I'm sympathetic to the trauma of losing one's job, but when you admit "we didn't ask for [Indian contractors], management imposed them on us" the finger must be pointed at your management, and it remains unfair for the GGP to hate an entire nation for the personal impact of staffing decisions made by employers.
I suspect that 'management' are not the only people to blame. Perhaps the entire U.S. system is collapsing upon you: shareholders want better returns; politicians want to return to office and so are unsupportive of (supposedly free-loading) migrating workers that bolster the workforce and nation's GDP; managers are forced to find more-efficient ways to complete their projects which can't use the skilled H1B visa staff (because there aren't enough visas) so try to employ the same staff in another country, saving money on home-grown staff. The rich get richer and the poor stay poor. I'm sorry about that.
Poster cammoblammo has already called you on it ("Ah, there's your point: 'He's Indian, therefore he's ripping me off'"), but your attitude towards Indian people sucks. I am very sorry if you or friends are unable to work because senior people in their employers found other people in the world to do the work cheaper, but that does not justify the attitude that has you say "why help them out when they are stealing our jobs". Your bosses are selling your jobs to the lowest bidders -- Indian technology companies aren't stealing anything. Please reconsider your attitude.
The metaphor may be applied to any level of the creation of software. Project management is a part of that and the bazaar-inhabitants have agreed to be at the bazaar to have their wares available.
The Third Way of collaborative software development is the Supermarket where an organised team facilitate a bazaar-like pattern within a cathedral-like administered setting: someone may develop a Debian package for Foo (which replicates work already from the bazaar in a different style) but makes sure that it works with the other Debian packages in the bazaar, while also aware of a the organisation calling for an off-the-shelf available stable edition of Foo for turn-key deployment.
The reason this is applicable is that very few people download their GNU/Linux packages from the original sources (although that could be an interesting USP for a distro), instead collecting a branded collection of sources (e.g. Gentoo) or binary packages (e.g. Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian/Suse etc.). The very notion of a GNU/Linx distribution is cathedral-like; the very best distributions allow their users to roam the bazaar, albeit their own-brand edition of the worldwide bazaar. This permits a user to administer the software they choose to use while supported by the standardised quality of one source of software packages.
How the system is governed is always going to be an interesting question. With a certain sort of person in a given supermarket software project, you will need strong leadership; with another sort of person, you will need collaborative decision-making powers. It's a battle fought throughout the world in a variety of different settings because people are just people, and I doubt that segregatng by people-type will be helpful in the long-run as tolerance and flexibility are needed.
I've not had problems using the same profile with both 1.5.0.6 and 2.0beta1 & beta2; backing up the profile directory has become my habit when testing new Firefoxes.
I assumed that this was a USA equivalent of the UK three-phase system; my question remains that 240 volts is not special to my equipment. My original post was intended to highlight and challenge a US-centric attitude; thank you for your additional information.
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The first rule of ZFS is you don't talk about ZFS...
They're not offering that to businesses yet. This is Slashdot, where the headline has nothing to do with the linked article and your post need not acknowledge either. Reader 'niceone' points out that the Google Apps for Your Domain doesn't contain a word processor, spreadsheet or presentation tool. It has GMail, Google Talk, Google Calendar and Google Page Creator, which appear to me to be groupware stuff, not personal productivity stuff. They aren't asking to take your files off your network or even away from your computer.
Xara Software used to be the UK's Computer Concepts who produced Impression DTP software and Artworks vector graphics package in the early nineties for the Acorn 32-bit computer range (The Acorn who created the ARM chip and spun off the IP to create the ARM company). Artworks as ported to Win32 and performed 5x faster using its own redraw routines than Corel Draw using Windows' GDI. That port of Artworks was licensed and sold by Corel as Corel Xara. I'm not surprised that they have good rendering code given their 15 years of experience with it.
