The problem is, Microsft have a long tradition of squwelching the little guy. Some might point to the rapid pace that this is happening, and guesstimate this is an undermining tactic.
I'd have understood a normal business ideology more if this happened before Vista was out of the gates (woe, woe, woe the puns!). Besides which, I understand most of the Linux resellers were just making a profit, if at all. Not exactly the up and coming upstart that is absorbed for new technology.
Speckulartavurlay, Vista is either going really strong, or is a flop. The negative responses I've heard from pro-Windows (they think the problem is, that Macs is too expensive) non-tech leaning associates it would be the latter. [I'm a taxi driver, not in IT so possess few techie associates. Besides it just one data point. I have others but none are concrete.)
I am beginning to suspect there is a small group of people teaming up to deliberately mark decent posts down in some way. It is becoming ridiculous the number of posts that are mis-modded.
He was a man of integrity and behaved in a manner worthy of great respect. He wasn't perfect but the fact he was a US citizen should not mean he is lumped with those who continually denigrate the formerly good reputation of the said citizens.
That said, I am currently find it difficult to say anything good about current (past two decades) administration. Then again, I have never met an US citizen I didn't like. (There was one Texan who came close though...)
From what I understand, the ark of the Hebrews would have been more stable than the ark of the Babylonians. Wouldn't it have been more likely that it went the other way around?
The Babylonians version was a cube. Hebrews was an oblong; longer than it was wide, and wider than it was high. My experiences tell me that would put the centre of gravity in a pretty good place.
Aren't borrowed myths supposed to distort and exaggerate dimensions, not make them realistic?
I'm just wondering why so many open source users have disdain for companies not open sourcing their software when it is potentially against their aims to do so. I mean, to the exclusion of actually using the software which could make their computer experience better. Surely we haven't got that many mini-RMSes?
I'd be a pseudo-RMS. If it made the experience better then yes, it has been (in the past) compulsory to maybe consider using the software. Sometimes the initial experience was great! But a minor upgrade / alternative program / (pick a variable) would break it and I'd have to start again.
Why do you _expect_ a company to do business according to your own rules?
Because I believe it is just as unreasonable of a 'non-entity'* to trust them, just because I'm paying for it. I want to be able to see a reason to base that trust on.
* recognising that they are people too, but the responsible persons can change at the drop of a hat. I've seen management at work. All they do is prevent good ideas becoming successful for bureaucratic reasons.
Trying to peer into a professional point of view, it would seem the consensus is that no other suite touches Adobe suite. A mix of apps may work, but they will be non-standardised ui, such as the much vaunted Gimp.
As a complete amateur I have enjoyed Nvu for its interface.
It would seem that based on the last 7 days Xandros is 42 (^176HpD), or the past 6 months 28 according to Distro Watch. That puts it as significant, does it not?
The question I have is, why go after a player like Xandros, which seems to have lost a bit of the hype? Surely Canonical would have been a better choice or Mandriva? (no offense Xandros; actually, Damn you!)
Thank you for enlightening me as to the new features. I agree I was ignorant of the new functionality of Microsoft formats. At the occurrence of the complaint they did not have the OpenXML format.
1. 'Print View' = 'Normal' view. Full screen is a menu option under the 'View' menu and is easily made a toolbar button. Fair enough on your other points.
2. You win, I don't have much call for macros
3. Having used them side by side, I prefer OO.
I, as you pointed out, am to ignorant to qualify as a geek, but I do as a linux user. Not poor but honest. It would seem at this point, you are right and Office is superior. But proprietary is the clincher. It won't hurt now, but it will. Eventually.
Ummm, how is it 'superior' to not be able to get your OWN data out of a file unless you pay X for program Y? I have had the problem where people have sent me proprietary files and well, not owning Office meant I couldn't get the data. (OpenOffice didn't have compatibility with the new versions.) On the other hand, I have had a corrupted OpenOffice file, but I extracted most of the data without being able to open it in OO. Oh and I used tools common to most operating systems.
Are you talking about features? How much are you going to spend to be able to write pdfs?
I do agree that Office usually outputs slightly better looking files on display. Print them out and I can't see the difference though.
I am sorry if I don't know what it is that makes Office superior. Please enlighten me.
I think 'most' users would say "what the hell is phishing?" Only way to prevent phishing is to bring up a "Welcome to the internet, here are a few things you should know about before you go on:... " splash screen when they open up their browser every time.
really? and the 'popular defacement sites' are:.......? I'd like to see the stats on that please. I still can't find where you may have read that info to come to those conclusions.
Yast2 has to be the most comprehensive gui based admin tools I've used in any OS. (all hobby/curiosity, no problem solving) Port it to Debian and the difference between debian-based distros and windows will be 3d games.
I believe I said it was the most comprehensive gui based admin tools I've used in any OS. That means I find it to be different to, more capable than anything I have used. I am currently exclusively using Ubuntu, but have at some point spent at least a month on most of the major distros out there. That includes some of the other Foss distros, namely BSD. I'm a distro vagrant. I never said that Yast2 was like Windows. I reckon it is far better than the Windows, on the whole because I find it more logical.
