There are agencies that are basically godzilla-sized racks of VCRs and tape recorders (well, it's probably all digital, now) connected to satellite dishes, antennas, and able. And they record EVERYTHING. And I mean EVERY channel, every radio station, everything, so that there is a "backup" of whatever was broadcast.
I almost worked at one of these places.
And if you wanted, say, to use a clip from some TV station, you could go and get appropriate copyright permission from the copyright owner, and then get the clip from the billions of tapes in the warehouse.
I'm surprised that there aren't people archiving every UseNet post. It would certainly be an interesting exercise.
RE: You forgot to check the post anonymously button, stupid.
Actually, I stand behind what I say. No reason WHATSOEVER to post back anonymously.
RE: There you go resorting to insults and force to get what you want.
I didn't threaten you - I said when you bring that attitude to work with you, I hope you get your ass sued off for sexual discrimination.
RE: How funny it is that people like you, who think they advocate freedom,
Let me get this straight. You, who believes women should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, are deriding ME for supposedly being against freedom? Or do you believe freedom belongs only to men?
RE: would jump up and down on free speech like this.
You have the right to your opinion, so do I. We also have the right to voice them, and I'm exercising mine.
RE: "My truth shall set you free, now shut up or loose all reputability, career and livelyhood!" Do you see the hypocracy here? Do and say what you want, but keep the treats to yourself.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA right. Listen carefully, it's more like "it's against the law to discriminate against women in the workplace". PING! Welcome to the 21st century!!!
RE: My opinions are my own and have nothing to do with the policy of my employers that I will cary out.
Oh, I'm sure you'll hire the odd token secretary. But if in your heart of hearts you think of women as breeding stock and indentured labor on the home front, I doubt you can be impartial.
RE: The views expressed here have nothing to do with my penis, and are far less misogynist than those who advocate day care.
Describing women as unfit for any responsible role and useless for any kind of manual labor IS misogynist. Horribly misogynist. Replace "woman" with "black" and read your sentence back and see how fast you'd be out of a job if your employer was anything other than the Aryan Nations. Keep fighting women of the world, you've still got a long way to go.
RE: Day care is an evil institution useful only in enslaving women. My wife has far less interest in her work than she does in our house, health and the future of our children.
Well, some women have interest in their careers. But that isn't the point. The point is that you don't even consider women appropriate for ANY responsible position, pregnant and with child or not. You're on RECORD as saying so.
RE: The only winners of mass female employment are coperations who end up paying less for labor,
Not for long. Pay equity is next on the list.
RE: and the federal government which realizes a temporary boost in GNP. The rest of us loose.
So women lose by having fulfilling careers? Explain that one.
RE: You are blind to the truth, which is that women should have the choice to work if they please and employers should have the choice to hire them when they please.
You're advocating discrimination. IN BLACK AND WHITE.(Or whatever color your monitor is set to)
RE: The present, where 2/3 of women work, is greedy and foolish. It is awful that people sit around an dinegrate mother hood as , "sitting around at home", "issolated " and unambitious.
Some people think of it as such, some think of it as a career into itself. So what. My beef with you is not what you and your wife have chosen to do - it's been your constant barrage of "women are unfit to work" "it's greedy if your woman works" etc. I somehow thought educated and professional people would be higher up the evolutionary chain, but given your level of literacy, never mind your 18th century attitudes and blatant bigotry, I guess my theory is shot...
If you're a politics junkie missing the fireworks etc. on the tube, and you have a post-election depression, check out the Canadian election, which is going on until late November!
It's right wing vs. left in this one- and you couldn't have two more polar opposites!
RE: Women will match men in the workforce when they develop uperbody strength equal to men, and do not have to take anytime in childbirth. The first will keep them from being useful manual laborers, the second will keep them from compeeting for positions of real responsibility.
I hope to GOD you aren't in any position of authority and/or responsiblity to hire people, because if you carry that attitude to work with you eventually someone's going to come along and sue your ass to hell and back. And I for one will be applauding whoever it is that takes your outdated, phallocentric misogynistic self to court.
