I'm a software consultant, and I see the inside of a lot of companies. In engineering/software departments, there are lots of Unix desktops. Mostly Linux, but quite a bit of FreeBSD and Solaris as well. I'm not seeing it in IT departments, though. I think once Linux manages to get past the MCSE cordon, you're going to see an explosion in corporate deployments.
As a professional Qt developer, I have a great number of clients who come to me to get out of the.NET trap. They were promised by Bill Gates and Miguel Icaza that.NET was transparently crossplatform. That it was a fully open standard. That there were not any performance or memory problems. Companies too cheap to upgrade from freebiee VS Express are forking over the cash for single-platform Qt licenses. Why? Because Qt is turning out to be THE native C++ API for Windows, Mac and Unix.
It isn't the size of the district that's the problem, We have districts at a fairly good size. Instead, the problem is the *shape* of the districts. They're designed to create majorities for one party or the other.
Districts boundaries should follow county, municipality and township boundaries as closely as possible. There are existing algorithms to sensibly calculate districts. The real hurdle is getting the reform past the state politicians.
It doesn't matter WHO has been misled, before you deliberately reduce solar energy by 2%, you had better have a COMPLETE understanding of how the climate works.
Actually it's not. My last employer had 150,000+ employees, and I negotiated a change in the standard intellectual property assignment agreement to account for my personal projects. For my current employer I negotiated a change in the acceptable use policy for my laptop since I use it when travelling.
recognition that Click EULAs/other agreements are not binding is probably good. The question is what replaces them?
Nothing! What does anyone need that isn't automatically provided by a simple copyright statement? Such a statement asserts that the software can't be copied, redistributed, modified or sold without permission. What more does a proprietary developer want? Anything beyond what copyright grants to the author NEEDS to be an explicit transferal of rights via a contract.
His lawyer has warned to a bloodbath if the sentence is carried out.
Jabber, jabber, jabber. Where have we heard that before? Oh yeah! Right before we deposed him! Saddam made a huge stink about using his WMDs on us. He was so convincing in his deceptions that *everyone* in the world thought he was going to use them. Then it turned out Saddam was lying to us. He had only a handful of inoperative WMDs, and troops unwilling to stick around long enough to rattle them.
His lawyer's warning is no different. We won't see a bloodbath. We may see some scattered rioting, but that will be it.
I don't see how this kind of replication of effort best serves the adoption of Linux on the desktop in the long run.
The goal IS NOT to get Linux adopted on the deskoop. The goal is to create an image processing component for an office suite. This is Free Software, where developers are Free to do whatever the fsck they want. If it means Aunt Tillie ain't going to be using Linux this decade, so what?
You don't like it, start funding development on the stuff you want developed. Whines don't spend in this community, but sometimes cash does.
p.s. I'm not even using Krita on Linux to begin with, so what do I care?
Yup, Redhat/Fedora screws KDE/Qt. I do a lot of work with Linux using companies, and I can always tell who is using RH/FC and who is not. Everyone's tastes are different, but if they start bitching about KDE's performance, flicker, memory, etc., then they're invariably using Redhat or Fedora.
No, it's the result of someone planting a bomb! Let's try to find the perp and punish him for committing the crime, and not try to blame PayPal (or society, or bad parenting, or video games, or flouride, or transfats, or Bush, or Clinton, or anything else).
If someone at PayPal got raped, would you argue that it was the result of wearing a sexy low-cut dress? Of course not!
no one can email you if you have not emailed before.
Wrong. I get spam in my never-ever-used ISP provided address. The only thing that address is legitimately used for is to receive billing invoices from my ISP.
But a worthless clue, because they're little you can do about it. I was shocked last week when I found 2551 messages in my personal email inbox (where I normally get five a day). Holy crap! Bounced spam was coming in every couple of minutes.
