Oh, so that's why the 7-11s put the kid stuff on the bottom shelves. And train their employees to help anyone who has any problem. And make their aisles wide enough for people in wheel chairs.
They design their stores for anyone who can walk, wheel, crawl, or teleport in. And that's why they're in business.
And their competitors (such as those with your philosophy), aren't.
Gee, I complained about this "feature" of the NWN website in a discussion a few days ago about their new support for Linux, and I was modded down as Troll:-)
well, since their website doesn't work properly with either Opera/Linux or Netscape/Linux, I'd say they have a commitment to Linux that scores about -1 on a scale of 1-10
4 black helicopters beneath your current threshold
IBM started its current round of layoffs (incl 160 people from IBM research reported today) in May with the Server Group.
Apparently, from the posting, the Linux Laptop poeple were in the Server Group. Makes sense, since that's where the rest of the Linux people are, right?
But when a cut comes along, they just look at laptops not being their line (servers), and cut them, without thinking of the overall strategy.
Methinks someone one level up needs to catch this and find those people a new home?
Some else mentioned this, but it needs more hightlighting: the "School Agreement" that the schools will be (at least for a year) forced into requires that they pay the fee for every "Eligible PC".
That means PCs running Linux.
Read that again: Microsoft is going to collect per-machine license fees for Linux machines.
Now ask youself what chance you as a teacher have in trying to put Linux on a PC? You will get marching orders from the school admin types: You MUST uses Windows, we PAID for it!
The MS objective is not to collect more money from schools, it is to force them into an all-or-nothing commitment; and we know that most school systems can't realistically eradicate Windows at this stage. They will eradicate Linux.
I'm just astounded at how far this has developed. I remember describing the concept of tag or label switching in a hop-by-hop packet net (which I then called a "forward cache ID", as usual, the inventor picks a too-mundane name;-) at the IETF in Columbus Ohio (I think, 1993? You could look it up!) in one of the IPng/IPv7 "keynote" talks: Tony Li (then of cisco, more recently Juniper) immediately complained that I was making router makers' life more complicated...
Ross Callon (then DEC) is (I am happy to see) still activly working on the concepts we built into CATNIP (IPv7 draft).
really amazing...
If you want the very early history, see RFC1475 (TP/IX) and 1476 (RAP, a RIP upgrade for sending labels back upstream).
The thing I really find fascinating is large scale debates on issues identified then: yes, IMHO you want to distribute labels with multiple methods (RAP-etc being only one), yes, you use them to identify flows and tunnels.
My disappointment is that I tried very hard to get FCID/tag/label switching built into the IPng, and my proposal wasn't selected.
Oh well. It is really amazing to watch. (Did I say that already?;-)
Multiple voting is easier than that; you don't even need to have a preference system if you have a large (greater than about n^2 for n candidates;-) and diverse enough pool of voters:
People just vote for 0, 1, 2,... all but one, or even all of the candidates. Whichever gets the most votes wins.
This has the advantage of actually being more intuitive than the present Vote for one "group" system.
(Voting for 0 or all is not effective in changing the outcome, but it happens all the time now in uncontested races.)
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Oh, so that's why the 7-11s put the kid stuff on the bottom shelves. And train their employees to help anyone who has any problem. And make their aisles wide enough for people in wheel chairs.
They design their stores for anyone who can walk, wheel, crawl, or teleport in. And that's why they're in business.
And their competitors (such as those with your philosophy), aren't.
Gee, I complained about this "feature" of the NWN website in a discussion a few days ago about their new support for Linux, and I was modded down as Troll :-)
well, since their website doesn't work properly with either Opera/Linux or Netscape/Linux, I'd say they have a commitment to Linux that scores about -1 on a scale of 1-10
4 black helicopters beneath your current threshold
quote: " almost nobody buys a new TV every year because of some new features."
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Indeed. I'm one of your more tech-savvy people, and my TV is a 22-year-old RCA Colortrak. Picture is better than most of the crappy stuff in stores
... in the words "Server Group".
IBM started its current round of layoffs (incl 160 people from IBM research reported today) in May with the Server Group.
Apparently, from the posting, the Linux Laptop poeple were in the Server Group. Makes sense, since that's where the rest of the Linux people are, right?
But when a cut comes along, they just look at laptops not being their line (servers), and cut them, without thinking of the overall strategy.
Methinks someone one level up needs to catch this and find those people a new home?
Some else mentioned this, but it needs more hightlighting: the "School Agreement" that the schools will be (at least for a year) forced into requires that they pay the fee for every "Eligible PC".
That means PCs running Linux.
Read that again: Microsoft is going to collect per-machine license fees for Linux machines.
Now ask youself what chance you as a teacher have in trying to put Linux on a PC? You will get marching orders from the school admin types: You MUST uses Windows, we PAID for it!
The MS objective is not to collect more money from schools, it is to force them into an all-or-nothing commitment; and we know that most school systems can't realistically eradicate Windows at this stage. They will eradicate Linux.
Ross Callon (then DEC) is (I am happy to see) still activly working on the concepts we built into CATNIP (IPv7 draft).
really amazing...
If you want the very early history, see RFC1475 (TP/IX) and 1476 (RAP, a RIP upgrade for sending labels back upstream).
The thing I really find fascinating is large scale debates on issues identified then: yes, IMHO you want to distribute labels with multiple methods (RAP-etc being only one), yes, you use them to identify flows and tunnels.
My disappointment is that I tried very hard to get FCID/tag/label switching built into the IPng, and my proposal wasn't selected.
Oh well. It is really amazing to watch. (Did I say that already? ;-)
Robert Ullmann
People just vote for 0, 1, 2, ... all but one, or even all of the candidates. Whichever gets the most votes wins.
This has the advantage of actually being more intuitive than the present Vote for one "group" system.
(Voting for 0 or all is not effective in changing the outcome, but it happens all the time now in uncontested races.)