Lenovo?!? Seriously, where do you guys get all this greatness of IBM and Lenovo. Yes, they have been made quite well (although they are far from perfect), but featurewise they suck more than anything. Or maybe your "right combo of features" is very limited. Fujitsu-Siemens, Acer, Asus they all beat Lenovo with more beautifull design and far more features. Oh, and Dell has a huge number of features over Lenovo... I do not know about the recent design of Dell though. Bu just take for instance the smallest high-end laptops, try to find a X-model that has for instance just a wide screen with DVD burner. Can't find it? The others have had such things for long (just take a look at Fujitsu web-site for instance...) Lenovo, they suck by design and features. Really they do. They are not IBM anymore, so leave the aura off.
The PC trackpad is not good? Well, you said it yourself: "how different implementation of the same idea could work so poorly" - that's IBM/Lenovo.
I have Fujitsu-Siemens with both trackpad and the nipple. The nipple is adjustable has force sensitive and it even has click and drag (which IBM/Lenovo) doesn't have. Then there is the trackpad, which too is fully adjustable (Apple 2 finger scrolling isn't anything new or much at all). Both are great. But as the company has lot's of IBM/Lenovo's, I've had to use others laptops a lot. I think there is a simpple reason why trackpad's suck big time on IBM. They are at the wrong place! It's too low down the keyboard and there is no rest left for the hands. And therefore it sucks. Loose the double buttons and move the trackpad up. You only need the buttons below - which everybody seems to push with the thump of their "other hand".
But thankfully Lenovo had enough sense to include the windows buttons! I always hated why IBM would not include them, yet they were shipping them with windows installed. (You know, it makes life so much easier in the windows land...)
I've used runas a lot. My home XP Pro is set up so that the users have normal user accounts. By son is 4 and he uses the computer... and that's where the largest problems are! The multimedia CD's for kids are to ones with largest problems. I've never see one that works without admin rights. But I've seen a few that do not work with Runas either! - they start and run, but the screen doesn't work correctly... guess how these all have been done? Yes, the common thing is Macromedia and QuickTime (both done by people that do not know anything about windows!) For those I have one admin account which is used to run those CD's only - but of course it's not limited to those in any ways.
Excel is very widely used data mining tool (see: http://www.kdnuggets.com/polls/2006/data_mining_an alytic_tools.htm).
It is used both to analyze smaller sets (less than 100 million rows:-) and preliminary reports from larger sets. In practice, the data is seldomly in the DB when it is being mined because that is just so darn slow (unless you have bought a multi million dollar systems - in which case you absolutely have to use is even though it sucks as otherwise somebody has made a stupid desision to buy it...). How long does it take to open small (60 000 rows - to be able to do it today) data set in Excel and then for example do a pivot to it to see all the combinations of the values? Not time at all. Now, import that to your relational database and do the same report from there.
The 65k rows limit was very limiting. The first time I tried OpenOffice I immediately checked the limit there... my surprise was huge when the limit was 32 000 rows (not even 2^15 or 2^16 as in Excel). And as Excel 2000 otherwise beats OO in usability, I didn't look at OO any more.
So, get rid of all the limits! Why should it not be more than about million rows? I can see no reason. (Yeah, if the computer is too small then it doesn't fit into the memory, but that's a different thing.)
No, I don't wonder. The reasons are many, and obvious. Yeah, right. Let's see how you did....
1) People were damaging their machines trying to follow the recipes on the web for booting XP; And Apple cares? Didn't they always say that if you mess with your computer, it's your fault. If the users break their computer, that did not cost anything to Apple. Nr 1 busted.
2) the availability of Boot Camp removes one standard premise that coporate IT drones routinely use to veto Mac purchases; You've, never been there, have you? Boot camp is not supported. If it's not supported it ain't ok for "corporate IT drones". Nr 2 busted.
3) Apple wanted to lower the sales barrier for individual buyers who have one or two Windows apps that they must run, for whatever reason: Virtual PC costs a couple hundred bucks, Boot Camp doesn't; Normal users do not want to dual boot. They do not even know really what that means. They have not heard of virtual PC either. Enthusiasts do. They know. And this might be a good point to them. The audience isn't that large, but there might be some truth here.
