I have worked 35 hours per week for the last 5 years.
I don't plan to change that, unless I take one of the many offers I keep receiving from headhunters and move to an industry in which my contract demands 40 hours per week, in which case I will work the fabulous amount of 40 hours per week.
I am amazed about how many people will demand contracts to be respected with the only exception of a contract that regulates the relationship with their own employer, in which case they are willing to be humilliated and disrispected as much as they can endure and then a bit more.
If you are contracted to work 40 hours/week and need to work 50 or 60 hours per week your company forgot to hire somebody for a half time position.
.... when you have the prospects to afford the drugs.
If people in rich countries are happy with a mechanism to make science to benefit only the wealthiest of the wealthiest I seriously question the values that move people in those countries.
... have stickers that clearly say "Linux inside" with a nice cute penguin.
Non coincidentally, I have only AMD processors.
Intel: go back to work, I am tired of companies throwing out of the window common sense in the name of protecting trademarks that are pathetic for lack of invetiveness.
Honestly, what are your lawyers thinking? Is any one with common sense left in any big coroporations?
I, my wife and my dog can use Graffitti proficiently.
Perhaps not good enough to write a novel, but good enough to jolt a note or write a phone number (which is what a PDA is suppossed to help you with in the first place).
Linux is there because many people believe it solves their computing problems, most importantly it solves the problem about who decides how to handle your own computer resources.
With MS you have to upgrade when they say you must, to what they say you must, under the conditions they dictate to you and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it if you have become completely reliant on MS based stuff for your crtitical computer work.
With Linux and other OS OSes the ones that make those decisions are the owners of the computer infrastructure. Red Hat does not support your version of RH Linux but you can't upgrade? No problem, all the code is open, you can pay somebody to fix any outstanding issues if that is what is required. Or you can move the data and programas to other Linux (and most probably any UNIX platform) when you are ready.
The variety of Linux distributions gurantees that you find the right solution to your problem and not a one size fits all approach that most probably will not please all the different types of needs out there.
Regarding Linux training, there is enough stuff around, but to be perfectly honest any good UNIX training is good enough and any particular caveats for a given distribution are easily covered by books or standard documentation.
I never learned Linux anywhere but had my first working machine up and running in no time at all. I had been working on Solaris before that, I felt at home on Linux.
The productivity and cost savings of many OS products out there is something that is not debatable anymore. is a demonstrable fact with myriads of examples worldwide.
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The apple zealots talking. No news there.
I will start my PC with Linux, if that fails I may try a borrowed WIndows machine (W98) or the one at work (either W2K or Sun workstation).
After that I will put the files in my MP3 player.
I'll let you know how it goes.
... if they have created this services based on Open technologies (i.e. so any bozo could browse the shop).
Correct me if I am wrong: I need a Mac for all this.
If above is correct I say: killer apps do not run in a niche OS only.
Many people are using Linux to "get work done"[tm] and forgte about it once it is installed.
Stop your tired propaganda that frankly impresses nobody.
But for US, thoughtful MS haters, that is not an option.
My Broadband provider mandates that if you connect a console, you connect only an Xbox.
I mean, how much do MS need to annoy people for people to begin to deny them their business?
Apart from the power cables and the monitor's screen signal I have no cables left on my desktop.
Keyboard, mouse, printer are all wireless.
Why do you have people in the same room with servers?
How are you restricting access to your computer room?
Why are you not getting in touch with professional people?
How much does it cost a colour laser printer?
I fully agree with you, but I need colour printing...
The objective of a company is to make profits, not to increase their share value.
Some of those profits should be given back to shareholders as dividends, wom of those profits should be reinvested.
Regularly outclass Western universities in science and mathematics competitions.
I would be more worried about those funky universities that sprout in the US like mushrooms.
I have worked 35 hours per week for the last 5 years.
I don't plan to change that, unless I take one of the many offers I keep receiving from headhunters and move to an industry in which my contract demands 40 hours per week, in which case I will work the fabulous amount of 40 hours per week.
I am amazed about how many people will demand contracts to be respected with the only exception of a contract that regulates the relationship with their own employer, in which case they are willing to be humilliated and disrispected as much as they can endure and then a bit more.
If you are contracted to work 40 hours/week and need to work 50 or 60 hours per week your company forgot to hire somebody for a half time position.
... male masturbation.
Think about all those spermatozoids!
Complex societies to be succesful require a sense of identity.
Museums like this contribute to that.
And in case you did not realize it, one of the most important money earners today is tourism.
Think about this: 1 is 50% of 2.
I hope that is enough for you tyo understand that before any menaingful statistical analysis you need numbers big enough that stablish trends.
The most accurate trend would be to add all cases and all deaths and calculate percentages.
I did this last Saturday and the mortality rate was 6%.
If they use a common. shared resource (people's CPU cycles) why should they be entitled to an exclusive patent?
If they want exclusive rights to something then they better buy their own computers.
.... when you have the prospects to afford the drugs.
If people in rich countries are happy with a mechanism to make science to benefit only the wealthiest of the wealthiest I seriously question the values that move people in those countries.
.... that guy, the frenchman, Louis Pasteur, surely needed billions.
What was the name of his multinational corporation? Memory fails me.
... have stickers that clearly say "Linux inside" with a nice cute penguin.
Non coincidentally, I have only AMD processors.
Intel: go back to work, I am tired of companies throwing out of the window common sense in the name of protecting trademarks that are pathetic for lack of invetiveness.
Honestly, what are your lawyers thinking? Is any one with common sense left in any big coroporations?
I, my wife and my dog can use Graffitti proficiently.
Perhaps not good enough to write a novel, but good enough to jolt a note or write a phone number (which is what a PDA is suppossed to help you with in the first place).
Can I borrow your aesthetics and ethics meter?
That objective absolute scale that you found, where did you find it?
The point I am really trying to make is better explained by the following neo-constructivist abstract post modernist expresion: bullshit.
Have a nice day.
I don't want to notice that when these guys are all flying around a room it is all fake.
No way, the people demand thrutfulness.
Linux is not there to slay any Goliaths.
Linux is there because many people believe it solves their computing problems, most importantly it solves the problem about who decides how to handle your own computer resources.
With MS you have to upgrade when they say you must, to what they say you must, under the conditions they dictate to you and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it if you have become completely reliant on MS based stuff for your crtitical computer work.
With Linux and other OS OSes the ones that make those decisions are the owners of the computer infrastructure. Red Hat does not support your version of RH Linux but you can't upgrade? No problem, all the code is open, you can pay somebody to fix any outstanding issues if that is what is required. Or you can move the data and programas to other Linux (and most probably any UNIX platform) when you are ready.
The variety of Linux distributions gurantees that you find the right solution to your problem and not a one size fits all approach that most probably will not please all the different types of needs out there.
Regarding Linux training, there is enough stuff around, but to be perfectly honest any good UNIX training is good enough and any particular caveats for a given distribution are easily covered by books or standard documentation.
I never learned Linux anywhere but had my first working machine up and running in no time at all. I had been working on Solaris before that, I felt at home on Linux.
... in my OS OS as a matter of principle.
If you want to be told how to access *your* data, by which menas and under which conditions, good luck and hope that your "provider" is benign.
WIth that signature it can't be otherwise.
The productivity and cost savings of many OS products out there is something that is not debatable anymore. is a demonstrable fact with myriads of examples worldwide.