I just had to use winXP for a week and OSX beats it hands down for one major reason - levels of complexity. Both will let you do stuff without deep-understanding of details. But OSX will also let me open a terminal and write a good-old shell script in vi. Whats the XP equivilent? A DOS batchfile? Apple has given us the best of both worlds, MS gave us one.
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how long I wonder will it take until people realise that OSX doesn't make people into unix users - it makes them into Aqua users. Its a bit like saying that windows turned people into DOS users. I mean it is better than than the alternative but still...
I don't know about anyone else I if I was writing trojans/virii etc for XP the first thing it would do would be to disable auto-update and make sure that it stays off.
MS wants you to buy new machines cause of OEM contracts.
Apple wants you to buy new machines because they are a hardware company.
GNU wants you to be productive with your software no matter what you run or how old it is.
Maybe in 10 years Apple will be gone and MS will rule the world or maybe the other way around. Either way GNU and Linux or HURD will still be there pottering round with a couple of % user base, one of which will be me.
while 90% of the students arguments where false it is important to note that they:
1 - Don't have any exposure to non-MS technology
2 - Beleive everything they read in MS PR
3 - Beleive that crashes and unreliability is a fact of life and unavoidable.
4 - Are unaware of goings on in the rest of the computer world.
And these are the people who are supposed to be our future computer experts and are more knowledgable than the common joes. God help us all.
and there in lies its downfall. I've never owned a PC which could take the punishment of being knocked around on the lounge-room floor like my friends ps2 and psx do.
Which is perhaps why it is time that we moved on from such a model. If the only way I can succeed is by making someone else fail isn't it just a grown-up version of school-yard teasing, make someone else feel bad so I feel better.
No but you don't have to pay a fsck load of money to keep up to date with linux,
and you don't have to buy a new computer every year to keep doing the same things.
You start of as a little guy with a little stick. You wander around until you find someone smaller, beat the crap outta them and take all their stuff. Repeat until you have enough stuff to buy a bigger stick. Then you can find even bigger guys, beat the crap outta them and take all their stuff. Repeat, all in the hope that one day you will have the biggest stick of all.
Stop producing desktop machines cause the laptops are just as good, ramp up production to drop costs.
Make a range of 'digital hub' servers for home and small office - file-sharing, internet gateway type things. Or maybe multi-user servers and ibook-like thin clients that connect to them. Schools would love that and so would families with 2+ kids.
I'd imagine that the EQ designers got a raise when it was discovered that it was highly addictive.
I suspect that this would also hold true for many other 'products' eg. Magic:TG, Pokemon etc.
It is just the mind-set of out consumer society. Most businesses exist to make money. What's the easiest way to make money?, create a 'drug' and get people addicted to it.
I don't understand how actors get elevated to the heights that they do. They are just people how pretend to be other people and speak lines that other people wrote for them.
When I watch a movie I don't really care about the actors, I care about the characters and what they go through in the story being told. Thus I don't care if they are real actors or computer-generated ones. And a CG actor is the work of many people: animators, designers, artists, voice actors and so on. Much more impressive for me than a flesh and blood actor.
in other words no office suite will ever be good enough because it is not word.
As far as sending windows people documents I print from kword to PDF. When people send me.docs I usually reply that I can't read it and give a couple of tips on save as etc.
For a small business you probably want to keep a windows PC around for file-conversion. Big businesses, government organisations - use the clout that you have.
I'm sure that if marketing@ibm.com tells joe@smallbiz.com to not send a word.doc Joe might learn how to save as.
Are there any PDF export methods for word not including adobes expensive suite.
A secret organisation in the government dedicated to the wiping out of closed-source software is responsible for this.
As MagicLantern (stupid name) spreads people will trust software companies more and more and the demand for open-source software will sky-rocket even amongst ordinary citizens.
Here in Australia we have a problem with lots of illegal immigrants (or 'boat people') fleeing persecution (rightly or wrongly) from various countries.
I can't wait until we have an influx of geek boat people clutching laptops fleeing from America.
Personally I want my children to be actually 'computer literate' as opposed to 'computer skilled'. Imagine if a job opportunity arose in the City of Largo Gov, all your windows training is good for little there.
Teaching kids computer literacy means having Macs in some classrooms, windows in others and linux or other unixes in others. A bit like being literate in English literature means more than just having read one book.
It means teaching generic skills as well as specific apps and interfaces. Provide them with the skills so they can sit down with a new program and pick it up because bits of it remind them of different programs they have used and not be confused because the buttons look different from the only thing they have used.
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Don't panic just yet, GPL remember. What I'm seeing is linux/mozilla-powered AOL set-top boxes.
Mac on the desktop, Linux on the server.
Who are these Microsoft people again?
I just had to use winXP for a week and OSX beats it hands down for one major reason - levels of complexity. Both will let you do stuff without deep-understanding of details. But OSX will also let me open a terminal and write a good-old shell script in vi. Whats the XP equivilent? A DOS batchfile? Apple has given us the best of both worlds, MS gave us one.
how long I wonder will it take until people realise that OSX doesn't make people into unix users - it makes them into Aqua users. Its a bit like saying that windows turned people into DOS users. I mean it is better than than the alternative but still...
does it sound good enough for you?
is it free(speech/beer)?
