Thank you to draw it to my attention. I did not know it mattered much. I also noticed I have also been modded down only once. Precisely in the comment that triggered your answer. So in average people don't care much about what I write or don;t find it particularly insightful or dumb. Good enough for me.
MS produces 100 Xbox, each priced one dollar, real cost was 2 dollars, Linux zealots buy them (lets say they buy them all), so OK MS sells no software, but at least recovers some money from the boxes sold. They invested 200, got back 100, net loss: 100.
Second scenario: the only Xbox is bought by Gates. They don't recoup any money at all. They invested 200, they got 1 back, net loss 199.
One does not need to be too clever to know which scenario hurts MS the most, do the same with any numbers you wish and assume for demonstration purposes that the same numbers of units either go unsold or are bought by Linux zealots. Every time the pinch hurts the most when the boxes are unsold.
Unless I can decide where I want to live and work and there are no barriers whatsoever to my decision, globalization will be a nice myth promoted by the few that can do precisely that.
If the only ones that have freedoms are corporations and not individuals, then Globalization seems to me suspicisouly as a means of controlling people and not as a means to empower them.
Debian installed. Left dselect working when I went to bed, next day after work everything was tere ready for me. 56K here.
A couple of weeks ago I downloaded StarOffice. It took 4 days (and an intelligent company like Sun that distributes the 80MB distribution in chunks of 10MB) in the background while doing my normal browsing.
One can do many things with 56K if you don't want to rush for no reason whatsoever.
Maybe you are too young (or to naive) to remember how cable TV began. One of the advantages they were pandering was that you pay but you got no ads and better quality than open TV.
A few years later, once everybody accepted sheepesly this pact, they, oh surprise, introduced ads. Wait a sec! I was paying to avoid those!.
never mind, this means I'll get to watch all the TV I want, OK? No, said TV companioes, this event is so special that you have to pay for it! PPV was born.
But surely now that I am paying for cable access, for PPV for event at least there will no be advertisement? Right?
Language, geographical location being two of the most important.
This being a heavily US influenced site has, not surprisingly, portrayed mostly English speaking authors (not to mention Tomi Morrison or Nadine Gordimer amongst several of the English speaking world worth reading is a big oversight).
In the Spanish speaking world there are many authors that we will continue reading that other cultures will not notice at all but that are essential to our societies (Mario Benedetti, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Camilo Jose Cela, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, to mention just the giants). Thus, any attempt to find relevant authors that does not so by first delimiting the choice by country and language is a futile exercise. Suffice to say that many of thae authors you mentioned are unknown in the Spanish speaking world (heck, I did not now about Tolkien and how much he is regarded in high steem until I visited English speaking countries).
What about German, French, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic writers? No? I can't tell either...
We have been using horse pulled carriages for as long as anybody seem to remember. It tooks us many centuries to reach the current state in traffic planning and efficent manure collection and disposal.
I will believe that the car is a viable means of transport when I see one that goes faster than 10mph.
If that is what they are hoping for they got it wrong, nobody will buy a full system just to play music.
I hope they reconsider and make it available for Winblows/Linux (heck, just publish the interfacing aspects, the hackers will take care of the rest. they will anyway, Apple could make it easier and get a lot of Karma).
What you say would sugest that it could work as an storage device for PCs (Winblows or Linsucks).
For what I have read so far the player can't access MP3 files in the storage area, and the "music" area is only accesible with the iTunes software in a Mac.
I want one. www.tigerdirect.com have no way to put a non US address in their site.
And they are selling returned machines for spares (sorry, I am a cynical person, I see one of those for spares making it all the way here masquerading as a helthy machine).
And anyway, I can get old machines for about the same price (even laptops) that can do as much with a little tweaking. The only think I would kill for is a cheap touchscreen to have it connected to a run of the mill machine....
If you are not a teenie, don;t behave like one.
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Look most probably you'll never read this, but I like to make my points clear for posterity:
-You need both good managers and architects and techies. Most groups of only techies normaly fail miserably to deliver something profitable. To pretend otherwise is puerile.
-Monolithic monsters are monolithic monsters, ever if they began as "agile" companies (whatever that means). The reality is that most of those "agile" companies you praise so much are gone while the majority of thos "monolithic aberrations" you deride so much are all in business and going strong. After the dot bomb fiasco one would expect less infantile ascertions about "agile" companies. Can you care to describe your monolithic companies and give some names to illuminate our ignorance?
