RedHat has been coopted by the marketeers and the VC's. This is yet another example of the kind of Business Plan of the month approach that has killed many innovative companies. All of the old management team of RH are gone, and they've been replaced with a team that is clearly willing to lose both marketshare and potential profits.
Having jumped from an IT ship on the way down, I was depressed to here of RH's new enterprise only business plan and spent hours talking to clueless marketeers about it last Spring. Bottom line, they don't listen. They think that their market is as clueless as they are.
Luckily, Debian is on the way up even as RH begins it's crash.
In the scientific community, it's called peer review. Any reliable organization would lose all of its credibility if it were simply a shill for the highest bidder.
I find that most of the people who find it easier to produce using MS tools have used nothing else. If it isn't from a gui suite, they can have a problem. I write little code these days, mostly sysadmin tools, but I edit and read code regularly (part of the problem solving aspect of my job). I've found myself correcting Fortran 77 code for a CS professor's numerical program, or creating wrappers for computational chemistry or physics programs. None of this knowledge comes from a suite of tools.
That said, I do like Omniweb for certain things, but find Python, Perl, and shell more useful for day-to-day tasks.
But how is his programming? How long has he been doing it? How long have each of you been there?
It's also possible, that the required hours don't fit his mental and physical schedule. I know that my best productivity is from around 1pm to 7 or 8pm. I can go longer, but productivity begins to fall off.
I've been in jobs where we all had to be there at the same time. That meant that I wound up working later than my coworkers because I was "in the groove" when they were leaving. Even now, I find that I work just as late whether I come in at 8 or 11. Over this years, this has meant alot of overtime, since I'm still thinking and problem solving even when I'm not in front of my machine. As a matter of fact, my best problem solving is usually in the shower or in the car on the way home, which means that I log in from home and do even more.
So those 20 minutes at your cube may mean nothing to him. He may be working significantly more than you or solving more difficult issues.
As a matter of fact I have a problem with licensing the press and requiring a permit for assembly. So, I am consistent on the issues.
In addition, I'm hardly a strict constructionist (at least in the classic sense). I do believe that we can interpret and extrapolate. But, I also believe that a right is a right, not a priveledge, not an accomodation, not an exception. We have entered a time when our citizens fear each other more than those who would take their rights. A time when they are willing to trade their freedom for the illusion of safety. A time when the very ideals that set us apart are under attack not from without, but within.
This seems to be an issue that many people fail to understand. But, the rights of the Constitution "PRE-EXIST" government. They are not granted by government, they are protected from it. Anything that government may grant (such as a license), it may revoke. That which is subject to arbitrary revocation cannot be a right.
So, I won't worry about you speaking your mind, which could lead to injury or death to someone and you shouldn't worry about me owning guns.
Let's license all constitutional rights. And while we're add it, apply extra taxes like those on guns and ammo. Let's make sure that every computer user is licensed (we license radio operators after all). I have the feeling that your opinion changes when the subject the regulation changes. For me the Bill of Rights is not an a la Carte menu. In addition, it grants nothing (as noted by the authors and the federalists). Instead, it specifically limits the government.
I've had to defend myself with both a knife and a gun. I much prefer the gun.
So you have no personal experience with guns. Cite no relevant statistical or even anecdotal evidence to support an opinion (or disprove another's opinion), and call ESR insane.
I come from the US. I own and use guns, and I've been a shooter since I was four. I have never seen a loaded gun leap from a table and kill a room full of people, or shoot a teacher, or a husband or a wife or a sibling. I haven't seen one addicted to crank or crack or coke. I've never seen one rob a bank, or beat up an old man.
I enjoy those who think that their freedoms supercede mine, who think that their irrational feelings and fears should have some sway over my life. You can live in your gunless culture. But I don't have to and neither does ESR.
FWIW: When I met ESR at Linux Expo in 1998, we were talking guns when a young Canadian hacker joined the conversation and argued the point that "guns are bad." Bad choice on his part, since he too had no evidence, no studies, no nothing except his feelings.
Don't be afraid of others exercising their freedoms. Be afraid of anyone who would take any of your freedom.
In reference to the politics slant, had anyone read beyond the first line, none of the ensuing bandwidth would have been necessary. Who disagrees with the following?
"There is a strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritarian; thus, both paleoconservatism and âhardâ(TM) leftism are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day."
Simple enough!!
Eric has done alot for the open source community, but clearly many people on/. and in the community like to spend more time sniping than offering constructive critcism or helping on a project.
Here's the problem with your logic. The problems in SA are in SA, those here in the US are here in the US. The two are not the same.
