You must have a very different definition of stable than Unix users. Some of us like to be able to connect to the 'net without our machines being compromised.
Is that compromise because of Windows flaws or because of criminals on the 'Net who have nothing better to do? It really suggests that MS is a victim of it's own popularity - and should Unix ever come even close to that popularity, I wonder how long it is before some other OS fan sneers at you dumb ass and antiquated Unix users...
Huh? "When I was a kid, I had a ti99/4a and we shared the code, bought magazines with code in it, and computers were fun. There was a community. Then came Bill Gates and then came Windows...."
Are you playing games on your computer or do you use it for work? Besides the fact that MS and Intel made it possible for millions of people to get computers (as opposed to the extremely expensive Mac models or the more toy-like Ataris or Comodores), no one ever made anyone buy a computer with an MS OS running on it - though, if I recall, Unix wouldn't run on early x86 based computers, and there was no Open Source OS to RELY upon - or am I wrong here? I guess it's easy to be superior - coming to the party so late, but without Gates, MS and Intel, I wonder if we have $500 desktops and ubiquity - instead of a few well pocketed geeks playing at home with their computers or toy consoles based mainly on a gamers market or research-oriented mainframes or wallet-busting Macs?
That's funny dude - you don't like the products but MS Windows is the most popular OS in the world - by leaps and bounds - could it be that you may know a good OS but don't understand the computer industry - which is what this article is about? Could it be that your dislike of MS is coloring your vision: I never said Gates was the best, I said he was the biggest - only a fool would discount an operation like MS in the context of the computing industry and the impact the company has had on computing over the last 20 years...
The truth is we don't know what things will look like. Nor does Gates or Microsoft.
So you don't think one of the most successful businessmen in the history of the world might have a little insight in the direction of the industry - or at least, you don't think he has people working for him who get paid to make these predictions - based on research and the like? I guess you're right (no one knows the future), but at the end of the day, he sure has more credibility then a bunch of pikers spending their days pissing on the richest man in the world (you think Gates spends his sweet time posting to a blog?)
Sorry, but if I wanted to bathe in shit, I'd be using Windows.
Pretty strong language for some fucking software - I know a lot of folks using windows - either through choice or workplace enforecement, and it don't smell too bad around here. Maybe you should look past your computer and find a life?
but don't tell me that MS Office is better just because OpenOffice can't handle its format well enough.
I'll tell you it: I installed OO because I didn't want to shell out the bucks for MS products - my wife didn't like the smell of it, but trusted me - untill she got back 3 emails describing documents that opened with strange formatting and one that wouldn't open for all. Considering that these are business products, and that to get along in the business world you need to communicate with it, I'd say that they guy who speaks the right language is in a better place. In fact, this whole discussion is actually silly: aside from philosphical reasons, anyone who has used Linux for mundane computing (i.e., Word processing, photo editing, etc) knows that it offers nothing the big boys don't and far less than they do. Talk of viruses and malicious adbots is merely blaming the victim - as Mac users are now discovering - and as Linux users will discover should it migrate to Joe XPs desktop. It's one thing to be a geek - that's all fine and well, but I guess one of the reasons geeks don't get laid is because they'd rather tinker with their OS while the rest of us are done with our tasks and out in the real world...
Why just soccer moms? Why should anyone have to struggle to write w wrod processing document or watch a video? Working a computer should be like working a television set or a radio - there's no reason that one should have think about their OS - if they do, their OS is a failure. And as much as some folks here piss on XP (including myself at times) it works consistently right out of the box... There's no reason to go to Linux unless you;ve got something to prove - and if you do, prove it in a way that matters...
And why shouldn't they? I guess some people either have the time or the inclination to rebuild the wheel or prove something to themselves or the world around them, but a computer is a comodity - a tool for getting a task done. And if Linux can't make it easy, it's an inferior tool...(regardless if it has superior this and that...)
Re:Not a replacement for rentals, great new niche
on
Self-Serve Car Rental
·
· Score: 1
Zipcar in NYC is just not worth it - weekends are about $12 an hour - and since 2 hours is about the absolute minimum for any ride through town - particularly on the weekends, I'd rather just take a cab. Anything more than a few hours and rentals become a better deal - as for insurance, most credit cards cover all your insurance - the rental insurance is a rip off!
