This is absolutely correct. They reimagined the whole stack no less than four times. The first implementation was ALMOST good enough, and they could've just gotten it going.
It's sickening. opkg worked from day one. All they had to focus on was the damn echo problem (battery wasn't even a deal-breaker for me) and maybe a GPRS configuration tool (but the COMMUNITY can build that part)!
It's infuriating, esp. if you look at opkg.org and see how badass it can be.
Right, so that's the rub. We aren't talking about people losing their houses. The houses belong to the banks until the lien is off of the title and they've been paid off. When you say things like that, you are being the problem.
The problem is our credit-hungry economy. It's simply not "their house" if they can be foreclosed on. And the job belongs to the employer, to be quite honest.
Tell me people are on the streets, you get my sympathy. Tell me they bought a house they couldn't afford and then consequences caught up with them and you make me feel like the world is just. Admittedly, people in this situation likely did this because Clinton and Freddie Mac, et al encouraged them to make idiotic decisions.
But also, think of the other side for a minute. What about people, low-income people, that didn't make idiotic mistakes and get themselves upside down in a mortgage because they believed money was free. For them, houses are now cheap. Houses were more expensive than they needed to be, and now they've swung far too far in the cheap direction, but they WILL stabilize if we stop fucking with the market.
Err, summary: we all like to think we're richer than we are, and we all let the banks leverage too far because that's the only way to do so. We're the problem.
Is W.A.S.T.E. still under active dev? I used that thing for around a year after aol killed it in ~2003/4, and then me and my cousin stopped sharing files as frequently (really the only person I shared files with via WASTE)
I came up with a stimulus plan of my own. It goes like this: Everyone, install firefox and delete your IE shortcuts. Then we won't have *every web development shop in the world* spending roughly 2x the necessary time on any given project to make up for its shortcomings.
Seriously, that would mean twice as many pieces of web-based software could be written in the same amount of time for the same amount of money, and would similarly drop the maintenance costs of the sites by roughly 1/2. Any web developer in the world* will agree that IE is the worst part of their job.
So there, the Isotope11 stimulus package. [http://www.isotope11.com] [yes, our site is terrible.]
* I obviously exclude people that build apps dependent on ActiveX controls from the rank of web developer, because God told me they suck.
yes, there's a wife capable hulu plugin for boxee. Did you even look? It's touted in giant letters.
http://boxee.tv/ If you didn't go there before you started spouting off like you deserved to be part of the conversation, you should be shot. Metaphorically. With a real gun. In the face.
As it turns out, much of the 'plant' part is carbon. You know the way when you run electricity through holes in wood (say, use plywood to separate the leads for a Jacob's Ladder) it will build up carbon trails and short itself out? No? Try it.
Turns out that's carbon in them thar' trees. Most of the substance that is 'plant' is built from the stuff in the air, rather than the stuff in the ground.
You notice how planting stuff doesn't make all the soil disappear, right?:)
Stallman isn't against someone running Ubuntu, pre-installed, in a relative sense. He agrees that this is 'more free' than running windows. Just, from an absolute sense, you still aren't free when you depend on others to maintain proprietary blobs, when you can't fix retarded full-screen-video problems in X in your graphics driver, etc., etc.
Passenger is crazy easy to deploy. It also allows you to use Enterprise Ruby, with it's COW GC. It's a much better deployment strat. than a pack of mongrels in my extensive production usage. Your mileage may vary, but I doubt it.
I currently run a lot of sites both ways. Nothing wrong with either. But my passenger deploys are simpler (I have a single cap script that also sets up my vhost, reloads apache...basically puts the site live in one step. This was a ton harder in mongrel setups.)
I currently have 4 GB. I plan to go up to 16GB, as there are 4GB chips available from Samsung (in theory, though I can't find anywhere to buy them). But yeah, I use 3-4 GB on a regular basis and will soon upgrade to 8GB (likely late December I'll buy in the post-chrimmus sales). I also like to run 64-bit because I will have to solve problems related to the difference on our 64-bit servers at some point and I'd like to hit it in dev. mode first.
All of the employees at my company are happy to churn to meet deadlines. We pay them appropriately and offer them a challenging environment. If we didn't, they would work somewhere else. That's the free market.
