Maybe he meant interoperability as in it will work with WinXP, which is a very logical argument, and 'every mainstream OS' means it works with.... Linux?:P But really, what is this 'interoperability' you speak of? What exactly does that include, networking? At our university, we have linux and win32 platforms networked and working fine together... So I'm just not sure what you speak of when you say that it's 'inter operable'...
Anyways, the Parent has a point, a very good one. I don't want to reinstall windows let alone switch to a different OS, as the amount of time I have spent catering to this particular install is quite a bit. However, on my media server, I have thought about switching over to a new OS (I have winXP right now, and it's kinda crappy to leave on 24/7). This new... er... frankenSuSE might be the answer, although I probably won't wait that long for it to come out. BUT, businesses might find it appealing, as the IT people can be like 'w00t, we use linux!' but they can go to their employer saying they have the utmost confidence it still works with their Vista workstations...
Fine, may I get your address so I can send you a rope to hang yourself? You are just giving up, and arguing with my point of view just for the sake of argument:) What is so bad about trying your hardest? And for that matter, what is so good about abandoning something that the U.S. takes pride in (ie. the tech industry). I read about the people's worries that everything about the U.S. is going downhill due to outsourcing and globalization. If people like you had their way, the U.S. economy would be destroyed in a tsunami of under confidence, and lack of innovative thought. And will it be good enough to switch into another industry (like finance...), just for that industry to be destroyed by the same means?
Please, stop using the auto industry of a 'good example' of how the U.S. can do nothing to stop it's industry from declining. Do you want to know the reason that the U.S. auto industry is going for broke? It's because they did nothing to stop it. I don't see innovative American cars. I don't see the creative use of resources that tells me they deserve to succeed. They are dinosaurs, and are going extinct. They didn't adapt, but granted they still have time to do so. I see companies like Chrysler, who I believe to be a good example of adaptation and is now doing fairly well for themselves. But of course we all know why they were successful, it was because someone had to make them so.
So what does this mean to you, my stereotypical IT guy? It is just a simple indication that maybe, in the near future, you won't have to worry about competing. Eventually, if everyone adopts an attitude like yours, Indian companies (and others) will own all the big American IT business. And when you switch to the financial sector, what do you think will happen to you then? What do you think will happen to your kids when they try to get a job?
Giving up now will only hurt future generations, and you can't possibly argue with that...
Did you read The Outsourcing Bogyman? Please do, it brings light to the situation most Americans are in. Also, think of it this way, even though they can replicate your skills, it takes a while for them to do so. And as soon as they do and you stop trying, you just give up adapting and falter to the pressures of a global market, that's when that guy in India starts deserving the job more than you. I know it may seem strange, but you must listen to me, if you don't adapt, if you don't try to be worth something to your company, you will loose your job. That's just how it goes, and how it will go. Don't be like the dinosaurs, grow, find a niche, innovate, whatever will work in your situation. Just know that staying where you are will only get you burned...
Globalization is always to blame when professionals are out of work. Did you know that Intel has offices in Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, and finally Vietnam. And you are worried about ONE new office in India (U.S. comparison)?
It amazes me that people think India to be the biggest threat, and that everyone will loose their job to some guy in 'over there' (see: The Outsourcing Bogeyman, Daniel W. Drezner). Well, that 'guy' adapted to his conditions and the conditions of the market, and got a job knowing that he will get paid less than some guy from the U.S. But you know what, he deserves that job more. Even if he hasn't worked harder for it, which I'm not sure if 'they' do or not, he deserves it simply for being who he is and where he is. And you know what? Even I have to compete against him. But I have innovation and adaptability on my side as well, so I really don't care about him. And neither should the average software guy either. We should all worry more about doing our best to adapt, to innovate, and to provide something that someone else doesn't. I shouldn't have to tell you that nearly every large successful company out there survives on this sort of arrangement. And it seems to work. So what do I suggest? Beat them at their own game, if you so wish to compete head to head. Find a way to stay competitive, do something extraordinary with the resources you have, and you will indeed become the one deserving of 'that job'...
Unsubstantiated paranoia right there.... IF there was a decline in the amount of software engineers that got hired out of school in North America, it's thinking like that that is the cause.
'Jewish People' brings up ads about jewish people, so it might just be case specific, although I don't care nearly enough to actually find terms that have ads of no relevance...
