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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 08:24 AM EST |
What company will want to pay employees to learn Win8 over 6
weeks?
Costing them $________ in man hours x pay rate (with no real
gain as the result)?
Especially when, what they got now, works just fine.
Time for Google to step in with simple solution, but it has
to work with all past Windows software, including Quickbooks
(or just buy Intuit and rewrite, or convince Intuit to
rewrite their software away from Windows), etc.
There is so much time in labor invested into even data that
sits in MS Access databases, and time trained on those
tools, to move to something else... does not cost benefit
out to move away from windows if migration costs to new apps
don't come back in savings in a SHORT period of time.
Linux geeks (focused on massive energy to re-invent new GUI
at no real gain for company as LXDE really is what they
want) ...for years ALL these dreamers in Linux, with no real
business leadership EXPERIENCES DOING THE JOBS MOST
EMPLOYEES DO...have missed this important point.
So, maybe 6 weeks to train in Win8 will be cheaper than
migration away from Windows.
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| Authored by: kjs on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 10:24 AM EST |
well, I am using touchscreen since a long time and love it but not on my PC!
It's great for cellphones and tablets but to use a touch screen on my 22"
LCD would seriously hurt my shoulder. It is so far away from my seat that I have
to lean forward and then the monitor would wiggle when I touch it.
Productivity would go quite a bit down with switching from keyboard to mouse to
touch-screen.
>kjs
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not f'd, you won't find me on farcebook[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: sk43 on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 07:48 PM EST |
To paraphrase Matthew Garrett:
"... some number of people ... may want to install Linux ... without
fiddling with firmware settings ..."
Gak, I ALWAYS have to fiddle with the firmware settings. My first EEE PC came
preloaded with Linux, but for some reason the wireless was disabled - had to go
into the firmware to turn it on. Sometimes you have go fiddle with the firmware
to get booting work off a USB stick. There is always some power management
feature that needs fiddling with. Disabling some unused hardware feature to
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 03:20 PM EST |
Article link. Warning for those who - like
myself - prefer to read the information away from Slashdot: it's
Slashdot!
I would only change one thing. From:
If a
user can't disable Secure Boot and they are unable to sign their own
software (e.g., bootloader, OS, etc), then we call that particular
implementation 'Restricted Boot.'
To:
If an
owner can't disable Secure Boot and they are unable to sign their own
software (e.g., bootloader, OS, etc), then we call that particular
implementation 'Restricted Boot.'
I'm the owner of my computer. My
nephew who is staying with me is a user. There's a reason I do not give him the
Root account. Enough said!
I don't mind secure boot so long as it's
under the Owner's (of the device, not the owner of the software)
control.
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 11:56 PM EST |
I read that
article very carefully, and in the end, I couldn't be
sure if the writer
has ever written any code in his life, or
is he just dreaming what it may be
like. I am a software
developer, and few days have gone by in the last 20 years
that I didn't write at least some code. If you want to call
it that, I "think"
in code all the time, but I would never
have written an article like that,
never. Not sure what I
would write, or what I would advise, but it would be
nothing
like what I just read.
The title of the story says "code frees
us to think in
new ways". Well, I guess it does, to the extent it allows me
to
develop software, but does it give me some kind of
profound insights into the
Meaning of Life? I don't think so
- certainly nothing like the insights I
gained developing
fluency in a 2nd (human) language, or the insights that I
gained from Art, Literature, and Music, or even from my
general interest in
Science. And most notably, learning to
develop software has not given me the
tiniest fraction of
reward I get from social interaction, specifically, from
loving relationships.
I guess if I was going to write an article about
what
allows us to "think in new ways", it would be about any of
the things I
mentioned in the paragraph above, anything but
suggesting you learn to program
a computer.
Not to say that computer programming has not been a good
thing in my life. Quite to the contrary, it has proven to be
an endless joy
and a very fulfilling avocation. But in the
end, it pales to insignificance in
comparison to, for
example, the smile on my 3 1/2 year old niece's face at the
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