Never seen it? Obama uses it regularly. For example, he argued that destroying people's cars would help the economy because they'd buy new ones. He called it "cash for clunkers". That's textbook Broken Window.
That one was doubly fallacious because he also argued that in a crisis brought on by people getting mortgages they couldn't actually afford, the solution was to sign them up for new car payments they couldn't afford.
That's one thing that pleasantly suprised me about Linux and OSS in general as well. I had a problem that I thought might be related to Linux RAID. After following the suggestions in "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" I got a personal email from the RAID maintainer, with a fix. Try getting the lead dev of any major Microsoft aystem to personally assist you.
(for Windows fans, Alan Cox is the Balmer of Linux, Linus's designated successor.)
I'm reminded of when my brother first switched to free software. He had a request for an improvement in Firefox. He was slightly suprised when I showed him that he could file a feature request and the devs would actually read it. He was SHOCKED 36 hours later when I sent him a link to the nightly build - with his requested feature added. Meanwhile, we're still waiting on Microsoft to fix an IE bug they've had listed for 12 years.
Consider a proper cable with a headphone style plug, like you see on microphones from Radio Shack. They won't pick up MUCH if they are less than 10 feet long.
If the recording table is 30' from the lectern, so you use a 50' cord, it can certainly pick up radio transmissions. (For that reason, professionals normally use different a type of cabling, "balanced cable", on long runs.)
If the Radio Shack style microphone is used with an adapter that converts it to use with a professional style system, that can pick up interference because the polarity on the pro system isn't standardized.
If the cable has some wear and tear on it, so the outer braid is separated from the connector, it can pick up radio interference. In fact, loose shielding braid can act as a "cat's whisker" radio receiver
If the speaking hall happens to be located right next to a high power AM transmitter, such as the style used for AM radio broadcast, with the mic turned off, you can pick up their signal even with good cables. That's a 50,000 watt transmitter next to a mic amp designed to pick up a 0.000005 volt signal.
So there are at least four different ways that microphone cable can pick up someone else's transmission, all accidentally.
Clearly, "some" slashdot readers are willing to pay, and a critical mass of these allows the site to continue existing. It is not necessary that "all" readers be willing to pay.
No more than 1 in 100,000 users are paid. Do you really think one user is going to pay the costs to serve 100,000 freeloaders? Obviously not, hence ads.
But he offered the Shareware for free and people took it for free. And now he is telling that everybody is immoral because they took the free offer and don't give him money.
Who said anything about "immoral"? The question was "why ads instead of donations / voluntary payments?"
The answer is because people do not, in fact, donate to web sites, software, etc. in other than a very few exceptional cases.
Therefore, ads are used. I didn't say anything about moral or immoral. I said web sites have ads because people don't pay.
But he offered the Shareware for free and people took it for free.
By the way, it wasn't offered for free, just easily stolen. It was more of a guarantee, "Sample it first and don't pay if you're not satisfied, on the honor system".
It seems virtually everyone was happy with the software (great reviews, thankful emails, etc.) yet 0% paid. I would NOT have been surprised if 80% of happy customers never clicked the button to pay the $5 via PayPal. However, With 100,000+ downloads, I would have expected at least one per ten thousand to honor their agreement. Nope. Only in A HUNDRED THOUSAND clicked the button.
You offer it for free. I take it for free. What is unethical about that?
Who said anything about "unethical"? The question was "why ads instead of donations / voluntary payments?"
The answer is because people do not, in fact, donate to web sites, software, etc. in other than a very few exceptional cases.
Therefore, ads are used.
One time I was setting up a microphone to record someone giving a speech. The long (and broken) microphone cable acted like an antenna, picking up wireless signals, so I was recording local radio traffic instead of the speech I was trying to record. Note there was no radio receiver hooked up - just a long cord plugged into a recorder. You can even hear wireless transmissions sometimes by just having a coiled cord connected to headphones. The cord serves as antenna and the coiling of the cord tunes it to a particular frequency.
If you've ever recorded static, you've recorded someone's wireless transmission. That's why in 1934 it was explicitly made legal to receive anything broadcast - because we've all done it on accident. If it were illegal to receive what someone is transmitting, it would be illegal to connect a long cord to headphones, because that will pick up "static", which is someone's transmission (your neighbor's wifi sounds like an intermittent buzzing). So it was perfectly legal for Google to receive wifi simply because it's unavoidable. Using an answering machine according to the instructions can record your neighbor's wifi as buzzing - the telephone wiring is the antenna.
