And if you tell people you're "in stealth mode", there's less likelyhood that they'll look at your idea and mention how bogus it is
I totally agree... most of the companies I've dealt w/ that are in "stealth mode" have some really lame ideas and they're run by complete morons. My new venture, on the other hand is really taking off. We're using tried and true investment tactics to diversify our portfolio of products in order to hedge ourselves against a single market's decline or unforseen technology advancement. I can't talk about all of the details but let me tell you that some of the products include nanotechnology, multicasted multimedia, tahitian noni suppliments, space elevators, and a compression scheme that has a consistant output size of 1-bit regardless of the size of the input data. It so sad, but so true... most businesses just aren't as technically or fundamentally sound as my new startup is.
Blockbuster needs to work out a deal w/ the MPAA to burn DVDs at their stores. This way you have access to the entire catalog of thousands of DVDs immediately. You'd still have to return the DVD which they'd use as inventory so they weren't burning a copy each time, only if they were out of stock. They'd also need to add kiosks for burning DVDs and use the current stores for renting video games, buying entertainment focused magazines and books, junk food, and providing movie catalogs with information about the all the movies in their catalog.
I had a Blockbuster pass that allowed me to rent two movies from my local store for as long as wanted, and I could return them and get two more. I canceled it b/c I rented everyting I wanted to see (and several movies that really REALLY sucked) and the new releases didn't make it worth my money to keep the pass. If I would have had immediate access to TV Shows on DVD (past and present... I like The Shield and The Twilight Zone), more independant and foreign films, and classic films and guides or reviews to help me find a movie I might like to watch I'd still have my pass and would keep it for quite a long time.
My ultimate dream would be on-demand movies, but in lieu of that and soul-snatching DRM that would have to be in place to actually make it a reality, I wish Blockbuster would allow you to order a disc online and then have it burned at the local store for pickup. They'd have to work out some kind of payment arrangement w/ the MPAA (I think?), but if anyone could do it right now it's probably Blockbuster.
If someone ripped off your code, sue 'em, screw 'em and boo 'em.
Actually, this is not what needs to be done. Lawsuits, yes, w/ plenty of media attention, but the point should not be to attack businesses. Instead it should be to legally strengthen the GPL and show that open source code is of such high quality that businesses use it in their own commerical products. Suing business for astronomical payouts would result in short term gains for open source, but would scare many businesses away from trying open source legitamatemly for fear that they expose themselves to legal risk.
Both must be learned and remembered. Longer names allow for an easier to remember naming convention that can then help you remember or find the command you wanted. Two letter commands are certainly easier to type, but as others have mentioned the command completion in the interactive shell should take care of that.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly
Actually, in this case it should read...
Those who do not understadn VMS are condemned to reinvent it, poorly
Monad is heavily influenced by VMS, not the UNIX shell.
From an interview w/ the Monad developers. MSFT Jeffrey Snover (Expert): Q: I've heard Monad has VMS roots... will we have a utility or functionality similar to VERB to create our own verb commands and parameters? A: We are very influenced by the VMS (and AS400) environments. That said, we don't have the same set of utilities. Do define you own command, you write a.NET class derived from our base class and tag it with a NOUN and VERB. The properties of that class become PARAMETERS.
I can see them putting this into their consoles if they could actually sell the processing time. The actual box owner could get a negligeable discount on their online gaming, or just more mods, media, and privelages on the MS/Sony gaming websites. As long as MS/Sony are not paying out too much to the owners of the boxes they could (maybe?) make some money here... and if they can make a decent return on their investment then they'll probably do it, either that or some third party company will approach them about partnering.
Without a profit incentive they wouldn't actually by ship one of these clients in the default configuration because they'd end up supporting it. Imagine calls from XBOX/Playstation users complaining about how their Seti@home client doesn't let them talk to the aliens like it said it would on the box.
No, actually I didn't realize that. After rereading the post though... you're right.
So kids... sorry no Google glory for coding for these projects (unless you've already applied w/ an idea for one of these projects)... so just do it for fun, glory, karma, goodwill towards men, or whatever else drives you.
The Gallery project has a list of ideas for Google Summer of Code coders. This is a very nice, mature, PHP application used for managing pictures online.
Another great project that would be interesting to work with is Jinzora. Jinzora is a web-based music streaming/archiving application. It may be one of the best around.
Both applications are GPLed, fairly mature, actively developed and used, and are just plain useful tools to use.
As I understand it: stuff you contribute to BSDs can be pirated by msft, and others, and put into their binary code.
The code is not pirated. The BSD license allows for distribution and modification of the code w/o the restrictions that the GPL places on code (namely that you must keep the code open).
f) If not a Nat'l Sales Tax, why doesn't some politician repeat what Jack Kemp said about a postcard-sized return? Our tax code is Byzantine, tough to understand fully without a full-time background in it, even in the simpler forms. It's worse if you want to take advantage of any of the many, many loopholes. Most taxpayers haven't a chance.
