Actually, I think the logic is quite plain. From page 38:
The plain language of 17 U.S.C. 504(c) authorized the jury's award in this case. I must give effect to this clear statutory language, at least to the extent that the jury's award does not run afoul of the Due Process Clause. See Caminetti v. United States, 242 U.S. 470, 485, 490 (1917) ("[I]f [a statute's language] is plain, and if the law is within the constitutional authority of the lawmaking body which passed it, the sole function of the courts is to enforce it according to its terms," unless doing so would "lead[] to absurd or wholly impracticable consequences.").
The other part is in the conclusion on page 54:
Chief Judge Davis notes, there is a long tradition in the law of allowing treble damages for willful misconduct.
Basically the damages was reduced to the lowest possible limit without saying the statute itself is unconstitutional, just that parts of the range are unconstitutional given the case. If you look at the case law cited, it almost exclusively deals with cases where the damages have been wide open, and the jury returned crazy damages but that's on the jury's hands. If you go below $750, then it's the law itself and not the application of it. As a lone judge, I'd probably take the easy one out and limit myself to saying the jury's verdict is unconstitutional too. Maybe if and when this reaches the Supreme Court - I expect the appeals to go all the way unless the Supremes refuse to hear it - maybe they will have the balls to say the law itself is unconstitutional, but not before.
The usual rule of thumb is that you can manage 3x your income in debt, and I found that the average US private debt was $55k. Add $67k on top, and you're not cutting luxuries, you're bargain shopping for necessities and get clothes from the salvation army.
So, you are saying that because someone is capable of selling their house and car to pay $67,000 for sharing 24 songs, that it is a reasonable expectation?
You're abusing what the parent said, a person can "reasonably pay" that sum without making unreasonable assumptions like winning the lottery, that doesn't say anything about whether it's a reasonable penalty or not. If it was $675k then any normal person can just declare bankruptcy right away, they'd never manage to pay it back.
Probably because it's an evolutionary deadend to go tumbling around the night with halfassed night vision. You're very unlikely to catch something, very likely to become pray or simply injure yourself. Those who survived were probably those who decided it's dark as fuck, let's return to base and live to fight another day. It's not like we're terribly poor in extreme low light, if you go camping in a remote area with no fire we see well enough for close quarter combat. And maybe that comes with a penalty for our day vision which is the tipping point between survival and starvation, it doesn't take much of an evolutionary pressure to negate the benefits.
What I've found is that normalization and denormalizing triggers are a wonderful combination. Sure I can store ten addresses for you, but for practical purposes one will be the primary address and denormalized into the contacts table. Too bad that triggers are written a little bit differently in every database.
It can almost be that easy. Many large companies I know operate with a headcount, if you're below your headcount you can pretty much hire at will. HR is just doing the practicalities, much like IT will get you into the IT systems. Fortunately my country is anything but fire at will, but that's got nothing to do with the corporate structure...
I did the same, the only downside I could find was that in the expansion my character was ridiculously overpowered. I started on level 20 with a full deck of 100GP-class items and I didn't feel the level adjustment worked at all, even turning up the difficultly meter to max my character was a tank. I was kinda committed to that character though so just went with it anyway.
Well, that and the AI was a bit stupid in that if I stuck to melee/ranged attacks he'd keep pounding my tanks, while if I tried to spell slam they'd all go mental chasing the mage. So I'd invest in healing instead and just occasionally use Stonefist and the like to knock mages down long enough for me to rush them. Very fun game, really look forward to this.
IQ is not concerned with - the candidate knows about the job - the candidate has good (enough) people skills - the candidate showers, shaves, etc
To understand computers, being able to think in abstract logic is far more important than your EQ so for an IT outsourcing company it's almost "knowing" your job. Now we'd all like perfect employees, but it's much, much easier to find someone to look good in a suit and talk nice to your customers than to find someone competent to do the work. It does not matter how good your "people skills" are, if you take a week to do what should have taken a day.
