I went to hear John Ralston Saul talk once. He maintains that after the WTC attacks, the markets paniced and were about to go into meltdown. But governments around the world stepped in, cut interest rates and did stimulus "stuff" (IANAE) to stop the collapses. So far it seems to have worked pretty well.
I saw this thread and searched for manhole...bingo! I love this story and first heard it on a radio science segment hosted by Dr. Karl.
From http://www.adelaidebushwalkers.org/magazine/Autumn 2002.htm: "Various computer simulations show that a bubble of super-hot air would probably protect the manhole cover on its path through the atmosphere, and stop it from vaporising. If it survived, that manhole cover went past the orbit of Pluto many years ago, and is our first interstellar ambassador."
Now MS tries to address subjects YOU WANT THEM TO ADDRESS, and the linux community is in an uproar.
But they aren't doing what I want them to address. I want my Windows machines to be reliable and secure. I want the web sites I create for my clients to stay up and not be compromised. But I want to stay in control of my stuff. What Microsoft is doing, they are doing for themselves.
This is the start of the new MSN. The original MSN was meant to be their proprietry network. Total control by them. The open standards Internet explosion changed that. In time, web pages will become "protected content". Every time the average user will go to a non IIS or non signed server, IE will pop up a message saying this server isn't secure. Guess what, 90% of people run IE...
Interestingly I find this to be the attitude of a lot of open source d00ds (maybe its the d00ds that are the problem). You ask what you think is a reasonable question and people call you an idiot. And yet people say how great the "community support" is. Until this sort of behaviour changes, open source will have no hope in getting into average users's homes. Imagine an NT admin wanting to discuss things, just to get an idea as to what this open source is about and being made to feel 2 inches tall. Thats not how you win mindshare.
What crap, I have seen "high ranking" people who could not spell or produce a grammatically correct sentence to save their lives. But their value was in their ideas and other skills they have. How do they do it? Assistants! Remarkable idea hey. Spelling and grammar is important, but not the most important thing.
This code (or code to this effect you pedants) compiles cleanly:
switch (c) {
case 'a':
break;
case 'b':
break;
defualt: /* do something */ }
But unfortunately will never get to the default case. It seems funny now, but as a young brand new C programmer, I just couldn't work it out or even read it seems. hehe
The money doesn't end up in our pocket actually. Nuf nuf employers expect you work 10 hour days to deliver "on time, on budget". Just look as all the people who post on here bragging that they aren't paid by the hour, but rather "to do a job". If employers did actually pay by the hour then software companies would be held accountable when their crap software causes cost overruns.
This would also effect management. They would be held accountable for mistakes they made which caused projects to run overtime, rather than covering it up forcing a team to work long hours. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem whatsoever working extra time when I am the cause of the problem or if I have a "bad coding day".
The incremental nature of the deployment means that Unwired can handpick the geographical areas which exhibit most demand, saving the precious cash it has left.
AND
At present that strategy consists of identifying customers that are beyond reach of both Telstra's ADSL network and the cable backbones of the incumbent and Optus.
To me these 2 statements seem contradictory. The places that are out of reach are rural and outer suburbs where they won't get the demand required for a rollout profitable.
I got to be a manager by writing code that is used by, literaly, millions of people. I wonder if you can say the same thing, since you seem to have such a high opinion of what you do.
I thought people get into management by showing that they will be a good manager. What sort of weird company do you work for?
In the same way that the Halloween documents changed the open software movement, this letter will change the landscape as well. Memorise the issues this document addresses, understand its arguments.
Show it to your politicians, especially if your government is trying to develop a local IT insdutry.
This how I and a lot of people I talk to view globalism. As an opportunity for rich executives and shareholders to get even richer by exporting jobs to countries where wages are and working conditions are lower.
From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 23. (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
You have not been hired to bid on eBay, manage your stocks, or visit the Hamsterdance
Very true...BUT I am also employed to work 40 hours a week, not 50. I am employed to be a programmer, not a systems tester or a business analyst. I am employed to work Monday to Friday, not weekends. Todays companies have no problems whatsoever impose company life on my private life, so why not the other way around?
When it comes to security issues, why is it so hard for companies to demand that the software they buy is fit for purpose? The software is designed for the internet, surely they know by now, that the internet is bad place, so they should create it with this in mind.
Depending on how bent they are, a wire wrap tool might do the trick. Just ease it onto the pin you want to fix and gently bend back into place. Once all the pins are fixed, find a female IDE connector and plug it in, making sure all the pins go into the right hole. If they dont line up, just do some more work with the wire wrap tool.
It is this very attitude towards users that will prevent Linux from ever being anything other than a niche desktop operating system. Microsoft might treat its users badly in some ways, but they never insult them to their faces in such a manner.
I have experienced this myself. You go into IRC channels or you ask a question in a mailing list; you've done some research, you've looked in the FAQs, and you have a question that is very obvious to some people, but you just can't seem to find an answer yourself. What you get back is scorn and derision rather than decent help.
