Ever hear of a disassembler? Particularly for something as small as a bootloader, disassembling it is going to be trivial, so releasing a binary is effectively releasing source code. Just because he didn't spell it out doesn't make him a moron, he actually has a good point.
Don't be daft. They've already got the binary, all they want is a signature - disassembly is completely irrelevant. A signature is a cryptographically secure method of vouching for a particular piece of data, in case you didn't know.
I wonder how those firefighters, then and now, would feel if they refused to go into a "deadbeat" house and found out some old person or child had perished in there while they fiddled
I wonder how you'd feel if your house burned down because the FD couldn't afford to maintain its equipment.
anything greater than 95 MPH in a car is a felony called Driving to Endanger which gives the cop authorization to chase anybody clocked faster than that speed.
Wow - the triumph of legislature over common sense never fails to amaze me. The whole point of not chasing people at 100MPH+, barring external circumstances, is the insane danger involved. Hopefully cops will ignore this law.
Well, the fact is if for every one of these "smart" (yeah, right) spammers who has the help of a network consultant that will work around greylisting there are 5 dumbasses who don't
This does fuck all when your one spamking is responsible for 80% of the SPAM (by volume.
Is there any way to legaly recind their articles of incorporation?
What happened to those days?
Well, in 1896 or thereabouts, the SCOTUS ruled that the 14th ammendment was intended for corporations, thus giving them most rights of a natural citizen. Because of this, you can't really kill a corp - it has to die.
in retrospect, it was a bad idea to point out *any* benefits, considering that I really wasn't all that fond of wearing 'em (or, more accurately, the pantyhose associated therewith).
Agreed. Smooth female legs = very nice, nylon = nasty.
News flash: the current unemployemnt rate is not particularly high. From '80 to '95 the unemployment rate ranged from 5.3% to 9.7%. Today we're sitting between 6% and 7%, the lower part of that range. Believe it or not, folks found jobs during those years. You can too.
Your numbers are wrong. First off, the unemployment figures are inaccurate - they've changed the calculation to only include those on unemployment and, of course, disregard any underemployment. The real unemployment rate is probably around 10%. The second thing is that we have actually lost jobs these past four years for the first time in about 70 years. It's hard to find work when the job market is shrinking and the labor market is growing.
why? doesn't meet your perception of the 'right way'?
anybody who has that as a criteria as to who gets a project is a twit.
Do tell. This isn't a matter of aesthetics - an experienced technical manager should be able to tell when someone is using entirely the wrong tool, such as writing a medium sized win32 app in straight C. Who's going to maintain that crap? It'll be easier with a sane object hierarchy, anyway.
In short, you're being the twit here - learn the new tools and apply them when they make sense.
Get a good recuiter or a professional resume writer to look at your resume (if you can).
Send out resumes with a cover letter specific to the job, including relevant experience, what makes you suited to the job, etc.
Send resumes, with cover letters, to companies that may need to hire people in the short term - hell, walk around office parks and drop your resume off in a brown IO mail folder addressed to HR.
Find out where hiring managers hang out and go there - talk to them and they may need a good developer.
join a professional org.
Get a job of any description so you can put gas in your car.
There you go, pulling the race card. I don't care if the guy answering my call is black, white, brown, or green. What I care about is the wholesale exporting of jobs and the deskilling of my country, all to boost quarterly profits. It's bad for business.
To a market. The market in question is computer makers. [blah blah blah]
What the hell are you talking about? The market is computers. It doesn't matter that you can only buy a dell from Dell - you don't like them, Gateway is an alternative. Computers are, for the most part fungible assets - when you buy them, the name brand doesn't count for a whole lot.
Should GM be forced to license their designs so that Ford can produce GM cars or vice-versa? Apple can do whatever they want with and OS and hardware they produce. They have a "monopoly" on those products but that's the way it works.
GM doesn't have a monopoly and neither does Apple, for the simple reason that there are lots of alternatives. You can't have a monopoly on a product, only a market.
My guess is it doesn't - I don't know much about what JBoss group, but my guess is they do pretty much the same old EJB consulting for customers that everyone else does. Building yet another Customer object for yet another client. Not the sort of thing that requires the world's greatest experts in transaction management, object persistence, etc. etc.
Well, no. They have their own high-performance OSS EJB container that is known for implementing standards quickly. There's something to be said for this.
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Ever hear of a disassembler? Particularly for something as small as a bootloader, disassembling it is going to be trivial, so releasing a binary is effectively releasing source code. Just because he didn't spell it out doesn't make him a moron, he actually has a good point.
Don't be daft. They've already got the binary, all they want is a signature - disassembly is completely irrelevant. A signature is a cryptographically secure method of vouching for a particular piece of data, in case you didn't know.
The fallacy in your argument is that you fail to define "they".
Is it really so hard to imagine that Bush, Cheney, and Rupert Murdoch are golf buddies?
I wonder how those firefighters, then and now, would feel if they refused to go into a "deadbeat" house and found out some old person or child had perished in there while they fiddled
I wonder how you'd feel if your house burned down because the FD couldn't afford to maintain its equipment.
anything greater than 95 MPH in a car is a felony called Driving to Endanger which gives the cop authorization to chase anybody clocked faster than that speed.
