I heard MS (or maybe bill gates) has a major stake in one of the worlds largest satellite launching companies. What if Microsoft launch a space station from which to do business? It'd be a hell of a commute, but it would be worth it to work on the "Death Star".
or for any real distance into the future the resolution of your predictions becomes so poor as to be useless.
like 5 minutes would be fine... even being able to figure out what happened yesterday would be fantastic.:)
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Hm. dunno about IBM. Seems they are too often overlooked as a source of good open source software. Ever hear of alphaWorks? What a huge cache of high-quality software, much of which is open source. (And as far as OS licenses go, the IBM public license seems to be a very nice and clean one.)
You are, of course, absolutely correct. I should have thought about my choice of corporate "mosters" a bit harder, I appologize.
Before you totally trash a movement/culture you should open your eyes and look at it.
If you want to see examples of great open source projects, look at www.freshmeat.net! They have nearly 100 postings a week of new software and updates to old software. There are 1000's of beautiful pieces of software out there that have 100% open source. GNOME/KDE, Linux, GIMP, Gnumeric (and friends), Licq, and the list goes on and on (those are just a few of the ones I use EVERYDAY).
I use Linux as my ONLY desktop environment. One day about 3 months ago I installed linux andput all my MS stuff in a box in the closet. Ever since I have been even more productive and learned than I ever was using window$. Just because mozilla is based on crappy corporate technology and its taking them a while to get the junk out, you feel the need to trash all of us. Open source isn't some fad or pipe dream! Its here and its now and its millions of users and developers coming to stomp corporate cultures long held beliefs that everything good is closed and information is property.
It would be nice of you to release a more informed article someday.
I appologize If someone has asked/answered this question already.
As a CS student graduating in the next year, I see a $50,000 or better "starting" salary upon graduation. I chose software as my specialty because I love solving problems and working with the abstract concepts programming provides. If software becomes universally open/free I'll still love writing it but, will I still be compensated at this phenominal rate? Obviously people will still make money on services provided by/for their software but, will a company still want to pay me huge amounts of money to write software everyone will be able to modify and use anyway they want?
In terms of earning potential, should I be regretting my decision not to study hardware engineering? Can we excpect to see a change in the dynamics of the IT labor force?
I'm not doing CS for the money, but it's certainly a very nice perk.
Its a good idea... you shouldn't make contributing to this thing a full time job.. if all the info goes away tomorrow, you should not weep for days. Contribute now and enjoy the idea.. odds are they're not trying to screw anyone... I'm gunna use it and not worry about tomorrow..
I'd love to play with one of these things but, I really dont want to put it together. I'd much rather just write the code to make it do stuff.. It would also be nice to see a linux compiler for it.
Anyone know how tough it would be to add an RF transmiter/reciever to it?
He can sue until he's blue but, thats not going to stop people from trading this stuff. What he should be doing instead is finding a way to roll with the punches and make something good from it. He could make a few "just for MP3" songs and give them out, or something.
I personally have a rather extensive collection of MP3's (no Dr. Dre, I'm proud to say). I have been trading them for about 3 years. In this same 3 year period I have bought 5 CD's, before this 3 year period I owned a total of 2 CD's. MP3's have made me an avid music fan.
Where I work we have a UPS (uninterruptable power supply) system that is about the size of my $70 ink jet printer. In 5 years the PS in your PC will have this technology built in, and a loss of power will "always" lead to a graceful shutdown.
I'm kinda torn up about this whole thing... On the one hand I want to see Microsoft torn to little bits. On the other hand we might be better off to let them dig their own hole.
I hate to see free economy intervention like this, because it lowers economic confidence. How many more bug riddled releases would microsoft have been able to make in the face of Linux 2.4, KDE 2.0, and GNOME?
The fact is, breaking up microsoft into smaller devisions is almost garunteed to make them produce higher quality software, especially if they are made to open the source. While I suppose this is good, it scares me. If breaking up microsoft simply leads to a bunch of lean and mean Redmond Machines, the result could be the opposite of what we want: MORE microsoft products, more monopoly type practices and more FUD, except now we'll get it from multiple directions!
My vote is to leave the sinking ship alone, just fine them and call it good.... Microsoft can't recover from this path of self destruction they are on, unless we help them. ------ www.chowda.net -- Student seeking summer intership. Chea... inexpensive programmer! ------
No, Bill Joy wants to protect people by removing the open sharing of ideas which is the human aspect of technology. He is trying to lay claim to this quote because there is an "always," but he dose not understand science or progress, so he thinks that adding rigid restrictions on what people are allowed to talk about will protect people.
