That kind of goes part and parcel of the definition of opinion. It's impossible to not have a bias. Find me a man who appreciates the truth based on pure objectivity and I will guarantee you that he probably does not have a pulse.
you don't have the localness that you do with DJ Bob and the morning show talking about something that happened 1 town over the previous evening.
... and this is the very reason I would want XM radio to avoid having to listen to the troll-like morning windbags that think they are God's gift to entertainment. Just give me the music. I listen to a lot of CDs but I like to listen for new stuff once in a while without the ridiculous commentary.
A lot of comments that are being made here seem a little funny to me. I think the term OS is being confused with the concept of emulation layers and applications that provide a lot of functionality. Statements like Emacs and Mozilla are operating systems. Does Emacs or Mozilla control low-level I/O or memory management ? Do they provide process scheduling ? No ! Then things like these are not OSs in the traditional sense.
Although there are Lisp OS projects past and maybe present, LISP OSs aren't prevelent. You may be thinking about LISP machines which are designed specially to run LISP programs and provide an optimized environment for LISP development.
since you are only assiting, be honest about the fact that you are less than even a novice VMS user. Ask yourself what you think you could possibly contribute with you limited knowledge of the OS and if it is nil then suggest they find someone else to assist. A dishonest consultant ends up in two places: 1) without contracts and 2) in a courtroom.
With that said and you still feel compelled to do this then hopefully you have a major strength in some other OS (say NT-like OSs). If you know a lot about OSs (in terms of theory) you know that they function pretty much the same way. They operate the system. The ways that they do this may be different, but the same functions must be accomplished. A OS expert can pick up new OSs really quickly because they have a deep understanding of what an OS is suppose to do and how they relate to the computer system. If you are that kind of person, it's just a matter of learning new command keywords and command line syntax. If you are not that kind of person, you would never be successful in securing any operation system VMS or otherwise.
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Here's the deal. RedHat Linux isn't anymore difficult to install than WinXP (or really any other previous) incarnation of Windows. There really isn't a MS Windows installation for the masses if you really get down to it. If you want the masses to use Linux then you will have to have more computer manufacturers that will bundle Linux already on the machine.
Dijkstra definitly belongs on such a list but I can't believe some of these other names. Wozniak, Gates yea they may be innovators but for some reason I can't just place their name next to scholars or innovators such as the likes of say what Henry Ford was to the automotive industry. Something just doesn't sit well with it.
I was in the dark Palmdale night when this happended an was at the Skunk Works the next day and saw the long faces. It was a divergent control problem. This kind of things happend with autonomous control.
Free Software will have a bad year when it is no longer free. The question is how long can free software that is entering an enterprise arena remain just that: Free ! Unfortunately the way that distributers are working such as RedHat I think the line between free/not-free will become somewhat blurry and then you will get the dilution effect that comes from corporate preferences.
I think you have hit upon a problem that is characteristic of how technology has complicated the educational goals and potential in the job market for college/university graduates. You are right, no one needs university qualifications to write HTML. Any junior high school kid can become an expert. It is that way for a lot of computer related technology fields. The field of IT is very fuzzy. IT is not engineering but many folks will try to blur the line to make it sound like they have or need all kinds of fancy education to do what is really a technician/mechanics job in IT. It was a lot easier when a technically oriented person went to college to study the traditional engineering and science fields. You knew what you were getting !
There are no real rules here. It can make a difference if you study under some nobel laureate in grad school because that plugs you into a network of researchers. A Ph.D. from most any reputable university will get you somewhere. I received my Ph.D. from Georgia Tech which may not have the standing of MIT but still carries some pretiege. Enough to land me a job with NASA. While I was there the other Ph.D.s in my division were from MIT, Berkeley, Yale, Penn State, Case Western, Michigan... you get the picture all good schools with a name.The main thing is get if from somewhere that folks will recognize the name at least.
I still don't understand Mono. It didn't work for IBM to has OS/2 work for Windows programs, so why Mono?
This is somewhat of an "apples and oranges" comparison. Mono and.NET are development environments where OS/2 just provided the ability to run Windows apps in the OS/2 environment. The user base for Mono would be very different than the typical OS/2 user back in the early 90's. Many developers live within a culture where multiple platforms will enhance any one technology. I will go so far to say that I can't think of an instance where portability to multiple platforms of a development environment has been anything but the positive way to go.
My impression (and this is based on my experience as college faculty) is that the core of the problem lies in the teachers inability to integrate computers into the classroom in an effective manner. It is a tool just like any other educational tool and cannot take the place of proven effective educational methods. I teach a transform circuit analysis class at the undergraduate E.E. level and we use circuit simulators such as MultiSim or PSPICE in the laboratory section. I don't let the student touch the computer before he/she can analyze a circuit the old fashioned way with pencil and paper (well they don't have to use a slide rule). Students naturally want to go directly to the computer for a solution and often times this way of thinking is reinforced by teachers with poor training. Just like any other tool, if used properly it will make the job easier, if used improperly it will cause a lot of damage.
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That kind of goes part and parcel of the definition of opinion. It's impossible to not have a bias. Find me a man who appreciates the truth based on pure objectivity and I will guarantee you that he probably does not have a pulse.
With that said and you still feel compelled to do this then hopefully you have a major strength in some other OS (say NT-like OSs). If you know a lot about OSs (in terms of theory) you know that they function pretty much the same way. They operate the system. The ways that they do this may be different, but the same functions must be accomplished. A OS expert can pick up new OSs really quickly because they have a deep understanding of what an OS is suppose to do and how they relate to the computer system. If you are that kind of person, it's just a matter of learning new command keywords and command line syntax. If you are not that kind of person, you would never be successful in securing any operation system VMS or otherwise.
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This is somewhat of an "apples and oranges" comparison. Mono and .NET are development environments where OS/2 just provided the ability to run Windows apps in the OS/2 environment. The user base for Mono would be very different than the typical OS/2 user back in the early 90's. Many developers live within a culture where multiple platforms will enhance any one technology. I will go so far to say that I can't think of an instance where portability to multiple platforms of a development environment has been anything but the positive way to go.