One more for the gipper. My limited celluloid knowledge of Americana calls to mind a late, late, late night movie starring an American President winning one for the gipper in a tale of all american Knute Rockne. I thought the film dripped but it did loudly tout the ideal of the All American Boy. The days of the All American Boy may have passed but dogged tenancity in the face of insurmountable odds has come to life in the All American Bubble Bouy, as patents and Ip and the war on terror for the children inflate the american economy, and, in the style of root'n toot'n Ronnie Regan, America seems intent on inflating the biggest bubble ever, bigger than a south sea bubble. We're taulkn a conteeneetal wide bubble. An All American Bubble Bouy as big as America image of itself and bigger. The presses are running overtime as value is pumped up from mere ideas.
The new american heros are corporations and law firms who, without thought for themselves as rational beings, submit one trival patent after another. The rest of the world can only watch in wonder as the U.S. economy goes from the work ethic of Knute Rockne to the crazed junkies punting patents under the All American Bubble.
The U.K. like Canada and much of Europe has a temperate climate. The U.S. on the other hand has a range in cliimate from temperate to near tropical.
The recent influx of diseases like West Nile disease suggests a warmer north is facilitating the spread of tropical diseases. I believe there's a suggestion that tropical climates or climates with extended warm seasons and no freezing winters breed a greater diversity of diseases and disease carrying hosts. Heat is also a stress factor and can complicate bad air conditions.
It would be interesting to see the demographics broken down between the northern U.S. and the far south.
It's not about Intellectual Property rights. It's not about Patents. It's not about copyrights. It's not about Digital Rights Management.
It's a tax grab.The government has found a way to create taxable value by fiat. The value of currency in modern capitalist states is by fiat. The creation of value by way of IP and Patents and DRM is by legislation, by fiat.
Maggy Thatcher introduced Value Added Tax, in Canada in the 80's the Conservatives introduced the GST. In America the federal government has created taxable value in IP. Remeber the/. article last week about a merger wherein the parties are underinvestigation because they undervalued the IP?
You can argue about civil liberties and the government will join in happy to count the number of angles dancing on the head of a pin.
When I was in grade school during summmer vacation I had to put in 2 weeks working on my grandparents farm. I was told it would build character. It build muscle mass if nothing else. One summer on the farm my uncle decided to butcher a pig. That side of the family is pioneer stock and has farmed the same area for 7 generations. They can make anything they need, including good German sausage. I'd never seen an animal butchered. The pig was tied to corral posts by 3 legs. One rear leg was left free. My uncle slit the pigs jugular and the pig kept kicking his one rear leg, obligingly pumping his blood out. The fuss being kicked up about the laws and civil liberties is the pig's back leg kicking furiously. The tax income is the blood.
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Your sig reads "It's better to whore the body than the mind". I am at a loss for figuring out what this means/what you intend it to mean?
Your question presents me with a bit of a dilemma. The sig is tied up in the context of a conversation with a friend of mine in highschool. I'll try to relate the meaning directly by way of an anecdote.
My best friend in high school and I both set out to be writers. We were discussing what we'd do to support ourselves once out of highschool. At that time we agreed University was a wasteland and we both intended to work in the real world and educate ourselves. We were adamantly in rebellion against our milktoast, upwardly mobile, middle class upbringing ( we didn't know part of the privledge of our class was the luxury of rebellion).
I suggested something clerical or in sales. My friend went with construction work. He said: "It's better to whore the body than the mind."
That's the short and nasty. So why don't I attribute the sig to him? He still owes me $10 bucks; and, until I get my $10 bucks, I'm using the sig without attributing it to him.
I didn't go into sales or clerical work. I took a job as a bouncer (ya really) in a night club that had goodfellas and expensive hookers upstairs and a well known, motorcycle gang as clientelle in the club downstairs. I wanted the street experience. I got to know alot of hookers. For the most part they were funny, happy, well paid, people. They confirmed in me the idea that's it's better to whore the body than the mind.