Note that the long established law does NOT allow you to DECRYPT an encrypted transmission once you receive it. That would be "circumventing technical measures" under DMCA etc. In 2001, an attempt was made to make it illegal to DISCLOSE the content of certain transmissions. Last I heard, that was being challenged at the Supreme Court.
I can't adequately express how sick I am of hearing people demand such a niche feature.
You keep hearing all of these people demanding it, so you think it's a "niche feature" nobody uses. Think about that for a minute. You hear everyone say they use it...
I'm going to assume for a moment that you're intelligent and you can look at this with some simple logic. If you keep hearing everybody say how important it is, and YOU don't know why it's so useful, which is most likely:
a) all of the people using it don't know what they are using or why
b) the guy who does not use it doesn't know what he's missing
If you stop arguing for just a minute and ask "what benefits do all of these people get from this capability?" you might have a cool new tool in your kit.
So true. My favorite news site added crappy video ads. I found a new site. This time, I actually spent 60 seconds to email them and let them know. As you said, the implied deal is that they create a bunch of great news stories for me, which I like, and I see the ads. I'm not willing to make that trade with their new, particularly annoying ads. I won't block the ads while taking the content because that would be sort of similar to stealing, if I don't keep up my end of the deal by seeing the ads.
ave a 2 ton (24000 BTU) air-conditioner which will be able to maintain a cool room temperature (the lab is quite small)
1 BTU is 0.29 watt/hour. So take your total power usage and multiply by three. That's how many BTU of heat the rack will diisipate (all power eventually turns to heat). That's how much ADDITIONAL cooling you'll need beyond what's already used to keep the room cool.
Would it be best to orient the shelves (and thus the fans) in the same direction throughout the cabinet, or to alternate the fan orientations on a shelf-by-shelf basis?
Keep them all the same, so that the system works as one big fan, pulling cool air from one side of the cabinet and exhausting hot air from the other. It's easiest to visualize if you imagine the airflow with a simple scenario. Imagine you had all of the even numbered shelves facing backward, blowing hot air to the front of the rack, while all the odd numbered shelves were trying to suck cool air from the front. That would totally fail because the odd numbered shelves would be sucking in hot air blown out from the even ones and vice-versa. You'd just be blowing hot air around the rack, not moving air through the rack. The same generally applies to other less simple configurations - if different units are arranged differently, they'll work against each other to some extent, rather than working as one team.
The answer is always "I want the government to step in and act violently on behalf of what I want them to do, but not for anyone else."
I assume you mean to say "I want the government to force everyone to do what I want"? The alternative reading, "I want the government to do what I want the government to do" is a meaningless tautology. So you think everyone wants the government to use force, up to and including violence, to make you live as they want? Most people do NOT think that way. Most people value freedom.
For example, I want you to get health coverage. I do not want the government to arrest you if you refuse to get government approved coverage or pay them a penalty. I want you to work hard, generate a lot of wealth, and give away as much as you can. I don't want the government forcibly taking what you earn and giving it away to their voters. Nor do I want the next logical step - the government physically forcing you to continue working 60 hours a week despite the fact they are taking 60% of your pay.
Yeah, messing up is normal. Failing mark a snapshot before becoming with a million emails is incompetence. With a snapshot, human error might have resulted in losing three minutes worth of emails.
"To err is human, to fuck up the whole system requires root."
In the US, at least, criminal trespass arrests generally occur after an officer witnesses the owner telling someone to leave and not come back. The police don't have the right to tell me to leave your house - only you have that right. Also, they don't have the right to arrest me unless they either witness me committing a crime or get get a warrant. So it's the property owner (or their representative) telling someone to leave, the cop just witnesses the criminal trespass.
The Tucker fell apart at it's unvieling, breaking to control arms under it's own weight. It was louder than any other car of the time, and had no reverse gear. Did "the man" force him to try to sell a terrible design, or is it possible that he simply wasn't up to the task?
Apparently you find slashdot valuable, you're here. Have you paid for a slashdot subscription? I'm on Slashdot daily. I haven't and won't pay, so they'll have to use ads to pay for this post.
Ready answer - nectar the ones who complain are not willing to pay a dollar even for some of their favorite sites. Slashdot allows you to choose to turn off ads by paying. Something like 0.001% pay. 99.99% won't pay.
