Anyone remember 'Sleepers', the Woody Allen movie in which he ends up years in the future?
He wanders around a hospital, wondering where his granola and sprouts are, and the Drs. tell him that oh no,everything we thought was bad for you, we now know is actually good for you, and everything bad for you is actually good for you, as they polish off donuts etc. Somehow makes me think of the Atkins diet, dunno.
Even if it weren't so ridiculous, I think the whole problem with the Atkins diet, and other fad diets, is that there simply *isn't* 20 years of research, because it's simply the latest fad diet.
Before all the Microsoft apologists jump in and point out that any system can have vulnerabilities, and Linux users should not bash Microsoft.
Interestingly, *nix users don't seem to howl at Slashdot for publishing every vulnerability that comes along in *nix, rather there are discussions of the best way to patch etc, whereas I've noticed that every time there is an post about the latest Windows/IE/SQL Server/?? hole, there is a deluge of postings from defensive MSFT zealots who loudly complain that the Slashdot world is picking on them. Odd.
His name is Torvalds remember - he attended university in Finland, but for some reason everyone mistakes him for a Finn - the ignorance of people, huh!
And Sweden has fjords- So the joke stands. No doubt not as spectacular as the ones in Norway or elsewhere..
(I recently found out that they're switching their software to a.Net platform, so I can't even use Linux on the server
So you're *less* supported in the Enterprise with.NET? That's unfortunate, one of the things MSFT has (I thought) improved is it's enterprise capabilities, with the realization that not all customers can go to a 100% MSFT infrastructure, so they made their stuff (.NET) easier to work with, ostensibly with their web services push, xml etc.
so no big improvement, instead a step back to more, closed source, proprietary, solutions that leave the customer stuck?
Any option to take a look at other loan origination software, since it's likely to be quite a change from VB (or whatever) to.NET anyway, i.e. a total rewrite, so you're basically changing software whether you thing so or not.
Ever hear of the internet? No, it wasn't invented by Al Gore, contrary to popular belief.
So actually, governments, like universities, can provide funding and research for new areas other profit minded, money at all costs, corporations wouldn't.
Read the article. There are very good reasons for supporting Linux, namely open standards. It's more than whether it's the best technical solution. (Even on that point Linux is superior to Microsoft, which like SCO, is more about Marketing, Lobbying, and Legal Maneuvering than anything technical).
In Wisconsin, subarus are extremely popular, to a lesser extent, audis, saabs, volvos etc. And the other 50% drive suvs. It's also surprising how few people ever think of using snow tires also, there are some amazing ones - Hakapalitas (Finnish) that are for serious snow - I have front wheel drive and have no problems on the rare occasions (nowadays) when there is a blizzard, I really need to go out, and the snow plows haven't done their usually efficient job of clearing the streets.
Another thing people don't realize - ice is ice, whether you have 4 wheel drive or not, you're going to slip.
So I agree buying an SUV is all about image, which is handily used by the advertisers as they show SUVs plowing through the snowdrifts. My brother bought an Escape, they thought of buying a minivan, but the wife just couldn't see herself in one of 'em. Now they're thinking of getting one. Really, if you look at some of them, especially the Ford Expedition, they look like an elevated mini-van.
I recall a similar difference in going to Palo Alto from San Francisco:
Drive:
-Walk to parking space 5 min (this is SF)
-Drive down to PA - about 45 minutes, provided it wasn't rush hour. The thing about CA is there is *always* traffic, even at 11:00 at night, but at least it moves.
Take the bus:
-walk to subway stop (what do they call these things in Germany - ubahns right? Sort of like a newer trolley)
-subway to market st. (25 min)
-run! to bus station (5 min)
-bus to Palo Alto (1 hr-1.5 hrs)
-walk to wherever (10-20 min)
Take the train:
-first part is same as bus, except you go to the train station.
-train takes about an hr - but goes all the way to San Jose!
-walk
So if the traffic wasn't bad, even though SF has a really good transportation (comparing to the rest of rest of the country!), it takes considerably longer. But one benefit - you can read on the train/bus.
