It's likely that the netblock is also causing problems for people who do have influence over your ISP. As for excluding the business revenue, I think it's more likely that the spams sent are causing more of a loss then the netblocks are excluding business enquiries. As for 99% of the spam's products being in the US, I agree the US is not doing a good job policing them but until they improve netblocks are a useful tool in the fight against spam.
Focusing on Microsoft is popular and something I'm guilty of myself, but we should really be focusing on the badly broken legal system that enables them. It's a legal system designed by lawyers to keep lots of laywers working. And the problems it causes range from being a big piece in why offshore outsourcing is taking off to being unable to handle Microsoft to Tyco's Kozlowski getting a mistrial after a six month trial.
My guess is that ads will be much more expensive since by reading your email they should be able to come up with much more relevant ads given the increased content available (i.e. you talk about your house being dusty, an ad appears for a local house cleaning service).
I'd go with a source-based distribution myself. It's been my experience that the support at places like Gentoo is, in general, a healthy cut above any of the binary distributions. Why? Source-based distributions attract, on average, a substantially brighter, more experienced crowd.
Definitely, slashdot is full of people who buy lots of computers both for ourselves and the companies we work for. If suddenly all of these people stop buying Samsung, Samsung is going to pay a high price for this foolish decision. I buy over a hundred computers a year myself, most of them Dell which of course rebrands lots of Samsung-made computers. And I'm sure Samsung wouldn't unilaterally switch BIOSes without buy-in from Dell. Hence, I'm now going to switch to a new vendor that respects its customers.
As another person with AS, I agree completely. I would emphasize the challenge on both sides finding and retaining employment. I think especially in skilled labor (where the very bright student is going to end up) that employers give a dominate focus not on the person's ability to interact (i.e. give intelligent, relevant feedback in meetings) but on whether or not there is a "social" connection (i.e. ooh, this guy's a bit off, let's move onto candidate #2). This is especially true as your social competence is easier to determine then your actual job skills, and your lack of social competence is more likely to get you fired.
As a someone with Asperger's myself, I definitely agree that focusing on the practical value of "social graces" is the best way to go. It unfortunately does feel as horrible as you describe, but there is a substantial upside long term. Also you should teach social skills, and not worry about helping them finding pleasure in being "social". Like the previous poster I am unsure it is possible to find pleasure in being social, although long term, secondary effects such as having a nice job that allows you to make a meaningful contribution do of course lead to increased happinesss. I certainly have had no luck with this. I should also note that a lot of "social skills" are just learning how to conform to societal norms. I should also note that it's a difficult process to determine what societal norms should be adopted, as just since they are the norm doesn't mean they're right. But not adopted them must be weighed against the costs (i.e. being seen as wierd and having the strong negative effects that this brings). Good luck. Speaking as one who is traveling this route myself, it's a hard but worthwhile road.
I think you're confused about how hard SELinux is to administer. Distributions can use an SELinux system to provide packages that give themselves the bare mininum of rights so that if an application is taken over it is less significant (frequently a lot less). Think of it as chroot plus. For the user and even the admin, it's completely unnoticably. Of course, depending on how the distribution sets it up, SELinux can be more complicated to administer but it doesn't have to be this way and I don't think a lot of distros will go that route. SELinux rocks now and it's going to rock even more as more and more packages that previously used root will use more finely tuned security to prevent rooting (without the admin doing a thing -- although when necessary the admin can use SELinux to tighen the security even further).
Plus the other person isn't going to be running a business on the side. While it's possible that this won't interfere with your work, from the employer's perspective it's a risk. For example, your business could take off and you could quit and leave the company hanging. You could be unwilling to work long hours at the company when you also need to spend time working on your business. And even are willing to work long hours, you might be demoralized that the company is taking up all the time that could go into working on your business. Of course, you can make making changes to your agreement more palatable by offering to work for less money (or believe that you offer the company you work for something that makes you a compelling fit). It's all about making the risks and rewards of a job work out in everyone's minds (not necessarily in reality).
What is the general view towards America? Are they thankful that the United States is a big believer in free trade and enriching free trade? Do they like buying American goods over local goods or the goods of other nations? I'm asking because I'm curious in the medium to long term when India reaches "First World" status, what the prospects are of India being a major trading partner with the US.
