I really wish that more folks would look over at Stanford's Folding@Home Project. I personally think it is the single most important and fascinating distributed computing project available. Just think, instead of searching for obscure numbers, or aliens, or trying to break the latest RSA key, you could be curing cancer with your spare CPU cycles!!!
I'd love for VA to make available a usable enterprise version of Sourceforge...and is seems they finally have. I want to put one of these boxen up in my own outfit, but doing so with the free version of sf would have taken more time than my development project. Since we have a budget, I'll be more than happy to support VA and purchase SFEE when our project load gets high enough to justify the expenditure.
I just wish they'd lose the Oracle bit...I just can't see the need.
Aye, but if you didn't have the code to begin with, you wouldn't be able to communicate with your peers, you fucking moron (i've got the karma to blow), so flame on...
"Hey bob, why don't you use a for loop, oh wait, I can't say that, never mind that, just use that thingy to talk to the other thingy to get the stuff we need done done..."
I happen to be working on a project that has only 3 people on it. I would hardly call it a "team" effort. The only team ideas that we have are, "What are you working on so I don't duplicate your effort?"
I would call all three of us quirky, in some way, shape or form. One guy constantly shows up late, another is more interested in paintball at times than work, I probably spend too much time worrying about whether or not there is enough food and coffee (for me, not the office).
We each have our own opinions about how the project is to be built, and our own methods of going about building it, but the one thing we do have in common is that none of us are out right schmucks, like "Tom" in the article.
That guy just sounds like a putz. I wouldn't call him quirky, I'd call him an asshole. Too lazy to understand that with a paycheck, comes obligation.
When I hire folks, I don't give a damn how eccentric they are, just as long as they understand the obligation bit, and produce.
...because they want the law to be written so that they are not responsible for damages done to your machine while in search of copyrighted material. It doesn't matter whether or not that material exists, and they would not be required to provide proof.
The RIAA could literally say, "the law says we are not responsible" and the judge would toss your case out on its arse.
Why haven't I heard anyone discuss the posibility of the RIAA just wiping your hdd if they find any mp3 files on your disk? That's exactly what they could do if they got this bill through?
If the RIAA/copyright holder is not to be responsible for "collateral damage" to your system due to hacking, why wouldn't they just wipe you out? It would be much simpler than deleting select file...
Hahahahaha! I love seeing the naive getting called on their bullshit. While the death of UN aid workers is a tragedy, there is no such thing as a war without civilian casualties.
Before you start criticizing individual acts within a war, look at the big picture first. What would cost more? Action or inaction?
And for those of you who believe that Osama is a reasonable man, please go over to FAS.org and read this:
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fa tw a.htm
...you just go ahead and try reasoning with this asshole. Those are his words, read them well. He is not a resonable man, and his ideals are not compatible with the existance of any other type of civilization.
I do understand your point, but I believe that one can "hide" certain behaviours from scrutiny (i.e. Marketing arseholes) by using cash.
It's not so much anonymity that I crave as just not getting all that annoying spam from direct marketers and such. I find that crap stuffed in my snailbox much more annoying than my email inbox. At least with email all I have to do is click a button. That snail spam builds up to be several stone a month...and I have to haul all that garbage to the trash bin.
Filling out those little instant savings sheets for the grocery store...using your credit card anywhere...all that information ends up in marketing databases that target you for advertising.
Your Slim Jim example...I'd just about guarantee you that if you bought Slim Jims on your credit card at Jewel/Osco on a regular basis...you'd end up with advertisements for Slim Jims in your snailbox...
...please, continue to use your credit cards and cheques.
I like cash because I don't care to receive any more spam in my snail-mail inbox than I already do. I particularly like cash for black market purchases...kinda difficult with credit cards. Also, if you like avoiding all the troubling paperwork of paying income taxes on that $20 that you got for mowing the neigbor's lawn, cash is good.
Can any of you imagine having to set up a paypal account when you are 13 years old just so you can get paid by the guy down the street for mowing his lawn?
Cash ain't goin nowhere...
"Money will always be paper...but gold will always be gold..." -- Hudson Hawk...Mayflower...
Ah, come on...you could at least display Blatz proudly on your cubicle...as a novelty of sorts. A reminder, if you will, that not all of the world has progressed beyond the 1960's (especially northern Wisconsin).;-)
And of course, Dennis Hopper would say differently..."Heineken?!?! Fsck that sh*t! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!"
I think most coders will agree with me when I say, "Send those guys/girls a case of beer!" Nothing spells appreciation as well as B-E-E-R. It doesn't even have to be good beer, it is really the idea that counts...although Guinness isn't ever a bad idea...
First off, I could give a fsck about what Stallman thinks.
Second, your rant is full of if's and but's. If Yodaiken changes the license, but we can't do this. Just be glad that Yodaiken holds the patent and not Micro$oft. Then you'd have no way to use the software at all.
