...but if new players in the economy aren't getting jobs, then you get to use those multiplication skills to see how quickly things get much much uglier. I suggest you speak to new college graduates about the job market. Also, if you're sacking all these government employees (and that's what "spending cuts" often translate into) you'd better do it slowly and carefully because otherwise the private sector will be too shocked by flow-on effects (ie. less govt spending, fewer employees spending money etc...) to absorb all those out-of-work govt employees you'd like them to. That's how it's possible to find yourself in a much deeper hole even if you savagely cut government spending - this is a large part of why many third world countries went backwards implementing these very measures ie. cutting govt spending and low tax rates, forced onto them by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) in the last few decades.
One would have hoped the US wouldn't put blood and treasure on the line on the strength of such a shaky "theory". The Bush administration put its trust in someone the CIA knew was a conman, and other Iraqi expats with axes to grind. There was also some pretty inconclusive intelligence - it really stank of half baked justification, This is why there were mass demonstrations around the world. I attended one, and I'm certainly no anti-war hippie. Lying to your own populous to justify war in a DEMOCRACY is wrong wrong wrong.
For anyone who hasn't seen it, check out this old mathematician (Albert Bartlett) talking about energy and exponential growth. He makes it so obviously clear why we'll be running out of oil shortly even given the most optimistic projections of future growth. It's clear enough for Joe Sixpack to understand - as Einstein would say "as simple as possible, but no simpler".
There seems to be a big overlap between techies and trekkies. Do you have much of an interest in technical matters yourself, and do you see Star Trek (and sci-fi more generally) as a valuable guide for imagination/innovation, or perhaps a box people should think outside of?
BSDers are hard to understand - they're like neighbours who complain of the obligation that borrowing tools and/or asking for help will place upon them. It might seem strange, but if you use peoples resources to build a patio they'll probably expect to be invited over for a barbecue (yes, even if that toolbox was "doing nothing" before you used it). What seems like an imposition to you makes others feel part of a community.
They may even feel more annoyed if your patio blocks their afternoon sun so everyone visits you instead. Oh yeah... but it's not THEIR afternoon sun - you just captured it better.
Crude (fructose, sucrose) is cracked into fuel (glucose) in a refinery (liver). The oil reserves (western diet) far exceeds refining capacity. Middle management is completely automated by a system called "insulin" which orders fuel tankers (fat cells) to fill up when there's an excess of petrochemicals (fructose, glucose, sucrose) at the refinery. Upper management calls in a nerdy slashdotter (health expert) when things start going wrong : orders for fuel aren't getting filled, and customers (in cars;) are screaming (appetite is not being satisfied) no matter how much extra crude upper management commands to be pumped. Things got really serious when reports of damaged equipment also started coming in.
The problem is a bug in how the automated middle management (insulin system) works... it SHOULD only look at fuel (ie. glucose) levels, but it sees ALL petrochemicals the same. This wasn't a problem when the system was designed (evolved;) because the refinery used to easily keep up with inputs, but now the system is telling tankers to spend all of their time being filled rather than delivering fuel and overfilling is causing damage to tankers, pumps etc... etc...
As replacing the insulin system is not at option for the forseeable future the only alternative is to control the pumping of crude so as not to overwhelm the refinery, and outsourcing refining (ie. consuming pure glucose) instead.
Also important - sucrose (ie. table sugar) is metabolised into glucose + fructose.
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Summary of argument - fructose messes with your insulin levels which causes excess storage of fat and insulin resistance:
The theory is that glucose is processed quickly because it can be consumed by any cell in the body, but there's a bottleneck processing fructose because it can only be broken down by the liver (into glucose btw). This means it stays in the blood which messes with your insulin levels - your body sees circulating sugar and produces insulin to stimulate storage (as it should), BUT because of the fructose bottleneck only the glucose in your system can get stored, and the side effect is your glucose levels crash - it ALL goes to fat. The low blood glucose paradoxically makes you crave more food. Also because your insulin level is remaining high for long periods you're in danger of developing insulin resistance.
