If I'm there to get a Math / Architecture / Medicine degree, then I expect to learn all the academic theory bits in that field. However, the office suite I use is likely irrelevant to my dicipline of choice, so I'm not sure that pushing OO.org onto me when I'm going to be using Word in my career is going to benefit my overall development.
Glad you see it this way. I presume my children will be skillful enough to translate any tuition in MS Word into the office suite of their choice.
However when I need a dumbass receptionist, and my budget extends to a dumb bimbo who can only use what she has been taught, then guess which one I'm going to pick? The dumb bimbo with Word experience - because thats what our office, and our clients use.
95% or whatever the figure is of employers are going to be in the same boat. You start teaching all your students OO.org, and sure - the skilled ones will be able to find employment - but the unskilled ones can't.
This is not a question of "correct" idealogy. You will not keep you university running when the graduate employment rate and employer satisfaction is reduced, for _whatever_ reason.
A universitys job is to not compromise the future of its students to push an ideology. Christ, the number of people that seem to be all out to expose their students/employers to extra risk for the sole reason of "M$ is teh EVILS" is both incredible and laughable.
Troll? He makes a reasonable point. Why is the question "How Do I Start a University Transition To Open Source?"
Surely the question is "What infrastructure standards will help me meet the university's goals, and reduce my budget?".
I'm just amazed that the OP is in a position to make decisions when hes effectively made the decision to transfer to FOSS, and he has absolutely no idea what the license costs for his existing software is! To be completely frank, this guy needs supervision from somebody with business skill, not a FOSS migration plan.
I think hardware and software designers already have that covered when they perform processing on different parts of your system, such as your CPU, or GPU...
Specialization is a good thing, unless you have a preference for the performance of the directx reference rasterizer....
SharpDevelop is BSD licensed, and quite excellent. There is very little preventing you from using this as your primary development environment. SharpDevelop on Mono is also possible.
The sole reason I still buy the VS licenses, is because I also keep juniors using Resharper (a VS refactoring/quality addin) and Diamond Binding (a database access addin/library, again VS only), which pretty much add 20% on the productivity of a bunch of noobs.
Sometimes (rarely) the place I go into uses MS Project Server "properly", and the TFS changeset/issue tracking makes VS worthwhile over SVN as well.
The reasons against using Mono (if you are going for minimising cost of development, and putting ideology aside), is being able to use things like WPF/WCF/WF. This is above and beyond what you need to develop most applications though.
If you think the approximate returns these "big companies" are getting are extreme, then you should head on down to your local bank. They handle all the diversification for you so you too can have a part of the extreme returns.
You can pick from an enormous variety of funds, specifying your risk, industry, etc, etc.
Hell, even MS, who have a large market by the balls manage to only pull in something like 20%.
Rarity of natural resources sometimes requires big corporations to have the balls and pull to go in and negotiate with governments to pump their oil, or enslave a bunch of peasants to dig for diamonds. Do you really thing that you and three mates are going to have much luck negotiating for drilling rights in the middle east?
You seem to think that a bunch of guys getting extremely rich is a fault of those nasty corporations, rather than say there is a natural bell curve of skill with a rather long tail.
Hey good idea. Lets ban investing. Then when we need to get a bunch of iron ore out the ground we better hope that someone has the ten billion dollars lying around to build the mine that gets it out.
Or we could do without it I guess. What healthy economy needs things like iron anyway?
Economies of scale? Pah! A bunch of blokes can go down their and dig it up by hand, and smelt their own iron by hand. Then make steel. China did it, it must be a good idea.
Nice going there Chairman Belits! I for one support your great leap backwards!
I suggest you google for my "titty fucking arse-bandits with their gay dick up an elephants cunt" post, which achieved +3 Insightful, followed by +5 Funny...
The guy who corrected me with the apostrophe also got a +5 insightful.
You think you have a moral right to use your employers research, because you were paid to use their techniques? Are you crazy?