Well, if that's true then I'm thinking I have to get into the browser hijacking business! Anyone know a security flaw in Firefox that will let me do that;)
Seriously though, if Amazon, for instance, stopped allowing referrals over the holiday season (now till boxing day) then not only would they be saving big money, but nearly all referral schemes would be pretty much shut down (assuming all Amazon-style sites did this of course). But then would you presume that Amazon would loose some holiday profit from reduced user in-flux? If that is the case, then maybe Amazon is somewhat behind the adware business, in that they might actually (someday, I don't think right now...) make their own software to do something similar (although hopefully without the virus side of most adware:P). Hmmm, very interesting indeed, all they really need to do is gang up with google and have some crazy adsense/referral thing going on, through it into google desktop (or even that new program Blake Ross is making), and let the money roll in!
Wow, yeah, never thought of that before. I wonder where it comes from, 'cause I wouldn't imagine that there would be that many people actually clicking on stuff in their popups... Any ideas?
I've gotten subtitles to work with media player classic and K-lite media codec pack. I think it uses Haali media splitter to do it, but I can't remember. Try it out, just remember to turn off the built in MPC mkv player (it's in MPC options).
Apparently because males have one y and one x chromosome, and females have two x chromosomes, the male y has no 'pair' in order for it to regenerate and repair off of. Therefore, in some wayyyyy distant future the y chromosome will have degenerated to the point that it can no-longer be able to store the right info you need to grow from an egg. So in a sense, males will eventually die out, as long as we don't figure out a way to stop the y from degenerating. Of course, evolution may take it's course and we will develop some kind of environmental sex determination, like reptiles that determine sex from incubation temperature. Anyways, here is an article that talks a bit about the Y chromosome and degeneration.
Yeah, but do you really care about his opinion? Does anyone here really care about anyone's opinion other than those who agree with his/her own opinions? I'm not trying to be cynical, I'm just stating something I've noticed over the years... Well... I guess that is being cynical then.
This is funny 'cause I just wrote an essay on this. The difference is between anthropological archaeologists and non-anthropological archaeologists. The former cares about the culture in which the material remains were found, and will use those remains to gain incite into the workings of that culture. The latter cares about the material remains themselves, the tomb, the mummies, ect. They think the culture is neat, but what they really want to know about is what the item is and what is it worth. Not all were greedy, some wrote nice catalogues of what the items were before they sold them, but most didn't bother. Examples for the former were the Leakey family (Rift Valley of East Africa), Edward Tylor (way back in 1871 no less), and even Thomas Jefferson (burial mounds in Virginia). The prime example of the latter would be Belzoni in Egypt, an ex hydraulics engineer and circus strong-man from Italy:P
Or for windows try Truecrypt (I think there is a linux version as well). It works like a dream, and there are some really niffty features (like addition of plausible deniability). It's pretty cool.
I'm possitive he thought that it was 'really rather ridiculous' because she looked like a LAMP SHADE, and that no-one would want a thin gown type thing that folded up into a giant, oversized hat:P
Ah, OK, I can definitely see the benefit in that. I know that quite a few mp3 players use SD card slots, although it would be really neat if they had built in HD's as well. That way you could use the SD card from your camera to backup the pictures to the portable HD. I'm only suggesting SD cards 'cause they are smaller, and could actually fit on the mp3 players case quite well (even more with mini-SD and micro-SD).
I tried using mac for a while in high school (OS X) and I found the interface to be surprisingly lacking in capabilities. I mean, I couldn't modify it at all (aside from moving icons around). Was it just me being dumb or can you just not change it? I don't use explorer as the windows shell for the same reason (instead preferring Litestep, if you use windows and like linux 'ease' of modding then you should check it out). But, if you can change and modify what the Vista GUI looks like, apart from changing to classic (yey....), then it beats the OS X GUI hands down. And please, try not to bash all windows users with your mac 'holier than thou' attitude, as it's just a bit too cliche.
>BTW, what mp3 players have a cf slot on them?
When was the last time you *needed* a cf slot on an mp3 player? Although, you are talking about a video player (regardless of it's video playing qualities) so I guess it's kinda cool to be able to transfer them over to another iPod, but honestly, how often will you need to do that?
