The latter. He clearly is against it, or not. He sounds just like the common brazilian "educated middle class" he refers at the beginning, ignoring real politics and economics and focusing on his navel gazing views.
* And when I say "He", you know, could be a "She". Doesn't matter.
I think Amazon is being very clever with the Kindle Fire. It is a new device with tons of content readily available (more than iTunes, I believe), it is cheap and, most importantly, it is not a direct competitor to the iPad.
People who want (or don't mind) a 7" device will get the Kindle Fire. People who need a larger screen will go for the other tablets (mostly the iPad, these days).
I think the Kindle Fire will sell pretty well. And Apple will have someone else other than Samsung to get worried about.
You'll understand, eventually, that some kids are not "bad behaved" per se, but simply enjoy being against their parents all the time. It's a common behaviour, and if your kids are not like that, you are lucky. That is not to say that what you posted is wrong - it is absolutely right, but, for some children, it doesn't work.
I'm the parent of two - one behaves like your kids, the other like I described. Same parents, same raising. Different caracter. It happens, and you learn how to deal with it.
"His main proposal is to reduce taxes, which may be the best thing a politician can do"...
And you believe him because... what exactly?
His party, his fellows and everyone surrounding him are the main cause we have so many taxes in Brazil. Do you seriously believe they "regret" doing that? Why do you believe that?
And, about corruption: there are several, and I mean lots of corruption going on Alckmin's party. Why do you choose to criticize Lula for corruption and not Alckmin? If you choose to close your eyes to all the scandals that happened during FHC's mandate, why not turn a blind eye to Lula's mandate?
This is the main problem of Brazil. You chose Alckmin out of your political preference (which I respect), and try to justify it criticizing Lula. We could spend a whole day exposing cases and scandals, and you still would choose Alckmin over Lula, no matter what was said about them. If Alckmin gets elected, you still would close your eyes to any scandals you could hear about him - while criticizing leftists and Lula.
Try spending sometime researching and trying to understand the *good* things that were done in both mandates (Lula and FHC). Decide upon good things, not on what you consider wrong.
Exactly. Also, there is a tendency in poor countries indicating that importing software will be a major weight on the commercial balance. One study made in Brazil (sorry, dont have a link) pointed that by 2008 the country would be expending more importing software than importing oil, and suggested using free software.
So, basically, the BSA is saying "send more money to us and you will be better". Great. Perfect logic.
It's a nice thought, but it's not possible to look at software development as a physical manufacturing process.
Indeed, I agree with you. It's been said that software development is not a mass manufacturing process, but a new product development process. Also, to clear what I think is a bad generalization, I agree there is no perfect engineering method. So, instead of looking for a perfect process, I'm used to look at best practices, and to avoid common mistakes. That, in my experience, can evolve to a method for team development, that depends on the project and on the team.
No development process can be perfect, simply because, as you state, art is involved.
These lists always embed marketing: when I first read it (in the june or july magazine) I laughed at item 56: Olympus C-8080 - they reviewed it in April 2004, and somehow it managed to end up in the 2005 list. There are superior cameras now in its class now.
Why bother with these "top 100 lists" in these magazines anyway?
The government initiative should also be an incentive to private sectors to move out from non-free foreign software.
I read somewhere (don't remember where, don't have a link now, sorry) that it was expected that by 2008, Brazil (including public and private sectors) would be expending more money importing software than importing oil.
So, economically, it's a sane, smart move, if it's going to keep the money in Brazil.
I won't be offended because you called a liar or just a dumb person, simply because you already elected your hero. Your blindness is showing, and, again I feel sorry for you.
I used to read the foruns on Olavo's site, and 90% of what was there was simply anti-PT stuff, nothing else. His opinions are valid only if you are looking for someone to blame, not if you are looking for solutions to the problems of Brazil.
The right already had its government, it went from 1964 to 1984. Remember that?
It shows. You buy his idiotic ideas and repeat them. I feel sorry for you.
Do you really think rich people don't care about the taxes they pay? Yea right.
Oh they care, but it simply does not make any difference in their lives. Rich with higher or lower taxes are still rich.
About tax rates: I mentioned the numbers the IBGE published last month. I don't have a link for them, but I guess you can find them in IBGE's site. It's not the "opinion of specialists" like the link you provided.
