I imagine those same areas with high racial animus also had greater incidents of voter suppression and other dirty tricks to keep people of color away from the polls. It's certainly not as clear cut as the summary makes it sound.
On the off chance this isn't a troll... My employer uses a hosted Exchange 2010 provider. Evolution doesn't interoperate with it, and OWA is a joke. Everyone I do business with uses Microsoft Office, and although OpenOffice and LibreOffice often get document conversions correct, they have failed often enough that I find it's not worth the bother. Diagramming: Visio wins, hands down. I used to use dia, but finally saw the light.
I'm on Fedora 16 and yes, Gnome3 is a challenge. But the biggest problem I'm facing is interoperability with the Microsoft world. I have to bring up Windows in a VM just to do simple, everyday things like email and calendaring, WebEx conferencing, documentation and diagramming.
I'm a pretty technical user and have been using Linux as my primary desktop for over a decade. Lately, even I am having trouble seeing it as a viable alternative to windows.
IPv6 is cool, I get it. But how many ISPs are offering it to their consumers? If I want to build a web presence, would I settle for only IPv6 address space? If not, how much would I pay to buy into the IPv4 space so I can reach all my potential customers?
I know this has been discussed before, but it really begs the question of how to preserve digital data for long periods of time. Stone tablets last for thousands of years; paper for hundreds (or more, if in climate-controlled storage). What have we got for (large amounts of) digital data?
Fukushima is just an example that a complex technology like nuclear power can fail, even with a lot of safeguards in place and in a high-tech country like Japan.
...and how do you safeguard against incompetence, greed, and other undesirable features of human nature? Nuclear systems and their waste require constant care and diligence to prevent catastrophes. Most other power generation systems will simply shut down, and at worst the damage will be very localized, when there is a fault, design flaw, or neglect.
If you can telecommute full time and do your job from the comfort of home, then so can anyone in the world. You're now competing with folks who would be happy to have your job at 10% of what you're paid -- not just a 10% discount!
My wife and I talked about emergency preparedness the other day. She wanted to buy a kit from Costco, and I pointed out that with a little creativity we already have a lot of what we need.
Water: first off, our R.O. unit has a 2 gallon tank. Each of our toilets has 1.6 gallons in the tank. We have a propane BBQ and at least one tank of propane on hand so we could start boiling water the stored water runs out. If the muni water system isn't delivering anything at all, there's a creek nearby. And we have a ceramic purifier filter (for backpacking) that we could use in a pinch.
Food: At any given time there's at least 2 weeks' worth of dry and canned goods in our pantry. We shop at Costco and naturally stock up.
Shelter / warmth: We have a couple of tents, tarps, sleeping bags, and lots of blankets and sheets.
First aid: We already have a first aid kit.
Communications: We have a hand-crank radio, and a solar battery / cell phone charger.
Defence: In my mind, the most important item after water. We have weapons and ammunition.
I'm encouraged to hear that major organizations are finally seeing the light.
To use a (yet another, sorry) car analogy: Open source is like being able to buy a service manual and replacement parts at your local auto shop, and then doing the work yourself -- or paying a mechanic of your choice to do it for you. Closed source is more like buying the car with the hood welded shut, and any attempt to modify or service it yourself not only voids the warranty, but is actually criminal in some situations and jurisdictions. Moreover, the manufacturer is under no obligation to disclose or repair defects or "undocumented features" -- such as logging your travels and selling it to the highest bidder.
The first time Joe Newbie tries to open a Shockwave web page, send an OpenOffice document to his buddy (who uses MS) that opens with crapped-up formatting, or tries to connect to an Exchange server (and no, OWA light is not a good alternative), he's going to have a bad taste in his mouth.
Badly written or no, the majority of the desktop/laptop world is using closed source products that are largely designed not to play well with anything else. Add to that teams of developers on the closed source side who are paid to iron out the nagging little bugs and quirks that make the (G)UI experience uncomfortable to the end user, but that most open source developers aren't interested in dealing with (it's not an itch they need/want to scratch). I don't know how open source can compete with that.
Amen to that. I've been running MythTV and receiving OTA broadcasts for years, and I always have at least 100 hours of yet-to-be-watched backlog. It's only gotten better since the final digital cutover, and I use my Netflix subscription to fill any gaps. I figure the money I've saved in cable bills has paid for my MythTV hardware several times over by now.
Then have the customer enter the spot number they parked in at the pay box. No return trip, no silly paper receipt to put on the dash board, no worries. Was that so hard?
I would not be the least bit surprised to find out that the "drift" always happens in favor of the candidate(s) (or their party) who were bought by the company that built the machine.
Anyone not convinced of the harm excessive copyright does to society should read Spider Robinson's Melancholy Elephants. It's truly saddening to see the direction all this stuff is going.
I remember Sun's 52xx NAS storage line was a non-starter for many because it didn't have a lot of the competition's (NTAP) features that made it Just Work with Active Directory, CIFS, etc. I wonder if this is still the case?
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Really, moderator? -1 Troll for this? I am so disappointed in Slashdot's mod system.
I imagine those same areas with high racial animus also had greater incidents of voter suppression and other dirty tricks to keep people of color away from the polls. It's certainly not as clear cut as the summary makes it sound.
In the United States it is about making victims feel better, and about making money for the privatized prison industry.
