There's only a difference between quitting and getting fired in your head. All this talk about "science" in computers, and yet the bank account never lies... last I checked, the IRS Form W-2 is the main method of keeping score in our society.
Ahh, the global economy sagged, and the kiddies with all the wild dreams of OS nirvana where OS's are free and perfect, put in their heads by a guy who's never had a real job his entire career, and has worked in "Academia" his whole life... unlike most of us in the world... all have to pay their bills now.
They're not quite so happy to give their work away for free anymore, but they can't be seen dissin' the GPL religion... so they stir up political sentiment in the press to convince companies to "give back".
Not like anyone over the age of 30 who'd seen the 80's recession as kids couldn't see THAT one coming. (Or those of you who are older who've seen other ones, but some of you 50-somethings actually learned when you were young to SAVE money and not spend it, so you tend to both be well on your way to a comfortable retirement, and also more willing to "give back", which is fine... in your particular cases.)
Open-source CODING pays the bills for an elite few, and they truly are the most prolific writers of the most popular software. (Note Linux Kernel developer, Apache Foundation developer, and other large projects -- are all typically PAID jobs these days...)
All my decade of bug reports have ever gotten me was:
1. A polite response that the open-source developer wasn't interested in fixing the problem. 2. An abandoned/deprecated open-source project that left everyone using it high and dry.
Hopefully you'll understand that I figured out users aren't valued and "bug testing" is a huge joke... a very long time ago. I see no difference between the quality of "customer service" of a large commercial OS shop and any of the open-source projects I've reported bugs to over many years.
Without the loss of a service contract, next year's order, or something else tied directly to the developers wallets that puts their ass on the line... there's no intrinsic low-level motivation (think Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs here) to fix or do anything in "open source".
There's about a million ways around that... Hell, that's easy.
Have it "phone home" and set up a VPN or reverse SSH tunnel that's on unless the thing goes out of the cellular coverage area, instead of you logging into it.
Just keep the heartbeats and bandwidth of the "nearly constant" connection to a minimum.
IT is overhead. When you can lower the costs of overhead, that's good in business. If IT has needs that aren't being met, IT can make a real BUSINESS case that the saved power money needs to go to X Project, and if Y Project in another department is not a HIGHER PRIORITY for the BUSINESS, then great. Not sure what the whining at the end of the article is about.
What a great business plan... hand out free DF'ing gear to cops, and get people to pay to have the transmitters installed in their cars... kick back and watch the cash roll in, and do NOTHING to actually find stolen vehicles. Awesome.
The cops get to play anytime their free in-car unit starts freaking out that someone's car is transmitting nearby (I've listened to three different jurisdictions chase the same car around the city for hours before on the scanner) and the owner eventually gets their car back, probably all screwed up anyway... and LoJack gets $ every month for the rest of their lives.
It's not that simple, of course -- but it's close. What would stop another LoJack like company from springing up and asking to put THEIR DF gear in the cop cars? How about ten LoJack companies? Ahh... this cop car dashboard is getting crowded.
He will probably avoid a number of places, including:
Somalia Iraq Afghanistan Democratic Republic of Congo Côte d'Ivoire Pakistan Burundi Sri Lanka Haiti Chad Liberia
There are still places in the world where it's likely if Matt showed up and started dancing, the people there would kill him, and certainly wouldn't want him dancing there.
The video's great, and it shows that the MAJORITY of nations are filled with sane, normal, people -- but we mustn't act like the world's problems are always fixed by something as simple as dancing.
There's another piece to this story (pun intended)... once the marketing money from the gum company dries up, he's just another dude who can't afford to go all those places.
If travel were magnitudes less expensive than it still is today (although we're an amazingly mobile species on the planet already, of course - yay aviation!), things might be a lot more tolerant... or a lot worse. Hard to say, but history shows "worse" in most cases...
You and I might smile at his video, but we'll likely never be able to EXPERIENCE it in our lifetimes.
Actually forebearance and big penalties later -- is another option. That or Nationalization for a temporary period to get investigators in, clean them up, and hand them back to different leadership and shareholders.
Maybe if the current shareholders take a hit, they'll learn to do proper oversight of the Board of Directors "next time"...
There's LOTS more options than "failure". The issue right now is in the government being CONSISTENT about how they're going about it. One bank allowed to fail, another propped up with TARP, another propped up with "stimulus"...
No wonder the market doesn't trust it. No one knows how they're picking the winners and losers, or if it's being done for political gain or they're just really bad at it.
Bernanke may have figured it out finally. Geitner is completely clueless. We'll see...
Keep rationalizing it... love all that legalese. How about describing things in the effect they have on the real people working for the company?
Don't care what you bought. They set the price, you don't pay it. That's "stealing" to any 5 year old. Adults try to put fancy words around it, but if a kid asks... both the adult and the kid knows what it is.
