I think that a lot of professional software developers end up getting involved in open source projects because they don't get much professional satisfaction from their day jobs. When you have to worry about idiotic management, getting laid off, projects getting cancelled in beta, etc, an open source project starts looking pretty good. I am just waiting to get laid off again, so that I will have some time to do some open source development.
I am not sure if the Buddhists have any fundamentalists, but if not, they are the only ones of the major religions. After all, the biggest religions are the ones that had the biggest armies.
If you want to battle, and blow things up, why waste your time with the amateur stuff? Also, you could do something useful.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there was too much destruction in 2001 and not enough building. Creative engineers can find more useful ways of doing fun stuff.
I think the idea is that you wait until the satellite has descended to some optimal level so that the pieces don't hit the ground, or the other satellites, just extremely high flying birds with oxygen masks.
Any program that takes days/weeks/centuries to finish should be writing out its partial state on a periodic basis so that it can resume from the partial state later. I realize that this is a different problem than having a binary that works but for which you do not have the source code.
You can just save all of your documents as Micr@soft Word. The files will become unreadable after a few years anyway. Hmmmm, I wonder if that was designed as a feature?
Store all of your documents inside of jpegs that your company has created for advertising, etc. You can store a lot of text in a single photograph. That can be the secret job of the document destroyer, known only by top management.
Of course, you could just do business in an ethical manner. Nah!!!
Say what you want about Apple, but noone ever accused them of being a monopoly. Your business strategy is irrelevant if you aren't the dominant business in a particular area. If you don't like them, just buy something else.
Yes, we should ban strong encryption, because criminals can use it. Also, we should ban Islam, since there are other religions that people can join, and a lot of these terrorists guys are Muslims.
Clearly, the open source philosophy expects that any functionality which is not clearly evil, such as spreading viruses, launching DoD attacks, etc should be freely distributed. This does not mean that "Reconfigure the kernel" should be one of the main menu choices on the KDE or Gnome desktop.
M%cr*s@ft should not be making it easier for people to propogate viruses. That is not the same as making it easier to do useful work. In this case, the underlying design should preclude transmitting viruses, or at least make it much more difficult. If you reconfigure your kernel and mess it up, you are only hurting your own machine, not the entire Internet. Your argument is like saying that people in favor of reconfiguring the kernel are hypocritical if they don't support the rights of spammers.
The purpose of a programming class is different than a commercial software project. That does
raise the interesting question of someone reusing
code from an open source project as part (not all) of a programming assignment.
Interestingly, according to the disclaimer on
their website, you do not require permission to
link to their site. You may not:
Use their logo
Use frames
disguise the real address in the url
They do claim that, "KPMG reserves the
right to request removal of any link to
our website" but do not claim that you
are required to honor their request.
So, it appears that they have not read
their own policy statement.
I was working at a big company (let's just say
that I was riding the light) that had an
approved software list. You could not use
anything that was not on that list. So, for example, if you wanted to use gcc, you would have to submit a form explaining why you couldn't use the approved C compiler, etc. I spent a great deal of time working with the folks who make the list, rather than writing code. I worked there for three months and wrote less than 100 lines of code. At my new job, at a real company, I have already written several thousand lines of code in the same amount of time, not to mention defining requirements, doing design work, etc. The moral: don't quit
in the middle of a depression without another job. Any company that has those policies is hell
to work at, but this is not 1999.
Slashdot Mirror
When Micr@s@ft bought the Justice Department.
I think that a lot of professional software developers end up getting involved in open source projects because they don't get much professional satisfaction from their day jobs. When you have to worry about idiotic management, getting laid off, projects getting cancelled in beta, etc, an open source project starts looking pretty good. I am just waiting to get laid off again, so that I will have some time to do some open source development.
I am not sure if the Buddhists have any fundamentalists, but if not, they are the only ones of the major religions. After all, the biggest religions are the ones that had the biggest armies.
If you want to battle, and blow things up, why waste your time with the amateur stuff? Also, you could do something useful. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there was too much destruction in 2001 and not enough building. Creative engineers can find more useful ways of doing fun stuff.
I think the idea is that you wait until the satellite has descended to some optimal level so that the pieces don't hit the ground, or the other satellites, just extremely high flying birds with oxygen masks.
HP claimed to be developing a new generation of cpu's using nanotechnology. The 2Ghz Lego blocks should be interesting.
Any program that takes days/weeks/centuries to finish should be writing out its partial state on a periodic basis so that it can resume from the partial state later. I realize that this is a different problem than having a binary that works but for which you do not have the source code.
This is going back a long way, but 2001 the movie was much better than the Arthur Clark short story upon which it was based.
I had Earthlink DSL, and when it stopped working, I was unable to get them to even attempt to fix it. Good luck with them.
You can just save all of your documents as Micr@soft Word. The files will become unreadable after a few years anyway. Hmmmm, I wonder if that was designed as a feature?
Store all of your documents inside of jpegs that your company has created for advertising, etc. You can store a lot of text in a single photograph. That can be the secret job of the document destroyer, known only by top management. Of course, you could just do business in an ethical manner. Nah!!!
Yeah!!!
Say what you want about Apple, but noone ever accused them of being a monopoly. Your business strategy is irrelevant if you aren't the dominant business in a particular area. If you don't like them, just buy something else.
The quality of movies may go down, but profits continue to rise, which is all the studios really care about.
Yes, we should ban strong encryption, because criminals can use it. Also, we should ban Islam, since there are other religions that people can join, and a lot of these terrorists guys are Muslims.
Clearly, the open source philosophy expects that any functionality which is not clearly evil, such as spreading viruses, launching DoD attacks, etc should be freely distributed. This does not mean that "Reconfigure the kernel" should be one of the main menu choices on the KDE or Gnome desktop.
M%cr*s@ft should not be making it easier for people to propogate viruses. That is not the same as making it easier to do useful work. In this case, the underlying design should preclude transmitting viruses, or at least make it much more difficult. If you reconfigure your kernel and mess it up, you are only hurting your own machine, not the entire Internet. Your argument is like saying that people in favor of reconfiguring the kernel are hypocritical if they don't support the rights of spammers.
The purpose of a programming class is different than a commercial software project. That does raise the interesting question of someone reusing code from an open source project as part (not all) of a programming assignment.
So, the reason that Windows won out is because it is reliable and easy to use. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Don't add water, then it can explode!!!
They obviously didn't write a script, or there would be new viruses all over the net.
Who would imagine that the freedom-loving Chinese government would possibly consider a solution that was not open source?
- Use their logo
- Use frames
- disguise the real address in the url
They do claim that, "KPMG reserves the right to request removal of any link to our website" but do not claim that you are required to honor their request. So, it appears that they have not read their own policy statement.I never realized that Britney Spears ilk was so sought after.
I was working at a big company (let's just say that I was riding the light) that had an approved software list. You could not use anything that was not on that list. So, for example, if you wanted to use gcc, you would have to submit a form explaining why you couldn't use the approved C compiler, etc. I spent a great deal of time working with the folks who make the list, rather than writing code. I worked there for three months and wrote less than 100 lines of code. At my new job, at a real company, I have already written several thousand lines of code in the same amount of time, not to mention defining requirements, doing design work, etc. The moral: don't quit in the middle of a depression without another job. Any company that has those policies is hell to work at, but this is not 1999.