No one knows what CLR is (except those that use it to clean bathtubs). People know what.NET is, though, and if Miguel de Icaza, a big name in 'Free Software' is understood to embrace it, then the rest of us will be typecast into supporting it as well. Free Software has an enemy in MS, make no mistake about it.
People are ignorant and they don't want to learn. They don't want to read, and they certainly are *not* going to see the difference between Mono and.NET. This difference will be totally lost on the general public. What they will only see, when all is said and done, is that 'them Linus people' tried to do.NET and that it didn't work with their MS computers for very long -- and they'll see that the first time that MS changes it to break compatibility with non-MS.NET implementations. My god, they've done it before. They're stringing him along and trying to do the same with the rest of us through him.
Whatever. I just know that there will be no implementation of this anywhere in my house. I hope all those who support this check themselves and pull out before it's too late.
Why didn't they just port the stupid AOL software to Linux/Un*x and make their own distro? Seems cheaper to me, and the source for the GPLd parts could simply just take up some space on a server somewhere. Much cheaper, and still gives them leverage against MS. A customer could still run the office software of their choice (barring MS again, of course). Is this or is this not what the bulk of AOL's customer base wants -- to write a letter to Auntie M and email it?
Well, I don't know what to make of this. Any way they handle this we're screwed. The only way I think this problem will go away is to stop paying for big name albums and movies entirely. When the revenue stream dries up, lawyers tend to wither and blow away.
The problem with this is that there are a lot of extremely gifted artists and musician who would be left out in the cold. Bands like Metallica already have more money than God and can easily afford to set up their own distribution channels, so the little guys are the only people who would be hurt by it.
What to do about it? Support yout local music/film making/Art scene like you support your local LUG. When they get the support they need locally, they don't need to go to LA to get it and it's only a matter of time before this kind of stupidity and personal rights violation goes away permanently.
My first computer was sent to me from Detroit to Minneapolis by UPS ground, packed in the foam you're talking about. Didn't make a difference. The monitor was destroyed. My dad had gotten $400 in insurance on it. After upwards of 20 phone calls, I gave up. I got *very* sick of them telling me that the claim crew would be at my place at such-and-such a time and never showing. The box went from Livonia, MI to Chicago, back to Livonia, Chicago, Livonia, Chicago, Spokane, WA (?!?!?!), Chicago, Livonia, Chicago, Minneapolis. It took me 3 weeks to get this box, and if the insurance had been $1000 I would have sued for fraud. Never EVER use UPS.
While I think it would be cool to have a body-powered GPS system, I'm not so sure I like the idea of the device they have lined up to use the 'battery' reporting my whereabouts, pulse rate, mental state and the identity of the girl I'm with to her parents!
Oh well. I guess I'll have to start dating my pets.
Woah there, buddy. The camera took a picture of him... was this with or without his permission? This
guy's picture went in a paper distributed *worldwide*. If I had seen my picture in that newspaper taken without my permission with surveillance cameras while walking down the street I would be talking to a lawyer. These cameras are a violation of the residents' constitutional rights.
False positives put a lot of innocent people in jail and on death row. Just one false positive involving these cameras is enough reason to dismantle them.
... are the foriegners, the H1-B visas. They will make more money here than they will in their home country, and if H1-B visas are restricted, potential employers will move those jobs to their home countries in order to exploit the lower average wages.
I see here a lot of arguments both for and against higher visa quotas. I also see a lot of arguments about managers not being able to find qualified candidates, and so many candidates who can't get an interview.. blah blah blah.
This argument is far too complex for slashdot. Here's my take without much explanation anyway-
I work tech support in a small company in Tampa. Like another poster here, I am unfireable because I am the only person in the company with my skills - mostly problem solving, as tech support is supposed to be but is often relegated to the 'too stupid to code' basket. While this is way too often true, some of them are are probably better at their jobs than many programmers are. I went to school to learn the programming languages I know but what they can never teach is the ability to tell some 60 year old machinist who hasn't seen a computer since college in the 60's exactly why his printer won't work - from a desk 6000 miles away. That takes extreme problem solving skills, strong intuition, and the ability to communicate abstract concepts and technical details to someone who's VCR they bought in 1987 still blinks 12:00. I probably make a wage in the top 1% of what's paid to people in similar positions in this area, but still less than $30,000. I'm so tired of not getting interviews for IT positions that will pay me enough to live on that I've stopped looking.
