It is not only games, but also not the applications that drive the bussiness desktop today. There's no argument that MS Office suite is more stable than OO.o. On feature-wise though who can argue that OOo is not sufficient for bussiness office needs? The problem with bussiness is support. MS had used vast majority of its resources (at least in past) for this area. And with the name they got from consumer market they had good penetration to bussiness market. And games was a big part of consumer market. If MS was not strong on consumer market, they would not release Windows XP, at least with that much end-user enhancement to Windows 2000.
To be successful in bussiness you need commercial support, and only last couple of years brought that to Linux. RedHat and Novell are doing this, and Cannonical will do that as well. So that bussinesses will rely on Linux because they know that they will have commercial support if they need (and they actually need).
MS has the great advantage of first comer to GUI Workstation for mass deployment. They backed this with pre-installs of bussiness choice of hardware suppliers, like Dell and HP. And Boom!.
Not to mention turf was empty for them *for a while*. It's only matter of time and competition that will get their monopoly in that market, and once you have no monopoly there will be more standarized environment for everyone which means a good advantage to Linux as it's not only liberal but also free.
If GNOME is not the most popular OSS desktop which one is? KDE? This is not a troll post but just a post to express a fact. KDE (might be) cool but that does not make it popular. Most popular distos use GNOME as their standard desktop and so does that make it popular as well. To name few, Fedora Core, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and enterprise level RHEL and SLED. Popularity is a fact, and coolness is relative. To improve this notion Firefox and IE can be given as an example. Firefox is way better than IE in most of areas (security, expandibity, usability etc.) but IE is way more popular than Firefox (85% against 12~13% for Firefox).
Having said that I think GNOME is cooler than KDE and that's of course my opinion.
Have you ever heard of local exploits? You don't need to have internet to be vulnerable. Applications should prevent from buffer overflows because there can be local attacts as well. You would not want a local user to crash your public workstation or get root on it do you?
Ubuntu is better than Fedora in Desktop Market? People keep saying, ubuntu is cool, but I really don't see why it is? To me it is torture. Worse than Fedora on default fonts selection, official repositories do not have recent versions of software. Fedora do not have meaningless patches for should be default and consistent interfaces (like nautilus, add panel dialog etc.) It's way easier to find rpm of a release than.deb version. Also what's the point of having something installed and waiting hours for internet download time, instead of downloading a DVD while you were sleeping, and get everything at once.
For me ubuntu is no more than a buzz word, which uses Debian as a source of fame.
...was generating several million dollars a year in profit before News Corp. bought it. However, it's not nearly enough to move the needle at giant News Corp., where money is measured in billions.
Web is different. You can't compare its revenue power or ROI with other media types. Currently web has comparatively high ROI and also very high competition. Competition is hard, because it's too hard to bind people to web sites. Web is one step further of the fast consuming in media, after TV (first we had books, then monthly magazines , then daily newspapers, and later hour divided (PT1, PT2..) TV).
People switch services way too fast in here. Another site is one click away, and with a decent infrastructure as fast as the other.
That's why google is very keen on producing web based services, like mail, spreadsheet, data storage. Because then, people will have harder times to switch a service, compared to search engine, which is very fragile in that send.
However if we check myspace's position in that race, it's only binding for teenagers, and teenagers are not good users to be trusted. They go for trends, and it would just take months not years to get lure users to outherspace.com (just a dummy site) from myspace.com.
Currently earning billions would need years of activity on web, and with hard to beat services. And community site is not one of them.
It's not the distro fault for not being able to dual heads with GUI. You better blame your card vendor for not supporting Linux, instead developing shitload of useless applications for Windows. Just send a mail to ATI and complain about the situation. If you were using NVIDIA chipset card btw, you would have GUI for dual head display, which is not very intuitive but still would do the work.
Btw, for your peculier problems like dual heads, and sticked usb drives, you can't judge if linux (ie. dapper) not ready for desktop. Vast majority of desktop users do not have dual head display, and for vast majority of the desktop applications Ubuntu desktop is superior than Windows, like having ready ofiice suite, pdf reader, im client and powerful graphic editors etc. Besides these applications you also have a proven security.
I can only dream of a computing experience, which has lack of unknown formats. I would really be a lot more happy to see wmv files to be played without any problem, or office documents openning flawlessly in various applications.
Real question is why should we stick to just one application for any format. If every unique application made their own file format, nobody would be able to share anything, and why does Internet ever exists if we won't be able share our documents.
That's not an open source issue, or free market problem. It's the lack of mentality for sharing of information. People really suffer from these compatibility problems, and if someone made a research about the lost and or wasted time related to these issues, it would be easily seen that it's very huge problem that computer users experience. And with the growing trend of DRM and stuff we will just suffer this more and more.
