Are you so sure of your competence that you think you can 'do it' better than those people who OTHER people are paying to do it?
isn't that the point of open source software in the first place? that it is better than the 'commercial solutions', and that in fact, with the source, you don't need to depend on paying someone to do it, if you've got the source yourself?
You don't run a business, do you? Any business person can tell you that this is 100% wrong.
ermm.. i have run more businesses, and been involved in more large-scale enterprise software development, than most.
and this is in fact the reason why i say: roll your own.
software is not hard. its only made hard by those who would profit from the difficult nature of it...
Unless you're a software company, software is just a tool like any others.
even if you are a software company, software is still just a tool like any others. if your business is selling pigs, and you need software to control the sale of those pigs, it is far better for you to have your own, purpose-built, customized software for the selling of pigs, than it is to 'copy someone elses model'.
it shouldn't be more expensive (even though, in the past, it has been). and the point of this article is that, in fact, software is getting easier, or else there wouldn't be so much open source software supplanting 'old-school solutions' in the first place...
How does your comment have to deal with the head of the MPAA saying that unless they get the broadcast flag, they'll stop providing movies for television?
people shouldn't care what the MPAA do. they should stop being enslaved by such vested interests as the MPAA, and get rid of Television, for good..
A company which purchases the infrastructure it requires to operate and expand, isn't an enterprise. It's, at best, half of the solution.
If you have a business scenario which is driven by software processes, confronting the software creation, and being fully responsible for the continued evolution of that software, is the only way to guarantee continued survival as an enterprising solution to your customers. Buy something from someone else, and you put the majority of the True Value of your company in someone elses' hands..
Do it Yourself. This is the keystone for future business success.
If its hard, all the more reason to do it in-house..
I'm not implying anything, I'm stating it: Television IS bad for you, bad for the economy, bad for the environment, and bad for society.
Look, its entirely possible to live and be healthy in a society which does not slavishly devote its 'recreational time' to the pursuit of sedentary, passive observation. Its quite possible that, in lieu of television 'entertainment', more direct, interactive forms of relaxation can be pursued.
Count how many hours of television you watch. Multiply it by the number of TV viewers in your neighborhood. Figure out how much energy this requires.
Here's a news-flash for you: the world (and this means America too) is in the middle of a major energy crisis. Countless wars are fought over the control of energy, for what purpose? So 200 million people (and more) can sit around on their asses on a Thursday afternoon and do nothing.
Solve the energy crisis: destroy your Television. The power it uses 'to entertain you' could be used elsewhere. The minds of TV consumers could be better applied to other pursuits. Society is capable of surviving without its Electronic Masters...
Yes, the Internet is BETTER than Television. Why? Because it allows all involved to participate, not just the Holy Chosen Few who are "Producers" of "Content" for the "Consumers" to "Pay For". Destroy the TV cult, and you remove one of the most insidious, darkest influences on society in the modern world. Kill Hollywood!
No more Fat Gay Pink Executives Getting Rich on An Entire Nations Laziness!! Destroy The Consumer Mind-Set!
And what's this have to do with the issue of the MPAA not allowing TV movies?
the point is: this is all crap. the MPAA crying about not having willing consumer slaves is moot. these slaves should wake up, turn off their TV, and start thinking for themselves!
Oh wait, just more drivel by a leftist whiner living in his mother's basement.
actually, i live in my condo. my mother is on the other side of the planet, where she lives in her own house by the sea. and.. i wouldn't say i'm "leftist" except that i don't just blindly follow the mainstream zombie view that 'television is worth more than communication', and that people are not worth the tiny bit of respect it takes to honor their view, and communicate.
Grow a brain.
buy pepsi! drink coke! support your local nike overlords!
Seriously! All this hoop-lah about.. what.. exactly? Generations and Generations of people sitting around on their asses, enslaved by the God Box.
Turn it off. Take it outside. Smash it.
Talk to your neighbor instead. Learn a new board game. Do something you've never done before. Go somewhere new. Take walks. Learn a new hobby.
The end result of Television is: Wasted Minds.
Let the "Entertainment Cultists" cry their woe. All you TV-bots are wasting valuable resources. You know how much OIL it takes to make a TV show? You know how much OIL it takes for 10 million people to watch the same show, every day, over and over, all over the country?