Ooops... one too many "infected"s. Need coffee. The linked wikipedia page specifically mentions dengue fever right at the bottom btw. Interestingly wolbachia can only be transmitted vertically (ie. from mother to offspring). Infected females produce more offspring than uninfected females, and if an uninfected female mates with an infected male then some or all of her eggs will die. For more information see this page.
The only thing worse than a public monopoly is a private monopoly. Do you live in the same country as I do? There was ZERO incentive for Telstra to offer any technology upgrades because there was no competition so they didn't. In my home city the newest areas, even the ones with the best houses have the worst ADSL service - I suspect this is why some of the drive for the NBN coming from the big end of town. Why are so few ADSL lines available? Some people suggest it's because Telstra only doles out lines in small batches once they have customers signed up - this is to get around a legislative requirement to sell spare capacity to other ISPs. Why is there this legislative requirement? It's not only because government enjoys meddling... it's because Telstra was (is?) charging huge dollars for obsolete technology because as a monopoly they could. In desperation the govt wanted to encourage other ISPs into the market in the hope the new ISPs would eventually lay their own infrastructure. This has turned out to be a false hope and in most of Australia we still have a monopoply or at best a duopoly with a whole lot of other ISPs still merely trying to piggyback on existing infrastructure. This is because every time a new player enters the market there's less incentive for another player, and in all but a few areas the market will only bear one or two. This is why IMO big essential infrastructure (eg. rail, power, telecommunication) should be government owned with private contractors competing with eachother for the maintenance. The govt vs private argument IMO is a clever lie to get more infrastructure earning profit for private interests - the REAL efficiency driver is competition... it just so happens that most govt owned enterprises have no competition (except maybe eg. airlines).
I've heard somewhere that the typical piracy rate is around 3 for every one sale. The game looks like it wasn't particularly popular, so I'm not sure if piracy rate goes up or down with popularity but my gut instinct would be to say up because : a) people with limited finances (or ANYONE really) would be more willing to drop dollars on the big games, and b) it's generally harder to find less popular games.
If you also consider the added expense and/or time required to implement DRM I'm not sure it's as clear cut as you suggest.
WTF? Are you nuts? Business isn't a zero sum game. I've been told by plenty of old business greyhairs that it doesn't matter how much money your business partners etc... make off the back of your efforts, it just matters what YOU make. Plenty of people shoot themselves in the foot because of jealousy. If it's a choice between making 5 billion for $EVIL_COMPANY and making another $200,000 yourself, or keeping the status quo you GO FOR THE DOLLARS!
I would NEVER buy mysterious noname software sight unseen. Even trial versions often don't give you enough time for the mysterious bugs to bubble to the surface. If it's pirated hard you can guarantee that some of those pirates will be recommending your software to the boss if they've thrashed it for months and it does indeed perform better. Would you walk away from a business just because you had to pay for advertising?
Recently I heard that argument called "intellectual cowardice", and I think that's an excellent way of putting it. I was religiously schooled and had this very same argument put to me quite early, and considered it deeply at the time. Basically the people who can't see there could be a god and are brave enough to trust their own gut... well... they burn, and the cowards who can change the very way they see the world for the sake of a threat get rewarded. That didn't jive with what I'd been told about a just god, so either god wasn't just or a few parts of the bible weren't true. Was I looking for an excuse to not to believe? Definitely not! It just started me moving in that direction.
Even though hollywood has been losing the popularity war for years they still consider themselves a "higher" artform and don't take videogames at all seriously. I guess it's similar to how theatre regards hollywood, or classical music regards popular music. I would imagine this will change over time as the baby boomers retire and people who have real experience with video games take over.
You sound like the mainframe guys of old when DOS first came on the scene. Significantly-cheaper-but-usable wins. It doesn't matter if it doesn't solve every single problem the competition does... it will eat market share, and eventually it WILL do just about everything. Don't worry though... there are still mainframe guys around.;)
I haven't been keeping up with most Linux groupware, but I know SOGo + Thunderbird/w Lightning is getting pretty darn close to becoming an Exchange+Outlook replacement, and the development pace is certainly frantic.
