While I can't speak for all of the EU I have spent a good deal of time in France in the last couple of years (which you include by saying "Try the EU..."
Yeah, explicit written right to privacy. I've really seen that in the Napolion code bullshit from your chickens (police). They pretty much have an open invitation to search and seizure without anything in the way of just cause.
Well, one difference would be that once you did find out something you don't like, you can always give up your citizenship and move elsewhere. In the software case, once you read the EULA and see something you don't like, you have no other option.
Vocational training in high school has always provided this type of opportunity. Right now we have IT certs like this one and the CISCO ones we have in my town (and they are grouped with the vocational classes). When I was in high school several of my friends leveraged their vocational training into 30K-40K jobs with various airlines as machinists. When my father was in high school, he leveraged his electronics vocational training into a good paying job (at the time) with the phone company (remember when all telcom was simply 'the phone company'?).
One big difference though is the lack of unions in IT. Even through crappy economic times and corporate changes my father and friends from high school have continued to do alright--not great, but alright.
My main problem would be needing it more than a single machine. It usually takes me 1-2 weeks to complete all of the items I need. I work from work and home. I've always like being able to install the software in both places (and move the data file between them). It would suck if I could only work at one place or the other.
One of my co-workers has developed the perfect use for these little things. They are the perfect size to fit a small mouse/rat cover over. Ease it onto the floor in boring meetings, food establishments, etc. Run it around until noticed:) Since they can be had for $10-$15 US they can be considered disposable.
First (since we want to make sure the details are correct), I didn't "talk about the government cancelling everything the government spends money on..."
I stand by the point of my post--we have too many people thinking their piece of the pie is meaningless in the big picture when in fact the big picture is big because of all those damn little pieces. Clean/shape up some, get rid of others. The parent post came across as a defeatist attitude.
Thats kind of like saying: "WalMart is a huge company, my taking [stealing] this tiny whatever is nothing to them." It all adds up--just need to find several more $40M projects to cancel...
But you missed the point of the original post. It isn't that you can't do 95% of those things in Linux (I actually do) it is that MOST people would not find doing it very easy. For those people (the majority of the market) Windows makes those things easy. Until we get Linux to the same point of ease Windows will continue to dominate the market.
Actually, I don't see this as a troll at all. I think it is a (mostly) well written and non-hostile statment which makes the point well. If it was actually posted by a logged in user (and I had mod points) I would mod it up. It is a fair, honest, and civil argument.
I think an issue here would be this: if the product has reached the end of it's life cycle and the company will no longer maintain it, it should be released into public domain for ongoing updates and support. If they company will not release it (they are still using large parts in newer versions) then the code should not be considered at the end of it's life cycle. Fix it or let others fix it.
This camera does come in handy with groups. I have been at several gatherings and it is nice to just be able to pass the floppies around to people as pictures are taken. Can't do that with a memory stick (I would have to email the pictures to them later).
Hmmmm....once everyone helps write the book, lets hope it doesn't suddenly become closed source (published and sold) like so many other things lately...
A reboot is "only slightly more convenient" than a system restore? Exactly what is your reboot procedure? Does it involve chants, incantations, burning of incense, animal sacrifice, etc? Kind of like saying repainting my car is only slightly more convenient than simply going through a carwash.:)
A company agrees to not press IP issues for a particular item. Further development is then carried out, in good faith, by outside groups for the item based on the original agreement. The original agreement is still in force when the company is purchased. I would view it that you not only purchased the company, but you purchased their debt as well (in this case the debt would be not pressing the IP issue).
Now, if no further outside development had been performed on the original item I would see a court allowing the new owner to change the original agreement. With the amount of outside work and the diversity of groups doing the work I don't think a court would allow a change to made (it's already too far out of the gate).
The benefit a third world country would get from something like this is not actually being able to purchase it. A system targeted for that kind of area with a cheap pricetag (cheap relative to western prices) would be purchased not by the enduser but different aid groups. Just as "cheap" medicine, food, etc. is delivered by aid groups now. No, poor people of the third world will not purchase this, but aid groups will--and then donate them. This is why you can't compare half a years salary there to half a years salary here (an aid group would not purchase systems at 40K).
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$950 a month for a family ... are you Catholic?
You are correct on the sack point--and you do give excellent sack ;)
If I had mod points they would belong to your post.
...attitude...
While I can't speak for all of the EU I have spent a good deal of time in France in the last couple of years (which you include by saying "Try the EU..."
Yeah, explicit written right to privacy. I've really seen that in the Napolion code bullshit from your chickens (police). They pretty much have an open invitation to search and seizure without anything in the way of just cause.
