The easy solution to this is to build a business case for whatever change you want and send it to your boss.
You boss then sends it up the ladder until it gets approved and IT makes whatever change you wanted.
It's all about money. It should be easy for you to show how you'd be more productive (in terms of $X) if you had item A at cost $B.
Markets change pretty fast these days. How much time will dealing with that beauraucracy waste? This is one reason to work for a small company; it's surprising that large companies do anything innovative at all, especially if people actually followed this kind of advice.
Sadly enough though, he has a point. I'm a devoted vim user but curse it and have to scrounge around for another editor when the filesize gets over a few megs. Sometimes I need to edit file upwards of 100 megs (yes!, don't ask why) and it simply is not possible with vim. Why they haven't dealt with this performance issue is a mystery...
Why should patents be transferable? The only real reason for buying patents is to build legal ammunition to take down rivals; ie. to suppress competition.
If the original inventor can't be bothered to enforce his own invention, it should become public domain.
Plus, this would kill off those companies whose sole business plan is to buy patents and sue people; nobody would miss those companies.
What can I do now about a spammer spoofing with my email address?
I'm currently getting hundreds of bounced, undeliverable messages from various organizations because a spammer is using my email address to spam others. The web site he's advertising is located in China, and I seem to have no way of finding the individual much less taking action against him.
That's the point of the BSD license. Do whatever you want with the software without being forced info full disclosure, like you are with the GPL.
Here's how I see the two; the GPL people want to make a complete universe of software that's seperate from commercial software. Thus the full source disclosure principle of the GPL keeps GPL code out of commercial software.
The BSD people want to make stuff anyone will use without fear. The world is big enough for both concepts.
The indentation blocking is a shame if only because it's so much of a distraction in discussing the language. I don't know much about python and was hoping to learn why it's useful here, but just about all I gleaned from these comments is that the blocking is controversial and the license is in a legal quagmire.
Most of the principles mentioned in this article sound more like common sense than anything else; delivering something simple quickly and building on it, constant feedback from the user, optimizing code for simplicity... Some of it may fly in the face of pointy-haired-boss practices (most corporate types want something FINAL before it's sent out, so they can safely ignore the customer from then on), but really, it sounds like common sense.
So why treat it like a 'movement'?
Would it be possible to make chain mail with the proper size chain links to deflect this thing? I'm only going from the shield in microwave ovens, but it seems like it could work.
Wouldn't it be trippy to see a thousand protesters wearing the stuff? Toss in a few swords and it'd be like some battle from a medieval fantasy novel...
Out of curiousity, is there a way to use one time passwords with SSH? I know this isn't a solution to the problems talked about here, but it would be safer when using Putty (or some other PC-based SSH client) from a cyber cafe, or some other completely untrustworthy machine...
I have to at least partially disagree with you. Digital projection does look 'brighter and shinier', and like you say, there's no jitter. But in it's current incarnation its color is whacked (watch a live action film on one and SEARCH for any detail in dark areas). But the biggest problem is resolution; the TI system I saw Menace and Dinosaur on (1280x1024) is lower res than the screen I'm using to type this rant. Those pixels destroy sharp edges and text, cause moiring in fine patterns, and generally hurt my eyes. Jeezus, if they install one of these in Mann's Chinese, one pixel will be bigger than my head!
You know how everybody pretty much sounds the same when singing? It sorta masks the singers accent. Maybe as programming languages develop they mask the grammar of the designer, because of the simplicity and purity desired. Natural languages are messy and complex - programming languages are distilled.
I stopped by the museum last winter, and by far my favorite part was getting to play with an actual Enigma they had set up out in the open. I still have the cyphertext and initial wheel settings written down somewhere, in case I run into another Engima someday. Also, they had a pad of paper out with a question posed, something along the lines of 'What kind of technology from today will be in museums in the future?' I couldn't stop myself from writing 'ECHELON' before walking out of the building.:)
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The easy solution to this is to build a business case for whatever change you want and send it to your boss.
You boss then sends it up the ladder until it gets approved and IT makes whatever change you wanted.
It's all about money. It should be easy for you to show how you'd be more productive (in terms of $X) if you had item A at cost $B.
