... why IT people think managment have no clue about technical stuff.
Saying a thing like "A hybrid between open source and a pure commercial ventures" just demonstrates that who says it can't grasp the most fundamental concepts regarding sofware licensing. Although software licensing and the running of a company intersect under many circymstances, one thing lives in a completely different context from the other and is mostly independent from each other.
Pure commercial ventures exist already that exploit Open Source software.
Equalling Open Source Software with a co-op is idiotic beyond belief (if that is indeed what you were trying to do). People producing Open Source software can work in many guises, the only thing that matters is that the license their software with an open source license.
.... if you value the posibility of consciousness.
If you fuck not care about anything, then yes, you are right, there is no difference, but humans have morals and make judgments based on them.
Forgetting about moral judgments is denying our humanity, which may not be of consequence in the great scheme of things (we will be forgoteen in 5 billion years), but is all what we have got.
Nuclear power is uneconomic and has relied so far in vast subsidies to be used.
The moment you need to run a profitable bussiness producing nuclear energy, reality bites and nobody does it.
Ecologists have some political cloud, but I don't see them in most congresses steering economic and development policy (how many Green Party representatives does the US have? Senators? Governors?). The closest a Green Party has been to power is in Germany, where they were part of a colaition for some years and yes, they pushed for a green agenda. Guess whay? Germany did not collapse and will prosper (but alas, it is a place were people are selling thir cars in order to use public transport).
Blaming ecologists for the lack of nuclear plants is most uninformed and disingenious.
There are demonstrable reasons of why nuclear is not an option.
First of all it is uneconomic. France, the country that most extensively is using nuclear energy, manages to keep it running only by means o vast subsidies. This is true of pretty much any plant that has gone into commercial operation. These deficiencies are tolerated because the nuclear power industry is intimately linked to the military industry, and if you don't believe this you can ask Iran (and the UN security council fro tha matter) about this.
Nuclear is also usch an obvious target that is not funny.
Also, in several countries (US, UK, Russia) the nuclear industry has a track record of cutting corners and not following safety procedures.
Finally you dismiss concerns about safety. I ma pretty sure that the people in Chernobyl thought that their systems were perfectly safe. You need only one unforseen horrible failure to get your commeupance.
The solution is limiting power consumption, energy eficency and renewable energy generation.
Nuclear is a huge red herring which should be avoided, if only for the clear lack of a way to use it in a way that is economicaly feasable.
Well, so what you are saying is that they created a solution for a problem that very few people have.
Who needs thousends of tracks in a music player?
DJs perhaps. Not you, not me.
SO in reality we go back to the issue of marketing. They sold a solution wanting a problem and hyped it up with snappy advertisement.
That is Steve Jobs genius. It is good time that this is recognized but on the technical side the iPod offers precious little as have been explained elsewhere in the thread.
Have got a WiFi connection? Then you PSP will grab podcasts transparently and keep them on the memory (you need to upgrade to version 2.0 of their firmware I think, so no home brew stuff for you, until the lock in is broken again).
The iPod is a good compromise, but others are doing things far more inventive.
The genius of Jobs is the marketing. He is reselling the same tired device (there is no much functional difference between a first generation iPod and an iPod nano lets say) as if Apple was innovating.
In the meantime others have devices that do what the iPods do and then some (voice recorders, FM recorders, functioning as a simple disk device in any OS, WiFI connectivy like the PSP, you name it).
Hats of to Apple for they marketing people. Not mightly impressed with the technology (the wheel is the most innovative feature, but I don't think that is a clincher).
They make infuriatingly difficult to connect your phone in a standar way to your computer.
You want to do so? Then you have to buy their special propieatary USB cable and software. Which will be overpriced as hell.
And then they will put all kind of restrictions in how you can use the music in your phone. Oh yea, and it will not accept standard earphones, but the very special ones from them, overpriced as well.
YOu are right on the money, but the mobile phone companies are not.
