It takes microsoft to sell a technological improvement as "increasing sales force productivity". I wonder if when we upgrade here, our sales productivity will go up too:)
Will major corporations like Anheiser-Busch sponsoring major public political events like the *presedential debates* it's no wonder our politics has been reduced to what it is today. See my sig.
Am I reading the right page, because I don't see anything about Hotmail about to collapse under load. Can we please try to stay away from catchy but misleading news titles?
Re:You are the selfish person the article refers t
on
Selfish Society
·
· Score: 2
Damn right. The father of a friend of mind, unfortunately grew up rather poor. His father wouldn't even LET him go to college. But he is brilliant. He works for low pay as a machinist now, but this guy is a mechanical genius. He takes apart and puts together cars. He *invents* new machines to create all sorts of metal objects. I'm sure he would have made a great engineer. Unfortunately he was not as lucky as any of us sitting on our asses and typing on slashdot complaining how "hard" we have it. Some people would kill to work 80 hrs/wk for ~40-50k.
We are becoming a more materialistic, superficial world (or at least nation). I've noted that America (US), is basically acultural. It is a melting pot of cultures that annihilate. Nobody really has underlying common bonds with neighbors, other people in general, etc. I'm an atheist, but there certainly is something to be said for the framework and goals religion, and culture, bring. So here we are in acultural America, where the only Gods are fortune and fame. We geeks sit here and complain that sitting on our asses all day for $X0k is somehow not fulfilling. Others buy a Gargantuan, to one-up their neighbor's Expedition. The only thing we have in common, is really the pursuit of material. Post-modern is an overused word, but we are clearly a very nihilistic society. It's no wonder that kids don't know how to deal with emotions and self-esteem, and do crazy things that we in turn blame on every aspect of society. It's not just geeks, and their hyperactive gadget obsession, it's everybody.
I sometimes get terrible programmer's block. I think I'm susceptible because I'm an over-picky perfectionist, and if something is not done correctly in my mind, I will wrestle constantly with it. If any big projects come my way I usually spend a good amount of time hypothesizing and drawing diagrams and coming up with the optimal architecture and design, avoiding implementation. It usually takes me a while to be confident with the design in my head and get up enough nerve to just dive in, and that can only happen after about two cups of coffee. Six hours later I will be out of breath and probably have something done, but I won't want to touch it for a while. I usually end up writing anything major several times over until it is either "just right" or I am so sick and tired of it I archive it somewhere and hope nobody wants it done.
Like the author says, I *do* find reading about good, correct, elegant design and implementation inspiring. I can tear through manuals/tutorials...but to get my hands on the keys to do real work on a big project I first have to overcome the fear of "not doing it right" the first time or "messing something up".
Then again maybe this is just a strange neurosis of mine.
Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson 13 Aug. 1813Writings 13:333--34
It has been pretended by some, (and in England especially,) that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions, and not merely for their own lives, but inheritable to their heirs. But while it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction ofman, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody. Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices.
<rant> Think about that, and ask yourself if the public is being served when drug companies 1) pay off smaller companies so they won't produce that drug which will do the exact same thing as the major company's drug, but is much cheaper, and 2) whenever a patent is about to expire, they subtley and trivially change the chemical so that it is technically a different drug, but still has no benefit over the original, so that they can extend their patent-granted control. Should indigenous people's genes, or purely the concept of "one-click shopping" be able to be patented? </rant>
WaSP and Suck perhaps don't understand that Mozilla is not making this browser just for them, but instead is doing this out of the good will of the hearts of the many developers working on. If you don't *like* it, go *buy* a better browser in the meantime.
However I have to agree that feature creep *seems* to be proceeding at the same speed of progress. Mail, news, editor, IRC client, whatever, those should be add-ons, modules. Extra stuff. The should be concentrating on the core browser. I understand that a lot of the extra stuff is being worked on by outsiders, so that really doesn't siphon cycles, but all energies within Mozilla should be directed at getting out a solid *browser*. Then they can worry about the other 10% of seldom-used stuff.
