Evolution should not be part of Gnome - it should be added by the people who build the distro's.
Evolution is included because every single library in the entire Gnome install (about 784,197 of them at last count) has a hard dependency on some obscure 2K feature widget (usually the HTML library).
Gnome is the undisputed galactic champion of dependencies. Last time I tried to install Evolution from an RPM, I thought I was following a treasure map through the Saskatchewan tundra.
At least they're doing something. After firing 250 animators, literally and arrogantly destroying their entire (irreplaceable) animation department (after some 80 years) claiming "2D animation is dead," (despite the fact there are over 400 animation studios in Japan) canceling a multi-billion dollar deal with Pixar and then, with a straight face, claiming "we can't make money on Monday Night Football," I suppose replacing the fireworks show tubes is quite an accomplishment for a $46 billion company.
Perhaps the reason HP is doing this is so that it can perhaps bundle the iPod with some back-to-school computer they'll be selling.
And so they can make an unrealistic commercial in the "I have an American Dream(tm) and you don't" series featuring a Suburban Dad in the traditional Suburban Dad Uniform of a mangy t-shirt, shorts with a lot of pockets (for all that disposaspendable cash and all those glittery credit cards named after various precious metals) and sandals and the traditional Suburban future University Perfect Homecoming Princess browsing the overpriced aisle for a "welcome to your new corporately-sponsored entertainment experience" which can be loaded into the back of the $85,000 SUV, driven back to the five-bedroom, 1/2 acre earthy-toned cement, glass, wood, grass and paving stone surrounded Suburban Castle nestled in the cul-de-sac, then assembled in the warm glow of the plasma television and the sound of Suburban Mom calling the Suburban Family to the Suburban Dinner in the new $175,000 dining room purchased on credit last week at the big-box retail center.
That about cover it? Thanks. Good night and drive safely.
There is a scarcity of labor. Labor is required to produce information. Therefore there is a scarcity of information. If you want a 35% drop in the GDP and a 100-year recession, fine, repeal copyrights, patents and trademarks. But you cannot value information at zero and then expect the economy to continue investing capital (and labor) to produce it.
Conceivably, genetic modification will allow too-cheap-to-meter food. Will its tiny cost of manufacture translate to similar savings in your pocket?
Probably, but even the simplest farmer must be able to sell his crops at a profit, or he can't plant fields for the next harvest.
The 'losses' recorded by music industry people are losses of a privilege that is not founded on solid ground.
Music is priced too high. It cannot, however, be priced at zero, or there won't be any more music to buy.
The same vendors that supply the half-ton of ice available at the local grocery store?
They're in the wrong business entirely
Like the 2,000 companies in the billion-dollar packaged ice industry? Or perhaps the leading Canadian ice vendor (yeah, real shortage of ice in Canada) that has annual sales of $97 million?
But no, it would be better if all intellectual property rights were repealed. Then we could have 35% unemployment and a 100-year worldwide recession! Cool!
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While hardly mainstream, competitive Scrabble is getting newfound attention
"Mainstream" was rendered obsolete when search engines were invented. There is no such thing as "mainstream" or "mass market" any more. Detergent is a mass market. Everything else is non-mainstream.
Welcome to how the world functions. The key is to remain competitive and not dwell on the lack of rewards of past efforts.
I wonder if that's what the 250 Disney animators fired from the Florida studios were told? "Hey, you guys have to remain competitive. You have to improve your skillz. I mean, we all know you helped us pocket a half billion $ at the box office, but hey, let's not dwell on the lack of rewards of past efforts."
"Cardboard boxes will be provided for your desk for a small fee. Have a nice day."
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they transitioned it to a new Mozilla.org foundation
handed them their hats
became the single largest donor (by far) to that non-profit foundation, giving them all the equipment they had previously been using (webservers, test build machines, file servers, etc.) and $2m cash.
writeoff
other major companies donating $2m cash to mozilla.org
Probably some of the smartest and most capable engineers and designers in the industry, who produced probably the most famous and symbolic product of the early Internet, and all that's left is a web page of farewell messages.
It isn't hard to notice the first priority was that everyone should be fired. THEN and ONLY then was the next version of the browser considered, after all the logos were taken off the buildings and the desks moved out, of course.
I find it very interesting how the early Internet is always referred to as "dot com", as if business and the media are straining to make it a pejorative. All that creativity and CAPITALISM generated great wealth for dozens of economies. Ebay, Amazon, etc. are all publically traded, profitable companies that wouldn't exist without the Internet.
But it seems that now since the checks have all been cashed, there's no room left for the people who built it, and that's a shame.
It really was the good life on very little education.
Yeah, it was.
when they found other people in the world could do the same job and would do it for a fraction
Now that has been expanded to all jobs except management, so the "good life" isn't even available to those with four-year University educations any more. In fact, education has been rendered largely worthless because nothing can overcome the money grab of selling out to the lowest possible wage.
So, no house, no boat, no university, no cabin, no nothing. It's five to a rent application and hope they don't build a Wal-Mart.
