"Since markets provide incentives for good judgment and self-selection, the market will effectively aggregate information among knowledgeable participants"
uhmm, I just thought I would be an ass and point out that you should either remove the ".25" from the denominator or change your response to "~= 136.89".
Of course, if you went with the later it would certainly beg the question, "what is.89 sex"? If you are willing to overlook/justify the subtraction of 0.2 the response is easy. If not, I think I will have to refer you to Clinton for the answer...
I think you are missing the real point of open source development. The factions are what make the software better. The option to choose different features/solutions make the software better. The competition between project drive the project to improve.
Talk about trolling... Ok, what about 1000 "hobbyiest" split between 2 open source project v. 100 paid employees -- as if being paid somehow endows the person/project with talent and/or success.
Some people will go to any length for a troll... Why don't they just claim the telegraph is going to take over the phone systems because of it's advanced digital process?!?
You certainly could setup a channel to push.torrent files. Then the end user could simple launch BT to get the file (I realized this gets away from the push model a bit, but it would work now).
But, k2b could do this auto-magically by implementing helper applications, plug-ins, or META data. Such a framework would also provide a lot a flexibility for various file/channel types (ie. play songs from a music channel, stream channel data to a ticker, priority message alerts, etc). Now if only I wasn't so lazy...
E.
go ahead and do your worst -- my karma already sucks
Putting personal fear aside, I decided to go. After the initial brawl, where two people had to be taken away after being whopped in the head by a Ti Book, the meetup when fairly well. The turn out was ~25, and the last of us left the bar about 1am.
The thing that I found to be most interesting is the large number of people (myself included) who don't watch/have a TV for lack of interesting material, and time to watch the uninteresting material. I guess/. just don't enjoy staring into a CRT.
Other topics of conversation in not perticular order:
/. and blogs
NPR, The Onion, and the Daily Show -- the holy trilogy of news (or at least funny)... I won't mention JJ not reading/. anymore;)
Local music and the persutes of a/.er record label
letterboxing and what the hell it is
standard OS conversations
academics vs. the real world (not the show -- although that might make an interesting program...)
Job market or lack thereof
Advertising and it's effect on us
Cowboy Neal -- ok, we didn't actually talk about him, but the list wouldn't be complete without him
All and all, a good evening. I think we might even get some returns next month.
ePairie.com seems to have some "reliable gossip" (what is that anyway?!?) to think NL might be bought out by a Chicago based company. The "activity" might actually have something to do with the CIA deal -- or maybe a Chicago company is buying the CIA:)
http://www.eprairie.com/news/viewnews.asp?newslett erID=3261
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Cool :) I'm saving up for the pink wallet!
Oh wait, never time. In the future please don't use the "Robots" and "Exploding" in the same sentence...
Do they know the 90's are over??
Of course, if you went with the later it would certainly beg the question, "what is .89 sex"? If you are willing to overlook/justify the subtraction of 0.2 the response is easy. If not, I think I will have to refer you to Clinton for the answer...
Finally my home movies will get noticed! Then I'll be the one laughing because I'll be famous... FAMOUS I say...
You can do the same thing by posting the URL on /.
Talk about trolling... Ok, what about 1000 "hobbyiest" split between 2 open source project v. 100 paid employees -- as if being paid somehow endows the person/project with talent and/or success.
I give up -- someone get me when Elvis is back.
seems to be /.ed -- I feel a little like Tommy...
I like how the kids are mostly unimpressed with the whole process -- I guess having uranium in your coffee table does that to you.
Sounds like a great way to put all your chickens in one easy to use basket.
But, k2b could do this auto-magically by implementing helper applications, plug-ins, or META data. Such a framework would also provide a lot a flexibility for various file/channel types (ie. play songs from a music channel, stream channel data to a ticker, priority message alerts, etc). Now if only I wasn't so lazy...
E.
go ahead and do your worst -- my karma already sucks
lets see if this lights a fire under anyone
Robots and dogs living together -- mass hysteria...
Yea, my shareholders...
The thing that I found to be most interesting is the large number of people (myself included) who don't watch/have a TV for lack of interesting material, and time to watch the uninteresting material. I guess /. just don't enjoy staring into a CRT.
Other topics of conversation in not perticular order:
/. and blogs - NPR, The Onion, and the Daily Show -- the holy trilogy of news (or at least funny)... I won't mention JJ not reading
/. anymore ;) - Local music and the persutes of a
/.er record label - letterboxing and what the hell it is
- standard OS conversations
- academics vs. the real world (not the show -- although that might make an interesting program...)
- Job market or lack thereof
- Advertising and it's effect on us
- Cowboy Neal -- ok, we didn't actually talk about him, but the list wouldn't be complete without him
All and all, a good evening. I think we might even get some returns next month.Actually I was trying to post to the "chilling effect" story... but maybe I'll be first post :)
The full text should read: They must be mistaken, the US doesn't spy on other countries... See now isn't it funny :)
They must be mistaken, doesn't spy on other countries...
ePairie.com seems to have some "reliable gossip" (what is that anyway?!?) to think NL might be bought out by a Chicago based company. The "activity" might actually have something to do with the CIA deal -- or maybe a Chicago company is buying the CIA :)
http://www.eprairie.com/news/viewnews.asp?newslett erID=3261