I heard someone say that this was an excellent example of the government adding agencies without removing old ones. Politicians do not want to give up their pet projects so destroying agencies is very difficult. We can expect this to make the department of homeland security less effective as to the parents point.
A professor I had summed up the cryptography (or DRM) problem in a way that I could understand.
See that guy over there in the bright red smoking jacket, the big ego, talking really loud. He's the attacker, he only has to find one way to attack successfully.
See that other guy over there with coke bottle glasses, polyester, and trying not to be noticed? He's the defender, he has to defend against every possible attack.
Not only is DRM doomed, but the guy who rips it will brag to everyone who will listen to him that he made a successful attack.
I believe alot of good programing could be equated to the work of a craftsman or artist. I can see codemonkey products using this argument, but not for the highly crafted products. If DOOM3 was outsourced, it probably would have sucked and we would not gotten that program, no one would have made any money off it, AND there are no new jobs for anyone for the next project...
An excellent opportunity for quality low brow comments about wonder woman (like Lynda Carter look alikes) and everyone spends time discussing whether you could acutally build the plane.
Is anyone here interested in girls? For pete's sake, some step up.
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I think you got the cheerleaders comment backwards
Two of the best professors I ever had for programming started out as chemists. I started out as a chemical engineer, hated it, and went to graduate school to switch to programming. Great programming is a passion, and people that love it find it eventually, even if they did not start out doing it. That is probably like alot of fields.
This reminds me of some guys in Austin Texas that like to go to a park on Saturdays, dress the part of geek knights, and hit each other with nerf swords.
The problem is that the masses will never wake up. (1984 book) The only reason they did in the Revolutionary War is because there was wide spread oppression and religous intolerance. Everyone was unhappy and knew why. In this technology/civil rights battle was most of the people affected cannot even program their VCR or list their civil rights.
In the IBM fight, Microsoft controlled the architecture and that is where all the leverage is. They controlled the architecture and IBM was powerless to stop them.
In my opinion, this as a struggle of Open Source vs. Microsoft architecture/ideology more than a TCO struggle. Microsoft does not clearly control the architecture, they do not have the leverage, and they are stuggling with it.
I have used Visual Studio 6.0 for years and enjoy it as a development environment. I program cross platform so I get it to work in Visual Studio and then have to debug it again when I compile the code on a SUN or HP box using gcc. It would be nice if this product fixed as many of the stupid errors I make and Visual Studio will pass, but gcc will catch.
the surgeon team, advice that more people does not necessarily make the project get done faster, no silver bullet, and on and on. Great information and even dated stories on things like the conversion of paper to microfiche is entertaining as well...
For the Statesman, just go the the registration page. Click next without filling in any login information. When you get to the registration page, type in that you were born in 1999 and submit without entering any other information. Two clicks 1999 and your in.
In college I remember taking the final and 10 guys spent all of 10 minutes taking it. They had programmed their calculators with every possible question (from the homework) and all made 100%. I spent 3 1/2 hours taking the test because the test was so hard no one else was done in 3 hours so they gave us more time.
I think the car example owes alot of its success because it is intuitive. Even when you do not know how the car works, it is intuitive that your hands go on the steering wheel and you foot presses on the petals. The fact that they always in the same place and do the same things helps with learning curve with a new car, but alot of the success I believe is because it is intuitive.
'vi' is not intuitive. I think that is more why people have a difficult time with it.
I believe statements like this are a play for power.
One way to gain more power that is to convince everyone that you are the only source in the architecture of a system for the piece you provide, but that there are many sources and they are easy to get for everything else.
With that line or reasoning, bill is trying to convince everyone that windows is the only operating system and that everything else is and will be easy to come by.
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I heard someone say that this was an excellent example of the government adding agencies without removing old ones. Politicians do not want to give up their pet projects so destroying agencies is very difficult. We can expect this to make the department of homeland security less effective as to the parents point.
At least he did not use a BFG on these Canadians to keep his team in the running, ha ...
California, the land of the Fruits and Nuts ...
... not pretty at all ...
