Boy, I better think twice before asking people to open the door. Somebody might think I'm asking them to break it into pieces and distribute it to the neighbors.
By being unnecessarily obvious, and bloated mostly with a lot of useless information, it is trying to hog the reader's memory, the way processes might hog the system's. Thus, once the reader learns how to filter out the irrelevant and obvious stuff from the article, he can proceed to do the same to their Linux installation, reducing the memory requirement.
this is pure laziness by the story poster. I don't come to slashdot to read 286 page documents, the whole purpose of a news site is to give me news, and then link to the complete document.
Anyway, for the benefit of others, I shall attempt to quote relevant sentences from the conclusion.
Our findings show that, in almost all the cases, a transition toward open source reports
of savings on the long term costs of ownership of the software products.
Costs to migrate to an open solution are relevant and an organization needs to
consider an extra effort for this. However these costs are temporary and manly are budgeted
in less than one year.
OpenOffice.org has all the functionalities that public offices need to create
documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
We also investigated the productivity of the employees in using Microsoft office and
OpenOffice.org....Our
findings report no particular delays or lost of time in the daily work due to the use of
OpenOffice.org.
Employees may perceive that their work is under-valued using 'cheap' OSS products
or changing operating model to OSS is problematic.
To overcome these pre-conception it is recommended to adopt a policy of both ad hoc
and periodic training to fill the lack of knowledge/experience in relation to what OSS
products are appropriate and how they might be deployed.
It is not always justified to base the migration on the promise of lower license costs
Another good crucial reason of costs is training. Although training costs are a
substantial part of the migration costs their benefits can be realized over time.
There are no extra costs due to lack of productivity arising from the use of the
OOo.
Someone who reads the whole thing might be able to do justice to the summary of the document, but for many, this should suffice.
there is a difference in smashing the window, and being smart enough to observe that he's left his window open. then leaving a post-it (not visible to the public) that the window is open, and to close it.
smashing the window means you've actually made the system more vulnerable than it was, which is not the case in this argument.
I think this kind of hounding of people not only not deter others, but leads to more exploitation of such vulnerabilities.
Assume someone comes across such a vulnerability, maybe by accident, maybe deliberately. Now if he doesn't intend to exploit it, there are two choices for him. 1) contact the sysadmin/company and explain what he did, and how it can lead to problems, in which case he'll be prosecuted, or 2) do nothing about it. Now the second option is not really a realistic one, chances are he's going to be posting the info somewhere online, or might be tempted to exploit it himself, knowing every waking day of his life that there's this door he can walk-in.
For people who give the argument that he shouldn't be snooping around in the first place, and that its same as someone checking the locks in my house. No its not same. There is no educational value in checking random locks. There is nothing to learn, and no motive other than ulterior. So if someone is snooping around in my house, its almost always for the wrong reasons, which is not the case online.
This kind of behavior from people making these laws is caused by laziness. They know if they come up with these stricter laws, they will be able to save on the implementation, i.e. save on proving whether someone intended to exploit or not. But by trying to save on the complicated court proceedings, they create a law which labels even the innocent as guilty.
It seems to me this is a news item since it's north korea, and since it's rabbits?
I could see a similar article, consisting of US and cows/chickens. And nobody would read the headline twice. If some breeder comes up with a larger chicken or a meatier cow, wouldn't you want to set up such a breeding system in your country.
Yes, the north koreans eat rabbits. and thats the news.
Its interesting to see how so many direct insults to India are being modded as "Funny" etc while a slight indirect negative comment on Microsoft can get one labelled "Flaimbait"..
Following this observation, I wouldn't be suprised if this post gets labelled Flaimbait either..
We know a open-source in a lot of countries is regarded as a method to fight US-based companies like Microsoft, etc. How much is this view shared in the Middle East, and has this opinion encouraged Open Source in this region?
Also, in your personal experience, what kind of discrimination do Arabics face on online developer communities? Has this been a deterrent for more Arabics to enter open-source development?
A simple question which arises here is not if there is an increase in jobs in US even after outsourcing, but if the rate of this increase is comparable to the increase in the field of technology.
Anyone can see the field of technology. or "IT", is increasing very fast. So it is bound to create a large number of jobs. The question is how many of these jobs are going to India and how many to USA? If 95% of these jobs are going to India, the remaining 5% will still be an increase in IT hiring, but does not imply anything positive for the US economy.
well u may think you have trouble ignoring distractions now, that u're a bliingual gamer, but how do u know u wudnt have been much much worse if u were a monoligual non-gamer..
I consider myself a normal user of Netflix, never copy movies, just watch and return. Even in this simple cycle, I end up watching 12-13 movies per month (3 at a time), trigerring off their "throttling" algorithm.. it really sucks, but that is what i've come to expect from companies...
Companies do not take care of the established customers.. Not at all.. It just seems ridiculous to me the deals newcomers get as opposed to the old customers.. Companies are more concerned with trying to get in more people instead of putting in too much effort to keep them around.. Maybe statistically established users are less likely to switch to the competitor, merely out of being used to one company..
