I'm not familiar with installing OSX on netbooks, but if Apple gets angry that instead of buying a >$1000 Macbook you get a $500 netbook and only pay them $129 for the license, they could start banning stuff like EFI emulators, checking hardware's serial numbers and vendors (an Atom CPU definitely means non-Apple hardware).
On a sligtly unrelated topic - if Apple knows the exact amount of Macs sold, they could use that number to limit the number of OSX installation DVDs.
It runs on Linux? Retraining will be needed only once while every new version of Office will cost something like $400. If a few clients upgrade to a new version of Office and send you stuff in an incompatible format you'll be forced to upgrade.
I live in Russia, and my understanding of the government's Linux usage is this: A few projects are being written using FOSS software, and depending on the outcome Linux will be either considered for other uses or will be abandoned completely. Corruption is a big problem because some companies (mostly Microsoft) bribe the people deciding which software will be installed. Police raids searching for illegal software only accept a receipt or a license with a hologram. These are mostly directed at companies and, recently, individuals who install or troubleshoot software for a living. Even if you use Ubuntu you'll probably be considered a pirate 'cause you won't be able to show valid proof that the software is legally purchased. Some companies sell an Ubuntu DVD plus a license certificate for a nominal fee. Another problem is the so-called "otkat" bribery: when a manager buys Windows for his company for $200, he may ask the store to sell it for $300 (and print a receipt for $300), and split the $100 difference between himself and the store's manager. Linux costs less or is even free, so less money may be extracted from its purchase.
OTOH, I was recently applying for a new passport and the whole system was running on Linux. It automatically OCRed the forms and extracted stuff like signatures, placing them in a database. The system was very simple to use, the computer booted and the app started automatically, it was written in QT3; the OS was some kind of custom Linux distribution based on AltLinux (which itself was forked from an old Mandrake release). And, Microsoft started suing organisations using pirated software, the solution is either switching to Linux and spending money on training employees, or spending about the same amount on Windows+Office. If enough companies choose the first option, it may actually become the year of Linux on the desktop. Especially since the recent crisis lowered salaries and increased prices of foreign goods by nearly 30-40%.
If 64-bit Windows 7 would be slow like the 64bit edition Ubuntu 8.10, then no thanks. The thing uses 1 gig of RAM for mail and web browsing. Java apps use nearly twice the RAM compared to the 32-bit edition because there are too many pointers. The same with gcc, a simple build task consumes 500 megs of RAM compared to 350 in 32-bit. So one gigabyte in 64-bit Ubuntu is as slow as 512 megs in Vista.
Oh, and netbooks run on Celeron or Atom CPUs, meaning Microsoft would have to continue selling Windows XP.
Dropbox already does this. You install their software and choose a local folder, if you add or change anything, it will be uploaded by the app running background.
Chrome's V8 javascript language compiles Javascript into native code, that's one of the main reasons it's so fast. Also, it uses a lot of platform-specific hacks to do this, especially for memory managemen, support for multitasking etc.
Student editions are much, much cheaper. For example, a complete version of Matlab costs around $20000 for students $50000 for government agencies $150000 for commercial organizations The only difference is a "student edition" message that is displayed along with the "command prompt initialized" message. And no student will need the $20K copy, probably the needed modules will cost $1000.
But what if the server belongs to the same organization that's using the software (like Sharepoint)? Admins would definitely like this since users won't be able to break, misconfigure or infect their PCs. And things like hardware or software updates or new software installations can be done from a central location without going to every PC and distracting users from doing work. However when everything is web-based the client OS doesn't matter, and Windows on the desktop can be easily replaced with something else. I think that's actually the direction Microsoft may be heading - selling server software that works with thin clients. Windows 2008 server (and probably 2003 too) usually gets favorable reviews, unlike Vista.
I am a Oracle Magazine subscriber (free magazine, totally useless but great when I need quality paper for packaging). Once they sent a "special edition" magazine with a promotional CD included; it was sent in a standard A4 envelope. Well, the Oracle guys decided it was a really important CD and sent me another copy, just to make sure. It was in a paper CD envelope, like Ubuntu's free CDs, but the paper was much thinner. The paper envelope was put in bubble wrap, and the bubble wrap was put in a cardboard box the size of a 500-page A4 paper pack. The cardboard box was sent as a DHL package, the delivery was priced something like $20-$30 (paid by Oracle). And the best part? The DHL-shipped version arrived a month later than the copy I received with the magazine (and probably was free for Oracle to ship since they already paid for shipping the magazine).
You are 100% correct - and this application DOES fix the screen squeal on mine. However, I truly wonder how many people use these devices (any of the palm lineup) and don't realize this?
I tried this on my Zire 71 and the touchscreen went nuts. Even after calibrating some small icons needed to be pressed 5 millimeters above their images in order to work. After removing the app everything was back to normal. Also, I had a similar problem on a Palm m105 handheld, the Graffiti area had some serious misalignment problems, in fact drawing a straight horizontal line resulted in a line that first went up, then down and ended being recognized as the letter A.
