Sounds okay to me. Maybe I'll just stop paying my taxes, too. I won't pay for a CD I can't listen to, or a book I can't read, so why pay for a government that won't let me see what it's doing?
If it's none of my business, maybe I shouldn't be paying for it.
I think there is something to see here. Why doesn't MS port their non-OS apps to.Net? MS wants their customers to always port software to the latest and greatest MS language/environment of the year, so why doesn't MS do the same?
Probably because most of their user-land apps are already written in C or C++ and working fine. It'd take months and tons of money to rewrite and retest all of Window's userland apps for.NET. What's the point?
It would be like having a music mgmt system that could find/organize music files by humming a melody or riff.
Not to detract from your point, but in my mind, the image file equivalent of finding a music file by humming would be finding a photo by drawing a rough sketch of it. THAT would be really cool.
Legally and economically, I agree with you completely.
But unless the person is doing something illegal or blatantly against the rules, I don't think it's in their best interest to fire such a high profile employee. The drop in overall employee morale will probably cost them a lot more than keeping the guy on, and the public perception that they need to fire the founder to stay afloat will probably hurt them even more.
I think you're trolling. As an engineer, you should be able to understand "that's just the way it has to be." I'll try to explain further, but for some reason, I don't think you'll get it:
PCs have exactly one master boot record. That master boot record points to exactly one bootloader. When you install GRUB, the single entry in the master boot record is changed to load GRUB instead of the Windows bootloader. There is no "whatever would have loaded." PCs just aren't designed that way. Don't like it? Call IBM and ask them to go back in time and fix it. But until then, that's just the way it is.
As for Ubuntu's install instructions not being correct, I find it highly unlikely. The fact that tens of thousands of people have managed to install it just fine by following those same instructions would seem to indicate that it does work the vast majority of the time. The logical conclusion when a set of instructions work fine for thousands of people but don't work for you, would seem to be that you did something wrong. Believe it or not, even an "engineer" can fuck up sometimes. Did you try the install again paying closer attention to the instructions? Did you make sure your partitions were correct? Did you try using LILO instead? Or did you just get pissed and start trolling?
Oh, and by the way, I like how you state that you're not a software engineer and that you have no idea how PCs boot, and then make suggestions about how GRUB and the boot process should work. Do you have software engineers telling you how helicopters should work? How often are their good ideas thrown out because they don't know how anything works?
If a format that's been around for years isn't fully supported yet, what makes you think a new format will fare any better? Especially since a large part of uptake depends on Microsoft implementing it.
Why XML? vCal is already a standardized calendar format that works with Outlook, Mozilla Sunfire, and many others. It's not a buzzword like XML, but other than that, it usually works well.
its sort of sad that we are creating, intentionally animals with disablities..
i know they are 'just mice' but still....
They're not "just mice", they're medical research mice. It's hard to test a new drug when the test mice don't have the disease the drug is trying to cure.
Why do the good students always have to suffer because of the few bad ones?
It might be due to the fact that good students will know how to work around the limitation. Not in a bad/intrusive way, but they'll write down any addresses the professor mentions and look at them after class. They'll get the class notes from the professor's website before or after class.
In other words, the good students aren't suffering, and there's a chance some of the people who would have been using IM, playing games, or looking at unrelated material are paying attention.
Slightly unrelated, but I can't think of any reasons why people with laptops would need network access while in class. It's always nice to have, but necessary during class? Give me a break. What about all the people who don't bring laptops to class? They seem to do fine without laptops, much less network access.
That is all basic economics: All companies want an advantage over the others; and all public companies must do what is best for the shareholders.
Is it in the best interests of the shareholders? Network providers threatening slower transfer speed unless "protection" money is paid is extortion. Not only that, it's an extra cost that's going to be passed on to consumers.
Unless the network providers cut back their speed to be slower than dial-up, most people won't notice the difference. Is it a competitive advantage for Amazon.com to load at 6 MBit/s instead of 1 MBit/s? Is it a competitive advantage to sell the exact same item for a dollar more than anywhere else, so they can pay off network providers?
Giving in to extortion and raising prices above the competition's is rarely good for shareholders.
If a company does something I don't like, cuts my service in a way I don't think is reasonable, I'm fully capable of switching providers.
Who would you switch to?...
Yeah, on second thought, I shouldn't have included that line.
But I still think that once network providers realize 99% of the most popular content providers aren't interested in buying faster content delivery, they'll stop doing it. No stupid law required.
If nothing else there will be a class action lawsuit when thousands of people paying for service advertised at X MBit/s only get (X/2) MBit/s.
Yes, of course, our best interest. But there doesn't need to be a law for every little thing. We're not all 5 year olds. If a company does something I don't like, cuts my service in a way I don't think is reasonable, I'm fully capable of switching providers. I don't need Big Brother to step in for me. Especially for stuff like this. The free market will probably clear this up before the law can even get passed.