However I do recognise that many PC users claim that "linux is to hard to run." (I take that to mean administer.) I found something that was suitable at my low level of capabilities for we plebs to use.
I did incorrectly say "3d games" when I meant commercially prevalent games. My apologies to the Oss game developers I should have known better.
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Can anyone verify this? (login of course) Aussies hardly ever have solar panels, but surely we get more sunshine?
Suse wasn't so little, and I was using it till they did the deal with Microsoft.
The problem is, Microsft have a long tradition of squwelching the little guy. Some might point to the rapid pace that this is happening, and guesstimate this is an undermining tactic.
I'd have understood a normal business ideology more if this happened before Vista was out of the gates (woe, woe, woe the puns!). Besides which, I understand most of the Linux resellers were just making a profit, if at all. Not exactly the up and coming upstart that is absorbed for new technology.
Speckulartavurlay, Vista is either going really strong, or is a flop. The negative responses I've heard from pro-Windows (they think the problem is, that Macs is too expensive) non-tech leaning associates it would be the latter. [I'm a taxi driver, not in IT so possess few techie associates. Besides it just one data point. I have others but none are concrete.)
err... I think that was the point. It's a play on words. ^ makes you look silly.
I am beginning to suspect there is a small group of people teaming up to deliberately mark decent posts down in some way. It is becoming ridiculous the number of posts that are mis-modded.
He was a man of integrity and behaved in a manner worthy of great respect. He wasn't perfect but the fact he was a US citizen should not mean he is lumped with those who continually denigrate the formerly good reputation of the said citizens.
That said, I am currently find it difficult to say anything good about current (past two decades) administration. Then again, I have never met an US citizen I didn't like. (There was one Texan who came close though...)
So... you are here for marketing research? Product placement? Undercover?
Or maybe they don't believe it has to be a monetary/control cost.
From what I understand, the ark of the Hebrews would have been more stable than the ark of the Babylonians. Wouldn't it have been more likely that it went the other way around?
The Babylonians version was a cube. Hebrews was an oblong; longer than it was wide, and wider than it was high. My experiences tell me that would put the centre of gravity in a pretty good place.
Aren't borrowed myths supposed to distort and exaggerate dimensions, not make them realistic?
It was/would be funny to a nerd...
Easier to falsify, hence the malware adverts in webpages.
One click is identical except in regards to position to any other click.
Abraham Lincoln would have been proud then.
And these blokes need to re-evaluate what they are doing in life
Having said that Abe Lincoln probably would have preferred to finish/receive an education.
Does a lawyer that is already a employee of the company count? or are they always outsourced?
Iraqis will be relieved now the occupation force is going to protect them from being called nasty names online.
But I agree, linux is a better platform.
* recognising that they are people too, but the responsible persons can change at the drop of a hat. I've seen management at work. All they do is prevent good ideas becoming successful for bureaucratic reasons.
As a complete amateur I have enjoyed Nvu for its interface.
other alternatives may be
http://www.aptana.com/download_all.php
http://www.inkscape.org/ (quite good, but haven't used it for web applications)
http://kompozer.net/
ZDNet has an article on that very subject.
It would seem that based on the last 7 days Xandros is 42 (^176HpD), or the past 6 months 28 according to Distro Watch. That puts it as significant, does it not?
The question I have is, why go after a player like Xandros, which seems to have lost a bit of the hype? Surely Canonical would have been a better choice or Mandriva? (no offense Xandros; actually, Damn you!)
Thank you for enlightening me as to the new features. I agree I was ignorant of the new functionality of Microsoft formats. At the occurrence of the complaint they did not have the OpenXML format.
1. 'Print View' = 'Normal' view. Full screen is a menu option under the 'View' menu and is easily made a toolbar button. Fair enough on your other points.
2. You win, I don't have much call for macros
3. Having used them side by side, I prefer OO.
I, as you pointed out, am to ignorant to qualify as a geek, but I do as a linux user. Not poor but honest. It would seem at this point, you are right and Office is superior. But proprietary is the clincher. It won't hurt now, but it will. Eventually.
Ummm, how is it 'superior' to not be able to get your OWN data out of a file unless you pay X for program Y? I have had the problem where people have sent me proprietary files and well, not owning Office meant I couldn't get the data. (OpenOffice didn't have compatibility with the new versions.) On the other hand, I have had a corrupted OpenOffice file, but I extracted most of the data without being able to open it in OO. Oh and I used tools common to most operating systems. Are you talking about features? How much are you going to spend to be able to write pdfs? I do agree that Office usually outputs slightly better looking files on display. Print them out and I can't see the difference though. I am sorry if I don't know what it is that makes Office superior. Please enlighten me.
I think it would better to be based on Plan 9. But no one talks it anymore. Is development still continuing?
really? and the 'popular defacement sites' are :.......? I'd like to see the stats on that please. I still can't find where you may have read that info to come to those conclusions.
Someone mail this to the treasurer! These test will prevent key logging by the ole distract em trick!
However I do recognise that many PC users claim that "linux is to hard to run." (I take that to mean administer.) I found something that was suitable at my low level of capabilities for we plebs to use.
I did incorrectly say "3d games" when I meant commercially prevalent games. My apologies to the Oss game developers I should have known better.