It's just those pesky scientists causing trouble again. They're always trying to stir things up...turn people against the visitors....don't worry about it, Diana will sort them out.
...I estimate a 30% reduction in my productivity due to IT&T trying to save money with it's solutions...and guess what...you could hire a full time, intermediate level network engineer for a year on 30% of my wage...now, multiply me by the 70 other well paid professionals in our organisation and you quickly find out that anyone that thinks you can save money in the IT department is an idiot.
You spend money in the IT department so you can save BIG money elsewhere.
The only reason for the IT department at all is to assist increasing the productivity of the other organisation members...by definition, reducing IT&T spending is exponentially increasing it in other areas of the business.
Sorry that doesn't help you find ways to please your boss, but it really has to be said.
...how cool would living in a lighthouse be??!? Rip out the lamp and put a desk up there...sit up there coding all day long and get to exercise on the way to work....mad+
Once our debt gets to the point that other countries will no longer invest in us
Nah, I don't really think America has to worry about its foreign debt too much...it's 4.4 trillion dollars...like they say, if you owe the bank $1000, you've got a problem...if you owe the bank $1000000, the banks got a problem. People won't stop investing because they're relying on the money coming back to them at some point in the future...so America can happily go on incuring more and more debt because they've gotten to a stage were other countries can't afford not to let them. Smart move when you think of it, building a superpower using other people money.
...what are your chances of being threatened, blackmailed or falsly accused of a crime based on evidence gathered from your web browsing...I would guess pretty low. Now, lets have a look at some other statistics:
Chances of a child dying in a third world country before you finish reading this post: 100%
Chances of corporations being allowed to pump shit into the atmosphere until everyone with beach front property ends up having a really bad century: 100%
Chance of a really imporant species becoming extinct for no other reason than to increase shareholder value before the end of today: 100%
Chance that Monsanto is not telling us the 'whole truth' when it comes to genetically modified food (they've done it before guys): very freakin high
etc etc
Not trying to knock peoples beliefs here, but seriously...for sheer return on investment, isn't there a bunch more useful things to get angry about?
There are some real threats to this world, generally, your government is too stupid/apathetic/disorganized to be one of them.
because they realize it is a better development model than the closed sourced one
Of course it's a better business model. Every bit of code that they had to pay someone to maintain, they can now get people to maintain for free...what's not better about that!!
Just out of interest...what do you see as the future for open source...when all the software in the world is free, where do you see your paycheck coming from? Services? IBM and other major players will sew that market up faster than you can blink. Contracting on your open source solutions? Every change I need made someone is willing to do for free, why would I have to pay you to do that change as a contractor? Writing a book? Ok, that's 0.00001% of the population that can make a living. Custom modifications?
How about this one...working for IBM or one of the other big players...you'd probably get a job there quite easily...however it would be on their terms and if you didn't like it, well, go contracting or startup your own company...oh, hang on, that's right...you can't anymore.
It's wonderful to think that the ideals of open source software were how the world works, but it's not, and you're just eroding your value.
Knowledge should be free? Bullshit....I spent 10 years of my life acquiring specialist knowledge...I really enjoy being able to use it to pay bills and put food on the table.
The open source vs properietary software debate has very little to do with outsourcing
The point was about competative advantage...if you put your time and effort into something, then give it away to the world, don't bitch when someone fires your ass, takes your code and hires someone cheaper...if you'd licensed your solution (at reasonable rates) you'd still be able to feed your family, as well as probably build a business and hire local technologists. But instead, you give away a product that makes the large corporations more powerful and the small developer less so.
Corporations will always do what's in the best interest of their share holders...thinking that IBM has suddenly become a wonderfully altruistic socialist that's going to help open source thrive is naive. In fact, IBM every year has headed up the 'top 50 outsourcers' list.
...for your open source contributions that help him undercut your wage.
IBM understands it...you're not winning a war by IBM playing 'nice' with the opensource community. A company will do whatever is profitable. At the moment, IBM get's free code and great PR out of a few token gestures. They they outsource any actual development work to [insert current outsource country here] which use your freely given code to lower their development costs. RMS argues that there is enough money to be made in the service markets to sustain your wages...well, guess what...IBM has been making a pretty spectacular play for that service market for quite some time now...and it's taking your freely given software and using it to increase it's market penetration. Do you really think that 'small developer X' will be able to compete with IBM in the service market? But it's ok, RMS will be safe because he can always make a living on the tour circuit.
Brilliant strategy guys, see you in the soup kitchen line.
I'm not a huge gamer or console freak, so I don't spend a lot of money on games.
Dear EZmagz,
Your threat to stop buying something from us that you currently don't buy at all provided us with a fantastic laugh at the friday afternoon executive meeting. Keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
EA Executive
p.s. Thank you for not having the conviction to instruct your 401k/superannuation fund/whatever the equivalent is in your part of the world, to not invest your money in our company. Your $100 won't be missed, but your $30 000 may have.
