Bracing style can be enforced by a fscking script.
It should not be the task of a programmer to adhere to a pointless punctuaction and bracing style, that is a presentational issue better addressed by automatic tools ( once a program is syntactically correct).
Other companies would pay me the same without the perks.
Perks are a no brainer, you get things for free or cheaper than if you had to provide them yourslef (private health insurance comes to mind, I only have to pay the respective tax, far cheaper than getting insurance myself).
If it is infringing on anybody's patents, you will show diligence and stop infringing.
If it is an innovative product, you are creating prior art thus blocking any idiots trying to patent your idea. Of course there is always somebody trying to pull a SCO in legal systems that are utterly broken, but you can't do much about that, can you?
Write code, learn, enjoy it and face the situation if it arises. There is nothing the common person can do about this, the most softwar is produced the more difficult it becomes for any stupid dishonest company or person to appropriate ideas they did not create.
And of course do all what you can to abolish software patents. They are an aberration and a danger to knowledge advancement in societies that uphold them.
This is/. , your Economist, Forbes, BusinessWeek or whatever you normally read is not here.
Look pal, there are many people out there that as part of their job they have to do things which do not necessarily please them on extreme.
That does not mean they are not professional.
There was one a musician in one German orchestra that had to perform the first installment of one of Richard Wagner's masterpieces. His pergorming was so superb that Wagner went to thank him personally. When he asked the performer (I belive it was a french horn player) if he had liked the music he replayed that it was the most hideous thing he had ever played.
Wagner, surprised of course, said then how he managed to play it so sell. The musician replyed that he was a professional and he would do his utmost to perform to the best of his abilities any music given to him.
In other words, get off your high horse because you look pathetic.
I am a subscriber of the magazine and frankly found their choice of "game" abysmal since what they chose is not a game, no matter how they want to spin it.
I think Linux game developpers, that are fighting one of the most ungrateful tasks to make a Linux desktop a reality, should not be thrilled by being blantantly ignored by people that are suppossed to be knowledgable about Linux.
If the LJ editors do not use games, then the honorable choice would have been to either not to give an award or to delegate the selection on people knowledgable about this field.
Of all the possible choices they took the worst: to insult the intelligence of their readers and of Linux game developpers.
You could have a point if the service provided by the Indian companies was charged below cost ( a practice which MS is quite familiar with).
The problem with your assumption is that life is cheaper in other places, which is reflected in the cost of labour.
Why is that? Because in India they have a population of millions (almost a billion) out of which only a precious few can offer high tech servcies. Those relatively few are willing to work for little money (compared to developed countries) because jobs are relatively scarce in poor societies.
So in other words, India, China and other countries have a competitive advantage. The US has enormous tracts of fertile land and thus can produce the cheapest meat and grain in the world, India has tons of people highly educated willing to work for less money.
That is not artificial, it is a reflection of economic realities.
What you are advocating is that we become a subsistence farmers society, or what, is our plot of land going to feed us in autopilot mode or what?
I guess you are also a proponent of rigid population control, in the style of one child only policy in China, since otherwise your "inheritance" will srhink with each new generation of new forced farmers.
We, specialy in developped countries, live in an era when we are living longer, healtier (smokers, you suck) lifes, of food overabundance (in most developed countries obesity is becoming the #1 killer, followed by car accidents and perhaps AIDS, nothing to do with bad nourishment).
We can choses what we want to do for a living (horror of horrors, we have to work to obtain life necesities. Point us out to your golden age when this did not happen).
We can elect wo lead our societies (if you and your ilk chose Bush, Kerry or whoever and can't be arsed to even vote or get politically active, well, big duh for you)..
But somehow, in your dope induced haze we are slaves and the machines are out to get us.
How much does your computer cost now? How much did they cost 10 years ago?
Ditto for most electronics, software (not products, but functions, when Netscape came out it costed 45 or so bucks, not browsers are free, ditto for desktop OSes, Linux is free).
The same can be said of many manufactured stuff.
In real terms life is cheaper, that is why people in rich countries take for granted to have a car, a TV, and hot water.
How can people like you get on their heads that a driver is using a tool that is potentially life threateaning at any time while it is being used?
