Which is why you have alpha versions - 1, 2, 3 etc etc. You do realise you aren't limited to one release of each, right? And how you judge whether you have hit a milestone is precisely up to you - its your development process.
In every software house I have been involved in, alpha = "ongoing feature development in progress", beta = "feature complete, ongoing bug fixes in progress" and RC = "all show stopper bugs eliminated, minor bug fixing ongoing, one of these will be the RTM build".
Beta is precisely where the app should get optimised, as it is that stage where it makes the transition from unstable to stable.
Jean Charles de Menezes, 22nd July 2005, Stockwell Tube station, London, United Kingdom. de Menezes was shot eight times while on the floor being restrained by several police officers.
Who precisely do you think actually builds, services and maintains these craft? Thats right, the OEMs and not NASA. The Shuttle was built by Rockwell, now maintained by Boeing. Orion will be built by private sector companies (Lockheed as prime contractor, with a whole bunch of others as subcontractors), Ares will be built by private sector companies (Alliant and Boeing as prime contractors) - so what do you propose to do differently?
I've been waiting for this to happen - NASAs exemption to the Iran Non-Proliferation Act expires in 2011, meaning they would no longer be able to purchase manned capacity off the Russians (Soyuz), which in turn means no American crew on the ISS. What with the worsening relationship with Russia this past year, getting the exemption extended would essentially be political suicide at the moment. Extending the Shuttles life is the only alternative.
And since you are so interested in federal expenses, haven't they paid in enough?
The cost of rebuilding after Katrina is estimated to be in the region of $80billion to $100billion. If thats going to happen twice a decade, then quite simply no, they have not 'paid in enough'.
Get the freaking hint - New Orleans is in one of the worst possible places, stop spending federal money rebuilding it. If people want to live there, let them suffer the entire burden of living there! If you want to spend federal money, spend it on relocation allowances and get people permanently away from the problem!
Yes you can deep link - even to documents in Document Libraries (http://sitename/subsitename/libraryname/foldername/documentname.txt).
Basically the only thing I have found in several months of using MOSS 2007 with FireFox is that you can't drag and drop webparts around in 'edit page' mode - you have to move them through the webpart settings. Otherwise, everything seems to work fine.
What really peeves me is that our staff, part of a medium-size nonprofit, continually switch browsers to support our IE-only "Intranet" (thanks, MOSS!) and their favored method of browsing, through Firefox.
What problems are you having? I browse MOSS 2007 daily using Firefox as my main browser without issue - and I'm a full blown site admin.
On the contrary, I have significant say in my employers business - my current position allows me to work on what projects I wish, I have purchasing authority and I have decision making authority within the scope of my job.
But its still not my place to decide what my employer does with my output, so the question the summary presented is one I refuse to answer because it is not my decision to make.
And what about the multitude of single player games?
This is what bugs me about open source advocates when it comes to trying to evangelise to currently closed source shops - you are essentially saying to them that to make money they would need to build two products instead of the one they build now. You are saying that they need to build the product they would have anyway, and then build a second supporting product to ensure they make money off the first. For a lot of industries, that simply doesn't work.
Again, another myth - the Air France A320 crash at Habsheim was a result of several factors, including the fact that the fly by was switched at the last minute to a different runway, also including the fact that the pilot reduced the height of the aircraft well below what he was supposed to (he was below the height of surrounding obstacles - a big no no), also including the fact that the pilot reduced the engines to complete idle (from where there is a full 15 - 20 second delay until you get the take-off/go-around thrust level he would have commanded at the end of the fly by) and also including the fact that the pilot waited too long to apply power at the end of the fly by.
The crash was the result of pilot stupidity, not the aircraft.
This seems to be a common myth that people believe - in Airbus aircraft the pilots have the final say, not the computer. Up to that point they have more assistance from the flight computers in a lot of areas (alpha floor protection et al) but if a pilot wants to do something stupid then he can.
Theres no limit in an Airbus aircraft to the pilots level of control. The belief that the computer has more of a say is nothing more than a myth perpetrated by people that don't understand what they are saying.
Should your employer pay you for time spent on open source development?
