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If a control freak was president he would be very unhappy. Being president there is way to much entropy and with the checks and balances you do not have full control. So you need to get congress to go along with your ideas, the same with the judical system, and many of them do not like the fact that you are in power and will fight you every step of the way. Then you have a general population who will determine if you get an other term or not. Or to replace the people in congress with the guys who hate you. A controll freak would not be happy there as they have little control of what they do.
The problems many startups make is they don't realize how much stuff really costs, and how pennies start to dig in the bottom line. I could build myself a PC with $500 worth of parts where Dell or HP would sell it for $750 still at near break even prices. Employees, Benefits, Power, Building Costs, Shipping, Inventory management, Deprecated Parts in Inventory. It really adds up.
We are also doing things that are rather unheard of on these old systems. So lets compare Windows 95 system with today.
1. Real-Time Semi-Transparency. Doing stuff back in 95 would have taken at least a second to render. 2. Anti-Aliasing fonts. Back in the day we knew what text was done in Photoshop and what was rendered on the fly. 3. Wobbly Windows. (or similar effect) That would take crazy computing power back then 4. Disk Indexing, We knew how to index back in 95 it just took to long to be useful 5. Complex interpreted language programs. If it wasn't in binary format then it was too slow. 6. Multi-tasking. Windows 95 just barely had working multi-tasking. Burning a CD back then was a crap shoot. because chances are your computer would freeze up and mess up your PC. 7. Security. Back in 95 a Buffer overflow would mean your program would crash, and if you had a password protection you were considered secure. Viruses only infected.exe or.com file. 8. PCI was the new kid on the block and plug in play was plug and pray. 9. Configurability. Go work with windows 95 and even compare it with XP you will realize how much stuff you have taken for granted over the years.
I bet if you take your old 486 and run 95 you will realize how slow it was.
Like fining means to escape reality is really that good of an idea. People who realize their problems in their lives and pro-actively fix them. Vs delaying them by some other means, are usually much happier overall.
Not that there aren't alternatives that one can escape to and many of those alternatives are far worse then Video games. However the issue isn't Video games or the alternative it is the culture that seems to make it seem healthy and OK to escape whenever life gets a bit stressful vs. facing your problems and clear them up.
Video Games are fine, but if you are say a student you should play them after you finish your work as sort of a reward to yourself for finishing your work, not as a way to temporarily forget about all the work you need to do.
It is easy for people with a high metabolism to not be an obesity apologist. Because they are not suffering from the problem. I am a tad overweight myself and I always have to think about what I am eating all the time, for everything I eat. I know people who just have a high metabolism and are very thin and eats 3 to 4 times the calories I do with the same level of exercise. While If I break the rules just a little bit the pounds come right back.
I see it much like the people who have been born in a Rich Family and got the family inheritance (Burning it away until he dies) looking down at the Middle Class (College Educated) guy who is working hard for his good standard of life.
Life isn't fair and I never expect it to be. But saying You Fat because you are week willed or lazy is really poor form. Yes some people are fat because of that, others just because it is that much more of a struggle to keep it there from rising.
Umm So he picked a Lawyer who worked for the RIAA. What is the big deal. They are lawyers they don't necessarily have to agree with their clients. A lot of the time Lawyers need to fight for things they disagree with personally with. If that was the case where Lawers could only do cases they agree with then there will be no rights for the minorities.
15 years ago. That sounded like Last Summer. Program Industrial Automation systems always puts you in a fish bowl in the middle of the factory with less then optimal conditions. Espectially when it is time to test, and you can't go to a nice AC office because you need to watch it in action to see what is going on.
However I never complain about it.
1. It is a job 2. The guys who work there normally do this all the time + doing a lot of physical labor.
Except for most companies think Linux not the Distribution.
So the planning process would be this.
1. We decide to move off Windows 2. What are the alternatives. 2. a. Linux is an alternative 3. Does there exist programs that does what we want for Linux 4. Are there people who can write code for this platform. 5. Will our code infringe any legal repercussions by going to Linux 6. If so what do we need to change. 7. What distributions are out there the best support this.
