I have no problem with the GPL. GPL can be as craptastic as RMS wants it to be and it won't effect me in the least. What I do have a problem with are people who attempt to cram GPLv3 down every one's throat. People who claim closed source software is inherently "evil" and any open source software that isn't under their license of choice is a lost sheep.
The freedom that I will defend is the freedom to chose which ever damn license and model I want to use, be it GPLv2, GPLv3, Closed Source, or any other.
-Rick
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When I was in the military, prior to the days of bit-torrents, we had tons of "pirated" audio/video. On one network we had a server that reached 750 gigs of mp3s. It became almost competetive to see who could add the most music to it. The whole thing got wiped shortly before my EAS, for use in a new data storage system.
The thing about the military is that you have a large number of young men with a disposable income (ie: food, housing, medical care, and transportation are all provided). Sure, it's not much of an income, but when you don't have to spend money on rent, you cand stretch $14,400 a year pretty far on entertainment goodies(that was my salary as an E4 in 2001).
...GPL has been so popular is because it served the needs of the developers that used it.
and this:
...everyone involved in the GPLv3 process is going to recognize that they need to put the needs of the community first
are likely often to be exclusive. The problem with trying to force freedom onto people is that one person's freedom means another person's limitation. In this case, you are taking freedoms from the developers and giving it to the community. That's great for the community, but not so great for the developer. And seeing as how the developer(or producer) is the one that selects the license, I don't see this as an easy sell.
The market will balance the demand. The ability to chose closed source, open source, and from the wide assortment of available licenses is the true freedom we should all be fighting for. Not this "my way or the highway" mentality of which OS license is best.
The network guys in my company use Track-IT and they don't seem too displeased with it. I used Test Track Pro from Seapine for my software (feature/defect) related tracking. And I absolutely love it. The price was insignificant (I think $750 for 3 licenses with support), their support is amazing (I've submitted questions on friday afternoons and gotten answers before I head home for the day), and the product is rock solid, easy to use, and highly configurable.
So true. 802.11n has been "just around the corner" for years and will continue to be so for the next few years. 802.11b/g fullfills user demands and performs acceptably for now.
Wow, you need to grasp the economies of scale. True, 2 people would have to buy 2 copies of a closed source piece of software. But if two people were to attempt to fund development of a serious piece of software, or even just the modification of an existing OS project, the cost would be multiple orders of magnitude higher. The only way to combat those prices are to 1) get a LOT of investors, 2) get a LOT of donation money, or 3) get a LOT of volunteer work.
OS vs CS goes far beyond personal objections to Bill Gates. Business and Market demands as well as developer and job market demands all play a role. Again, I'm not saying one is inherantly better than the other, only that BOTH solutions will continue to exist and NEED to continue to exist.
There is only one side in this arguement that is suggesting an absolute. My statement is that closed source and open source solutions will continue to exist and that there are advantages and disadvantages to both. You are free to use which ever you like, and so is the rest of the market. But as soon as you get out side of the view of zealotry, you can see that the market will demand both solutions and that neither is going away anytime soon. Closed source and open source solution can coincide in the market place, and the users will benefit from the options.
OS Software is good, proprietary software is good. The two will always balance eachother in order to match the market, demand, and availability of developers. Saying one is "evil" compared to the other is just blind fundamentalism.
Now, I'm all for IE improvements. As a web developer with a large number of IE based users, any improvement to IE and its standards adoption is a good thing. But this interview read more like a fan boi in a dev shop that a journalist looking for answers. Especially this question:
Richard: To clarify then, you're saying that with IE7 you're hoping to support as many of the CSS Web standards as possible, while also having that backwards compatibility. That's your vision for IE7, to definitely support Web standards?
Did the interviewer have to remove his face from the interviewees crotch to ask him that question?
Add in a few congressmen and William Hurst with heavy investments in DuPont and suddenly you have people in a position to create a wide spread misconception and a political movement to solve that misconception.
There is no shortage of tech jobs. Walking out of college with a 4 year bachelors degree, a head full of knowledge, and the motivation to work hard and improve yourself will make you extremely marketable. Sure, having a masters in a technical field would make you more knowledgeable, but you're going to need the work experience to go with it. I would take a new hire with a bach degree and 2 years experience over a new hire with a masters degree any day.
I say this as I'm wrapping up my second bachelors and planning out the rest of my education. I've spent 8+ years now as a software developer, I have military CS training, a comp sci assoc degree, and a BS Information Technology degree. All of which have helped make me a very successful programmer and software developer. The degree I'm current working on is a BS Technology Management. And once I finish it (in 2 weeks!!!) I'll probably look to PMI for Project Management certification (CAPM). With those notches on my resume I'll start shopping for an IT Project Management position, IT Coordinator, or some other mid level IT Management position. Eventually I do want to earn a Masters, but I will likely aim for a full Management program. With my goal then becoming an IT Director or CIO.
