I wish this had been posted in the evening so I could study it. For now, here's a very brief dissent:
I feel B. H. is inaccurate, and that this is a threat to liberties. My basic reason is that laws have a terrible tendency to "grow" uses lately, and therefore anything with the words "unmask ____ is not a threat" is too abusable precisely because of the posters complaining about his writing style.
P.S. Some/Many News rags are creating the absolute worst model to follow. "Let's communicate the wrong interpretation nice and crispy!" (Deliberate grammar spike there.)
I bought my printer on specs. At printer prices it would have been more value lost in labor with potential models trying to see if four successive versions of uBuntu (for example) support $random_printer.
Also I think this is price related. a $40 junk printer almost certainly is not. I wonder if the $200 models are more likely to magically just work.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say supporting Linux is HARD. (Thus a cost factor to deal in.)
Ultra-low Windows support can be handled by "script-teams" in centers. Usually after they get past "so you have Windows XP, you checked the cables, you rebooted, and the device manager looks okay", they escalate you. Their purpose is to burn the low hanging 12 minutes getting the brutally low end 5 data points to get a real incident going.
With Linux the fabled "average" user with no vocab is going to start with "my computer doesn't boot." "What version of Linux do you have?" "I don't know." "Who makes it." "I think it's that uBuntu guy." "Okay, do you know which version?" "No." "Can we find out?" "It won't boot." (Hosed.)
I see ads on hulu for "education foundation - Rwanda". That's here. These guys are not going to win quick bucks.
Someone has to take a beautiful long haul approach with SERIOUS cash for twelve years to finally bust up Microsoft, and then people can talk quick money then. Once Linux/variant mentality of FreeOS gets REALLY locked, we're fine.
We're just still struggling because of MS's blackly beautiful dirty plays 15 years ago.
You know, I think "average users" are one fresher step down in the WTH department.
I think they "know what Linux is" now because the world is too connected. They may know nothing ABOUT Linux, but the noun is there. Probably "that whiz kid" or "that dude at work" uses it and they looked on.
I'm wagering it's now actually attempting to use Linux is scary as hell for these folks... because it is for me and I'm used to being a midge above average on Windows. Suddenly on Linux I can't do a thing right.
Parallel poster is right - it's no longer about 7 pieces of hardware failing. Let's suppose that's all straightened out. (I bought a POS from Best buy, a midline Samsumg printer, and did fine.) Those guys addressing the Support Side are right - let's call it "every user has 100 questions". It's an educational process. Each time you get X user up and running with their hundred questions, the next fella steps up, and 30 of them are the same, 70 are new ones.
It prob. feels exhausting to those in the know, but there we are.
I don't think it will be too bad of a crapshoot for too many years more.
I deliberately went to Best Buy looking for a cheap system I could blow up windows & put linux on. I didn't want to "waste a real system" (don't laugh) knowing my talent for making my own disasters.
It worked. Printer, basic landline dsl, sound. Fine by me. Any further problems I had were my fault in other categories.
I'm developing a theory of "lynchpins". There are specific things that "almost work", and maybe the expert knows the tricks.
As your flawlessly prototypical perfect Linux candidate, I'm no turbo newbie to Windows, but like culture shock, some things irrationally scare me with Linux, because of Inverse Beginner's Luck.
Make a utility that acts like GoBack (later diluted by MS as SysRestore). Let me know that if I explore I have a chance in blazes of recovering.
My last install, I tried to update from Dapper Drake to the next LT release, per "advertized",... and blew up X.
Far from lazy, watch what happens when you put a little work into it.
"Dangermouse has sold me an label-approved(sorta) CD-R. Blank. Then he ordered me to go find (his) music and burn it."
But how do you prove what was actually recorded onto that CD was in fact Dangermouse Music? Are the feds going to raid owners of Dangermouse Cds to demand to listen to them??
"De Bible tells me, that the animals went on the Ark 2 by 2. Then the waters of the ocean would rise up and surround them. So, lemme think, I think that makes for Goats at Sea." (/RougeNeck)
I'm sure you are not a troll (YANAT), but the other side of slashdot is discussing how cheap data is, woe to the pay providers.
I think you mean that keeping data in a sophisticated manner is what grinds out IT Admin time, which eventually means a salary to pay. But the data itself is cheap, and 50,000 fellas on here can whack up something simple as a makeshift in a week for $5,000 and a month's supply of pizza&caffeine.
