Despite all the scare stories, there aren't many apartments in Siberia, where it's below 0C in winter (no one uses Farenheit in Russia), and yes, there is air conditioning in Kazakhstan. However the real differences are in:
1. Russia uses a lot of natural gas, and has centralized heating systems for houses. With hot water radiators in every room. When any of those systems fail, you can see all the boo-hoo-hooing about hundreds of people having cold apartments, however the same systems are responsible for the fuel economy.
2. Speaking of apartments, all of them have two-layer windows, with wooden frames, and an air gap between the layers, usually with foam insulation tape, that tenant change every few years. As opposed to the single-layer glass with some unreliable, easy to bend, aluminum and plastic frames, used in US.
3. Russian cities are planned, with public transit system being as much a part of the design, as electric grid or water pipes -- no city would allow a creation of "suburb" with bus service that can not possibly accommodate all the inhabitants. All commute within cities can be done without a car, in a reasonable time, at a fraction of the cost of the fuel that cars would consume.
4. Russia has a large and dense railroad system, that provides a cheap way to move cargo and passengers pretty much everywhere where people live.
5. Despite the large size of the country, densely populated western part of it is relatively small. Distances are much more of a problem in Siberia, however this is also where oil and gas are coming from.
This is why Russia can have the same gasoline prices as US, yet much lower salaries (and much lower prices on domestically produced goods). Russia has a lot examples of energy waste, too, however if anything, the above is an example of people at least trying to keep energy consumption under control -- as opposed to US, where it's all limited to empty words.
If anything at all was done in a manner similar to how software is developed -- with critical parts of the system handled by people with no education or experience, under constant stress, with specifications changing faster than they are implemented -- it will be a constant, never ending disaster. A C or C++ programmer working in decent conditions is not any more prone to write code with buffer overflow than, say, an engineer designing a vehicle is prone to make another Ford Pinto. The problem is, no one would dare to place and engineer working on a car into working conditions that are considered acceptable for a software developer.
How is it possibly that anyone in those companies care about security in the first place? They use shitty application software, written by undereducated hacks (both American and foreign ones), on unpatched Windows boxes, run by poorly paid people with barely enough qualifications to run their own desktops. No outsourcing can make this situation any noticeably worse.
Those things are not really part of the development process -- a very small part of the product architecture can be derived from the customer's requirements, certainly not large enough to warrant collaboration between teams within it.
All people hate working under pressure. It's just some people are in the positions where they can't be threatened by it, and the results of work do not depend on what they do, so they can do the busywork 20 hours per day, and be satisfied, knowing that it will be rewarded even if it contributes nothing positive to the end result, all the while putting real pressure on people who do the work for them.
So they "thrive under pressure" simply because they are worthless parasites.
I don't think, it's a valid question, considering that China develops a very small amount proprietary software, and even for that software, copyright is often ignored. Incorporating GPL'ed source into a proprietary product that will be then widely pirated gives no advantage compared with distributing the sources and complying with GPL.
Why would China need Microsoft in the first place?
Microsoft produces nothing that has any advantage outside the typical American top-heavy company that is full of office drones and PHBs, and has all actual work being done somewhere else (say, in China). Lack of this kind of organization is one of the reasons why China's economy can sustain its growth.
Piracy provides enough Microsoft products in China for home users and companies where they are not important for the job being done (therefore those users aren't going to buy them at full price anyway), and the economy as a whole would be better off with Microsoft not playing any active role in it, so why bother?
What the fsck happened to the approaches like "make different teams develop clear interfaces and functionality specifications, then implement them to make the whole project work as a whole"? What is this dumb idea that specs should be written by people who do not code, and implemented by people who do not write specs? Are we in 60's when the languages were so screwed up that people capable of writing code were least likely to see the forest behind the trees?
After the invasion of Iraq, there was no more central bank printing dinars and no more Iraqi government to put the fiat behind its fiat currency. The American military started handing out US$20 bills and expected the Dinar to fade from existence. Instead, to the chagrin of the occupation force, the Dinar's value doubled against the Dollar in two weeks.
[more worthless fluff]
Why did the unbacked paper do better than the US Dollar? Because the quantity of dinars was relatively fixed, while the supply of dollars grew. The law of supply and demand tells us that, all else being equal, a rise in the supply of a thing will lower the price of that thing. The thing, in this case, is the Dollar itself; its "price" is its buying power, which the Iraqis watched erode drastically within days.
...and found none. A program gets an obviously incorrect error, and THE FIRST THING THE PROGRAMMER DOES AFTER REPRODUCING IT is something other than tracing the syscalls, to get the exact nature of the failure.
The main problem was that the "condition" was created artificially, as a part of a dangerous experiment that no one of the reactor's designers would approve. Without that there would be no disaster. There may be a lot of nitpicking about safety of the design, however people that were stupid/ignorant enough to run that experiment, would be likely stupid/ignorant enough to compensate for the safety of any other design, too.
