as a rule, npr is no so bland and middle of hte road that arguing about it is like arguing about which company makes the best horse buggy whip. Even when it rises above the crap that passes for american TV news, it ain't that good; take the peice which ran yesterday as part of a series on mideast history; the seqment talked about the history of iran, and noted "the prime minister was overthrown with cia help"... thats all. No explaining how this history of us crimminality makes people suspicious. NPR sucks, and all the liberal support for it is just a waste of energy. having said that, I suspect that if you took npr back to where it was in the 70s, in terms of salaries, and perks for start people, you could do it without ads.
What this means is they can't figure out how to use the info before the patents expire. The idea that novartis or any other drug company would let loose proprietary info on a gene they thought would lead them to a drug for diabetes is ludicrous.
perhaps your problem is your company ? The idea that americans are more creative, or whatever, is just nonsense - they said the same thing about japanese drones 30 years ago (sony) korean drones 15 years ago (hyundai, samsung), indian drones today....
how this sort of racist, idiotic drivel gets to be accepted is beyond me.
what is really say is your company paid for bottom of the barrel programmers and got just that, if you paid 8 bucks an hour in the us, doubt you would find a whole lot of creativity in your programmers.
corporations are corporations; expecting one to be nice is like asking a hyena to be gentle. It's just in their DNA.] what is surprising (or perhaps not, given human intelligence) is that people fall for the were just a couple guys interested in [insert technology here] and not really greedy corporate monsters schtick over and over anover. dollars to donuts, the same thing will happen again with the next google
there might be real world utility, if they can get around the temp probl, in resonant sensors. that is, there are a lot of sensors where you measure the deflection of a small cantilever; in these sensors, stiffness is an important measure of quality.
having said that, this article is typical of hundreds of such articles published each year; look at the amer chem soc journal nanoletters. of these hundreds of new materials, perhaps 1 or 2 might be practical for something
but that is the academics role - to find new things that may or may not be practical
is if this generates an increase in users beyond a few % of the desktop once that happens, it becomes self sustaining: if you have a few % of the market, a lot of people will write drivers on their own [apple @5%]; once you are beyond ~ 10%, most will write drivers on their own.
u r not listening It is not that i want or don't want linux - that is not the question. the question is, what makes sense for me - and since by definition I have to be average, what makes sense for me makes sense for other windows users. and for me, the advantages of linux are not advantages that i care about, which is my privelige in a free market economy. I don't care about security or better file system sector allocation or the supposed better quality of open source. Again, this is my privelidge, adn the failure of the linux community to realize that most people are like me is why linux on the user desktop is roughly, rounded off, zero (the inability of thelinux community to provide an answer that is satisfactory to me and others like me as to how to deal with the problem of office doc and xls file compatibility is also big)
you provide a link in your post which leads to this The use of Linux/Unix pipes, tees and redirection allow a modular approach to the design of Linux/Unix tools. They allow the capability of any tool to be extended, chaining input and output with other tools. In operating systems like DEC/VMS, paging and formatting capabilities were built into a tool, instead of leveraging the capabilities of standard Linux/Unix tool components like "more", "sort", "less" and "awk".
you also provide this as to why linux is better The system startup and shutdown is controlled by the system initialization configuration file/etc/inittab and the init scripts in/etc/rc.d/init.d/... The system startup and shutdown procedures are configurable and extensible. One may control which services are started upon system boot and which are terminated on system shutdown, as well as the sequence dependencies. This allows for the orderly shutdown of databases and other sensitive programs which should be shutdown by the application itself, rather than killed while processing, which could lead to data corruption or loss. The system can be booted to various "init" states allowing the system to operate in various configurations to support maintenance and system debugging. On many competing operating systems, the shutdown procedure is not extensible or modifiable.
