There's nothing inherently evil in one company buying another, you know. It generally makes the owners of the buyee very rich and happy, and it saves the buyer the expense of creating an identical product and bringing it to market.
Would you believe that microsoft didn't invent the concept? That companies do it all the time today, and it makes good business sense, and it's not monopolistic?
If redhat can buy other companies to help them boost revenue, then I say more power to 'em.
Didn't you know? There were no penguins in existence before Linux was around - linux advocates invented the penguin as a friendly and comical character!
I've already got an appliance that runs on linux.. My Tivo! Yay tivo, the best gadget to come around in *years*. And they told us the VCR would be revolutionary..
Quoting from the URL above:
What is the operating system for TiVo? TiVo uses the Linux OS. The modified source is available under the GNU public license at www.TiVo.com/linux.
Ahh, then that would prove once and for all that he really is much more than a money-grubbing scum sucker.
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I didn't mind the tons of advertising for TPM overly much, what bugged me was the disparity of the ads for Pizza Hut and KFC/Taco Bell. So KFC and Taco Bell already have their mascots, an old hairy white guy and a little dog. Pizza Hut needs to come up with a mascot.. How about a young pretty woman with firm abs? Yeah! If people like old men and dogs, then they'll like this chick even more! And.. let's put her in a halter top! Yeah!
On a side note, I actually give taco bell points for the dog, it's amazing how it's grown from just one "Yo quiero taco bell" commercial. We have only the public to blame for the fact that it's now used way too much..
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Heck yeah! I saw _Anywhere But Here_ the day it came out, and the theatre was full of masturbating teenage boys.;-)
I would laugh, except it's too eerily real.. The archiving of the web and usenet leads to exactly this.
A couple years ago, I found a document from the heavensgate cult people and I found it so amusing that I posted it to a newsgroup at my college. A year later, they all committed suicide and the Associated Press somehow looked up my parents and called them and asked them if I was still alive, operating under the mistaken assumption that since I posted one of their documents I was obviously a self-castrating suicidal maniac. I can't imagine what the result would have been if I'd also posted something anti-government in the same post..:-)
Anyway, let them intercept my transmissions, then the UK can tell the US about all the porn i've been downloading.
See this KB article. Microsoft wrote NT so that it would use very long names for the printers on purpose so that it would break lotus notes!!
I think it's not out of the question that Lotus might have some bad code there, and in the service pack they made a fix that made the OS more strict and caused Notes to fail. It happens once in a while.
Go to your local BestBuy® and find a non-upgrade copy of Win98. You'll see that $180 is a rather accurate assessment of it's cost.
He didn't say "Win98 doesn't cost $180 anywhere", he said "Hardly anybody pays $180 for win98", which is absolutely true. When packaged with a computer, it's not $180. And most other people are upgrading from other OSes and the upgrade cost is about $80-90.
If microsoft is such an evil thing, why would people who live close to their home base like microsoft any more than the average joe?
Anyway, it's obvious you didn't actually read the link because it's based on a gallup poll, and the gallup organization is based in new jersey. And the professionals quoted in the article are from boston, dallas, wisconsin, many other states.
Stop bashing everyone in sight just because they reference pro-microsoft urls. Just because you have a mindless hate for MS doesn't mean the lady down the street or your grandmother does.
I don't think I'll ever convert to the "browser as a desktop" world, until it becomes much easier to be a keyboard junkie in a browser. More specifically, until people start designing keyboard functionality into their web apps..
After sifting through the "This is microsloth FUD!!!" posts, yours is the first response that makes sense. When microsoft says NT is more stable/secure than linux, linux advocates call it FUD. When linux advocates say linux is more stable/secure than NT, it's taken as gospel. Well, prove it. Respond to the FUD in a level-headed, professional manner.
More likely that the engineers knew that there was no hope of getting it out by its supposed delivery date, but the VP's / marketing team pretended not to hear because they are the ones who care more about publicity and revenue than quality.
Most consumers have seemed to tolerate the crashes that plague them daily. Yet if, say, a trailer hitch on a stationwagon is too low and continually grinds into parking curbs, there's free repair from your local dealer available in a few days. I don't see most software companies waving a free patch around after a week or so.
Key words: "Local dealer" & "software companies". According to your analogy, it's the place you bought the software that should be providing the free patch, no?
Of course a consumer prefers a smaller program that works.. but that smaller program has to have all the features that individual person wants!
So then if your program is targeted at an audience of about 40,000 people.. Well, they all want their features in it, and if all you did was satisfy each person you could have 40,000 smaller programs that worked. Wouldn't that be fun!
That sucked, my apologies for not using preview:-) Here it is in better form:
There are different kinds of design, you can't just use one "x%" statistic to describe the time necessary.. Take, for example, a program that is supposed to reverse a string.
