I do the hiring of IT people for my company and we laugh at your silly college degrees. It's experience that counts, not how many years you spent in uni sucking up beer and chasing girls.
Most of the uni grads we have seen are crap, unskilled and overconfident. I have a team of 18 programmers and the only uni grad is the lowest ranked programmer on the team. It will be another 12-24 months before we can get him trained to a state where he can start to really make contributions to the team. We will be training him with a combination of mentoring, real world projects and extra study - by the end of which he will be a kick butt programmer because (and here's the crucial bit) we hired him because he had great *attitude*.
Pop some NoDoze tablets instead. 100-200mg of caffeine straight where it counts...and you can pop heaps of them without going for a piss...ha aha hah aha aha hah...oohhh.
A few guys at work (IT company specialising in online apps) have LCD's, but I'll take a 21" CRT monitor anyday. The image is sharper, the refresh rates are higher (85hrz) and there's much more room for my screen hungry IDE.
LCD's just haven't reached a price point in the UK where it's worth buying them. Once they reach 350GBP for a 19" monitor then I'll be ready to swap over. Hell, I might even get three and run a multi-screen desktop, like the traders do.
Personally though, I reckon Doom III will still look better on a big-ass CRT due to colour saturation and improved refresh rates.
You must be trolling right? How have you been ripped off if you choose to buy the first release, when you know:
A) Exactly what date the other releases are going to be made on.
B) Exactly what extras they will contain.
This is the *most* pissweak excuse I have ever heard to justify piracy.
I gave up having broadcast TV in my house 1.5 years ago, and after a short (2 month) period of missing it I now find life is so much better than it was with TV. I don't waste long hours watching stupid reruns of dumb shows (American or British - both are dumb) or worse still, infomercials.
I have tons more time to spend with friends, my wife, reading, whatever. My wife spends more time doing her paintings and I spend more time studying computers and playing games (usually online).
If we want some visual entertainment we go to the cinema or watch a DVD. The emphasis is on being able to enjoy the movies we want when we want, without commercials or being tied to a televison programmers schedule.
Now we don't pay an average cable bill of 25GBP/month we can buy a DVD or even two instead and watch them at our leisure.
Life without broadcast TV is cool, try it some time.
Actually videos are usually paid for by the artist and in many cases the artist has no choice over the production and cost of a video. The record company forces them to make one whether they want to or not. These costs are then taken from the income that the artist would have earned from record sales, etc.
I don't know journalists are always whinning about how people can't make money from Open Source software. Open Source programmers give up their time because they like to program and want to write cool software for people to use. It's their gift to the world.
P.S. He might want to ask the people at SendMail how they make a profit:-)
Don't put the private key on the server, put the public key on the server and use PGP or GPG to encrypt using the public key. This can only be decrypted with the private key.
Keep the private key on a seperate network - perhaps the one for billing (you didn't put that on the internet, did you?) and require the passphrase be entered each time (don't store in a file) that access to the sensitive credit info is required. This should only be once a month at billing time.
Use a file dump to CD or tape to "walk" the data from your internet systems to your private network.
I guess you're implying that if I write software using MS Visual Studio then I have to name my product something like Microsoft/BlackHawk SuperProduct (tm) just because I have used an MS tool to produce my product.
RMS himself is preaching the freedom to distribute and change the GNU sources (GPL) but strangely enough doesn't feel that the freedom extends to naming your product derived from these.
I contracted for years to several companies, developing custom solutions for them, and never once did I have to give them the source code (lucky, they were a pack of twats!). IP rests with the developer unless the contract specifies it belongs to the company who hire you. They have a clear right to the binaries, but access to the source code is up for negotiation.
What is the point of open sourcing the code? Put it in escrow if the company requires that, or negotiate code release into the contract if they want that, but make them pay for it. Remmember, it is always more expensive to contract someone to produce reusable code for you, than it is to have a system built.
You are making the assumption that there is a limited amount of software in the world that can be built. Once the core systems are built, built well, and available free then the engineers can get on with developing the next generation of software which leverages this base.
The money that is currently wasted paying Microsoft for their proprietry software could be moved into bespoke development to solve problems that companies/govenments/individuals currently cannot afford to handle.
Free software, free to use it, free not to use it. You decide.
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I do the hiring of IT people for my company and we laugh at your silly college degrees. It's experience that counts, not how many years you spent in uni sucking up beer and chasing girls. Most of the uni grads we have seen are crap, unskilled and overconfident. I have a team of 18 programmers and the only uni grad is the lowest ranked programmer on the team. It will be another 12-24 months before we can get him trained to a state where he can start to really make contributions to the team. We will be training him with a combination of mentoring, real world projects and extra study - by the end of which he will be a kick butt programmer because (and here's the crucial bit) we hired him because he had great *attitude*.