Open Source Zealotry really could get in the way of 4-6. And also if the OSS community sees and advantage they may make a GPL 4 License (in jest example. You cannot run GPL Code if you are going to make more then 1 million from it) or something. Yes the distributions want to keep things moderate as they want to make money. But the OSS comunity wan't things to be free as in Beer and in speech even it it leads to their own self destruction.
This bring a great opportunity for the Linux/OSS folks to mess up horribly. With people afraid to upgrade their windows systems. They are going to approach a point in a few years where their technology is so behind that they will need to upgrade and get new app. Being a case all their old software will not work, it leave the old excuse to stick with windows is the fact their software runs here. So this would be an excellent opportunity for a hug business Linux adoption. However I feel they will do something stupid, Like knowing they have the advantage and using it as an opportunity to push the politics of Open Source Down their gullets, vs. just letting Free as in Beer be the best selling point, thus making people afraid of Open Source as Business Politics may not mesh with Open Source and then going back to Windows.
1. Consumer Level closed source products have never really sold well for Linux. Business/Enterprise level software is a different story.
2. Close Source Libraries cut the development of GNU software. Linux Development has a much higher level of GNU only developers. Finding good close source developers to make a client for you for Linux is a bit more difficult, especially for free.
3. Close Source Developers would probably be concerned about legal recourse if their app outsells Spotify. Or if they are going to make a Free as in Beer or Mostly Free as in speech (Open Source with links to closed source libraries) and their app is that much better then their app.
4. Linux Developers tend to really Stink at front end work. I think they would be happier if Spotify released the Front End and the Linux developers make a compatible back end.
Well it is part of Gnome so I have a huge amounts of places to hide such code.
Lets say A function the does the fishes swimming path. We put it with the screen savers and use it for an other screen savor lets call it FluidPath Next we need a simple load image lets call it dparse
An Animated gif called hashkey.key
and the call for the "free the fish" you have it simply as an ASCII concatinate string. chr(rnd()*255+x)+chr(rnd()*255+y)+chr(rnd()*255+z)... and Lets call that string keysort
if (input == keysort) FluidPath(dparse("hashkey.key"),0);
So Unless I was really interested in that code I would have missed it as some part of the code outside my specialty of coding focus.
So you are Classifying all people with a Masters in Business Administration as all part of the same group. It is like saying I hate all CS majors because there is a bugs in my applications.
Oddly enough the bad behavior is not stuff that they teach you in the MBA program, it is actually stuff they try to teach you to avoid. For the most part they try to teach you crazy things like process optimization (it is actually quite similar to a Computer Science course), Human Resource and they actually show you the numbers that say the Layoffs are a really bad idea as when you business picks up again you will need to rehire and retrain thus loosing more then what you have saved during the layoffs. Listening to all employees and encourage listening to employees at all levels for ideas, as they teach you that you may be isolated so getting honest feedback from these people is important. And they also state taking bonuses should be for good performance not bad performance.
So it not MBA's who are the problem but the people who don't bother to follow or learn from their MBA. Which includes people who Order their MBA by mail, or actually a large group of people who actually don't have a MBA. A lot of the real jerks are the people with a BA in Business who are trying to suck up the the upper management, and will lie and cheat and give faulty data to make them look good.
Oh this won in Windows and this loss in Linux. However this won in Linux and that feature is so much more important then that feature then the one in Windows.
We got System A was optimized for windows and needed to use buggy Linux drivers to do the same thing.
That is find on fast systems but for slow systems this better.
Or even thy guy who wrote this was probably paid by Microsoft to produce the results.
So it really doesn't matter any links I give you. As it will be torn apart by zealots who want to prove it the other way. Saying X is better then Y for a complex set of operations is very suggestive.