Wow - the triumph of legislature over common sense never fails to amaze me. The whole point of not chasing people at 100MPH+, barring external circumstances, is the insane danger involved. Hopefully cops will ignore this law.
Well, the fact is if for every one of these "smart" (yeah, right) spammers who has the help of a network consultant that will work around greylisting there are 5 dumbasses who don't
This does fuck all when your one spamking is responsible for 80% of the SPAM (by volume.
you have to remember that lobbying groups in Parliament are 10 a penny.
You must have gotten quite a deal. Over here, they're a dime a dozen.
Is there any way to legaly recind their articles of incorporation? What happened to those days?
Well, in 1896 or thereabouts, the SCOTUS ruled that the 14th ammendment was intended for corporations, thus giving them most rights of a natural citizen. Because of this, you can't really kill a corp - it has to die.
the PCI-X spec will be designated "PCI-X High Speed" while the AGP spec will be designated "PCI-X Full Speed"
The really terrible thing here is that I can't tell if you're being serious or not.
,i>Is it just me, or should we smuggle 1 billion copies of '1984' into China?
Yes, let's smuggle subversive literature into a country where crime statistics are a state secret.
in retrospect, it was a bad idea to point out *any* benefits, considering that I really wasn't all that fond of wearing 'em (or, more accurately, the pantyhose associated therewith).
Agreed. Smooth female legs = very nice, nylon = nasty.
News flash: the current unemployemnt rate is not particularly high. From '80 to '95 the unemployment rate ranged from 5.3% to 9.7%. Today we're sitting between 6% and 7%, the lower part of that range. Believe it or not, folks found jobs during those years. You can too.
Your numbers are wrong. First off, the unemployment figures are inaccurate - they've changed the calculation to only include those on unemployment and, of course, disregard any underemployment. The real unemployment rate is probably around 10%. The second thing is that we have actually lost jobs these past four years for the first time in about 70 years. It's hard to find work when the job market is shrinking and the labor market is growing.
I pointed out the advantage of a skirt (company dress code)... clear scorpion visibility.
So, did they start wearing skirts? I'm ok with the idea, but I'd probably call it a kilt.
why? doesn't meet your perception of the 'right way'? anybody who has that as a criteria as to who gets a project is a twit.
Do tell. This isn't a matter of aesthetics - an experienced technical manager should be able to tell when someone is using entirely the wrong tool, such as writing a medium sized win32 app in straight C. Who's going to maintain that crap? It'll be easier with a sane object hierarchy, anyway.
In short, you're being the twit here - learn the new tools and apply them when they make sense.
,i>Possibly not conforming to known ideas regarding rotating solid masses in general.
Well that makes sense, seeing as how this isn't a solid mass in the first place.
I don't mean they're bad people, but apparently they mistrust everyone they don't know. That is not normal behaviour.
Ever see how people treat a new idea or invention?
I don't have ANY idea how to look for a job
I would like to see how the company is going to take possesion of those meals after you quit.
I wondered the same thing. I don't suppose they actually want 20 pounds of former meals, anyway).
The biggest reasons people don't go into medicine is insane hours and a need to put in those insane hours in order to pay off your medical degree.
And here I thought it was the insane malpractice insurance payments. Hell, for what an OBGYN pays each year, I could probably buy a Ferrari!
Your company doesn't trust "public-domain software", but codes in Perl??
Where's the conflict? Perl isn't PD.
That wouldn't be racist or anything.
There you go, pulling the race card. I don't care if the guy answering my call is black, white, brown, or green. What I care about is the wholesale exporting of jobs and the deskilling of my country, all to boost quarterly profits. It's bad for business.
To a market. The market in question is computer makers. [blah blah blah]
What the hell are you talking about? The market is computers. It doesn't matter that you can only buy a dell from Dell - you don't like them, Gateway is an alternative. Computers are, for the most part fungible assets - when you buy them, the name brand doesn't count for a whole lot.
Should GM be forced to license their designs so that Ford can produce GM cars or vice-versa? Apple can do whatever they want with and OS and hardware they produce. They have a "monopoly" on those products but that's the way it works.
GM doesn't have a monopoly and neither does Apple, for the simple reason that there are lots of alternatives. You can't have a monopoly on a product, only a market.
(Steve-O curls up in fetal position under his desk. And sweats.)
Hey, that's not fair! Steve-O sweats just standing still.
Look in the dictionary under "monopoly". Hint: its about market share not about the product you sell.
Not it's not about market share, it's about the ability to deny entry to others and the ability to raise prices without consequence.
My guess is it doesn't - I don't know much about what JBoss group, but my guess is they do pretty much the same old EJB consulting for customers that everyone else does. Building yet another Customer object for yet another client. Not the sort of thing that requires the world's greatest experts in transaction management, object persistence, etc. etc.
Well, no. They have their own high-performance OSS EJB container that is known for implementing standards quickly. There's something to be said for this.
I don't understand why it's not possible for both CDN and JBoss Group to thrive and serve the community.