Are comics creators paid royalties these days? I thought they got paid so-and-so dollars per page, just like newspaper columnists. Things could have changed, though.
They do track Delivery Confirmation at more than the delivery point - I work for the post office and I know they're scanned by our clerks to confirm that they have arrived at our post office, and by the distribution center that sends them to us, and at God knows how many points further upstream.
I suppose they're aiming at users like the employees of the city of Munich, and every other big organization, who can't be expected to have a clue about computers.
I prefer KDE myself. But I can't say that the Gnome project is wrong for going after clueless users.
They already have something like that at the post office, it's called Delivery Confirmation and it costs about 40 cents extra to get it on a parcel. The new proposal involves tracking every piece of mail (which costs less than $.40 per piece), which would be much more difficult to do cost effectively.
I work for the PO too; blaming the unions is off base. This is the only unionized job I've ever had, but it's hands down the most grueling job I've ever had too. The union protects you to a certain degree, but you sure can't get away with sloth at that job.
I think it's actually because of the union that they work you so hard. If this job didn't have high pay (because it's unionized), only the biggest masochists would put up with this job. That's probably why my other jobs were easier - if they had treated their workers like that, it would have been easy to find a job that pays just as well working for another company.
There are still anonymous ways to get online for the paranoid. One obvious way is public internet kiosks, like the ones at the library (here you have to logon with an id number, but there are always computers where someone forgot to logout).
Meaning that slightly more than half of their stock is publicly held, and it would cost something like $80.0M to buy a controlling share at current prices (though an attempt to buy out SCO would push the stock up to higher prices, especially since you would have to buy nearly every available stock).
According to the same site (yahoo finance) Red Hat (market cap $1.14B) has about $80.0 M in cash. Breaking the bank to buy an unprofitable dog of a company seems like a bad proposition to me. You could buy a lot of lawyers with that money.
At MSN money, SCOX gets a "D" for ownership, meaning that the insiders at SCO are selling their own stock. I'm sure they know things we don't know, and this would seem to indicate that they know they're full of shit (OK, so maybe we all knew that).
I'm not exactly Warren Buffet, but this seems like a case of some sleazes hyping their worthless stock, finding some fools to buy it at an inflated price, and counting their money while those same fools find themselves with worthless stock..
A fool and his money are soon parted.
BTW the stock is up about %1100 since this thing started so it's working admirably.
incompetent customer service people who will send your bill to the wrong place no matter how many times you tell them to correct your address
a web site that doesn't work half the time
sneaky tricks to lock you into a service agreement for a year. Your phone breaks? You better get a new one because you have to keep paying the bill, regardless of whether you actually have a working phone. Got a new phone? You have to sign on for another yearlong contract. Tried a new, cheaper plan? You signed yourself on for a year without even knowing it. Lost your job, like so many others in recent years? This is one bill you won't be able to cut, at least not without the credit bureaus hearing about it.
I don't think that even your 4 conditions would be sufficient. I think it would take a push from the top (governments or big businesses). There are some signs of that happening (Munich), which makes sense, because Windows is most certainly not free for big players.
If the people who cut Joe User's check say "use linux," he'll use it. If he gets used to it, Windows advantages disappear. Otherwise, I just don't see widespread adoption of Linux happening. Most users would never install an OS, no matter how easy it is. And I just don't see the big OEM's pushing it unless there's already a big market for it.
Longer answer: If my DSL modem goes down, the company won't offer me support because I run Linux. My girlfriend's classes have required readings on the web in.doc format, with a website that is utterly broken with both Konqueror and Mozilla. The CDs that come with her textbooks are Windows/Mac only. Most games are Windows only. Kazaa is Windows only.
If Linux had a greater market share, we wouldn't be ignored by these people. I don't want everyone to run linux, but I would like it if the needs of linux users weren't ignored by the rest of the world.
I had the same experience last year. I was amazed that free products could be better than their proprietary competition (Mozilla vs IE), or at least good enough that spending money on the proprietary version seems ridiculous (Oo.org vs. MS Office).
It's not a coincidence that my first install of Linux came shortly after Mozilla reached 1.0.
Now if only we could get Gnumeric ported to Windows...
From some website that has a biography of Jonas Salk:
In 1947, Salk accepted an appointment to the
University of Pittsburgh Medical School While working there, with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Salk saw an opportunity to develop a vaccine against polio, and devoted himself to this work for the next eight years.
In 1955 Salk's years of research paid off. Human trials of the polio vaccine effectively protected the subject from the polio virus. When news of the discovery was made public on April 12, 1955, Salk was hailed as a miracle worker.
He was working with the two institution listed in boldface, both government institutions, when he cured polio. That's the way a very large proportion of research (and infrastructure) is developed. But never mind the facts, if they don't fit in with a knee-jerk belief that government is bad.
And the nice thing about OSS is that you don't really need to do mass upgrades to new major versions
Let's not take the RedHat vs. Microsoft example then. RedHat drops old versions a lot faster than MS.
With OSS, you don't have to use RedHat. You can use anybody who knows enough about OSS to offer useful support. I'm sure there are plenty of qualified people who would do the job for a fraction of what a large organization like a government spends on MS licenses.
