who goes berserk at the thought of gay marriage. I saw a few other of your posts on this topic, and for an "atheist", you sound a whole lot like a slavering, drooling Christian fundamentalist wingnut.
My guess is that you're simply pretending to be an atheist in the faint hope of boosting your credibility here. I suggest you read your Bible and see what awful fate lies in store for Christians who deny Jesue.
Oh, and THANK YOU FOR NOT BREEDING.
I'm tard-whacking because it's one of things I do to entertain myself and others.
With respect to MS... I'm gloating.
Now go take that insurance settlement and go buy some Microsoft stock with it.
We have a great opportunity to help Microsoft fuck themselves up here. This is true even for Fundamentalist Christians who don't like Microsoft, if such people exist.
BTW, the gay rights bill failed by one vote and Microsoft is going to get blamed.
You know gays, lesbians, and people in the moderate to left political range who have been bitching about Windows? Point out to them that $499 Macs "just work" and give them a Macmini URL.
If you know any propeller-heads that fit this description and have been thinking about moving to Linux, tell 'em it's time.
Financial opportunities: This hasn't shown up in MS's stock prices... people with gambling money might want to take short positions.
I'm sure that in a few weeks, a story about Apple's sales rising steeply will show up on slashdot and the article will attributed this to MS's decision to blow off a big chunk of their market.
If Google was your friend and you understood the meaning of words like "demographics"... never mind, if you got that gays and lesbians have more disposable income than Religious Right types like you, (broad hint: NO KIDS), you wouldn't have posted your whine.
If you really believe, why don't you put your life savings into Microsoft right now?
Of course, selling your SCO holdings to get your money out so you can do this might be sort of difficult.
Imagine yourself as a pro photographer for which time is literally money and who spends more time with Photoshop than she does actually taking pictures finding out that Photoshop is NOT going to support the camera you were thinking of buying without awkward workarounds that don't work all that well.
While I'm inclined to agree with you, Adobe isn't going to get screwed over, Nikon nailed themselves. A side benefit is that Adobe just might wonder if the DMCA is a big enough pain in the ass to be worth at least not actively supporting anymore.
We're not talking about the entire US population, we're talking about the subset of computer owners. (about 1/3 of the population doesn't use computers)
The gay/lesbian market is a hell of a lot more computer literate than the zombies in the Religious Right. A typical fundie told to boycott MS? Does this person even own a computer? If yes... do you see him switching to Apple? REALLY? It isn't like he's going to be able to depend on his fellow church members for local support.
Gays and lesbians have a lot more disposable income, i.e. they've got the money to buy Macs and they've got to be tired of dealing with Microcrap. Why should they give their money to a political enemy?
Talk this up to your lesbian and gay and Deomcratic activist friends. Every one who switches out of MS is a kick in the balls to Bill Gates.The only question about is... "Did Microsoft shoot itself in the foot or the head?"
Let's do what we can to make sure it's a head shot.
Too bad that Linux isn't really ready for the home user, (only zealots think so - I'm writing this from a Fedora Core box) because this would be the biggest Open Source opportunity in the US ever seen if it was.
From what I've seen, yum and apt-get (I'm in FC2) are better than anything than Windows has if a usable collection of repositories are set up.
If Windows can't find a DLL, the install is over. If yum or apt-get can't find a dependency, it'll find and install it.
GUIs are available for both, apt-get's is better developed.
What are the problems?
Neither yum nor apt-get come with a usable set of repositories.
Developers think they're done with an application once they've gotten to source or maybe binaries. If they'd go the rest of the way and get their stuff up on repository sites, the stuff we want would, by and large, install correctly.
We've got a new situation in the TV world. We now have fan communities big enough to be able to raise the money to actually fund their own TV series... to have the expertise it takes to not only make them, but to make them more cost-effectively than the major studio system can. Not having the amount of parasitic accumulation that's accreted onto the industry for generations should guarantee that.
