If you work for a fortune 500, best of lucky trying. Most of them are so entrenched with deals with major software vendors (MS, Norton, etc) that they'll go to extreme lengths to help out their buddies. I've seen everything from not allowing Mac's on the property to threaten people's jobs b/c they make a blog on their personal time with their personal resources, off the clock that may say something negative about Microsoft or some other company.
Software patents = fail. If the Dish copied some copyrighted code or something, fine. Sue them. But they didn't. They infringed on an idea. Whoopee shit.
I run Windows in VirtualBox at work just fine along side of Fluxbox/Debian specifically for this reason. It works beautifully. I will be looking for a lighter VM in the near future though.
If you haven't exactly noticed, unless you live in an urban area, biking to work is almost near impossible, and where you work depending on job stability is subject to change, and sometimes that solid income means a 20-40 min (sometimes more) commute in a car. As for mass transit, very few urban cities in America has great mass transit that other nations enjoy for a multitude of reasons; influence of the automotive industry. sheer land mass, and geographical barriers. Even the smaller ones that have decent bus systems are usually extremely limited to how far out into the suburban limits they go (ya know, where most people live). And what about rural folk, who lived in mining towns or factory towns or farming communities and they don't have the money to just up and move because when the factories/farms/mines closed down their property values dropped and they wouldn't be able to afford a home elsewhere. Yes, they too much drive a considerable distance to work. In fact, they drive a considerable distance for a lot of things.
Get off your jazzercising-in-the-city-street high horse. Why is it urban environmental "coffee shop revolutionaries" are always up on their pedestal? If critical-mass loving douche bags would quit being arm chair philosophers and political commentators, i'd get a lot better sleep at night.
Actually, I prefer Adblock over Adblock Plus. Adblock Plus reduces the performance of Firefox, Adblock does not. And it really doesn't matter which one you use, what matters is your adblocking list. You can use Adblock Filterset.G Updater for both adblock and adblock plus and the list stays up to date and both extensions remain equally as effective, except the performance loss that you get with Plus.
i'd really like to know what browser version, what extentions/add-ons if any, and what version of flash people are using. I'm seeing flash complaints everywhere, yet I've had zero problems with Gentoo, Suse and Ubuntu (all the latest and greatest), FF3.0, and Flash 9.
I know why I don't own one. Of course it's the standard reasons so far, I'd need a better tv. Still the price for bluray is too high currently. And thirdly yet most importantly, I can't do what I want with the discs because of their crappy DRM. Until I can burn bluray quality movies onto the discs, until I can backup those discs, on a Linux system, I'll never by it.
That all being said, I feel we're going to a discless society anyways. My cd-player in my car has a usb port on the front, i just transfer music to an mp3 player or a usb flash drive and plug that sucker in there. For mobile stuff, mp3/ogg/wma player (I would say "iPod",but I don't like corporate terms to refer to generic devices). And then at home, I have a Mythdora media center hooked up to my stereo reciever and tv. I stopped burning/ripping dvds and just play straight out what I've downloaded.
I have a stack of cds and dvds i barely use anymore, other than to burn software to boot a computer with.
Hmmm... considering many of people's tax dollars in many nations went to it's invention (be it the US military, Russia's military, CERN, etc.. ) and considering the tremendous amounts in subsidy telecom companies recieve from many nations... it's the people's IMO.
oh, their minds have been lost for some time now. Just not on this issue. I love how they can spend time pissing off users over the insert text size mod, and how they waste Google Summer of Code on projects like Myspace integration and finch, but still can't implement jingle properly.
A terrorist attack would imply one of two things. A) Someone got harmed or B) Terror was instilled in a mass population due to the threat of being harmed. Other than creating some headaches over at comcast for a few hours, no one was harmed. Get a grip on reality.
