Once the drug is created though, gates forces everyone who was cured to buy an MS product in addition to the price of the treatment
But seriously, as long as money is going to these companies, they won't create the cure, just the temporary antidote, someone needs to be out there actually monitiring these companies (not a government orginization, they are to easily tempted by cash) just something to make sure they are developing a cure and not simply a pain reliever or placebo
Yes but if you focus on the dogma rather than trying to improve the competing software you loose out in the end, the focus of the open office team should be to meet and excede the microsoft counterpart, if you focus on "we're not microsoft" than you loose out in the end.
tisk word Perfect? it might just work, you need microsoft works, completely and utterly useless except of course if you want to be a rebel and don't intend to send your documents to any of your cool (rich) friends with MS office.
because if Open Office does blow up in their face they want to have the money in reserve to go ahead and make the switch back, just a huge backup plan if you will, not about familiarity, just they don't trust open office enough to put all their (what is it "eggs in one basket"?).
Open office might actually be the first really usable alternative to the whole windows schema in the cooperate world, right now Thunderbird, Linux, and Firefox (along with big open source themed software) aren't quite compatible with the features that are used all to often in the cooperate world where plugins are developed only for MS products,
With open office there aren't to many critical plugins that are required for every day use in the office (atleast not where I am from) so it might be the first Open Source product do to its ability to save documents and open them in the MS formats that really transitions well
plus being free and until recently without even a whisper of a virus an excellent alternative to the all powerful (and always needed it seems) MS office suite. Now if the gimp could match photoshop in ease of use we might be there
Yes but that was the last wave of gamers, more and more the gaming community in general is beginning to swing the way the Microsoft and Sony wanted it to, look at the number of adult gamers that are on the market now that weren't on the market earlier, I know when I was young the majority of gamers were my age 10 and under, and adults really didn't play games, but with Sony and Microsoft releasing a different breed of games, the type of games that you and I would consider more mature, they have attracted a bigger audiance, If you go to an internet cafe what do they have? an XBox, as opposed to? the game cube and the PS2. Why, because the xbox is better in LAN enviroment with teenagers, This is a market trend, and sure I am quite confident that Nintendo will get a bigger backing this time round than they did last time (which was abysmall) but the average gamer (that means someone who has no clue what slashdot is) has no interest in the Wii's new game style, asking them, they have no interest in the Wii's new style, mabye its the area I live in, but I can't see it being any differnt than any other area in the US. But Joe Schmoe likes his 360 he payed out the butt for it compared to whatever his previous console was, *more than likely an xbox* And Xbox used their own console to promote the next, those that have heard about the wii are turned off by the radical new gameplay componet, Movement hasn't been in the forumla yet, will it catch on? I am sure it will... but even in a couple of years the current gaming standard will probably hold the floor. I mean we are just now perfecting the FPS, RPG etc. these perfected games will stay on the market for a few years before they are completly phased out by new ideas,
personally I plan on getting a PS3 or Wii, don't have a flavor for xbox, and its decendent, so I am ceartainly no advocate of the 360, and whats with the troll? yikes hateful spites out there
Eh, it may because of the work enviroment, most home users would much rather use Yahoo for some reason, or Whatever their hompage happens to be set on, Google Mail isn't easily accecible from the main page, Yahoo's and others is. This makes google a non viable source in terms of mail, because their mail system is more difficult to get to, and if you don't know someone who has a gmail account (generally atleast some knowledge of technology
I see alot of comments on here about how that must be dead wrong, but he is probably taking those nubmers from the way the curretn gen systems sold, I mean lets think about this, the Averae gamer (not the uber gamers) no longer looks at nintendo, infact they all have an Xbox or PS2 right now because of the mature gaming platform, those of us who really love games picked up Nintendo's product, becasue we wanted to see what it could do.
Rigth now the average gamer doesn't want inovation, he just wants flashy graphics and a good FPS that a noob could pick up and win in, Nintendo is trying to sell in their style, but their style will not match up with the average gamer community, The PS3 is to expensive right now to the average gamer, the Wii is to far from what they are used to, so the XBox 360 is perfect, I think the guy has a good theory, but only time will truely tell if all these companies live up to their promises or not
Mabye you configured your MS anti spyware wrong are you sure you have it set for the Microsoft Operating sytem mode, if its in Linux Mode any updates aren't scanned because they ussaly don't hurt the system.
That the parents of today are convinced that they are no longer repsonsible for their own children, Why moniter video games when you can penalize the industry making them, why watch what your child does online , when you can simply put that problem off on the webamsters, The parties their blaming have no control over the kids, so... how is it that they can be without the repsonsiblity yet still have the gusto to claim it is someone elses fault? that is just way to lazy
as all the richest people in the world just start handing the richest man in the world money like he needs it or something, hmmmm, I am just waiting for the announcement, "Gates foundation aquires apple: Bill back in computer industry, when asked about his old friend competing with him, Balmer could only manage 'chair' in other news Jobs is still a worthless hippy"
Nope, just like most of us here he found a host and he can help but gloat about how much better a deal it is then say X host, Its a status thing you know. Why market when the nerds who buy your hosting will do it for you? oh, and PHP and Perl right? Hmm... yes Well I bet ASP could do it
Remeber that on/. all OS's and their respective manufactuer's aren't quite good enough, we are all waiting for some mysterious super OS and manufactuer that will create for us an unbreakable machine, until then any oppertunity to make fun of the competion to the Super OS (Bundled with DNF) will be promptly torn apart.