I had 3 years of pro lessons from the age of 5. The pro who taught me was English and very much given to a classical swing. The trick of a great swing and/or putting is like the secret of enlightenment... there is no secret to enlightenment. It's just if you're looking for the answer... you don't have it, and, once you do, you're no longer looking for it, but it's unlikely you know exactly the steps you took to get it.
I golfed for 18 years. It's a great head game, really almost zen like, but championship calibre play doesn't come from expensive toys. Expensive toys can hone natural talent but that's about it. For all that, expensive toys can ruin natural talent.
Micheal Jordan was touted a a "physical genius", whatever that is. When Jordan turned to baseball it was said his physical genius would allow him to achieve the same greatness in baseball as he did in B ball. Did not happen, and it's likely Jordan had access to every toy available.
The X factor will always be part of championship play and all the toys for all the boys won't replace it.
Even though I lurked a good bit before signing on at/. there was no way I'd ever have gotten a cool, low UID number like 4 digits or less. A 5 digit UID is ah, OK, I guess, but, hey 60,000,000 potential new/.ers and I could be a contender with my low 5 digit user id. I could get modded up for the most vacuous, asdf comments, like, well... this one.
Taco, think of the potential revenue.
"News for the intellectually curious, Stuff that matters to your ego."
Of course the color schemes will have to go; replaced with subtle earth tones and pastels. And the icons, well, OK we were all young once, but we're talking 60 million intellectually curious upscale yuppies here, we're gonna have to bring in artists dressed in black and too cool to have a clue.
Hey! Are you intellectually curious? Can you see it now. Cowboy Neal hosts a reality show for the intellectually curious. IPTV jumps the shark at/.
OK so rereading the above it's obvious I'm just a nerd and never will I be among the intellectually curious.
I'm interested in science, technology, culture and, unfortunately necessarily, politics; but as to... "... a bunch of other people out there who are very interested in science, technology, politics and culture but they don't want to be known as geeks."
I can't imagine people who have abiding interests in science, technology, culture and politics having an inclination to care one way or another what other people call them. Putting out energy to preen and groom yourself to the dictates of the tribe doesn't jive with the energy and mental facilities capable of embracing such a wide swatch of knowledge.
I tried a number of Linux installs on a new athlon/Asus A8v box I built. I installed FC4 and a few others but the slickest install was Ubuntu 5.10. Ubuntu was also the most stable overall. Although I'm now playing around with Openbsd on said box, Ubuntu will be installed on the Athlon box I'm now building.
"I feel that Ubuntu in pre-release form is more stable than other distros when they reach final release status. It's not quite in the league of Slackware and Red Hat/Fedora in that respect yet, but it's surely getting there in a hurry."
Isn't FC intended as a test distro for new Red Hat stuff? I'm not a seasoned FC user but I've always thought FC releases were not first and foremost stable so much as innovative.
Go back as far as The Peter Principle famous for fostering Dilbert and all the PHB comments on/. or, fast forward a decade to Peter Drucker and his shelf of tomes on management and you get a taste of the plethora of management practises that have come and gone.
I can remember TV shows from the 80's that showed a Japanese factory worker alone in a room and armed with a club. The worker would pound on a management, effigy figure with his club. The worker's venting aggression on the effigy management figure was supposedly one of the underlying secrets to the success of Japanese businesses in the international market place.
From suggestion boxes to round tables it's pretty much all been tried in one form or another. Most likely the factors that make for successful operations are myriad and too complex to ever be set in stone.
Molecular Biology has is taking the lead in terms of validating evolution as a cogent theory. The attacks on Darwin's ideas by factions such as those who proport Intelligent Design are following along far behind the advances being made today.
