A teacher that works 14 hours a day and makes $31,000/year, and the school system refuses to buy stuff like this, instead focusing on extra secretaries at the main office so the administrative people, who don't do much anyway, can take more time off.
Ok, it didn't specify (two nag screens???)...the whole thing was written after the whole "coin flip" on installation - a one time task. Maybe I need more coffee???
I do...a couple hundred bucks so far this year. Mostly stuff on SourceForge and some $$ to Ubuntu (Canonical.) And I always point out to people where/how to donate when I put quality stuff on their machines. No, I dont' track who donates...NOMB.
I bet it is because he screwed the pooch on the timing:
He took a utility which had just written and had it secretly flip a coin on first installation: it would either function in unrestricted mode without being registered (and have two nag screens for donations) or it would be feature-limited (and have two nag screens offering the upgrade).
If he'd have given the user a reminder, say once a week for the first two weeks, I bet he would have gotten more.
Giving the user only one chance to donate, before they even get to use the software? How the hell are they going to know if they like it or not. Maybe this wasn't the case, but this is the way it sounds in the article.
A graphical installer adds ABSOLUTELY nothing to the installation. Unless you're a newbie to Linux (if you are, debian isn't really too suited for you), you will see and understand this. Who the bleeding heck cares how the installation looks? The focus should be on a fast installer that works on as many configurations as possible, not fancy eye-candy.
It makes me sick you got modded insightful. In this world looks are *everything* and there is nothing you can do about it. What a stupid comment. Open your eyeballs, man. A GUI installer adds everything to the installation.
Let's take a walk back in time...to the first time you booted up a *nix distro and stared at a CLI. Oh wait, let me guess: you knew *exactly* what to do, because you are so special, so smart and sexy with your intimate knowledge of partitioning and installing an OS. It seems you are forgetting not everyone speaks in binary or assembly.
Back to the looks issue, let's consider the impact of how something looks. Hummer H2. Giant piece of crap vehicle that is mostly OTS (off-the-shelf) parts. But it *looks* cool, right? But it costs $100 to fill the tank. So who cares how it looks. The focus should be on how fast, durable, economical and tough the vehicle is, right? NO! It is all about the looks, and quite frankly the H2 is none of those things. How about a Ferrari? Except when you hit something, you aren't wrapped in a carbon fiber cage like in a real race car. How about your favorite restaurant? If you walk in and watch the roaches open the door for you, are you going to head in and eat?
Perception is the key here, man. Perception is everything. As the saying goes, "Your perception is your reality." Try to be intelligent and apply that. Quit being so narrow minded. And pull your head out of your ass.
Put it on your calendar for next year, there won't be any moon to contend with. I took the wife and my Canon 20d out...while I didn't get any good photos of streaking light (I have better luck with lightning,) we did see a few really good ones, but the moon rose about 10:30 and it was a waste after that. The moon is just past full, and was really, really bright tonight.
I'm very clear on the fact that this whole dog & pony show put on by MS is academic at best, PR at worst and both at the same time. I can't say for sure what the demographic of those attending looks like, but I bet it is as stated earlier: wanna-be hackers and "experts," some of which haven't written any real code in more than a few years. Not that the conversation of the thread in its entirety reflects that in the least, as few RTFA and bothered to notice all those attending are "respected" members of the community. Which community is up for debate.
I'm glad you took the time to play with Vista and get a feel for what happens behind the scenes. I am only slightly concerned as I am now making my way to using a *nix distro as much as possible...photoshop and a few other select programs put a kink in that, but dual-boot isn't a big deal for me. Virtualization is helping on that front, but it isn't quite there yet. And no, I don't have the skills to help make things like QEMU better, else I'd be all over it. Nice chatting...
And you really think a "black hat" would boot Vista on a computer with a live net connection?? Man, the only connection it would have is to another box that is carefully listening for any traffic coming across that cat5....go back to class kid.
Windows for daily life on the IM clients (video chat actually works in Windows, which is a requirement for my family, as we are spread out all over the world,) compatibility with work docs in MS Office, ripping music from DRMed formats to MP3, and running Quickbooks. I use Ubuntu for real work...photography work, image creation/editing, I'm learning Blender, web development, etc etc.
Yeah, I know...Ubuntu. Nice thing is, my wife can use it without much difficulty...although only "my" machine is dualboot, I run the WAMP stack on "her" computer, a dual processor setup (2x 2.0GHz Xeon.) She never even notices anything else running on the system...and it sits idle most of the time, happily running WAMP.
