First, are you the kind of consultant that was hired for your obvious command of certain knowledge and skills, or are you the kind of consultant that was hired as temporary help because the company doesn't want to pay you any benefits and your rank is somewhere near the same level as the janitor (either slightly above or slightly less, depending on whether or not the janitor is a full-time employee or a "consultant" too).
If you are the former, then sure, you have been hired to educate them and help them to do things correctly. If not, shut up or you'll get fired.
Even if you are of the first ilk, you should be careful. Most people don't like being told they are wrong and they may get rid of you for hurting their ego. Professional consulting is 90% successful and tactful negotiation and 10% actual work.
Whether Windows advocates like it or not, there is a growing number of people who want to run Linux. In some cases it is because they are tired of paying high prices to run Windows (those that run it legally anyway), othertimes it is to increase their egos and lengthen their e-penis.
While I haven't read this particular book myself, I think books like this are important. They take a new user and hold his or her hand, so to speak. They tell the new user, "hey, you aren't going to understand this right now, but it's okay. Well, go through it all together."
Books like this give a new user confidence, and that is really important for people when they are trying something for the first time. New users need to feel that success is possible and that there is someone (or something) there to help them if they get stuck.
Linux really isn't THAT hard to use if you know what you are doing, and books like this help new users get to a point where they know what they are doing.
As for your "filthy stinky hippies" remark. You obviously have never worked with Microsoft developers.
Why is it that those who complain about SUVs are always the ones who don't have them? They want us to think they are insightful, forward thinkers, but the truth, I believe, is somewhere closer to their pocketbooks.
I didn't get it from Bush if that is what you mean. It is a fairly common phrase where I come from and I have used it for a long time (no, I'm not from Texas either).
This isn't harrasment. It is people protesting the protester's stupid point of view in an appropriate and peaceful way (Visa, we won't use your cards unless you pull that idiot Martin Sheen's add).
You'll notice that nobody went and damaged property or blocked morning traffic to protest Martin Sheen or the Dixie Chicks (Funny how she appologized afterwards isn't it? I guess her resolve wasn't that strong.)
I think it's funny and interesting how you suggest that defacing public and private property is okay if the protesting matches your opinions, but when people protest the views you agree with, they are "harassing" people.
This is not directed at you BunjiX, but rather all those brainwashed protesters against the war. I just happened to relpy to your comment since you brought up the point that these people can't find a sufficient reason to go to war.
I am 100% in support of this war and I am hopeful that they destroy Saddam and his bunch. We are told that the reason we are having this war is because Saddam has weapons that he intends to use. That is a secondary issue for me. I am for this war and the removal of Saddam for the benefit of Iraqi people.
There are very evil people in this world, and Saddam is one of them. He needs to be dealt with. If you are too French to do anything about it, then get out of the way.
When I lived in Japan, I remember walking into a train station full of people, there was a large highschool student kicking and pounding a kid half his size in the face. The smaller kid's lips were both split in several places and he was missing a few teeth. His nose was bleeding and his whole face was swollen. He was not fighting back; only trying to get away. However, the bigger kid wouldn't let him. What was every last stinking coward in the train station doing? Not a damn thing.
I approached to put a stop to it, and was finally joined by 5 or 6 security people from the train station. Until then, nobody did anything. They all just sat there and watched this small kid getting beating to a bloody heap. Some of them had the intelligence and insight to comment on what a shame it all was and how it was wrong, but that was it. No action. They might as well been beating the kid themselves. Every last person in that train station was a stinking coward in my opinion.
In the case of the war, Saddam is the bully that is oppressing, and at times torturing and killing his people. All the anti-war morons act like Iraqi people enjoy the same rights and freedoms we have and we are infringing upon their peaceful way of life. Well, they don't enjoy the life we have you brainwashed idiots! If you pulled this kind of "protest"crap in Iraq YOU WOULD BE KILLED!!!
To me, anti-war folk are the same types of cowards that stood in that train station in Japan ten years ago; sharing their self-righteous, prolix commentary with each other in a state of absolute impotence while pitying the victims of the world but not doing anything about it; too worried for their own skins to do the right thing and help.
There is evil in this world, and it is up to the decent people of the world to do something about it. If you're too afraid to act, then get out of the way and let those who have some guts set things right so the people of Iraq can at long last have some peace.
