If you think about it, anyone looking for info (say you're thinking of moving there) might appreciate some links to local real estate agents, plumbers, etc.
Obviously there's room for graft and abuse, but I'm from NJ so I guess we're used to that. (bada bing)
Ok, everyone here who has actually made money by writing a program and opening the source please post your income from it, whether by direct sales, support, or even selling t-shirts.
One way or another this should illustrate the merit of his central question about OSS, which is how do I make a living developing open source programs? I know you can do it as a developer for a large company like IBM, I know about dual-license examples like Sendmail, etc., it would be interesting to see how many typical small company stand-alone programs make money this way.
Let's drop the religion for a day and look at the numbers. No fuzzy math, I'm looking for direct sales. If you can prove him wrong, do it. If not, go back to work and enjoy your hobby and contribution to the world's software ecology.
Well, my friendly neighborhood car dealer says "sometimes you just have to make a fashion statement", but maybe that's because he sells Porsches.
I've been beating the hell out of a Powerbook (my first) since last October, and don't see anything particularly user-hostile about it. If you want a raw computing tool you can always strip the plastic off a case and let the wires hang out (or nail the motherboard to a perfboard), and in some cases that's appropriate. But as someone who's found the sharp edges on those cheap white metal chassis more than once, I'm quite happy I can carry the Powerbook around and not have it catch on anything. It's nicely done.
My guess is your idea of "most people" doesn't actually cover many people who aren't consumed with their computers. Most people (in terms of actual numbers, not your opinion of them as people) will never ever upgrade their PC. Never. Ever. And have no interest in doing so.
They quite reasonably conclude that they can hold on to one until it's annoying and then go buy another whole new system which is much better all around, and give the old one to the kids or keep as a backup. And not spend their precious non-work time downloading drivers, re-formatting hard drives, and possibly screwing up the whole thing in the end anyway.
A LOT of things qualify as sport, including a gentleman farmer chasing the milkmaid, but since there is no physical component to math believe the answer is NO.
Accord to dictionary.com:
sport PPronunciation Key(spôrt, sprt) n. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
A particular form of this activity.
An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
An active pastime; recreation.
Mockery; jest: He made sport of his own looks.
An object of mockery, jest, or play: treated our interests as sport.
A joking mood or attitude: She made the remark in sport.
One known for the manner of one's acceptance of rules, especially of a game, or of a difficult situation: a poor sport.
Informal. One who accepts rules or difficult situations well.
Informal. A pleasant companion: was a real sport during the trip.
Informal. A person who lives a jolly, extravagant life.
A gambler at sporting events.
Biology. An organism that shows a marked change from the normal type or parent stock, typically as a result of mutation.
Maine. See summercater. See Regional Note at summercater.
I might go back and watch it (it's been awhile) but if I recall my laserdisc version was pretty nice as it was. I mean really, is it worth it? I think a lot of this buggered-up re-release stuff is just a thin reason to get people to buy again on another type of media. Like what the heck, this is in the bank, let's diddle a few scenes and get the true believers to pop another $20.
Same for Dark Star mentioned in the first post.
Of course if anybody can get Gilligan's Island re-mastered with a nude Mary Ann, well I might re-consider.
Hey now, Ace was no Perri (in terms of pure cleavage) or Romana (the brunette, YOW) but she was cute and knew her way around a bag of explosives, if I remember correctly.
Also, I'd recommend a smattering of sports knowledge so you can actually make small talk to other people.
Learn to listen to other people and appreciate THEIR unique bright-ness, which may not manifest in the same way as yours does.
And consider you're comments have already tagged you as a prima donna in a place which should surely know one; possibly your friends are too nice to tell you. If you make some progress on that, your quesion will have been worth asking.
Otherwise you'll just be another snot-nosed twit that'll be crushed in your first confrontation with another bright and possibly more evil co-worker/boss/teacher's aide.
I recently bought a Powerbook and found nothing at all that would make any reasonably sentient Windows user have a problem with email and surfing the web. The only things you have to look a bit for are precisely the things she doesn't want them to mess with!
