I see that as you wanting something from them - their money. If you want their money, you accept their icky MSPublisher doc. That doesn't invalidate the rule.
Or playing most media files or doing any of those things that are much easier on Windows (playing DVDs, downloading pics from a digital camera, running store-bought software, playing games, etc.)
I don't play games or buy software from stores (no, I lie - I did buy an OSS CD for a few bucks at a computer store because it had the latest versions of OpenOffice, Mozilla and GIMP on it - for Windows, Mac and Linux).
But the other things - no problem. I stick a DVD into my laptop running Linux and immediately Totem starts up. I download a media file from a website and a media player starts up (usually Totem). Word documents with tables that I open in OOo sometimes have the edge of the table outside the page margin, but that's fixed with a few mouse clicks - no worse than opening the word doc in the wrong version of word.
Digital camera - plug it into the USB port and the camera appears as an external drive full of jpg files. Maybe windows launches some photo album app but I prefer to just copy the files to a folder on the laptop. (I just realised I've been using KDE so long I said "folder" instead of "directory" - I'll have to hand in my geek badge).
While I use linux myself and agree with most of your rant, I never use "software bloat" as a reason to avoid windows. Not since I started using KDE and OpenOffice. If you're using a console or a light window manager, and vi for editing, then you can talk about other OSes having software bloat. I use OOo because it's free and useful, not because it's light or fast (it's neither).
The only thing anyone of my geek friends have ever used Linux for, is to Tinker with an OS that gives you complete control of your Computer.
Huh? Maybe IHBT, but I hardly consider business related emailing, researching on google, online banking, producing invoices in oocalc, producing teaching resources on oowriter (my wife is a teacher), writing sermons in LyX (my wife and I are laypreachers) etc to be "tinkering".
The only place I use windows is at my day job, though most of that is using web-apps and a 3270 session (I work in a call-centre), both of which can be done on a *nix box. I use windows at work because that's what they have, not because it's needed for the apps they run (it isn't).
I help my father run a business, and all the admin is done on a linux box.
Nothing is mentioned about setting up a private cell.
Well, not in those words. But he did ask about using his normal GSM handset which would connect to a GSM transceiver connected to his asterix pbx, in other words a private cell.
I just wish there was a good open-source solution for this that didn't mean going back to a Linux/BSD firewall/proxy
What's wrong with a *nix firewall/proxy? I know several people running IPCOP with the DansGuardian addon. The only downside is an extra box humming away
My children (most probably) won't have to go to a dead tree Encyclopedia Brittanica to do term paper research and thus have the opportnity (like I did) to find interesting articles while flipping thru the pages trying to find the proper article.
Instead they'll have the opportunity to find interesting articles while trying to get the search terms right to find the proper article.
You think the cops don't have a computer on their desk connected to some nation-wide crime-busting database? They do here in New Zealand, which is hardly the most developed country in the world, so surely the good ol' US of A would have something similar.
Of course you can't. But if you could persuade people to restrict bonking to long-term committed relationships, it would slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
Anyway, your original post wasn't about whether abstinance was achievable, but only whether it could stop HIV/AIDS.
There are pro-lifers who are anti-war, anti-capital-punishment and anti-euthanasia. I am one of them.
I don't like killing anyone for any reason. However, I feel I'm in the minority. I don't support religious political parties in my country because of the inconsistancy regarding life (and one of the religious political leaders has just been jailed for molesting kids).
Information "wants" to be free in the same way that water "wants" to lie flat. i.e. it is the nature of information that it is hard to contain. The OSS philosophy is to accept this nature of information and incorporates that into its business model.
Information can either be useful to all parties, or could be used against one party. In the latter case, the affected party has a right to "contain" that information. That includes proprietary source - opening the source is voluntary.
At least, that's my take on things. Other opinions may vary.
Given that your home life can DEFINITELY negatively impact your work life (anyone ever worked with a divorce-zombie?) where should an employees draw the line?
They should draw the line at measuring performance at work. If they want to be nice, they can make subsidised counselling available, but they should butt out as long as there is no evidence of work performance being affected. But then, I live in New Zealand which has had a Labour government for a few terms. Things may change here if the right-leaning parties get elected this September.
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I see that as you wanting something from them - their money.
If you want their money, you accept their icky MSPublisher doc. That doesn't invalidate the rule.
Or playing most media files or doing any of those things that are much easier on Windows (playing DVDs, downloading pics from a digital camera, running store-bought software, playing games, etc.)
I don't play games or buy software from stores (no, I lie - I did buy an OSS CD for a few bucks at a computer store because it had the latest versions of OpenOffice, Mozilla and GIMP on it - for Windows, Mac and Linux).
But the other things - no problem.
I stick a DVD into my laptop running Linux and immediately Totem starts up. I download a media file from a website and a media player starts up (usually Totem). Word documents with tables that I open in OOo sometimes have the edge of the table outside the page margin, but that's fixed with a few mouse clicks - no worse than opening the word doc in the wrong version of word.
