Windows software amazes me? Let's see...
No.
There's not a single piece of software on the Windows platform that amazes me. I can't even imagine what that would be.
I am a Mac OS X user, and all the software I need exists for that platform. I must admit, though, that I am intrigued by the developments on the Linux side, and I do use Linux as a server.
I agree. I'm not that old, but it amazes me that younger colleagues crack jokes that must be 40 or even 50 years old sometimes, simple puns that I first heard when I was 10. And they still find them hilarious! Like my English teacher always said, punners should be pun-ished.
These Uranus jokes are getting out of hand. Really, why don't they just change Uranus's name to something less offensive? And please, no funny business with names like Miass or Butfuka, either! The joke's not funny. Not at all! Really. No.
The reason I love Apple is not their customer support or anything like that - absolutely not. Apple's support people are mostly ignorant minimum-wage kids with no professional experience and a total of 3 days of on-the-job training. The reasons I love Apple are their products and services, which, quite simply, are vastly superior to anyone else's.
Kids have a natural ability to choose products are superior. For them, it is not even a conscious thought process: is automatic, instinctive and obvious. Apple somehow gets things right. Definitely not though the use of focus groups. Probably not by way of reseach. My guess is Steve Jobs and his product development team use a much faster and more efficient method. They ask their children (and the kids' buddies) how things should work, because kids are not brain damaged or prejudiced. They just know what's right.
Steve Ballmer has got to be the most inept of them all. He is the epitome of the screaming, loud-mouthes bully of the type that has become more end more common in business in recent years, and who is actualy quite ineffective because he is marketing driven and not product and engineering driven. Maybe it's time for Ballmer to take a permanent vacation?
Apple doesn't actually force people to buy iPods or use iTunes. If people want to use other products and services, and there are plenty of those, they can go right ahead. French politicians really need to get their pâté de foie gras-eating heads out of their proverbial sit-upons and perhaps also turn their little brains on. Besides, Apple may very well use the free-trade legislation European Union to stop this madness.
Novell's version of Linux won't be a hit on the desktop, and for the same reasons no other Linux distribution has been a success among average users. Linux does not have the application support or the standardized interface necessary for it to be embraced by office or home users. I want Linux to succeed, and I really hope it will supplant Windows. But it won't. As it is, there are two major Linux GUIs: Gnome and KDE. Plug and play works, but only sometimes. There are few business apps för Linux.
But Linux adoption and development may take a different route. Except for its traditional server role, Linux could be used in very specific business systems, in public kiosks, and for web apps. And come to think of it, maybe that's where we're heading next.
I'm a longtime Mac user (and finally dumped Windows altogether and definitively a few weeks ago), so I have little insight into the future plans of Linux. What is the next step for Linux? Will it remain a server OS or will it become more universally adopted? I don't know. But if that's what the Linux companies want to do, then I am pretty sure a standardized and consistent desktop is absolutely necessary. That's all I wanted to say.
You are absolutely right! Why didn't I see that? The next step for Windows are advertisement and advertainment on the desktop, and perhaps even in applications. Microsoft tried this years ago when Windows 98 SE was launched, and it was a resounding flop...
I personally think iTunes and iPod are some of the best products of the 2000s, but nobody forces you to buy an iPod or to use iTunes. There are plenty of alternatives. Hundreds, probably.
I think it would be a huge mistake for Linux to imitate Windows or any Microsoft product. Windows is ass-backwards. It is system and application centric, not user or document centric. Sure, XP has some features that seem to have been made in an effort to move towards serving the user - i.e., the dumbed-down default settings for start menu - but that is just a sham. It is a thin veneer on top of a rough, unfinished, mindless interface - at least as mindless as Microsoft's current leadership - that sees the system, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft-only applications as the centre of the "Windows experience". It's an annoying hodge-podge of an "experience" that should never have gone golden master. The way I see it, Windows is still very much in a beta stage of development.
So, instead Linux should perhaps look elsewhere for inspiration - Apple, for instance, are the real masters at this sort of thing - but also go it's own way. Screw Microsoft! They did everything wrong. Linux developers should find out what the right way is, and in what direction - towards detailed complexity or logical simplicity? - Linux should go.
The real obstacle, in my view, for Linux to be universally adopted on the desktop - that's what everybody wants, right? - is the lack of a consistent, completely standardised interface from the system and application level all the way to the user space. Linux' revolutionary breakthrough will come only when that has been accomplished, and not before.
I don't want no stinkin' Windows on my Mac. Otoh it would perhaps be nice on occasion to be able to use Windows software directly, via a runtime engine, and avoid Windows completely.
OO is about the same as MS Office. I had it installed on my IBM Thinkpad X31 before I sold it, and it did the same job as Microsoft's bloatware. (I used my Mac 90 percent of the time. I figured money is better than a piece of black plastic, so I got rid of it.) I have Office 2004 installed on my Mac, but the only really useful part is Excel. That's all I ever use of it. For writing, I simply use TextEdit. Muchg faster and more reliable, and saves the documents in RTF format.
Edward Greenwood IX, the ninth person called Edward in the Greenwood family, which means the tradition goes back nine generations or at least 9 x 30 years = 270 years, i.e., 1736. Probably further back than that! Also, it would make a damn good name for an operating system.
"There was no reason for technology companies not to do business in China"...? Except the fact that Chinese companies use slave labourers? Gates has his head up his rectum as usual.
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It's really very simple. Apple's machines look much cooler than anything else. That's why they are used as props in movies and TV shows.
iTunes is simply the best music software there is. Period.
I don't see anything morally wrong with it, as long as it is done by consenting adults. It's entertainment.
I agree, but you could just boot from the Ubuntu disk and just nuke the machine from orbit.
