You're missing the point here. WHS actually is a very nice product (except from the buggy file storage part which, no doubt, will be fixed). The remote desktop thing for example, means you can connect to any machine in your network thru your WHS. So no, that's not the same as having to configure your Inet access router to point to different machines to access all of them.
Also, the backup part is a simple "click and shoot". Just install the client and your machines can be backed-up and restored in the easiest and way imaginable.
Yes, there's a zillion great open source projects out there which can do everything WHS does. No, there's not one project (that I know of) that can do everything WHS does.
Let me start by saying I welcome any initiative to make it easier to develop software for phones. Let me continue by saying WM6 (atleast to me) is a great platform albeit a tad slow. I've yet to experience my first phone-crash, something I've seen more then once while running symbian.
Think and listen. You looked, but you forgot the other two. Putting a phone on a table and getting info, is brilliant, when the table is located at your local Phones'r Us. Even more brilliant, if you put another one next to it, it tells you the differences.
Of course that's not a table-app you'll be running at your Starbucks, but that's where the pie-ordering comes in.
Personally, I was amazed while looking at the small demos. It's been a long time since I've seen a user-interface that's this accessible.
And with good reason I'd say. If I add a couple of ways to "fool" a search engine to my web pages, I can't seriously expect that same search engine to tell me which of the tricks they discovered?
Actually, I seriously doubt that end-users are looking for a FireFox logo. They'll be looking for a way to surf the Internet. Whether the app that makes that happen is called FireFox, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Opera or DebianWebKiller is of zero importance, as long as it does a good job of displaying Google, Amazon and E-bay.
Actually, PP is subject to that same intense regulation and insurance. So no argument there. Essentially, PP is a bank, just one that's on the Internet. I'd suspect it is watched more carefully then your average bank.
Well, if we're lucky they'll throw their efforts into OpenSync, a very good effort to make a standard for exchanging data between (among other things) calendars and pda's.
Then again, if they supplied a version that produced awesome quality voices, they'd be accused of trying to kill their TTS competition.
That said, in Microsoft Windows Vista (ETA 2019), the default TTS engine will be replaced by a new one sporting Anna. Have heard her in the preview and I have to say, it's one hell of an improvement.
Actually, it takes an IQ of 70+ (if I recall correctly) to be able to learn how to read. Reading/. might require a max of 50, but I still think you should be over 10. So no worries, your resume won't be affected by this remark;)
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You're missing the point here. WHS actually is a very nice product (except from the buggy file storage part which, no doubt, will be fixed). The remote desktop thing for example, means you can connect to any machine in your network thru your WHS. So no, that's not the same as having to configure your Inet access router to point to different machines to access all of them.
Also, the backup part is a simple "click and shoot". Just install the client and your machines can be backed-up and restored in the easiest and way imaginable.
Yes, there's a zillion great open source projects out there which can do everything WHS does.
No, there's not one project (that I know of) that can do everything WHS does.
Feel free to jump in the gap.
Probably enough to be the first documented case of phone-slashdotting.
Nope. An apostrophe usually means, "Look out! Here come the grammar nazis"
Let me start by saying I welcome any initiative to make it easier to develop software for phones. Let me continue by saying WM6 (atleast to me) is a great platform albeit a tad slow. I've yet to experience my first phone-crash, something I've seen more then once while running symbian.
There, Googled it for ya:
http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200710/mxsurvey.html
And, at 0.17%, I'd say it wasn't as widely used as the poster wants us to think.
Why would they? It's not like their hands can be recognized as such after the blast anyway.
Yes... but will it stop running Linux?
Yeah. RTFW first.
(Can I get a patent on RTFW?)
Russia doing an MS now!?
/. readers??
WTF will they think of next? Female
Think and listen. You looked, but you forgot the other two. Putting a phone on a table and getting info, is brilliant, when the table is located at your local Phones'r Us. Even more brilliant, if you put another one next to it, it tells you the differences.
Of course that's not a table-app you'll be running at your Starbucks, but that's where the pie-ordering comes in.
Personally, I was amazed while looking at the small demos. It's been a long time since I've seen a user-interface that's this accessible.
And then, the question would be, would I rather have some targeted text ads around my mail, or some flashy viagra-ringtone ads.
(Think about it, you know the answer to this one)
I bet he was thinking Money-trees.
"Linux Learnings. We're listening". Especially since it comes right after "Dell Recommends Vista Business". Maybe they're not listening well enough?
Well, actually...
No no, you got that mixed up. Most the drivers you see in Linux are from 1998. But no worries mate, they'll catch up soon enough!
So, just to clarify, if I want to run it on my Mac, I will have to pay for it? Now there's a wild concept.
Yes, actually, they can. And, it's free (as in beer).
And with good reason I'd say. If I add a couple of ways to "fool" a search engine to my web pages, I can't seriously expect that same search engine to tell me which of the tricks they discovered?
Actually, I seriously doubt that end-users are looking for a FireFox logo. They'll be looking for a way to surf the Internet. Whether the app that makes that happen is called FireFox, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Opera or DebianWebKiller is of zero importance, as long as it does a good job of displaying Google, Amazon and E-bay.
Did you take of your tin foil hat for too long?
Actually, PP is subject to that same intense regulation and insurance. So no argument there. Essentially, PP is a bank, just one that's on the Internet. I'd suspect it is watched more carefully then your average bank.
Well, if we're lucky they'll throw their efforts into OpenSync, a very good effort to make a standard for exchanging data between (among other things) calendars and pda's.
;)
And you can always "upgrade" your pda to Linux
Then again, if they supplied a version that produced awesome quality voices, they'd be accused of trying to kill their TTS competition.
That said, in Microsoft Windows Vista (ETA 2019), the default TTS engine will be replaced by a new one sporting Anna. Have heard her in the preview and I have to say, it's one hell of an improvement.
"What drives plate motions?"
Seeing they collide a lot, my first answer would be: women.
I've been wrong before though.
Actually, it takes an IQ of 70+ (if I recall correctly) to be able to learn how to read. Reading /. might require a max of 50, but I still think you should be over 10. So no worries, your resume won't be affected by this remark ;)