How? By interviewing developers and giving them space on the Fedora Project? Get real, who else is giving developers the opportunity to introduce early stages of their projects through recognised and widely accepted distro?
I never thought I'll see a day when MS retail software ends up in a junk bin placed at the entrance of The Warehouse - New Zealand equivalent of Walmart. That's exactly what I saw yesterday, Vista Home Basic boxes in the bin with really awful VHS and DVD movies priced $5. There were few broken ceramic figurines in the bin, too. Vista price was still ~$150 (US) but it finally ended where its place is.
That site is redundant in many ways - all Ubuntu users need to do is check the Fedora features list for upcoming releases. Good stuff is developed there and Ubuntu later takes credit for including it, once Fedora developers iron out most of the bugs.
Granted, blame for undue credit is for a large part on Fedora community itself. We are yet to find a better way to announce/market ourselves. Some progress has recently been made but I'm not holding my breath. Not just yet.
If you thought this is funny, you are wrong. If you thought this was troll, you are wrong. If you thought this was a flamebait, you are wrong. If you thought this was insightful, you are right. The chances of getting all of those modes are big.
Speaking as a former IT Manager who left the job to start own business.
People won't accept good enough healthcare, they want the absolute best, and even then if that doesn't work they'll sue because somebody is to blame.
Good enough for free + little bit of education would go a long way.
NASA, building super colliders, school lunch subsidies
All these and many others are fundamentally different from military (in the sense of unnecessary wars) spending. Fighting the present war blew the military budget out of all proportions. That trillion (or whatever the amount was) on top of normal spending is what I had in mind.
OK. However, it is really tragic that in the 21st century the wealthiest countries (apart from few examples) don't provide highest quality healthcare for all their people. There is just no way that anybody can convince me that money spent on military in USA cannot be spent for more useful purposes.
You see, that bad generalisation (employee is young and inexperienced, thus X years is a requirement to gain any respect) is always made by clueless employers. Actual fact is, in technical areas such as IT/IS, someone's worthiness is discoverable quickly if you want to discover it and not hide behind company's policies, upper level management guidelines, shareholder's mandates or the lack of understanding of a technical job/environment.
This is why I always argued that PHB isn't just a stereotype. The only way technical employees will have a fair treatment in a workplace is to have a manager with a technical background. This also prevents young bullshitters from bullshitting and making unsubstantiated noise. Technically competent manager is able to set them straight.
That very well might be but the worst are stupid managers who don't see farther of their noses.
I agree with you - every new generation has it easier, apparently for all the wrong reasons. However, there is a huge amount of bright young people who have every right to ask more of their employers. More money, better conditions, not to be treated as children just because they only started working in last year or so. It takes forever for a young person to advance, even if he/she is more productive and better educated.
I've seen my share of this over the 25 years of my salaried working life.
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This is on Fedora 9 computer:
yum info empathy
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
Name : empathy
Arch : i386
Version : 0.22.1
Release : 1.fc9
Size : 500 k
Repo : fedora
Summary : GNOME Instant Messaging Client
URL : http://live.gnome.org/Empathy
License : GPLv2+
Description: Empathy provides a powerful multiple protocol instant messaging
: client using the Telepathy framework.
If shitty IE is the only reason, then why for instance Opera did not catch-up and replaced both, as you and some others imply, crap browsers?
In fact, RHEL + rpmforge (or Dag rpms) kicks ass of any other desktop Linux distribution.
I'd bet that the number of companies that switched to Linux after the persuasion of Ubuntu user is == 0.
Also, can you name a piece of software that went Ubuntu --> Red Hat way?
Nope, Novell shunned themselves.
If that was the case, he would've never said anything positive about the deal. Let alone OOXML.
How? By interviewing developers and giving them space on the Fedora Project? Get real, who else is giving developers the opportunity to introduce early stages of their projects through recognised and widely accepted distro?
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008030204 nightly build scores 65/100 here
I never thought I'll see a day when MS retail software ends up in a junk bin placed at the entrance of The Warehouse - New Zealand equivalent of Walmart. That's exactly what I saw yesterday, Vista Home Basic boxes in the bin with really awful VHS and DVD movies priced $5. There were few broken ceramic figurines in the bin, too. Vista price was still ~$150 (US) but it finally ended where its place is.
FYI, this wasn't a troll, nor that was the intention. It's a fact, like it or not.
That site is redundant in many ways - all Ubuntu users need to do is check the Fedora features list for upcoming releases. Good stuff is developed there and Ubuntu later takes credit for including it, once Fedora developers iron out most of the bugs.
Granted, blame for undue credit is for a large part on Fedora community itself. We are yet to find a better way to announce/market ourselves. Some progress has recently been made but I'm not holding my breath. Not just yet.
Please, do give your company name. I so don't want to work for that company. Ever.
Kids, this is flamewar pushed to the academic level!
If you thought this is funny, you are wrong. If you thought this was troll, you are wrong. If you thought this was a flamebait, you are wrong. If you thought this was insightful, you are right. The chances of getting all of those modes are big.
Speaking as a former IT Manager who left the job to start own business.
OK. However, it is really tragic that in the 21st century the wealthiest countries (apart from few examples) don't provide highest quality healthcare for all their people. There is just no way that anybody can convince me that money spent on military in USA cannot be spent for more useful purposes.
What gives you an impression that a lot of geeks use Ubuntu? It's maybe OK for new users but it's atrocious as a sysadmin/power user distribution.
So, you are moded troll by default?
through snow
"Doesn't cost you anything to try. If you don't like it or it doesn't do the job, reinstall MS stuff".
P.S. Do not call me anymore if it's about problems with the Office.
You see, that bad generalisation (employee is young and inexperienced, thus X years is a requirement to gain any respect) is always made by clueless employers. Actual fact is, in technical areas such as IT/IS, someone's worthiness is discoverable quickly if you want to discover it and not hide behind company's policies, upper level management guidelines, shareholder's mandates or the lack of understanding of a technical job/environment.
This is why I always argued that PHB isn't just a stereotype. The only way technical employees will have a fair treatment in a workplace is to have a manager with a technical background. This also prevents young bullshitters from bullshitting and making unsubstantiated noise. Technically competent manager is able to set them straight.
That very well might be but the worst are stupid managers who don't see farther of their noses.
I agree with you - every new generation has it easier, apparently for all the wrong reasons. However, there is a huge amount of bright young people who have every right to ask more of their employers. More money, better conditions, not to be treated as children just because they only started working in last year or so. It takes forever for a young person to advance, even if he/she is more productive and better educated.
I've seen my share of this over the 25 years of my salaried working life.
He said "actors".
I don't get it.
You do, you are just a bit confused. You correctly figured that you can't get it.
Not "I" - should read "It"
Not "doxnloadable" - should read "downloadable"
Time to wash the keyboard