naked Ladies, the understated phrasing of Céline Dion, or the raw production style of David Foster.
Tear off your ears, Sir! You are not using them, anyway.
Ike represented the USA that fought in the two World Wars; the USA that was admired by so many people and nations.
Compare his brains, character, principles, and understanding of the world beyond US borders to every single US president since Ike. But if it makes you sad, don't show it. TIA is watching you.
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If you set up the site, I will happily contribute idiocy worthy of The Man Himself.
Here are the titles of some of my brilliant future submissions:
"Microsoft Should Buy IBM"
"Apple Should Buy Apple"
"SCO Should Buy Enron"
"IBM Should Buy All Copies Of Mariah Carey's 'Glitter'"
"The Dvorak Keyboard Layout Should Buy Me"
What makes Palm OS obsolete, in your opinion?
It is still the device that I turn to for portable information-management with long battery-life. I would buy a Treo if they worked with Grafitti.
I think Palm's biggest problem is software development tools -- I haven't tried their Eclipse-based studio yet, but I would like to know the comments of people who have used it.
Yes, the separate pieces of jargon have some purpose. "Front-end alignment" is also a technical term (automotive). The problem is that mixing jargon and catch-phrases from various domains is a damnably poor style of communication. I would say that anyone who mixes jargon like this has fluff for brains.
And is probably making at least $200 K a year. {sigh}
I feel I must warn you that my managers may be grooming themselves to become YOUR managers. ;o)
I'm glad you pinged Slashdot about this messaging challenge so we could touch base and send a heads up. This kind of meme is gaining mind-share. The metrics are showing more than just a blip, it's a sea-change!
Moving forward, I think it's clear that we need to leverage our wins and make them part of the overall story. I know that we can wrestle this problem to the ground and dominate several emerging ecosystems if we prioritise and deliver best-practices through the channel. Execution is key.
I really need your front-end alignment on this! Can you get your people on board?
Now that Monoposoft has equated Freedom Of OS Choice with Nudism, Linux is really going to take off!
Now if we can only find some girls...
There was always tension between Jobs and Woz after Jobs met an artsy chick and started dressing in black turtlenecks.
When the Newton died the band stopped touring.
I sue you and you sue me and so sue we and we are all together.
See Apple sing for a piece of Jobs' bling, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
Sitting with lawyers, waiting for the judge to come.
Corporation success, stupid bloody iPod.
Jobs, you been a naughty boy, you made ~your~ Apple rich.
We want the profits, you have the profits.
We are the bastards!
GOO GOO GA JOOB
~~~ A SLASHDOT VIGNETTE ~~~
[telephone rings]
Slashdotter: Hello? Oh hi Mom. How's my laundry coming along?
Mother: It's almost done, dearie. I can't seem to get the stain out of your Starfleet Command t-shirt, though.
Slashdotter: [frustrated] Aww!
Mother: Don't worry, I'll keep trying. [pause] Dear, are you seeing anyone? I'm worried about you.
Slashdotter: Aw come on, mom. Well, um, yeah... sure I'm seeing someone.
Mother: You're not fibbing again, are you?
Slashdotter: What? No!
Mother: If you aren't fibbing, tell me what her name is.
Slashdotter: Uh...her name is... Amanda.
Mother: Really?
Slashdotter: Yeah, Amanda. I'm serious. Amanda is really cool.
Mother: You have a GIRLFRIEND? REALLY? I'm so thrilled! Your father will be so thrilled!
Slashdotter: Yes... Amanda. In fact, she's someone at the office. We really "click".
Mother: Oh! I am ~so~ glad. You do have to be careful with an office relationship, dearie. I hope you are being discrete.
Slashdotter: Don't worry, mom. We keep it very professional when we see each other at work.
Mother: I'm glad! Amanda... that is a nice name. Is she pretty?
Slashdotter: Oh yes, yes she is. Pretty in an intuitive sort of way. And totally low maintenance.
Mother: She sounds wonderful!
Slashdotter: Yeah... um... Yeah, and mom? Amanda would really like to see my Starfleet Command t-shirt this weekend...
Mother: I'll take care of it right away, dear! Your father will be so thrilled!
This is simply not true.
