I'm thinking of a Dilbert cartoon I saw where the pointy haired boss was asking a savage in a jungle if he new some computer language.
If Indian I.T. workers with good American English are in short supply I.T. companies will go find people in another dirt poor country working for peanuts. That or there will be classes in India to polish up on American English.
India has a billion people, most horribly poor.
If they get help ( financing from a foriegn corporaton ) in acquiring the skills they need they will do it and it will still be a bargain for the foriegn companies.
The implication in the original poster's blurg is roughly "see you weren't losing anything after all".
I disagree.
1. Americans have American I.T. jobs with American companies at American wages.
2. Those American I.T. companies send those jobs overseas so they can pay the workers less.
3. One of those countries can't find enough people to staff these jobs so they will invite foreigners to come apply for them.
End result. If you are a western IT worker you can keep your job if you take a drastic pay cut and move to a 3rd world country literally around the world.
Let me know the part where the "noise" about off shoring was much ado about nothing.
Why is this needed?
How hard can it be to find a stolen Torah? It isn't like 17 year olds are going to be carrying them around like iPods.
The only people who would want them would be Rabbis who have the intelligence to detect and the morality to not take advantage of a theft.
I have nothing but good things to say about it. It was innovative from the start and remains innovative.
It has a friendly and helpful user community.
It delivers the goodies of Debian with ease of installation, ease of use, and no hassles. It is one hard push away from being "grandma suitable".
If that wasn't enough, it is available free of charge.
I have tried other live distros and imitators, none does it all as well and as consistently as knoppix.
The only thing I hope for with the DVD version is that user gets some choice of what to install. A DVD's worth of software is a lot to dump on a hard drive without giving the user a choice.
First, there are already different editions of most books for 3rd world countries that cost orders of magnitude less.
In college I would wait to buy my textbooks until my roomate went home on vacation to India. He could come back with the same books, on slightly cheaper paper for 1/5 - 1/10 the price.
The "whats was wrong with it" and why Amazon got successfully sued was that Amazon wasn't doing a sliding scale like the one you described.
They were charging people in the same country ( U.S. ) different prices based on geographical factors. It wasn't a "Poor charge less, rich charge more" scheme. It was a "poor charge same, middle class charge even more" scheme.
At the time Amazon defended the practice by comparing themselves to brick-n-mortar chains that had higher prices in posher locations.
What Amazon failed to point out, but the judge did not miss was that brick-n-mortar stores pay mor more money ( rent, taxes ) to operate in those posher locations. Amazon operated at the same costs always being in the same location.
In addition to geography, within the same country, same area they used customer profile information in other ways to charge people more.
I don't mean to start a flame war. Yes, I know this is exactly what people write before they do start a flame war.
I really mean it though, this is what my honest opinion is.
The quote for this thread is how I feel about some open source licenses of the BSD style.
I see too many companies( like Microsoft with their network BSD sockets ) taking code, not giving code back, not contributing financially to the project, and not even giving credit where credit is due.
If I spend my spare time coding for free of charge I want my work to benefit the community, not some pointy haired boss who lives in a better house than I do looking for a freebie.
I mean absolutely no offense to the BSD license or the good companies like Red Hat that give, as well as take from the open source community.
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The original Star Wars movie was a fairly ordinary space opera that any mediocre writer could have written. The acting, dialog, and story have always been appropriately criticized.
However, the original Star Wars had ground breaking special effects. The special effects were not only a cut above the state of art at the time, they were a flight of stairs above the state of the art at the time.
It took tremendous talent to pull that off and George Lucas had it. The movie blew people from all walks of life away. It made Lucas rich enough to complain about Bill Gates playing his stereo too loud and elements of Star Wars have become an enduring part of the culture.
No critic can take any of that away.
However all of that was nearly 30 years ago.
Once people become accustomed to a certain quality of special effects it is no longer enough to entertain them, to blow them away.
People remember being blown away by the original Star Wars, that is why they keep going to see the sequels. They are hoping for that same experience.
Most of the time mere mortals, if they get to make a huge splash, only get to do so once.
It is unlikely that George Lucas will make a movie again that will break ground in cinematic special effects with the same magnitude that the original Star Wars did.
It is also unlikely that at this stage in his life he will sprout new talent for writing an directing _stories_. It can happen, some writers, actors, directors etc have started late in life, but it is rare.
A slashdot article earlier this week suggested that someone other than Lucas might make another Star Wars movie.