I'm not going to argue here, I was just commenting on that one sentence. It sounded like you were rippin the guy then agreeing with him on that one point... After looking it over again I realized the problem was possibly one of not enough quoting on your part:) I now understand how he ment that remark and how you were correct in your remark... sorry for not thinking harder, but If you read the comments under the subliminal message thread from yesterday you would understand it's not my fault.
"JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS AND ACT LIKE AN ASS" "JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS AND ACT LIKE AN ASS" "JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS AND ACT LIKE AN ASS" "JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS AND ACT LIKE AN ASS" "JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS AND ACT LIKE AN ASS"
I think nanotechnology immediatly provides an advantage to the offensive user, as it is almost always easier to break or kill something than it is to fix or revive the same thing. The secret to not letting a new technology destoy the world is to make sure everyone know the same stuff. I don't think the U.S. would have bombed Hiroshima if the Japanese could have built a bomb from plans on the internet. Mutually Assured Destruction is the only deterant for people who would choose to use technology for mass destruction.
Keep information free and abundant and everything'll be just dandy.
The best offense is a really big weapon, the best defense is a bigger weapon.
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I heard MS (or maybe bill gates) has a major stake in one of the worlds largest satellite launching companies. What if Microsoft launch a space station from which to do business? It'd be a hell of a commute, but it would be worth it to work on the "Death Star".
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HA! that movie made me gag :)
:)
the cover said something like "makes the matrix look like the cartoon network..." HA!
Web Master is almost as bad if your into cheezy sci-fi....
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or for any real distance into the future the resolution of your predictions becomes so poor as to be useless.
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like 5 minutes would be fine... even being able to figure out what happened yesterday would be fantastic.
doesnt really matter too much as I'm going to dump her soon anyway... too much to think about really. are relationships ever really worth it?
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Maybe they'd let me have a few nodes to figure out my girlfriend!
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DIBS on god@UoSAT-12.gov!
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Do you work at NASA? Did you forget to convert centimeters to inches?
ARRRGG! WHERE'S THE SHINEY RED ABORT BUTTON!!?
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Well, are you a geek?
What OS/Desktop environment do you use?
Have you used Linux/Unix?
What do you think of the opensource movement?
Have you considered an opensource book?
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Anyone know if/when RSA 128 bit encryption will be suported?
I need a secure web connection at least 6 times a day, and I'm dying to ditch netscape.
Whats the point of having a stable OS when the app I use the most crashes every 5 clicks...
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Hm. dunno about IBM. Seems they are too often overlooked as a source of good open source software. Ever hear of alphaWorks? What a huge cache of high-quality software, much of which is open source. (And as far as OS licenses go, the IBM public license seems to be a very nice and clean one.)
You are, of course, absolutely correct. I should have thought about my choice of corporate "mosters" a bit harder, I appologize.
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NEWS: IGNORANCE ONLY BLISSFUL FOR THE IGNORANT.
Before you totally trash a movement/culture you should open your eyes and look at it.
If you want to see examples of great open source projects, look at www.freshmeat.net! They have nearly 100 postings a week of new software and updates to old software. There are 1000's of beautiful pieces of software out there that have 100% open source. GNOME/KDE, Linux, GIMP, Gnumeric (and friends), Licq, and the list goes on and on (those are just a few of the ones I use EVERYDAY).
I use Linux as my ONLY desktop environment. One day about 3 months ago I installed linux andput all my MS stuff in a box in the closet. Ever since I have been even more productive and learned than I ever was using window$. Just because mozilla is based on crappy corporate technology and its taking them a while to get the junk out, you feel the need to trash all of us. Open source isn't some fad or pipe dream! Its here and its now and its millions of users and developers coming to stomp corporate cultures long held beliefs that everything good is closed and information is property.
It would be nice of you to release a more informed article someday.
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I WAS going to use Mars.. but now its 6 inches too far to the right.... damn physicists!
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Its like this guys intention was to be misinformed. Thats a strange goal for any kind of "journalist"!
I think this is just another example of ZDNet completely being bought and sold by IBM, MS, Intel, etc.. This story is obviously propaganda.
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And I was just about to use this 16,000,000 mile lever to move the world and NOW its 20 feet to short... damn scientists!