Distribution? Bittorrent, snailmail video of DVDs, video streams occur to me. There might even be ways to get fan-driven shows onto cable networks.
Studio technology, special effects, etc.? What are you reading this post with?
I'm not being facetious, there are OpenSource video tools... get a bunch of x86 Linux boxes, cameras... and a fan community that's say, 1M + is probably big enough to have somebody capable of writing SETI-style distributed apps, this time used to do rendering... with more access to CPU cycles than was used on LOTR.
The pieces of the puzzle are available, it's just a matter of putting them together. Why offer $3 million plus to a bunch of fuckheads who if they'd gone for the deal, would be pocketing the profits themselves?
Enterprise dead? There's plenty of other SF books that can be turned into series just as good, and the better writers from Enterprise might actually find working on a fan-driven show an interesting change from working for Fox.
If you don't like the news, make some of your own.
That's a perfectly reasonable motivation in a personal workstation environment. Though I think that time and effort is now better invested in pushing for replacement of fossil fuel energy with renewable/alternative technology.
With respect to the $8 keyboard... actually, it's a very nice keyboard, I haven't used anything this rugged, durable, and with a keyboard feel this nice since the legendary old metal and plastic keyboards of the IBM AT days.
However, I was thinking of business environments where that 30 minutes means $20 or $30 of somebody's fully burdened hourly rate... which explains the title I was using.
No, but if you find some and spout them loudly enough, perhaps you can delude others into thinking you have a clue of some sort.
Going in the other direction doesn't work. Repeating a Powerline claim that Bill Clinton is the cause for flatulism in America is only going to get you laughed at.
The idiot who modded you up to 3 is probably both a "creationist" and a MS fanboy.
it would be cheaper to throw the keyboard away than to take it apart for sterilizing and reassemble it afterwards. The keyboard I am using is the cheapest AT keyboard that Fry's sold a few months ago... cost about $8. How many hours does what you recommend take? What is your own time worth?
The right answer to getting a safe keyboard is keyboard condoms and spraying with disinfectant... replace the condoms when they get discolored or start cracking.
These things have been out for years and years and years and in a workplace where a keyboard is public or used by more than one worker, there's really no excuse for not using them.
depends. It isn't as cut and dried as you say it is, either.
From the user viewpoint, at the most basic level, i.e. the level at which most clerical users use applications, there's not a lot of difference between Word, OO-Writer or Textmaker or WordPerfect... minor menu differences, usually in functions the average user has never heard of. I've been using office productivity software since the 1980s and never had occasion to use mail merge.
Changing from whatever to OpenOffice Writer (which IMHO, sucks) should be no worse then upgrading from Word 97 to Word 2000. Do businesses require an extensive training program for this?
The main question here is where the average document the user interacts with is going. If it's going to someone within the organization, it doesn't matter as long as everyone uses the same thing.
If it's going outside, then compatibility matters, and the "minor issues" quoted by most writers on the subject are MOT minor when the Word-using external customer is annoyed by them.
There are places where it matters in-house. Accountants used to using Excel should continue to use it... either on a Mac or on a Linux/Win4Lin combined platform as I do.
IMHO, the great majority of organizations can save money by going to a rollout of a thin-client desktop with office suite... but they have to have a clear idea of who within the organization should NOT be using it and should be using a standalone workstation running Mac or Windows/Win4Lin/Linux. I recommend the combination because in my experience, it's stabler than Windows running by itself and will permit in this case, organization-standard Linux apps to run within the box as well.
Another example of people who SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN A LINUX BOX are the graphics people. GIMP2 which is not a substitute for Photoshop and Corel Draw. (GIMP doesn't do vector draw... and can not be made to do so, there is no workaround)
The other consideration is hardware. Are all the boxes the same, which allows a single image to be rolled out to all machines? This will allow the question "will Linux distro [insert name here] run on this box" to be asked and answered once.
Using Desktop Linux where it makes sense saves money. Using it where it doesn't make sense will cost money.
