Does MS Office cost that much? I've never paid more than $20 for a full copy, and my copies came straight from Microsoft. I've worked for a couple of large companies where employees could buy copies of Office for home use for $20. It's the same with the military. Military members (and Reservists) can also participate. Here is the MS site on the program. So if employees are only paying $20/copy, it's probably the case that the companies aren't paying $350 a copy either, so the savings of OO are overstated.
Calling the $100 per computer a "tax" is a mischaracterization. Not only are you getting software but also support. If the price of that is a "tax", then I guess the Linux tax is the time spent searching out answers, installing missing or updated libraries, or looking for compatible hardware.
I understand your point and I agree with you. In coding, when weighing different approaches to a problem sometimes a solution just feels like the right solution, when from a technical view the best path is ambiguous. In this case, however, the OP has a distinct bias. I suspect his feelings are more a product of the bias than any intuition based on experience. I was trying to draw out any rational thoughts he had on the topic, or maybe even learn about his experiences. It didn't work:)
His Linux admins had at least 5 years of enterprise Linux administration with at least 2 years administering SUSE.
Instead of saying "the admins were idiots" why don't you trying saying "the study was right"? You seem to be blindly rejecting anything that doesn't fit your world view.
It must suck to be a hard core gamer and be an open source zealot...or is that an impossibility? I guess one could be a hard core Tux Racer fan, but the really great games are commercial (except bzflag, I'll give you that). Does the open source zealot just do without? Work on creating an open source console? Or just steal the console and games? Would stealing be ethically better than supporting closed source products? After all, if you steal it, it's free as in beer. As for the other kind of free, well, the word is that consoles are jealous of information and now want to be free too.
I'm glad I've got nothing against closed source products. Of course, I'm broke so I guess I'm still in the same boat as the other side. Oh well...
I guess this is why it was shut down. Apparently you knew that was going over the network so there was probably some legal responsibility that went along with the knowledge.
Did you explore any methods of stopping or slowing the illegal activities in an attempt to keep the service going for the "many legal purposes"?
Google is everywhere it seems, collecting data. Does this concern anyone else besides me? I use gmail and I notice that Google search now recognizes me. I can log out, but then I'm out of gmail as well. I've been doing more searching on A9 as a result. Of course, searching A9 means Amazon knows what I'm looking for, but at least I get a discount.
But really, is Google getting to be too pervasive? It seems their future plans are really ambitious. Sure, the company's motto may be "do no evil" but that's not necessarily the motto of every employee there. Maybe I'm just paranoid...
For some reason I find this activity to be strangely addictive, and since I'm between tasks at work it's the perfect timekiller. Like Minesweeper but for cash.
Anyway, here's what I've found. My reject rate is higher than I thought it would be, almost 9%. At first I was a little offended by this, as I was actually trying to do a good job. I even went to a company's website to verify the storefront. Then I realized why it doesn't pay to do a great job, just a good job.
It is my theory that the verification and acceptance is done automatically, by having multiple users verify the same business. The answer with the most votes wins. Most people won't go to the effort required to verify a difficult identification (one where the sign or address is not clear) so they click "none of the above". I've found I can get through most HITs in a couple of seconds, especially if I've done a bunch from that city. After a while you get to know the blocks.
As for the content of the pictures, I've a theory for that too. The "select the best pic" thing has been going on at A9 for a while now. Search for a business and you get asked to select the best picture. These Turk pictures are the leftovers. This explains why the pictures are mostly 1) open fields or blank walls, 2) business run from a home (can't tell which picture is the best because you don't know which house it is), or 3) inner city pictures. People using A9 to find a business are probably not looking for the inner city liquor store, hair salon, or check cashing place.
I've only found one truly interesting picture so far. I was working on Sacramento and the HIT was for a Walgreens. This was one of the pictures I was presented.
Hard to believe that buried in the multiple redirects was a referral code. What, were you hoping to make $2.50 from purchases off your posting? And the discount isn't secret...just use a9.com every once in a while and get pi/2 percent off your Amazon purchases.
Furthermore, some of us don't hate bundles of sticks either, and we still hate the word "neuronaut". We're also not fond of those who think people who use "fag" as a derogatory term hate gay people. You're such a 'tard. Oops! I guess that means I hate disabled people. Ok, well, stop whining you woman. Damn, now I'm a misogynist. Fucking geek. Crap, now I hate myself!