As another poster said, if you can bike, that's probably the best. Biking in SF was great!
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... they don't spend any time teaching you basic stuff you should've learned in High School (Calc, Physics, Biology), so their first year is like your junior year. According to some studies published in Time (and other magazines) as far as Math and Science, foreign h.s. students (England, Hungary, Japan, Hong Kong) leave American h.s. students in the dust, so we have a little catching up to do.
Good idea anyway - really, it can't be harder than a Chinese student following English, spoken in a Texas accent, right?
knowing a lot of intricate details and knowledge of unstable APIs written by other people and not maintained in a consistent or even perfectly protable format.
Gadzooks. You mean the Win32 proprietary API with all it's arcane, unwieldy, undocumented features right? You can't possibly be talking (with any knowledge) about Unix/Linux, when there are *great* libraries such as TrollTech's QT, or GTK that you can use to program circles around those using that MFC monstrosity. Granted.NET is an improvement, but they've only caught up to where Java was 5 years ago.
"Protable" format? Dunno - Linux seems to be ported to just about any device imaginable from PDA's to Mainframes.
It's posts like these, oddly defensive of MSFT that make me wonder whether Bill hasn't sent a decree out to his employees to logon to Slashdot and post crackpot stuff about how great MSFT is.
IZE was written by Persoft Corp., 465 Science Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 53711
This was one of those revolutionary products that never really took off for some reason. Text -based word processor , but this was pre-Windows (perhaps that was the problem).
From what I remember, you could create a document, and then save it based with keywords. It was really aimed at writers and was a great way to organize a bunch of documents, create outlines etc. Sort of like having an electronic file card system. Very very cool - the Windows Explorer is almost primitive by comparison. Could've easily extended it to support any type of file.
In Wisconsin they are considering requiring some sort of license for Jetskiers. They comprise 1% of the watercraft yet are involved in somewhere around 30-40% of the water accidents.
It takes about one ski-boat to cause problems with an 8.
The water taxi/bus system in Venice is quite fantastic. They even have free gondolas to get across certain parts of the canals where there aren't bridges. Now that's the way to travel!
Pitching this amphib as a way to solve London's travel problems is ridiculous, when they already have some good solutions (alternate driving days, blocking off certain parts of city from cars, etc).
From the start of the case, Jackson seemed to have no bias one way or another.
I read a good article about the case, think it was Wired perhaps, in which it said that Jackson is a very good judge, and was very un-biased, however he was sharp enough to see right through Gate's thin excuses and ridiculous logic.
... it is now the standard for companies needing a low or mid range solution.
Hardly - I'd say that is MySQL which owns the low end, not MSFT. PostgreSQL is competing with MySQL and MSFT on the low end, and Oracle, DB2 on the high end.
Unlike MSFT, Oracle happens to run on other platforms besides Linux, a part of the world DOS people tend to forget about. That's why the Oracle installer is so great - same installer whether Windows, Solaris, Linux what have you. And I don't know, but I found the installer worked great. Numlock key - you lost me there, sounds like one of those support call jokes or something though....
More apps should do this, such as DB2. Point is gotta think outside the box a little.
and now, a few years later, I really cant remember which was which. Can't really remember your ethics class either, or is that not offered these days?
This controversy is no different from giant drug companies piling money into schools, beefing up their biotechnology programs etc, or Bush's 200 million USD campaign warchest. IMO, this is a *big* issue, and in the end dilutes the integrity, purpose and freedom of the university.
And at the University of Waterloo last year, administrators announced a $1.6 million donation from Microsoft. At the same time they announced they would change the curriculum to introduce Microsoft's C# programming language into the first-year programming course instead of the more popular and long-established C++ they were currently using.
What a coincidence.
Senators Feingold and McCain say that campaign financing contributes to the public's belief that the political system is corrupt. Same with universities. I'm not saying funding should be disallowed, however, it's one thing to pay for a new building, quite another to be dictating to the universities.
