All these new versions of Windows with some sort of focused audience, or supposed focus audience are making me wonder...
Has Microsoft gotten to the point where it feels it needs to create it's own alternatives in the same market it has sought to crush all the alternatives of others?
The US has more people? You're kidding, right?/end sarcasm
This is by percentage. What it means is that for some reason the US is adopting broadband SLOWER than other nations.
All it means is that there is something that is preventing the adoption. It may be something as simple as the price is too high. Or it could be more complex, such as a societal attitude among those who don't adopt that the internet is just hype.
I'm not trying to troll, but is money really this tight in the US? We're not rich in Canada, in fact our GDP per head is a few thousand lower than you guys. But we have money for broadband, and our public schools, roads, and bridges while underfunded aren't as bad as you are describing.
Is there really that little money left over for society once the corporations have had their fill? Do they really have that much power that they can shut down municipal WiFi like I've read in previous slashdot articles? I'd hate to be a commie, but maybe corporations should be taxed more so that some of the money goes back to society. Not all redistribution of wealth by the government is evil.
In fact what's so bad about governments reigning in corporations anyways? What was really bad about communism/socialism was the rights violations. Freedom is important, and a fundamental American value. It's important to me too. But you guys need to get to a point where freedom is restrained when it affects other people's rights. For example, large corporations making it difficult for you guys to get broadband internet.
Well, it might be both. I've noticed that capacitors closer to the CPU heatsink fail first. So it could be that the electrolyte problem is aggravated by heat.
All the heat that processors these days are producing have effects other than just wasting energy.
I work at the local computer repair shop while going to school, and right now we check every incoming system for bristling capacitors. About 25% of the time they have bad capacitors. Why? Heat from the CPU is causing them to overheat, expand, and become useless.
If you haven't looked at your own motherboard recently, make a point to. Capacitors should have entirely flat tops. Anything else means they are on the way to destruction.
I will third this. I'm 20 and have made a point to stop paying for cable. There is no reason for me to pay to be advertised to. None.
There are a few shows I like, such as Seinfeld. Why not watch them on DVD? No commercials.
of a history teacher I had in high school. He insisted on us handing in M$ Word.doc files. No paper hand-ins accepted.
I later found out why from someone who had been taught by him before. He would take 100% - the percentage of passive sentences found by the Word program. So I intstantly started handing in garbage essays with 0% passive sentences.
They have to use some sort of sensationalism to even get heard.
Writing sober, well researched articles gets you one thing. People's attention span runs out because they'd rather hear something sensational.
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He is an asshole, but he may have pointed out something useful. This is something the Firefox team ought to fix, i.e. cannot open more than 16 or 32 tabs within a 5 second time period.
I don't think it's about Microsoft. *nix is a great way to get around Microsoft without going to the Mac. I think what is causing the recent trend towards Macs is actually more to do with hardware. PowerPC is a better architecture than x86 as of right now. And Apple's notebooks are particularily good.
I think a situation could arise in which the US military attacked a country which is home to an OSS contributor. In fact, it probably already has. But what if this contributor had given to a OSS project used by the US military while his nation had been at peace with the US? What sort of ethical dilemmas would this create. Especially if he were killed in the proceeding military action.
I think announcing that you plan on tackling MicroSoft head on is a big statement. It means either you're delusional, or you think you have a product that is so much better that no one could resist it. Or maybe a little of both.
I applaud Novell for having the guts to try to tackle MicroSoft. But I think they have their work cut out for them.
When it comes to programming I know very little. My background is mostly in electronics and as a computer service tech. But I'd have to say I love scripting languages.
I have a final project in my computer engineering diploma in which we are trying to monitor and control a few security devices over the web. The focus is about split equally between design of a PCB w/ microcontroller and getting the code written. Since my only formal training was in C, and at first I considered using C for the majority of the programming. However after some research I stumbled upon scripting languages.
The result is that instead of a cumbersome 1000 line C program which would be a huge time sink, I have several small C programs connected with script. I'm using a combination of Bash script, PERL, and Java. I had to learn the basics of each but in the end that was faster and easy to debug. The time I saved went into more hardware hacking and making sure that the electronics portion worked better. In the end it made for a project that was much more fun.
But it would be much better if you kept on his good side for the reference and ability to keep this as positive work experience on your resume.
Use the fact that you are only legally required to give him 2 weeks notice and nothing else as leverage. Then offer him to do what you think is reasonable. Maybe that's only giving him 1 month notice if a new job doesn't give you freedom to be on call for him. Maybe that means being on call only at times you set. Or maybe you can just offer to train the next guy for a little while.
Offer what you think you should be required to do after reminding your boss that you are not obliged to do anything. This might lower your bosses unreasonable expectations.
I think you hit the nail right on the head for me. I agree, Bill/Microsoft/Windows are no longer what PCs are about.
Microsoft certainly has a huge following in business software, but the hot topics in PERSONAL computers are ipods, torrents, firefox, etc. None of these are Microsoft products. The fact that PCs run Windows is nearly irrelevant now. What is relevant is the cool new apps people are finding. All Windows does is slow a PC user down. It fills up with viruses, spyware, and malware as people use their cool new apps.
I think this is the big chance for Apple and Linux. People love their apps, but they hate Windows.
It would be interesting to see how much business Intel theoretically lost to AMD as a result of their failed first 64-bit attempt and subsequent delay.
