make a Linux distro with no closed source code, I really want to see more open source support of third party hardware drivers. Forcing distros to be pure 100% open source code will do that. Open source Linux driver support is really really bad and forces me to use NDISWrapper and hack the Windows XP drivers to work under Linux for wireless cards.
Split up open source developers into teams:
Team #1 writes Kernel and Drivers.
Team #2 writes the main OS support programs and libraries.
Team #3 writes third party software support to do the same thing that commercial software does but under an open source license.
Team #4 writes Internet and web server applications.
Team #5 writes database and email and calendar programs and servers.
Team #6 Debugs and does quality control for the other teams.
Team #7 Writes documentation and books on open source projects.
I could use the same argument that the liberal biased web site is pure propaganda that downplays the incident in that he took home copies and deserves a slap on the wrist for breaking federal law.
The New York Times covers it that he "removed the classified material inadvertently".
I'll cite Wikipedia On Sandy Berger "In April 2005, Berger pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material from the National Archives in Washington. According to the lead prosecutor in the case Berger only took copies of classified information and that no original material was destroyed; however, there is notable controversy and speculation that he might have removed or destroyed originals of other unknown documents as well."
He plead guilty to removing the documents and got a slap on the wrist.
My statement was that the Clinton administration got rid of emails, documents, and memos as well. Berger pleading guilty to those charges proves that what I said is true, be it that a right-wing, left-wing, or neutral source is cited, they all say the same thing that he plead guilty to removing documents and memos.
This is proof of what happened under the Clinton administration. Now please show proof that it happens under the Bush administration as well. Using your own logic, don't use a liberal biased web site to do so. Now let's see if you can do it.
I am not abusing disability, in fact I was forced on it when my doctors ordered me not to work anymore. After I tried to commit suicide I was forced into a hospital and forced on disability, as schizoaffective disorder is generally misunderstood by the public and the paxil I was on caused suicidal thoughts followed by the third job I lost for being "sick" on the job and fired for being sick. I felt that suffering from schzioaffective disorder was a character flaw of mine that didn't really give me a point of living any more, much less working for managers who don't understand what schizoaffective disorder is, and that suffering from it was not my fault or a choice I made to be that way.
If I had my choice I wouldn't be suffering from schizoaffective disorder and be on disability, but it is not what I want, it is what society wants. They don't want schizoaffective disorder sufferers like me working a job like programming code, they want us locked up in state mental hospitals worse than federal prison instead.
Most of us with schziaffective disorder end up on disability, one of us, refused to go on disability and wrote Living with Schizoaffective disorder instead, as a way to explain it to normal people. People who don't hear voices or see hallucinations, who don't get depressed and lose sleep or lose the ability to focus or concentrate, for people who can function properly at the work place, even a negative workplace full of stress and people who don't understand than even mentally ill people have civil rights and human rights.
The misunderstanding of schizoaffective disorder, and the general psychophobia the public has against us, forced me into disability, I didn't choose it, it was chosen for me, because I am sick.
It is because people discriminate against me for my disability. Also schizoaffective disorder works in two week cycles. There are up to two weeks cycle each of manic depression, schizophrenia, and normalcy, and during the schizophrenic or manic depressive cycles I can't get as much work done as when I am on a normal cycle and managers cannot understand that and accuse me of not reaching my potential because I have good weeks and bad weeks. Also during bad weeks I have problems remembering things and focusing and concentrating. Managers and employers are supposed to accommodate my disability, but they mostly don't and just tell me to "snap out of it" or I will be fired. When I can't snap out of it, I get fired.
Seriously I tried a few jobs before I ended up on disability, I kept getting fired for having no control over my mental illness basically. Like telling a person in a wheelchair to get up and walk or be fired, or a deaf person to listen to what the manager is speaking or be fired, or a blind person to read what is on the whiteboard or be fired.
I keep applying for jobs, in the ticket to work program, but no company wants to hire me. Working at home would be a dream job, but no such job seems to exist for me. I am "too sick" for an employer to hire me, and nobody really seems to care about my well being anywhere in the USA. The ACLU refuses to help me fight the discrimination, and lawyers refuse to take my case as I am mentally ill and thus would make a bad witness in court as they would use my mental illness against me and thus make it a "weak case" or "difficult case".
