1) Try, very, very hard, when a project is young, to consider the ramifications of decisions, and try to anticipate where the project will likely go in the future when it "grows up".
The way I drill this into both junior engineers and senior management is, "We don't have to do everything right the first time. We just have to make sure we don't prevent ourselves from doing it right later."
This, were it to pass, would effectively shut out France and French OSS developers while not changing a damn thing anywhere else. OSS will still be available to anyone in France who wishes to download it, but France will have been cut out of a large and quickly growing segment of the tech industry.
It would indeed affect everyone else. France has, in the past, had no reservations about enforcing its own censorship laws outside of their borders. Put another way: if you can somehow get access to something from France, the government of France claims jurisdiction.
How will they even route their Internet traffic?
I think that problem will solve itself when there isn't any.
From the description it sounds complicated as all get out. Doing dependency checks in real time while the system is running, unlinking in-use libraries, etc.
It has "fragile" written all over it.
I suppose that there are reasons why Microsoft can't just leave an inode in place after unlinking it so that processes that use it don't lose it, but is this really the best workaround they can come up with?
Aside from the fact that the South Fork team is still revising their project architecture, at least so far it's all been so completely Microsoft-based that the team was shocked to find out that Apple wasn't MS-based.
Now they're trying to sweep TiVO (Linux) and Apple (BSD) into the Borg Collective at the same time that it's supposed to go gold next month.
I can understand why long-time Intel employees call it "East Fucked."
Entertainment is a zero-sum game: the market only spends so much on it, and after that it's a fight between the music labels, concerts, sports, movies, entertainment electronics, etc.
Since P2P provides an alternative to big-budget advertising as a way to promote music, it helps the lesser-known acts. That has to come from somewhere, and where it comes from is the big names that owe their success to marketing.
Ignoring the fact that there is the HOPE credit, Lifetime Learning credit, and Educational Savings Accounts (tax free).
HOPE and LLC have parental income caps. The caps don't increase with number of kids in school.
The ex-wife got the kids' college savings; the best I could negotiate was to defer the alimony payments until after they get out of college.
HTH. HAND.
Oh, and for what it's worth: if you don't have a prenup for anything else, make sure you have a cast-iron agreement on what happens to the kids' college funds in case of divorce.
I hadn't really thought of it that way, but good point. Let the guy paying $1.50 / song for Hoobastank subidize my fix for Twisted Sister, Dokken, Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, etc. Yeah, that sounds kinda nice
How much of a discount do the labels put on those CDs?
I suspect that one of the main reasons that this data could possibly be true is the substantial cost of Education here in the US.
I suspect you're wrong.
Suspect what you like, but take it from a father with three kids in college at once: it's brutal.
What's more, it's not even tax deductable. By the time you get to the point where you even have enough after-tax income to pay for the schooling, you have enough income to be disqualified for the tax breaks -- the ceiling doesn't go up with number of dependents.
He suggested paying teachers a $5,000 bonus for teaching Advanced Placement courses, as well as giving the top third of teachers a $5,000 bonus.
We had a program like that at my kids' high school. There was a lot of competition as a result for slots teaching the AP classes.
Too bad that the teachers with math and science degrees didn't have the political clout to get those slots. The ones teaching the AP sections may not have known anything about the material, but they had great lesson plans!
I hope that the (former) teachers with math and science degrees are happier in their new jobs, whatever they are.
While I'm certain this statement is factually correct (it can't help but be), I nevertheless find myself wondering just what multiple Romney is alluding to here. Three? Ten? Two-fiths? i?
Damn it, Jim! He's a politician, not a mathematician!
As Barbie teaches us, "Math is hard." The other key lesson is that hard work is for the underclasses, not the ruling class. From this we learn why he wants more math and science graduates: so he doesn't have to do hard math for his own speeches.
... this comes from someone who has made a career of technology?
No? You mean that the Ruling Class isn't flocking to the sciences? How many of Governor Romney's children has he convinced to make a future in science and technology?
Let me guess: his kids are being groomed for careers in law, finance, and government as befits their station in life and more realistic estimates of long-term prospects.
I wonder why he's not advocating more of the Great Unwashed go after those jobs in competition with his own...
Yeah, and when they re-add them every single time you log in, and when they disable blocking or banning them, and when they IM you every 15 minutes with links to cool, hot stuff that you just have to buy, will it be a big deal then?
Darwin award material, maybe. They have some pretty obvious disincentives to doing so, but it'll be a long time until artificial intelligence is a match for natural stupidity.
In any case, this is a (speculative) matter of imposing the death penalty for suicide.
Why not, it's their software. Since you're installing it on your machine, I guess you agree to grant them root on your system, too.
Usually when people crank up the straw man factory it means that they haven't anything better to say.
As noted elsewhere, I don't (read: can't) run the AOL IM client, and the suggestion that I would give them root access seems to be nothing more than trolling.
In the meantime, the service is useful, and for me more useful than the Microsoft-only services at MSN and Google. Obviously, that could change. I'll wait on events rather than flying off at the handle.
Just like you can delete unsolicited commercial e-mails, right?
Key difference is that one spammer wouldn't create the problems that we get from thousands. With diffusion of responsibility, none of them have any reason to expect that their own actions will poison the well (although collectively, they are well on their way there.)
