Up until a year ago it took some three months to actually produce a working build of Windows Vista. Now they managed to pull a miracle and get it down to about a week or so. I work on a similar scale software and we produce working builds every day or two on multiple codelines. If we ever get to third day without a working build on main codeline, the developers scream like mad. If we would get to a week, the development would halt for the sheer number of conflicts from thousands of developers pounding it day and night. If we hit three months, the product would become totally unbuildable and the company would implode in a big puff of smoke, or maybe godzilla would eat us all, I just cannot even imagine that possibility.
The fact that Microsoft operates under conditions like that is indeed a herculean effort, but such a huge amount of resources is wasted in the process and such amount of overhead generated, that there is no wonder for Vista to be delayed 3 years and its feature list slashed in half and its stability and security (whatever amount there ever been) is going down the drain. I can only imagine that Office is in the same boat.
This is not merely flawed development environment, this is a sign of total disaster in making.
If I remember correctly, you could pay with a mobile phone since 1998 in developed countries. I am pretty sure that teens in Czech Republic would laugh at the things you consider "new features" as something that surely existed before they had been born. The state of mobile market in US is indeed pathetic.
Your comment is based on the largest falacy about IP propagated among people. You come out of position of having some inherent right to copyright or patent protection. And that is simply not true. You create something, you give or sell it to someone else, they can make copies or sell it or modify it as much as they wish, who is there to prevent them?
Yeah, right, you have made a contract with your government, which basically says, that they will send thugs with guns to threaten violence into the house of whoever copies and sells your work, so you could be the only one to profit from it. In exchange for this you promise to behave in a manner to benefit the society and be more productive and invest your resources gained from this unnatural alliance to create more works to be sold and profited from and in the process bring benefit to all. Do not ever forget this contract.
Some of us believe that making contract with someone to send armed thugs to threaten violence to others with the sole purpose of maintaining a monopoly is not ethical, no matter how nicely you put it.
Let me reiterate that nobody is taking anything against your will, you have given or sold it away freely, without any force or threat of force. I just want to do as I please with whatever I got or bought. But I cannot because of your contract to threaten violence.
If you don't consider making code proprietary to be ethical, you clearly cannot consider liberating the code to be unethical. But if you noticed, he is still aware, that although he considers it ethical, it is illegal and thus it should not be done.
The comment is perfectly in check with his moral views and he could not in a clear conscience make any other statement. The fact that your moral values are different does not make him lunatic. You could call Christians lunatics, just because they hold different moral values. Not that some people wouldn't, but that does not make it right. Stop complaining and show some respect for man that has firm moral believes and stands up and speaks out for them. You might disagree, but do so respectfully.
This reminds me of the quote I keep reading in all fine print for every mutual fund: "Past results are no guarantee of future performance".
While it is true that history tends to repeat itself, every time when someone tries to divine the future from the past they make the same fatal mistake that makes their predictions totally useless. They simply take into account too short section of the past, quite often only few years, instead of few centuries and their predictions are directed on a too close future, often few months or years rather than decades. Anyway, I don't think this trend is going to stop anytime soon and so here we go with yet another useless prediction.
I thought that only Microsoft opponents resort to conspiracy theories, like the lovely Halloween documents and others, but it looks like Microsoft is learning from their opponents just another trick.
Well, the key to it is to make conscious decision about when you will do unconscious decisions and when you are concsciously going to make only conscious decisions. You can unconsciously pre-decide to not make unconscious decisions when consceousness would be demanded, like whenever you might be possibly affected by advertising. Once you get it down, you are fine:)
I would suggest to forget tests or interviews when trying to find a real talent. Just talk to some real talented people you know. My experience is that these who are really good at their job are much better to recognize others who are as good or better. Especially male employees will keep a list of people that are surpasing them in some aspect. Its just the way their brains are wired.
So talk to them and you will get suggestions, if you find really talented people, don't try to embarass yourself with tests and interviews. Talk to people they worked with, talk to them casually and talk to their references, you get much better picture and comming with offer because you know this is the right person, without resorting to tests and tricky questions on interviews, leaves a lot of positive impression.
If my employer had the smarts to come up to me and ask, I could name easily ten people who could each replace 2-3 average employees I meet with at my company. Of course, most of them already have a job and would need some incentive to come on board or relocate, but its alwasy worth it to employ one exceptional worker rather than five average. And they often get the same amount work done. Often its cheaper even if you'd pay them double salary, which you probably won't.
I know this is not exactly, what you are looking for, but database companies have very similar problem on their hands and since filesystems usually are not quite good for this type of work, they usually come up with their own systems for handling raw disks. For example Oracle has its ASM (Automated Storage Management). You might want to look into these if they are not customizable for your problem or contact the relevant companies for specifics.
