It complains about various things which haven't changed:
1: No linuxconf? Try webmin... 7: Linus Torvalds still rocks. Git for the win... 9: The vi/emacs wars never ended... 10: There are still hundreds of distros...
I've met a few famous people and, unless they spend a lot of time being famous for just being themselves, they really don't look or act a lot like the characters they play and are famous for. Take them out of context and you'll hesitate before calling them by name.
So both sites tell me that Shockwave and Java are out-of-date (using Mageia1-alpha1 and FF4beta11) and I update them with the files they provide links to AND it now says I' still out-of-date.
When Internet Explorer was at version 5, Netscape released version 6 of their browser. There never was a Netscape version 5. They jumped from v4 to v6 because they wanted to be newer than Microsoft. Apparently, Mozilla now feels they are "behind" Chrome which is currently at version 9, so instead of Firefox 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc., they will call them Firefox 5, 6, 11 and 23 so that they can be newer than Chrome.
It is sad how far off the rails the Firefox development process has gone.
It's "big version number envy". Nothing more. The Mozilla folks have given in to the idea that "3.6 is less than 8.0 and is less than 12, therefore FireFox 3.6 is less than MSIE 8.0 and Chrome 12". Is this a sign that marketing people are now running Mozilla? Will the budget go to engineers or Superbowl ads?
Then they should go with Firefox 2011, Firefox 2012, Firefox 2013, Firefox 2014, Firefox 2015, all released in 2011.
Much bigger numbers. More impressive. "Hey, dude. I'm running Firefox from 2015! The future!! You still running this years' Internet Explorer? Loser!!!"
The answer is: who cares, really? The only thing that users really need to worry about: 1) What version am I using presently? 2) What is the latest stable version? 3) What's changed between #1 and #2, and is it worth upgrading?
Whether #1 and #2 are "3.6" and "3.9", respectively, or "4.0" and "7.0", it really doesn't matter. It's the delta, #3, that really matters - what's been added, removed, updated, fixed, and broken between the two?
You have not been listening to the Marketing people. They need to create the illusion of progress since notrhing magical will occurr to the developent process to speed it up, so they're going to change their versioning method, not their development process.
I think the gentleman made a bad decision. Either we adapt or fail.
Personal ethics can be at a higher level than what is established in the larger community. It was wrong for him, so his decision is correct. Your Darwinian choice is a false dichotomy.
Your advice to "just jump in" is likewise poor and potentially destructive. You don't change the system, you change to the system, so you are recommending a increasingly larger compromise of his personal principals in order to validate your own sense of "pragmatic" choices.
Take the money and run:) Give them the tools to cover all the basics that a business person would understand. Just enough to run at a sub-standard operational level that might work under the heroic efforts of local labor, but fail miserably given the infrastructure, cultural differences, and adversarial role of contract negotiations (e.g. contractor does what's in contractor's best interest because he's not a long-term employee). Also, do this slowly so as to extract as much money as possible. When this fails, be there to offer a "fix" with mix of on-shore help. When things improve dramatically, slowly shed the contract offshore labor or relegate it to menial crap work the local labor force doesn't want to deal with. We've been doing this rather successfully in the software world for a decade now:)
OK, that would be unethical.
You should do your best job once you accept the job. If you plan on behaving like an asshat because something about the job offends you or seems unfair, pass on the job.
Given how Microsoft has faltered in the marketplace, has failed to innovate and continues to misunderstand its customers, perhaps the old guys need to go.
Microsoft re-invent the wheel? They don't innovate. They are not a market leader. That's not what they do well.
They copy other's successful ideas and try to exploit a market, then apply their embrace-extend-extinguish approach to eliminate the competition through lock-in.
Microsoft Bob ActiMates Interactive Barney Microsoft Network (MSN) WebTV Chromeffects Microsoft Zune Microsoft Kin Phones MSN and MSN search Microsoft Venus Microsoft Virtual Earth Microsoft Microscope Microsoft Encarta Microsoft Vizact Microsoft Java Runtime Environment Microsoft At Work Operating System Microsoft Vine Microsoft Origami Microsoft Mira Microsoft MN-500 router docx format Windows Mobile 7.0 and on and on...
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It complains about various things which haven't changed:
1: No linuxconf? Try webmin...
7: Linus Torvalds still rocks. Git for the win...
9: The vi/emacs wars never ended...
10: There are still hundreds of distros...
I must agree. TFA is lazy journalism.
Seriously, this is not news.
So we wait until Linux goes all Charlie Sheen?
(Or Hans Reiser of you prefer a geek meme.)
I've met a few famous people and, unless they spend a lot of time being famous for just being themselves, they really don't look or act a lot like the characters they play and are famous for. Take them out of context and you'll hesitate before calling them by name.
What's next? Slashdotters complain that the US Gov doesn't nothing to locate leaks because they are incompetent? Can't have it both ways...
Of course we can -- it's Slashdot!
How, exactly, is this news?
And they do it on the cops shows on TV at the drop of a hat.
FTA ". . . this was a publicity stunt staged by WBC themselves."
"You did WHAT in my name?" -- Jesus
No Internet?
Libya is doomed!
So both sites tell me that Shockwave and Java are out-of-date (using Mageia1-alpha1 and FF4beta11) and I update them with the files they provide links to AND it now says I' still out-of-date.
