Also, do they use GCC as their main compiler, or do they use Intel's ICC, or some other compiler that may generate better code than GCC? If they are using ICC, how are they dealing with the problem of ICC generating code that may be suboptimal when running on AMD chips?
You're obviously not any type of a professional, be it a doctor or a software developer, if you believe that. A professional must not by any means insult his or her users, customers or clients. It doesn't matter if that professional is an individual, an open source projects or a corporation.
Even the cashiers, hamburger flippers and janitors at McDonalds know to not insult their customers in public, especially not directly to those very customers.
I would expect, at the very least, that open source developers could show the same level of courtesy towards the users of their software as McDonalds employees show towards their customers. Of course, my more realistic expectation is that open source developers have a basic sense of professionalism. Thankfully, many do. Now, some might not. And that is why a course is needed. You, for instance, would be the perfect candidate for such a course. You'd learn the basics of professionalism.
It sickens me a great deal to see such a lack of professionalism. I want the KDE project to succeed. I want the KOffice project to succeed. But, unfortunately, they will not succeed if they have developers going around throwing out insults at longtime users (myself or otherwise).
Even a two or three hour course would probably be enough to teach such developers proper manners, and how to communicate effectively with customers/users in such a way that the image of the entity they're representing is not damaged in a negative fashion.
But better yet, some lessons on how to publically apologize would be appropriate. While it does not remedy the situation, a public apology for a display of public rudeness is quite necessary. Doing so minimizes damage to one's reputation.
I agree, the magnitude of the damage would be far greater if his insults had been printed in DDJ or the New York Times, for instance. Nevertheless, Slashdot is one of the most widely known open source community sites. And as such, his comments are quite damaging to the KOffice's projects professional image.
Building and maintaining a respectable image is necessary if they want to make inroads into the commercial, educational and consumer markets. Nobody will use their product if the developers are known as public debauchees of rudeness.
KOffice is in a good position right now, since they have a mostly neutral public image. Incidents like the aforementioned only serve to ruin their chances of becoming one of the big names in open source, up there with Firefox, OpenOffice, Linux, Apache and Perl.
Who suggested that Microsoft executives show true professionalism? I sure did not. Indeed, it would seem that Microsoft suffers from the same problems that certain open source projects do. At least they manage to keep their developers contained, and do not have them going out and insulting their users/customers in public. Rogue developers are what truly cause damage, far more than some exec threatening industry rivals.
Many dog owners keep their dog for practical reasons: for game hunting, as seeing-eye dogs, for companionship, or for protection/security. While these robotic dogs may provide some form of companionship, are they useful for anything else? Or are they just technological curiosities?
The insults themselves do not bother me. What bothers me is that he threw out those insults at a KOffice user while representing himself as a KOffice developer. That, obviously, does tarnish the image and reputation of the KOffice and KDE projects, and the entire open source community.
That incident would be no different than an Apple employee actively stating that he was working on iTunes, only to turn around and publically insult an iTunes user. It would make Apple look horrible.
Public insults are not the way to give the open source community a trustworthy, professional reputation.
You're looking at the situation more from an moralist/theological perspective. But even from a technical perspective you're quite correct.
OpenBSD does offer a far more secure alternative to Linux most of the time. Of course, you give up some performance and some scalability in order to obtain that performance. But nevertheless, it is often a superior technical solution for smaller websites or business infrastructure.
You're correct again on PostgreSQL. Featurewise, it trumps MySQL. While MySQL may be suitable for small personal websites or blogs, true business users often do want and need the features of PostgreSQL.
And let's not even get started with PHP. It has been proven time and time again to be completely horrible security-wise. Even if you blame the developers of the insecure software that runs on PHP, PHP is still at fault because it does very little to prevent inexperienced developers from writing insecure software. Thankfully we're seeing the rise of Python and Ruby-based web solutions. They allow secure, complex web apps to be developed without having to deal with the mess that is PHP.
Do any educational institutions offer Open Source Professionalism courses? Such a course may be quite beneficial for many open source developers. While many developers are great programmers and designers, they often lack the public relations skills necessary for any serious project. It's not just about the communication skills with users, but also about projecting a solid, professional image.
More often than not we see instances of open source developers damaging the reputation and image of the projects they're involved with. Take the recent case of Novell's servers being vandalized. And then there was the recent incident of a KOffice developer publically insulting a KOffice user. Whatever the circumstances, the end result is that the product and community looks bad because of the lack of professionalism from even just a single individual.
