I solely telecommute, but then I'm an independant contractor doing development work. I've done projects in Roanoke, Cleveland, and Houston from my basement.
For me I'm WAY more productive working at home with a DSL connection and a VPN. I hop out of bed before the kids get up, and if they are already up I leave out the front door and walk around the back of my home into the basement where I've built an office. I call home on the cell and my kids think I'm away at work. In the meantime I have 8 - 10 hours of uninterrupted time to concentrate and be productive. I learn so much more in this environment and I have the environment to research and develop correct solutions since I have no co-workers talking to me in the middle of my train of thought.
I remember my days working for a large corporation. I think we all had at most 2 - 3 productive hours in an 8 hour day.
Troll? Maybe. Offtopic? In response to poster's comment. Reality? Yes.
<RANT> Hmmm...all this talk about monopolies and no mention of the US gov't on the list.
Wronged by Microsoft/AOL/Large-company-name-here? Well you can sue them. Defective product? You can return it and get your money back. Forced to use their product? No.
Wronged by the gov't? You have to ask their permission to sue them. Defective product, say, welfare, social security, energy policy, can you get your money back? No. There is no customer service department at the US gov't. They take your money and your freedom and you have ZERO say. Forced to use their product? Yes - they take it right out of your paycheck before you see a dime. FICA, medicare, etc. And at a rate over 1500% of the original income tax levy. Don't ever think this will go down substantially, it never has once implemented.
I am truly amazed, at least on the US side, at how incensed we are at the major corporations who can do nothing to force me to do anything but we simply let our government take our freedom and our money and in fact get into bed with them to defend us against said corporations. The government is the definition of monopoly. </RANT>
Yes, he should, and that's probably why he asked the question.
It sounded like the question was focused on proven, repeatable patterns. Like our use of other people's code, design patterns, frameworks, or methodologies, we look for best practices.
I'm sure he was looking for some guidance in the realm of best practices while working out the details of his implementation. I don't think he was trying to shift responsibility for his work to an anonymous group of weblog posters. I'll bet he was looking for the wisdom of someone who's been through this before. It would be a shame if everyone on this site could only produce good code the first time it was written and, well, from then on out you are doomed to failure since no one has successfully been that way before.
Individuals who will admittedly never play professional sports continue to exercise, join teams, and even pay to play to do something they enjoy. For them it is a stress release, a challenge to see if they can improve, a chance to identify themselves with something other than work or family, and a way to build friendships. They use sports as an opportunity to build their network of contacts and a place to build their reputation.
I'm sure most open-sourcer's do "it" for similar reasons.
Now that I think about it the professional sports leagues don't feel real threatened by the weekend warrior even though they probably spend more money playing softball (with all the beer and all) than they spend at baseball games. I wonder why the big software corps are so afraid of us?
Hmmm...I don't mean to sound negative here but I'd like to state this as clearly as I remember. Kuhn was a member of the Cincinnati LUG. I attended one meeting and felt like I was hit with a cement truck when the ideal of freedom came up. Bradly offered to review a book if it had an appropriately free license, which it didn't, so he gave it to someone else to review.
Then, it was an officer election day and Bradly asked everyone to abstain from the election since all the members were not able to vote since some were not present. I don't know about their bylaws so maybe there is an article allowing non-present members to vote so his action may be well justified.
In any case I was taken aback since I came to the meeting (my first one) hoping for a great discussion of linux material. The clug page says: We don't have a formal mission statement. Our goals are very simple. We have discovered Linux and want to talk to others who have made the same discovery. We are experts and novices, professionals and hobbyists, young and old. Whoever you are, we hope we have something for you. I was really taken aback with the political nature of the meeting, and much of this I suppose could be attributed to Bradly's behavior.
Now (years later) I understand the nature of GNU and why GNU/Linux is an appropriate name for the entire system. I understand the GPL enough to know why it's good. I could now probably digest a meeting like the one I went to. But I do know that FSF now does have a man that will walk in the footsteps of rms.
