...comes at the end of the interview. Apparently, there is talk about the Hobbit being done as a TV miniseries. Andy replies to this by saying, "Well I'd heard that it wasn't a TV series, that it was going to be another movie but I mean there have been various rumours about it." Whatever the case, it looks like my LOTR DVD collection will eventually include the Hobbit. I hope Ian reprises his role.
...after reading your long message, and also reading David Wexelblat's message, and reading all the stuff that came before, it's pretty clear to me: the X Core Team doesn't want to talk. They don't want outside input, they've deluded themselves into thinking that other Open Source projects are just as closed as they are, and they really don't see where all these outsiders get the right to have an opinion. They ask why you (Keith) didn't open a discussion with them, but then act hostile to nearly everything that is discussed.
I don't know how to write a driver for X, but I do know people. And you're banging your head against a wall as long as you try to work within their system. Good luck with whatever you decide.
...Slashdot discussed this already here, and that was a dupe of an even earlier discussion. Of course, these are from three or four months ago, and they were based on a different article. So it's not really a dupe, just sorta.
how many valid emails were wrongly discarded as spam?
I can partly answer that, and say it's probably a huge number. Bigger than they want you to know. I help out with a local church's Web site. This is a church -- they're far too nice and technically inept to spam anyone. But their site is hosted on a machine that about 100 domains use. Other customers of the ISP HAVE sent spam. AOL blocks at IP address, so all 100 domains are blocked.
So. To answer your question, a LOT of legitimate email is not getting through. I had to work with the church's ISP and AOL spam cops to get them to make an exception for the church's domain. They LEFT the other 98 domains that hadn't spammed on the block list, just because those domains hadn't complained yet. And of course, every now and then, they "forget" that they've made an exception for us, and I have to go over it all again.
Really, AOL gets such big numbers because their system is not very efficient.
Now as all the married and almost married men out here know, that if i was to say what i was thinking, it would have been a very lonely night for me and my PC!:-)
That's funny, I've been married for 10 years, and on the things that my wife and I don't agree on, she'll listen to my opinion and consider my viewpoint. I think there's something seriously wrong if you're letting someone control your life and tell you what you should think.
Methinks you failed to notice that you're responding to what we call a "humorous anecdote." These are not meant to be taken seriously or literally. I know, it's probably a foreign concept to those of us interacting with computers all day. Perhaps you should ask your wife to explain it.:)
Microsoft would not give the open source people a chance to come in and persent alternatives if they were doing a "Microsoft in government" forum
Frovingslosh has it right, in my opinion. Microsoft is using our very openness against us to gain a forum that they would NEVER give us. I think the correct thing to do is to respectfully decline Microsoft's offer to speak at the show.
Having said that, it's pretty obvious that Microsoft is going to be there. This is Microsoft. Even the leaders of an OS conference cannot turn Microsoft away. So here is what I propose: use this time to hear how the enemy speaks. You know they're going to pitch their products, and you know that in hostile territory like this, they're going to bring out their best. So listen to them. If they say Open Source is undermines the stability of the companies that keep the economy going, then know that they've whispered that into the ears of your CTO and CEO. If they say Open Source is more error-prone or created whimsically or haphazardly, understand that a lot of technical people have bought their argument hook, line, and sinker. Find out what MS says. And then, use it to make your own arguments more powerful and persuasive. Address the fears that MS creates. Use their words against them.
Wouldn't the world be better served by kde and gnome consolidating to one desktop, and all the distributions agreeing on one form of package management (my favorite being deb), and spending their money cooperating in building an unbelievably awesome linux distribution?
Yes. As long as when you consolidate KDE and Gnome, you drop all the Gnome interface (except for their pretty icons) and keep everything KDE has done. And while I'm sure you do like deb, if we're picking one package manager, we're going to pick SuSE's YaST. Sorry about that, but if we're making decisions for everyone else, I need to be sure those decisions work for me. And yes, there should be only one uber-distro, and I define "awesome" to mean that this distro should be mostly like SuSE and MacOS X, and not much at all like Debian or Slackware. What? Don't like my ideas? Ah, that's competition for you.
I've been searching for a job for months (I'm finishing school in May), and I've yet to have even a second interview with any company, much less a job offer. What more can I do?
Umm, okay. I'm game. As a person who has hired a few people, here is what worked and didn't work for me.
I'm looking to fill a Web position that requires PHP skills. I get a ton of resumes from MSCE's whose stated "objective" is to become a software engineer using MS C++ or similar tools. PHP is nowhere on their resume. Maybe in a different market I would hire someone like that, because programming is programming (to a certain extent). But in this market, right next to Mr. MSCE, I've got Mr. Open Source who lives, eats, and breathes PHP. So Mr. MSCE is not holding up well against the competition. I get this a LOT -- tons and tons of resumes from people who want to be managers but apply to developer jobs, and people who want to build software apps or who want to be Unix admins or who know Photoshop really well, and they all want the Web Developer job that requires skills they don't have and never pursued. If you do that, if you send resumes out at near-random, you will be beat out by people who have relevant skills and try to target their resumes.
