A somewhat saccharin homage. Never-the-less eliciting fond memories and affirming that computing, like nostalgia, just ain't what it used to be. I'm glad there's room on/. for such occasional nonsense... HGH
Summary
1/ It's a good idea, really good actually & very useful - YAY
2/ It comes switched on by default which might not be ideal in all situations - BOO
3/ But don't worry, it doesn't leave your machines wide open in any way - YAY
4/ It's one line to switch it off: - DOUBLE YAY
pkalalockdown --lockdown org.freedesktop.pakagekit.package-install
Conclusion: 4:1 YAY:BOO ratio
This behaviour is common to all organizations, and commonly results in pathology within the team.
What is uncommon is the open nature of Linux kernel development results in the internal dialogue being public & recorded.
This level of transparency and raw material is interesting and potentially powerful. What seems to be missing is some mechanism to harness it through a reflective feedback process. Has it been considered? The self organizing nature of open source developement is powerful but not immune.
I also note that given '80% of the kernel development' goes through Linus, despite his 2% actual contribution, the kernel development is, therefore, very brittle. Being vulnerable not only to the 'hit-by-bus' effect but simply to the emotional whims of the conduit of that 80% - as exampled by Conus & Cox.
I prefer & use 'markup-monkey'
it has a nicer syllable cadence and allitertive appeal is more correct (html/css/javascript-cut-n-paste is not restricted to web) and maintains that belittling yet jolly imagery.
Yes IF you can deal with the 3 main issues of 'friendly worms' (autonomous patching agents):
1/ Control (this may have been dealt with)
2/ Testing
3/ Consent
I suspect the big stumbling block would be consent, any thoughts?
/. engaged in an political propaganda excercise with an air of well meaning but naive intellectualism and is unsurprised at the bland outcome, i would hope that this lack of critical judgement is not repeated as it only serves to fill the pages of internal reports and buff up a false image of engagement. I believe slashdot should gaurd against the emergence of its partisan leanings or even from becoming vulnerable to accusations of same.
You see this is when it starts to sound ridiculous as the notion of 'vaccinating bats' seems funny at best. After all, how do you get the bat to sit still?
But the point remains: "Nature will find a way" ie mutation will occur and it will occur in the host.
The goal should be filovirus eradication and vaccinating humans will not acheive that. Therefore, spending money (a lot of money) on only one part of the problem is a mistake.
As Strat noted in Hmmm..
"Life always finds a way"
Which is why imho vaccine efforts should be directed at the animal host pool in order to eradicate the filovirus, ie make it extinct.
The host is widely considered to be bats http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic626.htm and if only a tiny portion of the grant money spent on dna twiddling was spent establishing this and looking at either eradicating the bats or vaccinating them then, perhaps, the whole filovirus family could be eradicated.
Before all the bat-lovers start crying foul I would like to point out that it is only ebola's high mortality rate that keeps it contained. If mother nature dose a bit of her own dna twiddling and hits the sweet spot for mortality versus infectivity then haemorrhagic fever will reach Hollywood proportions.
But, call me cynical, this would leave no recurring income for vaccine makers.
This is really about making lots of money in a new market... 'beating the pirates'
They have seen how MediaDefender has made huge profits out of the rabid desire of the music industry & hollywood to stop the perceived 'theft' of music and movies to illeagal downloads particulary torrents through technological techniques.
This a big and growing market and one of its major players just took a nosedive, the market share is up for grabs.
I can't see big music & hollywood coming to their senses about the whole thing anytime soon so the 'fight' will go on and the likes of AT&T will be there to profit and drive the market.
So if you've got no morals and an idea for a good algorithm or counter-pirate technique give AT&T a ring...
1/ Razorblade Model - low selling price (FOSS 'giving away' in your case), charge for recurring consumable
This model has already been hinted at above with the 'sell support' approach but this is not a reliable recurring consumable. Is there some other resource that you could sell on a recurring basis eg virus database updates for virus checker?
