I live in Snohomish County. None of these plans help me at all. Kind of pisses me off. Actually, what really pisses me off is that I have to pay a toll to cross the Narrows bridge even though I only use the damned thing at most 3 times a year. How about exemptions for non-commuters? Let the people who wear down the roads pay for it, and people like me with a 8 mile reverse-commute glide.
Have you used the new Yahoo beta? I somehow get the sense that a lot of people in this thread are saying they prefer Google without giving Yahoo a fair chance... after-all, it's a very limited beta, it's not like EVERYONE's been using it.
This story is bullshit, but what was it intended to be? Funny? I don't get it.
Users could not do things they could before (like use gcc).
Why couldn't they? They were smart enough to know what GCC does and how to use it, but too stupid to visit the website to download it?
The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when OpenOffice suddenly froze up, destroying the 70 page legal document he had been working on.
So an employee who didn't bother to save his work lost it because of a hardware problem (freeze) is somehow the fault of Windows? I guess Linux has magical powers to make people save their work and fix the hardware in real time before it can malfunction.
I meat neon purple, not neon green. Goddamnit, I'm not colorblind.
How about adding a 5 minute grace period to fix typos in posts, since you're actually improving Slashdot?
And while I'm making suggestions, how about fixing those random quotes at the bottom so they always give a source? It's annoying to see an interesting quote, but there's no name, song, or movie attached and you have no idea who said it when or in what context. For instance, it currently reads, "Mother Earth is not flat!" Who wrote it?
Ooo, ooo, do you think anybody can find a more painful color scheme for the gaming section? Maybe mix some bright neon orange in with the bright neon green. I know the Slashdot editors were trying to get us all to vomit when we viewed it and although it's close, it's still not quite there... sometimes I can view the games section and not barf all over my desk.
Seriously, it's great that you're finally getting around to fixing it, but who the hell chose those offensively ugly color schemes in the first place and what was the purpose behind it? Incompetence, or just spite?
When you let your domain name expire, somebody else took it. Whether it was "pre-sold" or not, you still let it expire... what did you think was going to happen? Why would you expect to have any recourse, exactly?
That's good to hear. I'll have to see if I can find a Novell shop and play around with it for a few minutes. It couldn't possibly be worse than Notes.
The saddest thing about all of this is that Outlook pretty much sucks also. You wouldn't think it would be so hard to create a product like this, but three of the largest software companies have consistantly produced crap.
1) Metallica isn't there. Weren't they the ones who were begging for a service like iTunes in the first place? And now that it's here, they refuse to put their music up for sale? What hypocrites.
2) Pink Floyd. Last I checked, you couldn't buy Floyd music for The Wall by track, you had to buy the entire album... which wouldn't bother me, except the album was like $25! Ridiculous.
iTunes keeps track of every song you buy in their database, so in theory they can provide this service, but as of right now they don't. (They do heavily hint to people that they should be backing-up their purchased music.)
Anyway, their download system is already pretty smart. If you have a song to be downloaded, the download is half-completed, then you lose your internet connection... then say you delete the half-file, iTunes will still be smart enough to automatically download it next time you connect to the music store. So while they won't provide free backups for your music, they will ensure that no matter what happens, you get the copy you purchased.
Wait... if the change he made to Firefox included supporting a certain CSS feature better (which is what it sounds like he was doing), why would the Firefox developers *NOT* include it? Other than perhaps "not in my backyard" syndrome?
Seriously, I'm with the original poster here... if Firefox has a patch to make their CSS support better and they don't install it, screw them.
The problem is, of the three, Outlook is the only email component that doesn't utterly suck ass. Groupwise and Notes are both bloated pigs with terrible, terrible GUIs... even worse if you run a Macintosh (compared to Entourage, the MacOS version of Outlook.)
It's not just about making you, the admin, happy, you need to make your users happy also. I can guarantee people won't be happy with Groupwise or Notes... if you're choosing from those three, Outlook is the only practical solution.
If you make your own cobbled-together Linux solution, you can use many good email clients with it, so that becomes a non-issue.
(And if anybody from Novell or Lotus is reading this, FIX YOUR GODDAMNED EMAIL CLIENTS ALREADY. How many DECADES does Lotus Notes have to be a mutant pig before somebody figures it out and starts fixing the problems? Sheesh! You can't complain about Microsoft stealing your customers if your product sucks ass.)
Does Groupwise still suck ass? Last time I tried using Groupwise I wanted to pull my own teeth out with a rusty pair of pliers because the interface was so goddamned awful.
Ditto with Lotus Notes. Actually, Notes is quite a bit worse.
To be honest, I'm with the original submitter, because out of all the groupware products out there, only Exchange/Outlook has a half-decent email component. And you'll find that email is what your employees are using 99% of the time.