As a matter of fact, I explicitly set up our benefits plan such that their health insurance is in their name, so that it is ABSOLUTELY NO EFFORT if they want to leave the company, and they won't have to go through a physical and get higher rates, etc. I care for my employees as well as I can manage, and I try to make smart decisions that take their interests into consideration.
I don't believe anything of what companies would have done sans-union, but I think INDIVIDUALS need to take a shit ton of their power back. Why does everyone need the comfort of working for a big company in the first place? Get fucking innovative, start a company, do something interesting. I dream of the day our employees leave to start their own companies.
If the company lays you off, go out and do something else for money. Leave them if you're AFRAID of being laid off. It's not my fault the world's full of pussies, geezus. If a company had me scared of being laid off, I'd think it was a personal failing.
A few things. First off, I run 64-bit everywhere. I think I might suggest that people that don't need it just run 32 bit still, a few things that are nice (flash, etc.) still suck a bit in 64 bit. It all works, but stuff's crappier than is necessary.
Secondly: install Ubuntu Studio and make sure you're running a realtime kernel. Look in the Audio/Video menu. Click each item and fiddle with it one day, won't take an hour.
Ardour is a very nice environment. Hydrogen is a badass drum machine. Jokosher is kind of garage band-esque. There's a good place to start.
Write a song on your acoustic while writing the drums in hydrogen. Eventually, record the drums out of hydrogen and import that as a track in jokosher or ardour. Record on top of that with your guitar. I'm still waiting on my multi-input awesome-card (I forget what the part number is, ask me after christmas and I'll tell you. knewter at gmail, if you want.) So right now I'm just at the 'use hydrogen and play acoustic' step on this rig. But in general it all works fine, and again hydrogen is great.
My dad runs a robotics engineering company that he started in my home, and I've been involved in quite a bit of work on projects for Honda, Hyundai, Daimler-Chrysler, etc., PLC programming generally, although I've done tons of build and wiring jobs for him as well. Medical devices as well. Pretty much done the industrial automation thing from a hobbyist perspective my whole life.
A few things: I think this provides the average guy, immediately, with an intuitive (and scalably awesome) way to build his HID, as well as run it. The "any computer is a PLC, or two or three" concept is very nice, as virtualizing PLCs and just using ladder logic on 'interconnected' bits in software is just obvious as hell. I'm not suggesting a robot at a Hyundai plant will run on this software tomorrow, but telling a guy "here's a kit, you can make some awesomeness with it. And it's free, just put it on that spare PC you have." is powerful, extremely. It's like Arduino gone a bit more hardcore.
Anyway, I'm a huge believer in empowering individuals for big results though.
Yeah, so almost everyone I know runs linux on the desktop. Our entire business runs on ubuntu machines (software dev). My good friend JD runs his business (apartment mgmt.) entirely on ubuntu. Both of our houses are all ubuntu. When I have to use a windows machine, all I can do is cuss. This is true of JD's wife as well. And my friend Brandon. All of these people ran Windows until a couple of years ago, when I showed them Ubuntu for the first time. Without fail, they have all gone and installed linux on their desktop within days, and never turned back.
Windows is awful, but you can play games on it well. Anyone who disagrees with me (about anything, really) is mentally handicapped. TYVM.
So I've seen a few projects lately that really hit home for this, as well as a couple of generalizations. General stuff first.
The really basic, broad one is "audio editing in linux." I don't know if other people follow it like me, but the number of tools, good, quality tools, available these days are staggering, and it seems like this year was the year that all of them came into their own, maturity wise. Ardour, the Calf plugins, etc.
Another generic space that is seeing huge strides is graphics. GIMP going GEGL is a huge milestone, and will make making high quality graphics apps in linux far easier in general, as we're moving a big chunk of that work to a generic lib. nice.
But the real killers for me, that are hugely differentiated, are neither of those things. One is Beremiz, which is an open source automation framework that just pulls together existing open source software to create something new and amazing.
The other is Fritzing, which makes it easy to take an arduino project from prototype to production.
These are world-changers, and I don't even think many people are aware of them yet.
I'm not against the concept of workers banding together for collective bargaining. First, an anecdote, then my point.
My dad is a robotics engineer. When I was 1 or 2 years old, he was doing a job for four or six months in Boston. He was away from his family for weeks at a time and he didn't like it. So he would work after hours to try and get home faster - he's a workaholic, so this is normal. One night, a gang of union guys came in and told him if he did one of their jobs again, tightened one more nut, they would end his life. So that puts a sour taste in my mouth.
