Last January the borough of Newham in London reversed course on a planned change to Linux after a consultant's report said Windows would cost $600,000 less to support each year. To seal the deal, Microsoft offered Newham an undisclosed discount. The Finnish city of Turku also changed its mind about dumping Windows after a three-year experiment with Linux showed employees resisted the switch. There are reports of glitches and cost overruns from other Linux adopters, including Munich and the German Parliament, which had to revert to Windows servers temporarily in mid-October when a third of its 5,000 PC users couldn't access the Internet or get e-mail.
Read http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_45/b39 07083_mz054.htm for more information on the subject.
Sounds like your teacher was correct. Tell me, if XUL + Apache (which has been available longer than ASP.NET) is the correct solution and superior to ASP.NET, why do developers choose the latter? Maybe they are stupid just like your teacher?
Python isn't the solution for anything either. Get out of the reality distortion field.
OK, this was the big selling point of XUL. A cross platform "platform". No major applications came out of it. The fact is that cross platform is not terribly important in the application world anymore. Most end-user apps only need to run on Windows to be successful.
"You can stop others from doing anything they want"
Untrue of course. With the BSD license you cannot stop anyone from doing anything with that particular fork. Of course, you can make a NEW FORK and change the license. That is only logical, because you can think of that as "your fork". This doesn't give you the right to stop others for using other forks, or the original one. The idea that I should be FORCED to give up code that is added to a code base that uses GPL code is offensive to me, which is why I reject the GPL. I prefer true freedom. After all, the biggest advantage of OSS (supposedly) is that everyone shares their code to improve the code base. So why would I need to be compelled to do so via a license? Isn't it naturally "better" to share it anyway?
The slavery analogy is completely wrong as well, since in license issues all parties agree to abide by the license terms. Slaves weren't afforded that luxury.
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So which is better? And don't say: "well they have different uses" because YOU are the astroturfer who brought up Prevayler in an article about Hibernate.
I prefer Hibernate. It has fast persistence, great documentation, is truly free, and great support too!
There are studies that have been done that indicate that comprehension and retention of information from a light transmitting medium (e.g. a monitor) is much lower then the same from a transflective medium (a book).
I doubt you know WHAT she uses. Don't presume that she ONLY needs to do this or that. Maybe she needs Office because the boss comes to her at the last minute to print out something. Maybe she runs a bunch off apps you dont know about.
Really, changing peoples apps without consulting them is firable offense.
Bjorn Borg, if you have something to say - don't post behind an AC account.
BTW, your framing arguments are obviously not important. Otherwise Jabber servers would not exist and in use (and there are plenty of them). Apparently the server implementors have worked through the framing "problems" all by themselves.
Again, the purpose of this mission was not to reach space. The purpose it to develop a low-cost launch platform that can reach space with only 2 weeks max between launches. This is more like the X-1 flights (whose records the SS1 broke today)
NASA has spent over a trillion dollars in tax free money since their inception. This doesn't include the additional support costs that a government agency requires, as well as integration costs with the DoD.
What I don't understand is why you feel the need to make a jab at such brave people as the funders and engineers at Scaled. Wouldn't you time be better off fixing the numerous errors in the code and editing at slashdot.org?
Sure you will. Well, Bush is going to win because Kerry and his trial lawyer running mate are not compelling enough for a change. So you better get packing now. Why wait? I'll even help you if you would like.
See you later! I am sure we will miss your "robotic, automation" skills.
If you want something that is easy to configure and setup you will want one of the commercial XMPP servers.
See jabber.com for Jabber, Inc's server (thats what I use)
Or tipic.com for Tipic's server
Or winfessor.com or Winfessors ASP.NET server
All of those companies provide support as well. They also have support for various directory services if you are running them.
Or are you looking for something free (as in beer?). If so, you get what you pay for - or you do it yourself - or you write code to make the current OSS offering more easy to setup.
Do not listen to the replies to you who say that your software is "too expensive" or "wants to be free" or "not worth paying for".
The solution is to charge money for your software (radical concept). Provide a "basic" version and a "pro" version. The basic version is free, but *severely* limited. The pro version is not. Enfore your pro version using some anti-pirate mechanism. Many business users are not going to download cracks.
For all of those people who say that the anti-pirate mechanisms will be broken, I call bullshit. That may be true for widely used games and apps, but no one is going to put effort into cracking a HTML editor with only 100,000 pro users.