It would be quite hard to buy anything about linux. There is no company there. You could buy some distro, but its rather in Oracle's interest to let them free and compete. That does not mean that Oracle is not involved in Linux. There is a group of engineers at Oracle lead by Wim who do basically only that as their main goal. Just recently they got ocfs2 into the kernel and they are fixing bugs and providing patches back to both distros and kernel directly for quite a few years now. There is a plenty of other OSS projects in Oracle and plenty of other good products that are not free, but still cost-less, JDeveloper you mentioned being one of them.
This made me thinking about joining a social network like Orkut with music sharing and share your music only with your friends and maybe friends of friends. That could get around some legal hurdles in more countries and while you don't get this way any music you want, you still get quite a lot new music and actually improve the relationships with your friends through listening to some of the same music as them.
t is silly (though convenient) to label someone with whom you disagree as evil
I cannot agree more. Lets pause for a while and get back to the list of things that President Bush labeled as evil, ok? Lets start: Iraq, Iran, North Korea, that would be axis of evil. Then we have all the people in Afghanistan, Palestine, Ireland, Chechnya, Syria, Lebannon, now Iraq and other places that would be labeled terrorists and evil. Cuba is definitely evil, right? The recently un-eviled citizens of Russia and Eastern Europe all thank you for relabeling. Oh, China is definitelly evil evil evil. Who else is there we disagree with? Oh yeah, half of Africa, very evil! Who else? Oh Venezuela has this bad oil policy, bad bad evil government. Oh yeah, anybody talking on phone with relatives in middle-east, definitely evil. The democrats, their are just plain evil, everybody can see that. Who else? Oh the French, evil cowards. Boycott those evil bastards.
Do I need to go on? I don't think you would be willing to admit for half of the cases above there might be intelligent arguments on the other side. But yeah, Bush is the one with intelligent arguments here. I think you better choose more fitting adjective for these arguments:)
He has a point. For example I am against GM foods, but I don't care for GM people. Its because I think that GM people can be much more easily controlled than GM foods. Plus, I do have the option to not get GM modified and the fact that someone else does or even that he has kids is not a problem to me. GM has multitude of problems associated with it and there is risk that these modification will spread so I won't be able to avoid them even trying quite hard.
I have no idea who decided to compare Steve Jobs and Melinda Gates and why, but it just seems silly. The only things these two have in common is that they are wealthy. AFAIK Bill wouldn't give a cent to charity if Melinda wouldn't make him. Why don't we just scrap the humanitarian efforts alltogether and just compare Bill Gates and Steve Jobs based on the work they do, not the work their money do in some charities.
I'd say my hero is Bill Gates, because he showed the world, there is no reason to be afraid to be openly evil. I love him for paving the way for all of us villains to be. He shows us it is good to be evil:)
I think you don't understand the nature of censorship. Only political and sometimes some economical information is usually censored. The rest of information is available without issues. I rarely use google for any information that would be censored in China. There is a wealth of other information that is much readily available thanks to Google. Information about science, art, history, philosophy and much more is basically uncensored. People with access to such information will grow personally and eventually be strong enough in knowledge and wisdom to affect change around themselves even get into position of power to be able to affect change more easily and readily.
You should note that it was mostly the university students who lead the revolutions in Eastern Europe. The people with the best access to information, no matter what sort of information it was.
You simply look at your own agenda and do not look at it from the perspective of the people in China. I used to live in a totalitarian regime for the first half of my life and know the effects of government censorship. I have to tell you that if I should choose whether to have google with censorship or not have it at all, its clear what I would choose. I would indeed perceive it as a great evil if Google would withdraw their services from me because of someone's quite stupid elitist opinion.
Every time people have access to more information, even though it might be censored, its always good in the end. And once people get more used to access to ready information, they will eventually demand access to all information. Google even censored, will have a huge positive social impact in China.
And last, but not least. Even though I live for half of my life in a totalitarian regime, I have never met with so much propaganda, misinformation and people willing to gobble it up and eat the shit from the hand of their government, until I moved to United States. The difference is staggering. I actually feel the people in United States are more controlled, watched and led by hand by their government than the people of my country were during a communist totalitarian regime. So in the end from my point of view, the only hypocrite here are you, Sir.
What you need is to ask VMWare to port their VMWare player for OS-X on x86.
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I'm sorry, and you may not like, but this browser will be the standard.
This browser might have 70% market share within a year, but it is still not going to make it 'standard'. The fact that people treat whatever IE can do as a standard is a problem. We have perfectly usable standards defined by the W3C, thank you very much. The word you are looking for is prevalent.
Well, likely the kids just took some time off, which they see as an investment into the ability to recognize good cop, bad cop on the street so they can later avoid the ones that have too high frag rate:) I would like to see the stats on police effectiveness in the year following this competition.
