Note, however, that WordPerfect was not included in that agreement. And it's not part of this new deal either. So, yes, it's still on.
One thing that MS gets out of the current deal is a percentage of the revenue from sales of Suse Linux: http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/061102/microsoft_novell_ba llmer.html?.v=3 "Novell will also make royalty payments to Microsoft based on a percentage of its revenue from open-source products. Neither company disclosed any financial figures."
Yes, that's right. When you buy Suse Linux, part of your money will go to Microsoft. How much? Novell ain't saying.
It pays much more than the Perl job. You're young and in debt. You need a GOOD (Get Out Of Debt) job. These are your prime earning years, you need to maximise the amount you earn while you can. Trust me, you want to do that. It also sets the bar higher for salaries in future jobs, which is good.
It's located (by implication) much closer than the Perl job. You do not want to commute 2 hours each way, every day. Besides the gas prices killing you, that is a lot of time in your day simply wasted. Life is too short for that, especially when you're young.
It's for a bigger company. Some people think that's a negative, but as someone who has experienced both small and large companies, I can say that large companies have many advantages besides prestige. For example, better training opportunities. Just because you'd be doing.NET development now doesn't mean you'll be doing that forever. You can get exposed to a wider variety of things at a large company, meet more people and make lots more contacts. Cube farms suck (I know, I work in one), but with some initiative you can make the job more enjoyable. And it is possible to make a name for yourself if you're really good at what you do. It's true that there's more bureaucracy, but people find ways to make it bearable.
Small "cool" companies aren't always what they're cracked up to be. I know several people who took jobs at companies similar to what you're describing. They loved it at first then quickly got burned out on it. They got worked to death, and the bosses were on huge power/ego trips. By the way, you're actually monitored much more closely at such companies, which can often be a bad thing. One small company I worked for had one of the seven owners following people at lunch time to make sure they weren't taking more than 60 minutes from the time they left the building to the time they returned to their desk. One of the other owners had a secretary spying on people to see what they did when they first came in to work in the morning. It was kinda creepy. It's more of a dictatorship at these small places, nowhere near as much recourse to addressing problems as at a large company.
.NET is more marketable than Perl. I don't see Perl having much of a future, especially for web development. It's becoming more of a niche language. That does matter. The IT industry is constantly changing, and you have to keep up with what's currently being used if you want to increase your probability of finding work. Personally, I despise.NET; I'm a Java person, and I've been fortunate enough to avoid.NET so far. But given your choice, I'd take.NET. Also, you may enjoy Perl development, but you may not like your job doing Perl development. Whether you enjoy the job itself is something that can be independent of the language.
You don't necessarily want to program at work in the language you like to program in during your free time at home. Why? Because if you want to "get away from work" while you're home, it may seem like you're still at work. On the other hand, things you learn at work can be useful for what you do at home. This is something that's highly dependent on how much you like what you're doing at work, so it's not set in stone.
And Microsoft is claiming that Mono violates its patents for.NET. Suse customers will not get sued by MS for using Mono, but Fedora customers could, thanks to the Fedora team's short-sightedness. By the way, Red Hat refused to include Mono in RHEL and urged the Fedora team not to.
So, yes, Fedora made a huge mistake in including Mono in FC5 and FC6. Hopefully they will have learned their lesson and remove it from FC7 and all subsequent releases.
Since Mono seems to be the main culprit in the possible patent infringement, why don't the other distros just drop Mono? That would seem to solve the problem. Honestly, I don't think very many people will miss it. I never really understood the reasons for including Mono (a clone of a Microsoft technology) in the first place.
By the way, I have known many Brits, all of whom have used that same way of referring to an entity as plural. In fact, this same subject came up during the World Cup in the summer, when the Brits I currently work with had to explain to some of the Americans why that was so.
Sure it makes sense. Think about sports teams, for example. You would say "the Chicago Bulls are playing tonight", right? So shouldn't you also say "the Miami Heat are playing tonight", even though there is no "s" at the end of "Heat"? Or think about how you refer to the police. Do you say "the police is here"? The point is, an "s" at the end of a word is not necessary to consider that word as representing more than one object (i.e. plural). In the case of Alienware, "are" is used to regard the company as consisting of the members of that company, just like saying "the Chicago Bulls are" and "the police are" treats those entities as consisting of their members.
Some of us have never used Mono apps to begin with.:) Just curious, buy why are you running *any* Mono apps? I haven't seen one yet that wasn't a terrible bloated mess (on other people's machines). Java is pretty fast compared to Mono. And with the possibility of Microsoft enforcing their patents in.NET, the whole Mono project could be squashed at any time.
How could the creator of the program to move a fraction of a penny from millions of transactions into a personal account be left off this list? 'Experts' indeed...