Intelligent planning is the most important part of a Linux Desktop rollout.
Plus, Windows is amazingly stable if one is only running 1 or 2 windows apps at a time with all the other customary desktops apps running in native Linux. Deciding to run it is probably the best computing decision I've ever made.
an article running on ZDNet in which the consulting firm The Yankee Group goes after folks in the Linux community who have been questioning their objectivity. From the article: "Laura DiDio,
My, that name sounds familiar. I remember her repeating SCO's unsubstantiated claims about Linux being stolen SCO code.
You mean people haven't been questioning their competence?
I think the problem that Yankee Group has is indeed that Open Sourcers are questioning their competence in inconvenient places like the offices of CIOs and CTOs, and if the direct customers for Yankee Group publications and analysis start hearing enough questions as to whether or not the products are a rational use of company funds, Yankee is likely to find their customers going to the competition or even bringing analysis in-house.
Yankee doesn't sell to end users, their only market is corporate/investor, and ALL they have to sell is their credibility.
They should concentrate on finding facts to analyze, not trying to spread more Linux-related FUD. The only credibility that sort of thing hurts is their own.
This isn't "Linux zealots hurting. .." anything but Yankee Group. I'm sure the Gartner people enjoyed reading the article.
Work is underway at JP Aerospace on the Ascender, a hybrid aircraft for flight at the upper most part of the atmosphere, as well as the Vee Airship. These type vehicles are of interest to the U.S. Air Force Space Battle Laboratory in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They are focused on perfecting a near-space maneuvering vehicle, Powell said.
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Stratalites are damn cool. You can use them like train stations to space. Get in your ground blimp, fly up to station 1. Get in your high altitude blimp, fly up to station 2. Get in your supermassive low pressure blimp and fly up to station 3. Get in your rocket and launch your ass into space.
Why bother with a separate rocket or station 3? if your superblimp can get to space, why not just keep going using whatever ion drive rocket engine got it to space and orbital velocity in the first place?
Plenty of people, and why are you digging so deep.
And asking questions you don't want the public to think about? Entertainment, mainly. I like whacking tards.
I'm not in the pay of anyone,
Surely the energy industry vendor you work for is paying you something.
but I reckon you are, proof, digging on stuff below the front page
It doesn't take a paid professional to figure out what kind of person you are.
Both your links are known fronts for enviornmentalists groups.
Known by who? Sources, please.
As fond as you and an expanding circle of friends might be of your asshole, even your friends won't consider it a valid news or information source. So don't pull something out of it an present it as fact.
Anybody capable of reading knows that the people running both sites are real scientists, and by and large, tracking the people involved against actual scientific publications in real journals might be above your skill, but not that of a regular slashdotter.
I was not involved with realclimate (too bad, that's something to be proud of)... but I am involved with the alternative energy action site project. I'm the exception to the rule with respect to "real scientists" involved with the project... I'm an entrepreneur working on alternative energy research for the purpose of creating new products. Unlike the academics on the site, I'm most interested in marketplace solutions... the energy companies will sell greener energy when it is more profitable to do so than otherwise.
Altenergyaction paid off by PR firms? You are a lying sack of shit. Haven't gotten a dime off that project, haven't been offered any, and AFAIK, neither have any of the other involved parties. We did this to spread information... in the public interest.
Perhaps someone with a lot more patience than I've got can explain to you what normal people consider "the public interezt".
I'm not in the pay of anyone, but I reckon you are, proof, digging on stuff below the front page.
Thank you for proving my point by pulling "proof" out of your asshole. Now go back to the dimwits who thought you could spread effective disinformation for them and tell them you're an abject failure.
As a member of more than one reality-based community, I try to look for actual facts rather than inventing them.
Here's is what your own site http://www.sidv.org/Roctest.html says about your affiliations:
Erik Trent
Roctest Inc.
