What you consider to be easy depends somewhat on your learning style, but even more so on whether you learned the concepts or simply memorized some steps to do the task at hand. People who consider it difficult to switch between operating systems are people who have not learned how to use *computers*. They are people who know how to get around the OS they're used to by rote memorization.
No, I'm not saying your mom is dumb because she couldn't figure out Macs. But rather you can't rightly say Macs are confusing based on the experiences of one person who only knows Windows -- and is probably making a lot of assumptions about how the Mac will work based on that history of using Windows.
I don't expect this comic will be good -- in fact I know it will not be good based on the first few installments. But I went ahead and subscribed to the RSS feed. Since this whole thing seems to be a thinly veiled scheme to make people install Silverlight, I get some base feeling of satisfaction out of hitting their servers without actually installing it.
What's that you say? I'm being ridiculous? Well so is Microsoft. Seems only fair to return the favor.
Indeed, any price is too expensive when you're a relatively poor country spending taxpayer dollars on software. As has already been pointed out, it's the concepts of computers that are important, not the memorization of exactly which icon to click.
Dual-core CPUs are always (at least to my knowledge) the same speed in both cores. The "2.0 Ghz / 880 Mhz" would be indicating that the processor is 2GHz with an 880MHz bus.
I thought you were joking but just did a whois on USELESSDOMAIN00001.COM for fun. and it really is registered to Network Solutions, LLC, with today's date. Wow.
On any current Mac laptop it's trivial to swap out the hard disk. It's literally a five-minute operation on a regular MacBook; no harder than adding RAM. It takes a little longer on a MacBook Pro because you have to take the topcase off -- but even that would take any half-decent Mac techie 20 minutes to do. Either way, it was totally unnecessary to send it in to Apple. it should have just gone to a local Mac specialist rather than being sent away to Apple.
Kudos to you. I work in support and our DSL connection went down. I called up the provider and followed the steps they suggested even though I had tried it several times already and knew a tech would have to come work on it. The result would be the same -- it wouldn't work and they'd send someone to install a new modem, run new wires, whatever. I know how frustrating it is to deal with a user who won't follow your instructions.
I was going to make a similar comment but you beat me to it. I use IMAP mail, which enables me to use Thunderbird on my Linux PC, Apple Mail on my Mac, Alpine over an SSH connection at work, and SquirrelMail everywhere else. It's the best of both(all?) worlds. Webmail is a hand component, but not a complete solution in and of itself.
This should be unconstitutional. In Canada it sure would be.
Constitutional issues generally address what the government can do to you or require of you, but not individuals or corporations. If certainly may be immoral, illegal, or something else, for a company to make certain requirements of you, but it's not an issue of constitutionality.
Did I miss something? I allways thoght that StarOffice is a commertial product - One you actualy pay for - $69.95 U.S to be precise.
So how does google do it then?
I present two possibilities for your consideration:
Google made a deal with Sun for promotional purposes. I doubt they were selling many copies to begin with but might make good advertising for the Sun brand.
They pirated it using BitTorrent and are now illegally redistributing it.
I think the idea is it's a win-win situation for Eudora and Thunderbird. Eudora maintains some level of goodwill by directing users to an alternative app that reminds them of Eudora. Thunderbird gains more users as a result of Eudora funneling their customers in that direction. And Penelope isn't really a whole new application, it's more like an extension that makes Thunderbird look and feel more like Eudora for users who want that. But it's unclear (at least to me) whether an actual rebranded app will be released (ala Netscape 8 and 9 and Firefox) or if it will only ever exist as an extension for Thunderbird.
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I meant to say sending costs 10 cents and receiving costs 2 cents.
Talking on the phone is expensive. Sending messages is cheap.
Not on my phone. I never go over my allotted minutes, and calls in-network don't even count. But every text message I send costs $0.10 and every one I send is $0.02. It sucks, but c'est la vie. I hate text messaging not only because it's cumbersome and more time-consuming than a quick call (at least as long as I don't have an iPhone:P) but because it actually does cost more in many instances.
Apparently they are trying to Macify Opera in 9.5, no idea what that would do perse.
