(Shouldn't that be "wouldn't be"? I am not a native speaker, anyway)
I think you are missing the point. Tasks are not outsourced because their are easy. Contrary to what seems to be the popular belief in the US, people from the US are not more intelligent or knowledgeable than others. Tasks are outsourced if they are can be easily outsourced. Indians are as intelligent as you are, and if anything, they should be better at the same task, because their motivation to perform a good job is better than yours.
They say that "Windows" (meaning WIMP) on top of "UNIX" is a bad idea. Why? It's exactly what Raskin's former employer is currently doing. (emphasis mine)
And that's one of the main reasons why it is a former employee. He didn't want a mouse, he wanted a powerful keyboard (maybe by now we cuold have found a better way to use the mouse than to select from menus, which is most efficiently done with a LEAP-enabled keyboard) He had many differences with the MAcintosh project, and just now we are starting to use his better ideas (Incremental search (kind-of-LEAP) is to me the best thing since sliced bread, or bread of any kind, in any case). In his project, he explains his ideas, which he implemented many years ago, but with which we are just starting to catch up.
What if you can't afford to reeducate yourself or move? What if you are supporting kids and can't afford to take a pay cut?
Then you don't live in one of the most capitalist countries of the world!! If you want free trade, you get free trade, both ways. This is just the result of capitalism. More social ways of government are less hard on people, like in some European, where people are not so wealthy, but they are not so poor either.
Linux is free, and nobody is talking about money. For the enterprise, it means that even if it takes more expensive consultants to build you solution, you have more freedom when it comes to buying support. More freedom to do whatever you want to do with your data, because your solution is open now, and does not rely on some obscure proprietary characteristic of some closed software. It (not just Linux or OSS, free software in general) is free in the sense that it makes you more free than the alternative, and that freedom can and in general will earn you money in the long run, but the most valuable thing is that it gives you power on your stuff.
Wait a minute, maybe you are over-generalizing. Even when it is obscure, it doesn't mean it is not important outside of slashdot. The only reason that MP3 doesn't cost you a dime is that someone is paying Fraunhofer not to bother you. The minute they stop paying them, they can come after you. That would mean that all those people with their IPods will be copyright infringers, or whatever, and politely asked to erase their collections, if they change their minds about how much money they want to make this year, even when they haven't been that crazy before. "Free as in speech" is the only thing that guarantees that you have what you have, and can continue to have it, and nobody will come to your door to bother you. I know not many people care about that, but I think they would if they knew what _could_ happen.
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What do they teach you in school?? You don't need to get rid of money to have a socialist country, that would fit communism. Anyway, the ideals should be embraced, if not he methods, and I find that they are rejected just by their name. Anyone who talks about to sharing anything is called communist, as if sharing was the bad part of communism. The bad part of communism is that people are easily corruptible when resources are lacking, and it is more efficient right now to use a system where the basis is that everybody will behave like an individualistic prick. That lack of resources doesn't have to be forever. Capitalism might have brought us (especially you in the US) here, through difficult times, and once we have enough resources for everyone, we could change to a more developed way of living.
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It you just think about it, it is plain stupid to enter the only extraterrestrial possible source of life we know in the universe, because we could contaminate, and kill them. We are not talking about genocide, this is the possible death of another earth, much more than wiping a civilization off. I think we should leave them alone, at least until we know enough about ourselves and our bacteria/viruses/fungi to do this in a safe way. Now we are just starting to know some things, wait another couple hundred years, and it could be done more responsibly. We are talking about wiping our only companion in the universe, if there is one.
The problem with CA, is just one more bit that shows that the US needs to rethink their government choosing skills.
Spain, well, I wouldn't call the PSOE socialist, much less communist, they had the government for many years and were kind of centrist, although trying to implement a social democracy. T
hat is not to say that socialist or even communist ideas are bad, that is so only in the US, in the rest of the world is just one way to look at things, as good or bad as any other. Just because the US was in war with some communist countries, that doesn't make the ideology bad,even if there have been few good implementations. Cuba for example is a place where people have an acceptable standard of living, much better than what is average in the world, if you take into account the unfair trade restrictions they are subject to because of the US.
