PT is expending US$ 450.000,00 in proprietary software licenses. They are buying 5.000 computers.
According to http://www.assespro-rj.org.br/noticias/press.html, Delúbio Soares de Castro, PTs financial director is a member of the Consulting Counsel of ASSESPRO-RJ, the Rio de Janeiro branch of a national association of proprietary software companies.
Nice. Lula is negotiating with China to export high tech jobs to them in exchange for commodities like soy. It's a smart move.
Another smart move (a really one): all the branches from PT are receving new computers, which run Microsoft products.
Why? I think PT doesn't want to loose the next elections (in November). If they are using Microsoft, it means they doesnt trust OSS for anything that isn't anti-capitalism proselytism.
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You are misinformed. Lula isnt fighting poverty neither fighting hunger. Its all propaganda. The true: unemployment taxes are breaking records.
Reports says the Government is spending less than half of the budget dedicated to the poverty fighting.
> Imagine where we would be if Linus had got bored, and got a proper job at Burger King 'cos his kernel idea was not going anywhere and he needed to eat. I can't imagine he would have given up on it.
Hmmm... If Linus can code without eating some food he must be some kind of god. What is he waiting to smash Microsoft?;)
Can you remember the days when ATM was THE future of network? Now it's faded into a niche market. My company believed in ATM. Later it expended a lot of money to replace its ATM technology with FastEthernet, because the ATM vendors started to get out of the ATM market.
The adoption of new and non-consolidated technologies is a risky business. A company should do that just if it really matters.
If everyone can buy the same technology where is the advantage? In the deep pockets required for someone to try every new toy? The advantage is not in the IT, it is in the way it is used. The best and expensive guitar doesn't turn a mediocre guitar player into the best one.
> Then you can consider a rigid design - which means you can consider outsourcing - but I ask, what novel piece of software was invented in a developing country?
What about the Open Source movement? Doesn't use a formal approach and it expends almost all of this time playing catch up with Closed Source softwares.
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Thus the point is proven totally false by the fact that Linux is capable of doing 2 things a Windows 2000 box couldn't: 1) use a mainstream sound card, and 2) be a server.
So he was talking about Windows 2000. According to the post, his boss refused to provide the driver disk.
If the problem were the Windows CDs, couldn't he wait a week to come back to his boss and ask for the CDs using an excuse like "Hey, I unfortunately deleted that file with the bear icon and need the Windows CD to get a fresh copy of it"?
And if you build from sources, create your own or customize an available package, because you:
can easily install e deinstall the same software in several machines, saving compilation, avoiding mistakes, and making the configuration of your machines standard, which eases their administration;
the package specification is its own documentation, when the next version of the software comes, just modify the name of source tarball e rebuild the package, you can even delegate the rebuild and instalation to a less experient person.
The Industrial Revolution has proven that standard products are cheaper to produce and deploy.
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PT is expending US$ 450.000,00 in proprietary software licenses. They are buying 5.000 computers.
According to http://www.assespro-rj.org.br/noticias/press.html, Delúbio Soares de Castro, PTs financial director is a member of the Consulting Counsel of ASSESPRO-RJ, the Rio de Janeiro branch of a national association of proprietary software companies.
Software support exists because software products sucks. If software were as good as razors and blades, no one would need support.
PT = Partido dos Trabalhadores = Workers Party
Nice. Lula is negotiating with China to export high tech jobs to them in exchange for commodities like soy. It's a smart move.
Another smart move (a really one): all the branches from PT are receving new computers, which run Microsoft products.
Why? I think PT doesn't want to loose the next elections (in November). If they are using Microsoft, it means they doesnt trust OSS for anything that isn't anti-capitalism proselytism.
Reports says the Government is spending less than half of the budget dedicated to the poverty fighting.
The Lulas government is corrupt.
> Imagine where we would be if Linus had got bored, and got a proper job at Burger King 'cos his kernel idea was not going anywhere and he needed to eat. I can't imagine he would have given up on it. Hmmm... If Linus can code without eating some food he must be some kind of god. What is he waiting to smash Microsoft? ;)
Can you remember the days when ATM was THE future of network? Now it's faded into a niche market. My company believed in ATM. Later it expended a lot of money to replace its ATM technology with FastEthernet, because the ATM vendors started to get out of the ATM market.
The adoption of new and non-consolidated technologies is a risky business. A company should do that just if it really matters.
If everyone can buy the same technology where is the advantage? In the deep pockets required for someone to try every new toy? The advantage is not in the IT, it is in the way it is used. The best and expensive guitar doesn't turn a mediocre guitar player into the best one.
> Then you can consider a rigid design - which means you can consider outsourcing - but I ask, what novel piece of software was invented in a developing country? What about the Open Source movement? Doesn't use a formal approach and it expends almost all of this time playing catch up with Closed Source softwares.
Capitalists love to buy labor from comunists. Example: US plants moved to china. ;)
Thus the point is proven totally false by the fact that Linux is capable of doing 2 things a Windows 2000 box couldn't: 1) use a mainstream sound card, and 2) be a server.
So he was talking about Windows 2000. According to the post, his boss refused to provide the driver disk.
If the problem were the Windows CDs, couldn't he wait a week to come back to his boss and ask for the CDs using an excuse like "Hey, I unfortunately deleted that file with the bear icon and need the Windows CD to get a fresh copy of it"?
How your tiny brain couldn't find this Windows 2000 Soundblaster Audigy Platinum on the Creatives site?
Yeah. Search for Tesla Coils.
It doesnt apply to regulated power supplies, because they lower their internal resistance to provide a fixed output voltage.
- can easily install e deinstall the same software in several machines, saving compilation, avoiding mistakes, and making the configuration of your machines standard, which eases their administration;
- the package specification is its own documentation, when the next version of the software comes, just modify the name of source tarball e rebuild the package, you can even delegate the rebuild and instalation to a less experient person.
The Industrial Revolution has proven that standard products are cheaper to produce and deploy.