That would be wonderful! I like Opera a lot but the main reason I have not used it more is that it has quite a few behaviors that stray from the way a good Mac app should work. I put up with SeaMonkey's different appearance on the Mac because it at least behaves reasonably with regard to the basics, such as the behavior of arrow keys in text entry fields. Even though I appreciate app appearance as a Mac user, if a program doesn't behave the way I expect it to in the most fundamental ways, that trumps all other considerations.
There are other applications? Sure at work, but at home?
My point has already been made in a couple other replies, but: Yes, I run way more apps at home than at work. At work I would typically have no more than two or three apps open -- SeaMonkey, the Terminal, and a text editor. At home I often have that plus iTunes, Aperture, Photoshop, an IM client, and another browser or two. At work I got away with 512MB RAM but at home I would die using that little.
Don't try to fix what isn't broken. If there's ANY problem with the Linux you replace XP with, your dad will blame you.
Quoted for truth. I used to be excited over the prospect of helping a friend or relative switch to Linux or buy a Mac. But these things always come back to bite you.
Myself, I use a MacBook and have great respect Mac OS X. I consider it the best general-purpose OS available. But in spite of my boundless confidence in this operating system that "just works", there are still problems for new users. Same is true of Linux. It might be that they can't open their old documents in some obscure format. It may be that the old peripheral that I didn't even know they had won't work. Whatever it is, there will always be a problem of some sort, and I'm sick of trying to be the hero only to end up putting out fires.
Over time I've learned to be content with what I have and let my friends and relatives use what suits them. If they want advice on which Mac to buy or want me to burn them a Linux install disc, I'll do it. I just don't have the emotional stamina to be that zealous over a damn OS anymore. At the end of the day it's just a tool. I know which one I prefer and I'll advise friends on which one might suite them best, but I'm leaving it at that.
And boy did they break it. The few times I've ended up using a computer with only IE 7 installed, I find it extremely frustrating. I can forgive the absence of a reload button -- what I can't get over is that there's no friggin' menu bar! (I understand that these may be present but not enabled by default, but they're such basic components that I find it mindboggling that the default configuration does not include them.)
I understand that. I wasn't suggesting he would have to change, just that he and other developers who release new software under the GPL might want an "updated" version other than GPLv3. Hence there may be demand for a new GPL-derived license that grows and changes, but not in the way GPLv3 does.
Perhaps, but developers of new products (or developers who own copyright for all the code in their existing products) might still wish to have available an updated license that is still different from GPLv3.
You can use the GPL terms (possibly modified) in another license provided that you call your license by another name and do not include the GPL preamble, and provided you modify the instructions-for-use at the end enough to make it clearly different in wording and not mention GNU (though the actual procedure you describe may be similar).
If you want to use our preamble in a modified license, please write to <licensing@gnu.org> for permission. For this purpose we would want to check the actual license requirements to see if we approve of them.
Although we will not raise legal objections to your making a modified license in this way, we hope you will think twice and not do it. Such a modified license is almost certainly incompatible with the GNU GPL, and that incompatibility blocks useful combinations of modules. The mere proliferation of different free software licenses is a burden in and of itself.
If Linus doesn't like where the GPL is going, he could make his own fork...
Really, I say this mostly for the purpose of humor, but it's true. If there's enough objection to GPLv3 maybe someone will introduce an alternate version based on GPLv2 that allows it to be updated in the future but without the conditions present in v3.
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What you consider to be easy depends somewhat on your learning style, but even more so on whether you learned the concepts or simply memorized some steps to do the task at hand. People who consider it difficult to switch between operating systems are people who have not learned how to use *computers*. They are people who know how to get around the OS they're used to by rote memorization.
No, I'm not saying your mom is dumb because she couldn't figure out Macs. But rather you can't rightly say Macs are confusing based on the experiences of one person who only knows Windows -- and is probably making a lot of assumptions about how the Mac will work based on that history of using Windows.
I don't expect this comic will be good -- in fact I know it will not be good based on the first few installments. But I went ahead and subscribed to the RSS feed. Since this whole thing seems to be a thinly veiled scheme to make people install Silverlight, I get some base feeling of satisfaction out of hitting their servers without actually installing it.
What's that you say? I'm being ridiculous? Well so is Microsoft. Seems only fair to return the favor.
Indeed, any price is too expensive when you're a relatively poor country spending taxpayer dollars on software. As has already been pointed out, it's the concepts of computers that are important, not the memorization of exactly which icon to click.