These kids have usually poor education and all of them have a record of several transgressions or crimes, they have nothing or very little to lose in their lives and that is exactly how they are going to run their lives. If you make friends among cops you only run higher chance of a cop being close by when you do something woolheaded. Wooly liberal is fine and all, but as long as this society breeds so many "have not"s its no wonder there are people who live like they've got nothing to lose.
This is useless until we hit IPv6 and even if then. There is only 4 billion IP addresses and I think you would need to check at average about half a billion to get to the right address from MD5. What else, there is only 4 billion of them times 16 bytes of data from md5 sum, so its about 64 GB of data for an md5 dictionary, add another 64Gb for overhead and index, thats a very small database on very small harddrive returning results instantly to thousands of queries.
You would need to encrypt both the IP and the cookie together at least. Anyway, let's just fight this legally for a little longer:)
I have only a question about these community standards. If I am living in US, but not socializing with people in my town, instead being on the internet as part of the slashdot community or some other online community or communities, which standards do apply? What if I am only part of an online community whos members are not living in US? I think its time we set a precedent in the courts and define the word 'community' the way *WE* know it. And the use of community standards by courts will be just fine.
We had this at the university dormitory for the math and physics department for at least 20 years now. It's a 20 stories high building so it was necessary. The solution didn't require any special hardware though, just a bit of thinking. Half of the elevators had the buttons for the first 10 floors blocked.:)
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The fact that Microsoft operates under conditions like that is indeed a herculean effort, but such a huge amount of resources is wasted in the process and such amount of overhead generated, that there is no wonder for Vista to be delayed 3 years and its feature list slashed in half and its stability and security (whatever amount there ever been) is going down the drain. I can only imagine that Office is in the same boat.
This is not merely flawed development environment, this is a sign of total disaster in making.
If I remember correctly, you could pay with a mobile phone since 1998 in developed countries. I am pretty sure that teens in Czech Republic would laugh at the things you consider "new features" as something that surely existed before they had been born. The state of mobile market in US is indeed pathetic.
Yeah, right, you have made a contract with your government, which basically says, that they will send thugs with guns to threaten violence into the house of whoever copies and sells your work, so you could be the only one to profit from it. In exchange for this you promise to behave in a manner to benefit the society and be more productive and invest your resources gained from this unnatural alliance to create more works to be sold and profited from and in the process bring benefit to all. Do not ever forget this contract.
Some of us believe that making contract with someone to send armed thugs to threaten violence to others with the sole purpose of maintaining a monopoly is not ethical, no matter how nicely you put it.
Let me reiterate that nobody is taking anything against your will, you have given or sold it away freely, without any force or threat of force. I just want to do as I please with whatever I got or bought. But I cannot because of your contract to threaten violence.
If you don't consider making code proprietary to be ethical, you clearly cannot consider liberating the code to be unethical. But if you noticed, he is still aware, that although he considers it ethical, it is illegal and thus it should not be done. The comment is perfectly in check with his moral views and he could not in a clear conscience make any other statement. The fact that your moral values are different does not make him lunatic. You could call Christians lunatics, just because they hold different moral values. Not that some people wouldn't, but that does not make it right. Stop complaining and show some respect for man that has firm moral believes and stands up and speaks out for them. You might disagree, but do so respectfully.
Darn, and I always read it as Linux, Apache, Modula, Postgres...
While it is true that history tends to repeat itself, every time when someone tries to divine the future from the past they make the same fatal mistake that makes their predictions totally useless. They simply take into account too short section of the past, quite often only few years, instead of few centuries and their predictions are directed on a too close future, often few months or years rather than decades. Anyway, I don't think this trend is going to stop anytime soon and so here we go with yet another useless prediction.
I thought that only Microsoft opponents resort to conspiracy theories, like the lovely Halloween documents and others, but it looks like Microsoft is learning from their opponents just another trick.
Well, the key to it is to make conscious decision about when you will do unconscious decisions and when you are concsciously going to make only conscious decisions. You can unconsciously pre-decide to not make unconscious decisions when consceousness would be demanded, like whenever you might be possibly affected by advertising. Once you get it down, you are fine :)
So talk to them and you will get suggestions, if you find really talented people, don't try to embarass yourself with tests and interviews. Talk to people they worked with, talk to them casually and talk to their references, you get much better picture and comming with offer because you know this is the right person, without resorting to tests and tricky questions on interviews, leaves a lot of positive impression.
If my employer had the smarts to come up to me and ask, I could name easily ten people who could each replace 2-3 average employees I meet with at my company. Of course, most of them already have a job and would need some incentive to come on board or relocate, but its alwasy worth it to employ one exceptional worker rather than five average. And they often get the same amount work done. Often its cheaper even if you'd pay them double salary, which you probably won't.
