I, for one, will dance on their grave when they're gone. <P>
Without Real, Microsoft would/will own this market too, like it does almost all others.
<P>
Be careful what you ask for.
Hmm, it seems you spoke too soon. CNN has compromized their journalistic entegrity by removing the link. Shame on CNN.
It must suck to find out your employer is a corporate whore, willing to sell it's soul for twenty bucks and a pack of smokes left on the end-table. Sorry.
What I don't understand about the Pakistani/Indian conflict is what *possible* conventional military threat Pakistan poses to India. India has what -- 2x? 4x Pakistan's population? Somehow I just don't see Pakistan winning a conventional fight with India under any circumstances.
One word: nukes. Who said anything about a conventional warfare fight.
Moot: adj. 1. subject to argument or debate. Therefore, your use of the word here in wrong. <p> That's a British English vs. American English difference. In the US it means "not worthy of debate".
If you bury your head in the sand it doesn't make it go away. You can't solve all the world's problems but you can pick a few of them and help be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
Once upon a time school administrators preached the gospel of "you can never go wrong with IBM". First they resisted PCs in favor of their mainframes, then they resisted non-IBM PCs. They gave variation of the same reasons you mention. They dumped huge piles of scarce money at the doors of Big Blue. They continued to do this while systems costing half as much and twice as capable were available. Meanwhile the students they were supposedly there to serve were lined up to use the scarce computers.
Administrators who waste money like this should be fired.
School administrators frightened of learning something new have no business working in a school, where people are supposed to be all about learining new things.
And furthermore, AMD CPUs are hardly "hacker hardware" (in the sense you mean). They're fast and inexpensive, a good bang for the buck. This leaves more money to buy other "hacker hardware". You know, more computers for those pesky students you're supposed to be helping!
Adapt or move aside, but don't hold everyone else back just because you're afraid of change.
Also, fixing hardware bugs is much more expensive than fixing software bugs in the sense that with software you can typically get away with just putting an update on a website and calling it "fixed" or something like that. Software by its very nature is more iterative, while hardware needs to go out the door "right" the first time (ignoring the mentioned Intel bugs...:-) Hardware recalls are not pretty!
The only time you should upgrade such a system is 1) retiring the hardware for new boxen 2) a software upgrade requires it (ie, if Oracle 9 comes out and requires kernel 2.4).
Don't forget 3) security updates, which I would assume 6.1 contains several important ones.
Exactly. Technology becomes out-of-date so fast that knowing all the details is usually much less important than knowing how to find and learn the details when you need them.
She manages quite well, thank you very much. Seriously, I set up a dual-boot for her a couple of months ago since she was curious about it because to all the recent hype. Now she uses Linux for some things and seems quite pleased that it never crashes. Surprised, even. She said one of the things she liked about it the most was the feeling of being "in control".
I think a lot of non-geek people will gladly learn a few more commands and what-not in order to have a PC that doesn't BSOD on them every time they turn around. Not all of them, but a lot of them.
It is common practice to create a non-root user, say 'software', who owns the files in/usr/local. Build and run 'make install' as the user 'software'. The key is to never use the 'software' account as a regular account, always use a different non-priveliged account. Things that install setuid-root require a little extra thought this way, but installing something setuid-root *should* be thought about a bit beforehand.
Once you've applied a Service Pack or three those files on the CD are not going to be particularly useful. It is destined to be as much of a mess as all their other OSes are.
Be sure to drive up-wind from the city or you'll be breating in pollutants the entire way. Even up-wind's not too healthy. Stop and take a drink from that stream you cross, I dare you. If you're hungry, catch one of the fish in it and cook it up, oh wait there aren't any fish in it anymore. Darnit.
The moon does too have an environment, just one not hospitable to humans.
For thousands and thousands of years, humans first puzzled over what the moon was, then dreamed of visiting there. And we finally have the chance to go there and we want to use it as a big garbage dump. Tells you something about us.
Pr0n is one thing, getting bent out of shape because someone visited/. while waiting on hold on the telephone is another.
