when governments jump onto bandwagons like this? Sure, Linux is great software, the GPL is a solid license, Microsoft is the Demon of the Decade but most of the politicians (in the UK) don't actively use email so why is it that they now suddenly "get" OSS?
Is it their enthusiastic advisors plugging OSS? Then I hope they have a good alibi if their bosses "understanding" doesn't match their expectations - it's a good start but politicians sometimes have a "midas" touch on these issues. Except it's not gold it turns into...
Well, that's great news for the Windows OEM staff being put under intense pressure by their Directors to make inroads in the Linux market.
There's another interesting statistic which the/. article didn't mention - look at Top Hosting Locations and Longest Uptimes. The figures do the talking.
As Vic Reeves says, "82% of statistics are made up on the spot."
How long before there's a Matrix Convention, with lots of nerds dressing up in black trenchcoats, acting out scenes and theorizing about the symbolism of The Oracle, then having a disco at the end of the evening. Lots of geek girls dressing up as Niobe.
There's an olde English tale to sum up scarcity called The Tragedy Of The Commons. In a nutshell, at just the point when economic scarcity bites, our instinct tells us to maximise personal gain. By maximising personal gain, we accelerate and prolong the scarcity of resources. Look hard enough and you can see this model *everywhere* (just like the tiny voices).
It's a layman's Socioeconomic Theory of Everything!
I think this is the fundamental argument of proprietary vs. open software. The contradiction (and therefore hypocrisy) is apparent, but only when you look for it.
who is bored by hardware comparisons such as these? The technology could be anything, the thread always plays out something like this:
The article says Left-handed Sprugel-Fipp MX545454-X shows very good performance next to the Loop-handed Rifkind-Muppet QX345454-D.
Then someone says "Kewl! I bought a Sprugel-Fipp last week! I knew those Loop-handed Rifkind-Muppet models were duff!"
Then someone says "No, you can't make a simple comparison like that without looking at how each model caches - you're comparing apples an oranges! (insert words 'insensitive clod' if necessary)"
Then there's a brief but heartfelt flamewar culminating in the fans of Loop-handed models to say "Yeah but just you wait until the NEW Rifkind-Muppet model!"
And finally the Sprigel-Fipp fan says "Huh. Yeah well I will (see you next time).... "
It's just that OpenOffice's marketing is rubbish - it has to rely on IT-savvy word-of-mouth because they don't have the advertising budget Microsoft has.
Gaaah! It shouldn't be difficult to sell a prduct that outputs not only to standards-compliant HTML as an inbuilt function, but also exports to PDF! It's an IT Directors wet dream! The only thing stopping it is that Microsoft tech-monkeys don't know and don't want it.
Please mods this is just a "lets pander to a stereotype" twaddle. If him and his workmates actually went around putting on Asian accents, then, well that's really sad.
Not so say quite offensive.
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Yes, apart from the fact that Linux got more popular after the dotcom boom, not less. You're not trolling but your post has that flavour (and not because you're posting anti-Linux).
You must be the best of the best, able to command a high rate, and now Java technology inside out, to the kernal (sic.) level. $$competetive.
Now if you really were a Java Guru you certainly wouldn't need a stupid recruitment agency to get you work. Daft recruitment Ads top my list of tiresome dotcom fads.
Not entirely correct - I was born in Plymouth, UK.
I think the problem is that I am a native English speaker. He's used parentheses badly and "player piano" is two nouns stuck together. Like "driver car" - it just makes no sense.
You're naiively lumping "management speak" and graphs and diagrams and other charts and powerpoint presentations together as if that's the only way management relate to problems.
If I was your manager and you came to me with a presentation with slides, a gantt chart showing project dependencies, a "best-fit" graph of peak workloads of time, and a 50 page report, my first question to you would be
Manager:"Great, thanks. Did you make these yourself? In your own time?"
Network Guy:"Ummm, yeah, mostly."
Manager:"Well by coincidence, I'm just having a meeting about staff costs in relation to workloads, and this will help my put my point across no end..."
No no no. This reminds me of the Dilbert sketch when the boss asks everyone round a big table "Can anyone spare any time to work on an important productivity study?". One propellor-head puts his hand up and the bos says "Good. Goooood... ".