That is why I suggest that many open source developers take a course on basic professionalism, if one is offered anywhere. Any large scale project requires developers who are polite, intelligent, respectable and well-spoken. The open source community has the capability to succeed beyond our wildest dreams if we as a group are able to master professionalism.
What sort of "LAMP" are they talking about here? Does the "P" represent Python, PHP, or Perl? Some combination of the three?
What about FAMP (FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, Python) or NAPRR (NetBSD, Apache, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails), and so on?
I don't think it's a good program if it doesn't expose the students to the entire open source community. It's good for such business people to be aware of the alternatives to commercial, closed source software. But it's also important for them to realize that the open source community isn't limited to Linux, MySQL and PHP. There are often far better (ie. more secure, less resource-intensive, etc.) pieces of open source software out there. And if their developers suggest the use of such alternatives, it would be beneficial if they had some knowledge of them.
I think it is time for the open source community, as a whole, to better consider its public image. Incidents like this, involving one of the premiere Linux vendors, do unfortunately tarnish the image of our community quite badly. And then you have rogue open source developers publically insulting users. Such incidents make people remember open source software for all the wrong reasons.
Now, perhaps this is just a case of amateurs being allowed to join a community that mainly consisted of academics and professionals. The high standards that the open source community once enjoyed are being degraded on a daily basis by developers who cannot write secure code (ie. many PHP developers), by developers who blatantly insult and ridicule their users (ie. the KOffice example earlier in this post), or companies that provide insecure, open source-based products.
Is there much that can be done about this? I'm not sure.
But are the problems only limited to the one chip?
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Let us assume that a problem is found. But even if it is fixed, then how can we know for sure that other problemtic parts were used? If this chip was able to get through the engineering screening process, perhaps other faulty componentry was used as well. A fault here could, in theory, make need for a complete analysis of every single part used. And in a plane this size, that's a massive amount of time and effort.
Perhaps legal action could be taken on the basis of price fixing/gouging if they were to actually drop Apple because Apple would not sell at the price the industry demanded?
Yes, I have. I have seen many fellows get their faces covered in cum at Irish pubs. That's a funny thing about the Irish: if you can drink, they'll respect you. But if you're a ninny boy from the US or continental Europe and you can't hold your ale, then be prepared for a semen shower! The worst part is that it is your own cum that you get showered with. It is mighty easy to convince a drunk Frenchman to ejaculate into a beer mug when he is drunk, and then even easier to convince him to spill it on his face moments later.
Are letters to politicians postage-free in Canada, as in some other nations? Could you realistically, assuming affording the paper was not a problem, mail a copy of this book to each and every parliamentarian?
Perhaps a group of students or professionals could get together and each print up a page or two of the book for each politician. And they could collect the pages together into a single book for each parliamentarian, spreading the printing cost amongst themselves.
When I attempt to verbalize the name "CRIA", it sounds like "seerrhea", which of course reminds me of "diarrhea".
Indeed, it would seem that they excel at proposing and supporting legislation that is a smelly, yellow, liquidy mess that in the end soils everyone's fun.
Are there any parties in Canada who have outright said that they will not support such nonsense, and will actively fight for the rights of individual Canadian citizens?
My nephew said that you have a Green Party over there which may be more open to such ideas. What is their stance on this bill? The Liberals and Conservatives are known for their business ties and corruption. Would they actually stand against this very corporate-friendly bill? Is the NDP even relevant these days? Where do they stand?
But even if the citizenry are against this nonsense, will the politicians actually follow through and not pass this proposed legislation? It isn't so much about the whether or not the citizenry of Canada has the balls, but moreso whether or not the parliamentarians have the guts to say "NO! We will NOT stand for this bullshit!"
But are not all of the actual CBC workers on strike at the moment? My nephew in Canada was saying that the regulars have been replaced with temps, and the temps are doing a horrible job, quality-wise. He says that the news is, at the moment, no better than that of the other corporate-controlled media in Canada.
If it's not broken, then of course you don't try to fix it. But then again, you also have to be prepared in case it does break.
It's better for some action to be taken now, before the US government chooses to take a course of action that is detrimental to the Internet as a whole. At least then the rest of the world can have a somewhat functional Internet, even if the US is not involved.
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Do you think that they may be using the DirectX capabilities of Wine to ease the port?
If so, can you comment on the stability of such code? I have found Wine to work fabulously for some code, but for other code it struggles greatly.
Do they use OpenGL, SDL, ClanLib, etc.?
