Yeah, that's what I was going to post. "Distracted driving" is a danger to everyone else on the road. No, you do not have the freedom to put my life in jeopardy just so you can text your friend Sheila that you're going to be a few minutes late to the dinner party, as you barrel down the highway at 80 miles an hour.
I did a search on some IP addresses assigned to overseas US military facilities. Let's just say it turns out US soldiers like transsexuals and big girls. And possibly big transsexual girls.
This will never fly in the US, where there is always massive cultural resistance to people being kept from doing absolutely any hare-brained, dumbassed thing they can conceive. What good is having freedom if you can't do massively stupid shit?!
Not to mention vehicle black boxes, which are becoming more common, and record just about everything that's going on with the car at the time of the accident.
I love the Humble Bundles for just that reason. But these are also indie games--they have such a small market to begin with, being cross-platform is actually a better proposition for them. When you're making a AAA franchise game, it makes little sense to spend much money on a Linux port when 99% of your users are going to be on Windows in the first place.
Linux users are, I suspect, much more likely to buy indie games in the first place--and those sales would make up a greater proportion of overall sales.
I don't think it's fair to compare the sales trends for indie games to sales of, say, EA and Activision titles.
Yep. That's why this sort of thing can just keep happening. The CEO won't be around for the long-term fallout, so all the blame will fall on the next guy, and the one after him, as the company keeps floundering and no one can figure out why.
Yeah, it's weird how being consistently profitable is viewed as a bad thing, isn't it? If you aren't doubling your profits every few quarters, by golly, you're a failure.
Incidentally, this is what leads companies to boost their profit levels through massive workforce cuts. Then the CEO can say, "I doubled profits in the third quarter!" He just leaves out the part where he did it by slashing a third of the staff, which means all the customers get shitty support/service, and whatever it is the company actually makes will see either reduced output, reduced quality, or both, and in a few quarters the profits will have declined substantially thanks to all the pissed off customers who ditched you.
Some people (like me) do both. There are some things I want to stream. Other things, I'd like to have a copy around to watch whenever I want, including when I'm offline. Movies and TV shows are not all created equal.
You obviously have a fundamental misunderstanding of Stallman's position--which is that copyright shouldn't even exist. The only reason he created the GPL was to use the existing copyright system as a mechanism to enforce his ideal paradigm, which is that no one owns any code, and it is freely available to everyone to do with as they please.
Since violations of the GPL involve closing code that was once open, or holding back new code that should be released under the GPL, it makes sense that would aggressively pursue violations--or that he would like to, if he had the financial resources.
Linus, on the other hand, I've never seen as any kind of ideologue or ax-grinder. He just wants to put out good code, and if he can get paid for it, why complain?
(For what it's worth, I don't agree with RMS' position on copyright, beyond wanting some reform. The elimination of copyright is not something I would like to see.)
So, you're not too busy to cook entire meals from scratch--which involves choosing quality ingredients and carefully monitoring the cooking process--but you're way too busy to pause for a couple seconds and decide which bin your refuse goes in?
Something doesn't add up here. It's okay to admit that you just don't want to do it. It has nothing to do with how busy you are.
I've seen LoC metrics used as an excuse to take things that should be represented as data (file formats, etc.) turned into code just to boost the LoC stats. Unfortunately, this leads to code that's hideously difficult to maintain or extend. But hey, it's all about job security, right?
A useful metric I've gone by over the years is defects per n hours (n=100 or 1000, depending on team size.) This is a good, long-term metric you can use to determine whether your software quality is getting better or worse, and then work to address those shortcomings. You can also track the bugs by severity, but it's essential that the people categorizing the issues not have a stake in the analysis of that categorization (conflict of interest.) Ten cosmetic bugs are less horrible than 10 critical bugs, obviously. You'd want your defects per hour to go down in the aggregate, and the average severity of those bugs to decline over time. If that's not happening, something is wrong with your development organization.
It amazes me how many companies don't even do this kind of analysis. They just have a constant merry-go-round of incoming bug reports and outgoing fixes, everyone is overwhelmed and overworked, and no one has any idea why things are so screwed up.
(My job usually involves coming in and fixing such broken processes.)
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Most people probably don't read more than the headline.
So, posting as AC, no link to a blog or anything about this supposedly revolutionary new CMS you're working on... I smell a troll. :-p
Wiki format is really not that difficult. Why are some people averse to learning anything?
"I want to do x, but I'm not willing to learn anything in order to do it."
Why are you so lazy?
I knew there was a reason I'm a grub fan. Epic troll.
Yeah, that's what I was going to post. "Distracted driving" is a danger to everyone else on the road. No, you do not have the freedom to put my life in jeopardy just so you can text your friend Sheila that you're going to be a few minutes late to the dinner party, as you barrel down the highway at 80 miles an hour.