This License governs the royalty-free use of the process defined by U.S. Patent No. 5,995,745. Anyone can license the use of the Patented Process by agreeing to be bound by the terms of this License. Such person is considered to be the Licensee ("Licensee"). The Patented Process may be used, without any payment of a royalty, with two (2) types of software. The first type is software that operates under the terms of a GPL (as defined later in this License). The second type is software operating under Finite State Machine Labs Open RTLinux (as defined below). As long as the Licensee complies with the terms and conditions of this License and, where applicable, with the terms of the GPL, the Licensee may continue to use the Patented Process without paying a royalty for its use. You may use the Patented Process with software other than the two types mentioned above but you must first obtain a separate license for such use. The first step is to contact Finite State Machine Labs (www.fsmlabs.com).
That reads okay to me. Very similar to the GPL (in a sense). You don't have to pay unless you are charging people for it.
The pirates spend enough time/money on pirating signals, why doesn't DirecTV just make a deal where you can buy your dish system for $2000 - $3000, put that money in an escrow account to pay the monthly fees, and then allow the escrow holders to watch everything?
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What I'm really talking about is people's excuse to be inconsiderate of their fellow humans. I personally cannot admit to being able to take every thing it, but I do make a consious effort to not do things that could potentially piss someone off (i.e. something that would piss me off) like walking side to side on a sidewalk or doubleparking my car in a spot that is going to cause a hell of a traffic mess, even if it is only for 30 seconds.
I don't happen to think that it is very difficult to pay relatively close attention to one's surroundings in a big city. Hell, I think you are an idiot if you don't (that is "you" as in a generalization, not "you"), because you're like as not to be hit by a car or falling piano or whatever.
...paying attention to the road when they drive. Paying them to pay attention to anything may be the only way to get the idiot cattle to look at anything.
I don't know about y'all, but I see idiot cattle walking, chatting on their cell phones, oblivious to everything around them. I only wish more people would stand in traffic and get removed from the gene pool.
I live in Chicago, and I have to say that, for a large city, people are not directly rude or obnoxious, but they certainly are by omission. They choose not to pay attention to people standing around them, they stop their cars to double park on busy streets, they walk three abreast at a snail's pace on a busy sidewalk. They do any number if inane little things that make one want to shoot them.
What in the world would give one the idea that an advertiser might have to pay an individual to read an advertisement?
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I really wish that more folks would look over at Stanford's Folding@Home Project . I personally think it is the single most important and fascinating distributed computing project available. Just think, instead of searching for obscure numbers, or aliens, or trying to break the latest RSA key, you could be curing cancer with your spare CPU cycles!!!
I'd love for VA to make available a usable enterprise version of Sourceforge...and is seems they finally have. I want to put one of these boxen up in my own outfit, but doing so with the free version of sf would have taken more time than my development project. Since we have a budget, I'll be more than happy to support VA and purchase SFEE when our project load gets high enough to justify the expenditure.
I just wish they'd lose the Oracle bit...I just can't see the need.
Actually, the steps are probably more than just steps, but anchors to support the compression of the arch of the bridge.
Secrets of Lost Empires on Nova rocks!
Fuck it Dude....let's go bowling...
That's a big 'ol "No shit!" props to you! Heheheh...
Aye, but if you didn't have the code to begin with, you wouldn't be able to communicate with your peers, you fucking moron (i've got the karma to blow), so flame on...
"Hey bob, why don't you use a for loop, oh wait, I can't say that, never mind that, just use that thingy to talk to the other thingy to get the stuff we need done done..."
...for your information ma'am, THE SUPREME COURT HAS ROUNDLY REJECTED PRIOR RESTRAINT!
dude: Walter, this is not a First Amendment issue...
I happen to be working on a project that has only 3 people on it. I would hardly call it a "team" effort. The only team ideas that we have are, "What are you working on so I don't duplicate your effort?"
I would call all three of us quirky, in some way, shape or form. One guy constantly shows up late, another is more interested in paintball at times than work, I probably spend too much time worrying about whether or not there is enough food and coffee (for me, not the office).
We each have our own opinions about how the project is to be built, and our own methods of going about building it, but the one thing we do have in common is that none of us are out right schmucks, like "Tom" in the article.
That guy just sounds like a putz. I wouldn't call him quirky, I'd call him an asshole. Too lazy to understand that with a paycheck, comes obligation.
When I hire folks, I don't give a damn how eccentric they are, just as long as they understand the obligation bit, and produce.
...because they want the law to be written so that they are not responsible for damages done to your machine while in search of copyrighted material. It doesn't matter whether or not that material exists, and they would not be required to provide proof.
The RIAA could literally say, "the law says we are not responsible" and the judge would toss your case out on its arse.
It's as simple as that...
Why haven't I heard anyone discuss the posibility of the RIAA just wiping your hdd if they find any mp3 files on your disk? That's exactly what they could do if they got this bill through?
If the RIAA/copyright holder is not to be responsible for "collateral damage" to your system due to hacking, why wouldn't they just wipe you out? It would be much simpler than deleting select file...
# if (find -name *.mp3) {
\ rm -rf /
\ } else {
\ println "Have a nice day!"
\ };
Hahahahaha! I love seeing the naive getting called on their bullshit. While the death of UN aid workers is a tragedy, there is no such thing as a war without civilian casualties.
