How is this insightful? Javascript is there for a reason. Just because it is sometimes abused and *you* choose to not use it, doesn't mean it has no valid place. I like the other responder's sarcasm about lynx not working. If you choose to disable javascript, you choose to not view some websites. Your choice.
I know that you're joking and it is rather funny, but I just had to point out that I have a 340 Meg microdrive that I've had for over 3 years, and it's survived not only heavy usage but it's been dropped numerous times.
Microdrives were one aspect of hard drive technology that IBM got right;)
Ok, let's not get carried away here. SCO's antics, while reprehensible and immoral, are nowhere near as threatening to the future of open source as Microsoft's. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not getting bombarded on a daily basis from worm-infected SCO machines. Microsoft has that dubious distinction and therefore deserves top honors.
Being the most hated doesn't make them the most feared. You're correct that MS is the biggest threat to Open Source. That isn't a reason to hate them, but to be wary of them. Granted, they have used some despicable tactics in the past and are masters of FUD, but nothing they've ever done rises to the level of what SCO has been attempting.
I think the assessment of SCO being the most hated is true. Your milage may vary.
Yes I have, and if you read my post I said some people prefer "Linux on Intel". I don't see why you'd want to spend top dollar on Apple hardware only to run Linux on it. OS X is very nice.
Except for the fact that, believe it or not, some people *prefer* a Wintel or Linux on Intel solution over an Apple solution. You're comparing apples to oranges really.
I agree with the other comment made here, just because YOU aren't the target market doesn't mean there isn't one.
Actaully all we have to do is raise the standard of living for them, and the best way to do that is to give them freedom and liberty. Every society that enjoys what we consider 'modern' standards of living has an ever declining birthrate.
As for shipping people to Mars just because of overpopulation, the sheer cost would be staggering. Not a very practical way to deal with overcrowding, especially considering that we have entire oceans that have yet to be explored and exploited for food and living space.
No, it will probably be the opposite. As Linux grows in popularity, you'll see more and more vendors shipping proprietary drivers for their products. That's not a bad thing unless OSS is your religion.
Well that was pompus. I wasn't referring to knowing what in tune is, I was referring to the act of tuning a guitar. Yes, to an extent having a good ear is an innate talent, but one still has to learn how to do the various tunings when learning how to play guitar.
Do you actually play guitar? If so then I'm surprised at your comment.
This is really cool. However, maybe I'm showing my age here in that I'm not sure I really like the idea. I've been playing for 25 years (since I was 12) and IMHO a huge part of learning to play is developing a good ear and being able to tune your instrument by hand. I never cared for electronic tuners for the same reason.
That being said, since I *can* tune by ear, I probably wouldn't mind the convenience of being able to 'dial in' whatever tuning I want.
Let's just make sure that newbs learn things right before you let them have one of these;-)
You can believe what you want, but I'd be willing to wager that I've interviewed and hired far more people than you have. It has nothing to do with being a 'do gooder'. Honesty is a quality that I look for when hiring.
If you'd read my other posts in this thread, you'd also have seen that I *have* recently been on both sides of the table. I've also been quite successful on each side.
I hear ya. I've been laid off twice in the past three years, and got a job within a couple of months each time. It's a tough market in IT these days, as you all know.
Trust me, the only managers worth working for are the ones who appreciate honesty and can smell BS.
Well, I've been hired for every job I've ever interviewed for, so you are wrong. When asked my weakness, I answer honestly. Overconfidence. I've been successful at every project I've ever worked on or managed, and that tends to make me a bit cocky at times.
You sound like someone who has been turned down one to many times and is bitter about it. Maybe you should rethink your approach.
Well I can tell you that if I hired you and then found out you'd exaggerated your skills, you wouldn't last more than a month. In the long run it pays to be honest.
Certainly you should present yourself in the best light possible, but that doesn't mean you exaggerate or lie.
