Yeah yeah, I don't like Redhat linux. I never have. Whatever. They have been doing wonders for the Linux operating system. They bring a great product like Tux to the open source community and you are screaming about it! Look at the the bottom line they are looking at. Screw it and let them have a damn patent. They developed the software so they deserve to own the rights to the technology. Why does everyone always scream murder over someone trying to make a little money off their hard work? Sure, the idea of linux is to keep everything open source and "free". Damn. Why don't you just look at it like StarOffice? Hell, I don't hear anyone yelling about the StarOffice/OpenOffice partnership?
However, I think management needs to change their mentality when it comes to technology overall.
When it comes to most technology related parts of a business, management (in general) is too short-sighted. Nobody wants to think ahead, they just want the answer (now). I have yet to work on a development project where management lets you take even 1/4 of the time necessary to design an application-- they just want you to dive in and start working.
I know a development example is a bit off-topic; however, the end result is similar. Under-designed applications, IMHO, take 60-80% longer to produce. Similarly, a network that isn't protected properly gets attacked by sqlsnake worms. It is all relative.
Management needs to change their mentality for the information age. Can anyone with a business management degree chime in here? Are managers taught to think only short-term in school? What can the developers, sys admins, etc do to communicate the importance of planning to management?
I love how you can moderate this post as redudent when this reply was written 5 minutes after the story was posted on Slashdot. Just because it took you 3 hours to moderate the reply doesn't mean it is redudent.
One purpose Javascript was designed for was opening other windows; hence, the window.open call. I doubt that the patent will be granted.
That's like patenting hammering nails with a hammer. You can use the tool anyway you want but I'm going to charge you for every nail you hammer in with it?
I had a very similar experience trying to cancel AOL. When I moved into my apartment last year, I signed up for a free month of service while I was moving in. I figured I could easily cancel at the end of the month. To my surprise, when I called to cancel, I spent an hour on the phone arguing with the account retention people. They literally would not LET me cancel my account. The conversation just kept going in circles.
Me: I want to cancel my account. AOL: Gave me a million reasons why AOL is better than any service in the world. Me: I'm not interested, please close my account AOL: We need to know why Me: I don't need the service/I'm not interested/Etc. AOL: Would rebut every reason and then give me free months of service. Ok sir, thank and have a nice day (as if I had agreed to stay with AOL) Me: I'm not interested, please close my account. Am I not allowed to cancel my account?
This went on until I got so pissed I yelled at her and requested to speak with her supervisor. Finally, she gave in and closed the damn thing. So, if anyone has this experience in the future, take a lesson and start off by requesting the supervisor right from the start.
It was absolutely the most frustrating phone conversation I've had in a long time.
Someone should put that diagram into that gnucleus network modelling program so you can focus on certain countries. That image is so cluttered you can barely see anything.
Or it's something more like he knew Oracle was going to lose a lot of money last year and the stock value was going to lose value. Last time I checked, using inside information to make money off the stock market was against the law.
Does anyone remember a few months ago when Larry Ellison cashed all of his stock options? It was something like $700m. I wonder what his intensions were and why he did it?
How many of you know anyone who actually stays in one career for life? Maybe if you consider your grandparents but let's talk about the world today. Even most of your parents have probably made a half-dozen or so career moves. Regardless of whether you become obsolete, there is a natural progression a person will take during their lifetime. As a person grows and matures, so do their career aspirations. People always want something more than they have, that is what keeps us moving. If you stopped wanting something better, then you become that 50 year-old who only learned COBOL. If your career aspiration is to program until you retire, then that motivation will keep you on the cutting edge. I have been to plenty of conferences with 50 year-old developers and in my opinion, those are sometimes the most intelligent people in the room. Sure, many programmers tire of learning new technologies and eventually move on to management, consulting, or something else completely-- doesn't that happen with any career? If you ask me, the piece is rediculous.
