Just be happy with what you have? How many of those users are going to make use of what Linux really offers? If you don't have a valid reason other than "push Microsoft out", I'd just stick with MS. It sounds like the environment is all integrated and it would definitely cost you more to switch.
Let the Linux desktop mature, its still early for it - then you should have more reasons to switch.
I guess they shouldn't have been illegally using software they didn't own then. Out of compliance means you have more installations than you have licenses for. I find it interesting that criminals are touted as a Linux success story.
I've always wondered about Wikipedia myself. Sure a lot of the articles are interesting but I always wonder to myself "Who wrote this and are they a credible source?"
I see it referenced in posts here on/. quite a bit like its the final word. In reality, it is a good concept that can be purposefully used to spread disinformation in some cases.
There really needs to be accountability. Fact checking for print Encyclopedias lend more to them being a credible source for information. Granted, they aren't updated as quickly or as broad but I guess its just something we'll have to see. Wikipedia has potential and is "entertaining" but I'd never use it for real research.
I loved planetside but the best aspect of the game wasn't utilized by most people.
Playing in a large guild with coordinated attacks over voice conferencing software was awesome. Multiple Galaxy drops with air support while armor columns moved in on the ground...mm I miss it.
There will NEVER be a "no-nerfs" policy in a MMORPG. Too many diviersified player opinions about what should/should not be powerful. Most nerfs are actually player community driven to some extent. Exploiting specific mechanics which make an encounter easier is a sure fire way to get nerfed.
If anyone comes out with a no nerf policy I'll be surprised as it will be a 100% FOTM class type game with little variation in the player base.
However, I'm really glad you had the chance to sit down with Statesman and voice your opinion. Or...did you post it on a message board where you were just another whiner?
You're so right. Most don't care, don't know nor do they want to know.
When Linux can be the right choice for those people, it will be as bloated as any Microsoft software on the market with just as many problems.
It's a fantasy genre - if tacos were part of the diet in medeival times great! However, I have never heard of a knight named anything resembling what I can pick up at taco bell.
Don't want a name change? Don't use a stupid irrelevant name when you create the character. My biggest gripe with MMORPGs is that people seem to confuse them with DOOM. Wannabe l33t kiddies playing a game coming up with something stupid instead of something with real originality that took thought.
Glad you got the name change - next time you sign up for an MMORPG, choose something appropriate. I make it a habit of petitioning stupid names in games just so idiots like this will think twice next time they start a character.
I mean, the father of the internet and the "information superhighway" should have a say in who controls it. My vote goes that the internet be controlled now by CURRENT, the hip new news network that even Tipper approves of.
The New Evil Empire strikes again./. always praises anything google does and treats its every move like a miracle in the making. This event, however, google is showing they have no regard for their customers. 5 more years and the world will hate them more than Bill Gates...just watch.
The patent system has been around for years. Also, it doesn't last forever, therefore things can and will become mainstream. I agree that litigous people are a problem but at times you do have to take the bad with the good. Personally *America* is a wonderful country to live and work in. Intellectual property rights for the most part were not as important in the last 100 years as they are today due to the ability to transfer information in so many formats and do so much with "intangible" products such as data, software, digital music and digital film/movies. The process of dealing with these new hurdles is still in its infancy therefore laws may seem a little "out of date" to some.
Over time, things will smooth out but personally I see nothing wrong with protecting someone's property - even if its an intangible.
I also disagree. Capatalism gives you the right to choose in the market place what you will or will not pay for but right now I think there is a huge rift being formed just on the basis of "Do they sell a commercial product or do they give it away?" Since most of those on slashdot are advocates of free software of course any company choosing to sell a product, try to be successful and employ people (which drives our economy) is going to be the bad guy.
I'm sure I'm just stating the obvious here but Dell is a PC and PC Server manufacturer. They use an OEM version of Microsoft's Windows which includes some hardware specific things as well as some of their own software installed. However, they do not have a truly custom version of Windows as Microsoft's codebase is, as we all know, locked down.
Redhat is in contrast a software company. It maintains a specific flavor of Linux that it uses for monetary gain through sales and software support. Linux/Redhat may be free but Redhat has to make money somehow. Their software is their revenue stream. Dell's is hardware.
The two are VERY different and to believe they are the same, as much as you'd like to, is incorrect.
You know, whenever there is a story with Microsoft stating something about Linux or a writer compares the two and says something more favorable about Microsoft the half-penguin/half-sheep here start crying conspiracy.
Countless times an author of a story has been trampled on this site due to past affiliations or past viewpoints. It is fairly obvious that Dvorak is not objective and his points are nothing more than attacks fired at MS and praises aimed at Linux. Show me something completely non-biased.
Imagine someone driving to work, doing her make up, drinking a cup of coffee, talking on the phone all while catching up on the latest episode of Days of Our Lives.
There are some places technology like this becomes more of a distraction than entertainment.
As someone with a few books published myself, I have no problem with fair use. A lot of people who post here however seem to have problems with copyright laws in general and that is disturbing.
