How does this work if the client's business is wholly dependent on the software and they want to either open franchises or sell the business as a going concern?
I'm in somewhat of a similar position - I own all the software for the company I contract to; and the whole business runs off of it. There are verbal agreements to the affect that if I stay until they sell it I get a slice in return for the sale; but until then I own it. Hmmm. They certainly won't feel confident selling if they don't even own what they're trying to sell...
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It was tagged more than a couple of days ago - I've been running 3_0_BRANCH since 28th March - RELEASE has been around since 26th or so.
My take on it: Much faster, much more options (very useful ones too), interesting and annoying changes to clipboard behaviour, KMail much improved, Liquid for KDE3 looks sooo sweet its unbelievable, basically just loads more of what we love!
mmm, wonder how that relates to the old Win95 issue of giving a socket OOB data when it wasnt expecting it; causing it to throw a wobbly and lock the whole box in seconds....
IIRC there was one guy who wrote most (all?) of the original Win95 stack, dunno if he nicked anything from BSD though.
Living in the UK I totally agree with this!!! Not only did DSL spend 5 years or so in testing, its still not available to enough people and BT are still dragging their heels over every tiny thing...
And cable? If you live up North you should get it, but in the south, no chance....
"Modafinil is only licensed for use in patients with a clear diagnosis of narcolepsy.* Accordingly modafinil treatment should only be initiated by a specialist with experience of managing sleep disorders. Under these circumstances it is appropriate for general practitioners to prescribe maintenance therapy, within the context of an effective shared care agreement."
Actually this is a good point - amphetamine sulphate is very good for this!
I went through a phase a few years ago at college holding two jobs and still trying to geek it in the middle.
After 16 hours hard work (factory work and kitchen porter in a hotel) and a few hours programming 6 days a week nothing would get me up in the morning like a small dab of speed, not a lot - just a wet finger dipped in some - and I was instantly up and ready for anything.
I dont do it any more, depending on stuff like that is bad news really...
I really want to try that as well - I hate going to bed and can never get to sleep; so I can never get up. I also have greatly fluctuation work patterns - sometimes I dont have to do a lot, other times its 18 hour days for a week.
I would kill for some chemical help in giving me awake time when I need it! (obviously with the condition that I rest afterwards...)
But, no bugger with ship to England....
which brings me to the question I was going to ask - does anyone ship to England?
2H2O? Unless I'm missing something shouldnt that be H2O - or water... (AFAIK they do burn O2 and H2 cos they're the stable forms os those elements, but they carry twice as much hydrogen as oxygen to balance out when they burn)
anyway, my point is that all the O2 and H2 has to come from somewhere - not sure how but the easiest way is to electrolyse water; which munches electricity like you wouldn't believe...
So, the electricity/energy is still used somewhere - the launch site isnt the biggest environmental impact in hardly any case.
Do the same as the younger (entry level) ones do, but extoll the virtues of being able to map real world problems into the code and produce working solutions (as opposed to just writing the good code).
This is a place where many people fall - so it'll be a good leg up.
er, G400s are supported fine in Linux... (from the posts above it appears not in FreeBSD)
WindModems are shite because they do all the signal processing in software - so you take a CPU hit and a transfer rate hit. Much better to have a real modem (for like $5 more..) that does it in hardware, no bandwidth loss and no CPU wastage...
agreed - but that wasnt the question:) Q3A is way fast enough for me with 1 processor (my box is a dual 1Ghz PIII, if only AhtlonMP was out when I bought it....).
Hey look, those things are still there.... the only thing reports like this show are that there are more companies on the net, and more muppets spending their whole lives looking at them...
That doesnt stop everyone having a say and it doesnt stop the weird and wonderful having its place.
That only happens when big business _changes_ things - but thats a whole different story....
Hey I'm no audiophile, but seriously, decent speaker cable _does_ make a difference. Get a half decent amp, halfway decent speakers - then hear the difference between the shitty cable that comes with the hifi and decent cables.
[the sound is fuller and richer - crisper even. not a blatant difference, just enough to make you notice and appreciate the quality]
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erm, Mozilla and Opera have both done this for ages, and Konqueror will with KDE 3.1 (seems pretty stable in CVS already).
How does this work if the client's business is wholly dependent on the software and they want to either open franchises or sell the business as a going concern?
I'm in somewhat of a similar position - I own all the software for the company I contract to; and the whole business runs off of it. There are verbal agreements to the affect that if I stay until they sell it I get a slice in return for the sale; but until then I own it. Hmmm. They certainly won't feel confident selling if they don't even own what they're trying to sell...
It was tagged more than a couple of days ago - I've been running 3_0_BRANCH since 28th March - RELEASE has been around since 26th or so.
My take on it: Much faster, much more options (very useful ones too), interesting and annoying changes to clipboard behaviour, KMail much improved, Liquid for KDE3 looks sooo sweet its unbelievable, basically just loads more of what we love!
I agree - in fact I dont know why I bothered coming here today. One April fools one is fine, but when its the whole damn page...
And yeah, one story might be true, but am I going to bother to find out, am I bollocks....
