I have to wonder that if this survey is flawed. Perhaps they gave people to choices and each one took extreme views and thus people had to pick on of two extreme views when in fact they believed somewhere in the middle.
When new computers for the company came in, I asked to keep my old computer (works if they weren't leasing it, but even then they can usually get it for cheap) and then I installed Linux on it.
I was at the bookstore today and found this book about doing open source on windows. It was several chapters explaining what each application did, how to use it and how to install it. It also came with a CD with all the applications on it. The one problem? It was filed next to the Linux books and away from the Windows books.
I easily bought a PC without windows. Just stop going to the big guys, go to the small guys that will give you what you want. Eventually the big guys will learn. We saw the same thing with cars. American car companies finally learn stuff when enough of their business goes to Japanese car makers.
Having suffered through Novell's Linux offerings, I'm inclined to agree. This isn't meant as a flame, I'm sure their products work correctly for some companies, but that wasn't my experience. I found the SLED and SLES have a hard time installing slightly older hardware, and still has problems on newer hardware. The amount of time it takes to get the Novell tools working correctly in unbelievable. I've currently been running Groupwise client on Linux, and I find it very slow and buggy. I tried using Evolution instead, but I can't get the groupwise manager here to turn on the SOAP interface.. I guess Novell doesn't want to really release groupwise protocol to open source.
On the other hand, RedHat and related products install easily and run even easier. FreeBSD has also really good in this regard.
But if we redefine the word to mean anything, then we have achieved success and proven evolution. I think the problem is that scientists feel so insecure about creationist gaining mind share that they jump at anything that they think will prove evolution. You see this is fossil discoveries all the time, "Finally the missing link" but many times these discoveries are not all they are cracked up to be. If scientists panic in trying to prove evolution, they will shoot themselves in the foot and make creationists look more credible. The way creationist gain ground is by pointing out flawed scientific work on the evolution front, although they often have to go back to older scientific thought, which is sometimes still taught at our schools. If you tell a creationist that bacteria adapt to their environment over generations they will respond with, "well duh!" Many creationist are not stupid, they can out argue most high school educated people on the evolution argument. What scientists need to do is address creationists arguments in a truthful and open fashion and admit to the limitation of one's theory. Darwin himself did this. What will result is stronger theories of evolution. The first thing we are taught is science is that a theory is suppose to be tested. Well creationists are giving you a chance to test your theory, go for it, don't run from it. Most scientific theories have had to answer all the doubters claims. A good example of this is when science was proving the life couldn't be created out of thin air.
Are you looking for a long term job? Jumping from job to job will hurt your chances of getting one of those. But this is a new economy. Employees move around a lot. More and more people do contract work. This is becoming more normal. I think the important thing is to find jobs where you have projects and find a way to have done something with that project. Thus it looks like you are moving on once you've accomplished something.
I think you have your answer. You are being offered a better job. So has it hurt you so far? That's like running a bookstore, raking in lots of money and then asking, "But don't bookstore's not make a lot of money, am I doing something wrong?" No you are doing something right, you are making more money and enjoying it. I think the people hanging around making about the same year after year and hating their job are doing something wrong.
Heck even if you are jumping around because you want to you'll still have companies trying to give your permanent jobs. This is what I found. Companies no longer hire company men, they hire the person who can do the job the best. And having experiences doing many different things will make you that person.
I always pronounced it gif, because when I first saw it, sometimes JPEG files had the extension JIF for, JPEG Interchange Format. Unless perhaps the authors of that are Hispanic and we are suppose to pronounce it 'hif' but then we'll probably have to pronounce JPEG 'heypeg' which would be amusing.
it's premature to say. GPLv3 could affect Novell's ability redistribute a bunch of code in Linux. But right now it's all in the air. No story here yet.
Netscape 8 was actually a pretty interesting browser. It came preloaded on my laptop, it seemed pretty nice in several ways. I only used it to download seamonkey, but it did it really well.
