As I recall back in the day, the reason to contribute to Open Source efforts was not because you were going to make bank from it, but to make sure that the source code was available and could be modified or extended by those people who wanted/needed to as long as they shared the results.
This movement has always been an explicit "end around" the restrictions of copyright law. Going back to the dark ages of closed source and proprietary code won't be doing anyone (especially open source developers) any favors.
The $1 million investment goes specifically to OB1, the newly formed company headed by CEO Brian Hoffman, previously a cybersecurity and IT consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton,
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. is an American management consulting firm headquartered in Tysons Corner, Fairfax County, Virginia in Greater Washington DC, with 80 other offices throughout the United States. Its core business is the provision of management, technology and security services, to civilian government agencies, as a security and defense contractor[5] to defense and intelligence agencies, and to civil and commercial entities.
Former Booz Allen guy running it? I hate to be the tinfoil hat guy (Ed note: liar, he really does) but that makes me skeptical.
enough of a Randroid to want to give people their money's worth.
Oh the irony.... Your individual contributions have negative value if they cannot be used and leveraged by the entire project/team. No one is an island. Software development is a team sport and there is nothing more useless than a cowboy who doesn't believe they have to follow standard process and methods.
There is nothing lucky about having good public transportation infrastructure. It requires sensible public policy, a populace willing to pay taxes and an electorate that votes for it. Perhaps after a few thousand people lose their drivers license they may be inclined to support it.
The cost of non billiable hours are built into what you pay for parts and labor. Ever wonder why list prices for construction materials and auto parts are so high and the contractor and mechanics get discounts? It's to pay for overhead costs. If the people doing micro work have built this into their rates, than there is no difference. However, the nature of these sites makes it difficult to include that cost, so people accepting the work are enabling self exploitation.
Real work involves using a copy/paste function and multiple windows. I like my Nexus 7 as much as the next person, but it's not a pc. Not even when I carry it with it's blue tooth keyboard.
Technology is providing the ability to exploit unequal labor markets and avoid the regulations that force capitalism to provide broad based benefits. A middle class doesn't happen by accident. It requires government policy to enforce and making work location independent through tech has done much to destroy the middle class.
I remember the digitizers. My school had some Koala Pads. I had a//c and though the computer is long gone, I still have a box of floppies for the nostalgia.
All relationships take work. When the cost of replacement is low, you are not committed to putting in the effort to make a relationship work and instead find someone else that you refuse to commit to because thee might be someone better out there and you don't want to feel like you "settled".
You are assuming you will never have a significant medical need. This is a very poor assumption and it is obvious that you are not capable of doing the necessary risk/cost calculations. Bear in mind that one hospitalization will run you $10k, if you need to have a major procedure done that will likely cost you $25k or more. These are just for one time events. If you get a chronic condition, these numbers can go way up.
The reason insurance is required under the new plan is that people are stupid and short sighted.
Not really. I didn't (and basically still don't) care about streaming video and other high bandwidth activities, I just wanted the damn browser to display things properly. These were all issues that existed for BB in the 3G era and hitching it to the roll out of 4G is a bit of revisionist history.
It was a 9700. I really liked many of the devices features, particularly the keyboard and battery life. WRT the browser, there were lots of sites that wouldn't display properly and the small screen made surfing for anything but the most basic of information an exercise in frustration. Speed was never an issue for me. I was considering getting a Torch, but a number of my coworkers had them and the reviews were uniformly bad.
When my BB broke last year I ended up replacing it with an iPhone 4. There are many things about the iPhone that annoy the piss out of me. The UI is far less intuitive than the apple fan-base would have you believe and there is no unified contact management and messaging as there is on a BB.
The browser on the iPhone works perfectly and I can even read the NY Times on it without too much trouble when the situation calls for it.
I was mostly happy with my BlackBerry Bold, but the real issue for me wasn't apps, it was the shitty web browser and small screen. The killer app for smart phones is the Web. If they managed to get that to work seamlessly, they would have kept their customer base and app developers. What did them in was that the Torch was a buggy piece of crap. The UI for email and contacts and all the other communication functions is already superior to the the iPhone.
Nonsense! There are quite a few games where I would love to have a separate screen. With FPS's you could put the map, more detailed injury status, inventory and all sorts of things that might make for new and interesting game play. RPG's would derive a huge benefit as well in that you wouldn't need to waste game real estate on status, configuration or other information.
Your issue is that you are imagining today's game elements moved onto a second screen. I agree that this would merely be a marginal improvement, though one which I would welcome. Instead consider how the second screen and all that lovely space can be used to improve the game in various ways.
There is certainly a benefit to spending a lot of money on engineering, never the less horsepower is a function of fuel burned. If you prefer the comparison, my Subaru WRX gets 18/25 at 228 HP with AWD.
I think some game had inverted Y axis as the default, or it seemed more intuitive when I first started playing games that allowed you to look up and down.
For me this was Mechwarrior, mainly because it is more like a sim than a shooter. To this day I play every game with a first person view with the mouse inverted. All the 20 somethings I hang out with think its weird.
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"No one buys insurance expecting up front to either subsidize other clients or be subsidized themselves"
The only reason people don't expect this is because they don't understand how insurance actually works. Apparently, you are one of these people.