Even Blackberries are cooler than Windows phones.
Posts like yours are why I wish Slashdot put Facebook "like" buttons on every comment. I would like your comment so hard right now.
Try this one: 68.140.70.159
I did a search on some IP addresses assigned to overseas US military facilities. Let's just say it turns out US soldiers like transsexuals and big girls. And possibly big transsexual girls.
This will never fly in the US, where there is always massive cultural resistance to people being kept from doing absolutely any hare-brained, dumbassed thing they can conceive. What good is having freedom if you can't do massively stupid shit?!
Not to mention vehicle black boxes, which are becoming more common, and record just about everything that's going on with the car at the time of the accident.
I love the Humble Bundles for just that reason. But these are also indie games--they have such a small market to begin with, being cross-platform is actually a better proposition for them. When you're making a AAA franchise game, it makes little sense to spend much money on a Linux port when 99% of your users are going to be on Windows in the first place.
Linux users are, I suspect, much more likely to buy indie games in the first place--and those sales would make up a greater proportion of overall sales.
I don't think it's fair to compare the sales trends for indie games to sales of, say, EA and Activision titles.
Your plan is fucking diabolical. I love it!
Games. Why do people always ask this? Most games don't work on Linux.*
* At least not without an excessive amount of fiddling and configuration and praying.
Yep. That's why this sort of thing can just keep happening. The CEO won't be around for the long-term fallout, so all the blame will fall on the next guy, and the one after him, as the company keeps floundering and no one can figure out why.
Yeah, it's weird how being consistently profitable is viewed as a bad thing, isn't it? If you aren't doubling your profits every few quarters, by golly, you're a failure.
Incidentally, this is what leads companies to boost their profit levels through massive workforce cuts. Then the CEO can say, "I doubled profits in the third quarter!" He just leaves out the part where he did it by slashing a third of the staff, which means all the customers get shitty support/service, and whatever it is the company actually makes will see either reduced output, reduced quality, or both, and in a few quarters the profits will have declined substantially thanks to all the pissed off customers who ditched you.
Some people (like me) do both. There are some things I want to stream. Other things, I'd like to have a copy around to watch whenever I want, including when I'm offline. Movies and TV shows are not all created equal.
You obviously have a fundamental misunderstanding of Stallman's position--which is that copyright shouldn't even exist. The only reason he created the GPL was to use the existing copyright system as a mechanism to enforce his ideal paradigm, which is that no one owns any code, and it is freely available to everyone to do with as they please.
Since violations of the GPL involve closing code that was once open, or holding back new code that should be released under the GPL, it makes sense that would aggressively pursue violations--or that he would like to, if he had the financial resources.
Linus, on the other hand, I've never seen as any kind of ideologue or ax-grinder. He just wants to put out good code, and if he can get paid for it, why complain?
(For what it's worth, I don't agree with RMS' position on copyright, beyond wanting some reform. The elimination of copyright is not something I would like to see.)
"RNA does what you want, unless what you want is consistency." -- Larry Wall (sort of)
Well, what kind of idiot sits on their wallet?
To be fair, Newark is a pretty rough place. You couldn't pay me to live there.
So, you're not too busy to cook entire meals from scratch--which involves choosing quality ingredients and carefully monitoring the cooking process--but you're way too busy to pause for a couple seconds and decide which bin your refuse goes in?
Something doesn't add up here. It's okay to admit that you just don't want to do it. It has nothing to do with how busy you are.
Sounds like the behavior of a genuine medical professional to me! Sign me up!
I've seen LoC metrics used as an excuse to take things that should be represented as data (file formats, etc.) turned into code just to boost the LoC stats. Unfortunately, this leads to code that's hideously difficult to maintain or extend. But hey, it's all about job security, right?
Wish I had mod points for you.
A useful metric I've gone by over the years is defects per n hours (n=100 or 1000, depending on team size.) This is a good, long-term metric you can use to determine whether your software quality is getting better or worse, and then work to address those shortcomings. You can also track the bugs by severity, but it's essential that the people categorizing the issues not have a stake in the analysis of that categorization (conflict of interest.) Ten cosmetic bugs are less horrible than 10 critical bugs, obviously. You'd want your defects per hour to go down in the aggregate, and the average severity of those bugs to decline over time. If that's not happening, something is wrong with your development organization.
It amazes me how many companies don't even do this kind of analysis. They just have a constant merry-go-round of incoming bug reports and outgoing fixes, everyone is overwhelmed and overworked, and no one has any idea why things are so screwed up.
(My job usually involves coming in and fixing such broken processes.)