Some time ago I wrote a shareware program that does something no other software does. 100,000 people downloaded it. It got top ratings everywhere. About 60 people emailed me saying how much they like the software. Exactly ONE person paid the $5 "donation" for it. Web sites are like that - people will visit daily, they'll talk about how awesome the site is, but no way they'll fork over $1. They just don't.
This shows there is one of two problems that need to bee addressed before asking for development help:
current projects that we have in mind are small and probably not of interest to the wider world, although one very large project is possible. I need a site that emphasizes our non-profit as the benefactor rather than the wider world, since most projects are so specific that wider applicability seems slim.
If it's not of interest to the wider world, you'll not get developers coming to help, with a possible exception being if the organization is extremely well known, like Red Cross. However, if it's that specific, probably either a) the problem has been too narrowly defined or b) it's not a development project, but a find-and-configure project.
Think of the problem in more general terms, general enough so that it DOES apply to other people. Who else might have a similar problem? Do other people have a good solution for this type of problem? If others have a solution that works well for them, perhaps it makes sense to use the same solution yourself, configured for your needs. No development required. If other organizations with similiar problems do NOT have a good solution, work with them to find a solution that helps them too, so others can contribute to a shared solution.
One way of doing it is to use somebody else's info for password reset so you can remember what you entered. Maybe you pick John Kennedy. You'd enter Kennedy's mother's maiden name, Kennedy's dog's name, etc. That way anyone impersonating you by entering your data doesn't get in, but you don't have to remember nonsense answers.
n you're asserting you know better than Microsoft what should be done to their OS
Who doesn't know better than Microlost? For example, does anyone think Metro was a good idea? Hot corners? Burying "turn off" in Control Pnael, several clicks away from the desktop? One might say that any argument predicated on Microsoft having a clue is suspect.
Food Stamps were around $80 billion last year, which represents about 0.5% of GDP
The federal side of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is the $80 billion you refer to. The USDA alone has at least four other food programs.
Do you think maybe TANF/AFDC is supposed used by buy groceries? There's $17 billion federal and $15 billion state. $80 billion here, $22 billion there - pretty soon it starts to add up.
Indeed, one can become educated if one chooses to. I not only don't have a college degree, I don't have a high school diploma. Yet, I develop and maintain the the online learning system for a major state university system agency. I'm a kernel and Apache contributor, so I am educated. My father grew up living in a tent with a dirt floor. Later, he was an oil company VP flying around on the corporate jet. He had never seen a toothbrush until third grade, much less any technology, yet he worked his way to a country club membership, thereby proving all my excuses to be BS.
There are exactly two reasons that an American may be uneducated - because they choose to be, and major brain injury/disease.
We don't have a discussion about universal cell phone access or universal groceries access either.
I guesd you're not familiar with Obama Phones. 4G is now an entitlement. That's where the $12.50 / month "universal access fee" you pays goes. When the FCC looked into it, at least 41% of recipients aren't actually eligible - they make more than enough to buy their own phones, but they had you buy them one instead.
As far as universal groceries, 11% of Americans recieve food stamps, and grocery-related entitlements cost about 9% of the total GDP. For readers not familiar with economics jargon, for every $100 you earn, roughly $20 of that goes to pay for someone else's bills through various taxpayer funded programs.
My experience is that people don't show up on day one knowing exactly what needs to be done. Someone has to keep track of which parts of the project need to be done. That "someone" who keeps track of things is a project MANAGER. A skilled, experienced tech in that role is good. They are more valuable managing the project than writing code. To get me to take on that stress, you have to pay me more. That's two reasons why I do management - because it has to be done and someone is willing to pay me more to manage coders than to be a coder.
Within a decent sized project, you'll have less experienced or less knowledgeable people. They'll need some management by more knowledgeable people guiding them. As much as I would like to just code all day, SOMEONE has to point out to the new person that copying and pasting the same code in six different places causes problems.
While the project manager is busy with the $800,000 project, someone elese has to think acout how that fits into the organization's $12million total budget and the five year plan. Otherwise, you may win the battle but lose the war, you may succeed at doing the wrong things. Your best and brightest people are a lot more valuable making five-year and ten-year $xx million decisions than having the best people writing "while" loops. I prefer to just work on algorithms, but someone needs to plan for what happens when this three-year contract is over.
It's not a power trip. It's a job someone needs to do. Heck, most of the management I do now is for a non-profit where I don't get paid and the managing board resented by those too lazy/apathetic to take on any responsibilities themselves. I do it simply because it needs to be done, or the organization would fail in it's mission.