People should convert, open, edit any format with any application coded for them. To let this, those willing to create a format, should clearly state specifications for these formats, or clearly state that this format is just for a specific application and should not be shared so that users won't use those files for sharing. A.doc file created with 200x version of Microsoft Word is just like the feces of this application. And if we don't want to make Internet or our networks sewer we should definately stop sharing those crap (literally) through the wires.
On that page Google do not have icon beside the link and I really wonder why they didn't use the Official Google logo there. Not to mention it took me a little longer to find Google in that list because it was the only one without a logo there.
I doubt that it's too much. They prabably registered "live" brand name, and put a dispute on WIPO to get the domain if it wasn't a live web site or not owned by any other company which has live name registered to them. At those disputes jury easily decide on your side as they get paid by you. That would cost you at most $3-4k for 3-4 inspectors or something, though that amount is apart from lawyer fees. I would not expect MS to pay a cybersquatter tons of money as they are already paying for lawyers tons of money.
Outsourcing does not mean, bad service. It's about getting a service from abroad with most probably lower costs. It's evident that same quality of service taken from India, or China is a lot cheaper than the one taken from US or some other European countries. Companies should be more selective on outsourcing, then they won't lose customer due to bad service, but in no way there's a direct connection with outsourcing and bad service.
If it was a mandatory thing I'm pretty sure there are many users who will find it useless and resource monster to use. That is the case with Windows operating system. You can't choose what technology and what you want on your desktop.
However this is Linux and here's where choices exist everytime. If you find it useless, just don't install/use it. If you need that eye candy, go for it, it's there for you to have fun.
That's why Free Software existed, people will have whatever they wanted not whatever vendor wanted. And its seen that Free Software is successfull in this aim admirably.
1. Use emoticons and know how to read them.
For chat I can understand use of emoticons in chat (or even on some forum posts) due to speed constraint while telling something, but I don't understand the reason to use them in mails which you have, most of time, chance to review what you tell while writing.
As some other poster's already mentioned it, if you want to effectively express your feelings you should choose appropriate words, punctuation etc. to do that. Emoticons are just and invention for chat talk, not literal writing medium. Emeotiocons are unfortunately cancer in writing such that I have seen them used in a written maggazine articles.
Generally speaking, motivation that makes private enterprise to release new products is the money, but for military contractors addition to money, there's also a patriotic ways of production. I'm pretty sure that patriotic feelings have alot more motivative than money when you're not hungry.
Also from security perspective I would like to know ratio of remote vulnerabilities on these platforms and how much of them DoS vulnerabilities and more critical compromise vulnerabilites.
It's correct that a DoS vulnerability might be actually more critical as it was thought (as in recent IE bug). I think numbers as such very deceptive. From an user perspective I can say this year brought me lots of stupid worm mails which mostly targeted from Windows platforms.
If Suse or Ubuntu capture 90% desktop market, no doubt that they they will get sued. It's not something to do with being open source or not. It won't be a case between two open source applications, becuase there's no profit behind it. But even open source applications can make some companies die but also some companies to live.
The problem is actually exploiting the monopoly position, nothing else.
When did they release Vista as a stable release? What kind of ignorance is that to use a beta product in such a critical site for Microsoft.
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I don't understand this. How can you trust an infected machine without wiping everything out. Even MS accepted that it's not possible to clean some rootkit kind of spyware if you don't reinstall Windows. Even if it can, how can you trust, without checking every bit of the OS? This is not Windows issue, it's same with linux or any other OS. But it's also very hard unless you're very ignorant, to get a complete infection with linux than Windows.
I would not trust any machine which is infected once, because there can be countless ways to hide an application once a hacker got in.
I'm not a native speaker as obviously. And if you understood what I mean, that's the all I need for English. If you're get annoyed people making mistakes in your pretty language, start a campaign for changing world domination plan of your country. What I wonder is how many language do you speak perfectly apart from English?
I'm a Linux user for like 5 years. But this does not prevent me from those junk mails, and hours telling people to correct their web pages so as to I can browse them.
I really hate MS in that sense. They are just stubborn money holders. I hate them not because they produce buggy software, and dictate every single user to use their software, but their ruining the internet where nobody can do anything about it. I still get spams and worms due to their vulnerable software, and I still encounter buggy web pages due to their incompatible browser's wrong impression on web developers. I wish everyone is more aware of this situation and change the way things go.
