Where I work we buy a lot of HP desktops, only problem is that mice are not included in the box and they ship the mice separately, in separate boxes with a single mouse in each, also in plastic packaging, on a crate with hundreds of others. It freaks people out when you can lift a very large crate of unopened boxes. It really does drive us nuts though. Smarten up HP.
Well I have a tivo (Foxtel IQ) like device that I rent from my pay TV provider (Foxtel in Australia). Why do I have it? Well if I was to setup a mythtv box to take over it's role I'd need to buy 2 satellite tuners and a smart card reader, neither of which are "practically free". I do have a mythtv box to record free to air HDTV and to playback my media collection. But to spend hundreds of dollars just so I can skip ads when I can pay $10 a month and be able view recently released DVDs when I want and be able to fast forward through the ads seems like a waste of time and effort for uncertain results.
I had to rebuild my mothers PC after it had died from a blown cap and thought that it'd be time for her to be converted over to GNU\Linux. I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on her XP2100+, 1GB DDR, ti4200, 2x80GB HDD. She was blown away by the responsiveness compared to her previous XP install which was about a year old and by the sleek looks of compiz. I mounted the ntfs partitions so she could access the documents created on windows. She was able to do everything that she does in windows, create and edit word processor documents, create and edit spread sheet documents, upload photos from her camera to her email and to a storage area, crop photos, browse the internet (virus free!). She was even able to install a canon printer without my help, something that she never would have been able to do in windows. Granted she didn't install ubuntu but she didn't install windows either so I think it's a fair comparison. She has NEVER EVER had to go to the command line either (in windows XP or in ubuntu) so that argument is dead in the water. I am yet to get a call from her asking for help and she is just loving it. It's ready and those that don't think that it is obviously haven't met my mother. I think there is a big misconception about what a normal user does on their machine.
Why would anyone even those in the developing world want an OS that is 7 years old and isn't going to be supported for very much longer? Add the fact that it's a closed system, there are no applications designed specifically for it and it takes more hardware to make it work even remotely ok. Seems like a really stupid idea to take up the offer.
I have installed a lot of different distros on many lower spec machines, many of which don't have DVD drives but have CD drives and the only option to upgrade to a DVD drive comes at a significant cost when it's really not even needed. I can understand why distros these days tend to package everything on a DVD or CDs, what with a cheap and easy way to distribute the ISOs (bittorrent). But what I would like is a basic install CD that allows you to install from CD using FTP/HTTP as the source but still gives the same options as the GUI installer rather than the text based installer which is required at the moment for most distros using FTP/HTTP. On a lot of these lower spec machines only have 256MB of RAM and loading a live CD takes forever and is extremely painful.
Linux is MUCH MUCH easier to install than windows, it has been for many years. No layman that I know can fully install windows XP or Vista. Let alone trying to install it on a RAID partition. Not only that but you don't need to load a drivers for your video/network/raid/sound, surely that counts as part of the install process. Also the installer installs applications as well not just the OS so you have to consider that as well. I mean if your count the number of applications that can be installed in the installation then compare it with Windows and what you would need to do to get those applications I think it's pretty clear that a Linux installation even if you have to read a small blurb about what you are doing is so much easier, quicker and superior.
Simple fact is that if you think it's hard you are either a Windows user or an idiot or quite probably both.
I guess "installing" Windows involves taking the newly bought HP/Dell out of the box and plugging it in.
Yes that has been tried. They introduced Cane Toads to eat introduced beetles that were eating sugar cane crops in Queensland Australia. Now they are a real pest. I guess at least they got rid of the beetles...
This is a good idea though, had this been around a decade or so ago maybe the Great Barrier Reef wouldn't be so effected by the Crown of Thorns starfish which is thought to have been introduced by ships.
There may be better players feature wise but the fact is that the ipod has the best interface. It's simple and does what it was designed to do well, i.e. play music and videos. Of course there are some things lacking like ogg support but that's obviously not a concern for "normal" people.
No I don't have an ipod I use my N95 8GB as my media player. I don't know of anyone that has an MP3 player that isn't an ipod though and haven't seen the Zune in stores here, in fact I don't even think you can get it in Australia.
The simple fact is that even if you have qualifications they are useless without experience so you have to get a helpdesk job, that is if you aren't a programmer, but in the tech side. I also don't understand why people stay in the position when an unskilled receptionist gets the same wage (at least where I work) when you have to deal with the stupidest people, constantly, and cop flack from "know it alls" on a daily basis.
Apple are no contention for anything related to phones. Apple are only a contender where the market is two or more years behind the times. Lets face it you couldn't even send an MMS until recently, no flash support, no 3g/3.5g/4g (if you say that doesn't matter you have obviously never used any of them), no keypad, no user replaceable battery (this has got to be a MAJOR problem for exec's who can't be without their phone). Really, if you think that the iphone is anything more than a glorified ipod then you need your head examined.
As for RIM, the cost of the servers required for these makes it virtually cost restrictive for most organisations to deploy for limited number of users that may use the phones.
