If all it takes to get money for facilities is to slap somebody's name on it - then I'm all for that.
That's about it. I was at Georgia Tech, and a buddy asked the President of the school at the opening of a new building, not yet named after someone, 'what would it take to get my name up there?' The answer was $X (can't recall the amount, maybe $500,000).
I bought an iPod, and I probably would buy this, if I wasn't saving up for a laptop. Microsoft's Media Center version of Windows XP is easy to use, and it does look pretty good. If the portable Media Center is anything like the Media Center version of XP then I would buy it.
That sure is a long way to say, "I'll buy anything!"
Debian, we appreciate your principled pursuit of the one free distro, but if you change Firefox, it ain't Firefox anymore; it's a fork.
The GPL in this case is to free software as the NCAA is to college athletics. A bag of bricks strapped to your back. BSD is looking better every day. I know the arguments--who has time for the hassle?
Well, as I mentioned in another post...for the most part...how are they going to know you aren't 'meeting emission' standards? I've never lived in a state that checked your exhaust. And if you did...couldn't you fix it for the test...then, undo it for normal driving when finished? I don't know much about cars...would like to learn...but, I'd think this would be feasible...
When I lived in CA (late 80s) I had a mid-70s Pontiac Behemoth. It spewed oil smoke (a quart per tank of gas! But it was brown, not blue smoke). I had it emissions tested at a local garage, and it always passed after the tester tweaked the distributor. This tweaking always made the engine ping and act sluggish. I'd tweak it right back after I got home. Hello power.
... Who the hell is Cory Doctorow and why would we care?
He's the "/. NASA Engineer Lookalike of the Day." Just wait for your turn, it's coming. Please, you should have something cool about you to entertain us all.
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Are you afraid he will get your email address and add you to his list?
More spam is not an idle threat. It is a Real Danger.
Growing up in Virginia, and the Cicada hordes descended. It was absoultely revolting, you couldn't walk anywhere without constantly crunching cicadas. My friends would grab them by the wings and throw them to the sidewalk, smashing them, which was worse, because now that section of sidewalk was covered with smashed cicadas. I just stayed inside hiding from the plague. And the noise, noise noise, noise, noise (think Grinch here).
I'd like to start playing the "America needs good jobs" game.
I certainly appreciate your love of home country, but don't put your hope in the Left here. They're part of the problem--high regulatory costs (and doesn't the Left like Regulation!) that make overseas labor so much cheaper. In typical fashion, they'll apply a government "solution" to a problem, exacerbating it, which in turn requires more government "solutions".
Amazing, isn't it, how people whine about losing jobs, then when you show them where the jobs are, they give you all sorts of reasons why they can't take THAT job, and then continue to whine about losing jobs.
Not all of us are rootless drifters. Some of us like it here, it's our home, problems and all.
It would be even worse if it was effective. Imagine the first time some joined corps get hit by a distributed reflection DOS attack and their little vigilante group of automated systems take out CNN, AOL, Yahoo, Google, etc in the counterstrike.
Just write it off as regrettable "collateral damage" in the "war on cyberterrorism" and reload.
Of course, companies in the US will probably love this, it fits well with their governments' 'first strike' foreign policy directives as pushed by Mr Shrub etc
No, no, remember, the government's differentiator is "_we_ get to do things that are illegal for you!"
You may know what he paid, but you seem to fail miserably in knowing what he paid for
Whatever he paid, the EULA clearly states that it is the right to use on a single machine. You don't have to like it, you don't have to even agree to it. You should recognize that failure to comply with it is misappropriation of intellectual property.
I never see the flippant attitude here towards the GPL as I see towards M$ EULAs. Just imagine people saying, "I have the code, I can do what I want with it, even distribute binary only!" and the uproar begins.
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We're happiest when we're unhappy. So we're unhappy in the job? Great!
That's about it. I was at Georgia Tech, and a buddy asked the President of the school at the opening of a new building, not yet named after someone, 'what would it take to get my name up there?' The answer was $X (can't recall the amount, maybe $500,000).
They're out on the "Let's use Esperanto!" World Tour.
That sure is a long way to say, "I'll buy anything!"
The GPL in this case is to free software as the NCAA is to college athletics. A bag of bricks strapped to your back. BSD is looking better every day. I know the arguments--who has time for the hassle?
Looks like we're right in the middle of the "good old days" of computing!
I guess the insurance killed you before you did, eh? Not a bad thing.
When I lived in CA (late 80s) I had a mid-70s Pontiac Behemoth. It spewed oil smoke (a quart per tank of gas! But it was brown, not blue smoke). I had it emissions tested at a local garage, and it always passed after the tester tweaked the distributor. This tweaking always made the engine ping and act sluggish. I'd tweak it right back after I got home. Hello power.
Do you have to break the CD copy protection scheme to win?
He's the "/. NASA Engineer Lookalike of the Day." Just wait for your turn, it's coming. Please, you should have something cool about you to entertain us all.
More spam is not an idle threat. It is a Real Danger.
Growing up in Virginia, and the Cicada hordes descended. It was absoultely revolting, you couldn't walk anywhere without constantly crunching cicadas. My friends would grab them by the wings and throw them to the sidewalk, smashing them, which was worse, because now that section of sidewalk was covered with smashed cicadas. I just stayed inside hiding from the plague. And the noise, noise noise, noise, noise (think Grinch here).
I certainly appreciate your love of home country, but don't put your hope in the Left here. They're part of the problem--high regulatory costs (and doesn't the Left like Regulation!) that make overseas labor so much cheaper. In typical fashion, they'll apply a government "solution" to a problem, exacerbating it, which in turn requires more government "solutions".
Not all of us are rootless drifters. Some of us like it here, it's our home, problems and all.
Materially, yes. Culturally, the US is a stinkhole.
I think you have a future in marketing.
There you go: just move the operation to Georgia.
Just write it off as regrettable "collateral damage" in the "war on cyberterrorism" and reload.
No, no, remember, the government's differentiator is "_we_ get to do things that are illegal for you!"
Show us the money. We'll get you a nice obfuscated 1-line perl script out of it that your boss would just love.
So if my Windows server _doesn't_ crash, it's a feature, not a bug? Exactly!
I suggest as an alternative: Darth Vader's head. It says the project is built by a folks who take world domination seriously.
Let's see: wisdom, or a quick hit of cash? Wisdom or cash? Wisdom or cash? I'LL TAKE THE CASH!
You must not be a mindless idiot.
I never see the flippant attitude here towards the GPL as I see towards M$ EULAs. Just imagine people saying, "I have the code, I can do what I want with it, even distribute binary only!" and the uproar begins.