There may be a better use of the money, but the bit about children's health is pretty lame. What do they think that kids will go blind? Reminds me of when my Mom used to tell me "Dont sit too close to the television set!". Even the eye doctors said crap like that. I started using computers as a child and my vision was also poor. My optometrist said that if I kept using computers constantly like I was then I would end up requiring glasses or corrective surgery or something. Even after an increased amount of usage (I now have multiple monitors in my face for 12+ hours a day) my vision has actually improved to 20/20. Am I genetically superior to most nerds, or was it all just a load of crap? I can understand my vision not changing, but how it actually got better by increasing the time and amount of radiation my eyes are exposed to IMPROVED my vision boggles the mind. Socially though, they may be correct. I'm not a fat nerd, but if you get into computers you will have to work with fat nerds, and who wants that? Besides, I'd rather discourage Indians from learning computers because they seem to be taking all my jobs from me. So yeah, I say they should maybe punish children who use computers, perhaps with a shocking monkey.
You can already use the same image on a Dell desktop and Dell laptop, because the new Latitudes work with either HAL. I've already built images that work on both desktops and laptops, but I guess you get what you pay for (friendly jab, HP and Sony). Read on desktop deployment forums like the Blue Willow Group and you will see accounts of numerous people using images on boatloads of systems of varying brands and hardware configurations. The laptops usually have wireless software or VPN crap companies need that they don't want on desktops though. It is probably much easier for most people to keep separate images for laptops and desktops anyway. Hyperthreaded systems and uniprocessor systems both work fine if you use a uniprocessor HAL system as your reference platform. Older systems with odd HALs and non ACPI compliant hardware can be an issue, but that crap is so old your modern image probably runs like crap on it anyway. Anyone who has maintained tons of images for large corporations will tell you the biggest issue with keeping images for multiple systems is drivers!!! Maintaining a current driver repository that is cross hardware compatible and functions with all manner of chipsets and hardware configurations and variations of hardware and variations that don't indicate they are variations but have different PNP IDs, etc. is a mess, but is doable. It is unfortunately difficult for your average MS techie though, and can be a painful chore when the hardware variants tally up. The creator of Ghost (hint: not Symantec) sells some software to automate this procedure, but they charge an arm and a leg for seat licenses. When have drivers ever not been a pain for anybody, really. I haven't had issues with HALs in at least a couple of years though. The rare old Dell GX150 or whatever that pops up still works with my laptop HAL images, so we just remove the laptop specific software in the rare situation we get an old computer like that and can't convince them to replace it with a better one. It would be cool, but is really not that big a deal. It is however a big fraggin deal that they yanked all the cool crap out of Vista and are leaving me with nothing cool. No new filesystem! no goodies except eye candy and DRM! I was born at night, but not last night.
I made a ghost image of Vista Beta 1 with no issues on systems with both IDE and SATA hard disks. I don't think this is related to ghost, but rather Vista's suckage. There are forum threads where people got this error on the initial install. Like you said, it may be a known bug.
Regarding the WIM imaging format, has anyone else here attempted to use the operating system deployment feature pack for SMS 2003 to build or deploy a WIM image? WIM is FS Based. Bad sectors on the hard disk, you still need ghost -FRO to make a safe backup. Great. There are other complications with this when imaging PCs as well, such as if the existing filesystem on the PC is reused (as ghost also may do by default, but can be changed on ghost though). If the FS is corrupted on the disk but it gets reused then you end up with systems you just imaged but are hosed. They say WinPE will work in RAM, but I haven't tried it. If it resides on the disk then it is corruptable and is a point of failure during image deployment. Then theres the whole issue of the slowness of the process. OS deployment feature pack process for building an image (when I tried it) was abysmally slow and involved a metric crapload of file copy overhead. Deployment of images is really slow... You could go on an extended lunch and it won't be done yet, while ghost will be done before you can finish a smoke break. The only to pros I can think of for the MS process is 1) You don't have to have whatever it takes someone to set up a deployment system set up around ghost (Great for SMS administrators, MCSEs). 2) You won't have to build custom boot disks with NDIS drivers to load ghost with networking support in DOS mode, which is actually easy to do but can be admittedly difficult for some folks to grasp. I've had to help just about everybody who started using ghost put together working bootdisks. 3) The MS process lets you inject scripts at various points in the process and stuff and makes automation tasks easy without having to do the work of putting together a better automated image build process. But you still need ghost for some stuff. Great gimmick...
