I've dangled more than that $100 from a kite, I've dangled my body! Modern skydiving canopies are pretty much just large modern kites. They use a lot of the same design techniques and some canopy manufacturers make kites also.
And yes it is better in person. Don't take a picture. Use your own eyes! JUMP OUT OF A PLANE!
Amen. I do see the romantacism here on slashdot. Usually exposing the "hacker" way of life, where one creates poetical works that change the world in a few simple keystrokes, your peers lifting you upon their shoulders "behold! the ARTIST". Often though it's more akin to a job at burger king, high stress, shitty hours, and you smell like a #3 when you get home.
I shouldn't have assumed this was your viewpoint but you do make something clear, being a programmer is not the same as being a scientist or poet. It's just a job. I love it though, it pays the bills well and I get to use my mind occasionally:D.
But we have been unable to distinguish ourselves from the rest in the software industry. We have no specific advantage. What we need is to be known for higher quality. Something a customer can see clearly with their eyes and say "that was made in america and hence equals quality." We lack that. Because we do not have the processes in place to create such software. There has been no imperative to make our software distinguishable. Just as the Japanese cornered the Auto market by creating a QA process equal to none we could do the same. Our software _could_ be known as the best in the world.
But more likely we will be forced into other occupations by the wave of globalization. Ahh, sad days.
It's easy to try and bash a programmer by calling him/her just a computer plumber. But some of us don't take offense. capentry and plumbing are both honest trades, both true craftsmen. I will gladly stand beside these people and call myself a craftsman while high browed "computer scientists" take pot shots at us.
I don't know many programmers that see themselves as artists or scientists. More often I meet programmers that are just hard working people with a love for the trade. Nothing more, nothing less.
And to add a little to that, the overhead of adding a SQL compliant query engine in such a tiny space is hard work.
I have been using PERST targeted at developers who need an embeded database. But it's not relational, it's OO, which can be a benefit in some cases. You have to establish your own indexes and relationships between these objects. it's not a full blown SQL server, far from it. But on a small device overhead is everything and this thing is bare bones. It can be configured easily for the platform, specifying exactly how large a footprint you want to take on the host. Works well if you just need a repo for your data and don't need the report driven analytical power of SQL.
I'm confused about how this will preempt state law. The state and federal government regularly disagree on a particular issue and have different laws in place to handle such issues (see state marijuana laws vs federal) but that has never preempted a state law or deemed a state law unenforceable. Unless of course a court determines the law is unconstitutional.
I think this type of thinking is outdated. There are programmers like myself who pride themselves in being able to program on both platforms (read: windows and unix like environments). The end user is always the focus of our attention, but that end user might _be_ a developer. We don't care about cultures and alliances. The machine is a tool to be used as such.
While the original article's criticism may not have come from "zealous hate", it certainly didn't come from impartial journalism. This and other statements like it definitely tinted it from simple reporting to an apparent attack, complete with the subliminal childish prat-calls.
It's called a "commentary"
( Commentary By Lance Ulanoff PC Magazine )
It drives eyeballs to the article. It's not like he's writing under for Associated Press about war crimes in Africa so let's please leave our expectations for impartial journalism at the door.
And to further elaborate from what I know about programming on the win32 environment, this is a temporary solution for DLLs that run in a COM environment.
Move to.Net and you cannot only drag and drop your DLLs without registering them locally (provided you have the proper permissions to not only place the dll there but execute it also) but you also can have multiple versions of the same dll registered in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) for multiple apps on the same machine to reference at runtime (Referencing a dll from the GAC is optional). This GAC will serve as a registry for DLLs and other.Net assemblies.
So yes, DLL hell is over. Every application will have it's own copy of the dll to use or reference a common DLL by checking the GAC for the correct version.
The implications of multiple dll/lib versions on the same machine are not restricted to just Windows but the same type of dependency problems might ensue. It comes down to good administration of the machine by competent folks, same as always.
Sometimes it's just to solicit help and show off your wares to others at the same time. Thats why I have written and released code open source. By sharing what I've written it serves as an open forum to not only discuss the application but my techniques at the same time. If another developer has a better technique and shares it with me then I have become that much better. And vice versa. I cannot tell you how much this has helped me. Something you may think makes perfect sense might actually be a huge kluster f*#ck (been there, done that). In the end the development community benefits. At least that's my theory.
But I target developers with most of my code so it might be easier to solicit help than projects that target end users.
The winners pay. The winners pay for the losers, and the winners are not seeing rewards commensurate with their success. And they get upset. So what's the remedy? The remedy is to stop paying advances. The remedy is to go to a gross-revenues deal and tell an artist, "We'll give you twenty cents on every dollar we get, but we're not gonna give you an advance. The accounting will be simple: We're gonna pay you not on profits -- we're gonna pay you off revenues. It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime. We'll go ahead and risk some marketing money on you. But if you're not successful, you'll make no money. If you are, you'll make a lot more money." That's the way out. That's the way the rest of the world works.