Charging people for preferential treatment of network packets is a stupid idea, it doesn't need an even stupider law to kill it, it'll die on its own.
try giving this to someone who isnt a nerd and see how they feel about the obscure referencess/jokes.
Just a guess, but if somebody who isn't a nerd is installing Gentoo, the installer calling them a hoser probably isn't their biggest problem. There are plenty of distros meant to be easy to use and friendly to Linux noobs, but Gentoo isn't one of them.
I run Windows 2000 on a PC that's 3 years old.. I've got a gig of ram in it, and it works great. I've got Windows 2000 on two or three other old-ass PCs as well, and the only thing I did to make them faster.. was reinstall the OS, cruft-free, every 2-3 years. I still manage to get all my work done, and don't have a compelling reason to upgrade to Windows XP. As much as Microsoft would like me to think, AOE3 isn't enough justification.
So, what you're trying to say is that you have a 3 year old computer running a 6 year old operating system? And that some how helps demonstrate that Windows 2000 runs on old hardware?
Also, 3 years is not old. It's not new, but it's definitely not old like a 386 is old. Now, if you had Windows 2000 running at a usable speed on a 386, that would interesting.
So far, in my 1 1/2 month job search, I've got calls/emails for jobs in Seatle, Washington; Kansas City; and Springfield, Illinois. Which is great. Except I live in Colorado, and I when the site asked, I said I don't want to move.
The worst are the ones that tell me the job is in some other state, half-way across the country, then point out that they don't pay for relocation, and ask if that would be okay. Hell no it's not okay. I don't even want to move, and I'm sure as hell not going to pay for it.
Silly FUD. The Edit menu is still available if you edit your gnome.prefs to include the line "UseMenuThatShallNotBeNamedBecauseItHasBeenDeclare dBad=1" in the "StupidAnachronisms" section.
Yeah, that's a real bitch to remember. Fortunately, to make things easier, the abreviation "UMTSNBNBIHBDB=1" can be used.
OK, you correctly point out the fact that tactics matter more than strategy when we live and die by the quarterly report.
That would almost be as dramatic as you were hoping, if only "tactics" and "strategy" weren't synonyms.
Seriously though, I don't see why you're trying to make this about open and closed source software. Mozilla basically said to Microsoft: "Here, do what you want with our market share while we go do something else for a while." If Redhat stopped all development on their OS for a few years so they could work on a killer office suite, SuSe and other distros would be all over Redhat's market share. Or, more precisely, Redhat users would be all over SuSe and other distros.
Now that the strategic investments in good infrastructure pay dividends, is it really necessary to force-feed any closed, OS-centric solution on anyone?
Netscape used to have more than half of the market share. Right now, Firefox has less than ten percent. XULRunner has yet to break even, much less pay dividends.
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Sounds okay to me. Maybe I'll just stop paying my taxes, too. I won't pay for a CD I can't listen to, or a book I can't read, so why pay for a government that won't let me see what it's doing?
If it's none of my business, maybe I shouldn't be paying for it.
It's simple, really:
Welcome to the real world! "70% done" means "30% to go", or more to the point "Not finished." It's a pass/fail test.
Yeah, that's just about the stupidest page layout ever. But the underlining is easy to fix if you block intellitxt.com.
Probably because most of their user-land apps are already written in C or C++ and working fine. It'd take months and tons of money to rewrite and retest all of Window's userland apps for .NET. What's the point?
Not to detract from your point, but in my mind, the image file equivalent of finding a music file by humming would be finding a photo by drawing a rough sketch of it. THAT would be really cool.
Legally and economically, I agree with you completely.
But unless the person is doing something illegal or blatantly against the rules, I don't think it's in their best interest to fire such a high profile employee. The drop in overall employee morale will probably cost them a lot more than keeping the guy on, and the public perception that they need to fire the founder to stay afloat will probably hurt them even more.
I think you're trolling. As an engineer, you should be able to understand "that's just the way it has to be." I'll try to explain further, but for some reason, I don't think you'll get it:
PCs have exactly one master boot record. That master boot record points to exactly one bootloader. When you install GRUB, the single entry in the master boot record is changed to load GRUB instead of the Windows bootloader. There is no "whatever would have loaded." PCs just aren't designed that way. Don't like it? Call IBM and ask them to go back in time and fix it. But until then, that's just the way it is.
As for Ubuntu's install instructions not being correct, I find it highly unlikely. The fact that tens of thousands of people have managed to install it just fine by following those same instructions would seem to indicate that it does work the vast majority of the time. The logical conclusion when a set of instructions work fine for thousands of people but don't work for you, would seem to be that you did something wrong. Believe it or not, even an "engineer" can fuck up sometimes. Did you try the install again paying closer attention to the instructions? Did you make sure your partitions were correct? Did you try using LILO instead? Or did you just get pissed and start trolling?
