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I have a version without the sound card (it exists as well), and must say, as quite the audiophile, the sound is definately not whimpy. The microphone however, is very fragile to cable break, and it's not the type of headset you crack open, repair and close up easily without leaving some ugly marks.
Woops... I meant 2.5k lines.
Yeah, I don't think this is exclusive to Komodo. Eclipse PDT and Aptana start choking at about 25k lines also.
I agree with your thought that each worker should take ownership of what they do and make an active effort to improve their own condition thru learning more about the business and its other departments.
However, many managers misuse this principle to pawn off responsibility under the guise of "you need to act like an owner!" So I think keeping both points of view in mind -- both being responsible and realizing that at the end of the day it isn't actually /your/ company -- gives you the best chance of success while affording some protection from unscrupulous management.
Sorry about that... it's Mollom! Too funny.
The presence of one link to Boris Mann's site was enough to trigger the spam filter.
What you argue may have been true in the past, but a forward looking assessment of install profiles is much different.
In Drupal 7, install profiles are modules and are thus much easier to write. Anyone who knows how to write a module can write an install profile. They also can have updates and interact with running sites, so you'll see more cases where the install profile heavily defines how your site functions, even after the install screen. Furthermore they can have updates, so you can have an install profile vendor who works to keep you up to date.
Furthermore, the real combination to look for is install profiles plue the features module. It will be possible in D7 with features to configure a site and use it to build and export a feature that is an install profile (this is mostly possible today), so it won't even take programming to build and share clones of sites.
Then you also have to consider the advent of Drush make, which can get and build software from anywhere on the net, even applying patches to existing code. With Drush make an install profile will be able to build extremely customized applications that have all the 3rd party requirement in place for you.
Finally, Boris Mann makes a great point that once you have distributions (like Open Atrium or Tattler) that have strongly defined functionality, better and more specific themes get created which will cut down on the theme customization time that you mentioned.
So in total, I think that the efforts putting into install profiles and the ancillary pieces such as features and Drush Make will allow profiles to be a game changing force in the CMS market. The one piece that I worry about is Drupal.org, and whether we will succeed in innovating enough with the packaging workflows and tools to support the depth of richness that Drupal itself has to offer.
I think you're missing the point of the suggestion. I don't think it actually means to try to manage the company you're working for, but to take ownership of what you do and dedicate yourself to learning the most you possibly can in your position. Who's going to get the promotion? The guy who dutifully does his expected tasks everyday or the first guy in and the last to leave who masters his area and asks questions and learns about the other departments? This is the essence of being an owner, because he/she needs to have an active understanding of everything that is happening in the company. How can one give meaningful direction to any department if the basic functions are outside their knowledge? So the main idea I'm trying to convey is that you might be the best rectum you can be that is absolutely necessary for the body to function, but if you learn the basics of how to process blood, or convert light waves to neurological signals you might find yourself being an eye or a kidney in the future.
I know you've heard the story, but for the sake of spreading more United horror far and wide across the Internets:
AVP -> ORD, late due to overbooking and having to shuffle people off the plane. Run across ORD in < 10 minutes to make connection. Squashed between two - do I have to be polite? - morbidly obese men on ORD -> LAX. Spend hour at LAX attempting to learn how to walk again thanks to United's midget-sized seating.
LAX -> ORD, several hour delay. Aeons pass, with everyone on the plane, before they determine flying it without hydraulics on the right side would be bad. Takes several millenia to get a replacement. Miss connecting flight in ORD due to, well, being hours late. United rep asks me if I went to the gate to check to see if my flight out of ORD (which left, uh, hours before) was still there.
Bit tongue, did not ask if United rep didn't notice the giant monitors strewn across the airport cheerily pointing out that the connecting flight was already long gone.
Nine hour layover in ORD. They route me through Charlotte, then back to AVP via US Air. I get to Charlotte and the polite people at the US Air counter have no notion of my ticket, but shove me on anyway. In an emergency door seat. With moar leg room than anyone could take advantage of.
...My luggage arrives two days later.
I hate United more than I enjoy taffy, and I'm a man who enjoys his taffy.
Haha, thanks Joel. I'm looking forward to it.
Now with the expansion coming soon though, I can't help but wonder what the future holds.... lol
As a non-WoW player, may I say, congratulations on your choice, blessings on your future Drupal projects, and may your upcoming marriage be more rewarding than your questing ever was!
Oh, and I had *no* idea that WoW could be that imbalanced. I'm glad I never got into it.
Cheers!
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