FTFY
Is there a reason why you don't see it as a viable alternative to Windows?
Interoperability, see the thread above. Everyone I do business with uses Windows.
On the off chance this isn't a troll... My employer uses a hosted Exchange 2010 provider. Evolution doesn't interoperate with it, and OWA is a joke. Everyone I do business with uses Microsoft Office, and although OpenOffice and LibreOffice often get document conversions correct, they have failed often enough that I find it's not worth the bother. Diagramming: Visio wins, hands down. I used to use dia, but finally saw the light.
I'm on Fedora 16 and yes, Gnome3 is a challenge. But the biggest problem I'm facing is interoperability with the Microsoft world. I have to bring up Windows in a VM just to do simple, everyday things like email and calendaring, WebEx conferencing, documentation and diagramming.
I'm a pretty technical user and have been using Linux as my primary desktop for over a decade. Lately, even I am having trouble seeing it as a viable alternative to windows.
Examples, please. Can you give us at least a few links to these in Red Hat's Bugzilla?
IPv6 is cool, I get it. But how many ISPs are offering it to their consumers? If I want to build a web presence, would I settle for only IPv6 address space? If not, how much would I pay to buy into the IPv4 space so I can reach all my potential customers?
I know this has been discussed before, but it really begs the question of how to preserve digital data for long periods of time. Stone tablets last for thousands of years; paper for hundreds (or more, if in climate-controlled storage). What have we got for (large amounts of) digital data?
Check out the ongoing hearings at Ryerson University in Toronto. http://torontohearings.org/
Tune into the live stream at
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/thetorontohearings
Fukushima is just an example that a complex technology like nuclear power can fail, even with a lot of safeguards in place and in a high-tech country like Japan.
If you can telecommute full time and do your job from the comfort of home, then so can anyone in the world. You're now competing with folks who would be happy to have your job at 10% of what you're paid -- not just a 10% discount!
My wife and I talked about emergency preparedness the other day. She wanted to buy a kit from Costco, and I pointed out that with a little creativity we already have a lot of what we need.
Water: first off, our R.O. unit has a 2 gallon tank. Each of our toilets has 1.6 gallons in the tank. We have a propane BBQ and at least one tank of propane on hand so we could start boiling water the stored water runs out. If the muni water system isn't delivering anything at all, there's a creek nearby. And we have a ceramic purifier filter (for backpacking) that we could use in a pinch.
Food: At any given time there's at least 2 weeks' worth of dry and canned goods in our pantry. We shop at Costco and naturally stock up.
Shelter / warmth: We have a couple of tents, tarps, sleeping bags, and lots of blankets and sheets.
First aid: We already have a first aid kit.
Communications: We have a hand-crank radio, and a solar battery / cell phone charger.
Defence: In my mind, the most important item after water. We have weapons and ammunition.
I'm encouraged to hear that major organizations are finally seeing the light.
To use a (yet another, sorry) car analogy: Open source is like being able to buy a service manual and replacement parts at your local auto shop, and then doing the work yourself -- or paying a mechanic of your choice to do it for you. Closed source is more like buying the car with the hood welded shut, and any attempt to modify or service it yourself not only voids the warranty, but is actually criminal in some situations and jurisdictions. Moreover, the manufacturer is under no obligation to disclose or repair defects or "undocumented features" -- such as logging your travels and selling it to the highest bidder.
It's the applications, stupid.
The first time Joe Newbie tries to open a Shockwave web page, send an OpenOffice document to his buddy (who uses MS) that opens with crapped-up formatting, or tries to connect to an Exchange server (and no, OWA light is not a good alternative), he's going to have a bad taste in his mouth.
Badly written or no, the majority of the desktop/laptop world is using closed source products that are largely designed not to play well with anything else. Add to that teams of developers on the closed source side who are paid to iron out the nagging little bugs and quirks that make the (G)UI experience uncomfortable to the end user, but that most open source developers aren't interested in dealing with (it's not an itch they need/want to scratch). I don't know how open source can compete with that.
Then, if I need to preserve Linux file settings I'll zip, tar, or cpio and store them on the stick that way.
OK, you may sit in a room filled with just 20% CO2 for 10 minutes.
Amen to that. I've been running MythTV and receiving OTA broadcasts for years, and I always have at least 100 hours of yet-to-be-watched backlog. It's only gotten better since the final digital cutover, and I use my Netflix subscription to fill any gaps. I figure the money I've saved in cable bills has paid for my MythTV hardware several times over by now.
Then have the customer enter the spot number they parked in at the pay box. No return trip, no silly paper receipt to put on the dash board, no worries. Was that so hard?
I would not be the least bit surprised to find out that the "drift" always happens in favor of the candidate(s) (or their party) who were bought by the company that built the machine.
Who's dumber -- the politicians or the voters who (put them|allow them to remain) in office?
Anyone not convinced of the harm excessive copyright does to society should read Spider Robinson's Melancholy Elephants. It's truly saddening to see the direction all this stuff is going.
I remember Sun's 52xx NAS storage line was a non-starter for many because it didn't have a lot of the competition's (NTAP) features that made it Just Work with Active Directory, CIFS, etc. I wonder if this is still the case?
Why not instead regulate the power companies so they don't tamper with capacity and force rolling blackouts to raise prices? Enron? Anyone?