Asia-Pacific? Where people can easily get a pirated versions of Windows, which they promptly put after formatting over the linux install on the hard drive. Oh, and save $50 in the process by buying a Linux netbook instead of a Windows one?
That Asia Pacific?;-)
heh, they have more installations than every Linux distro combined.;)
(and no, installing a new distro every month doesn't count to the Linux total guys, sorry;) )
I doubt that, I doubt that highly.
I am an Autocad user, and have ran both it, and office on the same machine with no problems whatsoever. Either you are full of excrement, or you are running things on a 386. I had no problems with drivers either. The experience was a great deal more pleasurable than dancing around with trying to get CUPS configured properly back then.
Back when this was an issue, I was working for a CAD software/machining design firm (as a support tech/software trainer). I dealt with this configuration on a regular basis, and it sure as hell ran a lot better than Linux at that time. The only time we ever used Linux in our IT dept was a couple of Knoppix live cd's we kept with us as an emergency measure. I dealt with numerous machining/tooling/fabrication firms all over the country, and never ran into a single customer that ever had a problem with Autodesk's stuff back then.
Your comments reek of pro-linux propaganda, as does much of the comments on this newspost.
An open source media player that organizes music and looks like Itunes is all well and good....
But how does it sound? Is the EQ any good?
You can organize music with most players out there...whether it sounds good is a bit more important than whether it can use services that don't even exist yet.
From what I have been seeing in the manufacturing industry is that most people are buying the LT version of Autocad because they do not need the functionality of the full version.
Either that or you are seeing a lot of people buying things like Autocad's Inventor, BobCAD or MasterCAD
1. Why is there no reference to how they know that the spider is that old?...
and
2. Does the writer actually know that spiders have hemolymph instead of blood as us humans would look at it?
Sigh...lazy science reporting strikes again.
For the next year he will be the best compensated HR man around.
After all MS, that is what the non-competion agreement you made him sign was for....After that, he can freely work to put MS into the ground. Which he will more than likely be very notivated to do after this debacle.
What I am also wondering is what kind of code base this shares with the C# tabbed brower that was a do it yourself project on MS a while back.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/browserexpress.asp
Listen people, whenever a commercial application is ported over to Linux it is good for the effort to get Linux on the desktop. It doesn't matter if there are already command line tools out there that will do the same thing. So what? Yeah there are graphical front ends available for these command line tools available...but once again, so what?
If they support linux, I have to support them. If you prefer FOSS applications, that's cool. But we need the commercial applications as well and this is one of the best commercial applications out there. (Plus you get legal codes as well. Something that ought to wipe out afew potential legal problems in the future.)
Personally, I don't see why all of you people are crying and moaning. It seems like whenever a commercial company brings stuff over to Linux people do nothing but badmouth it and go on about an open-source solution that isn't as "full-featured" or "intuitive" as the commercial application.
From what I have seen of the behavioof most of the people who have commented about this here and in other places. There are a whole lot of fan-boys who talk a fine game about "Desktop Linux for the Masses"
Most of them simply want Linux to stay a fringe operating system so they can all argue about KDE/Gnome, play with your command lines, and spit on normal computer users with a disrespectful, elitist attitude.
Mod me a troll for this post if you want to...but in the end it is about "choice" Nero has just given me an additonal "choice" That is a good thing.
Many embedded controllers within CNC machining centers are ran off of versions of DOS due to it's stability and low memory footprint.
I end up using DOS (DRDOS and MSDOS) every day.
(Your probably gonna mod this as flamebait for me saying this)
Make no mistake about it, cross platform applications are good for the open source movement. They spread awareness of how good Open Source can be, and give people a viable free (as in beer, as in choice) alternative.
However, people crying about how certain applications should only stay on "certain" operating systems are hypocrites. This is supposed to be about freedom of choice, right? This isn't supposed to be about the freedom to only work on a "particular, politically correct, operating system."
What gets to me about this is the fact that we will truly be seeing something that no human being has ever seen before...
I just hope that everything works according to plan...and that they land with a splash instead of a thud:)
I have personally found the MS Desktop Search offering to be a very handy bit of code.
What I personally like about it is the ability to segregate or "bookmark" particular folders on your hard drive for indexing/searching. I do a lot of graphic design work and it rapidly displays results (with thumbnail images) of only the folders I have selected for indexing cutting down on search time and unneccessary queries.
This type of segregation is especially welcome when you are dealing with locating resources in a single hard drive folder which at current count stands at 37,832 files spread across 1,786 subfolders. (FYI Poser 5 Runitme, image, bump maps, and texture resources)
A few thoughts and some questions....
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While I have been getting better acquainted with the joys of EBooks(metworking documentation on PDA is a beautiful thing;) ), I wonder how much they will take off with the regular (aka non-geek) population. I admit to a strong bias for actual printed media, does anybody else have this bias as well? How much are Ebooks being used among the/. readershgip?
I wish I would have heard about this one sooner. I have been stuck in IE land on the PC's at my college due to the "Clean Slate" software that has ben installed on our computers on campus.
However since we have a number of people running C compilers off of USB drives they havent disabled the USB ports yet.
Looks like campus browsing just got a lot more pleasant.