The only thing I dont understand out of all this discussion is why are others suggesting that other artifiacts may be damaged? Anything here to warrant such a statement? From the stories about his work, it sounds like hes been very careful so far. Is that just hogwash statements from scientific snobs?
I think the junk mail dudes are in cahoots with the trash dudes that pick up the trash. One day basically everybody is gonna kill everybody because they're jerks which owns.
If your purpose is to portably exchange files with other people, the flashpoint sharedrive is an all-in-one device that will allow you store files and transfer them directly to someone elses thumbdrive, but with the disadvantage that you are stuck sending a fixed set of files stored in your outbox directory. Also, if your source files are larger than the destination drive then I believe it is supposed to stop and give you an error light or something.
One solution with greater versatility is the Aleratec USB Copy Cruiser, which will allow you to flexibly copy the files you want from one thumbdrive to another, but with the disadvantage that it is not a thumbdrive itself and is of course one extra device to carry. Tactical vests are unfortunately against corporate dress code and my laptop bag is already heavy, so carrying a minimal number of devices is one of my primary needs.
"For nearly 80 years, Gigantopithecus blackii has intrigued scientists, who have pieced together a description using nothing more than a handful of teeth and a set of jawbones."
I'm pretty sure the scientists know their stuff, but with only a pair of old dirty choppers to go on, I'll go out on a limb and say that this is all an educated guess. As far as not finding the rest of the body or other skeletons, I wonder if other animals or humans didn't eat the entire remains and grind up the bones or if the humans they supposedly coexisted with didn't just domesticate them and buried their remains when they died?
I used to play regularly, and almost every time there would be like these gigantic bloody civil wars being fought on aussie soil, and also over the americas. Getting sandwiched in the middle was usually a bad idea. Our games would end up with lots of fighting over really stupid diplomacy (you don't attack me here, and I won't attack you there). Sometimes treaties would be violated and there would be fistfights or board throwing. More often however, people would "go suicide", which basically meant that since some "terrorist's" treaty is not agreed on, he will go all out against you to thin your troop numbers and ensure your eventual loss even at the expense of his own loss. This is pretty much why I don't play anymore.
Possibly true, but in our case we have Dell CFI preload our own corporate image on PCs that we buy. We get a new system in the box already imaged, so we don't have to spend either a tech's travel expenses and time for imaging the PC or having an expensive infrastructure capable of supporting network based imaging, or spending extra shipping costs to have it delivered to a place to be imaged and then deployed.
Disclaimer: I am pro IE and pro Firefox for different cases. To me, it all depends.
I am always interested in comparison pieces, but I've read enough biased Microsoft articles already to know this. Microsoft doesn't disclose all of their defects and vulnerabilities, or even acknowledge that they have found issues, so I would say that is a poor choice of a benchmark. Using this same flawed logic, I could even argue that Firefox has more bugs because more attention has been given to it and more bugs have been found and resolved as a result, therefore making it more secure. I can't hold the same confidence in Microsoft's security because of not only their policy of excessive secrecy (copywriting bug reports??) , but also their long standing history of critical security issues they have neglected to address such as the security zone issues, which are not actually issues in internet explorer, but from what I understand are issues in Trident, on which IE digs its hooks into. I can give you reasons to use Microsoft IE. NTLM pass thru authentication is one of them, and I've got other technical reasons. Want a non-technical reason? Fear of being audited by Microsoft for using alternative software and having a lot of unlicensed software in use is one of them. I can't however, tell you that IE is a more secure browser because every ounce of common sense I have tells me otherwise. Like my brother would say, that's just buhtarded.
