I'm afraid merging with corporate giants would kill the goose that laid the golden egg. The days of free Linux would become over and Linux would become the MS Works of the OS world. Even the Bible points this out:
Proverbs 50 3 Thou shalt love free stuff for it is a gift from God. Do not flee from wisdom. 4 For the joy of the Lord is thy reward when thy hand reaches out for that which is free 5 Thou shalt not use dialogue as a verb. It is an abomination. Surely God will smite thee and seven generations forthwith.
That was my question. Storm is supposedly a "better" version of Deb. If Deb monkeys with the terms, that leaves Storm in a lurch.
Everyone tells me to wait for the "next" version of Deb/Storm. Theoretically, I could be gumming a chicken bone at the old programmers home when the "next" version comes out.
My guess is Linux will go to the lawyers. The only reason MS hasn't crushed Linux is they are using it to pretend everyone isn't forced to use Windows. If they split MS, I bet those gloves come off. MS OS buys a few Linux versions and sues the rest out of existance.
Within 5 years, a programmer knows whether he can cut it or not. If he's a lousy coder or doesn't like it, he won't last. So there will always be a demand for coders at any age. I'm 42 and I told employers that I was a coder. Not a manager, not a project lead. I code. It's what I do. I never had problems getting a job.
Rant to employers:
I think technical questions are idiotic. I code for a living, I don't take tests for a living. Make me write a program instead of answering trivia questions that YOU can't even answer.
Don't ask me to code in Java if you don't know anything about Java. I hate interviewing for jobs needing Java and I ask "Why are you using Java?" and they stare at me. Then they want ME to tell THEM why THEY are using Java.
If you don't let me talk to your programmers in the interview, I'm not coming to work for you. It's that simple. You are hiding something.
Hire programmers, not people who can simply pass technical questions. I have worked with tons of people who can tell you about OOP but can't figure out an IF statement. The vast majority of programmers wash out because they can't do the logic. Programming is more than syntax.
You can't have short-order food without some waitress calling you "honey" and asking "You want grreeeettss with that, honey". Yeah, just scoop them down the ole trous if you please maam. And another cup of this boiling tar please. Got any Al Green on the jukebox?
Who would throw out the drunks? Nah. It will never work. Too clean. Never trust a diner over a B. Food's no good.
I started as a programmer for $11k a year in the solid core of the Reagan Recession. My goal is to die at my desk of doughnut inhalation. I'm hoping in 20 years, I will able to write a COBOL app that will kick a Java+++ app down a flight of steps and leave it crippled for life.
CIO - A light-skinned version of Gunga Din, he's pretty boy who believes everything he reads in a science fiction novel should be implemented in a week. His primary function is to figure out what "casual" means while bowing and scraping to everyone above janitor. See "clueless dipshit".
Administrative Assistant - a comatose, gun-chewing zombie with a candy dish who can change a highly-paid executive to a quivering bowl of pudding by threatening to take a vacation, leaving him to fetch coffee for himself. See "shaker".
Systems Pukes - Arrogant bit-twiddlers who sit around doing work no one understands but everyone needs. Occaisonally, they purposely break the system and put it back together to prove their worth.
Application Programmers - smug resume monkeys who make prostitutes look like nuns. Most of their day is spend looking for another job. The rest of the time they are avoiding meetings and hunting free food. They will leave a company for $1 more an hour but will remain loyal to a department for an $8 pizza.
Analysts - Programmers who can't code. Their functions including stating the obvious and avoiding responsiblity. The chief aim of the analyst is to create a system without a spec thereby rendering them blameless.
Project Leaders - the dumping ground of IT. Drooling pirates who will swing into meetings and lash each other with promises to the amusement of management. Then they will stagger back to the staff and announce some impossible deadline that was born to be pushed out to sea. The sworn enemies of programmers everywhere. See also "Euthenasia"
DBA's - Anal-retentive spellcheckers whose chief purpose is to slow work to a crawl.
the last stronghold of intellectual freedom -------------------
Obviously not written by someone who has been to a college or university in a few years. Freedom of speech and non-comformity are almost dead on campuses these days. You conform to the rigid standards of thought or you pay.
I went to school in the 70's and groups used to stand up in the cafeteria and announce rallies and forums. Opposing people would boo them when they were through. You stand up and announce something in the cafeteria today and they will arrest unless you conform to the university standard and then they will bust the people who boo.
