Am I saying its no good? No; we haven't seen it yet. It's not an Exchange replacement. It looks like Bynari.
Bynari however, does produce an actual replacement for Exchange, especially when coupled with the InsightConnector for Outlook.
Also, the former HP OpenMail now owned by Samsung and called Samsung Contact appears to support MAPI as well, so that could integrate with Outlook and have all those groupware/calendaring features.
And last, a Dutch company called ConnecTUX has created a Linux-based server application called Team-Link that integrates completely with Outlook and mimics all Exchange features. (Both sites in Dutch unfortunately.)
So plenty of alternatives. But I agree, this OpenExchange, is not one of them.
If something in an OEM machine breaks, you can be assured that they can get you something to replace it. If you made it yourself and it's been a while (>6 months) there's a good chance the entire component you need is no longer available.
So you put something else in it. Next week something else breaks. A couple weeks later another one. Now you already have four different setups, and the ones with replaced parts will give you trouble if you put a GHOST image back on them. Not to mention the hassle when you have to install new applications or drivers.
I personally prefer the OEM workstations with lots of stuff integrated: video, sound, controllers, NIC with lots of features. And you can be assured these machines will be tested when some ISV who's software you use (Microsoft?) brings out a patch or update. If you have self-made Athlon boxes sitting on all your desktops, what are you going to do when some crucial piece of software doesn't work? Blame the guy who sold you the 60 Athlons?:)
From the Vorbis guy's response it's clear what the problem is: The idea is great, the plan is good, but the deliverables just take time to materialize. Nothing bad about that, it's true for practically every piece of software (or related, like the Ogg Vorbis specification.)
Regardless of whether the author of the K5 piece is right about the points he discusses, the Ogg Vorbis creators should take his criticism to heart instead of dismissing it. It's not about whether all those points are valid, so trying to prove that they are not doesn't accomplish anything. They should understand that apparantly they have a problem communicating their plans to their possible supporters from the development community and that what they are doing apparantly makes a strange impression.
They should be glad someone took the time to actually write this down and complain instead of just forgetting about their project and doing something else.
First of all, Blade Runner's importance is obvious from the influence it has had on other more recent major Sci-Fi movies. Think about The Fifth Element (the huge cityscape with flying cars, seen it in BR) and The Matrix (Gothic style buildings, lots of rain, style of clothing.)
And he got it right the very first time, but the PHBs didn't like the unicorn dream that is so vital to the story (they thought it would be deemed "too artsy" by the general public), the open ending (it's supposed to end when they step into the elevator, not the ridiculous happy ending... I mean why would anybody live in cities like those when other places still exist and are within reasonable distance?) and they also forced him to put in the stupid voiceover, which just doesn't fit here.
So then he did the Director's Cut, which fixes these issues but is still not perfect (especially the parts where they're messing with how many replicants they're looking for - this has to do with some original scenes where Deckard chases some other replicants, they were removed because of budget but in scenes shot earlier they're mentioned in the dialogue. Supposedly there were fixed retakes of those scenes but somehow they didn't make it into both the original and the Director's Cut...) So more PHB messing, this time involving budget:)
The other versions of the movie were the broadcast version which removes some profanity, an international version which is more violent (more gore when Batty kills his creator for instance) and some workprint versions which were shown to test audiences' responses - which is probably why so much was changed before the movie made it to release.
All in all I think Ridley Scott had a clear vision of how he wanted this movie to be straight from the start. So what if it took him a while to get it into a final product? Is Linux finished yet?:) (Besides, I don't mind seeing it in a theater again:))
After being registered for over two years, about a week ago I started my first project there. And a couple days later they change their policies so they can kick me off, keep all the stuff I put up there, contact me whenever they want and sell my personal information. Coincidence?:-)
I've been looking into the IA-64 for the past year orso, and I'm convinced that on the technology side, both the architecture and the implementation are a good thing. What surprises me is that it's still taking quite some time for it to start popping up in actual production environments. Not sure what the reasons for this are.
First of all, with HP being a co-developer of the entire architecture, they are a big backer of the Itanium. So is Compaq, who sold their entire Alpha technology to Intel to focus on implementing the Itanium in all their high-end products (makes you think, was this all decided because they already knew they were going to merge with HP? Probably...) Dell is still sticking with 100% Intel, so the Itanium will be their bet for capturing more of the high-end segment. Even SGI is selling Itanium workstations (although, with the recent announcement of the MIPS-only, IRIX-only Fuel workstation, they might abandon the Itanium as well.)
