Yea, I would much rather become IBMs bitch than MS bitch... or not. Just ignore IBMs absurd pricing, neglect of Lotus Notes (where is the Linux client???), massive lay-offs replacing workers with H1-Bs and offshoring, etc... Yea, bunch of fucking saints over at IBM, until you have to do business with them.
I don't understand there part where you aren't capable of going and downloading the Office Compatability pack that is available for Office XP and 2003 that solves this issue. I'm not really in love with Vista or Office 2007 but I love how/.ers always find links to support their anti-MS rhetoric but can never find links to solve their supposed issues.
There are very few new features that can't be exported to older versions of Excel/PPT/Word with the compatability pack, so my original point stands, where is the issue?
If you and your friend are so bright you could go into the options and set Office 2007 to save in Office 97-2003 compatability mode. I'm all for piling on with MS, but lack of user effort does not equate to wrong-doing in this case.
I wouldn't call BT a rich client app (very cool and I use it often), and honestly, there is a lot of love for alternative clients so that says something. And of course that is what "developers, developers, developers" was all about, but Apple hasn't really done much to change that, when it comes to the OS and dev tools they are mostly preaching to the choir.
I can't go anywhere or read any publication without seeing an ad for the iPod/iPhone stuff, but I don't even see the occaissional text ad/ad words/banner for Apple dev tools? They have a nice dev center web site and a great membership network, but they don't trumpet that from the rooftops?
Maybe a silhouette feverishly typing at a keyboard and pounding Red Bull doesn't make for a compelling ad?
message at MacWorld when they removed the "Computer" part of the company name. There has been nothig really exciting from Apple Computer since the new Pro towers, but the new iPods from Apple Gadget Co. are very nice. The latest bumps to iWork are half-hearted, iLife bumps are now money grabs and they are still trying to leverage.Mac when you can get most of what it offers for free. I think it's pretty clear that Apple will sacrifice the OS to sell more gadgets. That said, the Windows iTunes client is getting fairly bloated, has some long standing issues and needs to be updated on a relentless schedule. And the lack of a Linux client and recent somewhat hostile moves toward Linux users with the new iPods isn't helping either. If you want to provide gadgets to a wide range of consumers you have to respect and support them equally.
I have been no fan of Vista and had stopped using it at all back in February, but I recently slapped it on a spare PC to see if it had improved (and no shock) it has in many ways. The WSJ is right, the big MS machine is coming up to speed and the transition pains are disappearing... at this point any competitor has missed the boat.
Both languages may have been established, but even today you don't see many "rich client" applications using either language (and when you do the Java apps feel sluggish). I'm not defending.NET or knocking Java/Python, but the OP is an example of how well entrenched MS languages are with many developers.
a good idea, Silverlight is just another MS "me too" effort like the Zune, never liked Novell buying their way into to the Linux game and now we can officially ignore Miguel.
Linux supporter and an Xbox Live member, I have to say the real story is people who can't leave their proselytizing at the door when it's time to do something like play video games. I don't need to know if you hate George W., think OS X rules or if you are a warrior in the fight against gay marriage. Just shut the fuck up and play some games without dragging real-world baggage along with you. It's easy enough to come up with a name that references a classic game, a song lyric, a book, etc... I always find those types of names far more clever than veiled political messages, product/brand loyalty or celebrity references.
Yes, it's true that MS wouldn't have to money to fund the Xbox division without their ill-gotten gain from their OS monopoly. Yes, I know it's terrible I'm supporting them in any way/shape/form. If you are any bit of a gamer you have to play with MS in some way, either with a 360 or dual-booting, and overall the 360 seems to me to be the lesser of the two evils. Seriously, when I log in for some mutli-player action I don't care if my crosshairs line-up on MSSUXORS, LNXFAN or BriTneySpeArSvAginA; just play the game please.
Steve Ballmer will line up the Windows Vista development team and break chairs over their heads... While I love reading stories like this, and no doubt it is partially due to the massive improvements in desktop Linux over the last couple years, a great deal of the inertia behind this is likely PC makers frustrated with Vista and consumer indifference. Dell showed just enough success with Ubuntu on consumer machines that now all the larger PC makers have to dip their toes in the pool.