The line should be drawn where each society finds it necessary, I would advocate for stopping drivers drinking, eating, smoking ro doing anything that requires to look away from the road or that impairs therir attention.
Mobile phone use was so widespread and so obviously dangerous (as later confirmed by numerous studies in different countries) that it was important to penalize that particular behaviour since people obviously were not sensible about this problem.
Most shuttle machines have between 2 and 4 USB ports (1.1 and 2.0), firewire and standard keyboard and PS2 ports, The floppy is optional, you don't want it you don't install one.
Slashdot Mirror
And only finished versions of the code.
The differences are applied to the original, finished version of the code, not to the one generated for readability.
Bracing style can be enforced by a fscking script.
It should not be the task of a programmer to adhere to a pointless punctuaction and bracing style, that is a presentational issue better addressed by automatic tools ( once a program is syntactically correct).
Other companies would pay me the same without the perks.
Perks are a no brainer, you get things for free or cheaper than if you had to provide them yourslef (private health insurance comes to mind, I only have to pay the respective tax, far cheaper than getting insurance myself).
The guy is looking frantically for a job, he has not found it.
For him the tax cuts have been "pie in the sky" as the Brits say.
I have been working for 4 years witha decent salary and could live for a year with my cash savings.
I just don't understand what the grand parent poster has done with all those years of loyality.
Write your software. Period.
If it is infringing on anybody's patents, you will show diligence and stop infringing.
If it is an innovative product, you are creating prior art thus blocking any idiots trying to patent your idea. Of course there is always somebody trying to pull a SCO in legal systems that are utterly broken, but you can't do much about that, can you?
Write code, learn, enjoy it and face the situation if it arises. There is nothing the common person can do about this, the most softwar is produced the more difficult it becomes for any stupid dishonest company or person to appropriate ideas they did not create.
And of course do all what you can to abolish software patents. They are an aberration and a danger to knowledge advancement in societies that uphold them.
If you don't have the guts to negotiate your contracts and ask for a new helping when you are screwed that is your problem not ours.
I do negotiate my contracts, I make sure onerous clauses are removed and if that is not possible then I find work elsewhere.
I don't understand why are there so many people out there unwilling to stand and defend what in all logic is theirs.
This is /. , your Economist, Forbes, BusinessWeek or whatever you normally read is not here.
Look pal, there are many people out there that as part of their job they have to do things which do not necessarily please them on extreme.
That does not mean they are not professional.
There was one a musician in one German orchestra that had to perform the first installment of one of Richard Wagner's masterpieces. His pergorming was so superb that Wagner went to thank him personally. When he asked the performer (I belive it was a french horn player) if he had liked the music he replayed that it was the most hideous thing he had ever played.
Wagner, surprised of course, said then how he managed to play it so sell. The musician replyed that he was a professional and he would do his utmost to perform to the best of his abilities any music given to him.
In other words, get off your high horse because you look pathetic.
.... is compltetely unintelligible to you?
Look on top of that iceburg, you may need to look for a while.
When was the last time you used Linux?
Was that on historic times or knowledge of that period survives only by oral tradition?
Annual reinstal of Linux! Give us a brake Crusty. Or is your name Bozo?
I am a subscriber of the magazine and frankly found their choice of "game" abysmal since what they chose is not a game, no matter how they want to spin it.
I think Linux game developpers, that are fighting one of the most ungrateful tasks to make a Linux desktop a reality, should not be thrilled by being blantantly ignored by people that are suppossed to be knowledgable about Linux.
If the LJ editors do not use games, then the honorable choice would have been to either not to give an award or to delegate the selection on people knowledgable about this field.
Of all the possible choices they took the worst: to insult the intelligence of their readers and of Linux game developpers.
... 16 year old girls are fair game.
In the Netherlands I blieve young girls as young as 12 are, but I may be mistaken.
In muslim societies very often girls are married just shortly after they menstruate for the first time.
Do not assume your wrong is an aboslute wrong everywhere.
I think everybody would agree with the sick and twisted part you are pointing out.
.... did not you see all those people commiting sepuku the day their company went from Word perfect o MS Office or from Lotus to Excell.
