The title of this story is misleading and the story is as well. Pirates copy DVD's, not create new consumer electronics products.
The company in question, Meizu, has been working on this product since before the iPhone was launched and is planning to base the it on Windows Mobile 6. Some have said that Apple "ripped off" LG's touch screen phone but, it could be like this situation. One product inspires another. The only difference is the popularity of the product doing the inspiring.
Sure, its a clone but, not a rip-off. Thats the way tech goes. You make a good product & people will emulate and attempt to improve it.
I've expeienced dissapearing bookmarks and settings with Mozilla (I don't remember which version). Considering that FF is based on Mozilla, I beleive that it can happen in FF.
honestly, like Apple, the perfect and selfless angel was punched in the
face by Creative, the big bad devil
I'm not sure if you're being facetious, or if you really "love" Apple that much.
Its not good to love any corporation. (And not for the stupid Dr. Phil, they
won't love you back, reason, either)
Lets be realistic; Apple and Creative are both large corporations, who are in
business to make money and use legal action to due so, where they deem appraise.
Don't believe me? Referee to
This Article on SlashDot, about apple threatening to sue
companies, who's products have the word "POD" in there name. They're not even
companies that are in direct competition with Apple. Nice Company?
Did Creative's MP3 players hit the market before Apples? Yes. Is Creative
patents claims valid? The court says so. Is $100 Million too much? Maybe.
Should we love Apple and hate Creative, or vise versa? No!
Companies look out for there best interests, not yours. Stop pretending
that any of them are doing anything else.
What they need to do to install the sensors int the monitors of desktops because that's were the average user will hit they computer.
My guess is that most people get fixated on the monitor or don't realize that if they wanted to do damage then need to strike the components that actually do the work.
If the VA is like an any other U.S. Government installation
(non-military), then information security is very weak.
Example: All users, at DoD installation that I was a contractor on a desktop
migration, where given local Admin permissions on their Workstations
and Laptops.
I brought this to the attention of the sites "Admin" who didn't seem to
worried. Not sure if it was ineptitude or the bureaucracy that prevented
the site admins from making changes without the permission of some central
office but, this type of security is mostly to blame for the recent incident.
The Navy uses a different procedure than that used on civilians
Incorrect. The Navy does offer two types of laser eye surgery,
LASIK and
PRK.
Both procedures have there merits and all patients who receive laser eye
surgery have the option to choose one or the other but, LASIK with
disqualify them from flight status or special forces.
Most civilians choose LASIK because of faster recovery and less side effects.
PRK is available to civilians but, not as popular, even though the cornea heals
more completely than with LASIK.
BTW, I am a former Navy Medic who had the LASIK surgery and found not having
to worry about eye glasses while in the field (dirty lenses obscuring my vision,
having to remove glasses to put gas mask, etc) very advantageous.
I would recommend either surgery to anyone tired of wearing glasses.
You seem to forget that at the time nearly everybody thought that dropping any kind of bomb on Japan (or Germany) was a great idea.
If you think of everything in a modern day perspective, then it easy to find fault with most things that every country has done. We can rant 'n rave about how bad nuclear weapons are, because they are; we have 60 years of hindsight to teach us why. Someone, and by some I'm referring to the political and military leadership in the 1940's, that had never seen the destruction wrought by an atomic bomb would have a difficult time comprehending its power.
Unfortunately, the past is unchangeable. If you'd don't want the US to have nuclear weapons, then get involved with your government, write your congressmen, start a movement. Do something about it!
Or, you could just make jokes or bitch about it on/.
What??? You can't post a story about Microsoft being anything other than the Evil Spawn of Hell, sent to crush all who'd stand between it and the total domination of the world.
Don't they know? This is/.
Re:Only one way to resolve this...
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Yes, I did read the article (which doesn't define someone who simply states their opinion as a troll) and I don't think he was trying to a troll in disguise. I'm sure there is something (software/hardware) that you've had a bad time using and would recommend other to avoid. Would that make you a troll?
And, If you reread my post above, you could tell that the l33t was, in part, humor and not meant to imply that tolls only used l33t sp34k but to illustrate that to be a troll it would have to have been an inflammatory statement, meant to piss-off other people.
Nowhere in the original story did it say that there was any reason why they
couldn't continue to use the licenses for Office that they already have.
