In the buying process there is an implicit warranty that the product works as claimed or advertised. This is where product liability principle is based.
When open source software is released there is no sale involved so you cannot claim something in return because you did not shell our any money to acquire it in the first place.
They are not in violation of the DMCA law for the simple reason that they created the device prior to when the law was enacted.
OTOH, they are the patent holders of the cd format so that they can even sue content creators who slap their logo into the products and call then _compact disk_.
Problem is that M$ will now tout their.Net with the ZDNet data as gospel and convince those who are ignorant and eventually get a sale thus enlarging their empire some more.
By nature, engineers are lazy. I say this in the context of one that is not demeaning but rather in the sense that engineers will try to solve a problem in the easiest and most economical way possible. I say so because i'm also a mechanical engineer like the poster.
solving a problem using OOP will require more initial effort than using a traditional language like FORTRAN so you see why OOP is seldom used.
Also, engineering software is not as mainstream as say a spreadsheet so that it has a very limited market thus is not very appealing to the software makers and tend to be niche markets.
Funny because the public or even in the labels of records and CDs, they claim ownership of the works. However, artists cliam that they are not employees per se because they are not compensated accordingly such as overtime, vacations, health insurance, etc. The sales of their works are tallied and until such time that their sales are over the expenses incurred in producing and selling the music, they are never compensated.
If you read from history, globalization is as ancient as can be. Ancient civilizations with "visionary" leaders tried to conquer the world through military means - Romans, Greeks, Persians, Chinese, etc. Technology available ( basically transaportation and communication) to them prevented them from doing this in their lifetime but now, the technology is available to make this possible in our lifetime. This has continued even during the rise of European powers - Spain, England, Portugal, Italy, Germany and France.
Human nature is to be the most powerful or richest so you can have absolute control. So until we learn to coexist in harmony with our neighbor and environment, we will never find true peace in this world and events such as September 11 will continue to happen.
If you acted in the best interest of your student, you would know when you are giving advise that is professional and sound.
Also, if I were in your shoes, I would not push a student to go for a specific solution but instead would show him the benefits of each choice and giving him my best professional opinion and not limiting his choices.
I started my career in computing when I was 27 learning Microsoft Multiplan (I don't know how many/.ers know what it was). After that was COBOL and FORTRAN. I became a real sys admin (HP-UX) at around 33 too. Before the admin job, we were tasked to develop a plan to convert our company's computing platform from mainframes into Unix boxes and PCs.
When we installed our first application that does material tracking in a manufacturing operation, I was the natural choice to be the admin due to my technical background on the project. The concept there was that as part of the project, members of the team were trained in various components of HP-UX and Oracle admin. to enable us to manage the system without expensive external support.
I would suggest therefore that you develop something useful for your school (I presume since you said you were an english teacher) that can employ Unix/Linux/*BSD systems and use this as a springboard for a career in sysadmin. Maybe a web interface for displaying/calculating grades (for teachers only) and assignments (for students and parents) or just even a mailing list. Last year when my daughter was in middle school, their principal would have a weekly newsletter sent to parents who subscribed. Maybe you can do something similar running on a system you administer in addition to the web page mentioned above.
In other words, create something useful that runs on Linux, *BSD or whatever Unix variant and you can use this as a springboard for a sys admin job.
Yeah, right. If you have been following the drug companies' financials, a lot of their expenses is not in the actual research but in marketting the drugs plus the hefty profits that they make. Plus, a lot of their so-called medicines comes from the jungles and seas of third-world countries. Since they have the equipment and know-how to synthesize these drugs, they are the ones who profit immensely at the detriment of society in general.
Most likely structural too because of the large forces developed during the acceleration from subsonic to supersonic. But they do go together though. More power = more force = more stronger structure.
When talking to tech support, I would always tell them in advance that i'm knowledgeable in computers and networking and they don't have to give me all that crap about rebooting and such.
I just tell them to get me to their 2nd level support or to their supervisor and there I would be talkeing to someone who knows hteir stuff.
Nothing really substantial unless you count registering your system so you can use it and again if you make substantial changes to your machine. Then if you want to transact with merchants that have implemented passport authentication, you only need to give some of your personal information to microsoft so it is very convenient to do so.
I would also want to add that the home computers would probably not be installed with Linux if they are shared and most of all, training cost was not considered. While Windows would be more familiar to home users, we cannot say so for UnixLinux in general and they would require some sort of training and a steeper learning curve. Some would even probably have to dual-boot incresing complexity.
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Now there will be more screen area to show the blue screen of death...
How many access points can you build into a building? There is a limitation to the laying out of cables for utilities and this is one of them.
In the buying process there is an implicit warranty that the product works as claimed or advertised. This is where product liability principle is based.
When open source software is released there is no sale involved so you cannot claim something in return because you did not shell our any money to acquire it in the first place.
They are not in violation of the DMCA law for the simple reason that they created the device prior to when the law was enacted.
OTOH, they are the patent holders of the cd format so that they can even sue content creators who slap their logo into the products and call then _compact disk_.