If you know of a charity that helps out mentally ill people to go back to work or file discrimination lawsuits, please let me know. Nobody really cares about people like me, and I wasn't always mentally ill, I got mentally ill on the job.
Yeah you and all of the other 911 conspiracy theorists. The only thing you forgot to mention was that the government did 911, and Bush and others are all members of the New World Order that made the Constitution and all other laws null and void. Also that McCain or Obama will gladly serve as Bush's third term in office because they are secretly controlled by the NWO as well.
Don't give yourself too much credit, the Internet is full of people who really are capable of coming up with such bullshit. Just that by now, it is getting really boring and predictable.
Not only that but if they cannot find the more than 180 day email to prove their case, they can make some email files up. Not like a judge or jury knows the difference between real email and faked email or real documents and faked documents. I used to work for a law firm that had a program that allowed them to make documents or email say whatever they wanted them to say as evidence and nobody ever was the wiser. That is how they got out of that 1998 FBI investigation of them for fraud as they pinned it all on one partner when really it was most of the partners that did something wrong. The FBI, the judge, and the jury never knew the truth that they faked all emails and documents and got rid of the real ones that incriminated the other partners.
You don't bring work home. You don't spit on your boss' name. There is no rush to finish the code you work on in your own time.
In my example, since I have been out of work since 2002, and on disability, I got a lot of time to write from scratch programs that I wrote a long time ago, but found a better way to do them.
He seems a little like the former management and former coworkers who created the stress in the first place by name calling, having unrealistic work schedules, ignoring civil rights employment acts like the ADA (like telling a person with schzioaffective disorder to just "snap out of it, or be fired"), and lastly not being able to do what I do and somehow thinking they know more about it than I do.
No if I get sick on the job from stress it is because I am mentally ill as I have schzioaffective disorder. Thanks for playing, be sure to read the American's with Disability Act of the 1990's before joining in the 21st century with the rest of us, it must be lonely to be stuck in the 12th century with the Fundamentalist Islamic Radical Terrorists and Classical Managers who don't understand modern concepts.
is to write programs under an open source license that do the same thing as the programs I was paid to write under a closed source license. Just a different way to solve a problem, and done a much better way than management wanted it done anyway.
Then show the open source version of software, and say that the originals are closed source but solve the same problems but in a different way so it does not harm the IP of the employer, and can be licensed to be released into a closed source version for a future employer. Also I give them a NDS to read and sign before they can view the open source version. I write the open source version on my own time, at home, and not on the employer's time. But in my case the employers don't have me under contract since 2001/2002, so more than five years of the no compete for five years employment contract is up with them, and I am free to write my own code that may or may not compete with their products.
Sure it is reinventing the wheel, but it is 100% legal and does not infringe on anyone's IP.
Bryce, sometimes you really are a funny guy. This seems to be one of those times.
But managers don't really use brainfuck, they use manager speak which is a modified VBA macro language for Microsoft Word that automatically writes the rejection letters in a canned response that can't be seen as anything intelligent.
So you get things like:
"Dear $Programmer,
We would like to hire you, but find that you are overqualified for the job of programmer/analyst. If we find a position which suits your resume, we will contact you about it.
Regards,
$BraindeadMBAManager"
Which is basically another way of saying they won't hire you because you post too much on Slashdot about management and they are afraid you'll spend most of they day surfing on the Internet than getting work done.
Tell me about it. I kept my programming and web development skills up to date, but I was fired for being sick and being there for four and a half years. If I had been there for five years or more, they would be paying me more for pension, bonuses, more vacation time, raises, more perks, and bonuses.
So it is better to get rid of people like me who get sick on the job from the stress, and hire someone who will work for peanuts and be disposable in a few years and keep their 90% IT turn-a-round time for getting rid of old employees and keep hiring on new ones at cheaper rates.
Which is why he bought a used laptop, it had serial ports but only could run Windows 2000.
The Windows Vista laptop had that USB to serial adapter and it was limited to 9600 baud for some reason. He needs it a lot faster than that, and sometimes it doesn't work right either.
Yeah and that was classical journalism that presented both sides of the story and researched facts and evidence to support those sides.
