I completely agree. There are more and more gadgets out there, and more of them do nothing to enhance lifestyle. Every time I hear someone say "I can't live without x", I'm thinking, shit, that's sad. Personally, I live by the Tyler Durden lifestyle. I only have what I need. My life is full enough without extra shit. My life is whittled down to the basics, so I only concentrate on what's important. Gadgets are just used to fill voids in empty lives.
It says that if OSS is not practicable for whatever reason, don't use it. But it must be given a fair go
Did you even read 2 posts up? It doesn't say that at all. It says that OSS must be given preference whenever possible.
1) A public authority must, in making a decision about the procurement of computer software for its operations, have regard to the principle that, wherever practicable, a public authority should use open source software in preference to proprietary software.
I'm sorry, but what I get out of the article is that capitalism sucks. Companies are going to other countries where work is cheaper and therefore more profitable for them. That takes American jobs away.
Capitalism sucks because the US is losing jobs? That makes no fucking sense. That's like saying that Ford cars suck because I don't like red cars. Completely irrelevant.
Unfortunately in the USA not being employed full-time means no benefits. It's pretty impossible to get health care insurance or retirement benefits if you aren't full-time.
That's complete and total bullshit. I've been buying my own health insurance for about 7 years, and my "retirement benefits" are my various savings. Anybody still in IT who's working "full time" is getting ripped off.
Regardless of how YOU feel about the product, if your customers really want it, you should carry it.
I disagree completely. Part of my job is to educate the customer, and provide goods that they may never have known existed. If all I sold was stuff that customers wanted, I'd be just like Wal-Mart, which is not my goal. I don't care how many times you walk into a nice French restaurant and ask for a burger and fries, they're not going to have it. Why? It's not their business. They don't want to comete with McDonald's. Maybe they think that hamburgers are bad food, or unhealthy or whatever. If I *really* wanted to make money, I'd own a cigarette/pork rind/beer store and sell to little kids.
Yes, they know their customers. But there ARE some things more important than the almighty buck. I run a retail store, and there are plenty of things that I could sell and make a killing on bbut I won't because the products are shit. Wal-Mart will sell anything and everything that they can make money on. I'm picky about what I sell and I still make a decent profit. If their customers wanted pork skins in the shape of Jesus, they'd sell them. I wouldn't.
Actually, in my area, there's a video rental business that's so good, they've driven out even Blockbuster. They have, quite literally any title you could ever want from hard core porn to Disney, and their prices are better than Blockbuster/Aol/Time/Warner/Disney/Whateverelsethi sweek Megacorp. Fuck Wal-Mart. Fuck Blockbuster.
Wal-Mart is a compny run by religious zealots that epitomizes everything that's wrong with the US. They can eat me. I haven't been in a Wal-Mart in years. Those sick Christian right-wing fucks don't get my business. Although, it is a good place to go to drunk to laugh at the Nascar-related merchandise and the cretins buying it. I never get an opportunity to see people like that otherwise.
On a separate note, the government is the last place I want to see closed-source software used. I feel that as a citizen of a democracy, I have the inherent right to see what's being done and how.
The format of documents is completely irrelevant if 98% are classified "Top Secret". Get your head out of your ass and quit pretending that there are millions of gov't documents that you can't read just because they're in.DOC format, because that's bullshit and you know it. If you really wanted to read 'em, you just download MS's free.DOC reader.
The Government is afraid of the Open Source movement because it implies WORK. Work to make things work, to make them function and be compatable. they are very much a lazy bunch. They would rather sit down and have Microsloth do the programming for them, then trust a bunch of smart people *gasp*!. When someone can do it for you, and when it doesent work you can complain to one entity, instead of a community, it makes your life much easier. Plus Microsloth is rich, and everybody knows who has poer, the Almighty Buck!
Hey, you dumb fucking kid... you don't pay taxes, so shut the fuck up. I don't want to pay the gov't to pay a shitload of geeks to duplicate MS' efforts.
Hey, you fucking troll... how about clamming up and letting us grownups talk? Reliability, hard to adminster, blah, blah, blah. That's a 10 year old troll whose time has come and gone. Come up with a new troll, THEN come back.
In this day and age, why should anyone have to read a book about *printing*? Press the print button. It's usually the one with the little picture of the printer on it. End of story. If it's any more complicated than that, then you're doing something wrong.
That'd be like reading a book titled "The Gas Pedal - Friend or Foe?".
Why do people concerned about usability spend so much time worrying about what people can do in the first 5 minutes after they sit down at a 'puter and so little time worrying about what people will be able to accomplish over the next five years?
Usability is all about getting stuff done in the shortest amount of time. It's about not dickign around with things that are not directly related to what you're trying to do. Essentially, unless you write window managers for a living, you really shouldn't care or even notice a window manager.
