I absolutely agree. However, I do understand that there is a difference between screen size and phone size. I haven't yet found how much wider the iphone 6 is vs the iphone 5. My *hope* is that while the screen is larger, the phone won't be noticeably.
First, Drupal 7 has been in development for a *long* time, so I wouldn't worry about when Drupal 8 is going to be released.
Secondly, many projects have rolling support options. Where features have a two version rolling window of support. If you were programming for Drupal 6 you probably should have been keeping an eye on Drupal 7 to see which calls/apis/etc were being discarded. This would have limited the amount of rework to move to Drupal 7.
You are blaming the US government for this? First, I disagree that the value of the dollar is 'destroyed'. Since I don't see your citation, I will provide mine: http://moneycentral.msn.com/detail/stock_quote?Symbol=/EURUS/
Further, do you think the governement has a lot to do with the economy? I think the people who irresponsibly [traded|mortgaged|spent|etc] are to blame for our current condition.
Continue to believe the government when they say there is no inflation
The little I know about economics tells me that much of it is a mind game. If the masses lose faith in the system, the repercussions are magnified. If people keep a calm head and try not to do anything drastic, the 'invisible hand' of the market will correct the inefficiency with minimal collateral damage. I recognize that it is a fine line between outright lying and slowly announcing truth to help minimize effect. Like I started, I am not an economist, and from the sounds of it, neither are you. Let us both decide to keep our sweeping generalizations to ourselves, and try not to believe everything you see on Fox News.
I have been waiting, as patiently as I can, for ARM based netbooks with the A9 chip. The ARM integrators have a window of opportunity to effect the netbook/smartbook market significantly. The current Intel Atom offerings are, IMHO, not very good. The licenced Cortex-A9 chip can compete with the Atom processor on a purely performance basis, and blow the pants off of the atom processor on a performance/power ratio. By delaying, Intel is slowly closing the power and performance gaps with new generation Atom processors. Once Intel gets close enough, the ability for ARM based machines to impact the market will be gone.
I fully understand that it takes time to bring the A9 to market, and a chip that can't run windows (I'm not including WinCE) has little appeal in the broader market. On the other hand, if integrators are going to put time and money behind new ARM products why use the A8? I long for when I can get my 2ghz dual-core ARM netbook with a 10" screen and all the connectivity I can think of.
I think Android has a lot of great possibilities, but putting it on the list of best OSes of the decade is similar to giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm not saying it doesn't deserve being on the list, I just think it is a bit premature.
Call me old fashion, but I am a firm believer of do on thing and to it well. Your list of requests have a very broad scope and it wasn't clear if you expected one software package to do all of it. There are many great open source software packages for use with business.
GnuCash is an excellent accounting system to help you keep your financial accounts organized. I'm not really sure what is entailed with 'issuing a W-2' other than handing your employee a form. I have seen various companies use a combination wiki, dms and cms, all of which have many open source choices, to organize corporate data, and serve it in an clean and clear fashion to interested parties.
As far as tax filing software, it looks like this is not a foreign question to slashdot:
I am unclear what you mean by legal template. If you mean pre-formated document, OpenOffice.org has a large collection of templates you can browse through. If you mean canned agreements and contracts, they are around on the web, if you search for them. I must add IANAL so be careful using any generalized contract.
There are many products that fall under the "groupware" environment that are more standards compliant and easier to maintain than MS exchange. Exchange has long flouted many mail standards, locked you into using Outlook, and among other things is a bear to maintain on a large scale. The unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it will" can, and does, work well to achieve the same functionality:
LDAP for addressbooks
Choose your own IMAP server
Choose your own MTA
Choose your content scanner
Choose your webmail package
Choose your calendar server
(do I need to continue?)
While I admit calendaring is a little shaky as of right now. Things in this arena have been changing drastically over the past 1 to 2 years. Looking at packages like lightning and chandler for clients, and davical, cosmo, Apple iCal server and others. There is a very powerful product that I have not explored yet that does bring all these pieces together called SOgo (Scalable Open Groupware). These options are not perfect but do follow standards and are easier to fit into your work process.
