Well put. I was thinking more allong the lines of heroin or alcohol where addictees derive a certain "satisfaction" from it in the first place.
But nicotine: costs a fortune, takes away your freedom, forces you to take a 5 minute break every half hour, and turns your skin yellow. That is a decent comparison (except the last one, vista will not change the colour of your skin, just hair)
1: buy MS software 2: decide to do a "case study" on "total cost of ownership" 3: recieve massive discounts from MS. 4: publish the difference between 1 and 3
CS is far from dead. There are still so many fundimental design issues with current software models. CS will always be healthy as long as the 90% of the worlds computers have to wait for "patch tuesday."
Your confusing acedemic work with science. What you are refering to is better described as mathematics (algorithms) or theoretical research (just as destinct and valuble). Science involves empirical observation and testable working theories/hypotheses. Most computer science involves neither.
ps. my apologies to the few people actually doing scientific research in the CS field.
Making the comparison of "addicted" to "locked in" is really unfair.
Addiction implies that the user actually "likes" the software. I have heared very few people talk about how much they "like" MS software. They just use it because (insert vendor lock-in issue here). From what I hear from Mac and Linux devotees sounds more like addiction.
Send X% of I.T. budget to the U.S., and spend the remaining 100-X% paying local people for support
OR
Spend 100% of budget paying local service people/companies (This is government remember).
I assume they probably chose Ubuntu because it isn't also tied to support contracts with Redhad and Novell (ie. They can support it locally if they wish).
I'm curious, what would be the downsides of chosing Ubuntu for this purpose?
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Well put. I was thinking more allong the lines of heroin or alcohol where addictees derive a certain "satisfaction" from it in the first place.
But nicotine: costs a fortune, takes away your freedom, forces you to take a 5 minute break every half hour, and turns your skin yellow. That is a decent comparison (except the last one, vista will not change the colour of your skin, just hair)
1: buy MS software
2: decide to do a "case study" on "total cost of ownership"
3: recieve massive discounts from MS.
4: publish the difference between 1 and 3
everybody wins!
I wonder how long it will be untill visiting this site (Wikipedia:Muslim) will land you on the "watch list."
If thats not true already... crap
What is considered "wrong" in some countries is not the same as others. You might be surprised.
CS is far from dead. There are still so many fundimental design issues with current software models. CS will always be healthy as long as the 90% of the worlds computers have to wait for "patch tuesday."
Your confusing acedemic work with science. What you are refering to is better described as mathematics (algorithms) or theoretical research (just as destinct and valuble).
Science involves empirical observation and testable working theories/hypotheses. Most computer science involves neither.
ps. my apologies to the few people actually doing scientific research in the CS field.
Making the comparison of "addicted" to "locked in" is really unfair.
Addiction implies that the user actually "likes" the software. I have heared very few people talk about how much they "like" MS software. They just use it because (insert vendor lock-in issue here). From what I hear from Mac and Linux devotees sounds more like addiction.
Seems interesting that the ISO is in a hurry to sanction a standard that is specifically designed to make compliance as difficult as possible.
So no one knows (or cares about) the difference between a Kia and a Lexus?
Quit with the car analogy already!
Excuse me, I'm sorry, but we Canadians should also be included as we use the American style "March 14th."
My appologies, some hoser must have decided to choose the American format eh?
Send X% of I.T. budget to the U.S., and spend the remaining 100-X% paying local people for support OR Spend 100% of budget paying local service people/companies (This is government remember). I assume they probably chose Ubuntu because it isn't also tied to support contracts with Redhad and Novell (ie. They can support it locally if they wish). I'm curious, what would be the downsides of chosing Ubuntu for this purpose?