OO *is* ready to replace MS - I have used it for exactly this in commercial organisations.
How do I use OpenOffice to schedule a meeting with another person in the office, being able to view his free/busy information in advance, allow him to respond yes/no to my request, or propose an alternate time, reserve a conference room or other necessary equipment, and have it all show up on our online calendars, with reminders, etc.? That feature alone would keep my office from switching to OO.
They can pull the plug on radio in the US...
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...the day Howard Stern retires. I won't need my radio after that, and that's all I need it for now.
Why would they give you more than the minimum required, if you agreed to that minimum? Does it gain them anything? Are you honestly going to work less now because they didn't give you an unnecessary bonus?
Let's flip this around. If the company sees no need to give more than the minimum required, then why should the employee see any need to produce more than the minimum required? I mean, if I knew that my company wasn't going to give me bupkus for coming up with something worthwhile enough to patent, I wouldn't bother (unless it had been understood in advance that coming up with impressive shiny stuff is my job, and I'm being compensated appropriately...)
However the fact that the ideals of communism are benevolent should not be overlooked.
Benevolent to whom? To the people who do the work and invent the technologies and create the wealth? Or to those who don't, but still have "needs" and therefore "deserve" to be provided for? Why are we supposed to take it as lief that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is "benevolent"?
warning: radiological hazard. do no open; no user-serviceable parts inside. if device becomes overly warm, immerse immediately in heavy water and call the u.s. environmental protection agency's radiological emergency response team. do not use while pregnant or nursing an infant. does not confer super-powers upon user. keep away from easily mutated arachnids.
Let's get some more players in the space game. Maybe someday the USA will outsource their routine non-military space operations to India or China, like they do with their programming, manufacturing, etc!
I'm all for it -- as long as we've moved on to The Next Big Thing (whatever that will be) before then.
...I recently saw Reloaded at the IMAX theater in the Luxor in Vegas. It rawked. I had an almost perfect seat, halfway up and halfway across. Very immersive, in some cases (e.g. the outdoor scenes) almost vertigo-inducingly so.
Reference was made to using their capitalization as a means of acquisition
You mean, for their next trick, they're going to start suing companies whose names are three capital letters?...oh, wait, they're already doing that...
The problems I see with a lot of such packages out there include:
They're targeted specifically at "bugs". New work is then supposed to be managed somewhere else (typically in the dreaded MS Project). Why? Bugs, feature requests, new projects - isn't it all the same, really? A "task" or "issue" or "gummi bear" or whatever you want to call it - it's a request made by Alice, that Bob is assigned to satisfy. You can tack onto that whatever else you want - deadline, notes, hours worked, whatever.
Some issues are large enough in scope that they end up having sub-issues. One needs to be able to specify this relationship, and for instance to be able to track that all sub-issues of a given issue have been completed.
Most of these systems that I've seen assume that your organization works on some number of completely unrelated software products, and that an issue in one product will have no bearing on any other product. My organization develops a family of products that are all a little similar to each other, and with a high degree of reuse across products. When there's a problem with a low-level component, it may initially appear in one particular product, but it's going to end up affecting a number of of them (at the very least, we will have to test the other products with the new version of the component to make sure we haven't broken anything).
The above applies to new development as well as bugfixes. We often develop new code, knowing in advance that it is going to be used in more than one product. We would like to be able to record the work effort as belonging to (and billable to) both products.
What I think we need is a database of issues, where each issue can be categorized and/or tied to other issues like so:
An issue can have one or more parents, and/or one or more children (i.e. an issue can have sub-issues, and an issue can be a sub-issue to one or more higher-level issues)
An issue can be categorized as belonging to one or more product or billing categories
Additionally, of course, an issue would have the usual data - unique ID, requested-by, assigned-to, date needed, date completed, priority/severity, etc., etc.
The same could be said about a contract based on a task list - you will probably be responsible for setting up many part goals and how much money you think they are worth. The buyer of your product could then just as easily think that you set up too easy goals if you finish them too fast etc.
So compromise - for a given task, charge $X plus $Y/hour, where X is about half what you'd normally charge for a lump sum, and Y is about half what you'd normally charge per hour.
Nigeria's pretty close to the equator, innit? Maybe they could talk the Russians into building a launch site there for their shared use? Russia would benefit from the higher rotational velocity, and Nigeria would probably benefit in a number of more mundane ways (jobs, economic development, etc.)
It's not saying that there shall be no exclusion of politcal fundraising or religious speech...it's just giving people the option of avoiding commercial speech.
