Me no spellming. My culleg want banckrupt 1/2 wey thro tha two-nd symestire -- Actually it really did, which is a kick in the ass cause the student body wanted to sue.
I know several people with GM F body cars those back seats are a joke and you know it, no grown adult can sit with 4" of rear leg room, don't go running to the spec sheets because they move the seats for mesuring and if you're getting the full 10" in the back it's because the front seat is all the way forward.
Car Boat crosses are neither original or good. They fail as cars and as boats.
They generally have VERY poor on water performance especially considering for the price of building one of these monstrosities you could have a sports car and a sport boat. Considering the engine on that thing, the boat performance aspect of it is awful it's not even close to being fast for a water craft and it's not even the worlds fastest car boat cross either, not even close, try 80mph but I digress he gave it a good shot.
Car boat crosses then to be very unsafe on land at higher speeds because the hull shape forces air down and builds a bow wave of air making the front end unstable causing at least poor searing response and at worst roll overs and swerving.
This is just a waste of a good car and some boat parts and a whole lot of time. Considering no one's time is free even the cheapest moron with a car could buy a crappy boat working at McDonald's in less time and then he'll have a boat and a car and people won't laugh at him on and off water.
Just FYI my Sea-Doo does over 40mph on water and seats 3 instead of two.
@google.com would be a brand liability
The problem of @gmail.com is people can easily mistake people for saying @email.com on bad phone lines, over a crowd or even if the person has bad cursive writing.
Dressing well can REALLY help your career, a well dressed idiot will make more money in the long run than a poorly dressed average man.
I consider my clothes, hair, smell and all of that to be an investment, it's a good way to get an edge in the compeditive IT industry, and it works VERY well.
I'd say it still has a lot to do with the computer as a whole but you are quite right. The reason for the biz handycap is because in the real world people weigh the cost of something before they buy it. If the test says that Linux costs $50 less than windows but it's not free because of your time then I'll be more incline to believe it. In business time is never free.
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Did you even read it? Honestly? I didn't think so.
You have to give 9th graders some credit, their smarter than you might think... well sometimes... some of them are just ass end stupid. But mosth 9th graders got Windows down pretty good, they love MSN.
I don't think this was worthy of a/. Probably a front page on a mod site but really it's not that great... Meh, unless you really like mods... lame ones.... Then don't bother loading it
PHBs and Small Business owners tend to be a more interested in flashy marketing than anything else.
we should see how business friendly these OSes are
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We will take some random people in the following magnitudes and administer an OS test to see who's really king. Now I agree that Windows has a greater advantage because of market share, HOWEVER that's the real world and the one we play in.
30, 9th graders selected at random 30, Fresh high school grads 60, members of the general population 30, persons age 30-60 30, persons age 60+ 30 small business _owners_ not in IT
FYI this is 210 people.
We will have them attempt the following tasks Using the latest versions of WindowsXP, RedHat, Gentoo, Linspire OS X
Participants will be timed and rewarded with a prize if they succeed in their tasks, say a candy bar (to simulate a work environment where they would get money)
There will be two tasks to do 1/2 of each group will do each
The first half will have to complete the tasks without any documentation other than what is provided standard ON SCREEN.
The second half with a full printed manual including screen shots and detailed step by step instructions
Our tests will be
Install the OS (I realize this isn't realistic cause every Mac already comes with it but it'll have to do) Create 5 users Log in as one of the users and complete the following tasks Write a complex document with some formatting and colors and save it as a HTML document configure e-mail and send that HTML document to someone make a spread sheet and save it to a location and upload it to a website
Users will have to find and install all the software to do these things either durring the OS install or from the Internet, they can make 2 phone calls durring the test
Then we'll see what OS is really easiest and fastest and cheapest, we'll assume these people all cost $0.002 per second... Meaning that the commercial OSes already start with quite an expensive handicap.
I'm sure with some more time and thought one could make this more fair but I personally expect OSX (Followed by Linspire) to win the on screen only event by a wide margin even considering the heavy price tag of the OS (we'll just assume a PC that costs as much G4 to level the feild) Most of us have seen a newbie use OS X and it's almost like they know what their doing..... For the well documented test I would expect Linspire to win followed by RedHat.
Now test could be expanded to setting up a small office network typical to a small business, I once again expect OS X to clean up
We will take some random people in the following magnitudes and administer an OS test to see who's really king. Now I agree that Windows has a greater advantage because of market share, HOWEVER that's the real world and the one we play in.
