All the more reason to cruise on over to PinkFairies.Org and check out the SCO Code Bounty Hunt - Where we're putting money on the lack of SCO code in the kernel!
This could be useful for those cases where Google just refuses to return the search results you want.
You mean, like, where I search google for "Porno and Snuff Films", and I honest to god only want results pertaining to the song by the band "The Lawrence Arms".
as long as consumers aren't using it. And the answer to the question is a definite no
it's being picked up, more so than you'd think.
Historically, formats like this start out underground (witness mp3 on IRC back in the day, or divx 3 years ago). But, reading places like the Divx forums, people are really starting to take notice of oggs. It's becomming integrated into the current view of compressed music.
Let me just say "thank you" to you for chiming in on this discussion.
In the same way people are more likely to buy webhosting from my company if they see that we actively read slashdot, I am more likely to buy this product becuase one of the lead developers is a slashdotter.
I appreciate that.
I will actually probably buy one of these. I have not had a hand held music device since i bought a portable CD player 5 years ago. It's been collecting dust.
I've almost made the complete conversion to oggs - i don't download MP3's anymore (on principle - I don't listen to mainstream music, so I don't have problems buying albums, since indy albums are usually $10 (except for the new rancid - wtf?)) - so oggs are my format of choice. I've been waiting for someone to catch on.
I'm probably looking at christmas, though. Need to save up.
Does it support higher bitrates? I compress my oggs with "exact audio copy" at the "8 - high quality" setting, so they're much higher than the default somewhere-around-130kbps stuff.
Does it have problems with VBR Mp3's?
Again, thank you for your consideration and help here.
Excellent point about loveline and breeding qualifications in the U.S. No one is breeding on darwinian principles anymore, unless it's social darwinism.
(ok, synthesizing things from geography, british and russian history, economics, and poli-sci... done).
In china, at lease people are breeding because they want to have a male child. China is the home of the "20 million missing girls", based on the chinese birth rate, historically, of males:females, and the number of males:females that survive to age 1.
But, here in america, we're breeding based on height, weight, eye color, hair, and dancing ability.
I don't think that socialism or capitalism has to do with people breeding when they shouldn't. And I don't blame china for their economic policy regarding 1 child per family. From what I learned in human geography, China's population will continue to grow, even at 1 child per family and no children until age 22, until 2016. They will reach very hard economic times based simply on population growth, but if they had done nothing, there would have been widespread famine very quickly. They will hit 1.5 billion people before going down (they're at 1.2 now), and if they go much higher than 1.6, it's expected that many, many of them will die, and at 2.0 billion, it's expected that hundreds of millions will die because of starvation.
The relationship to communism isn't hard to see here, but it's hardly to blame. When Mao took over, he wanted to create a chinese world power, which he did. He encouraged the Chinese to have multiple childre, not realizing how fast it would backfire.
Think now, though, growing up with not only no brothers and sisters, but no cousins and uncles.
Anyway,
I just wanted to say that my eariler post on socialism wasn't just from crap i'd read online. I'm a history major, about to graduate. I've had over 30 hours of history, plus 6 of geography, 9 of political science, and 6 of economics. I tried to make it as well reasoned and articulate as I could.
Heh, thanks, I changed you to "friend" in the slashdot friend/fan thing.
the linux kernel isn't political in and of it's self (though, good job abour RMS). It's just that the economics of giving away something that people would obviously pay for is not particularly capitalist in it's self.
It is an interesting outcome - that linux crosses so many boundries, regardless of politics.
Why? Socialism goes against human nature and evolution. It supports the weakest while hurting the strongest, it assumes what everyone wants to work the same by giving them the same rewards?
As a historian, I must point out here that people's idea of socialism (as in my parent post) are often very wrong. We were all brought up to believe (those of us currently older than 12) that Russia is the devil, and that socialism and communism and marxism and stalinism are all equivilant, and all bad.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Merriam-Webster defines socialism as: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
Between Winston Churchill and Margret Thatcher (30 years), the UK was essentially a socialist system. The labour party, voted into office at the end of the war (in '45), recognized themselves as socailists, and their immediate goal was to set up a welfare state.
Did socialist Britain involve concentration camps, millions of civillians dead at the hands of their government, and widespread poverty? No. In fact, their goal (guided by the beverage report) was to establish the abolition of want.