Must there be an "overwhelming" response to any product in order to consider it a success? Why does every movie have to be Spider-Man? Why does every game console have to be a PlayStation? Why does every book have to be Harry Potter?
Business would be a lot better if management would stop looking for the ultimate money grab and spend more time on the quality of their products and the non-monetary value of their business.
When the annual review comes up the people that take pride or work hard will move ahead.
Oh, please. Move ahead right into a layoff. I know dozens of people who worked hard and took pride in their work. They are ALL unemployed and have been for years.
Then the weenies will bitch about not being liked, etc. ANYTHING but looking in the mirror and taking responsibility for their place on the ladder.
So management is always blameless, and never has to take responsibility for the low morale of the workers THEY HIRED? If the workers are bitching, it's MANAGEMENT'S fault. But no, middle management would much rather make the workplace a giant festering cesspool of office politics and non-specific gripes about the paycheck-to-paycheck guy in cubicle 1874-C.
W-4 employment is obsolete anyway. Can't depend on a paycheck anymore, so society can't depend on higher education, retirement, investments, neighborhoods or mortgages either.
You have to remember, back in the 50's and 60's the automotive industry had a LOT of capital tied up in foundries, assembly lines, parts plants and logistics.
Yeah. A lot of people had real jobs then too, and could afford a house before they started applying for Medicare. Funny how that works, isn't it?
regarding the epic scale slacking which contributed to the ills of the automotive industry
While the hairpieces in middle management heroically toiled late into the night to keep the business afloat, no doubt.
Funny how the slightest voice in support of workers generates a response of "they're just a bunch of lazy bastards who want more money for less work" along with the obligatory "they're all in unions too."
The article makes a very important point: that the possibility of success in the average corporate job is zero. That much is quite beyond dispute.
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So home come all the insurance companies are sitting on huge piles of money?
Because car insurance is a tax. Everyone has to buy insurance.
"Please give us all of your personal information or you will pay up to a 60% penalty on your food purchase. Have a nice day."
"Please hand over all information about your driving habits or you will pay an ___% penalty on your car insurance. Have a nice day."
This really is no different than the grocery store discount card.
Paying for the roads should be a privilege, then. I'm all for a nice, fat tax cut.
After all, if you want a low rate, why not prove it?
Because having to "prove it" isn't a free market.
Is Big Brother/privacy concerns worth the $?
Look up "false dilemma."
Evolution should not be part of Gnome - it should be added by the people who build the distro's.
Evolution is included because every single library in the entire Gnome install (about 784,197 of them at last count) has a hard dependency on some obscure 2K feature widget (usually the HTML library).
Gnome is the undisputed galactic champion of dependencies. Last time I tried to install Evolution from an RPM, I thought I was following a treasure map through the Saskatchewan tundra.
he's talking about Perl and you're talking about line noise.
Wow. Talk about a slow floating curve that just hangs in space over the plate until the after-dinner drink...
At least they're doing something. After firing 250 animators, literally and arrogantly destroying their entire (irreplaceable) animation department (after some 80 years) claiming "2D animation is dead," (despite the fact there are over 400 animation studios in Japan) canceling a multi-billion dollar deal with Pixar and then, with a straight face, claiming "we can't make money on Monday Night Football," I suppose replacing the fireworks show tubes is quite an accomplishment for a $46 billion company.
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Perhaps the reason HP is doing this is so that it can perhaps bundle the iPod with some back-to-school computer they'll be selling.
And so they can make an unrealistic commercial in the "I have an American Dream(tm) and you don't" series featuring a Suburban Dad in the traditional Suburban Dad Uniform of a mangy t-shirt, shorts with a lot of pockets (for all that disposaspendable cash and all those glittery credit cards named after various precious metals) and sandals and the traditional Suburban future University Perfect Homecoming Princess browsing the overpriced aisle for a "welcome to your new corporately-sponsored entertainment experience" which can be loaded into the back of the $85,000 SUV, driven back to the five-bedroom, 1/2 acre earthy-toned cement, glass, wood, grass and paving stone surrounded Suburban Castle nestled in the cul-de-sac, then assembled in the warm glow of the plasma television and the sound of Suburban Mom calling the Suburban Family to the Suburban Dinner in the new $175,000 dining room purchased on credit last week at the big-box retail center.
That about cover it? Thanks. Good night and drive safely.
Gee, do you think this attitude might force a lot of people to conclude that PC games are such a pain they might as well buy a console and play there?
They won't buy the $50 game, but they will buy the $200 console and the $50 game?
Not so information.
There is a scarcity of labor. Labor is required to produce information. Therefore there is a scarcity of information. If you want a 35% drop in the GDP and a 100-year recession, fine, repeal copyrights, patents and trademarks. But you cannot value information at zero and then expect the economy to continue investing capital (and labor) to produce it.
Conceivably, genetic modification will allow too-cheap-to-meter food. Will its tiny cost of manufacture translate to similar savings in your pocket?
Probably, but even the simplest farmer must be able to sell his crops at a profit, or he can't plant fields for the next harvest.