BTW, check out GOsa to manage SOGo's LDAP backend. It offers a GUI to manage an LDAP based infrastructure with plugins for Samba+PDC, DNS, DHCP, auto-installation of clients and servers (via OPSI and FAI), proxy and filter management via Squid, apple file serving via Netatalk, RADIUS, LTSP, VoIP via Asterisk, Groupware (supports Kolab, SOGo and a number of other options) and a heap of other stuff I forget. Supposedly Munich, Paris, Amsterdam and a number of other local authorities already use it, as well as a bunch of other organisations and companies.
OPSI allows windows to build itself across the network via PXE, and allows deploying of apps also. It pitches itself as an option for non-identical hardware where cloning works poorly or fails. It's also OSS.
As an aside I'm attempting to combine OPSI/w FAI and GOsa (an LDAP management platform) to manage workstations, servers, services (such as Samba, DNS,DHCP, ftp, Asterisk, Groupware (Kolab, Horde, SOGo, phpGroupWare... you can make it manage just about anything), Nagios, Netatalk (for Mac file/print), Squid, etc.. etc.. etc... Warning... this way leads to madness. It's insanely difficult, and I'm in the process of trying to document and/or automate a lot of it to make things easier. See https://oss.gonicus.de/repositories/gosa-contrib/squeeze-install-scripts/trunk/ for my efforts so far.
Taxes etc... don't pay for health costs - not by a very wide margin (at least in Australia). I dug up some online govt documents after a long search while sitting on the sidelines of an argument one day. I've replied to this discussion late, so I'm not going to do this search again, but the information is out there for anyone willing to do some digging.
If you're looking for a truly OSS tool for full desktop management (but push instead of pull) check out OPSI - it even deploys the entire Windows OS (via PXE), and afterwards allows management of apps. If you're looking for a simple graphical apt/rpm for windows both Cygwin and KDE have had their own versions working for years.
As an aside, OPSI can be used as part of a stack to replace an entire (Microsoft?) corporate software stack. Check out GOsa - this is the software that the City of Munich is basing much of its Linuxification effort around, and it is also used in other cities and organisations around the world - check out the GOsa website for a list. GOsa manages clients/servers via LDAP and RPC, and OPSI is just one of the stack of software it can manage via its web-GUI. The others include Samba + PDC (achieved using the GOsa goPDC scripts), groupware (choice of Kolab, phpGroupware etc..., or a 3rd party LDAP-aware groupware eg. SOGo), DNS, DHCP, Nagios, OPSI+FAI (for client system management), and a lot of other software I can't even remember. GOsa + supporting software is HARD to set up (especially due to out of date and missing docs), but I'm one of a team of 3rd party guys trying to document it better... check out the docs/scripts in the GOsa contrib section and visit us on #gosa on freenode. (Most of the guys are in Europe so keep this in mind when picking a time to visit the IRC channel).
The Wine window controls are still on the right. Perhaps I'm one of the few freaks that have to run Windows apps under Linux, but this makes the new look unbearable for me although I persisted until yesterday. I haven't checked, but perhaps this problem exists with Java apps too? I also justify my decision because it won't mean I look like a simpleton when working on customer (ie. Debian or Windows) machines.
I can see the Ubuntu UI peoples point though. Many users are being trained to think that "different to use" means "more advanced" thanks to MS Office. The window control issue is really a small inconvenience, and it achieves the Ubuntu marketing goal of jarring users into thinking it's shiney new technology. I just hope the eventual result won't be UI's evolving to look like Japanese cell phones.
How come in these discussions noone ever mentions the software they're using (eg. GOsa, see https://www.gosa-project.org/ ) ? GOsa is a web admin front-end which allows management of clients and servers through an LDAP based infrastructre and RPC backend. Services that can be managed include Samba+PDC, email+groupware, FAI & OPSI (for auto-install of Linux and Windows clients), DNS, DHCP, Squid, Asterisk, Linux terminal server clients, and quite a bit more. It IS very hard to get working though.
