I gaurantee "executive manager" of a large firm is more impressive than "bachelor's degree" unless your local college is Harvard, Yale, MIT, or something along those lines... which I *REALLY* doubt. My suggestion? Take the Executive Manager Position. Live off the amount of pay you make right now, put the other (2/3's?) into the bank. Live that way for a year. If the job sucks, quit, go to school... you've got 2 years worth of saved up money to live off of (at your current comfort level) while you look for another job and go to school. What do you have to lose?
If you're willing to fight off the urge to spend spend spend when you're making triple your current salary, you'll be fine. And look at it this way... if you like the new job, you'll have a BOATLOAD of cash to play with at the end of the first year:)
Anyone who's studied even a bit of psychology and perhaps some communications will realize male's and female's naturally excel in certain area's and are also drawn to those things. There's a REASON why you don't see many girl geeks... why try to force this on them by basically lying about it?
While it may just be "stigmata" about the socially isolating aspects, it surely isn't about the "boring" aspects. I promise you my girlfriend just wouldn't ever enjoy spending 6 hours recompiling and securing a *nix system. Where as I find it to be quite relaxing and a fun challenge at times.
you confused "survive" with "grow and maximize profit". As if Sun is going anywhere anytime soon. They're going to die just like novell, BSD, and Microsoft are.
Sun realizes that the opteron provides nearly the performance of their sparc at a cheaper price... why not bundle it up and make MORE money since the cream of the crop for them is service. And more systems sold==more people buying service contracts. And lord knows cheaper prices==more systems sold.
and your ignorance shines true. The "MP3" version came bundled with MP3 software. Just like the "Gamer" version came bundled with games. *SHOCK* Perhaps read up first next time.
ummm... why should a patch for SP2 be a 4 month long software development project? It hsould be just that, a patch. And it surely shouldn't take them 4 months. If it does perhaps you need to move to a new development/patching process with a dedicated team instead of a couple of people you found on the internet.
perhaps you should do a search for "verizon fiber pennsylvania". Or just look for teletruth.org:) And you'll see that our government has in fact done such things on a slightly smaller level. $10billion dollars spent, although PA is also smaller than SK. It just turns out our government also allows fraudulent corrupt monopolies... er... companies off the hook without delivering on their promises of "fiber to every home" where as it appears south korea holds them to their contracts.
you're in a small small small minority. US may get some decent downloads but you won't get 1.5 mbit upload in 99% of the markets here unless you're willing to fork over a minimum of 300$/mo
You say "it'll auto update unless they're running SUS" then "helpdesk should schedule a week or two of vacation". Any business that has a dedicated help desk and isn't running SUS needs to fire their IT staff ASAP.
apparently I missed the part where you couldn't do program fixes/patches without being physically in the country where the software is going to be used.
on if you already have a land line or not, and if you're willing to have it tied up all the time. A second phone line + dial-up will probably cost you just as much as a cheap DSL would. Heck, if you don't have any line at all, it'll probably cost you more for a phone line + dial-up. 3 the tele monopolies.
I can post you 10 local root exploits for linux in 2 minutes. Why do you think that not being logged in as root by default on a linux machine makes it anymore secure?
And news flash... NO businesses set up the boxes allowing users to be root/admin by default (and we're talking about businesses here, not home users). So that reasoning is tired at best.
your post screams "BS". No competent corporation would ever let their employees install 10 different versions of the same software. Nor would they ever need cd's because they'd have images available on that *shock* central ftp server.
There is no "CD administration" in a production environment, but you can have an E for effort.
Oh, and there's no CD keys either... the key's are built into the O/S image. And "upgrading" is a matter of pushing out the new O/S via ghost. *SO TOUGH!!!*
uhh... I know script kiddies who currently work in the linux world only. Please send me some of whatever you're taking, and let me know when you're back from that dream world.
let's be realistic here... there's about 3 vendor's total that you will ever see in a serious corporate environment, not a hundred. People want support.
#1 it's a worm, no non-root user is executing anything #2 given the amount of remote root and local root exploits the worm will do a fine job of b0rking the system itself.
So when linux reaches critical mass and people spend as much time searching for/writing worms for it as they do for windows, how's that support ration going to look?
your idea might work except that big businesses have patents for everything under the sun in the computer biz. Stuff that people haven't even found a use for yet, and that they themselves have no use for, just so they can sue when someone does find a good use for it.
IE: let someone else do all the work then just sit back and sue to get your share of their hard work.
"But it really doesn't answer the deeper question as to what a roadmap might look like to take people to a world where lots of people do not run as admin, and things like ActiveX are simply turned off to start with."
Because lord knows how good it will be for their business when Joe Public can't install their newest game because they lost their admin password and there's no way to install it otherwise.
Or that webpage won't load and they have no idea how to enable ActiveX (news flash, if you make it simple to activate ActiveX Joe Public willd o it without knowing what he's doing and the same problems will still arise).
So what if he can patent it in the US? Who says the point he's trying to make isn't "I won't support a country that won't support the patent laws that protect my business".
I doubt he's just itching to run out there and help countries make money that he feels are hurting his company's bottom line. There's nothing wrong with that at all. It's sad that it would cost 800 innocent people there jobs, but then again, the government is just as much to blame as microsoft.
It's no different than any other business division. If you want to attract certain types of business, you enact laws that cater to them so that you become more attractive to them.
