You obviously have no idea how twisted their viewpoint actually is.
Here's a hint: someone legally pays you legal money to protect their legal rights against bad guys. Everyone violating those rights is a bad guy. No one has a responsibility to be nice to bad guys. So you take your fat check, do what they ask, and assume everything's fine.
Just to rephrase - it would cost too much to have someone just monitor the cameras, so we build (and pay for) an automated system that sends alerts to someone who now has to investigate false alarms. So instead of paying attention to the real stuff they pay attention to noise. And it's a good investment because it's an automated system and immune to human failings.
I'm sure this is a solution in search of a problem.
off topic a bit so don't bother modding me, but how would you deal with having 30 printers around? do you have a giant switching box so you can re-test with all of them when you make changes? Or do you get one working, then donate it to a charity? I've always been curious about how people deal with hardware donations because I would personally just get buried in hardware if I had more than 5-10 samples to deal with.
There are PDF libraries out there - write a wrapper that loads a file, and when it gets to the end without error emits a 0 "no error" return code, and any errors result in a non-zero code.
Or maybe there are other cmd-line tools which issue a "failed to load" error. That's where I'd look first. Like a tool to strip content out of a PDF - script it so it outputs to/dev/null and check the exit code. I'd be surprised if there were a ready-made solution for this somewhere.
You're such an optimist. Most people aren't interested in causes, they are interested in conveniences. I'd say there are not a whole lot of people affected - not enough to make a huge difference anyway. Haeger has the right idea here - most people will just work around the problem and not make a big deal. How many people record shows with Media Center? No one I know. TiVo seems unaffected.
People won't march on this one - it will take a whole lot more.
funny, but you'd have to pay ASCAP / BMI fees - to the publisher of the music. Or maybe RIAA would get ASCAP / BMI in on the lawsuit fun in order to reduce the amount of distraction
Or some sort of voting system on contributors (how very Web 2.0) so you can see how the people who touched your package were rated with the biggest weighting being given to the last person through.
Maybe it's the schwag, but I found your sig the most creative, witty, maybe drôle, reusable bit of verbiage I have recently seen. More people should be aware of it.
If I happen to see a stuck torrent (many leechers, no seeds), sometimes I can find a good version of the file I already have - so I start the torrent, stop it, replace the single good file (sometimes you need more if the file is smaller than the part size), and upload a few Kb to finish the torrent. Then sit back and watch as everyone fills up.
Alternatively, they were so stupid they didn't think anyone would put two and two together. That no one would believe such a crazy story. Not on the missing e-mails, not on WMDs, not on a lot of things. We keep proving them wrong, though.
So... all we have to do is convict the RIAA of a crime and they lose their copyrights? Sign me up, I'll tail them for a few weeks looking for evidence.
Yeah yeah I know, it would have to be each member company, but still - convicts don't lose their copyrights.
I was hoping someone would show how my conclusions don't make sense - why does the project die when the lead stops working on it? Obviously if it's Hans Reiser and he bludgeons it to death, the project will die, but I mean otherwise...
My good friend credits a summer spent playing tuba with improving his trumpet playing. He learned to control airflow much better, and as a result developed a better sound and higher range.
I'm not entirely sure how this fits in, but if you get too comfortable you risk being just the tuba player.
P.S. I joined a help desk, got off the phones, and doubled my salary in under 5 years, and now I am on a governance team with 2 people directly under me and another 10 sideways under me. Makes for interesting weekends, that's for sure.
Open source allows people to pick up where others left off and improve on existing code -- or is this just a lie?
The team lost its lead programmer, that's the entirety of the fallout, nothing more.
More generally - how does open source deal with losing a lead programmer? If the project dies then it probably wasn't worth the effort in the first place, or outlived its usefulness. If someone else takes over instead, that proves the model works.
What will happen when Linus retires, kicks the bucket, or decides to use Windows?
Now that the fate of ReiserFS appears to be sealed, which Open Source filesystem shall reign supreme?
So that answers my question I guess - the lead leaves and the project dies. Is this really how open source is supposed to work?
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What did you do - read an FA or something? Geez, one day I'll show you how this slashdot thing works.
You obviously have no idea how twisted their viewpoint actually is.
Here's a hint: someone legally pays you legal money to protect their legal rights against bad guys. Everyone violating those rights is a bad guy. No one has a responsibility to be nice to bad guys. So you take your fat check, do what they ask, and assume everything's fine.
