I had the opportunity to burn bridges that needed burning in an exit interview once.
I took complains, issues, and documentation. They took it seriously, and shook the hell out of the department when I left. My manager was "promoted" to a position where he had no staff. Soon after, he 'left.'
Exit interviews are situational, like everything else in life. Treat accordingly.
* Castle Wolfenstein: 1981 (on the Apple ][. Atari and Commodore shortly thereafter) * Beyond Castle Wolfenstein: 1984 * Hovertank 3D: 1991 First FPS * Wolfenstein 3D: 1992 * Return to Castle Wolfenstein: 2001. A very, VERY different game!
There were three major factors that lead to Heathkit's success, which are no longer true.
1) The cost of manufacturing an item was significantly higher than the cost of the parts. 2) Items were sufficiently simple (or at least discrete) that they could be made at home. 3) Electronics were expensive!
Consider that at one point you could order a kit for about 60% of the price of the finished item. This could save you the modern-day equivalent of hundreds of dollars, and you could assemble it in a week or so.
Nowadays, a chunk of electronics is worth about a hundred bucks or so. Turning it into a kit would be _more_ expensive, and would take three minutes to snap together, if it could be done at home at all.
If the GPL is stifling development (commercial or not), then it's stifling development, simple as that. If the license is an impediment, then it has failed to encourage development.
Um... The post you're attacking was from the OP, DCTech, who provided the links in his original, informative, post. He then complained (with some justification) about an AC who attacked him for supporting a MS product. Follow the trail.
They're going to save humanity. Why? If there's no one else out there, then we're going to go on, living our grumpy little lives. If there's someone else out there advanced enough to talk to, then they'll discover it too.
Sometimes I think we should take all of our great art, pack it up into a ruddy great rocket, and nuke ourselves back to the stone age and try again.
Did you miss my last sentence? "And yes, I get paid well during those nine weeks."
I get paid 12 extra hours of straight pay per week of carrying a pager. If it goes off, minimum billing is two hours of overtime (usually 1.5x, but 2x on holidays).
In practice, the pager goes off less than ten times a year across our entire group, so I'll get one or two pages a year - but when they come, they're serious, and the company has no problem paying for it.
I'm used to it, I'm just reminding people about it. Too many people believe that Google is different than every other publicly traded company in existence because they claimed they were for so long.
You're missing a major point here: Rotating on-call.
I'm on call right now, 24/7. I'm required to be available and functional (i.e. in town, sober), and must answer the pager within ten minutes.
For one week out of six.
That means that for about nine weeks a year, I'm a slave to the company. That also means that in a telecom company with >>2million customers, I can completely shut off my mind to work at 17:00 for the rest of the year.
Let's be clear here. Google has introduced features higgledy-piggledy into Canada, and presumably the rest of the world. Can I hide search results in Canada? No. But I _do_ have to suffer through "auto-complete" and site preview on their search engine. Giving us half of the features is worse than none at all, because it makes things slower without making them better.
But hey - Google doesn't give a shit, because they're working towards two goals: Market domination and stock price.
...and I'll say it here. Richard Stallman is an asshole who never learned proper manners.
I'm not a Mac person, wasn't ever an Apple person back in the day of the ][+, but I'm willing to let Jobs die with a bit of dignity and recognition of his good.
None of us are perfect people, and I imagine most of us would rather people didn't stand up at our funeral to say "he was a cheap jerk who stiffed me for twenty bucks."
RMS and ESR are embarrassing themselves and those who associate with them.
Let's be clear here. The Sun division of Oracle is being run by Mark Hurd, who was last seen gutting HP and screwing his staff member. Oracle will kill off all things Sun, either now or later. Solaris and Java are the only things they seem to care about, and both of those are still rather endangered.
Solaris still has some great advantages over Linux--enough to actually keep a handful of people on it despite Oracle. I assume that they're going to get those necessary features into Linux, and then dump Solaris entirely.
We're spending about $12 million to dump all of our Sun applications, as well as most of our Sun gear and Solaris installs in favour of x86 gear (mostly IBM) and Linux. The scary thing is that $12 million is less than the increase in licensing and maintenance costs from Oracle, vs. what we were paying from Sun.
Bottom line: Oracle doesn't want people running Solaris. The more features we get into Linux before Larry gives up and says "screw all y'all" the better.