Hmmm... I just noticed that Munich is no longer listed as a reference on the GOsa site - I wonder if there is a story there.
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One would have hoped the US wouldn't put blood and treasure on the line on the strength of such a shaky "theory". The Bush administration put its trust in someone the CIA knew was a conman, and other Iraqi expats with axes to grind. There was also some pretty inconclusive intelligence - it really stank of half baked justification, This is why there were mass demonstrations around the world. I attended one, and I'm certainly no anti-war hippie. Lying to your own populous to justify war in a DEMOCRACY is wrong wrong wrong.
For anyone who hasn't seen it, check out this old mathematician (Albert Bartlett) talking about energy and exponential growth. He makes it so obviously clear why we'll be running out of oil shortly even given the most optimistic projections of future growth. It's clear enough for Joe Sixpack to understand - as Einstein would say "as simple as possible, but no simpler".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
There seems to be a big overlap between techies and trekkies. Do you have much of an interest in technical matters yourself, and do you see Star Trek (and sci-fi more generally) as a valuable guide for imagination/innovation, or perhaps a box people should think outside of?
BSDers are hard to understand - they're like neighbours who complain of the obligation that borrowing tools and/or asking for help will place upon them. It might seem strange, but if you use peoples resources to build a patio they'll probably expect to be invited over for a barbecue (yes, even if that toolbox was "doing nothing" before you used it). What seems like an imposition to you makes others feel part of a community.
They may even feel more annoyed if your patio blocks their afternoon sun so everyone visits you instead. Oh yeah... but it's not THEIR afternoon sun - you just captured it better.
He's protecting the freedom of the software... that's why it's called free SOFTWARE.
...or oil company analogy?
Crude (fructose, sucrose) is cracked into fuel (glucose) in a refinery (liver). The oil reserves (western diet) far exceeds refining capacity. Middle management is completely automated by a system called "insulin" which orders fuel tankers (fat cells) to fill up when there's an excess of petrochemicals (fructose, glucose, sucrose) at the refinery. Upper management calls in a nerdy slashdotter (health expert) when things start going wrong : orders for fuel aren't getting filled, and customers (in cars ;) are screaming (appetite is not being satisfied) no matter how much extra crude upper management commands to be pumped. Things got really serious when reports of damaged equipment also started coming in.
The problem is a bug in how the automated middle management (insulin system) works... it SHOULD only look at fuel (ie. glucose) levels, but it sees ALL petrochemicals the same. This wasn't a problem when the system was designed (evolved ;) because the refinery used to easily keep up with inputs, but now the system is telling tankers to spend all of their time being filled rather than delivering fuel and overfilling is causing damage to tankers, pumps etc... etc...
As replacing the insulin system is not at option for the forseeable future the only alternative is to control the pumping of crude so as not to overwhelm the refinery, and outsourcing refining (ie. consuming pure glucose) instead.
Also important - sucrose (ie. table sugar) is metabolised into glucose + fructose.
Summary of argument - fructose messes with your insulin levels which causes excess storage of fat and insulin resistance :
The theory is that glucose is processed quickly because it can be consumed by any cell in the body, but there's a bottleneck processing fructose because it can only be broken down by the liver (into glucose btw). This means it stays in the blood which messes with your insulin levels - your body sees circulating sugar and produces insulin to stimulate storage (as it should), BUT because of the fructose bottleneck only the glucose in your system can get stored, and the side effect is your glucose levels crash - it ALL goes to fat. The low blood glucose paradoxically makes you crave more food. Also because your insulin level is remaining high for long periods you're in danger of developing insulin resistance.
Ooops... one too many "infected"s. Need coffee. The linked wikipedia page specifically mentions dengue fever right at the bottom btw. Interestingly wolbachia can only be transmitted vertically (ie. from mother to offspring). Infected females produce more offspring than uninfected females, and if an uninfected female mates with an infected male then some or all of her eggs will die. For more information see this page.
If this is the same project as in Australia there is no DNA modification. Instead infected mosquitos are infected with a bacteria called Wolbachia .
