To sound like a broken record, I work on the NorthSlope. I'm here now.
We work shifts either 1 week or 2 week shifts. I'm a two weeks on, two weeks off schedule. I actually live in Philadelphia and fly up here every two weeks.
and yes, the money is good enough for me to cover travel costs, and live pretty well.
Actually, FedEX has trucks up here, they're based out of Deadhorse, (a somewhat industrial village). There is fiber to Valdez, and then more fiber to Seattle.
Have to admit, it was weird seeing a FedEx truck above the Arctic Circle.
Needless to say, the UPS guys don't wear brown shorts.
I'm sitting on the North Slope now, working for one of the oil companies mentioned in the article.
The problem is going to be permitting. You can't build anything on tundra without asking all kinds of people. It's still years away.
They could however lease one of the decommissioned facilities, if they are still around. They are *enormous* to put it lightly. Hell, there are oil storage tanks here that are 50,000 bbls of oil in volume.
With the BSD license, you don't have to give away anything. It's up to you.
The real problem though was using GPLd stuff as a foundation. If they said, "we're going to sell new UI binaries for Windows," they might have done well. But starting out with GPLd gnome as a base, they were stuck to begin with.
There was no way they could make money. Shitty strategy. I'm surprised they got any VCs. Now those guys have a taint on themselves if they ever want to get VC money again.
It's not open source per se. It's a problem with the whole idea of the license. I can't "add value" to a product because by virtue of adding value, I'm forced to give it away for free.
Stick with one of the other opensource licenses, BSD, or the Apple on or even IBMs.
Selling something that can be gotten for free, isn't going to work anywhere.
Coke sells carbonated water (mostly), but they add value to their water, by using formula 7X. The Colonel's 11 herbs and spices? It's just friggin chicken! These things are "secret" because they make a product better than the ones without it.
Granted, some code can be GPLd, and if you want to do it, that's great, however, if you're expecting to make money off it, forget it. It wont happen.
After paying upwards of 50 or 60K for an education that's all you get? A lousy friggin email address?
Least they could do was give you a shell account or dialup....
If you read Adam Smith's 900 page "The Wealth Of Nations" you'll notice that in NO way does he speak well of capitalists.
What Smith did say was that despite collusion, there will always be someone getting around it. The hard part about price fixation in a segment of commerce is that you need to keep OTHERS out. Which is why companies tend to lobby goverments to protect them. The solution to that is to prevent goverment from enacting such regulatory constraints. Like water finding its own level, so does commerce and trade.
Most home zoning laws require an outlet (2 plug) every six feet, or at least 1 on every wall that's not six feet long. Although it would be nice to get a four plug or 8 plug outlet....
It would be nice to have a brief synopsis of what the case is about!!!
I shouldn't have to click into the links and comments to figure it out. Would a sentence or two kill you?
I had some games from the Ultima Collection running under DOSEMU. Worked good, though in XDOS it was a little funky. Best to just quit out of X and run from there.
I'm sitting in that "Alaskan wilderness" where all of the oil and gas are. Let me tell you, the nearest tree? 250 miles south, BELOW the Arctic Circle and the Brooks Range.
What is up here? Nothing. Imagine Kansas or Oklahoma with no trees, no nothing. In the winter it's dark and cold, and in the summer the mosquitos are the size of bats.
The "Alaska National Wildlife Refuge" is just more of the same. Nothing. Before you go spouting off more of that liberal greenie bullshit, ask a few questions, not be an automaton.
A double edged sword of Open Source is duplication of effort. IMO, the efforts of these guys should be directed in helping out the Wine folks. Make an "Openwindows" Linux distribution which is super small, and at the most write a GUI which matches WinXX, then run Wine to give you the applications support.
Keep believing that federal power gives you civil liberties. Because the same power that can "give" you civil liberties, is the same one that can take your civil liberties. Most 10th Amendment supporters (which should include politicians who supposedly swear to uphold the Constitution) don't say, "that giving the states more power will somehow lead to better protection of civil liberties", we say, "the government never had the right to intrude on them. And thanks for pointing out Mississippi and Alabama. They are poor examples of government stepping in and "helping" out. Ever hear of the Mormons? Why did they go to Utah? Surprise! They left everywhere else because their local government kept/or tried to keep their civil liberties from them! Since you're poli-sci, you hopefully know that Connecticut was founded by a woman who left Massachusetts because she was being hounded by officials. (She was a slut or something). And why was Maryland founded? English Catholics wanted somewhere to go, where the Anglican Crown couldn't hound them. People have ALWAYS been free to move to a better place. Always.
Unfortunately, people don't understand the 10th amendment, or the US Constitution in general. The Bill of Rights doesn't tell the government what it can do, but more what it can't do. And the 10th amendment paraphrased, "What we didn't cover in the first nine, is left to the states to sort out."
Unfortunately, the "Interstate Commerce Acts" are the guise used by the Feds to keep a tight noose around the throats of the people. Drug dealing is clearly interstate commerce, therefore we need a national drug beauracracy. Since air from West Virginia goes into Pennsylvania, we need an environmental "protection" agency. The list goes on and on.....
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Do you know what you're talking about?
There is so much natural gas around here, the oil companies are reinjecting it into the ground! There are trillions of cubic feet of gas around here.