One of the key gains that women have made is economic security. Before the feminist movement, the traditional Western female was confined to role of homemaker and controlled by her financial dependence on men, particularly her husband.
In the same way, men can now achieve reproductive indepenance.
Fire is useful. But the most useful technology ever is agriculture. Agriculture allowed humans to spend less time on basic survival and more on things which allowed them to progress and develop other technologies. We were able to stop being nomad hunter gatherers and move to living in cities, thus the birth of "civilisation".
I must agree with this. VB is ok, (servlets are nicer). But because it is pushed as being easy to use, a lot of nuf nufs use it and use it incorrectly. If a person doesn't know what IDL is, they should be using VB to create DLLS.
Last year I did some work research into EMCAScript which is supposedly Javascript. I found that EMCAScript is basically Javascript 1.1. Javascript has progressed much further than this, so why is EMCAScript still stuck at 1.1 ??
From your post and my info, I can only conclude that MS wants the Linux world to conform to a broken standard that will remain static. All this time MS will be upgrading and improving.NET, but GNOME and Mono will be conforming to the standard. When the Mono people finally catch on and try to add some of the newer features of later versions of.NET or try to fully implement it so that it works, MS will of course protect its intellectual property.
If a drug company spends billions to create a new drug, and then that drug is approriated by third-world nations, the US government, or other governments, it often results in that drug being a net financial loss for the corporation.
If the third world country can't afford to pay for it in the first place and thus doesn't buy it, where is the financial loss? Why not license the drug to a poor country for no money or a very small fee?
The intro page descibes his lectture as: "His speech considers what is happening in the war against terrorism, and calls for a long-term strategy to address underlying problems in the countries involved."
This is what he had to say about the haves and have nots:
"September 11th was the dark side of this new age of global interdependence. If you don't want to put those walls back up and I don't think you do, and we probably couldn't if we tried. And you watch, if you look at some of the recent elections, we're gonna see some people who try to do that. And if you don't want to live with barbed wire around your children and grandchildren for the next hundred years, then it's not enough to defeat the terrorist. We have to make a world where there are far fewer terrorists, where there are fewer potential terrorists and more partners. And that responsibility falls primarily upon the wealthy nations, to spread the benefits and shrink the burdens."
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I went to hear John Ralston Saul talk once. He maintains that after the WTC attacks, the markets paniced and were about to go into meltdown. But governments around the world stepped in, cut interest rates and did stimulus "stuff" (IANAE) to stop the collapses. So far it seems to have worked pretty well.
I saw this thread and searched for manhole...bingo! I love this story and first heard it on a radio science segment hosted by Dr. Karl.
n 2002.htm:
From http://www.adelaidebushwalkers.org/magazine/Autum
"Various computer simulations show that a bubble of super-hot air would probably protect the manhole cover on its path through the atmosphere, and stop it from vaporising. If it survived, that manhole cover went past the orbit of Pluto many years ago, and is our first interstellar ambassador."
And then Americans wonder why people around the world detest them. Its the price that's paid for unilateralism.
TheServerSide is the best site I've found for J2EE stuff.
Now MS tries to address subjects YOU WANT THEM TO ADDRESS, and the linux community is in an uproar.
But they aren't doing what I want them to address. I want my Windows machines to be reliable and secure. I want the web sites I create for my clients to stay up and not be compromised. But I want to stay in control of my stuff. What Microsoft is doing, they are doing for themselves.
This is the start of the new MSN. The original MSN was meant to be their proprietry network. Total control by them. The open standards Internet explosion changed that. In time, web pages will become "protected content". Every time the average user will go to a non IIS or non signed server, IE will pop up a message saying this server isn't secure. Guess what, 90% of people run IE...
Interestingly I find this to be the attitude of a lot of open source d00ds (maybe its the d00ds that are the problem). You ask what you think is a reasonable question and people call you an idiot. And yet people say how great the "community support" is. Until this sort of behaviour changes, open source will have no hope in getting into average users's homes. Imagine an NT admin wanting to discuss things, just to get an idea as to what this open source is about and being made to feel 2 inches tall. Thats not how you win mindshare.
What crap, I have seen "high ranking" people who could not spell or produce a grammatically correct sentence to save their lives. But their value was in their ideas and other skills they have. How do they do it? Assistants! Remarkable idea hey. Spelling and grammar is important, but not the most important thing.
This code (or code to this effect you pedants) compiles cleanly:
/* do something */
switch (c) {
case 'a':
break;
case 'b':
break;
defualt:
}
But unfortunately will never get to the default case. It seems funny now, but as a young brand new C programmer, I just couldn't work it out or even read it seems. hehe
The money doesn't end up in our pocket actually. Nuf nuf employers expect you work 10 hour days to deliver "on time, on budget". Just look as all the people who post on here bragging that they aren't paid by the hour, but rather "to do a job". If employers did actually pay by the hour then software companies would be held accountable when their crap software causes cost overruns.
