Personally I agree with him. The real issue is his writing style, a rebel teenager with some kind of a mission or to prove something I don't know and I don't care.
He just understood why companies like MySQL tried a dual license scheme. Frankly I don't know if it will work. The MYSQL commercial license turnover was ridiculously low compared to the number of web sites/services using MySQL. I would rather advocate a professional technical support. both source of revenues made USD 10 millions per year. Which is not that much...Again compared to the MySQL popularity.
Programmers (and even more CIO) from large companies pay to get protection. In this case his writing style won't help him, nobody wants to deal with an arrogant person. That's why you make a start-up when you are a programmer, that's why you hire professionals to deal with communication & marketing...I guess it will be his next discovery:-).
The moral argument is this. Money indirectly represent resources. Buying expensive toys is wasting disproportionate amount of said resources on yourself, excluding the others. We have words for that - egoism, and egotism.
And then
...Now there's a line to draw, obviously. Where you draw that is subjective - some people believe that buying an iPhone is highly immoral when there are e.g. starving people in Africa. I don't buy into that, among other things, because I don't believe in non-starving Africa in foreseeable future no matter the resources spent on that
So basically you draw the line when you can afford it and you call it a waste of money when you can't.
IPhone is your own form of luxury (or a similar product) , you don't need it, you know the price is ridiculously high. There are many phones with similar features costing half the price. But you want it.
Such kind of cars mean roughly 0.00001% of the whole car's market. I bet that Iphone sales in absolute term means more waste than Bugatti sales. So if you are really serious about waste, first ban Iphones.
You know this for a fact, that it doesn't have any MS code hidden in it? How would anyone outside of MS really know that, anyway?
Well simple, if you fear the worst, browse the mono source, remember mono is "open source". I use mono on a daily basis, the C# language and the framework are simply great.
Anyway RMS seems to live in a different age. Now the real issue isn't desktop programming anymore. What truly matters are things like HTML 5 vs Flash. ACID test, SVG support, Canvas, open 3D standard, The real battle is on the web. This is where we need guys like him, not pesting about second class issue like this one.
Yes...Clearly, you notice too that during the last episode, the troops joining Mordor for the last fight have distinct traits and costumes inspired by middle east culture. I would pay a fortune to see their Mullah face once they will heard the famous
"Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you *stand, Men of the West!"
Well this is clearly the kind of speech you need to keep fighting, isn't it.
I live in a socialist (social democrat) ruled country. Obama would be considered as conservative over here, mainly due to his rather strong christian faith (OMH he goes to church!) and no clear statement on abortion. His economy policy would be considered conservative too due to a lack of a "powerful" welfare state.
So what? What's the point? She does a good job, this what matters for those using her service. If she likes to be dressed as a gladiator, mickey mouse or whatever she wants to while doing it, that's totally up to her. I don't care, I won't be forced to live with her, that's her life and her choice. If you feel threatened by her choice, I suggest you to visit a shrink to talk about your sexuality or move to Iran.
Yes, send an unarmed C-130 into the Iranian airspace. I don't if it will able to broadcast TV stations for more than one second, but it could be great fireworks!
And for Iran, the CIA funded the 1953 Iranian coup d'Etat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
against a democratically elected government. And before this coup, there were already strong British (and even soviet) influence because of their oild reserve.
It led to a dictatorship overthrown by a theocracy in 1979.
If the US (or any Western countries) try to interfere in this mess, you can be sure that it will be a total backlash. Westerners are far from being innocent in this region. Better to let them deal with their domestic problems and to hope for the best.
This CEO ended up into a cultural clash. The kind of one Japanese bosses experienced while opening branches in the US and in Europe during the 80's. They thought for years the Japanese way was the best and their local workers should adapt themselves to their way of working. Things weren't working as expected. They thought those western guys were lazy, Discipline was the key and respect to the hierarchy was the key. . They finally understood that those guys were simply working differently.
Most innovations in the computing industry happen in the US...The biggest (by far) computing companies are Americans...And yet he claims that US tech grads are unemployable...It looks like there is a "big" flaw in his logic. (I'm not American BTW).