4) it provides a compelling sales advantage against the Dells and the HPs of the world, since they can't offer Mac OS. Eh, in a way of: "Hey, let's buy that cripled PC where the mouse buttons do not work correctly just so that we can try out the shiny Mac OS and if that sucks then we can still run Windows (no so) well". I do not think so. Nr 4 totally busted.
So, cram your stupid conspiracy theories back where they came from. No no, conspiracy theories are good! Keep them coming. At least they are as much spot on as there other reasons.
Most of you just listed all the virus and malware protection... why? That wasn't the point. (Besides, I've been running my photo/video station without any virus protection for 2 years now - no problems yet. My desktop that my kids also use has F-Secure and it hasn't seen anything bad during the same time. Where is the malware?)
So here are some programs that I have installed and have not been mentioned or are too expensive.(I have left out programs that I know are available from Mac also)
Web: * Opera (probably for Mac also, but it's the best - except for Gmail, which still doesn't work and has lot's of bugs on Opera) * Media Player - It does almost all I've ever needed (and shows videos full screen without paying like on QT), not DVD's though. For that something else.
Connectivity: * Putty and WinSCP (of course SSH is available for Mac, but Putty beats everything) * Cygwin/X - which I only use for X (I hope somebody will make a small X-distribution of cygwin...) * If you need Unix-like stuff, check out MS Services for unix. It contains everything else, but Bash (which can be downloaded from somewhere) and X
Utilities: * Allnetic Working Time Tracker (Old free version) - tracs the time spend on different projects * everything from www.sysinternals.com (if you like to tinker with stuff)
For productivity: * TortoiseCVS - integrates CVS to Windows, just great! * TextPad - text editor that can do it all (color formatting to source, regexp on replace, no problems what so ever in opening 300Mb (or more) files). Nothing can touch in on linux, so I guess it'll best everything on mac. * ExamDiff Pro - the best diff program out there. Again, nothing on linux matches this.
Games: * Google Earth - it's a great waist of time, so it must be a game.
The browser is Opera - which sounds like the best browser for this. But does Gmail work? Gmail does not work with the browser in the communicator series (which is also Opera).
Other than that... the flaws are: battery time, RS-MMC (why the RS?!?... of course CF would have been best but at least normal MMC/SD), no keyboard, no calendar or PIM.
Good points: the screen! (Smaller than most here think, but excellent probably - opinion based on communicator screens) and batteries are easy to get as they are standard Nokia, and I guess being linux offers some software support.
You are confusing the right of use and copyright. The photographer will have the copyright but he/she has sold you unlimited rights to use the photographs. This means, you have the negatives, you can make prints, you can sell them and you can use them in any ways you want. But you can not say they are copyright by you. They will always be copyright of the photographer. I do not think you can even sell the copyright. It's something that happens when the picture is taken. But yes, you can sell all the (other) rights to the photograph. And from your (current) point of view, this is the same thing. But from the artists (yes, I considere photographers artists) point of view this is totally different thing.
I once got a small exe from somewhere (maybe Google finds it)... it is called pspv.exe - it opens up the Windows password safe in well in an instant. So, it's not that safe at all.
BTW, Google notifier stores the passwd in that same IE password safe (!=safe)
But sometimes it's good if you can retrieve the passwds... I have no idea of my./ passwd, but Opera keeps it - it just does not ever tell me anymore what it was.
Old stuff... we had this here in Finland long ago (what was it 1-2 years ago? Does anybody remember anymore? I think it was Sonera or Zed.) Anyways, it was fun the first 2 times, but then... well I'm not sure if it's even available anymore.
People really complain that the MS office is bloated. I just installed old Office 2000 on a old laptop with Win2K, 128Mt memory and 6Gt disk. I only installed Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It took just a hair less than 100Mb disk space. Then I downloaded the Acroreader 7 and installed that. It took the same 100Mb.
Come on, the reader is just a viewer while the office programs are all editors with many features. It really made me hate the new reader and I went looking for older one. Besides, it really ain't snappy... it's much slower to load than any of the office programs. Makes me really wonder, specially after all the problems with updating this firefox, if MS really is the best software company out there...
Just a note to all the Apple fans here at appledot, B&O has had a phone with this kind of interface for years (and it's great as about every interface B&O has ever designed). Actually years before any iPod.
