No, you're oversimplifying it. By buying from the underdog (not necessarily AMD!) you are voting with your money that you care for competition - if you spend 10 extra units of money then you are saying "I value competition to the dominant player at least at 10 units of money".
It is important to realise that less improvement in price/performance over the short term might be more worth to me than a monopoly in the long term - because that would mean future decrease in efficiency.
Obviously, when there is no clear "underdog" on the market but rather two players playing in the same league, the choice should be quality/price/performance whatever. This "support the weak competitor" only makes sense when there is a dominant player. And many still see Intel as such.
What you are missing here is that the perceived value of any given product is not just its performance/price ratio. A less performant CPU from AMD may be more valuable to me than a more powerful CPU from Intel because by supporting AMD I support a company which I see as a counter-weight to Intel (perceived as the dominant player). I do this to secure better change of buying a good CPU for a nice price also in the future.
Therefore my decision to go with AMD is a perfectly rational - decision is never based on price only and the market model does not expect it to be. Nor is it based on quality only. It is based on consumer utility and that may well include "supporting the other player".
KMail starts faster than MS Outlook (in my experience). My Gentoo boots faster than XP (to usable desktop, not to login prompt). Linux does not take 30 seconds to return from screen-saver.:)
Your claim that Linux is slower is wildly inaccurate - start-up times of some applications are greater than that of other applications. Agreed - but this is very loosely linked to Linux/Windows split.
As to the seven level of dialogs... try changing something in email preferences in MS Outlook... or network settings, or modem settings.
Can you quote some sources for your claims? I find KDE desktop faster than WinXP on my computer. Obviously, both are blindingly fast, so it is more about the perceived speed rather than actual numbers.
Also, in my experience, KDE was less memory hungry than Windows98 (back then).
I am not saying KDE does not need optimising. I just thing that performace of KDE is more than sufficient.
Also, you can't really compare Blackbox to KDE - KDE is a desktop environment and application suite, Blackbox is a window manager. Ale you comparing KWin+Kicker+kdesktop to Blackbox?
As for the dialog boxes - I find Windows "seven levels of dialogs" much worse than KDE dialogs. And a lot of work is being done on usability in KDE.
The bottom line is - without arguments, your post is just trolling.
When you need to edit the damn thing, it is quite important to have it in a lossless format. If you loose 5 % everytime you save the file, by the fifth save the quality may be lost forever.
Can it be because they are not migrating just the PCs but have to migrate a lot of other undelying infrastructure? Some of the cost will be fixed - ie independent of how many PCs are migrated - and this will be later (supposedly) dissolved when more PCs are migrated. And by the way, $3k is less than one manday of a big-name consultant. Go figure.
And your point is? Why ask these obvious questions? Are you suggesting that just because you can never be absolutely secure, it is not worth trying at all?
Still I like Xinerama on Linux better. On Windows, the display with greater resolution has wallpaper not correctly stretched to full size. More important, if you move your mouse from greater resolution to lesser resolution along the "border", then your mouse hits a "wall" and cannot enter. Bloody annoying. On Linux, mouse just skips those extra pixels. Much better.
On the other hand, getting overlay and acceleration work with Xinerama is pain on Linux. Real pain.:)
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If it is all mock-ups it is because there is no such this as KDE 4.0. Work on KDE 4.0 is currently happening on library level, porting to QT4 is still under way. There won't be KDE4 any time soon. The UI work (desing, proof-of-concepts) is happening in parallel to the library development but does not yet constitute part of what could be called KDE4.
During that 8 years, I have also used Gnome and Windows 95 to XP (at work). I always come back to my KDE which I find most productive.
Anyway, I don't want to go into a discussion of what KDE does or does not. I reacted because there are always loads of people who think KDE is a window manager (I now see you are not one of them) and then compare it to some obscure window manager (no offense meant) which might be super and lean but cannot be utilised by KDE (it would not suit its target audience).
Let me reassure you that there is a lot of work being currently done to address usability/stability/speed. AFAIK current status is that there is no KDE4, KDE3.5 is being ported to QT4, refactored, cleaned up... all on kdelibs level. In parallel people are preparing the interface, piling up ideas but KDE is far from reaching 4.0.
