No, dogfooding is using the stuff you make yourself. It has nothing to do with WHY you made it, HOW you made it or anything else.
Its simply different than making a product to sell, and then using something entirely different internally. For instance, Microsoft selling Visual Source Safe... but not actually using it internally for Windows because it sucked so hard. That is not dogfooding.
The term is 'eating your own dogfood', because you're eating what you made.
Linus dogfood's Linux for instance.
WTF is it with you kids fucking up phrases you don't understand. If you don't know what it means or where it came from will you fucking please stop god damn pretending you do. And stop calling all unpatched exploits zero day. They stopped being zero day within 24 hours of creation. After that they are just fucking exploits.
Supposedly one of the safest countries in the world to visit despite (perhaps because of) the communist ties.
I realize that a lot of what gets said about various countries is propoganda by other countries who dont' like each other, however, if you believe this statement, you are an idiot of the highest order.
You should be asking in Academia circles, not slashdot.
Your Ph.D will be worth exactly dick the instant you get your first job afterwords. PhDs matter to schools, in the real world, no one gives a shit.
So, if you intend to stay in or around Academia, then your question is valid, but you should be asking around in the academic world, not slashdot.
If you aren't staying in Academia, then drop out of your silly Ph D program and get a real job, the experience will be far more profitable for you in every way.
Either way, as a Ph D student... asking on slashdot would be considered an epic fail by anyone that matters, this is hardly the place to go for that sort of advice.
You do realize that IBM has actually contributed to FreeBSD right? Its almost like you don't realize that there are people on the FreeBSD core team that work for IBM.
You don't install everything on / because you want it to be static and non-changing so a crash doesn't take it out due to corruption and you have a bootable partition with your recovery utilities on it.
You want / to be small so it gets checked and mounted quickly.
You don't put everything on / because all activity anywhere on the disk can easily corrupt the entire partition (well, theories and all that). You also take advantage of partitioning to ensure things like logging silly errors from cron doesn't fill up the disk and take the system down, especially when you had OSes like Linux that would corrupt the every living fuck out of their filesystems when they were filled.
Lower your transmitters a little. Signals propagate horizontally (perpendicular from the antenna), this is why you need to have an AP on each floor in a house to get good signal. Not because you're on different floors so much as the signals just aren't going in the right directions.
I know you're trying to broadcast over the RVs, but going over them also means no signal is getting to them in this case.
The other day I wrote to my congressmen through an EFF-hosted web form. I did NOT have to sign up or register for anything, the system merely took my name, address, and email address.
Yea, it took no effort at all to do... and thats exactly how much anyone cares about your web form submission.
Emailing and using online forms that take no effort make your submission valueless. You get mixed in with all the other lazy people who do the least amount of effort required to say 'I did it'.
If you actually want to make someone notice you have to do something that stands out.
Your odds of being heard is about 10,000 times higher if you write an actual letter and mail it, as opposed to the nearly 0% change you have of being considered when you email/webform submit it.
While your point is valid as the rules are written, a power point viewer or RDP client can be technically considered a violation of those rules as they receive commands from a file or network connection telling them what to do.
That and there are other devices that do this already.
You can buy an remote car that works these way from the local bestbuy, download the app to control it from the app store. It doesn't use a direct wired connection, it has a transmitter that plugs into the headphone port, but none the less it works the same way.
You just don't call it a programing environment, its a document viewer. The document just happens to control a physical robot via sound.
Hell for that matter, to just send commands and get no data back from it, you could just record an audio file and call that your document format, then just play it on the iPhone. No app needed and in order to stop you, they'd have to stop allowing you to put audio on the devices. The audio file would probably work equally well on just about any phone with a decent quality audio chip.
But don't they have to do all of this to be able to make calls anyway? The only difference being that SMS could be sent out more frequently than calls, thus causing slightly more handing off to other carriers
Yes, and they charge you for doing so. Thats part of why you pay per minute.
Also, I've never heard of an SMS only plan
Because you haven't looked. SMS only plans are rather popular for field equipment that need to send back notification messages to central systems without costing an arm and a leg to run each month.
The GP means he doesn't understand how it costs money so it must be free. That doesn't actually make it free. Even with all the infrastructure being built out 'for voice', if you ignore all the costs involved for services that are also 'for voice' you STILL have to count the additional work that is required to move the message in from one device and out to another, it has to be buffered for instance, which uses energy.