I just wish that Apple would have actually tried B&O's expensive MP3 player before they made one without a display (the shuffle). B&O again had the interface right one, but Apple failed badly as they could not understand how to manage playlists without screen. It's actually darn easy.
iTunes doesn't let you use songs without DRM, so you burn them on CD and then rip them to MP3 -- and that is good.
DVD Jon (and others) made a program that let you download songs from iTunes service so that you pay for the songs, but get them without DRM -- and that was bad.
Hymn (what ever) did the same thing -- and that was good.
Now, also hymn is blocked because of DVD Jon -- that is bad.
Everybody is mad at DVD Jon, because now they can not share their iTunes songs and they have to burn them on CD's and then rip from there.
And all the time I thought it was Apple the was restricting the use of the songs and thus Apple should have been the bad guys, but apparently as they are Apple, they can not - by definition? - be the bad guys and therefore DVD Jon had to be the bad guy. Right?
I must get one of those lovely Macs so I can (not) share my music and I can (not) use it where I want as it's just so nice...
Has anybody made a *samll* backage of the Cygwin/X? Putty + that should be very small and fit anywhere (like USB kaychain). Cygwin/X should not need much... I almost did it, but had problems with fonts that I could not solve.
I've had the same problem. Emails sent to the list are delivered to everybody else, except those with Gmail. At least, I'm not receiving my own messages. I have checked this with Gmail and normail address.
I have reported this to Gmail. I just selected some of the categories... I haven't gotten any replies from Gmail... surprise!
Almost half said that "bulls.... this is not happening. We have filters. Come and see the real world" - Well, in the real world probably 99% of net users aren't using any SPAM filters 'cause they are still too hard to use. We have two instances of SpamBayes on Outlook at work. Seems easy, but according to the users, it is "making a mess." And try to set up a SPAM filter for IMAP. Yeah, been there, done that. I know why nobody has them. Slashdotters have time and passion to tune filters. They live for that. Maybe you guys should look outside to the real world (and change that Matrix screensaver already!).
The other half is saying that "If there is a problem, we'll fix it." But they have the same filters in place. They do not see the problems. And that, my slashdotters, is Kari's point! He is trying to wake you up to do something about it. RTFA.
Mostly these postings here just prove that Kari is on the right tracks... the information in here is getting burried under the noise.
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Can you guys explain to me why appleTV was not called iTV?
Lenovo?!? Seriously, where do you guys get all this greatness of IBM and Lenovo. Yes, they have been made quite well (although they are far from perfect), but featurewise they suck more than anything. Or maybe your "right combo of features" is very limited. Fujitsu-Siemens, Acer, Asus they all beat Lenovo with more beautifull design and far more features. Oh, and Dell has a huge number of features over Lenovo... I do not know about the recent design of Dell though. Bu just take for instance the smallest high-end laptops, try to find a X-model that has for instance just a wide screen with DVD burner. Can't find it? The others have had such things for long (just take a look at Fujitsu web-site for instance...) Lenovo, they suck by design and features. Really they do. They are not IBM anymore, so leave the aura off.
I have Fujitsu-Siemens with both trackpad and the nipple. The nipple is adjustable has force sensitive and it even has click and drag (which IBM/Lenovo) doesn't have. Then there is the trackpad, which too is fully adjustable (Apple 2 finger scrolling isn't anything new or much at all). Both are great. But as the company has lot's of IBM/Lenovo's, I've had to use others laptops a lot. I think there is a simpple reason why trackpad's suck big time on IBM. They are at the wrong place! It's too low down the keyboard and there is no rest left for the hands. And therefore it sucks. Loose the double buttons and move the trackpad up. You only need the buttons below - which everybody seems to push with the thump of their "other hand".
But thankfully Lenovo had enough sense to include the windows buttons! I always hated why IBM would not include them, yet they were shipping them with windows installed. (You know, it makes life so much easier in the windows land...)
And, yes, they are still darn ugly!
