Wow must be nice to live where you do. I live in the US, California to be specific. Let me tell you the LAST thing our goverenment wants is to keep our data secure, they are too busy trying to get into our personal business than worry about our data being safe. BTW I work in a place known as Silicon Valley, you may have heard of it. After reading your letter I was trying to remember the last non-Windows company I had done business with in the last decade and nope can't think of one. I own a small job-shop and get quite an exposure to the industry and no new OS is up and coming that I can tell. But then it is only Silicon Valley, perhaps we are waiting for the rest of the world to show us the way. Last night on DIGG or maybe/. I read an article about giving a Linux based computer for Xmas, a good idea I think. But I had to laugh as the author was impressed with his finding I believe 100 places you could get a pre-installed Linux computer.If I went out my front door in Palo Alto I bet I can walk to 100 places selling Wintel computers. My point being the parent said the "war was over, Linux won", well not in my little backwater part of the world. As for schooling I sadly only have time lately for a class a year or so, my last one being a writing class (in spite of how this letter looks) and I recall my instructor on the first day of class saying we had to turn all assignments in based in a format she could read in her office 2000 based computer. No ands if or buts, as the saying goes, ditto for my web design class, the program used was Dreamweaver. Wouldn't call either of these people lazy or dumb as they were both published and working on new books, raising families and teaching. Using the industries standards is what I'd call it. I try not to put people down for not being like me, or doing things like I do. I really enjoy using Linux and open office and various other programs of that ilk but I also deal in reality and in my reality Linux is just a small stream in the river of computing, perhaps someday it will dominate that river but not now and it certainly hasn't "Won the War" around here./rant off
Gnucash? yeah right, well my son is in accounting right now in college and my daughter is in graphics and guess what? Not one course in the catalog mentions gnucash or gimp. So either the colleges are not preparing their students for the Linux takeover or it's all just smoke. Don't get me wrong I'm typing this on a Linux machine, but won the War? Hell Linux aint even in the fight IMHO. One of the things I think that kept Apple going back in the day was when it gave all those computers to schools and the students learned to play on them. Until Linux becomes the standard in education it will remain a nice OS for the man who likes to tinker. How can it possibly become the business standard when it is not being taught to the business people of the future?
As I remember the oath taken was to defend the Constitution against all. I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR (OR AFFIRM) THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. -Samuel Adams, 1776
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From my experience in WoW and FFxI, this seems about right. And no, I am not talking about avatars but my experience in both games using vent,so unless some people are faking voices out there on a steady basis the percentage seems right on. Also the percentage of us old folk playing I always guessed at about 10%. BTW all bets are off for Xmas and spring breaks when the younger set absolutely overwhelm the games.
Ecartman
Do you live in California? The stickers are everywhere, maybe you just missed them but every Safeway, Mervyns, Fast food joint, well heck they are everywhere! Maybe like all warning stickers, if you see often enough, they just don 't register anymore. Your right though I don't remember them on end products, just every business establishment I can think of.
Great points, especially the "if it doesn't work one . Here is my problem Umbutu(sp?) won't work on my 'puter tried it several times . it keeps complaining about an interrrupt being wrong. Oh and the machine? a brand new ecost t6524 ecost machine. Ok 6 monthes old. How many teachers want to spend the time it would take to fix my home computer? Don't get me wrong I use firefox,Open office and most of the open cd that will work just not umbutu. I know this is not a great computer but it is probably the type schools can afford. As for windows, on this machine works fine, play games (wow, FFxi) hook up scanners and printers no problem. Also the problem I have personally had in school is the teachers,sure this is on the college level but teachers wouldn't accept ANYTHING done without M/S office period! In several of my classes students dropped the class cause they had no access to M/S. Actually this was taken care of with an open office 2000 cd. Sure the schools might try Linux but didn't I hear Red Hat is going the way of M/S? Anyway there is going to have to be a standard in business and schools and my bet is whomever controls that standard will charge for it. Welcome to capitalism!
Nice post. Can't talk about the business end but when it come to Linux in the home, the comments in the article amaze me. So the end user is the problem?
How stupid is this idea? If you see your main problem in development as your end user your in a hole you'll never get out of. Notice please how many Vcrs in this country flashed 12:00 until time set became automatic? People don't want to read installation manuals or learn anything like a new language even if the language is english, period. Instant gratification is the motto of the era we are in. If my neighbors computer make eggs for breakfast, you can damn well be sure I want mine to do the same by my next breakfast even if I don't eat eggs! Computers and ego's are so intertwined I am amazed Linux developers seemed to have missed it. I want the game released today to play on my machine today with all the bells and whistles. Oh and crashes, who cares? Everybodies machines crash, we are getting used to it. And no I don't think most people would trade their bleeding edge crashing machines,that claim to do everything,even if they don't. for a machine that won't do the latest releases on the day of release. Egos, what really drive the world. A successful product give people what they want, even if they don't need it. See Ipod.
