c) If you have a different opinion from the rest of the team or your boss, remember: you don't get money for following your own opinion. If you feel you opinion is constantly undervalued, then leave.
I disagree with you here. Yes men suck! In a SW company you DO get paid for your opinions. Having a different opinion is preferable than just saying "yes" to the groupthink. However don't be pushy. The senior people probably have a good reason for making the decisions they make, if you disagree you have to learn their reasons. If you still think you are correct point out why politely, 1-on-1 with the most senior member; not with the entire group.
1) communicate (this is hard for ESL, but it's really REALLY necessary) 2) love what you do 3) dont cook seafood in the microwave 4) dont clip your nails at work 5) show up... the old "Im working from home" is ok sometimes, but dont make it a habit.
It's not an ad. It's a discussion of the indie game house's revenues. Sure it brings people to Wolfire's site, but if the company is providing useful contributions to the game business discussion, they deserve the attention.
NOTE: A slashvertizement would be something like "Wolfire releases new game!"
And Mozilla users don't get the option of H.264 on their platform. So, why no outrage at Mozila and Firefox?
Incorrect. The users have the option of changing the code themselves and buying whatever personal licence they need to use the H.264. Thats the point!
The Mozilla guys just haven't done that for you... BUT YOU CAN DO IT YOURSELF! you can find the firefox code here (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6rc2/source/)
incorrect. since the webbrowser is what the user interacts with directly. If the webbrowser so choses, it can limit access to this "free web." This access limitation could be purposeful or it could be a bug, either way, the user is impeded.
with a free webbrowser the user can fix the bug, or change the code away from the purposeful limitiation.
The user is not free with a proprietary software accessing a free web.
being dependent on heroin is one of the things that makes this drug appeal to me. Simple reason being, I've sucked dealer cock time and time again and each time heroin dealer cock trump their competitors in terms of taste, and that's the one thing that matters to me.
Just because people like something doesn't make it "good." Plenty of people like recreational drugs, but that doesn't make drugs "good," they are unhealthy.
Plenty of people like using Apple proprietary models, but the Apple way is arguably unhealthy for society (and perhaps illegal? anti-trust?).
I dont particularly want to start an argument over whether Apple is good or evil... my point is that just because people like something doesn't mean the something is good.
the Android code is out there for anyone to download
not all of it. if you have a cdma based phone, you cannot get an open sourced radio protocol stack. I would expect that there is hardware specific code that is proprietary too.
It IS like Ubuntu in that you can get the base OS and stuff it onto anything.
If that were true you would see a lot more phones running the android system as techno geeks would be very interested in hacking this onto their nokias and iPhones and other devices.
Seriously... I'd love to put Android onto my old PSP! just guide me to how!
Im not an expert on android, but it looks to me that Android isn't so much about "being free for freedom's sake" so much as it's about "being free for superior software engineering sake"
Did he make phone calls? I *Know* that the radio protocol stack for CDMA based phones is QCOMM proprietary, I am unsure if there is an open sourced 3gpp radio stack.
A iPhone w/o a radio protocol stack is just an iPod.
And yes... he must have had special knowledge/tools simply to get his aPod.
HTC does get Android from Google, but that's FOSS, so they are not beholden at all to Google for that
I think you have an over inflated sense of Google's benevolence when it comes to Android. While most Android is open sourced there are key components needed by cellphones which are not (eg. the radio protocol stack).
Android isn't like Ubuntu where you can download all the source, compile it, and install it on any old x86 system. Android requires special knowledge, special proprietary components, and special tools to run on a cellphone. If you doubt this, I dare you to install android on your mobile phone.
When it comes to a phone producer like HTC, the difference between google and microsoft probably isn't all that much. HTC probably has source access to winMo for it's windows mobile phones, and can probably edit that source code w/o having to push it's changes back up to M$. With Google, HTC probably has less red tape to getting updated source patches.
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c) If you have a different opinion from the rest of the team or your boss, remember: you don't get money for following your own opinion. If you feel you opinion is constantly undervalued, then leave.
I disagree with you here. Yes men suck! In a SW company you DO get paid for your opinions. Having a different opinion is preferable than just saying "yes" to the groupthink. However don't be pushy. The senior people probably have a good reason for making the decisions they make, if you disagree you have to learn their reasons. If you still think you are correct point out why politely, 1-on-1 with the most senior member; not with the entire group.
1) communicate (this is hard for ESL, but it's really REALLY necessary) ... the old "Im working from home" is ok sometimes, but dont make it a habit.