I've used runas a lot. My home XP Pro is set up so that the users have normal user accounts. By son is 4 and he uses the computer... and that's where the largest problems are! The multimedia CD's for kids are to ones with largest problems. I've never see one that works without admin rights. But I've seen a few that do not work with Runas either! - they start and run, but the screen doesn't work correctly... guess how these all have been done? Yes, the common thing is Macromedia and QuickTime (both done by people that do not know anything about windows!) For those I have one admin account which is used to run those CD's only - but of course it's not limited to those in any ways.
Excel is very widely used data mining tool (see: http://www.kdnuggets.com/polls/2006/data_mining_an alytic_tools.htm).
:-) and preliminary reports from larger sets. In practice, the data is seldomly in the DB when it is being mined because that is just so darn slow (unless you have bought a multi million dollar systems - in which case you absolutely have to use is even though it sucks as otherwise somebody has made a stupid desision to buy it...). How long does it take to open small (60 000 rows - to be able to do it today) data set in Excel and then for example do a pivot to it to see all the combinations of the values? Not time at all. Now, import that to your relational database and do the same report from there.
It is used both to analyze smaller sets (less than 100 million rows
The 65k rows limit was very limiting. The first time I tried OpenOffice I immediately checked the limit there... my surprise was huge when the limit was 32 000 rows (not even 2^15 or 2^16 as in Excel). And as Excel 2000 otherwise beats OO in usability, I didn't look at OO any more.
So, get rid of all the limits! Why should it not be more than about million rows? I can see no reason. (Yeah, if the computer is too small then it doesn't fit into the memory, but that's a different thing.)
Besides, the client is already included with WinXP...
Or does the TV turn on when there is ads so that they can be sure I will watch it?!?
Yeah, right. Let's see how you did....
1) People were damaging their machines trying to follow the recipes on the web for booting XP;
And Apple cares? Didn't they always say that if you mess with your computer, it's your fault. If the users break their computer, that did not cost anything to Apple. Nr 1 busted.
2) the availability of Boot Camp removes one standard premise that coporate IT drones routinely use to veto Mac purchases;
You've, never been there, have you? Boot camp is not supported. If it's not supported it ain't ok for "corporate IT drones". Nr 2 busted.
3) Apple wanted to lower the sales barrier for individual buyers who have one or two Windows apps that they must run, for whatever reason: Virtual PC costs a couple hundred bucks, Boot Camp doesn't;
Normal users do not want to dual boot. They do not even know really what that means. They have not heard of virtual PC either. Enthusiasts do. They know. And this might be a good point to them. The audience isn't that large, but there might be some truth here.
4) it provides a compelling sales advantage against the Dells and the HPs of the world, since they can't offer Mac OS.
Eh, in a way of: "Hey, let's buy that cripled PC where the mouse buttons do not work correctly just so that we can try out the shiny Mac OS and if that sucks then we can still run Windows (no so) well". I do not think so. Nr 4 totally busted.
So, cram your stupid conspiracy theories back where they came from.
No no, conspiracy theories are good! Keep them coming. At least they are as much spot on as there other reasons.
Most of you just listed all the virus and malware protection... why? That wasn't the point. (Besides, I've been running my photo/video station without any virus protection for 2 years now - no problems yet. My desktop that my kids also use has F-Secure and it hasn't seen anything bad during the same time. Where is the malware?)
So here are some programs that I have installed and have not been mentioned or are too expensive.(I have left out programs that I know are available from Mac also)
Web:
* Opera (probably for Mac also, but it's the best - except for Gmail, which still doesn't work and has lot's of bugs on Opera)
* Media Player - It does almost all I've ever needed (and shows videos full screen without paying like on QT), not DVD's though. For that something else.
Connectivity:
* Putty and WinSCP (of course SSH is available for Mac, but Putty beats everything)
* Cygwin/X - which I only use for X (I hope somebody will make a small X-distribution of cygwin...)
* If you need Unix-like stuff, check out MS Services for unix. It contains everything else, but Bash (which can be downloaded from somewhere) and X
Utilities:
* Allnetic Working Time Tracker (Old free version) - tracs the time spend on different projects
* everything from www.sysinternals.com (if you like to tinker with stuff)
For productivity:
* TortoiseCVS - integrates CVS to Windows, just great!
* TextPad - text editor that can do it all (color formatting to source, regexp on replace, no problems what so ever in opening 300Mb (or more) files). Nothing can touch in on linux, so I guess it'll best everything on mac.