It simply isn't true that our only choices are restricted to "Workers unite!" Sovietism and "Greasing the wheels of industry with the blood of the proletariat" capitalism.
I would hope that would be obvious, but maybe not.
I prefer "greasing the wheels of innovation and helping the proletariat achieve a lifestyle that has never been known before" capitalism. The wealth is spread as reinvestment of capital is made. There isn't a country on earth who distributes more of it's wealth to more of it's people than the US.
In any case allowing a single lawmaker go on a personal crusade against one company will not keep him or others from encroaching on our personal freedom.
It's time the US got as tough on them as they would on anyone who engages on illegal behavior.
Except that this is not the gov't. This was a personal letter from Chuckie to Steve outlining his gripes. This is the same man who is now fighting for a "caller's bill of rights" for an individual's rights when dealing with a phone company. What's next, the diner's bill of rights? Does he have nothing better to do with my tax money than think up useless programs that do nothing but limit my freedom and create more dependence on government?
Do you really want so much power concentrated in one person so that he can single handedly tell you what you can or cannot do with your business? If he can try to tell the phone companies what they can't do, if he can try to tell MS what to do, you can bet he'll tell you what to do at some point.
Also, do you really want some standalone senator, an individual, a single person having the power to tell you what you can and cannot do with your business?
If this were the foundation of a successful economy and market then the soviet experiment would have turned out to be a wonderful utopia instead of the dismal failure it is.
This is the same man who wants a "caller's bill of rights". What?! Does he have nothing more important to do than to think up ways to take my money and funnel it into more bureaucracy in order to "protect" me? I don't need his protection. I can protect myself.
They have quite a bit of material, albeit CS related, on the web already. Content includes notes, homework, and video of the lectures. It is the equivalent of a CS masters program and the Stanford's of the world.
I think it's a matter of choice. You *really* could live somewhere and not be bombarded by 'brand'. Many of us simply choose to live in places where it becomes very fiscally worthwhile for corporations to plaster 'brand' icons all over the place. If you lived in a rural area you could escape much of this except for those brands that pertain to your rural context, i.e. Monsanto. These, I believe it's safe to say, would be fewer.
Just turn off the TV. Have friends over and talk, play games, build relationships, etc. You can escape brand.
If you choose to live in a heavily populated area just look around and see power lines and directional signs cluttering up just as much space as brand. We ignore them all and have trained ourselves to know which signs are important given our current context. I'll bet that most of us do the same with brand icons.
An excerpt: "In order to test the vehicle extensively under different traffic conditions, road environments and weather, a 2000km journey was undertaken June 1 through June 6, 1998. During this test, ARGO drove autonomously along the Italian highway network, passing through flat areas and hilly regions including viaducts and tunnels. The Italian road network is particularly suited for such an extensive test since it is characterized by quickly varying road scenarios, changing weather conditions and generally a fair amount of traffic. The tour took place on highways and freeways, but the system also proved to work on sufficiently structured rural roads with no intersections."
This is a fairly interesting, linux based, driving platform where the technology is integrated into the car (well integrated the best it could be for the expense taken) instead of acting on the car.
what makes any religion, different from any of the ancient mythologies
Worshiping just one God for instance. In the case of Christianity it's object, Jesus, isn't in his tomb. This was witnessed by over 500 people at the point in time that it happened. If you haven't spent the time working through the archeology and psychology of this event please don't bother with psychobabble answers you probably want to post in response. This isn't a religion board so we can take it to email if you'd like - just contact me.
The majority of the people go to church/whatever and believe in a god
uhhh whatever. Perhaps "or" is a better way to state this. Unfortunately most people don't go to church/whatever anymore. Most people are hangin' out at Starbucks or takin' the dog for a walk, its more productive. Maybe more than 50% believe in a God(s).
Let's just leave it at congrats.
