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The article from earlier today seems to tell you how not to do it.
From my experience, I think the biggest thing is trust. The managers need to trust the developers to do what's right, and listen to the developers when they make suggestions on how to do it better. The developers need to trust that the managers won't get in their way, but will keep them on track and keep them insulated from distractions. Developers need to trust each other, that everyone's code works well etc, and trusts each other enough to ask for help when they need it. Once everyone trusts everyone else and can work well together, the project will be more successful.
Most interesting in that line of statistics: no human has died outside the confines of Earth's atmosphere. Apollo 1 was a fire on the pad, Challenger hadn't crossed 50 miles, and Columbia was under 50 miles. The Russian space program has similar circumstances. 18 didn't walk out of the craft alive, but all 420 who have crossed into space have made it back inside the atmosphere.
Linos (operating system) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linos is a embedded distribution of Linux used by Aware Electronics in their A-BOOK products[1]. It is also expected to be used in the Elonex ONE[2]. Ooh! Real helpful!
I use Ubuntu. I don't use OpenOffice.org. I find myself more productive using Office 2007 Word, Powerpoint, and Excell, so I bought myself a copy of Office 2007 and put it on Wine. Does it run perfect? Not quite, but I still prefer it. I'm sure that many in Google's middle management feel the same, esp as Office is targeted directly at that market.
As of May first, Wine AppDB says it works fine. That's not what GP is complaining about. GP is complaining that a company like Google who loves "standards" so much should be releasing their desktop apps for all platforms up front, not waiting until some random schmo spends his 20% time for 5 years porting it over.
Some nerd who's going to spend the next three months in a darkened office reverse-engineering the proprietary drivers? To give incentive to the hardware manufacturers, we need a distro with the widest possible user base
Perhaps. Why not try both? Albino-nerd reverse engineers drivers, win for everyone (except his genetics). Ubuntu gets these benefits, user base grows. BigCorpCo sees user base, releases free drivers. I don't see any problem with either side of this scenario, and the ENTIRE POINT of F/OSS is to provide what every capitalist wants- competition. In fact, F/OSS has done a pretty damned good job at being competitive in a product-to-product match up; it's only Microsoft's business practices that really seem to be holding Linux back at this point.
Ooh ooh! I know! Maybe rather than "trusted computing" we can have "trusted consumers"! Or even just "consumers"! You know, those people who are willing to pay for your product, and make up 90% of the video game market? Perhaps, rather than abusing and maligning those 90%, producers and developers could embrace them and provide a kick-ass game or product, rather than fuck them in the ass trying to implement all this crap that *WILL* fail just to get back at that 10% of China who can't afford your product? Seriously, CONSUMERS AREN'T THE BAD GUYS! So quite fucking us like the bad guys!
Until you realize that Microsoft spent money to pull people off the street, and pay them to use the software while watching them. Most (>90%) of the users who have been using Office [98-2k3] for the past "20 years" find, within a week that they are as and often more productive with 2k7. Especially the "power users" who regularly do complicated things like track document changes, large mail-merges (1000s of addresses) etc find the new interface to drastically reduce the number of clicks. The HTML-esque markup strategy that Office has been using makes _much_ more sense to users when "styles" are boldly displayed at the top of the screen, and I've personally heard several users comment on how many fewer "weird formating things" happen in 2k7.
If you stop hating Vista and the management, you realize that Microsoft Office is the flagship MS product, and is the reason they exist as a software company.
(All my comments come from experience of migrating a college faculty with ~200 users to Office 2007/Vista over the past year. The 2007 migration is going much better than the Vista migration, btw...)
"After all, if the case had no merit, why would a megacorp like Verizon settle? These stories need more exposure."
Verizon settled because it would be cheaper to settle than fight, whether it had merit or not. Companies don't go into lawsuits (on either side) for altruistic causes- they go into lawsuits looking at the bottom line. If it would cost $200/hour for a team of 10 lawyers working 40 hours a week for 2 years, that's $8,320,000 whereas they could settle for a fraction that cost.
