As far as "new" is concerned, XP isn't new. It's a collection of practices that have been around for ages. Like the language SmallTalk, it's just things that have often been overlooked.
As far as "improved" is concerned, we've been doing this for over 3 years now and constantly improving on what we do. What we do today isn't what we did 3 years ago and all things, including this floorplan, change. The difference is that our organization, all the way down to this floorplan is built to facilitate change.
People doing pair programming, eXtreme Programming, and other agile methodologies have been doing their best to leave cube world behind anyway. It may sound odd, but they are voluntarily leaving their cubes behind and have no desire to return to that enviroment.
FairlyGoodPractices has photos of our layout. Business people use the semi-cubes in the center (there is only the one wall running along the center of the cubes and it's made of glass).
A lot of smaller XP groups simply take over meeting rooms for the duration of their projects. The onsite customer usually has their own desks but the coders share workstations and because of pair programming move from workstation to workstation frequently.
If you surf down to Score:1 (or visit http://slashdot.org/~sahonen and surf his replies ) you'll find the following:
"Dan Cervantes is the owner of the Big Boy Drum company. The problem is that the ISP won't let him transfer the DNS to the server he wants to move his web site to, actually a web host I run. No, I won't plug it, 'cause we're near our bandwidth limit already."
Since when has a ISP had any control over DNS changes? Why even talk to them about it? Go directly to http://www.corenic.org/ and move the damn thing yourself.
"As much as a refund would be nice, the site was down before it got linked to on slashdot, I think the ISP took it down when Dan cancelled his hosting. But they kept the domain name."
They don't have the domain name. Whois clearly says that Dan does. It sounds to me that you simply don't understand the difference between an ISP and a DNS.
Try reading the actual law instead of the article. The unsolicited clause only applies to businesses. (And you should read the law to figure out what the word "businesses" really means in this context.)
Less useful than a room full of mimes.
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How Do You Punch In?
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Why would a field that seems to be defined by unpaid overtime need timeclocks?
Really, it doesn't matter. The only use I see is if you're using it to find out which of your employees aren't smart enough to figure out how to forge, fake, and abuse the system.
I wish people would actually listen to other people when they explain, time and time again, why the hell they see no reason to uninstall an operating system that's working fine (and mine is) so they can replace it with another operating system and a collection of emulators.
So try to get this straight: I am not a clone. I see great benefits of open source, but I don't like the GPL. I read slashdot. I respond. I even moderate. And I'm very happy with Windows 98. What's not broken doesn't need fixing.
SPAM houses within the country would pay through the nose...
And while those still exist, they are not the majority.
And how are the taxes measured? Is each originating site responsible for tracking it's outgoing mail or does everyone track everyone and some government office try to sort this mess out?
Would the income from such a tax even remotely cover the expenses of administrating it?
Or is there a much more effective solution in the $1-$5 per user per month range?
You're more likely to get people who know XP and TDD on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming than you are on Slashdot, simply because the yahoo group is focused on that very topic.
As I said above: "I'm willing to bet it depends on trusting some basic internet function that is exploitable one way or another."
Given that security is the difficulty of cracking something vs. the reward of having done so (owning every Windows machine that this function hasn't been disabled on) and given that many crypto schemes once belived secure are no longer considered secure which crypto scheme do you want to trust this all important function to?
While we're at it, let's pretend we're Microsoft. We'll be obscure and not tell anyone, hoping that no one will figure it out for themselves. And while we're at it, let's make sure that is anyone does figure it out, they won't tell anyone else on the white hat side of the fence, just because we don't want the PR hit.
"if someone breaks into MS WindowsUpdate servers, he could install ANYTHING on millions of computers!"
Actually, all they have to do is spoof your computer into thinking their computer is the WindowsUpdate system. Now this depends on how they implement their system but I'm willing to bet it depends on trusting some basic internet function that is exploitable one way or another.
Done looking at all the Java jobs? Now do the other half of the equation and go to those same boards and look at resumes. Wow. Look at ALL these people a Java newbie is competing with. If someone is learning OOP, do you really think they can compete against a generation of laid off Java programmers?
If it's for the public good, let the public fund it publicly. Let the public choose to donate money instead of having lawmakers determine their donation for them.
"Ask not what your country can do for you, because the only tools they have to do it with are the police and the military." - Ken Boucher
This story on Kuro5hin entered a living hell when the sites being discussed sent their members to go get accounts and start stuffing the ballots.
Even controlled moderation would fail simply because the signal/noise ratio at the bottom level becomes so out of whack that no one wants to dive in the sewer on the chance of finding a diamond.