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Never seen it? Obama uses it regularly. For example, he argued that destroying people's cars would help the economy because they'd buy new ones. He called it "cash for clunkers". That's textbook Broken Window.
That one was doubly fallacious because he also argued that in a crisis brought on by people getting mortgages they couldn't actually afford, the solution was to sign them up for new car payments they couldn't afford.
That's one thing that pleasantly suprised me about Linux and OSS in general as well. I had a problem that I thought might be related to Linux RAID. After following the suggestions in "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" I got a personal email from the RAID maintainer, with a fix. Try getting the lead dev of any major Microsoft aystem to personally assist you.
(for Windows fans, Alan Cox is the Balmer of Linux, Linus's designated successor.)
I'm reminded of when my brother first switched to free software. He had a request for an improvement in Firefox. He was slightly suprised when I showed him that he could file a feature request and the devs would actually read it. He was SHOCKED 36 hours later when I sent him a link to the nightly build - with his requested feature added. Meanwhile, we're still waiting on Microsoft to fix an IE bug they've had listed for 12 years.
Consider a proper cable with a headphone style plug, like you see on microphones from Radio Shack. They won't pick up MUCH if they are less than 10 feet long.
If the recording table is 30' from the lectern, so you use a 50' cord, it can certainly pick up radio transmissions. (For that reason, professionals normally use different a type of cabling, "balanced cable", on long runs.)
If the Radio Shack style microphone is used with an adapter that converts it to use with a professional style system, that can pick up interference because the polarity on the pro system isn't standardized.
If the cable has some wear and tear on it, so the outer braid is separated from the connector, it can pick up radio interference. In fact, loose shielding braid can act as a "cat's whisker" radio receiver
If the speaking hall happens to be located right next to a high power AM transmitter, such as the style used for AM radio broadcast, with the mic turned off, you can pick up their signal even with good cables. That's a 50,000 watt transmitter next to a mic amp designed to pick up a 0.000005 volt signal.
So there are at least four different ways that microphone cable can pick up someone else's transmission, all accidentally.
Clearly, "some" slashdot readers are willing to pay, and a critical mass of these allows the site to continue existing. It is not necessary that "all" readers be willing to pay.
No more than 1 in 100,000 users are paid. Do you really think one user is going to pay the costs to serve 100,000 freeloaders? Obviously not, hence ads.
But he offered the Shareware for free and people took it for free. And now he is telling that everybody is immoral because they took the free offer and don't give him money.
Who said anything about "immoral"? The question was "why ads instead of donations / voluntary payments?" The answer is because people do not, in fact, donate to web sites, software, etc. in other than a very few exceptional cases. Therefore, ads are used. I didn't say anything about moral or immoral. I said web sites have ads because people don't pay.
But he offered the Shareware for free and people took it for free.
By the way, it wasn't offered for free, just easily stolen. It was more of a guarantee, "Sample it first and don't pay if you're not satisfied, on the honor system".
It seems virtually everyone was happy with the software (great reviews, thankful emails, etc.) yet 0% paid. I would NOT have been surprised if 80% of happy customers never clicked the button to pay the $5 via PayPal. However, With 100,000+ downloads, I would have expected at least one per ten thousand to honor their agreement. Nope. Only in A HUNDRED THOUSAND clicked the button.
You offer it for free. I take it for free. What is unethical about that?
Who said anything about "unethical"? The question was "why ads instead of donations / voluntary payments?" The answer is because people do not, in fact, donate to web sites, software, etc. in other than a very few exceptional cases. Therefore, ads are used.
One time I was setting up a microphone to record someone giving a speech. The long (and broken) microphone cable acted like an antenna, picking up wireless signals, so I was recording local radio traffic instead of the speech I was trying to record. Note there was no radio receiver hooked up - just a long cord plugged into a recorder. You can even hear wireless transmissions sometimes by just having a coiled cord connected to headphones. The cord serves as antenna and the coiling of the cord tunes it to a particular frequency.
If you've ever recorded static, you've recorded someone's wireless transmission. That's why in 1934 it was explicitly made legal to receive anything broadcast - because we've all done it on accident. If it were illegal to receive what someone is transmitting, it would be illegal to connect a long cord to headphones, because that will pick up "static", which is someone's transmission (your neighbor's wifi sounds like an intermittent buzzing). So it was perfectly legal for Google to receive wifi simply because it's unavoidable. Using an answering machine according to the instructions can record your neighbor's wifi as buzzing - the telephone wiring is the antenna.
