If that's the point you received from it then I think you missed the point. Sure its a book about how to get ahead and make money in this world (not something I completely agree in), but it also has a good point about working smartly. I like to sum it up in one saying:
Work smartly and work hardly.
A nice double entandra there depending on how you want to look at it.
for perspective on the educational system are the first couple chapters of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". While the book deals mainly with how to make money. There is a lot of good perspective on the usefullness (or lack of) a higher education in the U.S.
Uh, ok. Like what? My wife is from Uzbekistan, which has lots of human rights issues and their own problems with government. How is that for perspective?
I don't know about you, but more and more I feel like I'm in one of those countries that the U.S. fights to "Get rid of their evil totalitarian regeim."
I wonder at what point the general american populous will realize that things have gone bad. I would say right now that more than 80% of the population is still in the dark about these problems creeping up. My own mother doesn't believe me when I tell her about all of it.
Huh? If they are a forward looking company (not sure), I would say that this more likely translates into a Linux client as well. We're talking about almost 3 years from now. Given that many companies have already released Linux clients over the past 3 years, I would say that its only going to increase. Especially given Linux's growth on the desktop.
In my opinion, audio has almost always taken a back seat in the development of computers, operating systems and programs. It's always an afterthought or the last thing that is added to the design.
Last night I was looking at Croquet, that new Net based 3d graphical environment and I saw no mention of how to deal with sound in this new environment. Sound is a very important part of our lives, I fail to see why it is always has such low priority with the computer industry.
A few years ago I remember seeing a filesystem based access gateway to MySQL. That was pretty neat because you could access rows of information using standard Unix tools like grep, sed, awk, numsum and so on.
And what's funny is that fake transparency/translucency got started when Rob Malda used a background in his terminal that matched his desktop background, but fuzzed it up.
I guess you could say that E has had true translucency since around 1999 in that you can set it to be translucent when moving windows. I'll never forget the first time I saw that at a local LUG meeting, there was a collective "Oooo!" from the group.
I think what this article (and John to some extent) is getting at is that there is a catch-22, where if we don't strive for business adoption, IP problems will creep up and not allow us (the coders) to use it legally.
He talks a lot about supporting small and medium sized business. I think that is important too, which is why suso.org is going to be expanding to do OSS support specifically for small and medium sized business. But I think there needs to be a lot more support businesses around the world. Say, at least one for every city bigger than 50k people.
I think that a lot of businesses still want local support and get frustrated with "national based support" and are not making the switch because there is not much local support for Linux.
With the opening up our support business, I'm going to put together some information on how other businesses can get started on this. A central respository for everyone on how to get an OSS/Linux support business going would be really helpful to OSS.
Anyone else interested?
That whole "Someone to blame it on" thing
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What really yanks my chain when people bring up that using OSS means that you have nobody to blame your problem on when things go wrong is "Does that really matter?".
Do you actually have someone to blame in the Microsoft world? Sure, Microsoft. But does blaming them help anything? No. They just deny that its a problem with their software.
So in the OSS world, how would not having someone to blame be any different?
Imagine what $31 million dollars could have done had they given it to various open source projects. Money in this world could really be put to better use.
I'll be making a switch as soon as I can get my own business up to the point where I can support myself. Which hopefully will be in about a year. Maybe 2.
Well, that might be true once the dust has settled but I'm sure that this could not be said back in the mid-90s when a lot of us had a good deal of personal computer experience, but not enough to land us in a programming or sysadmin position. Back then the techsupport wasn't that bad, and it was before the days of the scripts that they go through now to fix your problem.
This will probably turn out to be a good thing for smaller businesses that keep their tech support in house and have a more personable feel to their support.
As consumers get more and more frustrated with not getting the support that they have come to expect, they will take their money elsewhere and that else where will be to smaller more local businesses.
Loyalty? Not sure. I've never actually bought something from IBM in my life besides maybe some floppy disks.
But it sure does make me smile. Its reassuring to see a big company like IBM get as involved as they have. Everytime they do something for the open source community, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
So let's say the average flying car will travel at 200MPH (For the sake of convience). That's 12 gallons consumed to travel 200 miles. Most cars get around 20-30 miles per gallon, which means that a car will consume 7-8 gallons in that same amount of time.
What I don't understand, is what's the point? What advantage are flying cars going to provide over ground transportation. We won't be able to go directly to someplace because the safety concerns of millions of flying cars going in straight lines is off the scale. Here are the only sensible advantages I can think of:
You're right, the release date of the first version should be its birthday. So today is more like the 13th anniversary of the middle of its third tri-mester.;-)
I thought it was on Sept 17th? Isn't that when the post about it went out?
That sucks, we were planning on opening our Linux Support business here in Bloomington, IN on Sept 17th. Oh well, we'll still open then, it will just be our opening day.
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No, I met her at Indiana University, where she and I lived in the same dorm. We were somehow meant to be together.
Uh, did you actually read it?
If that's the point you received from it then I think you missed the point. Sure its a book about how to get ahead and make money in this world (not something I completely agree in), but it also has a good point about working smartly. I like to sum it up in one saying:
Work smartly and work hardly.
