I always wait at least a month after an upgrade comes out. That policy has served me well. Gives Ubuntu time to collect complaints and fix glitches. If I encounter any, there are already threads on the web about the issue. Downloads are quicker too. Lets me bypass needless aggravations.
A day after President Obama made his joke about Michele Bachman being born in Canada I found someone on Yahoo Answers seriously asking if she was born there. Muhahahaha
While I feel that there are a large number of people at Google who take ethics seriously there are also people willing to compromise. Corporate America only understands money, for the most part. Cases like this will begin drawing boundaries for Google, Apple and others. Kudos to the people inconveniencing themselves to execute these cases.
I've met a lot of people in my life. I've found most of them to be about the same in intelligence. I've rarely met someone dramatically dumber than I am and while I have had the pleasure to meet some bonafide geniuses ( in my opinion ) I never felt like there was a huge gulf between us.
I agree, really smart/dumb people rarely come from dumb/smart families.
However, as far maximizing potential goes, from my life experience it seems most people are held back by factors that can be changed:
- parenting styles - nutrition - environment - education - work ethic etc.
President Obama found and killed Osama Bin Laden, something President Bush couldn't ( or wouldn't ) do with the same resources, eight years, a map and a flashlight.
I had a job where I was fairly good "work friends" with a number of the other programmers. We would each visit each other's office when we needed a break and we would shoot the shit with each other often.
However, they never invited me out have lunch with them either in the office or out. One day I asked them about it. They told me they didn't because they knew I was a vegan. They thought I might be offended by their food, criticize their food or that it might be a pain in the ass to find a restaurant we all could eat.
I told them I could see where they were coming from, having met some rude vegans myself and that I wasn't about those things.
A few times we did end up having meals together. To be honest and fair it bored the hell out of me. Most of these guys were married with kids. Talking about mortgages, lawns and what their babies did bored the hell out of me.
For the most part, after that conversation, things went on as before. They would get together at lunch without talking to me about it.
It did contribute, partially, to a partial "fuck you" attitude I eventually took on about the job.....though there were many things that contributed to that.
I think the gist of the blurb is right, mandating lunch is not the way to do it. I remember a dot.com manager I worked for all but forcing us to socialize together. It felt Orwellian and inspired resentment, at least with me. Ironic thing is I usually make friends with a number of people at my jobs and like to do that sort of thing anyway. I'm guessing other IT would act the same way. The way to go in this situation is to have a better vetting process so you pick out people who are highly agreeable and likely to become friends with others.
If your company uses 3rd party software, you want it to be from either a big behemoth company or an open source project. The big behemoths will be around and will offer some support or they will notify you of the support going away, in a timely manner.
Open source projects stay around forever. Even if no development ever happens again you can get the software, the code and there is probably a web board some place for asking questions.
I worked for a company that went 3rd party with small shops that folded up, leaving them with projects they had to maintain for years, in dead technology locked away in someone's drawer.
Instead of learning their lesson they just decided to make everything they could in-house. Another dumb move. Instead of being able to hire people who instantly know how to use their frameworks, they now have to pay money and lost time in learning curves for a number of pieces of software.
I have watched movies from hulu.com and youtube.com. If they can get a similar selection of movies to netflix, as nice a site and if they can do it at roughly the same price I would quit netflix.
Why are Apple and Google tracking smart phone users?
It isn't intended as an anti-theft device. If that was the case, it would have been advertised instead of hidden, the way anti-theft devices are advertised as features on cars.
Such records would be handy for government investigators. Maybe they did it at the government's request, which would explain why they have been silent about it. Still, I would believe a financial motivation more than a tin foil hat story.
Maybe they decided to collect the information first and find a way to exploit it later.
That Mac users tend to be more educated and liberal makes it more sad what Apple is doing with tracking people via their iPhones and iPads. They will just accept it, like Mac users just accept everything else from Apple, without even asking for lube.
That is because for all of the talk Republicans do about fiscal responsibility it is just talk.
They are using the current financial crisis as a smoke screen for fighting against programs they don't like politically under the guise that money needs to be saved. They are also using the current financial crisis combined with "trickle down economics" as an excuse to give rich people who already pay lower taxes even bigger tax cuts.
I'm still waiting for them to get started on their campaign goal of job creation.
Balancing the budget was never their goal. It is a smoke screen for killing programs they don't like from a political perspective and giving more tax cuts to the rich.
Slashdot Mirror
So, it does what ANT does ( plus a few more thing ) for the Java world?
Thanks hibiki_r
Taking a *FAST* look at the linked articles and Google it wasn't clear what the Hudson project is making. What is the Hudson project making?
Where is the FLOSS alternative to Facebook? By this time were supposed to be using Diaspora or one of the several other competing projects
there is no place like GNOME
I always wait at least a month after an upgrade comes out. That policy has served me well. Gives Ubuntu time to collect complaints and fix glitches. If I encounter any, there are already threads on the web about the issue. Downloads are quicker too. Lets me bypass needless aggravations.
that this can work both ways.