The only thing worse than a public monopoly is a private monopoly. Do you live in the same country as I do? There was ZERO incentive for Telstra to offer any technology upgrades because there was no competition so they didn't. In my home city the newest areas, even the ones with the best houses have the worst ADSL service - I suspect this is why some of the drive for the NBN coming from the big end of town. Why are so few ADSL lines available? Some people suggest it's because Telstra only doles out lines in small batches once they have customers signed up - this is to get around a legislative requirement to sell spare capacity to other ISPs. Why is there this legislative requirement? It's not only because government enjoys meddling... it's because Telstra was (is?) charging huge dollars for obsolete technology because as a monopoly they could. In desperation the govt wanted to encourage other ISPs into the market in the hope the new ISPs would eventually lay their own infrastructure. This has turned out to be a false hope and in most of Australia we still have a monopoply or at best a duopoly with a whole lot of other ISPs still merely trying to piggyback on existing infrastructure. This is because every time a new player enters the market there's less incentive for another player, and in all but a few areas the market will only bear one or two. This is why IMO big essential infrastructure (eg. rail, power, telecommunication) should be government owned with private contractors competing with eachother for the maintenance. The govt vs private argument IMO is a clever lie to get more infrastructure earning profit for private interests - the REAL efficiency driver is competition... it just so happens that most govt owned enterprises have no competition (except maybe eg. airlines).
vtiger is a fork of SugarCRM... it purports to be the real deal.
310K/75K = ~4.13 pirates for every one sale.
I've heard somewhere that the typical piracy rate is around 3 for every one sale. The game looks like it wasn't particularly popular, so I'm not sure if piracy rate goes up or down with popularity but my gut instinct would be to say up because :
a) people with limited finances (or ANYONE really) would be more willing to drop dollars on the big games, and
b) it's generally harder to find less popular games.
If you also consider the added expense and/or time required to implement DRM I'm not sure it's as clear cut as you suggest.
WTF? Are you nuts? Business isn't a zero sum game. I've been told by plenty of old business greyhairs that it doesn't matter how much money your business partners etc... make off the back of your efforts, it just matters what YOU make. Plenty of people shoot themselves in the foot because of jealousy. If it's a choice between making 5 billion for $EVIL_COMPANY and making another $200,000 yourself, or keeping the status quo you GO FOR THE DOLLARS!
I would NEVER buy mysterious noname software sight unseen. Even trial versions often don't give you enough time for the mysterious bugs to bubble to the surface. If it's pirated hard you can guarantee that some of those pirates will be recommending your software to the boss if they've thrashed it for months and it does indeed perform better. Would you walk away from a business just because you had to pay for advertising?
Recently I heard that argument called "intellectual cowardice", and I think that's an excellent way of putting it. I was religiously schooled and had this very same argument put to me quite early, and considered it deeply at the time. Basically the people who can't see there could be a god and are brave enough to trust their own gut... well... they burn, and the cowards who can change the very way they see the world for the sake of a threat get rewarded. That didn't jive with what I'd been told about a just god, so either god wasn't just or a few parts of the bible weren't true. Was I looking for an excuse to not to believe? Definitely not! It just started me moving in that direction.
Even though hollywood has been losing the popularity war for years they still consider themselves a "higher" artform and don't take videogames at all seriously. I guess it's similar to how theatre regards hollywood, or classical music regards popular music. I would imagine this will change over time as the baby boomers retire and people who have real experience with video games take over.
Here's the webpage - it looks like a few other sogo's are crowding out this one...
http://www.scalableogo.org/english.html
You sound like the mainframe guys of old when DOS first came on the scene. Significantly-cheaper-but-usable wins. It doesn't matter if it doesn't solve every single problem the competition does... it will eat market share, and eventually it WILL do just about everything. Don't worry though... there are still mainframe guys around. ;)
I haven't been keeping up with most Linux groupware, but I know SOGo + Thunderbird /w Lightning is getting pretty darn close to becoming an Exchange+Outlook replacement, and the development pace is certainly frantic.
