This reads like the author took twelve completely unrelated +3 comments from Slashdot articles and stuck them together.
Basically, his point is that Lunix rulz and Microsoft is teh sux and such will continue to be the case with AJAX apps. That doesn't make sense even if you concede all the author's idiotic premises.
Yeah, mostly what this story demonstrates is why salespeople with the ability to directly interact with human beings continue to make more money than dysfunctional nerds, despite the latter being so much smarterer than the former.
Oh yeah, Harvest! That brings back some mid-90's memories of rainbow horizontal-divider GIF's and animated letter-folding-into-an-envelope mailto icons. Damn it, now I have a Hootie and the Blowfish song stuck in my head!
Come to think of it, I don't think any of those Harvest search boxes ever once returned anything meaningful.
So, does he still get his A9 discount at Amazon? Or did Google have to kick him another billion dollars in stock (which he'll sell, prompting another story from Zonk about how this demonstrates Google management's commitment to their company's future) to make up for the extra 3% he'll be paying for O'Reilly books?
This is fucking retarded. I called dupe a full FOUR MINUTES before you, and I get modded down for "redundant", while you're bumped up for insightful?
Given that neither of us had the composure to come up with "Sorry, Zonk. Cmdr Taco has TEH PRIOR ART on this story!!", I say we should both slink away in shame.
This is going to be a huge hassle for HR departments and seems like it will make diversity harder, not easier to achieve. (The primary beneficiaries are probably the lawyers and extortionist organizations, now that companies have to generate more evidence to be used against themselves.)
I wonder, though, if this isn't going to be a good thing for job applicants. Qualified applicants, anyway.
To my astonishment, I somewhat agree with Stallman. There are multiple Creative Commons licenses, they're fairly different and people use the term "Creative Commons" to refer only to the most permissive ones. (Look through the stories here, and see how often things are described as "under a Creative Commons license", as though that's meaningful.)
It seems to me that this issue isn't really Creative Commons' fault and could be best handled by enforcing clarity. Stallman, who loves to enforce similar "clarity" about existing words which he has personally redefined to mean only what he says they do, certainly ought to get that. I imagine his hostility is really because their range of licenses includes things that are too restrictive for his taste.
Given that the "real" experts on this project are "folks like Ray Kurzweil, David Brin, and Jaron Lanier", I don't see how Crichton is any less of an authority. He's probably the only one of them who has taken an organic chemistry class.
Of course people take paycuts to work in more interesting areas -- that's why you'd have to take the paycut. It's not like you need to be smarter to do VBA than to be a systems programmer or game developer, it's that people demand a premium to do it, in money, benefits, hours and everything else.
The other day I was asked to export a Lotus Notes database into an Excel file and format it.
Hell, I'd take a paycut just to never see Notes again...
Maintaining a repository locally is not about just downloading all the packages to a directory on your local machine and hosting that directory on the network. You have to deal with a lot of issues here, like the hardware requirements, the kind of partition arrangement to make, what space to allocate to each partition, whether you need a proxy server and more.
Umm, why? Does a package repository need to be more super-optimized than any other network resource?
...I assume your OS install disk includes Office, Photoshop lite, World of Warcraft, Quicken, TurboTax, Dreamweaver, Eudora, Half-Life 2, RealPlayer, AIM, Limewire, Webshots Desktop, Acrobat Reader, Flash, Winamp, Bookworm Deluxe, Encarta, and the countless other little things that your typical user installs over the lifetime of a machine, yes?
emerge -uD kde gnome limewire juk -- umm, we're still talking about Linux, right?
Sure, a system reinstall is a pain. (Although given that the user/admin has the root password, I don't think system files are better protected under Unixes than on other OS's, anyway.) But given a choice between losing my / partition and my/home, I'd give up the former in a heartbeat.
The point (and this comes up in the opposite direction when pompous Linuxers slam Lindows and other distros that routinely run users as root) is this: the perception of the security advantages of Unix is based on professionally-maintained multi-user systems and is irrelevant to home Linux use.
On a traditional university or engineering system, files are routinely backed up, and the design of Unix kept anyone but the admin from breaking anything system-wide or for other users.
On a home system, files are almost invariably not backed up, with the result that $HOME is precious. The rest of the system is relatively unimportant -- most of the non-default configuration is in $HOME anyway -- and can easily be reinstalled in an hour. (A day?!? Maybe on Gentoo!) Besides, given that the user is the admin, and necessarily has to be able to break anything he has the capacity to fix, there's no reason to assume the magical safety of system files.
In case you didn't notice, Linux isn't just for serving webpages anymore.
Note that the survey asks what apps are required for "switching to Linux in their data center", not what's needed before your mom will let you install it on the family computer.
>99% of business desktops don't have Photoshop, let alone whatever a "datacenter" involves. If Photoshop is at the top of Novell's list, all it shows is that if you have an open web survey and ask Teh Community for responses, you get replies from 15-year-olds.
Personally, I couldn't care less about how many stories Roland Piquepaille submits or whether they link to his blog. The problem is that all his science-related links are like this one -- some press release about a respectable but routine publication, selected seemingly at random and spun into a revolutionary new breakthrough.
The Soviet work on bacteriophage therapies probably was ignored for Not Invented Here reasons. But it's been looked at pretty thoroughly in the last few years and doesn't appear to have any great value.
