You need a good course in secular humanism and ethics (maybe philosophy?) Money is not necessary for 'value' to society. We of course have not for profit agencies and charities for example which hold value to society as a whole with no financial incentive (ignoring crackpot remarks about corruption) and although money is a major incentive to do business outside of charity, there are personal ethical other reasons that guide each person within a company beyond profiteering. One company may not do business with China because of purely ethical concerns on the part of the board while another avoids it because its customers are primarily hippies and it would eat into their bottom line.
And something more students need to be taught in school. Copyright is the temporary right to limit copies of your work to stimulate authors to create works with the potential of profits. Copyright isn't even a necessary evil, but it seems to work (to stimulate the creation of more books / music / paintings / etc.) so we leave it alone. Unfortunately, there are people who will try to claim that Copyright is more than this, and those people would be wrong.
120 years after death isn't quite the temporary they were thinking though, what do you think?
Goto is very heavily used... well, the JuMP call in assembly at least;-) It works exactly like goto, and occurs plenty in modern software... just because you don't see it doesn't mean its not there:-)
People can care for whatever reason makes them care. You may not care, but your argument is not a valid one -- just because something offers no financial incentive does not make it invalid or incorrect. Wrap your head around "just because" for a while.
Start working for change then, including using uClibc instead of glibc and avoiding other bloat-ware. Projects are still stuck using many bloated GNU tools but there are in fact replacements for some.
That's one of their duties, not a reason for existence. Not to be petty or anything, but very few companies *exist* to make shareholders money, that would require that they were first and foremost started to be publicly traded companies, which most aren't. Most companies start with some other purpose (often to make money for an owner or two as well) and then go public for more resources to work with. I know it really upsets some tried-and-true capitalists, but not everyone in the world is in business just to make a buck. Some people actually have other goals too.
I was going to make a snide remark about Americans losing laptops full of secret data, but I try to keep from pissing off various other intelligence agencies along with CSIS. Mind you, we've lost laptops full of unsecured data too... yeah, we have laptops up here. lol.
People who'd have to take responsibility for their actions? OMG, say it ain't so.
Thanks for that rant -- its nice to know at least two of us believe people ought to be held accountable for their own actions.
PS to everyone -- your work place is not the military. You are not taking orders. You are a human being. If you think what you're asked to do is wrong or stupid, say so, fix it, come out in public, do something, don't just let Bob (random dude -- no offense to Bobs of the world) do it instead.
We've been ordering servers for our clients as "No OS - Linux Configuration" from Dell for years now. They have been doing this for a long time already. If you choose "Linux Configuration", the hardware selected is only that which is intended to work with Linux.
Click servers, click large business (gives you the most options), click any server and browse the OS options.
To be fair to Slashdot's editors, very few of the events in SCO's existence have been covered here. I know its hard to believe for some, but there are a lot more ramblings going on than just the ones you read on Slashdot. Go give Groklaw a read to see just how many stupidities happen on a monthly basis with this company.
IBM's no saint in the computer world, but this is just crazy -- please remember people, SCO hasn't even established ownership of the Copyrights they claim were broken in the first place. That's another case altogether (with Novell).
He's saying "equivalent" meaning the same percentage of the population. 16 million Canadians is almost half the population of Canada, so consider losing the American tax records for half the population.
Of course, its a stupid comparison unless you're just trying to establish severity to Canadians. The same shoebox in the USA would still hold the same number of tax records, and whether 50% of the population or not, 16 million upset citizens is a lot.
That'd be me. I'm a cynic and sarcastic to boot. Not with customers or anything, but within my workplace yes. And if anyone has a problem with it... lol:-)
My boss where I am now is of the same bent I am that way, which is great. We joke and laugh and feed off each others' remarks half the time. Sometimes someone tells the other to 'F' off... and we've been working together 8 years now. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't go over as very "Google-y".
Actually, for the marble, I'd drop it from a fairly 'sure to be safe' height like one story or even half a story. If it breaks, drop the other marble from some fraction of the height of the first marble. If it didn't break, I'd double it and try again (since if the marble doesn't break, you can use it again). If it breaks, drop the second marble from some (smallish) percentage of the distance between the last successful drop and the unsuccessful drop.
Its used in TCP/IP (exponential back-off) and it works quite well, although not perfectly.
I too have been randomly contacted by a Google recruiter. They were however aware of my Slashdot postings and my website. They also had two specific jobs in mind for which they provided links to descriptions. That said, I live very happily now in Ontario, Canada and don't want to move to their California offices where the jobs were. I wouldn't mind working at Google at all, but I do have a very comfortable job where I am now with a good boss and established customer base.
That's the stupidest comment that gets repeated about all sorts of things in Open Source. There are people who can document, who can theorize and who can draw much better than they can code. If coders and those who can't code but have potential for contribution would communicate, we'd end up with better software. Software isn't just code, sorry to say. Yes yes, "show me the code" is a great line, and wrong for almost everything outside libraries and kernel space (and even then, some documentation writers, theorists and idea people should be involved more than they are by the coders).
