I run a technical trade school where people go to (learn how to code) and can vouch that the people who seek one-on-one mentoring and applied studies (as PHPU provides) end up surpassing college students by a factor of about 20 and even the self-taught at a factor of about 5x.
After 4 years in operation, the average apprentice-level student who spends 3-5 hours a week studying and attending both group and individual training has had a $25/hour coding job within 3-6 months and a senior level ($40+/hr) within a year.
Plus, the apprentices also earn far more valuable *work experience*. By the time they graduate under the full program, they've already received 2 years of work experience and are able to compete with people who have had 5-8 years.
It's so cost effective, it's ridiculous. And with the apprenticeship program, you literally can get paid to learn.
Then you find out the car is wired w/ hidden cameras and the Mafia is pissed that you didn't finish the program in time and are, all the while, being blackmailed by the FBI. Then you save a sex-crazed woman in the middle of the beech from a group of thugs (hired by the company's director, nonethless), there are threats to mail the pics to your woman, and then you end up getting her to seduce the director, just so she can drug him, snatch the files and have you send them back to the FBI.
Once you try AIMP3, I believe you will understand just how badly it beats every other media player I have ever tried or seen. I mean, just being able to so many winamp plugins is enough, isn't it?
Amarok has been crap since 2.0. It was a great example of a FOSS project producing good software. Then, just when there was a program that everyone loved, they broke everything users liked and said, "Well, if you don't like it, that's tough, this is better and if you don't see it, you're a fool."
Just wait until you try AIMP3 http://www.aimp.ru/. It is compatible with Winamp plugins, both DSP, general and visualizations, and many Winamp skins have been ported over.
it has a very small memory footprint, an *awesome* md5-based (so no dupes) Media Library that keeps track of when you first/last played each song, and how many times, an advanced tag editor, etc. It also runs better under wine than Foobar or Winamp.
The only reason people don't know about it is that it's Russian and very few English speakers run into it. Once I found it in 2007, I gave up Winamp in a heartbeat, and I've *NEVER* looked back!
At least in California, there's no requirement for ID (nor should there be).
Would you mind naming one reason outside of the tired excuse that some mythical poor person with no ID will be so disenfranchised because s/he had no idea how to obtain a free state ID card?
In my case, for instance, I had built a thriving Linux/Mac program with an active userbase of +1 million users and 150,000 active forum participants. Then a few people forked the GPL'd application and started on an Internet-wide vicious character assault against me and my program while lauding their own fork.
They proceeded to copy all of my code for years while ceaselessly attacking my name everywhere, even non-programming comments. The end result was that all the users of my app left (believing the lies) and went to the competition.
I had no recourse under the GPL. I couldn't create code to set us apart; they'd just copy it. I couldn't mix licenses. And both SourceForge and other places threatened to end my app when i put up explicit licenses prohibiting that one project from leaching my code.
They stripped my copyright from the headers and now you wouldn't even know that the vast majority of code they took was done by my hand. It's sad, man. It was my life work from 2003-2005.
They just can't stop anyone else selling it (or getting it for free).
If your app is GPLd, you can't even stop other people from giving away your own app for free even if you decide to charge for it in the beginning.
The entire point of the GPL is to negate software financial value.
In that sense, it's *very* Communistic (worse than socialist) and is actually anti-capitalism.
If every piece of software was ordered to be GPLd, there'd be no such thing as a professional software developer; we'd all have to be monks doing it for free.
If it helps, why not use GPLed code the same way you'd use proprietary software. That is, download it, use it, and pretend that you don't have the right to distribute it at all.
That's EXACTLY!! how I treat GPLed code! it's worse than proprietary.
Could you please give me two examples of why this would be bad, per se?
I get that some people may be disenfranchised, but if someone doesn't want to serve to a particular group, that should be their right as sovereigns, as it does no explicit harm to the other people. It could even do some good.
For instance, if a lot of businesses in a town refused blind people service (let's say they didn't want to have the expense of providing people to speak the menus out loud), then that'd just open the door for someone else to open up just such a store.
The continent became largely untamed when European viruses swept the North and South Americas, decimating the population. By modern research and counts, more than 99% of the population disappeared and the largely sophisticated (and in Central / South America, complex and advanced) societies fell into a state of utter Collapse, where 99% of the technology was lost.
That they didn't fully succumb into outright barbarism under such circumstances is the true miracle. We could only hope to be so lucky.
Then the entire surviving town will yearn for your skills, esp. as vandals continually break the existing windows.
Hopefully you have some teaching skills. Then you would become the de facto Master with tons of Apprentices, spreading the skill of Window Making throughout the land anew. The technology won't be lost, and society will prosper. All because you honed this valuable skill during the Times of Plentiful Decadence.
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Your reimbursement is being able to read material without having to actually pay money. I mean, seriously, are you stupid?
I run a technical trade school where people go to (learn how to code) and can vouch that the people who seek one-on-one mentoring and applied studies (as PHPU provides) end up surpassing college students by a factor of about 20 and even the self-taught at a factor of about 5x.
After 4 years in operation, the average apprentice-level student who spends 3-5 hours a week studying and attending both group and individual training has had a $25/hour coding job within 3-6 months and a senior level ($40+/hr) within a year.
Plus, the apprentices also earn far more valuable *work experience*. By the time they graduate under the full program, they've already received 2 years of work experience and are able to compete with people who have had 5-8 years.