That's the whole point of doing an RC - if it's good enough, the installer package is renamed and that's the thing that changes. Not like some Release Candidates (like Vista RC2 which had some old sounds from XP). And even Fx3 beta 4 was good enough that when I used it didn't crash at all; hell, Ubuntu 8.04 comes with beta 5 and it's considered to be a really stable release:-)
If you have several PCs with servers running get multiple IPs or run ipv6 or something. Servers are integrated in a lot of applications, for example the eDonkey2000 p2p protocol won't connect two users who have a "low-id" (no port forwarding). A low-id and a high-id user can connect because the low-id can establish a TCP connection to the high-id user because the low-id client knows which port to connect to. And file transfers in IM clients usually only work when at least one user has proper port forwarding, because the receiving side acts as a server. ICQ is especially bad, they've even recently implemented a file-transferring proxy that is really slow but at least works most of the time.
Please mod parent up, UPNP is ideal for home networks when you have one external IP but several PCs have servers running (non-passive FTP transfers, VOIP apps, p2p software). Setting a DMZ is not an option, and manual configuration is usually horrible on consumer-grade routers (D-link hardware reboots after adding a new firewall rule, and these rules can be added only one at a time), and you still have to assign incoming ports in applications. UPNP makes port forwarding configuration as easy as checking a "use upnp" option in applications that support it.
Here's the example I've mentioned: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_digest.html The interesting part is under the "Working with MS Internet Explorer" header. I've seen the source code for that module and it's a bug that uses the wrong URI when generating a response. Not completely broken (and only a few servers use digest authentication), but since it's dealing with MD5 hashes the thing wouldn't work at all if Apache didn't introduce the hack.
Actually, pre-IE7 versions had a broken HTTP implementation. Not only do they fail to render pages properly, but they can't even ask the server nicely to get them:-) Apache even has a special mode in its HTTP Digest authentication module that enters an IE-quirks mode (tm) when the browser-agent is IE6 or less.
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I'm not familiar with installing OSX on netbooks, but if Apple gets angry that instead of buying a >$1000 Macbook you get a $500 netbook and only pay them $129 for the license, they could start banning stuff like EFI emulators, checking hardware's serial numbers and vendors (an Atom CPU definitely means non-Apple hardware).
On a sligtly unrelated topic - if Apple knows the exact amount of Macs sold, they could use that number to limit the number of OSX installation DVDs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies
As for AMD, they also want to outsource their chip production, I think they already spun off all production facilities into a new company.
Both ATI and Nvidia are fabless companies. They only design chips and then send the specs to a plant in China.
It runs on Linux?
Retraining will be needed only once while every new version of Office will cost something like $400. If a few clients upgrade to a new version of Office and send you stuff in an incompatible format you'll be forced to upgrade.
I live in Russia, and my understanding of the government's Linux usage is this:
A few projects are being written using FOSS software, and depending on the outcome Linux will be either considered for other uses or will be abandoned completely. Corruption is a big problem because some companies (mostly Microsoft) bribe the people deciding which software will be installed.
Police raids searching for illegal software only accept a receipt or a license with a hologram. These are mostly directed at companies and, recently, individuals who install or troubleshoot software for a living. Even if you use Ubuntu you'll probably be considered a pirate 'cause you won't be able to show valid proof that the software is legally purchased. Some companies sell an Ubuntu DVD plus a license certificate for a nominal fee.
Another problem is the so-called "otkat" bribery: when a manager buys Windows for his company for $200, he may ask the store to sell it for $300 (and print a receipt for $300), and split the $100 difference between himself and the store's manager. Linux costs less or is even free, so less money may be extracted from its purchase.
OTOH, I was recently applying for a new passport and the whole system was running on Linux. It automatically OCRed the forms and extracted stuff like signatures, placing them in a database. The system was very simple to use, the computer booted and the app started automatically, it was written in QT3; the OS was some kind of custom Linux distribution based on AltLinux (which itself was forked from an old Mandrake release).
And, Microsoft started suing organisations using pirated software, the solution is either switching to Linux and spending money on training employees, or spending about the same amount on Windows+Office. If enough companies choose the first option, it may actually become the year of Linux on the desktop. Especially since the recent crisis lowered salaries and increased prices of foreign goods by nearly 30-40%.
I think most interesting Geocities pages are already backed up to http://web.archive.org/
People worship XP, even though it was released just after WinME.
If 64-bit Windows 7 would be slow like the 64bit edition Ubuntu 8.10, then no thanks.
The thing uses 1 gig of RAM for mail and web browsing. Java apps use nearly twice the RAM compared to the 32-bit edition because there are too many pointers. The same with gcc, a simple build task consumes 500 megs of RAM compared to 350 in 32-bit. So one gigabyte in 64-bit Ubuntu is as slow as 512 megs in Vista.