After reading info about his hacks, the only thing impressive was his supposed level of stupidity. Reminds me of a book named the Stainless Steel Rat, in where the main charachter goes to jail so he can talk to real criminals. When he gets there, he realises that anyone who is stupid enough to get caught is a moron anyway, and he was looking in the wrong place so he breaks back out of jail. Security companies should likewise have no interest in this person. If it was someone who turned himself in for some impressive hack, then maybe I could see people being interested. Maybe I'm completely missing something where this hack was in some way complex. Of course I don't believe everything I read though, and for all I know this was all lame misinformation.
Two: The "face management head on" scenario doesn't work here.
Sure, that can't resolve something that already happened, but confronting management about the results of the poor decision in a professional way, or requesting to be included in change management, etc. would not be unreasonable to me if I visualized myself in a similar situation as you have described. Perhaps there is more to what you said, but this was my perception.
I don't buy that. It makes no sense at all. What is the guy doing, writing code at home in his own time?
Often, yes. He spends countless hours and even vacation hours working on projects, which not all of us have the luxury of doing. He also pretends to be doing research on something, while meanwhile he is frantically working on and off hours to complete large projects. Our manager is very gullible. I have been in similar situations before with other people, but this is just an extreme case. I think our situations are quite different, and it is obvious you are nothing like this guy. I don't mean to compare you to him.
I can never let them see something that looks like an operational product till its' been up and running and tested six ways from Sunday, because if they see a working prototype, they'll try to force me to roll it out as productive immediately.
I can intimately relate to the situation you describe, but being a liar can go both ways. We have a guy here who does this. He waits until he has a project almost completed before announcing it. Our PHB not only falls for it, but they think this guy is some sort of superman because has appears to finish projects so quickly, while everyone else gives accurate reporting. He tells us that the reason why he lies, is because of the reasons you describe, but you know what? I have little respect for liars, because however justified they may appear, you can't trust them. Unfortunately, the better way to handle this situation is to stand up for what is right and face management head on, even at the risk of your own job. People who do the latter, I do have respect for. While I don't disagree with your said reasons, I wholeheartedly disagree with your approach.
I performed a test installation of the Vista Beta 1 (build 5112) on a Dell C640 Latitude laptop, which is equipped with a modest Mobility Radeon 7500C and 16MB graphics memory, and 256MB system RAM. I didn't do benchmark tests, but I can say that although the installation took almost FOREVER (seriously, I drove home, went to lunch, came back and it was still nowhere near complete) and the installation media was HUGE, the resulting ghost image itself was only 1.1GB compared to a base XP ghost image of half that size which I don't think was too terrible in the disk space department. The OS itself ran only a little slower than XP SP2 does under those hardware limitations. There were noticeable lags, but it functioned as well as I would expect anything Microsoft related to function on limited specs. I personally think the new interfaces are cute, but doesn't hold a candle to aqua or enlightenment, etc. I work for a corporation with a little under 30,000 users and the word from the boss is that we are not going to go to a Windows Vista image (which means, unless they get screwed into having to).
I have to support my woman's laptop, and I'm sure there are others out there who have endured such painful responsibilities. She was using Windows XP factory install which surprisingly took a little while to gum up with spyware and BSOD beyond what spybot and mcafee could fix, so she was like... set up what you want and make it not suck. She is quite the test case, because she is a serious technophobe.
Trying to do her a solid and not push her too hard, I set her up with windows XP again, replaced all of the commercial applications with OSS which have packages available for *nix. This way if she buggered out about something, I could always put her back on whatever commercial windows app she needed, and without hassle. If it all works out though, I could possibly move her to Unix later, knowing she could keep the same apps.
