My experience: most open-source project (including linux) are not new or unique ideas. They are people reinventing the wheel cause they did like the looks of the rims already available. Name 5 opensource projects for which there is no commercial counterpart.
Heck, you've somewhat proved my argument. Look at the number of companies which base their company on open-source. Look at their finances. The ones that are successful, most have some sort of commercial product. All of them are incredibly unstable financially.
I agree with the other gentleman who replied to you: Lack of an overinflated ego, or a lack of a desire to make money.
I have yet to really have any great ideas...at least for a commercial product - mostly because I don't really care. But if I thought of one, I'd do my best to make some money off of it. That's how our economy works. I have a product that people want. People give me what I want in exchange. To protect my product, if it is something relatively trivial to figure out (a la time shifting) I patent it and change a fee for people to compete with me. These people will probably change less money than me for their product, but I'll have the original and probably the best. If it is not so trivial, I'll keep how it works a secret, and then I have no competitors until someone figures it out...then I get a competitor.
So what you're telling us, is that if you came up with a great idea for a product, not only would you not patent it, you'd tell everyone around so that you could compete with them on the free market to see who has the better product? If that were reality, then the economy would be so hideously unstable, that it would not even be funny.
Don't forget that some of the new digital projectors actually have spdif outs for the audio and outs for the video! (Anyone who wishes to deny that is welcome but a friend of mine form high school (who so graciously hooks me upw ith free tickets all the time) works at my nearby theater, and he actually showed the damned things to me!
As for this being a waste of resources...not really. I doubt they'll really net many people like this (except for people management catches, except most of it probably IS management.) Laws like this are usually just to add a scare factor. That might not deter you or your best friend, but for some people, knowing that their actions could land them in jail w/ a felony conviction, it will deter them. I will say this however...such a recording was already illegal: theft by taking.
As for DUIs and drug use...depends on what kind of job you want.:-) DUI, not so much, in fact in the Marine Corps at least (and I know because I'm a Lance Corporal in the reserves and I'm trying to become an active duty officer post-college) they usually won't even talk to you w/ a DUI. Drug use is a little different so long as you have no felony convictions or there are mitigating circumstances (hey, I personally have friends who were busted for being with a guy who had weed on them without their knowledge.) Other government agencies are basically the same except for DUIs, dunno about the secret service (although don't count on ever protecting the president with a DUI, 'cause MSGs, much less secret service have to have minimum, top secret clearance and a walk-on-water record to get presidential duty) but other agencies are a little more lenient in that regard. CIA case officers are a totaqlly different ballgame...
First off, Firebird is a cheesy name for a browser. It sounds cheap as-in-crappy.
Second, which project took the name first? The team holding the name longest SHOULD bitch, regardless of the size of their usebase.
Third, this will cause confusion among end-users who when told about the browser, might search, find the database, and go what the heck? At the worst, they say screw the browser, at best they send e-mails to the project admin asking about the browser annoying the heck out of the admin!
That's a rather asinine opinion. I care about all of that stuff, but databases are not of much use to me, so I don't keep track of matters related to databases. So, this was the first had heard of this database.
Look economic downturn is only temporary. Everything will bounce back, sooner or later, hopefully sooner but who knows. At that point we'll create more jobs than were lost and then we'll lose some of those and the cycle will continue. If you don't like the volatility of this industry though, you could always look at a change of profession i guess.
While i do question the security of it...privacy? Until you graduate and no longer live with your family you have no privacy other than what our family gives you! The sooner you learn that fact the better. And really...how long could that homework take? Just do it when you get home and be done with it!
If you are that concerned with the company's practice of doing credit checks, why are you willing to even take a job with the company? No one is forcing you other than you need for food. The company has a valid point - although not always true, people with poor credit are more likely to be a poor employee. This is a privacy issue sure, but if you want the job, frankly you just need to deal with it. Remember, when you are getting a job you are attempting to sell your skills to them. They don't have to buy your product, and you don't have to sell your product to them. For whatever reason they think poor credit might be the equivalent of a poor product, so if you wanna sell your product, just let them do the credit check.
This is the most overturned court in the United States, ever! This court loves government control of things and this ruling will serve to that end by strengthening some of our absurd patent laws.
