If you're paying a lot of money for software odds are you are being taken advantage of. No software should cost more than $10k Exception: scientific software (and I mean the really advanced stuff, simulations, etc), math analysis, etc, etc AND EVEN THEN
Well, as much fun as sweeping generalizations are...
There is some fantastic commercial, enterprise software out there, the likes of which FOSS cannot touch. I'm a DBA and love Postgres, and to a lesser extent MySQL, but neither has the breadth of features or capabilities that Oracle has. Postgres is a great product, but it's like Oracle 7...there's a big difference between it and Oracle 11g. And yeah, there are a lot of shops that don't need that difference, but there are a helluva lot of shops that do.
That's just to take databases. There's a wide variety of engineering software that I've supported over the years that is just not going to be touched by FOSS people any time soon and represents literally tens of thousands of man-hours of development time. My employer uses some really intricate software designed for our old-school industry that would take hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop in-house...and no FOSS group is going to say "hey, let's do that in our spare time for fun! And also make sure it works with everything else!"
I agree that big ERP packages are often big nightmares and yes, there's a lot of junk out there, but you can't just say "if you pay a lot for software, odds are you're being taken advantage of."
Yeah, and I downloaded and built Linux version 0.1
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I swear, it's like some kind of geek Woodstock. Just like every baby boomer was at Woodstock, every geek says he ran Linux in '91. Guys who merely downloaded Slackware floppies? Please...we ran 0.1 and compiled it ourselves blah blah...
All handcounts are done under public video surveillance from multiple angles done by multiple sources (eg. web based camera, cspan camera, government run camera, 2 LOCAL news station cameras, and 2 national news station cameras.)
7 cameras per precinct * number of precincts in the nation (1,000?) + camera operators, storage, access rules, someone to manage the archies...are you offering to pay for this?
Condescending progressives? Is there any other kind? If you'd like something topical, though, how about this gem from Senator Diane Feinstein explaining that while 93% of those contacting her office oppose the $700B bailout, she's voting for it because they just "don't understand it".
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There's nothing stopping a 'better' language from being more popular on Windows.
Technically true, but practically, everyone wants to use the language endorsed by the O/S vendor, which is the.NET family, chiefly C#. With Microsoft products, you're reasonably sure (jokes, jokes) that the development tools will stay in step with the O/S...with a different vendor, you're relying on them to stay in step, which is no trivial matter.
For all you know? Dude, do you really have any doubt? Diane Feinstein is not emailing you once a month to debate policy. One of her college interns is cut-pasting text into an email to you.
But three rights end up making a left!
You're assuming square blocks or a grid-like street layout. Try three rights in a city with diagonals or circles and see where it gets you.
That's because Adobe's software works really well. Seriously. Yes, it's being raped, but it's the difference between raped by a professional dominatrix (Adobe) and a prison-yard gangbanger (Microsoft).
Well, there you have it. I've reduced the professional software market to a comparison between bondage and prison rape.
In fact, anyone familiar with the working end of the natural gas business will be happy to spend hours explaining how it works.
That would be fun to put to a test. "Good morning, it's Saturday and I'd like you to spend the next eight hours telling me how natural gas storage works. Huh!? But I was told you'd be happy to do so..."
In conclusion: your post is lame. And it's lame that people have given in a +5 insightful mod, which only demonstrates that your fallacious logic indeed pulled the wool over the eyes of many. Or more likely, that you have supporters in people who also don't mind using fallacious logic to advance their OWN ideological agenda.
Huh. So you're saying that someone you disagree with has a post highly moderated while yours is not must mean that either (a) everyone here is just fooled, or (b) there's a secret cabal that is pulling the strings. I'm sorry, what were you saying about fallacious logic again?
Not a popular solution, but we never heard the Roman Empire or ancient C'hin Empire worry about fuel shortages or melting ice caps. That's because there were only 1/2 billion people..... lots of room and fuel for everybody. Nature wasn't impacted.
You're referring to an empire (Rome) that depopulated the gamestock of northern Africa in order to stock its coliseums.
You're obviously not writing software, doing CAD work, or any kind of computational modeling. It's easy to have that much data -- my source tree alone is 2GB.
And what about our colleagues in the porn production industry? I mean, one hour of hi-res MPEG is a lot of megabytes. Multiply it by the number of, ah, employees...
So..."100 year incident"? I don't think so. "10 or 20?" Um...sure.
Thank you. I seem to recall that 20 years ago financial firms were flopping left and right. Why, we had one called Shearson Lehman Hutton. Lehman got into trouble and was bought; so did Hutton. Lehman eventually went independent again after Amex couldn't digest them...Hutton was dropped.
Otherwise, words like that just don't carry the same sting they once did, making them
basically useless.
Speaking of useless, what is the difference between:
basically useless
useless
"Basically" is perhaps the most useless word in the English language. It is never needed, helpful, or useful. Watch how it's used and you'll see it never modifies meaning.
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No... he meant $700 bucks, punk.
Ah, if only it was $700 for every man, woman, and child in America. That'd only be $210 billion
If you're paying a lot of money for software odds are you are being taken advantage of. No software should cost more than $10k Exception: scientific software (and I mean the really advanced stuff, simulations, etc), math analysis, etc, etc AND EVEN THEN
Well, as much fun as sweeping generalizations are...
There is some fantastic commercial, enterprise software out there, the likes of which FOSS cannot touch. I'm a DBA and love Postgres, and to a lesser extent MySQL, but neither has the breadth of features or capabilities that Oracle has. Postgres is a great product, but it's like Oracle 7...there's a big difference between it and Oracle 11g. And yeah, there are a lot of shops that don't need that difference, but there are a helluva lot of shops that do.
