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Comment Re:Complete cop-out (Score 2) 133

by xkahn on Monday October 30, 2017 @02:40PM (#55458679) Attached to: Interviews: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst Answers Your Questions

Red Hat may make money from support, but consider that every time a support case is opened, Red Hat is losing money. Most businesses work very hard to reduce the number of support cases that get opened because of this. Red Hat won't be an exception there.

Comment Re:More (Score 1) 227

by xkahn on Thursday March 29, 2012 @02:07PM (#39512977) Attached to: In Your Face, Critics! Red Hat Passes $1 Billion In Revenue

I really wish Redhat had some much cheaper, "updates only" version of their software.. When I worked in Education, we had a version that was $50/year.. I would love something like that for my own personal use.. and maybe a $100/y version for companies..

Actually, this exists! It's $99 and includes "Eclipse, Eclipse Tooling, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Operations Network, and one entitlement to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with built-in development tools, and Red Hat Network Access for development purposes."

https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/developers/

the license is not for production machines though.

Also note that you can get free copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux if you are an ISV developing software for it:

http://www.redhat.com/partners/become/isv/

Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told 412

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 29, 2009 @02:38AM from the mine-mine-mine dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "New cognitive research shows that 3-year-olds neither plan for the future nor live completely in the present, but instead call up the past as they need it. 'There is a lot of work in the field of cognitive development that focuses on how kids are basically little versions of adults trying to do the same things adults do, but they're just not as good at it yet. What we show here is they are doing something completely different,' says professor Yuko Munakata at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Munakata's team used a computer game and a setup that measures the diameter of the pupil of the eye to determine mental effort to study the cognitive abilities of 3-and-a-half-year-olds and 8-year-olds. The research concluded that while everything you tell toddlers seems to go in one ear and out the other, the study found that toddlers listen, but then store the information for later use. 'For example, let's say it's cold outside and you tell your 3-year-old to go get his jacket out of his bedroom and get ready to go outside,' says doctoral student Christopher Chatham. 'You might expect the child to plan for the future, think "OK it's cold outside so the jacket will keep me warm." But what we suggest is that this isn't what goes on in a 3-year-old's brain. Rather, they run outside, discover that it is cold, and then retrieve the memory of where their jacket is, and then they go get it.'"

Comment Re:Yes but ... Users shouldn't set the time! (Score 1) 429

by xkahn on Tuesday October 11, 2005 @03:54PM (#13767617) Attached to: Novell's Releases Linux Usability Testing Videos

I think you're missing many points here.

Many Linux boxes are single user machines. Odd, but true. Sometimes these machines are even laptops!
Setting the time and setting the timezone are very different operations. The system time can be in one timezone while each user on the system can be in different timezones. In this case, changing the timezone is a reasonable operation.
This task exposed a problem in the way users view the regular user/administrator split.
People frequently can't imagine that setting the time on a computer is a big deal. When they go off to try a task which they aren't allowed to accomplish, isn't it a good idea to stop them quickly and let them know they can't do it? What's the best way to do that?

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