Do your homework. Do you remember what happened to the Soviet Union? They did produce a large amount of excellent hardware but ultimately they could not keep up economically.
Except it's a myth created to justify the excesses of US military-industrial comples. Military-related production was very cheap in USSR because government owned it directly and ran it, just like the rest of the economy, as a giant nonprofit. At the same time US was stuffing the pockets of military contractors with profits, and now continues so under pretenses of fighting Muslim terrorism and similar bogeymen.
I really wouldn't use Joel's blog as a reference. Joel often gets the right idea (a small and simple one) only to bury it under loads and loads of bad ideas and misinformed opinions.
Apparently work for Microsoft permanently damages person's thinkingy. Just looks at his main product FogBugz.
It won't going away, it just won't be developed further by GNOME official development. No one is forbidden to move forward with it itself, even using GNOME infrastructure.
Except, of course, GNOME3 will likely sabotage it just like they sabotaged Compiz by introducing their stupid shell that takes over all windwow management.
Sometimes bank robbery, spam, copyright lawsuits and tanking the economy pays the bills -- it doesn't mean, anyone should do it. Even for a simple GUI, there is the right way (few developers who know how to use Qt) and the wrong way (hordes upon hordes of monkeys with C#). The right way is actuallty cheaper in the long run, but boss doesn't get to have hundreds of retards around to boost his ego.
Or you can give that job to people who accept a lifelong restrictions on what they can do with money in exchange for guaranteed employment and protection -- say, those in witness protection program.
Fact: The resume queues of most firms are chock full of highly motivated and qualified individuals looking to do the jobs that are thrown at them.
Oh, they are "qualified" as in passed some courses or certifications that imply knowledge and ability. In reality, most of those people know nothing and do nothing. To be fair, same applies to most of people working for US companies regardless of origin.
I see maybe one female applicant out of 200 resumes.
The "200 resumes" part is a giant problem. Females, perhaps being smarter than men, know to avoid situations where the chances of success are 1 in 200 (or even less, if you throw a hissy fit and refuse to hire anyone from the stack!).
Neither words nor formulas can express how much do you suck at math.
You use C#. That already leaves you with only the bottom of the barrel developers. On top of that, you only have a kind of development that consists of stringing libraries together and drawing GUI.
Your ideas and policies are irrelevant for anyhing that involves real work.
Poor impulse control ends in mid-20's, so if you have graduated from college, you are supposed to get that for free, along with growing out of frat house mentality if you had one to begin with.
On the other hand, people who went to MAKE MAD MUNNY by doing web development instead of getting proper education, may have all kinds of stupidity.
Shut up, hairyfeet, you are supposed to write pages and pages about horrors of not having a single unchanging ABI for kernel drivers, so poor proprietary drivers developers can write shit drivers.
On Linux, you have a small piece of proprietary software running on an open source system entirely controlled by the developer. Most of reverse engineering is non-interactive, by running a driver/hardware combination while its interactions are watched by other software.
On Windows, everything but your own code is proprietary, including reverse-engineering tools themselves, and you have no way to modify most of the environment or include any kind of automated logging. You are pretty much forced to single-step through giant blobs while watching disassembled code in a multitude of little windows.
When I present my ideas that are widely considered wrong or proven wrong (political views, OS design principles, software development methods) I provide arguments in support of my position. However faced with something clearly idiotic, I don't even know what am I supposed to argue against. It's nonsense and it's presented without any support, so apparently author is either not aware of any opposition to begin with.
Any person can benefit from misleading others by having a "special arrangement" with someone else whose interests are involved. Said arrangement needs not be public, and you'll have a hard time proving it. Not to mention that the payment can be after the fact, and can involve things more subtle than cash.
But that certainly is less likely to happen than flooding the media with paid editorials and outright misinformation, the inevitable outcome of "free speech".
And yet some of those same people go on to work for anti-AGW groups for money, lending their scientific credentials to publications that are mere propaganda.
There is a difference between few nutcases doing it through their little outlets while being treated like idiots by most of their colleagues, compared to most journalists doing it all the time.