If you go to that page, be sure to see the BMI >30 map for males (why no total?). The US is miles ahead of the rest with 44.2%, for comparison UK has 23.7% and Germany 22.9%. This corresponds well to what I've seen, many people all over Europe are getting chubby from office work, no exercise and fast food. But almost every time I see one of those quarter ton people, it's an American. There's just a completely different attitude to being really, really huge. It's no surprise many americans identify with Homer Simpson...
At least on Internet-facing computers according to the hitslink numbers, Linux' market share is very stable at around 1%. Since February 2009 it's been in the range 0.94-1.17& with the last being 1.07%. However, the total PC market is still growing rapidly so in a way it's healthier than ever, at the last guesstimate there's an installed base of about 1.4 billion computers - that's 14 million Linux users.
It really depends on how you look at it, in relative figures it's still struggling. But if you believe that some fixed fraction of users decide to become developers, then in absolute numbers there are more developers than ever. I'll not pretend people don't have problems today, but I've fiddled with Linux long enough to know it has been much, much worse and survived and evolved past that. There's at least no reason to be grim about the future.
When I first dabbled with Linux, the ruling operating system was called Windows 98. Let me tell you, Win7 and OSX 10.6 are vastly different beasts, the competition has come a far way. But so has Linux, it's always stayed in the race. Sooner or later the race will slow down, the next OS version will look much like the last. When they do, Linux will catch up. That's the whole difference, the others have to be in front, they have to constantly find a way to be ahead. Linux can just copy the beaten path until it catches up.
I personally think internet anonymity is a good thing. It forces people to attack each other's arguments rather than resorting to ad hominems, and ensures an even playing field, since newbies' arguments are heard on the same level as those of our celebrities (at least in theory).
<sarcasm>Yes, because there's no such thing as ad hominem attacks on slashdot.</sarcasm> With sock puppet accounts and other trickery I'm not sure that it's so even either, on top of those that just want to trash about and destroy any real discussion. But what you don't get on a real name forum, is honesty. And before you all go constitutional on me, it's perfectly rational to not tell everybody everything. Friends, family, employers, the general public, nobody except the government is obliged to treat me the same. You might say that if I do nothing wrong, I should have no problems with sharing it with the world but that is not true. There has been, is and will be unjust laws, individuals and societies that are bigoted and intolerant. That I in principle should not be punished for something does not mean that I won't be in reality.
It is not an either-or that there should always be anonymity or there should always be identification. I see them both as important but different tools. The anonymity in gathering a community, talking to others who feel the same way, making people comfortable with themselves and letting them know they're not alone. Those that identify themselves first are the spearheads, those that gives names and faces to those people. It does not matter how good the cause is, being a spearhead is hard. If you walked along Gandhi himself you'd still risk arrest, imprisonment or being beaten up by soldiers. You can not expect everyone to be willing to sacrifice everything, some must lead and the rest will support you up to a point. Not everyone wants to be a maryr, they just seek to live their own life as they see morally sound and get away with their way of pursuing happiness.
and then after six months your machine crawls to a halt unless you give them more money for the next version
Six months? Well, that eliminates Windows at least. And OSX 10.3-6 have been on a two year cycle. The only OS I know that releases every six months as clockwork is Ubuntu, but I think you're doing it wrong...
Agreed, but you forgot one thing. Brand specific accessories are also a great way to increase commitment. It's not just your phone, but it's your regular charger, your portable charger, your handsfree set, the data transfer cable and so on making sure that when you lose a phone, you buy a new one from the same brand. You don't see quite so much of it with computers, though Apple has generally used it a lot particularly on things like iPods. If you have an AirPort, Time Capsule, AppleTV etc. chances are much higher you'll buy another Mac than if you don't.
How do I put this, most artists I've run into didn't seem like the rest of us to begin with. I think they just managed to channel the wierdness into the enigmatic artsy type instead of the disturbing creepy type. I think high school sports has a lot higher share of people that have figured they'll never be NFL superstars but enough to score with the ladies...
