There are good OSS projects and bad OSS projects. OSS is not about having to produce good code. The whole free beer/free speech thingy has nothing to do about quality of code.
REPEAT: I can write the worst, most insecure "Hello World" program and still be an OSS project.
You can talk about "Good OSS projects do this" but then thats like saying "Good hockey goaltenders have winning records".
>The amount of money that will be spent on an automatic de-orbiting rocket for the HST to overcome a 1-in-700 (yes, that small) chance of some *property damage* (not even human injury) is going to be huge.
They are engineers. Thats what they do. Talk to a professional engineer or read up on professional ethics. Public safety superseeds costs.
>Which would seem to indicate an obsession with safety, but really at its core it is an obsession with PR.
Spin and public impression is the obsession of PR. Safety is secondary for PR.
> seem to be dominated by people using cheats, and by established clans of players who are a lot better than me.
With any game this is going to happen. Its like playing football with other people, sometimes the other team is going to have big bulky guys and sometimes you are going to lose.
Play and have fun. Its no fun losing 0-10 but thats why you have rotating maps and teams get mixed up. And you will get better.
My suggestions: 1. Learn the maps. Learn the guns. 2. Follow another player. Do what they do. Talk in game to them. (use team talk) 3. Try and play as a team. Say thank you. Joke around (Sexual jokes are welcomed. Homosexual jokes more so.) 4. Enjoy the excitement with playing with pretty guns and the thrill of shooting them off.
>they want to hire someone who will do as he's told no matter what.
If that was true, why do they pay them a salary.
There are reasonable limits to "company loyalty". Going the extra distance to help the company succeed is ok. Money and legal contracts are serious deals, so its understandable if you don't roll-over.
There are many here who read slashdot who do computer stuff for the love of computers. They work on OpenSource projects for no money. In their spare time, they use a computer. Lots here, I would say, would be happy with half decent pay and just program all day long.
Do the majority do compter related employees do it for the money or for the love or working with computers? If they were offered more money, would they switch in an instant?
>"Attempt to monopolize" etc. Section 1 discusses restraint of trade - which this could most certainly be percieved as a step towards, dependin g on how Microsoft and Disney deal with the DRM issues - and with their track record, it's not looking good.
Unfortunately "give him sex!" comments are getting modded down.
Seriously, healthly people like sex. Good caring sex, more so.
You get him $100 worth of somethng from ThinkGeek and its something anyone could give, really lacks creativity and will be forgotten in a year.
Hot, wild monkey sex with a liberal dose of caring and understanding towards your partner's needs will blow his/her mind away, is going to be unique to each other and will strengthen your relationship.
If, for your personal reasons, you are waiting to get married or whatever, then head over to ThinkGeek.
Printed reproductions, including photographs of paper currency, checks, bonds, postage stamps, revenue stamps, and securities of the United States and foreign governments (except under the conditions previously listed) are violations of Title 18, Section 474 of the United States Code. Violations are punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to 15 years, or both.
And the conditions talk about destroying masters and size limits.
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>This is about recognizing inevitable technological flow, not religions.
The same technological advantages can be said for lots of other OSs. What about BSD? What about some new OS in the future?
Why the favourtism towards Linux?
Then perhaps Linux zealots can then settle down and perhaps stop being zealots.
Is there anything in the post which is Insightful? He's just rehashing what everyone has been exposed to here already.
I hear its cost-effective moving the company to India.
At least the parts requiring that much bandwidth.
>if your product is to be widely used
That has nothing to do with OpenSource or not.
>If it isn't good
Again, nothing to do with it being OpenSource or not.
>if you write something you want someone to use
If someone uses it or not has nothing to do with OpenSource. My "Hello World" program can be OpenSourced and no one, except for me, uses it.
>The widely accepted OSS programs
You are taking a subset of all OSS programs. I could talk about good closed-sourced programs or about good goaltenders. How one-sided is this?
>if we did not have proven records of OSS projects that matter.
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How about thinking for your self? Did you look around? Did you even consider the "Hello World" example I gave?
>So unless you mention and document specific OSS projects that are as lax with security as you are suggesting,
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/21272
>Open source software is about leveraging the bazaar model to improve software reliability and decrease cost.
Read:
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definitio
Where does it say here that I have to produce "good secure code" to be defined as OpenSource code?
There are good OSS projects and bad OSS projects. OSS is not about having to produce good code. The whole free beer/free speech thingy has nothing to do about quality of code.
REPEAT: I can write the worst, most insecure "Hello World" program and still be an OSS project.