I love coding, I love working on computers, but I have been dragged through so many half assed projects that I feel the need to take control of my destiny and drive the damn short bus instead of riding in the back row.
It looks like I accepted you explaination too early. Further investigation dug up this article: http://www.nass.usda.gov/wi/crops/smallgra.pdf Which states that the US average bushels per acre for oats is 63.1
Sorry about the mis-calc on bushels of wheat, I googled for average bushels of wheat per acre and most of the responses I saw were saying 38 to 60.
I skipped out on the FFA, but I grew up throwing bails. I wasn't interested in the farming aspect, I just had chores to do. My wife on the other hand, she is an agronomist, so I'll ask her to correct me later tonight;)
I didn't look to close, but it was either grass hay or weat. ~43,000 square feet = 1 acre. 1 acre = what, like 60 bushels of wheat? A bushel of wheat is probably under $4. Even if the crop was completely unsalvagable, which is unlikely, the farmer is out $240 gross proffit. After associated costs per acre (seed, fuel, time, etc...) the farmer is probably turning $40 per acre if he's lucky.
"How can you have an alarm without a clock if you're setting the time you want the alarm to go off based on time of day?"
Because the alarm is a seperate entity that has been "converged" with a clock for so long that people consider is a single technology. My car has an alarm. My house has an alarm. My office has an alarm. My email client has an alarm. The alarm's function is to raise awareness. I could tie that alarm to any number of external entities to get the same functionality.
"Do you use the radio or CD functions on the alarm clock on your nightstand for anything other than alarm noise?"
Yup, sure, it might not rival the 800 watt tower speakers down stairs, but it's good enough sound quality to have some mood music on for the wife and I.;)
To follow your arguement though, an "alarm clock" is a convergence of an alarm and a clock. A Radio alarm clock is a convergence of a radio, an alarm, and a clock. And yes, having a CD/radio alarm clock does replace the need of having a cd player, a radio, an alarm, and a clock on my night stand.
I understand and completely accept that. The point I was trying to make is that if a person is stressed out by an "interview", that stress will not automaticly peg them. If their stress changes (just as you described in your post!) they will be pegged.
I was not trying to justify the system, I was trying to correct a misconception of the system. I agree that 8% of the flying population is going to be way too large of a hit. Unless the system improves, the flying process changes, or the populations expectations change, 8% is not acceptable.
Not Designed Here syndrome. It can usually be averted by reviewing investments in 3rd party solutions, acquiring new 3rd party solutions, or by planning from the start to use an in house solution.
At this point, it will likely mean project failure. The organization's core capability is making games, not game engines. Not only is there the huge scope of creating the engine, testing, debugging, and optimizing, but there is the legal liability in it also. If their engine designers have been staring at Unreal3 engine code for the last 6 months, and now decide to create their own engine, what is the likelihood that they will borrow either code or concepts from the Unreal engine? That could turn around and bite them hard in a trade secrets and copy right lawsuit.
It looks for changes, not set levels. So if a person comes into the "interview" with a high level of stress and remains relatively at the same level of stress, they will be fine. The trick is to catch people who's stress levels change in response to specific questions and answers. So this should not trigger your wife (although at 8% false positives, you would both have a chance of getting pegged) because of her high blood pressure.
But if your wife started sweating and her blood pressure rose above its already high point after the TSA asked her if she was carrying explosives... Then it would hopefully peg her as a person of interest.
Personally, I think the issue at this point is pretty moot. 9/11 won't happen again, the passengers on the plane will revolt at the first sign of a take over. And with out control of the plane, the casualty rate is pretty much limited to the capacity of the plane + impact area. Even if the UK attacks had succeeded, the total death count would have been a drop in the bucket compared to the deaths from cancer, heart disease, AIDS related, traffic casualties, or any other significantly more probable way of dieing in a year.
These devices don't measure against a set point, the measure against beleived truths. So if your heart is beating hard when the cop asks you your name and where you are traveling, but then beats even harder when they ask you if you are running drugs, or planning on attacking the plan, it triggers.
We're talking about a game which has a predecessor that still has a commanding online presence 6 years after its initial release. Is maintenance and game play balance that bad of an investment when they are looking to get another 4+ years out of the game's life span?