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how many geeks does it take to over-populate an audio stream?
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I appologize If someone has asked/answered this question already.
As a CS student graduating in the next year, I see a $50,000 or better "starting" salary upon graduation. I chose software as my specialty because I love solving problems and working with the abstract concepts programming provides. If software becomes universally open/free I'll still love writing it but, will I still be compensated at this phenominal rate? Obviously people will still make money on services provided by/for their software but, will a company still want to pay me huge amounts of money to write software everyone will be able to modify and use anyway they want?
In terms of earning potential, should I be regretting my decision not to study hardware engineering? Can we excpect to see a change in the dynamics of the IT labor force?
I'm not doing CS for the money, but it's certainly a very nice perk.
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Its a good idea... you shouldn't make contributing to this thing a full time job.. if all the info goes away tomorrow, you should not weep for days. Contribute now and enjoy the idea.. odds are they're not trying to screw anyone... I'm gunna use it and not worry about tomorrow..
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I'd love to play with one of these things but, I really dont want to put it together. I'd much rather just write the code to make it do stuff.. It would also be nice to see a linux compiler for it.
Anyone know how tough it would be to add an RF transmiter/reciever to it?
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He can sue until he's blue but, thats not going to stop people from trading this stuff. What he should be doing instead is finding a way to roll with the punches and make something good from it. He could make a few "just for MP3" songs and give them out, or something.
I personally have a rather extensive collection of MP3's (no Dr. Dre, I'm proud to say). I have been trading them for about 3 years. In this same 3 year period I have bought 5 CD's, before this 3 year period I owned a total of 2 CD's. MP3's have made me an avid music fan.
I appologize for the rhymes....
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Where I work we have a UPS (uninterruptable power supply) system that is about the size of my $70 ink jet printer. In 5 years the PS in your PC will have this technology built in, and a loss of power will "always" lead to a graceful shutdown.
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It's new that they caught the guy who did it.
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I think streaming video broadcasts are a great idea especially if you do the random object thing!
Just one camera pointing at some objects on the ground, each has a nametag. When you change topics move the objects around a bit.
A good bit to do each week would be to pick an object representing First Posters and destroy it in a new and creative way.
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suck
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I'm kinda torn up about this whole thing... On the one hand I want to see Microsoft torn to little bits. On the other hand we might be better off to let them dig their own hole.
I hate to see free economy intervention like this, because it lowers economic confidence. How many more bug riddled releases would microsoft have been able to make in the face of Linux 2.4, KDE 2.0, and GNOME?
The fact is, breaking up microsoft into smaller devisions is almost garunteed to make them produce higher quality software, especially if they are made to open the source. While I suppose this is good, it scares me. If breaking up microsoft simply leads to a bunch of lean and mean Redmond Machines, the result could be the opposite of what we want: MORE microsoft products, more monopoly type practices and more FUD, except now we'll get it from multiple directions!
My vote is to leave the sinking ship alone, just fine them and call it good.... Microsoft can't recover from this path of self destruction they are on, unless we help them.
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No, Bill Joy wants to protect people by removing the open sharing of ideas which is the human aspect of technology. He is trying to lay claim to this quote because there is an "always," but he dose not understand science or progress, so he thinks that adding rigid restrictions on what people are allowed to talk about will protect people.
:) I now understand how he ment that remark and how you were correct in your remark... sorry for not thinking harder, but If you read the comments under the subliminal message thread from yesterday you would understand it's not my fault.
I'm not going to argue here, I was just commenting on that one sentence. It sounded like you were rippin the guy then agreeing with him on that one point... After looking it over again I realized the problem was possibly one of not enough quoting on your part
"JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS AND ACT LIKE AN ASS"
"JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS AND ACT LIKE AN ASS"
"JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS AND ACT LIKE AN ASS"
"JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS AND ACT LIKE AN ASS"
"JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS AND ACT LIKE AN ASS"
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I think nanotechnology immediatly provides an advantage to the offensive user, as it is almost always easier to break or kill something than it is to fix or revive the same thing. The secret to not letting a new technology destoy the world is to make sure everyone know the same stuff. I don't think the U.S. would have bombed Hiroshima if the Japanese could have built a bomb from plans on the internet. Mutually Assured Destruction is the only deterant for people who would choose to use technology for mass destruction.
Keep information free and abundant and everything'll be just dandy.
The best offense is a really big weapon, the best defense is a bigger weapon.
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