So, with Paul Allsing being the CIO for the county, wouldn't it make sense that if they were to go with a future MS contract, we could hold him responsible and sue him for breaking the law? I'm not sure on all of the legalese here, any lawer types want to help on this one? I would certainly contribute several hundred dollars to a legal fund to enforce current law in my County, and plan on it if given the opportunity!
Once upon a time, long ago (actually, not real long ago, but long enough), Congress passed laws that protected our freedom. The laws would ensure that your rights weren't infringed upon by your neighbour, and so that you could freely and safely live.
Laws are now passed to control your rights and limit where your rights can apply.
Copyright law, once designed to protect an original authors work has been legislated into a creation that gives corporations the power to control fair use, instead of promoting the creation of new works. Patent law, originally intended to promote original thinking, competition has morphed into a way to limit others use of generally common sense ideas. This change in philisophy in the congress is a frightening shift in the direction of the US and the world in general.
I was recently working with a device that seems perfect for your problem. It costs around $1000 per device, each can handle 8 cameras. It has built in support for motion detectors, can record all 8 cameras. You give it an IP address, set up security on it, (and of course, with a decent switch security can be increased). Using multiple devices of this type seem ideal. http://www.vpon21.com/ The website sucks but the device is pretty cool.
I totally agree. I've got a friend who used to work at a small failing startup with me. We could (and still can) make our own hours, come and go as we pleased, decide pretty much what we work on, etc. He has since quit and got a job working for the government.
Some advantages are lots of time off (10 holidays, 10 sick days and 20 paid vacation days), he has steady employment and little is expected of him.
Disadvantages are that raises are fixed, not based on performance (could be good depending on performance:-)), he is working with technology that is years old, has to get clearance to do anything (like browse the web), has absolutely no power in how things happen and what goes on (as far as project design and implementation). He has little to do most of the time due to waiting on other people completing paperwork to get a project through. May seem nice for a day or two, but no work just makes days take forever.
Anyway, just my observations.
Pipes? Pipes? Who the hell uses pipes? I've been a windows programmer for quite some time and have never used pipes to do anything. This is like comparing the cooling effects of rolling down the windows to in cars. Sure, the older cars get a lot more air through the car, but the new cars have AC...ok, so that's not such a good example...but I don't know anyone who uses pipes, or would even have reason to.
When MS' licence agreement doesn't allow Open Source programs to be developed with it, the world is coming to an end. When Sun's License agreement doesn't allow it, it's just matter of fact. Why the difference in views? Is Sun magically immune from all of the flames that MS gets?
A hand held Civilian GPS is far too innacurate to do that kind of stuff. A good GPS is about the size of a full tower case and can track at extreme high speeds within inches. They have been used to land 747s with extreme precision, as well as map topography.
Code complete is definately a recommended book for EVERY programmers library. it's by the M$ Press, but goes over very good concepts and ideas. I recommend it to everyone I meet who programs. If you haven't read it, you should.
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Go to foldingathome.stanford.edu
They are in the process of folding the different protiens to see how they interact. The raw data and results will eventually be published on their site. Though not exactly open source, there is talk of allowing developers to work on it. Windows and Linux currently, more ports planned for the future, and they could use your help.
This was stuck up here on/. a while ago I think.
I'll bet that this is how they plan on getting around stealing code, now and in the future. "Oh, such and such sent it via our passport system, making it ours", "He also mentioned his shirt, which we are in the process of acquiring..."
Bitches.
He should get a counter suit going that claims that his "all natural conola" was spoiled by the engineered seeds, thus lowering the value to his target market, and that the company needs to pay him for gross negligence in allowing the seeds to grow!
Do any of you people bother to read the article? The plain cruises at 51,000 feet, in the stratosphere far above the weather patterns. Not only does it provide high speed internet it will also provide cellular access. As for cost effectiveness, there are no polls to put in the ground, no building permits or towers, and can cover several hundred miles, all without the problems of typical cellular towers, such as losing connection in areas with varying terrain. blah blah blah, read the flippin article.
A little about.net, as a MS developer (I know, don't flame, I'm trying to come to the light side), I've been looking at it. What it is doing is essentially taking a normal program and seperating it in to three tiers. The first being the language that you develop in (be it C++, VB, C#, Perl, whatever), the second is an interpretive tier that puts what you coded into a middle language that is finally executed by the third tier. The point of using.NET is another matter entirely. For VB developers, the advantages are great: greater performance, without having to learn a more powerful language like C++. The reasons why someone using C++ for example are not so clear, because you no longer have the performance advantages of using C++..NET takes the C++ and interprets to the same middle tier that VB uses for the machine to use. So in comes C#, and for all intents and purposes it looks a lot like VB with C++ syntax, giving a little more ease of development while stripping some functionality of native C++. The other thing that MS loves so much is the vendor locking that C# will provide them with, much like VB, only they will be able to grab a lot of (or think they can) C++ developers from other platforms.
MS is getting worried about whether people will take to their ideas though, as they are constantly promoting the product, there have been 3 or so free conferences (with free food and the like), supposedly to "train" on their new product, but end up being just large sales pitches.
As for myself, I'm currently learning BSD, hopefully I can find employment under it soon.