Well I guess this gets rid of my ideas of buying a MBP any time soon
Is that a third party browser like that could gain such a sizable market share in china that quickly, granted its still IE but they are seeking out browsers none the less. Whats that say about the US & internationally, which still reports firefox and other 3rd party browsers at no more than 10% according to some studies (I can't remember the link right now)
Hey mabye China has got something right?
and then NASA and other space agencies watched in horror as the "moons" crashed into the tiny planet. They later revealed they were simply conviently placed asteroids.
I thought pluto was a planet that was just the right size to be a moon itself, I guess it got tired of all the other bigger planets making fun of it for its size. So it got two asteroids and called them moons, and gave them really nasty names?
It just feels to me that we really haven't had enough time with high level telescopes to determine the satalite properties of the outer planets, They are still somewhat mysterious themselves to be naming the moons
Only uber geeks due this? I am sitting in an office right now with a bunch of folks who use the their computers for VOIP related things, and most are engineers. So I don't see where it is only going to be used by "geeks" that doesn't make any sence what so ever. People are willing to use voip and computers for phone conversations, just look at all the "normals" with a webcam
the internet is more accepted as a form of communication than I think even the phone, its becasue of pages like myspace etc. which have made the net usable.
and simply refers to how great their software is instead? wow theirs a real shocker for sure, mabye massechusets should have looked in the Microsoft knowledge base.
This isn't going to affect microsoft in the least bit, you have to remember that the real world doesn't read slashdot, and most of these articles will never make it out of tech forums, and blogs etc. The real world (the market that microsoft is selling to) isn't worried about which search engine MS employees are using, so Microsoft really doesn't need to take any action. they are fine letting their employess use a search engine that produces results, hey mabye some of the google influence (you know for quality software) will leak right on in.
Well, if nothing else they can throw the one thing they do have at the project (which for the most part isn't brains) but they can throw money at the software, and money is usally a good thing, so you could hire programmers and still keep the software free.
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Once the drug is created though, gates forces everyone who was cured to buy an MS product in addition to the price of the treatment
But seriously, as long as money is going to these companies, they won't create the cure, just the temporary antidote, someone needs to be out there actually monitiring these companies (not a government orginization, they are to easily tempted by cash) just something to make sure they are developing a cure and not simply a pain reliever or placebo
Yes but if you focus on the dogma rather than trying to improve the competing software you loose out in the end, the focus of the open office team should be to meet and excede the microsoft counterpart, if you focus on "we're not microsoft" than you loose out in the end.
tisk word Perfect? it might just work, you need microsoft works, completely and utterly useless except of course if you want to be a rebel and don't intend to send your documents to any of your cool (rich) friends with MS office.
because if Open Office does blow up in their face they want to have the money in reserve to go ahead and make the switch back, just a huge backup plan if you will, not about familiarity, just they don't trust open office enough to put all their (what is it "eggs in one basket"?).
Open office might actually be the first really usable alternative to the whole windows schema in the cooperate world, right now Thunderbird, Linux, and Firefox (along with big open source themed software) aren't quite compatible with the features that are used all to often in the cooperate world where plugins are developed only for MS products,
With open office there aren't to many critical plugins that are required for every day use in the office (atleast not where I am from) so it might be the first Open Source product do to its ability to save documents and open them in the MS formats that really transitions well
plus being free and until recently without even a whisper of a virus an excellent alternative to the all powerful (and always needed it seems) MS office suite. Now if the gimp could match photoshop in ease of use we might be there
Yes but that was the last wave of gamers, more and more the gaming community in general is beginning to swing the way the Microsoft and Sony wanted it to, look at the number of adult gamers that are on the market now that weren't on the market earlier, I know when I was young the majority of gamers were my age 10 and under, and adults really didn't play games, but with Sony and Microsoft releasing a different breed of games, the type of games that you and I would consider more mature, they have attracted a bigger audiance, If you go to an internet cafe what do they have? an XBox, as opposed to? the game cube and the PS2. Why, because the xbox is better in LAN enviroment with teenagers, This is a market trend, and sure I am quite confident that Nintendo will get a bigger backing this time round than they did last time (which was abysmall) but the average gamer (that means someone who has no clue what slashdot is) has no interest in the Wii's new game style, asking them, they have no interest in the Wii's new style, mabye its the area I live in, but I can't see it being any differnt than any other area in the US. But Joe Schmoe likes his 360 he payed out the butt for it compared to whatever his previous console was, *more than likely an xbox* And Xbox used their own console to promote the next, those that have heard about the wii are turned off by the radical new gameplay componet, Movement hasn't been in the forumla yet, will it catch on? I am sure it will... but even in a couple of years the current gaming standard will probably hold the floor. I mean we are just now perfecting the FPS, RPG etc. these perfected games will stay on the market for a few years before they are completly phased out by new ideas,
personally I plan on getting a PS3 or Wii, don't have a flavor for xbox, and its decendent, so I am ceartainly no advocate of the 360, and whats with the troll? yikes hateful spites out there
Eh, it may because of the work enviroment, most home users would much rather use Yahoo for some reason, or Whatever their hompage happens to be set on, Google Mail isn't easily accecible from the main page, Yahoo's and others is. This makes google a non viable source in terms of mail, because their mail system is more difficult to get to, and if you don't know someone who has a gmail account (generally atleast some knowledge of technology
I see alot of comments on here about how that must be dead wrong, but he is probably taking those nubmers from the way the curretn gen systems sold, I mean lets think about this, the Averae gamer (not the uber gamers) no longer looks at nintendo, infact they all have an Xbox or PS2 right now because of the mature gaming platform, those of us who really love games picked up Nintendo's product, becasue we wanted to see what it could do.
