Well when you stress freedom it applies to everyone. Even people you don't like. Otherwise its not freedom. So yes film producers are going to be using linux if they think it will help them get their product out the door. Just like many other people.
First reason we (In the US) do a Census, to figure out how many congress people each state gets. But also things like how many health care facilites each area needs. If a county has one hospital for 50,000 people it might be time to build a second one.
You probably need to have a strong contract if you want to do this. Set it up so that if they want you more than "X" hrs a week its overtime. For whatever value of X you pick. And I have to say while I'm not married now, if G-d willing some day I am married with kids I might want to do the 30hr/week thing to spend the extra 10 with the kids.
Does anyone know where a peer-reviewed journal article about this could be found? As important as the News Media is for diseminating things like this it is important to remember that what the journals say is much more important and folks like the BBC often get it wrong. (I have no idea if they did here)
I would say even if you use 300 CD-R's a year, $30 for a spindle of 100 is probably not going to hit you all that hard in the wallet. We are talking about $90 a year. If it became $300 for a spindal of 100 disks you might change your habits, but $30 or even $45 probably not. (Ofcourse you might but in general most people won't)
Who are my customers going to be?
How many of them will there be?
How much will they be paying per Month/Year?
What service will I have to provide them?
How much will it cost to do so?
How long till all this starts paying for itself?
How many customers will do I need for that to happen. How many do I have to bring in every Month?
What is my funding going to be until things start paying for themselves? If it costs you $1.05 to bring in $1.00 in revinue you will not last long.
What could go wrong?
What did I forget.
If you look at the web site of the US SBA, (Small Buisness Administration) there is a lot of stuff on founding a small company. If you are not in the USA much of it will still apply and you probably have similar things localy.
Because trying to get something like that into a stable orbit would be very hard and require a lot of fine control. Just nudging it a bit so that it would miss the earth would require that much control. After all the total number of paths that *DON'T* hit us is rather large.
Don't ask a bunch of Linux geeks how to do "Math Stuff" on linux. Ask your customers the scientists what they need. While we can give you some interesting ideas we as a rule have no idea what you need, and therefore can't get you there.
Or as a bumper sticker I saw said:
We don't know where we are going, but we're making record time!
Good for you! if you had worked for me I would have had no problem with it.
I started my job the week before Yom Kippor, I took it off. My boss's only remark was that I should write it on the callendar so if anyone was looking for me they would know why I was not there. Of course my boss took it off too.
In the few months since I have started wearing a kippa all the time I have had no problems what so ever. I try to make sure I explain why I can't do something if someone asks.
Joe Lieberman running for VP helped a lot. All of the sudden an observant Jew was in the headlines and doing things like not giving speaches on Shabbos. Made it much better for everyone else who ever had to wonder if they could say things like "No I won't come in on Saturday its Shabbos and I will be at the Shul with my family and community".
Red Hat does have a warranty (or something like it) if you buy the boxed product. That is after all one of the things you buy from them. If you download it from the net then no there is no warranty. Actually they have all sorts of support products of various forms that they will sell you.
I don't think RMS usualy sounds like a total loon, However Linus is much better at puting the same argument into words that are easer to understand by someone who is not a computer person. RMS tends to say Free software for free software sake and leave it there. I like Linus's comment about Sir Issac Newton etc. It puts a nice spin on the argument and puts in a broader context.
I in general work 40-45 hrs a week. And will not work at all on the Jewish Sabbath, (Friday sundown to sat sundown). I don't care what blew up don't call me. Life is too short to work 70 hrs a week.
You know the strange thing, now almost 10 years latter this morning I hit a problem and my first thought was that the Ableson & Sussman book from that class would probably be the right book to have handy, To bad my copy is at home. And yes Brandeis was a bit heavy on theory. But they did teach me rather well. In both CS and Physics.
When I was in school the scheme class was about the hardest class you would get as a CS undergrad, and it was what you got *FIRST*. They figured if you could do that class you probably could do the entire CS major. And if not best to find out now so you can go major in something else while you still have time.
I think every programer should learn lisp or scheme. It is very different from the Perl/C/Java that we spend most of our time working with. Since it is so different while programing in scheme you tend to come up with very different ways to solve problems. Once you know how to solve problems like that you can if needed take those ideas and move them back to Perl/C/java or whatever.
But learning to think differently is something that is definitly worth it!
People forget that they will be working for about 40 years of their lives (or more). If you burn out at age 25, you still have to figure out what you are going to do from now untill you want to retire or die. Unless you are one of the few who make *SO* much money by age 30 that you can raise a family and live the rest of your life off of it. You have to figure that you will need to keep working until you are 60 or 65 or so. So it makes sense to not try to work 80 hrs a week every week for the rest of your life.