That's not as obvious as you may think. Many people in academic circles get away with not doing their jobs the way others think they ought or just being eccentric on the basis of their credentials. "Oh, he's like that, but he's a genius so whatever" type thing. If people believed she had strong credentials, its quite possible they didn't question her on that basis alone.
My PS3 is just over a month old and has spent almost 250 hours playing video games so far between my wife and I and the five other people who've come over and set up users on it.
"High energy" is not equivalent to requiring lots of CPU power. Just look at the Burnout series on the PS2 (or Xbox). However, having intelligent AI systems, good physics processing and some goodies like accurate dynamic 3D sound are out of reach on the Wii. Lots of games will be lots of fun without those things, but designers who want to go for gusto in those areas will not be making their games on the Wii.
Don't feed the trolls. There's a whole bunch of people out there who want to believe that several million units sold is equivalent to zero and that comparing 360 sales to PS3 sales is fair without considering the 360's full one-year lead.
This is Sony we're talking about -- God of War was not made by a third party, and Insomniac is working on another Ratchet & Clank, not to mention the existing games. I'm hoping Sony works out offering decent music & movie sales soon, but there's no reason to malign PS3 owners.
PS, there's not much of a price difference between a PS3 and a 360 in the grand scheme of how much money gamers spend on gaming.
Websites designed by people who just discovered image slicing and image maps are really annoying. Using one big image sliced up (for no good reason) with lots of links on it does not prove your prowess -- it shows you really don't want your site indexed by major search engines.
And in other news, "Zygamorph expelled for inciting violence against principal because school doesn't understand common expression, 'egg on your face' and assumed the principal was to be assaulted with actual eggs.";-)
Actually no -- unless all your volunteered code was given to you under some other license, using any 3rd party code (patches, quick-fixes, anything) during the GPL phase of your project will prevent you from changing the license yourself. Its no longer yours after all, you've accepted outside GPL licensed code from other individuals.
That's why licenses like the Zope or MySQL licenses exist -- to allow the original company to still sell non-GPL'd versions of the code by requiring that contributors sign over additional rights. If he didn't do this, he's stuck pulling out all code he didn't write before changing the license.
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You need a good course in secular humanism and ethics (maybe philosophy?) Money is not necessary for 'value' to society. We of course have not for profit agencies and charities for example which hold value to society as a whole with no financial incentive (ignoring crackpot remarks about corruption) and although money is a major incentive to do business outside of charity, there are personal ethical other reasons that guide each person within a company beyond profiteering. One company may not do business with China because of purely ethical concerns on the part of the board while another avoids it because its customers are primarily hippies and it would eat into their bottom line.
And something more students need to be taught in school. Copyright is the temporary right to limit copies of your work to stimulate authors to create works with the potential of profits. Copyright isn't even a necessary evil, but it seems to work (to stimulate the creation of more books / music / paintings / etc.) so we leave it alone. Unfortunately, there are people who will try to claim that Copyright is more than this, and those people would be wrong.
120 years after death isn't quite the temporary they were thinking though, what do you think?
Goto is very heavily used ... well, the JuMP call in assembly at least ;-) It works exactly like goto, and occurs plenty in modern software ... just because you don't see it doesn't mean its not there :-)
People can care for whatever reason makes them care. You may not care, but your argument is not a valid one -- just because something offers no financial incentive does not make it invalid or incorrect. Wrap your head around "just because" for a while.
Start working for change then, including using uClibc instead of glibc and avoiding other bloat-ware. Projects are still stuck using many bloated GNU tools but there are in fact replacements for some.
That's one of their duties, not a reason for existence. Not to be petty or anything, but very few companies *exist* to make shareholders money, that would require that they were first and foremost started to be publicly traded companies, which most aren't. Most companies start with some other purpose (often to make money for an owner or two as well) and then go public for more resources to work with. I know it really upsets some tried-and-true capitalists, but not everyone in the world is in business just to make a buck. Some people actually have other goals too.
I was going to make a snide remark about Americans losing laptops full of secret data, but I try to keep from pissing off various other intelligence agencies along with CSIS. Mind you, we've lost laptops full of unsecured data too ... yeah, we have laptops up here. lol.
Cute ;-) Nicely done.
Kudos.
People who'd have to take responsibility for their actions? OMG, say it ain't so.
Thanks for that rant -- its nice to know at least two of us believe people ought to be held accountable for their own actions.
PS to everyone -- your work place is not the military. You are not taking orders. You are a human being. If you think what you're asked to do is wrong or stupid, say so, fix it, come out in public, do something, don't just let Bob (random dude -- no offense to Bobs of the world) do it instead.
