Are you Owen Tylor or Havoc Pennington? Does the average developer have this option? Get a job for RedHat, Ximian or IBM working on OSS, then you can claim that it is a viable option for anyone in the real world to write free software.
Its simple: if your life relies on software development to pay your bills, giving software away will not bring you money. Ximian, RedHat and even IBM employ a pitiful # of developers who work on OSS projects. IBM does it simply to have leverage in the Linux kernel. Ximian and RedHat are barely companies to begin with.
They write the software because they need it themselves, or just to teach themselves something new. If they can release it to the world and make it a better place then... hey... why not?
But the software they write that pays for their salaries is the software that is not FREE. There are individuals who believe that all software should be free. If all software is free, who pays me to write software? IBM for support? Companies that require support for OSS projects as part of their business line have and never will be able to sustain the market of software developers. If all software was OSS, the number of software developers would zero out simply because nobody would be paying them to develop software. Its very simple economics, really. Think of developers as cookie factories. They pump out cookies and people buy them. If everyone gives away their cookies without compensation, no one will even consider buying your cookies. If nobody buys your cookies, you won't make any money.
Nobody said anything about maximizing income. But while we're on the topic, maximizing income should be everyones goal, simply because it improves your quality of living and it baselines your fellow developer's income. The employer will only give you as much as the market decides you are worth. If everyone is humble and decides they can get along with less, that hurts the market as a whole.
And the company has a significantly negative value on his hording of the knowledge and if wise will get rid of his fucked up ass as soon as they get the chance.
You would assume that would happen, but it doesn't... but right now, we're discussing the value with respect to the individual, not the company.
I love the way you relate OSS and Communism! Now I don't have to be modded as a Troll.
I believe that Communism has been demonstrated as a failure in dozens of countries world-wide. Cuba, USSR, China, North Korea. You may argue that China is prospering today, but I argue that its Capitalism that has brought China to where it is now.
Hording that knowledge has a negative value, like a missed opportunity.
You have obviously not witnessed the asshole at the company who does not get laid off because he refuses to transfer his knowledge about XYZ product. Value is all relative. In this case, Asshole has a significantly positive value on his knowledge and his abillity to hord it.
Yes, I was assuming we'd consider knowledge and implimentation hand-in-hand, although they're not.
Because MONEY is what puts food on the table and puts your kids through college. Money is what puts gas in your car and pays your mortgage.
Unless you plan on living with your parents your whole life, money is what keeps you alive.
You can say that knowledge is priceless, should be free or whatever you want. The fact of the matter is that your knowledge is what gets you the job that pays your salary that puts food in your mouth. Knowledge has a monetary value.
The concept is not to just inform you that you'll be waiting in a parking lot ahead. The concept is that you'll be informed that its raining or traffic is at a dead stop ahead, or severe fog, etc, etc. Most accidents that occur in the rain happen within the first few minutes of rainfall. Receiving notification that its raining ahead or theres a traffic jam ahead may statistically save lives by providing the driver with an N minute warning of danger.
As far as routing goes, I will sometimes spend 2 hrs on I-95 between Greenwich and Manhatten because not a single traffic station will report on this stretch of the highway. When it is clear, I get through the stretch in 20 minutes. When its not, its a parking lot. Having the cars report the traffic conditions would remove this "dead zone" from the traffic channels. I'd be able to gauge whether to take the Merrit Pkwy or I-95 without guessing, like I do now.
I think this would be supremo cool if it could be done as an ad hoc network, say all cars within 1 mi...
This is a fundamental problem with Gimp that keeps it out of the hands of the main stream people. The Menu options are not simple enough for a stupid user (e.g. ME) to Open Gimp and edit an image quickly. I have to know that in order to draw a line, you select a brush and hold shift and click or some crap like that, which not only am I not going to remember, but I'm simply not going to use it!!
The Gimp is one of the legacy OSS projects that has been around for so long, but has still not understood what it takes to bring it main stream. A more intuitive interface for stupid users, an MDI layout that doesn't confuse users (e.g. ME) and most importantly, allow the user to draw a line without having to alt-shift-control-wipe-your-ass-click action.
I'm not sure that blurring the distinction between war and games is really such a good idea...
Yeah, but people are going to do this anyway. This is the reason why we have civilians as President and in Congress... so that they know the difference between a game and war. Those who think that war would be "a fun thing" are not the ones making the decisions.
About 10 yrs ago during a thunder storm, my garage door kept opening and closing on its own. The incredible thing is that it was right in synch with the lightening strikes. It never occurred again after that storm though... very weird.
I managed to secure 2 jobs via Dice and Monster. The first was after I moved to Boston after a layoff. I was on unemployment for 1 week. The second was after I decided to move back to NJ a year later (damn wife). I was unemployed a total of 2 or 3 weeks (in between I had a consulting position).
