Not by much. The dollar is weak versus the pound, it used to be 1 pound = $1.80 for quite a while, now it is $1.90, which is quite inflated - if the US economy recovers and it goes back to $1.80 the US plan would be cheaper.
Open Source doesn't mean better, Open Source simply means that it's worked on by the comunity and it's content can be verified by an individual outside of those that prdouced it. I've no intention of looking at the code of my drivers, so why do I care if they are open or closed source?
Because others can, and (hopefully) will, find and fix the bugs. Closed source doesn't allow that opportunity. You don't have to be the bug fixer to benefit from a bug being fixed.
Now if my Apache bugs would get fixed! (39940, 40146, 40301).
I use GoDaddy, and they are excellent. Extremely low cost, fast and responsive customer service, ethical and intelligent founder and leader, their web site gives you almost complete control of your DNS (if you use their DNS servers - that is FREE with their domains), and many more things I can't think of off the top of my head.
Yeah we have extremists on our side, or at least very undiplomatic people. "Open source" people are more reasonable than "free software" people, but can be TOO eager to compromise.
The proprietary camp does too, the DMCA, the DRM fiascos, EULAs, anti-reverse engineering laws, abuse of monopolies, file sharing lawsuits, software patents (especially on trivial things - plus software is less needing of patent protection - the barriers for entry are much less that with physical items - making patents not needed as an incentive and simulataneously more harmful).
They want the world, and are unwilling to compromise. Software doesn't need 70 year copyrights or 20 year patents, a 5 year copyright, without EULAs, the DMCA or other restrictions would be MORE than enough to keep proprietary software viable. Anyone in the market for a 5 year old copy of Photoshop now? Not really. Will they compromise? No. They want more and more and more, and think they are ENTITLED to copyright. People are ENTITLED to NO copyright, none, zero, nada. Copyright is a BARGAIN we strike, trade something (the right to duplicate) in to get more content which eventually becomes public domain (we don't TAKE it, we just stop granting a monopoly - which we should as soon as we can without destroying the incentive).
The proprietary world has an entitlement view, that they deserve and have a right to copyright - in clear contravention to the clause in the Constitution authorizing the copyright BARGAIN. The current system is a form of entitlement, in fact, it is corporate welfare, a form of merchantilism, which, like socialism, is a departure from free market capitalism. True free-market capitalism would be anybody can create or duplicate anything, if someone wants something bad enough, and no one will create it at first due to lack of copyright, the supply/demand mismatch will cause SOMEONE to be willing to pay someone else to write the software. Some copyright might be better than that for getting content created and distributed, it may well be worth it, but not the extreme system in place now. 70 year terms and felony penalties are a bit much.
Restricting copyright isn't infringing on anybody's right. CopyRIGHT is a bad term, we should call it what it is, a temporary monopoly not granted as an entitlement, but as a bargain to get more content - I don't know what a good replacement term would be though.
I'd be reasonably happy with going to the 1997 state of affairs (the year before the DMCA).
I'd really like copyright cut down to an amount sufficient to provide needed incentives, but no more.
I don't support communism or socialism, or wish to ban all proprietary software (although there are times I'd like to see Windows GONE:) ), in fact, my views are closer to true capitalism than the current system.
Fine, you (and others who feel the same) want that, put YOUR work under a BSD or similar license.
Someone creates something, gives it away free, but in return asks for it to stay free - it is their right to make such a bargain.
Why do you want proprietary developers allowed to trade access to the work for money, but not allow non-proprietary developers to make freedom the other side of the bargain?
Once E85 becomes more popular here, there will be less corn syrup, since ethanol production (corn liquor in the gas sounds funny, but it will help our energy dependence) will be using up the corn supply. The top priorities for corn will be eating it directly and car fuel, corn syrup will become less economical.
Because people are afraid of it. Going blind, end-stage kidney disease, nerve damage, amputation. It is the modern day leprosy. (amputation subconsiously makes the connection stronger in people's minds). Yeah, it's not transmissable, but we are having an epidemic. People want to think only the "bad" people get it, but wonder if their lifestyle makes them on of it. There are probably a whole lot of subconsious reasons. Look up "diabetophobia" - it is a recognized fear.