The BusyBox guys also have to look at the bottom line- if Verizon was willing to pay them to make it go away, great. They probably didn't actually have the money to fight Verizon all the way, but Verizon obviously doesn't want to take that gamble. So, they settle, and everyone walks away happy except the hordes of/.ers who want some validation of their work on the GPL.
That validation won't happen in a large case like this. Microsoft marketing and legal will continue to tout their "patents" as FUD, but if they ever get challenged they will settle (much more quietly) out of court. Verizon, AT&T, etc will do what they're doing- settle for a fraction the cost of what it would take to set precendent- whether they're wrong or not, it would be cheaper either way.
The GPL will not be challenged in court until two opponents of medium size go after eachother. Except, of course, there are no middle guys. The large corps are to big to care, and the small FOSS developers don't have the money, and really don't have the desire, to sue one-another. So, the GPL will never be challenged in court.
That said, I do agree it is good that people outside our community get some exposure to what it is that goes on in here, especially with the article about the lack of tech and science news in mass media.
I'm assuming that because these are British scientists, the signal will be in PAL format, but either way, how do they expect aliens that may or may not exist to magically decrypt a format that we ourselves can't use across a measly ocean?
Second question: Will Doritos still even be around in 42 years when this signal gets there? Or be able to send them some when they get an order in 84 years? Actually, that is a conversation I want to hear.
Doritos sales rep: Hello? 47 Ursae Majoris Alien: Sqwauk squelch sqee sqee DSR: Oh, sorry, I forgot to turn on the universal translator. UMA: Ah. Anyway, yeah, I'd like to order half a million crates of your Cool Ranch Doritos. DSR: Sorry, we haven't made those since 2019... UMA: What? That's it! You humans are going to die! (Fires space laser- http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/02/15/the-laser-elevator/ modulated with "Fine! We'll take Cheetos instead!)
This anecdote is attributed to Landau (the Russian physicist Lev not the Göttingen mathematician Edmund).
Landau's group was discussing a bright new theory, and one of junior colleagues of Landau bragged that he had independently discovered the theory a couple of years ago, but did not bother to publish his finding.
"I would not repeat this claim if I were you," Landau replied: "There is nothing wrong if one has not found a solution to a particular problem. However, if one has found it but does not publish it, he shows a poor judgment and inability to understand what important is in modern physics". Actually, from TFA, the American team did publish first, but "didn't realize the relevance of the Schottky groups." Further, the Brit (working independently, and supposedly without knowledge of this obscure paper) says his formula will work every time. The Americans are of course sceptical, but can't seem to find any situation where it won't work. Kudos to both, but it seems history will go to the Brit for this. I'll check Wiki in about a year; I'll bet it talks about the Brit, and mentions the American team in passing.
Self destruct mechanisms have weight, which is the biggest cost in space equipment. Since you expect the satellite to complete its mission (IE stay up long enough to use up its fuel supply- once again, weight being the cost you aren't going to put more fuel than you need), there won't be any fuel left when it comes down.
Rather than spend $120 million up front developing a complex component of an already complex system that may or may not work and may or may not even be necessary, why not spend half that when you do find you need it, and actually get to play with rockets and blow stuff up while you're at it?
All the better. They are wrongfully accusing people of piracy, and we are correctly accusing them of piracy. They look really bad, and get "a taste of their own medicine."
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The article from earlier today seems to tell you how not to do it.
From my experience, I think the biggest thing is trust. The managers need to trust the developers to do what's right, and listen to the developers when they make suggestions on how to do it better. The developers need to trust that the managers won't get in their way, but will keep them on track and keep them insulated from distractions. Developers need to trust each other, that everyone's code works well etc, and trusts each other enough to ask for help when they need it. Once everyone trusts everyone else and can work well together, the project will be more successful.
Little secret: this goes for any project.
This article:
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/06/16/25FE-stupid-users-part-3-admins_1.html
The other two:
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/05/07/19FEuserintro_1.html
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/06/04/13/77021_16FEusergoofs_1.html
*Ahem*
No.
