Ironically, when I first tried Enlightenment (in the '90s) It was the heavy weight eye-candy desktop that was sort of the compiz of the day. (I think I had a 300mhz CPU and a Voodoo video card IIRC)
I am saying that an unexpectedly large number Kenyans could indicate that the rumors about a Google hub in North Africa are to be taken very seriously, or at least much more seriously than if their are no Kenyans, especially if it is the legal and finance departments that have a lot of Kenyans.
If you know what is normal for the industry, deviations from the norm can lead to some insightful questions. Such as "Where did Google get all the 'random demographic'?"
What the merc is suing for is the Government data about the ethnic makeup of Googles employees.
Google is demanding that that Government data not be released to the Merc.
Even if Google is correct, it is still sort of hard to see how Google fighting this will result in anything good for google.
The very high importance that Google puts on college GPA probably skews the hiring process away from more entrepreneurial cultures and towards the more academically oriented ones.
Is Google saying their business strategy actually differs based on the people they employ? In this context, how is that not racist?
No,
What they are saying is that by looking at the racial makeup of Google employees you can figure out what they are going to be doing next, or what markets they are moving into next, or at least they use that information to figure that out about their competitors.
Yes, and how well did Vista do until those problems were fixed? And even afterwards?
Compared to Linux on the desktop?
More than an order of magnitude better? (0.7% to 27%)
I use Linux on my desktop and have for over a decade now, and don't really see what I don't have besides Adobe Creative Suite.
Oh, and I don't have IE or Safari. which sucks for webdevelopment, but causes me to basically treat them as X grade web browsers, although I can see the reason for treated IE6 as a C grade web browser along with NS4 and IE5 (you have to downgrade for C grade web browsers because they lie about what they can do and do it wrong.)
While all of the problems you describe are true, It doesn't really explain why anything other than a Mac is popular, because the problems in windows are, overall, worse.
Linux has lots of problems with hardware, but it also has fewer problems than windows. Windows has a few specific pain points covered better than Linux, but upper management at microsoft complained about the horrible driver support for Vista.
The list of pain points in Linux are becoming well known, and well defined problems, which is probably almost as important as actual support, as the risk is much lower if you know, a, r, and x won't work, but I can think I can live with that, as opposed to well, almost everything should work let's try it out and see if it works. A tester that runs in windows that grabs the current kernel and modules from Fedora/CentOS/Ubuntu/SuSE/Debian/Slackware/OtherDistro and says - here is what will and won't work with this distribution, here is what will work if you compile in extra kernel modules, and here is what has limited support, might actually be of more use than improved hardware support (as a Linux user I am a big fan of improved hardware support, I am just not convinced that hardware support is what is the differentiator between Windows and Linux. What I suspect is that If there was an effort to get five Ubuntu DVDs into the hands of every person in Washington DC and the surrounding area, the uptake of Linux in US Government would be quite high.
If the legal system operated as intended, this would be true.
However, ample evidence has shown that the legal system is well and truly broken, and that if you have sufficient money/power/political weight behind you, there will be no penalty regardless of the crime.
Except for having to pay for attorneys and be involved in litigation, which is probably a hundred thousand dollars plus for a simple case, plus you will need to spend probably forty to eighty hours meeting with your attorneys (which you will be billed for.)
Although to Europe 16 year copyrights in the United States meant that for things like Charles Dickens works they were about an order of magnitude cheaper in the US because the were in the public domain in the US but not Europe.
Bootlegging was done in the 1700's, because copying has been easy since Gutenberg.
During most of the time that the US was going from irrelevant former British colony to World Super Power the US had relatively short and limited copyrights compared to the rest of the world.
Mozart and Shakespeare were never afforded copyright of their works, and were economically prosperous as artists. It is not entirely clear that copyright law actually accomplishes what it was intended to, whether the intent is the protection of printers or artists.
Books and maps were originally allowed to be copyrighted for 16 years as this was viewed as necessary to help people recoup their costs of production, newspapers, handbills, plays, and music were not allowed copyright protection.