1 Oliver Dr
Hudson NH 03051
http://www.roctest.com/index.php?module=CMS&id=63
The oil and gas sector also offers interesting new avenues for our optical pressure and temperature sensors as they are particularly useful in well drilling and completion applications
So you work for an energy industry vendor as a Technical Sales Representative? (of course, job title and job duties don't always match)
Which of the above would you like to deny? Well, I now understand your "public-spiritedness" about spreading the chemical/energy industry's spin on global warming.
I also regard your use of "SidV", i.e. Sid Vicious (well, that *is* the image on your home page) as an online handle to spread far-right corporate propaganda as really, really tacky... if he were to suddenly come back to life and find out what you're using his name for, he'd rip off your head and shit down your neck. Perhaps Barry Manilow is more your speed?
Which page of "Talking Points for Right Wing Blogster Dummies" did you get that post off?
I can imagine very easily, "What if they accuse you of being an astroturfer? You can spin this very easily by. .." [collection of possible response posts]
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when mod points are handed out to Christian crazies?
My guess is that you're simply pretending to be an atheist in the faint hope of boosting your credibility here. I suggest you read your Bible and see what awful fate lies in store for Christians who deny Jesue.
Oh, and THANK YOU FOR NOT BREEDING.
I'm tard-whacking because it's one of things I do to entertain myself and others.
With respect to MS... I'm gloating.
Now go take that insurance settlement and go buy some Microsoft stock with it.
However, the ones who do use computers are both least likely know of alternatives and least likely to change.
That's the very meaning of the word "conservative".
BTW, the gay rights bill failed by one vote and Microsoft is going to get blamed.
You know gays, lesbians, and people in the moderate to left political range who have been bitching about Windows? Point out to them that $499 Macs "just work" and give them a Macmini URL.
If you know any propeller-heads that fit this description and have been thinking about moving to Linux, tell 'em it's time.
Financial opportunities: This hasn't shown up in MS's stock prices... people with gambling money might want to take short positions.
If Google was your friend and you understood the meaning of words like "demographics"... never mind, if you got that gays and lesbians have more disposable income than Religious Right types like you, (broad hint: NO KIDS), you wouldn't have posted your whine.
If you really believe, why don't you put your life savings into Microsoft right now?
Of course, selling your SCO holdings to get your money out so you can do this might be sort of difficult.
OK, Hi, fuckhead. Though wouldn't you like fucktard better?
Imagine yourself as a pro photographer for which time is literally money and who spends more time with Photoshop than she does actually taking pictures finding out that Photoshop is NOT going to support the camera you were thinking of buying without awkward workarounds that don't work all that well. While I'm inclined to agree with you, Adobe isn't going to get screwed over, Nikon nailed themselves. A side benefit is that Adobe just might wonder if the DMCA is a big enough pain in the ass to be worth at least not actively supporting anymore.
The gay/lesbian market is a hell of a lot more computer literate than the zombies in the Religious Right. A typical fundie told to boycott MS? Does this person even own a computer? If yes... do you see him switching to Apple? REALLY? It isn't like he's going to be able to depend on his fellow church members for local support.
Gays and lesbians have a lot more disposable income, i.e. they've got the money to buy Macs and they've got to be tired of dealing with Microcrap. Why should they give their money to a political enemy?
Talk this up to your lesbian and gay and Deomcratic activist friends. Every one who switches out of MS is a kick in the balls to Bill Gates. The only question about is... "Did Microsoft shoot itself in the foot or the head?"
Let's do what we can to make sure it's a head shot.
Too bad that Linux isn't really ready for the home user, (only zealots think so - I'm writing this from a Fedora Core box) because this would be the biggest Open Source opportunity in the US ever seen if it was.
When will Open Source developers catch the same clue?
If Windows can't find a DLL, the install is over. If yum or apt-get can't find a dependency, it'll find and install it.
GUIs are available for both, apt-get's is better developed.
What are the problems?
Distribution? Bittorrent, snailmail video of DVDs, video streams occur to me. There might even be ways to get fan-driven shows onto cable networks.