Linux avoids the MS/Windows "DLL HELL", which causes Windows or its applications to fail when a newer or incompatible run-time dynamic linked library (DLL) is installed. (See Microsoft DLL database used to help avoid conflicts.) Linux employs version numbers in its run-time shared object libraries, which can therefore coexist on the system with different versions of the same libraries. The Linux RPM package management system also helps resolve dependencies and conflicts with files and libraries.
again, i don't care - that is my priviledge I'm not interested - that is my priviledge, and since linux is stuck at zero on the desktop, it is fair to ask if 90%of th epeople in the world care, and i thing the answer is no. if linux doesn't recognize the stuff i have, what is it doing for me - rather then get defensive, and call me names, answer that question on my terms. when you can do that, linux will conquer the desktop like a whirlwind.
ps: last year, i repartioned the harddrive, installed windows 2000 on one partion, and use the other for a second copy of windows (i had an me disk) that way, if there is ever a problem, i can boot to the other os
you can ask, why am i here bashing linux ?? because i hate ms, i hate the cruddy software, i hate egomainiac monsters like ballmer and ellison and jobs, i hate the shitty software ms produces, i'm an extreme leftwing liberal and like the linux model, but but but you don't do anything i care that much about, and linux seems to be a pain, and you are forked intoa 100 branches (google psychology of choice to see why this is bad) and and and..
sorry, linux has to do something i care about - simple graphical installs with a nice desktop are a minimum, not something to be proud of , a minimum for a good os.
do something new an dusefull that I care about, and linux will sweep ms away in a moment. keep focusing on garbagge like pipes and awk, you'll never get anywhere
i dont mean to be rude, but it is posts like this that keep linux off the mainstream desktop type apt-get.... r u joking ? stupid lazy people like me are not going to do that the pixma thing was kinda sneaky... i tried installing lindows, and according to the what i found on the interenet at the time, pixmas are real hard to work with linux
which brings us to the real question: if (a) you respect other peoples desires, and (b) i don't care about cpu threads or security or file systems, but do care about ease of use, which means the os recognizing the printer i already have, what advantage does linux give me ? untill linux can answer that question, it will be marginal on the desktop
the patent game is just that - a game. it doens't cost that much to file an application, and if it gets granted, the game is tilted way in your favor - it is now up to the other party to prove that the patent is bad.
also, you have internal IP depts, and others, whoose yearly evaluation is probably dependent on the number of apps they file.
Beyond that, it is well known that there are many, many patnets that seem ludicrous; this is really dog bites man
and your car should come with complete thermodynamica analysis of fuel injector settings vs outside temperature, your drugs should come iwth a complete biochemical pathway and genomic information, your toothbrush should come with a complete analysis of the polymers used in the bristles...
MORON !!!!! most people not only ndon't need this info, and not only don't want this info, but would find it a distinct NEGATIVE
you are quite right that the differences are minimal, unless you absolutely have to run a mac specific piece of software.
however, there was a period in the early 90s, when macs were better, if more exspensive. why people still think they are better is a rich source of material for sociologits and psychologists. I personally don't have a mac, but my wife who is about as computer illiterate as you can be and still use one has had two $$ laptops in the last four years, and my impression of thehardware is def not favorable. the OS is ok, but I bet on a day to day, month in month out basis, there is no real diff between xp and osX - both have matured to the point whre they work most of hte time.
But, like most things, there does not seem to be any objective data
this isnt about technical stuff anymore- jobs has gone beyond that to the mass market of the mythical grandma, although in this case the archetype is the 8th grader.
these people don't care about ANY of this - it is like buying blue jeans for your 8th grader; what matters is whats cool, which is TOTALLY unrelated to any technical aspect.
so you can huff and puff all you want, but the kids are not listening.
one almost does believe in the reality distortion field theory. most of apples products are SHIT: poorly built, badly designed and not that much better, if not worse, then the competition.
when they are better, it is in nonfunctional suface looks, exactly like selling sugar water (Jobs famously remarked to a ceo he hired from pepsi, you wanna change the world or sell sugar water)
call me troll flamebait whatever: I think apple products suck. And I could give you a long list of particulars.