That's all I had to say. Brilliant Fucking Plan, Einstein. I'll just start prostletyzing right now, and I should have a few more zombie zealots for you by morning.
Oh and while I'm at it, I'm going to write a program that makes me a million billion zillion dollars. Then I'll be able to buy that unicorn I've always wanted.
You have a lot to learn about business. First off, MS if a brilliantly run company. Joe Schmoe (yourself) saying that MS is on it's way out is like Joe Schmoe telling me that Warren Buffet doesn't know investing. You're clueless.
Secondly, Ms probably doesn't want "Anything outside that market". If you've ever studied business a day in your life, you'd know that companies tend to focus on what they're good at. Those who try doing too much tend to fail. MS expands into other markets, but very slowly and cautiously. They're printing money with Windows & Office, and if they lock people into it even more, well, then they're going to keep on printing money ad infinitum.
That wouldn't happen. See there's this thing called a "market", and those that don't adhere to de-facto standards, or whose new standards aren't good enough to make people want to use their standards, fail. It's very simple.
... Bob in MS's UK accounting office said, "I really like SCOnes for breakfast". Coincidence? We think not! What did he mean by that? What is MS planning now?
Linux and *BSD are extremely stable. Try getting 2-3 years of up time out of a Windows server.
Good troll kid. I've got that already. And, FWIW, your lumping all "Windows" in the same category shows that you have no idea what you're talking about.
ESR needs to get a fucking lawyer. Going around asking people in a public forum if they had access to proprietary code years ago that they're not legally allowed to disclose is juvenile at best. This is another lame stunt that if the press hears about it, will make the Linux proponents look like even bigger jackasses than they already look like now. This is *not* how you go about working on a legal case. Even if he found some special code, IBM's lawyers aren't going to care. They're doing their own research, and I'm sure that they can't take the word of some raving fanatic with them into court.
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I completely agree. There are more and more gadgets out there, and more of them do nothing to enhance lifestyle. Every time I hear someone say "I can't live without x", I'm thinking, shit, that's sad. Personally, I live by the Tyler Durden lifestyle. I only have what I need. My life is full enough without extra shit. My life is whittled down to the basics, so I only concentrate on what's important. Gadgets are just used to fill voids in empty lives.
It says that if OSS is not practicable for whatever reason, don't use it. But it must be given a fair go
Did you even read 2 posts up? It doesn't say that at all. It says that OSS must be given preference whenever possible.
1) A public authority must, in making a decision about the procurement of computer software for its operations, have regard to the principle that, wherever practicable, a public authority should use open source software in preference to proprietary software.
Jesus christ, I can't believe this! Does anybody here know a single thing about how free markets work??
capability to pad their revenue.
It's called "profit". It's not a bad thing.
then selling to their customers at as high a price they can get away with.
That's called demand. Any business that isn't charging as much as they can isn't being run correctly.
I am so tired of these idiotic "profit is evil" posts.
I'm sorry, but what I get out of the article is that capitalism sucks. Companies are going to other countries where work is cheaper and therefore more profitable for them. That takes American jobs away.
Capitalism sucks because the US is losing jobs? That makes no fucking sense. That's like saying that Ford cars suck because I don't like red cars. Completely irrelevant.
Unfortunately in the USA not being employed full-time means no benefits.
It's pretty impossible to get health care insurance or retirement benefits if you aren't full-time.
That's complete and total bullshit. I've been buying my own health insurance for about 7 years, and my "retirement benefits" are my various savings. Anybody still in IT who's working "full time" is getting ripped off.
And, oh gret NineNine, where do I get the Linux version? My school is 100% linux.
Learn how to use Google before asking dumb questions:
http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
Regardless of how YOU feel about the product, if your customers really want it, you should carry it.
I disagree completely. Part of my job is to educate the customer, and provide goods that they may never have known existed. If all I sold was stuff that customers wanted, I'd be just like Wal-Mart, which is not my goal. I don't care how many times you walk into a nice French restaurant and ask for a burger and fries, they're not going to have it. Why? It's not their business. They don't want to comete with McDonald's. Maybe they think that hamburgers are bad food, or unhealthy or whatever. If I *really* wanted to make money, I'd own a cigarette/pork rind/beer store and sell to little kids.
Yes, they know their customers. But there ARE some things more important than the almighty buck. I run a retail store, and there are plenty of things that I could sell and make a killing on bbut I won't because the products are shit. Wal-Mart will sell anything and everything that they can make money on. I'm picky about what I sell and I still make a decent profit. If their customers wanted pork skins in the shape of Jesus, they'd sell them. I wouldn't.