How many of you work with completely incompetant developers? I mean the people who just skated through school or didn't go at all but somehow kissed enough ass to earn the title? As long as those people exist, and they always will, your job will be secure.
When will people learn that Microsoft Windows is just a breeding ground for corporations to fight for your attention? Microsoft makes you sign a rediculous EULA. I guess you get what you pay for.
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Everyone is jumping on board because consuming Web Services is less expensive. If everyone jumps on board offering services with an open standard protocol, developers consuming those services won't have to spend as much time learning how to integrate what those services offer. I don't understand why so many people are getting bent out of shape about Web Services. Many of you have spent years working with different protocols, so I can understand your frustration when there is so much hype around Web Services-- you've spent so much time helping distributed computing concepts mature, why can Microsoft come in and throw all my work away? I am curious to know from people who have experience with distributed applications-- what are Web Services lacking? Is there a specific reason that Web Services will ultimately fail? I can fully appreciate your frustrutions if you can forsee everyone jumping on the Web Services ships only to realize it was extremely limited from the beginning and nobody saw its failure from the beginning. However, if Web Services are powerful enough to bring the Internet to the next level, why are they so strongly criticized?
There is no way a pen would ever replace the keyboard. I can write about 80wpm with a keyboard. It'll take me a half-hour to fill a page using a pen. Not to mention I can always read my writing when I am typing. How well do you think you could read your writing if you wrote with a pen at 80wpm? I think the idea of new input devices is wonderful; however, pens just aren't going to make the cut. Enough said, I'm sure a thousand people already said the same thing...
Mother of suicide victim goes insane after avenging her son's death.
Mother of Shawn Woolley, a 21-year-old Hudson man who killed himself over an EverQuest addiction, killed herself after trying to determine the cause of her sons death. After her son's death, Elizabeth Woolley became addicted to EverQuest as she tried to unfold her son's adventures to determine why his addiction caused him to commit suicide.
Elizabeth started with only a few words her son scratched on a pad of paper, "Phargun." "Occuler." "Cybernine." Woolley spent the past year submerged in the fantasy world. She sacrificed everything so she could play for hours, ignoring her family, quitting her job and losing herself in a 3-D virtual world where more than 400,000 people worldwide adventure in a never-ending fantasy.
Jay Parker, a chemical dependency counselor and co-founder of Internet/Computer Addiction Services in Redmond, Wash., blames the game for both Woolley's suicides. Walker plans to prove Sony Online Entertainment, the owner of EverQuest, has placed subliminal suicide messages in their game. Despite the Woolley family's history of mental health problems, Parker insists this is not a coincidence.
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Let's say you could work around the problem described here. What would be the insentive for the owner of the access point? Let's say it costs the consumer about $40/month for DSL. Your software is designed to run on this consumer's machine to provide neighboring folks wireless access to the Internet. For this service to be reasonable, the people using the access point need to be paying less than $40/month otherwise, it would not be worth the hassle. Let's say the owner of the DSL had 5 customers (at most) each paying $20/month. That is $100/month split between the billing service and the owner of the DSL. In the end, the owner of the DSL gets $50/month which covers the cost of the line with a profit of $10/month. Most people don't leave their computer on all the time, so looking at it this way, would you go through all this trouble for a profit of $10/month? Of course, you could split the income differently than 50/50 and make a difference but I still don't see the profits being worth the hassle for an average Joe. I think it is an excellent idea; however, it needs just a little more of an insentive.
Microsoft didn't change the user agreement until _after_ The Associated Press started asking questions. What that says to me is that there could be a lot more of this going on. This isn't simply CDDB server log files, they are storing this information on your computer. Microsoft is going out of its way to keep information about your media preferences and habits (but don't worry, they won't use that information for anything). This isn't just a simple log file folks, when AP asked how users could disable the functionality Microsoft said that clearing the log file will disable Media Player and making the log file unusable (change permissions?) would disable streaming media. Where is Microsoft's answer to this? What else are they tracking about us? This is just another reason the Window's source code should be released to the States.