You can talk about "Good OSS projects do this" but then thats like saying "Good hockey goaltenders have winning records".
If this system becomes popular it will enforce "bad" social behaviour.
Want better or more expensive service? Swear your head off.
Want to be treated like an 7-digit number? Be polite.
>There's your economic reason.
My point is that its not the primary reason, which is a dumb assertion the first post.
Do you really need a reason not to go out and fix it? Why not just say "Usable for 1 year. If it lasts longer, its a bonus."
the decision to situate the JWST at L2 was made primarily on economic grounds
Really?
http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/FAQ/FAQans.htm#anchor7
Sounds like a good scientific reason to me.
>The amount of money that will be spent on an automatic de-orbiting rocket for the HST to overcome a 1-in-700 (yes, that small) chance of some *property damage* (not even human injury) is going to be huge.
They are engineers. Thats what they do. Talk to a professional engineer or read up on professional ethics. Public safety superseeds costs.
>Which would seem to indicate an obsession with safety, but really at its core it is an obsession with PR.
Spin and public impression is the obsession of PR. Safety is secondary for PR.
> seem to be dominated by people using cheats, and by established clans of players who are a lot better than me.
With any game this is going to happen. Its like playing football with other people, sometimes the other team is going to have big bulky guys and sometimes you are going to lose.
Play and have fun. Its no fun losing 0-10 but thats why you have rotating maps and teams get mixed up. And you will get better.
My suggestions:
1. Learn the maps. Learn the guns.
2. Follow another player. Do what they do. Talk in game to them. (use team talk)
3. Try and play as a team. Say thank you. Joke around (Sexual jokes are welcomed. Homosexual jokes more so.)
4. Enjoy the excitement with playing with pretty guns and the thrill of shooting them off.
>they want to hire someone who will do as he's told no matter what.
If that was true, why do they pay them a salary.
There are reasonable limits to "company loyalty". Going the extra distance to help the company succeed is ok. Money and legal contracts are serious deals, so its understandable if you don't roll-over.
A lawyer isn't going to try and bring the company CEO in front of a international tribunal.
Most likely he will listen to you, read the contract, suggest a wording change to the contract and send it back to you.
I shouldn't be anymore than visiting his office.
What model and what programs are you running on it?
I have a PocketPC 2002 and I install every program I can find and the most I've needed to do was a soft reset.
There are many here who read slashdot who do computer stuff for the love of computers. They work on OpenSource projects for no money. In their spare time, they use a computer. Lots here, I would say, would be happy with half decent pay and just program all day long.
Do the majority do compter related employees do it for the money or for the love or working with computers?
If they were offered more money, would they switch in an instant?
>I didn't claim Disney was a monopoly ...
>It's restraint of trade that matters.
How does Disney restrict trade?
>you're looking at the world through some seriously rose-colored glasses, my friend.
And I'm sure that tin-foil hat looks good on you.
... because on a Monday morning I'm not exactly the best person to go for help with formating your document. ;)
>"Attempt to monopolize" etc. Section 1 discusses restraint of trade - which this could most certainly be percieved as a step towards, dependin g on how Microsoft and Disney deal with the DRM issues - and with their track record, it's not looking good.
Exactly how is Disney a monopoly?
Patches for every single Linux distribution by the end of the week.
And it will include commented lines "*uck you, SCO"
nuff said (And I'm sure everyone would agree with me.)
Unfortunately "give him sex!" comments are getting modded down.
Seriously, healthly people like sex. Good caring sex, more so.
You get him $100 worth of somethng from ThinkGeek and its something anyone could give, really lacks creativity and will be forgotten in a year.
Hot, wild monkey sex with a liberal dose of caring and understanding towards your partner's needs will blow his/her mind away, is going to be unique to each other and will strengthen your relationship.
If, for your personal reasons, you are waiting to get married or whatever, then head over to ThinkGeek.
>Those conditions that you neglected to mention
I did mention the conditions right at the bottom of my post.
>make all the difference.
The original post said his Secret Service said nothing about these conditions having to be met.
>How is printing facsimilies of money wrong?
It is illegal to exactly reproduce currency: http://www.pgca.org/pages/topics/currency.htm
Is it ethical to break the law?
Ask your friend again.
From: http://www.pgca.org/pages/topics/currency.htm
Printed reproductions, including photographs of paper currency, checks, bonds, postage stamps, revenue stamps, and securities of the United States and foreign governments (except under the conditions previously listed) are violations of Title 18, Section 474 of the United States Code. Violations are punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to 15 years, or both.
And the conditions talk about destroying masters and size limits.