That's not true. At least in the US anything you do on company time is for the company and owned by them. I'd love to cut and paste some of the code I've done in the past for various companies, but if they ever find out about it we're talking big lawsuit.
I remember you guys from LinuxWorld 2001 in NYC. Still have your t-shirts. You had a drawing for a car at your booth. 4WD or something I think. You never announced the winner and I remember emailing and asking about it and never got a reply.
Q. How many US soldiers does it take to power a laptop?
A. 50,001 - one to power it and 50,000 to search for the WMD Saddam's going to use to stop him.
Without reading the study (mainly because the English version isn't available yet), I would find this a bit suspect. This article leaves out some important information.
First, it mentions people with prior computer experience, but no Linux or Windows XP experience. If that means they have Windows 98 experience then the results will be skewed favoring XP. If they have Unix experience then thats going to favor something more consistent with what people who design for Linux (ie KDE designers) would think of. If it's Mac then it's probably going to favor one or the other. Skewed results any way you look. Was it a double blind study I wonder? I doubt it. I can picture some researcher with an agenda saying, 'you 20 go try crappy XP while you 20 go try way cool Linux'. Or vice versa.
Secondly, it's been a while since I took statistics, but doesn't a popuation of 40 seem awfully small to be meaningful? Microsoft probably has more than that to test one feature of one menu when doing focus testing.
On the face of it this study looks pretty ad hoc. Maybe SlashDot should have waited until the English version of the study was published instead of being in such a rush to show yet another reason to use Linux. Sometimes it seems like a bit of straw-grasping around here.
What's really funny is that two new articles later and this one still has only 325 posts. And there were 331 TShirt design entries.
I wonder if the 325 posts are all of the people who actually subscribe to SlashDot.
Did anyone else notice that "hear from the artists" didn't include people who would presumably be most negatively affected by filesharing? I'm talking about the people who get a cut of the profits, ie actors, diretors, producers, etc. All of the 'artists' they show are the people who get paid salaries. I wonder what Ben Affleck or Roman Polanski have to say?
This looks like a cry of desperation. They can't stop filesharing. The more they fight it the more publicity filesharing gets and the more people are aware that file sharing exists so they have to fight still more people (their customers BTW). It's a self-feeding cycle.
I'd love to have a 2000 movie home DVD library, but DVDs are too expensive. Maybe they should consider cutting the price of all DVDs by half. Goddamn, it may actually increase their profits in the long run. They'd sell a lot of movies on impulse alone. I sure as hell wouldn't pay $20 for Willy Wonka, but I'd pay $7.50 without thinking about it. Kids would love it.
Look real close at the pictures of the beer guys in the link. What do you see? Looks like the beer is making them lightheaded in more ways than one. Is there a correlation?
er...you're not saying that people who mod here are idiots are you? Because if you say stuff like that you end up with bad kharma. Trust me.
Anyways... just bear in mind that having a PhD goes a long ways towards offsetting mediocrity. This guy's a threat if he's right because that demeans the value of that hard-earned degree.
I tried and am still trying to understand what he's saying. Most of the yahoos here like to mod things for the sake of modding things and don't give a shit about the actual content.
Einstein was a patent clerk when he came up with E=MC^2. Fuck the formal qualification crap. That's not important. What's important here is the insight. The mediocre achievers with their PhDs and years of theoretical background will make incremental steps forward, but it the intuitively gifted person who will turn the world upside-down (and quickly I hope because it's a damn cold winter here in NZ).
Damn... you pedantic assholes who think someone can't possibly be right because of a lack of your type of formal education really piss me off. Maybe he's wrong. The article was about as clear as mud and I read it twice. Slowly. But to simply state that he's wrong because he is not 'qualified' to be smarter than you is just plain stupid.
I've seen this hypotheses along with pictures quite a while ago (a couple of years at least). Either this guy reinvented the wheel again or this is an old story.
No matter what failures, mistakes, screwups they've had, we're still stuck with them and they still win.
The average person could not care less about Linux or any other alternative. Bottom line is they want to play solitaire or write email or look at family photos. Did you really care about the OS on your Commodore 64 or did you want to play games on it when you were a kid (this is directed at typical people, not uber-geeks).
I hate MS and everything they stand for, but I still make a better living on Windows machines than I ever did on Linux machines.
I hope this gets through the filter and all the noise on this.
I have ADD. Diagnosed after 49 years. Go to a psychiatrist. Try ritalin, dexedrine, whatever they prescribe. It may take awhile to get the meds right and readjust the compensations you've probably developed, but eventually you'll probably be a lot better.
The ritalin helped me immediately. Don't listen to these guys here with their well-intentioned, but generally stupid advice. See a professional.
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I see your wife also modded you up. That's the only scenario that makes sense for the '4'
Jeez.... get a spell checker
The OS in your car is embedded Linux, so you owe SCO $699 even if you bought the car new.
I'll take good care of it for you
That's not true. At least in the US anything you do on company time is for the company and owned by them. I'd love to cut and paste some of the code I've done in the past for various companies, but if they ever find out about it we're talking big lawsuit.
I remember you guys from LinuxWorld 2001 in NYC. Still have your t-shirts. You had a drawing for a car at your booth. 4WD or something I think. You never announced the winner and I remember emailing and asking about it and never got a reply.
