True Mate.
I bought Acer Travelmate laptop about one and half year ago with prize money that I won in one of the open source programming scholarship ( I was an engineering student those days and in India I paid around 50,000 rupees or around 1200 dollors ). It was such an awful thing, I had to take it to their service center regularly ( rest of the gripping story can be read here ).
About 4 to 5 months ago it died. Their service was worst and laptop was one odd junk ( so much for my first laptop ). Just avoid Acer laptops please.
"because viewers are more likely to watch these clips than myriad user-generated ones, advertisers are willing to pay more for them"
Thats a a load of bullshit. If YouTube does that, it isn't YouTube anymore. remember,"broadcast yourself". Whoever this analyst is, either he is paid by those studios or doesn't understand the point of YouTube. Its FUD against YouTube, which is a excellent thing in itself(YouTube not the FUD),whether you like it or not.
I don't know from where all those statistcs people pull that, YouTube is mainly driven by content from those big fucking studios.I for one, disagree with that. I visit lots of technical blogs everyday and I see lots of YouTube links sticking out there and guess what most of those videos are either user generated or some other arcane stuff.
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"If your building a small project, the model-view-controller thing can get really annoying, with the needing of 3 files for a single web page thing"
Yes for a single Web Page thing, you don't need rails, but for a single Web Page thing, you probably don't need PHP either. You probably need just HTML. Or is it that, "single Web Page thing" you are talking about is not single at all. Well then...
"Because it's not compiled, it seems like it's not a good idea for really large projects either."
Which Web Programming language gives you truly compiled output? Ok, even if you meant compilation to bytecode or I would indulge myself and presume your "large project" needs compliation to machine language, then also, except you, who said interpreted languages can't suit for large Web Projects? Do you know about WikiPedia or Yahoo Finance or Amazon and what powers them?( not by beloved compiled languages ).
Even though basecamp is comparatively new, but given their impressive user base, I would call them large.. of course you have your options.
Dear friend, scale doesn't comes merely from programming language you chose. It comes from, how good you are in that language, how better platforms and infrastructure you can build around the chosen language and most of the mainstream language would fit the bill provided you really know what you are doing.
Now, rails is being used for making small CMS apps like(Typo,mephisto) to large scale apps like basecamp,shopify and quite few i know which are still under development. Don't get bogged down by this MVC thing, but you i guess you do not know what you are talking and of course now a days kids have started moderating slashdot.
"The basic argument is that with $100 you could almost feed a village for a year"
Ok I am from India so $100 = 4500 Rs, now I would be really delighted to learn how one can feed a village for a year with that much of money. No,I really would like to know...considering the fact that villages in developing countries are genrally big( I can speak for India here, I spend half of my childhood in the most backward region of India,:) )
I really appreciate intelligence of Mr.John C. Dvorak, but wait...
"Second of all, you obviously have never worked in a large enterprise. In large enterprises, they pay millions of dollars for critical applications. The last thing a large enterprise would want to depend on is some teenager providing free support on an IRC channel."
And you have obviously never worked with a open source project. I don't know about other IRC channels, but i [used to] hang out on, #ruby-lang , #mono. Guess what, my questions/doubts are answered by none other than people like miguel, Charles O' Nutter, David Black....and I can go on. Even if some college kid knows more about whatever open source enterprisy thingy you got, and you don't have a clue..how to use it and he helps you out..then you should be thankful. Learn to have some respect for intelligence, age doesn't matter sir.
The other day...I was reading, how to switch caps and control keys in Mac, written by this moron called Steve Yegge.At least, he also had the sense to tell that, its not so easy after all in Mac, compared to GNU/Linux.
You are a short sighted fool...who should start living with dinosaurs. You say, you used Vi,Emacs both...so i will wager you don't know either of them.
I code in Ruby on Linux and that too through putty...and Emacs rocks there. Tell me which IDE shall i start using for this?
To certain extent I agree, if you code in Java or C#, then you may be well off using Eclipse or Monodevelop. But there are whole load of languages there and hence we have Vi or Emacs.