BTW, check out GOsa to manage SOGo's LDAP backend. It offers a GUI to manage an LDAP based infrastructure with plugins for Samba+PDC, DNS, DHCP, auto-installation of clients and servers (via OPSI and FAI), proxy and filter management via Squid, apple file serving via Netatalk, RADIUS, LTSP, VoIP via Asterisk, Groupware (supports Kolab, SOGo and a number of other options) and a heap of other stuff I forget. Supposedly Munich, Paris, Amsterdam and a number of other local authorities already use it, as well as a bunch of other organisations and companies.
OPSI allows windows to build itself across the network via PXE, and allows deploying of apps also. It pitches itself as an option for non-identical hardware where cloning works poorly or fails. It's also OSS.
As an aside I'm attempting to combine OPSI /w FAI and GOsa (an LDAP management platform) to manage workstations, servers, services (such as Samba, DNS,DHCP, ftp, Asterisk, Groupware (Kolab, Horde, SOGo, phpGroupWare... you can make it manage just about anything), Nagios, Netatalk (for Mac file/print), Squid, etc.. etc.. etc... Warning... this way leads to madness. It's insanely difficult, and I'm in the process of trying to document and/or automate a lot of it to make things easier. See https://oss.gonicus.de/repositories/gosa-contrib/squeeze-install-scripts/trunk/ for my efforts so far.
Taxes etc... don't pay for health costs - not by a very wide margin (at least in Australia). I dug up some online govt documents after a long search while sitting on the sidelines of an argument one day. I've replied to this discussion late, so I'm not going to do this search again, but the information is out there for anyone willing to do some digging.
If you're looking for a truly OSS tool for full desktop management (but push instead of pull) check out OPSI - it even deploys the entire Windows OS (via PXE), and afterwards allows management of apps. If you're looking for a simple graphical apt/rpm for windows both Cygwin and KDE have had their own versions working for years.
As an aside, OPSI can be used as part of a stack to replace an entire (Microsoft?) corporate software stack. Check out GOsa - this is the software that the City of Munich is basing much of its Linuxification effort around, and it is also used in other cities and organisations around the world - check out the GOsa website for a list. GOsa manages clients/servers via LDAP and RPC, and OPSI is just one of the stack of software it can manage via its web-GUI. The others include Samba + PDC (achieved using the GOsa goPDC scripts), groupware (choice of Kolab, phpGroupware etc..., or a 3rd party LDAP-aware groupware eg. SOGo), DNS, DHCP, Nagios, OPSI+FAI (for client system management), and a lot of other software I can't even remember. GOsa + supporting software is HARD to set up (especially due to out of date and missing docs), but I'm one of a team of 3rd party guys trying to document it better... check out the docs/scripts in the GOsa contrib section and visit us on #gosa on freenode. (Most of the guys are in Europe so keep this in mind when picking a time to visit the IRC channel).
The Wine window controls are still on the right. Perhaps I'm one of the few freaks that have to run Windows apps under Linux, but this makes the new look unbearable for me although I persisted until yesterday. I haven't checked, but perhaps this problem exists with Java apps too? I also justify my decision because it won't mean I look like a simpleton when working on customer (ie. Debian or Windows) machines.
I can see the Ubuntu UI peoples point though. Many users are being trained to think that "different to use" means "more advanced" thanks to MS Office. The window control issue is really a small inconvenience, and it achieves the Ubuntu marketing goal of jarring users into thinking it's shiney new technology. I just hope the eventual result won't be UI's evolving to look like Japanese cell phones.
I lie... : Landeshauptstadt München
How come in these discussions noone ever mentions the software they're using (eg. GOsa, see https://www.gosa-project.org/ ) ? GOsa is a web admin front-end which allows management of clients and servers through an LDAP based infrastructre and RPC backend. Services that can be managed include Samba+PDC, email+groupware, FAI & OPSI (for auto-install of Linux and Windows clients), DNS, DHCP, Squid, Asterisk, Linux terminal server clients, and quite a bit more. It IS very hard to get working though.
Hmmm... I just noticed that Munich is no longer listed as a reference on the GOsa site - I wonder if there is a story there.