Sweet Creeping Zombie Jesus indeed (somebody please petition to get that phrase in the Jargon file)
Freedows: www.freedows.org Alliance OS: www.allos.org (Alliance OS broke off from Freedows because of lack of progress and dissatisfaction with the "management"; see the Slashdot article above). ReactOS (an NT clone): www.reactos.com
Perhaps IETF needs to get into this. A generic standard decentralized flexible file sharing system spec (preferably with some aspects of anonymity and robustness to shutdown) to which all types of servers and clients could be written to, and with which all sorts of services could be integrated (scour.net, mp3.com, etc.)
I wouldn't exactly say that. Teenagers spray paint and blow up mailboxes. By definition, they are immature. It just so happens that technology has empowered a lot of them to think that by performing mischief on the internet they are kewl haxxors. I'd say the above poster was mature *beyond* his age, as many smart and often techno-savvy kids are. But most his age are still tipping cows and giving wedgies.
Our dept. actually had Peter Coad come up and give us a seminar. It was actually really cool. His idea of adding colors to plain UML is nice and easily adds another dimension of description to plain diagrams. It also gets you thinking in terms of descriptors, and actions, and business processes, etc. He just seems like a really cool guy. And his Together products are really sweet. Except for the latest one where I can't figure out how to create a global class diagram for a package hierarchy.
It just reminds us all that when you see people hobbling around or in a wheelchair, unable to help themselves, and that little spark in your brain tells you to giggle, just think for one fucking second...
Slashdot Mirror
"The scary thing is that "American culture" is taking over."
Or perhaps "American Aculture". I can hardly see McDonalds and Backstreet Boys as "culture". More like facades for profit making.
It takes microsoft to sell a technological improvement as "increasing sales force productivity". I wonder if when we upgrade here, our sales productivity will go up too :)
Will major corporations like Anheiser-Busch sponsoring major public political events like the *presedential debates* it's no wonder our politics has been reduced to what it is today. See my sig.
How many damn cases are there? I was only aware of one...
I posted it.
;)
Can I have my karma now?
Am I reading the right page, because I don't see anything about Hotmail about to collapse under load. Can we please try to stay away from catchy but misleading news titles?
Damn right. The father of a friend of mind, unfortunately grew up rather poor. His father wouldn't even LET him go to college. But he is brilliant. He works for low pay as a machinist now, but this guy is a mechanical genius. He takes apart and puts together cars. He *invents* new machines to create all sorts of metal objects. I'm sure he would have made a great engineer. Unfortunately he was not as lucky as any of us sitting on our asses and typing on slashdot complaining how "hard" we have it. Some people would kill to work 80 hrs/wk for ~40-50k.
"Banning books on making bombs? Banning works of terrorism? Works by terrorists?"
Done. Done. and Done.
I guess I'm a munition. I better not attempt to get on an airplane...somebody could use me to commit a terrorist act or something.
We are becoming a more materialistic, superficial world (or at least nation). I've noted that America (US), is basically acultural. It is a melting pot of cultures that annihilate. Nobody really has underlying common bonds with neighbors, other people in general, etc. I'm an atheist, but there certainly is something to be said for the framework and goals religion, and culture, bring. So here we are in acultural America, where the only Gods are fortune and fame. We geeks sit here and complain that sitting on our asses all day for $X0k is somehow not fulfilling. Others buy a Gargantuan, to one-up their neighbor's Expedition. The only thing we have in common, is really the pursuit of material. Post-modern is an overused word, but we are clearly a very nihilistic society. It's no wonder that kids don't know how to deal with emotions and self-esteem, and do crazy things that we in turn blame on every aspect of society. It's not just geeks, and their hyperactive gadget obsession, it's everybody.
