MS is follow the rules though; probably why its 80 points for $10. You're buying a product (the points) and they don't have to package the points in something cheaper.
Image if I only sold a $2 item with the purchase of a $50 one. That doesn't violate the rules at all, its just how I sell my products.
Also, they're not extoring anyone. You don't need to buy anything from XBL at all. Christ on a pony.
please don't actually turn in businesses for this. most businesses that have minimum amounts or small fees for going under said amount are small businesses. Visa fines can be fairly painful to the local people who run these stores. if it really affects you enough to consider telling on them, just shop somewhere else.
Here's my position; tough shit. If they want to accept Visa, they MUST follow the rules. I will skip by places that don't have a Visa logo, but if they do and I try to buy something there and am refused the card, I'll report them. If the fee is too much, they can not take Visa at all. Its a convience for both parties (it benefits stores by not having as much cash in the actual store, so there's less to lose in a break-in), and if the fee doesn't cover the benefits, get rid of visa. If that would seriously hurt salse, then suck it up.
"what? you won't let me pay for my 99 cent coffee with my credit card because it costs you a 50 cent fee on the transaction? heaven forbid i carry a couple bucks -- i'm going to get your Visa contract terminated."
Yes, if they don't want to follow the rules of the program THEY SHOULD NOT PARTICIPATE. I do not carry cash. Any place that shows VISA and then refuses is wasting my time and violating their contract. Should I be able to not follow my credit card contract by saying it costs too much in interest?
That's also against the rules, IIRC. They CAN charge a fee to use a card, but not based on the transaction amount. So the fee would have to apply any time you used the card.
But if you think a major metro area could keep operating effectively in a "whatever you do, don't go two steps to the left" situation, I think you're seriously mistaken.
Who said we should build a nuke plant in the middle of a major metro area? At any rate, given the number of reactors around the world, there hasn't been many that have had problems. I'm away of one accident and two incidents. One of those incidents had no radioactivity danger at all.
Even the article which you like admits that there is still a lot of debate on the impact.
Finally, burning coal puts a lot of radioactive elements into the area; saying "After the accident, traces of radioactive deposits were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere" is a bit misleading. We can't eliminate other sources or better detection devices.
I hate it when stores use transaction fees as an excuse for not accepting credit cards (or creating artificial minimums). I can't tell you how many times I'd eat the fee and buy something, but walked away instead because that wasn't an option.
Visa (and I imagine MC) prohit a store from displaying the VISA logo and then refusing based on minium (or maximum) purchase prices. If the store refuses, you can contact your bank, who will contact Visa. Visa typically fines the stores that violate the policy.
I did this once, and shortly after the signs saying "$10 min. card purchases" was removed.
Did your card have Visa or MC on it? If its Visa, I believe they are not allowed to put minimum purchase amounts before you can use the card. So if you want to spend $1 and you insist (they can REQUEST you use cash) and they still refuse, you can turn them in. Typically they will be fined.
Also, I know someone that takes debit / credit cards; he prefer I use debit over credit because there are less fees to take debit vs. credit.
Shouldn't you be using some sort of collaborative service for that, like a web calendar, instead of shoehorning it into your desktop email app? That Ask Slashdot mentions CalDav servers like Zimbra.
Web apps suck, to put it simply. Anyway, nothing about Outlook feels shoehorned at all, it all integrates together quite nicely. Why must Outlook be only an email application, at any rate?
Anyhow, a casual hit to the Evolution home page shows tasks/contacts/calendar support built in. Looks like it even handles Outlook meeting invitations and such.
And a casual read of the Ask/. I mention shows that while implemented, Evolution doesn't handle those tasks well, especially Outlook / Exchange integration.
By no means do I expect anyone to drink the koolaid (nor do I myself). Win98 was crap, ME was by far the worst, I hated XP when it was first released, but they did manage to address most issues via SPs. Indeed, Xp launch + ASP classic / COM development almost drove me away from MS completely..Net pulled me back, and proved that MS CAN make a great product (and the current VS, 2005 & 2008) are great IDEs.