It's about helping those who can't help themselves. It's about doing what's right. It's about creating eventual peace. It's not about your beloved leftist politicking and your hatred of Republicans, President Bush, oil and SUVs. You people "protesting" make me sick.
I have one friend that has a ReplayTV machine and another who has a Tivo, so I have looked at both of them. Personally, I like the Tivo better.
The problem with both of them for me is that they are bundled with a service that you are charged monthly for. I'll admit the service is a good one, but I think people for the most part don't like the idea of paying each month for something they can do manually with a VCR. Tivo and Replay have some nice features, but after all, recording a show is still the primary function and most people don't want to pay for that.
If Tivo and Replay would operate just like a VCR and allow you to use their service if you want to, or just use the system as a regular VCR if you didn't want to pay the monthly fees, then I think both systems would probably catch on a lot more than they have.
Let's pretend for a moment that I have never been to the middle east, and Iraq in particular. Let's also pretend that all you that replied to my original post haven't either. Logically, that would mean that I have access to the same information and knowledge that you do.
What I find so interesting is all the anti-war folks pretend that somehow they are more intelligent and informed as to what's going on. If anyone, such as myself, supports the actions the US is taking over there, then we must be morons presenting a diatribe based on propaganda and lies, while as your opinions, drawn off the same information, is considered an enlightened probe into the subject and a scholarly analysis.
I don't like war and I don't like killing, but when killing is going on without war, as it has been in Iraq, then that needs to be stopped. I'm glad the US has the balls to do the right thing. I hope Iraq is a much better, and much safer place for its people once this is all over.
I don't know for sure since I have no way of knowing your intentions or thoughts, but it seems that most people against the war are in that position for political reasons. I couldn't care less about politics. I care about my friends who live in that part of the world and I want them to have a better life. If you don't, then that's something your going to have to work out with yourself.
I've been there spanky and I have many friends from there.
It'd be really hard to ask your everyday Iraqi mother what she thinks of Saddam while a stormtrooper is sticking a rifle in her gut.
Oh I see, conjecture and downright lying is much better than "it's what I heard". I guess when truth and logic fail us, and stout pigheaded attachment to the neighborhood of make believe will see us through.
This is totally offtopic, but since you brought it up...
I don't really care what the war is over in our president's mind. I fully support it. I think what has been going on in Iraq for at least the last ten years is absolutely hideous. Have you ever been there? It is not a pretty place.
Although I have not personally witnessed these things taking place, I have heard stories of Saddam using the following to bolster up support for himself.
Raping the daughters and wives while their fathers and husbands were forced to watch. Tying women upsidedown during their menstrual cycle so the blood clots up inside of them. The other day I read where he threw several people into a large shredder, and many other kinds of torture to show those still living what they face if they oppose Saddam.
For this alone somebody needs to go in and destroy his ability to be a leader, whether that be through his death or otherwise.
All you anti-war protestor act like everyone is living the high life in Iraq; living like we do in our countries. Well, they are not. Why don't you go ask an everyday Iraqi mother what she thinks of Saddam being ousted before you go shooting off your ill-informed mouth?
Anyone who has visited OSNews more than twice knows that Eugenia has an unhealthy infatuation with Windows XP (it used to be with BeOS, but perhaps she has finally come to grips with the fact that BeOS is dead).
I usually skip over any "definitive" or "unbiased" OS reviews from Eugenia since the outcome is always: Linux sucks; OS X is okay but still sucks; XP has some minor flaws, but they pale in comparison to how absolutely dreamy XP is.
Anyway, I found the article ill-informed and very biased and a far cry from definitive (more like diminutive). It must have been a slow news day at OSNews.
Mosaic was the first web browser I ever used. I used it on what was, if I recall correctly, the first version of Slackware. I thought both things were the second and third neatest things after toast.
It is interesting to think back to that time and compare it to where we are today. In some ways things have improved and changed dramatically, and in some ways, things are still the same. I am very encouraged by the progress made during the last 10 or so years and I am greatly interested in what the next 10 years have to bring.
There are programs that let you print to PDF on Windows too. Linux also has tools that allow you to create PDFs. The problem with PDF in my opinion is that it is not easy to edit one unless you have the tools to do so (even then I wouldn't call it trivial). Most people don't have access to such tools.