The cost is mind numbingly low, but its does exist.
Is this a surprise or revelation to you guys or something?
They are going to get paid for the service, you're going to pay them, its just a question of how the data gets to you.
If everyone switches to using massive amounts of data... they'll stop making data unlimite..... wait... whats that? It already happened? Fuck. Good thing I'm grandfathered in:)
Pretty much everyone I know owns an iPhone so I turned off my monthly messaging plan for the family and saved $30/month.
You can be all rightous and high and mighty and you can shove it up your ass while I save $30/month on my proprietary plan.
Yes, I would prefer that we just use XMPP for text messaging so that I can use my own fucking addresses and buddy lists and location information, but until that becomes more wide spread, I'll just have to be happy that my friends aren't obnoxious fucks like yourself.
Well, that and the fact that it'll happly fall back to SMS for everyone who isn't an iPhone owner... so I not only get to be a smug asshole to douche bags like you, I'm also not actually prevented from communicating with everyone else. So basically, you get to sit around and bitch, and I get to win.
Perhaps you should spend less time worrying about what iPhone owners get/do and more about yourself and how much you make your life harder.
Lets face it, I have more friends with iPhones than you probably have friends total, so jump off your high horse and join reality, dick heads like yourself can't afford to be so picky about their friends.
Considering that SMS uses the same packet radio features that cellular networks use to keep the network appraised of where the phone is, and that packet size is much larger than the data that is transmitted per packet requiring the packets to be buffered out with null data, and that fitting the SMS messages just fill the rest of the packet that has to be transmitted anyway, even charging for SMS messaging is a crock.
Agreed, BUT, if you don't charge, the bandwidth available for that purpose would be saturated with people freeloading.
SMS charges ARE a crock of shit, but they can not be free without a fundamental change in human behavior or they will be unusable.
You're just irrationally and illogically over-senstive.
Yes, if you aren't blind it IS bad behavior to wear dark glasses, and guess what, we as people all know that, and yet we make exceptions when needed... like when there is ACTUALLY A BLIND PERSON IN THE VIDEO CONFERENCE.
We don't allow every schmuck to wear dark shades because they want to just because we may eventually want to let in a blind person.
Your inability to be able to differentiate between the two situations is mind numbing.
Culturally insensitive and discriminatory would be if say... you punished a blind person for doing it, not just because the software flagged them.
Its funny the number of people pointing out these one off situations where the software might flag you as if they are different than if it was a person doing it. Yes, the software will flag you for wearing shades, or dilated pupils, or a t-shirt and jeans... AND SO WILL EVERY PERSON ON THE PLANET... and then they'll take into account THE REST OF THE CONTEXT OF THE SITUATION and come to a logical conclusion.
Its only a bad idea when you start getting stupid and pick one indicator to make an entire judgement on rather than the context of the event.
That sort of thing indicates a high level of arrogance and lack of understanding of the users of the network. People who wear clothing like that tend to think of themselves as being above and better than the people they work for, and tend to forget the reason they actually have a job.
In my limited experience, those kind of assholes are the exact worse ones to work for as you're unlikely to gain skills and knowledge from them, just learn how to be more of an ignorant dick to everyone you think is as good as you.
But this little office-spy routine they've got going here would have flagged me up for at least two violations.
You're assuming it doesn't also flag you as doing extra work by coming in on your day off as well.
Its funny how everyone gets so afraid that this would catch them doing something wrong? I makes me wonder if I'm the only person who thought 'Good, maybe this thing will point out how often I'm the only one working all the time'
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No, dogfooding is using the stuff you make yourself. It has nothing to do with WHY you made it, HOW you made it or anything else.
Its simply different than making a product to sell, and then using something entirely different internally. For instance, Microsoft selling Visual Source Safe ... but not actually using it internally for Windows because it sucked so hard. That is not dogfooding.
The term is 'eating your own dogfood', because you're eating what you made.
Linus dogfood's Linux for instance.
WTF is it with you kids fucking up phrases you don't understand. If you don't know what it means or where it came from will you fucking please stop god damn pretending you do. And stop calling all unpatched exploits zero day. They stopped being zero day within 24 hours of creation. After that they are just fucking exploits.