She's always changing her clothes, her shoes, her mind...
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Indeed, manners, respect and courtesy are something that many Americans fear
And by making such a blanket statement you are ironically displaying a lack of manners, respect, and courtesy. At the least you could quantify your sample size and survey methods. Having lived amongst these "Americans" all my life I'd have to disagree. Your statement seems akin to me writing, "Indeed, dentists and oral hygeine are things many British fear."
I've used Ulead's PhotoImpact for a while now and I think it fits in that middle ground. Lots of power if you need it, but tools to get the daily tasks done quickly and easily. It's not too expensive, though their support sucks. It's definitely worth it.
The quickest way to learn the software is to hang around Fark and join the photoshop threads. That taught me more about the software than working with a DVD full of home snapshots.
Wow...you weren't kidding about that tutorial. Even the simpler method is complicated. Removing red eye is pretty much a solved problem. You know what range of red you're going to get out of the eye and you know what to replace it with. Perfect for a wizard.
But I digress. The point is not that the tool will turn you into a graphical genius, or OS programmer, or architect. There's not always a middle ground, a tool that allows the experienced user some options for creativity but is still usable for simple, everyday use.
"Yeah guys, what's the point of specs? They're theory, not reality. So go ahead and climb in the capsule and let's see just how far you get."
It's clear he doesn't work in the consulting/contracting world either. The government agency for which I work (as a contractor) has a very real need for the software we right to meet certain specifications. And we're not even working on real-time systems. Can you imagine that attitude on the team working on fighter jet flight control software?
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Does MS Office cost that much? I've never paid more than $20 for a full copy, and my copies came straight from Microsoft. I've worked for a couple of large companies where employees could buy copies of Office for home use for $20. It's the same with the military. Military members (and Reservists) can also participate. Here is the MS site on the program. So if employees are only paying $20/copy, it's probably the case that the companies aren't paying $350 a copy either, so the savings of OO are overstated.
Calling the $100 per computer a "tax" is a mischaracterization. Not only are you getting software but also support. If the price of that is a "tax", then I guess the Linux tax is the time spent searching out answers, installing missing or updated libraries, or looking for compatible hardware.
The study was funded and conducted for the sole purpose of finding a favorable result for Microsoft
How do you know this?
By the way, what is your experience?
I understand your point and I agree with you. In coding, when weighing different approaches to a problem sometimes a solution just feels like the right solution, when from a technical view the best path is ambiguous. In this case, however, the OP has a distinct bias. I suspect his feelings are more a product of the bias than any intuition based on experience. I was trying to draw out any rational thoughts he had on the topic, or maybe even learn about his experiences. It didn't work
Dr. Herb Thompson talks a good story but it isn't supported by my first hand experiences - Why is that?
Maybe your first hand experience wasn't in a reasonably controlled environment. Maybe your bias will only allow you to see things one way.
Sorry Herb but your study is nothing more than a carefully crafted FUD attack on a superior product.
"Linux is better because I think so" is hardly a refutation. Why don't you point out the flaws in the study?
His Linux admins had at least 5 years of enterprise Linux administration with at least 2 years administering SUSE.
Instead of saying "the admins were idiots" why don't you trying saying "the study was right"? You seem to be blindly rejecting anything that doesn't fit your world view.
It must suck to be a hard core gamer and be an open source zealot...or is that an impossibility? I guess one could be a hard core Tux Racer fan, but the really great games are commercial (except bzflag, I'll give you that). Does the open source zealot just do without? Work on creating an open source console? Or just steal the console and games? Would stealing be ethically better than supporting closed source products? After all, if you steal it, it's free as in beer. As for the other kind of free, well, the word is that consoles are jealous of information and now want to be free too.
I'm glad I've got nothing against closed source products. Of course, I'm broke so I guess I'm still in the same boat as the other side. Oh well...
I guess this is why it was shut down. Apparently you knew that was going over the network so there was probably some legal responsibility that went along with the knowledge.
Did you explore any methods of stopping or slowing the illegal activities in an attempt to keep the service going for the "many legal purposes"?
Google is everywhere it seems, collecting data. Does this concern anyone else besides me? I use gmail and I notice that Google search now recognizes me. I can log out, but then I'm out of gmail as well. I've been doing more searching on A9 as a result. Of course, searching A9 means Amazon knows what I'm looking for, but at least I get a discount.
