Nice to know the damn thing actually works... and it figures Leno has one! My turbo was considerably more garden variety - I had an '82 Yamaha Turbo Seca. Not quite as fast but still made a great sound, and was about $147k cheaper.:-)
My dream has proven to be just a dream, without much real ground.
Ah, don't worry. With good people supporting you I'm sure you'll get what you want sooner or later.
I prefer to think of "free software" ventures more along the line of art or music projects. Some things gain enough ground that they support themselves, but the majority are funded by more mundane activities.
...just his opinion. Sweet Jesus, what the hell is going on here when ONE PERSON can't express a differing opinion? I support 2600 in a lot of things, but this is a reasonable take on the subject and shouldn't be modded as a troll. Grrrrrrrr.
Obviously not. Plenty have been killed, tortured, or "re-educated", but let's attempt to be realistic, eh?
> The philisophy of jesus was "Convert or Kill."
Hey, I'm the last guy around to defend the Christian Right, but that's simply not anywhere near true. It's not the philosophy of Jesus that's the problem, it's people who believe that God (tm) is somehow both all-powerful but and at the same time unable to take care of things without their help.
They've done plenty of evil to point out without having to overstate it.
FACT: There are make-believe religions. (Scientology, Moonies, Islam, etc.)
FACT: There is true religion. (Christianity)
You're kidding, right? Right? I have friends who think Catholics are a cult... seems to me a "real" religion is in the eye of the practitioner. Or the IRS.
I've learned more than I'd like to know about Scientologists due to losing a girlfriend over their weirdness (I think they're total lunatics) but that doesn't make it a "fake" religion.
I mean really, next you'll be dissing Rastafarianism.:-)
That's the preferred method of dealing with scumbags where I'm from.
Seriously though, you obviously need to have your lawyer call them. If they owe you money under one contract you don't need to sign another one to get it. If the money involved isn't worth an hour of legal bills, then sign and forget it.
i was doing a lot of work on my Amiga (with the attendant Guru Meditation errors) and freaked one sunday morning when i woke up at my girlfriend's house, turned on the tube and found the Preview Channel's Guru Meditation screen! for a second i thought my programming errors were chasing me across town.:-)
wonder if that'll happen with.NET?
strangely enuf, i consulted for a (would-be) competitor of Prevue called StarNet, we delivered mpegs via satellite instead of sending laserdiscs around, and played them on NT boxes with the local cable schedule.
Yeah, I did great stuff with OS/2. Warp was the ultimate DOS development platform (booting different DOS versions in each window), but even the last 16 bit (V1.3) version was really tight. I was running power plant air pollution systems on a 20Mhz 386 with like 8M of RAM, ran 24/7 like a charm with about 50 threads.
It was just damn hard to install if you didn't know what you were doing. Sort of like Linux sometimes.:-)
(Not trolling here, I've just had about 3 systems I never could get Linux on, as much as I love it. Ended up buying a VA Linux box!)
It is another example of how the people in Europe are gutless and will let their governments walk all over them while taking an obsene amount of money from them in every conceivable way in the process.
They also get 5 weeks vacation and years on unemployment and the taxes they pay reflect that.
Also it seems to me that US residents are pretty gutless too for the way we've let our rights be taken away bit-by-bit on the pretext of the war on drugs, terrorists and pedophiles. To say nothing of a pie-in-the-sky missile defense that'll transfer a $100 billion or so from our pockets to the likes of Raytheon and Martin Marietta. That's pretty obscene to me.
What are you going to do, throw it at me from your recumbent bicycle on the side of the road? There aren't many overpasses around here bunky!
Be careful, fucker, be careful. ooooohhhh, you're soooo frightening! Do you do this professionally? I'll bet you work at one of those funhouses where you jump out and scare people!
It seems that for you that Anonymous COWARD account is just perfect.
you just might think "i don't care, i want a #&*@ ferrari before i die!".
'cuz life sucks and then you die. or you just get too old and/or fat to get in the bloody car anyway. i mean, point well taken and all, but i find my toys are excellent motivation to get my ass out and working. besides, a little self-confidence and risk-taking is really essential at some point if you're trying to do something career-wise.
don't get me wrong, i have little sympathy for people eating $100 lunches while their car gets towed away, but sometimes you just have to make a fashion statement, and if it doesn't work out well hey, try again next time.
No son, put down that Columbine memorial pamplet and consider the true nature of getting even: make them listen to a continuous stream of Wayne Newton records!
See? And then they can't track you down and jail you for publicy encouraging terroristic threats and murder.
That's what I was thinking. You can take a loss for three years, then you have to at least break even, or change "skins" and become a different entity. (Change the project name!)
It's not immediately apparent to me that there's a difference whether you open the source or not.
I mean, really, we don't live in singapore. We don't need to be flogged everytime something bad happens
But that's pretty much what you're suggesting.