If I can't make sense of your jobs, you're doomed. If there are big gaps between jobs, you either won't get an interview, or will have to do some great explaining in the interview. Similarly, if you did as many people did during the dot-com rush, and you jumped jobs every 6 months, you either won't get the interview, or will have to sound really long-term committed in the interview. If you've listed your job as a dish-washer on a resume for a Java position, well, the guy who appeared to have more professional jobs is going to get the interview.
Don't show up late to the interview. Don't dress casual, and don't try a 3-piece suit, either. Pay attention, and when they ask a question, answer fully. Then shut up when the interviewer moves on. I can't tell you how many people flubbed interviews because they wouldn't elaborate, or wouldn't stop talking. I asked one guy to tell me about his database skills, and he said, "yes." That's it. I say "yes, what?" And he says, "yes, I have database skills." Oh, okay, and all the examples you just went into really convinced me. Thanks.
Don't be a nerd. Every person who came in with ridiculous hair, pasty skin, a nervous twitch, weird habits, a timid voice and a weak handshake, well, they lost me at hello. If I think my employees won't invite you out for a beer after work, forget it. And don't be a salesman, either. I can't tell you how many candidates show up looking uber-perfect, smarmy smiles, talking over me, doing the "mmm" and "yeah" thing, feigning interest and trying to dominate the interview. Hurl. I just want people who are clean, dress okay, and have some social skills. If I get that, then we can focus on programming questions without distractions (bad breath is pretty un-fun too in an interview, for either side).
I love my job and want to apologize to the world for stealing company electrons for my own personal use. I am the happiest corporate drone of all time and would like to remind all employees that reading/. at work is stealing and might be a violation of the DMCA!
Aeryn? Dammit, she's been cleansed by the Nebari! Again!
...is that citizens of the USA are bred from explorers. We pushed onto the Eastern shore of this continent, explored the land and pushed all the way West. We began to fly, then we reached orbit. We walked on the moon.
I do not mean this to be some patriotic gesture. I merely mean to observe that we cannot deny who we are. Our grandparents and their grandparents have always looked for whatever was just beyond the horizon. If they feared the danger and uncertainty of things they had not yet explored, well, it never stopped them. Everything they discovered has led us to now. Their blood is within us.
Here is what Al Gore said, quoting from Wired News:
During a March 1999 CNN interview, while trying to differentiate himself from rival Bill Bradley, Gore boasted: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in
creating the Internet."
If you're a Democrat, what he said was an unfortunate exaggeration. If you're a Republican, what he said was a boastful lie. Either way, he'll be mocked for it by so many people that you could spend the rest of your life arguing the point, and get nowhere.
Because some governments believe that Microsoft is in bed with the US government. It doesn't help that a couple years ago, MS admitted there was a backdoor in Windows for some government agency. Anyone remember which one? The NSA, maybe? Anyway, if you're the leader of a NON-US country, do you want the US government peeking in at your citizens and possibly your government officials? I suspect those other countries want to not only see the code, but to compile it, because you trust no one else to leave the code untouched.
...that blamed Motorola for the delays with the G4 chips, as well as the lack of big speed increases? What's going on with Motorola these days? They seem to overpromise and underdeliver a lot.
They ignore simle facts like that the entire renassance happened without them
Good luck trying to convince artists to return to the poverty levels of that time (hint: this is not about people being creative, it's about money motivating people to be creative).
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...comes at the end of the interview. Apparently, there is talk about the Hobbit being done as a TV miniseries. Andy replies to this by saying, "Well I'd heard that it wasn't a TV series, that it was going to be another movie but I mean there have been various rumours about it." Whatever the case, it looks like my LOTR DVD collection will eventually include the Hobbit. I hope Ian reprises his role.
...after reading your long message, and also reading David Wexelblat's message, and reading all the stuff that came before, it's pretty clear to me: the X Core Team doesn't want to talk. They don't want outside input, they've deluded themselves into thinking that other Open Source projects are just as closed as they are, and they really don't see where all these outsiders get the right to have an opinion. They ask why you (Keith) didn't open a discussion with them, but then act hostile to nearly everything that is discussed.
I don't know how to write a driver for X, but I do know people. And you're banging your head against a wall as long as you try to work within their system. Good luck with whatever you decide.
If SuSE drops out, do the "UnitedLinux" gang have anything left? Isn't UnitedLinux based upon SuSE 8.1?