The core kernel/OS of Windows is actually fairly solid (Some experts would say the the NT Kernel is actually just as good if not better then the Linux kernel). Most of Windows Instability just Like any Linux instability is from Bad Drivers (As I type on a Ubuntu 9.4beta box after I spent about 5 minutes minimizing/resizing windows to clear up the static from a buggy video driver, which still is better because in Gusty, that had a bug in the power save where once the display went to sleep it would lock the USB devices). Oddly enough if you pay the extra bucks for good quality well known hardware (paying as much or more then an Apple Computers) you get a rock solid Windows system or if you go with the Linux approved list of quality hardware you get a rock solid Linux system.
Or in my case for work I have a cheapo Desktop PC that needs a bunch of Funky drivers. So I end up with a Flaky Linux box and a flaky Windows box. I stay with Linux on it as I feel more compentant the the Open Source guys will at some point fix the problems as my version of Ubuntu is still Beta.
I doubt we will see a sell-able fully solar powered car in our lifetime. As there are many concepts that make it impractical Night Driving Garages Extended periods of poor weather. Tree Coverage Building coverage in Cities
However out of these competitions we come with a lot of good technology more then just solar power. The fact that you car powered off the energy of a hair dryer. Could be used in many mechanical devices longer lasting battery powered devices. Heck they could use the technology and make a more efficient hair dryer.
I myself always liked the Idea of better trained consumers rather then Corporate restrictions. American Capitalism work best when the consumers are smart enough to get a good idea what they are buying past the initial marketing. Being able to catch marketing ploys show clear paths of research comparing products/services etc...
However the Democrats would rather punish the Corporations (at leas the ones that don't fund their party) with a lot of restriction that just makes everything harder and more expensive. The Republicans don't like to fund education especially any education past the 3 R (Reading, Riting and R-rithmatic), with perhaps the exception of a High School Football team.
So we are stuck in a system where we have stupid untrained consumers who feel that they don't have a choice. And CRY to their senator when a company didn't give them all the features they though would be in the product/service.
I am just going to nit-pick on your post a bit there is one spot I would like to point out. "American Geophysical Union are that most (9/10) of the scientists I met agree with the IPCC [www.ipcc.ch] report on abrupt climate change."
Scientist are human like the rest of the world and tend to have many of the same fault. There is a herding mentality in science, that is prevalent. Disproving or crating an alternative to a common well accepted theory is often very dangerous (reputation wise) for a scientist. As the peer review process of your work may be stepping on some strongly held ideas of your peers, so they will not be favorable to it. So for your proof I would stay away from the age old 9 out to 10 scientist agree mantra, as it is not a formal way of proving anything. It is just playing on the insecurities of other people who figure well they must be smarter then me so I should agree with them.
This mentality in business has created the economic mess that we are in. Well all these bank brokers and economists say mortgage backed securities are a great deal, I should jump in too. Or even further back in time of the Karian Financial crises of the late 90's where a small few (but well known) investment firms sold a good portion of their stock in Karia (probably just to increase diversification of their investments) causing all the little guys to start selling in a panic thus nearly killing Karia's economy.
Well distilled water isn't conductive. But most water isn't pure H2O That is why if you are at the beach and they hear thunder they make you get out of the water, or repituble contractors dont put electric plugs in the shower.
Wow I would have though NT not being Unix in the since that it doesn't barely any of the Unix Code base, Its file structure layout is much different, They way that people manage the hardware threw the system. And all the real technical stuff is what makes it different. Not the fact that some apps can/cant run via a command prompt.
I am sorry, There will be that one feature that someone needs that it doesn't do that someone else handles or handles better, so for them the other program will be better.
Besides saying your the best only makes you look like a jerk.
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If a control freak was president he would be very unhappy. Being president there is way to much entropy and with the checks and balances you do not have full control. So you need to get congress to go along with your ideas, the same with the judical system, and many of them do not like the fact that you are in power and will fight you every step of the way. Then you have a general population who will determine if you get an other term or not. Or to replace the people in congress with the guys who hate you. A controll freak would not be happy there as they have little control of what they do.
