Can't mod you up, but your post is really insightful.
Why bother updating a web browser if you plan to roll out a new technology which makes web browsers obsolete *and* will enforce lock-in for the rest of the century?
If I borrow and crash your car and I kill a horse (or something), and I have to repay you the worth of the car, and you accept my money, you also accept that you are responsible for crashing the car? That's nice, then you can help me repaying the cost of the horse.
I am and since my BMW is not software, the patents are still valid;-)
But you're right, my analogy was incorrect. The difference with my analogy and Open Source is that, while you can drive my BMW away and deprive me of the use of my shiney, Topasblue Compact, with Open Source I'd still be able to use my software.
And like above post says, they would be able to improve my BMW and I would reap the benefits as well.
Better analogy is: Leave the keys in your BMW so that everybody can make a duplicate. And then they add your big shiney wheels and sound system, and I can get a free upgrade as well.
Funny thing is that the US wouldn't exist without French help. Before France was a republic, a lot of French would-be republicans went to the US to make their ideals come true here and fight the British.
I am aware of the fact that a lot of drugs on the hard drugs list are not necessarily bad for your health and that a lot of them have been put on the list because of international pressure (XTC for example). But I think the *philosophy* behind the division between soft and hard drugs is like I described.
Strange, so you're calling an addiction 'freedom'?
Mind you, I'm from the NL, so I'm used to a pretty liberal (as in free, not as in left-wing) view to drugs, but then again, we divide drugs into 2 categories: 1. Soft drugs, which are not or marginally harmful and not or marginally addiction inducing. 2. Hard drugs, which are harmful and make you addicted fast.
So I don't mind per se about selling 'soft drugs', but I do mind selling any drugs to children and I do care about selling hard drugs. Because you can ask yourself if children are ready to consiously decide whether they want to use drugs and when you use hard drugs, then you lose all your freedom. The only thing that matters then is getting your next shot.
Then again, a lot of people learn to live with their hard drugs addiction. We call them 'smokers';-)
Big Dutch bank exactly the same principle. Just book 5x8 and if you work more, then just work an hour less the next week. Of course, this might work out negatively for you, since you can't prove you actually worked more the previous week.
And when they ask you to work more than 40 hrs a week, or in the weekends, don't expect that you're allowed to book more than your 5x8. So that was a no-go, because the only way to get my hours back was after the project. That means either in my own time (my boss' time) or another customer's time.
There will be a C Nazi Squadron knocking on your door when you make government responsible for enforcing standards, like the parent of my previous post suggested.
Standards and regulations are the same when we're talking about government. How do you think those standards will be enforced?
And given governments' track record those regulated standards will be: - years late - still in effect when they're useless - more formed by political considerations and those of pressure groups than technical necessity.
This is exactly my experience. I've been developing in Java for about 8 years and I think I met just 10 other people who really know their Java. And of those 10 people just about 2 or 3 are able to design an enterprise class application.
It's not just Java developers, in the booming years a lot of people were hired by IT consulting firms here (NL) that shouldn't be near any computer at all. I've seen system engineers who studied politicology and got an MCSE who don't know the most basic thing about Windows and are not able to solve any problem at all. I've met tens of 'project managers' who don't know anything about IT and even less about software development and are too stubborn to listen to people who do know their shit.
The worst of all are VB 'programmers' who are just able to point and click a basic application, but don't have any feeling for what a programmer should be able to do.
The worst is title inflation. Every donkey is a 'software engineer' these days, and if you are able to actually design a piece of software you should call yourself 'architect', otherwise people won't take you seriously.
Because 'programmers' are seen as monkeys that type and are doing a trick that every other monkey can do.:-(
Can I compile the kernel with this Portable.Net stuff? Since the most important thing I can think of that is written in C is the Linux kernel I guess it's a good thing that this Portable.Net stuff is here now C is dying. Otherwise we would never be able to cuild a new kernel, I guess!!
True, this same bank could have had their shit together years ago and started investing in good project managers and quality developers. They could have had a standard development process and they could have learned the Business what requirements actually are. They could have let professional software development firms let do their work on a fixed-price basis.
But they didn't. They didn't because they were afraid to have people working off-site, so instead they just rented people to do work in their own offices and they tried to manage them with people who couldn't recognize Java if it was written on their ties.
And suddenly it is possible to do work off-site and suddenly fixed price projects are possible. Except all this goes to India, because nobody (not this bank, not the IT rent-a-person firms that earned a lot of money in the good times) took the effort to invest in people, development process and in tooling.
Slashdot Mirror
Can't mod you up, but your post is really insightful.
Why bother updating a web browser if you plan to roll out a new technology which makes web browsers obsolete *and* will enforce lock-in for the rest of the century?
But it fits in their track record...
;-)
What's the saying? A crook is a crook is a crook, isn't it?
Alas....
Patenting the hell out of everything is hardly moral and just as childish.
If I borrow and crash your car and I kill a horse (or something), and I have to repay you the worth of the car, and you accept my money, you also accept that you are responsible for crashing the car? That's nice, then you can help me repaying the cost of the horse.
Unbelievably childish business practices. Grow up, Microsoft!
