I know a number of committed open sourcers who are also skilled Windows admins. They get hired into Windows admin jobs, then proceed happily to bring Linux systems into the organization wherever they find opportunity. And find it they do. Meanwhile, with nice fat paycheques for all intents and purposes written straight from Microsoft, they fund lives of relative leisure and ongoing contribution to open source projects in their off hours. Which tend to be plenty, because frankly they know more and get their jobs done more efficiently than your average MSCE. Just by way of pointing out that an open source job may not always be exactly what you might expect.
Craig is good egg who walks the walk. Not hungry for power, glory or money, he already has enough of all that. The original Google do-gooder. I sincerely hope that his shoes do not prove too big to fill.
The problem is with the whole patent system. Society would be better off without it, and richer, and technology would progress faster. Engineers in particular would be happier.
The other thing I wonder - how much of Kubuntu's troubles were the result of the pains involved in transitioning from KDE3.5 to KDE4?
None. Kubuntu has always been well and truly mismanaged, even before KDE 4. By the way, KDE 4 is pretty darn nice now.
With the exception of the Kmail breakage idiocy of course. Which cloud has a silver lining: there is now a reason for a much wider community to install and become familiar with Postgresql.
I wonder if this is the beginning of the end for KDE.
Not at all, KDE has a huge presence in Europe, especially Germany, which by itself is enough to ensure it continues on happily forever. On the contrary, Ubuntu getting its clumsy claws out of the standard KDE package is no doubt the best thing that ever happened to KDE on Ubuntu.
The whole idea of Kubuntu is stupid. The package should simple be called "kde" and it should be installed by default, unless you say otherwise. Anything stranger than that and somebody is obviously pushing an agenda.
Dists definitely need to have focus. Every dist should pick one desktop experience and core set of apps and stick with it through thick and thin...
It make for less choice. As far as I am concerned, distros should stay the heck away from "integrated experience". They just prove time and again that all they care about is a soapbox for their particular brand of bad taste. "Integrated experience" is a job for upstream, who actually care about what they are doing, are competent to do it, and work tirelessly to perfect the countless small details of how users actually use the system they develop. Distros should validate, distribute and provide timely updates. And that's it. They should stay the heck away from the user experience, it is not their competency.
For me, Ubuntu stops existing right now. Oh the whole, I have had less breakage with Debian Sid, supposedly "unstable", and Canonical has just managed to push me over the tipping point: I'm going back to Debian (testing) on my primary machine as I should have done months ago. I am awfully tired of having to put up with Gnome bad idea of the week bogosity while waiting for Ubuntu to fix their broken, untested KDE packaging.
It stopped being amusing a long time ago. There is one reason, and one reason only that there is Ubuntu on this workstation: it came that way. Henceforth, Ubuntu will just be a way to establish which drivers (if any) the OEM configured, then *wipe* *wipe* install, install, there we go, blessed relief, it's not a hobby project any more.
The sad thing is Word used to be pretty good about not crapping out. I can't figure if it was when they went to XML storage or when the added that god aweful ribbon, but it has gotten progressively worse over the years.
The Microsoft engineering culture has been circling the drain for years. It's run by a salesman.
For a couple of years I was occasionally annoyed by.docx files, but now with Google Docs, it's easy to convert back to.doc and download for local viewing and editing.
Actually, Libreoffice/Openoffice does a great job of that. Probably what GOOG uses under the hood anyway.
...at the angle a shell would hit it, it would present itself as a thicker piece of steel to an object impacting it.
Actually, that is the smaller part of the equation. The main factor is that the angle deflects the incoming mass, resulting in a much smaller transfer of energy to the target than is the case for a projectile that rams into a vertical wall and comes to a dead stop.
When patents are discussed around here they're assumed to be six words long, mainly because not one person here has ever actually read any of the patents in question.
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I know a number of committed open sourcers who are also skilled Windows admins. They get hired into Windows admin jobs, then proceed happily to bring Linux systems into the organization wherever they find opportunity. And find it they do. Meanwhile, with nice fat paycheques for all intents and purposes written straight from Microsoft, they fund lives of relative leisure and ongoing contribution to open source projects in their off hours. Which tend to be plenty, because frankly they know more and get their jobs done more efficiently than your average MSCE. Just by way of pointing out that an open source job may not always be exactly what you might expect.
Craig is good egg who walks the walk. Not hungry for power, glory or money, he already has enough of all that. The original Google do-gooder. I sincerely hope that his shoes do not prove too big to fill.
As soon as I saw the article I knew the Apple spin doctors would be out in force. Fortunately, a few real people are around as well.
The problem is with the whole patent system. Society would be better off without it, and richer, and technology would progress faster. Engineers in particular would be happier.