+5 Insightful for a half assed response, already pointed by Charles O Nutter(on ruby-talk), this is not directly in response to Microsoft's IronPython, the talks were going on for quite sometime. As i said earlier, this is just a effort to bring a language ecosystem around their VMs/JIT compilers. Its for sure gonna kill all those interpretor authors in the long run(*if JRuby/IronPython succeeds in the long run*)
Now, some hot headed open source evangelist may point that, OSS is all about choice and hence even if JRuby succeeds on the cost of C Ruby, matz will continue his effort. Yes probably, he will but fame is a big thing. Do you thing, Linus would have continued with Linux for soo long, if it would have been used by few uber geeks.
Personally, I would like to see C Ruby succeed and beat the hell outta all those bastards, who are trying to hijack ruby.Besides, Matz is a excellent language designer...one of the best. If JRuby succeeds, then all he has to do is churn out language specifications...and let folks implement them. A scary thought if you ask me.But of course, none of this is gonna happen..since C Ruby has the upper hand.
People started speculating , this might be in response of Microsoft throwing weight behind Python, though I am not in that camp....but it would be interesting to see that how these interpreted languages will perform when hijacked by these JIT compilers( or whatever these sun guys tell you about their shiny bytecode stuff.)
I have seen JRuby code and the effort to use Java libraries from Ruby and it was plain scary, I would rather do pure Java. And support for rails is "miles before you and me can do some real code". According to Tom(one of the authors of Jruby):
"It should be stated clearly here, that the JRuby this is running on is
not released code yet. In fact, our next release 0.9.0 will not quite be
running this application out of the box"
So, we have a tight case there. Besides Matz is also working on Ruby2.0, which will have VM execution kind of stuff. So, though you may celebrate if you want, I would rather like to have C Ruby for my breakfast. There are two major problems of Ruby:
1. Slow (yes its slow and stylish)
2. GUI programming
And guess, what Jruby is not going to bring anything better on the table on these two fronts. With Introduction of IronPython, you can do GUI programming on Windows happily and PyGtk was there as shining example of one of the finest GTK bindings ever produced. Whereas, if you want to do, GUI programming with Ruby, how many REALLY good choices do we have? Though this might be humble opinion, but I have hated GTK for gui stuff, it sucks. Qt and Windows Forms are much better. Java applets suck even more.
I can't agree more. You remember following lines from "In bloom - Nevermind"
He is the one, he likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along,
And he likes to shoot his gun,
but he knows not what it means,he knows not what it means.
I dont want to offend anyone, but please don't take all the artists as money minded folks.Though, honestly as a student(In India), I was introduced to Rock music through mostly downloaded stuff and didn't care about integrity of a album and all.
But today, when i listen to albums like "Ok Computer" or "Nevermind" or "Dark side of the moon", i am really moved by the integrity of the stuff these artists made.Kurt was pissed off, when "Smells like teen spirit", became so popular and songs like "drain you" didn't make the cut.In todays i(apple)Tuned world...i bet tracks like "polly" or "drain you" would go unnoticed by the hoopla, "Smells like teen spirit" will make.
It would be like your two hands fighting each other.When you buy a album, you would eventually listen to all the tracks, even though you bought it for one of those famous tracks.But iTunes kills other stuff. My favourite track for example on "X & Y" album is, "White shadows", and will anyone give me sales comparison of "speed of sound" with "White Shadows".I have never seen, this track being played on VH1, even once( With the catch that, I watch Television a little less than often).
So, how much chance, "White Shadows" have, in the world of iTunes.And who decides, which song is good and worth making a video( and hence gets playback on video channels).I really dont know about inner working of Western Music industry, but i guess it is mostly, labels or the album producers. And its historic that, how these managment people can be dumb and insensitive towards music. Remember the cover art of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AxisHendrix.jpg.
But i agree to the point that, it could be a good avenue for new bands to sell their music.