It is amusing that religions touting a Creator God are excellent examples of Evolution in Action. The Creator God is the equivalent of the alpha male of a troop of primates. The idea of the Creator God speaks not to the present alpha male but to an idealized father founder of the tribe. The sense of history inherent in a Creator meshes with our sense of our own history. The concept of history, partially embodied in burial rites, points to the ideas of teleology and the status quo ante that underpin many religions. The idea of death as examplified in burial and a belief in a life after death are ideas that need to be examined as they define us as a species.
Religions posing an alpha male Creator Father have evolved through many generations of selective mating. Those who strongly believed in the tribe's faith were more likely to find suitable mates. Those who couldn't bring themselves to believe in a Creator God were often killed outright as heretics or were driven from the tribe. Many generations of mating based upon religious beliefs should give us a population the majority of which advocate a belief in God. Religion is Evolution in Action.
Your points are valid and interesting. Most interesting to me, you wrote: "The US economy is dominated by household consumption and business growth."
Agreed but is household consumption, for the most part, kept keen by easy credit and usurious rates? And if personal, conspicuous consumption is driven by easy credit and usurious rates then isn't the American Dream just another historical lie destined to become a nightmare.
"'History," Stephen said, "is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.'" James Joyce.
We have entered the Domain of the Red Queen, we must run ever faster to remain in the same place. The middle class must be inflated and enfranchised with easy, expensive credit no matter the absolute cost. The marriage of big government and big business calls for new markets and new tax bases. These new markets are being enfranchised by the intellectual property rights hardened by patents and DRM. My concern is that America, having taken direction from it's Puritan, patriarchical founders, will entrench political and economic control in the hands of fascists.
I suppose when faced with the runaway of positive systems like weather systems and the burgeoning realization that many raw resources are too limited to enable countries like India and China equal our standard of living, it might be wise to see the benefits of the military complex and the proped up infrasturcture in the west.
In an effort to accumulate enough resources I might even start attending Church, smiling into the eyes of God's chosen and voting His dogs into power. Although I've always thought the Devil was God's bred sheep dog.
America is broke. America is deeply in debt. America sells protection. Luckily protection frequently breeds violence which calls for protection. The selling of protection drives the old military industrial complex put in place after WWII, and, aptly characterized by John Kenneth Galbraith. The revenue needed to fund the military industrial complex derives, for the most part, from tax revenue. Unfortunately the tax base in America isn't up to the job.
The need to derive more tax dollars is driving the patent insanity and the rigging of markets requiring market participants to pay twice or more for the same service. The fascist like coupling of monopolies and government is driven on the side of government by a mad need for revenue and control.
Selling protection and rigging markets requires luddite thugs be put in power. It's really a question of whether the rest of the industrialized world will go along. My guess is the rest of the industrialized world will go along as long as there's no alternative. The world will prop up the American domestic market and in doing so will prop up the military industrial complex.
The short term policies driving markets that push pollutants and climatic change will be changed, at best surperficially, because alternatives require recognizing that America is broke. And waking from the American dream will be a nightmare.
Recently there have been articles that state there is no conclusive evidence that Omega 3 Fatty Acids are beneficial.
Omega 3 might not be a lifesaver
Mar 24 2006
Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail
SCIENTISTS have cast doubt on whether fish oils can really help protect against heart disease.
It's interesting that they're using genes from C. elegans which along with the fruit fly, yeast and the mouse make up some of the most throughly studied organisms. I wonder if it's a case of looking for the lost keys under the street light because that's where it's brightest.
Pigs have become popular as pets and many campaign to end the eating of pork. A open and shut case of anthroporcmorphism.:)
I remember when Cooperative Multitasking was the buzzword of the day. In the 80's Cooperative Multitasking was going to give MicroSoft users the ability to run multiple programs... from the wikipedia page: "by (programs) voluntarily ceding control to other tasks at programmer-defined points within each task."
Continued from the wikipedia page... "Cooperative multitasking has the advantage of making the operating system design much simpler, but it also makes it less stable because a poorly designed application may not cooperate well, and this often causes system freezes."
