This will do well if and when they manage make every steam game run under Linux, magically. It's it's going to be a matter of having to make it happen on a game by game basis, however, adoption rates will be horrid, no matter how much they'd like to make it work.
This could work out well. One of my main criticisms behind the whole xxx TLD has been that it wouldn't really lessen the amount of porn under other TLD's. Having a search engine designed for it, especially if they limit the results to only the xxx TLD, would give incentive for companies to migrate over to xxx.
Back in the late 90's, it Redhat was had the most exposure. Download speeds were gimpy, which meant I relied on UK Linux mags for distro disks.
Only problem was I really didn't like Redhat. When Ubuntu came out, I actually enjoyed using it, and it became a stepping stone for Debian, which is what I've used since about '06.
Microsoft would love to get rid of the older formats anyway, so I see this as a step forward. If your business is so cheap that they've avoided upgrading to 2007 or 2010, and still refused to upgrade to 2013, then they have no one to blame but themselves. Seriously, you've gotten 10+ years out of your software, so stop complaining.
More or less, yeah. If that admin's 5k computers are all poorly managed in the first place, with crappy group polices, then he's in for a hell of a time. Hopefully someone in charge of 5k computers has enough foresight to prevent having to manually add or remove programs from each computer though.
It was more funny than anything, explaining to my clients what happened. To their credit, Sophos released a patch within, I think, about 30 minutes. All in all, it wasn't that big of a deal to fix the 80 or so computers I manage since you just disable autoupdate and remove all of the false positives out of quarantine. Worst case scenario is you remotely uninstall a bunch of clients and redeploy through the Control Center.
Which is why I said "almost" better off, meaning it's not a clear cut advantage, but it's definitely a possible alternative. I look at my Technet sub as a recurring cost of doing business, so it's makes perfect sense for me. I'm just saying that at the price point Microsoft is offering the Office sub, it's worth considering for even average users now. Factor in nothing more than Office and whatever Windows version you want, and you're already ahead.
Interestingly, the cheapest of the three models is the only one that comes with Office 2013 preloaded. The middle one has a trial, and the expensive one doesn't even mention that.
Neither you nor I have any idea of what his skill level is. My advice wasn't for him to attempt to trick people into thinking he's skilled. In fact, I have to assume he's as skilled as he claims for the purpose of answering his question. Nothing more.
Obviously if he puts together a bunch of crappy demo sites or rips them off from someone else, then he'll come out looking like an idiot 2 minutes into the interview. Instead of going down that road, I figured I'd answer his question rather than question his abilities.
If you're main focus is on web design, you have it really easy. Take a week to build out 10 or 15 websites of varying complexity and purpose, and host them all on a basic VPS. When someone asks for your credentials, give them a link of the online portfolio. For the vast majority of clients, that will tell them a lot more about your skill set than a few certs. It's fairly easy for the average person or business to look at a web site and decide if it's professional or fun or whatever.
Now the part about setting up Linux networks and servers and stuff is a bit more out of reach, since the average person can't look at a server or router config and have any clue as to what it means. They want you to have some kind of certification or recommendation from other businesses precisely because they can't judge those skills.
My advice, is to just focus on the web side of things. You have the advantage of being able to get some marketing out to an audience much larger than your immediate area, which should more than make up for any "lost" business on the networking side of things.
The mercenary culture is a direct result of companies not sufficiently increasing wages for existing employees. If you want to avoid having talent leave, then pay them what the competition is offering, and treat them well. It's pretty simple.
This is why, when you are not familiar with the technical aspects of IT, you pay people to recommend and implement solutions for you. It's funny when companies either don't do that, or ignore the professional advice given, and go with what they want anyway.
All of those are fine and dandy, in theory. Except that the Linux community seems to *hate* them with a passion, claiming to switch over to xfce for a more standard desktop environment.
In fact, unity, gnome3 and kde4 are great examples of just how much the Linux community prefers "good enough" over anything that's trying to move forward.
His point isn't about being able to write a decent app with Eclipse. It's that the attitude of "it's fine" isn't exactly the kind of attitude that drives innovation. There's a reason Linux is stuck in late 90's desktop design, and it's because everything is apparently fine the way it has always been.
Like it or not, innovation is the only thing that will "fix" the Linux desktop.
Why hire you when there are probably hundreds of alternative applicants without your baggage? Either you have some crazy unique skill to bring to the table, or they have a financial incentive to hire you (pay less money than someone "normal", or maybe there's some weird tax writeoff).
I don't mean this as an insult or anything, just as a shot of reality. You say you are happy doing volunteer work right now, which sort of implies that you are able to pay bills and stuff. If that's the case, stick with it. You can do that and some self-employment on the side as your motivation allows. You aren't going to find that kind of happiness with a salary job.