So far it has been several months, and she has given me mixed feedback, but mostly positive. The other day she even asked me when I was going to install Unix on her laptop. I was shocked, and was like.. for real? She said, yeah as long as I can use these same programs and you can show me how to rewind DVDs. She added, "I just want to use what doesn't suck, and I know all that stuff about Microsoft cheating people and stealing your stuff." I about fell out of my chair laughing (I swear, I did not brainwash her). Anyway, seriously about Unix being ready for the desktop? I say the bigger question is wether or not manufacturers are willing to stop with the dirty dealing and give customers a choice, and by choice I mean more than just a Linux option hidden on an optional parts list. I mean get those demo systems in the stores in plain sight. It won't happen though, and everyone knows dang well the reasons why.
"the issue is one of understanding, not of documentation, therefore you should not overrate the value of documentation. Your goal is to ensure that maintenance developers understand how the system works so they can evolve it over time, not to produce a mound of documentation that they may or may not use."
I agree with the above, but it is my experience that the reinforcement on developers generally needs to be in creating more documentation.
The environment will naturally make all the difference. In the nasty corporate arena (my habitat), many people feel that being the only one who knows something, is their ticket to job security. As a result, they will not comment code or divulge information to anyone, etc. Unfortunately, management encourages these insecure people through among other things, a lack of employee loyalty and an eagerness to cut costs by giving valuable and veteran employees the axe, among other nasty things. Thats my take anyway.
The internet and rise of computers have turned too many people into hermits, and not to sound like a "player hater", but today it seems like more and more relationships are mainly bedroom oriented. This of course also results in many people being reluctant to start relationships to begin with. The whole drug thing has also really kept going strong despite the "war on drugs" which generally keeps people either on the couch or in the fridge. I think it is safe to say that one contributing factor to the decline in movie theatre revenues is that there are fewer dates being brought to them, and that much of the general population is degenerating to the point where movies do not provide their stimulation as much as drugs, alcohol, sex, internet, video games.
There are also home movies. I have opted out of going to the movies several times, because it was a long movie and I didn't want to have to go that long without smoking. What ever happened to intermissions!!! I understand that it would be rude of me to want to smoke in doors, but at least have a heart and give the smokers a little break.
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There may be a better use of the money, but the bit about children's health is pretty lame. What do they think that kids will go blind? Reminds me of when my Mom used to tell me "Dont sit too close to the television set!". Even the eye doctors said crap like that. I started using computers as a child and my vision was also poor. My optometrist said that if I kept using computers constantly like I was then I would end up requiring glasses or corrective surgery or something. Even after an increased amount of usage (I now have multiple monitors in my face for 12+ hours a day) my vision has actually improved to 20/20. Am I genetically superior to most nerds, or was it all just a load of crap? I can understand my vision not changing, but how it actually got better by increasing the time and amount of radiation my eyes are exposed to IMPROVED my vision boggles the mind. Socially though, they may be correct. I'm not a fat nerd, but if you get into computers you will have to work with fat nerds, and who wants that? Besides, I'd rather discourage Indians from learning computers because they seem to be taking all my jobs from me. So yeah, I say they should maybe punish children who use computers, perhaps with a shocking monkey.