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Can you please be more specific? I have been using KDE for what is now more than 8 years and I don't have any (major) usability issues with it. Also, are you really talking about KDE (the desktop suite) or about KWin. The latter seems more likely as you are comparing it to a window manager. Well, surprise there, you can use KDE with any window manager you chose, you are not limited to KWin.
On a properly set-up system screen resolution has nothing to do with font size. Font size is usualy specified in points rather than pixels. Setting correct DPI (dots per inch) value for your display should ensure that 10pt font is the same size on your 800x600 screen as on 1600x1200. Problem is where designers specify size in pixels rather than in points, where they use pictures instead of elements and/or text.
Well, it is 40,000 bucks a year only if you keep it in your basement. If you invest the money then even low-risk low-interest portfolio would effectively multiply your millions over the 50 years. At 2 % interest rate, two million dollars would give you 40,000 bucks a year without losing any of the money (well, you still would be losing due to inflation - so let's say you can invest the money so that it bears interest of 2 % over the inflation rate. This is not that difficult with millions, I would say it is easier than with hundreds).
Que? Why would she need to do that? Is she fine with loggin in as admin (she does not run admin, does she) and running Regedit? Is she fine with booting to safe mode and running AdAware? Modern Linux distro is not more difficult to administer than a Windows box. It is just different. And this myth about config files and text editors... just because you have the option does not mean that you must do it this way.
Display resolution has nothing to do with size of elements displayed. You just increate the DPI of your display. Everything stays the same size then (well, not icons unless your system does SVG, also Flash websites might be smaller).
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No, you're oversimplifying it. By buying from the underdog (not necessarily AMD!) you are voting with your money that you care for competition - if you spend 10 extra units of money then you are saying "I value competition to the dominant player at least at 10 units of money".
It is important to realise that less improvement in price/performance over the short term might be more worth to me than a monopoly in the long term - because that would mean future decrease in efficiency.
Obviously, when there is no clear "underdog" on the market but rather two players playing in the same league, the choice should be quality/price/performance whatever. This "support the weak competitor" only makes sense when there is a dominant player. And many still see Intel as such.
What you are missing here is that the perceived value of any given product is not just its performance/price ratio. A less performant CPU from AMD may be more valuable to me than a more powerful CPU from Intel because by supporting AMD I support a company which I see as a counter-weight to Intel (perceived as the dominant player). I do this to secure better change of buying a good CPU for a nice price also in the future.
Therefore my decision to go with AMD is a perfectly rational - decision is never based on price only and the market model does not expect it to be. Nor is it based on quality only. It is based on consumer utility and that may well include "supporting the other player".
KMail starts faster than MS Outlook (in my experience). My Gentoo boots faster than XP (to usable desktop, not to login prompt). Linux does not take 30 seconds to return from screen-saver. :)
Your claim that Linux is slower is wildly inaccurate - start-up times of some applications are greater than that of other applications. Agreed - but this is very loosely linked to Linux/Windows split.
As to the seven level of dialogs... try changing something in email preferences in MS Outlook... or network settings, or modem settings.
Can you quote some sources for your claims? I find KDE desktop faster than WinXP on my computer. Obviously, both are blindingly fast, so it is more about the perceived speed rather than actual numbers. Also, in my experience, KDE was less memory hungry than Windows98 (back then). I am not saying KDE does not need optimising. I just thing that performace of KDE is more than sufficient. Also, you can't really compare Blackbox to KDE - KDE is a desktop environment and application suite, Blackbox is a window manager. Ale you comparing KWin+Kicker+kdesktop to Blackbox? As for the dialog boxes - I find Windows "seven levels of dialogs" much worse than KDE dialogs. And a lot of work is being done on usability in KDE. The bottom line is - without arguments, your post is just trolling.
When you need to edit the damn thing, it is quite important to have it in a lossless format. If you loose 5 % everytime you save the file, by the fifth save the quality may be lost forever.
Can it be because they are not migrating just the PCs but have to migrate a lot of other undelying infrastructure? Some of the cost will be fixed - ie independent of how many PCs are migrated - and this will be later (supposedly) dissolved when more PCs are migrated. And by the way, $3k is less than one manday of a big-name consultant. Go figure.