Not so much the size as the MO of large IT companies. Create a shell of sales, marketing and consulting while all development, maintenance and support is hollowed out and internally "outsourced" to units in very cheap countries. Even though the quality of all three go down they manage to win bids by in theory offering the same as their competitors for less. In practice it turns out much worse than expect, but that's quickly forgotten during the next round of contracts again with a tight budget.
I think the biggest issue is that there's no real market for Linux computers. Too many are tinkerers who'll put it on their old PC or random parts or some sale or will want a different distro than it's sold with anyway or whatnot. Sure, there's a select few Ubuntu models online at Dell US but otherwise the availability is very, very slim. And if you first buy these they don't come with a Windows license so it's not for the "let me get my feet wet and if I panic I can boot into Windows" crowd, as far as I know pretty much nobody sells dual boots. The end result is that Linux is trying to jump the "Just works" hurdle on all hardware simultaneously, which is incredibly hard. What we need are known Linux-friendly machines you can point people to and say "This machine will run both Linux and Windows. Try it, if it's not for you dual boot back and all you lost was a little bit of time." Right now you have to commit far too much for comfort.
At least one reason it didn't make sense for the religious to attack Saddam - Iraq was probably the least religious country in the area. Saddam was very clear that he was the only source of power in the area and didn't take very well to religious leaders threatening his power. Militant and aggressive yes, but trying to run some global muslim jihad? No. If that was the real threat, Iran was (and probably is) by far the most obvious target. You can take your pick of reasons why they did the Gulf War 2, but there's nothing of substance to link Iraq to 9/11, Taliban or Al-Qaeda.
I hear what you're saying, but as long as there's a near infinite number of possible science projects and a quite finite level of funding there has to be priorities. On the detailed level you can have science boards, but what about the overall level? How do you decide what degree of funding you'll give to science overall or Hubble versus CERN, for example? Both are ridiculously far into basic science, if you asked the scientists what measurable gains society would get the answer would be ridiculously strained or none at all. In the end it's a political decision, after all we're not paying these people because they think it's a nice hobby to do experiments, we're paying them because we want some form of results. If we just gave them free money and to go have fun, I shudder to think how much useless science we'd do.
AMD has had quite sane model numbers for some time now, e.g. 5870 = (5) design, (8) chip, (7) clock/memory, (0) room for expansion. Of course it's not perfectly linear as the low-end parts of a new generation won't beat the high-end parts of the last generation (5450 > 4870 but worse in performance) but it'd be even more confusing if the other new features like lower power consumption, DirectX11, Eyefinity etc. was on every other card in the 4xxx lineup. nVidia on the other hand has been playing the "if you can't compete, confuse" for quite some time now. Did I mention my last card is an AMD 5850? And unlike nVidia there's open source drivers coming though I admit the Evergreen (5xxx) support is not terrific right now.
True, but there's diminishing returns. If you look at graphics card reviews they've been constantly pushing up the resolution because only the 30" 2560x1600 or multi-screen setups actually push enough pixels to strain them. That's about twice the pixels your full HDTV will ever do, and there's a huge install base of that compared to the obscure 30-inches. Obviously with more shaders/pixel you can in theory do more to make each pixel realistic, but in practice it doesn't look that way. No game has an ultra-über-quality mode that'll make your SLI/CF setup groan at low resolutions. Effectively I think if the next generation comes wtih full hd and the shaders to power it, the PC market will be laying low for many years.
In fact, most of our copyright issues would vanish if we went back to traditional US copyright laws: 14 years + one 14 years extension if the author is still alive, with a registration requirement. I have yet to see an argument why traditional US copyright isn't the right choice.
Not even close. For one, if we are to keep copyright I would want compulsory global RAND licensing. No more region codes. No more waiting for the DVD release, or iTunes to ever bother making TV series available here. No more making me pay 30% more because I'm on the wrong side of the atlantic. Have the free market work both ways, you are free to get labor where you want and I'm free to get the product where I want.
What can I say, I have the "service" I want already. I just want someone to offer the same, legally.