That could be the most awesome thing that would happen. The special effects are here. If someone could attach that to the devastating writing, acting and directing talent that is out there we would have a film that could blow people totally away like the original Star Wars did all those years ago in the 1970s.
I use and have used windows 2000 40 ( and then some ) hours a week for the past 4 years.
Your phrase "Granted, there have been issues" is what my original post is about.
I make friends with the network staff at every job I go to. I have heard a lot of noise from them about XP and how they are going to hold onto 2000 as long as they can. In my private life I have had a number of friends( and even more anecdotal accounts from friends of friends ) of XP getting sacked by all manor of opportunistic programs in a very short span of time after being put into operation.
You could blame it on the internet being a more insecure place then it used to be, but if that was true all of the 2000 boxes I use and all of the 2000 boxes my friends in networking take care of should be getting sacked just as bad as the XP boxes.
To get into a zone where someone can be innovative s/he needs to educated, needs to have had experience and have formed judgment.
It seems that once a person is in this zone s/he will stay there until judgment from experience deteriorates into rigid thinking ( "set in their ways" ) or the raw physical health of their brain declines.
I can't speak to the former issue, but in regards to the later issue there seems to be more options for staying vital longer for the person who is willing to take care of him/herself.
When I was a kid a 70 year old was most likely a used up shell of a person waiting to die in a chair somewhere and 40 year old was a frumpy over the hill person.
I can't count the number of fully cognizant, fully functional 70 somethings I have met and I have lost track of the number of 40 somethings I have seen smiling after hearing "wow, you are over 40 ??!!".
Given this, it seems reasonable that if a person plays his/her cards right that s/he can expert more time in the "zone" once s/he has overcome the barriers of education and experience to reach it.
It is kind of ironic that at the same time degenerative diseases that were once the domain of older people, like diabetes and heart disease are now popping in 30 & 20 somethings.
Previous slashdot articles have reported that businesses are intentionally not spending more money and not buying XP. Win 2000 works fine for them.
During the American antitrust case against MS several experts testified that IE could be separated from the OS in a matter of weeks.
Refusing to make a version of IE7 a part of win 2000 is as much a business decision as a technical one.
They want businesses who are not buying XP to get off win 2000 and buy XP.
I am not bashing MS, but it seems from what I have seen that XP is incredibly vulnerable to attack. In addition to managers not wanting to fork out the money for XP, their network people, many of whom are microsoft weanies, do not want to put their networks in harms way by using XP for their servers.
At some point the managers and network will capitulate. MS will stop supporting 2000 completely.
The question is how long the managers and network people will drag their feet, how much resentment towards MS this will generate, and what the effect of that resentment will be.
So far, so good. They haven't caught to Yahoo's home page yet, but it looks they are moving fast...and thinking/being innovative.
Things I missed: - ability to have a lead photo - ability to change the colors of the page - ability to rearrange the layout of the page - calendar/reminder feature?
I also don't trust gmail. I don't like the idea of my email being scanned, even if it is only by software for the purpose of targeted spam.
To be fair, yahoo attaches web beacons to their web emails to track my browsing habits and every few months I have to make sure my preference to stay opted out of that is still set.
Google has some better services. Their maps beat the crap out of yahoo.
However, I have been using the same yahoo address for years with the intent of never having to change my email address.
For now, I will keep my yahoo email account and my yahoo page. I will just put links for Googles services on it.
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I'm thinking of a Dilbert cartoon I saw where the pointy haired boss was asking a savage in a jungle if he new some computer language.
If Indian I.T. workers with good American English are in short supply I.T. companies will go find people in another dirt poor country working for peanuts. That or there will be classes in India to polish up on American English.
India has a billion people, most horribly poor.
If they get help ( financing from a foriegn corporaton ) in acquiring the skills they need they will do it and it will still be a bargain for the foriegn companies.
If you hated windows and didn't want to pay for a mac your alternative was an open source *nix.
If Apple moves to Intel, it may be possible to install OSX on an intel box.
I am a gnu/linux fan, but for hassle free use there is no way it can compete with OSX and OSX has all of the unix goodies too.
The implication in the original poster's blurg is roughly "see you weren't losing anything after all".
I disagree.
1. Americans have American I.T. jobs with American companies at American wages.
2. Those American I.T. companies send those jobs overseas so they can pay the workers less.
3. One of those countries can't find enough people to staff these jobs so they will invite foreigners to come apply for them.
