With these kinds of opinions rampant in the US, I'm so glad that I don't have to live there.
Protect your country by giving up the civil liberties that the US stood for, once upon a time. Uh. Do you realize that the hypocrisis of the PATRIOT act is one of the reasons why US politics are now so despised in the world, when they were used to be a role model for a free society?
I don't hold one fanatical insane murderer against all of European muslims.
I also don't take small protests with violent messages as representative for a big religious or racial group -- after all, I don't take Neo-Nazi rallies with violent messages as representative for German citizens either.
Just like I don't hold the actions of a group of radical Republican nutwings against all US citicens or even against sane members of the GOP -- even though they have caused the killing of much more innocent people.
You might not know it, but here in Europe, we got rid of clan liability after the Nazis and after Italian fascism.
And your comment that Arab people were rioting in France shows that you know nothing about the situation here. The banlieu riots were done by French citizens, i.e., by Frenchmen, as you call them. Most of them are born in France, being children of immigrants from Northern Africa. (Just to inform you: These are not arabic countries.) The riots have no religious background, but social and economic ones. Folks in the banlieus have no work and no future, and gang crime is usual there. To say that these are religiously based Arab riots is as ridiculous as if black church-going US christians would be responsible for riots in central L.A.
Together with my Turkish neighbours, I will work towards peaceful communities, and we will continue our fight against radicals spouting hate speach -- and it doesn't matter if they are Muslims or proud to be right-wing extremists, as you are. All the same lot, not much difference.
Maybe that has to do something with your local press? Or which news sources you look at?
Here, in Germany, Muslim organizations condemned the riots. Frankly and without reservations. They also critiqued the cartoon publications, but in a civilized way and that's their right. The Vatican also yells about movies that he find blasphemous. Life of Brian, anyone?
Huh? Since when did we have Muslim riots or violent protests in Western Europe? I must have missed that in the news.
The Danish muslims complained, but they didn't riot. Some Danish muslim leaders inflated the situation and made it worse outside of Europe. But almost all Muslim organizations in Europe restrained themselves to critique of the publication.
For the record, I'm from Germany and I'm not a Muslim.
That's not possible -- without an SAP PO number, you won't get it into the CMDB and won't be able to monitor it and pay for needed office supplies like toner (where the real costs lie). It looks as if you haven't worked in a big company yet.;-)
Now you just have to answer the question if Xena (the originally proposed name) is a goddess, a person, or a random string of letters... There are arguments for each of them.:-)
But Firefox without extensions, in its basic version, is useless for any but the most casual usage. Since Firefox gives so much problems, I stopped recommending it to others.
Oh yes, and on Linux you need a GNOME environment or must turn over backwards just to change fonts, C-q doesn't work, Shift-Button1 doesn't work, too many preferences are hidden, etc.pp.
The firefox developers think they know better than their users what a good program is. Well, I had to discover that this means I'm not among their target audience. I check it out again from time to time to see if something has changed; but no. I suppose I'll try SeaMonkey and see what they are up to.
There more insightful detail on his view and the problems are described. The author accepts that space flight is inherent dangerous -- he works or worked at NASA and seems to know what he's writing about. Therefore this engineering area calls for special attention to safety. And the managers routinely scoffed off engineers who brought up avoidable risks: "The engineers were challenged to prove it was NOT safe to launch, and they had no data to do so." (page 3 of the article above.) The same was said for the Columbia disaster.
So the default at NASA is to err on the dangerous side, and not on the safe side. The default is to override engineer's concerns, to "put off the engineering hat and put on the management hat". That's what the story is about, and that's what should be of relevance for the/. audience.
since everyone is an expert and everyone is a CEO and owner of a corporation
You don't believe me? You could have followed my URL and got a link to my company. But it's easier to resort to straw men and accusations, isn't it?
...well except me, I'm just in sales.
Oh, sorry. That explanation is sufficient for your world view. What do you sell? Used cars? It also explains why you don't grasp the difference between `only purpose' (what you're saying), `one purpose among others' (what I'm saying), and `no purpose' (what you're trying to make me sound). That's too complex, obviously.
Be sure that with such logic I would never hire you. As a sales person, you would piss off my customers very quickly with such a ``strength'' of argumentation.
As owner and CEO of a private corporation, I tell you that there is more to a corporation than earning money. Life would be less worth if that would be the only or even the main purpose. To found a corporation is a mean to an end, to fulfill one's vision -- and if you think that the only possible vision is to earn money; well, then I pity you. As well, money wouldn't be worth enough to put up with 70+ hours working weeks, then I would retire immediately -- after all, I got enough of it over the last few decades.