A professor I had summed up the cryptography (or DRM) problem in a way that I could understand.
See that guy over there in the bright red smoking jacket, the big ego, talking really loud. He's the attacker, he only has to find one way to attack successfully.
See that other guy over there with coke bottle glasses, polyester, and trying not to be noticed? He's the defender, he has to defend against every possible attack.
Not only is DRM doomed, but the guy who rips it will brag to everyone who will listen to him that he made a successful attack.
I should have put free as in beer. Slashdot non-subscription accounts are also free.
I am sure there are numerous others free online services for different genres of music. Why would you shell out for this?
It takes less time for me to escape Mars in Doom3 than exit vim
Militant Apple Fans, laugh it is a joke
I believe alot of good programing could be equated to the work of a craftsman or artist. I can see codemonkey products using this argument, but not for the highly crafted products. If DOOM3 was outsourced, it probably would have sucked and we would not gotten that program, no one would have made any money off it, AND there are no new jobs for anyone for the next project...
An excellent opportunity for quality low brow comments about wonder woman (like Lynda Carter look alikes) and everyone spends time discussing whether you could acutally build the plane.
Is anyone here interested in girls? For pete's sake, some step up.
I think you got the cheerleaders comment backwards
Two of the best professors I ever had for programming started out as chemists. I started out as a chemical engineer, hated it, and went to graduate school to switch to programming. Great programming is a passion, and people that love it find it eventually, even if they did not start out doing it. That is probably like alot of fields.
This reminds me of some guys in Austin Texas that like to go to a park on Saturdays, dress the part of geek knights, and hit each other with nerf swords.
The problem is that the masses will never wake up. (1984 book) The only reason they did in the Revolutionary War is because there was wide spread oppression and religous intolerance. Everyone was unhappy and knew why. In this technology/civil rights battle was most of the people affected cannot even program their VCR or list their civil rights.
And not because IBM built mainframes...
In the IBM fight, Microsoft controlled the architecture and that is where all the leverage is. They controlled the architecture and IBM was powerless to stop them.
In my opinion, this as a struggle of Open Source vs. Microsoft architecture/ideology more than a TCO struggle. Microsoft does not clearly control the architecture, they do not have the leverage, and they are stuggling with it.
You can have a really sucky product, but if it is better than the next best competitor then almost noone will switch.
I have used Visual Studio 6.0 for years and enjoy it as a development environment. I program cross platform so I get it to work in Visual Studio and then have to debug it again when I compile the code on a SUN or HP box using gcc. It would be nice if this product fixed as many of the stupid errors I make and Visual Studio will pass, but gcc will catch.
the surgeon team, advice that more people does not necessarily make the project get done faster, no silver bullet, and on and on. Great information and even dated stories on things like the conversion of paper to microfiche is entertaining as well...
For the Statesman, just go the the registration page. Click next without filling in any login information. When you get to the registration page, type in that you were born in 1999 and submit without entering any other information. Two clicks 1999 and your in.
In college I remember taking the final and 10 guys spent all of 10 minutes taking it. They had programmed their calculators with every possible question (from the homework) and all made 100%. I spent 3 1/2 hours taking the test because the test was so hard no one else was done in 3 hours so they gave us more time.
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I still hate those guys, but I am not bitter
Good thing they cleared up what they ment by POS. With all the nit wit things I see I immediately thought it stood for something else...
Obviously, they used parts of blood sucking worms to build an early version.
I think the car example owes alot of its success because it is intuitive. Even when you do not know how the car works, it is intuitive that your hands go on the steering wheel and you foot presses on the petals. The fact that they always in the same place and do the same things helps with learning curve with a new car, but alot of the success I believe is because it is intuitive. 'vi' is not intuitive. I think that is more why people have a difficult time with it.
I believe statements like this are a play for power.
One way to gain more power that is to convince everyone that you are the only source in the architecture of a system for the piece you provide, but that there are many sources and they are easy to get for everything else.
With that line or reasoning, bill is trying to convince everyone that windows is the only operating system and that everything else is and will be easy to come by.