In theory we should now started seeing more and better drivers and more Linux versions of popular applications. If the right approach is taken I think some companies will provide code/docs/etc.. Any way you slice it, it's good news.
You are not being honest if you don't admit that many task have gotten much easier since 1997. While in some aspects Windows hasn't gotten radically better (and that is being harsh as it generally has gotten a lot more reliable compared to NT4/Win 98) one need only look at Linux and OS X to see that all the extra horsepower is getting put to good use. Go back to Netscape 4, or better yet, get your Lynx on, and then get back to me...
Nice over-simplification of the issue. Society at large is fairly ignorant of how PCs work, by your post this is nothing more than VHS vs BETAMax. I would suggest to you a little more is at stake here, and a society that takes American Idol seriously should not be allowed to steer the future of desktop technology.
That is quite a load of mis-information you are hauling there. Intel is far more open with their hardware specs, are providing lots of open source driver support and porting many of their development apps to Linux (and either giving away or open sourcing many of them as well). You can actually go to Intel's site and find a list of which boards they actively support Linux on and find drivers for older RedHat 4 and SLES builds. Additionally, BIOS updates are now provided via ISO image so Linux users (or any platform really, but we are the targeted group) can update their BIOS without jumping through hoops. I won't even get into your whole "technology is available to a few limited US h/w mfrs" as it makes no sense when you consider that outside of BFG (maker of nVidia based video cards and a smathering of motherboards) there are no U.S.hardware makers any longer (and all BFG does is assemble over here, the parts are still off-shored).
By way of comparison, AMD/ATi have yet to provide any really decent drivers, little in the way of documentation and have offered virtually zero F/OSS developer support. Via has been slightly better but hardly a font of knowledge. For desktop computing (and including Via was a stretch) Intel is probably the most supportive and easiest to deal with hardware make for a Linux workstation.
as/etc/passwd can be read by a regular issue, probably just poking for *IDs and ~home. Is there likely a more elegant/less intrusive way for Skype to find what it's looking for? Probably so, but we'll never know as long that they only make binary blobs available. It's a tough call to break down and used closed source, but sometimes functionality trumps the politics. I don't like using the blobs nVidia provides, but I want my eye candy. I don't care for Adobe Flash, but so much content is based on it I chose to make my life easier. I'm not a Skype user so I can't judge, but doesn't Ekiga do ths job pretty well? Does the Skype client only accept calls from other Skype clients?
that anyone who thinks that CLI usage is not a feature of Linux think again? This topic is 12 minutes old and three post have already suggested we bury the command line; part of what makes Linux so fast, flexible and customizable is access to virtually every setting from a text editor. This is not something that needs to be changed, instead change your mindset that this is not Windows.
If you are looking for a completely GUI drive *nix I would say OS X is your best bet (yes, I know you can use the CLI in OS X, but you never have to unless you so desire).
decent if not exceptional licenses MS could use, we don't need another. Once again, why does MS need to invent their own version of everything (game consoles, digital media players, graphics APIs, etc..). Past experience has shown they release their own version of something in order to subvert (at least) or take over (most often) that product/protocol/market segment. Why is anyone shocked that people are greeting this with suspicion?
So you are writing off Linux because ATi has delivered sub-par Linux drivers thus far? And your solution is Windows 2000? I won't even take the easy shot at Mandriva....
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Yea, I would much rather become IBMs bitch than MS bitch... or not. Just ignore IBMs absurd pricing, neglect of Lotus Notes (where is the Linux client???), massive lay-offs replacing workers with H1-Bs and offshoring, etc... Yea, bunch of fucking saints over at IBM, until you have to do business with them.
There are very few new features that can't be exported to older versions of Excel/PPT/Word with the compatability pack, so my original point stands, where is the issue?
If you and your friend are so bright you could go into the options and set Office 2007 to save in Office 97-2003 compatability mode. I'm all for piling on with MS, but lack of user effort does not equate to wrong-doing in this case.
You mean the Automatix that even Ubuntu developers have publically spoken out against?
How about any response at all, something (in this case) would be clearly better than nothing.
