People with skills and trades will almost always find work even in shitty economies. If you know how to make something, build something, or fix something that everyone uses, then someone is probably going to pay you to do that.

Not necessarily. The construction industry (at least in my country) has traditionally suffered from a nasty boom-bust cycle. A few years of flat out work struggling to find/attract/train talent, then a few years of struggling to find work and having to lay off that same talent. Who then move overseas and then the cycle starts again.

Geez slashdot is getting stupider and stupider every year.

The parent post is modded flamebait while the grandparent post is +5 insightful.

This was about the effects the ice loss has on the planets spin. The ice loss and changes in spin are measurable.

Yet because that ice loss was attributed to climate change some knee jerk slashdotter gets offended, claims the whole study is ludicrous and gets modded +5 for it.

Doesn't really matter what the headline is.

Slashdotters will only see the word Ubuntu or Canonical, and then jump to their own conclusions anyway or rant about something unrelated like Unity or how Ubuntu should give up now because Mint is easily the most popular distro on the planet etc etc.

For example: what percentage of replies below didn't even skim the summary and assumed that Ubuntu will be ditching dpkg and apt for this new tool?

Microsoft is fustrated that still, no one gives a shit about windows 8, and no one wants windows rt, and they were all DOA.

As much as I despise apple products, no cult-of-crapple iPad users would ever think twice about anything else, and if they did, it would more likely be android.

MS rose to riches in the 90s on selling massive numbers of Office suites when they (and desktop PCs) really were a big productivity improvement.

They put huge efforts into (mostly) successfully keeping standalone document/spreadsheet files relevant during the increasingly networked and web oriented 2000s. Smaller geekier companies (like ours) moved to things like wikis other webapps etc, but that didn't put much of a dent in the Office suite market.

Now in the 2010s a bunch of smaller factors like mobility, device independence / cloud storage, "coolness", apps, always on networking, an increasingly powerful web, collaboration, the growth of other platforms etc have combined to really start eroding the actual value/point of a file based Office suite outside the world of the legacy enterprise desktop.

I think MS has hung onto Office technology being the only real basis of any of their collaboration/content based solutions for far too long. Their fear of huting the massive Office profits has left them vulnerable/blind to being left behind. They realise this now and are getting a bit desperate.

They should have named it Clittoral Combat Ship since it will be easily penetrated.

Hmmm someone needs an anatomy lesson or an actual girlfriend (probably both).

Bingo. It takes a day or so to explore the new interface and do some research on the web to find out how to use it and a week or so to become used to it. One is forced to assume that the complainers are drooling morons who would be unable to cope with learning anything new without being spoon-fed. Heaven help these people if they had to learn something as complicated as a new programming language.

That used to be the kind of response uncomfortable newbies trying a new system used to get from some Linux users 10yrs ago that gave them a bad reputation for being elitist arrogant pricks.

I find it funny that the elitist arrogant pricks are now the early adopters of a new Windows version chiding those others that aren't so comfortable with the changes. And now the whining from longer term Linux users is now about hating recent desktop changes.

How times change.

This must be thursday. I never could get the hang of thursdays.

(note: before anyone complains it isn't thursday - it is in my timezone you insensitive clod!)

I think you're correct if you're talking about Citrix's commercial XenServer product whose main market would be enterprise users.

But this is about the open source Xen hypervisor project. It's main deployment is with cloud and VPS hosting providers eg Amazon, Rackspace, Linode etc. And it is doing well in that world.

And now that the open source Xen is free from Citrix, ongoing development shouldn't be as dependent on Citrix's fortunes with XenServer.

This isn't the Linux Foundation going looking for a virtualisation project and picking Xen.

From what I've read, this is the open source Xen community asking Citrix if the open source project can shift to being run by an independent foundation, Citrix agreeing to that, and the Xen community picking the Linux Foundation as the best fit.

I'm sure that if Redhat wanted to move KVM to the Linux Foundation, that would be able to happen too. It would be like eg the Apache Foundation managing 'competing' projects just fine.

The Xen community felt that this move will make it easier for other companies and developers to contribute to the open source Xen project, and hope that it will improve collaboration with other projects etc etc.

Citrix still has its commercial XenServer product, and will presumably still employ developers to work on the open source Xen. But the management of the open source project is now independent from Citrix.

Personally I think it's a good move - after all Xen is running an awful lot of hosting/cloud providers out there.

What's the problem with humans going extinct in cataclysmic astronomical event? Who exactly is going care? We certainly won't - we're all dead remember.

Most species becomes space faring, the smart ones like Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal leave as soon as they can.

According to Wikipedia the Cro Mags are still around.

Seriously though: aren't we actually the same species anyway?

Turn in both your geek and nerd card noob

Turn in your reading comprehension card.

They said they needed IE8 - not that IE 10 wasn't available for Windows 7. I'm not sure how you could misread that so badly.

How does that compare to SAML?

It isn't an XML and SOAP powered enterprise style sea of complexity?

I'm sure there are other differences :)

When linux is a web-based service, call me and we'll talk. Until then, stop taking things out of context... it makes you look retarded.

When you understand what Persona is, call me and we'll talk. Until then, stop taking things out of context... it makes you look retarded.

Hint: Personal is a decentralised system/protocol implemented using open source code. Anybody can set up an identity provider, and Mozilla will have no connection to it. In terms of the rest us being users vs being products it is far closer to Linux than your "web based services" (eg Facebook or Twitter).

usually just that they get to know your Google ID which is also your e-mail address

It's actually more private than that. Without knowing all the nitty gritty details - if an app follows Google's process for signing up users, that user gets a unique OpenID specific to that app via a common 'discovery' url.

That way all the apps you sign up for can't really connect you with anything else.

It is a slight pain for open standards though - Google is making it much harder to know what your standard OpenID actually is.