Doesn't require a law degree to figure it out. Keep working on it.
$30K or $5 "already paid" to a company offering a product for sale that you've stolen, doesn't matter. Stealing is stealing.
Just because it's popular to steal other's work these days, doesn't make it wrong for me to point it out. You're just looking for a way to make it seem socially acceptable to do it, especially amongst the Slashdot crowd who tend to think they're "entitled" to anything produced anywhere...
The terms are clear -- Apple says "If you want it, buy it." It's not even problematic like RIAA or other debates here about DRM'ed materials one might have to own in multiple formats under some of the wickedly dumb rules in the music industry.
Some people have morals and live by them, and some people make excuses and rationalizations. It doesn't change the fact that copying something not meant to be copied is piracy, and you're a pirate if you do it. It also doesn't change the fact that you eat away at Apple's margins each time you do it.
If you think I'm on my "high horse" because I don't steal from Apple -- that's fine with me. Also not my fault if you're defensive about your inappropriate and illegal behavior. Otherwise, why did you bother replying?
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Didn't say it was for upstream. Just for downstream.
Upstream can be handled asymmetrically via a number of existing (or future) technologies. There's a lot of "wasted" spectrum in the TV bands, even in densely populated areas...
It's not going to really take off in a down economy... give it about ten years.
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You do realize they have the most powerful mobile data stream transmitters ever put on-air in this country now after the DTV switch right? There's very little distance between "DTV transmitter" and "Data transmitter"... just plop the data inside the sub-channels they're using for stupid weathercasts and second "channels", in whatever new format works that doesnt confuse what will then be "legacy" ATSC tuners... and they've got the biggest most bad-ass wireless bit-pipes around... they just haven't figured it out yet.
Conveniently calling everything "Beta" gives them the leeway you're handing them, you do realize? Some companies actually have to release version 1.0 to keep customers happy.
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There's only a difference between quitting and getting fired in your head. All this talk about "science" in computers, and yet the bank account never lies... last I checked, the IRS Form W-2 is the main method of keeping score in our society.
Demand != Quality product.
Ahh, the global economy sagged, and the kiddies with all the wild dreams of OS nirvana where OS's are free and perfect, put in their heads by a guy who's never had a real job his entire career, and has worked in "Academia" his whole life... unlike most of us in the world... all have to pay their bills now.
They're not quite so happy to give their work away for free anymore, but they can't be seen dissin' the GPL religion... so they stir up political sentiment in the press to convince companies to "give back".
Not like anyone over the age of 30 who'd seen the 80's recession as kids couldn't see THAT one coming. (Or those of you who are older who've seen other ones, but some of you 50-somethings actually learned when you were young to SAVE money and not spend it, so you tend to both be well on your way to a comfortable retirement, and also more willing to "give back", which is fine... in your particular cases.)
Open-source CODING pays the bills for an elite few, and they truly are the most prolific writers of the most popular software. (Note Linux Kernel developer, Apache Foundation developer, and other large projects -- are all typically PAID jobs these days...)
All my decade of bug reports have ever gotten me was:
1. A polite response that the open-source developer wasn't interested in fixing the problem.
2. An abandoned/deprecated open-source project that left everyone using it high and dry.
Hopefully you'll understand that I figured out users aren't valued and "bug testing" is a huge joke... a very long time ago. I see no difference between the quality of "customer service" of a large commercial OS shop and any of the open-source projects I've reported bugs to over many years.
Without the loss of a service contract, next year's order, or something else tied directly to the developers wallets that puts their ass on the line... there's no intrinsic low-level motivation (think Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs here) to fix or do anything in "open source".
That pretty much describes 80% of the Linux Kernel checkins in the last few years, of course... paid developers.
What does calling VMWare and buying licenses have to do with "open-source" or being involved in it? Are you loony?
Any tech company should give back to some "community" only if it doesn't dilute the value of my investment returns.
Welcome to Business 101.
A public company exists solely to make a profit for its shareholders.
There's about a million ways around that... Hell, that's easy.
Have it "phone home" and set up a VPN or reverse SSH tunnel that's on unless the thing goes out of the cellular coverage area, instead of you logging into it.
Just keep the heartbeats and bandwidth of the "nearly constant" connection to a minimum.
LOL...
AT&T's network sounds just like any other GSM network, anywhere in the world.
Verizon doesn't have DNA from a big telco or a monopoly mindset? Puh-leeze.
Who doesn't know about the iPhone? You're kidding right?
IT is overhead. When you can lower the costs of overhead, that's good in business. If IT has needs that aren't being met, IT can make a real BUSINESS case that the saved power money needs to go to X Project, and if Y Project in another department is not a HIGHER PRIORITY for the BUSINESS, then great. Not sure what the whining at the end of the article is about.
... wasn't it called "BioSphere"?
