A democracy that elects the Nazi party is rotten and not to be befriended.
Hammas is an organization bent on destruction and jihadism, it has nothing positive to offer to try to fix the general situation, so frankly I don't see why the West should welcome them as bearers of the true democracy in the Middle East.
Who drives IT adoption are companies, big ones mostly.
Gamers are a pitiful nice market. Now that Linux is starting to be installed in government offices and as thin clients in big coroporations people are going to get used to it and many will take the jump at home.
The immense majority of computer users play games in their consoles, not in their home computers.
I have been a Yahoo email user for at least 7 years (or very close to that, I just can't remember).
Somehow my Inbox got screwed and that started a voyage of pain I wish not in my worst enemy.
Basically every person that replied to me thought either:
a) I was computer illiterate. b) I was an idiot.
the tone of the messages was patronizing to the extreme and nobody seemed to be prepared to engage in trying to solve the issue.
Their last message basically confirmed that I am derranged:
> Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail. > > We have investigated the issue you mentioned in your email and at > this time your account appears to be in full working order. We > apologize for any inconvenience. If you continue to experience problems, or if > we can be of assistance in another matter, please let us know. > > Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care. > > Regards, > > Flora > > Yahoo! Customer Care
My reply:
> Thank you. > > I am moving to gmail already. > > Bye.
What a pain, but I can't take this kind of service any longer.
If MS wanted interoperability they would not need to sign patent bullshit.
They could just sit down, say here is how our stuff works, lets make it work with Linux.
Even if they wanted to sort out the patent bullshit and were acting in good faith, they could talk to the different Linux providers to address the issue *before* getting ready for litigation.
As for MS stuff making work their wares with Linux, gives us a blessed fucking brake, in the immortal words of Johnny Mac: "you cannot be serious!".
MS is going to loss lots of face and top dollar (at a time whne their shares have been distinctively unimpressive of late) if the mess around much with this.
.... to deal with companies with a suspect reputation?
We see it here all the time, people having absolutely no moral qualms to deal with MS and defending them like if they were a role model of ethical behaviour.
And now, the above. If everything is working, who cares!
Well, I do. I do not want to deal with companies that do not meet my standards of integrity.
Although I am still in the fence regarding Novell (and thus SuSe) frankly they have not endeared themselves much.
Showing the willingness to do such a deal, with a company with the patently bad reputation as MS, should tell us a lot about Novell.
I don't deal with convicted entities, for bunnies sakes, they could screw me, I know they have done it with others and convicted for that. Why should any sane person or company deal with them? And why should I keep a bussiness relationship with somebody that is dealing with companies with a shoddy reputation?
If you are aducating people then you have to explain why the situation is like it is.
The matter of fact is that not all software runs in all computers and that in many cases there are alternatives. That is true for Windos, OSX, Linux or any other OS you care to mention.
You are educating this people, then do so properly.
Explain the differences between OSes, why you can't run all software and the alternatives if they exist.
It would not go amis to explain the philosophy behind FOSS and closed source software withouth being preachy but sticking to the cold facts as seen from each side of the debate (and from the middle, there are a lot of "pragmatists" out there).
It is always very comendable when people go and learn things for themselves, but nowadays only companies behaving amateurishly will not ensure that their employees receive the proper training to perform their duties.
As a matter of fact, in many industries and countries that is a legal obligation.
As for support you are a liability, sorry, but your ass would be out of any serious company in less time I can say "phone support". YOu are lucky to get away without proper supported.
I have seen how support in small environments can make all the difference between 10 people being productive or 10 people drinking coffeee and filling crosswords. You wanna look for a shop that is not professional? ( out of 10 times they will not have any meaningful support arranged.
So you say to a person that is not coputer specialist to use MS Office or Star Office and by some weird act of nature they will all flow to MS Office naturally.
We the users, how dare we!, to demand formats that work in our favour and not in favour of our software providers.
Whose data is it anyway? What happened with "the client is right"?
But at least you cleared things up. Most companies want to luck us in instead of providing a service worth its name.
Who cares is MS document format is patented or not? The patent system is so utterly broken that they can patent a nuisance in how a document is handled and that would give them free reign to threaten competitors and users as they see fit.
What many people around here do not seem to get is that software patents are not used in good faith, and that they can't be, because software is speech, and climing innovation on a process of thought is the mos silly thing since, well, since we started thinking.
To you, to Miguel de Icaza and other geeks in Novel that have their eyes firmly closed in regards to this situation.
We do know you guys will do nothing to hurt Linux of FOSS in general. But you are bloody pawns in this chase game.