Yeah right!
.Net with the ZDNet data as gospel and convince those who are ignorant and eventually get a sale thus enlarging their empire some more.
Problem is that M$ will now tout their
Why act as backup when samba can be configured to be the domain controller?
The day after, they'll be on sale ate Bay and some other people with money to burn will snap them up.
By nature, engineers are lazy. I say this in the context of one that is not demeaning but rather in the sense that engineers will try to solve a problem in the easiest and most economical way possible. I say so because i'm also a mechanical engineer like the poster.
solving a problem using OOP will require more initial effort than using a traditional language like FORTRAN so you see why OOP is seldom used.
Also, engineering software is not as mainstream as say a spreadsheet so that it has a very limited market thus is not very appealing to the software makers and tend to be niche markets.
I vote for Winux and i'm sure a lot of other /.ers will also agree onthis name change.
I'll agree to that 100%.
This is something that the Lindows team should capitalize on!
Cheers!
Funny because the public or even in the labels of records and CDs, they claim ownership of the works. However, artists cliam that they are not employees per se because they are not compensated accordingly such as overtime, vacations, health insurance, etc. The sales of their works are tallied and until such time that their sales are over the expenses incurred in producing and selling the music, they are never compensated.
My Daewoo DVD already has this feature and password protected though I cannot modify how it rates things.
If you read from history, globalization is as ancient as can be. Ancient civilizations with "visionary" leaders tried to conquer the world through military means - Romans, Greeks, Persians, Chinese, etc. Technology available ( basically transaportation and communication) to them prevented them from doing this in their lifetime but now, the technology is available to make this possible in our lifetime. This has continued even during the rise of European powers - Spain, England, Portugal, Italy, Germany and France.
Human nature is to be the most powerful or richest so you can have absolute control. So until we learn to coexist in harmony with our neighbor and environment, we will never find true peace in this world and events such as September 11 will continue to happen.
If you acted in the best interest of your student, you would know when you are giving advise that is professional and sound.
Also, if I were in your shoes, I would not push a student to go for a specific solution but instead would show him the benefits of each choice and giving him my best professional opinion and not limiting his choices.
I started my career in computing when I was 27 learning Microsoft Multiplan (I don't know how many /.ers know what it was). After that was COBOL and FORTRAN. I became a real sys admin (HP-UX) at around 33 too. Before the admin job, we were tasked to develop a plan to convert our company's computing platform from mainframes into Unix boxes and PCs.
When we installed our first application that does material tracking in a manufacturing operation, I was the natural choice to be the admin due to my technical background on the project. The concept there was that as part of the project, members of the team were trained in various components of HP-UX and Oracle admin. to enable us to manage the system without expensive external support.
I would suggest therefore that you develop something useful for your school (I presume since you said you were an english teacher) that can employ Unix/Linux/*BSD systems and use this as a springboard for a career in sysadmin. Maybe a web interface for displaying/calculating grades (for teachers only) and assignments (for students and parents) or just even a mailing list. Last year when my daughter was in middle school, their principal would have a weekly newsletter sent to parents who subscribed. Maybe you can do something similar running on a system you administer in addition to the web page mentioned above.
In other words, create something useful that runs on Linux, *BSD or whatever Unix variant and you can use this as a springboard for a sys admin job.
Good luck.
Yeah, right. If you have been following the drug companies' financials, a lot of their expenses is not in the actual research but in marketting the drugs plus the hefty profits that they make. Plus, a lot of their so-called medicines comes from the jungles and seas of third-world countries. Since they have the equipment and know-how to synthesize these drugs, they are the ones who profit immensely at the detriment of society in general.
Eric,
Thanks for the insight. I'll take a look at what I can contribute to Linux documentation.
Cholokoy
Thanks!
I didn't know this was how its done.
Do you like to write? Check out technical journalism or documentation. . .
I was always interested in doing this type of work-technical writing. Where can you point me to explore this area of endeavor?
Thanks.
Most likely structural too because of the large forces developed during the acceleration from subsonic to supersonic. But they do go together though. More power = more force = more stronger structure.
When talking to tech support, I would always tell them in advance that i'm knowledgeable in computers and networking and they don't have to give me all that crap about rebooting and such.
I just tell them to get me to their 2nd level support or to their supervisor and there I would be talkeing to someone who knows hteir stuff.
Nothing really substantial unless you count registering your system so you can use it and again if you make substantial changes to your machine. Then if you want to transact with merchants that have implemented passport authentication, you only need to give some of your personal information to microsoft so it is very convenient to do so.
I am also at a loss how he arrived at the costs and figures for productivity losses.
I would also want to add that the home computers would probably not be installed with Linux if they are shared and most of all, training cost was not considered. While Windows would be more familiar to home users, we cannot say so for UnixLinux in general and they would require some sort of training and a steeper learning curve. Some would even probably have to dual-boot incresing complexity.
Isn't this an oxymoron? There can be no such thing anyway.