This is great news for the F/OSS world. It will come down to how one defines "no significant overall cost difference". I assume this can be spun to fit anyone's needs. So I guess I am in the wait-and-see camp to see how far the governement moves into the Open Source world.
While I can appreciate your sentiment, you *can't* get a decent laptop for $500. You can get a laptop that will run XP or GNU/Linux or *BSD for $500. But the world uses Windows, and if you are going to be running Vista well, you are looking at $800 for the laptop. And while, that is phenomenal, TFA is trying to convey that over the next few months they want to take the $800 laptop and make it cost $500, and that $500 desktop to cost $400. Industries hurting now don't care where we are going to be in 100 years or even how far we have come in 10. The industry has been chasing this ever increasing sliding scale of performance. Consumers have benefited by getting more powerful machines.
Oddly enough, Moore's observations are still viable, but it is the economy that is going to slow the trend. Demand is shifting from the same price point to one lower. This will cause a momentary dip in the trend. Once the new price point stabalizes Moore's Law will again be relevant.
apt-get install compiz compiz-core compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
And you're done. There is a neat little window manager switcher called "Compiz Fusion Icon" that lets you toggle back and forth between compiz and metacity. I don't see what the big deal is
Let me start by saying I am a Debian testing/unstable user since woody. I think debian is the best distro available. However I would never
1)take the time to install and configure all of the packages need on a "grandma" ready desktop. For my machine I use just-in-time-apting which for the lay user is not usable.
2) the more desktop oriented distros focus on these things called "wizards". While I abhor the wizard give me a conf file any day of the week, you show a normal person a terminal and they begin to shake and sweat. This is a problem I agree, but it needs to be solved at education time not when they are 45 and trying to get their work done.
Again, I love debian, and for any curious individual that is the first distro I point them to, unless they are masochistic then I give them gentoo and wish them the best of luck. But for the indoctrinated, these frilly polished, slightly bloated versions of GNU/Linux fit the bill perfectly.
1) Charts, I will give you are a *little* difficult to make, but by no means is it easier in excel. I think the the chart making paradigm itself needs some refinement
2)As far as performance, upon opening the first OOo program, it loads all of the libraries and other sundries it needs to load, opening the second application is much faster.
3) If you need fonts install fonts, what is so difficult about that, heck if you are on a debian machine, 'apt-get install msttcorefonts' and voila! all those wonderful microsoft fonts that you pine over.
I have been extremely happy with OOo ever since 2.0, even MSO2003 users have been emailing me their docs because they get a docx and they can't do anything with it.
I could not DISAGREE more, or more correctly if this is true then the debate is has little worth. If it is one thing I have learned is that the public has NO fsking clue what they want. They have very strong opinions about what they THINK they want but they don't know, nor SHOULD they know what they want. So to say the winner will appeal to the public's "perceived" wants means, one of two things. Either the OS fits perfectly what the public "thinks" they want and thereby means it is NOT what they REALLY want or the rep is good at marketing and makes the OS look like it is what they think they want.
I am a firm believer in altruism, and I think all of the moral and kind "security firms" out there disclosing bugs and vulnerablities is a great thing. My problem is some if not all of these firms are independent from the company, I would imagine that some are contracted but there are many that do it for the same reasons people get involved in FOSS. For the company to then turn around and hit the user with a subscription fee or update limitations is ludicrous.
God sir -
It was not his use of "tubes" instead of "pipes" that was disturbing. I can even forgive (since I am such a nice guy) him saying, "He got an internet delivered..." because it was pretty clear that he meant "email". What I can't forgive is blaming significant latency on his email system to "net congestion". Taking that fact into account, the other seemingly harmless mistakes ( tubes = pipes, Internet = email) seem less like an outsider using his own terminology and more like someone who doesn't know what he is talking about.
Is it Just me....
