I am not saying that better software cannot be produced in China. It definitely can be. And if it is, then in a free market it will succeed. But by picking software not based on its quality, just because it was produced locally, what incentive do you provide the producers of the software? You do not increase quality, you decrease it. Quality can only be increased through compettition. If you remove the compettition, you will hurt the quality. You bring up Microsoft, and they are a perfect example. The monopolies they have developed allow them to produce inferior products (see Internet Explorer, among others.)
How the fuck is a ban on "foregin" software freedom? There is NO CHOICE! They are taking away choices! This is totalitarianism, it is the OPPOSITE of freedom!
It is NOT the gov's place to "support" an OS or a particular app or whatever. If you want the gov to buy your software, then make the best product at the best price! If the gov "supports" an OS or whatever, then all they are doing is discouraging compettition.
But they are not giving anybody a choice there. It's not like if you have enough money then you would go with Photoshop. For that matter, even if you don't have money you can't go with Gimp. You have no choice. Your statement is all about making choices based on price/needs, but it is a moot point when there is no choice, no compettition.
By spending the money "locally" you've just guaranteed yourself an inferior product. This is simple economics that history has bore witness to countless times: 17th century mercantilism, Soviet Russia, modern Japan.
When you eliminate compettition, you eliminate quality.
I have OpenOffice installed on my PC, and I would only recommend it to people who have a lot of computer experience. There's no way I could imagine kids or even teachers using it. Plus wasn't one of your points that kids could gain experience with programs that they would actually use in real world businesses on a Windows machine? How does OpenOffice fit into that?
I would LOVE to be MS free in terms of software. The fact that this is not an option for me is part of what fosters my dislike of MS. Plus as I mentioned in my previous post, I am not the only person using my PC, and some people have absolutely no desire to use Linux. My wife has three programs on it she uses for her work a lot. One is a MS VPN, the second is a Windows program that her company wrote, and the third is PC Anywhere. Maybe I could get all these to work with Wine, but it is not worth the trouble. I actually used to dual boot my system, and I was never impressed with Wine, but maybe it has improved a lot since I used it a year ago. I erased my Linux partition when I got a wireless PCI card that I could not get to run on Linux. So in short, Linux is inadequate to be my desktop OS at home. It is my desktop OS at work, though I do have a laptop at work that runs WinXP as well.
I've had a PS2 for awhile (3/01) and my wife bought me a GC shortly after they came out (11/01.) I don't have an XBox because I have this thing called a concious that prevents from buying things from Microsoft. So for cross-platform games, I generally go with the GC over the PS2. My GC lib:
Monkey Ball 1 & 2 -- the most fun game on the GC.
Zelda
Metroid Prime -- I was NOT disappointed by this game, but maybe that's because I had no problems with the controls
Star Wars Rogue Leader
007 Nightfire
Madden 2004 -- just bought it, also have 2003
NCAA Football 2003
The only game I've bought for my PS2 this year was GTA: Vice City. Now on my PC I've bought about ten games in the last year, including Jedi Knight 2, Morrowind, Medal of Honor, Unreal Tournament 2003, The Sims, Warcraft III, and Splinter Cell. This pretty much corresponded with my wife buying me a GeForce4 Ti for my birthday last year...
You are correct that teachers need to be paid a lot more. My point is that when people believe things like "teachers are incompetent and teach because they can do nothing else" it places a low value on what they do and CAUSES people to believe it is OK that they are so underpaid.
If you look at that Dell it does not come with any productivity software. Add on ~$200 bucks for that. An eMac comes with AppleWorks (word processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheet, etc.) and iLife (iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie.) The eMac's hard drive is twice as big as the Dell's. The eMac can be upgraded to have the same amount of memory as the Dell for $50, and to have the same support as the Dell for $169.
So there is NO price advantage for the Dell, even when comparing a specially negotiated package unique to the Virginia vs. the standard offering from Apple for any school anywhere.
1) Those who aren't competent to do anything else ("those who can, do...")
Thanks for the info Mr. Education Expert. YOU are the reason why teachers are paid so poorly. People like you who remember some "dumb" teacher you had. So why pay them any money if they are so stupid? We only want teachers who "have the calling" and will work regardless of the pay, right?
It's an annoying fact that you have to run AS if you want to run an Oracle DB on it or a BEA JVM. You can't get Oracle to install on RH8/9, and BEA will blow up on you with either of those distros. But you can get around this by running RH 7.2, which is was AS is based on. Oracle will install fine on that, and BEA will not blow up. Obviously you're not going to get support from Oracle/BEA if you let it slip that you're not running their software on AS. Oracle in particular is notorious for this.