So what's holding it back? I think that although there's now Linux available for it as well as a prerelease version of Windows Server along with some other systems (like HP UX) we still need to see more applications. Databases alone just aren't enough - and with the high prices of Itanium machines (the cheapest dual-Itanium 733 is around $22K at Dell, everyone else is probably more expensive) developers are not really happy about buying a couple of those machines and start hacking. So I think that because we don't see the Itanium much, developers are not investing in writing the software and business are not investing in buying the hardware.
Maybe Intel should start giving out IA-64 machines to opensource hackers and watch it fly? Where can I submit my address info?:)
Oh and about the subject of this post, the fact that the Itanium is 64 bits is not really all that important - the fact that a processor is 64 instead of 32 bits doesn't say anything about how fast it is. If you think it does, you can buy my R4400 Indigo2 for $10K:)
Really, read it again. Especially the part where I agree that there is no conflict!
It's just an insult to the community that a company that has claimed for years to agree with the idea that information wants to be free suddenly decides that some information for their customers doesn't want to be free.
So maybe now we discover, that they never got it at all.
It's not about whether or not you can sell GPL'ed software for money or not. Ofcourse you can, nothing wrong with that.
The only thing everyone seems to miss is that lots of people especially here on Slashdot keep claiming that the GPL will be the license of the future. That businesses will use it and everything will eventually become GPL. After all, information wants to be free, right?
Now there is this company that has been saying for years that they support Linux and the concepts behind the GPL all the way. Now however, they are trying to find a way for their company to actually make money and the only thing they can come up with is to make proprietary extensions. That's a bit too ironic isn't it? How can you expect a company (meaning: wanting to make money) like Microsoft ever to see the merits of the GPL when a supposed supporter of the GPL turns to the Microsoft model (proprietary software) to make money? That's just ridiculous.
So no, this is not violating any license or law, it's just a slap in the face of all those people who are trying to convince the world that the GPL is a viable license even for businesses.
Sleeping approximately 3 feet from my main workstation I've been building silent systems for a while now (about every two years for the past eight) and I've recently built a new one. What surprised me is that the IBM Deskstar 7200RPM disk is actually quite silent and getting quiet fans and power supplies is a lot easier these days too. Combined with a decent case it's pretty simple to build a silent system without modifying things.
The only thing that irritates me is CD/DVD players. I have this 40x speed AOpen DVD player and when it's reading a disc it's really noisy. I've tried a couple of others and they're practically all the same. Anyone know of an internal DVD player that's silent?
But why support Athlon first?
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nVidia decided it was time to dive into the design and development of integrated core logic to capture a portion of this mainstream market with superior product.
If they intend to take on Intel's i810 and i815 successes, then why do it with a chipset for an AMD CPU instead of one for Intel's? Sure AMD is getting bigger and bigger, but I haven't seen any marketshare survey give them more than 30% at best. And with the current largest PC maker in the world (Dell) not selling Athlon's at all they're severely limiting the reach of this new chipset it seems.
Seriously, it's great that motherboard-makers like Asus are going to integrate the nForce, but what's the use? People building their own PC (the ones buying Asus/Abit/MSI/etc. boards) probably don't want to get an integrated GeForce2 MX...
...running a cool technology-focused website with an interactive discussion system that is abused by hundreds of adolescent trolls that insult you, fill up interesting threads with garbage, exploit every possible hole in your system, put your e-mail address on spamlists, make bogus submissions, continually accuse you of conspiring with your employer and lots more?
Well the illustrations, although technical, were fairly clear except for one: try to figure out who's responsible for what from the organizational chart.
I always thought the problems with figuring out how to do interstellar travel were mostly in theory - like how do we reach high velocities without using up impossible amounts of fuel or how do we steer these ships, but in fact, most of these papers have all that figured out but they're just waiting until we have the technology to manufacture stuff like the Solar Sail. That's actually pretty cool, we're closer than I thought:)
...is basically in the part called A Proposed Procedure for Applying This Court's Test on pages 20-23.
To sum it up: According to the author, Microsoft should prove that (for instance) combining IE and Windows has a real benefit to consumers that can not be achieved in another way. Since bundling IE and Windows has a bad effect on the possibility for competitors to market their products, this effectively destroys their market and the innovations they could bring to it.
