Accept it. Linux is his baby. Still. Linux has turned into a billion dollar business, but is still, luckily, heavily influenced by the geeks who created it. Live with it. Enjoy it. If you expect to gain anything by throwing the political correctness card or try to enforce HR policies (socialism), that you might be part of. Think again. Who want's a global Linux community HR manager? hello
I know socialism alright: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3971217&cid=44277309 To me socialism is a political system that favors social behavior, disregarding logic and common sense all together. I think that is bad for the common good. I also think that we live in a changing world that requires a constant evaluation of our political systems. Therefore I wouldn't rely on one single political system or paradigm alone. But instead focus on values. That might happen to be a pick of the best.
Ideally socialism is good as most other ideologies. In practice things are a lot different as with practically all other ideologies. I have experienced socialism for a lifetime now and despite all it's good intentions you always end up with a group of selfish and often incompetent group of people trying to control everything, relying on skilled officials or colleagues taking care of the mess that they left behind. Socialism grew out of the of the working class need for an alternative to the capitalist system, that ruled during the industrialization. It was tough times being a worker. However today the working class is pretty much extinct. The majority of workers now live in China. But socialism is still praised and romanticized as the political correct system. But i think it is being confused by many with simply being social or nice. That is the exact same trades that made you CEO what he/she is today. A social, well spoken, well connected, political correct individual. That happens to be in control of power. The hardcore conservative capitalist is dead to. The world has changed. You don't necessarily recognize the CEO on the street, off duty wearing sandals and a t-shirt. And sometimes the CEO isn't as generously payed as you might think. But he(not she) just is the favorite villain to the socialist, even though many CEO's actually have a socialist background. And often they are actually both good and responsible people too. Not to confuse with a socialist. Because being fair, justice, responsible and showing solidarity isn't a social-democratic only trademark. It's just human trades just like any other. But at all times it is the social trade that has also made people corrupt, because it allows the people in power to exchange tips and information through networking. It is always easier for the socially intelligent person to gain power in a group of people when the rules are sloppy enough to allow it. No matter the skills or justification. With that follows old boy networking and lots of favors. Combine that with today's IT communication facilities and social network services. That is why we need whistle blowers more than ever. To break the vicious circle before things get to bad. I think the whistle blower programme needs more power, ie. so that whistle blowers is ensured free attorney and a, lets say ten year paycheck when fired for whistle blowing.
After WW2 everybody was working hard, rebuilding the world. There was a respect for those who worked harder and for those who simply achieved more. Then we had the cold war. There was the red team and the blue team. Things where pretty simple. Skills was an important factor. But a lot more politics. Today it's politics and corruption all over. Networking is more important than actual skills. There is no common goal, everybody is fighting everybody. I think the trend is called socialism. It's about how to fuck your neighbour over for scraps. Now that is why we need homeland security, right? "To secure the nation from the many threats we face"
Encourage and make it easy for users to send feedback. Listen to complains, no matter how rude. Reward the users by acknowledging their reports and by actually fixing the bugs or by adding requested features when it makes sense.
Stop recording! At some point, recording becomes a bigger liability than not recording. Surveillance is also very exploitable and therefore inherently dangerous. It might be used for good today, but who knows what it will be used for tomorrow and by whom? Every time it is misused the "terrorists" wins a small victory.
>One wonders: was Todd Akin [wikipedia.org] extrapolating from his experiences to the females of human species?
Most likely. The guy must be pretty nuts.
I know that this is getting orders of magnitude OT. But..the following note in the link that you gave, seems to suggest that it might improve your wife's chances of carrying a baby, if you dress up like a stranger and rape here in the local park on here way home from work/shopping? >A separate 2003 article in the journal Human Nature estimated that rapes are twice as likely to result in pregnancies as consensual sex.[68] (See also pregnancy from rape.)
"I have a HUGE problem with charging to fix something that was supposed to be working in the first place, or even, as is the case with Qt, not charging, but simply abandoning in place software that is significantly less than it was purported to be. I find adding new features to be insufficient cause to excuse leaving known bugs in place."