This didn't happen because I had a bot, or was compromised, or was running Windows, etc, etc. It was because the spammers were spoofing my email address. My solution was to get my ISP to block all returned mails at the server. If you have a big mega-ISP, this isn't an option. And it's a drastic option, as you're marking all returned mail as spam.
The enlightenment was the result of winning a "war of ideas". The "idea" of western civilization is worth defending. If you don't like it, YOU are free to stopper up your own ears.
Yes, the Dutch politicians understand something US politicians don't: cheapass symbolism gets you just as many votes as actual problem solving. Instead of fixing the problem, they *ban* electronic voting.
What's creepy is that Unisys DID NOT take these guys golfing! If I were a CEO of a F500 company, I would be a long more inclined to spend a million bucks with some guy shaking my hand than with a faceless company sending me fake magazines.
Whoever did this ad campaign should be fired, dumped in the gutter, and blackballed from the industry. Why? Because a simple sales call would have accomplished the same thing for a tenth of a percent the cost.
Both IDE's support C++. I'm doing crossplatform development with Qt/C++ on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and Unix. No problemo. I've had a few clients I had to rescue because they believed that Microsoft tripe that.NET was crossplatform.
I bought an iBook last year, and I love it. If Windows was my primary platform, I would have switched. The only reason I haven't is that my primary platform is FreeBSD/KDE. As such I'm still divided between the two.
Why (non-gamer) Windows users haven't all switched to Mac is beyond me.
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I'm a software consultant, and I see the inside of a lot of companies. In engineering/software departments, there are lots of Unix desktops. Mostly Linux, but quite a bit of FreeBSD and Solaris as well. I'm not seeing it in IT departments, though. I think once Linux manages to get past the MCSE cordon, you're going to see an explosion in corporate deployments.
As a professional Qt developer, I have a great number of clients who come to me to get out of the .NET trap. They were promised by Bill Gates and Miguel Icaza that .NET was transparently crossplatform. That it was a fully open standard. That there were not any performance or memory problems. Companies too cheap to upgrade from freebiee VS Express are forking over the cash for single-platform Qt licenses. Why? Because Qt is turning out to be THE native C++ API for Windows, Mac and Unix.
We're still talking about Republican conspiracies. Remind me who won the election Tuesday? What happened, did Cheney forget his Deibold password?
(I haven't summoned the courage to ask my wife what she thinks I taste like.)
I already know what she tastes like...
Sheesh. It takes three of those four seconds for Earthlink nameservers to resolve your URL...
It isn't the size of the district that's the problem, We have districts at a fairly good size. Instead, the problem is the *shape* of the districts. They're designed to create majorities for one party or the other.
Districts boundaries should follow county, municipality and township boundaries as closely as possible. There are existing algorithms to sensibly calculate districts. The real hurdle is getting the reform past the state politicians.
Have *you* checked you haven't been misled?
It doesn't matter WHO has been misled, before you deliberately reduce solar energy by 2%, you had better have a COMPLETE understanding of how the climate works.
it's really hard to negotiate with an employer.
Actually it's not. My last employer had 150,000+ employees, and I negotiated a change in the standard intellectual property assignment agreement to account for my personal projects. For my current employer I negotiated a change in the acceptable use policy for my laptop since I use it when travelling.
All you have to do is ask.
recognition that Click EULAs/other agreements are not binding is probably good. The question is what replaces them?
Nothing! What does anyone need that isn't automatically provided by a simple copyright statement? Such a statement asserts that the software can't be copied, redistributed, modified or sold without permission. What more does a proprietary developer want? Anything beyond what copyright grants to the author NEEDS to be an explicit transferal of rights via a contract.
Saddam's lawyer is NOT threatening Iraq with past events! I'm dumbfounded that you are even suggesting this.
Are you unclear as to the concept of temporal continuity? Are you not aware that time flows in the direction of cause to effect?
Sheesh...
His lawyer has warned to a bloodbath if the sentence is carried out.
