16 bits? My word processor runs on highly compressed carbon encapsulated by cellulose. The number of bits and bytes depends on how tense I am at the time of using it.
Besides, he is taking this a bit out of context. Think of it as a large coporation IT department determining to stadardize its operations using OSS. It's a techincal choice as much as a political/economical one.
The way the parent poster expressed, it makes it feels as if Brazil is ordering its citizens to chose OSS. Not quite by a long shot
Some people want the security of having a company behind the hardware. Not everyone knows how to build a PC, and some of those may still have a desire to use a different OS, while still having the manufacturer's warranty.
Well, they do have the option. Just get an Apple...
Ha! I guess if nothing else, this is a field I AM an expert on. My name above is what it is for a reason. See... I still have the drive, I still work long hours all night long but I do it because this is what keeps me going. I have no problems working with young engineers. They are mostly enthusiastic and that is mutually contagious. I have a special disdain for the marketing types who come and go like flies over a pile of shit. Those who don't have a clue what we produce but are responsible for selling it, transforming all you do into "numbers Wall Street will like" (completely disregarding the merits or what the people who will ultimately buy it want).
My love for technology is an alternative to how I see the world. A world no different than any other point in time. People still kill people because of religion and greed. What's the difference between the Taliban and those radicals Christian coalition types? In other words, I see the world as mostly utterly fucked with very few exceptions. When we specialize in certain aspects of science, we focus our attention into a different world away from the ugly reality out there.
Linus is an ideological leader no matter how you look at it. Even if he doesn't think that way or want it, he has no choice. In a funny way it reminds me of "Life of Brian". I can see him waking up one morning and opening the windows naked to a crowd of crazed followers clamoring for his words.
The problem with this crowd or any other is that there will always be those who want to use it for their own agendas and end up tainting the whole thing in the process (see "Fucked up world with exceptions" above).
What is even funnier is that we, more than any other group on the planet, control every aspect of everyone's life. The power we have as a group is greater than anything else. Nonetheless, we have no cohesion or goals. Just happy little shits doing whatever they tell us... A hear a lot of complain about jobs going out to India for instance. A recent interview with Scott McNeally was quite open (and extremely insulting in the process) about it. But what do we, as a group do? Sit with our collective thumbs stuck up our collective asses.
It's the same principle as outlawing fax spam that uses up other people's ink and paper.
That does not prevent my fax machine to spit out page after page of crap unsolicited faxes. By the way, the only place my fax number used to be was at the whois record. Double whamy... No I have the FCC complaint fax number in there...
I agree with this concept of "perception". However, using this same logic would put Sun out if you take in consideration their current stock prices. If you look at their current state of affairs I would not bet the farm on them...
You are absolutely right. If it wasn't by telemarketers I would have lost my job a long time ago. See... after talking to my manager, all I can think of is dropping napalms on some children orphanage (is there another kind?). But then, at the end of the day, every single day, I receive my dose of unsolicited calls from you. That's when I exercise my anger management:
[telemarketer] Hi this is Jemima calling on behalf of SBC...
[me] I don't use SBC. How would you like my cock up your fucking ass right now?
[telemarketer] You don't need to be so rude
[me] You don't need to fucking call me every fucking minute of the day you fucking, cock sucking whore.
[click]
It works wonder and you feel much better...
Please keep calling me. My manager appreciates how calm I am under so much pressure.
Well... all you did was to prove his point wonderfully. He could not have done a better job himself in pointing out the current problems and why we need solutions and not some authority wannabe running the show. And yes... I too know what I am talking about. I was a HAM for over 25 years.
>> It'd be cool to see some patches come from Redmond...
Yeah. I can see that. The patches coming out of Microsoft would come in stages. Patch number 1 should be worn for two weeks, and then patch number 2 for another 3 weeks, and finally, if the symptoms of addictions were still present, wear patch number 3 for another 2 weeks. Once we've all gone through the patch process, we would finally be free of this awful habit of smok... I mean, using non Microsoft nicot... I mean, software.
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Oh... I'm sorry. I had not seen your Microsoft badge
Fuck you!
Microsoft is said to be making a huge shipment of rocks and gasoline filled bottles to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza strip.
16 bits? My word processor runs on highly compressed carbon encapsulated by cellulose. The number of bits and bytes depends on how tense I am at the time of using it.