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No matter what release a software package is on there's *always* someone waiting for the next one. Perhaps in a story like this it should just remain unsaid.
I've been using Linux for about 2 months. I've wrestled with Linux for about 8 months. I'm an English Lit grad who earns a living programming, which I've done for about 6 years. Much of this article hit home.
I agree that enough documentation exists to fill a stadium. Moreover, I've learned to navigate much of it to find my answers. I find that sometimes the documentation helps, other times I've modified so many files that I couldn't undo the changes when whatever I was trying to do didn't work anyway.
I have a couple of observations. First, my local users group (Cincinnati Linux Users Group) responds quickly, and most times correctly, to questions I ask. The linux newsgroups have been a font of information for me. I read through the messages just to gain more understanding. I find that as long as I insert some sort of text indicating I've at least tried to find an answer elsewhere the necessary help if forthcoming.
On the flipside, I think the windows software world has trained users to ask for answers from a certified source. Since no manuals exist the individual will take a class, purchase a book, call the helpdesk or whatever to find an answer. The corporations pay for these materials so why not use them. They create a source of revenue for ISV's and third parties, so there is no incentive to provide your answers along with the software. This brings to mind the sort of recent post about the MS engineers doing the usability study on Linux by trying to play games. MS's own engineers didn't go to the manual first.
Corp's aren't to the point where they can support a help infrastructure for linux, the installed base isn't large enough so the individual is on their own. If there is a help infrastructure in place it's for a commercial version of unix.
Finally, I think most linux adopters are either network admins that understand enough about how things work to know what kind of documentation they need to look for to make it work in linux, or they are individuals willing to navigate the technical waters for the satisfaction of making linux run.
linux is running for me on a laptop. I've installed StarOffice, Apache, PHP and other software to make it useful to me. I'm killing myself to get freeamp working and 2 pcmcia network cards working simultaneously on RH6.0. I'm also wrestling with sound and networking on a desktop machine. I must say installing NT was much easier, but there's no satisfaction. Conquering XF86Config and editing a modeline to make 16 bit color work is satisfying - now I know why it works along with how to do it.
So, for now, I think there is enough help out there. If a user is really serious about using linux to meet his needs - whether corporate or individual - I think the individual must give back to the community. Attend a local LUG meeting, chime in on the local mailing list, post questions to some newsgroups and I think the newbie will find the answer he needs.
It sounds like the guy expected the shipment of a web tv, he just happened to get the prototype instead of the regular shipping version. So I don't suppose he could have kept it w/o paying for it. Perhaps he was entitled to pay $300 for a $1M piece of equipment, though.
He probably had no idea it was a prototype, and his dad probably couln't have cared any less one way or the other.
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Could be, but have you ever experienced how quickly children learn.
You don't suppose this could be tactics? Cheney is much too brilliant a man to play his cards this early in the game.
I solely telecommute, but then I'm an independant contractor doing development work. I've done projects in Roanoke, Cleveland, and Houston from my basement.
For me I'm WAY more productive working at home with a DSL connection and a VPN. I hop out of bed before the kids get up, and if they are already up I leave out the front door and walk around the back of my home into the basement where I've built an office. I call home on the cell and my kids think I'm away at work. In the meantime I have 8 - 10 hours of uninterrupted time to concentrate and be productive. I learn so much more in this environment and I have the environment to research and develop correct solutions since I have no co-workers talking to me in the middle of my train of thought.
I remember my days working for a large corporation. I think we all had at most 2 - 3 productive hours in an 8 hour day.
<RANT>
Hmmm...all this talk about monopolies and no mention of the US gov't on the list.
Wronged by Microsoft/AOL/Large-company-name-here? Well you can sue them. Defective product? You can return it and get your money back. Forced to use their product? No.