He's apparently not an expert either. He's not a physicist, but rather an entrepreneur. (But to be fair, his partner is a physicist.)
Actually, the invite from/. may be a great litmus test - if he eagerly agrees, it suggests that he's a charlatan who will take any publicity he can get--which he almost certainly is.
Oracle can't play well with others, and their own customers are "others."
In the last few years, Oracle has gone from treating their customers with arrogance and contempt (their old model) to outright abuse. Every major Sun shop I know of has some Oracle DB stuff floating around, and most of them are not just dumping their Oracle/Sun gear and software, but even getting rid of their OracleDB instances as well.
Customers cannot trust Oracle, and are upset over it. There are also more reasonable alternatives now than ever before. I'll be happy to see Oracle slowly die.
Now hold on here, don't mix up Solaris and SPARC. SPARC has been dwindling for years - I know, I still manage several hundred SPARC servers. Solaris, if it's dying at all, has only started that path in the last year. Solaris on x86 is damned robust, and in a politics-free world, would be my preferred platform for most computing.
The advantage of dealing with a big name comes of being a big player with a big support contract. Our division within the company runs about 1800 unix servers right now. That doesn't include the switches, the storage, workstations, etc. etc.. That kind of clout gives us traction when we call for support on a system.
If I'm prepared to spend six or seven figures on annual support, then the big companies actually make sense. If I'm looking at a few to a few dozen servers, then no--go with something small, and do your own in-house support.
Fair enough. It's just that up until about three years ago, the Proliants were solid and beautiful tanks, which were almost on par with the new Sun gear at the time.
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I had the opportunity to burn bridges that needed burning in an exit interview once.
I took complains, issues, and documentation. They took it seriously, and shook the hell out of the department when I left. My manager was "promoted" to a position where he had no staff. Soon after, he 'left.'
Exit interviews are situational, like everything else in life. Treat accordingly.
I agree. I don't buy Sony ANYTHING, not even music put out on one of their labels.
That said, they have always made good inexpensive headphones, and a solid go-to. The key is to find alternatives.
1) Sennheiser HD 202
2) Koss PortaPro
3) Audio Technica M20 or M30
4) Superlux HD 681 looks very good too
* Castle Wolfenstein: 1981 (on the Apple ][. Atari and Commodore shortly thereafter)
* Beyond Castle Wolfenstein: 1984
* Hovertank 3D: 1991 First FPS
* Wolfenstein 3D: 1992
* Return to Castle Wolfenstein: 2001. A very, VERY different game!
Just what I was thinking. The original game ran faster on my '486. Hell, Doom II ran faster than this on my '486.
There were three major factors that lead to Heathkit's success, which are no longer true.
1) The cost of manufacturing an item was significantly higher than the cost of the parts.
2) Items were sufficiently simple (or at least discrete) that they could be made at home.
3) Electronics were expensive!
Consider that at one point you could order a kit for about 60% of the price of the finished item. This could save you the modern-day equivalent of hundreds of dollars, and you could assemble it in a week or so.
Nowadays, a chunk of electronics is worth about a hundred bucks or so. Turning it into a kit would be _more_ expensive, and would take three minutes to snap together, if it could be done at home at all.
...botched processor launches...
What, you really need more than that?
If the GPL is stifling development (commercial or not), then it's stifling development, simple as that. If the license is an impediment, then it has failed to encourage development.
Um...
The post you're attacking was from the OP, DCTech, who provided the links in his original, informative, post. He then complained (with some justification) about an AC who attacked him for supporting a MS product.
Follow the trail.
...is raping its customers.
Is that what Yahoo is going to focus on now?
If the FS supports delimiters in filenames you will necessarily have to quote them. This is dumb.
An accurate statement is "even if the FS supports delimiters in filenames, it doesn't mean you should use them."
They're going to save humanity. Why? If there's no one else out there, then we're going to go on, living our grumpy little lives. If there's someone else out there advanced enough to talk to, then they'll discover it too.
Sometimes I think we should take all of our great art, pack it up into a ruddy great rocket, and nuke ourselves back to the stone age and try again.
Oops. Thanks for the correction. I forget that that coolthreads CPUs were classified as UltraSPARC until the T3 line was released.
Last ship date on the IV+ was April 2009, and now it's hit the software end-of-the-line.
"...take business away from Oracle's Sun servers."
Trust me Oracle, the only company that's having the slightest negative impact on your server sales is...Oracle.
