I'm more interested to see how requirements like that affect volunteer (and non-volunteer) OSS efforts.
If this flies, there would certainly have to be a few clarifications. Lately, unfortunately, such clarifications usually involve the court system. And that's a damned expensive channel of communication for OSS developers not being paid for their work. Hopefully organizations like the FSF will help out with legal fees.
...is because a friend(Jeff Teunnissen) recommended it to me. He's also a Debian developer.
For the first few months, whenever I ran into a problem I couldn't figure out on my own, I called him (I lived in the same general neighborhood.) I also hung out in an IRC chat room where a bunch of kindly Linux users also hung out... After a while, I learned to RTFM, especially after I started asking questions he couldn't answer.
Debian was the first distribution of Linux I ran (aside from Red Hat 5.2, which I ran for a day...), and most of what I know about Linux I learned on my Debian machines.
The moral of the story, I guess, is to have someone you know around to ask questions of. Among my friends just trying out Linux, I recommend Debian, and offer my advice.
It stems from the controversey of "shipping jobs overseas." Many people have problems with companies hiring overseas, especially when there are plenty of unemployed people in the same country as the company doing the hiring. The problem is that labor laws and a relatively high cost of living cause labor in places like the US to be prohibitively expensive.
There's also a sense of entitlement among workers, especially in unions and here in the US. (Search blogs (and Slashdot, for that matter) for the phrase "shit wages").
Disclaimer: I'm not an economics expert (But even if I were, professional economists disagree widely over most of the field.),
If you think about it, you don't really nead a payload. Just physically screw up the rocket's engine (assuming it isn't gliding), and the thing out to disintigrate.
If it's gliding, then destroying the aerodynamic function out to suffice.
Finally, a "swarm" of smaller devices would probably be more effective than one larger device, and with less invested in a guidance system to boot. You'd have a much better chance of hitting, and your disruptive effect will be spread through all the systems close to the skin of the target.
Of course, a thicker-skinned target would probably be relatively immune...
I'm not sure I'd want to make that one. Even within the comfort of my bed (where my computer is located). I get the shakes bad enough, know that I'm trying to reduce the dosage of my antipsychotic.
I suspect their strategy is to simply allow the more far-fetched story submissions to pass, instead of focusing on stuff people (probably) won't ridicule.
So you use pigeons for hops between nodes, not for the full distance. That way you could send ICMP responses back if the pigeon doesn't arrive within the timeout period.
People with OCD (like me) often find pleasure in repetitive jobs. Sometimes I'll even repetitively fiddle with something at hand while I'm thinking about something else.
And just because I'm autistic doesn't make me retarded.
I guess the results are on a case-by-case basis. When my mother (who had/has custudy...we're all grown now.) took me and my brother on a vacation to Florida, my biological father called the FBI telling them she had kidnapped us.
The FBI got really pissed at him when she provided the court documents proving she had custody.
The moral of the story is to document everything that can serve as evidence on your defence.
I may wear a tin foil hat, but I wear it with pride.
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I'm more interested to see how requirements like that affect volunteer (and non-volunteer) OSS efforts.
If this flies, there would certainly have to be a few clarifications. Lately, unfortunately, such clarifications usually involve the court system. And that's a damned expensive channel of communication for OSS developers not being paid for their work. Hopefully organizations like the FSF will help out with legal fees.
...is because a friend(Jeff Teunnissen) recommended it to me. He's also a Debian developer.
... After a while, I learned to RTFM, especially after I started asking questions he couldn't answer.
For the first few months, whenever I ran into a problem I couldn't figure out on my own, I called him (I lived in the same general neighborhood.) I also hung out in an IRC chat room where a bunch of kindly Linux users also hung out
Debian was the first distribution of Linux I ran (aside from Red Hat 5.2, which I ran for a day...), and most of what I know about Linux I learned on my Debian machines.
The moral of the story, I guess, is to have someone you know around to ask questions of. Among my friends just trying out Linux, I recommend Debian, and offer my advice.