The idea to switch to OOo could have come from on of the manager who read
about it in a trade magazine and thought it would be great. You can
presume that is because their corporate licensing is running out or you
can presume that their current licenses are not running out. Details are
limited.
It only says that to have every system running Office 2003 would cost
$65K. I doubt if its going to cost $65K to keep their current software.
... perhaps you just discount that information as invalid since $65K is
nothing to you.
... why don't you just mail the money to the poster...
Please, get counseling. You've obvious have some emotional issues.
Its only/..
This is a valid question that shouldn't have been modded as flamebait.
Sure, its an unpopular question considering the/. crowd but, still
valid.
The first option that is usually overlooked in IT is, "Do Nothing". If
any software product is meeting a businesses needs then why replace it without a
good enough reason. Will the benefits of switching form product A to
product C outweigh the cost.
I love new stuff as much as the next guy but, if a product works, even one
made by M$, then asking if your company should continue to use it is a question
any IT Pro should ask.
There plenty of good reasons to switch to OOo but, don't do it just
because it's not a M$ product.
Via group policy you can redirect the users' application data folder to a drive on a file server. Assuming Open Office saves the user configuration in the %user name%\Application Data folder, it should work.
Of course, if you don't already have enough space on your servers; you've got another fight on your hands.
...is this more about the quality of Microsoft's current offerings or their inability to make any advances that would provide value to the business customer?
Slashdot Mirror
True, inspiration can hit in two places at once.
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What I said was, Some have said that Apple "ripped off" LG's touch screen phone.
That would include LG's head of handset R&D, http://crunchgear.com/2007/02/12/lg-says-apple-co
Most of the info has been coming from blogs,
. 3856.
http://www.dapreview.net/comment.php?comment.news
http://www.meizume.com/showthread.php?t=720
But, all the phote I've seen has a Windows Icon on one of the "buttons".
The title of this story is misleading and the story is as well. Pirates copy DVD's, not create new consumer electronics products.
The company in question, Meizu, has been working on this product since before the iPhone was launched and is planning to base the it on Windows Mobile 6. Some have said that Apple "ripped off" LG's touch screen phone but, it could be like this situation. One product inspires another. The only difference is the popularity of the product doing the inspiring.
Sure, its a clone but, not a rip-off. Thats the way tech goes. You make a good product & people will emulate and attempt to improve it.
BTW, I do own a Meizu MP3 player & wouldn't trade it for an iPod. http://http//en.meizu.com/product_m6.asp
I've expeienced dissapearing bookmarks and settings with Mozilla (I don't remember which version). Considering that FF is based on Mozilla, I beleive that it can happen in FF.
because I already dispise Fry's...
Got a good story to tell?
*Note* I not being sarcastic or facetious.
honestly, like Apple, the perfect and selfless angel was punched in the face by Creative, the big bad devil
I'm not sure if you're being facetious, or if you really "love" Apple that much. Its not good to love any corporation. (And not for the stupid Dr. Phil, they won't love you back, reason, either)
Lets be realistic; Apple and Creative are both large corporations, who are in business to make money and use legal action to due so, where they deem appraise.
Don't believe me? Referee to This Article on SlashDot, about apple threatening to sue companies, who's products have the word "POD" in there name. They're not even companies that are in direct competition with Apple. Nice Company?
Did Creative's MP3 players hit the market before Apples? Yes. Is Creative patents claims valid? The court says so. Is $100 Million too much? Maybe.
Should we love Apple and hate Creative, or vise versa? No!
Companies look out for there best interests, not yours. Stop pretending that any of them are doing anything else.
What they need to do to install the sensors int the monitors of desktops because that's were the average user will hit they computer.
My guess is that most people get fixated on the monitor or don't realize that if they wanted to do damage then need to strike the components that actually do the work.
Renegade employee?
If the VA is like an any other U.S. Government installation (non-military), then information security is very weak.
Example: All users, at DoD installation that I was a contractor on a desktop migration, where given local Admin permissions on their Workstations and Laptops.
I brought this to the attention of the sites "Admin" who didn't seem to worried. Not sure if it was ineptitude or the bureaucracy that prevented the site admins from making changes without the permission of some central office but, this type of security is mostly to blame for the recent incident.
Now that we might be able to block out the sun, its ok to burn fossil fuels.[end sarcasm]
The Navy uses a different procedure than that used on civilians
Incorrect. The Navy does offer two types of laser eye surgery, LASIK and PRK. Both procedures have there merits and all patients who receive laser eye surgery have the option to choose one or the other but, LASIK with disqualify them from flight status or special forces.