Actually, in my area, there's a video rental business that's so good, they've driven out even Blockbuster. They have, quite literally any title you could ever want from hard core porn to Disney, and their prices are better than Blockbuster/Aol/Time/Warner/Disney/Whateverelsethi sweek Megacorp. Fuck Wal-Mart. Fuck Blockbuster.
We all know how they fark up the music they sell there.
Kind of like how you fucked up the spelling of "fuck"? Was your post censored by Wal-Mart?
Wal-Mart is a compny run by religious zealots that epitomizes everything that's wrong with the US. They can eat me. I haven't been in a Wal-Mart in years. Those sick Christian right-wing fucks don't get my business. Although, it is a good place to go to drunk to laugh at the Nascar-related merchandise and the cretins buying it. I never get an opportunity to see people like that otherwise.
On a separate note, the government is the last place I want to see closed-source software used. I feel that as a citizen of a democracy, I have the inherent right to see what's being done and how.
.DOC format, because that's bullshit and you know it. If you really wanted to read 'em, you just download MS's free .DOC reader.
The format of documents is completely irrelevant if 98% are classified "Top Secret". Get your head out of your ass and quit pretending that there are millions of gov't documents that you can't read just because they're in
The Government is afraid of the Open Source movement because it implies WORK. Work to make things work, to make them function and be compatable. they are very much a lazy bunch. They would rather sit down and have Microsloth do the programming for them, then trust a bunch of smart people *gasp*!. When someone can do it for you, and when it doesent work you can complain to one entity, instead of a community, it makes your life much easier. Plus Microsloth is rich, and everybody knows who has poer, the Almighty Buck!
Hey, you dumb fucking kid... you don't pay taxes, so shut the fuck up. I don't want to pay the gov't to pay a shitload of geeks to duplicate MS' efforts.
Hey, you fucking troll... how about clamming up and letting us grownups talk? Reliability, hard to adminster, blah, blah, blah. That's a 10 year old troll whose time has come and gone. Come up with a new troll, THEN come back.
In this day and age, why should anyone have to read a book about *printing*? Press the print button. It's usually the one with the little picture of the printer on it. End of story. If it's any more complicated than that, then you're doing something wrong.
That'd be like reading a book titled "The Gas Pedal - Friend or Foe?".
Natalie Portman + Grits. Mmmmm... griiiits.
Why do people concerned about usability spend so much time worrying about what people can do in the first 5 minutes after they sit down at a 'puter and so little time worrying about what people will be able to accomplish over the next five years?
Usability is all about getting stuff done in the shortest amount of time. It's about not dickign around with things that are not directly related to what you're trying to do. Essentially, unless you write window managers for a living, you really shouldn't care or even notice a window manager.
That's all I had to say. Brilliant Fucking Plan, Einstein. I'll just start prostletyzing right now, and I should have a few more zombie zealots for you by morning.
Oh and while I'm at it, I'm going to write a program that makes me a million billion zillion dollars. Then I'll be able to buy that unicorn I've always wanted.
Jackass.
You have a lot to learn about business. First off, MS if a brilliantly run company. Joe Schmoe (yourself) saying that MS is on it's way out is like Joe Schmoe telling me that Warren Buffet doesn't know investing. You're clueless.
Secondly, Ms probably doesn't want "Anything outside that market". If you've ever studied business a day in your life, you'd know that companies tend to focus on what they're good at. Those who try doing too much tend to fail. MS expands into other markets, but very slowly and cautiously. They're printing money with Windows & Office, and if they lock people into it even more, well, then they're going to keep on printing money ad infinitum.
Please. Think before posting.
What's the advantage of BitTorrent over, say, the FastTrack network? What's the difference, if any?
That wouldn't happen. See there's this thing called a "market", and those that don't adhere to de-facto standards, or whose new standards aren't good enough to make people want to use their standards, fail. It's very simple.
Uh, I kinda' think that the HDTV thing is just a price issue. If a ton of people were buying HDTV sets, a de-facto standard would happen.
... Bob in MS's UK accounting office said, "I really like SCOnes for breakfast". Coincidence? We think not! What did he mean by that? What is MS planning now?
Linux and *BSD are extremely stable. Try getting 2-3 years of up time out of a Windows server.
Good troll kid. I've got that already. And, FWIW, your lumping all "Windows" in the same category shows that you have no idea what you're talking about.
ESR needs to get a fucking lawyer. Going around asking people in a public forum if they had access to proprietary code years ago that they're not legally allowed to disclose is juvenile at best. This is another lame stunt that if the press hears about it, will make the Linux proponents look like even bigger jackasses than they already look like now. This is *not* how you go about working on a legal case. Even if he found some special code, IBM's lawyers aren't going to care. They're doing their own research, and I'm sure that they can't take the word of some raving fanatic with them into court.