But really, is Google getting to be too pervasive? It seems their future plans are really ambitious. Sure, the company's motto may be "do no evil" but that's not necessarily the motto of every employee there. Maybe I'm just paranoid...
Here's another link to the story.
Also, if you want to read the NYT version but don't want to create a login, check out BugMeNot.com.
For some reason I find this activity to be strangely addictive, and since I'm between tasks at work it's the perfect timekiller. Like Minesweeper but for cash.
Anyway, here's what I've found. My reject rate is higher than I thought it would be, almost 9%. At first I was a little offended by this, as I was actually trying to do a good job. I even went to a company's website to verify the storefront. Then I realized why it doesn't pay to do a great job, just a good job.
It is my theory that the verification and acceptance is done automatically, by having multiple users verify the same business. The answer with the most votes wins. Most people won't go to the effort required to verify a difficult identification (one where the sign or address is not clear) so they click "none of the above". I've found I can get through most HITs in a couple of seconds, especially if I've done a bunch from that city. After a while you get to know the blocks.
As for the content of the pictures, I've a theory for that too. The "select the best pic" thing has been going on at A9 for a while now. Search for a business and you get asked to select the best picture. These Turk pictures are the leftovers. This explains why the pictures are mostly 1) open fields or blank walls, 2) business run from a home (can't tell which picture is the best because you don't know which house it is), or 3) inner city pictures. People using A9 to find a business are probably not looking for the inner city liquor store, hair salon, or check cashing place.
I've only found one truly interesting picture so far. I was working on Sacramento and the HIT was for a Walgreens. This was one of the pictures I was presented.
Steve Ballmer referred to him as an "amateur" and offered to tutor him in the art of anger.
How could you screw up the easiest joke in the world? For the joke to work, it would have to be true that here, "map plays risk".
You fail it!
...but he comes back to haunt me. I cannot resist his lure...
Hard to believe that buried in the multiple redirects was a referral code. What, were you hoping to make $2.50 from purchases off your posting? And the discount isn't secret...just use a9.com every once in a while and get pi/2 percent off your Amazon purchases.
Kind of like you just did?
How was he fooled?
Furthermore, some of us don't hate bundles of sticks either, and we still hate the word "neuronaut". We're also not fond of those who think people who use "fag" as a derogatory term hate gay people. You're such a 'tard. Oops! I guess that means I hate disabled people. Ok, well, stop whining you woman. Damn, now I'm a misogynist. Fucking geek. Crap, now I hate myself!
Dear Slashdot,
I can't seem to find any one else's SSN. How can I rip people off without this information?
Thanks,
TheItalianGuy
OT: Great user name to use in a reply to a thread about the NSA.
She's always changing her clothes, her shoes, her mind...
Indeed, manners, respect and courtesy are something that many Americans fear
And by making such a blanket statement you are ironically displaying a lack of manners, respect, and courtesy. At the least you could quantify your sample size and survey methods. Having lived amongst these "Americans" all my life I'd have to disagree. Your statement seems akin to me writing, "Indeed, dentists and oral hygeine are things many British fear."
I've used Ulead's PhotoImpact for a while now and I think it fits in that middle ground. Lots of power if you need it, but tools to get the daily tasks done quickly and easily. It's not too expensive, though their support sucks. It's definitely worth it.
The quickest way to learn the software is to hang around Fark and join the photoshop threads. That taught me more about the software than working with a DVD full of home snapshots.
Wow...you weren't kidding about that tutorial. Even the simpler method is complicated. Removing red eye is pretty much a solved problem. You know what range of red you're going to get out of the eye and you know what to replace it with. Perfect for a wizard.
But I digress. The point is not that the tool will turn you into a graphical genius, or OS programmer, or architect. There's not always a middle ground, a tool that allows the experienced user some options for creativity but is still usable for simple, everyday use.
...yet he's a practicing, believing Mormon. Maybe he focuses on the relationships in the Book of Mormon rather than the science fiction (e.g. Kolob).
"Yeah guys, what's the point of specs? They're theory, not reality. So go ahead and climb in the capsule and let's see just how far you get."
It's clear he doesn't work in the consulting/contracting world either. The government agency for which I work (as a contractor) has a very real need for the software we right to meet certain specifications. And we're not even working on real-time systems. Can you imagine that attitude on the team working on fighter jet flight control software?