I plan on getting my mac mini. I've been looking for a way to not have to use Microsoft anymore and a combination of a new mac mini and an old machine running fedora is how I'll do it.
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I think Diakatana is a great model of what will likely happen to Microsoft, they'll take so long that they'll find that no one cares anymore.
Has Microsoft gotten to the point where it feels it needs to create it's own alternatives in the same market it has sought to crush all the alternatives of others?
How ironic.
Whos watching the people watching the watchers? What about watchers for those people?
The US has more people? You're kidding, right? /end sarcasm
This is by percentage. What it means is that for some reason the US is adopting broadband SLOWER than other nations.
All it means is that there is something that is preventing the adoption. It may be something as simple as the price is too high. Or it could be more complex, such as a societal attitude among those who don't adopt that the internet is just hype.
Is there really that little money left over for society once the corporations have had their fill? Do they really have that much power that they can shut down municipal WiFi like I've read in previous slashdot articles? I'd hate to be a commie, but maybe corporations should be taxed more so that some of the money goes back to society. Not all redistribution of wealth by the government is evil.
In fact what's so bad about governments reigning in corporations anyways? What was really bad about communism/socialism was the rights violations. Freedom is important, and a fundamental American value. It's important to me too. But you guys need to get to a point where freedom is restrained when it affects other people's rights. For example, large corporations making it difficult for you guys to get broadband internet.
Will there be an update to the Mac Minis as a result of the new OS being released? When can we expect that?
Well, it might be both. I've noticed that capacitors closer to the CPU heatsink fail first. So it could be that the electrolyte problem is aggravated by heat.
I work at the local computer repair shop while going to school, and right now we check every incoming system for bristling capacitors. About 25% of the time they have bad capacitors. Why? Heat from the CPU is causing them to overheat, expand, and become useless.
If you haven't looked at your own motherboard recently, make a point to. Capacitors should have entirely flat tops. Anything else means they are on the way to destruction.
I will third this. I'm 20 and have made a point to stop paying for cable. There is no reason for me to pay to be advertised to. None. There are a few shows I like, such as Seinfeld. Why not watch them on DVD? No commercials.
I later found out why from someone who had been taught by him before. He would take 100% - the percentage of passive sentences found by the Word program. So I intstantly started handing in garbage essays with 0% passive sentences.
If I want to read news I'll have to wait for tommorow.
I've been waiting for this! Mac Mini here I come!
Writing sober, well researched articles gets you one thing. People's attention span runs out because they'd rather hear something sensational.
He is an asshole, but he may have pointed out something useful. This is something the Firefox team ought to fix, i.e. cannot open more than 16 or 32 tabs within a 5 second time period.
I don't think it's about Microsoft. *nix is a great way to get around Microsoft without going to the Mac. I think what is causing the recent trend towards Macs is actually more to do with hardware. PowerPC is a better architecture than x86 as of right now. And Apple's notebooks are particularily good.
I think a situation could arise in which the US military attacked a country which is home to an OSS contributor. In fact, it probably already has. But what if this contributor had given to a OSS project used by the US military while his nation had been at peace with the US? What sort of ethical dilemmas would this create. Especially if he were killed in the proceeding military action.
I always wanted a T-Rex as a pet. I could get it to eat my enemies!!!
I applaud Novell for having the guts to try to tackle MicroSoft. But I think they have their work cut out for them.
I have a final project in my computer engineering diploma in which we are trying to monitor and control a few security devices over the web. The focus is about split equally between design of a PCB w/ microcontroller and getting the code written. Since my only formal training was in C, and at first I considered using C for the majority of the programming. However after some research I stumbled upon scripting languages.
The result is that instead of a cumbersome 1000 line C program which would be a huge time sink, I have several small C programs connected with script. I'm using a combination of Bash script, PERL, and Java. I had to learn the basics of each but in the end that was faster and easy to debug. The time I saved went into more hardware hacking and making sure that the electronics portion worked better. In the end it made for a project that was much more fun.
BTW, I'm reading a lot of people posting 2 weeks isn't neccesary. It is here in Canada, but I guess it's not in the US.
Use the fact that you are only legally required to give him 2 weeks notice and nothing else as leverage. Then offer him to do what you think is reasonable. Maybe that's only giving him 1 month notice if a new job doesn't give you freedom to be on call for him. Maybe that means being on call only at times you set. Or maybe you can just offer to train the next guy for a little while.
Offer what you think you should be required to do after reminding your boss that you are not obliged to do anything. This might lower your bosses unreasonable expectations.
Microsoft certainly has a huge following in business software, but the hot topics in PERSONAL computers are ipods, torrents, firefox, etc. None of these are Microsoft products. The fact that PCs run Windows is nearly irrelevant now. What is relevant is the cool new apps people are finding. All Windows does is slow a PC user down. It fills up with viruses, spyware, and malware as people use their cool new apps.
I think this is the big chance for Apple and Linux. People love their apps, but they hate Windows.
It would be interesting to see how much business Intel theoretically lost to AMD as a result of their failed first 64-bit attempt and subsequent delay.
Did you actually read my whole post? I am aware of this and mentioned I will have an old machine running Fedora.
I plan on getting my mac mini. I've been looking for a way to not have to use Microsoft anymore and a combination of a new mac mini and an old machine running fedora is how I'll do it.