I can see how you'd think I was on koolaid given my support rant, but literally last night I had to contact them and they immediately resolved my issue... so I was pretty happy. Given that almost any other business I deal with has support on par with Comcast customer service, maybe my view is skewed.
Anyway, don't let the nut jobs here get you down (pro or anti MS / Linux), and I hope you have a great day as well!
The Scarlett Letter is a friggin' novel. Haven't we learned any thing from Interview with a Vampire? you might as well ask.
Right, because adultry was punished that way. Please read the first line under History on the preceeding link.
As most people do not live in a state of paranoia and fear, I would posit that the most Americans you have referred to are those who are paranoid and believe the country is in a constant state of paranoia and fear when it is not.
Then why is 9/11 still being used to push political agendas today? Why does every candidate use it as part of their campaign? Why do similar "protect the children" laws continue to be passed? Why are security cameras going up everywhere?
None of those things being done are actually solutions to any problem, yet governments seem to have no problem passing laws putting those practices in effect.
It just is vastly more likely to occur in the home or that of a relative than by a stranger. But "stepfathers are the most frequent molesters" doesn't have the stranger-as-threat, outsider-as-enemy utility people like so much.
YMMV, but in Vermont last year I saw a news report talking about Megan's law and why VT needed something like that. The LEO pushing for it even said that 90% of molestation cases are by a DIRECT relative, not a stranger, but we still need such laws. We're not even talking about step fathers here, actual fathers.
You really have to wonder what will protect kids from their own parents.
You realize that people can go on after such an attack and not have their life changed forever, right? It seems to me that it depends on what the victim chooses to do.
Well, keeping in discussing the article, the man murdered was NOT a child molester.
The punishment must fit the crime. Because child molesters are notoriously recidivist, simple jail time doesn't fit their crime unless that jail time is a life sentence.
That would seem to trace back to the fact that the person is mentally ill. In other words, treatment may be a better option. The same can be said for locking up non-violent drug users.
It seems to me that registering and being on a few lists are light punishment in addition to jail time.
Being on such lists is by no means a light punishment, especially given how easy it is to get on such a list. Peeing in public can land you on such a list, for example. Should you be punished for life for that?
I don't think we should be striving for a society that never forgives any mistakes / wrongdoing. Its easy to judge from your couch.
On the one hand I'm against these databases; once you've served your time you should be a free man in every way.
I agree. A society that never forgives will self destruct. Haven't we learned anything from the Scarlett Letter?
the responsiblity for the murder is solely on th eman who committed the murder. Ironically one of the victims of this murder is the very child the murderer was trying to protect, who will grow up without a father.
It is, but in this case, the state was careless, and thus played a part in the murder. They were negligent when administering the database and this directly lead to the murder in question. If the victim's name were not incorrectly entered, he'd be alive right now.
On the third hand*, maybe the kid's better off without a violent dumshit like that around.
Indeed. This is also the logical consequence of living in a constant state of paranoia and fear, much of which is totally unwarranted. In otherwords, most Americans seem to have left "reasonable" behind.
Evolution is a quite good clone of Outlook. That said, neither have spam filtering as good as Thunderbird, which is what I use.
Really? Evolution has scheduling like Outlook, tasks, contact management? Not according to the thread which I refered to.
Your were the one that brought up "Anecdotal evidence is not evidence" so the fact that you have not seen your tellers using anything but Windows means little. Frankly I do not know what my teller uses, as I can not see her screen by design. If you can at your bank, consider locking your credit report.
Which is why I asked for more information. I know its anecdote. Regarding seeing screens, you know monitors can be rotated on their stands should they need to show you something, or perhaps you've been in an office at a bank at some point? Geez.
No, I will not give you my client list, or violate any NDAs I have signed. If you want the info (and are not just trolling) google "Linux Sucess Stories" and you can read for a long time.
I can also google "Windows success stories" and find a list just as long. Including a lot of stories about going BACK to Windows. At any rate, how are you violating an NDA if I can find the stories publicly? Hmm..
The fact that Windows is still selling well could not be the desire of businesses to cling to an old business model well past when it makes sense...
Right, I forgot. Linux is the be all end all of OSes. Nothing MS makes is any good and is total garbage.
But I am not bothered by your opinion. I know that I am busy converting over clients to Linux as fast as i can. That is good enough for me.