How can you take an article about processors seriously when they can't properly pluralize "die" as "dies[?]" I think that the plural of a D6 or D20 gaming die is 'dice' and assume that the people writing the story have more of a background in chip fabrication than I so would know that 'dice' is the appropriate plural.
I read the GPL to say that the software is free to have a life independent of my use, modification and redistribution; the BSD-style licenses say that the effort put into making the software is the free part of the job: anyone can take it and use it for themselves however they want. Depending on what you want to give away with your software, each has its appeal.
I applaud the altruism of releasing your work under a BSD-style license.
They have a subscription model for their software repository 'Click'n'Run'. I wonder if it's only a matter of polite disinterest that this hasn't been reverse-engineered and alternate free-as-in-beer servers created?
Not in the volume license agreement I read while at uni. Unauthorised installations have a license-termination clause, so that the whole university loses its license.
Just yesterday I read someone's planet.debian.org post linking to the manifesto of Sovereign Computing. I suspect there will be a bigger market-space when groups like me and a few friends buy a server or two between us.
Writing software is complex; maintaining an operating environment, too. Paying other people to do work you don't want to is outsourcing. I'm not yet been convinced that outsourcing does anything other than provide short-term gain and is often at long-term expense. And buying a software platform outsources the required development work. I'm not surprised that MS, as a software company, need to reiterate that software is complicated (because it makes people realise the value of their products), but for companies to expect that software development would be easy is daft.
May I disturb you to point out that the exploit uses Pacifica's tools, but needs a hole in Vista to do that. And that hole uses patched unsigned driver code paged out to disk by a large memory allocation to move Vista into a virtualized state.
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I'm sympathetic to the trauma of losing one's job, but when you admit "we didn't ask for [Indian contractors], management imposed them on us" the finger must be pointed at your management, and it remains unfair for the GGP to hate an entire nation for the personal impact of staffing decisions made by employers.
I suspect that 'management' are not the only people to blame. Perhaps the entire U.S. system is collapsing upon you: shareholders want better returns; politicians want to return to office and so are unsupportive of (supposedly free-loading) migrating workers that bolster the workforce and nation's GDP; managers are forced to find more-efficient ways to complete their projects which can't use the skilled H1B visa staff (because there aren't enough visas) so try to employ the same staff in another country, saving money on home-grown staff. The rich get richer and the poor stay poor. I'm sorry about that.
Poster cammoblammo has already called you on it ("Ah, there's your point: 'He's Indian, therefore he's ripping me off'"), but your attitude towards Indian people sucks. I am very sorry if you or friends are unable to work because senior people in their employers found other people in the world to do the work cheaper, but that does not justify the attitude that has you say "why help them out when they are stealing our jobs". Your bosses are selling your jobs to the lowest bidders -- Indian technology companies aren't stealing anything. Please reconsider your attitude.
Does a zero-valued read-only file in place stop the offending noise?
The metaphor may be applied to any level of the creation of software. Project management is a part of that and the bazaar-inhabitants have agreed to be at the bazaar to have their wares available.
The Third Way of collaborative software development is the Supermarket where an organised team facilitate a bazaar-like pattern within a cathedral-like administered setting: someone may develop a Debian package for Foo (which replicates work already from the bazaar in a different style) but makes sure that it works with the other Debian packages in the bazaar, while also aware of a the organisation calling for an off-the-shelf available stable edition of Foo for turn-key deployment.
The reason this is applicable is that very few people download their GNU/Linux packages from the original sources (although that could be an interesting USP for a distro), instead collecting a branded collection of sources (e.g. Gentoo) or binary packages (e.g. Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian/Suse etc.). The very notion of a GNU/Linx distribution is cathedral-like; the very best distributions allow their users to roam the bazaar, albeit their own-brand edition of the worldwide bazaar. This permits a user to administer the software they choose to use while supported by the standardised quality of one source of software packages.