It's not even a matter of making it possible to "get the opinion out" -- my point is, there should be an openly censored widely distributed kind of media. It's ok if there is also something uncensored that prints every tinfoil hat story they can find. Most of the population most of the time will still put more trust into censored media, except when an obvious conflict of interest is involved, or when a person is himself an expert in the area being covered. Then and only then people will put more trust into rumors, Internet forim postings and uncensored papers, what is not any worse than what is going on now.
And it's a good thing because then it becomes impossible to buy influence over the public opinion. It still unfairly favors the establishment that already has intellectual influence over the censors, but those forces can buy their position in "free" media anyway, so no additional harm would be done.
This, itself, is magical thinking, because the religious people out reproduce other sections of the population.
It may be wrong but it is definitely not magical thinking -- there is no expectation that some kind of unseen force will cleanse mankind from stupidity. As for reproduction rate, this only applies to Catholics, and only matters when Christianity is sufficiently popular for them to create close communities with religious schools.
Practically speaking, the tyranny required to execute such a notion would likely offend you more than some old lady saying 'god bless you' after you hold the door open for her.
Last time I have seen religion being successfully eliminated as a major force in society by borderline tyrannical methods, old ladies and use of religiously-originated idioms were completely unaffected.
What? The current job is whatever you still have abroad, or nothing if you for some insane reason already left it. You don't have to claim unemployment to get a job, that's insane!
You mean, opposition to an attempt to pull off another Libya -- complete with foreign military attacking the government forces and assassination of the leader after taking it as a prisoner of war?
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All governments are rational actors. Even those, your propaganda paints as irrational ones. If they were not, they would be overthrown long ago.
Do your homework. Do you remember what happened to the Soviet Union? They did produce a large amount of excellent hardware but ultimately they could not keep up economically.
Except it's a myth created to justify the excesses of US military-industrial comples. Military-related production was very cheap in USSR because government owned it directly and ran it, just like the rest of the economy, as a giant nonprofit. At the same time US was stuffing the pockets of military contractors with profits, and now continues so under pretenses of fighting Muslim terrorism and similar bogeymen.
I really wouldn't use Joel's blog as a reference. Joel often gets the right idea (a small and simple one) only to bury it under loads and loads of bad ideas and misinformed opinions.
Apparently work for Microsoft permanently damages person's thinkingy. Just looks at his main product FogBugz.
It won't going away, it just won't be developed further by GNOME official development. No one is forbidden to move forward with it itself, even using GNOME infrastructure.
Except, of course, GNOME3 will likely sabotage it just like they sabotaged Compiz by introducing their stupid shell that takes over all windwow management.
Sometimes that's what pays the bills.
Sometimes bank robbery, spam, copyright lawsuits and tanking the economy pays the bills -- it doesn't mean, anyone should do it. Even for a simple GUI, there is the right way (few developers who know how to use Qt) and the wrong way (hordes upon hordes of monkeys with C#). The right way is actuallty cheaper in the long run, but boss doesn't get to have hundreds of retards around to boost his ego.
Or you can give that job to people who accept a lifelong restrictions on what they can do with money in exchange for guaranteed employment and protection -- say, those in witness protection program.
Same ProE that dropped Linux support out of the blue (but kept Solaris, so it's not a matter of development effort, Unix or platform popularity)?
gg assholes!
My whole point is, most of reverse engineering on open source platforms does not involve interactive debuggers.
lol wut
Fact: The resume queues of most firms are chock full of highly motivated and qualified individuals looking to do the jobs that are thrown at them.
Oh, they are "qualified" as in passed some courses or certifications that imply knowledge and ability. In reality, most of those people know nothing and do nothing. To be fair, same applies to most of people working for US companies regardless of origin.
I see maybe one female applicant out of 200 resumes.
The "200 resumes" part is a giant problem. Females, perhaps being smarter than men, know to avoid situations where the chances of success are 1 in 200 (or even less, if you throw a hissy fit and refuse to hire anyone from the stack!).
Neither words nor formulas can express how much do you suck at math.