With on demand publishing the cost of publication is essentially covered by the purchaser, negating the original rational for copyright protection for books.
If the point of copyright protection is to increase the number of works available to the public, in both quantity of titles and the availability of those works, it would seem like the only form of work that requires substantial investment, in 2010, is movies. Most other things can be done with a capital expense of a $300US computer and an internet connection.
With two hundred years of tweaking copyright law there has become a perception of rights of creators. While this may be a worthwhile endeavor to purse such an objective, it has never been openly made, but rather stuck in the back door.
Claiming credit for something someone else did is slander under certain circumstances, and there is a lot to be said for truthful acknowledgement of creation, but a creative work is generally more than the sum of its parts, and the pro copyright supporters seem to be failing to acknowledge that copyright as it is currently implemented causes a great number of works to be unavailable to the general public, in direct opposition to the intent of granting copyright, and the pro copyright supports do not seem to be answering this rather important question. — How is copyright helping create more books in todays world where we have word processes on almost every desk, and multiple printing on demand services?
If you have a lot of database stuff, Visual Studio can be much cheaper to develop for, so long as you ignore Microsoft's Architectural Group. For me, moving to Linux isn't just about saving money, really, its to break free from the corporate brain cramp that is Microsoft Architectural guidelines. Visual Studio and C# are great tools, but, if you have to use evaporate 2x as productive multiplier to do 10x as much stupid stuff, there's hardly a savings.
On the office front:
OpenOffice's spreadsheet is not even close to Office 2007 Excel. We developers can say Open Office spreadsheet is good enough, but telling that to someone who lives and breaths Excel is only for laughs.
However people that use their spreadsheets for statistics will tell you that using Excel for you calculation is about as productive as using substituting rand() for your equations.
Here is one of several papers about the fact that Microsoft has no interest in fixing the broken nature of excel for statistical work.
Although lack of sunlight has been shown to be a cause of vitamin D deficiency in general populations of people and the health issues that go with that.
Australia and New Zealand's cover up campaign to ward off skin cancer turned out to do more harm than good, for the general population.
We're talking about C++ as a CGI script. Who cares about memory leaks that only last for the duration of an HTTP request, which is a fraction of a second? The real problem with memory leaks is when you have a long-running process like single-process web browsers.
But nobody that cares about performance runs cgi they run fast-cgi which has reduced load times, but comes with a penalty of potential memory leaks as a single process handles many requests.
There is starting to be a realization that civil court is basically out of the reach of the lower 70% of the US citizenry. and this is starting to strain the fabric of society.
There is still no excuse for Toyota not coding the ECU to cut throttle when it senses that the driver has BOTH the throttle and the brakes on simultaneously.
Steps for starting a manual transmission car pointed up a steep grade:
Press brake pedal Hard
Release Parking Brake
Depress Clutch
Start Engine
Depress throttle without releasing the brake (Heal on break, toes on throttle)
Release Clutch and break smothly so the car does not roll backwards.
Surprisingly, If that woman is white and has a crucifix around her neck, The odds of her being Republican are quite high, and the variety of Republican that calls people like McCain and Schwarzenegger R.I.N.O.s (Republican In Name Only)
Listening to voters explain their voting reasons is enough to make you doubt the general intelligence of the general public.
To keep it fair, Environmentalists voted overwhelmingly for Obama, even though McCain said he would end mountain top removal coal mining, and Obama was only willing to look at mitigating the groundwater contamination. Running political campaigns will make you very cynical.
I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. And even if I were a lawyer, I am not your lawyer. That said, the limits on verbal agreements are pretty narrow in the US. Basically:
Agreements to sell tangible property, such as a computer or car, worth more than $500
Agreements regarding the sale of real estate
Agreements that can’t realistically be completed in less than one year, such as a project with three six-month deliverables
Agreements that someone else will pay you, such as when someone who does not have authority to speak for the company promises that the company will pay you
Any transfer of copyright ownership
Are not able to be made with a verbal contract. Everything else goes. For example, multi million dollar stock transactions are done verbally every work day. (yes end of day settlement does turn into a he said she said discussion with millions on the line during market downturns.)