Really though, the system doesn't matter much. You have two choices, make it the way you like it or make it so customizable that the content forms itself in the manner that matters most to the reader. (For example on/. you can change your settings so that funny & troll are +1 and informative and interesting are -1 and, in doing so, completely change the content it provides.)
Personally, I reccomend deciding now if you want a clique that agrees with you or an open site filled with content that offends you. Well defined goals are always a good thing.
2.b You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
I don't want to face that clause in a court of law. I can't imagine why anyone would want to. Personally, while I may be stupid, I don't think I'm wrong or lying, as least as far as my understanding of the GPL goes. In fact, once part of the "derived" code becomes part of the project then the rest of my code is likely to go with it since it embeds or uses the code that now belongs to the project.
For all the people looking for the hacking angle.
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"According to the FBI, Austin allegedly defaced at least five commercial Web sites since 1999 using the nickname "Ucaun." On three of the sites, Austin left behind a hacking program named troop.cgi that was designed to attempt to log in to a computer operated by the U.S. Army, the FBI affidavit stated."
"Austin has also admitted to hacking into a number of websites to post anti-government messages."
For those claiming this is a free speech issue alone, last I checked freedom of speech didn't include freedom of breaking and entering someone else's computer system in order to speak from their platform.
1) That would require someone actually knowing (without having signed a NDA) what the disputed parts were. I'm not sure anyone does.
2) It would require someone who has actually not looked at the code in any way and is willing to do it. Despite claims by slashotters that no such person exists, I can think of at least one person (me: I haven't looked at the code yet because of the choice of license.)(I'm not comfortable with the GPL. Sorry for those who love it, but I'm just not comfortable with it.)
3) At this point it would just be a wast of time and effort. When it's needed it will be done. It's just not needed yet. And it's pointless to be in a reactive mode (read: panic) to a company like SCO since they'll just change their position anyway.
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As far as "new" is concerned, XP isn't new. It's a collection of practices that have been around for ages. Like the language SmallTalk, it's just things that have often been overlooked.
As far as "improved" is concerned, we've been doing this for over 3 years now and constantly improving on what we do. What we do today isn't what we did 3 years ago and all things, including this floorplan, change. The difference is that our organization, all the way down to this floorplan is built to facilitate change.
People doing pair programming, eXtreme Programming, and other agile methodologies have been doing their best to leave cube world behind anyway. It may sound odd, but they are voluntarily leaving their cubes behind and have no desire to return to that enviroment.
FairlyGoodPractices has photos of our layout. Business people use the semi-cubes in the center (there is only the one wall running along the center of the cubes and it's made of glass).
A lot of smaller XP groups simply take over meeting rooms for the duration of their projects. The onsite customer usually has their own desks but the coders share workstations and because of pair programming move from workstation to workstation frequently.
If you surf down to Score:1 (or visit http://slashdot.org/~sahonen and surf his replies ) you'll find the following:
"Dan Cervantes is the owner of the Big Boy Drum company. The problem is that the ISP won't let him transfer the DNS to the server he wants to move his web site to, actually a web host I run. No, I won't plug it, 'cause we're near our bandwidth limit already."
Since when has a ISP had any control over DNS changes? Why even talk to them about it? Go directly to http://www.corenic.org/ and move the damn thing yourself.
"As much as a refund would be nice, the site was down before it got linked to on slashdot, I think the ISP took it down when Dan cancelled his hosting. But they kept the domain name."
They don't have the domain name. Whois clearly says that Dan does. It sounds to me that you simply don't understand the difference between an ISP and a DNS.
Try reading the actual law instead of the article. The unsolicited clause only applies to businesses. (And you should read the law to figure out what the word "businesses" really means in this context.)
Why would a field that seems to be defined by unpaid overtime need timeclocks?
Really, it doesn't matter. The only use I see is if you're using it to find out which of your employees aren't smart enough to figure out how to forge, fake, and abuse the system.
I wish people would actually listen to other people when they explain, time and time again, why the hell they see no reason to uninstall an operating system that's working fine (and mine is) so they can replace it with another operating system and a collection of emulators.
So try to get this straight:
I am not a clone.
I see great benefits of open source, but I don't like the GPL.
I read slashdot.
I respond.
I even moderate.
And I'm very happy with Windows 98.
What's not broken doesn't need fixing.
SPAM houses within the country would pay through the nose...
And while those still exist, they are not the majority.
And how are the taxes measured? Is each originating site responsible for tracking it's outgoing mail or does everyone track everyone and some government office try to sort this mess out?
Would the income from such a tax even remotely cover the expenses of administrating it?
Or is there a much more effective solution in the $1-$5 per user per month range?
Companies request spam sendouts on Monday, tuesday is the build & send, wednesday is the peak filter day?