If Slashdot were like a tabloid, we'd have poorly written diatribes everywhere and a picture of a naked woman on Page 2.
Cowboy Neal, I'm waiting for Page 2.
"Windows Vista -- Get The Facts"
"Windows Vista -- A Powerful Combination Of Combined Powers"
"Windows Vista -- Sheep Ready"
"Windows Vista -- Because The Richest Bloke In The World Says So"
"Windows Vista -- Almost Ready"
"Windows Vista -- Or I Hit You With This Chair"
Banks all around the world use OS/2, you insensitive clod!
;o)
You can read about it in comp.os.os2.
Maybe equal in number, but corporate sales are where Microsoft is, where Apple would like to be, and where Linux is not. Corporate Winertia compelled the smaller businesses to conform and that's how the computing landscape evolved. Ubuntu ~could~ play well in these corporations today. Wireless or not.
I never mentioned your intelligence, Sir. I am also a shmo who can't sing or dance. You have obviously been traumatized by cruel Linux users.
Just wait until the Mac Fanatics get you!
Bracha v'hatzlacha.
Are these big companies with thousands of users? Because that's where the market is.
Linux on a notebook is better than FreeBSD on a notebook, but it is still a labour of love. I agree with you there.
Ubuntu has been mentioned regularly.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=ubuntu
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=&query=ubuntu&a
It must be Digg that you're reading. Slashdot is the ugly site, remember?
No, Sir, I have not. Wireless is not a major selling point for desktops in the enterprise. Secure-wireless networking is not a show-stopper for Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is junky for Bluetooth as well. But that hasn't stopped Ubuntu from gaining significant support.
The truth about these OSs is not brutal, anyway. In 2006, we are a long way from M-Windows 98, Linux with Fluxbox, and Mac OS 9.
M-Windows XP with SP2 is the best version of M-Windows yet. I find it stable but it is still vulnerable to infiltration. It's familiar to many long-time M-Windows users and its market-share won't be dropping sharply any time soon. Call this phenomenon, "Winertia".
OS X is a delight to use. TFA's author is right to say that the tight coupling to Apple hardware is its challenge. Apple will continue to serve a small percentage of computer users.
Ubuntu (Linux + Gnome + tweaks) is also very usable. That's why Ubuntu is (deservedly) the most popular Linux distribution. If anything is hurting Ubuntu, it is people's unfamiliarity with everything that a user can do -- and do easily -- with Ubuntu.
Will you be running for President?
A quadruple boot of OS X, M-Windows, Linux, and OS/2.
Again, not necessarily in that order.
In this age of silly, vapid Challenges to prove the resilience of OS X, it's good to know that there is one formidable Challenge out there...
Come on, I dare you, come on I say and try to hack my G4 desktop running OS X 10.4.5 with Security Update 2006-001. It has FTP, SSH, Finger, Apache, PHP, VB running under WINE, and the extremely vulnerable Robots game running.
Oh! Had enough, eh? Come back and take what's coming to you, you yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!
I pity you, you horrible, hopeless cynic.
The USA produces billions of dollars worth of movies every year based on 4 plots and 8 different types of character.
Any smart software consumer should "zoom in on" the fact that Monoposoft Office (a.k.a. The Enterprise Ready Virus-Development Environment) has cost the entire PLANET billions of dollars in downtime and that over 99% of all viruses are M-Windows viruses.
There is no mistake so dear as using Monoposoft products.
I've been using Ubuntu for several months now. I like it very much, but there is one problem I've encountered for which I can't find a fix, and it could affect a school installation: I can't install any keyboard language except US English. If I try, it generates an ugly error.
If not for this problem, I'd say that Ubuntu is the Linux distribution that is ready to conquer desktops everywhere.
Obviously you do not appreciate the melodies of Avril Lavigne, the emotional maturity and unpretentiousness of Alanis Morrisette, the economy of expression of the Bare Naked Ladies, the understated phrasing of Céline Dion, or the raw production style of David Foster.
Tear off your ears, Sir! You are not using them, anyway.
Ike represented the USA that fought in the two World Wars; the USA that was admired by so many people and nations.
Compare his brains, character, principles, and understanding of the world beyond US borders to every single US president since Ike. But if it makes you sad, don't show it. TIA is watching you.