One of the most useful things about Windows is the ability to Run cmd.exe, and then type Format C:\:) Then go ahead and install Ubuntu (Or your fave Linux Distro)
VoIP cannot be trusted for emergencies.. what if your DSL or cable modem goes out?
May be not in most of the current deployments.. But when you get IP connectivity through a (gig)Ethernet port in your wall, directly connected to the Telco/SP's equipment, this should not be an issue.
a lot of companies are either bound by contracts or - more importantly - by internal applications that are broken enough only to work with windows (in that case, to be more specific, mostly word, excel and access).
How true.. ! Though, the M$ Office Suite is workable under Linux, thanks to Crossover. The main hindrance, IMHO, is the plethora of "internal" software, doing stuff such as Time Sheets, Payroll, Expense Reimbursement, etc - which are using M$ and not an OS agnostic web/app) framework
Not only is Linux not yet very widely used on the desktop yet, but its userbase is also so hopelessly fragmented between "distributions" that it is quite difficult to release an end-user-installable desktop tool for Linux.
From the release perspective,
While this distro-flood may be true to a large extent, this has not stopped a lot of popular software from being presented to the users in a distro-agnostic manner.
Examples that come to mind are realplayer, gaim (which uses autopackage), even Java..
I would say that it is not a major issue, especially for the creative and fertile minds at google !
Is this why Google Earth, Google Desktop Bar, Google Web Accelerator all support Windoze only ?
Google might be harnessing the power of Linux behind the scenes, but all of its innovations for desktop users are on M$ only.
Granted, that they are Beta/Preview versions.. but Linux could be a great candidate too !
To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows..
How do we know ? You did not show us the code;)
I know this is off topic and will be modded down, but this is not a rant.
I submitted this story yesterday itself, feeling this was my chance to "give back to the community".
I am not sure why this was rejected, when I feel that the post was coherent and grammatically/lexically appropriate. May I suggest a small "Reason" for rejection being handed out so that we can improve our journalistic skills to the high standards of/. ?
A format isn't open until it has actually been standardized by an independent body that can guarantee that it is free from patent or other claims, and until it has been demonstrated that it can be implemented independtly by actually doing so.
Does this mean that pdf is not open enough ? As mentioned in comments upthread, adobe has made available the entire pdf spec. Sure, they could change it anytime, but that would just break a great standard, and the goodwill of millions around the world.
Another great opportunity for outsourcing ?
Hmm..BPO should take this up as another revenue generation stream - With Payroll and customer support,
Phase 1: Spam Filtering : BPO handles mailboxes and weeds out SPAM
Phase 2: Mail Filtering : BPO handles mailboxes, weeds out SPAM, and then prioritizes your mail.
What the heck, Phase 1 blew up your privacy anyway..:)
the Feed is owned by corporations, and their agenda to increase consumerism has led to such privacy-stripping "innovations" as predictive marketing (getting "bannered" by merely looking at purchaseable items) and constant interruptions (such as chats being broken by Google AdSense-inspired ads).
This has been shown in umpteens of movies - The Minority Report being the most recent one.
It has, actually been put into practice in intellligent homes - Bill Gates' mansion boasts of "Paintings" - screens on the wall which change the picture based on the person who enter's the room.
Agreed that 1/10th of the budget could be used for much greater needs present before the country.
However, I wonder how many times a government (of any country, for that matter) cut the spending on benefits to its politicians? How many times has the election expense been curtailed and money utilized in social initiatives rather than wooing the electorate ?
Apoligize if this has become an OT post, but the intent was to point out that there are other avenues also available for social upliftment.
It is unfortunate that the "leading" nation in the world has taken this step backwards. At a time when space exploration requires a major boost and research into space colonization as well as cheaper travel technology needs to be the priority, the cut might slow down these efforts.
More worrying than the NASA budget cut is that of "environment programs". At a time when new inroads need to be made into environment presercation technology and practices, this cut may stall new developments
Computing History is replete with such cases of going ahead with mistaken ideas.
One such incident that springs to mind is the drafting of the various AAL standards for ATM, all but a few later ones being left unused
This is a welcome move as many enthusiasts who have their own small planes will be able to use them. The regulation also mentions specifics as to valid requirements for flight instructors,air worthiness et al.
This should spill over to countries like india where sports aviation is at a nascent state.
True.
This may be OT, but I recently installed http://www.feeddemon.com/FeedDemon, and am impressed. Currently in my trial version, I believe it is much more valuable than the 30$ price tag.
Software like this, and OpenSource, are the answer to Windoze' security laden systems which, mind you, no longer provide the exclusive GUI experience it became popular for.
While it is true that the reverse firewall will stop too much traffic from a "home" computer, there are some aspects of this which raise interesting questions:
1. How much is "too much" ? How is this decided?
2. What abt proxies to circumvent this?
3. The majority of spam, generated is probably not from a home computer.
4. Modern firewalls can be configured for outbound filtering as well. How radically will the propsed scheme be different from this?
Correct me if i am wrong in any of the assumptions above.
If we are achieving too less while applying too much effort, the low of economy wouldnt justify this.
Longhorn will be expected to deliver phenomenally in terms of
1. Security
2. UI
3. "Seamless" integration of internet/multimedia tool.
It is, however, this precise policy of "integration", or rather, forcing users to go with MS software, which is the bee in Microsoft's bonnet.
Recent technology previews of mozilla firefox and thunderbird, along with other web content software (shareware as well as open source) are much better in terms of performance than the existing stuff from the MS stable.
