You're the idiot. The hundreds of billions we borrow and spend in Iraq every month has a serious effect on you each and every day. Do you enjoy the inflation in just about everything that is occurring right now because of the high cost of oil? That's a direct result of the weak US dollar and the weak US dollar is a direct result of the billions we're borrowing and wasting in Iraq.
In fairness the highest rated show on Fox (The O'Reilly Factor) typically pulls in between 2 and 2.5 million viewers a night. Assuming there are 300 million Americans and that all of his viewers are Americans (we know that's not the case) and assuming that he pulls in 2.5 million viewers a night (we know that's also not the case) that would mean about 0.66% of the American population tunes in to the crap that Fox News puts out there. Those numbers don't concern me. They are preaching to the 20% cook fringe of American society that believes that Bush is doing a good job.
This is a CYA thing for the Democrats. They knew a lot more about the warrantless wiretapping then they publicly let on about and it would have come out during a trial if the telecoms were sued.
Here's a crazy thought.. instead of spending tens of billions to develop something like this (and billions more on other warsa nd weapons) why don't we remove our troops from the Middle East and stop meddling in their affairs to the point where we get thousands of people so pissed off at us they are willing to hijack planes and kill themselves to make their anger at us known. Just a thought...
Get a clue. If an immigrant comes here with no money and no education guess who foots the bill for all of the public assistance they qualify for? Those of us who pay taxes. Given that, we have every right to control who comes here.
Microsoft is their own worst enemy. All one has to do is look at Vista to see that. Vista tries to be all things to all people and as a consequence it fails to measure up in just about every category. There is too large a bureaucracy for true innovation to occur at Microsoft and there is clearly too much of a focus on backward compatibility and trying to play catchup to other tech companies (Google, Apple, etc) that are the ones doing the real innovating in the industry.
No it doesn't. The Constitution outlines the basic workings of our government and the bill of rights outlines a series of things the government can't do. The 10th and final portion of the bill of rights specifically states that anything not specifically mentioned in the Constitution or it's amendments is to be regulated by the states and if not regulated by a state, then to remain a right of the people. That would be why it took an amendment to the Constitution for the government to collect income tax. That is why it took an amendment to the Constitution to ban the sale of alcohol. The constitution is not a "living, breathing" document that's meaning changes as society changes. The Constitution is the rock solid list of the basic outline of our government and certain things that it specifically can and can not due. Everything not specifically mentioned can be regulated by laws passed via the states. If we want to add or subtract things from the document it gives us a way to do so. By amending it. Not by having some judge decide that it says or implies something it does not say. Why are so many people afraid of the democratic process? You don't like something. Convince enough people that it shouldn't happen, pass a law and have it regulated. Otherwise, if it doesn't directly affect your rights, let it go.
Oh it doesn't matter where I post a comment like this. People like you will always take your shots. If you'll refer to my original post you'd see that I wasn't talking about general purpose software. I was trying to expand the discussion. Feel free to refute any of the points I tried to make if you disagree. That is the point of comments in the first place right? To engage in discussion.
Ah, some truth on Slashdot. Refreshing. By engadging in a war on everything closed source open source advocates are screwing the pooch and throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Well no shit Sherlock. Firefox is my browser of choice and has been since v1.0 was still in beta. I was making a larger point, but thank you for being a douche bag. Perhaps you should run for Congress. You'd fit right in.
The open source idea is great but open source is not the be all end all. It just isn't. There are too many industry specific applications that are so highly tailored to particular industry and there is simply no open source alternative. I work in the construction software industry. There are several job cost accounting, project management, estimating and document imaging packages made by several vendors that are specifically tailored to this industry. I highly doubt there will ever be open source alternatives to these kinds of pieces of software that can all integrate together as seamlessly as the propriety alternatives. Forget integrating together, I doubt we will ever see open source alternatives for any of these in the first place. Writing that kind of software can be tedious and you have to understand the specifics of the industry and the kinds of business processes that small, medium and large companies have and you have to understand the different kinds of contractors that are out there (general contractors, electrical contractors, heavy highway, etc) and their various requirements.