I installed a system at the power plant in New Madrid around 1991. I went back to my hotel room where I had been watching the baseball game in San Francisco and found there had been a huge quake. So Peter Jennings has his expert on who says "Well Peter, the largest quake was actually in New Madrid Missouri!" So I turn and see this big "New Madrid" sign out my window... no wonder I hate business trips.
The locals told me about the quake: They said the fields rose in 30 foot waves as the soil liquified, the river flow changed and the old town was under water now, etc. Driving down the highway, it was pretty easy to picture that.
I was working at a gas station and had a guy in a taxi get out of the car and light up right next to me as I pumped his gas. I pointed at the sign, took it out of his mouth and put it out on his car.
Thanks for the correction, I sort of thought that but figured I'd be conservative, dollar-wise anyway.
Unfortunately none of us have ever been given a vote on where our money goes, and if the guys in charge don't care about the huge demonstrations against the Iraq war it's not likely they'll care much about 1000 Egyptians, or anyone else. And given so-called Patriot law I could probably be prosecuted for starting a petition.
I found it interesting to hear from a real live human in another country, we should get a little more of this type of "story".
I also found it interesting (but not surprising) that most people there don't want their money to go to the US... I wonder how many realize we've been giving them 1.5 Billion a year for 20 years.
I've had good experience with the InFocus X1 at about 12 ft from a plaster wall, no rainbow stuff but I do get some lines once in awhile with DirectTV. It looks much better with a DVD in the PS/2. I'd probably spend the extra to go full HD if I were to do it again, but it's cheap enough. I put a 9x12 ft dropcloth on the back of the house and have it about 20 ft out, looks GREAT.
It really does require low light though. If you want to watch much during the day you'll want something at least twice as bright. I haven't tried it yet with an HD source, anyone else?
I think it's more like 10 yrs, but this is a very good point which I believe is overlooked by the pols. A truly independent data mining approach like the Total Information Awareness debacle of the less-noticed state-based "Matrix" program would catch all the associations between politicians and graft. Tthe GAO sued to get Dick Cheney to identify the parties in his energy task force, unsuccessfully. If that were public knowledge... in real time... hmmm. Maybe time to buy stock in the human courier business.
because *I* did, and unless about a million OTHER people thing I did they may THINK I actually got there by trying to print a picture of currency which I would never ever do because I'm trying to think of ways to scam people *legally*, really really I swear and oh God i don't want the freakin' Secret Service to visit my boss, or well, fuck the neighbors but I swear I thought they said "Secret Squirrel" you see and I.... oh never mind.
> Am I just weird Well of course most alcohol tastes nasty, it's basically medicine. That said, if you had champagne that tasted like vinegar you had some pretty nasty champagne. I actually thought I didn't like beer at first, when I realized it was just Budweiser I didn't like. They're not all the same, y'know. Try Guinness or Bass, Grey Goose or Ketel One vodka. Cheap is generally nasty.
Ironically, my guess is you'd LOVE a mimosa.
Now as to your last question, you apparently already know what crap and moose piss taste like so who knows, maybe it'd work for you.
Unfortunately, if there's no American sports team there they effectively don't exist for most Americans. Guys anyway. All those countries trying to get into NATO and the EU have it all wrong, they should be trying to get into the NFL. Might even work for the Palestinians.
My guess is a lot of the people who boycotted it only drank it because it was the "right" choice in the first place. Just like most of the people calling them "surrender monkeys" didn't know they lost half a million men in 1916 by NOT surrendering to a sustained German attack at Verdun, more than we've ever lost in all battles including the Civil War. Or that without the help of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French navy and army we'd probably still be singing "God Save The Queen".
Or, while we're at it, that "French" toast was invented by a Mr. French of Albany NY.
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If you think about it, anyone looking for info (say you're thinking of moving there) might appreciate some links to local real estate agents, plumbers, etc.
Obviously there's room for graft and abuse, but I'm from NJ so I guess we're used to that. (bada bing)
Ok, everyone here who has actually made money by writing a program and opening the source please post your income from it, whether by direct sales, support, or even selling t-shirts.
One way or another this should illustrate the merit of his central question about OSS, which is how do I make a living developing open source programs? I know you can do it as a developer for a large company like IBM, I know about dual-license examples like Sendmail, etc., it would be interesting to see how many typical small company stand-alone programs make money this way.