It stems from the controversey of "shipping jobs overseas." Many people have problems with companies hiring overseas, especially when there are plenty of unemployed people in the same country as the company doing the hiring. The problem is that labor laws and a relatively high cost of living cause labor in places like the US to be prohibitively expensive.
There's also a sense of entitlement among workers, especially in unions and here in the US. (Search blogs (and Slashdot, for that matter) for the phrase "shit wages").
Disclaimer: I'm not an economics expert (But even if I were, professional economists disagree widely over most of the field.),
Right, and they'll feel old as soon as soon as the character encoding you used is "sooo 20th century" ...
Imagine having to use a different name when you wanted to use UTF-8, ASCII, or whatever else.
Uh, better call him "Zebediah" .. Zebulon, while a math genious, was killed by extra-dimensional aliens.
(Reference is from RAH's The Number of the Beast)
The IBM POWER5 is due out some time this year. April 1st would have been a great day for it...
If you think about it, you don't really nead a payload. Just physically screw up the rocket's engine (assuming it isn't gliding), and the thing out to disintigrate.
If it's gliding, then destroying the aerodynamic function out to suffice.
Finally, a "swarm" of smaller devices would probably be more effective than one larger device, and with less invested in a guidance system to boot. You'd have a much better chance of hitting, and your disruptive effect will be spread through all the systems close to the skin of the target.
Of course, a thicker-skinned target would probably be relatively immune...
In Heinlein's The Man Who Sold The Moon, a corporation purchased the moon by purchasing all of the land that the moon passed over in its orbit.
An interesting concept. One of many "what if"'s you get when you re-read Heinlein's stuff today.
Notice the number of geek points if you buy it...
I'm not sure I'd want to make that one. Even within the comfort of my bed (where my computer is located). I get the shakes bad enough, know that I'm trying to reduce the dosage of my antipsychotic.
I thought it was funny when Darl got beat over the head with a bat.
well, perhaps we all agree that SCO are a bunch of scumbags...
Speak for yourself! I was thinking something more along the line of a clogged solids filter at a sewage treatment plant.
Uh, I thought DOS ran in 16-bit real mode.
I suspect their strategy is to simply allow the more far-fetched story submissions to pass, instead of focusing on stuff people (probably) won't ridicule.
I don't have a link to it, but there was that one bird that got hit by a fastball...
So you use pigeons for hops between nodes, not for the full distance. That way you could send ICMP responses back if the pigeon doesn't arrive within the timeout period.
Perl doesn't have to be unreadable. If you use English; you don't even have to deal with punctuation-happy variables...
Oi!
A 3D FPS written in Javascript. Well, it could be done on a web page... Move sprites around using image layers/whatever.
People with OCD (like me) often find pleasure in repetitive jobs. Sometimes I'll even repetitively fiddle with something at hand while I'm thinking about something else.
And just because I'm autistic doesn't make me retarded.
Hey! Letting my hair get greasy is a way to plan for the future.
If, for some ungodly reason, I did decide to spike my hair, I wouldn't have to put grease in it to get it to stay in shape.
That reminds me of a Steven Wright quote:
I was crossing the border into Canada, and they asked me if I had any firearms. I said, "What do you need?"
He got off with a warning. He may have claimed that he didn't know that the parent in custody could leave the area, etc. He's a real smooth talker.
I guess the results are on a case-by-case basis. When my mother (who had/has custudy...we're all grown now.) took me and my brother on a vacation to Florida, my biological father called the FBI telling them she had kidnapped us.
The FBI got really pissed at him when she provided the court documents proving she had custody.
The moral of the story is to document everything that can serve as evidence on your defence.
I may wear a tin foil hat, but I wear it with pride.
Slightly OT, but Jar Jar reminds me of the Drunken Master prestige class in D&D...He bumbles around so much he gets a circumstance bonus to his AC.
So you mandate that certain GM crops be grown in isolation, such as in a greenhouse.