I wouldn't call bullshit on any company that is publicly traded. The public company, with shareholders, is designed to do nothing BUT generate large sustainable amounts of income. It doesn't have political opinions, or feelings. It's a company. Yes, yes yes companies are made of people. But the people who run them are under tremendous stress and pressure, not to do the right thing, but to do the profitable thing, and if they can't, the board's generally have no problem letting them go and finding someone who can. It's not about your frilly little feelings. It's about the survival and growth of the company. And it is sad, b/c only the shareholders benefit, rather than the stakeholders (low level employee's, consumers, environment, etc)
The pidgin developers can go to hell. They have not addressed, and in some cases, flat out refuse to address various security concerns (like plain text passwords stored on the local disc for instance).
They promise things like solid implementation of Google's Jingle, webcam and audio support (not that i use it) and sit on it. Every version that comes out it's just like they did a few bug fixes, changed the UI around again and again and again, integrate MySpace (like anyone gives a shit) via Google's SOC.. and that's about it. They're worthless.
I don't really care what the KDE developers state, but the way they have gone about releasing and hyping KDE 4.x.x is stupid. They built and built and built the hype for the 4.0 milestone, even though they were screaming it wasn't perfect. But the hype outshone the voices of caution. Now everyone was waiting for some stability in 4.1, and we're not going to get it then either, again, after hyping 4.1 will be usable. By the time the 4.x version is usable no one will give a crap about it. I, personally, was looking forward to 4.x series to be usable but it doesn't look like that'll happen for a year or so and I'll keep my happy ass right at 3.x until then.
Lotus Notes carries an extremely negative weight to it. I don't care if their suite was amazing, I couldn't imagine trying to convince a manager to go the Lotus route, simply based on problems IT departments have had in the past with it.
The structure in which a corporation was designed by various court decisions, is what makes it psychopathic and sociopathic in nature. If regulations and punishments were setup to not make the "evil" decisions economically profitable you'd see a whole new world in how they'd behave, at least in said country where these magic laws were made. But fat chance of seeing that happen.
Reaganomics is a sham, it's a complete falsehood that spending went down under his administration. Military GDP skyrocketed under him, battles (not wars) were fought under him that were completely pointless other than to use the military as international corporate police, in South America, in Latin America and in the Middle East.
You can say all you want he cut spending, but he created the Federal Department of Education which wastes billions and destroys the already great state school systems we have with these top down policies, dangling federal money over states to do their bidding with standardized testing. And while I consider this a good thing, he pumped a ton of money into NASA as well.
But conservatives like to think he cut money b/c he cut it from the people they don't like, the poor, the blacks, AIDs research, the arts, the environment, etc.. and gave tax breaks and money to those they do like, like corporations, nuclear arsenals, battles against "communism", the rich, straight, and WASPy mother fuckers.
Yeah because local, state and/or national governments have done such a wonderful job with their ownership of the Retirement plan (SS almost bankrupt), the roads (rising tolls and decreasing maintenance), the right-of-ways for cable tv lines (bribes to politicians to gain permanent monoopoly), and the government-owned schools (duh; where's the U.S. located on a world map? Who knows? Certainly not a gov't graduation.).
Our public schools were doing just fine until Reagan created the federal Dept of Education. States handled this just fine on their own. Our electrical infrastructure and water infrastructure are also pretty damned decent too and those are heavily regulated utilities. Maybe you'd prefer a free market electrical company, where if some disabled woman couldn't pay her bills in January in Montana, they'd say tough shit, cut the electricity off and let her literally freeze to death? Oh, but that god we're better than that.
And SS is not bankrupt. It's a myth. But it will be if we keep dipping into it for a pointless war effort.
Never ever go to a liberal arts college, they make you write PAPERS about POEMS some DEAD GUY wrote.
where people have labeled you funny, you make a good point. But the point you make is why I'd encourage him to go. Look, unless you're going to MIT, I'd say stay away from tech schools all together and find a well balanced school that offers a decent program in computer science, CIS, telecom, whatever. I made the mistake of going to a tech school where they give you chump work for academics, arts, etc just to pass you by and intentionally do not challenge you in these realms.