The last thing one wants is to have nuclear weapons in the possession of unstable regimes either unable to control the devices or demonstratively irrational.
Absolutely. That's why the US should be stripped of its nuclear arsenal, immediately. The US remains the only country that has used atomic bombs against another country (and not just once, but twice, both times unnecessarily), has bombed, invaded, launched wars, funded wars, and organized coups against a number of countries within the last 60 years (Iran, Iraq, Libya, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Chile, Cuba, Grenada, Panama, Angola, Mozambique, Serbia, North Korea, and Vietnam, just to name some off the top of my head), has had its hand in assassinations and/or assassination attempts against foreign leaders (Castro in Cuba - unsuccessful, Patrice Lumumba in the Congo - successful), and its current "President" (installed by a court after losing the first election, now some serious doubts if he legitimately won the second election) orders invasions of sovereign countries, approves the torture of prisoners and imprisonment of civilians not even charged with a crime, and generally ignores international laws.
That is why I still use it today when I just need to create a document (I'll use StarOffice 7 when I need to import a document). I bought versions 4.3 and 5.0 for Linux at CompUSA way back when, for about $45, and it was worth the money. It was so much faster than any other office suite for Linux at the time, and it still is. I've never had any problems with it, it's always been stable and reliable for me. And I actually like the GUI toolkit it uses.:)
The import filters for 5.0 worked up to Office 2000, so it'll be nice to see an updated version. I'll definitely buy it.
in Detroit last year...best concert I've ever been to, well worth the money.
Seriously, you could not pay me $250 to see a Madonna concert and listen to her crap music. People who pay that to see her deserve to get fleeced.
I like bash a lot, but I think KornShell is better. It can do basically everything bash can do and then some. For example, the current version (ksh93) supports floating-point arithmetic. So it can perform all the math operations that bash can't do, without having to call external programs like bc. You can get ksh93 for Linux, and it's already on most commercial UNIX systems (as/usr/dt/bin/dtksh on systems that have CDE installed).
I also think that BeanShell is the way to go for "Java scripting". The thing I like about BeanShell is that it eliminates the need to learn a whole new language, since it's just Java. Some of the other languages people have mentioned here look interesting, and I may try a few of them out (like Lua and Nice), but I tend to be wary of investing time learning various small obscure languages.
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True. Instead of comparing Gnome to WindowMaker, it makes more sense to compare Gnome to GNUstep. Having used both, I would give the edge to GNUstep, definitely in terms of speed, and even in terms of usability.
I have to say that this is an interesting test. I did your test with mrxvt 0.4.2 (a tabbed rxvt) and gnome-terminal 2.10.0 on FC4, using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8 pt anti-aliased font in both (yes, mrxvt can do anti-aliasing with TrueType fonts, if compiled with the -xft option). The results:
mrxvt -xft -xftaa -xftfn "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" -xftsz 8 real 0m2.844s user 0m0.003s sys 0m0.058s
gnome-terminal real 0m8.725s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.053s
This is on a 3GHz P4 system. I don't have gnome-terminal 2.12.0 installed like you do, so I can believe that it might be a second or two faster than 2.10.0. But mrxvt is still faster. I had transparency turned off in both cases. With transparency turned on in mrxvt the time went up slightly, to 0m3.033s.
Well, the current French government is not exactly liberal.
Notice, by the way, that the website of the French Communist Party is powered by Debian. Yay, PCF!:)
running Red Hat 6.2. It's a Compaq Prolinea MT, which I got for free (company was scrapping old PCs), and Linux has made it useful (well, useful in that it's a server for an IRC bot I wrote in Java:)...yes, Java is running 24x7 on this machine!). The nice thing is that Linux works flawlessly with all the old hardware in this machine, which uses very little power and is very quiet.
I've also had Linux make good use out of some really old Sun boxes. I setup an ancient SPARC IPX as a print server and an LX as an internal web server, both running RH 6.1 for SPARC.
I just think that there is so much waste with computers. I've found working PIII machines in my apartment complex's dumpster several times. It's good to put these to good use, and with Linux they can be given small but useful tasks.
In general, I would say that there is a very strong streak of anti-intellectualism in the US. I think it comes from our country's origins: "rugged individualism", pragmatism, "frontier mentality", etc. The "it's cool to suck at math" idea is just one reflection of that.
It's ironic, because the Founding Fathers were some of the best political thinkers and intellectuals of their time, yet as the westward expansion continued, what was needed were "rugged men", not the "pointy-headed intellectuals back east".
That mentality seems very ingrained in our culture , and I'm not sure how it can be changed quickly. Look at the level of political discourse in the last election, and it's very discouraging. We have a president who makes no bones about being stupid, and an "opposition" that's not much better.
BTW, I don't think intellectuals should necessarily be admired. Being "smart" does not make you a good person. Another poster mentioned that "compassion" should be valued as well, and I think that idea is on the right track. There are many qualities and talents a person can have that are admirable, not just academic prowess.
