and i believe it's up to nearly 49$ now for adults, but still WELL worth the price. most people find discount tickets for 25$ or so. it's an all day event, 10 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. then the long quiet drive home for those within range. others get to pay a nice penny for hotels in the area.
as far as a guarantee the ride will be busy... it's basically a "if you build it, they will come" sort of guarantee. their milenimum force ride is still very busy, their gemini ride is still very busy (though i'm sure the line waits are getting shorter). they also have the longest, fastest wooden ride (don't recall the name on that one).
the licensing process is there for a business license/tax revenue purpose
i would love to see some backing to that statement! these "licenses" are there to protect the common public. i lived with a cosmotology student and there is not much casual about it, intense targeted training. pluming seems fairly straitforward but i'm sure there's more to it than meets the eye. i've done some light electrical work, and let me tell you that certification is more than a business license/tax revenue.
typically anyone can apply for and get a general business license for around 35$ IIRC. a licensed electrician does not need a business license (most probably don't), and i certainly wouldn't want to pay someone 65$/hr for someone to wire up some lights in my house to someone who's got a license for tax/business purposes...
didn't MS rip SMB from DEC and or VMS? it doesn matter who ripped what from whom. what matters is does it allow your mac to share files with your windows and linux machines and vice-vice-versa-versa. oh yeah, it's open souce too, bonus!
one thing that i've found to not like much about using remote filesystems on a unix (linux) box is that if the remote system goes down, the unix box (NFS/SMB, whatever) seems to not want to unmount the device at all. at least with windows, you can refresh your neighborhood and see who's left the scene of the crime.
while it's probably true that many inexperienced people use vb, i wouldn't asertain (sp?) that is the reason it has a bad rap.
experienced developers will throw a few screens together for a prototype to show management/customers and bam, that's the final product. "polish it up in a week or so", says mgmt, "and we'll be good to go". that's how vb got a bad rap.
someone else mentioned QT, and qt can also do rapid prototyping (is there a designer for windows?), even just knowing the classes you can throw together a screen look fairly quickly. the positive is that you're now using an oo C++ layer which can be sub-classed till you're blue in the face if that's what you need. you also have a lot more flexability in the control of the app than with VB.
so, once again, the root problem isn't developers, but rather management. management who wants a prototype tomorrow, then insists that it looks soo good that we'll just turn it into the final product for launch next weekend. if only those management folks could code any thing more than a little COBOL or a little HTML (mostly using MS Word save as feature) we could stick them with maintaining the prototype junk and see how long before a rewrite is in order.
making open source developers understand that end users are valuable
the end user is valuable only if the developer is getting paid. otherwise, the developer is coding because he/she really likes to code. going along with that, they get satisfaction from having others use and enjoy their software, but when it comes to someone asking for something the developer doesn't want to do, well i gotta agree that the user is up a creek and should find a paddle if they want to get down stream. that or get off the canoe and find another means of transportation (different software).
OS doesn't exist for a userbase, it exists because some peoople like to code and share their code/software.
most people buy DVD's in MPEG format often encapsulated in CSS encryption.
maybe people who hang at another site, but not this one. here we borrow DVD's from friends, libraries, Blockbuster, etc, run our DeCSS on them and create nice little VCD's to watch. every day except thursday we give a little one finger salute to the MPAA (that's when we're ready for mind numbing entertainment).
no wait. what i meant to say was, now that we have DeCSS, i'm buying lots more DVD's than i ever did before i could copy them or download them online! ever since i started using gnutella to d/l movies, my dvd purchasing has went through the roof now that i can preview them before i buy them;).
this feeble OpenSource operating system has quite some shortcomings. someone call Bill, i'm sure he'll get his eXPerienced developers working on a 65 cpu OS, maybe 66.
i don't mind mailing the paper in or waiting 4 weeks for a check in the mail. the problem for me with doing taxes manually is that i spend lots of time going over the incideously complex forms only to realize over and over just what an intense legal raping is going on every year by the slimy bastards we call our elected "officials". and i thought the officiating in the fiesta bowl was a little foul... arggg... wtf? taxed coming in, taxed going out, and taxed if you hold onto it too long.
yeah, i'm not familiar with the author, Greg Lindsay, but his reporting and theories sounds more like a slashdot-microsoft-bashing-kde-is-great-story to spruce up a lame thursday afternoon.
his theories are full of more loopholes than the laws he theorizes on. just because the dmca doesn't say it's illegal to copy the mpeg data from a pvr doesn't mean it's legal to distribute your mpegs either. he does't exactly say it's legal, but it's heavily implied.
i gots to quit reading these articles!
