hate to tell ya this but retraining is not an imaginary cost it is very easily quantifiable ([hourly rate of person(s) to be trained * hours of training] + [hourly rate of trainer * hours of training * total number of sessions] + any initial training cost of the trainer if an employee) most of support and matince can also be covered in the IT retraining cost
the reason the cost doesn't come up for a XP vista move is if you're a corporate customer you pay a yearly fee for service/support including training on any new elements and a desk jockey that's using an office suite, CAD program, DTP program ect all day it's a total non-issue since all their skill and training is in the specific program that they use. Retraining does however become an issue for them if the program they use day in and day out is only on one platform and the company changes to another platform (xp to red hat for example) and they are forced to change to a program that has different commands, different methods of preforming the same action and that may or may not even be able to use the preexisting files and if it can't those all need to be redone
apple and MS do listen to what their customers say if they don't vista happens granted it's not fast but it does tend to work better that linux where there's no motivation to do what the users want since if someone switches it's not like you lost a customer
the major problem i've seen in linux is that it's written by linux users
doesn't make sense? think about it a moment.
the people that code linux and therefore add the features and interface don't have the total computer idiot in marketing asking What is it? How do i use it? Why do i want it? the second question is most important here if you started in command line (DOS 3.1 for me) you don't mind using it if you have to but the people needed to bring the pipe dream of linux overthrowing the evil empire about are normal users these are people who want it to be simple they want a simple GUI not multi-switch command prompts the people coding linux want the neat little tricks they worry about 2% speed gains in code this is not something that normal people care about.
the biggest problem linux has are the distros everyone is different and one that does everything you want may not exist not an issue if you know how to code a major deal breaker if you don't sit down to any version of windows since 95 and you can figure out the basics in a couple moments because they all share a common layout and the GUIs work more or less the same i've yet to use 2 linux distros that act the same out of the box
sony went from top of the heap to last place in 1 generation most of it's exclusive games have jumped GTA 360 and PS3 both devil may cry same thing Final Fantasy 13 is being delayed on PS3 so that 360 gamers get it at the same time in the US square has exclusive RPGs on consoles other than sony for the first time in what 10 years? a quick check shows that for every 2 PS3s nearly 3 360s have sold and almost 5 WIIs have sold (20.81m vs 28.91m vs 47.57m respectively) when you drop from a distant first vs a first time console maker to third with a nearly 3-2 deficit from 2nd place that's a flop it's not an epic level blunder i'll grant but it's by no means a success.
oh and a personal rant from a retail employee: stop changing the fucking hardware! i am sick and tired of explaining the differences between the like 6 different SKUs and why the new one you want to buy won't play PS2 games at all unlike the one your buddy got 2 years ago does.
they can't compete against a 5 store chain started in a dorm room (http://rock30games.com/) that buys higher and sells cheaper than GS last time i saw a copy of left for dead with them they were buying at $28 (i bought it before it even hit the shelf) here they even have managed to slow down game sales in the big box stores
amazon is meaningless anyone with a local B\S\T game shop will go there to avoid shipping problems, time delays, option to get cash instead of credit not to mention that at rock30 at least they guarantee the stuff is going to work or they take it back
moral of the story: if you're in or near a decent sized town (this place is 18k when the college is in session 15-16 normally) do some digging you're probably going to find a B\S\T somewhere and it'll smoke any national chain
on my 360 alone i currently have 32 games 1 is four disks 1 is 3 disks and 10 are 2 disks total about 47 disks assuming DVD10s that's roughly 470GB the largest drive for a 360 is 120gb and $150
maybe it'll work on PC where storage is cheap but personally if i want to play lost odyssey i don't want to have to wait for a 4DVD download to finish the entire reason i gave up PC gaming was the wait times for install/patch are too damn long sure as hell don't want to have to download from blitzed servers on release day
hate to tell ya this but roaming is whatever the carrier says is roaming my home area goes roughly 150 miles in all directions from here i go 20 miles in the right direction and the only signal is from a roaming (for me) tower geography has nothing to do with roaming what access point you're connected to makes all the difference
AKA check your damn phone display it will tell you these things people
actually as of 2/17 they don't have to keep analog on they just don't have to turn it off though all of the local stations here have said on the 17th analog is shutting down permanently so here at least the new law was a total waste of time
It's not that hard to anticipate a UAC question, really. Just ask yourself: "Would Linux require root for this?"
i don't use linux
my father doesn't use linux
no one i actually know in meat-space uses linux other than as an embedded hardware controller
therefore i cannot answer that question expecting any exclusive windows user to be able to answer that question is naive and unrealistic.