Our entire educational system was/is designed around a simple plan: churn out a working class.
I agree with that, though compulsory K-12 public education was also something that the US working class had to fight tooth and nail for, against great opposition from the elite, who were worried that if "the rabble" were educated too much then they might start questioning things and getting "dangerous" ideas in their heads. The industrial revolution in the 19th century forced the elite (those who actually run this country) to give in somewhat, since the new "captains of industry" needed workers with a basic amount of education.
But to this day that basic right to an education continues to be challenged, by the same class of people basically, who would prefer that a good education be reserved for the children of the wealthy. All the privatization schemes being bandied about today revolve around that idea, though their proponents don't dare to say so. And since so many 'high-tech' jobs are being 'offshored' to low-wage countries, there is even less incentive to provide the children of the working class with a good education. I feel bad for kids today. The vast majority of them are being prepared (through school, the mainstream culture, etc) for a life of low-wage and low-skill jobs.
This sounds bad, and it is, but we need to do more than just complain, and actually do something about it.
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Novell agreed 2 years ago to drop anti-trust claims against MS related to Netware: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/nov0 4/11-08novellpr.mspx
a llmer.html?.v=3
Note, however, that WordPerfect was not included in that agreement. And it's not part of this new deal either. So, yes, it's still on.
One thing that MS gets out of the current deal is a percentage of the revenue from sales of Suse Linux: http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/061102/microsoft_novell_b
"Novell will also make royalty payments to Microsoft based on a percentage of its revenue from open-source products. Neither company disclosed any financial figures."
Yes, that's right. When you buy Suse Linux, part of your money will go to Microsoft. How much? Novell ain't saying.
Whatever you decide, good luck.
And Microsoft is claiming that Mono violates its patents for .NET. Suse customers will not get sued by MS for using Mono, but Fedora customers could, thanks to the Fedora team's short-sightedness. By the way, Red Hat refused to include Mono in RHEL and urged the Fedora team not to.
So, yes, Fedora made a huge mistake in including Mono in FC5 and FC6. Hopefully they will have learned their lesson and remove it from FC7 and all subsequent releases.
Since Mono seems to be the main culprit in the possible patent infringement, why don't the other distros just drop Mono? That would seem to solve the problem. Honestly, I don't think very many people will miss it. I never really understood the reasons for including Mono (a clone of a Microsoft technology) in the first place.
OK, I checked the BBC's usage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/gossip_an d_transfers/6095938.stm
x .cfm?page=805687
Note how they say "Arsenal are" and "Charlton are" and "West Brom want" and "Portsmouth are" and "Portsmouth have", etc. You were saying?
By the way, I have known many Brits, all of whom have used that same way of referring to an entity as plural. In fact, this same subject came up during the World Cup in the summer, when the Brits I currently work with had to explain to some of the Americans why that was so.
Another poster mentioned this, but the *British* magazine The Economist has a good explanation for this issue: http://www.economist.com/research/styleGuide/inde
Sure it makes sense. Think about sports teams, for example. You would say "the Chicago Bulls are playing tonight", right? So shouldn't you also say "the Miami Heat are playing tonight", even though there is no "s" at the end of "Heat"? Or think about how you refer to the police. Do you say "the police is here"? The point is, an "s" at the end of a word is not necessary to consider that word as representing more than one object (i.e. plural). In the case of Alienware, "are" is used to regard the company as consisting of the members of that company, just like saying "the Chicago Bulls are" and "the police are" treats those entities as consisting of their members.
Some of us have never used Mono apps to begin with. :) .NET, the whole Mono project could be squashed at any time.
Just curious, buy why are you running *any* Mono apps? I haven't seen one yet that wasn't a terrible bloated mess (on other people's machines). Java is pretty fast compared to Mono. And with the possibility of Microsoft enforcing their patents in
How could the creator of the program to move a fraction of a penny from millions of transactions into a personal account be left off this list? 'Experts' indeed...
Absolutely. That's why the US should be stripped of its nuclear arsenal, immediately. The US remains the only country that has used atomic bombs against another country (and not just once, but twice, both times unnecessarily), has bombed, invaded, launched wars, funded wars, and organized coups against a number of countries within the last 60 years (Iran, Iraq, Libya, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Chile, Cuba, Grenada, Panama, Angola, Mozambique, Serbia, North Korea, and Vietnam, just to name some off the top of my head), has had its hand in assassinations and/or assassination attempts against foreign leaders (Castro in Cuba - unsuccessful, Patrice Lumumba in the Congo - successful), and its current "President" (installed by a court after losing the first election, now some serious doubts if he legitimately won the second election) orders invasions of sovereign countries, approves the torture of prisoners and imprisonment of civilians not even charged with a crime, and generally ignores international laws.
