First, the implementation of the technologies is terrible. In their zeal to rewrite the rules of computing for first-time users, OLPC shipped machines with a cumbersome operating system. For example, adding Flash to do something like watch a YouTube video requires users to go into a terminal line-code and type a long internet address to download the software: it seems impossible to cut-and-paste the address.
The author of the article should know better than to use flash as an example. Clueless article at best.
those of you with pensions or other investments are probably putting money into the corporate stockholders portfol
May be, if this time a corporation will do some good to poor people e.g. in Venezuela, or, at least not obstruct a charity, people in the country will be more friendly to USA and this will reflect in oil prices? Or, may be, less will die or get unproductive because their addiction to cocaine from Colombia... You see what I mean?
Let me try to come up with a statistical explanation. More often than not people programming in VB are concentrating on shallow tasks. (e.g. only MS Office applications) Their "good enough" and "I feel lucky" attitude is not counterbalanced by concerns that come with experience of solving tricky tasks in heterogeneous systems. So they can not foresee what is not "good enough" from their limited experience.
I saw people running SQL queries for each value from a list, instead of creating a table and doing all in one table scan. This all worked until the database got more workload and could not come back with results in time anymore, making the application unusable. Did they have to work with mass-data server application, where one learns to always try to be efficient with production code, they would have seen this ugliness and invested a bit more time.
I thing many would be interested in hearing your story about marketing. Could you tell us more? I work in Marketing myself being a bit of a techie, so I know exactly what you mean, but hearing a story is always fun.
which is the most inconsistent thing I have seen in computing. There is no structure, or, better, there are all structures at the same time, from command-line like, to Java like. The only way to know wich style to use to call a function is to learn it by heart.
I wonder if Mr. Goodnight is aware of this and if they plan to change it at SAS. Because any day I would rather learn the language of R-Projekt or S-Plus than spending time guessing, should I use a comma, semicolon, slash or bracket in a SAS script. And this is where the problem for SAS lays now. As soon as people who know nothing but SAS get out of the business, SAS will go with them.
It may be similar to the school problem, where there are teachers, that are used to teach in the old way. And why should they change, everybody out was taught in this way, and they launched appollo and stuff... SAS caters to Fortune 500, so why change the SAS language, awkward it may be?
Hi Ulatekh, personally I find your idea funny, but that's me. I have just read your post in the journal "Personality over brains in tech hiring". Even if you have a very funny definition for somebody at hand, this may be wiser to look a the things at a wider angle. At the end they are all humans, and, may be just nice people to play football with, or something?:-) By the way, what happened with your job search since December? I understand you develop for MJPEG, must be good.
For the sake of making sure the provider of the wiki repects the copyright of the posters wouldn't it be enough to register a few things and then sue? I neither pro nor contra the provider, but how does the law works here?
If somebody manages to prove that a provider infirnges on some rights preserved in by the license X (with a registered copyright), would not it be easy to get him comply for any and all other postings under the same license?
... anymore. Be it a CD or MP3. The most quality increase one can get out of better headphones.
There is a huge difference from vanila iPod headphones to new Sony earbuds MDR-EX51LP for 30 and even greater to the open full size Sony MDR-SA3000 for 300. There is not such a great difference between portable CD player and iPod.
The reason is quite simple, electronics is already good enough, acoustics for the mass market is still mediocre.
However, when I play the same MP3 from a PC through a 24bit 96kHz card, digitally connected to a 24bit capable receiver, the difference in quality is noticeable mostly in crispy highs. But this adds at least about 600 to the price, being non-portable. I know, 24 bit is not in the MP3 itself, just wanted to let you know what my better set up is.
May be it is the crowd you need to make the movie that justifies the role of the studio? The music one can do alone, well in a tight group of 3 to 5 people...
While your point is true, you're making a mistake as well. "Free as in beer" and "commercial' are not mutually exclusive. Neither are they collectively exhaustive, I just demonstrate that OSS does not necessary means free.
