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There is a valid point behind what you're trying to say.
But reading comments like this, is it any wonder that businesses, "small" and large have stopped spending so much money on IT recently ?
As far as businesses are concerned, computers are just tools to do jobs, to help those companies generate money. If they don't help make them money, there's no reason for them to spend money on IT.
And here we are telling those companies they don't just have to buy the equipment, and the software, they have to continuously spend time and money on people to protect them, look after them, and update them.
No wonder companies are beginning to ask "what's the benefit ?", "why should I spend this money ?".
And no wonder IT people are beginning to ask "where are all the jobs ?".
Mandrake RPMs are security-signed, and if they don't have a valid Mandrake GPG signature, you get prompted as to whether you really want to install them. I'm sure most other distributions which use binary packages do the same.
"When you call the president a facist, you've pretty much trashed not just the country, not just its leaders, but everything the country is about."
"The main point here is that criticism going on mostly these days is not in good faith. It is made in bad faith to score political or other points. And that does reflect badly on the opposition. It shows that you are not a patriot, but an opportunist."
I'm astounded by this, and for once I really hope this is a troll.
So in the USA you have the freedom to say whatever you like - but if you don't follow the party line you get labelled "unpatriotic" (or maybe "communist", "one of them, not one of us", or even "a supporter of terrorism") ?
How did the USA come into existence ? Hmmmmm, let me think. Wasn't it something to do with people questioning those who governed them at the time ? Were the founding fathers "patriots" or "opportunists" ?
If I thought all Americans thought like you, my opinion of America would be greatly diminished. Fortunately, I know they don't (and it isn't).
And what is the point of an "opposition" if they are not allowed to oppose ? An unopposed government - is that the sort of government you really want ?
Actually, your situation sounds very similar to mine. I was/am a very experienced C programmer, a pretty good shell script programmer, and with a decent knowledge of stuff like awk, sed, etc.
Somehow I'd never got round to learning Perl, even though I thought I'd love it, as it seemed to combine the best parts of what I already knew in one single language, which many people raved about.
Anyway, I bought a couple of the O'Reilly Perl books, and immediately started to think "Whoa, this is just too much functionality and complexity mashed together".
Perl programmers like to say "there's more than one way to do it". Well that's OK if you're writing code - you only have to know and understand one of the many ways to implement a given task. However, if you're trying to read other peoples' code, you need to understand all of those different ways.
I started hearing a lot about Python at about the same time I started trying to learn Perl. After finding out a little about it, I bought (another) book, and since then I've not looked back. I no longer feel the need to learn Perl any better - for me, Python is a better alternative.
Not gonna spoil it by giving the answer, but just to say it's a bloody good album; definitely one where most tracks are worth listening to, and worthy of being downloadable in their own right.
Isn't there some Biblical parable about the rich man who gives one of his ten bags of money away to the less fortunate - as opposed to the poor woman who gives one of the two pennies she has ? (Or something like that, anyway).
What, exactly, will Bill Gates have to do without, now he is $1 billion poorer ? What sacrifice has he made for charity ?
That said, it's a good thing he's done it, and I shouldn't really criticise it. This post sounds like a rant against Bill Gates in particular, I know, but it's more of a rant about one man being able to have so much more money than the vast majority of other people on this planet.
I ask you, what could the US possibly do to make the Chinese (and the rest of the world) even more interested in accelerating their space programs than attempting to pull crap like this ?
Maybe it's news because Mandrake is seen as more of a desktop distro than RedHat (though it also forms a very capable server), and it shows that one of the biggest PC suppliers now thinks Linux is ready for the desktop.
It's also great news for Mandrake, and about time. Well done, Drakes.
Yeah, what is the government for, anyway ? Serving the needs and wishes of the people it represents ?
You'd think from some of the responses here that the majority of people disliked receiving spam, and wanted to do something about it.
Doing something for the MAJORITY of people, that is, not just a small technical elite who know how to use complex tools to avoid the problem themselves, while everyone else suffers.
Why doesn't everyone get together, as a "society", and choose a set of people to listen to our views and make a set of rules about what behaviours our society is prepared to accept, and what it won't, for the benefit of that society as a whole ?
Posting the link here, because it shows how those who want software patents are prepared to bend the facts to their advantage. If the case for software patents is so good, why would they need to twist facts like this ?
Would this be of any use in trying to persuade some MEPs that some of those pushing for software patents are behaving in a rather underhand manner ?
I emailed my MEPs, and got three personal replies within a day.
The first of those replies was within half an hour, and the MEP in question did actually know something about the issue.