30, 9th graders selected at random 30, Fresh high school grads 60, members of the general population 30, persons age 30-60 30, persons age 60+ 30 small business _owners_ not in IT
FYI this is 210 people.
We will have them attempt the following tasks Using the latest versions of WindowsXP, RedHat, Linspire OS X
Participants will be timed and rewarded with a prize if they succeed in their tasks, say a candy bar (to simulate a work environment where they would get money)
There will be two tasks to do 1/2 of each group will do each
The first half will have to complete the tasks without any documentation other than what is provided standard ON SCREEN.
The second half with a full printed manual including screen shots and detailed step by step instructions
Our tests will be
Install the OS (I realize this isn't realistic cause every Mac already comes with it but it'll have to do) Create 5 users Log in as one of the users and complete the following tasks Write a complex document with some formatting and colors and save it as a HTML document configure e-mail and send that HTML document to someone make a spread sheet and save it to a location and upload it to a website
Users will have to find and install all the software to do these things either durring the OS install or from the Internet, they can make 2 phone calls durring the test
Then we'll see what OS is really easiest and fastest and cheapest, we'll assume these people all cost $0.002 per second... Meaning that the commercial OSes already start with quite an expensive handicap.
I'm sure with some more time and thought one could make this more fair but I personally expect OSX (Followed by Linspire) to win the on screen only event by a wide margin even considering the heavy price tag of the OS (we'll just assume a PC that costs as much G4 to level the feild) Most of us have seen a newbie use OS X and it's almost like they know what their doing..... For the well documented test I would expect Linspire to win followed by RedHat.
Now test could be expanded to setting up a small office network typical to a small business, I once again expect OS X to clean up
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Me no spellming. My culleg want banckrupt 1/2 wey thro tha two-nd symestire -- Actually it really did, which is a kick in the ass cause the student body wanted to sue.
I know several people with GM F body cars those back seats are a joke and you know it, no grown adult can sit with 4" of rear leg room, don't go running to the spec sheets because they move the seats for mesuring and if you're getting the full 10" in the back it's because the front seat is all the way forward.
Yeah I'd take a RV-Sub, I'd use it as my underwater lair
Do we not yet realize that all slashdotters do is look at pictures and google doesn't tend to cache those?
Car Boat crosses are neither original or good. They fail as cars and as boats.
They generally have VERY poor on water performance especially considering for the price of building one of these monstrosities you could have a sports car and a sport boat. Considering the engine on that thing, the boat performance aspect of it is awful it's not even close to being fast for a water craft and it's not even the worlds fastest car boat cross either, not even close, try 80mph but I digress he gave it a good shot.
Car boat crosses then to be very unsafe on land at higher speeds because the hull shape forces air down and builds a bow wave of air making the front end unstable causing at least poor searing response and at worst roll overs and swerving.
This is just a waste of a good car and some boat parts and a whole lot of time. Considering no one's time is free even the cheapest moron with a car could buy a crappy boat working at McDonald's in less time and then he'll have a boat and a car and people won't laugh at him on and off water.
Just FYI my Sea-Doo does over 40mph on water and seats 3 instead of two.
@google.com would be a brand liability The problem of @gmail.com is people can easily mistake people for saying @email.com on bad phone lines, over a crowd or even if the person has bad cursive writing.
Dressing well can REALLY help your career, a well dressed idiot will make more money in the long run than a poorly dressed average man. I consider my clothes, hair, smell and all of that to be an investment, it's a good way to get an edge in the compeditive IT industry, and it works VERY well.
I'd say it still has a lot to do with the computer as a whole but you are quite right. The reason for the biz handycap is because in the real world people weigh the cost of something before they buy it. If the test says that Linux costs $50 less than windows but it's not free because of your time then I'll be more incline to believe it. In business time is never free.
Did you even read it? Honestly? I didn't think so.
You have to give 9th graders some credit, their smarter than you might think... well sometimes... some of them are just ass end stupid. But mosth 9th graders got Windows down pretty good, they love MSN.
Think of how much better mod_geeks would do in their careers if they spent as much time making themselves look good as their computers?
I don't think this was worthy of a /. Probably a front page on a mod site but really it's not that great... Meh, unless you really like mods... lame ones.... Then don't bother loading it
I know I try and use OpenSource whenever I can on all my client's projects, it works out better for everyone.