Thats not my decision to make, my employer can do whatever they wish with what I produce as a coder (or designer, or....) as I'm producing it for them. They tell me what to do, and so long as its within my ethics ranges, I do it - if they wish to then put my work out into the wild through some open source scheme, thats entirely up to them.
How do you propose building a support based industry around gaming? Because thats where Redhat et al are making their real money.
Also, if open source was such a boon to game development, why are there no huge open source titles to rival Doom, Half Life (1 and 2), FEAR, FarCry, any of the several hundred pro racing games, any of the thousand or so pro sport games, Flight Sim, WoW, EVE or any of the other top games out there right now?
This isn't an 'either/or' scenario, the current closed source game development scene does not preclude in any way, shape or form the ability for an open source game development scene to exist. So where is it? When I look around for open source games I get Tux Racer, or a number of rehashes built off the Doom or Quake series engines that Id open sourced when they themselves moved on, or a whole bunch of half finished stuff that doesn't do anything for me. Theres nothing to rival the closed source scene at all - why?!
I think you have an extremely simplistic view of game development.
No, it doesn't waive your support contract, but it does mean you will be relying on a subsystem that is not supported by the vendor - which validates the 'effectively' modifier in the original statement.
Unless there is money being paid for accessing the systems
What, you mean like bank fees?
Most people in the UK do not pay bank fees as we have free banking - they would only pay charges in case of exceptional activity on the account (eg unauthorised overdraft, failed charge etc).
No, you are just being facetious and a bit of an asshat - displaying Russian or Chinese content means its being displayed as the author intended, and you being unable to read it is *still* a limitation of you and not the product, especially when the products advertising made no suggestion it would translate languages for you.
Being unable to view Flash as intended by the author is a limitation of the product, especially when advertising has led you to believe otherwise.
Lets take your ridiculous example one step further - the user dropped out of school at the age of 14, can't read or write. Are you suggesting that their inability to use the product is a limitation of the product? Of course not, its a limitation of user.
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Which is why you have alpha versions - 1, 2, 3 etc etc. You do realise you aren't limited to one release of each, right? And how you judge whether you have hit a milestone is precisely up to you - its your development process.
In every software house I have been involved in, alpha = "ongoing feature development in progress", beta = "feature complete, ongoing bug fixes in progress" and RC = "all show stopper bugs eliminated, minor bug fixing ongoing, one of these will be the RTM build".
Beta is precisely where the app should get optimised, as it is that stage where it makes the transition from unstable to stable.
If de Menezes had been shot by the Russian police in exactly the same incident, what do you think the media slant would be?
Like Eolas, for instance?
Jean Charles de Menezes, 22nd July 2005, Stockwell Tube station, London, United Kingdom. de Menezes was shot eight times while on the floor being restrained by several police officers.
Uhm no, the evidence does not show that, thats another conspiracy theory. Plus the co-pilot agrees with the FDR record of events.
Who precisely do you think actually builds, services and maintains these craft? Thats right, the OEMs and not NASA. The Shuttle was built by Rockwell, now maintained by Boeing. Orion will be built by private sector companies (Lockheed as prime contractor, with a whole bunch of others as subcontractors), Ares will be built by private sector companies (Alliant and Boeing as prime contractors) - so what do you propose to do differently?
I've been waiting for this to happen - NASAs exemption to the Iran Non-Proliferation Act expires in 2011, meaning they would no longer be able to purchase manned capacity off the Russians (Soyuz), which in turn means no American crew on the ISS. What with the worsening relationship with Russia this past year, getting the exemption extended would essentially be political suicide at the moment. Extending the Shuttles life is the only alternative.
And since you are so interested in federal expenses, haven't they paid in enough?
The cost of rebuilding after Katrina is estimated to be in the region of $80billion to $100billion. If thats going to happen twice a decade, then quite simply no, they have not 'paid in enough'.
Get the freaking hint - New Orleans is in one of the worst possible places, stop spending federal money rebuilding it. If people want to live there, let them suffer the entire burden of living there! If you want to spend federal money, spend it on relocation allowances and get people permanently away from the problem!
There was no MOSS 2005 :) The previous version was SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
Yes you can deep link - even to documents in Document Libraries (http://sitename/subsitename/libraryname/foldername/documentname.txt).
