Personally, I'd say something that comes between 'give up' and 'good luck'. The GPL isn't something that can come in and bail out a failing shop, all it will ensure is that when you *do* fail, it will allow your work to continue with a life of its own.
You should probably have your business plan down pat *before* you get to this stage...
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Here's a fun one, something I always wanted to do.
1)Somehow, find a patch of land large enough to walk across.
2)Then, find a way to *owe* that land to someone else. Maybe sell it without first owning it (I have a nice bridge, if you are interested)
3)Take a walk across this patch of land.
Now, in theory, land that I 'owe', has a negative value, as does any money I owe in my bank account. As land is generally measured by area, we will assume that this land has, for me, a negative area.
Now to walk across it, I will be constructing a line through this negative area, which is equivalent to the length of one of the sides... since area = length * width, and area is negative, this path will of necessity be some multiple of i...
Maybe its petty, but taking an imaginary journey strikes me as self defining in some strange way.
Just curious, and too lazy to dig through whatever terms of service I didn't read when getting an account... but does Slashdot 'own' my postings here in this manner?
As fast as bacteria multiply, its probably irresponsible to assume that we can introduce something static into the environment that they cannot adapt too.
There would have to be some legal limitation (a la bankcrupcy) on the surviving individuals once the corporation was killed. Maybe... a lifetime ban on starting, owning stock in, or managing any company of any kind.
Otherwise, we already have a death penalty. Its called going-out-of-business.
How is free defined, legally, in this sense? There are enough variants of it, judging by the trolls, to make this very shady as well. (It runs within our proprietary app upon the *free* linux operating system...)
However, is it profitable for your average telco/communications company to face off with the NSA? If I were them, I wouldn't want to be in that position...
The difference is, of course, that hardware fails, statistically, in a more or less random fashion. Exploitable software fails once, and then near *constantly* from that one mistake.
During my first 5 minutes of looking at BlackICE output, I got hit from about 4 different directions as people scanned through the net...
Seriously though. You don't get advances by pumping money into something specific (better microprocessors), you get advances by pumping money into a *goal* (reaching mars), and then solving the new problems that arise. The former just gets you refinements of existing things, the latter tends to get you things that are completely new.
My mention of war was because war is often the other great instigator of technology. The amount of technical development we've had from the two world wars alone is staggering, simply because the necessity arose. I'd rather set a goal, then reach for it, than depend on market forces or the coming of some dire necessity.
Talk about vaporware... I remember hearing Gaiman and this title quite a long time ago (on the order of more than a few years, I'm sure...) How long has he been working on it?
Was that the animated version that was drawn completely over the traditionally shot footage? I've only seen it as a grainy, oft-copied bootleg.. and it only went part of the way through the film, but it it was brilliantly done...
Actually, the powdered plastic would probably work just as well, as long as it didn't have any toxic effects. There is nothing nurturing about sand, its all the dead organic matter that makes the ground fertile.
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Jeeze, man, I thought you said LSD! I was scared there for a second...
If the students and bludgers can do the work better, for free, then some people need to find other lines of work.
Personally, I'd say something that comes between 'give up' and 'good luck'. The GPL isn't something that can come in and bail out a failing shop, all it will ensure is that when you *do* fail, it will allow your work to continue with a life of its own.
You should probably have your business plan down pat *before* you get to this stage...
Here's a fun one, something I always wanted to do.
1)Somehow, find a patch of land large enough to walk across.
2)Then, find a way to *owe* that land to someone else. Maybe sell it without first owning it (I have a nice bridge, if you are interested)
3)Take a walk across this patch of land.
Now, in theory, land that I 'owe', has a negative value, as does any money I owe in my bank account. As land is generally measured by area, we will assume that this land has, for me, a negative area.
Now to walk across it, I will be constructing a line through this negative area, which is equivalent to the length of one of the sides... since area = length * width, and area is negative, this path will of necessity be some multiple of i...
Maybe its petty, but taking an imaginary journey strikes me as self defining in some strange way.
Agh, I feel quite the fool. I'm so adept at filtering out copyright notices that I didn't even realize that that was down there.
Just curious, and too lazy to dig through whatever terms of service I didn't read when getting an account... but does Slashdot 'own' my postings here in this manner?
As fast as bacteria multiply, its probably irresponsible to assume that we can introduce something static into the environment that they cannot adapt too.
You have happy fun offer!
There would have to be some legal limitation (a la bankcrupcy) on the surviving individuals once the corporation was killed. Maybe... a lifetime ban on starting, owning stock in, or managing any company of any kind.
Otherwise, we already have a death penalty. Its called going-out-of-business.
Yes, it would be a shame for Airstrip One to fall before the hoards of Eastasia. May we and our Eurasian allies stand tall in the face of this threat!
Yeah, they are happy with building shell over shell on top of their crappy early-80's OS. (stolen). :)
Personally, I'd like to run a vaccum-tube/plugboard simulator and play with all the ballistics stuff from even earlier. Now *that* would be an OS...
Don't bother, it sucked in all honesty. Lets just say they used the most time-honored cliche of final episodes...
If you defend yourself, chances are they've already won.
How is free defined, legally, in this sense? There are enough variants of it, judging by the trolls, to make this very shady as well. (It runs within our proprietary app upon the *free* linux operating system...)
Ah, won't work on Intel chips. This hasn't stopped Microsoft, AOL, or anyone else, why should it stop Myst!?
Should just stick that in the moderater guidelines, that way people will stop.
However, is it profitable for your average telco/communications company to face off with the NSA? If I were them, I wouldn't want to be in that position...
The difference is, of course, that hardware fails, statistically, in a more or less random fashion. Exploitable software fails once, and then near *constantly* from that one mistake.
During my first 5 minutes of looking at BlackICE output, I got hit from about 4 different directions as people scanned through the net...
Seriously though. You don't get advances by pumping money into something specific (better microprocessors), you get advances by pumping money into a *goal* (reaching mars), and then solving the new problems that arise. The former just gets you refinements of existing things, the latter tends to get you things that are completely new.
My mention of war was because war is often the other great instigator of technology. The amount of technical development we've had from the two world wars alone is staggering, simply because the necessity arose.
I'd rather set a goal, then reach for it, than depend on market forces or the coming of some dire necessity.
Gezundheit.
Yes, we could have invested in something that gives us even *more* fringe benefits. Outright war with the Russians.
Nitwit.
Talk about vaporware... I remember hearing Gaiman and this title quite a long time ago (on the order of more than a few years, I'm sure...) How long has he been working on it?
Yeah, I thought this was a review of Shrek. Curses!
Was that the animated version that was drawn completely over the traditionally shot footage? I've only seen it as a grainy, oft-copied bootleg.. and it only went part of the way through the film, but it it was brilliantly done...
Yeah, thats always good for growin' shit...
Actually, the powdered plastic would probably work just as well, as long as it didn't have any toxic effects. There is nothing nurturing about sand, its all the dead organic matter that makes the ground fertile.