[ale] I can't quit laughing

[Jim Kinney]

HA! Most stuff is beta at best! Software that is shipping with big $$ price
tags is beta is the developers dreams (the alpha version was the marketing
depts final product while upper management is _still_ trying to figure out
why it needs to actually ship with a working support team behind it).

If anything ever gets actually completed, it's a freaking miracle.

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Its kind of interesting. Its impossible this day in age to have something
> done. If everything is finished, you have to change something to make
> people happy.  Keeping it Beta, makes it so it doesn't have to supported.
> Doesn't surprise me that its still beta.
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Not surprising.  However, I setup a friend a few years back with a
>> netbook with fedora and skype. It's benn upgraded to f16 and the latest
>> skype for Linux. It all works. Even the video.
>> On May 4, 2012 9:18 PM, "Lawrence Hamblin" <infinity.d2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think I'll just rain on your parade with a bit of irony: the Linux
>>> version of Skype is still stuck, after over two years, on version 2.2 beta.
>>>
>>> Thanks Microsoft.
>>>
>>> Lawrence
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Having been in this since kernel v.0.95 and seen the train wreck of
>>>> Microsoft trying to hold off the inevitable, for them to cave this quickly
>>>> and USE a Linux cluster as a core component is just a funny thing to me.
>>>>
>>>> And, yes, it is _QUITE_ a compliment!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Why? They realized linux was more efficient for their needs. I see it
>>>>> as a compliment.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/4/12, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --
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>>>>> > James P. Kinney III
>>>>> >
>>>>> > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
>>>>> > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
>>>>> they
>>>>> > please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
>>>>> outcome.
>>>>> > - *2011 Noam Chomsky
>>>>> >
>>>>> > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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>>>>> >
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>>>> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
>>>> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
>>>> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
>>>> - *2011 Noam Chomsky
>>>>
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James P. Kinney III

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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