I just don't see an incentive for a bunch of developers to get together who have that kind of very industry specific understanding to write these big, complex pieces of software just for the fun of it. I love my job because the work environment is great and so is the money but if I were given a choice of writing any piece of software I wouldn't choose writing stuff for this industry. It's not that I don't like it, it just wouldn't be my first or second choice if I could do anything and get paid just as well as I'm paid doing this and have the kind of job security that I have.
I get enjoyment from my work, but the real enjoyment comes when we close a huge deal and I cash a huge check.
Call me crazy but shouldn't a piece of software not be labeled a release candidate when it still has a list of known issues. I realize that big software shops (I'm looking at you Microsoft) do this all the time and will even release a product with a whole bunch of known issues still unresolved (again I'm looking at you Microsoft) but it seems to me that you wouldn't label something a release candidate until you were at a point where you thought all known issues were resolved. Hence the title release candidate. If nothing no new serious bugs or security holes are found this is it.
What's missing? Are you for real? I don't mean to sound like a prick but come on. I work for a company that sells software to construction companies. Find me a piece of open source job cost accounting software aimed at the construction industry. When you're done, point me to the open source project management software that is tailored to the same industry. Then to the estimating software aimed at the same. Oh, and as an added bonus, they must all integrate with each other. So when a bid is approved I can import that into the job cost accounting software and not have to re-enter budgets and estimates. Then find me a web based time reporting system that integrates with the job cost accounting software and the project management software. These are the kinds of highly industry specific software I'm talking about. It's there on Windows and you have a choice between several vendors. That's not the case on any other platform and that's what I'm talking about.
Are people in China inherently more susceptible to authoritarian regimes, or somehow less capable of existing in a democracy than other peoples? Do they desire freedom less than we do? I suspect not, but I fear too many people simply assume that it could never happen to us. I'm not talking about some tin-foil hat government conspiracy, but a slow and gradual erosion of our rights - a slowly boiling pot to the frog, as it were.
It's already happening and has been happing for well over a hundred years. Ever read the 10th Amendment. Particularly the following:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Congress, the President and the courts have been ignoring the 10th Amendment for ages.
It's things like this that make me proud to be an American. With all of crap that the current Administration has pulled sometimes I feel like there isn't much to be proud of but the Bill of Rights is certainly something that all Americans should be proud of (and the Bush Administrations constant attempts to piss on the 4th Amendment is something we should all universally condemn). Let people say whatever they want and trust the public to identify "hate speach" and counter it with reasoned arguments against it instead of trying to silence the speaker.
I have to agree with you there. I loved the first one and thought the second and third were shit. Much like the Matrix "trilogy". I have no desire to ever re-watch the second or third films in either of them.
Free software is only a better deal if it works just as well as the commercial alternative. In some cases open source does, in others it does not, and there are still many instances where an open source alternative for a particular kind of software simply does not exist.
Perhaps if Detroit wasn't run by a corrupt mayor it's public schools system would be in better shape. Why do African Americans refuse to hold their elected officials accountable when they have clearly committed serious crimes? Marion Barry, William Jefferson, Kwame Kilpatrick and the list goes on. It's a real problem in Detroit going back to the Coleman Young days. Detroit voters would rather stick it to the suburbs by rallying around whichever black candidate paints the other black candidate as being white and in the end the only thing they end up sticking it to is themselves.
Don't believe me? Check out Kwame's State of the City speech and then try and tell me that he isn't trying to rally ignorant African American voters to his side by placing the race card. Read the text messages between himself and the women he was cheating with his wife on. The only person calling Kwame a "nigga" was his mistress.
Just what we need. Another "Linux viable on the desktop real soon now" articles. Wake me up when you can copy and paste more than text between applications that aren't part of the same suite (e.g. OpenOffice, KOffice, etc.) and when you can easily install 3rd party applications with a few mouse clicks (and no using apt-get or a similar tool doesn't cut it as not all applications one may wish to install are included in an on-line repository).
I don't mean to sound like a dick, but these are real problems. A serious desktop OS has to have a decent clipboard that allows you to copy and paste more than text reliably between applications written by different entities. Windows and OS X aren't perfect at it, but they are leaps and bounds better than Linux. Further, you can't expect somebody to compile a 3rd party app from source in order to install and run it. Programs like apt-get are awesome for popular programs but they are limiting in that you're not going to find everything you might want to install over the lifetime of the box.