MS layed out the battleground to claim whatever they want regarding your contributions if they are deployed in other commercial distributions of Linux. Ballmer made it pretty clear, I hope you will not deny that.
Patent law in the US is so monumentally broken that MS can clamin pretty much whatever they want. Your contributions to FOSS, done in good faith, implementing stuff to which MS may have a patent claim, could be eventually used to harm somebody else.
The masterful stroke of MS is that it has found a way not to alienate Linux Enterprise users. That way is you guys. You are their trojan horse and you seem quite happy to be playing that role, blissfully unaware that you are being carted in the middle of the battle field and that the initial salvo against you is clearly being happening.
There is a mighty good reason why stealing and copyright infringments are governed by different legislation and penalties: because they are not the damn same thing.
So stop it right there buddy. Others have replied why what you are saying is nonsense, but all modern legislation tacitally agrees that copying is not stealing.
Culture and economy would find ways to prosper and flourish if copyright was completely abolished.
I for example can't write a book, I will be willing to pay an advance to a good writer to write a good novel, I don;t fucking care if one he is finished everybody copy it ad nauseam.
Famous musicians would get off their asses and do some real work that is not to wait for royalties while living a jet set lifestyle. Humble musicians that rely on performances could not care less about copyright (actually it hinders them since they can't play whatever the fuck they want without giving a cut to somebody else).
Movies? Same as writers, they would switch to an advance method of financing, and frankly I would not mind if the $100 000000 bluckbusters became a thing of the past.
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A democracy that elects the Nazi party is rotten and not to be befriended.
Hammas is an organization bent on destruction and jihadism, it has nothing positive to offer to try to fix the general situation, so frankly I don't see why the West should welcome them as bearers of the true democracy in the Middle East.
Let me give you a clue. Most of it does not cost anything to the end user.
Who drives IT adoption are companies, big ones mostly.
Gamers are a pitiful nice market. Now that Linux is starting to be installed in government offices and as thin clients in big coroporations people are going to get used to it and many will take the jump at home.
The immense majority of computer users play games in their consoles, not in their home computers.
We are the first species in the history of the planet with any technical ability.
If we go away, there could be 200 or 300 million years without the reappearence of an intelligent creature, if at all....
TO have the computer running when it is doing nothing is a monumental wastage. Your bonus is going down the drain there, think about it.
With hibernation available it is nonsensical do keep a machine running all the time.
... when the Evolution deniers, pro intelligent design promoters say all their nonsense?
Peopl like you are either too shy or too few.
I have been a Yahoo email user for at least 7 years (or very close to that, I just can't remember).
Somehow my Inbox got screwed and that started a voyage of pain I wish not in my worst enemy.
Basically every person that replied to me thought either:
a) I was computer illiterate.
b) I was an idiot.
the tone of the messages was patronizing to the extreme and nobody seemed to be prepared to engage in trying to solve the issue.
Their last message basically confirmed that I am derranged:
> Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail.
>
> We have investigated the issue you mentioned in your email and at
> this time your account appears to be in full working order. We
> apologize for any inconvenience. If you continue to experience problems, or if
> we can be of assistance in another matter, please let us know.
>
> Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.
>
> Regards,
>
> Flora
>
> Yahoo! Customer Care
My reply:
> Thank you.
>
> I am moving to gmail already.
>
> Bye.
What a pain, but I can't take this kind of service any longer.
That may be your perception, buy you better show some proof of that.
If MS wanted interoperability they would not need to sign patent bullshit.
They could just sit down, say here is how our stuff works, lets make it work with Linux.
Even if they wanted to sort out the patent bullshit and were acting in good faith, they could talk to the different Linux providers to address the issue *before* getting ready for litigation.
As for MS stuff making work their wares with Linux, gives us a blessed fucking brake, in the immortal words of Johnny Mac: "you cannot be serious!".
MS is going to loss lots of face and top dollar (at a time whne their shares have been distinctively unimpressive of late) if the mess around much with this.
.... to deal with companies with a suspect reputation?
We see it here all the time, people having absolutely no moral qualms to deal with MS and defending them like if they were a role model of ethical behaviour.
And now, the above. If everything is working, who cares!
Well, I do. I do not want to deal with companies that do not meet my standards of integrity.
Although I am still in the fence regarding Novell (and thus SuSe) frankly they have not endeared themselves much.
Showing the willingness to do such a deal, with a company with the patently bad reputation as MS, should tell us a lot about Novell.