Windows software amazes me? Let's see... No. There's not a single piece of software on the Windows platform that amazes me. I can't even imagine what that would be. I am a Mac OS X user, and all the software I need exists for that platform. I must admit, though, that I am intrigued by the developments on the Linux side, and I do use Linux as a server.
I agree. I'm not that old, but it amazes me that younger colleagues crack jokes that must be 40 or even 50 years old sometimes, simple puns that I first heard when I was 10. And they still find them hilarious! Like my English teacher always said, punners should be pun-ished.
These Uranus jokes are getting out of hand. Really, why don't they just change Uranus's name to something less offensive? And please, no funny business with names like Miass or Butfuka, either! The joke's not funny. Not at all! Really. No.
The reason I love Apple is not their customer support or anything like that - absolutely not. Apple's support people are mostly ignorant minimum-wage kids with no professional experience and a total of 3 days of on-the-job training. The reasons I love Apple are their products and services, which, quite simply, are vastly superior to anyone else's.
Kids have a natural ability to choose products are superior. For them, it is not even a conscious thought process: is automatic, instinctive and obvious. Apple somehow gets things right. Definitely not though the use of focus groups. Probably not by way of reseach. My guess is Steve Jobs and his product development team use a much faster and more efficient method. They ask their children (and the kids' buddies) how things should work, because kids are not brain damaged or prejudiced. They just know what's right.
Steve Ballmer has got to be the most inept of them all. He is the epitome of the screaming, loud-mouthes bully of the type that has become more end more common in business in recent years, and who is actualy quite ineffective because he is marketing driven and not product and engineering driven. Maybe it's time for Ballmer to take a permanent vacation?
Apple doesn't actually force people to buy iPods or use iTunes. If people want to use other products and services, and there are plenty of those, they can go right ahead. French politicians really need to get their pâté de foie gras-eating heads out of their proverbial sit-upons and perhaps also turn their little brains on. Besides, Apple may very well use the free-trade legislation European Union to stop this madness.
Novell's version of Linux won't be a hit on the desktop, and for the same reasons no other Linux distribution has been a success among average users. Linux does not have the application support or the standardized interface necessary for it to be embraced by office or home users. I want Linux to succeed, and I really hope it will supplant Windows. But it won't. As it is, there are two major Linux GUIs: Gnome and KDE. Plug and play works, but only sometimes. There are few business apps för Linux. But Linux adoption and development may take a different route. Except for its traditional server role, Linux could be used in very specific business systems, in public kiosks, and for web apps. And come to think of it, maybe that's where we're heading next.
I'm a longtime Mac user (and finally dumped Windows altogether and definitively a few weeks ago), so I have little insight into the future plans of Linux. What is the next step for Linux? Will it remain a server OS or will it become more universally adopted? I don't know. But if that's what the Linux companies want to do, then I am pretty sure a standardized and consistent desktop is absolutely necessary. That's all I wanted to say.
You are absolutely right! Why didn't I see that? The next step for Windows are advertisement and advertainment on the desktop, and perhaps even in applications. Microsoft tried this years ago when Windows 98 SE was launched, and it was a resounding flop...
I personally think iTunes and iPod are some of the best products of the 2000s, but nobody forces you to buy an iPod or to use iTunes. There are plenty of alternatives. Hundreds, probably.
I think it would be a huge mistake for Linux to imitate Windows or any Microsoft product. Windows is ass-backwards. It is system and application centric, not user or document centric. Sure, XP has some features that seem to have been made in an effort to move towards serving the user - i.e., the dumbed-down default settings for start menu - but that is just a sham. It is a thin veneer on top of a rough, unfinished, mindless interface - at least as mindless as Microsoft's current leadership - that sees the system, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft-only applications as the centre of the "Windows experience". It's an annoying hodge-podge of an "experience" that should never have gone golden master. The way I see it, Windows is still very much in a beta stage of development. So, instead Linux should perhaps look elsewhere for inspiration - Apple, for instance, are the real masters at this sort of thing - but also go it's own way. Screw Microsoft! They did everything wrong. Linux developers should find out what the right way is, and in what direction - towards detailed complexity or logical simplicity? - Linux should go. The real obstacle, in my view, for Linux to be universally adopted on the desktop - that's what everybody wants, right? - is the lack of a consistent, completely standardised interface from the system and application level all the way to the user space. Linux' revolutionary breakthrough will come only when that has been accomplished, and not before.
I don't want no stinkin' Windows on my Mac. Otoh it would perhaps be nice on occasion to be able to use Windows software directly, via a runtime engine, and avoid Windows completely.
OO is about the same as MS Office. I had it installed on my IBM Thinkpad X31 before I sold it, and it did the same job as Microsoft's bloatware. (I used my Mac 90 percent of the time. I figured money is better than a piece of black plastic, so I got rid of it.) I have Office 2004 installed on my Mac, but the only really useful part is Excel. That's all I ever use of it. For writing, I simply use TextEdit. Muchg faster and more reliable, and saves the documents in RTF format.
Sorry, couldn'd resist the urge!
Edward Greenwood IX, the ninth person called Edward in the Greenwood family, which means the tradition goes back nine generations or at least 9 x 30 years = 270 years, i.e., 1736. Probably further back than that! Also, it would make a damn good name for an operating system.
I have Mac OS X 10.4.4 om my desktop machines and Ubuntu on my IBM laptop. Life is good. :)
...now I know buying into Windows was a mistake all along!
"There was no reason for technology companies not to do business in China"...? Except the fact that Chinese companies use slave labourers? Gates has his head up his rectum as usual.
It's my real name, you insensitive clod. Kunt, Clark Kunt.
I advise you mind your language.