Incredible as it sounds, the EAGLE effort is underway at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy division, sources there confirm. Also under research at the lab is the Ground-Based Laser, which, according to the Air Force report, would shoot "laser beams through the atmosphere" to knock out enemy spacecraft in low-earth orbit.
If you remember, shortly after one of those commercial reconnaisance satelites went into orbit and photographed a military base (Area 51?), the military basically informed the company that it has the capability of dropping the satelite from orbit. Now, whether they mean via the space shuttle or now, I don't know. I have a hunch that the US military already has missles that can take out a satelite, especially since ICBM's have been around for decades.
Not if they use rockets to power its decent. An impact at such a high velocity with the ground(part of the velocity of the "rods" would be from gaining orbit) would not require explosives at all. So it would be a missle without a "warhead" in the traditional sense.
Cannons don't incite the idea of accuracy, especially from 30 miles in the sky. I suppose these things would have fins and/or rockets to alter its decent path. At hypervelocities, lots of materials would simply evaporate.
That depends on the State you are in. Some states have laws where the keys can't be in the ignition, others say that you can't be in the drivers seat.
In this instance, I have a hunch that he was well within his legal right to be behind the wheel. On top of this, I don't recall DUI being an issue, simply him refusing to give his ID.
Anyone know of a good diagnostic tool for an Asus A7A266? Asus' website blows and I have never been able to find _ANYTHING_ along the lines of a diagnostic utlitiy from them.:(
In all honesty, I don't think its the government's responsability to ensure stupid users have XYZ Media Player on their computers. Yes MS is huge, and yes they virtually have a monopoly on the PC market, but bundling Netscape/Real/etc with Microsoft's Operating Systems makes no logical sense.
The aim at a suit like this should be to punish MS for strong-arming manufacturers like Dell, Gateway, etc into using MS software over the competition. Its the manufacturers responsability to bundle third party software like those above (yeah, Netscape is dead, yada yada), not Microsoft's.
The Framework Classes are the Framework Classes. If Mono creates their own API to do XYZ, then its _NOT_ an extension of the.NET Framework anymore than my HelloWorld.cs class is an extension to the Framework.
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Are you Owen Tylor or Havoc Pennington? Does the average developer have this option? Get a job for RedHat, Ximian or IBM working on OSS, then you can claim that it is a viable option for anyone in the real world to write free software.
Its simple: if your life relies on software development to pay your bills, giving software away will not bring you money. Ximian, RedHat and even IBM employ a pitiful # of developers who work on OSS projects. IBM does it simply to have leverage in the Linux kernel. Ximian and RedHat are barely companies to begin with.
No, but I would write free software for a living ;)
Cute. On whose dime?
Exactly.
They write the software because they need it themselves, or just to teach themselves something new. If they can release it to the world and make it a better place then ... hey ... why not?
But the software they write that pays for their salaries is the software that is not FREE. There are individuals who believe that all software should be free. If all software is free, who pays me to write software? IBM for support? Companies that require support for OSS projects as part of their business line have and never will be able to sustain the market of software developers. If all software was OSS, the number of software developers would zero out simply because nobody would be paying them to develop software. Its very simple economics, really. Think of developers as cookie factories. They pump out cookies and people buy them. If everyone gives away their cookies without compensation, no one will even consider buying your cookies. If nobody buys your cookies, you won't make any money.
Nobody said anything about maximizing income. But while we're on the topic, maximizing income should be everyones goal, simply because it improves your quality of living and it baselines your fellow developer's income. The employer will only give you as much as the market decides you are worth. If everyone is humble and decides they can get along with less, that hurts the market as a whole.
And the company has a significantly negative value on his hording of the knowledge and if wise will get rid of his fucked up ass as soon as they get the chance.
You would assume that would happen, but it doesn't... but right now, we're discussing the value with respect to the individual, not the company.
Would you write software for free for a living?
I love the way you relate OSS and Communism! Now I don't have to be modded as a Troll.
I believe that Communism has been demonstrated as a failure in dozens of countries world-wide. Cuba, USSR, China, North Korea. You may argue that China is prospering today, but I argue that its Capitalism that has brought China to where it is now.
Exactly, but its not your knowledge or skills that necessarily keep you alive, unless your parents force you to pay for food, rent, electric, etc.
The average college student simply has no clue to this fact (no offense to students, I was one too).
Hording that knowledge has a negative value, like a missed opportunity.
You have obviously not witnessed the asshole at the company who does not get laid off because he refuses to transfer his knowledge about XYZ product. Value is all relative. In this case, Asshole has a significantly positive value on his knowledge and his abillity to hord it.
Yes, I was assuming we'd consider knowledge and implimentation hand-in-hand, although they're not.
Because MONEY is what puts food on the table and puts your kids through college. Money is what puts gas in your car and pays your mortgage.