2/ Eating Someone's Lunch Model - if your software is good and you aggresively market it you should consume all the competition, yours is free after all, and free is a huge competative advantage. Once you own the market you start to charge for superior or subsequent versions. Maintaining a short period of prior version compatibility you then close the door.
3/ Loss Leader Model - essentially 1 & 2 revolve around this, your FOSS is your loss leader. But this model can exert itself in more esoteric ways such as the several examples given in the comments where the software has come to benefit them at some later date.
Serendipity aside it would make sense to have a portfolio of all your work and if your work has a thriving community 'market' around it you are evidentially a good programmer.
I suppose it depends on how you define 'profit'!
Just in case you forgot who wrote the monolith. "I... I want to do... I think we(sic) want to do much, much better than Version 3" All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa
Good Article. Used to chaperone CS labs during post grad to make ends meet. Java is not a good first language for computer SCIENCE. It makes the whole process seem confusing and somehow 'magic' simply learning programatic incantations and learning the CS prof's prefered idioms. No concept of the cross platform, virtual machine, bytecode, interpreted, hotspotting, garbage-collection, client-side, etc, etc. The so called 'CS' course just churned out RAD Cookie Cutter GUI programmers who could connect (just) to databases. Imho must pass C class first, preferably with a bit of assembler thrown in, then and only then Java but teach from the bottom up not GUI top down.
1. Via silverlight MS is going to leverage its huge install base to move to the next phase of its business model - i.e. "adapt".
2. Over time silverlight uptake will adapt your web access to their proprietry model.
3. When this process of adaption is well beyond a critical point the benevolence towards other OSes will end and no new vesions of Silverlight will appear for Linux or OSX.
4. Javascript will be replaced with.NET, the adaption will be complete.
5. HTML & Javascript will wither on the vine or a small second tier web will co-exist.
6. MS will own the web.
This is key to MS survival so if you think they are pushing Silverlight with a few irritating pop-ups...
"you ain't seen nothing yet!"
You harvested the little sisters?! OMFG you callous beast! Rescue them, rescue them all! Rescue them and they will rescue you - both literally and spiritually. The end sequence is so heart warming if you do...
He didn't say 'everyone' he said 'Any C++ programmer worth anything would know that the obvious thing to do is to overload...' which I would consider to be a truism. He wasn't lording over noobs, as you seem to be suggesting, he was rightly furious that in the abscence of clear spefication he chose the most appropriate route at his skill level and was penalized for doing so & unable to rectify the injustice. Although I think he should have escalated his grievance to the dean.
I've never played a scientist in a video game but in my 1st life I do research and a couple of years we looked at this by wiring ecg (ekg) monitors to groups of people playing a LAN game FP shootem-up and collecting their spit for hormone levels before and after. We had done a fairly long winded personality and mood profile on them too. (The control was watching a video of video game walkthroughs)
The results? Violent people play violent games violently, dump loads more cortisol and have higher more variable heart rates and feel more tense and wound up afterwards.
It seemed to us that the effects of the game playing depended on the personality and mood at the time of the person playing the game.
This piece of work reminded me of 'research' that proves putting shampoo into rabbit's eyes gives them sore eyes.
We moved on.
I think Sisyphus would make a good poster child for plight of web developers everywhere!
Daily I seek meaning in the cruel and unusual punishement of cross browser compliance...
on Saturday March 24, @09:51PM you wrote:
'...and I hate Macs* '
follow your own advice:
' *Fanboys: whether or not Macs are better is not the issue here. '
apart from the fact that statements 1 & 4 are just dumb...
don't be troll fodder
Slashdot Mirror
maybe with bs=1M fpr speed?
