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  1. SNOW CRASH anyone? on IBM Patents Method For Paying Open Source Workers · · Score: 1

    When reading Snow Crash I was thinking how would we get to a state when everyone works from a form or book. Every operation scripted. Why would we go to that?

    Well it is not that we will go to that. More likely we will be forced into that.

    Sorry you can not offer fries with that your restrant does not hold the pattant of offering fries to customers.

  2. Skills based resume on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1

    I have had good luck helping people that have had bad spots in their employment history. I suggest using a 'skills' based resume. This type of resume puts most of the focus on the job skills, projects, and other results. Finally, the actual employers are at the end with just the years on the job. Then make sure there references support the skills that the resume focuses on, rather than the employers.

    This is helpful when you have had a non-career focused job or you have been out of the workforce. It can also be used to focused attention on FOSS projects, minor consulting work, or other experience that may be more relevant to your next employer that your work history.

    I would suggest keeping a traditional resume handy if requested (some headhunters seem to be fixated traditional resumes).

    Understand that there is no correct way to write a resume, except to say AFTER THE FACT that it worked. Remember that a resume is a sales document (selling you) it is not your life history*, or your C.V., a resume works if it gets you interview.

  3. Do it now! on Best Ways to Organize Bills? · · Score: 1

    It does not matter where you put the bills. What matters is when you do it. I try never to touch a bill more than once. When I get the bill (or statment) I take the actions to pay it then I punch the statement with my 3 hole punch and put it in a binder. I takes less time (often none at all becase I am waiting on something else anyway) This way I don't forget to pay and I never have to look at a bill again sort sort or resort it.

  4. Re:Just an improvement of standard hybrid technolo on Dutch Invention Uses Electric Engines For Wheels · · Score: 1

    This would be a true hybrid. The present hybrids the gas engine changes speed and load as the car moves. the electric motors just provide braking and power assist. In a true hybrid the gas engine always runs at the same speed and load. This means that it can be tuned and fitted for that speed and load. This also has another advantage in that the gas engine can be used as a mobile generator, like during a power failure or if you need to use power tools off the grid.

  5. My contact in the process control arena. on New Survey Finds No Linux 'Chill' From SCO Suit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In conversation we came down to the basic idea that IBM knows what is going on. If IBM was in wrong they would have bought SCO. (like Intel bought DEC Alpha)
    So if IBM is fighting this then IBM is safe.

    If SCO was right they would be buying there stock not selling it.

    Follow the money.

    Charles Puffer

  6. To Bad I Can Not Hear A Hurd. on SCO Will Pay You Not to Use Linux · · Score: 1

    OK-How functional is HURD now? How quickly can we make if functional? Maybe the FSF should ask SCO for a grant to get HURD up to speed so we can move off linux.

  7. This is a good point on Time-travel Spammer Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    This is the kind of thinking that we need to be doing.
    If a new email system is created by a non free/open group. It could really put the FOSS community back a more than a decade or more.

    ON THE OTHER HAND if the FOSS community was to introduce a email standard it could give us a boost of a year of so, if not more.
    (The difference is that we will not (and can not) prevent then from using our methods))

    This is a place where the EFF or FSF could make a big contribution to the process. If respected group was to start the process then we could begin to move forward. The process does not need to be prefect the first time it just need to be able to grow and change in an ordered and up gradable way.

  8. Seems like a design problem on DOOM III to be capped at 60 fps · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Seems like a design problem being fixed with a limiter. The objects in the game should be moving at whatever pace the designer wants and the graphics should be showing you where they are at. It should not matter if you have 10fps or 600fps, just that you would have less difference between the pictures.

    Might it be that the pictures are more important to these games than the "Physics" behind them? This might also explain why the multi player cheats have been so easy.Seems like a design problem being fixed with a limiter. The objects in the game should be moving at whatever pace the designer wants and the graphics should be showing you where they are at. It should not matter if you have 10fps or 600fps, just that you would have less difference between the pictures.

    Might it be that the pictures are more important to these games than the "Physics" behind them? This might also explain why the multi player cheats have been so easy.

  9. Ad content not search content. on France: No Google Text Ads For Trademarked Words · · Score: 1

    I think the problem here is that the advertiser is using a trademarked word (not belonging to them) in there ad taken out on Google. The court is saying that Google can not let someone take out an add that uses another parties trademarked work.

    An example would be SCO placing an add with Google that included "Red Hat" "IBM" "Linux" and other Linux related trademarks.

    An ad like this would come up when a user Google for any car company. In a cense this is using someone else's trademark to create confusion.

  10. Re:GPL Problems on Alpha's Going Going Gone · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Please, DO NOT SPREAD FUD!
    IANAL( and guess you should be getting more knowledgeable lawyers soon ), but:

    - Modifications to Linux's (the kernel) source code are to be openly available if you are to distribute it. For your own use, you already have it :)

    - Code compiled with GCC is as free or as propietary as you want.

    - Code linked against libraries covered by LGPL (GNU's Lesser Public License) can be closed source. You only need to make it open if you link against GPL-only libs.

    - Having software covered by the GPL (except for the Kernel work, none of your code needs to be put under the GPL) does not spoil your chances of making money from it, it just makes you rethink a bit your bussiness model ( read: get paid for services and support not for the program itself )

    Hmm... "Shared Source" fair?? Does M$ Corp have you in their payroll? Go away!