Large local calling area is an understatement! all of middle Georgia (which is essentially the metro-Atlanta area) is free along with parts of north Georgia. Any call to 770, 678 and 404 is a free call from within those area codes and parts of 706 constitute a local call from within 770, 678 and 404. We looooooove our phone system here.:-) I'm 19, and in over 19 years my family has had 2 issues with the telephone line, both were with a second line we had a couple years ago (prior to getting DSL), occurred in the same day, and were fixed on that same day. Between our great local calling area, fair prices (for home lines...business lines are a little to pricey I think but that's me...) and the service I've personally experienced, I can't find anything to complain about Bellsouth. However, the place I've worked for has switched among several providers for our business lines and we've had issue after issue with all of them. Gotta love Atlanta and telecom!
You might want to check out who the authors/sponsors of the Patriot Act were. (Hint: Not all Republicans) Myself, I am a libertarian. I couldn't vote for someone to waste more money or enact more laws like the DMCA or CBDTA, in good conscience. Oh, check out the authors/sponsors of those bills too.
The FreeBSD drivers have been out for about a month. The news is that the drivers are part of the official driver package now and will be released with the regularity of the Windows drivers.
What's the point? This is a known. It's also part of the "everyone has a place in society" thing. Some people make the stuff, some people design it, some people sell it. Then some people scoop fries and some flip burgers and some make change. Then the overlap, some design, make and sell stuff (I can think of some law enforcement devices off hand...) and then some people not only scoop fries, but flip burgers and make change as well - depends on which grease joint they work at. In a free market economy such as that in the U.S. they are kind of dependant upon one another
One problem is that we have exactly had a flood of games that just make you go "Hot Damn Jim!" Yeah there have been some GREAT games this year, Neverwinter Nights, UT2003, so on so forth. Add to that the mentioned issue of there being 3 consoles. Then, there is everyone's fear of an economy that isn't doing great but isn't dying and slipping into a depression as you would think to listen to the news. Plus, PC hardware is kind of uncertain right now, what to buy as far as the best I mean. There are alot of factors playing into this.
Again, no vote was thrown away. Several newspapers, like the NY Times, Washington Post, Washington Times all conducted recounts using both Bush's and Gore's standards. Bush won either way. It was close as hell either way, but he still won. Aside from that, Gore wanted recounts with un-uniform standards, and only wanted recounts in certain counties. The supreme court said that if you conduct a recount, you must recount all of the votes for the state and you must use the same standard. By the time they drug it all through the courts, it was time for the electoral college to vote. Simple fact is, we don't vote for president in this country. That in my mind is a Good Thing (tm). It's called checks and balances, and the founders put them in their for a reason.
Simple. Stop voting for the people who accept donations from people you do not want influence from in the government. Narrows down your voting choices alot, but remember. No vote is thrown away. Every vote is a message. If everyone votes the same way, then their message is the one heard. So, if you vote for the person who is not as bad in your opinion and might actually win, and so does everyone else, then the cycle continues. But when EVERYONE begins to vote their conscience, and doesn't just vote for the major candidates then things might begin to change.
Problem...i watch DVDs...I have a DXR3, I have a nice large TV and 5.1 system...i hate console dvd players...MPlayer worked very poorly in this application, and Menus don't work exactly work all that beautifully, which they are just slightly necesary to me.
Playing files it really did no better than xine for any of the formats I use. Different drivers really made no difference.
I'll disagree about MPlayer. MPlayer is a little more fully featured, but I prefer Xine especially for DVD playing. Mplayer has given me nothing but performance fits and well, I don't exactly have a slow machine shall we say?:-) Not to mention the DVD menu support in MPlayer is not quite up to par from what the docs say.
The main reason I use windows is for games, other than that, it sits in linux. Except for my laptop (which I am writing this from.) The hard drive space on my laptop prevents me from having both linux and windows on it, and I use it for alot of class related work which requires...windows. If every game that came out was released on linux, my desktop systems would run linux exclusively. And sorry, WineX just doesn't cut it for me.
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My experience: most open-source project (including linux) are not new or unique ideas. They are people reinventing the wheel cause they did like the looks of the rims already available. Name 5 opensource projects for which there is no commercial counterpart.
Heck, you've somewhat proved my argument. Look at the number of companies which base their company on open-source. Look at their finances. The ones that are successful, most have some sort of commercial product. All of them are incredibly unstable financially.
