Canonical's code contribution is irrelevant. What open source has always needed is some polish and some marketing. Thats what canonical provide, they polished and marketed (to an extent) a decent distro. OSS has never been short of decent code and quality software engineering. Canonical are providing a great link in the value chain of linux and as long as the basic prinicipals are upheld im all for it!
Sorry but that just plain rubbish I have a bunch of IBM certs because IBM make us take them to keep our partner status. Ive seen sheets of answers being passed round so people can memorise them, pass the cert and carry on doing something useful. The only certs i would pay any attention to are ones with a written component such as SCEA (Sun (oracle now?) Certified Enterprise Architecht). Even then its probably pretty easy to rip off the written component from somewhere.
IT industry certs are a joke. Basicly what happens is:-
1) Guy pays off certification center in india works through the exam a few times untill hes seen all the questions in the random pool
2) get answers to all the questions (do a shitty job)
3) Sell answers on testking.org or some dodgy site as a "guide"
4) profit
nah, they cant show me the movie without really [i]showing[/i] me the movie so the data is decrypted somewhere and the pixels in my tv are told what colour to go someone is always going to be able to grab the stream and make a good ol' file our of it. once that file is on bittorent all the effort you describe will be for nowt, in fact if bandwidth realy is cheap you wont even have to download it form a BT site you can get it from some kinda pirate 1080p streaming site
public sector is incompetent but at least its well meaning incompetence
private sector is incompetence combined with greed
ill take the first one
Yeah man chinese traditional medicine is awseome.... you only have to go back to the 60s and average life expectancy in china is a whopping 36!.... that traditional medicine must really rock...
discussion over. You have the answer!
I stuck my mum on ubuntu and shes never looked back. My sister has just called me to tell me her XP laptop is spamming popups, giving spuroius virus messages and generally sounds like its in a world of pain. I cant wait to spend 2-3 hours tonight mopping all that crap up
more here http://nand.net/~demaria/hollywood.txt
Yeah your right we should just give up trying to demand open standards. Lets all throw our hands up in the air and burn our computers
This is a good reason to boycott MW2 but the better reason is the higher price point. All the retailers are selling WM2 for at least a fiver more than a normal triple-A title. If it sells well then you can guarantee all new games will move to this price point.
Yeah man i had a 486 DX40 as my first proper pc. It had 4 MB ram and i remember spending £300($450) on an upgrade to 8 so i could run MS windows 3.11 bloatware.
Can remember how big the disk was mind... 80 MB rings a bell though
1. create complex new search engine type technology
2. create webcast of launch
3. announce on slashdot
4. fail!
I wonder why people dont create records of sites going live... perhaps its cos the poop always collides with the fan!
Yeah, and they could make those guys lives easier by building a fence... like, out of wood, or bricks or wire.... give em something to walk along!
In fairness even half a mile is still quite a long distance to patrol if there are determined people trying to get through... in fact if I was patroling it as a geek i might erect some cameras and motion sensors to help me along and get my colleagues to do the same.... hmmm
.... im sure that clip was created by/for the BBC as an april fools
Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say.