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hazy myth
sounds like reality to most of us 'round here. and we all know that reality == law. at least until someone discovers a new reality (which happens often in the hazy myth world).
the only thing that this would help is the actual application performance. typically, people have many applications on a machine. they might not all be trying to get CPU time, but when they are, they're fighting hard for it. more CPU's mean a better and faster over all system. my point is that having multi-processors will help out both the mpeg encoding application that takes 6 hrs to run in the background as it will for a web browser, email reader, etc.
doesn't the OS typically splice up the cpu cycles on multiple cpu's even for a single app?
Then you should not post your content into the free and clear public domain where there are no controls to stop people from viewing it. It's Slashdot's fault if you post shit with no security and lots of people click on it???
along the same lines of thinking, normal email subscribers should not complain about getting SPAM (i've never seen any/. editors complain about spam, eh?). after all, you signed up for an email account that your service provider allows to accept email from anyone else on the internet. if you're getting messages you don't like then you should get a different type of email provider (perhaps opt-in only?).
personally, i think/. would be doing itself quite a favor to offer to mirror some heavily hit sites. there's lots of times where you want to see an article or photos or whatever and they're taking forever to load. it's their call though since it's the internet. didn't mozilla.org figure a way to thwart off/. links?
The latter would save the company money and result in fewer American jobs and less income tax revenue for the US
first of all, the cost savings is very subjective. as with most cost savings measures, you don't know the actual savings until well after implementation. by then it just might be too late. there's something to be said about loyality. a company that's loyal to the employees will have employees that recipricate that loyality.
secondly, your statement slightly contradicts itself. a company saving money would thus have more profit and thus more income tax revenue. sure the employee dollars aren't being taxed, but those people are going to have to make a living somehow (once their jobs are exported) and that earning will still be taxed. our government takes a cut of money whenever it changes hands, and sometimes when it doesnt.
slow down there cowboy... when i grew up, i learned that people kill people. then somewhere along the way, that's been converted into guns kill people. and now you want us to believe that information kills people?
"show me all documents that contain the word resume"
kinda like the search button on microsoft's explorer? i'll bet konqueror has an integrated recrursive grep feature as well (haven't use it much though).
the format has nothing to do with this. your binary images/movies will be less impacted, but how often do you find yourself saying "i'd like to find all the images i have that are of..." ok maybe that one comes across every now and then.
you mean osX doesn't have this "feature" yet? even microsoft has the broken search feature...
really, files, documents, directories, folders, whatever you want to call them you're saving a unit of work for later retrieval. this concept adds extra LAYERS to that save and retrieval process (keywords, and categories). and even the categories resemble folders/directories a LOT. so in effect, this merely adds meta-tags to the document header and allows searching on meta-tags across folders.
file versioning is a nice feature that i really liked in VMS, but you learn to be more carefull in other systems that don't have that built in. instead of letting the OS automatically create backups, you do it yourself when it's needed.
i don't know. i took a look at this new "concept" and to me it's not even remotely graspable. not the user has to give their document a category and keywords when they save it? most people just save documents and then organize them when they get around to it. i cannot see how this is going to help the person who saves everything onto their winXX desktop. anyone else knows that when ls scrolls off the term, it's time to move a few things around.
i'm sure you're being sarcastic, but that's like someone trying to sell automobile door locks from the 70's that are easily openable with a slim-jim. people know they're junk, they don't work anymore for what they were intended for, so why would anyone in thier right mind try to sell them. we've all moved on to remote keyless locks (i don't know if they're any less suseptable to breakins, i'm just assuming so for the sake of discussion).
here you have the mpaa, they put a "lock" on their IP. that lock lasted a few years if that. the locks been broken and nothing they can ever do will fix their lock. hey, here's a concept: give the consumers something they're willing to go to the theaters and watch! give them something they're willing to spend their 15-20$ to buy the dvd rather than spending 30 minutes copying it. i don't see that hapening anytime soon though
that and a lb. of flesh IIRC from my first (and hopefully last).NET excursion.