We're talking about guys who are lucky they've ever had a girlfriend that wasn't online. Guys that couldn't talk to you about anything in the world other than technology, and were extremely masturbatory in their approaches to coming up with solutions for various assignments, projects, etc. In short, the kids only saw one thing, technology/code. That's it. I've found that you show me a person who knows his shit in technology, but also has a bit of a well rounded education on top of that focus, and he/she will generally be more innovative and more productive individual.
The work force isn't all about how much crap you know either. It's bureaucracy, it's politics, it's social skills. And hanging around a majority of people, and taking courses with people who's closest thing to a girlfriend is their hairy palms, or some avatar in Second Life or WoW, who can't for the life of them understand the simplest of pieces of art, who know jack shit about history, politics, psychology, relationships, parents, friendship, you name it, simply isn't healthy IMO.
Keep your focus, but learn to branch out and be in an environment that allows you to branch out.
Lock them down and scold them for doing crap to the network and machines outside of the set parameters they were given. I'm sorry but people create too many problems once you open the floodgates to just say it's a-ok for these people do to this. They generally have no idea how things are setup, they may be a "power user" and have a good working knowledge of some systems/applications, but when they screw something up, then they have to call the IT department to fix something they may or may not know how to fix, all over an issue that shouldn't have been one to begin with. And lets not forget about the fact if you give non-IT, peon, workers more rights/privledges in the infrastructure on their machines, the ones who know nothing at all about technology but are on the same level as the super-user in their department, they will feel slighted and demand the same access too. What are you going to do? Discriminate and tell them no b/c "you don't know what you're doing".
No corporation is evil or good. It's just a matter of how much harm they do or do not inflict of the path to their goal, intentionally or not (which they should be held liable for). Now, there's individuals in companies that can be evil. But a corporation isn't a person. It's neutral.
There are a good number of web designers and marketers and digital artists and so forth. But I honestly do not believe they are as many that NEED the full functionality of photoshop that people claim. Most things can be done on gimp and some amazing work has been done with gimp, inkscape and a number of applications. I do believe there are some that need photoshop to do what they need to do, others.. are just people who pirated the software and used it because it's popular and submit crap to Photoshop Friday's over at Something Awful or threads at fark or your site of choice and rare do anything they NEED to do with it anyways.
I'm glad google did this for those that need it, but most of the online pirates who like adding captions to lolcat pictures should just suck it up and use free software.
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If you work for a fortune 500, best of lucky trying. Most of them are so entrenched with deals with major software vendors (MS, Norton, etc) that they'll go to extreme lengths to help out their buddies. I've seen everything from not allowing Mac's on the property to threaten people's jobs b/c they make a blog on their personal time with their personal resources, off the clock that may say something negative about Microsoft or some other company.
Software patents = fail. If the Dish copied some copyrighted code or something, fine. Sue them. But they didn't. They infringed on an idea. Whoopee shit.
I run Windows in VirtualBox at work just fine along side of Fluxbox/Debian specifically for this reason. It works beautifully. I will be looking for a lighter VM in the near future though.
If you haven't exactly noticed, unless you live in an urban area, biking to work is almost near impossible, and where you work depending on job stability is subject to change, and sometimes that solid income means a 20-40 min (sometimes more) commute in a car. As for mass transit, very few urban cities in America has great mass transit that other nations enjoy for a multitude of reasons; influence of the automotive industry. sheer land mass, and geographical barriers. Even the smaller ones that have decent bus systems are usually extremely limited to how far out into the suburban limits they go (ya know, where most people live). And what about rural folk, who lived in mining towns or factory towns or farming communities and they don't have the money to just up and move because when the factories/farms/mines closed down their property values dropped and they wouldn't be able to afford a home elsewhere. Yes, they too much drive a considerable distance to work. In fact, they drive a considerable distance for a lot of things. Get off your jazzercising-in-the-city-street high horse. Why is it urban environmental "coffee shop revolutionaries" are always up on their pedestal? If critical-mass loving douche bags would quit being arm chair philosophers and political commentators, i'd get a lot better sleep at night.
