Well no, not exactly. IBM actually provides support.
KFG
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In other words, there is now a proven Linux market which pays $40 to $55 per hour.
I think that's pretty good Linux news and simply proves what the developers have been claiming all along. There is money to be made in giving away software.
KFG
P.S. In case you havn't gotten the news many Linux developers can't get a first mortgage and live in their mother's basement.
Here's the shocker though. Some of them have come to that "unfortunate situation" because they like the arrangement. They'd rather do that than work for HP or IBM. Peculiar, I know, but it's long been noted that creative genius types, no one really understands why, deprecate making money in order to better be able to persue their own creative muse.
Funny, isn't it, that they can't see that money is the only goal of real value? Geniuses are a peculiar lot, and one often wonders, if they're so smart, why aren't they rich?
(And around here there are few who are comfortable reading the Just So Stories to their children, and some editions are expurgated to eliminate the swear words. Oddly enough the two Jungle Books were written in America. Most of the rest of Kipling's works are most definately not intended for children. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn suffers from the same issue and is one of the most "banned" books in America).
Thank you for that elucidation, although I'll note that it was specifically the ozone depleting properties of Freon(tm) that I was refering to (from the OP), and not any other properties the newly formulated gas might have.
Present refrigeration systems rely on phase change, meaning the heat transfer is aided by a phase change of the refrigerant. ..
As does the low tech, water evaporation refrigerator that was discussed here on Slashdot not too long ago, although in that case the phase change from gas to liquid (and the energy to drive and recirculate it) is somewhat obscured.
The "W" word would be "Wog," short for "Golliwog," an ugly, caricaturized black doll featuring in the illustrations of Florence Upton (an American who spawned a Britishism. Go figure).
If you still can't figure out the "N" word from that just Google on "Joseph Conrad bio" and the word will be found in the titles of his novels, down at the bottom of the page of the first hit.
So, that's where the name "Miami" comes from. The Spanish asked a neighboring tribe, "Who are those people over there?" To which they got the answer, "Oh them? They're nothing but a bunch of wogs."
They then Latinized their mishearing and misunderstanding of the word into "Miami" and applied it to the people as the proper noun of the tribe. (The word actually literally translated as "pigeon")
This is all totally unrelated to the northern Algonquin tribe also known as the Miami, from a French mispronounciation/Latinization of an Objiwe name for them, which at least was geographically descriptive ("Those people who live over there") as opposed to derogatory.
Nowadays "Green Friendly" means something that you can print on a flyer to drive sales, not something that has anything to do with the enviroment. We've already done away with freon.
I like watching the recent phenomenon of both wood and plastic products being promoted as "Green Friendly," One, because it's, like, natural, organic, renewable and shit, and the other because, like, it's a recycled resource and doesn't require cutting down any huggable trees and shit ( and I can only surmise the latter have never been to the Newark area. Well known for cracking plants. Very few trees.)
Every product is "Green Friendly," if you know how to write the brochure to make it that way.
No, the English would understand it just fine, it is of American, but British, origin, spread throughout the Empire, and you'll find it quite prominent in Kipling and Conrad.
Perhaps you are simply more attuned to the more modern British variant, the "W" word, widely held to be derived from the "G" word.
. ..bug laden products in order to "please" their client with a quick release.
I'm glad you put "please" in scare quotes, because don't you kid yourself, more often than not ir really annoys the hell out of the clients, but it's the most profitable method for Microsoft.
One need not even evoke the "Evil Empire" clause for this. Software is simply one of those fields where if you released a final version and left it at that you would soon reach market saturation and then go out of business.
Which is what will eventually happen to 99% of the commercial software market anyway. There are only so many "features" you can ladle on to a Word Processor or DBMS, but the makers of such are, more or less, obligated to milk the process for as long as they can.
OSS simply speeds up the process of making standard software packages ubiquitous and free as in dirt.
If you're talking about the lesser shrubbery (for a nice little two layer Presidential effect), I'd have to disagree. He was born with a silver spoon up his nose, his primary skill being Daddy's little boy and a maleable patsy. John Quincy Adams he certainly ain't.
