'a - Outdated drivers' 1: This a bug, the system should inform the user that the driver is out of date. 2: The driver doesn't work properly it has a bug, go get the latest kernel.
'b - Just too much installed to where they had 20+ icons in the system tray' this is a bug, 1: if all those programmes in start or run eact up huge amounts of system resources then the OS should tell you. 2: The OS should tell be before anything gets put in my init.d run or start, virus here we go.
'c - how-to issues, people not knowing how to do something, etc.' 1: This is a bug, the documentation is shit, WTFM (write the fscking manual.), how fewer problems where there when Applications/OS's came with full printed manuals.
1: the media is in the business of producing and selling news. The more hysterical the news the better it sells. People become hooked (hysterical) and need to know what happening and are glued to the news.
That's a problem with the amunt of shit there alowed to put into the news (hence state news papers and stuff in 'communist' countries)
2: No one likes to loose there job and politicians and civial servervants are no different. Those who goveren the country usually are in it for themselfs, ok, they tread a tight line between being electable and total selfinterest.
This is a problem with the electoral system... see sig.
Want to pull, talk shit. Want to get good marks for essays, put lots of shit in them. Want to get promoted, fill everything you write with lots of bonus shit. Want to make it big in sales, talk shit. Want to get a review published, well it better be full of shit.
Even specifications have lots of shit in them, there written in the style of SAT tests instead of 'start at one and go up incrementally in steps of one' you get four paragraphs of shit. No wander there are so many poor implementations of specs.
"our car gets about 21 (18 city) miles per gallon, so i've saved about 5-6 gallons of gas in 100 miles / 14 days. as of today gas was about $1.71 per gallon, so that's 5 x $1.71 = $8.55. the car i gave up when i got t the segway ht got about the same mpg, so i think it's fine to use our current car figures. in other areas of the country, the price of gas might be lower or higher."
And how much does it cost to charge up the segbeast?
1: the benchmarks are crap. Do I care if it takes 0.00001 secs instead of 0.0001 secs to find the first search match in a word document. Nope. infact, the small breaks I get because it takes a while for my PC to do things help my productivity(I get chance to think and relax a bit).
Proper bench marks should use a profiling JIT compiler, that recompiles the code optimally for the system your running based on profile data. Why, because this is what.net and Java are moving towards,.net and Java are being used for services and macros and those are the things that I will notice the speed up in.
I have a reasonably quick PC with two sound cards and a crap GFX card, I don't play games but I do like mixing music, two sound cards are more important than an uber-fast pc, i could even use two slower PC's if i wanted to.
This is incorrect, humans are faster over multi-dimensional and special problems where the sets are non-linear. Humans are good(fast) at abstract set reduction, which helps a lot in chess.
"No real persons have the money or time to deal with the law".
They do, it's called civil disobedience.
Every time I break the law and don't get caught, I have changed the law for myself.
If enough people break the law then there is nothing that can be done, and the law has been changed.
This has happened with drugs (ok so drugs have only been banned recently), it's happened with CSS, in the UK it happened with the poll tax and it's going to happen with digital copyright. If people have a chance at liberty they will take it. You can't arrest millions of people without having your government overturned.
On the other points.
Win 98/ME 'You pay through the nose for actual support'
Next gen applications don't have to support Windows 98 if there are no(few) windows 98 boxes out there. The cost of support is in development and release testing the products. not just direct support for the OS.
Or do what I do and only download unsigned music from places like BeSonic (alternate distribution), I pay a small amount for the distribution service and make the odd donation to the musicians(artists paint last time I checked)
Saying "we'll just use open source software",
I would say he doesn't know what he's talking about, OSS is Open Source Software, it's not GPL, it's not free, you just get the source with the software.
I only use FOSS (free open source software), I've been completely Microsoft free for more than two years, and I've found/fixed some software and kernel bugs etc...
Ok, 37 and since you were 10, well that'd be 1975/76 (the year I was born). What was going on around that time?
The war raged from the early 60s through 1975, with the level of US intervention escalating through the late 60s. The fighting was mostly a stalemate, the superior fire power of the US and US supplied South Vietnamese forces being balanced by the guerilla fighting tactics of the North and their allies in the south, the Viet Cong.
Looks like you needed a new enemy to quell the masses.
you could use KDE's kioslaves, and make you app awaire of a lot more than LDAP.
File, document and data access. KDE provides a network-transparent file, document and network protocol access architecture using the KIOSlave I/O objects. When a new KIOSlave is "dropped in" a system its services are automatically available to all KDE-compliant applications. This modular, plug-in nature of KDE's data architecture makes it simple to add additional protocols (such as IPX) to all of KDE.