You can already use the same image on a Dell desktop and Dell laptop, because the new Latitudes work with either HAL. I've already built images that work on both desktops and laptops, but I guess you get what you pay for (friendly jab, HP and Sony). Read on desktop deployment forums like the Blue Willow Group and you will see accounts of numerous people using images on boatloads of systems of varying brands and hardware configurations. The laptops usually have wireless software or VPN crap companies need that they don't want on desktops though. It is probably much easier for most people to keep separate images for laptops and desktops anyway. Hyperthreaded systems and uniprocessor systems both work fine if you use a uniprocessor HAL system as your reference platform. Older systems with odd HALs and non ACPI compliant hardware can be an issue, but that crap is so old your modern image probably runs like crap on it anyway. Anyone who has maintained tons of images for large corporations will tell you the biggest issue with keeping images for multiple systems is drivers!!! Maintaining a current driver repository that is cross hardware compatible and functions with all manner of chipsets and hardware configurations and variations of hardware and variations that don't indicate they are variations but have different PNP IDs, etc. is a mess, but is doable. It is unfortunately difficult for your average MS techie though, and can be a painful chore when the hardware variants tally up. The creator of Ghost (hint: not Symantec) sells some software to automate this procedure, but they charge an arm and a leg for seat licenses. When have drivers ever not been a pain for anybody, really. I haven't had issues with HALs in at least a couple of years though. The rare old Dell GX150 or whatever that pops up still works with my laptop HAL images, so we just remove the laptop specific software in the rare situation we get an old computer like that and can't convince them to replace it with a better one. It would be cool, but is really not that big a deal. It is however a big fraggin deal that they yanked all the cool crap out of Vista and are leaving me with nothing cool. No new filesystem! no goodies except eye candy and DRM! I was born at night, but not last night.
Regarding the WIM imaging format, has anyone else here attempted to use the operating system deployment feature pack for SMS 2003 to build or deploy a WIM image? WIM is FS Based. Bad sectors on the hard disk, you still need ghost -FRO to make a safe backup. Great. There are other complications with this when imaging PCs as well, such as if the existing filesystem on the PC is reused (as ghost also may do by default, but can be changed on ghost though). If the FS is corrupted on the disk but it gets reused then you end up with systems you just imaged but are hosed. They say WinPE will work in RAM, but I haven't tried it. If it resides on the disk then it is corruptable and is a point of failure during image deployment. Then theres the whole issue of the slowness of the process. OS deployment feature pack process for building an image (when I tried it) was abysmally slow and involved a metric crapload of file copy overhead. Deployment of images is really slow... You could go on an extended lunch and it won't be done yet, while ghost will be done before you can finish a smoke break. The only to pros I can think of for the MS process is 1) You don't have to have whatever it takes someone to set up a deployment system set up around ghost (Great for SMS administrators, MCSEs). 2) You won't have to build custom boot disks with NDIS drivers to load ghost with networking support in DOS mode, which is actually easy to do but can be admittedly difficult for some folks to grasp. I've had to help just about everybody who started using ghost put together working bootdisks. 3) The MS process lets you inject scripts at various points in the process and stuff and makes automation tasks easy without having to do the work of putting together a better automated image build process. But you still need ghost for some stuff. Great gimmick...
I don't use the internet. What a bunch of suckers.
Interesting that a game store got robbed and the clerk was shot in chest: http://www.click2houston.com/news/9275077/detail.h tml
When Longhorn comes out it will be better than Vista, and thats why winders is the best kind of Linux for me. Thanks.
The only thing I dont understand out of all this discussion is why are others suggesting that other artifiacts may be damaged? Anything here to warrant such a statement? From the stories about his work, it sounds like hes been very careful so far. Is that just hogwash statements from scientific snobs?
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, KIA = 0 (0% KIA)
I think the junk mail dudes are in cahoots with the trash dudes that pick up the trash. One day basically everybody is gonna kill everybody because they're jerks which owns.
Aww hell, someone set us up the ponies!
Too poor for the sixty four: http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/c16/
One solution with greater versatility is the Aleratec USB Copy Cruiser, which will allow you to flexibly copy the files you want from one thumbdrive to another, but with the disadvantage that it is not a thumbdrive itself and is of course one extra device to carry. Tactical vests are unfortunately against corporate dress code and my laptop bag is already heavy, so carrying a minimal number of devices is one of my primary needs.