It's the people behind Bush, propping him up and pulling his strings, that most fit my description.
His famous vision that he was called by God to be President was largely fed to him by Billy Graham while we was recovering from a hydrocarbon haze at Daddy's summer place.
In short, he's just the typical guy with the party's hand up his ass, and doesn't know it.
Of the American Presidents I think my description might, perhaps, best be applied to U.S Grant, while one of the great tragedies of the American Civil War was that Jefferson Davis never got to be President (and I'm a Yankee saying that).
(And for those that don't know, Miami is a Spanish word, derived from an American word that meant something roughly akin a famous derogatory word beginning with the letter "N." This is the sort of thing that happens when you ask a neighboring tribe the name of another and don't understand the meaning of what they're telling you and simply start applying it as a proper noun. Yes, I'm aware of what the pamphlets distributed by the Miami Chamber of Commerce say it means. "Land of Sweet Waters." Good for the tourist trade to claim it means exactly the opposite of what Miami really was, a frickin' bug infested brackish swamp, inhabited by nothing but "Miamis.")
Well, of course I didn't specify, but I'm not running a 286 or 386, and I believe the operative word in your post was "had."
We can turn it around if you wish and make it Intel's reverse engineering of the AMD64, or bring the two togther with this quote of Tom Halfhill commenting on said reverse engineering:
"There's no shame in it. AMD has reverse-engineered everything Intel has done for years."
Yes, it's in the Bill of Rights, Ninth Ammendment to be specific.
In this particular case the right is simply the right to write software. You have as much right to write software as anyone else. The fact that someone else has written some software that does the same thing or something similar doesn't at all restrict you in you your rights to write software.
What you don't have the right to do is violate their patents and copyrights. If you are not violating a patent, copyright or some other explicit right of someone else, then, well, you're just writting software.
Yes, but it's often one gets to that level by having substantial skills and experience at rising up through the levels.
This has nothing to do with any other sort of skill, experience or intelligence. Some otherwise rather dull and ignorant people are rather good at it.
In fact, I was just yesterday reading that observation about Idi Amin. A crude, unintelligent man, with obviously no skills at leadership, but with a certain animal cunning that allowed him to rise up through the ranks, and even remain a free, and in certain circles, even respected man, who died at an old age, in bed.
Simply having achieved some sort of lofty status says little to nothing about a man, and might simply say he's a right bastard.
The discrimination / harrassment laws in the US put the responsibility on the individual accused.
I'm sure that Mitsubishi USA and Carnival Cruise Lines will be glad to hear that, as well as hundreds of other firms who have been found liable for creating/allowing a "hostile" work/customer enviroment.
I take it you're American? You should spell cheese K-R-A-F-T. Just don't eat any of the stuff, 'K? It's apparently unamerican, or something.
I don't know if you're from Wisconson though, so I don't know whether calling you a K-R-A-F-Thead would be considered a compliment or an insult, so I'll refrain.
Damn straight! That's why Finland is now ranked as the number one most technologically advanced nation on earth, but I'm sure that private enterprise friendly China will be playing catch up.
And one of the few instances where, in my opinion, America could have been a real force for good in the world by being a "rogue" nation and refusing to participate.
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Well no, not exactly. IBM actually provides support.
KFG
In other words, there is now a proven Linux market which pays $40 to $55 per hour.
I think that's pretty good Linux news and simply proves what the developers have been claiming all along. There is money to be made in giving away software.
KFG
P.S. In case you havn't gotten the news many Linux developers can't get a first mortgage and live in their mother's basement.
Here's the shocker though. Some of them have come to that "unfortunate situation" because they like the arrangement. They'd rather do that than work for HP or IBM. Peculiar, I know, but it's long been noted that creative genius types, no one really understands why, deprecate making money in order to better be able to persue their own creative muse.
Funny, isn't it, that they can't see that money is the only goal of real value? Geniuses are a peculiar lot, and one often wonders, if they're so smart, why aren't they rich?
Do you like Kipling?
