You do understand how a lever works, right? A longer crank arm will give you more power to climb hills, less perceived effort to pedal (shoot, less effort to pedal, forget the "perceived") ability to turn higher gearing.
That all happens if you have a longer crank arm. But a longer crank arm means further from the center of the crank, not as in more metal that twists around
I belive people do deserve to get creative works for free
WHY do you think people should get creative works for free? Do you mean only digital works, or all works? And how do you expect the creators to be compensated if the works are free? Should it be free to attend the theatre? Should your tv be free (it is a create work after all) and your car and your clothes?
I don't understand what "why do people do it" has to do with "because the world shouldn't be a police state"
People pirate because they are cheap. Or because they don't have other access to it. You are probably the only person in the world, who pirates to 'stick it to the man."
Piracy does hurt people. It hurts the ones that creates, and it hurts the ones that consume! It hurts everyone. It is not a victimless crime. Of course Verizon shouldn't be the one policing you. But just because copyright laws exist, doesn't mean we live in a police state.
As a followup, the reason why 7 years is too short, look at Harry Potter. Originally written in 1995. The film rights were sold for 1 million with filming starting in 2000. If the copyright was only 7 years, the movie studio could have waited 2 years, and saved a million dollars.
"ownership" is artificial. So you don't mind if I take your car?
Copyright DOES still do what the proponents claim. Without copyrights we would not have many of the cool entertainments we have today. That is sort of the point behind copyright, you know the whole "to support the art" thing.
Last time there was a big copyright discussion, half of the people were talking about pirating Game of Thrones from the past 7 days, let alone the last 7 years. The only reason piracy would be less if the limit was 7 years, would be because there would be less stuff to pirate. NOT because people mostly pirate 7+ year old stuff.
While I think the current "unlimited" terms are too long (and unconsitutional) 7 years seems a bit too short.
Well not exactly for free. But just because it was show once for free, doesn't mean you get to go and take it. U2 once performed a concert for free, does that mean you should be able to attend all their concerts for free?
I don't think copyright infringement is wrong unless you are making a profit from it.
You do know that you are making a profit from it. You know "a penny saved, is a penny earned." Because you don't spend money on your entertainment, you have more money to spend elsewhere. Your life has gained value, because you took something from someone else. What is worse, is by taking that item, you made it less likely that person will create more value for you.
I realize I am speaking to someone with few morals.
Because torrents are free.
It is about money. People are just as greedy as they accuse the producers. They don't want to spend money, they want their entertainment for free.
And someone people can't get their entertainment on Hulu or whatever because of where they live
The real question is, what exactly constitutes copyright infringement?
If I infringe someone's copyright, by posting their facebook comment to imgur, does that count as a strike?
If I release a FOSS program without releasing the source code, is that a strike?
Most people DO know how to encrypt their wireless traffic.
Most people don't have a freaken clue what that word means, let alone know how to do it. Just because it is on by default (is it really?) doesn't mean people know how to do it.
Cases are important. I can't stand the cheap cases, and would rather spend a bit more money for a case that is easier to maintain, and won't slice my hand open every time I need to do something inside the case.
WHY? You are copying and pasting, WHY are you using tinyurl? Is slashdot's server running out of disk space?
Post the whole URL so we can see what we are clicking on
You aren't meeting the deadline if the product is buggy.
Sure there are bugs that you can "fix later." You have to prioritize what gets fixed, and you'll never ship anything if you try to find and fix every bug. But a buggy product isn't ship worthy.
So the #1 thing that impedes YOUR work, is another dumb developer? This can only be true if this person is constantly in your office asking questions.
As for your last statement, yes. The question is "how can you write more code." It doesn't ask whether you are writing bad code, or good code. The problem is, at least for me, I can work for a while. Sure my code might be bad, or it might be great. But I am getting the problem solved. But if I have to context switch, it takes some time to get back to where I was in the groove of writing code.
This has nothing to do with being clueless or not.
What a developer thinks, but not what managers who actually sees the forest through the trees think.
Yes you are right, the question was asking what impedes developer's productivity. Not "what helps managers be lazy." MANY meetings are for the benefit of the managers, and not the 20 underlings in the meeting.
Your second point is valid, but has nothing to do with meetings. Managers should stay on top of what their underlings are doing. This can come from the manager walking the hall once a week and asking the dev "what's up." And not a scheduled 1 hour meeting.
But for every status meeting, there are a half dozen other meetings that don't seem to do much. Don't do much that couldn't have been communicated via email.
I work from home at the moment, and get WAY more work down than when I am in the office. Mainly because I don't have any meetings, most everything is handled via email. Occasionally we do a phone/video call to resolve things. But this is mostly for my bosses benefit.
And yes, there are times when it is better to sit down with someone face to face. Especially when it is someone you don't know. BUT that doesn't mean it doesn't impede our productivity.
You are a FOOL for believe meetings help you.
You really don't need to sit down in a meeting, to do a code review. Maybe when someone first starts they should sit down with their mentor. But otherwise just do the code review by yourself, and write up some comments.