(~) Locking up content is fun!! Then you can sue Pirates(TM) when someone copies a plane design. But if the site admin "never actually kept an offline copy" then years of data is gone!! (/~)
(Speaking of which, that story sounds totally bogus. They coded live on production servers?? Sounds like they played dead.)
In the following year they explain that the reasons corporations are fun is they can invent themselves any time without notice, called Branding.
(Analogy) Ever gotten into a rabid argument about Yum Brands? I bet not. Yet I would gather you've thought about whether some day's lunch was Kentucky Fried Chicken vs. Pizza Hut.
The thing is women like to form their little "women's cliques" and then tell men something totally different. See elsewhere why it's great for a magazine to insinuate that the GF weighs too much, but not okay for the LesserHalf.
So let Dell CoBrand all they like. They can have the Pony brand, and the Artemis brand for those scary stiletto-heel types.
This whole comments section is describing the Hello Kitty Generation demographic.
What % of Woman Corporate Raiders responds to Dell's brand of marketing. Yesterday I think I saw Google's Exec in charge of something was a woman. What are her tastes in computers?
(Careful Mods, this is hyperbole, not sarcasm!) Driver problems aside, Vista is Great for one brand of security. Every time you want to do something, it asks "Cancel or Allow". It's a High School Principal's dream. Or a Bank Vault Manager.
"Person X Requests to remove a document. Cancel or Allow?"
Thing is, people like to believe they left their parents' control, so MAYBE they don't have to be given permission to do everything anymore. That's when the fatigue sets in, and then people get lazy and click "allow allow allow".
Grand Rapids has long been a center for furniture and automobile manufacturing; however, the presence of both industries has declined in the region along with manufacturing in general. American Seating, Steelcase, Haworth and Herman Miller, major manufacturers of office furniture, are based in the Grand Rapids area.
In 1880, Sligh Furniture Company started manufacturing furniture.[8] In 1881, the Furniture Manufacturers Association (FMA) was organized in Grand Rapids, it was apparently the first furniture manufacturing advocacy group in the country.[9] Also Since 1912, Kindel Furniture Company,[10] and since 1922, the Hekman/Woodmark Furniture Company,[11] have been designing and manufacturing traditional American furniture in Grand Rapids. All of these companies are still producing furniture today.
Mods, he may not be offtopic. SigBlocking is not the cure for $600 promos.
Depends on how good his comment is, Everyone mods it up. Later, it goes to +5... Like that's the seal of approval.
It's related to the Captcha problem. No software can strip the ads out of this post. Text is Static - there is no LetterItemVeto. Embedding may be the bane of the future. Like the caps, my friend?
The pay curves from 0 to Bachelors are far steeper than Bachelors to Masters. While "many" can, that kind of success does take an odd brand of insight to make it work. For those who don't have those flawless instincts, it's all too easy to miss the window a few times, then end up serving cheese subs.
At least a degree lets you usually finagle some entry level stuff, just to avoid gaping black holes on your resume. Now multiblended careers are standard, so "just working usefully" is good enough even if it's not a straight line up a field.
I began college in the early '90's, and after decling Pro Science, set about for my career.
I was just luck enough to have this feeling that computing in 1994 really wasn't mature enough to waste a full degree in, so I got an accounting degree with some PHB icing.
Wall Street adventures in the news aside, accounting is still accounting. But now were I the CS type, a CS masters in this environment is "still the paper", but far fresher and full of much more useful topics. I think What To Do Post Microsoft will be the topic of the decade.
Meanwhile, I have some grade B work experience, but a hulluva lot more real context. My current position is a hybrid I invented for myself, that no straight degree will ever describe in a course catalog.
Slashdot Mirror
(Some Geek's Grandpa)
I don't like it, it's not one bit! You know, one day a rottweiler bit me, and left some marks...
I wonder if data can be stored in the biopatterns of dogbites. You can have teeth shape by breed, bloodloss, pattern of bite, ...
I wish this had been posted in the evening so I could study it. For now, here's a very brief dissent:
I feel B. H. is inaccurate, and that this is a threat to liberties. My basic reason is that laws have a terrible tendency to "grow" uses lately, and therefore anything with the words "unmask ____ is not a threat" is too abusable precisely because of the posters complaining about his writing style.
P.S. Some/Many News rags are creating the absolute worst model to follow. "Let's communicate the wrong interpretation nice and crispy!" (Deliberate grammar spike there.)
Maybe it's time to roll the dice.