I know this is kind of a matter of closing the gate after the horse has bolted...but next time, make sure you specify major and minor milestones, and not just the option of withholding payment, but write financial penalties into the milestones. If we're late on a delivery, our company has to deduct previously agreed amounts from our fees...If we continue to be late, we can completely erode the profit in the project. You'd be surprized how many software development contracts are structured this way.
hang on...is this sarcastic or what...are you serious?
p.s. want to know how to treat an illegal immigrant, ask an aussie...we lock them in hell holes (not even properly staffed UN sanctioned prisons) in the remote outback for 3 years then, when we figure out where they come from, we send em home and give them a multi million dollar bill for all the costs...no one from their family can ever legally apply for a visa until the debt is paid. Don't mess with aussie immigration.
they won't let you fly in...that is the U.S. anyway...and it's been like this for a while. I had a one year passport to the U.S. in 1996. I was going to travel until I ran out of money (except plane tick fair back to australia obviously) and then come back. The airline told me flat that visa didn't matter, unless I was a permanent resident or citizen, I would be turned around at my destination if I did not have a return ticket.
...lack of courage...client wants to change the requirements, have the balls to charge him more and tell him the deadline's going to move. There are very few management failures that can't be nailed down to good old fashion lacking of the steel ones.
it's been rumoured that Microsoft is purposely acting anti-competitively against spyware makers to force the entire slashdot populations heads to explode trying to figure out which side to take.
It's as if millions of ultra left wing nutjobs were suddenly silenced.
personally, I'll admit to being a bit of a nazi with code I've written...the reason has nothing to do with ego...it's because I'm sick of someone jumping into my code without consulting me, not truly understanding the reasons behind decisions I made, changing things and generally f#$%ing it all up...then, when the boss is looking for someone's ass to kick they're no where to be found or, when they are found, their response is "oh, thats name withhelds code".
You could argue that I could blame those changes on the developer who checked them in, pull cvs logs etc etc...but when you're dealing with non technical bosses, you just look like you're trying to pass the buck, and they certainly don't understand the difference between lines 20-25 two days ago vs 25-29 now and why that broke things.
So, code nazi-ism can be a self preservation method as well as being ego driven.
Slashdot Mirror
It's just those pesky scientists causing trouble again. They're always trying to stir things up...turn people against the visitors....don't worry about it, Diana will sort them out.
...I estimate a 30% reduction in my productivity due to IT&T trying to save money with it's solutions...and guess what...you could hire a full time, intermediate level network engineer for a year on 30% of my wage...now, multiply me by the 70 other well paid professionals in our organisation and you quickly find out that anyone that thinks you can save money in the IT department is an idiot.
You spend money in the IT department so you can save BIG money elsewhere.
The only reason for the IT department at all is to assist increasing the productivity of the other organisation members...by definition, reducing IT&T spending is exponentially increasing it in other areas of the business.
Sorry that doesn't help you find ways to please your boss, but it really has to be said.
...how cool would living in a lighthouse be??!? Rip out the lamp and put a desk up there...sit up there coding all day long and get to exercise on the way to work....mad+
Once our debt gets to the point that other countries will no longer invest in us
Nah, I don't really think America has to worry about its foreign debt too much...it's 4.4 trillion dollars...like they say, if you owe the bank $1000, you've got a problem...if you owe the bank $1000000, the banks got a problem. People won't stop investing because they're relying on the money coming back to them at some point in the future...so America can happily go on incuring more and more debt because they've gotten to a stage were other countries can't afford not to let them. Smart move when you think of it, building a superpower using other people money.
If bruce willis is trying to protect it...it's a planet.
If he's trying to blow it up...it's an asteroid.
If you wish you could throw him into it and watching him vaporize...it's a star.
I call it the willis theory of astronomy
(movies stars...is there any problem they can't solve?)
...de-velocity, de-location and all de-other information
The ravenous bug blatter beast of traal if memory serves.
I like vim
...what are your chances of being threatened, blackmailed or falsly accused of a crime based on evidence gathered from your web browsing...I would guess pretty low. Now, lets have a look at some other statistics:
Chances of a child dying in a third world country before you finish reading this post: 100%
Chances of corporations being allowed to pump shit into the atmosphere until everyone with beach front property ends up having a really bad century: 100%
Chance of a really imporant species becoming extinct for no other reason than to increase shareholder value before the end of today: 100%
Chance that Monsanto is not telling us the 'whole truth' when it comes to genetically modified food (they've done it before guys): very freakin high
etc etc
Not trying to knock peoples beliefs here, but seriously...for sheer return on investment, isn't there a bunch more useful things to get angry about?
There are some real threats to this world, generally, your government is too stupid/apathetic/disorganized to be one of them.
mod parent up
because they realize it is a better development model than the closed sourced one
Of course it's a better business model. Every bit of code that they had to pay someone to maintain, they can now get people to maintain for free...what's not better about that!!
Just out of interest...what do you see as the future for open source...when all the software in the world is free, where do you see your paycheck coming from? Services? IBM and other major players will sew that market up faster than you can blink. Contracting on your open source solutions? Every change I need made someone is willing to do for free, why would I have to pay you to do that change as a contractor? Writing a book? Ok, that's 0.00001% of the population that can make a living. Custom modifications?