In modern journalism, it is more of an entertainment value and very one sided, and facts and evidence are not researched any more and they take people for their words. So if the girl posted it on her social networking site that is fact and evidence enough for reporters and editors to publish it for the ratings and attention the story will get for their advertisers. Not all reporters and editors are like that though, but some are.
True that and the PLC software won't work on Vista. I have a brother-in-law that programs PLCs for his business. He had to buy a used laptop with Windows 2000 on it to be able to program his PLC controllers. Vista wouldn't install or run the PLC software it was designed for 2000/XP, and no Vista port has been written yet.
He would gladly use Linux, but his brand of PLC has no Linux port either.
My last job was writing Visual BASIC code for medical software. There was a series of software that checks to see if surgical trays were cleaned properly and if any contaminated trays came in contact with other trays to track staph infection.
They used remote access software to reboot the workstations and server every night at midnight via scripts. That was how bad it was.
I tried to tell them to convert to C++ or Python under Linux and license some open source project that the medical software violated patents on so they wouldn't infringe on anyone else's IP. They considered it and then rejected the idea and did all they could to force me to quit by trying to stress me out and then when I got sick they fired me for getting sick on the job. Since it was a small business with under 15 employees they were immune to civil rights employment laws.
The company is still in business today. Before they hired me their product was bloated and buggy and used Excel files and Access. I streamlined the code made it crash less often, and converted the database files to SQL Server and fixed all the issues they had with it. The owner talked about using new technologies and I came up with the idea to go to Linux and C++ or Python and make it MySQL based. At first they considered it, and then later told me I was an idiot for suggesting it as it would never be stable as Windows is and Visual BASIC was way better than C++ or Python.
To the best of my knowledge they are still Windows based and SQL Server based, and possibly use scripts to reboot workstations and servers that crash a lot.
as OpenGEM is still available and is being worked on to make it 32 bits. So your DOS machines can use OpenGEM instead of Windows 3.11 if you want to keep a GUI on them.
Study business management or some other field of work. The trend to outsource computer jobs will never stop. Find something else to do for a living.
Either that or learn a foreign language so you can travel to foreign nations to train the new employees how to do computer work. Invest in a Rosetta Stone CD.
You also could start up your own small business and try to run your own company. I would suggest small business courses at a community college while on unemployment to learn and talking to the SBA as well. You might be able to win some short term contracts and do computer work from home and be able to pay yourself with some money left over to hire more people. Also look into IT moonlighting web sites for small project work.
Actually I agree with you, this is not a Democracy it is a Republic and Democrats and Republicans have common goals as part of a Biopoly in politics to shut out all third parties. In a Republic you elect people to represent you in government. While they are supposed to work for you, they actually work for lobbyists and special interest groups instead. When people get tired of Republicans they vote in Democrats, then when they get tired of Democrats, they vote back in the Republicans, and then when they get tired of Republicans they vote the Democrats back in, never understanding that a third party would not so such things and would work for the people instead.
We've actually moved more towards Communism since 1933, but most people don't notice that as long as they still eat three meals a day, and work a thankless job, and love rights and freedoms very slowly. We are like frogs in a pot of water, and they slowly turn up the heat so we don't notice it. Suddenly the pot is boiling and some of the frogs are starting to get worried, but the majority still say "Don't worry be happy!"
when those Liberal Democrats you elected to Congress actually vote on this bill instead of getting rid of it?
When will the public wake up and recognize that Liberals and Neocons are basically on the same side, except that you know what a Neocon will do, but a Liberal will lie to you about what they will do but end up doing what a Neocon does anyway?
Your only hope is to vote in a third party to the White House in Nov 2008, if not then Obama or McCain would be glad to serve another George W. Bush third term for him after he is out of office. Notice how both Obama and McCain seem to be moving to the far right in the most recent things they support like this Fisa bill, the Iraq War support, and other things that Bush also supported.
You get to control Jack Thompson and be in court and select what objections and arguments you want to use to prove your case. If you lose too many cases, you might get disbarred and the game is over.
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make a Linux distro with no closed source code, I really want to see more open source support of third party hardware drivers. Forcing distros to be pure 100% open source code will do that. Open source Linux driver support is really really bad and forces me to use NDISWrapper and hack the Windows XP drivers to work under Linux for wireless cards.
Split up open source developers into teams:
Team #1 writes Kernel and Drivers.
