If you read the announcement on his website, he points out that he's received free hosting over the last year and a half, that's not the issue. The issue is buying food for himself.
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The 3Com Saga
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Back in the earlier days of Linux when drivers for network cards were flakier, a 3COM card was the gold standard for compatibility, stability and ease of use. People used terms like "detected by every OS in the planet" and "just get a 3COM card." For many people, the premium price was worth it because 3COM cards were simply unmatched in quality.
Fast forward to around 2001, when cards based on Intel and "Tulip" chips gained better driver support, started performing comparably to 3COM cards, and were significantly lower-priced. 3COM simply lost their competitive advantage. I think that most network cards are beginning to push the limits of the defined standards for 10/100 NICs, so 3COM will have to find a new arena in which to innovate if they want to regain their dominance.
His problem, then, is not that he was caught, but that he was caught too late. He argues that the university should have warned him of the consequences earlier.
What an imbecile. He was clearly warned in the student handbook that plagiarism was unacceptable. I don't know about his particular classes, but my teachers always make a point of defining plagiarism, explaining why it's unacceptable and clearly outlining the consequences. If his argument is that the school should have checked his work for plagiarism sooner, then whatever lawyer agreed to file this suit should be ashamed of himself.
If you were to live in Austin, Texas you would most likely have to car pool or live very close to your job, as the public transit system there has issues. Austin wasn't designed to be as large as it has become, and is basically laid with a relatively small urban center. Suburban sprawl is the preferred layout, which definitely has its ups and downs. For example, it's at least reasonable to get a place nearby Dell or Intel up on the North side, or near the semiconductor plants on the South side.
One big reason for that is that the US has traditionally enjoyed low gas prices. A bit on Jon Stewart said that "as long as we're workin' over in the Middle East, we should get the employee discount, right?"
If the current oil prices don't go down, I think that SUVs will go down in popularity long-term.
I thought of this too, but these scammers could probably use some sort of VOIP thing to get their voices from India into the US phone system without long distance charges.
That's a good point, but you're not just tying up the phone lines: you're tying up the telemarketer as well. Say something like "Hold on a second while I go get my wallet." Then put the phone down and walk away for half an hour or so.
The ban only applies to machines that don't leave a proper paper trail, these lobbying groups should be putting pressure on Diebold to release a product that doesn't suck.
"This is another flip-flop by state officials, based on shifting political winds, rather than considering what is best for the people of California," County Supervisor John Tavaglione said. "They're punishing us for using a system that has worked effectively and without error."
What a disab^H^H^H^H stupid thing to say. This totally overlooks the fact that there's no error because the machines leave no way for people to verify correct results in an election. That's like a hospital not recording statistics on surgically caused deaths and then claiming that they have no record of any deaths being caused under surgery.
Until a suitable alternative presents itself, the disabled will have to cast their vote in an environment of reduced anonymity. That's been the procedure before the Diebold machines were available, and that should be the procedure until a suitable alternative to paper ballots is made available.
Let me put it in my simple terms. If you take something that doesn't belong to you, that's wrong. Number two, if you design your own machine, you can't fuss at people, because you're one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?
TT: About two million.
JV: Well, I can't believe there's not any -- there must be a reason for... Let me find out about that. You bring up an interesting question -- I don't know the answer to that... Well, you're telling me a lot of things I don't know.
TT: Okay. Well, how can we have this dialogue?
JV: Well, we're having it right now. I want to try to find out the point you make on why are there no Linux licensed players. There must be a reason -- there has to be a reason. I don't know.
It's hilarious to watch JV flounder, it doesn't even seem like he's considered the possibily that a free operating system with free software (free as in beer) could have two million users. He really expects the MPAA to be supported by people a small tax on DVD software, the problem is that there's no licensed DVD software sold for Linux.
Indians can do that, too, and thereby take away your differentiation; but there's no way that they'll ever have the head start on English proficiency that you, as an American, should have.
Definitely. Another major advantage is that an American should understand American culture better than someone from India (and vice versa), meaning that less time needs to be spent on communicating basic concepts between the two cultures.
I would suggest more than just being fluent in English, being fluent in communication can be an amazing strength. Interpersonal skills, presentation abilities and even understanding of some of the research about interface design can all help you in ways that you never thought possible.
One way to work around it is that if you file a lawsuit and lose, you have to pay the winning side the cost of your legal actions. That way neither side is able to drive up the stakes by hiring high-priced lawyers, ala SCO.
I think that most of the replies you'll get will center around the silliness of measuring programming experience in "years." I learned how to program in Basic about 17 years ago, but I did my last active project in it about 16 years ago. My experience with that language has obviously peaked, and anyone with half a brain could realize this from talking to me and reading my resume.
Your boss does have a somewhat valid idea though, there is a point at which most students of the C/C++ language (or any language) will settle into regurgitation of idiomatic expressions. These people are more technicians than programming artists. The true artists of programming are those people who know languages, operating systems and computer science in general to a depth that they will have jobs regardless of what the economy is doing. The problem is that artists are hard to find. If you consider yourself to be one, I would point this out to your boss and discuss this with him at length. Perhaps you could somehow become involved with the hiring process, or in a sort of
continuing education process for programmers at
your job.
Good luck with the debate.:)
PS - For anyone who noticed the reference, I did steal the artist/technician concept from a Robert Browning poem.:D
I think that the people who are truly interested in computer-related fields won't change their major solely based on job outlook. This might mean that a lot of people with marginal interest in computers will consider other fields, which I think is a good thing for the industry.
