But we'll be laying the smack down on every one of the programming sites out there.
You know who we are. Sign up for the notification and I'll give you a free t-shirt, even if
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I'm sorry folks, no free t-shirts. We're not trying to be all gimmicky like those other programming sites, we're all about just straight-out programmer to programmer collaboration. But we might send you an AOL coaster if you ask nicely.
This is something that is going to have to wait a while until KDE/Gnome/Window[*] can play catch-up in terms of acceptibility on a wide scale. Until then, expect to see more stuff like this (commercial apps fleeing the Linux Desktop)...
I have a 36" Trinitron too and that sucker IS heavy... There are permanent foot indentions in the (cheap) IKEA entertainment center because of its weight.
Not to mention, moving it is quite a task (certainly the heaviest/most awkward piece of furniture in my house... and I have a lot of crap).
You thought it was hard to find venture capital before? Wait til Wallstreet reacts to this.
Since when is the US Govt experts on Internet Security anyways? Hasn't every.gov site been hacked already (or more than 50% at least). Maybe they should be following their own advice.
BTW, how long until MS says to the Govt: "You let us operate the way we want and we'll include Carnivore in all of our programs"?
Bored, must sleep.
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This is a catch 22. The bigger it is, the more bugs it will have. Obviously Windows is larger, and it has more bugs (security ones, etc.). This holds true for Linux and *BSD as well, the obly reason the security bugs aren't as prevelant is because it is build top down, with administrators (security, robustness) in mind, rather than bottom up (features, overall cuteness).
Windows was initially coded to be a desktop item, and that's where they have suceeded, the fact that we are finally starting to see them all blur together is simply an inevibility.
I sincerely hope you're Troll. I really, really hope so. On second thought, genetic weeding sounds like a reasonable plan. Why not put all inferior beings in a gas chamber? Oh wait, that's been done before. And trust me, a "perfect human" is a contradiction in itself.
Nope, not a troll, although some people with mod points really don't deserve them. Anyways, to respond to your statement... You are taking my argument and blowing it way out of proportion to how science fundamentally works. Natural selection is at work around us whether we realize it or not, what I am suggesting is that if we wanted to become "uber-humans" in any fathomable timespan, we would have to resort to purely genetics instead of bionics. Having someone born with a specific trait is preferable to adding it via mechanical means. This is not to insinuate that we need to do away with the "inferiors" either. We have our place in the homeless camps (vague reference to Gatacca). I also agree that science should not get too proud of itself either, lest one of our perfect subjects snaps and turns into the perfect psychopath.
Two words buddy: nuclear weapons. Hit a few buttons and we can start all over again.
You completely missed my point (yes, i see the sarcasm indeed). What I was trying to get across was that when a scientist is working on a project, it is poor judgment for him to use a dirty test-tube for his tests.
How are we supposed to evolve if we are constantly fixing our broken selfs with add-on technology? I mean, if there were a magic pill that cured EVERYTHING, gave us the perfect bodies, and the only catch was that you had to take a pill every day, you can bet your ass people would be dieing left and right after they forgot to take their pills (re: Andromeda Strain).
Technology as a crutch should only be used as a temporary fix for people who are born with these defects. It should not be something that is factory issued at birth (yes, I mean FACTORY, let's call it like it is once we begin to upgrade from conception). If we really want to create the "perfect human" (sorry, I know I won't see it in my lifetime, and since I'll never be one, my personal stance is "screw it", but hey), our focus should be on genetic therapy and propogation. Every scientist has to realize the power that comes from being able to start fresh instead of fix something that is already broken. While we're at it, why not just rewrite the humane genome as well, I know we can come up with some really interesting alterations.
No, it's XboxTV, comes with built in 45" HDTV and 70GB HDD, all for only $199.99.
Really, I swear.
BTW, how come this isn't on fuckedcompany.com yet? I mean, they laid off quite a few people, their whole business direction has been shifted, and they chopped off part of their revenue stream (content management, programming). So where do they go now... licensing? Something tells me these guys will be gone by next Christmas, unless Phillips decides to buy they (for whatever reason).
Ok, so they console market has proven to us that the money is in the software, not the hardware. Yet these guys aren't writing much software themselves. Most of the software for it is going to be OSS...
Anyone else wondering how long until they show up on fuckedcompany.com?
I am in no way trying to say this is what I would do... however I have had these discussions quite often with the higher ups where I work (especially regarding opening up some of what I work on... we're a hosting company not an application company, and it makes little sense for us to keep some of this code closed when it could be cleaned up and further tested by the general public [that's you]).