What you need is to put people off indefinitely. Be very vocal in saying "I can do that but not for at least three weeks". Two weeks is not enough - people can wait that long, but three weeks is well nearly a month.
Give our academics some credit !!!
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Remember what Linux was and how it got here? It was always grass roots and whilst academic institutions are suckers for funding, academics are not stupid (that's why they are employed to teach us dumber folk).
They'll take the funding, sponsor the course, give out the free software and happily give you extra marks for using Linux and teach OSS approaches alongside.
This article gives the OSS community little to worry about. Move along there...
Check the posting time of the article on the bbc site:
Last Updated: Monday, 25 August, 2003, 09:20 GMT 10:20 UK
Then see how long it takes for a slashdot ed to read it and think... think... "Oo. Oo. I can post about that on slashdot.org!" and hey presto:
Posted by Simonker Monday August 25, @03:41PM
That's 5 hours thinking time.
I build up karma on this board every day (check my history) and occasionally I see someone go and make a "me too!" comment and get modded as "Insightful". And this I'm afraid is one of those times.
There is no way this can be called "news" by any definition.
Sorry, slasheds, listen up. When I need to catch up on what's going on in the world, yunno, when I'm back from holiday or back at work after the weekend, I go to visit the BBC site (a news site) and then from the BBC site to slashdot.org
If reading about AMD's latest benchmark tests was news I'd come here first. But it's not. So why do I have to read the article there and then see it posted here a) As if some keen eye'd slashreader "discovered" it and b) As if no-one knew about the BBC site's technology section! Gaaah.
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when governments jump onto bandwagons like this? Sure, Linux is great software, the GPL is a solid license, Microsoft is the Demon of the Decade but most of the politicians (in the UK) don't actively use email so why is it that they now suddenly "get" OSS?
...
Is it their enthusiastic advisors plugging OSS? Then I hope they have a good alibi if their bosses "understanding" doesn't match their expectations - it's a good start but politicians sometimes have a "midas" touch on these issues. Except it's not gold it turns into
Where's Windows NT on that list then?
That's why they do them.
/. article didn't mention - look at Top Hosting Locations and Longest Uptimes. The figures do the talking.
Well, that's great news for the Windows OEM staff being put under intense pressure by their Directors to make inroads in the Linux market.
There's another interesting statistic which the
As Vic Reeves says, "82% of statistics are made up on the spot."
a copy of his slashdotted site to the rest of us.
How long before there's a Matrix Convention, with lots of nerds dressing up in black trenchcoats, acting out scenes and theorizing about the symbolism of The Oracle, then having a disco at the end of the evening. Lots of geek girls dressing up as Niobe.
...
Actually, you know
Yes, that was deliberate. The term "The Tragedy of the Commons" refers to the story of the decline of common land in England "The Commons".
You can find it by following links from a search engine called "google" here.
There's an olde English tale to sum up scarcity called The Tragedy Of The Commons. In a nutshell, at just the point when economic scarcity bites, our instinct tells us to maximise personal gain. By maximising personal gain, we accelerate and prolong the scarcity of resources. Look hard enough and you can see this model *everywhere* (just like the tiny voices).
It's a layman's Socioeconomic Theory of Everything!
I think this is the fundamental argument of proprietary vs. open software. The contradiction (and therefore hypocrisy) is apparent, but only when you look for it.
who is bored by hardware comparisons such as these? The technology could be anything, the thread always plays out something like this:
.... "
The article says Left-handed Sprugel-Fipp MX545454-X shows very good performance next to the Loop-handed Rifkind-Muppet QX345454-D.
Then someone says "Kewl! I bought a Sprugel-Fipp last week! I knew those Loop-handed Rifkind-Muppet models were duff!"
Then someone says "No, you can't make a simple comparison like that without looking at how each model caches - you're comparing apples an oranges! (insert words 'insensitive clod' if necessary)"
Then there's a brief but heartfelt flamewar culminating in the fans of Loop-handed models to say "Yeah but just you wait until the NEW Rifkind-Muppet model!"
And finally the Sprigel-Fipp fan says "Huh. Yeah well I will (see you next time)
ad infinitum. Yawn.