A couple years ago a friend consulted a lawyer, and he said that anything past the first page had far less legal weight then what was one the first page. But this is Massachusetts where contracts are weak and verbal contracts are next to worthless.
Yes, Congress has already failed us by not appointing Judges who will enforce the Constitution. The Constitution never failed us, the people failed the constitution by the people it elected.
No, I think some extensions might work, but in general I don't think they work. I usually keep FF around to be loaded with extensions for certain circumstances, but I use Seamonkey as my lean and mean browser.
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If you are using any combination of Browser, Mail and Composer, Seamonkey is more compact. Also traditionally firefox has lagged behind seamonkey in tab functionality. These days I like it because it tends to filter out some of the craziness of firefox, so by the time Seamonkey gets features they tend to be the best ones with very bugs.
When Classmates just started I signed up for an account and then realized I didn't want to be found by my classmates. The only way I was able to cancel the account was to randomly try sending an email message requesting that I'd be removed from their service.
You need to have a written policy which also informs employees that you are doing this and to make sure every knows about it. If you don't do this you your company can be sued for discrimination when it fires one employee but not another for certain uses of the internet.
I agree that OGG is going nowhere (even though I love the format and use it to encode things that MP3 just can't handle) but I do think that FLAC has a good chance to catching on. I've seen it used a lot outside of the open source community, and it's an improvement over MP3. FLAC has a lot of popularity with people trading bootlegs of unreleased albums and concerts. I've seen trading communities which ban MP3 because the preference towards FLAC is so high.
The Helix Player can use those codecs, but it doesn't come with those codecs. When you download the open source Helix Player, all you are getting are the open source codecs which does not include the real formats. If you download the closed sourced Real Player for Linux, you are getting a closed source Helix Player which includes all the closed source real formats.
Also this player is crap and plays Real files and MP3 files so slowly that my machine skips every 3 to 7 seconds when player Real files, and can't refresh the player while playing an MP3. MPlayer using Real's codecs does not have this problem at all. Also the RealPlayer for Linux can't play older formats, while MPlayer using Real's Codec's can.
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I have to wonder that if this survey is flawed. Perhaps they gave people to choices and each one took extreme views and thus people had to pick on of two extreme views when in fact they believed somewhere in the middle.
When new computers for the company came in, I asked to keep my old computer (works if they weren't leasing it, but even then they can usually get it for cheap) and then I installed Linux on it.
I was at the bookstore today and found this book about doing open source on windows. It was several chapters explaining what each application did, how to use it and how to install it. It also came with a CD with all the applications on it. The one problem? It was filed next to the Linux books and away from the Windows books.
In Massachusetts they have to pick the cheapest product, unless they can prove that a cheaper product can't do the job.
or maybe Gnashing Gnu?
I easily bought a PC without windows. Just stop going to the big guys, go to the small guys that will give you what you want. Eventually the big guys will learn. We saw the same thing with cars. American car companies finally learn stuff when enough of their business goes to Japanese car makers.
On the other hand, RedHat and related products install easily and run even easier. FreeBSD has also really good in this regard.
what, do they change their logo each time an exploit is found
2 and 4 were bad, but 6 was really good.
Thank you for the link! I plan on getting one for work! Those are my favorite keyboards.
But if we redefine the word to mean anything, then we have achieved success and proven evolution. I think the problem is that scientists feel so insecure about creationist gaining mind share that they jump at anything that they think will prove evolution. You see this is fossil discoveries all the time, "Finally the missing link" but many times these discoveries are not all they are cracked up to be. If scientists panic in trying to prove evolution, they will shoot themselves in the foot and make creationists look more credible. The way creationist gain ground is by pointing out flawed scientific work on the evolution front, although they often have to go back to older scientific thought, which is sometimes still taught at our schools. If you tell a creationist that bacteria adapt to their environment over generations they will respond with, "well duh!" Many creationist are not stupid, they can out argue most high school educated people on the evolution argument. What scientists need to do is address creationists arguments in a truthful and open fashion and admit to the limitation of one's theory. Darwin himself did this. What will result is stronger theories of evolution. The first thing we are taught is science is that a theory is suppose to be tested. Well creationists are giving you a chance to test your theory, go for it, don't run from it. Most scientific theories have had to answer all the doubters claims. A good example of this is when science was proving the life couldn't be created out of thin air.
