have you looked into new car insurance lately? folks out there w/ newer cars, what are your insurance rates? (full coverage) I'm going to guess that 200$ per month isn't uncommon. a used car with min. coverage is going to be 1/4 of that.
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could care less about office politics, back stabbers, or what not. paper trails are for pansies who have a need to rectify their employment status when the going gets rough. the serious software developers are at work to cut out some serious code, and perhaps browser a little/. everynow and then. any types of office politics takes away from those two focused activities. time away from the crt is time spent refilling the caffiene container and or obtainning other chemical needs (damn smokers;) ).
if you're working in a place that has others playing too many sophisticated political games, and the boss doesn't see the reality, then i say 'eff 'um and get the hell outta there (and back to some serious coding).
sounds more like yer beeching that KDE chose to use the gpl license. kde could have paid for qt licenses and then opted to dual license their software or event to make it a closed API.
you want to develop an application that will "fit" into a destop environment without paying tributes to those backs you stand on? go check out the gnome project. they chose to use the lgpl for their desktop librarires. that, or i hear there's not many licensing issues with developing closed source applications on the win32 platform...
looks like someone's trying to shove a square peg into a round hole.
first off, KDE can't do much about the QT license. It's a blessing that they have QT with the gpl license. the article is about kde, and not qt's licensing. next, kde choose the gpl license long before the qt was licensed as such. (recall the kde 1.x days and before when there were massive land and air wars over the licensing in compatibilities? i didn't think so)
next, i'm under the impression that kde itself is under the gpl license. that kinda makes it hard to develop software under a closed source license. if you're developing worthy qt applications, you can afford the 3k per developer to pay QT. if you're a cheep mo-fo' i suspect you can look into using other toolkits for your development (swg, awt, gnome, gtk, etc, etc, etc) there's many many other windowing toolkits with less restrictive licensing.
i've used PHP, and it's a bitch to debug and to understand in general. it's nice for script kiddies, but outside of that, i'd leave it alone. java isn't really a good tool for websites either though, at least not java's jsp. There's many nice templating engines available under java which are VERY nice for dynamic sites (velocity, freemaker, etc). Let java handle your business logic, and let templates run your user interface.
you mean IBM learned to charge a fair price for a fair product? If a company has a huge profit margin, i'd say they're charging an unfair price for the product. IBM is no longer the king in the computer world, but they're still the big blue. they've learned to adapt to the changing IT industry and have done quite well. so their pofit margin isn't quite up there. most likely, neither is the profit margin for Wal-Mart, but i'd say they have some power in their industry.
i guess that's why there's a choice in the open source world. i'm a gentoo user myself, but i completely understand Mandrake's move to use advertisements in the install process and in screen savers. you've gotta pay the bills to keep dedicated people on staff and such. gentoo
a crashed server doesn't directly cost money, it costs someone's time to bring it up and fix the problem. that person is already on staff and is getting paid to write perl scripts to sniff thier own logs.
sure there's those wacko's with bandwidth limitations, but if you put it on the web, it's fair game to link from/. from cnn or from goatse for that matter.
Finding the original slip is probably not possible - so it comes down to their word against yours.
you'd be amazed at the amounts of data that is retained in credit related transactions. i wouldn't be surprised if the credit issuer had on "file" (images) of both the application and the credit report they used to determine worthyness.
where did your business plans come from? the 2010's called, they'd like their high school student back..
during the 90's, the norm was not to have great idea. the 90's was more like: 1. Company has no solid idea and revenue generating business plan. Company launches a pretty web site. (2 -4 look ok).
during this decade, the major business plan pattern that i see is : 1. concrete products see major decline in revenue generation. 2. sue anybody for any IP related issue (patents, trademark, copyrights, etc, etc) to generate revenue for the stock holders
Frankly, I don't think it should be a changable value
frankly, i don't think it s/b a value. but since the client can and does send a value for what it's user agent is, i think the client should be able to determin what that value is, and the user of the client should be able to change that value if they wish.
contrary to the OP in the thread though, most users don't fake their browser out. lots of sites still let you through with moz, and those that dont and i need to get to, there' always an IE nearby, though it's a horrible user interface.
you've got to share some of that you're puttin' in the pipe, please. MANY, MANY folks have used X from a distro out of the box with no issues. the video card/distro does matter to some degree. Tools like xconfigurator or other vendor specific tools help the issue A LOT.
i agree that intense X configuration file changes can be a beatch, but come on now. 10 years, with common video cards? and you can't get X to work? share the "wealth"...
no, that's a feature not a bug. (though, i must have been sleeping and haven't seen it yet. will have to put something like that in the next QA release just to keep 'um on their toes).
