"no free software will ever be used in mission critical applications because they need someone to point the finger at if/when it doesn't work."
bzzt. try again. all the code my company provides is free as in beer and free as in anybody with top secret clearance can look at the code. just because its not distributed to every yahoo on slashdot doesn't mean its not free, and doesn't mean there's nobody to point the finger at.
how much lost revenue do you think they suffered? how much will they lose because of 'pissed off [legitimate] customers'? how much money did they spend on people who put together the hack? did they really have to do it? regardless, i too, think it's pretty damn cool.
thats not the problem. there are already sites in nevada prepared to store waste. how are you going to get it there though? every town with major railroad crossings between the east coast and nevada has outlawed trains with radioactive cargo. do you really want that stuff shipped by truck?
its very, very difficult to make that argument for a huge defense contractor when your division has been owned by three different companies in 40 years (especially with the most recent acquisition being 4 years ago).
actually, i don't really think this is true so much in contemporary japan, where companies have been laying employees off for 10 years. also this applies only to a medium portion of the job market, white collar workers at larger corporations.
relliks post is really to the point. but there's one other thing, that if your company can't pay you that 5k-10k more that other companies can, and can't offer you benefits, options, growth/career oppurtunities that other companies can, do you really want to work for that company? they must be doing something wrong, somwhere...
is it really 'the company' that you're loyal to? some trademarked name and a logo? or is it a great leader with vision, and intelligent co-workers, who inspire your loyalty?
as a tech guy it's probably not his job to fix processes and communicate with management. that's management's job. and i agree with everybody about managers not being super people. managers tend to be promoted past their competence. ie, if you are doing your job well, you get promoted. if you do that well, you get promoted again. if you perform poorly, you don't get promoted, or demoted, you stay there, doing poor work, for however long you're around. and your assumption that managers all want to keep/grow the business...how does this account for all the politics that seems to go on in management?
about being easily replaced. this is true if you are a standard engineer. but if you are somebody who is resposible for people, and have a lot of experience with systems and processes, you are most often irreplaceable. no matter how good you are at documenting your work, you can't document everybody elses. and if you are a good lead engineer or program manager, there's no documentation that will replace you. and oh yea. bail now. put in two weeks notice, then try to hire away people who worked for you that are good. there's no such thing as company loyalty, but there is personal loyalty, and it goes a long way.
that wasn't the main reason for the protest though. and they make the same point you do about limiting freedom of speech: "Any system that offers either one privileges in excess of what trademark law provides creates problems that should be avoided if possible." the point is to not give rights just to mcdonald's because they are bigger and more famous than mcdonald's farm.
my entire (200000+ people) company uses the netscape 4.7 browser. would you be willing to give up $1000000 parts contract because your web page designers are too lazy to make the links to datasheets display properly?
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"no free software will ever be used in mission critical applications because they need someone to point the finger at if/when it doesn't work."
bzzt. try again. all the code my company provides is free as in beer and free as in anybody with top secret clearance can look at the code. just because its not distributed to every yahoo on slashdot doesn't mean its not free, and doesn't mean there's nobody to point the finger at.
management doing the priortizing? and agreeing to engineer's schedules without asking sales or contracts first? ludicrous.
unfortunately they aren't reliable. the 'snowblower bug' has shown that flooding mailboxes with large amounts of snow can cause them to crash.
i hear we get robot farmers and robot scientists with these robot miners
1 linus eats apples
2 steve jobs eats apples
3 transmeta is buying apple
replace mips and arm with xilinx and altera. thank you.
how much lost revenue do you think they suffered? how much will they lose because of 'pissed off [legitimate] customers'? how much money did they spend on people who put together the hack? did they really have to do it? regardless, i too, think it's pretty damn cool.
dallas buys those too. they break down a lot though, and are real expensive.
thats not the problem. there are already sites in nevada prepared to store waste. how are you going to get it there though? every town with major railroad crossings between the east coast and nevada has outlawed trains with radioactive cargo. do you really want that stuff shipped by truck?
"There is nothing that is forcing you to use their technology except the copyrighted content."
cdma?
its very, very difficult to make that argument for a huge defense contractor when your division has been owned by three different companies in 40 years (especially with the most recent acquisition being 4 years ago).
then it would be like one big mafia, with everything operating under a huge table.
actually, i don't really think this is true so much in contemporary japan, where companies have been laying employees off for 10 years. also this applies only to a medium portion of the job market, white collar workers at larger corporations.
relliks post is really to the point. but there's one other thing, that if your company can't pay you that 5k-10k more that other companies can, and can't offer you benefits, options, growth/career oppurtunities that other companies can, do you really want to work for that company? they must be doing something wrong, somwhere...
is it really 'the company' that you're loyal to? some trademarked name and a logo? or is it a great leader with vision, and intelligent co-workers, who inspire your loyalty?
as a tech guy it's probably not his job to fix processes and communicate with management. that's management's job. and i agree with everybody about managers not being super people. managers tend to be promoted past their competence. ie, if you are doing your job well, you get promoted. if you do that well, you get promoted again. if you perform poorly, you don't get promoted, or demoted, you stay there, doing poor work, for however long you're around. and your assumption that managers all want to keep/grow the business...how does this account for all the politics that seems to go on in management?
about being easily replaced. this is true if you are a standard engineer. but if you are somebody who is resposible for people, and have a lot of experience with systems and processes, you are most often irreplaceable. no matter how good you are at documenting your work, you can't document everybody elses. and if you are a good lead engineer or program manager, there's no documentation that will replace you. and oh yea. bail now. put in two weeks notice, then try to hire away people who worked for you that are good. there's no such thing as company loyalty, but there is personal loyalty, and it goes a long way.
or, my favorite: 0012375 (unless i'm hvac1285)
that wasn't the main reason for the protest though. and they make the same point you do about limiting freedom of speech: "Any system that offers either one privileges in excess of what trademark law provides creates problems that should be avoided if possible." the point is to not give rights just to mcdonald's because they are bigger and more famous than mcdonald's farm.
your code isn't xhtml compliant without end tags anyway. your xml code won't be parsed properly. might as well get used to doing it the right way?
thanks. yea of course dallas is way too new to be much good for exploring but there's got to be at least one or two interesting places.
my entire (200000+ people) company uses the netscape 4.7 browser. would you be willing to give up $1000000 parts contract because your web page designers are too lazy to make the links to datasheets display properly?
no, it's really not hard. use an editor to double check your code.
what's even funnier is the altavista banner at the top of the page as i read the comments.
that's where i'm from, and i didn't see anything on the webring and other pages about dallas, just mostly new york, etc.