First off it is illegal to pay anyone less than minimum wage. If there are employers doing this they need to be jailed and or fined.
Second when I was 12 years old I worked in the fields, pulling weeds of all things. Yes the work sucked badly and the pay was crap but I had a job and earned a wage. A few years later I ended up working in a meat packing plant I was 16 at the time. Yes it was a nasty job but yet again here is a legal white male citizen doing a job that all the idiots say nobody would do. A few years after that yet again making barely over minimum wage running a saw in a lumber mill, hot nasty physical work.
Now granted I make a great deal more today but the work ethic I gained as a young man doing these so called unwanted jobs contributed 100% to my financial success at a older age.
Your remarks are complete BS, there is plenty of legal citizens that would like, deserve and perhaps even like these jobs. Hell my wife makes just barely over minimum wage making pizza's, the funny thing is that the money does not matter to her, she loves her job.
The OS is pretty much a moot point for most people now. Most everyone I know uses a PC to run a browser and email. Sure they may use office or whatever occasionally but the browser and perhaps a email client can just about get you anything you need.
Actually no you pulled that figure out of your ass, the real difference in actual mileage is about 30%. Also one thing you need to keep in mind that the cars produced today are flex fuel vehicles (capable of burning gasoline and or alcohol). Now say I could go to any pump in the US and get pure alcohol for my car. What would be the real difference if I had a car that was specifically designed to only burn alcohol. This alcohol burning car could run a considerably higher compression ratio, smaller cooling system etc drastically increasing the HP and efficiency....todays flex vehicles are not optimized to burn high alcohol content fuel.
Did you consider the cost to plant, harvest and produce potatoes and beets, etc vs corn?
Potatoes cost $2017 per acre to produce.
Corn on the other hand $502 per acre to produce.
That is a rather large difference, corn production also requires next to no man power where as the production of potatoes (root bound crops) is considerably higher.
Thats right keep dropping production to drive the oil prices up. That will work for a while yet, but now everyone is gunning for them. They drove the oil prices up too high creating the incentives to start driving innovation to help eliminate them from our lives.
Used to be a Die Hard Red Hat Fan, switched to Ubuntu a few years ago when RH quit the desktop biz. I could not be happier with Ubuntu, always stable for me and there is no way I am going back to rpm based package managers. Apt increased my productivity by a large magnitude, something I will just not give up.
Had it dawned on you that perhaps they where not running a ASW screen? I spent 10 years in the navy as a Operations Specialist, most of it aboard Burke class destroyers. During peace time battle group steaming the formation is generally not running a ASW screen unless they are actually practicing ASW detection.
You are highly underestimating the capabilities of modern warships.
Another thing, quiet don't mean shit when you get a P-3 Orion mark on top with a MAD(Magnetic Anomaly Detector).
Yep it still has trouble mind melding with someone who obviously cannot figure out that the file extension for csv files is in fact ".csv" and not ".txt".
So if it is secure how is it that it is easy to get malware on it? You contradicted yourself!
At least 90% of the crapware I run into on these machines comes from the browser IE. Since MS considers it a part of the operating system and it cannot be removed then I would say the OS is insecure.
The problem is the OS is used as a viral marketing tool with sales being a prime motivator over design. Take for instance Active X(running un-sandboxed native code in a browser), great for sales and platform lock-in but a really stupid design.
I would not loose a whole lot of sleep over it, the GPL may never be tested in court. When faced with a violation the offending party is not going to be stupid enough to go to court over it. If you loose the case you get smoked for copyright infingement, if you win you still cannot distribute the compiled code since the GPL is the only thing allowing distribution.
Only a fool would take his chances with such odds.
Just another article spreading FUD by making it appear that some internal rift will cause the downfall of Linux.
This whole thing scheduler issue and Con thing regarding focus on the desktop is rather funny.
This is linux we are talking about here, don't like the direction feel free to change it. If no one will listen patch your own kernel and call it my ultimate desktop edition. It certainly would not be the first time a focused distro has been developed.
Bottom line, there is no rift in the community somebody cried because there scheduler got beat out. I assume this is because it did not make the cut for some reason, however if I wanted to run Con's scheduler I would just patch my kernel and run it.
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First off it is illegal to pay anyone less than minimum wage. If there are employers doing this they need to be jailed and or fined.
Second when I was 12 years old I worked in the fields, pulling weeds of all things. Yes the work sucked badly
and the pay was crap but I had a job and earned a wage. A few years later I ended up working in a meat packing plant I was 16 at the time. Yes it was a nasty job but yet again here is a legal white male citizen doing a job that all the idiots say nobody would do. A few years after that yet again making barely over minimum wage running a saw in a lumber mill, hot nasty physical work.
Now granted I make a great deal more today but the work ethic I gained as a young man doing these so
called unwanted jobs contributed 100% to my financial success at a older age.
Your remarks are complete BS, there is plenty of legal citizens that would like, deserve and perhaps even
like these jobs. Hell my wife makes just barely over minimum wage making pizza's, the funny thing is that
the money does not matter to her, she loves her job.