Let's drop the religion for a day and look at the numbers. No fuzzy math, I'm looking for direct sales. If you can prove him wrong, do it. If not, go back to work and enjoy your hobby and contribution to the world's software ecology.
Well, my friendly neighborhood car dealer says "sometimes you just have to make a fashion statement", but maybe that's because he sells Porsches.
I've been beating the hell out of a Powerbook (my first) since last October, and don't see anything particularly user-hostile about it. If you want a raw computing tool you can always strip the plastic off a case and let the wires hang out (or nail the motherboard to a perfboard), and in some cases that's appropriate. But as someone who's found the sharp edges on those cheap white metal chassis more than once, I'm quite happy I can carry the Powerbook around and not have it catch on anything. It's nicely done.
My guess is your idea of "most people" doesn't actually cover many people who aren't consumed with their computers. Most people (in terms of actual numbers, not your opinion of them as people) will never ever upgrade their PC. Never. Ever. And have no interest in doing so.
They quite reasonably conclude that they can hold on to one until it's annoying and then go buy another whole new system which is much better all around, and give the old one to the kids or keep as a backup. And not spend their precious non-work time downloading drivers, re-formatting hard drives, and possibly screwing up the whole thing in the end anyway.
A LOT of things qualify as sport, including a gentleman farmer chasing the milkmaid, but since there is no physical component to math believe the answer is NO.
Accord to dictionary.com:
sport PPronunciation Key(spôrt, sprt)
n.
Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
A particular form of this activity.
An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
An active pastime; recreation.
Mockery; jest: He made sport of his own looks.
An object of mockery, jest, or play: treated our interests as sport.
A joking mood or attitude: She made the remark in sport.
One known for the manner of one's acceptance of rules, especially of a game, or of a difficult situation: a poor sport.
Informal. One who accepts rules or difficult situations well.
Informal. A pleasant companion: was a real sport during the trip.
Informal.
A person who lives a jolly, extravagant life.
A gambler at sporting events.
Biology. An organism that shows a marked change from the normal type or parent stock, typically as a result of mutation.
Maine. See summercater. See Regional Note at summercater.
Obsolete. Amorous dalliance; lovemaking.
I might go back and watch it (it's been awhile) but if I recall my laserdisc version was pretty nice as it was. I mean really, is it worth it? I think a lot of this buggered-up re-release stuff is just a thin reason to get people to buy again on another type of media. Like what the heck, this is in the bank, let's diddle a few scenes and get the true believers to pop another $20.
Same for Dark Star mentioned in the first post.
Of course if anybody can get Gilligan's Island re-mastered with a nude Mary Ann, well I might re-consider.
Hey now, Ace was no Perri (in terms of pure cleavage) or Romana (the brunette, YOW) but she was cute and knew her way around a bag of explosives, if I remember correctly.
It's good for you. Really.
Also, I'd recommend a smattering of sports knowledge so you can actually make small talk to other people.
Learn to listen to other people and appreciate THEIR unique bright-ness, which may not manifest in the same way as yours does.
And consider you're comments have already tagged you as a prima donna in a place which should surely know one; possibly your friends are too nice to tell you. If you make some progress on that, your quesion will have been worth asking.
Otherwise you'll just be another snot-nosed twit that'll be crushed in your first confrontation with another bright and possibly more evil co-worker/boss/teacher's aide.
No charge.
I recently bought a Powerbook and found nothing at all that would make any reasonably sentient Windows user have a problem with email and surfing the web. The only things you have to look a bit for are precisely the things she doesn't want them to mess with!
Well, it's not as good as a beer and a Snicker's Bar, that's for sure.
I installed a system at the power plant in New Madrid around 1991. I went back to my hotel room where I had been watching the baseball game in San Francisco and found there had been a huge quake. So Peter Jennings has his expert on who says "Well Peter, the largest quake was actually in New Madrid Missouri!" So I turn and see this big "New Madrid" sign out my window... no wonder I hate business trips.
