Netscape is a bad example as it was basically pushed out of the market by Microsoft. The demise of Netscape would have happened whether they rewrote the code or not.
Really. What happens if the new place is just as crappy as the old place? Change jobs every three months and see how willing another employer will be to take you on. What happens if you have a family? Do you move them around all the time? Not everyone is 24 and unmarried in the tech industry. I've worked at just as many bad companies as good ones and it is difficult to tell whether the management is any good, not to mention the fact that it could change for the worse in 9 months time. Unions are a way for workers to have a say in how a corporation is run. Why shouldn't tech workers have that right? It certainly would have curbed the excessive behaviour of some of the companies I've worked for.
Yes, companies pull occasional bullshit like firing people without telling them, but that just means your labour laws need a bit of tweaking. If that happened here in Canada, you could sue their asses for wrongful dismissal.
In the UK, we have to pay for our lawyers, so unless you've got a lot of money, your only hope would be to get union support. I'm tired of hearing that unions are evil. With secret ballots being mandatory, what's to stop the members voting out a corrupt leader? Why shouldn't employees want to protect themselves from poor management?
This argument is all because the media lies are believed about union excesses and the excesses of corporations are smoothed over. Could this be because the owners of the media don't like unions rather than unions being bad?
Is there a way to direct the signal only to the homes that have valid DirecTV smart cards? I doubt it. This isn't the same as a radio signal where all you need is a mast at your station, this requires an enormous initial investment to send satellites into orbit. If you don't want to pay for it, then why should you have it? No-one has a right to satellite TV, you have to earn enough money to afford it, same as most things in life.
Deja vu indeed. That was the very first Slashdot article I read, when I used AOL, I thought Microsoft were merely incompetent and I had only vaguely heard of Linux. Now I wouldn't touch AOL with a bargepole, I despise MS and Linux is an interesting hobby.
Bzzzt....wrong. I've worked on more examples of god-awful COBOL code than I care to count. Crap code comes from laziness, incompetence and lack of thought about the future - the Y2K bug is an excellent example (although other platforms had their share). Good code comes from talent and I've seen plenty of well-written, and easy to mod code as well.
It's all part of the my toy's better than yours mentality. Microsoft does have the slight advantage of a huge PR budget to be snidey with - see the recent Linux mutant ad in Germany or the Linux Myths webpage, a great deal of snide and outright lies.
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But how many of those are people who browse the internet at work due to NT being imposed from above, like me. I only use Windows for DVD playing and viewing QT clips at home.
But it only takes one rebel to post the source publically, so I doubt IBM would be that dense. The only real threat would be proprietary libraries, well marketed e.g. Win32 on Linux.
And how do I stop it getting creased to and from the drycleaners? The only time I can get there is at lunchtime and weekends, so if I used a bike I would have to wait a week to get my suits back. Believe me, I would love to ride to work, but the combination of the weather and the inconvenience stops me. Having a decent transport system would not as a train from here would take 5 minutes and I wouldn't have to park anywhere.
Your analogy is flawed. An architect has to design a whole building with no margin for error. A software engineer starts by doing simple changes to existing programs, going on to writing their own, specifying a few programs as an enhancement to an existing system, and then after proving themself in those areas they will be allowed to design systems with the aid of a more experienced colleague. No degree really prepares you for this as companies vary wildly in their development methodologies and 3-4 years in a university is not as good as 3-4 years actually doing the job.
I have had formal training. I've been on many courses, run by people that actually work in the industry, as opposed to university professors. Just because you've learned C and systems design at university doesn't make you better than someone who learned it on a course and has actually used it in the industry.
What has a degree got to do with programming ability? I don't have a degree but I've worked with many incompetents who do. Anyone with a logical mind can be a developer, in fact some of the most talented people I've ever worked with don't have degrees. Computing isn't like mechanical engineering, you can learn it a great deal easier, and all this 'only graduates need apply' is just needless posturing.
I've just driven home and there was a gale blowing sheets of rain at my car. I would have been blown across the street had I been riding a bike. Not to mention that I have to wear a suit to work, how do I stop it getting seriously creased in my backpack (I'm vain - sue me). I would have a bike in preference to a car if it was practical but it isn't.