Oh wait, you imply that Fernando Henrique Cardoso was a right-winger?
Oh, he was a moderate leftist? I can agree with that then. So, you are against everybody, not only Lula's administration.
I'm sorry, but you quoted Diego Casagrande and mentioned "thinker" Olavo de Carvalho.
Are you aware that Olavo de Carvalho actually said (I heard him saying, it's a first person account) that Lula will sell the Amazonia to the americans? That's right, he used the word "sell". He lives in the cold-war days, when communist "ate" children at breakfast. He's a clever polemicist, nothing else.
Also, Diego Casagrande is a well-known anti-PT journalist. He does nothing more than blame PT, and sometimes the "general" left too for everything wrong in the world. When something else goes wrong (like the current administration of Rigotto in Rio Grande do Sul, which is a plain disaster), he simply silences (or blames PT for that). Are you going to mention Ford next?
I respect the fact that you are a right-winger, but you contribute to the discussion as much as Olavo de Carvalho, or Diego Casagrande, or the "commie fucktards" in the World Social Forum, that you despise so much, which is nothing.
About basic services: we live in a poor country. If you live in the dream world where the "market" decides everything and everyone gets richer, I suggest you look around yourself: Brazil has lots of poor people, much more than acceptable. If the government doesn't supply basic services like education, health care and others you mentioned, what should we do with these people? How would they pay for their education? Do you expect these people to rise up from poverty with only the strength of their will? That may happen sometimes, but it's the exception. Do not pretend these people do not exist, because the huge chasm that exists between the poor and the rich is *the main problem* in Brazil.
This country has many problems. Windows is the least important of them. Our problem is one of ideas.
You mean, you have problems with people who don't think like you?
All of the media (with Veja magazine as the sole exception)...
Veja is a nice example of anti-government press at its best. You want Rush Limbaugh like opinions? Read Diogo Mainardi (for those not in Brazil, he's a opinion columnist who capitalizes in anti-left articles for this weekly magazine).
Our taxes are insanely high, but no one has the balls to suggest a radical tax cut
A radical tax cut for whom? People who don't care how much they spend on taxes? Or for the low-middle class? Are you aware that cutting taxes on the poor is always met with criticism, simply because it's labeled as populism, demagoguery? How is the government supposed to pay for the basic services it has to provide (and that you request vehemently and rightly) and also the payment of the country's interest debts, if the "correct" agenda is to cut taxes?
Also, are you aware that, according to IBGE, the tax load the country payed last year has decreased, mainly due to economic growth? I bet you didn't read it in Veja. That was on some "soviet nostalgic" piece, right?
World Social Forum? A disgusting bunch of hemp-smoking teenage commie fucktards.They can't bring any solution, because the shit they have in their heads is the cause of these problems.
It's interesting: we have a leftist president for two years now, and the left is already the "cause of these problems". Gee, it's like Brazil was rich as Switzerland two years ago, and some "commie fucktard" came and ruined everything you had. Not only you "forget" everything good happening right now, just for the sake of your argument, but also you need to shut up opinions different from yours, because "our problems is one of ideas". It's so nice to see prejudice exposed like this.
I don't know why I answered this, because you are obviously a teenage troll, but... well, today I have some spare time so there you have it.
That has just summed up what I think about episodes 1 and 2.
We were kids when we watched the original Star Wars episodes. We didn't expect much of a movie, and the bad animations and bad acting were not problems then. In ep. 1, we have great CG graphics and all the bad acting, but now it seems to bother us. Guess what, we're grown ups now.
I, too watched Episode 1 with my 2 nephews (5 and 6 yo at the time), and they thought it was awesome too.
People just seem to take bashing at Lucas as a sport. He did episodes 4-6 for money too, didn't he?
1) You started to save at 25. (Most people don't)
2) You expect to live until 85.
3) You want to retire at 55
You implied one item in your assumptions, and that was 4) from 25 to 55 your income, lifestyle and job are immutable
That's a common mistake people do, actually. But if you're planning your retirement that way, I suggest you should review your concepts. Another thing you forgot is that by the time you are 55, you don't need (usually, of course):
1) Support kids (school, college)
2) Buy a new house because your old one is small - the family is usually shrinking, not expanding
Life is different at 55, with new goals and different needs.