Yes, that's the one! (I'd remembered the phrasing as "managerial hindbrain", not "managerial underbrain", which is why my attempt to find it had failed. I should have realized Raymond's pseudo-scientific jabber would never have reached even the level of accuracy of referring to a real part of the anatomy.)
What are you saying, that the original author chose to let VA close their version, and kept working on a Free fork too? I haven't actually checked to see what really happened, but that just doesn't make sense.
The SourceForge code was written by VA, for SourceForge. The GForge guy may be the "original author" in the sense that he literally wrote it, but he isn't the copyright holder.
For real entertainment, try digging up Eric Raymond's statement about the closing of the SourceForge code, where he furiously spins it as a glorious victory for open-source.
The classic of the genre was Core Wars, which is a basically a battle between two assembly programs in a sandboxed chunk of memory. I don't know how active it still is.
The other thing I know of that's vaguely similar to what you're talking about is Angband Borgs.
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Basically, his point is that Lunix rulz and Microsoft is teh sux and such will continue to be the case with AJAX apps. That doesn't make sense even if you concede all the author's idiotic premises.
Yeah, mostly what this story demonstrates is why salespeople with the ability to directly interact with human beings continue to make more money than dysfunctional nerds, despite the latter being so much smarterer than the former.
Come to think of it, I don't think any of those Harvest search boxes ever once returned anything meaningful.
So, does he still get his A9 discount at Amazon? Or did Google have to kick him another billion dollars in stock (which he'll sell, prompting another story from Zonk about how this demonstrates Google management's commitment to their company's future) to make up for the extra 3% he'll be paying for O'Reilly books?
Yup, Eva Mendes in HD! Anyone know when the 2 Fast 2 Furious disc is coming out?
There seem to have been multiple courts making the same ruling in different cases. It makes no sense to me, but IANAFL so what do I know?
Given that neither of us had the composure to come up with "Sorry, Zonk. Cmdr Taco has TEH PRIOR ART on this story!!", I say we should both slink away in shame.
Stupid article anyway, but Taco had it this morning.
(BTW, I think you missed the OP's point...)
This applies to federal contractors begining today. It kicks in for pretty much everyone in the US (>50 employees) later this year.
I wonder, though, if this isn't going to be a good thing for job applicants. Qualified applicants, anyway.
It seems to me that this issue isn't really Creative Commons' fault and could be best handled by enforcing clarity. Stallman, who loves to enforce similar "clarity" about existing words which he has personally redefined to mean only what he says they do, certainly ought to get that. I imagine his hostility is really because their range of licenses includes things that are too restrictive for his taste.
Given that the "real" experts on this project are "folks like Ray Kurzweil, David Brin, and Jaron Lanier", I don't see how Crichton is any less of an authority. He's probably the only one of them who has taken an organic chemistry class.
The other day I was asked to export a Lotus Notes database into an Excel file and format it.
Hell, I'd take a paycut just to never see Notes again...
Umm, why? Does a package repository need to be more super-optimized than any other network resource?
emerge -uD kde gnome limewire juk -- umm, we're still talking about Linux, right?
Sure, a system reinstall is a pain. (Although given that the user/admin has the root password, I don't think system files are better protected under Unixes than on other OS's, anyway.) But given a choice between losing my / partition and my /home, I'd give up the former in a heartbeat.
On a traditional university or engineering system, files are routinely backed up, and the design of Unix kept anyone but the admin from breaking anything system-wide or for other users.
On a home system, files are almost invariably not backed up, with the result that $HOME is precious. The rest of the system is relatively unimportant -- most of the non-default configuration is in $HOME anyway -- and can easily be reinstalled in an hour. (A day?!? Maybe on Gentoo!) Besides, given that the user is the admin, and necessarily has to be able to break anything he has the capacity to fix, there's no reason to assume the magical safety of system files.
Note that the survey asks what apps are required for "switching to Linux in their data center", not what's needed before your mom will let you install it on the family computer.
>99% of business desktops don't have Photoshop, let alone whatever a "datacenter" involves. If Photoshop is at the top of Novell's list, all it shows is that if you have an open web survey and ask Teh Community for responses, you get replies from 15-year-olds.
Personally, I couldn't care less about how many stories Roland Piquepaille submits or whether they link to his blog. The problem is that all his science-related links are like this one -- some press release about a respectable but routine publication, selected seemingly at random and spun into a revolutionary new breakthrough.
No, "doesn't appear to have any great value" as in "doesn't appear to work".
The Soviet work on bacteriophage therapies probably was ignored for Not Invented Here reasons. But it's been looked at pretty thoroughly in the last few years and doesn't appear to have any great value.
Yes, that's the one! (I'd remembered the phrasing as "managerial hindbrain", not "managerial underbrain", which is why my attempt to find it had failed. I should have realized Raymond's pseudo-scientific jabber would never have reached even the level of accuracy of referring to a real part of the anatomy.)
The SourceForge code was written by VA, for SourceForge. The GForge guy may be the "original author" in the sense that he literally wrote it, but he isn't the copyright holder.
For real entertainment, try digging up Eric Raymond's statement about the closing of the SourceForge code, where he furiously spins it as a glorious victory for open-source.
The other thing I know of that's vaguely similar to what you're talking about is Angband Borgs.