That's just to take databases. There's a wide variety of engineering software that I've supported over the years that is just not going to be touched by FOSS people any time soon and represents literally tens of thousands of man-hours of development time. My employer uses some really intricate software designed for our old-school industry that would take hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop in-house...and no FOSS group is going to say "hey, let's do that in our spare time for fun! And also make sure it works with everything else!"
I agree that big ERP packages are often big nightmares and yes, there's a lot of junk out there, but you can't just say "if you pay a lot for software, odds are you're being taken advantage of."
I swear, it's like some kind of geek Woodstock. Just like every baby boomer was at Woodstock, every geek says he ran Linux in '91. Guys who merely downloaded Slackware floppies? Please...we ran 0.1 and compiled it ourselves blah blah...
All handcounts are done under public video surveillance from multiple angles done by multiple sources (eg. web based camera, cspan camera, government run camera, 2 LOCAL news station cameras, and 2 national news station cameras.)
7 cameras per precinct * number of precincts in the nation (1,000?) + camera operators, storage, access rules, someone to manage the archies...are you offering to pay for this?
I thought this batch of disagree mail was an interesting look into nerd psychology.
Indeed. By inventing these emails and composing them, samzenpus has shown us how he thinks of the typical Slashdot reader.
Condescending progressives? Is there any other kind? If you'd like something topical, though, how about this gem from Senator Diane Feinstein explaining that while 93% of those contacting her office oppose the $700B bailout, she's voting for it because they just "don't understand it".
There's nothing stopping a 'better' language from being more popular on Windows.
Technically true, but practically, everyone wants to use the language endorsed by the O/S vendor, which is the .NET family, chiefly C#. With Microsoft products, you're reasonably sure (jokes, jokes) that the development tools will stay in step with the O/S...with a different vendor, you're relying on them to stay in step, which is no trivial matter.
For all I know it could be one of her staffers
For all you know? Dude, do you really have any doubt? Diane Feinstein is not emailing you once a month to debate policy. One of her college interns is cut-pasting text into an email to you.
which they called a 'Bosenova,' a name that fortunately did not catch on.
Speak for yourself! I like it.
But three rights end up making a left! You're assuming square blocks or a grid-like street layout. Try three rights in a city with diagonals or circles and see where it gets you.
True. Two words: traffic circle.
Question: Even if Obama was a muslim, why on earth would it matter at all?
Because we've read the Koran.
That's because Adobe's software works really well. Seriously. Yes, it's being raped, but it's the difference between raped by a professional dominatrix (Adobe) and a prison-yard gangbanger (Microsoft).
Well, there you have it. I've reduced the professional software market to a comparison between bondage and prison rape.
There could be other reasons, and there are, why the hair shirts actually give a rats ass about you and your planet, even though you obviously don't.
How's that jumping to conclusions working out for you?
There is no such thing as renewable energy sources. They teach that in physics class.
There are some with a really big supply available...like solar power, wind, or for practical purposes, coal, but no renewable energy.
Of course, our supply of solar energy is infinite...oh wait...
We have about a trillion years to work on that problem.
Well, if it all goes Big Crunch perhaps we can harness the power of the collapsing universe to keep the lights on.
In fact, anyone familiar with the working end of the natural gas business will be happy to spend hours explaining how it works.
That would be fun to put to a test. "Good morning, it's Saturday and I'd like you to spend the next eight hours telling me how natural gas storage works. Huh!? But I was told you'd be happy to do so..."
In conclusion: your post is lame. And it's lame that people have given in a +5 insightful mod, which only demonstrates that your fallacious logic indeed pulled the wool over the eyes of many. Or more likely, that you have supporters in people who also don't mind using fallacious logic to advance their OWN ideological agenda.
Huh. So you're saying that someone you disagree with has a post highly moderated while yours is not must mean that either (a) everyone here is just fooled, or (b) there's a secret cabal that is pulling the strings. I'm sorry, what were you saying about fallacious logic again?
Not a popular solution, but we never heard the Roman Empire or ancient C'hin Empire worry about fuel shortages or melting ice caps. That's because there were only 1/2 billion people..... lots of room and fuel for everybody. Nature wasn't impacted.
You're referring to an empire (Rome) that depopulated the gamestock of northern Africa in order to stock its coliseums.
I call meme misuse.
Thank you. There is no fear, uncertainty, or doubt here.
You're obviously not writing software, doing CAD work, or any kind of computational modeling. It's easy to have that much data -- my source tree alone is 2GB.
And what about our colleagues in the porn production industry? I mean, one hour of hi-res MPEG is a lot of megabytes. Multiply it by the number of, ah, employees...
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Cutesy, but there's no particular reason that "jury" has to come after "ballot". Needs a rewrite if you want it to retain its cuteness.
So..."100 year incident"? I don't think so. "10 or 20?" Um...sure.
Thank you. I seem to recall that 20 years ago financial firms were flopping left and right. Why, we had one called Shearson Lehman Hutton. Lehman got into trouble and was bought; so did Hutton. Lehman eventually went independent again after Amex couldn't digest them...Hutton was dropped.
Otherwise, words like that just don't carry the same sting they once did, making them basically useless.
Speaking of useless, what is the difference between:
"Basically" is perhaps the most useless word in the English language. It is never needed, helpful, or useful. Watch how it's used and you'll see it never modifies meaning.
There's no more market to loose.
Unleash those purchase orders! Loose them upon the world!