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I have no problem with the GPL. GPL can be as craptastic as RMS wants it to be and it won't effect me in the least. What I do have a problem with are people who attempt to cram GPLv3 down every one's throat. People who claim closed source software is inherently "evil" and any open source software that isn't under their license of choice is a lost sheep.
The freedom that I will defend is the freedom to chose which ever damn license and model I want to use, be it GPLv2, GPLv3, Closed Source, or any other.
-Rick
When I was in the military, prior to the days of bit-torrents, we had tons of "pirated" audio/video. On one network we had a server that reached 750 gigs of mp3s. It became almost competetive to see who could add the most music to it. The whole thing got wiped shortly before my EAS, for use in a new data storage system.
The thing about the military is that you have a large number of young men with a disposable income (ie: food, housing, medical care, and transportation are all provided). Sure, it's not much of an income, but when you don't have to spend money on rent, you cand stretch $14,400 a year pretty far on entertainment goodies(that was my salary as an E4 in 2001).
-Rick
and this:
are likely often to be exclusive. The problem with trying to force freedom onto people is that one person's freedom means another person's limitation. In this case, you are taking freedoms from the developers and giving it to the community. That's great for the community, but not so great for the developer. And seeing as how the developer(or producer) is the one that selects the license, I don't see this as an easy sell.
The market will balance the demand. The ability to chose closed source, open source, and from the wide assortment of available licenses is the true freedom we should all be fighting for. Not this "my way or the highway" mentality of which OS license is best.
-Rick
The network guys in my company use Track-IT and they don't seem too displeased with it. I used Test Track Pro from Seapine for my software (feature/defect) related tracking. And I absolutely love it. The price was insignificant (I think $750 for 3 licenses with support), their support is amazing (I've submitted questions on friday afternoons and gotten answers before I head home for the day), and the product is rock solid, easy to use, and highly configurable.
-Rick
So true. 802.11n has been "just around the corner" for years and will continue to be so for the next few years. 802.11b/g fullfills user demands and performs acceptably for now.
-Rick
Wow, you need to grasp the economies of scale. True, 2 people would have to buy 2 copies of a closed source piece of software. But if two people were to attempt to fund development of a serious piece of software, or even just the modification of an existing OS project, the cost would be multiple orders of magnitude higher. The only way to combat those prices are to 1) get a LOT of investors, 2) get a LOT of donation money, or 3) get a LOT of volunteer work.
OS vs CS goes far beyond personal objections to Bill Gates. Business and Market demands as well as developer and job market demands all play a role. Again, I'm not saying one is inherantly better than the other, only that BOTH solutions will continue to exist and NEED to continue to exist.
-Rick
There is only one side in this arguement that is suggesting an absolute. My statement is that closed source and open source solutions will continue to exist and that there are advantages and disadvantages to both. You are free to use which ever you like, and so is the rest of the market. But as soon as you get out side of the view of zealotry, you can see that the market will demand both solutions and that neither is going away anytime soon. Closed source and open source solution can coincide in the market place, and the users will benefit from the options.
-Rick
And we must also discuss and pursue the developers freedom to keep private, protect, and profit from published software.
-Rick
OS Software is good, proprietary software is good. The two will always balance eachother in order to match the market, demand, and availability of developers. Saying one is "evil" compared to the other is just blind fundamentalism.
-Rick
Shhhhhh! Allow us fathers to enjoy our delusions of control!
-Rick
Did the interviewer have to remove his face from the interviewees crotch to ask him that question?
-Rick
Add in a few congressmen and William Hurst with heavy investments in DuPont and suddenly you have people in a position to create a wide spread misconception and a political movement to solve that misconception.
-Rick
There is no shortage of tech jobs. Walking out of college with a 4 year bachelors degree, a head full of knowledge, and the motivation to work hard and improve yourself will make you extremely marketable. Sure, having a masters in a technical field would make you more knowledgeable, but you're going to need the work experience to go with it. I would take a new hire with a bach degree and 2 years experience over a new hire with a masters degree any day.
I say this as I'm wrapping up my second bachelors and planning out the rest of my education. I've spent 8+ years now as a software developer, I have military CS training, a comp sci assoc degree, and a BS Information Technology degree. All of which have helped make me a very successful programmer and software developer. The degree I'm current working on is a BS Technology Management. And once I finish it (in 2 weeks!!!) I'll probably look to PMI for Project Management certification (CAPM). With those notches on my resume I'll start shopping for an IT Project Management position, IT Coordinator, or some other mid level IT Management position. Eventually I do want to earn a Masters, but I will likely aim for a full Management program. With my goal then becoming an IT Director or CIO.
