Obviously you have never written an SBIR or BAA. You when you do research "At the tax payers expense", you need to show your plans to commercialize the results of the research. The government wants you to create a IP twoards a commerial project which will spur the economy, not to contribute to the scientific community as a whole. Take it as you will, but I think that most research would not get funded if your commertilization plan was to release it on sourceforge.
If you get an MBA then you won't be allowed to research anymore because you will be too busy doing business deals. I have a Math degree and that is reallt flexable. I'm currently doing research at an AI oriented company and loving it.
I personally liked the Music classes. Theory is really easy if you can divide by 3 and 4 and count to 12, and you meet some really cool chicks there. Just remember that the women want to have fun, so be fun but stay responsible during the week. I used a laptop, but I usually hung out in the same small lounges so I knew everyone there. If you study in the library, leaving out your laptop is a little more dangerous then if you study in a small lounge in your departments main building.
Post Script: You will not get women by helping them study.
Things were so much easier. The record execs had a game where we cut an album, then spent the next 4 years fighting to get paid, only to realize that our shady lawyer had stolen all of our profits and we were flat broke and unable to support our drug habbits. Wow- the things I learned in middle school.
The high bid is currently $20.50. I'm sure that a few lawyers who want to get involved in the case will pump this bid sky high. It may be worth $20,000 to some lawyer trying to get famous. It's just speculation now, lets see what happens.
Linux is big business. How many programmers do you know who claim that "the company" is ripping them off. I for one feel much safer with a geek on the inside.
Also- some people go to college to learn something, not just to get a degree so they can get a job. Alan Cox is way beyond "beefing up" his resume for a job.
Why would this make the GPL people mad? The GPL is about Free Speech, not Free Beer. Try calling debian's tech support line before you start complaining about this.
The real problem here is that the "spirit" of the GPL is getting thrashed. IP??? Patents??? The GPL was written so that I can write some code and say "see- look what I wrote- I'm so smart!!!" and no one can try and steal my own code from me. Now we have some real smart programmers, and IBM has some real smart lawers, so I'm not worried about the law suit, but hate the fact the we will have lawers analyzing the GPL for glitches when it's meaning is so obvious in spirit. It will also be interesting to see what Trump cards Linus and Stallman have up their sleves if this thing gets ugly.
Debian stable is almost too stable. I moved to woody then rescently to gentoo after a long stint with debian stable. If you are implementing a large- corporate system where stability is key, you really can't go wrong with debian, Just don't expect updated packages until up to or around a year after their release (maybe more).
Debian is also the easiest OS that I have ever ran. After getting my initial setup complete I ran it for about 2 years without a single problem or package conflicts. This includes several complete distro upgrades (one command to do this), and many added and removed packages.
Two years ago at my University, a major exploit in the grade system was found. A business major called the IT dept and claimed to be a professor who had forgotten her password. She then took her newly supplied pass and fixed her grade. Unfortunatley this girl was too stupid to keep it low key and got caught, but I'm sure that many before her hacked the system the easy way.
If you are looking to change your graded you might as well do it the easy way.
Even with duping most online economies are very stable (although I haven't seen many duping problems in EQ).
The real problem is the law. If The EQ pp is given a dollar value, then "real-world" legal issues come into play. I could definitly imagine a case where an expensive item drops (EQ fungi tunic sells for about $195) and there is a law suit because someone unfairly looted the item.
There is also gambling in EQ. If I can go buy pp, gamble, and cash in my winnings (presuming I win), then EQ becomes a casino.
These are all legal issues that sony can avoid by making sales of items illegal.
"until someone violates the GPL, goes to court and actually wins"
This would just cause the massive army of GPL developers to stop writing code under the GPL, and make the said companies lose their elite free workforce.
A major point that you are missing is that Linux exists, and each company will deal with it a different way.
Many people have become accustom to total market share domination, companies like IBM and Sun are fighting a very different battle. Total domination in a hardware market is now incredibly difficult if not impossible, so gaining market share is the goal. Linux gives these opportunities.
One example which comes to mind is Apple and linux PPC. I run an ibook with debian PPC. Apple hardware is truly amazing, and if linux becomes a desktop standard, Apple will gain a major competitive advantage over their current position in the desktop market. This is desirable for Apple (Duh).
Each of the companies who are supporting linux stand to gain some, if not many (usually almost free) competitive advantage(s) over their current position in the market.
