We all believe in the free market right? Competition? The best product at the lowest price gets the cash? Our current healthcare system is so far beyond that it's laughable. Whenever I go to a hospital, I don't care what it costs. If they charged me $80 for a box of kleenex I might not notice. I might, and I might not care. Someone else is bearing that cost, and I pay $10 and walk out the door. To me, that says broken system, since the incentives to keep cost down are so convoluted and externalized.
OR, some smartypants could write policy that encourages companies to roll out broadband to areas not previously served, increase competition and thus lower prices instead of step one. That might be neat huh? Government writing policy to encourage or discourage what they want...
A cheap jab at Bush, which seems to represent "objective" journalism these days
I was with you right up to that one. You managed to support all your other points, but that's the first mention of Bush I've seen in this article. Where did that come from, because right now it looks like you're just kind of randomly bashing journalists.
"Spyware, by definition is something that collects information about you and sends it without you knowing it. "
Do you mean something like Gator? That puported to be a storage vault for all your details so you can handily use them later, but their name is synonymous with spyware because they sent it all back without notification (or at least very little). From my reading, it sounds like the CD represents itself as information, not a conduit to a political party.
Furthermore, the very fact that it is on a CD tends to imply that it is local to that computer. If the someone put the exact same stuff on a website then I would assume that they get any information I tell them, and then some. Since it is on a CD however, I expect my local copy to stay a local copy, unless it tells me.
Well, I saw a posting on Craigslist, so I replied. Monday I went in for an interview and personally I thought I was waaaaay too wooden and not likely to get the job. They had me take a skills test in PHP (but couldn't decide if PHP Programming or PHP Scripting was the correct test). Either way, my test results were good, and they said that they'd try to get me an interview with the client on Friday. Friday comes, and I get a call from them. Turns out they just wanted me to start on Monday. I still work there to this day.
I once had an on-campus proxy, so I could use our online campus directory. Worked like a charm for me, but when I checked out the logs I found a company going through hundreds of PDFs and things via the proxy. I emailed them with a longer form of "wtf?", and when I didn't hear back I just shut it down. From what I recall, it was a pretty legit, slick looking company too, so I was a tad curious what they were doing. Guess I know now eh?
Actually, that gives me a nice idea. If we can pitch it as a business practice, can we patent the practice of purchasing patents to build an IP business on? Damn but wouldn't that be a nice ace.
You do realize that as a Morman from BYU this man knows his bible. Personally, I think ken would win that matchup - don't even try to tell me that Pope JP3 is quick on the buzzer.
That's why really, you all *want* somone who has a B.A. in Computer Science. Somone who has a minor in something like, say, classics. Or perhaps someone who has the ability and follow through to design and build their own loft with no formal training. Or someone who spent their junior year of high school as an exchange student to India. Third runner up for student employee of the year. Happy to relocate, etc etc....
How many pieces of code have only one author period? There will be groups, and there will be spokespeople.
If you're asking about the cumlative effect of GPL'ed code, ie, the derivative of a derivative of a derivative etc etc, then that turns into a lawyerly question. The person who distrubted the GPL code will have their derivative work available under the GPL, this fufilling their agreement. I don't see anything saying that people cannot dual-license.
Yeah, it may encourage more people to contribute less, but it just might convince them that the GPL is useful and worthwhile too.
I've seen people mention several ways of fixing things if you find that you've used some GPL'ed code, but someone once pointed this out a while ago and I haven't seen it show up here:
You can license a piece of code to multiple people, under multiple licenses.
If a company finds themselves with GPL'ed code, can't they just go to the author and ask them to sell them a license to use it in proprietary software?
I agree that it is in a hard spot, but it seems that EA has come up with a solution to the problem with its policy on unhappy SimCity 4 customers. From the wired article:
Indeed, EA does offer dissatisfied users a way to get their money back, by trading opened software boxes for unopened ones by mail. They can then return the unopened game where they originally bought it.
Bing, CompUSA is no longer the problem. The software companies just have to step up now.