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Hrm... that goes right with 42 = 6 * 9 for meme-ness.
Most interesting in that line of statistics: no human has died outside the confines of Earth's atmosphere. Apollo 1 was a fire on the pad, Challenger hadn't crossed 50 miles, and Columbia was under 50 miles. The Russian space program has similar circumstances. 18 didn't walk out of the craft alive, but all 420 who have crossed into space have made it back inside the atmosphere.
They could, if I didn't just waste my mod points by commenting in a thread I just modded... crap!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linos is a embedded distribution of Linux used by Aware Electronics in their A-BOOK products[1]. It is also expected to be used in the Elonex ONE[2]. Ooh! Real helpful!
I use Ubuntu. I don't use OpenOffice.org. I find myself more productive using Office 2007 Word, Powerpoint, and Excell, so I bought myself a copy of Office 2007 and put it on Wine. Does it run perfect? Not quite, but I still prefer it. I'm sure that many in Google's middle management feel the same, esp as Office is targeted directly at that market.
As of May first, Wine AppDB says it works fine. That's not what GP is complaining about. GP is complaining that a company like Google who loves "standards" so much should be releasing their desktop apps for all platforms up front, not waiting until some random schmo spends his 20% time for 5 years porting it over.
Perhaps. Why not try both? Albino-nerd reverse engineers drivers, win for everyone (except his genetics). Ubuntu gets these benefits, user base grows. BigCorpCo sees user base, releases free drivers. I don't see any problem with either side of this scenario, and the ENTIRE POINT of F/OSS is to provide what every capitalist wants- competition. In fact, F/OSS has done a pretty damned good job at being competitive in a product-to-product match up; it's only Microsoft's business practices that really seem to be holding Linux back at this point.
Ooh ooh! I know! Maybe rather than "trusted computing" we can have "trusted consumers"! Or even just "consumers"! You know, those people who are willing to pay for your product, and make up 90% of the video game market? Perhaps, rather than abusing and maligning those 90%, producers and developers could embrace them and provide a kick-ass game or product, rather than fuck them in the ass trying to implement all this crap that *WILL* fail just to get back at that 10% of China who can't afford your product? Seriously, CONSUMERS AREN'T THE BAD GUYS! So quite fucking us like the bad guys!
Perhaps not, but it still seems most of the comments are directed that way. I guess we finally got to not even RTFSummary.
That would be sweet, especially if they put a Firefox logo on the solar panels. Extra points if it's visible in orbiter photos.
Ah, but Ada Lovelace had a much better portrait (hotter, that is)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Grace_Hopper.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ada_Lovelace_1838.jpg
Until you realize that Microsoft spent money to pull people off the street, and pay them to use the software while watching them. Most (>90%) of the users who have been using Office [98-2k3] for the past "20 years" find, within a week that they are as and often more productive with 2k7. Especially the "power users" who regularly do complicated things like track document changes, large mail-merges (1000s of addresses) etc find the new interface to drastically reduce the number of clicks. The HTML-esque markup strategy that Office has been using makes _much_ more sense to users when "styles" are boldly displayed at the top of the screen, and I've personally heard several users comment on how many fewer "weird formating things" happen in 2k7.
If you stop hating Vista and the management, you realize that Microsoft Office is the flagship MS product, and is the reason they exist as a software company.
(All my comments come from experience of migrating a college faculty with ~200 users to Office 2007/Vista over the past year. The 2007 migration is going much better than the Vista migration, btw...)
You did realize his comment was probably sarcastic, no?
"After all, if the case had no merit, why would a megacorp like Verizon settle? These stories need more exposure."
/.ers who want some validation of their work on the GPL.
Verizon settled because it would be cheaper to settle than fight, whether it had merit or not. Companies don't go into lawsuits (on either side) for altruistic causes- they go into lawsuits looking at the bottom line. If it would cost $200/hour for a team of 10 lawyers working 40 hours a week for 2 years, that's $8,320,000 whereas they could settle for a fraction that cost.
