Actually, a passport works better than a driver's license when you're outside your home state. Most door staff don't know what the licenses of all 50 states look like, and therefore can't tell if one is legit or not. But most of them know what passports look like, at least in my experience.
Growing a beard and looking like you're 35 also helps. I rarely even get asked anymore.
Of course, I suppose this only applies in the U.S., where drinking laws are stupid.
good for some things, but bad for broadcast
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I've seen something like this before -- a 36 Mbit DV stream sent over the Internet2 (IP network instead of Firewire) from Ohio to Pennsylvania. It was just a test, to see if it could be made to work. Latency was in the 150ms range. (Basically it was two FreeBSD machines with Firewire and tuned 100Base-T cards on both ends.)
At the time, my reaction was "What a waste of bandwidth!" but extremely high quality video streams at relatively low latency are critical for remote instrumentation/manipulation applications. Like moving a robot arm in space, or allowing scientists from all over the place to use one piece of very expensive equipment instead of moving them all to the same location. We also considered using something like that in an on-campus video editing facility for moving footage around from machine to machine. I can see the use for it in some situations.
But for broadcasting? I don't see the point of using all that spectrum just for a video.
Let me first say that I wish TheKompany the best of luck. I'll probably end up buying some of these apps.
Having said that: while I think it's great that they're producing these apps for Linux, I don't feel entirely comfortable with it. I believe in free software a lot more than I believe in Linux specifically. I'm concerned that the availability of high-quality commercial office applications for linux will impede the already-slow development of free software alternatives (e.g. gnumeric.)
The same thing has happened in (e.g.) the database market -- I bet that MySQL would have transaction support by now if DB2/Oracle hadn't been released for Linux. I'd be a lot happier buying a copy (CDROM/download) of software that gave me the four freedoms once I've bought it. Or if there were some guarantee that while you've got to pay to get most current version, it will be made available under a GPL/Apache-style license a couple of years after its initial release. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I would rather support a business model that ensured a fair revenue stream for the developers AND ensured that the amount of available free software increased over time.
>It's silly to think a computer or ten will
>substanitively improve one's education. At
>least, when more basic needs are not met. Most
>of the hurdles facing Education in the US are
>Socio-Economic. Not technological.
All the more reason why every school district in the country shouldn't be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to Microsoft for their soon-to-be-annualized software subscriptions! That money could be used to - gasp - pay good teachers what they're worth.
I called Telocity in February 2000 about getting DSL to my apartment. Signed up, gave them a credit card number, they were supposed to get back to me in a few days about a service appointment.
I called them back several times and each time they were unsure as to why I hadn't been contacted. Nobody came by, no gateway unit sent, not a peep out of them. In late May I called them and told them to forget it.
In August, I received this same letter, demanding the immediate return of the gateway unit I had never received! I called them up, waited about an hour on hold, explained the situation -- I am not and never have been a Telocity customer, you never even called me back, etc. I never sent them anything and they never charged me.
I considered sending them a consulting bill for the 3-4 hours I wasted on the phone throughout the ordeal.
I came to the conclusion that apart from leaving a bunch of people without their DSL service, Telocity and Rhythms are bad companies that deserved to tank or get bought out. But they're still better than Ameritech. I'm now a Speakeasy.net customer, and dealing with them has been a joy so far.
The GPL does apply to anyone who uses the particular software that it licenses, and it is intentional.
The GPL is usually referred to as a license rather than a contract because a license is a specific sort of contract: it confers some rights upon the licensed user which are normally reserved exclusively for the copyright holder.
The "not required to accept this license" doesn't mean that you can accept the license OR do whatever you want with it; it means that if you choose not to accept the license, you are granted no priveleges to use the software in any way.
End users of GPL'd software are bound by the GPL just as much as developers are; it's just that they choose to use the software in a different way, i.e. running it rather than hacking on it.
Of course you _can_ get $100K jobs at 17 if you've got the chops. The question is, why would you want to?
Spending time at university is fun. Usually HR folks don't care what your degree is in, just that you have one. I used to work in a shop with lots of really talented techs that all had arts & humanities (african history, art history, political science, theater, etc.) bachelor's degrees.
Why do people always assume that education is something that has to be crammed down your throat? It's a goal, not a chore. Anybody who really thinks that the universe began on January 1, 1970, maybe they ought to unplug for a few minutes.
(Although personally my interest wanes when you get back to about the Industrial Revolution.)
Though they don't know what went wrong, it seems pretty clear that it was the Russian/Ukrainian rocket, not the launch pad itself, that was problematic.
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Actually, a passport works better than a driver's license when you're outside your home state. Most door staff don't know what the licenses of all 50 states look like, and therefore can't tell if one is legit or not. But most of them know what passports look like, at least in my experience.