Remember: It's not just about making the admins happy, you have to make the employees happy. Unless Groupwise and Notes have been improved *A LOT*, people are going to be unhappy using them.
In case you haven't noticed, there are a lot of companies out there that make a lot of money selling overpriced crap to rich people. For instance, Monster gold-plated audio cables. Or those universal remotes with the 3"x8" backlit color touchscreen, which are about 40 times more annoying to use than an old-fashioned rubber-button remote.
I say, if people want to buy your product, go for it.
And "The Island" is ripped off an earlier (and much, much worse) movie named Parts: The Clonus Horror. It's a lot more make-fun-able... I actually found The Island slightly entertaining, while Parts is definitely a piece of crap.
You ever get the sense that you're missing the forest for the trees? Did it ever occur that, perhaps, Quake 3 was just an *example* intended to convey a *point* and that it could be replaced with any number of other high-profile programs?
What amuses me are the acts of vandalism that have been in major articles for literally years without ever being caught and fixed. In fact, some vandalism has been reviewed, even edited to fix dinky grammar or spelling errors, but left in the article. It makes me laugh thinking that somewhere there's a 7th grader turning in a paper on something with a completely fabrication in it.
No, I'm not going to tell you which major article has the vandalism I'm talking about, and no I'm not going to fix it myself. I don't have the open source mentality; if you want me to fix it, you can pay me.
Most of this reply is the old "well you're using the wrong distro!" canard. Stow it. We've all heard that one, and it's total bullshit even after all this time. "I have trouble getting my modem to work." "Wrong distro!" "I switched distros, and now my modem works but my sound card doesn't." "Wrong distro!" etc etc etc, it's all bullshit. If you want people to use Linux, you need to get ALL the distributions on the same damned page and stop telling people to go on a wild goose chase for the *one* distro that will work.
IBM owns Lotus. Lotus makes Notes, possibly the most evil program ever conceived. Until they rewrite that beast from scratch and make it resemble a normal email client, they're quite firmly in the "evil" category. Sorry.
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I live in Snohomish County. None of these plans help me at all. Kind of pisses me off. Actually, what really pisses me off is that I have to pay a toll to cross the Narrows bridge even though I only use the damned thing at most 3 times a year. How about exemptions for non-commuters? Let the people who wear down the roads pay for it, and people like me with a 8 mile reverse-commute glide.
Have you used the new Yahoo beta? I somehow get the sense that a lot of people in this thread are saying they prefer Google without giving Yahoo a fair chance... after-all, it's a very limited beta, it's not like EVERYONE's been using it.
This story is bullshit, but what was it intended to be? Funny? I don't get it.
Users could not do things they could before (like use gcc).
Why couldn't they? They were smart enough to know what GCC does and how to use it, but too stupid to visit the website to download it?
The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when OpenOffice suddenly froze up, destroying the 70 page legal document he had been working on.
So an employee who didn't bother to save his work lost it because of a hardware problem (freeze) is somehow the fault of Windows? I guess Linux has magical powers to make people save their work and fix the hardware in real time before it can malfunction.
You think you're hot shit in a champagne glass, but you're really cold diarrhea in a Dixie cup!
The pilot will appreciate that during the 16-hour flight to New Zealand when he really has to pee. Come on, think about it.
I meat neon purple, not neon green. Goddamnit, I'm not colorblind.
How about adding a 5 minute grace period to fix typos in posts, since you're actually improving Slashdot?
And while I'm making suggestions, how about fixing those random quotes at the bottom so they always give a source? It's annoying to see an interesting quote, but there's no name, song, or movie attached and you have no idea who said it when or in what context. For instance, it currently reads, "Mother Earth is not flat!" Who wrote it?
Ooo, ooo, do you think anybody can find a more painful color scheme for the gaming section? Maybe mix some bright neon orange in with the bright neon green. I know the Slashdot editors were trying to get us all to vomit when we viewed it and although it's close, it's still not quite there... sometimes I can view the games section and not barf all over my desk.
Seriously, it's great that you're finally getting around to fixing it, but who the hell chose those offensively ugly color schemes in the first place and what was the purpose behind it? Incompetence, or just spite?
When you let your domain name expire, somebody else took it. Whether it was "pre-sold" or not, you still let it expire... what did you think was going to happen? Why would you expect to have any recourse, exactly?
That's good to hear. I'll have to see if I can find a Novell shop and play around with it for a few minutes. It couldn't possibly be worse than Notes.
The saddest thing about all of this is that Outlook pretty much sucks also. You wouldn't think it would be so hard to create a product like this, but three of the largest software companies have consistantly produced crap.
The ones that really cheese me off:
1) Metallica isn't there. Weren't they the ones who were begging for a service like iTunes in the first place? And now that it's here, they refuse to put their music up for sale? What hypocrites.
