Actually, when I was a programmer, I'd always put random shit in my comments. It was a good way to vent. I can't count the number of times I was having a bad day, then I ran into some other developers' bizarre comments that made me feel a hell of a lot better.
In fact, a certain state's Medicare billing system is full of comments discussing AC/DC's music and my personal treatise on pizza.
Are there problems with brownouts in NYC, too? Wow, if both LA and NYC don't have enough juice, then we may be seeing the first *real* practical limits of the massive human overpopulation. Awesome.
"Normal people don't get up in the morning and wonder how they can steal or trick someone."
That's amazing that this guy can define a "normal" person since psychiatrisys and psychologists have been trying to do this for many, many years. I happen to disagree with him, in fact.
When will people understand that Linux is for real men who honed their skillz by walking uphill both ways to the mainframe building in order to run their punch card programs?::sigh::
I *totally* understand that, which is why it doesn't really do anything for me (more often than not, it literally doesn't do anything for me).
Why would I go there when there are numerous other coffee shops that require nothing of the sort?
You might have no reason to go there, but some of us who aren't penny-pinching corporate whores may go to the little guy, even if we have to pay a bit for it.
Disconnect your TV from your cable service. Only idiots pay $50/month to have commercials and pseudo-information shoved down their throats. Download, ad-free, the TV shows you want to watch, and be fucking done with it. Why people PAY to watch TV, I'll *never* understand.
Nice idea. In practice, it obviously doesn't work. Red Hat is one of the few companies doing this, and they're just *barely* making a profit. Many, many, many other companies have folded attempting to do this.
Besides, I won't use a program that's so bad/complicated/buggy that I have to contact the company for support. Software is getting to the point where many non-enterprise apps do and should run without any need for support.
I worked for one company where some of the head people were techies, and made some tech-based decisions (instead of real world decisions), and the company actually folded. The techies wanted to do this product "the right way". Essentially, they took what should have been a very simple web/database app (RDBMS in the back end, lots of stored procedures, COM objects and ASP), and instead made the whole thing "object oriented". Every little bit of it was another COM object because that's the "right" way to do it. Of course, the real world is vastly different. They missed their deadlines by several months because it took at least twice as long to code, they had perpetual performance issues (duh), lost their customers due to a non-existent product, and ultimately had to fire a good 35+ people when the company folded due to techies making bad, technical-based decisions.
there will be a place for FOSS in any market segment.
There may be a place for it, but nobody's rushing to fill it. I've been searching for (but have largely given up) finding a FOSS point-of-sale system that comes close in functionality to the closed, proprietary ones out there. I've been looking for 3 years on and off, but quite honestly, there's nothing that's even in the ballpark. Why should I assume that somebody would want to do this just so I can save some money? Hell, I could develop my own, but I'm sure as hell not giving it away (competitive advantage).
Microsoft will lose their strangelhold on the market that has been littered with alternate, proprietary technologies that no one wants and no one really needs (ActiveX,.NET, Microsoft BOB [:)] and
Active X is used in ALL kinds of Windows program every day. Active X = COM and is used by virtually every non-Java Windows program on the planet.
.Net is rapidly displacing the COM/Active X/Win 32 model.
To say that nobody wants and nobody needs Active X or.Net is grossly wrong.
Of course, a sound technical decision process will always lead to a sound business development.
Actually, you couldn't be more wrong. I can't count the number of companies that I know of, or at least worked for, that made good technical decisions that actually ended up having major business problems because of it. Technically, I'd be better off with my brick & mortar store going with a different point of sale application, but the business fallout from the switch, the downtime, etc. would destroy the business. Smart decision makers take BOTH into consideration. Geeks often say what you do... the technical side of a decision is always the most important (ie: "Why doesn't "everybody" use Linux"?) That's what makes geeks bad managers/business owners.
You're talking about a barrier to entry that's no more than $10/month. The thing is that that tiny payment, like email, would put the vast majority of jackasses out of business. I personally don't ever visit any sites hosted on free services just for this reason. If what somebody has to say isn't worth the cost of a $10-$15 monthly bill, then I'm not interested.
If you're talking about the US gov't, it clearly won't matter. They've made it abundantly clear that they can lie all day long and get away with it just fine. We have video proof of several instances, yet nothing ever happens. The gov't is untouchable. Even Bush has *clearly* and on several occasions made baldfaced lies to the world, but nothing has happened. Somehow, I doubt traceable documents will make any difference if CNN doesn't make a difference already.
