I'll do my part by buying a CD here and shipping it to the Asian pirates.
Why promote MS products? Even a "pirated" copy is a copy. You want to spread BSD, Linux, et al. Not the junk OS. With more copies around, it just gives application developers more incentive to target the MS market. We want a larger, say, Linux target for software developers to aim at.
People will always read what's put in front of them without checking sources, too. That fact is what Microsoft is after.
Some of us may care because we make our living as software developers, resellers, et al. We know how much competing with a giant means to our personal bottom line. We care passionately about F/OSS because it's our livelyhood. (Some may care passionately against F/OSS bacuase they see it as a threat -- go figure.)
It's that pointy-haired boss who's the target of these "studues", not the general population. We should find a way to make pointy-haired bosses irrelevant. And... uh... good luck with that.
Have moved over to Arch Linux (from FC3) and have been running KDE3.4 for nearly a week. Have experienced quite a few speed improvements. Mostly what I've noticed, though, is the clean, impressive eyecandy. For my monitor and graphics card, it's the best looking Linux I've seen (old Sony 20" and cheap nVidia GForce w/64MB).
I'm most focused in the emacs environment. The most productive people I know (lines of code per year) are emacs or vi users. (Not the GUI kind, like vim or xemacs; the shell kind.)
The reference is to a grain of salt because, with just a grain of salt, one wouldn't eat much of what's being served.
To take something with a dose of salt "the size of the Hope Diamond", well, one could conceivably eat the whole thing -- wait for it... -- hook, line and sinker.
Pitty the poor fool who just dumped nearly 8-thousand shares, at $4. Hope the buy price was a cool $3 -- say in March, 2003? Let's see. That would still be $8000 in earnings, over a 24 month period.
Three rules to live by, if you're a manager:
1) Make decisions
2) Get out of the way
3) Be there
Managers who waffle at making decisions end up with an aimless and very frustrated crew.
Managers who try to dictate the "how" part of creativity go too far and the result is an equally frustrated crew.
Managers who operate in "aloof mode" are equally destructive. They think, "I'll just be so hands-off. They'll love me for that." But what they really need to be doing is removing roadblacks, quashing in-fighting, being a good arbitrator, just being available.
Hire experts, give them a destination and a compass, and let them navigate the waters. Good managers do exist. If you've ever worked for one, you know what I'm talking about. Work can be a real joy!
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Just be happy...
Happy!!!
Haaaaaappyyyyy....
You must kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia!
Just be happy...
Happy!!!
Haaaaaappyyyyy....
You must kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia!
I'll do my part by buying a CD here and shipping it to the Asian pirates.
Why promote MS products? Even a "pirated" copy is a copy. You want to spread BSD, Linux, et al. Not the junk OS. With more copies around, it just gives application developers more incentive to target the MS market. We want a larger, say, Linux target for software developers to aim at.
Agreed. But why smuggle crack in the tank?
;-) (long live Gnome)
People will always read what's put in front of them without checking sources, too. That fact is what Microsoft is after.
Some of us may care because we make our living as software developers, resellers, et al. We know how much competing with a giant means to our personal bottom line. We care passionately about F/OSS because it's our livelyhood. (Some may care passionately against F/OSS bacuase they see it as a threat -- go figure.)
It's that pointy-haired boss who's the target of these "studues", not the general population. We should find a way to make pointy-haired bosses irrelevant. And... uh... good luck with that.
Last year, by not switching to another platform, Microsoft saved $13.78 Billion in Windows license fees alone.
Have moved over to Arch Linux (from FC3) and have been running KDE3.4 for nearly a week. Have experienced quite a few speed improvements. Mostly what I've noticed, though, is the clean, impressive eyecandy. For my monitor and graphics card, it's the best looking Linux I've seen (old Sony 20" and cheap nVidia GForce w/64MB).
(Arch uses "rolling" releases. It's nice, too.)
No, this is the w3c-css supprted version of the story. The previous one supported only IE.
You know, I hear Oracle is part of that group, now.
[ducks]
NOT mentioned in the actual article. Remember? You're reading Slashdot...
Oracle is NOT mentioned in the actual article. Oracle is part of all this in some fantasy world, called Slashdot.
Well, in the actual article, Oracle isn't mentioned. In the slashdot "article" it is.
Hmmmm. Who to believe... Who to believe... I give up! Who?
No, "RTFM" is by far the most cross-platform application ever developed.
:-D
So, before you ask for help from one of us, please RTFM and check the bug listings, first.
Ok, so for others, not so near... If you stare at the web cam shot long enough -- and try to look sort of past your screen -- you can see it in 3D.
No? Just keep staring...
So they slime and slander Linux. No problem. I can be just as vague and condescending, right along with the best of them.
"Linux? Unstable? Oh, that. Yeah, SCO Linux is pretty awful stuff. We're careful not to go near it. We use Arch Linux, instead. It's pretty killer!"
Linux remends me of how the Three Amogos managed to beat the crap out of El Guapo.
Like a link that subverts Firefox pop-up-blocking powerful? Or just plain old enormously powerful?
I'm most focused in the emacs environment. The most productive people I know (lines of code per year) are emacs or vi users. (Not the GUI kind, like vim or xemacs; the shell kind.)
Not too good with reverse-logic, are we?
The reference is to a grain of salt because, with just a grain of salt, one wouldn't eat much of what's being served.
To take something with a dose of salt "the size of the Hope Diamond", well, one could conceivably eat the whole thing -- wait for it... -- hook, line and sinker.
Yeah, but this chart makes things look much more crisp and clear.
Anything we would call a "star" emits light like any other hot body
Very interesting theory... Of course, based on personal observation alone, I would have to completely agree.
As the poster says, the driver for Linux on the desktop is not cost savings, but easier support
And EVERYONE knows that easier support doesn't save any cost.
Oh, boy... In the time it took me to post the parent, the price has slipped a few times. Wow.
One must wonder: Who's doing the buying?!
Pitty the poor fool who just dumped nearly 8-thousand shares, at $4. Hope the buy price was a cool $3 -- say in March, 2003? Let's see. That would still be $8000 in earnings, over a 24 month period.
Ouch!
Let me ask you, when someone comes up to you and says "I work at Microsoft" , what is your first reaction?
Bummer. Hey, how 'bout that FireFox thing? Isn't that incredible?
Three rules to live by, if you're a manager:
1) Make decisions
2) Get out of the way
3) Be there
Managers who waffle at making decisions end up with an aimless and very frustrated crew.
Managers who try to dictate the "how" part of creativity go too far and the result is an equally frustrated crew.
Managers who operate in "aloof mode" are equally destructive. They think, "I'll just be so hands-off. They'll love me for that." But what they really need to be doing is removing roadblacks, quashing in-fighting, being a good arbitrator, just being available.
Hire experts, give them a destination and a compass, and let them navigate the waters. Good managers do exist. If you've ever worked for one, you know what I'm talking about. Work can be a real joy!