RE: Men will match women in childrearing when they can give birth and breast feed.
You'll note I said CHILD REARING, not giving birth. Just giving birth to someone doesn't make you their mother any more than being the successful male in the breeding cycle makes you a father. That's an insult to many men I know who do a damn fine job raising kids esp. if the mother has died.
RE: Women will match men in the workforce when they develop uperbody strength equal to men
Which as we ALL know is absolutely essential to write code.
RE: The first will keep them from being useful manual laborers, the second will keep them from compeeting for positions of real responsibility.
I think it's more YOUR ATTITUDE that affects the second more than anything else.
RE: In short, the sexes will be equivalent and interchangable when pigs fly.
So what? We're talking about child rearing. You seem to think it's "woman's work". Apart from the necessity of a woman giving birth and the necessity of a man somewhere along the line, the ROLES are interchangeable.
RE: Stranger thing have happened, but I would not forsee this by 2050.
What, like you growing up and becoming part of the 21st century?
RE: People are indeed suggesting that daycare is some kind of universal entitlement,
No, but child rearing affects everyone eventually. And people want and deserve options.
RE: they will not take the place of a mother's arms.
As a future father, let me go on record to say that I hope mine will. Because I intend to raise my children WITH my wife, not tell her it's HER job.
Actually, decent human contact is required; whether or not that's from a mother or a decent day care worker is immaterial. Nobody is suggesting that children be bundled into wire cages and shoved into a corner while mom works 9 hour days; they're suggesting a kind of environment where the kids are looked after in a nurturing environment and where the parent or parents can drop in and see the child during the day. Dr. Laura might have a problem with this, but the wrinkled old divorced pr0n queen adulteress might be persuaded to shut her ignorant mouth once in a while. Like now.
You seem to have this phallocentric view that women are the lesser earners and were dictated by God to be the child rearers. You are, quite frankly, wrong. Some women don't do the daycare thing for a better wardrobe - they perhaps had a decent career before the baby and would like to have both. Many companies would like to retain workers, too: that female you think is taking a male's job might just happen to be one of the best damn coders around and might be BADLY needed.
So we can deal with the whole career/family thing by either requiring women to live in the 1950s or look ahead to 2050. Which would you prefer?
Yeah, but keep in mind this: the $200 gadget is a one-time, $200 per employee perq.
With child care, you need licensing, insurance, and you're paying tens of dollars per hour per child care worker, plus opening yourself up to MILLIONS in liability if something happens to little kimmie, plus "eating up" valuable office space. In certain markets (Seattle, Boston) where space is absolutely at a premium, it's like, "why not just hand out Palm Pilots instead?"
RE: Its men like Jello Biafra that DESTROY your freedom. His idea of freedom is to do as he says or he'll smash you with his fist.
But be that as it may he has got some experience at annoying the powers that be.
My comment was if you want to see what the status quo is and get some insight as to how to smash same, talk to someone who's tried. And who's paid the price for it (RIP Dead Kennedys)
Don't worry about smashing with fist - didn't some new school punks smash his kneecaps in?
Cause it seems to me that Jello has his finger on the Big Picture.
I mean, individual hackers have the power and yes, we indeed have seen individual hackers pull off impressive tricks! Witness the recent Microsoft hacks...
But I think he's able to explain just WHY there are Men In Black, why they ARE concerned with people claiming individual liberties, etc.
But what exactly do you DO with this power? What do you fight for and why? He's got half a clue.
Or at the very least, he can give some historical background on movements for freedom and the kinds of problems they come across. "Hey, you want to demonstrate against the DMCA. GREAT! Here's what to expect. HINT: pack your gasmasks."
RE: As for cratering, sorry to disappoint your ghoulish fascination, but it wouldn't be spectacular. You sound like one of the mouth breathers that attends NASCAR
Nope, sorry, that's not me. But I am trying to imagine the hellacious risks this woman is taking. It's not as if if her parachute malfunctions they can rush her to hospital with some chance of survival.
