I think they should do both...heck the CD's are pretty damned cheap...plus if you encourage people to make copies of the ones they have to give to friends you can really start the spread faster. I think that this is about to become farily big!
Not totally true. I bought a dell workstation 3-4 years ago with redhat installed on it. Everything worked great...except the ethernet card....I installed mandrake and the card worked fine...funny thing is it was a 3COM card which is usually supported very well.
"Training for IT employees was significantly higher for Linux than for Windows - on average, 15% more expensive. The reasons: training materials were less readily available, and customers spent more on training to compensate for the lack of internal knowledge about Linux."
Google Linux...then Google windows....LOL
"A number of third-party reports have questioned how safe the Linux platform really is. For example, a recent independent study by Forrester, Is Linux More Secure than Windows?, highlighted that the four major Linux distributions have a higher incidence and severity of vulnerabilities, and are slower than Microsoft to provide security updates."
Slower??? lol
This article realy was just to much. Lets help our customers better determine the right solution!!!! LOL go get 'em microsoft
what does english have to do with it? You deserve your job because you are qualified for it.
My only real issue with out sourcing is that we (stupid americans) run our cost of living through the roof, house values, college costs, etc... and then companies decide that they would rather have the high society lifestyle but have workers (equally quallified) from much lower cost of living countries. Since house prices generally will not plummet and colleges generally will not lower the cost of tuition it in effect lowers the standard of living of americans....granted I don't see the doom and gloom scenario in the near future.
However everyone should realize that life comes with no gaurentees. None of us is owed a job.
I have not seen it in the pure bred cat market either. No one can make you sign a damned Eula for breeding animals....shit if they can do that then they can do it with humans to. Pure non-sence....would never hold up in a court of law....besides that the cat still has DNA...whats to keep you from using your new cats DNA to fertalize a normal cat.
So what is to keep someone from buying a male and a female...breeding them...etc. Or is their some patent on the cat's sex. I can't see how this company can sell more than perhaps 3 years worth of these cats.
You get tighter control on closed source, but you get a hell of a lot more eyes on open source. I agree that saying something is totally secure is laughable. And I agree that it is possible for back doors to survive for a while in an open source project. However at least with open source you CAN check it your self.
Also it is pretty tough to conceal a backdoor in a project like the kernel or mozilla. However for all the small open source projects out there that only have a couple of developers?? you bet your ass they could hide a backdoor early on in a project and it could survive until the project matured....but then you would know who did it.
I believe that when security is imperative open source will always win out. If we ever switch to e-voting would you trust a closed source application? I sure as hell wouldn't.
I like being right next to the "power" as you call it. If you want it hidden from yourself by a mac with OSX it is great and it is exactly what you want...or build your own distro and you will probably get a shit load of people to use it.
You have some very good points. I have not thought about it that way, but perhaps you are right. I wish that we could abolish the two party system...and if people continue to vote for the "lesser evil" this will almost certainly not happen....
Thanks for the insightful post.
After having talked with my girlfriend...she would add that we need to do something about this long before election time. We need to get people thinking outside of this damned two party box long before we "waste" our votes on a man that can't win. Perhaps you are right...the best way is to slowly build up a larger and larger percentage each year until we finally make a statement. You have certainly given me a different way to look at this election. It may not change what I do...but I will think much more about it.
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e what???
I think they should do both...heck the CD's are pretty damned cheap...plus if you encourage people to make copies of the ones they have to give to friends you can really start the spread faster. I think that this is about to become farily big!
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Not totally true. I bought a dell workstation 3-4 years ago with redhat installed on it. Everything worked great...except the ethernet card....I installed mandrake and the card worked fine...funny thing is it was a 3COM card which is usually supported very well.
"Training for IT employees was significantly higher for Linux than for Windows - on average, 15% more expensive. The reasons: training materials were less readily available, and customers spent more on training to compensate for the lack of internal knowledge about Linux."