We've been ordering servers for our clients as "No OS - Linux Configuration" from Dell for years now. They have been doing this for a long time already. If you choose "Linux Configuration", the hardware selected is only that which is intended to work with Linux.
Click servers, click large business (gives you the most options), click any server and browse the OS options.
For a second there, I thought you were talking about the American right to bear arms ;-)
To be fair to Slashdot's editors, very few of the events in SCO's existence have been covered here. I know its hard to believe for some, but there are a lot more ramblings going on than just the ones you read on Slashdot. Go give Groklaw a read to see just how many stupidities happen on a monthly basis with this company.
IBM's no saint in the computer world, but this is just crazy -- please remember people, SCO hasn't even established ownership of the Copyrights they claim were broken in the first place. That's another case altogether (with Novell).
He's saying "equivalent" meaning the same percentage of the population. 16 million Canadians is almost half the population of Canada, so consider losing the American tax records for half the population.
Of course, its a stupid comparison unless you're just trying to establish severity to Canadians. The same shoebox in the USA would still hold the same number of tax records, and whether 50% of the population or not, 16 million upset citizens is a lot.
That'd be me. I'm a cynic and sarcastic to boot. Not with customers or anything, but within my workplace yes. And if anyone has a problem with it ... lol :-)
... and we've been working together 8 years now. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't go over as very "Google-y".
My boss where I am now is of the same bent I am that way, which is great. We joke and laugh and feed off each others' remarks half the time. Sometimes someone tells the other to 'F' off
Actually, for the marble, I'd drop it from a fairly 'sure to be safe' height like one story or even half a story. If it breaks, drop the other marble from some fraction of the height of the first marble. If it didn't break, I'd double it and try again (since if the marble doesn't break, you can use it again). If it breaks, drop the second marble from some (smallish) percentage of the distance between the last successful drop and the unsuccessful drop.
Its used in TCP/IP (exponential back-off) and it works quite well, although not perfectly.
I too have been randomly contacted by a Google recruiter. They were however aware of my Slashdot postings and my website. They also had two specific jobs in mind for which they provided links to descriptions. That said, I live very happily now in Ontario, Canada and don't want to move to their California offices where the jobs were. I wouldn't mind working at Google at all, but I do have a very comfortable job where I am now with a good boss and established customer base.
That's the stupidest comment that gets repeated about all sorts of things in Open Source. There are people who can document, who can theorize and who can draw much better than they can code. If coders and those who can't code but have potential for contribution would communicate, we'd end up with better software. Software isn't just code, sorry to say. Yes yes, "show me the code" is a great line, and wrong for almost everything outside libraries and kernel space (and even then, some documentation writers, theorists and idea people should be involved more than they are by the coders).
That's not as obvious as you may think. Many people in academic circles get away with not doing their jobs the way others think they ought or just being eccentric on the basis of their credentials. "Oh, he's like that, but he's a genius so whatever" type thing. If people believed she had strong credentials, its quite possible they didn't question her on that basis alone.
My PS3 is just over a month old and has spent almost 250 hours playing video games so far between my wife and I and the five other people who've come over and set up users on it.
"High energy" is not equivalent to requiring lots of CPU power. Just look at the Burnout series on the PS2 (or Xbox). However, having intelligent AI systems, good physics processing and some goodies like accurate dynamic 3D sound are out of reach on the Wii. Lots of games will be lots of fun without those things, but designers who want to go for gusto in those areas will not be making their games on the Wii.
Don't feed the trolls. There's a whole bunch of people out there who want to believe that several million units sold is equivalent to zero and that comparing 360 sales to PS3 sales is fair without considering the 360's full one-year lead.
This is Sony we're talking about -- God of War was not made by a third party, and Insomniac is working on another Ratchet & Clank, not to mention the existing games. I'm hoping Sony works out offering decent music & movie sales soon, but there's no reason to malign PS3 owners.
PS, there's not much of a price difference between a PS3 and a 360 in the grand scheme of how much money gamers spend on gaming.
Websites designed by people who just discovered image slicing and image maps are really annoying. Using one big image sliced up (for no good reason) with lots of links on it does not prove your prowess -- it shows you really don't want your site indexed by major search engines.
And in other news, "Zygamorph expelled for inciting violence against principal because school doesn't understand common expression, 'egg on your face' and assumed the principal was to be assaulted with actual eggs." ;-)
And a new version of the Newton OS to run on the iPhone with full third party app functionality and and and ...
Yeah, I doubt it too.
Actually no -- unless all your volunteered code was given to you under some other license, using any 3rd party code (patches, quick-fixes, anything) during the GPL phase of your project will prevent you from changing the license yourself. Its no longer yours after all, you've accepted outside GPL licensed code from other individuals.
That's why licenses like the Zope or MySQL licenses exist -- to allow the original company to still sell non-GPL'd versions of the code by requiring that contributors sign over additional rights. If he didn't do this, he's stuck pulling out all code he didn't write before changing the license.