I bet one could put an Ethernet port and small FPGA on the breadboard. And with some long pieces of wire/ribbon cable, one could use an external breadboard.
And that is different from 90% of FLOSS how? Most FLOSS developed for Linux is crap. It never gets out of beta. Once all the "sexy" code is written, the developers head for some other project. Documentation doesn't get written. Bugs don't get cleaned up.
written by people who think that writing spreadsheet macros is a genius-level accomplishment
At least THEY have an excuse.
People living in glass houses should not throw stones.
Given the competition that exists within the industry, is this needed?"
Yes, for the simple reason that one must always buy a new cell phone if one wants to change providers. There is no reason for a cell phone to be locked to a service provider other than to "lock in" customers. Just like software and those proprietary file formats everyone hates so much.Cell phone companies use the "discount" on "their" cellphones to justify charging early termination fees. This keeps customers from switching companies and so companies can provide crappy service with little repercussion.
If cell phones were unlocked, then there would be no reason for the high termination fees and one could take their cell phone with all the contacts, settings, etc, and use them on a competitor's service (assuming they are compatible services). The result would be companies providing better service.
You assume that intelligent life evolved immediately, which it probably didn't.
Let's assume that intelligent life evolved as soon and as fast as possible. Lets also assume that it took them the same amount of time to evolve as us. If their solar system formed just 1 billion after the beginning of the universe, and it took 8 billion years for life to form and evolve and their technology to reach a point where they could go into space, that leaves not quite 6 billion years for them to explore the universe.
The universe is believed to be about 90 billion light-years in diameter. It has about 4x10^22 stars in about 80 billion galaxies. If they started exploring 6 billion years ago, they would have had to examine 13 Galaxies per year to cover the entire universe. They could have hit our universe before the there was life on Earth. Maybe they haven't gotten here yet. Maybe we are just beneath notice.
Some people think that they would surely have heard our radio transmissions, but the earliest radio transmissions are only 50 light-years away. If a civilization is 100 light years away, they would not have heard us yet.
Why haven't we heard them? Maybe we have, but to us it appears to be noise. A perfectly compressed data stream appears to be noise. Perhaps in they discovered a better means of communication before we had agriculture. Maybe they never used radio for communication at all.
Fermi's paradox isn't a paradox. It is just a good question.
Of course, it could be co-incidental. It could be that while there may be a correlation, there is probably no causation.
In other words, pedophiles that are technically adept tend to be Star Trek fans, while pedophiles who do not use the internet to trade files or locate victims are not.
That is just the thing. A 25% market share of your target audience is good. The thing is most OSS apps don't have even a 10% market share.
Another thing that I see is FLOSS apps that are in perpetual beta, that never make it to 1.0. If something has been around for 3 or 5 years, one would think it would be v1.0. Instead, what we see is v0.93.4223587234856852837501613. At some point, it has to be finished.
Where is the wisdom of implementing a stragety that has already failed?
The so-called "wisdom of crowds" is merely mob rule by another name and mob rule has a very poor history. Mob rule is behind lynchings, attacks on minorities, ethinic clensing, and other atrocites.
In the 1400s, the "wisdom of crowds" said that the Earth was flat and if one sailed too far one would fall off the Earth. Crowds do not have wisdom. They merely have will and they impose it by fiat.
Of course that assumes that Novell distributes code developed using the MS patents under the GPL. If Novell uses the knoweldge gained from the MS patents to make closed source software, under a standard proprietary license, then Novell never violates the GPL.
Novell would be better served doing that. Then they can work to become the #1 Linux server distro by virtue of working well with MS products.
Then, MS and Novell both profit even more. (Fewer legal fees)
The reason you can't do a bubblesort is because you probably haven't really played with the alogorithm or you don' know the algorithm.
As for whether typing in magazine listings will help one or not depends on whether or not the person asks the next question which is "What does this do and how does it do it?" Once one does that and then work with the code to determine the answer, one has learned the code.
Because Novell can create new programs that it does not have to put under the GPL. That includes binary blobs for the kernel. If Novell make a new SMB compatible program that is not a derivative of SAMBA but rather Microsoft, then Novell does not violate the GPL.
Ah, yes. Would that be the same wisdom that killed so many non-aristicrats after the French Revolution? Or would that be the same wisdom that created the Jim Crow laws in the southern U.S. states? Or would that be the wisdom that has kept Hugo Chavez in power and is now turning Venezuela into the USSR of Latin America? Or would that be the wisdom of German people in the 1920s and 1930s?
Crowds are peole. In the words of Agent K, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know it."
Your statement breaks down in the second sentence in the second paragraph.
People often returned to Europe. Some had family and friends visit and returned to visit them. There was regular trade between the colonies and Europe. There was nothing to prevent children. Nothing to make bones brittle, and hearts weak so one could not return to one's homeland.
When coming to the colonies, people often brought most of what they owned. Going to the moon, people would have to leave pretty much everything behind.
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That statement is why most software and almost all FLOSS suck ass.
It is also why most engineers sneer at the idea of a software engineer.
I bet one could put an Ethernet port and small FPGA on the breadboard. And with some long pieces of wire/ribbon cable, one could use an external breadboard.
Here, in Tampa, we have to CompUSA stores that are withing 5 miles of each other. They would do well to close one and open a new one farther away.
All those damned retirees and there golf. Worse than kids, I tell ya!
I know all about it. I used to work for Nokia.
