Red Hat has name recognition which is worth alot. True, the hardcore Linux crowd would flip out and run from Red Hat - yet there is an emerging wave of late adopters coming around. Having a well established brand gives you quite an advantage with the low tech plebians. Some of these people who who might be wanting to try Linux may be hesitating on their perception that they couldn't get decent tech support for it. This may or not be the case, but the perception IS there.
The existing Linux community has done such a good job touting itself that it is now garnering the attention of the "hapless end user market." There is alot of money there, and Microsoft can smell it. Microsoft can curb the loss of its userbase by offering up its version of the alternative. Add some marketing spin and viola!
What I think that the/. crowd usually misses is the perspective of the "average end user." This group couldn't give a rat's ass about who makes what Linux distro, that's part of what is preventing them from adopting it - it's too confusing to them. If you can convince the less informed that you offer up all the greatness of Linux, with the ease of installing Windows (come on, it IS easy), then you have positioned yourself to be the first choice of adoption by those who don't know what they are doing. Microsoft also has the resources to change RH to include the drivers for everything under the sun, that alone is huge.
There is also the outside chance that Microsoft could be really benevolent with this and begin releasing a version of Windows that comes with the ability to dual boot to it's flavor of Linux. I'm not holding my breath there, but it could happen. Or not.
I think the problem with this is that the student was asked to show the security flaw. When he did, he was punished. Looks like a case of "You wouldn't have found it if you weren't where you weren't supposed to be." This is typical public school, Zero Tolerance BS. The "computer teacher" probably was embarassed, and had a little backroom talk with the principal to cover up his lack of knowledge. Once he convinced the principal that the student was the problem, while saving his own ass, it was all downhill for the student.
They already have a drunk driving simulator. You can read about it here.
Also, I know that Georgia just passed legislation that would allocate more money to public schools for these driving simulators.
What I would really like to see these guys do is incorporate some hydrolics for when they pit, so they could feel the car lift and drop when the tires get changed.
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One of the things that all these damn legislators keep doing is looking at the problem from THEIR perspective. I don't know about you, but I have a little bit of trouble understanding the motivations and though procees of children under 18. And I certainly don't know what truly influences them. ATTENTION LAW MAKING OFFICIALS -
I am most certain that you do not know what a 15 year old latchkey kid from Georgia thinks about when he KNOWS he is alone. And there is no way to know. Maybe the child DOES think about killing the bully at school, or offing the teacher that embarrased him in class, or blowing up what he believes is the structure to blame for his lack of influence on the world and the frustrating constraints that aren't fully understood by him. BUT, you can stop him from ACTUALLY DOING THESE THINGS! Not by adding restrictions that are a little out of his worldview to completely understand, that will just cause more frustration.
Parents, step up to the damn plate! I was a latchkey kid, I saw my dad on weekends, I saw my mom 3 hours a day....but, when I did see them, they TALKED to me. Forced me to put away my toys and INTERACT. Repeat with me...INTERACT. Form boundries, give them tools to deal with opposing forces without violence. What does a child with no boundries do when he wants to rebel?
And if one day I have to kill your child defending myself from him, you just created two killers.
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Red Hat has name recognition which is worth alot. True, the hardcore Linux crowd would flip out and run from Red Hat - yet there is an emerging wave of late adopters coming around. Having a well established brand gives you quite an advantage with the low tech plebians. Some of these people who who might be wanting to try Linux may be hesitating on their perception that they couldn't get decent tech support for it. This may or not be the case, but the perception IS there.
/. crowd usually misses is the perspective of the "average end user." This group couldn't give a rat's ass about who makes what Linux distro, that's part of what is preventing them from adopting it - it's too confusing to them. If you can convince the less informed that you offer up all the greatness of Linux, with the ease of installing Windows (come on, it IS easy), then you have positioned yourself to be the first choice of adoption by those who don't know what they are doing. Microsoft also has the resources to change RH to include the drivers for everything under the sun, that alone is huge.
The existing Linux community has done such a good job touting itself that it is now garnering the attention of the "hapless end user market." There is alot of money there, and Microsoft can smell it. Microsoft can curb the loss of its userbase by offering up its version of the alternative. Add some marketing spin and viola!
What I think that the
There is also the outside chance that Microsoft could be really benevolent with this and begin releasing a version of Windows that comes with the ability to dual boot to it's flavor of Linux. I'm not holding my breath there, but it could happen. Or not.
I think the problem with this is that the student was asked to show the security flaw. When he did, he was punished. Looks like a case of "You wouldn't have found it if you weren't where you weren't supposed to be." This is typical public school, Zero Tolerance BS. The "computer teacher" probably was embarassed, and had a little backroom talk with the principal to cover up his lack of knowledge. Once he convinced the principal that the student was the problem, while saving his own ass, it was all downhill for the student.
They already have a drunk driving simulator. You can read about it here.
Also, I know that Georgia just passed legislation that would allocate more money to public schools for these driving simulators.
What I would really like to see these guys do is incorporate some hydrolics for when they pit, so they could feel the car lift and drop when the tires get changed.
One of the things that all these damn legislators keep doing is looking at the problem from THEIR perspective. I don't know about you, but I have a little bit of trouble understanding the motivations and though procees of children under 18. And I certainly don't know what truly influences them. ATTENTION LAW MAKING OFFICIALS - I am most certain that you do not know what a 15 year old latchkey kid from Georgia thinks about when he KNOWS he is alone. And there is no way to know. Maybe the child DOES think about killing the bully at school, or offing the teacher that embarrased him in class, or blowing up what he believes is the structure to blame for his lack of influence on the world and the frustrating constraints that aren't fully understood by him. BUT, you can stop him from ACTUALLY DOING THESE THINGS! Not by adding restrictions that are a little out of his worldview to completely understand, that will just cause more frustration. Parents, step up to the damn plate! I was a latchkey kid, I saw my dad on weekends, I saw my mom 3 hours a day....but, when I did see them, they TALKED to me. Forced me to put away my toys and INTERACT. Repeat with me...INTERACT. Form boundries, give them tools to deal with opposing forces without violence. What does a child with no boundries do when he wants to rebel? And if one day I have to kill your child defending myself from him, you just created two killers.