I mean, I'm sure this isn't a New World Order-Satano-One-World-Government mind control Area 51 ploy. I'm sure this is some retailer deciding "jeeze, if I had $1 every time someone couldn't scan a barcode cause it was on a chip bag or some other reflective, weird crinkly surface..." and the engineering mind thought of another solution.
OF COURSE the government will find nifty uses for it.
OF COURSE we will find ways around it.
OF COURSE criminals will find some way to exploit it.
OF COURSE the last two will be made illegal.
OF COURSE there will be "Digital Freedom" websites extolling measures for or against the previous three.
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No, no, no, wait. A three D window for visualisation of APPLICATION data is one thing. An entire WORKSTATION GUI that's 3D is another.
The Star Destroyer could be rendered in 2D GUI but in an application window in 3D... right? It's interesting. I'm curious as to why the GUI needs to be 3D.
The critique of the idea of a 3D windowmanager doesn't take into account it was built for a computing environment that ISN'T a desktop (the Cube) and secondly, there may very well be some applications of this we aren't yet aware of.
I agree that burying Linux, typically the darling OS of the "why do I need a GUI when I can just grep -v -x | sed -qvf | tar -qt32pir2 : smeek -frfk > kibble.rpm ?????" set, in a 3D window manager seems weird: a total waste of CPU cycles, a criminal waste of memory, and an exponentially bad version of Microsoft Bob (eye candy that actually got in the way).
But who knows? Maybe someone will come up with a way of visualising and representing data that'll only make sense this way.
Time mechanics data? Physics data? Who knows?
Just because I can't think of a reason for this yet doesn't mean one exists.
Sometimes actions speak louder than words. Giving a speech would have come across as whiny and preachy. He did that the best way he knew how. And I think the downtrodden who he represented knew damn well what he was doing.
If he'd spoken against it, that would have meant to some degree he cared. Rejecting it outright and walking away caused them to get so ticked they suspended him.:) Good for you, lad! Keep it up!
Well, I don't think it's just about the recruits nor about the publicity, although a news story about a bunch of Linux guys roasting herring over a hibachi while doing an installfest at midnight would be cool.
Linux can be a pain to install. I know from my own experience as "that guy at work who uses Linux" I get at least two questions a day. And I'm glad that every time something goes awry I know enough how to fix it (also that I started off with Slackware in 1994 so I can appreciate the newer utilities...). I think people's first Linux experience should be "here's your computer. Any questions give us or Mandrakesoft a call. NEXT!" not struggling to find out what "signal11" means and why the install craps out saying that...
Zion was the name of the community that produced pure-blood humans, but was also the term referring to the non-Matrix controlled mainframe, if I remember correctly. Actually, I was too busy looking at the cool clothes and the cool moves to be paying too much attention to the plot.
My Chinese sucks, that's why I asked about your cat.
Either us geeks get it together and launch a bunch of satellites and publish open source plans to fire bits at the skies, or more subversively, go back to the days of yore with WWIVnet/FIDO. OK sure, so we'd be going back to 14.4kbps, but hey, back then there were communities dammit and GTs... we had text based interfaces that worked, and downloading small interesting things was relatively simple.
So it'd be use the Internet for downloading the Linux ISO or reading pretty banner ads from the multinationals that now control who sees what by having hijacked ICANN, and for day to day power to the people use, go back to the Fido and WWIVnets.
...are massive install parties (tailgate parties?) at each WalMart!
Tell people to bring their PCs on down, and if they're having problems with their Mandrake and/or RedHats they're installing, just bring their PC with em to the parking lot!
YES it would have to be with a purchase from Wal-Mart - we'd be trying to help them, not compete with them... and it might put some cash back into the pockets of Mandrake, RedHat, etc... because in all fairness, they DO contribute to Linux development...
Well, I dunno. It looks very good on paper: the hardware detection and Drak(whatever) are very reassuring to the suit: it makes it seem like there're enough drivers so that driver incompatibilities won't be a problem (e.g. "I have a Sound Blaster compatible card - why doesn't this Sound Blaster driver work with my Crystal Sound C4181?")...
