Before you talk to Rupert, why not quietly
license Skype's source code under -another-
name as OSS, so as to preclude loss of the
Skype tradition & to give the OSS communi-
ty the chance to finish the job or at least
extract the Skype protocols & create some
-interoperable- software.
"I have some small, fairly well-defined
programming projects that I need done,
but I don't have time to do them myself."
So, what is scratching your itch worth?
"So, I've been looking into sites like
Get a Freelancer and
ScriptLance.
Does anybody have any experience of these
types of sites?"
We've had a look at GetAFreeLancer.com &
got the impression, from prices observed,
that much of the work might go to places
like India.
"Specifically, I'd like to hear your rec's
and advice, as well as your experiences."
We weren't prepared to go so low...
"My concerns include:
getting very poor quality work;"
Be ready to pay more, maybe to some-
one in your nearby city or town
"communication and language barriers"
"and also losing control over the work
that I've paid for"
Not to worry, you won't pay until
you &/or your project's moderator
agree that your spec's were met -
so, focus on getting your spec's
right...;-)
I WONDER IF THERE ARE ANY PROGRAM-
MERS PREPARE TO "COMPETE" EG ON A
FIRST TO MEET SPEC'S W-I-N BASIS?
"if I'm paying for some work, I want
it licensed on my own terms."
Why should what you want matter?
The question is how much are you
prepared to pay for what you want?
If you're dipping into marketplaces
like these, were trhe world can bid,
you still have to pay for anything
you want that's above & beyond the
basic software that meets spec's
ANY CONTRACTOR WILL WANT MORE IF YOUR
LICENSE CONDITIONS IMPLIES LOSS OF THE
RIGHT TO RE-USE HIS/HER OWN CODE.
PAY MORE... GET MORE... SIMPLE, EH?;-)
So... with the I'net, is it really needed...?
on
Interex Closes Its Doors
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Many of us rely on Open Source and/or
Amateur Radio communities for hints,
tips & useful workarounds, at least
sometimes over the life of our many
high-tech system projects.
This might be like the phasing out of
the horse & bugy (except for Amish &
others in developing worlds), ie, now
that we have cars (at least while our
fossil fuels last...).
Of course, there are some folks who -
quite rightly - relish some elements of
the past (eg, Clydesdale horses here)
enough to keep representative alive,
either by restoring older machine or
breeding, riding & showing a few horses.
Just as worthy as enjoying a sail on
tall ships.
But business has to consider costs &
RoI... not the warm glow that might
come from doing a job well for clients
or members.
With a bit of luck, slices of Interex's
support libraries or whatever they have
will fall into the hand of respective
communities of folks who care about the
systems needing support.
Maybe any users group meeting will take
place at greener, potentially lower cost
venues out, a bit away from cities.
At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building
tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to
advanced XML, Multimedia and WAP.
Full Web Building References
Our references cover all Web-building technologies,
including W3C standards like HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML
and other technologies like ASP and ADO plus much
more.
Try-It-Yourself On-Line Examples
At W3schools you will find thousands of cut-and-
paste examples. With our on-line HTML editor you
can edit the examples and experiment with the code
on-line."
Oh... don't forget the "s"... unless, of course,
you want to get Religion... (xian, of course...)
Maybe other readers know of similar sites (ie,
to the one -with- the 'S'...
NOT to the religious site)?
If a product costs $1,000 the margin is higher
than if it's essentially free.
With more $'s in the total deal's profit,
there's more $'s available to "share"
with decision makers, eg, in State Educ Dep'ts.
But, wait, there's more...
Consider the jobs issue.
More M$ software => more need for administrators
=> more jobs
Political parties like to show reductions
in joblessness when they were in office.
Noting that FOSS provides opportunities for
VOLUNTEER work on projects doesn't sound as
good as the other case's report that M$ pro-
vides opportunities for PAID WORK.
It's not a matter of cost here.
I prefer FOSS, myself, but I see some others'
dilemmas (at least two, above) & understand
the temptations they may be faced with.
We pay taxes... so, collectively, we are
- in effect - like members of a cooperative
(analogy: farmer's co-op), and - for part
of our "co-op fees" (ie, taxes) - we get
services, such as weather data, etc.
C'mon, lawyers in the/. audience (L Lessig?)
help us get value for our "co-op fee" bucks,
here.;-)
Several -years- ago, the CBC's Quirks & Quarks
(science program) announced the successful
Edmonton Protocol (transplanting islets from
healthy volunteers to Type 1 Diabetes sufferers).