The "Central Gas Facility" handles 8 Billion standard cubic feet of gas daily! That twice the volume of the next largest in the world.
We work shifts either 1 week or 2 week shifts. I'm a two weeks on, two weeks off schedule. I actually live in Philadelphia and fly up here every two weeks.
and yes, the money is good enough for me to cover travel costs, and live pretty well.
Have to admit, it was weird seeing a FedEx truck above the Arctic Circle.
Needless to say, the UPS guys don't wear brown shorts.
The problem is going to be permitting. You can't build anything on tundra without asking all kinds of people. It's still years away.
They could however lease one of the decommissioned facilities, if they are still around. They are *enormous* to put it lightly. Hell, there are oil storage tanks here that are 50,000 bbls of oil in volume.
With the BSD license, you don't have to give away anything. It's up to you. The real problem though was using GPLd stuff as a foundation. If they said, "we're going to sell new UI binaries for Windows," they might have done well. But starting out with GPLd gnome as a base, they were stuck to begin with. There was no way they could make money. Shitty strategy. I'm surprised they got any VCs. Now those guys have a taint on themselves if they ever want to get VC money again.
Stick with one of the other opensource licenses, BSD, or the Apple on or even IBMs.
Selling something that can be gotten for free, isn't going to work anywhere.
Coke sells carbonated water (mostly), but they add value to their water, by using formula 7X. The Colonel's 11 herbs and spices? It's just friggin chicken! These things are "secret" because they make a product better than the ones without it.
Granted, some code can be GPLd, and if you want to do it, that's great, however, if you're expecting to make money off it, forget it. It wont happen.
"extensively footnote my paper, referring to classmates paper as source...."
After paying upwards of 50 or 60K for an education that's all you get? A lousy friggin email address?
Least they could do was give you a shell account or dialup....
If you read Adam Smith's 900 page "The Wealth Of Nations" you'll notice that in NO way does he speak well of capitalists.
What Smith did say was that despite collusion, there will always be someone getting around it. The hard part about price fixation in a segment of commerce is that you need to keep OTHERS out.
Which is why companies tend to lobby goverments to protect them. The solution to that is to prevent goverment from enacting such regulatory constraints. Like water finding its own level, so does commerce and trade.
Most home zoning laws require an outlet (2 plug) every six feet, or at least 1 on every wall that's not six feet long. Although it would be nice to get a four plug or 8 plug outlet....
It would be nice to have a brief synopsis of what the case is about!!!
I shouldn't have to click into the links and comments to figure it out. Would a sentence or two kill you?
Actually Vanguard is hiring 5K... but for all sorts of position...
I had some games from the Ultima Collection running under DOSEMU. Worked good, though in XDOS it was a little funky. Best to just quit out of X and run from there.
I'm sitting in that "Alaskan wilderness" where all of the oil and gas are. Let me tell you, the nearest tree? 250 miles south, BELOW the Arctic Circle and the Brooks Range.
What is up here? Nothing. Imagine Kansas or Oklahoma with no trees, no nothing. In the winter it's dark and cold, and in the summer the mosquitos are the size of bats.
The "Alaska National Wildlife Refuge" is just more of the same. Nothing. Before you go spouting off more of that liberal greenie bullshit, ask a few questions, not be an automaton.
Then I guess that there is nothing wrong with the story. I stand corrected.
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Programming, is like sex.
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Programming, is like sex.
How about the first Ponzi scheme?
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Programming, is like sex.
This was not an attempt at a first post. It could have been a legitimate suggestion for ESR's Jargon File.
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Programming, is like sex.
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Programming, is like sex.
IMO, the efforts of these guys should be directed in helping out the Wine folks. Make an "Openwindows" Linux distribution which is super small, and at the most write a GUI which matches WinXX, then run Wine to give you the applications support.
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Programming, is like sex.
Most 10th Amendment supporters (which should include politicians who supposedly swear to uphold the Constitution) don't say, "that giving the states more power will somehow lead to better protection of civil liberties", we say, "the government never had the right to intrude on them.
And thanks for pointing out Mississippi and Alabama. They are poor examples of government stepping in and "helping" out. Ever hear of the Mormons? Why did they go to Utah? Surprise! They left everywhere else because their local government kept/or tried to keep their civil liberties from them! Since you're poli-sci, you hopefully know that Connecticut was founded by a woman who left Massachusetts because she was being hounded by officials. (She was a slut or something). And why was Maryland founded? English Catholics wanted somewhere to go, where the Anglican Crown couldn't hound them.
People have ALWAYS been free to move to a better place. Always.
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Programming, is like sex.
The Bill of Rights doesn't tell the government what it can do, but more what it can't do. And the 10th amendment paraphrased, "What we didn't cover in the first nine, is left to the states to sort out."
Unfortunately, the "Interstate Commerce Acts" are the guise used by the Feds to keep a tight noose around the throats of the people. Drug dealing is clearly interstate commerce, therefore we need a national drug beauracracy. Since air from West Virginia goes into Pennsylvania, we need an environmental "protection" agency.
The list goes on and on.....
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Programming, is like sex.
He's mixed up with the KGB!? I always knew he was a communist!
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Programming, is like sex.
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Programming, is like sex.
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Programming, is like sex.