But I dunno... somehow I'm of two minds with this - on one hand, Linux'll end up in Podunk, Arkansas. But on the other hand, the numbers of frustration calls on it being released into the general public too soon might undermine its growth.
1) The perception that employees are complete slackers who would sleep the day away and turn in a page or two of work every two weeks...
2) If deals were worked out with coders that 1) here's your computer and T1 line and VPN 2) here's your workload, including deadlines and deliverables and specs 3) Complete said work by said date on your own time, and we're all happy... then managers might be held to the same standard.
3) If you work with sensitive information or with hardware that companies would get VERY nervous with people leaving them just in their homes (employee's house gets broken into, the prototype is stolen, etc) forget it..
But the BIGGEST reason is...
Dear God, managers would have to MANAGE. They'd have to sit down and spec stuff out, do their jobs etc. rather than get paid to walk around scowling to try and raise efficiency, while having endless "meetings" and wearing suits to look important.
1)Wouldn't slowing her down from Mach 1.5 to 0 with the use of a parachute tear this woman in half?
Something like zoom zoom zoom zoom ripcord *flap* *SPLUTCH*
2) If she blacks out, how deep a crater is she going to leave in the Earth when she hits it? I think she should be parachuted out over a graveyard so that if she messes something up, at least noone'll have to incur the cost of burying her, just slap a tombstone over the 100' wormhole her corpse'll make slamming into the ground.
Linux's big strength isn't just FREE AS IN BEER, it's also FREE AS IN SPEECH, and until I can read kernel source for AIX, Solaris ET AL, I think Linux and FreeBSD have defininite advantages not mentioned in the Gartner article...
You used the word "Geek" and "iMac" in the same sentence.
I think what you meant was "Oh, darling! A gold-accented dual 1.2 gHZ Thunderbird, with (Debian/NetBSD/let the holy war begin), gold-thiol technology, and diamond trim! Of course I'll marry you!"
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There are agencies that are basically godzilla-sized racks of VCRs and tape recorders (well, it's probably all digital, now) connected to satellite dishes, antennas, and able. And they record EVERYTHING. And I mean EVERY channel, every radio station, everything, so that there is a "backup" of whatever was broadcast.
I almost worked at one of these places.
And if you wanted, say, to use a clip from some TV station, you could go and get appropriate copyright permission from the copyright owner, and then get the clip from the billions of tapes in the warehouse.
I'm surprised that there aren't people archiving every UseNet post. It would certainly be an interesting exercise.
RE: You forgot to check the post anonymously button, stupid.
Actually, I stand behind what I say. No reason WHATSOEVER to post back anonymously.
RE: There you go resorting to insults and force to get what you want.
I didn't threaten you - I said when you bring that attitude to work with you, I hope you get your ass sued off for sexual discrimination.
RE: How funny it is that people like you, who think they advocate freedom,
Let me get this straight. You, who believes women should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, are deriding ME for supposedly being against freedom? Or do you believe freedom belongs only to men?
RE: would jump up and down on free speech like this.
You have the right to your opinion, so do I. We also have the right to voice them, and I'm exercising mine.
RE: "My truth shall set you free, now shut up or loose all reputability, career and livelyhood!" Do you see the hypocracy here? Do and say what you want, but keep the treats to yourself.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA right. Listen carefully, it's more like "it's against the law to discriminate against women in the workplace". PING! Welcome to the 21st century!!!
RE: My opinions are my own and have nothing to do with the policy of my employers that I will cary out.
Oh, I'm sure you'll hire the odd token secretary. But if in your heart of hearts you think of women as breeding stock and indentured labor on the home front, I doubt you can be impartial.
RE: The views expressed here have nothing to do with my penis, and are far less misogynist than those who advocate day care.
Describing women as unfit for any responsible role and useless for any kind of manual labor IS misogynist. Horribly misogynist. Replace "woman" with "black" and read your sentence back and see how fast you'd be out of a job if your employer was anything other than the Aryan Nations. Keep fighting women of the world, you've still got a long way to go.
RE: Day care is an evil institution useful only in enslaving women. My wife has far less interest in her work than she does in our house, health and the future of our children.