Trials were conducted around the world (incl'g
Canada, USA & Sweden, to name a few locations)
with success rates into the 80 & 90% ranges.
Of course, the problem seemed to be rejection of
the islets. necessitating the need to reduce the
immune system's effectiveness in the recipient.
So, WHAT'S NEW HERE?!?
Doesn't this article's poster or/.'s acceptors
read medical journals before embracing articles?
Fair enough to let people know about treatments
just in case peoples' doctors aren't telling them
about them (what doctors or insulin-pump makers
want to lose business?)
Begin by showing what has happened to the size of MCU's, eg,
by showing your students the subject presentation
(it's like a PowerPoint show with its own audio)
Australia has had a Shortwave Receiver
(for verifyably licensed Radio Amateurs,
it's also a remotely controlled HF/VHF/UHF
transceiver) based on Skype for yonks!
(Make a Skype call to it to listen...
access a web page to control the radio
and (if licensed) transmit. A bit like
the receive-only JavaRadio (Javeradio?
these days...?)
I guess this is a bit different, since
the radio-based Skype applications are
Real Time, not recorded.
I don't know how hard some may find it to
"start a new [course]" but it -is- possible
to add such topics to a general ICT course.
Here, teachers can run their courses as they
wish (within reason, of course), so changing
an existing course to meet a need or expressed
interest (eg, one student's request to learn
to program) is easily done.
If a teacher wishes to let some would-be hackers
do their thing, it's easy enough to do, eg,
just by offering the same option to all.
Not everybody needs to sign-up, for it to work.
Of course, the teacher has to do a bit more
preparing (or, in this case, modifying), ie,
if they wish.
But - when you have something worthwhile
to get done - who do you ask?
A busy person or a person with time on their hands?
The local high school opens their premier ICT room
each day (at lunchtime) to kids who want to use computers
As lunchtime is about 30 min's, the student council
has proposed also opening the same room at Recess.
There has to be a teacher (doing "Yard Duty" there),
so there's a cost involved to the school.
But one SC rep says she has a list of teachers
willing to volunteer for a Recess shift,
now & then.
So, I guess this school has a little different
take on who "owns" the computers (ie, tax-payers,
who ought to get maximum value from their investment)
I like that thought... Now, I'd like to get that
kind of thinking into the debate on the Iraq War... so it stops already.:-/
C'mon, people, just because you signed an NDA
doesn't mean you can't get a variation agree-
ment for a small, useful bit of code that you
are proud of...
I'd make it a habit of getting such an agree-
ment (ie, variation) as early as possible, eg
even during the signing of the NDA itself.
Why not try adding a write-in clause (do it a
bit professionally, eg, by sticking-on a pre-
printed label, maybe) that says something like:
"... small work sample(s) may be shown,
but not left in the possession of other
organisation(s), exclusively when inter-
viewing for other positions.
Such samples will not include 's
trade secrets, etc."
You lawyer should be able to help you with
the details...
Being able to do a job that (hopefully)
companies are willing to pay your heaps for doing
(or - in the absence of such companies, near you
- being able to start a business based on such
skills & knowledge in the industry... and -
if you do it well - make more money than in a job)?
Slashdot Mirror
Before you talk to Rupert, why not quietly
license Skype's source code under -another-
name as OSS, so as to preclude loss of the
Skype tradition & to give the OSS communi-
ty the chance to finish the job or at least
extract the Skype protocols & create some
-interoperable- software.
With Public-Domain software I can do ANYTHING?!?
Doe that include slapping a GPL onto it...
(ie, even if I didn't write it?!?
"I have some small, fairly well-defined
;-)
;-)
programming projects that I need done,
but I don't have time to do them myself."
So, what is scratching your itch worth?
"So, I've been looking into sites like
Get a Freelancer and
ScriptLance.
Does anybody have any experience of these
types of sites?"
We've had a look at GetAFreeLancer.com &
got the impression, from prices observed,
that much of the work might go to places
like India.
"Specifically, I'd like to hear your rec's
and advice, as well as your experiences."
We weren't prepared to go so low...
"My concerns include:
getting very poor quality work;"
Be ready to pay more, maybe to some-
one in your nearby city or town
"communication and language barriers"
"and also losing control over the work
that I've paid for"
Not to worry, you won't pay until
you &/or your project's moderator
agree that your spec's were met -
so, focus on getting your spec's
right...
I WONDER IF THERE ARE ANY PROGRAM-
MERS PREPARE TO "COMPETE" EG ON A
FIRST TO MEET SPEC'S W-I-N BASIS?