Who cares about my format is better than your format contests?
HowTo Build a Minimal Linux System from Source Code
/dev/hdd1 I'll be a happy little linuxer
Linux from Scratch
Now if someone can tell me why programs (so far MAKEDEV and Lilo) won't run from
harddrive
I don't know about anyone else I if I was writing trojans/virii etc for XP the first thing it would do would be to disable auto-update and make sure that it stays off.
MS wants you to buy new machines cause of OEM contracts.
Apple wants you to buy new machines because they are a hardware company.
GNU wants you to be productive with your software no matter what you run or how old it is.
Maybe in 10 years Apple will be gone and MS will rule the world or maybe the other way around. Either way GNU and Linux or HURD will still be there pottering round with a couple of % user base, one of which will be me.
while 90% of the students arguments where false it is important to note that they:
1 - Don't have any exposure to non-MS technology
2 - Beleive everything they read in MS PR
3 - Beleive that crashes and unreliability is a fact of life and unavoidable.
4 - Are unaware of goings on in the rest of the computer world.
And these are the people who are supposed to be our future computer experts and are more knowledgable than the common joes. God help us all.
>there now but Xbox is just a friggin' PC.
and there in lies its downfall. I've never owned a PC which could take the punishment of being knocked around on the lounge-room floor like my friends ps2 and psx do.
Which is perhaps why it is time that we moved on from such a model. If the only way I can succeed is by making someone else fail isn't it just a grown-up version of school-yard teasing, make someone else feel bad so I feel better.
hmmmmm, I wonder if the City of Largo had any problems with this? Or am I just adding insult to injury? ;-)
No but you don't have to pay a fsck load of money to keep up to date with linux,
and you don't have to buy a new computer every year to keep doing the same things.
You start of as a little guy with a little stick. You wander around until you find someone smaller, beat the crap outta them and take all their stuff. Repeat until you have enough stuff to buy a bigger stick. Then you can find even bigger guys, beat the crap outta them and take all their stuff. Repeat, all in the hope that one day you will have the biggest stick of all.
Want a real revolution?
Stop producing desktop machines cause the laptops are just as good, ramp up production to drop costs.
Make a range of 'digital hub' servers for home and small office - file-sharing, internet gateway type things. Or maybe multi-user servers and ibook-like thin clients that connect to them. Schools would love that and so would families with 2+ kids.
I'd imagine that the EQ designers got a raise when it was discovered that it was highly addictive.
I suspect that this would also hold true for many other 'products' eg. Magic:TG, Pokemon etc.
It is just the mind-set of out consumer society. Most businesses exist to make money. What's the easiest way to make money?, create a 'drug' and get people addicted to it.
The town that it is hosted in is flooded by melting snow from around the building.
I don't understand how actors get elevated to the heights that they do. They are just people how pretend to be other people and speak lines that other people wrote for them.
When I watch a movie I don't really care about the actors, I care about the characters and what they go through in the story being told. Thus I don't care if they are real actors or computer-generated ones. And a CG actor is the work of many people: animators, designers, artists, voice actors and so on. Much more impressive for me than a flesh and blood actor.
or maybe companies should just be putting pressure on MS to port it. I mean they have done Office for OSX.
in other words no office suite will ever be good enough because it is not word.
.docs I usually reply that I can't read it and give a couple of tips on save as etc.
As far as sending windows people documents I print from kword to PDF. When people send me
For a small business you probably want to keep a windows PC around for file-conversion. Big businesses, government organisations - use the clout that you have.
I'm sure that if marketing@ibm.com tells joe@smallbiz.com to not send a word.doc Joe might learn how to save as.
Are there any PDF export methods for word not including adobes expensive suite.
I should really use the preview button, that comment was supposed to have cough tags
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A secret organisation in the government dedicated to the wiping out of closed-source software is responsible for this.
As MagicLantern (stupid name) spreads people will trust software companies more and more and the demand for open-source software will sky-rocket even amongst ordinary citizens.
www.linuxfromscratch.org - the only way to go.
Here in Australia we have a problem with lots of illegal immigrants (or 'boat people') fleeing persecution (rightly or wrongly) from various countries.
I can't wait until we have an influx of geek boat people clutching laptops fleeing from America.
Just kidding.
Personally I want my children to be actually 'computer literate' as opposed to 'computer skilled'. Imagine if a job opportunity arose in the City of Largo Gov, all your windows training is good for little there.
Teaching kids computer literacy means having Macs in some classrooms, windows in others and linux or other unixes in others. A bit like being literate in English literature means more than just having read one book.
It means teaching generic skills as well as specific apps and interfaces. Provide them with the skills so they can sit down with a new program and pick it up because bits of it remind them of different programs they have used and not be confused because the buttons look different from the only thing they have used.