Who asked for a replacement to MS Office? Has the body of office users come out and said "hey, we want something else"? If they have, what have they asked for?
If your answer is that a linux/opensource/whatever solution would be superior simply because it is "free", that's no argument. Linux is only free if your time is worthless.
Maybe developers who want to "dominate" the market should concern themselves with writing software that meets the needs of the majority of users instead of fighting some imaginary war against a product that seems to work for most people (or at least sucks less).
Not that I'm condoning violence in any ay shape or form, (this act was utter atrocity), but your statement about Palestinians and immediately assuming they're responsible is bare-faced racism
You idiot, anyone stupid enough to celebrate this event deserves whatever rath consumes them. I think the original writer's point is that people who behave like this will destroy themselves
There's nothing in there that is factually incorrect about MS or any of their hardware..
Microsoft doesn't make any hardware, except the mouse and keyboard, which I don't think were mentioned in the article...
After reading the article and finding that "extreme" programming just happens to be the way we develop software (or at least the way we aim to), I can say I've found the approach to work quite well.
I think the only thing we're missing is the "pair" programming, which didn't make sense to me initially, but once I thought of it as two developers are RESPONSIBLE for a module, not just working on it, it made alot of sense, sortof a built-in quality control system.
I am a young guy with a non-traditional (at least from an educational perspective) programming background who has been developing a programming team for the last three years, and in that time we've evolved from the "gluing code samples together" stage to implementing a formal development framework (Microsoft Solutions Framwork), formalized functional specifications and 60% of our time spent in up-front analysis before any code is written.
I have to say that the "XP" approach closely mimics what we have grown to embrace, and we have been sucessful in the approach. There are still major problems, primarily being communications with the customer (trying to explain why some features cost more than others), but for the most part it's been effective.
I would say that the major places that need improvement are at the business and process analysis levels, not so much at the design and implementation level. I think that just as we developers review features and document their technical impact on the project (time, money, complexity), there should be someone simular that analyses the business impact of features, and provides guidance to help customers choose the features that will have the most positive impact on their business.
Let programmers focus on perfect applications, and let businessmen/women focus on perfect business.
Whatshisface on "The Daily Show" said it best when talking to one of the Spice girls. She said "why do you think WE talk funny?". He replied "What are you talking about, we rule the world"...orr something like that
Remember in the 80's when every game console was trying to cash in on the home computer movement? Remember ADAM, the Colecovision box with a bad keyboard and printer, is that what this is all about or what?
How funny, my wife just go back into the game "Mastermind" where you pick four colored pegs and the other player gets ten tries to guess the colors, with a minimal amount of feedback in the form of red and white pegs that indicate if you have chosen just a correct color (white) or correct color and position (red).
I don't understand the use of "satanic" in this article, is this some figure or speech or just a condescending comment on a religion you don't understand? In that case you might as well say "Microsoft's Jewish business practices" because they make money...nice Katz.
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You've been watching "Starship Troopers" too much..
Isn't this how the NeXT system started, with a new set of cool tools wrapped around a BSD kernel? Not that it's a bad idea, just that it's been done before; I'm surprised anyone here doesn't understand it.
I think that allot of us have varying degrees of influence from little to allot, my question to my fellow slashdotters is what can I do to stop this type of thing from happening?
I don't know if any of you have experimented with this, this is what happened to me.
I ran find_ddos on RedHat 6.1. It began to run, gave me an "agreement" to sign, and the proceeded to innocently "scan" my system for ddos signatures.
After about two minutes, my telnet session was dropped, so I opened another terminal and logged in, only to find the process for "find_ddos" was no longer running. What was running "in.identd" about 100 times.
I didn't think much of this because it was a test box and we have many users running different experiments all the time, so I left it.
I came back today and it was still acting in an unusual fasion, so I decided to restart the system. After issuing a "shutdown -r now", the shutdown process began and I logged out and started a ping from my workstation to let me know when the system was back online, only it never went offline.
In fact, I can't seem to shut the system down at all remotely, I actually had to power cycle the system to stop it. Now I'm worried that this thing put it's claws into an init file or something and is running in stealth mode for some devious gov purpose.
Again, any feedback on you experience with this code would be appriciated.
