While some evidence may point to the possibility that Free Software is on the rise, there is some contrary evidence that not all stars are rising, or stand a chance of rising.
Sorry guys, but if it works for RHAT, that doesn't mean it'll work for everyone.
All Your Plunging Stock Options are Belong to VALinux
We, the saavy users know that plain text transmitted over SSL is anything but insecure. We also find out at least a little about how something works before we comment on it.
Hey! Not everything on/. is plagierized. Take a look at what you might call Anti-Plagierism, where the article says BeOS is "going down the toilet", while the linked Excite article says nothing of the sort.
The fact that it doesn't work on older IE versions is clearly printed in the FAQ. Maybe if some of the whiners here learned how to read and write they might have better luck. Those of you who can't cope with that obviously deserve to be computing on nothing more complicated than a webTV anyway.
That link really interested me, so I gave it a quick google search. Here's a link to a picture of the layouts, in case you were wondering like me what they look like. It looks like you can do the layout on a standard keyboard. Might be really interesting to try. I know I'm tired of shuttling back and forth between the keyboard and my mouse/trackball! enjoy, anyway.
I've come to believe, in fact, that the things you mentioned, like formatting utilities, disk retrieval bits, et al, are definitely, if not wholly, the property of the developer. When I write something these days, half of it comes from code I've already written(hopefully in the form of an include instead of good old cut 'n paste). I'd be set back months if I had to rewrite all that stuff from memory!
I agree that NDAs should protect an employer from having their information carted away, but most of the stuff that can be taken is intractable. How do you keep someone from taking the experiences with them, like "x was a bad design choice because look what happened when we did it here, y worked better as a solution, and I'd do it that was from the beginning if I had another chance." Forcing an employee to switch fields may get that job done, but it's overkill.
If I'm an engineer at a database company, and I don't like my work environment or I think my company's management structure is severely flawed, I'd definitely want to work for another company doing the same thing. It wouldn't be the subject that I dislike, just the particular people working on the problem. But being forced to go do something like bag groceries for a year while my NDA expires makes it potentially risky to leave my workplace. Can you say "trapped"?
Maybe your suggestion of a contract is the best way to go, but it should be the responsibility of the employee to look for that kind of work. The structure's already there for a lot of jobs. Get a contract to do some project with a company you're interested in. At the end of the contract, say 6 months, if you both like each other, then you move on to a permanent position. Kinda like dating. Then, maybe you lower the risk of getting yourself into the situation in the first place. Plus, you don't have to change the way things work already. Maybe they sound like they might suck a little, it's probably the best we're going to get for years to come.
I haven't seen anyone bring up the issue of where content comes from in discussing whether/. should charge a subscription fee.
Even if Salon is doing it, their content is generated in much the same way as traditional dead-tree journalism. You've got a staff of writers making (up) stories and publishing them. Here, all of the content, with the exception of JonKatz's essays and the poorly spelled one-liners after each headline, are generated by the readers.
So even if/. charges a subscription fee, you've got to ask yourself this question: If we the readers are generating the content, how much is the maintenance of that content worth?
Reading Salon, you've got a set of (hopefully) researched topics presented to you, much as if someone is preparing a service for you.
Here, the analogy is more like someone's got a big warehouse with heaps of garbage in it. You get the privelege of sifting through it, while other visitors are busy sorting that garbage for you.
Asynchronous computing wasn't "invented" by AMULET, either. What do you think engineers were trying to do *before* they thought of sticking a clock on it?
You must've been conducting industrial espionage to discover the corporate structure of the company I work for. Either that, or my company got their tips from the same "...For Total Idiots" series of books.;)
The internet is a cooperative network made for two parties to willingly exchange information. An analogy(some might say it's much more than an analogy) with harassment might work here. It's unwanted, so you don't want to be an accomplice in harassment, right? In the same way, you might not want to be an accesory in an unwanted communication over the internet, especially if it's costing YOU money to do it.
And this is all an aside to the fact that these guys actually hijacked someone else's property to send out their garbage. That definitely costs the targeted company money. Tie that back in with being an accesory in the action, and you've got a lot of stuff to be upset about!
I know! Let's set up an honor box service and then skim 15%+ off of each transaction! Maybe the Doernbecher Children's fund or Jerry's Kids could use someone to help them accept internet donations!
Those show Microsoft as doing overly well, though, so therefore must be completely skewed. We should test and retest until an open-source database comes out on top.
Yeah, but it's a different story when it's an open-source loving, fuzzy little company like Oracle or IBM that does it. Those guys wouldn't hurt a fly, and have never done anything ruthless in their entire histories.
When Microsoft does it, however, you have to understand that they do it out of sheer malice. You know all those stories about Bill Gates being a programmer were lies, anyway. He's just another suit like Ellison.
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While some evidence may point to the possibility that Free Software is on the rise, there is some contrary evidence that not all stars are rising, or stand a chance of rising.
Sorry guys, but if it works for RHAT, that doesn't mean it'll work for everyone.
All Your Plunging Stock Options are Belong to VALinux
He, spling is hadr!
We, the saavy users know that plain text transmitted over SSL is anything but insecure. We also find out at least a little about how something works before we comment on it.
Hey! Not everything on /. is plagierized. Take a look at what you might call Anti-Plagierism, where the article says BeOS is "going down the toilet", while the linked Excite article says nothing of the sort.