Why shouldn't it also exclude political or religious speech? If someone wants to speak his mind on religious or political issues, he's free to do so - on his, or public property, and at his expense. I don't see why he's entitled to do so on my phone line, at my expense (time is money).
My point is that either morals are relative or they are absolute. If they are absolute then I am not forcing them on you god is.
It seems as though we're talking about two different levels of "relative" here. I don't get your depiction: Of course there can be more than one set of morals, as morals are created by human minds -- they don't "exist in nature", like gravity. Human minds create moral rules, and so naturally different people can have different ones. That doesn't mean, however, that one cannot say that there is a particular set of moral rules that is best; i.e. most compatible with reality and with human existence, and that other sets of rules are not the best, or may in fact be outright bad; i.e. highly incompatible with reality and with life as a human being here on Earth.
Your morals are different then my morals. I may think stealing is wrong, you may think it's OK under some circumstances. I may think homosexuality is OK you may think it's evil.
Hey, how come I get stuck with the bad examples (homosexuality being "evil", stealing being "OK") and you get the good ones?;-)
It's not moral relativism that makes me say it's wrong to force one's beliefs onto another. I'm not a moral relativist; I think my morals are right and that morals that conflict with mine are wrong. But that still doesn't make it OK to force your moral views onto another. It's not about "relativism"; it's about liberty.
I have about $6000 invested in my 2-channel +subwoofer setup here at home,
No offense, but I'd say that that statement puts any views you have on audio technology into a very small minority. The market goes where the demand is, and I think it's safe to say that - less than 0.1%, maybe? just a guess - of the market spends as much as you do on gear.
Now, now. You know you're not supposed to make a reference on Slashdot to the Federal corrections system without calling it "Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison".
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OO *is* ready to replace MS - I have used it for exactly this in commercial organisations.
How do I use OpenOffice to schedule a meeting with another person in the office, being able to view his free/busy information in advance, allow him to respond yes/no to my request, or propose an alternate time, reserve a conference room or other necessary equipment, and have it all show up on our online calendars, with reminders, etc.? That feature alone would keep my office from switching to OO.
...the day Howard Stern retires. I won't need my radio after that, and that's all I need it for now.
Why would they give you more than the minimum required, if you agreed to that minimum? Does it gain them anything? Are you honestly going to work less now because they didn't give you an unnecessary bonus?
Let's flip this around. If the company sees no need to give more than the minimum required, then why should the employee see any need to produce more than the minimum required? I mean, if I knew that my company wasn't going to give me bupkus for coming up with something worthwhile enough to patent, I wouldn't bother (unless it had been understood in advance that coming up with impressive shiny stuff is my job, and I'm being compensated appropriately...)
However the fact that the ideals of communism are benevolent should not be overlooked.
Benevolent to whom? To the people who do the work and invent the technologies and create the wealth? Or to those who don't, but still have "needs" and therefore "deserve" to be provided for? Why are we supposed to take it as lief that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is "benevolent"?
Maybe that whole "coincidence" thing has more to it than you know.
Let's not forget that things like this can often run in families, too.
I, for one, welcome our new flatulent ship-eating overlords.
warning: radiological hazard. do no open; no user-serviceable parts inside. if device becomes overly warm, immerse immediately in heavy water and call the u.s. environmental protection agency's radiological emergency response team. do not use while pregnant or nursing an infant. does not confer super-powers upon user. keep away from easily mutated arachnids.
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Let's get some more players in the space game. Maybe someday the USA will outsource their routine non-military space operations to India or China, like they do with their programming, manufacturing, etc!
I'm all for it -- as long as we've moved on to The Next Big Thing (whatever that will be) before then.
Scalia has vocally defended the right to religious activity
But no one's complaining about a right to religious activity. It's compulsory religious activity that's the problem.
...I recently saw Reloaded at the IMAX theater in the Luxor in Vegas. It rawked. I had an almost perfect seat, halfway up and halfway across. Very immersive, in some cases (e.g. the outdoor scenes) almost vertigo-inducingly so.
Reference was made to using their capitalization as a means of acquisition
You mean, for their next trick, they're going to start suing companies whose names are three capital letters? ...oh, wait, they're already doing that...
The problems I see with a lot of such packages out there include:
They're targeted specifically at "bugs". New work is then supposed to be managed somewhere else (typically in the dreaded MS Project). Why? Bugs, feature requests, new projects - isn't it all the same, really? A "task" or "issue" or "gummi bear" or whatever you want to call it - it's a request made by Alice, that Bob is assigned to satisfy. You can tack onto that whatever else you want - deadline, notes, hours worked, whatever.