The BusyBox guys also have to look at the bottom line- if Verizon was willing to pay them to make it go away, great. They probably didn't actually have the money to fight Verizon all the way, but Verizon obviously doesn't want to take that gamble. So, they settle, and everyone walks away happy except the hordes of
That validation won't happen in a large case like this. Microsoft marketing and legal will continue to tout their "patents" as FUD, but if they ever get challenged they will settle (much more quietly) out of court. Verizon, AT&T, etc will do what they're doing- settle for a fraction the cost of what it would take to set precendent- whether they're wrong or not, it would be cheaper either way.
The GPL will not be challenged in court until two opponents of medium size go after eachother. Except, of course, there are no middle guys. The large corps are to big to care, and the small FOSS developers don't have the money, and really don't have the desire, to sue one-another. So, the GPL will never be challenged in court.
That said, I do agree it is good that people outside our community get some exposure to what it is that goes on in here, especially with the article about the lack of tech and science news in mass media.
I'm assuming that because these are British scientists, the signal will be in PAL format, but either way, how do they expect aliens that may or may not exist to magically decrypt a format that we ourselves can't use across a measly ocean?
Second question: Will Doritos still even be around in 42 years when this signal gets there? Or be able to send them some when they get an order in 84 years? Actually, that is a conversation I want to hear.
Doritos sales rep: Hello?
47 Ursae Majoris Alien: Sqwauk squelch sqee sqee
DSR: Oh, sorry, I forgot to turn on the universal translator.
UMA: Ah. Anyway, yeah, I'd like to order half a million crates of your Cool Ranch Doritos.
DSR: Sorry, we haven't made those since 2019...
UMA: What? That's it! You humans are going to die! (Fires space laser- http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/02/15/the-laser-elevator/ modulated with "Fine! We'll take Cheetos instead!)
Landau's group was discussing a bright new theory, and one of junior colleagues of Landau bragged that he had independently discovered the theory a couple of years ago, but did not bother to publish his finding.
"I would not repeat this claim if I were you," Landau replied: "There is nothing wrong if one has not found a solution to a particular problem. However, if one has found it but does not publish it, he shows a poor judgment and inability to understand what important is in modern physics". Actually, from TFA, the American team did publish first, but "didn't realize the relevance of the Schottky groups." Further, the Brit (working independently, and supposedly without knowledge of this obscure paper) says his formula will work every time. The Americans are of course sceptical, but can't seem to find any situation where it won't work. Kudos to both, but it seems history will go to the Brit for this. I'll check Wiki in about a year; I'll bet it talks about the Brit, and mentions the American team in passing.
Why did the US decide to shoot down the spy satellite?
- It contained super-cool, super-top-secret spy gear that would survive re-entry and shouldn't fall in the wrong hands.
- Hydrazine, no matter how you look at it, is a dangerous gas, and may or may not blow up on re-entry. The US decided "better safe than sorry"
- The US Military wants to remind China that we were first in space, we have more in space, and we can shoot anything down we want.
- CowboyNeal wants to blow something up.
SPOILER ALERT:The correct answer is "All of the above"
So, could we quite arguing and realize that, at least this one time, everyone is right and get back to EMacs vs Vi vs Ed vs Butterflies?
Self destruct mechanisms have weight, which is the biggest cost in space equipment. Since you expect the satellite to complete its mission (IE stay up long enough to use up its fuel supply- once again, weight being the cost you aren't going to put more fuel than you need), there won't be any fuel left when it comes down.
Rather than spend $120 million up front developing a complex component of an already complex system that may or may not work and may or may not even be necessary, why not spend half that when you do find you need it, and actually get to play with rockets and blow stuff up while you're at it?
Fixed that for ya
All the better. They are wrongfully accusing people of piracy, and we are correctly accusing them of piracy. They look really bad, and get "a taste of their own medicine."
you-niverse.com
It'd make a great social networking site...