In spite of unemployment the German industry can't find enough skilled people (sorry to be blunt, bute there are really dumb people out there in Germany doing IT work) and the Goverment was forced to allow IT workers (mainly from India) to work temporarily as explained above.
The German economy may be in not too good shape, but lack of skilled workers in certain areas may be a contributing factor, not a consequence, ot the economic situation.
Every country in the world has a system to recognize outstanding citizens.
The British system may not be perfect, may require reform dus to its origins, but that does not make some of the people recognized fully deserving of an official celebration.
The Apple mentality is tha there is none of your business to be opening their products. That has been true of computers, and peripherals, unsuprisingly it is so with their players.
There are plenty of examples in the market of players where you can change battery, media or both. (Check the Nex II player for example). No magnifying glass necessary.
Apple could design something that enhances the freedom of the consumer, but why do that if they can do as badly as many electronics' manufacturers that create incompatible stuff to corner out a niche market?
... but not support, distribution, manuals, etc. So the industry will still be there (don;t worry about programmers, most of them earn their money doing in-house development, not commercial software).
And in any case, the software industry is concentrated in big commercial conglomerates that will continue requiring software anyway, but hopefully they will wisen up and choose software that puts them back in control of their infrastrucutre.
Best tool for the job is a mantra repeated in IT circles but that covers only the technical part of the problem.
Well, there are also economic aspectes (Linux is cheaper), ethical aspects (some people dislike dealing with companies that brake the law) and political aspects (wanting to use software that I can mantain according to my needs).
Some solutions may look the best from a technical point of view if you restrict your choices (i.e. what is the best choice to use as desktops in Windows only environment. Answer: duh!).
But if you consider a wider context, the "best tool for the job" is not necessarily the one advisable for your situation (i.e. what is the best desktop if I have WIndows environment and we don't want to pay $300/seat for licenses and we don't like to pay a convicted monopolist and we would like to be able to audit the code we are using). This may narrow your choices but at least you are considering your problem in the full context and not narrowing it to a tehcnician's solution only.
In the US at least (in many other countries as well) you have the right to make a backup copy of your media. Any impediment is against your rights (if not in a legal sense, since the companies are not legally obliged to help you out, in a moral way, since they sideline the spirit of the laws). That is your strike one.
Strike two: have you heard about external devices? Your idea about the media size is so dumb that I will not elaborate any further.
How are companies going to block development of software? If this is a read-only medium (like CDs, or vinyl LPs) then somebody will rip the player apart adn connect it to a computer, release the instructions to do this with the required software. Strike three.
McDonald's and Coca-Cola are the cheapest way to fill your belly. They are cheap, thus they sell, nobody cares if the main office is in the US or in Tonga.
The Matrix is unproduceable in any other country. In several countries other movies, locally produced, beat Hollywood exports. Of course US people never get to hear about this.
Typical USian exceptionalism. It is so stupid it almost hurts.
US culture is popular because it has stronger means of propagation. Cultures that popularized themselves along the millenia have always been associated to large armies and conquerying warlords.
Nowadays a third visible power is economic one and accordingly economic powerhouses have the most influence culutrally around the globe, not suprisingly India anc China, both growing economically and politically are now hot when it comes to cinema and music, this has nothing to do with flexibility but with economic realities.
During the cold war the language most learned in Soviet satellite states was Russian followed by German (due to many scientists going to study there), that had nothing to do with flexibility of the Russian or German culture, but with the fact that you have to deal with those states with large political influence.
The day the US is not a political or economic power US culture will fade giving way to whatever replaces it as the political power to respect.
It amazes me also how some people invoke Darwin's name at the drop of a hat with such careless disregard for the facts: what Darwin discovered is only applied to biology, in the narrow field of evolutionary theory. It can not be applied to full societies or cultures because simply Darwinism does not cover these matters at all, any Darwinist assumption regarding the adoption of cultural practices is completely flawed.
You want a place where to make cuts? What is euphemistically called "defense" (specially in the US, UK, China, Russia and perhaps France, where defense has a doublespeak feeling to it).