How much OS do you need to run a browser?
The OS is pretty much a moot point for most people now. Most everyone I know uses a PC to run a browser
and email. Sure they may use office or whatever occasionally but the browser and perhaps a email client
can just about get you anything you need.
When you hit that brick wall which is a near certainty with MS tools you quickly
realize that "NOTHING IS MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SOURCE!"
No, I doubt very much that it has anything to do with the developers.
It is a simple case of marketing driving the development process.
It is called leveraging your position in one product, in this case hotmail to better
your position in another in this case "IE"....
In case you have not been around the last 10-15 years, they are masters at this.
I find it funny that Microsoft goes to these ends... what do you gain by doing that?
Leveraging your market position in one product "Exchange/OWA" to gain market position in
another "IE"...simple really
Agreed, I got a stack of them in case my old trusty one dies...doubt I will ever need them this
keyboard is bulletproof.
Actually no you pulled that figure out of your ass, the real difference in actual mileage is
about 30%. Also one thing you need to keep in mind that the cars produced today are flex fuel
vehicles (capable of burning gasoline and or alcohol). Now say I could go to any pump in the US
and get pure alcohol for my car. What would be the real difference if I had a car that
was specifically designed to only burn alcohol. This alcohol burning car could run a
considerably higher compression ratio, smaller cooling system etc drastically increasing the
HP and efficiency....todays flex vehicles are not optimized to burn high alcohol content fuel.
Did you consider the cost to plant, harvest and produce potatoes and beets, etc vs corn?
Potatoes cost $2017 per acre to produce.
Corn on the other hand $502 per acre to produce.
That is a rather large difference, corn production also requires next to no man power where
as the production of potatoes (root bound crops) is considerably higher.
Thats right keep dropping production to drive the oil prices up. That will work
for a while yet, but now everyone is gunning for them. They drove the oil prices
up too high creating the incentives to start driving innovation to help eliminate
them from our lives.
Perhaps because we spend our entire life typing shit like this...
SomeStupidAssLongClassName clsSomeStupidAssLongClassName = new SomeStupidAssLongClassName();
I got about 10 of these old IBM 10 lb keyboards in reserve that sound
like a jack hammer while typing on them...
Best keyboard ever made!
How on earth does a front end to a package management system increase your productivity? What does apt-deb do that yum-rpm doesn't?
It frigging works!
Used to be a Die Hard Red Hat Fan, switched to Ubuntu a few years ago when RH quit
the desktop biz. I could not be happier with Ubuntu, always stable for me and there
is no way I am going back to rpm based package managers. Apt increased my productivity
by a large magnitude, something I will just not give up.
Don't forget the P-3 Orions carrying MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detection), that big steel hull stands out like a bulls eye.
Had it dawned on you that perhaps they where not running a ASW screen? I spent 10 years in the navy as a Operations Specialist, most of it aboard Burke class destroyers. During peace time battle group steaming the formation is generally not running a ASW screen unless they are actually
practicing ASW detection.
You are highly underestimating the capabilities of modern warships.
Another thing, quiet don't mean shit when you get a P-3 Orion mark on top with a MAD(Magnetic Anomaly Detector).
Of course MS does not want to upgrade java script, it is a threat to their platform.
I guess it would take a 13 year old to see value in desktop gadgets.
No problem just short the antenna reducing the effective signal distance to about 2 inches..should take care of the job nicely..
Yep it still has trouble mind melding with someone who obviously cannot figure out that the file extension for csv files is in fact ".csv" and not ".txt".
I am sure it had nothing at all to do with a lack of experience...
So if it is secure how is it that it is easy to get malware on it? You contradicted yourself!
At least 90% of the crapware I run into on these machines comes from the browser IE. Since MS considers it a part of the operating system and it cannot be removed then I would say the OS is
insecure.
The problem is the OS is used as a viral marketing tool with sales being a prime motivator over
design. Take for instance Active X(running un-sandboxed native code in a browser), great for sales and platform lock-in but a really stupid design.
Hey if you strap enough propellant on a pig it will fly. Nice work but the word "flies" is a real stretch
of the imagination.
Sounds good to me and according to my calculations most 10 year IT vets should be getting between 250,000 and 750,000 in back pay.
I would not loose a whole lot of sleep over it, the GPL may never be tested in court. When faced with
a violation the offending party is not going to be stupid enough to go to court over it. If you loose the case you get smoked for copyright infingement, if you win you still cannot distribute the compiled code since the GPL is the only thing allowing distribution.
Only a fool would take his chances with such odds.
Just another article spreading FUD by making it appear that some internal rift will cause the downfall of Linux.
This whole thing scheduler issue and Con thing regarding focus on the desktop is rather funny.
This is linux we are talking about here, don't like the direction feel free to change it. If no
one will listen patch your own kernel and call it my ultimate desktop edition. It certainly would
not be the first time a focused distro has been developed.
Bottom line, there is no rift in the community somebody cried because there scheduler got beat out. I assume this is because it did not make the cut for some reason, however if I wanted to run Con's scheduler I would just patch my kernel and run it.