The problems many startups make is they don't realize how much stuff really costs, and how pennies start to dig in the bottom line.
I could build myself a PC with $500 worth of parts where Dell or HP would sell it for $750 still at near break even prices. Employees, Benefits, Power, Building Costs, Shipping, Inventory management, Deprecated Parts in Inventory. It really adds up.
We are also doing things that are rather unheard of on these old systems.
So lets compare Windows 95 system with today.
1. Real-Time Semi-Transparency. Doing stuff back in 95 would have taken at least a second to render. .exe or .com file.
2. Anti-Aliasing fonts. Back in the day we knew what text was done in Photoshop and what was rendered on the fly.
3. Wobbly Windows. (or similar effect) That would take crazy computing power back then
4. Disk Indexing, We knew how to index back in 95 it just took to long to be useful
5. Complex interpreted language programs. If it wasn't in binary format then it was too slow.
6. Multi-tasking. Windows 95 just barely had working multi-tasking. Burning a CD back then was a crap shoot. because chances are your computer would freeze up and mess up your PC.
7. Security. Back in 95 a Buffer overflow would mean your program would crash, and if you had a password protection you were considered secure. Viruses only infected
8. PCI was the new kid on the block and plug in play was plug and pray.
9. Configurability. Go work with windows 95 and even compare it with XP you will realize how much stuff you have taken for granted over the years.
I bet if you take your old 486 and run 95 you will realize how slow it was.
Like fining means to escape reality is really that good of an idea. People who realize their problems in their lives and pro-actively fix them. Vs delaying them by some other means, are usually much happier overall.
Not that there aren't alternatives that one can escape to and many of those alternatives are far worse then Video games. However the issue isn't Video games or the alternative it is the culture that seems to make it seem healthy and OK to escape whenever life gets a bit stressful vs. facing your problems and clear them up.
Video Games are fine, but if you are say a student you should play them after you finish your work as sort of a reward to yourself for finishing your work, not as a way to temporarily forget about all the work you need to do.
It is easy for people with a high metabolism to not be an obesity apologist. Because they are not suffering from the problem. I am a tad overweight myself and I always have to think about what I am eating all the time, for everything I eat. I know people who just have a high metabolism and are very thin and eats 3 to 4 times the calories I do with the same level of exercise. While If I break the rules just a little bit the pounds come right back.
I see it much like the people who have been born in a Rich Family and got the family inheritance (Burning it away until he dies) looking down at the Middle Class (College Educated) guy who is working hard for his good standard of life.
Life isn't fair and I never expect it to be. But saying You Fat because you are week willed or lazy is really poor form. Yes some people are fat because of that, others just because it is that much more of a struggle to keep it there from rising.
Umm So he picked a Lawyer who worked for the RIAA. What is the big deal. They are lawyers they don't necessarily have to agree with their clients. A lot of the time Lawyers need to fight for things they disagree with personally with. If that was the case where Lawers could only do cases they agree with then there will be no rights for the minorities.
15 years ago. That sounded like Last Summer. Program Industrial Automation systems always puts you in a fish bowl in the middle of the factory with less then optimal conditions. Espectially when it is time to test, and you can't go to a nice AC office because you need to watch it in action to see what is going on.
However I never complain about it.
1. It is a job
2. The guys who work there normally do this all the time + doing a lot of physical labor.
Except for most companies think Linux not the Distribution.
So the planning process would be this.
1. We decide to move off Windows
2. What are the alternatives.
2. a. Linux is an alternative
3. Does there exist programs that does what we want for Linux
4. Are there people who can write code for this platform.
5. Will our code infringe any legal repercussions by going to Linux
6. If so what do we need to change.
7. What distributions are out there the best support this.
Open Source Zealotry really could get in the way of 4-6. And also if the OSS community sees and advantage they may make a GPL 4 License (in jest example. You cannot run GPL Code if you are going to make more then 1 million from it) or something. Yes the distributions want to keep things moderate as they want to make money. But the OSS comunity wan't things to be free as in Beer and in speech even it it leads to their own self destruction.