So, in the US a company sales team that promises that it can duplicate Google.com in six months for ten million dollars, could be screwed if the company cashes the check. Even if no executive officer signs off on it. (Then again a company that is depositing ten million dollar checks without oversight is screwed anyways.)
The missing number that allows you to lie with statistics is:
what percentage of the income is made by the top 1% of tax payers?
I would guess it is about 98.8%
Do you see the problem with your argument now?
Mozilla does not own all the code in Firefox, otherwise their would not have been such a todo about getting all the developers to allow the triple licensing.
The flash videos seem to skip a little more than the html5 videos for me with:
Chromium 4.0.304.0 (Developer Build 36483)
WebKit 532.9
V8 2.0.6.1
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.304.0 Safari/532.9
But I don't notice a huge difference between them, other than the videos still play when flash(64bit) crashes, as it tends to do at the end of the day.
There are a handful of high profile things that do not have opensource Linux drivers. (NVidia video cards are probably going to get supported this year, despite the best efforts of NVidia.)
If you don't believe me, go check Balmer's quotes about Linux hardware support vs. windows hardware support.
Counter intutively, lack of a stable ABI has helped Linux develop the driver support that no other operating system is close to. If customers demand a Linux driver, it is so much harder to provide it as a binary instead of as source that the vast majority of the time the manufacturers either provide the source or documentation so the Linux community can create open source drivers, the net effect is that drivers for some specialized hardware is only available for Linux and DOS, there is also hardware that has Linux and Windows XP drivers, there is also hardware that only has Windows 7 and Linux drivers.
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Ironically, when I first tried Enlightenment (in the '90s) It was the heavy weight eye-candy desktop that was sort of the compiz of the day. (I think I had a 300mhz CPU and a Voodoo video card IIRC)
I am saying that an unexpectedly large number Kenyans could indicate that the rumors about a Google hub in North Africa are to be taken very seriously, or at least much more seriously than if their are no Kenyans, especially if it is the legal and finance departments that have a lot of Kenyans.
If you know what is normal for the industry, deviations from the norm can lead to some insightful questions. Such as "Where did Google get all the 'random demographic'?"
No you got it wrong.
What the merc is suing for is the Government data about the ethnic makeup of Googles employees.
Google is demanding that that Government data not be released to the Merc.
Even if Google is correct, it is still sort of hard to see how Google fighting this will result in anything good for google.
The very high importance that Google puts on college GPA probably skews the hiring process away from more entrepreneurial cultures and towards the more academically oriented ones.
Is Google saying their business strategy actually differs based on the people they employ? In this context, how is that not racist?
No,
What they are saying is that by looking at the racial makeup of Google employees you can figure out what they are going to be doing next, or what markets they are moving into next, or at least they use that information to figure that out about their competitors.
Yes, and how well did Vista do until those problems were fixed? And even afterwards?
Compared to Linux on the desktop?
More than an order of magnitude better? (0.7% to 27%)
I use Linux on my desktop and have for over a decade now, and don't really see what I don't have besides Adobe Creative Suite.
Oh, and I don't have IE or Safari. which sucks for webdevelopment, but causes me to basically treat them as X grade web browsers, although I can see the reason for treated IE6 as a C grade web browser along with NS4 and IE5 (you have to downgrade for C grade web browsers because they lie about what they can do and do it wrong.)
While all of the problems you describe are true, It doesn't really explain why anything other than a Mac is popular, because the problems in windows are, overall, worse.
Linux has lots of problems with hardware, but it also has fewer problems than windows. Windows has a few specific pain points covered better than Linux, but upper management at microsoft complained about the horrible driver support for Vista.
