If you stick with a proprietary solution, you line yourself up to get screwed. Raise your hand if you've ever encountered a problem with microsoft tools that is _completely unsolvable_ on your end? What do you do? Wait for a patch? Don't hold your breath. If you go QT _you_ can fix it if it comes to that, or at least you have more information (ie source) to enable you to work around the issue.
With platform choices (like the RHWS), you CAN'T get screwed (to a limit). If you get the raw end of a deal you can switch with relative ease to another distro. Of course this will be a headache on its own, but not nearly the headache of getting screwed my MS and having to weigh the decision of staying screwed or porting over to another platform.
Proprietary vendors can charge less because they lock you in and you're not going anywhere (among other reasons brought up by others in this thread).
Funny how if you pay a bazillion dollars on a bunch of windows licenses you can hire some scrub a 20 grand a year to admin it, yet if you get a *free* OS, that rate magically turns into 80 grand+ per year.
Now I'm not knocking linux, cause I know of its finer points; just giving you a different perspective on what a corporation would look at when deciding this sort of stuff. ------------------------
I came upon this same dilema, but thanks to god my boss is a good friend of mine and he agreed to liscense my code and split the profit 50/50. ------------------------
Dude, this is cable TV were talking about, not the frigging electric company. Regulations needed for what? So people who bought HDTVs have the right to watch NOVA: The Mating Ritual of the East Indian Wallabi on the Discovery Channel with digital quality? If I owned a PRIVATE television channel that people don't have a GOD GIVEN RIGHT to watch, and have to pay for it, then guess what, I get to do what ever I want. Christ, I could show Ween videos in reverse all day long on it if I wanted to. That's called free enterprise my friend. ------------------------
This is slashdot, right? Since when is more regulation better?
This kinda reminds me of the airbag situation, the transportation agencies don't regulate whether or not a car has to have an airbag, yet if you make a car with an airbag, it has to expand at like 200 mph (thus decapitating younger people) or you can't install one in your car.
These people own private companies, they should be able to do what is in the best interest of their own company, after all, this is America, right?
I don't believe I stated that that was better, I was simply stating that people treat other coutries with this 'for the people, by the people' attitude, and don't put a single thought into the fact this is a country that would rather beat its people into submission rather than hear even a peep from them.
Communism is about one thing: control. Tell the people that there will be no rich people because the money will be redistributed to the poor, and they'll buy it, not realizing that they're handing over their person freedom to conduct thier lives as they see fit. ------------------------
it is really up to China to decide what their money is being spent on.
Don't you mean the money that has been pulled over the broken backs of its people though fifty years of communism, social revolution, and human rights violation? I doubt they have any say in it. ------------------------
I remember getting an X-Wing demo on 1.44 floppy from somewhere (I'm going to guess this was around 1994) and it had an animated ad for the Neon (don't remeber who made the ad right now).
I remeber thinking "this is what advertising is going to be like in the year 2000". ------------------------
Hey Katz, I don't hold any sort of grudge like so many here because your not a programmer, but could you please stop reposting your only popular news story?
I remember (prolly in the early 80's) Texas Instruments had a little pocket-type computer that your could write basic on and do a couple other things. Well, there was a little expansion pack that you could hook up to it, and use audio cassette tapes for storage. Ive always wondered why this was never adopted because it was pretty damned badass.
Why does this always have to be someones 'fault'?
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Just like people keeping around windows for the sole purpose of playing DVD's, I know people who keep it around for the sole purpose of playing games.
And lets face the fact that your non-hardcore linux users are going to be the ones with a seperate machine (or a dual boot) for Linux because they're just not comfortable enough with it use it exclusively, and when you have the option of a 15 minute install compared to getting and installing the correct version of X, mesa, and so on, windows is more appealing.
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Fightback? I was a geek in highschool, I got picked on and all that goes with the territory of being a freak/geek. Of course that was until I learned why this was happening to me: I had no social skills. I wasn't just a freak/geek, i was a completely socially inept freak/geek. Once I learned how to actually communicate with people, I was no longer viewed as just a computer nerd and such, I was weird, but i was a weird person people could hold a conversation with.
