Volunteers == no firings/compensation == no enforceable deadlines == no reliable planning == no management possible.
I don't agree, at least for larger OSS projects. There are firings, in the form of your code never being accepted into the tree. Also, the loss of reputation can be pretty damaging, and the threat of that can be a good incentive to play well with others.
try telling the 300 million people in the US that it will cost them money to call a friend and say hello. Land lines don't work that way, why should cell phones?
Um, yes, land lines do work that way. Either that or the toll-call and long distance bills I've been paying every month for 20 years have been mail fraud.
That animation style (if not the content) was the prototype for half the cartoons on TV today, including SpongeBob. (The first time I stumbled onto SpongeBob, my instant reaction was, "Is John K. doing another series?")
There's an international standard that all commercial aircraft have to fit into a 262ft (80m) square footprint, which drives design issues like how far apart the gates have to be at airports.
This thing has a projected wingspan of 289ft (88.1m), which means that at airports where it can't "accidentally" fit, special gates will have to be built for it. (Then again, it'll probably have such a weird arrangement of doors, that you'll need multiple oddly-arranged jetways anyway.)
Imagine growing up, always having color as an identifying mark for currency. Suddenly, you're somewhere else, you pull out your money, and it's all the same color!
When I was in Costa Rica, One of the locals made the same complaint about US buses. In CR, the buses on different routes are different colors (often because they're run by different companies).
First point: I've lived all over the country, and the South has no monopoly on rednecks.
Second point: Being a redneck is a matter of choice. Being poor, rural, white and undereducated does not make you a redneck, because none of that forces you to be an unshowered shirtless trailer-dwelling knuckle-dragging moonshine-swilling tobacco-spitting roadkill-cooking cousin-loving bigot.
Oh, THANKS for that image, which brought to mind a previous-employer memory I thought I had successfully repressed.
One of the guys I worked with had somewhat substandard personal hygiene. In particular, he neither covered his mouth when he sneezed nor turned his head away from his screen....
The network may be the computer, but the network is not the stuff on my whiteboard, the pictures of my wife and son, my post-its, diagrams of various things tacked to my cube walls, and all the other little stuff that makes me bother to come in at all rather than work from home (where at least I have a door and a window).
I worked without a desk for a year on one job. I was a contractor and the building was full, so I sat at desks of people on vacation. Let me tell you, not having your own space sucks, blows and regurgitates.
If they tried to institute this where I work now, that printer that magically becomes my default because it's close to whatever cube the guy with the orange flashlights directs me to would be busy printing out copies of my resume.
Where does Pantone fit into all this? Just about The Only Way to keep your logo colors constant from your stationery to your polo shirts to your carpeting to the sides of your trucks is to specify the Pantone numbers.
Very useful, very accurate, and very hard to do with the GIMP, since Pantone makes their money by collecting royalites on the use and integration of their codes into color-sensitive products and processes.
Ahh, yes, another thing Microsoft claims to have "invented", even though we were using conventions like this in assembly language (and other languages whose only data type was the machine word) for decades...
I remember in 1987 or so when the first 1GB drives came out, and my first reaction was, who would ever want to store that much data on a single device? A whole gig was far too much data to lose all at once when the thing blew up.
I still have the 71MB drive from a year or so earlier, which I got at the bargain price of $775.00. $10/MB was the best you could hope for in those days.
You're right, it's a big deal at those frequencies. As most audiophiles (of the educated variety, not the Tice Clock variety) will tell you, the skin effect is negligible below about 10KHz. At house-current frequencies, it's nonexistent.
Because when they tried to sell/OEM big (at the time, mid-90s) Intel servers running SVR4 straight from USL, they failed miserably, as did Tricord.
It's only been in the last couple years that Intel CPUs have been able to run in the same league as SPARC/MIPS/PA-RISC/Power-whatever, but the surrounding hardware never kept up, which is why, other than the most bleeding edge/vaporware IA-64 machines (e.g., the IA-64 version of HP's Superdome), you don't see any 128-way partitionable HA Intel boxes.
one of the major problems with ClearCase: checked-in files are seen immediately by all developers.
Not if you're using UCM. In fact, in UCM it's hard to make changes immediately visible. (The problem I have is that most of the l^Husers in my shop come from the throw-it-all-in-a-pile school of SCM, and insist that ten minutes is too long to wait to see another developer's changes.)
UCM in ClearCase does exactly this. You may or may not like the policy that's hardwired into UCM, but UCM's "activities" do indeed atomicize the checkin of groups of files.
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Didn't Birkoff say that to Operations once?
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Volunteers == no firings/compensation == no enforceable deadlines == no reliable planning == no management possible.
