You know, when two bullies start having a go at it, the rest of the schoolyard watches and smirks.
<dreammode> I personally want them both to bloody themselves so badly that Google witll come and pick up verisign for a dime and tell ICANN to shove it as they roll out G-DNS. </dreammode>
I personally think that women are better at managing than men, in general.
Before you get all puffed up, I said: "I personally think", and "in general".
I also think that they are better at managing geeks, because of the innate fear of women that most geek have. Geeks are gentlemen at heart, and will traditionally be less jerks to women than jocks.
Plus, I personally like women managers better, because they are generally more organized and better at diplomacy (telling you no in a nice way).
Yeah, but then you cease being a geek, and you start living a double life, where tassels and the wool content of your suit pants become important factors.
One day you'll be driving by fry's and realize you've not been there in over three months, and you will feel very small indeed.
Geeks are good at what they do when they embrace their geekness. When they try to suppress it, they become miserable, depressed creatures. And i would not want that in managament.
I say: stay behind the keyboard, and long live sandals!
because you want to control the ping to one every ten minutes. Imagine if 3 million people had notifier on and they were pinging your server every ten seconds each. That's 300,000 hits per second. No good.
Well, you see, to use your keyboard, you place the right hand on the keyboard, and you place the left hand on the keyboard. Then, using the little keys on the keyboard (which have been conveniently coded) you code. With your hands.
I have a very simple solution: put your document drive as an apache path, then let google index your hd. Then search within your domain name (you do have a fixed ip and a domain name right?) Alternatively, copy all your files on your hd to your host.
Of course, there's a glaring security hole, but that's never stopped innovation.
Ok, so in order to get the newest code, you have to keep paying. But if your happy with code you have, you can stop paying. Fair enough..
Except in reality what happens if there's a vulnerability out in the wild. You can't get updates free, or any other way. Like I said, you gotta keep paying, or you can't use the code.
I do agree with you they don't make it easy necessarily.
>>Sun can make money by operating as 'editor in chief' of a suite of freeware applications.
Of course, when a group of university students in Sweden or Germany or (God Forbid!) China decide that they want to work together and editor-in-chief Sun's freeware applications, for free just 'cuz, and make some great admin tools, then Sun is going to have a cattle drive (instead of just a cow).
> The process doesn't work the way the Sun statement implies.
Exactly. If I were Sun, I would give money to fledging open-source projects. It's amazing how much goodwill a $500 paypal donation will generate on a one-man project.
For example. Python operated "under the radar" for many years. Now, there's street recognition (not much, but some) but it's now too late for outside parties to influence or even buy Python.
Likewise there are many projects out there that could become just revolutionary yet are completely ignored by Sun and the like. The people in these projects toil in darkness, stressing about money and relationships, gritting their teeth as their pre-alpha api takes shape on their sub-par hardware. If a company or three came and said: We believe in what you are doing, and here's a $1,000, keep up the good work and post progress to your blog, we'll check it out regularly; then said developer would remember said company as an early benefactor and would just have a warm feeling for them for years to come.
BTW, Johnathan Schwartz' weblog is interesting, except maybe a little paternalistic.
No, what I don't like is the idea that people have that since we're all volunteers, our time is not valuable, and they can treat us like dirt when we do them a favor.
I say they should at least have respect for someone who tries to help them.
I do agree though with your statement about choice, and I am the first to admit that my windows boxxen work fine. However, I take responsibility for them and if something breaks and I can't fix it, then I expect to pay someone to do it, not to schmooze off their goodwill.
You're helping them, for free, taking time out of your busy schedule to install and configure a state-of-the-art operating system and the ungrateful bastards just snub you and say they want the other one because "it looks better."
I say: don't provide support for them, and let them watch their windows machine become a pile of crap with ads and viruses. Then there will be a week when they can't use their computer at all for whatever reason, they will come begging, BEGGING, for you to install Linux.
On the other hand, don't offer to install linux for free. Do it for a hunders dollars. You'll be able to after the week of no web/im. They will come to respect it.