In the end, if you are not doing your own manufacturing to some level you are in deep shit
Oh yeah, like ARM Holdings. Sucks to be them, right?
If ARM holdings licensing came into question it would probably destroy the company's stock.
Their interests would be more than adequately protected by copyright.
Say goodbye to ARM processors then. ARM Holdings doesn't make anything, they just license out processor designs.
That's covered by copyright.
So singlehandedly, gamers are keeping Rambus alive.
Or to put it bluntly, evil Sony and evil Microsoft are keeping evil Rambus alive.
So wait, are you accusing me of being a paid shill for Apple?
Oh no, the opposite. Notice, my original post got a downmod after a few days. Somebody really had to be out there scouring to find it even.
The other thing I wonder - how much of Kubuntu's troubles were the result of the pains involved in transitioning from KDE3.5 to KDE4?
None. Kubuntu has always been well and truly mismanaged, even before KDE 4. By the way, KDE 4 is pretty darn nice now.
With the exception of the Kmail breakage idiocy of course. Which cloud has a silver lining: there is now a reason for a much wider community to install and become familiar with Postgresql.
The other thing I wonder - how much of Kubuntu's troubles were the result of the pains involved in transitioning from KDE3.5 to KDE4?
None. Kubuntu has always been well and truly mismanaged, even before KDE 4. By the way, KDE 4 is pretty darn nice now.
It was so hugely overcomplicated and kludgy that *it* sent me straight back to Windows.
Whoa, how long ago was that?
I wonder if this is the beginning of the end for KDE.
Not at all, KDE has a huge presence in Europe, especially Germany, which by itself is enough to ensure it continues on happily forever. On the contrary, Ubuntu getting its clumsy claws out of the standard KDE package is no doubt the best thing that ever happened to KDE on Ubuntu.
But I'm still installing Debian stable :-)
The whole idea of Kubuntu is stupid. The package should simple be called "kde" and it should be installed by default, unless you say otherwise. Anything stranger than that and somebody is obviously pushing an agenda.
Dists definitely need to have focus. Every dist should pick one desktop experience and core set of apps and stick with it through thick and thin...
It make for less choice. As far as I am concerned, distros should stay the heck away from "integrated experience". They just prove time and again that all they care about is a soapbox for their particular brand of bad taste. "Integrated experience" is a job for upstream, who actually care about what they are doing, are competent to do it, and work tirelessly to perfect the countless small details of how users actually use the system they develop. Distros should validate, distribute and provide timely updates. And that's it. They should stay the heck away from the user experience, it is not their competency.
While Ubuntu might have some issues that people are going to moan loudly about, remember, it's first job is to bring people into the Linux sphere...
I assure you that for most people, being brought into Gnome is just going to send them right back to Windows.
For me, Ubuntu stops existing right now. Oh the whole, I have had less breakage with Debian Sid, supposedly "unstable", and Canonical has just managed to push me over the tipping point: I'm going back to Debian (testing) on my primary machine as I should have done months ago. I am awfully tired of having to put up with Gnome bad idea of the week bogosity while waiting for Ubuntu to fix their broken, untested KDE packaging.
It stopped being amusing a long time ago. There is one reason, and one reason only that there is Ubuntu on this workstation: it came that way. Henceforth, Ubuntu will just be a way to establish which drivers (if any) the OEM configured, then *wipe* *wipe* install, install, there we go, blessed relief, it's not a hobby project any more.
The fact that you're anticipating a paid PR shill response in advance is just hilarious.
And lo, look there it is, right on schedule.
If a company wishes to not sell specific configurations of their products no one should force them.
Sorry, some corporations if left to their own devices are incapable of doing what is right, ethical and lawful.
And what makes you think that is not simply because of bug fixes, not pushed back to the community?
The sad thing is Word used to be pretty good about not crapping out. I can't figure if it was when they went to XML storage or when the added that god aweful ribbon, but it has gotten progressively worse over the years.
The Microsoft engineering culture has been circling the drain for years. It's run by a salesman.
For a couple of years I was occasionally annoyed by .docx files, but now with Google Docs, it's easy to convert back to .doc and download for local viewing and editing.
Actually, Libreoffice/Openoffice does a great job of that. Probably what GOOG uses under the hood anyway.
...at the angle a shell would hit it, it would present itself as a thicker piece of steel to an object impacting it.
Actually, that is the smaller part of the equation. The main factor is that the angle deflects the incoming mass, resulting in a much smaller transfer of energy to the target than is the case for a projectile that rams into a vertical wall and comes to a dead stop.
Please excuse me, but I understand that you somehow reached a wrong conclusion, however you choose to define standard English words.
When patents are discussed around here they're assumed to be six words long, mainly because not one person here has ever actually read any of the patents in question.
You don't know that.