Tea is an infusion while mate is a maceration (or whatever you english speaking people call it:)
Meaning that tea is supposed to be prepared with boiling water, in a relatively short time, then drank.
Mate is a cup of wet "yerba mate" leaves, where we pour hot (not boiling) water, and keep drinking and refilling, until it tastes like clear water.
It takes some time learning to prepare it, and to drink it (through the bombilla), because it is very hot, and can be very bitter for example if you use boiling water. The good part is that it can keep you awake all night if you want with no side effects, and it is easy on your stomach and your nerves, compared to coffee (I think it might be because we drink it with so much water). Everybody in Uruguay* drinks it, specially students, and I am drinking it right now, at an evening coding session (this is the good stuff, 2.5 grams of caffeine per kilogram, just like cofee).
*mate is the traditional beverage of Uruguay, which is the biggest consumer of yerba mate, produced in neighbour country Brazil. South Brazilians, Argentinians and Paraguayans drink it too, but not massively, and they drink a mellower kind of blend, that I dont think has the stimulating properties of yerba, the preferred brand in Uruguay, that is available in the U.S., mostly in Miami and New York, or wherever you can find a uruguayan.
I don't know if it helps you, but pctel modems, found in pcchips, or amptron motherboards, and others too, work under linux. If you get the cheapest motherboards with on board modems, chances are they will have pctel modems that you can use with linux.
We have no known organs to identify magnetic fields. Many articles were posted here about the Monitor headache problem, and flicker + reflections (focus problems) were the only ones to blame. Your eyes are very sensitive, and not meant to stare at a screen 50cm from your face 10 hours a day. If you add bad illumination, flicker, or relections in the CRT that make your focusing muscles go nuts trying to focus reflections, and the actual screen alternately, you get a headache. Good quality LCDs dont suffer that problems. Come to think of it, most display technologies were awful, before 17 inches 85Hz CRTs with anti-glare glass, and TFT LCDs, we should be thankful we still have functional eyes after making them suffer with bad displays.
There's at least one dialect in which you don't have to stop your thought process. Humane Python, a (former?) part of THE (The Humane Environment), by Jef Raskin (Macintosh anyone?) has some changes that help you write more comments.
The idea is that you write what you want to do, in clear text, and you insert the snippets of code indented directly in the documentation. Looks like:
---------- Blah blah blah I need do some stuff with the thingy if the guy pressed the A key
if (guy.pressedKey("A")){
thingy.doSomeStuff();
} If the guy pressed some other key, some other stuff should happen.
if..... -------------
The idea is that you think in your own language, and write some snippets, but your mind is in the comments, as it is easier to write comments than code. Given that yo write everything you think, your documentation will rock, and reading the code or finding bugs, would be really easy. It would take longer, but could make better code.
I say don't care about Linux adoption, because, although it is the most convenient free kernel available, (supports all my hardware, is completely usable _now_) it's not the only one, and it's not even the best. When I am talking about free software opposed to a kernel, I am not denying that adoption of the kernel may be benefitial to free software development, but at the end of the day, I don't care which kernel my OS runs on, as long as it is free.
Remember, Linux couldn't care less. Linux is the kernel, and is GPLed, would be difficult to change its license right now, so it can't have GPL incompatibility problems.
If by Linux you meant "the Free Software", then don't worry, This is for the good of free software. Licenses are not fighting, it's just that there are problems writing them, and they will cooperate in the end, because the authors want them to.
RTFA Nobody is fighting here. The FSF wrote a letter explaining license incompatibility issues in Apache license 2.0, and they even say its not a bad idea, in the listing of licenses. They state that the incompatibility exists, because it does, and they even imply that they might fix it themselves, so what's the problem? Anyway, who cares about "Linux" arriving in a big way? What is important is that free software continues to advance, and most of all, continues to be _free_, and license incompatibilities are bad in that they dont allow the cooperation between the ASF and the FSF (and XFree people), who are probably the most important developers of free software.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough, but paying is not the problem. RMS himself charged for Emacs, back in the time. The problem is paying for non-free software, I would much rather pay for free software. The difference is that when you use Opera you don't and can't know what is happening with your computer, and you can't share it with your friends, and you can't improve it, legally. And you are supporting a company that takes away that power from people. If you follow the link in the parent, you can see it better explained by the FSF. It's not the money, it's the freedom!