Actually, the virtual wife cell-phone game would also come with a gps enabled module so that in order to make her happy, you are going to have to spend some quality time at Pier 1 Imports, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Ross.
Yeah, but YOU didn't write bittorent. A python programmer did.
You could write an AI expert system in javascript if you wanted to. I am not saying one language is better than another for this task or that.
All I am saying is that for people who are "hackers", Java is not as "attractive" as python.
This attraction is the "coolness" factor.
I agree that to build an enterprise-wide web-based data-back-end high availability, fast and robust multi-thousand user application, Java is the better tool.
But "hackers" don't want to develop billing software and reporting engine for banking or healthcare. They want to make things like bittorent, for fun.
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You know, when two bullies start having a go at it, the rest of the schoolyard watches and smirks.
<dreammode>
I personally want them both to bloody themselves so badly that Google witll come and pick up verisign for a dime and tell ICANN to shove it as they roll out G-DNS.
</dreammode>
>Chances are, if you are still running Office 97, you are probably still using lower end hardware so memory consumption can be an issue.
Actually, not older hardware. All within 2 years (all win2Kpro). Just no money to update.
I mean, we have the money. Our shareholders would like us to do something more productive with it.
I hear you about OO's import. But that's also okay. We'd run both, since we've paid for 97. (btw, I love "save to PDF" in OO)
>Do you have the wherewithall to deploy and crosstrain your users?
No.
Does MS Office 97 beat OO1.1.2?
Because we're at MS Office 97 on nearly 10K desktops. (upgrade would be in the millions (which we don't have. so there we are)
/me ducks.
I personally think that women are better at managing than men, in general.
Before you get all puffed up, I said: "I personally think", and "in general".
I also think that they are better at managing geeks, because of the innate fear of women that most geek have. Geeks are gentlemen at heart, and will traditionally be less jerks to women than jocks.
Plus, I personally like women managers better, because they are generally more organized and better at diplomacy (telling you no in a nice way).
Then get a large picture of one with a caption: "I need to know my enemy better."
Let that sink in for a bit.
>Good management is all about people skills
.NET platform. There ain't nuthin easy there.
Exactly, which is why I contend that geeks are probably the least fitted for the task.
> Typical "geek" stuff, on the other hand, gets easier every day
I wouldn't be so sure. Ask the guys who are porting python to the
Yeah, but then you cease being a geek, and you start living a double life, where tassels and the wool content of your suit pants become important factors.
One day you'll be driving by fry's and realize you've not been there in over three months, and you will feel very small indeed.
Geeks are good at what they do when they embrace their geekness. When they try to suppress it, they become miserable, depressed creatures. And i would not want that in managament.
I say: stay behind the keyboard, and long live sandals!
because you want to control the ping to one every ten minutes. Imagine if 3 million people had notifier on and they were pinging your server every ten seconds each. That's 300,000 hits per second. No good.
Coding is manual labor? Please explain...
Well, you see, to use your keyboard, you place the right hand on the keyboard, and you place the left hand on the keyboard. Then, using the little keys on the keyboard (which have been conveniently coded) you code. With your hands.
Next time we'll discuss the mouse.
I have a very simple solution: put your document drive as an apache path, then let google index your hd. Then search within your domain name (you do have a fixed ip and a domain name right?)
Alternatively, copy all your files on your hd to your host.
Of course, there's a glaring security hole, but that's never stopped innovation.
Ok, so in order to get the newest code, you have to keep paying. But if your happy with code you have, you can stop paying. Fair enough..
Except in reality what happens if there's a vulnerability out in the wild. You can't get updates free, or any other way. Like I said, you gotta keep paying, or you can't use the code.
I do agree with you they don't make it easy necessarily.
>>Sun can make money by operating as 'editor in chief' of a suite of freeware applications.