I really don't see how anyone can defend them though.. Netflix, after all, is trying to control how many movies you watch.. They are blatantly telling u that they care for u less the more you use their service.. They are telling u its all about the money, they're not gonna be nicer to u with time...
And I still can't get myself to switch to Blockbuster.. and thats why companies know they can take established users for granted...
I saw those, and was wondering why nobody mentioned them till I read your post.. "not bad at all".. i would tend to disagree there..
terry prachett kind of story, where a lot of the humor and story lies in the background history, and thought processes of characters, than actual events, is a very difficult one to capture as a movie.. the animated series attempted to do so, and tried to be faithful to story and everything, but it was just too long winded, and didn't feel at all like the books.. the quality also was ridiculously low..
this is not another "book good movie bad" post.. think about it, how can one capture the humor in the descriptions of past events (flashbacks wont do), or the complex thoughts which keep going through each characters head (u cannot have a narrator for each character).. thats why the animated series didnt do very well (of course, the low quality of animation didnt help)..
at best, i hope there'll be a movie "inspired" by Discworld, and its characters, like the game was, instead of a movie trying to be recreate and be "faithful" to the book..
completely agreed.. the movie seemed to be made as a clean way to end off the series, and midway through the story they decided, no, we shouldn't end the movie/series this way, what if people will start paying for the series and we get $840 to continue the series..
I liked the series, but after the dissapointment of the movie, only reason I'd like to see more episodes is if they conclude the story (by killing of the rest of them would be a suggestion).. the magic, as u said, cannot be recaptured...
The ease of using Debian based systems in terms of installing software, and easy updates might be just the thing which'll boost linux to the desktops of the majority of computer users who do not want to learn or be exposed to the intricacies of the operating system before using it..
we shall have to just wait and see..
I think he means they charge it your your phone bill, like buying games/ringtones etc online..
Also, not that it matters all that much, it costs customers to receive sms in some cell phone plans.. it might be more expensive to receive mms (which might be required in order to receive the bar code as a picture.. unless they create the bar code using the normal characters used in textual sms..)
I recently got my webcam set up on ubuntu, without using v4l.. it might work for other distros.. found a much easier method at a place you should've looked too (like google).. Howto
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You haven't heard of the Zune-killer?
It's called Zune.
Boy, I better think twice before asking people to open the door. Somebody might think I'm asking them to break it into pieces and distribute it to the neighbors.
I think the article a parody onto itself.
By being unnecessarily obvious, and bloated mostly with a lot of useless information, it is trying to hog the reader's memory, the way processes might hog the system's. Thus, once the reader learns how to filter out the irrelevant and obvious stuff from the article, he can proceed to do the same to their Linux installation, reducing the memory requirement.
Bloody genius, I say. Brilliant!
this is pure laziness by the story poster. I don't come to slashdot to read 286 page documents, the whole purpose of a news site is to give me news, and then link to the complete document.
Anyway, for the benefit of others, I shall attempt to quote relevant sentences from the conclusion.
Our findings show that, in almost all the cases, a transition toward open source reports of savings on the long term costs of ownership of the software products. Costs to migrate to an open solution are relevant and an organization needs to consider an extra effort for this. However these costs are temporary and manly are budgeted in less than one year. OpenOffice.org has all the functionalities that public offices need to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations We also investigated the productivity of the employees in using Microsoft office and OpenOffice.org....Our findings report no particular delays or lost of time in the daily work due to the use of OpenOffice.org. Employees may perceive that their work is under-valued using 'cheap' OSS products or changing operating model to OSS is problematic.To overcome these pre-conception it is recommended to adopt a policy of both ad hoc and periodic training to fill the lack of knowledge/experience in relation to what OSS products are appropriate and how they might be deployed.
It is not always justified to base the migration on the promise of lower license costs Another good crucial reason of costs is training. Although training costs are a substantial part of the migration costs their benefits can be realized over time. There are no extra costs due to lack of productivity arising from the use of the OOo.Someone who reads the whole thing might be able to do justice to the summary of the document, but for many, this should suffice.
hehe, thanks for not exploiting my vulnerability.
there is a difference in smashing the window, and being smart enough to observe that he's left his window open. then leaving a post-it (not visible to the public) that the window is open, and to close it.
smashing the window means you've actually made the system more vulnerable than it was, which is not the case in this argument.
I think this kind of hounding of people not only not deter others, but leads to more exploitation of such vulnerabilities.
Assume someone comes across such a vulnerability, maybe by accident, maybe deliberately. Now if he doesn't intend to exploit it, there are two choices for him. 1) contact the sysadmin/company and explain what he did, and how it can lead to problems, in which case he'll be prosecuted, or 2) do nothing about it. Now the second option is not really a realistic one, chances are he's going to be posting the info somewhere online, or might be tempted to exploit it himself, knowing every waking day of his life that there's this door he can walk-in.
For people who give the argument that he shouldn't be snooping around in the first place, and that its same as someone checking the locks in my house. No its not same. There is no educational value in checking random locks. There is nothing to learn, and no motive other than ulterior. So if someone is snooping around in my house, its almost always for the wrong reasons, which is not the case online.
