Sure they were 'transferred'. Right along with the black list as to who to fire when they get there. Isn't that the same thing as being laid off or should I pick on semantics more?
Secondly, I don't have anyproblem with open source. None at all. It simply bothers me to see a company take advantage of the system we are using to support ourselves to save themselves from having to pay for it. Apathy seems to run deep on this subject and that really bothers me. No one wants to see or admit what is happening until it happens to them.
Open source products like MySQL have enabled me as a coder and system developer to work on my own and develop starts to projects on my time with my own resources to get work without having to pay thousands of dollars for software licenses. I didn't spend the money on the licenses before and the work didn't get done before either. My employers are happier too, they still pay for the product and the licensing in the end. They can not see what they are going to buy before they agree to it is all. I use this stuff as it was intended. To enable us to provide a better product in the end. Not cut jobs like mine out of the picture.
1) Oh, you are no longer in the EU?
2) All sounds like the same thing to me.
3) Who mentioned anything about shareholders and what difference does it make if they earn a profit or not? Lots of companies don't earn any money, just break even. That's the way they want it.
4) Funny, last I heard they were trying to reduce their budget by outsourcing and selling off pieces of itself. Isn't selling off parts of itself a way of earning money to pay off debt? Must be that the license fees aren't quite covering the bills. And I haven't heard too many happy voices from the BBC buildings lately. I DO read the papers.
5) The accept money to purchase items for the their productions. Always have. They accept money to pay for locations. They accept money to buy items for the productions. Just because it's not said or there aren't 30 second spots dedicated to a company doesn't mean their isn't outside influence from them.
Do you know why it needed to be rebooted? Because they used a beta version of an MS OS that timed out. YOu reboot the machine, reset the clock and you can get more time out of it. I suppose that it is MS's fault for them misusing a product that wasn't even meant to do what they were using it for. What a moron.
The broadcasts are free of advertising, but that is all. They do accept dollars from other companies to allow production of their shows. Just watch the credits. It's just advertising done in a different way. Companies fall over each other to 'give' things to the BBC at times to get their names in the credits. It all amounts to the same thing. It still quacks like a duck.
The BBC IS a company. Just because they are government run doesn't give them some special waver. They still hire workers to do work, they still make product, they still pay bills and buy material to make their product. They still need money coming in the door, regardless of the source to keep the wheels turning. How does this not define them as a business. Stop letting other people define things for you and use your head on this one. They would have had to spend the money to do the work for themselves. Now they are trying to get it done for free. You try to convince the 1400 recently laid off BBC IT staff workers that they couldn't have done this. Tell their children that they can't eat lunch anymore because you are willing to do it for free instead. Shame!
They are a business like any other competeing for eyballs. It doesn't matter where the money comes from or if the bottom line comes out even at the end of the year, (definition of not for profit). It is still dollars that they would have spent hiring staff to do this work. Those people are current out of work. See the article for yourself on how they just laid off 1400 IT workers. Coincidence? Not!
When you spend your free time working on this, take an extra moment to think about the BBC IT staff that was just laid off. Think about the meals you are taking out of those children's mouths becaue the BBC felt they didn't need the staff when they could get the work done for free. Just try to remember that people are really being hurt by allowing the BBC to make use of your free time instead of paying their own staff to do the work. Maybe you will offer to spend an hour a week cleaning their offices too? I am sure they would like to cut that staff as well.
It IS a business. Just because the government runs it does disqualify it from being a business. It competes with other broadcasters. It accepts advertising dollars. They provide a product. They hire staff. They pay bills. But their not a business? Get a life moron. They are a business just like all others. It doesn't matter where the money comes from. Secondly they are actually attempting to become self sufficient, meaning that they generate all of their own dollars and no longer have to syphon off the taxpayer dollars.
Apparently the managers feel that they can get their work done for nothing now with all this open source stuff going on. Are we putting ourselves out of work?
Then I can be out of a job too. Yea lets all help the BBC put their staff of IT people out of work too. Companies have to learn that Open Source doesn't mean you, as a company, can get everyone to do the work you need for free. Here is a blatant case of a company that needs a product but is unwilling to pay for it because they believe they will get it for nothing if they sweet talk the open source community.
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I want to thank you for putting the economics of web driven e-commerce into focus for so many with your fabulous article. You obviously demonstrate a proficient grasp of the e-tailer situation and coupled with the insight you have on the industry you have put together a very enlightening article. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me. I had not previous ever considered the perspective you note in your column and was quite pleased to learn about something I hadn't previously known.
