That's because OpenSource is really about commodity software.
Linux is the commodity Unix kernel; Mozilla is the commodity HTML renderer. Each of these has reached a commodity stage where there is no innovation anymore.
My professional product constantly get chased by the OpenSource competitors. This keeps me on my toes and keeps me innovating. My customers buy my product because of this innovation.
It's really a win-win situation: I get paid because I provide new and innovative stuff, my customers gets innovations nobody would have bothered with without getting paid, and whenever the features reach a commodity stage I happily contribute them back to the OpenSouce community. This OpenSource body of code is then used by all vendors as a way of sharing a stable bugfixed commodity codebase. People who don't want bleeding edge can have an all-free 'gratis' version. The OSS version is stable, gray and a little boring and if it breaks they get to keep both pieces.
My primary desktop OS, Mac OS X, is a prime example. It's an OpenSource (commodity) kernel with lots of excellent innovative apps and libraries built on-top. I happily pay Apple for that. Some people think Ubuntu is good enough - their choice.
I hadn't heard that one before. Googling a litte for it reveals several versions:
"You know folks, the day an unemployed ironworker can lie in his BarcaLounger with a Foster's in one hand and a channel-flicker in the other and **** Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, it's gonna make crack look like Sanka."
"If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka."
"When some truck driver can sit at home on his Laz-E-Boy and fuck Claudia Schiffer, it's going to make crack look like Kool-Aid."
"when Joe Six-Pack will be able to have sex with any supermodel he wants through virtual reality, it's going to make crack look like aspirin."
"when the average joe can have sex with Cindy Margolis, it will make crack look like tic tacs"
Personally, I'm waiting for the Princess Leia Slave Suit edition. Rawr.
If you're a citizen of a major country, probably nothing really bad will happen to you, but just getting deported will have dire effects on your future travel plans.
That's some really bad advice. You are likely to be treated like everyone else. See for example the Australian kid who tried to smuggle dope into Singapore for which there is a mandatory death penalty. Despite all efforts by Australia, he is scheduled for execution.
If you've ever seen a smack-head handcuffed to a bed gibbering uncontrollably because he can't get a fix, then be afraid, because that's what you'll look like after two weeks of internet-free cold turkey.
That nonsensical gibberish is probably just two weeks of witheld bloggings pouring out
The first release of Windows NT, as architected by Dave Cutler of VAX/VMS fame, started at 3.1.
That's because it was called Microsoft OS/2 before MS and IBM went separate ways. IBM called it's new release of OS/2 for 2.0 and MS went with 3.1 for NT. See wikipedia.
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That's because OpenSource is really about commodity software.
Linux is the commodity Unix kernel; Mozilla is the commodity HTML renderer. Each of these has reached a commodity stage where there is no innovation anymore.
My professional product constantly get chased by the OpenSource competitors. This keeps me on my toes and keeps me innovating. My customers buy my product because of this innovation.
It's really a win-win situation: I get paid because I provide new and innovative stuff, my customers gets innovations nobody would have bothered with without getting paid, and whenever the features reach a commodity stage I happily contribute them back to the OpenSouce community. This OpenSource body of code is then used by all vendors as a way of sharing a stable bugfixed commodity codebase. People who don't want bleeding edge can have an all-free 'gratis' version. The OSS version is stable, gray and a little boring and if it breaks they get to keep both pieces.
My primary desktop OS, Mac OS X, is a prime example. It's an OpenSource (commodity) kernel with lots of excellent innovative apps and libraries built on-top. I happily pay Apple for that. Some people think Ubuntu is good enough - their choice.
I hadn't heard that one before. Googling a litte for it reveals several versions:
"You know folks, the day an unemployed ironworker can lie in his BarcaLounger with a Foster's in one hand and a channel-flicker in the other and **** Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, it's gonna make crack look like Sanka."
"If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka."
"When some truck driver can sit at home on his Laz-E-Boy and fuck Claudia Schiffer, it's going to make crack look like Kool-Aid."
"when Joe Six-Pack will be able to have sex with any supermodel he wants through virtual reality, it's going to make crack look like aspirin."
"when the average joe can have sex with Cindy Margolis, it will make crack look like tic tacs"
Personally, I'm waiting for the Princess Leia Slave Suit edition. Rawr.
The real ultimate hack would be to totally flip out and make wind chimes all the time.
Real ultimate hackers are mammals and don't even think twice about it. I once saw a hacker make a wind chime because some kid dropped a hard drive.
Which is bragable.
If you're a citizen of a major country, probably nothing really bad will happen to you, but just getting deported will have dire effects on your future travel plans.
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That's some really bad advice. You are likely to be treated like everyone else. See for example the Australian kid who tried to smuggle dope into Singapore for which there is a mandatory death penalty. Despite all efforts by Australia, he is scheduled for execution.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Nguyen%20Tuong%20V
If you don't intend to live by the rules in the country of which you are a guest, don't go there.
How much Earth was simulated?
The closest they got was 41.9998645234, which is pretty good in my book.
If you've ever seen a smack-head handcuffed to a bed gibbering uncontrollably because he can't get a fix, then be afraid, because that's what you'll look like after two weeks of internet-free cold turkey.
That nonsensical gibberish is probably just two weeks of witheld bloggings pouring out
You forgot to hyperlink sneaky.
The first release of Windows NT, as architected by Dave Cutler of VAX/VMS fame, started at 3.1.
That's because it was called Microsoft OS/2 before MS and IBM went separate ways. IBM called it's new release of OS/2 for 2.0 and MS went with 3.1 for NT. See wikipedia.
Yeah, 64MB should be enough for anybody