How the system is governed is always going to be an interesting question. With a certain sort of person in a given supermarket software project, you will need strong leadership; with another sort of person, you will need collaborative decision-making powers. It's a battle fought throughout the world in a variety of different settings because people are just people, and I doubt that segregatng by people-type will be helpful in the long-run as tolerance and flexibility are needed.
I've not had problems using the same profile with both 1.5.0.6 and 2.0beta1 & beta2; backing up the profile directory has become my habit when testing new Firefoxes.
It was Twain that said "Golf is a good walk, ruined".
I assumed that this was a USA equivalent of the UK three-phase system; my question remains that 240 volts is not special to my equipment. My original post was intended to highlight and challenge a US-centric attitude; thank you for your additional information.
The first rule of ZFS is you don't talk about ZFS...
What's special about 240v wiring?
They're not offering that to businesses yet. This is Slashdot, where the headline has nothing to do with the linked article and your post need not acknowledge either. Reader 'niceone' points out that the Google Apps for Your Domain doesn't contain a word processor, spreadsheet or presentation tool. It has GMail, Google Talk, Google Calendar and Google Page Creator, which appear to me to be groupware stuff, not personal productivity stuff. They aren't asking to take your files off your network or even away from your computer.
Sugar is running in a window in the Fedora system it's being developed on.
Xara Software used to be the UK's Computer Concepts who produced Impression DTP software and Artworks vector graphics package in the early nineties for the Acorn 32-bit computer range (The Acorn who created the ARM chip and spun off the IP to create the ARM company). Artworks as ported to Win32 and performed 5x faster using its own redraw routines than Corel Draw using Windows' GDI. That port of Artworks was licensed and sold by Corel as Corel Xara. I'm not surprised that they have good rendering code given their 15 years of experience with it.
File himself as prior art?
(as in: "Steve, go file yourself.")
How can you take an article about processors seriously when they can't properly pluralize "die" as "dies[?]"
I think that the plural of a D6 or D20 gaming die is 'dice' and assume that the people writing the story have more of a background in chip fabrication than I so would know that 'dice' is the appropriate plural.
That sounds like a tired plot device: see also Gojira and Mosura.
In that time many composers and songwriters have learned the art of songcraft as they serve apprenticeships playing the works of others via OLGA.net.
I read the GPL to say that the software is free to have a life independent of my use, modification and redistribution; the BSD-style licenses say that the effort put into making the software is the free part of the job: anyone can take it and use it for themselves however they want. Depending on what you want to give away with your software, each has its appeal.
I applaud the altruism of releasing your work under a BSD-style license.
Yes. And set up a futures market for questions like which of the HD-DVD or blu-ray will be resurrected in future as superior technology.
They have a subscription model for their software repository 'Click'n'Run'. I wonder if it's only a matter of polite disinterest that this hasn't been reverse-engineered and alternate free-as-in-beer servers created?
Not in the volume license agreement I read while at uni. Unauthorised installations have a license-termination clause, so that the whole university loses its license.
Sir, you disgust me by bringing down the repute of this fine network with your false Compuserve address.
Just yesterday I read someone's planet.debian.org post linking to the manifesto of Sovereign Computing. I suspect there will be a bigger market-space when groups like me and a few friends buy a server or two between us.
Writing software is complex; maintaining an operating environment, too. Paying other people to do work you don't want to is outsourcing. I'm not yet been convinced that outsourcing does anything other than provide short-term gain and is often at long-term expense. And buying a software platform outsources the required development work. I'm not surprised that MS, as a software company, need to reiterate that software is complicated (because it makes people realise the value of their products), but for companies to expect that software development would be easy is daft.
May I disturb you to point out that the exploit uses Pacifica's tools, but needs a hole in Vista to do that. And that hole uses patched unsigned driver code paged out to disk by a large memory allocation to move Vista into a virtualized state.
It's the launch of his column/blog at that 'Furutrismic' site. That's the news. +slownewsday +slashvert +productlaunch tags, then.