- Programmers should be free to make good software. - The sort of world that we need is not the sort of world where lawyers flourish. - Closed-source software is dying. - Most software companies today want to enslave their programmers. - Bad software and fast-talking salespeople are everywhere.
The person who modded my post "flamebait" is either denying the truth for personal reasons, or lives in a country where these points aren't true. I wonder which planet that country is on? (o:
... is that the threat of legal attack is preventing some people from trying to make better software. This is only good for lawyers. This is exactly the sort of world that we DON'T need.
Closed-source software is dying. In the meantime, there has to be some balance between a company's investment and the creativity of all people. An NDA provides some balance if it is reasonable.
Of course, most software companies today want to own your DNA and every character that you type, wherever you are. I strongly recommend that you read your employment agreement carefully. I also recommend that you not work for organizations that demand your enslavement.
Look to see if there's an open-source project in the same field. If it's already being done as FOSS, help the project and make a name for yourself. As long as you're not constrained by an NDA...
"The product we work on is under-budgeted and over-hyped by the sales drones. The code quality sucks, and management keeps pulling in different direction."
Humanity may be alone in the Universe, but bad software and fast-talking salespeople have plenty of company. And victims.
Prosecution: Following all the evidence that we have seen, in which many different customers and partners of Microsoft mention discussing the problems with you, do you maintain that you had no knowledge of these problems?
Ballmer: Erg... ugh... errg!
Judge: MISTER Ballmer! You have been warned before. I will find you in contempt of this court if you continue your attempts to dislodge the seat in the witness stand.
Ballmer: [Sits down, sweaty. Sighs.]
Judge: Answer the question, Mr Ballmer. MISTER BALLMER! Why are you painting your face blue?!
"Owners of the Martian Pirate Bay today mocked a letter from Earth lawyers. 'Ooh, you scare us like the quidlap-iko after sunfall. We have news for you, your laws don't apply here. So stuff it up your ozone hole!'"
Re:Hey, remember when Ender's Game was good?
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Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.
Sig well done. I think I already subscribe to your newsletter.
Dude I know some of the stuff in your yard can't possibly be allowed by our community bylaws. Can you please go research them and get back to me, then naturally you will have to get compliant.
There must be a long, brown migration trail from the legal offices of SCO to the legal offices of Toyota.
You need to study philosophy so you can understand why...
- fewer and fewer people want to pay for buggy software
- 10 smart guys in a meeting room can't agree on anything, even when they write it down
- 100 smart guys agree to work triple-time for 1.5 the salary for the next 8-12 months, while the senior executives work a little, get huge bonuses, and then send 75 of those jobs to Bangalore
Social Security, $600 billion. Medicare, $400 billion.
The country needs money. Unnecessary "security" spending has increased the size (and incompetence) of the government. With $3 trillion squandered in Iraq, $750 billion and counting thrown away to float US banks a little longer, and the transformation of the US from a manufacturer and consumer to simply a consumer of cheap imported goods, anyone who tells you that taxes will not be increasing is lying to you.
If you want to be lied to, your vote is worthless anyway.
Not even talking about the advantage of being free:
- for optimization, I can select the window manager - for optimization, I can select the desktop environment - I get full compatibility with the open-source ecosystem - I can install programs from the huge apt-get application universe (including programming languages and tools) - I run it all from a very short script, unattended - it is fully supported, with automatic updates and no nonsense
I currently have three Ubuntu-based systems. I have customized the GNU/Linux distribution for each system. Anyone can do it.
One of the computers is an old (1998) Thinkpad notebook that doesn't have the video capability to run the full Ubuntu-Gnome GUI well. I do a minimal installation (the minimal CD is an official distribution of Ubuntu), then install about 25 select packages using a script that I call "Thinbuntu". This gives me a very functional GNU/Linux desktop for the old Thinkpad with the Long Term Support of the Ubuntu package system, including updates. It has all the features I need.
It's despairing to see your comment voted +5 Interesting. Is the problem (hypothesis - Human Evolution Has Stopped) really caused by welfare programs?
