"So, in other words, you've never worked inside a modern corporate office."
Have you??
I have worked in multiple corporations, a school district, and a government agency. None of them train their staff in an effective way. The users are on their own. Some will pay lip service, and pretend to train staff, but less than 5% are allowed to actually go to training.
All of the business took 2-3 years to upgrade to a current version of MS Office, causing many problems with file compatibilites, since Microsoft changes the file format of every version of Office.
As far as capabilities, some people will use MS Office well, but it's a small percentage. Most people in the places I have worked over the last 20 years, barely know how to use MS Office, and it's a huge waste of time and money for simple documents.
So when you state that users use the office suite to do complex things, just how many people is that? In my experience, it has never been higher than 5% of all staff who have MS Office.
Where are these mythical ink cartridges that cost $45??? It seems when someone wants to complain about manufacturers ink cartridges, they always use some cost pulled out of their ass.
For example, HP uses cartridge 96 (Black), and 97 (Tricolor), in many ink-jet printer models we use at work. I can purchase these cartridges in multiple places on the Internet for less than $30 each, in factory sealed packages.
If I buy at Costco, it's even lower cost, by buying 2 or 3 at a time.
I understand some people want the best price, but at least use real prices!!
Initially, they just used a lab intern to push/bully the robot. After dozens of "tests", the first robot declared war on the human race, and had to be burned! It was determined that building a Pusher Robot, would save lives and money, and therefore built.
My Company waited 18 months before we deployed Windows XP, and mostly just on new computers. There were many bugs in XP's initial release, plus it took approximately a year before all of our key applications officially supported XP.
We normally wait until after the first service pack anyway, since Microsoft has a history of releasing too soon.
Perhaps in other states, they wanted to use the alleged "dire" situation to quickly pass the laws. Where the cooperative method would interfere with that agenda.
I have used Redhat Linux since 4.x in 1998. When Redhat changed their version types, I supported them with RHEL, and use Fedora for personal use and experimental systems.
One thing is missing from Fedora Core 5, is the "Install Everything" option. I was really surprised by this, as every person I know used it on every version since it was created.
Why was this removed? Is it really that difficult to keep? Will it be added back in? I checked FC6 test 1, and it was not there. Please add it back into Fedora. It is too clumsly and slow, to manually add every package from the cd's or DVD.
Future of laptop communications between laptop and its owner...
Laptop owner (trying knock commands): knock knock Laptop: who's there? Laptop owner: me Laptop: me who? Laptop owner (frustrated, tries again): knock knock Laptop: who's there? Laptop owner: your owner Laptop: your owner who? Laptop owner: want your owner to knock you on the ground again? Laptop: okay, okay, no need to become violent!
First time I remember the HD vendors switching from binary MB's to decimal MB's was with the Maxtor 130 MB IDE HD, model 7131AT. It was 130 MB decimal, and only 125 MB binary.
I think this was 1992. IIRC, there were some lawsuits filed back then against the HD makers for false advertisement, and suddenly the HD makers started to claim that 1 MB is 1,000,000 bytes. Then all the HD makers switched to the decimal method. It's been that way ever since.
Kilobyte and Megabyte was always based on a power of 2, until hard drive manufacturers wanted to make their drive sound larger that it was, or especially larger that their competitors drives.
This caused a problem when a consumer purchased a 130 MB drive in the early '90's (MB based on 1,000,000), but when partitioning the drive with fdisk in Dos, or some other OS, it would actually show only 120 MB (MB based on 1,048,576).
With various lawsuits pushing hard drive manufacturers to advertise actual drive space, most just published in the fine print that they believe a MB was actually 1,000,000.
Ever since then, it seems that all manufacturers went that way, but fdisk continues to base the space using the old way. The confusion is still there, but most people just live with it.
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"So, in other words, you've never worked inside a modern corporate office."
Have you??
I have worked in multiple corporations, a school district, and a government agency.
None of them train their staff in an effective way. The users are on their own.
Some will pay lip service, and pretend to train staff, but less than 5% are allowed to actually go to training.
All of the business took 2-3 years to upgrade to a current version of MS Office, causing many problems with file compatibilites, since Microsoft changes the file format of every version of Office.
