1. Sloppy work. 2. Work filled with errors (not just sloppy, but defective). 3. Resentment. 4. It puts the company as risk of sabotage and theft. 5. A bad reputation....does anyone really want to work at Dell?
I think that in all likelihood the vast majority of achievements in the world came from people who were NOT compelled to work 12 hour days. They may have been working long hours, but they did that because of their passion or competitive drive...they wanted to.
But unless you are on some legitimate high states deadline, long days for the sake of longs days is a bad idea all the way around.
Please come to Spain and tell that to all (well, almost) "bosses" in this country.
8h contracts and 12h workdays are *very* common here.
I'm not surprise we are in the situation we are nowadays...:S
They're not moving to Linux though, they are simply moving from a customer Linux distro (called "Linex") to Debian, purely because they were finding maintaining their own distro too much of an overhead.
Pitty that a comment that is wrong is scored "5, Informative"
They're moving computers with privative software on them, not the thousans of machines that already run Linex (or Debian or whatever you want to call it)
How many of those opensource projects where GPL? (yeah, that licence that forces you to provide the source code under certain circumstances...)
Out of that list I can see some: bash, cups, gcc, tar (and the others I do not know but I could expect something similar).
My assertion migh not be true always (haven't check everything;) , but it's generally true: Apple only shares code when it's forced to.
Regards
PS: maybe we don't need to use such offensive words like "BS" and "ignorants" (and yes, I'm saying that to myself as well:) )
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I agree with most of what you say. Both closed and open source are respectful (we are not arguing about this here, right?;) ). However, my personal taste is that I do not like being "locked-in" neither in hardware nor in software (and Apple is widely know for using such practices;) )
Anyway...I'll just bring up something for you to think:
"How was Apple "forced" to share CUPS after buying the code?"
Maybe the necessity of sharing the code was one of the agreements of the deal?
Regards
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I don't think anything, I'm just pointing out facts: Apple only shares code when it is forced to. Period.
The amazing thing is that Apple manages to make everyone believe they're a "good" company taking profit of the situation and getting PR about "we share code, we are good" when that's *false*: again, they only share code when they're forced to.
Companywise it's fantastic, ethically.... debatable to say the least.
Anyway I'll leave your feelings about it to yourself;)
Regards
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CUPS is still opensource because of being GPL!!!
From the CUPS website: [quote]CUPSTM is provided under the GNU General Public License ("GPL") and GNU Library General Public License ("LGPL"), Version 2, with exceptions for Apple operating systems and the OpenSSL toolkit[/quote]
(notice the "exceptions"? pfffffffffff)
And webkit comes from khtml which is GPL as well, that's why Apple was *forced* to release the source code (and yes, it was forced)
They just managed to make you believe that they're good and share code with everyone but that's just *MARKETING* (and I'm amazed how many people fall in their lies:S )
What I really cannot understand is why people DO NOT EXERCICE!!!
We do need carbs just as much as we need to exercice. If you don't do the former, you'll need to lower your carbs ingest.
And now that we are at it (not related to your comment) Why is everybody against pasta? And that's pasta alone, not dressings or whatever. Make sure you'll have time to burn those carbs (eat them in the breakfast or lunch) and it's a perfectly healthy food.
The N900 failed not because it's a geek phone but because it had no advertisements and, more importantly, no APPS (from the average Joe point of view).
Ohh before I forget: because it's THICK and nowadays people don't want that.
What about support from the IT department? It surely is easier to make sure laptops (if they're the same model) work properly and are easier to repair as well.
There are many things to take into account when you are talking about spending money;)
Anyway, at my company our developers have all laptops as they need to take work home sometimes. On the other hand, the designers have all desktops...
And maybe the single core performance is way more than enough to most of users?
I'm running a laptop with a Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 and the performance for my day to day use is absolutely satisfactory. I rather add more cpus than raw power per core and have a better multitasking/multi-threaded aproach
My company works mainly on building apps/making campaings on social networks and I can assure you those numbers are not that expensive. It is more that we would have asked for them but within the same digits range.
As usual: the "average Joe" doesn't realize how much things cost to do...
That sounds exactly as a total free market which, you know, has shown us that doesn't work that well.
It sounds great in theory but we humans are kind of stupid as a whole therefore we should take measures to prevent abuses/monopolies/lose of rights that might happen in the future.
As I usually think in life: the middle ground is probably the best answer
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This is why: https://developers.facebook.com/preferredmarketingdevelopers/
Why don't you just use one of those "Window Managers" in KDE? you do know it's possible and easy to do, don't you?
1. Sloppy work.
2. Work filled with errors (not just sloppy, but defective).
3. Resentment.
4. It puts the company as risk of sabotage and theft.
5. A bad reputation....does anyone really want to work at Dell?
I think that in all likelihood the vast majority of achievements in the world came from people who were NOT compelled to work 12 hour days. They may have been working long hours, but they did that because of their passion or competitive drive...they wanted to.
But unless you are on some legitimate high states deadline, long days for the sake of longs days is a bad idea all the way around.
Please come to Spain and tell that to all (well, almost) "bosses" in this country.