HTML does not qualify for several reasons. First, it is NOT easy to format and make look good, and secondly, readers are abundant, but good writers are not (most users don't know how to write HTML in vim; or notepad if you're a Windows person).
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Proprietary document formats were fine at one point. Most people shared documents via printed paper, or shared them via "soft copy" within their own organizations. However, the time for printed documents and interoffice "soft copies" is over. We need the ability to share documents with the world in an easy to use, feature rich, and easy to edit format. Since a significant part of a document's legibility is in its style and formatting (or at least people are more apt to read a well formatted document over one which is not) text files are out.
Once an easy to use, open document format is created, and the ability to read and write those documents is built into many programs, I think we will see an end of.DOC file attachements.
While there are currently some "open" formats like PDF and PS, the problem is that they are not easy to create for the average user, nor are they easy to edit. While PDF may be a good format, we need something better.
XML is a logical choice as a base for an open format because it is a well defined standard, it is text based, and is quite easy to parse.
Pascal was the first language I ever used. I have to admit that for me, Pascal's syntax was very conducive to learning the basics of programming. Having said that, after less than a year of Pascal programming I finally braved a peak at C, and I never looked at pascal again.
I think pascal is a great language for teaching people how to program, and I also think it is perfect for Borland's Delphi product (a nice, easy to learn RAD environment to compete with Microsoft's Very Basic). However, I personally would never use Pascal on a project. If I wanted to use something like Delphi, I would use C++Builder. Of course, since this is a Mac discussion, most of this is irrelevant.
Anyway, I am not familiar with Objective C, but if I were going to program for a Mac, and OC and Pascal were the only two choices, in spite of already knowing Pascal, I think I would rather learn Objective C.
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Can you translate mine (it's not true by the way)?
I say it depends on a couple of things.
First, are you the kind of consultant that was hired for your obvious command of certain knowledge and skills, or are you the kind of consultant that was hired as temporary help because the company doesn't want to pay you any benefits and your rank is somewhere near the same level as the janitor (either slightly above or slightly less, depending on whether or not the janitor is a full-time employee or a "consultant" too).
If you are the former, then sure, you have been hired to educate them and help them to do things correctly. If not, shut up or you'll get fired.
Even if you are of the first ilk, you should be careful. Most people don't like being told they are wrong and they may get rid of you for hurting their ego. Professional consulting is 90% successful and tactful negotiation and 10% actual work.
And that's all there is to it.
Gee, I sure could go for a couple of Federal Judges about now.
That good and all, but who can trust a liar? :)
I would like to ask SCO why, when they have a very capable offering of their own, they are running Windows servers within their organization?
Because I, for one, do not have any floppy drives in my machines.
But when you can't get a date, what does it matter?
Whether Windows advocates like it or not, there is a growing number of people who want to run Linux. In some cases it is because they are tired of paying high prices to run Windows (those that run it legally anyway), othertimes it is to increase their egos and lengthen their e-penis.
While I haven't read this particular book myself, I think books like this are important. They take a new user and hold his or her hand, so to speak. They tell the new user, "hey, you aren't going to understand this right now, but it's okay. Well, go through it all together."
Books like this give a new user confidence, and that is really important for people when they are trying something for the first time. New users need to feel that success is possible and that there is someone (or something) there to help them if they get stuck.
Linux really isn't THAT hard to use if you know what you are doing, and books like this help new users get to a point where they know what they are doing.
As for your "filthy stinky hippies" remark. You obviously have never worked with Microsoft developers.
Why is it that those who complain about SUVs are always the ones who don't have them? They want us to think they are insightful, forward thinkers, but the truth, I believe, is somewhere closer to their pocketbooks.
I didn't get it from Bush if that is what you mean. It is a fairly common phrase where I come from and I have used it for a long time (no, I'm not from Texas either).
I haven't forgotten this. I think we should have killed him 12 years ago. We were stupid not to.
No. Cheese is too close to the French. Perhaps a Hawaiian Burger and some Freedom Fries.
This isn't harrasment. It is people protesting the protester's stupid point of view in an appropriate and peaceful way (Visa, we won't use your cards unless you pull that idiot Martin Sheen's add).