And btw, I know from partner companies and business contacts that there are many other corporate owners who think like I do. They are neither CEOs of big public corporations, nor pension fund managers, nor Wall street analysts, though. Especially the latter two are ruining our corporate culture and our economy, slowly but steadily.
You mix up corporations as a general concept with the subset of public corporations where shareholders have full voting rights. (Hint: What do you think that Inc. stands for?) AFAIK, there are more private corporations than public ones in the US.
This story sounds completely like many of the big corporations where I do consulting. That the guy can install the software in his home directory is not the issue -- he is not allowed to. Any self-installed software that gets used for product creation is reason for problems in his next appraisel.
It's quite interesting that you say that whiskys are widely available in the US. (I'm from Germany, btw.) US friends of mine who live in rural areas have even problems to buy proper wines without problems. Shipping wine between US states is illegal and getting good wines to one's home is often a real problem, so I thought strong alcohol is even harder to come by.
For me, living in a wine area, the alcohol laws of USA are ridiculuous. [sp?].
Well, the opinions get `better'. I would recommend Ardbeck as well, but dunno if one can get it in the States. Once I had two Ardbecks from the same distillation, one from a sherry cask and one from an oak cask -- fascinating ability compare the influence of casks!
There are a lot of companies out there who's aim is just to cover their costs and not to make any money. They were usually founded for legal reasons, e.g., to get the protection of limited liability for non-criminal behaviour, or to represent the stakes of their owners in decisions formally. E.g., it is good practice to found a company for management of property (e.g., a house) that one shares with a partner when no marriage is involved. (I speak from practice.:-)
Sometimes a company is even founded to loose money, for tax reasons. If you earn enough money, go to an accountant and get yourself some tips.
To get back to/. topics: Many data center operation companies are spin-offs that follow that pattern, too. (Cost centers as outsourced companies.)
There is more to a company than profits. A company is, first of all, a legal entity and has lots of advantages for that reason alone.
That's a nice description of your Java development environment. But we all know that Eclipse excels for Java.
How much of this stuff works for Perl and Python as well? (Remember, these are the topics of TFA.) When I looked at Eclipse at the start of this year, they didn't. Has this changed in the last 10 months?
Your view on bookmarks is rather limited, IMHO. Bookmarks create a view and may be very well used in GUIs. Refer to Paul T. Graunke, Shriram Krishnamurthi: Advanced control flows for flexible graphical user interfaces: or, growing GUIs on trees or, bookmarking GUIs. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2002, ACM Press.
Concerning studies on the back button:
Kunz, T. and Seuren, M. F. 1997. Fast detection of communication patterns in distributed executions. In Proceedings of the 1997 Conference of the Centre For Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 10 - 13, 1997). J. H. Johnson, Ed. IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference. IBM Press, 12.
Golovchinsky, G. 2002. Going back in Hypertext. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (College Park, Maryland, USA, June 11 - 15, 2002). HYPERTEXT '02. ACM Press, New York, NY, 82-83. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/513338.513363
Utting, K. and Yankelovich, N. 1989. Context and orientation in hypermedia networks. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 7, 1 (Jan. 1989), 58-84. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/64789.64992
Sun, C. 2002. Undo as concurrent inverse in group editors. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 9, 4 (Dec. 2002), 309-361. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/586081.586085
Milic-Frayling, N., Jones, R., Rodden, K., Smyth, G., Blackwell, A., and Sommerer, R. 2004. Smartback: supporting users in back navigation. In Proceedings of the 13th international Conference on World Wide Web (New York, NY, USA, May 17 - 20, 2004). WWW '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 63-71. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/988672.988682
And these are just the first result from a 5-minutes search in ACM's digital library. I can't even remember how often I have read the same study results year after year in many proceedings. You are an ACM member and can access those articles, aren't you? Most professionals that work in HCI are, after all.
Of course it does from the user perspective -- I want to remember that email and create a bookmark for it.
Nor does hitting the back button to clear a cell in an interactive spreadsheet.
There are dozens of usability studies that show that people like the back button exactly for that reason: For them, it means undo. Proper back button functionality encourages an exploration-based approach to computer usage, and that would be a Good Thing(tm) -- if it would work.
