Google has made a ton of money *from* free software.
That's right FOSS developers, all the work you released for free was used to make billions for a couple of guys. And they of course took all that money they made off of the back of the FOSS community and....kept it.
And they're paying back to the FOSS community by adding some minor code and....well really nothing.
So, the lesson I get from Google is exploit the free software and the free labor of others, make a billion, and keep it all to myself.
Speak for yourself. I install Linux so I can say "I have Linux at home." with an air of superiority over the Windows people and an air of non-conformity and superiority over the Apple people. It's kind of like wearing Che Guevara t-shirts only for technically inclined folks. I may do that: get some Che Guevara T-shirts, Birkenstocks, grungy shorts, and pump my fist in the air and yell "I"M STICKING IT TO THE MAN!" every time I boot up Linux. Then I can feel all good about myself.
RedHat sell FOSS services - pretty much all Linux and makes half their money from financial activities. RedHat is a FOSS vendor - I can't take that away from them.
Google is a search engine that uses FOSS for it's company - it makes its money from advertising and selling non FOSS software.As a matter of fact, Google is actually a shitty FOSS company - see Sketchup and Sketchup Pro. Where's the source for those things? Hmmmm? And Sketchup Pro is pretty expensive, btw, and it's closed and proprietary program.
All the software written by Google, how much of it is really open? Honestly.
Drive through any suburban sprawl and you'll notice something missing: green space for kids to play; whether it's basketball, baseball, or just running around. Every piece of land has a home on it and someone's lawn, a strip mall, McDonald's and other fast food shit, and other crap - no green space - not even a place to sit and watch the birds. Sure, there may be onedrivable distance: not in walking distance for most of the kids. And even if you get there, most of the time it's crowded.
Kids don't have a choice. The sports video games are a symptom of our sprawl in this country.
A telecom lobbying firm called Mobile Future, which sports a weird hodgepodge of member organizations, including Alligator Planet, Climate Cartoons, Goomzee, and the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Here's my audition:
If net neutrality goes through, this country would face a disaster of biblical proportions.
Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
There will toads from the sky, blood flowing in rivers, first born children dieing, etc.. etc...
We surely wouldn't want to expose the children to any media influences that glorify violence and fighting, now would we?
And sex too.
That's why if this bill is upheld, there should be restrictions on what books minors should be allowed to purchase. Any book that's sexual and violent shouldn't be able to be purchased by someone under the age of 18 - like the Bible.
The governments are going to absolutely hate it, but they are going to have to cut a lot of programs outside of welfare/unemployment benefit programs to prevent social unrest.
For the US, austerity and higher taxes is the only course left to return our Government to sound financial standing, I'm afraid. Or otherwise, we'll end up like Greece - all because of the reason stated in the parent.
Congress and every politician needs to be bitch slapped and the special interest groups that protest when their programs are about to be cut need to get a grip.
Sorry teachers, but let's face it, other countries do a much better job educating their children by spending much less than we do - so it's not a problem of money.
And the reason why current sites are "criminal" is just that they have to operate off shore. Meaning, they may be criminals but that doesn't mean they're not ethical. Kind of like the pot growers and consumers...
For $14K you could get several medium format film cameras and lenses...
Maybe two Hasselblads with a lens each - and that depends on what lenses you're getting. The other brands, yeah, you could get a few new and maybe several used.
At 8 MP you can get an 8x10 at 300dpi - which is what 99% of the publishers want for digital submissions - based upon the "2008 Photographer's Market". Some can deal with less, 4x6 print and some, like the poster publishers, want 20x30 inches at 300 dpi - which means based on this chart, you'd need well over 50 MP at least. I guess in that case, film rules.
That's B&W though. I think comparing color film with a digital back that takes color would be a fairer comparison. And with film, if you want to take a color shot and there's B&W in the back.....
