Yep. It's not merely brand-loyalty, it's training, experience, comfort and... this is key... community knowledge. In the artist community there is a lot of knowledge about "how to" do things on Macs using Mac-based software. To venture into a realm where people debate the merits of Scheme-like Script-Fu versus the simplicity of Perl-Fu won't be of benefit to your artist friend...(I'm overstating the problem)
Watching our graphic artists (they're an interesting group to watch...kinda like the giraffes at Wild Animal Park...) they'd be lost without their expensive Mac G3/G4s. One of our designers is a competent network admin (NT) and is a passable perl/CGI programmer on Linux systems, but he would be helpless without his Mac when it comes to his graphic/video design work.
One reason I jumped on Linux a few years ago was the large community availble on the Internet. When IBM dumped the Workpad z50's a couple years ago (almost), I got one and looked to NetBSD and its community to make the machine useful. I found very little information for a non-expert compared to the Linux community.
Come on, it's not like you'll find a lot of support by current apps for say, Linux 1.0.x either.
Completely untrue -- This is a post regarding a bug in Linux 0.01. And here Linus assigns the maintainer of the 0.01 Kernel. That beats IBM's 7-year maintenance policy.
No government assistance? I suppose the school you go to doesn't receive even 1 penny from the government.
Yes, I forgot to mention that the *schools* I attended received assistance from the gov't. I regret this omission. I also forgot to mention that I drove on highways paid for by gov't funds, lived in a society protected by gov't armed forces, breathed air regulated by the EPA, drank water processed by gov't water treatment plants... However, I was referring to direct assistance.
So the fuck what if you didn't have a trust fund, how many people actually do?
The "fuck what" is that I was anticipating the retort: "well, not everyone is a trust-fund baby and can make it without (direct) gov't assistance". My point was that I'm an middle-class bloke. Not impoverished, not wealthy.
And on every one of those you had no agreement whatsoever that the person hiring you would pay you or what they would pay?
So the teachers are working without pay?? Bullsh. That's not the issue at all. They want a raise, benefits, security, etc. There is no danger that they'd go without pay!
Work without a contract? Yeah. Every day of my working life. I've worked as
ranch hand
paperboy
door-to-door subscription salesman
radio DJ
grocery bagger
food runner at a restaurant
market research cold caller
educational software tele salesman
computer salesman
EDP Audit Coop
Tech Support Specialist
COBOL Programmer (on UNIX)
Paradox developer
MS Access developer
software developer (mutli-discipline)
Broadcast engineer / producer
Radio station program director
Internet Application developer
A lot of crap jobs to get where I am now. Never did have a contract. Once. Never had gov't assistance.Not a trust-fund baby. Just worked at what I could and keep studying on my own. So, no, I have no sympathy for these striking teachers.
I went to North Texas State University, which had station KNTU, when the university changed its name to University of North Texas. They did not reassign the station call letters...
I think CmdrTaco uses KDE's Konqueror. The site renders OK if you instruct Konq to lie and claim to be Internet Explorer 5.01 on Windows 2000. Go figure.
RIAA wouldn't know good music if it hit them with a crushed-glassed encrusted 5-minute-epoxy covered baseball bat...but that's not their job: it's to extract as much money as often as possible for music under their auspices. And they do that very well.
This group was known as Pete, Marwick and Mitchell, until Mitchell ran off with the treasury to the Caymans...
I think the've never recovered the corporate pysche since then...so now they have a sappy "world domination" theme song and a penchant for attacking little people.
And with Arthur Anderson left holding the bag that was Enron...sheesh...who trusts the Big 5?
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If those qualify me for the easy life then why are most of the people on gov't subsidies in the US described similarly?
You missed the point -- it's not the "k" its the UNT.
Watching our graphic artists (they're an interesting group to watch...kinda like the giraffes at Wild Animal Park...) they'd be lost without their expensive Mac G3/G4s. One of our designers is a competent network admin (NT) and is a passable perl/CGI programmer on Linux systems, but he would be helpless without his Mac when it comes to his graphic/video design work.
One reason I jumped on Linux a few years ago was the large community availble on the Internet. When IBM dumped the Workpad z50's a couple years ago (almost), I got one and looked to NetBSD and its community to make the machine useful. I found very little information for a non-expert compared to the Linux community.
Uh...yeah...for special SCSI scanners that cost a lot more than the cheap-o USB throwaways at Fry's.
My go-kart burns gasoline... that doesn't mean Richard Petty is going to trade his wheels for mine.
- that's
insightful.Yes, but with a good hairdresser it would hardly be noticeable...
Completely untrue -- This is a post regarding a bug in Linux 0.01. And here Linus assigns the maintainer of the 0.01 Kernel. That beats IBM's 7-year maintenance policy.
It always takes so long to execute criminals in this country...
Just the "Sandwich Police" logo made me wonder...
That's a weird place to keep your coffee, anyway...
Yes, I forgot to mention that the *schools* I attended received assistance from the gov't. I regret this omission. I also forgot to mention that I drove on highways paid for by gov't funds, lived in a society protected by gov't armed forces, breathed air regulated by the EPA, drank water processed by gov't water treatment plants... However, I was referring to direct assistance.
So the fuck what if you didn't have a trust fund, how many people actually do?
The "fuck what" is that I was anticipating the retort: "well, not everyone is a trust-fund baby and can make it without (direct) gov't assistance". My point was that I'm an middle-class bloke. Not impoverished, not wealthy.
So the teachers are working without pay?? Bullsh. That's not the issue at all. They want a raise, benefits, security, etc. There is no danger that they'd go without pay!
- ranch hand
- paperboy
- door-to-door subscription salesman
- radio DJ
- grocery bagger
- food runner at a restaurant
- market research cold caller
- educational software tele salesman
- computer salesman
- EDP Audit Coop
- Tech Support Specialist
- COBOL Programmer (on UNIX)
- Paradox developer
- MS Access developer
- software developer (mutli-discipline)
- Broadcast engineer / producer
- Radio station program director
- Internet Application developer
A lot of crap jobs to get where I am now. Never did have a contract. Once. Never had gov't assistance.Not a trust-fund baby. Just worked at what I could and keep studying on my own. So, no, I have no sympathy for these striking teachers.I went to North Texas State University, which had station KNTU, when the university changed its name to University of North Texas. They did not reassign the station call letters...
One that does buiness with the 90+% of companies using MSIE 5+
Same with Konq - chaging the UA to 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)' and the page renders pretty much OK.
I think CmdrTaco uses KDE's Konqueror. The site renders OK if you instruct Konq to lie and claim to be Internet Explorer 5.01 on Windows 2000. Go figure.
It's not "anus retention" it's "anal rententive". Yes, I'm being one now....
Whatchootalkin'bout, Willis? Mozilla does Flash just fine. So does Konqueror. On Linux.
You live west of the Mississippi, don't you?
RIAA wouldn't know good music if it hit them with a crushed-glassed encrusted 5-minute-epoxy covered baseball bat...but that's not their job: it's to extract as much money as often as possible for music under their auspices. And they do that very well.
Any potential client of KPMG would immediately recognize the moniker. There's only 5 companies like theirs in the world.
They just need to block connections with referes not matching an approved list. It's completely under their control.
Check it: http://rushlimbaugh.com.
I think the've never recovered the corporate pysche since then...so now they have a sappy "world domination" theme song and a penchant for attacking little people.
And with Arthur Anderson left holding the bag that was Enron...sheesh...who trusts the Big 5?