Seriously. You are Not Being Entertained, your Mind is being Controlled by Remote..
i started earthlink with sky. my original plan for the modem pools was to use linux-based terminal servers.. it warms my cockles to see them finally doing the linux gig..
I doubt that it's even *possible* to kill several thousand people with cracking, you could only cause extreme inconvenience.
well, thats what drills like this are designed to discover, isn't it?
i mean, you may not have the imagination and skill to kill a lot of poeple with computing systems, but since computing systems are ubiquitous and reach through all walks of life, i think there's a fairly high chance it could happen...
yes it does, you were in 6th grade. from that point on its at least 10 years of practice before you should be willing to write yourself off (pun intended) as a bad hand-writer.. 'muscles do not work that way' is crap, too. what a justification for laziness! in 6th grade, your muscles still have a loooong way to go before they're "done, fixed condition".
honest, this is whats wrong with education: excuses, excuses, excuses...
I'd love to know which Palm products allow one to use the Cobalt API's.. any Palm hackers around who have details? Its been a long time since I hacked on Palm..
one cool aspect of this trade-show demo is that there is now, finally, an appropriate answer to the PC-cult 'no games on Mac' claim.. not only are there games on Mac, but Microsoft is developing those games on Mac first, then porting them to XBox360.. so, STFU, game-nerds.
umm.. 100,000 deaths.... basically the despots around the world hate us but want our money...
umm, sorry, but no. the rest of the world wants to do away with using the US Dollar as the monetary standard, and convert to Euro's and Yen.. its the US that wants all currencies tied to the Almighty Dollar, buddy, not the other way around..
Americans live in a bubble from which they launch death.
but the breathy overstatement of how it will change out lives is a wee bit overdone./i.
i dunno, since the personal broadcast media revolution came along, i no longer feed off the general concencus being mass-produed for the hive-mind by "Big Media".. in fact, i hardly pay much attention to "Big Media" and all their benevolent sponsors, at all, any more.. they're not making money off my time, which is being spent listening to and enjoying/paying-for content that has been made by people who are much, much, much closer to me and my mores, as a fan, than "Clear Channel" arer...
laders like jobs ridiculing this movement through generalities and slures really only shows that yes, in fact, putting mass-media broadcast tools in the hands of The People, instead of it being the exclusive domain of the vested interest/vaulted few, is a good thing..
I figure that the only reason Bush used the WMD argument for going into Iraq was because that was what the Europeans would go for. I figure that we went in because it was a humanitarian nightmare, we had forces tied up just guarding the border, he was flaunting the sanctions, the oil for food program was a joke because of all the corruption, and Bush didn't want another Cuba hanging around for decades.
ermm.. it would be nice if he told the truth, just once, before killing 100,000 people, about why it is important for him to kill 100,000 people.
that american's can't take any responsibility, whatsoever, for their government, is the reason their government is so atrociously out of control in the first place..
What I do know is that over the last 20 years, it has become increasingly clear that it is incompatible with US claims of advancing democracy and freedom around the world.
umm.. there's plenty of democracy and freedom in the world that is not a result of American military aggression.
its the American desire to push people around, just because you've got the bigger stick, thats not compatible with the current world view. Americans' meddle too often!!
The video arcade where I first played Pac-Man 25 years ago is still there, incidentally.
thats pretty cool.. on my infrequent trips back home in the last 25 years, i often look for the old gamer spots, but alas the city has moved on.. though i did one time see a Galaxian t-shirt in the window of the 'fashion shop' that once was a chips&coke deli i spent far too many hot afternoons in, shooting along..
seems so weird to me now, spotting the cultural cue's and echo's of those games, resonating out into the world, now, for 25 years..
off to play a little QIX on the all-in-one'r, which i'm sure will follow me into the retirement home/old-persons dwelling-shanty, heh heh..
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Are you so sure of your competence that you think you can 'do it' better than those people who OTHER people are paying to do it?
isn't that the point of open source software in the first place? that it is better than the 'commercial solutions', and that in fact, with the source, you don't need to depend on paying someone to do it, if you've got the source yourself?
You don't run a business, do you? Any business person can tell you that this is 100% wrong.
...
ermm.. i have run more businesses, and been involved in more large-scale enterprise software development, than most.
and this is in fact the reason why i say: roll your own.
software is not hard. its only made hard by those who would profit from the difficult nature of it...