Huh? I was just asking what MS support had to say, and relying my experience with them. MS has made plenty of crap, believe me I know. Just haven't experienced any problems with Vista myself. Sorry that someone asking for me detail labels them a zealot in your mind.
What exactly am I rationalizing? I only hear music through my XM radio. Go fuck yourself. I have better things to do than download and manage digital music.
The common counter-argument I hear against that is that you tend to only watch a single DVD a couple of times throughout your life. Meanwhile there are many CDs and/or songs that you'll listen to over-and-over-and-over throughout your life.
Well I don't buy a movie if i don't enjoy it, and the movies I've purchased I have watched quite a few times. I don't buy movies I'll watch once or twice, I buy ones I'd watch once or twice a year.
As far as music goes, I NEVER sit down and do nothing but listen to a song. At most, its background noise while I'm doing something else. So I guess you could say that I never really listen to the song at all.
The biggest benefit in my eyes with online retailers like iTunes or UnBox is the a-la-carte model. As it's been stated countless times on Slashdot on any given CD there are usually 1 or 2 songs that I like, so why buy the whole thing at a premium if I just want those 1-2 songs. As such I've only purchased 3 CDs in the last 5 years, yet I've purchased 100-200 songs on iTunes since it started.
Back to my "background noise" status, this is why I don't really use the circa 2001 MP3 player I do own. I have better things to do than go looking for music, downloading it, copying to the mp3 player, then picking which song I want to listen to. Its much easier to use satilite radio. Pick a station, whatever plays, plays. If I don't enjoy something, I change the channel.
Relatively few people died directly from Chernobyl. The problem is land contamination and the displacement of people.
Yet people and animals live very close to Chernobyl, which no noticable effects. The lastest paper I read about this indicates that there are "hot spots," but the most of the zone doesn't have dangerous radiation. Of course take two steps to your left..
At any rate, I also read about different reactor designs which are believed to be much safer, and produce waste that lasts decades, not years.
I don't buy CDs; not necessarly because of what the RIAA does (although it is scummy), its just I find them overpriced. I get get a decent DVD for $15. 90 minutes of video and sound. $0.17 / minute. A cd or track? $1 per track, or $0.33 / minute. For something I'll usually use as background noise and not even pay 100% attention to.
Well, I don't have any more ideas. What did MS say when you were trouble-shooting? Their support usually is really good. I put in a ticket last night, and got a response that solved my problem in less than two hours. Of course the fix was exteremly simple (Money Plus doesn't play well with DEP), but I can't say their support hasn't been great.
Regarding hotdogs.. that's kind silly. You have two factors to consider when buying a hotdog; taste and price (and possibly nutrition). An OS is orders of magnitudes more complex than a hotdog. Buying a car or designing and building a house seems a closer comparison to me.
At any rate, sorry to hear you've been frustrated. I've had nothing but good things in my somewhat limited experience with Vista.
Perhaps you should investigate hardware drivers, which seem to be the biggest cause of headaches. I had Nvidia graphics, soundblaster audigy 2 zs sound, asus mb, amd processor, wd hd, etc.
Chipset graphics is considered mediocre hardware. A discrete graphics solution is hard to be found in ANY corporate environment, which is what the original post is about.
The solution there is to turn off Aero. That doesn't negate the other features which Vista has.
How did your 2004 hardware score on the Vista compatiblity test. A high 2 or a low 3?
I believe it was a 3.0.
If you seriously run all the bells and whistles you actually paid for, I'll bet it's a dog. No I'll bet the only way you can defend Vista is that you didn't pay $400 for it and are probably running a VL edition that you got from your network admin so you could work from home, or a student licensed edition that you paid very little for. It's not an insult to buy new hardware to run a new Linux distro because it (the Linux distro) didn't cost as much as a new computer.
Nope, it runs just fine. Didn't even reformat, just let Vista upgrade my XP installation. Doom 3 runs very well (that's the latest PC game I have, sadly, but that's more because I haven't upgraded the video card, because its not worth it to get the latest AGP card when PCIX has taken over.. and I also have a Wii).
