The time has come for Google to step into line,' one analyst said. 'It is in the interest of all shareholders, including the company's employees and officers, that the share price achieves some stability.'"
Uncertainty is also produced by analysts going on TV and speculating.
Worst of all are the short-sighted stock market gamblers who want ruinous long term tactics for short term profits.
Just imagine this: "Google isn't leveraging their home page with advertisments like Yahoo and MSN, so I'm downgrading their stock!" and drives the share price lower. The fact is if these analysts knew how to run a company they'd do it instead of offering armchair advice.
I'm not seeing anything new that will make my daily experience any better.
What I do want is a file system that doesn't fragment, better performance on my current hardware than XP, and some hard disk health-monitoring system. I want a media player that doesn't need to connect to Microsoft.com every time I open it. I want upgrades to the built-in suite of apps like Paint, WordPad, etc. I want to make my own skins and use them without adding 3rd party software. I want to have the option to keep transfering files if one fails to copy. I want QuickLaunch enabled by default, and I want a Default User Editor so I can easily edit the system for other accounts.
I don't want a bloody "Automatic Defragmenter" to "fix" a problem that should have been fixed ages ago. I don't want to pay for MS Hotmail to work with MS Mail. I don't want IE7 to save my typed URLs in the already bloated registry, don't want anything beyond my History.
In a corp. environment having a single system monoculture means you can easily roll out an image with everything preconfigured the way you like. Dell's lower end offerings seem to have some capacitor and hard disk issues from time to time, so getting a sub-500 system is asking for problems.
As for Dell's home offerings, their tech support will ask you to jump through an hour of troubleshooting before sending a $15 part. Not including reinstall media (make it yourself?!), and bundling tons of trialware reduces their value. I used to recommend Dell because they didn't load their systems with crap the way other companies do.
If you want a good Dell for your home, get a business system, since those aren't loaded up the way the home models are.
Dell may do it cheaper, but what is your sanity worth?
I hope they drop the Works writer program. For some foolish reason Works files cannot be opened in Word; the "solution" is to use Works to save it in DOC format (Which is not the default, again, why?).
2)The license collection is extremely inefficient. It involves hassle for the licensor, a draconian TV licensing authority (who make an enormous nuisance of themselves if you don't actually own a TV), and you cannot legally purchase any TV-capable equipment without giving a name and address to the retailer. [Yes, this is outrageous.] Enforcement and collection must cost a significant proportion of the total fee!
I'm amazed at how governments create a ridiculous number of taxes in a ridiculous number of places. Almost every one with a separate authority, usually inefficiently collecting.
Even with the rising costs of energy and the public good of well maintained highways, the US has passed a new law to add up to 25% more tolls. So they can tax your income, then the vehicle you buy, then the gas to power it, and then tax you for the roads as well. Not to mention the additional fuel that will be wasted at backups.
Why can't we just pay one Federal Tax, one State Tax, and one Local Tax? (I imagine it's varied outside the US.) Why do we need to be nickeled and dimed to death?
I don't know when the Tech Support went to hell but the machines quality dropped off right around the time the Pentium 3 was launched. Gateway was effected by the Capacitor Curse and knew it (thanks Siebel!) but wouldn't do anything about it. If you had a FlexCase system with an MSI board you were screwed, they didn't even have enough for warranty service so they gave huge discounts to those customers.
It is possible to use a hacked file to allow themes, but that wasn't the point. I should not need to hack Windows to use something they intentionally crippled.
Why do I need StyleXP (and an extra system service) to be running to allow their themes to work? If Vista doesn't include much simpler implementation for Themes it's just another reason to stay away from it.
You may remember technically minded people who knew to change it to W2K Style, but Microsoft forbid shipping PCs using that as default. As a result the early XP systems with 128MB RAM were dog slow. Sure made a lot of money for local shops selling "tune ups."
I would guess over 90% of/.ers (when forced to use Windows) use the W2K Style, with the rest enjoying XP's Aero or a 3rd party skinning app. I hope Microsoft opens up the format for the Themes so such an additional app isn't needed. It would be a step up in my book, and I imagine the big OEMs will want to tweak their own a bit.
If your staff at the HelpDesk / SysAdmin area is running at 100% all the time you're going to have employees who are skipping proper methodology, cutting corners and in the long run making the situation worse.
I am extremely grateful that at my new job that I work with a team, and we're not "maxxed out" all the time. This allows us to be proactive rather than purely reactive.
Being a Firefox user I've become accustomed to reading the BBC. They seem to treat most acronyms as ordinary words. Is this an analog/analogue issue? Where do the Austrailians stand?
If you take The Woz as Apple's number two, against Ballmer at Microsoft, Apple comes out on top and all is right with the world. Does Ballmer donate anything?
Can't you password protect your bios from being accessed? Or does that have nothing to do with overwriting it? Someone more knowledgeable give me clue.
Depends on the BIOS, I assume.
I imagine every/.er has run into the person who saw a news story on TV about hackers and thinks a BIOS password is somehow going to protect them. Meanwhile they have a handful of viruses running because Norton AV 2001 expired and they keep closing the warning window.