Give any nontechnical user 5 of those prompts in a day when they are just trying to install their software on a new machine and they will never read the prompt again it becomes nothing more than security theater.
in theory the only cell phones there ARE authorized and honestly if they can get a phone in and hide it do you really think it would be hard for them to discover an authorized number and hijack it whenever they want to make a call?
and how pissed would Senator McMoron be when he came for a tour before deciding on the budget requests and found out his phone isn't authorized
How can a local entity possibly have the technical expertise and know how to operate any kind of jamming equipment safely?
pre-configured total black-out system flip switch everything goes dark? it's not like the average cell/computer/internet/car user has any clue how the device actually works just turn it on and go
They tried that defense (intimately tied to the OS) at the original antitrust trials and an expert was able to remove IE back then in less than an hour.
except even then typing a URL in a folder window brought up the website
but that's what happens now no mater which one is bundled the others will complain the only fair way is to bundle every browser with every computer.
of course then users will be pissed because they have at least 5 programs all to do the same thing wasting their drive space.
there is always the other insane option where you make your product so much better/easier/faster than what comes bundled that people look at it and say "I want that one!" most people use the bundled software because 90% of the time it just works you have to make it work 99% of the time and do it faster and easier to boot.
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some of us don't have perfectly aligned eyes and the "3D" effect isn't cool to people like me it gives me a raging headache for hours
till someone's bored enough to try and cram a linux distro on it?
triple click
'nough said
hey he's got a lot of shrinking to do before most of the other planets can even talk (when it's bigger then YOU you have no room to talk)
hate to tell ya this but retraining is not an imaginary cost it is very easily quantifiable ([hourly rate of person(s) to be trained * hours of training] + [hourly rate of trainer * hours of training * total number of sessions] + any initial training cost of the trainer if an employee) most of support and matince can also be covered in the IT retraining cost
the reason the cost doesn't come up for a XP vista move is if you're a corporate customer you pay a yearly fee for service/support including training on any new elements and a desk jockey that's using an office suite, CAD program, DTP program ect all day it's a total non-issue since all their skill and training is in the specific program that they use. Retraining does however become an issue for them if the program they use day in and day out is only on one platform and the company changes to another platform (xp to red hat for example) and they are forced to change to a program that has different commands, different methods of preforming the same action and that may or may not even be able to use the preexisting files and if it can't those all need to be redone
apple and MS do listen to what their customers say if they don't vista happens granted it's not fast but it does tend to work better that linux where there's no motivation to do what the users want since if someone switches it's not like you lost a customer
the major problem i've seen in linux is that it's written by linux users
doesn't make sense? think about it a moment.
the people that code linux and therefore add the features and interface don't have the total computer idiot in marketing asking What is it? How do i use it? Why do i want it? the second question is most important here if you started in command line (DOS 3.1 for me) you don't mind using it if you have to but the people needed to bring the pipe dream of linux overthrowing the evil empire about are normal users these are people who want it to be simple they want a simple GUI not multi-switch command prompts the people coding linux want the neat little tricks they worry about 2% speed gains in code this is not something that normal people care about.
the biggest problem linux has are the distros everyone is different and one that does everything you want may not exist not an issue if you know how to code a major deal breaker if you don't sit down to any version of windows since 95 and you can figure out the basics in a couple moments because they all share a common layout and the GUIs work more or less the same i've yet to use 2 linux distros that act the same out of the box
what happens when my ISP has another 5 day outage are they removed then? no? not good enough
sony went from top of the heap to last place in 1 generation most of it's exclusive games have jumped GTA 360 and PS3 both devil may cry same thing Final Fantasy 13 is being delayed on PS3 so that 360 gamers get it at the same time in the US square has exclusive RPGs on consoles other than sony for the first time in what 10 years? a quick check shows that for every 2 PS3s nearly 3 360s have sold and almost 5 WIIs have sold (20.81m vs 28.91m vs 47.57m respectively) when you drop from a distant first vs a first time console maker to third with a nearly 3-2 deficit from 2nd place that's a flop it's not an epic level blunder i'll grant but it's by no means a success.