So was that a crock???
Benevolent Protectorate of American Assholes? Oh well...live and learn.
How about a steady diet of beans and an attachment to our exhaust end to power a methane/oxygen generator?
I just checked my copy and it's labeled as 'fiction'. Does that help?
Q. How many thoughtful Slashdot Editors does it take to power a laptop?
A. Say what?
Q. How many GW Bush's does it take to power a laptop.
A. 18 - one for the blood draw and 17 to find the clearly labeled on/off switch
Q. How many US soldiers does it take to power a laptop? A. 50,001 - one to power it and 50,000 to search for the WMD Saddam's going to use to stop him.
... sit on a stationary bicycle with a generator attached and generate 200 Watts without poking holes in your arm. Better for you, too.
Without reading the study (mainly because the English version isn't available yet), I would find this a bit suspect. This article leaves out some important information. First, it mentions people with prior computer experience, but no Linux or Windows XP experience. If that means they have Windows 98 experience then the results will be skewed favoring XP. If they have Unix experience then thats going to favor something more consistent with what people who design for Linux (ie KDE designers) would think of. If it's Mac then it's probably going to favor one or the other. Skewed results any way you look. Was it a double blind study I wonder? I doubt it. I can picture some researcher with an agenda saying, 'you 20 go try crappy XP while you 20 go try way cool Linux'. Or vice versa. Secondly, it's been a while since I took statistics, but doesn't a popuation of 40 seem awfully small to be meaningful? Microsoft probably has more than that to test one feature of one menu when doing focus testing. On the face of it this study looks pretty ad hoc. Maybe SlashDot should have waited until the English version of the study was published instead of being in such a rush to show yet another reason to use Linux. Sometimes it seems like a bit of straw-grasping around here.
What's really funny is that two new articles later and this one still has only 325 posts. And there were 331 TShirt design entries. I wonder if the 325 posts are all of the people who actually subscribe to SlashDot.
Someday you'll grow up and then you'll want a horse instead of a pony. Maybe you'll be able to get the point then without having to have it explained.
For now... the point is that DVD's are too expensive. Oh wait, I said that already. Never mind.
Did anyone else notice that "hear from the artists" didn't include people who would presumably be most negatively affected by filesharing? I'm talking about the people who get a cut of the profits, ie actors, diretors, producers, etc. All of the 'artists' they show are the people who get paid salaries. I wonder what Ben Affleck or Roman Polanski have to say? This looks like a cry of desperation. They can't stop filesharing. The more they fight it the more publicity filesharing gets and the more people are aware that file sharing exists so they have to fight still more people (their customers BTW). It's a self-feeding cycle. I'd love to have a 2000 movie home DVD library, but DVDs are too expensive. Maybe they should consider cutting the price of all DVDs by half. Goddamn, it may actually increase their profits in the long run. They'd sell a lot of movies on impulse alone. I sure as hell wouldn't pay $20 for Willy Wonka, but I'd pay $7.50 without thinking about it. Kids would love it.
Look real close at the pictures of the beer guys in the link. What do you see? Looks like the beer is making them lightheaded in more ways than one. Is there a correlation?
er...you're not saying that people who mod here are idiots are you? Because if you say stuff like that you end up with bad kharma. Trust me.
Anyways... just bear in mind that having a PhD goes a long ways towards offsetting mediocrity. This guy's a threat if he's right because that demeans the value of that hard-earned degree.
I tried and am still trying to understand what he's saying. Most of the yahoos here like to mod things for the sake of modding things and don't give a shit about the actual content.
Einstein was a patent clerk when he came up with E=MC^2. Fuck the formal qualification crap. That's not important. What's important here is the insight. The mediocre achievers with their PhDs and years of theoretical background will make incremental steps forward, but it the intuitively gifted person who will turn the world upside-down (and quickly I hope because it's a damn cold winter here in NZ). Damn... you pedantic assholes who think someone can't possibly be right because of a lack of your type of formal education really piss me off. Maybe he's wrong. The article was about as clear as mud and I read it twice. Slowly. But to simply state that he's wrong because he is not 'qualified' to be smarter than you is just plain stupid.
You'll see what you want to see. Do you really think hordes of people are installing Linux on their office machines?
Just get rid of all that stuff. Also unplug your computer. Read books instead.
I've seen this hypotheses along with pictures quite a while ago (a couple of years at least). Either this guy reinvented the wheel again or this is an old story.
No matter what failures, mistakes, screwups they've had, we're still stuck with them and they still win.
The average person could not care less about Linux or any other alternative. Bottom line is they want to play solitaire or write email or look at family photos. Did you really care about the OS on your Commodore 64 or did you want to play games on it when you were a kid (this is directed at typical people, not uber-geeks).
I hate MS and everything they stand for, but I still make a better living on Windows machines than I ever did on Linux machines.
Sorry, sad, but true.
I hope this gets through the filter and all the noise on this. I have ADD. Diagnosed after 49 years. Go to a psychiatrist. Try ritalin, dexedrine, whatever they prescribe. It may take awhile to get the meds right and readjust the compensations you've probably developed, but eventually you'll probably be a lot better. The ritalin helped me immediately. Don't listen to these guys here with their well-intentioned, but generally stupid advice. See a professional.