At first, I was thrilled with my IRS refund because $300 is a lot of money to a guy who had no job for two months.
But now, I'm thinking that this money was intended to serve others. It was set apart to serve causes higher than myself, and now I have the chance to actually choose where that money goes. I don't have to worry about it going to build bombs, or how much overhead the government bureaucrats will take from it.
I can take this money and choose whom it will serve.
Perhaps what we all can do, those of us who find the tax cut irresponsible, is to use our power of choice to send the money where we think it will be valuable.
Right now, the EFF is doing the right thing. But they can't do it all for free. Perhaps it would be best if I were to send my $300 refund to them?
What do you think? What are you going to do with your IRS refund?
In general, if lawyers for both sides are any good, a case should never make it to court. On the other hand, Vidomi was hardly an enemy of GPL the way Microsoft is.
Slashdot isn't the only place I make posts. I make posts on other boards where people don't know what ROT13 is. I post there. I tell them what's going on. I make jokes about it. I posted ROT13 code titled, "This post is illegal."
You should e-mail something like this to the press -- Reuters, the New York Times, etc. Give it some time. Then, file a lawsuit under the DMCA to have them prosecuted for attempting to circumvent your security measure -- they probably didn't use ROT13 twice to read your e-mail, right?
One of my closest friends is a Computer Science PhD student studying databases, and she pretty much agrees with/.'s take -- Microsoft SQL server is awful. There are things that even basic database packages implement that MSFT SQL doesn't -- and it does a much better job.
She mentioned IBM's DB2 as an example of vastly superior database software.
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They came up with a design that's definitely not possible here, due to the existence of gravity, but what seems worrisome is that such a delicate-looking design better have some serious support. We are protected here on Earth from a great many things that fall out of the sky by our atmosphere, which consumes all but the most massive meteors. This design, I fear, won't stand to getting pelted by such a shower.
Besides, ever since that idiot who came up with the AS/400 and the PS/2 left IBM, their Research Division has gotten back into business, and has graced the world with some really cool inventions. What has Microsoft done for us lately?
A lot of the defendants of Microsoft explain that without Windows' dominance, it never would have become profitable for companies to spend millions on software development -- basically, we wouldn't be where we are now. That's fine, but what has Microsoft done for us -lately?- With the rise of the Web and Java, we don't need a single company to dominate the OS market any more to have progress -- in fact, such a thing is a major hindrance to progress.
IBM, on the other hand, has -lately- been a big friend to the open-source movement and technology development.
I like what IBM has done for me lately. And I hope they kick Microsoft's asses.
Bear with me for a moment. Remember this old Shel Silverstein poem?
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
A boa constrictor
A boa constrictor
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
And I don't like it one bit.
Oh, gee,
He's up to my knee.
Oh, my,
He's up to my thigh.
Oh, fiddle,
He's up to my middle.
Oh, heck,
He's up to my neck.
Oh, dread,
He's up to my hauurrgggmmmmmmmphhhhhhhr.
It's funny. It's funny because the guy keeps complaining about what's happening to him, he doesn't like it, he knows it's going on, but he doesn't bother to do anything about it.
Right now, Microsoft is eating the GPL. And no one is doing anything about it but complain in posts on slashdot. (This is not one of those posts -- this is a post complaining about the complainers.)
If you really care about this, why are you whining about it here? Nobody here likes Microsoft anyway! Go to the Yahoo! or Motley Fool MSFT boards and tell the investors. Go to your boss and ask him if he knows about the next dirty trick Microsoft is trying to pull. Tell your parents, who know how to use e-mail but don't know any better about Microsoft.
Microsoft will only be able to swallow all of us if we let 'em.
You, me, and everyone else here knows the truth. What do we gain by discussing it here?
Get out there...grab a mid-level manager, an upper-level manager, or a VP, and TELL HIM WHAT'S GOING ON! You work at a job. Well, these are the people who are making the decisions! Tell them the truth!
I'm not saying there aren't problems with their solution. I'm just saying that there does exist a specific problem that this is clearly -trying- to solve.:)
If you're thinking in terms of desktop systems and software written in high-level languages, you're right. But the target market of this company is the embedded systems world, where the code is typically hand-optimized assembly and even custom-made instruction sets for systems that are built from heterogeneous proprietary systems. Some proprietary chips are better than others, and often you don't know which is the best solution until you've already implemented the whole thing.
For the telecom industry, this solution, if it works, is a very good one.
You're right in the case of the desktop and applications world. However, in the embedded world, such as cellphones and 802.11, this is VERY useful. The problem of multiple proprietary platforms is the current bane of the telecom industry, which this company is clearly targeting.
...although my audience is different -- I'm talking with developers here, so our needs were pretty different.
I would like to mention TortoiseCVS, available thorugh http://www.cvsgui.org/TortoiseCVS/ -- it provides Windows Explorer integration for CVS, and makes version control mindlessly easy to use.