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Its becoming more and more common for legitimate companies to start a "competition" for one thing or another, its one thing for an FOSS project to hold these competitions or events, but for a "for profit" to hold these competitions seems like either lazyiness (their web developer doesn't want to) or incompetitance (their web developer isn't able to) I mean, honestly, just hire someone to do it
bah... bah... bah
another one bites the dust
another one down, another one down, another one bites the dust...
its funny, I was just remarking to my self "Man, my parents are just too busy, I wish there was some large organization that could assume the role for my parents, I mean honestly they need a vacation"
Last I checked this whole "War on Terror" was in defense of our way of life against those that wish to harm it. In my years and experience (albeit limited) I would not describe our way of life as untrusting, deceptive and down right "bullyish". Our Fore Fathers framed this nation on the belief of frieedoms and equality for all, the lady just south of NYC welcome all to our shores with promise of opportunity and acceptance.
It seems that today's atmosphere is frought with anger, frustration and distrust. I don't feel that the actions of the government are aleviating the situation, but infact they are enraging the current feelings.
As I see it, and feel free to call me a flaming liberal, this war will never be won by troops or missles but its a war of ideas and ways of life. To draw a crude analogy we did not "beat" communism by invading korea or vietnam we "beat" them because our way of life was accepted and won the war of ideas.
If you ask me (I'll agree that no-one is) we need to pull the Mohamed Ali ropa-dope on our enemies. Let them keep hitting us and hitting us and smile back and let them hit us again. When they realize our resolve of ideas remains, that is when we would have won and not before.
As per the slashdot article that I happen to agree with ( it ran a month or so ago) Education is not the answer, locking the user out of abilities and controling what they can do and what they can't do is the answer. Most IT people should agree that the fewer things their employees do on their computer that isn't work related (ie download FWD attachemnts, install software, blah blah blah) the better shape the computer is in. Things like spyware and adaware whatever malware should not be able to be installed on a computer in the first place. Until that happens the is always going to be a multibillion dollar market (which may be the point)
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I absolutely agree. However, I do understand that there is a difference between screen size and phone size. I haven't yet found how much wider the iphone 6 is vs the iphone 5. My *hope* is that while the screen is larger, the phone won't be noticeably.
I don't think you have much to worry about.
First, Drupal 7 has been in development for a *long* time, so I wouldn't worry about when Drupal 8 is going to be released.
Secondly, many projects have rolling support options. Where features have a two version rolling window of support. If you were programming for Drupal 6 you probably should have been keeping an eye on Drupal 7 to see which calls/apis/etc were being discarded. This would have limited the amount of rework to move to Drupal 7.
You are blaming the US government for this? First, I disagree that the value of the dollar is 'destroyed'. Since I don't see your citation, I will provide mine: http://moneycentral.msn.com/detail/stock_quote?Symbol=/EURUS/
Further, do you think the governement has a lot to do with the economy? I think the people who irresponsibly [traded|mortgaged|spent|etc] are to blame for our current condition.
The little I know about economics tells me that much of it is a mind game. If the masses lose faith in the system, the repercussions are magnified. If people keep a calm head and try not to do anything drastic, the 'invisible hand' of the market will correct the inefficiency with minimal collateral damage. I recognize that it is a fine line between outright lying and slowly announcing truth to help minimize effect. Like I started, I am not an economist, and from the sounds of it, neither are you. Let us both decide to keep our sweeping generalizations to ourselves, and try not to believe everything you see on Fox News.
I have been waiting, as patiently as I can, for ARM based netbooks with the A9 chip. The ARM integrators have a window of opportunity to effect the netbook/smartbook market significantly. The current Intel Atom offerings are, IMHO, not very good. The licenced Cortex-A9 chip can compete with the Atom processor on a purely performance basis, and blow the pants off of the atom processor on a performance/power ratio. By delaying, Intel is slowly closing the power and performance gaps with new generation Atom processors. Once Intel gets close enough, the ability for ARM based machines to impact the market will be gone.
I fully understand that it takes time to bring the A9 to market, and a chip that can't run windows (I'm not including WinCE) has little appeal in the broader market. On the other hand, if integrators are going to put time and money behind new ARM products why use the A8? I long for when I can get my 2ghz dual-core ARM netbook with a 10" screen and all the connectivity I can think of.
