Just last night my wife and I where talking (read "arguing") about this.
To give a little background, we're going to be expanding our suso.org web hosting business to start offering Linux Support and prebuilt Linux systems in Bloomington. We'll be opening our office early next month.
She is worried that most people's expectations for functionality will be too high and will just end up throwing their machines away. However, we understand that Linux isn't for everybody yet and that we will have to turn somepeople away for the time being because they will have too high of expectations out of it. For instance, say that a family comes by and wants to by a new family PC so that the kids can play games and the parents can do their taxes, word processing and look at all those multimedia attachments that their family sends them. We'll we'll have to be up front with them and let them know that Linux probably isn't for them because those kids aren't going to be able to play off the shelf games yet (without fooling around with wine a lot or vmware) and they would get frustrated when some of those cute attachments don't work. Or TurboTax doesn't work.
That all said, I feel that OSS has come far enough that it is ready for the first batch of non-technical adopters. You know, the ones that like to tinker around with the latest technology.
Fortunately for you, you are not. But unfortunately for us, you are not.
What so many people don't understand is that those few people that we call extremists, are fighting for something that they believe to be right. They are not what we think of as 'evil'. They are no different than our Paul Revere or George Washington. The times are just different, and instead of using sly tatics on a house and mullet rifles, they go to more extreme measures to have an effect.
Eh hem. If they truely had respect for human life, then they wouldn't have join an organization that plays a part in taking life. But obviously, to them, it's just part of their job.
that I never really thought of Google as a company. For the longest time I was wondering how they were even making enough money to pay their employees.
I thought of them more like "A group of SMFs that wanted to make some neat shit". Which they accomplished.
So with all this money now, its almost as if the impression that I have of Google has died and something else has taken over.
There are a couple of binary groups for povray on their own news server and some of the things that the people do there are really neat. They experiment with making povray do cloth effects and glowing. It's neat to see them develop these functions over time. Some of the early tries are kinda funny. Plus, there is a lot of cool stuff on the newsgroup that never makes it into the IRTC contest or POV-Ray hall of fame.
Not sure how long you have been in Bloomington, but I have lived there since '96 and worked at Kiva Networking (local ISP) til last March and can say that a lot of people in Bloomington and especially the surrounding area are still using dial-up.
I wouldn't guess that from living in Indiana. Maybe in the past month or so there has been a change over, but I still talk to a lot of people who are using dialup and don't know what DSL or Cable modems are.
"Yeah, my modem has a cable on it that runs into the phone jack"
I remember reading a document somewhere for mysql that explains what each part of a version number "really meant". The major version number meant that the format of the databases will change (or could change). Is this also the case for postgres I wonder?
Until Firefox renders every page just like IE does the public isn't going to care for it.
I hope that this day never comes. IE makes some bad bad mistakes in the way it renders and handles pages. Unfortunately people have built their websites around that IE functionality.
My wife and I are currently trying to move our web hosting and Linux support business into an office, and getting cheap insurance is proving to be a pain in the rump. Mainly because most insurance companies won't cover Internet Services companies and the ones that do charge as much as 7 times more than they charge other businesses. Yet they don't cover anything that would be a threat to those businesses.
Now this. What is a person to do who wants to offer state of the art services and technologies? I'm sure I'm preaching the choir here, but patents are hindering cutting edge technology rather than helping it these days.
You know, when I first read that headline, I was thinking of the Square D company that makes circuit breaker boxes and other electrical supplies. And I was thinking "What the hell?"
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Just last night my wife and I where talking (read "arguing") about this.
To give a little background, we're going to be expanding our suso.org web hosting business to start offering Linux Support and prebuilt Linux systems in Bloomington. We'll be opening our office early next month.
She is worried that most people's expectations for functionality will be too high and will just end up throwing their machines away. However, we understand that Linux isn't for everybody yet and that we will have to turn somepeople away for the time being because they will have too high of expectations out of it. For instance, say that a family comes by and wants to by a new family PC so that the kids can play games and the parents can do their taxes, word processing and look at all those multimedia attachments that their family sends them. We'll we'll have to be up front with them and let them know that Linux probably isn't for them because those kids aren't going to be able to play off the shelf games yet (without fooling around with wine a lot or vmware) and they would get frustrated when some of those cute attachments don't work. Or TurboTax doesn't work.