-You clearly deride anybody that does not use XP, like if XP was the holy grail of computing. Such an attitude is closed minded, puerile and not in tone with the suppossed experience you claim to have. if you have such experience then you should know by know that using half a dozen acronims does not replace real knowledge and experience delivering projects. There are plenty of people that don't use XP and that does not mean they are closed minded idiots in a monolithic environment.
I may be a fool, but at least I don't dare to make sweeping assumptions abouts Software Engineering like if the practices I follow were equivalent to exact science.
Just remember, without code, architects and managers are *totally useless* -- its really that simple:)
Translation: Yesssss. Bad managers, techies rule! The typical dotcom will conquer the world, Mars, the Universe...
Real life: Oh wait, dot bombs are long gone. Damn.
If you like working for small, agile companies and winning teams than XP is a great path.
Translation: Yesssss! This one explains the dot bombs failures! Agile, winning teams! God Bless America!
Real life: Er..., wait, those agile cheetas of the IT world are gone... damn.
If you prefer big, bureaucratic monoliths or are too close minded to consider better ways of working with truly intelligent people than XP probably isn't for you.
Translation: Oh yeah! I see the light now! Those monolithic bastards like MS, Oracle, CA, ha,ha,ha! The Fortune 500! Ha,ha,ha! Idiots. They are doomed! Ha,ha,ha.
XP rulez! Anyone too close minded to consider anything but XP is a close minded idiot.
I am not close minded, I use XP and nothing but XP over my dead cold body.
Real life: a teenie has not real life experience....
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I love a teenie deciphering the complexities of the IT world for the rest of us. Charming.
Who needs architects if we have brick layers?
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Honestly man, that fscking architecht knows 5h1t about anything, he does not know hot to make a concrete mix, he does not know how to make a straight wall, he has no idea about hot to put a door in place.
But he gets paid more.
I am telling you man, the work gets all done by the brick layers, it is like if those fscking architects just get license to retire pretending they know something when in reality they can't distinguish between a red brick and a lunch box.
There are plenty of Linux people out there serious and professional, without the dogmatic crap oozing out of their pores. That guy is stuoid, not because he promotes Linux, but beacuse it is the way he is.
To draw any conclussions in such an incident is childish. And the same can be said about basing opinions about the Linux people readin/. selectively.
There are plenty of good articles about the relative benefits of Windows and Linux, but there is a lot of people there that browse -1 and decide that is what represents the Linux community as a whole.
Some people just don't get it: Linux is not about market share, Linux is not about wining anything, Linux is not about profits.
Linux is about choice.
The day one gets tired of MS you can try something else: it can or can't be what you want or need (I don't need an spell checker for instance, you people can suffer my English;-) ) but it is there for you to try.
Does it work for you? Great, you are welcome. It does not? Bad luck, let us know and we will try to help. Can you program? Can you translate? Can you write documentation? Then would you like to help improve the thing?
And what is the brilliant alternative? Do nothing? Is this person suggesting to abandon the project of desktop computing in the hands of a company that has been deemed acted ilegaly? Uh, no thanks. In particular poor countries can't afford this alternative.
If there are companies and individuals out there trying to make a living out of Linux, great. If they can't make money that means their busniess models are flawed, not that Linux is flawed.
It is really an insult to the intelligence of many brilliant people to assume that the Open Source programmers will never manage to produce something "user friendly" (like if Windows was, all those "Windows for Dummies" or "Learn Office in
24 hours" books are telling the real history: MS products are also difficult to use).
Dismiss this thing as mostly nonsense. It has some marginal value for any company that
wishes to make money with Linux in the user's desktop. For anybody else it amounts to little more than a rant written by somebody that is angry at an incompetent IT person in its company.
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Oh my goodness! I have not noticed!
Thank you to draw it to my attention. I did not know it mattered much. I also noticed I have also been modded down only once. Precisely in the comment that triggered your answer. So in average people don't care much about what I write or don;t find it particularly insightful or dumb. Good enough for me.
Inadequate? No. And you, do you feel inadequate?
I don't want to put technology in the hands of politicans whose only objective is to win the next election.
There is not a god given right for every Xbox to be bought.
That other person that is going to buy it, would have bought it any way. It is you we are talinkg about, no the hypotethical other buyer....