I think Android has a lot of great possibilities, but putting it on the list of best OSes of the decade is similar to giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm not saying it doesn't deserve being on the list, I just think it is a bit premature.
Call me old fashion, but I am a firm believer of do on thing and to it well. Your list of requests have a very broad scope and it wasn't clear if you expected one software package to do all of it. There are many great open source software packages for use with business.
GnuCash is an excellent accounting system to help you keep your financial accounts organized. I'm not really sure what is entailed with 'issuing a W-2' other than handing your employee a form. I have seen various companies use a combination wiki, dms and cms, all of which have many open source choices, to organize corporate data, and serve it in an clean and clear fashion to interested parties.
As far as tax filing software, it looks like this is not a foreign question to slashdot:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/09/011259
One of the products offered in the above link is: http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/ Open Tax Solver
I am unclear what you mean by legal template. If you mean pre-formated document, OpenOffice.org has a large collection of templates you can browse through. If you mean canned agreements and contracts, they are around on the web, if you search for them. I must add IANAL so be careful using any generalized contract.
There are many products that fall under the "groupware" environment that are more standards compliant and easier to maintain than MS exchange. Exchange has long flouted many mail standards, locked you into using Outlook, and among other things is a bear to maintain on a large scale. The unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it will" can, and does, work well to achieve the same functionality:
LDAP for addressbooks
Choose your own IMAP server
Choose your own MTA
Choose your content scanner
Choose your webmail package
Choose your calendar server
(do I need to continue?)
While I admit calendaring is a little shaky as of right now. Things in this arena have been changing drastically over the past 1 to 2 years. Looking at packages like lightning and chandler for clients, and davical, cosmo, Apple iCal server and others. There is a very powerful product that I have not explored yet that does bring all these pieces together called SOgo (Scalable Open Groupware). These options are not perfect but do follow standards and are easier to fit into your work process.
This is great news for the F/OSS world. It will come down to how one defines "no significant overall cost difference". I assume this can be spun to fit anyone's needs. So I guess I am in the wait-and-see camp to see how far the governement moves into the Open Source world.
While I can appreciate your sentiment, you *can't* get a decent laptop for $500. You can get a laptop that will run XP or GNU/Linux or *BSD for $500. But the world uses Windows, and if you are going to be running Vista well, you are looking at $800 for the laptop. And while, that is phenomenal, TFA is trying to convey that over the next few months they want to take the $800 laptop and make it cost $500, and that $500 desktop to cost $400. Industries hurting now don't care where we are going to be in 100 years or even how far we have come in 10. The industry has been chasing this ever increasing sliding scale of performance. Consumers have benefited by getting more powerful machines.
Oddly enough, Moore's observations are still viable, but it is the economy that is going to slow the trend. Demand is shifting from the same price point to one lower. This will cause a momentary dip in the trend. Once the new price point stabalizes Moore's Law will again be relevant.
apt-get install compiz compiz-core compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra And you're done. There is a neat little window manager switcher called "Compiz Fusion Icon" that lets you toggle back and forth between compiz and metacity. I don't see what the big deal is
Obligatory V for Vendetta quote: V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Let me start by saying I am a Debian testing/unstable user since woody. I think debian is the best distro available. However I would never
1)take the time to install and configure all of the packages need on a "grandma" ready desktop. For my machine I use just-in-time-apting which for the lay user is not usable.
2) the more desktop oriented distros focus on these things called "wizards". While I abhor the wizard give me a conf file any day of the week, you show a normal person a terminal and they begin to shake and sweat. This is a problem I agree, but it needs to be solved at education time not when they are 45 and trying to get their work done.
Again, I love debian, and for any curious individual that is the first distro I point them to, unless they are masochistic then I give them gentoo and wish them the best of luck. But for the indoctrinated, these frilly polished, slightly bloated versions of GNU/Linux fit the bill perfectly.
1) Charts, I will give you are a *little* difficult to make, but by no means is it easier in excel. I think the the chart making paradigm itself needs some refinement
2)As far as performance, upon opening the first OOo program, it loads all of the libraries and other sundries it needs to load, opening the second application is much faster.
