i think the OP was referring to the open source community, not your neighborhood community. so 8% of the IT jobs will be going abroad in the next 12 years. perhaps 8% of the current workforce isn't doing jack anyway, so this might actually increase productivity. and how many H1-B's represent the current IT workforce?
please, quit this whine. for people who do need speed, they already have a full toolbox to use to address that issue (C/C++/assembly/Fortran, etc). Java also suits those who need to develop a wide array of applications. Running their appplications on a 386SX machine wihth 8MB of memory doesn't happen to be one of them.
yep, the portage system really needs some maturity that's obvious. i've had my machine unbootable after doing an emerge -u world. i think there was something about installing new glibc library and possibly removing the old one. i don't know, but i had to grab a knopix cd and chroot into the gentoo partition and basically re-install from scratch.
the portage also needs some sort of recursive uninstall. uninstall ide AND all the packages that depend on kde (or were built with kde support). uninstalling blackdown java should uninstall anything that required blackdown (and reset all the system variable crap).
that said, it's a great distro and i'll never find myself really using RH/ Mandrake or somesuch just because when i ran RH, i was always building kde from source, x from source and many many other packages to where it wasn't a RH system anymore.
and maybe the kewl gentoo users don't want a pretty gui installer w/ good hardware detection and all, but if one were put together, lots and lots of people would use it. gentoo is something that you install once and then just keep upgrading packages.
maybe you were going for +1 phunny, but i'll swing anyway.
Windows XP isn't really a upgrade for Win98 machines. Win 98 was delivered on PII 266mhz, 32/64MB RAM, 2-4MB PCI Video systems. I would hate to try anything on a system like that with XP. Sure the CPU could handle it, but the memory would need to be seriously upgraded. There's also the issue regarding device drivers. There's a LOT of hardware out from that time period that doesn't have XP drivers.
they didn't lose the full price, they didn't loose anything other than potential to make a sale. and actually they still have that potential. the money was never theirs so the money wasn't stolen. copyright infringment does not mean loss of a sale and or money.
some people like to wear levi's jeans, and some are ok with wearing a knock-off.
yeah, the thing was probably 20 years old over and over again. i picked it up for 5$ at some old folks house cleaning garage sale. it was also extremely dull. i had to go over the lawn about 3 times w/it.
me, the grouchy bastard that i am, never mind chasing the kids out of the yard for any reason. not even my own;).
while the supreme court may infer there to be an implicit right to privacy, they constantly are changing what exactly that right defines. is a woman having an aborting considered exercising their "right to privacy", is gay sex considered exercising one's right to privacy? does a high school student have a right to privacy when the school wants to conduct random locker searches? yes do high school have a right to privacy when the school wants to conduct random drug testing? no
the point is that until congress enacts this right as an ammendment to the constitution and has it ratifieid, it's always on much more shaky ground than any of the rights that are explicitly spelled out in that there constitution.
pre existing laws covered this. if you asked a company to put you on their DNC list, they had to. if you ask them and they still call you, it's considered harassment.
i don't see a justification for our federal governemt to effectively put an industry out of business b/c it bothers people. i'm bothered by wacko drivers, can we get congress to put detroit out of business?
which right to privacy is that? are you going to claim that the telemarketers are trespassing by calling your "house" w/o an invitation? i can walk up and knock on your door and until you tell me to leave, it's not tresspassing. you can already, under previous laws, tell a telemarketer to add you to their DNC list and they must.
this is effectively putting up lots of NO TRESSPASSING signs all around your property.
Another group of people who went to the 'RIAA School of Maths'
another product of the American English edumacation system. how many people would you say are working in the telemarketing industry today? what would you and your School of Math estimate the number of workers in that industry to be in 3 years? how about 5 years?
Is there a constitutional right to privacy that I missed?
i agree there might be more productive work, but it's not the governments right or responsibility to kill off an entire industry because that industry "bothers" some people.
you're right that fridges don't have inventory systems right now, but it's not that far fetched an idea.
why do you need RFID's in a fridge so you can tell what's in there? the only items purchased that don't have scan bars on them are produce and even sometimes that has it. hell, your cupboards could also store inventory and if you're on the way to the store, you could print/display your current inventory to see what you'll need to make a pizza or what not.
come on now. why can it i access myfridge.myplace.org and have myplace.org know that requests for myfridge s/b forwarded to the appropriate host.
the only issue i can see is that you're limited on the ways to connect to each device (only one "port" per name), but you could delve down to myfridge.secure.myplace.org to get to a secure place that might let you view contents, etc.