I agree the fix was in IMHO. The only way to fix games is not players but referees. After decades of watching my team the RAIDERS be the most penalized team in football even I had to agree with my friend that said the ref's are biased even if it's unknowingly. I mean come on the only common denominator is the ref's. Coaches changed,cities changed, players changed the only thing that didn't change was the penalties and the ref's. So after the Superbowl fiasco, I've sworn off football. Next season I'm wasting my time online playing WoW!
Why not just ask the Chinese how they are going to do it? We will spend the next few billion dollars and years in meetings drafting proposals. Return to the moon? HA! that would take commitment and resolve my country doesn't seem to possess anymore. Besides the winning effort to this contest will probably end up in court fighting patent infringement cases well into the next century.
Exactly, I feel the penetration of Mp3 is too deep. I rip all my songs to Mp3, because my car and home both use Mp3. As for sound, my son who's hearing is MUCH better than mine says ACC is better though my 50 year old ears can't tell the difference. So I will continue to buy Mp3 players for home and car because my library of songs is Mp3 which works for me.
Not as bad as you think. I play FFXI and WOW and swearing is not that big a deal. In order to play the games you need to belong to guilds, I have never belonged to a guild that allows profanity at least in my experience in the last two years. Matter of fact two players were kicked out of out guild for just that last night. Please note also both FFXI and WoW have profanity filters to block this but more importantly they both have user created blacklists, you can't play if no one will talk to you or even hear you as you run around proving your age with obscene rants. Both games self police and are doing a darn good job.
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Wow must be nice to live where you do. I live in the US, California to be specific. Let me tell you the LAST thing our goverenment wants is to keep our data secure, they are too busy trying to get into our personal business than worry about our data being safe. BTW I work in a place known as Silicon Valley, you may have heard of it. After reading your letter I was trying to remember the last non-Windows company I had done business with in the last decade and nope can't think of one. I own a small job-shop and get quite an exposure to the industry and no new OS is up and coming that I can tell. But then it is only Silicon Valley, perhaps we are waiting for the rest of the world to show us the way. Last night on DIGG or maybe /. I read an article about giving a Linux based computer for Xmas, a good idea I think. But I had to laugh as the author was impressed with his finding I believe 100 places you could get a pre-installed Linux computer.If I went out my front door in Palo Alto I bet I can walk to 100 places selling Wintel computers. My point being the parent said the "war was over, Linux won", well not in my little backwater part of the world. As for schooling I sadly only have time lately for a class a year or so, my last one being a writing class (in spite of how this letter looks) and I recall my instructor on the first day of class saying we had to turn all assignments in based in a format she could read in her office 2000 based computer. No ands if or buts, as the saying goes, ditto for my web design class, the program used was Dreamweaver. Wouldn't call either of these people lazy or dumb as they were both published and working on new books, raising families and teaching. Using the industries standards is what I'd call it. I try not to put people down for not being like me, or doing things like I do. I really enjoy using Linux and open office and various other programs of that ilk but I also deal in reality and in my reality Linux is just a small stream in the river of computing, perhaps someday it will dominate that river but not now and it certainly hasn't "Won the War" around here. /rant off
Yeah but when my Lotus Europa twin cam was right it was the funnest car I've ever driven.
Gnucash? yeah right, well my son is in accounting right now in college and my daughter is in graphics and guess what? Not one course in the catalog mentions gnucash or gimp. So either the colleges are not preparing their students for the Linux takeover or it's all just smoke. Don't get me wrong I'm typing this on a Linux machine, but won the War? Hell Linux aint even in the fight IMHO. One of the things I think that kept Apple going back in the day was when it gave all those computers to schools and the students learned to play on them. Until Linux becomes the standard in education it will remain a nice OS for the man who likes to tinker. How can it possibly become the business standard when it is not being taught to the business people of the future?
Google "bump Keys" oh......... and don't tell anybody I told you k?
As I remember the oath taken was to defend the Constitution against all. I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR (OR AFFIRM) THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. -Samuel Adams, 1776 E.C.
isn't that just the KLH platform? EC
I hope they fixed the video problems. It's why I use Opera EC
Isn't this a start to a Godzilla movie?