It's so cost effective, it's ridiculous. And with the apprenticeship program, you literally can get paid to learn.
Then you find out the car is wired w/ hidden cameras and the Mafia is pissed that you didn't finish the program in time and are, all the while, being blackmailed by the FBI. Then you save a sex-crazed woman in the middle of the beech from a group of thugs (hired by the company's director, nonethless), there are threats to mail the pics to your woman, and then you end up getting her to seduce the director, just so she can drug him, snatch the files and have you send them back to the FBI.
It just went down! I was lending books left and right just prior.
Once you try AIMP3, I believe you will understand just how badly it beats every other media player I have ever tried or seen. I mean, just being able to so many winamp plugins is enough, isn't it?
Amarok has been crap since 2.0. It was a great example of a FOSS project producing good software. Then, just when there was a program that everyone loved, they broke everything users liked and said, "Well, if you don't like it, that's tough, this is better and if you don't see it, you're a fool."
Ahh, so they went the name of the GNOME, eh?
Just wait until you try AIMP3 http://www.aimp.ru/. It is compatible with Winamp plugins, both DSP, general and visualizations, and many Winamp skins have been ported over.
it has a very small memory footprint, an *awesome* md5-based (so no dupes) Media Library that keeps track of when you first/last played each song, and how many times, an advanced tag editor, etc. It also runs better under wine than Foobar or Winamp.
The only reason people don't know about it is that it's Russian and very few English speakers run into it. Once I found it in 2007, I gave up Winamp in a heartbeat, and I've *NEVER* looked back!
At least in California, there's no requirement for ID (nor should there be).
Would you mind naming one reason outside of the tired excuse that some mythical poor person with no ID will be so disenfranchised because s/he had no idea how to obtain a free state ID card?
THANKS! I'm definitely trying this right now.
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How is he exploited?
It's totally not a coincidence that GPLd apps like Busybox and Wordpress and Drupal sue their end-devs just for making non-GPL'd themes and plugins.
That's just unbelievable. And just like the MPAA.
GPL is Communistic:
The FSF's stated mission is to make all source code free of monetary value and impossible to not share freely with everyone.
That's the very definition of communism.
But the GPL also hurts the original dev as well.
In my case, for instance, I had built a thriving Linux/Mac program with an active userbase of +1 million users and 150,000 active forum participants. Then a few people forked the GPL'd application and started on an Internet-wide vicious character assault against me and my program while lauding their own fork.
They proceeded to copy all of my code for years while ceaselessly attacking my name everywhere, even non-programming comments. The end result was that all the users of my app left (believing the lies) and went to the competition.
I had no recourse under the GPL. I couldn't create code to set us apart; they'd just copy it. I couldn't mix licenses. And both SourceForge and other places threatened to end my app when i put up explicit licenses prohibiting that one project from leaching my code.
They stripped my copyright from the headers and now you wouldn't even know that the vast majority of code they took was done by my hand. It's sad, man. It was my life work from 2003-2005.
They just can't stop anyone else selling it (or getting it for free).
If your app is GPLd, you can't even stop other people from giving away your own app for free even if you decide to charge for it in the beginning.
The entire point of the GPL is to negate software financial value.
In that sense, it's *very* Communistic (worse than socialist) and is actually anti-capitalism.
If every piece of software was ordered to be GPLd, there'd be no such thing as a professional software developer; we'd all have to be monks doing it for free.
If it helps, why not use GPLed code the same way you'd use proprietary software. That is, download it, use it, and pretend that you don't have the right to distribute it at all.
That's EXACTLY!! how I treat GPLed code! it's worse than proprietary.
Could you please give me two examples of why this would be bad, per se?
I get that some people may be disenfranchised, but if someone doesn't want to serve to a particular group, that should be their right as sovereigns, as it does no explicit harm to the other people. It could even do some good.
For instance, if a lot of businesses in a town refused blind people service (let's say they didn't want to have the expense of providing people to speak the menus out loud), then that'd just open the door for someone else to open up just such a store.
To be honest, my bible has a footnote saying that the Song of Solomon is not inspired scripture but is preserved largely out of a sense of heredity.
Congratulations! You've just become my first official Slashdot "foe".
Trust me, you really do come across as someone who can't follow a discussion (particularly when you engage further with cpu6502).
Then you dig yourself even deeper with all your pompous anti-AC rhetoric.
You could win back some good will by doing a mea culpa right about now.
Thank you for **FINALLY** and succinctly pointing out why it's a strawman argument.
I admit, your description makes a lot of sense.
That's the best you can do?!
Man, you lost the argument due to reading comprehension fail. Man up and admit it.
What site is that?
The continent became largely untamed when European viruses swept the North and South Americas, decimating the population. By modern research and counts, more than 99% of the population disappeared and the largely sophisticated (and in Central / South America, complex and advanced) societies fell into a state of utter Collapse, where 99% of the technology was lost.
That they didn't fully succumb into outright barbarism under such circumstances is the true miracle. We could only hope to be so lucky.
Until the Great Collapse comes...
Then the entire surviving town will yearn for your skills, esp. as vandals continually break the existing windows.
Hopefully you have some teaching skills. Then you would become the de facto Master with tons of Apprentices, spreading the skill of Window Making throughout the land anew. The technology won't be lost, and society will prosper. All because you honed this valuable skill during the Times of Plentiful Decadence.