In my 24 years of experience in Texas, I have worked for exactly 1 Registered Professional Engineer...and he wouldn't sign off on anybody's work to let them become a P.E. Besides, being a PE in Texas means you know how to build a bridge...next to no computer electronics involved in the PE test unless they revised in from a couple of years ago.
Merely surpressing a few ads (and apparently not all ads) isn't worth the money. Seeing articles in the future? I'll just go over to Linux Today.
Now, if you were to provide a totally ad-free slashdot site without *any* ads (or the delay to show *ANY* ads) for a monthly fee (and no 'surpression' limits), then I'd consider it. Mirror the links you show so that I don't have to actually register with the NYTimes or other 'have to register' sites and I probably will subscrible. Until then.......
You guys fail to realize that municipalities control exactly what wire, where, and when flows over their easements. Most municipalities have already decided that only one cable company may run wires in the community, and only one telephone company can run wires. All others are screwed, the best the municipality will do is let others bid when the 99 year telephone services contract is up in the city before they renew the contract for that lucky one company to run the wires. So there is NO chance any other company can come along and run their own wires/cable. In this scenario, therefore, there is no way to have a choice because the municipality decided who the monopoly is for you.
If you really want competition and still preserve the 'you run your own cable, you're the only one who gets to use it' mentality, then get the federal government to superscede local municipalities authority to limit who can run wires, and make the easements available to all. Until then, linesharing is all there is to keep competition.
Maybe now an OSS equivalent (but doesn't have to be the same as) of.NET will be developed instead of riding on MS' twisted coattails. As much as I dislike patents, perhaps this would be a good thing by getting an original and open standards version of something like.net without having to be or have the harmful effects of.net.
"Heck, RedHat is having a hard time, too, but they are at least treading water."
There is one thing you've got to remember about Red Hat, and that is they are not totally in the Linux Distro/Linux Services Division. They also sell support service for eCos and their own Embedded OS (based on Linux), as well as the support, etc. for the Cygwin Tools (by virtue of buying Cygnus).
"Unfortunately the latest LOTR DVD has very important uncut scenes not shown in the theater. The fight scenes were twice as long.
Even more important and uncut scenes can be seen by reading the books. In fact, if you read the books, you won't have to watch the movie and/or DVD at all.
Seems to me it might be easier to not give your money away to the MPAA than you thought.
"Don't OSS trolls know how to evaluate simple cost/benefit ratios any more?"
Sure we can. We just realize that doing it right the first time is much cheaper then putting together something that barely works, isn't reliable, and having to update it over and over to where the total cost was much more than ever imagined. (Sounds like the upgrade treadmill doesn't it?).
All you have to do is quit buying any Recorded media period (It is perfectly legal to keep your money in your wallet). Don't download or copy or anything else to circumvent -- just Don't buy. I'll bet you that these same idiots doing the threatening from the RIAA/MPAA will be begging within 6 months for anybody to take their wares, and will probably be desperate to give it to the customers they way the customers want it.
Unfortunately, there are too many of you though who seem to think that you can't live without new music or new movies. Until you guys realize that you can live, at least for a while, without RIAA's music, or MPAA's movies, you will continue to get fleeced -- And it will be your fault!
People didn't buy it because it was a full, but not current, Windows version of Wordperfect running on a Windows Emulator under Linux....not a full native Linux application that it could have been.
I like and use Red Hat. I don't consider myself 'locked in' seeing that I can also take all of those programs that run on Red Hat, and run them on Debian (for example) with miniscule, if any, changes required. Try doing that with M$.
If Red Hat was to 'lock me in', I'd have to buy an upgraded program for every new distribution of Red Hat, or for every time I upgraded a Red Hat utility/library program with a non-Red Hat utility. And the program would never work on a Debian, Suse, etc. distribution.
I agree, this would be the perfect time to migrate them entirely to Linux, Destroy all of the Microsoft Disks and Documentation so that there is no trace of MS Products anywhere in the schools, then Sue Microsoft for Harrassment when the audit turns up no MS products at all.
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In my 24 years of experience in Texas, I have worked for exactly 1 Registered Professional Engineer...and he wouldn't sign off on anybody's work to let them become a P.E. Besides, being a PE in Texas means you know how to build a bridge...next to no computer electronics involved in the PE test unless they revised in from a couple of years ago.
Merely surpressing a few ads (and apparently not all ads) isn't worth the money. Seeing articles in the future? I'll just go over to Linux Today.
Now, if you were to provide a totally ad-free slashdot site without *any* ads (or the delay to show *ANY* ads) for a monthly fee (and no 'surpression' limits), then I'd consider it. Mirror the links you show so that I don't have to actually register with the NYTimes or other 'have to register' sites and I probably will subscrible. Until then.......
You guys fail to realize that municipalities control exactly what wire, where, and when flows over their easements. Most municipalities have already decided that only one cable company may run wires in the community, and only one telephone company can run wires. All others are screwed, the best the municipality will do is let others bid when the 99 year telephone services contract is up in the city before they renew the contract for that lucky one company to run the wires. So there is NO chance any other company can come along and run their own wires/cable. In this scenario, therefore, there is no way to have a choice because the municipality decided who the monopoly is for you.
If you really want competition and still preserve the 'you run your own cable, you're the only one who gets to use it' mentality, then get the federal government to superscede local municipalities authority to limit who can run wires, and make the easements available to all. Until then, linesharing is all there is to keep competition.
Maybe now an OSS equivalent (but doesn't have to be the same as) of .NET will be developed instead of riding on MS' twisted coattails. As much as I dislike patents, perhaps this would be a good thing by getting an original and open standards version of something like .net without having to be or have the harmful effects of .net.
All you have to do is quit buying any Recorded media period (It is perfectly legal to keep your money in your wallet). Don't download or copy or anything else to circumvent -- just Don't buy. I'll bet you that these same idiots doing the threatening from the RIAA/MPAA will be begging within 6 months for anybody to take their wares, and will probably be desperate to give it to the customers they way the customers want it.
Unfortunately, there are too many of you though who seem to think that you can't live without new music or new movies. Until you guys realize that you can live, at least for a while, without RIAA's music, or MPAA's movies, you will continue to get fleeced -- And it will be your fault!
People didn't buy it because it was a full, but not current, Windows version of Wordperfect running on a Windows Emulator under Linux....not a full native Linux application that it could have been.
I like and use Red Hat. I don't consider myself 'locked in' seeing that I can also take all of those programs that run on Red Hat, and run them on Debian (for example) with miniscule, if any, changes required. Try doing that with M$.
If Red Hat was to 'lock me in', I'd have to buy an upgraded program for every new distribution of Red Hat, or for every time I upgraded a Red Hat utility/library program with a non-Red Hat utility. And the program would never work on a Debian, Suse, etc. distribution.
I agree, this would be the perfect time to migrate them entirely to Linux, Destroy all of the Microsoft Disks and Documentation so that there is no trace of MS Products anywhere in the schools, then Sue Microsoft for Harrassment when the audit turns up no MS products at all.