3) If you need fonts install fonts, what is so difficult about that, heck if you are on a debian machine, 'apt-get install msttcorefonts' and voila! all those wonderful microsoft fonts that you pine over.
I have been extremely happy with OOo ever since 2.0, even MSO2003 users have been emailing me their docs because they get a docx and they can't do anything with it.
Christ! How could both of you make the same mistake? It is FEWER keystrokes and FEWER problems.... Are you related?
I could not DISAGREE more, or more correctly if this is true then the debate is has little worth. If it is one thing I have learned is that the public has NO fsking clue what they want. They have very strong opinions about what they THINK they want but they don't know, nor SHOULD they know what they want. So to say the winner will appeal to the public's "perceived" wants means, one of two things. Either the OS fits perfectly what the public "thinks" they want and thereby means it is NOT what they REALLY want or the rep is good at marketing and makes the OS look like it is what they think they want.
I am a firm believer in altruism, and I think all of the moral and kind "security firms" out there disclosing bugs and vulnerablities is a great thing. My problem is some if not all of these firms are independent from the company, I would imagine that some are contracted but there are many that do it for the same reasons people get involved in FOSS. For the company to then turn around and hit the user with a subscription fee or update limitations is ludicrous.
God sir - It was not his use of "tubes" instead of "pipes" that was disturbing. I can even forgive (since I am such a nice guy) him saying, "He got an internet delivered..." because it was pretty clear that he meant "email". What I can't forgive is blaming significant latency on his email system to "net congestion". Taking that fact into account, the other seemingly harmless mistakes ( tubes = pipes, Internet = email) seem less like an outsider using his own terminology and more like someone who doesn't know what he is talking about.
Its becoming more and more common for legitimate companies to start a "competition" for one thing or another, its one thing for an FOSS project to hold these competitions or events, but for a "for profit" to hold these competitions seems like either lazyiness (their web developer doesn't want to) or incompetitance (their web developer isn't able to) I mean, honestly, just hire someone to do it
simple answer.... YES
bah... bah ... bah
another one bites the dust
another one down, another one down, another one bites the dust...
its funny, I was just remarking to my self "Man, my parents are just too busy, I wish there was some large organization that could assume the role for my parents, I mean honestly they need a vacation"
Last I checked this whole "War on Terror" was in defense of our way of life against those that wish to harm it. In my years and experience (albeit limited) I would not describe our way of life as untrusting, deceptive and down right "bullyish". Our Fore Fathers framed this nation on the belief of frieedoms and equality for all, the lady just south of NYC welcome all to our shores with promise of opportunity and acceptance.
It seems that today's atmosphere is frought with anger, frustration and distrust. I don't feel that the actions of the government are aleviating the situation, but infact they are enraging the current feelings. As I see it, and feel free to call me a flaming liberal, this war will never be won by troops or missles but its a war of ideas and ways of life. To draw a crude analogy we did not "beat" communism by invading korea or vietnam we "beat" them because our way of life was accepted and won the war of ideas.
If you ask me (I'll agree that no-one is) we need to pull the Mohamed Ali ropa-dope on our enemies. Let them keep hitting us and hitting us and smile back and let them hit us again. When they realize our resolve of ideas remains, that is when we would have won and not before.
As per the slashdot article that I happen to agree with ( it ran a month or so ago) Education is not the answer, locking the user out of abilities and controling what they can do and what they can't do is the answer. Most IT people should agree that the fewer things their employees do on their computer that isn't work related (ie download FWD attachemnts, install software, blah blah blah) the better shape the computer is in. Things like spyware and adaware whatever malware should not be able to be installed on a computer in the first place. Until that happens the is always going to be a multibillion dollar market (which may be the point)
They finally put their programming skills to use... instead of trying to clean and prevent viruses they just crash them, beautiful!
Any ideas if it will only attach files on local machines ore will it traverse to network shares of course only the ones without security?
More Power to you, back in college my Profs. touted C++ as the shining example of OOPness, curse them I say