I never said that a linux front-end wouldn't work better wuth a linux backend, or that linux sucks. You really should learn to read.
I'm pointing out the stupidity of the statement, that companies should get rid of an infrastructure that's working for them in order to save a few bucks in desktop licensing.
That's like saying "I made this Oil filter using cheaper technology, and it's doesn't work with my Dodge, so I'll go buy a new car that it does work with."
The fact is, that if you want to have your product make inroads in a company, you MUST give them a compelling reason, and you need to make sure it fit's in with their overall scheme.
Don't like it? Fine, then don't complain if the company chooses not to use your product.
I like how you attacked my professional skills without knowing the first thing about me or what I do. That just shows the pure zealotry of your argument, that you have to resort to assumptions, mistruths, and plain old lies to make your point.
I have been in the trenches, hell, I've dug the trenches! I'd match my resume against an AC on/. anyday of the week.
Let's see. Here are some things that Corporatations need movies for.
Corporate training videos
Online training
Advertising Review
Promotional materials
As far as answering your question, we made exactly these kind of materials at one of my previous jobs. Our Clients included:
Intel
HP
Sharp
GM
Do I need to go on?
"sorry, but single login to a active directory? that's a windows product why not use the unix solution like this that has existed for decades?"
I have to diagree with you. Getting linux in the the business is all about conversion. You can't change peoples minds overnight. You can't expect a company to throw out their entire infrastructure just to save a few bucks on desktops, especially when that infrastructure is already paid for, and it's working for their needs.
These are the types of statements that simply fool the "i'm a geek, and everybody else is stupid" crowd into thinking they now know more about a subject then they really do.
I agree with you on most the points here, except for rdesktop. Rdesktop is a client to connect to a terminal services server. Compared to Windows RDP app, or Citrix ICA Agent, it's pretty bare bones, but it does work
Sorry, I hate to go in a different direction, but since when is Wikepedia the definitive source for information? Sure it's convenient, but it's not always accurate.
Hate to break it to you, but ethanol is made using agricultural products. How do you plan on making all that ethanol without vast quantities of feedstock, primarily grown in red states. I can see your new country's protests in 100 years after your stuck importing all your fuel.
I agree with you on all points except 4. Both sides should have the ability to challenge a vote if the vote was cast in violation of the laws. These laws are put in place to help avoid fraud such as double voting, illegal registrations, stolen ballots. Ignoring them only makes the problems worse.
And that's why I said below that I support the Supreme Court's recent ruling on his case that he cannot be denied the rights afforded him by the Constitution. Obviously the system of checks and balances have worked, and your rights are still intact.
You know pulling the racism card, is the first sign of not having a leg to stand on. 1st of all, if your friend, followed the law, he could've stayed. 28+ years is plenty of time to get your immigration status straightened out. Since he has shown he has no interest is following the laws of this land, he should be deported. Cry me a river. American citizenship for an immigrant is not a Right, it's a privilege, and it must be earned, just as my grandparets did, by followingt the rules.
I have a coworker who is also Syrian. He's not being deported, so I guess my anectdotal story cancels out yours.:)
You can buy replacement dvd drives for them on ebay for about $20 bucks, that's what I did. Microsoft still screwed up on cutting these costs, but at least he can resurrect it from the footrest graveyard.
Except that in this case, it seems many of the CD-roms drives on the original batch of of Xboxes were prone to premature failure. I know mine was. A class action suit would allow all owners, like myself, who experienced this failure to prove that this is more then just a few bad apples, but systematic of all the particular drives in those Xbox's and thus should be covered, warranty or not.
There is no reason that such a large portion of Xbox owners should experience the same component failure in a short period of time, when that same type of component has been proven in other systems over a period of time to have an longer avergae life. (DVD_rom drives)
Homosexual marriage is not a right that was ever given, so how can it be taken away?
Abortion has absolutely nothing to with the Patriot act, so I don't see how the Patriot act could be contstrued to take that away either.
Sounds like you guys on the left are really trying to stretch here.