Sorry, but you don't get a cookie. Your job in an inteview is not to make the other side believe you are more valuble than you yourself beielve you are. It is to present yourself as best you can while being as honest as you can.
As a hiring manager who has interviewed hundreds of candidates over the years, I can tell you that if I detect the slightest wiff of BS, it's game over.
Be honest, be yourself, be professional and stress your strengthes while being honest about your weaknesses if asked. Honesty will get you the job long before 'marketing' will.
I agree that Freenet is a great application and has strong implications for privacy, especially for people who don't enjoy any sort of free speech otherwise. However, do you care to point out why we 'all desperately need it to' succeed? Wanting and needing are two different things.
First of all, the Government should have little to no say over where jobs go; that's what free markets are all about. Second, the middle class is not shrinking. You throw that red herring out without any citations.
The only thing that caused poverty to grow over the last few decades was the welfare system. You get what you pay for. When you pay people to not work, you get more of it.
I grew up in a very poor village. My father made $10 per month as a schoolteacher. One bicycle was our only family transport. I went to college as a scholarship student. I did well in my exams, so the government paid for my education. Now I own two houses, and the workers I hired to build both of them had no other work, so that helped bring money into my village. My father and mother live in a house I built, too. I rent out one of the houses I own now and live in the other one. The money I earn spreads through the economy. Fathers work at better jobs because of my spending and can keep their children in school instead of having them go out to work early
And that is exactly how supply side ('trickle down') economics worked. It worked in the 80's and it's starting to work now, too.
It is good to see that some good is coming out of off shore outsourcing, at least.
Of course, this will get modded down because libertarian or conservative views get an automatic -1 (Not Liberal) here most of the time;)
Please show where I said that. I most certainly did NOT. In fact, the very first paragraph I wrote agreed that we should NOT provide free labor/programming services for MS:
we shouldn't give MS free labor/programming services.
Please read and understand what you reply to. You obviously just gave my post a cursory glance.
It sounds like we agree more than disagree. I too am old enough to remember when MS was an underdog. I was an OS/2 fanatic when it finally became apparant that IBM was going to go nowhere in the end with it and Windows was gaining marketshare in leaps and bounds.
Now I look at OSes and software as tools. I use Windows, Solaris, various Linux flavors, and anything else that does the task at hand well. Yes, I do still have an OS/2 machine running for old time's sake.
I agree that MS is the 800 lbs gorilla. I prefer to attack their business practices though, not wish that their code would stay buggy;)
I would not be the least bit surprised if MS was actually behind the leak, but I doubt it. The answer to your question though is yes. Microsoft and companies like SCO will do anything to degrade the OSS movement.
As for survival of the fittest, if Windows improves then the pressure will be on OSS developers to raise the bar even further. Competition is good!
I'm glad this didn't turn into a flame war. It's nice to find someone who can engage in a civil discussion/debate around here.
You're absolutely right that it should be ignored, but for the wrong reasons other than the fact that we shouldn't give MS free labor/programming services.
Why don't you want to see MS software improve? My guess is that you think of your OS choice as a religion or a political statement, which makes you just as bad as pro-MS zealots.
If MS code gets stronger and less buggy, everyone benefits. Remember how many worms have caused major Internet congestion problems? How many spammers now use trojan's/worms to create relays for themselves? I don't think I'm the only advocate of Open Source who thinks that it would be a good thing to see more quality come from Microsoft.
I'm not fan of MS, but I am a fan of quality software. If MS can improve the stability and security of their products then it's a Good Thing(tm) for everyone, even those who don't use said products.
The real reason to ignore the code is so that MS can't try to pull a SCO and claim that OSS projects are steaing their code.
How is it FUD? I pointed out that neither the Athlon 64 NOR Itanium is a FULL 64 bit implementation. Internally yes. ISA wise, yes. Address bus wise, no.