Most civilians choose LASIK because of faster recovery and less side effects. PRK is available to civilians but, not as popular, even though the cornea heals more completely than with LASIK.
BTW, I am a former Navy Medic who had the LASIK surgery and found not having to worry about eye glasses while in the field (dirty lenses obscuring my vision, having to remove glasses to put gas mask, etc) very advantageous.
I would recommend either surgery to anyone tired of wearing glasses.
That would be determined by the UN's Human Development Index and is not based solely on the ability to create and dismantle a nuclear program.
BTW, South Africa is listed a in "Medium Human Development" range of the UN's HDI. So, referring to it as "3rd World" is incorrect.
You seem to forget that at the time nearly everybody thought that dropping any kind of bomb on Japan (or Germany) was a great idea.
/.
If you think of everything in a modern day perspective, then it easy to find fault with most things that every country has done. We can rant 'n rave about how bad nuclear weapons are, because they are; we have 60 years of hindsight to teach us why. Someone, and by some I'm referring to the political and military leadership in the 1940's, that had never seen the destruction wrought by an atomic bomb would have a difficult time comprehending its power.
Unfortunately, the past is unchangeable. If you'd don't want the US to have nuclear weapons, then get involved with your government, write your congressmen, start a movement. Do something about it!
Or, you could just make jokes or bitch about it on
What??? You can't post a story about Microsoft being anything other than the Evil Spawn of Hell, sent to crush all who'd stand between it and the total domination of the world.
/.
Don't they know? This is
I think its almosted /.-ed.
Yes, I did read the article (which doesn't define someone who simply states their opinion as a troll) and I don't think he was trying to a troll in disguise. I'm sure there is something (software/hardware) that you've had a bad time using and would recommend other to avoid. Would that make you a troll?
And, If you reread my post above, you could tell that the l33t was, in part, humor and not meant to imply that tolls only used l33t sp34k but to illustrate that to be a troll it would have to have been an inflammatory statement, meant to piss-off other people.
It seemed like he was just expressing his opinion and stating what his experiences were.
A troll would have been: dood, 0p3n$0urc3 7001$ $uck! w!nd0w$ d3v310pm3n7 ru13$! W00t!
Just because someone says something that you don't like doesn't make them a troll.
At least the didn't call it the iBall.
I have a sense of humor. It just that you're not funny.
Nowhere in the original story did it say that there was any reason why they couldn't continue to use the licenses for Office that they already have.
The idea to switch to OOo could have come from on of the manager who read about it in a trade magazine and thought it would be great. You can presume that is because their corporate licensing is running out or you can presume that their current licenses are not running out. Details are limited.
It only says that to have every system running Office 2003 would cost $65K. I doubt if its going to cost $65K to keep their current software.
... perhaps you just discount that information as invalid since $65K is nothing to you.
... why don't you just mail the money to the poster ...
Please, get counseling. You've obvious have some emotional issues. Its only /..
Getting our versions of Office to 2003 is $65k+
Its not going to cost him $65K to keep his current software. The posting says that his company already has Office 97/200/2002.
Why not just keep Office 2000/XP?
This is a valid question that shouldn't have been modded as flamebait. Sure, its an unpopular question considering the /. crowd but, still
valid.
The first option that is usually overlooked in IT is, "Do Nothing". If any software product is meeting a businesses needs then why replace it without a good enough reason. Will the benefits of switching form product A to product C outweigh the cost.
I love new stuff as much as the next guy but, if a product works, even one made by M$, then asking if your company should continue to use it is a question any IT Pro should ask.
There plenty of good reasons to switch to OOo but, don't do it just because it's not a M$ product.
[Gets off soap box]
Via group policy you can redirect the users' application data folder to a drive on a file server. Assuming Open Office saves the user configuration in the %user name%\Application Data folder, it should work.
Of course, if you don't already have enough space on your servers; you've got another fight on your hands.
Good luck!
The jalapeno cheese spread was pretty good, too.
Put all the user and computers in Active Directory in the Domian Controller OU.
Yes, I've seen it done.
...is this more about the quality of Microsoft's current offerings or their inability to make any advances that would provide value to the business customer?
Or...Does a business really need a 3-D desktop?