The note regarding hard drives isnt relevant - for two reasons.
1. A lot of us grew up during this time when hardware was struggling to keep up with business software constantly, but this has not been the case for the last 6 years - not for your average business user, at least. Anyone who has been using PCs since the 286 days knows what I mean.
2. Storage capacity is a different animal then CPU power. Your need for storage capacity was pushed by bigger apps on CDROM, MP3's, video, and digital photography and pr0n. The need for CPU power beyond that which is needed to run a web browser and MS Office for an average business user is more fixed.
There are just too many Linux people who feel that because you can accomplish this task or that with an application that it is somehow 'just as good' as another application. They refuse to accept the fact that the Human Interface Design, professional documentation, and seemingly 'minor' features the Linux application lacks are
User interface, designed workflow control, and substantially deep and broad documentation options and third-party support are HUGE, not marginal, elements of an application like Photoshop. ITS NOT JUST A BUNCH OF FILTERS. Also, most if not all GIMP features *follow*, not *lead*, photoshop implementations. Like most Linux desktop applications, it seeks to duplicate the features and usability of the gold standard commercial app, not lead it.
Someone else mentioned that you dont need Dreamweaver to develop webpages - entirely true - but if you are a professional website designer 90% of your workflow revolves around constant mockup revision negotiation between client and designer, following by a final code implementation.
Using Photoshop and/or Dreamweaver to revise mockups moves MUCH faster than hand-coding, and as such saves time and money. Also, it is advantageous to design in PS and/or DW because you focus on what the final page needs to look like, and not worry about how it needs to be coded, which is huge.
It really depends on the position and organization, but in general, if you were hired for IT, you shouldnt need any additional *formal* training in anything specific. If you need to do something with any particular package, you should be able to grab some documentation and at least get it to do what you need it to do whether you attended some seminar or not..
OK, so Apple adopted a unix OS architecture, an Intel hardware architecture, and the majority of Apple software sales are for Microsoft applications.
Why dont they just adopt the BeOS GUI and stick to selling MP3 players?;)
The new Intel Macs really present quite an issue for consumers - do you buy an Apple x86 computer that can only run an Apple OS, or *ANY OTHER* Intel computer which can run any x86 operating system *including* OSX???
Being the worlds most closed major consumer computering platform seemed more of a convenient technical byproduct in the PowerPC days, but now Apple is selling commodity hardware specifically broken to only run Apple.
If there were two pieces of software which I would say actively ward off more people from installing Linux, it is the boot loader and X video driver config.
Both of them can be installed without issue using any standard installer with a user accepting defaults, and the system can fail to boot properly which are very, very poorly documented to debug and repair, especially in a dual-boot scenario.
Recently I did a Suse 10 install, and it installed a video driver which even prevented Sax from working. Also, although I installed it on a secondary partition on my primary boot drive, for some reason it decided to install the boot loader on some other drive.
Both were a pain to fix, but I wouldnt know how a first-time Linux user would even know where to start.
This was absolutely true at Yahoo! for a while when I worked there as an engineer.
Its not a good idea though. Engineers get a big head and their productivity slows to a crawl and they start second guessing every decent business idea which involves them doing more work. They start believing their opinions and 'devils advocate' attitude are worth more than their code.
This was mostly true of the older white developers though, not the younger Asian ones.
I know engineering types love to dispel marketing myths, but its common knowledge that hybrids do not yet effect a cost savings - I mean, even my local Lexus dealer pointed this out to me (without my asking) when I checked out the 300h, no graphs needed.
"The Intel vs AMD battle of the benchmarks continues."
AMD has pretty much trounced Intel performance at every desktop and server pricepoint for the last 2 years at least, so who cares anymore? Even Dell has started carrying AMD CPU parts:
Dell is pretty much singlehandedly holding up Intel on the desktop, as they can drive the overall system price down on volume despite the higher-priced parts.
If their little Israel division hadnt come up with their M chips they'd even be worse off.
Anyone who has used both Usenet and Bittorrent knows that Usenet is for porn images and clips, Bittorrent is for everything else. The non-porn collection of video and image content on Usenet (and MP3 for that matter) is relatively small and completely random.
Guba trying to sell itself to Google as some sort of 'multimedia redistributor' is some really done-up dot-com mumbo-jumbo.
Anyone with geek cred uses usenetbinaries.com, they are like 3 times bigger than Guba and free.