Solaris 11 shipped last week. They added code to prevent it from running on the UltraSparc processors. Thanks assholes.
Did you miss my last sentence? "And yes, I get paid well during those nine weeks."
I get paid 12 extra hours of straight pay per week of carrying a pager. If it goes off, minimum billing is two hours of overtime (usually 1.5x, but 2x on holidays).
In practice, the pager goes off less than ten times a year across our entire group, so I'll get one or two pages a year - but when they come, they're serious, and the company has no problem paying for it.
I'm used to it, I'm just reminding people about it. Too many people believe that Google is different than every other publicly traded company in existence because they claimed they were for so long.
1) Oh, really? Sez who?
2) Coders are in IT too. You may not carry a pager, but it's the same damned field.
You're missing a major point here: Rotating on-call.
I'm on call right now, 24/7. I'm required to be available and functional (i.e. in town, sober), and must answer the pager within ten minutes.
For one week out of six.
That means that for about nine weeks a year, I'm a slave to the company. That also means that in a telecom company with >>2million customers, I can completely shut off my mind to work at 17:00 for the rest of the year.
And yes, I get paid well during those nine weeks.
Let's be clear here. Google has introduced features higgledy-piggledy into Canada, and presumably the rest of the world. Can I hide search results in Canada? No. But I _do_ have to suffer through "auto-complete" and site preview on their search engine. Giving us half of the features is worse than none at all, because it makes things slower without making them better.
But hey - Google doesn't give a shit, because they're working towards two goals: Market domination and stock price.
...and I'll say it here. Richard Stallman is an asshole who never learned proper manners.
I'm not a Mac person, wasn't ever an Apple person back in the day of the ][+, but I'm willing to let Jobs die with a bit of dignity and recognition of his good.
None of us are perfect people, and I imagine most of us would rather people didn't stand up at our funeral to say "he was a cheap jerk who stiffed me for twenty bucks."
RMS and ESR are embarrassing themselves and those who associate with them.
Let's be clear here. The Sun division of Oracle is being run by Mark Hurd, who was last seen gutting HP and screwing his staff member. Oracle will kill off all things Sun, either now or later. Solaris and Java are the only things they seem to care about, and both of those are still rather endangered.
Solaris still has some great advantages over Linux--enough to actually keep a handful of people on it despite Oracle. I assume that they're going to get those necessary features into Linux, and then dump Solaris entirely.
We're spending about $12 million to dump all of our Sun applications, as well as most of our Sun gear and Solaris installs in favour of x86 gear (mostly IBM) and Linux. The scary thing is that $12 million is less than the increase in licensing and maintenance costs from Oracle, vs. what we were paying from Sun.
Bottom line: Oracle doesn't want people running Solaris. The more features we get into Linux before Larry gives up and says "screw all y'all" the better.
He's apparently not an expert either. He's not a physicist, but rather an entrepreneur. (But to be fair, his partner is a physicist.)
Actually, the invite from /. may be a great litmus test - if he eagerly agrees, it suggests that he's a charlatan who will take any publicity he can get--which he almost certainly is.
Oracle can't play well with others, and their own customers are "others."
In the last few years, Oracle has gone from treating their customers with arrogance and contempt (their old model) to outright abuse. Every major Sun shop I know of has some Oracle DB stuff floating around, and most of them are not just dumping their Oracle/Sun gear and software, but even getting rid of their OracleDB instances as well.
Customers cannot trust Oracle, and are upset over it. There are also more reasonable alternatives now than ever before. I'll be happy to see Oracle slowly die.
Now hold on here, don't mix up Solaris and SPARC.
SPARC has been dwindling for years - I know, I still manage several hundred SPARC servers. Solaris, if it's dying at all, has only started that path in the last year. Solaris on x86 is damned robust, and in a politics-free world, would be my preferred platform for most computing.
The advantage of dealing with a big name comes of being a big player with a big support contract.
Our division within the company runs about 1800 unix servers right now. That doesn't include the switches, the storage, workstations, etc. etc.. That kind of clout gives us traction when we call for support on a system.
If I'm prepared to spend six or seven figures on annual support, then the big companies actually make sense. If I'm looking at a few to a few dozen servers, then no--go with something small, and do your own in-house support.
Fair enough. It's just that up until about three years ago, the Proliants were solid and beautiful tanks, which were almost on par with the new Sun gear at the time.