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You're the idiot. The hundreds of billions we borrow and spend in Iraq every month has a serious effect on you each and every day. Do you enjoy the inflation in just about everything that is occurring right now because of the high cost of oil? That's a direct result of the weak US dollar and the weak US dollar is a direct result of the billions we're borrowing and wasting in Iraq.
In fairness the highest rated show on Fox (The O'Reilly Factor) typically pulls in between 2 and 2.5 million viewers a night. Assuming there are 300 million Americans and that all of his viewers are Americans (we know that's not the case) and assuming that he pulls in 2.5 million viewers a night (we know that's also not the case) that would mean about 0.66% of the American population tunes in to the crap that Fox News puts out there. Those numbers don't concern me. They are preaching to the 20% cook fringe of American society that believes that Bush is doing a good job.
This is a CYA thing for the Democrats. They knew a lot more about the warrantless wiretapping then they publicly let on about and it would have come out during a trial if the telecoms were sued.
Here's a crazy thought .. instead of spending tens of billions to develop something like this (and billions more on other warsa nd weapons) why don't we remove our troops from the Middle East and stop meddling in their affairs to the point where we get thousands of people so pissed off at us they are willing to hijack planes and kill themselves to make their anger at us known. Just a thought ...
Get a clue. If an immigrant comes here with no money and no education guess who foots the bill for all of the public assistance they qualify for? Those of us who pay taxes. Given that, we have every right to control who comes here.
Rev. Wright, is that you?
I'm sure it will turn out just as faithful as the other adaptations of his work have!
Microsoft is their own worst enemy. All one has to do is look at Vista to see that. Vista tries to be all things to all people and as a consequence it fails to measure up in just about every category. There is too large a bureaucracy for true innovation to occur at Microsoft and there is clearly too much of a focus on backward compatibility and trying to play catchup to other tech companies (Google, Apple, etc) that are the ones doing the real innovating in the industry.
No it doesn't. The Constitution outlines the basic workings of our government and the bill of rights outlines a series of things the government can't do. The 10th and final portion of the bill of rights specifically states that anything not specifically mentioned in the Constitution or it's amendments is to be regulated by the states and if not regulated by a state, then to remain a right of the people. That would be why it took an amendment to the Constitution for the government to collect income tax. That is why it took an amendment to the Constitution to ban the sale of alcohol. The constitution is not a "living, breathing" document that's meaning changes as society changes. The Constitution is the rock solid list of the basic outline of our government and certain things that it specifically can and can not due. Everything not specifically mentioned can be regulated by laws passed via the states. If we want to add or subtract things from the document it gives us a way to do so. By amending it. Not by having some judge decide that it says or implies something it does not say. Why are so many people afraid of the democratic process? You don't like something. Convince enough people that it shouldn't happen, pass a law and have it regulated. Otherwise, if it doesn't directly affect your rights, let it go.
Oh it doesn't matter where I post a comment like this. People like you will always take your shots. If you'll refer to my original post you'd see that I wasn't talking about general purpose software. I was trying to expand the discussion. Feel free to refute any of the points I tried to make if you disagree. That is the point of comments in the first place right? To engage in discussion.
Ah, some truth on Slashdot. Refreshing. By engadging in a war on everything closed source open source advocates are screwing the pooch and throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Well no shit Sherlock. Firefox is my browser of choice and has been since v1.0 was still in beta. I was making a larger point, but thank you for being a douche bag. Perhaps you should run for Congress. You'd fit right in.
The open source idea is great but open source is not the be all end all. It just isn't. There are too many industry specific applications that are so highly tailored to particular industry and there is simply no open source alternative. I work in the construction software industry. There are several job cost accounting, project management, estimating and document imaging packages made by several vendors that are specifically tailored to this industry. I highly doubt there will ever be open source alternatives to these kinds of pieces of software that can all integrate together as seamlessly as the propriety alternatives. Forget integrating together, I doubt we will ever see open source alternatives for any of these in the first place. Writing that kind of software can be tedious and you have to understand the specifics of the industry and the kinds of business processes that small, medium and large companies have and you have to understand the different kinds of contractors that are out there (general contractors, electrical contractors, heavy highway, etc) and their various requirements.