If I was the main shareholder of his company, I would sack him. He should remain an engineer not a manager and certainly not an entrepreneur.
The only rule in the business world is to adapt yourself.
Well thx to Google, A God class is usually known as a God object. a God object is an object controlling way too many objects...
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GodClass
Never heard of it either. At first I thought he meant the main class or something.
I think the reasoning was that a student should learn a language with extreme, formal structure, and then later they can learn ones that aren't quite as strict. Maybe that the same reasoning behind teaching students Fortran? At least it's a little more useful than Pascal.
Pascal...I had to learn it early 90's.... On the other hand, what's the point to bore students to death with such languages lacking all the nice stuffs of modern languages? I remember that I learn a lot more by my own playing with graphic library because it was funny, extremely visual. And once you want to make some animation, you need to understand the logic behind buffering, and other basic concepts.
I would rather take a high level language and then I would gradually move to the core. It's like being in front of a car...first you want to drive it. Once you master driving...You wonder how this thing works? I always had the feeling that CS takes the opposite road, first you have to know how an engine works before driving...What you learn has no practical use ( read funny for a teenager) until very late in your study.
See you can tell the parent poster really is French because he doesn't bother to translate the quote!
Come roots are so obvious:
"presume" -> presumed
"Innocent" -> guess what
"declare" -> declared
"coupable" -> guilty (Culpable)
the rest
Tout (any)
etant (To be)
Jusqu'a (until)
ce qu' (that)
il (he)
a ete (has been)
So a literal translation is
Any man is presumed innocent until he has been declared guilty
Englishspeakers don't understand the chance they've got to master a language half germanic/half roman. You've got everything you need to decypher most western european languages.
Ah. So in the French system, a case is decided on it merits, rather than which prior case it happens to be most similar to ?
I think prior cases still have influences.There is a jurisprudence system in most (if not all) continental european countries. But IMHO it is merely an interpretation of a law not a law in itself (?).
Heh, what I dont get is how did Sully, the American pilot with "The Right Stuff" land his Euro Airbus in the Hudson if they can't over-ride in emergency situations?:o
Thx to the US second amendment, American pilots have the right to bear ams. with a cal.44 on the screen, the European auto-pilot toaster had no choice but to comply with his orders..
For an atheist (well agnostic in fact) like me Mysticism and faith in general are a necessary evil. Your own death is scary and most people needs hope whatever it can be (a father figure, a flying monster spaghetti, whatever)
The real thing is that we needed +/- 1900 years to manage Christianity to a point that it won't mess with the secular state anymore. They know their place (in most european countries at least), they provide hopes for those who need it and that's it, it works and you aren't forced by anyone to follow them. Islam is already knocking at our doors but well it is also an old religion and you can still control them easily. They also had their peak and they are currently experiencing the kind of debate between liberal and conservators that Christians had during the renaissance. It won't a mainstream religion in Europe anyway, there are too many problems with the local liberal culture (pork, beers, credits, boobs, etc.)
I wouldn't certainly appreciate to see a new power hungry sect rising like those christians were under the Emperor Constantin.
Scientologists are dangerous, they real aimed is to control the society, that's why they primarily target politicians, businessmen and famous artists. It is more simple to crush them right now than waiting until they become a real threat. Today it is Scientology, tomorrow something else, this is a necessary cleaning that you have to do periodically.
I confirm I have been using for mmmh 2 years for a mono c# project and it works like a charm. The product seems to be mature, I didn't have any crash for quite a long time.
Yeah I remember I tried to J2ME mobile apps through their services (and Nokia services too).
They had almost no communication plan, I don't remember they had online payment either.
Sun had a plan to test J2ME apps qualities. As a developer you had to pay them (well partners in facts) to test your app on every single model you wish to support. It was around $200 or something, I don't remember. In the end...If you plan to support 20 models (having MIDP 1.0 support), it would cost you $4000....And Mobile phone models change every year...
