I have actually heard this same sentiment from graphics and game designers before. It got me thinking about how Linux users, even when faced with the powerful opinion of Carmack that ATI is likely to be better then Nvidia as a whole, we still use Nvidia: because Nvidia supports our grass roots movement more. This usually applies even to Linux using gamers that utilize WineX or have a Windows partition (of which I am both).
Imagine how much of a market major printer, digital camera, and scanner manufacturers are missing by forcing their tech support people to say "we don't support it under that lee-nooks stuff". If a company, say Canon, would release a universal supported bubblejet driver for older printers, and a universal PPD for their postscript printers to work in CUPS, they could see massive gains (we do account for like 6% of all users, afterall).
His contribution to the world was good enough to force at least 80% of us to consume unimaginable amounts of our college's T3 bandwidth. It almost cost at least one of us (wink wink) our job. To speak the name of this soul sucking horror....no, tis too dangerous, it makes me "quake".
My Windows partition is just a big heap of junk, I gave up on it a long time ago. I got me this purple bear that likes to hop at out me when I open the control panel. I got women that skate around on the title bars until I crash. There is some winsys32 process that sends my ICQ password (like I care) to a hotmail account everyday. My Internet Explorer is now more of a "Yahoo!" explorer. I even have these helpful little pop-ups that inform me of terrific new offers in internet gambling and travel - every 30 seconds.
Actually, now that I think about it, my Redhat desktop is kind of boring.....
I don't see why some people would see this as an issue at all. This company here uses open source code to get a job a done. This job just happens to be for the United States government. Whoop-de-doo.
I could go on and on about the benefits of open source, but we have all heard that arguement before, so here is just a real brief recap:
1. OSS is cheaper then proprietary, or free
2. Because it is open source, you can always have in-house people maintain it or hire someone else too. This longevity of the same product will save the tax payers even more money by avoiding upgrade cycles.
3. Because it is open source, you can integrate it into future projects easily.
4. Because of 2 and 3 above, you as a government entity are not chained to a single closed-sourced vendor with no control over products purchased with the public reserves.
I for one can not wait until the golden age of computing, an age in which my computer will be inexplicity linked to that of every script kiddie from Taiwan to San Jose. This will be a stunning monument to the ingenuity of man. There will be a great many personal homepages replaced with vivid images of genitalia and beer bottles. What a wonderous age it will be.
I think that 90% of the people here already have the whole "how to thrive in a seclusive career path that is extremely difficult to find employment in and you end up having very little contact with the softer gender" thing down pat, thank you very much.
Ahhh, killing yourself slowly and horribly with none of the satisfaction associated with the real thing. It's like just eating what's in the grease trough of a Foreman grill and throwing the hamburger away.
Companies seem to be using this insurance option partly for peace of mind. Peace of mind, to me, would be more easily obtained (and for far less money) by simply dumping your insecure operating systems and services in favor of more flexible systems which are not commonly targeted and easier to secure.
This reduces total overhead by removing the license fees associated with Windows, SQL, and Exchange, and eliminates the need for expensive insurance options. The money saved could be used to hire a qualified network security person in-house.
We have a dual 867mhz model running Jaguar. Before recieving this gift from our corporate masters, I had had little experience with Mac OS X (or Macs in general, other then loading Netware clients on them and running off before graphics design people could start asking for pretty flower things and such). This hardware is for real. The performace of one of these units as a small business file sharing server (for both other Macs, Windows clients, and Linux clients) and firewall while still being able to manipulate 400mb Photoshop files quickly is amazing.
Still, a bit expensive for the casual user. For a small business, this baby rules.
In the end Microsoft will still weild terrible power. Microsoft will continue to spread across the lands of Earth, engulfing small and large business alike, admin and developer, open and closed source. The only way to find peace is to toss Bill Gates into the fires of Mount Doom.
I don't know who, maybe a congress person or my senators, but this has to stop. It is absurd the patents that are/were granted over the last decade, and how easy it is for these knuckleheads to abuse them. They deserve jail time.
You know what's ironic? p2p is making some of these same companies huge profits in other markets (software, blank CDs, CD burners, broadband fees, etc), and also serves as a promotion for smaller, lesser known bands. Yea, this has been discussed here lately, but still deserves mentioning. They, the RIAA and it's cronies, are running a racket in multiple areas on the consumer.