Derp?
FTA "It seems most of the new development for LibreOffice is being done on Linux, with Windows as only a secondary platform."
And how's that feel?
Then again ... why did this story get in to Slashdot?
Because people think it is the Geek section of FARK?
Maybe he just wanted to know if for $500 we would hit it?
Then the charge is just pimping.
When Internet Explorer was at version 5, Netscape released version 6 of their browser. There never was a Netscape version 5. They jumped from v4 to v6 because they wanted to be newer than Microsoft. Apparently, Mozilla now feels they are "behind" Chrome which is currently at version 9, so instead of Firefox 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc., they will call them Firefox 5, 6, 11 and 23 so that they can be newer than Chrome.
It is sad how far off the rails the Firefox development process has gone.
No, they have emacs envy.
(FYI, the current stable emacs release is 23.2.)
3.6 --> 4.0 --> 5.0 --> 6.0 --> 7.0 = 3.6 --> 4.0 --> 4.1 --> 4.2 --> 4.3
It's "big version number envy". Nothing more. The Mozilla folks have given in to the idea that "3.6 is less than 8.0 and is less than 12, therefore FireFox 3.6 is less than MSIE 8.0 and Chrome 12". Is this a sign that marketing people are now running Mozilla? Will the budget go to engineers or Superbowl ads?
Then they should go with Firefox 2011, Firefox 2012, Firefox 2013, Firefox 2014, Firefox 2015, all released in 2011.
Much bigger numbers. More impressive. "Hey, dude. I'm running Firefox from 2015! The future!! You still running this years' Internet Explorer? Loser!!!"
Is one "more major" than the other?
The answer is: who cares, really? The only thing that users really need to worry about:
1) What version am I using presently?
2) What is the latest stable version?
3) What's changed between #1 and #2, and is it worth upgrading?
Whether #1 and #2 are "3.6" and "3.9", respectively, or "4.0" and "7.0", it really doesn't matter. It's the delta, #3, that really matters - what's been added, removed, updated, fixed, and broken between the two?
You have not been listening to the Marketing people. They need to create the illusion of progress since notrhing magical will occurr to the developent process to speed it up, so they're going to change their versioning method, not their development process.
The terrorists have won.
I think the gentleman made a bad decision. Either we adapt or fail.
Personal ethics can be at a higher level than what is established in the larger community. It was wrong for him, so his decision is correct. Your Darwinian choice is a false dichotomy.
Your advice to "just jump in" is likewise poor and potentially destructive. You don't change the system, you change to the system, so you are recommending a increasingly larger compromise of his personal principals in order to validate your own sense of "pragmatic" choices.
You are the Devil.
I see this tribalism is wrong argument popping up quite often
Pretty much any time you have to resort to playing the -ism card in a debate, you're admitting your argument is weak.
Take the money and run:) Give them the tools to cover all the basics that a business person would understand. Just enough to run at a sub-standard operational level that might work under the heroic efforts of local labor, but fail miserably given the infrastructure, cultural differences, and adversarial role of contract negotiations (e.g. contractor does what's in contractor's best interest because he's not a long-term employee). Also, do this slowly so as to extract as much money as possible. When this fails, be there to offer a "fix" with mix of on-shore help. When things improve dramatically, slowly shed the contract offshore labor or relegate it to menial crap work the local labor force doesn't want to deal with. We've been doing this rather successfully in the software world for a decade now:)
OK, that would be unethical.
You should do your best job once you accept the job. If you plan on behaving like an asshat because something about the job offends you or seems unfair, pass on the job.
So, DTF?
Given how Microsoft has faltered in the marketplace, has failed to innovate and continues to misunderstand its customers, perhaps the old guys need to go.
or you couldn't carry your phone around with you every you went
Yes you could. It was the size of a brick and expensive as Hell, but yes you could.
They should really reinvent the wheel.
Microsoft re-invent the wheel? They don't innovate. They are not a market leader. That's not what they do well.
They copy other's successful ideas and try to exploit a market, then apply their embrace-extend-extinguish approach to eliminate the competition through lock-in.
Microsoft Bob ...
ActiMates Interactive Barney
Microsoft Network (MSN)
WebTV
Chromeffects
Microsoft Zune
Microsoft Kin Phones
MSN and MSN search
Microsoft Venus
Microsoft Virtual Earth
Microsoft Microscope
Microsoft Encarta
Microsoft Vizact
Microsoft Java Runtime Environment
Microsoft At Work Operating System
Microsoft Vine
Microsoft Origami
Microsoft Mira
Microsoft MN-500 router
docx format
Windows Mobile 7.0
and on and on
Short on specifics.
If the Chinese government is spun around and around, does it become disoriented?
Our government is the best one to decide what is good for us, especially for technology issues, since they have done such a great job so far!
Look at how safe we are now. Thinkof how safe we will be.
Sen. Susan Collins is an expert in this area and knows what she is doing so we should support her. She is a Phi Beta Kappa, so she's smarter than us.
O Magazine named Senator Collins one of six women who could run for President, so we should support her Internet plan.
We can trust her.
Honest!
What could possibly go wrong?
No, really. It's safe.
And with the case screw thing, Apple="New Hitler"?