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/7/ruby-on-rai ls-will-ship-with-os-x-10-5-leopard
"The love for Ruby has definitely spread inside Apple and we've been thrilled to see the level of interest they've taken to get OS X to be a premiere development and deployment platform for Rails."
So what happened to a rather fruitful discussion, we had with Steve jobs.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172223&c id=14341270
Yeah, I know you may still argue like James Golsings that Ruby is alright for generating web pages(mind you *generating*, doesn't it shows the contempt/disregard on the part of James Goslings for Web Developers?).But still shipping a framework is too much.Even none of the flavours of GNU/Linux has done it.But i guess, Apple will eat its own humble pie, when it sees a business sense. Ruby on Rails + Textmate and the push by Rails core team, has created new OS X users.So, lets cash on it.There is nothing called "love for Ruby", as put up by, this guy on the Rails blog.If there is a love, why don't they help in writting Ruby bindings for Cocoa??
I am 101% sure, if tomorrow, there is a "Rails" for GUI development. http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2006/Aug-02.html, Apple will again eat its own humble pie(or cow dung, depending upong your GeoIP), and will ship it with OS X.
But i am not interested, I am from India and will cost me a arm and a leg to lay hand on this half baked open sorsed(actually not open at all, if you call Mac open, then Windows is open too!!, but the way Mac zealots project Apple as less evil is funny.I remember, Galadariel talking to Frodo, "if you give me the ring frodo, then you will have a queen in place of dark lord Sauron.And she will be fair, white and terrible to behold." Ahh..there is go again, may not be the exact words, but that is beside the point. I just have this point that, Apple doesn't seem evil as long as M$ is there, but there it gains the ruling ring(the monopoly), it will be one for sure.) product.I am happy with Ubuntu.
Thank you very much for your open kernel.(I am bothered to read your license also)
How would rate hardware support in Fedora vis-a-vis Ubuntu or Suse?
I found it lacking in comparison.Being a old Linux user, of sourse I would have compiled kernel and would have got my display and hard disk working(which is a i915GM and Sata disk).But sadly I am no longer the young guy, who would spend days just compiling kernel.
I have been, a big Redhat devotee since Redhat linux 7.0. But today, I find myself using Ubuntu on my notebook and on my desktop I am thinking of putting SLED 10.
While rest of the Linux distros are, scrambling for some innovation in package managment, how is Redhat moving? Yum sucks, doesn't it?
who is "Curt Kobain?"
and Kurt Cobain, did shot himself, but that is beside the point.The post is tagged with troll,fud so at least, some saving grace.
it needs kurt cobains song:
"hello how low? how low, how low?"
yes...how low slashdot will sink.This comment is not on the post or the article.They don't deserve it.But what abt, slashdot editors?
Yes, real format is falling out of niche, and but i really don't like bundled stuff like that. For godsake, if i want real, let me have it, why ff should tag along.I already have it on system.But i guess, they will give option to choose the install type, without ff or with ff. If they don't give this option, then it would be really bad.
And all this shit will eventually help, turning out all those folks who are passionate about firefox. And it would certainly piss some people off. I already hate, when with Adobe reader Yahoo toolbars come bundled.
yuck, linuxforums has a bunch of morons running the show, last time i checked too many restrictions were there.
On the other hand, http://forums.gentoo.org/ are a charm.Hats off, free as in freedom and you can really ask all advanced questions. I work on a variety of distros, Ubuntu,Suse and Gentoo, but when in doubt always goto Gentoo forums.
Just a warning, most often you need not tell them, that you are actually not running Gentoo.
For those of us, who want to be more productive or rather expressive, can try ruby bindings:
http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ruby/in dex.html
Its still doesn't works on M$ Windows(and if you managed to compile it on Windowz, then kindly send me howto?), but is a joy to develop on Linux.Just don't forget to throw in http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinline/ , when you want to do something that really takes CPU cycles and memory.
I can't really see the point of Java(yuck) bindings.Though people at KDE camp were happy, finally they can have fully functional java plugin for konqueror. bless them.