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Asia-Pacific? Where people can easily get a pirated versions of Windows, which they promptly put after formatting over the linux install on the hard drive. Oh, and save $50 in the process by buying a Linux netbook instead of a Windows one? That Asia Pacific? ;-)
heh, they have more installations than every Linux distro combined. ;)
(and no, installing a new distro every month doesn't count to the Linux total guys, sorry ;) )
I doubt that, I doubt that highly. I am an Autocad user, and have ran both it, and office on the same machine with no problems whatsoever. Either you are full of excrement, or you are running things on a 386. I had no problems with drivers either. The experience was a great deal more pleasurable than dancing around with trying to get CUPS configured properly back then. Back when this was an issue, I was working for a CAD software/machining design firm (as a support tech/software trainer). I dealt with this configuration on a regular basis, and it sure as hell ran a lot better than Linux at that time. The only time we ever used Linux in our IT dept was a couple of Knoppix live cd's we kept with us as an emergency measure. I dealt with numerous machining/tooling/fabrication firms all over the country, and never ran into a single customer that ever had a problem with Autodesk's stuff back then. Your comments reek of pro-linux propaganda, as does much of the comments on this newspost.
Nice idea....I just wonder how long it'll be before somebody forks it? ;)
"Loads most malware faster?" See, corrected it. It is IE after all ;)
I wish I had the mod points to mod this up. smity_one, you have great class.
"Dude, your getting abducted!"
An open source media player that organizes music and looks like Itunes is all well and good.... But how does it sound? Is the EQ any good? You can organize music with most players out there...whether it sounds good is a bit more important than whether it can use services that don't even exist yet.
I just hope somebody else other than Gabe and Tycho pick up the $10,000 tab on that one.;)
From what I have been seeing in the manufacturing industry is that most people are buying the LT version of Autocad because they do not need the functionality of the full version.
Either that or you are seeing a lot of people buying things like Autocad's Inventor, BobCAD or MasterCAD
Just my two cents....
Hmmm....looks like HP computers will now come with a sacrifice of your privacy...preinstalled!!!
1. Why is there no reference to how they know that the spider is that old?... and 2. Does the writer actually know that spiders have hemolymph instead of blood as us humans would look at it? Sigh...lazy science reporting strikes again.
For the next year he will be the best compensated HR man around. After all MS, that is what the non-competion agreement you made him sign was for....After that, he can freely work to put MS into the ground. Which he will more than likely be very notivated to do after this debacle.
You may suck at marketing...but you make a damn good program. I bought it, and will not use anything else for compression work.
DENIED!!!! (obligatory Waynes World reference;) )
What I am also wondering is what kind of code base this shares with the C# tabbed brower that was a do it yourself project on MS a while back. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url= /library/en-us/dnvs05/html/browserexpress.asp
Listen people, whenever a commercial application is ported over to Linux it is good for the effort to get Linux on the desktop. It doesn't matter if there are already command line tools out there that will do the same thing. So what? Yeah there are graphical front ends available for these command line tools available...but once again, so what? If they support linux, I have to support them. If you prefer FOSS applications, that's cool. But we need the commercial applications as well and this is one of the best commercial applications out there. (Plus you get legal codes as well. Something that ought to wipe out afew potential legal problems in the future.) Personally, I don't see why all of you people are crying and moaning. It seems like whenever a commercial company brings stuff over to Linux people do nothing but badmouth it and go on about an open-source solution that isn't as "full-featured" or "intuitive" as the commercial application. From what I have seen of the behavioof most of the people who have commented about this here and in other places. There are a whole lot of fan-boys who talk a fine game about "Desktop Linux for the Masses" Most of them simply want Linux to stay a fringe operating system so they can all argue about KDE/Gnome, play with your command lines, and spit on normal computer users with a disrespectful, elitist attitude. Mod me a troll for this post if you want to...but in the end it is about "choice" Nero has just given me an additonal "choice" That is a good thing.
Many embedded controllers within CNC machining centers are ran off of versions of DOS due to it's stability and low memory footprint. I end up using DOS (DRDOS and MSDOS) every day.
(Your probably gonna mod this as flamebait for me saying this) Make no mistake about it, cross platform applications are good for the open source movement. They spread awareness of how good Open Source can be, and give people a viable free (as in beer, as in choice) alternative. However, people crying about how certain applications should only stay on "certain" operating systems are hypocrites. This is supposed to be about freedom of choice, right? This isn't supposed to be about the freedom to only work on a "particular, politically correct, operating system."
What gets to me about this is the fact that we will truly be seeing something that no human being has ever seen before... I just hope that everything works according to plan...and that they land with a splash instead of a thud :)
Hormel ;)
I have personally found the MS Desktop Search offering to be a very handy bit of code. What I personally like about it is the ability to segregate or "bookmark" particular folders on your hard drive for indexing/searching. I do a lot of graphic design work and it rapidly displays results (with thumbnail images) of only the folders I have selected for indexing cutting down on search time and unneccessary queries. This type of segregation is especially welcome when you are dealing with locating resources in a single hard drive folder which at current count stands at 37,832 files spread across 1,786 subfolders. (FYI Poser 5 Runitme, image, bump maps, and texture resources)
While I have been getting better acquainted with the joys of EBooks(metworking documentation on PDA is a beautiful thing ;) ), I wonder how much they will take off with the regular (aka non-geek) population. I admit to a strong bias for actual printed media, does anybody else have this bias as well? How much are Ebooks being used among the /. readershgip?
I wish I would have heard about this one sooner. I have been stuck in IE land on the PC's at my college due to the "Clean Slate" software that has ben installed on our computers on campus. However since we have a number of people running C compilers off of USB drives they havent disabled the USB ports yet. Looks like campus browsing just got a lot more pleasant.
Oh very true....but there are still a whole hell of a lot of programmers who could take lessons from this.