I bought my printer on specs. At printer prices it would have been more value lost in labor with potential models trying to see if four successive versions of uBuntu (for example) support $random_printer.
Also I think this is price related. a $40 junk printer almost certainly is not. I wonder if the $200 models are more likely to magically just work.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say supporting Linux is HARD. (Thus a cost factor to deal in.)
Ultra-low Windows support can be handled by "script-teams" in centers. Usually after they get past "so you have Windows XP, you checked the cables, you rebooted, and the device manager looks okay", they escalate you. Their purpose is to burn the low hanging 12 minutes getting the brutally low end 5 data points to get a real incident going.
With Linux the fabled "average" user with no vocab is going to start with "my computer doesn't boot."
"What version of Linux do you have?"
"I don't know."
"Who makes it."
"I think it's that uBuntu guy."
"Okay, do you know which version?"
"No."
"Can we find out?"
"It won't boot."
(Hosed.)
$1000 in support. Seriously.
I see ads on hulu for "education foundation - Rwanda". That's here. These guys are not going to win quick bucks.
Someone has to take a beautiful long haul approach with SERIOUS cash for twelve years to finally bust up Microsoft, and then people can talk quick money then. Once Linux/variant mentality of FreeOS gets REALLY locked, we're fine.
We're just still struggling because of MS's blackly beautiful dirty plays 15 years ago.
You know, I think "average users" are one fresher step down in the WTH department.
I think they "know what Linux is" now because the world is too connected. They may know nothing ABOUT Linux, but the noun is there. Probably "that whiz kid" or "that dude at work" uses it and they looked on.
I'm wagering it's now actually attempting to use Linux is scary as hell for these folks... because it is for me and I'm used to being a midge above average on Windows. Suddenly on Linux I can't do a thing right.
Parallel poster is right - it's no longer about 7 pieces of hardware failing. Let's suppose that's all straightened out. (I bought a POS from Best buy, a midline Samsumg printer, and did fine.) Those guys addressing the Support Side are right - let's call it "every user has 100 questions". It's an educational process. Each time you get X user up and running with their hundred questions, the next fella steps up, and 30 of them are the same, 70 are new ones.
It prob. feels exhausting to those in the know, but there we are.
So let him address the guys who already "won the lottery". My hardware works. It's the software side I'm screwing up.
Now I know to ask him for help; not sure about you.
I don't think it will be too bad of a crapshoot for too many years more.
I deliberately went to Best Buy looking for a cheap system I could blow up windows & put linux on. I didn't want to "waste a real system" (don't laugh) knowing my talent for making my own disasters.
It worked. Printer, basic landline dsl, sound. Fine by me. Any further problems I had were my fault in other categories.
I'm developing a theory of "lynchpins". There are specific things that "almost work", and maybe the expert knows the tricks.
"Discoverability & Mindshare"
As your flawlessly prototypical perfect Linux candidate, I'm no turbo newbie to Windows, but like culture shock, some things irrationally scare me with Linux, because of Inverse Beginner's Luck.
Make a utility that acts like GoBack (later diluted by MS as SysRestore). Let me know that if I explore I have a chance in blazes of recovering.
My last install, I tried to update from Dapper Drake to the next LT release, per "advertized", ... and blew up X.
Far from lazy, watch what happens when you put a little work into it.
"Dangermouse has sold me an label-approved(sorta) CD-R. Blank. Then he ordered me to go find (his) music and burn it."
But how do you prove what was actually recorded onto that CD was in fact Dangermouse Music? Are the feds going to raid owners of Dangermouse Cds to demand to listen to them??
You missed the obvious joke:
"Pawned!!"
As for the movement, they can jump from Boston to New York in one move over a network.
Hello-oo Tux!
(RougeNeck)
"De Bible tells me, that the animals went on the Ark 2 by 2. Then the waters of the ocean would rise up and surround them.
So, lemme think, I think that makes for Goats at Sea."
(/RougeNeck)
I'll grant you $150 in misc. expense.
The other $4000 is 2.5 hours of link maintenance a week for two years.
But even so, we agree that $100K is ludicrous. That's the price attitude that killed wall street.
I'm sure you are not a troll (YANAT), but the other side of slashdot is discussing how cheap data is, woe to the pay providers.
I think you mean that keeping data in a sophisticated manner is what grinds out IT Admin time, which eventually means a salary to pay. But the data itself is cheap, and 50,000 fellas on here can whack up something simple as a makeshift in a week for $5,000 and a month's supply of pizza&caffeine.