As far as capabilities, some people will use MS Office well, but it's a small percentage. Most people in the places I have worked over the last 20 years, barely know how to use MS Office, and it's a huge waste of time and money for simple documents.
So when you state that users use the office suite to do complex things, just how many people is that? In my experience, it has never been higher than 5% of all staff who have MS Office.
Where are these mythical ink cartridges that cost $45???
It seems when someone wants to complain about manufacturers ink cartridges, they always use some cost pulled out of their ass.
For example, HP uses cartridge 96 (Black), and 97 (Tricolor), in many ink-jet printer models we use at work.
I can purchase these cartridges in multiple places on the Internet for less than $30 each, in factory sealed packages.
If I buy at Costco, it's even lower cost, by buying 2 or 3 at a time.
I understand some people want the best price, but at least use real prices!!
Initially, they just used a lab intern to push/bully the robot.
After dozens of "tests", the first robot declared war on the human race, and had to be burned!
It was determined that building a Pusher Robot, would save lives and money, and therefore built.
You may be asking too much. :P :)
I think many Slashdot readers will have an opinion based on the title of the posting.
My Company waited 18 months before we deployed Windows XP, and mostly just on new computers. There were many bugs in XP's initial release, plus it took approximately a year before all of our key applications officially supported XP.
We normally wait until after the first service pack anyway, since Microsoft has a history of releasing too soon.
Even their puppet SCO claimed similar things, and after 3 years in Court, they haven't proven anything. Just that they can spout FUD at every turn.
Now MS is running scared, and wants to stop, or at least slow down, the Linux Juggernaut, and are hoping their usual bully and FUD tactics will work.
So let them prove it!
Perhaps in other states, they wanted to use the alleged "dire" situation to quickly pass the laws. Where the cooperative method would interfere with that agenda.
They just used UTC time, which everyone knows is "Universe Time Clock".
Much more accurate that the Atomic Time Clock.
I have used Redhat Linux since 4.x in 1998.
When Redhat changed their version types, I supported them with RHEL, and use Fedora for personal use and experimental systems.
One thing is missing from Fedora Core 5, is the "Install Everything" option.
I was really surprised by this, as every person I know used it on every version since it was created.
Why was this removed?
Is it really that difficult to keep?
Will it be added back in?
I checked FC6 test 1, and it was not there.
Please add it back into Fedora.
It is too clumsly and slow, to manually add every package from the cd's or DVD.
Future of laptop communications between laptop and its owner...
Laptop owner (trying knock commands): knock knock
Laptop: who's there?
Laptop owner: me
Laptop: me who?
Laptop owner (frustrated, tries again): knock knock
Laptop: who's there?
Laptop owner: your owner
Laptop: your owner who?
Laptop owner: want your owner to knock you on the ground again?
Laptop: okay, okay, no need to become violent!
Perhaps Micrsoft just wanted expert help to make their own Linux distribution.
Does the Pulic have the right to how these devices work, or just the procedures on how they are used?
Wow! My Boss will be so proud of me when I hire 1,000 people for 3 to 4 cents.
First time I remember the HD vendors switching from binary MB's to decimal MB's was with the Maxtor 130 MB IDE HD, model 7131AT. It was 130 MB decimal, and only 125 MB binary.
I think this was 1992. IIRC, there were some lawsuits filed back then against the HD makers for false advertisement, and suddenly the HD makers started to claim that 1 MB is 1,000,000 bytes. Then all the HD makers switched to the decimal method. It's been that way ever since.
Kilobyte and Megabyte was always based on a power of 2, until hard drive manufacturers wanted to make their drive sound larger that it was, or especially larger that their competitors drives.
This caused a problem when a consumer purchased a 130 MB drive in the early '90's (MB based on 1,000,000), but when partitioning the drive with fdisk in Dos, or some other OS, it would actually show only 120 MB (MB based on 1,048,576).
With various lawsuits pushing hard drive manufacturers to advertise actual drive space, most just published in the fine print that they believe a MB was actually 1,000,000.
Ever since then, it seems that all manufacturers went that way, but fdisk continues to base the space using the old way. The confusion is still there, but most people just live with it.