I've been looking at how much people pay for things lately, and it's become obvious that the amount of resource the world wastes is staggering, but...
What could they possibly spend a million dollars on, drawing a cartoon? I know I'm hopelessly naive, but isn't this just a few funny writers, a couple of voice talents and a bunch of animators, along with voice and sound guys? 20 people, if it was an efficient and multitasking group, 50 if they really push the envelope of laziness?
Figure the ridiculous, that everyone's making a hundred grand, and they do one show a week. Even assuming some heavy (reusable) equipment and physical plant, some legal fees... I can't see how they could they possibly spend a million dollars a month - let alone an episode...
I'm sure I'm wrong on lots of my assumptions here - I'm just wondering which ones. Where is that million budgeted?
I can see your point - that the hassles and headaches of putting UNIX in the public domain would be difficult (and parts might be impossible), but many of your points were what I was hoping to address - finally killing this beast that occasionally pops up and attempts to strangle the free unices.
I don't propose to know much at all about licensing law, nor the specifics of the history of UNIX, but didn't SCO themselves (as Caldera) release a version of it to the public domain years ago? This may indicate that the licensing issues could be overcome, by the proper organization with proper motivation.
If this does spell the end for SCO, what will become of UNIX in that case? Is it possible to finally move this ancient codebase - which seems to have little value beyond it's potential as an IP strongarm weapon - into the public domain once and for all?
Am I the only person who seems to think hacker is a derogatory term now?
Yes. It's only you.
Actually, I wonder if "mackers" (malicious hackers) wouldn't be better for crackers, since the press refuses to use "that word". Or bashers. Something they'll still consider cool and l33t, but doesn't step on hacker's toes...
I didn't see what you were indicating there, so here's the nvu faq, which states that it's a branch of moz composer, released under the mpl, with site-management and enhanced table/form support added.
I was thinking that it might continue as long as that large sunspot group is directly pointed towards us. I'm not sure if sunspot activity comes in clusters or not, though.
Perhaps the best way would be analyse the stones in a mass spectrometer to look for traces of metal from an axe.
I wonder if this would indicate anything - if enough of the face of the stone has worn away to obscure the marks, wouldn't the embedded metal be worn away first?
I'm just wondering, by the way - I don't actually know anything at all about rock wear or how deeply tools embed material.
Ah, I should have looked at your blog earlier - I thought you were actually trying to help people, and I didn't realize you were a dedicated proprietary software apologist.
You are mistaken. A small and dwindling percentage of people make money from selling software.
Most people in the IT sector make money supporting, installing and integrating with software. The model of selling software secrets will represent only a short hiccup in the growth of the business models surrounding technology, and it will be looked back upon by historians as a period of greed, monopolism, and evil.
Actually, that is the point. There is a finite amount of resource to be spent on saving people. That resource (primarily money) must be spent wisely in order to save the most lives possible.
By following specious logic or inventing trends based on coincidence without understanding that they are statistically irrelevant, we'd be concentrating effort in the wrong direction, therefore not saving as many people as possible.
Making believe that the concept of saving lives is somehow "above" logic and mathematics will result in a heck of a lot of lives not saved.
Keeping a cool and solid head and working with the facts to produce the best result will give the best return for the common good - no matter what our hollywood-trained global culture may tell us.
Can you show me studies providing indications that large asteroids are often accompanied (or even preceded) by small meteorites?
And, if you could, please indicate the average period between the time betwee the onset of different sized-asteroids, so we can plan accordingly - wouldn't want to go off half cocked.
Also, do large asteroids indicate the impending presence of titantic ones, and do those indicate that there are planet-sized ones on the way, to be followed by Galactus, the world eater?
There's a big difference between trying to roll boxcars on the craps table and the approach of a planet-killer asteroid.
Not to physics and mathematics, there isn't - it's all about mass, force and computable probability. There's a difference to us people, but our opinion has no bearing on an asteroid's trajectory.
I think they did stand up - they cleaned up code that was questionable (because of where they got it from , not because of where it has been), to ensure no one could be hurt by thier actions, and took a strong stance on XFS, which is absolutely unquestionably thiers.
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Look up the definition for "neither". Discuss that.
I've been looking at how much people pay for things lately, and it's become obvious that the amount of resource the world wastes is staggering, but...
What could they possibly spend a million dollars on, drawing a cartoon? I know I'm hopelessly naive, but isn't this just a few funny writers, a couple of voice talents and a bunch of animators, along with voice and sound guys? 20 people, if it was an efficient and multitasking group, 50 if they really push the envelope of laziness?
