He may look at less famous developers than himself and see little chance of them making money off their work (or less chance of them developing something decent because they are expecting to), and he may be right. He's looking at the wrong group of people, though.
So what you're saying is that OSS devs are kicking themselves in the balls by having this self-deprecating software career. Write stuff for free and thats bread that I'll never see. I totally agree with you.
I remember writing an app in Pascal to mimic the Novell Login screen. The admin never secured the autoexec.bat (or something similar) and I set up my login app to log username/passwd once, then exit which would cause the real login screen to pop up.
I also wrote an app for my TI-82 calculator to mimic the "Clear Memory" applet. For my physics final the teacher was a real hard ass and requied every device to be handed to him and have the memory cleared. So he went through the clear memory routine with my calculator but was none the wiser. I remember it even mimic'd the delay so that it looked like lots of shit was being deleted. Unfortunately computers made me smart enough to accomplish my evil deeds, but only smart enough to realize how stupid I am compared to others.
'High-tech companies don't release products anymore, they provide solutions. And those solutions don't simply run a program or play a song. Instead, they enable experiences, optimize agility or make people's passions come alive'
OR, those solutions route phone calls, let you manage and share your calendar or take a picture of your license plate when you run a red light.
Those buzzwords do have definitions. Its the simpletons in Marketing and PR who try to decsribe shit without understanding what the shit does or how it will be used.
I've often wondered if the vague descriptions served a another purpose, which is to throw off your potential competition by not telling anyone what you do... Maybe thats why those companies usually have no customers...
All I want to be able to do is search all the source code files on my machine. You currently can't do that with any of the desktop search apps out there other than windows built in search (which takes decades).
In recent years, there's been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, "We've got to look at patents, we've got to look at copyrights." What's driving this, and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?
No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.
I guess the part where everyone should be offended is: "There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises". I happen to agree with him though. In essence what he is saying is that people are expecting goods and services for free. This is a fundamental pillar of socialism.
Huh? you can get one of those linksys vonage box things, usually free or nearly free after rebate. They plug into your network and your exsisting phone line. You can use all your exsisting phone equipment. You even get dial tone when you pick up.
Not necessarily true. Its virtually impossible to show that someones WMA file is fair use or not simply because it does not have DRM turned on. I've bought WMA online and have also ripped my CDs. Both of which is fair use and perfectly legal. If they happenned to infect my file and claim it to be "pirated", then thats fucking with my property and under todays laws is criminal. Its probably even a violation of the DMCA.
Well yes, but its more than 1MB/day in bandwidth. Its the performance hit I take with my bandwidth everytime a call comes in. Mostly though is the fact that VOIP is only as reliable as your internet connection and voice clarity is remarkably different over IP than over a land line. Everytime Comcast drops my connection I essentially would not be able to make a phonecall where as with the phone compnay I've never had that problem.
Also, short of re-wiring your house, you'd need to have network access at every phone you'd like to use.
My phonebill is also about $40/mo and that includes the $15/mo unlimited domestic calling.
As long as you have plenty of time to build and configure a PBX and you have enough knowledge about the phone system, yeah Asterisk is great. If you don't, then you should probably stick to the phone company or calling cards. The phone company (Verizon) is my mortal enemy, but I use them simply because its too difficult to use anything else. I don't want to waste bandwidth on VOIP, which leaves me with the option of cell phone, verizon or no phone at all...
Red Alert! We have a major moral breakdown of the/. Intellectual Property Concensus! It is immoral to have both the ability to own intellectual property AND profit from ones invention!! So what if he invented optical storage! He invented it for the betterment of society, not for his own monetary gain...
Meaning if you don't want GPL constraints you pay them $10k, otherwise you have a fairly worthless product that you can't sell because anyone can compile it and package it and sell your work as long as they re-release the source.
My point is that this is not the kind of model that pays for dinner, let alone the rent/mortgage, daycare, healthcare, gas.
I agree with you. Fuck the birds. This is a miniscule number and there are work arounds. On top of that, air pollution kills more birds and humans per year alone anyways. This is clearly better than pumping shit into the air.
Oh fucking please. They own it, you're correct. The difference is that they give it away for free. I am not speaking about technicalities of IP, but rather open source models versus closed source models and the money involved. In OSS the only money made is through custom services, either by making customized modifications to code for miniscule niches that close source companies don't have an incentive to tackle, or by providing support constracts for their software. Both of which do not prevent anyone from grabbing your source code and selling it for the exact same purpose (i.e. selling your hard work and thus devalueing your effort).
