The real kicker of it all is that I got modded Troll for making a legitimate comment on failed promises and you got modded Insightful for linking to three articles that did not actually demonstrate anything other than I was right.
As others have pointed out, all those promises are indeed now possible, albeit not in common practice.
Or did you expect AT&T to actually fulfill those promises themselves?
The last two distributions of SUSE (9.0 and 9.1) have included Real Player fully configured. As far as I can tell, there's no spyware/bloatware/adware. I doubt SUSE/Novell would allow future versions to include any malware either.
* in reference to excessive accidentals from GP...
But when you do it on purpose, it's called heavy metal.
And when you do it on accident and then claim it's on purpose, it's called rock'n'roll.
Huh?
Most heavy metal that *I* hear is heavily based on I-V progressions.
And a hell of a lot of "Rock'nRoll" is based on I-IV-V.
Kind of a shame that you have to lie about what browser you're installing for them, don't you think? In the long run you're doing a disservice to the Mozilla folks by passing it off as IE, not to mention downright deceit to the user.
A much better approach would be to sit down with the users with both browsers, and surf to good and bad sites with both to demonstrate the differences.
... who's debut solo album Northern Star went multi-platinum?
That's actually not as big a feat these days as you would try to have everyone believe. It often takes that amount of sales just to recoup the marketing costs.
I would amend that to "no average geek-wannabe would be running as root". Must normal users I know (and that includes windows users as well as linux users) prefer their login to be something other than "root". They like to choose what their login will be, either a familiar name, or something else that means something to them. Whether their login is given root/admin privileges is another matter and is probably not their doing.
I'm also not sure I want to be handing people the title of Engineer - I went to school for 5 years to earn that
I've never been a big fan of certifications, but...
Engineering is an awfully big camp. What kind engineer are you? Railroad? Civil? Computer? I wouldn't get so worked up over it. It's only a title, after all, and it does contain Red Hat in it, so it's narrowed down for you already.
eriously, is Slashdot a "News for Nerds", or "HOWTOs for N00bs"?
It's "HOWTOs for CHEAP N00bs". Getting a Linksys or other router is by far the cheapest solution to this problem, no matter what the OS, yet apparently it's more appealing to download updates, burn them to CD, then jump through a few more hoops - instead of forking over the 50-odd bucks for a router.
I wasn't just talking of Pell grants. There realy is a ton of money to be had out there. But you have to do a fair amount of work to uncover the money. I'm talking also of private sponsors (companies that give out scholarships to employees' children, etc). It just takes thinking a bit outside the norm.
I don't really have much to say except, if you really are at the poverty level you say you are, you should have no trouble securing grants for education. I'm not even talking about loans. Grants. There is an absolute TON of money to be had for education, particularly for the poor. Sorry to sound calous, but I did it that way when my parents decided not to further pay for my education (in music, which doesn't help me one lick as a systems administrator - which I've happily been for 20 years).
Honestly, if there is one thing I'll never be able to understand are Linux "power users" who admire programs running on MS-Windows or, even worse, MS-Windows' "ease of use" and "good user interface"
I can't speak for anyone but myself of course, but in my case "good user interface" would mean easier to use. I'll give you an example:
I use both XP and Linux (Suse 9.1) for music/audio production. On the XP side my two main programs are Sonar 3 with many 3rd party softsynth plugins and Kontakt. On Linux my main programs are Rosegarden with a couple of softsynths (fluidsynth, zynaddsubfx, hydrogen), Specimen and Ardour - all using JACK.
So, say I've been writing all night within Sonar and have everything going just the way I want. When I save a project in Sonar, it saves not only all my Sonar settings, but all my softsynth settings and sampler settings in one save. The next time I go to open that project, I get EVERYTHING opened back up just as I saved it.
I can accomplish everything I need to musically with the Linux software I use too, but I pretty much have to jump through hoops to get a session opened back to where I was before. LASH is making headway with this, but not all apps use it. Currently, I could set up separate "studios" in Rosegarden or "Patchbays" in JACK or synths in QSynth, etc. But that's a lot of messing around for a single project. And that kills creativity quickly.
