All of the above is quite true, but for WYSIWYG page layout as well as graphic design, you can't beat black-on-white. Apple was THE platform for page layout and artists back in the day.
Actually, it's PHBs and cheapskates who miscalculate the cost of "won't work as well". Eliminating bottlenecks, troubleshooting, and clunky workflow saves Mac users a ton of labor. If you factor the cost of even a few hours spent troubleshooting dodgy Windows-based technologies, the Mac comes out ahead, even with the premium up-front cost.
(1) video ram (64MB) may be inadequate for the next release of OS X.
Actually, it's even worse than that. Mac Mini only has 32mb of video RAM, not 64. http://www.apple.com/macmini
I'm hoping/predicting that if the Mac Mini is successful, Apple's next round of revisions will include a Mac Mini AV -- giving us the video-out and audio jacks we want to turn the Mac Mini into a PVR. If such a revision is released, I would expect it to include more RAM on the video card. It would be sweet.
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Management is like playing an RTS game, but without the pretty interface.
It's all about resource generation, allocation, deployment, etc.
If you're not already good at thinking about a situation from multiple points of view, develop this skill. Make sure you take into account not just what you know and what you're good at, but what you might not know and what others might need, both internal and external to your team/organization.
Good communication is essential, both listening and talking.
Respecting your team members is critical.
You should have a political awareness of your group and the others around it, learn who's dependent on what, etc.
Figure out what your mission is, what your objectives are, what problem is your group there to solve, and concentrate on identifying and reaching goals.
Document your practices and procedures and policies and use the information to generate performance metrics which you can use to justify your teams worth to the organization.
All of this is more than one person can reasonably accomplish, so be sure to delegate intelligently. You're going to do much less doing and much more delegating if you want to be successful as a manager. Your job isn't to do, it's to make sure it gets done. Coordinate and make decisions. Leave it to your team members to tackle the implementation.
Depends on how you want to calculate it. If you're talking "at cost" then maybe you're right. If on the other hand, you could somehow consolidate all Linux development, human resource assets, and IP assets under one company, the value of that company would be far in excess of $750,000,000.
To put it still another way, if Gates announced tomorrow that henceforth MS Windows is now available under the GPL, that news would completely dwarf today's announcement by several orders of magnitude.
It's obvious that the value of the Gates Foundation's donation is fractional to the value of Microsoft, since the donation *orignated from* MS's revenue.
Arguably, Linux is more valuable than Windows, because Linux is Free and Windows is IP-encumbered. Granted, Microsoft's value as a company is soley derived from its OS division, but let's not forget that Linux isn't the whole of the OSS community, either, so the article's call for the "Linux community" to be as generous isn't quite straight on, either.
In any event, Linux + FOSS is still far and away more useful than a single-application medicine such as a vaccine, rivaling if not exceeding Microsoft in value. In conclusion, calling the FOSS community's generosity into question over Gates's donation is ludicrous. FOSS *is* generosity.
You're the name-calling idiot, you stupid ass-licking unclefucker.
I'm not attempting to devalue the vaccinations. I'm pointing out that the Linux community is more than $750,000,000 generous. You're the one who's too thickheaded to comprehend that the two are not mutually exclusive.
If you desperately need a vaccination, chances are you'll value a vaccination more than you'll value Linux. If you don't, then you're going to find Linux far more useful for far more tasks than some vaccine for some disease you don't have and aren't at risk of contracting.
The utility of Linux vs. the utility of a vaccine isn't in question, however. It's a simple matter of how generous the gift of $750,000,000 worth of medical aid is compared to the gift of a Free OS which has been built out of countless man-hours of donated and uncompensated labor.
Finally, the fact that Linux was given to the world without engaging in anticompetitive practices, without embracing and extending technology standards, without smashing promising young companies engaged in developing useful technologies, and I think Linux is clearly the more generous gift to humanity, as well as the more useful.
When someone's child dies of a disease that could easily been avoided the last thing he would be concerned with is what OS he should be running.
-1 Shortsighted. The world is run by computer, and has been for quite some time now. It'd be nice if you could really say you own your computer and are free to use it, rather than being granted license to use it as some non-governmental entity sees fit. Some people actually value their freedom and don't want it to hang from the thread of some corporation's good will.