Guess so, although, if you go around screaming your house is on fire and everyone comes running to find you were lying, it makes you look pretty silly.
Sorry, but I just did a search for this right being taken away by the Patriot act and I found nothing. Can you point out either the text of the Act that contains this or a real example? If you do I will concede your point.
I suppose by now you've seen the Posters thread from a google cahce further down the list. I would certainly expect them to investigate something such as that. Crazy people who usually don't make rational statements of threats with clear, honest context, and details.
In this case all they have to go on is the Posters statement. Finding the person and asking a few questions would be the next logical step. It's much easier and less invasive then getting a court order and going through that personal records, background, credit etc for a what turns out to be a a benign statement. The poster didn't have to talk to them. But he did, and by doing this avoided a much more costly and potentially harmful investigation.
We used to have the right to speedy trial, by a jury of our peers. Now the patriot act negates that, just ask the folks in holding facilities facing military court."
Non citizens do not have the right to speedy trial. US citizens do, and that's why I support the US Supreme Court saying the same thing. So no that right has not been taken from you.
"We used to have a right to face our accuser, now we have annomous tips, they dont leave much for us to face"
Hyperbole. Name one case where that has happened.
"We used to have the right to be secure in our person, property and effects, now, not so much, as evidenced by this story."
As I and others said in other postings in this story, this was not a Patriot act investigation, it was a Customs act. The article never mentions whether or not a warrant was present, so for us to declare that here rights were taken away is pre speculation. So no, that right has not been taken away from you either.
I'm sorry but I'm missing your point. This was a Custom's action, which just happens to be part of DHS. Nobody said the Patriot Act was invoked. It's a pretty far stretch to say this had anything to do with terrorism. The first time Terrorism came up was when the the/. crowd saw the letters DHS and automatically assumed it was a terorism case.
How do you know the claim is bogus? Nowhere does it even say what the actual claim was. Are you the judge and jury because some slashdot article gave you inaccurate and incomplete infromation, that you can pronounce a claim bogus? For that matter, how do you know they didn't have a warrant? The article doesn't mention it either way.
I see your point, but let's consider another possibiliy. Let's say Customs had a complaint filed, but the complaint file only mentioned that this one particular store was selling them. The agents job would be to investigate, and it's possible they thought it was only this store selling them. Upon interviewing the owner, they now know that it's distributed out of Auburn. They can then turn around and go after the importer, once they know who it is.
This may sound far fetched, but then that's why it's called an investigation, because they don't have all the facts yet.
All we have to go on is a sensationalist reporting job, that doesn't give us the full facts, so the whole issue is open to speculation.
The secret service has always (pre-bush) investigated any threat against the President. It's not like they actually took the poster away. How are they supposed to tell the difference between a joke and a real threat except by investigating. Obviously they found that the Poster was not serious and they left it at that. They've been doing that for decades.
To argue that this is a sign of an Orwellian nightmare to come is ludicrous. What do you want them to do, only investigate when they know it's a real threat? How do they know it's a real threat , unless they investigate? Nice Catch-22.
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I know, I was quoting the OP
I'm pointing out the stupidity of the statement, that companies should get rid of an infrastructure that's working for them in order to save a few bucks in desktop licensing.
That's like saying "I made this Oil filter using cheaper technology, and it's doesn't work with my Dodge, so I'll go buy a new car that it does work with."
The fact is, that if you want to have your product make inroads in a company, you MUST give them a compelling reason, and you need to make sure it fit's in with their overall scheme.
Don't like it? Fine, then don't complain if the company chooses not to use your product.
I like how you attacked my professional skills without knowing the first thing about me or what I do. That just shows the pure zealotry of your argument, that you have to resort to assumptions, mistruths, and plain old lies to make your point.
I have been in the trenches, hell, I've dug the trenches! I'd match my resume against an AC on /. anyday of the week.
Let's see. Here are some things that Corporatations need movies for. Corporate training videos Online training Advertising Review Promotional materials As far as answering your question, we made exactly these kind of materials at one of my previous jobs. Our Clients included: Intel HP Sharp GM Do I need to go on?