In summation, managers have no idea where to look here in the US for those who just want a foot in the damn door. Yes I'm angry about this, the last interview I had a shot at hired some guy from Spain or some such place. When the jobs here go overseas, those who can do those jobs will either have to follow them or learn to flip burgers. What a mess.
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Later on the M$ flunkies were handing out brochures and literature in front of the SLUG booth. One of the SLUG guys brought this up to them, rather aggresively saying that he was going to get the facilities manager.
They turned around and broke the same rule.
No opinions in this post, just facts. Let's not argue this point.
Actually, the SLUGers were passing it out on the front steps. First in front of the giant inflatable XP box, then after being asked to move by venue management (of course, after MS complained) they moved about 30 feet away to the steps. MS complained again, and they were asked to move it inside. When MS first complained, they told Maddog that they had 'rented the venue'. He replied 'You didn't rent the venue, you rented a ballroom', which was true.
They probably gave away a hundred or so LJ issues while out front, and quite a few Mandrake 7.2 CDs. Very few people turned the free stuff down; most had a smile on their faces.
It is interesting to note that later on that day, the inflatable box collapsed of its own accord.
I was there the whole time, and took the pictures.
I remember reading this. If memory serves, Tannenbaum was bitching that Linux wasn't a microkernel. The arguments have been made and repeated over and over. If someone doesn't like the Linux kernel, there is no reason why they can't use Hurd. But the next time someone says that Minix is so much better, tell them to read the book. I did. Tannenbaum's opinions are formost opinions and should be treated as such.
Check out VariCAD. It does solid modeling and can export in lots of formats. I'm assuming the.dxf is revision 12, tho, and this will not generate code to cut your part. Still, it's available.
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This is the single worst adaptation I think I have ever seen. Did they even READ the damn book? Jesus, the Tommyknockers was better than this. I won't be recording the next 2 episodes.
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No one knows what CLR is (except those that use it to clean bathtubs). People know what .NET is, though, and if Miguel de Icaza, a big name in 'Free Software' is understood to embrace it, then the rest of us will be typecast into supporting it as well. Free Software has an enemy in MS, make no mistake about it.
.NET. This difference will be totally lost on the general public. What they will only see, when all is said and done, is that 'them Linus people' tried to do .NET and that it didn't work with their MS computers for very long -- and they'll see that the first time that MS changes it to break compatibility with non-MS .NET implementations. My god, they've done it before. They're stringing him along and trying to do the same with the rest of us through him.
People are ignorant and they don't want to learn. They don't want to read, and they certainly are *not* going to see the difference between Mono and
Whatever. I just know that there will be no implementation of this anywhere in my house. I hope all those who support this check themselves and pull out before it's too late.
Why didn't they just port the stupid AOL software to Linux/Un*x and make their own distro? Seems cheaper to me, and the source for the GPLd parts could simply just take up some space on a server somewhere. Much cheaper, and still gives them leverage against MS. A customer could still run the office software of their choice (barring MS again, of course). Is this or is this not what the bulk of AOL's customer base wants -- to write a letter to Auntie M and email it?
Well, I don't know what to make of this. Any way they handle this we're screwed. The only way I think this problem will go away is to stop paying for big name albums and movies entirely. When the revenue stream dries up, lawyers tend to wither and blow away.
The problem with this is that there are a lot of extremely gifted artists and musician who would be left out in the cold. Bands like Metallica already have more money than God and can easily afford to set up their own distribution channels, so the little guys are the only people who would be hurt by it.
What to do about it? Support yout local music/film making/Art scene like you support your local LUG. When they get the support they need locally, they don't need to go to LA to get it and it's only a matter of time before this kind of stupidity and personal rights violation goes away permanently.
My first computer was sent to me from Detroit to Minneapolis by UPS ground, packed in the foam you're talking about. Didn't make a difference. The monitor was destroyed. My dad had gotten $400 in insurance on it. After upwards of 20 phone calls, I gave up. I got *very* sick of them telling me that the claim crew would be at my place at such-and-such a time and never showing. The box went from Livonia, MI to Chicago, back to Livonia, Chicago, Livonia, Chicago, Spokane, WA (?!?!?!), Chicago, Livonia, Chicago, Minneapolis. It took me 3 weeks to get this box, and if the insurance had been $1000 I would have sued for fraud. Never EVER use UPS.
