I guess that covers the basic things. I would give them all copies of Linux LiveCDs that they can take home and use on their home machines. LindowsLive is a good one to use. Let them see for themselves that it is not going to be a foreign OS, but just a slightly different OS.
That would be completely insane. Many managers don't have that level of experience with computers. By that, I mean they are intelligent and know how to use applications very well, but have never installed Windows in their life. You throw a liveCD at them, you better hope it runs on every laptop and home computer they might have, from video to sound to networking.
Managers might see the standard linux kernel boot messages and immediately assume that it is much more complicated than windows. If their networking doesn't work, they're not going to search the forums at gentoo.org to figure it out, they're going to think that Linux is hard to get working.
"Do I want to use DHCP or manually enter my IP address??? What the hell is an IP address? How do I open a word doc? Why is it telling me to install flash, then saying it can't find which browser I have? What is a root?"
"HP and Adobe both broadly support the implementation of the Protect Our Economy act, which requires manufacturers and software developers to implement Anti Counterfeiting measures."
Bye bye free software to compete with Adobe and people who don't want to pay for HP patents.
I was commenting the other day that the internet was ruined. I couldn't for the life of me find a review on a computer monitor. It was always stuff like:
(using the example above)
"Looking for information on Compaq iPaq battery? We are the leading Compaq iPaq battery site on internet. We plan on more Compaq iPaq battery related articles later, but we're just getting started on our site about Compaq iPaq battery. Compaq iPaq battery is a large growing part of the internet and we're happy to be able to provide information on Compaq iPaq battery."
Thats like saying that if Intel bombed AMD headquarters, it would be a good business move for them. Its not a good business move if you get sued and/or prosecuted.
Except you fail to understand that the "sweatshops" are overrun by folks who want to work there because it's the highest paying job in the region.
You idiot. Its not like their career center recommended they enter into the exciting and fast-paced world of 16 hour/day factory work. Its work there or die. You don't see a problem with that? Sure, its the highest paying job in the region!
"I can work in the factory where I am beaten for my mistakes, or I can quit my job and become a prostitute or die! Wow! Thank you america!"
Of course, I'm not an environmental nut, so I won't argue that -- just making a point.
Isn't it funny how the media has portrayed environmentalists as such nuts that you're terrified to be called one? Its because the corporations that are making the messes are the same ones paying for the media.
So of course! If you express any concern about the environment you're a left-wing commie wacko.
(Not that there aren't some left-wing commie wacko environmentalists out there)
Come on. Are there really people out there who are going to buy a brand new computer but still have a vital need for an old keyboard? Buy a freaking adapter and save some space.
Geez, you people are really depressing. Just because some of you got kicked down a notch from your $150k/year "web designer" positions during the dot-com boom to working at McDonalds doesn't mean the rest of us are suffering.
I feel the exact same way! Also, I wish those homeless people would shut the fuck up. I mean, I still have a job, so it can't be THAT hard to find something. I wish they'd stop whining and take a bath.
Your country profits from the exploitation of child labor and people caught in poverty traps... You there, unemployed developer, reading this... reap what you sow.
Its not like i'm an unemployed programmer who's ALSO the comptroller of Nike. Get a fucking clue.
Okay, now you're just exaggerating. If you have a Comp. Sci. degree the absolute minimum salary you should see is $45k. Absolute minimum.
Thats right... Keep believing in that. It will help keep your sprits up.
Many jobs around here are advertising C++ programmers, 5-10 years experience, paying $35,000. Of course, those may be one of those "Fake" ads to enable companies to hire H1Bs.
Enjoy paying your student loans! I'm going to encourage my kid to become a plumber.
Why do you dread if your Tivo dies? Is the lifetime subscription tied to one Tivo unit? If so, that is crap.
That is incorrect. If your Tivo dies, you can replace it with the same model and you can carry over the subscription. You can get it repaired (which is really a replacement) And carry over the sub. The only thing you can't do it upgrade to a newer model.
When in the hell did Slashdot become Linux only? Holy cow, he did something original, and he did it with technology. And! HOLY COW! LINUX THREW A SHITFIT!.. Yeah, 'cause that's never happened.
Building a PC and buying software is original? I feel really bad for the company that wrote the PVR software if they only sold one copy. I feel even worse for Intel.
You know how if you don't have a discount card, grocery stores will just swipe a generic card and give you the discount anyway? I was in line at Clemens Markets in Downingtown, PA. I stood there for 1-2 minutes as one guy searched desperately for his card while the cashier stood there. 1-2 minutes is a long time to wait for someone to search his wallet Finally, the person in front of me let him use her card.
I didn't have a card, and it happened to be that the things I bought were all "bogus discount" items. (A bottle of soda, $.99, but without the card, $1.59!) I told them that if they charged me the extra $3.XX, it would be the last $3 they got from me, and I'd make sure that nobody I knew would shop there again. Nope, got charged the extra $3. I wonder what genius manager thought of that policy.
