an led produces light continuosly, a crystal detector (the proper name for this device) produces tiny sparks when you make the contact but that doesn't mean it's an led any more than your cars' sparkplug is.
Yes, but that won't get you any bread on the table now, will it ?
There is absolutely no renumeration for the people that code up all that really neat stuff and the businesses that take that hard work and profit of it (and profit of it in ways that would have been considered impossible until not that long ago) are under no obligation whatsoever to share the profits.
After all, in the past you'd get paid top dollar for the kind of stuff that you can now download for free and businesses use that in order to gain a competitive edge
Case in point: google. They use open source software to drive their whole business, are valued in the tens of billions and give back a pittance of that to the open source community (ok, they do a good PR job so it looks like it is a lot more but it really is but a small fraction of their take).
It has come to the point where if you are 16 or 17 and wondering what career to follow computational biology looks like a *much* better path than IT, and besides it has less risk of being outsourced.
The Cathedral had its shortcomings, but so does the bazaar.
half true. A good intelligence without the data to drive it to reach conclusions is useless, you really do need both.
If you needed to seed your intelligence anew with information every time you need to reach some conclusion or other you'd be too slow to be of any use at all.
Assuming this is true (always a long shot when replying to an AC) what makes you think you're so fantastically important that you should visit the results of your failures on your co-workers ?
Whether fantasy or real if you really wish to take the easy way out do it in such a way that you minimize the damage (mental and / or physical) to others.
Better yet, they've elevated it to an artform. Buying representatives on standards committees, bribing government officials to get rid of FOSS friendly legislation, the list is endless.
When having to choose between monsanto and microsoft as the supreme example of an outright criminal corporation it's a tough choice.
While I disagree with the delivery the message is spot on and whoever modded you troll will meet meta moderation hell at some point.
Microsoft has gone way too far, the SCO thing, all the proven criminal stuff from the past... It's really a pity that the breakup didn't happen, it would have been a much better climate in software land if it had.
It's really ironic how Neelie Smit-Kroes (one of the most shameless examples of cronyism in dutch politics) is one of the few people on the planet that seems to have the guts to stand up to Microsoft.
some guy here on/. pointed me to 'accelerando', it's a neat sf book that deals with the 'omega point', the singularity at which the rate of change of technology becomes so high that there is no more relation between 'before' and 'after'.
While I'm not sure I buy the premise of the book it is still quite interesting to see how fast tech is now changing. It used to be possible to be more or less current, I don't think that is possible any more.
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hm... mod me down please !
It seems that it is possible to get a point contact diode like this to emit light sporadically.
an led produces light continuosly, a crystal detector (the proper name for this device) produces tiny sparks when you make the contact but that doesn't mean it's an led any more than your cars' sparkplug is.
please go kill yourself somewhere. Thank you.
'cats whisker' != a primitive led, it's a primitive diode, but it does not produce any light, visible or otherwise.
the reason os/x beats foss is not 'good enough' to 'great' but lots of marketing dough to 0.
you've been doing way too much oop programming lately ;)
Yes, but that won't get you any bread on the table now, will it ?
There is absolutely no renumeration for the people that code up all that really neat stuff and the businesses that take that hard work and profit of it (and profit of it in ways that would have been considered impossible until not that long ago) are under no obligation whatsoever to share the profits.
After all, in the past you'd get paid top dollar for the kind of stuff that you can now download for free and businesses use that in order to gain a competitive edge
Case in point: google. They use open source software to drive their whole business, are valued in the tens of billions and give back a pittance of that to the open source community (ok, they do a good PR job so it looks like it is a lot more but it really is but a small fraction of their take).
It has come to the point where if you are 16 or 17 and wondering what career to follow computational biology looks like a *much* better path than IT, and besides it has less risk of being outsourced.
The Cathedral had its shortcomings, but so does the bazaar.
> peek at 39.
Spelling sure doesn't peak at 39 now does it ;)
thank you for the taskfreak link!
half true. A good intelligence without the data to drive it to reach conclusions is useless, you really do need both.
If you needed to seed your intelligence anew with information every time you need to reach some conclusion or other you'd be too slow to be of any use at all.
Yup... it's like any system: use it or lose it.
The best way to get your brain to go to pot is to take a sabbatical and go fishing or something like that.
sounds cheap to me !
recumbent fanatics pay top dollar for custom bikes, maybe that's a niche you could get in to ?
Assuming this is true (always a long shot when replying to an AC) what makes you think you're so fantastically important that you should visit the results of your failures on your co-workers ?
Whether fantasy or real if you really wish to take the easy way out do it in such a way that you minimize the damage (mental and / or physical) to others.
Better yet, they've elevated it to an artform. Buying representatives on standards committees, bribing government officials to get rid of FOSS friendly legislation, the list is endless.
When having to choose between monsanto and microsoft as the supreme example of an outright criminal corporation it's a tough choice.
While I disagree with the delivery the message is spot on and whoever modded you troll will meet meta moderation hell at some point.
Microsoft has gone way too far, the SCO thing, all the proven criminal stuff from the past... It's really a pity that the breakup didn't happen, it would have been a much better climate in software land if it had.
It's really ironic how Neelie Smit-Kroes (one of the most shameless examples of cronyism in dutch politics) is one of the few people on the planet that seems to have the guts to stand up to Microsoft.
I can see one good thing coming out of this (and a lot of not so good things), which is that there will be no more 'lost tapes'.
tar cvf scum.tar ./DarlMcbride
not sure about the feathering though...
that's got to win a prize for trolling. Right up there with 'what's this anime thing?'
tape or it didn't happen ;)
hm, I dropped an 'h' in there between 'the' and 'with'
if you type the t and the with the same finger you're not typing right!
The t goes with the left index finger, the h with the right one.
some guy here on /. pointed me to 'accelerando', it's a neat sf book that deals with the 'omega point', the singularity at which the rate of change of technology becomes so high that there is no more relation between 'before' and 'after'.
While I'm not sure I buy the premise of the book it is still quite interesting to see how fast tech is now changing. It used to be possible to be more or less current, I don't think that is possible any more.
that's a neat little hack you've got there !
Second that. I once wrote a chess program just for kicks and it beat me on the second game and I was like 'wtf ?'
6502 assembler long long long ago...