I agree, but my comment was about innovation. Apache has done a lot of great work in the evolution of the web server which is still very valuable work. The revolution was in coming up with the concept of a web server in the first place. The web server changed the world - that's innovation. The enhancements made by Apache have improved on the concept but haven't changed the world the way the original concept did.
Put another way, maybe the open source approach is not conducive to producing innovation. Maybe it's biggest contribution is to take innovative ideas and make them more usable, accessible and available to the world because an innovation is useless if it's not implemented in a way people can use. And in the end that's still a pretty good role to play.
Ahem, Apache was a copy of closed source Netscape server. Netscape was the innovator, Apache was the copier. Don't get me wrong, the Apache Foundation has done some great work but the innovation that got Apache started came from closed software.
Even if you take a look at the various sub-projects in Apache they are all continuations of other work, both open and closed. Again, not to say the work isn't good or valuable, but as the article suggests it's not innovative.
IMHO, open source projects are great examples of software development by committee, when they're successful it's by accident rather than by design. Maybe true innovation requires the obsessed vision of single person.
Now, at NO point during surgery would hospital management expect a doctor to answer email or the phone. Au contraire, the hospitals ban cellular use in surgical areas as to avoid equipment interference. Likewise, it's hard to expect a doctor to have their office PC {the one receiving the email} in the surgical suite itself.
Might I be so bold as to encourage you to post another example that's more in-line with office work?
I thought the example was perfectly reasonable and relevant. The point that was being made was that every job has certain tasks that require uninterrupted concentration. That's why when a surgeon is operating there is not email, cell phone, pager, etc. to be found. IT is no different, there are certain times in our jobs where we need to be left alone so we can concentrate on the work at hand.
If you absolutely have to have an office example then how about my situation. I work for one of the largest insurance companies in North America as an application architect. Between email, voice mail, phone calls (cell and desk varieties), IM and people just "stopping by to ask a question" my day is one long interruption, and I don't even have a CrackBerry(tm) yet. Is my problem that I can not focus? No. It's that with the never ending interruptions in the modern office it is virtually impossible to make any headway on the design for that 500 day project when you're only able to squeeze a few minutes of the day here and there.
To deal with the problem I am forced to come in to work a few hours early or stay a few hours late in order to get some uninterrupted time to do some quality work. In other words, the only time I can get any work done in the office is when the office is not working.
Some might say I should just learn to filter it out. Those people have never worked in a large (> 1000 people) IT shop. And the problem only gets worse the higher up the food chain you go.
Has this happened to you or anyone you know? If not, stop the fearmongering.
How about Richard Jewell? And this was the responsible media that did this to an innocent man. Imagine if that happened today with the virtual lynch mob of bloggers that are out there.
Assuming the laws in the EU are similar to other jurisdictions (and assuming I understand them correctly) it is not illegal to have a monopoly. It is illegal to use that monopoly to block entry into the market or drive smaller competitors out of the market.
The US FTC can block the acquisition if they feel it is not in the best interest of the industry or the economy. The EU has no jurisdiction over the acquisition and can't simply convict them of being a monopoly until and unless there is an abuse of their position as a monopoly.
Again, assuming the laws in the EU are similar to other jurisdictions.
But do we see a chunk of the profit that they'll be making off the cancer drugs they make from this data that OUR computers analyzed and then is eventually sold to us for too-high-to-afford prices?
The research is being done by scientists at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, a government run hospital. If you knew anything about health care in Ontario you'd know that profit is the last thing on their mind.
Just to add a little more, here...I've been told, though I've not had it confirmed ( I keep hoping to run across it somewhere) that Germany *had* to use hydrogen; the Allies, in part of the long pissing-contest that lead up to WW1, wouldn't let them have any helium. And you're right on the composition of the covering; I saw the same episode...and it makes good sense.
Before the Duke was shot in his carriage, a lot of other things were involved, too; Germany had a pissing-contest over the 'new' concept of battleships, starting a technology race, and England was keeping the channels blocked to German traffic. The assassination of the Duke was just a precipitator, once all these factors, and doubtless more were in place.