This kind of behavior from people making these laws is caused by laziness. They know if they come up with these stricter laws, they will be able to save on the implementation, i.e. save on proving whether someone intended to exploit or not. But by trying to save on the complicated court proceedings, they create a law which labels even the innocent as guilty.
you're screwed if you're a vegan
This should go into the Guinness Book of World Records
It seems to me this is a news item since it's north korea, and since it's rabbits? I could see a similar article, consisting of US and cows/chickens. And nobody would read the headline twice. If some breeder comes up with a larger chicken or a meatier cow, wouldn't you want to set up such a breeding system in your country. Yes, the north koreans eat rabbits. and thats the news.
Its interesting to see how so many direct insults to India are being modded as "Funny" etc while a slight indirect negative comment on Microsoft can get one labelled "Flaimbait"..
Following this observation, I wouldn't be suprised if this post gets labelled Flaimbait either..
We know a open-source in a lot of countries is regarded as a method to fight US-based companies like Microsoft, etc. How much is this view shared in the Middle East, and has this opinion encouraged Open Source in this region?
Also, in your personal experience, what kind of discrimination do Arabics face on online developer communities? Has this been a deterrent for more Arabics to enter open-source development?
Thank You
A simple question which arises here is not if there is an increase in jobs in US even after outsourcing, but if the rate of this increase is comparable to the increase in the field of technology. Anyone can see the field of technology. or "IT", is increasing very fast. So it is bound to create a large number of jobs. The question is how many of these jobs are going to India and how many to USA? If 95% of these jobs are going to India, the remaining 5% will still be an increase in IT hiring, but does not imply anything positive for the US economy.
Maybe the scene would be different if more gamers had girlfriends to be distracted by :)
well u may think you have trouble ignoring distractions now, that u're a bliingual gamer, but how do u know u wudnt have been much much worse if u were a monoligual non-gamer..
something to think abt
I consider myself a normal user of Netflix, never copy movies, just watch and return. Even in this simple cycle, I end up watching 12-13 movies per month (3 at a time), trigerring off their "throttling" algorithm.. it really sucks, but that is what i've come to expect from companies...
Companies do not take care of the established customers.. Not at all.. It just seems ridiculous to me the deals newcomers get as opposed to the old customers.. Companies are more concerned with trying to get in more people instead of putting in too much effort to keep them around.. Maybe statistically established users are less likely to switch to the competitor, merely out of being used to one company..
I really don't see how anyone can defend them though.. Netflix, after all, is trying to control how many movies you watch.. They are blatantly telling u that they care for u less the more you use their service.. They are telling u its all about the money, they're not gonna be nicer to u with time...
And I still can't get myself to switch to Blockbuster.. and thats why companies know they can take established users for granted...
and the intelligent users?
uhh.. cos windows might be popping up, or weird processes in the task manager, or terrible slowing down of the machine...
I saw those, and was wondering why nobody mentioned them till I read your post.. "not bad at all".. i would tend to disagree there..
terry prachett kind of story, where a lot of the humor and story lies in the background history, and thought processes of characters, than actual events, is a very difficult one to capture as a movie.. the animated series attempted to do so, and tried to be faithful to story and everything, but it was just too long winded, and didn't feel at all like the books.. the quality also was ridiculously low..
this is not another "book good movie bad" post.. think about it, how can one capture the humor in the descriptions of past events (flashbacks wont do), or the complex thoughts which keep going through each characters head (u cannot have a narrator for each character).. thats why the animated series didnt do very well (of course, the low quality of animation didnt help)..
at best, i hope there'll be a movie "inspired" by Discworld, and its characters, like the game was, instead of a movie trying to be recreate and be "faithful" to the book..
completely agreed.. the movie seemed to be made as a clean way to end off the series, and midway through the story they decided, no, we shouldn't end the movie/series this way, what if people will start paying for the series and we get $840 to continue the series.. I liked the series, but after the dissapointment of the movie, only reason I'd like to see more episodes is if they conclude the story (by killing of the rest of them would be a suggestion).. the magic, as u said, cannot be recaptured...
piracy of the original might have something to do with it.. people must've liked it and said, what the hell, lets buy the expansion..
on ubuntu, u can also use the search search (including names and description) in the synaptics package manager..
The ease of using Debian based systems in terms of installing software, and easy updates might be just the thing which'll boost linux to the desktops of the majority of computer users who do not want to learn or be exposed to the intricacies of the operating system before using it.. we shall have to just wait and see..
I think he means they charge it your your phone bill, like buying games/ringtones etc online..
Also, not that it matters all that much, it costs customers to receive sms in some cell phone plans.. it might be more expensive to receive mms (which might be required in order to receive the bar code as a picture.. unless they create the bar code using the normal characters used in textual sms..)
I recently got my webcam set up on ubuntu, without using v4l.. it might work for other distros.. found a much easier method at a place you should've looked too (like google).. Howto