I don't agree, at least for larger OSS projects. There are firings, in the form of your code never being accepted into the tree. Also, the loss of reputation can be pretty damaging, and the threat of that can be a good incentive to play well with others.
It just might. The rest of us already have all the gadgets; our grandparents are the last ones to get in the game.
Yeah, it might displace the cigarette smoke.
Um, yes, land lines do work that way. Either that or the toll-call and long distance bills I've been paying every month for 20 years have been mail fraud.
Sure I do. I just split the drive into five partitions, set it up as RAID 5, and when one of the partitions craps out...
um...
*never mind*
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That animation style (if not the content) was the prototype for half the cartoons on TV today, including SpongeBob. (The first time I stumbled onto SpongeBob, my instant reaction was, "Is John K. doing another series?")
There's an international standard that all commercial aircraft have to fit into a 262ft (80m) square footprint, which drives design issues like how far apart the gates have to be at airports.
This thing has a projected wingspan of 289ft (88.1m), which means that at airports where it can't "accidentally" fit, special gates will have to be built for it. (Then again, it'll probably have such a weird arrangement of doors, that you'll need multiple oddly-arranged jetways anyway.)
People express-paying for their long-term airport parking...
When I was in Costa Rica, One of the locals made the same complaint about US buses. In CR, the buses on different routes are different colors (often because they're run by different companies).
It'd be nice to know if this would be a candidate for my next Cheap Linux Box, or if I'd be better off going to a local screwdriver shop.
Two words: Stock options.
First point: I've lived all over the country, and the South has no monopoly on rednecks.
Second point: Being a redneck is a matter of choice. Being poor, rural, white and undereducated does not make you a redneck, because none of that forces you to be an unshowered shirtless trailer-dwelling knuckle-dragging moonshine-swilling tobacco-spitting roadkill-cooking cousin-loving bigot.
ObTopic: Nor does buying a $300 PC at Wal-Mart.
I wish he had finished the joke:
From a nearby stall: "At Rutgers we didn't have to be taught."
Oh, THANKS for that image, which brought to mind a previous-employer memory I thought I had successfully repressed.
One of the guys I worked with had somewhat substandard personal hygiene. In particular, he neither covered his mouth when he sneezed nor turned his head away from his screen....
The network may be the computer, but the network is not the stuff on my whiteboard, the pictures of my wife and son, my post-its, diagrams of various things tacked to my cube walls, and all the other little stuff that makes me bother to come in at all rather than work from home (where at least I have a door and a window).
I worked without a desk for a year on one job. I was a contractor and the building was full, so I sat at desks of people on vacation. Let me tell you, not having your own space sucks, blows and regurgitates.
If they tried to institute this where I work now, that printer that magically becomes my default because it's close to whatever cube the guy with the orange flashlights directs me to would be busy printing out copies of my resume.
Where does Pantone fit into all this? Just about The Only Way to keep your logo colors constant from your stationery to your polo shirts to your carpeting to the sides of your trucks is to specify the Pantone numbers.
Very useful, very accurate, and very hard to do with the GIMP, since Pantone makes their money by collecting royalites on the use and integration of their codes into color-sensitive products and processes.
FrameMaker's MIF format is very well documented.
Ahh, yes, another thing Microsoft claims to have "invented", even though we were using conventions like this in assembly language (and other languages whose only data type was the machine word) for decades...
I still have the 71MB drive from a year or so earlier, which I got at the bargain price of $775.00. $10/MB was the best you could hope for in those days.
Uphill. Both ways.
"Let H represent the amount of hydrogen..."
Oh wait . "Abstract: to take away; remove."
Never mind.
You're right, it's a big deal at those frequencies. As most audiophiles (of the educated variety, not the Tice Clock variety) will tell you, the skin effect is negligible below about 10KHz. At house-current frequencies, it's nonexistent.
It's only been in the last couple years that Intel CPUs have been able to run in the same league as SPARC/MIPS/PA-RISC/Power-whatever, but the surrounding hardware never kept up, which is why, other than the most bleeding edge/vaporware IA-64 machines (e.g., the IA-64 version of HP's Superdome), you don't see any 128-way partitionable HA Intel boxes.
There's only so much you can do with 15 IRQs.
Not if you're using UCM. In fact, in UCM it's hard to make changes immediately visible. (The problem I have is that most of the l^Husers in my shop come from the throw-it-all-in-a-pile school of SCM, and insist that ten minutes is too long to wait to see another developer's changes.)
UCM in ClearCase does exactly this. You may or may not like the policy that's hardwired into UCM, but UCM's "activities" do indeed atomicize the checkin of groups of files.