The assassination of the Duke precipitated WWI. The Hindenburg crashed in 1937, a few years before the outbreak of WWII.
I don't see the update mechanisms for the major Linux distros having the same kind of problems and their users are much more vocal and much less forgiving than Windows users.
The fact is Microsoft has been caught a few times implementing stealth fixes or trying to force major updates (eg. IE7).
I'll just pay for the service, and create a simple proxy script that grabs the crap through my subscription for however many friends I have that want to use it.
Exactly the attitude that forced Zap2It to stop offering the free service.
In the case of Zap2It there were people reselling the free listings. In your case you want to provide multiple subscriptions and only pay for one. I hope your friends (both of them) appreciate your theft.
Linus also said:
Encoding the type of a function into the name (so-called Hungarian notation) is brain damaged - the compiler knows the types anyway and can check those, and it only confuses the programmer.
The answer here is that Microsoft probably took the decision to break the TCP standard on purpose, hoping the admins would work around the bug er... new standard.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. - Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't normally defend Microsoft but it's possible they just made a mistake and if the article is accurate then Microsoft has asked for the ISP's help to diagnose the problem. And the ISP hasn't been very helpful.
A new release of an extremely complicated application like Windows is always going to have it's share of bugs (sometimes more than it's share). That's why big corporations wait for the first service pack before they even contemplate jumping on board. Joe user doesn't necessarily know this.
Even a new release of Fedora usually has a few problems which is why I wait a few months until the updates settle down before I commit to an upgrade.
When individual rights are lost, you can't really word that as a gain for society. It's a loss for society. As the people lose rights, the government gains power over them. The rulers are the only ones who benefit from that.
I think you're proving the submitters point.
Issues like this are rarely that black and white. Almost every law on the books takes away some right or another but most are a benefit to society.
I got modded as "Offtopic"? Flamebait maybe but off topic?
I know it's no use to complain about the mods but sometimes you can't help yourself. Maybe the mod was not familiar with the phrase "pot calling the kettle black" which is a completely relevant comment to make in this context.
Several years ago my mother bought a Gateway, and that was when I learned to use a PC. It was a P133, with 32MB RAM and a 1.5GB hard drive, and it ran Windows 95 (go ahead and laugh, I know I do when I think about it).
More than several years ago (24 years ago to be exact) I worked on a brand new IBM XT with an Intel 8088 running at 4.77MHz, 128KB of RAM and a 10MB hard drive. It ran IBM DOS 2.1. In modern terms that would be a 0.00477 GHz processor with 0.000128GB of RAM and a 0.010GB hard drive. When I think about it I don't laugh...I cry.
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The current Intel based Macs can run Windows.
The switch to MSN as their email provider is the reason I tossed Sympatico for a different DSL service.
I agree, but my comment was about innovation. Apache has done a lot of great work in the evolution of the web server which is still very valuable work. The revolution was in coming up with the concept of a web server in the first place. The web server changed the world - that's innovation. The enhancements made by Apache have improved on the concept but haven't changed the world the way the original concept did.
Put another way, maybe the open source approach is not conducive to producing innovation. Maybe it's biggest contribution is to take innovative ideas and make them more usable, accessible and available to the world because an innovation is useless if it's not implemented in a way people can use. And in the end that's still a pretty good role to play.
At least that's the way I see it.
Ahem, Apache was a copy of closed source Netscape server. Netscape was the innovator, Apache was the copier. Don't get me wrong, the Apache Foundation has done some great work but the innovation that got Apache started came from closed software.
Even if you take a look at the various sub-projects in Apache they are all continuations of other work, both open and closed. Again, not to say the work isn't good or valuable, but as the article suggests it's not innovative.
IMHO, open source projects are great examples of software development by committee, when they're successful it's by accident rather than by design. Maybe true innovation requires the obsessed vision of single person.
I thought the example was perfectly reasonable and relevant. The point that was being made was that every job has certain tasks that require uninterrupted concentration. That's why when a surgeon is operating there is not email, cell phone, pager, etc. to be found. IT is no different, there are certain times in our jobs where we need to be left alone so we can concentrate on the work at hand.
