Yes, but repos fall down on small details like payment and copy protection. I know, open source is the best thing ever, but we haven't convinced the large manufacturers yet. Speaking of manufacturers, I can think of several that need to use a common OS updater. Adobe updates, ick.
Heck, Microsoft was accused of acting like a tyrant because they decided to force programs to have a separate user/admin priv model, just like every other mainstream OS out there.>
They started that back in about '95. By Vista, they'd given up asking nicely. It was as bad as the MS-DOS tricks that continued until XP came out.
And thanks to a US Attorney in the Lori Drue case, violating those rules is good for a year in prison. So, we have prison guards looking at prison time for following instructions from their employer.
There's enough blame to go around. It's a fair question though, why isn't the prosecutor charging the school for facilitating the production of child porn? They most definitely shouldn't be left in charge of children.
Actually, NT 4.0 was slightly less stable than 3.51 but your point still stands. Heck, we don't like rebooting the WIndows servers for the same reasons: takes time and pisses off the users.
Go look at Australian film in the '70s and '80s. They got away with stuff that I had to see to believe. "Not Quite Hollywood" is a good doco about it. Classifications have got a lot tighter since then.
They remove the bloat, don't allow trials because they piss off the user, set up one anti-virus that doesn't need a subscription, will sort out your iTunes if you ask, make sure all of the codecs are installed out of the box, and get rid of duplicate applications that do basically the same thing. They make things "just work."
In other words, they've reinvented the old school computer store. I give them a year or two before somebody 'improves' the experience. Before that, I'm going to look at what they're selling.
It's often not the desktop IT that blocks it but the back-end 'Intranet Application' types. FF has reach the point where we can treat it like our other applications (with help) but it can't render some of the horrible, old and expensive back-ends. IT does care in a lot of places. We don't want to be stuck with IE either.
We support Firefox here for anyone who asks for it, using an unofficial version that supports GPOs for install and configuration. We had a fight to deploy IE7 and 8 because our finance and HR are outsourced to another government department with a lot of Oracle junk that required IE6. Strangely enough Firefox 2 did a better job with it than IE7 until last year's updates. Bottom line, IE6 sticks around because of the back-ends rather than GPO convenience.
Our applications are handled externally. We get docx and pdf 'converted' to Word. (They change the file extensions) Our HR then brings us 'mystery files' to see if we can sort them out.
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Yes, but repos fall down on small details like payment and copy protection. I know, open source is the best thing ever, but we haven't convinced the large manufacturers yet. Speaking of manufacturers, I can think of several that need to use a common OS updater. Adobe updates, ick.
Heck, Microsoft was accused of acting like a tyrant because they decided to force programs to have a separate user/admin priv model, just like every other mainstream OS out there.>
They started that back in about '95. By Vista, they'd given up asking nicely. It was as bad as the MS-DOS tricks that continued until XP came out.
And thanks to a US Attorney in the Lori Drue case, violating those rules is good for a year in prison. So, we have prison guards looking at prison time for following instructions from their employer.
There's enough blame to go around. It's a fair question though, why isn't the prosecutor charging the school for facilitating the production of child porn? They most definitely shouldn't be left in charge of children.
Actually, NT 4.0 was slightly less stable than 3.51 but your point still stands. Heck, we don't like rebooting the WIndows servers for the same reasons: takes time and pisses off the users.
Instead we let Apple, Google or Microsoft programmers play with these transmitters. Two out of three make the PC OSs you're complaining about.
Go look at Australian film in the '70s and '80s. They got away with stuff that I had to see to believe. "Not Quite Hollywood" is a good doco about it. Classifications have got a lot tighter since then.
Well, to be fair, most of the original board has probably died by now.
Yep, including our sizable Asian population. They're descended from convicts of far eastern England.
No, you're wrong. You just don't see his sense of humour. You should lighten up and be more like him.
May is still spring in the northern hemisphere, so no problem.
Age verification question: Do you remember the initial announcement?
I missed that completely. I wondered why squeeze was a bit quiet this week.
But you can install it on an iPad?
What resolution do you recommend for MP3?
Steve could put out a polished turd. I'm not sure about Steve-less Apple.
So, Java version numbers then.
They remove the bloat, don't allow trials because they piss off the user, set up one anti-virus that doesn't need a subscription, will sort out your iTunes if you ask, make sure all of the codecs are installed out of the box, and get rid of duplicate applications that do basically the same thing. They make things "just work."
In other words, they've reinvented the old school computer store. I give them a year or two before somebody 'improves' the experience. Before that, I'm going to look at what they're selling.
I'm reasonably certain US law doesn't apply outside the US.
It's not working. The kiwis still get in.
They're also more cheese-cake, but less lawnmower. Define your terms, please.
It's often not the desktop IT that blocks it but the back-end 'Intranet Application' types. FF has reach the point where we can treat it like our other applications (with help) but it can't render some of the horrible, old and expensive back-ends. IT does care in a lot of places. We don't want to be stuck with IE either.
We support Firefox here for anyone who asks for it, using an unofficial version that supports GPOs for install and configuration. We had a fight to deploy IE7 and 8 because our finance and HR are outsourced to another government department with a lot of Oracle junk that required IE6. Strangely enough Firefox 2 did a better job with it than IE7 until last year's updates. Bottom line, IE6 sticks around because of the back-ends rather than GPO convenience.
Our applications are handled externally. We get docx and pdf 'converted' to Word. (They change the file extensions) Our HR then brings us 'mystery files' to see if we can sort them out.