  11. Re:Skip reading this? on The FSF, Linux's Hit Men · · Score: 1

    I took this to mean skip this intill you morning meal has settled, so you don't sick as well as angry.

  12. Re:This is double dipping on California PUC Calls For A Public Hearing On VoIP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I am driveling at is that each phone call (line) should pay once. I don't think is is fare for the fee to be collected/recollected at each layer of the OSI model.

    So if I use a dialup line to make a voip call or call a voip gateway with my dialup line should I be paying the same 30cents for 911 fee twice?

    Some weak examples from the non digital world. You don't pay sales tax on a car when you buy it and then pay ex-size tax again when you register it. You pay once. And if you buy a car that never leaves your property (a pickup truck that is only used on a ranch) then you don't pay at all. Or another example is fuel. You are supposed to pay the tax where it is used. Thats why trucks have fuel tax stickers for all the states they are used in.

  13. This is double dipping on California PUC Calls For A Public Hearing On VoIP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You pay your telephony/data tax/fee when you pay your ISP, you should not have to pay again when you use send one kind of bit/byte as apposed to a different kind of bit/byte.
    If you do have to pay then you should be able to subtract the amount from the tax/fee you pay though your ISP.

    Now the moment one of these DSL providers starts connecting lines to peoples houses or other locations then they are a Telco and should act like one.

    I think this is more like a regulatory barrier to entry into voice communications or protectionism for the existing Telco.

  14. Re:Control group on Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry; the Amish are not anti tech. They are strongly into community and social leveling. Phones were band by the bishops because of party lines (where more than one household shares a line) cause private matters to become public. So the use and even ownership of cell phones seems to still be in question. Amish use all forms of tech (but, often can not own it. Borrowing a chain saw is ok, owning one is not.

    (I can speak with a little authority on this my wife live form many years next to a number of Amish (and constrictive ones at that) They often borrow power tools in my father in law's shop, They saw lumber for him in there lumber mill (well I think some English (that's us non-Amish) person owns the mill)

    Charles Puffer
    (Yes my spelling sucks)

  15. Re:This would be easy to fake on Sign Your Name Online With A Mouse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The system could ask the user to also write something, (like the date, the name of the product, or the PO). This would make it hard to have the correct recording including all the connected letters. Of course this also make the training/preperation before the system can be used the first time harder.

  16. Re:Sorta related on AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal · · Score: 1

    I am seeing this on mozilla also.
    not that a suprise.
    Just can't get to my faverate Beekeeping
    website.

  17. This may come down to a basic question on Do Consumers Want Original Games? · · Score: 1

    How does one ask for something original?

    With the cost of building games so high no company is going to stick it's neck out and build something people may not like. One of two things has to happen . A new game idea must come up from below the radar, or a company must go looking for ideas .

    Both these things could happen if a company actively sponcered FOSS gameing. Put tools in the hands of FOSS programers. At first you would get lots of copy cat games. But from time to time something new might show up. Grab it finish it off, box it, and sell it. Reward the FOSS programers.

  18. Whats wrong with card counting on Optical Recognition System To Foil Card Counting? · · Score: 1

    Placeing to the side the matter of profit.

    What is wrong with card counting. The only thing I can see is that it turns Black Jack for a game of chance to a game of skill. Does something bad happen when all the players are counters. Maybe the casinos should get out of the betting side and just charge a table and dealer fee or hire the best counters as dealers.

  19. Re:So I can't copy something I create? on SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid · · Score: 1

    would this not better show his value? MBride

  20. Re:I thought the beauty of open source was... on Introduction to Debian · · Score: 1

    The article is pointing out that other distros may contain propriatary software that may not be maintainable by another vendors or by volenters. So by makeing the choice now of going to and sticking to Debian you reduce the risk of being caught out later.

  21. Re:wrong patent number on Chip Firm Hit By 45-Year-Old Patent · · Score: 3, Funny

    No that was going to be #0 but it was not accepted out for being to obvious. Though the inventor claims that the examiner was biased by favors of the compaction. The inventor then set out to create an other legal structure to protect the concept. Patent #0 was eventually given to a non-human entry for a advanced system for range finding, high speed communication, and illumination based on invisible waves moving at C. Though though there was some debate about the vagueness of the application.

  22. Could This Be ... on SCO DOS'ed · · Score: 1

    The sometimes rumored IBM suite to cement the GPL?

    IBM offers to buy SCO, if they first sue and loose because of the GPL.

    Just a thought.

  23. For Networking on What Would You Put Into A Software Survival Kit? · · Score: 1

    FtoF cuplers and short crossover cable
    or a cripping tool and a bag of RJ45s

    would not hurt to have a nullmodam cable also

  24. So purity tests are good for something on Online Testing Patented · · Score: 1

    I would say any prior art in this area is about as old as the net.

  25. dilute the salty water on Desalination Plant Begins Operation in Tampa · · Score: 2

    dilute the salty water

    Use water that is going into the bay anyway like form wast water treatment to dilute the salty water. This might be difficult if the wast water plant is far from the desalination plant. This of course makes one wonder if it would not be better to treat the wast water back to a potable form. Though I suspect there is a social factor in why people don't like this idea.