...Slashdot discussed this already here, and that was a dupe of an even earlier discussion. Of course, these are from three or four months ago, and they were based on a different article. So it's not really a dupe, just sorta.
Yeah, because we all know that viewing the source is a fine, fine way to read Slashdot. :)
What in the world did you just say? Are you taking spelling lessons from the /. editors?
I can partly answer that, and say it's probably a huge number. Bigger than they want you to know. I help out with a local church's Web site. This is a church -- they're far too nice and technically inept to spam anyone. But their site is hosted on a machine that about 100 domains use. Other customers of the ISP HAVE sent spam. AOL blocks at IP address, so all 100 domains are blocked.
So. To answer your question, a LOT of legitimate email is not getting through. I had to work with the church's ISP and AOL spam cops to get them to make an exception for the church's domain. They LEFT the other 98 domains that hadn't spammed on the block list, just because those domains hadn't complained yet. And of course, every now and then, they "forget" that they've made an exception for us, and I have to go over it all again.
Really, AOL gets such big numbers because their system is not very efficient.
Uhhh, we're going to war on Iraq. Hello?
Methinks you failed to notice that you're responding to what we call a "humorous anecdote." These are not meant to be taken seriously or literally. I know, it's probably a foreign concept to those of us interacting with computers all day. Perhaps you should ask your wife to explain it. :)
She sounds fun.
You know what's sad? I'm actually envious of the spreadsheet idea.
And just think how far we've come. All this evolved into... NeverWinter Nights.
Wow.
Frovingslosh has it right, in my opinion. Microsoft is using our very openness against us to gain a forum that they would NEVER give us. I think the correct thing to do is to respectfully decline Microsoft's offer to speak at the show.
Having said that, it's pretty obvious that Microsoft is going to be there. This is Microsoft. Even the leaders of an OS conference cannot turn Microsoft away. So here is what I propose: use this time to hear how the enemy speaks. You know they're going to pitch their products, and you know that in hostile territory like this, they're going to bring out their best. So listen to them. If they say Open Source is undermines the stability of the companies that keep the economy going, then know that they've whispered that into the ears of your CTO and CEO. If they say Open Source is more error-prone or created whimsically or haphazardly, understand that a lot of technical people have bought their argument hook, line, and sinker. Find out what MS says. And then, use it to make your own arguments more powerful and persuasive. Address the fears that MS creates. Use their words against them.
Yes. As long as when you consolidate KDE and Gnome, you drop all the Gnome interface (except for their pretty icons) and keep everything KDE has done. And while I'm sure you do like deb, if we're picking one package manager, we're going to pick SuSE's YaST. Sorry about that, but if we're making decisions for everyone else, I need to be sure those decisions work for me. And yes, there should be only one uber-distro, and I define "awesome" to mean that this distro should be mostly like SuSE and MacOS X, and not much at all like Debian or Slackware. What? Don't like my ideas? Ah, that's competition for you.
Umm, okay. I'm game. As a person who has hired a few people, here is what worked and didn't work for me.
Wow... over at imdb.com it shows that Towers grossed $316,026,000 (US) by Feb 2nd, 2003. So that's 0.1%? Wow.
Yeah. That whole "competition" thing is totally overrated.
Aeryn? Dammit, she's been cleansed by the Nebari! Again!
...is that citizens of the USA are bred from explorers. We pushed onto the Eastern shore of this continent, explored the land and pushed all the way West. We began to fly, then we reached orbit. We walked on the moon.
I do not mean this to be some patriotic gesture. I merely mean to observe that we cannot deny who we are. Our grandparents and their grandparents have always looked for whatever was just beyond the horizon. If they feared the danger and uncertainty of things they had not yet explored, well, it never stopped them. Everything they discovered has led us to now. Their blood is within us.
Here is what Al Gore said, quoting from Wired News:
If you're a Democrat, what he said was an unfortunate exaggeration. If you're a Republican, what he said was a boastful lie. Either way, he'll be mocked for it by so many people that you could spend the rest of your life arguing the point, and get nowhere.
...Microsoft just doesn't want any competition.
You don't speak for everyone. :)
Because some governments believe that Microsoft is in bed with the US government. It doesn't help that a couple years ago, MS admitted there was a backdoor in Windows for some government agency. Anyone remember which one? The NSA, maybe? Anyway, if you're the leader of a NON-US country, do you want the US government peeking in at your citizens and possibly your government officials? I suspect those other countries want to not only see the code, but to compile it, because you trust no one else to leave the code untouched.
...that blamed Motorola for the delays with the G4 chips, as well as the lack of big speed increases? What's going on with Motorola these days? They seem to overpromise and underdeliver a lot.
Good luck trying to convince artists to return to the poverty levels of that time (hint: this is not about people being creative, it's about money motivating people to be creative).