OK, F/OSS guy.. Give us some case studies on how you make a living with F/OSS. Show us some TOC and ROI numbers.
Obviously I'm not the original poster but I am a "F/OSS" guy and your question seems rather trivial, unless I'm missing something. Return on investment? With a proprietary solution you're investing in license costs as well as developer time. With free software, it's just developer time. You can get the at least as good results, the market VFP is aimed at is well covered by open source products.
How do you make a living with F/OSS? You get paid to develop stuff using it. Duh.
If your speaker cables are only 1mm thick then you aren't getting the most out of the speakers, unless you have very cheap speakers of course... give some thicker cable a try and you will really notice the difference, I promise!
I've never had a single spam message from those places. They come down on you so hard and fast if you do send spam from them that it's just not worth anyone's while, let alone the inconvenience of using a webmail system for mass emailing.
Now, blocking mail from Korean IP addresses - that would cut out about 80% of spam from everyone's mailbox.
Maybe a little offtopic but 3 are already advertising a mobile videophone 3G service on TV in the UK. I don't believe the videophone service is ready to go yet but by the looks of it most of the infrastructure is in place and you can already buy the phones and voice service.
Another theory is that linux cant dynamically add/remove display devices in userland at run time the way windows can
Well, actually it can do that, and you can add and remove kernel drivers dynamically too (kernel modules). OK, so you might need to restart XFree86, but Windows makes you restart the whole OS for hardware configuration changes.
I don't think the matter of whether or not it's illegal was ever under dispute. The issue is whether or not it's wrong, or immoral, or unethical, etc.
Just because something is illegal, it doesn't mean it's wrong. The law is not infallible, and often doesn't serve the peoples' best interests. In the case of copyright, although originally designed to serve the peoples' interests, it now only serves the interest of the likes of the RIAA.
Holding corporate-funded laws in such high regard is a grave mistake to make, imho.
I've just started a project for a client who wants PHP. Not used the language before, although I am a competant Perl programmer. It was easy enough to pick up, but damn, it sucks ass!
Firstly, not only is it extremely forgiving of sloppy coding styles, it's design even seems to encourage it. It's typing logic is a pain - variables get assigned a type implicitly, and then you have to use functions to test what type they are. In fact, there's a function for just about everything. No, they aren't arranged sensibly and hierarchically into packages. They're all dumped straight into the global scope.
And while we're on the subject can someone please tell the PHP developers that global variables are a BAD THING? They are way overused in the language. You have to totally rely on them.
I could go on all day... PHP may be fast, it may be powerful, but it encourages some of the lamest code this side of mars. Doing it "the right way" in PHP is a real effort.
The emu10k1 chip that the SB Live is built around can mix 32 channels together like that in hardware. the Linux driver provides support for that ability by letting you open/dev/dsp for output up to 32 times simeltaneously.
Unless you are doing something wrong, why does it matter that people can track you? I want an answer other than "Just because..."
You make the fatal assumption that what you consider to be wrong is in line with what the government thinks is wrong. Do you trust their judgment that much, especially after some of the ridiculous pieces of legislation that have been passed in recent years?
This is one of the things that does my head in about living with my family, (which since moving out for the first time at 17 has always been a bit of a headache going back to), my family, father in particular, seem to have a couple of very strange attitudes... the first of which is, when Windows goes wrong, there has to be a way to fix it. There just HAS to be! I paid for this computer and it's not doing it's job! etc! A bug which was causing Explorer to crash when viewing thumbnails of some 100MB or more TIFF images, he expected to be fixed under warranty (!?) - the answer that it's a bug in windows, or whatever software, and nothing can really be done except for work around it, gets me accused of being unhelpful and not giving a shit. Gah! And then, more bizarrely, comes the assertion that Windows is a perfectly good piece of software (despite the fact it's just let him down) and I'm just trotting out some irrational knee-jerk anti-Microsoft bullshit. *sigh*
The other one is one I've noticed more from less PC-literate friends-of-family. People get into the mindset that their needs are "simple", whether they really are or not. For instance: one bloke was a bit scared of using MS Word, so used Wordpad instead. ("it's simpler, it's easier, I don't need anything else"). Until he wanted to do tables. He absolutely HAD to use Wordpad. "it's simpler! I don't need Word! I only do simple things!" - "well, no, Wordpad won't do that, as you said, its simple" - and again I am accused of being unhelpful...
It's funny how people will ask your advice and then not listen to you isn't it?
I have noticed that there is a huge latency involved when creating threads in Perl 5.8 - in fact I benchmarked it and it was about 20 times slower than a fork! I think this has something to do with Perl making duplicates of all the variables for each new thread (they aren't shared by default) and possibly not using a copy-on-write algorithm to do so. I don't know. But while the performance of the threads was decent once they got going, the latency to spawn them was really crippling, and I went back to using forks... I wonder if this new scheduler will have any impact on Perl thread performance?
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This isn't "proof of concept" type stuff. This is "burglary tools" type stuff.
OK. I'm lost. Please explain what is being stolen here and who from?
I added an A record to one of my domains to point to 127.0.0.1. Whenever a website wants an email address I just put [something]@[that A record]. :)
OK, F/OSS guy.. Give us some case studies on how you make a living with F/OSS. Show us some TOC and ROI numbers.
Obviously I'm not the original poster but I am a "F/OSS" guy and your question seems rather trivial, unless I'm missing something. Return on investment? With a proprietary solution you're investing in license costs as well as developer time. With free software, it's just developer time. You can get the at least as good results, the market VFP is aimed at is well covered by open source products.