But for accessing the same/home on different computers I still use NFS.
i've tried this in the past, but had major issues when one of the boxes would be brought down/rebooted. NFS didn't seem to like to recover very well. Is there a way to set a timeout for accessing a NFS mount? All my processes accessing the share basically hung, and i couldn't unmount the share as there were processes accessing it. finding the prcessses manually and manually killing them was a bitch. I know when i try to access a network device using Windows that if the share isn't there, it seems to timeout....
there's certainly an inherent discrimination if the law were to separate into 3 lists. that _screams_ that political speech should recieve different treatment than "normal" speech. i think the USSC will have a hard time limiting any political speach.
sure, compare apples to apples. StarOffice -> Microsoft Office is not a valid comparision. StarOffice is a nice office suite, but it's not in the same league of Microsoft Office. Microsoft desktop is for the corporate use, Linux desktop is for the budget user who doesn't want to go the warez route (self included).
you certainly have the right to block political and non-profit calls. get rid of your freaking phone. there's no constitutional ammendment requiring you to have phone service. trust me, the calls WILL stop if you discontinue your phone service.
as far as making a distinction between free speech and speech for profit, the courts have historically ruled that corporations do not enjoy the same constitutional rights that individuals do. i conclude that very often the corporations are living under the law in their own little world they control which really has nothing to do with reality. their world is obsessed with strategic partnerships to leverage synergies accross the organization while maximizing the investment return (lots of bs).
finally, i would argue that all speech is for profit, weather that profit is financial or weather that profit is in the form of some other reward. even if someone is shooting off their mouth for no apparant reason, deep down inside, they're profiting from that speech.
in the same way the the Ford motor company "should have known" that the tires it used on the SUVs were known to have major defects and cause the vehicles to crash, Microsoft should have known that such an exploit were available in its software. the software industry needs QA practices that identifies these type of exploits. and yes, software companies that "should have known" and exploit existed when it released a product should be held accountable. patches are not the answer anymore, and does no better job than a recall (good day to use that word;) ).
the point is that software manufacturers should be held accountable for defects in their product the same as any other industry. even the serivce industy gets their arse sued when they fsck up. imagine a doctor giving you a release form that says he's not responsible for any accidents which may happen during surgery? imagine a lawyer saying he's not responsible for any of his actions their representation. currently, only those with "malicious intent" are liable in the software industry and that means crackers.
though the shoe would have to fit the other foot too. i wonder who's going to be accountable for defects in the linux kernel? how about sendmail;)?
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new car insurance would be at least double that.
have you looked into new car insurance lately? folks out there w/ newer cars, what are your insurance rates? (full coverage) I'm going to guess that 200$ per month isn't uncommon. a used car with min. coverage is going to be 1/4 of that.
could care less about office politics, back stabbers, or what not. paper trails are for pansies who have a need to rectify their employment status when the going gets rough. the serious software developers are at work to cut out some serious code, and perhaps browser a little /. everynow and then. any types of office politics takes away from those two focused activities. time away from the crt is time spent refilling the caffiene container and or obtainning other chemical needs (damn smokers ;) ).
if you're working in a place that has others playing too many sophisticated political games, and the boss doesn't see the reality, then i say 'eff 'um and get the hell outta there (and back to some serious coding).
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sounds more like yer beeching that KDE chose to use the gpl license. kde could have paid for qt licenses and then opted to dual license their software or event to make it a closed API.
you want to develop an application that will "fit" into a destop environment without paying tributes to those backs you stand on? go check out the gnome project. they chose to use the lgpl for their desktop librarires. that, or i hear there's not many licensing issues with developing closed source applications on the win32 platform...
looks like someone's trying to shove a square peg into a round hole.
first off, KDE can't do much about the QT license. It's a blessing that they have QT with the gpl license. the article is about kde, and not qt's licensing. next, kde choose the gpl license long before the qt was licensed as such. (recall the kde 1.x days and before when there were massive land and air wars over the licensing in compatibilities? i didn't think so)
next, i'm under the impression that kde itself is under the gpl license. that kinda makes it hard to develop software under a closed source license. if you're developing worthy qt applications, you can afford the 3k per developer to pay QT. if you're a cheep mo-fo' i suspect you can look into using other toolkits for your development (swg, awt, gnome, gtk, etc, etc, etc) there's many many other windowing toolkits with less restrictive licensing.
the same is true afaict for solaris on sun hardware. the utilities available on solaris are laughable. maybe they've updated them on solaris 8, or 9.
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i've used PHP, and it's a bitch to debug and to understand in general. it's nice for script kiddies, but outside of that, i'd leave it alone. java isn't really a good tool for websites either though, at least not java's jsp. There's many nice templating engines available under java which are VERY nice for dynamic sites (velocity, freemaker, etc). Let java handle your business logic, and let templates run your user interface.
you mean IBM learned to charge a fair price for a fair product? If a company has a huge profit margin, i'd say they're charging an unfair price for the product. IBM is no longer the king in the computer world, but they're still the big blue. they've learned to adapt to the changing IT industry and have done quite well. so their pofit margin isn't quite up there. most likely, neither is the profit margin for Wal-Mart, but i'd say they have some power in their industry.
