Be aware that your multiple objectives conflict somewhat.
Homogenous IT platform to simplify maintenance, support and training.
Usefulness to the core requirement of teaching
Relevance to the future work environment
Finite budget
How to resolve the conflict? It isn't easy. You don't have enough information to predict the future of IT (nobody does).
I teach at a high school program for gifted students
Ah. Have you asked your gifted students for their views? They'll have opinions about the future of IT that may differ from those of your old grey haired colleagues in IT.
A spokesperson for the Israeli Communications Ministry said the Israeli Government had fully investigated the import ban, and found that Israel had at all times operated in accordance with international law. Israeli customs officers maintained a high professional and moral level while facing an enemy that aimed to terrorize Israeli civilians by broadcasting wifi at American power levels. Next time we see one of those iPads, the spokesperson said, we'll probably just shoot it.
Adobe was pro web standards until it bought Macromedia. It was the leading supporter of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for the first half of last decade, publishing and distributing an SVG plugin for Internet Explorer and supporting SVG in Illustrator and GoLive. Adobe lost its moral compass when it bought Macromedia, After failing to halt the popularity of web standards and standing at the edge of a precipice, Adobe is now seeking forgiveness from developers.
As for whether the FTC will investigate, it’s hard to say — but it’s not too likely. The complaint doesn’t seem to allege any clear-cut violations of law
It is Sunday. Go mow the lawn and enjoy a beer afterwards, or write some code. The world will survive this for now.
Dennis Crowley learned two things from his earlier experience of selling Dodgeball to Google. 1. A big company like Google can destroy a little company. 2. When your bank account is 8 digits big, 9 digits is not as important as following your passion.
That's a pretty incorrect understanding of RMS's economic model.
Did you RTFA? In it, Stallman says:
My 1992 proposal for a special tax to be distributed to artists, with the money partly shifted from the most popular ones towards those not quite so successful, is still applicable. Meanwhile, many artists support themselves already with voluntary payments by their fans. If we make it easier to send these payments, with a send-one-dollar or send-one-pound button on every player, this method would work even better.
Instead of a weekly paycheck, RMS should work for free and accept donations. There should be a button on every article he writes to donate a dollar to the author. In a couple of years, if RMS is convinced of the viability of his model, and his children have grown up healthy and strong, I'll give it a try too. Until then, I'm not convinced that RMS's world is anything more than an untested speculative fantasy.
Yes, but Israel deserves a much higher level of trust than Iran. Even in the 1973 war, when Israel was facing defeat - and a defeat would have meant, literally, annihilation - Israel did not use its nukes (and it almost certainly had them by then).
So by that logic, a nuclear power that uses its weapons cannot be trusted, right? Who gets to choose which countries can be trusted? Have you spoken with anyone from Nagasaki about this question?
The $79 million dollars of advice was ordered by and for the previous CEO, Jerry Yang. The new CEO, Carol Bartz, is a different kind of business person. She doesn't need $79 million dollars of advice to talk with Microsoft.
FTFA: "In short, if done properly, a meta-operating system based on networked virtual machines could streamline software development, make IT more flexible, and save customers money."
It is hard to argue with a truism. But what does "done properly" entail?
"Our innovator may get only one shot at widespread publicity. If and when that happens, tens of thousands of people will visit her site. But a flash crowd is notoriously fickle; "
The "researchers" offer a strange view of how the market works. If the idea is good then surely the site will enjoy numerous opportunities for growth and referral every time a happy user recommends it to a friend. A good, innovative idea will not be sunk by one underprovisioned flash crowd.
"Despite good job prospects, graduates think that a job in IT would be boring. Is this because of the fact that Bill Gates has made the whole industry look nerdy?"
It's not clear exactly what you did here, but it sounds like what you did is just start coding, then come to Mozilla a few months later and say, "hey! we have code for you!"
No that isn't what we did.
We consulted with the module owner first before contributing any code. And then we participated in half a dozen reviews after we submitted code, each time adjusting minor stylistic coding practices to match the reviewers arbitrary directives.
And then the reviewer guy lifted 6 other bug fixes from our code body, submitted them in his name without acknlowedging our coders.
And then the reviewer said we have to rewrite our patch to get it considered since it now contains redundant code.
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I gave up caffeine
Same here! Cold turkey from 4 big lattes per day. Unexpectedly, I now have more energy and more powers of concentration.
I'm not buying any more Chinese equipment. From now on I'm only buying from reputable American companies.
it sounds like they have only filled the balloon, but not attached anything to the balloon yet.
Still time to rent it out as a condom.
Be aware that your multiple objectives conflict somewhat.
How to resolve the conflict? It isn't easy. You don't have enough information to predict the future of IT (nobody does).