A good rule of thumb is: Always charge for the time you spend. If you are self employed, you are the one that pays for the mistakes that you make. Else it's your boss. It's part of the equation. Remember that when you are writing offers to your customers. And make it clear too, that issues caused by new OS versions are the customers "problem". Cross platform is exponentially more expensive than single OS development. I know that it is not easy, with competitors standing ready with their silver bullets, one rule em all development tools (jQuery, PhoneGap, Xmarin etc..), but let the customer decide what to do, based on all the pros and cons. Maybe they don't have to reach out to those potential 10 Windows mobile users, at the same cost, as to those potential 100.000 iOS and Android users out there. In the long term the customer will learn. It is better to present the truth, even if it might hurt yourself, short term.
" "it's-our-fault" buglist " That is only the bugs, defects and design flaws, introduced by you:)
I still bet on Qt as one of the must promising multiplatform contenders, if not the only serious one.
VTOL rockets can be used on all planets with an earth like gravity or less, ie. Mars and most moons + asteroids in our solar system. Gliding is the exception. Only useful on Earth because of the relatively thick atmosphere and it's many landing strips. DC-X was and still is the way to go, just like the grasshopper is. Hybrids may be useful too. Projects like Skylon (if it happens) will be a great way to bring astronauts to and from LEO without the inherent single failure issues that comes with VTOL's. But VTOL's is a necessity when you wan't to do interplanetary exploration.
>But, as I said, the moon will happen around 2020 (barring neo-cons interfering or pushing their god forsaken SLS), and Mars will be around 2025.
That sounds like a bet to me. I would be a bit conservative and add 20 years to those estimates.
I'm against sending people off to Mars in ten years time. I just don't think we will have the capacity to do it, without making it a short and ugly one way trip.
The Moon will allow us to practice in small increments. And it will make it possible to build much larger structures than we can lift into space from Earth. It's like the scrum versus water fall approach.
Most of what you suggest is about environmental challenges, that can be tested in a big hangar anywhere on Earth. Sure it's relevant to test weather you can survive on the poles or not. But that has been achieved already by several countries. It is more important to prove that we can move things around in space than live out there, because we know we can. We already live in space, in a space craft called Earth. At the moment it's just too big for us to change it's direction:) The real challenge is to provide a supply chain to the Moon and prove that you can harvest material and energy making a base worth while. I believe it is. If we can't survive on the Moon for extended periods of time, because of environmental issues, perhaps, in the long run, robots can fill the gap, building the structures needed to accommodate humans later on, if needed. But the reason why the Moon is so important is it's low gravitational field, that makes it more economical as a jump pad than Earth or Mars. It has all the materials needed to build structures in space. All the talk about harvesting material from meteors is also irrelevant. Everything is there on the surface of the Moon. And the amount of solar energy is abundant. The Moon is also very close if you need to run or guide vehicles via. remote control. It is almost as if someone put it there, to help us come out.
But the first step is to build a permanent base on the Moon. The Moon's close proximity to Earth and it's low gravity will provide the necessary practice for moving on to Mars. All focus should be on the Moon until a manned base on Mars becomes realistic. That is when the essential hull structure and fuel for the Mars space ship can be extracted and build from materials of the Moon). Then we can go to Mars and further.
If we need to get of this rock, we have to go to the moon first. We are lucky that we have this great stepping stone that orbits our planet. The moon will allow us to perform space explorations and missions at a much grater scale than if we had to build everything in space. A permanent moon base is will allow us to study, thousands of asteroids that has been scattered all around the moons surface. There is of course helium-3, vast amounts of solar energy and lots of building materials. The idea of putting 3D printers on the moon is a great idea too. Over time using solar power and robots plus 3D-printers it will be possible to build all kind of interesting structures like maglevs and rail-guns for cheap orbiting of spacecrafts and materials. The moon is also a great place to bring down asteroids, perhaps in smaller pieces for analysis. Or local mineral and metal mining that could lead to new moon structures or extraction and refining of materials into manageable portions that could be brought to Earth. Having a rail-gun on the moon that could send materials into space using only solar power and magnets would be a great way to build huge space structures that could be used e.g. to fend of asteroids and lots of other missions. Not to mention the military prospects (that's just too mind boggling.. ohh) and a reason enough to go there.. first. If this bill doesn't fly through congress then it will undoubtably hit us in a couple of decades, when the moon is closed i.e. off limits to westerners.