the GPL clearly defines what is considered a derivitive work. Operating system libraries are on their own as far as how they are licensed and can be used. though, i don't think an OS that doesn't let people develop software for will sell many copies.
hummm.. perhaps if employers would pick up on this, we'd all be running linux at work. cut down their bandwidth and improve productivity at the same time;)
most students don't really care much about licensing issues. if it installs and runs, it's ok. while post education, the "legally" part becomes slightly more clear (not moral, but clearer), during education, "legally" takes on a whole new meaning.
i think that is such a lame excuse anytime a state begins to talk of increasing any taxes. most people will still buy a bulk of their fuel supply from the gas stations around their area. it's much easier to get gas on the way to/from work than it is to drive 30 minutes to fill the tank. you're not really saving any money then anyway.
i think that gas taxes should be higher to pay for the roads. i wouldn't mind paying an extra.50$ per gallon for gas provided the states stop relying on bribe money from the federal government (increase your drinking age to 21, or we're not giving you money for the roads (roads that we said you have to have), get tougher DUI laws or we're not giving you money for the roads, etc, etc), and provided there's some changes in the contracts on road maintenance and construction. paved roads should not have downtime during normal business hours (7 a.m. - 7 p.m.) all lanes should be open for business during those hours. outside those hours the lanes could be reduced to 50% if needed, except for during a local "event" (football game, etc).
this doesn't seem to be a bootable working distro, just a bootable disk with source code to build and install your distro. it might let you repair your system a little if you can't boot your linux system, but it's not going to let you run kde and such without some serious efforts. this is more like the gentoo stage 1 install cd's. gentoo has a bootable cdrom (with some beta game on it too) which sounds more like what you're talking about.
i've looked over their site a few times too, and never really got what struts did either. "it's good if you've got a site with lots of forms" someone told me once. i had some time recently working with Turbine/velocity (implementing, the docs on the site are about the same) and now it kinda makes some sense.
if there's any bored document writers out there... jakarta and apache really need your donations! any corporations needing an extra tax write off? please donate a doc-writer to these projects.
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and i believe it's up to nearly 49$ now for adults, but still WELL worth the price. most people find discount tickets for 25$ or so. it's an all day event, 10 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. then the long quiet drive home for those within range. others get to pay a nice penny for hotels in the area.
as far as a guarantee the ride will be busy... it's basically a "if you build it, they will come" sort of guarantee. their milenimum force ride is still very busy, their gemini ride is still very busy (though i'm sure the line waits are getting shorter). they also have the longest, fastest wooden ride (don't recall the name on that one).
the licensing process is there for a business license/tax revenue purpose
i would love to see some backing to that statement! these "licenses" are there to protect the common public. i lived with a cosmotology student and there is not much casual about it, intense targeted training. pluming seems fairly straitforward but i'm sure there's more to it than meets the eye. i've done some light electrical work, and let me tell you that certification is more than a business license/tax revenue.
typically anyone can apply for and get a general business license for around 35$ IIRC. a licensed electrician does not need a business license (most probably don't), and i certainly wouldn't want to pay someone 65$/hr for someone to wire up some lights in my house to someone who's got a license for tax/business purposes...
is it Friday yet?
didn't MS rip SMB from DEC and or VMS? it doesn matter who ripped what from whom. what matters is does it allow your mac to share files with your windows and linux machines and vice-vice-versa-versa. oh yeah, it's open souce too, bonus!
one thing that i've found to not like much about using remote filesystems on a unix (linux) box is that if the remote system goes down, the unix box (NFS/SMB, whatever) seems to not want to unmount the device at all. at least with windows, you can refresh your neighborhood and see who's left the scene of the crime.
while it's probably true that many inexperienced people use vb, i wouldn't asertain (sp?) that is the reason it has a bad rap.
experienced developers will throw a few screens together for a prototype to show management/customers and bam, that's the final product. "polish it up in a week or so", says mgmt, "and we'll be good to go". that's how vb got a bad rap.
someone else mentioned QT, and qt can also do rapid prototyping (is there a designer for windows?), even just knowing the classes you can throw together a screen look fairly quickly. the positive is that you're now using an oo C++ layer which can be sub-classed till you're blue in the face if that's what you need. you also have a lot more flexability in the control of the app than with VB.