Well, somebody forgot to tell the users. The people I know that are there that are web developers are strictly IE only. Like I said, in a big company, the CEO can say whatever he wants, but it doesn't really have any impact, especially with a micro-management issue like which browser is used. I know of at least half a dozen people that develop 100% IE only apps 100% of the time at IBM.
There are very, very few businesses that I'm aware of that see *all* people as their customers. Maybe a power company, but the only reason is because of a government mandate saying that they must provide power to everybody who wants it. Nobody, not even Wal-Mart, attempts to cater to everybody. It's a very bad business idea to try to do so, because you can't please everybody. Can't do it. So if I have a web site where I don't care about non-IE or non-Windows users, then I mean exactly that: I don't care about those users.
For example... my porn site... I don't care whether or not it works properly on a Linux box. Why? Linux users are *cheap*. The sellthrough with Linux users is in the basement, and not only are they a waste of bandwidth, but they actually *cost* me money.
Your basic assumption that every business attempts to cater to every customer is inherently flawed.
As a web developer for years and years, I ran into many, many large, Fortune 500 companies that are totally 100% IE. Last I checked: Glaxo, IBM, etc. are all IE only. Companies this large don't issue decrees like what you're describing because A. They already have a ton of IE only apps and B. They're so big that nobody pays attention.
Well, if you'd read the article summary, it says that this company is run by the guys who started LinuxCare. LinuxCare was a company that did do Linux support. They went bankrupt. They failed. It didn't work. So, apparently, you can't "make more money selling off the software and support".
I say that it's not all bad. What we lose in scientific-ness, we more than make up for with our awesome Jesus-osity! We may be dumber, but we're Holier!
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Actually, when I was a programmer, I'd always put random shit in my comments. It was a good way to vent. I can't count the number of times I was having a bad day, then I ran into some other developers' bizarre comments that made me feel a hell of a lot better.
In fact, a certain state's Medicare billing system is full of comments discussing AC/DC's music and my personal treatise on pizza.
Good point. Damn.
...Hoping for real armageddon/societal collapse since 1973...
Are there problems with brownouts in NYC, too? Wow, if both LA and NYC don't have enough juice, then we may be seeing the first *real* practical limits of the massive human overpopulation. Awesome.
"Normal people don't get up in the morning and wonder how they can steal or trick someone."
That's amazing that this guy can define a "normal" person since psychiatrisys and psychologists have been trying to do this for many, many years. I happen to disagree with him, in fact.
I'll leave them both modded "Normal" and hope others read both in their entirety. So far neither one of you is a troll, and I don't expect you to be.
Actually, you can't mod anything in this discussion since you just posted a comment.
I thought the review was great. I'm even considering forking over the $50 to try it.
So there.
When will people understand that Linux is for real men who honed their skillz by walking uphill both ways to the mainframe building in order to run their punch card programs? ::sigh::
I *totally* understand that, which is why it doesn't really do anything for me (more often than not, it literally doesn't do anything for me).
Why would I go there when there are numerous other coffee shops that require nothing of the sort?
You might have no reason to go there, but some of us who aren't penny-pinching corporate whores may go to the little guy, even if we have to pay a bit for it.
Disconnect your TV from your cable service. Only idiots pay $50/month to have commercials and pseudo-information shoved down their throats. Download, ad-free, the TV shows you want to watch, and be fucking done with it. Why people PAY to watch TV, I'll *never* understand.
Nice idea. In practice, it obviously doesn't work. Red Hat is one of the few companies doing this, and they're just *barely* making a profit. Many, many, many other companies have folded attempting to do this.
Besides, I won't use a program that's so bad/complicated/buggy that I have to contact the company for support. Software is getting to the point where many non-enterprise apps do and should run without any need for support.
God, I hope so.
I worked for one company where some of the head people were techies, and made some tech-based decisions (instead of real world decisions), and the company actually folded. The techies wanted to do this product "the right way". Essentially, they took what should have been a very simple web/database app (RDBMS in the back end, lots of stored procedures, COM objects and ASP), and instead made the whole thing "object oriented". Every little bit of it was another COM object because that's the "right" way to do it. Of course, the real world is vastly different. They missed their deadlines by several months because it took at least twice as long to code, they had perpetual performance issues (duh), lost their customers due to a non-existent product, and ultimately had to fire a good 35+ people when the company folded due to techies making bad, technical-based decisions.
there will be a place for FOSS in any market segment.