I am no American or even for that matter European, so I dont have any specifc case where the service was poor.But what you guys report is sporadic instances.Companies like GECIS and Daksh are doing pretty good job, or else why did IBM aquire daksh and the acquisition took place recently only? But all the companies including these BPOs once in a while do the analysis, do we really want this customer? Read latest edition of HBR for example.
Now that BPO market in India is getting matured, companies are not ready to bend down for any customer.This happens in all the businesses.Doesn't it? I really welcome this trend.It will allow these companies to focus better and deliver quality service.
Attrition has been always a big problem for call centers.Most of the employees are young guys, who took the job as a stop over measure.They will move on, once they get better oppurtunities.But this is almost true for IT companies also.If you guys argue that, outsourcing never really saved the money for companies or government should have 'controlled it'.For, first I would say, how many of you are heads of organisations doing outsourcing? Now..dont start cooking stories.Give me cold hard facts.It worked for IBM,GE,DELL,HP and thousand other companies, but it may not work for every company.Those who follow copy cat business strategies are always doomed to bite the bullet at some point of time.
And for the second, ah - it is almost sick to argue that govts should have controlled outsourcing.Then may be Indians should start boycotting goods made by western companies too. What will happen to yours truly Nokia,IBM , who are making big bucks there.It is naive to say that, govt should have controlled it.May be then we should all go back to totalitarean days of communism.Make up your mind, you want India to be your market and at the same time you don't want your jobs to to India.You can't have cake and eat it too.
Yeah there ain't any point in jumping the gun.People would need SSH access and hence can probably probe into google's infrastructure a little more. google would allow that?
Why no project page hosting? i mean, just host the files and f**k off, is it? People would need project page hosting.
Also, google is a huge beast.What if they started stealing ideas and implement them in house, without ofcourse releasing to public ever.Oh no really i am serious, lets say, one guys starts some cool opensource project and google spots it and hijacks it?
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True Mate. I bought Acer Travelmate laptop about one and half year ago with prize money that I won in one of the open source programming scholarship ( I was an engineering student those days and in India I paid around 50,000 rupees or around 1200 dollors ). It was such an awful thing, I had to take it to their service center regularly ( rest of the gripping story can be read here ). About 4 to 5 months ago it died. Their service was worst and laptop was one odd junk ( so much for my first laptop ). Just avoid Acer laptops please.
Somebody already pointed out, YouTube is in fact, not the right tool to watch movies and series online. it would suck, that way anyways.
"because viewers are more likely to watch these clips than myriad user-generated ones, advertisers are willing to pay more for them"
Thats a a load of bullshit. If YouTube does that, it isn't YouTube anymore. remember,"broadcast yourself". Whoever this analyst is, either he is paid by those studios or doesn't understand the point of YouTube. Its FUD against YouTube, which is a excellent thing in itself(YouTube not the FUD),whether you like it or not.
I don't know from where all those statistcs people pull that, YouTube is mainly driven by content from those big fucking studios.I for one, disagree with that. I visit lots of technical blogs everyday and I see lots of YouTube links sticking out there and guess what most of those videos are either user generated or some other arcane stuff.
"If your building a small project, the model-view-controller thing can get really annoying, with the needing of 3 files for a single web page thing"
Yes for a single Web Page thing, you don't need rails, but for a single Web Page thing, you probably don't need PHP either. You probably need just HTML. Or is it that, "single Web Page thing" you are talking about is not single at all. Well then... "Because it's not compiled, it seems like it's not a good idea for really large projects either."
Which Web Programming language gives you truly compiled output? Ok, even if you meant compilation to bytecode or I would indulge myself and presume your "large project" needs compliation to machine language, then also, except you, who said interpreted languages can't suit for large Web Projects? Do you know about WikiPedia or Yahoo Finance or Amazon and what powers them?( not by beloved compiled languages ).
Even though basecamp is comparatively new, but given their impressive user base, I would call them large.. of course you have your options.
Dear friend, scale doesn't comes merely from programming language you chose. It comes from, how good you are in that language, how better platforms and infrastructure you can build around the chosen language and most of the mainstream language would fit the bill provided you really know what you are doing.