I have never viewed pr0n in the workplace, yet having my every keypress and mouseclick catalogued, indexed and searchable would be dehumanizing and demoralizing.
The employeer is better off just hiring people they can trust not to do stupid things.
Ahem yourself. You realize exactly how big the Earth is? We've done a pretty damn fine job destroying its environment. Give us a few centuries on the moon.
It's about trust. If an employer doesn't trust me enough not monitor every little thing I do, why would I trust them not to abuse their power?
These types of managers are distrustful pointy-haired pinheads, looking for evidence to support their paranoia (paranoia brought on no doubt by the fear that their gross incompetance will be discovered).
By the time a company gets infiltrated by these types they're not worth working for anyhow.
I'd quit. If an employeer wants my expertise they will respect my privacy or I'm gone. A company where managers spy on their employees is not a place worth working for.
"...Besides costing PC software vendors nearly $30 billion more in development, marketing and support costs required to adapt their software to 'new Windows descendants,'..."
As opposed to the billions vendors spent adapting to the unending mutations of the Windows platform? Windows 3.x, Win95/98, WinNT 3.1/3.51/4.0, WinCE, W2k, all imposed on vendors without their choice, costing them billions in development costs, all paid for by we the consumers. My point is not that Microsoft can't change their OS, just that adapting to future Windows mutations is inevitable as long as Windows dominates the desktop, regardless of how the company/companies that produce it are arranged.
It's "their" network, but they typically have a city-sanctified monopoly, so if a customer doesn't like how they have set up "their" network the customer has no choice. The customer is screwed. As always. Gov't. and corporations working hand-in-hand to screw the little guy, what's new.
I think either a cable company should allow ISP competition or give up their city-wide monopoly and allow competition for the wires themselves. Better yet, both. And city officials should be educated on why we don't need to create any more monopolies thank-you-very-much.
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I, for one, will dance on their grave when they're gone.
<P>
Without Real, Microsoft would/will own this market too, like it does almost all others.
<P>
Be careful what you ask for.
Hmm, it seems you spoke too soon. CNN has compromized their journalistic entegrity by removing the link. Shame on CNN.
It must suck to find out your employer is a corporate whore, willing to sell it's soul for twenty bucks and a pack of smokes left on the end-table. Sorry.
Except that when someone replies to your post,
quoting all the text, it will get archived
unless they also include no-archive.
One word: nukes. Who said anything about a conventional warfare fight.
On the other hand, works created by those in it for the money is typically inferior to those created by people in it because of a love of the art.
Moot: adj. 1. subject to argument or debate. Therefore, your use of the word here in wrong.
<p>
That's a British English vs. American English difference. In the US it means "not worthy
of debate".
F*** that, I like to code. If I wanted to
be a teacher I would have chosen to do so
a long time ago.
If you bury your head in the sand it doesn't make it go away. You can't solve all the world's problems but you can pick a few of them and help be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
Once upon a time school administrators preached the gospel of "you can never go wrong with IBM". First they resisted PCs in favor of their mainframes, then they resisted non-IBM PCs. They gave variation of the same reasons you mention. They dumped huge piles of scarce money at the doors of Big Blue. They continued to do this while systems costing half as much and twice as capable were available. Meanwhile the students they were supposedly there to serve were lined up to use the scarce computers.
Administrators who waste money like this should be fired.
School administrators frightened of learning something new have no business working in a school, where people are supposed to be all about learining new things.
And furthermore, AMD CPUs are hardly "hacker hardware" (in the sense you mean). They're fast and inexpensive, a good bang for the buck. This leaves more money to buy other "hacker hardware". You know, more computers for those pesky students you're supposed to be helping!
Adapt or move aside, but don't hold everyone else back just because you're afraid of change.
Also, fixing hardware bugs is much more expensive than fixing software bugs in the sense that with software you can typically get away with just putting an update on a website and calling it "fixed" or something like that. Software by its very nature is more iterative, while hardware needs to go out the door "right" the first time (ignoring the mentioned Intel bugs... :-) Hardware recalls are not pretty!