So if the record companies aren't paying for advances and the artist foots the bill for everything then what does the record company do again? I understand the want of simplicity but if this situation comes to fruition where does the record company come in? Advertisement? Is that not considered an advance?
Also, let's please not forget that the US is closer to the EU than any other entity in the world and as an American I consider you friends. And just like friends we might disagree from time to time but we need not skepticize on what if scenarios that, god-willing, will never come to pass. For every person shooting from the hip their flamboyant statements is an equal voice of reason (on both sides of the Atlantic).
I assume they are dancing in the streets because they bought 12 van halen cds for the price of 1
I suspect they also have viagra hard penises and oxycontin enhanced stares. Careful, they might charge. Keep your distance from these swine. They might request your credit card # to verify your identity.
Of course, this is a simulation of the internet, so it will have a simulation of Slashdot, and thus we are all now simulations somewhere in a computer in California, simulating the Slashdotting of simulated small, interesting web sites. Wow, I now have an avitar
I'M ON TO YOU ROBOT! You may think we don't know that you are actually the computer you speak of but some of us have tinfoil hats and a keen sense of smell.
Microsoft recruits some of the best programmers in the world. I think they have acknowledged linux and open source as a threat and also seen their weakness on the security side. Vendors are starting to complain. Customers are starting to complain. Joe Smoe is starting to complain. Everyone is complaining and MS is doing damage control.
But on the other side of the argument what you say about marketing driving products is most likely correct. They need a better process in place to ensure customers that what they are getting is not only features, but features that wont leave the keys to the city lying around. They need security and they need it fast. And they need to understand the long term affects of the negative image they have. Their monopoly is not going to save them when viable competitors are springing up on every level.
I know what you are saying. That it's all bullshit and I tend to agree given their history. However I think that his statements were taken out of context. No company produces perfect code and developers are only one link in the chain of security.
Plus to add what you said (which I agree with) Gates qualifies his statement by saying: "There are things we're doing that are making code closer to perfect, in terms of tools and security audits and things like that. But there are two other techniques: one is called firewalling and the other is called keeping the software up to date".
So he just said, yes we are trying our best, but it's not gonna be enough. That's a pretty fair statement regardless of the environment. Perfect code does not exist. You cannot prove perfection but you can prove that your app is secure within reasonable tolerances, which MS software of late has been anything but. They need to step up their efforts to keep up with their competitors, direct and indirect. But his statement was of course taken out of context in typical/. style. A developer trying his/her best to release perfect code is a good thing. But it must be backed up with local security and up to date software.
huh? why are you attacking me when I was trying to say jail is a serious place and not to be taken lightly? I never mentioned anything else. In fact I HAVE been to jail a few times and the ones I went to weren't resorts like the one you spoke of. So obviously I don't agree with the "lock em all up" mentality.
Have you ever spent any time in jail? It isn't a joke and not for people that are mere nuisances. Nothing but serious business behind those walls. I'd prefer prisoners to be a danger to society, not just guilty of being an asshole.
This brings up a good point, if a hardware company uses GPL code, modifies it, then release their hardware with that modified code is the selling of the hardware considered distribution (they just distribute the hardware)? You don't really distribute the binaries in the traditional sense of allowing users to download the code or send them a CD.
I say it is distribution, but I was wondering if it has been discussed/ironed out by the FSF..
I think their point is to scare the people into thinking they might be next and securing their computer against misuse (albeit arguable). Although these type of moves are guaranteed to cause a backlash I think the average joe simply has one goal - a nice and easy life. Avoiding the legal system by simply not downloading songs isn't that hard and it's easier to just stop as opposed to starting a fight against the RIAA, which god knows who that really is??? If the RIAA says "this is bad" enough times and the courts back them up by entertaining these frivalous lawsuits then people will start to agree that it is bad and be driven to RIAA sanctioned sites like buymusic.com where the content can still be controlled.
Do I agree with this tactic? hell no. Those like myself who are opposed to such tactics need to take this battle to the streets and let _everyone_ who will listen know about what these guys are up to and why we need to stop them. If not then we can expect every single industry to take notice and punk us any time they feel like.
Slashdot Mirror
I've dangled more than that $100 from a kite, I've dangled my body! Modern skydiving canopies are pretty much just large modern kites. They use a lot of the same design techniques and some canopy manufacturers make kites also.
And yes it is better in person. Don't take a picture. Use your own eyes! JUMP OUT OF A PLANE!
