I've worked on large projects where there is no one person in charge. It didn't work. It was fun, and all, but in the end it didn't produce.
You need someone to stand up to management and say "java 0.9 might be the latest thing, and it might be the future, but it doesn't work today, so lets not make it our only interface". You need someone to stand up and say "The GUI is not the place to put critical error checking." You need someone to stand up and say "a remote boot device doesn't specify what software it runs (including version) , a remote device specifys what it is, and what the proms version is, and we figgure out the proper software based on what is installed."
The above are just a few of the real examples of where a project goes wrong when you don't have one smart, EXPIRENCED guy in charge who has power over management to say how it works.
Marketing tells you what sells, enginerring says what can be done, and project management makes sure it gets done on time, and upper management makes sure the budget works out. The cheif engineer screams "It has to work" and "That can't work" at the other engineers all day until something that is designed right and works is produced. (at which time you go on to the enxt project part time, and maintian the old junk).
If there isn't one engineer who management gives absolute power to say how this will be designed, then the project will fail.
Most old macs I know of cannot run linuxppc. Appearently you have forgotten that the first ppc mac was released about 7 years ago, but macs themselves are about 17 years old. I have a coupld m68k macs sitting around that won't run linuxppc no matter what you do.
Now there were some linux m68k versions out there that would run on some of them, but they are not linuxppc
(and yet never seem to complain
about the others arms that the gun-grabbing liberal government
prohibits them to bear, like hand grenades, missile launchers, and
nuclear weapons).
Well I happen to think it is wrong. True I don't have any use for misile launchers, other than defense/offense should it become nessicary to take on a goverment (not nessicarly my own), but it is the responsibility of able bodies americans to keep them handy and in working order just in case.
However the odds that I will ever be able to own a misstle launcher (despite being an important part of a well equipet milita, is low enough that I don't bother to fight that battle. There are more important things to issues that I have a chance of winning to fight.
When I was in spain I noticed about 40% of the computer staff at the company I worked with was female. Good looking too, but smoking is the in thing there, and only the French beat them as far as not bathing.
In other words from a distance it looks great, but up close I couldn't wait to get away. Maybe your a little less picky, in which case I recomend it, Spain was beatiful even on my limited Spanish. (most speak less english than I spanish)
How are they disposing of these machines? You cannot take them to a landfill. Donating them to someone who will use them (and presumably dispose of them properly in a few years when they are useless is a good way around that. If they are not donating them to a good cause, and not getting them properly disposed of they are due for a hefty enviormental fine.
If they are not disposing of these machines properly warn them first, and keep records of who and when. If the policy doesn't change asap, call athorities. Your records of the warnins above are in case they decide to fire you as the whistle blower, you then have more evidence that can be useful in court.
I remember the copy protection of the 80s. I remember several people who bought a copy of a program, put the disk in a closet, and went to a pirate bbs to download the version that could accually be used.
You are paritally right. However courts do tend to frown on that type of thing. I wouldn't be surprized if concequential damanges don't apply because they did not verify the.mp3 file really was a song they owned rights to. That is before they can delete a file "latest_britney.mp3" they need to download it and listen to it (or do a byte comparition with something known to be an accual britney song. Otherwise it isn't concequential damages it is thier own neglect.
Concequential damages would be using a backdoor to windows that on (other os like linux) causes your harddrive to be formated, but once they know that the backdoor has otherresults on a different OS they will then be at fault for any harddrive formated.
Re:A great example of open-source at work.
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Windows 95 still in use
Sure, many companies still have site licenses for windows 95. If you have a machine running 95 they know it is compliant without hasstle. Microsoft won't sell site licesnes for windows 98, so those users are on their own, the company can't legally support them (even if they own the machine) without having to keep track of licesnes for everyone. If you lose your copy of the license, then they fire you and call it a employiee steeling when audited. Those who have the offical OS on their machine (windows 95) are supported and the company takes the risk of keeping track of licenses. (which is easy)
The robot I really want doesn't just pick up trash, it has the ability to determin if the paper I just picked up is critical to current buisnees and accidently lost or just scrap that missed the can. The the former case I want it to make an attempt to get it back to me.
The above is true though, only so long as the robots are open source - or at least I have some good assurance that the robot is only reading the paper to find me, and than will forget what it says, robots that read my papers and pass the contents to my enimies are a bad thing.