Oh, and by the way, I like how you state that you're not a software engineer and that you have no idea how PCs boot, and then make suggestions about how GRUB and the boot process should work. Do you have software engineers telling you how helicopters should work? How often are their good ideas thrown out because they don't know how anything works?
How well does the xml format work? ;)
If a format that's been around for years isn't fully supported yet, what makes you think a new format will fare any better? Especially since a large part of uptake depends on Microsoft implementing it.
Why XML? vCal is already a standardized calendar format that works with Outlook, Mozilla Sunfire, and many others. It's not a buzzword like XML, but other than that, it usually works well.
Wish I had mod points. I couldn't agree more.
They're not "just mice", they're medical research mice. It's hard to test a new drug when the test mice don't have the disease the drug is trying to cure.
Gaining root access locally is as easy as inserting a LiveCD and rebooting the computer.
It might be due to the fact that good students will know how to work around the limitation. Not in a bad/intrusive way, but they'll write down any addresses the professor mentions and look at them after class. They'll get the class notes from the professor's website before or after class.
In other words, the good students aren't suffering, and there's a chance some of the people who would have been using IM, playing games, or looking at unrelated material are paying attention.
Slightly unrelated, but I can't think of any reasons why people with laptops would need network access while in class. It's always nice to have, but necessary during class? Give me a break. What about all the people who don't bring laptops to class? They seem to do fine without laptops, much less network access.
Is it in the best interests of the shareholders? Network providers threatening slower transfer speed unless "protection" money is paid is extortion. Not only that, it's an extra cost that's going to be passed on to consumers.
Unless the network providers cut back their speed to be slower than dial-up, most people won't notice the difference. Is it a competitive advantage for Amazon.com to load at 6 MBit/s instead of 1 MBit/s? Is it a competitive advantage to sell the exact same item for a dollar more than anywhere else, so they can pay off network providers?Giving in to extortion and raising prices above the competition's is rarely good for shareholders.
Yeah, on second thought, I shouldn't have included that line.
But I still think that once network providers realize 99% of the most popular content providers aren't interested in buying faster content delivery, they'll stop doing it. No stupid law required.
If nothing else there will be a class action lawsuit when thousands of people paying for service advertised at X MBit/s only get (X/2) MBit/s.
Yes, of course, our best interest. But there doesn't need to be a law for every little thing. We're not all 5 year olds. If a company does something I don't like, cuts my service in a way I don't think is reasonable, I'm fully capable of switching providers. I don't need Big Brother to step in for me. Especially for stuff like this. The free market will probably clear this up before the law can even get passed.
Charging people for preferential treatment of network packets is a stupid idea, it doesn't need an even stupider law to kill it, it'll die on its own.
Are they sure it wasn't the spooky commercials they were playing on late night TV a while back? Those things still give me the creeps.
Just a guess, but if somebody who isn't a nerd is installing Gentoo, the installer calling them a hoser probably isn't their biggest problem. There are plenty of distros meant to be easy to use and friendly to Linux noobs, but Gentoo isn't one of them.
So, what you're trying to say is that you have a 3 year old computer running a 6 year old operating system? And that some how helps demonstrate that Windows 2000 runs on old hardware?
Also, 3 years is not old. It's not new, but it's definitely not old like a 386 is old. Now, if you had Windows 2000 running at a usable speed on a 386, that would interesting.
But do they weigh the same as a duck?
I'm sure it's great, but what does it offer that I can't get with a laptop?
Wow, they got the state right?
So far, in my 1 1/2 month job search, I've got calls/emails for jobs in Seatle, Washington; Kansas City; and Springfield, Illinois. Which is great. Except I live in Colorado, and I when the site asked, I said I don't want to move.
The worst are the ones that tell me the job is in some other state, half-way across the country, then point out that they don't pay for relocation, and ask if that would be okay. Hell no it's not okay. I don't even want to move, and I'm sure as hell not going to pay for it.
Yeah, that's a real bitch to remember. Fortunately, to make things easier, the abreviation "UMTSNBNBIHBDB=1" can be used.
That would almost be as dramatic as you were hoping, if only "tactics" and "strategy" weren't synonyms.
Seriously though, I don't see why you're trying to make this about open and closed source software. Mozilla basically said to Microsoft: "Here, do what you want with our market share while we go do something else for a while." If Redhat stopped all development on their OS for a few years so they could work on a killer office suite, SuSe and other distros would be all over Redhat's market share. Or, more precisely, Redhat users would be all over SuSe and other distros.
Netscape used to have more than half of the market share. Right now, Firefox has less than ten percent. XULRunner has yet to break even, much less pay dividends.