Didn't turn off any bells and whistels, upgraded, got the latest drives for Vista for my hardwhare, and continued using my computer just as before.
Your opinion. Of course there's a whole ask/. on this topic, and OSS seems devode of anything to replace outlook with.
It's pretty standard for companies to not want their internal IT policy changes broadcasted. The rest of this paragraph just doesn't make sense.
Ya, because investors HATE when moving to a new platform saves the company lots of money and increases their profits.
Include failing hardware costs? Or falling hardware costs? Umm, yeah. And looking for qualified "Windows" admins.. ? If Windows is that hard to admin that there's tons of unqualified admins, it sounds to me like a good reason to not use it any longer.
Failing, as in did he just say IT would be reduced by X%, without examining in detail how much is Windows related issues. Its not that Windows is hard to administer, but you still need to have a clue. Joe random can't come in off the street and do it. Nice attempt at spin though.
Again it's pretty normal for large companies to NOT advertise this kind of info.
Again though such changes DO become known, because the companies the OP talks about are almost certain to be publicly traded companies. Also, I've read several articles in computer rags dicussing how company X saved money by switching to software Y. These stories are not uncommon.
Possibly, but I see no reason to think a bank couldn't switch to Linux easily. The banks I've seen appear to be running either web-based systems or still running 3270 emulators. Linux has excellent 3270 emulators available for it (and fine web browsers.) Switching from Windows to Linux in this case wouldn't involve much retraining.
We're talking about the entire organization though, and in every bank I've ever walked into the tellers and office staff are using Windows, not Linux. But please, feel free to point me to one that isn't, because that can be easily verified.
And it should save on security and desktop support -- a *perfectly* adminned and secured windows box won't need extra support either, but the Linux box this is trivial.
Right, which is why *nix admins are far more expensive than Windows ones. Not that you don't get what you pay for, which leads me back to my point of too many shit admins are out there and employed.
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MS is follow the rules though; probably why its 80 points for $10. You're buying a product (the points) and they don't have to package the points in something cheaper.
Image if I only sold a $2 item with the purchase of a $50 one. That doesn't violate the rules at all, its just how I sell my products.
Also, they're not extoring anyone. You don't need to buy anything from XBL at all. Christ on a pony.
please don't actually turn in businesses for this. most businesses that have minimum amounts or small fees for going under said amount are small businesses. Visa fines can be fairly painful to the local people who run these stores. if it really affects you enough to consider telling on them, just shop somewhere else.
Here's my position; tough shit. If they want to accept Visa, they MUST follow the rules. I will skip by places that don't have a Visa logo, but if they do and I try to buy something there and am refused the card, I'll report them. If the fee is too much, they can not take Visa at all. Its a convience for both parties (it benefits stores by not having as much cash in the actual store, so there's less to lose in a break-in), and if the fee doesn't cover the benefits, get rid of visa. If that would seriously hurt salse, then suck it up.
"what? you won't let me pay for my 99 cent coffee with my credit card because it costs you a 50 cent fee on the transaction? heaven forbid i carry a couple bucks -- i'm going to get your Visa contract terminated."
Yes, if they don't want to follow the rules of the program THEY SHOULD NOT PARTICIPATE. I do not carry cash. Any place that shows VISA and then refuses is wasting my time and violating their contract. Should I be able to not follow my credit card contract by saying it costs too much in interest?
That's also against the rules, IIRC. They CAN charge a fee to use a card, but not based on the transaction amount. So the fee would have to apply any time you used the card.
But if you think a major metro area could keep operating effectively in a "whatever you do, don't go two steps to the left" situation, I think you're seriously mistaken.
Who said we should build a nuke plant in the middle of a major metro area? At any rate, given the number of reactors around the world, there hasn't been many that have had problems. I'm away of one accident and two incidents. One of those incidents had no radioactivity danger at all.
Even the article which you like admits that there is still a lot of debate on the impact.
Finally, burning coal puts a lot of radioactive elements into the area; saying "After the accident, traces of radioactive deposits were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere" is a bit misleading. We can't eliminate other sources or better detection devices.
I hate it when stores use transaction fees as an excuse for not accepting credit cards (or creating artificial minimums). I can't tell you how many times I'd eat the fee and buy something, but walked away instead because that wasn't an option.