Your cynicism is misplaced, as far as the people I contacted were concerned. Those emails weren't wasted, as long as the representitives in question realise there is a HUGE number of people against software patents in Europe. But this won't happen if everyone just sits on their arses and does nothing, or goes and throws a brick through the nearest McDonalds window instead.
There is one thing that matters more to politicians than money - votes.
They really don't like doing unpopular things, or at least getting caught doing unpopular things - it loses them their jobs.
So what you're now questioning is the raw data to which the statistics are applied, NOT the statistic techniques themselves.
The problem with statistics is that people try to use them in such a way to try to "prove" the correctness of what they are trying to say, or the "goodness" of what they are trying to sell.
I'd love to use it at work, but it doesn't seem to work with the dynamic menus we use. It's as though all menu options are written on top of each other.
I've had a brief look at Bugzilla, but I seem to find a load of bugs listed as "evangelism required", or something similar.
This is a pity, since Konqueror can render them almost perfectly.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the web technologies involved to be able to comment further (or even look up the issues in Bugzilla properly:). I just know that Mozilla won't stand a chance of replacing IE in our place of work until these issues are fixed.
They do reply, too. I got a personal response from one of my MEPs to an email within half an hour. Not all of them are this clued-up (I'm sure not all of them even have e-mail addresses), but some of them will be.
But you don't have to email them - you can write to them, too.
If you don't know who your MEPs are, or how to contact them, go here and enter your postcode. Look for the "Your Representives" section, and click on the "More information and contact details" link.
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There is a valid point behind what you're trying to say.
But reading comments like this, is it any wonder that businesses, "small" and large have stopped spending so much money on IT recently ?
As far as businesses are concerned, computers are just tools to do jobs, to help those companies generate money. If they don't help make them money, there's no reason for them to spend money on IT.
And here we are telling those companies they don't just have to buy the equipment, and the software, they have to continuously spend time and money on people to protect them, look after them, and update them.
No wonder companies are beginning to ask "what's the benefit ?", "why should I spend this money ?".
And no wonder IT people are beginning to ask "where are all the jobs ?".
Have you ever heard of signed binary packages ?
Mandrake RPMs are security-signed, and if they don't have a valid Mandrake GPG signature, you get prompted as to whether you really want to install them. I'm sure most other distributions which use binary packages do the same.
"When you call the president a facist, you've pretty much trashed not just the country, not just its leaders, but everything the country is about."
"The main point here is that criticism going on mostly these days is not in good faith. It is made in bad faith to score political or other points. And that does reflect badly on the opposition. It shows that you are not a patriot, but an opportunist."
I'm astounded by this, and for once I really hope this is a troll.
So in the USA you have the freedom to say whatever you like - but if you don't follow the party line you get labelled "unpatriotic" (or maybe "communist", "one of them, not one of us", or even "a supporter of terrorism") ?
How did the USA come into existence ? Hmmmmm, let me think. Wasn't it something to do with people questioning those who governed them at the time ? Were the founding fathers "patriots" or "opportunists" ?
If I thought all Americans thought like you, my opinion of America would be greatly diminished. Fortunately, I know they don't (and it isn't).
And what is the point of an "opposition" if they are not allowed to oppose ? An unopposed government - is that the sort of government you really want ?
Actually, your situation sounds very similar to mine. I was/am a very experienced C programmer, a pretty good shell script programmer, and with a decent knowledge of stuff like awk, sed, etc.
Somehow I'd never got round to learning Perl, even though I thought I'd love it, as it seemed to combine the best parts of what I already knew in one single language, which many people raved about.
Anyway, I bought a couple of the O'Reilly Perl books, and immediately started to think "Whoa, this is just too much functionality and complexity mashed together".
Perl programmers like to say "there's more than one way to do it". Well that's OK if you're writing code - you only have to know and understand one of the many ways to implement a given task. However, if you're trying to read other peoples' code, you need to understand all of those different ways.
I started hearing a lot about Python at about the same time I started trying to learn Perl. After finding out a little about it, I bought (another) book, and since then I've not looked back. I no longer feel the need to learn Perl any better - for me, Python is a better alternative.
Not gonna spoil it by giving the answer, but just to say it's a bloody good album; definitely one where most tracks are worth listening to, and worthy of being downloadable in their own right.
Isn't there some Biblical parable about the rich man who gives one of his ten bags of money away to the less fortunate - as opposed to the poor woman who gives one of the two pennies she has ? (Or something like that, anyway).