A decent medium format scanner (that will give you the quality of a digital back) runs you $2,200 + S&H that's assuming you can even get them! Film scanners, aside from the cheap crap, are getting harder and harder to come by. Flatbed scanner kind of suck and get you no where near the quality of a digital back especially a 39 MP one.
So, for the price of a digital back: $14,000 - $2200 = $11,800. $11,800/ 8 per roll = 1475 rolls of film - doesn't include postage.
That medium format back can shoot hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pictures before shitting the bed. So, each shot is less than a penny. Even if you can only get 300,000 shots of a typical pro level DSLR, that's $0.05 per shot.
Thin clients - even just terminals - updated drivers, wide spread deployment, Java, and there's a few other things.
It also looks like it's still pretty much built on the Warp kernel from what I can find. Which means, all of those OS/2 development books I gave away are still good - except for maybe the Workplace shell development.
I' trying to remember who said this. But during the Cold War, the intelligence folks got so paranoid that they were attributing things and capabilities to the Russians that, after the Cold War ended, the Soviets were no where near having any sort of capability or had any sort of plans. One of the more well known over estimation was Soviet military capabilities. When the Cold War ended, the intelligence community couldn't believe how far off they were - most of there "insights" were over active imaginations.
What problem is this actually trying to solve? Are people really finding it too difficult use their arms to drive? Or is this aimed at people who can't drive right now, because they have no arms?
Well, one arm to hold a cell phone, another to hold your: sandwich, doughnut, coffee, burger, fries, or coke.
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IE 6 users still account for something like 40% of all orders (i.e. revenue)
So there's a financial incentive to keep IE6 around - for you guys.
Call in a consulting team, get a quote for reworking it. Doesnt that neatly solve the problem?
Pfft. Post the job on Rent A Coder. You'll get the job done cheap and good by some really hungry laid off IT guy that needs the money.
Who ever said that Google was a FOSS vendor?
It was implied when they compared it to RedHat.
Google has made a ton of money *from* free software.
That's right FOSS developers, all the work you released for free was used to make billions for a couple of guys. And they of course took all that money they made off of the back of the FOSS community and ....kept it.
And they're paying back to the FOSS community by adding some minor code and ....well really nothing.
So, the lesson I get from Google is exploit the free software and the free labor of others, make a billion, and keep it all to myself.
You don't install Linux just to have Linux.
Speak for yourself. I install Linux so I can say "I have Linux at home." with an air of superiority over the Windows people and an air of non-conformity and superiority over the Apple people. It's kind of like wearing Che Guevara t-shirts only for technically inclined folks. I may do that: get some Che Guevara T-shirts, Birkenstocks, grungy shorts, and pump my fist in the air and yell "I"M STICKING IT TO THE MAN!" every time I boot up Linux. Then I can feel all good about myself.
Yep.
I have a really pathetic little life.
Google is a search engine that uses FOSS for it's company - it makes its money from advertising and selling non FOSS software.As a matter of fact, Google is actually a shitty FOSS company - see Sketchup and Sketchup Pro. Where's the source for those things? Hmmmm? And Sketchup Pro is pretty expensive, btw, and it's closed and proprietary program.
All the software written by Google, how much of it is really open? Honestly.
If you're addicted to "the Internet" ... what do you have to show for it?
A very muscled right arm and calloused right hand?
Where's School House Rock these days!
Kids don't have a choice. The sports video games are a symptom of our sprawl in this country.
A telecom lobbying firm called Mobile Future, which sports a weird hodgepodge of member organizations, including Alligator Planet, Climate Cartoons, Goomzee, and the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Here's my audition:
If net neutrality goes through, this country would face a disaster of biblical proportions.
Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
There will toads from the sky, blood flowing in rivers, first born children dieing, etc.. etc...
We surely wouldn't want to expose the children to any media influences that glorify violence and fighting, now would we?
And sex too.