A large number of protocols have already been implemented, from HTTP, SFTP/FTP, telnet/SSH, POP/IMAP, NFS/SMB/NetBIOS, LDAP, WebDAV (new) and local files to man and info pages, SQL queries, audio CDs, digital cameras, PDAs and even shell commands. All requests can be bookmarked for simple and quick retrieval of often-accessed data.
Well I hope not, I like thinking in a way that makes my thoughs hard to put into words. It'd benice to be able to read I suppose, but I've got quite a good imagination so that doesn't matter too much either.
You can provide opensource software without any changes in your current development model (except providing the source to the software), some people may send patches or report bug in the code.
The project will run faster because, you still have the current in-house, managed development, and some people will submit bug reports and patches..
But, I don't think this is the question you wanted answered. To answer your question, there is no way to manage a bunch of volunteers, if the people find the project fun and interesting then they will help, if it's boring or they don't think it's important they won't. maybe give them some finincial assistance with food and coffee and the other things people need to live.
Open Source doesn't mean free development, it means open source.
Yes, it's called faith, don't you trust the government or something.
They still owe me £1500 in overpaid tax from last year, I've filled in the P90's, they said they'd send a tax return for me to fill in(I can't read, so that's a bad idea!), they still owe me £1500. So, no council tax for the next couple of years.
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"Linux support is definitely not expiremental "
...", again the parent was about comsumer, home type SMP usage.
Why does is it flagged expiremental then.
"All the companies I've worked with for
"No "GFX-house" would buy a single CPU Mac today, it's outright stupid!", no they'd buy a PC cost/perfomance is better.
You've got 5 1/4 inches, how much can I hold on my 8 inch floppy?
"demand for those are few and far between"
Because Microsoft mainly ships a single CPU OS and has a monopoly position.
Most installed comsumer OS's don't support duel or quad CPU's and Linux has only just taken SMP out of experemental.
There are no duel CPU desktops because there's nothing to run on them.
Who's compiler did you use?
Does it do any reasonable optimisation on the opteron?
'a - Outdated drivers'
1: This a bug, the system should inform the user that the driver is out of date.
2: The driver doesn't work properly it has a bug, go get the latest kernel.
'b - Just too much installed to where they had 20+ icons in the system tray'
this is a bug,
1: if all those programmes in start or run eact up huge amounts of system resources then the OS should tell you.
2: The OS should tell be before anything gets put in my init.d run or start, virus here we go.
'c - how-to issues, people not knowing how to do something, etc.'
1: This is a bug, the documentation is shit, WTFM (write the fscking manual.), how fewer problems where there when Applications/OS's came with full printed manuals.
It's simple.
1: the media is in the business of producing and selling news. The more hysterical the news the better it sells. People become hooked (hysterical) and need to know what happening and are glued to the news.
That's a problem with the amunt of shit there alowed to put into the news (hence state news papers and stuff in 'communist' countries)
2: No one likes to loose there job and politicians and civial servervants are no different. Those who goveren the country usually are in it for themselfs, ok, they tread a tight line between being electable and total selfinterest.
This is a problem with the electoral system... see sig.
yes, he's a terrorist.
Shit sells, havn't you noticed.
Want to pull, talk shit.
Want to get good marks for essays, put lots of shit in them.
Want to get promoted, fill everything you write with lots of bonus shit.
Want to make it big in sales, talk shit.
Want to get a review published, well it better be full of shit.
Even specifications have lots of shit in them, there written in the style of SAT tests instead of 'start at one and go up incrementally in steps of one' you get four paragraphs of shit. No wander there are so many poor implementations of specs.
"our car gets about 21 (18 city) miles per gallon, so i've saved about 5-6 gallons of gas in 100 miles / 14 days. as of today gas was about $1.71 per gallon, so that's 5 x $1.71 = $8.55. the car i gave up when i got t the segway ht got about the same mpg, so i think it's fine to use our current car figures. in other areas of the country, the price of gas might be lower or higher."
And how much does it cost to charge up the segbeast?
A class action suit is filed against microsoft for bugs in IIS, Outlook and IE.
Sending tonnes of virus spam and cloging up networks.
what's george michel and a pair of wellies got in common?
They both get sucked off in blogs.
I thought somone had spiked my drink, bloody terrorists and there infrasound wiped me out for a day and I spent the next 3 days recovering.....
(I think it was a hystermine release)
1: the benchmarks are crap.
.net and Java are moving towards, .net and Java are being used for services and macros and those are the things that I will notice the speed up in.
Do I care if it takes 0.00001 secs instead of 0.0001 secs to find the first search match in a word document. Nope. infact, the small breaks I get because it takes a while for my PC to do things help my productivity(I get chance to think and relax a bit).
Proper bench marks should use a profiling JIT compiler, that recompiles the code optimally for the system your running based on profile data.
