It isn't necessary that you or I rush out and get the latest Lady Gaga. What is necessary are licensing agreements. Who needs us when you can license a single song to Coke? In the mean time the recording industry can play boogey man guaranteeing themselves a nice spot as the middle man in such agreements.
It is easy to hit the "fork" button on GitHub and add a read me. And what license are we going to use for this billion dollar idea we have, that we'll probably never get around to? We'll use MIT!
Not that there is anything wrong with that, but damn there are a ton of them.
I don't think Dinosaur bones are any high power's idea of a good faith test. I also have neither seen any Carolina Parakeets in a while nor do I think Hubble has been lying to us all of these years (so we have seen natural selection in action and the world is older than a few thousand years).
I also have no qualms with faith. There are plenty of answer we don't have and if some have found solace in the answers that faith offers, I don't have a problem so long as they don't use it as an excuse to do as they please.
Dominionism takes that last part, "over every living thing that moveth upon the earth" and applies it to man as well as anything else that swims or craws or walks or flies on the land, in the ground, sea or in the air. It says that taking over your government and installing laws that force others to follow the guidelines of your faith is totally A-OK and approved by God.
From my view that flies in the face not only of what is right, moral, ethical and just, but flies in the face of faith itself. If I can't choose what I'm believing then it isn't faith, but avoiding imprisonment.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
I think it is nice that you brought up Dominionism*. Is is a movement that Christians as a whole are either willfully ignorant of or manipulated to the point that they are forced to agree, with the stakes being their own souls. Not looking this movement in the eye is modern American Christendom's single greatest failure; they allowed fascists to sneak in and pervert their highest ideals.
*For those not familiar with it, Dominionism, it is derived from a passage in Genesis: "and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
There is even a Dominion Church that actively advocates, very literally, world domination. Yes, the Evil Genius world domination. Many of these churches require that you walk through their book store before entering and exiting the sanctuary (at least in the two I have been in), making it the "Cracker Barrel Restaurant and Old Country Store" of Christendom. They even ask business owners to join their Dominion Business Network. In a couple US cities you'll find yourself driving past a Dominion Carwash, Dominion Title Loan and Dominion Fried Chicken, all business network members who are obligated to send non-taxable donations for inclusion in the Business Network Directory (I'd love to know if it also covers any licensing fees for use of the Dominion name).
This is a Democrat from NC, not MA. Granted NC is infinitely more progressive than most other southern states, but if you are white and running for office, getting the "L" word attached to you almost anywhere south of the mason-dixon is the kiss of death and has been for some time. The same goes for Republicans who get "RINO" attached to their name. They won't even let incumbents slip through the primaries if they get that label.
I'm not sure how to feel about all of this. Not the comments from the Anon, but the Ruby situation. Some of the hate is about the language and I'll admit it, I'm not a fan of Ruby. OK, RoR, I see some of the benefits, Ruby on its own, well, just not a fan. I'll just leave it at that before I display any more stupidity and ignorance, just to say that the Anon above is right with the comment about folks not knowing much outside of the C universe. I certainly don't.
The rest of the hate comes from something else and that is an establishment that feels fear and intimidation when they think of a new crop of kids coming out of or migrating to NYC/SF/Boston/Etc. It may be based entirely on stereotyping, but any potential project I can think of, I can do a quick search on GitHub and find a Ruby variant or two or five on it. Couple that with the fact that some top schools are showing some love for Ruby and an unconscious bit of class warfare begins to show up.
When I think back to Ilya Zhitomirskiy, regardless of why he did what he did, I feel like a total shitbag. Me and hundreds of people here on Slashdot had nothing but negative things to say about his project. So yeah, there is a feeling of blood on my hands and that feeling stretches on to any fashionista comments about those who write Ruby.
Bah, enough rambling, that has just been on my mind for a few months now.
Really it is about learning. I haven't taken the test, but I've been reading over a lot of the ARRL reference manuals over the last year and there is a ton of cool stuff (the satellite and electronics manuals have been damned interesting).
In the end my only real goal is to receive SSTV from the ISS, but come on, it is SSTV from the ISS. How cool is that?
Must be nice for somebody. I'd be totally cool with this if you couldn't creep something like "The Terms of this agreement may change at any time without prior notice to you." in.
