If Gore Vidal is even remotely right it appears we've selected a combination of terrorism and South Korea to distract the public from rational thought and local politics. I wonder what the fire-drill's like for bunker busting nuclear ordinance?
Your boycott makes a difference, in face the only language we have in common with business is money. You just have to think about it:
1) people, somewhat erratically protest and make noise about something (maybe 1 in 10 follow through, at best).
2) some people have ties to media through friends or families or as media representatives themselves (probably more technical minded media professionals then in a lot of other professions).
3) Your representative may also be a person who may or may not be familiar or possibly even interested in the plight.
Add this up over time (if it's an ongoing problem) and you'll see it compounding then add the various moral objectors and malcontents and in the case of digital media (specifically) you get piracy and various forms of [user] malice and you start to see the media circus that's likely to cost the companies not just inconvenience, but money and possibly even credibility.
Companies like the RIAA/MPAA or software publishers that fail to respond to markets are really at risk losing control (distribution) of their own products as the free market moves like water around them.
aren't just dealing with citizen protests but risk loosing control of their own product
The majority, who are essentially griefers, although most of them aren't actually smart enough to know this. The second type is the well respected 'pros' who probably do a lot of the discovery or development themselves, or know someone who does and provides unreleased cheats.
Probably the exact same situation as hacking where 99% of the kids involved can barely turn on a computer, much less run a compiler or low level debugger.
I work with several programmers and their familiarity varies from alarming (barely can turn their own workstation on and off) to respectable (can install/update packages and know how to updates configs, understand server software). Perhaps fortunately, the senior programmers are also the ones with familiarity with server software and how it (directly) impacts performance of their own code (which means I work directly with them doing traces/etc to work out performance issues). The inexperienced on the other hand regularly treat everything outside the IDE as performance adding magic, which can explain any and all poor performing code they manage to dribble out.
Of course the truth is a good programmer has to understand the environment their code will work in, just like a good systems administrator will need to understand enough about the underlying code to develop a reasonable architecture and possibly explain some bottlenecks in the way the developers have designed their code, like the prevailent overuse of database backends for what is essentially simple storage, caching or buffering (works for small projects, but can cause massive scalability issues and [flakey/breakable] complexity as we increase the volume).
Sounds like some shops are different, but I've very much enjoyed the work I've done with programmers and some of the challenges they face are also the most interesting challenges we face designing reliable/redundant high-volume architectures.
Maybe this is just the death of physical media. It's massively expensive to produce and push all this landfill material around. The CD even now is a relic. A generational gap. Obviously they aren't going away right now, but this could signal EMI beginning the inevitable change from physical media to digital. Perhaps physical media (disks, whatever becomes popular next) will be relegated to collectors and fans much like records or concert t-shirts are today. They can be attractive and can make nice mementos, but their advantages stop there. Like and autographed book.
Not only is the joke topical (in the sense it's related to another recent story) but it's made clear that it's a joke by keeping it in context (...MUAHAAAA!!).
Linus is a technologist. He develops the kernel (and other things). If you want to talk to someone about politics (or religion) talk to the FSF or RMS. If you prefer banter about market giants or users stick with websites and magazine articles (and/. comments naturally).
If you've taken the time to read about Linus you know that his primary interest seems to be the development and use of this technology. Taking a polarizing political view wouldn't do anything to further these goals, besides, there are already talented people already focusing on these things.
How could ignorance cheapen anything but the original poster? It's fun to rant and rave (or to just watch) but most important individuals in the oss movement have more complicated views then the 20 word summaries in news stories will convey. Linus of course happens to have a pretty remarkable outlook, but any geeks here would know that from reading his biography, right?
Because Slashdotters HATE circumvention and probably pray daily for the DRM utopia the Spaghetti-lord has promised them. Perhaps you could direct me to this Slashdot so I can also voice my own concern?
It's entirely possible that the authors do fundamentally believe in the rights of the copyright industry, but that doesn't mean they might not be frightfully ignorant of any number of closely related technologies.
In fact my experience has shown me that fundamentalists tend to be the most narrowly focused people I meet (whatever their beliefs).
We might create the software intending it to do and be used in one way, but how it will actually be used is determined by the users. Postgre and MySQL don't carry any intrinsic values, only the values which their users discover and, well, use. Without users they have no good or bad features.
So why is it that people feel the need to rally around or defend them? After all, only the developers who have done the work are capable of understanding the snips and criticism leveled against them, and these are the people who have given their work away, to you and me.
MySQL excels at some things. Postgre also excels at some things. If users feel there is too much overlap then they can work to reproduce these features in a single tool, such as Postgre should they feel it has more utility. But to discount a tool many people find useful shows a core misunderstanding of what it is that determines the software's value.
Postgre can not be better then MySQL, it can only provide varying degrees of value. And that value is determined by the user.
Pushing a translation into colloquial English does not make it a model for translation. When I'd first come across ubermensch reading Nietzsche it was described to mean 'overman'.
I haven't used it but Collabed looks interesting. Of course most kids would probably end up doing it with im and the occasional email, but it still looks interesting.
Slashdot Mirror
C'mon, it'd be fun AND accurate!
How many terrorist attacks have there been on US soil? Statistically you're more likely to get hit by a fossilized Twinkie.
If Gore Vidal is even remotely right it appears we've selected a combination of terrorism and South Korea to distract the public from rational thought and local politics. I wonder what the fire-drill's like for bunker busting nuclear ordinance?
America's what would happen if you put Australia into a blender and then mixed it with Canada.
It's a club with wheels!!