Anyways, as I was trying to say, my current employer is actually pretty damn cool about me working on OSS, if I we're management, I would be cool about it too, but as the topic suggests, "The truth is..." a lot of corporations who have no clue about OSS are going to be pretty damn skeptical, and they aren't going to want to part with ANYTHING that they see could provide them with the ability to make more $$$. That's just a fact.
I was trying to be humorous as well in my portrayal of a typical corporate manager, but I'm not sure you caught that. Perhaps you have been lucky enough to have worked in nothing but non-traditional companies.
If you walk up to your employer, right now, and handed them this "contract" and asked them to sign it, they probably won't. At least not right away, I mean, put yourself in your boss's shoes, here you have this programmer type walking in your office and handing you a contract for you to sign. personally I'm gonna wonder what the hell is going on.
Then I'm gonna start asking some hard questions, a lot of people don't know te answers to these (bosses are like this, they like to ask really hard qustions that neither of you know the answer to). Then I'm gonna tell you than use that uncertainty as a tool to postpone signing this contract. You (the programmer) are going to go off and try to find these answers.
Meanwhile, I'm gonna put an ad out for your position. Really.
Of course, this is all hypothetical. I know where I currently work, I prenegotiated so that it was clear that I work on OSS projects (and that they could benefit the company, and vice versa if the company decided to open any of their apps).
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...is that the job includes wearing an orange jumper and picking up trash along side of thousands of miles of railroad tracks...
One word: Taxes
Err, the right to buy memorabilia? Even if the govt doesn't agree with it? I guess it was just pent up frustration over surrenduring without a fight.
Poor Yahoo!
But we'll be laying the smack down on every one of the programming sites out there.
... [sound of struggling] ....
You know who we are. Sign up for the notification and I'll give you a free t-shirt, even if
I'm sorry folks, no free t-shirts. We're not trying to be all gimmicky like those other programming sites, we're all about just straight-out programmer to programmer collaboration. But we might send you an AOL coaster if you ask nicely.
weatherchannel.com was owned by a squatter up to a week ago :)
The "real" Weather Channel finally got a judgment and got rights to the domain though. Check the whois: http://www.easywho.com/?domain=weatherchannel.com
remember those little people from Gulliver's Travel's? You just breathed one in.
Plain and Simple(TM)
This is something that is going to have to wait a while until KDE/Gnome/Window[*] can play catch-up in terms of acceptibility on a wide scale. Until then, expect to see more stuff like this (commercial apps fleeing the Linux Desktop)...
Kinda makes me think of MTV's Real World(TM) (shiny thing network), Survivor(TM) and Big Brother(TM).
Bill Shepherd: "I'm sorry Sergei, the tribe, er crew, has decided to vote you off the ISS"
Yuri Gidzenko: "We are thinkink you are takink up too much oxygen and not workink hard enough on da solar array"
NASA Ground Crew: "Sergei, the crew has spoken, please remove your helmet and step out of the ISS"
I have a 36" Trinitron too and that sucker IS heavy... There are permanent foot indentions in the (cheap) IKEA entertainment center because of its weight.
Not to mention, moving it is quite a task (certainly the heaviest/most awkward piece of furniture in my house... and I have a lot of crap).
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You thought it was hard to find venture capital before? Wait til Wallstreet reacts to this.
.gov site been hacked already (or more than 50% at least). Maybe they should be following their own advice.
Since when is the US Govt experts on Internet Security anyways? Hasn't every
BTW, how long until MS says to the Govt: "You let us operate the way we want and we'll include Carnivore in all of our programs"?
Bored, must sleep.
Are you sure you know how this system works?
If Mozilla were to cease operations today and be disbanded, there would be no shortage of browsers for *NIX.
You forgot the part where he has a dream about having sex with his therapist then setting himself on fire.
Sorry, I know it's offtopic, but I can't wait 'til the Sopranos come back on.
Because we know all the good legal buzzwords over here. "Sue", "Settle", "Defense", "Prosecute" and "Chad" are just a few.
This is a catch 22. The bigger it is, the more bugs it will have. Obviously Windows is larger, and it has more bugs (security ones, etc.). This holds true for Linux and *BSD as well, the obly reason the security bugs aren't as prevelant is because it is build top down, with administrators (security, robustness) in mind, rather than bottom up (features, overall cuteness).
Windows was initially coded to be a desktop item, and that's where they have suceeded, the fact that we are finally starting to see them all blur together is simply an inevibility.
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Screw privacy, I'd rather become famous.
Do you want to be the guy that never gives out personal information and is paranoid freak, or do you want to be the guy everyone knows about?