2) Pink Floyd. Last I checked, you couldn't buy Floyd music for The Wall by track, you had to buy the entire album... which wouldn't bother me, except the album was like $25! Ridiculous.
iTunes keeps track of every song you buy in their database, so in theory they can provide this service, but as of right now they don't. (They do heavily hint to people that they should be backing-up their purchased music.)
Anyway, their download system is already pretty smart. If you have a song to be downloaded, the download is half-completed, then you lose your internet connection... then say you delete the half-file, iTunes will still be smart enough to automatically download it next time you connect to the music store. So while they won't provide free backups for your music, they will ensure that no matter what happens, you get the copy you purchased.
Wait... if the change he made to Firefox included supporting a certain CSS feature better (which is what it sounds like he was doing), why would the Firefox developers *NOT* include it? Other than perhaps "not in my backyard" syndrome?
Seriously, I'm with the original poster here... if Firefox has a patch to make their CSS support better and they don't install it, screw them.
There's:
Exchange/Outlook
Novell NDS/Groupwise
Lotus Domino/Notes
The problem is, of the three, Outlook is the only email component that doesn't utterly suck ass. Groupwise and Notes are both bloated pigs with terrible, terrible GUIs... even worse if you run a Macintosh (compared to Entourage, the MacOS version of Outlook.)
It's not just about making you, the admin, happy, you need to make your users happy also. I can guarantee people won't be happy with Groupwise or Notes... if you're choosing from those three, Outlook is the only practical solution.
If you make your own cobbled-together Linux solution, you can use many good email clients with it, so that becomes a non-issue.
(And if anybody from Novell or Lotus is reading this, FIX YOUR GODDAMNED EMAIL CLIENTS ALREADY. How many DECADES does Lotus Notes have to be a mutant pig before somebody figures it out and starts fixing the problems? Sheesh! You can't complain about Microsoft stealing your customers if your product sucks ass.)
Does Groupwise still suck ass? Last time I tried using Groupwise I wanted to pull my own teeth out with a rusty pair of pliers because the interface was so goddamned awful.
Ditto with Lotus Notes. Actually, Notes is quite a bit worse.
To be honest, I'm with the original submitter, because out of all the groupware products out there, only Exchange/Outlook has a half-decent email component. And you'll find that email is what your employees are using 99% of the time.
Remember: It's not just about making the admins happy, you have to make the employees happy. Unless Groupwise and Notes have been improved *A LOT*, people are going to be unhappy using them.
I'm looking for an equilivant to Microsoft Project I can run in OS X. Does anybody know of anything like that?
So? I saw a website where a guy made Pac-Man run in Excel.
Because it's a fake historical event that didn't happen. Easy to verify.
But it is certainly worth the effort learning Emacs and getting used to it.
Why? What can you do in Emacs that you can'd do in, for instance, BBEdit? (Which has a modern standard GUI interface.)
I'm not trying to be a troll or anything, I just really don't get it.
Eh, people can do what they want.
In case you haven't noticed, there are a lot of companies out there that make a lot of money selling overpriced crap to rich people. For instance, Monster gold-plated audio cables. Or those universal remotes with the 3"x8" backlit color touchscreen, which are about 40 times more annoying to use than an old-fashioned rubber-button remote.
I say, if people want to buy your product, go for it.
And "The Island" is ripped off an earlier (and much, much worse) movie named Parts: The Clonus Horror. It's a lot more make-fun-able... I actually found The Island slightly entertaining, while Parts is definitely a piece of crap.
The MST3K version is good, though.
You ever get the sense that you're missing the forest for the trees? Did it ever occur that, perhaps, Quake 3 was just an *example* intended to convey a *point* and that it could be replaced with any number of other high-profile programs?
What amuses me are the acts of vandalism that have been in major articles for literally years without ever being caught and fixed. In fact, some vandalism has been reviewed, even edited to fix dinky grammar or spelling errors, but left in the article. It makes me laugh thinking that somewhere there's a 7th grader turning in a paper on something with a completely fabrication in it.
No, I'm not going to tell you which major article has the vandalism I'm talking about, and no I'm not going to fix it myself. I don't have the open source mentality; if you want me to fix it, you can pay me.
Most of this reply is the old "well you're using the wrong distro!" canard. Stow it. We've all heard that one, and it's total bullshit even after all this time. "I have trouble getting my modem to work." "Wrong distro!" "I switched distros, and now my modem works but my sound card doesn't." "Wrong distro!" etc etc etc, it's all bullshit. If you want people to use Linux, you need to get ALL the distributions on the same damned page and stop telling people to go on a wild goose chase for the *one* distro that will work.
Maybe some people want to stick with legal games and avoid piracy, eh?
IBM owns Lotus. Lotus makes Notes, possibly the most evil program ever conceived. Until they rewrite that beast from scratch and make it resemble a normal email client, they're quite firmly in the "evil" category. Sorry.