When your code is released as open source and becomes famous, people can amuse themselves by searching through the source code to find all the hidden expletives, sort of like easter eggs.
rgrep -i fuck/usr/src/linux
Talking about the trouble installing Linux server for a local church.:)
And when was the last time you heard of any problems at Disneyland?
You one of the ignorant mass who believe Disneyland has no problem.
Well, Disneyland and Microsoft are doing exactly the same things - covering their asses with good marketing coverup. You are a happy guy who believe in their publicity.
Secondly (I'm assuming that you're not American by the tone of your post), most Americans work 40+ hours per week, even more if you're in IT. Compared to the worldwide averages we work longer hours
40+ hours may be a lot to you, but we usually work 44-48 hours and six days a week. I don't know how you come up with this 'worldwide average' but most european countries are already working more than 40 hours per week. US will soon lose the competitive edge if average amercians think '40+' hours is too much. Note that we are talking about offical hours, not OT.
We have regional offices around the world, basically americans and canadians are most reluctant to come here because of the long working hours. I got one letter from a regional office in US saying that "X can't come here because her union do not allow her to work more than 42 hours per week".
My friend called Microsoft for help with their licensee problems, in a hope to get some discount, because he heard an MCSE said Microsoft always give favours to valued customers.
Microsoft was so kind as to send an external auditor BSA to help with their licensing problem.
Later Microsoft sent an invoice to offer to help them waiving the legal liability for using unlicensed software that external auditor found out, if he agreed to sign a 5-year purchase contract.
Well, at least Microsoft had given audit for free....
This process took me a grand total of about 1 second of my time.
But it'd cost companies 'grands' to do that 1 second update. Remember downtime is very undesirable for most production servers.
You just brought up a good point that Windows is good for desktop users and we shouldn't use Windows for critical system.:)
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I studies Patterns. If I read this book then two opposite knowledge will cancel each other and left my brain with nothing but blot of stray energy emmitted as a result of knowledge cancellation....
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My take is Java Pattern. I can always find good online tutorials on Java but the related topic in this book is rarely found.
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Yeah, may be we shouldn't blame the users. I should have just used JDBC to complete a very simple inventory system, but instead I proposed to have them to pay for an expensive J2EE/EJB system because that'd improve my skillset than using JDBC. Bad bad...
It's not Apple who pitched it up. My company was forbidden to import G4 into China because it's a 'supercomputer'. We can import any computers to China except supercomputer. They were not convinced when I tell them we *just* use photoshop on them - *SIGH*.:(
No matter how big you are you just cannot indefinately lose hundreds of dollars on consoles.
No, not really. I did help in some Nintendo's game development about 7-10 years ago here is the figure(roughly, may vary in other place):
Game development kit: US$200,000.00
License to develop a game(including NDA your company need to sign): US$13,000.00
After you developed the game and made the mother chip, you need to send the chip back to Nintendo for mass product. They will send the result chips back to you. (Yes, you don't own it, you buy back the chips from Nintendo) Cost to buy back the chips (minimal 5000 a bulk) is approx.: $20x5000 = US$100,000.00
Not to mention the cost to package, market and promote your production. You must pay a certain amount of money to Nintendo if you care to market it(loyality fee, and fee to use the trademark something). Cost = unknown, depend on the scale and market.
In the process they earned at least US$313,000 excluding marketing. If the sales is good they will get part of your revenue - don't forget, you don't own the product you made, they own it. You were just given the right to market and sell it.:/
My friends and I left the field because it's too hard for same game development company to survive. I believe things has changed now, but the business model is more or less the same(anyone would update me?).
So, don't think they'd ever lose money selling console cheap.:)
Why not make it interesting? Modify that virus so that it detects when the user is surfing lots of pr0n sites, waits 5 minutes, then captures a short video clip from the user's webcam and emails that snippet to everyone in the user's address book...
Because on average, 5 minutes is more than enough for majority geeks.
Normally customized system will not release to public. It's very rare that someone would ask me to develop a system that'll be put on their website for downloading.
If you are just put it on web and do not grant the downloaders the right to 'use' it, then no one could ask for the source because they are not 'intended recipients'.
But it doesn't rule out the case that some company would hire inhouse staffs to develop something that'll be sold online. In this case they must carefully decide whether they should use GPL. There are a lot of products out there based on GPL's software, and they are also release their products with source code.
You are right. If he didn't tell their customers he's going to use GPL that would affect their right to distribute the software, then he's in great trouble.:)
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When your code is released as open source and becomes famous, people can amuse themselves by searching through the source code to find all the hidden expletives, sort of like easter eggs.
/usr/src/linux
:)
rgrep -i fuck
Talking about the trouble installing Linux server for a local church.
Yes, it is published by Microsoft
*Abruptly stops the finger from clicking the link*
And when was the last time you heard of any problems at Disneyland?
You one of the ignorant mass who believe Disneyland has no problem.
Well, Disneyland and Microsoft are doing exactly the same things - covering their asses with good marketing coverup. You are a happy guy who believe in their publicity.
Do you really care to do a little research, before Ask:Slashdot?!
The main page of Christopher Browne's "Finances, Linux, and Stuff" is here!
Click to that little "2. Linux-based Financial Software" you can find what you need.
