Reddit's upvote / downvote system on posts and comments allowing the better ones to bubble the top is huge. Yes it rewards group-think, but the alternative of trolls and uninteresting activity bubbling to the top simply because they were first or last to post is much much worse. And that's Usenet.
When I browse the visible user comments on Slashdot they are generally much more infantile than those visible on Reddit. Yours and the parent comment are the two most insightful comments I've seen on here for a while. I am a daily Reddit and Slashdot user. Give me Reddit's commenting system and community over Slashdot's any day.
Project managers are unnecessary. Tech teams and business teams should be communicating directly. No need for a middle-man who costs money. Project managers will not understand either the technology nor the business as well as the other two groups. Projects need to be tracked but that can be done by the business and tech teams together with the right tools. Middle managers are a burden on an organization and project managers are just that.
These buzzwords, some years ago "SOA" and "EBS", and more recently " devops", are press invented jargon to try keep historically paper-based IT weeklies and more recently their web-based equivalents (infoq, the serverside,... etc) and their advertisers afloat. More recently it's "microservices". Keep an eye out for that one now "devops" is "dead".
Bitter much? I'm also like you, a bit of everything. More positions are open to me (and presumably you) than the average narrowly-focused techie. That glass is half full dude.
The Financial Industry gobbles up techies. In New York you'll have no problems finding a job if you have Java or C++ & maybe Python, and you'll be paid much more than other parts of the country (but you'll be living in less space). The Financial Industry won't frown on PHDs either.
If you aren't strong in any of those languages you need to become strong in at least one. Learn RDBMS (SQL) too if you don't have it. NoSQL DBs can help too but it is still less widely used/needed than traditional RDBMS. I suggest you build something to both increase your knowledge and show to employers in your downtime.
In my current job I have four 20 inch monitors in a 2x2 square. Active apps (Eclipse and browser) go in the bottom two. Less active apps (email and SQL client) up the top. It will be very hard for me to go back to one or two monitors. If an employer isn't willing to provide your most productive set up then it's a sign to keep away from them.
No, he's not. Poor character development, no shades of gray, and very forgetable. A lame novel that reminds me, with a few great exceptions, that sci-fi is a good place to for second rate writers to gain adulation and a living.
I also suspected he meant Pres4242, but agree with you. He wasn't a troll, just lived in a strange reality. Tom Lord? I don't know how you can even suspect he was trolling.
I generally agree with bhima's well-written post though. The number of "Armageddon's coming, everyone grab their canned-food & guns" & general conspiracy theory stories was alarming. Reddit's the same way. Why is the Internets so delusional?
> Anything else expected by CBS/Viacom is unreasonable and impossible to do.
If it's so impossible then how is it that YouTube is so successful with keeping off porn? Google could employ staff to analyze uploaded content before it was made available (they may do already) and make a judgement on whether it's likely to be infringing or not. It will never be perfect, some infringing material will get through and some non-infringing material maybe rejected, but it's a reasonable effort that I think the courts are going to require of Google.
> I can't even understand why anyone thinks that Viacom is in the right.
Spoken like someone who has never read the DMCA. See below for the relevant section. Now tell me how does Google satisfy clause "B"? And with regard to point "A(i)" tell me how it is so easy for me to put in "Daily Show" into YouTube's search field and come with infringing material yet Google can claim "it has no knowledge" of infringing material unless someone sends them a take-down notice? How do you think a judge will view a Google claim of "we have no knowledge of the infringing material" if they do so? The company with the greatest search algorithm in the world is unable to find something that is clear as day to you and me? They'll be laughed right out of the court room.
Those who claim that a copyright violator (Google) is only obliged to take down content after it is pointed out to them are ignorant that their are certain criteria that the violator must meet, and Google doesn't. My prediction is Google will settle or lose.
"(c) Information Residing on Systems or Networks at Direction of Users.--
"(1) In general.--A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason of the storage at the direction of a user of material that resides on a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider, if the service provider--
"(A)(i) does not have actual knowledge that the material or an activity using the material on the system or network is infringing;
"(ii) in the absence of such actual knowledge, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent; or
"(iii) upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material;
"(B) does not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity, in a case in which the service provider has the right and ability to control such activity; and
"(C) upon notification of claimed infringement as described in paragraph (3), responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity.
SCO only loses the ability to distribute GPLed software if they fail to comply with it's license. By saying "the GPL is invalid" or writing to congress SCO isn't necessarily in violation of the GPL*.
*Note: That's not to say they've failed to comply with the GPL terms in other ways, like charging that "Linux Intellectual Property License" for example, I'm just saying that publicly saying the GPL is invalid is outrageous hypocracy but is not necessarily a violation of the GPL itself.
if you act like a moron, you'll be treated like one
You treat any customer like they're a moron and you lose a sale. If you deal directly with customers you need to have a helpful attitude. After the article's author's experience where do you think she'll buy the product? Gamestop first and EBGames last. Who gets the revenue? You were the EBGames employee and you lost. I would have fired you.