Team #2 writes the main OS support programs and libraries.
Team #3 writes third party software support to do the same thing that commercial software does but under an open source license.
Team #4 writes Internet and web server applications.
Team #5 writes database and email and calendar programs and servers.
Team #6 Debugs and does quality control for the other teams.
Team #7 Writes documentation and books on open source projects.
First, "Wrong!"
Also, this.
I could use the same argument that the liberal biased web site is pure propaganda that downplays the incident in that he took home copies and deserves a slap on the wrist for breaking federal law.
The New York Times covers it that he "removed the classified material inadvertently".
I'll cite Wikipedia On Sandy Berger "In April 2005, Berger pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material from the National Archives in Washington. According to the lead prosecutor in the case Berger only took copies of classified information and that no original material was destroyed; however, there is notable controversy and speculation that he might have removed or destroyed originals of other unknown documents as well."
CNN has an article on it as well.
He plead guilty to removing the documents and got a slap on the wrist.
My statement was that the Clinton administration got rid of emails, documents, and memos as well. Berger pleading guilty to those charges proves that what I said is true, be it that a right-wing, left-wing, or neutral source is cited, they all say the same thing that he plead guilty to removing documents and memos.
This is proof of what happened under the Clinton administration. Now please show proof that it happens under the Bush administration as well. Using your own logic, don't use a liberal biased web site to do so. Now let's see if you can do it.
I am not abusing disability, in fact I was forced on it when my doctors ordered me not to work anymore. After I tried to commit suicide I was forced into a hospital and forced on disability, as schizoaffective disorder is generally misunderstood by the public and the paxil I was on caused suicidal thoughts followed by the third job I lost for being "sick" on the job and fired for being sick. I felt that suffering from schzioaffective disorder was a character flaw of mine that didn't really give me a point of living any more, much less working for managers who don't understand what schizoaffective disorder is, and that suffering from it was not my fault or a choice I made to be that way.
If I had my choice I wouldn't be suffering from schizoaffective disorder and be on disability, but it is not what I want, it is what society wants. They don't want schizoaffective disorder sufferers like me working a job like programming code, they want us locked up in state mental hospitals worse than federal prison instead.
Most of us with schziaffective disorder end up on disability, one of us, refused to go on disability and wrote Living with Schizoaffective disorder instead, as a way to explain it to normal people. People who don't hear voices or see hallucinations, who don't get depressed and lose sleep or lose the ability to focus or concentrate, for people who can function properly at the work place, even a negative workplace full of stress and people who don't understand than even mentally ill people have civil rights and human rights.
The misunderstanding of schizoaffective disorder, and the general psychophobia the public has against us, forced me into disability, I didn't choose it, it was chosen for me, because I am sick.
It is because people discriminate against me for my disability. Also schizoaffective disorder works in two week cycles. There are up to two weeks cycle each of manic depression, schizophrenia, and normalcy, and during the schizophrenic or manic depressive cycles I can't get as much work done as when I am on a normal cycle and managers cannot understand that and accuse me of not reaching my potential because I have good weeks and bad weeks. Also during bad weeks I have problems remembering things and focusing and concentrating. Managers and employers are supposed to accommodate my disability, but they mostly don't and just tell me to "snap out of it" or I will be fired. When I can't snap out of it, I get fired.
Seriously I tried a few jobs before I ended up on disability, I kept getting fired for having no control over my mental illness basically. Like telling a person in a wheelchair to get up and walk or be fired, or a deaf person to listen to what the manager is speaking or be fired, or a blind person to read what is on the whiteboard or be fired.
I keep applying for jobs, in the ticket to work program, but no company wants to hire me. Working at home would be a dream job, but no such job seems to exist for me. I am "too sick" for an employer to hire me, and nobody really seems to care about my well being anywhere in the USA. The ACLU refuses to help me fight the discrimination, and lawyers refuse to take my case as I am mentally ill and thus would make a bad witness in court as they would use my mental illness against me and thus make it a "weak case" or "difficult case".
If you know of a charity that helps out mentally ill people to go back to work or file discrimination lawsuits, please let me know. Nobody really cares about people like me, and I wasn't always mentally ill, I got mentally ill on the job.
