They could do a lot of damage to Dell this way, but it wouldn't be smart for either party. How is average joe computer buyer going to respond when he sees that half the PCs at Bestbuy are running some thing called Linux, proudly embossed with the Dell name, when the salesman tells him it's just as good as Windows only cheaper? He'll probably buy the Dell Linux system.
MS is dependent on its oem retailers probably more than the other way around.
Reality is basically just an agreement--most/. readers, for example, agree on the english language, and can communicate. People agree that houses are built a certain way, people of certain standing/class/taste dress a certain way, etc. This creates a social landscape.
Psychedelics and extreme shock (grief, physical shock, etc.) put you in a different frame of reference, a different set of agreements, or a different reality. So, you may have some great insight as to why that tree appears to be growing while you're tripping, but when you come down it's nothing that you or anyone else would agree on and consequently is not "real". Try talking to someone on drugs--they seem very unreal and you will probably look like a dumbass b/c you aren't perceiving the same things at all.
Thus Feinman's perception of something very profound in state B was completely useless in state A, but seemed very real in state B and probably would still seem real if he returned to state B.
Much, much more, even not for just a server. If you ignore windows ports of other GNU applications, you end up with linux having a great superiority over Windows:
compilers! you can't program sh*t on a windows install without buying separate software.
your choice of how your desktop environment looks
games, not just freecell and solitaire
real networking tools, such as nmap, a variety of firewalls, heck the list is too long to begin here
a powerful command prompt for expert users
Etc., making linux a viable platform for whatever you want to use if for.
Yep. In my experience, the good developers get way more work and their quality goes to sh*t b/c they're under pressure and generally unhappy with their jobs at that point. The poor develpers get lower-priortity tasks to work on.
Being in QA, however, I can honestly say that all the testing you can do on a poorly developed product results only in a poorly developed product with fewer bugs. There is just no way to catch all the bugs in a really POS piece of software when the entire framework is jacked. Not that you can ever catch *all* the bugs, but there's a point at which everyone pretty much agrees that something is good to ship...this usually never happens with crap; crap just ships.
The funny thing is, the TOS does not specify that you actually must live in Indiana. How on earth are they going to verify that each address is a valid address? How about multiple computers at a single address (i.e. re-registrations when you forget your login, your kid registers after you have, etc.)?
But after the posting of this article, the service will probably be more SimSlashdot than SimIndiana;)
No, No, No! If you buy an espresso machine, the employees will be getting up at least twice a day to make espresso and they'll be going to the bathroom every 15 minutes. Total work time approaches zero.
The only solution is an intravenous caffeine drip system. This keeps them literally chained to their desks. Coffee, sodas, and water should also be prohibited unless the employees have unusually large bladders.
Visio is an MS product? I don't have 2003 but my copy of 2000 explicitly states, "Visio and Smartshapes are registered trademarks and ShapeSheet is a trademark of Visio Corporation".
It does appear to use some IE extensions that are used on permission from MS though...
Yeah but my FREE yahoo account has 100MB storage, more than the account that I get (pay for) with my cable modem subscription. 100MB of email is really more than I need for personal use.
I, for one, nominate Darl McBride, everyone's favorite FUD-slinging robot! The openserver platform he's running on seems a bit buggy however--some of the outputs make no sense...
Well, if they missed the point, that is not good, and the users should obviously be able to point that out. But I have often seen users give one explanation of how something works, change their mind completely on the mechanics of the thing halfway through the project, then hand it off to another user with differing opinions. Good project management should forego this but it's often just developer-user with little intervention. The Mythical Man Month provides good pointers for someone in this position, actually.
There is a certain smugness at work in the idea that the architect will make better decisions here than the user will. Certainly this view is out of favor now. We normally try to find out what the user wants (somehow) and then find a way to design our software to provide this to them in the most sensible manner we can envision. I can't imagine saying "no" to the user regarding a feature...
It seems that a lot of open source development actually adheres to the original architect premise here. In this case, the developer is the user and therefore knows best, at least for himself. I always find gathering requirements to be frustrating, and it never feels like a completed task. Especially when the developer is green in whatever industry they're developing to, the users can kill the usability of an app by nitpicking it to death--there is no real overall vision.
There's a lot of crossover between the languages, and a lot of hybrid influences. In fact, some of these seem to play back into each other. I predict that in another 50 years, the chart will have completed its loop and there will be only one language:
Asked if that would hurt sales of competing products, such as Network Associates' McAfee and Symantec's Norton family of products, Nash...said that Microsoft said that it would
Oh wait, did I just that out of context?
Anytime that MS branches into a field where they will be competing with established competitors, I can only feel sorry for the competitors. MS may not always win in this context but they have a good track record.