End result. If you are a western IT worker you can keep your job if you take a drastic pay cut and move to a 3rd world country literally around the world.
Let me know the part where the "noise" about off shoring was much ado about nothing.
My network staff has it running in the server room :)
Wow! Fireforx 1.04 ?!
I only have Firefox 1.0. You know, when a Debian release has a higher browser version then you do, you know it is time to upgrade.
Why is this needed? How hard can it be to find a stolen Torah? It isn't like 17 year olds are going to be carrying them around like iPods. The only people who would want them would be Rabbis who have the intelligence to detect and the morality to not take advantage of a theft.
Dude, the thread and my post is about Knoppix.
What do you think yu are replying to?
I have been using Knoppix for several years now.
I have nothing but good things to say about it. It was innovative from the start and remains innovative.
It has a friendly and helpful user community.
It delivers the goodies of Debian with ease of installation, ease of use, and no hassles. It is one hard push away from being "grandma suitable".
If that wasn't enough, it is available free of charge.
I have tried other live distros and imitators, none does it all as well and as consistently as knoppix.
The only thing I hope for with the DVD version is that user gets some choice of what to install. A DVD's worth of software is a lot to dump on a hard drive without giving the user a choice.
Again, my hats off to the knoppix people.
First, there are already different editions of most books for 3rd world countries that cost orders of magnitude less.
In college I would wait to buy my textbooks until my roomate went home on vacation to India. He could come back with the same books, on slightly cheaper paper for 1/5 - 1/10 the price.
The "whats was wrong with it" and why Amazon got successfully sued was that Amazon wasn't doing a sliding scale like the one you described.
They were charging people in the same country ( U.S. ) different prices based on geographical factors.
It wasn't a "Poor charge less, rich charge more" scheme. It was a "poor charge same, middle class charge even more" scheme.
At the time Amazon defended the practice by comparing themselves to brick-n-mortar chains that had higher prices in posher locations.
What Amazon failed to point out, but the judge did not miss was that brick-n-mortar stores pay mor more money ( rent, taxes ) to operate in those posher locations. Amazon operated at the same costs always being in the same location.
In addition to geography, within the same country, same area they used customer profile information in other ways to charge people more.
Something like this is an overdue feature for all search engines.
...etc.
Perhaps a W3C list of standard site types as well.
For example: "diary", "reference", "archive"
A person doing research on the string "speed boat"
might not be interested in someone's blog site where the word is mentioned.
No offense, but I am guessing you aren't dealing with non-IT savy people who are doing you a favor, are in a business setting, or both.
There was a story a few years ago about Amazon charging people different prices on the same items based on the customer's geographical location.
..etc across site, with the cheapest price on top. The information includes shipping costs:
You can use this site to compare prices on books, cds, dvds
http://www.bestbookbuys.com/
You can also blow your cookies and see what the prices are before you sign into your account.
Even with OO as good as it has gotten I still have trouble trading documents with people.
Maybe now that will end. Maybe I will be able to use the faster loading kword than OO soon too.
It will be interesting to watch the aftermath.
With document format soon to be history office applications will need to compete on price and quality.
It will be interesting to see who the winners will be with the format question out of the way.
Will quality improve? Will price improve? Will people go with whatever is cheapest regardless of quality?
More likely Linus Torvalds would.
I wouldn't say that EMACS changed the world.
What do you want that for? Turn off obnoxious styles?
Is there anything else in end-user land worth checking out?
I don't mean to start a flame war. Yes, I know this is exactly what people write before they do start a flame war.
I really mean it though, this is what my honest opinion is.
The quote for this thread is how I feel about some open source licenses of the BSD style.
I see too many companies( like Microsoft with their network BSD sockets ) taking code, not giving code back, not contributing financially to the project, and not even giving credit where credit is due.
If I spend my spare time coding for free of charge I want my work to benefit the community, not some pointy haired boss who lives in a better house than I do looking for a freebie.
I mean absolutely no offense to the BSD license or the good companies like Red Hat that give, as well as take from the open source community.
Another technology already exists: walls, as in offices
The original Star Wars movie was a fairly ordinary space opera that any mediocre writer could have written. The acting, dialog, and story have always been appropriately criticized.
However, the original Star Wars had ground breaking special effects. The special effects were not only a cut above the state of art at the time, they were a flight of stairs above the state of the art at the time.
