[ale] NVIDIA cards and drivers

[Joseph Knapka]

Marvin Dickens <mpdickens at tlanta.com> writes:

> On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 20:43, Joseph Knapka wrote:
> > it makes me feel more mindless and, er, heapy
> > all the time...
> 
> Very tired, half asleep and snickering as I read this... 
> 
> FWIW, I don't care what the platform is....I'll develop on anything
> people are willing to pay me to develop on. Also, if  you *really* don't
> want a contract, start telling them everything that's wrong with all
> that sw and hw they spent all that money on instead of telling them how
> your gonna deliver on what they hired you for. You'll really endear
> yourself to the managers who have the power and award
> business.................

All good points. One shouldn't point out the problems with the
existing systems; rather, one should play up the advantages of
changing them. (While, of course, making the associated costs clear as
well.)

When building products for Evil Empire platforms, I try to use OSS
tools, and make my code portable to OSS platforms wherever
possible. This takes very little effort in most cases, especially when
using higher-level languages like Python and Java; and when, in a
couple of years, our clients say, "We've heard we can save a bunch of
money by using Linux; what's up with that?", I can say, "You damn sure
can, and the costs of converting your existing systems will probably
be less than the cost of your next Windows upgrade."

Cheers,

-- Joe
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