Google Linux...then Google windows....LOL
"A number of third-party reports have questioned how safe the Linux platform really is. For example, a recent independent study by Forrester, Is Linux More Secure than Windows?, highlighted that the four major Linux distributions have a higher incidence and severity of vulnerabilities, and are slower than Microsoft to provide security updates."
Slower??? lol
This article realy was just to much. Lets help our customers better determine the right solution!!!! LOL go get 'em microsoft
what does english have to do with it? You deserve your job because you are qualified for it.
My only real issue with out sourcing is that we (stupid americans) run our cost of living through the roof, house values, college costs, etc... and then companies decide that they would rather have the high society lifestyle but have workers (equally quallified) from much lower cost of living countries. Since house prices generally will not plummet and colleges generally will not lower the cost of tuition it in effect lowers the standard of living of americans....granted I don't see the doom and gloom scenario in the near future.
However everyone should realize that life comes with no gaurentees. None of us is owed a job.
Sure. As long as I write the code I will tell you farily accuratly what will be produced...from gcc.
I have not seen it in the pure bred cat market either. No one can make you sign a damned Eula for breeding animals....shit if they can do that then they can do it with humans to. Pure non-sence....would never hold up in a court of law....besides that the cat still has DNA...whats to keep you from using your new cats DNA to fertalize a normal cat.
So what is to keep someone from buying a male and a female...breeding them...etc. Or is their some patent on the cat's sex. I can't see how this company can sell more than perhaps 3 years worth of these cats.
No doubt. Nice to see someone else shareds the same tin foil hat as I do.
You get tighter control on closed source, but you get a hell of a lot more eyes on open source. I agree that saying something is totally secure is laughable. And I agree that it is possible for back doors to survive for a while in an open source project. However at least with open source you CAN check it your self.
Also it is pretty tough to conceal a backdoor in a project like the kernel or mozilla. However for all the small open source projects out there that only have a couple of developers?? you bet your ass they could hide a backdoor early on in a project and it could survive until the project matured....but then you would know who did it.
I believe that when security is imperative open source will always win out. If we ever switch to e-voting would you trust a closed source application? I sure as hell wouldn't.
I like being right next to the "power" as you call it. If you want it hidden from yourself by a mac with OSX it is great and it is exactly what you want...or build your own distro and you will probably get a shit load of people to use it.
A year or two my ass....a day or two and most windows boxes are totally trashed...unless there is a half way knowledgable person running it.
You have some very good points. I have not thought about it that way, but perhaps you are right. I wish that we could abolish the two party system...and if people continue to vote for the "lesser evil" this will almost certainly not happen....
Thanks for the insightful post.
After having talked with my girlfriend...she would add that we need to do something about this long before election time. We need to get people thinking outside of this damned two party box long before we "waste" our votes on a man that can't win. Perhaps you are right...the best way is to slowly build up a larger and larger percentage each year until we finally make a statement. You have certainly given me a different way to look at this election. It may not change what I do...but I will think much more about it.
Thanks.
No moron I understand trying to make a change. You can take your ideals and shove them up your ass....tree hugger.
Well then we should be able to kill them quicker (since there are fewer) and then get on with world.
That makes about as much sense as strapping a bomb to yourself so that others will see that you died on principal.
That is nothing more than a wasted vate...you know neither one has a chance in hell so why not use your vote for the lesser evil?
Holly shit you weren't lying about that foe thingy! LOL
yeah, but don't all schools say that?
Actually the kids...ok adults...I have met from RPI have all been very bright.
Nice....Mine was a Commodore 64...new a guy with a vic 20. Basic was so damned easy....making sprites and such..oh the days.
So don't use a PUBLIC computer for private matter....how hard is that?
Insightful? You gotta be kidding me. This guy is a complete self centered moron.
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How dare you be so insightful on slashdot....who do you think you are?
Who are you to say that business owners have thought more about a business than 16 year old losers? Jeez what kinda world do we live in.
Yeah but nevermind the $100,000 price tag on the "slower" db.
For small companies this is just out of the question.