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From my experience in WoW and FFxI, this seems about right. And no, I am not talking about avatars but my experience in both games using vent,so unless some people are faking voices out there on a steady basis the percentage seems right on. Also the percentage of us old folk playing I always guessed at about 10%. BTW all bets are off for Xmas and spring breaks when the younger set absolutely overwhelm the games. Ecartman
Well said, thank you. Loved the "tree hugging hippy" part. Ecartman
But a few more ticks of the clock and the most monstrous (mankind) will be gone too. And stepping up next to the plate is ..........?
Sure no mod points to use when I finally see an outstanding answer.
I like the 35k one myself.
Do you live in California? The stickers are everywhere, maybe you just missed them but every Safeway, Mervyns, Fast food joint, well heck they are everywhere! Maybe like all warning stickers, if you see often enough, they just don 't register anymore. Your right though I don't remember them on end products, just every business establishment I can think of.
How long till the first infomercial offering "Kits" to protect us from the upcoming polar reversal?
ATI and drivers in the same sentence....... sorry, I had to.
Agreed Screaming hardware, no drivers. must be an ATI product again. I'll never buy another one!
And did they do it TWICE?
Great points, especially the "if it doesn't work one . Here is my problem Umbutu(sp?) won't work on my 'puter tried it several times . it keeps complaining about an interrrupt being wrong. Oh and the machine? a brand new ecost t6524 ecost machine. Ok 6 monthes old. How many teachers want to spend the time it would take to fix my home computer? Don't get me wrong I use firefox,Open office and most of the open cd that will work just not umbutu. I know this is not a great computer but it is probably the type schools can afford. As for windows, on this machine works fine, play games (wow, FFxi) hook up scanners and printers no problem. Also the problem I have personally had in school is the teachers,sure this is on the college level but teachers wouldn't accept ANYTHING done without M/S office period! In several of my classes students dropped the class cause they had no access to M/S. Actually this was taken care of with an open office 2000 cd. Sure the schools might try Linux but didn't I hear Red Hat is going the way of M/S? Anyway there is going to have to be a standard in business and schools and my bet is whomever controls that standard will charge for it. Welcome to capitalism!
Nice post. Can't talk about the business end but when it come to Linux in the home, the comments in the article amaze me. So the end user is the problem? How stupid is this idea? If you see your main problem in development as your end user your in a hole you'll never get out of. Notice please how many Vcrs in this country flashed 12:00 until time set became automatic? People don't want to read installation manuals or learn anything like a new language even if the language is english, period. Instant gratification is the motto of the era we are in. If my neighbors computer make eggs for breakfast, you can damn well be sure I want mine to do the same by my next breakfast even if I don't eat eggs! Computers and ego's are so intertwined I am amazed Linux developers seemed to have missed it. I want the game released today to play on my machine today with all the bells and whistles. Oh and crashes, who cares? Everybodies machines crash, we are getting used to it. And no I don't think most people would trade their bleeding edge crashing machines,that claim to do everything,even if they don't. for a machine that won't do the latest releases on the day of release. Egos, what really drive the world. A successful product give people what they want, even if they don't need it. See Ipod.
I agree the fix was in IMHO. The only way to fix games is not players but referees. After decades of watching my team the RAIDERS be the most penalized team in football even I had to agree with my friend that said the ref's are biased even if it's unknowingly. I mean come on the only common denominator is the ref's. Coaches changed,cities changed, players changed the only thing that didn't change was the penalties and the ref's. So after the Superbowl fiasco, I've sworn off football. Next season I'm wasting my time online playing WoW!
Why not just ask the Chinese how they are going to do it? We will spend the next few billion dollars and years in meetings drafting proposals. Return to the moon? HA! that would take commitment and resolve my country doesn't seem to possess anymore. Besides the winning effort to this contest will probably end up in court fighting patent infringement cases well into the next century.
Exactly, I feel the penetration of Mp3 is too deep. I rip all my songs to Mp3, because my car and home both use Mp3. As for sound, my son who's hearing is MUCH better than mine says ACC is better though my 50 year old ears can't tell the difference. So I will continue to buy Mp3 players for home and car because my library of songs is Mp3 which works for me.
Not as bad as you think. I play FFXI and WOW and swearing is not that big a deal. In order to play the games you need to belong to guilds, I have never belonged to a guild that allows profanity at least in my experience in the last two years. Matter of fact two players were kicked out of out guild for just that last night. Please note also both FFXI and WoW have profanity filters to block this but more importantly they both have user created blacklists, you can't play if no one will talk to you or even hear you as you run around proving your age with obscene rants. Both games self police and are doing a darn good job.