Fig.3 Holographic Versatile Disc(TM) (HVD(TM)) on which digital movies were recorded (left). The disc diameter of 12 centimeters is equivalent to those of CD and DVD.
I have tried eclipse on several different occasions, and while it is an impressive IDE and feature rich, it is slow to me. Slow enough that it aways made me feel like i was being held back.
I hopy my post didnt come off as an attack of Indians! Hell if i was in that situation i'd have no trouble taking an american job. The problem definately is the corporations, and trade agreements for sure. But what the hell can you do about it?
#1 Companies love free markets & capital mobility; the rest of us want good jobs (read: we want wages that will let us raise a family with some degree of comfort)
#2 Im pretty damned sure you can live on _much_ less money in India than I can anywhere in the US. It's not about Americans being greedy here, it's about the fact that you have to fucking eat. My girlfriend and myself make about 80k a year gross combined. Guess what, on Long Island, NY, this is shit and you will be eeking by practically after you factor in food, apartment, car, and paying off the student loan you took out to get that now worthless piece of fucking paper. Every where you look around here the Middle & Lower class keeps getting more screwed, as the disparity in wages increases astronomically.
Hmm. sorry if this came out as a flame, but the smug attitude and generalization with which you smear me with is extremely grating.
There was a website like this. Cant find the link, but you would submit a project you want wrlitten, contact info, and amount you are willing to pay. I think the site also required the programs be GPLd.
Well, most of what I use is avaliable for free at any rate. I'm sure there is plenty of things that dont exist for free with no free equivalent. One that I would like to see, and would pay for if reasonable priced would be a circuit simulator like Pspice. And theres always more games that I'd like to play;)
I'd rather have nice open-sourced programs than a major vendor selling a PC with a RedHat Tax or whichever. If you like having linux pre-installed, go buy from a linux vendor. Personally, I wouldnt use any of the distros that would come pre-installed so it is useless to me; and I refuse to give charity to a company attempting to make $ off of linux just because of the fact that linux is involved. If they have a good idea they woudnt need my handouts. Normally I dont pay for any software, no matter what the hell the license is; But since Loki was porting games to linux I went out and spent the money at a computer store to buy their games, which supports them, (and shows CompUSA or where ever I bought it that at least 1 person will buy linux stuff in their area) because you see, they made something I need.
Not a matter of being cheap, just a matter of markets & demand.
So putting in skilled labor to provide you with free programs is not supporting the cause? Isn't that _specifically_ the cause? Creating Free (Beer/Libre) Software? And for years I thought 'giving back' was helping a fellow developer with a program you use frequently. I'd better hurry up and donate money to Mandrake's failing buisness or something.
The interfaces for these newer desktop Linux distros, like Lycoris and Lindows, seem to me to be just as intuitive as the one Windows XP has. Obviously there are differences, but it seems to me that starting from a blank slate, a new user can learn Linux just as easily as they can learn Windows or Mac OS.
I actually conducted an 'experinemnt' on my girlfriend on this exact inea. I felt the same way as you, that someone who had not been 'broken' on Windows should have no problem using Linux, granted it was properly set up.
At the time, she had never really used a computer for any length of time. So I built her one with some spare parts laying around my room, and asked her if she'd like to try linux (read: "your using linux.") Set her up with Slackware, and Windowmaker, installed things like OpenOffice (at the time it was still StarOffice,) Mozilla with all the plugins, some of the KDE games, some cutesy dockapps (Rubber Duckies of a CPU mon, etc.) And set up some nice menus to get at all the junk.
She was up and running in no time, enjoys the relatively stable environment, and abhors going to work and using a Windows box. Of course my ultimate goal of turning her into a real geek failed: pretty much the only thing she knows about a CLI is 'startx'
And before the trolls come, note that the girlfriend is _not_ in quotations:)
When you create a work, like a computer program, or a novel, and so on, you automatically have a set of legal rights called copyright. This means that you have the right to forbid others to use, modify and redistribute your work. By default no-one, except you the owner, is allowed to do any of these things. To relax these restrictions, you need to enter into an agreement with other people individually when they receive a copy from you. Such an agreement is called a License Agreement, which potentially entails rights and obligations to both you and them. It is very important that the License is written by a lawyer, and invoked from every file that is part of the work, in order for that file to fall under the terms the License. This can be done either by including the full text of the license or by including a legalese reference to the full text of the License. In the free software community, we standardize on using primarily the GNU General Public License, which we will discuss in the next section.
I have a severe problem with people who think it's their right to take as much as they can for as little as they can.
I agree with everything you have to say, but this. Isn't this the definition of a 'Market System'?
So long as providers use their senses, and charge those who use the large amounts of bandwith, most will stop using so much, thinking that it isn't wort the cost, and some will think it's worth it, and foot the bill.
What will YOU do? Die or Fight? The time is NOW...
The U.C.A is currently seeking anyone who has at least 1 or more of the following qualifications:
* Intelligence in alien based technology ( anti-matter...etc.. )
Damn, I knew I shouldn't have thrown out those blueprints!
