It would be nice if the opportunity to switch from antiquated languages to modern ones came up, however there is no way to get experience, no matter how well you know the language from home use. I taught myself Java a couple of years ago and wrote a few simple apps in it, but how am I supposed to get a job on the back of that?
So I need to go to university for another 7 years with no guarantee of a career at the end of it. Good plan. Lucky I don't have kids and a mortgage so I could actually do this. What about the people who do?
I like how you use the word eventually. When do I get my well-paid job back? Do I need to go back to university for another 4 years to get an alternative career that could just as easily be taken from me in the name of globalisation. The poor people in Africa have my sympathy (and used to get some of my salary), but I fail to see how making me like them is going to improve anyone's life, other than those who want a better house than Bill Gates.
It's the easiest sale though. Your staff can work just the same way as they did before at far lower cost and with better reliability than those crappy NT4 workstations you've been unwilling to upgrade due to the fact that they work most of the time and it's not worth the risk or expense to move to XP. Once on Linux then you can gradually start changing the apps you use, while saving the organisation a fortune in licensing fees.
That's what they have a support desk for. Linux in the office is much more likely due to the fact that people that aren't particularly computer-literate have an entire department to call on when things go wrong.
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The one where you can walk home at 3am and not be shot.
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I thought it was the world you believed revolved around you.....
There are many unexplained artifacts lying around this planet alone. Who knows what we'll find when we finally go and visit the rest of the Solar System. Fermi's Paradox relies on the fact that, if there are super-advanced extra-terrestrials out there, we'll be able to spot them, or understand what they've left behind, which is not necessarily the case.
Rubbish. What needs to be provided is as familiar an environment as possible to make the switch as painless as possible. People may not like Windows much but they're used to it, so give them a more reliable version and then start making evolutionary changes. Imagine if you introduced a totally new car control system that made total sense and was really easy to use. People's first reaction would be 'Where's the steering wheel' and their second would be 'This sucks, there's no steering wheel, I'm not buying it'. Sad, but a fact of life.
I tried to get a life, I failed, so now I play an MMORPG. Any suggestions on how to get one would be gratefully received, although I've got no doubt that I've already tried most of them.
If PERL programmers weren't so determined to make it unsupportable you might be right. If these tedious nerds realised that someone else might have to support their egomania-produced white noise perhaps their world-view would be shared.
Maybe you should re-read this thread. US Slashdot readers, always so quick to denounce their evil government taking away their rights to a Linux DVD player via the DMCA are almost united in their rage that anyone should criticise their saintly government over it's perfect foreign policy.
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I'm sure it would if Soviet Russia hadn't collapsed in the early 90s.
It would be nice if the opportunity to switch from antiquated languages to modern ones came up, however there is no way to get experience, no matter how well you know the language from home use. I taught myself Java a couple of years ago and wrote a few simple apps in it, but how am I supposed to get a job on the back of that?
So I need to go to university for another 7 years with no guarantee of a career at the end of it. Good plan. Lucky I don't have kids and a mortgage so I could actually do this. What about the people who do?
I like how you use the word eventually. When do I get my well-paid job back? Do I need to go back to university for another 4 years to get an alternative career that could just as easily be taken from me in the name of globalisation. The poor people in Africa have my sympathy (and used to get some of my salary), but I fail to see how making me like them is going to improve anyone's life, other than those who want a better house than Bill Gates.
I would like to improve my value in the marketplace, however the marketplace has moved to India and China. Should I move there?
Funny, but the reintroduction of the minimum wage in the UK resulted in unemployment falling. How did that happen?
My salary has dropped by two-thirds in the last two years. Why should I support globalisation?
It's the easiest sale though. Your staff can work just the same way as they did before at far lower cost and with better reliability than those crappy NT4 workstations you've been unwilling to upgrade due to the fact that they work most of the time and it's not worth the risk or expense to move to XP. Once on Linux then you can gradually start changing the apps you use, while saving the organisation a fortune in licensing fees.
That's what they have a support desk for. Linux in the office is much more likely due to the fact that people that aren't particularly computer-literate have an entire department to call on when things go wrong.
The one where you can walk home at 3am and not be shot.
I thought it was the world you believed revolved around you.....
There are many unexplained artifacts lying around this planet alone. Who knows what we'll find when we finally go and visit the rest of the Solar System.
Fermi's Paradox relies on the fact that, if there are super-advanced extra-terrestrials out there, we'll be able to spot them, or understand what they've left behind, which is not necessarily the case.
Rubbish. What needs to be provided is as familiar an environment as possible to make the switch as painless as possible. People may not like Windows much but they're used to it, so give them a more reliable version and then start making evolutionary changes.
Imagine if you introduced a totally new car control system that made total sense and was really easy to use. People's first reaction would be 'Where's the steering wheel' and their second would be 'This sucks, there's no steering wheel, I'm not buying it'.
Sad, but a fact of life.
Sounds suspiciously like a mainframe to me. And everyone knows mainframes are obsolete.
Mainframes? Heresy! Report to the client/server re-education camp immediately, drone!
I tried to get a life, I failed, so now I play an MMORPG. Any suggestions on how to get one would be gratefully received, although I've got no doubt that I've already tried most of them.
Extra! from Attachmate seems to be the choice of most large organisations for their Windows PCs.
and free up staff to perform more value-added functions.
Nope, just to free up staff for later 'restructuring'.
It's much harder to screw with the electoral system in Europe because wealth is not necessarily a determinant of electoral success.
I don't remember any motivation to release better products.
Well someone had to do it.
If PERL programmers weren't so determined to make it unsupportable you might be right. If these tedious nerds realised that someone else might have to support their egomania-produced white noise perhaps their world-view would be shared.
pfffft. Silly Americans cheering a computer.
And Washington state based monopolists.
Maybe you should re-read this thread. US Slashdot readers, always so quick to denounce their evil government taking away their rights to a Linux DVD player via the DMCA are almost united in their rage that anyone should criticise their saintly government over it's perfect foreign policy.