Florida (State?) is using their mainframe to run web for students. You can choke the bandwidth to the floor before you get the mainframe to even gag. That's one use but I bet you don't need Linux to do it.
Linux advantage over Unix is its openness. I'm trying to imagine a shop that can afford a mainframe AND wants to run Linux.
Of course, I'm trying to imagine the shitbag who invented JCL.
The nicest thing about Slashdot is you can set your threshhold above the noise. Unfortunately, that means I can never read my own posts.
The Internet has grown up. Because of that, it is expected to act like an adult. You have to respect copyrights now and lawyers have discovered the great untapped wealth that is the Internet. The carefree days of posting articles to alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater have come and gone. Even FreeRepublic is being sued for posting articles from websites. Who da thought that copying and pasting would one day be a crime?
But it's just so hard to feel sorry for those millionaires in Redmond.
Write a Javascript embedded in an HTML that automatically sends the reader to another website. How much damage can you do to a person's PC once they get to a website? Especially with Java or VB/JavaScript?
The problem would be that it wouldn't take long for the site to get shuttered and the manhunt would be on. Perhaps.
I'm running Outlook with the preview pane open and I got this email a dozen times before I created a rule to trash it. No problems whatsoever. All you have to be is smart.
But if they gave me a Linux box, I'd trash this NT POS but they don't.
I don't understand the whole thing. Metallica is suing some nebulous "thing" that is almost undefinable by suing the interface. It's like me suing Dell because a porn pic flashed on the screen.
On the other hand, you have a bunch of programmers who would scream bloody murder if someone jacked their bread-winning code or stole their cool domain name.
It's like two toddlers bickering in a sandbox. And it's endlessly entertaining.
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I thought Napster's defense was they couldn't pull MP3's. All of this was just free chaff blowing in the wind. Wha happen?
I'm afraid merging with corporate giants would kill the goose that laid the golden egg. The days of free Linux would become over and Linux would become the MS Works of the OS world. Even the Bible points this out:
Proverbs 50
3 Thou shalt love free stuff for it is a gift from God. Do not flee from wisdom.
4 For the joy of the Lord is thy reward when thy hand reaches out for that which is free
5 Thou shalt not use dialogue as a verb. It is an abomination. Surely God will smite thee and seven generations forthwith.
WHAT? I'm sitting here in this bunker with all this Spam and there is power up there. I'm not listening...AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
That was my question. Storm is supposedly a "better" version of Deb. If Deb monkeys with the terms, that leaves Storm in a lurch.
Everyone tells me to wait for the "next" version of Deb/Storm. Theoretically, I could be gumming a chicken bone at the old programmers home when the "next" version comes out.
My guess is Linux will go to the lawyers. The only reason MS hasn't crushed Linux is they are using it to pretend everyone isn't forced to use Windows. If they split MS, I bet those gloves come off. MS OS buys a few Linux versions and sues the rest out of existance.
But the 7.1 distro is on the Norway site. And it's not labeled hydrogen.
Within 5 years, a programmer knows whether he can cut it or not. If he's a lousy coder or doesn't like it, he won't last. So there will always be a demand for coders at any age. I'm 42 and I told employers that I was a coder. Not a manager, not a project lead. I code. It's what I do. I never had problems getting a job.
Rant to employers:
I think technical questions are idiotic. I code for a living, I don't take tests for a living. Make me write a program instead of answering trivia questions that YOU can't even answer.
Don't ask me to code in Java if you don't know anything about Java. I hate interviewing for jobs needing Java and I ask "Why are you using Java?" and they stare at me. Then they want ME to tell THEM why THEY are using Java.
If you don't let me talk to your programmers in the interview, I'm not coming to work for you. It's that simple. You are hiding something.
Hire programmers, not people who can simply pass technical questions. I have worked with tons of people who can tell you about OOP but can't figure out an IF statement. The vast majority of programmers wash out because they can't do the logic. Programming is more than syntax.
Oddly reminiscent of the old "cassette recorders are cutting into album sales" cries of the 70's. You can't make this stuff up anymore.
Just like deja vu all over again.
You can't have short-order food without some waitress calling you "honey" and asking "You want grreeeettss with that, honey". Yeah, just scoop them down the ole trous if you please maam. And another cup of this boiling tar please. Got any Al Green on the jukebox?
Who would throw out the drunks? Nah. It will never work. Too clean. Never trust a diner over a B. Food's no good.