I have one in my room and it works ok, but I don't stretch it too much: I use it for my main desktop and a notebook I share with my wife, and it reaches the whole apartment (not that big). Never had any problems with it.
Seems you bit the article pretty bad. You "took the myths" by being one:-). Lets see:
1. This is what he wrote about: if you complain about a bad decision, even if it is contructive, you get shrugeg off. It's happen to me, actually. I posted on bugzilla, explained to the author, even went out to tell where in the code architecture the bug might be, and the author said "Go do it yourself if you're so smart". This differs from case to case, but it happens.
2. You're right, OSS allows you to change do whatever you want in the code but his point is, who does that, besides the code developers? For a small project that could be feasible, but to big projects, it's near impossible. You'd waste too much time, and so it's *better and faster* to ask the developers to fix it.
3. And you answered with another classic misunderstanding: most people see free as in gratis, not as in freedom. Ideology doesn't come in it. You may advocate freedom, but what most people see is *zero cost*.
4. You must be new in slashdot;-). Really, you're right again. None sane would say that, but OS zealots *do*. As Microsoft fanboys say Windows is the best thing *evar*. Extremists exists everywhere!
5. The myth is right there: why do we have so many unfinished OS projects? because they are born to "scratch", and as soon as the "itching" is gone, they are dumped. On the other side of the coin, there are projects born like that that turn out to be great. The Linux kernel is a fine example. But that doesn't change the fact that projects are born, solve a personal problem and then are ditched, so it wouldn't be wise to depend on these projects.
6. Again, you're right, but missing his point: he's criticizing the fact that if you install *any* linux distribution now, you get a bloated system, with lots of packages installed that you will never need. I can't think of a reason of why this would be good. Again, he's not criticizing the fact that in OSS you have choices: he's criticizing the fact that the OSS doesn't focus on a better default choice for the average user.
7. Conclusion: trolling the troll.... But really, he's just debunking some of the things the OSS zealots preach as undeniable truths, but that in the real world are just myths.
You know, I consider myself a serious amateur, and recently spent some time studying the options in the market. If you read the articles and reviews on digital photography sites, you will be tempted (as I was) to buy a DSLR. But then I thought to myself: I have a 5 year-old (or so) Canon 3000N that came with an excellent 28-80 Lens (I guess), and I never bothered to buy additional lenses. Why? Mainly because of the hassle that is carrying them. Before that I used a vintage Minolta SRT-101 and, believe me, carrying 3 lenses around to take pictures (on vacations, for example) is not pleasant.
So I decided on a Nikon 8700, which is not DSLR, but has great capabilities, is light (500g) and has lots of cool features I use, besides having a great macro performance, which is essential to me.
No, I don't bothered with the 8 Megapixels too. I seriously considered buying the Nikon 5700 (which is a 5MP camera), but it is now somewhat outdated.
So, I recommend buying a DSLR only if you have intentions of buying additional lenses. Otherwise, a 8MP prosumer is an excellent choice for the "serious amateur".
You should choose better your sources: this op-ed in the NYTimes has been internationally acknowledged as a bad piece of journalism. Did you know there where no sources for his accusations on Lula?
But, then again, people always choose what to believe. I won't be the one trying to open our eyes.
Exactly! I saw the episodes 4-6 again these days, and, by God, do they suck big time! Bad acting (Mark Hamill is a gem at bad acting) is there, poor story lines and crappy special effects (I know it was the best at the time, but today they just look crappy).
People complain about episodes 1 and 2 being bad, but my guess is that they just have fond childhood memories from the past movies and now see things very critically. Nothing George Lucas puts out will please this crowd.
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The latter. He clearly is against it, or not. He sounds just like the common brazilian "educated middle class" he refers at the beginning, ignoring real politics and economics and focusing on his navel gazing views.
* And when I say "He", you know, could be a "She". Doesn't matter.
I think Amazon is being very clever with the Kindle Fire. It is a new device with tons of content readily available (more than iTunes, I believe), it is cheap and, most importantly, it is not a direct competitor to the iPad.
People who want (or don't mind) a 7" device will get the Kindle Fire. People who need a larger screen will go for the other tablets (mostly the iPad, these days).