In conclusion, "value cards" are basically a system of charging you more money for your right to privacy and please don't shop at Clemens Markets.
5. A Post Picard Setting way way into the future, jump forward 100-200 years
You can't go any farther into the future. The TNG era technology has already established that you can pretty much do anything. You can order the computer to solve any problem, produce any goods or services, create artificial crewmembers that are as good as the real thing, etc.
A good premise for a ST series would be similar to what you were saying about the "verge of collapse". Have a disaster that renders federation/klingon/romulan/major species computer technology useless. As a bonus, have it somehow involve the destruction of the borg for all time.
They have to retrofit what ships they have with older technology. The plot of the series can be discovering what went wrong, and defending the federation from the minor races who now have the technological advantage.
Do you really want DRM, Microsoft and the government INSIDE YOUR HEAD?
Maybe you'll be scanned for terrorists thoughts, but don't worry, someone will only look at the thought if it poses a threat to national security. If you're not a terrorist, you have nothing to worry about. Frankly, if it prevents another 9/11, i'm happy to provide our government protectors full access to my mind.
Exactly. A would-be counterfeiter would just use a different program. Unless there is going to be mandatory currency note detection in all libraries for reading and displaying images, this is not gonna work very well at all.
Well, we already all know that Linux is merely a tool used to pirate CDs and steal jobs from Microsoft, its only a matter of time before the Finnish communists start using it for printing money as well. How much longer can we allow this to continue? When will the madness end?
On the contrary, I think a software company deciding is much better than a legislator or judge. At least in the former case, you can choose a different piece of software. In the latter you have to leave the country.
Completely wrong in this software market. If you're a graphic designer, you use Photoshop. If the government chooses to legislate something, there are checks and balances and the ability of the people to fight it. If a company changes a product that you have to use, too fucking bad.
They don't need visas for traveling within the US.
Sure you do. You need a drivers license or other state issued ID to get on an airplane or drive a car. You're legally allowed to walk between states, but then again, if you're found without ID, the cops can hold you until they find out who you are.
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Despite the fact that the current office holder has been mildly to outright friendly to the goals of us geeks
MICROSOFT SETTLEMENT.
Jesus Christ. He talks about Mars for 15 minutes and suddenly you have a brain wipe.
That would be completely insane. Many managers don't have that level of experience with computers. By that, I mean they are intelligent and know how to use applications very well, but have never installed Windows in their life. You throw a liveCD at them, you better hope it runs on every laptop and home computer they might have, from video to sound to networking.
Managers might see the standard linux kernel boot messages and immediately assume that it is much more complicated than windows. If their networking doesn't work, they're not going to search the forums at gentoo.org to figure it out, they're going to think that Linux is hard to get working.
"Do I want to use DHCP or manually enter my IP address??? What the hell is an IP address? How do I open a word doc? Why is it telling me to install flash, then saying it can't find which browser I have? What is a root?"
Good: HP likes Linux and open source
Bad: HP supports DRM and "trusted computing"
They're "liking" Linux to go with the current trends put forward by IBM. They're "acting" and "planning" is evil.
3 years later:
"HP and Adobe both broadly support the implementation of the Protect Our Economy act, which requires manufacturers and software developers to implement Anti Counterfeiting measures."
Bye bye free software to compete with Adobe and people who don't want to pay for HP patents.
"Compaq iPaq battery"
_ battery.html
are URLs that look like this:
http://www.suppabiz.ws/search/results/compaq_ipaq
I was commenting the other day that the internet was ruined. I couldn't for the life of me find a review on a computer monitor. It was always stuff like:
(using the example above)
"Looking for information on Compaq iPaq battery? We are the leading Compaq iPaq battery site on internet. We plan on more Compaq iPaq battery related articles later, but we're just getting started on our site about Compaq iPaq battery. Compaq iPaq battery is a large growing part of the internet and we're happy to be able to provide information on Compaq iPaq battery."
So, Dad, what did Dell say when you called them?
"I didn't call em yet"
"Okay, well, ya know we paid for that with the computer. Let's get our money's worth..."
I dunno, it might be easier to teach your Dad computers than to teach him Hindu.
Business-wise very good move
Thats like saying that if Intel bombed AMD headquarters, it would be a good business move for them. Its not a good business move if you get sued and/or prosecuted.
Except you fail to understand that the "sweatshops" are overrun by folks who want to work there because it's the highest paying job in the region.
You idiot. Its not like their career center recommended they enter into the exciting and fast-paced world of 16 hour/day factory work. Its work there or die. You don't see a problem with that? Sure, its the highest paying job in the region!
"I can work in the factory where I am beaten for my mistakes, or I can quit my job and become a prostitute or die! Wow! Thank you america!"
The wheel spins towards the back, off course. The whole thing is cleaned and sterilized in the compartment between uses.
What do you think? Could it work?
No, I don't think it would work. I think it would tear off your testicles and spray blood across the wall, floor and ceiling in a wide arc.
Of course, I'm not an environmental nut, so I won't argue that -- just making a point.
