"Open source is a contributor to the commoditization of software, but it's not the only contributor. Open standards lead to commoditization. The Web browser is proprietary, but it's a commodity."
That's a feature, not a bug.
The thing that struck me about the article is that he just now figured out what's going on.
Culture is an even deeper problem than food and infrastructure. There's folks in south Africa who believe that raping children cures AIDS. I'm going to go out on a limb and just say it: "Some cultures are failures and no amount of western material aid will change that"
Is 7 minutes of dreck worth more than 2 minutes of the Ramones? nah. The value of music (or any other product) isn't determined by it's cost but rather by what the market will pay for it. Charge more than people will pay then you get lower sales or theft. It really is that simple.
I'll grant that there are a different set of tools. I've not had much trouble adapting to them. I know several people who work both sides of the fence effectively.
As for courses, When I went to college computer still meant mainframe and I studied beer.
I went from programming to system administration and back again several times. If you know how computers work, it's not much of a leap to programming them.
... against corporate crime, executives are getting caught, exposed and tossed in jail. I'm suprised you didn't know that. It's been in all of the papers.
Exactly. I went from an 80 hour 80K dotcom job to a 40 hour 50K operations management job. I spent the 7 months I was out of work getting myself some more business skillz. People who can apply tech knowledge to business problems are still in demand.
Now you're into something. Not only should the UK not join the EU, the rest of the country should be less dependent on London.
So a young bull and an old bull were standing ...
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... on a hill overlooking a herd of heifers. The young bull says, "I think I'm going to run down there and fuck one of them." The old bull says, "you go ahead. I'm going to walk down there and fuck'em all."
More often than not, if you tell a young programmer to solve a shipping problem he'll head straight back to his desk and start coding. If you tell an older programmer to solve a shipping problem, he'll head over to shipping and start learning about the problem.
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Or, at least, that's what I hear.
"Open source is a contributor to the commoditization of software, but it's not the only contributor. Open standards lead to commoditization. The Web browser is proprietary, but it's a commodity."
That's a feature, not a bug.
The thing that struck me about the article is that he just now figured out what's going on.
With the US GDP in the Trillions, 10 billion in liquidity is just bit better than a sharp stick in the eye. Still, it is better.
fc. I'm only half kidding. There are some knowledgeable people there. Even if they do have the smelly butt.
Large, mostly brown country in the southern hemisphere.
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Put slashdot in the subject.
A couple of years ago, the standard browser at GM HQ was some particularly hideous 4.x version of Netscape.
Culture is an even deeper problem than food and infrastructure. There's folks in south Africa who believe that raping children cures AIDS. I'm going to go out on a limb and just say it: "Some cultures are failures and no amount of western material aid will change that"
And pr0n. Lotsa pr0n.
Eye-Bee-Em Linux
Is 7 minutes of dreck worth more than 2 minutes of the Ramones? nah. The value of music (or any other product) isn't determined by it's cost but rather by what the market will pay for it. Charge more than people will pay then you get lower sales or theft. It really is that simple.
I'll grant that there are a different set of tools. I've not had much trouble adapting to them. I know several people who work both sides of the fence effectively.
As for courses, When I went to college computer still meant mainframe and I studied beer.
Gardening, hiking, hunting and fishing
I went from programming to system administration and back again several times. If you know how computers work, it's not much of a leap to programming them.
You're forgetting the SCO programmers ..
Agreed. If they had technical knowledge, they'd still be a software company.
... against corporate crime, executives are getting caught, exposed and tossed in jail. I'm suprised you didn't know that. It's been in all of the papers.
Exactly. I went from an 80 hour 80K dotcom job to a 40 hour 50K operations management job. I spent the 7 months I was out of work getting myself some more business skillz. People who can apply tech knowledge to business problems are still in demand.
Now you're into something. Not only should the UK not join the EU, the rest of the country should be less dependent on London.
... on a hill overlooking a herd of heifers. The young bull says, "I think I'm going to run down there and fuck one of them." The old bull says, "you go ahead. I'm going to walk down there and fuck'em all."
More often than not, if you tell a young programmer to solve a shipping problem he'll head straight back to his desk and start coding. If you tell an older programmer to solve a shipping problem, he'll head over to shipping and start learning about the problem.
... are filing lawsuits.
But it isn't for the sake of credit he wants GNU to be mentioned, it is to remind people of the free software ideals Linux alone does not represent.
I'm hip, but that isn't going to happen with a name like guh-new.
Once that happens people can just change their music file extensions to .jpg and there is no way anyone will ever know that music is being traded!
I don't steal music, software, movies or whatever. There, I've distanced myself. Now why should I have to put up with restrictions on fair use?
Is it economically worth saving the Welsh?