It looks like these cars are more hype than help in the battle against pollution and foreign fuel reliance.
The Prius is also SULEV (Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle) certified, and has an AT-PZEV rating. There are also conventional cars that also have a PZEV rating (e.g., Ford Focus PZEV). The point is that the claim that hybrids don't reduce pollution is false: driving one of these cars is much cleaner than the vast majority of vehicles on the road.
Moreover, when you're stuck in traffic, the Prius gasoline engine shuts off. That saves gas and reduces pollution. That's not generally reflected in an MPG estimate (since you're not going anywhere, your MPG is actually 0 -- but in a conventional car, your MPG is actually negative, since you're using gas for no purpose.)
Re-read your instructions from the perspective of an ordinary user.
1. Why do I have to hit Alt-F2? Why not a Menu option? 2. The fact that you don't know if it's Ctrl-Alt-F2 or Alt-F2 or if it changes shows a big usability problem right there. 3. Again, typing knx-hdinstall seems completely non-obvious. I'm sure I'd quickly figure it out by reading some docs or something, but why do I need to read some docs or google to figure that out?
Note: I've never used Knoppix, so maybe there are menu options, but those instructions aren't that easy, IMO.
A lot of people are peeved at per-machine pricing, which sometimes makes sense.
What I don't get, though, is why people think they are entitled to pay for one subscription and use that subscription on an unlimited number of machines? I would think that a company running 1000 copies of RHEL is deriving more value from a company running 10 copies of RHEL (perhaps not 100x the value, which is why there should be volume discounts , but it's certainly not 1:1).
Subversion is too young. It also doesn't do merges yet. Go with Perforce. It's fast, stable as hell, atomic commits, nice API, clients for every platform you can think of.
Wow. I've been on the product team at ArsDigita for almost three years now. From my perspective, there are a gazillion egregious inaccuracies in the article. Anyway, I just wanted to say that Eve/Philip/etc. represent only one side of the story, and that there are many other sides to the story as well.
I have tremendous respect for a lot of people at ArsDigita. Her story is absolutely insulting to the people who have worked so hard to ship something, and it has certainly caused any remaining goodwill I have towards her (because I do think she IS a nice person) evaporate. Her indictment of Richard Buck and Michael Yoon is completely unfounded and complete bullshit. One stunning example is that Richard Buck is a poor manager because he was not able to "motivate the product team to work more than 40 hours/week." I find this to be disgusting and utter nonsense. One, just because you don't drive your employees like slaves doesn't mean you suck. Two, Eve was never at the office, so how could she know how long we worked? She was too busy working on her VoiceXML book that she told no one about!
I went to MIT; I got two degrees there. If you look closely at Philip's work (and those who have worked at ArsDigita are the best positioned to do so), I think that capable software engineers would recognize that Philip's writings, while excellent and interesting, are just hand-waving.
I work at aD, and I've been here since the beginning a few years ago. The amount of misinformation on this staggers me, and the amount of blind Philip worship makes me ill. The posts by Philip represent one side of the story (his), but are far from being the complete story. The claim by RM that "the best developers" have left aD is flagrantly false. In fact, the best developers have stayed because Philip (and his complete disdain for software engineering, design, QA, scalability testing, etc.) no longer exert an influence here. Philip is smart, articulate, and knowledgable about many things, bu the is not a software engineering god, nor is he an expert software architect, nor is he a capable manager.
I think that we should hesitate to indict people based purely on the "information" provided by the post. Based on my (limited) interaction with Daniel Weitzner, I'd strongly disagree that he, for one, is one who has been co-opted by DoubleClick. A cursory web search turns up: Before joining the W3C, Mr. Weitzner was co-founder and Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an Internet civil liberties organization in Washington, DC. He was also Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.. That doesn't sound like an anti-privacy individual to me.
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It looks like these cars are more hype than help in the battle against pollution and foreign fuel reliance.
The Prius is also SULEV (Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle) certified, and has an AT-PZEV rating. There are also conventional cars that also have a PZEV rating (e.g., Ford Focus PZEV). The point is that the claim that hybrids don't reduce pollution is false: driving one of these cars is much cleaner than the vast majority of vehicles on the road.
Moreover, when you're stuck in traffic, the Prius gasoline engine shuts off. That saves gas and reduces pollution. That's not generally reflected in an MPG estimate (since you're not going anywhere, your MPG is actually 0 -- but in a conventional car, your MPG is actually negative, since you're using gas for no purpose.)
Why care? Reduced power consumption.
Re-read your instructions from the perspective of an ordinary user.
1. Why do I have to hit Alt-F2? Why not a Menu option?
2. The fact that you don't know if it's Ctrl-Alt-F2 or Alt-F2 or if it changes shows a big usability problem right there.
3. Again, typing knx-hdinstall seems completely non-obvious. I'm sure I'd quickly figure it out by reading some docs or something, but why do I need to read some docs or google to figure that out?
Note: I've never used Knoppix, so maybe there are menu options, but those instructions aren't that easy, IMO.
A lot of people are peeved at per-machine pricing, which sometimes makes sense.
What I don't get, though, is why people think they are entitled to pay for one subscription and use that subscription on an unlimited number of machines? I would think that a company running 1000 copies of RHEL is deriving more value from a company running 10 copies of RHEL (perhaps not 100x the value, which is why there should be volume discounts , but it's certainly not 1:1).
Subversion is too young. It also doesn't do merges yet. Go with Perforce. It's fast, stable as hell, atomic commits, nice API, clients for every platform you can think of.
Wow. I've been on the product team at ArsDigita for almost three years now. From my perspective, there are a gazillion egregious inaccuracies in the article. Anyway, I just wanted to say that Eve/Philip/etc. represent only one side of the story, and that there are many other sides to the story as well.
I have tremendous respect for a lot of people at ArsDigita. Her story is absolutely insulting to the people who have worked so hard to ship something, and it has certainly caused any remaining goodwill I have towards her (because I do think she IS a nice person) evaporate. Her indictment of Richard Buck and Michael Yoon is completely unfounded and complete bullshit. One stunning example is that Richard Buck is a poor manager because he was not able to "motivate the product team to work more than 40 hours/week." I find this to be disgusting and utter nonsense. One, just because you don't drive your employees like slaves doesn't mean you suck. Two, Eve was never at the office, so how could she know how long we worked? She was too busy working on her VoiceXML book that she told no one about!
I went to MIT; I got two degrees there. If you look closely at Philip's work (and those who have worked at ArsDigita are the best positioned to do so), I think that capable software engineers would recognize that Philip's writings, while excellent and interesting, are just hand-waving.
I work at aD, and I've been here since the beginning a few years ago. The amount of misinformation on this staggers me, and the amount of blind Philip worship makes me ill. The posts by Philip represent one side of the story (his), but are far from being the complete story. The claim by RM that "the best developers" have left aD is flagrantly false. In fact, the best developers have stayed because Philip (and his complete disdain for software engineering, design, QA, scalability testing, etc.) no longer exert an influence here. Philip is smart, articulate, and knowledgable about many things, bu the is not a software engineering god, nor is he an expert software architect, nor is he a capable manager.
I think that we should hesitate to indict people based purely on the "information" provided by the post. Based on my (limited) interaction with Daniel Weitzner, I'd strongly disagree that he, for one, is one who has been co-opted by DoubleClick. A cursory web search turns up: Before joining the W3C, Mr. Weitzner was co-founder and Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an Internet civil liberties organization in Washington, DC. He was also Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.. That doesn't sound like an anti-privacy individual to me.