Windows however is relativity cheap if you already have exchange for email/calendar/contacts, although I'm not a fan of the interface, the memory hogging and the constant crashing (i am saying this only having used WM5 on an i-mate jam and HP h5000 and HP hw6950) but availability of these phones is high and there is enough selection for anyone to pick what they want in a phone whether it be the keypad or touchpad, GPS, CDMA/GSM, etc. There is also a lot of applications.
Symbian is my personal favourite though as the interface is easy enough for anyone to use, POP and IMAP are supported, depending on the model of phone you may have the option for the blackberry enabled version. Has the same large range of phones like windows. There isn't as many apps as WM but I have been able to find everything that I need.
For me there is no contest.
It's different in the sense that you still own the car and can buy after market parts if required and you can on sell it if you want. It really is an unfair comparison. I think a more fair comparison would be if you bought an Aerostar minivan and you could no longer put fuel or people in it.
Needless to say that if you actually bought the license to play music from this store, you probably deserved to loose "your" music.
I would have thought the last thing you would have wanted was for all your money to have gone from your account.
Obviously you are right in that it's not ideal for websites to query your configuration, but the fact remains that many people still use IE5/6 and don't run patched systems. These are the people that are likely to loose their money, these are the people that need protection from themselves. All the websites need to do is restrict access depending on which browser version and java version you are using. If you have an out of date browser or java version then you are directed to update. I am yet to come across a bank that uses activeX although I'm sure there are plenty of them.
Banks should have been doing this since they introduced internet banking. Now the onus is on you and if you loose all your money because there was no requirement to use a safe browser it's your own fault. Seems like banks don't understand the concept of "users".
I wonder if the records of everyone's conversations will be made available under the freedom of information act, I sure hope so. I'd love to know what the P.M. is having for dinner tonight.
This is quite a well established type of trademark. There's a brand of Chocolate in the UK which has successfully prevented other chocolatiers from using 'their' shade of purple. But that's kinda the point here-
You don't by any chance mean Cadbury do you? There was a case here in Australia where they tried to sue for trademark infringement against another chocolate manufacturer for using their Trademarked purple. Lets just say Cadbury lost.
I'll tell you who. We are. Sure it may not be real property but the fact is that if there were a property tax the added cost to the owner would simply be added onto the cost of the item you are buying. Pretty much making it worse for the consumer.
Well that's not what I have found while running Gnome with Compiz on a P4 2.4ghz laptop with 256MB of RAM and an ATI 7500. The thing is plenty responsive and always has free memory, if I don't fun Firefox, but that's another issue. However it's great news that KDE4 is much lighter than it was I can't wait to try it out.
I do download, though mostly TV series that I either can not watch at all in my region or that I can't be bothered to find. I don't like downloading someone's recording, I would much rather pay a little money for it and get it straight from the source and reward the creators. The creators aren't rewarded for works on the Internet, legal or not. That's why there is a writers strike. I guess it really means that the value of these works is nothing and you are actually paying(or not as the case may be) to watch the adverts.
This lady who ever she is just jumping on whatever bandwagon she can to get stupid people to buy her books. First using peoples fear of nuclear power to get them to read her stuff now she is on the global warming bandwagon and correcting her stupid ideals about nuclear to work with the global warming theory. I really think that neither coal, gas or nuclear are the way to go for long term energy needs and we need to use a combination of wind, hydro, geothermal and solar. Obviously It will take a long time to remove the dependency that humans have on fossil fuels but we do need to do something and nuclear is much better than coal, at least in terms of polluting the atmosphere, which is what's important at the moment.
I just wonder how many of these people complaining that a $200 educational tool is a worse investment than $200 of food actually donates money to organizations that supply aid to these countries. I'm betting not too many.
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Where I work we buy a lot of HP desktops, only problem is that mice are not included in the box and they ship the mice separately, in separate boxes with a single mouse in each, also in plastic packaging, on a crate with hundreds of others. It freaks people out when you can lift a very large crate of unopened boxes. It really does drive us nuts though. Smarten up HP.
Yeah I'm sure it was the ISO process that prevented it from getting support, not the shoddy standard that is OOXML.
Well I have a tivo (Foxtel IQ) like device that I rent from my pay TV provider (Foxtel in Australia). Why do I have it? Well if I was to setup a mythtv box to take over it's role I'd need to buy 2 satellite tuners and a smart card reader, neither of which are "practically free". I do have a mythtv box to record free to air HDTV and to playback my media collection. But to spend hundreds of dollars just so I can skip ads when I can pay $10 a month and be able view recently released DVDs when I want and be able to fast forward through the ads seems like a waste of time and effort for uncertain results.
I had to rebuild my mothers PC after it had died from a blown cap and thought that it'd be time for her to be converted over to GNU\Linux. I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on her XP2100+, 1GB DDR, ti4200, 2x80GB HDD. She was blown away by the responsiveness compared to her previous XP install which was about a year old and by the sleek looks of compiz. I mounted the ntfs partitions so she could access the documents created on windows. She was able to do everything that she does in windows, create and edit word processor documents, create and edit spread sheet documents, upload photos from her camera to her email and to a storage area, crop photos, browse the internet (virus free!). She was even able to install a canon printer without my help, something that she never would have been able to do in windows. Granted she didn't install ubuntu but she didn't install windows either so I think it's a fair comparison. She has NEVER EVER had to go to the command line either (in windows XP or in ubuntu) so that argument is dead in the water. I am yet to get a call from her asking for help and she is just loving it. It's ready and those that don't think that it is obviously haven't met my mother. I think there is a big misconception about what a normal user does on their machine.