That was the same way the Clinton administration ran things. All email was deleted and record retention got rid of memos and documents.
Does the name Sandy Berger ring a bell?
Yeah you and all of the other 911 conspiracy theorists. The only thing you forgot to mention was that the government did 911, and Bush and others are all members of the New World Order that made the Constitution and all other laws null and void. Also that McCain or Obama will gladly serve as Bush's third term in office because they are secretly controlled by the NWO as well.
Don't give yourself too much credit, the Internet is full of people who really are capable of coming up with such bullshit. Just that by now, it is getting really boring and predictable.
Not only that but if they cannot find the more than 180 day email to prove their case, they can make some email files up. Not like a judge or jury knows the difference between real email and faked email or real documents and faked documents. I used to work for a law firm that had a program that allowed them to make documents or email say whatever they wanted them to say as evidence and nobody ever was the wiser. That is how they got out of that 1998 FBI investigation of them for fraud as they pinned it all on one partner when really it was most of the partners that did something wrong. The FBI, the judge, and the jury never knew the truth that they faked all emails and documents and got rid of the real ones that incriminated the other partners.
You don't bring work home. You don't spit on your boss' name. There is no rush to finish the code you work on in your own time.
In my example, since I have been out of work since 2002, and on disability, I got a lot of time to write from scratch programs that I wrote a long time ago, but found a better way to do them.
He seems a little like the former management and former coworkers who created the stress in the first place by name calling, having unrealistic work schedules, ignoring civil rights employment acts like the ADA (like telling a person with schzioaffective disorder to just "snap out of it, or be fired"), and lastly not being able to do what I do and somehow thinking they know more about it than I do.
No if I get sick on the job from stress it is because I am mentally ill as I have schzioaffective disorder. Thanks for playing, be sure to read the American's with Disability Act of the 1990's before joining in the 21st century with the rest of us, it must be lonely to be stuck in the 12th century with the Fundamentalist Islamic Radical Terrorists and Classical Managers who don't understand modern concepts.
is to write programs under an open source license that do the same thing as the programs I was paid to write under a closed source license. Just a different way to solve a problem, and done a much better way than management wanted it done anyway.
Then show the open source version of software, and say that the originals are closed source but solve the same problems but in a different way so it does not harm the IP of the employer, and can be licensed to be released into a closed source version for a future employer. Also I give them a NDS to read and sign before they can view the open source version. I write the open source version on my own time, at home, and not on the employer's time. But in my case the employers don't have me under contract since 2001/2002, so more than five years of the no compete for five years employment contract is up with them, and I am free to write my own code that may or may not compete with their products.
Sure it is reinventing the wheel, but it is 100% legal and does not infringe on anyone's IP.
Bryce, sometimes you really are a funny guy. This seems to be one of those times.
But managers don't really use brainfuck, they use manager speak which is a modified VBA macro language for Microsoft Word that automatically writes the rejection letters in a canned response that can't be seen as anything intelligent.
So you get things like:
"Dear $Programmer,
We would like to hire you, but find that you are overqualified for the job of programmer/analyst. If we find a position which suits your resume, we will contact you about it.
Regards,
$BraindeadMBAManager"
Which is basically another way of saying they won't hire you because you post too much on Slashdot about management and they are afraid you'll spend most of they day surfing on the Internet than getting work done.
Tell me about it. I kept my programming and web development skills up to date, but I was fired for being sick and being there for four and a half years. If I had been there for five years or more, they would be paying me more for pension, bonuses, more vacation time, raises, more perks, and bonuses.
So it is better to get rid of people like me who get sick on the job from the stress, and hire someone who will work for peanuts and be disposable in a few years and keep their 90% IT turn-a-round time for getting rid of old employees and keep hiring on new ones at cheaper rates.
Which is why he bought a used laptop, it had serial ports but only could run Windows 2000.
The Windows Vista laptop had that USB to serial adapter and it was limited to 9600 baud for some reason. He needs it a lot faster than that, and sometimes it doesn't work right either.
There are projects to get PLCs to work on Linux but some software like Directsoft only exists for Windows XP and 2000 and not Vista or Linux.
Yeah and that was classical journalism that presented both sides of the story and researched facts and evidence to support those sides.