I see a lot of whining and complaining that these aren't open source drivers, and that they don't really SUPPORT linux if its' not open source, but this is exactly the attitude that makes companies afraid of linux. Everyone feels that if they are going to put anything on linux that they have to open it up. Yes, it would be nice, but let me tell you what I think is even nicer. Having the frigging drivers in the first place. You know what's nicer than that? Having them release the drivers at the same time as their other drivers. If this doesn't seem like a nice thing to you, then just think of it as a step in the right direction and offer a little support.
Is it just me or isn't pre-emptiveness kinda required for multitasking?
"Well, I'd love to accept some keyboard input, but I'm afraid seti is busy now..."
Smells like buzzwords to me.
...because all my mice have a wheel. Clicking in the right option, it would make my mouse jumping like crazy all over the screen making the installation impossible to continue.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but in 8.2 there was a little tag saying "ROLL THE MOUSEWHEEL", and if you neglected to do that, the mouse would jump all over the screen. Does mandrake have a bug here or did the reviewer just forget? I kinda wonder how thouroughly the reviewer went through the rest.
I also spent some time there, in fact, I took a C++ course there and learned it better than I've learned any language in college here. Again all in english using msdos/win98 (before 2000). It's mostly the taxi drivers that speak hindi exclusively, and virtually anybody who would take CS classes will speak english.
I went to the site yesterday, and they are working on a petition for nintendo to offer a backlit version. They didn't seem to have too much info, but there was a place to sign, and some discussion/gripe boards. The most interesting piece of news I saw when I was there was that some surfers from nintendo had been over to see the site, and they have taken notice. Over at www.gbacentral.net was that nintendo is said to have not been able to get the backlight working. They had one, but in testing it had a few problems. Either way, I agree that it is a good handheld, but they could have put in that little bit of extra effort...
What chance is there of this migrating back to paper books? If they can try to prevent people from reading electronic text, how long until it gets to paper? And what about computer books, specifically the ones with companion CD roms? I seem to remember there being some restrictions on those books as well. Forget putting it all in you palm, I want my own copyright tracker for the palm, so I can know just how many agreements I'm breaking.
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We all believe in the free market right? Competition? The best product at the lowest price gets the cash? Our current healthcare system is so far beyond that it's laughable. Whenever I go to a hospital, I don't care what it costs. If they charged me $80 for a box of kleenex I might not notice. I might, and I might not care. Someone else is bearing that cost, and I pay $10 and walk out the door. To me, that says broken system, since the incentives to keep cost down are so convoluted and externalized.
Plus, the administrative overhead is ridiculous.
OR, some smartypants could write policy that encourages companies to roll out broadband to areas not previously served, increase competition and thus lower prices instead of step one. That might be neat huh? Government writing policy to encourage or discourage what they want...
So many cynics on this board.
I was with you right up to that one. You managed to support all your other points, but that's the first mention of Bush I've seen in this article. Where did that come from, because right now it looks like you're just kind of randomly bashing journalists.
"Spyware, by definition is something that collects information about you and sends it without you knowing it. "
Do you mean something like Gator? That puported to be a storage vault for all your details so you can handily use them later, but their name is synonymous with spyware because they sent it all back without notification (or at least very little). From my reading, it sounds like the CD represents itself as information, not a conduit to a political party.
Furthermore, the very fact that it is on a CD tends to imply that it is local to that computer. If the someone put the exact same stuff on a website then I would assume that they get any information I tell them, and then some. Since it is on a CD however, I expect my local copy to stay a local copy, unless it tells me.
Well, I saw a posting on Craigslist, so I replied. Monday I went in for an interview and personally I thought I was waaaaay too wooden and not likely to get the job. They had me take a skills test in PHP (but couldn't decide if PHP Programming or PHP Scripting was the correct test). Either way, my test results were good, and they said that they'd try to get me an interview with the client on Friday. Friday comes, and I get a call from them. Turns out they just wanted me to start on Monday. I still work there to this day.
And that, is my experience with recruiters.
I just noticed this today, and from what I've heard here it sounds a likely candidate. IP addresses obscured for politeness.
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I once had an on-campus proxy, so I could use our online campus directory. Worked like a charm for me, but when I checked out the logs I found a company going through hundreds of PDFs and things via the proxy. I emailed them with a longer form of "wtf?", and when I didn't hear back I just shut it down. From what I recall, it was a pretty legit, slick looking company too, so I was a tad curious what they were doing. Guess I know now eh?