Even it does get cracked, it makes it just one step more for those that wish to steal from you. I assume these same people say you shouldn't lock your house, because they can just break in a window. Also, many people will realize it is "wrong" to steal software when they have to go out to download a crack.
Shareware is silly. People won't pay unless they have to in order to get the features they want. Of course now we have the concept of "free software". To most people this means the software doesn't cost anything, although people around here claim it all about access to the source (baloney).
I am an independent software developer and I can tell you that selling software WORKS, giving it away does not work.
What are you talking about? Microsoft has Windows Terminal Server with thin clients to handle that case.
BTW, the idea of the "Personal Computer" (which "M$" had a huge role in popularizing) is based on the concept that the user has control over their applications and data. It is a personal system. This is an idea that is unlike UNIX systems, since they revolve around a multiuser system that is "administrated" by accounts with elevated privs. Installing software historically requires an elevated priv account, this is the philosophy. This is useful, but not the kind of system I want to use anymore (and I used to be a Solaris admin). I don't like multiuser systems at all.
This is very important: users are not nescessarily dumb or lazy because they do not want to learn some new system. It is usually because it is not important to them. Computers to many people are a tool, not something of any interest.
I think many people in our field don't understand that. For most users, computers are a way to check email, browse the web, write documents. An "operating system" means "Microsoft Office", "the web", "my email". They have no interest in learning about them beyond that. The will simply use whatever everyone else is using to accomplish the above. You are not being asked dumb questions, its just that those people don't care enough about it. I am sure my mechanic thinks the same way about people who bring their cars into his shop (although he has probably gotten over it).
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Last January the borough of Newham in London reversed course on a planned change to Linux after a consultant's report said Windows would cost $600,000 less to support each year. To seal the deal, Microsoft offered Newham an undisclosed discount. The Finnish city of Turku also changed its mind about dumping Windows after a three-year experiment with Linux showed employees resisted the switch. There are reports of glitches and cost overruns from other Linux adopters, including Munich and the German Parliament, which had to revert to Windows servers temporarily in mid-October when a third of its 5,000 PC users couldn't access the Internet or get e-mail.
9 07083_mz054.htm for more information on the subject.
Read http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_45/b3
Sounds like your teacher was correct. Tell me, if XUL + Apache (which has been available longer than ASP.NET) is the correct solution and superior to ASP.NET, why do developers choose the latter? Maybe they are stupid just like your teacher?
Python isn't the solution for anything either. Get out of the reality distortion field.
OK, this was the big selling point of XUL. A cross platform "platform". No major applications came out of it.
The fact is that cross platform is not terribly important in the application world anymore. Most end-user apps only need to run on Windows to be successful.
Did daddy get fired or something?
Man, if you weren't kidding about the above post you are quite insane. Slashdot is turning into a harbor for crazy people.
Er, you can write code for all PocketPC devices. There is also plenty of "free" software (like GNU utilities) for it.
And yes, it does run Linux if that is what you are asking. This site isn't just about Linux though, so deal with it.
"You can stop others from doing anything they want"
Untrue of course. With the BSD license you cannot stop anyone from doing anything with that particular fork. Of course, you can make a NEW FORK and change the license. That is only logical, because you can think of that as "your fork". This doesn't give you the right to stop others for using other forks, or the original one. The idea that I should be FORCED to give up code that is added to a code base that uses GPL code is offensive to me, which is why I reject the GPL. I prefer true freedom. After all, the biggest advantage of OSS (supposedly) is that everyone shares their code to improve the code base. So why would I need to be compelled to do so via a license? Isn't it naturally "better" to share it anyway?
The slavery analogy is completely wrong as well, since in license issues all parties agree to abide by the license terms. Slaves weren't afforded that luxury.
So which is better? And don't say: "well they have different uses" because YOU are the astroturfer who brought up Prevayler in an article about Hibernate.
I prefer Hibernate. It has fast persistence, great documentation, is truly free, and great support too!
"I heard an article on NPR"
"there IS NO OTHER SIDE"
This is why liberals are dangerous ladies and gents.
Viewing your code in assembler? Comment every 3 lines? You must be kidding, or trolling.
The top 5 things are:
1) Meeting the requirements
2) Stability
3) Maintainability
4) Expandibility
5) Efficiency
Seriously, what professional programmers do unit testing? I've never seen it in the workplace to any significant degree.
There are studies that have been done that indicate that comprehension and retention of information from a light transmitting medium (e.g. a monitor) is much lower then the same from a transflective medium (a book).
This is why "nothing seems to go in anymore".