Wronged by the gov't? You have to ask their permission to sue them. Defective product, say, welfare, social security, energy policy, can you get your money back? No. There is no customer service department at the US gov't. They take your money and your freedom and you have ZERO say. Forced to use their product? Yes - they take it right out of your paycheck before you see a dime. FICA, medicare, etc. And at a rate over 1500% of the original income tax levy. Don't ever think this will go down substantially, it never has once implemented.
I am truly amazed, at least on the US side, at how incensed we are at the major corporations who can do nothing to force me to do anything but we simply let our government take our freedom and our money and in fact get into bed with them to defend us against said corporations. The government is the definition of monopoly.
</RANT>
It sounded like the question was focused on proven, repeatable patterns. Like our use of other people's code, design patterns, frameworks, or methodologies, we look for best practices.
I'm sure he was looking for some guidance in the realm of best practices while working out the details of his implementation. I don't think he was trying to shift responsibility for his work to an anonymous group of weblog posters. I'll bet he was looking for the wisdom of someone who's been through this before. It would be a shame if everyone on this site could only produce good code the first time it was written and, well, from then on out you are doomed to failure since no one has successfully been that way before.
I'm sure most open-sourcer's do "it" for similar reasons.
Now that I think about it the professional sports leagues don't feel real threatened by the weekend warrior even though they probably spend more money playing softball (with all the beer and all) than they spend at baseball games. I wonder why the big software corps are so afraid of us?
- Colnago
Oh...I'm sorry...I thought it said build a robot to administer IIS.
Then, it was an officer election day and Bradly asked everyone to abstain from the election since all the members were not able to vote since some were not present. I don't know about their bylaws so maybe there is an article allowing non-present members to vote so his action may be well justified.
In any case I was taken aback since I came to the meeting (my first one) hoping for a great discussion of linux material. The clug page says: We don't have a formal mission statement. Our goals are very simple. We have discovered Linux and want to talk to others who have made the same discovery. We are experts and novices, professionals and hobbyists, young and old. Whoever you are, we hope we have something for you. I was really taken aback with the political nature of the meeting, and much of this I suppose could be attributed to Bradly's behavior.
Now (years later) I understand the nature of GNU and why GNU/Linux is an appropriate name for the entire system. I understand the GPL enough to know why it's good. I could now probably digest a meeting like the one I went to. But I do know that FSF now does have a man that will walk in the footsteps of rms.
Where on the start menu can you click on tcpdump?
I would hope that would be obvious, but maybe not.
I prefer "greasing the wheels of innovation and helping the proletariat achieve a lifestyle that has never been known before" capitalism. The wealth is spread as reinvestment of capital is made. There isn't a country on earth who distributes more of it's wealth to more of it's people than the US.
In any case allowing a single lawmaker go on a personal crusade against one company will not keep him or others from encroaching on our personal freedom.
Except that this is not the gov't. This was a personal letter from Chuckie to Steve outlining his gripes. This is the same man who is now fighting for a "caller's bill of rights" for an individual's rights when dealing with a phone company. What's next, the diner's bill of rights? Does he have nothing better to do with my tax money than think up useless programs that do nothing but limit my freedom and create more dependence on government?
Do you really want so much power concentrated in one person so that he can single handedly tell you what you can or cannot do with your business? If he can try to tell the phone companies what they can't do, if he can try to tell MS what to do, you can bet he'll tell you what to do at some point.
If this were the foundation of a successful economy and market then the soviet experiment would have turned out to be a wonderful utopia instead of the dismal failure it is.
This is the same man who wants a "caller's bill of rights". What?! Does he have nothing more important to do than to think up ways to take my money and funnel it into more bureaucracy in order to "protect" me? I don't need his protection. I can protect myself.
Let the market decide. In the end it will anyway.
most appropriate...for a change.
or here:
slashdot
They have quite a bit of material, albeit CS related, on the web already. Content includes notes, homework, and video of the lectures. It is the equivalent of a CS masters program and the Stanford's of the world.