Not to say that everyone is not entitled to his own ethics, but some of us feel it is unethical to use software that restricts peoples freedom.
So, for me there is something that is wrong about non-free software, that it restricts peoples freedom , who cares about the money??
For many of us (everyone who supports the FSF, for example) there is something wrong with paying for non-free software, it's great, though, paying for the development of free software. When you pay for non-free software, you are funding a company that bases its revenue on restricting people's freedom. Non-free software restricts your freedom to help other by sharing the software you have, your freedom to help yourself by improving that software, and to help others again by distributing your improvements.
If you use GPLed software, you gain all those freedoms, plus the assurance to keep them throughout the whole life of the software project.
-- There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels. --
But if they are 3 parsecs in size, and breathe galaxies time every hundred thousand year, then we would not be able to communicate with them, period. They would have to be veeeeeeeeery similar to us to be able to communicate.
Breaking might be an issue. Out of power, maybe not that much, because electronic ink only needs power to be updated (compare it to running out of ink, or pencils). Touch screen technology, could make it easy to draw on it, plus it would be faster, not slower, provided you supply the correct peripheral (a pointy little stick) . The "crashing" part can be avoided, but crash-free programming I think would be too expensive or slow, even for the military.
a loss of as much as $100 billion per year for the U.S. economy. And when you take that much wealth out of the world [should be, the US], people die. ... in Irak, where the US try to make up for the lost money
I think you have never heard of guerrilla, and you don't understand the actual smartness of "smart-bombs". Some hundreds of well armed locals can get everybody killed in any congress, any country. That would give power to the military, but congress would be gone, at least.
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(Shouldn't that be "wouldn't be"? I am not a native speaker, anyway)
I think you are missing the point.
Tasks are not outsourced because their are easy. Contrary to what seems to be the popular belief in the US, people from the US are not more intelligent or knowledgeable than others. Tasks are outsourced if they are can be easily outsourced.
Indians are as intelligent as you are, and if anything, they should be better at the same task, because their motivation to perform a good job is better than yours.
They say that "Windows" (meaning WIMP) on top of "UNIX" is a bad idea. Why? It's exactly what Raskin's former employer is currently doing. (emphasis mine)
And that's one of the main reasons why it is a former employee. He didn't want a mouse, he wanted a powerful keyboard (maybe by now we cuold have found a better way to use the mouse than to select from menus, which is most efficiently done with a LEAP-enabled keyboard) He had many differences with the MAcintosh project, and just now we are starting to use his better ideas (Incremental search (kind-of-LEAP) is to me the best thing since sliced bread, or bread of any kind, in any case). In his project, he explains his ideas, which he implemented many years ago, but with which we are just starting to catch up.
What if you can't afford to reeducate yourself or move? What if you are supporting kids and can't afford to take a pay cut?
Then you don't live in one of the most capitalist countries of the world!! If you want free trade, you get free trade, both ways.
This is just the result of capitalism. More social ways of government are less hard on people, like in some European, where people are not so wealthy, but they are not so poor either.
Linux is free, and nobody is talking about money. For the enterprise, it means that even if it takes more expensive consultants to build you solution, you have more freedom when it comes to buying support. More freedom to do whatever you want to do with your data, because your solution is open now, and does not rely on some obscure proprietary characteristic of some closed software. It (not just Linux or OSS, free software in general) is free in the sense that it makes you more free than the alternative, and that freedom can and in general will earn you money in the long run, but the most valuable thing is that it gives you power on your stuff.
Wait a minute, maybe you are over-generalizing. Even when it is obscure, it doesn't mean it is not important outside of slashdot.
The only reason that MP3 doesn't cost you a dime is that someone is paying Fraunhofer not to bother you. The minute they stop paying them, they can come after you. That would mean that all those people with their IPods will be copyright infringers, or whatever, and politely asked to erase their collections, if they change their minds about how much money they want to make this year, even when they haven't been that crazy before. "Free as in speech" is the only thing that guarantees that you have what you have, and can continue to have it, and nobody will come to your door to bother you. I know not many people care about that, but I think they would if they knew what _could_ happen.