Or from MSDOS to Windows.
Yeah, the bodies were piling up so high one coudl not walk.
Typical geekizoid nonsense.
You could have a point if the service provided by the Indian companies was charged below cost ( a practice which MS is quite familiar with).
The problem with your assumption is that life is cheaper in other places, which is reflected in the cost of labour.
Why is that? Because in India they have a population of millions (almost a billion) out of which only a precious few can offer high tech servcies. Those relatively few are willing to work for little money (compared to developed countries) because jobs are relatively scarce in poor societies.
So in other words, India, China and other countries have a competitive advantage. The US has enormous tracts of fertile land and thus can produce the cheapest meat and grain in the world, India has tons of people highly educated willing to work for less money.
That is not artificial, it is a reflection of economic realities.
I have been in the same boat for around 15 years, the quality of work is always of higer standard when the work is done by Indian companies.
No complaints at all (save the natural ones that arise for integrating complex projects, which has nothing to do with nationalities).
It seems to be quite good.
What you are advocating is that we become a subsistence farmers society, or what, is our plot of land going to feed us in autopilot mode or what?
I guess you are also a proponent of rigid population control, in the style of one child only policy in China, since otherwise your "inheritance" will srhink with each new generation of new forced farmers.
We, specialy in developped countries, live in an era when we are living longer, healtier (smokers, you suck) lifes, of food overabundance (in most developed countries obesity is becoming the #1 killer, followed by car accidents and perhaps AIDS, nothing to do with bad nourishment).
We can choses what we want to do for a living (horror of horrors, we have to work to obtain life necesities. Point us out to your golden age when this did not happen).
We can elect wo lead our societies (if you and your ilk chose Bush, Kerry or whoever and can't be arsed to even vote or get politically active, well, big duh for you)..
But somehow, in your dope induced haze we are slaves and the machines are out to get us.
Gimme somme of that herb please! Gimme some!
We know you are not reading the /. articles that clearly state that people in other countries are not receiving slave wages.
You want to spread that misinformation, go ahead, just don't expect to go unchallenged.
So what are you? Ignorant or liar?
How much does your computer cost now? How much did they cost 10 years ago?
Ditto for most electronics, software (not products, but functions, when Netscape came out it costed 45 or so bucks, not browsers are free, ditto for desktop OSes, Linux is free).
The same can be said of many manufactured stuff.
In real terms life is cheaper, that is why people in rich countries take for granted to have a car, a TV, and hot water.
Juvenile trash means exactly that, something juvenile that is trash.
There may be things that are juvenile and not trash, the critic is just qualifying a work, you are adding your own preconceived prejudices afterwards.
my-machine $uname -sr /
SunOS 5.8
my-machine $which bash
/usr/bin/bash
my-machine $pkginfo -l SUNWbash
PKGINST: SUNWbash
NAME: GNU Bourne-Again shell (bash)
CATEGORY: system
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 11.8.0,REV=2000.01.08.18.12
BASEDIR:
VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
DESC: GNU Bourne-Again shell (bash)
PSTAMP: humbolt20000108182543
INSTDATE: May 28 2002 10:30
HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 7 installed pathnames
5 shared pathnames
5 directories
1 executables
1399 blocks used (approx)
not that I use it, I prefer efficent shells *cough *ksh*cough*
How can people like you get on their heads that a driver is using a tool that is potentially life threateaning at any time while it is being used?
The line should be drawn where each society finds it necessary, I would advocate for stopping drivers drinking, eating, smoking ro doing anything that requires to look away from the road or that impairs therir attention.
Mobile phone use was so widespread and so obviously dangerous (as later confirmed by numerous studies in different countries) that it was important to penalize that particular behaviour since people obviously were not sensible about this problem.
... in Common law bsed systems only I believe (UK, US).
Some people do not need or want to waste time in games.
....
An onboard graphics controller is perfectly addecuate for those people.
several models of these machines have your AGP slot
Visit The Fscking Web Site!
Most shuttle machines have between 2 and 4 USB ports (1.1 and 2.0), firewire and standard keyboard and PS2 ports, The floppy is optional, you don't want it you don't install one.
How difficult is that?