What a great business plan... hand out free DF'ing gear to cops, and get people to pay to have the transmitters installed in their cars... kick back and watch the cash roll in, and do NOTHING to actually find stolen vehicles. Awesome.
The cops get to play anytime their free in-car unit starts freaking out that someone's car is transmitting nearby (I've listened to three different jurisdictions chase the same car around the city for hours before on the scanner) and the owner eventually gets their car back, probably all screwed up anyway... and LoJack gets $ every month for the rest of their lives.
It's not that simple, of course -- but it's close. What would stop another LoJack like company from springing up and asking to put THEIR DF gear in the cop cars? How about ten LoJack companies? Ahh... this cop car dashboard is getting crowded.
Ding. Correct. Pay up, slacker!
He will probably avoid a number of places, including:
Somalia
Iraq
Afghanistan
Democratic Republic of Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Pakistan
Burundi
Sri Lanka
Haiti
Chad
Liberia
There are still places in the world where it's likely if Matt showed up and started dancing, the people there would kill him, and certainly wouldn't want him dancing there.
The video's great, and it shows that the MAJORITY of nations are filled with sane, normal, people -- but we mustn't act like the world's problems are always fixed by something as simple as dancing.
There's another piece to this story (pun intended)... once the marketing money from the gum company dries up, he's just another dude who can't afford to go all those places.
If travel were magnitudes less expensive than it still is today (although we're an amazingly mobile species on the planet already, of course - yay aviation!), things might be a lot more tolerant... or a lot worse. Hard to say, but history shows "worse" in most cases...
You and I might smile at his video, but we'll likely never be able to EXPERIENCE it in our lifetimes.
Even less likely in the places listed above.
Actually forebearance and big penalties later -- is another option. That or Nationalization for a temporary period to get investigators in, clean them up, and hand them back to different leadership and shareholders.
Maybe if the current shareholders take a hit, they'll learn to do proper oversight of the Board of Directors "next time"...
There's LOTS more options than "failure". The issue right now is in the government being CONSISTENT about how they're going about it. One bank allowed to fail, another propped up with TARP, another propped up with "stimulus"...
No wonder the market doesn't trust it. No one knows how they're picking the winners and losers, or if it's being done for political gain or they're just really bad at it.
Bernanke may have figured it out finally. Geitner is completely clueless. We'll see...
Linux acts JUST like a teenager!
They may have shot themselves in the foot, but that's THEIR decision to make, is the guy's point.
If they want profit today over what their customers MIGHT want tomorrow... that's their call.
Keep rationalizing it... love all that legalese. How about describing things in the effect they have on the real people working for the company?
Don't care what you bought. They set the price, you don't pay it. That's "stealing" to any 5 year old. Adults try to put fancy words around it, but if a kid asks... both the adult and the kid knows what it is.
Doesn't require a law degree to figure it out. Keep working on it.
$30K or $5 "already paid" to a company offering a product for sale that you've stolen, doesn't matter. Stealing is stealing.
Just because it's popular to steal other's work these days, doesn't make it wrong for me to point it out. You're just looking for a way to make it seem socially acceptable to do it, especially amongst the Slashdot crowd who tend to think they're "entitled" to anything produced anywhere...
The terms are clear -- Apple says "If you want it, buy it." It's not even problematic like RIAA or other debates here about DRM'ed materials one might have to own in multiple formats under some of the wickedly dumb rules in the music industry.
Some people have morals and live by them, and some people make excuses and rationalizations. It doesn't change the fact that copying something not meant to be copied is piracy, and you're a pirate if you do it. It also doesn't change the fact that you eat away at Apple's margins each time you do it.
If you think I'm on my "high horse" because I don't steal from Apple -- that's fine with me. Also not my fault if you're defensive about your inappropriate and illegal behavior. Otherwise, why did you bother replying?
Yeah, because no developer wants to get paid for their work or anything... (rolls eyes).
No, this is a troll...
"Truth hurts, doesn't it?!"
Didn't say it was for upstream. Just for downstream.
Upstream can be handled asymmetrically via a number of existing (or future) technologies. There's a lot of "wasted" spectrum in the TV bands, even in densely populated areas...
It's not going to really take off in a down economy... give it about ten years.
You do realize they have the most powerful mobile data stream transmitters ever put on-air in this country now after the DTV switch right? There's very little distance between "DTV transmitter" and "Data transmitter"... just plop the data inside the sub-channels they're using for stupid weathercasts and second "channels", in whatever new format works that doesnt confuse what will then be "legacy" ATSC tuners... and they've got the biggest most bad-ass wireless bit-pipes around... they just haven't figured it out yet.
Conveniently calling everything "Beta" gives them the leeway you're handing them, you do realize? Some companies actually have to release version 1.0 to keep customers happy.
That's what we all said about the first small Microsoft bugs too. Word 4 only had a few annoying little bugs. LOL!