As well, the functionality enabled by Linux enables you to do so much more than curing diseases. You can use Linux in medical applications. It's not a vaccine, but it's still a tool which can be used to advance science and knowledge.
Priorities in generosity are wrong. I think health is probably more important than computers.
The Linux community has already donated millions of man-hours to develop and support Linux, and has effectively given the world both a very good operating system and digital Freedom. How much more generous do they need to be?
I got called for this poll, I think. I was asked "Do you know what's the difference between search results and an advertisement?" I said "No" but the guy never delivered the punchline, so after a few days of thinking about it I figured it must have been a poll.
If we all get together and act quickly, we can still reverse this. Just stick your air conditioner in your window the other way around, and turn it on full blast. If every AC unit in the USA is turned on reverse full-blast like this, we should be OK.
If games can replace books, then why do I need to go and spend $20 on a 128+page book on how to play any game I buy these days in order to get anywhere in it?
I use only 22" CRT's. (I own about 100 or so of them)
Only 100? Sheeit, I got me 480,000 of them at the Enron bankruptcy auction a few years back. Set them up in a 640x480 array, whipped out my soldering iron, and wired my video card to treat each monitor as a pixel. Set it up, then walked back about 2 miles, and I had me the biggest gol-dang monitor money can buy.
By reading this ransom note, you agree to leave $100,000,000 in unmarked bills of small denomination in a shopping bag which you will place in a garbage can at the Starbucks at the corner of Fifth and Main if you ever want to see your baby again. You also hearby agree not to call the police, hire private detectives, or bounty hunters, or press criminal charges, or file a civil lawsuit against the Kidnappers.
If we put all programmers in jail, they'll be able to spend ALL of their time programming, instead of wasting their energy worrying about how to pay their bills. They already live in their parents basements, which are aesthetically similar enough that they probably won't even notice.
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All of the above is quite true, but for WYSIWYG page layout as well as graphic design, you can't beat black-on-white. Apple was THE platform for page layout and artists back in the day.
Actually, it's PHBs and cheapskates who miscalculate the cost of "won't work as well". Eliminating bottlenecks, troubleshooting, and clunky workflow saves Mac users a ton of labor. If you factor the cost of even a few hours spent troubleshooting dodgy Windows-based technologies, the Mac comes out ahead, even with the premium up-front cost.
Cubes hold their value better than probably any other Power Mac model - how's that for "wrong"?
Now that the Mini is out, I doubt anyone in their right mind will pay more than $200 for a Cube.
AMD65, code name Spinal Tap. "Ours goes to 65."
D'oh, should've previewed before posting:
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Slashdot the torrents and help me get my .iso faster
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AMD64
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(1) video ram (64MB) may be inadequate for the next release of OS X.
Actually, it's even worse than that. Mac Mini only has 32mb of video RAM, not 64. http://www.apple.com/macmini
I'm hoping/predicting that if the Mac Mini is successful, Apple's next round of revisions will include a Mac Mini AV -- giving us the video-out and audio jacks we want to turn the Mac Mini into a PVR. If such a revision is released, I would expect it to include more RAM on the video card. It would be sweet.
But that's only if a majority of people use the speed enhancements, right?
Well, what do you expect to happen if this trick is published and widely distributed?
robots.txt only works if the robot honors it.
There's also the analog hole.
Management is like playing an RTS game, but without the pretty interface.
It's all about resource generation, allocation, deployment, etc.
If you're not already good at thinking about a situation from multiple points of view, develop this skill. Make sure you take into account not just what you know and what you're good at, but what you might not know and what others might need, both internal and external to your team/organization.
Good communication is essential, both listening and talking.
Respecting your team members is critical.
You should have a political awareness of your group and the others around it, learn who's dependent on what, etc.
Figure out what your mission is, what your objectives are, what problem is your group there to solve, and concentrate on identifying and reaching goals.
Document your practices and procedures and policies and use the information to generate performance metrics which you can use to justify your teams worth to the organization.
All of this is more than one person can reasonably accomplish, so be sure to delegate intelligently. You're going to do much less doing and much more delegating if you want to be successful as a manager. Your job isn't to do, it's to make sure it gets done. Coordinate and make decisions. Leave it to your team members to tackle the implementation.
Depends on how you want to calculate it. If you're talking "at cost" then maybe you're right. If on the other hand, you could somehow consolidate all Linux development, human resource assets, and IP assets under one company, the value of that company would be far in excess of $750,000,000.