The '45 government implemented the nationalization of the Bank of England (like our federal reserve), the Coal industry, the electric and gas industry, and various other industries, including steel and air transport (British Airways). They also passed the Insurance Act which provided unilaterial insurance for unemployment, sickness, and maternity leave, and they also passed the Health Services Act, which guaranteed free health care at the doctor of choice, including dental and eyecare.
Sounds good for me, I'm all about equality. If you can afford better, that's cool, but every one should enjoy a base-line equality that's above any sub-standard conditions.
And they did it without significantly raising the taxes above what people were already paying under Churchill in '44 to suppliment the war effort.
Socialism can go awry, just like capitalism can. The reason socialism sometimes gets a bad rap is because 1.) anti-russian upbringing in the US, 2.) when socialist governments go bad, people get screwed hard, because socialist ideology places *gasp* trust in human nature.
Linux isn't about socialism, it's capitalism in it's finest form.
How so? I don't think that linux is a political entity. However, it's CERTAINLY not capitalist. The very definition of capitalism involves free market enterprise, and giving away your product for free when you've worked long hard hours on it is a very anti-capitalist thing to do. Merriam Webster again: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market. In a capitalist sense, linux should not exist, because price is indicitive of relative worth. Since linux is worthless (monitarily), it therefore follows that it should be worthless (as a product). If it had worth, as it's competition does, it would also cost a comparable amount to it's competition. In theory, if the product were not worthless (as a product), then people would be willing to pay for it, and therefore someone would sell it. Yet, no one sells linux. People sell proprietary drivers, support, and custom applications, but no one sells a kernel called "Linux".
And yet, despite the competition being, according to capitalist theory, "better" (by virtue of costing more), 63% of websites that netcraft tracks are running Apache.
This'll probably get me modded down to the basement...
I hope so. Not for your pro-microsoft statements (which most intelligent users of slashdot will agree with: in general, office is an excellent business productivit
At any rate, "move away" in SCO's terms I think really means to move away from Linux entirely...
Which is funny in light of this:
"The name change to SCO from Caldera builds on a strong market position which we will extend as we reinvent the SCO brand," said Darl McBride, president and CEO, SCO. "For more than two decades, the SCO name has been synonymous with reliability, stability and cost efficiency. Now, the coexistence and collaboration of UNIX and Linux systems from a single source offers our customers and channel partners a powerful choice of solutions, backed by a name that powers millions of servers around the world - SCO."
Heh. My favorite Darl Mcbride quote.
By the way, I found the quote when I was compiling the SCO news archive on PinkFairies.Org - We're calling shenanigans on SCO.
Or, mabey we're all just pissed that they figured out step 2.
~Will
Re:5 megs.. that actually means a lot of things..
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Windows 95 in 4.47MB
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most of the extra bloat in windows is the enourmass device driver database (that makes the automagical plug and play thing work).
A lot of it was also the weezer buddy holly video in.avi format.
This is probably having to do with "blackboard" software, i.e. learn.vt.edu.
This software tries to be everything to everyone, and all most teachers use it for is posting grades.
It doesn't surprise me that there are bugs in it, though. There have been several show up on astalavista.box.sk, and those were fixed, but the design of the program doesn't strike me as being particularlly sound.
You weren't on any mercy mission this time. Several lines of code were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the code they sent you.
You are part of the Rebel Software Revolution, and a traitor!
The amount required to purchase a licence (at the discount rate) for every linux 2.4 machine on Netmar's (my employer) network would set us back about 18% of our yearly gross. At that rate, we'd end up going through and compiling 2.2 kernels for everyone.
But, think about it large scale - think about people who have many many servers, a. la. RackShack.
RackShack claims 14,000 servers online. Do the math.
It would cost RackShack 9.8 Million Dollars ($9,800,000) to come into compliance w/ SCO.
The problem I see with this system is that M$ could release windows 95 in a "nostalga" pack at some point and claim that you can't copy it because they still make it available. That's a loophole.
I also think that, for works of art like novels, it should be life of the author.
My guess is they will create another fud attack by studying its weaknesses and then pay someone like the Gartner group to set for the same results under a limited condition and boom. Instand fud, WIndows2k3 can do this but Linux can't.
This could be easily accomplished by visiting packetstorm. They wouldn't even have to set up the lab.