This article
sums it up pretty well. Scary when books like those by Philip K. Dick and newspapers like the Onion are our reality.
I'd rate this as a troll, or maybe hypocritical. The writer calls for folks to boycott TrollTech, yet works for a company supported by Canopy/SCO, in a building with SCO?
Right...
Here's a better idea: kick in the funding to match whatever Canopy provides TrollTech, they do sell licenses...or does the tune change when it comes down to actual dollars and cents?
Good point. As other posters have suggested, you might not get the run of the mill IT job as you're overqualified (and would be bored), but that the degree would be a requirement for, say, Intel. It's not so much your exact coursework, they really want to see whether you have what it takes to work at the company.
One disadvantage I haven't seen mentioned is that in the time you are working on your phd, others with a lowly masters are moving into management positions, so that you might end up being hired by a classmate.
That highlights another advantage, and suggestion: good schools count, as it's a great way to get a connection into a company if there are already folks from your school there, who know the quality of the education there.
One of the coolest things about Opera is that it has static builds, which is fantastic if you are running, say, SuSE 6.2 on a Pentium with 128MB RAM. Except for Navigator 4.7 locking up/crashing, I didn't want to make too many changes to this pc (dual boot win95).
Anyway, once I saw the simplicity of a static build, the question certainly comes to mind - why aren't more apps packaged this way?
Agreed, part of the OSS appeal is that if you can't find the binaries for CVS for Solaris 2.7, you can download and build it yourself. Very cool. Which is great when you have some time and semi-experienced Solaris sys admins.
But when you're just trying to get some app working, like a word processor, and you realize it needs the 2.2.10 kernel, and you've got 2.2.4, and it needs GTK+ 2.whatever - I'll take the static libs, if available, I think the advantages (simplicity, and even you're actually able to run) far outweigh any disadvantages (bloat?)
This is actually a very smart move, and rather than show they are worried about possible suits happening, they are confident they can win. Remember, case is about SCO & IBM, but all the FUD is hurting RH sales, what with the Gartner urging caution and taking SCO seriously (Gartner has some interesting articles on Linux, but seems to be somewhat of a Microsoft bias, i.e. the "myths" article).
With the daily lawsuits against Microsoft, some big some little, or AT&T vs BSD, did people hold off buying DOS or Unix? No. So I think their advice is wrong, but it unfortunately holds sway over the IT managers. I think RH has thought this through carefully, as has IBM, and they are making their counter-move.
Using the same MCA analogy, surely there were those who said the same about the IBM standards. Then we'd all still be running PS/2s and fuming about the prices of the hardware devices (have to be MCA compatible).
But instead IBM fumbled, lost it's lead. If the masses can run their same apps on a Microsoft-clone, at cheaper prices (no MS tax), on the latest hardware, maybe..
Yes, but steel/aluminum won't rot,[snip]
There is that rust problem though - there was an article recently discussing the millions (or billions) spent by the U.S. Army because of rust problems. Now there's a thought - bamboo fighter jets! Not too far fetched - anyone remember the Spruce Goose?
course, fixing cd-rom drivers is a little more tricky than, say, regular tech support, i.e. is the thing with the hard drive on?
Very Cool. I like the OSS use.
Likewise, a friend of mine, while working for a consulting co., wrote a "configurator" app on the side for hisrelative. He ditched the consulting co and, a few years later, he's flying out to Winnipeg, and all over, to sell the software, and has 5-6 employees, moved into bigger office space, and considered merging with another company, for a shit-load of money too. But you need the right people..
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As a matter of fact, the food pyramid is currently being revised, and it does include exercise.
He wanders around a hospital, wondering where his granola and sprouts are, and the Drs. tell him that oh no,everything we thought was bad for you, we now know is actually good for you, and everything bad for you is actually good for you, as they polish off donuts etc. Somehow makes me think of the Atkins diet, dunno.