(And around here there are few who are comfortable reading the Just So Stories to their children, and some editions are expurgated to eliminate the swear words. Oddly enough the two Jungle Books were written in America. Most of the rest of Kipling's works are most definately not intended for children. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn suffers from the same issue and is one of the most "banned" books in America).
KFG
Thank you for that elucidation, although I'll note that it was specifically the ozone depleting properties of Freon(tm) that I was refering to (from the OP), and not any other properties the newly formulated gas might have.
.
Present refrigeration systems rely on phase change, meaning the heat transfer is aided by a phase change of the refrigerant. .
As does the low tech, water evaporation refrigerator that was discussed here on Slashdot not too long ago, although in that case the phase change from gas to liquid (and the energy to drive and recirculate it) is somewhat obscured.
KFG
The "W" word would be "Wog," short for "Golliwog," an ugly, caricaturized black doll featuring in the illustrations of Florence Upton (an American who spawned a Britishism. Go figure).
If you still can't figure out the "N" word from that just Google on "Joseph Conrad bio" and the word will be found in the titles of his novels, down at the bottom of the page of the first hit.
So, that's where the name "Miami" comes from. The Spanish asked a neighboring tribe, "Who are those people over there?" To which they got the answer, "Oh them? They're nothing but a bunch of wogs."
They then Latinized their mishearing and misunderstanding of the word into "Miami" and applied it to the people as the proper noun of the tribe. (The word actually literally translated as "pigeon")
This is all totally unrelated to the northern Algonquin tribe also known as the Miami, from a French mispronounciation/Latinization of an Objiwe name for them, which at least was geographically descriptive ("Those people who live over there") as opposed to derogatory.
KFG
Nowadays "Green Friendly" means something that you can print on a flyer to drive sales, not something that has anything to do with the enviroment. We've already done away with freon.
I like watching the recent phenomenon of both wood and plastic products being promoted as "Green Friendly," One, because it's, like, natural, organic, renewable and shit, and the other because, like, it's a recycled resource and doesn't require cutting down any huggable trees and shit ( and I can only surmise the latter have never been to the Newark area. Well known for cracking plants. Very few trees.)
Every product is "Green Friendly," if you know how to write the brochure to make it that way.
KFG
No, the English would understand it just fine, it is of American, but British, origin, spread throughout the Empire, and you'll find it quite prominent in Kipling and Conrad.
Perhaps you are simply more attuned to the more modern British variant, the "W" word, widely held to be derived from the "G" word.
KFG
Perhaps, but then you aren't paying it by the hour either.
Sometimes patience is the appropriate tool for the job.
KFG
. . .bug laden products in order to "please" their client with a quick release.
I'm glad you put "please" in scare quotes, because don't you kid yourself, more often than not ir really annoys the hell out of the clients, but it's the most profitable method for Microsoft.
One need not even evoke the "Evil Empire" clause for this. Software is simply one of those fields where if you released a final version and left it at that you would soon reach market saturation and then go out of business.
Which is what will eventually happen to 99% of the commercial software market anyway. There are only so many "features" you can ladle on to a Word Processor or DBMS, but the makers of such are, more or less, obligated to milk the process for as long as they can.
OSS simply speeds up the process of making standard software packages ubiquitous and free as in dirt.
KFG
I'm shocked and stunned. You'd never catch me doing that.
KFG
. . .on par with cheap food and inebriated idiocy.
And lord knows you won't find any of that in Japan.
KFG
It's an interesting observation. Perhaps it can best be summed up with the phrase:
"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet."
The phenomenon is so glaring it's a wonder that nobody has noticed it before.
KFG
Sounds a lot like George Bush's bio.
If you're talking about the lesser shrubbery (for a nice little two layer Presidential effect), I'd have to disagree. He was born with a silver spoon up his nose, his primary skill being Daddy's little boy and a maleable patsy. John Quincy Adams he certainly ain't.
It's the people behind Bush, propping him up and pulling his strings, that most fit my description.
His famous vision that he was called by God to be President was largely fed to him by Billy Graham while we was recovering from a hydrocarbon haze at Daddy's summer place.