Visa (and I imagine MC) prohit a store from displaying the VISA logo and then refusing based on minium (or maximum) purchase prices. If the store refuses, you can contact your bank, who will contact Visa. Visa typically fines the stores that violate the policy.
I did this once, and shortly after the signs saying "$10 min. card purchases" was removed.
Did your card have Visa or MC on it? If its Visa, I believe they are not allowed to put minimum purchase amounts before you can use the card. So if you want to spend $1 and you insist (they can REQUEST you use cash) and they still refuse, you can turn them in. Typically they will be fined.
Also, I know someone that takes debit / credit cards; he prefer I use debit over credit because there are less fees to take debit vs. credit.
Shouldn't you be using some sort of collaborative service for that, like a web calendar, instead of shoehorning it into your desktop email app? That Ask Slashdot mentions CalDav servers like Zimbra.
/. I mention shows that while implemented, Evolution doesn't handle those tasks well, especially Outlook / Exchange integration.
Web apps suck, to put it simply. Anyway, nothing about Outlook feels shoehorned at all, it all integrates together quite nicely. Why must Outlook be only an email application, at any rate?
Anyhow, a casual hit to the Evolution home page shows tasks/contacts/calendar support built in. Looks like it even handles Outlook meeting invitations and such.
And a casual read of the Ask
By no means do I expect anyone to drink the koolaid (nor do I myself). Win98 was crap, ME was by far the worst, I hated XP when it was first released, but they did manage to address most issues via SPs. Indeed, Xp launch + ASP classic / COM development almost drove me away from MS completely. .Net pulled me back, and proved that MS CAN make a great product (and the current VS, 2005 & 2008) are great IDEs.
I can see how you'd think I was on koolaid given my support rant, but literally last night I had to contact them and they immediately resolved my issue... so I was pretty happy. Given that almost any other business I deal with has support on par with Comcast customer service, maybe my view is skewed.
Anyway, don't let the nut jobs here get you down (pro or anti MS / Linux), and I hope you have a great day as well!
The Scarlett Letter is a friggin' novel. Haven't we learned any thing from Interview with a Vampire? you might as well ask.
Right, because adultry was punished that way. Please read the first line under History on the preceeding link.
As most people do not live in a state of paranoia and fear, I would posit that the most Americans you have referred to are those who are paranoid and believe the country is in a constant state of paranoia and fear when it is not.
Then why is 9/11 still being used to push political agendas today? Why does every candidate use it as part of their campaign? Why do similar "protect the children" laws continue to be passed? Why are security cameras going up everywhere?
None of those things being done are actually solutions to any problem, yet governments seem to have no problem passing laws putting those practices in effect.
It just is vastly more likely to occur in the home or that of a relative than by a stranger. But "stepfathers are the most frequent molesters" doesn't have the stranger-as-threat, outsider-as-enemy utility people like so much.
YMMV, but in Vermont last year I saw a news report talking about Megan's law and why VT needed something like that. The LEO pushing for it even said that 90% of molestation cases are by a DIRECT relative, not a stranger, but we still need such laws. We're not even talking about step fathers here, actual fathers.
You really have to wonder what will protect kids from their own parents.
You realize that people can go on after such an attack and not have their life changed forever, right? It seems to me that it depends on what the victim chooses to do.
Well, keeping in discussing the article, the man murdered was NOT a child molester.
The punishment must fit the crime. Because child molesters are notoriously recidivist, simple jail time doesn't fit their crime unless that jail time is a life sentence.
That would seem to trace back to the fact that the person is mentally ill. In other words, treatment may be a better option. The same can be said for locking up non-violent drug users.
It seems to me that registering and being on a few lists are light punishment in addition to jail time.
Being on such lists is by no means a light punishment, especially given how easy it is to get on such a list. Peeing in public can land you on such a list, for example. Should you be punished for life for that?
I don't think we should be striving for a society that never forgives any mistakes / wrongdoing. Its easy to judge from your couch.
On the one hand I'm against these databases; once you've served your time you should be a free man in every way.