but I'm not interested in talking to the apple brainwashed; I'm interested in talking to people who are sane - what is it about apple and jobs that makes people loose their common sense ? is it the same thing that makes people buy cruddy harley davidson cycles over hondas that run ? is it the same thing that makes corp execs resist govt mandated enviromental rules, even when those rules will result in profit ? is it the natural human impulse to not only not admit to mistakes, but to dig oneself in deeper (bush iraq come to mind)
I assume the journalists prostitutes are just morons who know nothing, and have to fill space on deadline, and the graphics artists know nothing abut computers - they just are , jsutifiably, to busy to learn a new OS to switch their software, but wht about normal people ?
i use the flashblock addon, simple and nice - a good tool that does one job well
more generally, I really don't understand why you need a free email account - don't you get an email from your ISP ? you do need to pay for an isp; I use comcast, it is bundled with the cable, and if you want cable, the extra monthly cost is not that much.
why is it that there are so many of you using these free emails (and, i have to say, anyone who uses a free service and whines is a bit of a schmuck)
people adopted firefox cause it gave them real benefits that THEY actually cared about and cause it was not that hard (me personally, i cared bout tabs, security, book mark all tabs to folder, cntrl+ increases font)
why would I adopt linux when the barrier is high and there are no benfits. I personally don't care bout security and multi thread and all that crap; that linux has a cool desktop with a nice gui is like the ford dealer saying the car comes with 4 wheels, and adopting linux is a pain - gotta go out and get a new printer , gotta go out and get a new wireless card, gotta do this, gotta do that, for what ? tell me why I - not you but me- wants linux
tell me some real vendors who sell predone machines (I went to dell/hp sites the other day, if preloaded consumer machines are there, they are hard to find)
the rant that drivers are the barrier is nonsense
the barrier is that linux does not do something new that people care about. people don't care about security and file systems and all that crap. maybe people are stupid, or dumb, or whatever, but you are learning something about life when you learn that all the technical crap in the world does not matter if people don't care about it.
one thing and one thing only will drive linux adoption to the desktop: do something that people care about the corallary is that you have to patent it, to restrict MS and sun, otherwise they will just steal it, and even if they do it badly people wont care
I am sure any/.s out there who have tried to sell products will tell yo0u that displacing an existing product wiht a variant is very very very...very hard.
call me troll, but I speak the truth: do something that people care about and they will come.
Show me some real world data on TCO including lifetime maintenence that terse programs, which saved a few minutes of typing for the programmer, are better then wordy programms whihc save years for the non original authrs that have to maintain
this less typing thing is one of the stupidest memes in the computer industry
thanks one point I did not raise is the buy/purchase psychology of sys admin types and nerds in genral (like myself) since we have invested a lot of time and energy in gaining a specific skill, I think we tend to (perhaps unconciencsly) not buy things that denigrate those skills, like programs that don't need a lot of support to run.
which is understandable - if i were a sysadmin, why would i favor programs that largely remove the need for my talents , and allow me to be replaced with soemthign cheaper ?
contrary to what people may thing , security is just not that big a deal; (the New York Times had a story this fall about how most ID theft is people you know - family, friends)
People will adopt linux when there is a reason.
The moral from what most be far and away the #1 success of linux/open source/whatever you want to call it is firefox.
People like me downloaded and used fire fox cause it was better then IE. let me repeat that: firefox did something usefull The M$ stuff was , if people even knew about it, irrelevant.
Rather then worrying about stuff you can't fix, like driver support, worry about patenting, and giving to the open source community, but not the closed source community, rights to software that does things people want.