Well, some women have interest in their careers. But that isn't the point. The point is that you don't even consider women appropriate for ANY responsible position, pregnant and with child or not. You're on RECORD as saying so.
RE: The only winners of mass female employment are coperations who end up paying less for labor,
Not for long. Pay equity is next on the list.
RE: and the federal government which realizes a temporary boost in GNP. The rest of us loose.
So women lose by having fulfilling careers? Explain that one.
RE: You are blind to the truth, which is that women should have the choice to work if they please and employers should have the choice to hire them when they please.
You're advocating discrimination. IN BLACK AND WHITE.(Or whatever color your monitor is set to)
RE: The present, where 2/3 of women work, is greedy and foolish. It is awful that people sit around an dinegrate mother hood as , "sitting around at home", "issolated " and unambitious.
Some people think of it as such, some think of it as a career into itself. So what. My beef with you is not what you and your wife have chosen to do - it's been your constant barrage of "women are unfit to work" "it's greedy if your woman works" etc. I somehow thought educated and professional people would be higher up the evolutionary chain, but given your level of literacy, never mind your 18th century attitudes and blatant bigotry, I guess my theory is shot...
If you're a politics junkie missing the fireworks etc. on the tube, and you have a post-election depression, check out the Canadian election, which is going on until late November!
It's right wing vs. left in this one- and you couldn't have two more polar opposites!
RE: Women will match men in the workforce when they develop uperbody strength equal to men, and do not have to take anytime in childbirth. The first will keep them from being useful manual laborers, the second will keep them from compeeting for positions of real responsibility.
I hope to GOD you aren't in any position of authority and/or responsiblity to hire people, because if you carry that attitude to work with you eventually someone's going to come along and sue your ass to hell and back. And I for one will be applauding whoever it is that takes your outdated, phallocentric misogynistic self to court.
RE: Men will match women in childrearing when they can give birth and breast feed.
You'll note I said CHILD REARING, not giving birth. Just giving birth to someone doesn't make you their mother any more than being the successful male in the breeding cycle makes you a father. That's an insult to many men I know who do a damn fine job raising kids esp. if the mother has died.
RE: Women will match men in the workforce when they develop uperbody strength equal to men
Which as we ALL know is absolutely essential to write code.
RE: The first will keep them from being useful manual laborers, the second will keep them from compeeting for positions of real responsibility.
I think it's more YOUR ATTITUDE that affects the second more than anything else.
RE: In short, the sexes will be equivalent and interchangable when pigs fly.
So what? We're talking about child rearing. You seem to think it's "woman's work". Apart from the necessity of a woman giving birth and the necessity of a man somewhere along the line, the ROLES are interchangeable.
RE: Stranger thing have happened, but I would not forsee this by 2050.
What, like you growing up and becoming part of the 21st century?
RE: People are indeed suggesting that daycare is some kind of universal entitlement,
No, but child rearing affects everyone eventually. And people want and deserve options.
RE: they will not take the place of a mother's arms.
As a future father, let me go on record to say that I hope mine will. Because I intend to raise my children WITH my wife, not tell her it's HER job.
Actually, decent human contact is required; whether or not that's from a mother or a decent day care worker is immaterial. Nobody is suggesting that children be bundled into wire cages and shoved into a corner while mom works 9 hour days; they're suggesting a kind of environment where the kids are looked after in a nurturing environment and where the parent or parents can drop in and see the child during the day. Dr. Laura might have a problem with this, but the wrinkled old divorced pr0n queen adulteress might be persuaded to shut her ignorant mouth once in a while. Like now.
You seem to have this phallocentric view that women are the lesser earners and were dictated by God to be the child rearers. You are, quite frankly, wrong. Some women don't do the daycare thing for a better wardrobe - they perhaps had a decent career before the baby and would like to have both. Many companies would like to retain workers, too: that female you think is taking a male's job might just happen to be one of the best damn coders around and might be BADLY needed. So we can deal with the whole career/family thing by either requiring women to live in the 1950s or look ahead to 2050. Which would you prefer?
