Until you lose your internet connection. My wife's law firm has had more than one disaster in their high-rise this year which has resulted in them being able to use their computers, but not get internet access. No one thinks of that until it starts costing you the equivalent of $5000-$10000 or more an hour to be without it.
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I've written my MP 3 times. Though I'm not sure how much of this is FUD. The Conservative government is in a very precarious position. The wrong move and the victory they let the Liberals screw up so badly for is gone. Turning everyone into criminals isn't going to benefit them during the next election when they go for a majority government.
Which I've reminded my MP of in the last 2 letters.
Obviously you've never seen this Canadian comics "Talking to Americans" segment. In one he speaks to faculty and staff at Harvard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_mercer#Talking_t o_Americans While not covered in the article, needless to say they were pretty clueless about shit you should have known was made up with just common sense.
Which we need to work on, but hanging men out to dry to compensate isn't the answer. Especially when it comes to say a teenage female, because you've got sex crime and "Think of the children" to deal with. There is usually zero recourse against them for making such claims, and its almost guarenteed to taint your entire career and life, regardless of how made up it is. We don't have to treat women like criminals when they make a complaint, but we also shouldn't be giving them a license to ruin lives.
I've been on the receiving end of it. I lost my job over it. Even though everything she claimed was refuted up and down by other classmates, and her friend turn around and made a similar claim against my mother who was a TA at the school, they didn't piece it all together. The police just left the file open rather than close it, so I never got to go back to work. Since I wasn't union yet, they wouldn't go to bat for me. It gave me the push to go back to college, but in the same vein I was out of work for 5 months because of it. Its funny how that kind of accusation against an innoccent person can make you sick. Because you know with that kind of thing it rarely matters that you're innoccent.
They stick like shit. They're honestly the worst policed, and worst handled crime out there. Societies reaction to them only compounds the issue.
Given the stigma attached to them in just about any society going, they should be handled like a black ops. There should be an immediate gag order on the proceedings from the time of the complaint until a verdict is reached unlesss an extreme need can be proven for otherwise.
I lost count but I was keeping track of all the false rape and other claims being made from the beginning of the year. www.dailyrotten.com is great for that. All the stories where "Woman cries rape..oh wait..video evidence provided shows she was shooting a porn film" kind of stories, and other stuff.
I've now required that any woman I'm to have sex with have a form filled out in triplicate, with 4 witnesses and then notorized. I usually require this being taped by a neutral third party. Usually I just arrange to have sex at the police station with at least 2 officers watching so that all is legit.
Back to the black ops. Any reporter found releasing information about an arrest or trial about a sex crime before its concluded should be shot as an example. If the claim is found to be outright false, the complainant should be subject to no less than 5 years in jail. If its not guilty, everyone gets a cookie and goes home.
The amount of stories I've read about teenagers who've accused a teacher of a sex crime then x amount of years later turned around and said "Oh.. we uh..made it up" is ridiculous. This tool serves no purpose other than to further this type of behaviour.
I know yahoo exports them to a word document, because those are secure and no one could alt-f3 find and replace a screenname, then edit up some conversation..yeah I've been there. awesome.
I would. Especially if they did it right now. I need project 2003 for an upcoming college class. While my classmates all have the default Windows install (Except for the guy who went out and bought a mac) I flipped my laptop over to Linux so that I could learn it better (if I'm going to be a network engineer I should get used to it). At first while I learned I kept my windows partition, but its long gone. I ended up having to install Vmware with xp pro to make it happen. But I'd gladly use it native if I could.
It works great for really old stuff. It doesn't work so great for newer stuff. MS will be launching a new set of applications next year (maybe) and crossover hasn't even really caught up to 2003. I recently looked in to it for Project 2003, it doesn't support it. So I had to set up VMWare with XP pro on it for one of my upcoming college classes.
Hell Access 97 still isn't working right, even with a pledge of over $6000. The highest pledged application.
There big claim to fame? Excel and Word 97 and 2000 are gold apps.. the rest are silver, lower or not working at all.
and while a few major ones have support, there are thousands of open source projects out there. Those don't all have support. If I drop $50 for a game from EA Games, I have several avenues of support open to me for the product. I can call them or e-mail them (or use an online tech support form whichever they have). I couldn't download and expect any kind of personal support, I'd be relegated to the forums. You can always find an exception to the rule, but as a general rule when it comes to FOSS software, you're saving a little money in exchange for time when you have issues.