Oh, and netbooks run on Celeron or Atom CPUs, meaning Microsoft would have to continue selling Windows XP.
Dropbox already does this. You install their software and choose a local folder, if you add or change anything, it will be uploaded by the app running background.
Chrome's V8 javascript language compiles Javascript into native code, that's one of the main reasons it's so fast. Also, it uses a lot of platform-specific hacks to do this, especially for memory managemen, support for multitasking etc.
Considering the price for sending one message in the US, compressing later into l8r lets you send more text for the same price :-)
Student editions are much, much cheaper.
For example, a complete version of Matlab costs around
$20000 for students
$50000 for government agencies
$150000 for commercial organizations
The only difference is a "student edition" message that is displayed along with the "command prompt initialized" message. And no student will need the $20K copy, probably the needed modules will cost $1000.
Google Gears doesn't allow creating new documents in Google Docs in offline mode. No printing or saving either.
When .NET 1.0 was released, ActiveState released Visual Perl, the product is dead since 2005, so probably nobody wanted it.
But what if the server belongs to the same organization that's using the software (like Sharepoint)? Admins would definitely like this since users won't be able to break, misconfigure or infect their PCs. And things like hardware or software updates or new software installations can be done from a central location without going to every PC and distracting users from doing work.
However when everything is web-based the client OS doesn't matter, and Windows on the desktop can be easily replaced with something else. I think that's actually the direction Microsoft may be heading - selling server software that works with thin clients. Windows 2008 server (and probably 2003 too) usually gets favorable reviews, unlike Vista.
What's the point of doing things the secure way when the bank's site can give away your data to anyone after an SQL injection atack?
I am a Oracle Magazine subscriber (free magazine, totally useless but great when I need quality paper for packaging). Once they sent a "special edition" magazine with a promotional CD included; it was sent in a standard A4 envelope. Well, the Oracle guys decided it was a really important CD and sent me another copy, just to make sure. It was in a paper CD envelope, like Ubuntu's free CDs, but the paper was much thinner. The paper envelope was put in bubble wrap, and the bubble wrap was put in a cardboard box the size of a 500-page A4 paper pack. The cardboard box was sent as a DHL package, the delivery was priced something like $20-$30 (paid by Oracle). And the best part? The DHL-shipped version arrived a month later than the copy I received with the magazine (and probably was free for Oracle to ship since they already paid for shipping the magazine).
Heavy gaming and double-booting? On an Eee PC?
they're still shipping an OS that lacks multitasking support and dates back to 2002
Microsoft's still shipping an OS released in 2001 and it seems everyone wants it instead of the OS shipped in 2007.
You are 100% correct - and this application DOES fix the screen squeal on mine. However, I truly wonder how many people use these devices (any of the palm lineup) and don't realize this?
I tried this on my Zire 71 and the touchscreen went nuts. Even after calibrating some small icons needed to be pressed 5 millimeters above their images in order to work. After removing the app everything was back to normal.
Also, I had a similar problem on a Palm m105 handheld, the Graffiti area had some serious misalignment problems, in fact drawing a straight horizontal line resulted in a line that first went up, then down and ended being recognized as the letter A.
That's the whole point of doing an RC - if it's good enough, the installer package is renamed and that's the thing that changes. Not like some Release Candidates (like Vista RC2 which had some old sounds from XP). :-)
And even Fx3 beta 4 was good enough that when I used it didn't crash at all; hell, Ubuntu 8.04 comes with beta 5 and it's considered to be a really stable release
And file transfers in IM clients usually only work when at least one user has proper port forwarding, because the receiving side acts as a server. ICQ is especially bad, they've even recently implemented a file-transferring proxy that is really slow but at least works most of the time.
Please mod parent up, UPNP is ideal for home networks when you have one external IP but several PCs have servers running (non-passive FTP transfers, VOIP apps, p2p software). Setting a DMZ is not an option, and manual configuration is usually horrible on consumer-grade routers (D-link hardware reboots after adding a new firewall rule, and these rules can be added only one at a time), and you still have to assign incoming ports in applications. UPNP makes port forwarding configuration as easy as checking a "use upnp" option in applications that support it.
Here's the example I've mentioned: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_digest.html
The interesting part is under the "Working with MS Internet Explorer" header.
I've seen the source code for that module and it's a bug that uses the wrong URI when generating a response. Not completely broken (and only a few servers use digest authentication), but since it's dealing with MD5 hashes the thing wouldn't work at all if Apache didn't introduce the hack.
Actually, pre-IE7 versions had a broken HTTP implementation. Not only do they fail to render pages properly, but they can't even ask the server nicely to get them :-) Apache even has a special mode in its HTTP Digest authentication module that enters an IE-quirks mode (tm) when the browser-agent is IE6 or less.