Hmmm, to say nothing of IE's damn MARQUEE tag... God I hate that thing.
what might make more difference to people is the banner ads you get when you dont buy Opera....
mmm, wonder how that relates to the old Win95 issue of giving a socket OOB data when it wasnt expecting it; causing it to throw a wobbly and lock the whole box in seconds....
IIRC there was one guy who wrote most (all?) of the original Win95 stack, dunno if he nicked anything from BSD though.
Hey I dunno, there are quite a few games I would quite happily pay for to play online for three simple reasons:
1 - no lame players...
2 - much less cheaters....
3 - decent and reliable online stats and rankings
Yup, my vote says yes! (but make it optional...)
Living in the UK I totally agree with this!!! Not only did DSL spend 5 years or so in testing, its still not available to enough people and BT are still dragging their heels over every tiny thing...
And cable? If you live up North you should get it, but in the south, no chance....
Leech ZModem didn't 'skip the last byte' or anything - it just didn't send acknowledgement back to the BBS [server] for the last packet...
.nap files though....
so the BBS [server] thought it was incomplete and didnt deduct credit, but the file was perfect....
I'm sure there's another form of protection in these
thats crap. MS lose money on the console itself and make it back on the games.
If we all use the emulator and just buy loads of games it's all the better for them...
It's interesting actually - this is a prime example of patenting and licensing doing good for the general populace.
It's amazing how often we slate companies for doing things like this when it's not in our immediate interest.
I wonder if the reaction would be the same if this was about some patented software...
everyone's going to do this anyways, so I made a wallpaper of it (cropped and resized the 300dpi version)...
:)
JPeG 1600x1200
JPeG 1024x768
Have fun
I found out some more about it - in the UK at least, it's prescription only - and by sleep disorder professionals only. (although this was in 1998)
info here
"Modafinil is only licensed for use in patients with a clear diagnosis of narcolepsy.* Accordingly modafinil treatment should only be initiated by a specialist with experience of managing sleep disorders. Under these circumstances it is appropriate for general practitioners to prescribe maintenance therapy, within the context of an effective shared care agreement."
Actually this is a good point - amphetamine sulphate is very good for this!
I went through a phase a few years ago at college holding two jobs and still trying to geek it in the middle.
After 16 hours hard work (factory work and kitchen porter in a hotel) and a few hours programming 6 days a week nothing would get me up in the morning like a small dab of speed, not a lot - just a wet finger dipped in some - and I was instantly up and ready for anything.
I dont do it any more, depending on stuff like that is bad news really...
I really want to try that as well - I hate going to bed and can never get to sleep; so I can never get up. I also have greatly fluctuation work patterns - sometimes I dont have to do a lot, other times its 18 hour days for a week.
I would kill for some chemical help in giving me awake time when I need it! (obviously with the condition that I rest afterwards...)
But, no bugger with ship to England....
which brings me to the question I was going to ask - does anyone ship to England?
There's a second factor in that - the cost of actually creating the processes/threads. On the whole threads are cheaper to create than processes IIRC.
er, the metric system _does_ fit the measurements to the world... its all based on water.
1 litre = 1 kilo = 10x10x10cm
(volume, mass, lengths... for the lame)
2H2O? Unless I'm missing something shouldnt that be H2O - or water... (AFAIK they do burn O2 and H2 cos they're the stable forms os those elements, but they carry twice as much hydrogen as oxygen to balance out when they burn)
anyway, my point is that all the O2 and H2 has to come from somewhere - not sure how but the easiest way is to electrolyse water; which munches electricity like you wouldn't believe...
So, the electricity/energy is still used somewhere - the launch site isnt the biggest environmental impact in hardly any case.
Do the same as the younger (entry level) ones do, but extoll the virtues of being able to map real world problems into the code and produce working solutions (as opposed to just writing the good code).
This is a place where many people fall - so it'll be a good leg up.
er, G400s are supported fine in Linux... (from the posts above it appears not in FreeBSD)
WindModems are shite because they do all the signal processing in software - so you take a CPU hit and a transfer rate hit. Much better to have a real modem (for like $5 more..) that does it in hardware, no bandwidth loss and no CPU wastage...
agreed - but that wasnt the question :) Q3A is way fast enough for me with 1 processor (my box is a dual 1Ghz PIII, if only AhtlonMP was out when I bought it....).
Quake 3 Arena can use multiple processors (set r_smp to 1). However I havent found it to be too stable....
Other Q3A based games may also use this (RtcW does, but on the demo at least, its _Very_ crashy).
Hey look, those things are still there.... the only thing reports like this show are that there are more companies on the net, and more muppets spending their whole lives looking at them...
That doesnt stop everyone having a say and it doesnt stop the weird and wonderful having its place.
That only happens when big business _changes_ things - but thats a whole different story....
Hey I'm no audiophile, but seriously, decent speaker cable _does_ make a difference. Get a half decent amp, halfway decent speakers - then hear the difference between the shitty cable that comes with the hifi and decent cables.
[the sound is fuller and richer - crisper even. not a blatant difference, just enough to make you notice and appreciate the quality]