What do you suggest? That he introduces optical fiber to the middle of Nowhereville?
Some times you have to deal with less than ideal situations for your job, yo will certainly have to explain that you'll find constraints, and yes, sometimes you may have to say that something is not possible, but mission critical does not mean what you think it does....
I am Spanish speaker, I have always prefered English localizations.
The reason is simple: one has to learn all the English lingo anyway, otherwise people like you and me would have to learn each other's language (Das passt nicht! )
I always felt at a disadvantage until I was able to use English in a regular manner.
The day I installed Ubuntu on my mum's computer (Hello Mum!) and then she proceeded to send emails, download a few images and do some searches, I knew Linux had reached maturity.
Linux may lack the marketing that both Microsoft and Apple have, but the word is spreading.
For example here in hte UK, for the first time I saw a Linux magazine in a local supermarket news stand (Sainsburys). Yeah, the same kind of place that sells TV magazines, PCWorld, MacWorld and all what would be considered broad hobbyist and popular interest publications. That is telling me that people actually risking money in the publishing business have identified a need, irrespective of Open Source politics.
At the same time a major local retailer (WH Smith) is now regularly stacking between 2 and 3 Linux magazines (Linux Format, Linux Magazine and/or Linux User) against normally only one OSX magazine.
So people actually doing business have detected that there is a swell of interest in Linux, that says more than anything Netcraft would report.
GPL license is more open and free, if what you are thinking about is the availability of software.
If software is not available to be adapted, modified, and adopted once it has been modified, then I fail to see how the lack of such freedoms make people freer.
I would be rich by now if every Windows and Linux user that could not find his way around an Apple machine would have given me a penny.
I have seen many times how people used to one environment move their sorry digital ass around an unfamiliar place without any hope of finding how do do a certain task. They will eventually succeed of course, after all desktop computing is based broadly around the same principles, but watching people trying to adjust to an unfamiliar environment should dispel the myth that a given environment is better than others.
Linux and Unix users are notorious for feeling comfortable using the command line for many tasks, other people roll their eyes thinking that user friendliness requires a mouse and shiny icons, in reality the command line can be very user friendly, specially if you have spent a lifetime building habits around it.
Right now we have no credible treaty (thanks Mr Bush).
Acknowledging we have a problem and start things rolling is the first step, at a later stage the West can reason with China and India in order to fix the situation (China is becoming painfully aware that they will not be able to pollute their way into full fledged development).
"Itâ(TM)s not only a dump troll reservoir, the site owner really tries to deal with facts - of course facts interpreted by him in a very strange manner. He is repeating the same lies again and again, trying to hide them behind real quotes⦠his thoughs have no basis in facts, but who will know this?
Who is interested in doing this job? I donâ(TM)t know. Iâ(TM)ll ask;-) "
That is hardly the voice of somebody leading a failed project.
Unless your company is a "protection" racket Mafia or something similarly ethically dubious (like abusing your monopolistic position in a market for example).
That is why those people are specialists on their respective fields.
There is a point where once you have reached a consensus you have to get on with things and act in consequence, listening forever to people that want to continue thinkering with something that has already been discussed is a waste of time and money.
Several big failures of the UK's government's IT strategy has been due to the sheer incompetence of the *private* contractors.
Or what about train companies in the UK, or highway operators in Mexico. In both cases the original "investors" cashed in on their shares as soon as they could and left a mess behind that the government has had to paid.
I can also say that, having worked all my life in private industry, your comment, which seems to imply government=ineptitude could easily apply as well to major well known corporations.
It is ironic that now that governments are having to bail out banks (not for the first time mind you, in Mexico we got deeply into debt to avoid the collapse of the financial system during the 90s), car manufacturers and insurers there are still people out there equalling government with incompetence.
In this case part of the job specification is to protect any Linux projects from possible patent threats.
You would not whine about it if you were being paid for your work and your employer was asking you the same, but somehow because it is Linux some folks believe that they don't have a duty of care in regards to protecting this important project.
It makes your life more difficult. I will not even point you in the direction of people that decide to live by them.
But it sucks even more to be "pragmatic" and accept publicly to have non principle at all, save a naive attachment to view all through a rose tainted.window, or should I say rose tainted Windows?
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What do you suggest? That he introduces optical fiber to the middle of Nowhereville?
Some times you have to deal with less than ideal situations for your job, yo will certainly have to explain that you'll find constraints, and yes, sometimes you may have to say that something is not possible, but mission critical does not mean what you think it does....
... is not the tool you use to remove the creases from your shirts.
The idea is to remove those people from society.
That is it.
If you think it is such a nice way of life, go on, what the heck are you waiting for to acceded to it?
As despicable as this guy is, you can't blame him for the suicides of these people.
Shit happens in life, life is not fair, that does not mean I will automatically kill myself when life throws a problem at me.