As far as your relative's ills concerning marijuana goes, I feel you. On a personal note, (and as an example) I have litterally beat the shit out of people in public (yea, I was a bit immature over the past couple of years but I have recovered) and never faced jail time. This was for assault. Yet, they spend billions and hand out thousands of years in incarceration time over this near harmless drug. Alchohol is more dangerous (the component that lead to at least 2 of said beat-downs).
If found guilty of grand theft, the average teenager faces a small fine, the obligation to pay for any damages to the owner, and possible community service. A first time offending adult faces similar charges. The point is that the fine rendered usually never exceeds the amount stolen. Repeat offenders are given stricter penalties.
The idea of facing even $5,000 in fines for obtaining a few hundred songs illegally should be considered ludicrous. This fine should be at the top of such a penalty, and only in extreme circumstances. A $250,000 fine for such a thing sounds, to me, simply un-American. We like our lax criminal penalties. Who does the RIAA think they are?!
"What you said there makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, unless you happen to be a 13-year old script kiddie with nothing better to do than compile the latest kernel...."
...or smart enough to use the Redhat network update utility, the KDE based update tool, any number of sites dedicated to alerting you of needed updates, or simple cron jobs (of course, you have to be smarter then the average bear to pull that off, which rules you out).
Rapid advancement doesn't insure that your current product will be rapidly outdated, insecure, or useless. Anyone can tell you that Redhat 7.2 is still a quality product. In two years, Redhat 8.0 will still be high quality. The open source model insures that you can update all of the libraries for all of your software, and updated all of your critical system files/binaries/libs/whatever for the forseeable future.
I'll spell it out for you: Redhat will not support 8.0 directly in a year, but you will still be able to update 8.0 and your other software just as easily for years to come. The community is bigger then Redhat. Redhat knows this, and enterprise users know this. DUH.
PS: I work in an enterprise, and there is plenty of Linux here (where it counts). The people that use it appreciate the rapid work of open source development. Hmmm... who is the 13 year old without any real world experience here? Survey says you, so go play with your Pokemon and bug someone else kid.
Here is an example of the rapid advancement expected when utilizing open source development. Proprietary users will think "Retiring a major OS in just a year? That's crazy" - while we Linux users have grown accustomed to such things.
The widespread use of a boilerplate speaks volumes as to how generally accepted it's containined opinion is. The more concerned citizens using the same boilerplate, the more that this-or-that issue means to the community at large (or better yet, your reader base).
Don't forget Roblimo's stellar writing abilities. I was only just reaching his stunning narrative ability and uncanny way of speaking to his desired audience by grade 10.
Dude, I thought I was the only one who noticed that the Penny Arcade guys are homosexual! I've been reading their comics for years now and always had my doubts.
I think that a lot of techie's that has ever played with these types of devices has always said "why bother with all of these flash cards, why not just drop a HDD in here?".
I side with the poster though. I would like to have the option to buy a larger HDD (even if it's only a proprietary one), at least 4.3 gig.
No DinZy, I am not a hopeless nerd like you, and therefore have no reason to lie about my system specs or what I can do with it. These are specs, those are the games that I play at maximum, and I have little trouble doing so - there isn't any more to it.
I am sorry that you can not harbor the fantastic gaming magic that I seem to possess (according to you).
I was playing UT (not UT 2003) no problem with this same system, but a Pentium 3 600mhz and a different motherboard (an ABit BX133 RAID). Honestly, it doesn't take much.
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Imagine how much of a market major printer, digital camera, and scanner manufacturers are missing by forcing their tech support people to say "we don't support it under that lee-nooks stuff". If a company, say Canon, would release a universal supported bubblejet driver for older printers, and a universal PPD for their postscript printers to work in CUPS, they could see massive gains (we do account for like 6% of all users, afterall).
Wow, you rebel you.
His contribution to the world was good enough to force at least 80% of us to consume unimaginable amounts of our college's T3 bandwidth. It almost cost at least one of us (wink wink) our job. To speak the name of this soul sucking horror....no, tis too dangerous, it makes me "quake".
Thank you interweb founder, and whatever this Semantic thing is.
Actually, now that I think about it, my Redhat desktop is kind of boring.....
I could go on and on about the benefits of open source, but we have all heard that arguement before, so here is just a real brief recap:
1. OSS is cheaper then proprietary, or free
2. Because it is open source, you can always have in-house people maintain it or hire someone else too. This longevity of the same product will save the tax payers even more money by avoiding upgrade cycles.