Makes me think to the quip about putting monkeys in a room and over time ending up with a novel, just by chance. Too many people now looking for ways to make their mark in the world. Some people will try to draw anything to a conclusion, whether it is right or wrong. According to this guys theory, anything that causes you to not maintain his level of social interaction would cause you to considered 'sick' or addicted to something. If that is the case, then most of the people in this world are sick. If the majority of the people in this world are sick, then maybe statistically, being sick is normal. Then doesn't that mean that those who are not 'sick' are abnormal. Maybe it THOSE people who need fixing. See it's all logical in it's own way.
Sounds to me like you are trying to sit on both sides of the fence. When you buy Half life two and it runs like s#?t on your PC because it needs better hardware to run on, are you going to blame the coders again? Even the most excellence code has requirements that need to be met for the code to run optimally. It is more often the implementors fault for trying to 'save' and scrimp on hardware or other items that hobble the code's ability to perform it's task. More often than not, as a coder myself, I find myself trying to add code to overcome the problems caused by people not following directions. If I write code that uses a AMD64 instruction set and I require it and someone installs it on a pentium4 PC, is it my fault it didn't run or the person who couldn't follow directions and read the software requirements. Now tell me what the difference is between reading the software requirements and the instructions on it's proper use. There aren't any. People think they can take their lawnmower and trim their hedges with them and end up in the hospital all of the time, (or dead). I suppose you are one of those people who sue the lawn mower manufacturer because it was their fault somehow.
You didn't get what the article said at all did you? It was the people who failed here, not the software. Bad planning and performance of the people. You seem to look for any crack you can find and stuff a 'Caused by Microsoft' flag in it. There are things that MS can be blamed for, but when you poke EVERYTHING at them, your arguements lose their validity. People implementing, setting up and managing the systems are the problem more often than not.
That's still bad science. Are they going to change the theories of the fabric that makes up space to allow their equipment to stay lofted? Two stationary objects in space will move towards each other dispite their distance from each other. Their is not distance in witch the object in space, away from earth, will not have a decaying orbit, unless it is influenced by a larger body, such as Jupiter or the Sun. Facts!
Agreed, whole heartedly. I actually find it difficult to believe that there are still a large number of people out there who think that this doesn't happen. How can people allow themselves to be so blind to what goes on in their own country? But I am sure the Whitehouse knows that a lot of people don't want to believe it, that's exactly why they continue to do things like that. Because it's ok to ask someone to say 'ok' and then say 'see he said it's ok!', and make it look like it was an honest, uncoerced answer. I hate it because so many people are having to wool pulled over their eyes and can't see through the bolonia to the truth. We need this guy gone. He might not be lieing, but he isn't telling you the whole truth either. Carefully scuptled truth, leaving out key facts, is the same as lieing to me. Shame!
If you want a fast LCD monitor, then you have to buy one that has it. Different manufacturers have different pixel response rates. You have to shop for a good one just like anything else. Cheaper monitors tend to have the worse response times whereas more expensive ones tend to have better response. Just because they are using new technology that is currently more expensive to produce. Here is a Buying type guide from CNet
The process itself is not the issue here in the US and this will not solve ANY of our current problems. Having worked on bothe the Low Level and High level waste respoitories here in the states, I know the issue is getting the waste to the facilities, not the storage itself. The criteria for stability for the sites chosen today were 100 million years, not 200,000. So the storage length is not an issue. No body want to allow the waste to be transported over their roads, through their neighborhoods to get to the facilities. Dispite the Low level facility being operational for nearly a decade now, they have yet to recieve any waste due to this issue. I guess peoplewould rather have this stuff in their backyards rather than safely buried.
There is not a single application that communicates over an internet capable conncetion that does NOT need a "hole" to work through. Everything needs a port or some enabled connection in order to send and receive data, even your browser and email application. Emaule is no different than any other application that was ever built and any application that will ever be built. Needing a 'hole' does not make it any more or less secure than any other applciation. That is simply a fact that can't be changed. The denotation as to whether the applciation is secure or not is what kind of traffic the application will allow to pass through it via that hole. It is the applications responsibility to secure the data stream and a function of what the application does to that data once it recieves it, (i.e. executes a file or runs the script it received).
Opening a port or two doesn't compromise anything if done correctly. (i.e. restricting port access to a specific application as should always be done.)
I agree. This will probably ruin now. I have enjoyed my emule client tremendously over the last couple years. Oh well, it was good while it lasted. Thanks slashdot for F#$%^*& up a good thing! Some things ARE just better left unsaid.
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So you obviously have a number in mind that is OK to layoff in place of Free labor. Will it still be ok when it's you?
The Skycar, flying car is already a reality. The only thing stopping you from having one is the price tag.