The NYT didn't leak the stories, Bradley Manning did. Hence, Bradley Manning is in jail and not the NYT.
This isn't difficult to understand.
Supposedly one of the safest countries in the world to visit despite (perhaps because of) the communist ties.
I realize that a lot of what gets said about various countries is propoganda by other countries who dont' like each other, however, if you believe this statement, you are an idiot of the highest order.
Better than the alternative, yes.
You should be asking in Academia circles, not slashdot.
Your Ph.D will be worth exactly dick the instant you get your first job afterwords. PhDs matter to schools, in the real world, no one gives a shit.
So, if you intend to stay in or around Academia, then your question is valid, but you should be asking around in the academic world, not slashdot.
If you aren't staying in Academia, then drop out of your silly Ph D program and get a real job, the experience will be far more profitable for you in every way.
Either way, as a Ph D student ... asking on slashdot would be considered an epic fail by anyone that matters, this is hardly the place to go for that sort of advice.
If what you say we're true, it would already be done, since congress already has such a page.
Too bad people would rather sit on the street and whine than they would make a change and vote.
You do realize that IBM has actually contributed to FreeBSD right? Its almost like you don't realize that there are people on the FreeBSD core team that work for IBM.
...
If you want to take 'the hard way' and more or less 'compile it yourself' ... then you can still use ports to do most of the manual labor for you.
Of course, if you wanted package management ... you would use the pkg tools ...
I really don't see how:
pkg_add -r apache22
is all that different from
apt-get apache22
Other than you just haven't bothered to look at how its done in a BSD.
You don't install everything on / because you want it to be static and non-changing so a crash doesn't take it out due to corruption and you have a bootable partition with your recovery utilities on it.
You want / to be small so it gets checked and mounted quickly.
You don't put everything on / because all activity anywhere on the disk can easily corrupt the entire partition (well, theories and all that). You also take advantage of partitioning to ensure things like logging silly errors from cron doesn't fill up the disk and take the system down, especially when you had OSes like Linux that would corrupt the every living fuck out of their filesystems when they were filled.
Lower your transmitters a little. Signals propagate horizontally (perpendicular from the antenna), this is why you need to have an AP on each floor in a house to get good signal. Not because you're on different floors so much as the signals just aren't going in the right directions.
I know you're trying to broadcast over the RVs, but going over them also means no signal is getting to them in this case.
The other day I wrote to my congressmen through an EFF-hosted web form. I did NOT have to sign up or register for anything, the system merely took my name, address, and email address.
Yea, it took no effort at all to do ... and thats exactly how much anyone cares about your web form submission.
Emailing and using online forms that take no effort make your submission valueless. You get mixed in with all the other lazy people who do the least amount of effort required to say 'I did it'.
If you actually want to make someone notice you have to do something that stands out.
Your odds of being heard is about 10,000 times higher if you write an actual letter and mail it, as opposed to the nearly 0% change you have of being considered when you email/webform submit it.
While your point is valid as the rules are written, a power point viewer or RDP client can be technically considered a violation of those rules as they receive commands from a file or network connection telling them what to do.
That and there are other devices that do this already.
You can buy an remote car that works these way from the local bestbuy, download the app to control it from the app store. It doesn't use a direct wired connection, it has a transmitter that plugs into the headphone port, but none the less it works the same way.
You just don't call it a programing environment, its a document viewer. The document just happens to control a physical robot via sound.
Hell for that matter, to just send commands and get no data back from it, you could just record an audio file and call that your document format, then just play it on the iPhone. No app needed and in order to stop you, they'd have to stop allowing you to put audio on the devices. The audio file would probably work equally well on just about any phone with a decent quality audio chip.
This actually just a directly connected modem, no pesky air involved in the transmission.
Because the smaller company makes far more than its worth when it gets bought out?
But don't they have to do all of this to be able to make calls anyway? The only difference being that SMS could be sent out more frequently than calls, thus causing slightly more handing off to other carriers
Yes, and they charge you for doing so. Thats part of why you pay per minute.
Also, I've never heard of an SMS only plan
Because you haven't looked. SMS only plans are rather popular for field equipment that need to send back notification messages to central systems without costing an arm and a leg to run each month.