Some people can do that, some can't, it all depends on your situation. For the general user the FOSS playground has a different feel to it than the commercial one, and attracting people (en masse) to it will often require making them comfortable.
One thing I've seen a lot of around here is something that many also criticize big organizations, the government, etc for generating. FUD. Like if you put proprietary Nvidia drivers on your linux box, thats it..game over, you're giong to hell no collecting $200, no trying again. The FOSS Utopia is a nice dream, but its hardly realistic. Most Free open source projects are run by volunteers with their own schedule and their own day job and responsibilities. As a business, where time is money, do you want critical part of your system made up of a piece of software where you need to throw a message on a message board and hope someone gets around to answering it to fix your problem? Or do you want to be able to pick up the phone, call the company and get your issue solved right away? In the software world, there are certain things only money can buy. One of those things is support. No FOSS project is going to set up a toll free tech support team for their product.
As a home user, its not as critical. I don't mind taking a day or two to fix a problem, so if I have to post a message and leave it, its not that big of a deal.
There are also things that people will only make for money. Most productivity applications seem to be out there, games on the other hand not so much. They're expensive and extremely time consuming. There are lots of FOSS games out there, but they don't approach the level of the ones that cost money. I'm sure many will argue that, but the general public likes shine, and the FOSS games just don't approach that level of shinyness.
That doesn't mean keeping everything closed source is a good idea either. I think all formats should be open. MS should release the visio format so that it could be worked into dia. People then will have a choice. Do they pay for visio and get support or go with dia and scream into the void when they have an issue?
Proprietary isn't bad, it has its place and its usage, so does paying for stuff. Companies who have business models intend to make money. They're not going to make money by making a new product and saying "Here it is, now you go rebrand it and give it away to all your friends for free".
I've had two weird things occur with computers. Windows Networking is a mystery. I find it to be extremely finicky and will work one second and not the next. I.e. you can browse the workgroup, then restart and you cannot. If I knew what I did to suddenly make it work all those times I'm sure I could retire.
When I was in high school long ago I had a CGA monitor that was tinting red randomly. I used to smack it and it'd be cool. This went on for a year or more then I took microelectronics which included soldering. They let me take a soldering pen home with some solder and the stuff for removing solder. One night me and the monitor had a reckoning and on a whim I resoldered half the circuit boards. I have no idea which one was the problem one but it fixed the problem. I don't think I've done anything half as cool as that since. Yeah I'm a sad geek.
I bought my first digital camera 2 years ago at wal-mart. Not only were the SD cards in massive packages, they were in a locked cabinet...just seems like overkill.
Have you seen some of the plastic packages for SD cars and the like? Tiny like 1 inch SD card framed in piece of plastic over 12 inches long and almost as wide.
but not a currently solution. Wine is also a solution being worked on. But its not exactly ready to be thrown out there as an actual viable and trustworthy solution (otherwise I'd have been 100% linux long ago).
There is a lot of things not applied to software. Software is this weird sort of product where people will let them get away with a lot of things. It starts when they are young. You see it on forums like The Sims 2 BBS. Who cares if the game is a bug-filled piece of garbage, making games is really hard and if you can't do any better you should shut up. These people boggle my mind and its amazing they made it out of the womb, and yet they will shape tommorrow's world. Awesome.
They would, but most don't see the return vs investment they'd want on porting to Mac, same as Linux. There is no one to really blame for that, its just the way the marketplace is. Apple needs to find a way to get everyone interested together for it to work.
There are some, but often not always the biggest and brightest, and not always right away, which is the problem. Its hard for a person to say "I could be playing or using X if only I wasn't on a Mac. Instead I may never play it, or have to wait a year or more to see it" Same thing occurs with Linux, except the users there at least seem to be trying much harder to be bringing gaming to it via Wine. Cedega has said they want to develop and app to do it on Mac and if it goes well and quickly, and works nice, then you might see that bring in some numbers.
They don't upgrade it every year or so. it was directx 9 2 years ago. thats certainly longer than a year. Directx 9 also didn't come out the day I bought the card, it had been out for awhile beyond that, and its at least january before directx10 comes out. You're looking at a time frame of around 3 years or more (I don't know the exact dates). Being your introductory point it really taints the rest of your points. Heck in 2003 I bought a 9600, it was directx 9 capable. So I can be sure it was out then too. I'd guess directx 9 has been out for probably 4 or 5 years. According to wiki, it was december 2002. Which means by the time DX10 comes out, it will have been over 4 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#Release_histo ry Prior to that it was more frequently, but I think MS learned their lesson with that. A, B, C really mean nothing becuase a directx9 capable card was capable all the way along.