The Skycar, flying car is already a reality. The only thing stopping you from having one is the price tag.
OOPS I meant to say "They can now see what they are going to buy.."
Sure they were 'transferred'. Right along with the black list as to who to fire when they get there. Isn't that the same thing as being laid off or should I pick on semantics more?
Secondly, I don't have anyproblem with open source. None at all. It simply bothers me to see a company take advantage of the system we are using to support ourselves to save themselves from having to pay for it. Apathy seems to run deep on this subject and that really bothers me. No one wants to see or admit what is happening until it happens to them.
Open source products like MySQL have enabled me as a coder and system developer to work on my own and develop starts to projects on my time with my own resources to get work without having to pay thousands of dollars for software licenses. I didn't spend the money on the licenses before and the work didn't get done before either. My employers are happier too, they still pay for the product and the licensing in the end. They can not see what they are going to buy before they agree to it is all. I use this stuff as it was intended. To enable us to provide a better product in the end. Not cut jobs like mine out of the picture.
1) Oh, you are no longer in the EU? 2) All sounds like the same thing to me. 3) Who mentioned anything about shareholders and what difference does it make if they earn a profit or not? Lots of companies don't earn any money, just break even. That's the way they want it. 4) Funny, last I heard they were trying to reduce their budget by outsourcing and selling off pieces of itself. Isn't selling off parts of itself a way of earning money to pay off debt? Must be that the license fees aren't quite covering the bills. And I haven't heard too many happy voices from the BBC buildings lately. I DO read the papers. 5) The accept money to purchase items for the their productions. Always have. They accept money to pay for locations. They accept money to buy items for the productions. Just because it's not said or there aren't 30 second spots dedicated to a company doesn't mean their isn't outside influence from them.
Tell that to the people on the black list. YOU would have to ba a moron to not recognize what is going to happen there.
Do you know why it needed to be rebooted? Because they used a beta version of an MS OS that timed out. YOu reboot the machine, reset the clock and you can get more time out of it. I suppose that it is MS's fault for them misusing a product that wasn't even meant to do what they were using it for. What a moron.
The broadcasts are free of advertising, but that is all. They do accept dollars from other companies to allow production of their shows. Just watch the credits. It's just advertising done in a different way. Companies fall over each other to 'give' things to the BBC at times to get their names in the credits. It all amounts to the same thing. It still quacks like a duck.
The BBC IS a company. Just because they are government run doesn't give them some special waver. They still hire workers to do work, they still make product, they still pay bills and buy material to make their product. They still need money coming in the door, regardless of the source to keep the wheels turning. How does this not define them as a business. Stop letting other people define things for you and use your head on this one. They would have had to spend the money to do the work for themselves. Now they are trying to get it done for free. You try to convince the 1400 recently laid off BBC IT staff workers that they couldn't have done this. Tell their children that they can't eat lunch anymore because you are willing to do it for free instead. Shame!
They are a business like any other competeing for eyballs. It doesn't matter where the money comes from or if the bottom line comes out even at the end of the year, (definition of not for profit). It is still dollars that they would have spent hiring staff to do this work. Those people are current out of work. See the article for yourself on how they just laid off 1400 IT workers. Coincidence? Not!
When you spend your free time working on this, take an extra moment to think about the BBC IT staff that was just laid off. Think about the meals you are taking out of those children's mouths becaue the BBC felt they didn't need the staff when they could get the work done for free. Just try to remember that people are really being hurt by allowing the BBC to make use of your free time instead of paying their own staff to do the work. Maybe you will offer to spend an hour a week cleaning their offices too? I am sure they would like to cut that staff as well.
It IS a business. Just because the government runs it does disqualify it from being a business. It competes with other broadcasters. It accepts advertising dollars. They provide a product. They hire staff. They pay bills. But their not a business? Get a life moron. They are a business just like all others. It doesn't matter where the money comes from. Secondly they are actually attempting to become self sufficient, meaning that they generate all of their own dollars and no longer have to syphon off the taxpayer dollars.
Apparently the managers feel that they can get their work done for nothing now with all this open source stuff going on. Are we putting ourselves out of work?
Then I can be out of a job too. Yea lets all help the BBC put their staff of IT people out of work too. Companies have to learn that Open Source doesn't mean you, as a company, can get everyone to do the work you need for free. Here is a blatant case of a company that needs a product but is unwilling to pay for it because they believe they will get it for nothing if they sweet talk the open source community.
I want to thank you for putting the economics of web driven e-commerce into focus for so many with your fabulous article. You obviously demonstrate a proficient grasp of the e-tailer situation and coupled with the insight you have on the industry you have put together a very enlightening article. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me. I had not previous ever considered the perspective you note in your column and was quite pleased to learn about something I hadn't previously known.