> I tend to think that keeping the government out of private communication is a conservative value, the subversion of that term by the party in office notwithstanding.
Very true, anyone who has takein a 12 grade US government should know that republicans (conservatives) are pro 'small government.' Having a government agengy sift through all communications is hardly a 'small government' quality.
But i do agree with most of the original posters comments, people who take 'civil rights/liberties' too far really need to step back and look.
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I have tried eclipse on several different occasions, and while it is an impressive IDE and feature rich, it is slow to me. Slow enough that it aways made me feel like i was being held back.
Apparently, one of you two is smoking crack. Take a guess on which one.
http://porthole.sourceforge.net/
could you maybe, ust maybe RTFS
I hopy my post didnt come off as an attack of Indians! Hell if i was in that situation i'd have no trouble taking an american job. The problem definately is the corporations, and trade agreements for sure. But what the hell can you do about it?
#1 Companies love free markets & capital mobility; the rest of us want good jobs (read: we want wages that will let us raise a family with some degree of comfort)
#2 Im pretty damned sure you can live on _much_ less money in India than I can anywhere in the US. It's not about Americans being greedy here, it's about the fact that you have to fucking eat. My girlfriend and myself make about 80k a year gross combined. Guess what, on Long Island, NY, this is shit and you will be eeking by practically after you factor in food, apartment, car, and paying off the student loan you took out to get that now worthless piece of fucking paper. Every where you look around here the Middle & Lower class keeps getting more screwed, as the disparity in wages increases astronomically.
Hmm. sorry if this came out as a flame, but the smug attitude and generalization with which you smear me with is extremely grating.
lol. stupid acehole.
17... 18... 19... 20... *click*
goatse link, click at your own risk!
There was a website like this. Cant find the link, but you would submit a project you want wrlitten, contact info, and amount you are willing to pay. I think the site also required the programs be GPLd.
They seem to be alot more abundant than even McD's 'Freedom' Fries Oil!
Been there. Done that.
Well, most of what I use is avaliable for free at any rate. I'm sure there is plenty of things that dont exist for free with no free equivalent. One that I would like to see, and would pay for if reasonable priced would be a circuit simulator like Pspice. And theres always more games that I'd like to play ;)
I'd rather have nice open-sourced programs than a major vendor selling a PC with a RedHat Tax or whichever. If you like having linux pre-installed, go buy from a linux vendor. Personally, I wouldnt use any of the distros that would come pre-installed so it is useless to me; and I refuse to give charity to a company attempting to make $ off of linux just because of the fact that linux is involved. If they have a good idea they woudnt need my handouts. Normally I dont pay for any software, no matter what the hell the license is; But since Loki was porting games to linux I went out and spent the money at a computer store to buy their games, which supports them, (and shows CompUSA or where ever I bought it that at least 1 person will buy linux stuff in their area) because you see, they made something I need.
Not a matter of being cheap, just a matter of markets & demand.
So putting in skilled labor to provide you with free programs is not supporting the cause? Isn't that _specifically_ the cause? Creating Free (Beer/Libre) Software? And for years I thought 'giving back' was helping a fellow developer with a program you use frequently. I'd better hurry up and donate money to Mandrake's failing buisness or something.
At the time, she had never really used a computer for any length of time. So I built her one with some spare parts laying around my room, and asked her if she'd like to try linux (read: "your using linux.") Set her up with Slackware, and Windowmaker, installed things like OpenOffice (at the time it was still StarOffice,) Mozilla with all the plugins, some of the KDE games, some cutesy dockapps (Rubber Duckies of a CPU mon, etc.) And set up some nice menus to get at all the junk.
She was up and running in no time, enjoys the relatively stable environment, and abhors going to work and using a Windows box. Of course my ultimate goal of turning her into a real geek failed: pretty much the only thing she knows about a CLI is 'startx'
And before the trolls come, note that the girlfriend is _not_ in quotations
Cheers.
I think you are talking about this:
http://grc.com/dos/ grcdos.htm
Snipped from Learning the GNU development tools:
I have a severe problem with people who think it's their right to take as much as they can for as little as they can.
I agree with everything you have to say, but this. Isn't this the definition of a 'Market System'?
So long as providers use their senses, and charge those who use the large amounts of bandwith, most will stop using so much, thinking that it isn't wort the cost, and some will think it's worth it, and foot the bill.
Only problem is, most providers aren't sensible.
What will YOU do? Die or Fight? The time is NOW ...
...etc.. )
The U.C.A is currently seeking anyone who has at least 1 or more of the following qualifications:
* Intelligence in alien based technology ( anti-matter
Damn, I knew I shouldn't have thrown out those blueprints!
> I tend to think that keeping the government out of private communication is a conservative value, the subversion of that term by the party in office notwithstanding. Very true, anyone who has takein a 12 grade US government should know that republicans (conservatives) are pro 'small government.' Having a government agengy sift through all communications is hardly a 'small government' quality.
But i do agree with most of the original posters comments, people who take 'civil rights/liberties' too far really need to step back and look.
You retard, MS ripped off the Start Menu "innovation" from Mac. Just drag that "innovation" to the top of your screen, and look.
Get a clue