That's why if this bill is upheld, there should be restrictions on what books minors should be allowed to purchase. Any book that's sexual and violent shouldn't be able to be purchased by someone under the age of 18 - like the Bible.
The governments are going to absolutely hate it, but they are going to have to cut a lot of programs outside of welfare/unemployment benefit programs to prevent social unrest.
For the US, austerity and higher taxes is the only course left to return our Government to sound financial standing, I'm afraid. Or otherwise, we'll end up like Greece - all because of the reason stated in the parent.
Congress and every politician needs to be bitch slapped and the special interest groups that protest when their programs are about to be cut need to get a grip.
Sorry teachers, but let's face it, other countries do a much better job educating their children by spending much less than we do - so it's not a problem of money.
And the reason why current sites are "criminal" is just that they have to operate off shore. Meaning, they may be criminals but that doesn't mean they're not ethical. Kind of like the pot growers and consumers ...
what better way to fund state governments than predating upon the weaknesses of your citizens.
What makes gambling a weakness? I don't gamble because I don't find it fun but a lot of folks do.
And considering recent events on Wall Street, gambling houses actually give you a fairer deal.
I'm going to organize an angry mob to protest against the Universe. Who's with me!
OK, the crickets have answered - I take the chirping to be an affirmative. What about you guys?
For $14K you could get several medium format film cameras and lenses...
Maybe two Hasselblads with a lens each - and that depends on what lenses you're getting. The other brands, yeah, you could get a few new and maybe several used.
Kodak park is listed as a super fund site and that ain't from making digital.
At 8 MP you can get an 8x10 at 300dpi - which is what 99% of the publishers want for digital submissions - based upon the "2008 Photographer's Market". Some can deal with less, 4x6 print and some, like the poster publishers, want 20x30 inches at 300 dpi - which means based on this chart, you'd need well over 50 MP at least. I guess in that case, film rules.
That's B&W though. I think comparing color film with a digital back that takes color would be a fairer comparison. And with film, if you want to take a color shot and there's B&W in the back .....
That camera does 12 shots per roll of 120. So, $8 per roll with processing means $0.67 per shot - not including the price of the scanner.
So that's $0.67 per film frame compared to pennies per digital frame.
But to develop said roll of film, will cost you another $5 roughly, $4 if you're just getting processing which you want if you're scanning.
A decent medium format scanner (that will give you the quality of a digital back) runs you $2,200 + S&H that's assuming you can even get them! Film scanners, aside from the cheap crap, are getting harder and harder to come by. Flatbed scanner kind of suck and get you no where near the quality of a digital back especially a 39 MP one.
So, for the price of a digital back: $14,000 - $2200 = $11,800. $11,800/ 8 per roll = 1475 rolls of film - doesn't include postage.
That medium format back can shoot hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pictures before shitting the bed. So, each shot is less than a penny. Even if you can only get 300,000 shots of a typical pro level DSLR, that's $0.05 per shot.
Digital wins!
eComStation isn't for home users. It's for corporate users that really don't care how stylish it looks.
Thin clients - even just terminals - updated drivers, wide spread deployment, Java, and there's a few other things.
It also looks like it's still pretty much built on the Warp kernel from what I can find. Which means, all of those OS/2 development books I gave away are still good - except for maybe the Workplace shell development.
I' trying to remember who said this. But during the Cold War, the intelligence folks got so paranoid that they were attributing things and capabilities to the Russians that, after the Cold War ended, the Soviets were no where near having any sort of capability or had any sort of plans. One of the more well known over estimation was Soviet military capabilities. When the Cold War ended, the intelligence community couldn't believe how far off they were - most of there "insights" were over active imaginations.
What problem is this actually trying to solve? Are people really finding it too difficult use their arms to drive? Or is this aimed at people who can't drive right now, because they have no arms?
Well, one arm to hold a cell phone, another to hold your: sandwich, doughnut, coffee, burger, fries, or coke.
So yes, most people don't have arms to spare.