Actually, I prefer Adblock over Adblock Plus. Adblock Plus reduces the performance of Firefox, Adblock does not. And it really doesn't matter which one you use, what matters is your adblocking list. You can use Adblock Filterset.G Updater for both adblock and adblock plus and the list stays up to date and both extensions remain equally as effective, except the performance loss that you get with Plus.
i'd really like to know what browser version, what extentions/add-ons if any, and what version of flash people are using. I'm seeing flash complaints everywhere, yet I've had zero problems with Gentoo, Suse and Ubuntu (all the latest and greatest), FF3.0, and Flash 9.
I know why I don't own one. Of course it's the standard reasons so far, I'd need a better tv. Still the price for bluray is too high currently. And thirdly yet most importantly, I can't do what I want with the discs because of their crappy DRM. Until I can burn bluray quality movies onto the discs, until I can backup those discs, on a Linux system, I'll never by it. That all being said, I feel we're going to a discless society anyways. My cd-player in my car has a usb port on the front, i just transfer music to an mp3 player or a usb flash drive and plug that sucker in there. For mobile stuff, mp3/ogg/wma player (I would say "iPod",but I don't like corporate terms to refer to generic devices). And then at home, I have a Mythdora media center hooked up to my stereo reciever and tv. I stopped burning/ripping dvds and just play straight out what I've downloaded. I have a stack of cds and dvds i barely use anymore, other than to burn software to boot a computer with.
yeah, just TRY to get new features into Debian. Debian grows at a snail's pace and it's not because of a lack of devs.
Hmmm... considering many of people's tax dollars in many nations went to it's invention (be it the US military, Russia's military, CERN, etc.. ) and considering the tremendous amounts in subsidy telecom companies recieve from many nations... it's the people's IMO.
and if you give up your freedom for safety/security, then you're protecting nothing.
with the rate of growth of Redhat in the datacenter, I'd throw them up there with Google and Apple too.
oh, their minds have been lost for some time now. Just not on this issue. I love how they can spend time pissing off users over the insert text size mod, and how they waste Google Summer of Code on projects like Myspace integration and finch, but still can't implement jingle properly.
Tell me about it: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/02/2351231
A terrorist attack would imply one of two things. A) Someone got harmed or B) Terror was instilled in a mass population due to the threat of being harmed. Other than creating some headaches over at comcast for a few hours, no one was harmed. Get a grip on reality.
I wouldn't call bullshit on any company that is publicly traded. The public company, with shareholders, is designed to do nothing BUT generate large sustainable amounts of income. It doesn't have political opinions, or feelings. It's a company. Yes, yes yes companies are made of people. But the people who run them are under tremendous stress and pressure, not to do the right thing, but to do the profitable thing, and if they can't, the board's generally have no problem letting them go and finding someone who can. It's not about your frilly little feelings. It's about the survival and growth of the company. And it is sad, b/c only the shareholders benefit, rather than the stakeholders (low level employee's, consumers, environment, etc)
The pidgin developers can go to hell. They have not addressed, and in some cases, flat out refuse to address various security concerns (like plain text passwords stored on the local disc for instance). They promise things like solid implementation of Google's Jingle, webcam and audio support (not that i use it) and sit on it. Every version that comes out it's just like they did a few bug fixes, changed the UI around again and again and again, integrate MySpace (like anyone gives a shit) via Google's SOC.. and that's about it. They're worthless.
I don't really care what the KDE developers state, but the way they have gone about releasing and hyping KDE 4.x.x is stupid. They built and built and built the hype for the 4.0 milestone, even though they were screaming it wasn't perfect. But the hype outshone the voices of caution. Now everyone was waiting for some stability in 4.1, and we're not going to get it then either, again, after hyping 4.1 will be usable. By the time the 4.x version is usable no one will give a crap about it. I, personally, was looking forward to 4.x series to be usable but it doesn't look like that'll happen for a year or so and I'll keep my happy ass right at 3.x until then.