Sure, but when it comes to IT, most companies will listen to their highly-qualified-for-Windows sysadmin who's used Windows for their entire career, and hired a horde of other windows admins, state that the environment will not work at all if it is changed. This is obviously untrue, but it's a job threat and faced with the reality of redeploying and rehiring/retraining on a large (expensive) scale or staying the same, what would most middle managers do?
For a company of 5, no sweat. For a company of 50,000, you could approach the problem on a departmental basis and gradually shift over. For most mid-cap companies, however, there is neither a culture nor interest in going to all the work.
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MS is dependent on its oem retailers probably more than the other way around.
...they'll probably just have a Doom2 DM competition. Have fun guys!
Psychedelics and extreme shock (grief, physical shock, etc.) put you in a different frame of reference, a different set of agreements, or a different reality. So, you may have some great insight as to why that tree appears to be growing while you're tripping, but when you come down it's nothing that you or anyone else would agree on and consequently is not "real". Try talking to someone on drugs--they seem very unreal and you will probably look like a dumbass b/c you aren't perceiving the same things at all.
Thus Feinman's perception of something very profound in state B was completely useless in state A, but seemed very real in state B and probably would still seem real if he returned to state B.
Drugs are just bad, mmmhay?
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/
- compilers! you can't program sh*t on a windows install without buying separate software.
- your choice of how your desktop environment looks
- games, not just freecell and solitaire
- real networking tools, such as nmap, a variety of firewalls, heck the list is too long to begin here
- a powerful command prompt for expert users
Etc., making linux a viable platform for whatever you want to use if for.Yeah, everything on the page now appears to be b0rked;) I tried a lot of other searches. I think /. broke the site...
Sorry, no results were found containing "linux"
This is worse than the old MSN search, which returned a page on microsoft.com about helping people migrate from Linux to Windows.
Maybe it just uses regexes? /linux/i ?
But I guess that would only be the case if UPS were the primary/exclusive shipper of new Toshiba laptops, which for all I know they are.
Unless, of course, the compressed air fizzles...
Being in QA, however, I can honestly say that all the testing you can do on a poorly developed product results only in a poorly developed product with fewer bugs. There is just no way to catch all the bugs in a really POS piece of software when the entire framework is jacked. Not that you can ever catch *all* the bugs, but there's a point at which everyone pretty much agrees that something is good to ship...this usually never happens with crap; crap just ships.
But after the posting of this article, the service will probably be more SimSlashdot than SimIndiana;)
...that the winner is just going to have a really hot, photogenic girlfriend;)
- large business violates customer privacy to government agency concerned with national security
- judgement is made that this type of activity is okay because it is necessary for nat'l security
- bill may be passed to state the obvious
And, well, there's noThe only solution is an intravenous caffeine drip system. This keeps them literally chained to their desks. Coffee, sodas, and water should also be prohibited unless the employees have unusually large bladders.
-The Management
It does appear to use some IE extensions that are used on permission from MS though...
Are you talking about 1969 or 2004? Lil' help?
Yeah but my FREE yahoo account has 100MB storage, more than the account that I get (pay for) with my cable modem subscription. 100MB of email is really more than I need for personal use.
I, for one, nominate Darl McBride, everyone's favorite FUD-slinging robot! The openserver platform he's running on seems a bit buggy however--some of the outputs make no sense...
Well, if they missed the point, that is not good, and the users should obviously be able to point that out. But I have often seen users give one explanation of how something works, change their mind completely on the mechanics of the thing halfway through the project, then hand it off to another user with differing opinions. Good project management should forego this but it's often just developer-user with little intervention. The Mythical Man Month provides good pointers for someone in this position, actually.
There is a certain smugness at work in the idea that the architect will make better decisions here than the user will. Certainly this view is out of favor now. We normally try to find out what the user wants (somehow) and then find a way to design our software to provide this to them in the most sensible manner we can envision. I can't imagine saying "no" to the user regarding a feature...
It seems that a lot of open source development actually adheres to the original architect premise here. In this case, the developer is the user and therefore knows best, at least for himself. I always find gathering requirements to be frustrating, and it never feels like a completed task. Especially when the developer is green in whatever industry they're developing to, the users can kill the usability of an app by nitpicking it to death--there is no real overall vision.
It's a shame, IMO...
Almost like...The Internet!?!?!
Fortran 2060!
Oh wait, did I just that out of context?
Anytime that MS branches into a field where they will be competing with established competitors, I can only feel sorry for the competitors. MS may not always win in this context but they have a good track record.
A talking, pop-up tux that spits out hundred-page man pages might be kinda funny though...
For a company of 5, no sweat. For a company of 50,000, you could approach the problem on a departmental basis and gradually shift over. For most mid-cap companies, however, there is neither a culture nor interest in going to all the work.