Being involved in a death march doesn't make you a software engineer, just probably a mug for sticking it when management fail rather than leading a coup and deposing them.
I speak as someone who works under the banner Software Engineer on a few projects where I should have staged the coup!
Machiavelli Software Limited (not really just in case there's a real one with hot lawyers out there. It's a joke alright!)
This would not stop them learning Microsoft as they would all still no doubt run illegal copies of everything they wanted and more specifically boot into Windows(type whatever) to play games.
What it might do is introduce them to things that they would orindarily be to lazy (on the basis that it isn't the standard, yet) or pooh their pants to try other wise.
Result? They learn more than if they are only exposed to the Monopolist products and perhaps use only legal software. Ok that last bit about only using legal software is a joke.
Has anyone else ever wondered if shopping people they know to FAST who have illegal software copies would boost the uptake of Free Software or just result in them not waking up dead in a ditch?
I put the following idea to the powers at be in the company I work for about two years ago
1/ Lots of us browse useful sites with lots of intersesting and generally work related stuff on.
2/ People do browse embarassing, unacceptable (within work) things.
By making the whole web traffic into a visible list (perhaps ordered on popularity or other criteria) people get access to lots of interesting sites at the same time as self censorship to avoid embarassment or innapropriate use.
can anyone else see the prospective vision where because (and hopefully never) Europe and many other nations don't allow softare patents a notion where licensing issues of this sort make Gnu/Linux untenable in the US. Meanwhile every where else adopts it and just adds everything in that gets patented in the US (if it's a good idea not already being added in anyway)?
A design is created and it takes lots of effort, fine and it might have some innovative ideas in.
The idea that any of the IP measures encourage release is silly. It just locks others out from being able to use it, fine you might say people are entitled (I disagree that they are but hey...) to that monopoly. Er, how is a monopoly control of the idea compatible with the idea is released to benefit progress? It is not.
If people want to exploit their inventiveness they should just not announce the idea. People can still catch up by disecting the products that use the ideas but it costs them time and money, meanwhile the originator gets a head start.
So many managers make the decisions you have to wonder what it is they understand.
Some (like my boss) know C++ (sort of) and Perl (he's just been building the web site). Others only know C/C++ as being real languages and think of some of them as childs things. It then comes down to how much they rely upon the advice of their technical staff.
So I'm not so sure that it is discrimination as opposed to ignorance.
Some of us do pay out cash from time to time because we like the idea that we are getting something we want and seek to contribute in one way or another to keep it alive.
Guess most folk like Twister002 there are just tight and expect everything for free.
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone seen such figures compiled?
Who'd be a fish
I speak as someone who works under the banner Software Engineer on a few projects where I should have staged the coup!
Machiavelli Software Limited (not really just in case there's a real one with hot lawyers out there. It's a joke alright!)
What it might do is introduce them to things that they would orindarily be to lazy (on the basis that it isn't the standard, yet) or pooh their pants to try other wise.
Result? They learn more than if they are only exposed to the Monopolist products and perhaps use only legal software. Ok that last bit about only using legal software is a joke.
Has anyone else ever wondered if shopping people they know to FAST who have illegal software copies would boost the uptake of Free Software or just result in them not waking up dead in a ditch?
1/ Lots of us browse useful sites with lots of intersesting and generally work related stuff on.
2/ People do browse embarassing, unacceptable (within work) things.
By making the whole web traffic into a visible list (perhaps ordered on popularity or other criteria) people get access to lots of interesting sites at the same time as self censorship to avoid embarassment or innapropriate use.
It's a good approach in my opinion.
burp!
can anyone else see the prospective vision where because (and hopefully never) Europe and many other nations don't allow softare patents a notion where licensing issues of this sort make Gnu/Linux untenable in the US. Meanwhile every where else adopts it and just adds everything in that gets patented in the US (if it's a good idea not already being added in anyway)?
Stop that monkey it took my brain
The idea that any of the IP measures encourage release is silly. It just locks others out from being able to use it, fine you might say people are entitled (I disagree that they are but hey...) to that monopoly. Er, how is a monopoly control of the idea compatible with the idea is released to benefit progress? It is not.
If people want to exploit their inventiveness they should just not announce the idea. People can still catch up by disecting the products that use the ideas but it costs them time and money, meanwhile the originator gets a head start.
Honest I wasn't laughing at your shorts
The name stays the same but it makes use of the date and size to distinguish it or perhaps adds a hash to the name.
Yes I'm joking you clown
Some (like my boss) know C++ (sort of) and Perl (he's just been building the web site). Others only know C/C++ as being real languages and think of some of them as childs things. It then comes down to how much they rely upon the advice of their technical staff.
So I'm not so sure that it is discrimination as opposed to ignorance.
Guess most folk like Twister002 there are just tight and expect everything for free.
Put up or lose it
I tell the kid to make sure he spends less time on the computer and more time chasing girls!