I agree with the other gentleman who replied to you: Lack of an overinflated ego, or a lack of a desire to make money.
I have yet to really have any great ideas...at least for a commercial product - mostly because I don't really care. But if I thought of one, I'd do my best to make some money off of it. That's how our economy works. I have a product that people want. People give me what I want in exchange. To protect my product, if it is something relatively trivial to figure out (a la time shifting) I patent it and change a fee for people to compete with me. These people will probably change less money than me for their product, but I'll have the original and probably the best. If it is not so trivial, I'll keep how it works a secret, and then I have no competitors until someone figures it out...then I get a competitor.
So what you're telling us, is that if you came up with a great idea for a product, not only would you not patent it, you'd tell everyone around so that you could compete with them on the free market to see who has the better product? If that were reality, then the economy would be so hideously unstable, that it would not even be funny.
Don't forget that some of the new digital projectors actually have spdif outs for the audio and outs for the video! (Anyone who wishes to deny that is welcome but a friend of mine form high school (who so graciously hooks me upw ith free tickets all the time) works at my nearby theater, and he actually showed the damned things to me!
:-) DUI, not so much, in fact in the Marine Corps at least (and I know because I'm a Lance Corporal in the reserves and I'm trying to become an active duty officer post-college) they usually won't even talk to you w/ a DUI. Drug use is a little different so long as you have no felony convictions or there are mitigating circumstances (hey, I personally have friends who were busted for being with a guy who had weed on them without their knowledge.) Other government agencies are basically the same except for DUIs, dunno about the secret service (although don't count on ever protecting the president with a DUI, 'cause MSGs, much less secret service have to have minimum, top secret clearance and a walk-on-water record to get presidential duty) but other agencies are a little more lenient in that regard. CIA case officers are a totaqlly different ballgame...
As for this being a waste of resources...not really. I doubt they'll really net many people like this (except for people management catches, except most of it probably IS management.) Laws like this are usually just to add a scare factor. That might not deter you or your best friend, but for some people, knowing that their actions could land them in jail w/ a felony conviction, it will deter them. I will say this however...such a recording was already illegal: theft by taking.
As for DUIs and drug use...depends on what kind of job you want.
I don't read every article though. And sometimes I'm busy and don't read the site on a given day.
The only databases I really hear about (OSS DBs that is) are postgresql and mysql.
First off, Firebird is a cheesy name for a browser. It sounds cheap as-in-crappy.
Second, which project took the name first? The team holding the name longest SHOULD bitch, regardless of the size of their usebase.
Third, this will cause confusion among end-users who when told about the browser, might search, find the database, and go what the heck? At the worst, they say screw the browser, at best they send e-mails to the project admin asking about the browser annoying the heck out of the admin!
That's a rather asinine opinion. I care about all of that stuff, but databases are not of much use to me, so I don't keep track of matters related to databases. So, this was the first had heard of this database.
Gee, sounds like some of the CS majors I go to school with who don't understand why I need the 90 gigs I find small.
Then there are the professors from various departments who hate using the internet.
Lesson? It's got nothing to do with them being in the military, it is just the way some people are.
Look economic downturn is only temporary. Everything will bounce back, sooner or later, hopefully sooner but who knows. At that point we'll create more jobs than were lost and then we'll lose some of those and the cycle will continue. If you don't like the volatility of this industry though, you could always look at a change of profession i guess.
While i do question the security of it...privacy? Until you graduate and no longer live with your family you have no privacy other than what our family gives you! The sooner you learn that fact the better. And really...how long could that homework take? Just do it when you get home and be done with it!
If you are that concerned with the company's practice of doing credit checks, why are you willing to even take a job with the company? No one is forcing you other than you need for food. The company has a valid point - although not always true, people with poor credit are more likely to be a poor employee. This is a privacy issue sure, but if you want the job, frankly you just need to deal with it. Remember, when you are getting a job you are attempting to sell your skills to them. They don't have to buy your product, and you don't have to sell your product to them. For whatever reason they think poor credit might be the equivalent of a poor product, so if you wanna sell your product, just let them do the credit check.
This is the most overturned court in the United States, ever! This court loves government control of things and this ruling will serve to that end by strengthening some of our absurd patent laws.
Loser Pays.
LOL! Ironically, that area code predates the Internet as we know it. When I was even younger that was THE area code here. My how times change.
