Newly minted grads of any sort aren't worth a damn.
Unless you go to a trade school, you aren't ready to work the next day. It doesn't matter what your specialty is. This is not limited to IT. You still need experience.
I find it amazing how anyone in any professional field would not understand this.
There aren't just two options here despite your attempt to claim so. There's a diverse range of companies out there. Not all of them are a soul crushing machine. You can be a cog or you can be a real professional. It's entirely up to you.
You don't have to be penniless or a martyr.
You sound like a cog suffering from cognitive dissonance.
These days you've got to treat ANY degree like an investment and plan accordingly. You can't just run up debt like there's no tomorrow and expect to clean up the pieces later. You have to know how you are going to pay back any loan before you apply for it.
Garage Band is like it's name: a toy for people that play around at being a musician in their garage. It's not a real productivity tool. It's just a loss leader and something that fanboys can mindlessly drone on about as if it actually has any relevance.
"Punitive recourse" is generally intended to give the entity being punished pause. "Punitive recourse" is generally not intended to DESTROY the entity being punished. "Punitive recourse" is generally applied to large corporations that are difficult to punish because of their size.
Damages are meant to be proportional to the "perpetrator".
Your post is the perfect example of the dangers of applying the wrong legal concept in the wrong set of circumstances. It's very much like the whole notion of applying statutory damages to swappers.
I don't think that "technology" has anything to do with it.
You have a much weaker standard being applied to individuals than to Doctors, other professionals, and corporations. You have rather grave damages being assigned without any demonstration of damages. The RIAA isn't required to employ the $1000 per hour experts that you would need to have on hand if one of these corporate jackals ran you down with their car.
Tort reform for the rich, crime and punishment for the poor.
> turns out those 'morons' in 'liberal arts' were actually doing something that is every bit as difficult as creating an OS kernel or a graph algorithm.
Don't kid yourself.
Liberal Arts classes are what engineers take to inflate their lagging GPAs when they are trying to get into grad school.
The state of "real journalism" is why news publishers are being killed off by the web.
With the whole "thou shalt prepare for the end" aspect of Mormonism, this could be an interesting wrinkle for the election this year considering our GOP contender likely has a nice food stockpile in his garage if he's being a good Mormon.
Space and weight are always relevant, even if you are a civilian. This is why civilian canneries have started using the MRE approach with civilian food products.
> None of the target audience for this device will care
Plenty of people care about force fed ads.
Some people will even pay to avoid them or just buy someone else's product.
This isn't about Free Software religion. This is a hardware vendor blatantly abusing the customer. In an era where technology is allowing us to filter out or avoid ads entirely, it's a pretty stupid move.
As awesome as Pandora is, it is still vulnerable to the suckage of wireless networks. This is a problem even if you don't have draconian usage caps to worry about.
Read it? Just did. Nothing concrete in there, just vague scare mongering. I am likely to get more useful information from the peanut gallery here. I've already seen one guy with an actual real world example.
You are still going to be cut out of most of the 3rd party commercial apps and that's what you really seem to be slobbering over.
Meanwhile you will destroy any distinctiveness that Linux has. If you want a Mac just buy a Mac.
Besides. We already have the likes of MS Office, Matlab, and Photoshop. Courting 3rd party commercial developers is an obvious direction for Canonical to take (again).
As far as the Photoshop reference goes: you're just a stupid poser that's never touched it and would never consider ever actually paying for it. You have no real clue why someone would actually want/need it.
The main roadblock is that the market has been dominated by a single vendor since long before a single line of the Linux kernel was written. This dominant vendor was nearly able to kill off Apple with an OS that has no GUI and required MANUAL MEMORY MANAGEMENT.
It seems like some people have not been computing long enough to realize just how BAD Microsoft products have been while being an overwhelming force in the industry.
People put up with Microsoft because of it's perceived monopoly and just deal with problems as if they were unavoidable and inevitable. The same goes for companies and 3rd parties.
Some people are under the delusion that magically turning Linux into a Windows clone or a MacOS clone would help anything.
Even real Macs still have trouble getting traction.
An offline classic can still be played long after the original studio has been bought out by Crassus Maximus and his zombie horde. This interferes with the annual churn that EA seems to be so fond of.
> What utter nonsensical racist trash you people spew within your white collar, white skin IT domes.
It has nothing to do with race. Trash is trash. Doesn't matter if they come from a ghetto or a trailer court. The observations made by the OP are not limited to WASPs. The OP may in fact be black.
Being gutter trash with no respect for education is not a strictly black thing.
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One of my dirt cheap ION net tops will run circles around the kind of machine you are trying to cling to. Some times it's just time to let go.
You are WAY PAST the dirt cheap option at this point.
My machine 10 years ago wasn't even that slow and I'm a cheap bastard.
> Also the performance difference should scale with more demanding games. ...which have squat to do with the Window Manager.
This is angels dancing on the head of a pin.
If my BD decodes aren't impacted and my games get good FPS numbers and my apps aren't any more sluggish then I don't care.
Newly minted grads of any sort aren't worth a damn.
Unless you go to a trade school, you aren't ready to work the next day. It doesn't matter what your specialty is. This is not limited to IT. You still need experience.
I find it amazing how anyone in any professional field would not understand this.
...or you could just avoid assholes.