*grumble*
but something you should know: Information on Senator Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina
a version of Linux that can run on my Sony VAIO C1MV?
That explains why the world is so F'd up: he couldn't read it six months later to debug it
It'd be much better if he's doing it in Java, and we'll have longer day too!
Secondly (I'm assuming that you're not American by the tone of your post), most Americans work 40+ hours per week, even more if you're in IT. Compared to the worldwide averages we work longer hours
40+ hours may be a lot to you, but we usually work 44-48 hours and six days a week. I don't know how you come up with this 'worldwide average' but most european countries are already working more than 40 hours per week. US will soon lose the competitive edge if average amercians think '40+' hours is too much. Note that we are talking about offical hours, not OT.
We have regional offices around the world, basically americans and canadians are most reluctant to come here because of the long working hours. I got one letter from a regional office in US saying that "X can't come here because her union do not allow her to work more than 42 hours per week".
Watching this anywhere other than a big movie theatre will ruin the whole experience, but it's too late to tell you now. ;)
We can always watch this movie at night. There are lots of movie theatres featuring it here. Is there any reason why americans should watch it at day?
for Mr. Bill Gates
My friend called Microsoft for help with their licensee problems, in a hope to get some discount, because he heard an MCSE said Microsoft always give favours to valued customers.
Microsoft was so kind as to send an external auditor BSA to help with their licensing problem.
Later Microsoft sent an invoice to offer to help them waiving the legal liability for using unlicensed software that external auditor found out, if he agreed to sign a 5-year purchase contract.
Well, at least Microsoft had given audit for free....
I was using Hashmail but it's down for these days. Is there really not good free email with proper security level and a pop3/imap server and can survice on its own and probably wouldn't die in the near future? Hmm, may be I'm asking too much for free services. :/
This process took me a grand total of about 1 second of my time.
:)
But it'd cost companies 'grands' to do that 1 second update. Remember downtime is very undesirable for most production servers.
You just brought up a good point that Windows is good for desktop users and we shouldn't use Windows for critical system.
I studies Patterns. If I read this book then two opposite knowledge will cancel each other and left my brain with nothing but blot of stray energy emmitted as a result of knowledge cancellation....
My take is Java Pattern. I can always find good online tutorials on Java but the related topic in this book is rarely found.
Yeah, may be we shouldn't blame the users. I should have just used JDBC to complete a very simple inventory system, but instead I proposed to have them to pay for an expensive J2EE/EJB system because that'd improve my skillset than using JDBC. Bad bad...
Don't attempt to be an smartass reading the above backward, because by doing so you are violating DMAC.
Excuse me while I get the door. Someone out there is knocking my door real hard.....DOH!
Yes, globalism sucks.
:)
If I live in a developed country, I'll get cheaper goods but I might get fired pretty easy.
If I live in a developing country, I'll get jobs but my relatives might not have chance to escape from poverty.
In both case, some people will become very very rich, I wouldn't have the problem if I'm among those richies, but...
IIRC, the Java Authentication and Authorization APIs also deal with SASL quite well.
yep
Apple pitched the G4 as a "supercomputer"
:(
It's not Apple who pitched it up. My company was forbidden to import G4 into China because it's a 'supercomputer'. We can import any computers to China except supercomputer. They were not convinced when I tell them we *just* use photoshop on them - *SIGH*.
No matter how big you are you just cannot indefinately lose hundreds of dollars on consoles.
:/
:)
No, not really. I did help in some Nintendo's game development about 7-10 years ago here is the figure(roughly, may vary in other place):
Game development kit: US$200,000.00
License to develop a game(including NDA your company need to sign): US$13,000.00
After you developed the game and made the mother chip, you need to send the chip back to Nintendo for mass product. They will send the result chips back to you. (Yes, you don't own it, you buy back the chips from Nintendo) Cost to buy back the chips (minimal 5000 a bulk) is approx.: $20x5000 = US$100,000.00
Not to mention the cost to package, market and promote your production. You must pay a certain amount of money to Nintendo if you care to market it(loyality fee, and fee to use the trademark something). Cost = unknown, depend on the scale and market.
In the process they earned at least US$313,000 excluding marketing. If the sales is good they will get part of your revenue - don't forget, you don't own the product you made, they own it. You were just given the right to market and sell it.
My friends and I left the field because it's too hard for same game development company to survive. I believe things has changed now, but the business model is more or less the same(anyone would update me?).
So, don't think they'd ever lose money selling console cheap.
Why not make it interesting? Modify that virus so that it detects when the user is surfing lots of pr0n sites, waits 5 minutes, then captures a short video clip from the user's webcam and emails that snippet to everyone in the user's address book...
Because on average, 5 minutes is more than enough for majority geeks.
Normally customized system will not release to public. It's very rare that someone would ask me to develop a system that'll be put on their website for downloading.
:)
If you are just put it on web and do not grant the downloaders the right to 'use' it, then no one could ask for the source because they are not 'intended recipients'.
But it doesn't rule out the case that some company would hire inhouse staffs to develop something that'll be sold online. In this case they must carefully decide whether they should use GPL. There are a lot of products out there based on GPL's software, and they are also release their products with source code.
You are right. If he didn't tell their customers he's going to use GPL that would affect their right to distribute the software, then he's in great trouble.
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