Large local calling area is an understatement! :-) I'm 19, and in over 19 years my family has had 2 issues with the telephone line, both were with a second line we had a couple years ago (prior to getting DSL), occurred in the same day, and were fixed on that same day. Between our great local calling area, fair prices (for home lines...business lines are a little to pricey I think but that's me...) and the service I've personally experienced, I can't find anything to complain about Bellsouth. However, the place I've worked for has switched among several providers for our business lines and we've had issue after issue with all of them. Gotta love Atlanta and telecom!
all of middle Georgia (which is essentially the metro-Atlanta area) is free along with parts of north Georgia. Any call to 770, 678 and 404 is a free call from within those area codes and parts of 706 constitute a local call from within 770, 678 and 404. We looooooove our phone system here.
You might want to check out who the authors/sponsors of the Patriot Act were. (Hint: Not all Republicans) Myself, I am a libertarian. I couldn't vote for someone to waste more money or enact more laws like the DMCA or CBDTA, in good conscience. Oh, check out the authors/sponsors of those bills too.
The FreeBSD drivers have been out for about a month. The news is that the drivers are part of the official driver package now and will be released with the regularity of the Windows drivers.
What's the point? This is a known. It's also part of the "everyone has a place in society" thing. Some people make the stuff, some people design it, some people sell it. Then some people scoop fries and some flip burgers and some make change. Then the overlap, some design, make and sell stuff (I can think of some law enforcement devices off hand...) and then some people not only scoop fries, but flip burgers and make change as well - depends on which grease joint they work at. In a free market economy such as that in the U.S. they are kind of dependant upon one another
One problem is that we have exactly had a flood of games that just make you go "Hot Damn Jim!" Yeah there have been some GREAT games this year, Neverwinter Nights, UT2003, so on so forth. Add to that the mentioned issue of there being 3 consoles. Then, there is everyone's fear of an economy that isn't doing great but isn't dying and slipping into a depression as you would think to listen to the news. Plus, PC hardware is kind of uncertain right now, what to buy as far as the best I mean. There are alot of factors playing into this.
Again, no vote was thrown away. Several newspapers, like the NY Times, Washington Post, Washington Times all conducted recounts using both Bush's and Gore's standards. Bush won either way. It was close as hell either way, but he still won. Aside from that, Gore wanted recounts with un-uniform standards, and only wanted recounts in certain counties. The supreme court said that if you conduct a recount, you must recount all of the votes for the state and you must use the same standard. By the time they drug it all through the courts, it was time for the electoral college to vote. Simple fact is, we don't vote for president in this country. That in my mind is a Good Thing (tm). It's called checks and balances, and the founders put them in their for a reason.
Simple. Stop voting for the people who accept donations from people you do not want influence from in the government. Narrows down your voting choices alot, but remember. No vote is thrown away. Every vote is a message. If everyone votes the same way, then their message is the one heard. So, if you vote for the person who is not as bad in your opinion and might actually win, and so does everyone else, then the cycle continues. But when EVERYONE begins to vote their conscience, and doesn't just vote for the major candidates then things might begin to change.
Problem...i watch DVDs...I have a DXR3, I have a nice large TV and 5.1 system...i hate console dvd players...MPlayer worked very poorly in this application, and Menus don't work exactly work all that beautifully, which they are just slightly necesary to me.
Playing files it really did no better than xine for any of the formats I use. Different drivers really made no difference.
I'll disagree about MPlayer. MPlayer is a little more fully featured, but I prefer Xine especially for DVD playing. Mplayer has given me nothing but performance fits and well, I don't exactly have a slow machine shall we say? :-) Not to mention the DVD menu support in MPlayer is not quite up to par from what the docs say.
find xine at http://xine.sourceforge.net
Really simple: my opinion is always the exact opposite of theirs. Once again my point is proven.
Everytime I've seen an anouncement about these drivers the anouncement has specifically said that the drivers are for cards made by ATI.
The main reason I use windows is for games, other than that, it sits in linux. Except for my laptop (which I am writing this from.) The hard drive space on my laptop prevents me from having both linux and windows on it, and I use it for alot of class related work which requires...windows. If every game that came out was released on linux, my desktop systems would run linux exclusively. And sorry, WineX just doesn't cut it for me.