In modern journalism, it is more of an entertainment value and very one sided, and facts and evidence are not researched any more and they take people for their words. So if the girl posted it on her social networking site that is fact and evidence enough for reporters and editors to publish it for the ratings and attention the story will get for their advertisers. Not all reporters and editors are like that though, but some are.
True that and the PLC software won't work on Vista. I have a brother-in-law that programs PLCs for his business. He had to buy a used laptop with Windows 2000 on it to be able to program his PLC controllers. Vista wouldn't install or run the PLC software it was designed for 2000/XP, and no Vista port has been written yet.
He would gladly use Linux, but his brand of PLC has no Linux port either.
My last job was writing Visual BASIC code for medical software. There was a series of software that checks to see if surgical trays were cleaned properly and if any contaminated trays came in contact with other trays to track staph infection.
They used remote access software to reboot the workstations and server every night at midnight via scripts. That was how bad it was.
I tried to tell them to convert to C++ or Python under Linux and license some open source project that the medical software violated patents on so they wouldn't infringe on anyone else's IP. They considered it and then rejected the idea and did all they could to force me to quit by trying to stress me out and then when I got sick they fired me for getting sick on the job. Since it was a small business with under 15 employees they were immune to civil rights employment laws.
The company is still in business today. Before they hired me their product was bloated and buggy and used Excel files and Access. I streamlined the code made it crash less often, and converted the database files to SQL Server and fixed all the issues they had with it. The owner talked about using new technologies and I came up with the idea to go to Linux and C++ or Python and make it MySQL based. At first they considered it, and then later told me I was an idiot for suggesting it as it would never be stable as Windows is and Visual BASIC was way better than C++ or Python.
To the best of my knowledge they are still Windows based and SQL Server based, and possibly use scripts to reboot workstations and servers that crash a lot.
as OpenGEM is still available and is being worked on to make it 32 bits. So your DOS machines can use OpenGEM instead of Windows 3.11 if you want to keep a GUI on them.
Sadly enough WWIII is called the War on Terror, and it has already started since September 11, 2001.
So the next war will be World War IV, which a BBS software package WWIV was named after. :)
Study business management or some other field of work. The trend to outsource computer jobs will never stop. Find something else to do for a living.
Either that or learn a foreign language so you can travel to foreign nations to train the new employees how to do computer work. Invest in a Rosetta Stone CD.
You also could start up your own small business and try to run your own company. I would suggest small business courses at a community college while on unemployment to learn and talking to the SBA as well. You might be able to win some short term contracts and do computer work from home and be able to pay yourself with some money left over to hire more people. Also look into IT moonlighting web sites for small project work.
/s/love/lose
It should be lose freedoms very slowly, it was a typo.
Actually I agree with you, this is not a Democracy it is a Republic and Democrats and Republicans have common goals as part of a Biopoly in politics to shut out all third parties. In a Republic you elect people to represent you in government. While they are supposed to work for you, they actually work for lobbyists and special interest groups instead. When people get tired of Republicans they vote in Democrats, then when they get tired of Democrats, they vote back in the Republicans, and then when they get tired of Republicans they vote the Democrats back in, never understanding that a third party would not so such things and would work for the people instead.
We've actually moved more towards Communism since 1933, but most people don't notice that as long as they still eat three meals a day, and work a thankless job, and love rights and freedoms very slowly. We are like frogs in a pot of water, and they slowly turn up the heat so we don't notice it. Suddenly the pot is boiling and some of the frogs are starting to get worried, but the majority still say "Don't worry be happy!"
when those Liberal Democrats you elected to Congress actually vote on this bill instead of getting rid of it?
When will the public wake up and recognize that Liberals and Neocons are basically on the same side, except that you know what a Neocon will do, but a Liberal will lie to you about what they will do but end up doing what a Neocon does anyway?
Your only hope is to vote in a third party to the White House in Nov 2008, if not then Obama or McCain would be glad to serve another George W. Bush third term for him after he is out of office. Notice how both Obama and McCain seem to be moving to the far right in the most recent things they support like this Fisa bill, the Iraq War support, and other things that Bush also supported.
they can always make a video game based on him:
"Jack Thompson: Video Game Attorney"
You get to control Jack Thompson and be in court and select what objections and arguments you want to use to prove your case. If you lose too many cases, you might get disbarred and the game is over.