Why, because this is what
I have a reasonably quick PC with two sound cards and a crap GFX card, I don't play games but I do like mixing music, two sound cards are more important than an uber-fast pc, i could even use two slower PC's if i wanted to.
The povray benchmarks have a good spread of CPU's and weird configurations
This is incorrect, humans are faster over multi-dimensional and special problems where the sets are non-linear.
Humans are good(fast) at abstract set reduction, which helps a lot in chess.
"No real persons have the money or time to deal with the law".
,
They do, it's called civil disobedience.
Every time I break the law and don't get caught, I have changed the law for myself.
If enough people break the law then there is nothing that can be done, and the law has been changed.
This has happened with drugs (ok so drugs have only been banned recently), it's happened with CSS, in the UK it happened with the poll tax and it's going to happen with digital copyright. If people have a chance at liberty they will take it. You can't arrest millions of people without having your government overturned.
On the other points.
Win 98/ME 'You pay through the nose for actual support'
Next gen applications don't have to support Windows 98 if there are no(few) windows 98 boxes out there. The cost of support is in development and release testing the products. not just direct support for the OS.
'Take your business as far away from money-grubbing people...',
Well you could setup a LETS (Local Exchange Trading Systems) scheme. and really screw the system.
Or do what I do and only download unsigned music from places like BeSonic (alternate distribution), I pay a small amount for the distribution service and make the odd donation to the musicians(artists paint last time I checked)
Saying "we'll just use open source software"
I would say he doesn't know what he's talking about, OSS is Open Source Software, it's not GPL, it's not free, you just get the source with the software.
I only use FOSS (free open source software), I've been completely Microsoft free for more than two years, and I've found/fixed some software and kernel bugs etc...
Ok, 37 and since you were 10, well that'd be 1975/76 (the year I was born).
What was going on around that time?
The war raged from the early 60s through 1975, with the level of US intervention escalating through the late 60s. The fighting was mostly a stalemate, the superior fire power of the US and US supplied South Vietnamese forces being balanced by the guerilla fighting tactics of the North and their allies in the south, the Viet Cong.
Looks like you needed a new enemy to quell the masses.
you could use KDE's kioslaves, and make you app awaire of a lot more than LDAP.
File, document and data access. KDE provides a network-transparent file, document and network protocol access architecture using the KIOSlave I/O objects. When a new KIOSlave is "dropped in" a system its services are automatically available to all KDE-compliant applications. This modular, plug-in nature of KDE's data architecture makes it simple to add additional protocols (such as IPX) to all of KDE.
A large number of protocols have already been implemented, from HTTP, SFTP/FTP, telnet/SSH, POP/IMAP, NFS/SMB/NetBIOS, LDAP, WebDAV (new) and local files to man and info pages, SQL queries, audio CDs, digital cameras, PDAs and even shell commands. All requests can be bookmarked for simple and quick retrieval of often-accessed data.
Seriously, when did you first hear about dirty bombs and Asteroids that would kill us all?
Shortly after the 'end?' of the cold war.
All that got swept under the carpet when the axis of evil decended upon the earth(though the dirty bomb's popped it's head up again).
Could it be used to cure my dyslexia?
Well I hope not, I like thinking in a way that makes my thoughs hard to put into words. It'd benice to be able to read I suppose, but I've got quite a good imagination so that doesn't matter too much either.
Companies should pay a 'tax' on electronic transactions envolving details of private persons.
the tax should be spent on keeping the infrastructure of the internet upto date, and reducing the cost of access to people.
This will help e-business, intuen reducing costs and overheads for everyone, and help make companies think before swapping private data.
This is easier than you would think, since a few companies hold most of the credit/consumer data.
That would also explain why LSD (ergot) and psyllocybin are so safe.
There's also the legend of a bread like mushroom that makes urine red (think water into wine).
Was Jesus a drug dealer?
Retro-viruses are probably the best vector for rapid mutation, and the mutations have to be fairly safe or the retro-vuris would kill it's host.
Your not asking what you think your asking.
You can provide opensource software without any changes in your current development model (except providing the source to the software), some people may send patches or report bug in the code.
The project will run faster because, you still have the current in-house, managed development, and some people will submit bug reports and patches..
But, I don't think this is the question you wanted answered.
To answer your question, there is no way to manage a bunch of volunteers, if the people find the project fun and interesting then they will help, if it's boring or they don't think it's important they won't. maybe give them some finincial assistance with food and coffee and the other things people need to live.
Open Source doesn't mean free development, it means open source.
Yes, it's called faith, don't you trust the government or something.
They still owe me £1500 in overpaid tax from last year, I've filled in the P90's, they said they'd send a tax return for me to fill in(I can't read, so that's a bad idea!), they still owe me £1500.
So, no council tax for the next couple of years.