Are you looking for a long term job? Jumping from job to job will hurt your chances of getting one of those. But this is a new economy. Employees move around a lot. More and more people do contract work. This is becoming more normal. I think the important thing is to find jobs where you have projects and find a way to have done something with that project. Thus it looks like you are moving on once you've accomplished something. I think you have your answer. You are being offered a better job. So has it hurt you so far? That's like running a bookstore, raking in lots of money and then asking, "But don't bookstore's not make a lot of money, am I doing something wrong?" No you are doing something right, you are making more money and enjoying it. I think the people hanging around making about the same year after year and hating their job are doing something wrong. Heck even if you are jumping around because you want to you'll still have companies trying to give your permanent jobs. This is what I found. Companies no longer hire company men, they hire the person who can do the job the best. And having experiences doing many different things will make you that person.
I always pronounced it gif, because when I first saw it, sometimes JPEG files had the extension JIF for, JPEG Interchange Format. Unless perhaps the authors of that are Hispanic and we are suppose to pronounce it 'hif' but then we'll probably have to pronounce JPEG 'heypeg' which would be amusing.
it's premature to say. GPLv3 could affect Novell's ability redistribute a bunch of code in Linux. But right now it's all in the air. No story here yet.
Netscape 8 was actually a pretty interesting browser. It came preloaded on my laptop, it seemed pretty nice in several ways. I only used it to download seamonkey, but it did it really well.
A couple years ago a friend consulted a lawyer, and he said that anything past the first page had far less legal weight then what was one the first page. But this is Massachusetts where contracts are weak and verbal contracts are next to worthless.
For us OS/2 users, dual booting is so 1995
Yes, Congress has already failed us by not appointing Judges who will enforce the Constitution. The Constitution never failed us, the people failed the constitution by the people it elected.
No, I think some extensions might work, but in general I don't think they work. I usually keep FF around to be loaded with extensions for certain circumstances, but I use Seamonkey as my lean and mean browser.
If you are using any combination of Browser, Mail and Composer, Seamonkey is more compact. Also traditionally firefox has lagged behind seamonkey in tab functionality. These days I like it because it tends to filter out some of the craziness of firefox, so by the time Seamonkey gets features they tend to be the best ones with very bugs.
When Classmates just started I signed up for an account and then realized I didn't want to be found by my classmates. The only way I was able to cancel the account was to randomly try sending an email message requesting that I'd be removed from their service.
You need to have a written policy which also informs employees that you are doing this and to make sure every knows about it. If you don't do this you your company can be sued for discrimination when it fires one employee but not another for certain uses of the internet.
I agree that OGG is going nowhere (even though I love the format and use it to encode things that MP3 just can't handle) but I do think that FLAC has a good chance to catching on. I've seen it used a lot outside of the open source community, and it's an improvement over MP3. FLAC has a lot of popularity with people trading bootlegs of unreleased albums and concerts. I've seen trading communities which ban MP3 because the preference towards FLAC is so high.
The Helix Player can use those codecs, but it doesn't come with those codecs. When you download the open source Helix Player, all you are getting are the open source codecs which does not include the real formats. If you download the closed sourced Real Player for Linux, you are getting a closed source Helix Player which includes all the closed source real formats. Also this player is crap and plays Real files and MP3 files so slowly that my machine skips every 3 to 7 seconds when player Real files, and can't refresh the player while playing an MP3. MPlayer using Real's codecs does not have this problem at all. Also the RealPlayer for Linux can't play older formats, while MPlayer using Real's Codec's can.
Seamonkey is the continued developement of Mozilla.