Because companies are becoming more and more greedy, and aren't satisfied with claiming (legitimately) the fruits of your labour produced on their time and dime, but rather want to claim everything you do, including things you've done on your own, personal time.
What's th matter, didn't you realise you're little more than an indentured servant in the brave new world?
The GPL only requires that source be provided to people to whom the code is provided. If the company only used the inventions internally, the GPL would never ensure public release.
Actually, VMware is a great argument for the virtues of free software. They still have good sales, because by continually pushing ahead in a focused way, they're outstripping the clone. They've hooked up with big vendors like Dell and government agencies to provide tailored solutions. They don't seem to be doing too bad, and the existence of a free alternative to eat their lunch if they get lazy is keeping them on their toes.
Indeed. A collectivist ideology that partners closely with business (and often religous groups) is more correctly identified as facism, as practised in Italy (1923-1945) and Spain (1936? - 197-something).
I'll avoid making comments about the Bush dynasty...
The documentation's out of date simply because Microsoft's own dev team haven't kept up with their documentation. That's why the Samba team occasionally get to gloat the Microsoft refer people to Samba for protocol documentation.
The larger consulting firms usually have one thing in mind: to get more and more of their people billable. It's not usually in the [short term] interest of the consulting firm to do a good effective job then get out.
One needn't even offer a cynical explanation in the case of large consulatancies; Joel Spolsky offers this explanation, which basically boils down to: it's easy to hold quality while hiring a dozen people. It's hard to grow to hundreds and still have quality employees, so you set up emthodologies for the low quality staff to operate to. Pity the customer...
The only time I've been hit by someone without insurance in New Zealand, they ponied up for the cost of a new door for my car. The lack of competition caused by the compulory insurance in the UK, and the resulting gouging by companies, has cost far more than uninsured drivers ever have.
Distinguish between Outlook and Outlook Express. There are a bunch of people who feel they can't live without Outlook's shared calendering, contacts lists and so forth. They don't care if Exchange is a piece of shit.
Imagine waking up, pushing a button and your entire day is lived out for you as you stuff your face and fall back to sleep to avoid doing anything at all!
It's called reality TV, and it's been around for quite some time now.
You've got it the wrong way around. Outlook is a powerful client with a bunch of neat neatures. Exchnage is an unreliable piece of shit with the standards compliance of IE4.
There's a lot more value in something that allows people to use Outlook with a sane back end (eg, OpenMail).
There are plenty of stupid people in the world for whom the defining criteria of coolness is how popular somthing is, sadly. At the most stupidly benign level, these are the people who hat {linux, backstreet boys} because they're too popular. At the less benign levels, you get people beating the crap out of Jello Biafra for being too popular.
DEC weren't the first - you obviously don't remember far back if you can't remember that there were a great many efforts before AltaVista. The main thing AV offered when it was new was that it was bigger and faster than the older engines.
Yes, PJM seems to be working out rather well. New Zealand is another example of a market which seems to be working well, and it is truely deregulated!
So wonderfully deregulated that it took the threat of government intervention to get power companies to allow customers to switch from one company to another.
Deregulation has been sutch a bodge in New Zealand that even the pro-market party that started it eventually started threatening to re-regulate it.
More on topic - I find the idea cool, but realistically, I can get commodity 1U systems for less if all I want is slim computin power, and if I really need something tiny, I know where to get PC104.
I suspect Gilmore would be underwhelmed at the constant references to consumers - part of his argument revolves around the rights of citizens - consumer relationships be damned.
The only real test for WM speed is user experiance.
Corollary: Many uers are not prepared to upgrade CPUs, RAM, and gfx cards to run a WM that might be faster with a sufficiently expensive setup. Might as well buy an SGI if one is.
In any case... I could see him not pleading guilty and with justification. The charge as stated was "with intent to cause harm". Somehow I doubt that there was INTENTION to do harm. Drunk driving is a case of negligence and lack of education, not a matter of willfull harm.
Perhaps the situation is different in the States, but here TV and the like are regularly plastered with anti-drink drive advertising. Claiming that one doesn't realise drinking and driving is dangerous is like claiming one doesn't realise traking up somking in 2001 is taking up an addictive and lethal pastime.
