Support those businesses that are doing the "right" thing -- EVEN IF IT COSTS A BIT MORE.
Agreed, but nothing wrong with looking for the cheapest price for a registrar that does the right thing. In the case of an ISP, it probably makes sense for paying extra for service. In the case of a registrar, one that is anti-SOPA doesn't have any more overhead than one that is pro-SOPA. Also, using a cheap registrar is not like fast food.
I don't know about you, but I think I'm a better programmer because I can build a PC, and used to be a syadmin.
I can't say that knowing how to make my own cat-5 directly makes me a better coder. However, I know how to make software that sysadmins don't hate, and documentation they can read.
I would think if a mechanical engineer actually serviced a few cars, he or she would be more likely to design a car a mechanical wouldn't mind maintaining then one who only did mechanical simulations.
Uh that's a terrible idea. What about passengers? One of the reasons I take public transportation is so I can text. Executives are given chauffeured limos and towncars so they can work from them.
While it's true that hording money and living off interest is pathological in an economic sense, that's a whole separate problem which is more sociological/psychological than having anything to do with the economics of free software.
Those people "hoarding" the money are investing it, so that money is getting loaned, spent and repaid. What it gets invested in might be suboptimal if it doesn't produce enough useful things, and capital, but hoarding wealth in the forms of investments is not intrinsically evil.
Generally speaking, why not use a solution where you can opt-in or out of the encryption? There can be a a clear radio channel that all emergency responders in a jurisdiction can broadcast to unencrypted to, and encrypted ones when that's deemed necessary.
I'm not sure where I stand on the encryption. Honestly, encryption might work if it was was weak enough where you could brute force after a certain period of time. While there are abuses for closed communication of LEO's, there are plenty of channels where that could occur. If a scrambled signal was available that would be encrypted long enough to not let burgulars know the cops were coming, but would show weeks later that the cops planted those drugs on the suspect, that seems like a good balance.
Yes, let's look at that. AOL didn't just dump the netscape source code and walk away, they created the Mozilla Foundation and provided $2 million of initial financing. MF hit a jackpot with search bar royalties and while it's open source, virtually all development is from paid Mozilla employees.
This is a slightly different situation. First of all, they probably will be offering some form of hand-off beyond "here's the latest source code on a thumb drive." It might not be $2 million dollars, but it should be something. Second, they are handing it off to an existing foundation, that doesn't need to bootstrap itself. Third, this is a developer tool, not a browser. The target audience has a higher percentage of potential contributors.
Worse is their yes man attitude. You can't get these guys to provide any useful input, when they think their input might conflict with that from somebody "above them". It doesn't seem like these guys can overcome that part of their military training.
Some bosses will like that. I dropped out of school and had to work my way through a few years of hell desk and system administration before I ended up being a programmer. While my ability to question orders and think outside of the box got me off helpdesk, it got me in a lot of trouble at first. I still keep in contact with that company, and I can tell you for sure that I would not be able to survive in that particular NOC the way its run today, but an ex-military guy would do great there.
My boss's boss worked for reagan. I seriously doubt that you had anything to do with reagan or know even a fraction of what transpired under him. reagan DID attack BC. In fact, reagan did a lot of things that so few realize.
Or maybe no one is using it, and its not worth the support headaches. As others have, and will continue to suggest throughout the comments in this article, cygwin, mingwsys, UnxUtils or even a full blown unix VM are fine substitutes for SUA.
Now, if you are actually using SUA in production, and this negatively effects you, that would be interesting to hear about.
I don't wear pajamas when I sleep, and I generally am only in my underwear around the house. However, its not really a sloth thing. When I work from home I might get dressed, drive my wife to work, get undressed when I return, dress to go to lunch at the local deli, and undress on my return.
Getting dressed is not a demarcation that my day is started, its a demarcation that I am leaving the house. It will be different when I have kids, and was different when I lived with my parents of course.
