What about when the company you work for loses a contract, because a competing company in another country 'mysteriously got some inside information' on your bid? It has happened. Hope it doesn't happen to you.
It sounds to me (and I am an American in Florida here) that it is a union dispute and not a teacher dispute- as in, the majority of the teachers aren't rallying for a strike, the union is pulling them into it. It also sounds like the union is purposely making things worse (not allowing extracurricular participation, etc). I have no pity towards unions. I have pity towards people. Also, maybe I am off here but 60k canadian is still a lot in the US. That is more than I will make when I get out of school. My mother was a teacher for 15 years and the highest she was ever paid was $29k american. And yes, she chose to be paid year-round for easier budgeting of that paltry sum (she still had to get a summer job to make ends meet). She delt with the lack of education funds by taking about $200/month of her own money and spending it on materials for her classroom. In my high school, we had textbooks from the 70's (and I graduated two years ago). The scary thing? We didn't throw those books away when we got new books. We sold them to another school in Mississippi that apparently was a lot worse off then us. It sounds more like there are teachers who actively partake in their union, that have no problem telling their students 'the way things are.' When I see teachers like in the US, where there are garbage collectors who make more, who have to pay out their own pocket to give their students a decent education, I will listen to your cries of poor education. But this sounds more like people scared they will not be able to buy a new car this year due to "That bastard Harris". And in case you haven't figured out from my comments above, I think unions ARE evil. Pure evil. I have yet to be involved in a single union (zero of five) that hasn't been horribly corrupt and caused more pain than it cured. There are people who stand outside of businesses calling for unions here- clue update: they aren't employees of the store. They are employees of COMPETING stores, who can no longer handle the salaries the unions are demanding and stay competitive. So the unions start to picket outside of the businesses, they try everything to 'help the poor, poor non-unionized employees', trying to talk to employees and organize a strike, etc.
"Personally I'd love to see road work turned over to private companies like it is in the US. introduce fair competition. you want the $5mil contract for resurfacing the roads? bid on it like everyone else and you've at least got a shot at it. THAT would bring about more employment and make things better (I think). "
Not *just* like the US. Local contractors bidding may decrease the cost. But in the US, the money comes from gov. grants, and the conditions are just plain stupid- you must go with the lowest priced contractor (regardless of quality), and everything is against local gov. going after a contractor that is not holding true to their word (as in promised schedule or road quality).
I would personally prefer a system where local government got to spend the money any way they want to. If the federal government forces them to hire people that build the roads on their side, there isn't much you can do.. complain to your congressman maybe? But if the local government screws up (by hiring without doing their homework, giving someone 'special priviledge' or insider information, etc) they are really going to be up Shite Creek.
However, I am one for local goverment control rather than big goverment. Let people locally decide how to run things.
"Who is going to trust a security program for which crackers have already the source code. " *Cough* I would *never* trust a security program that DIDN'T have source code. Especially here in the US, where backdoors get you political favor and (soon?) potential tax breaks. If someone doesn't trust their security code enough to release the source (knowing that their methods are well-protected by any patents), I don't trust their security worth ten cents. It is only slightly better than sending it plaintext. Possibly worse, in that amateurs may consider it 'their challenge' to get your data.
Torture him some more? Geez, here is a clue stick - Even assholes have the right to be treated fairly. Slapping him upside the head isn't going to change anything -he will still be an asshole, and probably will want revenge, he isn't going to be like "Oh yes, I am now a born-again Christian, thank you for locking me up for five years, denying me my rights, and then denying me from using the device that is my only source of income. Bless you. I have changed my ways" At the end of the day you have to face the fact that you are being predjudiced against someone you never met. Chances are you don't even know anyone who has met him. And you have to face the fact that whatever is being done to him is no better than the things he may have done to other people's computers/data.
yeah, he can write scripts in perl on sheets of paper and sell them to greedy lil 14 year olds. Put enough symbols in it (so it looks like line noise), and they will probably think it didn't run right because they mistyped it ("Why does Kevin's asterisk have umblots over it? How do I type that?") Can't make money without a computer, my ass!