You see too many posts on/. where people think they deserve something because its in an electronic format. MP3 downloaders - do you walk into Best Buy and just walk out with a few CDs? Why not? Same thing - when you buy a CD you are buying the right to play the music on your CD until your hearts content privately and for personal use. If you take a CD and you bring in business or entertain customers with it - it no longer falls under the "license" and you are required to pay BMI, ASCAP or SESAC.
Books are the same - walk into a Barnes and Noble, grab a book and head out the door without paying for it. You're a thief! But, looking up the full text of the book as scanned into a system is fine right? You didn't pay for it but its in digital format.
Where did the line of right and wrong get skewed by media type? Digital media = free for all but physical media is a different story.
I'm not angry at Microsoft because I see it as their choice whether or not to support OpenDocument. If Ford decides to use 15" wheels vs 17" wheels that is their choice. They should not be forced to because Michelin may only want to make 16" tires and the government only wanted to use Michelin.
So now the government decides to go with Nissan, replace all of their vehicles because the tire they want to use does not fit on what they have. It's insane government spending "just because they want to".
Lets see how things pan out when Mass. tries to send a document containing state extradition orders to New Mexico and the New Mexico DA can't open them. Fun fun fun!
1) Again, this software needs to be developed and people hired to implement it. Depending on how long that takes the move might be completed before then. Why wait when this software probably is already in-place with other systems that they curently use? Why incur the excess cost of developing these systems from the ground up? (seriously, it will be budgeted even if its "free")
2) If it is more mature, why is 1 an issue?
Is OSS free? Sure. Is OSS free to implement? No it's not. How many people here make a living off of running Linux for a corporation? Are you paid for your work? Sure you are.
To implement such broad sweeping changes is going to cost a lot of money. Money that as a citizen I would rather not have my tax dollars diverted to when more than likely what they have will work.
He makes a lot of valid points if you get your head out of the sand and stop trying to see it as an attack on FOSS. Americans with Disabilities Act....a friend of mine is legally blind. He can see a little but not enough to drive a car. If the company he works for couldn't provide a way for him to do his job equally well with all of the other "sighted" people he'd have a major lawsuit.
Face it, most FOSS isn't mature enough. It's built to do things the "programmer's way".
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Just be happy with what you have? How many of those users are going to make use of what Linux really offers? If you don't have a valid reason other than "push Microsoft out", I'd just stick with MS. It sounds like the environment is all integrated and it would definitely cost you more to switch. Let the Linux desktop mature, its still early for it - then you should have more reasons to switch.
I guess they shouldn't have been illegally using software they didn't own then. Out of compliance means you have more installations than you have licenses for. I find it interesting that criminals are touted as a Linux success story.
I've always wondered about Wikipedia myself. Sure a lot of the articles are interesting but I always wonder to myself "Who wrote this and are they a credible source?" I see it referenced in posts here on /. quite a bit like its the final word. In reality, it is a good concept that can be purposefully used to spread disinformation in some cases.
There really needs to be accountability. Fact checking for print Encyclopedias lend more to them being a credible source for information. Granted, they aren't updated as quickly or as broad but I guess its just something we'll have to see. Wikipedia has potential and is "entertaining" but I'd never use it for real research.
How can you have something against Neil Diamond? Celine, I can see - but Neil?
The new Linux logo = penguin riding a missile with a smile on his face. "Somebody set us up the bomb!"
I for one am glad they believe it...I can make this post without fear of having someone shoot me for my ideas.
You're obviously friends with Tom Cruise.
I loved planetside but the best aspect of the game wasn't utilized by most people. Playing in a large guild with coordinated attacks over voice conferencing software was awesome. Multiple Galaxy drops with air support while armor columns moved in on the ground...mm I miss it.
There will NEVER be a "no-nerfs" policy in a MMORPG. Too many diviersified player opinions about what should/should not be powerful. Most nerfs are actually player community driven to some extent. Exploiting specific mechanics which make an encounter easier is a sure fire way to get nerfed. If anyone comes out with a no nerf policy I'll be surprised as it will be a 100% FOTM class type game with little variation in the player base. However, I'm really glad you had the chance to sit down with Statesman and voice your opinion. Or...did you post it on a message board where you were just another whiner?
You're so right. Most don't care, don't know nor do they want to know. When Linux can be the right choice for those people, it will be as bloated as any Microsoft software on the market with just as many problems.
Is that a penguin in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
It's a fantasy genre - if tacos were part of the diet in medeival times great! However, I have never heard of a knight named anything resembling what I can pick up at taco bell. Don't want a name change? Don't use a stupid irrelevant name when you create the character. My biggest gripe with MMORPGs is that people seem to confuse them with DOOM. Wannabe l33t kiddies playing a game coming up with something stupid instead of something with real originality that took thought. Glad you got the name change - next time you sign up for an MMORPG, choose something appropriate. I make it a habit of petitioning stupid names in games just so idiots like this will think twice next time they start a character.