I know this is not exactly, what you are looking for, but database companies have very similar problem on their hands and since filesystems usually are not quite good for this type of work, they usually come up with their own systems for handling raw disks. For example Oracle has its ASM (Automated Storage Management). You might want to look into these if they are not customizable for your problem or contact the relevant companies for specifics.
It would be quite hard to buy anything about linux. There is no company there. You could buy some distro, but its rather in Oracle's interest to let them free and compete. That does not mean that Oracle is not involved in Linux. There is a group of engineers at Oracle lead by Wim who do basically only that as their main goal. Just recently they got ocfs2 into the kernel and they are fixing bugs and providing patches back to both distros and kernel directly for quite a few years now. There is a plenty of other OSS projects in Oracle and plenty of other good products that are not free, but still cost-less, JDeveloper you mentioned being one of them.
It is easily disproved for any Y being a geek and senior VP at Apple :)
This made me thinking about joining a social network like Orkut with music sharing and share your music only with your friends and maybe friends of friends. That could get around some legal hurdles in more countries and while you don't get this way any music you want, you still get quite a lot new music and actually improve the relationships with your friends through listening to some of the same music as them.
I cannot agree more. Lets pause for a while and get back to the list of things that President Bush labeled as evil, ok? Lets start: Iraq, Iran, North Korea, that would be axis of evil. Then we have all the people in Afghanistan, Palestine, Ireland, Chechnya, Syria, Lebannon, now Iraq and other places that would be labeled terrorists and evil. Cuba is definitely evil, right? The recently un-eviled citizens of Russia and Eastern Europe all thank you for relabeling. Oh, China is definitelly evil evil evil. Who else is there we disagree with? Oh yeah, half of Africa, very evil! Who else? Oh Venezuela has this bad oil policy, bad bad evil government. Oh yeah, anybody talking on phone with relatives in middle-east, definitely evil. The democrats, their are just plain evil, everybody can see that. Who else? Oh the French, evil cowards. Boycott those evil bastards.
Do I need to go on? I don't think you would be willing to admit for half of the cases above there might be intelligent arguments on the other side. But yeah, Bush is the one with intelligent arguments here. I think you better choose more fitting adjective for these arguments :)
He has a point. For example I am against GM foods, but I don't care for GM people. Its because I think that GM people can be much more easily controlled than GM foods. Plus, I do have the option to not get GM modified and the fact that someone else does or even that he has kids is not a problem to me. GM has multitude of problems associated with it and there is risk that these modification will spread so I won't be able to avoid them even trying quite hard.
I'd say my hero is Bill Gates, because he showed the world, there is no reason to be afraid to be openly evil. I love him for paving the way for all of us villains to be. He shows us it is good to be evil :)
You should note that it was mostly the university students who lead the revolutions in Eastern Europe. The people with the best access to information, no matter what sort of information it was.
Every time people have access to more information, even though it might be censored, its always good in the end. And once people get more used to access to ready information, they will eventually demand access to all information. Google even censored, will have a huge positive social impact in China.
And last, but not least. Even though I live for half of my life in a totalitarian regime, I have never met with so much propaganda, misinformation and people willing to gobble it up and eat the shit from the hand of their government, until I moved to United States. The difference is staggering. I actually feel the people in United States are more controlled, watched and led by hand by their government than the people of my country were during a communist totalitarian regime. So in the end from my point of view, the only hypocrite here are you, Sir.
What you need is to ask VMWare to port their VMWare player for OS-X on x86.
This browser might have 70% market share within a year, but it is still not going to make it 'standard'. The fact that people treat whatever IE can do as a standard is a problem. We have perfectly usable standards defined by the W3C, thank you very much. The word you are looking for is prevalent.
These kids have usually poor education and all of them have a record of several transgressions or crimes, they have nothing or very little to lose in their lives and that is exactly how they are going to run their lives. If you make friends among cops you only run higher chance of a cop being close by when you do something woolheaded. Wooly liberal is fine and all, but as long as this society breeds so many "have not"s its no wonder there are people who live like they've got nothing to lose.
Did you mean: " Teenage Tit Freaks"
You would need to encrypt both the IP and the cookie together at least. Anyway, let's just fight this legally for a little longer :)
I have only a question about these community standards. If I am living in US, but not socializing with people in my town, instead being on the internet as part of the slashdot community or some other online community or communities, which standards do apply? What if I am only part of an online community whos members are not living in US? I think its time we set a precedent in the courts and define the word 'community' the way *WE* know it. And the use of community standards by courts will be just fine.
We had this at the university dormitory for the math and physics department for at least 20 years now. It's a 20 stories high building so it was necessary. The solution didn't require any special hardware though, just a bit of thinking. Half of the elevators had the buttons for the first 10 floors blocked. :)