The entire purpose of the GPL is to preserve and protect freedom.
Up until now, the GPL has been leading by example. With this change, it's different: do as we say (with your business as a whole) or do without our stuff.
Seriously, that line of thinking is straight market-speak. If 12" of ground clearance on your Jeep compared to 5" on your Accord saves your life, you waited too long. Plus, I imagine 10% of the people who own SUVs have ever driven them off road, or would have any idea what the "4L" selection on their "gearshifty thingy" is for.
The big problem I have with high ground clearance is that it all too often includes raised bumpers (like those jackasses with the lifted pickups). If you get hit with something that has a bumper at eye level, you're done.
Yes, I wish my Jeep got better than 17mpg average. However, an Accord or a Cavalier won't make it in the snow around here.
Go look at a subaru impreza. The base model gets 25-30, and the WRX gets 22-25 (25+ with an accesspoint + econo map), and they both have AWD and enough balls to handle 3" of snow. I think used 2002s are under $10k now.
in a week when we will start hearing about massive fatalities from gross incompetance on the part of FEMA
You can thank the prez for that one. He stuck FEMA inside of DHS. Half the people in FEMA are trying to get out, and we've got people with no disaster experience telling the old hands what to do. It's a clusterfuck. Also, the prez shifted the burden of disaster relief onto the states (with no reduction in the federal burden, mind). Thanks George! I liked you better before I had ever heard of you.
People have learned to build up, rather than out, and out, and out some more so that it takes 1+ hours to cross some major areas by freeway (Phoenix, AZ, Los Angeles from personal experience).
You may not realize, but LA grew its sprawl before the freeways were built. Bring back the trolley cars!
Even so, perhaps now you can see why Europeans are not precisely filled with sympathy at the poor ickle Americans who are cruelly being forced to pay almost half what we do for fuel.
Okay, how about this: imagine you were paying $5/gal and public transit did not exist. Within 2 years, you are now paying $15/gal and there are still no goddamn busses. Feel different?
Here's an idea, why not scrap your fucking SUVs and Hummers and buy efficient vehicles instead?
Cost of living is lower, but earnings potential is also lower
True, but the relative earning power increses for things other than cars - houses and food are way cheaper for a 30% drop in salary.
What happens when you get into an accident on a deserted country road?
Same as in the city - make sure people know when to expect you. You think things are different in Manhattan, or would they just find your body sooner?
Can you rely on people being on the street 24/7 to deter people from breaking into your home?
Nope, you rely on knowing everybody in town so that it's less of an issue. I was in a small-ass town in Oregon in July, and I asked about crime. The guy I was talking to said that they get crime, but the cops already know who it is, so there's not much point.
After they'd been repeatedly told not to do it, and even punished by the school, it was time to get serious.
So suspend them. Felony charges are a gross overreaction.
It sounds to me like these kids thought they could just keep doing what they were doing with no consequences. They needed to learn that there are very real consequences.
Tell you what: when your kids do some dumbass teenager thing, we'll charge them with felonies too. That seems to work just fine.
If they do it again, I say jail time is in order.
What is wrong with you? This is the equivalent of petty vandalism. Are you planning to jail kids who egg houses? Besides, the jails are already full of nonviolent drug users.
Blocking based on IP range and or country is pure and simple discrimination. A lot of people don't seem to grasp why discrimination is bad until they end up on the receiving end...
Nothing wrong with discrimination per se - I'm in the hiring process for a software developer, and you better believe I discriminate against unqualified applicants. I believe the word you're looking for is indiscriminate.
OPEC is running at full capacity, while we are limited by our refining capacity. If OPEC were able to double capacity tomorrow, we would not be affected. If we went and built some refineries (which, btw, aren't great profit centers), then we would see some relief, but that would hurt Oil companies' profits. Don't blame OPEC, blame Exxon and Shell.
No, not like Oil. Gas prices are high because refinery capacity is limited. They'll go higher once Europe finishes updating their refineries to produce more diesel and less gasoline.
Can't USB/firewire/whatever have a pressure or motion sensor that triggers when you touch the plug? Then you could immediately dump write cache to the device, sound a buzzer, or something.
Possibly back when IEEE-1394 was being designed, but not now. Anyway, your clever ideas interfere with making the plug robust and durable. Also, locking the plug works great once the software crashes, not to mention being totally unlike any other plugs normally found on a computer.
you anticipate having this level of success if your degree were in history or women's studies? I wager these other degrees are quite flexible. But they wouldn't suffice because your education has a vocation attached to it.
Not alone. In order to succeed, you need a certain baseline of knowledge, and they don't teach that in women's studies. Last I checked, they seem to be involved in a land war with established history professors.
Further, suppose you could have said at the hiring that "oh yea, I have programmed on several mainframe platforms including VMS, Unicos, and HP-UX. I'm sure I can get up to speed on your Big Iron Nightmare." I think that have boosted your current (and future!) paychecks. Well, maybe it did.
I don't do big iron at the moment. It's all unix for he stuff that matters where I work. The point is that I can, and so can a lot of other people. You just need a commitment on the employers' part. Nobody with any sense is going to learn MVS for $45k when they can make twice that and not worry about job obsolescence in unix.
