Linux has gone mainstream... Just not on the desktop. Where is remains a distant 3rd behind Windows and OS/X. With Android, Linux is quite popular with mobile. Linux is also strong on the server side too. Linux never made it to the desktop, because there were too many drivers to support. When you luck out and get a System that is well supported by Linux... Linux rocked on that system. However if you try to put Linux on a poorly supported system, it usually sucked, and felt like a cheap OS.
If Microsoft make "Windows 9" a Linux Distribution with a Windows themed UI. It would probably be just like Vista, many people complaining about hardware compatibility, systems crashing all the time (due to improper drivers)
It seems like anything that is somewhat expensive, you cannot find an estimate of your final price online. You need sales people to give you a quote, then you are stuck with hearing there sales pitch and them getting annoyed when you say no.
I understand that a lot of things are variable prices... However I want to know the ball park price. Am I looking at $10,000 or $100,000 or under $5,000?
For example... The following I would like to have a ball park figure on, in my area... 1. How much for Solar Panel? How much energy will they provide... On the average for an average size home. 2. How much for Geothermal? 3. How much for Central Air Conditioning? 4. How much for enterprise software?
The problem isn't just the Companies fault, it is the customer too... Most customers are too stupid to realize there are factors, and they just don't know what an estimate means, so the companies are afraid of posting their estimated prices online because too many people think the online estimate is a quote or a contactable price. Also they will have to compete with companies who give their estimates differently, difference companies may deal with different size customers. You quote for an enterprise system, company may say a mid sized company is 100 employees an other will think it is 1000 employees. so their estimates will be orders of magnitudes off. Also there is sometimes the case you get what you pay for... Too cheap you get cheap. While I understand the complication... I would wish there was a place where I can get an honest estimate.
Replying to do a bad moderation. During that time without the campy Batman, parents would forbid kids from reading batman comics, or other things batman. I was a kid when Batman the animated series came out. My parents didn't have issues with it because they still thought of campy bat man. Not the Batman who the police really hate, with the exception of the commissioner.
I personally don't prescribe to the Gene Roddenberry future where technology will solve all our problems and make us good and happy people. Every technology you use has a trade-off. Now the trick is to determine if the trade-off is worth it.
When we went from horses to automobiles, it was haled as an environmental achievement. Horses make a big mess on the streets, that needs to be clean and can cause the spread of diseases to people. Automobiles also let people go longer distances, and faster. However there was a trade-off. With Automobiles we needed a smoother road infrastructure, that cost tax payers a lot of money. With less daily maintenance and newer cheaper cars more people have cars creating traffic concerns, and more people driving create a higher air pollution rate. Now if we all had cars and used them the same way people used horses last century, the earth will be a cleaner place. However we got trade-offs, faster speed, more efficiency = more use. If we make a more efficient engine, that means people will buy bigger cars they will keep their consumption about the same, they will just get a bigger car... Unless gas costs are too high then they get smaller.
We have created a new computer infrastructure, at a trade-off. 1. We allow people to work from anywhere in the world... That means we can hire people cheap in other countries. 2. Computers automate a lot of repetitive tasks... That means a lot of good entry level positions that teach college grads the ropes of business are now gone. 3. We now have access to more information... So each person is expected to do more... Harder work.
We really can't hold technology back for the sake that it offers tradeoffs. however we need to think of new ways to adjust to these chances.
I am not one to Poo-Poo a user interface just because it is new. However... The Ribbons just make life difficult, because it is hard to drill down based on organizations.
Most people will pin 20% of the application they use 80% of the time.
Then we have the other 80% of the application we need 20% of the time. Yes I am only using the start bar 20% of the time... However it is because I still need to access the other 80% of my apps. Windows 8 doesn't allow drill down, which kinda stinks, I was thinking of Coding my own Start Bar for Desktop mode.
Well giving a the Carrot in terms of Tax Breaks for the poor isn't that useful. 1. A lot of them pay small amount of tax, so the carrot would be small. For the Rich, it is a sizable increase, perhaps worth a changing a behavior. 2. Poor in general (yes they are exceptions) don't tend to focus on long term planning, or how taxable their habits are. 3. The poor will tend (yes they are exceptions) to get more support federally then the rich (Per dollar payed in taxes)
However giving them the stick, Would encourage a behavior change, because it is money that will go away vs money you will get back. Myself included, When I get my paycheck I see 1/3 (Federal and State Taxes) go away, That in my mind is money I never had, so I don't think about it, if I get some back at tax time, it is just a bonus to me. However If I am told that I don't do X then I will need to pay later, (Say out of my pocket) that is money that was given to me that I have to pay back.
