[2] When I explained what was wrong and what I had tried, the first, and several other posters completely ignored that and suggested things I had tried several times over.
This is common to all tech support. Further, it is the right way to do things. Have you ever provided support to anyone?
I'm not even going to cover Linux, as I believe it truly has no place on my Grandmother's desktop computer, and probably enver will. Ubuntu has made it far better, but it still fails the Grandma test (at last check).
I'm not sure how much I buy this. For someone with moderate computer literacy, the switch would be difficult: they are used to Windows, they want to do lots of things on their computer, they want to perform basic administration themselves. For this, Windows might fit the bill. For Grandma, who will probably not be administrating her own box, I'd think Ubuntu would work great, I'd think. She'd learn where to click to get on the web, where to click to read her mail, and so forth. If she wants to change something, she won't care about config files vs. finding it in the Control Panel—she'll call me. If she's running Ubuntu I probably have a better chance of helping her from half way across the country. Also, she'll probably call less often because she will crash less.
Reality: I believe my grandma runs Windows 98 on a machine hooked her up with a while back. (My late grandpa ran DOS before that.) My other grandma runs XP, I believe. She's pretty computer literate and built the machine herself. She's who originally got me turned on to computers, giving us a TRS-80 when I was little and a 286 when I was a bit older.
Judging from the English translation of the 1980 revision I lifted off regeringen.se, in those very lines it establishes that it is only all the conscionable evidence that can be used, and that there are specific provisions that govern as to the effect of certain types of evidence. There are references throughout Part Three as to whether certain things are permitted by law.
Can evidence obtained through beating a suspect or conducting an search willfully incompliant with Ch27 be used to convict someone of a crime?
They have rules of evidence in Sweden, as confirmed by a quick search. I can't find a good site on how it works, but any number confirm that they exist. (They are quite necessary for justice.)
Corporate America doesn't have some obligation to sell your kids luxury goods such as video games. It is an act of conceit, perhaps, for a business to attempt to parent your kids.
It isn't comparable to the "government wanting to make the whole world child proof." The government is an institution that has an obligation to provide services to the public and treat everyone equally. A game store does not have this obligation to treat all people equally. They don't wrong you by not selling your kids Duck Hunt.
As for as the issue at hand goes: Although a business has every write not to sell luxury products to children with bad grades, this man did not have the authority to institute such a policy and is rightly be censured by his superiors.
Yeah, I replied to my original post that I had forgotten to factor iTMS into my initial reaction. I guess they're hoping that if it's there, people will use it. They're probably right, although the people who would otherwise use another music management app are probably less likely to buy iTMS music just because it is there.
I really don't see how this improves the bottom line. Does it hurt Apple for people to be using something other than their media player (which is free to obtain) to put songs on their iPod?
I know it is suggested that this is to thwart syncing with third-party apps, but it seems like that's a pointless effort. I have been known not to understand stuff, though.
No one is hiding a root password from anyone. Ubuntu by default install with no root account. The idea is that you will do all your administrative stuff using sudo. You can easily enable the root account with the password of your choice.
As to removability, I would assume a single apt-get call or a couple clicks in a graphical window manager will remove Compiz completely. (You'd sudo the tasks if you are not root.)
You've come to/., so of course you expect to hear this, but the less, the better. Whatever you write can be pirated if someone puts forth the effort. Since your target group is corporate users, you aren't likely to run into too much piracy. In the event that a corporation is going to pirate your software, there's really not much you can do to to prevent that.
For this reason, provide enough copy protection to enforce your license without trying to prevent intentional piracy (a futile effort). Do not let it regularly phone home and do not require a license daemon (Elicense or what have you). You do nothing but hurt legitimate users that way. Flag everyone when it looks like something has gone down (so that there can't be "accidental" piracy), but don't affect the day-to-day working of your software.
I don't know how many customers you'd lose with overly-annoying licensing—I really haven't been around enough to know. I do know I've seen nasty stuff with invasive license managers and have told the IT department here about software with more reasonable licenses. I do know that I've installed inferior software on my workstation because I was tired of periodic license SNAFUs. I do know that on the company machine I admin, there is some fairly old, expensive software I still use for the sole reason that the license is a piece of paper sitting in the filing cabinet.
It is a very good point. It is, by the way, a point the w3schools site makes
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.
Any and every web site which is created will be targeted at some sub sector of the population. So looking at the stats of any other site, or even the population stats as a whole is useless.
Useless? Absolutely not. The meaning of stats like that are not "30% of people on the internet use Firefox," but that doesn't mean that there is nothing meaningful indicated.
Neither does Firefox feel native while running on a Mac. This would explain why on my Mac Mini, I use Safari exclusively, but on Windows and Linux, I use only Firefox.
I think that Firefox for Mac isn't really supposed to feel like a native app—it's supposed to feel like firefox. Mozilla puts out another browserm Camino, that uses Cocoa, native OSX widgers, various other OSX system resources, etc. I don't know if it's as native-feeling as Safari, but I think it's really what's intended to be the Mozilla browser for Mac.
Flash doesn't run great for me on linux, but I've never experienced anything anywhere near that bad. In any event, I use Flashblock on whatever set-up I'm web browsing on (Debian or Ubuntu at home, XP in my office). I don't block ads in general, but I can't help but feel my system to be a little hijacked when I load up a bunch of pointless flash stuff.
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Yes, really. Half the time it turns out to be something someone "already tried".
This is common to all tech support. Further, it is the right way to do things. Have you ever provided support to anyone?
My first thought when I saw Microsoft's site with the four versions of Vista compared side-by-side: "They don't list the version we are using here!"