As I recall back in the day, the reason to contribute to Open Source efforts was not because you were going to make bank from it, but to make sure that the source code was available and could be modified or extended by those people who wanted/needed to as long as they shared the results.
This movement has always been an explicit "end around" the restrictions of copyright law. Going back to the dark ages of closed source and proprietary code won't be doing anyone (especially open source developers) any favors.
A multi trillion dollar military defense complex.
If you can't show (read persuaid) someone else what your data is saying, your analysis is effectively useless.
It's fishier than that. From the link:
Some background on Booz Allen:
Former Booz Allen guy running it? I hate to be the tinfoil hat guy (Ed note: liar, he really does) but that makes me skeptical.
enough of a Randroid to want to give people their money's worth.
Oh the irony.... Your individual contributions have negative value if they cannot be used and leveraged by the entire project/team. No one is an island. Software development is a team sport and there is nothing more useless than a cowboy who doesn't believe they have to follow standard process and methods.
There is nothing lucky about having good public transportation infrastructure. It requires sensible public policy, a populace willing to pay taxes and an electorate that votes for it. Perhaps after a few thousand people lose their drivers license they may be inclined to support it.
This is pretty much the textbook definition of a good programmer, not a mediocre one.
The cost of non billiable hours are built into what you pay for parts and labor. Ever wonder why list prices for construction materials and auto parts are so high and the contractor and mechanics get discounts? It's to pay for overhead costs. If the people doing micro work have built this into their rates, than there is no difference. However, the nature of these sites makes it difficult to include that cost, so people accepting the work are enabling self exploitation.
Let's exterminate ourselves
Don't you worry. That's more or less exactly what is going to happen if we do nothing about climate change. It's a problem that solves itself!
Real work involves using a copy/paste function and multiple windows. I like my Nexus 7 as much as the next person, but it's not a pc. Not even when I carry it with it's blue tooth keyboard.
Technology is providing the ability to exploit unequal labor markets and avoid the regulations that force capitalism to provide broad based benefits. A middle class doesn't happen by accident. It requires government policy to enforce and making work location independent through tech has done much to destroy the middle class.
I remember the digitizers. My school had some Koala Pads. I had a //c and though the computer is long gone, I still have a box of floppies for the nostalgia.
All relationships take work. When the cost of replacement is low, you are not committed to putting in the effort to make a relationship work and instead find someone else that you refuse to commit to because thee might be someone better out there and you don't want to feel like you "settled".
Ummm... the B-1B is Mach 1.25.
You are assuming you will never have a significant medical need. This is a very poor assumption and it is obvious that you are not capable of doing the necessary risk/cost calculations. Bear in mind that one hospitalization will run you $10k, if you need to have a major procedure done that will likely cost you $25k or more. These are just for one time events. If you get a chronic condition, these numbers can go way up.
The reason insurance is required under the new plan is that people are stupid and short sighted.
It's a Reddit thing. Stands for Ask Me Anything.
Not really. I didn't (and basically still don't) care about streaming video and other high bandwidth activities, I just wanted the damn browser to display things properly. These were all issues that existed for BB in the 3G era and hitching it to the roll out of 4G is a bit of revisionist history.
It was a 9700. I really liked many of the devices features, particularly the keyboard and battery life. WRT the browser, there were lots of sites that wouldn't display properly and the small screen made surfing for anything but the most basic of information an exercise in frustration. Speed was never an issue for me. I was considering getting a Torch, but a number of my coworkers had them and the reviews were uniformly bad.
When my BB broke last year I ended up replacing it with an iPhone 4. There are many things about the iPhone that annoy the piss out of me. The UI is far less intuitive than the apple fan-base would have you believe and there is no unified contact management and messaging as there is on a BB.
The browser on the iPhone works perfectly and I can even read the NY Times on it without too much trouble when the situation calls for it.
I was mostly happy with my BlackBerry Bold, but the real issue for me wasn't apps, it was the shitty web browser and small screen. The killer app for smart phones is the Web. If they managed to get that to work seamlessly, they would have kept their customer base and app developers. What did them in was that the Torch was a buggy piece of crap. The UI for email and contacts and all the other communication functions is already superior to the the iPhone.
Nonsense! There are quite a few games where I would love to have a separate screen. With FPS's you could put the map, more detailed injury status, inventory and all sorts of things that might make for new and interesting game play. RPG's would derive a huge benefit as well in that you wouldn't need to waste game real estate on status, configuration or other information.
Your issue is that you are imagining today's game elements moved onto a second screen. I agree that this would merely be a marginal improvement, though one which I would welcome. Instead consider how the second screen and all that lovely space can be used to improve the game in various ways.
There is certainly a benefit to spending a lot of money on engineering, never the less horsepower is a function of fuel burned. If you prefer the comparison, my Subaru WRX gets 18/25 at 228 HP with AWD.
That's not very good for 2 wheel drive and ~ 240 HP. My 911 Turbo gets 16/23 with AWD and 470 HP.
I think some game had inverted Y axis as the default, or it seemed more intuitive when I first started playing games that allowed you to look up and down.
For me this was Mechwarrior, mainly because it is more like a sim than a shooter. To this day I play every game with a first person view with the mouse inverted. All the 20 somethings I hang out with think its weird.
Agreed.
"Look at the bright side kid. You get to keep ALL the money."