Amen. I do see the romantacism here on slashdot. Usually exposing the "hacker" way of life, where one creates poetical works that change the world in a few simple keystrokes, your peers lifting you upon their shoulders "behold! the ARTIST". Often though it's more akin to a job at burger king, high stress, shitty hours, and you smell like a #3 when you get home.
:D.
I shouldn't have assumed this was your viewpoint but you do make something clear, being a programmer is not the same as being a scientist or poet. It's just a job. I love it though, it pays the bills well and I get to use my mind occasionally
But we have been unable to distinguish ourselves from the rest in the software industry. We have no specific advantage. What we need is to be known for higher quality. Something a customer can see clearly with their eyes and say "that was made in america and hence equals quality." We lack that. Because we do not have the processes in place to create such software. There has been no imperative to make our software distinguishable. Just as the Japanese cornered the Auto market by creating a QA process equal to none we could do the same. Our software _could_ be known as the best in the world.
But more likely we will be forced into other occupations by the wave of globalization. Ahh, sad days.
So I take it you are a computer scientist?
It's easy to try and bash a programmer by calling him/her just a computer plumber. But some of us don't take offense. capentry and plumbing are both honest trades, both true craftsmen. I will gladly stand beside these people and call myself a craftsman while high browed "computer scientists" take pot shots at us.
I don't know many programmers that see themselves as artists or scientists. More often I meet programmers that are just hard working people with a love for the trade. Nothing more, nothing less.
Bill Gates has a 'haircut'? Looks more like a flowbee session gone awry.
"YEAH IT CERTAINLY DOES SUCK BOB!"
And to add a little to that, the overhead of adding a SQL compliant query engine in such a tiny space is hard work.
I have been using PERST targeted at developers who need an embeded database. But it's not relational, it's OO, which can be a benefit in some cases. You have to establish your own indexes and relationships between these objects. it's not a full blown SQL server, far from it. But on a small device overhead is everything and this thing is bare bones. It can be configured easily for the platform, specifying exactly how large a footprint you want to take on the host. Works well if you just need a repo for your data and don't need the report driven analytical power of SQL.
I'm confused about how this will preempt state law. The state and federal government regularly disagree on a particular issue and have different laws in place to handle such issues (see state marijuana laws vs federal) but that has never preempted a state law or deemed a state law unenforceable. Unless of course a court determines the law is unconstitutional.
What gives?
I think this type of thinking is outdated. There are programmers like myself who pride themselves in being able to program on both platforms (read: windows and unix like environments). The end user is always the focus of our attention, but that end user might _be_ a developer. We don't care about cultures and alliances. The machine is a tool to be used as such.
While the original article's criticism may not have come from "zealous hate", it certainly didn't come from impartial journalism. This and other statements like it definitely tinted it from simple reporting to an apparent attack, complete with the subliminal childish prat-calls.
It's called a "commentary"
(
Commentary
By Lance Ulanoff
PC Magazine
)
It drives eyeballs to the article. It's not like he's writing under for Associated Press about war crimes in Africa so let's please leave our expectations for impartial journalism at the door.
And to further elaborate from what I know about programming on the win32 environment, this is a temporary solution for DLLs that run in a COM environment.
.Net and you cannot only drag and drop your DLLs without registering them locally (provided you have the proper permissions to not only place the dll there but execute it also) but you also can have multiple versions of the same dll registered in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) for multiple apps on the same machine to reference at runtime (Referencing a dll from the GAC is optional). This GAC will serve as a registry for DLLs and other .Net assemblies.
Move to
So yes, DLL hell is over. Every application will have it's own copy of the dll to use or reference a common DLL by checking the GAC for the correct version.
The implications of multiple dll/lib versions on the same machine are not restricted to just Windows but the same type of dependency problems might ensue. It comes down to good administration of the machine by competent folks, same as always.
Sometimes it's just to solicit help and show off your wares to others at the same time. Thats why I have written and released code open source. By sharing what I've written it serves as an open forum to not only discuss the application but my techniques at the same time. If another developer has a better technique and shares it with me then I have become that much better. And vice versa. I cannot tell you how much this has helped me. Something you may think makes perfect sense might actually be a huge kluster f*#ck (been there, done that). In the end the development community benefits. At least that's my theory.
But I target developers with most of my code so it might be easier to solicit help than projects that target end users.
The winners pay. The winners pay for the losers, and the winners are not seeing rewards commensurate with their success. And they get upset. So what's the remedy? The remedy is to stop paying advances. The remedy is to go to a gross-revenues deal and tell an artist, "We'll give you twenty cents on every dollar we get, but we're not gonna give you an advance. The accounting will be simple: We're gonna pay you not on profits -- we're gonna pay you off revenues. It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime. We'll go ahead and risk some marketing money on you. But if you're not successful, you'll make no money. If you are, you'll make a lot more money." That's the way out. That's the way the rest of the world works.