Nokia was even worst you had to pay them $5000 upfront in order to be listed in their shop (+ quality testing). In front of all these nonsense I left the mobile app markets for good. My turnover was around $400 per month in 2003...I lost money.
My advice to developers is to wait until you clearly see the business model they have in mind. Sun and other giants like them have a poor understanding of partnerships with small businesses...I remember a guy from Nokia telling me that $5000 was a symbolic sum to get rid of bad quality software... The only giant which got it right until now is Apple (and of course independent platform like handango before them)
Well it truly depends what you mean by PC clones...Back in the early 80's monochrome video cards such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card
were the norms...I used to play on that stuff:-) (Mmmmh on a 8088 or a 80286 I don't remember)
Linux by booting from Live CDs. They Just Work, well over 90% of the time.
Linux is my main desktop and frankly my experience is the opposite. There is "always" something that doesn't work out of the box especially with new hardware.
Last PITA: I had problem with my all in one printer Brother DCP-120C (the scanner wasn't recognized) and also with my wi-fi card. Well the wifi driver existed but I had to browser the web upside down to find the package (it wasn't open source and thus not part of the official repo). So in this case, Linux developers are keen to invent their own problems.
Denying that there are frequent problems with hardware won't help Linux cause quite the contrary. (And please no philosophical debate on open source driver vs binary...Most users, especially non-techie mainstream ones don't give a damn)
And so what? What's the point? Somebody out there hacked a stupid server, format it, fdisk it or whatever...And then will proudly type "owned" on a IRC channel or a web forum, so what?
You are still nothing, still useless, just a bit more annoying for the rest of the humanity. Owned? You own nothing. So simple to destroy...Try for once to create something, you'll see what "achievment" really means.
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Personally I agree with him. The real issue is his writing style, a rebel teenager with some kind of a mission or to prove something I don't know and I don't care.
He just understood why companies like MySQL tried a dual license scheme. Frankly I don't know if it will work. The MYSQL commercial license turnover was ridiculously low compared to the number of web sites/services using MySQL. I would rather advocate a professional technical support. both source of revenues made USD 10 millions per year. Which is not that much...Again compared to the MySQL popularity.
Programmers (and even more CIO) from large companies pay to get protection. In this case his writing style won't help him, nobody wants to deal with an arrogant person. That's why you make a start-up when you are a programmer, that's why you hire professionals to deal with communication & marketing...I guess it will be his next discovery :-).
The entire car weighs less than an overweight American.
Yes but they use Flatulence propulsion.
The moral argument is this. Money indirectly represent resources. Buying expensive toys is wasting disproportionate amount of said resources on yourself, excluding the others. We have words for that - egoism, and egotism.
And then
...Now there's a line to draw, obviously. Where you draw that is subjective - some people believe that buying an iPhone is highly immoral when there are e.g. starving people in Africa. I don't buy into that, among other things, because I don't believe in non-starving Africa in foreseeable future no matter the resources spent on that
So basically you draw the line when you can afford it and you call it a waste of money when you can't.
IPhone is your own form of luxury (or a similar product) , you don't need it, you know the price is ridiculously high. There are many phones with similar features costing half the price. But you want it.
Such kind of cars mean roughly 0.00001% of the whole car's market. I bet that Iphone sales in absolute term means more waste than Bugatti sales. So if you are really serious about waste, first ban Iphones.
Being ripped and overweight with muscle makes you live longer. Because most people with muscle are "overweight.
...I just discovered that almost all slashdotters are bodybuilders!
Really Fascinating.
You know this for a fact, that it doesn't have any MS code hidden in it? How would anyone outside of MS really know that, anyway?
Well simple, if you fear the worst, browse the mono source, remember mono is "open source". I use mono on a daily basis, the C# language and the framework are simply great. Anyway RMS seems to live in a different age. Now the real issue isn't desktop programming anymore. What truly matters are things like HTML 5 vs Flash. ACID test, SVG support, Canvas, open 3D standard, The real battle is on the web. This is where we need guys like him, not pesting about second class issue like this one.