Stop the knee jerk reactions. You sound like a zealot:)
It really isn't a FULL 64 bit implementation. In it's current incarnation it supports 40 bit physical and 48 bit virtual address spaces, as I recall. Even the Itanium has only a 44 bit address bus.
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For Gentoo it does, since everything is compiled during install. I'd expect AMD's to do better here since they generally exectue integer code faster.
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How is this insightful? Javascript is there for a reason. Just because it is sometimes abused and *you* choose to not use it, doesn't mean it has no valid place. I like the other responder's sarcasm about lynx not working. If you choose to disable javascript, you choose to not view some websites. Your choice.
I know that you're joking and it is rather funny, but I just had to point out that I have a 340 Meg microdrive that I've had for over 3 years, and it's survived not only heavy usage but it's been dropped numerous times.
;)
Microdrives were one aspect of hard drive technology that IBM got right
Ok, let's not get carried away here. SCO's antics, while reprehensible and immoral, are nowhere near as threatening to the future of open source as Microsoft's. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not getting bombarded on a daily basis from worm-infected SCO machines. Microsoft has that dubious distinction and therefore deserves top honors.
Being the most hated doesn't make them the most feared. You're correct that MS is the biggest threat to Open Source. That isn't a reason to hate them, but to be wary of them. Granted, they have used some despicable tactics in the past and are masters of FUD, but nothing they've ever done rises to the level of what SCO has been attempting.
I think the assessment of SCO being the most hated is true. Your milage may vary.
Yes I have, and if you read my post I said some people prefer "Linux on Intel". I don't see why you'd want to spend top dollar on Apple hardware only to run Linux on it. OS X is very nice.
Except for the fact that, believe it or not, some people *prefer* a Wintel or Linux on Intel solution over an Apple solution. You're comparing apples to oranges really.
I agree with the other comment made here, just because YOU aren't the target market doesn't mean there isn't one.
No, because it doesn't require any specific family planning. It just happens.
Actaully all we have to do is raise the standard of living for them, and the best way to do that is to give them freedom and liberty. Every society that enjoys what we consider 'modern' standards of living has an ever declining birthrate.
As for shipping people to Mars just because of overpopulation, the sheer cost would be staggering. Not a very practical way to deal with overcrowding, especially considering that we have entire oceans that have yet to be explored and exploited for food and living space.
No, it will probably be the opposite. As Linux grows in popularity, you'll see more and more vendors shipping proprietary drivers for their products. That's not a bad thing unless OSS is your religion.
Well that was pompus. I wasn't referring to knowing what in tune is, I was referring to the act of tuning a guitar. Yes, to an extent having a good ear is an innate talent, but one still has to learn how to do the various tunings when learning how to play guitar.
Do you actually play guitar? If so then I'm surprised at your comment.
This is really cool. However, maybe I'm showing my age here in that I'm not sure I really like the idea. I've been playing for 25 years (since I was 12) and IMHO a huge part of learning to play is developing a good ear and being able to tune your instrument by hand. I never cared for electronic tuners for the same reason.
;-)
That being said, since I *can* tune by ear, I probably wouldn't mind the convenience of being able to 'dial in' whatever tuning I want.
Let's just make sure that newbs learn things right before you let them have one of these
You can believe what you want, but I'd be willing to wager that I've interviewed and hired far more people than you have. It has nothing to do with being a 'do gooder'. Honesty is a quality that I look for when hiring.
If you'd read my other posts in this thread, you'd also have seen that I *have* recently been on both sides of the table. I've also been quite successful on each side.
I hear ya. I've been laid off twice in the past three years, and got a job within a couple of months each time. It's a tough market in IT these days, as you all know.
Trust me, the only managers worth working for are the ones who appreciate honesty and can smell BS.
Well, I've been hired for every job I've ever interviewed for, so you are wrong. When asked my weakness, I answer honestly. Overconfidence. I've been successful at every project I've ever worked on or managed, and that tends to make me a bit cocky at times.