This mission costed less than 100 million US dollars, is a mainly scientific endeavour. Science is the human actvity that has contributed more to the improvement of our lifes. It is through science that we first learned what global warming can do to a planet (looking at Venus by what would have seem useles space probes according to people sortsighted like you).
You are advocating for cutting costs in the worng place, look at defense expending. Do the US and UK need all those submarines, planes, helicopters, destroyers, etc? Nope, they could have a similar military dominance with half of them and the money saved would be billions, bot a few paltry millions that for once are invested in science which may benefit us all in the future.
Since when what a few trolls say has any relevance to what happens to the OS community or important OS projects??
Don't give/. more relevance that it deserves. It is certainly a place where valuable points of view are aired, but while you condmen a few trolls many other people are actually doing things, amongst others keeping projects like Wikipedia alive.
My dad used to play chess, he would challenge me frequently.
For several years he won hands down, then I began to win a few games, and afterwards I used to win all the games. In spite of that my dad kept issuing the challenges which I avoided like the pest because I found embarrasing to keep winning with little effort.
Once my dad was gone I realized how badly I missed those games and I learned a final lesson from the old man: the chess was not about the games, but about relaxing together enjoying something both of us liked.
To this day I play regularly and have become an avid collector of chess sets....
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... they would be out of business....
In spite of unemployment the German industry can't find enough skilled people (sorry to be blunt, bute there are really dumb people out there in Germany doing IT work) and the Goverment was forced to allow IT workers (mainly from India) to work temporarily as explained above.
The German economy may be in not too good shape, but lack of skilled workers in certain areas may be a contributing factor, not a consequence, ot the economic situation.
Every country in the world has a system to recognize outstanding citizens.
The British system may not be perfect, may require reform dus to its origins, but that does not make some of the people recognized fully deserving of an official celebration.
"I did it because my poor family could not stomach poverty" - Saddam Hussein in a nightmare of mine.
Look, I have dealt with Apple stuff since 1991.
The Apple mentality is tha there is none of your business to be opening their products. That has been true of computers, and peripherals, unsuprisingly it is so with their players.
There are plenty of examples in the market of players where you can change battery, media or both. (Check the Nex II player for example). No magnifying glass necessary.
Apple could design something that enhances the freedom of the consumer, but why do that if they can do as badly as many electronics' manufacturers that create incompatible stuff to corner out a niche market?
600Cds/20years= 30 CDs/year or 2.5 CDs per month.
Or one every two weeks.
Not compulsive but aiming at it.
That is what completes the full context of the situation.
... it wouldhave been a joke.
Now in 1984 it is a wise inciative to fight our enemies.
Yes.
Is administration time free?
No.
Can rusty do anything he wants with money freely given to him?
Yes, he can spend it in whores as far as I am concerned.
Is he dodging taxes?
I don't know, niether you do, I guess not.
So what is your point?
To be able to at least partially save in a obfuscated format.
Use the native format and you'll be fine, if you need to export do it using something simple (plain text) and reformat in the other processor.
... but not support, distribution, manuals, etc. So the industry will still be there (don;t worry about programmers, most of them earn their money doing in-house development, not commercial software).
And in any case, the software industry is concentrated in big commercial conglomerates that will continue requiring software anyway, but hopefully they will wisen up and choose software that puts them back in control of their infrastrucutre.
... but play one here in /. ....
I have not seen the ad.
Needless to say most of the polite audience here has no idea what we are talking about (Becks? Posh? Pom?).
Best tool for the job is a mantra repeated in IT circles but that covers only the technical part of the problem.
Well, there are also economic aspectes (Linux is cheaper), ethical aspects (some people dislike dealing with companies that brake the law) and political aspects (wanting to use software that I can mantain according to my needs).
Some solutions may look the best from a technical point of view if you restrict your choices (i.e. what is the best choice to use as desktops in Windows only environment. Answer: duh!).
But if you consider a wider context, the "best tool for the job" is not necessarily the one advisable for your situation (i.e. what is the best desktop if I have WIndows environment and we don't want to pay $300/seat for licenses and we don't like to pay a convicted monopolist and we would like to be able to audit the code we are using). This may narrow your choices but at least you are considering your problem in the full context and not narrowing it to a tehcnician's solution only.
Why o why there are still people advocatin this?