Heh, I sense a metajoke coming because I did play through the first island, saw the last update was from 2007 (when I checked) and figured this was another abandoned, half-done OSS project. Not making any promises right now as I'm heading on summer vacation in a week but this autumn I will have to take a look at those other levels I never realized were there... Who'd think I'd find it in a slashdot article about finding an open source "job".
Not trolling, I'm trying to figure out what practical benefit Opera has for its users.
The 80-20 rule, 80% of the benefit of Firefox with 20% of the effort fiddling with all the extensions. Firefox without any extensions at all is a poorer browser than Opera, and I got better things do to than to custom design my browser.
Well, consider a commercial software development project. Sure, in one end you have customers throwing out random suggestions. But between that and implementation you usually have a layer that has to work to say how exactly should this work, why is this the way that gives most value, making up use cases, design workflows and so on. These are normally paid positions inside the company. At some point you start feeling this is moving from a help request "please fix this bug for me" to a contribution "here's well-researched proposed changes that'd make your software much better". But in the open source hierarchy if you don't code, it's not work - one of many reasons the documentation usually sucks for instance. There are nice and not so nice way of stating the facts on both ends here, after all nothing will happen unless a developer takes interest but you don't have to tell them to get lost or code it themselves. Likewise, you can make a suggestion sound much like a demand. But I don't think in any case that asking people to pay on top for the "privilege" of making what they consider a contribution will work.
Why would there be a "job" listing? There's in general no pay, no benefits. People that don't have any interest in the project as such but just want to tag their CV with it are usually more work than they're worth. Pick whatever open source project which is in a field you're interested in, where there's some itch you'd like to scratch, join the development mailing list and see what you can do. Sometimes there's merely the need to ask, one tool I worked with had a manual "coming soon" so I emailed and asked, spent 2-3 hours compiling one and it's still the one in use today. It's not like it takes interviews and they're afraid of bad "hires", anyone who seems reasonably independent and won't be a drag on everyone else is generally welcomed. Just remember you have a limited amount of handholding and try figuring out stuff on your own before asking about every little thing, you'll do fine.
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Actually, I think the logic is quite plain. From page 38:
The plain language of 17 U.S.C. 504(c) authorized the jury's award in this
case. I must give effect to this clear statutory language, at least to the extent that the jury's
award does not run afoul of the Due Process Clause. See Caminetti v. United States, 242 U.S.
470, 485, 490 (1917) ("[I]f [a statute's language] is plain, and if the law is within the
constitutional authority of the lawmaking body which passed it, the sole function of the courts is
to enforce it according to its terms," unless doing so would "lead[] to absurd or wholly
impracticable consequences.").
The other part is in the conclusion on page 54:
Chief Judge Davis notes, there is a long tradition in the law of allowing treble damages for
willful misconduct.
Basically the damages was reduced to the lowest possible limit without saying the statute itself is unconstitutional, just that parts of the range are unconstitutional given the case. If you look at the case law cited, it almost exclusively deals with cases where the damages have been wide open, and the jury returned crazy damages but that's on the jury's hands. If you go below $750, then it's the law itself and not the application of it. As a lone judge, I'd probably take the easy one out and limit myself to saying the jury's verdict is unconstitutional too. Maybe if and when this reaches the Supreme Court - I expect the appeals to go all the way unless the Supremes refuse to hear it - maybe they will have the balls to say the law itself is unconstitutional, but not before.
The usual rule of thumb is that you can manage 3x your income in debt, and I found that the average US private debt was $55k. Add $67k on top, and you're not cutting luxuries, you're bargain shopping for necessities and get clothes from the salvation army.
So, you are saying that because someone is capable of selling their house and car to pay $67,000 for sharing 24 songs, that it is a reasonable expectation?
You're abusing what the parent said, a person can "reasonably pay" that sum without making unreasonable assumptions like winning the lottery, that doesn't say anything about whether it's a reasonable penalty or not. If it was $675k then any normal person can just declare bankruptcy right away, they'd never manage to pay it back.