What do they teach you in school??
You don't need to get rid of money to have a socialist country, that would fit communism.
Anyway, the ideals should be embraced, if not he methods, and I find that they are rejected just by their name.
Anyone who talks about to sharing anything is called communist, as if sharing was the bad part of communism. The bad part of communism is that people are easily corruptible when resources are lacking, and it is more efficient right now to use a system where the basis is that everybody will behave like an individualistic prick.
That lack of resources doesn't have to be forever. Capitalism might have brought us (especially you in the US) here, through difficult times, and once we have enough resources for everyone, we could change to a more developed way of living.
It you just think about it, it is plain stupid to enter the only extraterrestrial possible source of life we know in the universe, because we could contaminate, and kill them. We are not talking about genocide, this is the possible death of another earth, much more than wiping a civilization off.
I think we should leave them alone, at least until we know enough about ourselves and our bacteria/viruses/fungi to do this in a safe way.
Now we are just starting to know some things, wait another couple hundred years, and it could be done more responsibly. We are talking about wiping our only companion in the universe, if there is one.
The problem with CA, is just one more bit that shows that the US needs to rethink their government choosing skills.
Spain, well, I wouldn't call the PSOE socialist, much less communist, they had the government for many years and were kind of centrist, although trying to implement a social democracy. T
hat is not to say that socialist or even communist ideas are bad, that is so only in the US, in the rest of the world is just one way to look at things, as good or bad as any other. Just because the US was in war with some communist countries, that doesn't make the ideology bad,even if there have been few good implementations. Cuba for example is a place where people have an acceptable standard of living, much better than what is average in the world, if you take into account the unfair trade restrictions they are subject to because of the US.
Maybe he meant that they are the same, thus just one choice.
Hey!!
Mate is not a tea.
Tea is an infusion while mate is a maceration (or whatever you english speaking people call it:)
Meaning that tea is supposed to be prepared with boiling water, in a relatively short time, then drank.
Mate is a cup of wet "yerba mate" leaves, where we pour hot (not boiling) water, and keep drinking and refilling, until it tastes like clear water.
It takes some time learning to prepare it, and to drink it (through the bombilla), because it is very hot, and can be very bitter for example if you use boiling water. The good part is that it can keep you awake all night if you want with no side effects, and it is easy on your stomach and your nerves, compared to coffee (I think it might be because we drink it with so much water).
Everybody in Uruguay* drinks it, specially students, and I am drinking it right now, at an evening coding session (this is the good stuff, 2.5 grams of caffeine per kilogram, just like cofee).
*mate is the traditional beverage of Uruguay, which is the biggest consumer of yerba mate, produced in neighbour country Brazil.
South Brazilians, Argentinians and Paraguayans drink it too, but not massively, and they drink a mellower kind of blend, that I dont think has the stimulating properties of yerba, the preferred brand in Uruguay, that is available in the U.S., mostly in Miami and New York, or wherever you can find a uruguayan.
And it's not tea, it's Mate!!!!!!!!!
I don't know if it helps you, but pctel modems, found in pcchips, or amptron motherboards, and others too, work under linux.
If you get the cheapest motherboards with on board modems, chances are they will have pctel modems that you can use with linux.
We have no known organs to identify magnetic fields. Many articles were posted here about the Monitor headache problem, and flicker + reflections (focus problems) were the only ones to blame. Your eyes are very sensitive, and not meant to stare at a screen 50cm from your face 10 hours a day. If you add bad illumination, flicker, or relections in the CRT that make your focusing muscles go nuts trying to focus reflections, and the actual screen alternately, you get a headache. Good quality LCDs dont suffer that problems. Come to think of it, most display technologies were awful, before 17 inches 85Hz CRTs with anti-glare glass, and TFT LCDs, we should be thankful we still have functional eyes after making them suffer with bad displays.
There's at least one dialect in which you don't have to stop your thought process.
.....
Humane Python, a (former?) part of THE (The Humane Environment), by Jef Raskin (Macintosh anyone?) has some changes that help you write more comments.
The idea is that you write what you want to do, in clear text, and you insert the snippets of code indented directly in the documentation.