Yeah, but keep in mind this: the $200 gadget is a one-time, $200 per employee perq.
With child care, you need licensing, insurance, and you're paying tens of dollars per hour per child care worker, plus opening yourself up to MILLIONS in liability if something happens to little kimmie, plus "eating up" valuable office space. In certain markets (Seattle, Boston) where space is absolutely at a premium, it's like, "why not just hand out Palm Pilots instead?"
RE: Its men like Jello Biafra that DESTROY your freedom. His idea of freedom is to do as he says or he'll smash you with his fist.
But be that as it may he has got some experience at annoying the powers that be.
My comment was if you want to see what the status quo is and get some insight as to how to smash same, talk to someone who's tried. And who's paid the price for it (RIP Dead Kennedys)
Don't worry about smashing with fist - didn't some new school punks smash his kneecaps in?
I'm surprised those Batdz-Maru (sp?) rice window stickers aren't showing up - after all, he IS a Penguin, right?
Cause it seems to me that Jello has his finger on the Big Picture.
I mean, individual hackers have the power and yes, we indeed have seen individual hackers pull off impressive tricks! Witness the recent Microsoft hacks...
But I think he's able to explain just WHY there are Men In Black, why they ARE concerned with people claiming individual liberties, etc. But what exactly do you DO with this power? What do you fight for and why? He's got half a clue.
Or at the very least, he can give some historical background on movements for freedom and the kinds of problems they come across. "Hey, you want to demonstrate against the DMCA. GREAT! Here's what to expect. HINT: pack your gasmasks."
RE: Your ignorance is showing.
Of course it is. That's why I'm asking.
RE: As for cratering, sorry to disappoint your ghoulish fascination, but it wouldn't be spectacular. You sound like one of the mouth breathers that attends NASCAR
Nope, sorry, that's not me. But I am trying to imagine the hellacious risks this woman is taking. It's not as if if her parachute malfunctions they can rush her to hospital with some chance of survival.
I mean, I'm sure this isn't a New World Order-Satano-One-World-Government mind control Area 51 ploy. I'm sure this is some retailer deciding "jeeze, if I had $1 every time someone couldn't scan a barcode cause it was on a chip bag or some other reflective, weird crinkly surface..." and the engineering mind thought of another solution.
OF COURSE the government will find nifty uses for it.
OF COURSE we will find ways around it.
OF COURSE criminals will find some way to exploit it.
OF COURSE the last two will be made illegal.
OF COURSE there will be "Digital Freedom" websites extolling measures for or against the previous three.
No, no, no, wait. A three D window for visualisation of APPLICATION data is one thing. An entire WORKSTATION GUI that's 3D is another.
The Star Destroyer could be rendered in 2D GUI but in an application window in 3D... right? It's interesting. I'm curious as to why the GUI needs to be 3D.
The critique of the idea of a 3D windowmanager doesn't take into account it was built for a computing environment that ISN'T a desktop (the Cube) and secondly, there may very well be some applications of this we aren't yet aware of.
I agree that burying Linux, typically the darling OS of the "why do I need a GUI when I can just grep -v -x | sed -qvf | tar -qt32pir2 : smeek -frfk > kibble.rpm ?????" set, in a 3D window manager seems weird: a total waste of CPU cycles, a criminal waste of memory, and an exponentially bad version of Microsoft Bob (eye candy that actually got in the way).
But who knows? Maybe someone will come up with a way of visualising and representing data that'll only make sense this way.
Time mechanics data? Physics data? Who knows?
Just because I can't think of a reason for this yet doesn't mean one exists.
Sometimes actions speak louder than words. Giving a speech would have come across as whiny and preachy. He did that the best way he knew how. And I think the downtrodden who he represented knew damn well what he was doing.
:) Good for you, lad! Keep it up!
If he'd spoken against it, that would have meant to some degree he cared. Rejecting it outright and walking away caused them to get so ticked they suspended him.
Well, I don't think it's just about the recruits nor about the publicity, although a news story about a bunch of Linux guys roasting herring over a hibachi while doing an installfest at midnight would be cool.