I think the whole idea is that people who have pirated copies won't be able to patch the holes that are there in the initial release because they won't subscribe to the updates.
Why would MS care? Pirates don't pay for windows now. Making it so they can't get updates isn't going to sell more copies of windows. And if someone pirated windows and was willing to buy updates, why not sell to them. Anything's better than $0.
Then maybe you should be out working instead of posting socialist drivel on/.
Why is socialism bad? It works in so many other countries (see also: Europe).
It would be really hard for me to reply to all of these posts. Apparently, everyone with a conservative economic theory came out to flame me today. I respect everyone's opinion, and I feel that anyone can express themselves, or what's the US all about? On the other hand, I really don't know how so many people can blast the RIAA, Microsoft, and other big corporations for being able to buy their way into anything, and in the same breath come out of the woodworks and say having lots of money and being able to spend it all any way you like.
I just wanted to address the $7000/year comment.
I'm offended by people telling me to go out and get a better job, go to school, stop whining, whatever.
I am a college student. I'm 2 semesters away from getting a history degree from Virginia Tech. After I get my degree, I plan to go be a teacher somewhere and be poor, making that glorious $24,000/yr. I want to be a teacher because I want to be a teacher, and I love what I study, not because of the money. However; I am very sensitive when people talk about paying less taxes, since my chosen profession is directly related to the taxes paid.
Everyone needs to pay taxes to support the school systems, for the good of the nation, even if their kids don't go to school. Having a more educated population is a good thing. And, as a pre-emptive argument stopper, for those who say "i send my kids to private school, why should I pay taxes to the school", consider this: If people only paid taxes on what they used, we'd be in a sore state. If only people that called 911 paid for 911, where would we be? If only people that drove more than X miles on Y roads paid taxes for roads, where would we be? I'm not unemployed, but I pay unemployement tax. The only thing the federal government does for me is military action (which I don't support currently) and deliver my mail (badly), but I pay federal income tax.
Anyway, yes, I make about $7,000 / year. I work 20 hours a week, which is about all I can do. Currently, I'm in summer school, taking 6 hours of classes (which is full-time student status). Aside from my job, I also have a radio show at the local college station (WUVT). I also live with my girlfriend, which is a full time job in and of it's self. Come fall, I'll be taking 16 hours of classes (3 of which will be world econ 2006), working 18 hours a week, still doing my radio show, but now we'll have to add 1.5 hours of marching band practice every week day, every saturday full with football game (marching band practice and performance), and sunday night band leadership meetings (mellophone section leader). On TOP of all that, I'm developing a bunch of websites for people freelance, for relatively nothing or for free, to build my portfolio. On TOP of all that, sometimes I have to make time to drive back home to fredericksburg (4 hours) to record with my band there (www.adventure-today.com/newhotness).
Where do I fit another job? Especially since I have one of the highest paying non-bartender jobs in Blacksburg, even if most other unix network administrators in the world actually make $10 or more per hour (I don't).
Out of that $7000 (roughly $540/month), $250 goes to rent (1000 sq. ft. townhouse, $999 split 4 ways). After that, about $50-60 goes to utilities (inefficient electricity). Then I have to find $100/mo for car insurance (that's with my good student discount), $100/mo for health insurance, and THEN I have to eat. And going out to a movie, or what-have-you? Forget it. It's a major expense; I have to save up two months in advance.
This is my life. Hopefully, with taking summer school, I'll be able to graduate this spring. Needless to say, I am living on a razor-thin margin, and would welcome things like universal health care and government-funded schooling (i'm taking out student loans).
And it sickens me when people making $500,000 a year bitch about paying $120,000 in taxes.
On the other hand, for blacksburg, I make a fortune (per hour, if I could work more hours I would). Cost of living here is low, and I have one of the highest paying non-bartender jobs in the town.
Slashdot Mirror
All the more reason to cruise on over to PinkFairies.Org and check out the SCO Code Bounty Hunt - Where we're putting money on the lack of SCO code in the kernel!
~Will
This could be useful for those cases where Google just refuses to return the search results you want.
You mean, like, where I search google for "Porno and Snuff Films", and I honest to god only want results pertaining to the song by the band "The Lawrence Arms".
Heh, wish they could do that on kazaa.
~Will
as long as consumers aren't using it. And the answer to the question is a definite no
it's being picked up, more so than you'd think.