Note that the long established law does NOT allow you to DECRYPT an encrypted transmission once you receive it. That would be "circumventing technical measures" under DMCA etc. In 2001, an attempt was made to make it illegal to DISCLOSE the content of certain transmissions. Last I heard, that was being challenged at the Supreme Court.
I can't adequately express how sick I am of hearing people demand such a niche feature.
You keep hearing all of these people demanding it, so you think it's a "niche feature" nobody uses. Think about that for a minute. You hear everyone say they use it ...
I'm going to assume for a moment that you're intelligent and you can look at this with some simple logic. If you keep hearing everybody say how important it is, and YOU don't know why it's so useful, which is most likely:
a) all of the people using it don't know what they are using or why
b) the guy who does not use it doesn't know what he's missing
If you stop arguing for just a minute and ask "what benefits do all of these people get from this capability?" you might have a cool new tool in your kit.
So true. My favorite news site added crappy video ads. I found a new site. This time, I actually spent 60 seconds to email them and let them know. As you said, the implied deal is that they create a bunch of great news stories for me, which I like, and I see the ads. I'm not willing to make that trade with their new, particularly annoying ads. I won't block the ads while taking the content because that would be sort of similar to stealing, if I don't keep up my end of the deal by seeing the ads.
ave a 2 ton (24000 BTU) air-conditioner which will be able to maintain a cool room temperature (the lab is quite small)
1 BTU is 0.29 watt/hour. So take your total power usage and multiply by three. That's how many BTU of heat the rack will diisipate (all power eventually turns to heat). That's how much ADDITIONAL cooling you'll need beyond what's already used to keep the room cool.
Would it be best to orient the shelves (and thus the fans) in the same direction throughout the cabinet, or to alternate the fan orientations on a shelf-by-shelf basis?
Keep them all the same, so that the system works as one big fan, pulling cool air from one side of the cabinet and exhausting hot air from the other. It's easiest to visualize if you imagine the airflow with a simple scenario. Imagine you had all of the even numbered shelves facing backward, blowing hot air to the front of the rack, while all the odd numbered shelves were trying to suck cool air from the front. That would totally fail because the odd numbered shelves would be sucking in hot air blown out from the even ones and vice-versa. You'd just be blowing hot air around the rack, not moving air through the rack. The same generally applies to other less simple configurations - if different units are arranged differently, they'll work against each other to some extent, rather than working as one team.
The answer is always "I want the government to step in and act violently on behalf of what I want them to do, but not for anyone else."
I assume you mean to say "I want the government to force everyone to do what I want"? The alternative reading, "I want the government to do what I want the government to do" is a meaningless tautology. So you think everyone wants the government to use force, up to and including violence, to make you live as they want? Most people do NOT think that way. Most people value freedom.
For example, I want you to get health coverage. I do not want the government to arrest you if you refuse to get government approved coverage or pay them a penalty. I want you to work hard, generate a lot of wealth, and give away as much as you can. I don't want the government forcibly taking what you earn and giving it away to their voters. Nor do I want the next logical step - the government physically forcing you to continue working 60 hours a week despite the fact they are taking 60% of your pay.
Yeah, messing up is normal. Failing mark a snapshot before becoming with a million emails is incompetence. With a snapshot, human error might have resulted in losing three minutes worth of emails.
"To err is human, to fuck up the whole system requires root."
In the US, at least, criminal trespass arrests generally occur after an officer witnesses the owner telling someone to leave and not come back. The police don't have the right to tell me to leave your house - only you have that right. Also, they don't have the right to arrest me unless they either witness me committing a crime or get get a warrant. So it's the property owner (or their representative) telling someone to leave, the cop just witnesses the criminal trespass.
The Tucker fell apart at it's unvieling, breaking to control arms under it's own weight. It was louder than any other car of the time, and had no reverse gear. Did "the man" force him to try to sell a terrible design, or is it possible that he simply wasn't up to the task?
Apparently you find slashdot valuable, you're here. Have you paid for a slashdot subscription? I'm on Slashdot daily. I haven't and won't pay, so they'll have to use ads to pay for this post.
Ready answer - nectar the ones who complain are not willing to pay a dollar even for some of their favorite sites. Slashdot allows you to choose to turn off ads by paying. Something like 0.001% pay. 99.99% won't pay.