You'll notice that nobody went and damaged property or blocked morning traffic to protest Martin Sheen or the Dixie Chicks (Funny how she appologized afterwards isn't it? I guess her resolve wasn't that strong.)
I think it's funny and interesting how you suggest that defacing public and private property is okay if the protesting matches your opinions, but when people protest the views you agree with, they are "harassing" people.
I really don't think they do.
This is not directed at you BunjiX, but rather all those brainwashed protesters against the war. I just happened to relpy to your comment since you brought up the point that these people can't find a sufficient reason to go to war.
I am 100% in support of this war and I am hopeful that they destroy Saddam and his bunch. We are told that the reason we are having this war is because Saddam has weapons that he intends to use. That is a secondary issue for me. I am for this war and the removal of Saddam for the benefit of Iraqi people.
There are very evil people in this world, and Saddam is one of them. He needs to be dealt with. If you are too French to do anything about it, then get out of the way.
When I lived in Japan, I remember walking into a train station full of people, there was a large highschool student kicking and pounding a kid half his size in the face. The smaller kid's lips were both split in several places and he was missing a few teeth. His nose was bleeding and his whole face was swollen. He was not fighting back; only trying to get away. However, the bigger kid wouldn't let him. What was every last stinking coward in the train station doing? Not a damn thing.
I approached to put a stop to it, and was finally joined by 5 or 6 security people from the train station. Until then, nobody did anything. They all just sat there and watched this small kid getting beating to a bloody heap. Some of them had the intelligence and insight to comment on what a shame it all was and how it was wrong, but that was it. No action. They might as well been beating the kid themselves. Every last person in that train station was a stinking coward in my opinion.
In the case of the war, Saddam is the bully that is oppressing, and at times torturing and killing his people. All the anti-war morons act like Iraqi people enjoy the same rights and freedoms we have and we are infringing upon their peaceful way of life. Well, they don't enjoy the life we have you brainwashed idiots! If you pulled this kind of "protest"crap in Iraq YOU WOULD BE KILLED!!!
To me, anti-war folk are the same types of cowards that stood in that train station in Japan ten years ago; sharing their self-righteous, prolix commentary with each other in a state of absolute impotence while pitying the victims of the world but not doing anything about it; too worried for their own skins to do the right thing and help.
There is evil in this world, and it is up to the decent people of the world to do something about it. If you're too afraid to act, then get out of the way and let those who have some guts set things right so the people of Iraq can at long last have some peace.
It's about helping those who can't help themselves. It's about doing what's right. It's about creating eventual peace. It's not about your beloved leftist politicking and your hatred of Republicans, President Bush, oil and SUVs. You people "protesting" make me sick.
I have one friend that has a ReplayTV machine and another who has a Tivo, so I have looked at both of them. Personally, I like the Tivo better.
The problem with both of them for me is that they are bundled with a service that you are charged monthly for. I'll admit the service is a good one, but I think people for the most part don't like the idea of paying each month for something they can do manually with a VCR. Tivo and Replay have some nice features, but after all, recording a show is still the primary function and most people don't want to pay for that.
If Tivo and Replay would operate just like a VCR and allow you to use their service if you want to, or just use the system as a regular VCR if you didn't want to pay the monthly fees, then I think both systems would probably catch on a lot more than they have.
The UN is impotent and defunct.
Let's pretend for a moment that I have never been to the middle east, and Iraq in particular. Let's also pretend that all you that replied to my original post haven't either. Logically, that would mean that I have access to the same information and knowledge that you do.
What I find so interesting is all the anti-war folks pretend that somehow they are more intelligent and informed as to what's going on. If anyone, such as myself, supports the actions the US is taking over there, then we must be morons presenting a diatribe based on propaganda and lies, while as your opinions, drawn off the same information, is considered an enlightened probe into the subject and a scholarly analysis.
I don't like war and I don't like killing, but when killing is going on without war, as it has been in Iraq, then that needs to be stopped. I'm glad the US has the balls to do the right thing. I hope Iraq is a much better, and much safer place for its people once this is all over.
I don't know for sure since I have no way of knowing your intentions or thoughts, but it seems that most people against the war are in that position for political reasons. I couldn't care less about politics. I care about my friends who live in that part of the world and I want them to have a better life. If you don't, then that's something your going to have to work out with yourself.