I started as a programmer for $11k a year in the solid core of the Reagan Recession. My goal is to die at my desk of doughnut inhalation. I'm hoping in 20 years, I will able to write a COBOL app that will kick a Java+++ app down a flight of steps and leave it crippled for life.
CIO - A light-skinned version of Gunga Din, he's pretty boy who believes everything he reads in a science fiction novel should be implemented in a week. His primary function is to figure out what "casual" means while bowing and scraping to everyone above janitor. See "clueless dipshit".
Administrative Assistant - a comatose, gun-chewing zombie with a candy dish who can change a highly-paid executive to a quivering bowl of pudding by threatening to take a vacation, leaving him to fetch coffee for himself. See "shaker".
Systems Pukes - Arrogant bit-twiddlers who sit around doing work no one understands but everyone needs. Occaisonally, they purposely break the system and put it back together to prove their worth.
Application Programmers - smug resume monkeys who make prostitutes look like nuns. Most of their day is spend looking for another job. The rest of the time they are avoiding meetings and hunting free food. They will leave a company for $1 more an hour but will remain loyal to a department for an $8 pizza.
Analysts - Programmers who can't code. Their functions including stating the obvious and avoiding responsiblity. The chief aim of the analyst is to create a system without a spec thereby rendering them blameless.
Project Leaders - the dumping ground of IT. Drooling pirates who will swing into meetings and lash each other with promises to the amusement of management. Then they will stagger back to the staff and announce some impossible deadline that was born to be pushed out to sea. The sworn enemies of programmers everywhere. See also "Euthenasia"
DBA's - Anal-retentive spellcheckers whose chief purpose is to slow work to a crawl.
the last stronghold of intellectual freedom
-------------------
Obviously not written by someone who has been to a college or university in a few years. Freedom of speech and non-comformity are almost dead on campuses these days. You conform to the rigid standards of thought or you pay.
I went to school in the 70's and groups used to stand up in the cafeteria and announce rallies and forums. Opposing people would boo them when they were through. You stand up and announce something in the cafeteria today and they will arrest unless you conform to the university standard and then they will bust the people who boo.
Virginia Tech seems to be enslaved to FreeBSD for the techies anyway.
Mandrake is RedHat. But if Redhat is even considering it, Mandrake is ready to do it.
Florida (State?) is using their mainframe to run web for students. You can choke the bandwidth to the floor before you get the mainframe to even gag. That's one use but I bet you don't need Linux to do it.
Linux advantage over Unix is its openness. I'm trying to imagine a shop that can afford a mainframe AND wants to run Linux.
Of course, I'm trying to imagine the shitbag who invented JCL.
You just choked an auditor to death through his anus.
I want to see you run a mainframe in your house.
I guess my stupid questions is Why? What advantages are there to running Linux on a mainframe?
Yeah. We said the same thing about CB radios in the 70's. Nice try but no cigar.
The nicest thing about Slashdot is you can set your threshhold above the noise. Unfortunately, that means I can never read my own posts.
The Internet has grown up. Because of that, it is expected to act like an adult. You have to respect copyrights now and lawyers have discovered the great untapped wealth that is the Internet. The carefree days of posting articles to alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater have come and gone. Even FreeRepublic is being sued for posting articles from websites. Who da thought that copying and pasting would one day be a crime?
But it's just so hard to feel sorry for those millionaires in Redmond.
Write a Javascript embedded in an HTML that automatically sends the reader to another website. How much damage can you do to a person's PC once they get to a website? Especially with Java or VB/JavaScript?
The problem would be that it wouldn't take long for the site to get shuttered and the manhunt would be on. Perhaps.
I'm running Outlook with the preview pane open and I got this email a dozen times before I created a rule to trash it. No problems whatsoever. All you have to be is smart.
But if they gave me a Linux box, I'd trash this NT POS but they don't.
I agree with you. The idea of $500 to talk about a free product is rather ridiculous.
Geez, just what we need. Something else to clog the net. Let's pray for new satellite technology.
If I run the script, will it download a case of Cokes to my PC or perhaps an A&F gift certificate?
We are being hammered. I finally shut down the mail client so I wouldn't have to process all the "There's a virus" or "Sorry I didn't know" emails.
I don't understand the whole thing. Metallica is suing some nebulous "thing" that is almost undefinable by suing the interface. It's like me suing Dell because a porn pic flashed on the screen.
On the other hand, you have a bunch of programmers who would scream bloody murder if someone jacked their bread-winning code or stole their cool domain name.
It's like two toddlers bickering in a sandbox. And it's endlessly entertaining.