MS haters should not buy the thing. Period.
Honest people, did you ever study basic arithmetic?
Please do the maths.
MS produces 100 Xbox, each priced one dollar, real cost was 2 dollars, Linux zealots buy them (lets say they buy them all), so OK MS sells no software, but at least recovers some money from the boxes sold. They invested 200, got back 100, net loss: 100.
Second scenario: the only Xbox is bought by Gates. They don't recoup any money at all. They invested 200, they got 1 back, net loss 199.
One does not need to be too clever to know which scenario hurts MS the most, do the same with any numbers you wish and assume for demonstration purposes that the same numbers of units either go unsold or are bought by Linux zealots. Every time the pinch hurts the most when the boxes are unsold.
Unless I can decide where I want to live and work and there are no barriers whatsoever to my decision, globalization will be a nice myth promoted by the few that can do precisely that.
If the only ones that have freedoms are corporations and not individuals, then Globalization seems to me suspicisouly as a means of controlling people and not as a means to empower them.
That Gates bullshits according to convenience, while in the other hand Stallman is convinced about what he bullshits (and is consistent about it).
I prefer Stallman all the way.
Debian installed. Left dselect working when I went to bed, next day after work everything was tere ready for me. 56K here.
A couple of weeks ago I downloaded StarOffice. It took 4 days (and an intelligent company like Sun that distributes the 80MB distribution in chunks of 10MB) in the background while doing my normal browsing.
One can do many things with 56K if you don't want to rush for no reason whatsoever.
Maybe you are too young (or to naive) to remember how cable TV began. One of the advantages they were pandering was that you pay but you got no ads and better quality than open TV.
A few years later, once everybody accepted sheepesly this pact, they, oh surprise, introduced ads. Wait a sec! I was paying to avoid those!.
never mind, this means I'll get to watch all the TV I want, OK? No, said TV companioes, this event is so special that you have to pay for it! PPV was born.
But surely now that I am paying for cable access, for PPV for event at least there will no be advertisement? Right?
Yeah, sure.
And you don't want people to be annoyed... Jeez.
Language, geographical location being two of the most important.
This being a heavily US influenced site has, not surprisingly, portrayed mostly English speaking authors (not to mention Tomi Morrison or Nadine Gordimer amongst several of the English speaking world worth reading is a big oversight).
In the Spanish speaking world there are many authors that we will continue reading that other cultures will not notice at all but that are essential to our societies (Mario Benedetti, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Camilo Jose Cela, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, to mention just the giants). Thus, any attempt to find relevant authors that does not so by first delimiting the choice by country and language is a futile exercise. Suffice to say that many of thae authors you mentioned are unknown in the Spanish speaking world (heck, I did not now about Tolkien and how much he is regarded in high steem until I visited English speaking countries).
What about German, French, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic writers? No? I can't tell either...
We have been using horse pulled carriages for as long as anybody seem to remember. It tooks us many centuries to reach the current state in traffic planning and efficent manure collection and disposal.
I will believe that the car is a viable means of transport when I see one that goes faster than 10mph.
For a little home PC serving 2 pages per day?
If that is what they are hoping for they got it wrong, nobody will buy a full system just to play music.
I hope they reconsider and make it available for Winblows/Linux (heck, just publish the interfacing aspects, the hackers will take care of the rest. they will anyway, Apple could make it easier and get a lot of Karma).
What you say would sugest that it could work as an storage device for PCs (Winblows or Linsucks).
For what I have read so far the player can't access MP3 files in the storage area, and the "music" area is only accesible with the iTunes software in a Mac.
Hold as much music as the iPod?
Have as much music available without burning CDs?
Transfer the music at decent speeds between PC and player?
Go and check now the prices. You can get an excellent laptop for a competitive price.
Don't fall to FUD, inform yourself.
I want one. www.tigerdirect.com have no way to put a non US address in their site.
And they are selling returned machines for spares (sorry, I am a cynical person, I see one of those for spares making it all the way here masquerading as a helthy machine).
And anyway, I can get old machines for about the same price (even laptops) that can do as much with a little tweaking. The only think I would kill for is a cheap touchscreen to have it connected to a run of the mill machine....
Look most probably you'll never read this, but I like to make my points clear for posterity:
-You need both good managers and architects and techies. Most groups of only techies normaly fail miserably to deliver something profitable. To pretend otherwise is puerile.