My point is that NASA should focus on space exploration, R&D etc. instead of promoting toys. Lego are doing really great on their own. I just think that NASA should be a bit embarrassing, wasting time on PR campaigns and product branding, piggybacking on an already successful toy manufacturer. It kind of puts things into perspective, when you think about what people at NASA did in the sixties. Instead of doing business and mingling with Lego, NASA should be worried about how to build a working scramjet, single stage rockets and new propulsion systems.
>and just might inspire some kids to do something meaningful with their lives. Show them the Apollo program on youtube. And tell them the story. When dad was young, the rockets where three times as powerful as what we have today. You could fly to Paris from New York in the morning on the Concorde and be back for dinner. Back then we had ambitions, to go to the moon, build space stations. Real science fiction. You could probably fit all the combined computing power that was available to NASA forty years ago in the palm of your hand, if you own a smartphone. But at the time, it was enough. Think about what can be done today, with the available technology and materials.
Why don't we decimate NASA from all it's ridicules fat cats, so that we can afford real project like going to the moon or even mars. Don't build toys, Build real rockets. If you haven't already forgotten how to.
"How do you respond to user anxiety from Agile processes?" I try to calm them down the best i can. If it doesn't help, i try to use the Jedi thought trick. "You are not worried, you have nothing to fear, you will not feel troubled by the mad havoc caused by the ever changing user control base classes, data model, web service contracts, everything will be fine at the next milestone:))":/
Inspiration is ok with me, but why should anybody be entitled to copy your work? Make sure you obfuscate (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been obfuscated (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been obfuscated (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been obfuscated (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been obfuscated (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been obfuscated (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been (you got it!))) or brainfucked)) or brainfucked)) or brainfucked)) or brainfucked)) or brainfucked)) or brainfuck your code. And remember to add a copyright notice at the top:)
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Accept it. Linux is his baby. Still.
Linux has turned into a billion dollar business, but is still, luckily, heavily influenced by the geeks who created it. Live with it. Enjoy it.
If you expect to gain anything by throwing the political correctness card or try to enforce HR policies (socialism), that you might be part of. Think again.
Who want's a global Linux community HR manager? hello
I know socialism alright: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3971217&cid=44277309
To me socialism is a political system that favors social behavior, disregarding logic and common sense all together. I think that is bad for the common good.
I also think that we live in a changing world that requires a constant evaluation of our political systems.
Therefore I wouldn't rely on one single political system or paradigm alone. But instead focus on values. That might happen to be a pick of the best.
>What you are talking about is the amoral sociopathic tendancies of politicians and tycoons
+1
Ideally socialism is good as most other ideologies. In practice things are a lot different as with practically all other ideologies.
I have experienced socialism for a lifetime now and despite all it's good intentions you always end up with a group of selfish and often incompetent group of people trying to control everything, relying on skilled officials or colleagues taking care of the mess that they left behind.
Socialism grew out of the of the working class need for an alternative to the capitalist system, that ruled during the industrialization. It was tough times being a worker.
However today the working class is pretty much extinct. The majority of workers now live in China.
But socialism is still praised and romanticized as the political correct system. But i think it is being confused by many with simply being social or nice.
That is the exact same trades that made you CEO what he/she is today. A social, well spoken, well connected, political correct individual. That happens to be in control of power.
The hardcore conservative capitalist is dead to. The world has changed. You don't necessarily recognize the CEO on the street, off duty wearing sandals and a t-shirt.
And sometimes the CEO isn't as generously payed as you might think. But he(not she) just is the favorite villain to the socialist, even though many CEO's actually have a socialist background. And often they are actually both good and responsible people too. Not to confuse with a socialist.
Because being fair, justice, responsible and showing solidarity isn't a social-democratic only trademark. It's just human trades just like any other.
But at all times it is the social trade that has also made people corrupt, because it allows the people in power to exchange tips and information through networking.
It is always easier for the socially intelligent person to gain power in a group of people when the rules are sloppy enough to allow it. No matter the skills or justification.
With that follows old boy networking and lots of favors. Combine that with today's IT communication facilities and social network services.
That is why we need whistle blowers more than ever. To break the vicious circle before things get to bad.
I think the whistle blower programme needs more power, ie. so that whistle blowers is ensured free attorney and a, lets say ten year paycheck when fired for whistle blowing.