This is a completely irrelavent debate. If you want to discuss this, try going to the microsoft.public.vsnet.general newsgroup and argue with the hundreds of people crediting Microsoft with a buggy version of VS. I have; however, associated the amount of bugs in the final version VS.NET with the amount in beta 2. In my opinion, the most stable release so far was RC1.
I understand your point, but how many casual home users are going choose their operating system? The answer the last casual user gave me when I asked them what operating system they used was, "What is an operating system?"
I have been developing an application which runs on the.NET framework for almost a year. Personally, I think it is wonderful technology and very powerful. Granted, the framework may be equally as powerful as Java; the butter is really in Visual Studio. Sure, there are several IDE's for Java; however, I'm not sure any of them are as powerful as Visual Studio. There seems to be a strong anti-.NET sentiment in the Slashdot community. Sure, most of that comes from an anti-Microsoft position, which is perfectly understandable; however, if there were an open source IDE equivalent of Visual Studio written in C#, a majority of you may change your mind. Given a powerful IDE and the Mono project, Linux would quickly become a popular platform for developing.NET applications.
It's the same thing going on everywhere. There isn't much the end user or small businesses can do. You are either a big ass or you are being sat on. The federal govt can't do anything because they are controlled by large corporations. Big deal, a bunch of people spoke up and they said, "Okay, we'll stop." They know its wrong, everyone knows its wrong, but they still get away with it. Why? Because there is no one regulating them. People can't spend all their time accusing large corporations of immoral activities just hoping you catch them now and again. We need an active organization going around checking up on these kinds of activities and actually punishing corporations for their wrong-doing. Now does that seem so difficult?:)
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Yeah yeah, I don't like Redhat linux. I never have. Whatever. They have been doing wonders for the Linux operating system. They bring a great product like Tux to the open source community and you are screaming about it! Look at the the bottom line they are looking at. Screw it and let them have a damn patent. They developed the software so they deserve to own the rights to the technology. Why does everyone always scream murder over someone trying to make a little money off their hard work? Sure, the idea of linux is to keep everything open source and "free". Damn. Why don't you just look at it like StarOffice? Hell, I don't hear anyone yelling about the StarOffice/OpenOffice partnership?
We need TV commercials with a strong message like the anti-smoking ones before people will get the hint.
I fully agree with your point.
However, I think management needs to change their mentality when it comes to technology overall.
When it comes to most technology related parts of a business, management (in general) is too short-sighted. Nobody wants to think ahead, they just want the answer (now). I have yet to work on a development project where management lets you take even 1/4 of the time necessary to design an application-- they just want you to dive in and start working.
I know a development example is a bit off-topic; however, the end result is similar. Under-designed applications, IMHO, take 60-80% longer to produce. Similarly, a network that isn't protected properly gets attacked by sqlsnake worms. It is all relative.
Management needs to change their mentality for the information age. Can anyone with a business management degree chime in here? Are managers taught to think only short-term in school? What can the developers, sys admins, etc do to communicate the importance of planning to management?
I love how you can moderate this post as redudent when this reply was written 5 minutes after the story was posted on Slashdot. Just because it took you 3 hours to moderate the reply doesn't mean it is redudent.
How can you patent a method of using a tool?
One purpose Javascript was designed for was opening other windows; hence, the window.open call. I doubt that the patent will be granted.
That's like patenting hammering nails with a hammer. You can use the tool anyway you want but I'm going to charge you for every nail you hammer in with it?
That's absurd.
I had a very similar experience trying to cancel AOL. When I moved into my apartment last year, I signed up for a free month of service while I was moving in. I figured I could easily cancel at the end of the month. To my surprise, when I called to cancel, I spent an hour on the phone arguing with the account retention people. They literally would not LET me cancel my account. The conversation just kept going in circles.
Me: I want to cancel my account.
AOL: Gave me a million reasons why AOL is better than any service in the world.