"if I'm paying for some work, I want
it licensed on my own terms."
Why should what you want matter?
The question is how much are you
prepared to pay for what you want?
If you're dipping into marketplaces
like these, were trhe world can bid,
you still have to pay for anything
you want that's above & beyond the
basic software that meets spec's
ANY CONTRACTOR WILL WANT MORE IF YOUR
LICENSE CONDITIONS IMPLIES LOSS OF THE
RIGHT TO RE-USE HIS/HER OWN CODE.
PAY MORE... GET MORE... SIMPLE, EH?
Many of us rely on Open Source and/or
Amateur Radio communities for hints,
tips & useful workarounds, at least
sometimes over the life of our many
high-tech system projects.
This might be like the phasing out of
the horse & bugy (except for Amish &
others in developing worlds), ie, now
that we have cars (at least while our
fossil fuels last...).
Of course, there are some folks who -
quite rightly - relish some elements of
the past (eg, Clydesdale horses here)
enough to keep representative alive,
either by restoring older machine or
breeding, riding & showing a few horses.
Just as worthy as enjoying a sail on
tall ships.
But business has to consider costs &
RoI... not the warm glow that might
come from doing a job well for clients
or members.
With a bit of luck, slices of Interex's
support libraries or whatever they have
will fall into the hand of respective
communities of folks who care about the
systems needing support.
Maybe any users group meeting will take
place at greener, potentially lower cost
venues out, a bit away from cities.
It might do some good...
Dunno if you'd collect enough altitude data points
to find the result useful, but just to let u know.
They'll happily accept more $$$'s for
all that over-charged air-time...
PS The reason Morse Coders were faster
was that their gear was on a table,
while their competitions' was hand-
held & subject to movement-based
error.
Morse Coders... what a TERRIFIC name
for a new programming contest!
So, after Australia began to put would-be asylum-sekers
into detention centers - WAAAaaayyyy out in the desert...
A group of [presumably politically active] game-makers
created a game based on one such prison (Woomera,
in South Australia).
Now, it was never clear how to get this free game working
Somehoe Half-Life was to be installed first...?
But which of several Half-Life modules or system(s), I don't know...?
Has anybody got Escape From Woomera to work...?
If so, How (which specific Half Life engine is needed)?
TIA
Game details at: http://escapefromwoomera.org/
If not, change word processor...
Managing footnotes & creating a bibliography
goes back to Lotus Manuscript (my fav, under
DOS, in a previous life & era...)
Is there any value in separating out either
of those two functions, ie, from our modern
word processing software?
I don't think so...
Here's a bit of what they say about themselves:
...
"THE LARGEST WEB DEVELOPERS SITE ON THE NET
Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free
At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building
tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to
advanced XML, Multimedia and WAP.
Full Web Building References
Our references cover all Web-building technologies,
including W3C standards like HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML
and other technologies like ASP and ADO plus much
more.
Try-It-Yourself On-Line Examples
At W3schools you will find thousands of cut-and-
paste examples. With our on-line HTML editor you
can edit the examples and experiment with the code
on-line."
Oh... don't forget the "s"... unless, of course,
you want to get Religion... (xian, of course...)
Maybe other readers know of similar sites (ie,
to the one -with- the 'S'
NOT to the religious site)?
TIA
The book (in my hot little hands) lists:
"MP3, WMA, ASF & Ogg (sic) Plaback"
and:
"Direct MP3 Recording" (from radio & line-in)
The article's device is the same as YP-T6Z,
except it seems to have a USB port (covered by a
rounded cover)?
Both have the same joystick, etc. (rare feature),
so, I suppose that Samsung makes both of them.
Arthur C Clark, maybe...?
If a product costs $1,000 the margin is higher
than if it's essentially free.
With more $'s in the total deal's profit,
there's more $'s available to "share"
with decision makers, eg, in State Educ Dep'ts.
But, wait, there's more...
Consider the jobs issue.
More M$ software => more need for administrators
=> more jobs
Political parties like to show reductions
in joblessness when they were in office.
Noting that FOSS provides opportunities for
VOLUNTEER work on projects doesn't sound as
good as the other case's report that M$ pro-
vides opportunities for PAID WORK.
It's not a matter of cost here.
I prefer FOSS, myself, but I see some others'
dilemmas (at least two, above) & understand
the temptations they may be faced with.
What'cha think?
We pay taxes... so, collectively, we are
/. audience (L Lessig?) ;-)
- in effect - like members of a cooperative
(analogy: farmer's co-op), and - for part
of our "co-op fees" (ie, taxes) - we get
services, such as weather data, etc.