oh and a personal rant from a retail employee: stop changing the fucking hardware! i am sick and tired of explaining the differences between the like 6 different SKUs and why the new one you want to buy won't play PS2 games at all unlike the one your buddy got 2 years ago does.
they can't compete against a 5 store chain started in a dorm room (http://rock30games.com/) that buys higher and sells cheaper than GS last time i saw a copy of left for dead with them they were buying at $28 (i bought it before it even hit the shelf) here they even have managed to slow down game sales in the big box stores
amazon is meaningless anyone with a local B\S\T game shop will go there to avoid shipping problems, time delays, option to get cash instead of credit not to mention that at rock30 at least they guarantee the stuff is going to work or they take it back
moral of the story: if you're in or near a decent sized town (this place is 18k when the college is in session 15-16 normally) do some digging you're probably going to find a B\S\T somewhere and it'll smoke any national chain
storage
on my 360 alone i currently have 32 games 1 is four disks 1 is 3 disks and 10 are 2 disks total about 47 disks assuming DVD10s that's roughly 470GB the largest drive for a 360 is 120gb and $150
maybe it'll work on PC where storage is cheap but personally if i want to play lost odyssey i don't want to have to wait for a 4DVD download to finish the entire reason i gave up PC gaming was the wait times for install/patch are too damn long sure as hell don't want to have to download from blitzed servers on release day
hate to tell ya this but roaming is whatever the carrier says is roaming my home area goes roughly 150 miles in all directions from here i go 20 miles in the right direction and the only signal is from a roaming (for me) tower geography has nothing to do with roaming what access point you're connected to makes all the difference
AKA check your damn phone display it will tell you these things people
if you can see the ship then check your phone if it's cell is hot you may connect to it
doesn't use of that group require acceptance of the ToS thus making it look like petty whining rather than an actual protest
sound would be too slow most high power rifle rounds are super-sonic
not really a good thing when you think about it
most lefties myself included still mouse right handed
actually as of 2/17 they don't have to keep analog on they just don't have to turn it off though all of the local stations here have said on the 17th analog is shutting down permanently so here at least the new law was a total waste of time
juenger1701
It's not that hard to anticipate a UAC question, really. Just ask yourself: "Would Linux require root for this?"
i don't use linux
my father doesn't use linux
no one i actually know in meat-space uses linux other than as an embedded hardware controller
therefore i cannot answer that question expecting any exclusive windows user to be able to answer that question is naive and unrealistic.
Give any nontechnical user 5 of those prompts in a day when they are just trying to install their software on a new machine and they will never read the prompt again it becomes nothing more than security theater.
juenger1701
in theory the only cell phones there ARE authorized and honestly if they can get a phone in and hide it do you really think it would be hard for them to discover an authorized number and hijack it whenever they want to make a call?
and how pissed would Senator McMoron be when he came for a tour before deciding on the budget requests and found out his phone isn't authorized
juenger1701
How can a local entity possibly have the technical expertise and know how to operate any kind of jamming equipment safely?
pre-configured total black-out system flip switch everything goes dark? it's not like the average cell/computer/internet/car user has any clue how the device actually works just turn it on and go
juenger1701
They tried that defense (intimately tied to the OS) at the original antitrust trials and an expert was able to remove IE back then in less than an hour.
except even then typing a URL in a folder window brought up the website
juenger1701
but that's what happens now no mater which one is bundled the others will complain the only fair way is to bundle every browser with every computer.
of course then users will be pissed because they have at least 5 programs all to do the same thing wasting their drive space.
there is always the other insane option where you make your product so much better/easier/faster than what comes bundled that people look at it and say "I want that one!" most people use the bundled software because 90% of the time it just works you have to make it work 99% of the time and do it faster and easier to boot.
or you can just sue
juenger1701
would still be nice if it didn't lock up every browser i've ever seen with it's 20 min load time
90% of games that came out wouldn't suck
juenger1701
smashing still leaves potently usable pieces thermite leaves only molten slag