Me: I'm not interested, please close my account
AOL: We need to know why
Me: I don't need the service/I'm not interested/Etc.
AOL: Would rebut every reason and then give me free months of service. Ok sir, thank and have a nice day (as if I had agreed to stay with AOL)
Me: I'm not interested, please close my account. Am I not allowed to cancel my account?
This went on until I got so pissed I yelled at her and requested to speak with her supervisor. Finally, she gave in and closed the damn thing. So, if anyone has this experience in the future, take a lesson and start off by requesting the supervisor right from the start.
It was absolutely the most frustrating phone conversation I've had in a long time.
Someone should put that diagram into that gnucleus network modelling program so you can focus on certain countries. That image is so cluttered you can barely see anything.
Or it's something more like he knew Oracle was going to lose a lot of money last year and the stock value was going to lose value. Last time I checked, using inside information to make money off the stock market was against the law.
Does anyone remember a few months ago when Larry Ellison cashed all of his stock options? It was something like $700m. I wonder what his intensions were and why he did it?
Isn't this a little conflicting with the interview on Slashdot this morning? Sounds like AOL-Time Warner needs to get their story straight!
How many of you know anyone who actually stays in one career for life? Maybe if you consider your grandparents but let's talk about the world today. Even most of your parents have probably made a half-dozen or so career moves. Regardless of whether you become obsolete, there is a natural progression a person will take during their lifetime. As a person grows and matures, so do their career aspirations. People always want something more than they have, that is what keeps us moving. If you stopped wanting something better, then you become that 50 year-old who only learned COBOL. If your career aspiration is to program until you retire, then that motivation will keep you on the cutting edge. I have been to plenty of conferences with 50 year-old developers and in my opinion, those are sometimes the most intelligent people in the room. Sure, many programmers tire of learning new technologies and eventually move on to management, consulting, or something else completely-- doesn't that happen with any career? If you ask me, the piece is rediculous.
How many of you work with completely incompetant developers? I mean the people who just skated through school or didn't go at all but somehow kissed enough ass to earn the title? As long as those people exist, and they always will, your job will be secure.
When will people learn that Microsoft Windows is just a breeding ground for corporations to fight for your attention? Microsoft makes you sign a rediculous EULA. I guess you get what you pay for.
Everyone is jumping on board because consuming Web Services is less expensive. If everyone jumps on board offering services with an open standard protocol, developers consuming those services won't have to spend as much time learning how to integrate what those services offer. I don't understand why so many people are getting bent out of shape about Web Services. Many of you have spent years working with different protocols, so I can understand your frustration when there is so much hype around Web Services-- you've spent so much time helping distributed computing concepts mature, why can Microsoft come in and throw all my work away? I am curious to know from people who have experience with distributed applications-- what are Web Services lacking? Is there a specific reason that Web Services will ultimately fail? I can fully appreciate your frustrutions if you can forsee everyone jumping on the Web Services ships only to realize it was extremely limited from the beginning and nobody saw its failure from the beginning. However, if Web Services are powerful enough to bring the Internet to the next level, why are they so strongly criticized?
There is no way a pen would ever replace the keyboard. I can write about 80wpm with a keyboard. It'll take me a half-hour to fill a page using a pen. Not to mention I can always read my writing when I am typing. How well do you think you could read your writing if you wrote with a pen at 80wpm? I think the idea of new input devices is wonderful; however, pens just aren't going to make the cut. Enough said, I'm sure a thousand people already said the same thing...
Mother of suicide victim goes insane after avenging her son's death.
Mother of Shawn Woolley, a 21-year-old Hudson man who killed himself over an EverQuest addiction, killed herself after trying to determine the cause of her sons death. After her son's death, Elizabeth Woolley became addicted to EverQuest as she tried to unfold her son's adventures to determine why his addiction caused him to commit suicide.