Them: "Hey pal, you didn't release that code fast enough for us - you get fined."
Us: "But I've been working 16 hr days as it is... it's not done yet..."
Them: "Oh, missed our deadline? Prove you weren't dragging your feet or we send you to jail."
How are you going to prove you couldn't have worked any harder or smarter to fit some bureaucrats' deadline? If we have to pass a government audit everytime we release an app or make a change to a webserver config then I'm going back to making cheesesteaks.
If you don't like MS, then don't use them. If you use a service, check up to see they do things the way you like. But don't encourage some Congress-critter to get up my butt because *somebody* in the world may be able to crack my system. Why not just fine everybody who gets robbed for having an attractive nuisance?
Cop: "Hey, you had unprotected windows. Any 'rock kiddie' could break them. You expect us to find them? Not until you cover every entrance with a bomb-proof steel door and put bars on all your windows."
"I just want to say it's fecking great to be alive, and anyone who doesn't think so can fecking leave right now because this show is really gonna bum 'em out."
- Frank Zappa
Hmm, would that be anything like the gestapo tactics used on the GOP convention protesters in Philly? Cops destroying "dangerous" puppets?
Kind of hard to scream and shout when you're held in jail without charges, then released when Bubba's gone
Or jailed for $1M bail and released when W. is gone?
When you write annoying opposing thoughts to a liberal president, it's not illegal and you get thrown in jail without going to court.
Right, like the guys who did parody websites of W.'s campaign and Bush's campaign sent the FEC after 'em. Bush's take on it? "There should be limits to freedom".
You guys would vote for Mussolini if he were still around, although he'd probably be considered a Republican moderate at this point.
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Nice to know the damn thing actually works... and it figures Leno has one! My turbo was considerably more garden variety - I had an '82 Yamaha Turbo Seca. Not quite as fast but still made a great sound, and was about $147k cheaper. :-)
My dream has proven to be just a dream, without much real ground.
Ah, don't worry. With good people supporting you I'm sure you'll get what you want sooner or later.
I prefer to think of "free software" ventures more along the line of art or music projects. Some things gain enough ground that they support themselves, but the majority are funded by more mundane activities.
So, did your wife get to provide as much input to this decision as RMS?
I'd think it'd be interesting to hear that part of your decision making process.
...just his opinion. Sweet Jesus, what the hell is going on here when ONE PERSON can't express a differing opinion? I support 2600 in a lot of things, but this is a reasonable take on the subject and shouldn't be modded as a troll. Grrrrrrrr.
> They have killed billions
Obviously not. Plenty have been killed, tortured, or "re-educated", but let's attempt to be realistic, eh?
> The philisophy of jesus was "Convert or Kill."
Hey, I'm the last guy around to defend the Christian Right, but that's simply not anywhere near true. It's not the philosophy of Jesus that's the problem, it's people who believe that God (tm) is somehow both all-powerful but and at the same time unable to take care of things without their help.
They've done plenty of evil to point out without having to overstate it.
FACT: There are make-believe religions. (Scientology, Moonies, Islam, etc.)
:-)
FACT: There is true religion. (Christianity)
You're kidding, right? Right? I have friends who think Catholics are a cult... seems to me a "real" religion is in the eye of the practitioner. Or the IRS.
I've learned more than I'd like to know about Scientologists due to losing a girlfriend over their weirdness (I think they're total lunatics) but that doesn't make it a "fake" religion.
I mean really, next you'll be dissing Rastafarianism.
That's the preferred method of dealing with scumbags where I'm from.
Seriously though, you obviously need to have your lawyer call them. If they owe you money under one contract you don't need to sign another one to get it. If the money involved isn't worth an hour of legal bills, then sign and forget it.
Whaddaya want fer nothin', rubber biscuits?
they already know your underwear size
That's why I wear mine a size too small.
Plus it gives me that mean "don't bother me look" cultivated by top IT professionals everywhere!
i was doing a lot of work on my Amiga (with the attendant Guru Meditation errors) and freaked one sunday morning when i woke up at my girlfriend's house, turned on the tube and found the Preview Channel's Guru Meditation screen! for a second i thought my programming errors were chasing me across town. :-)
.NET?
wonder if that'll happen with
strangely enuf, i consulted for a (would-be) competitor of Prevue called StarNet, we delivered mpegs via satellite instead of sending laserdiscs around, and played them on NT boxes with the local cable schedule.
Bull****!
The Atari ST didn't come CLOSE to the Amiga's capabilities. You must've had some good acid.
Ah, the sweet smell of acrimonious Atari/Amiga/Mac wars... it helped them all so much!