There aren't just two options here despite your attempt to claim so. There's a diverse range of companies out there. Not all of them are a soul crushing machine. You can be a cog or you can be a real professional. It's entirely up to you.
You don't have to be penniless or a martyr.
You sound like a cog suffering from cognitive dissonance.
These days you've got to treat ANY degree like an investment and plan accordingly. You can't just run up debt like there's no tomorrow and expect to clean up the pieces later. You have to know how you are going to pay back any loan before you apply for it.
Garage Band is like it's name: a toy for people that play around at being a musician in their garage. It's not a real productivity tool. It's just a loss leader and something that fanboys can mindlessly drone on about as if it actually has any relevance.
But they are Apple products. They are not supposed to be a "training issue".
"Punitive recourse" is generally intended to give the entity being punished pause.
"Punitive recourse" is generally not intended to DESTROY the entity being punished.
"Punitive recourse" is generally applied to large corporations that are difficult to punish because of their size.
Damages are meant to be proportional to the "perpetrator".
Your post is the perfect example of the dangers of applying the wrong legal concept in the wrong set of circumstances. It's very much like the whole notion of applying statutory damages to swappers.
They are common law judges.
Their hands are never really tied.
They may have no balls. They simply might not care.
However, there hands are not at all tied. They choose inaction.
I don't think that "technology" has anything to do with it.
You have a much weaker standard being applied to individuals than to Doctors, other professionals, and corporations. You have rather grave damages being assigned without any demonstration of damages. The RIAA isn't required to employ the $1000 per hour experts that you would need to have on hand if one of these corporate jackals ran you down with their car.
Tort reform for the rich, crime and punishment for the poor.
Linux SERVERS already manage to hit the "cost $500 less" metric. That's not the topic of discussion here. This was an article about DESKTOP Linux.
Servers are an entirely different kettle of fish and an area where Microsoft isn't nearly as dominant.
> turns out those 'morons' in 'liberal arts' were actually doing something that is every bit as difficult as creating an OS kernel or a graph algorithm.
Don't kid yourself.
Liberal Arts classes are what engineers take to inflate their lagging GPAs when they are trying to get into grad school.
The state of "real journalism" is why news publishers are being killed off by the web.
With the whole "thou shalt prepare for the end" aspect of Mormonism, this could be an interesting wrinkle for the election this year considering our GOP contender likely has a nice food stockpile in his garage if he's being a good Mormon.
"Every year is the year 1990."
Space and weight are always relevant, even if you are a civilian. This is why civilian canneries have started using the MRE approach with civilian food products.
Or you could just buy any number of other mobile devices that don't subject you to this nonsense involuntarily.
> None of the target audience for this device will care
Plenty of people care about force fed ads.
Some people will even pay to avoid them or just buy someone else's product.
This isn't about Free Software religion. This is a hardware vendor blatantly abusing the customer. In an era where technology is allowing us to filter out or avoid ads entirely, it's a pretty stupid move.
As long as you are in control of the technology, you can skip or strip the ads.
Such devices have been available for TV for quite awhile now.
As awesome as Pandora is, it is still vulnerable to the suckage of wireless networks. This is a problem even if you don't have draconian usage caps to worry about.
Read it? Just did. Nothing concrete in there, just vague scare mongering. I am likely to get more useful information from the peanut gallery here. I've already seen one guy with an actual real world example.
Sounds like a lot of work for little real value.
You are still going to be cut out of most of the 3rd party commercial apps and that's what you really seem to be slobbering over.
Meanwhile you will destroy any distinctiveness that Linux has. If you want a Mac just buy a Mac.
Besides. We already have the likes of MS Office, Matlab, and Photoshop. Courting 3rd party commercial developers is an obvious direction for Canonical to take (again).
As far as the Photoshop reference goes: you're just a stupid poser that's never touched it and would never consider ever actually paying for it. You have no real clue why someone would actually want/need it.
This sounds a lot like what Suse was doing before it was bought by Novell.
It would be nice if Canonical picked up that particular baton but that doesn't seem likely to happen.
Nonsense.
The main roadblock is that the market has been dominated by a single vendor since long before a single line of the Linux kernel was written. This dominant vendor was nearly able to kill off Apple with an OS that has no GUI and required MANUAL MEMORY MANAGEMENT.
It seems like some people have not been computing long enough to realize just how BAD Microsoft products have been while being an overwhelming force in the industry.
People put up with Microsoft because of it's perceived monopoly and just deal with problems as if they were unavoidable and inevitable. The same goes for companies and 3rd parties.
Some people are under the delusion that magically turning Linux into a Windows clone or a MacOS clone would help anything.
Even real Macs still have trouble getting traction.
I think you've hit the mark right there.
An offline classic can still be played long after the original studio has been bought out by Crassus Maximus and his zombie horde. This interferes with the annual churn that EA seems to be so fond of.
> What utter nonsensical racist trash you people spew within your white collar, white skin IT domes.
It has nothing to do with race. Trash is trash. Doesn't matter if they come from a ghetto or a trailer court. The observations made by the OP are not limited to WASPs. The OP may in fact be black.
Being gutter trash with no respect for education is not a strictly black thing.
They said sports, not physical education.
PE classes and intermural sports both serve an educational purpose. Bread and Circus style spectator events do not.