I have always wondered if I could write off the time I spend on OSS projects as charitable donations. I'm not getting paid for it and it does contribute to the global society. I wonder if sourceforge could not become a charitable organization? At least the software side, the adverts could be a different company that pays the charitable org.
For those too young to remember, sonic blue used to be Diamond Multimedia. Some of the best graphics cards around with the Diamond Stealth line, my first performance card after I got off the triton. Long before the Monster line of products.
This was a failure from the very start. its very reminiscent of the 3dfx take over. For me, this was CEOs of a dying company buying another company so they could live another day. The company that bought diamond was already failing and they bought themselves probably 4-5 years with the purchase. Im sure it was devastating to share holders. Diamond was a SOLID company before the purchase.
Diamond was the #1 seller of video cards and they did not make their own chips. Sad.
Just like 3dfx was bought out by CEOs who also sought to extend their CEO life at the expence of the end users and shareholders.
I don't get it. This is not school right? They can take the test 100 times a week till they pass. So just making the test available seems to be to be inviting them to pass it. its open source, those guys get happy when bugs and stuff are found after all.
Actually the inch did come from Britain, which came from Egypt, which was from a man named "Enoch." hence, "inch" and it is from the Bible. No its not some stupid rediculous elbow to finger measurement. How is that even a measurement. You must think the Egyptians and all related were dumb. Not a single temple or anything could be built to such a rediculous inconsistent measurement.
I am not being religious by suggesting its is indeed holy, I am only giving you reasons that many believe it is holy. It is certainly more holy than the "French."
The metric "system" is nice, but the base unit of measurement is no more precise than that of the inch. In fact a base unit is irrelevant so long as it does not change. We could just as easily have milliInches and centi-inches.
Why are so many Americans of the impression that America has a greedy Labor force just because somebody in taiwan will work for beans???
The company is selling the product for the same price, regardless of where the labor is. The only difference here is how much money the American CEOs et al. can squeeze out of their own people. If they can not squeeze enough to buy that extra fleet of jets, fire the Americans and hire elsewhere.
How does one come to blame the Labor force for this level of greed???
Why dont we fire the CEOs and hire some from China? We'd save a lot more money...
I here that people like working for Honda in Ohio assembly plant a lot more than they like working for the Big3...
Why not? Just so the CEO can have 2 jets? Americans are not upset that companies are trying to save money. Americans are upset that the money saved goes to the CEO and board of directors. Which in effect means that lots of the push to save money is only out of greed and selfishness.
I will admit to being one that believes American Companies should hire American workers. Who provides for the security of these companies? What exactly does the company owe to the USA, and how exactly is the company paying its due?
We dont need anyone to say it. The US Military has always reserved the right to reduce the accuracy of the GPS system. They have always maintained this technical capability to reduce the accuracy to everyone in the world but the US Military.
I though this point was understood by everyone that has GPS. Dont go on your around the world Boat Trip unless you know how to read the stars, because the GPS could let you off course...
I have to have that argument every time I go over there.
But my mom has a special trick. During phone assistance I usually say something like "Click Start", her response is usually "OK I clicked start, OH there is programs!, oh there is Microsoft!, oh there is Word!..."
And Im like, No mom, Just hit START! She kind of thinks diagnostics (and computers) is intuitive so she just makes the obvious extra choices...Frustrating.
Also when programs prove counterintuitive, I have to explain over and over that I didn't write the software. Naturally her reply is that I should have and I would be rich by now...
Save yourself some time and bang your head on the wall before you even get there.
I'm with you man. I;m in the auto industry and yes, its been over 10 years that fuel cells have been in the works. Its just being hyped this year for some reason, but no technology breakthroughs have occured.
They must be trying to get around some government regulation by saying fuel cells are here, see! But they are just as they have been for the last 10 years...
At first it looked interesting. Then he starts running into problem after problem and I'm thinking, Does he want a job at General Dynamics? Because he is doing a ton of engineering. He put some real thought into that thing. I can't blame him at all for the $10-$25 fee for instructions.
Of course he will soon find that the instructions are equally as hard to make as the tank...
It is known in the auto industry that the Japanese were dumping their Minivans on the US at or near a loss. They took a gamble and tried to drive the US out of the minivan business. It failed. They paid heavily.