This bring a great opportunity for the Linux/OSS folks to mess up horribly.
With people afraid to upgrade their windows systems. They are going to approach a point in a few years where their technology is so behind that they will need to upgrade and get new app. Being a case all their old software will not work, it leave the old excuse to stick with windows is the fact their software runs here. So this would be an excellent opportunity for a hug business Linux adoption.
However I feel they will do something stupid, Like knowing they have the advantage and using it as an opportunity to push the politics of Open Source Down their gullets, vs. just letting Free as in Beer be the best selling point, thus making people afraid of Open Source as Business Politics may not mesh with Open Source and then going back to Windows.
This seems like an easy path for failure.
1. Consumer Level closed source products have never really sold well for Linux. Business/Enterprise level software is a different story.
2. Close Source Libraries cut the development of GNU software. Linux Development has a much higher level of GNU only developers. Finding good close source developers to make a client for you for Linux is a bit more difficult, especially for free.
3. Close Source Developers would probably be concerned about legal recourse if their app outsells Spotify. Or if they are going to make a Free as in Beer or Mostly Free as in speech (Open Source with links to closed source libraries) and their app is that much better then their app.
4. Linux Developers tend to really Stink at front end work. I think they would be happier if Spotify released the Front End and the Linux developers make a compatible back end.
Open Source Code IS NOT Open Specification.
You can Hide Code rather easily.
Lets say I wanted to Hide Wanda the Fish Source.
Well it is part of Gnome so I have a huge amounts of places to hide such code.
Lets say A function the does the fishes swimming path. We put it with the screen savers and use it for an other screen savor lets call it FluidPath
Next we need a simple load image lets call it dparse
An Animated gif called hashkey.key
and the call for the "free the fish" you have it simply as an ASCII concatinate string. chr(rnd()*255+x)+chr(rnd()*255+y)+chr(rnd()*255+z)... and Lets call that string keysort
if (input == keysort) FluidPath(dparse("hashkey.key"),0);
So Unless I was really interested in that code I would have missed it as some part of the code outside my specialty of coding focus.
So you are Classifying all people with a Masters in Business Administration as all part of the same group. It is like saying I hate all CS majors because there is a bugs in my applications.
Oddly enough the bad behavior is not stuff that they teach you in the MBA program, it is actually stuff they try to teach you to avoid. For the most part they try to teach you crazy things like process optimization (it is actually quite similar to a Computer Science course), Human Resource and they actually show you the numbers that say the Layoffs are a really bad idea as when you business picks up again you will need to rehire and retrain thus loosing more then what you have saved during the layoffs. Listening to all employees and encourage listening to employees at all levels for ideas, as they teach you that you may be isolated so getting honest feedback from these people is important. And they also state taking bonuses should be for good performance not bad performance.
So it not MBA's who are the problem but the people who don't bother to follow or learn from their MBA. Which includes people who Order their MBA by mail, or actually a large group of people who actually don't have a MBA. A lot of the real jerks are the people with a BA in Business who are trying to suck up the the upper management, and will lie and cheat and give faulty data to make them look good.
That a lot of open source apps have a bunch of extra undocumented code that could be possible security vulnerability.
What is the point.
Any comparisons data will get ripped apart.
Oh this won in Windows and this loss in Linux. However this won in Linux and that feature is so much more important then that feature then the one in Windows.
We got System A was optimized for windows and needed to use buggy Linux drivers to do the same thing.
That is find on fast systems but for slow systems this better.
Or even thy guy who wrote this was probably paid by Microsoft to produce the results.
So it really doesn't matter any links I give you. As it will be torn apart by zealots who want to prove it the other way. Saying X is better then Y for a complex set of operations is very suggestive.