You are an employee, not a shareholder. You most certainly do not get the rewards from the risk they took in undertaking the research. You chose fixed-rate labour for hire stability, with low risk.
You now have your money, as was the deal. Next time consider investing...
Its more like you install a GPS, and they wire it into your Whatever branded sound system, because they assume that by having GPS installed that you want to hear the directions when you press "Speak Route".
"I'm one of the tiny minority that want a GPS installed but not listen to the directions!" you cry.
Fine. Don't press "Speak Route".
"Waa! I don't want the hidden cable under the dash... its not necessary. I asked for a GPS, not a cable! I don't care if its free and part of the standard GPS.... etc fkn etc.
You can either stick with the standard install, or get a different framework/GPS (Java comes to mind).
Jeeze and when I installed the Java framework, boy was I surprised to get a plugin* for my browser! Golly gee whilikers, what a humdinger!
Looks like the Java framework supports some kinda browser integration, and those bastards over at Sun decided that by installing Java that I would like this feature to work!
So yes. You installed the.Net framework. The.Net framework put the appropriate hooks into the appropriate places, including your browser of choice. Fucking deal with it.
99.9% of Firefox users choose to install flash. Presumably this 99.9% of users would also prefer Firefox to handle ClickOnce (rather than display huge gobs of XML like it does without this feature).
Personally I would be quite happy for the whiny 0.1% of users who don't want this feature (ie: 0.02% of Windows users) to either put up, or fuck off in an orderly fashion in the direction of their nearest RMS lookalike, so they can STFU, and have all the freedom they want without interrupting me, who wants his shit to just work without offering a hundred goddamn options.
a) You are running Windows b) You have the.Net framework installed c) You are clicking a "Clickonce" installer link... then it is quite possible that you want the goddamn thing to actually work. They have delivered an add-in, which brings this support, at their expense, to your browser.
They have added a goddamn handler for the clickonce mime type. That is all. This is useful. This allows firefox adoption in the many businesses that deliver LOB thick client apps using clickonce.
Before you get on your MS bashing high-horse, you might choose to take a glance at Sun, who has been including the _goddamn google toolbar_ in Java updates as a default option.
I wouldn't mind a big-ass table with a big-ass map on it. Typical war-room table. Then I guess instead of having little figurines I move around with shuffle board sticks, having them as icons would be better.
Then I guess being able to interact with it would be useful - and I suppose a mouse would do, it would be easier to just touch the damn thing.
I probably would be interested in zooming the map, getting further information on resources on the map, etc, etc
Kinda narrowing down the avaliable products that do this...... or I could just stick with a non-interactive big ass table, and try to remember every piece of data about all my resources - or pin them up somewhere else.
I find it usually can deal. If you hit 'later' and restard the suspicious looking services, then it works fine. Same with most installers - telling them to bugger off with the reboot usually has no ill effect.
I'm guessing because the reboot takes bugger all time, and its really not possible to know what 3rd party crap depends on stuff thats been changed the only option is to reboot if you want to guarantee that all the dependants are going to deal with changes...
You mean _Fingerwork's_ tech, which Apple bought, locking out fairly cool tech to their shitty few percent of the market. I'm typing this on a Touchstream LP - which works as a generic HID keyboard/mouse input device with all kinds of delicious gesture recognition. Its a great cross-platform piece of technology, which Apple has now ruined by sitting on a bunch of patents so they can sell more fkn iPhones.
Now yes, everyone else doing multitouch, like MS and the Lemur guys have to use a substandard implementation.
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If I'm there to get a Math / Architecture / Medicine degree, then I expect to learn all the academic theory bits in that field. However, the office suite I use is likely irrelevant to my dicipline of choice, so I'm not sure that pushing OO.org onto me when I'm going to be using Word in my career is going to benefit my overall development.
Glad you see it this way. I presume my children will be skillful enough to translate any tuition in MS Word into the office suite of their choice.
