Stuff like that can easily be solved by telling your boss that "without me, you won't have a job either unless you manage to learn a decade worth of programming experience in a week."
Of course I'm too chicken shit to say that, but somebody with enough money in the bank may be able to say that.
Hehe, just to be an argumentitive asshole, I must state that just like Linux is not piracy, you are not open source. So the message you want to personally send out is yours alone and may relate to your own open source projects but not the projects of the general populous;)
Well, I think there's a BIG difference between something being ON SALE vs. FOREVER FREE.
Of course if you want to get into a socialogical discussion about this topic, one could argue that a homeless person would not be guilty about stealing a candy bar since there is no other way for him/her to obtain it. Of course, using the same example, Hershey doesn't mandate a 3000% markup on the retail price of their products.
On the other hand, if Joe's Chocolate Shop starts giving away free chocolate just because he wants to, it stands to reason that the public would question why Hershey has to charge money in the first place. It's all just part of the neverending utopia vs. capitalism.
Comments like yours do more to hurt than to help with this problem.
Ok, if you're going to mark/. as the root of all evil then at least explain yourself.
Secondly, Yes, a lot of people are under the impression that open source means "free as in beer" because it DOES! Look at Freshmeat or SourceForge and try to find some pay products. The percentage probably can't get measures in whole numbers.
Lastly, who the hell that reads/. or knows what open source is, doesn't know that Linux is an OS and not an idea or an action.
If the most important thing in your life is making your bosses happy, then yes, programming can be dead-end since they'll never be happy.
If your goal is to just make lots of money, then ask yourself what you're going to do with your money? If it doesn't amount to building a supercomputer in your basement and creating a turing machine, then maybe programming isn't for you. Whatever you want to do with the money you expect to make in programming is what you should be doing to make money in the first place.
I used to hate Katz articles. But now that the Dilbert LOTD is gone, I find that the/. community's repsonses to his articles are about on par with the hilarity of PHB bashing.
So I don't really mind the advert, it's not like I even read his post.
Hmmm, I'm just like your friend. It seems the less I post the more times I get to mod. I think I've been given mod points 4 times in the last month and made only about 3 posts (if that).
I'd bet if somebody got an article posted here that referred directly to one of the redirection links, it could kill a company. Especially at $7 a pop.
In IE you can disable the certificate by going through several steps when prompted to download something. But in the end it's irrelevant, since you'll still get prompted with a slightly different dialog that basically asks you the same thing, although worded differently. You still get Yes/No buttons.
Ok, that makes more sense. But still, to use bandwidth, you'd have to store something on the client computer. So what company would pay BDE to have it's users store information?
It technically sounds like a cool idea. Maybe make a web farm (actually that sounds like a really good idea for/.). But that would put trust in users. Not a good idea. That would be like/. making everybody a moderator with unlimited points.
Personally, I'd rather let their software run, just so I can sit there with a packet sniffer and see what they're doing.
I can't imagine any company paying these guys for the cycles of their customers. The people that need that much power are research scientists that already have that much power. If anything I'd say it's going to be used to gather user information and sent back to advertisers.
"Yahoo! is notifying users of these changes to marketing preferences via email. Your new marketing preferences will not take effect until 60 days after the date the email is sent to you so you have plenty of time to decide what you want to receive and what you don't. To change your preferences, go to the Marketing Preferences page."
Of course who reads e-mail that comes from a yahoo account. They probably sent it and it got caught in a filter.
Something else interesting is that since I've just gone to Yahoo's site, now when I hit F3 to repeat my last search in IE, the Yahoo homepage pops up in a little sidebar window. Coincidence?
"It's hard to look at an unfinished piece of software and know how it's coming along"
That would depend on the development method and the actual product being developed. If you're developing APIs or libraries for other people to use, then you really can't "see" how far along it is, although you could count function or components complete. However, if you're developing something like a website or a client application, then you can see how far along things are though.
Of course I completely agree with measuring lines of code being boneheaded, unless of course the number of lines of code for the final product is known before it starts. Luckily I work with people that understand that numbers are irrelevant, and that the product won't be finished until long after it has been released to the public.
