I find this very hard to believe, as I contribute to my 2.09 hours of alloted goof off time according to this study.
Gotta wonder how much of that is overpaid board members and senior level managers that love to run office to office (i.e. to other managers offices) trying to seem witty.
What's worse, is that non-resident aliens are signed up for Selective Service and could in theory be drafted to fight for the US without any real ties to it other than doing a degree there! I was positively shocked to find out that I could be conscripted to fight for the USA, even though I am a British citizen (I'm now a green-card holder, which means I pay taxes but can't vote... so much for "no taxation without representation" - maybe I need a tea party!)
I am also a Green Card holder, what I find ironic is the ability to conscript us. When I was going through INS, I asked about Dual Citizenship, they told me no, since it causes a conflict of interest . My question to them was, "If that is so, why can we be drafted, i.e. why do we have to register with the selective service? Surely that is a conflict to, since I am not a US Citizen." - I swear, I almost got deported right there;>
Sure there are successes like Mozilla Firefox, Apache, KDE, Gnome, the Linux kernel, etc., but for every success there are hundreds of completely useless failures out there.
Like wise for commercial projects. I work at a fortune 500 company (world wide company as well). I see so many in house software packages that are considered "failures". Or should I be more corporate and say, "successful failures."
Not to mention the startups you never hear about, trying to develop a new commercial package they want to market, or sell to some software giant. Software failures are not just limited to the open source market, there is a lot of corporate waste in commercial development.
in this case I must agree with teh FDA panel that the risk's realy don't outwiegh the benifit. though it is not all that surpising that it was rejected given its track record.
Isn't that the choice of the patients? If you're faced with certain death due to heart failure, little chance of a transplant, isn't your only option left a risky one?
You said it yourself. Americans are lazy because that is what the WANT! After pulling more then 60 hours a work week, maybe being lazy when you get home is what they/we want at the end of the day.
60 hours? How the hell did he get out of work early?!??!?
Huh? The fact that he didn't use BitKeeper to do this and therefore there is no question of him being bound by its license is ample "defense" in itself, as if any "defense" should be needed for reverse engineering.
Then how is he interacting with a BitKeeper controlled source? He has _had_ to of reversed engineered a closed product (i.e. BitKeeper). These things don't just work by "magic", he has had to of analyzed how BitKeeper does its thing to make it compatible.
Please lets get this straight - there is nothing immoral about reverse engineering, particularly in the interests of interoperability as seems to be the case here.
Please lets get this straight, this is a closed source product. If the developers wanted you reverse engineering the product, they would have clearly stated it in their license agreement, further more they would of provided the source code.
A company that produces a software package has the right to determine how said package is used, you agree to this when you agree to the license. You don't like it? Ask for your money back, and then choose another product.
Its sad to see people put celebrity before principal, if this were Microsoft making these arguments against Samba, rather than Linus' friend making them against this Tridge guy, there would be no question as to which side most slashdotters would come down on.
It is sad to see people trying to ride on other people's hard work. Microsoft is a different situation, completely different. Microsoft has market dominance, which means with their market share, and their revenue they can effectively drive any competition out of business.
Thus when you have a product, namely Windows with the market share that it does, you need to have controls to maintain a free market. For Windows, this would be in the form of open SDK's, allowing developers to integrate with Windows. This would also include allowing the user to rip out core functionality to be replaced with one of their choice, thus providing the interoperability you speak of.
Perhaps BitKeeper should also provide an SDK for its product. But regardless of the company, taking an existing product where the developer has expressly stated that no reverse engineering of said product is to be done, where the method in which it works is proprietary is effectively stealing.
Cooler servers, definitely. If you have cooler rooms, people from all over cubicledom will gravitate to the room during the dog days of August, followed by the inevitable "what does this knob do?" and secretive "what happens if I start switching around these funny phone cables in the back of the black box?".
Haven't you guys ever heard of physical security? Why on earth would you maintain any kind of server room where the everyday user can gain access? Auto-locking doors behind you, big clue by fours to wave at people approaching you as you walk in.
It is a dismissal offense to allow non-administrators in to our data centers where I work.