Probably because it's an evolutionary deadend to go tumbling around the night with halfassed night vision. You're very unlikely to catch something, very likely to become pray or simply injure yourself. Those who survived were probably those who decided it's dark as fuck, let's return to base and live to fight another day. It's not like we're terribly poor in extreme low light, if you go camping in a remote area with no fire we see well enough for close quarter combat. And maybe that comes with a penalty for our day vision which is the tipping point between survival and starvation, it doesn't take much of an evolutionary pressure to negate the benefits.
What I've found is that normalization and denormalizing triggers are a wonderful combination. Sure I can store ten addresses for you, but for practical purposes one will be the primary address and denormalized into the contacts table. Too bad that triggers are written a little bit differently in every database.
It can almost be that easy. Many large companies I know operate with a headcount, if you're below your headcount you can pretty much hire at will. HR is just doing the practicalities, much like IT will get you into the IT systems. Fortunately my country is anything but fire at will, but that's got nothing to do with the corporate structure...
I did the same, the only downside I could find was that in the expansion my character was ridiculously overpowered. I started on level 20 with a full deck of 100GP-class items and I didn't feel the level adjustment worked at all, even turning up the difficultly meter to max my character was a tank. I was kinda committed to that character though so just went with it anyway.
Well, that and the AI was a bit stupid in that if I stuck to melee/ranged attacks he'd keep pounding my tanks, while if I tried to spell slam they'd all go mental chasing the mage. So I'd invest in healing instead and just occasionally use Stonefist and the like to knock mages down long enough for me to rush them. Very fun game, really look forward to this.
IQ is not concerned with
- the candidate knows about the job
- the candidate has good (enough) people skills
- the candidate showers, shaves, etc
To understand computers, being able to think in abstract logic is far more important than your EQ so for an IT outsourcing company it's almost "knowing" your job. Now we'd all like perfect employees, but it's much, much easier to find someone to look good in a suit and talk nice to your customers than to find someone competent to do the work. It does not matter how good your "people skills" are, if you take a week to do what should have taken a day.
If you go to that page, be sure to see the BMI >30 map for males (why no total?). The US is miles ahead of the rest with 44.2%, for comparison UK has 23.7% and Germany 22.9%. This corresponds well to what I've seen, many people all over Europe are getting chubby from office work, no exercise and fast food. But almost every time I see one of those quarter ton people, it's an American. There's just a completely different attitude to being really, really huge. It's no surprise many americans identify with Homer Simpson...
At least on Internet-facing computers according to the hitslink numbers, Linux' market share is very stable at around 1%. Since February 2009 it's been in the range 0.94-1.17& with the last being 1.07%. However, the total PC market is still growing rapidly so in a way it's healthier than ever, at the last guesstimate there's an installed base of about 1.4 billion computers - that's 14 million Linux users.
It really depends on how you look at it, in relative figures it's still struggling. But if you believe that some fixed fraction of users decide to become developers, then in absolute numbers there are more developers than ever. I'll not pretend people don't have problems today, but I've fiddled with Linux long enough to know it has been much, much worse and survived and evolved past that. There's at least no reason to be grim about the future.
When I first dabbled with Linux, the ruling operating system was called Windows 98. Let me tell you, Win7 and OSX 10.6 are vastly different beasts, the competition has come a far way. But so has Linux, it's always stayed in the race. Sooner or later the race will slow down, the next OS version will look much like the last. When they do, Linux will catch up. That's the whole difference, the others have to be in front, they have to constantly find a way to be ahead. Linux can just copy the beaten path until it catches up.
I personally think internet anonymity is a good thing. It forces people to attack each other's arguments rather than resorting to ad hominems, and ensures an even playing field, since newbies' arguments are heard on the same level as those of our celebrities (at least in theory).
<sarcasm>Yes, because there's no such thing as ad hominem attacks on slashdot.</sarcasm> With sock puppet accounts and other trickery I'm not sure that it's so even either, on top of those that just want to trash about and destroy any real discussion. But what you don't get on a real name forum, is honesty. And before you all go constitutional on me, it's perfectly rational to not tell everybody everything. Friends, family, employers, the general public, nobody except the government is obliged to treat me the same. You might say that if I do nothing wrong, I should have no problems with sharing it with the world but that is not true. There has been, is and will be unjust laws, individuals and societies that are bigoted and intolerant. That I in principle should not be punished for something does not mean that I won't be in reality.