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The note regarding hard drives isnt relevant - for two reasons. 1. A lot of us grew up during this time when hardware was struggling to keep up with business software constantly, but this has not been the case for the last 6 years - not for your average business user, at least. Anyone who has been using PCs since the 286 days knows what I mean. 2. Storage capacity is a different animal then CPU power. Your need for storage capacity was pushed by bigger apps on CDROM, MP3's, video, and digital photography and pr0n. The need for CPU power beyond that which is needed to run a web browser and MS Office for an average business user is more fixed.
They dont want native applications because they are more likely to brick the phone, causing warranty and customer support nightmare for carriers.
There are just too many Linux people who feel that because you can accomplish this task or that with an application that it is somehow 'just as good' as another application. They refuse to accept the fact that the Human Interface Design, professional documentation, and seemingly 'minor' features the Linux application lacks are User interface, designed workflow control, and substantially deep and broad documentation options and third-party support are HUGE, not marginal, elements of an application like Photoshop. ITS NOT JUST A BUNCH OF FILTERS. Also, most if not all GIMP features *follow*, not *lead*, photoshop implementations. Like most Linux desktop applications, it seeks to duplicate the features and usability of the gold standard commercial app, not lead it. Someone else mentioned that you dont need Dreamweaver to develop webpages - entirely true - but if you are a professional website designer 90% of your workflow revolves around constant mockup revision negotiation between client and designer, following by a final code implementation. Using Photoshop and/or Dreamweaver to revise mockups moves MUCH faster than hand-coding, and as such saves time and money. Also, it is advantageous to design in PS and/or DW because you focus on what the final page needs to look like, and not worry about how it needs to be coded, which is huge.
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It really depends on the position and organization, but in general, if you were hired for IT, you shouldnt need any additional *formal* training in anything specific. If you need to do something with any particular package, you should be able to grab some documentation and at least get it to do what you need it to do whether you attended some seminar or not..
OK, so Apple adopted a unix OS architecture, an Intel hardware architecture, and the majority of Apple software sales are for Microsoft applications. Why dont they just adopt the BeOS GUI and stick to selling MP3 players? ;)
The new Intel Macs really present quite an issue for consumers - do you buy an Apple x86 computer that can only run an Apple OS, or *ANY OTHER* Intel computer which can run any x86 operating system *including* OSX???
Being the worlds most closed major consumer computering platform seemed more of a convenient technical byproduct in the PowerPC days, but now Apple is selling commodity hardware specifically broken to only run Apple.
If there were two pieces of software which I would say actively ward off more people from installing Linux, it is the boot loader and X video driver config. Both of them can be installed without issue using any standard installer with a user accepting defaults, and the system can fail to boot properly which are very, very poorly documented to debug and repair, especially in a dual-boot scenario. Recently I did a Suse 10 install, and it installed a video driver which even prevented Sax from working. Also, although I installed it on a secondary partition on my primary boot drive, for some reason it decided to install the boot loader on some other drive. Both were a pain to fix, but I wouldnt know how a first-time Linux user would even know where to start.
As great as Linux is, the desktop pretty much speaks for itself that the inventor considered UI designers to be Nazis!
This was absolutely true at Yahoo! for a while when I worked there as an engineer. Its not a good idea though. Engineers get a big head and their productivity slows to a crawl and they start second guessing every decent business idea which involves them doing more work. They start believing their opinions and 'devils advocate' attitude are worth more than their code. This was mostly true of the older white developers though, not the younger Asian ones.
I know engineering types love to dispel marketing myths, but its common knowledge that hybrids do not yet effect a cost savings - I mean, even my local Lexus dealer pointed this out to me (without my asking) when I checked out the 300h, no graphs needed.
"The Intel vs AMD battle of the benchmarks continues."
AMD has pretty much trounced Intel performance at every desktop and server pricepoint for the last 2 years at least, so who cares anymore? Even Dell has started carrying AMD CPU parts:
http://tinyurl.com/c57po
Dell is pretty much singlehandedly holding up Intel on the desktop, as they can drive the overall system price down on volume despite the higher-priced parts.
If their little Israel division hadnt come up with their M chips they'd even be worse off.
Anyone who has used both Usenet and Bittorrent knows that Usenet is for porn images and clips, Bittorrent is for everything else. The non-porn collection of video and image content on Usenet (and MP3 for that matter) is relatively small and completely random. Guba trying to sell itself to Google as some sort of 'multimedia redistributor' is some really done-up dot-com mumbo-jumbo. Anyone with geek cred uses usenetbinaries.com, they are like 3 times bigger than Guba and free.