The list of pain points in Linux are becoming well known, and well defined problems, which is probably almost as important as actual support, as the risk is much lower if you know, a, r, and x won't work, but I can think I can live with that, as opposed to well, almost everything should work let's try it out and see if it works. A tester that runs in windows that grabs the current kernel and modules from Fedora/CentOS/Ubuntu/SuSE/Debian/Slackware/OtherDistro and says - here is what will and won't work with this distribution, here is what will work if you compile in extra kernel modules, and here is what has limited support, might actually be of more use than improved hardware support (as a Linux user I am a big fan of improved hardware support, I am just not convinced that hardware support is what is the differentiator between Windows and Linux. What I suspect is that If there was an effort to get five Ubuntu DVDs into the hands of every person in Washington DC and the surrounding area, the uptake of Linux in US Government would be quite high.
If the legal system operated as intended, this would be true.
However, ample evidence has shown that the legal system is well and truly broken, and that if you have sufficient money/power/political weight behind you, there will be no penalty regardless of the crime.
Except for having to pay for attorneys and be involved in litigation, which is probably a hundred thousand dollars plus for a simple case, plus you will need to spend probably forty to eighty hours meeting with your attorneys (which you will be billed for.)
Although to Europe 16 year copyrights in the United States meant that for things like Charles Dickens works they were about an order of magnitude cheaper in the US because the were in the public domain in the US but not Europe.
Bootlegging was done in the 1700's, because copying has been easy since Gutenberg.
During most of the time that the US was going from irrelevant former British colony to World Super Power the US had relatively short and limited copyrights compared to the rest of the world.
Mozart and Shakespeare were never afforded copyright of their works, and were economically prosperous as artists. It is not entirely clear that copyright law actually accomplishes what it was intended to, whether the intent is the protection of printers or artists.
Books and maps were originally allowed to be copyrighted for 16 years as this was viewed as necessary to help people recoup their costs of production, newspapers, handbills, plays, and music were not allowed copyright protection.
With on demand publishing the cost of publication is essentially covered by the purchaser, negating the original rational for copyright protection for books.
If the point of copyright protection is to increase the number of works available to the public, in both quantity of titles and the availability of those works, it would seem like the only form of work that requires substantial investment, in 2010, is movies. Most other things can be done with a capital expense of a $300US computer and an internet connection.
With two hundred years of tweaking copyright law there has become a perception of rights of creators. While this may be a worthwhile endeavor to purse such an objective, it has never been openly made, but rather stuck in the back door.
Claiming credit for something someone else did is slander under certain circumstances, and there is a lot to be said for truthful acknowledgement of creation, but a creative work is generally more than the sum of its parts, and the pro copyright supporters seem to be failing to acknowledge that copyright as it is currently implemented causes a great number of works to be unavailable to the general public, in direct opposition to the intent of granting copyright, and the pro copyright supports do not seem to be answering this rather important question. — How is copyright helping create more books in todays world where we have word processes on almost every desk, and multiple printing on demand services?
On the developer front:
If you have a lot of database stuff, Visual Studio can be much cheaper to develop for, so long as you ignore Microsoft's Architectural Group. For me, moving to Linux isn't just about saving money, really, its to break free from the corporate brain cramp that is Microsoft Architectural guidelines. Visual Studio and C# are great tools, but, if you have to use evaporate 2x as productive multiplier to do 10x as much stupid stuff, there's hardly a savings.
On the office front:
OpenOffice's spreadsheet is not even close to Office 2007 Excel. We developers can say Open Office spreadsheet is good enough, but telling that to someone who lives and breaths Excel is only for laughs.
However people that use their spreadsheets for statistics will tell you that using Excel for you calculation is about as productive as using substituting rand() for your equations.
Here is one of several papers about the fact that Microsoft has no interest in fixing the broken nature of excel for statistical work.
What, the average Obama supporter?
... and the average McCain supporter.
This is aimed at everyone that was gullible enough to vote GOP or Democrat.
Although lack of sunlight has been shown to be a cause of vitamin D deficiency in general populations of people and the health issues that go with that.
Australia and New Zealand's cover up campaign to ward off skin cancer turned out to do more harm than good, for the general population.
We're talking about C++ as a CGI script. Who cares about memory leaks that only last for the duration of an HTTP request, which is a fraction of a second? The real problem with memory leaks is when you have a long-running process like single-process web browsers.