A day after President Obama made his joke about Michele Bachman being born in Canada I found someone on Yahoo Answers seriously asking if she was born there. Muhahahaha
While I feel that there are a large number of people at Google who take ethics seriously there are also people willing to compromise. Corporate America only understands money, for the most part. Cases like this will begin drawing boundaries for Google, Apple and others. Kudos to the people inconveniencing themselves to execute these cases.
I've met a lot of people in my life. I've found most of them to be about the same in intelligence. I've rarely met someone dramatically dumber than I am and while I have had the pleasure to meet some bonafide geniuses ( in my opinion ) I never felt like there was a huge gulf between us.
I agree, really smart/dumb people rarely come from dumb/smart families.
However, as far maximizing potential goes, from my life experience it seems most people are held back by factors that can be changed:
- parenting styles
- nutrition
- environment
- education
- work ethic
etc.
President Obama found and killed Osama Bin Laden, something President Bush couldn't ( or wouldn't ) do with the same resources, eight years, a map and a flashlight.
Luckily for him it is just an internship.
I have seen this in my experience too.
Before you go ahead and violate it anyway...
I can see this author's point.
I had a job where I was fairly good "work friends" with a number of the other programmers. We would each visit each other's office when we needed a break and we would shoot the shit with each other often.
However, they never invited me out have lunch with them either in the office or out. One day I asked them about it. They told me they didn't because they knew I was a vegan. They thought I might be offended by their food, criticize their food or that it might be a pain in the ass to find a restaurant we all could eat.
I told them I could see where they were coming from, having met some rude vegans myself and that I wasn't about those things.
A few times we did end up having meals together. To be honest and fair it bored the hell out of me. Most of these guys were married with kids. Talking about mortgages, lawns and what their babies did bored the hell out of me.
For the most part, after that conversation, things went on as before. They would get together at lunch without talking to me about it.
It did contribute, partially, to a partial "fuck you" attitude I eventually took on about the job.....though there were many things that contributed to that.
I think the gist of the blurb is right, mandating lunch is not the way to do it. I remember a dot.com manager I worked for all but forcing us to socialize together. It felt Orwellian and inspired resentment, at least with me. Ironic thing is I usually make friends with a number of people at my jobs and like to do that sort of thing anyway. I'm guessing other IT would act the same way. The way to go in this situation is to have a better vetting process so you pick out people who are highly agreeable and likely to become friends with others.
If your company uses 3rd party software, you want it to be from either a big behemoth company or an open source project. The big behemoths will be around and will offer some support or they will notify you of the support going away, in a timely manner.
Open source projects stay around forever. Even if no development ever happens again you can get the software, the code and there is probably a web board some place for asking questions.
I worked for a company that went 3rd party with small shops that folded up, leaving them with projects they had to maintain for years, in dead technology locked away in someone's drawer.
Instead of learning their lesson they just decided to make everything they could in-house. Another dumb move. Instead of being able to hire people who instantly know how to use their frameworks, they now have to pay money and lost time in learning curves for a number of pieces of software.
This is an improvement upon the FBI harassing vegans and environmentalists by infiltrating potlucks. At least now they are focusing on crimes.
I can't watch streaming movies from Netflix.
I have watched movies from hulu.com and youtube.com. If they can get a similar selection of movies to netflix, as nice a site and if they can do it at roughly the same price I would quit netflix.
Problem solved
http://www.techtosh.com/untrackered-clear-automatic-logging-of-locations/
& don't forget to change your root password.
http://www.iphone-my.com/2011/04/how-to-change-iphones-root-password-in.html
Why are Apple and Google tracking smart phone users?
It isn't intended as an anti-theft device. If that was the case, it would have been advertised instead of hidden, the way anti-theft devices are advertised as features on cars.
Such records would be handy for government investigators. Maybe they did it at the government's request, which would explain why they have been silent about it. Still, I would believe a financial motivation more than a tin foil hat story.
Maybe they decided to collect the information first and find a way to exploit it later.
I think I read that Android does this too and that Google is also denying it.
"liberal" in the U.S. probably means moderately right wing for the rest of the world.
and a lot more misinformed. Go PBS!
That Mac users tend to be more educated and liberal makes it more sad what Apple is doing with tracking people via their iPhones and iPads. They will just accept it, like Mac users just accept everything else from Apple, without even asking for lube.
That is because for all of the talk Republicans do about fiscal responsibility it is just talk.
They are using the current financial crisis as a smoke screen for fighting against programs they don't like politically under the guise that money needs to be saved. They are also using the current financial crisis combined with "trickle down economics" as an excuse to give rich people who already pay lower taxes even bigger tax cuts.
Just look how "thrifty" these republicans were:
http://reaganbushdebt.org/
Rupert Murdoch, the 3rd richest man pays a lower tax rate than the receptionist who works for him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EK7b6C3qyY&NR=1
Some people think austerity cuts will not be necessary if we simply remove the Bush tax cuts on the rich:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ9hVMN8UMY&feature=player_embedded
I'm still waiting for them to get started on their campaign goal of job creation.
Balancing the budget was never their goal. It is a smoke screen for killing programs they don't like from a political perspective and giving more tax cuts to the rich.