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Because companies are becoming more and more greedy, and aren't satisfied with claiming (legitimately) the fruits of your labour produced on their time and dime, but rather want to claim everything you do, including things you've done on your own, personal time.
What's th matter, didn't you realise you're little more than an indentured servant in the brave new world?
The GPL only requires that source be provided to people to whom the code is provided. If the company only used the inventions internally, the GPL would never ensure public release.
Actually, VMware is a great argument for the virtues of free software. They still have good sales, because by continually pushing ahead in a focused way, they're outstripping the clone. They've hooked up with big vendors like Dell and government agencies to provide tailored solutions. They don't seem to be doing too bad, and the existence of a free alternative to eat their lunch if they get lazy is keeping them on their toes.
Wrong. Nuremberg, and subsequent Nazi trials, tried a number of people who were not "in charge" in any significant sense of the Nazi regime.
Indeed. A collectivist ideology that partners closely with business (and often religous groups) is more correctly identified as facism, as practised in Italy (1923-1945) and Spain (1936? - 197-something).
I'll avoid making comments about the Bush dynasty...
Because we all know that working out new ways to kill people is the hallmark of a first world country.
Wild Boards!
The documentation's out of date simply because Microsoft's own dev team haven't kept up with their documentation. That's why the Samba team occasionally get to gloat the Microsoft refer people to Samba for protocol documentation.
One needn't even offer a cynical explanation in the case of large consulatancies; Joel Spolsky offers this explanation, which basically boils down to: it's easy to hold quality while hiring a dozen people. It's hard to grow to hundreds and still have quality employees, so you set up emthodologies for the low quality staff to operate to. Pity the customer...
The only time I've been hit by someone without insurance in New Zealand, they ponied up for the cost of a new door for my car. The lack of competition caused by the compulory insurance in the UK, and the resulting gouging by companies, has cost far more than uninsured drivers ever have.
Distinguish between Outlook and Outlook Express. There are a bunch of people who feel they can't live without Outlook's shared calendering, contacts lists and so forth. They don't care if Exchange is a piece of shit.
It's called reality TV, and it's been around for quite some time now.
You've got it the wrong way around. Outlook is a powerful client with a bunch of neat neatures. Exchnage is an unreliable piece of shit with the standards compliance of IE4.
There's a lot more value in something that allows people to use Outlook with a sane back end (eg, OpenMail).
Since when the search engine was powered by Google.
There are plenty of stupid people in the world for whom the defining criteria of coolness is how popular somthing is, sadly. At the most stupidly benign level, these are the people who hat {linux, backstreet boys} because they're too popular. At the less benign levels, you get people beating the crap out of Jello Biafra for being too popular.
And insurance in .uk for the same model car is 10 times (!!!) what it is in .nz. Did that ever hurt like a baseball bat enema when I got caught by it.
DEC weren't the first - you obviously don't remember far back if you can't remember that there were a great many efforts before AltaVista. The main thing AV offered when it was new was that it was bigger and faster than the older engines.
Which will shortly be shut down due to patent fuckwittery.
So wonderfully deregulated that it took the threat of government intervention to get power companies to allow customers to switch from one company to another.
Deregulation has been sutch a bodge in New Zealand that even the pro-market party that started it eventually started threatening to re-regulate it.
What, you never read my posts?
More on topic - I find the idea cool, but realistically, I can get commodity 1U systems for less if all I want is slim computin power, and if I really need something tiny, I know where to get PC104.
I suspect Gilmore would be underwhelmed at the constant references to consumers - part of his argument revolves around the rights of citizens - consumer relationships be damned.
The only real test for WM speed is user experiance.
Corollary: Many uers are not prepared to upgrade CPUs, RAM, and gfx cards to run a WM that might be faster with a sufficiently expensive setup. Might as well buy an SGI if one is.
More like Linux Weenies != Clue about Unix philosophy.
Actually, IBM's high-end laptops have the 1400x1050 screen, although they're more expensive.
Perhaps the situation is different in the States, but here TV and the like are regularly plastered with anti-drink drive advertising. Claiming that one doesn't realise drinking and driving is dangerous is like claiming one doesn't realise traking up somking in 2001 is taking up an addictive and lethal pastime.