The trick is to get as extroverted as possible (for some people, the free beer helps;-)) and make sure that there aren't any total strangers in your vicinity. Just don't drink too much, or your reputation might preceed you (voice of experience here =( )
There are HUNDREDS of versions of Windows CE. Every different product has its own version, and most products that CE is being used on are not PDAs, but 'internal' or special interest devices. There is support for (I think) eight different processors now, and you can build in or out any sort of functionality in CE when you make the platform. For instance, you can either support bitmap or truetype fonts. Not both. Just one. For one example, we were considering a port to Windows CE for an application the company I work for publishes, hoping to get it on a very low-cost system. Most of our profit margin goes towards tech support where people's cheap computers do not like windows and like our software even less. So we want to ship it on a consumer device, so we have no hardware inconsistancies. Well, Dreamcast CE does not include lots of Win32 stuff. CE takes out support for just about all the 'cool' windows features- you can't have any visual mapping mode besides 1 to 1 pixel mode, the only drawing command that is accelerated in hardware is the line. But Dreamcast CE does not even include windows GDI. It is merely DirectX. Or rather, a subset of DirectX. Scratch that idea. In the end, if we say we support Windows CE we have a lot more of a headache we ever would just saying we support wintel 98, so we will stick with that, and people blaming intermittant reboots on our application. *sigh*
Sorry, but this is bullshit. You cannot compile win16 code with any compiler made after 1995. The API for say, reading from a serial port, changed between 3.0,3.1, then 95. And indeed, there are changes to serial port handling with 98, and NT, and Win2k, and none of these changes match up. This is just an example. You cannot even get documentation on win16 anymore, let alone write code for it. And just in case you didn't know, a 'recompile' does not convert your 16-bit code to 32-bit code. Sorry if I now think you have never written a line of code in your life. Also, which VERSION of win32 are you porting to? There are features in Win32s (the 32 bit addon for windows 3.1) that never made it into 95, and definately vice-versa. There are features in win16 that have no win32 alternative, such as the fine-grained functions to shut down windows. And there are versions of windows being released RIGHT NOW (WinCE, and soon NT Embedded) that have next to no support for the win32 API. I spent a week evaluating what would be neccessary for a CE port of our code, and my advice to my employer was to just encourage people to buy laptops- passing on the cost of the MONTHS of work needed for the port would quickly outway the slightly cheaper price of the CE machines. Let alone that there are close to a hundred different versions of CE. For instance Dreamcast CE, which does not even contain Windows GDI.
Try large corporations. Typically they will only have a 5 year upgrade cycle, which means they could still be running Win 3.11 and apps. Once when I was interning at Intel I found out that they had banned Windows 95, so I was forced to write 16-bit code for the programming project I was hired for (which didn't make me happy at all)
Win 95, Win 95 OSR, Win 95 with Service Pack, Win 95 OSR2, Win95 OSR2.1, Win95 OSR2.5, Win 98, Win 98 Second Edition... do I need to go through all the betas in between?
O'Reilly caricatures all attempts to advocate ethical behaviour as religious posturing - as if all atheists are bound to act amorally.
I think the main influence for this argument is creationism and science in general.. religious groups have often considered science and furthering of development to be 'evil' as it detracts from creationism, i.e. that the earth was here a long time before humans were, and that the bible may not be wholly right.
By saying 'religious' he means someone who is more interested in staying true to their beliefs than looking at the world around them, while by scientific you would think the opposite - someone who is more interested in discovering the world around them than paying attention to what people may strongly believe in.
Actually, if you believe in software as a community, then you shouldn't say that the developers didn't put enough effort in debugging it - by using it, you are a developer yourself. Don't complain when someone gives you a program for free, along with the source, and then you aren't even willing to tell them in return that you can reproduce a bug (let alone the several you are griping about).
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What about when the company you work for loses a contract, because a competing company in another country 'mysteriously got some inside information' on your bid? It has happened. Hope it doesn't happen to you.