Thats your anecdotal evidence. I can provide other observations where Lan parties have constantly gone off without a hitch. its quite possible you had problem software. that happens and it has more to do with the developers than anything else. There are occasionally games released that have issues. COD2 was released with a problem with Creative sound cards. Not sure if they ever got around to fixing it. Does that happen on Mac? Not as often, because macs are kind of an in between console and PC. But I like that. I like being able to pick the hardware that goes in my machine and build it to just how I want it. People like control.
The Blue screen of death is also much less prevalent. You might want to look up the definition of FUD. I honestly can't recall the last time I saw a bluescreen...I can it was xmas 2003, I received a bad motherboard for a PC I was building for my father. Before that, I think I was running Windows 98SE.
Everyone will have different experiences. Its a matter of finding out exactly what is the common experience. I don't think Apple has found that to target their audience yet. They need to do more than say "we're better than MS because we don't have viruses and spyware". Somehow I'm betting that may significantly change if they were to suddenly have 50% desktop share.
its one thing to give the system to a few blackhats to see what they can break on it. Its another thing to put the penis enlargement industry behind finding a way into your machine.
and while many developers might want to, unless the publisher will pony up the cash, its not going to happen. Unless they pay for it completely out of pocket. You have to convince both the developers and the publishers as well as the consumers. Thats a pretty huge switch to make. You also have to convince them all at once. If you convince the consumers but not the software makers you might end up in a situation where the consumers make a partial switch then go "Where is all that greatness you promised us" then go back to PCs and never touch a Mac again. If you convince software makers and not consumers you get a similar situation where they pump a bunch of stuff out, it doesn't sell half as well and next year they tell you to suck a lemon.
Business men aren't known for being big risk takers, especially when it comes to say switching the entire marketplace.
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The whole network was down. They had to run on backup power which allowed them to run most of their office machines, but not run their servers,etc.
Until you lose your internet connection. My wife's law firm has had more than one disaster in their high-rise this year which has resulted in them being able to use their computers, but not get internet access. No one thinks of that until it starts costing you the equivalent of $5000-$10000 or more an hour to be without it.
I've written my MP 3 times.
Though I'm not sure how much of this is FUD. The Conservative government is in a very precarious position. The wrong move and the victory they let the Liberals screw up so badly for is gone.
Turning everyone into criminals isn't going to benefit them during the next election when they go for a majority government.
Which I've reminded my MP of in the last 2 letters.
again your opinion, both are accepted spelling depending on where you're from. The americans don't have a lock on being arrogant assholes it seems.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pedophile &x=0&y=0
the dictionary disagrees. Next time run it through there before you try to act smart.
Obviously you've never seen this Canadian comics "Talking to Americans" segment. In one he speaks to faculty and staff at Harvard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_mercer#Talking_t o_Americans While not covered in the article, needless to say they were pretty clueless about shit you should have known was made up with just common sense.
Which we need to work on, but hanging men out to dry to compensate isn't the answer. Especially when it comes to say a teenage female, because you've got sex crime and "Think of the children" to deal with. There is usually zero recourse against them for making such claims, and its almost guarenteed to taint your entire career and life, regardless of how made up it is. We don't have to treat women like criminals when they make a complaint, but we also shouldn't be giving them a license to ruin lives.
I've been on the receiving end of it. I lost my job over it. Even though everything she claimed was refuted up and down by other classmates, and her friend turn around and made a similar claim against my mother who was a TA at the school, they didn't piece it all together. The police just left the file open rather than close it, so I never got to go back to work. Since I wasn't union yet, they wouldn't go to bat for me. It gave me the push to go back to college, but in the same vein I was out of work for 5 months because of it. Its funny how that kind of accusation against an innoccent person can make you sick. Because you know with that kind of thing it rarely matters that you're innoccent.
A lot of people knew what it actually was, it seemed to have first been corrupted in the American media, and you know how that spreads.
They stick like shit. They're honestly the worst policed, and worst handled crime out there. Societies reaction to them only compounds the issue.
Given the stigma attached to them in just about any society going, they should be handled like a black ops. There should be an immediate gag order on the proceedings from the time of the complaint until a verdict is reached unlesss an extreme need can be proven for otherwise.