Yeah, I totally agree that it's just the programs we were using (and yes, openoffice isn't *that* bad but formatting was a pain in the ass), but unfortunately those high school students will most likely be in the same situation. Unless they have good programs that they can easily learn and adapt to (unlike MS Word, which takes alot of time to learn, but they most likely already know alot about) the 'stigma' against Linux will only grow, even though it's not nessasarily anything to do with the operating system. Maybe that's where the educational Ubuntu will step in, I don't know much about it but it seems to be on the right track for schools to use, and I *think* it is bundled with specific programs to make teacher's/student's lives easier.
We use Linux at the U of Calgary engineering dept., and all it did was ADD to the stigma. Before I thought all the 31337 people used Linux to hax people and did generally c00l things with it. Then I grew up a bit and started using Linux only to realize that to do something so little like write a report just sucked (using OpenOffice), writing code sucked (using xemacs *barf*), and surfing the web sucked (using a restrictive, buggy, and old version of firefox). I'm not trying to dis Linux here (to it's credit we had gaim msnger, which I now use on my win comp at home:), I'm just saying that it seemed a bit anti-productive, and this is mostly due to crappy programs and the time spent trying to do *anything* was too great to really get into it. Of course I don't have the privileges to load my own programs, but damn, those high school students are really up against a wall if they are facing the same thing (most likely). Anyways, I'm going to try loading ubuntu on my lappy and see how that goes, also have a 'media center' version of knoppix that I should try on my hacked together media comp. I'm not giving up *yet* but I'm still skeptical...
I just have to say that a company that isn't afraid of letting thier consumers in on the R&D of a new prodect is really amazing, even if it is just a select few. I used the original mindstorms kit to build a robot in first year engineering, and from what I saw it was a really interesting kit. We ran linux on our computers so we used the LegOS using some NQC stuff. If Lego will open source their code from the get go then people like me, who preffer to code in C (or something close to it) than with Lego's crazy graphical method, will greatly appreciate it! I can see the new kit to be a big hit on budding roboticists who don't want to spend thousands on building a simple 'battlebot' style robot (here I mean building a car style bot, nothing fancy) only to not be able to re-use all the parts on another bot.
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Maybe he meant interoperability as in it will work with WinXP, which is a very logical argument, and 'every mainstream OS' means it works with.... Linux? :P But really, what is this 'interoperability' you speak of? What exactly does that include, networking? At our university, we have linux and win32 platforms networked and working fine together... So I'm just not sure what you speak of when you say that it's 'inter operable'...
Anyways, the Parent has a point, a very good one. I don't want to reinstall windows let alone switch to a different OS, as the amount of time I have spent catering to this particular install is quite a bit. However, on my media server, I have thought about switching over to a new OS (I have winXP right now, and it's kinda crappy to leave on 24/7). This new... er... frankenSuSE might be the answer, although I probably won't wait that long for it to come out. BUT, businesses might find it appealing, as the IT people can be like 'w00t, we use linux!' but they can go to their employer saying they have the utmost confidence it still works with their Vista workstations...
You do mean pieces of eight right?
Fine, may I get your address so I can send you a rope to hang yourself? You are just giving up, and arguing with my point of view just for the sake of argument :)
What is so bad about trying your hardest? And for that matter, what is so good about abandoning something that the U.S. takes pride in (ie. the tech industry). I read about the people's worries that everything about the U.S. is going downhill due to outsourcing and globalization. If people like you had their way, the U.S. economy would be destroyed in a tsunami of under confidence, and lack of innovative thought. And will it be good enough to switch into another industry (like finance...), just for that industry to be destroyed by the same means?
Please, stop using the auto industry of a 'good example' of how the U.S. can do nothing to stop it's industry from declining. Do you want to know the reason that the U.S. auto industry is going for broke? It's because they did nothing to stop it. I don't see innovative American cars. I don't see the creative use of resources that tells me they deserve to succeed. They are dinosaurs, and are going extinct. They didn't adapt, but granted they still have time to do so. I see companies like Chrysler, who I believe to be a good example of adaptation and is now doing fairly well for themselves. But of course we all know why they were successful, it was because someone had to make them so.
So what does this mean to you, my stereotypical IT guy? It is just a simple indication that maybe, in the near future, you won't have to worry about competing. Eventually, if everyone adopts an attitude like yours, Indian companies (and others) will own all the big American IT business. And when you switch to the financial sector, what do you think will happen to you then? What do you think will happen to your kids when they try to get a job?
Giving up now will only hurt future generations, and you can't possibly argue with that...
