Well receiving food stamps in the US would put you amoung the top 15% of human beings in terms of income.
I would prefer to prosper and be rich by the standards of the United States, which is where I happen to live. If that means that some geek cannot recompile software that I write to run on an Atari ST, that's his problem.
The best was the infamous Hitachi 19" monitor debacle in 98 or 99. I got like 12 $1000 monitors for like $200 with free shipping! My average selling price was like $700... I was in school at the time and that really saved my ass.
I had actually ordered 50, but they refused to ship the entire order... someone started a class action suit and I ended up getting a $60 check last year.
The other problem with eFax is spam... I had a paid account long ago and am still getting 3-4 emails a week about upgrading my service or offers from "trusted partners"
IBM recognized that hocking equipment wasn't enough... as the computer market opened up, the market for selling monolithic stacks of equipment & software vaporized.
Operating systems are commodities. Platforms like java are commodities.
This is good for IBM because it improves the technology and leaves customers with more money to purchase IBM goods & services.
People who want 100% open source like he FSF are true believers. Pragmatists and businessmen want to selectively open applications to improve their bottom line.
Jay Leno owns a fleet of a hundred or so rare classic cars. In a column a few years ago he talked about how some part for one of his Packards broke, so he went to find a machinist.
Guess what? There aren't any. The one guy that he eventually found to fabricate the part was like 75 and could only do the job because he bought out some surplus tooling from a Packard factory years ago.
I purchased some gasoline and returned to the drivers seat of my car. I looked in the side view mirror, and to my horror, the fuel tank door was still open!
There is no documentation anywhere about how to return the fuel tank door to the "closed" position. I even called the dealer and they just laughed and said that nothing is wrong... please help!
People have been pontificating about micropayments for like five or ten years, yet nothing ever comes of it.
Why? Nobody wants it but webmasters and tech types looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Face it, if anyone on the web comes up with a high-volume, pay per use application -- why would they want to join a micropayment consortium and share the revenue? Being a member of a "micropayment network" would actually expose customers to competing services as well!
They would rather license additional content and sell a higher dollar value "unlimited" subscription -- look at Yahoo Games as an example.
"Practical", hands-on work is required to learn and understand things at any level.
You need to toil for a bit as a lower level undergraduate to give you the base knowledge that you'll need later. If you think that intro to Java is bad... just wait until you are a Junior and they have you code a project in a language that you've never heard of -- and expect it done in two weeks or so.
The lower level classes seperate the wheat from the chaff. I'll put it to you this way. My CSI 201 course (the first course for majors) was a lecture with 550 students in it.
Data structures had around 450.
Algorithims had about 200.
Senior classes had 40-50 max.
If you can't hack it, that's cool. But if you stick with the program, you'll find the higher level classes a heck of alot more interesting.
A team leader is roughly the equivilant to a non-commissioned officer in the army. IMHO, you are a manager if you make policy, approve purchases and have the authority to hire & fire.
A competent and knowledgeable team leader is a mentor to his teammates and a trusted advisor to management.
A good team leader:
- Keeps the staff away from wasteful meetings - Keeps management informed - Is an advocate for the team - Provides guidance when needed - Expedities requests from other groups, purchasing, etc
With the outrageous cost of Crystal, you'll probaly find that even after training your people in PHP (which isn't a very difficult language IMHO) you'll have saved a bundle of money.
The area of spectrum where WiFi cards operate is very close to things like automatic landing systems for planes, radar, police and fire emergency frequencies and others.
Plus, morons pumping up transmission power without having a clue as to how radio works are just going to flood out other users while providing little benefit to themselves.
Hopefully, as the HDTV rollout continues TV frequencies will be made available to wireless lans... that way we'll have less collision with telephones and microwaves.
The closed drivers tend to be flaky. - Nvidia has done a great job with this, though it has taken well over a year to reach a point where they are stable. Few other drivers I use -- silently and without hassles -- have stability problems at all.
You should amend that to read "new driver tend to be flaky". I seem to recall extreme suckage in open source drivers back in 1997 when most of them were new... even for hardware with good documentation.
having nearly automatic support for non-x86 CPUs
Intel doesn't give a crap about non-x86 CPUs, nor should they.
In some cases -- and Intel and Nvidia specifically can do this -- a mix of 'firmware' style add-ins limited narrowly to a few 3rd party propriatory parts would probably work. Hiding the source to protect it from prying eyes isn't a good reason since everyone has debuggers and disassemblers...so if they want to know they probably already do know how the secret sauce is made and what it does.
There is a difference. If you reverse engineer a binary driver, you cannot legally use the "secret sauce" that you discover. If you GPL your "secret sauce" however, your competition is free to use it.