I just don't see an incentive for a bunch of developers to get together who have that kind of very industry specific understanding to write these big, complex pieces of software just for the fun of it. I love my job because the work environment is great and so is the money but if I were given a choice of writing any piece of software I wouldn't choose writing stuff for this industry. It's not that I don't like it, it just wouldn't be my first or second choice if I could do anything and get paid just as well as I'm paid doing this and have the kind of job security that I have.
I get enjoyment from my work, but the real enjoyment comes when we close a huge deal and I cash a huge check.
Call me crazy but shouldn't a piece of software not be labeled a release candidate when it still has a list of known issues. I realize that big software shops (I'm looking at you Microsoft) do this all the time and will even release a product with a whole bunch of known issues still unresolved (again I'm looking at you Microsoft) but it seems to me that you wouldn't label something a release candidate until you were at a point where you thought all known issues were resolved. Hence the title release candidate. If nothing no new serious bugs or security holes are found this is it.
What's missing? Are you for real? I don't mean to sound like a prick but come on. I work for a company that sells software to construction companies. Find me a piece of open source job cost accounting software aimed at the construction industry. When you're done, point me to the open source project management software that is tailored to the same industry. Then to the estimating software aimed at the same. Oh, and as an added bonus, they must all integrate with each other. So when a bid is approved I can import that into the job cost accounting software and not have to re-enter budgets and estimates. Then find me a web based time reporting system that integrates with the job cost accounting software and the project management software. These are the kinds of highly industry specific software I'm talking about. It's there on Windows and you have a choice between several vendors. That's not the case on any other platform and that's what I'm talking about.
It's already happening and has been happing for well over a hundred years. Ever read the 10th Amendment. Particularly the following:
Congress, the President and the courts have been ignoring the 10th Amendment for ages.
It's things like this that make me proud to be an American. With all of crap that the current Administration has pulled sometimes I feel like there isn't much to be proud of but the Bill of Rights is certainly something that all Americans should be proud of (and the Bush Administrations constant attempts to piss on the 4th Amendment is something we should all universally condemn). Let people say whatever they want and trust the public to identify "hate speach" and counter it with reasoned arguments against it instead of trying to silence the speaker.
I have to agree with you there. I loved the first one and thought the second and third were shit. Much like the Matrix "trilogy". I have no desire to ever re-watch the second or third films in either of them.
You say that as if it existed recently in the first place. It hasn't been here in about a decade.
Free software is only a better deal if it works just as well as the commercial alternative. In some cases open source does, in others it does not, and there are still many instances where an open source alternative for a particular kind of software simply does not exist.
Perhaps if Detroit wasn't run by a corrupt mayor it's public schools system would be in better shape. Why do African Americans refuse to hold their elected officials accountable when they have clearly committed serious crimes? Marion Barry, William Jefferson, Kwame Kilpatrick and the list goes on. It's a real problem in Detroit going back to the Coleman Young days. Detroit voters would rather stick it to the suburbs by rallying around whichever black candidate paints the other black candidate as being white and in the end the only thing they end up sticking it to is themselves.
Don't believe me? Check out Kwame's State of the City speech and then try and tell me that he isn't trying to rally ignorant African American voters to his side by placing the race card. Read the text messages between himself and the women he was cheating with his wife on. The only person calling Kwame a "nigga" was his mistress.
Last time I checked the GPL (v2) isn't even compatible with the GPL (v3). Who fucking cares? If you release the source code it's open source.
Is anybody surprised? Why Ebay bought them in the first place is beyond me. It made no sense.
Then explain George W. Bush and his millions.
Just what we need. Another "Linux viable on the desktop real soon now" articles. Wake me up when you can copy and paste more than text between applications that aren't part of the same suite (e.g. OpenOffice, KOffice, etc.) and when you can easily install 3rd party applications with a few mouse clicks (and no using apt-get or a similar tool doesn't cut it as not all applications one may wish to install are included in an on-line repository).
I don't mean to sound like a dick, but these are real problems. A serious desktop OS has to have a decent clipboard that allows you to copy and paste more than text reliably between applications written by different entities. Windows and OS X aren't perfect at it, but they are leaps and bounds better than Linux. Further, you can't expect somebody to compile a 3rd party app from source in order to install and run it. Programs like apt-get are awesome for popular programs but they are limiting in that you're not going to find everything you might want to install over the lifetime of the box.