This is a bit of a reversed way of thinking to me, because you can't seriously expect Microsoft to think about what is fair, honest and chivalrous to their competitors every step along the way of developing their system. For instance, on page 20 the author writes that marking up the helpfiles of Windows in HTML is basically a way of forcing the browser and HTML-parsing functionality into the Operating System without a legitimate reason. That's simply not true - as we all know HTML is actually a standard for marking up stuff like that, and Microsoft uses it to publish their help online aswell as in the Windows helpsystem.
Another example is on page 22, where the author writes that increasing the maintainability of applications written for Windows because a lot of functionality used by them is already built in the OS has no direct benefit to consumers. Again I disagree: for instance, if all applications use the same built-in serializer for a certain fileformat, changes to that format would only require a single componentupdate to the operating system. This means the consumer won't have to update all the applications seperately - not to even mention all the possible bugs that could result from the various implementations. Ofcourse, using a standard DLL in Windows to perform certain tasks doesn't require it to be part of the Operating System, but in what other way can you be certain that all your potential customers have it installed?
One of the reasons most virtual communities, especially websites, seem or are unpersonal is because of their (unexpected) immense size. I don't think CmdrTaco expected Slashdot to be as big as it is today, although its current size definately makes it a lot less personal - lots of newsposters, more regular commentposters to really define a "regular crowd" and the amount of news has reached the point were I sometimes only skim through the headlines.
I think this is partially caused by a huge demand for these virtual communities. Again, Slashdot-visitors might be easily divided up among 10-20 websites that all have a different approach to the geek/free software/linux theme, but most of these alternatives simply don't exist yet, so everybody ends up hanging around here and the few other good sites on this topic (such as kuro5hin.)
This could very well change in the future, as more and more people kick up their own virtual community and people move to ones that are more fitting to their personal tastes and opinions.
There was a simple way to always hit other tanks when the borders were set to bounce: fire at 100% and put your angle to 99 degrees. That way you'd always hit the tank right next to you. The next time you fired the same shot it would bounce on to hit the next tank, or you could put your angle to 98 degrees, in which case you'd immediately hit the next one.
After a while I figured out a way to almost always score perfect when the bouncing walls came around (most people play(ed) with walltype at random.) If only it weren't for those mountains...
Team Slashdot, the once proud leader of the overall RC5 stats is getting clobbered on a daily basis. We're barely in the daily top5 these days! Team Anandtech is now #1 in the overall stats and the way it's going, we're about to tumble another place...
I know several console gamedevelopers who are all trying to convince me not to get a PS2 and go with the (much cheaper) DC instead as they're all telling me the same thing this article is.
But one of the major problems is: the games! Somehow Sony has convinced several major developers not to release their flagship titles on the Dreamcast. Example: Namco does develop stuff for Dreamcast, but why don't they release Tekken Tag Tournament for it? Same with Street Fighter EX3 by Capcom - other versions of Street Fighter are available for the Dreamcast, but not the EX-line:(
So I don't have much choice, as fighting games is the only stuff I use a console for...
It will be interesting to see how Microsoft handles this with the XBox, who will have more influence on the developers? Microsoft or Sony?
MFC is nothing more than an OO wrapper around the Win32 GUI API. So you shouldn't really use it for anything except user-interfaces. It does have classes for networking, graphics and more, but that's just to make it more of a RAD-tool so you don't have to set up your own classes if you want to do some graphics for instance.
Also, MFC provides quite a good object-model that makes sense if you have experience with Win32. Most people complaining that MFC sucks don't know anything about Win32 and expect MFC to replace their knowledge. That's not true, it's just a framework for people that would rather write GUI apps with an OO approach (and IMHO, OO is extremely well-suited for GUIs.)
MFC does have some bad sides: lots of messy macros that are horrible when you're debugging and trying to understand what's happening and an Application Wizard that generates all kinds of garbage in the middle of your code like message maps. But you don't have to use the macros and it's even very simple to write an application without using the Wizard to generate the framework.
Maybe the first versions will be bought and used by geeks, but in the long run, I think stuff like this will appeal way more to non-geeks. These toys will never give you the control, view and flexibility of a big gray box, but lots of people don't care about that, but these people are most likely not geeks...
Then again, I can't wait to go around looking like this:)
Why are they bad? Because they have power but no brains. They have knowledge but absolutely no common sense. They expect things done their way, but have no concept of the real world way of getting it done.
You are complaining about managers not understanding the concepts of how things work in the real world, which is logical when everybody that does know how things work resist moving into management.