Yep.
Remember this story from a few hours ago?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/15/0138204
(~)
Locking up content is fun!! Then you can sue Pirates(TM) when someone copies a plane design. But if the site admin "never actually kept an offline copy" then years of data is gone!!
(/~)
(Speaking of which, that story sounds totally bogus. They coded live on production servers?? Sounds like they played dead.)
In the following year they explain that the reasons corporations are fun is they can invent themselves any time without notice, called Branding.
(Analogy)
Ever gotten into a rabid argument about Yum Brands? I bet not. Yet I would gather you've thought about whether some day's lunch was Kentucky Fried Chicken vs. Pizza Hut.
The thing is women like to form their little "women's cliques" and then tell men something totally different. See elsewhere why it's great for a magazine to insinuate that the GF weighs too much, but not okay for the LesserHalf.
So let Dell CoBrand all they like. They can have the Pony brand, and the Artemis brand for those scary stiletto-heel types.
This whole comments section is describing the Hello Kitty Generation demographic.
What % of Woman Corporate Raiders responds to Dell's brand of marketing. Yesterday I think I saw Google's Exec in charge of something was a woman. What are her tastes in computers?
(Careful Mods, this is hyperbole, not sarcasm!)
Driver problems aside, Vista is Great for one brand of security. Every time you want to do something, it asks "Cancel or Allow". It's a High School Principal's dream. Or a Bank Vault Manager.
"Person X Requests to remove a document. Cancel or Allow?"
Thing is, people like to believe they left their parents' control, so MAYBE they don't have to be given permission to do everything anymore. That's when the fatigue sets in, and then people get lazy and click "allow allow allow".
One Czar to Rule them all and in the Darkness bind them?
They're buying Grand Rapids MI?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Rapids,_Michigan#Economy
Economy
Grand Rapids has long been a center for furniture and automobile manufacturing; however, the presence of both industries has declined in the region along with manufacturing in general. American Seating, Steelcase, Haworth and Herman Miller, major manufacturers of office furniture, are based in the Grand Rapids area.
In 1880, Sligh Furniture Company started manufacturing furniture.[8] In 1881, the Furniture Manufacturers Association (FMA) was organized in Grand Rapids, it was apparently the first furniture manufacturing advocacy group in the country.[9] Also Since 1912, Kindel Furniture Company,[10] and since 1922, the Hekman/Woodmark Furniture Company,[11] have been designing and manufacturing traditional American furniture in Grand Rapids. All of these companies are still producing furniture today.
They seem determined to abuse technology as far as *the abuse* can go.
Phrase: "Quantum of Terror"
"Hmm. Our ID test runs on heartbeats, measured in a comfy lab with plush seats and chocolate mints. But we Don't Like This Guy.
" 'Hey, you're a terrorist!!' "
(Subject's heart races)
"Oh look, he fails. He MUST be a terrorist! Wheee!"
It's Schrodinger's Nightmare.
Mods, he may not be offtopic.
SigBlocking is not the cure for $600 promos.
Depends on how good his comment is,
Everyone mods it up.
Later, it goes to +5...
Like that's the seal of approval.
It's related to the Captcha problem.
No software can strip the ads out of this post.
Text is Static - there is no LetterItemVeto.
Embedding may be the bane of the future.
Like the caps, my friend?
I do think I disagree here.
The pay curves from 0 to Bachelors are far steeper than Bachelors to Masters. While "many" can, that kind of success does take an odd brand of insight to make it work. For those who don't have those flawless instincts, it's all too easy to miss the window a few times, then end up serving cheese subs.
At least a degree lets you usually finagle some entry level stuff, just to avoid gaping black holes on your resume. Now multiblended careers are standard, so "just working usefully" is good enough even if it's not a straight line up a field.
However, it's not always an Either-Or forever.
I began college in the early '90's, and after decling Pro Science, set about for my career.
I was just luck enough to have this feeling that computing in 1994 really wasn't mature enough to waste a full degree in, so I got an accounting degree with some PHB icing.
Wall Street adventures in the news aside, accounting is still accounting. But now were I the CS type, a CS masters in this environment is "still the paper", but far fresher and full of much more useful topics. I think What To Do Post Microsoft will be the topic of the decade.
Meanwhile, I have some grade B work experience, but a hulluva lot more real context. My current position is a hybrid I invented for myself, that no straight degree will ever describe in a course catalog.