With an Open Source license which does not restrict your use of the software, you can install as many copies of the software as you want. Since there are no licensing fees, you could install two or two hundred seats with no additional costs beyond the labor required to do so. Although there are OSS licenses, that allow you an unlimited free use of the software, there are commercial licenses as well. They are basically licenses for proprietary software, with (e.g.) per seat license, just the source is made available to you as well.
Compare: "I recently negotiated a licencing deal with for , which i deemed to be the best solution because of " To: "Well, my IT guys implemented a working system on their own, using some software I can't pronounce and really don't understand." The latter is actually how a good manager should be acting - distribute tasks, set priorities and control execution. Not micromanaging by choosing software etc.. One can not understand everything. However, watching trends and general benchmarks of productivity can help a lot too.
In order to protect users of MySpace from the risk of having private data revealed, we removed the site until we could make contact with our customer. Why not let MySpace suspend all their customers accounts, that were compromised, instead?
MySpace would than have contacted their customers and let them change their passwords. Once the passwords were published, they have to be changed anyways, haven't they?
Not always must it be the case. For instance a partner may have a car registered under her name, but the owner could still be "our" insurance broker.
Also I just read on the official site, that if one owns a second (sommer) house, he/she has to pay separate as for a separate housenhold. Another 17 Euro in a month.
In fact it is important to note that the license is covering Radio,TV,PC usage in a housenhold. If you are a pair living together but not married or registered as a pair, you will usually have to pay at least twice as two housenholds.
Then, the radios that are being taken to work should be licensed extra. Nowadays, when almost every modern mobile phone has an ability to receive TV programs, those should be licensed extra. Also the car radios would incur additional license fees this way or another.
Let's say you are a student and financially independent, but still live with your parents (and were using their TV or radios), you will then also have to pay for your Laptop.
A company has to pay for every location it has PC's installed. Say, you are a insurance broker, living with a partner but not married yet, having a separate office, and a car-radio. Your partner would be financially independent from you, but I calculate the costs for you two combined. You would also have a clerk, doing backoffice for you on your laptop on a separate location (e.g. at his home).
Here is a rough calculation of what you family have to pay every month 1. TV at home 17Eur 2. Radio in your partner's car 5EUR 3. Radio in your mobile phone/ability to receive TV 5EUR-17EUR 4. Radio in your partner's mobile phone/ability to receive TV 5EUR-17EUR 5. PC at work 5EUR (as it is registered on your company) 6. Your clerk's PC 5EUR
something like 40-60 EUR in month - 600EUR a year, and that from your after-tax income!
My comment to the new law itself is that they just have to secure the source of income for their public broadcasting production for the times when people will start to throw away broadcasting TV's. Just this year Deutsche Telekom is rolling out an ip-based Triple-Play network, making usual broadcasting televsion in Germany obsolete. Almost every house in Germay has a last mile connection from Deutsche Telekom.
I'll keep paying a premium for german engineered and manufactured goods, thanks. The reason German stuff is holding longer, is mostly the consumer law. Here in Germany they have a "Gewaehrleistung", which is the period a product is supposed to work as advertized, however not guaranteed. This period duration is as least two years. Please correct me if my legaleze needs correction.
It is illegal to link to illegal "content" at least in Germany. One of the most popular computer magasines in Germany, Heise.de was prohibited from linking to a russian MP3 trading site, which was found to be legal in Russia but declared as illegal in Germany. I do not name the site because I am posting from Germany:-)
Could you explain why running a trade surplus is a terrible thing and what it has to do with lack of investments US dollars are "Bank notes" - just obligations of US Government in a sence. So everyone getting US Dollars is crediting USA and thus doing an investment. The same holds true for Chinese Yuan, of course.
So if China get a surplus of US dollars, it does in effect invest in US economy.
What the parent claims is that it were better to run a deficit and let US invest in Yuan and so in Chinese economy.