Meeting your customers? That really isn't the job of the developer. Sure it might be useful, occasionally, but not all meetings are bad and harmful. Just most of them.
Meetings are generally a waste of time. And cost more than the allocated time.
I completely agree. Meetings are the worst. Need to ask me something? shoot me an email. Yeah sometimes it is necessary to get together, have a big powow. But every day?
Its worse when people want to be "agile" and schedule the "Scrum" as an hour sit down conference... Well there is 5 hours of non productivity, every week. Plus the 5 minutes before and after to get to and from the meeting.
What the hell do they mean by "diverting traffic", and why would it not be allowed?
It looks like they're talking about doing stuff like including results from Google Maps in your web search results (whilst not doing the same for results from Bing Maps, etc.).
Searching for Maps in Google gives me, Google Maps, Mapquest, some lock map stores and Bing maps 9th.
Searching for Maps in Bing gives me Google Maps, Mapquest, and Bing maps in 5th.(well to be honest, bing maps is 5th, but a local map using bing is 3rd)
Ohhh the horror, and shame on Google for providing some local map stores! If it wasn't for the 6 local stores, bing would be 3rd. Maybe if bing was more popular it would be placed higher. Shoot it is at best 3rd in Microsoft's own search.
I all fairness, you can't really look at what Google is doing, but what other search engines are doing.
For example searching for "maps" returns google maps on google, bing, and duckduckgo. This implies Google Maps is popular.
But searching for "email" returns yahoo on bing and duckduckgo, but gmail on google.
Searching for "web browsers' is more interesting. Bing returns wiki, firefox, laptopmag.com, opera, free-web-browsers.com, cnet. Duckduckgo returns cnet, top 10 browers, web browser list, best web browsers, about web browsers, and several more lists. Google returns wiki, wiki, firefox, opera, chrome
It may be that Google is weighing some of their pages more, but I don't see much evidence that they are placing their stuff on top. Google listed gmail first and yahoo second, bing listed yahoo first and gmail second. But I bet I can find hundreds of other web pages that are listed like that between those two engines.
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You do understand how a lever works, right? A longer crank arm will give you more power to climb hills, less perceived effort to pedal (shoot, less effort to pedal, forget the "perceived") ability to turn higher gearing.
That all happens if you have a longer crank arm. But a longer crank arm means further from the center of the crank, not as in more metal that twists around
Except that this has been done before. From TFS: http://pardo.net/bike/pic/mobi/d.pmp-cranks/
4 Fair price
How do you compete with $0.00?
>The solution is to drop them the moment they throttle you...and never come back...and NEVER COME BACK.
And what, use smoke signals? When it comes to internet, there aren't too many choices out there
It isn't a lame attempt, as it actually works.
I belive people do deserve to get creative works for free
WHY do you think people should get creative works for free? Do you mean only digital works, or all works? And how do you expect the creators to be compensated if the works are free? Should it be free to attend the theatre? Should your tv be free (it is a create work after all) and your car and your clothes?
I don't understand what "why do people do it" has to do with "because the world shouldn't be a police state"
People pirate because they are cheap. Or because they don't have other access to it. You are probably the only person in the world, who pirates to 'stick it to the man."
Piracy does hurt people. It hurts the ones that creates, and it hurts the ones that consume! It hurts everyone. It is not a victimless crime. Of course Verizon shouldn't be the one policing you. But just because copyright laws exist, doesn't mean we live in a police state.
As a followup, the reason why 7 years is too short, look at Harry Potter. Originally written in 1995. The film rights were sold for 1 million with filming starting in 2000. If the copyright was only 7 years, the movie studio could have waited 2 years, and saved a million dollars.
"ownership" is artificial. So you don't mind if I take your car?
Copyright DOES still do what the proponents claim. Without copyrights we would not have many of the cool entertainments we have today. That is sort of the point behind copyright, you know the whole "to support the art" thing.
Last time there was a big copyright discussion, half of the people were talking about pirating Game of Thrones from the past 7 days, let alone the last 7 years. The only reason piracy would be less if the limit was 7 years, would be because there would be less stuff to pirate. NOT because people mostly pirate 7+ year old stuff.
While I think the current "unlimited" terms are too long (and unconsitutional) 7 years seems a bit too short.
TV shows have already been shown on TV, FOR FREE.
Well not exactly for free. But just because it was show once for free, doesn't mean you get to go and take it. U2 once performed a concert for free, does that mean you should be able to attend all their concerts for free?
I don't think copyright infringement is wrong unless you are making a profit from it.
You do know that you are making a profit from it. You know "a penny saved, is a penny earned." Because you don't spend money on your entertainment, you have more money to spend elsewhere. Your life has gained value, because you took something from someone else. What is worse, is by taking that item, you made it less likely that person will create more value for you.
I realize I am speaking to someone with few morals.
Because torrents are free.
It is about money. People are just as greedy as they accuse the producers. They don't want to spend money, they want their entertainment for free.