Your excurse is nice, though a bit on the very simplistic (naive) side, and misses one important point: Money is itself a product, traded on markets, created and managed by the central banks of the world. Your explanations of inflation and deflation only hold for constant money in the market. But that's not the case so they contradict the day-to-day experience of layman people.
Last year was a Google service outage of roughly half an hour. I still have the screen shot of it.:-) Actually, it was an outage in their infrastructure, not in their servers -- but that's not relevant for 5-nine-views, there end-to-end availability for services count.
5 nines is ca. 5 min/year and damned hard to achieve. I know, because I plan such things for a living...
You have not understand me. I see analogous insane decisions for Windows almost weekly, when I come in a company to troubleshoot problems. I also see them on Unix. I seldomly see them for mainframes, as they have typically other change and release management processes associated that protects them more. (And yes, I work with all Windows server OSes, half a dozen Unixes, and z/OS on a regular basis.)
As I wrote, this is not a comment on the study, but on the state of typical IT processes in large companies. (Large is defined here as the IT staff alone being more than a few hundred persons, more often in the 1,000s. Employee numbers of my customers are in the 10,000s.) I don't know if it is different for mid-sized companies and I expect it to be different for small companies.
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Protect your country by giving up the civil liberties that the US stood for, once upon a time. Uh. Do you realize that the hypocrisis of the PATRIOT act is one of the reasons why US politics are now so despised in the world, when they were used to be a role model for a free society?
And your comment that Arab people were rioting in France shows that you know nothing about the situation here. The banlieu riots were done by French citizens, i.e., by Frenchmen, as you call them. Most of them are born in France, being children of immigrants from Northern Africa. (Just to inform you: These are not arabic countries.) The riots have no religious background, but social and economic ones. Folks in the banlieus have no work and no future, and gang crime is usual there. To say that these are religiously based Arab riots is as ridiculous as if black church-going US christians would be responsible for riots in central L.A.
Together with my Turkish neighbours, I will work towards peaceful communities, and we will continue our fight against radicals spouting hate speach -- and it doesn't matter if they are Muslims or proud to be right-wing extremists, as you are. All the same lot, not much difference.
Here, in Germany, Muslim organizations condemned the riots. Frankly and without reservations. They also critiqued the cartoon publications, but in a civilized way and that's their right. The Vatican also yells about movies that he find blasphemous. Life of Brian, anyone?
The Danish muslims complained, but they didn't riot. Some Danish muslim leaders inflated the situation and made it worse outside of Europe. But almost all Muslim organizations in Europe restrained themselves to critique of the publication.
For the record, I'm from Germany and I'm not a Muslim.
That's not possible -- without an SAP PO number, you won't get it into the CMDB and won't be able to monitor it and pay for needed office supplies like toner (where the real costs lie). It looks as if you haven't worked in a big company yet. ;-)
who destroyed all gods and gave birth to Eve... or so. Perhaps we should name the 10th planet Gabrielle. ;-)
Now you just have to answer the question if Xena (the originally proposed name) is a goddess, a person, or a random string of letters... There are arguments for each of them. :-)
Oh yes, and on Linux you need a GNOME environment or must turn over backwards just to change fonts, C-q doesn't work, Shift-Button1 doesn't work, too many preferences are hidden, etc.pp.
The firefox developers think they know better than their users what a good program is. Well, I had to discover that this means I'm not among their target audience. I check it out again from time to time to see if something has changed; but no. I suppose I'll try SeaMonkey and see what they are up to.
There more insightful detail on his view and the problems are described. The author accepts that space flight is inherent dangerous -- he works or worked at NASA and seems to know what he's writing about. Therefore this engineering area calls for special attention to safety. And the managers routinely scoffed off engineers who brought up avoidable risks: "The engineers were challenged to prove it was NOT safe to launch, and they had no data to do so." (page 3 of the article above.) The same was said for the Columbia disaster.
So the default at NASA is to err on the dangerous side, and not on the safe side. The default is to override engineer's concerns, to "put off the engineering hat and put on the management hat". That's what the story is about, and that's what should be of relevance for the /. audience.
Be sure that with such logic I would never hire you. As a sales person, you would piss off my customers very quickly with such a ``strength'' of argumentation.
As owner and CEO of a private corporation, I tell you that there is more to a corporation than earning money. Life would be less worth if that would be the only or even the main purpose. To found a corporation is a mean to an end, to fulfill one's vision -- and if you think that the only possible vision is to earn money; well, then I pity you. As well, money wouldn't be worth enough to put up with 70+ hours working weeks, then I would retire immediately -- after all, I got enough of it over the last few decades.