3. Because it is open source, you can integrate it into future projects easily.
4. Because of 2 and 3 above, you as a government entity are not chained to a single closed-sourced vendor with no control over products purchased with the public reserves.
I for one can not wait until the golden age of computing, an age in which my computer will be inexplicity linked to that of every script kiddie from Taiwan to San Jose. This will be a stunning monument to the ingenuity of man. There will be a great many personal homepages replaced with vivid images of genitalia and beer bottles. What a wonderous age it will be.
I think that 90% of the people here already have the whole "how to thrive in a seclusive career path that is extremely difficult to find employment in and you end up having very little contact with the softer gender" thing down pat, thank you very much.
Ahhh, killing yourself slowly and horribly with none of the satisfaction associated with the real thing. It's like just eating what's in the grease trough of a Foreman grill and throwing the hamburger away.
This reduces total overhead by removing the license fees associated with Windows, SQL, and Exchange, and eliminates the need for expensive insurance options. The money saved could be used to hire a qualified network security person in-house.
Still, a bit expensive for the casual user. For a small business, this baby rules.
You rejected good stories in order to post this drivel. You should be ashamed.
In the end Microsoft will still weild terrible power. Microsoft will continue to spread across the lands of Earth, engulfing small and large business alike, admin and developer, open and closed source. The only way to find peace is to toss Bill Gates into the fires of Mount Doom.
I don't know who, maybe a congress person or my senators, but this has to stop. It is absurd the patents that are/were granted over the last decade, and how easy it is for these knuckleheads to abuse them. They deserve jail time.
As far as your relative's ills concerning marijuana goes, I feel you. On a personal note, (and as an example) I have litterally beat the shit out of people in public (yea, I was a bit immature over the past couple of years but I have recovered) and never faced jail time. This was for assault. Yet, they spend billions and hand out thousands of years in incarceration time over this near harmless drug. Alchohol is more dangerous (the component that lead to at least 2 of said beat-downs).
The idea of facing even $5,000 in fines for obtaining a few hundred songs illegally should be considered ludicrous. This fine should be at the top of such a penalty, and only in extreme circumstances. A $250,000 fine for such a thing sounds, to me, simply un-American. We like our lax criminal penalties. Who does the RIAA think they are?!
...or smart enough to use the Redhat network update utility, the KDE based update tool, any number of sites dedicated to alerting you of needed updates, or simple cron jobs (of course, you have to be smarter then the average bear to pull that off, which rules you out).
Rapid advancement doesn't insure that your current product will be rapidly outdated, insecure, or useless. Anyone can tell you that Redhat 7.2 is still a quality product. In two years, Redhat 8.0 will still be high quality. The open source model insures that you can update all of the libraries for all of your software, and updated all of your critical system files/binaries/libs/whatever for the forseeable future.
I'll spell it out for you: Redhat will not support 8.0 directly in a year, but you will still be able to update 8.0 and your other software just as easily for years to come. The community is bigger then Redhat. Redhat knows this, and enterprise users know this. DUH.
PS: I work in an enterprise, and there is plenty of Linux here (where it counts). The people that use it appreciate the rapid work of open source development. Hmmm... who is the 13 year old without any real world experience here? Survey says you, so go play with your Pokemon and bug someone else kid.
Here is an example of the rapid advancement expected when utilizing open source development. Proprietary users will think "Retiring a major OS in just a year? That's crazy" - while we Linux users have grown accustomed to such things.
The widespread use of a boilerplate speaks volumes as to how generally accepted it's containined opinion is. The more concerned citizens using the same boilerplate, the more that this-or-that issue means to the community at large (or better yet, your reader base).
Don't forget Roblimo's stellar writing abilities. I was only just reaching his stunning narrative ability and uncanny way of speaking to his desired audience by grade 10.
Dude, I thought I was the only one who noticed that the Penny Arcade guys are homosexual! I've been reading their comics for years now and always had my doubts.
I wonder how his 102 point fonts will look in KDE, which is running on my hacked X-Box?
I side with the poster though. I would like to have the option to buy a larger HDD (even if it's only a proprietary one), at least 4.3 gig.
I am sorry that you can not harbor the fantastic gaming magic that I seem to possess (according to you).
I was playing UT (not UT 2003) no problem with this same system, but a Pentium 3 600mhz and a different motherboard (an ABit BX133 RAID). Honestly, it doesn't take much.