Unless you plan on living with your parents your whole life, money is what keeps you alive.
You can say that knowledge is priceless, should be free or whatever you want. The fact of the matter is that your knowledge is what gets you the job that pays your salary that puts food in your mouth. Knowledge has a monetary value.
The concept is not to just inform you that you'll be waiting in a parking lot ahead. The concept is that you'll be informed that its raining or traffic is at a dead stop ahead, or severe fog, etc, etc. Most accidents that occur in the rain happen within the first few minutes of rainfall. Receiving notification that its raining ahead or theres a traffic jam ahead may statistically save lives by providing the driver with an N minute warning of danger.
As far as routing goes, I will sometimes spend 2 hrs on I-95 between Greenwich and Manhatten because not a single traffic station will report on this stretch of the highway. When it is clear, I get through the stretch in 20 minutes. When its not, its a parking lot. Having the cars report the traffic conditions would remove this "dead zone" from the traffic channels. I'd be able to gauge whether to take the Merrit Pkwy or I-95 without guessing, like I do now.
I think this would be supremo cool if it could be done as an ad hoc network, say all cars within 1 mi...
How do I draw a Line, Circle or Square?
This is a fundamental problem with Gimp that keeps it out of the hands of the main stream people. The Menu options are not simple enough for a stupid user (e.g. ME) to Open Gimp and edit an image quickly. I have to know that in order to draw a line, you select a brush and hold shift and click or some crap like that, which not only am I not going to remember, but I'm simply not going to use it!!
The Gimp is one of the legacy OSS projects that has been around for so long, but has still not understood what it takes to bring it main stream. A more intuitive interface for stupid users, an MDI layout that doesn't confuse users (e.g. ME) and most importantly, allow the user to draw a line without having to alt-shift-control-wipe-your-ass-click action.
I'm not sure that blurring the distinction between war and games is really such a good idea...
Yeah, but people are going to do this anyway. This is the reason why we have civilians as President and in Congress... so that they know the difference between a game and war. Those who think that war would be "a fun thing" are not the ones making the decisions.
About 10 yrs ago during a thunder storm, my garage door kept opening and closing on its own. The incredible thing is that it was right in synch with the lightening strikes. It never occurred again after that storm though... very weird.
I agree, this is bogus.
I managed to secure 2 jobs via Dice and Monster. The first was after I moved to Boston after a layoff. I was on unemployment for 1 week. The second was after I decided to move back to NJ a year later (damn wife). I was unemployed a total of 2 or 3 weeks (in between I had a consulting position).
Online is a pretty good bet (for me anyways).
Incredible as it sounds, the EAGLE effort is underway at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy division, sources there confirm. Also under research at the lab is the Ground-Based Laser, which, according to the Air Force report, would shoot "laser beams through the atmosphere" to knock out enemy spacecraft in low-earth orbit.
If you remember, shortly after one of those commercial reconnaisance satelites went into orbit and photographed a military base (Area 51?), the military basically informed the company that it has the capability of dropping the satelite from orbit. Now, whether they mean via the space shuttle or now, I don't know. I have a hunch that the US military already has missles that can take out a satelite, especially since ICBM's have been around for decades.
Not if they use rockets to power its decent. An impact at such a high velocity with the ground(part of the velocity of the "rods" would be from gaining orbit) would not require explosives at all. So it would be a missle without a "warhead" in the traditional sense.
Cannons don't incite the idea of accuracy, especially from 30 miles in the sky. I suppose these things would have fins and/or rockets to alter its decent path. At hypervelocities, lots of materials would simply evaporate.
That depends on the State you are in. Some states have laws where the keys can't be in the ignition, others say that you can't be in the drivers seat.
In this instance, I have a hunch that he was well within his legal right to be behind the wheel. On top of this, I don't recall DUI being an issue, simply him refusing to give his ID.
He wasn't driving, he was parked on the side of the road.
Anyone know of a good diagnostic tool for an Asus A7A266? Asus' website blows and I have never been able to find _ANYTHING_ along the lines of a diagnostic utlitiy from them. :(
In all honesty, I don't think its the government's responsability to ensure stupid users have XYZ Media Player on their computers. Yes MS is huge, and yes they virtually have a monopoly on the PC market, but bundling Netscape/Real/etc with Microsoft's Operating Systems makes no logical sense.
The aim at a suit like this should be to punish MS for strong-arming manufacturers like Dell, Gateway, etc into using MS software over the competition. Its the manufacturers responsability to bundle third party software like those above (yeah, Netscape is dead, yada yada), not Microsoft's.
Mono offers no improvements to the .NET Framework as a Framework. Refer to my other posts on the topic.
You just have no idea what you are talking about.
Oh please. Re-read what I wrote and then address it in the proper context.
The Framework Classes are the Framework Classes. If Mono creates their own API to do XYZ, then its _NOT_ an extension of the
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