But past the anecdote, to my true problem. Inevitably, unions either act like thugs like above, or they beat up a 'scab' that just wants to go to work, or they fight technological advances because their political block is less powerful if fewer workers are necessary. It seems impossible to get the justifiable outcome (workers bargaining together) without politics and human failing also getting involved and turning the whole damn thing into a group of thugs.
Full Disclaimer: I'm a business owner, I run a software company. I will never hire a unionized worker, because of horror stories I've heard from other business owners as well as because they threatened my father's life once. One of my best friends' dads is a union organizer, and he is entirely aware of my take on unions.
"Ripping the DVD" isn't interacting with the physical object, it's extracting the copyrighted work contained therein, which you technically have no express right to do.
Poppycock. Ripping a DVD is exactly interacting with a physical object. That physical object embodies a number, when pinged with a laser appropriately. That number, when decoded, yields a copyrighted work.
All of that was a physical process, aside from the act of division (which had damned well not become illegal, regardless of how idiotic legislators can be made to be). My problem is not with copyright (to a point...I believe it has been extended too far, but that's another argument). My problem is that it becomes increasingly legal for copyright holders to break my stuff and keep secrets from me, and it becomes increasingly illegal for me to tell people various numbers.
Ultimately, though, I care little for the law; the state is my enemy.
I have a useless bluray player in my linux machine at work, as I just bought a cheapo deal on woot and it came with a bluray player. I need to give it to a friend that uses windows and watches movies, but the drive DOES work as a DVD burner, so meh.
Anyway, this stuff DOES cost people like me money needlessly (like it or not, I DID pay for hardware I can't use)
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This is absolutely correct. They reimagined the whole stack no less than four times. The first implementation was ALMOST good enough, and they could've just gotten it going.
It's sickening. opkg worked from day one. All they had to focus on was the damn echo problem (battery wasn't even a deal-breaker for me) and maybe a GPRS configuration tool (but the COMMUNITY can build that part)!
It's infuriating, esp. if you look at opkg.org and see how badass it can be.
You're not losing your job or your house.
Right, so that's the rub. We aren't talking about people losing their houses. The houses belong to the banks until the lien is off of the title and they've been paid off. When you say things like that, you are being the problem.
The problem is our credit-hungry economy. It's simply not "their house" if they can be foreclosed on. And the job belongs to the employer, to be quite honest.
Tell me people are on the streets, you get my sympathy. Tell me they bought a house they couldn't afford and then consequences caught up with them and you make me feel like the world is just. Admittedly, people in this situation likely did this because Clinton and Freddie Mac, et al encouraged them to make idiotic decisions.
But also, think of the other side for a minute. What about people, low-income people, that didn't make idiotic mistakes and get themselves upside down in a mortgage because they believed money was free. For them, houses are now cheap. Houses were more expensive than they needed to be, and now they've swung far too far in the cheap direction, but they WILL stabilize if we stop fucking with the market.
Err, summary: we all like to think we're richer than we are, and we all let the banks leverage too far because that's the only way to do so. We're the problem.
You're wrong about this. The second comment covers the appropriate way to write the code, and via POSIX can guarantee that you don't lose data.
Hoping you've done something right isn't enough.
Is W.A.S.T.E. still under active dev? I used that thing for around a year after aol killed it in ~2003/4, and then me and my cousin stopped sharing files as frequently (really the only person I shared files with via WASTE)
I came up with a stimulus plan of my own. It goes like this: Everyone, install firefox and delete your IE shortcuts. Then we won't have *every web development shop in the world* spending roughly 2x the necessary time on any given project to make up for its shortcomings.
Seriously, that would mean twice as many pieces of web-based software could be written in the same amount of time for the same amount of money, and would similarly drop the maintenance costs of the sites by roughly 1/2. Any web developer in the world* will agree that IE is the worst part of their job.
So there, the Isotope11 stimulus package. [http://www.isotope11.com] [yes, our site is terrible.]
* I obviously exclude people that build apps dependent on ActiveX controls from the rank of web developer, because God told me they suck.
