How in the world did drivel like this get modded up to +4 Insightful?
For me to design and code software is cheap and easy. And if it fucks up... wtf cares? people won't use it, no ones hurt (physically), and if they relied on it oh well, their fault for not backing up their data or whatever.
Spoken like a true loser/script kiddie/whatever -- completely unprofessional. Software developers should take pride in their work, and shouldn't release things that they aren't proud to claim. And the "and if they relied on it oh well, their fault...". What kind of an attitude is this? Is this the basic open-source "it's free software, so don't complain if it doesn't work" attitude? Or is this guy just a bigger loser than most?
If this idiot's opinions are indicative of how the open source community views their work, then the world is right to avoid it as much as possible -- and it should be shunned by true professionals that do care about the quality of their work...
computers cannot kill or injure people
Have you no sense of history? Do a search on the Therac-25, and let me know when you want to retract your statement...
The cell phone is nothing but a tool... When you need one, they're very handy. When you don't want to be bothered by it, you use the OFF button. Have people forgotten that these things can be turned off? Or that the ringer can be silenced?
The total inability to properly use a piece of technology shouldn't make it a "bad" piece of technology...
What point??? While it may not pinpoint *your* location, it *does* show what provider you are connected to, and the exact location of that provider... If someone wants to find you badly enough, knowing where the provider is located is a good start... From there, the provider's records can be subpoenaed (or an employee can be bribed, etc) to determine where *you* connected to the provider.
If it is broadband, the provider knows exactly where you are. If dialup, the phone company knows where to find you...
I have lost all my files last month. I was upgrading my computer hard disk. I forgot to back up my data. All my files gone. What a shame, although I have a Masters degree in computer science, I ignored the most basic step to safe guide your data.
Michael Chan, Malaysia
So, this loser with a Masters degree was "upgrading his hard drive" eh? So he took out the old drive and put in a new one, and now he can't find his files? He thinks he lost all of his data??? Maybe someone should tell this genius that yes, you can transfer data from the old drive to the new one....
"We'd like people to stop selling proprietary software. It's bad for the world,"
So the losers at the FSF, who claim to support "software freedom", want to eliminate the type of "freedom" that they don't agree with (i.e. to create software that you won't *give* to them for free)... What a bunch of hypocrites. I can't believe there are still enough losers out there that support this communistic group...
Nothing good will come of governments using open source software... It just serves to extend the "something for nothing" mindset that is slowly destroying the value of software development....
The short answer is: currency economics; they currently don't have much of a choice. If they were to invest their earned US Dollars outside the US, it would be harder to maintain their artificially-low peg of the Renmimbi to the Dollar...
"Russians are nice people"
And the Chinese aren't? You should know of course, having personally met over 50% of all Chinese and Russian citizens (isn't that around 600 million people?). I doubt that you ever met a single native Russian or Chinese person.
You're reading far too much into a simple post...
I have been to Russia - I spent a few months there working on a project... The people I met were extremely nice to me, and didn't seem to harbor any ill will towards Americans. Of course, I was there before Putin was in power; things may be different now. I have never been to China, so I have no idea if I would be as well received there... I have worked with a few native Chinese -- not many, though -- and I found them harder to get along with than the Russians.
Of course, that is totally irrelevant; my post is concerned with the attitude of the governments of those two countries, not with the average inhabitant...
And a short excerpt from the above article (emphasis added):
Under the loser-pays rule, which is in effect in almost every common-law jurisdiction outside the United States, the party that loses in court pays the victor's fees and expenses based on a schedule set by the court. The advantages of the loser-pays rule are manifold. Most obviously, it discourages speculative litigation. A claimant who knows that he is going to be responsible for the defendant's reasonable legal costs is going to hesitate before pursuing a longshot case, even if the potential payoff is large.
I know you're not an apologist, but on this issue, you're wrong nonetheless...
Personally, I think Russia is a far better place to encourage technology than China. Russians are nice people, and their government is slowly but surely becoming more reasonable as the years go on. The Chinese government, on the other hand, doesn't really like the US and is only trading (er, dumping their goods) with us just so they can raise the money needed to build up their military. China will never allow US companies to penetrate their markets or make any money there...
The United States and Russia have the potential to be great trading partners, in stark contrast to the mortal enemies we were a few decades ago. China on the other hand, is in a relationship of convenience (for them), and as soon as they've drained the US dry, they'll become a far larger problem and threat to the US than Russia ever was...
We should not encourage (or even allow, I say) technology transfers to China (of course, Clinton sold us down the river by giving all sorts of secrets to the Chinese, so the damage may have already been done).
The key part of tort-reform, where the loser pays the winner's legal fees is this: the amount you have to pay to the winner cannot exceed what you paid for your own legal advice.. So, if you spent $3,000 suing someone and lost, you'd have to pay $3,000 to the winner, even if they spent $3,000,000 defending themselves. This is what protects the little guy against the other side rolling out the million dollar attorneys.