I lost count but I was keeping track of all the false rape and other claims being made from the beginning of the year. www.dailyrotten.com is great for that. All the stories where "Woman cries rape..oh wait..video evidence provided shows she was shooting a porn film" kind of stories, and other stuff.
I've now required that any woman I'm to have sex with have a form filled out in triplicate, with 4 witnesses and then notorized. I usually require this being taped by a neutral third party. Usually I just arrange to have sex at the police station with at least 2 officers watching so that all is legit.
Back to the black ops. Any reporter found releasing information about an arrest or trial about a sex crime before its concluded should be shot as an example. If the claim is found to be outright false, the complainant should be subject to no less than 5 years in jail. If its not guilty, everyone gets a cookie and goes home.
The amount of stories I've read about teenagers who've accused a teacher of a sex crime then x amount of years later turned around and said "Oh.. we uh..made it up" is ridiculous. This tool serves no purpose other than to further this type of behaviour.
I know yahoo exports them to a word document, because those are secure and no one could alt-f3 find and replace a screenname, then edit up some conversation..yeah I've been there.
awesome.
Especially when the American public doesn't understand what a pedophile is..
I would. Especially if they did it right now. I need project 2003 for an upcoming college class. While my classmates all have the default Windows install (Except for the guy who went out and bought a mac) I flipped my laptop over to Linux so that I could learn it better (if I'm going to be a network engineer I should get used to it). At first while I learned I kept my windows partition, but its long gone. I ended up having to install Vmware with xp pro to make it happen.
But I'd gladly use it native if I could.
It works great for really old stuff. It doesn't work so great for newer stuff. MS will be launching a new set of applications next year (maybe) and crossover hasn't even really caught up to 2003. I recently looked in to it for Project 2003, it doesn't support it. So I had to set up VMWare with XP pro on it for one of my upcoming college classes.
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Hell Access 97 still isn't working right, even with a pledge of over $6000. The highest pledged application.
There big claim to fame? Excel and Word 97 and 2000 are gold apps.. the rest are silver, lower or not working at all.
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/?
and while a few major ones have support, there are thousands of open source projects out there. Those don't all have support. If I drop $50 for a game from EA Games, I have several avenues of support open to me for the product. I can call them or e-mail them (or use an online tech support form whichever they have). I couldn't download and expect any kind of personal support, I'd be relegated to the forums. You can always find an exception to the rule, but as a general rule when it comes to FOSS software, you're saving a little money in exchange for time when you have issues.
Some people can do that, some can't, it all depends on your situation. For the general user the FOSS playground has a different feel to it than the commercial one, and attracting people (en masse) to it will often require making them comfortable.
One thing I've seen a lot of around here is something that many also criticize big organizations, the government, etc for generating. FUD. Like if you put proprietary Nvidia drivers on your linux box, thats it..game over, you're giong to hell no collecting $200, no trying again. The FOSS Utopia is a nice dream, but its hardly realistic. Most Free open source projects are run by volunteers with their own schedule and their own day job and responsibilities. As a business, where time is money, do you want critical part of your system made up of a piece of software where you need to throw a message on a message board and hope someone gets around to answering it to fix your problem? Or do you want to be able to pick up the phone, call the company and get your issue solved right away?
In the software world, there are certain things only money can buy. One of those things is support. No FOSS project is going to set up a toll free tech support team for their product.
As a home user, its not as critical. I don't mind taking a day or two to fix a problem, so if I have to post a message and leave it, its not that big of a deal.
There are also things that people will only make for money. Most productivity applications seem to be out there, games on the other hand not so much. They're expensive and extremely time consuming. There are lots of FOSS games out there, but they don't approach the level of the ones that cost money. I'm sure many will argue that, but the general public likes shine, and the FOSS games just don't approach that level of shinyness.
That doesn't mean keeping everything closed source is a good idea either. I think all formats should be open. MS should release the visio format so that it could be worked into dia. People then will have a choice. Do they pay for visio and get support or go with dia and scream into the void when they have an issue?
Proprietary isn't bad, it has its place and its usage, so does paying for stuff. Companies who have business models intend to make money. They're not going to make money by making a new product and saying "Here it is, now you go rebrand it and give it away to all your friends for free".
I've had two weird things occur with computers. Windows Networking is a mystery. I find it to be extremely finicky and will work one second and not the next. I.e. you can browse the workgroup, then restart and you cannot. If I knew what I did to suddenly make it work all those times I'm sure I could retire.