Sounds less like Ballmer and Gates were right and more like Allard was wrong in his response. Instead he should have said that they had plans for Exchange integration and it would be added in a service pack, because they wanted to focus their efforts on making sure that they had the best user experience possible, guaranteeing consumer loyalty to the new brand.
Listening to some FOSS SIP developers I've been under the impression that Skype has always been difficult to deal with but you do it because everyone want to talk to someone on Skype..
If I were in tinfoil hat mode, I say Skype is just tired of spending cash on the continual arms race of changing thing just enough to keep their competitors from playing anywhere near their turf and are going to take the nuke for orbit approach.
As someone who was a 4-6 unscripted phone guy, I found myself drop down to 2 after a few years of coding. Today I wouldn't even want to wager where I am.
Those two worlds are so completely different. In one you are asked to keep the ship floating, sail it into places it was never meant to go and make it fly. In the other you are asked take the ship and make it smell like purple. Off the top of my head there are 5 or 6 ways to do that but most of them involve setting the ship on fire. I'm glad there is someone around to stop me.
More importantly there is the "people person" aspect of it. A significant part of the job isn't writing code, but figuring out what the hell your boss/client really wants as opposed to what they say they want (lets be honest, not everyone is technically inclined, if everyone were we wouldn't have a job).
Some ideas don't translate so well over the phone as well as a finger next to the screen saying, "No, we want that kind of thingy, you know, like that thing, that does that stuff".
"You mean one of these?"
"Yeah, THAT thing! It does that stuff I want it to do."
But I don't quite get the idea of the blood spat when you get shot. If you were a journalist, well, you'd be dead (like anybody else really), but for the sake of the game a mechanic where you black out for a bit of time and get a very different story from what would have happened if you were a conscious would have been a lot more interesting.
Slashdot Mirror
It doesn't help that, as a reader, you hit edit and correct a typo only to have it rolled back the next day by a pissed off writer.
The plague may not be the stupid, but the "butt hurt".
He was a PHB?
It isn't necessary that you or I rush out and get the latest Lady Gaga. What is necessary are licensing agreements. Who needs us when you can license a single song to Coke? In the mean time the recording industry can play boogey man guaranteeing themselves a nice spot as the middle man in such agreements.
This. It is comparing facebook posts to blogs.
It is easy to hit the "fork" button on GitHub and add a read me. And what license are we going to use for this billion dollar idea we have, that we'll probably never get around to? We'll use MIT!
Not that there is anything wrong with that, but damn there are a ton of them.
I don't think Dinosaur bones are any high power's idea of a good faith test. I also have neither seen any Carolina Parakeets in a while nor do I think Hubble has been lying to us all of these years (so we have seen natural selection in action and the world is older than a few thousand years).
I also have no qualms with faith. There are plenty of answer we don't have and if some have found solace in the answers that faith offers, I don't have a problem so long as they don't use it as an excuse to do as they please.
Dominionism takes that last part, "over every living thing that moveth upon the earth" and applies it to man as well as anything else that swims or craws or walks or flies on the land, in the ground, sea or in the air. It says that taking over your government and installing laws that force others to follow the guidelines of your faith is totally A-OK and approved by God.
From my view that flies in the face not only of what is right, moral, ethical and just, but flies in the face of faith itself. If I can't choose what I'm believing then it isn't faith, but avoiding imprisonment.
Genesis 1:28.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Sadly, I'll admit I didn't even know he had written a book on Orwell until last night. Working through it now, very good so far.
I think it is nice that you brought up Dominionism*. Is is a movement that Christians as a whole are either willfully ignorant of or manipulated to the point that they are forced to agree, with the stakes being their own souls. Not looking this movement in the eye is modern American Christendom's single greatest failure; they allowed fascists to sneak in and pervert their highest ideals.
*For those not familiar with it, Dominionism, it is derived from a passage in Genesis: "and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
There is even a Dominion Church that actively advocates, very literally, world domination. Yes, the Evil Genius world domination. Many of these churches require that you walk through their book store before entering and exiting the sanctuary (at least in the two I have been in), making it the "Cracker Barrel Restaurant and Old Country Store" of Christendom. They even ask business owners to join their Dominion Business Network. In a couple US cities you'll find yourself driving past a Dominion Carwash, Dominion Title Loan and Dominion Fried Chicken, all business network members who are obligated to send non-taxable donations for inclusion in the Business Network Directory (I'd love to know if it also covers any licensing fees for use of the Dominion name).