There goes the Slashdot censorship.. again.. sigh! :) *giggle*
F#€%in socialist bastards
After WW2 everybody was working hard, rebuilding the world. There was a respect for those who worked harder and for those who simply achieved more.
Then we had the cold war. There was the red team and the blue team. Things where pretty simple. Skills was an important factor. But a lot more politics.
Today it's politics and corruption all over. Networking is more important than actual skills. There is no common goal, everybody is fighting everybody.
I think the trend is called socialism. It's about how to fuck your neighbour over for scraps.
Now that is why we need homeland security, right?
"To secure the nation from the many threats we face"
Encourage and make it easy for users to send feedback.
Listen to complains, no matter how rude.
Reward the users by acknowledging their reports and by actually fixing the bugs or by adding requested features when it makes sense.
Stop recording!
At some point, recording becomes a bigger liability than not recording.
Surveillance is also very exploitable and therefore inherently dangerous.
It might be used for good today, but who knows what it will be used for tomorrow and by whom?
Every time it is misused the "terrorists" wins a small victory.
>One wonders: was Todd Akin [wikipedia.org] extrapolating from his experiences to the females of human species?
Most likely. The guy must be pretty nuts.
I know that this is getting orders of magnitude OT.
But..the following note in the link that you gave, seems to suggest that it might improve your wife's chances of carrying a baby, if you dress up like a stranger and rape here in the local park on here way home from work/shopping?
>A separate 2003 article in the journal Human Nature estimated that rapes are twice as likely to result in pregnancies as consensual sex.[68] (See also pregnancy from rape.)
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/muscovy-duck-sex/
"I have a HUGE problem with charging to fix something that was supposed to be working in the first place, or even, as is the case with Qt, not charging, but simply abandoning in place software that is significantly less than it was purported to be. I find adding new features to be insufficient cause to excuse leaving known bugs in place."
A good rule of thumb is:
Always charge for the time you spend. If you are self employed, you are the one that pays for the mistakes that you make. Else it's your boss. It's part of the equation.
Remember that when you are writing offers to your customers.
And make it clear too, that issues caused by new OS versions are the customers "problem". Cross platform is exponentially more expensive than single OS development.
I know that it is not easy, with competitors standing ready with their silver bullets, one rule em all development tools (jQuery, PhoneGap, Xmarin etc..), but let the customer decide what to do, based on all the pros and cons. Maybe they don't have to reach out to those potential 10 Windows mobile users, at the same cost, as to those potential 100.000 iOS and Android users out there.
In the long term the customer will learn. It is better to present the truth, even if it might hurt yourself, short term.
" "it's-our-fault" buglist " :)
That is only the bugs, defects and design flaws, introduced by you
I still bet on Qt as one of the must promising multiplatform contenders, if not the only serious one.
VTOL rockets can be used on all planets with an earth like gravity or less, ie. Mars and most moons + asteroids in our solar system.
Gliding is the exception. Only useful on Earth because of the relatively thick atmosphere and it's many landing strips.
DC-X was and still is the way to go, just like the grasshopper is. Hybrids may be useful too.
Projects like Skylon (if it happens) will be a great way to bring astronauts to and from LEO without the inherent single failure issues that comes with VTOL's.
But VTOL's is a necessity when you wan't to do interplanetary exploration.
Can't wait for that.
Qt could be the answer to rich internet cross platform apps
R.I.P
>But, as I said, the moon will happen around 2020 (barring neo-cons interfering or pushing their god forsaken SLS), and Mars will be around 2025.
That sounds like a bet to me.
I would be a bit conservative and add 20 years to those estimates.
I'm against sending people off to Mars in ten years time. I just don't think we will have the capacity to do it, without making it a short and ugly one way trip.
The Moon will allow us to practice in small increments. And it will make it possible to build much larger structures than we can lift into space from Earth.
It's like the scrum versus water fall approach.
But lets see whats happens. The bet is on.
Most of what you suggest is about environmental challenges, that can be tested in a big hangar anywhere on Earth. :)
Sure it's relevant to test weather you can survive on the poles or not. But that has been achieved already by several countries.
It is more important to prove that we can move things around in space than live out there, because we know we can. We already live in space, in a space craft called Earth. At the moment it's just too big for us to change it's direction
The real challenge is to provide a supply chain to the Moon and prove that you can harvest material and energy making a base worth while. I believe it is.