It is not an either-or that there should always be anonymity or there should always be identification. I see them both as important but different tools. The anonymity in gathering a community, talking to others who feel the same way, making people comfortable with themselves and letting them know they're not alone. Those that identify themselves first are the spearheads, those that gives names and faces to those people. It does not matter how good the cause is, being a spearhead is hard. If you walked along Gandhi himself you'd still risk arrest, imprisonment or being beaten up by soldiers. You can not expect everyone to be willing to sacrifice everything, some must lead and the rest will support you up to a point. Not everyone wants to be a maryr, they just seek to live their own life as they see morally sound and get away with their way of pursuing happiness.
and then after six months your machine crawls to a halt unless you give them more money for the next version
Six months? Well, that eliminates Windows at least. And OSX 10.3-6 have been on a two year cycle. The only OS I know that releases every six months as clockwork is Ubuntu, but I think you're doing it wrong...
Agreed, but you forgot one thing. Brand specific accessories are also a great way to increase commitment. It's not just your phone, but it's your regular charger, your portable charger, your handsfree set, the data transfer cable and so on making sure that when you lose a phone, you buy a new one from the same brand. You don't see quite so much of it with computers, though Apple has generally used it a lot particularly on things like iPods. If you have an AirPort, Time Capsule, AppleTV etc. chances are much higher you'll buy another Mac than if you don't.
How do I put this, most artists I've run into didn't seem like the rest of us to begin with. I think they just managed to channel the wierdness into the enigmatic artsy type instead of the disturbing creepy type. I think high school sports has a lot higher share of people that have figured they'll never be NFL superstars but enough to score with the ladies...
Not so much the size as the MO of large IT companies. Create a shell of sales, marketing and consulting while all development, maintenance and support is hollowed out and internally "outsourced" to units in very cheap countries. Even though the quality of all three go down they manage to win bids by in theory offering the same as their competitors for less. In practice it turns out much worse than expect, but that's quickly forgotten during the next round of contracts again with a tight budget.
I think the biggest issue is that there's no real market for Linux computers. Too many are tinkerers who'll put it on their old PC or random parts or some sale or will want a different distro than it's sold with anyway or whatnot. Sure, there's a select few Ubuntu models online at Dell US but otherwise the availability is very, very slim. And if you first buy these they don't come with a Windows license so it's not for the "let me get my feet wet and if I panic I can boot into Windows" crowd, as far as I know pretty much nobody sells dual boots. The end result is that Linux is trying to jump the "Just works" hurdle on all hardware simultaneously, which is incredibly hard. What we need are known Linux-friendly machines you can point people to and say "This machine will run both Linux and Windows. Try it, if it's not for you dual boot back and all you lost was a little bit of time." Right now you have to commit far too much for comfort.
At least one reason it didn't make sense for the religious to attack Saddam - Iraq was probably the least religious country in the area. Saddam was very clear that he was the only source of power in the area and didn't take very well to religious leaders threatening his power. Militant and aggressive yes, but trying to run some global muslim jihad? No. If that was the real threat, Iran was (and probably is) by far the most obvious target. You can take your pick of reasons why they did the Gulf War 2, but there's nothing of substance to link Iraq to 9/11, Taliban or Al-Qaeda.
I hear what you're saying, but as long as there's a near infinite number of possible science projects and a quite finite level of funding there has to be priorities. On the detailed level you can have science boards, but what about the overall level? How do you decide what degree of funding you'll give to science overall or Hubble versus CERN, for example? Both are ridiculously far into basic science, if you asked the scientists what measurable gains society would get the answer would be ridiculously strained or none at all. In the end it's a political decision, after all we're not paying these people because they think it's a nice hobby to do experiments, we're paying them because we want some form of results. If we just gave them free money and to go have fun, I shudder to think how much useless science we'd do.