Yes...Clearly, you notice too that during the last episode, the troops joining Mordor for the last fight have distinct traits and costumes inspired by middle east culture. I would pay a fortune to see their Mullah face once they will heard the famous
"Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you *stand, Men of the West!"
Well this is clearly the kind of speech you need to keep fighting, isn't it.
The scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgSdiX0kDI
There are revolution which have been launched because of an Opera performance (Belgium 1830 -> The Mute Girl of Portici). Poor choice indeed.
I live in a socialist (social democrat) ruled country. Obama would be considered as conservative over here, mainly due to his rather strong christian faith (OMH he goes to church!) and no clear statement on abortion. His economy policy would be considered conservative too due to a lack of a "powerful" welfare state.
So what? What's the point? She does a good job, this what matters for those using her service. If she likes to be dressed as a gladiator, mickey mouse or whatever she wants to while doing it, that's totally up to her. I don't care, I won't be forced to live with her, that's her life and her choice. If you feel threatened by her choice, I suggest you to visit a shrink to talk about your sexuality or move to Iran.
Yes, send an unarmed C-130 into the Iranian airspace. I don't if it will able to broadcast TV stations for more than one second, but it could be great fireworks!
And for Iran, the CIA funded the 1953 Iranian coup d'Etat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat against a democratically elected government. And before this coup, there were already strong British (and even soviet) influence because of their oild reserve. It led to a dictatorship overthrown by a theocracy in 1979. If the US (or any Western countries) try to interfere in this mess, you can be sure that it will be a total backlash. Westerners are far from being innocent in this region. Better to let them deal with their domestic problems and to hope for the best.
This CEO ended up into a cultural clash. The kind of one Japanese bosses experienced while opening branches in the US and in Europe during the 80's. They thought for years the Japanese way was the best and their local workers should adapt themselves to their way of working. Things weren't working as expected. They thought those western guys were lazy, Discipline was the key and respect to the hierarchy was the key. . They finally understood that those guys were simply working differently.
Most innovations in the computing industry happen in the US...The biggest (by far) computing companies are Americans...And yet he claims that US tech grads are unemployable...It looks like there is a "big" flaw in his logic. (I'm not American BTW).
If I was the main shareholder of his company, I would sack him. He should remain an engineer not a manager and certainly not an entrepreneur.
The only rule in the business world is to adapt yourself.
Well thx to Google, A God class is usually known as a God object. a God object is an object controlling way too many objects... http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GodClass Never heard of it either. At first I thought he meant the main class or something.
I think the reasoning was that a student should learn a language with extreme, formal structure, and then later they can learn ones that aren't quite as strict. Maybe that the same reasoning behind teaching students Fortran? At least it's a little more useful than Pascal.
Pascal...I had to learn it early 90's.... On the other hand, what's the point to bore students to death with such languages lacking all the nice stuffs of modern languages? I remember that I learn a lot more by my own playing with graphic library because it was funny, extremely visual. And once you want to make some animation, you need to understand the logic behind buffering, and other basic concepts.
I would rather take a high level language and then I would gradually move to the core. It's like being in front of a car...first you want to drive it. Once you master driving...You wonder how this thing works? I always had the feeling that CS takes the opposite road, first you have to know how an engine works before driving...What you learn has no practical use ( read funny for a teenager) until very late in your study.
See you can tell the parent poster really is French because he doesn't bother to translate the quote!
Come roots are so obvious:
the rest
So a literal translation is
Any man is presumed innocent until he has been declared guilty
Englishspeakers don't understand the chance they've got to master a language half germanic/half roman. You've got everything you need to decypher most western european languages.
Ah. So in the French system, a case is decided on it merits, rather than which prior case it happens to be most similar to ?
I think prior cases still have influences.There is a jurisprudence system in most (if not all) continental european countries. But IMHO it is merely an interpretation of a law not a law in itself (?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence
I'm not a lawyer so take it as it is ;-)
I tried to find vids of this thing. All I found was a 2 years old interview. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=3202576
Heh, what I dont get is how did Sully, the American pilot with "The Right Stuff" land his Euro Airbus in the Hudson if they can't over-ride in emergency situations? :o
Thx to the US second amendment, American pilots have the right to bear ams. with a cal .44 on the screen, the European auto-pilot toaster had no choice but to comply with his orders..
