Take him somewhere for a couple of days. Maybe an island or something, if you have the means. Most geeks need to persuasian to leave their comfort zone, but appreciate once it's done.
I've often wondered about that. Who are these mythical voters that elect asshats into power for promising to implement asinine policies? It doesn't seem to be anybody I've talked to...
So you're the safe cell-phone driver? Riiight. As AC posted, everyone thinks they're safe - until they fuck up and crash. And even then they'll tell you it's somebody elses fault.
I agree. The more observant of the car drivers will see the same thing as well.
When driving a Range Rover I've got all the space in the world, but when driving a Scooby I've got "normal" space - that is cut off and tailgated etc. And when riding a motorbike, forget it - the punters haven't seen me yet. When they do see me, they don't give a shit and try to drive through anyway, then they get upset when right-of-way rules are enforced.
Before anyone suggests driver-ed, these are the same kooks who can't walk through the mall without getting in each others way. Unless you put them in life-or-death situations (eg ride a bike around for a bit) they simply won't learn effectively.
On a side note, I'm constantly amazed at the number of times I've had to put the bike on the front wheel around town too. I guess there was a reason for learning to do "stoppies" after all...
Fo' real? You're on stage in your garage, and local music freak tries to extort you? Were you covering their member bands' songs in a legally public venue? if not, just tell them to piss off.
Nice to see Ethics class paid of for the authors of this crap...
I'm almost in favour of increased regulation of the computer industry. If nothing else, this shit should be covered by basic consumer law.
The GPL is not there to make code free, it's there to protect the intellectual property of the author. It prevents code from being stolen from the author and used commercially without compensating its author.
Bollocks, you can sell it / use it commercially perfectly well - look at any of the OSS vendors, although the "dual licensing" companies are questionable in their use of bug fixes patches etc which were submitted under GPL. No compensation is required, aside from source availability to those you ditributed it to.
He's a business reporter, not a technology reporter. He probably got all his info from an SCO press release. This cat knows nothing of Linux or its culture and community.
Check out the related links - OSDl, SCO, and Linux.com I mean, seriously, WTF does OSDL and Linux.com (An enterprise linux portal) have to do with anything? Well, aside from being a good way to get his article Slashdot exposure.
Um, dude, it's on Tweak Town and Slashdot - It's already being marketed to "power users". They're softening the market up for precisely the reason you stated. Grizzled old users and admins don't like change when things have worked fine for years.
It's not the businesses that are the problem, it's the web monkeys writing the sites.
I did the same thing with http://www.landrover.co.nz, and got the response that 1% of visitors used non-IE browser., and that the site would require a complete rewrite (according to the web developers).
From a business perspect this is fine, the problem is that the stats are likely based on total hits which is flawed because only the first and error pages are counted, and that the web guys are flat out wrong about needing to rewrite the site. But there's no way for the marketing person managing this site to know that.
Out of interest I tried Moz with the IE6 UA plugin, and it works fine.
Well, there's your problem. Nobody is particularly interested in making a name for Crispin-whoever through working their arse off on unglamorous bugs. People are quite happy to work under their own names and on the existing projects.
Yes, I agree. Mail scanners should quietly destroy the virus infected message, logging it for admin review purposes. Amavis-new for example has such options, and I'd imagine others do too.
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Take him somewhere for a couple of days. Maybe an island or something, if you have the means. Most geeks need to persuasian to leave their comfort zone, but appreciate once it's done.
FOSS developers don't pay as much tax as AMD employees will.
I've often wondered about that. Who are these mythical voters that elect asshats into power for promising to implement asinine policies? It doesn't seem to be anybody I've talked to...
It's not rebellion, it's terrorism. Welcome to 2004. :-)
So you're the safe cell-phone driver? Riiight. As AC posted, everyone thinks they're safe - until they fuck up and crash. And even then they'll tell you it's somebody elses fault.
I agree. The more observant of the car drivers will see the same thing as well.
When driving a Range Rover I've got all the space in the world, but when driving a Scooby I've got "normal" space - that is cut off and tailgated etc. And when riding a motorbike, forget it - the punters haven't seen me yet. When they do see me, they don't give a shit and try to drive through anyway, then they get upset when right-of-way rules are enforced.
Before anyone suggests driver-ed, these are the same kooks who can't walk through the mall without getting in each others way. Unless you put them in life-or-death situations (eg ride a bike around for a bit) they simply won't learn effectively.
On a side note, I'm constantly amazed at the number of times I've had to put the bike on the front wheel around town too. I guess there was a reason for learning to do "stoppies" after all...
Fo' real? You're on stage in your garage, and local music freak tries to extort you? Were you covering their member bands' songs in a legally public venue? if not, just tell them to piss off.
Don't fall for it! They're obviously in cahoots!
That goes both ways right? If they get upset about uncapping, just say you changed the terms.
Nice to see Ethics class paid of for the authors of this crap... I'm almost in favour of increased regulation of the computer industry. If nothing else, this shit should be covered by basic consumer law.
Shareware would have been funnier. Paying for spyware - that would be beautiful.
The GPL is not there to make code free, it's there to protect the intellectual property of the author. It prevents code from being stolen from the author and used commercially without compensating its author.
Bollocks, you can sell it / use it commercially perfectly well - look at any of the OSS vendors, although the "dual licensing" companies are questionable in their use of bug fixes patches etc which were submitted under GPL. No compensation is required, aside from source availability to those you ditributed it to.
I was wondering that about Mr Evans' logo on the page: "STATE$IDE" Is that for real?
He's a business reporter, not a technology reporter. He probably got all his info from an SCO press release. This cat knows nothing of Linux or its culture and community.
Check out the related links - OSDl, SCO, and Linux.com I mean, seriously, WTF does OSDL and Linux.com (An enterprise linux portal) have to do with anything? Well, aside from being a good way to get his article Slashdot exposure.
Indeed it has. Mad props to Ford for sorting that out.
How screwed up is this... People post warez, porn, goatse, and all manner of objectional material, but nobody has the balls to post BENCHMARKS?
.torrent out of it - they can't C&D the whole world.
Jeez, just make a
Um, dude, it's on Tweak Town and Slashdot - It's already being marketed to "power users". They're softening the market up for precisely the reason you stated. Grizzled old users and admins don't like change when things have worked fine for years.
Feh. I might be impressed however, if it was a Monkey with Five BTX...
Why the Antartic? Has everything in the Artic been killed off already?
It's not the businesses that are the problem, it's the web monkeys writing the sites.
I did the same thing with http://www.landrover.co.nz, and got the response that 1% of visitors used non-IE browser., and that the site would require a complete rewrite (according to the web developers).
From a business perspect this is fine, the problem is that the stats are likely based on total hits which is flawed because only the first and error pages are counted, and that the web guys are flat out wrong about needing to rewrite the site. But there's no way for the marketing person managing this site to know that.
Out of interest I tried Moz with the IE6 UA plugin, and it works fine.
That would be pretty funny. Get some MCSE geeks in to tune a WinXP system and see how it fares against an optimized Gentoo box.
Yes, but if the software is free you can't really save anything by outsourcing devlopment to India, can you?
OTOH, you *can* sell your consulting services to foreign governments and build long term relationships with future economic powerhouses.
"...under this Sardonix name..."
Well, there's your problem. Nobody is particularly interested in making a name for Crispin-whoever through working their arse off on unglamorous bugs. People are quite happy to work under their own names and on the existing projects.
At least the Windows converts will be happy then...
Yes, I agree. Mail scanners should quietly destroy the virus infected message, logging it for admin review purposes. Amavis-new for example has such options, and I'd imagine others do too.