Some of us are ambimousterous. It's the reason my cordless Logitech sits on the shelf and I use my corded, symetrical, Intellimouse. It allows me to mouse with my left hand while taking written notes with the right.
If this mouse is not symetrical I won't be using it either.
Any business person can tell you that this is 100% wrong.
No, they won't.
You should only design your own software if 1. Your needs can't be filled by off-the-shelf stuff
It almost never can be. The salesman may convince you that it can, but he is wrong, and quite possibly lying.
2. There's some kind of value or competitive advantage to doing it yourself
There almost always is. Being in control of your fate is one of them.
3. You can afford it.
I could afford it when I was a one man operation sleeping in the office and sitting on an orange crate. It cost me some thought. I like thinking. And. ..I couldn't afford not to write it.
Unless you're a software company, software is just a tool like any others.
Yes, I build some of my own tools and hardware as well, for many of the reasons you yourself list.
You may as well have said that the only way to success in any business is to build your own trucks instead of simply bying them.
Well, I've been known to build some of my own motor vehicles. I buy the engines, unless what I'm doing is designing engines (it happens). Building engines takes a massive amount of capital. That's why I don't write my own OS either. I download Linux and the attendant standard apps like text processors and spreadsheets.
But all of my "enterprise" shit I write. I simply don't see how I can afford not to.
For all the reasons you list.
Which is why I converted to free software, as per the article.
Please stop whining and do try to figure out a way to create "content" that is worth my giving you money for in the first place.
I shall not be attending showings of "The Longest Yard," nor shall I even watch it for free on broadcast television. Not because I have 'stolen' it from the Internet, but because it is a piece of shit that isn't worth wasting my time on, something that is far more valuable to me than giving you buck or five.
If you wish me to watch it I must insist on getting my government scale billing rate of $350/hr, plus hazardous duty pay.
I can use the money to buy Nero Wolfe, a cable television production, on DVD.
Open Source projects are broader than KDE, Gnome and Mozilla.
Get out and look around, what you see might surprise you, but then don't start bitching that it doesn't have the interface you're used to.
In the meantime what the majority of users want is a Linux mirror of what they're already used to, not innovation.
Innovation itself is highly overated anyway. What you really want is what works, tweak it only when real improvement results and otherwise leave it the bloody hell alone, but you can't keep a revenue stream of new sales to old customers going that way.
Obviously the "START" button comes from the world of consoles.
Close, but no cigar. At the time of release of Windows 95 most people had never actually seen a game console, and it might surprise to learn that must people today have still never used one.
The "start" button is an exrapolation from the device the computer most resembles to the average Joe and with which he is most commonly familiar:
If, if, if. ..you have an UberGeek install and set it up for you. The average Joe can't install Windows either, but generally acquires his box pregeekilated.
Given what I read about Catholic priests in the news, I am not sure I want them scanning my children.
Yes, that was my very point. The use of same sex scanners is not what I would call a great comfort.
Yeah, it's better than otherwise and all that, but perhaps better not to use the scanners at all. Mostly they're going catch granny trying to sneak a crochet hook on board so she doesn't go bored shitless on the flight. It's just going to cause a lot of legal trouble for people who actually aren't doing a damned thing wrong except getting on airplane these days.
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I didn't. I bought a keyboard.
KFG
I've been here long enough to know that you'd be along shortly.
KFG
Some of us are ambimousterous. It's the reason my cordless Logitech sits on the shelf and I use my corded, symetrical, Intellimouse. It allows me to mouse with my left hand while taking written notes with the right.
If this mouse is not symetrical I won't be using it either.
KFG
Ahhhh! Well, the problem with that is that the start button really is that stupid.
KFG
. . .wrongful infringement of my rights
How quaint.
KFG
I really think they should be commented.
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Seems to be going pretty well so far, yeah.
So if you are in any way interested in the survival of something resembling . . . civilization. .
Well, actually, no, not particularly.
KFG
With breasts.
When the ad hits the back of the comic books I'll betcha the squid women outsell sea monkeys 100 to 1.
KFG
Nah! Life just has a tendency to read more impressive than it really is.
KFG
You don't run a business, do you?
.I couldn't afford not to write it.
Yes, I do.
Any business person can tell you that this is 100% wrong.