And that is different from 90% of FLOSS how? Most FLOSS developed for Linux is crap. It never gets out of beta. Once all the "sexy" code is written, the developers head for some other project. Documentation doesn't get written. Bugs don't get cleaned up.
At least THEY have an excuse.
People living in glass houses should not throw stones.
Yes, for the simple reason that one must always buy a new cell phone if one wants to change providers. There is no reason for a cell phone to be locked to a service provider other than to "lock in" customers. Just like software and those proprietary file formats everyone hates so much.Cell phone companies use the "discount" on "their" cellphones to justify charging early termination fees. This keeps customers from switching companies and so companies can provide crappy service with little repercussion.
If cell phones were unlocked, then there would be no reason for the high termination fees and one could take their cell phone with all the contacts, settings, etc, and use them on a competitor's service (assuming they are compatible services). The result would be companies providing better service.
You assume that intelligent life evolved immediately, which it probably didn't.
Let's assume that intelligent life evolved as soon and as fast as possible. Lets also assume that it took them the same amount of time to evolve as us. If their solar system formed just 1 billion after the beginning of the universe, and it took 8 billion years for life to form and evolve and their technology to reach a point where they could go into space, that leaves not quite 6 billion years for them to explore the universe.
The universe is believed to be about 90 billion light-years in diameter. It has about 4x10^22 stars in about 80 billion galaxies. If they started exploring 6 billion years ago, they would have had to examine 13 Galaxies per year to cover the entire universe. They could have hit our universe before the there was life on Earth. Maybe they haven't gotten here yet. Maybe we are just beneath notice.
Some people think that they would surely have heard our radio transmissions, but the earliest radio transmissions are only 50 light-years away. If a civilization is 100 light years away, they would not have heard us yet.
Why haven't we heard them? Maybe we have, but to us it appears to be noise. A perfectly compressed data stream appears to be noise. Perhaps in they discovered a better means of communication before we had agriculture. Maybe they never used radio for communication at all.
Fermi's paradox isn't a paradox. It is just a good question.
Of course, it could be co-incidental. It could be that while there may be a correlation, there is probably no causation.
In other words, pedophiles that are technically adept tend to be Star Trek fans, while pedophiles who do not use the internet to trade files or locate victims are not.
"But you don't really think that copyright infringement and mugging share a common moral space, do you? Death penalty for speeders while we're at it?"
Copyright infringement and mugging share a common moral space in that they are both against the law.
I am getting me some of these contacts
Let me point to the FSF and RMS as counterpoint.
That is just the thing. A 25% market share of your target audience is good. The thing is most OSS apps don't have even a 10% market share.
Another thing that I see is FLOSS apps that are in perpetual beta, that never make it to 1.0. If something has been around for 3 or 5 years, one would think it would be v1.0. Instead, what we see is v0.93.4223587234856852837501613. At some point, it has to be finished.
Where is the wisdom of implementing a stragety that has already failed?
The so-called "wisdom of crowds" is merely mob rule by another name and mob rule has a very poor history. Mob rule is behind lynchings, attacks on minorities, ethinic clensing, and other atrocites.
In the 1400s, the "wisdom of crowds" said that the Earth was flat and if one sailed too far one would fall off the Earth. Crowds do not have wisdom. They merely have will and they impose it by fiat.
Ah, yes. Freedom. I don't think that word means what the FSF and RMS thinks it means.
This is false. Without Linus, there would be no Linux.
Without RMS and the FSF, Linux would probably be Public Domain.
Now, you ignorant dumbass, STFU and go read the history of Linux.
Infantacide destroys the future. Patricide (euthanasia) destroys the past.
Of course that assumes that Novell distributes code developed using the MS patents under the GPL. If Novell uses the knoweldge gained from the MS patents to make closed source software, under a standard proprietary license, then Novell never violates the GPL.
Novell would be better served doing that. Then they can work to become the #1 Linux server distro by virtue of working well with MS products.
Then, MS and Novell both profit even more. (Fewer legal fees)
The reason you can't do a bubblesort is because you probably haven't really played with the alogorithm or you don' know the algorithm.
As for whether typing in magazine listings will help one or not depends on whether or not the person asks the next question which is "What does this do and how does it do it?" Once one does that and then work with the code to determine the answer, one has learned the code.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya
Because Novell can create new programs that it does not have to put under the GPL. That includes binary blobs for the kernel. If Novell make a new SMB compatible program that is not a derivative of SAMBA but rather Microsoft, then Novell does not violate the GPL.
Crowds are peole. In the words of Agent K, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know it."
You are wrong. The BSD license gives more freedom. Public domain gives even more freedom.
You sound like something out of Animal Farm or 1984.
"The restrictions that have been placed on you don't diminish your freedom. It just gives your a different kind of freedom."
The "just different" freedom is a lesser kind of freedom. A restriction reduces one's freedom.
And now, the "Free Software Foundation" wants to restrict Novell's freedom of association because it does not like who Novell is associating with.
Your statement breaks down in the second sentence in the second paragraph.
People often returned to Europe. Some had family and friends visit and returned to visit them. There was regular trade between the colonies and Europe. There was nothing to prevent children. Nothing to make bones brittle, and hearts weak so one could not return to one's homeland.
When coming to the colonies, people often brought most of what they owned. Going to the moon, people would have to leave pretty much everything behind.
Your statment is false.
But, what about "come to the moon and weaken your heart and bones?" :(