Actually I use WordPerfect and its quite nice (except the thesaurus). Its still vastly more workable that M$ word which is still to this day a horrible abomination.
Corel attemts at a database tool seem laughable though. Their spread sheet is nice and their presentation package is respectable though it could use a little intuition.
lets hope now that they have squandered all the M$ money the lazy execs will be fired and some people that actually care will be inserted in their place.
WP has not grown, but its still better than word...
We don't use "antique" measurements in the US, we use the measurements based on the measure handed to us by God. The rest of the world is using a system of measurements handed to them by the French.
Which would you prefer?
For those outside of the know, the inch is related to the cubit which you can find throughout the Bible. Their is no scientific reason for prefering the meter to the cubit.
yes, i have written such "backdoork" in some software, sanctioned by my company, not told to customer. It was never meant to be released though. the real problem is that we go through durability testing and such with the "final software" but of course its not really final because we have this key that allows us to still check certain things that we will truly turn off later on.
I always pushed for the customer knowing about this because then its their legal problem, not ours if its found out. And I always like to remind folks in the Auto industry that crime starts at the Top, not the bottom.
How long will it be before they get audited by Microsoft? Is this even legal anymore?
Forrealthough, I applaud this effort. Linux is excellent for learning. Anything which can be torn down completely and put together by its pieces is good to show how such a complex thing can be constructed. Sometimes the whole picture is too bid to grasp, but understanding just 1 module is not.
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I have always wondered if I could write off the time I spend on OSS projects as charitable donations. I'm not getting paid for it and it does contribute to the global society. I wonder if sourceforge could not become a charitable organization? At least the software side, the adverts could be a different company that pays the charitable org.
For those too young to remember, sonic blue used to be Diamond Multimedia. Some of the best graphics cards around with the Diamond Stealth line, my first performance card after I got off the triton. Long before the Monster line of products.
This was a failure from the very start. its very reminiscent of the 3dfx take over. For me, this was CEOs of a dying company buying another company so they could live another day. The company that bought diamond was already failing and they bought themselves probably 4-5 years with the purchase. Im sure it was devastating to share holders. Diamond was a SOLID company before the purchase.
Diamond was the #1 seller of video cards and they did not make their own chips. Sad.
Just like 3dfx was bought out by CEOs who also sought to extend their CEO life at the expence of the end users and shareholders.
Just plain ugly.
I don't get it. This is not school right? They can take the test 100 times a week till they pass. So just making the test available seems to be to be inviting them to pass it. its open source, those guys get happy when bugs and stuff are found after all.
Unfortunately The Pentagon turned off the GPS as the coffee destined for a buddy across the room passed over the bosses lap...
First victim claimed.
From where you sit in 2003 yes, but not in the 1980s.
I though GM already owned Fiat, or used too.
Actually the inch did come from Britain, which came from Egypt, which was from a man named
"Enoch." hence, "inch" and it is from the Bible. No its not some stupid rediculous elbow to finger measurement. How is that even a measurement. You must think the Egyptians and all related were dumb. Not a single temple or anything could be built to such a rediculous inconsistent measurement.
I am not being religious by suggesting its is indeed holy, I am only giving you reasons that many believe it is holy. It is certainly more holy than the "French."
The metric "system" is nice, but the base unit of measurement is no more precise than that of the inch. In fact a base unit is irrelevant so long as it does not change. We could just as easily have milliInches and centi-inches.
Hehe, I am sure I have signe some document that instantly releases my spirit from its physical casing if I say anything about my company...
:D)
It was not a typical backdoor per se, but a way to do diagnostics. but alas, if it went public...(this was an anti-theft module
I put an easy way to turn the code off before I left the program, lets hope they used it.
Why are so many Americans of the impression that America has a greedy Labor force just because somebody in taiwan will work for beans???
The company is selling the product for the same price, regardless of where the labor is. The only difference here is how much money the American CEOs et al. can squeeze out of their own people. If they can not squeeze enough to buy that extra fleet of jets, fire the Americans and hire elsewhere.
How does one come to blame the Labor force for this level of greed???
Why dont we fire the CEOs and hire some from China? We'd save a lot more money...
I here that people like working for Honda in Ohio assembly plant a lot more than they like working for the Big3...
Why not? Just so the CEO can have 2 jets? Americans are not upset that companies are trying to save money. Americans are upset that the money saved goes to the CEO and board of directors. Which in effect means that lots of the push to save money is only out of greed and selfishness.