All of this reminds me of a little bit off a PE album...
Have you forgotten that one we were brought here we were robbed of our name, robbed of our language, we lost our religion, our culture, our god, and many of us by the way we act, we even lost our minds .
Guess what? no matter who you are, someone, somewhere will tell you that you can't do something, if you really care, you'll keep doing it, reguardless. If you stop, well you stopped.
To understand the current state of "software engineering", consider the unique nature of software as opposed to other engineered products.
All innovation comes from a passion or creative source, which is then tempered by the scientific realities require to make the idea a reality. In most fields, specialization and fabrication is necessary in order to make this happen, therefore the "inspiration" and "engineering" become seperated, decoupled, which allow the creative side to think and act feely, and the scientific side to focus and operate within the constraints of the disipline.
This is not always true, in face, in the beginning of any disipline, boths tasks are ususally managed by a single individual, exibiting the unusual traits of being creative and analytical. It is especially untrue in the case of software developers, but also in the original "computer hobbists" of the 60's and 70's.
My first computer experience came from my grandfather's SWTP 6800. Watching him load the bootstrap from a programmers console (eight switches and a commit button) ingrained in my mind what passion for technology really means, and it is something I don't see much anymore in the industry.
The really good software engineers balance the artisan nature of the creative scientist, and find a way to make a living doing it.
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Who asked for a replacement to MS Office? Has the body of office users come out and said "hey, we want something else"? If they have, what have they asked for?
If your answer is that a linux/opensource/whatever solution would be superior simply because it is "free", that's no argument. Linux is only free if your time is worthless.
Maybe developers who want to "dominate" the market should concern themselves with writing software that meets the needs of the majority of users instead of fighting some imaginary war against a product that seems to work for most people (or at least sucks less).
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Not that I'm condoning violence in any ay shape or form, (this act was utter atrocity), but your statement about Palestinians and immediately assuming they're responsible is bare-faced racism
You idiot, anyone stupid enough to celebrate this event deserves whatever rath consumes them. I think the original writer's point is that people who behave like this will destroy themselves
Replacing a 6 server NT cluster with a pentium class machine running linux? Yup
How do you replace a cluster with one box? What happens you have to patch it, where does your avaliability go? In le toilette?
There's nothing in there that is factually incorrect about MS or any of their hardware..
Microsoft doesn't make any hardware, except the mouse and keyboard, which I don't think were mentioned in the article...
Here's what me and the kob think about all this:
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Cribben
To: mr@jasongullickson.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:04 AM
Subject: man
did you hear about the next star wars title?
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason J. Gullickson
To: Matt Cribben
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: man
yeah, what do you think?
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Cribben
To: Jason J. Gullickson
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: man
I'm a little torn.
1- it sounds stupid
but
2- it's hindering these dorks from saying "it's the greatest films ever" and acting like idiots, so that's good.
dunno.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason J. Gullickson
To: Matt Cribben
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: man
It should be "attack of Jar-Jar"
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Cribben
To: Jason J. Gullickson
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: man
or "Episode II: Get over it nerds, it's just a freakin movie"
Banning guns will only mean that 100% of gun use will be criminal, it will have no effect on the percentage of guns used in crimes.
How many morons would use a legal, registered gun to commit a crime? Not too many.
Don't you see the contradiction in the statement "Real AI"? Is that simular to "Real VR"?
You're not your fucking kahki's
Maybe he should have come back with a gun, at least then Darwin would have been right.
Flame on!
After reading the article and finding that "extreme" programming just happens to be the way we develop software (or at least the way we aim to), I can say I've found the approach to work quite well.
I think the only thing we're missing is the "pair" programming, which didn't make sense to me initially, but once I thought of it as two developers are RESPONSIBLE for a module, not just working on it, it made alot of sense, sortof a built-in quality control system.
I am a young guy with a non-traditional (at least from an educational perspective) programming background who has been developing a programming team for the last three years, and in that time we've evolved from the "gluing code samples together" stage to implementing a formal development framework (Microsoft Solutions Framwork), formalized functional specifications and 60% of our time spent in up-front analysis before any code is written.
I have to say that the "XP" approach closely mimics what we have grown to embrace, and we have been sucessful in the approach. There are still major problems, primarily being communications with the customer (trying to explain why some features cost more than others), but for the most part it's been effective.