There may be a place for it, but nobody's rushing to fill it. I've been searching for (but have largely given up) finding a FOSS point-of-sale system that comes close in functionality to the closed, proprietary ones out there. I've been looking for 3 years on and off, but quite honestly, there's nothing that's even in the ballpark. Why should I assume that somebody would want to do this just so I can save some money? Hell, I could develop my own, but I'm sure as hell not giving it away (competitive advantage).
Microsoft will lose their strangelhold on the market that has been littered with alternate, proprietary technologies that no one wants and no one really needs (ActiveX, .NET, Microsoft BOB [:)] and
.Net is rapidly displacing the COM/Active X/Win 32 model.
.Net is grossly wrong.
Active X is used in ALL kinds of Windows program every day. Active X = COM and is used by virtually every non-Java Windows program on the planet.
To say that nobody wants and nobody needs Active X or
Of course, a sound technical decision process will always lead to a sound business development.
Actually, you couldn't be more wrong. I can't count the number of companies that I know of, or at least worked for, that made good technical decisions that actually ended up having major business problems because of it. Technically, I'd be better off with my brick & mortar store going with a different point of sale application, but the business fallout from the switch, the downtime, etc. would destroy the business. Smart decision makers take BOTH into consideration. Geeks often say what you do... the technical side of a decision is always the most important (ie: "Why doesn't "everybody" use Linux"?) That's what makes geeks bad managers/business owners.
You're talking about a barrier to entry that's no more than $10/month. The thing is that that tiny payment, like email, would put the vast majority of jackasses out of business. I personally don't ever visit any sites hosted on free services just for this reason. If what somebody has to say isn't worth the cost of a $10-$15 monthly bill, then I'm not interested.
Exactly.
Blowjobs are evil.
Wars are good.
Welcome to 1984.
If you're talking about the US gov't, it clearly won't matter. They've made it abundantly clear that they can lie all day long and get away with it just fine. We have video proof of several instances, yet nothing ever happens. The gov't is untouchable. Even Bush has *clearly* and on several occasions made baldfaced lies to the world, but nothing has happened. Somehow, I doubt traceable documents will make any difference if CNN doesn't make a difference already.
They've been "encouraging" it for years. In practice, they're still paying full time employees to develop IE-only apps full time.
Well, somebody forgot to tell the users. The people I know that are there that are web developers are strictly IE only. Like I said, in a big company, the CEO can say whatever he wants, but it doesn't really have any impact, especially with a micro-management issue like which browser is used. I know of at least half a dozen people that develop 100% IE only apps 100% of the time at IBM.
There are very, very few businesses that I'm aware of that see *all* people as their customers. Maybe a power company, but the only reason is because of a government mandate saying that they must provide power to everybody who wants it. Nobody, not even Wal-Mart, attempts to cater to everybody. It's a very bad business idea to try to do so, because you can't please everybody. Can't do it. So if I have a web site where I don't care about non-IE or non-Windows users, then I mean exactly that: I don't care about those users.
For example... my porn site... I don't care whether or not it works properly on a Linux box. Why? Linux users are *cheap*. The sellthrough with Linux users is in the basement, and not only are they a waste of bandwidth, but they actually *cost* me money.
Your basic assumption that every business attempts to cater to every customer is inherently flawed.
Very nifty! I may actually use that!
As a web developer for years and years, I ran into many, many large, Fortune 500 companies that are totally 100% IE. Last I checked: Glaxo, IBM, etc. are all IE only. Companies this large don't issue decrees like what you're describing because A. They already have a ton of IE only apps and B. They're so big that nobody pays attention.
or use standard ECMAScript (Javascript) to do the same thing minus the security holes of ActiveX.
Not even close. How about using Javascript to add all of the functionality of an Excel spreadsheet as a data-bound grid? Not gonna happen.
Well, if you'd read the article summary, it says that this company is run by the guys who started LinuxCare. LinuxCare was a company that did do Linux support. They went bankrupt. They failed. It didn't work. So, apparently, you can't "make more money selling off the software and support".
I say that it's not all bad. What we lose in scientific-ness, we more than make up for with our awesome Jesus-osity! We may be dumber, but we're Holier!