Some issues are large enough in scope that they end up having sub-issues. One needs to be able to specify this relationship, and for instance to be able to track that all sub-issues of a given issue have been completed.
Most of these systems that I've seen assume that your organization works on some number of completely unrelated software products, and that an issue in one product will have no bearing on any other product. My organization develops a family of products that are all a little similar to each other, and with a high degree of reuse across products. When there's a problem with a low-level component, it may initially appear in one particular product, but it's going to end up affecting a number of of them (at the very least, we will have to test the other products with the new version of the component to make sure we haven't broken anything).
The above applies to new development as well as bugfixes. We often develop new code, knowing in advance that it is going to be used in more than one product. We would like to be able to record the work effort as belonging to (and billable to) both products.
What I think we need is a database of issues, where each issue can be categorized and/or tied to other issues like so:
An issue can have one or more parents, and/or one or more children (i.e. an issue can have sub-issues, and an issue can be a sub-issue to one or more higher-level issues)
An issue can be categorized as belonging to one or more product or billing categories
Additionally, of course, an issue would have the usual data - unique ID, requested-by, assigned-to, date needed, date completed, priority/severity, etc., etc.
So does anyone know of such a beast?
I thought I felt something.
A disturbance in the Force (of gravity)?
The same could be said about a contract based on a task list - you will probably be responsible for setting up many part goals and how much money you think they are worth. The buyer of your product could then just as easily think that you set up too easy goals if you finish them too fast etc.
So compromise - for a given task, charge $X plus $Y/hour, where X is about half what you'd normally charge for a lump sum, and Y is about half what you'd normally charge per hour.
I, for one, welcome our... oh, wait. Go NASA!
Capitalism is good, but IMO, it depends on there being some[one] at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder
And this makes capitalism different form any other system... how, exactly?
If we combine this with the space elevator, we can send shit to the moon on 6 AA batteries!!!
One would hope that we can find more interesting things to send to the moon that shit...
Nigeria's pretty close to the equator, innit? Maybe they could talk the Russians into building a launch site there for their shared use? Russia would benefit from the higher rotational velocity, and Nigeria would probably benefit in a number of more mundane ways (jobs, economic development, etc.)
It's not saying that there shall be no exclusion of politcal fundraising or religious speech...it's just giving people the option of avoiding commercial speech.
Why shouldn't it also exclude political or religious speech? If someone wants to speak his mind on religious or political issues, he's free to do so - on his, or public property, and at his expense. I don't see why he's entitled to do so on my phone line, at my expense (time is money).
My point is that either morals are relative or they are absolute. If they are absolute then I am not forcing them on you god is.
It seems as though we're talking about two different levels of "relative" here. I don't get your depiction: Of course there can be more than one set of morals, as morals are created by human minds -- they don't "exist in nature", like gravity. Human minds create moral rules, and so naturally different people can have different ones. That doesn't mean, however, that one cannot say that there is a particular set of moral rules that is best; i.e. most compatible with reality and with human existence, and that other sets of rules are not the best, or may in fact be outright bad; i.e. highly incompatible with reality and with life as a human being here on Earth.
Your morals are different then my morals. I may think stealing is wrong, you may think it's OK under some circumstances. I may think homosexuality is OK you may think it's evil.
Hey, how come I get stuck with the bad examples (homosexuality being "evil", stealing being "OK") and you get the good ones? ;-)
It's not moral relativism that makes me say it's wrong to force one's beliefs onto another. I'm not a moral relativist; I think my morals are right and that morals that conflict with mine are wrong. But that still doesn't make it OK to force your moral views onto another. It's not about "relativism"; it's about liberty.
To think that an over abundance of morality can be seen as a weakness.
You're right. It's not a weakness. To enforce one's morality onto others isn't weak, it is evil.
I have about $6000 invested in my 2-channel +subwoofer setup here at home,
No offense, but I'd say that that statement puts any views you have on audio technology into a very small minority. The market goes where the demand is, and I think it's safe to say that - less than 0.1%, maybe? just a guess - of the market spends as much as you do on gear.
since they'd all be in a 3x2 federal pen cell
Now, now. You know you're not supposed to make a reference on Slashdot to the Federal corrections system without calling it "Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison".
Well, gaming benchmarks will be difficult until someone ports Choplifter and Karateka to the Athlon64.