Remember when he criticized GNOME? That was about as professional as a judge recommending a lawyer. What about when he called the OpenBSD team a bunch of masturbating monkeys? Linus is an a-hole. This isn't news.
We know that the magnetic poles switch about every 200,000 years. During the 1,000 year process, we experience double or more radiation from the Sun. Do you suppose that evolutionary leaps result, which could account for some of the sudden leaps in evolution that Creationists like to point out?
Remember when he criticized GNOME? That was about as professional as a judge recommending a lawyer. What about when he called the OpenBSD team a bunch of masturbating monkeys? Linus is an a-hole. This isn't news.
Red Hat -> Fedora -> CentOS -> Slackware -> Ubuntu -> OpenBSD -> Ubuntu -> PC-BSD -> Mint -> Ubuntu -> OSX
Where I can't use a Mac, I stick with Ubuntu. AFAIK, it's the only distro that can always be upgraded from one release to the next without the need to re-install.
You are assuming that I don't know other parents in other school districts and even other states. In addition to local friends and colleagues, I have family in California, Alaska, Oklahoma, Illinois, South Carolina, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Hawaii.
The alternative might save money (might not), but would require teachers either having to figure out each parent's preference independently, or to do all of their work twice for each student
No no no. If you compose something in Word and print it or compose it on Wordpress and print it, there's no extra work. Then both mediums are available for all parents.
Imagine the "social stigma" if a teacher sent email notices to most parents, but had to give Billy and Marcia printed notices because their families are too poor to have the Internet
It isn't like only the poor kids would get paper. All opportunities for communication would be available to all parents. Every kid would also get paper homework. That way, the parents can use whatever medium works best for them.
That, and if it is a notice that requires a signature of a parent (field trip authorization, etc.) it will have to be paper anyway.
It has a karaoke machine in there. I saw it on a commercial. They may have been singing to karaoke videos on YouTube, but goddam! Having a karaoke machine in there has to be worth something;-)
Consider that every industry has niche needs. I'll give some examples, but remember that my examples are only from a single industry out of hundreds. I work at a court of law. We have several niche needs that only can be satisfied with Windows software. Possibly the best example is our "Jury Instructions" program. Instructions given to a jury at the beginning of a trial will be unique depending on the nature of the trial. If a judge gives the wrong instructions, then a mistrial or appeal or even the wrong verdict can result. To complicate matters, the legislature changes jury instruction laws quarterly. The only programs that allow a judge to select variables about the nature of a trial, and then spit out jury instructions are for Windows.
If you consider that I'm just one court in one state in one country, then think about what a massive endeavor it is to keep software such as Jury Instructions up to date, and for what a small handful of customers. Nobody's going to go make and maintain a Mac or Linux version. It wouldn't be worth the effort. Now remember that I'm just one small tiny industry in an ocean of hundreds if not thousands of other organizations with unique needs. This is why we don't see anything but Windows in the workplace (that's a generalization... there are obviously exceptions).
The next evolution of court technology in my state is going to be a web based case management system. What do you suppose the dumbass developers did? They decided that people wouldn't want to install Java JRE, so the system is based in ActiveX. There goes any possibility of running it with anything other than Windows + IE.
[Rant]For the life of me, I can't figure out what the point of making a web based application is when you're locked into one browser/OS. Isn't the point of web based applications that they are platform independent? On the server side, I do run Linux/*BSD wherever possible. They run happy with 4 GB of storage. Windows Server 2008 typically needs 60 GB in my experience (due to WinSxS). You may think that storage is cheap, but not if you're running VMware Infrastructure on a SAN. I've literally had to quintuple my SAN storage in order to accommodate upgrading from Windows Server 2003.[/Rant]
As the announcement to submit questions suggested, I went to your home page before submitting a question. With all due respect, Mr. Shatner, your web page is a confusing collage of unnecessary graphics, random icons, and annoying things that blink and flash. I half expected a popup advertisement for Adult Friend Finder.
I know that they're hard links. I don't care. What I care about is that I used to run servers on VMware with 12 GB of storage each. I've had to quintuple that since Win2K8. SAN storage is not cheap.
Win 2k *was* great, wasn't it? I installed it, upgraded my domain, and said to myself, "Microsoft hit the nail square on the head with this one!" The thig would happily run on my desktop with 128K RAM. It was stable. Everything's been downhill from there. Now Windows 7 needs 2 GB, and I've got a 50 GB WinSxS folder.
Didn't Microsoft say that Windows Server 2008 (without "R2") was the last 32 bit OS that they'd make? It's likely that the vast majority of Windows 7 Home/Business edition users have a CPU that can handle 64 bits, but what about all those people running Windows 7 Starter on netbooks that can't do 64 bit? It seems to me that they need to come out and say whether there will be a 32 bit version of Windows 8 or not.
If my enterprise did not interact with other enterprises, then faster version numbers (be they major or minor changes) can be coped with. The problem is that we interact with other enterprises. My ADP timecard program still doesn't support Firefox 4. My Cisco Scan Safe proxy service *just* announced support for Firefox 4. My AT&T online trouble-ticket software is browser based, as is my internal Numara Track It trouble-ticket software. My customers (judges) are required by the state to use a browser based application for calculating child support rulings. All of these things have to work with my browser, and if one of my partners decides that Firefox 5 isn't supported while Mozilla isn't supporting Firefox 4, then I have a problem that drives me back to Internet Explorer.
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They must have paywalled it after I submitted the story. It was not paywalled at the time of submission.
Remember when he criticized GNOME? That was about as professional as a judge recommending a lawyer. What about when he called the OpenBSD team a bunch of masturbating monkeys? Linus is an a-hole. This isn't news.
It's in the title.
I never thought I'd see the day when comic book supervillains come to life.