I will admit to being one that believes American Companies should hire American workers. Who provides for the security of these companies? What exactly does the company owe to the USA, and how exactly is the company paying its due?
We dont need anyone to say it. The US Military has always reserved the right to reduce the accuracy of the GPS system. They have always maintained this technical capability to reduce the accuracy to everyone in the world but the US Military.
I though this point was understood by everyone that has GPS. Dont go on your around the world Boat Trip unless you know how to read the stars, because the GPS could let you off course...
RAM requires power to retain its state.
I know..."But NetZero is free..."
I have to have that argument every time I go over there.
But my mom has a special trick. During phone assistance I usually say something like "Click Start", her response is usually "OK I clicked start, OH there is programs!, oh there is Microsoft!, oh there is Word!..."
And Im like, No mom, Just hit START! She kind of thinks diagnostics (and computers) is intuitive so she just makes the obvious extra choices...Frustrating.
Also when programs prove counterintuitive, I have to explain over and over that I didn't write the software. Naturally her reply is that I should have and I would be rich by now...
Save yourself some time and bang your head on the wall before you even get there.
I'm with you man. I;m in the auto industry and yes, its been over 10 years that fuel cells have been in the works. Its just being hyped this year for some reason, but no technology breakthroughs have occured.
They must be trying to get around some government regulation by saying fuel cells are here, see! But they are just as they have been for the last 10 years...
At first it looked interesting. Then he starts running into problem after problem and I'm thinking, Does he want a job at General Dynamics? Because he is doing a ton of engineering. He put some real thought into that thing. I can't blame him at all for the $10-$25 fee for instructions.
Of course he will soon find that the instructions are equally as hard to make as the tank...
It is known in the auto industry that the Japanese were dumping their Minivans on the US at or near a loss. They took a gamble and tried to drive the US out of the minivan business. It failed. They paid heavily.
You can drop the partisanship. Its an illusion that allows you to believe as far as many issues are concerned you actually have a choice. You don't.
businesses have every choice in the world. Why do American CEOs get ~300 times the average workers salary while in Europe its around 30.
In America you had better hold stock because holding a job is getting more and more difficult. Of course stock...
I vote Greens when other knowledge of candidates is absent..
Actually I use WordPerfect and its quite nice (except the thesaurus). Its still vastly more workable that M$ word which is still to this day a horrible abomination.
Corel attemts at a database tool seem laughable though. Their spread sheet is nice and their presentation package is respectable though it could use a little intuition.
lets hope now that they have squandered all the M$ money the lazy execs will be fired and some people that actually care will be inserted in their place.
WP has not grown, but its still better than word...
We don't use "antique" measurements in the US, we use the measurements based on the measure handed to us by God. The rest of the world is using a system of measurements handed to them by the French.
Which would you prefer?
For those outside of the know, the inch is related to the cubit which you can find throughout the Bible. Their is no scientific reason for prefering the meter to the cubit.
I thought the White House was the obvious answer to the question...
A very simple partial (90%) solution is to reject email that has a forget header.
Then you know _exactly_ where your spam came from.
yes, i have written such "backdoork" in some software, sanctioned by my company, not told to customer. It was never meant to be released though. the real problem is that we go through durability testing and such with the "final software" but of course its not really final because we have this key that allows us to still check certain things that we will truly turn off later on.
I always pushed for the customer knowing about this because then its their legal problem, not ours if its found out. And I always like to remind folks in the Auto industry that crime starts at the Top, not the bottom.
Yes I know. Its much more convient for me to store my money on my front lawn. Easy access. But should I start complainign about its insecurity?
And should I start creating contraptions to secure something which is fundamentally insecure?
I would much rather you thrust a knife in my chest taking my life than destroy the lives of 10,000 other people.
Some of us believe in self sacrifice, others just believe in self preservation...
How long will it be before they get audited by Microsoft? Is this even legal anymore?
Forrealthough, I applaud this effort. Linux is excellent for learning. Anything which can be torn down completely and put together by its pieces is good to show how such a complex thing can be constructed. Sometimes the whole picture is too bid to grasp, but understanding just 1 module is not.
goodlookinout.
That would be illegal. Of course it takes a team of lawyers to get justice..