As the company stated they are not offering the same room at different rates, however it is showing the nicer hotels first. If there were enough Linux users to make a difference I would expect that they would give them, the roach motels first.
These systems will try to correlate as much information as possible to give its views the most relevant results. if a Mac User is shown on average to buy a hotel that is 10% more then the cheapest, then orbits to offer the best results will give the 10% above the cheapest as its first options so its customers are not hunting down the list.
Out of all the reptiles, humans seem to connect better with Turtles then say Snakes, or Lizzards. If a Snake Species went extinct, there would be a lot less sorrow then for a Tortoise.
Well that, and just Like Macs, and Windows and Ford and Toyota's they are not built in a bubble. You may have parts in your ford that are also in the Toyota, as they out source and get parts from different companies, and chances are there are parts that are sold to both Ford and Toyota.
But the same thing with software too. OS X and Windows are very different OS's however there are stuff built in from Adobe, Microsoft, Apple... That seemed to get into each others systems. (Part of the reason why it is hard to just open source your product)
But you are taking the extremism example. For the most part a protective parent may allow the kids do their own work, they will join other activities, Sports, clubs, etc... That will teach them a lot of skills. The entire argument is based on the fact that there is a minority of Helicopter parents, who are training them to ace school without having a real life, so you need to counter it with throwing you kids out of civilization.
You are already using Microsoft Products so it doesn't sound like you big into the ideals of RMS's rants against everything. The cloud is an affordable option, Your risks of loosing your data you can mitigate by downloading locally nightly.
Now the advertising for the cloud makes it seem like a magic bullet, it isn't, however if you are a small business you are usually better off running of the cloud then on your own infrastructure, especially if you cannot afford redundancies.
Check your contract to see if you can get your data off. Backup to you existing equipment or back up to the cloud.
The question is, by teaching kids in essence Camping/Survival Skills, are we really teaching them leadership?
Yes the Boy Scouts teaches Leadership skills, and the Boy Scouts teaches Camping/Survival Skills, and some of them a joined together... However There is a lot of leadership training outside camping skills, Putting children in positions of authority, being able to give commands and take the consequences of such commands, are important leadership skills... However Camping and Survival Skills, don't really make you a good leader. It just means you can fend for yourself better (This is a good trait, however it doesn't make you a leader, it may just make him a more effective servant.
Good leaders don't need to be tough, they need to be smart, calculating, thoughtful, and ethical.
Not -1 too political. -1 stereotypical over generalization due to public opinion. In every sector you have the good guys, a slew of neural folks, and the bad guys.
In terms of media coverage, the good guys may make a 10 minute clip on the news once. The neutral people never really make the news, and the bad guys get a lot of coverage that makes them infamous.
We don't hear about the finance people who help find small businesses and give them capital to grow. We hear about the bad guys who trick people in bad investments because the can get away with it.
I studied international business, the professor (who only teaches part time, works full time for the ITC) he told us some interesting stories. A local businessman who sold farm supplies called the ITC, because there was someone from Iran who wanted to buy a million dollar combine. He called the ITC to make sure he could sell this. They told him no, then the he called again, asking if it would be ok if someone else bought it and shipped it to Iran, the ITC said he still couldn't sell it because he knows that it will go to Iran. While the Iranian American, can legally buy an iPad, however Apple figures it is better to be on the safe side then breaking International Trade Laws.
You probably have never worked in a high enough position in a software company.
Just releasing your specs or your source is hard. 1. Not all of the code you have is yours. Third party tools, and work done by a differen company. You are going to get all parties to agree. 2. Nvida has put a lot of money in making their equipment. Releasing the drivers may make an influx on Nvida compatible cards, that uses the Nvida driver. These companies can sell the card cheaper because they are not spending their money making the driver. 3. Imbarased to show the code. Even the best of us go back and look at your old code and wonder what the hell were you thinking. 4. Hooks for the next gen products can be in the code, and they don't want to realse what they are going to do next.
And lets get back to being forced to use one OS for everything. Like in the good old 1990's The Key Reason for Microsoft Dominance is the fact that there is so much software that only runs Microsoft OS's When software makers make software they will choose the OS that most people use... So it makes that OS even more Dominate...
