But, IBM's OS/2 (warp) was technically superior to windows.... who uses OS/2 today?
Windows won out due to marketing and IBM being slow out of the gate in understanding their competition's way of waging war.
DR/dos lost out even though it was technically better than MS/dos due to Microsoft sales people telling business' that it wasn't.
It's all nice and all, but if open video technology really wants to win, they have to be technically better. There is no other way.
Did Microsoft get to where it is today by delivering something that was technically better than the other offerings?
If we jump on board at wikipedia, then jump on board at other sites, we can make it happen....numbers is what counts. More companies are seeing open source being adopted and they see it (gnu/linux) is technically better, but it will still be numbers that will make them sit up and jump on board.
People still use windows because of numbers ("Everyone uses it"), not because it is technically better.
Think big and the change will come.
Try Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg, Ontario, Canada... it is very nice. The people there talk and act as if they are still living in that era, you can ride in a horse drawn cart and in a horse drawn boat. A walk around the village lets you see back in time to how the black-smith made horse-shoes, the broom-maker made brooms, etc. There is a mill there where they make boards out of trees in an actual working mill (powered by water). If you has the moolah (I think it was $20), you can dress in the old style and you can also ride a penny farthing bicycle!
I wanted to try the old-fashioned pan-fried perch, but hadn't the money. Ended our day with a loaf of fresh baked bread from a stone oven though!
It is old science, but very exciting (geek alert) science/tech.
I like the idea of freedom, plus the cool little things that users come up with and then implement... one of the cool things is Guake-terminal. Push F12 and i have a drop down console: push F11 and it is 'full screen'. I use it a lot!
Does Vista have anything like it? (or osx for that matter... asked a mac user once if it had a console and i got the 'WTF' look).
Don't know, just asking. I guess i like the little 'user defined' additions into gnu/linux.
WOWEEE WOWEE WOWEE!!!
Good question... as for the general world, we have non-users (yes, some people have no/limited use of PC's), to average users (ie:Windblows) to above average users. I think if Openoffice was used, there would be the same questions (at store level)... "how do i use this?"..."how do i open this"..."I just want to do this"...
if the buy-in comes from the head office, the store level will just adjust (as usual) as long as there is someone (head office level/store level) willing to put out the : Step One, click Start, Step Two, click Office... or whatever.
At store level, they don't care what program they use as long as there is a Step One, Step Two... etc written out for them...IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER!
Just do an out-line of how to do the process and it will be done.
I think OpenOffice.org has a good chance! (fingers crossed... they did implement linux on store servers after i crossed my fingers in 2008!)
I think it is a changing environment... we are starting a focus on store level customer experience, and then the HQ is hitting the distribution centre... i think some good changes are coming through the pipe, but of course the pipe is a slow moving one and good things take time. My HOPE is that when the management is having to input spreadsheet info, that we won't be using money better allocated to store level for things like microsoft excel!
I think that our head office has alot of smart people, i just hope they are seeing that a free download of openoffice is alot more cost efficient than microsoft office*(whatever).
I think things are going to get better. I live in Kingston... where do you shop?
i work for the largest drug store in Canada (shoppers drug mart) and they have moved all of the store servers to opensuse, and will have to be giving the store managers some kind of spreadsheet program for inputting data for sending to the head office. I am SUPREMELY hoping that they will be giving the managers the Openoffice suite for use at store level.
As it stands now, we at store level cannot even access the Internet or gmail due to (i guess) the fear of virii.
i am hoping that eventually, the head office will be moving everything into linux/gnu/openoffice/open software.
It is a pain that i cannot even access the internet to access the websites of products we are putting into a promo for our customers information.
You are CORRECT Sir!!
Any time gnu/linux is used (in whatever form), it is time to celebrate.
Besides, the ? linux is better than +linux is just a hormonal version of penis envy of those still using Windblows.
nudge, nudge, wink, wink!
I doubt a Foundation movie would be a success...
I think doing Clive Barkers Books of blood would be a bloody perfect movie/set of movies... thinking of the one story where the two villages people bind themselves together to become living behemoths that battle each other!
Wouldn't mind seeing some of Harlan Ellisons stuff either, but that would probably be too 'weird' for Hollywood...(From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet coming to mind) 8-)
Yeah, I hate it when people talk really LOUDLY and 'ooh, i am so important'(ly) on their phones... i feel like walking up beside them and pretending i am talking to someone on my phone saying,
"Yeah, i'll have to call you back. I have some doof talking really loudly on their phone and i can't hear a thing you're saying... makes phone sex kind of difficult!"
Have to try that some time just to see their reaction!
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But, IBM's OS/2 (warp) was technically superior to windows.... who uses OS/2 today?
Windows won out due to marketing and IBM being slow out of the gate in understanding their competition's way of waging war.
DR/dos lost out even though it was technically better than MS/dos due to Microsoft sales people telling business' that it wasn't.
It's all nice and all, but if open video technology really wants to win, they have to be technically better. There is no other way.
Did Microsoft get to where it is today by delivering something that was technically better than the other offerings?
If we jump on board at wikipedia, then jump on board at other sites, we can make it happen....numbers is what counts. More companies are seeing open source being adopted and they see it (gnu/linux) is technically better, but it will still be numbers that will make them sit up and jump on board.
People still use windows because of numbers ("Everyone uses it"), not because it is technically better.
Think big and the change will come.
Dang.... i wouldn't even live on the same planet as Microtoft if i could get elsewhere...
Come on Kirk... scoot back in time and pick me up.
I'll be the one willing to exchange a nice stout for a Romulan ale.