If you absolutely have to have an office example then how about my situation. I work for one of the largest insurance companies in North America as an application architect. Between email, voice mail, phone calls (cell and desk varieties), IM and people just "stopping by to ask a question" my day is one long interruption, and I don't even have a CrackBerry(tm) yet. Is my problem that I can not focus? No. It's that with the never ending interruptions in the modern office it is virtually impossible to make any headway on the design for that 500 day project when you're only able to squeeze a few minutes of the day here and there.
To deal with the problem I am forced to come in to work a few hours early or stay a few hours late in order to get some uninterrupted time to do some quality work. In other words, the only time I can get any work done in the office is when the office is not working.
Some might say I should just learn to filter it out. Those people have never worked in a large (> 1000 people) IT shop. And the problem only gets worse the higher up the food chain you go.
Young pups! The first PC I worked on was an IBM XT and had a 10MB hard drive.
So that's what's in the special sauce.
We're off to outer space...
Uh, no. None of the 9/11 hijackers entered the U.S. via Canada. Here is a Washington Post article that discusses this myth.
How about Richard Jewell? And this was the responsible media that did this to an innocent man. Imagine if that happened today with the virtual lynch mob of bloggers that are out there.
Assuming the laws in the EU are similar to other jurisdictions (and assuming I understand them correctly) it is not illegal to have a monopoly. It is illegal to use that monopoly to block entry into the market or drive smaller competitors out of the market.
The US FTC can block the acquisition if they feel it is not in the best interest of the industry or the economy. The EU has no jurisdiction over the acquisition and can't simply convict them of being a monopoly until and unless there is an abuse of their position as a monopoly.
Again, assuming the laws in the EU are similar to other jurisdictions.
But no one under the age of 35 will know how to operate it.
The research is being done by scientists at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, a government run hospital. If you knew anything about health care in Ontario you'd know that profit is the last thing on their mind.
The assassination of the Duke precipitated WWI. The Hindenburg crashed in 1937, a few years before the outbreak of WWII.
I don't see the update mechanisms for the major Linux distros having the same kind of problems and their users are much more vocal and much less forgiving than Windows users.
The fact is Microsoft has been caught a few times implementing stealth fixes or trying to force major updates (eg. IE7).
U.S. and Canadian dollars are about the same right now.
Exactly the attitude that forced Zap2It to stop offering the free service.
In the case of Zap2It there were people reselling the free listings. In your case you want to provide multiple subscriptions and only pay for one. I hope your friends (both of them) appreciate your theft.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. - Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't normally defend Microsoft but it's possible they just made a mistake and if the article is accurate then Microsoft has asked for the ISP's help to diagnose the problem. And the ISP hasn't been very helpful.
A new release of an extremely complicated application like Windows is always going to have it's share of bugs (sometimes more than it's share). That's why big corporations wait for the first service pack before they even contemplate jumping on board. Joe user doesn't necessarily know this.
Even a new release of Fedora usually has a few problems which is why I wait a few months until the updates settle down before I commit to an upgrade.
I think you're proving the submitters point.
Issues like this are rarely that black and white. Almost every law on the books takes away some right or another but most are a benefit to society.
I for one welcome our raw sewage overlords.
I got modded as "Offtopic"? Flamebait maybe but off topic?
I know it's no use to complain about the mods but sometimes you can't help yourself. Maybe the mod was not familiar with the phrase "pot calling the kettle black" which is a completely relevant comment to make in this context.
Now I feel better.
That pot and kettle are here somewhere...
More than several years ago (24 years ago to be exact) I worked on a brand new IBM XT with an Intel 8088 running at 4.77MHz, 128KB of RAM and a 10MB hard drive. It ran IBM DOS 2.1. In modern terms that would be a 0.00477 GHz processor with 0.000128GB of RAM and a 0.010GB hard drive. When I think about it I don't laugh...I cry.
Someone pleeeaasssseeee mod this up.