What, exactly, will Bill Gates have to do without, now he is $1 billion poorer ? What sacrifice has he made for charity ?
That said, it's a good thing he's done it, and I shouldn't really criticise it. This post sounds like a rant against Bill Gates in particular, I know, but it's more of a rant about one man being able to have so much more money than the vast majority of other people on this planet.
"Unfortunately, it doesn't taste nearly as good, and goes rather poorly with lobster."
Since it's ink, perhaps it would go rather better with squid ?
Sigh.....only on Slashdot could some fruitcake moderate this as flamebait.
Perhaps it's because the US is scaring them.
I ask you, what could the US possibly do to make the Chinese (and the rest of the world) even more interested in accelerating their space programs than attempting to pull crap like this ?
"Now we have you and others comparing Mandrake to RH and already..."
Read my post again. I deliberately used the words "Mandrake is seen as..." rather than "Mandrake is...".
Maybe it's news because Mandrake is seen as more of a desktop distro than RedHat (though it also forms a very capable server), and it shows that one of the biggest PC suppliers now thinks Linux is ready for the desktop.
It's also great news for Mandrake, and about time. Well done, Drakes.
Yeah, what is the government for, anyway ? Serving the needs and wishes of the people it represents ?
You'd think from some of the responses here that the majority of people disliked receiving spam, and wanted to do something about it.
Doing something for the MAJORITY of people, that is, not just a small technical elite who know how to use complex tools to avoid the problem themselves, while everyone else suffers.
Why doesn't everyone get together, as a "society", and choose a set of people to listen to our views and make a set of rules about what behaviours our society is prepared to accept, and what it won't, for the benefit of that society as a whole ?
Or wait, we did. We elected governments.
Does Blackdown have any role in this ?
A kuro5hin post of mine.
Posting the link here, because it shows how those who want software patents are prepared to bend the facts to their advantage. If the case for software patents is so good, why would they need to twist facts like this ?
Would this be of any use in trying to persuade some MEPs that some of those pushing for software patents are behaving in a rather underhand manner ?
I emailed my MEPs, and got three personal replies within a day.
The first of those replies was within half an hour, and the MEP in question did actually know something about the issue.
Your cynicism is misplaced, as far as the people I contacted were concerned. Those emails weren't wasted, as long as the representitives in question realise there is a HUGE number of people against software patents in Europe. But this won't happen if everyone just sits on their arses and does nothing, or goes and throws a brick through the nearest McDonalds window instead.
There is one thing that matters more to politicians than money - votes.
They really don't like doing unpopular things, or at least getting caught doing unpopular things - it loses them their jobs.
So what you're now questioning is the raw data to which the statistics are applied, NOT the statistic techniques themselves.
The problem with statistics is that people try to use them in such a way to try to "prove" the correctness of what they are trying to say, or the "goodness" of what they are trying to sell.
"But I'm not surprised at the lack of ethics in the Asian Consumer market"
So Microsoft and Intel are Asian companies now, are they ?
I thought that was the customers.
It's not my code - I just have to use it (and yes, it's internal, so it's not on any external website).
But I'm curious as to why Konqueror makes a much better job of it than Mozilla does. Maybe Konqueror compensates for more IE buglets.
I'd love to use it at work, but it doesn't seem to work with the dynamic menus we use. It's as though all menu options are written on top of each other.
:). I just know that Mozilla won't stand a chance of replacing IE in our place of work until these issues are fixed.
I've had a brief look at Bugzilla, but I seem to find a load of bugs listed as "evangelism required", or something similar.
This is a pity, since Konqueror can render them almost perfectly.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the web technologies involved to be able to comment further (or even look up the issues in Bugzilla properly
I second this.
They do reply, too. I got a personal response from one of my MEPs to an email within half an hour. Not all of them are this clued-up (I'm sure not all of them even have e-mail addresses), but some of them will be.
But you don't have to email them - you can write to them, too.
If you don't know who your MEPs are, or how to contact them, go here and enter your postcode. Look for the "Your Representives" section, and click on the "More information and contact details" link.
"The US patent system was the first of its kind. The first version of anything is never the best version."
Yeah, that's why the US-designed Internet never really caught on.
D'oh......
(Or should that be S'co........)
Very well trolled. Especially the bit about "hair" and "head and shoulders".
And you managed to fit in the word "paradigm", too.
I think you'll find that Linus called his new OS Linux specifically to avoid SCO's letter "S".
;)
Isn't this man's foresight just incredible ?
"All new technology is irrelevant until it is taken up by the public."
And how many members of the public with atomic bombs do you know ?