Even if it weren't so ridiculous, I think the whole problem with the Atkins diet, and other fad diets, is that there simply *isn't* 20 years of research, because it's simply the latest fad diet.
Interestingly, *nix users don't seem to howl at Slashdot for publishing every vulnerability that comes along in *nix, rather there are discussions of the best way to patch etc, whereas I've noticed that every time there is an post about the latest Windows/IE/SQL Server/?? hole, there is a deluge of postings from defensive MSFT zealots who loudly complain that the Slashdot world is picking on them. Odd.
And Sweden has fjords- So the joke stands. No doubt not as spectacular as the ones in Norway or elsewhere..
So you're *less* supported in the Enterprise with .NET? That's unfortunate, one of the things MSFT has (I thought) improved is it's enterprise capabilities, with the realization that not all customers can go to a 100% MSFT infrastructure, so they made their stuff (.NET) easier to work with, ostensibly with their web services push, xml etc.
so no big improvement, instead a step back to more, closed source, proprietary, solutions that leave the customer stuck?
Any option to take a look at other loan origination software, since it's likely to be quite a change from VB (or whatever) to .NET anyway, i.e. a total rewrite, so you're basically changing software whether you thing so or not.
So actually, governments, like universities, can provide funding and research for new areas other profit minded, money at all costs, corporations wouldn't.
Read the article. There are very good reasons for supporting Linux, namely open standards. It's more than whether it's the best technical solution. (Even on that point Linux is superior to Microsoft, which like SCO, is more about Marketing, Lobbying, and Legal Maneuvering than anything technical).
Another thing people don't realize - ice is ice, whether you have 4 wheel drive or not, you're going to slip.
So I agree buying an SUV is all about image, which is handily used by the advertisers as they show SUVs plowing through the snowdrifts. My brother bought an Escape, they thought of buying a minivan, but the wife just couldn't see herself in one of 'em. Now they're thinking of getting one. Really, if you look at some of them, especially the Ford Expedition, they look like an elevated mini-van.
I recall a similar difference in going to Palo Alto from San Francisco: Drive: -Walk to parking space 5 min (this is SF) -Drive down to PA - about 45 minutes, provided it wasn't rush hour. The thing about CA is there is *always* traffic, even at 11:00 at night, but at least it moves. Take the bus: -walk to subway stop (what do they call these things in Germany - ubahns right? Sort of like a newer trolley) -subway to market st. (25 min) -run! to bus station (5 min) -bus to Palo Alto (1 hr-1.5 hrs) -walk to wherever (10-20 min) Take the train: -first part is same as bus, except you go to the train station. -train takes about an hr - but goes all the way to San Jose! -walk So if the traffic wasn't bad, even though SF has a really good transportation (comparing to the rest of rest of the country!), it takes considerably longer. But one benefit - you can read on the train/bus. As another poster said, if you can bike, that's probably the best. Biking in SF was great! -
Good idea anyway - really, it can't be harder than a Chinese student following English, spoken in a Texas accent, right?
Gadzooks. You mean the Win32 proprietary API with all it's arcane, unwieldy, undocumented features right? You can't possibly be talking (with any knowledge) about Unix/Linux, when there are *great* libraries such as TrollTech's QT, or GTK that you can use to program circles around those using that MFC monstrosity. Granted .NET is an improvement, but they've only caught up to where Java was 5 years ago.
"Protable" format? Dunno - Linux seems to be ported to just about any device imaginable from PDA's to Mainframes.
It's posts like these, oddly defensive of MSFT that make me wonder whether Bill hasn't sent a decree out to his employees to logon to Slashdot and post crackpot stuff about how great MSFT is.
This was one of those revolutionary products that never really took off for some reason. Text -based word processor , but this was pre-Windows (perhaps that was the problem).
From what I remember, you could create a document, and then save it based with keywords. It was really aimed at writers and was a great way to organize a bunch of documents, create outlines etc. Sort of like having an electronic file card system. Very very cool - the Windows Explorer is almost primitive by comparison. Could've easily extended it to support any type of file.