And it all started under the Clinton administration, according to all analysts. Yet Bush will continue to get blamed by sheepish Slashdotters.
I blame Bush for a lot, but not for the crash, nor Clinton. Business drove it, people bought it, they wanted it, when they finally realized some of the Dot-Con's were just that, they dumped their stock or cried havoc, the bubble became more fragile... then POP!
A President truly has very little to do with the market, the best they can do is put on a good face and smile saying, "YES! The ECONOMY IS GREAT!" hope people believe and invest to improve the market. Some people say Tax cuts help, yeah okay... the middle and lower class are the people who should be investing, the tax cuts don't help them to, they are the ones that need to spur the market, not the rich people (big wealth doesn't really change, sometimes the name does on the account, but it generally stays with in familiar circles.).
I had a, shall we say "friend" (yeah that is it) that was on one of these streaming webcams, the girl was hot and HE was THIS > CLOSE and then WHAM! Windows locked up on him, he should sue! I had to pay to... uhhh I mean _HE_ had to pay to watch that cam! They totally ruined *HIS* experience, or should I say, prevented *HIS* experience due to bad coding! Damn them! *HE* should DEMAND DAMAGES!;)
You know, I am going to be flame bait for this... but what you're describing is organizing the workers in the industry to force their employers to adopt decent and fair working conditions (can we say Union?).
As for Development crunch times, all projects have a certain a mount of stress as the dead line fast approaches (I encounter this all the time in my job). But based on the description of working conditions from EA employees, the crunch time never ends, this is a project "management" problem. So I agree, they either need a) longer development times b) release software with less feature sets c) offload the work on to additional employees.
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I find this very hard to believe, as I contribute to my 2.09 hours of alloted goof off time according to this study.
Gotta wonder how much of that is overpaid board members and senior level managers that love to run office to office (i.e. to other managers offices) trying to seem witty.
Tes
What's worse, is that non-resident aliens are signed up for Selective Service and could in theory be drafted to fight for the US without any real ties to it other than doing a degree there! I was positively shocked to find out that I could be conscripted to fight for the USA, even though I am a British citizen (I'm now a green-card holder, which means I pay taxes but can't vote... so much for "no taxation without representation" - maybe I need a tea party!)
;>
I am also a Green Card holder, what I find ironic is the ability to conscript us. When I was going through INS, I asked about Dual Citizenship, they told me no, since it causes a conflict of interest . My question to them was, "If that is so, why can we be drafted, i.e. why do we have to register with the selective service? Surely that is a conflict to, since I am not a US Citizen." - I swear, I almost got deported right there
Tes
Sure there are successes like Mozilla Firefox, Apache, KDE, Gnome, the Linux kernel, etc., but for every success there are hundreds of completely useless failures out there.
Like wise for commercial projects. I work at a fortune 500 company (world wide company as well). I see so many in house software packages that are considered "failures". Or should I be more corporate and say, "successful failures."
Not to mention the startups you never hear about, trying to develop a new commercial package they want to market, or sell to some software giant. Software failures are not just limited to the open source market, there is a lot of corporate waste in commercial development.
Tes
in this case I must agree with teh FDA panel that the risk's realy don't outwiegh the benifit. though it is not all that surpising that it was rejected given its track record.
Isn't that the choice of the patients? If you're faced with certain death due to heart failure, little chance of a transplant, isn't your only option left a risky one?
Tes
Come on now, I think you're being unfair.
;)
I think this story will be of great interest to both SCO's remaining users.
And I hope those five people are happy with their Unixware license
Tes
Now is anyone actually going to download Russell's songs without being totally inebriated first?
Well we were sober when we kicked him out of NZ.
Windows Server, rebooted atleast once a month for security patches.
Linux server, whenever a major security hole is found in the kernel that I HAVE to patch (rare, very rare indeed) or a new feature I gotta have!
Oh the joys of installing new software packages (or upgrading them) without the need to have down time on my application servers.
Oh how I really do miss sleeping in on Sunday mornings, life as a Windows Admin does suck at times...