Excuse me but back in my days we used sheeps to compute. (simple one living sheep 1, one dead sheep 0) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDAM5lSPCwk
Well for those like wondering what scientology has edited (lwhy it has led to such massive ban). I finally found those modifications through wikiscanner. http://katrina.cs.caltech.edu/erenrich_rnd345/scanner_final/ The result: http://katrina.cs.caltech.edu/erenrich_rnd345/scanner_final/company_selection.php?company_name=scientology You see 182 editors (I don't know how they found them) You can see all their modifications .
For an atheist (well agnostic in fact) like me Mysticism and faith in general are a necessary evil. Your own death is scary and most people needs hope whatever it can be (a father figure, a flying monster spaghetti, whatever)
The real thing is that we needed +/- 1900 years to manage Christianity to a point that it won't mess with the secular state anymore. They know their place (in most european countries at least), they provide hopes for those who need it and that's it, it works and you aren't forced by anyone to follow them. Islam is already knocking at our doors but well it is also an old religion and you can still control them easily. They also had their peak and they are currently experiencing the kind of debate between liberal and conservators that Christians had during the renaissance. It won't a mainstream religion in Europe anyway, there are too many problems with the local liberal culture (pork, beers, credits, boobs, etc.)
I wouldn't certainly appreciate to see a new power hungry sect rising like those christians were under the Emperor Constantin.
Scientologists are dangerous, they real aimed is to control the society, that's why they primarily target politicians, businessmen and famous artists. It is more simple to crush them right now than waiting until they become a real threat. Today it is Scientology, tomorrow something else, this is a necessary cleaning that you have to do periodically.
I confirm I have been using for mmmh 2 years for a mono c# project and it works like a charm. The product seems to be mature, I didn't have any crash for quite a long time.
Yeah I remember I tried to J2ME mobile apps through their services (and Nokia services too).
They had almost no communication plan, I don't remember they had online payment either.
Sun had a plan to test J2ME apps qualities. As a developer you had to pay them (well partners in facts) to test your app on every single model you wish to support. It was around $200 or something, I don't remember. In the end...If you plan to support 20 models (having MIDP 1.0 support), it would cost you $4000....And Mobile phone models change every year...
Nokia was even worst you had to pay them $5000 upfront in order to be listed in their shop (+ quality testing). In front of all these nonsense I left the mobile app markets for good. My turnover was around $400 per month in 2003...I lost money.
My advice to developers is to wait until you clearly see the business model they have in mind. Sun and other giants like them have a poor understanding of partnerships with small businesses...I remember a guy from Nokia telling me that $5000 was a symbolic sum to get rid of bad quality software... The only giant which got it right until now is Apple (and of course independent platform like handango before them)
Well it truly depends what you mean by PC clones...Back in the early 80's monochrome video cards such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card were the norms...I used to play on that stuff :-) (Mmmmh on a 8088 or a 80286 I don't remember)
Linux by booting from Live CDs. They Just Work, well over 90% of the time.
Linux is my main desktop and frankly my experience is the opposite. There is "always" something that doesn't work out of the box especially with new hardware.
Last PITA: I had problem with my all in one printer Brother DCP-120C (the scanner wasn't recognized) and also with my wi-fi card. Well the wifi driver existed but I had to browser the web upside down to find the package (it wasn't open source and thus not part of the official repo). So in this case, Linux developers are keen to invent their own problems.
Denying that there are frequent problems with hardware won't help Linux cause quite the contrary. (And please no philosophical debate on open source driver vs binary...Most users, especially non-techie mainstream ones don't give a damn)
And so what? What's the point? Somebody out there hacked a stupid server, format it, fdisk it or whatever...And then will proudly type "owned" on a IRC channel or a web forum, so what?
You are still nothing, still useless, just a bit more annoying for the rest of the humanity. Owned? You own nothing. So simple to destroy...Try for once to create something, you'll see what "achievment" really means.