Also, in an unrelated question, given that more US money is flowing to India, is India less likely to do something the United States won't like? It wasn't too long ago when a consulting contract I had in India was cancelled because of their testing a nuclear bomb.
Depends a great deal on the specifics of course, but in a lot of cases, it's going to be as simple as rpm --install apache-selinux and it'll just work (with the protection being entirely unnoticably as the application will have all the rights it's needs (it just won't have access to rights it doesn't need and pose as bad a security risk as previously).
The good news is that if you are willing to use a proprietary ERP system, then running Linux on the user's desktops will work just fine, several of them run just fine on Linux (primarily using a web browser interface -- mozilla works just fine). An example would be most of the Oracle's suite of software. This will allow you to have Open Source desktops and the like (with at least some ERP vendors you can have linux running on the servers too). Unfortunately, There are no good open source ERP systems yet that I'm aware of, although your requirements span quite a bit and software and undoubtedly some of the tasks can be handled well with open source software.
One last piece of advice, customization is expensive and to an extent unavoidable, so consider how close the system comes to your ultimate result, how familiar your team is with the technologies involved, etc...)
If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. The patent office has shown repeatedly that they are influenced by big corporations (likely goes this way, big corporation's lobbyists take to senator over an expensive dinner promising to support him in next campaign, senator talks to head of patent office promising to help his career, and head of patent office rules in favor of Microsoft.)
The article touches breezily on what Americans will do once their jobs are outsourced. This is a huge issue, and until whatever superior job field comes next arises, we need to err on the side of caution.
It is very likely that whatever jobs come next will be outsourced too (as there really aren't any jobs that can't be outsourced that I am aware of).
Also, It is my belief that this is going to hurt most of the businesses that are doing the outsourcing (because offshore IT outsourcing frequently makes sense for an individual business but doesn't make sense for anyone when a whole bunch of businesses do it because customer dollars become increasingly scarce and the new economy created offshore isn't going to replace this dollars as paying them low wages was the reason for the move in the first place).
Makes sense again if you say that the most you have to pay if you lose is the amount you spent on your own lawyers (and using what your lawyer would have charged for an hourly rate if you were paying on contingency). So the poor retired woman who was only able to spend five thousand on her case would only need to cough up another 5k even if the opposing lawyers cost a half million.
Actually, I think for entrepreneurs India and other places around the world with affordable software engineers are great. It allows us to utilize relatively inexpensive workers to make our visions reality without resorting to venture capitalists (at least too early on).
Commercials are dead (they'll fight it, but they'll lose), I just hope that what wins out is people will pay for commercial-free tv (i.e. a few extra bucks for the cable bill) rather then product placements becoming more overwhelming then they are now. If I was a betting man however, I'd say we'll end up paying and having more product placements.
If people get a bump in their search rating for hosting on google, then google is less valuable and less of a "must" to everyone. Especially, if they don't clearly disclose this fact
Whether or not Microsoft buys them, I know I'm worried that google faced by the pressures of having to justify it's stock being worth 15-25 billion dollars, is going to make some serious changes that are not going to benefit the Internet community as a whole.
Hopefully, I am worrying for nothing and have nothing but admiration for google to date, but just to be safe, I am wondering how hard it would be to set up an ad-free, unslanted distributed search engine for the entire Internet. Is there anything out there like this?
The problem for things like software the analogy is that the effort required to mow your own lawn is equivalent to the effort required to mow both your own and the church's lawn. So the company gets to take a deduction on their employees' work even though they didn't do anything they would have done anyways.
And of course this doesn't include the major reason they do it to ensure the dominance of Windows in schools so that they have a steady supply of microsoft drones for the future.
Sounds to me like they're overregulated. Get rid of silly rules like that, telling other companies that they can either make deals or build their own lines. Then, likely after a few years of turmoil, you'll see the free market working.
Be nice to know if he's actually sincere. It seemed to me an convenient way to duck talking much about the DCMA or CDBTPA which his masters are no doubt in favor of, and which can't be defended without dropping the "politicians can't be bought" stuff.
It's a near certainty mostly for the simple reason that it doesn't effect the kernel as a whole much. If you're using ext3 (or even Reiserfs3) , you're not going to be affected. I think at worst they'd label it EXPERIMENTAL.
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If you don't think turning off your access to content that's not DRMed is not the next stage, you're not cynical enough.
