With the state of Politics today, no candidate who truly spoke his mind would ever be elected. A candidate today must simply react to what has been given from media and opponents and try to score points where possible. Many people think of politics as a beauty pageant, where reall it's a wrestling match. You don't get anywhere in a wrestling match by standing up straight and looking good. You only score for keeping your opponent from knocking you down and for taking advantage of his mistakes so that you can knock him down. Even if you don't want to.
First, know which keyboard you're really using,and set it properly in the X-windows setup.
Second,learn about your shell and set the editor mode.
Third, learn about stty and key settings.
Anyone looking for a particularly exciting option in an operating system knows that NOTHING out of the box is going to work. Windoze NT won't run on big iron. It won't go very far with SMP. And nothing you or I can do will make it any better. But with Linux and other OSS software we, and other experts, are able to do what we can to fit the OS to our designs. Just the fact that I can build a kernel to fit my machine instead of packing around dozens of DLLs and drivers and flipping a silly disk in and out and rebooting when I want a change gives Linux the Blue Ribbon. You can have your box if I can have a Linux that I can customize.
The problem with paying down the debt is that the national debt -- T-bills and bonds -- is a major economic vehicle in the US. What happens to the stock market when such a large portion of guaranteed return vehicles are no longer available? Where does Joe Retired put his cash to make some sure gain? Where do Grandparents go to stash gift money so that Mom-the-QVC-Junkie doesn't spend Junior's spoilings? You can't just wipe out the national debt without profound effects. All that interest we're paying is going right back into the taxpayer's pockets.
It seems to me that many OSS projects start as an individual effort, which are mostly as well organized as necessary. When a project is good enough that it finds an audience and then collaborators it is then time to standardize the methods and to apply the organization necessary for proper project management. OSS projects aren't the "something out of nothing" that occurs in most of the industry. Someone doesn't walk into the office and say, "Why don't you code me a new widget." whereupon you ask what kind and how big and start designing. They are the evolution or progression of a proven seed project. When they reach a critical mass it's time to apply the organization. Until then it's usually not worth the trouble. If a suitable project then fails to apply the formality when necessary, it probably fails.
How is it that magazine writers dont' worry about the pirating of their work? What's easier than taking a magazine and dropping it on a copier and handing out copies to all your friends? It's the marketing maturity of the media. Magazine authors are paid for being part of a publication that makes money as a whole. If they had to make money on the merits of each article published we'd see far better journalism than much of the trash we wade through today. Will the music industry ever reach this level of marketing so that artists are paid for their continued production of worthy material? Would it work?
The most effective methodology that I've seen in IT, and I've worked for companies of a hundred or so and for a few that are over ten thousand, is to keep teams small, and to build those teams of people who work together well and get things done. It's easier to teach someone the required skills than to teach them to cooperate happily. And when someone isn't working out, don't give second chances. Give them the axe when the trouble starts. If that policy is presented clearly and up front, there are no surprises when the axe falls.
Much of the inefficiency in companies today, regarding IT or otherwise, is because of tip-toeing around petty office personality problems or silly ego pandering. Trying to keep people happy takes time and energy that should go into getting the work done. Surround yourself with people who get things done and without hassle, send the rest packing.
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With the state of Politics today, no candidate who truly spoke his mind would ever be elected. A candidate today must simply react to what has been given from media and opponents and try to score points where possible. Many people think of politics as a beauty pageant, where reall it's a wrestling match. You don't get anywhere in a wrestling match by standing up straight and looking good. You only score for keeping your opponent from knocking you down and for taking advantage of his mistakes so that you can knock him down. Even if you don't want to.
Much of our debt is also owned by foreign countries. Hundreds of other governments use our debt securities to shore up their own financial status.
First, know which keyboard you're really using,and set it properly in the X-windows setup. Second,learn about your shell and set the editor mode. Third, learn about stty and key settings.
Anyone looking for a particularly exciting option in an operating system knows that NOTHING out of the box is going to work. Windoze NT won't run on big iron. It won't go very far with SMP. And nothing you or I can do will make it any better. But with Linux and other OSS software we, and other experts, are able to do what we can to fit the OS to our designs. Just the fact that I can build a kernel to fit my machine instead of packing around dozens of DLLs and drivers and flipping a silly disk in and out and rebooting when I want a change gives Linux the Blue Ribbon. You can have your box if I can have a Linux that I can customize.
The problem with paying down the debt is that the national debt -- T-bills and bonds -- is a major economic vehicle in the US. What happens to the stock market when such a large portion of guaranteed return vehicles are no longer available? Where does Joe Retired put his cash to make some sure gain? Where do Grandparents go to stash gift money so that Mom-the-QVC-Junkie doesn't spend Junior's spoilings? You can't just wipe out the national debt without profound effects. All that interest we're paying is going right back into the taxpayer's pockets.
It seems to me that many OSS projects start as an individual effort, which are mostly as well organized as necessary. When a project is good enough that it finds an audience and then collaborators it is then time to standardize the methods and to apply the organization necessary for proper project management. OSS projects aren't the "something out of nothing" that occurs in most of the industry. Someone doesn't walk into the office and say, "Why don't you code me a new widget." whereupon you ask what kind and how big and start designing. They are the evolution or progression of a proven seed project. When they reach a critical mass it's time to apply the organization. Until then it's usually not worth the trouble. If a suitable project then fails to apply the formality when necessary, it probably fails.
How is it that magazine writers dont' worry about the pirating of their work? What's easier than taking a magazine and dropping it on a copier and handing out copies to all your friends? It's the marketing maturity of the media. Magazine authors are paid for being part of a publication that makes money as a whole. If they had to make money on the merits of each article published we'd see far better journalism than much of the trash we wade through today. Will the music industry ever reach this level of marketing so that artists are paid for their continued production of worthy material? Would it work?
The most effective methodology that I've seen in IT, and I've worked for companies of a hundred or so and for a few that are over ten thousand, is to keep teams small, and to build those teams of people who work together well and get things done. It's easier to teach someone the required skills than to teach them to cooperate happily. And when someone isn't working out, don't give second chances. Give them the axe when the trouble starts. If that policy is presented clearly and up front, there are no surprises when the axe falls.
Much of the inefficiency in companies today, regarding IT or otherwise, is because of tip-toeing around petty office personality problems or silly ego pandering. Trying to keep people happy takes time and energy that should go into getting the work done. Surround yourself with people who get things done and without hassle, send the rest packing.