This probably won't solve your specific problem (you should listen to the experts on DOCUMENT control for that), but I think it's worth mentioning it to the rest of the/. crowd, especially since most of the links to it go to the deprecated wincvs.org site instead of cvsgui.org...
There are two things about this. On the one hand, I think it's important. Although most companies don't publish lists of bidders, if you've done any other contract work for them and your name is on the site, you might be pegged if the site gets cracked later for doing insecure work.
On the other hand, if the CYA approach is the ONLY approach you do, you're not going to be able to scare them into becoming your customers.
dada21's post above is the right answer. If they refuse any work from you, and it's clear that they're not going to hire you to do any other work in the near-term, the CYA approach is probably not only a good idea, but necessary.
The single most shocking thing about these, aside from the fact that the color bridges the generation gap, is seeing how pristine the centuries-old buildings appear in these photographs. Back then, there wasn't the kind of acid rain or soot on the buildings to tarnish them. It's shocking. A church that's 800 years old looks like the day it was built to my eyes, and that most of the wear and tear that I'm used to has occurred just within the past century.
It's almost enough to make me, a staunch Republican and proponent of the internal combustion engine, into an environmentalist.
PC Demos, Amiga demos, C64 demos. The home for PC Demos used to be www.hornet.org -- I don't know where it is now, but CDRom.com used to sell a CD called "Hornet Underground." Warning: Most of these demos date back to pre-Pemtium/DOS days, so you'll need to boot DOS, or possibly even run on an older computer.
"If you're good at what you do, then you don't have to worry about getting fired."
Wrongo.
I was laid off from AirFiber, a wireless optical networking company, a month ago. The reason I was selected? The crime of not being behind on the hardware. The rest of the company is behind on the release, my project is on schedule -- gee, the Link Acquisition folks must be overmanned -- fire the junior member!
The quality of your work has nothing to do with it.
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And when you call, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE BE POLITE!!! NOTHING will turn them off more than being an asshole!
Say "please," "thank you," and "may I," and the world will be your oyster.
Speaking as a musician...that might not be a bad idea, either. :)
At first, I was thrilled with my IRS refund because $300 is a lot of money to a guy who had no job for two months.
But now, I'm thinking that this money was intended to serve others. It was set apart to serve causes higher than myself, and now I have the chance to actually choose where that money goes. I don't have to worry about it going to build bombs, or how much overhead the government bureaucrats will take from it.
I can take this money and choose whom it will serve.
Perhaps what we all can do, those of us who find the tax cut irresponsible, is to use our power of choice to send the money where we think it will be valuable.
Right now, the EFF is doing the right thing. But they can't do it all for free. Perhaps it would be best if I were to send my $300 refund to them?
What do you think? What are you going to do with your IRS refund?
This means that the GPL has passed the test.
In general, if lawyers for both sides are any good, a case should never make it to court. On the other hand, Vidomi was hardly an enemy of GPL the way Microsoft is.
FREE DMITRI!
Slashdot isn't the only place I make posts. I make posts on other boards where people don't know what ROT13 is. I post there. I tell them what's going on. I make jokes about it. I posted ROT13 code titled, "This post is illegal."
Get out there and tell people! Spread the word!
The first recorded use of ROT13 was Julius Caesar, but last I heard that company was sacked...
You should e-mail something like this to the press -- Reuters, the New York Times, etc. Give it some time. Then, file a lawsuit under the DMCA to have them prosecuted for attempting to circumvent your security measure -- they probably didn't use ROT13 twice to read your e-mail, right?
:)
So then you sue them. And play to lose.
"...and it does a much better job."
Should read: "And it does a much WORSE job."
Serves me right for not hitting [Preview].
One of my closest friends is a Computer Science PhD student studying databases, and she pretty much agrees with /.'s take -- Microsoft SQL server is awful. There are things that even basic database packages implement that MSFT SQL doesn't -- and it does a much better job.
She mentioned IBM's DB2 as an example of vastly superior database software.
They came up with a design that's definitely not possible here, due to the existence of gravity, but what seems worrisome is that such a delicate-looking design better have some serious support. We are protected here on Earth from a great many things that fall out of the sky by our atmosphere, which consumes all but the most massive meteors. This design, I fear, won't stand to getting pelted by such a shower.
Am I totally off base here?
...is my friend.
Besides, ever since that idiot who came up with the AS/400 and the PS/2 left IBM, their Research Division has gotten back into business, and has graced the world with some really cool inventions. What has Microsoft done for us lately?
A lot of the defendants of Microsoft explain that without Windows' dominance, it never would have become profitable for companies to spend millions on software development -- basically, we wouldn't be where we are now. That's fine, but what has Microsoft done for us -lately?- With the rise of the Web and Java, we don't need a single company to dominate the OS market any more to have progress -- in fact, such a thing is a major hindrance to progress.