And your point is? Why ask these obvious questions? Are you suggesting that just because you can never be absolutely secure, it is not worth trying at all?
Maybe because testosterone level and willingness to have children are not the most important things when it comes to a happy marriage?
Still I like Xinerama on Linux better. On Windows, the display with greater resolution has wallpaper not correctly stretched to full size. More important, if you move your mouse from greater resolution to lesser resolution along the "border", then your mouse hits a "wall" and cannot enter. Bloody annoying. On Linux, mouse just skips those extra pixels. Much better.
:)
On the other hand, getting overlay and acceleration work with Xinerama is pain on Linux. Real pain.
If it is all mock-ups it is because there is no such this as KDE 4.0. Work on KDE 4.0 is currently happening on library level, porting to QT4 is still under way. There won't be KDE4 any time soon. The UI work (desing, proof-of-concepts) is happening in parallel to the library development but does not yet constitute part of what could be called KDE4.
KDE is not a Window Manager. KDE is a suite of applications, a desktop environment. Yes, part of that is kwin, KDE window manager.
The start button is part of kicker, KDE panel. You can easily turn it off or customise it to fit your needs.
BTW, there is currently no KDE 4.0, not even in alpha, KDE is being ported on the library level.
Well, you mentioned wmii as your alternative. :-)
During that 8 years, I have also used Gnome and Windows 95 to XP (at work). I always come back to my KDE which I find most productive.
Anyway, I don't want to go into a discussion of what KDE does or does not. I reacted because there are always loads of people who think KDE is a window manager (I now see you are not one of them) and then compare it to some obscure window manager (no offense meant) which might be super and lean but cannot be utilised by KDE (it would not suit its target audience).
Let me reassure you that there is a lot of work being currently done to address usability/stability/speed. AFAIK current status is that there is no KDE4, KDE3.5 is being ported to QT4, refactored, cleaned up... all on kdelibs level. In parallel people are preparing the interface, piling up ideas but KDE is far from reaching 4.0.
Can you please be more specific? I have been using KDE for what is now more than 8 years and I don't have any (major) usability issues with it. Also, are you really talking about KDE (the desktop suite) or about KWin. The latter seems more likely as you are comparing it to a window manager. Well, surprise there, you can use KDE with any window manager you chose, you are not limited to KWin.
I did. :-) Good point.
Maybe you should have read TFA. It was fixed some time ago.
No, it isn't. That's concurrence.
On a properly set-up system screen resolution has nothing to do with font size. Font size is usualy specified in points rather than pixels. Setting correct DPI (dots per inch) value for your display should ensure that 10pt font is the same size on your 800x600 screen as on 1600x1200. Problem is where designers specify size in pixels rather than in points, where they use pictures instead of elements and/or text.
Well, it is 40,000 bucks a year only if you keep it in your basement. If you invest the money then even low-risk low-interest portfolio would effectively multiply your millions over the 50 years. At 2 % interest rate, two million dollars would give you 40,000 bucks a year without losing any of the money (well, you still would be losing due to inflation - so let's say you can invest the money so that it bears interest of 2 % over the inflation rate. This is not that difficult with millions, I would say it is easier than with hundreds).
Is there such a thing as a "simple hydrogen tank"? From what I have read this seems to be the gist of the problem...
Fair enough, I guess I should not post from work. Oh wait, I did it again.
Screw the trademark, I have been looking for G-Spot itself and I cannot find it!
Que? Why would she need to do that? Is she fine with loggin in as admin (she does not run admin, does she) and running Regedit? Is she fine with booting to safe mode and running AdAware? Modern Linux distro is not more difficult to administer than a Windows box. It is just different. And this myth about config files and text editors... just because you have the option does not mean that you must do it this way.
Display resolution has nothing to do with size of elements displayed. You just increate the DPI of your display. Everything stays the same size then (well, not icons unless your system does SVG, also Flash websites might be smaller).
What's the bracketing here? ((anti-software) (piracy group)) or ((anti (software piracy)) group)? I prefer to pretend it is the former one.