If you build it, they will come - remember what made the pc revolution in the first place: visicalc. It did something, and people were willing ot put up with the insanely poor clunky $$ performance of pre AT IBMs. (I'm not talking about nor care about the small % of the market that bought amigas or whatever - need to focus on the big picture)
You MUSST have the patent, to keep MS/sun/ibm etc out
One thing that might work in small science orientated companies is server side OS, so we can get rid of these stupid pcs and put everything back on the server where it belongs (contradicting myself a small market [in tech companies, there are a lot of instruments that generate digital data, such as spectrophotometers, etc etc, and having seperate pcs for the data is a real disaster]])
what might this killer app software look like ? How about wiki/slashcode/my sql apache package that grandma can download and install ? (wiki has no quality control, you get that from the slashcode) how about school software, that both trains the kids and runs the schools std web stie, etc - there is a large market that is cost sensitiv, and allows you to capitilize on linux's strengths. how about a set of high school and college text books, with closed problem sets for teachers, driven by the insane cost of textbooks ? those are pretty pathetic ideas
MS is just so easy. I am probably going to get a new laptop after xmas, to replace my 2001 HP, and it is so easy to get the default and so hard to get the linux - WHY should i bother
Answer that, and linux will take over the world. But forget about anyone caring about M$ as a driver.
usable calendar address books, able to past multiple emails into send line sperated by semicolons, store the data in some comprehensible NON unix format so it can be backdup in an intellignet manner (lets not go further here, it sucks so bad)find function for people not nerd geeks,.....
prop mem stick software vastly overpriced viao computers
the old tinitron monitor with the wire running horizontal about 1/3 of the way from the bottom
the time last year I went to the sony website to download driver for a sony digital camera and it took a half hour to find the link - and this was for a current model, still sold on the web site, boy, it was easy to buy stuff, but impossible to find the driver this really *irked me
the overpriced sony playstation i got my kids tht never worked right and broke after two years of moderate use\
the external usb dvd writer we got cause none of our old machines had dvd writers and the astonishingly bad sony software that shipped with it, i got better shareware to run sonys own dvd writer then the stuff shipped with it.......I'm sure there is more that has slipped my memory
if someone could explain in intelligble terms, what is the difference between velocity, phase velocity and group velocity ? (if u can do that, perhaps "mode" as used in acceptable to a fiber optic would be next)
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as a rule, npr is no so bland and middle of hte road that arguing about it is like arguing about which company makes the best horse buggy whip.
Even when it rises above the crap that passes for american TV news, it ain't that good; take the peice which ran yesterday as part of a series on mideast history; the seqment talked about the history of iran, and noted "the prime minister was overthrown with cia help"...
thats all. No explaining how this history of us crimminality makes people suspicious.
NPR sucks, and all the liberal support for it is just a waste of energy.
having said that, I suspect that if you took npr back to where it was in the 70s, in terms of salaries, and perks for start people, you could do it without ads.
What this means is they can't figure out how to use the info before the patents expire. The idea that novartis or any other drug company would let loose proprietary info on a gene they thought would lead them to a drug for diabetes is ludicrous.
perhaps your problem is your company ?
The idea that americans are more creative, or whatever, is just nonsense - they said the same thing about japanese drones 30 years ago (sony) korean drones 15 years ago (hyundai, samsung), indian drones today....
how this sort of racist, idiotic drivel gets to be accepted is beyond me.
what is really say is your company paid for bottom of the barrel programmers and got just that, if you paid 8 bucks an hour in the us, doubt you would find a whole lot of creativity in your programmers.
corporations are corporations; expecting one to be nice is like asking a hyena to be gentle. It's just in their DNA.]
what is surprising (or perhaps not, given human intelligence) is that people fall for the were just a couple guys interested in [insert technology here] and not really greedy corporate monsters schtick over and over anover.
dollars to donuts, the same thing will happen again with the next google
there might be real world utility, if they can get around the temp probl, in resonant sensors.
that is, there are a lot of sensors where you measure the deflection of a small cantilever; in these sensors, stiffness is an important measure of quality.
having said that, this article is typical of hundreds of such articles published each year; look at the amer chem soc journal nanoletters. of these hundreds of new materials, perhaps 1 or 2 might be practical for something
but that is the academics role - to find new things that may or may not be practical
is if this generates an increase in users beyond a few % of the desktop
once that happens, it becomes self sustaining: if you have a few % of the market, a lot of people will write drivers on their own [apple @5%]; once you are beyond ~ 10%, most will write drivers on their own.
u r not listening
/etc/inittab and the init scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/... The system startup and shutdown procedures are configurable and extensible. One may control which services are started upon system boot and which are terminated on system shutdown, as well as the sequence dependencies. This allows for the orderly shutdown of databases and other sensitive programs which should be shutdown by the application itself, rather than killed while processing, which could lead to data corruption or loss. The system can be booted to various "init" states allowing the system to operate in various configurations to support maintenance and system debugging. On many competing operating systems, the shutdown procedure is not extensible or modifiable.
