Why would I want hotmail when I can use gmail, a product from a company that does no evil and only has my interests at heart? Right? Right?
???? Google is interested only in its stockholders (as any other capitalistic company is supposed to be). You may prefer them because they are less agressive than MS, but it does not mean that they really care about you -they treat you well just because they think it is the best thing for themselves. And I won't argue if that is due because "they are nice" or "they are not as strong as Microsoft yet", because it would be talking about things you and me just do not know.
I'll agree with you when Google spend all of the money that it returns to the stockholders in social activities, and without being a PR stunt.
Travelling to great speed does not have an anti aging effect... It changes the "duration" of time, but the effects on the body related to the time spend does not vary. The classical effect of the astronauts who returns to earth 70 years before having aged only 7 years is due to the fact that the astronaut has spend only 7 years in the space (from his point of view).
For some reason, as soon as a budget and a deadline are involved, all of the lessons we've learned over the years and applied successfully to open source projects seem to fly out the window.
Having being in several software development companies, I can tell that the main reason for that is that you are dealing with a sort sighted manager/organization that does not understand that these things, while spending money during the development, actually save a lot later. In fact, many organization with better knowledge have QA metrics to avoid a manager too centered in lines of code to slip a poorly documented project.
Also remember that the issue at hand (trading good engineering for development budget) may be too materialistic for an OS defender, but remember that money is behind a lot of development of software that, otherwise, would have not been developed. Think also that it funds efforts far beyond the OS comunity reach (I remember looking at MS site for psychological studies on how to design a better interface, how does the brain work when recognizing written text, etc.)
And, having had to look "under the hood" of several OS projects, I can find that the documentation of many can be improved a lot (IIRC, one of the examples was when I needed to find out when a very large HTTP message failed to be received by tomcat).
Better yet... fire the IT staff and make them work for free (or a symbolic reward/bounty) and call it a community.
Of course if people is no assured any deal, it will be easier to get in budget. But, if they have those damn labour rights or opportunities to work elsewhere, do not be surprised if you are finished with some lawsuits and/or no staff/community at all.
A second version of your idea is called "freelance".
I do not think it is really wise to talk about those strategies in public, as later every news item that is favorable to the USA may be dismissed as "propaganda paid by Washington" and hence look unreliable.
I mean, if 99.999% of the world jumps off a bridge, the corpses should be at least at the height of the bridge, so it should not be a hard fall. And then you can examine the bodies of those who jumped before searching for money, jewels and i-pods.
... the trouble is "the others", because you (or one of your kids to which you let use the car) are never going to overspeed, be distracted when driving, get at the wheel with "just a little" alcohol... And well, if something like that happens and you kill someone else, it is not your family so why should you care?
The ideal metric should be errors / information (in bits)... the trouble is that it is difficult to find out how to measure the bits of information in an article (do not confuse this measure with the number of characters in the article).
My guess is that professional editors are more used to a direct approach to the subject of the article, thus making it shorter but more information dense, so I do not find this a good measure of wikipedia reliability. In fact, this "smaller size" should be considered as being more "user friendly" that an article too long and that does not conform only to the matter of the article.
I, for once, have read TFA and I must disagree -that is why I do not read the articles often-. Comments must be written with the code, if you wait until the code is finished, then your boss will tell you something like "go ahead with the next chunk of code, we will add comments later (that means never)". And if the logic of the program is complex enough, it is probable that after finishing it (and more if there have been holidays in the middle) you have just begun to forget the scary details...
Excuse, but how come this new makes it to slashdot? Granted, the comments were made in a blog, but the issue is not with the blog itself but with the comments. Had he/she made the comments in a graffiti, or shouted them in a crowded place, it would be the same in regard to the law. Of course there is the issue if we like Singapur's laws, but then ours is just our opinion and who should decide on the law should be the Singapur citizens. And for do that properly, the article or any source should tell which where the comments that were made.
Do not forget that many democratic, Western countries, have laws that forbid making racist comments in public, too.
So, please do not make a "News for nerds" of everything that uses technology; just those news where the technology is a basic part or it, or where the new is about the technology. Posting this is like posting about an stalker just because he uses a cell phone to make dirty calls...
Stick a postit to your phone with the sentence : "I want it without onions and pickles". And put one in your shirt in case you go yourself to the store...