The binary driver issue highlights the diffrences between "Open Source" software are "Free" software. Commercial enterprises embrace open source because it lowers their costs while improving the quality of their software.
Free software, on the other hand, is a completely different philosophy that few people in business really embrace.
Just throw it out and buy a new piece of hardware?
Yes. The reason why the IA32 platform is the #1 general purpose computing platform is the availability of dirt cheap hardware.
If you cannot afford to buy a wireless networking adapter for $20 in five years, then you should be looking at seeking more gainful employment rather than bitching about driver compatability.
Not to get off the topic, but there are usually ways to get engine codes from your car without owning diagnostic tools.
On Cadillacs and some Buicks, you fiddle with the heating control buttons. On Chryslers, you turn the they all the way back and forth like 4 times.
Some cars require that certain wires get grounded... you can find a tool on Ebay that will read most GM cars for like $25. Adapters for most other makes can be found as well.
A quick google search will help you decipher the codes... and newer cars with second generation computers use standardized codes for most things.
In the case of wireless cards, I don't think that its a bad thing at all.
IMHO, wankers jacking up the output of their WiFi devices or modifying them to use unauthorized spectrum is of far more serious concern than whether or not open drivers are available.
If Intel can implement a wireless ethernet chip where radio control functions are permanently stored on the physical hardware, than I'm all for GPL drivers. Otherwise, binaries are the way to go.
You cannot believe the scientists blindly, because the bread and butter of big science in Federal funds.
The real answer is probaly something more like the Bush administration is spending more on military and aerospace projects than biological and weather projects.
Ever wonder why all of the sudden seemingly credible scientists are making Art Bell a credible news source?? Congress is more likely to fund a program that can save the planet from a weather catastrophe than a bunch of nerds who want to study tidal and wind patterns.
If the scientists had avoided sucking on the government teat in the first place, they wouldn't be worried about the political process messing with their funding. They would also be researching things with actual commercial applications instead of designing the next stealth bomber or bomb detector.
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Well receiving food stamps in the US would put you amoung the top 15% of human beings in terms of income.
I would prefer to prosper and be rich by the standards of the United States, which is where I happen to live. If that means that some geek cannot recompile software that I write to run on an Atari ST, that's his problem.
He probally bought a tablet PC, figuring that he would organize his life and be able to run faster and jump higher.
Then he found that he never used it. Plus, it's hard to run with a pocketpc in your pocket.
Same thing with the roomba. Sure, it looks cool... but its just plain easier and quicker to use a real vacuum.
The best was the infamous Hitachi 19" monitor debacle in 98 or 99. I got like 12 $1000 monitors for like $200 with free shipping! My average selling price was like $700... I was in school at the time and that really saved my ass.
I had actually ordered 50, but they refused to ship the entire order... someone started a class action suit and I ended up getting a $60 check last year.
I heard that this guy named Alex Bell invented this amazing device called a "telephone". It allows you to talk to people far away!
You might want to invest in one.
The other problem with eFax is spam... I had a paid account long ago and am still getting 3-4 emails a week about upgrading my service or offers from "trusted partners"
highly obnoxious.
He's too busy inventing terms for the jargon file and maintaining fetchmail.
The man is a career troll. Few make it to that level.
Exactly... it's hilarious that /. kiddies have this notion that big blue is developing software for the good of humanity.
Cash cow IBM software, with the exception of DB2 is generally complex bloatware designed to generate consulting hours for IGS.
IBM recognized that hocking equipment wasn't enough... as the computer market opened up, the market for selling monolithic stacks of equipment & software vaporized.
IBM wants to open up commodities.
Operating systems are commodities. Platforms like java are commodities.
This is good for IBM because it improves the technology and leaves customers with more money to purchase IBM goods & services.
People who want 100% open source like he FSF are true believers. Pragmatists and businessmen want to selectively open applications to improve their bottom line.
You would think so.
Jay Leno owns a fleet of a hundred or so rare classic cars. In a column a few years ago he talked about how some part for one of his Packards broke, so he went to find a machinist.
Guess what? There aren't any. The one guy that he eventually found to fabricate the part was like 75 and could only do the job because he bought out some surplus tooling from a Packard factory years ago.
We live in a disposable society.
I purchased some gasoline and returned to the drivers seat of my car. I looked in the side view mirror, and to my horror, the fuel tank door was still open!
There is no documentation anywhere about how to return the fuel tank door to the "closed" position. I even called the dealer and they just laughed and said that nothing is wrong... please help!
People have been pontificating about micropayments for like five or ten years, yet nothing ever comes of it.
