Very romantic! I'm glad to see someone unafraid to tell the world they're in love. All the best!
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I agree with most of what you said. The only difference being the part about specialization.
I don't believe specialization equates necessarily with wage and/or benefit protections. IT workers with highly specialized skills can be used just as used and abused by their employers as any other group. Sure you can walk out of any company who mistreats you, but what happens to you if all companies behave as badly? How would being specialized help then?
First let me qualify what I say below: The sound of a few baby Bells controlling all the access sends chills up and down my spine. I trust them like I trust the oil companies:-P
That being said...
I considered getting xDSL from a third party provider until I learned that the third party still has to go through the local baby Bell for the actual wiring to my home. So in the event of something going wrong with the connection (everyone I know who has DSL has gotten screwed in one form or another) the third party has to go to baby Bell to fix whatever it is going wrong with the connection. This easily adds a week or more to resolving line issues.
I was tempted to cut through the middle man and go with the baby Bell in my area. Until I found out how much their maintenance department sucked.
I'm waiting for satellite technology to mature before jumping in. (sigh)
Class action? The FSF? What legal protections do the GPL and FSF have as legal entities? If the GPL qualifies for full protection under the law, why not just revise the GPL to plug the hole and have the FSF somehow divorce itself from the version of software abused by Sun?
Tim (some call me... Tim) said so eloquently what was formerly a proverb in the history of earth-shaking ideas, namely: So long as we spend all our energies justifying our own existence and/or paying too much attention to the Enemy we will never get anywhere in this world.
Hate to say it folks, but where I come from we call groups who defend themselves and exist for their own sakes bureaucrats (all suits and hairspray). It's so easy to justify ourselves by pointing a finger at someone else, but just because someone else is wrong, doesn't mean the person/group doing the criticising is right.
So what is to be done? The Mighty Tim has spoken. Focus on those who use our stuff and take care of them. We'll find that by taking care of them we take care of ourselves.
I agree with you about Apple's irrelevance. IBM for years has used PPC technologies in their AIX boxen. They also have beefed-up versions of the chips on their S/390's. (What I wouldn't do to get one of those chips on a motherboard!) I doubt IBM consulted with Motorola or Apple to do that...
That may be true for now, but the more people who buy and use the machines, the more likely good programs will be ported to the platform. The PPC Linux distribution has enough software on it now to make a kick-arse Web server, or SMTP, or DHCP, or all the above all at once.
I agree with SirSlud. Such boxen make great second machines. Can you imagine how well the Gimp would run on it?
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Very romantic! I'm glad to see someone unafraid to tell the world they're in love. All the best!
I agree with most of what you said. The only difference being the part about specialization.
I don't believe specialization equates necessarily with wage and/or benefit protections. IT workers with highly specialized skills can be used just as used and abused by their employers as any other group. Sure you can walk out of any company who mistreats you, but what happens to you if all companies behave as badly? How would being specialized help then?
First let me qualify what I say below: The sound of a few baby Bells controlling all the access sends chills up and down my spine. I trust them like I trust the oil companies :-P
That being said...
I considered getting xDSL from a third party provider until I learned that the third party still has to go through the local baby Bell for the actual wiring to my home. So in the event of something going wrong with the connection (everyone I know who has DSL has gotten screwed in one form or another) the third party has to go to baby Bell to fix whatever it is going wrong with the connection. This easily adds a week or more to resolving line issues.
I was tempted to cut through the middle man and go with the baby Bell in my area. Until I found out how much their maintenance department sucked.
I'm waiting for satellite technology to mature before jumping in. (sigh)
Class action? The FSF? What legal protections do the GPL and FSF have as legal entities? If the GPL qualifies for full protection under the law, why not just revise the GPL to plug the hole and have the FSF somehow divorce itself from the version of software abused by Sun?
Tim (some call me... Tim) said so eloquently what was formerly a proverb in the history of earth-shaking ideas, namely: So long as we spend all our energies justifying our own existence and/or paying too much attention to the Enemy we will never get anywhere in this world.
Hate to say it folks, but where I come from we call groups who defend themselves and exist for their own sakes bureaucrats (all suits and hairspray). It's so easy to justify ourselves by pointing a finger at someone else, but just because someone else is wrong, doesn't mean the person/group doing the criticising is right.
So what is to be done? The Mighty Tim has spoken. Focus on those who use our stuff and take care of them. We'll find that by taking care of them we take care of ourselves.
Thank you all for the clarification. I guess you don't have to be from Harvard to make mistakes! :-)
Alpha a "horse drawn card?" Are you for real? I'm sorry, I forgot. You're from Harvard. Alpha and PPC downright spank the Intel monkey!
I agree with you about Apple's irrelevance. IBM for years has used PPC technologies in their AIX boxen. They also have beefed-up versions of the chips on their S/390's. (What I wouldn't do to get one of those chips on a motherboard!) I doubt IBM consulted with Motorola or Apple to do that...
That may be true for now, but the more people who buy and use the machines, the more likely good programs will be ported to the platform. The PPC Linux distribution has enough software on it now to make a kick-arse Web server, or SMTP, or DHCP, or all the above all at once.
I agree with SirSlud. Such boxen make great second machines. Can you imagine how well the Gimp would run on it?