so, once again, the root problem isn't developers, but rather management. management who wants a prototype tomorrow, then insists that it looks soo good that we'll just turn it into the final product for launch next weekend. if only those management folks could code any thing more than a little COBOL or a little HTML (mostly using MS Word save as feature) we could stick them with maintaining the prototype junk and see how long before a rewrite is in order.
making open source developers understand that end users are valuable
the end user is valuable only if the developer is getting paid. otherwise, the developer is coding because he/she really likes to code. going along with that, they get satisfaction from having others use and enjoy their software, but when it comes to someone asking for something the developer doesn't want to do, well i gotta agree that the user is up a creek and should find a paddle if they want to get down stream. that or get off the canoe and find another means of transportation (different software).
OS doesn't exist for a userbase, it exists because some peoople like to code and share their code/software.
most people buy DVD's in MPEG format often encapsulated in CSS encryption.
;).
maybe people who hang at another site, but not this one. here we borrow DVD's from friends, libraries, Blockbuster, etc, run our DeCSS on them and create nice little VCD's to watch. every day except thursday we give a little one finger salute to the MPAA (that's when we're ready for mind numbing entertainment).
no wait. what i meant to say was, now that we have DeCSS, i'm buying lots more DVD's than i ever did before i could copy them or download them online! ever since i started using gnutella to d/l movies, my dvd purchasing has went through the roof now that i can preview them before i buy them
is it only wednesday?
warning, quicktime plugin needed.
Linux can do only 64.
this feeble OpenSource operating system has quite some shortcomings. someone call Bill, i'm sure he'll get his eXPerienced developers working on a 65 cpu OS, maybe 66.
i don't mind mailing the paper in or waiting 4 weeks for a check in the mail. the problem for me with doing taxes manually is that i spend lots of time going over the incideously complex forms only to realize over and over just what an intense legal raping is going on every year by the slimy bastards we call our elected "officials". and i thought the officiating in the fiesta bowl was a little foul... arggg... wtf? taxed coming in, taxed going out, and taxed if you hold onto it too long.
yeah, i'm not familiar with the author, Greg Lindsay, but his reporting and theories sounds more like a slashdot-microsoft-bashing-kde-is-great-story to spruce up a lame thursday afternoon.
his theories are full of more loopholes than the laws he theorizes on. just because the dmca doesn't say it's illegal to copy the mpeg data from a pvr doesn't mean it's legal to distribute your mpegs either. he does't exactly say it's legal, but it's heavily implied.
i gots to quit reading these articles!
hazy myth
sounds like reality to most of us 'round here. and we all know that reality == law. at least until someone discovers a new reality (which happens often in the hazy myth world).
(given apps that take advantage of both CPU's)
the only thing that this would help is the actual application performance. typically, people have many applications on a machine. they might not all be trying to get CPU time, but when they are, they're fighting hard for it. more CPU's mean a better and faster over all system. my point is that having multi-processors will help out both the mpeg encoding application that takes 6 hrs to run in the background as it will for a web browser, email reader, etc.
doesn't the OS typically splice up the cpu cycles on multiple cpu's even for a single app?
Then you should not post your content into the free and clear public domain where there are no controls to stop people from viewing it. It's Slashdot's fault if you post shit with no security and lots of people click on it???
/. editors complain about spam, eh?). after all, you signed up for an email account that your service provider allows to accept email from anyone else on the internet. if you're getting messages you don't like then you should get a different type of email provider (perhaps opt-in only?).
/. would be doing itself quite a favor to offer to mirror some heavily hit sites. there's lots of times where you want to see an article or photos or whatever and they're taking forever to load. it's their call though since it's the internet. didn't mozilla.org figure a way to thwart off /. links?
along the same lines of thinking, normal email subscribers should not complain about getting SPAM (i've never seen any
personally, i think
The latter would save the company money and result in fewer American jobs and less income tax revenue for the US
first of all, the cost savings is very subjective. as with most cost savings measures, you don't know the actual savings until well after implementation. by then it just might be too late. there's something to be said about loyality. a company that's loyal to the employees will have employees that recipricate that loyality.
secondly, your statement slightly contradicts itself. a company saving money would thus have more profit and thus more income tax revenue. sure the employee dollars aren't being taxed, but those people are going to have to make a living somehow (once their jobs are exported) and that earning will still be taxed. our government takes a cut of money whenever it changes hands, and sometimes when it doesnt.
slow down there cowboy... when i grew up, i learned that people kill people. then somewhere along the way, that's been converted into guns kill people. and now you want us to believe that information kills people?
i have got to get into a new line of work!