Why not? I'm running a Pretty Good operating system and reading a Prety Good forum with a couple of Pretty Good messages.
You can only have high technology standards in a world that's stopped evolving.
You're more likely to get people who know XP and TDD on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming than you are on Slashdot, simply because the yahoo group is focused on that very topic.
Sorry. Not quite awake. That was supposed to be $40 - $37.16 to be exact. Such is life.
found from Froogle:x ?pfid=6564 62
http://www.hsn.com/cnt/prod/default.asp
Nice thing about froogle. I'd normally never look at places like HSN, but when they were dumping Zaurus's for under $200...
Get Adobe and Macromedia to port to Linux and I think you'll see a major increase in usage.
The question is, "Is that really the goal?"
Do you want lots of users or lots of contributors?
Do you want to be the virus target by virtue of numbers?
If you do, then get some of the larger applications to port. If not, then why worry?
"if they don't have the key"
As I said above: "I'm willing to bet it depends on trusting some basic internet function that is exploitable one way or another."
Given that security is the difficulty of cracking something vs. the reward of having done so (owning every Windows machine that this function hasn't been disabled on) and given that many crypto schemes once belived secure are no longer considered secure which crypto scheme do you want to trust this all important function to?
While we're at it, let's pretend we're Microsoft. We'll be obscure and not tell anyone, hoping that no one will figure it out for themselves. And while we're at it, let's make sure that is anyone does figure it out, they won't tell anyone else on the white hat side of the fence, just because we don't want the PR hit.
Remember, we're talking about the same organization that needed an outsider to renew their domain name and had the verisign keys problem. Why would you trust them for security?
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"if someone breaks into MS WindowsUpdate servers, he could install ANYTHING on millions of computers!"
Actually, all they have to do is spoof your computer into thinking their computer is the WindowsUpdate system. Now this depends on how they implement their system but I'm willing to bet it depends on trusting some basic internet function that is exploitable one way or another.
"My question is: where did the trolls go? "
It turns out that they were all French.
C'est la mort.
Done looking at all the Java jobs? Now do the other half of the equation and go to those same boards and look at resumes. Wow. Look at ALL these people a Java newbie is competing with. If someone is learning OOP, do you really think they can compete against a generation of laid off Java programmers?
If it's for the public good, let the public fund it publicly. Let the public choose to donate money instead of having lawmakers determine their donation for them.
"Ask not what your country can do for you, because the only tools they have to do it with are the police and the military." - Ken Boucher
Kuro5hin commentary on the below story
This story on Kuro5hin entered a living hell when the sites being discussed sent their members to go get accounts and start stuffing the ballots.
Even controlled moderation would fail simply because the signal/noise ratio at the bottom level becomes so out of whack that no one wants to dive in the sewer on the chance of finding a diamond.
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/. you can change your settings so that funny & troll are +1 and informative and interesting are -1 and, in doing so, completely change the content it provides.)
Really though, the system doesn't matter much. You have two choices, make it the way you like it or make it so customizable that the content forms itself in the manner that matters most to the reader. (For example on
Personally, I reccomend deciding now if you want a clique that agrees with you or an open site filled with content that offends you. Well defined goals are always a good thing.
Audible handles my audiobook addiction. I wouldn't be able to stand a player that didn't handle that format.
2.b You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
I don't want to face that clause in a court of law. I can't imagine why anyone would want to. Personally, while I may be stupid, I don't think I'm wrong or lying, as least as far as my understanding of the GPL goes. In fact, once part of the "derived" code becomes part of the project then the rest of my code is likely to go with it since it embeds or uses the code that now belongs to the project.
Google on Sherman Austin and Hacking
Pick your own site.
"According to the FBI, Austin allegedly defaced at least five commercial Web sites since 1999 using the nickname "Ucaun." On three of the sites, Austin left behind a hacking program named troop.cgi that was designed to attempt to log in to a computer operated by the U.S. Army, the FBI affidavit stated."
"Austin has also admitted to hacking into a number of websites to post anti-government messages."
For those claiming this is a free speech issue alone, last I checked freedom of speech didn't include freedom of breaking and entering someone else's computer system in order to speak from their platform.
1) That would require someone actually knowing (without having signed a NDA) what the disputed parts were. I'm not sure anyone does.
2) It would require someone who has actually not looked at the code in any way and is willing to do it. Despite claims by slashotters that no such person exists, I can think of at least one person (me: I haven't looked at the code yet because of the choice of license.)(I'm not comfortable with the GPL. Sorry for those who love it, but I'm just not comfortable with it.)
3) At this point it would just be a wast of time and effort. When it's needed it will be done. It's just not needed yet. And it's pointless to be in a reactive mode (read: panic) to a company like SCO since they'll just change their position anyway.