Of course, to give out confidential information (CC numbers, SSN, account numbers) is just stupid except where you are buying things.
I sincerely hope you're Troll. I really, really hope so. On second thought, genetic weeding sounds like a reasonable plan. Why not put all inferior beings in a gas chamber? Oh wait, that's been done before. And trust me, a "perfect human" is a contradiction in itself.
Nope, not a troll, although some people with mod points really don't deserve them. Anyways, to respond to your statement... You are taking my argument and blowing it way out of proportion to how science fundamentally works. Natural selection is at work around us whether we realize it or not, what I am suggesting is that if we wanted to become "uber-humans" in any fathomable timespan, we would have to resort to purely genetics instead of bionics. Having someone born with a specific trait is preferable to adding it via mechanical means. This is not to insinuate that we need to do away with the "inferiors" either. We have our place in the homeless camps (vague reference to Gatacca). I also agree that science should not get too proud of itself either, lest one of our perfect subjects snaps and turns into the perfect psychopath.
Two words buddy: nuclear weapons. Hit a few buttons and we can start all over again.
You completely missed my point (yes, i see the sarcasm indeed). What I was trying to get across was that when a scientist is working on a project, it is poor judgment for him to use a dirty test-tube for his tests.
How are we supposed to evolve if we are constantly fixing our broken selfs with add-on technology? I mean, if there were a magic pill that cured EVERYTHING, gave us the perfect bodies, and the only catch was that you had to take a pill every day, you can bet your ass people would be dieing left and right after they forgot to take their pills (re: Andromeda Strain).
Technology as a crutch should only be used as a temporary fix for people who are born with these defects. It should not be something that is factory issued at birth (yes, I mean FACTORY, let's call it like it is once we begin to upgrade from conception). If we really want to create the "perfect human" (sorry, I know I won't see it in my lifetime, and since I'll never be one, my personal stance is "screw it", but hey), our focus should be on genetic therapy and propogation. Every scientist has to realize the power that comes from being able to start fresh instead of fix something that is already broken. While we're at it, why not just rewrite the humane genome as well, I know we can come up with some really interesting alterations.
Homo Sapien 2.0
I can't wait.
No, it's XboxTV, comes with built in 45" HDTV and 70GB HDD, all for only $199.99.
Really, I swear.
BTW, how come this isn't on fuckedcompany.com yet? I mean, they laid off quite a few people, their whole business direction has been shifted, and they chopped off part of their revenue stream (content management, programming). So where do they go now... licensing? Something tells me these guys will be gone by next Christmas, unless Phillips decides to buy they (for whatever reason).
You really should have linked to the charts... it's a better indicator of how badly these companies have sunk.
Ok, so they console market has proven to us that the money is in the software, not the hardware. Yet these guys aren't writing much software themselves. Most of the software for it is going to be OSS...
Anyone else wondering how long until they show up on fuckedcompany.com?
Open the VC doors HAL.
I'm sorry Dave, all the VCs went home.
I can feel my funding, my burn rate is... increasing.
I am in no way trying to say this is what I would do... however I have had these discussions quite often with the higher ups where I work (especially regarding opening up some of what I work on... we're a hosting company not an application company, and it makes little sense for us to keep some of this code closed when it could be cleaned up and further tested by the general public [that's you]).
Anyways, as I was trying to say, my current employer is actually pretty damn cool about me working on OSS, if I we're management, I would be cool about it too, but as the topic suggests, "The truth is..." a lot of corporations who have no clue about OSS are going to be pretty damn skeptical, and they aren't going to want to part with ANYTHING that they see could provide them with the ability to make more $$$. That's just a fact.
I was trying to be humorous as well in my portrayal of a typical corporate manager, but I'm not sure you caught that. Perhaps you have been lucky enough to have worked in nothing but non-traditional companies.
If you walk up to your employer, right now, and handed them this "contract" and asked them to sign it, they probably won't. At least not right away, I mean, put yourself in your boss's shoes, here you have this programmer type walking in your office and handing you a contract for you to sign. personally I'm gonna wonder what the hell is going on.
Then I'm gonna start asking some hard questions, a lot of people don't know te answers to these (bosses are like this, they like to ask really hard qustions that neither of you know the answer to). Then I'm gonna tell you than use that uncertainty as a tool to postpone signing this contract. You (the programmer) are going to go off and try to find these answers.
Meanwhile, I'm gonna put an ad out for your position. Really.
Of course, this is all hypothetical. I know where I currently work, I prenegotiated so that it was clear that I work on OSS projects (and that they could benefit the company, and vice versa if the company decided to open any of their apps).