Anyways, your statement regarding Classical Music is ridiculous. Fans of classical music try to listen as many live performances as they possibly can.
If you want to give the proverbial finger to the RIAA do not buy RIAA produced CDs and go to live music (the gendre does not matter, if people is willing to subject themselves to a painful experience like a concert of Britny Spears or whatever her name is, it is a least in the name of a good cause).
When the show was transplanted to the US the US producers had a headache because the presenter did not adjust to the media stereotypes and looked like, *grasp*, just a normal person.
Most USians of course don't have the chance to watch British TV, but the biggest difference is that British TV is not as worried as US TV with form and pays more attention to substance (even if said substance may be of questionable quality).
When you watch British TV the actors look like normal people in which not all are sexually desirable and artificially beautified by a surgeon.
Why some people are inclined to give Debian, such a wonderful work, a bad name?
That bullshit about using soimething else if one can't figure out the very defective piece of software that dselect in particular, and the install process in general, is becoming a very tired horse that is just an excuse for lack of interest.
People are not stupid, the previous poster and myself are giving Debian its fiar chance. It is great, stable and all the rest, but I am not prepared to hear that bullshit about installation not beinn important or that people should move somewhere else.
All what it takes is to rethink the process and presentation of the installation tools (I am not talking about graphical installs, that is unnecesary and obtrusive, just clear ones: dselect is broken: deal with it).
I have worked with Linux since earlier versions (94). I was promoting Linux and using it as a desktop OS in 1995 (Slackware). My UNIX eperience is even longer.
I have been installing Debian for one year now.
I am an expert in user interface design.
The Debian installation is mostly OK, but you need to be an absolut pompous prick not to recognize that dselect is the most horrible piece of installation software ever devised by any human being. Confussing, unintuitive, clogged. No, no,no. Pain,pain,pain.
Yeah, many thanks to the Debian guys for their efforts (I just install nothing with dselect and then get what I need with apt-get). But if you want to honour a frienship tell your friends the hard truth: dselect sucks (BTW I only buy Debian CDs with people that make a donation to the Debian team, before somebody criticizes my credentials as debianista).
Installation is lacking, and I am not talking about candy-eye-graphical-good-for-nothing interfaces. I am talking about a clean well tought deb manager application at the same level of abstraction of dselect.
We are talking about the guys that engineer with financial trickery the way to riches without contributing anything to the company that hired them.
Unjustified redundancies, lack of innovation, unnecessary outsourcing and shorttermism in general, even fraud, financial shenanigans, whatever it takes to inflate the stock price, quality, dividends, reinvestment be damned.
Some entrepreneurs end as CEOs. Not all CEOs are entrepreneurs and the only thing they bet is the obscene size of their severance package.
My last 2 jobs have been in big multinational corporations comprising hundreds of servers and thousends of workstations. Several terabytes of data were backed up each day.
Both companies had a backup team. One was formed by two people, the other by three.
If your team is investing close to 40 hours per week on backups (thus mking you consider to hire somebody for that purpose) I would first look at what tools I am using for backups and if those tools fit the job. One thing that would be telling you if the tools or the understanding of them are not good enough would be if you find yourself doing backup work that has little to do with backup tasks (fixing problems with software or hardware, finding tapes, etc).
If you feel you have that you have the right tools, you may want to invest in training first. People using software to its full potential is more productive.
Another thing that may help is to designate one person responsible for backups in a rota basis (weekly, beweekly) so hecan concentrate fully on this task mainly.
Failling all that, then yes, perhaps you may need somebody. The point I am trying to make is that you have to try other things first.
-Why should I trust MS (or any company for that matter) to decide what software runs or does not run in my company's computers (pretend you are a whi-kid CEO)?
-Are you and Intel going to finally take legal liability when my computer is hacked or when a new virus strikes? If not, then where is the advantage for me as a consumer (then kindly remind him how MS does not accept any liability for its products).
China has to be on its best behavior until the Olympics in Beijing, and you can bet that beating up on a smaller democratic and practically sovereign state would be frowned upon by the international community and probably get the Olympics yanked.
Like when the 1980 Moscow games got yanked about the Afghanistan issue.
Or Los Angeles 1984 got yanked after Grenada (I may be ultra-trolling here because I don;t remember what was first, nevertheless the point is the games will carry one vene if there is a boycott by a few nations, no matter how powerful they are).
There are many studies and anecdotal evidence that contradict what you say regarding gender traits and environment.
You may not like it, but there must be a reason why males like going in killing sprees when they play a game while females mostly prefer puzzles like tetris mahjong and similar, in spite of many different cultural and educational backgrounds.
When there are traits that change little from culture to culture and from social class to social class (i.e. education level) one has to begin to suspect somethin that is not the environment as the cuase for those traits.
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Anyways, your statement regarding Classical Music is ridiculous. Fans of classical music try to listen as many live performances as they possibly can.
If you want to give the proverbial finger to the RIAA do not buy RIAA produced CDs and go to live music (the gendre does not matter, if people is willing to subject themselves to a painful experience like a concert of Britny Spears or whatever her name is, it is a least in the name of a good cause).
mmmh?
When the show was transplanted to the US the US producers had a headache because the presenter did not adjust to the media stereotypes and looked like, *grasp*, just a normal person.