You use C#. That already leaves you with only the bottom of the barrel developers. On top of that, you only have a kind of development that consists of stringing libraries together and drawing GUI.
Your ideas and policies are irrelevant for anyhing that involves real work.
I can create a Facebook community dedicated to plumbers who hate Nintendo games, and will get 21000 people to sign up.
Poor impulse control ends in mid-20's, so if you have graduated from college, you are supposed to get that for free, along with growing out of frat house mentality if you had one to begin with.
On the other hand, people who went to MAKE MAD MUNNY by doing web development instead of getting proper education, may have all kinds of stupidity.
Shut up, hairyfeet, you are supposed to write pages and pages about horrors of not having a single unchanging ABI for kernel drivers, so poor proprietary drivers developers can write shit drivers.
Congratulations, you are an idiot!
On Linux, you have a small piece of proprietary software running on an open source system entirely controlled by the developer. Most of reverse engineering is non-interactive, by running a driver/hardware combination while its interactions are watched by other software.
On Windows, everything but your own code is proprietary, including reverse-engineering tools themselves, and you have no way to modify most of the environment or include any kind of automated logging. You are pretty much forced to single-step through giant blobs while watching disassembled code in a multitude of little windows.
(accidentally posted without finishing) ...or knowingly avoids addressing such opposition because he can't support his opinion.
When I present my ideas that are widely considered wrong or proven wrong (political views, OS design principles, software development methods) I provide arguments in support of my position. However faced with something clearly idiotic, I don't even know what am I supposed to argue against. It's nonsense and it's presented without any support, so apparently author is either not aware of any opposition to begin with.
Any person can benefit from misleading others by having a "special arrangement" with someone else whose interests are involved. Said arrangement needs not be public, and you'll have a hard time proving it. Not to mention that the payment can be after the fact, and can involve things more subtle than cash.
But that certainly is less likely to happen than flooding the media with paid editorials and outright misinformation, the inevitable outcome of "free speech".
And yet some of those same people go on to work for anti-AGW groups for money, lending their scientific credentials to publications that are mere propaganda.
There is a difference between few nutcases doing it through their little outlets while being treated like idiots by most of their colleagues, compared to most journalists doing it all the time.
It's not even a matter of making it possible to "get the opinion out" -- my point is, there should be an openly censored widely distributed kind of media. It's ok if there is also something uncensored that prints every tinfoil hat story they can find. Most of the population most of the time will still put more trust into censored media, except when an obvious conflict of interest is involved, or when a person is himself an expert in the area being covered. Then and only then people will put more trust into rumors, Internet forim postings and uncensored papers, what is not any worse than what is going on now.
And it's a good thing because then it becomes impossible to buy influence over the public opinion. It still unfairly favors the establishment that already has intellectual influence over the censors, but those forces can buy their position in "free" media anyway, so no additional harm would be done.
If that was possible, there would be only one company left with all the visas, and no one else would get any.
This, itself, is magical thinking, because the religious people out reproduce other sections of the population.
It may be wrong but it is definitely not magical thinking -- there is no expectation that some kind of unseen force will cleanse mankind from stupidity.
As for reproduction rate, this only applies to Catholics, and only matters when Christianity is sufficiently popular for them to create close communities with religious schools.
Practically speaking, the tyranny required to execute such a notion would likely offend you more than some old lady saying 'god bless you' after you hold the door open for her.
Last time I have seen religion being successfully eliminated as a major force in society by borderline tyrannical methods, old ladies and use of religiously-originated idioms were completely unaffected.
But is there any assumption made about kids' belief? For example, it's possible that every baptized child is a member until he is an adult.
Which are you supposed to be for the purpose of this thread, my karma-whoring, Microsoft-astroturfing friend hairyfeet?
Conformity works, news at 11!
What? The current job is whatever you still have abroad, or nothing if you for some insane reason already left it. You don't have to claim unemployment to get a job, that's insane!
You mean, opposition to an attempt to pull off another Libya -- complete with foreign military attacking the government forces and assassination of the leader after taking it as a prisoner of war?