Let these guys pump themselves full of whatever crazy drugs they want. How is it really that different than going on an extreme diet, like trying to survive off of ketosis alone, or doing more pushups than people normally do. It's all just chemicals interacting with other chemicals.
Football, especially, would be really fun to watch if you knew everyone there was on a meth high or something, with no regard to safety. Let them earn their million dollar contracts, I say.
Back in college, we had an oral presentation class; basically public speaking and learning how to target your audience and such. I decided to do one of mine on role playing games, in particular the early history of them, and how they've slowly become more accepted due to modern computer games. I didn't get into much detail, but did talk about the standard elves and dwarves, as well as the fun of essentially pretending to be someone you aren't, in a world much more interesting than yours.
It was only about a 10 minute speech, and at the end were were supposed to do a quick Q&A session, if anyone had questions. Well, the whole room was dead silent for probably the slowest 10 seconds of my life, until one young lady raised her hand and very timidly asked "are you talking about sex?"
It became very clear I approached the topic without even considering that, for a lot of people, the term 'role playing' was a sexual term. I quickly replayed my speech in my head and realized that I probably ended up looking like a completely psychopathic sexual pervert to most of the room for the last 10 minutes.
You can run a keyboard (or practically anything in a PC other than disk drives or batteries) through a dishwasher. Just don't put it on the super hot 'pots and pans' cycle. Also expect to reapply thermal paste to the cpu and graphics card.
Options mean surprisingly little to the average consumer. Apple has more than proven that. Linux is great for anyone who's technically inclined, but for everyone else it's just too much.
As for your question, consider this: How many people buy a Mac because it has OSX? How many people buy an iPhone because it has iOS? Or an Android device because it has Android?
Nearly everything most consumers buy is decided upon by a combination of availability, cost, and design, in that order. In any given genre, the order gets reversed for people that are *very* interested in it. So for car freaks, design is a higher priority than the cost or availability, whereas the rest of us tend to buy what's available and affordable. Computers are no different.
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This will do well if and when they manage make every steam game run under Linux, magically. It's it's going to be a matter of having to make it happen on a game by game basis, however, adoption rates will be horrid, no matter how much they'd like to make it work.
This could work out well. One of my main criticisms behind the whole xxx TLD has been that it wouldn't really lessen the amount of porn under other TLD's. Having a search engine designed for it, especially if they limit the results to only the xxx TLD, would give incentive for companies to migrate over to xxx.
Our congress and state department are all so dysfunctional right now that I don't particularly want to bring them into this.
Back in the late 90's, it Redhat was had the most exposure. Download speeds were gimpy, which meant I relied on UK Linux mags for distro disks.
Only problem was I really didn't like Redhat. When Ubuntu came out, I actually enjoyed using it, and it became a stepping stone for Debian, which is what I've used since about '06.
Microsoft would love to get rid of the older formats anyway, so I see this as a step forward. If your business is so cheap that they've avoided upgrading to 2007 or 2010, and still refused to upgrade to 2013, then they have no one to blame but themselves. Seriously, you've gotten 10+ years out of your software, so stop complaining.
There's a gaming speech pack for it that allows you to setup a lot of command types for various games.
http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/by-product/dragon-for-pc/add-ons/dragon-gaming/index.htm
More or less, yeah. If that admin's 5k computers are all poorly managed in the first place, with crappy group polices, then he's in for a hell of a time. Hopefully someone in charge of 5k computers has enough foresight to prevent having to manually add or remove programs from each computer though.
That's like saying you don't use condoms because you know how to pull out.
It was more funny than anything, explaining to my clients what happened. To their credit, Sophos released a patch within, I think, about 30 minutes. All in all, it wasn't that big of a deal to fix the 80 or so computers I manage since you just disable autoupdate and remove all of the false positives out of quarantine. Worst case scenario is you remotely uninstall a bunch of clients and redeploy through the Control Center.
Which is why I said "almost" better off, meaning it's not a clear cut advantage, but it's definitely a possible alternative. I look at my Technet sub as a recurring cost of doing business, so it's makes perfect sense for me. I'm just saying that at the price point Microsoft is offering the Office sub, it's worth considering for even average users now. Factor in nothing more than Office and whatever Windows version you want, and you're already ahead.
Based on the prices listed in the article, you're almost better off getting a Technet subscription.
Interestingly, the cheapest of the three models is the only one that comes with Office 2013 preloaded. The middle one has a trial, and the expensive one doesn't even mention that.
Neither you nor I have any idea of what his skill level is. My advice wasn't for him to attempt to trick people into thinking he's skilled. In fact, I have to assume he's as skilled as he claims for the purpose of answering his question. Nothing more.