It took tremendous talent to pull that off and George Lucas had it. The movie blew people from all walks of life away. It made Lucas rich enough to complain about Bill Gates playing his stereo too loud and elements of Star Wars have become an enduring part of the culture.
No critic can take any of that away.
However all of that was nearly 30 years ago.
Once people become accustomed to a certain quality of special effects it is no longer enough to entertain them, to blow them away.
People remember being blown away by the original Star Wars, that is why they keep going to see the sequels. They are hoping for that same experience.
Most of the time mere mortals, if they get to make a huge splash, only get to do so once.
It is unlikely that George Lucas will make a movie again that will break ground in cinematic special effects with the same magnitude that the original Star Wars did.
It is also unlikely that at this stage in his life he will sprout new talent for writing an directing _stories_. It can happen, some writers, actors, directors etc have started late in life, but it is rare.
A slashdot article earlier this week suggested that someone other than Lucas might make another Star Wars movie.
That could be the most awesome thing that would happen. The special effects are here. If someone could attach that to the devastating writing, acting and directing talent that is out there we would have a film that could blow people totally away like the original Star Wars did all those years ago in the 1970s.
I use and have used windows 2000 40 ( and then some ) hours a week for the past 4 years.
Your phrase "Granted, there have been issues" is what my original post is about.
I make friends with the network staff at every job I go to. I have heard a lot of noise from them about XP and how they are going to hold onto 2000 as long as they can. In my private life I have had a number of friends( and even more anecdotal accounts from friends of friends ) of XP getting sacked by all manor of opportunistic programs in a very short span of time after being put into operation.
You could blame it on the internet being a more insecure place then it used to be, but if that was true all of the 2000 boxes I use and all of the 2000 boxes my friends in networking take care of should be getting sacked just as bad as the XP boxes.
It isn't happening.
This makes sense.
To get into a zone where someone can be innovative s/he needs to educated, needs to have had experience and have formed judgment.
It seems that once a person is in this zone s/he will stay there until judgment from experience deteriorates into rigid thinking ( "set in their ways" ) or the raw physical health of their brain declines.
I can't speak to the former issue, but in regards to the later issue there seems to be more options for staying vital longer for the person who is willing to take care of him/herself.
When I was a kid a 70 year old was most likely a used up shell of a person waiting to die in a chair somewhere and 40 year old was a frumpy over the hill person.
I can't count the number of fully cognizant, fully functional 70 somethings I have met and I have lost track of the number of 40 somethings I have seen smiling after hearing "wow, you are over 40 ??!!".
Given this, it seems reasonable that if a person plays his/her cards right that s/he can expert more time in the "zone" once s/he has overcome the barriers of education and experience to reach it.
It is kind of ironic that at the same time degenerative diseases that were once the domain of older people, like diabetes and heart disease are now popping in 30 & 20 somethings.
Previous slashdot articles have reported that businesses are intentionally not spending more money and not buying XP. Win 2000 works fine for them.
During the American antitrust case against MS several experts testified that IE could be separated from the OS in a matter of weeks.
Refusing to make a version of IE7 a part of win 2000 is as much a business decision as a technical one.
They want businesses who are not buying XP to get off win 2000 and buy XP.
I am not bashing MS, but it seems from what I have seen that XP is incredibly vulnerable to attack. In addition to managers not wanting to fork out the money for XP, their network people, many of whom are microsoft weanies, do not want to put their networks in harms way by using XP for their servers.
At some point the managers and network will capitulate. MS will stop supporting 2000 completely.
The question is how long the managers and network people will drag their feet, how much resentment towards MS this will generate, and what the effect of that resentment will be.
Before someone gets a Big Gulp, climbs into his hummer, and crushes the thing
Yipee, offshoring comes to the open source movement
I just made one.
So far, so good. They haven't caught to Yahoo's home page yet, but it looks they are moving fast...and thinking/being innovative.
Things I missed:
- ability to have a lead photo
- ability to change the colors of the page
- ability to rearrange the layout of the page
- calendar/reminder feature?
I also don't trust gmail. I don't like the idea of my email being scanned, even if it is only by software for the purpose of targeted spam.
To be fair, yahoo attaches web beacons to their web emails to track my browsing habits and every few months I have to make sure my preference to stay opted out of that is still set.
Google has some better services. Their maps beat the crap out of yahoo.
However, I have been using the same yahoo address for years with the intent of never having to change my email address.
For now, I will keep my yahoo email account and my yahoo page. I will just put links for Googles services on it.
For now