However when I need a dumbass receptionist, and my budget extends to a dumb bimbo who can only use what she has been taught, then guess which one I'm going to pick? The dumb bimbo with Word experience - because thats what our office, and our clients use.
95% or whatever the figure is of employers are going to be in the same boat. You start teaching all your students OO.org, and sure - the skilled ones will be able to find employment - but the unskilled ones can't.
This is not a question of "correct" idealogy. You will not keep you university running when the graduate employment rate and employer satisfaction is reduced, for _whatever_ reason.
A universitys job is to not compromise the future of its students to push an ideology. Christ, the number of people that seem to be all out to expose their students/employers to extra risk for the sole reason of "M$ is teh EVILS" is both incredible and laughable.
Troll? He makes a reasonable point. Why is the question "How Do I Start a University Transition To Open Source?"
Surely the question is "What infrastructure standards will help me meet the university's goals, and reduce my budget?".
I'm just amazed that the OP is in a position to make decisions when hes effectively made the decision to transfer to FOSS, and he has absolutely no idea what the license costs for his existing software is! To be completely frank, this guy needs supervision from somebody with business skill, not a FOSS migration plan.
You wha?
I think hardware and software designers already have that covered when they perform processing on different parts of your system, such as your CPU, or GPU...
Specialization is a good thing, unless you have a preference for the performance of the directx reference rasterizer....
As more of an academic exercise they did have a play in that area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)
SharpDevelop is BSD licensed, and quite excellent. There is very little preventing you from using this as your primary development environment. SharpDevelop on Mono is also possible.
The sole reason I still buy the VS licenses, is because I also keep juniors using Resharper (a VS refactoring/quality addin) and Diamond Binding (a database access addin/library, again VS only), which pretty much add 20% on the productivity of a bunch of noobs.
Sometimes (rarely) the place I go into uses MS Project Server "properly", and the TFS changeset/issue tracking makes VS worthwhile over SVN as well.
The reasons against using Mono (if you are going for minimising cost of development, and putting ideology aside), is being able to use things like WPF/WCF/WF. This is above and beyond what you need to develop most applications though.
Roughly. The local desktop is screenshotted, dimmed, and sent over IPC to the fkn consent.exe in the secure desktop.
This drives me damn nuts, as it seems to add lag if I've left a game running in the background :P
If you think the approximate returns these "big companies" are getting are extreme, then you should head on down to your local bank. They handle all the diversification for you so you too can have a part of the extreme returns.
You can pick from an enormous variety of funds, specifying your risk, industry, etc, etc.
Hell, even MS, who have a large market by the balls manage to only pull in something like 20%.
Rarity of natural resources sometimes requires big corporations to have the balls and pull to go in and negotiate with governments to pump their oil, or enslave a bunch of peasants to dig for diamonds. Do you really thing that you and three mates are going to have much luck negotiating for drilling rights in the middle east?
You seem to think that a bunch of guys getting extremely rich is a fault of those nasty corporations, rather than say there is a natural bell curve of skill with a rather long tail.
Hey good idea. Lets ban investing. Then when we need to get a bunch of iron ore out the ground we better hope that someone has the ten billion dollars lying around to build the mine that gets it out.
Or we could do without it I guess. What healthy economy needs things like iron anyway?
Economies of scale? Pah! A bunch of blokes can go down their and dig it up by hand, and smelt their own iron by hand. Then make steel. China did it, it must be a good idea.
Nice going there Chairman Belits! I for one support your great leap backwards!
Absolutely not.
These are animals with a certain genetic/immunologic compatibility. They have all the humanity of a cancer removed from my left testicle.
I suggest you google for my "titty fucking arse-bandits with their gay dick up an elephants cunt" post, which achieved +3 Insightful, followed by +5 Funny...
The guy who corrected me with the apostrophe also got a +5 insightful.
You think you have a moral right to use your employers research, because you were paid to use their techniques? Are you crazy?
You are an employee, not a shareholder. You most certainly do not get the rewards from the risk they took in undertaking the research. You chose fixed-rate labour for hire stability, with low risk.