I am going to buy it. I hate Top 40 music, I am going to delete right after I pay for it, but it is a legitimate sale of DRM free music, even if it is only one song out of many. If this song sells strong and fast, it will send a message to the industry. They may not listen, but at least I did my part. Now do yours. If even half of the readers of/. dropped a couple of bucks to send a message, it will have an impact. That isn't being optimistic, it is a statement of fact. We all waste more money daily on smokes, Snickers and iced low-fat latte with a double shot of Irish Cream flavor.
#you're not going to need the pre-written macro code which is everywhere for Office,
# you don't need the excellent VBA IDE,
# you don't need the excellent documentation,
# you're not going to use the entire systems implemented in Office (Excel and Access systems are commonplace where I work, they're commercial and not in-house software),
# you don't mind not being able to properly use the documents everyone outside your organisation will be using, and the documents your employees will be bringing from home,
# you don't mind the GUI not matching the rest of your system,
# you don't mind using a piece of software which no-one will have audited
I find it sad, appalling even, that you spend more time *programming* office documents as opposed to filling them with content. FFS, just type the doc up and be done with it. If you have to put that much effort into your docs and spreadsheets, you must be doing something wrong. I'm seriously interested in seeing a sample of one of these documents as I am already questioning the efficacy of the files. DBs aside, of course, but why would you use access with all the silly limitations? I might even let that one slide if Joe User could manage to create an access db and make it useful...oh wait, that won't work...
While I appreciate the correction, I know and it just doesn't matter. I was being 100% facetious, even if I am actually 30% Interesting and 70% Funny...the point is that people try to model *anything* because "it looks better or more convincing," which of course is true: the sheeple always fall for it. Hell, I occasionally fall for it.
So what if I spend 10 minutes devising some silly and arbitrary, yet very simple formula to place value on something as subjective as the value of a network. But, I'll do one for patent lawsuits...though this formula will give the relative ignorance of the original patent, measured in PES-Bs (patent examiner smoke-breaks.) I think I will square it by LEMIs (Large Entity Monetary Incentives) and divide that by the total number of patents submitted in that CY (Calendar Year.)
A./ poster who claims to have a Ninja. Hmm, does he wear all black and live in your closet next to your *girlfiend*? I bet you like his little throwing stars, too, eh? Takes out G.I. Joe everytime!
Truthfully, I thought I was the only guy here with a bike.
And patenting their protocol here in the States would have what effect in China? Please share, as I seem to have forgetten and am in need of a reminder.
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A teacher that works 14 hours a day and makes $31,000/year, and the school system refuses to buy stuff like this, instead focusing on extra secretaries at the main office so the administrative people, who don't do much anyway, can take more time off.
Ok, it didn't specify (two nag screens???)...the whole thing was written after the whole "coin flip" on installation - a one time task. Maybe I need more coffee???
--bows head shamefully for being a moron--
I do...a couple hundred bucks so far this year. Mostly stuff on SourceForge and some $$ to Ubuntu (Canonical.) And I always point out to people where/how to donate when I put quality stuff on their machines. No, I dont' track who donates...NOMB.
If he'd have given the user a reminder, say once a week for the first two weeks, I bet he would have gotten more.
Giving the user only one chance to donate, before they even get to use the software? How the hell are they going to know if they like it or not. Maybe this wasn't the case, but this is the way it sounds in the article.
Let's take a walk back in time...to the first time you booted up a *nix distro and stared at a CLI. Oh wait, let me guess: you knew *exactly* what to do, because you are so special, so smart and sexy with your intimate knowledge of partitioning and installing an OS. It seems you are forgetting not everyone speaks in binary or assembly.
Back to the looks issue, let's consider the impact of how something looks. Hummer H2. Giant piece of crap vehicle that is mostly OTS (off-the-shelf) parts. But it *looks* cool, right? But it costs $100 to fill the tank. So who cares how it looks. The focus should be on how fast, durable, economical and tough the vehicle is, right? NO! It is all about the looks, and quite frankly the H2 is none of those things. How about a Ferrari? Except when you hit something, you aren't wrapped in a carbon fiber cage like in a real race car. How about your favorite restaurant? If you walk in and watch the roaches open the door for you, are you going to head in and eat?
Perception is the key here, man. Perception is everything. As the saying goes, "Your perception is your reality." Try to be intelligent and apply that. Quit being so narrow minded. And pull your head out of your ass.
I really hope you are being facetious...if not, well, a flash won't help when I am doing 1-3 minute exposures of the night sky.
There are days I get confused....
Put it on your calendar for next year, there won't be any moon to contend with. I took the wife and my Canon 20d out...while I didn't get any good photos of streaking light (I have better luck with lightning,) we did see a few really good ones, but the moon rose about 10:30 and it was a waste after that. The moon is just past full, and was really, really bright tonight.
