And god forbid a company use patents to seek royalties! That's just so evil, what will Google do next, patent some touchscreen gestures? Patent concentric rectangles!?
Yeah if he's trying to find a pure open source job, they are ULTRA-RARE. There are only a handful of companies on the planet that are 100% FOSS (not counting tiny ones, such as a little 2-man op. I set up).
Jobs where you use mostly open-source stuff are still rare (probably outnumbered by jobs where you work mainly with MS/Cisco stuff 9 to 1), but they're out there. IMO if you can stay away from having to babysit MS servers, code in ASP/VB/Silverlight or manage fucking MSSQL databases, that's good enough.
Working with MS server-side stuff is a gigantic PITA and it's understandable that you might leave a job to avoid it. It's like switching from managing a team of educated adults to babysitting a bunch of brat children. I'd do the same thing in his shoes.
Seems like a good idea but I think the rich masters would figure out a way to recreate the structure of the monolithic megacorporation with creative ownership schemes and subcontracting. So you might have something like BoA or Fox doing all the same stuff, the only difference being that they're a group of smaller companies instead of a single huge one (maybe today's Sony is a good example?)
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Rather than having a tax system based on how much money a person makes, why not have a tax system based on how much money people spend?
Because it's inherently regressive, next question.
For extra security, use CookieMonster 1x to only temp-allow Google's cookies in the instance used to view Google services, and maybe use a separate proxy for those tabs (although Multifox doesn't allow separate proxies for separate identity windows, so you'll have to use FoxyProxy with per-site rules)
Of all the PDAs I've bought the Treo 650 is the one that gave me the biggest "I'm living in THE FUTURE" feeling when I first started using it. The N900 was close but not quite as much, even though in terms of technical advancement it was astronomically bigger than any previous upgrade.
If you thought a half-second of lag was a bitch in the middle of your CS game, wait until you have to deal with 45 minutes of lag in the middle of your zero-G surgical procedure!
The worst thing is that as these things get thinner they get harder to hold. The iPad2 is a good example, if it was thicker it would be easier to hold, I've heard many non-fanboys saying the same thing. Funny thing is that it's actually nearly 9mm (nearly half an N900) thick which seems reasonable, but it tapers towards the edges (where you hold it) to give the illusion of being thinner.
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Wondering how strong this force field was and was it able to warp the time-space continuum?? :P
It can bend concentric rectangles into a unique shape so I'd say it's pretty damn strong.
And god forbid a company use patents to seek royalties! That's just so evil, what will Google do next, patent some touchscreen gestures? Patent concentric rectangles!?
Fair enough, I missed the "H."
Get a life bonch. A Slashdotter who lives in one of the most boring places in the world is telling you to Get. A. Life.
They figured he wasn't as good as Karl Rove though.
No matter how nice and clean and safe a country is, if it has laws like that, IMO it's a shithole.
Yeah if he's trying to find a pure open source job, they are ULTRA-RARE. There are only a handful of companies on the planet that are 100% FOSS (not counting tiny ones, such as a little 2-man op. I set up).
Jobs where you use mostly open-source stuff are still rare (probably outnumbered by jobs where you work mainly with MS/Cisco stuff 9 to 1), but they're out there. IMO if you can stay away from having to babysit MS servers, code in ASP/VB/Silverlight or manage fucking MSSQL databases, that's good enough.
Working with MS server-side stuff is a gigantic PITA and it's understandable that you might leave a job to avoid it. It's like switching from managing a team of educated adults to babysitting a bunch of brat children. I'd do the same thing in his shoes.
Someone just modified a gaudy beer keg tap and sold it to this sucker for extra cash.
And Yoda who uses "anime action hero FUCK PHYSICS" style.
He could have hid it under the floor of any spaceship, or inside an R2 unit.
Lemme guess, in Mos Eisley right? You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Seems like a good idea but I think the rich masters would figure out a way to recreate the structure of the monolithic megacorporation with creative ownership schemes and subcontracting. So you might have something like BoA or Fox doing all the same stuff, the only difference being that they're a group of smaller companies instead of a single huge one (maybe today's Sony is a good example?)
Rather than having a tax system based on how much money a person makes, why not have a tax system based on how much money people spend?
Because it's inherently regressive, next question.
For those who want to work around this:
http://slashdot.org/journal/277383/making-google-keep-to-itself-with-multifox
For extra security, use CookieMonster 1x to only temp-allow Google's cookies in the instance used to view Google services, and maybe use a separate proxy for those tabs (although Multifox doesn't allow separate proxies for separate identity windows, so you'll have to use FoxyProxy with per-site rules)
If MeeGo/Maemo were the free OS that destroyed the competition I would have been happy.
You can stick this on it.
Sensors online.
Weapons online.
All systems nominal.
Initiating silly walk.
Of all the PDAs I've bought the Treo 650 is the one that gave me the biggest "I'm living in THE FUTURE" feeling when I first started using it. The N900 was close but not quite as much, even though in terms of technical advancement it was astronomically bigger than any previous upgrade.
Maybe the next moon mission will include a moon dirtbike and some moon ramps.
I think resident hyper-pessimist QA read something like this and it broke his mind.
"Simple, we'll just launch a whole city into space! And then travel many lightyears like it's no big deal! I mean DUH it's not rocket science guys!"
If you thought a half-second of lag was a bitch in the middle of your CS game, wait until you have to deal with 45 minutes of lag in the middle of your zero-G surgical procedure!
Been done before. Chmod 222.
Oh jeez why don't I get mod points anymore? XD
The worst thing is that as these things get thinner they get harder to hold. The iPad2 is a good example, if it was thicker it would be easier to hold, I've heard many non-fanboys saying the same thing. Funny thing is that it's actually nearly 9mm (nearly half an N900) thick which seems reasonable, but it tapers towards the edges (where you hold it) to give the illusion of being thinner.