Actually whether it be businesses or governments noone really cares how "crusty" an application or OS is provided it still functions. One of the biggest problems with computer people in general is that they think the computer is important. To non-computer people (which believe-it-or-not is actually almost everyone) the computer is just a fancy pencil.
Whether governments should rely on open source remains highly questionable and it certainly depends on the level of government and type of application. When a "community" is writing software, it is most definitely cheaper ala Linux, however most governments can't contract a "community" to mystically create a custom software package. The government must contract a vendor, small or large, and in general it will cost more to get the source from the vendor.
Well, about 3 threads up threads up there is a nice conversation about how you can download the enterprise rpms for free (compliance with GPL). Whats interesting is that the thread typically devolves into a discussion on how they are "legally" (sorry guys it aint legal) pirate the RHE cds. So, with friends like these, who needs enemies.
If Redhat stays afloat it will be because geeks talk their managers into using linux for the price and then over the course of years, Redhat slowly starts attaching more and larger price tags to its products and services. I'd still be quite wary of investing a large chunk of change in RH. I sure as hell wouldn't put my kid's college fund in there.
As someone who has lived in Japan for nearly a decade, this doesn't surprise me. If you could see how much repetition goes on in Japan it would make your mind explode (or atleast it did mine a few years back..) In the U.S. most spinoffs and sequels are born in corporations. Companies trying to make money off of a known winner. There is nothing inherently wrong with that unless you're a commie pinko dirtbag hippie freak who hates money. But it does get boring and Americans soon enough tire of the series and something new comes along.
However, in Japan, repetition is not born in corporate board rooms, it is born in school classrooms starting at about age 7. In Japan you are taught the proper way to do something, and then that's it, that's just the way it's done, by everyone, everytime. There are exceptions of course, but the cultural philosophy in Japan emphasizes the correctness of the technique over the originality of the concept. This is a key difference with Americans and will probably not change until the population crisis strikes in about 30-40 years. At that time, Japan will change so drastically it's anyone's guess what will come out the other side.
Teach them a few phrases in Spanish and tell them to call themselves "Undocumented Workers". After that, go to California, get a drivers license, use that license to get an ID in another state.
Welcome to the almost real world. In the real world, things are a bit more harsh, but this sounds like a good introduction.
Outside of/. universe, people actually do use MS, in fact, most do. When you get a real job in the real world doing real work, you will use the OS, the IDE, the programming language, the utilities, the hardware, the everydamned lil'ol'thing that your employer tells you to use, or you will be fired. That is, if your employer doesn't outsource your job to an Indian making 1/10th your pay who is more than happy to use MS or any other thing his employer tells him.
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Yes. Get yourself a cygwin setup. Create a Makefile win32 project in VS.Net. Set your PATH and other ENV vars in the VS preferences, then setup your makefile to use GCC. You will have to edit your makefile manually whenever you add to your project unless you write a plugin. Nonetheless, you will be smiling after your first project.
The IDE absolutely kicks arse. Most of the arguments here appear to boil down to VS.Net sucks because it's cool to hate Microsoft.
If you are running pure Linux and can't abide Microsoft for whatever reason, I suggest you get Anjuta. Anjuta is great for building Linux projects particularly of the gnome variety.
As a sidenote, I just finished a rather large project using JBuilder, and I must say that I like it very much. I still think VS.Net is the #1 IDE on the market, but for java, JBuilder is quite nice.
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35*8+43*1=323
Evidently 37 studios had 8x burners, but 4 of those studios only ran them at 4x speed for some reason...
Do what all good communists do, shoot your opponents in the head.
Actually whether it be businesses or governments noone really cares how "crusty" an application or OS is provided it still functions. One of the biggest problems with computer people in general is that they think the computer is important. To non-computer people (which believe-it-or-not is actually almost everyone) the computer is just a fancy pencil.
Whether governments should rely on open source remains highly questionable and it certainly depends on the level of government and type of application. When a "community" is writing software, it is most definitely cheaper ala Linux, however most governments can't contract a "community" to mystically create a custom software package. The government must contract a vendor, small or large, and in general it will cost more to get the source from the vendor.
Well, about 3 threads up threads up there is a nice conversation about how you can download the enterprise rpms for free (compliance with GPL). Whats interesting is that the thread typically devolves into a discussion on how they are "legally" (sorry guys it aint legal) pirate the RHE cds. So, with friends like these, who needs enemies.
If Redhat stays afloat it will be because geeks talk their managers into using linux for the price and then over the course of years, Redhat slowly starts attaching more and larger price tags to its products and services. I'd still be quite wary of investing a large chunk of change in RH. I sure as hell wouldn't put my kid's college fund in there.
As someone who has lived in Japan for nearly a decade, this doesn't surprise me. If you could see how much repetition goes on in Japan it would make your mind explode (or atleast it did mine a few years back..) In the U.S. most spinoffs and sequels are born in corporations. Companies trying to make money off of a known winner. There is nothing inherently wrong with that unless you're a commie pinko dirtbag hippie freak who hates money. But it does get boring and Americans soon enough tire of the series and something new comes along.
However, in Japan, repetition is not born in corporate board rooms, it is born in school classrooms starting at about age 7. In Japan you are taught the proper way to do something, and then that's it, that's just the way it's done, by everyone, everytime. There are exceptions of course, but the cultural philosophy in Japan emphasizes the correctness of the technique over the originality of the concept. This is a key difference with Americans and will probably not change until the population crisis strikes in about 30-40 years. At that time, Japan will change so drastically it's anyone's guess what will come out the other side.
Teach them a few phrases in Spanish and tell them to call themselves "Undocumented Workers". After that, go to California, get a drivers license, use that license to get an ID in another state.
Welcome to the almost real world. In the real world, things are a bit more harsh, but this sounds like a good introduction.
/. universe, people actually do use MS, in fact, most do. When you get a real job in the real world doing real work, you will use the OS, the IDE, the programming language, the utilities, the hardware, the everydamned lil'ol'thing that your employer tells you to use, or you will be fired. That is, if your employer doesn't outsource your job to an Indian making 1/10th your pay who is more than happy to use MS or any other thing his employer tells him.
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Yes. Get yourself a cygwin setup. Create a Makefile win32 project in VS.Net. Set your PATH and other ENV vars in the VS preferences, then setup your makefile to use GCC. You will have to edit your makefile manually whenever you add to your project unless you write a plugin. Nonetheless, you will be smiling after your first project.
The IDE absolutely kicks arse. Most of the arguments here appear to boil down to VS.Net sucks because it's cool to hate Microsoft.
If you are running pure Linux and can't abide Microsoft for whatever reason, I suggest you get Anjuta. Anjuta is great for building Linux projects particularly of the gnome variety.
As a sidenote, I just finished a rather large project using JBuilder, and I must say that I like it very much. I still think VS.Net is the #1 IDE on the market, but for java, JBuilder is quite nice.