Historically, formats like this start out underground (witness mp3 on IRC back in the day, or divx 3 years ago). But, reading places like the Divx forums, people are really starting to take notice of oggs. It's becomming integrated into the current view of compressed music.
Just give it a little bit. It'll be popular.
Let me just say "thank you" to you for chiming in on this discussion.
In the same way people are more likely to buy webhosting from my company if they see that we actively read slashdot, I am more likely to buy this product becuase one of the lead developers is a slashdotter.
I appreciate that.
I will actually probably buy one of these. I have not had a hand held music device since i bought a portable CD player 5 years ago. It's been collecting dust.
I've almost made the complete conversion to oggs - i don't download MP3's anymore (on principle - I don't listen to mainstream music, so I don't have problems buying albums, since indy albums are usually $10 (except for the new rancid - wtf?)) - so oggs are my format of choice. I've been waiting for someone to catch on.
I'm probably looking at christmas, though. Need to save up.
Does it support higher bitrates? I compress my oggs with "exact audio copy" at the "8 - high quality" setting, so they're much higher than the default somewhere-around-130kbps stuff.
Does it have problems with VBR Mp3's?
Again, thank you for your consideration and help here.
~Will
Excellent point about loveline and breeding qualifications in the U.S. No one is breeding on darwinian principles anymore, unless it's social darwinism.
(ok, synthesizing things from geography, british and russian history, economics, and poli-sci... done).
In china, at lease people are breeding because they want to have a male child. China is the home of the "20 million missing girls", based on the chinese birth rate, historically, of males:females, and the number of males:females that survive to age 1.
But, here in america, we're breeding based on height, weight, eye color, hair, and dancing ability.
I don't think that socialism or capitalism has to do with people breeding when they shouldn't. And I don't blame china for their economic policy regarding 1 child per family. From what I learned in human geography, China's population will continue to grow, even at 1 child per family and no children until age 22, until 2016. They will reach very hard economic times based simply on population growth, but if they had done nothing, there would have been widespread famine very quickly. They will hit 1.5 billion people before going down (they're at 1.2 now), and if they go much higher than 1.6, it's expected that many, many of them will die, and at 2.0 billion, it's expected that hundreds of millions will die because of starvation.
The relationship to communism isn't hard to see here, but it's hardly to blame. When Mao took over, he wanted to create a chinese world power, which he did. He encouraged the Chinese to have multiple childre, not realizing how fast it would backfire.
Think now, though, growing up with not only no brothers and sisters, but no cousins and uncles.
Anyway,
I just wanted to say that my eariler post on socialism wasn't just from crap i'd read online. I'm a history major, about to graduate. I've had over 30 hours of history, plus 6 of geography, 9 of political science, and 6 of economics. I tried to make it as well reasoned and articulate as I could.
Random thoughts, i'm tired..
Heh, thanks, I changed you to "friend" in the slashdot friend/fan thing.
the linux kernel isn't political in and of it's self (though, good job abour RMS). It's just that the economics of giving away something that people would obviously pay for is not particularly capitalist in it's self.
It is an interesting outcome - that linux crosses so many boundries, regardless of politics.
Why? Socialism goes against human nature and evolution. It supports the weakest while hurting the strongest, it assumes what everyone wants to work the same by giving them the same rewards?
As a historian, I must point out here that people's idea of socialism (as in my parent post) are often very wrong. We were all brought up to believe (those of us currently older than 12) that Russia is the devil, and that socialism and communism and marxism and stalinism are all equivilant, and all bad.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Merriam-Webster defines socialism as: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
Between Winston Churchill and Margret Thatcher (30 years), the UK was essentially a socialist system. The labour party, voted into office at the end of the war (in '45), recognized themselves as socailists, and their immediate goal was to set up a welfare state.
Did socialist Britain involve concentration camps, millions of civillians dead at the hands of their government, and widespread poverty? No. In fact, their goal (guided by the beverage report) was to establish the abolition of want.
The '45 government implemented the nationalization of the Bank of England (like our federal reserve), the Coal industry, the electric and gas industry, and various other industries, including steel and air transport (British Airways). They also passed the Insurance Act which provided unilaterial insurance for unemployment, sickness, and maternity leave, and they also passed the Health Services Act, which guaranteed free health care at the doctor of choice, including dental and eyecare.
