A lot of the restrictions are meant to make it so you can't take "my" code and use that as a starting point, make improvements and not allow everyone to benefit.
The whole point is to make a community that works together, or a perfect form of communism. If you're able to take "my" code and do whatever you feel like, you're just going to proliferate the number of forks that exist. Basically making a compatibility nightmare.
Anytime you are stressed you're more apt to make mistakes, over-compensate, shake. What would cannabis do for you? Calm you down... Chances are if you make a mistake, you're going to mess up immediately after it because you're not focused on the now, but on the past. So short term memory loss plus the fact that you aren't as attached to the mistakes you make, makes it easier for you to not make additional mistakes.
Open source software is actually costing my institution more than a closed source alternative. The drive for moving to open source software is more about being able to maintain a solution, and customize it to exactly what the requirements are.
Another fun thing we are experiencing is the total lack of knowledge closed source solution professionals have. We're finding the people to be very silo'ed without knowledge of what goes on around them. So when you are trying to implement something, you get very concerned with cross-technical area issues.
You ask an SAP basis person to come look at a screen and they'll say "Not Functional..." and wave their hands wildly with their palms facing you. Ask the Abaper and they'll shrug without a clue.
Hell, the Abaper is supposed to be a programmer you think, but they can't even teach you the basic parts of a program; you'll be lucky enough if they even know how to do proper error handling.
You see these types of people and they frighten the crap out of you. You just stare out the window and wonder why people are willing to pay 80 or 100 dollars an hour for these.... idiots!
I can go out into a University, pay a fresh graduate 40 dollars an hour and teach them everything they need to know... knowing that they'll leave after the project and still be better off than getting consultants.
Compare that with a professional in open source technologies. They need to know how things work together, because that's all they do. They can't learn just 1 technology, they need to know multiples, and how to fit them together. As they grow in their career, they know the big picture, and that is completely different than the closed source alternative.
It seems everyone is focusing on websites in general . Having your website accessible to individuals with impairments is not optional. I'm not talking about your blog, the vast majority of people can live without that. This is about the functions related to your job and life that are only easily accessible from a web page.
You have all of these enterprise resource systems that take care of accounting, benefits, retirement, attendance... the list goes on and on. All of these systems are moving to web only accessibility, and are required to carry out your activities related to work, school, your children and so on.
If you need a website to carry out those required activities, it is not optional to make them accessible to all people.
I don't get how you can weigh anything and expect that weight to not change. Is the moon in the exact same spot? Is all of the materials under your feet in the exact same spot as well as the material throughout the world? Where are we in relationship to the sun?
There's so much mass that affects gravity that has to be accounted for that it seems pointless to try an weigh things to such precise measurements.
They won't raise the price to $34. What they're trying to do is establish a higher value associated with their cds so that when they sue people for copyright infringement they can get more money out of them.
Would you rather read stories from cnn or foxnews that were written by people without any knowledge? This is a much bigger problem than just slashdot, all news outlets have gone down the tubes.
Isn't the same type of thing possible for cell phones? Last I checked, I didn't have my bank's phone number in my address book, seems kind of odd to have something like that anyways. Do people really call their banks with any regularity to need an entry in their address book?
That might make sense if Microsoft was the one pulling the strings for the inclusion of DRM in Windows. Microsoft is just stuck between a rock and a hard place with content providers, or more specifically the RIAA and MPAA.
Everyone understands they need new hardware for new technologies. The whole argument is that once you purchase that hardware, you can't use it the way you want because you don't own it. It's usability is determined by:
Having secure drivers (Try updating drivers on a machine with no internet connectivity) Having hardware that purposefully degrades quality when played in an insecure fashion.
The secureness of one of those items is not determined by security professionals, it is determined by content providers. Their decisions will be based on how much money they think they can make from you.
First off, if it was a Windows clone they'd be sued out of existence for copyright and patent infringement. 2nd, Try taking a black box that you put water in one side and gold comes out the other and replicating it. The problem being that you can't open the box, and try as you might, you can't make out all of the inner workings by looking through the holes on the box. To make matters worse, 2 gnomes live inside and change how the machine works periodically.
Go ahead, please make that 100%-compatible black box clone based on a Unix-like operating system.
It's like if you volunteer at a children's hospital to read stories to them and then the organization in charge decides they need a few more people and they pay for them instead of just trying to get more volunteers. You feel that it isn't as good of a product because the motivation for a few of those people are not what your motivations were.
The only thing we need to accomplish that would be a time machine and an infinite supply of condoms. If the parents were actually trying to have a kid... I'm sure someone down the family tree made a mistake... Just gotta keep going;)
I think they should have picked Atheist sounding names... Out of all of the "religions" out there, that one is the one Christians should fear the most. After all, when it comes to battles, information is king. Who better to challenge those in power then the ones who actively challenge their "knowledge".
Slashdot Mirror
glass doors, you can see in.
A lot of the restrictions are meant to make it so you can't take "my" code and use that as a starting point, make improvements and not allow everyone to benefit.
The whole point is to make a community that works together, or a perfect form of communism. If you're able to take "my" code and do whatever you feel like, you're just going to proliferate the number of forks that exist. Basically making a compatibility nightmare.
