You may jest, but I personally find it's much easier to teach neophytes a simple text-based system than any type of supposedly friendly GUI. If they've used Windows before for any length of time the equation changes a little. Phone support is still much easier on a command-driven system.
How long will it be before Palm realises they're losing hardware *and* software sales and pulls an Apple and yanks the licence for the OS for this thing?
A lot of mine have this problem from the constant pulling down and replacing on my bookshelf. The plastic part of the corners peel up and look tacky, more than anything else.;-)
The way I see is that both Jobs and Gates are obviously maniacal, but with Jobs it's always about making the best products, whereas with Gates it is always about making the most money. As a consumer, I'm taking what's behind door number one.
Personally, I'm happy running text-only (i.e. non-X) apps and would love to be able to take a basic Linux system on the road that gave me access to Pine, vi, Perl and the other text-based apps I use on a daily basis. I could do this on a basic B&W LCD terminal with its own hard drive and save half the cost of the laptop... the fancy TFT and dual-scan monitors. I had a terminal similar to this back in the mid-eighties. Didn't have much in the way of its own storage, and the screen was 80x25 (or thereabouts). It was portable, light, battery-friendly, and functional. These days we can do better for a reasonable price, surely?
Anybody else be interested in something like that?
"It will move to keep its competitive edge". Why is it that those words send a chill down my spine? Methinks that would have more to do with evil-doing than actually innovating their way past Linux's current popularity.
Then I get to thinking that hell, they can do whatever they want, so long as I can continue to use a viable, secure, open operating system, why should I care whether the rest of the world is using it.
Ok. Everybody go back and read Neal Stephenson's excellent essay that the Cmdr so woefully relegated to "quickie" status yesterday. It'll take you an hour, but it'll clear a lot of this up.
At the time I made the post there was no other comment similar to mine. By the time it was posted, there were at least two others. Those are the breaks.
So XFree86 has been "adopted" by GNU, so that makes it ok to lump it in with the GNU name, but the Linux kernel's adoption of GNU software doesn't allow it to do the same thing?
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It's extortionately priced in the U.S. too.
The point, my dear coward, is not the locations of the objects, but the "not asking".
Real's habit of scattering bookmarks and icons and startup programs around my system without asking bugs me almost as much as this...
Yeah, but they sure as hell can't boot *Windows* off a CD can they. That's the point. You get a fully functioning OS of a bootable CD on the Mac.
You may jest, but I personally find it's much easier to teach neophytes a simple text-based system than any type of supposedly friendly GUI. If they've used Windows before for any length of time the equation changes a little. Phone support is still much easier on a command-driven system.
Um. Wouldn't a light switch be easier?
And when was the last time InstallShield's uninstall actually worked properly for anyone?
How long will it be before Palm realises they're losing hardware *and* software sales and pulls an Apple and yanks the licence for the OS for this thing?
A lot of mine have this problem from the constant pulling down and replacing on my bookshelf. The plastic part of the corners peel up and look tacky, more than anything else. ;-)
That message has been bugging me since I first saw it too.
Amen brother!
A witty anonymous coward. It's a freakin' Miracle!
I would add Werewolf and Riding with Death. Extremely good Mike episodes from last season.
The way I see is that both Jobs and Gates are obviously maniacal, but with Jobs it's always about making the best products, whereas with Gates it is always about making the most money. As a consumer, I'm taking what's behind door number one.
I was charged Texas sales tax.
Somebody moderate this up - this is right on the money.
Nobody ever gives me credit for the job I do every day. Why are movie-makers and developers so damn special?
20,000 people downloading that commment at once would Slashdot Slashdot, dumb-ass.
Classic! That's going to be wallpaper on my Windows partition. :-)
Personally, I'm happy running text-only (i.e. non-X) apps and would love to be able to take a basic Linux system on the road that gave me access to Pine, vi, Perl and the other text-based apps I use on a daily basis. I could do this on a basic B&W LCD terminal with its own hard drive and save half the cost of the laptop... the fancy TFT and dual-scan monitors. I had a terminal similar to this back in the mid-eighties. Didn't have much in the way of its own storage, and the screen was 80x25 (or thereabouts). It was portable, light, battery-friendly, and functional. These days we can do better for a reasonable price, surely?
Anybody else be interested in something like that?
"It will move to keep its competitive edge". Why is it that those words send a chill down my spine? Methinks that would have more to do with evil-doing than actually innovating their way past Linux's current popularity.
Then I get to thinking that hell, they can do whatever they want, so long as I can continue to use a viable, secure, open operating system, why should I care whether the rest of the world is using it.
Enough rambling.
Ok. Everybody go back and read Neal Stephenson's excellent essay that the Cmdr so woefully relegated to "quickie" status yesterday. It'll take you an hour, but it'll clear a lot of this up.
At the time I made the post there was no other comment similar to mine. By the time it was posted, there were at least two others. Those are the breaks.
What atrocious spelling? The grammar may not be of a writing standard but it's in conversational style, so I let it stand.
So XFree86 has been "adopted" by GNU, so that makes it ok to lump it in with the GNU name, but the Linux kernel's adoption of GNU software doesn't allow it to do the same thing?
You bring up an excellent point. :-)
I still regularly pull up my beloved Atari 800XL in a window of my PII 450 running the slightly more sophisticated Linux.
The good old days...