8h contracts and 12h workdays are *very* common here.
I'm not surprise we are in the situation we are nowadays... :S
Just make the competition *GENDERLESS*
It is really *THAT SIMPLE*.
No controversy, no "machismo", no... nothing!
There's really nothing else to add here
We currently run two masters without problem...
They're not moving to Linux though, they are simply moving from a customer Linux distro (called "Linex") to Debian, purely because they were finding maintaining their own distro too much of an overhead.
Pitty that a comment that is wrong is scored "5, Informative"
They're moving computers with privative software on them, not the thousans of machines that already run Linex (or Debian or whatever you want to call it)
Regards
Well, you can write any sinusoid in form of exponentials, that's why it still works ;)
Multiplications in time domain = convolution in transformed domain
Sometimes it's easier to go to the transformed domain, convolute and then go back to time domain :)
I'm sorry but I totally disagree here.
How many of those opensource projects where GPL? (yeah, that licence that forces you to provide the source code under certain circumstances...)
Out of that list I can see some: bash, cups, gcc, tar (and the others I do not know but I could expect something similar).
My assertion migh not be true always (haven't check everything ;) , but it's generally true: Apple only shares code when it's forced to.
Regards
PS: maybe we don't need to use such offensive words like "BS" and "ignorants" (and yes, I'm saying that to myself as well :) )
I agree with most of what you say. Both closed and open source are respectful (we are not arguing about this here, right? ;) ). However, my personal taste is that I do not like being "locked-in" neither in hardware nor in software (and Apple is widely know for using such practices ;) )
Anyway...I'll just bring up something for you to think:
"How was Apple "forced" to share CUPS after buying the code?"
Maybe the necessity of sharing the code was one of the agreements of the deal?
Regards
I don't think anything, I'm just pointing out facts: Apple only shares code when it is forced to. Period.
The amazing thing is that Apple manages to make everyone believe they're a "good" company taking profit of the situation and getting PR about "we share code, we are good" when that's *false*: again, they only share code when they're forced to.
Companywise it's fantastic, ethically.... debatable to say the least.
Anyway I'll leave your feelings about it to yourself ;)
Regards
CUPS is still opensource because of being GPL!!!
From the CUPS website:
[quote]CUPSTM is provided under the GNU General Public License ("GPL") and GNU Library General Public License ("LGPL"), Version 2, with exceptions for Apple operating systems and the OpenSSL toolkit[/quote]
(notice the "exceptions"? pfffffffffff)
And webkit comes from khtml which is GPL as well, that's why Apple was *forced* to release the source code (and yes, it was forced)
They just managed to make you believe that they're good and share code with everyone but that's just *MARKETING* (and I'm amazed how many people fall in their lies :S )
Regards
Konqueror supports html5 if you use webkit and qtwebkit 2.2 (included in qt 4.8)
Regards
What I really cannot understand is why people DO NOT EXERCICE!!!
We do need carbs just as much as we need to exercice. If you don't do the former, you'll need to lower your carbs ingest.
And now that we are at it (not related to your comment) Why is everybody against pasta? And that's pasta alone, not dressings or whatever. Make sure you'll have time to burn those carbs (eat them in the breakfast or lunch) and it's a perfectly healthy food.
Regards
I disagree.
The N900 failed not because it's a geek phone but because it had no advertisements and, more importantly, no APPS (from the average Joe point of view).
Ohh before I forget: because it's THICK and nowadays people don't want that.
Regards
What about support from the IT department? It surely is easier to make sure laptops (if they're the same model) work properly and are easier to repair as well.
There are many things to take into account when you are talking about spending money ;)
Anyway, at my company our developers have all laptops as they need to take work home sometimes. On the other hand, the designers have all desktops...
And the "penetration" within buildings, and the battery life... it's something *known* in the design of the 3G systeme!
And maybe the single core performance is way more than enough to most of users?
I'm running a laptop with a Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 and the performance for my day to day use is absolutely satisfactory. I rather add more cpus than raw power per core and have a better multitasking/multi-threaded aproach
Regards
Update to 11 beta from 10.3 and...et voilà! Pulseaudio and flash not respect each other! :)
Now I just want them to fix the freezing image problem when switching to fullscreen...
Make Bit torrents of your shows complete with commercials, I would download that. And you can track how many downloads for ad revenue.
How would I love that!!!!
I believe it to be a good move from Canonical as you could find the same software on Windows
Besides, it can't be worse than Evolution :P
Regards
Which one it would be?
Will I be a criminal for using nmap or wireshark? those are clearly hacking tools...oh wait... now they're weapons!
I just find this situation ridiculous
Regards
My company works mainly on building apps/making campaings on social networks and I can assure you those numbers are not that expensive. It is more that we would have asked for them but within the same digits range.
As usual: the "average Joe" doesn't realize how much things cost to do...
Regards
That sounds exactly as a total free market which, you know, has shown us that doesn't work that well.
It sounds great in theory but we humans are kind of stupid as a whole therefore we should take measures to prevent abuses/monopolies/lose of rights that might happen in the future.
As I usually think in life: the middle ground is probably the best answer
Regards