Now HTML, Flash, Java, Javascript. Allowed for Code to run independent of the OS or even the browser (as they are getting more standard compliment every day) so we are actually more free to use what ever OS we feel like. Mac, Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD. You can use these OS's now without feeling limited on your interaction with the rest of the world in terms of software.
Well be careful. A lot of IT workers during the.COM boom, were making huge amounts of money. A lot of these people figured that was the norm, and now that the market has corrected itself, you feel like you are getting bad pay, while in real life you have a solid middle class salary.
However as point of the interview, is that there isn't a good door to start a career anymore. Because companies are less willing to train employees... Now before this Evil Company mantra, you need to take in consideration an other trend, employees are not working in the same company for 10-20 years. They are working for 2-4 years and moving on. This actually makes training a lot more expensive... First you are training a lot more people, and you are training them to work for your competitor, who may pass on the saving of not training to the employee.
The joy in Trek is largely nostalgic. As a kid Star Trek was one of the first "grown up shows" I watched. While it covered issues and topics I didn't always get until I was older, but a Space Ship, Aliens who wern't scary, and cool tech, was enough to keep me interested. As I got older and watching the shows over again I found more complexity in the plot. As I went into adolescence it was a family approved show with babes in tights or short skirts where you sometimes get a panty shot. Then you get more of the plot. After that it is a lot nostalgic of when you were a kid and life was easy. For most people the debat over TOS TNG DS9 VGR and ENT falls what you watched when you were 8-12 years old. If you didn't watch Trek as a kid, you are probably not going to get that into it. For one the age of the shows covers many issues that are no longer a big deal. Second the plots and acting while ok are for the most part not spatactular. That said... I think Deep Space 9 is the best bet. It isn't as campy as the other Trek and there is growth in all the charactors.
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Linux has gone mainstream... Just not on the desktop. Where is remains a distant 3rd behind Windows and OS/X.
With Android, Linux is quite popular with mobile. Linux is also strong on the server side too.
Linux never made it to the desktop, because there were too many drivers to support. When you luck out and get a System that is well supported by Linux... Linux rocked on that system. However if you try to put Linux on a poorly supported system, it usually sucked, and felt like a cheap OS.
If Microsoft make "Windows 9" a Linux Distribution with a Windows themed UI. It would probably be just like Vista, many people complaining about hardware compatibility, systems crashing all the time (due to improper drivers)
It seems like anything that is somewhat expensive, you cannot find an estimate of your final price online. You need sales people to give you a quote, then you are stuck with hearing there sales pitch and them getting annoyed when you say no.
I understand that a lot of things are variable prices... However I want to know the ball park price. Am I looking at $10,000 or $100,000 or under $5,000?
For example... The following I would like to have a ball park figure on, in my area...
1. How much for Solar Panel? How much energy will they provide... On the average for an average size home.
2. How much for Geothermal?
3. How much for Central Air Conditioning?
4. How much for enterprise software?
The problem isn't just the Companies fault, it is the customer too... Most customers are too stupid to realize there are factors, and they just don't know what an estimate means, so the companies are afraid of posting their estimated prices online because too many people think the online estimate is a quote or a contactable price. Also they will have to compete with companies who give their estimates differently, difference companies may deal with different size customers. You quote for an enterprise system, company may say a mid sized company is 100 employees an other will think it is 1000 employees. so their estimates will be orders of magnitudes off. Also there is sometimes the case you get what you pay for... Too cheap you get cheap.
While I understand the complication... I would wish there was a place where I can get an honest estimate.
Replying to do a bad moderation.
During that time without the campy Batman, parents would forbid kids from reading batman comics, or other things batman.
I was a kid when Batman the animated series came out. My parents didn't have issues with it because they still thought of campy bat man. Not the Batman who the police really hate, with the exception of the commissioner.
I personally don't prescribe to the Gene Roddenberry future where technology will solve all our problems and make us good and happy people. Every technology you use has a trade-off. Now the trick is to determine if the trade-off is worth it.
When we went from horses to automobiles, it was haled as an environmental achievement. Horses make a big mess on the streets, that needs to be clean and can cause the spread of diseases to people. Automobiles also let people go longer distances, and faster. However there was a trade-off. With Automobiles we needed a smoother road infrastructure, that cost tax payers a lot of money. With less daily maintenance and newer cheaper cars more people have cars creating traffic concerns, and more people driving create a higher air pollution rate. Now if we all had cars and used them the same way people used horses last century, the earth will be a cleaner place. However we got trade-offs, faster speed, more efficiency = more use.