The State can do everything but sign your money over to them. That's still voluntary.
Of course if you elect not to sign the money over to them you then you've just volunteered to have your assets siezed and maybe even to have a wonderful vacation at a minimum security prison. Thank goodness for choice.
The tax system is too complicated... we need the Fair Tax.
Simply put, the FairTax replaces the way we're currently taxed - based on our annual income - with a tax on goods and services. The FairTax is a voluntary "consumption" tax: the more you buy, the more you pay in taxes, the less you buy, the less you pay in taxes. It's simple.
Everyone pays their fair share of taxes, and with the FairTax rebate, spending up to the poverty level is tax free. The Federal government is fully funded, including Social Security and Medicare, and you don't need an expert to determine your Federal taxes. It's simple.
The subject of this post is about as logical as this article's subject "Microsoft Wants P2P Avalanche to Crush BitTorrent". Come on... some researchs working for Microsoft published a paper... A PAPER!! Ridiculous.
Wow... obviously I couldn't read your book in this short period of time (1616 pages?!) but it looks good. Sorry to hear that the publisher backed out on you. Was it too technical for them?
Have you considered offering it through a publish on demand site like LuLu? It seems like you could make some money for all of your trouble. And w/ LuLu you can distribute in digital or paper forms.
I know a lot of people look down on it, but I think the first post genre is pretty interesting and I'm glad to see another addition to this ever growing genre. That said, I'm certain that "first post" will never be as thought provoking as "imagine a Beowulf cluster" or "in Communist Russia", I just can't stop reading those.
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As long as no one passes a law that says I can't have a pistol-grip pump on my lap at all times then I'm ok.
Whoa, sthweet game d00d. Castles and withards with magiks are alls the rage out here in Pokipsee.
And if you tell people you're "in stealth mode", there's less likelyhood that they'll look at your idea and mention how bogus it is
I totally agree... most of the companies I've dealt w/ that are in "stealth mode" have some really lame ideas and they're run by complete morons. My new venture, on the other hand is really taking off. We're using tried and true investment tactics to diversify our portfolio of products in order to hedge ourselves against a single market's decline or unforseen technology advancement. I can't talk about all of the details but let me tell you that some of the products include nanotechnology, multicasted multimedia, tahitian noni suppliments, space elevators, and a compression scheme that has a consistant output size of 1-bit regardless of the size of the input data. It so sad, but so true... most businesses just aren't as technically or fundamentally sound as my new startup is.
Blockbuster needs to work out a deal w/ the MPAA to burn DVDs at their stores. This way you have access to the entire catalog of thousands of DVDs immediately. You'd still have to return the DVD which they'd use as inventory so they weren't burning a copy each time, only if they were out of stock. They'd also need to add kiosks for burning DVDs and use the current stores for renting video games, buying entertainment focused magazines and books, junk food, and providing movie catalogs with information about the all the movies in their catalog.
I had a Blockbuster pass that allowed me to rent two movies from my local store for as long as wanted, and I could return them and get two more. I canceled it b/c I rented everyting I wanted to see (and several movies that really REALLY sucked) and the new releases didn't make it worth my money to keep the pass. If I would have had immediate access to TV Shows on DVD (past and present... I like The Shield and The Twilight Zone), more independant and foreign films, and classic films and guides or reviews to help me find a movie I might like to watch I'd still have my pass and would keep it for quite a long time.
B) Anytime I rent something I want it right away.
My ultimate dream would be on-demand movies, but in lieu of that and soul-snatching DRM that would have to be in place to actually make it a reality, I wish Blockbuster would allow you to order a disc online and then have it burned at the local store for pickup. They'd have to work out some kind of payment arrangement w/ the MPAA (I think?), but if anyone could do it right now it's probably Blockbuster.
If someone ripped off your code, sue 'em, screw 'em and boo 'em.
Actually, this is not what needs to be done. Lawsuits, yes, w/ plenty of media attention, but the point should not be to attack businesses. Instead it should be to legally strengthen the GPL and show that open source code is of such high quality that businesses use it in their own commerical products. Suing business for astronomical payouts would result in short term gains for open source, but would scare many businesses away from trying open source legitamatemly for fear that they expose themselves to legal risk.
I'm not sure about the availability of any specific services for this. Your best bet is to contact someone w/ a lot of experience in this sort of thing.
Both must be learned.
Both must be learned and remembered. Longer names allow for an easier to remember naming convention that can then help you remember or find the command you wanted. Two letter commands are certainly easier to type, but as others have mentioned the command completion in the interactive shell should take care of that.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly
.NET class derived from our base class and tag it with a NOUN and VERB. The properties of that class become PARAMETERS.