The core kernel/OS of Windows is actually fairly solid (Some experts would say the the NT Kernel is actually just as good if not better then the Linux kernel). Most of Windows Instability just Like any Linux instability is from Bad Drivers (As I type on a Ubuntu 9.4beta box after I spent about 5 minutes minimizing/resizing windows to clear up the static from a buggy video driver, which still is better because in Gusty, that had a bug in the power save where once the display went to sleep it would lock the USB devices). Oddly enough if you pay the extra bucks for good quality well known hardware (paying as much or more then an Apple Computers) you get a rock solid Windows system or if you go with the Linux approved list of quality hardware you get a rock solid Linux system.
Or in my case for work I have a cheapo Desktop PC that needs a bunch of Funky drivers. So I end up with a Flaky Linux box and a flaky Windows box. I stay with Linux on it as I feel more compentant the the Open Source guys will at some point fix the problems as my version of Ubuntu is still Beta.
I though Reboots were part of Windows Primary Function.
I doubt we will see a sell-able fully solar powered car in our lifetime. As there are many concepts that make it impractical
Night Driving
Garages
Extended periods of poor weather.
Tree Coverage
Building coverage in Cities
However out of these competitions we come with a lot of good technology more then just solar power. The fact that you car powered off the energy of a hair dryer. Could be used in many mechanical devices longer lasting battery powered devices. Heck they could use the technology and make a more efficient hair dryer.
I myself always liked the Idea of better trained consumers rather then Corporate restrictions. American Capitalism work best when the consumers are smart enough to get a good idea what they are buying past the initial marketing. Being able to catch marketing ploys show clear paths of research comparing products/services etc...
However the Democrats would rather punish the Corporations (at leas the ones that don't fund their party) with a lot of restriction that just makes everything harder and more expensive. The Republicans don't like to fund education especially any education past the 3 R (Reading, Riting and R-rithmatic), with perhaps the exception of a High School Football team.
So we are stuck in a system where we have stupid untrained consumers who feel that they don't have a choice. And CRY to their senator when a company didn't give them all the features they though would be in the product/service.
I am just going to nit-pick on your post a bit there is one spot I would like to point out.
"American Geophysical Union are that most (9/10) of the scientists I met agree with the IPCC [www.ipcc.ch] report on abrupt climate change."
Scientist are human like the rest of the world and tend to have many of the same fault. There is a herding mentality in science, that is prevalent. Disproving or crating an alternative to a common well accepted theory is often very dangerous (reputation wise) for a scientist. As the peer review process of your work may be stepping on some strongly held ideas of your peers, so they will not be favorable to it. So for your proof I would stay away from the age old 9 out to 10 scientist agree mantra, as it is not a formal way of proving anything. It is just playing on the insecurities of other people who figure well they must be smarter then me so I should agree with them.
This mentality in business has created the economic mess that we are in. Well all these bank brokers and economists say mortgage backed securities are a great deal, I should jump in too. Or even further back in time of the Karian Financial crises of the late 90's where a small few (but well known) investment firms sold a good portion of their stock in Karia (probably just to increase diversification of their investments) causing all the little guys to start selling in a panic thus nearly killing Karia's economy.
Well distilled water isn't conductive. But most water isn't pure H2O That is why if you are at the beach and they hear thunder they make you get out of the water, or repituble contractors dont put electric plugs in the shower.
Does the Fedora 11 Beta have better video then Ubutu 9.4 Beta. Hopefully they can fix the "Static" soon.
Wow I would have though NT not being Unix in the since that it doesn't barely any of the Unix Code base, Its file structure layout is much different, They way that people manage the hardware threw the system. And all the real technical stuff is what makes it different. Not the fact that some apps can/cant run via a command prompt.
You cant have it 2 ways.
There is always a trade off. The chance of zapping sea life is there but I think making the USA energy independent has more advantage.
I am sorry, There will be that one feature that someone needs that it doesn't do that someone else handles or handles better, so for them the other program will be better.
Besides saying your the best only makes you look like a jerk.
So what does that have to do with Mac not being Unix??
Just because some apps are designed to run off the GUI it doesn't mean anything.