Some time ago I wrote a shareware program that does something no other software does. 100,000 people downloaded it. It got top ratings everywhere. About 60 people emailed me saying how much they like the software. Exactly ONE person paid the $5 "donation" for it. Web sites are like that - people will visit daily, they'll talk about how awesome the site is, but no way they'll fork over $1. They just don't.
current projects that we have in mind are small and probably not of interest to the wider world, although one very large project is possible. I need a site that emphasizes our non-profit as the benefactor rather than the wider world, since most projects are so specific that wider applicability seems slim.
If it's not of interest to the wider world, you'll not get developers coming to help, with a possible exception being if the organization is extremely well known, like Red Cross. However, if it's that specific, probably either a) the problem has been too narrowly defined or b) it's not a development project, but a find-and-configure project.
Think of the problem in more general terms, general enough so that it DOES apply to other people. Who else might have a similar problem? Do other people have a good solution for this type of problem? If others have a solution that works well for them, perhaps it makes sense to use the same solution yourself, configured for your needs. No development required. If other organizations with similiar problems do NOT have a good solution, work with them to find a solution that helps them too, so others can contribute to a shared solution.
One way of doing it is to use somebody else's info for password reset so you can remember what you entered. Maybe you pick John Kennedy. You'd enter Kennedy's mother's maiden name, Kennedy's dog's name, etc. That way anyone impersonating you by entering your data doesn't get in, but you don't have to remember nonsense answers.
Supply and demand dictates value.
The court's 1) is supply and 2) is demand.
n you're asserting you know better than Microsoft what should be done to their OS
Who doesn't know better than Microlost? For example, does anyone think Metro was a good idea? Hot corners? Burying "turn off" in Control Pnael, several clicks away from the desktop? One might say that any argument predicated on Microsoft having a clue is suspect.
Food Stamps were around $80 billion last year, which represents about 0.5% of GDP
The federal side of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is the $80 billion you refer to. The USDA alone has at least four other food programs. Do you think maybe TANF/AFDC is supposed used by buy groceries? There's $17 billion federal and $15 billion state. $80 billion here, $22 billion there - pretty soon it starts to add up.
Indeed, one can become educated if one chooses to. I not only don't have a college degree, I don't have a high school diploma. Yet, I develop and maintain the the online learning system for a major state university system agency. I'm a kernel and Apache contributor, so I am educated. My father grew up living in a tent with a dirt floor. Later, he was an oil company VP flying around on the corporate jet. He had never seen a toothbrush until third grade, much less any technology, yet he worked his way to a country club membership, thereby proving all my excuses to be BS.
There are exactly two reasons that an American may be uneducated - because they choose to be, and major brain injury/disease.
We don't have a discussion about universal cell phone access or universal groceries access either.
I guesd you're not familiar with Obama Phones. 4G is now an entitlement. That's where the $12.50 / month "universal access fee" you pays goes. When the FCC looked into it, at least 41% of recipients aren't actually eligible - they make more than enough to buy their own phones, but they had you buy them one instead.
As far as universal groceries, 11% of Americans recieve food stamps, and grocery-related entitlements cost about 9% of the total GDP. For readers not familiar with economics jargon, for every $100 you earn, roughly $20 of that goes to pay for someone else's bills through various taxpayer funded programs.
My experience is that people don't show up on day one knowing exactly what needs to be done. Someone has to keep track of which parts of the project need to be done. That "someone" who keeps track of things is a project MANAGER. A skilled, experienced tech in that role is good. They are more valuable managing the project than writing code. To get me to take on that stress, you have to pay me more. That's two reasons why I do management - because it has to be done and someone is willing to pay me more to manage coders than to be a coder.
Within a decent sized project, you'll have less experienced or less knowledgeable people. They'll need some management by more knowledgeable people guiding them. As much as I would like to just code all day, SOMEONE has to point out to the new person that copying and pasting the same code in six different places causes problems.
While the project manager is busy with the $800,000 project, someone elese has to think acout how that fits into the organization's $12million total budget and the five year plan. Otherwise, you may win the battle but lose the war, you may succeed at doing the wrong things. Your best and brightest people are a lot more valuable making five-year and ten-year $xx million decisions than having the best people writing "while" loops. I prefer to just work on algorithms, but someone needs to plan for what happens when this three-year contract is over.
It's not a power trip. It's a job someone needs to do. Heck, most of the management I do now is for a non-profit where I don't get paid and the managing board resented by those too lazy/apathetic to take on any responsibilities themselves. I do it simply because it needs to be done, or the organization would fail in it's mission.