My request to ubuntu developer team

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 19:34 -0800, Ernest Doub wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> wrote:
>         On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 14:47 -0800, Ernest Doub wrote:
>         
>         > Show me ~any~ handheld device [using the above definition]
>         currently
>         > in distribution that has the same speed and productivity
>         capabilities
>         > as the desktop models currently in distribution.  You might
>         be able to
>         > make a case [it would still be a major stretch] if you chose
>         an
>         > absolute bottom end desktop box and the most bleeding edge
>         handheld
>         > but not if you are comparing averages.
>         > The desktop will have the advantage in productivity until
>         there is a
>         > major technological breakthrough requiring at least an order
>         of
>         > magnitude reduction in "real estate" required for a given
>         level of
>         > computing power.
>         ----
>         OK - this is actually quite easy.
>         
>         Quad core Tegra 3 processor
> 
> Nice try, but short of the mark.  The press release announcing this
> processor is dated November 9th, 2011.
> When you can show me benchmarks for the same inputs and outputs in the
> same speeds for the same or equivalent tasks, on a walk in and buy it
> off the shelf product I will agree that you have met the criteria.
> Until then you are trying to convince me that a lime is actually an
> orange or that there is no difference between an apple and a pear.
> 
>         ----
>         
>         
>         > You are very good at taking a statement of fact and turning
>         it into
>         > some sort of assertion in your own mind.  The unwillingness
>         to accept
>         > what are commonly accepted policies as a fact of life is
>         your personal
>         > cross to bear.
>         > Business decision makers will never be interested in Linux
>         as a
>         > desktop OS as long as the developers refuse to provide the
>         > productivity tools required by business in a package that is
>         > economically implementable.
>         > The only reason that MS has such a large market share is
>         because they
>         > meet the checklist of business requirements better than
>         anybody else
>         > in the view of the people who are writing the checks.
>         ----
>         that might be a majority of the reasons but certainly far from
>         the only
>         reason.
>         ----
>         >         > If you don't believe me, go ask those people who
>         have spent
>         >         their entire career studying how to increase
>         productivity and
>         >         ask them for their opinion of which system is
>         better.
>         ----
>         productivity isn't verifiable - People can be productive with
>         pretty
>         much anything. There's little productivity benefit to Windows
>         over
>         Macintosh or Linux.
> 
> Make that statement to an Industrial Engineer and you will be laughed
> out of the room.
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering
> 
> Make the same statement to your HR person and you may find your past
> ~performance reviews~ being carefully scrutinized and you being passed
> over come promotion time. 
> 
>         ----
>         
>         > th as been used so long and has become so widely accepted
>         because it
>         > is an efficient use of the workspace [monitor] and tools
>         [keyboard and
>         > mouse]
>         ----
>         not really but it is something that people pretty much
>         understand at
>         this point so there's little need for training.
>         
> "Little need for training" translates directly into efficiency that
> goes straight to the corporate bottom line through reduced training
> costs. 
> I have dealt with quite a few computer programmers in my career and
> the majority of the ones I have known have a difficult time grasping
> the concept of standardized controls or the larger ramifications of
> the use of such controls. 
> Your very good at nit picking while entirely missing the concepts of
> the main argument.
----
it's pointless to even try to discuss anything with you when are so
severely afflicted with the Bullwinkle syndrome.

Craig



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