Cooperative multitasking was the programming equivalent of nice guys finishing last. I spent big chunks of my life watching that litte hourglass turn and turn and turn as each and every program power grabbed as much resources as possible while trying to freeze out every other program.
Concerned that dual cores are too much resource for today's programs? Not to worry, big numbers of software developer are currently gearing up to play fast and loose with every cycle dual cores have to offer.
When I had my first 286 an engineer friend of the family came over and I jumped at the opportunity to show off what was a then $3200 kit. He liked but said he stayed with his XT because he found he could always find other work to do while his numbers were being crunched. Sound, mature reasoning.
Others have commented on the nonsense of the story as posted but there is another angle. Much progress in biology and more especially in medicine has come from the study of pathologies. We assume a healthy organism then study a pathology to gain some insight into the changes the pathology has wrought. Further we reason from the state of the pathology to better improve our model of a healthy organism.
The classic example in neuroscience is the case history of Phineas P. Gage.
Space travel and Space Stations have provided us with a burgeoning catalogue of studies on the impact of extended stays in space on our and other metabolisms. The Biomedical Results From Skylab are an example of earlier studies. Space promises unique biological insights.
Any allusions to the Prisoner?
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There's been chatter off and on about a game based on the TV show The Prisoner. Patrick McGoohan's portrayal of prisoner six of one is great in a British understated way. The idea of a prisoner incarcerated because he knows too much sensitive government information may not be too fictional today. Maybe Guantanamo Bay is soon to be a "retirement" centre.
The Escape sounds like it has the Kafkaesque, byzantine plot lines reminescent of the Prisoner.
MS Anti SpyWare Beta 1 has been good to me. I like the Advanced Tools too!
I've recently downloaded MS Defender, which I take it is the new moniker for their antispyware programme. Cross checking MS antispyware against LavaSoft has caught only one piece of spyware MS antispyware missed.
So, as infrequently as I say it, Good on you MicroSoft!
a rigid, business-like organizational structure is of vital importance to the quality of the final product.
'real checks and balances, and real leadership taking place'
"Constant self-policing is required to ensure its quality.
Any task envisioning an end product could be said to require the characteristics mentioned above. What may be of more importance is that the venerable 'Economist'(although I believe its always been seen as left leaning) is making an effort to wrap its mind around Open Source and in doing so allowing its readers to follow suit.
Over the last year plus I've noticed more articles that tend to view Open Source projects as akin to 'hardnosed' business methods. I think they represent the establishment coming to a positive consensus about Open Source methods and projects.
I noticed a turn in the way the general business community reported and interacted with Open Source from about the time IBM ran the ads picturing Linux as a small, blonde haired, blue eyed wonderkid.
The old boy network isn't about to let Open Source join the club but they're certainly ready to let it in the service entrance.
There is one killer app to come. Voice recognition, especially, subvocal input is the next big tech innovation. Lots has been done but no one has come close enough to nailing it to create/capture the market.
More generally biomimetics and innovation from molecular biology will eclipse the innovation that has followed upon the IT revolution.
What isn't being seen for the trees is that the forest, for the first time, is visible to everyone on the web. For the first time we can relatively easily peek and poke into one another's cultural biases and make a variety of inter/intra comparisons.
As governments struggle to literally get a grip on the world web, the world web citizenry is building a new hierarchy of cultural cross development.
We can individually and collectively point fingers at one another, but the greater fact is that we have in place a mechcanism that allows us to do so.
Is that a typo? If you've got enough money to burn through five years, what would you need investors for?
Valid question, but no, it's not a typo. I'd suggest a stringent budget in line with keeping the business afloat for at least 5 years. Much tech stuff can be done on a limited budget while the product is refined. OTOH if the product calls for heavy investment in plant or high profile office/retail space then I'd suggest having a budget, including a line of credit that would see the principals through 5 years.