Did you read The Outsourcing Bogyman? Please do, it brings light to the situation most Americans are in. Also, think of it this way, even though they can replicate your skills, it takes a while for them to do so. And as soon as they do and you stop trying, you just give up adapting and falter to the pressures of a global market, that's when that guy in India starts deserving the job more than you. I know it may seem strange, but you must listen to me, if you don't adapt, if you don't try to be worth something to your company, you will loose your job. That's just how it goes, and how it will go. Don't be like the dinosaurs, grow, find a niche, innovate, whatever will work in your situation. Just know that staying where you are will only get you burned...
Globalization is always to blame when professionals are out of work. Did you know that Intel has offices in Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, and finally Vietnam. And you are worried about ONE new office in India (U.S. comparison)?
It amazes me that people think India to be the biggest threat, and that everyone will loose their job to some guy in 'over there' (see: The Outsourcing Bogeyman, Daniel W. Drezner). Well, that 'guy' adapted to his conditions and the conditions of the market, and got a job knowing that he will get paid less than some guy from the U.S. But you know what, he deserves that job more. Even if he hasn't worked harder for it, which I'm not sure if 'they' do or not, he deserves it simply for being who he is and where he is. And you know what? Even I have to compete against him. But I have innovation and adaptability on my side as well, so I really don't care about him. And neither should the average software guy either. We should all worry more about doing our best to adapt, to innovate, and to provide something that someone else doesn't. I shouldn't have to tell you that nearly every large successful company out there survives on this sort of arrangement. And it seems to work. So what do I suggest? Beat them at their own game, if you so wish to compete head to head. Find a way to stay competitive, do something extraordinary with the resources you have, and you will indeed become the one deserving of 'that job'...
Unsubstantiated paranoia right there.... IF there was a decline in the amount of software engineers that got hired out of school in North America, it's thinking like that that is the cause.
'Jewish People' brings up ads about jewish people, so it might just be case specific, although I don't care nearly enough to actually find terms that have ads of no relevance...
Well, if that's true then I'm thinking I have to get into the browser hijacking business! Anyone know a security flaw in Firefox that will let me do that ;)
:P). Hmmm, very interesting indeed, all they really need to do is gang up with google and have some crazy adsense/referral thing going on, through it into google desktop (or even that new program Blake Ross is making), and let the money roll in!
Seriously though, if Amazon, for instance, stopped allowing referrals over the holiday season (now till boxing day) then not only would they be saving big money, but nearly all referral schemes would be pretty much shut down (assuming all Amazon-style sites did this of course). But then would you presume that Amazon would loose some holiday profit from reduced user in-flux? If that is the case, then maybe Amazon is somewhat behind the adware business, in that they might actually (someday, I don't think right now...) make their own software to do something similar (although hopefully without the virus side of most adware
Wow, yeah, never thought of that before. I wonder where it comes from, 'cause I wouldn't imagine that there would be that many people actually clicking on stuff in their popups... Any ideas?
That has to be one of the funniest bigot remarks I've heard in a long time. Thanks for that.
I've gotten subtitles to work with media player classic and K-lite media codec pack. I think it uses Haali media splitter to do it, but I can't remember. Try it out, just remember to turn off the built in MPC mkv player (it's in MPC options).
Apparently because males have one y and one x chromosome, and females have two x chromosomes, the male y has no 'pair' in order for it to regenerate and repair off of. Therefore, in some wayyyyy distant future the y chromosome will have degenerated to the point that it can no-longer be able to store the right info you need to grow from an egg. So in a sense, males will eventually die out, as long as we don't figure out a way to stop the y from degenerating. Of course, evolution may take it's course and we will develop some kind of environmental sex determination, like reptiles that determine sex from incubation temperature. Anyways, here is an article that talks a bit about the Y chromosome and degeneration.
Yeah, but do you really care about his opinion? Does anyone here really care about anyone's opinion other than those who agree with his/her own opinions? I'm not trying to be cynical, I'm just stating something I've noticed over the years... Well... I guess that is being cynical then.