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I gaurantee "executive manager" of a large firm is more impressive than "bachelor's degree" unless your local college is Harvard, Yale, MIT, or something along those lines... which I *REALLY* doubt. My suggestion? Take the Executive Manager Position. Live off the amount of pay you make right now, put the other (2/3's?) into the bank. Live that way for a year. If the job sucks, quit, go to school... you've got 2 years worth of saved up money to live off of (at your current comfort level) while you look for another job and go to school. What do you have to lose?
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If you're willing to fight off the urge to spend spend spend when you're making triple your current salary, you'll be fine. And look at it this way... if you like the new job, you'll have a BOATLOAD of cash to play with at the end of the first year
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Anyone who's studied even a bit of psychology and perhaps some communications will realize male's and female's naturally excel in certain area's and are also drawn to those things. There's a REASON why you don't see many girl geeks... why try to force this on them by basically lying about it?
While it may just be "stigmata" about the socially isolating aspects, it surely isn't about the "boring" aspects. I promise you my girlfriend just wouldn't ever enjoy spending 6 hours recompiling and securing a *nix system. Where as I find it to be quite relaxing and a fun challenge at times.
you also won't be finding an opteron for free :) I think you missed his "funny".
sarcasm my good friend, you seem to not be able to detect it. None of the above are dying at all was my point :)
you confused "survive" with "grow and maximize profit". As if Sun is going anywhere anytime soon. They're going to die just like novell, BSD, and Microsoft are.
Sun realizes that the opteron provides nearly the performance of their sparc at a cheaper price... why not bundle it up and make MORE money since the cream of the crop for them is service. And more systems sold==more people buying service contracts. And lord knows cheaper prices==more systems sold.
and your ignorance shines true. The "MP3" version came bundled with MP3 software. Just like the "Gamer" version came bundled with games. *SHOCK* Perhaps read up first next time.
except every new release of a linux distro is basically a "service pack" of the last one.
ummm... why should a patch for SP2 be a 4 month long software development project? It hsould be just that, a patch. And it surely shouldn't take them 4 months. If it does perhaps you need to move to a new development/patching process with a dedicated team instead of a couple of people you found on the internet.
perhaps you should do a search for "verizon fiber pennsylvania". Or just look for teletruth.org :) And you'll see that our government has in fact done such things on a slightly smaller level. $10billion dollars spent, although PA is also smaller than SK. It just turns out our government also allows fraudulent corrupt monopolies... er... companies off the hook without delivering on their promises of "fiber to every home" where as it appears south korea holds them to their contracts.
you're in a small small small minority. US may get some decent downloads but you won't get 1.5 mbit upload in 99% of the markets here unless you're willing to fork over a minimum of 300$/mo
You say "it'll auto update unless they're running SUS" then "helpdesk should schedule a week or two of vacation". Any business that has a dedicated help desk and isn't running SUS needs to fire their IT staff ASAP.
apparently I missed the part where you couldn't do program fixes/patches without being physically in the country where the software is going to be used.
on if you already have a land line or not, and if you're willing to have it tied up all the time. A second phone line + dial-up will probably cost you just as much as a cheap DSL would. Heck, if you don't have any line at all, it'll probably cost you more for a phone line + dial-up. 3 the tele monopolies.
I can post you 10 local root exploits for linux in 2 minutes. Why do you think that not being logged in as root by default on a linux machine makes it anymore secure?
And news flash... NO businesses set up the boxes allowing users to be root/admin by default (and we're talking about businesses here, not home users). So that reasoning is tired at best.
your post screams "BS". No competent corporation would ever let their employees install 10 different versions of the same software. Nor would they ever need cd's because they'd have images available on that *shock* central ftp server.
There is no "CD administration" in a production environment, but you can have an E for effort.
Oh, and there's no CD keys either... the key's are built into the O/S image. And "upgrading" is a matter of pushing out the new O/S via ghost. *SO TOUGH!!!*
uhh... I know script kiddies who currently work in the linux world only. Please send me some of whatever you're taking, and let me know when you're back from that dream world.
let's be realistic here... there's about 3 vendor's total that you will ever see in a serious corporate environment, not a hundred. People want support.
#1 it's a worm, no non-root user is executing anything #2 given the amount of remote root and local root exploits the worm will do a fine job of b0rking the system itself.
So when linux reaches critical mass and people spend as much time searching for/writing worms for it as they do for windows, how's that support ration going to look?
your idea might work except that big businesses have patents for everything under the sun in the computer biz. Stuff that people haven't even found a use for yet, and that they themselves have no use for, just so they can sue when someone does find a good use for it.
IE: let someone else do all the work then just sit back and sue to get your share of their hard work.
"But it really doesn't answer the deeper question as to what a roadmap might look like to take people to a world where lots of people do not run as admin, and things like ActiveX are simply turned off to start with." Because lord knows how good it will be for their business when Joe Public can't install their newest game because they lost their admin password and there's no way to install it otherwise. Or that webpage won't load and they have no idea how to enable ActiveX (news flash, if you make it simple to activate ActiveX Joe Public willd o it without knowing what he's doing and the same problems will still arise).
So what if he can patent it in the US? Who says the point he's trying to make isn't "I won't support a country that won't support the patent laws that protect my business". I doubt he's just itching to run out there and help countries make money that he feels are hurting his company's bottom line. There's nothing wrong with that at all. It's sad that it would cost 800 innocent people there jobs, but then again, the government is just as much to blame as microsoft. It's no different than any other business division. If you want to attract certain types of business, you enact laws that cater to them so that you become more attractive to them.