Just because Cowboy Neal does not believe that creating something that will make 1000s of people sit and relax and listen for a couple of minutes is a worthwhile endeavour
Odd, you're description sounds alot like slashdot. So I'd guess he does think it's a worthwile endeavour indeed.
It wouldn't be the first time I've purchased a product(esp. with regaurds to technology) and then the company goes under.
Anyways I'm willing to take that chance, it's part of being an early adopter of a technology. Which is what, for the most part, everybody using linux on the desktop are doing.
Actually I agree with this statement. I never bought a linux game untill I heard loki was going under. I've been extremely happy with both the performance and stability of the games I've purchased.
While it may be too late for loki I feel that at least a few of us have learned that it's worthwhile to purchase games under linux and will try to do so at every opportunity forthcomming.
Have you heard the old saying that "business ethics" is an oxymoron? Yeah sure the ACM can tout ethics all they want. And it will only take a few firings before everyone gets the idea of who is in charge, code of ethics or not. If you want a large corporation to act ethical, you better pass a law with enough teeth in it to make the megacorp respect it. Otherwise this "code of ethics" is not worth more that the paper its written on.
And this sir, Is the problem. The ACM and other engineering codes of ethics aren't meant for organizations to go by. They are meant for individuals. The biggest problem I see is that these ethical standards are blown off by the people(eg. Universities) who are producing computer science and "IT" professionals today. If all the people who came out of college actually believed in these ethics then who woul be left to replace them if a big corp decided to fire them for ethical reasons?
ok, This is my first post to slashdot, so go easy. Linux isn't really the issue at the heart of this article is it? It's more about how people on the internet, be it newsgroups, slashdot, email or whatever, say things that they wouldn't say in real life. Very few people, even the most avid linux 'advocate' would run around the office yelling at co-workers about how thier operating system is inferior, or thier car sucks, or thier suit is from K-mart, or whatever. People often go overboard in thier views when they put it in an email or post. Linux will be around for a long time. Unix has been here longer than any operating system, os/2 came and went Dos is gone, and windows will go as well. But unix will always be here. Linux(or BSD) will always be here because it's the only affordable unix based operating system that home users(i.e. nerds like us) can have, and freely develop for. So why people complain about how will linux will survive seems fairly silly. I mean just look at the history of computers and you will see that linux is bound to survive as long as somebody wants it to. But it won't get mainstream approval unless people stop acting like it's the be all end all in OSs. Sure linux is cool and all, but some people don't need that kind of power.. they just want to surf the web and make spreadsheets.. and for these people there will always be some macrosoft producing systems that are not great for software development, but great for users. Alex
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Odd, you're description sounds alot like slashdot. So I'd guess he does think it's a worthwile endeavour indeed.
It wouldn't be the first time I've purchased a product(esp. with regaurds to technology) and then the company goes under.
Anyways I'm willing to take that chance, it's part of being an early adopter of a technology. Which is what, for the most part, everybody using linux on the desktop are doing.
Actually I agree with this statement. I never bought a linux game untill I heard loki was going under. I've been extremely happy with both the performance and stability of the games I've purchased.
While it may be too late for loki I feel that at least a few of us have learned that it's worthwhile to purchase games under linux and will try to do so at every opportunity forthcomming.
Or better yet, give away the keyfobs and sell the hardware and drivers. They could call it cueCrypt or cueFob or something.
And how does it make you feel that eliza responds to spam?
And this sir, Is the problem. The ACM and other engineering codes of ethics aren't meant for organizations to go by. They are meant for individuals. The biggest problem I see is that these ethical standards are blown off by the people(eg. Universities) who are producing computer science and "IT" professionals today. If all the people who came out of college actually believed in these ethics then who woul be left to replace them if a big corp decided to fire them for ethical reasons?
ok, This is my first post to slashdot, so go easy. Linux isn't really the issue at the heart of this article is it? It's more about how people on the internet, be it newsgroups, slashdot, email or whatever, say things that they wouldn't say in real life. Very few people, even the most avid linux 'advocate' would run around the office yelling at co-workers about how thier operating system is inferior, or thier car sucks, or thier suit is from K-mart, or whatever. People often go overboard in thier views when they put it in an email or post. Linux will be around for a long time. Unix has been here longer than any operating system, os/2 came and went Dos is gone, and windows will go as well. But unix will always be here. Linux(or BSD) will always be here because it's the only affordable unix based operating system that home users(i.e. nerds like us) can have, and freely develop for. So why people complain about how will linux will survive seems fairly silly. I mean just look at the history of computers and you will see that linux is bound to survive as long as somebody wants it to. But it won't get mainstream approval unless people stop acting like it's the be all end all in OSs. Sure linux is cool and all, but some people don't need that kind of power.. they just want to surf the web and make spreadsheets.. and for these people there will always be some macrosoft producing systems that are not great for software development, but great for users. Alex