This would also effect management. They would be held accountable for mistakes they made which caused projects to run overtime, rather than covering it up forcing a team to work long hours. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem whatsoever working extra time when I am the cause of the problem or if I have a "bad coding day".
From the article:
The incremental nature of the deployment means that Unwired can handpick the geographical areas which exhibit most demand, saving the precious cash it has left.
AND
At present that strategy consists of identifying customers that are beyond reach of both Telstra's ADSL network and the cable backbones of the incumbent and Optus.
To me these 2 statements seem contradictory. The places that are out of reach are rural and outer suburbs where they won't get the demand required for a rollout profitable.
I got to be a manager by writing code that is used by, literaly, millions of people. I wonder if you can say the same thing, since you seem to have such a high opinion of what you do.
I thought people get into management by showing that they will be a good manager. What sort of weird company do you work for?
This is what happens without a spell checker. LOL
In the same way that the Halloween documents changed the open software movement, this letter will change the landscape as well. Memorise the issues this document addresses, understand its arguments.
Show it to your politicians, especially if your government is trying to develop a local IT insdutry.
I really can't believe how good it is!
This how I and a lot of people I talk to view globalism. As an opportunity for rich executives and shareholders to get even richer by exporting jobs to countries where wages are and working conditions are lower.
let me point out that work is a privilege
From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
You have not been hired to bid on eBay, manage your stocks, or visit the Hamsterdance
Very true...BUT I am also employed to work 40 hours a week, not 50. I am employed to be a programmer, not a systems tester or a business analyst. I am employed to work Monday to Friday, not weekends. Todays companies have no problems whatsoever impose company life on my private life, so why not the other way around?
When it comes to security issues, why is it so hard for companies to demand that the software they buy is fit for purpose? The software is designed for the internet, surely they know by now, that the internet is bad place, so they should create it with this in mind.
It all comes back to crappy software.
Depending on how bent they are, a wire wrap tool might do the trick. Just ease it onto the pin you want to fix and gently bend back into place. Once all the pins are fixed, find a female IDE connector and plug it in, making sure all the pins go into the right hole. If they dont line up, just do some more work with the wire wrap tool.
luser: Where's Word?
It is this very attitude towards users that will prevent Linux from ever being anything other than a niche desktop operating system. Microsoft might treat its users badly in some ways, but they never insult them to their faces in such a manner.
I have experienced this myself. You go into IRC channels or you ask a question in a mailing list; you've done some research, you've looked in the FAQs, and you have a question that is very obvious to some people, but you just can't seem to find an answer yourself. What you get back is scorn and derision rather than decent help.
One of the key gains that women have made is economic security. Before the feminist movement, the traditional Western female was confined to role of homemaker and controlled by her financial dependence on men, particularly her husband.
In the same way, men can now achieve reproductive indepenance.
Fire is useful. But the most useful technology ever is agriculture. Agriculture allowed humans to spend less time on basic survival and more on things which allowed them to progress and develop other technologies. We were able to stop being nomad hunter gatherers and move to living in cities, thus the birth of "civilisation".
oops. shouldn't
I must agree with this. VB is ok, (servlets are nicer). But because it is pushed as being easy to use, a lot of nuf nufs use it and use it incorrectly. If a person doesn't know what IDL is, they should be using VB to create DLLS.
I think you're onto something here.
.NET, but GNOME and Mono will be conforming to the standard. When the Mono people finally catch on and try to add some of the newer features of later versions of .NET or try to fully implement it so that it works, MS will of course protect its intellectual property.
Last year I did some work research into EMCAScript which is supposedly Javascript. I found that EMCAScript is basically Javascript 1.1. Javascript has progressed much further than this, so why is EMCAScript still stuck at 1.1 ??
From your post and my info, I can only conclude that MS wants the Linux world to conform to a broken standard that will remain static. All this time MS will be upgrading and improving
This is a trojan horse. We must resist.
If a drug company spends billions to create a new drug, and then that drug is approriated by third-world nations, the US government, or other governments, it often results in that drug being a net financial loss for the corporation.
If the third world country can't afford to pay for it in the first place and thus doesn't buy it, where is the financial loss? Why not license the drug to a poor country for no money or a very small fee?
On 14 December 2001, Bill Clinton gave the The Richard Dimbleby Lecture for 2001.
The intro page descibes his lectture as: "His speech considers what is happening in the war against terrorism, and calls for a long-term strategy to address underlying problems in the countries involved."
This is what he had to say about the haves and have nots:
"September 11th was the dark side of this new age of global interdependence. If you don't want to put those walls back up and I don't think you do, and we probably couldn't if we tried. And you watch, if you look at some of the recent elections, we're gonna see some people who try to do that. And if you don't want to live with barbed wire around your children and grandchildren for the next hundred years, then it's not enough to defeat the terrorist. We have to make a world where there are far fewer terrorists, where there are fewer potential terrorists and more partners. And that responsibility falls primarily upon the wealthy nations, to spread the benefits and shrink the burdens."