Was it the education or just that you're damned good material to start with? CMU doesn't enroll morons.
RPI, and they seem to have let in one or two, but mostly in the B-school. I will admit that I am damn good material, but the curriculum helped with discipline and theory, amking new languages and environments much easier.
Then the real question is why can't your vocation side of your college education include unusual experiences like mainframes?
Well it can, but if we're talking about companies with a need demanding that Unis train students for their (the company's) benefit, then that's plain unreasonable. They are in no position to demand that sort of thing. Rather, they should be falling over themselves to apprentice bright young (or not so young) youth. Even better, they should chase post-burnout talent that EA and their ilk just shat out. Those people might like a structured 45 hour week and stability over endless deathmarches led by incompetent management.
PS, I'm kinda surprised at the length I'm pushing this argument. Just annoyed by the (IMHO) not very pragmatic "flexibility" argument. Lot of people are flexible, but companies will hire those that are less work for them.
Smart companies realize that good people are hard to find and skills are easy to learn. It is only the guru-level knowledge that requires years of focus, and sometimes not even that. Fact is, mainframe jockeys are in short supply, but the companies don't want to pony up what it will take to train and retain.
OTOH, it's less work for colleges to use standard platforms and preach the flexibility angle to attract customers.
You have any idea what the power demands of a mainframe are? Something about 3 phase power at 30A and specialized cooling sucking up the computing budget.
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The entire purpose of the GPL is to preserve and protect freedom.
Up until now, the GPL has been leading by example. With this change, it's different: do as we say (with your business as a whole) or do without our stuff.
I bet a lot of people will start releasing their stuff with a specific version of the GPL. Political wrangling like this doesn't belong.
Fusion "experiments" have been "beginning" for over three decades, to the tune of over $60 billion dollars when last I checked.
That would pay for about 20 days of the Iraq quagmire. Just saying...
Um, yeah, 3 inches. Subarus are probably ok up to about a foot. Three feet would be a bit much.
Seriously, that line of thinking is straight market-speak. If 12" of ground clearance on your Jeep compared to 5" on your Accord saves your life, you waited too long. Plus, I imagine 10% of the people who own SUVs have ever driven them off road, or would have any idea what the "4L" selection on their "gearshifty thingy" is for.
The big problem I have with high ground clearance is that it all too often includes raised bumpers (like those jackasses with the lifted pickups). If you get hit with something that has a bumper at eye level, you're done.
Yes, I wish my Jeep got better than 17mpg average. However, an Accord or a Cavalier won't make it in the snow around here.
Go look at a subaru impreza. The base model gets 25-30, and the WRX gets 22-25 (25+ with an accesspoint + econo map), and they both have AWD and enough balls to handle 3" of snow. I think used 2002s are under $10k now.
spoken like someone who has never tried to load a Suburban.
I was thinking more anout towing. Your suburban can probably haul a fairly heavy trailer, even if it has jack for cargo capacity.
Looks like I won't be getting a Blu-ray.
in a week when we will start hearing about massive fatalities from gross incompetance on the part of FEMA
You can thank the prez for that one. He stuck FEMA inside of DHS. Half the people in FEMA are trying to get out, and we've got people with no disaster experience telling the old hands what to do. It's a clusterfuck. Also, the prez shifted the burden of disaster relief onto the states (with no reduction in the federal burden, mind). Thanks George! I liked you better before I had ever heard of you.
People have learned to build up, rather than out, and out, and out some more so that it takes 1+ hours to cross some major areas by freeway (Phoenix, AZ, Los Angeles from personal experience).
You may not realize, but LA grew its sprawl before the freeways were built. Bring back the trolley cars!
Yeah, but my SUV only gets a quarter of the mileage your little Peugeot gets. Looking at the real math,
Poor baby. Go get a smaller car or quit whining. The only reason for having an SUV is if you regularly haul lots of stuff (2-3T or more)
Even so, perhaps now you can see why Europeans are not precisely filled with sympathy at the poor ickle Americans who are cruelly being forced to pay almost half what we do for fuel.
Okay, how about this: imagine you were paying $5/gal and public transit did not exist. Within 2 years, you are now paying $15/gal and there are still no goddamn busses. Feel different?
Here's an idea, why not scrap your fucking SUVs and Hummers and buy efficient vehicles instead?
I drive a toyota, tyvm, and it gets about 30.
Cost of living is lower, but earnings potential is also lower
True, but the relative earning power increses for things other than cars - houses and food are way cheaper for a 30% drop in salary.
What happens when you get into an accident on a deserted country road?
Same as in the city - make sure people know when to expect you. You think things are different in Manhattan, or would they just find your body sooner?
Can you rely on people being on the street 24/7 to deter people from breaking into your home?
Nope, you rely on knowing everybody in town so that it's less of an issue. I was in a small-ass town in Oregon in July, and I asked about crime. The guy I was talking to said that they get crime, but the cops already know who it is, so there's not much point.