Getting a business up and running is a challenging task but no less so than choosing the right investors. Picking investors isn't called 'climbing in bed with someone' for no reason. It requires alot of research and grabbing the first fistfull of dollars offered is potentially a recipe for disaster. Rules of thumb are never take the company lawyer or accountant in as a business partner. And although it requires deft diplomacy I'd try to keep the line of credit apart from the business' bank.
It shouldn't be need to be said... never give up control.
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The new american heros are corporations and law firms who, without thought for themselves as rational beings, submit one trival patent after another. The rest of the world can only watch in wonder as the U.S. economy goes from the work ethic of Knute Rockne to the crazed junkies punting patents under the All American Bubble.
The recent influx of diseases like West Nile disease suggests a warmer north is facilitating the spread of tropical diseases. I believe there's a suggestion that tropical climates or climates with extended warm seasons and no freezing winters breed a greater diversity of diseases and disease carrying hosts. Heat is also a stress factor and can complicate bad air conditions.
It would be interesting to see the demographics broken down between the northern U.S. and the far south.
just my loose change
It's a tax grab.The government has found a way to create taxable value by fiat. The value of currency in modern capitalist states is by fiat. The creation of value by way of IP and Patents and DRM is by legislation, by fiat.
Maggy Thatcher introduced Value Added Tax, in Canada in the 80's the Conservatives introduced the GST. In America the federal government has created taxable value in IP. Remeber the /. article last week about a merger wherein the parties are underinvestigation because they undervalued the IP?
You can argue about civil liberties and the government will join in happy to count the number of angles dancing on the head of a pin.
When I was in grade school during summmer vacation I had to put in 2 weeks working on my grandparents farm. I was told it would build character. It build muscle mass if nothing else. One summer on the farm my uncle decided to butcher a pig. That side of the family is pioneer stock and has farmed the same area for 7 generations. They can make anything they need, including good German sausage. I'd never seen an animal butchered. The pig was tied to corral posts by 3 legs. One rear leg was left free. My uncle slit the pigs jugular and the pig kept kicking his one rear leg, obligingly pumping his blood out. The fuss being kicked up about the laws and civil liberties is the pig's back leg kicking furiously. The tax income is the blood.
Your question presents me with a bit of a dilemma. The sig is tied up in the context of a conversation with a friend of mine in highschool. I'll try to relate the meaning directly by way of an anecdote.
My best friend in high school and I both set out to be writers. We were discussing what we'd do to support ourselves once out of highschool. At that time we agreed University was a wasteland and we both intended to work in the real world and educate ourselves. We were adamantly in rebellion against our milktoast, upwardly mobile, middle class upbringing ( we didn't know part of the privledge of our class was the luxury of rebellion).
I suggested something clerical or in sales. My friend went with construction work. He said: "It's better to whore the body than the mind."
That's the short and nasty. So why don't I attribute the sig to him? He still owes me $10 bucks; and, until I get my $10 bucks, I'm using the sig without attributing it to him.
I didn't go into sales or clerical work. I took a job as a bouncer (ya really) in a night club that had goodfellas and expensive hookers upstairs and a well known, motorcycle gang as clientelle in the club downstairs. I wanted the street experience. I got to know alot of hookers. For the most part they were funny, happy, well paid, people. They confirmed in me the idea that's it's better to whore the body than the mind.
cheers
I golfed for 18 years. It's a great head game, really almost zen like, but championship calibre play doesn't come from expensive toys. Expensive toys can hone natural talent but that's about it. For all that, expensive toys can ruin natural talent.
Micheal Jordan was touted a a "physical genius", whatever that is. When Jordan turned to baseball it was said his physical genius would allow him to achieve the same greatness in baseball as he did in B ball. Did not happen, and it's likely Jordan had access to every toy available.
The X factor will always be part of championship play and all the toys for all the boys won't replace it.
Taco, think of the potential revenue.
"News for the intellectually curious, Stuff that matters to your ego."
Of course the color schemes will have to go; replaced with subtle earth tones and pastels. And the icons, well, OK we were all young once, but we're talking 60 million intellectually curious upscale yuppies here, we're gonna have to bring in artists dressed in black and too cool to have a clue.