Lotus Notes carries an extremely negative weight to it. I don't care if their suite was amazing, I couldn't imagine trying to convince a manager to go the Lotus route, simply based on problems IT departments have had in the past with it.
The structure in which a corporation was designed by various court decisions, is what makes it psychopathic and sociopathic in nature. If regulations and punishments were setup to not make the "evil" decisions economically profitable you'd see a whole new world in how they'd behave, at least in said country where these magic laws were made. But fat chance of seeing that happen.
Reaganomics is a sham, it's a complete falsehood that spending went down under his administration. Military GDP skyrocketed under him, battles (not wars) were fought under him that were completely pointless other than to use the military as international corporate police, in South America, in Latin America and in the Middle East.
You can say all you want he cut spending, but he created the Federal Department of Education which wastes billions and destroys the already great state school systems we have with these top down policies, dangling federal money over states to do their bidding with standardized testing. And while I consider this a good thing, he pumped a ton of money into NASA as well.
But conservatives like to think he cut money b/c he cut it from the people they don't like, the poor, the blacks, AIDs research, the arts, the environment, etc.. and gave tax breaks and money to those they do like, like corporations, nuclear arsenals, battles against "communism", the rich, straight, and WASPy mother fuckers.
So screw him, I'm glad he's dead.
where people have labeled you funny, you make a good point. But the point you make is why I'd encourage him to go. Look, unless you're going to MIT, I'd say stay away from tech schools all together and find a well balanced school that offers a decent program in computer science, CIS, telecom, whatever. I made the mistake of going to a tech school where they give you chump work for academics, arts, etc just to pass you by and intentionally do not challenge you in these realms.
We're talking about guys who are lucky they've ever had a girlfriend that wasn't online. Guys that couldn't talk to you about anything in the world other than technology, and were extremely masturbatory in their approaches to coming up with solutions for various assignments, projects, etc. In short, the kids only saw one thing, technology/code. That's it. I've found that you show me a person who knows his shit in technology, but also has a bit of a well rounded education on top of that focus, and he/she will generally be more innovative and more productive individual.
The work force isn't all about how much crap you know either. It's bureaucracy, it's politics, it's social skills. And hanging around a majority of people, and taking courses with people who's closest thing to a girlfriend is their hairy palms, or some avatar in Second Life or WoW, who can't for the life of them understand the simplest of pieces of art, who know jack shit about history, politics, psychology, relationships, parents, friendship, you name it, simply isn't healthy IMO.
Keep your focus, but learn to branch out and be in an environment that allows you to branch out.
Lock them down and scold them for doing crap to the network and machines outside of the set parameters they were given. I'm sorry but people create too many problems once you open the floodgates to just say it's a-ok for these people do to this. They generally have no idea how things are setup, they may be a "power user" and have a good working knowledge of some systems/applications, but when they screw something up, then they have to call the IT department to fix something they may or may not know how to fix, all over an issue that shouldn't have been one to begin with. And lets not forget about the fact if you give non-IT, peon, workers more rights/privledges in the infrastructure on their machines, the ones who know nothing at all about technology but are on the same level as the super-user in their department, they will feel slighted and demand the same access too. What are you going to do? Discriminate and tell them no b/c "you don't know what you're doing".
No corporation is evil or good. It's just a matter of how much harm they do or do not inflict of the path to their goal, intentionally or not (which they should be held liable for). Now, there's individuals in companies that can be evil. But a corporation isn't a person. It's neutral.
There are a good number of web designers and marketers and digital artists and so forth. But I honestly do not believe they are as many that NEED the full functionality of photoshop that people claim. Most things can be done on gimp and some amazing work has been done with gimp, inkscape and a number of applications. I do believe there are some that need photoshop to do what they need to do, others.. are just people who pirated the software and used it because it's popular and submit crap to Photoshop Friday's over at Something Awful or threads at fark or your site of choice and rare do anything they NEED to do with it anyways. I'm glad google did this for those that need it, but most of the online pirates who like adding captions to lolcat pictures should just suck it up and use free software.