This is funny 'cause I just wrote an essay on this. The difference is between anthropological archaeologists and non-anthropological archaeologists. The former cares about the culture in which the material remains were found, and will use those remains to gain incite into the workings of that culture. The latter cares about the material remains themselves, the tomb, the mummies, ect. They think the culture is neat, but what they really want to know about is what the item is and what is it worth. Not all were greedy, some wrote nice catalogues of what the items were before they sold them, but most didn't bother. Examples for the former were the Leakey family (Rift Valley of East Africa), Edward Tylor (way back in 1871 no less), and even Thomas Jefferson (burial mounds in Virginia). The prime example of the latter would be Belzoni in Egypt, an ex hydraulics engineer and circus strong-man from Italy :P
Or for windows try Truecrypt (I think there is a linux version as well). It works like a dream, and there are some really niffty features (like addition of plausible deniability). It's pretty cool.
I'm possitive he thought that it was 'really rather ridiculous' because she looked like a LAMP SHADE, and that no-one would want a thin gown type thing that folded up into a giant, oversized hat :P
Ah, OK, I can definitely see the benefit in that. I know that quite a few mp3 players use SD card slots, although it would be really neat if they had built in HD's as well. That way you could use the SD card from your camera to backup the pictures to the portable HD. I'm only suggesting SD cards 'cause they are smaller, and could actually fit on the mp3 players case quite well (even more with mini-SD and micro-SD).
I tried using mac for a while in high school (OS X) and I found the interface to be surprisingly lacking in capabilities. I mean, I couldn't modify it at all (aside from moving icons around). Was it just me being dumb or can you just not change it? I don't use explorer as the windows shell for the same reason (instead preferring Litestep, if you use windows and like linux 'ease' of modding then you should check it out). But, if you can change and modify what the Vista GUI looks like, apart from changing to classic (yey....), then it beats the OS X GUI hands down. And please, try not to bash all windows users with your mac 'holier than thou' attitude, as it's just a bit too cliche.
:P
And yeah, Vista does take up too much resources
>BTW, what mp3 players have a cf slot on them? When was the last time you *needed* a cf slot on an mp3 player? Although, you are talking about a video player (regardless of it's video playing qualities) so I guess it's kinda cool to be able to transfer them over to another iPod, but honestly, how often will you need to do that?
... Informative my barnicle infested eye....
Bah, nothing gets patched by myspace. Not even things like these.
Oh please, you are just being over-dramatic. Windows computers don't 'work' for anyone, regardless of who they may be...
Yeah, I totally agree that it's just the programs we were using (and yes, openoffice isn't *that* bad but formatting was a pain in the ass), but unfortunately those high school students will most likely be in the same situation. Unless they have good programs that they can easily learn and adapt to (unlike MS Word, which takes alot of time to learn, but they most likely already know alot about) the 'stigma' against Linux will only grow, even though it's not nessasarily anything to do with the operating system. Maybe that's where the educational Ubuntu will step in, I don't know much about it but it seems to be on the right track for schools to use, and I *think* it is bundled with specific programs to make teacher's/student's lives easier.
We use Linux at the U of Calgary engineering dept., and all it did was ADD to the stigma. Before I thought all the 31337 people used Linux to hax people and did generally c00l things with it. Then I grew up a bit and started using Linux only to realize that to do something so little like write a report just sucked (using OpenOffice), writing code sucked (using xemacs *barf*), and surfing the web sucked (using a restrictive, buggy, and old version of firefox). I'm not trying to dis Linux here (to it's credit we had gaim msnger, which I now use on my win comp at home :), I'm just saying that it seemed a bit anti-productive, and this is mostly due to crappy programs and the time spent trying to do *anything* was too great to really get into it. Of course I don't have the privileges to load my own programs, but damn, those high school students are really up against a wall if they are facing the same thing (most likely). Anyways, I'm going to try loading ubuntu on my lappy and see how that goes, also have a 'media center' version of knoppix that I should try on my hacked together media comp. I'm not giving up *yet* but I'm still skeptical...
I just have to say that a company that isn't afraid of letting thier consumers in on the R&D of a new prodect is really amazing, even if it is just a select few. I used the original mindstorms kit to build a robot in first year engineering, and from what I saw it was a really interesting kit. We ran linux on our computers so we used the LegOS using some NQC stuff. If Lego will open source their code from the get go then people like me, who preffer to code in C (or something close to it) than with Lego's crazy graphical method, will greatly appreciate it! I can see the new kit to be a big hit on budding roboticists who don't want to spend thousands on building a simple 'battlebot' style robot (here I mean building a car style bot, nothing fancy) only to not be able to re-use all the parts on another bot.