Figure the ridiculous, that everyone's making a hundred grand, and they do one show a week. Even assuming some heavy (reusable) equipment and physical plant, some legal fees... I can't see how they could they possibly spend a million dollars a month - let alone an episode...
I'm sure I'm wrong on lots of my assumptions here - I'm just wondering which ones. Where is that million budgeted?
No, this, like everything else in this case, is an attempt to float their stock price.
They couldn't care less about what's in linux, who uses it, who built it or when it gets released. Except to fuel the press releases.
I can see your point - that the hassles and headaches of putting UNIX in the public domain would be difficult (and parts might be impossible), but many of your points were what I was hoping to address - finally killing this beast that occasionally pops up and attempts to strangle the free unices.
I don't propose to know much at all about licensing law, nor the specifics of the history of UNIX, but didn't SCO themselves (as Caldera) release a version of it to the public domain years ago? This may indicate that the licensing issues could be overcome, by the proper organization with proper motivation.
If this does spell the end for SCO, what will become of UNIX in that case? Is it possible to finally move this ancient codebase - which seems to have little value beyond it's potential as an IP strongarm weapon - into the public domain once and for all?
Wouldn't that just punish thier investors? How would it punish them, or drive them into bankruptcy?
Actually, I wonder if "mackers" (malicious hackers) wouldn't be better for crackers, since the press refuses to use "that word". Or bashers. Something they'll still consider cool and l33t, but doesn't step on hacker's toes...
I didn't see what you were indicating there, so here's the nvu faq, which states that it's a branch of moz composer, released under the mpl, with site-management and enhanced table/form support added.
Zope is a wysiwyg html editor? I think that you don't understand zope, you don't understand Nvu, or I don't understand you.
Thanks for letting me know!
I was thinking that it might continue as long as that large sunspot group is directly pointed towards us. I'm not sure if sunspot activity comes in clusters or not, though.
It's amazing, the way they've distilled the essense of Windows into such a simple application...
Sourceforge should put this on the front page.
I wonder if this would indicate anything - if enough of the face of the stone has worn away to obscure the marks, wouldn't the embedded metal be worn away first?
I'm just wondering, by the way - I don't actually know anything at all about rock wear or how deeply tools embed material.
Ah, I should have looked at your blog earlier - I thought you were actually trying to help people, and I didn't realize you were a dedicated proprietary software apologist.
Carry on.
You are mistaken. A small and dwindling percentage of people make money from selling software.
Most people in the IT sector make money supporting, installing and integrating with software. The model of selling software secrets will represent only a short hiccup in the growth of the business models surrounding technology, and it will be looked back upon by historians as a period of greed, monopolism, and evil.
Who, exactly would be corrupt in this situation? And what would prevent them from being usurped?
One of the big goals of the license Linux is released under is the difficulty of forcing consumer lock-in.
XP is essentially an invitation to hack - with testing up front.
Refactoring is hacking, often in it's purest form - the tests make sure you don't break anything that someone cared enough about to specify.
If your tests are inadequate, bulk them up. If your code breaks tests, back it out. Otherwise, hack away!
Not much information - just the link to purchase it on Amazon.
Actually, that is the point. There is a finite amount of resource to be spent on saving people. That resource (primarily money) must be spent wisely in order to save the most lives possible.
By following specious logic or inventing trends based on coincidence without understanding that they are statistically irrelevant, we'd be concentrating effort in the wrong direction, therefore not saving as many people as possible.
Making believe that the concept of saving lives is somehow "above" logic and mathematics will result in a heck of a lot of lives not saved.
Keeping a cool and solid head and working with the facts to produce the best result will give the best return for the common good - no matter what our hollywood-trained global culture may tell us.
Can you show me studies providing indications that large asteroids are often accompanied (or even preceded) by small meteorites?
And, if you could, please indicate the average period between the time betwee the onset of different sized-asteroids, so we can plan accordingly - wouldn't want to go off half cocked.
Also, do large asteroids indicate the impending presence of titantic ones, and do those indicate that there are planet-sized ones on the way, to be followed by Galactus, the world eater?
Not to physics and mathematics, there isn't - it's all about mass, force and computable probability. There's a difference to us people, but our opinion has no bearing on an asteroid's trajectory.
I think they did stand up - they cleaned up code that was questionable (because of where they got it from , not because of where it has been), to ensure no one could be hurt by thier actions, and took a strong stance on XFS, which is absolutely unquestionably thiers.
I say Bravo, SGI.
Actually,
Were you off on your units (2 hundredths of a cent per hour) or your math (2400 hours in a day)?