Basically what I was trying to say... I was just a little pissed off at the time. I use Linux for my own reasons, a lot of other people use Linux for their own reasons.... those reasons aren't going to change because some M$ puppet starts telling me that companies like RedHat will never succeed, and that the GPL will make it damned hard to sell your software
I'm not saying that open source approach necessarily produces lower quality code. It just takes longer to produce a product that could be released commercially.
YES!! because we all know that M$ releases their products much faster than any paltry open source group:)
believe that the technical term for this soft of conference is a "circle jerk."
Actually it kinda reminds me of the last US election.... "mudslinging competition" would probably be a more apt description.... though "circle jerk" ain't far off the mark...
WHY IN THE NAME OF PETE DOES ALL THIS SHIT MATTER!?!?!?!?!? The open source movement was never started to make money, so why the hell does everybody think that if it doesn't make money it will suddenly up and die!?!?!?!?!?
NEWSFLASH!!
In todays news everybody realized that opensource projects aren't making enough money, so all the programmers in the world decided unanimously to delete all their GNU/Linux tools and pay for closed source tools to make their free software with....
I read in a wired mag (can't remember which one) that the latest idea (which is probaby what's being used here) was basically a piezoelectric lattice (read: a variable diffraction grating)
This lets you split a compound wave (light carrying information) into it's constituent waves and redirect them. Which was the main trouble area that was being encountered. Apparently figuring out what "packet" should go where was never really a problem.
Companies trying to patent items/processes that they own/use is NOT the problem. The problem is the patent office's granting of such patents. View it from the eyes of a company. You have a process that is integral to your business, you need to use it, so try and patent it. If the patent office has their sh!t together, then all is well with the world, the patent will get denied and EVERYONE can use it, free from worrying about some other fewl trying to patent it.
It's only when the patent office doesn't have their sh!t together that things go awry for everyone else.... In which case the company can still use said process.
argument. The simple solution is to unplug every once in awhile! Another follows the:
I drive truck, but this is my racecar
line of thinking. meaning; DO NOT bring your work home!! Home is for you, it is a place to relax and get away from the stresses of the job. I can confidently state from experience that if your habits at home and at work are the same, you are going to have a burnout. I live in the unfortunate situation where my work is where I live and I am forced to work at home as often as at work (Military college if any are wondering), and I regularly suffer from burnouts, to the order of 2 - 3 per year.
The simple truth is that being in an environment that is incredibly close to that of your work kills productivity and makes stress levels skyrocket.
Privacy Schmivacy... reckless advancement for its own sake I say... but what the hell... it's not like the average person has a whole helluva lot of privacy anyway; cookies, cell phones, telecommunication in general for that matter, think of just about anything that makes our lives "easier" and you've probably got something that is perfectly suited for taking away our privacy.
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Microsoft should change their slogan from Where do you want to go today to share and enjoy it seems a lot more fitting don't you think??
Basically what I was trying to say... I was just a little pissed off at the time.
I use Linux for my own reasons, a lot of other people use Linux for their own reasons.... those reasons aren't going to change because some M$ puppet starts telling me that companies like RedHat will never succeed, and that the GPL will make it damned hard to sell your software
I'm not saying that open source approach necessarily produces lower quality code. It just takes longer to produce a product that could be released commercially.
:)
YES!! because we all know that M$ releases their products much faster than any paltry open source group
believe that the technical term for this soft of conference is a "circle jerk."
Actually it kinda reminds me of the last US election.... "mudslinging competition" would probably be a more apt description.... though "circle jerk" ain't far off the mark...
WHY IN THE NAME OF PETE DOES ALL THIS SHIT MATTER!?!?!?!?!? The open source movement was never started to make money, so why the hell does everybody think that if it doesn't make money it will suddenly up and die!?!?!?!?!?
NEWSFLASH!!
In todays news everybody realized that opensource projects aren't making enough money, so all the programmers in the world decided unanimously to delete all their GNU/Linux tools and pay for closed source tools to make their free software with....
WHAT THE FAK!?!?!
here's a simple test... try to compress the "random" string of numbers; if you can compress a string of random numbers, it isn't
So basically he's calling defense scientists working for DARPA a bunch of hippie anarchists... heheheh... nuthin like talkin outta your @$$ :)
I read in a wired mag (can't remember which one) that the latest idea (which is probaby what's being used here) was basically a piezoelectric lattice (read: a variable diffraction grating)
This lets you split a compound wave (light carrying information) into it's constituent waves and redirect them. Which was the main trouble area that was being encountered. Apparently figuring out what "packet" should go where was never really a problem.
I agree.
Companies trying to patent items/processes that they own/use is NOT the problem. The problem is the patent office's granting of such patents. View it from the eyes of a company. You have a process that is integral to your business, you need to use it, so try and patent it. If the patent office has their sh!t together, then all is well with the world, the patent will get denied and EVERYONE can use it, free from worrying about some other fewl trying to patent it.
It's only when the patent office doesn't have their sh!t together that things go awry for everyone else.... In which case the company can still use said process.
This goes back to the:
guns don't kill people, people kill people
argument. The simple solution is to unplug every once in awhile! Another follows the:
I drive truck, but this is my racecar
line of thinking. meaning; DO NOT bring your work home!! Home is for you, it is a place to relax and get away from the stresses of the job. I can confidently state from experience that if your habits at home and at work are the same, you are going to have a burnout. I live in the unfortunate situation where my work is where I live and I am forced to work at home as often as at work (Military college if any are wondering), and I regularly suffer from burnouts, to the order of 2 - 3 per year.
The simple truth is that being in an environment that is incredibly close to that of your work kills productivity and makes stress levels skyrocket.
Privacy Schmivacy... reckless advancement for its own sake I say... but what the hell... it's not like the average person has a whole helluva lot of privacy anyway; cookies, cell phones, telecommunication in general for that matter, think of just about anything that makes our lives "easier" and you've probably got something that is perfectly suited for taking away our privacy.
How's this, next time you sign up for a service that REQUIRES you input an email just put in: postmaster@127.0.0.1 and see where that gets 'em ;)