Seriously... to diabetics, carbs (which of course turn into glucose) are like poison. They're what causes Type-II in the first place.
Bullshit.
Bad genes and lack of exercise are the factors most influential in causing type 2.
Look at the diabetes rate and the diets (lard, sugar, butter) in the 1950s.In addition, fat kids existed then, but they didn't get type 2 diabetes as kids (they got it after 40 - hence the old term "adult onset").
Exercise has gone down by leaps and bounds, and people with bad genes are surviving and passing them on more due to medical science.
2 main things lower glucose levels. Insulin and exercise. The latter means less need for the former. Less insulin means less insulin resistance - and exercise directly improves that to (increased AMP levels in cells due to energy use increase glucose transporter efficacy).
As for diet, trans fats are unnatural and cause the body to make cell membranes out of them, i.e. make them out of the wrong stuff. No other fats do that usually. Saturated fats will go into cell membranes when they shouldn't if one is deficient in good fats. The body can't tell a trans fat from a cis (normal one) and will happily use it - they are shaped wrong and then you get dysfunctional cell membranes which are known to cause insulin resistance (glucose transporters don't work right) and other dysfunction (perhaps the beta cells are messed up by this too).
Cut the trans fats and increase exercise (probably well over 200% average increase in the US - hard to do in our car dependent world) and watch the diabetes rate plummet. Medicine is part of why the diabetes rate went up, but it will also be part of the solution.
As for french fries, don't you think it could be the unnatural trans fats and not the natural potatoes that are causing the problem?
This is a whole new class of diabetes drug (a DPP-4 inhibitor), it works reasonably well (typical drops in HbA1C, FPG and post-prandial glucose) and seems to be safe (and have a safe mode of action - and it only work when glucose is up, preventing hypos).
Interesting because of the science, it will help people, and I really wish I had stock in the company right now!
(one can make a killing on pharma companies, one can also get burned).
Any changes in your exercise levels? Or stress levels? Cortisol will make you larger and forgetful. Expand your stomach and shrink your hippocampus. Good news, the first is reversible. Bad news, the second one isn't (dysfunction due to cortisol will reverse, dead cells stay dead though).
And if less oxygen is getting to your brain because your heart can't keep up, wouldn't you already be in congestive heart failure? (the brain is a top priority consumer in the cardiovascular system). In which case, that is a whole nother ballgame.
Exercise is a more important factor than size. I'll feel better immediately after exercise and have noticible improvements in stamina in 24 hours (which seems to be too short a time period, but it is true).
Want people to exercise more? Build decent mass transit! (not the sorry excuse for mass transit most cities have).
In Las Vegas, you have to drive everywhere. Less exercise and more driving, bad for your body and your car (and dealing with the crazy drivers is bad for you and your car, especially when they crash into you).
True. People on diets slow down. Yes, their BP goes down which is usually good. So does their heart rate, temperature, and metabolic rate (which acts to slow weight loss ironically). They get slowed down, and less efficient. Much like hypothyroidism symptoms. And hypothyroidism is known to hurt mental performance and even cause retardation (cretinism).
Hence people take speed (or the legal alternatives). They lose weight and not get slowed down.
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Not by much. The dollar is weak versus the pound, it used to be 1 pound = $1.80 for quite a while, now it is $1.90, which is quite inflated - if the US economy recovers and it goes back to $1.80 the US plan would be cheaper.
Open Source doesn't mean better, Open Source simply means that it's worked on by the comunity and it's content can be verified by an individual outside of those that prdouced it. I've no intention of looking at the code of my drivers, so why do I care if they are open or closed source?
= 39940= 40146= 40301
Because others can, and (hopefully) will, find and fix the bugs. Closed source doesn't allow that opportunity. You don't have to be the bug fixer to benefit from a bug being fixed.
Now if my Apache bugs would get fixed! (39940, 40146, 40301).
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id
Having to troubleshoot a system upgrade for several hours is not a good thing. Especially if you were doing it for a client who's paying by the hour.
