I wonder whether the author of this piece knows what he's talking about. I will agree with such a statement if I see just 10% of alternative desktops on my University Campus.
Over here, Microsoft and its products represent almost 100% of IT desktop infrastructure. It would not be far fetched to say "Microsoft all the way." This is despite the fact that general student computers we use take at least 8 minutes to boot! This is a major pain every morning. Ee just have MS Office on them and they still run Windows XP.
I ask this question with utmost sincerity. Folks Over here believe it is indeed dead. I am afraid I agree with them. I hear so little about desktop Linux these days. It's all about iOS, Android and RIM. The future does not appear to be on track to change anytime soon. Now tell me I am wrong and why.
They will slowly be strangled by those closed [proprietary] Microsoft Office formats.
It's document editing and email...for now. What Microsoft will do is to wait for another administration then 'sweeten' the deal. Slowly, Powerpoint, Excel, and all the rest will come into the fold. Then...
Guess what! They will be hooked to the extent that thinking of another alternative will be too expensive a proposition.
Time will tell...but I am almost sure New Yorkers have not seen nothing yet.
How about giving users 'what they want?' Those who see no need for this can disable its presence in the menu. Again, I may want to print stuff on my own terms...not on what folks like you as me to do i.e.
"...save the html and open it into a program made for printing like Word."
Really, can someone convince me that asking for this feature is asking too much after all these Chrome iterations? What's really wrong with this feature that makes it unappealing to implement? Come on Google!
Because of that process, advertisers and others could, experts say, see weeks or even months of personal data that could include a user's location, time zone, photographs, text from blogs, shopping cart contents, e-mails and a history of the Web pages visited.
Folks, I thought this isn't new at all. Don't cookies do the same thing? I have a cookie that will 'never' expire unless I delete it. What am I missing?
Shipping it from the Nile would be cheaper. Here would be the modus operandi:
1: Station a tanker at the mouth of river Nile in Egypt... 2: Fill it with fresh water 3: Ship the water to Mumbai as originally planned... 4: Indians bottle the stuff 5: Ship to the Mid-east 6: Pay no US taxes of any sort 7: Profit!
...Well, that Apple now has a [new] problem to deal with when it comes to the iPhone 4. Call it Glassgate. I am just glad that the iPhone herd mentality has not yet had any effect on me. Wait a sec...where is my Droid?
I mean...being paid that much money is like winning the lottery. The trouble I see with this is that many of the folks who won the lottery are not happy at all if this story or this one are to be believed.
I would have wanted Apple to pay me some regular good cash making me fluid till my last days on planet earth. How about that?
I wonder how the XO is doing. The last time I heard about it, it was not doing well at all! Now the fella is talking about XO ver. 3! Talk of ambition.
Can someone tell me the major reason as to why those capable of joining Facebook refuse to join?
Disclaimer: I am one of those who refuse to join Facebook. My reason is simple: I do not see what joining this social network would do to improve my life. In fact, I believe it would simply complicate it. Am I wrong?
That is unless someone cal tell me how a move to an [open source alternative] would be better. Even these OSS alternatives have to be supported. The last time I checked, their support was anemic! Just ask the University of California.
Didn't know that 'image' can now be taken as a basis for profit. With this kind of reasoning, I now see why America is in trouble financially - engaging in activities that take 'image' instead of hard earned money for profit.
Because in the USA things need to be profitable for companies who build something, or to the economy in general if the government (the people) is expected to pay for it.
So, by extension of your reasoning going to the moon and NASA's activities have been profitable for the USA? The last time I checked, NASA was seeking government permission to profit from its activities.
...still squabble as to whether we even need such a train. Sad to know that in this field, we as a country, are still stuck in the 1950s with so many of our folks against any move to the 21st century.
The UK's two biggest ISPs have openly admitted they'd give priority to certain internet apps or services if companies paid them to do so
This is what Google does too. A business pays cash to get a chance at being displayed on Google's first page of search results. And nobody raises a finger...right?
Even better would be this
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Even better would be reading that this gentleman had gotten behind efforts to make working with the tools easier. Simply teaching me tricks though welcome, is not good enough. Working with the tool(s) still is difficult.
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Social tools are useful and valid things, and 500 million users think so. Or are you more enlightened than every one of them?
Donno! That's why I asked. And trust me...if there is something useful that cannot be done [better] any other way, I will join. I haven't found anything so far, so enlighten me.
Folks at linuxtoday.com have been doing this for a long time. It's one reason I fled the site. Instead of taking me to where I wanna go directly, they make me click twice on the same site. This I believe, enables them to collect 'vital information' to present to their advertisers.
The bad thing is that they lost me and many others in the process.
By the way, it's intentional for me not to link to them from Slashdot directly.
Yes, the writing is on the wall for companies like Samsung. This video shows much of what Samsung's tablet can do. Personally, I am impressed by it and joyous that I did not get 'infected' with heard mentality by buying the iPad when it was released.
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I wonder whether the author of this piece knows what he's talking about. I will agree with such a statement if I see just 10% of alternative desktops on my University Campus.
Over here, Microsoft and its products represent almost 100% of IT desktop infrastructure. It would not be far fetched to say "Microsoft all the way." This is despite the fact that general student computers we use take at least 8 minutes to boot! This is a major pain every morning. Ee just have MS Office on them and they still run Windows XP.