It's likely that the netblock is also causing problems for people who do have influence over your ISP. As for excluding the business revenue, I think it's more likely that the spams sent are causing more of a loss then the netblocks are excluding business enquiries. As for 99% of the spam's products being in the US, I agree the US is not doing a good job policing them but until they improve netblocks are a useful tool in the fight against spam.
Focusing on Microsoft is popular and something I'm guilty of myself, but we should really be focusing on the badly broken legal system that enables them. It's a legal system designed by lawyers to keep lots of laywers working. And the problems it causes range from being a big piece in why offshore outsourcing is taking off to being unable to handle Microsoft to Tyco's Kozlowski getting a mistrial after a six month trial.
My guess is that ads will be much more expensive since by reading your email they should be able to come up with much more relevant ads given the increased content available (i.e. you talk about your house being dusty, an ad appears for a local house cleaning service).
I'd go with a source-based distribution myself. It's been my experience that the support at places like Gentoo is, in general, a healthy cut above any of the binary distributions. Why? Source-based distributions attract, on average, a substantially brighter, more experienced crowd.
Definitely, slashdot is full of people who buy lots of computers both for ourselves and the companies we work for. If suddenly all of these people stop buying Samsung, Samsung is going to pay a high price for this foolish decision.
I buy over a hundred computers a year myself, most of them Dell which of course rebrands lots of Samsung-made computers. And I'm sure Samsung wouldn't unilaterally switch BIOSes without buy-in from Dell. Hence, I'm now going to switch to a new vendor that respects its customers.
As another person with AS, I agree completely. I would emphasize the challenge on both sides finding and retaining employment. I think especially in skilled labor (where the very bright student is going to end up) that employers give a dominate focus not on the person's ability to interact (i.e. give intelligent, relevant feedback in meetings) but on whether or not there is a "social" connection (i.e. ooh, this guy's a bit off, let's move onto candidate #2). This is especially true as your social competence is easier to determine then your actual job skills, and your lack of social competence is more likely to get you fired.
As a someone with Asperger's myself, I definitely agree that focusing on the practical value of "social graces" is the best way to go. It unfortunately does feel as horrible as you describe, but there is a substantial upside long term.
Also you should teach social skills, and not worry about helping them finding pleasure in being "social". Like the previous poster I am unsure it is possible to find pleasure in being social, although long term, secondary effects such as having a nice job that allows you to make a meaningful contribution do of course lead to increased happinesss. I certainly have had no luck with this.
I should also note that a lot of "social skills" are just learning how to conform to societal norms. I should also note that it's a difficult process to determine what societal norms should be adopted, as just since they are the norm doesn't mean they're right. But not adopted them must be weighed against the costs (i.e. being seen as wierd and having the strong negative effects that this brings).
Good luck. Speaking as one who is traveling this route myself, it's a hard but worthwhile road.
I think you're confused about how hard SELinux is to administer. Distributions can use an SELinux system to provide packages that give themselves the bare mininum of rights so that if an application is taken over it is less significant (frequently a lot less). Think of it as chroot plus. For the user and even the admin, it's completely unnoticably.
Of course, depending on how the distribution sets it up, SELinux can be more complicated to administer but it doesn't have to be this way and I don't think a lot of distros will go that route.
SELinux rocks now and it's going to rock even more as more and more packages that previously used root will use more finely tuned security to prevent rooting (without the admin doing a thing -- although when necessary the admin can use SELinux to tighen the security even further).
Is this likely to get Linus to switch from Bitkeeper? If not, what needs to be done to make it a suitable replacement?
Plus the other person isn't going to be running a business on the side. While it's possible that this won't interfere with your work, from the employer's perspective it's a risk.
For example, your business could take off and you could quit and leave the company hanging. You could be unwilling to work long hours at the company when you also need to spend time working on your business. And even are willing to work long hours, you might be demoralized that the company is taking up all the time that could go into working on your business.
Of course, you can make making changes to your agreement more palatable by offering to work for less money (or believe that you offer the company you work for something that makes you a compelling fit). It's all about making the risks and rewards of a job work out in everyone's minds (not necessarily in reality).
What is the general view towards America? Are they thankful that the United States is a big believer in free trade and enriching free trade? Do they like buying American goods over local goods or the goods of other nations? I'm asking because I'm curious in the medium to long term when India reaches "First World" status, what the prospects are of India being a major trading partner with the US.