Obviously, this is a pretty specific case, but it's not hard to imagine non-musical examples as well.
I don't know where I read it, but somewhere I read that a Gartner report claimed IBM had around 32 percent of the Linux market share for full systems. While that may not be their primary business, it ain't small potatos either.
And when you walk past a corporate building, the 802.11b wireless is beaming into your skull as well. Oh wait, your MOTHERFUCKING skull. Sorry. That doesn't mean you are allowed to crack the WEP key and associate to the access point.
You'd be surprised at how many people feel it is their right to do just that (along with the others you mentioned). It amazes me, with services being cheaper than they have ever been - and I'm talking broadly, people feel like they deserve something for nothing.
I've had dish for almost three years now, and my two dishes (one is for international) aren't nearly 36 inches.
I haven't measured, but they're more along the lines of 20-22 inches.
I grew up in northern Minnesota (Duluth) on the tip of Lake Superior. I remember that weather well. After college, I moved to Mexico for a couple of years, got married down there, then tried to move back to Minnesota with my wife, who'd never seen snow or lived in cold weather before. Frankly, she fared better than I did. Maybe it was the newness of everything for her, but for me it was remembering to warm up the car for 20 minutes, shoveling yourself out the front door in the morning, shoveling the driveway only to see the plow coming down the street.
Most of the spam is from America and sent to Americans.
This is false in my case. I have an account that I've never published/given out with an italian ISP. It gets about 200 a week. From all over the place. I'll repeat that I've never given this email address to anyone.
You get an MBA, you move into management and become the CIO/CTO. Happens all the time.
Somewhat off-topic, but I have to say...
It doesn't successfully happen all the time. Once you move into management, you need to learn to keep your hands off the day-to-day stuff, and that's difficult for a lot of sysadmin-turned-managers to do.
I'm constantly going back through something that was completed, because my manager (who was a great tech) still wanted to get his hands dirty. No other reason. All that does is create double work.
Why do you english speaking people always try to translate things? The name is HOMEROS and not HOMER. Last I checked, that was some fat guy from the Simpsons.
It's not an English-speaking only thing. It happens around the globe. It's only natural for people to want to translate into something more understandable to them.
Being fresh out of college, you'd probably want a roommate or two in a 2 or 3 bedroom apartment, instead of living alone. And it doesn't have to be in the absolute best part of town. I'd make sure it was safe, for sure, but it doesn't have to be luxurious. Believe it or not, that's the quickest way to save money - share your expenses.
It's inconvenient, yes. But in the long run, having roommates for a couple of years will have helped you out alot.
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And I suppose that's not surprising given where this is posted. We do, afterall, know everything about everything. :/
As others have pointed out, all those promises are indeed now possible, albeit not in common practice.
Or did you expect AT&T to actually fulfill those promises themselves?
The last two distributions of SUSE (9.0 and 9.1) have included Real Player fully configured. As far as I can tell, there's no spyware/bloatware/adware. I doubt SUSE/Novell would allow future versions to include any malware either.
Huh? Most heavy metal that *I* hear is heavily based on I-V progressions.
And a hell of a lot of "Rock'nRoll" is based on I-IV-V.
Hardly excessive accidentals, on purpose or not.
A much better approach would be to sit down with the users with both browsers, and surf to good and bad sites with both to demonstrate the differences.
That's actually not as big a feat these days as you would try to have everyone believe. It often takes that amount of sales just to recoup the marketing costs.
Thanks Rich.
I would amend that to "no average geek-wannabe would be running as root". Must normal users I know (and that includes windows users as well as linux users) prefer their login to be something other than "root". They like to choose what their login will be, either a familiar name, or something else that means something to them. Whether their login is given root/admin privileges is another matter and is probably not their doing.
I've never been a big fan of certifications, but...