I think the Kindle Fire will sell pretty well. And Apple will have someone else other than Samsung to get worried about.
Yes, but that was when Apple was not a consumer electronics company. Most of Apple's profit is coming from the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
If they kept producing Macs only, they would be much smaller. Probably not dead, but surely smaller.
You'll understand, eventually, that some kids are not "bad behaved" per se, but simply enjoy being against their parents all the time. It's a common behaviour, and if your kids are not like that, you are lucky. That is not to say that what you posted is wrong - it is absolutely right, but, for some children, it doesn't work.
I'm the parent of two - one behaves like your kids, the other like I described. Same parents, same raising. Different caracter. It happens, and you learn how to deal with it.
"His main proposal is to reduce taxes, which may be the best thing a politician can do"...
And you believe him because... what exactly?
His party, his fellows and everyone surrounding him are the main cause we have so many taxes in Brazil. Do you seriously believe they "regret" doing that? Why do you believe that?
And, about corruption: there are several, and I mean lots of corruption going on Alckmin's party. Why do you choose to criticize Lula for corruption and not Alckmin? If you choose to close your eyes to all the scandals that happened during FHC's mandate, why not turn a blind eye to Lula's mandate?
This is the main problem of Brazil. You chose Alckmin out of your political preference (which I respect), and try to justify it criticizing Lula. We could spend a whole day exposing cases and scandals, and you still would choose Alckmin over Lula, no matter what was said about them. If Alckmin gets elected, you still would close your eyes to any scandals you could hear about him - while criticizing leftists and Lula.
Try spending sometime researching and trying to understand the *good* things that were done in both mandates (Lula and FHC). Decide upon good things, not on what you consider wrong.
Exactly. Also, there is a tendency in poor countries indicating that importing software will be a major weight on the commercial balance. One study made in Brazil (sorry, dont have a link) pointed that by 2008 the country would be expending more importing software than importing oil, and suggested using free software.
So, basically, the BSA is saying "send more money to us and you will be better". Great. Perfect logic.
It's a nice thought, but it's not possible to look at software development as a physical manufacturing process.
Indeed, I agree with you. It's been said that software development is not a mass manufacturing process, but a new product development process. Also, to clear what I think is a bad generalization, I agree there is no perfect engineering method. So, instead of looking for a perfect process, I'm used to look at best practices, and to avoid common mistakes. That, in my experience, can evolve to a method for team development, that depends on the project and on the team.
No development process can be perfect, simply because, as you state, art is involved.
These lists always embed marketing: when I first read it (in the june or july magazine) I laughed at item 56: Olympus C-8080 - they reviewed it in April 2004, and somehow it managed to end up in the 2005 list. There are superior cameras now in its class now.
Why bother with these "top 100 lists" in these magazines anyway?
The government initiative should also be an incentive to private sectors to move out from non-free foreign software.
I read somewhere (don't remember where, don't have a link now, sorry) that it was expected that by 2008, Brazil (including public and private sectors) would be expending more money importing software than importing oil.
So, economically, it's a sane, smart move, if it's going to keep the money in Brazil.
Be careful!
You will unleash a hoard of anti-Lula people criticizing your comment about "working brain".
No matter how good a government is, some people choose to be blind and refuse to acnowledge it.
And, yes, we have the hottest women in the world, thank you!
He went on saying it was "undemocratic" also, but in the sense of "it's a good idea and it was not mine" ;-).
"Good luck" in portuguese would be "Boa Sorte".
I won't be offended because you called a liar or just a dumb person, simply because you already elected your hero. Your blindness is showing, and, again I feel sorry for you.
I used to read the foruns on Olavo's site, and 90% of what was there was simply anti-PT stuff, nothing else. His opinions are valid only if you are looking for someone to blame, not if you are looking for solutions to the problems of Brazil.
The right already had its government, it went from 1964 to 1984. Remember that?
I already do. Every week.
It shows. You buy his idiotic ideas and repeat them. I feel sorry for you.
Do you really think rich people don't care about the taxes they pay? Yea right.
Oh they care, but it simply does not make any difference in their lives. Rich with higher or lower taxes are still rich.
About tax rates: I mentioned the numbers the IBGE published last month. I don't have a link for them, but I guess you can find them in IBGE's site. It's not the "opinion of specialists" like the link you provided.