Basically the only thing I have found in several months of using MOSS 2007 with FireFox is that you can't drag and drop webparts around in 'edit page' mode - you have to move them through the webpart settings. Otherwise, everything seems to work fine.
Possibly - theres nothing in MOSS 2007 that blocks Firefox or Safari by default.
What really peeves me is that our staff, part of a medium-size nonprofit, continually switch browsers to support our IE-only "Intranet" (thanks, MOSS!) and their favored method of browsing, through Firefox.
What problems are you having? I browse MOSS 2007 daily using Firefox as my main browser without issue - and I'm a full blown site admin.
Actually, you can browse and use Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS 2007) sites perfectly fine in Firefox - I do it every day without issue.
On the contrary, I have significant say in my employers business - my current position allows me to work on what projects I wish, I have purchasing authority and I have decision making authority within the scope of my job.
But its still not my place to decide what my employer does with my output, so the question the summary presented is one I refuse to answer because it is not my decision to make.
And what about the multitude of single player games?
This is what bugs me about open source advocates when it comes to trying to evangelise to currently closed source shops - you are essentially saying to them that to make money they would need to build two products instead of the one they build now. You are saying that they need to build the product they would have anyway, and then build a second supporting product to ensure they make money off the first. For a lot of industries, that simply doesn't work.
Again, another myth - the Air France A320 crash at Habsheim was a result of several factors, including the fact that the fly by was switched at the last minute to a different runway, also including the fact that the pilot reduced the height of the aircraft well below what he was supposed to (he was below the height of surrounding obstacles - a big no no), also including the fact that the pilot reduced the engines to complete idle (from where there is a full 15 - 20 second delay until you get the take-off/go-around thrust level he would have commanded at the end of the fly by) and also including the fact that the pilot waited too long to apply power at the end of the fly by.
The crash was the result of pilot stupidity, not the aircraft.
This seems to be a common myth that people believe - in Airbus aircraft the pilots have the final say, not the computer. Up to that point they have more assistance from the flight computers in a lot of areas (alpha floor protection et al) but if a pilot wants to do something stupid then he can.
Theres no limit in an Airbus aircraft to the pilots level of control. The belief that the computer has more of a say is nothing more than a myth perpetrated by people that don't understand what they are saying.
Should your employer pay you for time spent on open source development?
Thats not my decision to make, my employer can do whatever they wish with what I produce as a coder (or designer, or....) as I'm producing it for them. They tell me what to do, and so long as its within my ethics ranges, I do it - if they wish to then put my work out into the wild through some open source scheme, thats entirely up to them.
How do you propose building a support based industry around gaming? Because thats where Redhat et al are making their real money.
Also, if open source was such a boon to game development, why are there no huge open source titles to rival Doom, Half Life (1 and 2), FEAR, FarCry, any of the several hundred pro racing games, any of the thousand or so pro sport games, Flight Sim, WoW, EVE or any of the other top games out there right now?
This isn't an 'either/or' scenario, the current closed source game development scene does not preclude in any way, shape or form the ability for an open source game development scene to exist. So where is it? When I look around for open source games I get Tux Racer, or a number of rehashes built off the Doom or Quake series engines that Id open sourced when they themselves moved on, or a whole bunch of half finished stuff that doesn't do anything for me. Theres nothing to rival the closed source scene at all - why?!
I think you have an extremely simplistic view of game development.
No, it doesn't waive your support contract, but it does mean you will be relying on a subsystem that is not supported by the vendor - which validates the 'effectively' modifier in the original statement.
What, you mean like bank fees?
Most people in the UK do not pay bank fees as we have free banking - they would only pay charges in case of exceptional activity on the account (eg unauthorised overdraft, failed charge etc).
No, you are just being facetious and a bit of an asshat - displaying Russian or Chinese content means its being displayed as the author intended, and you being unable to read it is *still* a limitation of you and not the product, especially when the products advertising made no suggestion it would translate languages for you.
Being unable to view Flash as intended by the author is a limitation of the product, especially when advertising has led you to believe otherwise.
Lets take your ridiculous example one step further - the user dropped out of school at the age of 14, can't read or write. Are you suggesting that their inability to use the product is a limitation of the product? Of course not, its a limitation of user.
Now you are jsut being facetious - not being able to read Russian and Chinese content is a limitation with *you* and not their product.