The GP means he doesn't understand how it costs money so it must be free. That doesn't actually make it free. Even with all the infrastructure being built out 'for voice', if you ignore all the costs involved for services that are also 'for voice' you STILL have to count the additional work that is required to move the message in from one device and out to another, it has to be buffered for instance, which uses energy.
The cost is mind numbingly low, but its does exist.
Is this a surprise or revelation to you guys or something?
They are going to get paid for the service, you're going to pay them, its just a question of how the data gets to you.
If everyone switches to using massive amounts of data ... they'll stop making data unlimite.. ... wait ... whats that? It already happened? Fuck. Good thing I'm grandfathered in :)
Nor would there be a reason for people to make any sort of progress.
And those of us who use them.
Pretty much everyone I know owns an iPhone so I turned off my monthly messaging plan for the family and saved $30/month.
You can be all rightous and high and mighty and you can shove it up your ass while I save $30/month on my proprietary plan.
Yes, I would prefer that we just use XMPP for text messaging so that I can use my own fucking addresses and buddy lists and location information, but until that becomes more wide spread, I'll just have to be happy that my friends aren't obnoxious fucks like yourself.
Well, that and the fact that it'll happly fall back to SMS for everyone who isn't an iPhone owner ... so I not only get to be a smug asshole to douche bags like you, I'm also not actually prevented from communicating with everyone else. So basically, you get to sit around and bitch, and I get to win.
Perhaps you should spend less time worrying about what iPhone owners get/do and more about yourself and how much you make your life harder.
So ... no one?
Lets face it, I have more friends with iPhones than you probably have friends total, so jump off your high horse and join reality, dick heads like yourself can't afford to be so picky about their friends.
Considering that SMS uses the same packet radio features that cellular networks use to keep the network appraised of where the phone is, and that packet size is much larger than the data that is transmitted per packet requiring the packets to be buffered out with null data, and that fitting the SMS messages just fill the rest of the packet that has to be transmitted anyway, even charging for SMS messaging is a crock.
Agreed, BUT, if you don't charge, the bandwidth available for that purpose would be saturated with people freeloading.
SMS charges ARE a crock of shit, but they can not be free without a fundamental change in human behavior or they will be unusable.
So thats what? A tenth of a Triganic Pu or something like that? I can't remember the exchange rate anymore :(
You're just irrationally and illogically over-senstive.
Yes, if you aren't blind it IS bad behavior to wear dark glasses, and guess what, we as people all know that, and yet we make exceptions when needed ... like when there is ACTUALLY A BLIND PERSON IN THE VIDEO CONFERENCE.
We don't allow every schmuck to wear dark shades because they want to just because we may eventually want to let in a blind person.
Your inability to be able to differentiate between the two situations is mind numbing.
Culturally insensitive and discriminatory would be if say ... you punished a blind person for doing it, not just because the software flagged them.
Its funny the number of people pointing out these one off situations where the software might flag you as if they are different than if it was a person doing it. Yes, the software will flag you for wearing shades, or dilated pupils, or a t-shirt and jeans ... AND SO WILL EVERY PERSON ON THE PLANET ... and then they'll take into account THE REST OF THE CONTEXT OF THE SITUATION and come to a logical conclusion.
Its only a bad idea when you start getting stupid and pick one indicator to make an entire judgement on rather than the context of the event.
Actually, its not.
That sort of thing indicates a high level of arrogance and lack of understanding of the users of the network. People who wear clothing like that tend to think of themselves as being above and better than the people they work for, and tend to forget the reason they actually have a job.
In my limited experience, those kind of assholes are the exact worse ones to work for as you're unlikely to gain skills and knowledge from them, just learn how to be more of an ignorant dick to everyone you think is as good as you.
But this little office-spy routine they've got going here would have flagged me up for at least two violations.
You're assuming it doesn't also flag you as doing extra work by coming in on your day off as well.
Its funny how everyone gets so afraid that this would catch them doing something wrong? I makes me wonder if I'm the only person who thought 'Good, maybe this thing will point out how often I'm the only one working all the time'
You do have the ability to 'not answer the phone' you realize, right?
You say: 'I was taking a shit, you should have left a useful message so I'd know if I should call you back'