Do your homework. There is no requirement to buy *any* hardware at all.
I can't say that I was expecting any responses, but holy crap...I actually laughed out loud...thank you for that.
I'm very clear on the fact that this whole dog & pony show put on by MS is academic at best, PR at worst and both at the same time. I can't say for sure what the demographic of those attending looks like, but I bet it is as stated earlier: wanna-be hackers and "experts," some of which haven't written any real code in more than a few years. Not that the conversation of the thread in its entirety reflects that in the least, as few RTFA and bothered to notice all those attending are "respected" members of the community. Which community is up for debate.
I'm glad you took the time to play with Vista and get a feel for what happens behind the scenes. I am only slightly concerned as I am now making my way to using a *nix distro as much as possible...photoshop and a few other select programs put a kink in that, but dual-boot isn't a big deal for me. Virtualization is helping on that front, but it isn't quite there yet. And no, I don't have the skills to help make things like QEMU better, else I'd be all over it. Nice chatting...
'nuff said.
Linksys's
"links-is-is?"
"link-sizis?"
How do you say that without sounding like a whacko???
And you really think a "black hat" would boot Vista on a computer with a live net connection?? Man, the only connection it would have is to another box that is carefully listening for any traffic coming across that cat5....go back to class kid.
Ok, seriously, who hasn't heard of Mott the Hoople??? Of course, the other are all strange to me...
Man, I just ran out of mod points. Anyway, WHY did you post this AC???
True, true...not much thought put into that post...I stand corrected.
I thought that was "champagne" they use as degreaser...the wine isn't bad at all.
Actually, I dual boot for a number of reasons.
Windows for daily life on the IM clients (video chat actually works in Windows, which is a requirement for my family, as we are spread out all over the world,) compatibility with work docs in MS Office, ripping music from DRMed formats to MP3, and running Quickbooks. I use Ubuntu for real work...photography work, image creation/editing, I'm learning Blender, web development, etc etc.
Yeah, I know...Ubuntu. Nice thing is, my wife can use it without much difficulty...although only "my" machine is dualboot, I run the WAMP stack on "her" computer, a dual processor setup (2x 2.0GHz Xeon.) She never even notices anything else running on the system...and it sits idle most of the time, happily running WAMP.
I am going to buy it. I hate Top 40 music, I am going to delete right after I pay for it, but it is a legitimate sale of DRM free music, even if it is only one song out of many. If this song sells strong and fast, it will send a message to the industry. They may not listen, but at least I did my part. Now do yours. If even half of the readers of /. dropped a couple of bucks to send a message, it will have an impact. That isn't being optimistic, it is a statement of fact. We all waste more money daily on smokes, Snickers and iced low-fat latte with a double shot of Irish Cream flavor.
Make your vote!!!! Buy this shitty song.
I find it sad, appalling even, that you spend more time *programming* office documents as opposed to filling them with content. FFS, just type the doc up and be done with it. If you have to put that much effort into your docs and spreadsheets, you must be doing something wrong. I'm seriously interested in seeing a sample of one of these documents as I am already questioning the efficacy of the files. DBs aside, of course, but why would you use access with all the silly limitations? I might even let that one slide if Joe User could manage to create an access db and make it useful...oh wait, that won't work...
While I appreciate the correction, I know and it just doesn't matter. I was being 100% facetious, even if I am actually 30% Interesting and 70% Funny...the point is that people try to model *anything* because "it looks better or more convincing," which of course is true: the sheeple always fall for it. Hell, I occasionally fall for it.
So what if I spend 10 minutes devising some silly and arbitrary, yet very simple formula to place value on something as subjective as the value of a network. But, I'll do one for patent lawsuits...though this formula will give the relative ignorance of the original patent, measured in PES-Bs (patent examiner smoke-breaks.) I think I will square it by LEMIs (Large Entity Monetary Incentives) and divide that by the total number of patents submitted in that CY (Calendar Year.)
So we get: (PES-B ^ LEMI) / CY Patent total.
Can I get that formula named after me??
A ./ poster who claims to have a Ninja. Hmm, does he wear all black and live in your closet next to your *girlfiend*? I bet you like his little throwing stars, too, eh? Takes out G.I. Joe everytime!
Truthfully, I thought I was the only guy here with a bike.
I've got mod points. I know how to use them.
And patenting their protocol here in the States would have what effect in China? Please share, as I seem to have forgetten and am in need of a reminder.
Hah! So true, you've got me on that one. I love that video.