Any private citizen or organization should be able to do business however they like.... Making racism illegal didn't advance racial equality one bit.
It's hard to be free if you die when an ambulance refuses to carry you to the hospital because of the color of your skin. As an ideal, what you express is fine, but you should temper the implementation of free market ideals with some realistic assessment of the consequences when the market isn't working efficiently or the consumer has incomplete information or limited choices.
Believe it or not, there are people who actually understand what all those stupid electrons do. Those are the ones who become chemists.
The rest of us, a category that includes you, me and (he leaves not the slightest doubt about this) the submitter, have no choice but to suck it up and memorize the damn things.
1. Copyright infringement == terroist support 2. Jail time for copyright infringement 3. Enemy combatants (terroists) == no due process 4. Torture == Ok for terroists
Obviously, the next steps are: 5. ?? == Torture copyright infringers 6. Profit!
All of america's top defense companies used to be 10+ companies before the mergers of the last couple of decades. Intel has been the same core company with fewer major mergers.
I've performed jobs on RAC and similar sites before, but went back to full time employment before I received a wide range of experience. My background gave me a slight advantage for engineering/scientific type programming, so I had a few decent paying projects for little utilities in that area. I also delivered some small projects in other areas, but it was more competitive becuause of the greater number of pogrammers who could to "web jockey" type programming.
My feeling is that it would take a one to two years of competition against the low-cost bidders to get to a point to where you might stand out enough to make it worthwhile. The low-cost guys generally received poorer ratings - so if you can understand customer needs you can work your way up to higher paying clients that wanted not only programming, but problem solving expertise. It wasn't really worth my investment of time to climb that hill, but you have to decide for your own situation.
Personal liability for coders working for companies is not productive. A requirement for sharing reported of software defects would be more of an incentive to develop better engineered software. For automobiles, aircraft, and consumer products safetry defets are tracked and reported. Of course, most software is probably not directly safety related. There are also some consumer measures of auto defects, e.g. quality surveys, maintenance estimates, etc. The consumer measures of quality not perfect, but they are more accessible to the general public than the software versions of the same. As a software consumer, counts of bugs reported, bugs vs units sold, etc would be useful in making purchase decisions.
I would second this suggestion. I would also suggest you turn on the options the fully cross reference and include the source code, as well a generate the graphiz diagrams (as suggested by another reply th the parent post).
If you read the article, you'll find that the guy was the chief engineer (or lead engr, cant recall exactly) in charge of that particular functionality. Further, he claims that the company forged his signature on papers approving the design.
Still something smells fishy with this story - it's strange that either side would be acting this way.
Though the article goes through a some of palms mistakes, the summary should had been fantastically bad magagement. I don't think the article went through all the spinoffs, re-mergers, and name changes that the company go through.
For core ATC systems I'm fairly sure you're right, but are you sure the entire system is GMT and that all the safety related checks are on GMT? The problem is holes in the system. Some "non-critical" compoent of the system which translates from GMT to local time and back, or human beings used to the 5:00pm train coming in on track 8.
Proprietary stuff, on the other hand, tends to be newer and more cutting-edge than open source stuff. Photoshop vs. GIMP, Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice.
Yeah, because we all know the MS office is cutting-edge software.. LOL
If Dell outsources to India and you get rammed you sue Dell USA not Dell India. Since it's Dell USA that sends the data out they're responsible for what others do with it.
If you get hit with identity theft, how do you find out which business actually released your info? How about first implementing federal privacy laws requiring disclosure to their customers which offshore companies they may disclose your private information.
Even this has its problems as I'm not technically a customer of many of the data gathering companies... so to actually protect me the law whould have to cover companies who collect my personal information in their private databases.
Past lifers always think that they were persons of significance. What I really suspect is that in ancient or medieval times, most of us would be peasants.:)
I think its more that email has become the most consistent form of corporate long-term memory of commitments (medium-term with most companies email retention policies).
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Any private citizen or organization should be able to do business however they like. ... Making racism illegal didn't advance racial equality one bit.
It's hard to be free if you die when an ambulance refuses to carry you to the hospital because of the color of your skin. As an ideal, what you express is fine, but you should temper the implementation of free market ideals with some realistic assessment of the consequences when the market isn't working efficiently or the consumer has incomplete information or limited choices.
FYI, the electricity your car generates isn't "free-lunch" electricity, and is actually quite expensive.
Ahh, but if an enterprising hacker were to only close the DC circuit when the car was breaking (and the car wasn't a hybrid...)