A somewhat saccharin homage. Never-the-less eliciting fond memories and affirming that computing, like nostalgia, just ain't what it used to be. I'm glad there's room on /. for such occasional nonsense... HGH
Summary 1/ It's a good idea, really good actually & very useful - YAY 2/ It comes switched on by default which might not be ideal in all situations - BOO 3/ But don't worry, it doesn't leave your machines wide open in any way - YAY 4/ It's one line to switch it off: - DOUBLE YAY pkalalockdown --lockdown org.freedesktop.pakagekit.package-install Conclusion: 4:1 YAY:BOO ratio
This behaviour is common to all organizations, and commonly results in pathology within the team. What is uncommon is the open nature of Linux kernel development results in the internal dialogue being public & recorded. This level of transparency and raw material is interesting and potentially powerful. What seems to be missing is some mechanism to harness it through a reflective feedback process. Has it been considered? The self organizing nature of open source developement is powerful but not immune. I also note that given '80% of the kernel development' goes through Linus, despite his 2% actual contribution, the kernel development is, therefore, very brittle. Being vulnerable not only to the 'hit-by-bus' effect but simply to the emotional whims of the conduit of that 80% - as exampled by Conus & Cox.
I prefer & use 'markup-monkey' it has a nicer syllable cadence and allitertive appeal is more correct (html/css/javascript-cut-n-paste is not restricted to web) and maintains that belittling yet jolly imagery.
Yes IF you can deal with the 3 main issues of 'friendly worms' (autonomous patching agents): 1/ Control (this may have been dealt with) 2/ Testing 3/ Consent I suspect the big stumbling block would be consent, any thoughts?
/. engaged in an political propaganda excercise with an air of well meaning but naive intellectualism and is unsurprised at the bland outcome, i would hope that this lack of critical judgement is not repeated as it only serves to fill the pages of internal reports and buff up a false image of engagement. I believe slashdot should gaurd against the emergence of its partisan leanings or even from becoming vulnerable to accusations of same.
London Anonymous flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/anonymous/
But the point remains: "Nature will find a way" ie mutation will occur and it will occur in the host.
The goal should be filovirus eradication and vaccinating humans will not acheive that. Therefore, spending money (a lot of money) on only one part of the problem is a mistake.
But why is so much money being spent?
protect citizens and soldiers against bioterrorism http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2005/06/mil-050606-3e7dd8b0.htmand for 'weaponization' http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=11348
Science & in particular the science industry, is not perfect. It is, however, much less perfect than ever.This is ridiculous hypocrisy!
Yahoo uses open source http://www.news.com/2100-1023-963937.html
Yahoo publishes open source http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
Yahoo are now well and truly on my sh*t list.
Damn! I have to go and expunge them from life :(
Which is why imho vaccine efforts should be directed at the animal host pool in order to eradicate the filovirus, ie make it extinct.
The host is widely considered to be bats http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic626.htm and if only a tiny portion of the grant money spent on dna twiddling was spent establishing this and looking at either eradicating the bats or vaccinating them then, perhaps, the whole filovirus family could be eradicated.
Before all the bat-lovers start crying foul I would like to point out that it is only ebola's high mortality rate that keeps it contained. If mother nature dose a bit of her own dna twiddling and hits the sweet spot for mortality versus infectivity then haemorrhagic fever will reach Hollywood proportions.
But, call me cynical, this would leave no recurring income for vaccine makers.
They have seen how MediaDefender has made huge profits out of the rabid desire of the music industry & hollywood to stop the perceived 'theft' of music and movies to illeagal downloads particulary torrents through technological techniques.
AT&T see themselves in excellent position to tap into this market through traffic monitoring and MediaDefender's recent stock crash after leaked emails reveal they were pwned by a bunch of high school kids http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-stock-plunges-due-to-leaked-emails-071222/ and http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/01/14/Media-Defenders-Profile?print=true couldn't have come at a better time
This a big and growing market and one of its major players just took a nosedive, the market share is up for grabs.
I can't see big music & hollywood coming to their senses about the whole thing anytime soon so the 'fight' will go on and the likes of AT&T will be there to profit and drive the market.
So if you've got no morals and an idea for a good algorithm or counter-pirate technique give AT&T a ring...