It's a great idea nice to see GNOME pick it up.
In Wisconsin they are considering requiring some sort of license for Jetskiers. They comprise 1% of the watercraft yet are involved in somewhere around 30-40% of the water accidents.
The water taxi/bus system in Venice is quite fantastic. They even have free gondolas to get across certain parts of the canals where there aren't bridges. Now that's the way to travel!
Pitching this amphib as a way to solve London's travel problems is ridiculous, when they already have some good solutions (alternate driving days, blocking off certain parts of city from cars, etc).
I read a good article about the case, think it was Wired perhaps, in which it said that Jackson is a very good judge, and was very un-biased, however he was sharp enough to see right through Gate's thin excuses and ridiculous logic.
Hardly - I'd say that is MySQL which owns the low end, not MSFT. PostgreSQL is competing with MySQL and MSFT on the low end, and Oracle, DB2 on the high end.
More apps should do this, such as DB2. Point is gotta think outside the box a little.
Now all the money is in lawsuits ;)
and now, a few years later, I really cant remember which was which. Can't really remember your ethics class either, or is that not offered these days?
This controversy is no different from giant drug companies piling money into schools, beefing up their biotechnology programs etc, or Bush's 200 million USD campaign warchest. IMO, this is a *big* issue, and in the end dilutes the integrity, purpose and freedom of the university.
What a coincidence.
Senators Feingold and McCain say that campaign financing contributes to the public's belief that the political system is corrupt. Same with universities. I'm not saying funding should be disallowed, however, it's one thing to pay for a new building, quite another to be dictating to the universities. This article sums it up pretty well. Scary when books like those by Philip K. Dick and newspapers like the Onion are our reality.
I'd rate this as a troll, or maybe hypocritical. The writer calls for folks to boycott TrollTech, yet works for a company supported by Canopy/SCO, in a building with SCO?
Right...
Here's a better idea: kick in the funding to match whatever Canopy provides TrollTech, they do sell licenses...or does the tune change when it comes down to actual dollars and cents?
One disadvantage I haven't seen mentioned is that in the time you are working on your phd, others with a lowly masters are moving into management positions, so that you might end up being hired by a classmate.
That highlights another advantage, and suggestion: good schools count, as it's a great way to get a connection into a company if there are already folks from your school there, who know the quality of the education there.
Anyway, once I saw the simplicity of a static build, the question certainly comes to mind - why aren't more apps packaged this way?
Agreed, part of the OSS appeal is that if you can't find the binaries for CVS for Solaris 2.7, you can download and build it yourself. Very cool. Which is great when you have some time and semi-experienced Solaris sys admins.
But when you're just trying to get some app working, like a word processor, and you realize it needs the 2.2.10 kernel, and you've got 2.2.4, and it needs GTK+ 2.whatever - I'll take the static libs, if available, I think the advantages (simplicity, and even you're actually able to run) far outweigh any disadvantages (bloat?)
With the daily lawsuits against Microsoft, some big some little, or AT&T vs BSD, did people hold off buying DOS or Unix? No. So I think their advice is wrong, but it unfortunately holds sway over the IT managers. I think RH has thought this through carefully, as has IBM, and they are making their counter-move.
But instead IBM fumbled, lost it's lead. If the masses can run their same apps on a Microsoft-clone, at cheaper prices (no MS tax), on the latest hardware, maybe..
Yes, but steel/aluminum won't rot,[snip] There is that rust problem though - there was an article recently discussing the millions (or billions) spent by the U.S. Army because of rust problems. Now there's a thought - bamboo fighter jets! Not too far fetched - anyone remember the Spruce Goose?
Very Cool. I like the OSS use.
Likewise, a friend of mine, while working for a consulting co., wrote a "configurator" app on the side for hisrelative. He ditched the consulting co and, a few years later, he's flying out to Winnipeg, and all over, to sell the software, and has 5-6 employees, moved into bigger office space, and considered merging with another company, for a shit-load of money too. But you need the right people..