The locals told me about the quake: They said the fields rose in 30 foot waves as the soil liquified, the river flow changed and the old town was under water now, etc. Driving down the highway, it was pretty easy to picture that.
I was working at a gas station and had a guy in a taxi get out of the car and light up right next to me as I pumped his gas. I pointed at the sign, took it out of his mouth and put it out on his car.
It's the little things...
Thanks for the correction, I sort of thought that but figured I'd be conservative, dollar-wise anyway.
Unfortunately none of us have ever been given a vote on where our money goes, and if the guys in charge don't care about the huge demonstrations against the Iraq war it's not likely they'll care much about 1000 Egyptians, or anyone else. And given so-called Patriot law I could probably be prosecuted for starting a petition.
Thanks for the offer though...
I found it interesting to hear from a real live human in another country, we should get a little more of this type of "story".
I also found it interesting (but not surprising) that most people there don't want their money to go to the US... I wonder how many realize we've been giving them 1.5 Billion a year for 20 years.
I've had good experience with the InFocus X1 at about 12 ft from a plaster wall, no rainbow stuff but I do get some lines once in awhile with DirectTV. It looks much better with a DVD in the PS/2. I'd probably spend the extra to go full HD if I were to do it again, but it's cheap enough. I put a 9x12 ft dropcloth on the back of the house and have it about 20 ft out, looks GREAT.
It really does require low light though. If you want to watch much during the day you'll want something at least twice as bright. I haven't tried it yet with an HD source, anyone else?
I think it's more like 10 yrs, but this is a very good point which I believe is overlooked by the pols. A truly independent data mining approach like the Total Information Awareness debacle of the less-noticed state-based "Matrix" program would catch all the associations between politicians and graft. Tthe GAO sued to get Dick Cheney to identify the parties in his energy task force, unsuccessfully. If that were public knowledge... in real time... hmmm. Maybe time to buy stock in the human courier business.
so I use the same font. It's freaking HUGE.
But maybe GWB and company will notice when they say "this intelligence is unreliable".
because *I* did, and unless about a million OTHER people thing I did they may THINK I actually got there by trying to print a picture of currency which I would never ever do because I'm trying to think of ways to scam people *legally*, really really I swear and oh God i don't want the freakin' Secret Service to visit my boss, or well, fuck the neighbors but I swear I thought they said "Secret Squirrel" you see and I.... oh never mind.
Well that's a relief eh!
I could've sworn I saw Trenton in GTA3, but I just got it and haven't been able to find my way back there yet.
How about Asbury Park?
Gee, are you not allowed to respond to an idiot? or is that the redundant part?
And of course it's always possible that some people don't know what French Toast IS, and how it's different from burning bread in a fire.
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http://www.freerecipe.org/Breakfast/French_Toas
> Am I just weird
:-)
Well of course most alcohol tastes nasty, it's basically medicine. That said, if you had champagne that tasted like vinegar you had some pretty nasty champagne. I actually thought I didn't like beer at first, when I realized it was just Budweiser I didn't like. They're not all the same, y'know. Try Guinness or Bass, Grey Goose or Ketel One vodka. Cheap is generally nasty.
Ironically, my guess is you'd LOVE a mimosa.
Now as to your last question, you apparently already know what crap and moose piss taste like so who knows, maybe it'd work for you.
Kidding son, just kidding.
Unfortunately, if there's no American sports team there they effectively don't exist for most Americans. Guys anyway. All those countries trying to get into NATO and the EU have it all wrong, they should be trying to get into the NFL. Might even work for the Palestinians.
My guess is a lot of the people who boycotted it only drank it because it was the "right" choice in the first place. Just like most of the people calling them "surrender monkeys" didn't know they lost half a million men in 1916 by NOT surrendering to a sustained German attack at Verdun, more than we've ever lost in all battles including the Civil War. Or that without the help of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French navy and army we'd probably still be singing "God Save The Queen".
Or, while we're at it, that "French" toast was invented by a Mr. French of Albany NY.
Humans. Pfffftt.
Well now, it's about time alcohol technology gets it's due here!
Maybe we need a section for martini recipes.... the original open-source?
How about the pros and cons of RFID tags on Bordeaux bottles?
"warez" for basement absinthe makers?