Hell you might even want to take time out to have a family and maybe a hobby or two.
That realize that playing with computers for some of us is how we pay the bills and that sometimes no mater how much money you are making working 80 hrs a week is just not worth it. (At least for some people)
What I would love is some place that has a large number of these setup and for a modest fee you could go try them all. The problem is that what is perfect for me may suck for you and vice versa. It would be very nice to be able to test drive keyboards first.
You are assuming that all types of work can be done without a mouse. There are a lot of things for which a mouse (or trackball) is much easer than a keyboard. The problem is that with only 10% of the population being left handed there is just not that big a market. On the other hand if you could get one lefty in 10 to buy your mouse that would be a decent market so I don't know why someone isn't doing just that.
I have a co worker who is very much like this. She would never write code outside of work, this is what she does to pay the bills etc. On the other hand she is damn good at what she does. If you have a bit of code that needs to be maintianed give it to her. She *WILL* find the bug.
I will admit to spending more of my time fixing old code that writing new code. It may not always be as exciting, but I'm good at it and it always will need to be done.
They don't need a warrant because the United States Constitution does not protect non-US citizens acting outside the US.
But in theory it should contrain the FBI, I would think. Has this type of thing ever been tested in a court? I don't really know. If something similar has never come up before the judge will have to decide what the law is. This is why we have judges and courts after all.
Assuming that it gets to trial you can assume that the Defense lawyers will argue that the FBI did need a warent to do this. I imagine a court will decide one way or the other.
One of my favorite bits of USSC writing is the Justice Brandeis desent on the wiretapping case from the 20's when the FBI said that they did not need a warrent to tap a phone. (Brandeis and Homes said that they did but were in the Minority)
In all probability the evidence will be challenged in court.
MySQL does not have many of the features of an Oracle or DB2. There are no provisions for refferental integrety. I don't think there is a good way to back up very large databases. (Say more than a few hundred megs) and so on. That does not make it bad. Just not in the same ballgame as the big databases.
IBM is no more worried about MySQL cutting into its DB2 market than Boeing is worried about Cessna cutting into its airline market.
Its not that DB2 is "Better" than Mysql any more than a 747 is "Better" than a Cessna 172, they just do different things and get used for different jobs.
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Well when you stress freedom it applies to everyone. Even people you don't like. Otherwise its not freedom. So yes film producers are going to be using linux if they think it will help them get their product out the door. Just like many other people.
First reason we (In the US) do a Census, to figure out how many congress people each state gets. But also things like how many health care facilites each area needs. If a county has one hospital for 50,000 people it might be time to build a second one.
You probably need to have a strong contract if you want to do this. Set it up so that if they want you more than "X" hrs a week its overtime. For whatever value of X you pick. And I have to say while I'm not married now, if G-d willing some day I am married with kids I might want to do the 30hr/week thing to spend the extra 10 with the kids.
Does anyone know where a peer-reviewed journal article about this could be found? As important as the News Media is for diseminating things like this it is important to remember that what the journals say is much more important and folks like the BBC often get it wrong. (I have no idea if they did here)
I would say even if you use 300 CD-R's a year, $30 for a spindle of 100 is probably not going to hit you all that hard in the wallet. We are talking about $90 a year. If it became $300 for a spindal of 100 disks you might change your habits, but $30 or even $45 probably not. (Ofcourse you might but in general most people won't)
You need to ask yourself these questions:
Who are my customers going to be?
How many of them will there be?
How much will they be paying per Month/Year?
What service will I have to provide them?
How much will it cost to do so?
How long till all this starts paying for itself?
How many customers will do I need for that to happen. How many do I have to bring in every Month?
What is my funding going to be until things start paying for themselves? If it costs you $1.05 to bring in $1.00 in revinue you will not last long.
What could go wrong?
What did I forget.
If you look at the web site of the US SBA, (Small Buisness Administration) there is a lot of stuff on founding a small company. If you are not in the USA much of it will still apply and you probably have similar things localy.
You need to plan for all of this.
Because trying to get something like that into a stable orbit would be very hard and require a lot of fine control. Just nudging it a bit so that it would miss the earth would require that much control. After all the total number of paths that *DON'T* hit us is rather large.
Don't ask a bunch of Linux geeks how to do "Math Stuff" on linux. Ask your customers the scientists what they need. While we can give you some interesting ideas we as a rule have no idea what you need, and therefore can't get you there.
Or as a bumper sticker I saw said:
We don't know where we are going, but we're making record time!
Good for you! if you had worked for me I would have had no problem with it.
I started my job the week before Yom Kippor, I took it off. My boss's only remark was that I should write it on the callendar so if anyone was looking for me they would know why I was not there. Of course my boss took it off too.