After they'd been repeatedly told not to do it, and even punished by the school, it was time to get serious.
So suspend them. Felony charges are a gross overreaction.
It sounds to me like these kids thought they could just keep doing what they were doing with no consequences. They needed to learn that there are very real consequences.
Tell you what: when your kids do some dumbass teenager thing, we'll charge them with felonies too. That seems to work just fine.
If they do it again, I say jail time is in order.
What is wrong with you? This is the equivalent of petty vandalism. Are you planning to jail kids who egg houses? Besides, the jails are already full of nonviolent drug users.
I can say as a lab admin for a university, if we had to deal with a similar situation, there would be criminal charges as well.
Do you think things might be different when dealing with high school students, especially minors?
What these kinds did was put their skills to bad use for personal gain.
From what I saw, they installed AIM: not really what I'd call gain.
Why would a web dev gice a flying fuck about what folders Firefox uses? The point of being a webdev is that you don't have to care.
Ever considered a separate account for you and SWMBO? My GF seems fine with the idea, and I'd have real issues trusting someone prone to snooping.
But without raised floors where am I supposed to hide the bodies?
Even with raised floors, you eventually run out of space. This is why every sysadmin worth his salt has a lime pit.
Blocking based on IP range and or country is pure and simple discrimination. A lot of people don't seem to grasp why discrimination is bad until they end up on the receiving end...
Nothing wrong with discrimination per se - I'm in the hiring process for a software developer, and you better believe I discriminate against unqualified applicants. I believe the word you're looking for is indiscriminate.
So I take it you've never heard of OPEC, then?
OPEC is running at full capacity, while we are limited by our refining capacity. If OPEC were able to double capacity tomorrow, we would not be affected. If we went and built some refineries (which, btw, aren't great profit centers), then we would see some relief, but that would hurt Oil companies' profits. Don't blame OPEC, blame Exxon and Shell.
All the eject buttons should have triggered electronic signals only, like the buttons on your microwave oven.
How is this relevant to removing a firewire disk?
No, not like Oil. Gas prices are high because refinery capacity is limited. They'll go higher once Europe finishes updating their refineries to produce more diesel and less gasoline.
Can't USB/firewire/whatever have a pressure or motion sensor that triggers when you touch the plug? Then you could immediately dump write cache to the device, sound a buzzer, or something.
Possibly back when IEEE-1394 was being designed, but not now. Anyway, your clever ideas interfere with making the plug robust and durable. Also, locking the plug works great once the software crashes, not to mention being totally unlike any other plugs normally found on a computer.
We are still talking about corporate machines.
Nope, we're talking about techs in big box stores. All your points would have been valid, had this been an IT department.
And what career is that?
Software development.
you anticipate having this level of success if your degree were in history or women's studies? I wager these other degrees are quite flexible. But they wouldn't suffice because your education has a vocation attached to it.
Not alone. In order to succeed, you need a certain baseline of knowledge, and they don't teach that in women's studies. Last I checked, they seem to be involved in a land war with established history professors.
Further, suppose you could have said at the hiring that "oh yea, I have programmed on several mainframe platforms including VMS, Unicos, and HP-UX. I'm sure I can get up to speed on your Big Iron Nightmare." I think that have boosted your current (and future!) paychecks. Well, maybe it did.
I don't do big iron at the moment. It's all unix for he stuff that matters where I work. The point is that I can, and so can a lot of other people. You just need a commitment on the employers' part. Nobody with any sense is going to learn MVS for $45k when they can make twice that and not worry about job obsolescence in unix.
Was it the education or just that you're damned good material to start with? CMU doesn't enroll morons.
RPI, and they seem to have let in one or two, but mostly in the B-school. I will admit that I am damn good material, but the curriculum helped with discipline and theory, amking new languages and environments much easier.
Then the real question is why can't your vocation side of your college education include unusual experiences like mainframes?
Well it can, but if we're talking about companies with a need demanding that Unis train students for their (the company's) benefit, then that's plain unreasonable. They are in no position to demand that sort of thing. Rather, they should be falling over themselves to apprentice bright young (or not so young) youth. Even better, they should chase post-burnout talent that EA and their ilk just shat out. Those people might like a structured 45 hour week and stability over endless deathmarches led by incompetent management.
PS, I'm kinda surprised at the length I'm pushing this argument. Just annoyed by the (IMHO) not very pragmatic "flexibility" argument. Lot of people are flexible, but companies will hire those that are less work for them.
Smart companies realize that good people are hard to find and skills are easy to learn. It is only the guru-level knowledge that requires years of focus, and sometimes not even that. Fact is, mainframe jockeys are in short supply, but the companies don't want to pony up what it will take to train and retain.
OTOH, it's less work for colleges to use standard platforms and preach the flexibility angle to attract customers.
You have any idea what the power demands of a mainframe are? Something about 3 phase power at 30A and specialized cooling sucking up the computing budget.
However, is it fair to charge someone for applying to your company? Are you bound to scare away the top talent with fees?
Top talent won't fill out idiot-filter tests - what makes you think they'll pay an application fee. If anything, they'll be recruited actively.