While I agree with you in large part, I think his point was to be careful with your labeling. I mean, "pop" is almost too generic a label to be worth anything. I like a lot of pop music, but hardly anything I hear on the radio these days.
Really, you have to subdivide the pop genre before you can start ignoring sections of it. I have a fondness for "jangly guitar pop" (although that's probably too damn broad a category, too), for instance, but I could do without "Brittany Spears-type pop."
I think he should have phrased that as "wise leadership."
You can certainly make a case that the benefits of outsourcing are overstated. Yes, you save money. But either you lose control, or you have to establish some sort of control where you outsource.
Loss of control is certainly an obvious problem. You have less control over the quality of the final product, and who does it (as your outsourcing partner could outsource it yet again). Your competitors may not need to reverse engineer anything if your outourcing partner is careless or unethical with your code. If you have intellectual property you need to protect, this could be a real problem.
Establishing control requires you to build the sorts of organizational structures that you already have here. That costs money, too, reducing some of the cost benefits of outsourcing.
As an aside, I'm not convinced IBM has strong leadership. I work for an IBM partner, and I know too much. Microsoft has strong leadership, but I have doubts about their wisdom.
Eh, we're reasonably specific about these things. IOS is used as a general term, but when you're talking about a specific device you usually use the more specific term. I mean, no one says "We have to upgrade the IOS on the pixes," although they might say "We have to upgrade the IOS on everything in the data center."
You'd get a funny look if you said you upgraded something to IOS 6.3.3, wouldn't you?
Bash has a nice superset of the features of the Bourne and C shells. The one thing I really like about the C shells is the ! command: !! to repeat the last command, !cmd to get the last command beginning with cmd, !?cmd, etc. I install it on all my Sun or AIX machines.
Zsh is nice, too, with possibly even more features than bash. The one downside is that it's not installed on a lot of servers I use and it's annoying to change gears, so I don't use it too often.
As an aside, I think that a lot of the "crappy Asian coders" stereotype results from the "crappy Asian organizations" out there. That is, many of the individuals are good, but they're managed poorly.
I can think of a certain vendor who is doing this. There are two parts to this: the companies doing the outsourcing do a piss-poor job of managing their outsourcing, and the companies actually doing the work do a piss-poor job of managing their programmers.
Having said that, there's no reason why outsourced code written by well-managed programmers can't be damn good.
You may be right. Unfortunately, the other explanation for the mistakes they've made is that they're just plain incompetent. Their voting machines have numerous known flaws, and they've added uncertified code to them without telling anyone.
This does not make me feel any better about them. If they are incompetent, why, then some other party could tamper with an election.
I want the elections in my country to be above reproach, damn it!
The first time I used my neighbor's wireless network I didn't even know I had a wireless card. I had a new laptop from work, and at some point I noticed that I was surfing the web with the cable unplugged.
I had to turn off the wireless card, as it was coming up as the first interface (I don't have a wireless access point of my own yet).
Sure the virus writers are ultimately to blame. In terms of what you actually have control over, however, the email software is the big culprit.
You can't control virus writers. You can't prevent unknown parties from targeting your network.
You can, however, institute safeguards on your network. You can use an email client which is a well-known vector for worms. You can make it impossible for your users to accidentally execute an email worm. These things are under your control.
Not that any of these things are easy, of course, especially if your users are addicted to Outlook.
The idea that you could somehow avoid the consequences of a prior settlement by selling a copyright claim to another party who would then be free to ignore the settlement is somewhat wierd.
I'm not going to comment on the rest of the argument , but are you trying to tell us that the rest of SCO's behavour is, uh, normal?
As the Economist notes, executive compensation has gone up enormously while profits have not (see the graph
at the bottom).
This isn't to say that the average CEO doesn't work hard or have valuable skills. But there are lot of
CEO's who are overpaid at the expense of both shareholders and workers.
I tore down my LFS system for Gentoo on my laptop. While I like Gentoo, frankly I missed my LFS system. Once you have it going, it's really not that much more trouble than Gentoo.
Granted, I don't think I'd bother using it for a server.
That only means they planned ahead to squeeze all the money out of it.
To me, it's fairly apparent that they never had the material for a complete trilogy.
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Really, you have to subdivide the pop genre before you can start ignoring sections of it. I have a fondness for "jangly guitar pop" (although that's probably too damn broad a category, too), for instance, but I could do without "Brittany Spears-type pop."