As far as an ideal solution, give the managers the convoluted formula of computing productivity that results in an answer that only slightly deviates from a standard amount. That way at least they'll stay out of your hair long enough to get some coding done.
Ok, how many people here choose the standard installation options and how many ALWAYS choose Custom just so they know what's being put in their system?
The programs that I've seen install that New.NET and SaveNow crap have always had them as customizable installation options. You just had to click a button and read the contents of one more screen during the install.
The software that crap comes with is free anyways. So what's the problem? Are you going to write your own software or take a trip to the store to pay for software (assuming it's retail) just so you can save yourself 10 seconds off your install time?
Why don't you go talk to Fritz Hollings and maybe he can work that fine idea into some worthwhile legislation for you. Or better yet go talk to gates about only installing software that the author has spent thousand of dollars having verified by windows quality labs.
Personally I think the RIAA has won a battle if they've forced another client onto the gnutella network.
It's nice to have 5,000 machines hosting the same file, but it's a pain in the ass to find the 10 that you can actually download from at faster than.5K/s.
I'm just wondering what PC manufacturers they went to in an attempt to get them to carry BeOS.
It looked like a nice OS, although I never got it working on my system. Of course that may have been a significant barrier for PC makers too, as far as hardware support. Technical support may have been another issue. I'm sure they already have their support staff trained for Windows, where BeOS would require retraining. All that for an OS that's really a hobbyist OS doesn't seem like a wise investment for PC makers to jump into. It's not liek Be was finding it's way onto corporate systems anywhere.
I agree with the other poster that said Be should have made and sold it's own systems. Maybe with some hardware specially designed for musicians. They may have even gotten some school contracts with that, but I guess lawsuits are the only remaining option.
Slashdot Mirror
Well technically, the review says 60Hz.
That's an ongoing joke between me and the VP here, that we should start a programmers union and get rich off that.
The next step to making OSS ready for the masses is getting the developers to put the vowels back in their product names.
Stuff like that can easily be solved by telling your boss that "without me, you won't have a job either unless you manage to learn a decade worth of programming experience in a week."
Of course I'm too chicken shit to say that, but somebody with enough money in the bank may be able to say that.
Hehe, just to be an argumentitive asshole, I must state that just like Linux is not piracy, you are not open source. So the message you want to personally send out is yours alone and may relate to your own open source projects but not the projects of the general populous ;)
Well, I think there's a BIG difference between something being ON SALE vs. FOREVER FREE.
Of course if you want to get into a socialogical discussion about this topic, one could argue that a homeless person would not be guilty about stealing a candy bar since there is no other way for him/her to obtain it. Of course, using the same example, Hershey doesn't mandate a 3000% markup on the retail price of their products.
On the other hand, if Joe's Chocolate Shop starts giving away free chocolate just because he wants to, it stands to reason that the public would question why Hershey has to charge money in the first place. It's all just part of the neverending utopia vs. capitalism.
I don't think you'd want to Be me. I'm probably the most underpaid programmer in the country ;)
Comments like yours do more to hurt than to help with this problem.
/. as the root of all evil then at least explain yourself.
/. or knows what open source is, doesn't know that Linux is an OS and not an idea or an action.
Ok, if you're going to mark
Secondly, Yes, a lot of people are under the impression that open source means "free as in beer" because it DOES! Look at Freshmeat or SourceForge and try to find some pay products. The percentage probably can't get measures in whole numbers.
Lastly, who the hell that reads
If the most important thing in your life is making your bosses happy, then yes, programming can be dead-end since they'll never be happy.
If your goal is to just make lots of money, then ask yourself what you're going to do with your money? If it doesn't amount to building a supercomputer in your basement and creating a turing machine, then maybe programming isn't for you. Whatever you want to do with the money you expect to make in programming is what you should be doing to make money in the first place.
I used to hate Katz articles. But now that the Dilbert LOTD is gone, I find that the /. community's repsonses to his articles are about on par with the hilarity of PHB bashing.
So I don't really mind the advert, it's not like I even read his post.
Hmmm, I'm just like your friend. It seems the less I post the more times I get to mod. I think I've been given mod points 4 times in the last month and made only about 3 posts (if that).
I'd bet if somebody got an article posted here that referred directly to one of the redirection links, it could kill a company. Especially at $7 a pop.