Just turn off the TV. Have friends over and talk, play games, build relationships, etc. You can escape brand.
If you choose to live in a heavily populated area just look around and see power lines and directional signs cluttering up just as much space as brand. We ignore them all and have trained ourselves to know which signs are important given our current context. I'll bet that most of us do the same with brand icons.
price fixing scheme here
An excerpt:
"In order to test the vehicle extensively under different traffic conditions, road environments and weather, a 2000km journey was undertaken June 1 through June 6, 1998. During this test, ARGO drove autonomously along the Italian highway network, passing through flat areas and hilly regions including viaducts and tunnels. The Italian road network is particularly suited for such an extensive test since it is characterized by quickly varying road scenarios, changing weather conditions and generally a fair amount of traffic. The tour took place on highways and freeways, but the system also proved to work on sufficiently structured rural roads with no intersections."
This is a fairly interesting, linux based, driving platform where the technology is integrated into the car (well integrated the best it could be for the expense taken) instead of acting on the car.
Worshiping just one God for instance. In the case of Christianity it's object, Jesus, isn't in his tomb. This was witnessed by over 500 people at the point in time that it happened. If you haven't spent the time working through the archeology and psychology of this event please don't bother with psychobabble answers you probably want to post in response. This isn't a religion board so we can take it to email if you'd like - just contact me.
The majority of the people go to church/whatever and believe in a god
uhhh whatever. Perhaps "or" is a better way to state this. Unfortunately most people don't go to church/whatever anymore. Most people are hangin' out at Starbucks or takin' the dog for a walk, its more productive. Maybe more than 50% believe in a God(s).
Way to go X team.
I agree that enough documentation exists to fill a stadium. Moreover, I've learned to navigate much of it to find my answers. I find that sometimes the documentation helps, other times I've modified so many files that I couldn't undo the changes when whatever I was trying to do didn't work anyway.
I have a couple of observations. First, my local users group (Cincinnati Linux Users Group) responds quickly, and most times correctly, to questions I ask. The linux newsgroups have been a font of information for me. I read through the messages just to gain more understanding. I find that as long as I insert some sort of text indicating I've at least tried to find an answer elsewhere the necessary help if forthcoming.
On the flipside, I think the windows software world has trained users to ask for answers from a certified source. Since no manuals exist the individual will take a class, purchase a book, call the helpdesk or whatever to find an answer. The corporations pay for these materials so why not use them. They create a source of revenue for ISV's and third parties, so there is no incentive to provide your answers along with the software. This brings to mind the sort of recent post about the MS engineers doing the usability study on Linux by trying to play games. MS's own engineers didn't go to the manual first.
Corp's aren't to the point where they can support a help infrastructure for linux, the installed base isn't large enough so the individual is on their own. If there is a help infrastructure in place it's for a commercial version of unix.
Finally, I think most linux adopters are either network admins that understand enough about how things work to know what kind of documentation they need to look for to make it work in linux, or they are individuals willing to navigate the technical waters for the satisfaction of making linux run.
linux is running for me on a laptop. I've installed StarOffice, Apache, PHP and other software to make it useful to me. I'm killing myself to get freeamp working and 2 pcmcia network cards working simultaneously on RH6.0. I'm also wrestling with sound and networking on a desktop machine. I must say installing NT was much easier, but there's no satisfaction. Conquering XF86Config and editing a modeline to make 16 bit color work is satisfying - now I know why it works along with how to do it.
So, for now, I think there is enough help out there. If a user is really serious about using linux to meet his needs - whether corporate or individual - I think the individual must give back to the community. Attend a local LUG meeting, chime in on the local mailing list, post questions to some newsgroups and I think the newbie will find the answer he needs.
He probably had no idea it was a prototype, and his dad probably couln't have cared any less one way or the other.
And all this time I had been searching in carbon, water, and some nitrogen bi-products.
So I'm sittin' here with four of my friends that are normal. I guess that means...uh...nevermind.