The design spec will say: * Dialog will pop up with an aspect ratio of 15x6 * Dialog will have an input field that is 60% the width of the dialog * Dialog will have an "OK" button directly to the right of the input field * The input field on the dialog will accept all character input such as ascii, DBCS, SBCS, etc * User clicks OK, a new dialog pops up with the string reversed. * etc
So this is handed off to the programmer. And the programmer is the one who has the expertise to design what he/she does: * Once the user clicks OK, go to Parse_Input() * In parse_input, if any of the characters are not ascii, go to Non_Ascii_Parse() * In parse_input, if the characters are all ascii, reverse 'em * etc
While the programmer is working on implementing the spec, the tester can go through the spec and/design/ the test plan: * Test running the app on a japanese OS * Test running the app on a US OS with a japanese IME (input method editor, allows you to type japanese characters) * Test running the app on OS#1, OS#2, OS#3 * Test running the app when the system is very low on memory/disk space * Use characters such as & and * and tab in the input field and make sure program has correct output * etc
With proper peer review (say the design spec didn't account for non-ascii and the tester or programmer noticed), the major issues can be caught sooner rather than later. But even after the design spec is 'done', the programmer will run into problems that might be best solved by changing the spec. Or a customer calls in to say that they need this program to do bidirectional as well which results in more work in adding to the design spec, more work for the programmer, more work for the tester.
I don't think there's any one "% design time, % coding time, % testing time" that will apply to all software projects, or even all software projects of the same class.
Plus, not all software designers, programmers and testers are of the same skill level.. a lesser skilled programmer will probably need more time than a more experienced one. So maybe in that case, the designer would allocate extra time in design stage and make the spec much more detailed to help the programmer with code flow, etc.
There are different kinds of design, you can't just use one "x%" statistic to describe the time necessary.. Take, for example, a program that is supposed to reverse a string. The design spec will say: * Dialog will pop up with an aspect ratio of 15x6 * Dialog will have an input field that is 60% the width of the dialog * Dialog will have an "OK" button directly to the right of the input field * The input field on the dialog will accept all character input such as ascii, DBCS, SBCS, etc * User clicks OK, a new dialog pops up with the string reversed. * etc So this is handed off to the programmer. And the programmer is the one who has the expertise to design what he/she does: * Once the user clicks OK, go to Parse_Input() * In parse_input, if any of the characters are not ascii, go to Non_Ascii_Parse() * In parse_input, if the characters are all ascii, reverse 'em * etc While the programmer is working on implementing the spec, the tester can go through the spec and/design/ the test plan: * Test running the app on a japanese OS * Test running the app on a US OS with a japanese IME (input method editor, allows you to type japanese characters) * Test running the app on OS#1, OS#2, OS#3 * Test running the app when the system is very low on memory/disk space * Use characters such as & and * and tab in the input field and make sure program has correct output * etc With proper peer review (say the design spec didn't account for non-ascii and the tester or programmer noticed), the major issues can be caught sooner rather than later. But even after the design spec is 'done', the programmer will run into problems that might be best solved by changing the spec. Or a customer calls in to say that they need this program to do bidirectional as well which results in more work in adding to the design spec, more work for the programmer, more work for the tester. I don't think there's any one "% design time, % coding time, % testing time" that will apply to all software projects, or even all software projects of the same class. Plus, not all software designers, programmers and testers are of the same skill level.. a lesser skilled programmer will probably need more time than a more experienced one. So maybe in that case, the designer would allocate extra time in design stage and make the spec much more detailed to help the programmer with code flow, etc.
Just had a discussion with people at work about this today.. One guy said at his kids' schools, there was some sort of survey and they determined that 30% of the 5th graders were on some sort of medication such as prozac or ritalin. 30%.. yikes. I can't find any hard statistics on the web about any such study ("if it's not on the web it doesn't exist"/"everything you read on the web is true") but that's pretty darn freaky.
I disagree with your point that if it had happened in a non christian setting it would have been widely decried. I don't think it had anything to do with religion. IMO, the reason it wasn't publicized as much as Columbine is because *kids* did the shooting in Columbine. People are apparently used to adults shooting and killing, they're just apparently surprised and appalled enough to generate a huge media swirl when children do it.
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There's nothing inherently evil in one company buying another, you know. It generally makes the owners of the buyee very rich and happy, and it saves the buyer the expense of creating an identical product and bringing it to market.
Would you believe that microsoft didn't invent the concept? That companies do it all the time today, and it makes good business sense, and it's not monopolistic?
If redhat can buy other companies to help them boost revenue, then I say more power to 'em.