Believe it or not, there are people who actually understand what all those stupid electrons do. Those are the ones who become chemists.
The rest of us, a category that includes you, me and (he leaves not the slightest doubt about this) the submitter, have no choice but to suck it up and memorize the damn things.
Have you ever seen the discussion of mappers vs packers at The Programmers Stone?
1. Copyright infringement == terroist support
2. Jail time for copyright infringement
3. Enemy combatants (terroists) == no due process
4. Torture == Ok for terroists
Obviously, the next steps are:
5. ?? == Torture copyright infringers
6. Profit!
I say someone from Sun should call him up trying to get a 360 OpenDocument viewer going.
All of america's top defense companies used to be 10+ companies before the mergers of the last couple of decades. Intel has been the same core company with fewer major mergers.
My feeling is that it would take a one to two years of competition against the low-cost bidders to get to a point to where you might stand out enough to make it worthwhile. The low-cost guys generally received poorer ratings - so if you can understand customer needs you can work your way up to higher paying clients that wanted not only programming, but problem solving expertise. It wasn't really worth my investment of time to climb that hill, but you have to decide for your own situation.
Personal liability for coders working for companies is not productive. A requirement for sharing reported of software defects would be more of an incentive to develop better engineered software. For automobiles, aircraft, and consumer products safetry defets are tracked and reported. Of course, most software is probably not directly safety related. There are also some consumer measures of auto defects, e.g. quality surveys, maintenance estimates, etc. The consumer measures of quality not perfect, but they are more accessible to the general public than the software versions of the same. As a software consumer, counts of bugs reported, bugs vs units sold, etc would be useful in making purchase decisions.
I would second this suggestion. I would also suggest you turn on the options the fully cross reference and include the source code, as well a generate the graphiz diagrams (as suggested by another reply th the parent post).
If you read the article, you'll find that the guy was the chief engineer (or lead engr, cant recall exactly) in charge of that particular functionality. Further, he claims that the company forged his signature on papers approving the design.
Still something smells fishy with this story - it's strange that either side would be acting this way.
I'm sorry, until you fill out form RB-stroke-C-Z-stroke-nine-O-seven-stroke-X there's nothing to do for you.
Though the article goes through a some of palms mistakes, the summary should had been fantastically bad magagement. I don't think the article went through all the spinoffs, re-mergers, and name changes that the company go through.
Noone has mentioned Nethack yet? The nerd quotient at slashdot is really declining.
For core ATC systems I'm fairly sure you're right, but are you sure the entire system is GMT and that all the safety related checks are on GMT? The problem is holes in the system. Some "non-critical" compoent of the system which translates from GMT to local time and back, or human beings used to the 5:00pm train coming in on track 8.
Just wait until we get potential accidents due to transportation scheduling - trains, planes (but probably not automobiles)...
Well, what about Google?
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They have a indexing appliance as well as a Google API? That way your company can also keep all its indexed email in its own data center.
http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/features.htm
Proprietary stuff, on the other hand, tends to be newer and more cutting-edge than open source stuff. Photoshop vs. GIMP, Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice.
Yeah, because we all know the MS office is cutting-edge software.. LOL
with one click, push it up to a website as static pages, so I can host it on a site without scripts
How about Curl?
If Dell outsources to India and you get rammed you sue Dell USA not Dell India. Since it's Dell USA that sends the data out they're responsible for what others do with it.
If you get hit with identity theft, how do you find out which business actually released your info? How about first implementing federal privacy laws requiring disclosure to their customers which offshore companies they may disclose your private information.
Even this has its problems as I'm not technically a customer of many of the data gathering companies... so to actually protect me the law whould have to cover companies who collect my personal information in their private databases.
Irrigation Network engineers?
:)
Past lifers always think that they were persons of significance. What I really suspect is that in ancient or medieval times, most of us would be peasants.
well you do see periodically see stories about decks collapsing during parties...
I think its more that email has become the most consistent form of corporate long-term memory of commitments (medium-term with most companies email retention policies).
Publishing someones phone number and address, and even their mother's address, goes way beyond being controversial. It's a privacy violation.
Although I have to wonder, what were the editors thinking? Should they have some culpability here?
After you crash, it's a Red Windscreen of Death.
I think I had to watch that movie as part of Drivers Ed!
The really funny part is that the XBox PowerPC buy goes to further the research and manufacturing of the core chip technology driving Apple Hardware.