If we make a more efficient engine, that means people will buy bigger cars they will keep their consumption about the same, they will just get a bigger car... Unless gas costs are too high then they get smaller.
We have created a new computer infrastructure, at a trade-off.
1. We allow people to work from anywhere in the world... That means we can hire people cheap in other countries.
2. Computers automate a lot of repetitive tasks... That means a lot of good entry level positions that teach college grads the ropes of business are now gone.
3. We now have access to more information... So each person is expected to do more... Harder work.
We really can't hold technology back for the sake that it offers tradeoffs. however we need to think of new ways to adjust to these chances.
So your are that Idiot.
I am not one to Poo-Poo a user interface just because it is new. However... The Ribbons just make life difficult, because it is hard to drill down based on organizations.
Most people will pin 20% of the application they use 80% of the time.
Then we have the other 80% of the application we need 20% of the time. Yes I am only using the start bar 20% of the time... However it is because I still need to access the other 80% of my apps. Windows 8 doesn't allow drill down, which kinda stinks, I was thinking of Coding my own Start Bar for Desktop mode.
Well giving a the Carrot in terms of Tax Breaks for the poor isn't that useful.
1. A lot of them pay small amount of tax, so the carrot would be small. For the Rich, it is a sizable increase, perhaps worth a changing a behavior.
2. Poor in general (yes they are exceptions) don't tend to focus on long term planning, or how taxable their habits are.
3. The poor will tend (yes they are exceptions) to get more support federally then the rich (Per dollar payed in taxes)
However giving them the stick, Would encourage a behavior change, because it is money that will go away vs money you will get back.
Myself included, When I get my paycheck I see 1/3 (Federal and State Taxes) go away, That in my mind is money I never had, so I don't think about it, if I get some back at tax time, it is just a bonus to me.
However If I am told that I don't do X then I will need to pay later, (Say out of my pocket) that is money that was given to me that I have to pay back.
Star Trek The Origional Series covered this idea.
In other words, you only want White, Immigrants, no ones with a little brown in their skin.
Well not kool aid, but fine wines.
As the company stated they are not offering the same room at different rates, however it is showing the nicer hotels first. If there were enough Linux users to make a difference I would expect that they would give them, the roach motels first.
These systems will try to correlate as much information as possible to give its views the most relevant results. if a Mac User is shown on average to buy a hotel that is 10% more then the cheapest, then orbits to offer the best results will give the 10% above the cheapest as its first options so its customers are not hunting down the list.
Out of all the reptiles, humans seem to connect better with Turtles then say Snakes, or Lizzards. If a Snake Species went extinct, there would be a lot less sorrow then for a Tortoise.
Well that, and just Like Macs, and Windows and Ford and Toyota's they are not built in a bubble. You may have parts in your ford that are also in the Toyota, as they out source and get parts from different companies, and chances are there are parts that are sold to both Ford and Toyota.
But the same thing with software too. OS X and Windows are very different OS's however there are stuff built in from Adobe, Microsoft, Apple... That seemed to get into each others systems. (Part of the reason why it is hard to just open source your product)
But you are taking the extremism example. For the most part a protective parent may allow the kids do their own work, they will join other activities, Sports, clubs, etc... That will teach them a lot of skills. The entire argument is based on the fact that there is a minority of Helicopter parents, who are training them to ace school without having a real life, so you need to counter it with throwing you kids out of civilization.
Yes, however there are other ways of doing this.
It sounds like the cloud may be good option.
You are already using Microsoft Products so it doesn't sound like you big into the ideals of RMS's rants against everything. The cloud is an affordable option, Your risks of loosing your data you can mitigate by downloading locally nightly.
Now the advertising for the cloud makes it seem like a magic bullet, it isn't, however if you are a small business you are usually better off running of the cloud then on your own infrastructure, especially if you cannot afford redundancies.
Check your contract to see if you can get your data off. Backup to you existing equipment or back up to the cloud.
The question is, by teaching kids in essence Camping/Survival Skills, are we really teaching them leadership?