If once in a while a coder with real experience moves into management, all this can be different! So it's not about becoming one of them, let management become part of us!
[Sam Nganga] says that African businesses have been slow to deploy Linux "because it's relatively new and businesses are watching to see whether it's reality or just another fad before they commit millions of dollars in IT budget.
This is not the interesting group for Linux, at least, not more interesting than anywhere else: businesses investing millions of dollars in IT budget can pay for Microsoft licenses as well.
The real strength of Linux in Africa is for the home users: all they have to do is pay for the hardware and since the requirements are much lower, the hardware can be much cheaper too. And if they just start out with Linux, businesses will soon follow since all they can recruit are Linux-experts/developers:)
Although the GeForce2 does pull ahead a bit in the high resolutions in 32bpp (honestly, why bother benchmarking anything below 1024x768x32bpp on these cards? Is anybody intending to buy a $300 videocard and then use it in 640x480x16bpp?) it's good to see that ATI can deliver a product that can match nVidia's high-end card, if only to give nVidia a reason to keep the price down on the GeForce3:)
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Am I saying its no good? No; we haven't seen it yet. It's not an Exchange replacement. It looks like Bynari.
Bynari however, does produce an actual replacement for Exchange, especially when coupled with the InsightConnector for Outlook.
Also, the former HP OpenMail now owned by Samsung and called Samsung Contact appears to support MAPI as well, so that could integrate with Outlook and have all those groupware/calendaring features.
And last, a Dutch company called ConnecTUX has created a Linux-based server application called Team-Link that integrates completely with Outlook and mimics all Exchange features. (Both sites in Dutch unfortunately.)
So plenty of alternatives. But I agree, this OpenExchange, is not one of them.
If something in an OEM machine breaks, you can be assured that they can get you something to replace it. If you made it yourself and it's been a while (>6 months) there's a good chance the entire component you need is no longer available.
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So you put something else in it. Next week something else breaks. A couple weeks later another one. Now you already have four different setups, and the ones with replaced parts will give you trouble if you put a GHOST image back on them. Not to mention the hassle when you have to install new applications or drivers.
I personally prefer the OEM workstations with lots of stuff integrated: video, sound, controllers, NIC with lots of features. And you can be assured these machines will be tested when some ISV who's software you use (Microsoft?) brings out a patch or update. If you have self-made Athlon boxes sitting on all your desktops, what are you going to do when some crucial piece of software doesn't work? Blame the guy who sold you the 60 Athlons?
From the Vorbis guy's response it's clear what the problem is: The idea is great, the plan is good, but the deliverables just take time to materialize. Nothing bad about that, it's true for practically every piece of software (or related, like the Ogg Vorbis specification.)
Regardless of whether the author of the K5 piece is right about the points he discusses, the Ogg Vorbis creators should take his criticism to heart instead of dismissing it. It's not about whether all those points are valid, so trying to prove that they are not doesn't accomplish anything. They should understand that apparantly they have a problem communicating their plans to their possible supporters from the development community and that what they are doing apparantly makes a strange impression.
They should be glad someone took the time to actually write this down and complain instead of just forgetting about their project and doing something else.
Depends on what Windows applications you need. If none, consider using X for what it's best at. WINE might even help you out.
First of all, Blade Runner's importance is obvious from the influence it has had on other more recent major Sci-Fi movies. Think about The Fifth Element (the huge cityscape with flying cars, seen it in BR) and The Matrix (Gothic style buildings, lots of rain, style of clothing.)
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:) (Besides, I don't mind seeing it in a theater again :))
And he got it right the very first time, but the PHBs didn't like the unicorn dream that is so vital to the story (they thought it would be deemed "too artsy" by the general public), the open ending (it's supposed to end when they step into the elevator, not the ridiculous happy ending... I mean why would anybody live in cities like those when other places still exist and are within reasonable distance?) and they also forced him to put in the stupid voiceover, which just doesn't fit here.
So then he did the Director's Cut, which fixes these issues but is still not perfect (especially the parts where they're messing with how many replicants they're looking for - this has to do with some original scenes where Deckard chases some other replicants, they were removed because of budget but in scenes shot earlier they're mentioned in the dialogue. Supposedly there were fixed retakes of those scenes but somehow they didn't make it into both the original and the Director's Cut...) So more PHB messing, this time involving budget
The other versions of the movie were the broadcast version which removes some profanity, an international version which is more violent (more gore when Batty kills his creator for instance) and some workprint versions which were shown to test audiences' responses - which is probably why so much was changed before the movie made it to release.