How about this one...working for IBM or one of the other big players...you'd probably get a job there quite easily...however it would be on their terms and if you didn't like it, well, go contracting or startup your own company...oh, hang on, that's right...you can't anymore.
It's wonderful to think that the ideals of open source software were how the world works, but it's not, and you're just eroding your value.
Knowledge should be free? Bullshit....I spent 10 years of my life acquiring specialist knowledge...I really enjoy being able to use it to pay bills and put food on the table.
The open source vs properietary software debate has very little to do with outsourcing
The point was about competative advantage...if you put your time and effort into something, then give it away to the world, don't bitch when someone fires your ass, takes your code and hires someone cheaper...if you'd licensed your solution (at reasonable rates) you'd still be able to feed your family, as well as probably build a business and hire local technologists. But instead, you give away a product that makes the large corporations more powerful and the small developer less so.
Corporations will always do what's in the best interest of their share holders...thinking that IBM has suddenly become a wonderfully altruistic socialist that's going to help open source thrive is naive. In fact, IBM every year has headed up the 'top 50 outsourcers' list.
...for your open source contributions that help him undercut your wage.
IBM understands it...you're not winning a war by IBM playing 'nice' with the opensource community. A company will do whatever is profitable. At the moment, IBM get's free code and great PR out of a few token gestures. They they outsource any actual development work to [insert current outsource country here] which use your freely given code to lower their development costs. RMS argues that there is enough money to be made in the service markets to sustain your wages...well, guess what...IBM has been making a pretty spectacular play for that service market for quite some time now...and it's taking your freely given software and using it to increase it's market penetration. Do you really think that 'small developer X' will be able to compete with IBM in the service market? But it's ok, RMS will be safe because he can always make a living on the tour circuit.
Brilliant strategy guys, see you in the soup kitchen line.
I'm not a huge gamer or console freak, so I don't spend a lot of money on games.
Dear EZmagz,
Your threat to stop buying something from us that you currently don't buy at all provided us with a fantastic laugh at the friday afternoon executive meeting. Keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
EA Executive
p.s. Thank you for not having the conviction to instruct your 401k/superannuation fund/whatever the equivalent is in your part of the world, to not invest your money in our company. Your $100 won't be missed, but your $30 000 may have.
I know this is kind of a matter of closing the gate after the horse has bolted...but next time, make sure you specify major and minor milestones, and not just the option of withholding payment, but write financial penalties into the milestones. If we're late on a delivery, our company has to deduct previously agreed amounts from our fees...If we continue to be late, we can completely erode the profit in the project. You'd be surprized how many software development contracts are structured this way.
hang on...is this sarcastic or what...are you serious?
p.s. want to know how to treat an illegal immigrant, ask an aussie...we lock them in hell holes (not even properly staffed UN sanctioned prisons) in the remote outback for 3 years then, when we figure out where they come from, we send em home and give them a multi million dollar bill for all the costs...no one from their family can ever legally apply for a visa until the debt is paid. Don't mess with aussie immigration.
they won't let you fly in...that is the U.S. anyway...and it's been like this for a while. I had a one year passport to the U.S. in 1996. I was going to travel until I ran out of money (except plane tick fair back to australia obviously) and then come back. The airline told me flat that visa didn't matter, unless I was a permanent resident or citizen, I would be turned around at my destination if I did not have a return ticket.
yacht?
...to prison on 9 March.
Are you kidding me? 14 years in Jail or move to Ecuador, hmmmmm?
...lack of courage...client wants to change the requirements, have the balls to charge him more and tell him the deadline's going to move. There are very few management failures that can't be nailed down to good old fashion lacking of the steel ones.
it's been rumoured that Microsoft is purposely acting anti-competitively against spyware makers to force the entire slashdot populations heads to explode trying to figure out which side to take.
:)
It's as if millions of ultra left wing nutjobs were suddenly silenced.
oh take a joke
personally, I'll admit to being a bit of a nazi with code I've written...the reason has nothing to do with ego...it's because I'm sick of someone jumping into my code without consulting me, not truly understanding the reasons behind decisions I made, changing things and generally f#$%ing it all up...then, when the boss is looking for someone's ass to kick they're no where to be found or, when they are found, their response is "oh, thats name withhelds code".
You could argue that I could blame those changes on the developer who checked them in, pull cvs logs etc etc...but when you're dealing with non technical bosses, you just look like you're trying to pass the buck, and they certainly don't understand the difference between lines 20-25 two days ago vs 25-29 now and why that broke things.
So, code nazi-ism can be a self preservation method as well as being ego driven.
...what scares me is bush with his itchy trigger finger thinking it's a north korea attack
...wow, wouldn't this suck if it was part of a plea bargin..."plead guilty to can-spam and we'll drop the theft/intellectual property charges"....doh!
sorry...just read the rest of TFA...because firefox rendered the rest of his article off screen (debate away over who's at fault)