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So, with Paul Allsing being the CIO for the county, wouldn't it make sense that if they were to go with a future MS contract, we could hold him responsible and sue him for breaking the law? I'm not sure on all of the legalese here, any lawer types want to help on this one? I would certainly contribute several hundred dollars to a legal fund to enforce current law in my County, and plan on it if given the opportunity!
Once upon a time, long ago (actually, not real long ago, but long enough), Congress passed laws that protected our freedom. The laws would ensure that your rights weren't infringed upon by your neighbour, and so that you could freely and safely live.
Laws are now passed to control your rights and limit where your rights can apply.
Copyright law, once designed to protect an original authors work has been legislated into a creation that gives corporations the power to control fair use, instead of promoting the creation of new works.
Patent law, originally intended to promote original thinking, competition has morphed into a way to limit others use of generally common sense ideas. This change in philisophy in the congress is a frightening shift in the direction of the US and the world in general.
I was recently working with a device that seems perfect for your problem. It costs around $1000 per device, each can handle 8 cameras. It has built in support for motion detectors, can record all 8 cameras. You give it an IP address, set up security on it, (and of course, with a decent switch security can be increased). Using multiple devices of this type seem ideal. http://www.vpon21.com/ The website sucks but the device is pretty cool.
I totally agree. I've got a friend who used to work at a small failing startup with me. We could (and still can) make our own hours, come and go as we pleased, decide pretty much what we work on, etc. He has since quit and got a job working for the government.
:-)), he is working with technology that is years old, has to get clearance to do anything (like browse the web), has absolutely no power in how things happen and what goes on (as far as project design and implementation). He has little to do most of the time due to waiting on other people completing paperwork to get a project through. May seem nice for a day or two, but no work just makes days take forever.
Some advantages are lots of time off (10 holidays, 10 sick days and 20 paid vacation days), he has steady employment and little is expected of him.
Disadvantages are that raises are fixed, not based on performance (could be good depending on performance
Anyway, just my observations.
Pipes? Pipes? Who the hell uses pipes? I've been a windows programmer for quite some time and have never used pipes to do anything. This is like comparing the cooling effects of rolling down the windows to in cars. Sure, the older cars get a lot more air through the car, but the new cars have AC...ok, so that's not such a good example...but I don't know anyone who uses pipes, or would even have reason to.
When MS' licence agreement doesn't allow Open Source programs to be developed with it, the world is coming to an end. When Sun's License agreement doesn't allow it, it's just matter of fact. Why the difference in views? Is Sun magically immune from all of the flames that MS gets?
A hand held Civilian GPS is far too innacurate to do that kind of stuff. A good GPS is about the size of a full tower case and can track at extreme high speeds within inches. They have been used to land 747s with extreme precision, as well as map topography.
Code complete is definately a recommended book for EVERY programmers library. it's by the M$ Press, but goes over very good concepts and ideas. I recommend it to everyone I meet who programs. If you haven't read it, you should.
Go to foldingathome.stanford.edu /. a while ago I think.
They are in the process of folding the different protiens to see how they interact. The raw data and results will eventually be published on their site.
Though not exactly open source, there is talk of allowing developers to work on it.
Windows and Linux currently, more ports planned for the future, and they could use your help.
This was stuck up here on
I'll bet that this is how they plan on getting around stealing code, now and in the future. "Oh, such and such sent it via our passport system, making it ours", "He also mentioned his shirt, which we are in the process of acquiring..."
Bitches.
He should get a counter suit going that claims that his "all natural conola" was spoiled by the engineered seeds, thus lowering the value to his target market, and that the company needs to pay him for gross negligence in allowing the seeds to grow!
Do any of you people bother to read the article? The plain cruises at 51,000 feet, in the stratosphere far above the weather patterns. Not only does it provide high speed internet it will also provide cellular access. As for cost effectiveness, there are no polls to put in the ground, no building permits or towers, and can cover several hundred miles, all without the problems of typical cellular towers, such as losing connection in areas with varying terrain. blah blah blah, read the flippin article.
A little about .net, as a MS developer (I know, don't flame, I'm trying to come to the light side), I've been looking at it. What it is doing is essentially taking a normal program and seperating it in to three tiers. The first being the language that you develop in (be it C++, VB, C#, Perl, whatever), the second is an interpretive tier that puts what you coded into a middle language that is finally executed by the third tier. .NET is another matter entirely. For VB developers, the advantages are great: greater performance, without having to learn a more powerful language like C++. .NET takes the C++ and interprets to the same middle tier that VB uses for the machine to use.
The point of using
The reasons why someone using C++ for example are not so clear, because you no longer have the performance advantages of using C++.
So in comes C#, and for all intents and purposes it looks a lot like VB with C++ syntax, giving a little more ease of development while stripping some functionality of native C++. The other thing that MS loves so much is the vendor locking that C# will provide them with, much like VB, only they will be able to grab a lot of (or think they can) C++ developers from other platforms.
MS is getting worried about whether people will take to their ideas though, as they are constantly promoting the product, there have been 3 or so free conferences (with free food and the like), supposedly to "train" on their new product, but end up being just large sales pitches.
As for myself, I'm currently learning BSD, hopefully I can find employment under it soon.