If it *was* a legitimate grievance, I would probably win. However, if I happened to lose, I would have to pony up legal fees for the other party -- that's just part of the risk equation when you decide to file a lawsuit...
Actions should have consequences. Apparently, far too many people have forgotten that.
Schools are always short of money -- not enough for textbooks, teachers, better facilities, computer upgrades, etc... And now they're being forced to spend money on lawyers to defend themselves against a lawsuit brought up by a few ignorant parents??? Yeah, that's a great way to spend the education budget...
If we had serious tort reform in this country where the losing party had to pay the legal expenses of the winner, these kinds of stupid lawsuits would never be filed in the first place...
A lot of people mention things like this, but I don't think they realize just how hard it would be to accomplish. Bleaching the bills to remove the green ink, but leaving the red and blue color in the small fibers? Not an easy task. Then there's the completely different issue of finding the right shade of green to print the new currency. The green used on money isn't commercially available, so you'd never have an exact match...
Regardless of what everyone else here thinks (since you're all wrong, for the most part), counterfeiting is *not* an easy task. This isn't like some loser setting up a meth lab in his trailer -- it requires a significant investment in time and equipment... I believe most counterfeiting is done either through organized crime or through foreign governments -- no one else really has the resources to do it right...
But that's exactly the hardest part -- gettng the "feel" of the paper (er, "linen") to match real money. Counterfeiters can do an excellent job in reproducing the look of the currency, but since they can't buy the same paper, it never feels the same...
We need Extreme programming because, come on guys, lets face it, normal programming is cutting it anymore.
That's completely false. What's not cutting it is the quality of today's programmers -- a lack of maturity, a lack of attention to detail, a lack of "doing it right the first time", a lack of using the right tool for the job (because language X can be used for *anything*), etc.
XP is a joke and always has been. It's just a rallying point for slackers who want an excuse for their wild, maverick, no-rules approach to software development...
if you wanted this to succeed -- otherwise, you'd end up blocking mail from those domains that hadn't upgraded yet to the new techology... What are the chances of everyone upgrading at the same time? And how much mail would be lost during the transition?
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Spoken like a true loser/script kiddie/whatever -- completely unprofessional. Software developers should take pride in their work, and shouldn't release things that they aren't proud to claim. And the "and if they relied on it oh well, their fault...". What kind of an attitude is this? Is this the basic open-source "it's free software, so don't complain if it doesn't work" attitude? Or is this guy just a bigger loser than most?
If this idiot's opinions are indicative of how the open source community views their work, then the world is right to avoid it as much as possible -- and it should be shunned by true professionals that do care about the quality of their work...
computers cannot kill or injure people
Have you no sense of history? Do a search on the Therac-25, and let me know when you want to retract your statement...
What a loser....
The cell phone is nothing but a tool... When you need one, they're very handy. When you don't want to be bothered by it, you use the OFF button. Have people forgotten that these things can be turned off? Or that the ringer can be silenced?
The total inability to properly use a piece of technology shouldn't make it a "bad" piece of technology...
What point??? While it may not pinpoint *your* location, it *does* show what provider you are connected to, and the exact location of that provider... If someone wants to find you badly enough, knowing where the provider is located is a good start... From there, the provider's records can be subpoenaed (or an employee can be bribed, etc) to determine where *you* connected to the provider.
If it is broadband, the provider knows exactly where you are. If dialup, the phone company knows where to find you...
Wouldn't it be kinda scary if your IP told people where to find you?
Umm... this has been possible for quite a while: See Geobutton: http://www.geobutton.com/IpLocator.htm
I guess mom was driven by a daemon?
Wouldn't that be a daemom instead???
From the article:
I have lost all my files last month. I was upgrading my computer hard disk. I forgot to back up my data. All my files gone. What a shame, although I have a Masters degree in computer science, I ignored the most basic step to safe guide your data.
Michael Chan, Malaysia
So, this loser with a Masters degree was "upgrading his hard drive" eh? So he took out the old drive and put in a new one, and now he can't find his files? He thinks he lost all of his data??? Maybe someone should tell this genius that yes, you can transfer data from the old drive to the new one....
From the article:
"We'd like people to stop selling proprietary software. It's bad for the world,"
So the losers at the FSF, who claim to support "software freedom", want to eliminate the type of "freedom" that they don't agree with (i.e. to create software that you won't *give* to them for free)... What a bunch of hypocrites. I can't believe there are still enough losers out there that support this communistic group...
Nothing good will come of governments using open source software... It just serves to extend the "something for nothing" mindset that is slowly destroying the value of software development....
They haven't invested any of their money in the US.
k /bidask/
You are sadly uninformed. China has rather large holdings of US Treasury bills and bonds: some $346.50 billion worth, according to CNN (http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/05/commentary/bidas
The short answer is: currency economics; they currently don't have much of a choice. If they were to invest their earned US Dollars outside the US, it would be harder to maintain their artificially-low peg of the Renmimbi to the Dollar...