In the few months since I have started wearing a kippa all the time I have had no problems what so ever. I try to make sure I explain why I can't do something if someone asks.
Joe Lieberman running for VP helped a lot. All of the sudden an observant Jew was in the headlines and doing things like not giving speaches on Shabbos. Made it much better for everyone else who ever had to wonder if they could say things like "No I won't come in on Saturday its Shabbos and I will be at the Shul with my family and community".
Red Hat does have a warranty (or something like it) if you buy the boxed product. That is after all one of the things you buy from them. If you download it from the net then no there is no warranty. Actually they have all sorts of support products of various forms that they will sell you.
I don't think RMS usualy sounds like a total loon, However Linus is much better at puting the same argument into words that are easer to understand by someone who is not a computer person. RMS tends to say Free software for free software sake and leave it there. I like Linus's comment about Sir Issac Newton etc. It puts a nice spin on the argument and puts in a broader context.
I in general work 40-45 hrs a week. And will not work at all on the Jewish Sabbath, (Friday sundown to sat sundown). I don't care what blew up don't call me. Life is too short to work 70 hrs a week.
You know the strange thing, now almost 10 years latter this morning I hit a problem and my first thought was that the Ableson & Sussman book from that class would probably be the right book to have handy, To bad my copy is at home. And yes Brandeis was a bit heavy on theory. But they did teach me rather well. In both CS and Physics.
When I was in school the scheme class was about the hardest class you would get as a CS undergrad, and it was what you got *FIRST*. They figured if you could do that class you probably could do the entire CS major. And if not best to find out now so you can go major in something else while you still have time.
I think every programer should learn lisp or scheme. It is very different from the Perl/C/Java that we spend most of our time working with. Since it is so different while programing in scheme you tend to come up with very different ways to solve problems. Once you know how to solve problems like that you can if needed take those ideas and move them back to Perl/C/java or whatever.
But learning to think differently is something that is definitly worth it!
People forget that they will be working for about 40 years of their lives (or more). If you burn out at age 25, you still have to figure out what you are going to do from now untill you want to retire or die. Unless you are one of the few who make *SO* much money by age 30 that you can raise a family and live the rest of your life off of it. You have to figure that you will need to keep working until you are 60 or 65 or so. So it makes sense to not try to work 80 hrs a week every week for the rest of your life.
Hell you might even want to take time out to have a family and maybe a hobby or two.
That realize that playing with computers for some of us is how we pay the bills and that sometimes no mater how much money you are making working 80 hrs a week is just not worth it. (At least for some people)
What I would love is some place that has a large number of these setup and for a modest fee you could go try them all. The problem is that what is perfect for me may suck for you and vice versa. It would be very nice to be able to test drive keyboards first.
Quick someone get me a Wooden Shoe and a Loom!!
You are assuming that all types of work can be done without a mouse. There are a lot of things for which a mouse (or trackball) is much easer than a keyboard. The problem is that with only 10% of the population being left handed there is just not that big a market. On the other hand if you could get one lefty in 10 to buy your mouse that would be a decent market so I don't know why someone isn't doing just that.
I have a co worker who is very much like this. She would never write code outside of work, this is what she does to pay the bills etc. On the other hand she is damn good at what she does. If you have a bit of code that needs to be maintianed give it to her. She *WILL* find the bug.
I will admit to spending more of my time fixing old code that writing new code. It may not always be as exciting, but I'm good at it and it always will need to be done.
They don't need a warrant because the United States Constitution does not protect non-US citizens acting outside the US.
But in theory it should contrain the FBI, I would think. Has this type of thing ever been tested in a court? I don't really know. If something similar has never come up before the judge will have to decide what the law is. This is why we have judges and courts after all.
Assuming that it gets to trial you can assume that the Defense lawyers will argue that the FBI did need a warent to do this. I imagine a court will decide one way or the other.
One of my favorite bits of USSC writing is the Justice Brandeis desent on the wiretapping case from the 20's when the FBI said that they did not need a warrent to tap a phone. (Brandeis and Homes said that they did but were in the Minority)
In all probability the evidence will be challenged in court.
IANAL!
MySQL does not have many of the features of an Oracle or DB2. There are no provisions for refferental integrety. I don't think there is a good way to back up very large databases. (Say more than a few hundred megs) and so on. That does not make it bad. Just not in the same ballgame as the big databases.
IBM is no more worried about MySQL cutting into its DB2 market than Boeing is worried about Cessna cutting into its airline market.
Its not that DB2 is "Better" than Mysql any more than a 747 is "Better" than a Cessna 172, they just do different things and get used for different jobs.