"The difference is that in the last 50+ years, the U.S. has used it's nuclear arsenal exactly twice, and those during a time of war."
Hmm, I'd say that anytime nuclear weapons are used, it a "time of war" by definition. Besides, the US has talked for years about our "War on Terror" and made statements that Iran supports terrorists. So Iran could correctly assume that the US is at war with them.
Anyway, I probably have a decade or so left in my career at most so it's really an issue for younger developers.
There are special cases like Red Hat, but I don't see much evidence that a FOSS-only industry is sustainable. It's one thing to fly the FOSS banner while complaining about your proprietary day job that pays your bills, it's quite another to decide to major in a difficult subject that doesn't pay well or has few jobs.
Great Post. I'd just add that many of us spent a lot of time, money, and sweat getting our engineering or CS degrees and we didn't do it because we wanted to be in the support business. Most of us don't have the people skills to be a great at support anyway.
"I don't understand the fixation on making a completely universal plug. It seems good in theory, but what does it actually get us beyond some cable interchanging possibilities and expensive upgrades?"
Yes, if interface convergence is such a priority, it would be better to agree on a single interface rather than glob together incompatible interfaces on a common connector.
I guess it depends whether the organization thinks the time, cost, and inconvenience involved with supporting IE6 is more significant than the possibility of losing users.
Even if they came to that conclusion, their agenda would be better served by having users update IE or switch to another browser rather than using an untested hybrid solution that Google might get bored with and stop supporting later on (it wouldn't be the first time).
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Hey, Bush is out of office, now, leave him alone.
What you don't realize is that Ahmadinejad has this map of the middle east on this big whiteboard, see, and ...
So our response to Israel's illegal nukes was to give them more weapons. To paraphrase Cheney wouldn't that just "embolden them"?
"The difference is that in the last 50+ years, the U.S. has used it's nuclear arsenal exactly twice, and those during a time of war."
Hmm, I'd say that anytime nuclear weapons are used, it a "time of war" by definition. Besides, the US has talked for years about our "War on Terror" and made statements that Iran supports terrorists. So Iran could correctly assume that the US is at war with them.
In the US there's always money for war, no matter what else has to fall through the cracks.
I'm sure the families of those children feel better about us knowing the US was only indirectly causing their children's death.
if it really worked.
I think the concept of "fairness" is quite clear in this context, just as the concept of "Machiavellianism" is.
Did you mean to reply to the AC?
Anyway, I probably have a decade or so left in my career at most so it's really an issue for younger developers.
There are special cases like Red Hat, but I don't see much evidence that a FOSS-only industry is sustainable. It's one thing to fly the FOSS banner while complaining about your proprietary day job that pays your bills, it's quite another to decide to major in a difficult subject that doesn't pay well or has few jobs.
Great Post. I'd just add that many of us spent a lot of time, money, and sweat getting our engineering or CS degrees and we didn't do it because we wanted to be in the support business. Most of us don't have the people skills to be a great at support anyway.
If you don't get it from Red Hat.
"I don't understand the fixation on making a completely universal plug. It seems good in theory, but what does it actually get us beyond some cable interchanging possibilities and expensive upgrades?"
Yes, if interface convergence is such a priority, it would be better to agree on a single interface rather than glob together incompatible interfaces on a common connector.
You mean Chuck Norris got his moves from Xerox?
I guess it depends whether the organization thinks the time, cost, and inconvenience involved with supporting IE6 is more significant than the possibility of losing users.
Even if they came to that conclusion, their agenda would be better served by having users update IE or switch to another browser rather than using an untested hybrid solution that Google might get bored with and stop supporting later on (it wouldn't be the first time).
So essentially Google's argument is that you should download and install it because it doesn't do anything for 99.9% of internet sites.
Whatever happened to Google's second Android contest?
It's "Who cares?"(s) all the way down.
So Windows 9 will be a nested ripoff of Windows 95 (except it won't run all windows apps because it's based on Wine).
"How much longer until we see MicroSoft Linux 1.0?"
About as long as we have to wait until RMS starts endorsing personal hygiene products.
Not every precedent involves the Constitution.
Personal items are not part of "interstate commerce" no matter what definition of "state" is used.
I forgot where the inspection clause is in the US Constitution. Could you remind me which article it's in?
Yeah, and let's deport any non-native people and their descendants while we're at it. Those Europeans were infected with swine plague.
Of course, if companies like IBM are really open source heroes why don't they fund some Linux games? They can certainly afford to.
You mean with Linux you don't have to log on "even to the internet"? Wow, can you use a 2400 baud modem too?