We have freedoms guaranteed via restrictions on government (theoretically) through the Constituation and the Bill Of Rights, South Africa and your other examples do not.
Retaliation is not necessarily in out best interests. We need to protect our freedoms and when the evidence is in on the perpetrators react decisively.
Things to look out for:
Reichstag Fire Effect: It is inevitable that there will be calls from some in Congress and the FBI that more controls on citizens and more attacks on our freedom are necessary to prevent acts such as those today. Martial law is NOT the answer to protecting America.
Tangential Attacks: If these attacks are as organized as they seem, other sites worldwide may be in danger.
We have a variety of VA Linux, Cobalt, Dell, and custom rack boxes.
In general the VA Linux machines are great. documentation and quality control have suffered somewhat in their fast expansion, but they are still my first choice for linux boxen. We have several of the 4u units and three fullon (2u) servers.
The cobalts are OK for generic web/ftp servers, but they are lacking as full featured servers.
Dell has some great machines (including 2u rack units with dual pci busses). They are more pricey than VA Linux and the machines arrive with enough security holes to fly the Enterprise through.
The custom boxes that we have are in the form of a turnkey 32p beowulf. They are 4u cases that are basically the same as the older VA cases. The systems work great and were secure and ready to roll when they arrived (they were mounted in the racks had the net cables cut and bundled. Once the network was connected and the power plugged in, it was ready to run. These came from Paralogic. (www.plogic.com).
In the past 12 years I have faced and thwarted 4 muggings, two home invasions and a carjacking. I used a knife to prevent three of the muggings and a gun to stop one. I have twice met home invaders with the open end of a pistol or shotgun. The car jackers (who had blocked my movement both forward and backward) found the presence of a.45 caliber Glock to be deterrant enough to look elsewhere for easy money.
Any nation which fears the honest citizen is a nation to be ridiculed and feared as despotic. The only threats of my guns are to those who would attempt to deprive me of life, liberty, or property. Mike
Do you really care whether your death comes from a gun, a knife, a crowd at a soccer tournament, etc. The US is a far more heterogenous society than either Britain or Canada. Switzerland has huge numbers of firearms and a low per capita of crime. Britain has always had lower crime rates than the US even before the first British Gun Control Laws.
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What day is it? And which side of IBM?
RedHat has been coopted by the marketeers and the VC's. This is yet another example of the kind of Business Plan of the month approach that has killed many innovative companies. All of the old management team of RH are gone, and they've been replaced with a team that is clearly willing to lose both marketshare and potential profits.
Having jumped from an IT ship on the way down, I was depressed to here of RH's new enterprise only business plan and spent hours talking to clueless marketeers about it last Spring. Bottom line, they don't listen. They think that their market is as clueless as they are.
Luckily, Debian is on the way up even as RH begins it's crash.
1989 Mac SE30
1984 Apple II, 2 floppies, monitor, visicalc.
Lost to landfill, my 1985 LISA converted to Apple HFS with 2.5 MB. Was on loan and a friend's husband trashed it. No internal HD
In the scientific community, it's called peer review. Any reliable organization would lose all of its credibility if it were simply a shill for the highest bidder.
I find that most of the people who find it easier to produce using MS tools have used nothing else. If it isn't from a gui suite, they can have a problem. I write little code these days, mostly sysadmin tools, but I edit and read code regularly (part of the problem solving aspect of my job). I've found myself correcting Fortran 77 code for a CS professor's numerical program, or creating wrappers for computational chemistry or physics programs. None of this knowledge comes from a suite of tools.
That said, I do like Omniweb for certain things, but find Python, Perl, and shell more useful for day-to-day tasks.
Two words:
Tax Writeoff
But how is his programming? How long has he been doing it? How long have each of you been there?
It's also possible, that the required hours don't fit his mental and physical schedule. I know that my best productivity is from around 1pm to 7 or 8pm. I can go longer, but productivity begins to fall off.
I've been in jobs where we all had to be there at the same time. That meant that I wound up working later than my coworkers because I was "in the groove" when they were leaving. Even now, I find that I work just as late whether I come in at 8 or 11. Over this years, this has meant alot of overtime, since I'm still thinking and problem solving even when I'm not in front of my machine. As a matter of fact, my best problem solving is usually in the shower or in the car on the way home, which means that I log in from home and do even more.
So those 20 minutes at your cube may mean nothing to him. He may be working significantly more than you or solving more difficult issues.
In addition, I'm hardly a strict constructionist (at least in the classic sense). I do believe that we can interpret and extrapolate. But, I also believe that a right is a right, not a priveledge, not an accomodation, not an exception. We have entered a time when our citizens fear each other more than those who would take their rights. A time when they are willing to trade their freedom for the illusion of safety. A time when the very ideals that set us apart are under attack not from without, but within.