Yea, that's who I want having nuclear weapons.
That is why I still use it today when I just need to create a document (I'll use StarOffice 7 when I need to import a document). I bought versions 4.3 and 5.0 for Linux at CompUSA way back when, for about $45, and it was worth the money. It was so much faster than any other office suite for Linux at the time, and it still is. I've never had any problems with it, it's always been stable and reliable for me. And I actually like the GUI toolkit it uses. :)
The import filters for 5.0 worked up to Office 2000, so it'll be nice to see an updated version. I'll definitely buy it.
in Detroit last year...best concert I've ever been to, well worth the money.
Seriously, you could not pay me $250 to see a Madonna concert and listen to her crap music. People who pay that to see her deserve to get fleeced.
I like bash a lot, but I think KornShell is better. It can do basically everything bash can do and then some. For example, the current version (ksh93) supports floating-point arithmetic. So it can perform all the math operations that bash can't do, without having to call external programs like bc. You can get ksh93 for Linux, and it's already on most commercial UNIX systems (as /usr/dt/bin/dtksh on systems that have CDE installed).
I also think that BeanShell is the way to go for "Java scripting". The thing I like about BeanShell is that it eliminates the need to learn a whole new language, since it's just Java. Some of the other languages people have mentioned here look interesting, and I may try a few of them out (like Lua and Nice), but I tend to be wary of investing time learning various small obscure languages.
True. Instead of comparing Gnome to WindowMaker, it makes more sense to compare Gnome to GNUstep. Having used both, I would give the edge to GNUstep, definitely in terms of speed, and even in terms of usability.
I have to say that this is an interesting test. I did your test with mrxvt 0.4.2 (a tabbed rxvt) and gnome-terminal 2.10.0 on FC4, using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8 pt anti-aliased font in both (yes, mrxvt can do anti-aliasing with TrueType fonts, if compiled with the -xft option). The results:
mrxvt -xft -xftaa -xftfn "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" -xftsz 8
real 0m2.844s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.058s
gnome-terminal
real 0m8.725s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.053s
This is on a 3GHz P4 system. I don't have gnome-terminal 2.12.0 installed like you do, so I can believe that it might be a second or two faster than 2.10.0. But mrxvt is still faster. I had transparency turned off in both cases. With transparency turned on in mrxvt the time went up slightly, to 0m3.033s.
mmm...fromage
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And all 300 of them are better than that awful "American cheese". Really, America needs a better cheese to call its own.
Well, the current French government is not exactly liberal. Notice, by the way, that the website of the French Communist Party is powered by Debian. Yay, PCF! :)
running Red Hat 6.2. It's a Compaq Prolinea MT, which I got for free (company was scrapping old PCs), and Linux has made it useful (well, useful in that it's a server for an IRC bot I wrote in Java :) ...yes, Java is running 24x7 on this machine!). The nice thing is that Linux works flawlessly with all the old hardware in this machine, which uses very little power and is very quiet.
I've also had Linux make good use out of some really old Sun boxes. I setup an ancient SPARC IPX as a print server and an LX as an internal web server, both running RH 6.1 for SPARC.
I just think that there is so much waste with computers. I've found working PIII machines in my apartment complex's dumpster several times. It's good to put these to good use, and with Linux they can be given small but useful tasks.
Solaris
In general, I would say that there is a very strong streak of anti-intellectualism in the US. I think it comes from our country's origins: "rugged individualism", pragmatism, "frontier mentality", etc. The "it's cool to suck at math" idea is just one reflection of that.
It's ironic, because the Founding Fathers were some of the best political thinkers and intellectuals of their time, yet as the westward expansion continued, what was needed were "rugged men", not the "pointy-headed intellectuals back east".
That mentality seems very ingrained in our culture , and I'm not sure how it can be changed quickly. Look at the level of political discourse in the last election, and it's very discouraging. We have a president who makes no bones about being stupid, and an "opposition" that's not much better.
BTW, I don't think intellectuals should necessarily be admired. Being "smart" does not make you a good person. Another poster mentioned that "compassion" should be valued as well, and I think that idea is on the right track. There are many qualities and talents a person can have that are admirable, not just academic prowess.
But to this day that basic right to an education continues to be challenged, by the same class of people basically, who would prefer that a good education be reserved for the children of the wealthy. All the privatization schemes being bandied about today revolve around that idea, though their proponents don't dare to say so. And since so many 'high-tech' jobs are being 'offshored' to low-wage countries, there is even less incentive to provide the children of the working class with a good education. I feel bad for kids today. The vast majority of them are being prepared (through school, the mainstream culture, etc) for a life of low-wage and low-skill jobs.
This sounds bad, and it is, but we need to do more than just complain, and actually do something about it.