If it's a documented standard -- and it will be -- an open-source document format can actually be converted into other documented formats (ASCII text, ISO-8859-X text, CSV, RTF, HTML, etc, even sound waves through a vocal synthetizer) that are actually easier to use for blind users!!
As said in another post, you fall in the falacy that the important thing is that it can be done (somehow, by someone, at an unknown future time) instead of focusing in if it has been done yet. The fabulous OO program that we will have in ten years does not solve any trouble now
Situation 3: Soldiers receive proper training before putting them at work...
Situation 4: Do not do nothing, and when the soldiers mistakenly practice a summary execution, just send a spokesperson to say how sorry the army is... ummmm... wait!
So, there is some web site where I could enroll as a test subject??? In case the investigation center is too far from me, they can email my doses and the tests to perform, I'll get those back to them!
1) Get 75 PWMANB (People With Money And No Brains) to give you 74.625.000$
2) Get 100 PWMANB to give you 75.000.000$.
3) Get 400 PWMANB to give you 200.000.000$.
4) Put your 349.625.000$ in a guaranteed fund, to get 1% a year (as a minimum) for three years.
5) Wait for three years.
6) Return the 349.625.000$ to the 575 PWMANB, claming that the prototype is not ready/the FAA did not want them/a lobby from other company pressed to get it banned.
7) Keep the 3.495.250 yearly of interest earned $$$$.
8) Claim that you are getting your ultimate prototype for 2013....
Anyone wants to give me a deposit so I can claim their terrain at the Moon when I become its emperor??? Refund granted!
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Why would I want hotmail when I can use gmail, a product from a company that does no evil and only has my interests at heart? Right? Right?
???? Google is interested only in its stockholders (as any other capitalistic company is supposed to be). You may prefer them because they are less agressive than MS, but it does not mean that they really care about you -they treat you well just because they think it is the best thing for themselves. And I won't argue if that is due because "they are nice" or "they are not as strong as Microsoft yet", because it would be talking about things you and me just do not know.
I'll agree with you when Google spend all of the money that it returns to the stockholders in social activities, and without being a PR stunt.
Travelling to great speed does not have an anti aging effect... It changes the "duration" of time, but the effects on the body related to the time spend does not vary. The classical effect of the astronauts who returns to earth 70 years before having aged only 7 years is due to the fact that the astronaut has spend only 7 years in the space (from his point of view).
1. Catch three normal mice somewhere
2. !!!!!!
3. Sell three blind mice for $250
4. Profit!
Just to add one more reason to the post:
For some reason, as soon as a budget and a deadline are involved, all of the lessons we've learned over the years and applied successfully to open source projects seem to fly out the window.
Having being in several software development companies, I can tell that the main reason for that is that you are dealing with a sort sighted manager/organization that does not understand that these things, while spending money during the development, actually save a lot later. In fact, many organization with better knowledge have QA metrics to avoid a manager too centered in lines of code to slip a poorly documented project.
Also remember that the issue at hand (trading good engineering for development budget) may be too materialistic for an OS defender, but remember that money is behind a lot of development of software that, otherwise, would have not been developed. Think also that it funds efforts far beyond the OS comunity reach (I remember looking at MS site for psychological studies on how to design a better interface, how does the brain work when recognizing written text, etc.)
And, having had to look "under the hood" of several OS projects, I can find that the documentation of many can be improved a lot (IIRC, one of the examples was when I needed to find out when a very large HTTP message failed to be received by tomcat).
Better yet... fire the IT staff and make them work for free (or a symbolic reward/bounty) and call it a community.
Of course if people is no assured any deal, it will be easier to get in budget. But, if they have those damn labour rights or opportunities to work elsewhere, do not be surprised if you are finished with some lawsuits and/or no staff/community at all.
A second version of your idea is called "freelance".
I do not think it is really wise to talk about those strategies in public, as later every news item that is favorable to the USA may be dismissed as "propaganda paid by Washington" and hence look unreliable.
I mean, if 99.999% of the world jumps off a bridge, the corpses should be at least at the height of the bridge, so it should not be a hard fall. And then you can examine the bodies of those who jumped before searching for money, jewels and i-pods.
Maybe a little off-topic, but so I am too.