The 'losses' recorded by music industry people are losses of a privilege that is not founded on solid ground.
Music is priced too high. It cannot, however, be priced at zero, or there won't be any more music to buy.
The act of creation itself has value. This is the primary incentive to create when scarcity doesn't exist.
Great. Well, let's see if the bank and the grocer will buy that.
They're all ice vendors in the age of the fridge
The same vendors that supply the half-ton of ice available at the local grocery store?
They're in the wrong business entirely
Like the 2,000 companies in the billion-dollar packaged ice industry? Or perhaps the leading Canadian ice vendor (yeah, real shortage of ice in Canada) that has annual sales of $97 million?
But no, it would be better if all intellectual property rights were repealed. Then we could have 35% unemployment and a 100-year worldwide recession! Cool!
While hardly mainstream, competitive Scrabble is getting newfound attention
"Mainstream" was rendered obsolete when search engines were invented. There is no such thing as "mainstream" or "mass market" any more. Detergent is a mass market. Everything else is non-mainstream.
Why is anything that involves knowledge or thinking beyond "which reality show is on tonight?" described by name-calling?
Welcome to how the world functions. The key is to remain competitive and not dwell on the lack of rewards of past efforts.
I wonder if that's what the 250 Disney animators fired from the Florida studios were told? "Hey, you guys have to remain competitive. You have to improve your skillz. I mean, we all know you helped us pocket a half billion $ at the box office, but hey, let's not dwell on the lack of rewards of past efforts."
"Cardboard boxes will be provided for your desk for a small fee. Have a nice day."
they transitioned it to a new Mozilla.org foundation
handed them their hats
became the single largest donor (by far) to that non-profit foundation, giving them all the equipment they had previously been using (webservers, test build machines, file servers, etc.) and $2m cash.
writeoff
other major companies donating $2m cash to mozilla.org
Nobody's offering them jobs either.
Probably some of the smartest and most capable engineers and designers in the industry, who produced probably the most famous and symbolic product of the early Internet, and all that's left is a web page of farewell messages.
It isn't hard to notice the first priority was that everyone should be fired. THEN and ONLY then was the next version of the browser considered, after all the logos were taken off the buildings and the desks moved out, of course.
I find it very interesting how the early Internet is always referred to as "dot com", as if business and the media are straining to make it a pejorative. All that creativity and CAPITALISM generated great wealth for dozens of economies. Ebay, Amazon, etc. are all publically traded, profitable companies that wouldn't exist without the Internet.
But it seems that now since the checks have all been cashed, there's no room left for the people who built it, and that's a shame.
It really was the good life on very little education.
Yeah, it was.
when they found other people in the world could do the same job and would do it for a fraction
Now that has been expanded to all jobs except management, so the "good life" isn't even available to those with four-year University educations any more. In fact, education has been rendered largely worthless because nothing can overcome the money grab of selling out to the lowest possible wage.
So, no house, no boat, no university, no cabin, no nothing. It's five to a rent application and hope they don't build a Wal-Mart.
It's all been sold, and progress it ain't.
Must there be an "overwhelming" response to any product in order to consider it a success? Why does every movie have to be Spider-Man? Why does every game console have to be a PlayStation? Why does every book have to be Harry Potter?
Business would be a lot better if management would stop looking for the ultimate money grab and spend more time on the quality of their products and the non-monetary value of their business.
When the annual review comes up the people that take pride or work hard will move ahead.
Oh, please. Move ahead right into a layoff. I know dozens of people who worked hard and took pride in their work. They are ALL unemployed and have been for years.
Then the weenies will bitch about not being liked, etc. ANYTHING but looking in the mirror and taking responsibility for their place on the ladder.
So management is always blameless, and never has to take responsibility for the low morale of the workers THEY HIRED? If the workers are bitching, it's MANAGEMENT'S fault. But no, middle management would much rather make the workplace a giant festering cesspool of office politics and non-specific gripes about the paycheck-to-paycheck guy in cubicle 1874-C.
W-4 employment is obsolete anyway. Can't depend on a paycheck anymore, so society can't depend on higher education, retirement, investments, neighborhoods or mortgages either.
You have to remember, back in the 50's and 60's the automotive industry had a LOT of capital tied up in foundries, assembly lines, parts plants and logistics.
Yeah. A lot of people had real jobs then too, and could afford a house before they started applying for Medicare. Funny how that works, isn't it?
regarding the epic scale slacking which contributed to the ills of the automotive industry
While the hairpieces in middle management heroically toiled late into the night to keep the business afloat, no doubt.
Funny how the slightest voice in support of workers generates a response of "they're just a bunch of lazy bastards who want more money for less work" along with the obligatory "they're all in unions too."
The article makes a very important point: that the possibility of success in the average corporate job is zero. That much is quite beyond dispute.
Now, let's all sing the company song.
Ding. We have a winner.
PowerPoint presentations are only important if the workplace is a theme park where everyone must be entertained in order to be persuaded.
And that is why PowerPoint is the most important thing in most companies.