the standards compliance is absolutely fantastic. i haven't used opera, so i can't comment there, but the w3c doesn't define a bordercolor attribute for the table element. nor is there a border/bordercolor attribute on the html td or tr elements. css was introduced to handle robust element borering issues.
i've done the "waiting on tables" gig during school, and after 5+ years of sitting on my ever growing arse each day, i'm not sure my body could handle that straing and exercise. i would certainly do more than split the difference and take 30$/hr for a telecommute position.
most likely you're paying the guy in calcutta 40$ or even perhaps 30$ per hour for that work (all the overhead). i think the question is why is there such resistance (not widely available) to software developers telecommuting?
i would say that open code that must remain open is less open. if someone can't make a propriatary derivitive, that seems more closed than code that does allow people to make derivitives. the open code for a BSD ish license will always remain open. a BSD style license also doesn't close the option for a company to sell propriatary extensions.
reading the material to be presented on prior to the lecture isn't a new idea. classes have been doing it for ages.
what do students gain by listening to a lecture? they gain reinforcement of the crap they're going to be tested on. learning works best by seeing, hearing and doing. read the chapters, listen to the lectures, and do the lab work. it's amzaing how easy it is to pull off A's when that formula is followed.
alternatively there's BibleTime (kde), GnomeSword (for the lgpl users), Sword for windows plus other Open Source bible study applications which can all be found at www.crosswire.org . there's even a version i see for some handhelds.
what i find absolutely fascinating and unbelieveable is how many modern versions of the bible are held undistributable by using copyright laws. what a better way to get the word out on God than to hold a monoply on the distribution of those words. i realize some people put some effort and time into creating their work, but somethings just don't make sense to be "closed source" and religous material is one of them. this type of material definately demands by nature a BDSish type license.
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i think the OP was referring to the open source community, not your neighborhood community. so 8% of the IT jobs will be going abroad in the next 12 years. perhaps 8% of the current workforce isn't doing jack anyway, so this might actually increase productivity. and how many H1-B's represent the current IT workforce?
please, quit this whine. for people who do need speed, they already have a full toolbox to use to address that issue (C/C++/assembly/Fortran, etc). Java also suits those who need to develop a wide array of applications. Running their appplications on a 386SX machine wihth 8MB of memory doesn't happen to be one of them.
yep, the portage system really needs some maturity that's obvious. i've had my machine unbootable after doing an emerge -u world. i think there was something about installing new glibc library and possibly removing the old one. i don't know, but i had to grab a knopix cd and chroot into the gentoo partition and basically re-install from scratch.
the portage also needs some sort of recursive uninstall. uninstall ide AND all the packages that depend on kde (or were built with kde support). uninstalling blackdown java should uninstall anything that required blackdown (and reset all the system variable crap).
that said, it's a great distro and i'll never find myself really using RH/ Mandrake or somesuch just because when i ran RH, i was always building kde from source, x from source and many many other packages to where it wasn't a RH system anymore.
and maybe the kewl gentoo users don't want a pretty gui installer w/ good hardware detection and all, but if one were put together, lots and lots of people would use it. gentoo is something that you install once and then just keep upgrading packages.
my hosts.deny is
ALL : ALL
seems to keep others away.
maybe you were going for +1 phunny, but i'll swing anyway.
Windows XP isn't really a upgrade for Win98 machines. Win 98 was delivered on PII 266mhz, 32/64MB RAM, 2-4MB PCI Video systems. I would hate to try anything on a system like that with XP. Sure the CPU could handle it, but the memory would need to be seriously upgraded. There's also the issue regarding device drivers. There's a LOT of hardware out from that time period that doesn't have XP drivers.
they didn't lose the full price, they didn't loose anything other than potential to make a sale. and actually they still have that potential. the money was never theirs so the money wasn't stolen. copyright infringment does not mean loss of a sale and or money.
some people like to wear levi's jeans, and some are ok with wearing a knock-off.
yeah, the thing was probably 20 years old over and over again. i picked it up for 5$ at some old folks house cleaning garage sale. it was also extremely dull. i had to go over the lawn about 3 times w/it.