Even if welfare programs could affect Evolution, do you realize how small a percentage of the world's population you are talking about? The USA is only 4% of the world's population. Add "other first-world countries" and you are still making a crack-brained argument.
Although your indoctrination in prejudice has been successful, your educational institution should be sued for malpractice. You don't have any useful grasp of evolution nor of science in general.
I'm still using most of the Perl applications -- on *three different OSs* -- that I wrote before.NET existed, and I expect I'll be using them (on at least three different OSs) long after.NET has been replaced by Monoposoft's next attempt at World Domination[TM].
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Yes, it must be one of the most widely used, because it seems that every day I hear of.NET failing to scale somewhere.
Yes, there's a fine measure of your success as a human being.
Programmers spend far too much time in front of a computer and far too little time in the real world, having real relationships and fixing real problems.
SC Johnson will be as displeased too
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As this combination of hardware and software will inevitably be called WindeX.
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I think some people might not like these ideas:
- Programmers should be free to make good software.
- The sort of world that we need is not the sort of world where lawyers flourish.
- Closed-source software is dying.
- Most software companies today want to enslave their programmers.
- Bad software and fast-talking salespeople are everywhere.
The person who modded my post "flamebait" is either denying the truth for personal reasons, or lives in a country where these points aren't true. I wonder which planet that country is on? (o:
... is that the threat of legal attack is preventing some people from trying to make better software. This is only good for lawyers. This is exactly the sort of world that we DON'T need.
Closed-source software is dying. In the meantime, there has to be some balance between a company's investment and the creativity of all people. An NDA provides some balance if it is reasonable.
Of course, most software companies today want to own your DNA and every character that you type, wherever you are. I strongly recommend that you read your employment agreement carefully. I also recommend that you not work for organizations that demand your enslavement.
Look to see if there's an open-source project in the same field. If it's already being done as FOSS, help the project and make a name for yourself. As long as you're not constrained by an NDA...
"The product we work on is under-budgeted and over-hyped by the sales drones. The code quality sucks, and management keeps pulling in different direction."
Humanity may be alone in the Universe, but bad software and fast-talking salespeople have plenty of company. And victims.
Prosecution: Following all the evidence that we have seen, in which many different customers and partners of Microsoft mention discussing the problems with you, do you maintain that you had no knowledge of these problems?
Ballmer: Erg... ugh... errg!
Judge: MISTER Ballmer! You have been warned before. I will find you in contempt of this court if you continue your attempts to dislodge the seat in the witness stand.
Ballmer: [Sits down, sweaty. Sighs.]
Judge: Answer the question, Mr Ballmer.
MISTER BALLMER! Why are you painting your face blue?!
Ballmer: I'm a PC and... I have just crashed.
Meanwhile, sometime in the future:
"Owners of the Martian Pirate Bay today mocked a letter from Earth lawyers. 'Ooh, you scare us like the quidlap-iko after sunfall. We have news for you, your laws don't apply here. So stuff it up your ozone hole!'"
Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.
Sig well done. I think I already subscribe to your newsletter.
Dude I know some of the stuff in your yard can't possibly be allowed by our community bylaws. Can you please go research them and get back to me, then naturally you will have to get compliant.
There must be a long, brown migration trail from the legal offices of SCO to the legal offices of Toyota.
You need to study philosophy so you can understand why...
- fewer and fewer people want to pay for buggy software
- 10 smart guys in a meeting room can't agree on anything, even when they write it down
- 100 smart guys agree to work triple-time for 1.5 the salary for the next 8-12 months, while the senior executives work a little, get huge bonuses, and then send 75 of those jobs to Bangalore
Distros are like underwear
Gentoo has the nastiest skid marks.
Do you know what bills are coming due?
Social Security, $600 billion. Medicare, $400 billion.