You sound like someone who has been turned down one to many times and is bitter about it. Maybe you should rethink your approach.
Well I can tell you that if I hired you and then found out you'd exaggerated your skills, you wouldn't last more than a month. In the long run it pays to be honest.
Certainly you should present yourself in the best light possible, but that doesn't mean you exaggerate or lie.
Sorry, but you don't get a cookie. Your job in an inteview is not to make the other side believe you are more valuble than you yourself beielve you are. It is to present yourself as best you can while being as honest as you can.
As a hiring manager who has interviewed hundreds of candidates over the years, I can tell you that if I detect the slightest wiff of BS, it's game over.
Be honest, be yourself, be professional and stress your strengthes while being honest about your weaknesses if asked. Honesty will get you the job long before 'marketing' will.
I agree that Freenet is a great application and has strong implications for privacy, especially for people who don't enjoy any sort of free speech otherwise. However, do you care to point out why we 'all desperately need it to' succeed? Wanting and needing are two different things.
First of all, the Government should have little to no say over where jobs go; that's what free markets are all about. Second, the middle class is not shrinking. You throw that red herring out without any citations.
The only thing that caused poverty to grow over the last few decades was the welfare system. You get what you pay for. When you pay people to not work, you get more of it.
And that is exactly how supply side ('trickle down') economics worked. It worked in the 80's and it's starting to work now, too.
It is good to see that some good is coming out of off shore outsourcing, at least.
Of course, this will get modded down because libertarian or conservative views get an automatic -1 (Not Liberal) here most of the time
At the same risk, yes it is good. Unfortunately it is becoming less and less common.
Please read and understand what you reply to. You obviously just gave my post a cursory glance.
It sounds like we agree more than disagree. I too am old enough to remember when MS was an underdog. I was an OS/2 fanatic when it finally became apparant that IBM was going to go nowhere in the end with it and Windows was gaining marketshare in leaps and bounds.
;)
Now I look at OSes and software as tools. I use Windows, Solaris, various Linux flavors, and anything else that does the task at hand well. Yes, I do still have an OS/2 machine running for old time's sake.
I agree that MS is the 800 lbs gorilla. I prefer to attack their business practices though, not wish that their code would stay buggy
I would not be the least bit surprised if MS was actually behind the leak, but I doubt it. The answer to your question though is yes. Microsoft and companies like SCO will do anything to degrade the OSS movement.
As for survival of the fittest, if Windows improves then the pressure will be on OSS developers to raise the bar even further. Competition is good!
I'm glad this didn't turn into a flame war. It's nice to find someone who can engage in a civil discussion/debate around here.
You're absolutely right that it should be ignored, but for the wrong reasons other than the fact that we shouldn't give MS free labor/programming services.
Why don't you want to see MS software improve? My guess is that you think of your OS choice as a religion or a political statement, which makes you just as bad as pro-MS zealots.
If MS code gets stronger and less buggy, everyone benefits. Remember how many worms have caused major Internet congestion problems? How many spammers now use trojan's/worms to create relays for themselves? I don't think I'm the only advocate of Open Source who thinks that it would be a good thing to see more quality come from Microsoft.
I'm not fan of MS, but I am a fan of quality software. If MS can improve the stability and security of their products then it's a Good Thing(tm) for everyone, even those who don't use said products.
The real reason to ignore the code is so that MS can't try to pull a SCO and claim that OSS projects are steaing their code.
How is it FUD? I pointed out that neither the Athlon 64 NOR Itanium is a FULL 64 bit implementation. Internally yes. ISA wise, yes. Address bus wise, no.
:)
Stop the knee jerk reactions. You sound like a zealot
It really isn't a FULL 64 bit implementation. In it's current incarnation it supports 40 bit physical and 48 bit virtual address spaces, as I recall. Even the Itanium has only a 44 bit address bus.
For Gentoo it does, since everything is compiled during install. I'd expect AMD's to do better here since they generally exectue integer code faster.