In the US at least (in many other countries as well) you have the right to make a backup copy of your media. Any impediment is against your rights (if not in a legal sense, since the companies are not legally obliged to help you out, in a moral way, since they sideline the spirit of the laws). That is your strike one.
Strike two: have you heard about external devices? Your idea about the media size is so dumb that I will not elaborate any further.
How are companies going to block development of software? If this is a read-only medium (like CDs, or vinyl LPs) then somebody will rip the player apart adn connect it to a computer, release the instructions to do this with the required software. Strike three.
You are out.
Why should commercial companies should refer to their costumers as citizens?
Plase, next Xmas ensure tha the turkey is not poisonous and do not use those allucinogen fungii again for the filling.
Jeeez.
Like VCRs you mean.
Or audio recorders.
Honestly, do you live on this planet or just were born yesterday?
McDonald's and Coca-Cola are the cheapest way to fill your belly. They are cheap, thus they sell, nobody cares if the main office is in the US or in Tonga.
The Matrix is unproduceable in any other country. In several countries other movies, locally produced, beat Hollywood exports. Of course US people never get to hear about this.
Typical USian exceptionalism. It is so stupid it almost hurts.
US culture is popular because it has stronger means of propagation. Cultures that popularized themselves along the millenia have always been associated to large armies and conquerying warlords.
Nowadays a third visible power is economic one and accordingly economic powerhouses have the most influence culutrally around the globe, not suprisingly India anc China, both growing economically and politically are now hot when it comes to cinema and music, this has nothing to do with flexibility but with economic realities.
During the cold war the language most learned in Soviet satellite states was Russian followed by German (due to many scientists going to study there), that had nothing to do with flexibility of the Russian or German culture, but with the fact that you have to deal with those states with large political influence.
The day the US is not a political or economic power US culture will fade giving way to whatever replaces it as the political power to respect.
It amazes me also how some people invoke Darwin's name at the drop of a hat with such careless disregard for the facts: what Darwin discovered is only applied to biology, in the narrow field of evolutionary theory. It can not be applied to full societies or cultures because simply Darwinism does not cover these matters at all, any Darwinist assumption regarding the adoption of cultural practices is completely flawed.
It kills as much the main core business of MS if users se no need to upgrade.
If MS would move towrads support as theyr core business that may have some relevance, but not as the situation is currently.
my-machine # ping Beagle 2
no answer from Beagle
my-machine #
or do PeeCees running that OS recognize as valid host names with spaces (and unquoted!". I want a machine with THAT OS now!
You want a place where to make cuts? What is euphemistically called "defense" (specially in the US, UK, China, Russia and perhaps France, where defense has a doublespeak feeling to it).
This mission costed less than 100 million US dollars, is a mainly scientific endeavour. Science is the human actvity that has contributed more to the improvement of our lifes. It is through science that we first learned what global warming can do to a planet (looking at Venus by what would have seem useles space probes according to people sortsighted like you).
You are advocating for cutting costs in the worng place, look at defense expending. Do the US and UK need all those submarines, planes, helicopters, destroyers, etc? Nope, they could have a similar military dominance with half of them and the money saved would be billions, bot a few paltry millions that for once are invested in science which may benefit us all in the future.
My all of you rot in your ignorance and apathy.
The emphasis has always been on freedom of the code, not gratuity.
Is perfectly between the realms of possibility that somebody gets paid to produce an Open Source software product.
Since when is /. the OS community?
/. more relevance that it deserves. It is certainly a place where valuable points of view are aired, but while you condmen a few trolls many other people are actually doing things, amongst others keeping projects like Wikipedia alive.
Since when what a few trolls say has any relevance to what happens to the OS community or important OS projects??
Don't give
My dad used to play chess, he would challenge me frequently.
For several years he won hands down, then I began to win a few games, and afterwards I used to win all the games. In spite of that my dad kept issuing the challenges which I avoided like the pest because I found embarrasing to keep winning with little effort.
Once my dad was gone I realized how badly I missed those games and I learned a final lesson from the old man: the chess was not about the games, but about relaxing together enjoying something both of us liked.
To this day I play regularly and have become an avid collector of chess sets....