Dan Halen Sheet Rock International?
This is a Democrat from NC, not MA. Granted NC is infinitely more progressive than most other southern states, but if you are white and running for office, getting the "L" word attached to you almost anywhere south of the mason-dixon is the kiss of death and has been for some time. The same goes for Republicans who get "RINO" attached to their name. They won't even let incumbents slip through the primaries if they get that label.
Probably.
I'm not sure how to feel about all of this. Not the comments from the Anon, but the Ruby situation. Some of the hate is about the language and I'll admit it, I'm not a fan of Ruby. OK, RoR, I see some of the benefits, Ruby on its own, well, just not a fan. I'll just leave it at that before I display any more stupidity and ignorance, just to say that the Anon above is right with the comment about folks not knowing much outside of the C universe. I certainly don't.
The rest of the hate comes from something else and that is an establishment that feels fear and intimidation when they think of a new crop of kids coming out of or migrating to NYC/SF/Boston/Etc. It may be based entirely on stereotyping, but any potential project I can think of, I can do a quick search on GitHub and find a Ruby variant or two or five on it. Couple that with the fact that some top schools are showing some love for Ruby and an unconscious bit of class warfare begins to show up.
When I think back to Ilya Zhitomirskiy, regardless of why he did what he did, I feel like a total shitbag. Me and hundreds of people here on Slashdot had nothing but negative things to say about his project. So yeah, there is a feeling of blood on my hands and that feeling stretches on to any fashionista comments about those who write Ruby.
Bah, enough rambling, that has just been on my mind for a few months now.
This. I saw the headline and though: "Oh, wow. That sounds backwards and sad."
Then I blinked, realized who it was and lost interest.
Sounds more like the opposite. This would be the first engine source release with ZeniMax having the final say.
Really it is about learning. I haven't taken the test, but I've been reading over a lot of the ARRL reference manuals over the last year and there is a ton of cool stuff (the satellite and electronics manuals have been damned interesting).
In the end my only real goal is to receive SSTV from the ISS, but come on, it is SSTV from the ISS. How cool is that?
Must be nice for somebody. I'd be totally cool with this if you couldn't creep something like "The Terms of this agreement may change at any time without prior notice to you." in.
I don't think they even care about that. It sounds like a pump and dump more than anything else.
Sounds less like Ballmer and Gates were right and more like Allard was wrong in his response. Instead he should have said that they had plans for Exchange integration and it would be added in a service pack, because they wanted to focus their efforts on making sure that they had the best user experience possible, guaranteeing consumer loyalty to the new brand.
Sad really, it could have been a great device.
Sounds like the response to every letter I've ever sent to a Congressman.
Listening to some FOSS SIP developers I've been under the impression that Skype has always been difficult to deal with but you do it because everyone want to talk to someone on Skype..
If I were in tinfoil hat mode, I say Skype is just tired of spending cash on the continual arms race of changing thing just enough to keep their competitors from playing anywhere near their turf and are going to take the nuke for orbit approach.
As someone who was a 4-6 unscripted phone guy, I found myself drop down to 2 after a few years of coding. Today I wouldn't even want to wager where I am.
Those two worlds are so completely different. In one you are asked to keep the ship floating, sail it into places it was never meant to go and make it fly. In the other you are asked take the ship and make it smell like purple. Off the top of my head there are 5 or 6 ways to do that but most of them involve setting the ship on fire. I'm glad there is someone around to stop me.
I can understand how the poster feels. It isn't apathy, it is hopelessness.
I know a lot of broke, unemployed people who sure would love getting into a Pinkerton gig right about now and shillelaghs are cheap.
More importantly there is the "people person" aspect of it. A significant part of the job isn't writing code, but figuring out what the hell your boss/client really wants as opposed to what they say they want (lets be honest, not everyone is technically inclined, if everyone were we wouldn't have a job).
Some ideas don't translate so well over the phone as well as a finger next to the screen saying, "No, we want that kind of thingy, you know, like that thing, that does that stuff".
"You mean one of these?"
"Yeah, THAT thing! It does that stuff I want it to do."
But I don't quite get the idea of the blood spat when you get shot. If you were a journalist, well, you'd be dead (like anybody else really), but for the sake of the game a mechanic where you black out for a bit of time and get a very different story from what would have happened if you were a conscious would have been a lot more interesting.
It's not their fault they are completely normalized.