Jabber, jabber, jabber. Where have we heard that before? Oh yeah! Right before we deposed him! Saddam made a huge stink about using his WMDs on us. He was so convincing in his deceptions that *everyone* in the world thought he was going to use them. Then it turned out Saddam was lying to us. He had only a handful of inoperative WMDs, and troops unwilling to stick around long enough to rattle them.
His lawyer's warning is no different. We won't see a bloodbath. We may see some scattered rioting, but that will be it.
I don't see how this kind of replication of effort best serves the adoption of Linux on the desktop in the long run.
The goal IS NOT to get Linux adopted on the deskoop. The goal is to create an image processing component for an office suite. This is Free Software, where developers are Free to do whatever the fsck they want. If it means Aunt Tillie ain't going to be using Linux this decade, so what?
You don't like it, start funding development on the stuff you want developed. Whines don't spend in this community, but sometimes cash does.
p.s. I'm not even using Krita on Linux to begin with, so what do I care?
Yup, Redhat/Fedora screws KDE/Qt. I do a lot of work with Linux using companies, and I can always tell who is using RH/FC and who is not. Everyone's tastes are different, but if they start bitching about KDE's performance, flicker, memory, etc., then they're invariably using Redhat or Fedora.
Many people are pissed at PayPal's bad service but not everyone is trying to blow them up. Get it? It's not PayPal's fault someone tried to bomb them!
This is the result of bad customer service.
No, it's the result of someone planting a bomb! Let's try to find the perp and punish him for committing the crime, and not try to blame PayPal (or society, or bad parenting, or video games, or flouride, or transfats, or Bush, or Clinton, or anything else).
If someone at PayPal got raped, would you argue that it was the result of wearing a sexy low-cut dress? Of course not!
no one can email you if you have not emailed before.
Wrong. I get spam in my never-ever-used ISP provided address. The only thing that address is legitimately used for is to receive billing invoices from my ISP.
LOOK!!! A clue!!!
But a worthless clue, because they're little you can do about it. I was shocked last week when I found 2551 messages in my personal email inbox (where I normally get five a day). Holy crap! Bounced spam was coming in every couple of minutes.
This didn't happen because I had a bot, or was compromised, or was running Windows, etc, etc. It was because the spammers were spoofing my email address. My solution was to get my ISP to block all returned mails at the server. If you have a big mega-ISP, this isn't an option. And it's a drastic option, as you're marking all returned mail as spam.
The enlightenment was the result of winning a "war of ideas". The "idea" of western civilization is worth defending. If you don't like it, YOU are free to stopper up your own ears.
Yes, the Dutch politicians understand something US politicians don't: cheapass symbolism gets you just as many votes as actual problem solving. Instead of fixing the problem, they *ban* electronic voting.
Most of these companys spend that much a day.
So? A quick calculation shows that I spend at least twenty dollars each day, but that does not mean a twenty dollar bill means nothing to me.
What's creepy is that Unisys DID NOT take these guys golfing! If I were a CEO of a F500 company, I would be a long more inclined to spend a million bucks with some guy shaking my hand than with a faceless company sending me fake magazines.
Whoever did this ad campaign should be fired, dumped in the gutter, and blackballed from the industry. Why? Because a simple sales call would have accomplished the same thing for a tenth of a percent the cost.
Both IDE's support C++. I'm doing crossplatform development with Qt/C++ on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and Unix. No problemo. I've had a few clients I had to rescue because they believed that Microsoft tripe that .NET was crossplatform.
...they guy probably runs a GUI and the GUI automounts his cd
Regardless, he shouldn't be seeing a freeze, no matter what the operating system.
I bought an iBook last year, and I love it. If Windows was my primary platform, I would have switched. The only reason I haven't is that my primary platform is FreeBSD/KDE. As such I'm still divided between the two.
Why (non-gamer) Windows users haven't all switched to Mac is beyond me.