And when Microsoft or Apple issues a patch that breaks this your daughter is sol until the patch is overcome. I don't think you want to support that. I'm sure the schools have plenty of PCs with all the required sofware on them so I'd avoid buying the PC unless they turn out to have Pentium II 450 machines with 128mb of ram.
LOL, no nerve touched. I just enjoy reading the writings of people that really believe that Linux is where it is at because of a bunch of guys sitting around helping each other out without renumeration for their work. I've been using Linux since Slack 2.x, the earliest kernel I ran was a 1.2.13 kernel, so I like it and use it. I'm not stupid enough to not realize that the reason that there is so much inertia behind it is because of money thrown at it though.
Where do you think Linux would be if people weren't making money of their distributions and if companies like IBM weren't paying people to work on it along with other OSS projects? Don't delude yourself in to believing that you'd see half of what you see without the immense interest of money making entities. Linux now compared to what it was 8 years ago isn't even close. Linux would be about as popular as any of the BSD distributions are noww if it was still all community based support and not those crazy companies asking for "silly annual payments just to get support".
How about rational mature debate and not debate based on always thinking the view of the other is wrong? One of the reasons I'm independent is because I can't attachm myself to parties that are so steeped in rhetoric and jingoism.
Racist much? Was it a democrat that wiretapped Dr Martin Luther King? How about the domestic spying in WWII and the internment camps? Pot Kettle Black. Now get your house in order then you can cry all you want. It is partisan rhetoric like yours that doesn't help matters.
Sure ya did, especially since Dell doesn't make you buy an operating system. Tell me, how much did the copies of Windows Server 2k3 that you through in the trash cost? Perhpas your company needs to reevaluate your employment?
Gerstner did what he did because IBM's previous foul-ups, which Gordon did a good job of listing. OS/2 wasn't succeeding when Gerstner made the decision, it was floundering.
You noticed that too? I could only think that why would you offer up a replacement unless you knew the requirements? The replacements for AutoCAD for instance aren't even close to providing all the AutoCAD does and I recally one comment saying that they Linux alternative, "looked pretty slick". Get back to me when you can compare doing a complex task in both.
So sue me, it was nearly 1AM my time and I was unable to choose the proper word form;-). The water was pumped in the ground previously. The reason I brought it up is because it is rumored that the Saudi's don't respond to our requests to pump more because they can't. That is a very sobering thought imho, especially given that apparently formerly large oil field they had.
I've heard that formally producing wells are only pumping water now. I really am concerned. I have buddies in the industry and there are whispers of production problems which probably means that people are whispering so as to not start people panicking when they realize the coming storm. The biggest sign to me is that the REPUBLICAN government is talking conservation and alternatives now.
They have to become part of the development team, most likely in writing up requirements. They care about software because they have to use it. They are willing to put money towards purchasing software that does what they need. I know it is hard to fathom but the economy is based on being paid for providing a useful service somebody wants. Software companies exist because they fill needs. Every company/organization can't pay to have somebody write open source software but there are companies that will spring in to existance because a need has been identified. Many companies/organizations will be willing to pay the price that software companies quote them, certainly much cheaper than paying for development on their own. One of the areas that open source fails is where something is needed but isn't considered fun or interesting to work on. Software that isn't fun or interesting is needed and there are plenty of companies that provide that type of sofware because somebody is willing to be paid to do the uninteresting job that creates the product. The whole product lifecyle is much longer than just writing the initial code.
Sun misread the market? Well duh, they've been doing that for a few years now. Sun seems to think an awful lot of themselves, and they do make a hell of a UNIX, but they don't drive the market, the market drives the market and they don't seem to realize it.
Yeah I remember that... I got mine as the part of a huge book, it really was just a bunch of man pages printed out. I wish I could remember the name of the book, it is going to drive me nuts now. Big yellow thing, was like a ancient tome of mystic writings.
ALCOA kept aluminum prices below market level so that the consumer benefitted. Granted this kept anybody from having the ability to enter the market but it provided the best benefit to the consumer.
Are they really lost with XP? I like the 2k interface better too but I'm sorry, the XP interface doesn't hide anything and everything is pretty much in the same exact place. One or two time using the XP interface and they should figure it out.
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And when Microsoft or Apple issues a patch that breaks this your daughter is sol until the patch is overcome. I don't think you want to support that. I'm sure the schools have plenty of PCs with all the required sofware on them so I'd avoid buying the PC unless they turn out to have Pentium II 450 machines with 128mb of ram.