-Monolithic monsters are monolithic monsters, ever if they began as "agile" companies (whatever that means). The reality is that most of those "agile" companies you praise so much are gone while the majority of thos "monolithic aberrations" you deride so much are all in business and going strong. After the dot bomb fiasco one would expect less infantile ascertions about "agile" companies. Can you care to describe your monolithic companies and give some names to illuminate our ignorance?
-You clearly deride anybody that does not use XP, like if XP was the holy grail of computing. Such an attitude is closed minded, puerile and not in tone with the suppossed experience you claim to have. if you have such experience then you should know by know that using half a dozen acronims does not replace real knowledge and experience delivering projects. There are plenty of people that don't use XP and that does not mean they are closed minded idiots in a monolithic environment.
I may be a fool, but at least I don't dare to make sweeping assumptions abouts Software Engineering like if the practices I follow were equivalent to exact science.
Check www.linuxhacker.net, there is people running the thing in the UK
Just remember, without code, architects and managers are *totally useless* -- its really that simple :)
....
Translation: Yesssss. Bad managers, techies rule! The typical dotcom will conquer the world, Mars, the Universe...
Real life: Oh wait, dot bombs are long gone. Damn.
If you like working for small, agile companies and winning teams than XP is a great path.
Translation: Yesssss! This one explains the dot bombs failures! Agile, winning teams! God Bless America!
Real life: Er..., wait, those agile cheetas of the IT world are gone... damn.
If you prefer big, bureaucratic monoliths or are too close minded to consider better ways of working with truly intelligent people than XP probably isn't for you.
Translation: Oh yeah! I see the light now! Those monolithic bastards like MS, Oracle, CA, ha,ha,ha! The Fortune 500! Ha,ha,ha! Idiots. They are doomed! Ha,ha,ha.
XP rulez! Anyone too close minded to consider anything but XP is a close minded idiot.
I am not close minded, I use XP and nothing but XP over my dead cold body.
Real life: a teenie has not real life experience
---
I love a teenie deciphering the complexities of the IT world for the rest of us. Charming.
Honestly man, that fscking architecht knows 5h1t about anything, he does not know hot to make a concrete mix, he does not know how to make a straight wall, he has no idea about hot to put a door in place.
But he gets paid more.
I am telling you man, the work gets all done by the brick layers, it is like if those fscking architects just get license to retire pretending they know something when in reality they can't distinguish between a red brick and a lunch box.
... there is something called justice in this world ...
Which is nonsense of course.
/. selectively.
There are plenty of Linux people out there serious and professional, without the dogmatic crap oozing out of their pores. That guy is stuoid, not because he promotes Linux, but beacuse it is the way he is.
To draw any conclussions in such an incident is childish. And the same can be said about basing opinions about the Linux people readin
There are plenty of good articles about the relative benefits of Windows and Linux, but there is a lot of people there that browse -1 and decide that is what represents the Linux community as a whole.
Lame.
Some people just don't get it: Linux is not about market share, Linux is not about wining anything, Linux is not about profits.
;-) ) but it is there for you to try.
Linux is about choice.
The day one gets tired of MS you can try something else: it can or can't be what you want or need (I don't need an spell checker for instance, you people can suffer my English
Does it work for you? Great, you are welcome. It does not? Bad luck, let us know and we will try to help. Can you program? Can you translate? Can you write documentation? Then would you like to help improve the thing?
And what is the brilliant alternative? Do nothing? Is this person suggesting to abandon the project of desktop computing in the hands of a company that has been deemed acted ilegaly? Uh, no thanks. In particular poor countries can't afford this alternative.
If there are companies and individuals out there trying to make a living out of Linux, great. If they can't make money that means their busniess models are flawed, not that Linux is flawed.
It is really an insult to the intelligence of many brilliant people to assume that the Open Source programmers will never manage to produce something "user friendly" (like if Windows was, all those "Windows for Dummies" or "Learn Office in
24 hours" books are telling the real history: MS products are also difficult to use).
Dismiss this thing as mostly nonsense. It has some marginal value for any company that
wishes to make money with Linux in the user's desktop. For anybody else it amounts to little more than a rant written by somebody that is angry at an incompetent IT person in its company.
I don't like MS corporate tactics, thus I don't use their products.
Don't argue with me, you asked, I answered.