You know, perhaps a swear jar is a very good idea--California's in a lot of pain right now, so if swearing is used for pain relief they could well make a <oblig>fucking</oblig> killing.
I'm reminded of the quote I can't find a source for atm: "Apart from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, the track record of nuclear is really pretty good." While true, those are some pretty big things to just gloss over.
In any case, it's entirely possible to have your own company based around open source--it just changes from a pay-for-development model to a pay-for-support model. Though I suspect if you start out working alone and support is your primary profit driver, your development would probably suffer. Then again, that might be why you'd try to build an OSS community around your product.
Oh well. Something to think about. But yes, as an indy developer, you're pretty much fucked.
In the US, it's only sex that we're petrified of, and that's because it's evil and immoral and a dirty sin. Or, in short, fun.
I belive in comprehensive sex education to prepare kids for what they will see--and they will see it. If not on their phones or your computers, at their friends' houses. The more you try to keep it from them, the more they will wonder what you're keeping from them. I believe that more important than keeping them from it is explaining it to them early and setting their expectations beforehand, just as they're starting to become interested. That way, you worry less, and they go off and do what boys do.
I once read a detailed account of an experiment to this end, involving a heart of gold, an ape-descended life form, and digital watches.
The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 sub-meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood - and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molicules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy.
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this - partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.
I agree in principle, but if this was developed with XP in mind, he may be getting at the "applications assume they have administrative rights" issue that prompted UAC. In Linux, the default use case of sudo + restricted accounts does make software developers stick to user-level rights whenever possible.
Programs exist that do this today but at private institutions. This seems like a good compromise, if you can bring the institutions onboard. As to Mass Academy, I went there, and it was by far the best thing that ever happened to my educational career.
Nothing sparks a desire to learn like being around others with the same desire.
There's a reason why a 16 yr old is many times more likely to wreck a car than a 19 year old.
You are right. And a big part of that reason is that they have less experience driving. A 19 year old with a learner's permit can be just as dangerous as a 16 year old with one. This is why insurance companies will charge you less the longer you've been insured without interruption.
If age was a more significant factor than experience, wouldn't we have raised the driving age? In reality both play a part, but the difference between a year of experience and two is about 10% as crash likelihood goes, whereas a year of age nets you half that.
Disregarding the many other ways in which this is impractical, draconian, etc...
Since those most skilled in the areas necessary to test our security infrastructure are liable to be executed in this manner for simply working to *acquire* said skills, let's just leave it up to some hostile foreign entity to find the security holes. We'll clearly be much better off in the long run.
I have never had this problem. In fact it's reduced the amount of support time I've had to put in, since the people whose PCs I've put it on now no longer have viruses. And for when they have issues, I have conveniently set up port forwarding on their routers and SSH servers so I can remote in and fix them without having to tell them "click x, now y, click apply, OK, and reboot."
I say this as I run an up-to-date Ubuntu server install that runs KVM that supports a Windows 7 VM using PCI passthrough to Windows Media Center for my TV tuner, which streams media to my 360 (since I don't want to get blacklisted for hacking it). All of that took a while to set up, but I went through the extra effort (over just using windows) because of the extra functionality Linux provides me--SVN servers, Trac VMs for my software projects, and a nifty little app that will actually send me an email and a text when my UPS kicks on due to a black/brownout, and keep me updated with its percentage of battery life. And those are just the first customizations I've made.
And yet the people who are doing the interpretation and reinterpretation and de-facto amendment to the constitution (ie, by precedent) are not the politicians. They are the Supreme Court and it is precisely this interpretation that they are tasked with.
You realize that one of the chief mechanisms by which the economy recovered was the Fed cutting rates, yes? They'd raised the funds rate from ~4% to ~7% after the war. Then there was a depression. Then they cut them back again, per the wiki article that's been linked.
You also realize that in this instance, we *couldn't*, yes?
This is what makes this recession similar to the Great Depression. Zero-lower-bound conditions. Also known as a liquidity trap.
Or you could put a skin on it and tell them it's the latest and greatest new Apple OS that they haven't heard of yet.
If it's just a browsing machine, what more is a granny going to do with it? The browsing experience for those users consists of "find the icon, double-click, browse" which works on *any* OS. Furthermore, if they're using firefox on a mac, aren't they savvy enough to have installed it over Safari? Or if that was you, the technical guy, who did it for them, perhaps some setup time ought to be arranged between you and the machine to make the experience similar to what they're leaving behind.
Ubuntu comes with solitaire and firefox. That's all that granny's machine needs. Plus, you as a tech support guy can just install an SSH server, set up some port forwarding on the router, and remote admin anything that they have issues with.
In any case, the point is, these users don't dig far enough into the system to notice a difference. You can make it look nearly identical with the right theming and behave nearly identically with some minimal configuration changes. That kind of up-front investment, to me, is time well spent to give them an OS that's going to run well for years into the future without worrying about support being cut off.
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I think Ubuntu Studio got it right a long time ago.
No, *penguins.*
You know, perhaps a swear jar is a very good idea--California's in a lot of pain right now, so if swearing is used for pain relief they could well make a <oblig>fucking</oblig> killing.
At least in the former case, it can relieve the pain of being bitten.
I'm reminded of the quote I can't find a source for atm: "Apart from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, the track record of nuclear is really pretty good." While true, those are some pretty big things to just gloss over.
