1. Paying customer (gives you marketshare) 2. Non-paying users (gives you mindshare) 3. Users using competitor's products for free (loss of mindshare) 4. Users paging for competitor's product (loss of marketshare)
The above is only true in a market that has meaningful competition.
I don't think there's any irony here. The fewer that have access to some kinds of data, the more valuable it becomes. The just want a monopoly on 3d party use.
I agree with you but Fedora is still less fucked (crazy, non-standard) than Ubuntu, where hostname -f doesn't even work and god-only-knows what they did to standard, core configuration files, like/etc/resolv.conf -- all in the name of making things (superficially) easier.
I'm sure there's some muti-media app that works better on Ubuntu, but I'll take Fedora on the desktop. For the server, Centos or RHEL.
In America they say, "Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way", and I think that sums it up nicely.
On the analogy of Jane the furniture maker, she needs to hire a manager and concentrate on doing what she does best -- making furniture. But I've never heard of the owner of a company hiring someone to be their boss, even if that's exactly what's called for.
This analogy hits home with me because, beside technology, I love making furniture. But as far as going into that as a business, I realized that the only way to be successful at it was to hire ten people to work under me and then I would be spending most of my time being a manager (thought I know little about business and management) and not making furniture.
I think it's nearly impossible to over-value great leadership. I think the problem is that some tend to over-value the people in leadership positions (regardless of their actual leadership skills.)
Everyone should go to trial. What we need to do is get rid of the huge incentives for pleading guilty by abolishing unreasonable penalties for consensual crimes.
The whole "confidential informant" thing is totally corrupt.
Imagine a handgun that used SELinux to prevent unauthorized use. It would do a great job of preventing unauthorized use, but it would frequently get in the way of the authorized user using it like they had for years, so everyone would disable it except for a few gurus who would tell the rest of us how stupid we are.
As long as carriers are making good money off snooping, they're not going to strongly oppose it. Make it so they can only charge a nominal fee (say, $20) and watch their opposition increase.
We have a huge problem with vague or misleading error messages. Instead of messages like "A file could not be accessed", how about you tell me which file could not be accessed?
Many people are finding that they didn't need a PC in the first place when all they do is light web browsing and posting on Facebook. Previous to the smartphone/tablet, they needed a PC to do that. I think we'll see more special-purpose devices taking over functions that were previously relegated to the general-purpose PC.
Can't the main objection be solved by restricting encryption to certain bands? If a repressive regime was worried about encryption, they could mandate that radios not operate in that frequency.
You fail to realize that some people's brains are not wired for math. Some people that are very successful in liberal arts fields, like writing and law just can't do math well. People who are good at math can't seem to understand this and think these people are just lazy. I see that you got modded to +5. I think that demonstrates the blindness that Slashdotters have on this subject.
How come corporate Anti-Virus scanners don't scan (or have an add-on module to scan) for signatures of illicit images? If various government agencies have a collection of known infringing images, signatures could be generated, like viruses. Sure, there would likely be a way to fool it, but it would be step in the right direction.
They received something of value and didn't pay up. I see this as a problem. They should have to give the money to the charity of the kids choice or something like that.
I left a great job for a lousy one because of a former co-worker at the new place who was singing the new companies praises -- just to get the referral bonus.
I see so many opportunities for this going wrong, like if your hands are dirty. A large percentage of gun deaths are suicides and this would do nothing to stop that.
How about we have the military filed test this first and then see about make it mandatory?
Your post comes off as a just-out-of-college know-it-all who has never been on the other side of the equation. You think you're hot shit because you are up on the latest technologies, having just learned them in school. (Not trying to insult you, but this is how you sound.) If companies want people to have new skills, then need to train them. It's easy for young people with no other obligations to devote much of their spare time to learning new technologies. The guy you speak of may have been like that when he was young. Your attitude seem to reflect a current trend in American business. Everyone wants trained employees but no one want to train. This is a short-sighted approach. Or are programmers like athletes? You have a 10 or 15 year career and have to move on?
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What you want as a software vendor:
1. Paying customer (gives you marketshare)
2. Non-paying users (gives you mindshare)
3. Users using competitor's products for free (loss of mindshare)
4. Users paging for competitor's product (loss of marketshare)
The above is only true in a market that has meaningful competition.
Do you give employees two week's notice?