Isn't it funny how the media has portrayed environmentalists as such nuts that you're terrified to be called one? Its because the corporations that are making the messes are the same ones paying for the media.
So of course! If you express any concern about the environment you're a left-wing commie wacko.
(Not that there aren't some left-wing commie wacko environmentalists out there)
Come on. Are there really people out there who are going to buy a brand new computer but still have a vital need for an old keyboard? Buy a freaking adapter and save some space.
Geez, you people are really depressing. Just because some of you got kicked down a notch from your $150k/year "web designer" positions during the dot-com boom to working at McDonalds doesn't mean the rest of us are suffering.
I feel the exact same way! Also, I wish those homeless people would shut the fuck up. I mean, I still have a job, so it can't be THAT hard to find something. I wish they'd stop whining and take a bath.
Is this a pro-Microsoft article? Wait, am I on Microsoft's SIDE here?
MY EYES!!! THE BURNING!!! MY EYES!!
Your country profits from the exploitation of child labor and people caught in poverty traps... You there, unemployed developer, reading this... reap what you sow.
Its not like i'm an unemployed programmer who's ALSO the comptroller of Nike. Get a fucking clue.
Okay, now you're just exaggerating. If you have a Comp. Sci. degree the absolute minimum salary you should see is $45k. Absolute minimum.
Thats right... Keep believing in that. It will help keep your sprits up.
Many jobs around here are advertising C++ programmers, 5-10 years experience, paying $35,000. Of course, those may be one of those "Fake" ads to enable companies to hire H1Bs.
Enjoy paying your student loans! I'm going to encourage my kid to become a plumber.
I think his point was to get a decent e-mail account.
Maybe my actual email domain is something like ilovedungeonsanddragons.com, and I don't want it on my resume.
Why do you dread if your Tivo dies? Is the lifetime subscription tied to one Tivo unit? If so, that is crap.
That is incorrect. If your Tivo dies, you can replace it with the same model and you can carry over the subscription. You can get it repaired (which is really a replacement) And carry over the sub. The only thing you can't do it upgrade to a newer model.
When in the hell did Slashdot become Linux only? Holy cow, he did something original, and he did it with technology. And! HOLY COW! LINUX THREW A SHITFIT! .. Yeah, 'cause that's never happened.
Building a PC and buying software is original? I feel really bad for the company that wrote the PVR software if they only sold one copy. I feel even worse for Intel.
You know how if you don't have a discount card, grocery stores will just swipe a generic card and give you the discount anyway? I was in line at Clemens Markets in Downingtown, PA. I stood there for 1-2 minutes as one guy searched desperately for his card while the cashier stood there. 1-2 minutes is a long time to wait for someone to search his wallet Finally, the person in front of me let him use her card.
I didn't have a card, and it happened to be that the things I bought were all "bogus discount" items. (A bottle of soda, $.99, but without the card, $1.59!) I told them that if they charged me the extra $3.XX, it would be the last $3 they got from me, and I'd make sure that nobody I knew would shop there again. Nope, got charged the extra $3. I wonder what genius manager thought of that policy.
In conclusion, "value cards" are basically a system of charging you more money for your right to privacy and please don't shop at Clemens Markets.
Kind of similar to the new version of Battlestar Galactica, no?
;P
You know, I didn't even think of that.
You can't go any farther into the future. The TNG era technology has already established that you can pretty much do anything. You can order the computer to solve any problem, produce any goods or services, create artificial crewmembers that are as good as the real thing, etc.
A good premise for a ST series would be similar to what you were saying about the "verge of collapse". Have a disaster that renders federation/klingon/romulan/major species computer technology useless. As a bonus, have it somehow involve the destruction of the borg for all time.
They have to retrofit what ships they have with older technology. The plot of the series can be discovering what went wrong, and defending the federation from the minor races who now have the technological advantage.
Do you really want DRM, Microsoft and the government INSIDE YOUR HEAD?
Maybe you'll be scanned for terrorists thoughts, but don't worry, someone will only look at the thought if it poses a threat to national security. If you're not a terrorist, you have nothing to worry about. Frankly, if it prevents another 9/11, i'm happy to provide our government protectors full access to my mind.
Well, we already all know that Linux is merely a tool used to pirate CDs and steal jobs from Microsoft, its only a matter of time before the Finnish communists start using it for printing money as well. How much longer can we allow this to continue? When will the madness end?
On the contrary, I think a software company deciding is much better than a legislator or judge. At least in the former case, you can choose a different piece of software. In the latter you have to leave the country.
Completely wrong in this software market. If you're a graphic designer, you use Photoshop. If the government chooses to legislate something, there are checks and balances and the ability of the people to fight it. If a company changes a product that you have to use, too fucking bad.
They don't need visas for traveling within the US.
Sure you do. You need a drivers license or other state issued ID to get on an airplane or drive a car. You're legally allowed to walk between states, but then again, if you're found without ID, the cops can hold you until they find out who you are.