It sounds to me (and I am an American in Florida here) that it is a union dispute and not a teacher dispute- as in, the majority of the teachers aren't rallying for a strike, the union is pulling them into it. It also sounds like the union is purposely making things worse (not allowing extracurricular participation, etc). I have no pity towards unions. I have pity towards people. Also, maybe I am off here but 60k canadian is still a lot in the US. That is more than I will make when I get out of school. My mother was a teacher for 15 years and the highest she was ever paid was $29k american. And yes, she chose to be paid year-round for easier budgeting of that paltry sum (she still had to get a summer job to make ends meet). She delt with the lack of education funds by taking about $200/month of her own money and spending it on materials for her classroom. In my high school, we had textbooks from the 70's (and I graduated two years ago). The scary thing? We didn't throw those books away when we got new books. We sold them to another school in Mississippi that apparently was a lot worse off then us. It sounds more like there are teachers who actively partake in their union, that have no problem telling their students 'the way things are.' When I see teachers like in the US, where there are garbage collectors who make more, who have to pay out their own pocket to give their students a decent education, I will listen to your cries of poor education. But this sounds more like people scared they will not be able to buy a new car this year due to "That bastard Harris". And in case you haven't figured out from my comments above, I think unions ARE evil. Pure evil. I have yet to be involved in a single union (zero of five) that hasn't been horribly corrupt and caused more pain than it cured. There are people who stand outside of businesses calling for unions here- clue update: they aren't employees of the store. They are employees of COMPETING stores, who can no longer handle the salaries the unions are demanding and stay competitive. So the unions start to picket outside of the businesses, they try everything to 'help the poor, poor non-unionized employees', trying to talk to employees and organize a strike, etc.
"Personally I'd love to see road work turned over to private companies like it is in the US. introduce fair competition. you want the $5mil contract for resurfacing the roads? bid on it like everyone else and you've at least got a shot at it. THAT would bring about more employment and make things better (I think). "
Not *just* like the US. Local contractors bidding may decrease the cost. But in the US, the money comes from gov. grants, and the conditions are just plain stupid- you must go with the lowest priced contractor (regardless of quality), and everything is against local gov. going after a contractor that is not holding true to their word (as in promised schedule or road quality).
I would personally prefer a system where local government got to spend the money any way they want to. If the federal government forces them to hire people that build the roads on their side, there isn't much you can do.. complain to your congressman maybe? But if the local government screws up (by hiring without doing their homework, giving someone 'special priviledge' or insider information, etc) they are really going to be up Shite Creek.
However, I am one for local goverment control rather than big goverment. Let people locally decide how to run things.
"Who is going to trust a security program for which crackers have already the source code. " *Cough* I would *never* trust a security program that DIDN'T have source code. Especially here in the US, where backdoors get you political favor and (soon?) potential tax breaks. If someone doesn't trust their security code enough to release the source (knowing that their methods are well-protected by any patents), I don't trust their security worth ten cents. It is only slightly better than sending it plaintext. Possibly worse, in that amateurs may consider it 'their challenge' to get your data.
Actually, I think they were talking about Naked Gun 2 1/2: the Smell of Fear :)
Torture him some more? Geez, here is a clue stick - Even assholes have the right to be treated fairly. Slapping him upside the head isn't going to change anything -he will still be an asshole, and probably will want revenge, he isn't going to be like "Oh yes, I am now a born-again Christian, thank you for locking me up for five years, denying me my rights, and then denying me from using the device that is my only source of income. Bless you. I have changed my ways" At the end of the day you have to face the fact that you are being predjudiced against someone you never met. Chances are you don't even know anyone who has met him. And you have to face the fact that whatever is being done to him is no better than the things he may have done to other people's computers/data.
yeah, he can write scripts in perl on sheets of paper and sell them to greedy lil 14 year olds. Put enough symbols in it (so it looks like line noise), and they will probably think it didn't run right because they mistyped it ("Why does Kevin's asterisk have umblots over it? How do I type that?") Can't make money without a computer, my ass!
It you make any modifications to the beer, please *don't* redistribute it.