Obviously if he puts together a bunch of crappy demo sites or rips them off from someone else, then he'll come out looking like an idiot 2 minutes into the interview. Instead of going down that road, I figured I'd answer his question rather than question his abilities.
If you're main focus is on web design, you have it really easy. Take a week to build out 10 or 15 websites of varying complexity and purpose, and host them all on a basic VPS. When someone asks for your credentials, give them a link of the online portfolio. For the vast majority of clients, that will tell them a lot more about your skill set than a few certs. It's fairly easy for the average person or business to look at a web site and decide if it's professional or fun or whatever.
Now the part about setting up Linux networks and servers and stuff is a bit more out of reach, since the average person can't look at a server or router config and have any clue as to what it means. They want you to have some kind of certification or recommendation from other businesses precisely because they can't judge those skills.
My advice, is to just focus on the web side of things. You have the advantage of being able to get some marketing out to an audience much larger than your immediate area, which should more than make up for any "lost" business on the networking side of things.
The mercenary culture is a direct result of companies not sufficiently increasing wages for existing employees. If you want to avoid having talent leave, then pay them what the competition is offering, and treat them well. It's pretty simple.
This is why, when you are not familiar with the technical aspects of IT, you pay people to recommend and implement solutions for you. It's funny when companies either don't do that, or ignore the professional advice given, and go with what they want anyway.
I'd stock up on emergency rations and canned goods to last me a few years, but would just get flagged by Homeland Security...
All of those are fine and dandy, in theory. Except that the Linux community seems to *hate* them with a passion, claiming to switch over to xfce for a more standard desktop environment.
In fact, unity, gnome3 and kde4 are great examples of just how much the Linux community prefers "good enough" over anything that's trying to move forward.
His point isn't about being able to write a decent app with Eclipse. It's that the attitude of "it's fine" isn't exactly the kind of attitude that drives innovation. There's a reason Linux is stuck in late 90's desktop design, and it's because everything is apparently fine the way it has always been.
Like it or not, innovation is the only thing that will "fix" the Linux desktop.
Why hire you when there are probably hundreds of alternative applicants without your baggage? Either you have some crazy unique skill to bring to the table, or they have a financial incentive to hire you (pay less money than someone "normal", or maybe there's some weird tax writeoff).
I don't mean this as an insult or anything, just as a shot of reality. You say you are happy doing volunteer work right now, which sort of implies that you are able to pay bills and stuff. If that's the case, stick with it. You can do that and some self-employment on the side as your motivation allows. You aren't going to find that kind of happiness with a salary job.
They need to bring back the Bill Gates Borg logo.
Let these guys pump themselves full of whatever crazy drugs they want. How is it really that different than going on an extreme diet, like trying to survive off of ketosis alone, or doing more pushups than people normally do. It's all just chemicals interacting with other chemicals.
Football, especially, would be really fun to watch if you knew everyone there was on a meth high or something, with no regard to safety. Let them earn their million dollar contracts, I say.
Context is everything.
Back in college, we had an oral presentation class; basically public speaking and learning how to target your audience and such. I decided to do one of mine on role playing games, in particular the early history of them, and how they've slowly become more accepted due to modern computer games. I didn't get into much detail, but did talk about the standard elves and dwarves, as well as the fun of essentially pretending to be someone you aren't, in a world much more interesting than yours.
It was only about a 10 minute speech, and at the end were were supposed to do a quick Q&A session, if anyone had questions. Well, the whole room was dead silent for probably the slowest 10 seconds of my life, until one young lady raised her hand and very timidly asked "are you talking about sex?"
It became very clear I approached the topic without even considering that, for a lot of people, the term 'role playing' was a sexual term. I quickly replayed my speech in my head and realized that I probably ended up looking like a completely psychopathic sexual pervert to most of the room for the last 10 minutes.
You can run a keyboard (or practically anything in a PC other than disk drives or batteries) through a dishwasher. Just don't put it on the super hot 'pots and pans' cycle. Also expect to reapply thermal paste to the cpu and graphics card.
Options mean surprisingly little to the average consumer. Apple has more than proven that. Linux is great for anyone who's technically inclined, but for everyone else it's just too much.
As for your question, consider this: How many people buy a Mac because it has OSX? How many people buy an iPhone because it has iOS? Or an Android device because it has Android?
Nearly everything most consumers buy is decided upon by a combination of availability, cost, and design, in that order. In any given genre, the order gets reversed for people that are *very* interested in it. So for car freaks, design is a higher priority than the cost or availability, whereas the rest of us tend to buy what's available and affordable. Computers are no different.