i have a problem with all these different operating systems (OS) and programmes that work on different OS with different capacities. it's annoying. it makes communication a pain. there ought to be a law that all programmes must have the functionality to convert from and to all possible formats. no body can afford all possible programmes... and everyone has his or her preferences... to this, the departmental system administrator thinks i would need a utopia... yes and so what?! at least i have a vision... the sys admin also takes my point though because he replied, "it's funny how humans, who are social animals, are such anti-social creatures." ... it's all in the buck...
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Friday, 18 March, 2005 at 14:46 hrsNot everyone has fully appreciated the benefits of open source software or following one standard. This is the day and age when we have different DVD formats, conflicting and incompatible software, lots of big players lobbying for different standards, wanting people to use their own proprietary technology.
In the end, consumers get hurt.
Posted by: Van Tan on Saturday, 19 March, 2005 at 04:03 hrsi know... it really sucks... i had to spend like half a good working day to try to read something that came from Mac into PC and they just don't want to talk, and arggh... people using programmes should also be wise enough to convert programme files into e.g. -ascii files for other users!! i was so pissed off.
my supervisor uses a G4... i work on PC because the Linux i was given has conflicting problems with MATLAB or that the sys admin isn't adept enough to fix the probs. and i am no Linux OS expert although i really think it's probably the best and likewise UNIX which is now incorporated into the Mac... so i ended up using PC -- at least i know a little of what to do if i am left entirely on my own to fix computer probs...
i guess if everyone had open source etc. and can choose which OS s/he is most comfortable with then there might be programmes that will connect between the other OSs... and then nobody will have to fight... oh maybe that's all too simplistic!
sigh. we make life so difficult for ourselves and everyone else!
It can be terribly frustrating, can't it? I'm kind-of optimistic, though, that things are moving the right way. It used to be that half the sites on the internet were 'best viewed with [browser X]'. I think in a couple of years things will be better still, probably largely thanks to all the brilliant open-source software around - which goes a long way towards undermining Microsoft et al's incompatible proprietary formats that oblige you to stick with one company's products (which then end up becoming obsolete a few years down the line). In the mean time, though, it is good to see them getting told off!
Btw. I really like that quote! Was that Alan?
Posted by: nick on Sunday, 20 March, 2005 at 11:04 hrshaha nick... that was Mike... although Alan's version might be filled with more "aye... hmm...".
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