Hey! Are you intellectually curious? Can you see it now. Cowboy Neal hosts a reality show for the intellectually curious. IPTV jumps the shark at /.
OK so rereading the above it's obvious I'm just a nerd and never will I be among the intellectually curious.
I can't imagine people who have abiding interests in science, technology, culture and politics having an inclination to care one way or another what other people call them. Putting out energy to preen and groom yourself to the dictates of the tribe doesn't jive with the energy and mental facilities capable of embracing such a wide swatch of knowledge.
"I feel that Ubuntu in pre-release form is more stable than other distros when they reach final release status. It's not quite in the league of Slackware and Red Hat/Fedora in that respect yet, but it's surely getting there in a hurry."
Isn't FC intended as a test distro for new Red Hat stuff? I'm not a seasoned FC user but I've always thought FC releases were not first and foremost stable so much as innovative.
I can remember TV shows from the 80's that showed a Japanese factory worker alone in a room and armed with a club. The worker would pound on a management, effigy figure with his club. The worker's venting aggression on the effigy management figure was supposedly one of the underlying secrets to the success of Japanese businesses in the international market place.
From suggestion boxes to round tables it's pretty much all been tried in one form or another. Most likely the factors that make for successful operations are myriad and too complex to ever be set in stone.
just my loose change
It is amusing that religions touting a Creator God are excellent examples of Evolution in Action. The Creator God is the equivalent of the alpha male of a troop of primates. The idea of the Creator God speaks not to the present alpha male but to an idealized father founder of the tribe. The sense of history inherent in a Creator meshes with our sense of our own history. The concept of history, partially embodied in burial rites, points to the ideas of teleology and the status quo ante that underpin many religions. The idea of death as examplified in burial and a belief in a life after death are ideas that need to be examined as they define us as a species.
Religions posing an alpha male Creator Father have evolved through many generations of selective mating. Those who strongly believed in the tribe's faith were more likely to find suitable mates. Those who couldn't bring themselves to believe in a Creator God were often killed outright as heretics or were driven from the tribe. Many generations of mating based upon religious beliefs should give us a population the majority of which advocate a belief in God. Religion is Evolution in Action.
Agreed but is household consumption, for the most part, kept keen by easy credit and usurious rates? And if personal, conspicuous consumption is driven by easy credit and usurious rates then isn't the American Dream just another historical lie destined to become a nightmare.
"'History," Stephen said, "is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.'" James Joyce.
We have entered the Domain of the Red Queen, we must run ever faster to remain in the same place. The middle class must be inflated and enfranchised with easy, expensive credit no matter the absolute cost. The marriage of big government and big business calls for new markets and new tax bases. These new markets are being enfranchised by the intellectual property rights hardened by patents and DRM. My concern is that America, having taken direction from it's Puritan, patriarchical founders, will entrench political and economic control in the hands of fascists.
I suppose when faced with the runaway of positive systems like weather systems and the burgeoning realization that many raw resources are too limited to enable countries like India and China equal our standard of living, it might be wise to see the benefits of the military complex and the proped up infrasturcture in the west.
In an effort to accumulate enough resources I might even start attending Church, smiling into the eyes of God's chosen and voting His dogs into power. Although I've always thought the Devil was God's bred sheep dog.
cheers
The need to derive more tax dollars is driving the patent insanity and the rigging of markets requiring market participants to pay twice or more for the same service. The fascist like coupling of monopolies and government is driven on the side of government by a mad need for revenue and control.
Selling protection and rigging markets requires luddite thugs be put in power. It's really a question of whether the rest of the industrialized world will go along. My guess is the rest of the industrialized world will go along as long as there's no alternative. The world will prop up the American domestic market and in doing so will prop up the military industrial complex.
The short term policies driving markets that push pollutants and climatic change will be changed, at best surperficially, because alternatives require recognizing that America is broke. And waking from the American dream will be a nightmare.