No, they won't.
You should only design your own software if 1. Your needs can't be filled by off-the-shelf stuff
It almost never can be. The salesman may convince you that it can, but he is wrong, and quite possibly lying.
2. There's some kind of value or competitive advantage to doing it yourself
There almost always is. Being in control of your fate is one of them.
3. You can afford it.
I could afford it when I was a one man operation sleeping in the office and sitting on an orange crate. It cost me some thought. I like thinking. And. .
Unless you're a software company, software is just a tool like any others.
Yes, I build some of my own tools and hardware as well, for many of the reasons you yourself list.
You may as well have said that the only way to success in any business is to build your own trucks instead of simply bying them.
Well, I've been known to build some of my own motor vehicles. I buy the engines, unless what I'm doing is designing engines (it happens). Building engines takes a massive amount of capital. That's why I don't write my own OS either. I download Linux and the attendant standard apps like text processors and spreadsheets.
But all of my "enterprise" shit I write. I simply don't see how I can afford not to.
For all the reasons you list.
Which is why I converted to free software, as per the article.
KFG
Please stop whining and do try to figure out a way to create "content" that is worth my giving you money for in the first place.
I shall not be attending showings of "The Longest Yard," nor shall I even watch it for free on broadcast television. Not because I have 'stolen' it from the Internet, but because it is a piece of shit that isn't worth wasting my time on, something that is far more valuable to me than giving you buck or five.
If you wish me to watch it I must insist on getting my government scale billing rate of $350/hr, plus hazardous duty pay.
I can use the money to buy Nero Wolfe, a cable television production, on DVD.
KFG
Open Source projects are broader than KDE, Gnome and Mozilla.
Get out and look around, what you see might surprise you, but then don't start bitching that it doesn't have the interface you're used to.
In the meantime what the majority of users want is a Linux mirror of what they're already used to, not innovation.
Innovation itself is highly overated anyway. What you really want is what works, tweak it only when real improvement results and otherwise leave it the bloody hell alone, but you can't keep a revenue stream of new sales to old customers going that way.
KFG
What does it mean to Slashdot people?
Really cool pets.
KFG
anyone this uber-nerdy surely would have nobody to call to talk to. . .
Domino's.
KFG
. . .what a Swede is doing in the Netherlands...
Slumming
KFG
None of which are social issues.
KFG
Obviously the "START" button comes from the world of consoles.
Close, but no cigar. At the time of release of Windows 95 most people had never actually seen a game console, and it might surprise to learn that must people today have still never used one.
The "start" button is an exrapolation from the device the computer most resembles to the average Joe and with which he is most commonly familiar:
The Glass Teat. The idiot box.
Television; less the game console.
KFG
If, if, if. . .you have an UberGeek install and set it up for you. The average Joe can't install Windows either, but generally acquires his box pregeekilated.
KFG
And if they're not careful we'll begin to suspect they are unamerican.
KFG
Yes, am familiar with the book, Mr. Valentine Michael Smith, the bet with L. Ron Hubbard and the whole schmegegy.
KFG
Given what I read about Catholic priests in the news, I am not sure I want them scanning my children.
Yes, that was my very point. The use of same sex scanners is not what I would call a great comfort.
Yeah, it's better than otherwise and all that, but perhaps better not to use the scanners at all. Mostly they're going catch granny trying to sneak a crochet hook on board so she doesn't go bored shitless on the flight. It's just going to cause a lot of legal trouble for people who actually aren't doing a damned thing wrong except getting on airplane these days.
KFG
I'd say thats a bigger discovery.. a fly that looks like a bee!
A bit late for that:
Bee Fly
You can tell it looks like a bee because it's fat and fuzzy, unlike the insect in the flower picture, but here's one that looks like a wasp:
Wasp Fly
Sorry, but science has already been there and done that.
KFG
If you've got nothing to hide, may I see you naked?
Sure, but you might want to see me with your eyes closed.
KFG
Maybe it was just pinin' for the fjords.
KFG
Like, dude, grok was groked first by hippies, and I've got the sandles and beads to prove it. Keep on truckin'!
KFG
The operators of the scanners are only allowed to scan people of the same sex as themself.
And just to be double safe only priests will be hired to scan the men.
KFG