Back home one studies Mathematics every year until one is 17 years old, basic arithmetic, set theory, algebra, some 2 dimension differential calculus and analytic geometry, the full works. It does not matter if you are going to study Engineering, Law, Arts or Music.
It is considered a frigging basic skill for bunnies sakes.
One can give it a miss the last year of college if one is going to study something not related to science and technology at University, but otherwise you get even one more year of mathematics.
I remember a friend that would bring all these "difficult" books they use in UK universities to teach maths, thinking none of us could solve the exercise problems (some buddy of his was English).
We tested our skill solving the exercises, having no major problem whatsoever. If there ever was a confidence boost regarding the quality of Mexican Public Education that incident was the one:-)
The more I know about UK (English?) education system, the more surprised I am. Now that slavery was remembered recently I was shocked to learn that the topic is harldy mentioned. Ditto for British Empire and other topics that do not make the country look in a good light. Shameful....
So basically what you are suggesting is to leave in the door all what you could bring to a company that is valuable in order to "toe the party line".
It is people that want to change the world and that do not forget their principles and beliefs who actually make a difference.
Those people that tiressly promoted GPLed software and that made sure sure their bosses did made possible for their companies to save lots of money and to be ahead of the wave of adoption of free software.
Do no listen to the parent post. Good companies will want you in spite of your lousy T-shirts.
The only thing I may concur is where respect is mentioned, but for bunnies sakes, that is a matter of basic good manners, it should not even be mentioned in a list of things to do to keep a job.
And present an intellectual challenge far superior to watching the paint dry in the wall.
If somebody really considers going to paint walls or fix toiletts (and sorry, I don't care how long the apprentiships are, they are dull jobs by definition) as a wise carrer move, I posit that they did not have any idea what he or she wanted in life anyway.
IT managers and CIOs know there are several commerciallly supported versions of Linux.
IT managers have had to deal with far more complex decisions when each company was pushing their own OS (at some point you had many different versions of UNIX, VMS, Windows, OS2, MSDOS, MacOS, and many mainframe propieatry ones (CANDE, A12 and who knows what else).
If anything, IT decision makers have it immensily easier now a days: one of the few remaining UNIXes for mission critical, scalabel problems, Linux for mission critical problems (mostly Red Hat) that may not scale well, Windows, Linux (Ubuntu I would say, Red Hat is good as well, SuSE) and OSX for desktop systems and departamental servers,
How chaotic is that?
Only lazy people want a one size fit all solution, that in the long term will cost them more money than the time and effor invested in doing a proper evaluation of what is available out there.
A company can limit perfectly their choice of products and technologies to open ones, once that choice is made inhouse developpers must constrain themselves to use that limited "approved" set.
Don't demonize abundance of choice when the problem is lack of clear management strategies.
If you think there are no arguments and forks inside MS then you are more naive than is decen to be.
The only difference is that they happen behind closed doors and you rarely hear about them.
If you want any indication that there are forks, simply look at 2 major consecutive versions of most MS offerings, in some cases are so unrecognizable from its predecessor that you wonder if the latest development team kidnapped the previous one and sent them to Guantanamo or something like that.
In the Linux world we have 2 dominant windowing systems: GNOME & KDE.
If you really wanted to you could develop for one of them (hint: Ubuntu, Red Hat and Fedora are GNOME shops, sorry Kubuntu guys, the distro is too green) and let the comunity port to the other, and you would have all your bases covered.
The no coherence argument is ludicrous, the Linux community has decided to have two main graphical environment, with several others for falling back or for specifical situations (low memory, low spec machines, etc).
The too much choice argument is a way to weasel out, it is a non argument frankly.
If you eat food from many different places (as any educated person should do nowadays) you will identify some traits pointing you in the general direction of the origin of the food.
There are some ingridients, froms of preparation and combination of ingridients so unique to one place, region or country, that it is very easy to identify the provenance of a dish.
SOme others are much muddled. For example a lot of Brittish bread confectionary has British names, but the same thing can be found in places as disimilar as Mexico or Malaysia, it becomes harder to identify the true origin of food when it becomes very popular.
a) Big companies are hurt badly by ludicrous patent claims. b) They buy, I mean, lobby politicians to kill software patents in the US
that we will have something resembling sanity.
Companies can use copyright to protect what is theirs and shoulder the fact that other people will copy their good ideas, that would benefit everybody.
Feminism is about equality, not about having childrens or not.
No serious feminist nowadays will call children a burden, even tangentially.
The problem is that males use them to dominate the family relationship on their favour (immensily more women stay at home with the children than men) and the state (of whatever ideologuy you care to mention) does not recognize the work of women staying at home as real work (they are considered unemployed) which further disadvantages women in society, in economic power , etc.
Do not blame feminists for the lack of care for the needs of women in male dominated societies
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It is judging all the reasonable data and pehnomena we have and reaching a logical conclussion.
We may learn how to get there 1/4th faster by learning from the experiences of the first travellers.
.... that a basic educational skill are valuable to all, even if you suck at it.
Back home one studies Mathematics every year until one is 17 years old, basic arithmetic, set theory, algebra, some 2 dimension differential calculus and analytic geometry, the full works. It does not matter if you are going to study Engineering, Law, Arts or Music.
:-)
It is considered a frigging basic skill for bunnies sakes.
One can give it a miss the last year of college if one is going to study something not related to science and technology at University, but otherwise you get even one more year of mathematics.
I remember a friend that would bring all these "difficult" books they use in UK universities to teach maths, thinking none of us could solve the exercise problems (some buddy of his was English).
We tested our skill solving the exercises, having no major problem whatsoever. If there ever was a confidence boost regarding the quality of Mexican Public Education that incident was the one
The more I know about UK (English?) education system, the more surprised I am. Now that slavery was remembered recently I was shocked to learn that the topic is harldy mentioned. Ditto for British Empire and other topics that do not make the country look in a good light. Shameful....