When there is a case you are interested in write a letter in the form of a "friend of the court brief". There are specific formats they like to see this in, but pretty much everything gets read. You may or may not infulence the decision, but at least the judge knows there is public interest.
Judges are also less swayed by money, so you have a better chance of getting a fair ruling from them.
Or, even more likely, you'd run into the person from Wisconsin, because they're driving 10 mph below the speed limit.
those who have driven in Wisconsin understand. Police there will decide to get you, and sit on your tail until you exceede the limit. With all the hills there you are bound to not get off the gas fast enough coming over one, so they will get you. Your only chance is to maintain 10 under which is enough margin.
Yes I have seen the above happen. More than once. I avoid Wisconsin if there is any other choice.
But what can mortals achive?
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I've known for years that you can go really fast on a bike, when you are in good health and in shape and have a short distance.
What I want is a bike that I can ride at some [fast] speed all day on my own power. Assume my exercise is only riding the bike to work (which if areoboic is enough to keep me in shape, but I'm still not pro level)
Remember that I'm only getting older. 7 years ago my body was at about the peak of its ability. I've got a long way to 40 and my body is already in decline. I'm looking for something I can use when I retire and still make good time.
don't forget wireless networks. Laptop computers should not be connected to physical ethernet. Get someone who knows wireless to figgure out where acess points should best be placed, and run cables there, (including power, even though that is probably a different person's job)
Wireless secruity isn't trivial, but it can be done. Wireless is worth it once it works. Give laptops to those who might need them (everyone).
Join a politial party (select one based on your own belifs. We need democrats, republicans, and third parties, so take your pick)
In high school I was given an assignment to go to a meeting of a poltical party. I found a ride to the republican party meeting. In that room were 10 people. they needed 12 to go to the state convention. 9 were opposed to abortion and brought up that issue constantly, but the last person diagreed. Needless to say they had a hard time finding their 12 represenitives. If you had been there you could have been one.
Nothing gets done easially, but grassroots is where things happen. when republicans and democrats both get a significant number of represenitives who think electronic freedom is a critcal issue you have trumped all corporate money.
And the funny thing is, I still talk to people who think campaign finance reforms would be a bad thing!
It is. It is a violation of first ammendment rights in nearly all forms that i've seen proposed. Now I would agree that all money that doesn't come in anonymously should be reported, but that is all i'm willing to say.
that is If I choose to give 1 million anonymously that is fine, but I'm the only one who knows that I did so, not the politition. If I choose to donate otherwise, so that I can get some law, then that i donated the money should be public knowledge. (And remember polititions are free to ignore my wishes) But don't limit how much I can give, that is a violation of my rights.
If I wanted loyality I'd get a dog. A job is a job, I can find anouther one next week. McDonalds would love to have me, and would start me at $40k/year with binifits if I applied. (I happen to know the folks to ask, but anyone willing to work hard can be up to that wage in a year of hard work if you go management) Welders are in great demand now. It seems there are never enough doctors, and the baby boomers aren't getting healthier.
Sure some of the above need training I don't have, but don't tell me I should be layal to my currnet job, I'm not, and I don't expect the same out of them. I work for money. Find me a job I can do for more money (remember both short and long term I can't be paid next year no matter how much money it is, and getting killed isn't worth a lot of money)
It is a job, not my life. I don't want to work in the same place for years. A lay-off isn't the nicest way to end employment, but it isn't the worst either. I can do any job you can think of. i'd hate some (management), I'd need a lot of schooling for others (medical doctor), and I'd suck horridly at others (novel writer, sports), but I could do it. Some days I'd give up my computer job to clean septic tanks in -40 tempatures. Other days I love my comptuer job.
500,000 massed United Nations troops could sweep down out of their
secret hiding places in the woods of norther Minnesota, take over the
United States, and institute a One World Government
Not to worry, the only people (other than your UN troops) are extreem hunters. hunters are prize the ability to hide from deer while wearing bright orange clothing in a green and black forest. hunters who are proud that they spend days doing this, and then face a bear with one bullet. 500,000 UN troops is an assult on their pressious second ammendment. They have no problem skipping a bear, to use their bullet on un-americans. I know one hunter who has two generals mounted in his living room. (one shot, two generals, and he wishes he had waited longer to see if he could get three.
I know sailboaters (see various races around the world) use satalite communication, and their conditionsare much harsher than what you need to deal with. They have equipment that can keep the dish pointed even in seas too rough to accually use the connection. I'm sure power boats have the same system though i've not heard of it.