Or to put it another way. How much CPU cycles are wasted on Pr0n, and how does this help society? :)
1. not enough
2. there is no I in team
i guess that's why there's a choice in the open source world. i'm a gentoo user myself, but i completely understand Mandrake's move to use advertisements in the install process and in screen savers. you've gotta pay the bills to keep dedicated people on staff and such. gentoo
a crashed server doesn't directly cost money, it costs someone's time to bring it up and fix the problem. that person is already on staff and is getting paid to write perl scripts to sniff thier own logs.
/. from cnn or from goatse for that matter.
sure there's those wacko's with bandwidth limitations, but if you put it on the web, it's fair game to link from
Finding the original slip is probably not possible - so it comes down to their word against yours.
you'd be amazed at the amounts of data that is retained in credit related transactions. i wouldn't be surprised if the credit issuer had on "file" (images) of both the application and the credit report they used to determine worthyness.
where did your business plans come from? the 2010's called, they'd like their high school student back..
during the 90's, the norm was not to have great idea. the 90's was more like: 1. Company has no solid idea and revenue generating business plan. Company launches a pretty web site. (2 -4 look ok).
during this decade, the major business plan pattern that i see is : 1. concrete products see major decline in revenue generation. 2. sue anybody for any IP related issue (patents, trademark, copyrights, etc, etc) to generate revenue for the stock holders
Frankly, I don't think it should be a changable value
frankly, i don't think it s/b a value. but since the client can and does send a value for what it's user agent is, i think the client should be able to determin what that value is, and the user of the client should be able to change that value if they wish.
contrary to the OP in the thread though, most users don't fake their browser out. lots of sites still let you through with moz, and those that dont and i need to get to, there' always an IE nearby, though it's a horrible user interface.
you've got to share some of that you're puttin' in the pipe, please. MANY, MANY folks have used X from a distro out of the box with no issues. the video card/distro does matter to some degree. Tools like xconfigurator or other vendor specific tools help the issue A LOT.
i agree that intense X configuration file changes can be a beatch, but come on now. 10 years, with common video cards? and you can't get X to work? share the "wealth"...
no, that's a feature not a bug. (though, i must have been sleeping and haven't seen it yet. will have to put something like that in the next QA release just to keep 'um on their toes).
But for accessing the same /home on different computers I still use NFS.
i've tried this in the past, but had major issues when one of the boxes would be brought down/rebooted. NFS didn't seem to like to recover very well. Is there a way to set a timeout for accessing a NFS mount? All my processes accessing the share basically hung, and i couldn't unmount the share as there were processes accessing it. finding the prcessses manually and manually killing them was a bitch. I know when i try to access a network device using Windows that if the share isn't there, it seems to timeout....
they're fairly dedicated apps that all work together and look the same. kinda the same domain as ms office.
there's certainly an inherent discrimination if the law were to separate into 3 lists. that _screams_ that political speech should recieve different treatment than "normal" speech. i think the USSC will have a hard time limiting any political speach.
sure, compare apples to apples. StarOffice -> Microsoft Office is not a valid comparision. StarOffice is a nice office suite, but it's not in the same league of Microsoft Office. Microsoft desktop is for the corporate use, Linux desktop is for the budget user who doesn't want to go the warez route (self included).
you certainly have the right to block political and non-profit calls. get rid of your freaking phone. there's no constitutional ammendment requiring you to have phone service. trust me, the calls WILL stop if you discontinue your phone service.
as far as making a distinction between free speech and speech for profit, the courts have historically ruled that corporations do not enjoy the same constitutional rights that individuals do. i conclude that very often the corporations are living under the law in their own little world they control which really has nothing to do with reality. their world is obsessed with strategic partnerships to leverage synergies accross the organization while maximizing the investment return (lots of bs).
finally, i would argue that all speech is for profit, weather that profit is financial or weather that profit is in the form of some other reward. even if someone is shooting off their mouth for no apparant reason, deep down inside, they're profiting from that speech.
in the same way the the Ford motor company "should have known" that the tires it used on the SUVs were known to have major defects and cause the vehicles to crash, Microsoft should have known that such an exploit were available in its software. the software industry needs QA practices that identifies these type of exploits. and yes, software companies that "should have known" and exploit existed when it released a product should be held accountable. patches are not the answer anymore, and does no better job than a recall (good day to use that word ;) ).
the point is that software manufacturers should be held accountable for defects in their product the same as any other industry. even the serivce industy gets their arse sued when they fsck up. imagine a doctor giving you a release form that says he's not responsible for any accidents which may happen during surgery? imagine a lawyer saying he's not responsible for any of his actions their representation. currently, only those with "malicious intent" are liable in the software industry and that means crackers.
;)?
though the shoe would have to fit the other foot too. i wonder who's going to be accountable for defects in the linux kernel? how about sendmail
somebody obviously did NOT take their required medication this morning!