Omega 3 might not be a lifesaver
Mar 24 2006
Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail
SCIENTISTS have cast doubt on whether fish oils can really help protect against heart disease.
It's interesting that they're using genes from C. elegans which along with the fruit fly, yeast and the mouse make up some of the most throughly studied organisms. I wonder if it's a case of looking for the lost keys under the street light because that's where it's brightest.
Pigs have become popular as pets and many campaign to end the eating of pork. A open and shut case of anthroporcmorphism.:)
Continued from the wikipedia page... "Cooperative multitasking has the advantage of making the operating system design much simpler, but it also makes it less stable because a poorly designed application may not cooperate well, and this often causes system freezes."
Cooperative multitasking was the programming equivalent of nice guys finishing last. I spent big chunks of my life watching that litte hourglass turn and turn and turn as each and every program power grabbed as much resources as possible while trying to freeze out every other program.
Concerned that dual cores are too much resource for today's programs? Not to worry, big numbers of software developer are currently gearing up to play fast and loose with every cycle dual cores have to offer.
When I had my first 286 an engineer friend of the family came over and I jumped at the opportunity to show off what was a then $3200 kit. He liked but said he stayed with his XT because he found he could always find other work to do while his numbers were being crunched. Sound, mature reasoning.
The classic example in neuroscience is the case history of Phineas P. Gage.
Space travel and Space Stations have provided us with a burgeoning catalogue of studies on the impact of extended stays in space on our and other metabolisms. The Biomedical Results From Skylab are an example of earlier studies. Space promises unique biological insights.
buy tinfoil
The Escape sounds like it has the Kafkaesque, byzantine plot lines reminescent of the Prisoner.
I've recently downloaded MS Defender, which I take it is the new moniker for their antispyware programme. Cross checking MS antispyware against LavaSoft has caught only one piece of spyware MS antispyware missed.
So, as infrequently as I say it, Good on you MicroSoft!
'real checks and balances, and real leadership taking place'
"Constant self-policing is required to ensure its quality.
Any task envisioning an end product could be said to require the characteristics mentioned above. What may be of more importance is that the venerable 'Economist'(although I believe its always been seen as left leaning) is making an effort to wrap its mind around Open Source and in doing so allowing its readers to follow suit.
Over the last year plus I've noticed more articles that tend to view Open Source projects as akin to 'hardnosed' business methods. I think they represent the establishment coming to a positive consensus about Open Source methods and projects.
I noticed a turn in the way the general business community reported and interacted with Open Source from about the time IBM ran the ads picturing Linux as a small, blonde haired, blue eyed wonderkid.
The old boy network isn't about to let Open Source join the club but they're certainly ready to let it in the service entrance.
Given the angst I'd say it's closer to Sartre
The first taste is always free
"Badges?"
"We don't need no stink'n badges!"
More generally biomimetics and innovation from molecular biology will eclipse the innovation that has followed upon the IT revolution.
As governments struggle to literally get a grip on the world web, the world web citizenry is building a new hierarchy of cultural cross development.
We can individually and collectively point fingers at one another, but the greater fact is that we have in place a mechcanism that allows us to do so.
Valid question, but no, it's not a typo. I'd suggest a stringent budget in line with keeping the business afloat for at least 5 years. Much tech stuff can be done on a limited budget while the product is refined. OTOH if the product calls for heavy investment in plant or high profile office/retail space then I'd suggest having a budget, including a line of credit that would see the principals through 5 years.
Getting a business up and running is a challenging task but no less so than choosing the right investors. Picking investors isn't called 'climbing in bed with someone' for no reason. It requires alot of research and grabbing the first fistfull of dollars offered is potentially a recipe for disaster. Rules of thumb are never take the company lawyer or accountant in as a business partner. And although it requires deft diplomacy I'd try to keep the line of credit apart from the business' bank.
It shouldn't be need to be said... never give up control.
cheers