Sorry I don't know more details, but at least this is a direction to look.
My great uncle used to make tractors from scratch. He once took a model T engine, made it run backwards (someone told him a model T engine could not be made to run backwards so he called it a challange and did it), decided it was too big and cut it in half, then built a tractor around it.
I can think of many other things to do with an engine, but in the end, when inspiration strikes enough to do something, that is what i'd do with them, so follow your own insperation.
when getting a cell phone in the US your choice is generally: local coverage, state coverage, multi-state coverage, or national coverage. the prices go up accordingly. I have multi-state coverage, which covers where I normally travel (and the rare times I go farther I pay roaming) If you travel often, then ATT or the like makes sense, but you pay for it. If you live in one city, work in anouther just a few miles away and never travel farther it is possibal that you will have to go to a multi-state plan (second most expensive), if those cities happen to be across state lines, despite never going more than 5 miles from home.
I know one person who has stronger beliefs in using crypto for everything than everyone else.
He was a minister behind the iron curtian many years ago. I'm not sure how he got across the iron curtian, everything I know about the former USSR says they wouldn't have allowed him in if they knew what he was really up to.
When you see what lack of encryption (remember this was the '80s, even today those countries don't have many computers) does to your ability to do your work it changes your perspective.
Yeah, i've talked to such people and I don't get it either. Appearently they have never been falsely accused of something.
I still have not forgotten being written up for fighting in first grade, when I wasn't fighting or even doing something even remotely connected with fighting. I have not forgotten that situation and I no longer trust anyone with athority.
Byond modisty and religion, planes are too cold to go without clothing.
Of course as I've been telling people, banning knives isn't the answer, the next terrorist who trys something like this will know karate. I'll take on a terrorist in an airplace if he has a knife, gun, or karate as a weapon, so long as I have a gun, but I won't take on a black belt with anything less. (Assuming I'm a passanger the terrorist won't know I'm dangerious until after I've killed a few of them, and I'll act like an unarmed passanger until I can kill at least one, from a distance)
This was a well planned attack. they took the time to learn to fly in real planes, they have no problem next time learning martial arts if that is what it will take.
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I've worked on large projects where there is no one person in charge. It didn't work. It was fun, and all, but in the end it didn't produce.
You need someone to stand up to management and say "java 0.9 might be the latest thing, and it might be the future, but it doesn't work today, so lets not make it our only interface". You need someone to stand up and say "The GUI is not the place to put critical error checking." You need someone to stand up and say "a remote boot device doesn't specify what software it runs (including version) , a remote device specifys what it is, and what the proms version is, and we figgure out the proper software based on what is installed."
The above are just a few of the real examples of where a project goes wrong when you don't have one smart, EXPIRENCED guy in charge who has power over management to say how it works.
Marketing tells you what sells, enginerring says what can be done, and project management makes sure it gets done on time, and upper management makes sure the budget works out. The cheif engineer screams "It has to work" and "That can't work" at the other engineers all day until something that is designed right and works is produced. (at which time you go on to the enxt project part time, and maintian the old junk).
If there isn't one engineer who management gives absolute power to say how this will be designed, then the project will fail.
Most old macs I know of cannot run linuxppc. Appearently you have forgotten that the first ppc mac was released about 7 years ago, but macs themselves are about 17 years old. I have a coupld m68k macs sitting around that won't run linuxppc no matter what you do.
Now there were some linux m68k versions out there that would run on some of them, but they are not linuxppc
(and yet never seem to complain about the others arms that the gun-grabbing liberal government prohibits them to bear, like hand grenades, missile launchers, and nuclear weapons).
Well I happen to think it is wrong. True I don't have any use for misile launchers, other than defense/offense should it become nessicary to take on a goverment (not nessicarly my own), but it is the responsibility of able bodies americans to keep them handy and in working order just in case.
However the odds that I will ever be able to own a misstle launcher (despite being an important part of a well equipet milita, is low enough that I don't bother to fight that battle. There are more important things to issues that I have a chance of winning to fight.
When I was in spain I noticed about 40% of the computer staff at the company I worked with was female. Good looking too, but smoking is the in thing there, and only the French beat them as far as not bathing.
In other words from a distance it looks great, but up close I couldn't wait to get away. Maybe your a little less picky, in which case I recomend it, Spain was beatiful even on my limited Spanish. (most speak less english than I spanish)
How are they disposing of these machines? You cannot take them to a landfill. Donating them to someone who will use them (and presumably dispose of them properly in a few years when they are useless is a good way around that. If they are not donating them to a good cause, and not getting them properly disposed of they are due for a hefty enviormental fine.