Why would anyone even those in the developing world want an OS that is 7 years old and isn't going to be supported for very much longer? Add the fact that it's a closed system, there are no applications designed specifically for it and it takes more hardware to make it work even remotely ok. Seems like a really stupid idea to take up the offer.
Please stop the LiveCD installer pain!
Simple fact is that if you think it's hard you are either a Windows user or an idiot or quite probably both.
I guess "installing" Windows involves taking the newly bought HP/Dell out of the box and plugging it in.
This is a good idea though, had this been around a decade or so ago maybe the Great Barrier Reef wouldn't be so effected by the Crown of Thorns starfish which is thought to have been introduced by ships.
Well I don't mean to sound disrespectful but I don't believe a word you said. Guitar hero is only mono not 7.1.
No I don't have an ipod I use my N95 8GB as my media player. I don't know of anyone that has an MP3 player that isn't an ipod though and haven't seen the Zune in stores here, in fact I don't even think you can get it in Australia.
The simple fact is that even if you have qualifications they are useless without experience so you have to get a helpdesk job, that is if you aren't a programmer, but in the tech side. I also don't understand why people stay in the position when an unskilled receptionist gets the same wage (at least where I work) when you have to deal with the stupidest people, constantly, and cop flack from "know it alls" on a daily basis.
Unless you go to redtube and you don't have flash installed.
As for RIM, the cost of the servers required for these makes it virtually cost restrictive for most organisations to deploy for limited number of users that may use the phones.
Windows however is relativity cheap if you already have exchange for email/calendar/contacts, although I'm not a fan of the interface, the memory hogging and the constant crashing (i am saying this only having used WM5 on an i-mate jam and HP h5000 and HP hw6950) but availability of these phones is high and there is enough selection for anyone to pick what they want in a phone whether it be the keypad or touchpad, GPS, CDMA/GSM, etc. There is also a lot of applications.
Symbian is my personal favourite though as the interface is easy enough for anyone to use, POP and IMAP are supported, depending on the model of phone you may have the option for the blackberry enabled version. Has the same large range of phones like windows. There isn't as many apps as WM but I have been able to find everything that I need. For me there is no contest.
Needless to say that if you actually bought the license to play music from this store, you probably deserved to loose "your" music.
Pain threshold is very great when it is applied slowly but steadily.
Obviously you are right in that it's not ideal for websites to query your configuration, but the fact remains that many people still use IE5/6 and don't run patched systems. These are the people that are likely to loose their money, these are the people that need protection from themselves. All the websites need to do is restrict access depending on which browser version and java version you are using. If you have an out of date browser or java version then you are directed to update. I am yet to come across a bank that uses activeX although I'm sure there are plenty of them.
Banks should have been doing this since they introduced internet banking. Now the onus is on you and if you loose all your money because there was no requirement to use a safe browser it's your own fault. Seems like banks don't understand the concept of "users".
I wonder if the records of everyone's conversations will be made available under the freedom of information act, I sure hope so. I'd love to know what the P.M. is having for dinner tonight.
You don't by any chance mean Cadbury do you? There was a case here in Australia where they tried to sue for trademark infringement against another chocolate manufacturer for using their Trademarked purple. Lets just say Cadbury lost.
Here is a news article about it. http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/cadbury-loses-purple-case/2006/04/28/1145861520896.html
I'll tell you who. We are. Sure it may not be real property but the fact is that if there were a property tax the added cost to the owner would simply be added onto the cost of the item you are buying. Pretty much making it worse for the consumer.
Well that's not what I have found while running Gnome with Compiz on a P4 2.4ghz laptop with 256MB of RAM and an ATI 7500. The thing is plenty responsive and always has free memory, if I don't fun Firefox, but that's another issue. However it's great news that KDE4 is much lighter than it was I can't wait to try it out.
There is an image of the thing on this blog if you are interested. http://thedragonstales.blogspot.com/2007/12/hail-glacialisaurus-hammeri.html
This lady who ever she is just jumping on whatever bandwagon she can to get stupid people to buy her books. First using peoples fear of nuclear power to get them to read her stuff now she is on the global warming bandwagon and correcting her stupid ideals about nuclear to work with the global warming theory. I really think that neither coal, gas or nuclear are the way to go for long term energy needs and we need to use a combination of wind, hydro, geothermal and solar. Obviously It will take a long time to remove the dependency that humans have on fossil fuels but we do need to do something and nuclear is much better than coal, at least in terms of polluting the atmosphere, which is what's important at the moment.
I just wonder how many of these people complaining that a $200 educational tool is a worse investment than $200 of food actually donates money to organizations that supply aid to these countries. I'm betting not too many.