"For nearly 80 years, Gigantopithecus blackii has intrigued scientists, who have pieced together a description using nothing more than a handful of teeth and a set of jawbones." I'm pretty sure the scientists know their stuff, but with only a pair of old dirty choppers to go on, I'll go out on a limb and say that this is all an educated guess. As far as not finding the rest of the body or other skeletons, I wonder if other animals or humans didn't eat the entire remains and grind up the bones or if the humans they supposedly coexisted with didn't just domesticate them and buried their remains when they died?
I used to play regularly, and almost every time there would be like these gigantic bloody civil wars being fought on aussie soil, and also over the americas. Getting sandwiched in the middle was usually a bad idea. Our games would end up with lots of fighting over really stupid diplomacy (you don't attack me here, and I won't attack you there). Sometimes treaties would be violated and there would be fistfights or board throwing. More often however, people would "go suicide", which basically meant that since some "terrorist's" treaty is not agreed on, he will go all out against you to thin your troop numbers and ensure your eventual loss even at the expense of his own loss. This is pretty much why I don't play anymore.
Possibly true, but in our case we have Dell CFI preload our own corporate image on PCs that we buy. We get a new system in the box already imaged, so we don't have to spend either a tech's travel expenses and time for imaging the PC or having an expensive infrastructure capable of supporting network based imaging, or spending extra shipping costs to have it delivered to a place to be imaged and then deployed.
I am always interested in comparison pieces, but I've read enough biased Microsoft articles already to know this. Microsoft doesn't disclose all of their defects and vulnerabilities, or even acknowledge that they have found issues, so I would say that is a poor choice of a benchmark. Using this same flawed logic, I could even argue that Firefox has more bugs because more attention has been given to it and more bugs have been found and resolved as a result, therefore making it more secure. I can't hold the same confidence in Microsoft's security because of not only their policy of excessive secrecy (copywriting bug reports??) , but also their long standing history of critical security issues they have neglected to address such as the security zone issues, which are not actually issues in internet explorer, but from what I understand are issues in Trident, on which IE digs its hooks into. I can give you reasons to use Microsoft IE. NTLM pass thru authentication is one of them, and I've got other technical reasons. Want a non-technical reason? Fear of being audited by Microsoft for using alternative software and having a lot of unlicensed software in use is one of them. I can't however, tell you that IE is a more secure browser because every ounce of common sense I have tells me otherwise. Like my brother would say, that's just buhtarded.
After reading info about his hacks, the only thing impressive was his supposed level of stupidity. Reminds me of a book named the Stainless Steel Rat, in where the main charachter goes to jail so he can talk to real criminals. When he gets there, he realises that anyone who is stupid enough to get caught is a moron anyway, and he was looking in the wrong place so he breaks back out of jail. Security companies should likewise have no interest in this person. If it was someone who turned himself in for some impressive hack, then maybe I could see people being interested. Maybe I'm completely missing something where this hack was in some way complex. Of course I don't believe everything I read though, and for all I know this was all lame misinformation.
This means that Microsoft is actually good, because the new slogan for Google is "Don't be evil, unless it's necessary for the greater good."
And I was careful not to call you one.
Two: The "face management head on" scenario doesn't work here.
Sure, that can't resolve something that already happened, but confronting management about the results of the poor decision in a professional way, or requesting to be included in change management, etc. would not be unreasonable to me if I visualized myself in a similar situation as you have described. Perhaps there is more to what you said, but this was my perception.
I don't buy that. It makes no sense at all. What is the guy doing, writing code at home in his own time?
Often, yes. He spends countless hours and even vacation hours working on projects, which not all of us have the luxury of doing. He also pretends to be doing research on something, while meanwhile he is frantically working on and off hours to complete large projects. Our manager is very gullible. I have been in similar situations before with other people, but this is just an extreme case. I think our situations are quite different, and it is obvious you are nothing like this guy. I don't mean to compare you to him.