LongHorn will have to outperform in more ways than one to battle Linux as well as opensource
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One of the most useful things about Windows is the ability to Run cmd.exe, and then type Format C:\ :) Then go ahead and install Ubuntu (Or your fave Linux Distro)
Works fine on Windoze even after 2 hours .. No crashes or memory hogs.
In addition, it is co-existent with Firefox.
May be not in most of the current deployments .. But when you get IP connectivity through a (gig)Ethernet port in your wall, directly connected to the Telco/SP's equipment, this should not be an issue.
How true .. ! Though, the M$ Office Suite is workable under Linux, thanks to Crossover. The main hindrance, IMHO, is the plethora of "internal" software, doing stuff such as Time Sheets, Payroll, Expense Reimbursement, etc - which are using M$ and not an OS agnostic web/app) framework
From the release perspective, While this distro-flood may be true to a large extent, this has not stopped a lot of popular software from being presented to the users in a distro-agnostic manner. Examples that come to mind are realplayer, gaim (which uses autopackage), even Java ..
I would say that it is not a major issue, especially for the creative and fertile minds at google !
Is this why Google Earth, Google Desktop Bar, Google Web Accelerator all support Windoze only ? Google might be harnessing the power of Linux behind the scenes, but all of its innovations for desktop users are on M$ only. Granted, that they are Beta/Preview versions .. but Linux could be a great candidate too !
To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows.. How do we know ? You did not show us the code ;)
I know this is off topic and will be modded down, but this is not a rant. I submitted this story yesterday itself, feeling this was my chance to "give back to the community". I am not sure why this was rejected, when I feel that the post was coherent and grammatically/lexically appropriate. May I suggest a small "Reason" for rejection being handed out so that we can improve our journalistic skills to the high standards of /. ?
A format isn't open until it has actually been standardized by an independent body that can guarantee that it is free from patent or other claims, and until it has been demonstrated that it can be implemented independtly by actually doing so. Does this mean that pdf is not open enough ? As mentioned in comments upthread, adobe has made available the entire pdf spec. Sure, they could change it anytime, but that would just break a great standard, and the goodwill of millions around the world.
Another great opportunity for outsourcing ? Hmm ..BPO should take this up as another revenue generation stream - With Payroll and customer support,
Phase 1: Spam Filtering : BPO handles mailboxes and weeds out SPAM
Phase 2: Mail Filtering : BPO handles mailboxes, weeds out SPAM, and then prioritizes your mail.
What the heck, Phase 1 blew up your privacy anyway .. :)
the Feed is owned by corporations, and their agenda to increase consumerism has led to such privacy-stripping "innovations" as predictive marketing (getting "bannered" by merely looking at purchaseable items) and constant interruptions (such as chats being broken by Google AdSense-inspired ads). This has been shown in umpteens of movies - The Minority Report being the most recent one. It has, actually been put into practice in intellligent homes - Bill Gates' mansion boasts of "Paintings" - screens on the wall which change the picture based on the person who enter's the room.
Agreed that 1/10th of the budget could be used for much greater needs present before the country. However, I wonder how many times a government (of any country, for that matter) cut the spending on benefits to its politicians? How many times has the election expense been curtailed and money utilized in social initiatives rather than wooing the electorate ? Apoligize if this has become an OT post, but the intent was to point out that there are other avenues also available for social upliftment.
It is unfortunate that the "leading" nation in the world has taken this step backwards. At a time when space exploration requires a major boost and research into space colonization as well as cheaper travel technology needs to be the priority, the cut might slow down these efforts. More worrying than the NASA budget cut is that of "environment programs". At a time when new inroads need to be made into environment presercation technology and practices, this cut may stall new developments
opentalk seems related to opensource - To the layman, atleast. This will do more good than harm to _any_ sw which has this name ! :)
Computing History is replete with such cases of going ahead with mistaken ideas. One such incident that springs to mind is the drafting of the various AAL standards for ATM, all but a few later ones being left unused
This is a welcome move as many enthusiasts who have their own small planes will be able to use them. The regulation also mentions specifics as to valid requirements for flight instructors,air worthiness et al. This should spill over to countries like india where sports aviation is at a nascent state.
True. This may be OT, but I recently installed http://www.feeddemon.com/FeedDemon, and am impressed. Currently in my trial version, I believe it is much more valuable than the 30$ price tag. Software like this, and OpenSource, are the answer to Windoze' security laden systems which, mind you, no longer provide the exclusive GUI experience it became popular for.
While it is true that the reverse firewall will stop too much traffic from a "home" computer, there are some aspects of this which raise interesting questions: 1. How much is "too much" ? How is this decided? 2. What abt proxies to circumvent this? 3. The majority of spam, generated is probably not from a home computer. 4. Modern firewalls can be configured for outbound filtering as well. How radically will the propsed scheme be different from this? Correct me if i am wrong in any of the assumptions above. If we are achieving too less while applying too much effort, the low of economy wouldnt justify this.
Longhorn will be expected to deliver phenomenally in terms of 1. Security 2. UI 3. "Seamless" integration of internet/multimedia tool. It is, however, this precise policy of "integration", or rather, forcing users to go with MS software, which is the bee in Microsoft's bonnet. Recent technology previews of mozilla firefox and thunderbird, along with other web content software (shareware as well as open source) are much better in terms of performance than the existing stuff from the MS stable. LongHorn will have to outperform in more ways than one to battle Linux as well as opensource
not difficult to script a winrunner script to do the clicking. no need for the low cost workers there.
rss=real slow syndication ... ? :)