If something would embarrass them, either they are too weak to stand up for who they are, or they are doing something they know to be bad, and against their own stated principles.
This my apply to the email and article, but it is a dangerous generalisation. Sometimes we have things that we keep to ourselves, not for the reasons above, but because people would not understand them, or take them out of context, or whatever. Not everything about ourselves should by up for grabs by any snooper.
In practise, your economy is currently the primary engine of the global economy. For years you have been out sourcing your work to other countries. You have been taking resources from other countries. What do you provide the world economy with? Services. Unfortunately, this is one of the first things to go when times are rough.
We provided you with the things you need. You gave us paper.
I think a purely OO desktop would be ideal. Is there any movement towards an object oriented desktop model for linux? Personally, I think that the application model is dated. All an application is, is functionality bound to a package. I find this very limiting.
Imagine a desktop where you had a dictionary (spell checker), which could be applied to any text (this post, documents, other peoples web pages). That ruler tool would no longer be stuck to abiword. You would have a basic set of tools which you could decide how to put together based on your needs (and of course, assembled into new objects).
Maybe I am wrong. It may be too easy for the user to hack together their own tools. There's just too much money to be made in binding tools together. The average user wouldn't need to buy applications if they had all the tools they needed.
Could you imagine if staples demanded that you buy their supplies in packages (pencils, papers, erasers, staplers etc.. ) and demanded that you only use their pens with their paper? Is this not analogous to what the software companies do with their application paradigm?
That's an absolutely silly idea. As I sit here with my head phones on, my brain is tryin (very hard) to filter out my room mates video game sound FX. When you listen to music in a car you brain must do a lot of work to filter out road noise. It doesn't matter where you are, there is noise to filter out (unless under "Ideal" conidtions, which rarely occur.).
Not to be a zeolous grammer checker, for I have very bad grammer, but for a person claiming to be educated, the writter has very poor grammar. I couldn't even make sense out of some of his phrases.
I like how the phone companies used to charge extra money for touch tone dialing. Nevermind that it saved the phone companies millions, if not billions, of dollars per year.
Notice how banks do the same thing. I'm sure sure ATMs and Internet banking save them money (no tellers to pay), but they add service charges for "the convenience". When was the last time you could ask an ATM a question?
What makes engineers experts on Visas, the recession, and job outsourcing? Oh wait, it's just a conflict of interest.
For decades you have outsourced the work you didn't to countries like Mexico because it was cheaper. Now that times are tough, jobs higher up the ladder will be outsourced. But hey, that's free trade the way you guys wanted it. You can't have your cake and it it too. So quit your sorry ass American whinning. You can't be the takers all the time.
I work for a large power company up here in Canada (we probably generate power for a few of you Americans Hehe). There are no networked computers controlling transmission and distribution. There is no way that a virus or a worm is going to cut off power to consumers. At least that's the way it works up here. I imagine it would be a similar situation down in the states.
Hummanity is unstable - its not just the Christian religion. Religions tend to have mechanisms in place that lend themselves to becoming, ultimately, destructive tools. Since its kind of on-topic... look no further than the various Islamic faiths for another example.
No, BSOD jokes are just another example of the "FUD" that Linux users profess to hate when it comes from Microsoft but love to spew from their own mouths. Windows 2000 and Windows XP even more so are pretty damn stable
I run Windows XP on a machine and, no joke, one day a few weeks ago I came home to a BSOD. So they say XP is more stable, but when it goes down, it goes down. I had to reinstall (I tried everything, but nothing seemed to work, not even MS's own repare wizard could bring it back).
I don't think you will develope alzheimers because you stopped drinking coffee. It is much less stressful on your system to not drink coffee. You will probably live longer. I recently stopped drinking coffee (because it's so damned hot up here in Canada) and have noticed no decrease in mental capacity.
It would be easier to code to something like UnitedLinux than support 5 or 6 different distributions. They'd rather just pick one (most just pick Redhat) and be done with it. They're just not willing to invest developer costs.
Compile for Red Hat. Compile for Mandrake. Compile for Slackware........
Good God it's such a bitch to make binaries for all target distros.
wasn't too much of a bash.
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There were a lot of truths to the article. Linux is for geeks, and that's why I like it. That's why it will never be popular.
I didn't really see too much bashing in the article, but I guess it depends on your perspective. If your a bussiness person you might see some negatives in that article, "Home users are cheap." which is a truth.
Like MS Office? Honestly, I find it the best all-around office suite out there. Sure, they copied the old word processors and spreadsheets and stuff, but did a good job making it userfriendly, and a nice product.
User friendly my ass. The god damn thing is always auto-format for me. I can't seem to turn it off. I uncheck auto-format and whatever else seem reasonable to uncheck, but the farking thing is always indenting, bulleting, numbering and lettering in unwanted spots. So I just end up using text pad instead, which is just fine.
But to be fair to Microsoft, they do have to be innovative. After all, they do compete in the software industry. They have no reason or obligation to maintain compatability with Linux. If you like Linux and the software that runs on it, then use it (as I do). You can't blaming them for changing.
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If something would embarrass them, either they are too weak to stand up for who they are, or they are doing something they know to be bad, and against their own stated principles.
This my apply to the email and article, but it is a dangerous generalisation. Sometimes we have things that we keep to ourselves, not for the reasons above, but because people would not understand them, or take them out of context, or whatever. Not everything about ourselves should by up for grabs by any snooper.
In practise, your economy is currently the primary engine of the global economy. For years you have been out sourcing your work to other countries. You have been taking resources from other countries. What do you provide the world economy with? Services. Unfortunately, this is one of the first things to go when times are rough.
We provided you with the things you need. You gave us paper.