Of course, when a group of university students in Sweden or Germany or (God Forbid!) China decide that they want to work together and editor-in-chief Sun's freeware applications, for free just 'cuz, and make some great admin tools, then Sun is going to have a cattle drive (instead of just a cow).
> The process doesn't work the way the Sun statement implies.
Exactly. If I were Sun, I would give money to fledging open-source projects. It's amazing how much goodwill a $500 paypal donation will generate on a one-man project.
For example. Python operated "under the radar" for many years. Now, there's street recognition (not much, but some) but it's now too late for outside parties to influence or even buy Python.
Likewise there are many projects out there that could become just revolutionary yet are completely ignored by Sun and the like. The people in these projects toil in darkness, stressing about money and relationships, gritting their teeth as their pre-alpha api takes shape on their sub-par hardware. If a company or three came and said: We believe in what you are doing, and here's a $1,000, keep up the good work and post progress to your blog, we'll check it out regularly; then said developer would remember said company as an early benefactor and would just have a warm feeling for them for years to come.
BTW, Johnathan Schwartz' weblog is interesting, except maybe a little paternalistic.
Then it is a support contract.
That's a different thing.
When you cancel a support contract, you lose the support, but you keep the code and get to use it.
When you cancel a software subsciption, you can't use the code anymore.
Besides, I love Beatles music. When's the concert again?
Strawberry fields forever.
What if the transponder was messed with?
(like people switching plates now)
How would you get them? you'd have to pull them over. And how do you pull them over at 900 feet? (assume the transponder/autopilot is off)
Do you shoot them down? (assume school or other meaty area below)
Can you fly 12 miles to international waters and thus escape jurisdiction?
I see a lot of obstacles...
You're right.
But then what stops the bad guys from doing the same. It's not like missiles are that hard to get, it seems.
to who? SCO Australia Ltd?
And then what?
Is the airforce going to displatch an F-16 to "intercept" the red Toyota Hover 2012 and knock it off with a 3 million dollar missile?
While spectacular, it might not be very cost effective.
Plus, if redneck bob changes the autopilot, he'll probably also rip out the transponder.
Yes.
You should at least thank me for spending the time and caring enough.
If you're not, you can bet that was the last thing I tried to help you with.
No, what I don't like is the idea that people have that since we're all volunteers, our time is not valuable, and they can treat us like dirt when we do them a favor.
I say they should at least have respect for someone who tries to help them.
I do agree though with your statement about choice, and I am the first to admit that my windows boxxen work fine. However, I take responsibility for them and if something breaks and I can't fix it, then I expect to pay someone to do it, not to schmooze off their goodwill.
Tell your friends to go fuck off.
You're helping them, for free, taking time out of your busy schedule to install and configure a state-of-the-art operating system and the ungrateful bastards just snub you and say they want the other one because "it looks better."
I say: don't provide support for them, and let them watch their windows machine become a pile of crap with ads and viruses.
Then there will be a week when they can't use their computer at all for whatever reason, they will come begging, BEGGING, for you to install Linux.
On the other hand, don't offer to install linux for free. Do it for a hunders dollars. You'll be able to after the week of no web/im. They will come to respect it.
Oh, actually, I agree. I personally looove jEdit, and that's all I use anymore...
Yet, for bootsptrapping, it's python for me.
Actually, the virtual wife cell-phone game would also come with a gps enabled module so that in order to make her happy, you are going to have to spend some quality time at Pier 1 Imports, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Ross.
:|
Of course, you will have to be home by 8:30.
That would be a fun game
Yeah, but YOU didn't write bittorent. A python programmer did.
You could write an AI expert system in javascript if you wanted to. I am not saying one language is better than another for this task or that.
All I am saying is that for people who are "hackers", Java is not as "attractive" as python.
This attraction is the "coolness" factor.
I agree that to build an enterprise-wide web-based data-back-end high availability, fast and robust multi-thousand user application, Java is the better tool.
But "hackers" don't want to develop billing software and reporting engine for banking or healthcare. They want to make things like bittorent, for fun.
And it's the "fun" that makes it "cool".