That post was supposed to be a preview. I'd claim that I'm stoned but I've done it too many times anyway. ~:P
Your boycott makes a difference, in face the only language we have in common with business is money. You just have to think about it:
1) people, somewhat erratically protest and make noise about something (maybe 1 in 10 follow through, at best).
2) some people have ties to media through friends or families or as media representatives themselves (probably more technical minded media professionals then in a lot of other professions).
3) Your representative may also be a person who may or may not be familiar or possibly even interested in the plight.
Add this up over time (if it's an ongoing problem) and you'll see it compounding then add the various moral objectors and malcontents and in the case of digital media (specifically) you get piracy and various forms of [user] malice and you start to see the media circus that's likely to cost the companies not just inconvenience, but money and possibly even credibility.
Companies like the RIAA/MPAA or software publishers that fail to respond to markets are really at risk losing control (distribution) of their own products as the free market moves like water around them. aren't just dealing with citizen protests but risk loosing control of their own product
The majority, who are essentially griefers, although most of them aren't actually smart enough to know this. The second type is the well respected 'pros' who probably do a lot of the discovery or development themselves, or know someone who does and provides unreleased cheats.
Probably the exact same situation as hacking where 99% of the kids involved can barely turn on a computer, much less run a compiler or low level debugger.
But we don't pay them to understand it so how are we supposed to know where the money went?!!
That's because corporations have grown bigger and more important then citizens.
I work with several programmers and their familiarity varies from alarming (barely can turn their own workstation on and off) to respectable (can install/update packages and know how to updates configs, understand server software). Perhaps fortunately, the senior programmers are also the ones with familiarity with server software and how it (directly) impacts performance of their own code (which means I work directly with them doing traces/etc to work out performance issues). The inexperienced on the other hand regularly treat everything outside the IDE as performance adding magic, which can explain any and all poor performing code they manage to dribble out.
Of course the truth is a good programmer has to understand the environment their code will work in, just like a good systems administrator will need to understand enough about the underlying code to develop a reasonable architecture and possibly explain some bottlenecks in the way the developers have designed their code, like the prevailent overuse of database backends for what is essentially simple storage, caching or buffering (works for small projects, but can cause massive scalability issues and [flakey/breakable] complexity as we increase the volume).
Sounds like some shops are different, but I've very much enjoyed the work I've done with programmers and some of the challenges they face are also the most interesting challenges we face designing reliable/redundant high-volume architectures.
Maybe this is just the death of physical media. It's massively expensive to produce and push all this landfill material around. The CD even now is a relic. A generational gap. Obviously they aren't going away right now, but this could signal EMI beginning the inevitable change from physical media to digital. Perhaps physical media (disks, whatever becomes popular next) will be relegated to collectors and fans much like records or concert t-shirts are today. They can be attractive and can make nice mementos, but their advantages stop there. Like and autographed book.
Ya, and thank God for open source. Did anyone else think it was weird Open Office brings him (Bulby?) back?
but you're asking it to be humorless.
Not only is the joke topical (in the sense it's related to another recent story) but it's made clear that it's a joke by keeping it in context (...MUAHAAAA!!).
You sir, FAIL.
Linus is a technologist. He develops the kernel (and other things). If you want to talk to someone about politics (or religion) talk to the FSF or RMS. If you prefer banter about market giants or users stick with websites and magazine articles (and /. comments naturally).
If you've taken the time to read about Linus you know that his primary interest seems to be the development and use of this technology. Taking a polarizing political view wouldn't do anything to further these goals, besides, there are already talented people already focusing on these things.
He's funny too, if you read his biography.
How could ignorance cheapen anything but the original poster? It's fun to rant and rave (or to just watch) but most important individuals in the oss movement have more complicated views then the 20 word summaries in news stories will convey. Linus of course happens to have a pretty remarkable outlook, but any geeks here would know that from reading his biography, right?
At least for some, even if it's not a perfect language, it might be a nice way to get their feet wet by producing things they find interesting
Because Slashdotters HATE circumvention and probably pray daily for the DRM utopia the Spaghetti-lord has promised them. Perhaps you could direct me to this Slashdot so I can also voice my own concern?
It's entirely possible that the authors do fundamentally believe in the rights of the copyright industry, but that doesn't mean they might not be frightfully ignorant of any number of closely related technologies.
In fact my experience has shown me that fundamentalists tend to be the most narrowly focused people I meet (whatever their beliefs).
If I could tag comments I'd tag 'lol'. We should be able to tag comments, and those comments could be called /twits, in memory of some other service.
We might create the software intending it to do and be used in one way, but how it will actually be used is determined by the users. Postgre and MySQL don't carry any intrinsic values, only the values which their users discover and, well, use. Without users they have no good or bad features.
So why is it that people feel the need to rally around or defend them? After all, only the developers who have done the work are capable of understanding the snips and criticism leveled against them, and these are the people who have given their work away, to you and me.
MySQL excels at some things. Postgre also excels at some things. If users feel there is too much overlap then they can work to reproduce these features in a single tool, such as Postgre should they feel it has more utility. But to discount a tool many people find useful shows a core misunderstanding of what it is that determines the software's value.
Postgre can not be better then MySQL, it can only provide varying degrees of value. And that value is determined by the user.
Pushing a translation into colloquial English does not make it a model for translation. When I'd first come across ubermensch reading Nietzsche it was described to mean 'overman'.
in the year 2009 the majority of earths then human population began the struggle to implement true multithreading.
I haven't used it but Collabed looks interesting. Of course most kids would probably end up doing it with im and the occasional email, but it still looks interesting.