To put it still another way, if Gates announced tomorrow that henceforth MS Windows is now available under the GPL, that news would completely dwarf today's announcement by several orders of magnitude.
It's obvious that the value of the Gates Foundation's donation is fractional to the value of Microsoft, since the donation *orignated from* MS's revenue.
Arguably, Linux is more valuable than Windows, because Linux is Free and Windows is IP-encumbered. Granted, Microsoft's value as a company is soley derived from its OS division, but
let's not forget that Linux isn't the whole of the OSS community, either, so the article's call for the "Linux community" to be as generous isn't quite straight on, either.
In any event, Linux + FOSS is still far and away more useful than a single-application medicine such as a vaccine, rivaling if not exceeding Microsoft in value. In conclusion, calling the FOSS community's generosity into question over Gates's donation is ludicrous. FOSS *is* generosity.
You're the name-calling idiot, you stupid ass-licking unclefucker.
I'm not attempting to devalue the vaccinations. I'm pointing out that the Linux community is more than $750,000,000 generous. You're the one who's too thickheaded to comprehend that the two are not mutually exclusive.
If you desperately need a vaccination, chances are you'll value a vaccination more than you'll value Linux. If you don't, then you're going to find Linux far more useful for far more tasks than some vaccine for some disease you don't have and aren't at risk of contracting.
The utility of Linux vs. the utility of a vaccine isn't in question, however. It's a simple matter of how generous the gift of $750,000,000 worth of medical aid is compared to the gift of a Free OS which has been built out of countless man-hours of donated and uncompensated labor.
Finally, the fact that Linux was given to the world without engaging in anticompetitive practices, without embracing and extending technology standards, without smashing promising young companies engaged in developing useful technologies, and I think Linux is clearly the more generous gift to humanity, as well as the more useful.
When someone's child dies of a disease that could easily been avoided the last thing he would be concerned with is what OS he should be running.
-1 Shortsighted. The world is run by computer, and has been for quite some time now. It'd be nice if you could really say you own your computer and are free to use it, rather than being granted license to use it as some non-governmental entity sees fit. Some people actually value their freedom and don't want it to hang from the thread of some corporation's good will.
As well, the functionality enabled by Linux enables you to do so much more than curing diseases. You can use Linux in medical applications. It's not a vaccine, but it's still a tool which can be used to advance science and knowledge.
Priorities in generosity are wrong. I think health is probably more important than computers.
Uh, the second sentence contradicts the first.
The Linux community has already donated millions of man-hours to develop and support Linux, and has effectively given the world both a very good operating system and digital Freedom. How much more generous do they need to be?
I got called for this poll, I think. I was asked "Do you know what's the difference between search results and an advertisement?" I said "No" but the guy never delivered the punchline, so after a few days of thinking about it I figured it must have been a poll.
My internal English parser barfed on this sentence. WTF is the parent talking about???
If we all get together and act quickly, we can still reverse this. Just stick your air conditioner in your window the other way around, and turn it on full blast. If every AC unit in the USA is turned on reverse full-blast like this, we should be OK.
Too late? Hardly. Did Intel lose money on the Pentium 4? They may have lost ground in marketshare, but they're still highly profitable.
Doesn't count, that still requires reading.
If games can replace books, then why do I need to go and spend $20 on a 128+page book on how to play any game I buy these days in order to get anywhere in it?
Only 100? Sheeit, I got me 480,000 of them at the Enron bankruptcy auction a few years back. Set them up in a 640x480 array, whipped out my soldering iron, and wired my video card to treat each monitor as a pixel. Set it up, then walked back about 2 miles, and I had me the biggest gol-dang monitor money can buy.
So when does Kirby's widow get her cut?
By reading this ransom note, you agree to leave $100,000,000 in unmarked bills of small denomination in a shopping bag which you will place in a garbage can at the Starbucks at the corner of Fifth and Main if you ever want to see your baby again. You also hearby agree not to call the police, hire private detectives, or bounty hunters, or press criminal charges, or file a civil lawsuit against the Kidnappers.
Yes. But people can and do buy either model.
If we put all programmers in jail, they'll be able to spend ALL of their time programming, instead of wasting their energy worrying about how to pay their bills. They already live in their parents basements, which are aesthetically similar enough that they probably won't even notice.