While I think it would be cool to have a body-powered GPS system, I'm not so sure I like the idea of the device they have lined up to use the 'battery' reporting my whereabouts, pulse rate, mental state and the identity of the girl I'm with to her parents!
Oh well. I guess I'll have to start dating my pets.
Woah there, buddy. The camera took a picture of him... was this with or without his permission? This guy's picture went in a paper distributed *worldwide*. If I had seen my picture in that newspaper taken without my permission with surveillance cameras while walking down the street I would be talking to a lawyer. These cameras are a violation of the residents' constitutional rights.
False positives put a lot of innocent people in jail and on death row. Just one false positive involving these cameras is enough reason to dismantle them.
... are the foriegners, the H1-B visas. They will make more money here than they will in their home country, and if H1-B visas are restricted, potential employers will move those jobs to their home countries in order to exploit the lower average wages.
I see here a lot of arguments both for and against higher visa quotas. I also see a lot of arguments about managers not being able to find qualified candidates, and so many candidates who can't get an interview.. blah blah blah.
This argument is far too complex for slashdot. Here's my take without much explanation anyway-
I work tech support in a small company in Tampa. Like another poster here, I am unfireable because I am the only person in the company with my skills - mostly problem solving, as tech support is supposed to be but is often relegated to the 'too stupid to code' basket. While this is way too often true, some of them are are probably better at their jobs than many programmers are. I went to school to learn the programming languages I know but what they can never teach is the ability to tell some 60 year old machinist who hasn't seen a computer since college in the 60's exactly why his printer won't work - from a desk 6000 miles away. That takes extreme problem solving skills, strong intuition, and the ability to communicate abstract concepts and technical details to someone who's VCR they bought in 1987 still blinks 12:00. I probably make a wage in the top 1% of what's paid to people in similar positions in this area, but still less than $30,000. I'm so tired of not getting interviews for IT positions that will pay me enough to live on that I've stopped looking.
In summation, managers have no idea where to look here in the US for those who just want a foot in the damn door. Yes I'm angry about this, the last interview I had a shot at hired some guy from Spain or some such place. When the jobs here go overseas, those who can do those jobs will either have to follow them or learn to flip burgers. What a mess.
Actually, there IS a linux-based christian OS out there. I heard of it on the radio about a year ago but never found it. I hope it was a joke...
Taken from an earlier post:
Later on the M$ flunkies were handing out brochures and literature in front of the SLUG booth. One of the SLUG guys brought this up to them, rather aggresively saying that he was going to get the facilities manager.
They turned around and broke the same rule.
No opinions in this post, just facts. Let's not argue this point.
Actually, the SLUGers were passing it out on the front steps. First in front of the giant inflatable XP box, then after being asked to move by venue management (of course, after MS complained) they moved about 30 feet away to the steps. MS complained again, and they were asked to move it inside. When MS first complained, they told Maddog that they had 'rented the venue'. He replied 'You didn't rent the venue, you rented a ballroom', which was true. They probably gave away a hundred or so LJ issues while out front, and quite a few Mandrake 7.2 CDs. Very few people turned the free stuff down; most had a smile on their faces. It is interesting to note that later on that day, the inflatable box collapsed of its own accord. I was there the whole time, and took the pictures.
Well... maybe you can get a server... :)
I remember reading this. If memory serves, Tannenbaum was bitching that Linux wasn't a microkernel. The arguments have been made and repeated over and over. If someone doesn't like the Linux kernel, there is no reason why they can't use Hurd. But the next time someone says that Minix is so much better, tell them to read the book. I did. Tannenbaum's opinions are formost opinions and should be treated as such.
Check out VariCAD. It does solid modeling and can export in lots of formats. I'm assuming the .dxf is revision 12, tho, and this will not generate code to cut your part. Still, it's available.
So... why does this rate a 4??
This is the single worst adaptation I think I have ever seen. Did they even READ the damn book? Jesus, the Tommyknockers was better than this. I won't be recording the next 2 episodes.