But nobody that cares about performance runs cgi they run fast-cgi which has reduced load times, but comes with a penalty of potential memory leaks as a single process handles many requests.
I'm sure this is redundant, obvious, etc, but ... what a tragedy.
For all involved.
Removing it is fine until an update/reinstall brings it back. Telling the browser to not trust that entity at all is what I'm talking about.
As long as the update does not delete your local preferences it should work.
The recent history has been to shoot the family of the Judge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Lefkow .
There is starting to be a realization that civil court is basically out of the reach of the lower 70% of the US citizenry. and this is starting to strain the fabric of society.
There is still no excuse for Toyota not coding the ECU to cut throttle when it senses that the driver has BOTH the throttle and the brakes on simultaneously.
Steps for starting a manual transmission car pointed up a steep grade:
Do you see the problem with your solution?
The real world is messy.
= democrat
Surprisingly, If that woman is white and has a crucifix around her neck, The odds of her being Republican are quite high, and the variety of Republican that calls people like McCain and Schwarzenegger R.I.N.O.s (Republican In Name Only)
Listening to voters explain their voting reasons is enough to make you doubt the general intelligence of the general public.
To keep it fair, Environmentalists voted overwhelmingly for Obama, even though McCain said he would end mountain top removal coal mining, and Obama was only willing to look at mitigating the groundwater contamination. Running political campaigns will make you very cynical.
I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. And even if I were a lawyer, I am not your lawyer. That said, the limits on verbal agreements are pretty narrow in the US. Basically:
Are not able to be made with a verbal contract. Everything else goes. For example, multi million dollar stock transactions are done verbally every work day. (yes end of day settlement does turn into a he said she said discussion with millions on the line during market downturns.)
So, in the US a company sales team that promises that it can duplicate Google.com in six months for ten million dollars, could be screwed if the company cashes the check. Even if no executive officer signs off on it. (Then again a company that is depositing ten million dollar checks without oversight is screwed anyways.)
Moodle, Mahara, Koha, Ubuntu, Mandriva
Is the weirdology in software naming caused by the lack of available domain names or something? Just asking...
Trademark law.
Try finding a name that is available in 150 countries. The first one that you don't hate is the one to go with.
maybe for the likes of you and I, but for most people out there just moving the button across the screen stumps them.
i'd be pissed off if my kid was being taught to use applications 99% of the business world don't use.
99% of the world won't be using any 2010 software in 2020.
20 years ago IRIX was what you needed to know if you wanted to do CGI work.
Now IRIX has been replaced by OSX, Linux, and Windows XP/7
I don't get this fascination with teaching kids what is used by the business world.
In twenty years the business world will be running the software written by the kids in elementary school today.
Every kid should use a word processor that he or she wrote, at least once.
The ability to go, "where would I have put that?", makes learning random programs much easier.
Finally, I deserve to be moderated down for responding to a troll
The missing number that allows you to lie with statistics is: what percentage of the income is made by the top 1% of tax payers? I would guess it is about 98.8% Do you see the problem with your argument now?
Mozilla does not own all the code in Firefox, otherwise their would not have been such a todo about getting all the developers to allow the triple licensing.
But I don't notice a huge difference between them, other than the videos still play when flash(64bit) crashes, as it tends to do at the end of the day.
Not as bad as Windows driver support.
There are a handful of high profile things that do not have opensource Linux drivers. (NVidia video cards are probably going to get supported this year, despite the best efforts of NVidia.)
If you don't believe me, go check Balmer's quotes about Linux hardware support vs. windows hardware support.
Counter intutively, lack of a stable ABI has helped Linux develop the driver support that no other operating system is close to. If customers demand a Linux driver, it is so much harder to provide it as a binary instead of as source that the vast majority of the time the manufacturers either provide the source or documentation so the Linux community can create open source drivers, the net effect is that drivers for some specialized hardware is only available for Linux and DOS, there is also hardware that has Linux and Windows XP drivers, there is also hardware that only has Windows 7 and Linux drivers.