I teach at a high school program for gifted students
Ah. Have you asked your gifted students for their views? They'll have opinions about the future of IT that may differ from those of your old grey haired colleagues in IT.
The Americas first telegram, transmitted via a repeater: "What hath God wrought" sent by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1844.
Facebook is not compulsory.
thin and flexible enough to reach previously inaccessible areas of the brain.
The back of your mind?
The tip of your tongue?
The part that eats in moderation, stops drinking early, wins the girl and wears the condom?
A spokesperson for the Israeli Communications Ministry said the Israeli Government had fully investigated the import ban, and found that Israel had at all times operated in accordance with international law. Israeli customs officers maintained a high professional and moral level while facing an enemy that aimed to terrorize Israeli civilians by broadcasting wifi at American power levels. Next time we see one of those iPads, the spokesperson said, we'll probably just shoot it.
Adobe was pro web standards until it bought Macromedia. It was the leading supporter of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for the first half of last decade, publishing and distributing an SVG plugin for Internet Explorer and supporting SVG in Illustrator and GoLive. Adobe lost its moral compass when it bought Macromedia, After failing to halt the popularity of web standards and standing at the edge of a precipice, Adobe is now seeking forgiveness from developers.
As for whether the FTC will investigate, it’s hard to say — but it’s not too likely. The complaint doesn’t seem to allege any clear-cut violations of law
It is Sunday. Go mow the lawn and enjoy a beer afterwards, or write some code. The world will survive this for now.
Dennis Crowley learned two things from his earlier experience of selling Dodgeball to Google. 1. A big company like Google can destroy a little company. 2. When your bank account is 8 digits big, 9 digits is not as important as following your passion.
That's a pretty incorrect understanding of RMS's economic model.
Did you RTFA? In it, Stallman says:
My 1992 proposal for a special tax to be distributed to artists, with the money partly shifted from the most popular ones towards those not quite so successful, is still applicable. Meanwhile, many artists support themselves already with voluntary payments by their fans. If we make it easier to send these payments, with a send-one-dollar or send-one-pound button on every player, this method would work even better.
Instead of a weekly paycheck, RMS should work for free and accept donations. There should be a button on every article he writes to donate a dollar to the author. In a couple of years, if RMS is convinced of the viability of his model, and his children have grown up healthy and strong, I'll give it a try too. Until then, I'm not convinced that RMS's world is anything more than an untested speculative fantasy.
So by that logic, a nuclear power that uses its weapons cannot be trusted, right? Who gets to choose which countries can be trusted? Have you spoken with anyone from Nagasaki about this question?
Should we really be so shocked? Haven't nuclear weapons been present in the middle east for over 3 decades now, in Israel?
Fish are capable of all sorts of feelings for humans.
The $79 million dollars of advice was ordered by and for the previous CEO, Jerry Yang. The new CEO, Carol Bartz, is a different kind of business person. She doesn't need $79 million dollars of advice to talk with Microsoft.
When John Lennon wrote "Imagine no possessions" he was worth $150 million.
FTFA: "In short, if done properly, a meta-operating system based on networked virtual machines could streamline software development, make IT more flexible, and save customers money."
It is hard to argue with a truism. But what does "done properly" entail?
"Then again, since doing the right thing would likely bankrupt them, we wouldn't hold your breath for it to happen"
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The idea that 'everything that I am' might one day start to slowly degrade freaks me out.
Everyone declines. Everyone dies. Nobody gets out alive. Such is life on Earth.
what way do they plan to make money with this project?
From advertizing. Yahoo will feed ads to the people who use their search services.
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Science is the depolitization of economics
"Our innovator may get only one shot at widespread publicity. If and when that happens, tens of thousands of people will visit her site. But a flash crowd is notoriously fickle; "
The "researchers" offer a strange view of how the market works. If the idea is good then surely the site will enjoy numerous opportunities for growth and referral every time a happy user recommends it to a friend. A good, innovative idea will not be sunk by one underprovisioned flash crowd.
"Despite good job prospects, graduates think that a job in IT would be boring. Is this because of the fact that Bill Gates has made the whole industry look nerdy?"
Could be because "IT" includes mundane jobs.
It's not clear exactly what you did here, but it sounds like what you did is just start coding, then come to Mozilla a few months later and say, "hey! we have code for you!"
No that isn't what we did.
We consulted with the module owner first before contributing any code. And then we participated in half a dozen reviews after we submitted code, each time adjusting minor stylistic coding practices to match the reviewers arbitrary directives.
And then the reviewer guy lifted 6 other bug fixes from our code body, submitted them in his name without acknlowedging our coders.
And then the reviewer said we have to rewrite our patch to get it considered since it now contains redundant code.