I doubt you know WHAT she uses. Don't presume that she ONLY needs to do this or that. Maybe she needs Office because the boss comes to her at the last minute to print out something. Maybe she runs a bunch off apps you dont know about.
Really, changing peoples apps without consulting them is firable offense.
Bjorn Borg, if you have something to say - don't post behind an AC account.
BTW, your framing arguments are obviously not important. Otherwise Jabber servers would not exist and in use (and there are plenty of them). Apparently the server implementors have worked through the framing "problems" all by themselves.
Again, the purpose of this mission was not to reach space. The purpose it to develop a low-cost launch platform that can reach space with only 2 weeks max between launches. This is more like the X-1 flights (whose records the SS1 broke today) NASA has spent over a trillion dollars in tax free money since their inception. This doesn't include the additional support costs that a government agency requires, as well as integration costs with the DoD. What I don't understand is why you feel the need to make a jab at such brave people as the funders and engineers at Scaled. Wouldn't you time be better off fixing the numerous errors in the code and editing at slashdot.org?
No, he is an American citizen. Unlike other places(EU), we don't differentiate between "new" Americans and "old" Americans.
Sure you will. Well, Bush is going to win because Kerry and his trial lawyer running mate are not compelling enough for a change. So you better get packing now. Why wait? I'll even help you if you would like.
See you later! I am sure we will miss your "robotic, automation" skills.
No, it will be Microsoft's fault. Somehow.
If you want something that is easy to configure and setup you will want one of the commercial XMPP servers.
.NET server
See jabber.com for Jabber, Inc's server (thats what I use)
Or tipic.com for Tipic's server
Or winfessor.com or Winfessors ASP
All of those companies provide support as well. They also have support for various directory services if you are running them.
Or are you looking for something free (as in beer?). If so, you get what you pay for - or you do it yourself - or you write code to make the current OSS offering more easy to setup.
Do not listen to the replies to you who say that your software is "too expensive" or "wants to be free" or "not worth paying for".
The solution is to charge money for your software (radical concept). Provide a "basic" version and a "pro" version. The basic version is free, but *severely* limited. The pro version is not. Enfore your pro version using some anti-pirate mechanism. Many business users are not going to download cracks.
For all of those people who say that the anti-pirate mechanisms will be broken, I call bullshit. That may be true for widely used games and apps, but no one is going to put effort into cracking a HTML editor with only 100,000 pro users.
Even it does get cracked, it makes it just one step more for those that wish to steal from you. I assume these same people say you shouldn't lock your house, because they can just break in a window. Also, many people will realize it is "wrong" to steal software when they have to go out to download a crack.
Shareware is silly. People won't pay unless they have to in order to get the features they want. Of course now we have the concept of "free software". To most people this means the software doesn't cost anything, although people around here claim it all about access to the source (baloney).
I am an independent software developer and I can tell you that selling software WORKS, giving it away does not work.
"...I did try to conceal it by pimping out the console in leather -- looked really nice"
"like my sisters exboyfriend that was borrowing his cousins car and allowed them to search it after pulling him over for doing 3 miles over the limit"
Thank you. This was very entertaining.
What are you talking about? Microsoft has Windows Terminal Server with thin clients to handle that case. BTW, the idea of the "Personal Computer" (which "M$" had a huge role in popularizing) is based on the concept that the user has control over their applications and data. It is a personal system. This is an idea that is unlike UNIX systems, since they revolve around a multiuser system that is "administrated" by accounts with elevated privs. Installing software historically requires an elevated priv account, this is the philosophy. This is useful, but not the kind of system I want to use anymore (and I used to be a Solaris admin). I don't like multiuser systems at all.
This is very important: users are not nescessarily dumb or lazy because they do not want to learn some new system. It is usually because it is not important to them. Computers to many people are a tool, not something of any interest.
I think many people in our field don't understand that. For most users, computers are a way to check email, browse the web, write documents. An "operating system" means "Microsoft Office", "the web", "my email". They have no interest in learning about them beyond that. The will simply use whatever everyone else is using to accomplish the above. You are not being asked dumb questions, its just that those people don't care enough about it. I am sure my mechanic thinks the same way about people who bring their cars into his shop (although he has probably gotten over it).
I nominate twitter of slashdot fame. Without his fair and balanced outlook on the state of OSS we wouldn't be where we are today.
Wherever that is.
You sure seem to know a LOT about Danger. Are you an astroturfer? Your posting history on this topic seems to indicate so.