Now, rails is being used for making small CMS apps like(Typo,mephisto) to large scale apps like basecamp,shopify and quite few i know which are still under development. Don't get bogged down by this MVC thing, but you i guess you do not know what you are talking and of course now a days kids have started moderating slashdot.
"The basic argument is that with $100 you could almost feed a village for a year"
:) )
Ok I am from India so $100 = 4500 Rs, now I would be really delighted to learn how one can feed a village for a year with that much of money. No,I really would like to know...considering the fact that villages in developing countries are genrally big( I can speak for India here, I spend half of my childhood in the most backward region of India,
I really appreciate intelligence of Mr.John C. Dvorak, but wait...
"Second of all, you obviously have never worked in a large enterprise. In large enterprises, they pay millions of dollars for critical applications. The last thing a large enterprise would want to depend on is some teenager providing free support on an IRC channel." And you have obviously never worked with a open source project. I don't know about other IRC channels, but i [used to] hang out on, #ruby-lang , #mono. Guess what, my questions/doubts are answered by none other than people like miguel, Charles O' Nutter, David Black....and I can go on. Even if some college kid knows more about whatever open source enterprisy thingy you got, and you don't have a clue..how to use it and he helps you out..then you should be thankful. Learn to have some respect for intelligence, age doesn't matter sir.
The other day...I was reading, how to switch caps and control keys in Mac, written by this moron called Steve Yegge.At least, he also had the sense to tell that, its not so easy after all in Mac, compared to GNU/Linux.
With Asterix
You are a short sighted fool...who should start living with dinosaurs. You say, you used Vi,Emacs both...so i will wager you don't know either of them. I code in Ruby on Linux and that too through putty...and Emacs rocks there. Tell me which IDE shall i start using for this? To certain extent I agree, if you code in Java or C#, then you may be well off using Eclipse or Monodevelop. But there are whole load of languages there and hence we have Vi or Emacs.
+5 Insightful for a half assed response, already pointed by Charles O Nutter(on ruby-talk), this is not directly in response to Microsoft's IronPython, the talks were going on for quite sometime. As i said earlier, this is just a effort to bring a language ecosystem around their VMs/JIT compilers. Its for sure gonna kill all those interpretor authors in the long run(*if JRuby/IronPython succeeds in the long run*)
Now, some hot headed open source evangelist may point that, OSS is all about choice and hence even if JRuby succeeds on the cost of C Ruby, matz will continue his effort. Yes probably, he will but fame is a big thing. Do you thing, Linus would have continued with Linux for soo long, if it would have been used by few uber geeks.
Personally, I would like to see C Ruby succeed and beat the hell outta all those bastards, who are trying to hijack ruby.Besides, Matz is a excellent language designer...one of the best. If JRuby succeeds, then all he has to do is churn out language specifications...and let folks implement them. A scary thought if you ask me.But of course, none of this is gonna happen..since C Ruby has the upper hand.
People started speculating , this might be in response of Microsoft throwing weight behind Python, though I am not in that camp....but it would be interesting to see that how these interpreted languages will perform when hijacked by these JIT compilers( or whatever these sun guys tell you about their shiny bytecode stuff.)
I have seen JRuby code and the effort to use Java libraries from Ruby and it was plain scary, I would rather do pure Java. And support for rails is "miles before you and me can do some real code". According to Tom(one of the authors of Jruby):
"It should be stated clearly here, that the JRuby this is running on is not released code yet. In fact, our next release 0.9.0 will not quite be running this application out of the box"
So, we have a tight case there. Besides Matz is also working on Ruby2.0, which will have VM execution kind of stuff. So, though you may celebrate if you want, I would rather like to have C Ruby for my breakfast. There are two major problems of Ruby:
1. Slow (yes its slow and stylish)
2. GUI programming
And guess, what Jruby is not going to bring anything better on the table on these two fronts. With Introduction of IronPython, you can do GUI programming on Windows happily and PyGtk was there as shining example of one of the finest GTK bindings ever produced. Whereas, if you want to do, GUI programming with Ruby, how many REALLY good choices do we have? Though this might be humble opinion, but I have hated GTK for gui stuff, it sucks. Qt and Windows Forms are much better. Java applets suck even more.