:)
If you're the one doing it and getting paid by the hour, the fact it takes several hours means you get paid more, which IS a good thing.
Is this trash all companies day?!
I use GoDaddy, and they are excellent. Extremely low cost, fast and responsive customer service, ethical and intelligent founder and leader, their web site gives you almost complete control of your DNS (if you use their DNS servers - that is FREE with their domains), and many more things I can't think of off the top of my head.
Would you rather pay $35/year for less?
Wal-mart is not the enemy. They even sold a Linux based computer.
Use gentoo, and have your apps compile by themselves.
It's likely patented, or copyrighted, or otherwise illegal to support.
K=min(1-R, 1-G, 1-B)
C=1-R-K
M=1-G-K
Y=1-B-K
Easy as pie.
Of course, those of us running software like Asterisk (properly configured) never even noticed that they had to add the 3 digits.
If you are smart enough to configure Asterisk correctly, then memorizing even a 23 digit phone number should be easy.
We can't afford to go to war with China if we find something malicious in code/hardware that comes from that country.
:)
Especially if our weapons systems won't work due to implanted bugs in the code.
They don't even read the title!
It is grammatically wrong. The apostrophe is missing from "bosses" even though it is being used as a possessive.
Yeah we have extremists on our side, or at least very undiplomatic people. "Open source" people are more reasonable than "free software" people, but can be TOO eager to compromise.
:) ), in fact, my views are closer to true capitalism than the current system.
The proprietary camp does too, the DMCA, the DRM fiascos, EULAs, anti-reverse engineering laws, abuse of monopolies, file sharing lawsuits, software patents (especially on trivial things - plus software is less needing of patent protection - the barriers for entry are much less that with physical items - making patents not needed as an incentive and simulataneously more harmful).
They want the world, and are unwilling to compromise. Software doesn't need 70 year copyrights or 20 year patents, a 5 year copyright, without EULAs, the DMCA or other restrictions would be MORE than enough to keep proprietary software viable. Anyone in the market for a 5 year old copy of Photoshop now? Not really. Will they compromise? No. They want more and more and more, and think they are ENTITLED to copyright. People are ENTITLED to NO copyright, none, zero, nada. Copyright is a BARGAIN we strike, trade something (the right to duplicate) in to get more content which eventually becomes public domain (we don't TAKE it, we just stop granting a monopoly - which we should as soon as we can without destroying the incentive).
The proprietary world has an entitlement view, that they deserve and have a right to copyright - in clear contravention to the clause in the Constitution authorizing the copyright BARGAIN. The current system is a form of entitlement, in fact, it is corporate welfare, a form of merchantilism, which, like socialism, is a departure from free market capitalism. True free-market capitalism would be anybody can create or duplicate anything, if someone wants something bad enough, and no one will create it at first due to lack of copyright, the supply/demand mismatch will cause SOMEONE to be willing to pay someone else to write the software. Some copyright might be better than that for getting content created and distributed, it may well be worth it, but not the extreme system in place now. 70 year terms and felony penalties are a bit much.
Restricting copyright isn't infringing on anybody's right. CopyRIGHT is a bad term, we should call it what it is, a temporary monopoly not granted as an entitlement, but as a bargain to get more content - I don't know what a good replacement term would be though.
I'd be reasonably happy with going to the 1997 state of affairs (the year before the DMCA).
I'd really like copyright cut down to an amount sufficient to provide needed incentives, but no more.
I don't support communism or socialism, or wish to ban all proprietary software (although there are times I'd like to see Windows GONE
Clinton was a Democrat and signed the DMCA.
Or like Slashdot where the bullies will mod you down to -1.
Fine, you (and others who feel the same) want that, put YOUR work under a BSD or similar license.
Someone creates something, gives it away free, but in return asks for it to stay free - it is their right to make such a bargain.
Why do you want proprietary developers allowed to trade access to the work for money, but not allow non-proprietary developers to make freedom the other side of the bargain?
Once E85 becomes more popular here, there will be less corn syrup, since ethanol production (corn liquor in the gas sounds funny, but it will help our energy dependence) will be using up the corn supply. The top priorities for corn will be eating it directly and car fuel, corn syrup will become less economical.
