Bullshit! "The 'Wild West' was a place where only people highly skilled with weapons could even get around. In those 'westerns' the regular townspeople generally had to cower in their houses whenever anything 'interesting' was going on."
That perception only ever existed in the hollywood renditions of the west.
A half dozen townfolk on rooftops with hunting rifles (and significant hunting / sharpshooting experience) beat ANY gunslinger with ANY sixgun regardless of prowess, at 1000 yards, anyday.
Bollocks Go practice your dictionary reading skills elsewhere.
"Commoditized", is exactly right. Simple light current electronics were a "nifty new invention" in the 50's and 60's, with a lot of interesting competition, a few HUGE players and a huge tolerance by consumers for "beta" quality and cutting edge features, have now been replaced by 6 sigma quality and cutting edge features.
Software development (ALL of it), will inevitably follow the same model, and software will be cutting edge, and work perfectly 99.999999 % of the time.
It happened with mechanics, electricity, electronics, and WILL happen with software.
"Balkanized": As in intentional fragmentation in order to dissolve possible threat posed by a monolith has already been tried by (amongst others) the US Justice department. It won't work against Microsoft, thanks to a global marketplace coupled to a global marketing machine second to NONE.
They will just have to be out-innovated, this is already happening.
Think about it, do you care that the Opamps in your hifi are made by Burr-Brown/TI, AKC, or NSC ? (if you're an audiophile you might, but you would agree that within a small margin they operate essentially identically)
Soon you will have the same opinion of the OS on your PC, and soon after that the apps will follow.
Once you have ubiquitous computing, like we already have ubiquitous light current electronics, Microsoft would have adapted, or died.
Precisely why so many dumbass executives are willing to believe Commercial s/w FUD.
If an open source product is competition then you are simply not a capable product value adder.
Comercial coders should make money customising products for individual customers, not by trying to out-produce the creative commons.
I do performance testing, and one of my clients' business is implimenting Peoplesoft solutions. Do they write Peoplesoft code? No. Do they sell Peoplesoft packages? No. Yet they make a good living implimenting and customising a shrink wrapped product.
This is the same future for OSS implimentations.
Contributing to a common knowledge base should NEVER hurt individual creativity.
The only professional programmers that can get screwed are those that become outclassed by developers trained by this initiative.
Good god man, are you that desperate to hang on to mediocrity that you are willing to dig and dig until you find a minute possibility of any negative affects of advancement of the common good?
No its not an odd perspective, its a bloody stupid one.
BTW: As far as your sig' goes. Quoting Yoda and then attributing the quote to Spock with a false stardate should be an offence punishable by inverse crucifiction and evisceration while exposed to endless viewing of Yentl
Bullshit I test software for a living (Performance testing large financial engines mostly) and a room full of mediocre coders will put out a thousand lines of mediocre code, while a single brilliant coder will produce 100 lines of brilliant code that performs the same function. The code will also be simpler to test - analyse and tune to phenomenal performance.
Getting the bastard to comment his code properly... THAT'S the trick.
Development by committee, much like management by committee is a way to make sure you stay average.
Actually when you're suggesting 'there' as apposed to 'their' you are assuming they have mistakenly used a possessive pronoun as opposed to an adverb denoting place.
This would indeed be a grammatical error.
Looking at the structure of the sentence it would be more likely correct to infer a simple spelling error.
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Damn straight, just dont give them skilled/curious/hobbists your rings either.
Bullshit!
"The 'Wild West' was a place where only people highly skilled with weapons could even get around. In those 'westerns' the regular townspeople generally had to cower in their houses whenever anything 'interesting' was going on."
That perception only ever existed in the hollywood renditions of the west.
A half dozen townfolk on rooftops with hunting rifles (and significant hunting / sharpshooting experience) beat ANY gunslinger with ANY sixgun regardless of prowess, at 1000 yards, anyday.
Bollocks
Go practice your dictionary reading skills elsewhere.
"Commoditized", is exactly right.
Simple light current electronics were a "nifty new invention" in the 50's and 60's, with a lot of interesting competition, a few HUGE players and a huge tolerance by consumers for "beta" quality and cutting edge features, have now been replaced by 6 sigma quality and cutting edge features.
Software development (ALL of it), will inevitably follow the same model, and software will be cutting edge, and work perfectly 99.999999 % of the time.
It happened with mechanics, electricity, electronics, and WILL happen with software.
"Balkanized": As in intentional fragmentation in order to dissolve possible threat posed by a monolith has already been tried by (amongst others) the US Justice department. It won't work against Microsoft, thanks to a global marketplace coupled to a global marketing machine second to NONE.
They will just have to be out-innovated, this is already happening.
Think about it, do you care that the Opamps in your hifi are made by Burr-Brown/TI, AKC, or NSC ?
(if you're an audiophile you might, but you would agree that within a small margin they operate essentially identically)
Soon you will have the same opinion of the OS on your PC, and soon after that the apps will follow.
Once you have ubiquitous computing, like we already have ubiquitous light current electronics, Microsoft would have adapted, or died.
Precisely why so many dumbass executives are willing to believe Commercial s/w FUD.
If an open source product is competition then you are simply not a capable product value adder.
Comercial coders should make money customising products for individual customers, not by trying to out-produce the creative commons.
I do performance testing, and one of my clients' business is implimenting Peoplesoft solutions. Do they write Peoplesoft code? No. Do they sell Peoplesoft packages? No.
Yet they make a good living implimenting and customising a shrink wrapped product.
This is the same future for OSS implimentations.
Contributing to a common knowledge base should NEVER hurt individual creativity.
The only professional programmers that can get screwed are those that become outclassed by developers trained by this initiative.
Good god man, are you that desperate to hang on to mediocrity that you are willing to dig and dig until you find a minute possibility of any negative affects of advancement of the common good?
No its not an odd perspective, its a bloody stupid one.
BTW:
As far as your sig' goes.
Quoting Yoda and then attributing the quote to Spock with a false stardate should be an offence punishable by inverse crucifiction and evisceration while exposed to endless viewing of Yentl
While being used internally, it's alpha.
Once distributed to select users, it's beta.
Learn your testing definitions.
I am busy designing a standalone deletion device as we speak (IDE & Ultra - SCSI .. cos thats what I got)
Watch this space.
Sproggg
Bullshit
I test software for a living (Performance testing large financial engines mostly) and a room full of mediocre coders will put out a thousand lines of mediocre code, while a single brilliant coder will produce 100 lines of brilliant code that performs the same function. The code will also be simpler to test - analyse and tune to phenomenal performance.
Getting the bastard to comment his code properly... THAT'S the trick.
Development by committee, much like management by committee is a way to make sure you stay average.
Actually when you're suggesting 'there' as apposed to 'their' you are assuming they have mistakenly used a possessive pronoun as opposed to an adverb denoting place.
This would indeed be a grammatical error.
Looking at the structure of the sentence it would be more likely correct to infer a simple spelling error.
And I am a CS dropout.
I, for one, welcome our microbial Martian overlords
Actually it's like hosting Baluga caviar in horse-piss. ... Get it right.
And EXACTLY where can I download this alleged open source AIX? (Version 4.3.3 please, I want to play with the new ipv6 routing ability).
And an interesting one too!