I think its more of the other way round...no free Linux distro would include those drivers by choice.
I can't agree more. You remember following lines from "In bloom - Nevermind" He is the one, he likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along, And he likes to shoot his gun, but he knows not what it means,he knows not what it means. I dont want to offend anyone, but please don't take all the artists as money minded folks.Though, honestly as a student(In India), I was introduced to Rock music through mostly downloaded stuff and didn't care about integrity of a album and all. But today, when i listen to albums like "Ok Computer" or "Nevermind" or "Dark side of the moon", i am really moved by the integrity of the stuff these artists made.Kurt was pissed off, when "Smells like teen spirit", became so popular and songs like "drain you" didn't make the cut.In todays i(apple)Tuned world...i bet tracks like "polly" or "drain you" would go unnoticed by the hoopla, "Smells like teen spirit" will make.
g .
It would be like your two hands fighting each other.When you buy a album, you would eventually listen to all the tracks, even though you bought it for one of those famous tracks.But iTunes kills other stuff. My favourite track for example on "X & Y" album is, "White shadows", and will anyone give me sales comparison of "speed of sound" with "White Shadows".I have never seen, this track being played on VH1, even once( With the catch that, I watch Television a little less than often).
So, how much chance, "White Shadows" have, in the world of iTunes.And who decides, which song is good and worth making a video( and hence gets playback on video channels).I really dont know about inner working of Western Music industry, but i guess it is mostly, labels or the album producers. And its historic that, how these managment people can be dumb and insensitive towards music. Remember the cover art of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AxisHendrix.jp
But i agree to the point that, it could be a good avenue for new bands to sell their music.
Oh really sir,
So, I will shut the fuck up, if apple did contribute to Ruby bindings for Cocoa.
Ubuntu repositories also have Opera9 and lots of non-free stuff. So, will you say, Ubuntu comes bundled with Opera?
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/7/ruby-on-rai ls-will-ship-with-os-x-10-5-leopard
"The love for Ruby has definitely spread inside Apple and we've been thrilled to see the level of interest they've taken to get OS X to be a premiere development and deployment platform for Rails."
So what happened to a rather fruitful discussion, we had with Steve jobs.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172223&c id=14341270
Yeah, I know you may still argue like James Golsings that Ruby is alright for generating web pages(mind you *generating*, doesn't it shows the contempt/disregard on the part of James Goslings for Web Developers?).But still shipping a framework is too much.Even none of the flavours of GNU/Linux has done it.But i guess, Apple will eat its own humble pie, when it sees a business sense. Ruby on Rails + Textmate and the push by Rails core team, has created new OS X users.So, lets cash on it.There is nothing called "love for Ruby", as put up by, this guy on the Rails blog.If there is a love, why don't they help in writting Ruby bindings for Cocoa??
I am 101% sure, if tomorrow, there is a "Rails" for GUI development. http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2006/Aug-02.html, Apple will again eat its own humble pie(or cow dung, depending upong your GeoIP), and will ship it with OS X.
But i am not interested, I am from India and will cost me a arm and a leg to lay hand on this half baked open sorsed(actually not open at all, if you call Mac open, then Windows is open too!!, but the way Mac zealots project Apple as less evil is funny.I remember, Galadariel talking to Frodo, "if you give me the ring frodo, then you will have a queen in place of dark lord Sauron.And she will be fair, white and terrible to behold." Ahh..there is go again, may not be the exact words, but that is beside the point. I just have this point that, Apple doesn't seem evil as long as M$ is there, but there it gains the ruling ring(the monopoly), it will be one for sure.) product.I am happy with Ubuntu.