Sounds good for me, I'm all about equality. If you can afford better, that's cool, but every one should enjoy a base-line equality that's above any sub-standard conditions.
And they did it without significantly raising the taxes above what people were already paying under Churchill in '44 to suppliment the war effort.
Socialism can go awry, just like capitalism can. The reason socialism sometimes gets a bad rap is because 1.) anti-russian upbringing in the US, 2.) when socialist governments go bad, people get screwed hard, because socialist ideology places *gasp* trust in human nature.
Linux isn't about socialism, it's capitalism in it's finest form.
How so? I don't think that linux is a political entity. However, it's CERTAINLY not capitalist. The very definition of capitalism involves free market enterprise, and giving away your product for free when you've worked long hard hours on it is a very anti-capitalist thing to do. Merriam Webster again: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market. In a capitalist sense, linux should not exist, because price is indicitive of relative worth. Since linux is worthless (monitarily), it therefore follows that it should be worthless (as a product). If it had worth, as it's competition does, it would also cost a comparable amount to it's competition. In theory, if the product were not worthless (as a product), then people would be willing to pay for it, and therefore someone would sell it. Yet, no one sells linux. People sell proprietary drivers, support, and custom applications, but no one sells a kernel called "Linux".
And yet, despite the competition being, according to capitalist theory, "better" (by virtue of costing more), 63% of websites that netcraft tracks are running Apache.
This'll probably get me modded down to the basement...
I hope so. Not for your pro-microsoft statements (which most intelligent users of slashdot will agree with: in general, office is an excellent business productivit
Which is funny in light of this:
Heh. My favorite Darl Mcbride quote.
By the way, I found the quote when I was compiling the SCO news archive on PinkFairies.Org - We're calling shenanigans on SCO.
Or, mabey we're all just pissed that they figured out step 2.
~Will
most of the extra bloat in windows is the enourmass device driver database (that makes the automagical plug and play thing work).
.avi format.
A lot of it was also the weezer buddy holly video in
~Will
Or cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. I think it uses php, also, mabey. Not sure.
I am sure that it uses POST instead of PUT.
~Will
This is probably having to do with "blackboard" software, i.e. learn.vt.edu.
This software tries to be everything to everyone, and all most teachers use it for is posting grades.
It doesn't surprise me that there are bugs in it, though. There have been several show up on astalavista.box.sk, and those were fixed, but the design of the program doesn't strike me as being particularlly sound.
~Will
I wonder how this story affects the SCO/Linux
Dude, read up on it in the SCO Archive.
It's all in there, all from the beginning.
~Will
PinkFairies.org - Now with new enhanced SCO News Archive.
And we're over $150!!!!!!
Remember, if no one claims the bounty, it's all donated to the "OpenSourceNow" initiative (or to the EFF if that thing falls through).
~Will
3) TO SEE PROOF of infringement
Want to see proof??
So do I. PinkFairies.org - Offering cash money for offending SCO code.
Only in business 20 hours, and we're up over $47.00!!
~Will.
Cynics view: Code doesnt exist, or they are frightened of someone pointing out that the code went to Linux and SCO from a *BSD tree.
We'll see:
PinkFairies.org - Home of the SCO code bounty hunt.
Hopefully we'll sweat it out of 'em. Got code? Claim your prize!
~Will
Dear LinuxCorp.
Don't act so suprised.
You weren't on any mercy mission this time. Several lines of code were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the code they sent you.
You are part of the Rebel Software Revolution, and a traitor!
Sincerely,
SCO.
The amount required to purchase a licence (at the discount rate) for every linux 2.4 machine on Netmar's (my employer) network would set us back about 18% of our yearly gross. At that rate, we'd end up going through and compiling 2.2 kernels for everyone.
But, think about it large scale - think about people who have many many servers, a. la. RackShack.
RackShack claims 14,000 servers online. Do the math.
It would cost RackShack 9.8 Million Dollars ($9,800,000) to come into compliance w/ SCO.
SCO, go fuck yourself.
Sincerely
~Will
bravo. hehehehe.
Thank you. That made my evening.
~Will
The problem I see with this system is that M$ could release windows 95 in a "nostalga" pack at some point and claim that you can't copy it because they still make it available. That's a loophole.
I also think that, for works of art like novels, it should be life of the author.