Working in retail is about making sales. Working in any business is about treating your customers well. If that's not your first priority where-ever you work then it's time to move on.
What this poster and a lot of others are failing to understand is that right now India and China are still relatively poor countries. When their economies become more and more prosperous guess what? Their people do too. And then they become consumers. 2 billion new consumers provides unbelievable opportunities to the global economy. Goods and service providers in China, India, US, and the rest of the world will all win.
Open your eyes people. Gloablization is not a one-way street.
I was referring to them as separate languages. i.e. When I say C/C++ is not used for new projects I mean that both C & C++ are not used for new projects. Your point is irrelevant to the argument I was making.
Open-source development is still only a small fraction of all development. Most development occurs inside corporations for internal use. Very few of these internally developed new projects are being done with C++ anymore. For any new project of any complexity a good majority (probably >90%) are being done in either Java or C# (the rest are being done with one of the scripting languages).
Now why is Mono a good idea? 1) One of the biggest road-blocks for a corporation to move desktops from Windows to Linux is those internally developed applications which were developed using Microsoft technologies. With all new internally apps being developed in either Java or C# moving to Linux is now easier.
2) In terms of developer-productivity and safety Java & C# are much better languages to develop in over C/C++. That's why very few new projects in the corporate world are developed in C/C++ outside of a few niche areas (low level kernel/OS stuff, areas where you need a small foot-print and high-speed, and graphic intensive apps). For example, how many C++ projects do you see on the Apache website, especially those that have begun only in the past few years? Why do you think that is?
When using Bittorrent you are actually also distributing as well as downloading it. It's how Bittorrent works. And those that the RIAA/MPAA are prosecuting are those that are sharing the file. They are not going after people who have only downloaded it without sharing it (technically it's very difficult for them to find the download-only people).
So the Shoplifter analogy is wrong. A better analogy would be a person who is standing in a public space and giving out copies of a DVD. The (almost) perfect real-life analogy is the comparison with the people that sell the camcordered copies of movies.
When a computer can walk into the room, sit down at the chess board, make small talk, discuss current events, learn, sustain it's own existence, and then beat Kasparov in chess I'll be impressed.
Computer chess programs are nothing more than glorified calculators.
We've seen Australia and Germany use some counter-legal action against SCO's FUD. Why is it not happening in the US? Surely there must be some laws in the US preventing people from claiming ownership of something without having proved it (yet)? They are damaging an industry with no evidence of their claims (yet), there must be some legal recourse for that industry to recover damages or at least shut them up?
PS: I posted this question earlier but it didn't seem to make it, so am posting it again.
Slashdot Mirror
Reddit's upvote / downvote system on posts and comments allowing the better ones to bubble the top is huge. Yes it rewards group-think, but the alternative of trolls and uninteresting activity bubbling to the top simply because they were first or last to post is much much worse. And that's Usenet.
When I browse the visible user comments on Slashdot they are generally much more infantile than those visible on Reddit. Yours and the parent comment are the two most insightful comments I've seen on here for a while. I am a daily Reddit and Slashdot user. Give me Reddit's commenting system and community over Slashdot's any day.
Project managers are unnecessary. Tech teams and business teams should be communicating directly. No need for a middle-man who costs money. Project managers will not understand either the technology nor the business as well as the other two groups. Projects need to be tracked but that can be done by the business and tech teams together with the right tools. Middle managers are a burden on an organization and project managers are just that.
These buzzwords, some years ago "SOA" and "EBS", and more recently " devops", are press invented jargon to try keep historically paper-based IT weeklies and more recently their web-based equivalents (infoq, the serverside, ... etc) and their advertisers afloat. More recently it's "microservices". Keep an eye out for that one now "devops" is "dead".
Bitter much? I'm also like you, a bit of everything. More positions are open to me (and presumably you) than the average narrowly-focused techie. That glass is half full dude.
The Financial Industry gobbles up techies. In New York you'll have no problems finding a job if you have Java or C++ & maybe Python, and you'll be paid much more than other parts of the country (but you'll be living in less space). The Financial Industry won't frown on PHDs either.
If you aren't strong in any of those languages you need to become strong in at least one. Learn RDBMS (SQL) too if you don't have it. NoSQL DBs can help too but it is still less widely used/needed than traditional RDBMS. I suggest you build something to both increase your knowledge and show to employers in your downtime.
In my current job I have four 20 inch monitors in a 2x2 square. Active apps (Eclipse and browser) go in the bottom two. Less active apps (email and SQL client) up the top. It will be very hard for me to go back to one or two monitors. If an employer isn't willing to provide your most productive set up then it's a sign to keep away from them.
No, he's not. Poor character development, no shades of gray, and very forgetable. A lame novel that reminds me, with a few great exceptions, that sci-fi is a good place to for second rate writers to gain adulation and a living.
What CmdrTaco failed to mention is that when you remove all the duplicate articles they're only at 75,654.
General requirements
Mac computer with an Intel processor
hmmmm, if only we could figure out who makes the Atom ....