That's only true during high school and college, strangely enough when the 6 digit salary starts rolling in your average geeks attractiveness coefficient increases by 2 orders of magnitude.....
Obviously I'm not suggesting correlation implies causation but never the less.
To be honest, I think at some point geeks are put in a situation where they want to become social around that salary level. They enter the work force with jobs that accept them for who they are and a sort of Peterson Principle thing happens when they get promoted to senior guy. Their incompetent at the interfacing and mentoring thing, except they actually want to do them since they actually respect the more technical project managers, and care about showing the young-ins the ropes, so they learn to be competent at them. As a side effect of this, and also being older and more confidant because they care less about being awkward. As a nice side effect of all this, the ladies that are initially attracted to geeks for their money find their personalities worth sticking around for.
We... already have a treatment for HIV after you get it. The cocktails are now such that HIV has very little effect on life expectancy.
Even if money were no object (with socialized medicine it still comes from somewhere), There is a big difference between "take this drug forever" and take it for a short period of time. If you have aids, you can't go living someplace where you can't get your medicine, so that makes climbing a mountain, or living in space or a submarine harder. Most people don't want to go to that extreme, but how about disappearing for a few days?
Actually I think ActionScript would be superior because its statically typed and properly OO. I was discussing this with Vanessa Hurst a.k.a @DBNess on twitter this weekend.
I think it's called Comcast 4u or something like that. If there's a large que of calls you get the option to have the company call you back when it's your turn. I can't imagine why more companies don't do this.
This will give the companies incentives to do this.A really smart company would let you request a call from their website though.
Robots still require more than a few relatively high-skilled jobs, even if they don't require the hundreds of drones normal manufacturing requires.
Also, if these plants already closed and laid off all their workers, they will only hire back those that they actually need. No unnecessary excess personnel due union politics.
So this could be a good thing, freeing up more people for more interesting and varied jobs.
Not everyone wants a more interesting/varied job. I know a retired cop whose two favorite details were to work on the barrier truck (a flatbed full of horse saws that said "police line do not cross") and janitorial duty at the precinct. People have different levels of desire for stability and variety. Some people want to work the same assembly line for 20 years.
You know what makes me laugh? People who spout the benefits of open source, but then laugh when people try to improve a closed system by making parts of it open source.
Awesome, open source code that requires you to use a closed source system to run it. That always makes me laugh.
Are you running on pure open hardware? is all the microcode on all your firmware devices open source?
You have a piece of software that can be integrated in a.NET web app to gain more visibility into how the app functions. Having that available is a good thing if you write.NET code. Having the source code available is a potentially better thing for you (I say potentially because I'm speaking of immediate and direct utility). The fact that.NET itself is not open source, and that windows itself is not open source does not nullify the utility of access to the source code for this profiler.
I use gmail exclusively for sending and receiving mail. However, I keep thunderbird running the the background to backup my mail. I use thunderbird as opposed to something like fetchmail because when I am offline I can revert to thunderbird as a client, and I backup my calendar and contacts with it.
Should it ever go to court, it would be unlikely to hold up, but I doub't an outfit like Yelp would resist a formal letter with some attached photocopies of some signed legal-sounding agreements. They'd probably yank the criticism from the site and then offer to sell some ads to the doctor in the same conversation.
Don't forget, Yelp isn't selling anything to the users. Yelp's customer is the doctor.
You are absolutely right, but the customers are the vendors that supply the content, and the eyeballs that view the ads. They cannot completely alienate their users, especially with so much competition out there.
I really don't mind signing copyright over even at the risk of a project "going closed." If I was making a large contribution to the code, then maybe. However, for small patches to a large project, it seems like a small price to pay.
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Support those businesses that are doing the "right" thing -- EVEN IF IT COSTS A BIT MORE.
Agreed, but nothing wrong with looking for the cheapest price for a registrar that does the right thing. In the case of an ISP, it probably makes sense for paying extra for service. In the case of a registrar, one that is anti-SOPA doesn't have any more overhead than one that is pro-SOPA. Also, using a cheap registrar is not like fast food.