And someone people can't get their entertainment on Hulu or whatever because of where they live
The real question is, what exactly constitutes copyright infringement?
If I infringe someone's copyright, by posting their facebook comment to imgur, does that count as a strike?
If I release a FOSS program without releasing the source code, is that a strike?
Most people DO know how to encrypt their wireless traffic.
Most people don't have a freaken clue what that word means, let alone know how to do it. Just because it is on by default (is it really?) doesn't mean people know how to do it.
Cases are important. I can't stand the cheap cases, and would rather spend a bit more money for a case that is easier to maintain, and won't slice my hand open every time I need to do something inside the case.
Frames are expensive. But almost any decent frame shop sells sides so you can make your own dimensions. Then cut a sheet of glass/acrylic.
http://tinyurl.com/...
WHY? You are copying and pasting, WHY are you using tinyurl? Is slashdot's server running out of disk space?
Post the whole URL so we can see what we are clicking on
You aren't meeting the deadline if the product is buggy.
Sure there are bugs that you can "fix later." You have to prioritize what gets fixed, and you'll never ship anything if you try to find and fix every bug. But a buggy product isn't ship worthy.
So the #1 thing that impedes YOUR work, is another dumb developer? This can only be true if this person is constantly in your office asking questions.
As for your last statement, yes. The question is "how can you write more code." It doesn't ask whether you are writing bad code, or good code. The problem is, at least for me, I can work for a while. Sure my code might be bad, or it might be great. But I am getting the problem solved. But if I have to context switch, it takes some time to get back to where I was in the groove of writing code.
This has nothing to do with being clueless or not.
What a developer thinks, but not what managers who actually sees the forest through the trees think.
Yes you are right, the question was asking what impedes developer's productivity. Not "what helps managers be lazy." MANY meetings are for the benefit of the managers, and not the 20 underlings in the meeting.
Your second point is valid, but has nothing to do with meetings. Managers should stay on top of what their underlings are doing. This can come from the manager walking the hall once a week and asking the dev "what's up." And not a scheduled 1 hour meeting.
But for every status meeting, there are a half dozen other meetings that don't seem to do much. Don't do much that couldn't have been communicated via email.
I work from home at the moment, and get WAY more work down than when I am in the office. Mainly because I don't have any meetings, most everything is handled via email. Occasionally we do a phone/video call to resolve things. But this is mostly for my bosses benefit.
And yes, there are times when it is better to sit down with someone face to face. Especially when it is someone you don't know. BUT that doesn't mean it doesn't impede our productivity.
You are a FOOL for believe meetings help you.
You really don't need to sit down in a meeting, to do a code review. Maybe when someone first starts they should sit down with their mentor. But otherwise just do the code review by yourself, and write up some comments.
Meeting your customers? That really isn't the job of the developer. Sure it might be useful, occasionally, but not all meetings are bad and harmful. Just most of them.
Meetings are generally a waste of time. And cost more than the allocated time.
I completely agree. Meetings are the worst. Need to ask me something? shoot me an email. Yeah sometimes it is necessary to get together, have a big powow. But every day?
Its worse when people want to be "agile" and schedule the "Scrum" as an hour sit down conference... Well there is 5 hours of non productivity, every week. Plus the 5 minutes before and after to get to and from the meeting.
I'm really disappointed that Ron Moore wasted his time writing scripts for this turkey,
I am sure he didn't waste his time, as he probably got paid handsomely for his effort. Or do you only do work that might see the light of day?
What the hell do they mean by "diverting traffic", and why would it not be allowed?
It looks like they're talking about doing stuff like including results from Google Maps in your web search results (whilst not doing the same for results from Bing Maps, etc.).
Searching for Maps in Google gives me, Google Maps, Mapquest, some lock map stores and Bing maps 9th.
Searching for Maps in Bing gives me Google Maps, Mapquest, and Bing maps in 5th.(well to be honest, bing maps is 5th, but a local map using bing is 3rd)
Ohhh the horror, and shame on Google for providing some local map stores! If it wasn't for the 6 local stores, bing would be 3rd. Maybe if bing was more popular it would be placed higher. Shoot it is at best 3rd in Microsoft's own search.
I all fairness, you can't really look at what Google is doing, but what other search engines are doing.
For example searching for "maps" returns google maps on google, bing, and duckduckgo. This implies Google Maps is popular.
But searching for "email" returns yahoo on bing and duckduckgo, but gmail on google.
Searching for "web browsers' is more interesting. Bing returns wiki, firefox, laptopmag.com, opera, free-web-browsers.com, cnet. Duckduckgo returns cnet, top 10 browers, web browser list, best web browsers, about web browsers, and several more lists. Google returns wiki, wiki, firefox, opera, chrome
It may be that Google is weighing some of their pages more, but I don't see much evidence that they are placing their stuff on top. Google listed gmail first and yahoo second, bing listed yahoo first and gmail second. But I bet I can find hundreds of other web pages that are listed like that between those two engines.