While I can not tell you what each of these companies is thinking, I guarantee that each company which is supporting linux has a simple business plan on how they will use linux to gain market share and increse profits.
Of course these companies love Linux. It allows them to compete in a pure capatalist market. I don't really see this move as anti-MS/SCO, becuse MS/SCO are not involved in the competition at all. They have lisenced themselves out of the race.
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Reading your post- I couldn't help but plug your local community college. As a community college graduate who went on to get a B.S. in Math from a top 50 ranked school, I highly recommend this route.
In my experience, a CC faculty may not be the best overall, but each department nearly always has at least one great instructor. If you go to your local CC and talk to members of the math department, explaining your situation, you will get hooked up with the right people and classes.
The main downside of this option is the fixed schedule, but that can also be an advantage if you think that you may lose intrest with the self-study option. It is at least worth looking into.
That is command history, but how far back can you go? Can you access the command that you issued five or 27 commands ago? what about commands across sessions? If things get too annoying can you replace entering a bunch of commands with a shell (or MS equiv) script? What if I need to take the output of the command that I issued 14 commands ago and sent it to a new program that I don't really remember the name of?
I was actually aware that you can recall the last command from MS, but they really are not in the same ballpark. In fact I'm not sure if their command prompt even qualifies as a shell.
If you are use to system administration in emacs with the ability to use a good shell, windows is incredibly hard to use. I find point and click many times harder than just editing a config file, I'm fairly useless without grep (the unix almost all purpose search utility), and generally hate not having tools like command completion and command history (you would thing that MS could ship a distro with a descent shell).
One of the core arguments that linux users have against MS is that it's HARD to use. especially from a sysadmin's viewpoint.
Hey, I had almost every title that Loki ported and I bought Terminus and Tribes 2. The real problem is that I am the ONLY linux geek that I know who plays games. Now that linux is moving into the desktop market for the average user, maybe we will get more gamers. Loki is out of business because they jumped the gun.
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Obviously you have never written an SBIR or BAA. You when you do research "At the tax payers expense", you need to show your plans to commercialize the results of the research. The government wants you to create a IP twoards a commerial project which will spur the economy, not to contribute to the scientific community as a whole. Take it as you will, but I think that most research would not get funded if your commertilization plan was to release it on sourceforge.
If you get an MBA then you won't be allowed to research anymore because you will be too busy doing business deals. I have a Math degree and that is reallt flexable. I'm currently doing research at an AI oriented company and loving it.
Have you checked out something like Quantum Leap
I personally liked the Music classes. Theory is really easy if you can divide by 3 and 4 and count to 12, and you meet some really cool chicks there. Just remember that the women want to have fun, so be fun but stay responsible during the week. I used a laptop, but I usually hung out in the same small lounges so I knew everyone there. If you study in the library, leaving out your laptop is a little more dangerous then if you study in a small lounge in your departments main building.
Post Script: You will not get women by helping them study.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/09/21 34215&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=172
/. (or maybe by someone who has their kids support their windows box).
Anyway- This story is clearly written by someone who doesn't read
Things were so much easier. The record execs had a game where we cut an album, then spent the next 4 years fighting to get paid, only to realize that our shady lawyer had stolen all of our profits and we were flat broke and unable to support our drug habbits. Wow- the things I learned in middle school.
The high bid is currently $20.50. I'm sure that a few lawyers who want to get involved in the case will pump this bid sky high. It may be worth $20,000 to some lawyer trying to get famous. It's just speculation now, lets see what happens.
...I learned that one the hard way
Linux is big business. How many programmers do you know who claim that "the company" is ripping them off. I for one feel much safer with a geek on the inside.
Also- some people go to college to learn something, not just to get a degree so they can get a job. Alan Cox is way beyond "beefing up" his resume for a job.
Why would this make the GPL people mad? The GPL is about Free Speech, not Free Beer. Try calling debian's tech support line before you start complaining about this.
The real problem here is that the "spirit" of the GPL is getting thrashed. IP??? Patents??? The GPL was written so that I can write some code and say "see- look what I wrote- I'm so smart!!!" and no one can try and steal my own code from me. Now we have some real smart programmers, and IBM has some real smart lawers, so I'm not worried about the law suit, but hate the fact the we will have lawers analyzing the GPL for glitches when it's meaning is so obvious in spirit. It will also be interesting to see what Trump cards Linus and Stallman have up their sleves if this thing gets ugly.