I ask this question with utmost sincerity. Folks Over here believe it is indeed dead. I am afraid I agree with them. I hear so little about desktop Linux these days. It's all about iOS, Android and RIM. The future does not appear to be on track to change anytime soon. Now tell me I am wrong and why.
They will slowly be strangled by those closed [proprietary] Microsoft Office formats.
It's document editing and email...for now. What Microsoft will do is to wait for another administration then 'sweeten' the deal. Slowly, Powerpoint, Excel, and all the rest will come into the fold. Then...
Guess what! They will be hooked to the extent that thinking of another alternative will be too expensive a proposition.
Time will tell...but I am almost sure New Yorkers have not seen nothing yet.
How about giving users 'what they want?' Those who see no need for this can disable its presence in the menu. Again, I may want to print stuff on my own terms...not on what folks like you as me to do i.e.
"...save the html and open it into a program made for printing like Word."
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Where is it? Which version are you referring to? Can't wait to see this much wanted feature in my case.
Really, can someone convince me that asking for this feature is asking too much after all these Chrome iterations? What's really wrong with this feature that makes it unappealing to implement? Come on Google!
Let me remind you that Slashdot carries "news for nerds, stuff that matters" a category in which I believe this story falls.
Because of that process, advertisers and others could, experts say, see weeks or even months of personal data that could include a user's location, time zone, photographs, text from blogs, shopping cart contents, e-mails and a history of the Web pages visited.
Folks, I thought this isn't new at all. Don't cookies do the same thing? I have a cookie that will 'never' expire unless I delete it. What am I missing?
Shipping it from the Nile would be cheaper. Here would be the modus operandi:
1: Station a tanker at the mouth of river Nile in Egypt...
2: Fill it with fresh water
3: Ship the water to Mumbai as originally planned...
4: Indians bottle the stuff
5: Ship to the Mid-east
6: Pay no US taxes of any sort
7: Profit!
Now can someone tell me how this would not work?
...Well, that Apple now has a [new] problem to deal with when it comes to the iPhone 4. Call it Glassgate. I am just glad that the iPhone herd mentality has not yet had any effect on me. Wait a sec...where is my Droid?
I mean...being paid that much money is like winning the lottery. The trouble I see with this is that many of the folks who won the lottery are not happy at all if this story or this one are to be believed.
I would have wanted Apple to pay me some regular good cash making me fluid till my last days on planet earth. How about that?
I wonder how the XO is doing. The last time I heard about it, it was not doing well at all! Now the fella is talking about XO ver. 3! Talk of ambition.
You cut those huge sums of money and you are inviting unemployment among folks in our growing population.
Can someone tell me the major reason as to why those capable of joining Facebook refuse to join?
Disclaimer: I am one of those who refuse to join Facebook. My reason is simple: I do not see what joining this social network would do to improve my life. In fact, I believe it would simply complicate it. Am I wrong?
That is unless someone cal tell me how a move to an [open source alternative] would be better. Even these OSS alternatives have to be supported. The last time I checked, their support was anemic! Just ask the University of California.
It was profitable for the country's image.
Didn't know that 'image' can now be taken as a basis for profit. With this kind of reasoning, I now see why America is in trouble financially - engaging in activities that take 'image' instead of hard earned money for profit.
Because in the USA things need to be profitable for companies who build something, or to the economy in general if the government (the people) is expected to pay for it.
So, by extension of your reasoning going to the moon and NASA's activities have been profitable for the USA? The last time I checked, NASA was seeking government permission to profit from its activities.
Dude, your argument falls apart!
...still squabble as to whether we even need such a train. Sad to know that in this field, we as a country, are still stuck in the 1950s with so many of our folks against any move to the 21st century.
In any case, these businesses get "one nudge ahead" just like those ISP customers that pay. Right?
The UK's two biggest ISPs have openly admitted they'd give priority to certain internet apps or services if companies paid them to do so
This is what Google does too. A business pays cash to get a chance at being displayed on Google's first page of search results. And nobody raises a finger...right?
decided to make the experience easier to newcomers by sharing his years of experience and carefully crafted bag of tricks.
Even better would be reading that this gentleman had gotten behind efforts to make working with the tools easier. Simply teaching me tricks though welcome, is not good enough. Working with the tool(s) still is difficult.
Social tools are useful and valid things, and 500 million users think so. Or are you more enlightened than every one of them?
Donno! That's why I asked. And trust me...if there is something useful that cannot be done [better] any other way, I will join. I haven't found anything so far, so enlighten me.
Agree with you 100%. Good to know I was not and will not affected in any way. Does anything serious get done on Facebook?
Folks at linuxtoday.com have been doing this for a long time. It's one reason I fled the site. Instead of taking me to where I wanna go directly, they make me click twice on the same site. This I believe, enables them to collect 'vital information' to present to their advertisers.
The bad thing is that they lost me and many others in the process.
By the way, it's intentional for me not to link to them from Slashdot directly.
Yes, the writing is on the wall for companies like Samsung. This video shows much of what Samsung's tablet can do. Personally, I am impressed by it and joyous that I did not get 'infected' with heard mentality by buying the iPad when it was released.