I can intimately relate to the situation you describe, but being a liar can go both ways. We have a guy here who does this. He waits until he has a project almost completed before announcing it. Our PHB not only falls for it, but they think this guy is some sort of superman because has appears to finish projects so quickly, while everyone else gives accurate reporting. He tells us that the reason why he lies, is because of the reasons you describe, but you know what? I have little respect for liars, because however justified they may appear, you can't trust them. Unfortunately, the better way to handle this situation is to stand up for what is right and face management head on, even at the risk of your own job. People who do the latter, I do have respect for. While I don't disagree with your said reasons, I wholeheartedly disagree with your approach.
I performed a test installation of the Vista Beta 1 (build 5112) on a Dell C640 Latitude laptop, which is equipped with a modest Mobility Radeon 7500C and 16MB graphics memory, and 256MB system RAM. I didn't do benchmark tests, but I can say that although the installation took almost FOREVER (seriously, I drove home, went to lunch, came back and it was still nowhere near complete) and the installation media was HUGE, the resulting ghost image itself was only 1.1GB compared to a base XP ghost image of half that size which I don't think was too terrible in the disk space department. The OS itself ran only a little slower than XP SP2 does under those hardware limitations. There were noticeable lags, but it functioned as well as I would expect anything Microsoft related to function on limited specs. I personally think the new interfaces are cute, but doesn't hold a candle to aqua or enlightenment, etc. I work for a corporation with a little under 30,000 users and the word from the boss is that we are not going to go to a Windows Vista image (which means, unless they get screwed into having to).
Trying to do her a solid and not push her too hard, I set her up with windows XP again, replaced all of the commercial applications with OSS which have packages available for *nix. This way if she buggered out about something, I could always put her back on whatever commercial windows app she needed, and without hassle. If it all works out though, I could possibly move her to Unix later, knowing she could keep the same apps.
So far it has been several months, and she has given me mixed feedback, but mostly positive. The other day she even asked me when I was going to install Unix on her laptop. I was shocked, and was like.. for real? She said, yeah as long as I can use these same programs and you can show me how to rewind DVDs. She added, "I just want to use what doesn't suck, and I know all that stuff about Microsoft cheating people and stealing your stuff." I about fell out of my chair laughing (I swear, I did not brainwash her). Anyway, seriously about Unix being ready for the desktop? I say the bigger question is wether or not manufacturers are willing to stop with the dirty dealing and give customers a choice, and by choice I mean more than just a Linux option hidden on an optional parts list. I mean get those demo systems in the stores in plain sight. It won't happen though, and everyone knows dang well the reasons why.
-Taken from this essay on agile documentation
I agree with the above, but it is my experience that the reinforcement on developers generally needs to be in creating more documentation. The environment will naturally make all the difference. In the nasty corporate arena (my habitat), many people feel that being the only one who knows something, is their ticket to job security. As a result, they will not comment code or divulge information to anyone, etc. Unfortunately, management encourages these insecure people through among other things, a lack of employee loyalty and an eagerness to cut costs by giving valuable and veteran employees the axe, among other nasty things. Thats my take anyway.
Bed goes up. Bed goes down. - Homer Simpson
Sting the musician, or Sting the pro wrestler? Oh wait... I get your point.
The internet and rise of computers have turned too many people into hermits, and not to sound like a "player hater", but today it seems like more and more relationships are mainly bedroom oriented. This of course also results in many people being reluctant to start relationships to begin with. The whole drug thing has also really kept going strong despite the "war on drugs" which generally keeps people either on the couch or in the fridge. I think it is safe to say that one contributing factor to the decline in movie theatre revenues is that there are fewer dates being brought to them, and that much of the general population is degenerating to the point where movies do not provide their stimulation as much as drugs, alcohol, sex, internet, video games.
There are also home movies. I have opted out of going to the movies several times, because it was a long movie and I didn't want to have to go that long without smoking. What ever happened to intermissions!!! I understand that it would be rude of me to want to smoke in doors, but at least have a heart and give the smokers a little break.