Also, in an unrelated question, given that more US money is flowing to India, is India less likely to do something the United States won't like? It wasn't too long ago when a consulting contract I had in India was cancelled because of their testing a nuclear bomb.
Depends a great deal on the specifics of course, but in a lot of cases, it's going to be as simple as rpm --install apache-selinux and it'll just work (with the protection being entirely unnoticably as the application will have all the rights it's needs (it just won't have access to rights it doesn't need and pose as bad a security risk as previously).
The good news is that if you are willing to use a proprietary ERP system, then running Linux on the user's desktops will work just fine, several of them run just fine on Linux (primarily using a web browser interface -- mozilla works just fine). An example would be most of the Oracle's suite of software. This will allow you to have Open Source desktops and the like (with at least some ERP vendors you can have linux running on the servers too). Unfortunately, There are no good open source ERP systems yet that I'm aware of, although your requirements span quite a bit and software and undoubtedly some of the tasks can be handled well with open source software.
One last piece of advice, customization is expensive and to an extent unavoidable, so consider how close the system comes to your ultimate result, how familiar your team is with the technologies involved, etc...)
If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. The patent office has shown repeatedly that they are influenced by big corporations (likely goes this way, big corporation's lobbyists take to senator over an expensive dinner promising to support him in next campaign, senator talks to head of patent office promising to help his career, and head of patent office rules in favor of Microsoft.)
The article touches breezily on what Americans will do once their jobs are outsourced. This is a huge issue, and until whatever superior job field comes next arises, we need to err on the side of caution.
It is very likely that whatever jobs come next will be outsourced too (as there really aren't any jobs that can't be outsourced that I am aware of).
Also, It is my belief that this is going to hurt most of the businesses that are doing the outsourcing (because offshore IT outsourcing frequently makes sense for an individual business but doesn't make sense for anyone when a whole bunch of businesses do it because customer dollars become increasingly scarce and the new economy created offshore isn't going to replace this dollars as paying them low wages was the reason for the move in the first place).
Makes sense again if you say that the most you have to pay if you lose is the amount you spent on your own lawyers (and using what your lawyer would have charged for an hourly rate if you were paying on contingency). So the poor retired woman who was only able to spend five thousand on her case would only need to cough up another 5k even if the opposing lawyers cost a half million.
Actually, I think for entrepreneurs India and other places around the world with affordable software engineers are great. It allows us to utilize relatively inexpensive workers to make our visions reality without resorting to venture capitalists (at least too early on).
Commercials are dead (they'll fight it, but they'll lose), I just hope that what wins out is people will pay for commercial-free tv (i.e. a few extra bucks for the cable bill) rather then product placements becoming more overwhelming then they are now. If I was a betting man however, I'd say we'll end up paying and having more product placements.
If people get a bump in their search rating for hosting on google, then google is less valuable and less of a "must" to everyone. Especially, if they don't clearly disclose this fact
Whether or not Microsoft buys them, I know I'm worried that google faced by the pressures of having to justify it's stock being worth 15-25 billion dollars, is going to make some serious changes that are not going to benefit the Internet community as a whole.
Hopefully, I am worrying for nothing and have nothing but admiration for google to date, but just to be safe, I am wondering how hard it would be to set up an ad-free, unslanted distributed search engine for the entire Internet. Is there anything out there like this?
The problem for things like software the analogy is that the effort required to mow your own lawn is equivalent to the effort required to mow both your own and the church's lawn. So the company gets to take a deduction on their employees' work even though they didn't do anything they would have done anyways.
And of course this doesn't include the major reason they do it to ensure the dominance of Windows in schools so that they have a steady supply of microsoft drones for the future.
Sounds to me like they're overregulated. Get rid of silly rules like that, telling other companies that they can either make deals or build their own lines. Then, likely after a few years of turmoil, you'll see the free market working.
Be nice to know if he's actually sincere. It seemed to me an convenient way to duck talking much about the DCMA or CDBTPA which his masters are no doubt in favor of, and which can't be defended without dropping the "politicians can't be bought" stuff.
It's a near certainty mostly for the simple reason that it doesn't effect the kernel as a whole much. If you're using ext3 (or even Reiserfs3) , you're not going to be affected. I think at worst they'd label it EXPERIMENTAL.