Then wouldn't it be called BSD/Linux?
I think a purely OO desktop would be ideal. Is there any movement towards an object oriented desktop model for linux? Personally, I think that the application model is dated. All an application is, is functionality bound to a package. I find this very limiting.
Imagine a desktop where you had a dictionary (spell checker), which could be applied to any text (this post, documents, other peoples web pages). That ruler tool would no longer be stuck to abiword. You would have a basic set of tools which you could decide how to put together based on your needs (and of course, assembled into new objects).
Maybe I am wrong. It may be too easy for the user to hack together their own tools. There's just too much money to be made in binding tools together. The average user wouldn't need to buy applications if they had all the tools they needed.
Could you imagine if staples demanded that you buy their supplies in packages (pencils, papers, erasers, staplers etc.. ) and demanded that you only use their pens with their paper? Is this not analogous to what the software companies do with their application paradigm?
Is configorability the polar opposite of efficiency? I don't think so. Ideally, if the code is modular enough, it shouldn't need to be bloated.
Personally, I'd like to see the same kind of interopibility for GUI's that shells have (piping data from one app/tool to another).
Either way, my first point still stands.
"Give us more money. We can't survive with our buissness plan."
I am all for open source, but if your company can't make enough money to sustain itself, you shouldn't be around (as a company).
I am not too fond of their distro, to user friendly, and thus hard to change the setup.
That's an absolutely silly idea. As I sit here with my head phones on, my brain is tryin (very hard) to filter out my room mates video game sound FX. When you listen to music in a car you brain must do a lot of work to filter out road noise. It doesn't matter where you are, there is noise to filter out (unless under "Ideal" conidtions, which rarely occur.).
Not to be a zeolous grammer checker, for I have very bad grammer, but for a person claiming to be educated, the writter has very poor grammar. I couldn't even make sense out of some of his phrases.
I like how the phone companies used to charge extra money for touch tone dialing. Nevermind that it saved the phone companies millions, if not billions, of dollars per year.
Notice how banks do the same thing. I'm sure sure ATMs and Internet banking save them money (no tellers to pay), but they add service charges for "the convenience". When was the last time you could ask an ATM a question?
Ummm, wasn't this story, along with this entire thread posted before?
What makes engineers experts on Visas, the recession, and job outsourcing? Oh wait, it's just a conflict of interest.
For decades you have outsourced the work you didn't to countries like Mexico because it was cheaper. Now that times are tough, jobs higher up the ladder will be outsourced. But hey, that's free trade the way you guys wanted it. You can't have your cake and it it too. So quit your sorry ass American whinning. You can't be the takers all the time.
I work for a large power company up here in Canada (we probably generate power for a few of you Americans Hehe). There are no networked computers controlling transmission and distribution. There is no way that a virus or a worm is going to cut off power to consumers. At least that's the way it works up here. I imagine it would be a similar situation down in the states.
It's not as if people are in control of how other people use their religion to manipulate people.
Hummanity is unstable - its not just the Christian religion. Religions tend to have mechanisms in place that lend themselves to becoming, ultimately, destructive tools. Since its kind of on-topic... look no further than the various Islamic faiths for another example.
It's just too easy to be ignorant.
No, BSOD jokes are just another example of the "FUD" that Linux users profess to hate when it comes from Microsoft but love to spew from their own mouths. Windows 2000 and Windows XP even more so are pretty damn stable
I run Windows XP on a machine and, no joke, one day a few weeks ago I came home to a BSOD. So they say XP is more stable, but when it goes down, it goes down. I had to reinstall (I tried everything, but nothing seemed to work, not even MS's own repare wizard could bring it back).
I don't think you will develope alzheimers because you stopped drinking coffee. It is much less stressful on your system to not drink coffee. You will probably live longer. I recently stopped drinking coffee (because it's so damned hot up here in Canada) and have noticed no decrease in mental capacity.
They probably would be illegal, if 99% of them were used to kill someone.
They still sell hand guns down there don't they?
It would be easier to code to something like UnitedLinux than support 5 or 6 different distributions. They'd rather just pick one (most just pick Redhat) and be done with it. They're just not willing to invest developer costs.
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Compile for Red Hat.
Compile for Mandrake.
Compile for Slackware.
Good God it's such a bitch to make binaries for all target distros.
Look at the syllabus for courses at your favorite university web site. From there you can look up topics on the web or in books.
If this world is not truely hell, someone will prove that and share it to help prevent the suffering of innocent C.S. graduate students.
You do that in Graduate School? Up here in Canada that is second year undergrad material.
Or maybe they are targetting all the rich quants who were just laid off On Wall Street.
You'd think they would target people who are good at math.
if you really want to set it free GPL it
It is GPL'd
There were a lot of truths to the article. Linux is for geeks, and that's why I like it. That's why it will never be popular.
I didn't really see too much bashing in the article, but I guess it depends on your perspective. If your a bussiness person you might see some negatives in that article, "Home users are cheap." which is a truth.
Like MS Office? Honestly, I find it the best all-around office suite out there. Sure, they copied the old word processors and spreadsheets and stuff, but did a good job making it userfriendly, and a nice product.
User friendly my ass. The god damn thing is always auto-format for me. I can't seem to turn it off. I uncheck auto-format and whatever else seem reasonable to uncheck, but the farking thing is always indenting, bulleting, numbering and lettering in unwanted spots. So I just end up using text pad instead, which is just fine.
But to be fair to Microsoft, they do have to be innovative. After all, they do compete in the software industry. They have no reason or obligation to maintain compatability with Linux. If you like Linux and the software that runs on it, then use it (as I do). You can't blaming them for changing.