"show me all documents that contain the word resume"
kinda like the search button on microsoft's explorer? i'll bet konqueror has an integrated recrursive grep feature as well (haven't use it much though).
the format has nothing to do with this. your binary images/movies will be less impacted, but how often do you find yourself saying "i'd like to find all the images i have that are of..." ok maybe that one comes across every now and then.
you mean osX doesn't have this "feature" yet? even microsoft has the broken search feature...
really, files, documents, directories, folders, whatever you want to call them you're saving a unit of work for later retrieval. this concept adds extra LAYERS to that save and retrieval process (keywords, and categories). and even the categories resemble folders/directories a LOT. so in effect, this merely adds meta-tags to the document header and allows searching on meta-tags across folders.
file versioning is a nice feature that i really liked in VMS, but you learn to be more carefull in other systems that don't have that built in. instead of letting the OS automatically create backups, you do it yourself when it's needed.
i don't know. i took a look at this new "concept" and to me it's not even remotely graspable. not the user has to give their document a category and keywords when they save it? most people just save documents and then organize them when they get around to it. i cannot see how this is going to help the person who saves everything onto their winXX desktop. anyone else knows that when ls scrolls off the term, it's time to move a few things around.
i'm sure you're being sarcastic, but that's like someone trying to sell automobile door locks from the 70's that are easily openable with a slim-jim. people know they're junk, they don't work anymore for what they were intended for, so why would anyone in thier right mind try to sell them. we've all moved on to remote keyless locks (i don't know if they're any less suseptable to breakins, i'm just assuming so for the sake of discussion).
here you have the mpaa, they put a "lock" on their IP. that lock lasted a few years if that. the locks been broken and nothing they can ever do will fix their lock. hey, here's a concept: give the consumers something they're willing to go to the theaters and watch! give them something they're willing to spend their 15-20$ to buy the dvd rather than spending 30 minutes copying it. i don't see that hapening anytime soon though
Here, sign this contract, in blood if you please.
.NET excursion.
that and a lb. of flesh IIRC from my first (and hopefully last)
the GPL clearly defines what is considered a derivitive work. Operating system libraries are on their own as far as how they are licensed and can be used. though, i don't think an OS that doesn't let people develop software for will sell many copies.
hummm.. perhaps if employers would pick up on this, we'd all be running linux at work. cut down their bandwidth and improve productivity at the same time ;)
most students don't really care much about licensing issues. if it installs and runs, it's ok. while post education, the "legally" part becomes slightly more clear (not moral, but clearer), during education, "legally" takes on a whole new meaning.
i think that is such a lame excuse anytime a state begins to talk of increasing any taxes. most people will still buy a bulk of their fuel supply from the gas stations around their area. it's much easier to get gas on the way to/from work than it is to drive 30 minutes to fill the tank. you're not really saving any money then anyway.
.50$ per gallon for gas provided the states stop relying on bribe money from the federal government (increase your drinking age to 21, or we're not giving you money for the roads (roads that we said you have to have), get tougher DUI laws or we're not giving you money for the roads, etc, etc), and provided there's some changes in the contracts on road maintenance and construction. paved roads should not have downtime during normal business hours (7 a.m. - 7 p.m.) all lanes should be open for business during those hours. outside those hours the lanes could be reduced to 50% if needed, except for during a local "event" (football game, etc).
i think that gas taxes should be higher to pay for the roads. i wouldn't mind paying an extra
this doesn't seem to be a bootable working distro, just a bootable disk with source code to build and install your distro. it might let you repair your system a little if you can't boot your linux system, but it's not going to let you run kde and such without some serious efforts. this is more like the gentoo stage 1 install cd's. gentoo has a bootable cdrom (with some beta game on it too) which sounds more like what you're talking about.
i've looked over their site a few times too, and never really got what struts did either. "it's good if you've got a site with lots of forms" someone told me once. i had some time recently working with Turbine/velocity (implementing, the docs on the site are about the same) and now it kinda makes some sense.
if there's any bored document writers out there... jakarta and apache really need your donations! any corporations needing an extra tax write off? please donate a doc-writer to these projects.