I have ran on tunnels and the new Garmin Forerunner happily picks up the distance (on a straight line of course) and adds it to your running statistics.
And most importantly, for serious runners the shoe is more important than the gadgets. What about if no NIke shoe fits the shoe I need to run?
Are we talking about the same company that tried to 0wn our computers by means of infecting them, that also put people at risk with their badly designed batteries and that releases a new version of firmware for the PSP every other week because they get annoyed that people may actually dare too use the device they bought to hve somecomputing fun?
The same company that sold MP3 players that did not play MP3 files?
This matter will not paint in the radar of even junior IT managers. The only people that will know something about this are Linux geeks, and not even all of them for sure.
Most managers worry themselves aobut issues at much higer level, niceties like files systems will interest them when pertinent, but I am sure they will only care about the relevant technical aspects and not much else.
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... why IT people think managment have no clue about technical stuff.
Saying a thing like "A hybrid between open source and a pure commercial ventures" just demonstrates that who says it can't grasp the most fundamental concepts regarding sofware licensing. Although software licensing and the running of a company intersect under many circymstances, one thing lives in a completely different context from the other and is mostly independent from each other.
Pure commercial ventures exist already that exploit Open Source software.
Equalling Open Source Software with a co-op is idiotic beyond belief (if that is indeed what you were trying to do). People producing Open Source software can work in many guises, the only thing that matters is that the license their software with an open source license.
So in synthesis, WTF is your point?
.... if you value the posibility of consciousness.
If you fuck not care about anything, then yes, you are right, there is no difference, but humans have morals and make judgments based on them.
Forgetting about moral judgments is denying our humanity, which may not be of consequence in the great scheme of things (we will be forgoteen in 5 billion years), but is all what we have got.
Nuclear power is uneconomic and has relied so far in vast subsidies to be used.
The moment you need to run a profitable bussiness producing nuclear energy, reality bites and nobody does it.
Ecologists have some political cloud, but I don't see them in most congresses steering economic and development policy (how many Green Party representatives does the US have? Senators? Governors?). The closest a Green Party has been to power is in Germany, where they were part of a colaition for some years and yes, they pushed for a green agenda. Guess whay? Germany did not collapse and will prosper (but alas, it is a place were people are selling thir cars in order to use public transport).
Blaming ecologists for the lack of nuclear plants is most uninformed and disingenious.
There are demonstrable reasons of why nuclear is not an option.
First of all it is uneconomic. France, the country that most extensively is using nuclear energy, manages to keep it running only by means o vast subsidies. This is true of pretty much any plant that has gone into commercial operation. These deficiencies are tolerated because the nuclear power industry is intimately linked to the military industry, and if you don't believe this you can ask Iran (and the UN security council fro tha matter) about this.
Nuclear is also usch an obvious target that is not funny.
Also, in several countries (US, UK, Russia) the nuclear industry has a track record of cutting corners and not following safety procedures.
Finally you dismiss concerns about safety. I ma pretty sure that the people in Chernobyl thought that their systems were perfectly safe. You need only one unforseen horrible failure to get your commeupance.
The solution is limiting power consumption, energy eficency and renewable energy generation.
Nuclear is a huge red herring which should be avoided, if only for the clear lack of a way to use it in a way that is economicaly feasable.
Younger guys may not have a family, but have a life to be lived.
It is a big mistake to fall into the routine of puting extra hours just because.
One broke the law.
The other is nice chumps with the Chinese government.
Do not use the word "decent" in this context please, it is very disingineous.
You can't claim all what you are claiming without investigating first.
If the music proto monopolists were providing the same service they would surely take clients away from Allofmp3...
Well, so what you are saying is that they created a solution for a problem that very few people have.
Who needs thousends of tracks in a music player?
DJs perhaps. Not you, not me.
SO in reality we go back to the issue of marketing. They sold a solution wanting a problem and hyped it up with snappy advertisement.
That is Steve Jobs genius. It is good time that this is recognized but on the technical side the iPod offers precious little as have been explained elsewhere in the thread.