I am and since my BMW is not software, the patents are still valid ;-)
But you're right, my analogy was incorrect. The difference with my analogy and Open Source is that, while you can drive my BMW away and deprive me of the use of my shiney, Topasblue Compact, with Open Source I'd still be able to use my software.
And like above post says, they would be able to improve my BMW and I would reap the benefits as well.
Come to think of it, the BMW analogy is flawed.
Better analogy is:
Leave the keys in your BMW so that everybody can make a duplicate. And then they add your big shiney wheels and sound system, and I can get a free upgrade as well.
So what's the big deal?
;-) )
Usually from Sourceforge, or just by doing a simple 'emerge -u world'.
Hey! I *knew* Open Source has it's good points. You don't have to be scared that someone steals your source code...
(ok, now this *could* be the same as leaving your keys in your BMW, because noone is able to steal it! They just legally drive away
Without excessively punishing the dollar?
Erh, it's now $1.20 for a Euro...
That's one fifth of a value decrease compared to the start of the Euro.
The US doesn't have any anti-mining capacity worth their salt.
Funny thing is that the US wouldn't exist without French help. Before France was a republic, a lot of French would-be republicans went to the US to make their ideals come true here and fight the British.
Still a horrible way to die ;-)
LOL Erik,
I am aware of the fact that a lot of drugs on the hard drugs list are not necessarily bad for your health and that a lot of them have been put on the list because of international pressure (XTC for example). But I think the *philosophy* behind the division between soft and hard drugs is like I described.
Strange, so you're calling an addiction 'freedom'?
;-)
Mind you, I'm from the NL, so I'm used to a pretty liberal (as in free, not as in left-wing) view to drugs, but then again, we divide drugs into 2 categories:
1. Soft drugs, which are not or marginally harmful and not or marginally addiction inducing.
2. Hard drugs, which are harmful and make you addicted fast.
So I don't mind per se about selling 'soft drugs', but I do mind selling any drugs to children and I do care about selling hard drugs. Because you can ask yourself if children are ready to consiously decide whether they want to use drugs and when you use hard drugs, then you lose all your freedom. The only thing that matters then is getting your next shot.
Then again, a lot of people learn to live with their hard drugs addiction. We call them 'smokers'
Big Dutch bank exactly the same principle.
Just book 5x8 and if you work more, then just work an hour less the next week. Of course, this might work out negatively for you, since you can't prove you actually worked more the previous week.
And when they ask you to work more than 40 hrs a week, or in the weekends, don't expect that you're allowed to book more than your 5x8. So that was a no-go, because the only way to get my hours back was after the project. That means either in my own time (my boss' time) or another customer's time.
And why exactly is nepotism immoral?
And how exactly is nepotism immoral?
So what if the IMEI is of his friend's phone? [nl]Moehahahahaha[/nl]
There will be a C Nazi Squadron knocking on your door when you make government responsible for enforcing standards, like the parent of my previous post suggested.
Standards and regulations are the same when we're talking about government. How do you think those standards will be enforced?
And given governments' track record those regulated standards will be:
- years late
- still in effect when they're useless
- more formed by political considerations and those of pressure groups than technical necessity.
Imagine the problems they will have after 100 years. Do you think anyone will remember to renew the domainname 99 years from now?
This is exactly my experience. I've been developing in Java for about 8 years and I think I met just 10 other people who really know their Java. And of those 10 people just about 2 or 3 are able to design an enterprise class application.
:-(
It's not just Java developers, in the booming years a lot of people were hired by IT consulting firms here (NL) that shouldn't be near any computer at all. I've seen system engineers who studied politicology and got an MCSE who don't know the most basic thing about Windows and are not able to solve any problem at all. I've met tens of 'project managers' who don't know anything about IT and even less about software development and are too stubborn to listen to people who do know their shit.
The worst of all are VB 'programmers' who are just able to point and click a basic application, but don't have any feeling for what a programmer should be able to do.
The worst is title inflation. Every donkey is a 'software engineer' these days, and if you are able to actually design a piece of software you should call yourself 'architect', otherwise people won't take you seriously.
Because 'programmers' are seen as monkeys that type and are doing a trick that every other monkey can do.
Can I compile the kernel with this Portable.Net stuff? Since the most important thing I can think of that is written in C is the Linux kernel I guess it's a good thing that this Portable.Net stuff is here now C is dying. Otherwise we would never be able to cuild a new kernel, I guess!!
True, this same bank could have had their shit together years ago and started investing in good project managers and quality developers. They could have had a standard development process and they could have learned the Business what requirements actually are. They could have let professional software development firms let do their work on a fixed-price basis.
But they didn't. They didn't because they were afraid to have people working off-site, so instead they just rented people to do work in their own offices and they tried to manage them with people who couldn't recognize Java if it was written on their ties.
And suddenly it is possible to do work off-site and suddenly fixed price projects are possible. Except all this goes to India, because nobody (not this bank, not the IT rent-a-person firms that earned a lot of money in the good times) took the effort to invest in people, development process and in tooling.
They will. Your only chance is that they will hire you as a customer-facing sales type....