Linux can be a pain to install. I know from my own experience as "that guy at work who uses Linux" I get at least two questions a day. And I'm glad that every time something goes awry I know enough how to fix it (also that I started off with Slackware in 1994 so I can appreciate the newer utilities...). I think people's first Linux experience should be "here's your computer. Any questions give us or Mandrakesoft a call. NEXT!" not struggling to find out what "signal11" means and why the install craps out saying that...
Zion was the name of the community that produced pure-blood humans, but was also the term referring to the non-Matrix controlled mainframe, if I remember correctly. Actually, I was too busy looking at the cool clothes and the cool moves to be paying too much attention to the plot.
My Chinese sucks, that's why I asked about your cat.
No, the people with implants had the codes too...
Your cat's name is Bootsie???
Either us geeks get it together and launch a bunch of satellites and publish open source plans to fire bits at the skies, or more subversively, go back to the days of yore with WWIVnet/FIDO. OK sure, so we'd be going back to 14.4kbps, but hey, back then there were communities dammit and GTs... we had text based interfaces that worked, and downloading small interesting things was relatively simple.
So it'd be use the Internet for downloading the Linux ISO or reading pretty banner ads from the multinationals that now control who sees what by having hijacked ICANN, and for day to day power to the people use, go back to the Fido and WWIVnets.
...are massive install parties (tailgate parties?) at each WalMart!
Tell people to bring their PCs on down, and if they're having problems with their Mandrake and/or RedHats they're installing, just bring their PC with em to the parking lot!
YES it would have to be with a purchase from Wal-Mart - we'd be trying to help them, not compete with them... and it might put some cash back into the pockets of Mandrake, RedHat, etc... because in all fairness, they DO contribute to Linux development...
Well, I dunno. It looks very good on paper: the hardware detection and Drak(whatever) are very reassuring to the suit: it makes it seem like there're enough drivers so that driver incompatibilities won't be a problem (e.g. "I have a Sound Blaster compatible card - why doesn't this Sound Blaster driver work with my Crystal Sound C4181?")...
But I dunno... somehow I'm of two minds with this - on one hand, Linux'll end up in Podunk, Arkansas. But on the other hand, the numbers of frustration calls on it being released into the general public too soon might undermine its growth.
1) The perception that employees are complete slackers who would sleep the day away and turn in a page or two of work every two weeks...
2) If deals were worked out with coders that 1) here's your computer and T1 line and VPN 2) here's your workload, including deadlines and deliverables and specs 3) Complete said work by said date on your own time, and we're all happy... then managers might be held to the same standard.
3) If you work with sensitive information or with hardware that companies would get VERY nervous with people leaving them just in their homes (employee's house gets broken into, the prototype is stolen, etc) forget it..
But the BIGGEST reason is...
Dear God, managers would have to MANAGE. They'd have to sit down and spec stuff out, do their jobs etc. rather than get paid to walk around scowling to try and raise efficiency, while having endless "meetings" and wearing suits to look important.
1)Wouldn't slowing her down from Mach 1.5 to 0 with the use of a parachute tear this woman in half?
Something like zoom zoom zoom zoom ripcord *flap* *SPLUTCH*
2) If she blacks out, how deep a crater is she going to leave in the Earth when she hits it? I think she should be parachuted out over a graveyard so that if she messes something up, at least noone'll have to incur the cost of burying her, just slap a tombstone over the 100' wormhole her corpse'll make slamming into the ground.
RE: "TCO advantage to Linux will disappear..."
Linux's big strength isn't just FREE AS IN BEER, it's also FREE AS IN SPEECH, and until I can read kernel source for AIX, Solaris ET AL, I think Linux and FreeBSD have defininite advantages not mentioned in the Gartner article...
You used the word "Geek" and "iMac" in the same sentence.
I think what you meant was "Oh, darling! A gold-accented dual 1.2 gHZ Thunderbird, with (Debian/NetBSD/let the holy war begin), gold-thiol technology, and diamond trim! Of course I'll marry you!"