It's just that OpenOffice's marketing is rubbish - it has to rely on IT-savvy word-of-mouth because they don't have the advertising budget Microsoft has.
Gaaah! It shouldn't be difficult to sell a prduct that outputs not only to standards-compliant HTML as an inbuilt function, but also exports to PDF! It's an IT Directors wet dream! The only thing stopping it is that Microsoft tech-monkeys don't know and don't want it.
Telstra will be hiring Linux-savvy people I think..."
Outsourcing companies rejoice! India rejoices. US, UK drink wine in the park!
Please mods this is just a "lets pander to a stereotype" twaddle. If him and his workmates actually went around putting on Asian accents, then, well that's really sad.
Not so say quite offensive.
Yes, apart from the fact that Linux got more popular after the dotcom boom, not less. You're not trolling but your post has that flavour (and not because you're posting anti-Linux).
You must be the best of the best, able to command a high rate, and now Java technology inside out, to the kernal (sic.) level. $$competetive.
Now if you really were a Java Guru you certainly wouldn't need a stupid recruitment agency to get you work. Daft recruitment Ads top my list of tiresome dotcom fads.
The MacOS Aqua theme. Oh no, wait ...
So then how exactly does "player" modify "piano"? What does "player" as an adjective tell us about the piano?
Don't bother answering because I know it doesn't make sense. It's non-sense. Nonsense.
Not entirely correct - I was born in Plymouth, UK.
I think the problem is that I am a native English speaker. He's used parentheses badly and "player piano" is two nouns stuck together. Like "driver car" - it just makes no sense.
Will it be able to display hi-res jpg and mpeg images? Will they be better than these 3D jiggly pics?
We should think player piano (patentable) vs the music (copyrightable but not patentable) it plays.
I'm not sure what this sentence means at all. Is it English? How did it get past the editors? Are the editors English?
You're naiively lumping "management speak" and graphs and diagrams and other charts and powerpoint presentations together as if that's the only way management relate to problems. If I was your manager and you came to me with a presentation with slides, a gantt chart showing project dependencies, a "best-fit" graph of peak workloads of time, and a 50 page report, my first question to you would be
..."
Manager:"Great, thanks. Did you make these yourself? In your own time?"
Network Guy:"Ummm, yeah, mostly."
Manager:"Well by coincidence, I'm just having a meeting about staff costs in relation to workloads, and this will help my put my point across no end
No no no. This reminds me of the Dilbert sketch when the boss asks everyone round a big table "Can anyone spare any time to work on an important productivity study?". One propellor-head puts his hand up and the bos says "Good. Goooood ... ".
What you need is to put people off indefinitely. Be very vocal in saying "I can do that but not for at least three weeks". Two weeks is not enough - people can wait that long, but three weeks is well nearly a month.
Remember what Linux was and how it got here? It was always grass roots and whilst academic institutions are suckers for funding, academics are not stupid (that's why they are employed to teach us dumber folk).
...
They'll take the funding, sponsor the course, give out the free software and happily give you extra marks for using Linux and teach OSS approaches alongside.
This article gives the OSS community little to worry about. Move along there
Check the posting time of the article on the bbc site:
... think ... "Oo. Oo. I can post about that on slashdot.org!" and hey presto:
Last Updated: Monday, 25 August, 2003, 09:20 GMT 10:20 UK
Then see how long it takes for a slashdot ed to read it and think
Posted by Simonker Monday August 25, @03:41PM
That's 5 hours thinking time.
I build up karma on this board every day (check my history) and occasionally I see someone go and make a "me too!" comment and get modded as "Insightful". And this I'm afraid is one of those times.
There is no way this can be called "news" by any definition.
Sorry, slasheds, listen up. When I need to catch up on what's going on in the world, yunno, when I'm back from holiday or back at work after the weekend, I go to visit the BBC site (a news site) and then from the BBC site to slashdot.org
If reading about AMD's latest benchmark tests was news I'd come here first. But it's not. So why do I have to read the article there and then see it posted here a) As if some keen eye'd slashreader "discovered" it and b) As if no-one knew about the BBC site's technology section!
Gaaah.
complains that the pigs can talk!