;).
me, the grouchy bastard that i am, never mind chasing the kids out of the yard for any reason. not even my own
this is /. our grass is always pured before we stick it in our house.
i used one of these mowers when i lived near downtown and my back yard was as big as a couple office cubes. in the 'burbs it's not very feasable.
while the supreme court may infer there to be an implicit right to privacy, they constantly are changing what exactly that right defines. is a woman having an aborting considered exercising their "right to privacy", is gay sex considered exercising one's right to privacy? does a high school student have a right to privacy when the school wants to conduct random locker searches? yes do high school have a right to privacy when the school wants to conduct random drug testing? no
the point is that until congress enacts this right as an ammendment to the constitution and has it ratifieid, it's always on much more shaky ground than any of the rights that are explicitly spelled out in that there constitution.
sure, but is the ATF constitutional?
pre existing laws covered this. if you asked a company to put you on their DNC list, they had to. if you ask them and they still call you, it's considered harassment.
i don't see a justification for our federal governemt to effectively put an industry out of business b/c it bothers people. i'm bothered by wacko drivers, can we get congress to put detroit out of business?
which right to privacy is that? are you going to claim that the telemarketers are trespassing by calling your "house" w/o an invitation? i can walk up and knock on your door and until you tell me to leave, it's not tresspassing. you can already, under previous laws, tell a telemarketer to add you to their DNC list and they must.
this is effectively putting up lots of NO TRESSPASSING signs all around your property.
Another group of people who went to the 'RIAA School of Maths'
another product of the American English edumacation system. how many people would you say are working in the telemarketing industry today? what would you and your School of Math estimate the number of workers in that industry to be in 3 years? how about 5 years?
the industry had an extremely viable business model. many many companies have been doing sucessfull telemarketing for 20+ years.
the gov't came in and effectively eliminated that avenue of product marketing.
Is there a constitutional right to privacy that I missed?
i agree there might be more productive work, but it's not the governments right or responsibility to kill off an entire industry because that industry "bothers" some people.
you're right that fridges don't have inventory systems right now, but it's not that far fetched an idea.
why do you need RFID's in a fridge so you can tell what's in there? the only items purchased that don't have scan bars on them are produce and even sometimes that has it. hell, your cupboards could also store inventory and if you're on the way to the store, you could print/display your current inventory to see what you'll need to make a pizza or what not.
come on now. why can it i access myfridge.myplace.org and have myplace.org know that requests for myfridge s/b forwarded to the appropriate host.
the only issue i can see is that you're limited on the ways to connect to each device (only one "port" per name), but you could delve down to myfridge.secure.myplace.org to get to a secure place that might let you view contents, etc.
very well said.
:
each person/house having one address can still get to
fridge.myplace.org - send a soap web message to tell it to defrost your dinner.
stove.myplace.org - send a message telling it to pre-heat for a certain temp.
roomba.myplace.org - tell it to sweep up the place a little.
and all these messages could easily be sent from your personal cell phone/pda/little electronic device which happens to be located at
myLittleElectronic.myplace.org
the standards compliance is absolutely fantastic. i haven't used opera, so i can't comment there, but the w3c doesn't define a bordercolor attribute for the table element. nor is there a border/bordercolor attribute on the html td or tr elements. css was introduced to handle robust element borering issues.
i've done the "waiting on tables" gig during school, and after 5+ years of sitting on my ever growing arse each day, i'm not sure my body could handle that straing and exercise. i would certainly do more than split the difference and take 30$/hr for a telecommute position.
most likely you're paying the guy in calcutta 40$ or even perhaps 30$ per hour for that work (all the overhead). i think the question is why is there such resistance (not widely available) to software developers telecommuting?
i would say that open code that must remain open is less open. if someone can't make a propriatary derivitive, that seems more closed than code that does allow people to make derivitives. the open code for a BSD ish license will always remain open. a BSD style license also doesn't close the option for a company to sell propriatary extensions.
reading the material to be presented on prior to the lecture isn't a new idea. classes have been doing it for ages.
what do students gain by listening to a lecture? they gain reinforcement of the crap they're going to be tested on. learning works best by seeing, hearing and doing. read the chapters, listen to the lectures, and do the lab work. it's amzaing how easy it is to pull off A's when that formula is followed.
alternatively there's BibleTime (kde), GnomeSword (for the lgpl users), Sword for windows plus other Open Source bible study applications which can all be found at www.crosswire.org . there's even a version i see for some handhelds.
what i find absolutely fascinating and unbelieveable is how many modern versions of the bible are held undistributable by using copyright laws. what a better way to get the word out on God than to hold a monoply on the distribution of those words. i realize some people put some effort and time into creating their work, but somethings just don't make sense to be "closed source" and religous material is one of them. this type of material definately demands by nature a BDSish type license.