I agree fully that it might be of interest to some classics music lover with >10K/month income and no interest in tinkering. But again, why should it be discussed on the Slashdot then?
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In Soviet Russia mCaffe is the favorite Fud blend from US, you insensitive clod!
The author of the article should know better than to use flash as an example. Clueless article at best.
May be, if this time a corporation will do some good to poor people e.g. in Venezuela, or, at least not obstruct a charity, people in the country will be more friendly to USA and this will reflect in oil prices? Or, may be, less will die or get unproductive because their addiction to cocaine from Colombia... You see what I mean?
at your parent's place. You could admin it over ssh and spare those IT-Support trips.
Let me try to come up with a statistical explanation. More often than not people programming in VB are concentrating on shallow tasks. (e.g. only MS Office applications) Their "good enough" and "I feel lucky" attitude is not counterbalanced by concerns that come with experience of solving tricky tasks in heterogeneous systems. So they can not foresee what is not "good enough" from their limited experience.
I saw people running SQL queries for each value from a list, instead of creating a table and doing all in one table scan. This all worked until the database got more workload and could not come back with results in time anymore, making the application unusable. Did they have to work with mass-data server application, where one learns to always try to be efficient with production code, they would have seen this ugliness and invested a bit more time.
I thing many would be interested in hearing your story about marketing. Could you tell us more?
I work in Marketing myself being a bit of a techie, so I know exactly what you mean, but hearing a story is always fun.
which is the most inconsistent thing I have seen in computing. There is no structure, or, better, there are all structures at the same time, from command-line like, to Java like. The only way to know wich style to use to call a function is to learn it by heart.
I wonder if Mr. Goodnight is aware of this and if they plan to change it at SAS. Because any day I would rather learn the language of R-Projekt or S-Plus than spending time guessing, should I use a comma, semicolon, slash or bracket in a SAS script. And this is where the problem for SAS lays now. As soon as people who know nothing but SAS get out of the business, SAS will go with them.
It may be similar to the school problem, where there are teachers, that are used to teach in the old way. And why should they change, everybody out was taught in this way, and they launched appollo and stuff... SAS caters to Fortune 500, so why change the SAS language, awkward it may be?
I am trying to play Metal Gear Solid on my PSP I've got for my 30th birthday.
It is FRUSTRATING with EVERY click. I can't even get this gun to fire.
What am I doing wrong, where is my IMMEDIATE REINFORCEMENT?
Hi Ulatekh, personally I find your idea funny, but that's me. :-)
I have just read your post in the journal "Personality over brains in tech hiring".
Even if you have a very funny definition for somebody at hand, this may be wiser to look a the things at a wider angle. At the end they are all humans, and, may be just nice people to play football with, or something?
By the way, what happened with your job search since December? I understand you develop for MJPEG, must be good.
For the sake of making sure the provider of the wiki repects the copyright of the posters wouldn't it be enough to register a few things and then sue? I neither pro nor contra the provider, but how does the law works here?
If somebody manages to prove that a provider infirnges on some rights preserved in by the license X (with a registered copyright), would not it be easy to get him comply for any and all other postings under the same license?
... anymore. Be it a CD or MP3. The most quality increase one can get out of better headphones.
There is a huge difference from vanila iPod headphones to new Sony earbuds MDR-EX51LP for 30 and even greater to the open full size Sony MDR-SA3000 for 300. There is not such a great difference between portable CD player and iPod.
The reason is quite simple, electronics is already good enough, acoustics for the mass market is still mediocre.
However, when I play the same MP3 from a PC through a 24bit 96kHz card, digitally connected to a 24bit capable receiver, the difference in quality is noticeable mostly in crispy highs. But this adds at least about 600 to the price, being non-portable. I know, 24 bit is not in the MP3 itself, just wanted to let you know what my better set up is.
May be it is the crowd you need to make the movie that justifies the role of the studio? The music one can do alone, well in a tight group of 3 to 5 people...