You now have your money, as was the deal. Next time consider investing...
Its more like you install a GPS, and they wire it into your Whatever branded sound system, because they assume that by having GPS installed that you want to hear the directions when you press "Speak Route".
"I'm one of the tiny minority that want a GPS installed but not listen to the directions!" you cry.
Fine. Don't press "Speak Route".
"Waa! I don't want the hidden cable under the dash... its not necessary. I asked for a GPS, not a cable! I don't care if its free and part of the standard GPS.... etc fkn etc.
You can either stick with the standard install, or get a different framework/GPS (Java comes to mind).
I dunno, say a decompiler?
I bloody wish they would. I long for the day that Apple release a damn DirectShow filter for all their QuickTime shit.
Or Sun, deciding that when I do a Java update that I really want the fucking Google toolbar installed.
Thats only a small step from whoring my damn box out with malware.
Jeeze and when I installed the Java framework, boy was I surprised to get a plugin* for my browser! Golly gee whilikers, what a humdinger!
Looks like the Java framework supports some kinda browser integration, and those bastards over at Sun decided that by installing Java that I would like this feature to work!
So yes. You installed the .Net framework. The .Net framework put the appropriate hooks into the appropriate places, including your browser of choice. Fucking deal with it.
99.9% of Firefox users choose to install flash. Presumably this 99.9% of users would also prefer Firefox to handle ClickOnce (rather than display huge gobs of XML like it does without this feature).
Personally I would be quite happy for the whiny 0.1% of users who don't want this feature (ie: 0.02% of Windows users) to either put up, or fuck off in an orderly fashion in the direction of their nearest RMS lookalike, so they can STFU, and have all the freedom they want without interrupting me, who wants his shit to just work without offering a hundred goddamn options.
Or possibly they believe that:
a) You are running Windows .Net framework installed ... then it is quite possible that you want the goddamn thing to actually work. They have delivered an add-in, which brings this support, at their expense, to your browser.
b) You have the
c) You are clicking a "Clickonce" installer link
They have added a goddamn handler for the clickonce mime type. That is all. This is useful. This allows firefox adoption in the many businesses that deliver LOB thick client apps using clickonce.
Before you get on your MS bashing high-horse, you might choose to take a glance at Sun, who has been including the _goddamn google toolbar_ in Java updates as a default option.
Because its an update? Check the damn 'show updates' box.
You assume Apple will license on RAND terms. They won't, because it isn't in their best interests.
They did excellent security. IIRC they stopped a dude with a gun (by stabbing him).
I wouldn't mind a big-ass table with a big-ass map on it. Typical war-room table. Then I guess instead of having little figurines I move around with shuffle board sticks, having them as icons would be better.
Then I guess being able to interact with it would be useful - and I suppose a mouse would do, it would be easier to just touch the damn thing.
I probably would be interested in zooming the map, getting further information on resources on the map, etc, etc
Kinda narrowing down the avaliable products that do this... ... or I could just stick with a non-interactive big ass table, and try to remember every piece of data about all my resources - or pin them up somewhere else.
I find it usually can deal. If you hit 'later' and restard the suspicious looking services, then it works fine. Same with most installers - telling them to bugger off with the reboot usually has no ill effect.
I'm guessing because the reboot takes bugger all time, and its really not possible to know what 3rd party crap depends on stuff thats been changed the only option is to reboot if you want to guarantee that all the dependants are going to deal with changes...
You mean _Fingerwork's_ tech, which Apple bought, locking out fairly cool tech to their shitty few percent of the market. I'm typing this on a Touchstream LP - which works as a generic HID keyboard/mouse input device with all kinds of delicious gesture recognition. Its a great cross-platform piece of technology, which Apple has now ruined by sitting on a bunch of patents so they can sell more fkn iPhones.
Now yes, everyone else doing multitouch, like MS and the Lemur guys have to use a substandard implementation.
Fuckers.