Looks like:
----------
Blah blah blah
I need do some stuff with the thingy if the guy pressed the A key
if (guy.pressedKey("A")){
thingy.doSomeStuff();
}
If the guy pressed some other key, some other stuff should happen.
if
-------------
The idea is that you think in your own language, and write some snippets, but your mind is in the comments, as it is easier to write comments than code. Given that yo write everything you think, your documentation will rock, and reading the code or finding bugs, would be really easy. It would take longer, but could make better code.
I say don't care about Linux adoption, because, although it is the most convenient free kernel available, (supports all my hardware, is completely usable _now_) it's not the only one, and it's not even the best.
When I am talking about free software opposed to a kernel, I am not denying that adoption of the kernel may be benefitial to free software development, but at the end of the day, I don't care which kernel my OS runs on, as long as it is free.
Remember, Linux couldn't care less. Linux is the kernel, and is GPLed, would be difficult to change its license right now, so it can't have GPL incompatibility problems.
If by Linux you meant "the Free Software", then don't worry, This is for the good of free software. Licenses are not fighting, it's just that there are problems writing them, and they will cooperate in the end, because the authors want them to.
RTFA
Nobody is fighting here.
The FSF wrote a letter explaining license incompatibility issues in Apache license 2.0, and they even say its not a bad idea, in the listing of licenses.
They state that the incompatibility exists, because it does, and they even imply that they might fix it themselves, so what's the problem?
Anyway, who cares about "Linux" arriving in a big way? What is important is that free software continues to advance, and most of all, continues to be _free_, and license incompatibilities are bad in that they dont allow the cooperation between the ASF and the FSF (and XFree people), who are probably the most important developers of free software.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough, but paying is not the problem. RMS himself charged for Emacs, back in the time. The problem is paying for non-free software, I would much rather pay for free software.
The difference is that when you use Opera you don't and can't know what is happening with your computer, and you can't share it with your friends, and you can't improve it, legally. And you are supporting a company that takes away that power from people.
If you follow the link in the parent, you can see it better explained by the FSF.
It's not the money, it's the freedom!
Not to say that everyone is not entitled to his own ethics, but some of us feel it is unethical to use software that restricts peoples freedom.
So, for me there is something that is wrong about non-free software, that it restricts peoples freedom , who cares about the money??
For many of us (everyone who supports the FSF, for example) there is something wrong with paying for non-free software, it's great, though, paying for the development of free software. When you pay for non-free software, you are funding a company that bases its revenue on restricting people's freedom. Non-free software restricts your freedom to help other by sharing the software you have, your freedom to help yourself by improving that software, and to help others again by distributing your improvements.
If you use GPLed software, you gain all those freedoms, plus the assurance to keep them throughout the whole life of the software project.
-- There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels. --
But if they are 3 parsecs in size, and breathe galaxies time every hundred thousand year, then we would not be able to communicate with them, period. They would have to be veeeeeeeeery similar to us to be able to communicate.
You said _easy_, didn't you?
Dlink makes something like that
Too expensive or me (just a couple hundred dollars, but I live in Uruguay, South America), but you said you were willing to pay good money.
You keep your neck undented. Things in my pocket have to survive me bending over and such.
Nobody wants to know that!
Keep those nasty sexual habits to yourself!!
Nobody wants to hear you here, this is a respectable place!
Obviously, you know nothing about free porn sites. But the correct title would be "granny shows pink".
People would watch anything.
Breaking might be an issue. Out of power, maybe not that much, because electronic ink only needs power to be updated (compare it to running out of ink, or pencils). Touch screen technology, could make it easy to draw on it, plus it would be faster, not slower, provided you supply the correct peripheral (a pointy little stick) . The "crashing" part can be avoided, but crash-free programming I think would be too expensive or slow, even for the military.
He posted just the same in another thread, modded troll
a loss of as much as $100 billion per year for the U.S. economy. And when you take that much wealth out of the world [should be, the US], people die.
... in Irak, where the US try to make up for the lost money
I think you have never heard of guerrilla, and you don't understand the actual smartness of "smart-bombs". Some hundreds of well armed locals can get everybody killed in any congress, any country. That would give power to the military, but congress would be gone, at least.