I can't go anywhere or read any publication without seeing an ad for the iPod/iPhone stuff, but I don't even see the occaissional text ad/ad words/banner for Apple dev tools? They have a nice dev center web site and a great membership network, but they don't trumpet that from the rooftops?
Maybe a silhouette feverishly typing at a keyboard and pounding Red Bull doesn't make for a compelling ad?
I have been no fan of Vista and had stopped using it at all back in February, but I recently slapped it on a spare PC to see if it had improved (and no shock) it has in many ways. The WSJ is right, the big MS machine is coming up to speed and the transition pains are disappearing... at this point any competitor has missed the boat.
Both languages may have been established, but even today you don't see many "rich client" applications using either language (and when you do the Java apps feel sluggish). I'm not defending .NET or knocking Java/Python, but the OP is an example of how well entrenched MS languages are with many developers.
a good idea, Silverlight is just another MS "me too" effort like the Zune, never liked Novell buying their way into to the Linux game and now we can officially ignore Miguel.
Yes, it's true that MS wouldn't have to money to fund the Xbox division without their ill-gotten gain from their OS monopoly. Yes, I know it's terrible I'm supporting them in any way/shape/form. If you are any bit of a gamer you have to play with MS in some way, either with a 360 or dual-booting, and overall the 360 seems to me to be the lesser of the two evils. Seriously, when I log in for some mutli-player action I don't care if my crosshairs line-up on MSSUXORS, LNXFAN or BriTneySpeArSvAginA; just play the game please.
In theory we should now started seeing more and better drivers and more Linux versions of popular applications. If the right approach is taken I think some companies will provide code/docs/etc.. Any way you slice it, it's good news.
You are not being honest if you don't admit that many task have gotten much easier since 1997. While in some aspects Windows hasn't gotten radically better (and that is being harsh as it generally has gotten a lot more reliable compared to NT4/Win 98) one need only look at Linux and OS X to see that all the extra horsepower is getting put to good use. Go back to Netscape 4, or better yet, get your Lynx on, and then get back to me...
That was kind of the point, so much for the /. crowd being smart enough to grasp subtle humor...
An optional part of the standard that no one implements on the client side, not really an oops, more MS chicanery...
Shut up or we'll bomb you, and fuck Norway, modular furniture is not cool...
Nice over-simplification of the issue. Society at large is fairly ignorant of how PCs work, by your post this is nothing more than VHS vs BETAMax. I would suggest to you a little more is at stake here, and a society that takes American Idol seriously should not be allowed to steer the future of desktop technology.
I get to continue feeling happy about my Fedora box.
More amazing is your ability to compare the efforts of the FSF to the fascist at the RIAA and MPAA...
By way of comparison, AMD/ATi have yet to provide any really decent drivers, little in the way of documentation and have offered virtually zero F/OSS developer support. Via has been slightly better but hardly a font of knowledge. For desktop computing (and including Via was a stretch) Intel is probably the most supportive and easiest to deal with hardware make for a Linux workstation.
as /etc/passwd can be read by a regular issue, probably just poking for *IDs and ~home. Is there likely a more elegant/less intrusive way for Skype to find what it's looking for? Probably so, but we'll never know as long that they only make binary blobs available. It's a tough call to break down and used closed source, but sometimes functionality trumps the politics. I don't like using the blobs nVidia provides, but I want my eye candy. I don't care for Adobe Flash, but so much content is based on it I chose to make my life easier. I'm not a Skype user so I can't judge, but doesn't Ekiga do ths job pretty well? Does the Skype client only accept calls from other Skype clients?
If you are looking for a completely GUI drive *nix I would say OS X is your best bet (yes, I know you can use the CLI in OS X, but you never have to unless you so desire).
MicroSoft would have to apologize for something first?
Haven't been to Iron Forge, have we?
decent if not exceptional licenses MS could use, we don't need another. Once again, why does MS need to invent their own version of everything (game consoles, digital media players, graphics APIs, etc..). Past experience has shown they release their own version of something in order to subvert (at least) or take over (most often) that product/protocol/market segment. Why is anyone shocked that people are greeting this with suspicion?
So you are writing off Linux because ATi has delivered sub-par Linux drivers thus far? And your solution is Windows 2000? I won't even take the easy shot at Mandriva....