Unless you're a software company, software is just a tool like any others.
even if you are a software company, software is still just a tool like any others. if your business is selling pigs, and you need software to control the sale of those pigs, it is far better for you to have your own, purpose-built, customized software for the selling of pigs, than it is to 'copy someone elses model'.
it shouldn't be more expensive (even though, in the past, it has been). and the point of this article is that, in fact, software is getting easier, or else there wouldn't be so much open source software supplanting 'old-school solutions' in the first place
I fail to see how ridding oneself of their television is relevant to the issue at hand
no television == no broadcast flag == no MPAA controlling the content, and thus the nature, of culture.
How does your comment have to deal with the head of the MPAA saying that unless they get the broadcast flag, they'll stop providing movies for television?
..
people shouldn't care what the MPAA do. they should stop being enslaved by such vested interests as the MPAA, and get rid of Television, for good
understand?
.. if it isn't "Roll Your Own"?
..
A company which purchases the infrastructure it requires to operate and expand, isn't an enterprise. It's, at best, half of the solution.
If you have a business scenario which is driven by software processes, confronting the software creation, and being fully responsible for the continued evolution of that software, is the only way to guarantee continued survival as an enterprising solution to your customers. Buy something from someone else, and you put the majority of the True Value of your company in someone elses' hands..
Do it Yourself. This is the keystone for future business success.
If its hard, all the more reason to do it in-house
I'm not implying anything, I'm stating it: Television IS bad for you, bad for the economy, bad for the environment, and bad for society.
Look, its entirely possible to live and be healthy in a society which does not slavishly devote its 'recreational time' to the pursuit of sedentary, passive observation. Its quite possible that, in lieu of television 'entertainment', more direct, interactive forms of relaxation can be pursued.
Count how many hours of television you watch. Multiply it by the number of TV viewers in your neighborhood. Figure out how much energy this requires.
Here's a news-flash for you: the world (and this means America too) is in the middle of a major energy crisis. Countless wars are fought over the control of energy, for what purpose? So 200 million people (and more) can sit around on their asses on a Thursday afternoon and do nothing.
Solve the energy crisis: destroy your Television. The power it uses 'to entertain you' could be used elsewhere. The minds of TV consumers could be better applied to other pursuits. Society is capable of surviving without its Electronic Masters...
Yes, the Internet is BETTER than Television. Why? Because it allows all involved to participate, not just the Holy Chosen Few who are "Producers" of "Content" for the "Consumers" to "Pay For". Destroy the TV cult, and you remove one of the most insidious, darkest influences on society in the modern world. Kill Hollywood!
No more Fat Gay Pink Executives Getting Rich on An Entire Nations Laziness!! Destroy The Consumer Mind-Set!
And what's this have to do with the issue of the MPAA not allowing TV movies?
.. i wouldn't say i'm "leftist" except that i don't just blindly follow the mainstream zombie view that 'television is worth more than communication', and that people are not worth the tiny bit of respect it takes to honor their view, and communicate.
the point is: this is all crap. the MPAA crying about not having willing consumer slaves is moot. these slaves should wake up, turn off their TV, and start thinking for themselves!
Oh wait, just more drivel by a leftist whiner living in his mother's basement.
actually, i live in my condo. my mother is on the other side of the planet, where she lives in her own house by the sea. and
Grow a brain.
buy pepsi! drink coke! support your local nike overlords!
Kill your TV!
.. what .. exactly? Generations and Generations of people sitting around on their asses, enslaved by the God Box.
..
Seriously! All this hoop-lah about
Turn it off. Take it outside. Smash it.
Talk to your neighbor instead. Learn a new board game. Do something you've never done before. Go somewhere new. Take walks. Learn a new hobby.
The end result of Television is: Wasted Minds.
Let the "Entertainment Cultists" cry their woe. All you TV-bots are wasting valuable resources. You know how much OIL it takes to make a TV show? You know how much OIL it takes for 10 million people to watch the same show, every day, over and over, all over the country?
Seriously. You are Not Being Entertained, your Mind is being Controlled by Remote
umm .. sorry, but SO WHAT?
would it have been so hard to have actually used each one of these programs a bit first? a visual comparison is USELESS without DATA!
those screenshots are mostly whitespace. beh!!
i started earthlink with sky. my original plan for the modem pools was to use linux-based terminal servers
Whale Hunt.
Baby Seal Club.
Baghdad Sniper.
Zionist World Order.