I have to diagree with you. Getting linux in the the business is all about conversion. You can't change peoples minds overnight. You can't expect a company to throw out their entire infrastructure just to save a few bucks on desktops, especially when that infrastructure is already paid for, and it's working for their needs.
These are the types of statements that simply fool the "i'm a geek, and everybody else is stupid" crowd into thinking they now know more about a subject then they really do.
I agree with you on most the points here, except for rdesktop. Rdesktop is a client to connect to a terminal services server. Compared to Windows RDP app, or Citrix ICA Agent, it's pretty bare bones, but it does work
Even the Public Editor of the Times said it was Liberal newspaper.
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2004/0726.asp
Sorry, I hate to go in a different direction, but since when is Wikepedia the definitive source for information? Sure it's convenient, but it's not always accurate.
Replace slavery with abortion and you've got the same argument.
I'm willing to match IQ tests any time.
"No Blood for Wheat!"
Bye!
I agree with you on all points except 4. Both sides should have the ability to challenge a vote if the vote was cast in violation of the laws. These laws are put in place to help avoid fraud such as double voting, illegal registrations, stolen ballots. Ignoring them only makes the problems worse.
HAte to respond to an troll, but technically, Lincoln was elected by the Red States. Thats why the Republicans are known as the "Party of Lincoln"
And that's why I said below that I support the Supreme Court's recent ruling on his case that he cannot be denied the rights afforded him by the Constitution. Obviously the system of checks and balances have worked, and your rights are still intact.
I have a coworker who is also Syrian. He's not being deported, so I guess my anectdotal story cancels out yours. :)
You can buy replacement dvd drives for them on ebay for about $20 bucks, that's what I did. Microsoft still screwed up on cutting these costs, but at least he can resurrect it from the footrest graveyard.
There is no reason that such a large portion of Xbox owners should experience the same component failure in a short period of time, when that same type of component has been proven in other systems over a period of time to have an longer avergae life. (DVD_rom drives)
Homosexual marriage is not a right that was ever given, so how can it be taken away? Abortion has absolutely nothing to with the Patriot act, so I don't see how the Patriot act could be contstrued to take that away either. Sounds like you guys on the left are really trying to stretch here.
Guess so, although, if you go around screaming your house is on fire and everyone comes running to find you were lying, it makes you look pretty silly.
Sorry, but I just did a search for this right being taken away by the Patriot act and I found nothing. Can you point out either the text of the Act that contains this or a real example? If you do I will concede your point.
In this case all they have to go on is the Posters statement. Finding the person and asking a few questions would be the next logical step. It's much easier and less invasive then getting a court order and going through that personal records, background, credit etc for a what turns out to be a a benign statement. The poster didn't have to talk to them. But he did, and by doing this avoided a much more costly and potentially harmful investigation.
Non citizens do not have the right to speedy trial. US citizens do, and that's why I support the US Supreme Court saying the same thing. So no that right has not been taken from you.
"We used to have a right to face our accuser, now we have annomous tips, they dont leave much for us to face"
Hyperbole. Name one case where that has happened. "We used to have the right to be secure in our person, property and effects, now, not so much, as evidenced by this story."
As I and others said in other postings in this story, this was not a Patriot act investigation, it was a Customs act. The article never mentions whether or not a warrant was present, so for us to declare that here rights were taken away is pre speculation. So no, that right has not been taken away from you either.
Next!
How do you know the claim is bogus? Nowhere does it even say what the actual claim was. Are you the judge and jury because some slashdot article gave you inaccurate and incomplete infromation, that you can pronounce a claim bogus? For that matter, how do you know they didn't have a warrant? The article doesn't mention it either way.
This may sound far fetched, but then that's why it's called an investigation, because they don't have all the facts yet.
All we have to go on is a sensationalist reporting job, that doesn't give us the full facts, so the whole issue is open to speculation.
To argue that this is a sign of an Orwellian nightmare to come is ludicrous. What do you want them to do, only investigate when they know it's a real threat? How do they know it's a real threat , unless they investigate? Nice Catch-22.