The trick is to get as extroverted as possible (for some people, the free beer helps ;-)) and make sure that there aren't any total strangers in your vicinity. Just don't drink too much, or your reputation might preceed you (voice of experience here =( )
There are HUNDREDS of versions of Windows CE. Every different product has its own version, and most products that CE is being used on are not PDAs, but 'internal' or special interest devices. There is support for (I think) eight different processors now, and you can build in or out any sort of functionality in CE when you make the platform. For instance, you can either support bitmap or truetype fonts. Not both. Just one. For one example, we were considering a port to Windows CE for an application the company I work for publishes, hoping to get it on a very low-cost system. Most of our profit margin goes towards tech support where people's cheap computers do not like windows and like our software even less. So we want to ship it on a consumer device, so we have no hardware inconsistancies. Well, Dreamcast CE does not include lots of Win32 stuff. CE takes out support for just about all the 'cool' windows features- you can't have any visual mapping mode besides 1 to 1 pixel mode, the only drawing command that is accelerated in hardware is the line. But Dreamcast CE does not even include windows GDI. It is merely DirectX. Or rather, a subset of DirectX. Scratch that idea. In the end, if we say we support Windows CE we have a lot more of a headache we ever would just saying we support wintel 98, so we will stick with that, and people blaming intermittant reboots on our application. *sigh*
Sorry, but this is bullshit. You cannot compile win16 code with any compiler made after 1995. The API for say, reading from a serial port, changed between 3.0,3.1, then 95. And indeed, there are changes to serial port handling with 98, and NT, and Win2k, and none of these changes match up. This is just an example. You cannot even get documentation on win16 anymore, let alone write code for it. And just in case you didn't know, a 'recompile' does not convert your 16-bit code to 32-bit code. Sorry if I now think you have never written a line of code in your life. Also, which VERSION of win32 are you porting to? There are features in Win32s (the 32 bit addon for windows 3.1) that never made it into 95, and definately vice-versa. There are features in win16 that have no win32 alternative, such as the fine-grained functions to shut down windows. And there are versions of windows being released RIGHT NOW (WinCE, and soon NT Embedded) that have next to no support for the win32 API. I spent a week evaluating what would be neccessary for a CE port of our code, and my advice to my employer was to just encourage people to buy laptops- passing on the cost of the MONTHS of work needed for the port would quickly outway the slightly cheaper price of the CE machines. Let alone that there are close to a hundred different versions of CE. For instance Dreamcast CE, which does not even contain Windows GDI.
Try large corporations. Typically they will only have a 5 year upgrade cycle, which means they could still be running Win 3.11 and apps. Once when I was interning at Intel I found out that they had banned Windows 95, so I was forced to write 16-bit code for the programming project I was hired for (which didn't make me happy at all)
Win 95, Win 95 OSR, Win 95 with Service Pack, Win 95 OSR2, Win95 OSR2.1, Win95 OSR2.5, Win 98, Win 98 Second Edition... do I need to go through all the betas in between?
mkLinux actually does have a Linux kernel AFAIK, It runs that kernel on top of Mach. Basically it makes the linux kernel into a wrapper.
RMS wrote GCC?
Tons
But yeah, I love how they are talking about Redhat adopting an 'embrace and extend' strategy.. how the fvck can you embrace and extend GPL software?
"We added fourteen new features to 'ls' to make it incompatible with other linux distros"
"We recompiled the source that redhat released yesterday, and now have their fourteen new features"
I think the main influence for this argument is creationism and science in general.. religious groups have often considered science and furthering of development to be 'evil' as it detracts from creationism, i.e. that the earth was here a long time before humans were, and that the bible may not be wholly right.
By saying 'religious' he means someone who is more interested in staying true to their beliefs than looking at the world around them, while by scientific you would think the opposite - someone who is more interested in discovering the world around them than paying attention to what people may strongly believe in.
Actually, if you believe in software as a community, then you shouldn't say that the developers didn't put enough effort in debugging it - by using it, you are a developer yourself. Don't complain when someone gives you a program for free, along with the source, and then you aren't even willing to tell them in return that you can reproduce a bug (let alone the several you are griping about).