It is not that i want or don't want linux - that is not the question. the question is, what makes sense for me - and since by definition I have to be average, what makes sense for me makes sense for other windows users.
and for me, the advantages of linux are not advantages that i care about, which is my privelige in a free market economy. I don't care about security or better file system sector allocation or the supposed better quality of open source. Again, this is my privelidge, adn the failure of the linux community to realize that most people are like me is why linux on the user desktop is roughly, rounded off, zero (the inability of thelinux community to provide an answer that is satisfactory to me and others like me as to how to deal with the problem of office doc and xls file compatibility is also big)
you provide a link in your post which leads to this The use of Linux/Unix pipes, tees and redirection allow a modular approach to the design of Linux/Unix tools. They allow the capability of any tool to be extended, chaining input and output with other tools. In operating systems like DEC/VMS, paging and formatting capabilities were built into a tool, instead of leveraging the capabilities of standard Linux/Unix tool components like "more", "sort", "less" and "awk".
you also provide this as to why linux is better The system startup and shutdown is controlled by the system initialization configuration file
Linux avoids the MS/Windows "DLL HELL", which causes Windows or its applications to fail when a newer or incompatible run-time dynamic linked library (DLL) is installed. (See Microsoft DLL database used to help avoid conflicts.) Linux employs version numbers in its run-time shared object libraries, which can therefore coexist on the system with different versions of the same libraries. The Linux RPM package management system also helps resolve dependencies and conflicts with files and libraries.
again, i don't care - that is my priviledge
I'm not interested - that is my priviledge, and since linux is stuck at zero on the desktop, it is fair to ask if 90%of th epeople in the world care, and i thing the answer is no.
if linux doesn't recognize the stuff i have, what is it doing for me - rather then get defensive, and call me names, answer that question on my terms. when you can do that, linux will conquer the desktop like a whirlwind.
ps: last year, i repartioned the harddrive, installed windows 2000 on one partion, and use the other for a second copy of windows (i had an me disk) that way, if there is ever a problem, i can boot to the other os
you can ask, why am i here bashing linux ?? because i hate ms, i hate the cruddy software, i hate egomainiac monsters like ballmer and ellison and jobs, i hate the shitty software ms produces, i'm an extreme leftwing liberal and like the linux model,
but but but
you don't do anything i care that much about, and linux seems to be a pain, and you are forked intoa 100 branches (google psychology of choice to see why this is bad) and and and..
sorry, linux has to do something i care about - simple graphical installs with a nice desktop are a minimum, not something to be proud of , a minimum for a good os.
do something new an dusefull that I care about, and linux will sweep ms away in a moment. keep focusing on garbagge like pipes and awk, you'll never get anywhere
i dont mean to be rude, but it is posts like this that keep linux off the mainstream desktop
type apt-get....
r u joking ? stupid lazy people like me are not going to do that
the pixma thing was kinda sneaky... i tried installing lindows, and according to the what i found on the interenet at the time, pixmas are real hard to work with linux
which brings us to the real question: if (a) you respect other peoples desires, and (b) i don't care about cpu threads or security or file systems, but do care about ease of use, which means the os recognizing the printer i already have, what advantage does linux give me ? untill linux can answer that question, it will be marginal on the desktop
i just tried this on my hp laptop running win2000..process failed early on, some nonsense about mounting a root partition or something...
will it recognize my canon pixma ip 1600 printer and pcmicia wireless card ? no ? little more then a toy far as my personal needs go.
the patent game is just that - a game. it doens't cost that much to file an application, and if it gets granted, the game is tilted way in your favor - it is now up to the other party to prove that the patent is bad.
also, you have internal IP depts, and others, whoose yearly evaluation is probably dependent on the number of apps they file.