Please... Linux is a beautiful interface, but it also means a migration to all new software and a learning curve (and these things are supposed to be convenient with a standard interface, that's why we moved past DOS) - and many of the things you take for granted on a PC - like clicking an MP3 or.MOV file and hearing music or seeing video, takes work on a Linux box - at the least, you have to find the software (my implementation from Redhat did not have those utilites). I really wanted to run Linux but went back to XP for the ease. Sure, you may get a virus or two if you're not careful, but with free AVG installed, I've not had that problem in at least a year - maybe more and the problem is not because of MS - it's because of assholes...
Isn't it odd, however, that for so many, many, MANY campaigns during the years, the people somehow don't get see the amazing features of Apple and keep using PC-s anyway.
The computer is a tool - a commodity - a way for your boss to make money on your productivity. When Macs really were superior - in ways much more obvious than those mentioned around here, they were extremely expensive. Now that they're almost on par with price, the differences are trivial - for the majority of users - and to replace all that software would be insane.
Also, legally, are they even your documents? How does copyright enter into this, if you write something on their servers, which is stored on their servers, can you really claim exclusive ownership?
These are failr (and excellent) questions: if you pen a best seller, will thnikfree demand a cut? I know that, supposidly, everything I type on my company machines belongs to them.
Right now we're using OO, but my wife - who gets PPs from around the world, is concerned that OO messes up formatting on word docs and PPS - and she's right, I've seen it. We also have Dell's install of WP, but we never use it.
ThinkFree Online is, simply put, Office without the Microsoft I guess if your plan is to be MS without being MS, then they have something. Being that 99.99999% of computer users don't give a hoot which brand of software they're using, it's a weak marketing point. Not to mention, if it flies, MS will have a web version available before you can say ThinkWho?
Do something nice? Google is a corporate entity - a bloated monster worth billions, if they seem art friendly and all, it's just more "content" for their site - they don't care about education or community. I don't think it was a big deal, and Google has a right to evoke a style in their font, but to suggest altruism is a stretch for a behemoth like Google - if MS did this, how many would be schvitzing?
Since when does merit dictate a market? If these other products failed, it was because they couldn't cut it (Dr. DOS?) or they didn't have the marketing or they just couldn't hang with the big players. No one seemed to mind when Netscape owned the browser market, or that Apple owns the MP3 market (and stole their GUI from Xerox) and so on - what is it about MS that drives people to apoplexy?
Slashdot Mirror
Are not the brunt of internet "virus" attacks against indivdual desktops? Are you saying that Windows boxes are atacked because it's easy to do so?
Is that compromise because of Windows flaws or because of criminals on the 'Net who have nothing better to do? It really suggests that MS is a victim of it's own popularity - and should Unix ever come even close to that popularity, I wonder how long it is before some other OS fan sneers at you dumb ass and antiquated Unix users...
Huh? "When I was a kid, I had a ti99/4a and we shared the code, bought magazines with code in it, and computers were fun. There was a community. Then came Bill Gates and then came Windows...." Are you playing games on your computer or do you use it for work? Besides the fact that MS and Intel made it possible for millions of people to get computers (as opposed to the extremely expensive Mac models or the more toy-like Ataris or Comodores), no one ever made anyone buy a computer with an MS OS running on it - though, if I recall, Unix wouldn't run on early x86 based computers, and there was no Open Source OS to RELY upon - or am I wrong here? I guess it's easy to be superior - coming to the party so late, but without Gates, MS and Intel, I wonder if we have $500 desktops and ubiquity - instead of a few well pocketed geeks playing at home with their computers or toy consoles based mainly on a gamers market or research-oriented mainframes or wallet-busting Macs?
That's funny dude - you don't like the products but MS Windows is the most popular OS in the world - by leaps and bounds - could it be that you may know a good OS but don't understand the computer industry - which is what this article is about? Could it be that your dislike of MS is coloring your vision: I never said Gates was the best, I said he was the biggest - only a fool would discount an operation like MS in the context of the computing industry and the impact the company has had on computing over the last 20 years...
So you don't think one of the most successful businessmen in the history of the world might have a little insight in the direction of the industry - or at least, you don't think he has people working for him who get paid to make these predictions - based on research and the like? I guess you're right (no one knows the future), but at the end of the day, he sure has more credibility then a bunch of pikers spending their days pissing on the richest man in the world (you think Gates spends his sweet time posting to a blog?)
Aren't industry leaders often called upon to gage the industry? That was rhetorical...