Yeah, I did great stuff with OS/2. Warp was the ultimate DOS development platform (booting different DOS versions in each window), but even the last 16 bit (V1.3) version was really tight. I was running power plant air pollution systems on a 20Mhz 386 with like 8M of RAM, ran 24/7 like a charm with about 50 threads.
:-)
It was just damn hard to install if you didn't know what you were doing. Sort of like Linux sometimes.
(Not trolling here, I've just had about 3 systems I never could get Linux on, as much as I love it. Ended up buying a VA Linux box!)
Personally, I went with the Porsche. It's amazing how these things depreciate
From new, yes. But older ones hold their value quite well. An '89 911 bought in '98 is still worth almost exactly the same money today.
Enjoy!
It is another example of how the people in Europe are gutless and will let their governments walk all over them while taking an obsene amount of money from them in every conceivable way in the process.
They also get 5 weeks vacation and years on unemployment and the taxes they pay reflect that.
Also it seems to me that US residents are pretty gutless too for the way we've let our rights be taken away bit-by-bit on the pretext of the war on drugs, terrorists and pedophiles. To say nothing of a pie-in-the-sky missile defense that'll transfer a $100 billion or so from our pockets to the likes of Raytheon and Martin Marietta. That's pretty obscene to me.
When I got my first CD R/W a 3-pack cost $39.
I'm not gonna lose sleep over this one.
Gas we've been sliding on for awhile compared to the Europeans, although it does hurt to put $45/tank in the Blazer and $33 in the car.
Now the price of good tequila, THAT's a problem.
What are you going to do, throw it at me from your recumbent bicycle on the side of the road? There aren't many overpasses around here bunky!
Be careful, fucker, be careful.
ooooohhhh, you're soooo frightening! Do you do this professionally? I'll bet you work at one of those funhouses where you jump out and scare people!
It seems that for you that Anonymous COWARD account is just perfect.
you just might think "i don't care, i want a #&*@ ferrari before i die!".
'cuz life sucks and then you die. or you just get too old and/or fat to get in the bloody car anyway. i mean, point well taken and all, but i find my toys are excellent motivation to get my ass out and working. besides, a little self-confidence and risk-taking is really essential at some point if you're trying to do something career-wise.
don't get me wrong, i have little sympathy for people eating $100 lunches while their car gets towed away, but sometimes you just have to make a fashion statement, and if it doesn't work out well hey, try again next time.
Oh ok, thanks!
When did they become a Baby Bell?
That was an excellent article... we need more of THAT kind of attitude around.
No son, put down that Columbine memorial pamplet and consider the true nature of getting even: make them listen to a continuous stream of Wayne Newton records!
See? And then they can't track you down and jail you for publicy encouraging terroristic threats and murder.
mmm'kay?
Well, you could've done it ten years ago when it went consumer. Consider all that time you've had three more characters available to use.
Here's another:
OMR - optical mark recognition
That's how they read your SAT tests....
That's what I was thinking. You can take a loss for three years, then you have to at least break even, or change "skins" and become a different entity. (Change the project name!)
It's not immediately apparent to me that there's a difference whether you open the source or not.
I mean, really, we don't live in singapore. We don't need to be flogged everytime something bad happens
But that's pretty much what you're suggesting.
Them: "Hey pal, you didn't release that code fast enough for us - you get fined."
Us: "But I've been working 16 hr days as it is... it's not done yet..."
Them: "Oh, missed our deadline? Prove you weren't dragging your feet or we send you to jail."
How are you going to prove you couldn't have worked any harder or smarter to fit some bureaucrats' deadline? If we have to pass a government audit everytime we release an app or make a change to a webserver config then I'm going back to making cheesesteaks.
If you don't like MS, then don't use them. If you use a service, check up to see they do things the way you like. But don't encourage some Congress-critter to get up my butt because *somebody* in the world may be able to crack my system. Why not just fine everybody who gets robbed for having an attractive nuisance?
Cop: "Hey, you had unprotected windows. Any 'rock kiddie' could break them. You expect us to find them? Not until you cover every entrance with a bomb-proof steel door and put bars on all your windows."
Would your house pass the test?
:-) 'nuff said.
"I just want to say it's fecking great to be alive, and anyone who doesn't think so can fecking leave right now because this show is really gonna bum 'em out."
- Frank Zappa
Hmm, would that be anything like the gestapo tactics used on the GOP convention protesters in Philly? Cops destroying "dangerous" puppets?
Kind of hard to scream and shout when you're held in jail without charges, then released when Bubba's gone
Or jailed for $1M bail and released when W. is gone?
When you write annoying opposing thoughts to a liberal president, it's not illegal and you get thrown in jail without going to court.
Right, like the guys who did parody websites of W.'s campaign and Bush's campaign sent the FEC after 'em. Bush's take on it? "There should be limits to freedom".
You guys would vote for Mussolini if he were still around, although he'd probably be considered a Republican moderate at this point.