I love coding, I love working on computers, but I have been dragged through so many half assed projects that I feel the need to take control of my destiny and drive the damn short bus instead of riding in the back row.
-Rick
It looks like I accepted you explaination too early. Further investigation dug up this article: http://www.nass.usda.gov/wi/crops/smallgra.pdf Which states that the US average bushels per acre for oats is 63.1
-Rick
Sorry about the mis-calc on bushels of wheat, I googled for average bushels of wheat per acre and most of the responses I saw were saying 38 to 60.
;)
I skipped out on the FFA, but I grew up throwing bails. I wasn't interested in the farming aspect, I just had chores to do. My wife on the other hand, she is an agronomist, so I'll ask her to correct me later tonight
-Rick
I didn't look to close, but it was either grass hay or weat. ~43,000 square feet = 1 acre. 1 acre = what, like 60 bushels of wheat? A bushel of wheat is probably under $4. Even if the crop was completely unsalvagable, which is unlikely, the farmer is out $240 gross proffit. After associated costs per acre (seed, fuel, time, etc...) the farmer is probably turning $40 per acre if he's lucky.
Not exactly a huge loss, or anti-green movement.
-Rick
"How can you have an alarm without a clock if you're setting the time you want the alarm to go off based on time of day?"
;)
Because the alarm is a seperate entity that has been "converged" with a clock for so long that people consider is a single technology. My car has an alarm. My house has an alarm. My office has an alarm. My email client has an alarm. The alarm's function is to raise awareness. I could tie that alarm to any number of external entities to get the same functionality.
"Do you use the radio or CD functions on the alarm clock on your nightstand for anything other than alarm noise?"
Yup, sure, it might not rival the 800 watt tower speakers down stairs, but it's good enough sound quality to have some mood music on for the wife and I.
-Rick
To follow your arguement though, an "alarm clock" is a convergence of an alarm and a clock. A Radio alarm clock is a convergence of a radio, an alarm, and a clock. And yes, having a CD/radio alarm clock does replace the need of having a cd player, a radio, an alarm, and a clock on my night stand.
-Rick
I understand and completely accept that. The point I was trying to make is that if a person is stressed out by an "interview", that stress will not automaticly peg them. If their stress changes (just as you described in your post!) they will be pegged.
I was not trying to justify the system, I was trying to correct a misconception of the system. I agree that 8% of the flying population is going to be way too large of a hit. Unless the system improves, the flying process changes, or the populations expectations change, 8% is not acceptable.
-Rick
Not Designed Here syndrome. It can usually be averted by reviewing investments in 3rd party solutions, acquiring new 3rd party solutions, or by planning from the start to use an in house solution.
At this point, it will likely mean project failure. The organization's core capability is making games, not game engines. Not only is there the huge scope of creating the engine, testing, debugging, and optimizing, but there is the legal liability in it also. If their engine designers have been staring at Unreal3 engine code for the last 6 months, and now decide to create their own engine, what is the likelihood that they will borrow either code or concepts from the Unreal engine? That could turn around and bite them hard in a trade secrets and copy right lawsuit.
-Rick
It looks for changes, not set levels. So if a person comes into the "interview" with a high level of stress and remains relatively at the same level of stress, they will be fine. The trick is to catch people who's stress levels change in response to specific questions and answers. So this should not trigger your wife (although at 8% false positives, you would both have a chance of getting pegged) because of her high blood pressure.
But if your wife started sweating and her blood pressure rose above its already high point after the TSA asked her if she was carrying explosives... Then it would hopefully peg her as a person of interest.
Personally, I think the issue at this point is pretty moot. 9/11 won't happen again, the passengers on the plane will revolt at the first sign of a take over. And with out control of the plane, the casualty rate is pretty much limited to the capacity of the plane + impact area. Even if the UK attacks had succeeded, the total death count would have been a drop in the bucket compared to the deaths from cancer, heart disease, AIDS related, traffic casualties, or any other significantly more probable way of dieing in a year.
-Rick
These devices don't measure against a set point, the measure against beleived truths. So if your heart is beating hard when the cop asks you your name and where you are traveling, but then beats even harder when they ask you if you are running drugs, or planning on attacking the plan, it triggers.
-Rick
We're talking about a game which has a predecessor that still has a commanding online presence 6 years after its initial release. Is maintenance and game play balance that bad of an investment when they are looking to get another 4+ years out of the game's life span?
-Rick
That imagery would so win a fark photoshop contest!
-Rick
One of my tech teachers in high school only had 9 fingers you insensitive clod!
And scary enough, I'm not kidding (about the fingers)
-Rick