Re:Economic reasons to scare John Q. Public
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I agree with you in that wars tend to cause government spending. Unfortunately I am not smart enough to follow your point in how that would provide a stimulus to the economy.
My impression has always been that the money spent by the government either takes away from consumer spending(taxes) or the capital available to investment(deficit spending, which is accomplished by selling bonds to investors).
Both these activities are therefore, IMHO, a nullsum game. Please enlighten me as to how your model solves the problem. I am curious, because you seem to have found a cure for recessions.
I have always dreamed of a sort of reverse eBay for programming work. A party who is interested in seeing a certain feature implemented posts the specs on a website. The first programmer to submit a working solution to the open-source project mentioned in the spec collects the bounty.
Maintainers of projects would have the advantage of being intricately familiar with the code, thereby giving them an advantage in this "job market" for their time spent as a maintainer.
I guess you are right to a point. I got a little agitated and shot from the hip, when I first read the./ post and skimmed the article.
I do maintain though that OSS is more secure. Even if it had ten times the amount of security bugs that closed software had, I could at least rest assured that I will know about the bugs and be able to make an informed decision. In a closed source implementation, I am always left guessing.
That is just my humble opinion though. Thanks for your post; made me realize how much like an idiot I sounded earlier.
By no means would I classify His Dark Materials as a random teenage book. Neither does it make the impression of an author struggling to combine mythology with technology, as another post suggested. IMHO, His Dark Materials is one the better fantasy books I have read during the course of the last year. For reference, I also very much enjoy reading Neal Stephenson, Tom Clancy, and Stephen King. His Dark Materials tells the story from the perspective of a teenage protagonist, but the topics include the power of organized religion, original sin, and other Fun Stuff(TM). BTW, the church in the books is not the christian church, although obviously based on it, so do not be turned away by the theological content. It is some of the old school, power monging organization stuff, that we have come to love from books/movies like The Name of the Rose. My recommendation to everybody is to go to the local library (which is a marvellous place to visit anyway) and read the first 50 pages. If you still don't like it, more power to you. But do not blindly turn down a good book, before you've given it its fair chance to prove itself.
It appears to be that FreeBSD is the wrong project to point the finger at when complaining about unreasonable download sizes. I have installed FreeBSD by modem before and I appreciated three features very much:
1. All one has to download right away are the two floppy disks (boot and root) for an FTP install.
2. Afterwards the installer downloads only those parts of FreeBSD that one selects.
3. The ingenious ports tree (which is available for Mac OS X too, BTW) allows one to easily add programs at a later time.
As of now I consider FreeBSD to have the best installer of any free software. I wish more Linux distros would adopt an FTP install option (I am aware that some do). The ones that do, kudos to you, but they need more refinement (if you have ever FTP installed SuSE, you know what I mean:) )
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I agree with you in that wars tend to cause government spending. Unfortunately I am not smart enough to follow your point in how that would provide a stimulus to the economy.
My impression has always been that the money spent by the government either takes away from consumer spending(taxes) or the capital available to investment(deficit spending, which is accomplished by selling bonds to investors).
Both these activities are therefore, IMHO, a nullsum game. Please enlighten me as to how your model solves the problem. I am curious, because you seem to have found a cure for recessions.
I have always dreamed of a sort of reverse eBay for programming work. A party who is interested in seeing a certain feature implemented posts the specs on a website. The first programmer to submit a working solution to the open-source project mentioned in the spec collects the bounty.
Maintainers of projects would have the advantage of being intricately familiar with the code, thereby giving them an advantage in this "job market" for their time spent as a maintainer.
I guess you are right to a point. I got a little agitated and shot from the hip, when I first read the ./ post and skimmed the article.
I do maintain though that OSS is more secure. Even if it had ten times the amount of security bugs that closed software had, I could at least rest assured that I will know about the bugs and be able to make an informed decision. In a closed source implementation, I am always left guessing.
That is just my humble opinion though. Thanks for your post; made me realize how much like an idiot I sounded earlier.
Less peer review actually improves scientific accuracy
Fewer engineers lead to safer cars
Oh well, at least we can wait for the amusing PR spins that MSFT can put on this.
It comes with Blinkenlights for the two processor, just like the good old BeBox
That alone is worth $4k
P.S.:These machines actually cluster. Now imagine a rack full of clustered 1U G4s, all with psychedelic Blinkenlights showing activity.
OMG
Apple sleek hardware + 1U Rack Mount Server + Kick Ass Unix with the sweetest GUI on the market + Gigabit Ethernet + Unlimited Client License included
*Faints*
I feel like a 12-year-old girl at a Backstreet Boys concert.
*Screams*
By no means would I classify His Dark Materials as a random teenage book. Neither does it make the impression of an author struggling to combine mythology with technology, as another post suggested.
IMHO, His Dark Materials is one the better fantasy books I have read during the course of the last year. For reference, I also very much enjoy reading Neal Stephenson, Tom Clancy, and Stephen King.
His Dark Materials tells the story from the perspective of a teenage protagonist, but the topics include the power of organized religion, original sin, and other Fun Stuff(TM). BTW, the church in the books is not the christian church, although obviously based on it, so do not be turned away by the theological content. It is some of the old school, power monging organization stuff, that we have come to love from books/movies like The Name of the Rose.
My recommendation to everybody is to go to the local library (which is a marvellous place to visit anyway) and read the first 50 pages. If you still don't like it, more power to you. But do not blindly turn down a good book, before you've given it its fair chance to prove itself.
It appears to be that FreeBSD is the wrong project to point the finger at when complaining about unreasonable download sizes. I have installed FreeBSD by modem before and I appreciated three features very much:
:) )
1. All one has to download right away are the two floppy disks (boot and root) for an FTP install.
2. Afterwards the installer downloads only those parts of FreeBSD that one selects.
3. The ingenious ports tree (which is available for Mac OS X too, BTW) allows one to easily add programs at a later time.
As of now I consider FreeBSD to have the best installer of any free software. I wish more Linux distros would adopt an FTP install option (I am aware that some do). The ones that do, kudos to you, but they need more refinement (if you have ever FTP installed SuSE, you know what I mean