LOL, no nerve touched. I just enjoy reading the writings of people that really believe that Linux is where it is at because of a bunch of guys sitting around helping each other out without renumeration for their work. I've been using Linux since Slack 2.x, the earliest kernel I ran was a 1.2.13 kernel, so I like it and use it. I'm not stupid enough to not realize that the reason that there is so much inertia behind it is because of money thrown at it though.
Where do you think Linux would be if people weren't making money of their distributions and if companies like IBM weren't paying people to work on it along with other OSS projects? Don't delude yourself in to believing that you'd see half of what you see without the immense interest of money making entities. Linux now compared to what it was 8 years ago isn't even close. Linux would be about as popular as any of the BSD distributions are noww if it was still all community based support and not those crazy companies asking for "silly annual payments just to get support".
Security is a process, not a product.
I like having a perfect backup. 128kbps MP or AAC isn't good enough.
You've got that right... I only went to malls for the toy stores and video game/computer stores. I hated every other store my mom dragged me in to.
Their customer service pissed me off... though I miss downloading iso's in under 10 minutes: http://jasonbowen.org/download.jpg
It has been rehased more than once that Windows browsers compromise more than 50% of the hits to Slashdot so it seems relevant.
How about rational mature debate and not debate based on always thinking the view of the other is wrong? One of the reasons I'm independent is because I can't attachm myself to parties that are so steeped in rhetoric and jingoism.
On selling American ports to Arab countries
Racist much? Was it a democrat that wiretapped Dr Martin Luther King? How about the domestic spying in WWII and the internment camps? Pot Kettle Black. Now get your house in order then you can cry all you want. It is partisan rhetoric like yours that doesn't help matters.
Sure ya did, especially since Dell doesn't make you buy an operating system. Tell me, how much did the copies of Windows Server 2k3 that you through in the trash cost? Perhpas your company needs to reevaluate your employment?
Gerstner did what he did because IBM's previous foul-ups, which Gordon did a good job of listing. OS/2 wasn't succeeding when Gerstner made the decision, it was floundering.
You noticed that too? I could only think that why would you offer up a replacement unless you knew the requirements? The replacements for AutoCAD for instance aren't even close to providing all the AutoCAD does and I recally one comment saying that they Linux alternative, "looked pretty slick". Get back to me when you can compare doing a complex task in both.
So sue me, it was nearly 1AM my time and I was unable to choose the proper word form ;-). The water was pumped in the ground previously. The reason I brought it up is because it is rumored that the Saudi's don't respond to our requests to pump more because they can't. That is a very sobering thought imho, especially given that apparently formerly large oil field they had.
I've heard that formally producing wells are only pumping water now. I really am concerned. I have buddies in the industry and there are whispers of production problems which probably means that people are whispering so as to not start people panicking when they realize the coming storm. The biggest sign to me is that the REPUBLICAN government is talking conservation and alternatives now.
This is old news and not a recent development. The land there has been splitting apart for millions of years.
They have to become part of the development team, most likely in writing up requirements. They care about software because they have to use it. They are willing to put money towards purchasing software that does what they need. I know it is hard to fathom but the economy is based on being paid for providing a useful service somebody wants. Software companies exist because they fill needs. Every company/organization can't pay to have somebody write open source software but there are companies that will spring in to existance because a need has been identified. Many companies/organizations will be willing to pay the price that software companies quote them, certainly much cheaper than paying for development on their own. One of the areas that open source fails is where something is needed but isn't considered fun or interesting to work on. Software that isn't fun or interesting is needed and there are plenty of companies that provide that type of sofware because somebody is willing to be paid to do the uninteresting job that creates the product. The whole product lifecyle is much longer than just writing the initial code.
Very good post Jokkey
Lots of companies never make a profit. Do you know what it takes to run a company? I'm going to guess not by that ignorant statment.
It's kinda my thing, you know.
Sun misread the market? Well duh, they've been doing that for a few years now. Sun seems to think an awful lot of themselves, and they do make a hell of a UNIX, but they don't drive the market, the market drives the market and they don't seem to realize it.
Yeah I remember that... I got mine as the part of a huge book, it really was just a bunch of man pages printed out. I wish I could remember the name of the book, it is going to drive me nuts now. Big yellow thing, was like a ancient tome of mystic writings.
ALCOA kept aluminum prices below market level so that the consumer benefitted. Granted this kept anybody from having the ability to enter the market but it provided the best benefit to the consumer.
Why is it built in to the kernel? They can just put whatever they want in it?
Are they really lost with XP? I like the 2k interface better too but I'm sorry, the XP interface doesn't hide anything and everything is pretty much in the same exact place. One or two time using the XP interface and they should figure it out.