Compared to other professionals, like whom? Doctors? Lawyers? College Professors?
Police Officers in Massachusetts can average about $100k by moon-lighting. Nurses average greater than $100k/yr (more than the avg software developer). EMTs and Firemen do not require an advanced degree, so they make shit.
The base salary for teachers in NJ is $60,000/yr. Thats for working 2/3 of the year. In other words, they have the entire summer to "rough it" and make another $20-$30k. All that money and they still fucking suck. Pathetic!
While I agree that its definately possible to make money off of open source software, I don't feel that such a market has the capability to support software development salaries on the same scale as if the software were to be sold solely as proprietary closed source (i.e. if people owned IP).
How does this not disturb anyone? The govt of China gave money to an organization solely devoted to promoting the image of a former US President? Something just doesn't seem right here...
The Education System sucks here yet we dump shitloads of money into the system and the teachers unions are continually demanding more and more money stating that their salaries suck.
Yes its the teachers. Yes its the parents. Yes its the students. No its not a matter of school budgets.
If this isn't a meteor, which I'm not entirely sure why it couldn't be; then it is a shadow from some sort of vapor train that you cannot see in the picture.
I suppose it could also be an amateur rocket fired from the ground and/or an elaborate hoax.
While a supernova does produce an enormous amount of nutrinos, so does the Sun. So Neutrino production isn't limited to massive events.
WRT to supernovae, its the massive increase in flux that tells us that a supernova is about to occur, but that is merely an increase in the existing flux.
Its funny how when its a Microsoft employee potentially violating Intellectual Property Right laws, its the end of hte fucking world. In any other scenario nobody would consider it wrong.
By the way, they'll know preceisely who editted it with the warezed copy and he'll get his ass fired. Good job! You got a Microsoft employee fired! yeeeeehhh!!!
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He'll be paying $200-400k, and serving a year or two of federal time.
This guy has 'Capital Punishment' written all over him.... he got off lite!!
He may look at less famous developers than himself and see little chance of them making money off their work (or less chance of them developing something decent because they are expecting to), and he may be right. He's looking at the wrong group of people, though.
So what you're saying is that OSS devs are kicking themselves in the balls by having this self-deprecating software career. Write stuff for free and thats bread that I'll never see. I totally agree with you.
I remember writing an app in Pascal to mimic the Novell Login screen. The admin never secured the autoexec.bat (or something similar) and I set up my login app to log username/passwd once, then exit which would cause the real login screen to pop up.
I also wrote an app for my TI-82 calculator to mimic the "Clear Memory" applet. For my physics final the teacher was a real hard ass and requied every device to be handed to him and have the memory cleared. So he went through the clear memory routine with my calculator but was none the wiser. I remember it even mimic'd the delay so that it looked like lots of shit was being deleted. Unfortunately computers made me smart enough to accomplish my evil deeds, but only smart enough to realize how stupid I am compared to others.
They're not "crunching" the raw images. They're taking the raw images and creating a fictional rendering of what they think it'd look like.
Its like Pixar taking NASA satelite images and coming up with a Toy Story-style rendering of Manhattan.
That guy is a whiney bitch. His examples are totally bogus.
Enterprise = Anything dealing with corporations
Scalable = Anything that can support growth
Blog = Web Log. Its a fucking diary.
I was expecting to see shit like "Synergy", but "Data Migration"?!? How the hell can you be in the IT industry and not understand Data Migration?
What a douche bag!
'High-tech companies don't release products anymore, they provide solutions. And those solutions don't simply run a program or play a song. Instead, they enable experiences, optimize agility or make people's passions come alive'
OR, those solutions route phone calls, let you manage and share your calendar or take a picture of your license plate when you run a red light.
Those buzzwords do have definitions. Its the simpletons in Marketing and PR who try to decsribe shit without understanding what the shit does or how it will be used.
I've often wondered if the vague descriptions served a another purpose, which is to throw off your potential competition by not telling anyone what you do... Maybe thats why those companies usually have no customers...
All I want to be able to do is search all the source code files on my machine. You currently can't do that with any of the desktop search apps out there other than windows built in search (which takes decades).
No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.
I guess the part where everyone should be offended is: "There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises". I happen to agree with him though. In essence what he is saying is that people are expecting goods and services for free. This is a fundamental pillar of socialism.