So if the record companies aren't paying for advances and the artist foots the bill for everything then what does the record company do again? I understand the want of simplicity but if this situation comes to fruition where does the record company come in? Advertisement? Is that not considered an advance?
Also, let's please not forget that the US is closer to the EU than any other entity in the world and as an American I consider you friends. And just like friends we might disagree from time to time but we need not skepticize on what if scenarios that, god-willing, will never come to pass. For every person shooting from the hip their flamboyant statements is an equal voice of reason (on both sides of the Atlantic).
I assume they are dancing in the streets because they bought 12 van halen cds for the price of 1
I suspect they also have viagra hard penises and oxycontin enhanced stares. Careful, they might charge. Keep your distance from these swine. They might request your credit card # to verify your identity.
Its the legal equivalent of "bagsies".
Is that like "shotgun!" ?
Of course, this is a simulation of the internet, so it will have a simulation of Slashdot, and thus we are all now simulations somewhere in a computer in California, simulating the Slashdotting of simulated small, interesting web sites. Wow, I now have an avitar
I'M ON TO YOU ROBOT! You may think we don't know that you are actually the computer you speak of but some of us have tinfoil hats and a keen sense of smell.
Amen to that. Why not just have a Gator pop up instead? Assholes made me close my browser.
Microsoft recruits some of the best programmers in the world. I think they have acknowledged linux and open source as a threat and also seen their weakness on the security side. Vendors are starting to complain. Customers are starting to complain. Joe Smoe is starting to complain. Everyone is complaining and MS is doing damage control.
But on the other side of the argument what you say about marketing driving products is most likely correct. They need a better process in place to ensure customers that what they are getting is not only features, but features that wont leave the keys to the city lying around. They need security and they need it fast. And they need to understand the long term affects of the negative image they have. Their monopoly is not going to save them when viable competitors are springing up on every level.
I know what you are saying. That it's all bullshit and I tend to agree given their history. However I think that his statements were taken out of context. No company produces perfect code and developers are only one link in the chain of security.
Plus to add what you said (which I agree with) Gates qualifies his statement by saying: "There are things we're doing that are making code closer to perfect, in terms of tools and security audits and things like that. But there are two other techniques: one is called firewalling and the other is called keeping the software up to date".
/. style. A developer trying his/her best to release perfect code is a good thing. But it must be backed up with local security and up to date software.
So he just said, yes we are trying our best, but it's not gonna be enough. That's a pretty fair statement regardless of the environment. Perfect code does not exist. You cannot prove perfection but you can prove that your app is secure within reasonable tolerances, which MS software of late has been anything but. They need to step up their efforts to keep up with their competitors, direct and indirect. But his statement was of course taken out of context in typical
huh? why are you attacking me when I was trying to say jail is a serious place and not to be taken lightly? I never mentioned anything else. In fact I HAVE been to jail a few times and the ones I went to weren't resorts like the one you spoke of. So obviously I don't agree with the "lock em all up" mentality.
YOU'RE THE MAN NOW DAWG!
Have you ever spent any time in jail? It isn't a joke and not for people that are mere nuisances. Nothing but serious business behind those walls. I'd prefer prisoners to be a danger to society, not just guilty of being an asshole.
If the piracy continues the recording industry may we wiped out, then would would all those poor executives do
Probably sell their ivory back scratchers and go live in City Housing Authority apartments.
This brings up a good point, if a hardware company uses GPL code, modifies it, then release their hardware with that modified code is the selling of the hardware considered distribution (they just distribute the hardware)? You don't really distribute the binaries in the traditional sense of allowing users to download the code or send them a CD.
I say it is distribution, but I was wondering if it has been discussed/ironed out by the FSF..
I think their point is to scare the people into thinking they might be next and securing their computer against misuse (albeit arguable). Although these type of moves are guaranteed to cause a backlash I think the average joe simply has one goal - a nice and easy life. Avoiding the legal system by simply not downloading songs isn't that hard and it's easier to just stop as opposed to starting a fight against the RIAA, which god knows who that really is??? If the RIAA says "this is bad" enough times and the courts back them up by entertaining these frivalous lawsuits then people will start to agree that it is bad and be driven to RIAA sanctioned sites like buymusic.com where the content can still be controlled.
Do I agree with this tactic? hell no. Those like myself who are opposed to such tactics need to take this battle to the streets and let _everyone_ who will listen know about what these guys are up to and why we need to stop them. If not then we can expect every single industry to take notice and punk us any time they feel like.