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Before you start criticizing individual acts within a war, look at the big picture first. What would cost more? Action or inaction?
And for those of you who believe that Osama is a reasonable man, please go over to FAS.org and read this:
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-f
...you just go ahead and try reasoning with this asshole. Those are his words, read them well. He is not a resonable man, and his ideals are not compatible with the existance of any other type of civilization.
I do understand your point, but I believe that one can "hide" certain behaviours from scrutiny (i.e. Marketing arseholes) by using cash.
It's not so much anonymity that I crave as just not getting all that annoying spam from direct marketers and such. I find that crap stuffed in my snailbox much more annoying than my email inbox. At least with email all I have to do is click a button. That snail spam builds up to be several stone a month...and I have to haul all that garbage to the trash bin.
Filling out those little instant savings sheets for the grocery store...using your credit card anywhere...all that information ends up in marketing databases that target you for advertising.
Your Slim Jim example...I'd just about guarantee you that if you bought Slim Jims on your credit card at Jewel/Osco on a regular basis...you'd end up with advertisements for Slim Jims in your snailbox...
...wrong guy...
...please, continue to use your credit cards and cheques.
I like cash because I don't care to receive any more spam in my snail-mail inbox than I already do. I particularly like cash for black market purchases...kinda difficult with credit cards. Also, if you like avoiding all the troubling paperwork of paying income taxes on that $20 that you got for mowing the neigbor's lawn, cash is good.
Can any of you imagine having to set up a paypal account when you are 13 years old just so you can get paid by the guy down the street for mowing his lawn?
Cash ain't goin nowhere...
"Money will always be paper...but gold will always be gold..." -- Hudson Hawk...Mayflower...
I am glad at least one person discovered the spirit of my post.
"Oh, I don't like beer"..."Oh, I'm not of legal age"..."Oh, my god doesn't let me drink beer"...blah, blah, blah...
Ah, come on...you could at least display Blatz proudly on your cubicle...as a novelty of sorts. A reminder, if you will, that not all of the world has progressed beyond the 1960's (especially northern Wisconsin). ;-)
And of course, Dennis Hopper would say differently..."Heineken?!?! Fsck that sh*t! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!"
I think most coders will agree with me when I say, "Send those guys/girls a case of beer!" Nothing spells appreciation as well as B-E-E-R. It doesn't even have to be good beer, it is really the idea that counts...although Guinness isn't ever a bad idea...
More obvious that you need to learn to think for yourself...
First off, I could give a fsck about what Stallman thinks.
Second, your rant is full of if's and but's. If Yodaiken changes the license, but we can't do this. Just be glad that Yodaiken holds the patent and not Micro$oft. Then you'd have no way to use the software at all.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but:
This License governs the royalty-free use of the process defined by U.S. Patent No. 5,995,745. Anyone can license the use of the Patented Process by agreeing to be bound by the terms of this License. Such person is considered to be the Licensee ("Licensee"). The Patented Process may be used, without any payment of a royalty, with two (2) types of software. The first type is software that operates under the terms of a GPL (as defined later in this License). The second type is software operating under Finite State Machine Labs Open RTLinux (as defined below). As long as the Licensee complies with the terms and conditions of this License and, where applicable, with the terms of the GPL, the Licensee may continue to use the Patented Process without paying a royalty for its use. You may use the Patented Process with software other than the two types mentioned above but you must first obtain a separate license for such use. The first step is to contact Finite State Machine Labs (www.fsmlabs.com).
That reads okay to me. Very similar to the GPL (in a sense). You don't have to pay unless you are charging people for it.
The pirates spend enough time/money on pirating signals, why doesn't DirecTV just make a deal where you can buy your dish system for $2000 - $3000, put that money in an escrow account to pay the monthly fees, and then allow the escrow holders to watch everything?
What I'm really talking about is people's excuse to be inconsiderate of their fellow humans. I personally cannot admit to being able to take every thing it, but I do make a consious effort to not do things that could potentially piss someone off (i.e. something that would piss me off) like walking side to side on a sidewalk or doubleparking my car in a spot that is going to cause a hell of a traffic mess, even if it is only for 30 seconds.
I don't happen to think that it is very difficult to pay relatively close attention to one's surroundings in a big city. Hell, I think you are an idiot if you don't (that is "you" as in a generalization, not "you"), because you're like as not to be hit by a car or falling piano or whatever.
...paying attention to the road when they drive. Paying them to pay attention to anything may be the only way to get the idiot cattle to look at anything.
I don't know about y'all, but I see idiot cattle walking, chatting on their cell phones, oblivious to everything around them. I only wish more people would stand in traffic and get removed from the gene pool.
I live in Chicago, and I have to say that, for a large city, people are not directly rude or obnoxious, but they certainly are by omission. They choose not to pay attention to people standing around them, they stop their cars to double park on busy streets, they walk three abreast at a snail's pace on a busy sidewalk. They do any number if inane little things that make one want to shoot them.
What in the world would give one the idea that an advertiser might have to pay an individual to read an advertisement?
Hahahahha! No, no one told me, and that is very funny!