The service for Fedora and Ubuntu Desktop is free of charge. For other distributions, the subscription fee starts at $3.95 per system a month, after a 30-day free trial.
WTF? Can anyone explain why they would do it this way?
Knowing Oracle it was obvious from the day the acquisition was announced that:
1) Oracle will cripple, keep on life support or close-source all open source projects.
I am a constant user of VirtualBox, which belonged to Sun and now Oracle. While it may not be open source, it was free. Should I be worried?
Also on the subject, did anyone actually come up with the idea to put the dangly bit in their advanced tea substitute and think that they were actually doing what they were supposed to?
Modded funny? This is actually an excellent policy. Personally, even if paying by debit or credit card, I always make sure I have enough cash to cover the purchase of gas, just in case of some electronic malfunction occurring with the debit / credit systems. I'd really hate to have them try to remove gas from my car because they couldn't take my plastic money.
Also, to the other "child" posts to this one, where I live (Canada) you often have to pre-pay for gas before filling up, to prevent "gas & go" type crimes. Paying in advance is not a problem but almost mandatory in some cases, especially late at night, when a "gas & go" is more likely to occur.
Very close. According to Bill Hicks, the Supreme Court defines pornography as "any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thought."
"That sounds like every advertisement on TV to me."
A similar position here. One IT guy for ~200 users on ~150 computers, reporting to the CFO.
I think the main reason why IT doesn't report to operations here is because the operations manager prefers to be the 'quarterback' of the purchasing department. He has openly admitted to being afraid of computers.
The drawback to reporting to the CFO is that, being the accountant, he will scrutinize nearly every possible expenditure. Most, if not all IT spending is reactive, not proactive.
While your post is hilarious, I'll pretend for a moment that it wasn't rhetorical.
The direction I see them going in is more Mac-like. Window buttons on the left. A default purple theme. They're going in the direction Shuttleworth wants to take them, to his vision of Ubuntu, and it sounds eerily similar to the house that jobs built. I'd rather see them go in a direction the Ubuntu community wants to go... something of a more democratic process, although I'm not exactly sure what that is, but changes to appease Shuttleworth seem like the exact opposite of that.
I wonder if anyone over at Canonical is now thinking this:
"Okay, so we're now designing a touch-screen version. Considering how many right-handed people are out there, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to move the window controls to the left-hand side of the screen."
I agree 100%. I have a Lenovo Ideapad Y710 and I would like to punch in the face whoever wrote its BIOS. I'd also like to kick in the junk whoever his/her boss was who approved it.
This laptop is capable of VT-x and was ADVERTISED with it as a feature, but it's disabled in the BIOS and can't be turned on.
This laptop is incapable of hibernating and sleeping in any OS except the crappy Vista it came with. A few versions of Ubuntu ago I was able to patch my DSDT table using the Intel compiler and then I was finally able to hibernate, but doing so still took just as long (3 minutes maybe?) to boot, so it was useless anyway. Since then the linux kernel people took out the patch that allowed an alternate DSDT to be used.
The Intel compiler says I have 12 errors in my DSDT alone, and who knows how many other BIOS tables have screwups that the Microsoft compiler doesn't care about because it knows how to get around the errors when booting a Microsoft system. According to Lenovo, Vista is the only supported OS, so if Vista doesn't have problems, they're "not bugs". Bullshit.
Anyway, enough ranting. The keyword behind UEFI is the U, as in Universal. It's still a pretty vague concept but it is definitely an area that could use some improvement, and I could see more operating systems than just the "vendor supported" one benefiting from such a system.
Agreed. My first thought was, "Yay, I'm not the only idiot out there programming with VB!", but after reading that, it's more like, "Yay, I'm not the only idiot out there having problems coding with VB!"
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I don't really think you can compare dog breeding with embryo screening.
On one hand you're breeding like species of animals in order to keep the breed "pure"... OTOH, you're stacking the dice in your favor in nature's game of random chance.
I wonder how much a "designer baby" would cost, and I believe the odds of crapping out would be about the same.
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The service for Fedora and Ubuntu Desktop is free of charge. For other distributions, the subscription fee starts at $3.95 per system a month, after a 30-day free trial.
WTF? Can anyone explain why they would do it this way?
Knowing Oracle it was obvious from the day the acquisition was announced that: 1) Oracle will cripple, keep on life support or close-source all open source projects.
I am a constant user of VirtualBox, which belonged to Sun and now Oracle. While it may not be open source, it was free. Should I be worried?