Actually, that gives me a nice idea. If we can pitch it as a business practice, can we patent the practice of purchasing patents to build an IP business on? Damn but wouldn't that be a nice ace.
You're telling me you expect fiber to get installed on NOVEMBER 2nd?
surely you jest.
I don't imagine that much will get done here on election day.
You do realize that as a Morman from BYU this man knows his bible. Personally, I think ken would win that matchup - don't even try to tell me that Pope JP3 is quick on the buzzer.
Well, I believe that is because the margin for error is decreased. See parent post.
ooh ooh! Me!
That's why really, you all *want* somone who has a B.A. in Computer Science. Somone who has a minor in something like, say, classics. Or perhaps someone who has the ability and follow through to design and build their own loft with no formal training. Or someone who spent their junior year of high school as an exchange student to India. Third runner up for student employee of the year. Happy to relocate, etc etc....
Okay, fine, I'm talking about me. Resume here.
oh yeah - I still need to get you that flat-text to MySQL script. Heh. Good luck!
You mean that? Because I'm graduating and I wanna move to the DC area...
My resume is here.
How many pieces of code have only one author period? There will be groups, and there will be spokespeople.
If you're asking about the cumlative effect of GPL'ed code, ie, the derivative of a derivative of a derivative etc etc, then that turns into a lawyerly question. The person who distrubted the GPL code will have their derivative work available under the GPL, this fufilling their agreement. I don't see anything saying that people cannot dual-license.
Yeah, it may encourage more people to contribute less, but it just might convince them that the GPL is useful and worthwhile too.
I've seen people mention several ways of fixing things if you find that you've used some GPL'ed code, but someone once pointed this out a while ago and I haven't seen it show up here:
You can license a piece of code to multiple people, under multiple licenses.
If a company finds themselves with GPL'ed code, can't they just go to the author and ask them to sell them a license to use it in proprietary software?
Bing, CompUSA is no longer the problem. The software companies just have to step up now.
I see a lot of whining and complaining that these aren't open source drivers, and that they don't really SUPPORT linux if its' not open source, but this is exactly the attitude that makes companies afraid of linux. Everyone feels that if they are going to put anything on linux that they have to open it up. Yes, it would be nice, but let me tell you what I think is even nicer. Having the frigging drivers in the first place. You know what's nicer than that? Having them release the drivers at the same time as their other drivers. If this doesn't seem like a nice thing to you, then just think of it as a step in the right direction and offer a little support.
the pre-emptively multi-tasking operating system
Is it just me or isn't pre-emptiveness kinda required for multitasking? "Well, I'd love to accept some keyboard input, but I'm afraid seti is busy now..." Smells like buzzwords to me.
...because all my mice have a wheel. Clicking in the right option, it would make my mouse jumping like crazy all over the screen making the installation impossible to continue.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but in 8.2 there was a little tag saying "ROLL THE MOUSEWHEEL", and if you neglected to do that, the mouse would jump all over the screen. Does mandrake have a bug here or did the reviewer just forget? I kinda wonder how thouroughly the reviewer went through the rest.
I also spent some time there, in fact, I took a C++ course there and learned it better than I've learned any language in college here. Again all in english using msdos/win98 (before 2000). It's mostly the taxi drivers that speak hindi exclusively, and virtually anybody who would take CS classes will speak english.
I went to the site yesterday, and they are working on a petition for nintendo to offer a backlit version. They didn't seem to have too much info, but there was a place to sign, and some discussion/gripe boards. The most interesting piece of news I saw when I was there was that some surfers from nintendo had been over to see the site, and they have taken notice. Over at www.gbacentral.net was that nintendo is said to have not been able to get the backlight working. They had one, but in testing it had a few problems. Either way, I agree that it is a good handheld, but they could have put in that little bit of extra effort...
They say that it depends on the copyrights, and Alice is public domain. Curtains! We've been had!
What chance is there of this migrating back to paper books? If they can try to prevent people from reading electronic text, how long until it gets to paper? And what about computer books, specifically the ones with companion CD roms? I seem to remember there being some restrictions on those books as well. Forget putting it all in you palm, I want my own copyright tracker for the palm, so I can know just how many agreements I'm breaking.