The way the parent poster expressed, it makes it feels as if Brazil is ordering its citizens to chose OSS. Not quite by a long shot
Some people want the security of having a company behind the hardware. Not everyone knows how to build a PC, and some of those may still have a desire to use a different OS, while still having the manufacturer's warranty.
Well, they do have the option. Just get an Apple...
No. He meant she is married to a dick.
Actually, if you get rid of all those "cockamaney" silver bullets, you would end up with a division by zero exception. In other words, Windows.
Apparently you do, otherwise why bother responding?
So we can't have a system that would help people because the insurance system is fucked up. That is really 1st world, ain't it?
Ha! I guess if nothing else, this is a field I AM an expert on. My name above is what it is for a reason. See... I still have the drive, I still work long hours all night long but I do it because this is what keeps me going. I have no problems working with young engineers. They are mostly enthusiastic and that is mutually contagious. I have a special disdain for the marketing types who come and go like flies over a pile of shit. Those who don't have a clue what we produce but are responsible for selling it, transforming all you do into "numbers Wall Street will like" (completely disregarding the merits or what the people who will ultimately buy it want).
My love for technology is an alternative to how I see the world. A world no different than any other point in time. People still kill people because of religion and greed. What's the difference between the Taliban and those radicals Christian coalition types? In other words, I see the world as mostly utterly fucked with very few exceptions. When we specialize in certain aspects of science, we focus our attention into a different world away from the ugly reality out there.
Linus is an ideological leader no matter how you look at it. Even if he doesn't think that way or want it, he has no choice. In a funny way it reminds me of "Life of Brian". I can see him waking up one morning and opening the windows naked to a crowd of crazed followers clamoring for his words.
The problem with this crowd or any other is that there will always be those who want to use it for their own agendas and end up tainting the whole thing in the process (see "Fucked up world with exceptions" above).
What is even funnier is that we, more than any other group on the planet, control every aspect of everyone's life. The power we have as a group is greater than anything else. Nonetheless, we have no cohesion or goals. Just happy little shits doing whatever they tell us... A hear a lot of complain about jobs going out to India for instance. A recent interview with Scott McNeally was quite open (and extremely insulting in the process) about it. But what do we, as a group do? Sit with our collective thumbs stuck up our collective asses.
Blah... I'm mumbling...
I guess you're right but... isn't that the definition of /.? If that's the case, they'd better shut it down and we should all go and smell the roses.
That does not prevent my fax machine to spit out page after page of crap unsolicited faxes. By the way, the only place my fax number used to be was at the whois record. Double whamy... No I have the FCC complaint fax number in there...
I agree with this concept of "perception". However, using this same logic would put Sun out if you take in consideration their current stock prices. If you look at their current state of affairs I would not bet the farm on them...
That makes you wonder, doesn't it? I just imagine what would you get if you ask for "bush" images...
Yep. And apparently other grammatically impaired people as well.
>> The way to fight spam is to build clever tools
An ICBM comes to mind...
An catholic priests are catholic priests... what's your point?
Is that the name of quality control over Trojans?
You are absolutely right. If it wasn't by telemarketers I would have lost my job a long time ago. See... after talking to my manager, all I can think of is dropping napalms on some children orphanage (is there another kind?). But then, at the end of the day, every single day, I receive my dose of unsolicited calls from you. That's when I exercise my anger management:
[telemarketer] Hi this is Jemima calling on behalf of SBC...[me] I don't use SBC. How would you like my cock up your fucking ass right now?
[telemarketer] You don't need to be so rude
[me] You don't need to fucking call me every fucking minute of the day you fucking, cock sucking whore.
[click]
It works wonder and you feel much better...
Please keep calling me. My manager appreciates how calm I am under so much pressure.
A whole new meaning to "going postal"...
Well... all you did was to prove his point wonderfully. He could not have done a better job himself in pointing out the current problems and why we need solutions and not some authority wannabe running the show. And yes... I too know what I am talking about. I was a HAM for over 25 years.
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>> It'd be cool to see some patches come from Redmond...
Yeah. I can see that. The patches coming out of Microsoft would come in stages. Patch number 1 should be worn for two weeks, and then patch number 2 for another 3 weeks, and finally, if the symptoms of addictions were still present, wear patch number 3 for another 2 weeks. Once we've all gone through the patch process, we would finally be free of this awful habit of smok... I mean, using non Microsoft nicot... I mean, software.
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