Markets change pretty fast these days. How much time will dealing with that beauraucracy waste? This is one reason to work for a small company; it's surprising that large companies do anything innovative at all, especially if people actually followed this kind of advice.
Ask for forgiveness, never permission. :)
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All these Free Software vs. open source software tiffs can be summed up by:
People's Front of Judea Member: "Listen... the only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean Peoples Front!"
Sadly enough though, he has a point. I'm a devoted vim user but curse it and have to scrounge around for another editor when the filesize gets over a few megs. Sometimes I need to edit file upwards of 100 megs (yes!, don't ask why) and it simply is not possible with vim. Why they haven't dealt with this performance issue is a mystery...
What does AJAX have to do with Microsoft? The word 'microsoft' doesn't even appear in the article, as far as I can tell...
Why should patents be transferable? The only real reason for buying patents is to build legal ammunition to take down rivals; ie. to suppress competition.
If the original inventor can't be bothered to enforce his own invention, it should become public domain.
Plus, this would kill off those companies whose sole business plan is to buy patents and sue people; nobody would miss those companies.
What can I do now about a spammer spoofing with my email address?
I'm currently getting hundreds of bounced, undeliverable messages from various organizations because a spammer is using my email address to spam others. The web site he's advertising is located in China, and I seem to have no way of finding the individual much less taking action against him.
What are my options?
That's the point of the BSD license. Do whatever you want with the software without being forced info full disclosure, like you are with the GPL.
Here's how I see the two; the GPL people want to make a complete universe of software that's seperate from commercial software. Thus the full source disclosure principle of the GPL keeps GPL code out of commercial software.
The BSD people want to make stuff anyone will use without fear. The world is big enough for both concepts.
_ The bureaucracy is expanding to meet
The indentation blocking is a shame if only because it's so much of a distraction in discussing the language. I don't know much about python and was hoping to learn why it's useful here, but just about all I gleaned from these comments is that the blocking is controversial and the license is in a legal quagmire.
So aside from all that, why should I use python?
_ The bureaucracy is expanding to meet
What a busy guy. When did he get time off from his job as CEO of Wendy's and doing all those tv commercials to write this book?
_ The bureaucracy is expanding to meet
Most of the principles mentioned in this article sound more like common sense than anything else; delivering something simple quickly and building on it, constant feedback from the user, optimizing code for simplicity... Some of it may fly in the face of pointy-haired-boss practices (most corporate types want something FINAL before it's sent out, so they can safely ignore the customer from then on), but really, it sounds like common sense. So why treat it like a 'movement'?
Would it be possible to make chain mail with the proper size chain links to deflect this thing? I'm only going from the shield in microwave ovens, but it seems like it could work. Wouldn't it be trippy to see a thousand protesters wearing the stuff? Toss in a few swords and it'd be like some battle from a medieval fantasy novel...
Out of curiousity, is there a way to use one time passwords with SSH? I know this isn't a solution to the problems talked about here, but it would be safer when using Putty (or some other PC-based SSH client) from a cyber cafe, or some other completely untrustworthy machine...
"No way man, it's 6. I'm leavin'..."
I have to at least partially disagree with you. Digital projection does look 'brighter and shinier', and like you say, there's no jitter. But in it's current incarnation its color is whacked (watch a live action film on one and SEARCH for any detail in dark areas). But the biggest problem is resolution; the TI system I saw Menace and Dinosaur on (1280x1024) is lower res than the screen I'm using to type this rant. Those pixels destroy sharp edges and text, cause moiring in fine patterns, and generally hurt my eyes. Jeezus, if they install one of these in Mann's Chinese, one pixel will be bigger than my head!
You know how everybody pretty much sounds the same when singing? It sorta masks the singers accent. Maybe as programming languages develop they mask the grammar of the designer, because of the simplicity and purity desired. Natural languages are messy and complex - programming languages are distilled.
I stopped by the museum last winter, and by far my favorite part was getting to play with an actual Enigma they had set up out in the open. I still have the cyphertext and initial wheel settings written down somewhere, in case I run into another Engima someday. Also, they had a pad of paper out with a question posed, something along the lines of 'What kind of technology from today will be in museums in the future?' I couldn't stop myself from writing 'ECHELON' before walking out of the building. :)
I believe it HAS been ported, but the port has NOT been released yet.