So basically what you are suggesting is to leave in the door all what you could bring to a company that is valuable in order to "toe the party line".
It is people that want to change the world and that do not forget their principles and beliefs who actually make a difference.
Those people that tiressly promoted GPLed software and that made sure sure their bosses did made possible for their companies to save lots of money and to be ahead of the wave of adoption of free software.
Do no listen to the parent post. Good companies will want you in spite of your lousy T-shirts.
The only thing I may concur is where respect is mentioned, but for bunnies sakes, that is a matter of basic good manners, it should not even be mentioned in a list of things to do to keep a job.
And present an intellectual challenge far superior to watching the paint dry in the wall.
If somebody really considers going to paint walls or fix toiletts (and sorry, I don't care how long the apprentiships are, they are dull jobs by definition) as a wise carrer move, I posit that they did not have any idea what he or she wanted in life anyway.
And laying pipes.
And installing dishwashers and washing machines.
In IT and CS your mentors are some of the greatest minds ever.
In plumbing, er, can you fix my toilet please?
I would never be a plumber. I don't care if they earn 3 or 4 times more than me.
I don't want to be fixing toilets for a living, thank you very much.
... the most expensive stuff you can find.
The EU would "overstep its bounds" when they stop complying with the law and the powers it has.
But asking such a question in regards to an issue involving a monopolist, is frankly rich to say the least.
What the heck is "difference of taste"???
You clearly wanted to use choice, or need, but taste?
You are just trying to hide behind a lame word your bias.
In any given healthy market you will have lots of choice. The OS market is not very healthy, the abomination WIndows VIsta is is enough proof of that.
Lack of choice equals shitty products.
IT managers and CIOs know there are several commerciallly supported versions of Linux.
IT managers have had to deal with far more complex decisions when each company was pushing their own OS (at some point you had many different versions of UNIX, VMS, Windows, OS2, MSDOS, MacOS, and many mainframe propieatry ones (CANDE, A12 and who knows what else).
If anything, IT decision makers have it immensily easier now a days: one of the few remaining UNIXes for mission critical, scalabel problems, Linux for mission critical problems (mostly Red Hat) that may not scale well, Windows, Linux (Ubuntu I would say, Red Hat is good as well, SuSE) and OSX for desktop systems and departamental servers,
How chaotic is that?
Only lazy people want a one size fit all solution, that in the long term will cost them more money than the time and effor invested in doing a proper evaluation of what is available out there.
I am sure any user of any complex piece of software is going to find different pet peeves.
The reality is that Linux works, and like with any other software product, not all design decisions will adjust to your view of what is logical.
Of course if most people decide that the design choices are shitty then the product will not be popular and will not be used.
Well, great, we have discovered the black thread, what is next, the wheel?
A company can limit perfectly their choice of products and technologies to open ones, once that choice is made inhouse developpers must constrain themselves to use that limited "approved" set.
Don't demonize abundance of choice when the problem is lack of clear management strategies.
If you think there are no arguments and forks inside MS then you are more naive than is decen to be.
The only difference is that they happen behind closed doors and you rarely hear about them.
If you want any indication that there are forks, simply look at 2 major consecutive versions of most MS offerings, in some cases are so unrecognizable from its predecessor that you wonder if the latest development team kidnapped the previous one and sent them to Guantanamo or something like that.
In the Linux world we have 2 dominant windowing systems: GNOME & KDE.
If you really wanted to you could develop for one of them (hint: Ubuntu, Red Hat and Fedora are GNOME shops, sorry Kubuntu guys, the distro is too green) and let the comunity port to the other, and you would have all your bases covered.
The no coherence argument is ludicrous, the Linux community has decided to have two main graphical environment, with several others for falling back or for specifical situations (low memory, low spec machines, etc).
The too much choice argument is a way to weasel out, it is a non argument frankly.
MTFBWY
The computers are mine, the software is legitimate. That is all the antipiracy protection MS needs to know about.
They have no bussiness being the gatekeepers of my computers.
You are wiser regarding apple pie now.
If you eat food from many different places (as any educated person should do nowadays) you will identify some traits pointing you in the general direction of the origin of the food.
There are some ingridients, froms of preparation and combination of ingridients so unique to one place, region or country, that it is very easy to identify the provenance of a dish.
SOme others are much muddled. For example a lot of Brittish bread confectionary has British names, but the same thing can be found in places as disimilar as Mexico or Malaysia, it becomes harder to identify the true origin of food when it becomes very popular.
We in Mexico do not recognize TexMex as Mexican, although clearly recognize the several influences from Mexican cuisine in fajitas or a good burrito.
It will not be until
a) Big companies are hurt badly by ludicrous patent claims.
b) They buy, I mean, lobby politicians to kill software patents in the US
that we will have something resembling sanity.
Companies can use copyright to protect what is theirs and shoulder the fact that other people will copy their good ideas, that would benefit everybody.
So you'll need to do some serious documented convincing
.... let me introduce you to the Right Hand Sock Puppet.
I'll play know patent wars! What can we destroy? What about that cuddly stuffed penguin?
Since when you have got a choice not the get a viral infection?
The allegory is idiotic, it is enough to know who enunciated it first to understand it.
Feminism is about equality, not about having childrens or not.
No serious feminist nowadays will call children a burden, even tangentially.
The problem is that males use them to dominate the family relationship on their favour (immensily more women stay at home with the children than men) and the state (of whatever ideologuy you care to mention) does not recognize the work of women staying at home as real work (they are considered unemployed) which further disadvantages women in society, in economic power , etc.
Do not blame feminists for the lack of care for the needs of women in male dominated societies