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It is not only games, but also not the applications that drive the bussiness desktop today. There's no argument that MS Office suite is more stable than OO.o. On feature-wise though who can argue that OOo is not sufficient for bussiness office needs? The problem with bussiness is support. MS had used vast majority of its resources (at least in past) for this area. And with the name they got from consumer market they had good penetration to bussiness market. And games was a big part of consumer market. If MS was not strong on consumer market, they would not release Windows XP, at least with that much end-user enhancement to Windows 2000.
To be successful in bussiness you need commercial support, and only last couple of years brought that to Linux. RedHat and Novell are doing this, and Cannonical will do that as well. So that bussinesses will rely on Linux because they know that they will have commercial support if they need (and they actually need).
MS has the great advantage of first comer to GUI Workstation for mass deployment. They backed this with pre-installs of bussiness choice of hardware suppliers, like Dell and HP. And Boom!.
Not to mention turf was empty for them *for a while*. It's only matter of time and competition that will get their monopoly in that market, and once you have no monopoly there will be more standarized environment for everyone which means a good advantage to Linux as it's not only liberal but also free.
If GNOME is not the most popular OSS desktop which one is? KDE? This is not a troll post but just a post to express a fact. KDE (might be) cool but that does not make it popular. Most popular distos use GNOME as their standard desktop and so does that make it popular as well. To name few, Fedora Core, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and enterprise level RHEL and SLED. Popularity is a fact, and coolness is relative. To improve this notion Firefox and IE can be given as an example. Firefox is way better than IE in most of areas (security, expandibity, usability etc.) but IE is way more popular than Firefox (85% against 12~13% for Firefox).
Having said that I think GNOME is cooler than KDE and that's of course my opinion.
Kphone is the name that KDE users will mostprobably call it, not Greenphone. Greenphone is GNOMEish.
Have you ever heard of local exploits? You don't need to have internet to be vulnerable. Applications should prevent from buffer overflows because there can be local attacts as well. You would not want a local user to crash your public workstation or get root on it do you?
Ubuntu is better than Fedora in Desktop Market? People keep saying, ubuntu is cool, but I really don't see why it is? To me it is torture. Worse than Fedora on default fonts selection, official repositories do not have recent versions of software. Fedora do not have meaningless patches for should be default and consistent interfaces (like nautilus, add panel dialog etc.) It's way easier to find rpm of a release than .deb version. Also what's the point of having something installed and waiting hours for internet download time, instead of downloading a DVD while you were sleeping, and get everything at once.
For me ubuntu is no more than a buzz word, which uses Debian as a source of fame.
...was generating several million dollars a year in profit before News Corp. bought it. However, it's not nearly enough to move the needle at giant News Corp., where money is measured in billions.
Web is different. You can't compare its revenue power or ROI with other media types. Currently web has comparatively high ROI and also very high competition. Competition is hard, because it's too hard to bind people to web sites. Web is one step further of the fast consuming in media, after TV (first we had books, then monthly magazines , then daily newspapers, and later hour divided (PT1, PT2..) TV).
People switch services way too fast in here. Another site is one click away, and with a decent infrastructure as fast as the other.
That's why google is very keen on producing web based services, like mail, spreadsheet, data storage. Because then, people will have harder times to switch a service, compared to search engine, which is very fragile in that send.
However if we check myspace's position in that race, it's only binding for teenagers, and teenagers are not good users to be trusted. They go for trends, and it would just take months not years to get lure users to outherspace.com (just a dummy site) from myspace.com.
Currently earning billions would need years of activity on web, and with hard to beat services. And community site is not one of them.
but not free. They don't claim that they are free (liberal) either.
It's not the distro fault for not being able to dual heads with GUI. You better blame your card vendor for not supporting Linux, instead developing shitload of useless applications for Windows. Just send a mail to ATI and complain about the situation. If you were using NVIDIA chipset card btw, you would have GUI for dual head display, which is not very intuitive but still would do the work.
Btw, for your peculier problems like dual heads, and sticked usb drives, you can't judge if linux (ie. dapper) not ready for desktop. Vast majority of desktop users do not have dual head display, and for vast majority of the desktop applications Ubuntu desktop is superior than Windows, like having ready ofiice suite, pdf reader, im client and powerful graphic editors etc. Besides these applications you also have a proven security.
Microsoft is in the software business.
They are also in advertising bussiness as well. Same way as Google is in.
I can only dream of a computing experience, which has lack of unknown formats. I would really be a lot more happy to see wmv files to be played without any problem, or office documents openning flawlessly in various applications.
.doc file created with 200x version of Microsoft Word is just like the feces of this application. And if we don't want to make Internet or our networks sewer we should definately stop sharing those crap (literally) through the wires.
Real question is why should we stick to just one application for any format. If every unique application made their own file format, nobody would be able to share anything, and why does Internet ever exists if we won't be able share our documents.