I sometimes get terrible programmer's block. I think I'm susceptible because I'm an over-picky perfectionist, and if something is not done correctly in my mind, I will wrestle constantly with it. If any big projects come my way I usually spend a good amount of time hypothesizing and drawing diagrams and coming up with the optimal architecture and design, avoiding implementation. It usually takes me a while to be confident with the design in my head and get up enough nerve to just dive in, and that can only happen after about two cups of coffee. Six hours later I will be out of breath and probably have something done, but I won't want to touch it for a while. I usually end up writing anything major several times over until it is either "just right" or I am so sick and tired of it I archive it somewhere and hope nobody wants it done.
Like the author says, I *do* find reading about good, correct, elegant design and implementation inspiring. I can tear through manuals/tutorials...but to get my hands on the keys to do real work on a big project I first have to overcome the fear of "not doing it right" the first time or "messing something up".
Then again maybe this is just a strange neurosis of mine.
13 Aug. 1813Writings 13:333--34
<rant> Think about that, and ask yourself if the public is being served when drug companies 1) pay off smaller companies so they won't produce that drug which will do the exact same thing as the major company's drug, but is much cheaper, and 2) whenever a patent is about to expire, they subtley and trivially change the chemical so that it is technically a different drug, but still has no benefit over the original, so that they can extend their patent-granted control. Should indigenous people's genes, or purely the concept of "one-click shopping" be able to be patented? </rant>
"Pinstrip" as in "more business oriented"? ;)
And what clueless moderator marked this as "Troll"?
Netscape's been undead for quite a while...
WaSP and Suck perhaps don't understand that Mozilla is not making this browser just for them, but instead is doing this out of the good will of the hearts of the many developers working on. If you don't *like* it, go *buy* a better browser in the meantime.
However I have to agree that feature creep *seems* to be proceeding at the same speed of progress. Mail, news, editor, IRC client, whatever, those should be add-ons, modules. Extra stuff. The should be concentrating on the core browser. I understand that a lot of the extra stuff is being worked on by outsiders, so that really doesn't siphon cycles, but all energies within Mozilla should be directed at getting out a solid *browser*. Then they can worry about the other 10% of seldom-used stuff.
Sweet Creeping Zombie Jesus indeed (somebody please petition to get that phrase in the Jargon file)
We've already been over this:
Freedows: www.freedows.org
Alliance OS: www.allos.org
(Alliance OS broke off from Freedows because of lack of progress and dissatisfaction with the "management"; see the Slashdot article above).
ReactOS (an NT clone): www.reactos.com
I forgot, does More_Stuff_In_Space == GOOD?
Perhaps IETF needs to get into this. A generic standard decentralized flexible file sharing system spec (preferably with some aspects of anonymity and robustness to shutdown) to which all types of servers and clients could be written to, and with which all sorts of services could be integrated (scour.net, mp3.com, etc.)
I'm a big Radiohead fan too, and I'll purchase whatever CDs I don't currently have of theirs once RIAA removes its head from its ass.
So what do you think of this whole little "open source" thing?
this appears to be
a haiku but doesn't have
any poetry
"Immaturity below their years."
I wouldn't exactly say that. Teenagers spray paint and blow up mailboxes. By definition, they are immature. It just so happens that technology has empowered a lot of them to think that by performing mischief on the internet they are kewl haxxors. I'd say the above poster was mature *beyond* his age, as many smart and often techno-savvy kids are. But most his age are still tipping cows and giving wedgies.
The good old tried and tested security-through-killing-people-who-find-out that the mafia employs has always worked well. Both deterrent and remedy.
Our dept. actually had Peter Coad come up and give us a seminar. It was actually really cool. His idea of adding colors to plain UML is nice and easily adds another dimension of description to plain diagrams. It also gets you thinking in terms of descriptors, and actions, and business processes, etc. He just seems like a really cool guy. And his Together products are really sweet. Except for the latest one where I can't figure out how to create a global class diagram for a package hierarchy.
It just reminds us all that when you see people hobbling around or in a wheelchair, unable to help themselves, and that little spark in your brain tells you to giggle, just think for one fucking second...