My point is that car pollution would be a great deal less of an issue if there were a reasonable alternative, which in most European countries is the case. Not in the UK though, where 30 years of under-investment and line closures have led to the near breakdown of the railway systems, major cities are heading towards gridlock situations and I spend between 2 and 3 hours a day sitting in my car when my workplace is only 7 miles from my house.
A train may produce 10 or 20 times more waste than a car (I don't know the exact figures), but it can carry 50 times as many people, so it's more efficient that way. I'd much rather use public transport than drive, but I'm not given the chance due to the UK's incredibly short-sighted transport policy.
Star Office 5.2 is licensed under the Sun 'open source' license and therefore the translation will be too. SuSE aren't allowed to release their changes to everyone by the terms of this license. Blame Sun not SuSE.
It's not about cash. Stallman initially created the GPL after he had some problems with closed-source software that the manufacturer refused to fix. He didn't want this to happen to anyone else, so he decided to create his own versions of the Unix tools with the source code freely available so that anyone who used them and wanted to customise them, could, without an corporation making commercial decisions as to what needed to be changed. The GPL doesn't preclude making money from their software, it just means that the people you sell it to have the right to customise it for their own use.
AFAIK DAT failed as soon as consumers realised that it was next-to-useless when they wanted to tape their music from other formats. DAT may have it's niche, but that's all it is - a niche. I have never had any trouble using a CD burner, and there is no way I would buy a DVD-RW that had restrictions on my use of it. It's not up to the MPAA/RIAA to control me, I can control myself. That's why I don't steal from shops, even though it's fairly easy to do.
Here's a suggestion for you. Ask your friends and co-workers how much they would be willing to pay for a new generation of video recording device that they couldn't use to record from the TV and see what the consensus is.
Please don't accuse me of being an American - especially after I've been involved in a few transatlantic pissing contests lately. I'm a Brit, bad dentistry and all.
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Jealousy is a terrible thing dude, especially when you say things with no facts to back up your trolling.
Netscape is a bad example as it was basically pushed out of the market by Microsoft. The demise of Netscape would have happened whether they rewrote the code or not.
But sometimes you want to do a system that doesn't take 3 days to run. Oracle may be functional, but it's not quick.
Really. What happens if the new place is just as crappy as the old place? Change jobs every three months and see how willing another employer will be to take you on. What happens if you have a family? Do you move them around all the time? Not everyone is 24 and unmarried in the tech industry. I've worked at just as many bad companies as good ones and it is difficult to tell whether the management is any good, not to mention the fact that it could change for the worse in 9 months time. Unions are a way for workers to have a say in how a corporation is run. Why shouldn't tech workers have that right? It certainly would have curbed the excessive behaviour of some of the companies I've worked for.
And of course people never get unfairly promoted in IT now do they?
Yes, companies pull occasional bullshit like firing people without telling them, but that just means your labour laws need a bit of tweaking. If that happened here in Canada, you could sue their asses for wrongful dismissal.
In the UK, we have to pay for our lawyers, so unless you've got a lot of money, your only hope would be to get union support. I'm tired of hearing that unions are evil. With secret ballots being mandatory, what's to stop the members voting out a corrupt leader? Why shouldn't employees want to protect themselves from poor management?
This argument is all because the media lies are believed about union excesses and the excesses of corporations are smoothed over. Could this be because the owners of the media don't like unions rather than unions being bad?
Is there a way to direct the signal only to the homes that have valid DirecTV smart cards? I doubt it. This isn't the same as a radio signal where all you need is a mast at your station, this requires an enormous initial investment to send satellites into orbit. If you don't want to pay for it, then why should you have it? No-one has a right to satellite TV, you have to earn enough money to afford it, same as most things in life.
Deja vu indeed. That was the very first Slashdot article I read, when I used AOL, I thought Microsoft were merely incompetent and I had only vaguely heard of Linux. Now I wouldn't touch AOL with a bargepole, I despise MS and Linux is an interesting hobby.
Bzzzt....wrong. I've worked on more examples of god-awful COBOL code than I care to count. Crap code comes from laziness, incompetence and lack of thought about the future - the Y2K bug is an excellent example (although other platforms had their share). Good code comes from talent and I've seen plenty of well-written, and easy to mod code as well.