How about redhat-hotwheels and redhat-barbie?
We can call the 18+ version "pornhat". Oh wait, that's what most redhat distributions are already..
Didn't you know? There were no penguins in existence before Linux was around - linux advocates invented the penguin as a friendly and comical character!
Never mind that 'opus' character..
I've already got an appliance that runs on linux.. My Tivo! Yay tivo, the best gadget to come around in *years*. And they told us the VCR would be revolutionary..
Quoting from the URL above:
What is the operating system for TiVo?
TiVo uses the Linux OS. The modified source is available under the GNU public license at www.TiVo.com/linux.
Ahh, then that would prove once and for all that he really is much more than a money-grubbing scum sucker.
I didn't mind the tons of advertising for TPM overly much, what bugged me was the disparity of the ads for Pizza Hut and KFC/Taco Bell. So KFC and Taco Bell already have their mascots, an old hairy white guy and a little dog. Pizza Hut needs to come up with a mascot.. How about a young pretty woman with firm abs? Yeah! If people like old men and dogs, then they'll like this chick even more! And.. let's put her in a halter top! Yeah!
On a side note, I actually give taco bell points for the dog, it's amazing how it's grown from just one "Yo quiero taco bell" commercial. We have only the public to blame for the fact that it's now used way too much..
Heck yeah! I saw _Anywhere But Here_ the day it came out, and the theatre was full of masturbating teenage boys. ;-)
I would laugh, except it's too eerily real.. The archiving of the web and usenet leads to exactly this.
:-)
A couple years ago, I found a document from the heavensgate cult people and I found it so amusing that I posted it to a newsgroup at my college. A year later, they all committed suicide and the Associated Press somehow looked up my parents and called them and asked them if I was still alive, operating under the mistaken assumption that since I posted one of their documents I was obviously a self-castrating suicidal maniac. I can't imagine what the result would have been if I'd also posted something anti-government in the same post..
Anyway, let them intercept my transmissions, then the UK can tell the US about all the porn i've been downloading.
No, no, it must be microsoft's fault!
See this KB article. Microsoft wrote NT so that it would use very long names for the printers on purpose so that it would break lotus notes!!
I think it's not out of the question that Lotus might have some bad code there, and in the service pack they made a fix that made the OS more strict and caused Notes to fail. It happens once in a while.
>>Hardly anybody pays $180 for Windows98.
Go to your local BestBuy® and find a non-upgrade copy of Win98. You'll see that $180 is a rather accurate assessment of it's cost.
He didn't say "Win98 doesn't cost $180 anywhere", he said "Hardly anybody pays $180 for win98", which is absolutely true. When packaged with a computer, it's not $180. And most other people are upgrading from other OSes and the upgrade cost is about $80-90.
If microsoft is such an evil thing, why would people who live close to their home base like microsoft any more than the average joe?
Anyway, it's obvious you didn't actually read the link because it's based on a gallup poll, and the gallup organization is based in new jersey. And the professionals quoted in the article are from boston, dallas, wisconsin, many other states.
Stop bashing everyone in sight just because they reference pro-microsoft urls. Just because you have a mindless hate for MS doesn't mean the lady down the street or your grandmother does.
I don't think I'll ever convert to the "browser as a desktop" world, until it becomes much easier to be a keyboard junkie in a browser. More specifically, until people start designing keyboard functionality into their web apps..
:-)
Ahhh, I can't wait..
Oh, I too have had to struggle with the stigma of a high IQ and an unusually large member. Ah to be one of the little folk.. :-)
After sifting through the "This is microsloth FUD!!!" posts, yours is the first response that makes sense. When microsoft says NT is more stable/secure than linux, linux advocates call it FUD. When linux advocates say linux is more stable/secure than NT, it's taken as gospel. Well, prove it. Respond to the FUD in a level-headed, professional manner.
More likely that the engineers knew that there was no hope of getting it out by its supposed delivery date, but the VP's / marketing team pretended not to hear because they are the ones who care more about publicity and revenue than quality.
Most consumers have seemed to tolerate the crashes that plague them daily. Yet if, say, a trailer hitch on a stationwagon is too low and continually grinds into parking curbs, there's free repair from your local dealer available in a few days. I don't see most software companies waving a free patch around after a week or so.
Key words: "Local dealer" & "software companies". According to your analogy, it's the place you bought the software that should be providing the free patch, no?
I work in the software industry and I've found bugnet.com to be a very useful site when discussing things such as software quality and bugs.
This article is related to this topic, it talks about some people's experiences with the software industry's attitude towards fixing bugs.
Of course a consumer prefers a smaller program that works.. but that smaller program has to have all the features that individual person wants!
