Comment Re:And.... (Score 1) 404
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I did, the first time ever that I got access to the internet many years ago. It said that I was the 1,000,000th viewer and was eligible for some gift. Learned quickly after that — many don't.
In many cases ad links are positioned in a manner that they look like they're part of your content or site links. That way many don't even realize that they're clicking on ads.
And how exactly do you pronounce either of them differently? If the writer is merely quoting the kid in text form, you'd have to yell at the writer for their bad grammar.
Ok, I'm lost. What quote are you talking about? Your GP post has not quoted anyone, he has only made a comment. Also, the two may not be pronounced differently but they most certainly have very different meanings and can easily be identified based on their usage.
I'm sure there will be one day that the people will wake up and know that their system is so corrupt, that the elected officials are only idiots who are popular and that the majority of the electorate refuse to vote because they know that no choice they can make will the right one, when every choice is a bad one...
It's happening right now in India. With a very high level of corruption, majority of the middle classes do not turn out to vote. Of course, this is the very middle class that would rather bribe the government officer to get some job done quickly/illegally than go through the correct procedure -- and then come out and call the officer a greedy bastard.
Heh, believe it or not, a project I worked on once (using aCC on HP-UX) actually did not have optimization turned on because it "behaved weirdly". Yeah, weirdly as in local variables no longer retained values from their previous function calls and many other such types of insanities
There is a bunch of sadhus in India called the Aghoris, who live near crematoriums around the river Ganga. Their staple food includes remnants of cremated bodies.
Food (I know
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/10/28/documentary-takes-a-bite-out-of-cannibals/
http://venom-mylife.blogspot.com/2008/05/aghori-sadhus-in-india-practise.html
Ok, that is probably the crappiest statistic I've seen. No, don't believe it at all.
Out here in India, Outsourcing salaries for freshers start at 200K INR per annum (small IT shops). For the major outsourcing companies (TCS, Infosys, Satyam, etc.), the numbers can go up to 300K-350K per year. The real bigwigs (IBM, Accenture, etc.) offer up to 400K-450K per year.
At 2 years, one gets around 500k-600k per year. The 10-20 year bracket get anywhere in between 1M-2M per year.
Of course, all figures are in INR. Divide by the current exchange rate to get the amount in USD. But that's a pointless exercise since we spend in INR you see and the amounts I just mentioned are really really good.
Disclaimer: The recession may have changed these figures by a bit, a really small bit though.
And, IMHO, if he means "Linux in general" (as opposed to Red Hat Enterprise Linux), that is a huge mistake, because MS will use its desktop monopoly and control of protocols to limit the penetration of Linux servers.
What he meant by his comment was that he thinks it is difficult to make money out of selling support for Linux desktops, which is why few will actually venture into the serious business of supporting Linux on Desktops.
Supporting Desktops is a challenging exercise due to the variety of hardware (you can't really try to support all of them and make money out of it). This is probably what Jim Whitehurst is sceptical about.
That assumes that you either know the language the kernel or a program is written in, AND have the time to investigate and make the change. Often even professional coders don't have the time to make all the changes to FOSS programs they'd like.
True, but if you want it bad enough, you can pay someone to do it for you.
The problem with Linux is that yes there are critics... BUT the Linux community dismisses them as twits who don't understand or appreciate Linux...
If the Linux community were to take end users seriously and start solving their problems then maybe Linux would move on...
Pay for it and you just might get it. Buy a support subscription from Red Hat/Canonical/Novell and ask them for a feature or report bugs that bother you and you absolutely want fixed. Better yet, hire someone to implement it for you.
It's funny how people confuse the Free for "no money" rather than the freedom that FOSS affords you.
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