Dual-core CPUs are always (at least to my knowledge) the same speed in both cores. The "2.0 Ghz / 880 Mhz" would be indicating that the processor is 2GHz with an 880MHz bus.
I thought you were joking but just did a whois on USELESSDOMAIN00001.COM for fun. and it really is registered to Network Solutions, LLC, with today's date. Wow.
On any current Mac laptop it's trivial to swap out the hard disk. It's literally a five-minute operation on a regular MacBook; no harder than adding RAM. It takes a little longer on a MacBook Pro because you have to take the topcase off -- but even that would take any half-decent Mac techie 20 minutes to do. Either way, it was totally unnecessary to send it in to Apple. it should have just gone to a local Mac specialist rather than being sent away to Apple.
Kudos to you. I work in support and our DSL connection went down. I called up the provider and followed the steps they suggested even though I had tried it several times already and knew a tech would have to come work on it. The result would be the same -- it wouldn't work and they'd send someone to install a new modem, run new wires, whatever. I know how frustrating it is to deal with a user who won't follow your instructions.
I was going to make a similar comment but you beat me to it. I use IMAP mail, which enables me to use Thunderbird on my Linux PC, Apple Mail on my Mac, Alpine over an SSH connection at work, and SquirrelMail everywhere else. It's the best of both(all?) worlds. Webmail is a hand component, but not a complete solution in and of itself.
The subject of this message is a joke, but there's more than a little truth to it.
- Google made a deal with Sun for promotional purposes. I doubt they were selling many copies to begin with but might make good advertising for the Sun brand.
- They pirated it using BitTorrent and are now illegally redistributing it.
I'll let you decide which one is more likely.I think the idea is it's a win-win situation for Eudora and Thunderbird. Eudora maintains some level of goodwill by directing users to an alternative app that reminds them of Eudora. Thunderbird gains more users as a result of Eudora funneling their customers in that direction. And Penelope isn't really a whole new application, it's more like an extension that makes Thunderbird look and feel more like Eudora for users who want that. But it's unclear (at least to me) whether an actual rebranded app will be released (ala Netscape 8 and 9 and Firefox) or if it will only ever exist as an extension for Thunderbird.
I meant to say sending costs 10 cents and receiving costs 2 cents.
Quoted for truth. I used to be excited over the prospect of helping a friend or relative switch to Linux or buy a Mac. But these things always come back to bite you.
Myself, I use a MacBook and have great respect Mac OS X. I consider it the best general-purpose OS available. But in spite of my boundless confidence in this operating system that "just works", there are still problems for new users. Same is true of Linux. It might be that they can't open their old documents in some obscure format. It may be that the old peripheral that I didn't even know they had won't work. Whatever it is, there will always be a problem of some sort, and I'm sick of trying to be the hero only to end up putting out fires.
Over time I've learned to be content with what I have and let my friends and relatives use what suits them. If they want advice on which Mac to buy or want me to burn them a Linux install disc, I'll do it. I just don't have the emotional stamina to be that zealous over a damn OS anymore. At the end of the day it's just a tool. I know which one I prefer and I'll advise friends on which one might suite them best, but I'm leaving it at that.
And boy did they break it. The few times I've ended up using a computer with only IE 7 installed, I find it extremely frustrating. I can forgive the absence of a reload button -- what I can't get over is that there's no friggin' menu bar! (I understand that these may be present but not enabled by default, but they're such basic components that I find it mindboggling that the default configuration does not include them.)
I understand that. I wasn't suggesting he would have to change, just that he and other developers who release new software under the GPL might want an "updated" version other than GPLv3. Hence there may be demand for a new GPL-derived license that grows and changes, but not in the way GPLv3 does.
Perhaps, but developers of new products (or developers who own copyright for all the code in their existing products) might still wish to have available an updated license that is still different from GPLv3.
If Linus doesn't like where the GPL is going, he could make his own fork...
Really, I say this mostly for the purpose of humor, but it's true. If there's enough objection to GPLv3 maybe someone will introduce an alternate version based on GPLv2 that allows it to be updated in the future but without the conditions present in v3.
Actually three. They'll also get Apple's new $100 laptop, the iOLPC. Competitively priced at $150.