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Red Hat — Stand Alone Or Get Bought?
head_dunce writes "It seems that this economy has inspired a lot of businesses to move to Linux, with Red Hat posting profits that beat everyone's expectations. There's a dark side to being a highly profitable company in a down economy, though — now there are talks of Citigroup and Oracle wanting to buy Red Hat. For a while now, we've been watching Yahoo fend off Carl Icahn and Steve Ballmer so that they could stay independent, but the fight seems to be a huge distraction for Yahoo, with lots of energy (and money) invested. Will Red Hat stay independent? What potential buyer would make for a good parent company?"
Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports
(Note: We are not a GOP-sters, Republicans or affiliated with any parties, and as George Washington warned against parties We do not believe in parties and, unlike most people, We evaluate every issue on a case by case basis and do not defer to the judgments of politicians who are corrupted and untrustworthy as a group.)
Obama is controlled by the same people as Bush see The Obama Deception documentary
Yuan Forwards Show China May Buy Fewer Treasuries, UBS Says
Anemic Treasury auction effects felt beyond bonds
The Sherminator Kicks Some Wall Street Ass
China Angry That Fed Is Deliberately Destroying The Dollar
China suggests switch from dollar as reserve currency
What are the reserve currencies?
Anatomy of a taxpayer giveaway to investors
Geithner rescue package 'robbery of the American people'
Geithner just put only the rich in Titanics lifeboats
Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers
A False Choice
Bargain-hunting house buyers wearing on sellers ajc.com
Time to Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands
Socialising and Privatising
Fannie, Freddie to pay out bonuses
Fitch Raises Prime Jumbo Loan Loss Estimates Sharply
Chinas central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund
- Russia on an new world reserve currency: It is necessary to work out and adopt internationally recognized standards for macroeconomic and budget policy, which are binding for the leading world economies, including the countries issuing reserve currencies - the Kremlin proposals read.
- President Barack "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption. Rahm Emanuel, his Chief of Staff, is radical authoritarian statist whose father was part of the murderous civilian-killing Israeli terrorist organization known as IRGUN who is obsessed with gun control and compulsory service to the country in a capacity which he has yet to define. (Think brown-shirts.) Barack is intimately connected to disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (Rahm inherited Rod's federal-congress seat). Barack Obama is also connected to William Ayers (who ghost-wrote his books); Ayers is a man who promotes the concept that civilian co
Can any free Java IDE Just Work(tm) with making simple executable .jar files?
.jars...sometimes. It takes a few rolls of the dice to find the right version which
will do it without asking you to do other arcane unnecessary bullshit. Some versions do it and others(Ganymede
included) won't without asking for more redundant bullshit(see: Netbeans).
Netbeans won't do it. It says it will generate a manifest with a main class but it dosen't. If I manually edit the manifest to point to the main class then Netbeans will magically ignore or overwrite it everytime. The internet forums tell me that it's my fault because I'm not adding layer upon layer of complexity dicking around with ant scripts because I want to show my friends a hello world application without making my friends compile and run it themselves in their own IDE. Many of us have friends who don't know or care what an IDE is.
Eclipse will make executable
Can any free Java IDE make their visual editor Just Work(tm)?
The Matisse editor in Netbeans is powerful and full featured. I can tweek every little ass-hair of every little component. Wait - what's all that crap in my source editor? It dosen't look familiar, and to add insult to injury, Netbeans is telling me that I can't edit some code? What the fuck are these imports and variables? Better copy and paste to Eclipse so I can make some sense of this bullshit...
Oh, shit. Not only does Eclipse not recognize half of the pasted code but Eclipse dosen't include a visual editor. No problem, the forums say, because it may be downloaded though Eclipse itself. Oh shit, it won't work with Ganymede. Once again, with Eclipse, it's time to roll the dice to discover which version actually works with the visual editor without broken dependency warnings and other bullshit.
It's a brilliant strategy to discourage inexperienced folks whose time matters(the operative phrase since we don't have 20 hours a day to roll dice trying to get things to work) from studying computer science.
It's also a brilliant strategy to discourage inexperienced folks whose time matters(see above) from using open source solutions since Netbeans and Eclipse are so concerned with filling your raster with bloat instead of making things Just Work(tm). In Soviet Russia, open source copies Microsoft.
...for this will breathe life into the issue of making KDE the default desktop on Redhat. But as of now, the idea of KDE on Redhat (as default) is always dead on arrival.
It's a bank, it's a software company, what the hell else? Buy a chain of beauty colleges? What a lousy fit. Dumb.
If you would give the issue a little thought, you would realize it is a very useful view of the world. Avoidance of responsibility is a huge issue. When people use the diminutive, they signal that they don't want responsibility.
That's a widely held perspective. Consider George W. Bush, for example. He called Russian President Vladimir Putin, "Putie-Poot". Putin smiled for the cameras, but the BBC called that an "act". The BBC writer said the nicknames were considered "a sign that parts of Dubya - his name for himself - never really grew up." "Putie" is the diminutive of Putin, and "Poot" is a childish word for defecate.