Tes
You said it yourself. Americans are lazy because that is what the WANT! After pulling more then 60 hours a work week, maybe being lazy when you get home is what they/we want at the end of the day. 60 hours? How the hell did he get out of work early?!??!?
Huh? The fact that he didn't use BitKeeper to do this and therefore there is no question of him being bound by its license is ample "defense" in itself, as if any "defense" should be needed for reverse engineering.
Then how is he interacting with a BitKeeper controlled source? He has _had_ to of reversed engineered a closed product (i.e. BitKeeper). These things don't just work by "magic", he has had to of analyzed how BitKeeper does its thing to make it compatible.
Please lets get this straight - there is nothing immoral about reverse engineering, particularly in the interests of interoperability as seems to be the case here.
Please lets get this straight, this is a closed source product. If the developers wanted you reverse engineering the product, they would have clearly stated it in their license agreement, further more they would of provided the source code.
A company that produces a software package has the right to determine how said package is used, you agree to this when you agree to the license. You don't like it? Ask for your money back, and then choose another product.
Its sad to see people put celebrity before principal, if this were Microsoft making these arguments against Samba, rather than Linus' friend making them against this Tridge guy, there would be no question as to which side most slashdotters would come down on.
It is sad to see people trying to ride on other people's hard work. Microsoft is a different situation, completely different. Microsoft has market dominance, which means with their market share, and their revenue they can effectively drive any competition out of business.
Thus when you have a product, namely Windows with the market share that it does, you need to have controls to maintain a free market. For Windows, this would be in the form of open SDK's, allowing developers to integrate with Windows. This would also include allowing the user to rip out core functionality to be replaced with one of their choice, thus providing the interoperability you speak of.
Perhaps BitKeeper should also provide an SDK for its product. But regardless of the company, taking an existing product where the developer has expressly stated that no reverse engineering of said product is to be done, where the method in which it works is proprietary is effectively stealing.
Just my opinion...
Tes
Cooler servers, definitely. If you have cooler rooms, people from all over cubicledom will gravitate to the room during the dog days of August, followed by the inevitable "what does this knob do?" and secretive "what happens if I start switching around these funny phone cables in the back of the black box?".
Haven't you guys ever heard of physical security? Why on earth would you maintain any kind of server room where the everyday user can gain access? Auto-locking doors behind you, big clue by fours to wave at people approaching you as you walk in.
It is a dismissal offense to allow non-administrators in to our data centers where I work.
Tes.
And it all started under the Clinton administration, according to all analysts. Yet Bush will continue to get blamed by sheepish Slashdotters.
I blame Bush for a lot, but not for the crash, nor Clinton. Business drove it, people bought it, they wanted it, when they finally realized some of the Dot-Con's were just that, they dumped their stock or cried havoc, the bubble became more fragile... then POP!
A President truly has very little to do with the market, the best they can do is put on a good face and smile saying, "YES! The ECONOMY IS GREAT!" hope people believe and invest to improve the market. Some people say Tax cuts help, yeah okay... the middle and lower class are the people who should be investing, the tax cuts don't help them to, they are the ones that need to spur the market, not the rich people (big wealth doesn't really change, sometimes the name does on the account, but it generally stays with in familiar circles.).
I had a, shall we say "friend" (yeah that is it) that was on one of these streaming webcams, the girl was hot and HE was THIS > CLOSE and then WHAM! Windows locked up on him, he should sue! I had to pay to... uhhh I mean _HE_ had to pay to watch that cam! They totally ruined *HIS* experience, or should I say, prevented *HIS* experience due to bad coding! Damn them! *HE* should DEMAND DAMAGES! ;)
You know, I am going to be flame bait for this... but what you're describing is organizing the workers in the industry to force their employers to adopt decent and fair working conditions (can we say Union?). As for Development crunch times, all projects have a certain a mount of stress as the dead line fast approaches (I encounter this all the time in my job). But based on the description of working conditions from EA employees, the crunch time never ends, this is a project "management" problem. So I agree, they either need a) longer development times b) release software with less feature sets c) offload the work on to additional employees.
No wait, I am full of the icky stuff, 1999. Duh me, see I am senile too! :)
I bought my first TNT in 1997, I feel ancient ;)