Beyond that, it is well known that there are many, many patnets that seem ludicrous; this is really dog bites man
and your car should come with complete thermodynamica analysis of fuel injector settings vs outside temperature, your drugs should come iwth a complete biochemical pathway and genomic information, your toothbrush should come with a complete analysis of the polymers used in the bristles...
MORON !!!!!
most people not only ndon't need this info, and not only don't want this info, but would find it a distinct NEGATIVE
grow up !!
you are quite right that the differences are minimal, unless you absolutely have to run a mac specific piece of software.
however, there was a period in the early 90s, when macs were better, if more exspensive. why people still think they are better is a rich source of material for sociologits and psychologists.
I personally don't have a mac, but my wife who is about as computer illiterate as you can be and still use one has had two $$ laptops in the last four years, and my impression of thehardware is def not favorable. the OS is ok, but I bet on a day to day, month in month out basis, there is no real diff between xp and osX - both have matured to the point whre they work most of hte time.
But, like most things, there does not seem to be any objective data
this isnt about technical stuff anymore- jobs has gone beyond that to the mass market of the mythical grandma, although in this case the archetype is the 8th grader.
these people don't care about ANY of this - it is like buying blue jeans for your 8th grader; what matters is whats cool, which is TOTALLY unrelated to any technical aspect.
so you can huff and puff all you want, but the kids are not listening.
one almost does believe in the reality distortion field theory. most of apples products are SHIT: poorly built, badly designed and not that much better, if not worse, then the competition.
when they are better, it is in nonfunctional suface looks, exactly like selling sugar water (Jobs famously remarked to a ceo he hired from pepsi, you wanna change the world or sell sugar water)
call me troll flamebait whatever: I think apple products suck.
And I could give you a long list of particulars.
but I'm not interested in talking to the apple brainwashed; I'm interested in talking to people who are sane - what is it about apple and jobs that makes people loose their common sense ? is it the same thing that makes people buy cruddy harley davidson cycles over hondas that run ? is it the same thing that makes corp execs resist govt mandated enviromental rules, even when those rules will result in profit ? is it the natural human impulse to not only not admit to mistakes, but to dig oneself in deeper (bush iraq come to mind)
I assume the journalists prostitutes are just morons who know nothing, and have to fill space on deadline, and the graphics artists know nothing abut computers - they just are , jsutifiably, to busy to learn a new OS to switch their software, but wht about normal people ?
i use the flashblock addon, simple and nice - a good tool that does one job well
more generally, I really don't understand why you need a free email account - don't you get an email from your ISP ? you do need to pay for an isp; I use comcast, it is bundled with the cable, and if you want cable, the extra monthly cost is not that much.
why is it that there are so many of you using these free emails (and, i have to say, anyone who uses a free service and whines is a bit of a schmuck)
i use the flashblock addon, simple and nice - a good tool that does one job well
people adopted firefox cause it gave them real benefits that THEY actually cared about and cause it was not that hard (me personally, i cared bout tabs, security, book mark all tabs to folder, cntrl+ increases font)
/.s out there who have tried to sell products will tell yo0u that displacing an existing product wiht a variant is very very very...very hard.
why would I adopt linux when the barrier is high and there are no benfits. I personally don't care bout security and multi thread and all that crap; that linux has a cool desktop with a nice gui is like the ford dealer saying the car comes with 4 wheels, and adopting linux is a pain - gotta go out and get a new printer , gotta go out and get a new wireless card, gotta do this, gotta do that, for what ?
tell me why I - not you but me- wants linux
tell me some real vendors who sell predone machines (I went to dell/hp sites the other day, if preloaded consumer machines are there, they are hard to find)
the rant that drivers are the barrier is nonsense
the barrier is that linux does not do something new that people care about. people don't care about security and file systems and all that crap. maybe people are stupid, or dumb, or whatever, but you are learning something about life when you learn that all the technical crap in the world does not matter if people don't care about it.
one thing and one thing only will drive linux adoption to the desktop: do something that people care about
the corallary is that you have to patent it, to restrict MS and sun, otherwise they will just steal it, and even if they do it badly people wont care
I am sure any
call me troll, but I speak the truth: do something that people care about and they will come.
