Greetings,
And I am not talking about Bill Gates taking credit for Open Source. I want to know the 'shareholder' who stood up and asked this question:
"It appears to me that the open source movement is gaining momentum, and as I understand it, the key to success of a software product involves efficiently building an ecosystem of developers and users, resellers, and so forth. Isn't the open source model a more efficient paradigm for building such a community around your products, and isn't perhaps Microsoft maybe on the wrong side of that trend of long-term?"
I would've been afraid of Ballmer ripping my head off. There must have been *gasps* in the crowd. I bet the temperature fell by 10 degrees. It sounds like a question Stuttering John would have asked.
Greetings,
This guy doesn't hold a candle to Phil, Destroyer of Lives. If you were a CS student at RIT in the late 1990's, then you know who I am talking about.
He knew all the tricks. He printed out programs, laid them on top of each other and held them up to the light. Sure, they changed the variable names, but the silhouettes looked the same. He also saved programs for four or five semesters and had all sorts of scripts to diff them against each other. He caught people all the time.
Luckily, I worked with Phil and wasn't a student of his;)
Eric
Greetings,
My company is considering more ways to include more ads per pageview. We serve a lot of streamed video coming from our cable TV shows.
One idea, before each video, show a streaming ad. At first the limit was 15 seconds, but we recently closed a deal for a 30(!) second ad, to be played before EVERY video.
A second idea is to have a page of ads when you click on a link. This page would refresh in 30 seconds and point you to your desired destination.
A third idea is to stick a screen-wide ad in the middle of our stories. As if the ones at the top and bottom weren't enough.
Am I the only one at my company that feels like we are prostituting ourselves?
Greetings,
I always switched mine to the mini-Einstein. I liked whole 'little helper' interface to the help system, but the real attraction was the multiple animations. I discovered the Einstein while writing up my Masters thesis. I probably could've handed it in a week earlier if I hadn't;-) The exploding trashcan was my favorite animation.
Greetings,
I submitted a story on this as well. Probably rejected. Anyhoo, I found it funny that genetic engineering suffers from 'feature creep' just like software engineering;-)
Slashdot Mirror
Greetings,
And I am not talking about Bill Gates taking credit for Open Source. I want to know the 'shareholder' who stood up and asked this question:
"It appears to me that the open source movement is gaining momentum, and as I understand it, the key to success of a software product involves efficiently building an ecosystem of developers and users, resellers, and so forth. Isn't the open source model a more efficient paradigm for building such a community around your products, and isn't perhaps Microsoft maybe on the wrong side of that trend of long-term?"
I would've been afraid of Ballmer ripping my head off. There must have been *gasps* in the crowd. I bet the temperature fell by 10 degrees. It sounds like a question Stuttering John would have asked.
Eric
Greetings, This guy doesn't hold a candle to Phil, Destroyer of Lives. If you were a CS student at RIT in the late 1990's, then you know who I am talking about. He knew all the tricks. He printed out programs, laid them on top of each other and held them up to the light. Sure, they changed the variable names, but the silhouettes looked the same. He also saved programs for four or five semesters and had all sorts of scripts to diff them against each other. He caught people all the time. Luckily, I worked with Phil and wasn't a student of his ;)
Eric
Greetings,
My company is considering more ways to include more ads per pageview. We serve a lot of streamed video coming from our cable TV shows.
One idea, before each video, show a streaming ad. At first the limit was 15 seconds, but we recently closed a deal for a 30(!) second ad, to be played before EVERY video.
A second idea is to have a page of ads when you click on a link. This page would refresh in 30 seconds and point you to your desired destination.
A third idea is to stick a screen-wide ad in the middle of our stories. As if the ones at the top and bottom weren't enough.
Am I the only one at my company that feels like we are prostituting ourselves?
Greetings, ;-) The exploding trashcan was my favorite animation.
I always switched mine to the mini-Einstein. I liked whole 'little helper' interface to the help system, but the real attraction was the multiple animations. I discovered the Einstein while writing up my Masters thesis. I probably could've handed it in a week earlier if I hadn't
P. Mover
Greetings, ;-)
I submitted a story on this as well. Probably rejected. Anyhoo, I found it funny that genetic engineering suffers from 'feature creep' just like software engineering
Prime Mover