Also, do they use GCC as their main compiler, or do they use Intel's ICC, or some other compiler that may generate better code than GCC? If they are using ICC, how are they dealing with the problem of ICC generating code that may be suboptimal when running on AMD chips?
I, for one, don't even know what this particular overlord is!
You're obviously not any type of a professional, be it a doctor or a software developer, if you believe that. A professional must not by any means insult his or her users, customers or clients. It doesn't matter if that professional is an individual, an open source projects or a corporation.
Even the cashiers, hamburger flippers and janitors at McDonalds know to not insult their customers in public, especially not directly to those very customers.
I would expect, at the very least, that open source developers could show the same level of courtesy towards the users of their software as McDonalds employees show towards their customers. Of course, my more realistic expectation is that open source developers have a basic sense of professionalism. Thankfully, many do. Now, some might not. And that is why a course is needed. You, for instance, would be the perfect candidate for such a course. You'd learn the basics of professionalism.
Yes, it obviously would be.
It sickens me a great deal to see such a lack of professionalism. I want the KDE project to succeed. I want the KOffice project to succeed. But, unfortunately, they will not succeed if they have developers going around throwing out insults at longtime users (myself or otherwise).
Even a two or three hour course would probably be enough to teach such developers proper manners, and how to communicate effectively with customers/users in such a way that the image of the entity they're representing is not damaged in a negative fashion.
But better yet, some lessons on how to publically apologize would be appropriate. While it does not remedy the situation, a public apology for a display of public rudeness is quite necessary. Doing so minimizes damage to one's reputation.
Whoa! I just want fellatio from my dog. I don't want my anus to be tentacle raped by him.
I agree, the magnitude of the damage would be far greater if his insults had been printed in DDJ or the New York Times, for instance. Nevertheless, Slashdot is one of the most widely known open source community sites. And as such, his comments are quite damaging to the KOffice's projects professional image.
Building and maintaining a respectable image is necessary if they want to make inroads into the commercial, educational and consumer markets. Nobody will use their product if the developers are known as public debauchees of rudeness.
KOffice is in a good position right now, since they have a mostly neutral public image. Incidents like the aforementioned only serve to ruin their chances of becoming one of the big names in open source, up there with Firefox, OpenOffice, Linux, Apache and Perl.
Who suggested that Microsoft executives show true professionalism? I sure did not. Indeed, it would seem that Microsoft suffers from the same problems that certain open source projects do. At least they manage to keep their developers contained, and do not have them going out and insulting their users/customers in public. Rogue developers are what truly cause damage, far more than some exec threatening industry rivals.
But does it perform fellatio like my real dog Rover?
Many dog owners keep their dog for practical reasons: for game hunting, as seeing-eye dogs, for companionship, or for protection/security. While these robotic dogs may provide some form of companionship, are they useful for anything else? Or are they just technological curiosities?
The insults themselves do not bother me. What bothers me is that he threw out those insults at a KOffice user while representing himself as a KOffice developer. That, obviously, does tarnish the image and reputation of the KOffice and KDE projects, and the entire open source community.
That incident would be no different than an Apple employee actively stating that he was working on iTunes, only to turn around and publically insult an iTunes user. It would make Apple look horrible.
Public insults are not the way to give the open source community a trustworthy, professional reputation.
You're looking at the situation more from an moralist/theological perspective. But even from a technical perspective you're quite correct.
OpenBSD does offer a far more secure alternative to Linux most of the time. Of course, you give up some performance and some scalability in order to obtain that performance. But nevertheless, it is often a superior technical solution for smaller websites or business infrastructure.
You're correct again on PostgreSQL. Featurewise, it trumps MySQL. While MySQL may be suitable for small personal websites or blogs, true business users often do want and need the features of PostgreSQL.
And let's not even get started with PHP. It has been proven time and time again to be completely horrible security-wise. Even if you blame the developers of the insecure software that runs on PHP, PHP is still at fault because it does very little to prevent inexperienced developers from writing insecure software. Thankfully we're seeing the rise of Python and Ruby-based web solutions. They allow secure, complex web apps to be developed without having to deal with the mess that is PHP.
Do any educational institutions offer Open Source Professionalism courses? Such a course may be quite beneficial for many open source developers. While many developers are great programmers and designers, they often lack the public relations skills necessary for any serious project. It's not just about the communication skills with users, but also about projecting a solid, professional image.