The death of these people was their own decision, Maddof is only guilty of swindling their money.
... how significant is to lose your freedom.
That was supposed to be an Euro symbol ....
If Windows 7 + IE = âX
Knowing that IE = â0
then Windows 7 = âX
which means you would be paying the same for less (if you believe that not having IE is to have "less", which I don't).
I am Spanish speaker, I have always prefered English localizations.
The reason is simple: one has to learn all the English lingo anyway, otherwise people like you and me would have to learn each other's language (Das passt nicht! )
I always felt at a disadvantage until I was able to use English in a regular manner.
The day I installed Ubuntu on my mum's computer (Hello Mum!) and then she proceeded to send emails, download a few images and do some searches, I knew Linux had reached maturity.
Linux may lack the marketing that both Microsoft and Apple have, but the word is spreading.
For example here in hte UK, for the first time I saw a Linux magazine in a local supermarket news stand (Sainsburys). Yeah, the same kind of place that sells TV magazines, PCWorld, MacWorld and all what would be considered broad hobbyist and popular interest publications. That is telling me that people actually risking money in the publishing business have identified a need, irrespective of Open Source politics.
At the same time a major local retailer (WH Smith) is now regularly stacking between 2 and 3 Linux magazines (Linux Format, Linux Magazine and/or Linux User) against normally only one OSX magazine.
So people actually doing business have detected that there is a swell of interest in Linux, that says more than anything Netcraft would report.
GPL license is more open and free, if what you are thinking about is the availability of software.
If software is not available to be adapted, modified, and adopted once it has been modified, then I fail to see how the lack of such freedoms make people freer.
I would be rich by now if every Windows and Linux user that could not find his way around an Apple machine would have given me a penny.
I have seen many times how people used to one environment move their sorry digital ass around an unfamiliar place without any hope of finding how do do a certain task. They will eventually succeed of course, after all desktop computing is based broadly around the same principles, but watching people trying to adjust to an unfamiliar environment should dispel the myth that a given environment is better than others.
Linux and Unix users are notorious for feeling comfortable using the command line for many tasks, other people roll their eyes thinking that user friendliness requires a mouse and shiny icons, in reality the command line can be very user friendly, specially if you have spent a lifetime building habits around it.
Right now we have no credible treaty (thanks Mr Bush).
Acknowledging we have a problem and start things rolling is the first step, at a later stage the West can reason with China and India in order to fix the situation (China is becoming painfully aware that they will not be able to pollute their way into full fledged development).
Give it a rest please....
Then you could not have missed this one:
http://www.floschi.info/2009/02/great-news-limux-got-its-own-anti-lobbyist/
The most interesting quote:
"Itâ(TM)s not only a dump troll reservoir, the site owner really tries to deal with facts - of course facts interpreted by him in a very strange manner. He is repeating the same lies again and again, trying to hide them behind real quotes⦠his thoughs have no basis in facts, but who will know this?
Who is interested in doing this job? I donâ(TM)t know. Iâ(TM)ll ask ;-) "
That is hardly the voice of somebody leading a failed project.
Unless your company is a "protection" racket Mafia or something similarly ethically dubious (like abusing your monopolistic position in a market for example).
Google, Red Hat and others must be shitting their pants ...
To whom is that blog directed? (a blog that started barely 6 months ago).
Not to the German public it seems.
Those opinions one hopes are based on facts.
That is why those people are specialists on their respective fields.
There is a point where once you have reached a consensus you have to get on with things and act in consequence, listening forever to people that want to continue thinkering with something that has already been discussed is a waste of time and money.
Several big failures of the UK's government's IT strategy has been due to the sheer incompetence of the *private* contractors.
Or what about train companies in the UK, or highway operators in Mexico. In both cases the original "investors" cashed in on their shares as soon as they could and left a mess behind that the government has had to paid.
I can also say that, having worked all my life in private industry, your comment, which seems to imply government=ineptitude could easily apply as well to major well known corporations.
It is ironic that now that governments are having to bail out banks (not for the first time mind you, in Mexico we got deeply into debt to avoid the collapse of the financial system during the 90s), car manufacturers and insurers there are still people out there equalling government with incompetence.
And which dates are not clear to you?
In this case part of the job specification is to protect any Linux projects from possible patent threats.
You would not whine about it if you were being paid for your work and your employer was asking you the same, but somehow because it is Linux some folks believe that they don't have a duty of care in regards to protecting this important project.
He didn't say what you seem to believe he said.
It makes your life more difficult. I will not even point you in the direction of people that decide to live by them.
But it sucks even more to be "pragmatic" and accept publicly to have non principle at all, save a naive attachment to view all through a rose tainted.window, or should I say rose tainted Windows?
Funny to answer a question with another...
Otherwise you would not be incensed about he talking.