You have to scroll down to the bottom to read about the other versions.
I'm not sure how much I buy this. For someone with moderate computer literacy, the switch would be difficult: they are used to Windows, they want to do lots of things on their computer, they want to perform basic administration themselves. For this, Windows might fit the bill. For Grandma, who will probably not be administrating her own box, I'd think Ubuntu would work great, I'd think. She'd learn where to click to get on the web, where to click to read her mail, and so forth. If she wants to change something, she won't care about config files vs. finding it in the Control Panel—she'll call me. If she's running Ubuntu I probably have a better chance of helping her from half way across the country. Also, she'll probably call less often because she will crash less.
Reality: I believe my grandma runs Windows 98 on a machine hooked her up with a while back. (My late grandpa ran DOS before that.) My other grandma runs XP, I believe. She's pretty computer literate and built the machine herself. She's who originally got me turned on to computers, giving us a TRS-80 when I was little and a 286 when I was a bit older.
Judging from the English translation of the 1980 revision I lifted off regeringen.se, in those very lines it establishes that it is only all the conscionable evidence that can be used, and that there are specific provisions that govern as to the effect of certain types of evidence. There are references throughout Part Three as to whether certain things are permitted by law.
Can evidence obtained through beating a suspect or conducting an search willfully incompliant with Ch27 be used to convict someone of a crime?
Informative? Try misinformative...
They have rules of evidence in Sweden, as confirmed by a quick search. I can't find a good site on how it works, but any number confirm that they exist. (They are quite necessary for justice.)
I guess Apple's products are really well marketed, because people think these portable music players are not :)
Price gouging? It's a luxury product. Does that concept even really apply?
HP-UX and Solaris comply with the Single UNIX Specification and are thusly properly called Unix.
Your acerbic tone and charged rhetoric probably didn't help.
Corporate America doesn't have some obligation to sell your kids luxury goods such as video games. It is an act of conceit, perhaps, for a business to attempt to parent your kids.
It isn't comparable to the "government wanting to make the whole world child proof." The government is an institution that has an obligation to provide services to the public and treat everyone equally. A game store does not have this obligation to treat all people equally. They don't wrong you by not selling your kids Duck Hunt.
As for as the issue at hand goes: Although a business has every write not to sell luxury products to children with bad grades, this man did not have the authority to institute such a policy and is rightly be censured by his superiors.
Yeah, I replied to my original post that I had forgotten to factor iTMS into my initial reaction. I guess they're hoping that if it's there, people will use it. They're probably right, although the people who would otherwise use another music management app are probably less likely to buy iTMS music just because it is there.
Duh on me—it gets people closer to iTMS. If that's the goal, I get where they're coming from, but I can't help but think they're misguided.
I really don't see how this improves the bottom line. Does it hurt Apple for people to be using something other than their media player (which is free to obtain) to put songs on their iPod?
I know it is suggested that this is to thwart syncing with third-party apps, but it seems like that's a pointless effort. I have been known not to understand stuff, though.
No one is hiding a root password from anyone. Ubuntu by default install with no root account. The idea is that you will do all your administrative stuff using sudo. You can easily enable the root account with the password of your choice.
As to removability, I would assume a single apt-get call or a couple clicks in a graphical window manager will remove Compiz completely. (You'd sudo the tasks if you are not root.)
What the hell does OSX have to do with anything?
The point stands...he's the one who operates it.
You've come to /., so of course you expect to hear this, but the less, the better. Whatever you write can be pirated if someone puts forth the effort. Since your target group is corporate users, you aren't likely to run into too much piracy. In the event that a corporation is going to pirate your software, there's really not much you can do to to prevent that.
For this reason, provide enough copy protection to enforce your license without trying to prevent intentional piracy (a futile effort). Do not let it regularly phone home and do not require a license daemon (Elicense or what have you). You do nothing but hurt legitimate users that way. Flag everyone when it looks like something has gone down (so that there can't be "accidental" piracy), but don't affect the day-to-day working of your software.
I don't know how many customers you'd lose with overly-annoying licensing—I really haven't been around enough to know. I do know I've seen nasty stuff with invasive license managers and have told the IT department here about software with more reasonable licenses. I do know that I've installed inferior software on my workstation because I was tired of periodic license SNAFUs. I do know that on the company machine I admin, there is some fairly old, expensive software I still use for the sole reason that the license is a piece of paper sitting in the filing cabinet.
It is a very good point. It is, by the way, a point the w3schools site makes
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.
Useless? Absolutely not. The meaning of stats like that are not "30% of people on the internet use Firefox," but that doesn't mean that there is nothing meaningful indicated.
I think that Firefox for Mac isn't really supposed to feel like a native app—it's supposed to feel like firefox. Mozilla puts out another browserm Camino, that uses Cocoa, native OSX widgers, various other OSX system resources, etc. I don't know if it's as native-feeling as Safari, but I think it's really what's intended to be the Mozilla browser for Mac.
Flash doesn't run great for me on linux, but I've never experienced anything anywhere near that bad. In any event, I use Flashblock on whatever set-up I'm web browsing on (Debian or Ubuntu at home, XP in my office). I don't block ads in general, but I can't help but feel my system to be a little hijacked when I load up a bunch of pointless flash stuff.
It's no so much that the bad guys think they're good that's the problem. It's that this is how good guys become bad guys.
Whining with good reason or not, the squeaky wheel gets the $100 rebate.
Hmmm...I'm in the market for a breakthrough internet device. What do you think abouta dding those?
It worked a bit too well.