What's even worse in some ways is that you have to use a two year old kernel. Thus you're stuck with inferior threading (among other things.) I've read a lot of this about how AS contains other "optimizations" for running things like Oracle that makes up for this. I think it's a load of BS. You do get built-in clustering (piranha), though you could get the RPMs for that.
At my company we run AS on our Oracle db in production. It's one of about 20 Linux servers we have there, and the only one not running RH8. In our dev/qa enviros we run Oracle on RH 7.2. We do not run BEA becuase we didn't want to run AS on our app server farm.
Gotta love their results : "All previous positive results CONFIRMED; 0.2% branch of photoionization at L1 and L3 ionization edges causes decay of isomeric state." The all caps makes this seem so scientific...
Wireless support on Linux is HORRIBLE! Yes I know that's really the fault of the wireless card makers for not providing drivers. I have a desktop at home that used to dual-boot to XP & Linux. I put a Belkin wireless PCI card in it, and could never get it to work with Linux. I eventually raised the white flag and wiped out the Linux partition.
You are absolutely right that our inability to get Oracle to work on RH8 and Oracle's support response are entirely predictable.
I think it is worth note that despite Oracle jumping on the Linux bandwagon, they only support a version of the kernel that is 18+ months old. Oracle was an investor in a previous company I worked for, and we installed 8i on a version of Solaris that was slightly ahead of their officially supported version. When we told Oracle our plan their response was that it should work fine and that they would be caught up to Solaris within two months. Indeed, we had absolutely no problem.
My company had a very difficult time installing Oracle 9.0.2 on Red Hat Pro 8. It simply did not work. We contacted Oracle and they had us go with Red Hat 7.2 instead. We have since installed RH 7.2 + Oracle 9.0.2 on several servers and had no problems. Still, would be nice to use Red Hat 9 just for its kernel with better multi-threading (oops here comes SCO...)
The point is not that an unfair law should not be resisted, even if the law is a minor, trivial one. The point is that people don't use Kazaa out of protest, they do it out of greed. There is no high moral ground, they are not a "wise minority" as Thoreau would say, they are just greedy. Nobody calls looters is Oakland "protesters" -- they are looters. The people behind the Boston Tea Party didn't take all that tea home and drink it to protest the tax, they poured it into the harbor. The Boston Tea Party was civil disobedience, Kazaa users are just looters.
You have convienced me that you are missing a common convince -- a spell checker. Using a such a convince would make your arguments much more conviencing.
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A CD that I think is definitely guilty of being "too loud"/clipping is the new Metallica CD. When I first listened to the CD it was on my car's CD player with the volume cranked. I thought it sounded shitty. Then I listed to it on my laptop, through headphones, with the volume turned pretty far down, and it sounded a little better. I ripped it to MP3 on my desktop machine (~256 VBR). I have a pair of nice speakers on my desktop machine with an 6.5-inch subwoofer. It sounded much, much better on this setup. I transfered all the MP3s to my iPod and listened to it again in my car. Again it sounded better than it had off the CD in my car. Finally I listed to it on my somewhat hi-fi home stereo. It sounded awful again here. The record definitely sounds better on MP3, which is just crazy.
I've been using some of the nightly builds, and it has been pretty stable. I did experience a problem where the preview pane would freak out and get stuck in a reload loop. That wouldn't happen too often (it seemed like it was triggered by some bit of html in the message) and it appears that it was cleared up a few weeks ago.
Even with the instability, I still loved it. It doesn't quite have the speed advantage over Mozilla mail that Firebird has over the Mozilla browser, but it's noticeably faster. I've been using it on Win XP. I tried to use it on Linux, but it would not even load on Red Hat 8 or 9. I'm going to try 0.1 on my workstation tomorrow when I get to work.
Finally someone mentions a decent firewall program! ZoneAlarm is great, it will alert you whenever *ANY* program tries to open a connection (even Windows) and allow you to allow/deny once/permanently. This is a great way to not only defeat spyware, but also to make yourself aware of what spyware you might have on your computer. It also has a pop-up blocker, just in case you're dumb enough to still use IE...
Overture's market cap $1.53 Billion and they are trading at a P/E of ~20 courtesy of their $0.93/per share they made in their last quarter on $224 M in revenue.
You mean they should justify to their investors why they did not hire you??? Maybe they desired good spelling from their algorithm experts, not just people who knew about "SQL" databases...