Actually, in this case it should read...
Those who do not understadn VMS are condemned to reinvent it, poorly
Monad is heavily influenced by VMS, not the UNIX shell.
From an interview w/ the Monad developers.
MSFT Jeffrey Snover (Expert):
Q: I've heard Monad has VMS roots... will we have a utility or functionality similar to VERB to create our own verb commands and parameters?
A: We are very influenced by the VMS (and AS400) environments. That said, we don't have the same set of utilities. Do define you own command, you write a
I can see them putting this into their consoles if they could actually sell the processing time. The actual box owner could get a negligeable discount on their online gaming, or just more mods, media, and privelages on the MS/Sony gaming websites. As long as MS/Sony are not paying out too much to the owners of the boxes they could (maybe?) make some money here... and if they can make a decent return on their investment then they'll probably do it, either that or some third party company will approach them about partnering.
Without a profit incentive they wouldn't actually by ship one of these clients in the default configuration because they'd end up supporting it. Imagine calls from XBOX/Playstation users complaining about how their Seti@home client doesn't let them talk to the aliens like it said it would on the box.
No, actually I didn't realize that. After rereading the post though... you're right.
So kids... sorry no Google glory for coding for these projects (unless you've already applied w/ an idea for one of these projects)... so just do it for fun, glory, karma, goodwill towards men, or whatever else drives you.
The Gallery project has a list of ideas for Google Summer of Code coders. This is a very nice, mature, PHP application used for managing pictures online.
Another great project that would be interesting to work with is Jinzora. Jinzora is a web-based music streaming/archiving application. It may be one of the best around.
Both applications are GPLed, fairly mature, actively developed and used, and are just plain useful tools to use.
Even though this is probably the right thing to do, the press would attack them just b/c their big.
Headline: "Wal-Mart running private small-time photographers out of business"
Headline: "Wal-Mart supports Copyright infringement"
As I understand it: stuff you contribute to BSDs can be pirated by msft, and others, and put into their binary code.
The code is not pirated. The BSD license allows for distribution and modification of the code w/o the restrictions that the GPL places on code (namely that you must keep the code open).
f) If not a Nat'l Sales Tax, why doesn't some politician repeat what Jack Kemp said about a postcard-sized return? Our tax code is Byzantine, tough to understand fully without a full-time background in it, even in the simpler forms. It's worse if you want to take advantage of any of the many, many loopholes. Most taxpayers haven't a chance.
It's time for the Fair Tax. Read the FAQs.
The State can do everything but sign your money over to them. That's still voluntary.
Of course if you elect not to sign the money over to them you then you've just volunteered to have your assets siezed and maybe even to have a wonderful vacation at a minimum security prison. Thank goodness for choice.
The tax system is too complicated... we need the Fair Tax.
Simply put, the FairTax replaces the way we're currently taxed - based on our annual income - with a tax on goods and services. The FairTax is a voluntary "consumption" tax: the more you buy, the more you pay in taxes, the less you buy, the less you pay in taxes.
It's simple.
Everyone pays their fair share of taxes, and with the FairTax rebate, spending up to the poverty level is tax free. The Federal government is fully funded, including Social Security and Medicare, and you don't need an expert to determine your Federal taxes.
It's simple.
Read the FAQs
1. How much money do you have?
2. Send check for amount specified in step #1.
3. You still owe, work harder next year.
Thank you,
Your Government
The subject of this post is about as logical as this article's subject "Microsoft Wants P2P Avalanche to Crush BitTorrent". Come on... some researchs working for Microsoft published a paper... A PAPER!! Ridiculous.
Any odds out there on how long it will take some lawyer to actually trie this precaching defense?
Wow, that boggles the mind. A web-based OS running an editor-based OS. Holy virtualization Batman!
Wow... obviously I couldn't read your book in this short period of time (1616 pages?!) but it looks good. Sorry to hear that the publisher backed out on you. Was it too technical for them?
Have you considered offering it through a publish on demand site like LuLu? It seems like you could make some money for all of your trouble. And w/ LuLu you can distribute in digital or paper forms.
I know a lot of people look down on it, but I think the first post genre is pretty interesting and I'm glad to see another addition to this ever growing genre. That said, I'm certain that "first post" will never be as thought provoking as "imagine a Beowulf cluster" or "in Communist Russia", I just can't stop reading those.
It's not Bizarro World at all... somehow Dvorak has managed to project his imagination onto our reality. Damn him and his alien technology!
The winning design: Hummer + cinderblock.
This would actually work if it wasn't for the fact that the Hummer can only make it 163.5 miles on a single tank of gas.