That all said, I feel that OSS has come far enough that it is ready for the first batch of non-technical adopters. You know, the ones that like to tinker around with the latest technology.
At times like these, it can be helpful to watch a little Nick Burns (Your Company's Computer Guy).
He fixes your computer, and then he's gonna make fun of you.
Defensive shields
What about this
I guess the original article is gone. But this technology came up on Slashdot a few years ago. Maybe this is it
So what if you were one of those few?
Fortunately for you, you are not. But unfortunately for us, you are not.
What so many people don't understand is that those few people that we call extremists, are fighting for something that they believe to be right. They are not what we think of as 'evil'. They are no different than our Paul Revere or George Washington.
The times are just different, and instead of using sly tatics on a house and mullet rifles, they go to more extreme measures to have an effect.
Eh hem. If they truely had respect for human life, then they wouldn't have join an organization that plays a part in taking life. But obviously, to them, it's just part of their job.
Enemies are people too.
Sigh, there is nothing like listening to computer geeks talking about business law.
that I never really thought of Google as a company. For the longest time I was wondering how they were even making enough money to pay their employees.
I thought of them more like "A group of SMFs that wanted to make some neat shit". Which they accomplished.
So with all this money now, its almost as if the impression that I have of Google has died and something else has taken over.
What the hell? I can't believe there is actually a site for this. What is wrong with you people.
suso@suso.org
Thank you very much.
There are a couple of binary groups for povray on their own news server and some of the things that the people do there are really neat. They experiment with making povray do cloth effects and glowing. It's neat to see them develop these functions over time. Some of the early tries are kinda funny. Plus, there is a lot of cool stuff on the newsgroup that never makes it into the IRTC contest or POV-Ray hall of fame.
Not sure how long you have been in Bloomington, but I have lived there since '96 and worked at Kiva Networking (local ISP) til last March and can say that a lot of people in Bloomington and especially the surrounding area are still using dial-up.
I wouldn't guess that from living in Indiana. Maybe in the past month or so there has been a change over, but I still talk to a lot of people who are using dialup and don't know what DSL or Cable modems are.
"Yeah, my modem has a cable on it that runs into the phone jack"
Wow, we're such a bunch of geeks. I can't believe there are all these people looking for the 10,000,000th post.
A recent thought of the moment entry that is related to this.
if we're close to the time when the majority of slashdot readers don't know what OS/2 Warp4 is?
Thanks. Someone should mod you up to informative because that's some good info to know.
I remember reading a document somewhere for mysql that explains what each part of a version number "really meant". The major version number meant that the format of the databases will change (or could change). Is this also the case for postgres I wonder?
I fear the onslaught of 1001 jokes about this plane crashing.
Until Firefox renders every page just like IE does the public isn't going to care for it.
I hope that this day never comes. IE makes some bad bad mistakes in the way it renders and handles pages. Unfortunately people have built their websites around that IE functionality.
Half the time
Half the money
Half the college experience.
And of course PS9 will use Hyper x-ray laser technology (TM) and have telepathic sound hooked up straight to your brain.
Anyone remember that commercial?
This makes me wonder if by 2006, Linux versions of games will be commonly released along with or even before windows versions.
How ironic that the 'Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.' message showed up for me when I first tried to view this article.
;-)
To be released in 2006 + 4.
My wife and I are currently trying to move our web hosting and Linux support business into an office, and getting cheap insurance is proving to be a pain in the rump. Mainly because most insurance companies won't cover Internet Services companies and the ones that do charge as much as 7 times more than they charge other businesses. Yet they don't cover anything that would be a threat to those businesses.
Now this. What is a person to do who wants to offer state of the art services and technologies? I'm sure I'm preaching the choir here, but patents are hindering cutting edge technology rather than helping it these days.
You know, when I first read that headline, I was thinking of the Square D company that makes circuit breaker boxes and other electrical supplies. And I was thinking "What the hell?"