Oh wait, you imply that Fernando Henrique Cardoso was a right-winger?
Oh, he was a moderate leftist? I can agree with that then. So, you are against everybody, not only Lula's administration.
I'm sorry, but you quoted Diego Casagrande and mentioned "thinker" Olavo de Carvalho.
Are you aware that Olavo de Carvalho actually said (I heard him saying, it's a first person account) that Lula will sell the Amazonia to the americans? That's right, he used the word "sell". He lives in the cold-war days, when communist "ate" children at breakfast. He's a clever polemicist, nothing else.
Also, Diego Casagrande is a well-known anti-PT journalist. He does nothing more than blame PT, and sometimes the "general" left too for everything wrong in the world. When something else goes wrong (like the current administration of Rigotto in Rio Grande do Sul, which is a plain disaster), he simply silences (or blames PT for that). Are you going to mention Ford next?
I respect the fact that you are a right-winger, but you contribute to the discussion as much as Olavo de Carvalho, or Diego Casagrande, or the "commie fucktards" in the World Social Forum, that you despise so much, which is nothing.
About basic services: we live in a poor country. If you live in the dream world where the "market" decides everything and everyone gets richer, I suggest you look around yourself: Brazil has lots of poor people, much more than acceptable. If the government doesn't supply basic services like education, health care and others you mentioned, what should we do with these people? How would they pay for their education? Do you expect these people to rise up from poverty with only the strength of their will? That may happen sometimes, but it's the exception. Do not pretend these people do not exist, because the huge chasm that exists between the poor and the rich is *the main problem* in Brazil.
This country has many problems. Windows is the least important of them. Our problem is one of ideas.
...
You mean, you have problems with people who don't think like you?
All of the media (with Veja magazine as the sole exception)
Veja is a nice example of anti-government press at its best. You want Rush Limbaugh like opinions? Read Diogo Mainardi (for those not in Brazil, he's a opinion columnist who capitalizes in anti-left articles for this weekly magazine).
Our taxes are insanely high, but no one has the balls to suggest a radical tax cut
A radical tax cut for whom? People who don't care how much they spend on taxes? Or for the low-middle class? Are you aware that cutting taxes on the poor is always met with criticism, simply because it's labeled as populism, demagoguery? How is the government supposed to pay for the basic services it has to provide (and that you request vehemently and rightly) and also the payment of the country's interest debts, if the "correct" agenda is to cut taxes?
Also, are you aware that, according to IBGE, the tax load the country payed last year has decreased, mainly due to economic growth? I bet you didn't read it in Veja. That was on some "soviet nostalgic" piece, right?
World Social Forum? A disgusting bunch of hemp-smoking teenage commie fucktards.They can't bring any solution, because the shit they have in their heads is the cause of these problems.
It's interesting: we have a leftist president for two years now, and the left is already the "cause of these problems". Gee, it's like Brazil was rich as Switzerland two years ago, and some "commie fucktard" came and ruined everything you had. Not only you "forget" everything good happening right now, just for the sake of your argument, but also you need to shut up opinions different from yours, because "our problems is one of ideas". It's so nice to see prejudice exposed like this.
I don't know why I answered this, because you are obviously a teenage troll, but... well, today I have some spare time so there you have it.
That has just summed up what I think about episodes 1 and 2.
We were kids when we watched the original Star Wars episodes. We didn't expect much of a movie, and the bad animations and bad acting were not problems then. In ep. 1, we have great CG graphics and all the bad acting, but now it seems to bother us. Guess what, we're grown ups now.
I, too watched Episode 1 with my 2 nephews (5 and 6 yo at the time), and they thought it was awesome too.
People just seem to take bashing at Lucas as a sport. He did episodes 4-6 for money too, didn't he?
1) You started to save at 25. (Most people don't)
2) You expect to live until 85.
3) You want to retire at 55
You implied one item in your assumptions, and that was 4) from 25 to 55 your income, lifestyle and job are immutable
That's a common mistake people do, actually. But if you're planning your retirement that way, I suggest you should review your concepts. Another thing you forgot is that by the time you are 55, you don't need (usually, of course):
1) Support kids (school, college)
2) Buy a new house because your old one is small - the family is usually shrinking, not expanding
Life is different at 55, with new goals and different needs.