Why? Nobody wants it but webmasters and tech types looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Face it, if anyone on the web comes up with a high-volume, pay per use application -- why would they want to join a micropayment consortium and share the revenue? Being a member of a "micropayment network" would actually expose customers to competing services as well!
They would rather license additional content and sell a higher dollar value "unlimited" subscription -- look at Yahoo Games as an example.
"Practical", hands-on work is required to learn and understand things at any level.
You need to toil for a bit as a lower level undergraduate to give you the base knowledge that you'll need later. If you think that intro to Java is bad... just wait until you are a Junior and they have you code a project in a language that you've never heard of -- and expect it done in two weeks or so.
The lower level classes seperate the wheat from the chaff. I'll put it to you this way. My CSI 201 course (the first course for majors) was a lecture with 550 students in it.
Data structures had around 450.
Algorithims had about 200.
Senior classes had 40-50 max.
If you can't hack it, that's cool. But if you stick with the program, you'll find the higher level classes a heck of alot more interesting.
I doubt it.
In order to do business with western corporations, you need to adhere to the same intellectual property policies as they do.
Sometimes hiring "only the best" backfires.
Stick 100 top PhD's with top 1% PhD egos in a room and you're going to have problems producing services that appeal to the mass market.
Yeah... great idea.
I really want a company with data mining expertise like Google storing my email!
A team leader is roughly the equivilant to a non-commissioned officer in the army. IMHO, you are a manager if you make policy, approve purchases and have the authority to hire & fire.
A competent and knowledgeable team leader is a mentor to his teammates and a trusted advisor to management.
A good team leader:
- Keeps the staff away from wasteful meetings
- Keeps management informed
- Is an advocate for the team
- Provides guidance when needed
- Expedities requests from other groups, purchasing, etc
With the outrageous cost of Crystal, you'll probaly find that even after training your people in PHP (which isn't a very difficult language IMHO) you'll have saved a bundle of money.
The area of spectrum where WiFi cards operate is very close to things like automatic landing systems for planes, radar, police and fire emergency frequencies and others.
Plus, morons pumping up transmission power without having a clue as to how radio works are just going to flood out other users while providing little benefit to themselves.
Hopefully, as the HDTV rollout continues TV frequencies will be made available to wireless lans... that way we'll have less collision with telephones and microwaves.
You should amend that to read "new driver tend to be flaky". I seem to recall extreme suckage in open source drivers back in 1997 when most of them were new... even for hardware with good documentation.
Intel doesn't give a crap about non-x86 CPUs, nor should they.
There is a difference. If you reverse engineer a binary driver, you cannot legally use the "secret sauce" that you discover. If you GPL your "secret sauce" however, your competition is free to use it.
The binary driver issue highlights the diffrences between "Open Source" software are "Free" software. Commercial enterprises embrace open source because it lowers their costs while improving the quality of their software.
Free software, on the other hand, is a completely different philosophy that few people in business really embrace.
Yes. The reason why the IA32 platform is the #1 general purpose computing platform is the availability of dirt cheap hardware.
If you cannot afford to buy a wireless networking adapter for $20 in five years, then you should be looking at seeking more gainful employment rather than bitching about driver compatability.
Not to get off the topic, but there are usually ways to get engine codes from your car without owning diagnostic tools.
On Cadillacs and some Buicks, you fiddle with the heating control buttons. On Chryslers, you turn the they all the way back and forth like 4 times.
Some cars require that certain wires get grounded... you can find a tool on Ebay that will read most GM cars for like $25. Adapters for most other makes can be found as well.
A quick google search will help you decipher the codes... and newer cars with second generation computers use standardized codes for most things.
In the case of wireless cards, I don't think that its a bad thing at all.
IMHO, wankers jacking up the output of their WiFi devices or modifying them to use unauthorized spectrum is of far more serious concern than whether or not open drivers are available.
If Intel can implement a wireless ethernet chip where radio control functions are permanently stored on the physical hardware, than I'm all for GPL drivers. Otherwise, binaries are the way to go.
You cannot believe the scientists blindly, because the bread and butter of big science in Federal funds.
The real answer is probaly something more like the Bush administration is spending more on military and aerospace projects than biological and weather projects.
Ever wonder why all of the sudden seemingly credible scientists are making Art Bell a credible news source?? Congress is more likely to fund a program that can save the planet from a weather catastrophe than a bunch of nerds who want to study tidal and wind patterns.
If the scientists had avoided sucking on the government teat in the first place, they wouldn't be worried about the political process messing with their funding. They would also be researching things with actual commercial applications instead of designing the next stealth bomber or bomb detector.
The $200 device would probaly cost like $2,000 after labor. A dealer mechanic bills more than an attorney these days.