Show me some real world data on TCO including lifetime maintenence that terse programs, which saved a few minutes of typing for the programmer, are better then wordy programms whihc save years for the non original authrs that have to maintain
this less typing thing is one of the stupidest memes in the computer industry
thanks
one point I did not raise is the buy/purchase psychology of sys admin types and nerds in genral (like myself) since we have invested a lot of time and energy in gaining a specific skill, I think we tend to (perhaps unconciencsly) not buy things that denigrate those skills, like programs that don't need a lot of support to run.
which is understandable - if i were a sysadmin, why would i favor programs that largely remove the need for my talents , and allow me to be replaced with soemthign cheaper ?
This really misses the point.
WHY would I adopt linux ?
contrary to what people may thing , security is just not that big a deal; (the New York Times had a story this fall about how most ID theft is people you know - family, friends)
People will adopt linux when there is a reason.
The moral from what most be far and away the #1 success of linux/open source/whatever you want to call it is firefox.
People like me downloaded and used fire fox cause it was better then IE.
let me repeat that: firefox did something usefull
The M$ stuff was , if people even knew about it, irrelevant.
Rather then worrying about stuff you can't fix, like driver support, worry about patenting, and giving to the open source community, but not the closed source community, rights to software that does things people want.
If you build it, they will come - remember what made the pc revolution in the first place: visicalc. It did something, and people were willing ot put up with the insanely poor clunky $$ performance of pre AT IBMs. (I'm not talking about nor care about the small % of the market that bought amigas or whatever - need to focus on the big picture)
You MUSST have the patent, to keep MS/sun/ibm etc out
One thing that might work in small science orientated companies is server side OS, so we can get rid of these stupid pcs and put everything back on the server where it belongs (contradicting myself a small market [in tech companies, there are a lot of instruments that generate digital data, such as spectrophotometers, etc etc, and having seperate pcs for the data is a real disaster]])
what might this killer app software look like ?
How about wiki/slashcode/my sql apache package that grandma can download and install ? (wiki has no quality control, you get that from the slashcode)
how about school software, that both trains the kids and runs the schools std web stie, etc - there is a large market that is cost sensitiv, and allows you to capitilize on linux's strengths.
how about a set of high school and college text books, with closed problem sets for teachers, driven by the insane cost of textbooks ?
those are pretty pathetic ideas
MS is just so easy. I am probably going to get a new laptop after xmas, to replace my 2001 HP, and it is so easy to get the default and so hard to get the linux - WHY should i bother
Answer that, and linux will take over the world. But forget about anyone caring about M$ as a driver.
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Did you see Last night's episode of Bones on Fox ?
How do yo spell clueless geek Ans: "realistic dragon"
usable calendar address books, able to past multiple emails into send line sperated by semicolons, store the data in some comprehensible NON unix format so it can be backdup in an intellignet manner (lets not go further here, it sucks so bad)find function for people not nerd geeks, .....
prop mem stick software
....I'm sure there is more that has slipped my memory
vastly overpriced viao computers
the old tinitron monitor with the wire running horizontal about 1/3 of the way from the bottom
the time last year I went to the sony website to download driver for a sony digital camera and it took a half hour to find the link - and this was for a current model, still sold on the web site, boy, it was easy to buy stuff, but impossible to find the driver this really *irked me
the overpriced sony playstation i got my kids tht never worked right and broke after two years of moderate use\
the external usb dvd writer we got cause none of our old machines had dvd writers and the
astonishingly bad sony software that shipped with it, i got better shareware to run sonys own dvd writer then the stuff shipped with it...
if someone could explain in intelligble terms, what is the difference between velocity, phase velocity and group velocity ? (if u can do that, perhaps "mode" as used in acceptable to a fiber optic would be next)