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I am not saying that better software cannot be produced in China. It definitely can be. And if it is, then in a free market it will succeed. But by picking software not based on its quality, just because it was produced locally, what incentive do you provide the producers of the software? You do not increase quality, you decrease it. Quality can only be increased through compettition. If you remove the compettition, you will hurt the quality. You bring up Microsoft, and they are a perfect example. The monopolies they have developed allow them to produce inferior products (see Internet Explorer, among others.)
My point exactly. Two wrongs do not make a right, or something.
How the fuck is a ban on "foregin" software freedom? There is NO CHOICE! They are taking away choices! This is totalitarianism, it is the OPPOSITE of freedom!
It is NOT the gov's place to "support" an OS or a particular app or whatever. If you want the gov to buy your software, then make the best product at the best price! If the gov "supports" an OS or whatever, then all they are doing is discouraging compettition.
But they are not giving anybody a choice there. It's not like if you have enough money then you would go with Photoshop. For that matter, even if you don't have money you can't go with Gimp. You have no choice. Your statement is all about making choices based on price/needs, but it is a moot point when there is no choice, no compettition.
By spending the money "locally" you've just guaranteed yourself an inferior product. This is simple economics that history has bore witness to countless times: 17th century mercantilism, Soviet Russia, modern Japan.
When you eliminate compettition, you eliminate quality.
I have OpenOffice installed on my PC, and I would only recommend it to people who have a lot of computer experience. There's no way I could imagine kids or even teachers using it. Plus wasn't one of your points that kids could gain experience with programs that they would actually use in real world businesses on a Windows machine? How does OpenOffice fit into that?
I would LOVE to be MS free in terms of software. The fact that this is not an option for me is part of what fosters my dislike of MS. Plus as I mentioned in my previous post, I am not the only person using my PC, and some people have absolutely no desire to use Linux. My wife has three programs on it she uses for her work a lot. One is a MS VPN, the second is a Windows program that her company wrote, and the third is PC Anywhere. Maybe I could get all these to work with Wine, but it is not worth the trouble. I actually used to dual boot my system, and I was never impressed with Wine, but maybe it has improved a lot since I used it a year ago. I erased my Linux partition when I got a wireless PCI card that I could not get to run on Linux. So in short, Linux is inadequate to be my desktop OS at home. It is my desktop OS at work, though I do have a laptop at work that runs WinXP as well.
- Monkey Ball 1 & 2 -- the most fun game on the GC.
- Zelda
- Metroid Prime -- I was NOT disappointed by this game, but maybe that's because I had no problems with the controls
- Star Wars Rogue Leader
- 007 Nightfire
- Madden 2004 -- just bought it, also have 2003
- NCAA Football 2003
The only game I've bought for my PS2 this year was GTA: Vice City. Now on my PC I've bought about ten games in the last year, including Jedi Knight 2, Morrowind, Medal of Honor, Unreal Tournament 2003, The Sims, Warcraft III, and Splinter Cell. This pretty much corresponded with my wife buying me a GeForce4 Ti for my birthday last year...You are correct that teachers need to be paid a lot more. My point is that when people believe things like "teachers are incompetent and teach because they can do nothing else" it places a low value on what they do and CAUSES people to believe it is OK that they are so underpaid.
If you look at that Dell it does not come with any productivity software. Add on ~$200 bucks for that. An eMac comes with AppleWorks (word processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheet, etc.) and iLife (iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie.) The eMac's hard drive is twice as big as the Dell's. The eMac can be upgraded to have the same amount of memory as the Dell for $50, and to have the same support as the Dell for $169.
So there is NO price advantage for the Dell, even when comparing a specially negotiated package unique to the Virginia vs. the standard offering from Apple for any school anywhere.
Read before you think. Think before you post.
1) Those who aren't competent to do anything else ("those who can, do...")
Thanks for the info Mr. Education Expert. YOU are the reason why teachers are paid so poorly. People like you who remember some "dumb" teacher you had. So why pay them any money if they are so stupid? We only want teachers who "have the calling" and will work regardless of the pay, right?
It's an annoying fact that you have to run AS if you want to run an Oracle DB on it or a BEA JVM. You can't get Oracle to install on RH8/9, and BEA will blow up on you with either of those distros. But you can get around this by running RH 7.2, which is was AS is based on. Oracle will install fine on that, and BEA will not blow up. Obviously you're not going to get support from Oracle/BEA if you let it slip that you're not running their software on AS. Oracle in particular is notorious for this.