C'mon, lawyers in the
help us get value for our "co-op fee" bucks,
here.
Several -years- ago, the CBC's Quirks & Quarks
(science program) announced the successful
Edmonton Protocol (transplanting islets from
healthy volunteers to Type 1 Diabetes sufferers).
Trials were conducted around the world (incl'g
Canada, USA & Sweden, to name a few locations)
with success rates into the 80 & 90% ranges.
Of course, the problem seemed to be rejection of
the islets. necessitating the need to reduce the
immune system's effectiveness in the recipient.
So, WHAT'S NEW HERE?!?
Doesn't this article's poster or
read medical journals before embracing articles?
Fair enough to let people know about treatments
just in case peoples' doctors aren't telling them
about them (what doctors or insulin-pump makers
want to lose business?)
But is this
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Next article, please.
MicroChip's MPLAB (IDE w/ ass'r, simulator, etc.)
(there's a link to it on their site's front page)
Programmer's Editor for PICace (it's got a tech ref built-in):
http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/progedit.htm
RealTerm (a SourceForge project)
Begin by showing what has happened to the size of MCU's, eg,
by showing your students the subject presentation
(it's like a PowerPoint show with its own audio)
Systems of interest include:
PICaxe-based educational robot (from UK?)
If programming in Assembler, try CoreChart:
http://www.eLabtronics.com/CoreChartFR.htm
(from Australia)
Australia has had a Shortwave Receiver
(for verifyably licensed Radio Amateurs,
it's also a remotely controlled HF/VHF/UHF
transceiver) based on Skype for yonks!
(Make a Skype call to it to listen...
access a web page to control the radio
and (if licensed) transmit. A bit like
the receive-only JavaRadio (Javeradio?
these days...?)
I guess this is a bit different, since
the radio-based Skype applications are
Real Time, not recorded.
The links are dead...?
Some of the most important topics unfinisher
or (apparently) unavailable...!?!
If not now, when?
'gotta get this puppy in modifyable format...
I don't know how hard some may find it to
"start a new [course]" but it -is- possible
to add such topics to a general ICT course.
Here, teachers can run their courses as they
wish (within reason, of course), so changing
an existing course to meet a need or expressed
interest (eg, one student's request to learn
to program) is easily done.
If a teacher wishes to let some would-be hackers
do their thing, it's easy enough to do, eg,
just by offering the same option to all.
Not everybody needs to sign-up, for it to work.
Of course, the teacher has to do a bit more
preparing (or, in this case, modifying), ie,
if they wish.
But - when you have something worthwhile
to get done - who do you ask?
A busy person or a person with time on their hands?
A busy teacher, of course...
The local high school opens their premier ICT room
each day (at lunchtime) to kids who want to use computers
As lunchtime is about 30 min's, the student council
has proposed also opening the same room at Recess.
There has to be a teacher (doing "Yard Duty" there),
so there's a cost involved to the school.
But one SC rep says she has a list of teachers
willing to volunteer for a Recess shift,
now & then.
So, I guess this school has a little different
take on who "owns" the computers (ie, tax-payers,
who ought to get maximum value from their investment)
I like that thought... Now, I'd like to get that
kind of thinking into the debate on the Iraq War
[ Sorry, got my Subj line pre-published ]
I was going to say:
If teachers could modify the thing,
they could pick & choose what to use.
Send it out in a modifiable format
(ie, if not already in one now...)
A few years ago, MS had a testing aid called
- creatively enough (for MS, at least...)
Microsoft Test.
As you didn't even get it with MSDN Universal
I never got the chance to evaluate or use it,
but perhaps there is a counterpart in OSS...?
I'd love to find one... TIA
C'mon, people, just because you signed an NDA
doesn't mean you can't get a variation agree-
ment for a small, useful bit of code that you
are proud of...
I'd make it a habit of getting such an agree-
ment (ie, variation) as early as possible, eg
even during the signing of the NDA itself.
Why not try adding a write-in clause (do it a
bit professionally, eg, by sticking-on a pre-
printed label, maybe) that says something like:
"... small work sample(s) may be shown,
but not left in the possession of other
organisation(s), exclusively when inter-
viewing for other positions.
Such samples will not include 's
trade secrets, etc."
You lawyer should be able to help you with
the details...
Being able to stack up university credits...
or
Being able to do a job that (hopefully)
companies are willing to pay your heaps for doing
(or - in the absence of such companies, near you
- being able to start a business based on such
skills & knowledge in the industry... and -
if you do it well - make more money than in a job)?
You decide...