AMD has had quite sane model numbers for some time now, e.g. 5870 = (5) design, (8) chip, (7) clock/memory, (0) room for expansion. Of course it's not perfectly linear as the low-end parts of a new generation won't beat the high-end parts of the last generation (5450 > 4870 but worse in performance) but it'd be even more confusing if the other new features like lower power consumption, DirectX11, Eyefinity etc. was on every other card in the 4xxx lineup. nVidia on the other hand has been playing the "if you can't compete, confuse" for quite some time now. Did I mention my last card is an AMD 5850? And unlike nVidia there's open source drivers coming though I admit the Evergreen (5xxx) support is not terrific right now.
True, but there's diminishing returns. If you look at graphics card reviews they've been constantly pushing up the resolution because only the 30" 2560x1600 or multi-screen setups actually push enough pixels to strain them. That's about twice the pixels your full HDTV will ever do, and there's a huge install base of that compared to the obscure 30-inches. Obviously with more shaders/pixel you can in theory do more to make each pixel realistic, but in practice it doesn't look that way. No game has an ultra-über-quality mode that'll make your SLI/CF setup groan at low resolutions. Effectively I think if the next generation comes wtih full hd and the shaders to power it, the PC market will be laying low for many years.
In fact, most of our copyright issues would vanish if we went back to traditional US copyright laws: 14 years + one 14 years extension if the author is still alive, with a registration requirement. I have yet to see an argument why traditional US copyright isn't the right choice.
Not even close. For one, if we are to keep copyright I would want compulsory global RAND licensing. No more region codes. No more waiting for the DVD release, or iTunes to ever bother making TV series available here. No more making me pay 30% more because I'm on the wrong side of the atlantic. Have the free market work both ways, you are free to get labor where you want and I'm free to get the product where I want.
What can I say, I have the "service" I want already. I just want someone to offer the same, legally.
Heh, I sense a metajoke coming because I did play through the first island, saw the last update was from 2007 (when I checked) and figured this was another abandoned, half-done OSS project. Not making any promises right now as I'm heading on summer vacation in a week but this autumn I will have to take a look at those other levels I never realized were there... Who'd think I'd find it in a slashdot article about finding an open source "job".
Not trolling, I'm trying to figure out what practical benefit Opera has for its users.
The 80-20 rule, 80% of the benefit of Firefox with 20% of the effort fiddling with all the extensions. Firefox without any extensions at all is a poorer browser than Opera, and I got better things do to than to custom design my browser.
Well, consider a commercial software development project. Sure, in one end you have customers throwing out random suggestions. But between that and implementation you usually have a layer that has to work to say how exactly should this work, why is this the way that gives most value, making up use cases, design workflows and so on. These are normally paid positions inside the company. At some point you start feeling this is moving from a help request "please fix this bug for me" to a contribution "here's well-researched proposed changes that'd make your software much better". But in the open source hierarchy if you don't code, it's not work - one of many reasons the documentation usually sucks for instance. There are nice and not so nice way of stating the facts on both ends here, after all nothing will happen unless a developer takes interest but you don't have to tell them to get lost or code it themselves. Likewise, you can make a suggestion sound much like a demand. But I don't think in any case that asking people to pay on top for the "privilege" of making what they consider a contribution will work.
Why would there be a "job" listing? There's in general no pay, no benefits. People that don't have any interest in the project as such but just want to tag their CV with it are usually more work than they're worth. Pick whatever open source project which is in a field you're interested in, where there's some itch you'd like to scratch, join the development mailing list and see what you can do. Sometimes there's merely the need to ask, one tool I worked with had a manual "coming soon" so I emailed and asked, spent 2-3 hours compiling one and it's still the one in use today. It's not like it takes interviews and they're afraid of bad "hires", anyone who seems reasonably independent and won't be a drag on everyone else is generally welcomed. Just remember you have a limited amount of handholding and try figuring out stuff on your own before asking about every little thing, you'll do fine.