Yes the Boy Scouts teaches Leadership skills, and the Boy Scouts teaches Camping/Survival Skills, and some of them a joined together... However There is a lot of leadership training outside camping skills, Putting children in positions of authority, being able to give commands and take the consequences of such commands, are important leadership skills... However Camping and Survival Skills, don't really make you a good leader. It just means you can fend for yourself better (This is a good trait, however it doesn't make you a leader, it may just make him a more effective servant.
Good leaders don't need to be tough, they need to be smart, calculating, thoughtful, and ethical.
Not -1 too political. -1 stereotypical over generalization due to public opinion.
In every sector you have the good guys, a slew of neural folks, and the bad guys.
In terms of media coverage, the good guys may make a 10 minute clip on the news once. The neutral people never really make the news, and the bad guys get a lot of coverage that makes them infamous.
We don't hear about the finance people who help find small businesses and give them capital to grow. We hear about the bad guys who trick people in bad investments because the can get away with it.
I studied international business, the professor (who only teaches part time, works full time for the ITC) he told us some interesting stories.
A local businessman who sold farm supplies called the ITC, because there was someone from Iran who wanted to buy a million dollar combine. He called the ITC to make sure he could sell this. They told him no, then the he called again, asking if it would be ok if someone else bought it and shipped it to Iran, the ITC said he still couldn't sell it because he knows that it will go to Iran.
While the Iranian American, can legally buy an iPad, however Apple figures it is better to be on the safe side then breaking International Trade Laws.
You probably have never worked in a high enough position in a software company.
Just releasing your specs or your source is hard.
1. Not all of the code you have is yours. Third party tools, and work done by a differen company. You are going to get all parties to agree.
2. Nvida has put a lot of money in making their equipment. Releasing the drivers may make an influx on Nvida compatible cards, that uses the Nvida driver. These companies can sell the card cheaper because they are not spending their money making the driver.
3. Imbarased to show the code. Even the best of us go back and look at your old code and wonder what the hell were you thinking.
4. Hooks for the next gen products can be in the code, and they don't want to realse what they are going to do next.
You think there is a person in Microsoft who tags every web page out there?
The list is made by a computer to try to catagorize them based on words in the page and other links. Sometimes software makes odd mistakes.
Oh there is an exception then they fixed it.
And lets get back to being forced to use one OS for everything. Like in the good old 1990's
The Key Reason for Microsoft Dominance is the fact that there is so much software that only runs Microsoft OS's
When software makers make software they will choose the OS that most people use... So it makes that OS even more Dominate...
Now HTML, Flash, Java, Javascript. Allowed for Code to run independent of the OS or even the browser (as they are getting more standard compliment every day) so we are actually more free to use what ever OS we feel like. Mac, Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD. You can use these OS's now without feeling limited on your interaction with the rest of the world in terms of software.
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Most likely; presumably.
Are there exceptions yes. Just because you had witness an exception it doesn't mean it is the rule.
I would expect it is probably all from one company *Cough*Siemens*Cough*
Well be careful. A lot of IT workers during the .COM boom, were making huge amounts of money. A lot of these people figured that was the norm, and now that the market has corrected itself, you feel like you are getting bad pay, while in real life you have a solid middle class salary.
However as point of the interview, is that there isn't a good door to start a career anymore. Because companies are less willing to train employees... Now before this Evil Company mantra, you need to take in consideration an other trend, employees are not working in the same company for 10-20 years. They are working for 2-4 years and moving on. This actually makes training a lot more expensive... First you are training a lot more people, and you are training them to work for your competitor, who may pass on the saving of not training to the employee.
The joy in Trek is largely nostalgic. As a kid Star Trek was one of the first "grown up shows" I watched. While it covered issues and topics I didn't always get until I was older, but a Space Ship, Aliens who wern't scary, and cool tech, was enough to keep me interested. As I got older and watching the shows over again I found more complexity in the plot. As I went into adolescence it was a family approved show with babes in tights or short skirts where you sometimes get a panty shot. Then you get more of the plot. After that it is a lot nostalgic of when you were a kid and life was easy.
For most people the debat over TOS TNG DS9 VGR and ENT falls what you watched when you were 8-12 years old.
If you didn't watch Trek as a kid, you are probably not going to get that into it. For one the age of the shows covers many issues that are no longer a big deal. Second the plots and acting while ok are for the most part not spatactular.
That said... I think Deep Space 9 is the best bet. It isn't as campy as the other Trek and there is growth in all the charactors.