All in all I think Ridley Scott had a clear vision of how he wanted this movie to be straight from the start. So what if it took him a while to get it into a final product? Is Linux finished yet?
After being registered for over two years, about a week ago I started my first project there. And a couple days later they change their policies so they can kick me off, keep all the stuff I put up there, contact me whenever they want and sell my personal information. Coincidence? :-)
I've been looking into the IA-64 for the past year orso, and I'm convinced that on the technology side, both the architecture and the implementation are a good thing. What surprises me is that it's still taking quite some time for it to start popping up in actual production environments. Not sure what the reasons for this are.
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First of all, with HP being a co-developer of the entire architecture, they are a big backer of the Itanium. So is Compaq, who sold their entire Alpha technology to Intel to focus on implementing the Itanium in all their high-end products (makes you think, was this all decided because they already knew they were going to merge with HP? Probably...) Dell is still sticking with 100% Intel, so the Itanium will be their bet for capturing more of the high-end segment. Even SGI is selling Itanium workstations (although, with the recent announcement of the MIPS-only, IRIX-only Fuel workstation, they might abandon the Itanium as well.)
So what's holding it back? I think that although there's now Linux available for it as well as a prerelease version of Windows Server along with some other systems (like HP UX) we still need to see more applications. Databases alone just aren't enough - and with the high prices of Itanium machines (the cheapest dual-Itanium 733 is around $22K at Dell, everyone else is probably more expensive) developers are not really happy about buying a couple of those machines and start hacking. So I think that because we don't see the Itanium much, developers are not investing in writing the software and business are not investing in buying the hardware.
Maybe Intel should start giving out IA-64 machines to opensource hackers and watch it fly? Where can I submit my address info?
Oh and about the subject of this post, the fact that the Itanium is 64 bits is not really all that important - the fact that a processor is 64 instead of 32 bits doesn't say anything about how fast it is. If you think it does, you can buy my R4400 Indigo2 for $10K
Go here to view the entire article on a single page without all the annoying crap around it :)
Really, read it again. Especially the part where I agree that there is no conflict!
It's just an insult to the community that a company that has claimed for years to agree with the idea that information wants to be free suddenly decides that some information for their customers doesn't want to be free.
So maybe now we discover, that they never got it at all.
It's not about whether or not you can sell GPL'ed software for money or not. Ofcourse you can, nothing wrong with that.
The only thing everyone seems to miss is that lots of people especially here on Slashdot keep claiming that the GPL will be the license of the future. That businesses will use it and everything will eventually become GPL. After all, information wants to be free, right?
Now there is this company that has been saying for years that they support Linux and the concepts behind the GPL all the way. Now however, they are trying to find a way for their company to actually make money and the only thing they can come up with is to make proprietary extensions. That's a bit too ironic isn't it? How can you expect a company (meaning: wanting to make money) like Microsoft ever to see the merits of the GPL when a supposed supporter of the GPL turns to the Microsoft model (proprietary software) to make money? That's just ridiculous.
So no, this is not violating any license or law, it's just a slap in the face of all those people who are trying to convince the world that the GPL is a viable license even for businesses.
The only thing that irritates me is CD/DVD players. I have this 40x speed AOpen DVD player and when it's reading a disc it's really noisy. I've tried a couple of others and they're practically all the same. Anyone know of an internal DVD player that's silent?
If they intend to take on Intel's i810 and i815 successes, then why do it with a chipset for an AMD CPU instead of one for Intel's? Sure AMD is getting bigger and bigger, but I haven't seen any marketshare survey give them more than 30% at best. And with the current largest PC maker in the world (Dell) not selling Athlon's at all they're severely limiting the reach of this new chipset it seems.
Seriously, it's great that motherboard-makers like Asus are going to integrate the nForce, but what's the use? People building their own PC (the ones buying Asus/Abit/MSI/etc. boards) probably don't want to get an integrated GeForce2 MX...
So anybody know what the deal is? Licensing?
...running a cool technology-focused website with an interactive discussion system that is abused by hundreds of adolescent trolls that insult you, fill up interesting threads with garbage, exploit every possible hole in your system, put your e-mail address on spamlists, make bogus submissions, continually accuse you of conspiring with your employer and lots more?
Well the illustrations, although technical, were fairly clear except for one: try to figure out who's responsible for what from the organizational chart.