Well, one difference would be that once you did find out something you don't like, you can always give up your citizenship and move elsewhere. In the software case, once you read the EULA and see something you don't like, you have no other option.
Vocational training in high school has always provided this type of opportunity. Right now we have IT certs like this one and the CISCO ones we have in my town (and they are grouped with the vocational classes). When I was in high school several of my friends leveraged their vocational training into 30K-40K jobs with various airlines as machinists. When my father was in high school, he leveraged his electronics vocational training into a good paying job (at the time) with the phone company (remember when all telcom was simply 'the phone company'?).
One big difference though is the lack of unions in IT. Even through crappy economic times and corporate changes my father and friends from high school have continued to do alright--not great, but alright.
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No, but they have done a pretty damn good job of making it disappear into thin air ;)
My main problem would be needing it more than a single machine. It usually takes me 1-2 weeks to complete all of the items I need. I work from work and home. I've always like being able to install the software in both places (and move the data file between them). It would suck if I could only work at one place or the other.
One of my co-workers has developed the perfect use for these little things. They are the perfect size to fit a small mouse/rat cover over. Ease it onto the floor in boring meetings, food establishments, etc. Run it around until noticed :) Since they can be had for $10-$15 US they can be considered disposable.
When I need an objective opinion Slashdot is not exactly my first choice....hell just look at the first several pages of comments.
First (since we want to make sure the details are correct), I didn't "talk about the government cancelling everything the government spends money on..."
I stand by the point of my post--we have too many people thinking their piece of the pie is meaningless in the big picture when in fact the big picture is big because of all those damn little pieces. Clean/shape up some, get rid of others. The parent post came across as a defeatist attitude.
Thats kind of like saying: "WalMart is a huge company, my taking [stealing] this tiny whatever is nothing to them." It all adds up--just need to find several more $40M projects to cancel...
Hmmm...my friends WOULD have told me to go talk to a fucking doctor...guess I need better friends...
Let me guess...you sell just such a product :)
But you missed the point of the original post. It isn't that you can't do 95% of those things in Linux (I actually do) it is that MOST people would not find doing it very easy. For those people (the majority of the market) Windows makes those things easy. Until we get Linux to the same point of ease Windows will continue to dominate the market.
Actually, I don't see this as a troll at all. I think it is a (mostly) well written and non-hostile statment which makes the point well. If it was actually posted by a logged in user (and I had mod points) I would mod it up. It is a fair, honest, and civil argument.
I think an issue here would be this: if the product has reached the end of it's life cycle and the company will no longer maintain it, it should be released into public domain for ongoing updates and support. If they company will not release it (they are still using large parts in newer versions) then the code should not be considered at the end of it's life cycle. Fix it or let others fix it.
hey, even my Computer Science degree (BS) required 3 semesters of calculus....
of course it took me 5 semesters to get through...
This camera does come in handy with groups. I have been at several gatherings and it is nice to just be able to pass the floppies around to people as pictures are taken. Can't do that with a memory stick (I would have to email the pictures to them later).
Hmmmm....once everyone helps write the book, lets hope it doesn't suddenly become closed source (published and sold) like so many other things lately...
A reboot is "only slightly more convenient" than a system restore? Exactly what is your reboot procedure? Does it involve chants, incantations, burning of incense, animal sacrifice, etc? Kind of like saying repainting my car is only slightly more convenient than simply going through a carwash. :)
A company agrees to not press IP issues for a particular item. Further development is then carried out, in good faith, by outside groups for the item based on the original agreement. The original agreement is still in force when the company is purchased. I would view it that you not only purchased the company, but you purchased their debt as well (in this case the debt would be not pressing the IP issue).
Now, if no further outside development had been performed on the original item I would see a court allowing the new owner to change the original agreement. With the amount of outside work and the diversity of groups doing the work I don't think a court would allow a change to made (it's already too far out of the gate).
Just my 2c's
The benefit a third world country would get from something like this is not actually being able to purchase it. A system targeted for that kind of area with a cheap pricetag (cheap relative to western prices) would be purchased not by the enduser but different aid groups. Just as "cheap" medicine, food, etc. is delivered by aid groups now. No, poor people of the third world will not purchase this, but aid groups will--and then donate them. This is why you can't compare half a years salary there to half a years salary here (an aid group would not purchase systems at 40K).
I want to do it...
It certainly seems funny enough to laught at...
Wish I could see this as some silly situation seen in a movie...
But I can't...
It's just downright scary how common stupid acts have become in our legal system (the system that governs our society behavior)