Most USians of course don't have the chance to watch British TV, but the biggest difference is that British TV is not as worried as US TV with form and pays more attention to substance (even if said substance may be of questionable quality).
When you watch British TV the actors look like normal people in which not all are sexually desirable and artificially beautified by a surgeon.
And let them know you will not buy or promote their products (research, methods, wahtever) if it is in your power to do so.
Then talk to your Congress person....
And tell us what they say.
Why some people are inclined to give Debian, such a wonderful work, a bad name?
That bullshit about using soimething else if one can't figure out the very defective piece of software that dselect in particular, and the install process in general, is becoming a very tired horse that is just an excuse for lack of interest.
People are not stupid, the previous poster and myself are giving Debian its fiar chance. It is great, stable and all the rest, but I am not prepared to hear that bullshit about installation not beinn important or that people should move somewhere else.
All what it takes is to rethink the process and presentation of the installation tools (I am not talking about graphical installs, that is unnecesary and obtrusive, just clear ones: dselect is broken: deal with it).
I have worked with Linux since earlier versions (94). I was promoting Linux and using it as a desktop OS in 1995 (Slackware). My UNIX eperience is even longer.
,no. Pain,pain,pain.
I have been installing Debian for one year now.
I am an expert in user interface design.
The Debian installation is mostly OK, but you need to be an absolut pompous prick not to recognize that dselect is the most horrible piece of installation software ever devised by any human being. Confussing, unintuitive, clogged. No, no
Yeah, many thanks to the Debian guys for their efforts (I just install nothing with dselect and then get what I need with apt-get). But if you want to honour a frienship tell your friends the hard truth: dselect sucks (BTW I only buy Debian CDs with people that make a donation to the Debian team, before somebody criticizes my credentials as debianista).
Installation is lacking, and I am not talking about candy-eye-graphical-good-for-nothing interfaces. I am talking about a clean well tought deb manager application at the same level of abstraction of dselect.
I think it breaks every single convention of user interface design: cluttered, cumbersome, unintuitive, complex.
I normally do a basic install and then I install whatever I need using apt-get, avoiding dselect like the pest it is.
Nobody is talking about the guy that takes risks.
We are talking about the guys that engineer with financial trickery the way to riches without contributing anything to the company that hired them.
Unjustified redundancies, lack of innovation, unnecessary outsourcing and shorttermism in general, even fraud, financial shenanigans, whatever it takes to inflate the stock price, quality, dividends, reinvestment be damned.
Some entrepreneurs end as CEOs. Not all CEOs are entrepreneurs and the only thing they bet is the obscene size of their severance package.
Is the role of the US army to enforce law and order during peace times?
There, now you know why it is not proper.
I also like your wife's curves!
Smaller pieces of software with well defined tasks are easier to mantain.
Linux is not a commercial operating system. It is a fscking OS kernel.
Red Hat may be a comercial OS, Linux is not...
My last 2 jobs have been in big multinational corporations comprising hundreds of servers and thousends of workstations. Several terabytes of data were backed up each day.
Both companies had a backup team. One was formed by two people, the other by three.
If your team is investing close to 40 hours per week on backups (thus mking you consider to hire somebody for that purpose) I would first look at what tools I am using for backups and if those tools fit the job. One thing that would be telling you if the tools or the understanding of them are not good enough would be if you find yourself doing backup work that has little to do with backup tasks (fixing problems with software or hardware, finding tapes, etc).
If you feel you have that you have the right tools, you may want to invest in training first. People using software to its full potential is more productive.
Another thing that may help is to designate one person responsible for backups in a rota basis (weekly, beweekly) so hecan concentrate fully on this task mainly.
Failling all that, then yes, perhaps you may need somebody. The point I am trying to make is that you have to try other things first.
-Why should I trust MS (or any company for that matter) to decide what software runs or does not run in my company's computers (pretend you are a whi-kid CEO)?
-Are you and Intel going to finally take legal liability when my computer is hacked or when a new virus strikes? If not, then where is the advantage for me as a consumer (then kindly remind him how MS does not accept any liability for its products).
Amd how are we going to put stuff we recorded in our vido camera in a media easily viewable in a TV set?
Are there any similar shops to the ones in the US in EU countries?
China has to be on its best behavior until the Olympics in Beijing, and you can bet that beating up on a smaller democratic and practically sovereign state would be frowned upon by the international community and probably get the Olympics yanked.
Like when the 1980 Moscow games got yanked about the Afghanistan issue.
Or Los Angeles 1984 got yanked after Grenada (I may be ultra-trolling here because I don;t remember what was first, nevertheless the point is the games will carry one vene if there is a boycott by a few nations, no matter how powerful they are).
There are many studies and anecdotal evidence that contradict what you say regarding gender traits and environment.
You may not like it, but there must be a reason why males like going in killing sprees when they play a game while females mostly prefer puzzles like tetris mahjong and similar, in spite of many different cultural and educational backgrounds.
When there are traits that change little from culture to culture and from social class to social class (i.e. education level) one has to begin to suspect somethin that is not the environment as the cuase for those traits.
I found it profoundly boring. I was 15.
Where did you get that 1000 bucks?
Flipping burgers?
Riiight.
Be creative.
In my company there is no chance that a software developper would even be allowed to think to open a box.
;-)
If you want a hobby playing with hardware then puruse your hobby at home
Usernames and passwords in a notebook?
What about security?