I've been there spanky and I have many friends from there.
It'd be really hard to ask your everyday Iraqi mother what she thinks of Saddam while a stormtrooper is sticking a rifle in her gut.
Oh I see, conjecture and downright lying is much better than "it's what I heard". I guess when truth and logic fail us, and stout pigheaded attachment to the neighborhood of make believe will see us through.
This is totally offtopic, but since you brought it up...
I don't really care what the war is over in our president's mind. I fully support it. I think what has been going on in Iraq for at least the last ten years is absolutely hideous. Have you ever been there? It is not a pretty place.
Although I have not personally witnessed these things taking place, I have heard stories of Saddam using the following to bolster up support for himself.
Raping the daughters and wives while their fathers and husbands were forced to watch. Tying women upsidedown during their menstrual cycle so the blood clots up inside of them. The other day I read where he threw several people into a large shredder, and many other kinds of torture to show those still living what they face if they oppose Saddam.
For this alone somebody needs to go in and destroy his ability to be a leader, whether that be through his death or otherwise.
All you anti-war protestor act like everyone is living the high life in Iraq; living like we do in our countries. Well, they are not. Why don't you go ask an everyday Iraqi mother what she thinks of Saddam being ousted before you go shooting off your ill-informed mouth?
I have no idea, it doesn't make any sense to me either. You will have to ask Eugenia.
Anyone who has visited OSNews more than twice knows that Eugenia has an unhealthy infatuation with Windows XP (it used to be with BeOS, but perhaps she has finally come to grips with the fact that BeOS is dead).
I usually skip over any "definitive" or "unbiased" OS reviews from Eugenia since the outcome is always: Linux sucks; OS X is okay but still sucks; XP has some minor flaws, but they pale in comparison to how absolutely dreamy XP is.
Anyway, I found the article ill-informed and very biased and a far cry from definitive (more like diminutive). It must have been a slow news day at OSNews.
Mosaic was the first web browser I ever used. I used it on what was, if I recall correctly, the first version of Slackware. I thought both things were the second and third neatest things after toast.
It is interesting to think back to that time and compare it to where we are today. In some ways things have improved and changed dramatically, and in some ways, things are still the same. I am very encouraged by the progress made during the last 10 or so years and I am greatly interested in what the next 10 years have to bring.
There are programs that let you print to PDF on Windows too. Linux also has tools that allow you to create PDFs. The problem with PDF in my opinion is that it is not easy to edit one unless you have the tools to do so (even then I wouldn't call it trivial). Most people don't have access to such tools.
HTML does not qualify for several reasons. First, it is NOT easy to format and make look good, and secondly, readers are abundant, but good writers are not (most users don't know how to write HTML in vim; or notepad if you're a Windows person).
Proprietary document formats were fine at one point. Most people shared documents via printed paper, or shared them via "soft copy" within their own organizations. However, the time for printed documents and interoffice "soft copies" is over. We need the ability to share documents with the world in an easy to use, feature rich, and easy to edit format. Since a significant part of a document's legibility is in its style and formatting (or at least people are more apt to read a well formatted document over one which is not) text files are out.
.DOC file attachements.
Once an easy to use, open document format is created, and the ability to read and write those documents is built into many programs, I think we will see an end of
While there are currently some "open" formats like PDF and PS, the problem is that they are not easy to create for the average user, nor are they easy to edit. While PDF may be a good format, we need something better.
XML is a logical choice as a base for an open format because it is a well defined standard, it is text based, and is quite easy to parse.
But I ramble.
Pascal was the first language I ever used. I have to admit that for me, Pascal's syntax was very conducive to learning the basics of programming. Having said that, after less than a year of Pascal programming I finally braved a peak at C, and I never looked at pascal again.
I think pascal is a great language for teaching people how to program, and I also think it is perfect for Borland's Delphi product (a nice, easy to learn RAD environment to compete with Microsoft's Very Basic). However, I personally would never use Pascal on a project. If I wanted to use something like Delphi, I would use C++Builder. Of course, since this is a Mac discussion, most of this is irrelevant.
Anyway, I am not familiar with Objective C, but if I were going to program for a Mac, and OC and Pascal were the only two choices, in spite of already knowing Pascal, I think I would rather learn Objective C.