I don't think there's any irony here. The fewer that have access to some kinds of data, the more valuable it becomes. The just want a monopoly on 3d party use.
I agree with you but Fedora is still less fucked (crazy, non-standard) than Ubuntu, where hostname -f doesn't even work and god-only-knows what they did to standard, core configuration files, like /etc/resolv.conf -- all in the name of making things (superficially) easier.
I'm sure there's some muti-media app that works better on Ubuntu, but I'll take Fedora on the desktop. For the server, Centos or RHEL.
In America they say, "Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way", and I think that sums it up nicely.
On the analogy of Jane the furniture maker, she needs to hire a manager and concentrate on doing what she does best -- making furniture. But I've never heard of the owner of a company hiring someone to be their boss, even if that's exactly what's called for.
This analogy hits home with me because, beside technology, I love making furniture. But as far as going into that as a business, I realized that the only way to be successful at it was to hire ten people to work under me and then I would be spending most of my time being a manager (thought I know little about business and management) and not making furniture.
I agree as I've seen it happen many times that we're going in the wrong direction, so we'll re-double our efforts.
I think it's nearly impossible to over-value great leadership. I think the problem is that some tend to over-value the people in leadership positions (regardless of their actual leadership skills.)
Everyone should go to trial. What we need to do is get rid of the huge incentives for pleading guilty by abolishing unreasonable penalties for consensual crimes.
The whole "confidential informant" thing is totally corrupt.
Imagine a handgun that used SELinux to prevent unauthorized use.
It would do a great job of preventing unauthorized use, but it would frequently get in the way of the authorized user using it like they had for years, so everyone would disable it except for a few gurus who would tell the rest of us how stupid we are.
Klipsch
As long as carriers are making good money off snooping, they're not going to strongly oppose it. Make it so they can only charge a nominal fee (say, $20) and watch their opposition increase.
We have a huge problem with vague or misleading error messages. Instead of messages like "A file could not be accessed", how about you tell me which file could not be accessed?
Many people are finding that they didn't need a PC in the first place when all they do is light web browsing and posting on Facebook. Previous to the smartphone/tablet, they needed a PC to do that. I think we'll see more special-purpose devices taking over functions that were previously relegated to the general-purpose PC.
Are these the same stem cells that the Christian Right was trying to ban for research?
Can't the main objection be solved by restricting encryption to certain bands? If a repressive regime was worried about encryption, they could mandate that radios not operate in that frequency.
You fail to realize that some people's brains are not wired for math. Some people that are very successful in liberal arts fields, like writing and law just can't do math well. People who are good at math can't seem to understand this and think these people are just lazy. I see that you got modded to +5. I think that demonstrates the blindness that Slashdotters have on this subject.
Were you aware that extra strength placebos are more effective than regular strength placebos?
How come corporate Anti-Virus scanners don't scan (or have an add-on module to scan) for signatures of illicit images? If various government agencies have a collection of known infringing images, signatures could be generated, like viruses. Sure, there would likely be a way to fool it, but it would be step in the right direction.
How many time have you been told that you are too smart for your own good?
They received something of value and didn't pay up. I see this as a problem. They should have to give the money to the charity of the kids choice or something like that.
I left a great job for a lousy one because of a former co-worker at the new place who was singing the new companies praises -- just to get the referral bonus.
I see so many opportunities for this going wrong, like if your hands are dirty. A large percentage of gun deaths are suicides and this would do nothing to stop that.
How about we have the military filed test this first and then see about make it mandatory?
Your post comes off as a just-out-of-college know-it-all who has never been on the other side of the equation. You think you're hot shit because you are up on the latest technologies, having just learned them in school. (Not trying to insult you, but this is how you sound.) If companies want people to have new skills, then need to train them. It's easy for young people with no other obligations to devote much of their spare time to learning new technologies. The guy you speak of may have been like that when he was young. Your attitude seem to reflect a current trend in American business. Everyone wants trained employees but no one want to train. This is a short-sighted approach. Or are programmers like athletes? You have a 10 or 15 year career and have to move on?
If it had been a human dealer that repeatedly made mistakes, would it have been fraud?
The odds are generally "rigged" in the house's favor. Casinos that that anything that threatens their "entitlement" to be cheating.
Personally, it's more important to me that OS's are GPL b/c the OS is the playing field on which application play.
It's too easy for an OS developer to abuse their position in regard to applications.