Studio technology, special effects, etc.? What are you reading this post with?
I'm not being facetious, there are OpenSource video tools... get a bunch of x86 Linux boxes, cameras... and a fan community that's say, 1M + is probably big enough to have somebody capable of writing SETI-style distributed apps, this time used to do rendering... with more access to CPU cycles than was used on LOTR.
The pieces of the puzzle are available, it's just a matter of putting them together. Why offer $3 million plus to a bunch of fuckheads who if they'd gone for the deal, would be pocketing the profits themselves?
Enterprise dead? There's plenty of other SF books that can be turned into series just as good, and the better writers from Enterprise might actually find working on a fan-driven show an interesting change from working for Fox.
If you don't like the news, make some of your own.
looks like you're halfway to a business model, or at least what the concept needs to be a lot more workable. Consider taking it the rest of the way.
With respect to the $8 keyboard... actually, it's a very nice keyboard, I haven't used anything this rugged, durable, and with a keyboard feel this nice since the legendary old metal and plastic keyboards of the IBM AT days.
However, I was thinking of business environments where that 30 minutes means $20 or $30 of somebody's fully burdened hourly rate... which explains the title I was using.
Going in the other direction doesn't work. Repeating a Powerline claim that Bill Clinton is the cause for flatulism in America is only going to get you laughed at.
The idiot who modded you up to 3 is probably both a "creationist" and a MS fanboy.
The right answer to getting a safe keyboard is keyboard condoms and spraying with disinfectant... replace the condoms when they get discolored or start cracking.
These things have been out for years and years and years and in a workplace where a keyboard is public or used by more than one worker, there's really no excuse for not using them.
From the user viewpoint, at the most basic level, i.e. the level at which most clerical users use applications, there's not a lot of difference between Word, OO-Writer or Textmaker or WordPerfect... minor menu differences, usually in functions the average user has never heard of. I've been using office productivity software since the 1980s and never had occasion to use mail merge.
Changing from whatever to OpenOffice Writer (which IMHO, sucks) should be no worse then upgrading from Word 97 to Word 2000. Do businesses require an extensive training program for this?
The main question here is where the average document the user interacts with is going. If it's going to someone within the organization, it doesn't matter as long as everyone uses the same thing.
If it's going outside, then compatibility matters, and the "minor issues" quoted by most writers on the subject are MOT minor when the Word-using external customer is annoyed by them.
There are places where it matters in-house. Accountants used to using Excel should continue to use it... either on a Mac or on a Linux/Win4Lin combined platform as I do.
IMHO, the great majority of organizations can save money by going to a rollout of a thin-client desktop with office suite... but they have to have a clear idea of who within the organization should NOT be using it and should be using a standalone workstation running Mac or Windows/Win4Lin/Linux. I recommend the combination because in my experience, it's stabler than Windows running by itself and will permit in this case, organization-standard Linux apps to run within the box as well.
Another example of people who SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN A LINUX BOX are the graphics people. GIMP2 which is not a substitute for Photoshop and Corel Draw. (GIMP doesn't do vector draw... and can not be made to do so, there is no workaround)
The other consideration is hardware. Are all the boxes the same, which allows a single image to be rolled out to all machines? This will allow the question "will Linux distro [insert name here] run on this box" to be asked and answered once.
Using Desktop Linux where it makes sense saves money. Using it where it doesn't make sense will cost money.
Intelligent planning is the most important part of a Linux Desktop rollout.
Plus, Windows is amazingly stable if one is only running 1 or 2 windows apps at a time with all the other customary desktops apps running in native Linux. Deciding to run it is probably the best computing decision I've ever made.
see subject line.
Open Office in Linux is probably as much infocondom as you need to deal with that.
My, that name sounds familiar. I remember her repeating SCO's unsubstantiated claims about Linux being stolen SCO code.
You mean people haven't been questioning their competence?