In short, he's just the typical guy with the party's hand up his ass, and doesn't know it.
Of the American Presidents I think my description might, perhaps, best be applied to U.S Grant, while one of the great tragedies of the American Civil War was that Jefferson Davis never got to be President (and I'm a Yankee saying that).
KFG
Perhaps you need this:
User Friendly Desktop Version Fork of the Self-Restraint Documentation Project
KFG
. . .suddenly become extremely popular to give descriptive names to documents.
Ahhhhh, not like the good old days, eh? Back then we named documents things like ajd0_80e8ew5oJ.htm and made people guess what the hell was in them.
I don't think this fad will last though, my_resume.htm isn't as easily identifiable to a code geek as a67_v2-13hex.xml
Some people just can't read plain English I guess.
KFG
You don't live in Miami, do you?
(And for those that don't know, Miami is a Spanish word, derived from an American word that meant something roughly akin a famous derogatory word beginning with the letter "N." This is the sort of thing that happens when you ask a neighboring tribe the name of another and don't understand the meaning of what they're telling you and simply start applying it as a proper noun. Yes, I'm aware of what the pamphlets distributed by the Miami Chamber of Commerce say it means. "Land of Sweet Waters." Good for the tourist trade to claim it means exactly the opposite of what Miami really was, a frickin' bug infested brackish swamp, inhabited by nothing but "Miamis.")
KFG
Space Pressed By Gravity ;)
I just use my thumbs.
KFG
Well, of course I didn't specify, but I'm not running a 286 or 386, and I believe the operative word in your post was "had."
We can turn it around if you wish and make it Intel's reverse engineering of the AMD64, or bring the two togther with this quote of Tom Halfhill commenting on said reverse engineering:
"There's no shame in it. AMD has reverse-engineered everything Intel has done for years."
KFG
Self-Restraint Documentation Project
KFG
Yes, it's in the Bill of Rights, Ninth Ammendment to be specific.
In this particular case the right is simply the right to write software. You have as much right to write software as anyone else. The fact that someone else has written some software that does the same thing or something similar doesn't at all restrict you in you your rights to write software.
What you don't have the right to do is violate their patents and copyrights. If you are not violating a patent, copyright or some other explicit right of someone else, then, well, you're just writting software.
Because you feel like it, and it's your right.
See IBM vs. Phoenix.
KFG
You wouldn't, perhaps, like myself, be running an IBM compatable Phoenix BIOS on an Intel compatable AMD chip, would you?
You don't think IBM and Intel are entirely happy about that, do you?
How do you suppose this came about, and why do you suppose IBM and Intel haven't put a lid on it in the courts?
KFG
Yes, but it's often one gets to that level by having substantial skills and experience at rising up through the levels.
This has nothing to do with any other sort of skill, experience or intelligence. Some otherwise rather dull and ignorant people are rather good at it.
In fact, I was just yesterday reading that observation about Idi Amin. A crude, unintelligent man, with obviously no skills at leadership, but with a certain animal cunning that allowed him to rise up through the ranks, and even remain a free, and in certain circles, even respected man, who died at an old age, in bed.
Simply having achieved some sort of lofty status says little to nothing about a man, and might simply say he's a right bastard.
KFG
The discrimination / harrassment laws in the US put the responsibility on the individual accused.
I'm sure that Mitsubishi USA and Carnival Cruise Lines will be glad to hear that, as well as hundreds of other firms who have been found liable for creating/allowing a "hostile" work/customer enviroment.
I take it you're American? You should spell cheese K-R-A-F-T. Just don't eat any of the stuff, 'K? It's apparently unamerican, or something.
I don't know if you're from Wisconson though, so I don't know whether calling you a K-R-A-F-Thead would be considered a compliment or an insult, so I'll refrain.
KFG
Damn straight! That's why Finland is now ranked as the number one most technologically advanced nation on earth, but I'm sure that private enterprise friendly China will be playing catch up.
KFG
And one of the few instances where, in my opinion, America could have been a real force for good in the world by being a "rogue" nation and refusing to participate.
KFG