Maybe if you're installing Win2000 - not XP. Unless you're doing something wrong, perhaps?
Not just him!
Pretty strong language for some fucking software - I know a lot of folks using windows - either through choice or workplace enforecement, and it don't smell too bad around here. Maybe you should look past your computer and find a life?
but don't tell me that MS Office is better just because OpenOffice can't handle its format well enough. I'll tell you it: I installed OO because I didn't want to shell out the bucks for MS products - my wife didn't like the smell of it, but trusted me - untill she got back 3 emails describing documents that opened with strange formatting and one that wouldn't open for all. Considering that these are business products, and that to get along in the business world you need to communicate with it, I'd say that they guy who speaks the right language is in a better place. In fact, this whole discussion is actually silly: aside from philosphical reasons, anyone who has used Linux for mundane computing (i.e., Word processing, photo editing, etc) knows that it offers nothing the big boys don't and far less than they do. Talk of viruses and malicious adbots is merely blaming the victim - as Mac users are now discovering - and as Linux users will discover should it migrate to Joe XPs desktop. It's one thing to be a geek - that's all fine and well, but I guess one of the reasons geeks don't get laid is because they'd rather tinker with their OS while the rest of us are done with our tasks and out in the real world...
Why just soccer moms? Why should anyone have to struggle to write w wrod processing document or watch a video? Working a computer should be like working a television set or a radio - there's no reason that one should have think about their OS - if they do, their OS is a failure. And as much as some folks here piss on XP (including myself at times) it works consistently right out of the box... There's no reason to go to Linux unless you;ve got something to prove - and if you do, prove it in a way that matters...
And why shouldn't they? I guess some people either have the time or the inclination to rebuild the wheel or prove something to themselves or the world around them, but a computer is a comodity - a tool for getting a task done. And if Linux can't make it easy, it's an inferior tool...(regardless if it has superior this and that...)
Zipcar in NYC is just not worth it - weekends are about $12 an hour - and since 2 hours is about the absolute minimum for any ride through town - particularly on the weekends, I'd rather just take a cab. Anything more than a few hours and rentals become a better deal - as for insurance, most credit cards cover all your insurance - the rental insurance is a rip off!
Please... Linux is a beautiful interface, but it also means a migration to all new software and a learning curve (and these things are supposed to be convenient with a standard interface, that's why we moved past DOS) - and many of the things you take for granted on a PC - like clicking an MP3 or .MOV file and hearing music or seeing video, takes work on a Linux box - at the least, you have to find the software (my implementation from Redhat did not have those utilites). I really wanted to run Linux but went back to XP for the ease. Sure, you may get a virus or two if you're not careful, but with free AVG installed, I've not had that problem in at least a year - maybe more and the problem is not because of MS - it's because of assholes...
The computer is a tool - a commodity - a way for your boss to make money on your productivity. When Macs really were superior - in ways much more obvious than those mentioned around here, they were extremely expensive. Now that they're almost on par with price, the differences are trivial - for the majority of users - and to replace all that software would be insane.
Also, legally, are they even your documents? How does copyright enter into this, if you write something on their servers, which is stored on their servers, can you really claim exclusive ownership? These are failr (and excellent) questions: if you pen a best seller, will thnikfree demand a cut? I know that, supposidly, everything I type on my company machines belongs to them. Right now we're using OO, but my wife - who gets PPs from around the world, is concerned that OO messes up formatting on word docs and PPS - and she's right, I've seen it. We also have Dell's install of WP, but we never use it.
ThinkFree Online is, simply put, Office without the Microsoft I guess if your plan is to be MS without being MS, then they have something. Being that 99.99999% of computer users don't give a hoot which brand of software they're using, it's a weak marketing point. Not to mention, if it flies, MS will have a web version available before you can say ThinkWho?
Do something nice? Google is a corporate entity - a bloated monster worth billions, if they seem art friendly and all, it's just more "content" for their site - they don't care about education or community. I don't think it was a big deal, and Google has a right to evoke a style in their font, but to suggest altruism is a stretch for a behemoth like Google - if MS did this, how many would be schvitzing?
Since when does merit dictate a market? If these other products failed, it was because they couldn't cut it (Dr. DOS?) or they didn't have the marketing or they just couldn't hang with the big players. No one seemed to mind when Netscape owned the browser market, or that Apple owns the MP3 market (and stole their GUI from Xerox) and so on - what is it about MS that drives people to apoplexy?