So then if your program is targeted at an audience of about 40,000 people.. Well, they all want their features in it, and if all you did was satisfy each person you could have 40,000 smaller programs that worked. Wouldn't that be fun!
That sucked, my apologies for not using preview :-) Here it is in better form:
/design/ the test plan:
There are different kinds of design, you can't just use one "x%" statistic to describe the time necessary.. Take, for example, a program that is supposed to reverse a string.
The design spec will say:
* Dialog will pop up with an aspect ratio of 15x6
* Dialog will have an input field that is 60% the width of the dialog
* Dialog will have an "OK" button directly to the right of the input field
* The input field on the dialog will accept all character input such as ascii, DBCS, SBCS, etc
* User clicks OK, a new dialog pops up with the string reversed.
* etc
So this is handed off to the programmer. And the programmer is the one who has the expertise to design what he/she does:
* Once the user clicks OK, go to Parse_Input()
* In parse_input, if any of the characters are not ascii, go to Non_Ascii_Parse()
* In parse_input, if the characters are all ascii, reverse 'em
* etc
While the programmer is working on implementing the spec, the tester can go through the spec and
* Test running the app on a japanese OS
* Test running the app on a US OS with a japanese IME (input method editor, allows you to type japanese characters)
* Test running the app on OS#1, OS#2, OS#3
* Test running the app when the system is very low on memory/disk space
* Use characters such as & and * and tab in the input field and make sure program has correct output
* etc
With proper peer review (say the design spec didn't account for non-ascii and the tester or programmer noticed), the major issues can be caught sooner rather than later. But even after the design spec is 'done', the programmer will run into problems that might be best solved by changing the spec. Or a customer calls in to say that they need this program to do bidirectional as well which results in more work in adding to the design spec, more work for the programmer, more work for the tester.
I don't think there's any one "% design time, % coding time, % testing time" that will apply to all software projects, or even all software projects of the same class.
Plus, not all software designers, programmers and testers are of the same skill level.. a lesser skilled programmer will probably need more time than a more experienced one. So maybe in that case, the designer would allocate extra time in design stage and make the spec much more detailed to help the programmer with code flow, etc.
There are different kinds of design, you can't just use one "x%" statistic to describe the time necessary.. Take, for example, a program that is supposed to reverse a string. The design spec will say: * Dialog will pop up with an aspect ratio of 15x6 * Dialog will have an input field that is 60% the width of the dialog * Dialog will have an "OK" button directly to the right of the input field * The input field on the dialog will accept all character input such as ascii, DBCS, SBCS, etc * User clicks OK, a new dialog pops up with the string reversed. * etc So this is handed off to the programmer. And the programmer is the one who has the expertise to design what he/she does: * Once the user clicks OK, go to Parse_Input() * In parse_input, if any of the characters are not ascii, go to Non_Ascii_Parse() * In parse_input, if the characters are all ascii, reverse 'em * etc While the programmer is working on implementing the spec, the tester can go through the spec and /design/ the test plan: * Test running the app on a japanese OS * Test running the app on a US OS with a japanese IME (input method editor, allows you to type japanese characters) * Test running the app on OS#1, OS#2, OS#3 * Test running the app when the system is very low on memory/disk space * Use characters such as & and * and tab in the input field and make sure program has correct output * etc With proper peer review (say the design spec didn't account for non-ascii and the tester or programmer noticed), the major issues can be caught sooner rather than later. But even after the design spec is 'done', the programmer will run into problems that might be best solved by changing the spec. Or a customer calls in to say that they need this program to do bidirectional as well which results in more work in adding to the design spec, more work for the programmer, more work for the tester. I don't think there's any one "% design time, % coding time, % testing time" that will apply to all software projects, or even all software projects of the same class. Plus, not all software designers, programmers and testers are of the same skill level.. a lesser skilled programmer will probably need more time than a more experienced one. So maybe in that case, the designer would allocate extra time in design stage and make the spec much more detailed to help the programmer with code flow, etc.
Because ebay isn't in the service of providing the best deal or lowest price on anything. That is completely up to the people who use their site.
Just had a discussion with people at work about this today.. One guy said at his kids' schools, there was some sort of survey and they determined that 30% of the 5th graders were on some sort of medication such as prozac or ritalin. 30%.. yikes. I can't find any hard statistics on the web about any such study ("if it's not on the web it doesn't exist"/"everything you read on the web is true") but that's pretty darn freaky.
I disagree with your point that if it had happened in a non christian setting it would have been widely decried. I don't think it had anything to do with religion. IMO, the reason it wasn't publicized as much as Columbine is because *kids* did the shooting in Columbine. People are apparently used to adults shooting and killing, they're just apparently surprised and appalled enough to generate a huge media swirl when children do it.