That's not an open source issue, or free market problem. It's the lack of mentality for sharing of information. People really suffer from these compatibility problems, and if someone made a research about the lost and or wasted time related to these issues, it would be easily seen that it's very huge problem that computer users experience. And with the growing trend of DRM and stuff we will just suffer this more and more.
People should convert, open, edit any format with any application coded for them. To let this, those willing to create a format, should clearly state specifications for these formats, or clearly state that this format is just for a specific application and should not be shared so that users won't use those files for sharing. A
On that page Google do not have icon beside the link and I really wonder why they didn't use the Official Google logo there. Not to mention it took me a little longer to find Google in that list because it was the only one without a logo there.
I doubt that it's too much. They prabably registered "live" brand name, and put a dispute on WIPO to get the domain if it wasn't a live web site or not owned by any other company which has live name registered to them. At those disputes jury easily decide on your side as they get paid by you. That would cost you at most $3-4k for 3-4 inspectors or something, though that amount is apart from lawyer fees. I would not expect MS to pay a cybersquatter tons of money as they are already paying for lawyers tons of money.
Outsourcing does not mean, bad service. It's about getting a service from abroad with most probably lower costs. It's evident that same quality of service taken from India, or China is a lot cheaper than the one taken from US or some other European countries. Companies should be more selective on outsourcing, then they won't lose customer due to bad service, but in no way there's a direct connection with outsourcing and bad service.
If it was a mandatory thing I'm pretty sure there are many users who will find it useless and resource monster to use. That is the case with Windows operating system. You can't choose what technology and what you want on your desktop.
However this is Linux and here's where choices exist everytime. If you find it useless, just don't install/use it. If you need that eye candy, go for it, it's there for you to have fun.
That's why Free Software existed, people will have whatever they wanted not whatever vendor wanted. And its seen that Free Software is successfull in this aim admirably.
1. Use emoticons and know how to read them.
For chat I can understand use of emoticons in chat (or even on some forum posts) due to speed constraint while telling something, but I don't understand the reason to use them in mails which you have, most of time, chance to review what you tell while writing.
As some other poster's already mentioned it, if you want to effectively express your feelings you should choose appropriate words, punctuation etc. to do that. Emoticons are just and invention for chat talk, not literal writing medium. Emeotiocons are unfortunately cancer in writing such that I have seen them used in a written maggazine articles.
Someone should have checked judges personal computers to understand merits of this verdict.
Generally speaking, motivation that makes private enterprise to release new products is the money, but for military contractors addition to money, there's also a patriotic ways of production. I'm pretty sure that patriotic feelings have alot more motivative than money when you're not hungry.
Also from security perspective I would like to know ratio of remote vulnerabilities on these platforms and how much of them DoS vulnerabilities and more critical compromise vulnerabilites.
It's correct that a DoS vulnerability might be actually more critical as it was thought (as in recent IE bug). I think numbers as such very deceptive. From an user perspective I can say this year brought me lots of stupid worm mails which mostly targeted from Windows platforms.
spurl.net is alot more superior than delicious in social bookmarking and also keeping your own bookmarks on it.
If Suse or Ubuntu capture 90% desktop market, no doubt that they they will get sued. It's not something to do with being open source or not. It won't be a case between two open source applications, becuase there's no profit behind it. But even open source applications can make some companies die but also some companies to live.
The problem is actually exploiting the monopoly position, nothing else.
When did they release Vista as a stable release? What kind of ignorance is that to use a beta product in such a critical site for Microsoft.
I don't understand this. How can you trust an infected machine without wiping everything out. Even MS accepted that it's not possible to clean some rootkit kind of spyware if you don't reinstall Windows. Even if it can, how can you trust, without checking every bit of the OS? This is not Windows issue, it's same with linux or any other OS. But it's also very hard unless you're very ignorant, to get a complete infection with linux than Windows.
I would not trust any machine which is infected once, because there can be countless ways to hide an application once a hacker got in.
I'm not a native speaker as obviously. And if you understood what I mean, that's the all I need for English. If you're get annoyed people making mistakes in your pretty language, start a campaign for changing world domination plan of your country. What I wonder is how many language do you speak perfectly apart from English?
I'm a Linux user for like 5 years. But this does not prevent me from those junk mails, and hours telling people to correct their web pages so as to I can browse them.
I really hate MS in that sense. They are just stubborn money holders. I hate them not because they produce buggy software, and dictate every single user to use their software, but their ruining the internet where nobody can do anything about it. I still get spams and worms due to their vulnerable software, and I still encounter buggy web pages due to their incompatible browser's wrong impression on web developers. I wish everyone is more aware of this situation and change the way things go.