In any case, it's entirely possible to have your own company based around open source--it just changes from a pay-for-development model to a pay-for-support model. Though I suspect if you start out working alone and support is your primary profit driver, your development would probably suffer. Then again, that might be why you'd try to build an OSS community around your product.
Oh well. Something to think about. But yes, as an indy developer, you're pretty much fucked.
Bah. I'm nitrogen-based, so the only thing I'll need to worry about is head shoulders shampoo.
Dude, all I have to do is inhale and I will end you.
In that case, does he even *have* a head and shoulders? Let alone hair to shampoo...
We shield children from violence? Who knew.
In the US, it's only sex that we're petrified of, and that's because it's evil and immoral and a dirty sin. Or, in short, fun.
I belive in comprehensive sex education to prepare kids for what they will see--and they will see it. If not on their phones or your computers, at their friends' houses. The more you try to keep it from them, the more they will wonder what you're keeping from them. I believe that more important than keeping them from it is explaining it to them early and setting their expectations beforehand, just as they're starting to become interested. That way, you worry less, and they go off and do what boys do.
I thought there were content ratings and parental controls for this--even on the iSomethings.
The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 sub-meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood - and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molicules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy.
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this - partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.
I agree in principle, but if this was developed with XP in mind, he may be getting at the "applications assume they have administrative rights" issue that prompted UAC. In Linux, the default use case of sudo + restricted accounts does make software developers stick to user-level rights whenever possible.
Unless you're talking about The Simpsons or Family Guy. The latter, they claim, is unsuitable for children.
It's a matter of taste I think.
Programs exist that do this today but at private institutions. This seems like a good compromise, if you can bring the institutions onboard. As to Mass Academy, I went there, and it was by far the best thing that ever happened to my educational career.
Nothing sparks a desire to learn like being around others with the same desire.
There's a reason why a 16 yr old is many times more likely to wreck a car than a 19 year old.
You are right. And a big part of that reason is that they have less experience driving. A 19 year old with a learner's permit can be just as dangerous as a 16 year old with one. This is why insurance companies will charge you less the longer you've been insured without interruption.
If age was a more significant factor than experience, wouldn't we have raised the driving age? In reality both play a part, but the difference between a year of experience and two is about 10% as crash likelihood goes, whereas a year of age nets you half that.
News of the hour: God takes speed! Claims it's "heavenly delicious".
And on the note of "heavenly delicious," weren't we talking about chocolate?
No. No you are not.
Disregarding the many other ways in which this is impractical, draconian, etc...
Since those most skilled in the areas necessary to test our security infrastructure are liable to be executed in this manner for simply working to *acquire* said skills, let's just leave it up to some hostile foreign entity to find the security holes. We'll clearly be much better off in the long run.
I, for one, welcome our new Xebranded overlords.
I have never had this problem. In fact it's reduced the amount of support time I've had to put in, since the people whose PCs I've put it on now no longer have viruses. And for when they have issues, I have conveniently set up port forwarding on their routers and SSH servers so I can remote in and fix them without having to tell them "click x, now y, click apply, OK, and reboot."
I say this as I run an up-to-date Ubuntu server install that runs KVM that supports a Windows 7 VM using PCI passthrough to Windows Media Center for my TV tuner, which streams media to my 360 (since I don't want to get blacklisted for hacking it). All of that took a while to set up, but I went through the extra effort (over just using windows) because of the extra functionality Linux provides me--SVN servers, Trac VMs for my software projects, and a nifty little app that will actually send me an email and a text when my UPS kicks on due to a black/brownout, and keep me updated with its percentage of battery life. And those are just the first customizations I've made.
In short, Linux makes my life easier.
And yet the people who are doing the interpretation and reinterpretation and de-facto amendment to the constitution (ie, by precedent) are not the politicians. They are the Supreme Court and it is precisely this interpretation that they are tasked with.
Or you don't pay for the OS, and you don't have to pay for antivirus.
Isn't free software great?
Um.
You realize that one of the chief mechanisms by which the economy recovered was the Fed cutting rates, yes? They'd raised the funds rate from ~4% to ~7% after the war. Then there was a depression. Then they cut them back again, per the wiki article that's been linked.
You also realize that in this instance, we *couldn't*, yes?
This is what makes this recession similar to the Great Depression. Zero-lower-bound conditions. Also known as a liquidity trap.
Also, they don't verbs.
Better still: http://comixed.com/2010/02/06/comics-comic-strip-yonkoma-trilogy-of-awesome/
iPad Nano?
And here I've been calling the iPad the "iPhone Macro".
Or you could put a skin on it and tell them it's the latest and greatest new Apple OS that they haven't heard of yet.
If it's just a browsing machine, what more is a granny going to do with it? The browsing experience for those users consists of "find the icon, double-click, browse" which works on *any* OS. Furthermore, if they're using firefox on a mac, aren't they savvy enough to have installed it over Safari? Or if that was you, the technical guy, who did it for them, perhaps some setup time ought to be arranged between you and the machine to make the experience similar to what they're leaving behind.
Ubuntu comes with solitaire and firefox. That's all that granny's machine needs. Plus, you as a tech support guy can just install an SSH server, set up some port forwarding on the router, and remote admin anything that they have issues with.
In any case, the point is, these users don't dig far enough into the system to notice a difference. You can make it look nearly identical with the right theming and behave nearly identically with some minimal configuration changes. That kind of up-front investment, to me, is time well spent to give them an OS that's going to run well for years into the future without worrying about support being cut off.