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All the OEMs should have a replacement install disc available for about $20. Don't give Microsoft another dime!
What if the copyright owner doesn't even offer the song/movie/whatever I'd be happy to pay them for?
Duke sucks.
Eventually Microsoft will sell a license chip that plugs right into the motherboard, and Windows 20xx won't boot without it.
I imagine most /.ers will avoid both formats until there is a clear winner, and the prices drop.
With higher quality home routers we're going to start seeing groups of people using a single line instead of each getting the service.
Uncertainty is also produced by analysts going on TV and speculating.
Worst of all are the short-sighted stock market gamblers who want ruinous long term tactics for short term profits.
Just imagine this: "Google isn't leveraging their home page with advertisments like Yahoo and MSN, so I'm downgrading their stock!" and drives the share price lower. The fact is if these analysts knew how to run a company they'd do it instead of offering armchair advice.
Meetup has a lot of conservative groups that will flee en masse if the liberal Viacom gets ahold of it.
What I do want is a file system that doesn't fragment, better performance on my current hardware than XP, and some hard disk health-monitoring system. I want a media player that doesn't need to connect to Microsoft.com every time I open it. I want upgrades to the built-in suite of apps like Paint, WordPad, etc. I want to make my own skins and use them without adding 3rd party software. I want to have the option to keep transfering files if one fails to copy. I want QuickLaunch enabled by default, and I want a Default User Editor so I can easily edit the system for other accounts.
I don't want a bloody "Automatic Defragmenter" to "fix" a problem that should have been fixed ages ago. I don't want to pay for MS Hotmail to work with MS Mail. I don't want IE7 to save my typed URLs in the already bloated registry, don't want anything beyond my History.
So which "MS Distro" is for me?
In a corp. environment having a single system monoculture means you can easily roll out an image with everything preconfigured the way you like. Dell's lower end offerings seem to have some capacitor and hard disk issues from time to time, so getting a sub-500 system is asking for problems.
As for Dell's home offerings, their tech support will ask you to jump through an hour of troubleshooting before sending a $15 part. Not including reinstall media (make it yourself?!), and bundling tons of trialware reduces their value. I used to recommend Dell because they didn't load their systems with crap the way other companies do.
If you want a good Dell for your home, get a business system, since those aren't loaded up the way the home models are. Dell may do it cheaper, but what is your sanity worth?
For the public, having a Tivo-like box without a monthly fee is nice. For us, it's the same appeal plus the "BSD on a toaster" geek bonus.
I hope they drop the Works writer program. For some foolish reason Works files cannot be opened in Word; the "solution" is to use Works to save it in DOC format (Which is not the default, again, why?).
I'm amazed at how governments create a ridiculous number of taxes in a ridiculous number of places. Almost every one with a separate authority, usually inefficiently collecting.
Even with the rising costs of energy and the public good of well maintained highways, the US has passed a new law to add up to 25% more tolls. So they can tax your income, then the vehicle you buy, then the gas to power it, and then tax you for the roads as well. Not to mention the additional fuel that will be wasted at backups.
Why can't we just pay one Federal Tax, one State Tax, and one Local Tax? (I imagine it's varied outside the US.) Why do we need to be nickeled and dimed to death?
I don't know when the Tech Support went to hell but the machines quality dropped off right around the time the Pentium 3 was launched. Gateway was effected by the Capacitor Curse and knew it (thanks Siebel!) but wouldn't do anything about it. If you had a FlexCase system with an MSI board you were screwed, they didn't even have enough for warranty service so they gave huge discounts to those customers.
Why do I need StyleXP (and an extra system service) to be running to allow their themes to work? If Vista doesn't include much simpler implementation for Themes it's just another reason to stay away from it.
I would guess over 90% of /.ers (when forced to use Windows) use the W2K Style, with the rest enjoying XP's Aero or a 3rd party skinning app. I hope Microsoft opens up the format for the Themes so such an additional app isn't needed. It would be a step up in my book, and I imagine the big OEMs will want to tweak their own a bit.
I am extremely grateful that at my new job that I work with a team, and we're not "maxxed out" all the time. This allows us to be proactive rather than purely reactive.
It's hard to recommend Norton when they require manual removal of malware files that aren't in memory. C'mon Symantec, that helps nobody!
I remember my father installing Windows 95 to play Close Combat.
Being a Firefox user I've become accustomed to reading the BBC. They seem to treat most acronyms as ordinary words. Is this an analog/analogue issue? Where do the Austrailians stand?
I don't see which Vista feature is going to push me from 2000 / XP to it.
Do you think anyone is going to listen to a Wonka regarding tooth decay?
PC World as an article on this where AFP sued Google for copyright infringement and Google dropped 'em. It appears AFP is just now getting back to the traffic levels they had before the row with Google.
If you take The Woz as Apple's number two, against Ballmer at Microsoft, Apple comes out on top and all is right with the world. Does Ballmer donate anything?
Depends on the BIOS, I assume.
I imagine every /.er has run into the person who saw a news story on TV about hackers and thinks a BIOS password is somehow going to protect them. Meanwhile they have a handful of viruses running because Norton AV 2001 expired and they keep closing the warning window.