Mega-Corp Butt-Rape.
hey, i think these'd be fun games to play, anyway
You're kidding, right? Interfering is what we do-* .
(*-offer only valid in oil-rich countries...)
I doubt that it's even *possible* to kill several thousand people with cracking, you could only cause extreme inconvenience.
well, thats what drills like this are designed to discover, isn't it?
i mean, you may not have the imagination and skill to kill a lot of poeple with computing systems, but since computing systems are ubiquitous and reach through all walks of life, i think there's a fairly high chance it could happen...
"lack of practice doesn't fit"
...
yes it does, you were in 6th grade. from that point on its at least 10 years of practice before you should be willing to write yourself off (pun intended) as a bad hand-writer.. 'muscles do not work that way' is crap, too. what a justification for laziness! in 6th grade, your muscles still have a loooong way to go before they're "done, fixed condition".
honest, this is whats wrong with education: excuses, excuses, excuses
I'd love to know which Palm products allow one to use the Cobalt API's .. any Palm hackers around who have details? Its been a long time since I hacked on Palm ..
bay, typical pscyho rubbish!
just because they've got a 'name' for your 'condition' doesn't mean that "practice doesn't make perfect".
you wrote, you got analyzed, you were told 'why' your handwriting sucks, you stopped handwriting. it was the wrong reason why.
your handwriting sucks because you don't do enough of it, and now, because of a convenient 'analysis', you don't care either...
one cool aspect of this trade-show demo is that there is now, finally, an appropriate answer to the PC-cult 'no games on Mac' claim .. not only are there games on Mac, but Microsoft is developing those games on Mac first, then porting them to XBox360 .. so, STFU, game-nerds.
Mac roolz, you drool!
umm .. 100,000 deaths. ... basically the despots around the world hate us but want our money ...
.. its the US that wants all currencies tied to the Almighty Dollar, buddy, not the other way around..
umm, sorry, but no. the rest of the world wants to do away with using the US Dollar as the monetary standard, and convert to Euro's and Yen
Americans live in a bubble from which they launch death.
but the breathy overstatement of how it will change out lives is a wee bit overdone./i.
.. in fact, i hardly pay much attention to "Big Media" and all their benevolent sponsors, at all, any more .. they're not making money off my time, which is being spent listening to and enjoying/paying-for content that has been made by people who are much, much, much closer to me and my mores, as a fan, than "Clear Channel" arer ...
..
i dunno, since the personal broadcast media revolution came along, i no longer feed off the general concencus being mass-produed for the hive-mind by "Big Media"
laders like jobs ridiculing this movement through generalities and slures really only shows that yes, in fact, putting mass-media broadcast tools in the hands of The People, instead of it being the exclusive domain of the vested interest/vaulted few, is a good thing
I figure that the only reason Bush used the WMD argument for going into Iraq was because that was what the Europeans would go for. I figure that we went in because it was a humanitarian nightmare, we had forces tied up just guarding the border, he was flaunting the sanctions, the oil for food program was a joke because of all the corruption, and Bush didn't want another Cuba hanging around for decades.
..
ermm.. it would be nice if he told the truth, just once, before killing 100,000 people, about why it is important for him to kill 100,000 people.
that american's can't take any responsibility, whatsoever, for their government, is the reason their government is so atrociously out of control in the first place
What I do know is that over the last 20 years, it has become increasingly clear that it is incompatible with US claims of advancing democracy and freedom around the world.
umm.. there's plenty of democracy and freedom in the world that is not a result of American military aggression.
its the American desire to push people around, just because you've got the bigger stick, thats not compatible with the current world view. Americans' meddle too often!!
ermmm .. yeah. eurodollars buy a lot more oil, however...
.. if i'd invented the finglonger ..
.. after all, email attachments are a microsoft-promoted feature ...
The video arcade where I first played Pac-Man 25 years ago is still there, incidentally.
.. though i did one time see a Galaxian t-shirt in the window of the 'fashion shop' that once was a chips&coke deli i spent far too many hot afternoons in, shooting along ..
..
..
thats pretty cool.. on my infrequent trips back home in the last 25 years, i often look for the old gamer spots, but alas the city has moved on
seems so weird to me now, spotting the cultural cue's and echo's of those games, resonating out into the world, now, for 25 years
off to play a little QIX on the all-in-one'r, which i'm sure will follow me into the retirement home/old-persons dwelling-shanty, heh heh