I always thought the problems with figuring out how to do interstellar travel were mostly in theory - like how do we reach high velocities without using up impossible amounts of fuel or how do we steer these ships, but in fact, most of these papers have all that figured out but they're just waiting until we have the technology to manufacture stuff like the Solar Sail. That's actually pretty cool, we're closer than I thought :)
To sum it up: According to the author, Microsoft should prove that (for instance) combining IE and Windows has a real benefit to consumers that can not be achieved in another way. Since bundling IE and Windows has a bad effect on the possibility for competitors to market their products, this effectively destroys their market and the innovations they could bring to it.
This is a bit of a reversed way of thinking to me, because you can't seriously expect Microsoft to think about what is fair, honest and chivalrous to their competitors every step along the way of developing their system. For instance, on page 20 the author writes that marking up the helpfiles of Windows in HTML is basically a way of forcing the browser and HTML-parsing functionality into the Operating System without a legitimate reason. That's simply not true - as we all know HTML is actually a standard for marking up stuff like that, and Microsoft uses it to publish their help online aswell as in the Windows helpsystem.
Another example is on page 22, where the author writes that increasing the maintainability of applications written for Windows because a lot of functionality used by them is already built in the OS has no direct benefit to consumers. Again I disagree: for instance, if all applications use the same built-in serializer for a certain fileformat, changes to that format would only require a single componentupdate to the operating system. This means the consumer won't have to update all the applications seperately - not to even mention all the possible bugs that could result from the various implementations. Ofcourse, using a standard DLL in Windows to perform certain tasks doesn't require it to be part of the Operating System, but in what other way can you be certain that all your potential customers have it installed?
I think this is partially caused by a huge demand for these virtual communities. Again, Slashdot-visitors might be easily divided up among 10-20 websites that all have a different approach to the geek/free software/linux theme, but most of these alternatives simply don't exist yet, so everybody ends up hanging around here and the few other good sites on this topic (such as kuro5hin.)
This could very well change in the future, as more and more people kick up their own virtual community and people move to ones that are more fitting to their personal tastes and opinions.
After a while I figured out a way to almost always score perfect when the bouncing walls came around (most people play(ed) with walltype at random.) If only it weren't for those mountains...
So how about some help?
I mean, what's the point in discovering extraterrestrial life if we can't crack their private key? :)
But one of the major problems is: the games! Somehow Sony has convinced several major developers not to release their flagship titles on the Dreamcast. Example: Namco does develop stuff for Dreamcast, but why don't they release Tekken Tag Tournament for it? Same with Street Fighter EX3 by Capcom - other versions of Street Fighter are available for the Dreamcast, but not the EX-line :(
So I don't have much choice, as fighting games is the only stuff I use a console for...
It will be interesting to see how Microsoft handles this with the XBox, who will have more influence on the developers? Microsoft or Sony?
Also, MFC provides quite a good object-model that makes sense if you have experience with Win32. Most people complaining that MFC sucks don't know anything about Win32 and expect MFC to replace their knowledge. That's not true, it's just a framework for people that would rather write GUI apps with an OO approach (and IMHO, OO is extremely well-suited for GUIs.)
MFC does have some bad sides: lots of messy macros that are horrible when you're debugging and trying to understand what's happening and an Application Wizard that generates all kinds of garbage in the middle of your code like message maps. But you don't have to use the macros and it's even very simple to write an application without using the Wizard to generate the framework.
Then again, I can't wait to go around looking like this :)
You are complaining about managers not understanding the concepts of how things work in the real world, which is logical when everybody that does know how things work resist moving into management.
If once in a while a coder with real experience moves into management, all this can be different! So it's not about becoming one of them, let management become part of us!
This is not the interesting group for Linux, at least, not more interesting than anywhere else: businesses investing millions of dollars in IT budget can pay for Microsoft licenses as well.
The real strength of Linux in Africa is for the home users: all they have to do is pay for the hardware and since the requirements are much lower, the hardware can be much cheaper too. And if they just start out with Linux, businesses will soon follow since all they can recruit are Linux-experts/developers :)
Although the GeForce2 does pull ahead a bit in the high resolutions in 32bpp (honestly, why bother benchmarking anything below 1024x768x32bpp on these cards? Is anybody intending to buy a $300 videocard and then use it in 640x480x16bpp?) it's good to see that ATI can deliver a product that can match nVidia's high-end card, if only to give nVidia a reason to keep the price down on the GeForce3 :)