If they are not disposing of these machines properly warn them first, and keep records of who and when. If the policy doesn't change asap, call athorities. Your records of the warnins above are in case they decide to fire you as the whistle blower, you then have more evidence that can be useful in court.
I remember the copy protection of the 80s. I remember several people who bought a copy of a program, put the disk in a closet, and went to a pirate bbs to download the version that could accually be used.
You are paritally right. However courts do tend to frown on that type of thing. I wouldn't be surprized if concequential damanges don't apply because they did not verify the .mp3 file really was a song they owned rights to. That is before they can delete a file "latest_britney.mp3" they need to download it and listen to it (or do a byte comparition with something known to be an accual britney song. Otherwise it isn't concequential damages it is thier own neglect.
Concequential damages would be using a backdoor to windows that on (other os like linux) causes your harddrive to be formated, but once they know that the backdoor has otherresults on a different OS they will then be at fault for any harddrive formated.
it is not odd to find Windows 95 still in use
Sure, many companies still have site licenses for windows 95. If you have a machine running 95 they know it is compliant without hasstle. Microsoft won't sell site licesnes for windows 98, so those users are on their own, the company can't legally support them (even if they own the machine) without having to keep track of licesnes for everyone. If you lose your copy of the license, then they fire you and call it a employiee steeling when audited. Those who have the offical OS on their machine (windows 95) are supported and the company takes the risk of keeping track of licenses. (which is easy)
The robot I really want doesn't just pick up trash, it has the ability to determin if the paper I just picked up is critical to current buisnees and accidently lost or just scrap that missed the can. The the former case I want it to make an attempt to get it back to me.
The above is true though, only so long as the robots are open source - or at least I have some good assurance that the robot is only reading the paper to find me, and than will forget what it says, robots that read my papers and pass the contents to my enimies are a bad thing.
When there is a case you are interested in write a letter in the form of a "friend of the court brief". There are specific formats they like to see this in, but pretty much everything gets read. You may or may not infulence the decision, but at least the judge knows there is public interest.
Judges are also less swayed by money, so you have a better chance of getting a fair ruling from them.
Or, even more likely, you'd run into the person from Wisconsin, because they're driving 10 mph below the speed limit.
those who have driven in Wisconsin understand. Police there will decide to get you, and sit on your tail until you exceede the limit. With all the hills there you are bound to not get off the gas fast enough coming over one, so they will get you. Your only chance is to maintain 10 under which is enough margin.
Yes I have seen the above happen. More than once. I avoid Wisconsin if there is any other choice.
I've known for years that you can go really fast on a bike, when you are in good health and in shape and have a short distance.
What I want is a bike that I can ride at some [fast] speed all day on my own power. Assume my exercise is only riding the bike to work (which if areoboic is enough to keep me in shape, but I'm still not pro level)
Remember that I'm only getting older. 7 years ago my body was at about the peak of its ability. I've got a long way to 40 and my body is already in decline. I'm looking for something I can use when I retire and still make good time.
Right, but helium is 4 times the weight of hydrogen (yes weight, not mass), so it doesn't work as well.
don't forget wireless networks. Laptop computers should not be connected to physical ethernet. Get someone who knows wireless to figgure out where acess points should best be placed, and run cables there, (including power, even though that is probably a different person's job)
Wireless secruity isn't trivial, but it can be done. Wireless is worth it once it works. Give laptops to those who might need them (everyone).
Join a politial party (select one based on your own belifs. We need democrats, republicans, and third parties, so take your pick)
In high school I was given an assignment to go to a meeting of a poltical party. I found a ride to the republican party meeting. In that room were 10 people. they needed 12 to go to the state convention. 9 were opposed to abortion and brought up that issue constantly, but the last person diagreed. Needless to say they had a hard time finding their 12 represenitives. If you had been there you could have been one.
Nothing gets done easially, but grassroots is where things happen. when republicans and democrats both get a significant number of represenitives who think electronic freedom is a critcal issue you have trumped all corporate money.
And the funny thing is, I still talk to people who think campaign finance reforms would be a bad thing!