You actually went to a meeting? How much mail have you gotten? :)
Yea, you should be scared of Xenu or being labeled as "Fair Game"
I mean, the father of the internet and the "information superhighway" should have a say in who controls it. My vote goes that the internet be controlled now by CURRENT, the hip new news network that even Tipper approves of.
The New Evil Empire strikes again. /. always praises anything google does and treats its every move like a miracle in the making. This event, however, google is showing they have no regard for their customers. 5 more years and the world will hate them more than Bill Gates...just watch.
The patent system has been around for years. Also, it doesn't last forever, therefore things can and will become mainstream. I agree that litigous people are a problem but at times you do have to take the bad with the good. Personally *America* is a wonderful country to live and work in. Intellectual property rights for the most part were not as important in the last 100 years as they are today due to the ability to transfer information in so many formats and do so much with "intangible" products such as data, software, digital music and digital film/movies. The process of dealing with these new hurdles is still in its infancy therefore laws may seem a little "out of date" to some. Over time, things will smooth out but personally I see nothing wrong with protecting someone's property - even if its an intangible.
I also disagree. Capatalism gives you the right to choose in the market place what you will or will not pay for but right now I think there is a huge rift being formed just on the basis of "Do they sell a commercial product or do they give it away?" Since most of those on slashdot are advocates of free software of course any company choosing to sell a product, try to be successful and employ people (which drives our economy) is going to be the bad guy.
I'm sure I'm just stating the obvious here but Dell is a PC and PC Server manufacturer. They use an OEM version of Microsoft's Windows which includes some hardware specific things as well as some of their own software installed. However, they do not have a truly custom version of Windows as Microsoft's codebase is, as we all know, locked down. Redhat is in contrast a software company. It maintains a specific flavor of Linux that it uses for monetary gain through sales and software support. Linux/Redhat may be free but Redhat has to make money somehow. Their software is their revenue stream. Dell's is hardware. The two are VERY different and to believe they are the same, as much as you'd like to, is incorrect.
You know, whenever there is a story with Microsoft stating something about Linux or a writer compares the two and says something more favorable about Microsoft the half-penguin/half-sheep here start crying conspiracy. Countless times an author of a story has been trampled on this site due to past affiliations or past viewpoints. It is fairly obvious that Dvorak is not objective and his points are nothing more than attacks fired at MS and praises aimed at Linux. Show me something completely non-biased.
Imagine someone driving to work, doing her make up, drinking a cup of coffee, talking on the phone all while catching up on the latest episode of Days of Our Lives. There are some places technology like this becomes more of a distraction than entertainment.
It depends. Did someone pay for the book? Did a library buy the book? Did you borrow the book from someone who paid for the book?
As someone with a few books published myself, I have no problem with fair use. A lot of people who post here however seem to have problems with copyright laws in general and that is disturbing. You see too many posts on /. where people think they deserve something because its in an electronic format. MP3 downloaders - do you walk into Best Buy and just walk out with a few CDs? Why not? Same thing - when you buy a CD you are buying the right to play the music on your CD until your hearts content privately and for personal use. If you take a CD and you bring in business or entertain customers with it - it no longer falls under the "license" and you are required to pay BMI, ASCAP or SESAC.
Books are the same - walk into a Barnes and Noble, grab a book and head out the door without paying for it. You're a thief! But, looking up the full text of the book as scanned into a system is fine right? You didn't pay for it but its in digital format.
Where did the line of right and wrong get skewed by media type? Digital media = free for all but physical media is a different story.
I'm not angry at Microsoft because I see it as their choice whether or not to support OpenDocument. If Ford decides to use 15" wheels vs 17" wheels that is their choice. They should not be forced to because Michelin may only want to make 16" tires and the government only wanted to use Michelin. So now the government decides to go with Nissan, replace all of their vehicles because the tire they want to use does not fit on what they have. It's insane government spending "just because they want to". Lets see how things pan out when Mass. tries to send a document containing state extradition orders to New Mexico and the New Mexico DA can't open them. Fun fun fun!
1) Again, this software needs to be developed and people hired to implement it. Depending on how long that takes the move might be completed before then. Why wait when this software probably is already in-place with other systems that they curently use? Why incur the excess cost of developing these systems from the ground up? (seriously, it will be budgeted even if its "free") 2) If it is more mature, why is 1 an issue?
Is OSS free? Sure. Is OSS free to implement? No it's not. How many people here make a living off of running Linux for a corporation? Are you paid for your work? Sure you are. To implement such broad sweeping changes is going to cost a lot of money. Money that as a citizen I would rather not have my tax dollars diverted to when more than likely what they have will work. He makes a lot of valid points if you get your head out of the sand and stop trying to see it as an attack on FOSS. Americans with Disabilities Act....a friend of mine is legally blind. He can see a little but not enough to drive a car. If the company he works for couldn't provide a way for him to do his job equally well with all of the other "sighted" people he'd have a major lawsuit. Face it, most FOSS isn't mature enough. It's built to do things the "programmer's way".