AOL is in a different boat: they're the only ones who can pull this trick and if they aren't careful to avoid overdoing it they'll just put their service out of business. IM is pretty close to being the ultimate network-effect system, after all.
Their servers, their rules. I can't complain about the cost of the service, after all, and this sure beats getting hammered by popups every few minutes while connected to their system.
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That's what I was referring to.
(Says he, posting from his Gentoo box while KDE 3.5 builds in a screen session:
$ uptime
15:36:21 up 7:24, 8 users, load average: 2.04, 2.14, 2.24)
The way I drill this into both junior engineers and senior management is, "We don't have to do everything right the first time. We just have to make sure we don't prevent ourselves from doing it right later."
Whine and crackpots, of course.
It would indeed affect everyone else. France has, in the past, had no reservations about enforcing its own censorship laws outside of their borders. Put another way: if you can somehow get access to something from France, the government of France claims jurisdiction.
How will they even route their Internet traffic?
I think that problem will solve itself when there isn't any.
It has "fragile" written all over it.
I suppose that there are reasons why Microsoft can't just leave an inode in place after unlinking it so that processes that use it don't lose it, but is this really the best workaround they can come up with?
What it turned up was that:
After that there was a speculation that maybe e-mail is still the killer app, or maybe that Linux needs better mail apps, or something.
It doesn't help that this is /. pointing to a hosed article in ZD citing coverage in desktoplinux.com
Aside from the fact that the South Fork team is still revising their project architecture, at least so far it's all been so completely Microsoft-based that the team was shocked to find out that Apple wasn't MS-based.
Now they're trying to sweep TiVO (Linux) and Apple (BSD) into the Borg Collective at the same time that it's supposed to go gold next month.
I can understand why long-time Intel employees call it "East Fucked."
Since P2P provides an alternative to big-budget advertising as a way to promote music, it helps the lesser-known acts. That has to come from somewhere, and where it comes from is the big names that owe their success to marketing.
Not always. You figure it out.
HOPE and LLC have parental income caps. The caps don't increase with number of kids in school.
The ex-wife got the kids' college savings; the best I could negotiate was to defer the alimony payments until after they get out of college.
HTH. HAND.
Oh, and for what it's worth: if you don't have a prenup for anything else, make sure you have a cast-iron agreement on what happens to the kids' college funds in case of divorce.
How much of a discount do the labels put on those CDs?
Oh, wait ...
What's more, it's not even tax deductable. By the time you get to the point where you even have enough after-tax income to pay for the schooling, you have enough income to be disqualified for the tax breaks -- the ceiling doesn't go up with number of dependents.
We had a program like that at my kids' high school. There was a lot of competition as a result for slots teaching the AP classes.
Too bad that the teachers with math and science degrees didn't have the political clout to get those slots. The ones teaching the AP sections may not have known anything about the material, but they had great lesson plans!
I hope that the (former) teachers with math and science degrees are happier in their new jobs, whatever they are.
Damn it, Jim! He's a politician, not a mathematician!
As Barbie teaches us, "Math is hard." The other key lesson is that hard work is for the underclasses, not the ruling class. From this we learn why he wants more math and science graduates: so he doesn't have to do hard math for his own speeches.
No? You mean that the Ruling Class isn't flocking to the sciences? How many of Governor Romney's children has he convinced to make a future in science and technology?
Let me guess: his kids are being groomed for careers in law, finance, and government as befits their station in life and more realistic estimates of long-term prospects.
I wonder why he's not advocating more of the Great Unwashed go after those jobs in competition with his own ...
Oh, wait a minute!
HTH. HAND.
Darwin award material, maybe. They have some pretty obvious disincentives to doing so, but it'll be a long time until artificial intelligence is a match for natural stupidity.
In any case, this is a (speculative) matter of imposing the death penalty for suicide.
Why not, it's their software. Since you're installing it on your machine, I guess you agree to grant them root on your system, too.
Usually when people crank up the straw man factory it means that they haven't anything better to say.
As noted elsewhere, I don't (read: can't) run the AOL IM client, and the suggestion that I would give them root access seems to be nothing more than trolling.
In the meantime, the service is useful, and for me more useful than the Microsoft-only services at MSN and Google. Obviously, that could change. I'll wait on events rather than flying off at the handle.
Key difference is that one spammer wouldn't create the problems that we get from thousands. With diffusion of responsibility, none of them have any reason to expect that their own actions will poison the well (although collectively, they are well on their way there.)
AOL is in a different boat: they're the only ones who can pull this trick and if they aren't careful to avoid overdoing it they'll just put their service out of business. IM is pretty close to being the ultimate network-effect system, after all.
It seems that today is my day to be the token geezer.
The situation you describe was not all that long ago. Anyone who can drive legally was already breathing at the time.
The names some parents come up with! After that, no wonder the lady took up with someone who uses her.
And what's more, it's the 21st Century. Courtesy is sooooo last millennium.
Hey, I'm over 50 with three college kids -- I'm supposed to be a relic. What's your excuse?
Rumor has it that that's only true in the USA. Apparently, in Europe Microsoft dominates.
Any /.'ers have more info on that?
Big deal -- I just deleted them. As long as AOL doesn't turn the service over to spimmers, a few like this from AOL is tolerable.
Their servers, their rules. I can't complain about the cost of the service, after all, and this sure beats getting hammered by popups every few minutes while connected to their system.