From what I understand, It's all about the performance. Apache 1.3.x supposedly has better performance with PHP when compared to the corresponding Apache 2.0.x release.
When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 Beta is 7% faster at startup, is 8% faster at window open time, has 9% faster pageloading times, and is 5% smaller in binary size.
After the news is released on Slashdot, it's now 40% slower to download.:D
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If you read the announcement on his website, he points out that he's received free hosting over the last year and a half, that's not the issue. The issue is buying food for himself.
Fast forward to around 2001, when cards based on Intel and "Tulip" chips gained better driver support, started performing comparably to 3COM cards, and were significantly lower-priced. 3COM simply lost their competitive advantage. I think that most network cards are beginning to push the limits of the defined standards for 10/100 NICs, so 3COM will have to find a new arena in which to innovate if they want to regain their dominance.
What an imbecile. He was clearly warned in the student handbook that plagiarism was unacceptable. I don't know about his particular classes, but my teachers always make a point of defining plagiarism, explaining why it's unacceptable and clearly outlining the consequences. If his argument is that the school should have checked his work for plagiarism sooner, then whatever lawyer agreed to file this suit should be ashamed of himself.
If you were to live in Austin, Texas you would most likely have to car pool or live very close to your job, as the public transit system there has issues. Austin wasn't designed to be as large as it has become, and is basically laid with a relatively small urban center. Suburban sprawl is the preferred layout, which definitely has its ups and downs. For example, it's at least reasonable to get a place nearby Dell or Intel up on the North side, or near the semiconductor plants on the South side.
If the current oil prices don't go down, I think that SUVs will go down in popularity long-term.
With less land, more heat and a lot less water there wouldn't be more people for long. :)
Don't you mean Czechs?
:)
That's a good point, but you're not just tying up the phone lines: you're tying up the telemarketer as well. Say something like "Hold on a second while I go get my wallet." Then put the phone down and walk away for half an hour or so.
Good call. Another one is 'sudo vim', where a quick :sh command will drop you into a root shell.
"This is another flip-flop by state officials, based on shifting political winds, rather than considering what is best for the people of California," County Supervisor John Tavaglione said. "They're punishing us for using a system that has worked effectively and without error."
What a disab^H^H^H^H stupid thing to say. This totally overlooks the fact that there's no error because the machines leave no way for people to verify correct results in an election. That's like a hospital not recording statistics on surgically caused deaths and then claiming that they have no record of any deaths being caused under surgery.
Until a suitable alternative presents itself, the disabled will have to cast their vote in an environment of reduced anonymity. That's been the procedure before the Diebold machines were available, and that should be the procedure until a suitable alternative to paper ballots is made available.
:P
..... No!
:)
Let me put it in my simple terms. If you take something that doesn't belong to you, that's wrong. Number two, if you design your own machine, you can't fuss at people, because you're one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?
TT: About two million.
JV: Well, I can't believe there's not any -- there must be a reason for... Let me find out about that. You bring up an interesting question -- I don't know the answer to that... Well, you're telling me a lot of things I don't know.
TT: Okay. Well, how can we have this dialogue?
JV: Well, we're having it right now. I want to try to find out the point you make on why are there no Linux licensed players. There must be a reason -- there has to be a reason. I don't know.
It's hilarious to watch JV flounder, it doesn't even seem like he's considered the possibily that a free operating system with free software (free as in beer) could have two million users. He really expects the MPAA to be supported by people a small tax on DVD software, the problem is that there's no licensed DVD software sold for Linux.
Yes, but SCO is not the only entity with potential IP issues with open source software in the Linux operating system.
Definitely. Another major advantage is that an American should understand American culture better than someone from India (and vice versa), meaning that less time needs to be spent on communicating basic concepts between the two cultures.
I would suggest more than just being fluent in English, being fluent in communication can be an amazing strength. Interpersonal skills, presentation abilities and even understanding of some of the research about interface design can all help you in ways that you never thought possible.
One way to work around it is that if you file a lawsuit and lose, you have to pay the winning side the cost of your legal actions. That way neither side is able to drive up the stakes by hiring high-priced lawyers, ala SCO.
Your boss does have a somewhat valid idea though, there is a point at which most students of the C/C++ language (or any language) will settle into regurgitation of idiomatic expressions. These people are more technicians than programming artists. The true artists of programming are those people who know languages, operating systems and computer science in general to a depth that they will have jobs regardless of what the economy is doing. The problem is that artists are hard to find. If you consider yourself to be one, I would point this out to your boss and discuss this with him at length. Perhaps you could somehow become involved with the hiring process, or in a sort of continuing education process for programmers at your job.
Good luck with the debate. :)
PS - For anyone who noticed the reference, I did steal the artist/technician concept from a Robert Browning poem. :D
Exactly. Some "projects to do this" are named OpenSSH, VNC, NFS and Samba. Ask Slashdot should not be a substitute for Google.
I'm actually not surprised that it's not more.
I think that the people who are truly interested in computer-related fields won't change their major solely based on job outlook. This might mean that a lot of people with marginal interest in computers will consider other fields, which I think is a good thing for the industry.
From what I understand, It's all about the performance. Apache 1.3.x supposedly has better performance with PHP when compared to the corresponding Apache 2.0.x release.
After the news is released on Slashdot, it's now 40% slower to download. :D
Sounds like a problem with your room. Have you tried redirecting your X11 display to another computer and playing games from a different room?
:D
The misspelled word is in the freakin' article! Why not kill two birds with one stone and actually read the article before submitting it?