It's in the title.
are soldiers. Are airmen, sailors, and marines excluded from the offer?
We know that the magnetic poles switch about every 200,000 years. During the 1,000 year process, we experience double or more radiation from the Sun. Do you suppose that evolutionary leaps result, which could account for some of the sudden leaps in evolution that Creationists like to point out?
Remember when he criticized GNOME? That was about as professional as a judge recommending a lawyer. What about when he called the OpenBSD team a bunch of masturbating monkeys? Linus is an a-hole. This isn't news.
Red Hat -> Fedora -> CentOS -> Slackware -> Ubuntu -> OpenBSD -> Ubuntu -> PC-BSD -> Mint -> Ubuntu -> OSX Where I can't use a Mac, I stick with Ubuntu. AFAIK, it's the only distro that can always be upgraded from one release to the next without the need to re-install.
Was this inspired by robot scorpions in your belly-button?
Didn't Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno show us why this is a bad idea?
This is why I disagree with Richard Stallman, and prefer BSD over GPL. Commercial software is a reality, and it will remain a reality.
With a sample size of ONE
You are assuming that I don't know other parents in other school districts and even other states. In addition to local friends and colleagues, I have family in California, Alaska, Oklahoma, Illinois, South Carolina, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Hawaii.
The alternative might save money (might not), but would require teachers either having to figure out each parent's preference independently, or to do all of their work twice for each student
No no no. If you compose something in Word and print it or compose it on Wordpress and print it, there's no extra work. Then both mediums are available for all parents.
Imagine the "social stigma" if a teacher sent email notices to most parents, but had to give Billy and Marcia printed notices because their families are too poor to have the Internet
It isn't like only the poor kids would get paper. All opportunities for communication would be available to all parents. Every kid would also get paper homework. That way, the parents can use whatever medium works best for them.
That, and if it is a notice that requires a signature of a parent (field trip authorization, etc.) it will have to be paper anyway.
S/MIME
I'm not saying to use technology EXCLUSIVELY. Use it IN ADDITION to current processes.
I have always wanted to know how to use the three shells.
It has a karaoke machine in there. I saw it on a commercial. They may have been singing to karaoke videos on YouTube, but goddam! Having a karaoke machine in there has to be worth something ;-)
Consider that every industry has niche needs. I'll give some examples, but remember that my examples are only from a single industry out of hundreds. I work at a court of law. We have several niche needs that only can be satisfied with Windows software. Possibly the best example is our "Jury Instructions" program. Instructions given to a jury at the beginning of a trial will be unique depending on the nature of the trial. If a judge gives the wrong instructions, then a mistrial or appeal or even the wrong verdict can result. To complicate matters, the legislature changes jury instruction laws quarterly. The only programs that allow a judge to select variables about the nature of a trial, and then spit out jury instructions are for Windows.
If you consider that I'm just one court in one state in one country, then think about what a massive endeavor it is to keep software such as Jury Instructions up to date, and for what a small handful of customers. Nobody's going to go make and maintain a Mac or Linux version. It wouldn't be worth the effort. Now remember that I'm just one small tiny industry in an ocean of hundreds if not thousands of other organizations with unique needs. This is why we don't see anything but Windows in the workplace (that's a generalization... there are obviously exceptions). The next evolution of court technology in my state is going to be a web based case management system. What do you suppose the dumbass developers did? They decided that people wouldn't want to install Java JRE, so the system is based in ActiveX. There goes any possibility of running it with anything other than Windows + IE.
[Rant]For the life of me, I can't figure out what the point of making a web based application is when you're locked into one browser/OS. Isn't the point of web based applications that they are platform independent? On the server side, I do run Linux/*BSD wherever possible. They run happy with 4 GB of storage. Windows Server 2008 typically needs 60 GB in my experience (due to WinSxS). You may think that storage is cheap, but not if you're running VMware Infrastructure on a SAN. I've literally had to quintuple my SAN storage in order to accommodate upgrading from Windows Server 2003.[/Rant]
As the announcement to submit questions suggested, I went to your home page before submitting a question. With all due respect, Mr. Shatner, your web page is a confusing collage of unnecessary graphics, random icons, and annoying things that blink and flash. I half expected a popup advertisement for Adult Friend Finder.
I know that they're hard links. I don't care. What I care about is that I used to run servers on VMware with 12 GB of storage each. I've had to quintuple that since Win2K8. SAN storage is not cheap.
Win 2k *was* great, wasn't it? I installed it, upgraded my domain, and said to myself, "Microsoft hit the nail square on the head with this one!" The thig would happily run on my desktop with 128K RAM. It was stable. Everything's been downhill from there. Now Windows 7 needs 2 GB, and I've got a 50 GB WinSxS folder.
Didn't Microsoft say that Windows Server 2008 (without "R2") was the last 32 bit OS that they'd make? It's likely that the vast majority of Windows 7 Home/Business edition users have a CPU that can handle 64 bits, but what about all those people running Windows 7 Starter on netbooks that can't do 64 bit? It seems to me that they need to come out and say whether there will be a 32 bit version of Windows 8 or not.
Just like when Slackware went from version 4 straight to version 7 just to keep up with Fedora's version numbers.
If my enterprise did not interact with other enterprises, then faster version numbers (be they major or minor changes) can be coped with. The problem is that we interact with other enterprises. My ADP timecard program still doesn't support Firefox 4. My Cisco Scan Safe proxy service *just* announced support for Firefox 4. My AT&T online trouble-ticket software is browser based, as is my internal Numara Track It trouble-ticket software. My customers (judges) are required by the state to use a browser based application for calculating child support rulings. All of these things have to work with my browser, and if one of my partners decides that Firefox 5 isn't supported while Mozilla isn't supporting Firefox 4, then I have a problem that drives me back to Internet Explorer.