And btw, I know from partner companies and business contacts that there are many other corporate owners who think like I do. They are neither CEOs of big public corporations, nor pension fund managers, nor Wall street analysts, though. Especially the latter two are ruining our corporate culture and our economy, slowly but steadily.
You mix up corporations as a general concept with the subset of public corporations where shareholders have full voting rights. (Hint: What do you think that Inc. stands for?) AFAIK, there are more private corporations than public ones in the US.
The Internet boom period was in the late 80s and early 90s -- and, having been there -- I can say that it was exactly as your parent posted.
This story sounds completely like many of the big corporations where I do consulting. That the guy can install the software in his home directory is not the issue -- he is not allowed to. Any self-installed software that gets used for product creation is reason for problems in his next appraisel.
It's quite interesting that you say that whiskys are widely available in the US. (I'm from Germany, btw.) US friends of mine who live in rural areas have even problems to buy proper wines without problems. Shipping wine between US states is illegal and getting good wines to one's home is often a real problem, so I thought strong alcohol is even harder to come by.
For me, living in a wine area, the alcohol laws of USA are ridiculuous. [sp?].
Well, the opinions get `better'. I would recommend Ardbeck as well, but dunno if one can get it in the States. Once I had two Ardbecks from the same distillation, one from a sherry cask and one from an oak cask -- fascinating ability compare the influence of casks!
Sometimes a company is even founded to loose money, for tax reasons. If you earn enough money, go to an accountant and get yourself some tips.
To get back to /. topics: Many data center operation companies are spin-offs that follow that pattern, too. (Cost centers as outsourced companies.)
There is more to a company than profits. A company is, first of all, a legal entity and has lots of advantages for that reason alone.
How much of this stuff works for Perl and Python as well? (Remember, these are the topics of TFA.) When I looked at Eclipse at the start of this year, they didn't. Has this changed in the last 10 months?
Concerning studies on the back button:
Kunz, T. and Seuren, M. F. 1997. Fast detection of communication patterns in distributed executions. In Proceedings of the 1997 Conference of the Centre For Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 10 - 13, 1997). J. H. Johnson, Ed. IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference. IBM Press, 12.
Golovchinsky, G. 2002. Going back in Hypertext. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (College Park, Maryland, USA, June 11 - 15, 2002). HYPERTEXT '02. ACM Press, New York, NY, 82-83. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/513338.513363
Utting, K. and Yankelovich, N. 1989. Context and orientation in hypermedia networks. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 7, 1 (Jan. 1989), 58-84. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/64789.64992
Sun, C. 2002. Undo as concurrent inverse in group editors. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 9, 4 (Dec. 2002), 309-361. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/586081.586085
Shubin, H. and Meehan, M. M. 1997. Navigation in Web applications. interactions 4, 6 (Nov. 1997), 13-17. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/267505.267508
Milic-Frayling, N., Jones, R., Rodden, K., Smyth, G., Blackwell, A., and Sommerer, R. 2004. Smartback: supporting users in back navigation. In Proceedings of the 13th international Conference on World Wide Web (New York, NY, USA, May 17 - 20, 2004). WWW '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 63-71. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/988672.988682
And these are just the first result from a 5-minutes search in ACM's digital library. I can't even remember how often I have read the same study results year after year in many proceedings. You are an ACM member and can access those articles, aren't you? Most professionals that work in HCI are, after all.
In case you aren't: Try Google for non-scientific opinions that corroborate my statement: http://www.google.com/search?q=back+button+web+bro wser+undo
Xft support for XEmacs is committed. Your 2-3 year timeline for anti-aliased fonts can hopefully be met. :-)
I'm so sorry that I used my mod points this morning. You deserve +5 insightful.
Your excurse is nice, though a bit on the very simplistic (naive) side, and misses one important point: Money is itself a product, traded on markets, created and managed by the central banks of the world. Your explanations of inflation and deflation only hold for constant money in the market. But that's not the case so they contradict the day-to-day experience of layman people.
5 nines is ca. 5 min/year and damned hard to achieve. I know, because I plan such things for a living...
As I wrote, this is not a comment on the study, but on the state of typical IT processes in large companies. (Large is defined here as the IT staff alone being more than a few hundred persons, more often in the 1,000s. Employee numbers of my customers are in the 10,000s.) I don't know if it is different for mid-sized companies and I expect it to be different for small companies.