I agree. A society that never forgives will self destruct. Haven't we learned anything from the Scarlett Letter?
the responsiblity for the murder is solely on th eman who committed the murder. Ironically one of the victims of this murder is the very child the murderer was trying to protect, who will grow up without a father.
It is, but in this case, the state was careless, and thus played a part in the murder. They were negligent when administering the database and this directly lead to the murder in question. If the victim's name were not incorrectly entered, he'd be alive right now.
On the third hand*, maybe the kid's better off without a violent dumshit like that around.
Indeed. This is also the logical consequence of living in a constant state of paranoia and fear, much of which is totally unwarranted. In otherwords, most Americans seem to have left "reasonable" behind.
Evolution is a quite good clone of Outlook. That said, neither have spam filtering as good as Thunderbird, which is what I use.
Really? Evolution has scheduling like Outlook, tasks, contact management? Not according to the thread which I refered to.
Your were the one that brought up "Anecdotal evidence is not evidence" so the fact that you have not seen your tellers using anything but Windows means little. Frankly I do not know what my teller uses, as I can not see her screen by design. If you can at your bank, consider locking your credit report.
Which is why I asked for more information. I know its anecdote. Regarding seeing screens, you know monitors can be rotated on their stands should they need to show you something, or perhaps you've been in an office at a bank at some point? Geez.
No, I will not give you my client list, or violate any NDAs I have signed. If you want the info (and are not just trolling) google "Linux Sucess Stories" and you can read for a long time.
I can also google "Windows success stories" and find a list just as long. Including a lot of stories about going BACK to Windows. At any rate, how are you violating an NDA if I can find the stories publicly? Hmm..
The fact that Windows is still selling well could not be the desire of businesses to cling to an old business model well past when it makes sense...
Right, I forgot. Linux is the be all end all of OSes. Nothing MS makes is any good and is total garbage.
But I am not bothered by your opinion. I know that I am busy converting over clients to Linux as fast as i can. That is good enough for me.
So you claim.
Huh? I was just asking what MS support had to say, and relying my experience with them. MS has made plenty of crap, believe me I know. Just haven't experienced any problems with Vista myself. Sorry that someone asking for me detail labels them a zealot in your mind.
Wow, what an arrogant, ignorant ass you are.
What exactly am I rationalizing? I only hear music through my XM radio. Go fuck yourself. I have better things to do than download and manage digital music.
The common counter-argument I hear against that is that you tend to only watch a single DVD a couple of times throughout your life. Meanwhile there are many CDs and/or songs that you'll listen to over-and-over-and-over throughout your life.
Well I don't buy a movie if i don't enjoy it, and the movies I've purchased I have watched quite a few times. I don't buy movies I'll watch once or twice, I buy ones I'd watch once or twice a year.
As far as music goes, I NEVER sit down and do nothing but listen to a song. At most, its background noise while I'm doing something else. So I guess you could say that I never really listen to the song at all.
The biggest benefit in my eyes with online retailers like iTunes or UnBox is the a-la-carte model. As it's been stated countless times on Slashdot on any given CD there are usually 1 or 2 songs that I like, so why buy the whole thing at a premium if I just want those 1-2 songs. As such I've only purchased 3 CDs in the last 5 years, yet I've purchased 100-200 songs on iTunes since it started.
Back to my "background noise" status, this is why I don't really use the circa 2001 MP3 player I do own. I have better things to do than go looking for music, downloading it, copying to the mp3 player, then picking which song I want to listen to. Its much easier to use satilite radio. Pick a station, whatever plays, plays. If I don't enjoy something, I change the channel.
Relatively few people died directly from Chernobyl. The problem is land contamination and the displacement of people.
Yet people and animals live very close to Chernobyl, which no noticable effects. The lastest paper I read about this indicates that there are "hot spots," but the most of the zone doesn't have dangerous radiation. Of course take two steps to your left..
At any rate, I also read about different reactor designs which are believed to be much safer, and produce waste that lasts decades, not years.
I lived within 15 miles of a nuclear plant for most of my life. There really isn't anything to worry about.
Huh? What nonsense are you spewing? No one says its better to be anorexic, christ on a pony.