The country needs money. Unnecessary "security" spending has increased the size (and incompetence) of the government. With $3 trillion squandered in Iraq, $750 billion and counting thrown away to float US banks a little longer, and the transformation of the US from a manufacturer and consumer to simply a consumer of cheap imported goods, anyone who tells you that taxes will not be increasing is lying to you.
If you want to be lied to, your vote is worthless anyway.
Bierce and Twain knew how to write. They also knew how to taunt better than you, Sir.
What will you do, rush at me with a sharpened URL for Merriam-Webster, the Dictionary That Gave Up Trying?
An Elitist Slashdot Grammar Nazi eats such challenges at afternoon tea, Sir.
No /. elitist would munge their grammar in such a fashion
Don't profess to know the mind of an Elitist Slashdot Grammar Nazi until you can write correctly.
If you can run apt-get commands, you can make your own subset of Ubuntu. Grab and burn the Minimal installation CD that suits you:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
LTS gives you the most bang for the buck. (o;
Boot; install the minimal command-line environment (CLI).
Restart. Run apt-get update.
Then run apt-get {pkg-list}
where pkg-list is a space-separated list of the pieces that you want to install. Here's my list.
xorg gnome-core gdm synaptic gnome-app-install gdebi ubuntu-gdm-themes gconf-editor gnome-volume-manager gparted conky alacarte xterm smbclient update-manager update-notifier pcmanfm file-roller nautilus-open-terminal evince cups-pdf system-config-printer-gnome arj genisoimage lha ncompress p7zip p7zip-full sharutils unace unrar build-essential
firefox gnome-utils
It certainly means that Palin has a better brain than McCain. Given how frightening a thought THAT is, Obama is the only choice.
You might want to check out nLite [nliteos.com]
Thanks for the suggestion. I really see no advantage to using MS Windows.
Not even talking about the advantage of being free:
- for optimization, I can select the window manager
- for optimization, I can select the desktop environment
- I get full compatibility with the open-source ecosystem
- I can install programs from the huge apt-get application universe (including programming languages and tools)
- I run it all from a very short script, unattended
- it is fully supported, with automatic updates and no nonsense
everything I need
I have no experience with it but it sounds cool.
I read that the next version of XP Embedded will have Genuine Advantage Embedded.
I currently have three Ubuntu-based systems. I have customized the GNU/Linux distribution for each system. Anyone can do it.
One of the computers is an old (1998) Thinkpad notebook that doesn't have the video capability to run the full Ubuntu-Gnome GUI well. I do a minimal installation (the minimal CD is an official distribution of Ubuntu), then install about 25 select packages using a script that I call "Thinbuntu". This gives me a very functional GNU/Linux desktop for the old Thinkpad with the Long Term Support of the Ubuntu package system, including updates. It has all the features I need.
Microsoft simply can't compete with this.
Egad, how did students survive at all before Al Gore built the InterWeb?
beloved childhood memories
It says much if television represents your beloved childhood memories.
Television is an advertising tool using programming as bait. You are part of a demographic. Your feelings don't matter to the business.
A jeremiad is by definition an "extended critique".
May the Grammar Nazis have mercy on you.
It's despairing to see your comment voted +5 Interesting. Is the problem (hypothesis - Human Evolution Has Stopped) really caused by welfare programs?
Even if welfare programs could affect Evolution, do you realize how small a percentage of the world's population you are talking about? The USA is only 4% of the world's population. Add "other first-world countries" and you are still making a crack-brained argument.
Although your indoctrination in prejudice has been successful, your educational institution should be sued for malpractice. You don't have any useful grasp of evolution nor of science in general.
I'm still using most of the Perl applications -- on *three different OSs* -- that I wrote before .NET existed, and I expect I'll be using them (on at least three different OSs) long after .NET has been replaced by Monoposoft's next attempt at World Domination[TM].
Yes, it must be one of the most widely used, because it seems that every day I hear of .NET failing to scale somewhere.
Yes, there's a fine measure of your success as a human being.
Programmers spend far too much time in front of a computer and far too little time in the real world, having real relationships and fixing real problems.
As this combination of hardware and software will inevitably be called WindeX.