Makes me think to the quip about putting monkeys in a room and over time ending up with a novel, just by chance. Too many people now looking for ways to make their mark in the world. Some people will try to draw anything to a conclusion, whether it is right or wrong. According to this guys theory, anything that causes you to not maintain his level of social interaction would cause you to considered 'sick' or addicted to something. If that is the case, then most of the people in this world are sick. If the majority of the people in this world are sick, then maybe statistically, being sick is normal. Then doesn't that mean that those who are not 'sick' are abnormal. Maybe it THOSE people who need fixing. See it's all logical in it's own way.
Sounds to me like you are trying to sit on both sides of the fence. When you buy Half life two and it runs like s#?t on your PC because it needs better hardware to run on, are you going to blame the coders again? Even the most excellence code has requirements that need to be met for the code to run optimally. It is more often the implementors fault for trying to 'save' and scrimp on hardware or other items that hobble the code's ability to perform it's task. More often than not, as a coder myself, I find myself trying to add code to overcome the problems caused by people not following directions. If I write code that uses a AMD64 instruction set and I require it and someone installs it on a pentium4 PC, is it my fault it didn't run or the person who couldn't follow directions and read the software requirements. Now tell me what the difference is between reading the software requirements and the instructions on it's proper use. There aren't any. People think they can take their lawnmower and trim their hedges with them and end up in the hospital all of the time, (or dead). I suppose you are one of those people who sue the lawn mower manufacturer because it was their fault somehow.
You didn't get what the article said at all did you? It was the people who failed here, not the software. Bad planning and performance of the people. You seem to look for any crack you can find and stuff a 'Caused by Microsoft' flag in it. There are things that MS can be blamed for, but when you poke EVERYTHING at them, your arguements lose their validity. People implementing, setting up and managing the systems are the problem more often than not.
That's still bad science. Are they going to change the theories of the fabric that makes up space to allow their equipment to stay lofted? Two stationary objects in space will move towards each other dispite their distance from each other. Their is not distance in witch the object in space, away from earth, will not have a decaying orbit, unless it is influenced by a larger body, such as Jupiter or the Sun. Facts!
Agreed, whole heartedly. I actually find it difficult to believe that there are still a large number of people out there who think that this doesn't happen. How can people allow themselves to be so blind to what goes on in their own country? But I am sure the Whitehouse knows that a lot of people don't want to believe it, that's exactly why they continue to do things like that. Because it's ok to ask someone to say 'ok' and then say 'see he said it's ok!', and make it look like it was an honest, uncoerced answer. I hate it because so many people are having to wool pulled over their eyes and can't see through the bolonia to the truth. We need this guy gone. He might not be lieing, but he isn't telling you the whole truth either. Carefully scuptled truth, leaving out key facts, is the same as lieing to me. Shame!
If you want a fast LCD monitor, then you have to buy one that has it. Different manufacturers have different pixel response rates. You have to shop for a good one just like anything else. Cheaper monitors tend to have the worse response times whereas more expensive ones tend to have better response. Just because they are using new technology that is currently more expensive to produce. Here is a Buying type guide from CNet
The process itself is not the issue here in the US and this will not solve ANY of our current problems. Having worked on bothe the Low Level and High level waste respoitories here in the states, I know the issue is getting the waste to the facilities, not the storage itself. The criteria for stability for the sites chosen today were 100 million years, not 200,000. So the storage length is not an issue. No body want to allow the waste to be transported over their roads, through their neighborhoods to get to the facilities. Dispite the Low level facility being operational for nearly a decade now, they have yet to recieve any waste due to this issue. I guess peoplewould rather have this stuff in their backyards rather than safely buried.
There is not a single application that communicates over an internet capable conncetion that does NOT need a "hole" to work through. Everything needs a port or some enabled connection in order to send and receive data, even your browser and email application. Emaule is no different than any other application that was ever built and any application that will ever be built. Needing a 'hole' does not make it any more or less secure than any other applciation. That is simply a fact that can't be changed. The denotation as to whether the applciation is secure or not is what kind of traffic the application will allow to pass through it via that hole. It is the applications responsibility to secure the data stream and a function of what the application does to that data once it recieves it, (i.e. executes a file or runs the script it received).
Opening a port or two doesn't compromise anything if done correctly. (i.e. restricting port access to a specific application as should always be done.)
I agree. This will probably ruin now. I have enjoyed my emule client tremendously over the last couple years. Oh well, it was good while it lasted. Thanks slashdot for F#$%^*& up a good thing! Some things ARE just better left unsaid.