Considering that, darkeye has not yet revealed which BSD project is he talking about and what company is buying it, I think it is quite probable that this is a hypothetical scenario that has not happened in reality.
Perhaps he just wanted to defame the BSD licensing in the general geek community? Perhaps, the author just wanted to get to the front page?
Google competitor Microsoft in the mean-time came up with a plan that's so crazy it just might work. Instead of buying Yahoo to beat Google, they will pay people in the US $1 million per year to not use Google. A special program will monitor their web activitiy to ensure this. Danny Sullivan comments, "Absurdly expensive? It can seem that way at first, but consider the math. There's an estimated 300 million people living in the United States. If you pay each one $1 million for the next three years, thatâ(TM)s just under $1 billion. That saves Microsoft $39 billion compared to what it was going to spend on purchasing Yahoo."
I participated in something called code::XtremeApps:: which is a 24 hour code jam by Google last year. Wrote a Servlet that used Youtube Data API to make Google Map users see videos related to places they search inside a Google Map overlay..
We did not win anything. But Google implemented it in Google Earth soon after that. I think within a week after the results were out: Link
I am pretty sure they are fishing for ideas this time too.
When I hear about visions these days I am scared. Microsoft has visions and patents too. But thats all they have. Google seems to be becoming the next Microsoft.
I strongly believe ordinary economic strategies are more concerned with resources with scarcity.
Software does not have scarcity, because once made it is abundant. And the average fixed cost tends to become zero all the time.
It is even better than the secret Coke formula and thats why people who can force people to buy software can reap unbelievably high profits.
FOSS's greatest weakness lies in its divisibility. People get divided over little things. "There is blob in Linus's kernel? Well, then guess what we are making a new OS".
Therefore as long as FOSSians stay united they are going to be safe.
A good friend of mine is in the Temasek Polytechnic Robotics team. He is scared some psycho woman might try to might try to snipe him while he is working on it..
DNA that calculates, predicts, economically manages inherent "bio-credits", plans, adapts, and self-motivates to construct massive biological machines and places illusions into the inanimate elements that compose those chemical reactions -- telling them the best ways to breed and prepare itself for further replication...
and listens to prayers, makes himself be born of a virgin, lets 1 child die from a very efficient parasite every 30 seconds, but is all loving and all knowing and almighty, has got to be much more complex and therefore unlikely to have come into existence without a cause. It is more unlikely than a hurricane assembling a fighter jet.
Wouldn't the above business model encourage coders to code things that will inevitably need support?
1. People want money 2. Money comes from selling support 3. FOSS coders write code that WILL need support 4. People choose commercial apps that need less support 5. FOSS loses
Considering that evolution has favored longevity through Calorie Restriction so that the species can proliferate after famines (during which people are less potent for procreation), could it be possible that drugs that mimic calorie restriction will have impotency as a side effect?
4 base pairs make sense because:
1. DNA is read in triplets.
2. There are 20 amino acids in use by nature to build nano-machinery that sustains life.
3. 4^3 > 20. So it leaves enough space for punctuation in the genetic code, like start and stop codons.
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I don't know why geeks equate DNA = No privacy and yet go around signing up for everything on the internet.
Here is some good constructive criticism: http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/nitty-gritty-shit-on-open-source.html
Considering that, darkeye has not yet revealed which BSD project is he talking about and what company is buying it, I think it is quite probable that this is a hypothetical scenario that has not happened in reality.
Perhaps he just wanted to defame the BSD licensing in the general geek community?
Perhaps, the author just wanted to get to the front page?
Google competitor Microsoft in the mean-time came up with a plan that's so crazy it just might work. Instead of buying Yahoo to beat Google, they will pay people in the US $1 million per year to not use Google. A special program will monitor their web activitiy to ensure this. Danny Sullivan comments, "Absurdly expensive? It can seem that way at first, but consider the math. There's an estimated 300 million people living in the United States. If you pay each one $1 million for the next three years, thatâ(TM)s just under $1 billion. That saves Microsoft $39 billion compared to what it was going to spend on purchasing Yahoo."
I participated in something called code::XtremeApps:: which is a 24 hour code jam by Google last year. Wrote a Servlet that used Youtube Data API to make Google Map users see videos related to places they search inside a Google Map overlay..
We did not win anything. But Google implemented it in Google Earth soon after that. I think within a week after the results were out: Link
I am pretty sure they are fishing for ideas this time too.
I participated in a code jam by Google. I did not win any prize. But Google implemented our idea by next week. :(
When I hear about visions these days I am scared. Microsoft has visions and patents too. But thats all they have. Google seems to be becoming the next Microsoft.
I strongly believe ordinary economic strategies are more concerned with resources with scarcity.
Software does not have scarcity, because once made it is abundant. And the average fixed cost tends to become zero all the time.
It is even better than the secret Coke formula and thats why people who can force people to buy software can reap unbelievably high profits.
FOSS's greatest weakness lies in its divisibility. People get divided over little things. "There is blob in Linus's kernel? Well, then guess what we are making a new OS".
Therefore as long as FOSSians stay united they are going to be safe.
A good friend of mine is in the Temasek Polytechnic Robotics team. He is scared some psycho woman might try to might try to snipe him while he is working on it..
TRAI website has shutdown due excessive traffic.
DNA that calculates, predicts, economically manages inherent "bio-credits", plans, adapts, and self-motivates to construct massive biological machines and places illusions into the inanimate elements that compose those chemical reactions -- telling them the best ways to breed and prepare itself for further replication...
and listens to prayers, makes himself be born of a virgin, lets 1 child die from a very efficient parasite every 30 seconds, but is all loving and all knowing and almighty, has got to be much more complex and therefore unlikely to have come into existence without a cause. It is more unlikely than a hurricane assembling a fighter jet.
I'd stop believing that elephants exist when I get the evidence.
I guess that is the difference between us, isn't it?
Wouldn't the above
business model encourage
coders to code things
that will inevitably need
support?
1. People want money 2.
Money comes from selling
support 3. FOSS coders
write code that WILL need
support 4. People choose
commercial apps that need
less support 5. FOSS
loses
Looks like a Sobel operator output..
he has an invisible dragon in his Garage.
You can remember it only 3 times because you are using the demo version.
Does Richard M. Stallman watch porn in Ogg Theora?
Considering that evolution has favored longevity through Calorie Restriction so that the species can proliferate after famines (during which people are less potent for procreation), could it be possible that drugs that mimic calorie restriction will have impotency as a side effect?
I once participated in a code jam sponsored by Google. And we did not win any prize. But Google implemented our feature by next week.
"Don't be evil" philosophy cannot be practiced in a human enterprise in a Utopian sense.
I love having sex on Second Life linux client. It is fast and sexy.
I bet MS ODF file will contain a high res JPEG rendering of the document. This will get the MS fan boys in corporate world think FOSS is incompetent
Note recognition went mainstream for Facebook. Why would that be such a big deal?
4 base pairs make sense because:
1. DNA is read in triplets.
2. There are 20 amino acids in use by nature to build nano-machinery that sustains life.
3. 4^3 > 20. So it leaves enough space for punctuation in the genetic code, like start and stop codons.
Base 2 is more efficient than Base 4 for storing information if the cost of a b-state circuit is proportional to b.
Proof: http://edwinhere.googlepages.com/WhatistheMostEfficientBase.pdf
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