When S3 has an open source driver and decent performance, I will buy it over a comparable nvidia card + proprietary driver any day.
yes, there's a wife capable hulu plugin for boxee. Did you even look? It's touted in giant letters.
http://boxee.tv/ If you didn't go there before you started spouting off like you deserved to be part of the conversation, you should be shot. Metaphorically. With a real gun. In the face.
holy. crap. I made this joke aloud to someone in the room literally immediately before scrollong to your comment (1 second time lag). Huzzah.
If it's understood that the customer is going to customize it, surely you provided them with an API of some sort...no?
Plugin systems for the win.
I am intrigued by your ideas^H^H^H^H^Hinvites and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Yeah, you're pretty hardcore wrong about this.
As it turns out, much of the 'plant' part is carbon. You know the way when you run electricity through holes in wood (say, use plywood to separate the leads for a Jacob's Ladder) it will build up carbon trails and short itself out? No? Try it.
Turns out that's carbon in them thar' trees. Most of the substance that is 'plant' is built from the stuff in the air, rather than the stuff in the ground.
You notice how planting stuff doesn't make all the soil disappear, right? :)
I suggest he commit any number of federal offenses.
Stallman isn't against someone running Ubuntu, pre-installed, in a relative sense. He agrees that this is 'more free' than running windows. Just, from an absolute sense, you still aren't free when you depend on others to maintain proprietary blobs, when you can't fix retarded full-screen-video problems in X in your graphics driver, etc., etc.
Passenger is crazy easy to deploy. It also allows you to use Enterprise Ruby, with it's COW GC. It's a much better deployment strat. than a pack of mongrels in my extensive production usage. Your mileage may vary, but I doubt it.
I currently run a lot of sites both ways. Nothing wrong with either. But my passenger deploys are simpler (I have a single cap script that also sets up my vhost, reloads apache...basically puts the site live in one step. This was a ton harder in mongrel setups.)
I currently have 4 GB. I plan to go up to 16GB, as there are 4GB chips available from Samsung (in theory, though I can't find anywhere to buy them). But yeah, I use 3-4 GB on a regular basis and will soon upgrade to 8GB (likely late December I'll buy in the post-chrimmus sales). I also like to run 64-bit because I will have to solve problems related to the difference on our 64-bit servers at some point and I'd like to hit it in dev. mode first.
All of the employees at my company are happy to churn to meet deadlines. We pay them appropriately and offer them a challenging environment. If we didn't, they would work somewhere else. That's the free market.
As a matter of fact, I explicitly set up our benefits plan such that their health insurance is in their name, so that it is ABSOLUTELY NO EFFORT if they want to leave the company, and they won't have to go through a physical and get higher rates, etc. I care for my employees as well as I can manage, and I try to make smart decisions that take their interests into consideration.
I don't believe anything of what companies would have done sans-union, but I think INDIVIDUALS need to take a shit ton of their power back. Why does everyone need the comfort of working for a big company in the first place? Get fucking innovative, start a company, do something interesting. I dream of the day our employees leave to start their own companies.
If the company lays you off, go out and do something else for money. Leave them if you're AFRAID of being laid off. It's not my fault the world's full of pussies, geezus. If a company had me scared of being laid off, I'd think it was a personal failing.
A few things. First off, I run 64-bit everywhere. I think I might suggest that people that don't need it just run 32 bit still, a few things that are nice (flash, etc.) still suck a bit in 64 bit. It all works, but stuff's crappier than is necessary.
Secondly: install Ubuntu Studio and make sure you're running a realtime kernel. Look in the Audio/Video menu. Click each item and fiddle with it one day, won't take an hour.
Ardour is a very nice environment. Hydrogen is a badass drum machine. Jokosher is kind of garage band-esque. There's a good place to start.
Write a song on your acoustic while writing the drums in hydrogen. Eventually, record the drums out of hydrogen and import that as a track in jokosher or ardour. Record on top of that with your guitar. I'm still waiting on my multi-input awesome-card (I forget what the part number is, ask me after christmas and I'll tell you. knewter at gmail, if you want.) So right now I'm just at the 'use hydrogen and play acoustic' step on this rig. But in general it all works fine, and again hydrogen is great.
-Josh
My dad runs a robotics engineering company that he started in my home, and I've been involved in quite a bit of work on projects for Honda, Hyundai, Daimler-Chrysler, etc., PLC programming generally, although I've done tons of build and wiring jobs for him as well. Medical devices as well. Pretty much done the industrial automation thing from a hobbyist perspective my whole life.