Props to Michael for not making an idiot of himself and predicting doom for OSX.
The fact that it doesn't work on older IE versions is clearly printed in the FAQ. Maybe if some of the whiners here learned how to read and write they might have better luck. Those of you who can't cope with that obviously deserve to be computing on nothing more complicated than a webTV anyway.
graniteMonkey: What is "the Hobbit"?
[ding]
alex: That's correct. You get to select the next category.
graniteMonkey: I'll take, "BeOS" for 500, Alex.
One wonders if the banner ads went up only to reap the slashdot effect...
That link really interested me, so I gave it a quick google search. Here's a link to a picture of the layouts, in case you were wondering like me what they look like. It looks like you can do the layout on a standard keyboard. Might be really interesting to try. I know I'm tired of shuttling back and forth between the keyboard and my mouse/trackball! enjoy, anyway.
I've come to believe, in fact, that the things you mentioned, like formatting utilities, disk retrieval bits, et al, are definitely, if not wholly, the property of the developer. When I write something these days, half of it comes from code I've already written(hopefully in the form of an include instead of good old cut 'n paste). I'd be set back months if I had to rewrite all that stuff from memory!
I agree that NDAs should protect an employer from having their information carted away, but most of the stuff that can be taken is intractable. How do you keep someone from taking the experiences with them, like "x was a bad design choice because look what happened when we did it here, y worked better as a solution, and I'd do it that was from the beginning if I had another chance." Forcing an employee to switch fields may get that job done, but it's overkill.
If I'm an engineer at a database company, and I don't like my work environment or I think my company's management structure is severely flawed, I'd definitely want to work for another company doing the same thing. It wouldn't be the subject that I dislike, just the particular people working on the problem. But being forced to go do something like bag groceries for a year while my NDA expires makes it potentially risky to leave my workplace. Can you say "trapped"?
Maybe your suggestion of a contract is the best way to go, but it should be the responsibility of the employee to look for that kind of work. The structure's already there for a lot of jobs. Get a contract to do some project with a company you're interested in. At the end of the contract, say 6 months, if you both like each other, then you move on to a permanent position. Kinda like dating. Then, maybe you lower the risk of getting yourself into the situation in the first place. Plus, you don't have to change the way things work already. Maybe they sound like they might suck a little, it's probably the best we're going to get for years to come.
I haven't seen anyone bring up the issue of where content comes from in discussing whether /. should charge a subscription fee.
/. charges a subscription fee, you've got to ask yourself this question: If we the readers are generating the content, how much is the maintenance of that content worth?
Even if Salon is doing it, their content is generated in much the same way as traditional dead-tree journalism. You've got a staff of writers making (up) stories and publishing them. Here, all of the content, with the exception of JonKatz's essays and the poorly spelled one-liners after each headline, are generated by the readers.
So even if
Reading Salon, you've got a set of (hopefully) researched topics presented to you, much as if someone is preparing a service for you.
Here, the analogy is more like someone's got a big warehouse with heaps of garbage in it. You get the privelege of sifting through it, while other visitors are busy sorting that garbage for you.
So what's it worth to you?
Asynchronous computing wasn't "invented" by AMULET, either. What do you think engineers were trying to do *before* they thought of sticking a clock on it?
You must've been conducting industrial espionage to discover the corporate structure of the company I work for. Either that, or my company got their tips from the same "...For Total Idiots" series of books. ;)
The internet is a cooperative network made for two parties to willingly exchange information. An analogy(some might say it's much more than an analogy) with harassment might work here. It's unwanted, so you don't want to be an accomplice in harassment, right? In the same way, you might not want to be an accesory in an unwanted communication over the internet, especially if it's costing YOU money to do it.
And this is all an aside to the fact that these guys actually hijacked someone else's property to send out their garbage. That definitely costs the targeted company money. Tie that back in with being an accesory in the action, and you've got a lot of stuff to be upset about!
With today's short attention spans and loss of short term memory you can never tell :)
And when again did researchers at Bell Labs achieve Cold Fusion? Oh, I see, you're just confusing reality with too many pulp Sci Fi novels.
Books ain't workin'
Selling more stuff ain't workin'
Frivolous lawsuits ain't workin'
I know! Let's set up an honor box service and then skim 15%+ off of each transaction! Maybe the Doernbecher Children's fund or Jerry's Kids could use someone to help them accept internet donations!
or about the breakins nobody knows about...
No, squelch is a sound that happens while playing squash.
/. high schooler.
God bless the expansive vocabulary of the
Here's a nice example of the bloat for y'all. Try those benchmarks on a properly configured system.
Those show Microsoft as doing overly well, though, so therefore must be completely skewed. We should test and retest until an open-source database comes out on top.
Hi, my name's Robert X. Cringely, and this is a completely impartial article.
Yeah, but it's a different story when it's an open-source loving, fuzzy little company like Oracle or IBM that does it. Those guys wouldn't hurt a fly, and have never done anything ruthless in their entire histories.
When Microsoft does it, however, you have to understand that they do it out of sheer malice. You know all those stories about Bill Gates being a programmer were lies, anyway. He's just another suit like Ellison.
The comet in the artists conception is a little larger than 7 miles across...