Anytime you are stressed you're more apt to make mistakes, over-compensate, shake. What would cannabis do for you? Calm you down... Chances are if you make a mistake, you're going to mess up immediately after it because you're not focused on the now, but on the past. So short term memory loss plus the fact that you aren't as attached to the mistakes you make, makes it easier for you to not make additional mistakes.
A neat thing about vmware is the ability for a "guest"/vm to migrate to different hardware during hardware failure.
Open source software is actually costing my institution more than a closed source alternative. The drive for moving to open source software is more about being able to maintain a solution, and customize it to exactly what the requirements are.
Another fun thing we are experiencing is the total lack of knowledge closed source solution professionals have. We're finding the people to be very silo'ed without knowledge of what goes on around them. So when you are trying to implement something, you get very concerned with cross-technical area issues.
You ask an SAP basis person to come look at a screen and they'll say "Not Functional..." and wave their hands wildly with their palms facing you. Ask the Abaper and they'll shrug without a clue.
Hell, the Abaper is supposed to be a programmer you think, but they can't even teach you the basic parts of a program; you'll be lucky enough if they even know how to do proper error handling.
You see these types of people and they frighten the crap out of you. You just stare out the window and wonder why people are willing to pay 80 or 100 dollars an hour for these.... idiots!
I can go out into a University, pay a fresh graduate 40 dollars an hour and teach them everything they need to know... knowing that they'll leave after the project and still be better off than getting consultants.
Compare that with a professional in open source technologies. They need to know how things work together, because that's all they do. They can't learn just 1 technology, they need to know multiples, and how to fit them together. As they grow in their career, they know the big picture, and that is completely different than the closed source alternative.
Actually, we'd all die relatively slowly and quickly, depending on if you're looking at people falling in after or before you.
When you start getting more emails for Viagra after you've been diagnosed by your doctor for having ED?
Production systems are not for testing purposes. You want to test rebooting? Do it on a test box.
It seems everyone is focusing on websites in general . Having your website accessible to individuals with impairments is not optional. I'm not talking about your blog, the vast majority of people can live without that. This is about the functions related to your job and life that are only easily accessible from a web page. You have all of these enterprise resource systems that take care of accounting, benefits, retirement, attendance... the list goes on and on. All of these systems are moving to web only accessibility, and are required to carry out your activities related to work, school, your children and so on. If you need a website to carry out those required activities, it is not optional to make them accessible to all people.
I don't get how you can weigh anything and expect that weight to not change. Is the moon in the exact same spot? Is all of the materials under your feet in the exact same spot as well as the material throughout the world? Where are we in relationship to the sun?
There's so much mass that affects gravity that has to be accounted for that it seems pointless to try an weigh things to such precise measurements.
They won't raise the price to $34. What they're trying to do is establish a higher value associated with their cds so that when they sue people for copyright infringement they can get more money out of them.
Like body armor for our troops?
Problem is the omnipotent gods have a vested interest in not smiting you (their ~15 dollar/month lunch ticket).
That's difficult to do in the business world as well, since maintenance and support for Windows XP and earlier have expiration dates.
Would you rather read stories from cnn or foxnews that were written by people without any knowledge? This is a much bigger problem than just slashdot, all news outlets have gone down the tubes.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22has+been+d iagnosed+with%22&btnG=Google+Search
:)
Isn't the same type of thing possible for cell phones?
Last I checked, I didn't have my bank's phone number in my address book, seems kind of odd to have something like that anyways.
Do people really call their banks with any regularity to need an entry in their address book?
Ask them, not me.
I'm pretty sure that you can answer that question with 1 word.
Money.
That might make sense if Microsoft was the one pulling the strings for the inclusion of DRM in Windows.
Microsoft is just stuck between a rock and a hard place with content providers, or more specifically the RIAA and MPAA.
Everyone understands they need new hardware for new technologies. The whole argument is that once you purchase that hardware, you can't use it the way you want because you don't own it. It's usability is determined by:
Having secure drivers (Try updating drivers on a machine with no internet connectivity)
Having hardware that purposefully degrades quality when played in an insecure fashion.
The secureness of one of those items is not determined by security professionals, it is determined by content providers. Their decisions will be based on how much money they think they can make from you.
First off, if it was a Windows clone they'd be sued out of existence for copyright and patent infringement.
2nd, Try taking a black box that you put water in one side and gold comes out the other and replicating it. The problem being that you can't open the box, and try as you might, you can't make out all of the inner workings by looking through the holes on the box. To make matters worse, 2 gnomes live inside and change how the machine works periodically.
Go ahead, please make that 100%-compatible black box clone based on a Unix-like operating system.
It's like if you volunteer at a children's hospital to read stories to them and then the organization in charge decides they need a few more people and they pay for them instead of just trying to get more volunteers. You feel that it isn't as good of a product because the motivation for a few of those people are not what your motivations were.
The only thing we need to accomplish that would be a time machine and an infinite supply of condoms. ;)
If the parents were actually trying to have a kid... I'm sure someone down the family tree made a mistake... Just gotta keep going
How about...
Would Timothy McVeigh have one if it was in place before he was born?
I think they should have picked Atheist sounding names... Out of all of the "religions" out there, that one is the one Christians should fear the most.
After all, when it comes to battles, information is king. Who better to challenge those in power then the ones who actively challenge their "knowledge".