A nice double entandra there depending on how you want to look at it.
for perspective on the educational system are the first couple chapters of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". While the book deals mainly with how to make money. There is a lot of good perspective on the usefullness (or lack of) a higher education in the U.S.
Hey thanks. I didn't know that.
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I wonder how many people have to misuse a word for it to generate a new definition for it.
Uh, ok. Like what? My wife is from Uzbekistan, which has lots of human rights issues and their own problems with government. How is that for perspective?
I don't know about you, but more and more I feel like I'm in one of those countries that the U.S. fights to "Get rid of their evil totalitarian regeim."
I wonder at what point the general american populous will realize that things have gone bad. I would say right now that more than 80% of the population is still in the dark about these problems creeping up.
My own mother doesn't believe me when I tell her about all of it.
Huh? If they are a forward looking company (not sure), I would say that this more likely translates into a Linux client as well. We're talking about almost 3 years from now. Given that many companies have already released Linux clients over the past 3 years, I would say that its only going to increase. Especially given Linux's growth on the desktop.
In my opinion, audio has almost always taken a back seat in the development of computers, operating systems and programs. It's always an afterthought or the last thing that is added to the design.
Last night I was looking at Croquet, that new Net based 3d graphical environment and I saw no mention of how to deal with sound in this new environment. Sound is a very important part of our lives, I fail to see why it is always has such low priority with the computer industry.
A few years ago I remember seeing a filesystem based access gateway to MySQL. That was pretty neat because you could access rows of information using standard Unix tools like grep, sed, awk, numsum and so on.
And what's funny is that fake transparency/translucency got started when Rob Malda used a background in his terminal that matched his desktop background, but fuzzed it up.
I guess you could say that E has had true translucency since around 1999 in that you can set it to be translucent when moving windows. I'll never forget the first time I saw that at a local LUG meeting, there was a collective "Oooo!" from the group.
I think what this article (and John to some extent) is getting at is that there is a catch-22, where if we don't strive for business adoption, IP problems will creep up and not allow us (the coders) to use it legally.
He talks a lot about supporting small and medium sized business. I think that is important too, which is why suso.org is going to be expanding to do OSS support specifically for small and medium sized business. But I think there needs to be a lot more support businesses around the world. Say, at least one for every city bigger than 50k people.
I think that a lot of businesses still want local support and get frustrated with "national based support" and are not making the switch because there is not much local support for Linux.
With the opening up our support business, I'm going to put together some information on how other businesses can get started on this. A central respository for everyone on how to get an OSS/Linux support business going would be really helpful to OSS.
Anyone else interested?
What really yanks my chain when people bring up that using OSS means that you have nobody to blame your problem on when things go wrong is "Does that really matter?".
Do you actually have someone to blame in the Microsoft world? Sure, Microsoft. But does blaming them help anything? No. They just deny that its a problem with their software.
So in the OSS world, how would not having someone to blame be any different?
Imagine what $31 million dollars could have done had they given it to various open source projects. Money in this world could really be put to better use.
is that you can search for ranges of numbers like that in google. That's pretty neat.
I'll be making a switch as soon as I can get my own business up to the point where I can support myself. Which hopefully will be in about a year. Maybe 2.
For some reason, this article made me think of the pie selling contest in Revenge of the Nerds. Where they put a special surprise underneath the pie.
Well, that might be true once the dust has settled but I'm sure that this could not be said back in the mid-90s when a lot of us had a good deal of personal computer experience, but not enough to land us in a programming or sysadmin position. Back then the techsupport wasn't that bad, and it was before the days of the scripts that they go through now to fix your problem.
This will probably turn out to be a good thing for smaller businesses that keep their tech support in house and have a more personable feel to their support.
As consumers get more and more frustrated with not getting the support that they have come to expect, they will take their money elsewhere and that else where will be to smaller more local businesses.
Loyalty? Not sure. I've never actually bought something from IBM in my life besides maybe some floppy disks.
But it sure does make me smile. Its reassuring to see a big company like IBM get as involved as they have. Everytime they do something for the open source community, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
So let's say the average flying car will travel at 200MPH (For the sake of convience). That's 12 gallons consumed to travel 200 miles. Most cars get around 20-30 miles per gallon, which means that a car will consume 7-8 gallons in that same amount of time.
What I don't understand, is what's the point? What advantage are flying cars going to provide over ground transportation. We won't be able to go directly to someplace because the safety concerns of millions of flying cars going in straight lines is off the scale. Here are the only sensible advantages I can think of:
Actually, it might be more likely that you when you approach a shotgun to pick up it will say Remington on the side.
You're right, the release date of the first version should be its birthday. So today is more like the 13th anniversary of the middle of its third tri-mester. ;-)
I thought it was on Sept 17th? Isn't that when the post about it went out?
That sucks, we were planning on opening our Linux Support business here in Bloomington, IN on Sept 17th. Oh well, we'll still open then, it will just be our opening day.
Notice how "Time to kill Microsoft Word" and "Time to kill a Mocking Bird" sound somewhat alike.