Thank you very much for your open kernel.(I am bothered to read your license also)
How would rate hardware support in Fedora vis-a-vis Ubuntu or Suse? I found it lacking in comparison.Being a old Linux user, of sourse I would have compiled kernel and would have got my display and hard disk working(which is a i915GM and Sata disk).But sadly I am no longer the young guy, who would spend days just compiling kernel. I have been, a big Redhat devotee since Redhat linux 7.0. But today, I find myself using Ubuntu on my notebook and on my desktop I am thinking of putting SLED 10. While rest of the Linux distros are, scrambling for some innovation in package managment, how is Redhat moving? Yum sucks, doesn't it?
who is "Curt Kobain?" and Kurt Cobain, did shot himself, but that is beside the point.The post is tagged with troll,fud so at least, some saving grace.
it needs kurt cobains song: "hello how low? how low, how low?" yes...how low slashdot will sink.This comment is not on the post or the article.They don't deserve it.But what abt, slashdot editors?
Yes, real format is falling out of niche, and but i really don't like bundled stuff like that. For godsake, if i want real, let me have it, why ff should tag along.I already have it on system.But i guess, they will give option to choose the install type, without ff or with ff. If they don't give this option, then it would be really bad. And all this shit will eventually help, turning out all those folks who are passionate about firefox. And it would certainly piss some people off. I already hate, when with Adobe reader Yahoo toolbars come bundled.
yuck, linuxforums has a bunch of morons running the show, last time i checked too many restrictions were there. On the other hand, http://forums.gentoo.org/ are a charm.Hats off, free as in freedom and you can really ask all advanced questions. I work on a variety of distros, Ubuntu,Suse and Gentoo, but when in doubt always goto Gentoo forums. Just a warning, most often you need not tell them, that you are actually not running Gentoo.
For those of us, who want to be more productive or rather expressive, can try ruby bindings: http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ruby/in dex.html
Its still doesn't works on M$ Windows(and if you managed to compile it on Windowz, then kindly send me howto?), but is a joy to develop on Linux.Just don't forget to throw in http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinline/ , when you want to do something that really takes CPU cycles and memory.
I can't really see the point of Java(yuck) bindings.Though people at KDE camp were happy, finally they can have fully functional java plugin for konqueror. bless them.
yes please answer me.
I am no American or even for that matter European, so I dont have any specifc case where the service was poor.But what you guys report is sporadic instances.Companies like GECIS and Daksh are doing pretty good job, or else why did IBM aquire daksh and the acquisition took place recently only? But all the companies including these BPOs once in a while do the analysis, do we really want this customer? Read latest edition of HBR for example. Now that BPO market in India is getting matured, companies are not ready to bend down for any customer.This happens in all the businesses.Doesn't it? I really welcome this trend.It will allow these companies to focus better and deliver quality service. Attrition has been always a big problem for call centers.Most of the employees are young guys, who took the job as a stop over measure.They will move on, once they get better oppurtunities.But this is almost true for IT companies also.If you guys argue that, outsourcing never really saved the money for companies or government should have 'controlled it'.For, first I would say, how many of you are heads of organisations doing outsourcing? Now..dont start cooking stories.Give me cold hard facts.It worked for IBM,GE,DELL,HP and thousand other companies, but it may not work for every company.Those who follow copy cat business strategies are always doomed to bite the bullet at some point of time. And for the second, ah - it is almost sick to argue that govts should have controlled outsourcing.Then may be Indians should start boycotting goods made by western companies too. What will happen to yours truly Nokia,IBM , who are making big bucks there.It is naive to say that, govt should have controlled it.May be then we should all go back to totalitarean days of communism.Make up your mind, you want India to be your market and at the same time you don't want your jobs to to India.You can't have cake and eat it too.
Yeah there ain't any point in jumping the gun.People would need SSH access and hence can probably probe into google's infrastructure a little more. google would allow that? Why no project page hosting? i mean, just host the files and f**k off, is it? People would need project page hosting. Also, google is a huge beast.What if they started stealing ideas and implement them in house, without ofcourse releasing to public ever.Oh no really i am serious, lets say, one guys starts some cool opensource project and google spots it and hijacks it?