1/ Razorblade Model - low selling price (FOSS 'giving away' in your case), charge for recurring consumable This model has already been hinted at above with the 'sell support' approach but this is not a reliable recurring consumable. Is there some other resource that you could sell on a recurring basis eg virus database updates for virus checker? 2/ Eating Someone's Lunch Model - if your software is good and you aggresively market it you should consume all the competition, yours is free after all, and free is a huge competative advantage. Once you own the market you start to charge for superior or subsequent versions. Maintaining a short period of prior version compatibility you then close the door. 3/ Loss Leader Model - essentially 1 & 2 revolve around this, your FOSS is your loss leader. But this model can exert itself in more esoteric ways such as the several examples given in the comments where the software has come to benefit them at some later date. Serendipity aside it would make sense to have a portfolio of all your work and if your work has a thriving community 'market' around it you are evidentially a good programmer. I suppose it depends on how you define 'profit'!
Just in case you forgot who wrote the monolith. "I ... I want to do... I think we(sic) want to do much, much better than Version 3" All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa
Good Article. Used to chaperone CS labs during post grad to make ends meet. Java is not a good first language for computer SCIENCE. It makes the whole process seem confusing and somehow 'magic' simply learning programatic incantations and learning the CS prof's prefered idioms. No concept of the cross platform, virtual machine, bytecode, interpreted, hotspotting, garbage-collection, client-side, etc, etc. The so called 'CS' course just churned out RAD Cookie Cutter GUI programmers who could connect (just) to databases. Imho must pass C class first, preferably with a bit of assembler thrown in, then and only then Java but teach from the bottom up not GUI top down.
1. Via silverlight MS is going to leverage its huge install base to move to the next phase of its business model - i.e. "adapt". 2. Over time silverlight uptake will adapt your web access to their proprietry model. 3. When this process of adaption is well beyond a critical point the benevolence towards other OSes will end and no new vesions of Silverlight will appear for Linux or OSX. 4. Javascript will be replaced with .NET, the adaption will be complete.
5. HTML & Javascript will wither on the vine or a small second tier web will co-exist.
6. MS will own the web.
This is key to MS survival so if you think they are pushing Silverlight with a few irritating pop-ups...
"you ain't seen nothing yet!"
You harvested the little sisters?! OMFG you callous beast! Rescue them, rescue them all! Rescue them and they will rescue you - both literally and spiritually. The end sequence is so heart warming if you do...
He didn't say 'everyone' he said 'Any C++ programmer worth anything would know that the obvious thing to do is to overload...' which I would consider to be a truism. He wasn't lording over noobs, as you seem to be suggesting, he was rightly furious that in the abscence of clear spefication he chose the most appropriate route at his skill level and was penalized for doing so & unable to rectify the injustice. Although I think he should have escalated his grievance to the dean.
I'm in ur text comprezzin without using semanticz
I've never played a scientist in a video game but in my 1st life I do research and a couple of years we looked at this by wiring ecg (ekg) monitors to groups of people playing a LAN game FP shootem-up and collecting their spit for hormone levels before and after. We had done a fairly long winded personality and mood profile on them too. (The control was watching a video of video game walkthroughs) The results? Violent people play violent games violently, dump loads more cortisol and have higher more variable heart rates and feel more tense and wound up afterwards. It seemed to us that the effects of the game playing depended on the personality and mood at the time of the person playing the game. This piece of work reminded me of 'research' that proves putting shampoo into rabbit's eyes gives them sore eyes. We moved on.
Yes 'free as in freedom' over-commercialization removes freedom there is no beer in this equation don't mistake more beer for more freedom
I think Sisyphus would make a good poster child for plight of web developers everywhere! Daily I seek meaning in the cruel and unusual punishement of cross browser compliance...
yeah and THE POOLS CLOSED
on Saturday March 24, @09:51PM you wrote: ' ...and I hate Macs* '
follow your own advice:
' *Fanboys: whether or not Macs are better is not the issue here. '
apart from the fact that statements 1 & 4 are just dumb...
don't be troll fodder
point miss you still