Growing a beard and looking like you're 35 also helps. I rarely even get asked anymore.
Of course, I suppose this only applies in the U.S., where drinking laws are stupid.
This is the karma equivalent of shooting myself in the kneecap, but...
If their literacy levels are so low, why not spend that time teaching them to be better readers?
...you can always quit. www.sba.gov
I've seen something like this before -- a 36 Mbit DV stream sent over the Internet2 (IP network instead of Firewire) from Ohio to Pennsylvania. It was just a test, to see if it could be made to work. Latency was in the 150ms range. (Basically it was two FreeBSD machines with Firewire and tuned 100Base-T cards on both ends.)
At the time, my reaction was "What a waste of bandwidth!" but extremely high quality video streams at relatively low latency are critical for remote instrumentation/manipulation applications. Like moving a robot arm in space, or allowing scientists from all over the place to use one piece of very expensive equipment instead of moving them all to the same location. We also considered using something like that in an on-campus video editing facility for moving footage around from machine to machine. I can see the use for it in some situations.
But for broadcasting? I don't see the point of using all that spectrum just for a video.
Let me first say that I wish TheKompany the best of luck. I'll probably end up buying some of these apps.
Having said that: while I think it's great that they're producing these apps for Linux, I don't feel entirely comfortable with it. I believe in free software a lot more than I believe in Linux specifically. I'm concerned that the availability of high-quality commercial office applications for linux will impede the already-slow development of free software alternatives (e.g. gnumeric.)
The same thing has happened in (e.g.) the database market -- I bet that MySQL would have transaction support by now if DB2/Oracle hadn't been released for Linux. I'd be a lot happier buying a copy (CDROM/download) of software that gave me the four freedoms once I've bought it. Or if there were some guarantee that while you've got to pay to get most current version, it will be made available under a GPL/Apache-style license a couple of years after its initial release. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I would rather support a business model that ensured a fair revenue stream for the developers AND ensured that the amount of available free software increased over time.
Let the flames begin.
>It's silly to think a computer or ten will
>substanitively improve one's education. At
>least, when more basic needs are not met. Most
>of the hurdles facing Education in the US are
>Socio-Economic. Not technological.
All the more reason why every school district in the country shouldn't be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to Microsoft for their soon-to-be-annualized software subscriptions! That money could be used to - gasp - pay good teachers what they're worth.
Oh, that's nothing.
I called Telocity in February 2000 about getting DSL to my apartment. Signed up, gave them a credit card number, they were supposed to get back to me in a few days about a service appointment.
I called them back several times and each time they were unsure as to why I hadn't been contacted. Nobody came by, no gateway unit sent, not a peep out of them. In late May I called them and told them to forget it.
In August, I received this same letter, demanding the immediate return of the gateway unit I had never received! I called them up, waited about an hour on hold, explained the situation -- I am not and never have been a Telocity customer, you never even called me back, etc. I never sent them anything and they never charged me.
I considered sending them a consulting bill for the 3-4 hours I wasted on the phone throughout the ordeal.
I came to the conclusion that apart from leaving a bunch of people without their DSL service, Telocity and Rhythms are bad companies that deserved to tank or get bought out. But they're still better than Ameritech. I'm now a Speakeasy.net customer, and dealing with them has been a joy so far.
(Sorry, but this is pretty wrong.)
The GPL does apply to anyone who uses the particular software that it licenses, and it is intentional.
The GPL is usually referred to as a license rather than a contract because a license is a specific sort of contract: it confers some rights upon the licensed user which are normally reserved exclusively for the copyright holder.
The "not required to accept this license" doesn't mean that you can accept the license OR do whatever you want with it; it means that if you choose not to accept the license, you are granted no priveleges to use the software in any way.
End users of GPL'd software are bound by the GPL just as much as developers are; it's just that they choose to use the software in a different way, i.e. running it rather than hacking on it.
No, you're paying for the features.
:)
Service and support costs extra
Of course you _can_ get $100K jobs at 17 if you've got the chops. The question is, why would you want to? Spending time at university is fun. Usually HR folks don't care what your degree is in, just that you have one. I used to work in a shop with lots of really talented techs that all had arts & humanities (african history, art history, political science, theater, etc.) bachelor's degrees. Why do people always assume that education is something that has to be crammed down your throat? It's a goal, not a chore. Anybody who really thinks that the universe began on January 1, 1970, maybe they ought to unplug for a few minutes. (Although personally my interest wanes when you get back to about the Industrial Revolution.)
Though they don't know what went wrong, it seems pretty clear that it was the Russian/Ukrainian rocket, not the launch pad itself, that was problematic.
See the space.com article