How do you make a living with F/OSS? You get paid to develop stuff using it. Duh.
If your speaker cables are only 1mm thick then you aren't getting the most out of the speakers, unless you have very cheap speakers of course... give some thicker cable a try and you will really notice the difference, I promise!
try calling his local pizza place, and order several... ...just after breakfast time.
They created and maintain the single largest FREE Instant messaging client out there. AIM cost them money.
Don't forget ICQ (even though it is basically the same as AIM nowadays, but without AOL, ICQ would have died years ago).
I've never had a single spam message from those places. They come down on you so hard and fast if you do send spam from them that it's just not worth anyone's while, let alone the inconvenience of using a webmail system for mass emailing.
Now, blocking mail from Korean IP addresses - that would cut out about 80% of spam from everyone's mailbox.
The US government planning a law that benefits the general public and is a hindrance to sleazy and corrupt businesses?
Surely not!
Maybe a little offtopic but 3 are already advertising a mobile videophone 3G service on TV in the UK. I don't believe the videophone service is ready to go yet but by the looks of it most of the infrastructure is in place and you can already buy the phones and voice service.
It's not cheap though.
Dude, you can't fit a whole human inside a phone.
Hmm. If you put that all in capitals, it could almost be a Nigerian scam email!
Well, so drop the Linux Duke3d guys an email telling them how you feel and I'm sure they'll be happy to give you a refund :)
...and I'm all outta ass!
Another theory is that linux cant dynamically add/remove display devices in userland at run time the way windows can
Well, actually it can do that, and you can add and remove kernel drivers dynamically too (kernel modules). OK, so you might need to restart XFree86, but Windows makes you restart the whole OS for hardware configuration changes.
I don't think the matter of whether or not it's illegal was ever under dispute. The issue is whether or not it's wrong, or immoral, or unethical, etc.
Just because something is illegal, it doesn't mean it's wrong. The law is not infallible, and often doesn't serve the peoples' best interests. In the case of copyright, although originally designed to serve the peoples' interests, it now only serves the interest of the likes of the RIAA.
Holding corporate-funded laws in such high regard is a grave mistake to make, imho.
I've just started a project for a client who wants PHP. Not used the language before, although I am a competant Perl programmer. It was easy enough to pick up, but damn, it sucks ass!
Firstly, not only is it extremely forgiving of sloppy coding styles, it's design even seems to encourage it. It's typing logic is a pain - variables get assigned a type implicitly, and then you have to use functions to test what type they are. In fact, there's a function for just about everything. No, they aren't arranged sensibly and hierarchically into packages. They're all dumped straight into the global scope.
And while we're on the subject can someone please tell the PHP developers that global variables are a BAD THING? They are way overused in the language. You have to totally rely on them.
I could go on all day... PHP may be fast, it may be powerful, but it encourages some of the lamest code this side of mars. Doing it "the right way" in PHP is a real effort.
The emu10k1 chip that the SB Live is built around can mix 32 channels together like that in hardware. the Linux driver provides support for that ability by letting you open /dev/dsp for output up to 32 times simeltaneously.
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Simple
Unless you are doing something wrong, why does it matter that people can track you? I want an answer other than "Just because..."
You make the fatal assumption that what you consider to be wrong is in line with what the government thinks is wrong. Do you trust their judgment that much, especially after some of the ridiculous pieces of legislation that have been passed in recent years?
KDE and GNOME both have capable utilities for installing and previewing fonts graphically.
Sure - the same people who are daft enough to run critical apps on any Windows platform in the first place.
(*prepares to get modded down by an angry horde of Microsoft apologists*)
I guess u can consiredr russia "europe," right?
:D
Ahh, American geography at it's best
Do you want to hear how I taught my mom how to use email?
:D
Go on then. Beats working
This is one of the things that does my head in about living with my family, (which since moving out for the first time at 17 has always been a bit of a headache going back to), my family, father in particular, seem to have a couple of very strange attitudes... the first of which is, when Windows goes wrong, there has to be a way to fix it. There just HAS to be! I paid for this computer and it's not doing it's job! etc! A bug which was causing Explorer to crash when viewing thumbnails of some 100MB or more TIFF images, he expected to be fixed under warranty (!?) - the answer that it's a bug in windows, or whatever software, and nothing can really be done except for work around it, gets me accused of being unhelpful and not giving a shit. Gah! And then, more bizarrely, comes the assertion that Windows is a perfectly good piece of software (despite the fact it's just let him down) and I'm just trotting out some irrational knee-jerk anti-Microsoft bullshit. *sigh*
The other one is one I've noticed more from less PC-literate friends-of-family. People get into the mindset that their needs are "simple", whether they really are or not. For instance: one bloke was a bit scared of using MS Word, so used Wordpad instead. ("it's simpler, it's easier, I don't need anything else"). Until he wanted to do tables. He absolutely HAD to use Wordpad. "it's simpler! I don't need Word! I only do simple things!" - "well, no, Wordpad won't do that, as you said, its simple" - and again I am accused of being unhelpful...
It's funny how people will ask your advice and then not listen to you isn't it?
That's philosophically debatable...
I have noticed that there is a huge latency involved when creating threads in Perl 5.8 - in fact I benchmarked it and it was about 20 times slower than a fork! I think this has something to do with Perl making duplicates of all the variables for each new thread (they aren't shared by default) and possibly not using a copy-on-write algorithm to do so. I don't know. But while the performance of the threads was decent once they got going, the latency to spawn them was really crippling, and I went back to using forks... I wonder if this new scheduler will have any impact on Perl thread performance?