Who would ever bother asking? "Intellectual property", as well as their more legitimate relatives, copyrights and patents, are artificially created, to encourage the development, so there is no ethical reason to respect them when they are used to prevent further development.
In any civilized society the executives of such a company will either have to dissolve it (if there is a possibility to produce everything the people need, there is no point in hoarding it), or be killed because preventing others from using such a technology is the most immoral act that can ever be performed in a society -- it uses the fruits of the millennia of the development of a human thought to condemn everyone to a misery that would be otherwise preventable.
There viruses and worms may be stealth, polymorphic, scrambled/mangled, killing/disabling the startup of the antivirus (like a bullshit CD "protection" by Windows autorun), and many of them include strings with offensive language that, in theory, may have a purpose of discouraging the reverse engineering because no one but a person analyzing the virus is going to see it.
Those are "access control devices" that are supposed to be protected by DMCA.
If anything, this is a good reason to have a policy of ALWAYS deleting email after a short amount of time.
Not to mention, I want to see, what kind of standards are applied by the courts to verify the validity of email -- most of it is not cryptographically signed, and mail storage is almost never handled in a tamper-proof way even if it is somehow possible to verify the origin of the message.
Roadmap runs on my Zaurus, that I mount on the dashboard when I drive (Zaurus also plays music through the car's speakers). It uses gpsd, and everything works with my old Garmin GPS III, or any GPS that produces NMEA strings.
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...because hatred for campers at the respawn points may be seen as an anti-abortion message in every FPS.;-P
2. Cruel Angel's Thesis. 3. Baby One More Time. 4. "Did you know that all our agents simply read responses from the script located at http://www.yourcompany.com/support/phone-agent.htm l ?" 5. It's Gonna Be Me. 6. Recording of the news on 9/11/2001. 7. Ode To Joy. 8. Latest State Of The Union. 9. Pyramid scam commercial....the possibilities are endless if you change your goal to "annoy the customer".
...so why would he know anything at all about Open Source, that he does not use or write? Or anything else that he doesn't use or write, what happens to be pretty much everything other than opinion-piece journalism?
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So is living in a society, for a rich person. If you don't want to pay for being rich, go, buy an island, and try to build a country there.
Despite all the scare stories, there aren't many apartments in Siberia, where it's below 0C in winter (no one uses Farenheit in Russia), and yes, there is air conditioning in Kazakhstan. However the real differences are in:
1. Russia uses a lot of natural gas, and has centralized heating systems for houses. With hot water radiators in every room. When any of those systems fail, you can see all the boo-hoo-hooing about hundreds of people having cold apartments, however the same systems are responsible for the fuel economy.
2. Speaking of apartments, all of them have two-layer windows, with wooden frames, and an air gap between the layers, usually with foam insulation tape, that tenant change every few years. As opposed to the single-layer glass with some unreliable, easy to bend, aluminum and plastic frames, used in US.
3. Russian cities are planned, with public transit system being as much a part of the design, as electric grid or water pipes -- no city would allow a creation of "suburb" with bus service that can not possibly accommodate all the inhabitants. All commute within cities can be done without a car, in a reasonable time, at a fraction of the cost of the fuel that cars would consume.
4. Russia has a large and dense railroad system, that provides a cheap way to move cargo and passengers pretty much everywhere where people live.
5. Despite the large size of the country, densely populated western part of it is relatively small. Distances are much more of a problem in Siberia, however this is also where oil and gas are coming from.
This is why Russia can have the same gasoline prices as US, yet much lower salaries (and much lower prices on domestically produced goods). Russia has a lot examples of energy waste, too, however if anything, the above is an example of people at least trying to keep energy consumption under control -- as opposed to US, where it's all limited to empty words.
If anything at all was done in a manner similar to how software is developed -- with critical parts of the system handled by people with no education or experience, under constant stress, with specifications changing faster than they are implemented -- it will be a constant, never ending disaster. A C or C++ programmer working in decent conditions is not any more prone to write code with buffer overflow than, say, an engineer designing a vehicle is prone to make another Ford Pinto. The problem is, no one would dare to place and engineer working on a car into working conditions that are considered acceptable for a software developer.
How is it possibly that anyone in those companies care about security in the first place? They use shitty application software, written by undereducated hacks (both American and foreign ones), on unpatched Windows boxes, run by poorly paid people with barely enough qualifications to run their own desktops. No outsourcing can make this situation any noticeably worse.
No, ones that are extinct everywhere where a real work is done. Eloi from "The Time Machine" (except that they are not eaten).
Those things are not really part of the development process -- a very small part of the product architecture can be derived from the customer's requirements, certainly not large enough to warrant collaboration between teams within it.
The real engineering work starts later.
All people hate working under pressure. It's just some people are in the positions where they can't be threatened by it, and the results of work do not depend on what they do, so they can do the busywork 20 hours per day, and be satisfied, knowing that it will be rewarded even if it contributes nothing positive to the end result, all the while putting real pressure on people who do the work for them.