I also suspected he meant Pres4242, but agree with you. He wasn't a troll, just lived in a strange reality. Tom Lord? I don't know how you can even suspect he was trolling.
I generally agree with bhima's well-written post though. The number of "Armageddon's coming, everyone grab their canned-food & guns" & general conspiracy theory stories was alarming. Reddit's the same way. Why is the Internets so delusional?
I also participated in the conversation regularly. Who do you think were the two trolls?
Here's the correct link for the Tobold full review
> Anything else expected by CBS/Viacom is unreasonable and impossible to do.
If it's so impossible then how is it that YouTube is so successful with keeping off porn? Google could employ staff to analyze uploaded content before it was made available (they may do already) and make a judgement on whether it's likely to be infringing or not. It will never be perfect, some infringing material will get through and some non-infringing material maybe rejected, but it's a reasonable effort that I think the courts are going to require of Google.
Spoken like someone who has never read the DMCA. See below for the relevant section. Now tell me how does Google satisfy clause "B"? And with regard to point "A(i)" tell me how it is so easy for me to put in "Daily Show" into YouTube's search field and come with infringing material yet Google can claim "it has no knowledge" of infringing material unless someone sends them a take-down notice? How do you think a judge will view a Google claim of "we have no knowledge of the infringing material" if they do so? The company with the greatest search algorithm in the world is unable to find something that is clear as day to you and me? They'll be laughed right out of the court room.
Those who claim that a copyright violator (Google) is only obliged to take down content after it is pointed out to them are ignorant that their are certain criteria that the violator must meet, and Google doesn't. My prediction is Google will settle or lose.
> Am I doing something wrong?
Yes, you are using Internet Explorer.
SCO only loses the ability to distribute GPLed software if they fail to comply with it's license.
By saying "the GPL is invalid" or writing to congress SCO isn't necessarily in violation of the GPL*.
*Note: That's not to say they've failed to comply with the GPL terms in other ways, like charging that "Linux Intellectual Property License" for example, I'm just saying that publicly saying the GPL is invalid is outrageous hypocracy but is not necessarily a violation of the GPL itself.
if you act like a moron, you'll be treated like one
You treat any customer like they're a moron and you lose a sale. If you deal directly with customers you need to have a helpful attitude. After the article's author's experience where do you think she'll buy the product? Gamestop first and EBGames last. Who gets the revenue? You were the EBGames employee and you lost. I would have fired you.
Working in retail is about making sales. Working in any business is about treating your customers well. If that's not your first priority where-ever you work then it's time to move on.
What this poster and a lot of others are failing to understand is that right now India and China are still relatively poor countries. When their economies become more and more prosperous guess what? Their people do too. And then they become consumers. 2 billion new consumers provides unbelievable opportunities to the global economy. Goods and service providers in China, India, US, and the rest of the world will all win.
Open your eyes people. Gloablization is not a one-way street.
I was referring to them as separate languages. i.e. When I say C/C++ is not used for new projects I mean that both C & C++ are not used for new projects. Your point is irrelevant to the argument I was making.
Open-source development is still only a small fraction of all development. Most development occurs inside corporations for internal use. Very few of these internally developed new projects are being done with C++ anymore. For any new project of any complexity a good majority (probably >90%) are being done in either Java or C# (the rest are being done with one of the scripting languages).
Now why is Mono a good idea?
1) One of the biggest road-blocks for a corporation to move desktops from Windows to Linux is those internally developed applications which were developed using Microsoft technologies. With all new internally apps being developed in either Java or C# moving to Linux is now easier.
2) In terms of developer-productivity and safety Java & C# are much better languages to develop in over C/C++. That's why very few new projects in the corporate world are developed in C/C++ outside of a few niche areas (low level kernel/OS stuff, areas where you need a small foot-print and high-speed, and graphic intensive apps). For example, how many C++ projects do you see on the Apache website, especially those that have begun only in the past few years? Why do you think that is?
When using Bittorrent you are actually also distributing as well as downloading it. It's how Bittorrent works. And those that the RIAA/MPAA are prosecuting are those that are sharing the file. They are not going after people who have only downloaded it without sharing it (technically it's very difficult for them to find the download-only people).
So the Shoplifter analogy is wrong. A better analogy would be a person who is standing in a public space and giving out copies of a DVD. The (almost) perfect real-life analogy is the comparison with the people that sell the camcordered copies of movies.
I believe that was linuxtoday.com not linuxworld.com
When a computer can walk into the room, sit down at the chess board, make small talk, discuss current events, learn, sustain it's own existence, and then beat Kasparov in chess I'll be impressed.
Computer chess programs are nothing more than glorified calculators.
We've seen Australia and Germany use some counter-legal action against SCO's FUD. Why is it not happening in the US? Surely there must be some laws in the US preventing people from claiming ownership of something without having proved it (yet)? They are damaging an industry with no evidence of their claims (yet), there must be some legal recourse for that industry to recover damages or at least shut them up?
PS: I posted this question earlier but it didn't seem to make it, so am posting it again.
Is a "Linux Ship" a boat where everyone rides for free and it never sinks?