P.S. Found this handy table online... Common sources of caffeine and amounts per serving Source Serving Size Caffeine mg.
Starbuck's Coffee 12 ounce cup 375
No-Doz Extra Strength, Vivarin 1 tablet 200
7-11 BigGulp cola 64 ounce cup 190
Excedrin 2 tablets 130
Brewed Coffee 5 ounce cup 60-150
Aquaban, Dexatrim, Nodoze 1 tablet 100
Strong Tea (5 min.) 5 ounce cup 40-100
Cafe latte, cappuchino 16 ounce cup 70
Expresso 2 ounce cup 70
Anacin, Empirin, Midol 2 tablets 65
Weak Tea (3 min.) 5 ounce cup 20-50
Cocoa 5 ounce cup 2-10
Milk Chocolate 2 ounces 2-30
Cocoa 5 ounce cup 2-10
Decaffeinated Coffee 5 ounce cup 2-8
Pop some NoDoze tablets instead. 100-200mg of caffeine straight where it counts...and you can pop heaps of them without going for a piss...ha aha hah aha aha hah ...oohhh.
A few guys at work (IT company specialising in online apps) have LCD's, but I'll take a 21" CRT monitor anyday. The image is sharper, the refresh rates are higher (85hrz) and there's much more room for my screen hungry IDE. LCD's just haven't reached a price point in the UK where it's worth buying them. Once they reach 350GBP for a 19" monitor then I'll be ready to swap over. Hell, I might even get three and run a multi-screen desktop, like the traders do. Personally though, I reckon Doom III will still look better on a big-ass CRT due to colour saturation and improved refresh rates.
You must be trolling right? How have you been ripped off if you choose to buy the first release, when you know: A) Exactly what date the other releases are going to be made on. B) Exactly what extras they will contain. This is the *most* pissweak excuse I have ever heard to justify piracy.
I gave up having broadcast TV in my house 1.5 years ago, and after a short (2 month) period of missing it I now find life is so much better than it was with TV. I don't waste long hours watching stupid reruns of dumb shows (American or British - both are dumb) or worse still, infomercials. I have tons more time to spend with friends, my wife, reading, whatever. My wife spends more time doing her paintings and I spend more time studying computers and playing games (usually online). If we want some visual entertainment we go to the cinema or watch a DVD. The emphasis is on being able to enjoy the movies we want when we want, without commercials or being tied to a televison programmers schedule. Now we don't pay an average cable bill of 25GBP/month we can buy a DVD or even two instead and watch them at our leisure. Life without broadcast TV is cool, try it some time.
Actually videos are usually paid for by the artist and in many cases the artist has no choice over the production and cost of a video. The record company forces them to make one whether they want to or not. These costs are then taken from the income that the artist would have earned from record sales, etc.
I don't know journalists are always whinning about how people can't make money from Open Source software. Open Source programmers give up their time because they like to program and want to write cool software for people to use. It's their gift to the world. P.S. He might want to ask the people at SendMail how they make a profit :-)
Don't put the private key on the server, put the public key on the server and use PGP or GPG to encrypt using the public key. This can only be decrypted with the private key.
Keep the private key on a seperate network - perhaps the one for billing (you didn't put that on the internet, did you?) and require the passphrase be entered each time (don't store in a file) that access to the sensitive credit info is required. This should only be once a month at billing time.
Use a file dump to CD or tape to "walk" the data from your internet systems to your private network.
I guess you're implying that if I write software using MS Visual Studio then I have to name my product something like Microsoft/BlackHawk SuperProduct (tm) just because I have used an MS tool to produce my product. RMS himself is preaching the freedom to distribute and change the GNU sources (GPL) but strangely enough doesn't feel that the freedom extends to naming your product derived from these.
Sure that might happen, but only if the person you were shooting had a really high poly count ;->
I contracted for years to several companies, developing custom solutions for them, and never once did I have to give them the source code (lucky, they were a pack of twats!). IP rests with the developer unless the contract specifies it belongs to the company who hire you. They have a clear right to the binaries, but access to the source code is up for negotiation.
What is the point of open sourcing the code? Put it in escrow if the company requires that, or negotiate code release into the contract if they want that, but make them pay for it. Remmember, it is always more expensive to contract someone to produce reusable code for you, than it is to have a system built.
You are making the assumption that there is a limited amount of software in the world that can be built. Once the core systems are built, built well, and available free then the engineers can get on with developing the next generation of software which leverages this base.
The money that is currently wasted paying Microsoft for their proprietry software could be moved into bespoke development to solve problems that companies/govenments/individuals currently cannot afford to handle.
Free software, free to use it, free not to use it. You decide.