* ExamDiff Pro - the best diff program out there. Again, nothing on linux matches this.
Games:
* Google Earth - it's a great waist of time, so it must be a game.
Keyboard, well they got one in 9300 - quite small, but very useable!
PIM, why not PIM?
VoIP - well, that's not necessarily Skype is it? I'd like to know if it has the power to run skype?
Other than that... the flaws are: battery time, RS-MMC (why the RS?!? ... of course CF would have been best but at least normal MMC/SD), no keyboard, no calendar or PIM.
Good points: the screen! (Smaller than most here think, but excellent probably - opinion based on communicator screens) and batteries are easy to get as they are standard Nokia, and I guess being linux offers some software support.
But does it have to power to run Skype?
You are confusing the right of use and copyright. The photographer will have the copyright but he/she has sold you unlimited rights to use the photographs. This means, you have the negatives, you can make prints, you can sell them and you can use them in any ways you want. But you can not say they are copyright by you. They will always be copyright of the photographer. I do not think you can even sell the copyright. It's something that happens when the picture is taken. But yes, you can sell all the (other) rights to the photograph. And from your (current) point of view, this is the same thing. But from the artists (yes, I considere photographers artists) point of view this is totally different thing.
I once got a small exe from somewhere (maybe Google finds it)... it is called pspv.exe - it opens up the Windows password safe in well in an instant. So, it's not that safe at all. BTW, Google notifier stores the passwd in that same IE password safe (!=safe) But sometimes it's good if you can retrieve the passwds... I have no idea of my ./ passwd, but Opera keeps it - it just does not ever tell me anymore what it was.
Old stuff... we had this here in Finland long ago (what was it 1-2 years ago? Does anybody remember anymore? I think it was Sonera or Zed.) Anyways, it was fun the first 2 times, but then... well I'm not sure if it's even available anymore.
Come on, the reader is just a viewer while the office programs are all editors with many features. It really made me hate the new reader and I went looking for older one. Besides, it really ain't snappy... it's much slower to load than any of the office programs. Makes me really wonder, specially after all the problems with updating this firefox, if MS really is the best software company out there...
I just wish that Apple would have actually tried B&O's expensive MP3 player before they made one without a display (the shuffle). B&O again had the interface right one, but Apple failed badly as they could not understand how to manage playlists without screen. It's actually darn easy.
DVD Jon (and others) made a program that let you download songs from iTunes service so that you pay for the songs, but get them without DRM -- and that was bad.
Hymn (what ever) did the same thing -- and that was good.
Now, also hymn is blocked because of DVD Jon -- that is bad.
Everybody is mad at DVD Jon, because now they can not share their iTunes songs and they have to burn them on CD's and then rip from there.
And all the time I thought it was Apple the was restricting the use of the songs and thus Apple should have been the bad guys, but apparently as they are Apple, they can not - by definition? - be the bad guys and therefore DVD Jon had to be the bad guy. Right?
I must get one of those lovely Macs so I can (not) share my music and I can (not) use it where I want as it's just so nice...
appledot indeed...
Has anybody made a *samll* backage of the Cygwin/X? Putty + that should be very small and fit anywhere (like USB kaychain). Cygwin/X should not need much... I almost did it, but had problems with fonts that I could not solve.
What's the time around the Nordschleife at Der Ring (http://www.nuerburgring.de/)
I have reported this to Gmail. I just selected some of the categories... I haven't gotten any replies from Gmail... surprise!
Almost half said that "bulls.... this is not happening. We have filters. Come and see the real world" - Well, in the real world probably 99% of net users aren't using any SPAM filters 'cause they are still too hard to use. We have two instances of SpamBayes on Outlook at work. Seems easy, but according to the users, it is "making a mess." And try to set up a SPAM filter for IMAP. Yeah, been there, done that. I know why nobody has them. Slashdotters have time and passion to tune filters. They live for that. Maybe you guys should look outside to the real world (and change that Matrix screensaver already!).
The other half is saying that "If there is a problem, we'll fix it." But they have the same filters in place. They do not see the problems. And that, my slashdotters, is Kari's point! He is trying to wake you up to do something about it. RTFA.
Mostly these postings here just prove that Kari is on the right tracks... the information in here is getting burried under the noise.