Why such effort? Just send in all the SUVs we already have (and its drivers, of course :-) ).
... the trouble is "the others", because you (or one of your kids to which you let use the car) are never going to overspeed, be distracted when driving, get at the wheel with "just a little" alcohol... And well, if something like that happens and you kill someone else, it is not your family so why should you care?
but it wasn't blue kryptonite?? :-)
The ideal metric should be errors / information (in bits)... the trouble is that it is difficult to find out how to measure the bits of information in an article (do not confuse this measure with the number of characters in the article).
My guess is that professional editors are more used to a direct approach to the subject of the article, thus making it shorter but more information dense, so I do not find this a good measure of wikipedia reliability. In fact, this "smaller size" should be considered as being more "user friendly" that an article too long and that does not conform only to the matter of the article.
"We are not in Kansas anymore" :-)
I, for once, have read TFA and I must disagree -that is why I do not read the articles often-. Comments must be written with the code, if you wait until the code is finished, then your boss will tell you something like "go ahead with the next chunk of code, we will add comments later (that means never)". And if the logic of the program is complex enough, it is probable that after finishing it (and more if there have been holidays in the middle) you have just begun to forget the scary details...
Awesome. I've been waiting for a while now for this to be finalized. I hate beta-testing or QA'ing software and not getting paid for it.
That's why I'm still using Windows 3.11
Excuse, but how come this new makes it to slashdot? Granted, the comments were made in a blog, but the issue is not with the blog itself but with the comments. Had he/she made the comments in a graffiti, or shouted them in a crowded place, it would be the same in regard to the law. Of course there is the issue if we like Singapur's laws, but then ours is just our opinion and who should decide on the law should be the Singapur citizens. And for do that properly, the article or any source should tell which where the comments that were made.
Do not forget that many democratic, Western countries, have laws that forbid making racist comments in public, too.
So, please do not make a "News for nerds" of everything that uses technology; just those news where the technology is a basic part or it, or where the new is about the technology. Posting this is like posting about an stalker just because he uses a cell phone to make dirty calls...
It is just that you are not trying hard enough...
548 / 3 = 182.66
548 / (3 x 10^11) = 182.66 * 10^-11 = 1,8266 * 10^-9
Don't forget that you should be smarter than your calculator...
Stick a postit to your phone with the sentence : "I want it without onions and pickles". And put one in your shirt in case you go yourself to the store...
If it's a documented standard -- and it will be -- an open-source document format can actually be converted into other documented formats (ASCII text, ISO-8859-X text, CSV, RTF, HTML, etc, even sound waves through a vocal synthetizer) that are actually easier to use for blind users!!
As said in another post, you fall in the falacy that the important thing is that it can be done (somehow, by someone, at an unknown future time) instead of focusing in if it has been done yet. The fabulous OO program that we will have in ten years does not solve any trouble now
Situation 3: Soldiers receive proper training before putting them at work...
Situation 4: Do not do nothing, and when the soldiers mistakenly practice a summary execution, just send a spokesperson to say how sorry the army is... ummmm... wait!
One other way you could get into troube over Opens Source software is if you produce a commercial application that links to Open Source libaries
You should do only that with a LGPL (or similar) software; GLP forbids it -and if GPL is not enforceable, then you have no license at all-.
I wonder why this is an issue. If someone wants to port its own software on a new platform, who should argue against it?
So, there is some web site where I could enroll as a test subject??? In case the investigation center is too far from me, they can email my doses and the tests to perform, I'll get those back to them!
With only 80GBs??? Not the whole thing...
Let's see the numbers:
1) Get 75 PWMANB (People With Money And No Brains) to give you 74.625.000$
2) Get 100 PWMANB to give you 75.000.000$.
3) Get 400 PWMANB to give you 200.000.000$.
4) Put your 349.625.000$ in a guaranteed fund, to get 1% a year (as a minimum) for three years.
5) Wait for three years.
6) Return the 349.625.000$ to the 575 PWMANB, claming that the prototype is not ready/the FAA did not want them/a lobby from other company pressed to get it banned.
7) Keep the 3.495.250 yearly of interest earned $$$$.
8) Claim that you are getting your ultimate prototype for 2013....
Anyone wants to give me a deposit so I can claim their terrain at the Moon when I become its emperor??? Refund granted!