IBM, on the other hand, has -lately- been a big friend to the open-source movement and technology development.
I like what IBM has done for me lately. And I hope they kick Microsoft's asses.
Or, more appropriately, vs. Slahdotters.
Bear with me for a moment. Remember this old Shel Silverstein poem?
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
A boa constrictor
A boa constrictor
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
And I don't like it one bit.
Oh, gee,
He's up to my knee.
Oh, my,
He's up to my thigh.
Oh, fiddle,
He's up to my middle.
Oh, heck,
He's up to my neck.
Oh, dread,
He's up to my hauurrgggmmmmmmmphhhhhhhr.
It's funny. It's funny because the guy keeps complaining about what's happening to him, he doesn't like it, he knows it's going on, but he doesn't bother to do anything about it.
Right now, Microsoft is eating the GPL. And no one is doing anything about it but complain in posts on slashdot. (This is not one of those posts -- this is a post complaining about the complainers.)
If you really care about this, why are you whining about it here? Nobody here likes Microsoft anyway! Go to the Yahoo! or Motley Fool MSFT boards and tell the investors. Go to your boss and ask him if he knows about the next dirty trick Microsoft is trying to pull. Tell your parents, who know how to use e-mail but don't know any better about Microsoft.
Microsoft will only be able to swallow all of us if we let 'em.
...and so far, Microsoft is winning.
You, me, and everyone else here knows the truth. What do we gain by discussing it here?
Get out there...grab a mid-level manager, an upper-level manager, or a VP, and TELL HIM WHAT'S GOING ON! You work at a job. Well, these are the people who are making the decisions! Tell them the truth!
I'm not saying there aren't problems with their solution. I'm just saying that there does exist a specific problem that this is clearly -trying- to solve. :)
"Or am i missing something about the significance?"
Yes: This is not a solution for PCs; it's a solution for embedded systems and telecommunications equipment. Think cellphones.
If you're thinking in terms of desktop systems and software written in high-level languages, you're right. But the target market of this company is the embedded systems world, where the code is typically hand-optimized assembly and even custom-made instruction sets for systems that are built from heterogeneous proprietary systems. Some proprietary chips are better than others, and often you don't know which is the best solution until you've already implemented the whole thing.
For the telecom industry, this solution, if it works, is a very good one.
You're right in the case of the desktop and applications world. However, in the embedded world, such as cellphones and 802.11, this is VERY useful. The problem of multiple proprietary platforms is the current bane of the telecom industry, which this company is clearly targeting.
Mod this up!!! Just because somebody can't take criticism... geez...
They slow down for the same reason my car slows down if I let off the gas pedal.
Perhaps space isn't as empty as we thought it was. How many collisions with molecule-sized particles does it take for a craft to slow down?
...although my audience is different -- I'm talking with developers here, so our needs were pretty different.
/. crowd, especially since most of the links to it go to the deprecated wincvs.org site instead of cvsgui.org...
I would like to mention TortoiseCVS, available thorugh http://www.cvsgui.org/TortoiseCVS/ -- it provides Windows Explorer integration for CVS, and makes version control mindlessly easy to use.
This probably won't solve your specific problem (you should listen to the experts on DOCUMENT control for that), but I think it's worth mentioning it to the rest of the
There are two things about this. On the one hand, I think it's important. Although most companies don't publish lists of bidders, if you've done any other contract work for them and your name is on the site, you might be pegged if the site gets cracked later for doing insecure work.
On the other hand, if the CYA approach is the ONLY approach you do, you're not going to be able to scare them into becoming your customers.
dada21's post above is the right answer. If they refuse any work from you, and it's clear that they're not going to hire you to do any other work in the near-term, the CYA approach is probably not only a good idea, but necessary.
The single most shocking thing about these, aside from the fact that the color bridges the generation gap, is seeing how pristine the centuries-old buildings appear in these photographs. Back then, there wasn't the kind of acid rain or soot on the buildings to tarnish them. It's shocking. A church that's 800 years old looks like the day it was built to my eyes, and that most of the wear and tear that I'm used to has occurred just within the past century.
It's almost enough to make me, a staunch Republican and proponent of the internal combustion engine, into an environmentalist.
PC Demos, Amiga demos, C64 demos. The home for PC Demos used to be www.hornet.org -- I don't know where it is now, but CDRom.com used to sell a CD called "Hornet Underground." Warning: Most of these demos date back to pre-Pemtium/DOS days, so you'll need to boot DOS, or possibly even run on an older computer.
News at 11...
"If you're good at what you do, then you don't have to worry about getting fired."
Wrongo.
I was laid off from AirFiber, a wireless optical networking company, a month ago. The reason I was selected? The crime of not being behind on the hardware. The rest of the company is behind on the release, my project is on schedule -- gee, the Link Acquisition folks must be overmanned -- fire the junior member!
The quality of your work has nothing to do with it.