So they "thrive under pressure" simply because they are worthless parasites.
I don't think, it's a valid question, considering that China develops a very small amount proprietary software, and even for that software, copyright is often ignored. Incorporating GPL'ed source into a proprietary product that will be then widely pirated gives no advantage compared with distributing the sources and complying with GPL.
Why would China need Microsoft in the first place?
Microsoft produces nothing that has any advantage outside the typical American top-heavy company that is full of office drones and PHBs, and has all actual work being done somewhere else (say, in China). Lack of this kind of organization is one of the reasons why China's economy can sustain its growth.
Piracy provides enough Microsoft products in China for home users and companies where they are not important for the job being done (therefore those users aren't going to buy them at full price anyway), and the economy as a whole would be better off with Microsoft not playing any active role in it, so why bother?
What the fsck happened to the approaches like "make different teams develop clear interfaces and functionality specifications, then implement them to make the whole project work as a whole"? What is this dumb idea that specs should be written by people who do not code, and implemented by people who do not write specs? Are we in 60's when the languages were so screwed up that people capable of writing code were least likely to see the forest behind the trees?
I'd figure you're safer messing with ketamine or PCP than what MacBride is abusing.
You mean US legal system? I guess so...
[worthless fluff]
After the invasion of Iraq, there was no more central bank printing dinars and no more Iraqi government to put the fiat behind its fiat currency. The American military started handing out US$20 bills and expected the Dinar to fade from existence. Instead, to the chagrin of the occupation force, the Dinar's value doubled against the Dollar in two weeks.
[more worthless fluff]
Why did the unbacked paper do better than the US Dollar? Because the quantity of dinars was relatively fixed, while the supply of dollars grew. The law of supply and demand tells us that, all else being equal, a rise in the supply of a thing will lower the price of that thing. The thing, in this case, is the Dollar itself; its "price" is its buying power, which the Iraqis watched erode drastically within days.
[more worthless fluff]
...and found none. A program gets an obviously incorrect error, and THE FIRST THING THE PROGRAMMER DOES AFTER REPRODUCING IT is something other than tracing the syscalls, to get the exact nature of the failure.
The main problem was that the "condition" was created artificially, as a part of a dangerous experiment that no one of the reactor's designers would approve. Without that there would be no disaster. There may be a lot of nitpicking about safety of the design, however people that were stupid/ignorant enough to run that experiment, would be likely stupid/ignorant enough to compensate for the safety of any other design, too.
Shut up if you don't know what are you talking about.
I was in Gomel, at the other side of Chernobyl, less than 100km from there, and I am certainly not dead, and neither is anyone else in Gomel.
...make me want to release a quad opteron motherboard, and call it "Lamer's Excuse".
Who would ever bother asking? "Intellectual property", as well as their more legitimate relatives, copyrights and patents, are artificially created, to encourage the development, so there is no ethical reason to respect them when they are used to prevent further development.
In any civilized society the executives of such a company will either have to dissolve it (if there is a possibility to produce everything the people need, there is no point in hoarding it), or be killed because preventing others from using such a technology is the most immoral act that can ever be performed in a society -- it uses the fruits of the millennia of the development of a human thought to condemn everyone to a misery that would be otherwise preventable.
Boies?
There viruses and worms may be stealth, polymorphic, scrambled/mangled, killing/disabling the startup of the antivirus (like a bullshit CD "protection" by Windows autorun), and many of them include strings with offensive language that, in theory, may have a purpose of discouraging the reverse engineering because no one but a person analyzing the virus is going to see it.
Those are "access control devices" that are supposed to be protected by DMCA.
If anything, this is a good reason to have a policy of ALWAYS deleting email after a short amount of time.
Not to mention, I want to see, what kind of standards are applied by the courts to verify the validity of email -- most of it is not cryptographically signed, and mail storage is almost never handled in a tamper-proof way even if it is somehow possible to verify the origin of the message.
Roadmap runs on my Zaurus, that I mount on the dashboard when I drive (Zaurus also plays music through the car's speakers). It uses gpsd, and everything works with my old Garmin GPS III, or any GPS that produces NMEA strings.
...because hatred for campers at the respawn points may be seen as an anti-abortion message in every FPS. ;-P
...but a gyroscope with a circuit breaker placed OUTSIDE THE SPACE STATION strikes me as a typical American design decision.
2. Cruel Angel's Thesis.m l ?" ...the possibilities are endless if you change your goal to "annoy the customer".
3. Baby One More Time.
4. "Did you know that all our agents simply read responses from the script located at http://www.yourcompany.com/support/phone-agent.ht
5. It's Gonna Be Me.
6. Recording of the news on 9/11/2001.
7. Ode To Joy.
8. Latest State Of The Union.
9. Pyramid scam commercial.
...so why would he know anything at all about Open Source, that he does not use or write? Or anything else that he doesn't use or write, what happens to be pretty much everything other than opinion-piece journalism?