It's all part of the my toy's better than yours mentality. Microsoft does have the slight advantage of a huge PR budget to be snidey with - see the recent Linux mutant ad in Germany or the Linux Myths webpage, a great deal of snide and outright lies.
But how many of those are people who browse the internet at work due to NT being imposed from above, like me. I only use Windows for DVD playing and viewing QT clips at home.
But it only takes one rebel to post the source publically, so I doubt IBM would be that dense. The only real threat would be proprietary libraries, well marketed e.g. Win32 on Linux.
Are there? URLs please.
And how do I stop it getting creased to and from the drycleaners? The only time I can get there is at lunchtime and weekends, so if I used a bike I would have to wait a week to get my suits back. Believe me, I would love to ride to work, but the combination of the weather and the inconvenience stops me. Having a decent transport system would not as a train from here would take 5 minutes and I wouldn't have to park anywhere.
Your analogy is flawed. An architect has to design a whole building with no margin for error. A software engineer starts by doing simple changes to existing programs, going on to writing their own, specifying a few programs as an enhancement to an existing system, and then after proving themself in those areas they will be allowed to design systems with the aid of a more experienced colleague. No degree really prepares you for this as companies vary wildly in their development methodologies and 3-4 years in a university is not as good as 3-4 years actually doing the job.
I have had formal training. I've been on many courses, run by people that actually work in the industry, as opposed to university professors. Just because you've learned C and systems design at university doesn't make you better than someone who learned it on a course and has actually used it in the industry.
What has a degree got to do with programming ability? I don't have a degree but I've worked with many incompetents who do. Anyone with a logical mind can be a developer, in fact some of the most talented people I've ever worked with don't have degrees. Computing isn't like mechanical engineering, you can learn it a great deal easier, and all this 'only graduates need apply' is just needless posturing.
I've just driven home and there was a gale blowing sheets of rain at my car. I would have been blown across the street had I been riding a bike. Not to mention that I have to wear a suit to work, how do I stop it getting seriously creased in my backpack (I'm vain - sue me). I would have a bike in preference to a car if it was practical but it isn't.
My point is that car pollution would be a great deal less of an issue if there were a reasonable alternative, which in most European countries is the case. Not in the UK though, where 30 years of under-investment and line closures have led to the near breakdown of the railway systems, major cities are heading towards gridlock situations and I spend between 2 and 3 hours a day sitting in my car when my workplace is only 7 miles from my house.
A train may produce 10 or 20 times more waste than a car (I don't know the exact figures), but it can carry 50 times as many people, so it's more efficient that way. I'd much rather use public transport than drive, but I'm not given the chance due to the UK's incredibly short-sighted transport policy.
Star Office 5.2 is licensed under the Sun 'open source' license and therefore the translation will be too. SuSE aren't allowed to release their changes to everyone by the terms of this license. Blame Sun not SuSE.
It's not about cash. Stallman initially created the GPL after he had some problems with closed-source software that the manufacturer refused to fix. He didn't want this to happen to anyone else, so he decided to create his own versions of the Unix tools with the source code freely available so that anyone who used them and wanted to customise them, could, without an corporation making commercial decisions as to what needed to be changed. The GPL doesn't preclude making money from their software, it just means that the people you sell it to have the right to customise it for their own use.
Bloody communists. Next they'll be expecting Alan Turing's relatives to drop the license payment they expect from everyone who builds a computer.
AFAIK DAT failed as soon as consumers realised that it was next-to-useless when they wanted to tape their music from other formats. DAT may have it's niche, but that's all it is - a niche. I have never had any trouble using a CD burner, and there is no way I would buy a DVD-RW that had restrictions on my use of it. It's not up to the MPAA/RIAA to control me, I can control myself. That's why I don't steal from shops, even though it's fairly easy to do.
Here's a suggestion for you. Ask your friends and co-workers how much they would be willing to pay for a new generation of video recording device that they couldn't use to record from the TV and see what the consensus is.
Please don't accuse me of being an American - especially after I've been involved in a few transatlantic pissing contests lately. I'm a Brit, bad dentistry and all.