I was impressed with the art to barbarian (As a little kid in the 80s), but the game itself was excruciating. Not only was it exceedingly difficult, it just... sucked.
Furthermore, the Aberdeen Group reports that
more than 50 percent of all security advisories that CERT issued in the first 10 months of 2002 were for Linux and other open-source software solutions. The report muddles the argument that proprietary software such as Windows is inherently less secure than open solutions. And here's another blow to the status quo: Proprietary UNIX solutions were responsible for just as many security advisories as Linux in the same time period. Could Windows be the most secure mainstream OS available today?
So Linux was responsible for more than half of security advisories, and propriety UNIX for just as many? That adds up to more than 100%. Therefore Windows must have less than 0% of advisories, in keeping with the Law of Conservation of Security Holes. It follows logically that Windows security features must be so great that they somehow fix Unix and Linux security problems, in keeping with that same law.
Nice. This guy is trying to sell us on the spiritual advantages of working shit jobs for shit wages. Oh boy, I can't wait to have a tight-knit family when I'm a door greeter at Wal-Mart.
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Are comics creators paid royalties these days? I thought they got paid so-and-so dollars per page, just like newspaper columnists. Things could have changed, though.
They do track Delivery Confirmation at more than the delivery point - I work for the post office and I know they're scanned by our clerks to confirm that they have arrived at our post office, and by the distribution center that sends them to us, and at God knows how many points further upstream.
I prefer KDE myself. But I can't say that the Gnome project is wrong for going after clueless users.
They already have something like that at the post office, it's called Delivery Confirmation and it costs about 40 cents extra to get it on a parcel. The new proposal involves tracking every piece of mail (which costs less than $.40 per piece), which would be much more difficult to do cost effectively.
I think it's actually because of the union that they work you so hard. If this job didn't have high pay (because it's unionized), only the biggest masochists would put up with this job. That's probably why my other jobs were easier - if they had treated their workers like that, it would have been easy to find a job that pays just as well working for another company.
What, you haven't burnt your fingerprints off and gotten prosthetic surgery yet? Loser!
There's a difference between a limited in game economy and using Daddy's r/l credit card to make yourself 1337.
There are still anonymous ways to get online for the paranoid. One obvious way is public internet kiosks, like the ones at the library (here you have to logon with an id number, but there are always computers where someone forgot to logout).
Yeah, I want to get my ass kicked by an 14 year old because his daddy's a doctor who gives him whtever he wants.
It'll serve them right for investing in SCO.
According to the same site (yahoo finance) Red Hat (market cap $1.14B) has about $80.0 M in cash. Breaking the bank to buy an unprofitable dog of a company seems like a bad proposition to me. You could buy a lot of lawyers with that money.
At MSN money, SCOX gets a "D" for ownership, meaning that the insiders at SCO are selling their own stock. I'm sure they know things we don't know, and this would seem to indicate that they know they're full of shit (OK, so maybe we all knew that). I'm not exactly Warren Buffet, but this seems like a case of some sleazes hyping their worthless stock, finding some fools to buy it at an inflated price, and counting their money while those same fools find themselves with worthless stock.. A fool and his money are soon parted. BTW the stock is up about %1100 since this thing started so it's working admirably.
If the people who cut Joe User's check say "use linux," he'll use it. If he gets used to it, Windows advantages disappear. Otherwise, I just don't see widespread adoption of Linux happening. Most users would never install an OS, no matter how easy it is. And I just don't see the big OEM's pushing it unless there's already a big market for it.
Longer answer: If my DSL modem goes down, the company won't offer me support because I run Linux. My girlfriend's classes have required readings on the web in .doc format, with a website that is utterly broken with both Konqueror and Mozilla. The CDs that come with her textbooks are Windows/Mac only. Most games are Windows only. Kazaa is Windows only.
If Linux had a greater market share, we wouldn't be ignored by these people. I don't want everyone to run linux, but I would like it if the needs of linux users weren't ignored by the rest of the world.
It's not a coincidence that my first install of Linux came shortly after Mozilla reached 1.0.
Now if only we could get Gnumeric ported to Windows...
He was working with the two institution listed in boldface, both government institutions, when he cured polio. That's the way a very large proportion of research (and infrastructure) is developed. But never mind the facts, if they don't fit in with a knee-jerk belief that government is bad.
I was impressed with the art to barbarian (As a little kid in the 80s), but the game itself was excruciating. Not only was it exceedingly difficult, it just... sucked.
When you're posting pedantic grammatical nitpicking flames as AC, try not to misspell "responsible", smart guy.
Wow, I'm going out to buy Windows XP now!!!
Correcting the spelling of the name of somebody noone gives a shit about anyway is worth +4 informative these days?
Ok, so what's in it for the user? Their search engine is crap compared to google. Maybe some of this money is allocated to pay people to use it?
That's Lone Star, you god-damn Yankee pissant!
Nice. This guy is trying to sell us on the spiritual advantages of working shit jobs for shit wages. Oh boy, I can't wait to have a tight-knit family when I'm a door greeter at Wal-Mart.