A few things: I think this provides the average guy, immediately, with an intuitive (and scalably awesome) way to build his HID, as well as run it. The "any computer is a PLC, or two or three" concept is very nice, as virtualizing PLCs and just using ladder logic on 'interconnected' bits in software is just obvious as hell. I'm not suggesting a robot at a Hyundai plant will run on this software tomorrow, but telling a guy "here's a kit, you can make some awesomeness with it. And it's free, just put it on that spare PC you have." is powerful, extremely. It's like Arduino gone a bit more hardcore.
Anyway, I'm a huge believer in empowering individuals for big results though.
Yeah, so almost everyone I know runs linux on the desktop. Our entire business runs on ubuntu machines (software dev). My good friend JD runs his business (apartment mgmt.) entirely on ubuntu. Both of our houses are all ubuntu. When I have to use a windows machine, all I can do is cuss. This is true of JD's wife as well. And my friend Brandon. All of these people ran Windows until a couple of years ago, when I showed them Ubuntu for the first time. Without fail, they have all gone and installed linux on their desktop within days, and never turned back.
Windows is awful, but you can play games on it well. Anyone who disagrees with me (about anything, really) is mentally handicapped. TYVM.
So I've seen a few projects lately that really hit home for this, as well as a couple of generalizations. General stuff first.
The really basic, broad one is "audio editing in linux." I don't know if other people follow it like me, but the number of tools, good, quality tools, available these days are staggering, and it seems like this year was the year that all of them came into their own, maturity wise. Ardour, the Calf plugins, etc.
Another generic space that is seeing huge strides is graphics. GIMP going GEGL is a huge milestone, and will make making high quality graphics apps in linux far easier in general, as we're moving a big chunk of that work to a generic lib. nice.
But the real killers for me, that are hugely differentiated, are neither of those things. One is Beremiz, which is an open source automation framework that just pulls together existing open source software to create something new and amazing.
The other is Fritzing, which makes it easy to take an arduino project from prototype to production.
These are world-changers, and I don't even think many people are aware of them yet.
-Josh
bullshit
I'm not against the concept of workers banding together for collective bargaining. First, an anecdote, then my point.
My dad is a robotics engineer. When I was 1 or 2 years old, he was doing a job for four or six months in Boston. He was away from his family for weeks at a time and he didn't like it. So he would work after hours to try and get home faster - he's a workaholic, so this is normal. One night, a gang of union guys came in and told him if he did one of their jobs again, tightened one more nut, they would end his life. So that puts a sour taste in my mouth.
But past the anecdote, to my true problem. Inevitably, unions either act like thugs like above, or they beat up a 'scab' that just wants to go to work, or they fight technological advances because their political block is less powerful if fewer workers are necessary. It seems impossible to get the justifiable outcome (workers bargaining together) without politics and human failing also getting involved and turning the whole damn thing into a group of thugs.
Full Disclaimer: I'm a business owner, I run a software company. I will never hire a unionized worker, because of horror stories I've heard from other business owners as well as because they threatened my father's life once. One of my best friends' dads is a union organizer, and he is entirely aware of my take on unions.
That's known as the Scotty model, if you've watched Star Trek...ever.
"Ripping the DVD" isn't interacting with the physical object, it's extracting the copyrighted work contained therein, which you technically have no express right to do.
Poppycock. Ripping a DVD is exactly interacting with a physical object. That physical object embodies a number, when pinged with a laser appropriately. That number, when decoded, yields a copyrighted work.
All of that was a physical process, aside from the act of division (which had damned well not become illegal, regardless of how idiotic legislators can be made to be). My problem is not with copyright (to a point...I believe it has been extended too far, but that's another argument). My problem is that it becomes increasingly legal for copyright holders to break my stuff and keep secrets from me, and it becomes increasingly illegal for me to tell people various numbers.
Ultimately, though, I care little for the law; the state is my enemy.
I have a useless bluray player in my linux machine at work, as I just bought a cheapo deal on woot and it came with a bluray player. I need to give it to a friend that uses windows and watches movies, but the drive DOES work as a DVD burner, so meh.
Anyway, this stuff DOES cost people like me money needlessly (like it or not, I DID pay for hardware I can't use)