I think the problem that Yankee Group has is indeed that Open Sourcers are questioning their competence in inconvenient places like the offices of CIOs and CTOs, and if the direct customers for Yankee Group publications and analysis start hearing enough questions as to whether or not the products are a rational use of company funds, Yankee is likely to find their customers going to the competition or even bringing analysis in-house.
Yankee doesn't sell to end users, their only market is corporate/investor, and ALL they have to sell is their credibility.
They should concentrate on finding facts to analyze, not trying to spread more Linux-related FUD. The only credibility that sort of thing hurts is their own.
This isn't "Linux zealots hurting. . ." anything but Yankee Group. I'm sure the Gartner people enjoyed reading the article.
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The company is really flying high thanks to a recent U.S. Air Force contract.
Work is underway at JP Aerospace on the Ascender, a hybrid aircraft for flight at the upper most part of the atmosphere, as well as the Vee Airship. These type vehicles are of interest to the U.S. Air Force Space Battle Laboratory in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They are focused on perfecting a near-space maneuvering vehicle, Powell said. === end quote
probably preferable to "Mangina" as a company name.
Why bother with a separate rocket or station 3? if your superblimp can get to space, why not just keep going using whatever ion drive rocket engine got it to space and orbital velocity in the first place?
And asking questions you don't want the public to think about? Entertainment, mainly. I like whacking tards.
I'm not in the pay of anyone,
Surely the energy industry vendor you work for is paying you something.
but I reckon you are, proof, digging on stuff below the front page
It doesn't take a paid professional to figure out what kind of person you are.
Both your links are known fronts for enviornmentalists groups.
Known by who? Sources, please.
As fond as you and an expanding circle of friends might be of your asshole, even your friends won't consider it a valid news or information source. So don't pull something out of it an present it as fact.
Anybody capable of reading knows that the people running both sites are real scientists, and by and large, tracking the people involved against actual scientific publications in real journals might be above your skill, but not that of a regular slashdotter.
I was not involved with realclimate (too bad, that's something to be proud of)... but I am involved with the alternative energy action site project. I'm the exception to the rule with respect to "real scientists" involved with the project... I'm an entrepreneur working on alternative energy research for the purpose of creating new products. Unlike the academics on the site, I'm most interested in marketplace solutions... the energy companies will sell greener energy when it is more profitable to do so than otherwise.
Altenergyaction paid off by PR firms? You are a lying sack of shit. Haven't gotten a dime off that project, haven't been offered any, and AFAIK, neither have any of the other involved parties. We did this to spread information... in the public interest.
Perhaps someone with a lot more patience than I've got can explain to you what normal people consider "the public interezt".
I'm not in the pay of anyone, but I reckon you are, proof, digging on stuff below the front page.
Thank you for proving my point by pulling "proof" out of your asshole. Now go back to the dimwits who thought you could spread effective disinformation for them and tell them you're an abject failure.
As a member of more than one reality-based community, I try to look for actual facts rather than inventing them.
Here's is what your own site http://www.sidv.org/Roctest.html says about your affiliations:
Erik Trent
Roctest Inc.
1 Oliver Dr
Hudson NH 03051
http://www.roctest.com/index.php?module=CMS&id=63 The oil and gas sector also offers interesting new avenues for our optical pressure and temperature sensors as they are particularly useful in well drilling and completion applications
So you work for an energy industry vendor as a Technical Sales Representative? (of course, job title and job duties don't always match)
Which of the above would you like to deny? Well, I now understand your "public-spiritedness" about spreading the chemical/energy industry's spin on global warming.
I also regard your use of "SidV", i.e. Sid Vicious (well, that *is* the image on your home page) as an online handle to spread far-right corporate propaganda as really, really tacky... if he were to suddenly come back to life and find out what you're using his name for, he'd rip off your head and shit down your neck. Perhaps Barry Manilow is more your speed?
I can imagine very easily, "What if they accuse you of being an astroturfer? You can spin this very easily by. . ." [collection of possible response posts]