Uh huh. Yeah, I'm just going to porn sites to get on spammers mailing lists so I can sue them.
;)
At least you've created an original excuse
In IE you can disable the certificate by going through several steps when prompted to download something. But in the end it's irrelevant, since you'll still get prompted with a slightly different dialog that basically asks you the same thing, although worded differently. You still get Yes/No buttons.
Ok, that makes more sense. But still, to use bandwidth, you'd have to store something on the client computer. So what company would pay BDE to have it's users store information?
/.). But that would put trust in users. Not a good idea. That would be like /. making everybody a moderator with unlimited points.
It technically sounds like a cool idea. Maybe make a web farm (actually that sounds like a really good idea for
Personally, I'd rather let their software run, just so I can sit there with a packet sniffer and see what they're doing.
I can't imagine any company paying these guys for the cycles of their customers. The people that need that much power are research scientists that already have that much power. If anything I'd say it's going to be used to gather user information and sent back to advertisers.
Let me put this in words you'll understand:
Uh, h'yuk, h'yuk. We's don't wanna hafta holla cross a room to tell the perty waitress that I's a need a refill.
What, like Hemos wouldn't recommend an overpriced case sold at ThinkGeek in an article about budget systems?
HEY, WTF, the anonymous posting IS GONE!
"Yahoo! is notifying users of these changes to marketing preferences via email. Your new marketing preferences will not take effect until 60 days after the date the email is sent to you so you have plenty of time to decide what you want to receive and what you don't. To change your preferences, go to the Marketing Preferences page."
Of course who reads e-mail that comes from a yahoo account. They probably sent it and it got caught in a filter.
Something else interesting is that since I've just gone to Yahoo's site, now when I hit F3 to repeat my last search in IE, the Yahoo homepage pops up in a little sidebar window. Coincidence?
http://www.cowboyneal.org/
"It's hard to look at an unfinished piece of software and know how it's coming along"
That would depend on the development method and the actual product being developed. If you're developing APIs or libraries for other people to use, then you really can't "see" how far along it is, although you could count function or components complete. However, if you're developing something like a website or a client application, then you can see how far along things are though.
Of course I completely agree with measuring lines of code being boneheaded, unless of course the number of lines of code for the final product is known before it starts. Luckily I work with people that understand that numbers are irrelevant, and that the product won't be finished until long after it has been released to the public.
As far as an ideal solution, give the managers the convoluted formula of computing productivity that results in an answer that only slightly deviates from a standard amount. That way at least they'll stay out of your hair long enough to get some coding done.
Ok, how many people here choose the standard installation options and how many ALWAYS choose Custom just so they know what's being put in their system?
The programs that I've seen install that New.NET and SaveNow crap have always had them as customizable installation options. You just had to click a button and read the contents of one more screen during the install.
The software that crap comes with is free anyways. So what's the problem? Are you going to write your own software or take a trip to the store to pay for software (assuming it's retail) just so you can save yourself 10 seconds off your install time?
Why don't you go talk to Fritz Hollings and maybe he can work that fine idea into some worthwhile legislation for you. Or better yet go talk to gates about only installing software that the author has spent thousand of dollars having verified by windows quality labs.
Unfortunately, we only elected them. We aren't the ones paying them the majority of what they receive in a given year.
Personally I think the RIAA has won a battle if they've forced another client onto the gnutella network.
.5K/s.
It's nice to have 5,000 machines hosting the same file, but it's a pain in the ass to find the 10 that you can actually download from at faster than
I'm just wondering what PC manufacturers they went to in an attempt to get them to carry BeOS.
It looked like a nice OS, although I never got it working on my system. Of course that may have been a significant barrier for PC makers too, as far as hardware support. Technical support may have been another issue. I'm sure they already have their support staff trained for Windows, where BeOS would require retraining. All that for an OS that's really a hobbyist OS doesn't seem like a wise investment for PC makers to jump into. It's not liek Be was finding it's way onto corporate systems anywhere.
I agree with the other poster that said Be should have made and sold it's own systems. Maybe with some hardware specially designed for musicians. They may have even gotten some school contracts with that, but I guess lawsuits are the only remaining option.