It may interest you to know that FAT people (as well as the anorexic ones) will die just as easily from disease.
The thin and in shape will be the ones running things.
Ya, that was my thought too.
I don't buy CDs; not necessarly because of what the RIAA does (although it is scummy), its just I find them overpriced. I get get a decent DVD for $15. 90 minutes of video and sound. $0.17 / minute. A cd or track? $1 per track, or $0.33 / minute. For something I'll usually use as background noise and not even pay 100% attention to.
Well, I don't have any more ideas. What did MS say when you were trouble-shooting? Their support usually is really good. I put in a ticket last night, and got a response that solved my problem in less than two hours. Of course the fix was exteremly simple (Money Plus doesn't play well with DEP), but I can't say their support hasn't been great.
Regarding hotdogs.. that's kind silly. You have two factors to consider when buying a hotdog; taste and price (and possibly nutrition). An OS is orders of magnitudes more complex than a hotdog. Buying a car or designing and building a house seems a closer comparison to me.
At any rate, sorry to hear you've been frustrated. I've had nothing but good things in my somewhat limited experience with Vista.
Perhaps you should investigate hardware drivers, which seem to be the biggest cause of headaches. I had Nvidia graphics, soundblaster audigy 2 zs sound, asus mb, amd processor, wd hd, etc.
Chipset graphics is considered mediocre hardware. A discrete graphics solution is hard to be found in ANY corporate environment, which is what the original post is about.
The solution there is to turn off Aero. That doesn't negate the other features which Vista has.
How did your 2004 hardware score on the Vista compatiblity test. A high 2 or a low 3?
I believe it was a 3.0.
If you seriously run all the bells and whistles you actually paid for, I'll bet it's a dog. No I'll bet the only way you can defend Vista is that you didn't pay $400 for it and are probably running a VL edition that you got from your network admin so you could work from home, or a student licensed edition that you paid very little for. It's not an insult to buy new hardware to run a new Linux distro because it (the Linux distro) didn't cost as much as a new computer.
Nope, it runs just fine. Didn't even reformat, just let Vista upgrade my XP installation. Doom 3 runs very well (that's the latest PC game I have, sadly, but that's more because I haven't upgraded the video card, because its not worth it to get the latest AGP card when PCIX has taken over.. and I also have a Wii).
Didn't turn off any bells and whistels, upgraded, got the latest drives for Vista for my hardwhare, and continued using my computer just as before.
Outlook is a piece.
/. on this topic, and OSS seems devode of anything to replace outlook with.
Your opinion. Of course there's a whole ask
It's pretty standard for companies to not want their internal IT policy changes broadcasted. The rest of this paragraph just doesn't make sense.
Ya, because investors HATE when moving to a new platform saves the company lots of money and increases their profits.
Include failing hardware costs? Or falling hardware costs? Umm, yeah. And looking for qualified "Windows" admins.. ? If Windows is that hard to admin that there's tons of unqualified admins, it sounds to me like a good reason to not use it any longer.
Failing, as in did he just say IT would be reduced by X%, without examining in detail how much is Windows related issues. Its not that Windows is hard to administer, but you still need to have a clue. Joe random can't come in off the street and do it. Nice attempt at spin though.
Again it's pretty normal for large companies to NOT advertise this kind of info.
Again though such changes DO become known, because the companies the OP talks about are almost certain to be publicly traded companies. Also, I've read several articles in computer rags dicussing how company X saved money by switching to software Y. These stories are not uncommon.
Possibly, but I see no reason to think a bank couldn't switch to Linux easily. The banks I've seen appear to be running either web-based systems or still running 3270 emulators. Linux has excellent 3270 emulators available for it (and fine web browsers.) Switching from Windows to Linux in this case wouldn't involve much retraining.
We're talking about the entire organization though, and in every bank I've ever walked into the tellers and office staff are using Windows, not Linux. But please, feel free to point me to one that isn't, because that can be easily verified.
And it should save on security and desktop support -- a *perfectly* adminned and secured windows box won't need extra support either, but the Linux box this is trivial.
Right, which is why *nix admins are far more expensive than Windows ones. Not that you don't get what you pay for, which leads me back to my point of too many shit admins are out there and employed.