I have one in my room and it works ok, but I don't stretch it too much: I use it for my main desktop and a notebook I share with my wife, and it reaches the whole apartment (not that big). Never had any problems with it.
Seems you bit the article pretty bad. You "took the myths" by being one :-). Lets see:
;-). Really, you're right again. None sane would say that, but OS zealots *do*. As Microsoft fanboys say Windows is the best thing *evar*. Extremists exists everywhere!
;-)
1. This is what he wrote about: if you complain about a bad decision, even if it is contructive, you get shrugeg off. It's happen to me, actually. I posted on bugzilla, explained to the author, even went out to tell where in the code architecture the bug might be, and the author said "Go do it yourself if you're so smart". This differs from case to case, but it happens.
2. You're right, OSS allows you to change do whatever you want in the code but his point is, who does that, besides the code developers? For a small project that could be feasible, but to big projects, it's near impossible. You'd waste too much time, and so it's *better and faster* to ask the developers to fix it.
3. And you answered with another classic misunderstanding: most people see free as in gratis, not as in freedom. Ideology doesn't come in it. You may advocate freedom, but what most people see is *zero cost*.
4. You must be new in slashdot
5. The myth is right there: why do we have so many unfinished OS projects? because they are born to "scratch", and as soon as the "itching" is gone, they are dumped. On the other side of the coin, there are projects born like that that turn out to be great. The Linux kernel is a fine example. But that doesn't change the fact that projects are born, solve a personal problem and then are ditched, so it wouldn't be wise to depend on these projects.
6. Again, you're right, but missing his point: he's criticizing the fact that if you install *any* linux distribution now, you get a bloated system, with lots of packages installed that you will never need. I can't think of a reason of why this would be good. Again, he's not criticizing the fact that in OSS you have choices: he's criticizing the fact that the OSS doesn't focus on a better default choice for the average user.
7. Conclusion: trolling the troll.... But really, he's just debunking some of the things the OSS zealots preach as undeniable truths, but that in the real world are just myths.
Peace
You know, I consider myself a serious amateur, and recently spent some time studying the options in the market. If you read the articles and reviews on digital photography sites, you will be tempted (as I was) to buy a DSLR. But then I thought to myself: I have a 5 year-old (or so) Canon 3000N that came with an excellent 28-80 Lens (I guess), and I never bothered to buy additional lenses. Why? Mainly because of the hassle that is carrying them. Before that I used a vintage Minolta SRT-101 and, believe me, carrying 3 lenses around to take pictures (on vacations, for example) is not pleasant.
So I decided on a Nikon 8700, which is not DSLR, but has great capabilities, is light (500g) and has lots of cool features I use, besides having a great macro performance, which is essential to me.
No, I don't bothered with the 8 Megapixels too. I seriously considered buying the Nikon 5700 (which is a 5MP camera), but it is now somewhat outdated.
So, I recommend buying a DSLR only if you have intentions of buying additional lenses. Otherwise, a 8MP prosumer is an excellent choice for the "serious amateur".
I had a Sony P-92 which had a 3:2 option, and my current Nikon Coolpix 8700 also has a 3:2 option.
You should choose better your sources: this op-ed in the NYTimes has been internationally acknowledged as a bad piece of journalism. Did you know there where no sources for his accusations on Lula?
But, then again, people always choose what to believe. I won't be the one trying to open our eyes.
Brasil may have it's problems*cough*Lula*cough* but I'd rather deal with them and their citizens than Mexico and Mexicans
Care to explain why Lula is a problem? I'm not a fanatics pro-Lula zealot, or whatever, but can you tell what's the problem with Lula?
Well, you could always write a GPL application to do that. Isn't that the spirit?
Or, putting in other words...
Ignorance is bliss.
Exactly! I saw the episodes 4-6 again these days, and, by God, do they suck big time! Bad acting (Mark Hamill is a gem at bad acting) is there, poor story lines and crappy special effects (I know it was the best at the time, but today they just look crappy).
People complain about episodes 1 and 2 being bad, but my guess is that they just have fond childhood memories from the past movies and now see things very critically. Nothing George Lucas puts out will please this crowd.