Now most of you are going to say that you should still be able to be whomever you want, but come on, these are life skills that you need, and if you don't learn em sooner or later, your going to be a social pariah in your adult life too.
I never posted on the Hellmouth stuff because Katz (although I don't hold a scathing elitist hatred for the man like most here) seems to try to oversimplify things into this comic book image of the world being divided between the smart people and jocks and preps and adults that are just jealous and want to hold you back. That's retarded, the world's a little more complicated that that. Get it together. ------------------------
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You're getting more choice with OSS, that's why.
If you stick with a proprietary solution, you line yourself up to get screwed. Raise your hand if you've ever encountered a problem with microsoft tools that is _completely unsolvable_ on your end? What do you do? Wait for a patch? Don't hold your breath. If you go QT _you_ can fix it if it comes to that, or at least you have more information (ie source) to enable you to work around the issue.
With platform choices (like the RHWS), you CAN'T get screwed (to a limit). If you get the raw end of a deal you can switch with relative ease to another distro. Of course this will be a headache on its own, but not nearly the headache of getting screwed my MS and having to weigh the decision of staying screwed or porting over to another platform.
Proprietary vendors can charge less because they lock you in and you're not going anywhere (among other reasons brought up by others in this thread).
First P. Diddy, now Mambo? The Humanity!
Some men are larger than others...
epeats and sales weren't an issue then. There's something like 115 or so lost Doctor Who episodes total.
Does it suprise anyone that a show that looks like it cost 26 cents an episode to make would have a few forgotten ones laying around?
Funny how if you pay a bazillion dollars on a bunch of windows licenses you can hire some scrub a 20 grand a year to admin it, yet if you get a *free* OS, that rate magically turns into 80 grand+ per year.
Now I'm not knocking linux, cause I know of its finer points; just giving you a different perspective on what a corporation would look at when deciding this sort of stuff.
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I came upon this same dilema, but thanks to god my boss is a good friend of mine and he agreed to liscense my code and split the profit 50/50.
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Dude, this is cable TV were talking about, not the frigging electric company. Regulations needed for what? So people who bought HDTVs have the right to watch NOVA: The Mating Ritual of the East Indian Wallabi on the Discovery Channel with digital quality? If I owned a PRIVATE television channel that people don't have a GOD GIVEN RIGHT to watch, and have to pay for it, then guess what, I get to do what ever I want. Christ, I could show Ween videos in reverse all day long on it if I wanted to. That's called free enterprise my friend.
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This kinda reminds me of the airbag situation, the transportation agencies don't regulate whether or not a car has to have an airbag, yet if you make a car with an airbag, it has to expand at like 200 mph (thus decapitating younger people) or you can't install one in your car.
These people own private companies, they should be able to do what is in the best interest of their own company, after all, this is America, right?
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Communism is about one thing: control. Tell the people that there will be no rich people because the money will be redistributed to the poor, and they'll buy it, not realizing that they're handing over their person freedom to conduct thier lives as they see fit.
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it is really up to China to decide what their money is being spent on.
Don't you mean the money that has been pulled over the broken backs of its people though fifty years of communism, social revolution, and human rights violation? I doubt they have any say in it.
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I remeber thinking "this is what advertising is going to be like in the year 2000".
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man, where do you work? Screw working, i want to setup an apartment in that warehouse of an office. That place rocks.
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Just like people keeping around windows for the sole purpose of playing DVD's, I know people who keep it around for the sole purpose of playing games.
And lets face the fact that your non-hardcore linux users are going to be the ones with a seperate machine (or a dual boot) for Linux because they're just not comfortable enough with it use it exclusively, and when you have the option of a 15 minute install compared to getting and installing the correct version of X, mesa, and so on, windows is more appealing.
At least from what I've seen.
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Now most of you are going to say that you should still be able to be whomever you want, but come on, these are life skills that you need, and if you don't learn em sooner or later, your going to be a social pariah in your adult life too.
I never posted on the Hellmouth stuff because Katz (although I don't hold a scathing elitist hatred for the man like most here) seems to try to oversimplify things into this comic book image of the world being divided between the smart people and jocks and preps and adults that are just jealous and want to hold you back. That's retarded, the world's a little more complicated that that. Get it together.
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