When I was in high school long ago I had a CGA monitor that was tinting red randomly. I used to smack it and it'd be cool. This went on for a year or more then I took microelectronics which included soldering. They let me take a soldering pen home with some solder and the stuff for removing solder. One night me and the monitor had a reckoning and on a whim I resoldered half the circuit boards. I have no idea which one was the problem one but it fixed the problem. I don't think I've done anything half as cool as that since. Yeah I'm a sad geek.
I bought my first digital camera 2 years ago at wal-mart. Not only were the SD cards in massive packages, they were in a locked cabinet...just seems like overkill.
Have you seen some of the plastic packages for SD cars and the like? Tiny like 1 inch SD card framed in piece of plastic over 12 inches long and almost as wide.
100% troll? someone's bitter or they have no concept of what trolling is.
but not a currently solution. Wine is also a solution being worked on. But its not exactly ready to be thrown out there as an actual viable and trustworthy solution (otherwise I'd have been 100% linux long ago).
There is a lot of things not applied to software. Software is this weird sort of product where people will let them get away with a lot of things. It starts when they are young. You see it on forums like The Sims 2 BBS. Who cares if the game is a bug-filled piece of garbage, making games is really hard and if you can't do any better you should shut up. These people boggle my mind and its amazing they made it out of the womb, and yet they will shape tommorrow's world.
Awesome.
They would, but most don't see the return vs investment they'd want on porting to Mac, same as Linux. There is no one to really blame for that, its just the way the marketplace is. Apple needs to find a way to get everyone interested together for it to work.
There are some, but often not always the biggest and brightest, and not always right away, which is the problem. Its hard for a person to say "I could be playing or using X if only I wasn't on a Mac. Instead I may never play it, or have to wait a year or more to see it" Same thing occurs with Linux, except the users there at least seem to be trying much harder to be bringing gaming to it via Wine. Cedega has said they want to develop and app to do it on Mac and if it goes well and quickly, and works nice, then you might see that bring in some numbers.
They don't upgrade it every year or so. it was directx 9 2 years ago. thats certainly longer than a year. Directx 9 also didn't come out the day I bought the card, it had been out for awhile beyond that, and its at least january before directx10 comes out. You're looking at a time frame of around 3 years or more (I don't know the exact dates). Being your introductory point it really taints the rest of your points. Heck in 2003 I bought a 9600, it was directx 9 capable. So I can be sure it was out then too. I'd guess directx 9 has been out for probably 4 or 5 years. According to wiki, it was december 2002. Which means by the time DX10 comes out, it will have been over 4 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#Release_histo ry
Prior to that it was more frequently, but I think MS learned their lesson with that. A, B, C really mean nothing becuase a directx9 capable card was capable all the way along.
Thats your anecdotal evidence. I can provide other observations where Lan parties have constantly gone off without a hitch. its quite possible you had problem software. that happens and it has more to do with the developers than anything else. There are occasionally games released that have issues. COD2 was released with a problem with Creative sound cards. Not sure if they ever got around to fixing it. Does that happen on Mac? Not as often, because macs are kind of an in between console and PC. But I like that. I like being able to pick the hardware that goes in my machine and build it to just how I want it. People like control.
The Blue screen of death is also much less prevalent. You might want to look up the definition of FUD. I honestly can't recall the last time I saw a bluescreen...I can it was xmas 2003, I received a bad motherboard for a PC I was building for my father. Before that, I think I was running Windows 98SE.
Everyone will have different experiences. Its a matter of finding out exactly what is the common experience. I don't think Apple has found that to target their audience yet. They need to do more than say "we're better than MS because we don't have viruses and spyware". Somehow I'm betting that may significantly change if they were to suddenly have 50% desktop share.
its one thing to give the system to a few blackhats to see what they can break on it. Its another thing to put the penis enlargement industry behind finding a way into your machine.
and while many developers might want to, unless the publisher will pony up the cash, its not going to happen. Unless they pay for it completely out of pocket. You have to convince both the developers and the publishers as well as the consumers. Thats a pretty huge switch to make. You also have to convince them all at once. If you convince the consumers but not the software makers you might end up in a situation where the consumers make a partial switch then go "Where is all that greatness you promised us" then go back to PCs and never touch a Mac again. If you convince software makers and not consumers you get a similar situation where they pump a bunch of stuff out, it doesn't sell half as well and next year they tell you to suck a lemon.
Business men aren't known for being big risk takers, especially when it comes to say switching the entire marketplace.