Huh? you can get one of those linksys vonage box things, usually free or nearly free after rebate. They plug into your network and your exsisting phone line. You can use all your exsisting phone equipment. You even get dial tone when you pick up.
Huh? In certain situations: No you can not.
You have been passed over by the broadband rapture.
Not necessarily true. Its virtually impossible to show that someones WMA file is fair use or not simply because it does not have DRM turned on. I've bought WMA online and have also ripped my CDs. Both of which is fair use and perfectly legal. If they happenned to infect my file and claim it to be "pirated", then thats fucking with my property and under todays laws is criminal. Its probably even a violation of the DMCA.
Well yes, but its more than 1MB/day in bandwidth. Its the performance hit I take with my bandwidth everytime a call comes in. Mostly though is the fact that VOIP is only as reliable as your internet connection and voice clarity is remarkably different over IP than over a land line. Everytime Comcast drops my connection I essentially would not be able to make a phonecall where as with the phone compnay I've never had that problem.
Also, short of re-wiring your house, you'd need to have network access at every phone you'd like to use.
My phonebill is also about $40/mo and that includes the $15/mo unlimited domestic calling.
As long as you have plenty of time to build and configure a PBX and you have enough knowledge about the phone system, yeah Asterisk is great. If you don't, then you should probably stick to the phone company or calling cards. The phone company (Verizon) is my mortal enemy, but I use them simply because its too difficult to use anything else. I don't want to waste bandwidth on VOIP, which leaves me with the option of cell phone, verizon or no phone at all...
Red Alert! We have a major moral breakdown of the
Meaning if you don't want GPL constraints you pay them $10k, otherwise you have a fairly worthless product that you can't sell because anyone can compile it and package it and sell your work as long as they re-release the source.
My point is that this is not the kind of model that pays for dinner, let alone the rent/mortgage, daycare, healthcare, gas.
I agree with you. Fuck the birds. This is a miniscule number and there are work arounds. On top of that, air pollution kills more birds and humans per year alone anyways. This is clearly better than pumping shit into the air.
Oh fucking please. They own it, you're correct. The difference is that they give it away for free. I am not speaking about technicalities of IP, but rather open source models versus closed source models and the money involved. In OSS the only money made is through custom services, either by making customized modifications to code for miniscule niches that close source companies don't have an incentive to tackle, or by providing support constracts for their software. Both of which do not prevent anyone from grabbing your source code and selling it for the exact same purpose (i.e. selling your hard work and thus devalueing your effort).
Compared to other professionals, like whom? Doctors? Lawyers? College Professors?
Police Officers in Massachusetts can average about $100k by moon-lighting. Nurses average greater than $100k/yr (more than the avg software developer). EMTs and Firemen do not require an advanced degree, so they make shit.
The base salary for teachers in NJ is $60,000/yr. Thats for working 2/3 of the year. In other words, they have the entire summer to "rough it" and make another $20-$30k. All that money and they still fucking suck. Pathetic!
While I agree that its definately possible to make money off of open source software, I don't feel that such a market has the capability to support software development salaries on the same scale as if the software were to be sold solely as proprietary closed source (i.e. if people owned IP).
How does this not disturb anyone? The govt of China gave money to an organization solely devoted to promoting the image of a former US President? Something just doesn't seem right here...
The Education System sucks here yet we dump shitloads of money into the system and the teachers unions are continually demanding more and more money stating that their salaries suck.
Yes its the teachers. Yes its the parents. Yes its the students. No its not a matter of school budgets.
These numbers clearly suggest this.
If this isn't a meteor, which I'm not entirely sure why it couldn't be; then it is a shadow from some sort of vapor train that you cannot see in the picture.
I suppose it could also be an amateur rocket fired from the ground and/or an elaborate hoax.
How about the USA's invasion of Yugoslavia or Panama for that matter?
While a supernova does produce an enormous amount of nutrinos, so does the Sun. So Neutrino production isn't limited to massive events.
WRT to supernovae, its the massive increase in flux that tells us that a supernova is about to occur, but that is merely an increase in the existing flux.
Its funny how when its a Microsoft employee potentially violating Intellectual Property Right laws, its the end of hte fucking world. In any other scenario nobody would consider it wrong.
By the way, they'll know preceisely who editted it with the warezed copy and he'll get his ass fired. Good job! You got a Microsoft employee fired! yeeeeehhh!!!