You can certainly make a case that the benefits of outsourcing are overstated. Yes, you save money. But either you lose control, or you have to establish some sort of control where you outsource.
Loss of control is certainly an obvious problem. You have less control over the quality of the final product, and who does it (as your outsourcing partner could outsource it yet again). Your competitors may not need to reverse engineer anything if your outourcing partner is careless or unethical with your code. If you have intellectual property you need to protect, this could be a real problem.
Establishing control requires you to build the sorts of organizational structures that you already have here. That costs money, too, reducing some of the cost benefits of outsourcing.
As an aside, I'm not convinced IBM has strong leadership. I work for an IBM partner, and I know too much. Microsoft has strong leadership, but I have doubts about their wisdom.
Let's make a deal. If he removes that apostrophe, will you remember to use verbs in grammatical flames?
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You'd get a funny look if you said you upgraded something to IOS 6.3.3, wouldn't you?
Bash has a nice superset of the features of the Bourne and C shells. The one thing I really like about the C shells is the ! command: !! to repeat the last command, !cmd to get the last command beginning with cmd, !?cmd, etc. I install it on all my Sun or AIX machines.
Zsh is nice, too, with possibly even more features than bash. The one downside is that it's not installed on a lot of servers I use and it's annoying to change gears, so I don't use it too often.
How is Konsole proprietary? Poorly-documented I'd buy...
Have you looked into CrossOver Office? I use it to run Outlook/Office XP on Linux. Beats Citrix.
As an aside, I think that a lot of the "crappy Asian coders" stereotype results from the "crappy Asian organizations" out there. That is, many of the individuals are good, but they're managed poorly.
I can think of a certain vendor who is doing this. There are two parts to this: the companies doing the outsourcing do a piss-poor job of managing their outsourcing, and the companies actually doing the work do a piss-poor job of managing their programmers.
Having said that, there's no reason why outsourced code written by well-managed programmers can't be damn good.
(It was an '89 Dodge Shadow. Great car for the first 70,000 miles; unfortunately I drove it for another 50,000 miles.)
Yes, but Shakespeare himself wouldn't have spelled it consistently, either. Spelling hadn't really solidified in the Elizabethan era.
This does not make me feel any better about them. If they are incompetent, why, then some other party could tamper with an election.
I want the elections in my country to be above reproach, damn it!
The first time I used my neighbor's wireless network I didn't even know I had a wireless card. I had a new laptop from work, and at some point I noticed that I was surfing the web with the cable unplugged. I had to turn off the wireless card, as it was coming up as the first interface (I don't have a wireless access point of my own yet).
You can't control virus writers. You can't prevent unknown parties from targeting your network.
You can, however, institute safeguards on your network. You can use an email client which is a well-known vector for worms. You can make it impossible for your users to accidentally execute an email worm. These things are under your control.
Not that any of these things are easy, of course, especially if your users are addicted to Outlook.
I'd be surprised if this hasn't been happening for years. Let's be honest--this is an entirely obvious consequence.
If your safeguards can be defeated by somebody opening a stinking email, you need to rethink things.
I'm not going to comment on the rest of the argument , but are you trying to tell us that the rest of SCO's behavour is, uh, normal?
I think this was in large part bad legal strategy--they didn't think they could actually get the recount of the whole state.
As the Economist notes, executive compensation has gone up enormously while profits have not (see the graph at the bottom). This isn't to say that the average CEO doesn't work hard or have valuable skills. But there are lot of CEO's who are overpaid at the expense of both shareholders and workers.
I tore down my LFS system for Gentoo on my laptop. While I like Gentoo, frankly I missed my LFS system. Once you have it going, it's really not that much more trouble than Gentoo. Granted, I don't think I'd bother using it for a server.
Yeah, I know, the damn things can be hard to find, and they generally don't index these things under "Things you should turn off immediately."
Also, it wasn't like a library change broke it. The problem was a feature which isn't even for your benefit.
Well, he might not have been in the building at the time. Bad intelligence or a smoke break...
That only means they planned ahead to squeeze all the money out of it. To me, it's fairly apparent that they never had the material for a complete trilogy.
The phrase "well-regulated militia" does suggest that, well, gun ownership should be regulated. As a gun owner, I agree with that.