Have got a WiFi connection? Then you PSP will grab podcasts transparently and keep them on the memory (you need to upgrade to version 2.0 of their firmware I think, so no home brew stuff for you, until the lock in is broken again).
The iPod is a good compromise, but others are doing things far more inventive.
The genius of Jobs is the marketing. He is reselling the same tired device (there is no much functional difference between a first generation iPod and an iPod nano lets say) as if Apple was innovating.
In the meantime others have devices that do what the iPods do and then some (voice recorders, FM recorders, functioning as a simple disk device in any OS, WiFI connectivy like the PSP, you name it).
Hats of to Apple for they marketing people. Not mightly impressed with the technology (the wheel is the most innovative feature, but I don't think that is a clincher).
They are all well known brands in the market.
Iriver and Samsung is good enough support if you really want to use the format.
They make infuriatingly difficult to connect your phone in a standar way to your computer.
You want to do so? Then you have to buy their special propieatary USB cable and software. Which will be overpriced as hell.
And then they will put all kind of restrictions in how you can use the music in your phone. Oh yea, and it will not accept standard earphones, but the very special ones from them, overpriced as well.
YOu are right on the money, but the mobile phone companies are not.
Latest model does not have the issues mentioned.
I have ran on tunnels and the new Garmin Forerunner happily picks up the distance (on a straight line of course) and adds it to your running statistics.
And most importantly, for serious runners the shoe is more important than the gadgets. What about if no NIke shoe fits the shoe I need to run?
Or so I am told.
:-) ).
In Mexican Spanish, the machine is called "aspiradora" (which implicies breathing
Those 2 minutes while the machine boots do not have to be spent sitting in front of it.
Do something else for bunnies sakes.
There, I saved you 14 minutes of your precious time a week.
Once a day!
It is not like you have there in fron of your machine and wait.
Go and take a piss, wash some dishes, polish your toilet bowl.
There are hundreds of things you can do in those two minutes.
If the only consequence of our actions were the fucking pandas getting borked, well, so bad.
But we are talking global warming, we will all be screwed in a way or another.
Think about that (and the pandas, they are very interestng animals) next time you sit in fron of your 24x7er.
All of them have tennis courts. So you may care to mention that mythical place completely un-courted.
... never mind.
Ummm, get tennis lessons, that ensures that people the other side of the net will be picking most of the balls.
Oh wait, mythical place with no tennis courts
... you'll sit there, all bruised, trying to give your beater the benefit of your impartial appreciation of his charms.
... how are we suppossed to believe that you do what you just wrote?
....
Tlk about credibility
Are we talking about the same company that tried to 0wn our computers by means of infecting them, that also put people at risk with their badly designed batteries and that releases a new version of firmware for the PSP every other week because they get annoyed that people may actually dare too use the device they bought to hve somecomputing fun?
The same company that sold MP3 players that did not play MP3 files?
Or maybe we aren't andI am getting confussed.
Maybe you are talkig about Zony, Soni, or Sonee.
Sorry, my bad.
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=200813&c id=16444091
As explained by other people on this thread, that decision was taken some time ago on technical merits.
The name of a fucking filesystem tainted, yeah, sure.
If 1% of people with some IT expertise know what reisrfs is, I would be surprised.
How do you taint something nobody knows about?
And the people that know about reiserfs I think can be trusted to take technical decisions on their own merits.
Or do you think MS is going to launch a campaign saying "Linux is made by criminals"? (if, and that is a huge if, Mr Reiser is convicted).
One friend used to claim that.
His trousers were perpetually under his protuberant belly.
.... that it gets completely distoreted.
I will wait that the investigations are concluded and judgment is passed before delving in the whys.
This matter will not paint in the radar of even junior IT managers. The only people that will know something about this are Linux geeks, and not even all of them for sure.
Most managers worry themselves aobut issues at much higer level, niceties like files systems will interest them when pertinent, but I am sure they will only care about the relevant technical aspects and not much else.