I don't deal with convicted entities, for bunnies sakes, they could screw me, I know they have done it with others and convicted for that. Why should any sane person or company deal with them? And why should I keep a bussiness relationship with somebody that is dealing with companies with a shoddy reputation?
No, no, and no.
When you refer to "IP" in the context of software patents you should always use quotes to make the point that all the system is bogus.
Repeat after me: software patents are nonsense. Anybody claiming to have one is just milking th broken US patent system.
I hear this nonsense about PhDs from people without PhDs that the pattern of behaviour is pretty familiar.
Anti-intelllectualism of the higher caliber, now rampant in many places.
Just curious.
He did not say it is the user's fault.
If you are aducating people then you have to explain why the situation is like it is.
The matter of fact is that not all software runs in all computers and that in many cases there are alternatives. That is true for Windos, OSX, Linux or any other OS you care to mention.
You are educating this people, then do so properly.
Explain the differences between OSes, why you can't run all software and the alternatives if they exist.
It would not go amis to explain the philosophy behind FOSS and closed source software withouth being preachy but sticking to the cold facts as seen from each side of the debate (and from the middle, there are a lot of "pragmatists" out there).
There are many people out there that have good advice and are willing to share it.
You can't paint a full group of people in a bad light just beacause some out ther are complete idiots.
It is always very comendable when people go and learn things for themselves, but nowadays only companies behaving amateurishly will not ensure that their employees receive the proper training to perform their duties.
As a matter of fact, in many industries and countries that is a legal obligation.
As for support you are a liability, sorry, but your ass would be out of any serious company in less time I can say "phone support". YOu are lucky to get away without proper supported.
I have seen how support in small environments can make all the difference between 10 people being productive or 10 people drinking coffeee and filling crosswords. You wanna look for a shop that is not professional? ( out of 10 times they will not have any meaningful support arranged.
So you say to a person that is not coputer specialist to use MS Office or Star Office and by some weird act of nature they will all flow to MS Office naturally.
Riiigth.
Linux is perfectly usable on its own right.
If it is not the tool for your job, don't use it.
Which secretary should I hire?
The one that tells me she knows MS Office only or the one that tells me she is a fast learner and can use any word processor or spreadsheet?
We the users, how dare we!, to demand formats that work in our favour and not in favour of our software providers.
Whose data is it anyway? What happened with "the client is right"?
But at least you cleared things up. Most companies want to luck us in instead of providing a service worth its name.
Who cares is MS document format is patented or not? The patent system is so utterly broken that they can patent a nuisance in how a document is handled and that would give them free reign to threaten competitors and users as they see fit.
What many people around here do not seem to get is that software patents are not used in good faith, and that they can't be, because software is speech, and climing innovation on a process of thought is the mos silly thing since, well, since we started thinking.
To you, to Miguel de Icaza and other geeks in Novel that have their eyes firmly closed in regards to this situation.
We do know you guys will do nothing to hurt Linux of FOSS in general. But you are bloody pawns in this chase game.
MS layed out the battleground to claim whatever they want regarding your contributions if they are deployed in other commercial distributions of Linux. Ballmer made it pretty clear, I hope you will not deny that.
Patent law in the US is so monumentally broken that MS can clamin pretty much whatever they want. Your contributions to FOSS, done in good faith, implementing stuff to which MS may have a patent claim, could be eventually used to harm somebody else.
The masterful stroke of MS is that it has found a way not to alienate Linux Enterprise users. That way is you guys. You are their trojan horse and you seem quite happy to be playing that role, blissfully unaware that you are being carted in the middle of the battle field and that the initial salvo against you is clearly being happening.
There is a mighty good reason why stealing and copyright infringments are governed by different legislation and penalties: because they are not the damn same thing.
So stop it right there buddy. Others have replied why what you are saying is nonsense, but all modern legislation tacitally agrees that copying is not stealing.
Culture and economy would find ways to prosper and flourish if copyright was completely abolished.
I for example can't write a book, I will be willing to pay an advance to a good writer to write a good novel, I don;t fucking care if one he is finished everybody copy it ad nauseam.
Famous musicians would get off their asses and do some real work that is not to wait for royalties while living a jet set lifestyle. Humble musicians that rely on performances could not care less about copyright (actually it hinders them since they can't play whatever the fuck they want without giving a cut to somebody else).
Movies? Same as writers, they would switch to an advance method of financing, and frankly I would not mind if the $100 000000 bluckbusters became a thing of the past.
If you have ever done a fire alarm drill, you should know you are not suppossed to take anything with you.
Depending on the situation the stuff you are taking with you may become an obstruction and endanger the lives of people trying to evacuate the area...