Just to rephrase - it would cost too much to have someone just monitor the cameras, so we build (and pay for) an automated system that sends alerts to someone who now has to investigate false alarms. So instead of paying attention to the real stuff they pay attention to noise. And it's a good investment because it's an automated system and immune to human failings.
I'm sure this is a solution in search of a problem.
off topic a bit so don't bother modding me, but how would you deal with having 30 printers around? do you have a giant switching box so you can re-test with all of them when you make changes? Or do you get one working, then donate it to a charity? I've always been curious about how people deal with hardware donations because I would personally just get buried in hardware if I had more than 5-10 samples to deal with.
These were my ass pennies.
There are PDF libraries out there - write a wrapper that loads a file, and when it gets to the end without error emits a 0 "no error" return code, and any errors result in a non-zero code.
/dev/null and check the exit code. I'd be surprised if there were a ready-made solution for this somewhere.
Or maybe there are other cmd-line tools which issue a "failed to load" error. That's where I'd look first. Like a tool to strip content out of a PDF - script it so it outputs to
you assume we're dealing with cryptography, maybe that's the red herring.
I think the noise refers to all the symbols on the page, and the dots are the message. connect the dots anyone?
Do you read the source code to all your browsers, or just trust that open-source authors would never leave some debug code in there?
Took me a while, and I'll explain the encoding later, but here it is:
"Drink your Ovaltine"
You're such an optimist. Most people aren't interested in causes, they are interested in conveniences. I'd say there are not a whole lot of people affected - not enough to make a huge difference anyway. Haeger has the right idea here - most people will just work around the problem and not make a big deal. How many people record shows with Media Center? No one I know. TiVo seems unaffected.
People won't march on this one - it will take a whole lot more.
funny, but you'd have to pay ASCAP / BMI fees - to the publisher of the music. Or maybe RIAA would get ASCAP / BMI in on the lawsuit fun in order to reduce the amount of distraction
duh - smart people who can afford good lawyers - that's the last group the RIAA wants to annoy.
Joe user is not aware that he can get those for free - either he pays for it, or knows someone who gets their software off the back of a truck.
Maybe it's the schwag, but I found your sig the most creative, witty, maybe drôle, reusable bit of verbiage I have recently seen. More people should be aware of it.
Would that I had mod points.
I will tell you how to separate the wheat from the chaff, for one low price of $29.99 USD. Send inquiry at my e-mail address.
If I happen to see a stuck torrent (many leechers, no seeds), sometimes I can find a good version of the file I already have - so I start the torrent, stop it, replace the single good file (sometimes you need more if the file is smaller than the part size), and upload a few Kb to finish the torrent. Then sit back and watch as everyone fills up.
Alternatively, they were so stupid they didn't think anyone would put two and two together. That no one would believe such a crazy story. Not on the missing e-mails, not on WMDs, not on a lot of things. We keep proving them wrong, though.
Reminds me of your last Thanksgiving dinner too - I just didn't know your mom had such a funny name.
So... all we have to do is convict the RIAA of a crime and they lose their copyrights? Sign me up, I'll tail them for a few weeks looking for evidence.
Yeah yeah I know, it would have to be each member company, but still - convicts don't lose their copyrights.
I was hoping someone would show how my conclusions don't make sense - why does the project die when the lead stops working on it? Obviously if it's Hans Reiser and he bludgeons it to death, the project will die, but I mean otherwise...
My good friend credits a summer spent playing tuba with improving his trumpet playing. He learned to control airflow much better, and as a result developed a better sound and higher range.
I'm not entirely sure how this fits in, but if you get too comfortable you risk being just the tuba player.
P.S. I joined a help desk, got off the phones, and doubled my salary in under 5 years, and now I am on a governance team with 2 people directly under me and another 10 sideways under me. Makes for interesting weekends, that's for sure.
EPIC FAIL - you missed FARK by about half the alphabet at least.
Open source allows people to pick up where others left off and improve on existing code -- or is this just a lie?
The team lost its lead programmer, that's the entirety of the fallout, nothing more.
More generally - how does open source deal with losing a lead programmer? If the project dies then it probably wasn't worth the effort in the first place, or outlived its usefulness. If someone else takes over instead, that proves the model works.
What will happen when Linus retires, kicks the bucket, or decides to use Windows?
So that answers my question I guess - the lead leaves and the project dies. Is this really how open source is supposed to work?