Rigth now the average gamer doesn't want inovation, he just wants flashy graphics and a good FPS that a noob could pick up and win in, Nintendo is trying to sell in their style, but their style will not match up with the average gamer community, The PS3 is to expensive right now to the average gamer, the Wii is to far from what they are used to, so the XBox 360 is perfect, I think the guy has a good theory, but only time will truely tell if all these companies live up to their promises or not
Mabye you configured your MS anti spyware wrong are you sure you have it set for the Microsoft Operating sytem mode, if its in Linux Mode any updates aren't scanned because they ussaly don't hurt the system.
Model Plane Nerds, Now in complete and total control of NASA HQ removing the need for pilots, by god they built it, they have the right to fly it
That the parents of today are convinced that they are no longer repsonsible for their own children, Why moniter video games when you can penalize the industry making them, why watch what your child does online , when you can simply put that problem off on the webamsters, The parties their blaming have no control over the kids, so... how is it that they can be without the repsonsiblity yet still have the gusto to claim it is someone elses fault? that is just way to lazy
as all the richest people in the world just start handing the richest man in the world money like he needs it or something, hmmmm, I am just waiting for the announcement, "Gates foundation aquires apple: Bill back in computer industry, when asked about his old friend competing with him, Balmer could only manage 'chair' in other news Jobs is still a worthless hippy"
Nope, just like most of us here he found a host and he can help but gloat about how much better a deal it is then say X host, Its a status thing you know. Why market when the nerds who buy your hosting will do it for you? oh, and PHP and Perl right? Hmm... yes Well I bet ASP could do it
Remeber that on /. all OS's and their respective manufactuer's aren't quite good enough, we are all waiting for some mysterious super OS and manufactuer that will create for us an unbreakable machine, until then any oppertunity to make fun of the competion to the Super OS (Bundled with DNF) will be promptly torn apart.
Well I guess this gets rid of my ideas of buying a MBP any time soon
Is that a third party browser like that could gain such a sizable market share in china that quickly, granted its still IE but they are seeking out browsers none the less. Whats that say about the US & internationally, which still reports firefox and other 3rd party browsers at no more than 10% according to some studies (I can't remember the link right now)
Hey mabye China has got something right?
and then NASA and other space agencies watched in horror as the "moons" crashed into the tiny planet. They later revealed they were simply conviently placed asteroids. I thought pluto was a planet that was just the right size to be a moon itself, I guess it got tired of all the other bigger planets making fun of it for its size. So it got two asteroids and called them moons, and gave them really nasty names? It just feels to me that we really haven't had enough time with high level telescopes to determine the satalite properties of the outer planets, They are still somewhat mysterious themselves to be naming the moons
Only uber geeks due this? I am sitting in an office right now with a bunch of folks who use the their computers for VOIP related things, and most are engineers. So I don't see where it is only going to be used by "geeks" that doesn't make any sence what so ever. People are willing to use voip and computers for phone conversations, just look at all the "normals" with a webcam the internet is more accepted as a form of communication than I think even the phone, its becasue of pages like myspace etc. which have made the net usable.
no need to click the link kids that it pretty much. anyway thank god... now about korea?
and simply refers to how great their software is instead? wow theirs a real shocker for sure, mabye massechusets should have looked in the Microsoft knowledge base.
This isn't going to affect microsoft in the least bit, you have to remember that the real world doesn't read slashdot, and most of these articles will never make it out of tech forums, and blogs etc. The real world (the market that microsoft is selling to) isn't worried about which search engine MS employees are using, so Microsoft really doesn't need to take any action. they are fine letting their employess use a search engine that produces results, hey mabye some of the google influence (you know for quality software) will leak right on in.
That some gnome will come along with his +2 battle hammer and smash the computer with the PDF.
Well, if nothing else they can throw the one thing they do have at the project (which for the most part isn't brains) but they can throw money at the software, and money is usally a good thing, so you could hire programmers and still keep the software free.