Linux... Live long and prosper!
I'm from Canada, eh!
Our floaters are Celine Dion, Bryan Adams
We're sorry... we're so, so very sorry for those two. So very, very sorry.
Sorry.
He didn't die, he experienced a phase transition and is now at a higher entropy level.
His entropy level now reaches 'Billions and Billions'.
The chances of anything cumming from Mars... That's what SHE said!
So what do i do? Cut off my John Thomas? Throw away those french ticklers? Stop having children like those members of the Presbyterian religion?
I say i should have the right to keep my John Thomas... i should be able to walk proudly into a store and ask the pharmacist for a CONDOM.
Every sperm is precious... la-la-la
Yes I do live in Ontario...and i'm proud of it. Just the other day i said to the pharmacist.......
I call bullshit on this article summary.
I call shenanigans on this article summary. (There, fixed that for you... now let's all get our brooms!)
Try Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg, Ontario, Canada... it is very nice. The people there talk and act as if they are still living in that era, you can ride in a horse drawn cart and in a horse drawn boat. A walk around the village lets you see back in time to how the black-smith made horse-shoes, the broom-maker made brooms, etc. There is a mill there where they make boards out of trees in an actual working mill (powered by water). If you has the moolah (I think it was $20), you can dress in the old style and you can also ride a penny farthing bicycle!
I wanted to try the old-fashioned pan-fried perch, but hadn't the money. Ended our day with a loaf of fresh baked bread from a stone oven though!
It is old science, but very exciting (geek alert) science/tech.
The Angels have the administrator.
Her name is Drive... Miss HARD DRIVE?
Her name is K. Board... you can put your fingers all over her?
Her name is Floppy B. Hard? Teri Bite?
Just askin'!
I, for one, say goodbye to our Martian overlords? On Soviet Mars, Venus pwns you? 1. fling mars 2. merge with venus 3. Profit?
It's all about the condoms...condoms...condoms...condoms...condoms...
(Cue the monkey dance)
I like the idea of freedom, plus the cool little things that users come up with and then implement... one of the cool things is Guake-terminal. Push F12 and i have a drop down console: push F11 and it is 'full screen'. I use it a lot! Does Vista have anything like it? (or osx for that matter... asked a mac user once if it had a console and i got the 'WTF' look). Don't know, just asking. I guess i like the little 'user defined' additions into gnu/linux.
For the Clock...work orange.
No alcohol has been harmed in the making of this .... ahh shite... whatever... oh.. crap... man that vodka is good...whatever... drool
getting an account and not posting a.c. would be a good first step!
I figured around step 2.5 there would be "Have sex."
!but then remembered what it was i was doing and where i was doing it and then....
I'm sorry... where was i?
WOWEEE WOWEE WOWEE!!! Good question... as for the general world, we have non-users (yes, some people have no/limited use of PC's), to average users (ie:Windblows) to above average users. I think if Openoffice was used, there would be the same questions (at store level)... "how do i use this?"..."how do i open this"..."I just want to do this"...
if the buy-in comes from the head office, the store level will just adjust (as usual) as long as there is someone (head office level/store level) willing to put out the : Step One, click Start, Step Two, click Office... or whatever.
At store level, they don't care what program they use as long as there is a Step One, Step Two... etc written out for them...IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER! Just do an out-line of how to do the process and it will be done.
I think OpenOffice.org has a good chance! (fingers crossed... they did implement linux on store servers after i crossed my fingers in 2008!)
I think it is a changing environment... we are starting a focus on store level customer experience, and then the HQ is hitting the distribution centre... i think some good changes are coming through the pipe, but of course the pipe is a slow moving one and good things take time. My HOPE is that when the management is having to input spreadsheet info, that we won't be using money better allocated to store level for things like microsoft excel!
I think that our head office has alot of smart people, i just hope they are seeing that a free download of openoffice is alot more cost efficient than microsoft office*(whatever).
I think things are going to get better. I live in Kingston... where do you shop?
i work for the largest drug store in Canada (shoppers drug mart) and they have moved all of the store servers to opensuse, and will have to be giving the store managers some kind of spreadsheet program for inputting data for sending to the head office. I am SUPREMELY hoping that they will be giving the managers the Openoffice suite for use at store level.
As it stands now, we at store level cannot even access the Internet or gmail due to (i guess) the fear of virii.
i am hoping that eventually, the head office will be moving everything into linux/gnu/openoffice/open software.
It is a pain that i cannot even access the internet to access the websites of products we are putting into a promo for our customers information.
You are CORRECT Sir!!
Any time gnu/linux is used (in whatever form), it is time to celebrate.
Besides, the ? linux is better than +linux is just a hormonal version of penis envy of those still using Windblows.
nudge, nudge, wink, wink!
I doubt a Foundation movie would be a success...
I think doing Clive Barkers Books of blood would be a bloody perfect movie/set of movies... thinking of the one story where the two villages people bind themselves together to become living behemoths that battle each other!
Wouldn't mind seeing some of Harlan Ellisons stuff either, but that would probably be too 'weird' for Hollywood...(From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet coming to mind) 8-)
Hey, I'm Canadian too, eh! ;-)
What's that all aboot?
Yeah, I hate it when people talk really LOUDLY and 'ooh, i am so important'(ly) on their phones... i feel like walking up beside them and pretending i am talking to someone on my phone saying,
"Yeah, i'll have to call you back. I have some doof talking really loudly on their phone and i can't hear a thing you're saying... makes phone sex kind of difficult!"
Have to try that some time just to see their reaction!
8-O