Because people are afraid of it. Going blind, end-stage kidney disease, nerve damage, amputation. It is the modern day leprosy. (amputation subconsiously makes the connection stronger in people's minds). Yeah, it's not transmissable, but we are having an epidemic. People want to think only the "bad" people get it, but wonder if their lifestyle makes them on of it. There are probably a whole lot of subconsious reasons. Look up "diabetophobia" - it is a recognized fear.
Getting brain damage (such as Parkinson's) from aspartame doesn't sound too nice.
Seriously... to diabetics, carbs (which of course turn into glucose) are like poison. They're what causes Type-II in the first place.
Bullshit.
Bad genes and lack of exercise are the factors most influential in causing type 2.
Look at the diabetes rate and the diets (lard, sugar, butter) in the 1950s.In addition, fat kids existed then, but they didn't get type 2 diabetes as kids (they got it after 40 - hence the old term "adult onset").
Exercise has gone down by leaps and bounds, and people with bad genes are surviving and passing them on more due to medical science.
2 main things lower glucose levels. Insulin and exercise. The latter means less need for the former. Less insulin means less insulin resistance - and exercise directly improves that to (increased AMP levels in cells due to energy use increase glucose transporter efficacy).
As for diet, trans fats are unnatural and cause the body to make cell membranes out of them, i.e. make them out of the wrong stuff. No other fats do that usually. Saturated fats will go into cell membranes when they shouldn't if one is deficient in good fats. The body can't tell a trans fat from a cis (normal one) and will happily use it - they are shaped wrong and then you get dysfunctional cell membranes which are known to cause insulin resistance (glucose transporters don't work right) and other dysfunction (perhaps the beta cells are messed up by this too).
Cut the trans fats and increase exercise (probably well over 200% average increase in the US - hard to do in our car dependent world) and watch the diabetes rate plummet. Medicine is part of why the diabetes rate went up, but it will also be part of the solution.
As for french fries, don't you think it could be the unnatural trans fats and not the natural potatoes that are causing the problem?
This is a whole new class of diabetes drug (a DPP-4 inhibitor), it works reasonably well (typical drops in HbA1C, FPG and post-prandial glucose) and seems to be safe (and have a safe mode of action - and it only work when glucose is up, preventing hypos).
Interesting because of the science, it will help people, and I really wish I had stock in the company right now!
(one can make a killing on pharma companies, one can also get burned).
Any changes in your exercise levels? Or stress levels? Cortisol will make you larger and forgetful. Expand your stomach and shrink your hippocampus. Good news, the first is reversible. Bad news, the second one isn't (dysfunction due to cortisol will reverse, dead cells stay dead though).
And if less oxygen is getting to your brain because your heart can't keep up, wouldn't you already be in congestive heart failure? (the brain is a top priority consumer in the cardiovascular system). In which case, that is a whole nother ballgame.
Exercise is a more important factor than size. I'll feel better immediately after exercise and have noticible improvements in stamina in 24 hours (which seems to be too short a time period, but it is true).
Want people to exercise more? Build decent mass transit! (not the sorry excuse for mass transit most cities have).
In Las Vegas, you have to drive everywhere. Less exercise and more driving, bad for your body and your car (and dealing with the crazy drivers is bad for you and your car, especially when they crash into you).
Sounds like you were under stress.
Stress raises cortisol, which raises weight, and also, independently, hurts the brain, especially memory.
So much so that high enough levels for high enough times KILLS cells in the hippocampus, making it shrink, and making one permanently forgetful.
True. People on diets slow down. Yes, their BP goes down which is usually good. So does their heart rate, temperature, and metabolic rate (which acts to slow weight loss ironically). They get slowed down, and less efficient. Much like hypothyroidism symptoms. And hypothyroidism is known to hurt mental performance and even cause retardation (cretinism).
Hence people take speed (or the legal alternatives). They lose weight and not get slowed down.
Obsolete?!
Take your pro-metric propaganda elsewhere.
I use Imperial units and am PROUD of it!
100 degrees is a hot day, not 30 degrees.
100 mph is fast, 100 kph is pitiful. Etc.