Since when does a gov't agency care about harming legitamet industry?
Ok guys am I the only one who got this mental image? Photo Shop: Perhaps the best grand I ever spent! http://gak.upnix.net/~noah/bitbucket/OOoMascot.jpg
PHBs and Small Business owners tend to be a more interested in flashy marketing than anything else.
We will take some random people in the following magnitudes and administer an OS test to see who's really king. Now I agree that Windows has a greater advantage because of market share, HOWEVER that's the real world and the one we play in.
30, 9th graders selected at random
30, Fresh high school grads
60, members of the general population
30, persons age 30-60
30, persons age 60+
30 small business _owners_ not in IT
FYI this is 210 people.
We will have them attempt the following tasks Using the latest versions of
WindowsXP,
RedHat,
Gentoo,
Linspire
OS X
Participants will be timed and rewarded with a prize if they succeed in their tasks, say a candy bar (to simulate a work environment where they would get money)
There will be two tasks to do 1/2 of each group will do each
The first half will have to complete the tasks without any documentation other than what is provided standard ON SCREEN.
The second half with a full printed manual including screen shots and detailed step by step instructions
Our tests will be
Install the OS (I realize this isn't realistic cause every Mac already comes with it but it'll have to do)
Create 5 users
Log in as one of the users and complete the following tasks
Write a complex document with some formatting and colors and save it as a HTML document
configure e-mail and send that HTML document to someone
make a spread sheet and save it to a location and upload it to a website
Users will have to find and install all the software to do these things either durring the OS install or from the Internet, they can make 2 phone calls durring the test
Then we'll see what OS is really easiest and fastest and cheapest, we'll assume these people all cost $0.002 per second... Meaning that the commercial OSes already start with quite an expensive handicap.
I'm sure with some more time and thought one could make this more fair but I personally expect OSX (Followed by Linspire) to win the on screen only event by a wide margin even considering the heavy price tag of the OS (we'll just assume a PC that costs as much G4 to level the feild) Most of us have seen a newbie use OS X and it's almost like they know what their doing..... For the well documented test I would expect Linspire to win followed by RedHat.
Now test could be expanded to setting up a small office network typical to a small business, I once again expect OS X to clean up
We will take some random people in the following magnitudes and administer an OS test to see who's really king. Now I agree that Windows has a greater advantage because of market share, HOWEVER that's the real world and the one we play in.
30, 9th graders selected at random
30, Fresh high school grads
60, members of the general population
30, persons age 30-60
30, persons age 60+
30 small business _owners_ not in IT
FYI this is 210 people.
We will have them attempt the following tasks Using the latest versions of
WindowsXP,
RedHat,
Linspire
OS X
Participants will be timed and rewarded with a prize if they succeed in their tasks, say a candy bar (to simulate a work environment where they would get money)
There will be two tasks to do 1/2 of each group will do each
The first half will have to complete the tasks without any documentation other than what is provided standard ON SCREEN.
The second half with a full printed manual including screen shots and detailed step by step instructions
Our tests will be
Install the OS (I realize this isn't realistic cause every Mac already comes with it but it'll have to do)
Create 5 users
Log in as one of the users and complete the following tasks
Write a complex document with some formatting and colors and save it as a HTML document
configure e-mail and send that HTML document to someone
make a spread sheet and save it to a location and upload it to a website
Users will have to find and install all the software to do these things either durring the OS install or from the Internet, they can make 2 phone calls durring the test
Then we'll see what OS is really easiest and fastest and cheapest, we'll assume these people all cost $0.002 per second... Meaning that the commercial OSes already start with quite an expensive handicap.
I'm sure with some more time and thought one could make this more fair but I personally expect OSX (Followed by Linspire) to win the on screen only event by a wide margin even considering the heavy price tag of the OS (we'll just assume a PC that costs as much G4 to level the feild) Most of us have seen a newbie use OS X and it's almost like they know what their doing..... For the well documented test I would expect Linspire to win followed by RedHat.
Now test could be expanded to setting up a small office network typical to a small business, I once again expect OS X to clean up
I'm going to assume the Extra Large 440 here with the following specs
Sun Fire V440 Server
Dell PowerEdge 6600
Total Xeon based savings in our little HORRIBLY INACCURATE study $50,449
However we all know that most people buying Sun software don't care about the price so there is no point anyways.
Dead on.