Funny, there is no single female artis on the front page, I have realised. Is it a coincidence?
Check the enterprise version of http://sugarcrm.com/
Somebody who writes an article about OSS, should at least mention this "not free" flavor of OSS.
To: "Well, my IT guys implemented a working system on their own, using some software I can't pronounce and really don't understand." The latter is actually how a good manager should be acting - distribute tasks, set priorities and control execution. Not micromanaging by choosing software etc.. One can not understand everything. However, watching trends and general benchmarks of productivity can help a lot too.
MySpace would than have contacted their customers and let them change their passwords.
Once the passwords were published, they have to be changed anyways, haven't they?
Not always must it be the case. For instance a partner may have a car registered under her name, but the owner could still be "our" insurance broker.
Also I just read on the official site, that if one owns a second (sommer) house, he/she has to pay separate as for a separate housenhold. Another 17 Euro in a month.
In fact it is important to note that the license is covering Radio,TV,PC usage in a housenhold. If you are a pair living together but not married or registered as a pair, you will usually have to pay at least twice as two housenholds.
Then, the radios that are being taken to work should be licensed extra. Nowadays, when almost every modern mobile phone has an ability to receive TV programs, those should be licensed extra. Also the car radios would incur additional license fees this way or another.
Let's say you are a student and financially independent, but still live with your parents (and were using their TV or radios), you will then also have to pay for your Laptop.
A company has to pay for every location it has PC's installed. Say, you are a insurance broker, living with a partner but not married yet, having a separate office, and a car-radio. Your partner would be financially independent from you, but I calculate the costs for you two combined. You would also have a clerk, doing backoffice for you on your laptop on a separate location (e.g. at his home).
Here is a rough calculation of what you family have to pay every month
1. TV at home 17Eur
2. Radio in your partner's car 5EUR
3. Radio in your mobile phone/ability to receive TV 5EUR-17EUR
4. Radio in your partner's mobile phone/ability to receive TV 5EUR-17EUR
5. PC at work 5EUR (as it is registered on your company)
6. Your clerk's PC 5EUR
something like 40-60 EUR in month - 600EUR a year, and that from your after-tax income!
My comment to the new law itself is that they just have to secure the source of income for their public broadcasting production for the times when people will start to throw away broadcasting TV's. Just this year Deutsche Telekom is rolling out an ip-based Triple-Play network, making usual broadcasting televsion in Germany obsolete. Almost every house in Germay has a last mile connection from Deutsche Telekom.
I wonder, if what they wanted to say was "this is more then proved"?
Proof: This is less than proved in the brilliant paper of [H]. QED.
I'll keep paying a premium for german engineered and manufactured goods, thanks.
The reason German stuff is holding longer, is mostly the consumer law. Here in Germany they have a "Gewaehrleistung", which is the period a product is supposed to work as advertized, however not guaranteed. This period duration is as least two years. Please correct me if my legaleze needs correction.
It is illegal to link to illegal "content" at least in Germany. One of the most popular computer magasines in Germany, Heise.de was prohibited from linking to a russian MP3 trading site, which was found to be legal in Russia but declared as illegal in Germany. I do not name the site because I am posting from Germany :-)
In space research it comes from Russia, just to remind you. Remember, who was first to launch a sputnik? :-)
Just had to say it.
Could you explain why running a trade surplus is a terrible thing and what it has to do with lack of investments
US dollars are "Bank notes" - just obligations of US Government in a sence. So everyone getting US Dollars is crediting USA and thus doing an investment. The same holds true for Chinese Yuan, of course.
So if China get a surplus of US dollars, it does in effect invest in US economy.
What the parent claims is that it were better to run a deficit and let US invest in Yuan and so in Chinese economy.
I agree fully that it might be of interest to some classics music lover with >10K/month income and no interest in tinkering. But again, why should it be discussed on the Slashdot then?