Also on the subject, did anyone actually come up with the idea to put the dangly bit in their advanced tea substitute and think that they were actually doing what they were supposed to?
Modded funny? This is actually an excellent policy. Personally, even if paying by debit or credit card, I always make sure I have enough cash to cover the purchase of gas, just in case of some electronic malfunction occurring with the debit / credit systems. I'd really hate to have them try to remove gas from my car because they couldn't take my plastic money.
Also, to the other "child" posts to this one, where I live (Canada) you often have to pre-pay for gas before filling up, to prevent "gas & go" type crimes. Paying in advance is not a problem but almost mandatory in some cases, especially late at night, when a "gas & go" is more likely to occur.
the experts in these fields are failing to present their message in a way that encourages public discussion and support
Isn't that what Slashdot is for?
Very close. According to Bill Hicks, the Supreme Court defines pornography as "any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thought." "That sounds like every advertisement on TV to me."
Right, but this thing isn't finished yet. I'm just talking in general, though. Does "World's Largest" imply "manmade", or "located on earth"?
The world's largest telescope...
Does the Hubble not count because it is located in space?
This could fall into the hands of terrorists.
Anything could fall into the hands of terrorists. This sort of statement is paranoia at its best.
Uh oh, management is here. Back to work, everyone!!!
A similar position here. One IT guy for ~200 users on ~150 computers, reporting to the CFO.
I think the main reason why IT doesn't report to operations here is because the operations manager prefers to be the 'quarterback' of the purchasing department. He has openly admitted to being afraid of computers.
The drawback to reporting to the CFO is that, being the accountant, he will scrutinize nearly every possible expenditure. Most, if not all IT spending is reactive, not proactive.
Only four comments here, and yet AC still beats me to it.
This is slashdot, people. We need CAR analogies.
While your post is hilarious, I'll pretend for a moment that it wasn't rhetorical.
The direction I see them going in is more Mac-like. Window buttons on the left. A default purple theme. They're going in the direction Shuttleworth wants to take them, to his vision of Ubuntu, and it sounds eerily similar to the house that jobs built. I'd rather see them go in a direction the Ubuntu community wants to go... something of a more democratic process, although I'm not exactly sure what that is, but changes to appease Shuttleworth seem like the exact opposite of that.
Yes, of course. My favourite way of changing it is:
sudo apt-get install emerald
But it still bothers me just a little bit. It makes me think that Ubuntu is going in a direction that I don't want to go.
I wonder if anyone over at Canonical is now thinking this:
"Okay, so we're now designing a touch-screen version. Considering how many right-handed people are out there, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to move the window controls to the left-hand side of the screen."
Doesn't seem so ergonomic anymore, now, does it?
Good bye, and good riddance.
I agree 100%. I have a Lenovo Ideapad Y710 and I would like to punch in the face whoever wrote its BIOS. I'd also like to kick in the junk whoever his/her boss was who approved it.
This laptop is capable of VT-x and was ADVERTISED with it as a feature, but it's disabled in the BIOS and can't be turned on.
This laptop is incapable of hibernating and sleeping in any OS except the crappy Vista it came with. A few versions of Ubuntu ago I was able to patch my DSDT table using the Intel compiler and then I was finally able to hibernate, but doing so still took just as long (3 minutes maybe?) to boot, so it was useless anyway. Since then the linux kernel people took out the patch that allowed an alternate DSDT to be used.
The Intel compiler says I have 12 errors in my DSDT alone, and who knows how many other BIOS tables have screwups that the Microsoft compiler doesn't care about because it knows how to get around the errors when booting a Microsoft system. According to Lenovo, Vista is the only supported OS, so if Vista doesn't have problems, they're "not bugs". Bullshit.
Anyway, enough ranting. The keyword behind UEFI is the U, as in Universal. It's still a pretty vague concept but it is definitely an area that could use some improvement, and I could see more operating systems than just the "vendor supported" one benefiting from such a system.
Agreed. My first thought was, "Yay, I'm not the only idiot out there programming with VB!", but after reading that, it's more like, "Yay, I'm not the only idiot out there having problems coding with VB!"
I don't really think you can compare dog breeding with embryo screening. On one hand you're breeding like species of animals in order to keep the breed "pure"... OTOH, you're stacking the dice in your favor in nature's game of random chance. I wonder how much a "designer baby" would cost, and I believe the odds of crapping out would be about the same.