When this fails (and it will after it shipwrecks against Steve's Unstoppable Machine - iTune$)won't the RIAA just come out and say - "Hey, we can't get this to work and look at all of the content we have. Music downloads just don't work."
I see legeslation based on the failure of this product.
MY GOD! Why didn't I think of that. The next time my boss, er, client (yeah, client) asks for me to create yet another vague interface for one of our order programs, I'll sit down with him over a hot cup of irish coffe with a sketch pad and . . . .
Wait, that would get me fired, right?
I had a palm, once. I hated the whole letter-by-letter method of writing. Who writes like that?
I will use a Newton until the last one catches fire in my hand, or until I die.
The rise of the west was predicated on the decline in the influence of the church. This reverse heralds a return to the domination of the irrational, myth-based reasoning that kept Europe in the "dark ages" for so long.
Have we learned nothing in 500+ years?
if every copy of Linux is "genuine" and no one is issuing a license, then what is it that makes a copy of XP "fake"?
This is why single-sourced and closed-source software is so bad - there is no real support if only one company controls the resource.
Unsatisfied Executives?!! Un-be-LIEVE-able!
There are only two facts you need to know about executives to understand this report:
1) an $executive is NEVER satisfied
2) if you have any questions about the eventual success of any given project, see point 1.
I'm in a printing shop, and the Prepress department (15 OS X boxes) is thinking of switching to an XServe from Win2003. I can't say that I care either way, except that it must work with our other servers (Red Hat, Solaris, WinNT/2000/2003). If it won't cooperate with Windows, we can't use it.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't MS own a version of UNIX? If licenseing Linux is an issue, I'm sure MS can just rewrite their *NIX to use the driver layer and market that.
I know the NYT is into everything, but as a writer, it bothers me that one of the nations premiere papers are moving significantly away from their base operation.
Printing news is not simply disseminating facts.
WINDOWS IS MORE SECURE THAN LINUX
should read like this:
(a professionally installed and maintained) WINDOWS (2003 server on a porfessionally secured network) IS MORE SECURE THAN (a crappy out-of-the-back-of-a-book and out of date amature install of) LINUX (on a home pc).
Can we get on with this now.
It seems the problem really is one of deffinition.
What exactly do you mean by "Security" and "Easy to use"?
If security means "put a password on everything", of couse that's hard to use. On the other hand, if easy to use means "no thought", of course it will be less secure.
To say that increased security menas decreased ease of use is meaningless without a scope.
But...
Eating a Big Mac a day will make you fat
Spending all of you money on computer games will make you poor
Supporting a printer's prepress department full of elitist designer-wannabees using Macs will drive you insane
Trust me. I know.
The 130 I carry with me attracts lots of (negative) comments: its too big, its too old, etc. But then I ask people how many Palms/Phones they've had for more than two years....
If it works, why fix it?
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Its OS/2, for Christ's sake. Get over it.
... and the patent process?
WHO FUNDED THE RESEARCH?
When this fails (and it will after it shipwrecks against Steve's Unstoppable Machine - iTune$)won't the RIAA just come out and say - "Hey, we can't get this to work and look at all of the content we have. Music downloads just don't work." I see legeslation based on the failure of this product.
MY GOD! Why didn't I think of that. The next time my boss, er, client (yeah, client) asks for me to create yet another vague interface for one of our order programs, I'll sit down with him over a hot cup of irish coffe with a sketch pad and . . . . Wait, that would get me fired, right?
Sorry, I meant "who thinks like that". I forgot the audience I was writing to.
I had a palm, once. I hated the whole letter-by-letter method of writing. Who writes like that? I will use a Newton until the last one catches fire in my hand, or until I die.
What about people/companies that use free and open-sourced software. Won't this affect the number as well?
The rise of the west was predicated on the decline in the influence of the church. This reverse heralds a return to the domination of the irrational, myth-based reasoning that kept Europe in the "dark ages" for so long. Have we learned nothing in 500+ years?
if every copy of Linux is "genuine" and no one is issuing a license, then what is it that makes a copy of XP "fake"? This is why single-sourced and closed-source software is so bad - there is no real support if only one company controls the resource.
Perfect! Except you forgot the part where Honest Joe is hired back to maintain the code - at half the former salary.
Unsatisfied Executives?!! Un-be-LIEVE-able! There are only two facts you need to know about executives to understand this report: 1) an $executive is NEVER satisfied 2) if you have any questions about the eventual success of any given project, see point 1.
I'm in a printing shop, and the Prepress department (15 OS X boxes) is thinking of switching to an XServe from Win2003. I can't say that I care either way, except that it must work with our other servers (Red Hat, Solaris, WinNT/2000/2003). If it won't cooperate with Windows, we can't use it.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't MS own a version of UNIX? If licenseing Linux is an issue, I'm sure MS can just rewrite their *NIX to use the driver layer and market that.
I know the NYT is into everything, but as a writer, it bothers me that one of the nations premiere papers are moving significantly away from their base operation. Printing news is not simply disseminating facts.
WINDOWS IS MORE SECURE THAN LINUX should read like this: (a professionally installed and maintained) WINDOWS (2003 server on a porfessionally secured network) IS MORE SECURE THAN (a crappy out-of-the-back-of-a-book and out of date amature install of) LINUX (on a home pc). Can we get on with this now.
It seems the problem really is one of deffinition. What exactly do you mean by "Security" and "Easy to use"? If security means "put a password on everything", of couse that's hard to use. On the other hand, if easy to use means "no thought", of course it will be less secure. To say that increased security menas decreased ease of use is meaningless without a scope.
But ...
Eating a Big Mac a day will make you fat
Spending all of you money on computer games will make you poor
Supporting a printer's prepress department full of elitist designer-wannabees using Macs will drive you insane
Trust me. I know.
The 130 I carry with me attracts lots of (negative) comments: its too big, its too old, etc. But then I ask people how many Palms/Phones they've had for more than two years.... If it works, why fix it?
In that market no one believes that MS is the best and most stable game in town, just the easiest for the average PC using peon to use
So just because a certain percentage of users has discovered the work-arounds for short commings in one OS, that means it is easy to use?
Then why did Microsoft abandon DOS? Must have been so they could solve user's problems.