I guess it says something about how long it takes to make professional games, that it's taken so long.
This and Duke Nukem Forever in the same year. Punctuated equilibrium at work.
I don't know about you, but I think I'm a better programmer because I can build a PC, and used to be a syadmin.
I can't say that knowing how to make my own cat-5 directly makes me a better coder. However, I know how to make software that sysadmins don't hate, and documentation they can read.
I would think if a mechanical engineer actually serviced a few cars, he or she would be more likely to design a car a mechanical wouldn't mind maintaining then one who only did mechanical simulations.
Uh that's a terrible idea. What about passengers? One of the reasons I take public transportation is so I can text. Executives are given chauffeured limos and towncars so they can work from them.
While it's true that hording money and living off interest is pathological in an economic sense, that's a whole separate problem which is more sociological/psychological than having anything to do with the economics of free software.
Those people "hoarding" the money are investing it, so that money is getting loaned, spent and repaid. What it gets invested in might be suboptimal if it doesn't produce enough useful things, and capital, but hoarding wealth in the forms of investments is not intrinsically evil.
Generally speaking, why not use a solution where you can opt-in or out of the encryption? There can be a a clear radio channel that all emergency responders in a jurisdiction can broadcast to unencrypted to, and encrypted ones when that's deemed necessary. I'm not sure where I stand on the encryption. Honestly, encryption might work if it was was weak enough where you could brute force after a certain period of time. While there are abuses for closed communication of LEO's, there are plenty of channels where that could occur. If a scrambled signal was available that would be encrypted long enough to not let burgulars know the cops were coming, but would show weeks later that the cops planted those drugs on the suspect, that seems like a good balance.
Yes, let's look at that. AOL didn't just dump the netscape source code and walk away, they created the Mozilla Foundation and provided $2 million of initial financing. MF hit a jackpot with search bar royalties and while it's open source, virtually all development is from paid Mozilla employees.
This is a slightly different situation. First of all, they probably will be offering some form of hand-off beyond "here's the latest source code on a thumb drive." It might not be $2 million dollars, but it should be something. Second, they are handing it off to an existing foundation, that doesn't need to bootstrap itself. Third, this is a developer tool, not a browser. The target audience has a higher percentage of potential contributors.
Worse is their yes man attitude. You can't get these guys to provide any useful input, when they think their input might conflict with that from somebody "above them". It doesn't seem like these guys can overcome that part of their military training.
Some bosses will like that. I dropped out of school and had to work my way through a few years of hell desk and system administration before I ended up being a programmer. While my ability to question orders and think outside of the box got me off helpdesk, it got me in a lot of trouble at first. I still keep in contact with that company, and I can tell you for sure that I would not be able to survive in that particular NOC the way its run today, but an ex-military guy would do great there.
My boss's boss worked for reagan. I seriously doubt that you had anything to do with reagan or know even a fraction of what transpired under him. reagan DID attack BC. In fact, reagan did a lot of things that so few realize.
Care to cite something he did that was anti-BC?
Or maybe no one is using it, and its not worth the support headaches. As others have, and will continue to suggest throughout the comments in this article, cygwin, mingwsys, UnxUtils or even a full blown unix VM are fine substitutes for SUA. Now, if you are actually using SUA in production, and this negatively effects you, that would be interesting to hear about.
I don't wear pajamas when I sleep, and I generally am only in my underwear around the house. However, its not really a sloth thing. When I work from home I might get dressed, drive my wife to work, get undressed when I return, dress to go to lunch at the local deli, and undress on my return. Getting dressed is not a demarcation that my day is started, its a demarcation that I am leaving the house. It will be different when I have kids, and was different when I lived with my parents of course.
That's only true during high school and college, strangely enough when the 6 digit salary starts rolling in your average geeks attractiveness coefficient increases by 2 orders of magnitude.....