Elizabeth started with only a few words her son scratched on a pad of paper, "Phargun." "Occuler." "Cybernine." Woolley spent the past year submerged in the fantasy world. She sacrificed everything so she could play for hours, ignoring her family, quitting her job and losing herself in a 3-D virtual world where more than 400,000 people worldwide adventure in a never-ending fantasy.
Jay Parker, a chemical dependency counselor and co-founder of Internet/Computer Addiction Services in Redmond, Wash., blames the game for both Woolley's suicides. Walker plans to prove Sony Online Entertainment, the owner of EverQuest, has placed subliminal suicide messages in their game. Despite the Woolley family's history of mental health problems, Parker insists this is not a coincidence.
Let's say you could work around the problem described here. What would be the insentive for the owner of the access point? Let's say it costs the consumer about $40/month for DSL. Your software is designed to run on this consumer's machine to provide neighboring folks wireless access to the Internet. For this service to be reasonable, the people using the access point need to be paying less than $40/month otherwise, it would not be worth the hassle. Let's say the owner of the DSL had 5 customers (at most) each paying $20/month. That is $100/month split between the billing service and the owner of the DSL. In the end, the owner of the DSL gets $50/month which covers the cost of the line with a profit of $10/month. Most people don't leave their computer on all the time, so looking at it this way, would you go through all this trouble for a profit of $10/month? Of course, you could split the income differently than 50/50 and make a difference but I still don't see the profits being worth the hassle for an average Joe. I think it is an excellent idea; however, it needs just a little more of an insentive.
Did I hear a niner in there?
Microsoft didn't change the user agreement until _after_ The Associated Press started asking questions. What that says to me is that there could be a lot more of this going on. This isn't simply CDDB server log files, they are storing this information on your computer. Microsoft is going out of its way to keep information about your media preferences and habits (but don't worry, they won't use that information for anything). This isn't just a simple log file folks, when AP asked how users could disable the functionality Microsoft said that clearing the log file will disable Media Player and making the log file unusable (change permissions?) would disable streaming media. Where is Microsoft's answer to this? What else are they tracking about us? This is just another reason the Window's source code should be released to the States.
This is a completely irrelavent debate. If you want to discuss this, try going to the microsoft.public.vsnet.general newsgroup and argue with the hundreds of people crediting Microsoft with a buggy version of VS. I have; however, associated the amount of bugs in the final version VS.NET with the amount in beta 2. In my opinion, the most stable release so far was RC1.
Tell Microsoft to get the bugs out of Visual Studio.NET!
I already took 3 today! :)
I understand your point, but how many casual home users are going choose their operating system? The answer the last casual user gave me when I asked them what operating system they used was, "What is an operating system?"
Is this possibly the most comments ever on a Slashdot story? Well, I thought I'd just add to the tally. BTW, Congratulations!
I have been developing an application which runs on the .NET framework for almost a year. Personally, I think it is wonderful technology and very powerful. Granted, the framework may be equally as powerful as Java; the butter is really in Visual Studio. Sure, there are several IDE's for Java; however, I'm not sure any of them are as powerful as Visual Studio. There seems to be a strong anti-.NET sentiment in the Slashdot community. Sure, most of that comes from an anti-Microsoft position, which is perfectly understandable; however, if there were an open source IDE equivalent of Visual Studio written in C#, a majority of you may change your mind. Given a powerful IDE and the Mono project, Linux would quickly become a popular platform for developing .NET applications.
It's the same thing going on everywhere. There isn't much the end user or small businesses can do. You are either a big ass or you are being sat on. The federal govt can't do anything because they are controlled by large corporations. Big deal, a bunch of people spoke up and they said, "Okay, we'll stop." They know its wrong, everyone knows its wrong, but they still get away with it. Why? Because there is no one regulating them. People can't spend all their time accusing large corporations of immoral activities just hoping you catch them now and again. We need an active organization going around checking up on these kinds of activities and actually punishing corporations for their wrong-doing. Now does that seem so difficult? :)