Debian stable is almost too stable. I moved to woody then rescently to gentoo after a long stint with debian stable. If you are implementing a large- corporate system where stability is key, you really can't go wrong with debian, Just don't expect updated packages until up to or around a year after their release (maybe more).
Debian is also the easiest OS that I have ever ran. After getting my initial setup complete I ran it for about 2 years without a single problem or package conflicts. This includes several complete distro upgrades (one command to do this), and many added and removed packages.
Two years ago at my University, a major exploit in the grade system was found. A business major called the IT dept and claimed to be a professor who had forgotten her password. She then took her newly supplied pass and fixed her grade. Unfortunatley this girl was too stupid to keep it low key and got caught, but I'm sure that many before her hacked the system the easy way.
If you are looking to change your graded you might as well do it the easy way.
Even with duping most online economies are very stable (although I haven't seen many duping problems in EQ).
The real problem is the law. If The EQ pp is given a dollar value, then "real-world" legal issues come into play. I could definitly imagine a case where an expensive item drops (EQ fungi tunic sells for about $195) and there is a law suit because someone unfairly looted the item.
There is also gambling in EQ. If I can go buy pp, gamble, and cash in my winnings (presuming I win), then EQ becomes a casino.
These are all legal issues that sony can avoid by making sales of items illegal.
"until someone violates the GPL, goes to court and actually wins"
This would just cause the massive army of GPL developers to stop writing code under the GPL, and make the said companies lose their elite free workforce.
A major point that you are missing is that Linux exists, and each company will deal with it a different way.
Many people have become accustom to total market share domination, companies like IBM and Sun are fighting a very different battle. Total domination in a hardware market is now incredibly difficult if not impossible, so gaining market share is the goal. Linux gives these opportunities.
One example which comes to mind is Apple and linux PPC. I run an ibook with debian PPC. Apple hardware is truly amazing, and if linux becomes a desktop standard, Apple will gain a major competitive advantage over their current position in the desktop market. This is desirable for Apple (Duh).
Each of the companies who are supporting linux stand to gain some, if not many (usually almost free) competitive advantage(s) over their current position in the market.
While I can not tell you what each of these companies is thinking, I guarantee that each company which is supporting linux has a simple business plan on how they will use linux to gain market share and increse profits.
Dyslexia makes this story alot funnier
Free Enterprise == Competiton == Free Software
As demonstrated above.
Of course these companies love Linux. It allows them to compete in a pure capatalist market. I don't really see this move as anti-MS/SCO, becuse MS/SCO are not involved in the competition at all. They have lisenced themselves out of the race.
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Reading your post- I couldn't help but plug your local community college. As a community college graduate who went on to get a B.S. in
Math from a top 50 ranked school, I highly recommend this route.
In my experience, a CC faculty may not be the best overall, but each department nearly always has at least one great instructor. If you go to your local CC and talk to members of the math department, explaining your situation, you will get hooked up with the right people and classes.
The main downside of this option is the fixed schedule, but that can also be an advantage if you think that you may lose intrest with the self-study option. It is at least worth looking into.
The HP48 is one of the most reliable calculators ever made. I have literally seen one run over by a truck and still work.
Then HP made the 49, which I quickly tossed aside without a care where it landed, because I knew I would never use it again.
Hopefully this new 49 is as cool and durable as the 48 was.
I was at a bar once and saw Dwarf Tossing!!! That has to count for something.
That is command history, but how far back can you go? Can you access the command that you issued five or 27 commands ago? what about commands across sessions? If things get too annoying can you replace entering a bunch of commands with a shell (or MS equiv) script? What if I need to take the output of the command that I issued 14 commands ago and sent it to a new program that I don't really remember the name of?
I was actually aware that you can recall the last command from MS, but they really are not in the same ballpark. In fact I'm not sure if their command prompt even qualifies as a shell.
If you are use to system administration in emacs with the ability to use a good shell, windows is incredibly hard to use. I find point and click many times harder than just editing a config file, I'm fairly useless without grep (the unix almost all purpose search utility), and generally hate not having tools like command completion and command history (you would thing that MS could ship a distro with a descent shell).
One of the core arguments that linux users have against MS is that it's HARD to use. especially from a sysadmin's viewpoint.
Hey, I had almost every title that Loki ported and I bought Terminus and Tribes 2. The real problem is that I am the ONLY linux geek that I know who plays games. Now that linux is moving into the desktop market for the average user, maybe we will get more gamers. Loki is out of business because they jumped the gun.