~Will
My guess is they will create another fud attack by studying its weaknesses and then pay someone like the Gartner group to set for the same results under a limited condition and boom. Instand fud, WIndows2k3 can do this but Linux can't.
This could be easily accomplished by visiting packetstorm. They wouldn't even have to set up the lab.
Of course, packetstorm works both ways.
~Will
It's not a new idea:
http://www.gentoo.org/news/20020916-ut2k3.xml
~Will
greatest coders in the world still have bugs in their code.
I beg to differ.
~Will
I think the whole idea is that people who have pirated copies won't be able to patch the holes that are there in the initial release because they won't subscribe to the updates.
Why would MS care? Pirates don't pay for windows now. Making it so they can't get updates isn't going to sell more copies of windows. And if someone pirated windows and was willing to buy updates, why not sell to them. Anything's better than $0.
Of course this won't happen.
~Will
Then maybe you should be out working instead of posting socialist drivel on /.
Why is socialism bad? It works in so many other countries (see also: Europe).
It would be really hard for me to reply to all of these posts. Apparently, everyone with a conservative economic theory came out to flame me today. I respect everyone's opinion, and I feel that anyone can express themselves, or what's the US all about? On the other hand, I really don't know how so many people can blast the RIAA, Microsoft, and other big corporations for being able to buy their way into anything, and in the same breath come out of the woodworks and say having lots of money and being able to spend it all any way you like.
I just wanted to address the $7000/year comment.
I'm offended by people telling me to go out and get a better job, go to school, stop whining, whatever.
I am a college student. I'm 2 semesters away from getting a history degree from Virginia Tech. After I get my degree, I plan to go be a teacher somewhere and be poor, making that glorious $24,000/yr. I want to be a teacher because I want to be a teacher, and I love what I study, not because of the money. However; I am very sensitive when people talk about paying less taxes, since my chosen profession is directly related to the taxes paid.
Everyone needs to pay taxes to support the school systems, for the good of the nation, even if their kids don't go to school. Having a more educated population is a good thing. And, as a pre-emptive argument stopper, for those who say "i send my kids to private school, why should I pay taxes to the school", consider this: If people only paid taxes on what they used, we'd be in a sore state. If only people that called 911 paid for 911, where would we be? If only people that drove more than X miles on Y roads paid taxes for roads, where would we be? I'm not unemployed, but I pay unemployement tax. The only thing the federal government does for me is military action (which I don't support currently) and deliver my mail (badly), but I pay federal income tax.
Anyway, yes, I make about $7,000 / year. I work 20 hours a week, which is about all I can do. Currently, I'm in summer school, taking 6 hours of classes (which is full-time student status). Aside from my job, I also have a radio show at the local college station (WUVT). I also live with my girlfriend, which is a full time job in and of it's self.
Come fall, I'll be taking 16 hours of classes (3 of which will be world econ 2006), working 18 hours a week, still doing my radio show, but now we'll have to add 1.5 hours of marching band practice every week day, every saturday full with football game (marching band practice and performance), and sunday night band leadership meetings (mellophone section leader). On TOP of all that, I'm developing a bunch of websites for people freelance, for relatively nothing or for free, to build my portfolio. On TOP of all that, sometimes I have to make time to drive back home to fredericksburg (4 hours) to record with my band there (www.adventure-today.com/newhotness).
Where do I fit another job? Especially since I have one of the highest paying non-bartender jobs in Blacksburg, even if most other unix network administrators in the world actually make $10 or more per hour (I don't).
Out of that $7000 (roughly $540/month), $250 goes to rent (1000 sq. ft. townhouse, $999 split 4 ways). After that, about $50-60 goes to utilities (inefficient electricity). Then I have to find $100/mo for car insurance (that's with my good student discount), $100/mo for health insurance, and THEN I have to eat. And going out to a movie, or what-have-you? Forget it. It's a major expense; I have to save up two months in advance.
This is my life. Hopefully, with taking summer school, I'll be able to graduate this spring. Needless to say, I am living on a razor-thin margin, and would welcome things like universal health care and government-funded schooling (i'm taking out student loans).
And it sickens me when people making $500,000 a year bitch about paying $120,000 in taxes.
My whole point is: I'm trying. I really am.
~Will
On the other hand, for blacksburg, I make a fortune (per hour, if I could work more hours I would). Cost of living here is low, and I have one of the highest paying non-bartender jobs in the town.
~Will