2) love what you do
3) dont cook seafood in the microwave
4) dont clip your nails at work
5) show up
WFM
Im going to open a fan site for corporations that sue their fans.
Obviously you've never run a major corporation *intotheground* before!
... the ones you love
another in Games Workshop's disturbing pattern of suing their fans and hobbyists,
It's not an ad. It's a discussion of the indie game house's revenues. Sure it brings people to Wolfire's site, but if the company is providing useful contributions to the game business discussion, they deserve the attention.
NOTE: A slashvertizement would be something like "Wolfire releases new game!"
Do you have a basic comprehension problem? Do you RTFA ever?
Do you really not understand this simple concept that the web itself cannot be free if the portal that accesses it is not free.
I am saying that the web would be LESS FREE if your web browser forced you to watch ads that you dont want to watch.
So? The point is that you CAN if you need to. With proprietary software you simply CANNOT.
And Mozilla users don't get the option of H.264 on their platform. So, why no outrage at Mozila and Firefox?
Incorrect. The users have the option of changing the code themselves and buying whatever personal licence they need to use the H.264. Thats the point!
The Mozilla guys just haven't done that for you... BUT YOU CAN DO IT YOURSELF! you can find the firefox code here (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6rc2/source/)
Have at it. Thats freedom baby!
incorrect. since the webbrowser is what the user interacts with directly. If the webbrowser so choses, it can limit access to this "free web." This access limitation could be purposeful or it could be a bug, either way, the user is impeded.
with a free webbrowser the user can fix the bug, or change the code away from the purposeful limitiation.
The user is not free with a proprietary software accessing a free web.
best.car.analogy.ever!
sorry I thought you said
being dependent on heroin is one of the things that makes this drug appeal to me. Simple reason being, I've sucked dealer cock time and time again and each time heroin dealer cock trump their competitors in terms of taste, and that's the one thing that matters to me.
Flash being closed is a problem not simply because it is closed, but it is closed to Apple.
While incredibly insightful towards the true meaning of Job's words, your argument against hypocrisy is based on a lie.
Simply put Steve Jobs did not say "it is closed to Apple" Steve Jobs stated "Flash is a closed system"
YOU said it is closed to Apple, not Steve.
Just because people like something doesn't make it "good." Plenty of people like recreational drugs, but that doesn't make drugs "good," they are unhealthy.
Plenty of people like using Apple proprietary models, but the Apple way is arguably unhealthy for society (and perhaps illegal? anti-trust?).
I dont particularly want to start an argument over whether Apple is good or evil... my point is that just because people like something doesn't mean the something is good.
FAIL!
Well I guess he needs some relief, that Hermoine chick is hawt!
Soon ISPs will be redirecting youtube traffic to here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1WWpKEPdT4
sigh.
I thought their names were Tom and Jack?
the Android code is out there for anyone to download
not all of it. if you have a cdma based phone, you cannot get an open sourced radio protocol stack. I would expect that there is hardware specific code that is proprietary too.
It IS like Ubuntu in that you can get the base OS and stuff it onto anything.
If that were true you would see a lot more phones running the android system as techno geeks would be very interested in hacking this onto their nokias and iPhones and other devices.
Seriously... I'd love to put Android onto my old PSP! just guide me to how!
Im not an expert on android, but it looks to me that Android isn't so much about "being free for freedom's sake" so much as it's about "being free for superior software engineering sake"
Did he make phone calls? I *Know* that the radio protocol stack for CDMA based phones is QCOMM proprietary, I am unsure if there is an open sourced 3gpp radio stack.
A iPhone w/o a radio protocol stack is just an iPod.
And yes... he must have had special knowledge/tools simply to get his aPod.
HTC does get Android from Google, but that's FOSS, so they are not beholden at all to Google for that
I think you have an over inflated sense of Google's benevolence when it comes to Android. While most Android is open sourced there are key components needed by cellphones which are not (eg. the radio protocol stack).
Android isn't like Ubuntu where you can download all the source, compile it, and install it on any old x86 system. Android requires special knowledge, special proprietary components, and special tools to run on a cellphone. If you doubt this, I dare you to install android on your mobile phone.
When it comes to a phone producer like HTC, the difference between google and microsoft probably isn't all that much. HTC probably has source access to winMo for it's windows mobile phones, and can probably edit that source code w/o having to push it's changes back up to M$. With Google, HTC probably has less red tape to getting updated source patches.
death!
No. Men have been thinking about hawt chicks for a while now.