"Russians are nice people" And the Chinese aren't? You should know of course, having personally met over 50% of all Chinese and Russian citizens (isn't that around 600 million people?). I doubt that you ever met a single native Russian or Chinese person.
You're reading far too much into a simple post...
I have been to Russia - I spent a few months there working on a project... The people I met were extremely nice to me, and didn't seem to harbor any ill will towards Americans. Of course, I was there before Putin was in power; things may be different now. I have never been to China, so I have no idea if I would be as well received there... I have worked with a few native Chinese -- not many, though -- and I found them harder to get along with than the Russians.
Of course, that is totally irrelevant; my post is concerned with the attitude of the governments of those two countries, not with the average inhabitant...
Because it is not a troll... Just a personal opinion.
You know, for sarcasm to work, you first need to understand what you're talking about....
Don't get me wrong, I'm no corporate apologist, but I don't think that your idea is workable and/or fair
Not workable? It's being done pretty much everywhere, outside of the US. Here's a short articile on this very subject: http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg19n1e.html
And a short excerpt from the above article (emphasis added):
Under the loser-pays rule, which is in effect in almost every common-law jurisdiction outside the United States, the party that loses in court pays the victor's fees and expenses based on a schedule set by the court. The advantages of the loser-pays rule are manifold. Most obviously, it discourages speculative litigation. A claimant who knows that he is going to be responsible for the defendant's reasonable legal costs is going to hesitate before pursuing a longshot case, even if the potential payoff is large.
I know you're not an apologist, but on this issue, you're wrong nonetheless...
Personally, I think Russia is a far better place to encourage technology than China. Russians are nice people, and their government is slowly but surely becoming more reasonable as the years go on. The Chinese government, on the other hand, doesn't really like the US and is only trading (er, dumping their goods) with us just so they can raise the money needed to build up their military. China will never allow US companies to penetrate their markets or make any money there...
The United States and Russia have the potential to be great trading partners, in stark contrast to the mortal enemies we were a few decades ago. China on the other hand, is in a relationship of convenience (for them), and as soon as they've drained the US dry, they'll become a far larger problem and threat to the US than Russia ever was...
We should not encourage (or even allow, I say) technology transfers to China (of course, Clinton sold us down the river by giving all sorts of secrets to the Chinese, so the damage may have already been done).
The key part of tort-reform, where the loser pays the winner's legal fees is this: the amount you have to pay to the winner cannot exceed what you paid for your own legal advice.. So, if you spent $3,000 suing someone and lost, you'd have to pay $3,000 to the winner, even if they spent $3,000,000 defending themselves. This is what protects the little guy against the other side rolling out the million dollar attorneys.
If it *was* a legitimate grievance, I would probably win. However, if I happened to lose, I would have to pony up legal fees for the other party -- that's just part of the risk equation when you decide to file a lawsuit...
Actions should have consequences. Apparently, far too many people have forgotten that.
Schools are always short of money -- not enough for textbooks, teachers, better facilities, computer upgrades, etc... And now they're being forced to spend money on lawyers to defend themselves against a lawsuit brought up by a few ignorant parents??? Yeah, that's a great way to spend the education budget...
If we had serious tort reform in this country where the losing party had to pay the legal expenses of the winner, these kinds of stupid lawsuits would never be filed in the first place...
Gotta love those "moderators" who automatically mark as Flamebait anything that doesn't agree with their myopic viewpoints...
Get an accountant. Let them do your taxes. Less work, less aggravation -- and a much better chance of getting it done right the first time...
A lot of people mention things like this, but I don't think they realize just how hard it would be to accomplish. Bleaching the bills to remove the green ink, but leaving the red and blue color in the small fibers? Not an easy task. Then there's the completely different issue of finding the right shade of green to print the new currency. The green used on money isn't commercially available, so you'd never have an exact match...
Regardless of what everyone else here thinks (since you're all wrong, for the most part), counterfeiting is *not* an easy task. This isn't like some loser setting up a meth lab in his trailer -- it requires a significant investment in time and equipment... I believe most counterfeiting is done either through organized crime or through foreign governments -- no one else really has the resources to do it right...
especially if the feel of the paper is right
But that's exactly the hardest part -- gettng the "feel" of the paper (er, "linen") to match real money. Counterfeiters can do an excellent job in reproducing the look of the currency, but since they can't buy the same paper, it never feels the same...
We need Extreme programming because, come on guys, lets face it, normal programming is cutting it anymore.
That's completely false. What's not cutting it is the quality of today's programmers -- a lack of maturity, a lack of attention to detail, a lack of "doing it right the first time", a lack of using the right tool for the job (because language X can be used for *anything*), etc.
XP is a joke and always has been. It's just a rallying point for slackers who want an excuse for their wild, maverick, no-rules approach to software development...
if you wanted this to succeed -- otherwise, you'd end up blocking mail from those domains that hadn't upgraded yet to the new techology... What are the chances of everyone upgrading at the same time? And how much mail would be lost during the transition?