Digital camera - plug it into the USB port and the camera appears as an external drive full of jpg files. Maybe windows launches some photo album app but I prefer to just copy the files to a folder on the laptop. (I just realised I've been using KDE so long I said "folder" instead of "directory" - I'll have to hand in my geek badge).
support (gotta know enough about Windows day to day to handle the calls from friends, family, etc.)
I don't go out of my way to learn how to do stuff in windows for that very reason - I need an excuse not to support windows.
Simple rule:
If I want something from someone else, I accept whatever format they chose.
If someone else wants something from me, then I get to chose the format.
Whoever has what someone else wants gets to call the shots. Suck it up.
While I use linux myself and agree with most of your rant, I never use "software bloat" as a reason to avoid windows. Not since I started using KDE and OpenOffice. If you're using a console or a light window manager, and vi for editing, then you can talk about other OSes having software bloat. I use OOo because it's free and useful, not because it's light or fast (it's neither).
The only thing anyone of my geek friends have ever used Linux for, is to Tinker with an OS that gives you complete control of your Computer.
Huh? Maybe IHBT, but I hardly consider business related emailing, researching on google, online banking, producing invoices in oocalc, producing teaching resources on oowriter (my wife is a teacher), writing sermons in LyX (my wife and I are laypreachers) etc to be "tinkering".
The only place I use windows is at my day job, though most of that is using web-apps and a 3270 session (I work in a call-centre), both of which can be done on a *nix box. I use windows at work because that's what they have, not because it's needed for the apps they run (it isn't).
I help my father run a business, and all the admin is done on a linux box.
...needs some serious retraining in the area of common sense. (Emphasis mine).
People keeping using this phrase "common sense" when in fact they mean "good sense". I contend that good sense is in fact not very common.
You make the mistake of thinking you can educate the fundamental stupidity out of people. You can't.
I'm stealing that for a new sig.
This is one of the reasons why I'm saving up to home school our kids (when we have them).
That's just this side of entrapment.
I would say that's gone over to the other side. It is entrapment.
Nothing is mentioned about setting up a private cell.
Well, not in those words. But he did ask about using his normal GSM handset which would connect to a GSM transceiver connected to his asterix pbx, in other words a private cell.
IANAEE but I share your concern.
I will stick to wired LANs until my wife and I have had our children and don't intend to have any more.
I just wish there was a good open-source solution for this that didn't mean going back to a Linux/BSD firewall/proxy
What's wrong with a *nix firewall/proxy?
I know several people running IPCOP with the DansGuardian addon. The only downside is an extra box humming away
My children (most probably) won't have to go to a dead tree Encyclopedia Brittanica to do term paper research and thus have the opportnity (like I did) to find interesting articles while flipping thru the pages trying to find the proper article.
Instead they'll have the opportunity to find interesting articles while trying to get the search terms right to find the proper article.
Logo, like some of the others have said.
Then, when he gets older, something like python (just as easy as basic but without the bad habits).
find me a DBA with a good knowledge of data structures and orthoganol design who will agree with you about Access.
My brother-in-law.
If you can, then I'll gladly show you an MS zealot.
Uncanny! He's that too!
I declare you the winner!
You think the cops don't have a computer on their desk connected to some nation-wide crime-busting database?
They do here in New Zealand, which is hardly the most developed country in the world, so surely the good ol' US of A would have something similar.
How about placing one of those breakfast-in-bed trays or dinner-at-the-TV trays on his lap, and putting the notebook/laptop on that?
Of course you can't. But if you could persuade people to restrict bonking to long-term committed relationships, it would slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
Anyway, your original post wasn't about whether abstinance was achievable, but only whether it could stop HIV/AIDS.
Your = 2nd Person
His/Her/Its = 3rd Person
(And notice the lack of apostrophe in any of those possessive pronouns).
Saying that suicides are a good measure of the value of life is like saying abstenance will stop the spread of HIV/AIDs.
Abstinance + not-sharing-needles + screening-blood-used-for-transfusions probably will stop, are at least slow down, the spread of HIV/AIDS. Duh!
There are pro-lifers who are anti-war, anti-capital-punishment and anti-euthanasia. I am one of them.
I don't like killing anyone for any reason. However, I feel I'm in the minority. I don't support religious political parties in my country because of the inconsistancy regarding life (and one of the religious political leaders has just been jailed for molesting kids).
Information "wants" to be free in the same way that water "wants" to lie flat.
i.e. it is the nature of information that it is hard to contain.
The OSS philosophy is to accept this nature of information and incorporates that into its business model.
Information can either be useful to all parties, or could be used against one party. In the latter case, the affected party has a right to "contain" that information. That includes proprietary source - opening the source is voluntary.
At least, that's my take on things. Other opinions may vary.
Given that your home life can DEFINITELY negatively impact your work life (anyone ever worked with a divorce-zombie?) where should an employees draw the line?
They should draw the line at measuring performance at work. If they want to be nice, they can make subsidised counselling available, but they should butt out as long as there is no evidence of work performance being affected.
But then, I live in New Zealand which has had a Labour government for a few terms. Things may change here if the right-leaning parties get elected this September.
[yadda yadda tempory admin priviliges yadda yadda] ... and trust them to log out.
Of course they'll have to log out eventually. It's Windows. I can never keep my workstation at work logged in without reboot for more than a week.