Obviously I'm not suggesting correlation implies causation but never the less.
To be honest, I think at some point geeks are put in a situation where they want to become social around that salary level. They enter the work force with jobs that accept them for who they are and a sort of Peterson Principle thing happens when they get promoted to senior guy. Their incompetent at the interfacing and mentoring thing, except they actually want to do them since they actually respect the more technical project managers, and care about showing the young-ins the ropes, so they learn to be competent at them. As a side effect of this, and also being older and more confidant because they care less about being awkward. As a nice side effect of all this, the ladies that are initially attracted to geeks for their money find their personalities worth sticking around for.
We... already have a treatment for HIV after you get it. The cocktails are now such that HIV has very little effect on life expectancy.
Even if money were no object (with socialized medicine it still comes from somewhere), There is a big difference between "take this drug forever" and take it for a short period of time. If you have aids, you can't go living someplace where you can't get your medicine, so that makes climbing a mountain, or living in space or a submarine harder. Most people don't want to go to that extreme, but how about disappearing for a few days?
Hopefully, once these things hatch some teenagers will make it to the mountains and then save as all
John Conner and his wife were both adults in T3L Rise of the Machines.
To actually immigrate (for working) to the US you do.
How about 6 winded chickens or 12 legged turkeys for eating?
How exactly do you code in ECMA with .net? What compiler? Is it built into Visual Studio or SharpDevelop?
Actually I think ActionScript would be superior because its statically typed and properly OO. I was discussing this with Vanessa Hurst a.k.a @DBNess on twitter this weekend.
I think it's called Comcast 4u or something like that. If there's a large que of calls you get the option to have the company call you back when it's your turn. I can't imagine why more companies don't do this.
This will give the companies incentives to do this.A really smart company would let you request a call from their website though.
Robots still require more than a few relatively high-skilled jobs, even if they don't require the hundreds of drones normal manufacturing requires.
Also, if these plants already closed and laid off all their workers, they will only hire back those that they actually need. No unnecessary excess personnel due union politics.
So this could be a good thing, freeing up more people for more interesting and varied jobs.
Not everyone wants a more interesting/varied job. I know a retired cop whose two favorite details were to work on the barrier truck (a flatbed full of horse saws that said "police line do not cross") and janitorial duty at the precinct. People have different levels of desire for stability and variety. Some people want to work the same assembly line for 20 years.
You know what makes me laugh? People who spout the benefits of open source, but then laugh when people try to improve a closed system by making parts of it open source.
Purists make the worst evangelists.
Awesome, open source code that requires you to use a closed source system to run it. That always makes me laugh.
Are you running on pure open hardware? is all the microcode on all your firmware devices open source?
You have a piece of software that can be integrated in a .NET web app to gain more visibility into how the app functions. Having that available is a good thing if you write .NET code. Having the source code available is a potentially better thing for you (I say potentially because I'm speaking of immediate and direct utility). The fact that .NET itself is not open source, and that windows itself is not open source does not nullify the utility of access to the source code for this profiler.
I use gmail exclusively for sending and receiving mail. However, I keep thunderbird running the the background to backup my mail. I use thunderbird as opposed to something like fetchmail because when I am offline I can revert to thunderbird as a client, and I backup my calendar and contacts with it.
Should it ever go to court, it would be unlikely to hold up, but I doub't an outfit like Yelp would resist a formal letter with some attached photocopies of some signed legal-sounding agreements. They'd probably yank the criticism from the site and then offer to sell some ads to the doctor in the same conversation. Don't forget, Yelp isn't selling anything to the users. Yelp's customer is the doctor.
You are absolutely right, but the customers are the vendors that supply the content, and the eyeballs that view the ads. They cannot completely alienate their users, especially with so much competition out there.
I really don't mind signing copyright over even at the risk of a project "going closed." If I was making a large contribution to the code, then maybe. However, for small patches to a large project, it seems like a small price to pay.