If we can't survive on the Moon for extended periods of time, because of environmental issues, perhaps, in the long run, robots can fill the gap, building the structures needed to accommodate humans later on, if needed.
But the reason why the Moon is so important is it's low gravitational field, that makes it more economical as a jump pad than Earth or Mars. It has all the materials needed to build structures in space.
All the talk about harvesting material from meteors is also irrelevant. Everything is there on the surface of the Moon. And the amount of solar energy is abundant.
The Moon is also very close if you need to run or guide vehicles via. remote control.
It is almost as if someone put it there, to help us come out.
Whats on Antarctica?
Are you planing to use the Earth magnetic field to jump into space like the Germans dreamed of?
But the first step is to build a permanent base on the Moon.
The Moon's close proximity to Earth and it's low gravity will provide the necessary practice for moving on to Mars.
All focus should be on the Moon until a manned base on Mars becomes realistic. That is when the essential hull structure and fuel for the Mars space ship can be extracted and build from materials of the Moon). Then we can go to Mars and further.
If we need to get of this rock, we have to go to the moon first.
We are lucky that we have this great stepping stone that orbits our planet.
The moon will allow us to perform space explorations and missions at a much grater scale than if we had to build everything in space.
A permanent moon base is will allow us to study, thousands of asteroids that has been scattered all around the moons surface.
There is of course helium-3, vast amounts of solar energy and lots of building materials.
The idea of putting 3D printers on the moon is a great idea too.
Over time using solar power and robots plus 3D-printers it will be possible to build all kind of interesting structures like maglevs and rail-guns for cheap orbiting of spacecrafts and materials.
The moon is also a great place to bring down asteroids, perhaps in smaller pieces for analysis.
Or local mineral and metal mining that could lead to new moon structures or extraction and refining of materials into manageable portions that could be brought to Earth.
Having a rail-gun on the moon that could send materials into space using only solar power and magnets would be a great way to build huge space structures that could be used e.g. to fend of asteroids and lots of other missions. Not to mention the military prospects (that's just too mind boggling.. ohh) and a reason enough to go there.. first.
If this bill doesn't fly through congress then it will undoubtably hit us in a couple of decades, when the moon is closed i.e. off limits to westerners.
Perhaps slashdot could integrate with google.translate some day.
My point is that NASA should focus on space exploration, R&D etc. instead of promoting toys.
Lego are doing really great on their own.
I just think that NASA should be a bit embarrassing, wasting time on PR campaigns and product branding, piggybacking on an already successful toy manufacturer.
It kind of puts things into perspective, when you think about what people at NASA did in the sixties.
Instead of doing business and mingling with Lego, NASA should be worried about how to build a working scramjet, single stage rockets and new propulsion systems.
>and just might inspire some kids to do something meaningful with their lives.
Show them the Apollo program on youtube.
And tell them the story. When dad was young, the rockets where three times as powerful as what we have today.
You could fly to Paris from New York in the morning on the Concorde and be back for dinner.
Back then we had ambitions, to go to the moon, build space stations. Real science fiction.
You could probably fit all the combined computing power that was available to NASA forty years ago in the palm of your hand, if you own a smartphone.
But at the time, it was enough. Think about what can be done today, with the available technology and materials.
Why don't we decimate NASA from all it's ridicules fat cats, so that we can afford real project like going to the moon or even mars.
Don't build toys, Build real rockets. If you haven't already forgotten how to.
"How do you respond to user anxiety from Agile processes?" :))" :/
I try to calm them down the best i can.
If it doesn't help, i try to use the Jedi thought trick.
"You are not worried, you have nothing to fear, you will not feel troubled by the mad havoc caused by the ever changing user control base classes, data model, web service contracts, everything will be fine at the next milestone
Like free beer?
Inspiration is ok with me, but why should anybody be entitled to copy your work? :)
Make sure you obfuscate (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been obfuscated (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been obfuscated (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been obfuscated (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been obfuscated (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been obfuscated (using your own copyrighted algorithms (that has been (you got it!))) or brainfucked)) or brainfucked)) or brainfucked)) or brainfucked)) or brainfucked)) or brainfuck your code.
And remember to add a copyright notice at the top
5 Pounds is incredible cheap i would say