What's even worse in some ways is that you have to use a two year old kernel. Thus you're stuck with inferior threading (among other things.) I've read a lot of this about how AS contains other "optimizations" for running things like Oracle that makes up for this. I think it's a load of BS. You do get built-in clustering (piranha), though you could get the RPMs for that.
At my company we run AS on our Oracle db in production. It's one of about 20 Linux servers we have there, and the only one not running RH8. In our dev/qa enviros we run Oracle on RH 7.2. We do not run BEA becuase we didn't want to run AS on our app server farm.
Gotta love their results : "All previous positive results CONFIRMED; 0.2% branch of photoionization at L1 and L3 ionization edges causes decay of isomeric state." The all caps makes this seem so scientific...
All your email are belong to us?
Seriosuly, move everything to the server and let people interact via thin client? Doesn't that sound more like Sun than MS?
Wireless support on Linux is HORRIBLE! Yes I know that's really the fault of the wireless card makers for not providing drivers. I have a desktop at home that used to dual-boot to XP & Linux. I put a Belkin wireless PCI card in it, and could never get it to work with Linux. I eventually raised the white flag and wiped out the Linux partition.
You are absolutely right that our inability to get Oracle to work on RH8 and Oracle's support response are entirely predictable.
I think it is worth note that despite Oracle jumping on the Linux bandwagon, they only support a version of the kernel that is 18+ months old. Oracle was an investor in a previous company I worked for, and we installed 8i on a version of Solaris that was slightly ahead of their officially supported version. When we told Oracle our plan their response was that it should work fine and that they would be caught up to Solaris within two months. Indeed, we had absolutely no problem.
My company had a very difficult time installing Oracle 9.0.2 on Red Hat Pro 8. It simply did not work. We contacted Oracle and they had us go with Red Hat 7.2 instead. We have since installed RH 7.2 + Oracle 9.0.2 on several servers and had no problems. Still, would be nice to use Red Hat 9 just for its kernel with better multi-threading (oops here comes SCO...)
The point is not that an unfair law should not be resisted, even if the law is a minor, trivial one. The point is that people don't use Kazaa out of protest, they do it out of greed. There is no high moral ground, they are not a "wise minority" as Thoreau would say, they are just greedy. Nobody calls looters is Oakland "protesters" -- they are looters. The people behind the Boston Tea Party didn't take all that tea home and drink it to protest the tax, they poured it into the harbor. The Boston Tea Party was civil disobedience, Kazaa users are just looters.
You have convienced me that you are missing a common convince -- a spell checker. Using a such a convince would make your arguments much more conviencing.
A CD that I think is definitely guilty of being "too loud"/clipping is the new Metallica CD. When I first listened to the CD it was on my car's CD player with the volume cranked. I thought it sounded shitty. Then I listed to it on my laptop, through headphones, with the volume turned pretty far down, and it sounded a little better. I ripped it to MP3 on my desktop machine (~256 VBR). I have a pair of nice speakers on my desktop machine with an 6.5-inch subwoofer. It sounded much, much better on this setup. I transfered all the MP3s to my iPod and listened to it again in my car. Again it sounded better than it had off the CD in my car. Finally I listed to it on my somewhat hi-fi home stereo. It sounded awful again here. The record definitely sounds better on MP3, which is just crazy.
I've been using some of the nightly builds, and it has been pretty stable. I did experience a problem where the preview pane would freak out and get stuck in a reload loop. That wouldn't happen too often (it seemed like it was triggered by some bit of html in the message) and it appears that it was cleared up a few weeks ago.
Even with the instability, I still loved it. It doesn't quite have the speed advantage over Mozilla mail that Firebird has over the Mozilla browser, but it's noticeably faster. I've been using it on Win XP. I tried to use it on Linux, but it would not even load on Red Hat 8 or 9. I'm going to try 0.1 on my workstation tomorrow when I get to work.
Finally someone mentions a decent firewall program! ZoneAlarm is great, it will alert you whenever *ANY* program tries to open a connection (even Windows) and allow you to allow/deny once/permanently. This is a great way to not only defeat spyware, but also to make yourself aware of what spyware you might have on your computer. It also has a pop-up blocker, just in case you're dumb enough to still use IE...
Worthless dot-bomb???
Overture's market cap $1.53 Billion and they are trading at a P/E of ~20 courtesy of their $0.93/per share they made in their last quarter on $224 M in revenue.
You mean they should justify to their investors why they did not hire you??? Maybe they desired good spelling from their algorithm experts, not just people who knew about "SQL" databases...