This seems to be an issue that many people fail to understand. But, the rights of the Constitution "PRE-EXIST" government. They are not granted by government, they are protected from it. Anything that government may grant (such as a license), it may revoke. That which is subject to arbitrary revocation cannot be a right.
So, I won't worry about you speaking your mind, which could lead to injury or death to someone and you shouldn't worry about me owning guns.
Let's license all constitutional rights. And while we're add it, apply extra taxes like those on guns and ammo. Let's make sure that every computer user is licensed (we license radio operators after all). I have the feeling that your opinion changes when the subject the regulation changes. For me the Bill of Rights is not an a la Carte menu. In addition, it grants nothing (as noted by the authors and the federalists). Instead, it specifically limits the government.
I've had to defend myself with both a knife and a gun. I much prefer the gun.
I come from the US. I own and use guns, and I've been a shooter since I was four. I have never seen a loaded gun leap from a table and kill a room full of people, or shoot a teacher, or a husband or a wife or a sibling. I haven't seen one addicted to crank or crack or coke. I've never seen one rob a bank, or beat up an old man.
I enjoy those who think that their freedoms supercede mine, who think that their irrational feelings and fears should have some sway over my life. You can live in your gunless culture. But I don't have to and neither does ESR.
FWIW: When I met ESR at Linux Expo in 1998, we were talking guns when a young Canadian hacker joined the conversation and argued the point that "guns are bad." Bad choice on his part, since he too had no evidence, no studies, no nothing except his feelings.
Don't be afraid of others exercising their freedoms. Be afraid of anyone who would take any of your freedom.
Those people always try to stereotype others. How we can we stand for that sort of thing? Oh wait, do I mean gun owners or people who judge them?
I mean people who judge them.
I am a Geek. I drive a 4wd. I shoot. I argue. I think. I adhere to libertarian ideas regarding rights and responsibilities. What are you?
"There is a strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritarian; thus, both paleoconservatism and âhardâ(TM) leftism are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day."
Simple enough!!
Eric has done alot for the open source community, but clearly many people on /. and in the community like to spend more time sniping than offering constructive critcism or helping on a project.
Here's the problem with your logic. The problems in SA are in SA, those here in the US are here in the US. The two are not the same.
We have freedoms guaranteed via restrictions on government (theoretically) through the Constituation and the Bill Of Rights, South Africa and your other examples do not.
Retaliation is not necessarily in out best interests. We need to protect our freedoms and when the evidence is in on the perpetrators react decisively.
Things to look out for:
Reichstag Fire Effect: It is inevitable that there will be calls from some in Congress and the FBI that more controls on citizens and more attacks on our freedom are necessary to prevent acts such as those today. Martial law is NOT the answer to protecting America.
Tangential Attacks: If these attacks are as organized as they seem, other sites worldwide may be in danger.
We have a variety of VA Linux, Cobalt, Dell, and custom rack boxes.
In general the VA Linux machines are great. documentation and quality control have suffered somewhat in their fast expansion, but they are still my first choice for linux boxen. We have several of the 4u units and three fullon (2u) servers.
The cobalts are OK for generic web/ftp servers, but they are lacking as full featured servers.
Dell has some great machines (including 2u rack units with dual pci busses). They are more pricey than VA Linux and the machines arrive with enough security holes to fly the Enterprise through.
The custom boxes that we have are in the form of a turnkey 32p beowulf. They are 4u cases that are basically the same as the older VA cases. The systems work great and were secure and ready to roll when they arrived (they were mounted in the racks had the net cables cut and bundled. Once the network was connected and the power plugged in, it was ready to run. These came from Paralogic. (www.plogic.com).
Ralph, What urban environment do you live in?
.45 caliber Glock to be deterrant enough to look elsewhere for easy money.
In the past 12 years I have faced and thwarted 4 muggings, two home invasions and a carjacking. I used a knife to prevent three of the muggings and a gun to stop one. I have twice met home invaders with the open end of a pistol or shotgun. The car jackers (who had blocked my movement both forward and backward) found the presence of a
Any nation which fears the honest citizen is a nation to be ridiculed and feared as despotic. The only threats of my guns are to those who would attempt to deprive me of life, liberty, or property.
Mike
Do you really care whether your death comes from a gun, a knife, a crowd at a soccer tournament, etc. The US is a far more heterogenous society than either Britain or Canada. Switzerland has huge numbers of firearms and a low per capita of crime. Britain has always had lower crime rates than the US even before the first British Gun Control Laws.