It is. It is a violation of first ammendment rights in nearly all forms that i've seen proposed. Now I would agree that all money that doesn't come in anonymously should be reported, but that is all i'm willing to say.
that is If I choose to give 1 million anonymously that is fine, but I'm the only one who knows that I did so, not the politition. If I choose to donate otherwise, so that I can get some law, then that i donated the money should be public knowledge. (And remember polititions are free to ignore my wishes) But don't limit how much I can give, that is a violation of my rights.
If I wanted loyality I'd get a dog. A job is a job, I can find anouther one next week. McDonalds would love to have me, and would start me at $40k/year with binifits if I applied. (I happen to know the folks to ask, but anyone willing to work hard can be up to that wage in a year of hard work if you go management) Welders are in great demand now. It seems there are never enough doctors, and the baby boomers aren't getting healthier.
Sure some of the above need training I don't have, but don't tell me I should be layal to my currnet job, I'm not, and I don't expect the same out of them. I work for money. Find me a job I can do for more money (remember both short and long term I can't be paid next year no matter how much money it is, and getting killed isn't worth a lot of money)
It is a job, not my life. I don't want to work in the same place for years. A lay-off isn't the nicest way to end employment, but it isn't the worst either. I can do any job you can think of. i'd hate some (management), I'd need a lot of schooling for others (medical doctor), and I'd suck horridly at others (novel writer, sports), but I could do it. Some days I'd give up my computer job to clean septic tanks in -40 tempatures. Other days I love my comptuer job.
500,000 massed United Nations troops could sweep down out of their secret hiding places in the woods of norther Minnesota, take over the United States, and institute a One World Government
Not to worry, the only people (other than your UN troops) are extreem hunters. hunters are prize the ability to hide from deer while wearing bright orange clothing in a green and black forest. hunters who are proud that they spend days doing this, and then face a bear with one bullet. 500,000 UN troops is an assult on their pressious second ammendment. They have no problem skipping a bear, to use their bullet on un-americans. I know one hunter who has two generals mounted in his living room. (one shot, two generals, and he wishes he had waited longer to see if he could get three.
I know sailboaters (see various races around the world) use satalite communication, and their conditionsare much harsher than what you need to deal with. They have equipment that can keep the dish pointed even in seas too rough to accually use the connection. I'm sure power boats have the same system though i've not heard of it.
Sorry I don't know more details, but at least this is a direction to look.
My great uncle used to make tractors from scratch. He once took a model T engine, made it run backwards (someone told him a model T engine could not be made to run backwards so he called it a challange and did it), decided it was too big and cut it in half, then built a tractor around it.
I can think of many other things to do with an engine, but in the end, when inspiration strikes enough to do something, that is what i'd do with them, so follow your own insperation.
sure, for a price.
when getting a cell phone in the US your choice is generally: local coverage, state coverage, multi-state coverage, or national coverage. the prices go up accordingly. I have multi-state coverage, which covers where I normally travel (and the rare times I go farther I pay roaming) If you travel often, then ATT or the like makes sense, but you pay for it. If you live in one city, work in anouther just a few miles away and never travel farther it is possibal that you will have to go to a multi-state plan (second most expensive), if those cities happen to be across state lines, despite never going more than 5 miles from home.
I know one person who has stronger beliefs in using crypto for everything than everyone else.
He was a minister behind the iron curtian many years ago. I'm not sure how he got across the iron curtian, everything I know about the former USSR says they wouldn't have allowed him in if they knew what he was really up to.
When you see what lack of encryption (remember this was the '80s, even today those countries don't have many computers) does to your ability to do your work it changes your perspective.
hey - MS Flight Simulator isnt violent
Sure it is. Well, itself it is not, but admiting to using anything MS on /. is considered enflaming the natives, and thus considered violent.
Yeah, i've talked to such people and I don't get it either. Appearently they have never been falsely accused of something.
I still have not forgotten being written up for fighting in first grade, when I wasn't fighting or even doing something even remotely connected with fighting. I have not forgotten that situation and I no longer trust anyone with athority.
Byond modisty and religion, planes are too cold to go without clothing.
Of course as I've been telling people, banning knives isn't the answer, the next terrorist who trys something like this will know karate. I'll take on a terrorist in an airplace if he has a knife, gun, or karate as a weapon, so long as I have a gun, but I won't take on a black belt with anything less. (Assuming I'm a passanger the terrorist won't know I'm dangerious until after I've killed a few of them, and I'll act like an unarmed passanger until I can kill at least one, from a distance)
This was a well planned attack. they took the time to learn to fly in real planes, they have no problem next time learning martial arts if that is what it will take.