I would say that the major places that need improvement are at the business and process analysis levels, not so much at the design and implementation level. I think that just as we developers review features and document their technical impact on the project (time, money, complexity), there should be someone simular that analyses the business impact of features, and provides guidance to help customers choose the features that will have the most positive impact on their business.
Let programmers focus on perfect applications, and let businessmen/women focus on perfect business.
You are the man.
Whatshisface on "The Daily Show" said it best when talking to one of the Spice girls. She said "why do you think WE talk funny?". He replied "What are you talking about, we rule the world"...orr something like that
Remember in the 80's when every game console was trying to cash in on the home computer movement? Remember ADAM, the Colecovision box with a bad keyboard and printer, is that what this is all about or what?
How funny, my wife just go back into the game "Mastermind" where you pick four colored pegs and the other player gets ten tries to guess the colors, with a minimal amount of feedback in the form of red and white pegs that indicate if you have chosen just a correct color (white) or correct color and position (red).
Yeah, we're such bastards for letting their jackass pilot crash into one of our planes, then having them keep our people hostage....
Actually yes, I beleive redline is in the area of 13k.
I don't understand the use of "satanic" in this article, is this some figure or speech or just a condescending comment on a religion you don't understand? In that case you might as well say "Microsoft's Jewish business practices" because they make money...nice Katz.
You've been watching "Starship Troopers" too much..
Isn't this how the NeXT system started, with a new set of cool tools wrapped around a BSD kernel? Not that it's a bad idea, just that it's been done before; I'm surprised anyone here doesn't understand it.
Damn, another Cadillac-driving /.'r!
What's wrong with RTF anyway?
Do you see AI or other electronic/mechanical technologies as the (a) next step in human evolution?
I think that allot of us have varying degrees of influence from little to allot, my question to my fellow slashdotters is what can I do to stop this type of thing from happening?
I don't know if any of you have experimented with this, this is what happened to me.
I ran find_ddos on RedHat 6.1. It began to run, gave me an "agreement" to sign, and the proceeded to innocently "scan" my system for ddos signatures.
After about two minutes, my telnet session was dropped, so I opened another terminal and logged in, only to find the process for "find_ddos" was no longer running. What was running "in.identd" about 100 times.
I didn't think much of this because it was a test box and we have many users running different experiments all the time, so I left it.
I came back today and it was still acting in an unusual fasion, so I decided to restart the system. After issuing a "shutdown -r now", the shutdown process began and I logged out and started a ping from my workstation to let me know when the system was back online, only it never went offline.
In fact, I can't seem to shut the system down at all remotely, I actually had to power cycle the system to stop it. Now I'm worried that this thing put it's claws into an init file or something and is running in stealth mode for some devious gov purpose.
Again, any feedback on you experience with this code would be appriciated.
All of this reminds me of a little bit off a PE album...
Have you forgotten that one we were brought here we were robbed of our name, robbed of our language, we lost our religion, our culture, our god, and many of us by the way we act, we even lost our minds .
Guess what? no matter who you are, someone, somewhere will tell you that you can't do something, if you really care, you'll keep doing it, reguardless. If you stop, well you stopped.
a.out
To understand the current state of "software engineering", consider the unique nature of software as opposed to other engineered products.
All innovation comes from a passion or creative source, which is then tempered by the scientific realities require to make the idea a reality. In most fields, specialization and fabrication is necessary in order to make this happen, therefore the "inspiration" and "engineering" become seperated, decoupled, which allow the creative side to think and act feely, and the scientific side to focus and operate within the constraints of the disipline.
This is not always true, in face, in the beginning of any disipline, boths tasks are ususally managed by a single individual, exibiting the unusual traits of being creative and analytical. It is especially untrue in the case of software developers, but also in the original "computer hobbists" of the 60's and 70's.
My first computer experience came from my grandfather's SWTP 6800. Watching him load the bootstrap from a programmers console (eight switches and a commit button) ingrained in my mind what passion for technology really means, and it is something I don't see much anymore in the industry.
The really good software engineers balance the artisan nature of the creative scientist, and find a way to make a living doing it.
...or wait for the next bandwagon...