The only time you should upgrade such a system is 1) retiring the hardware for new boxen 2) a software upgrade requires it (ie, if Oracle 9 comes out and requires kernel 2.4).
Don't forget 3) security updates, which I would assume 6.1 contains several important ones.
Exactly. Technology becomes out-of-date so fast that knowing all the details is usually much less important than knowing how to find and learn the details when you need them.
Now, how well can your mom use Linux?
She manages quite well, thank you very much. Seriously, I set up a dual-boot for her a couple of months ago since she was curious about it because to all the recent hype. Now she uses Linux for some things and seems quite pleased that it never crashes. Surprised, even. She said one of the things she liked about it the most was the feeling of being "in control".
I think a lot of non-geek people will gladly learn a few more commands and what-not in order to have a PC that doesn't BSOD on them every time they turn around. Not all of them, but a lot of them.
It is common practice to create a non-root user, say 'software', who owns the files in /usr/local. Build and run 'make install' as the user 'software'. The key is to never use the 'software' account as a regular account, always use a different non-priveliged account. Things that install setuid-root require a little extra thought this way, but installing something setuid-root *should* be thought about a bit beforehand.
Once you've applied a Service Pack or three those files on the CD are not going to be particularly useful. It is destined to be as much of a mess as all their other OSes are.
There was a grep long before there was a GNU,
so this does not compute.
Be sure to drive up-wind from the city or you'll be breating in pollutants the entire way. Even up-wind's not too healthy. Stop and take a drink from that stream you cross, I dare you. If you're hungry, catch one of the fish in it and cook it up, oh wait there aren't any fish in it anymore. Darnit.
The moon does too have an environment, just one not hospitable to humans.
For thousands and thousands of years, humans first puzzled over what the moon was, then dreamed of visiting there. And we finally have the chance to go there and we want to use it as a big garbage dump. Tells you something about us.
Pr0n is one thing, getting bent out of shape because someone visited /. while waiting on hold on the telephone is another.
I have never viewed pr0n in the workplace, yet having my every keypress and mouseclick catalogued, indexed and searchable would be dehumanizing and demoralizing.
The employeer is better off just hiring people they can trust not to do stupid things.
Ahem. You realize exactly how big the moon is?
Ahem yourself. You realize exactly how big the Earth is? We've done a pretty damn fine job destroying its environment. Give us a few centuries on the moon.
It's about trust. If an employer doesn't trust me enough not monitor every little thing I do, why would I trust them not to abuse their power?
These types of managers are distrustful pointy-haired pinheads, looking for evidence to support their paranoia (paranoia brought on no doubt by the fear that their gross incompetance will be discovered).
By the time a company gets infiltrated by these types they're not worth working for anyhow.
I'd quit. If an employeer wants my expertise they will respect my privacy or I'm gone. A company where managers spy on their employees is not a place worth working for.
"...Besides costing PC software vendors nearly $30 billion more in development, marketing and support costs required to adapt their software to 'new Windows descendants,'..."
As opposed to the billions vendors spent adapting to the unending mutations of the Windows platform? Windows 3.x, Win95/98, WinNT 3.1/3.51/4.0, WinCE, W2k, all imposed on vendors without their choice, costing them billions in development costs, all paid for by we the consumers. My point is not that Microsoft can't change their OS, just that adapting to future Windows mutations is inevitable as long as Windows dominates the desktop, regardless of how the company/companies that produce it are arranged.
It's "their" network, but they typically have a
city-sanctified monopoly, so if a customer doesn't
like how they have set up "their" network the
customer has no choice. The customer is screwed.
As always. Gov't. and corporations working
hand-in-hand to screw the little guy, what's new.
I think either a cable company should allow ISP
competition or give up their city-wide monopoly
and allow competition for the wires themselves.
Better yet, both. And city officials should be
educated on why we don't need to create any
more monopolies thank-you-very-much.
Perhaps followed someday by MSTV, a "free" :-)
television that only receives MS* channels....