More often than not we see instances of open source developers damaging the reputation and image of the projects they're involved with. Take the recent case of Novell's servers being vandalized. And then there was the recent incident of a KOffice developer publically insulting a KOffice user. Whatever the circumstances, the end result is that the product and community looks bad because of the lack of professionalism from even just a single individual.
That is why I suggest that many open source developers take a course on basic professionalism, if one is offered anywhere. Any large scale project requires developers who are polite, intelligent, respectable and well-spoken. The open source community has the capability to succeed beyond our wildest dreams if we as a group are able to master professionalism.
What sort of "LAMP" are they talking about here? Does the "P" represent Python, PHP, or Perl? Some combination of the three?
What about FAMP (FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, Python) or NAPRR (NetBSD, Apache, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails), and so on?
I don't think it's a good program if it doesn't expose the students to the entire open source community. It's good for such business people to be aware of the alternatives to commercial, closed source software. But it's also important for them to realize that the open source community isn't limited to Linux, MySQL and PHP. There are often far better (ie. more secure, less resource-intensive, etc.) pieces of open source software out there. And if their developers suggest the use of such alternatives, it would be beneficial if they had some knowledge of them.
I think it is time for the open source community, as a whole, to better consider its public image. Incidents like this, involving one of the premiere Linux vendors, do unfortunately tarnish the image of our community quite badly. And then you have rogue open source developers publically insulting users. Such incidents make people remember open source software for all the wrong reasons.
Now, perhaps this is just a case of amateurs being allowed to join a community that mainly consisted of academics and professionals. The high standards that the open source community once enjoyed are being degraded on a daily basis by developers who cannot write secure code (ie. many PHP developers), by developers who blatantly insult and ridicule their users (ie. the KOffice example earlier in this post), or companies that provide insecure, open source-based products.
Is there much that can be done about this? I'm not sure.
Let us assume that a problem is found. But even if it is fixed, then how can we know for sure that other problemtic parts were used? If this chip was able to get through the engineering screening process, perhaps other faulty componentry was used as well. A fault here could, in theory, make need for a complete analysis of every single part used. And in a plane this size, that's a massive amount of time and effort.
Perhaps legal action could be taken on the basis of price fixing/gouging if they were to actually drop Apple because Apple would not sell at the price the industry demanded?
Yes, I have. I have seen many fellows get their faces covered in cum at Irish pubs. That's a funny thing about the Irish: if you can drink, they'll respect you. But if you're a ninny boy from the US or continental Europe and you can't hold your ale, then be prepared for a semen shower! The worst part is that it is your own cum that you get showered with. It is mighty easy to convince a drunk Frenchman to ejaculate into a beer mug when he is drunk, and then even easier to convince him to spill it on his face moments later.
Are letters to politicians postage-free in Canada, as in some other nations? Could you realistically, assuming affording the paper was not a problem, mail a copy of this book to each and every parliamentarian?
Perhaps a group of students or professionals could get together and each print up a page or two of the book for each politician. And they could collect the pages together into a single book for each parliamentarian, spreading the printing cost amongst themselves.
Why don't you just learn from them instead? Learn the techniques, and grow some genitalia. Fight for your rights yourself.
When I attempt to verbalize the name "CRIA", it sounds like "seerrhea", which of course reminds me of "diarrhea".
Indeed, it would seem that they excel at proposing and supporting legislation that is a smelly, yellow, liquidy mess that in the end soils everyone's fun.
Are there any parties in Canada who have outright said that they will not support such nonsense, and will actively fight for the rights of individual Canadian citizens?
My nephew said that you have a Green Party over there which may be more open to such ideas. What is their stance on this bill? The Liberals and Conservatives are known for their business ties and corruption. Would they actually stand against this very corporate-friendly bill? Is the NDP even relevant these days? Where do they stand?
But even if the citizenry are against this nonsense, will the politicians actually follow through and not pass this proposed legislation? It isn't so much about the whether or not the citizenry of Canada has the balls, but moreso whether or not the parliamentarians have the guts to say "NO! We will NOT stand for this bullshit!"
But are not all of the actual CBC workers on strike at the moment? My nephew in Canada was saying that the regulars have been replaced with temps, and the temps are doing a horrible job, quality-wise. He says that the news is, at the moment, no better than that of the other corporate-controlled media in Canada.
If it's not broken, then of course you don't try to fix it. But then again, you also have to be prepared in case it does break.
It's better for some action to be taken now, before the US government chooses to take a course of action that is detrimental to the Internet as a whole. At least then the rest of the world can have a somewhat functional Internet, even if the US is not involved.