Engineering is an awfully big camp. What kind engineer are you? Railroad? Civil? Computer? I wouldn't get so worked up over it. It's only a title, after all, and it does contain Red Hat in it, so it's narrowed down for you already.
It's "HOWTOs for CHEAP N00bs". Getting a Linksys or other router is by far the cheapest solution to this problem, no matter what the OS, yet apparently it's more appealing to download updates, burn them to CD, then jump through a few more hoops - instead of forking over the 50-odd bucks for a router.
I wasn't just talking of Pell grants. There realy is a ton of money to be had out there. But you have to do a fair amount of work to uncover the money. I'm talking also of private sponsors (companies that give out scholarships to employees' children, etc). It just takes thinking a bit outside the norm.
I don't really have much to say except, if you really are at the poverty level you say you are, you should have no trouble securing grants for education. I'm not even talking about loans. Grants. There is an absolute TON of money to be had for education, particularly for the poor. Sorry to sound calous, but I did it that way when my parents decided not to further pay for my education (in music, which doesn't help me one lick as a systems administrator - which I've happily been for 20 years).
I can't speak for anyone but myself of course, but in my case "good user interface" would mean easier to use. I'll give you an example:
I use both XP and Linux (Suse 9.1) for music/audio production. On the XP side my two main programs are Sonar 3 with many 3rd party softsynth plugins and Kontakt. On Linux my main programs are Rosegarden with a couple of softsynths (fluidsynth, zynaddsubfx, hydrogen), Specimen and Ardour - all using JACK.
So, say I've been writing all night within Sonar and have everything going just the way I want. When I save a project in Sonar, it saves not only all my Sonar settings, but all my softsynth settings and sampler settings in one save. The next time I go to open that project, I get EVERYTHING opened back up just as I saved it.
I can accomplish everything I need to musically with the Linux software I use too, but I pretty much have to jump through hoops to get a session opened back to where I was before. LASH is making headway with this, but not all apps use it. Currently, I could set up separate "studios" in Rosegarden or "Patchbays" in JACK or synths in QSynth, etc. But that's a lot of messing around for a single project. And that kills creativity quickly.
Obviously, this is a pretty specific case, but it's not hard to imagine non-musical examples as well.
I don't know where I read it, but somewhere I read that a Gartner report claimed IBM had around 32 percent of the Linux market share for full systems. While that may not be their primary business, it ain't small potatos either.
You'd be surprised at how many people feel it is their right to do just that (along with the others you mentioned). It amazes me, with services being cheaper than they have ever been - and I'm talking broadly, people feel like they deserve something for nothing.
I've had dish for almost three years now, and my two dishes (one is for international) aren't nearly 36 inches. I haven't measured, but they're more along the lines of 20-22 inches.
It means it's a DNS problem.
Maybe it's just me, but I tend to hover the mouse over links before I actually click on them for this exact reason.
So that's when we moved to California.
And got divorced.
You must not have had to hire a baysitter lately.
This is false in my case. I have an account that I've never published/given out with an italian ISP. It gets about 200 a week. From all over the place. I'll repeat that I've never given this email address to anyone.
Maybe s/he was trying to be funny. I don't use IE either. :-)
Somewhat off-topic, but I have to say...
It doesn't successfully happen all the time. Once you move into management, you need to learn to keep your hands off the day-to-day stuff, and that's difficult for a lot of sysadmin-turned-managers to do.
I'm constantly going back through something that was completed, because my manager (who was a great tech) still wanted to get his hands dirty. No other reason. All that does is create double work.
It's not an English-speaking only thing. It happens around the globe. It's only natural for people to want to translate into something more understandable to them.
Being fresh out of college, you'd probably want a roommate or two in a 2 or 3 bedroom apartment, instead of living alone. And it doesn't have to be in the absolute best part of town. I'd make sure it was safe, for sure, but it doesn't have to be luxurious. Believe it or not, that's the quickest way to save money - share your expenses.
It's inconvenient, yes. But in the long run, having roommates for a couple of years will have helped you out alot.