Electric cars have been lingering at the high point because no significant car has been rough to market. The Tesla and the Volt appear to be the firsts going there.
To ensure that HAL pigeon-holes you by telling you that you have to choose, a special patent has been issued for this innovative new idea so that others don't take the idea and profit from it and deprive HAL from losing yet more money because you know that HAL doesn't have a lot of money, except to spend on these type of innovative new patents. The forced choice will be stored in an elaborate DB3 database where only one bit per customer will be used to save on costs of storage. The single bit will possibly store zero for plastic and one for paper, or perhaps the other way around. It may flip around in future versions.
A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon.
Although the primary base numbering system in machete is unary, base three has it's advantages, especially in flux between the numbers three and six. See the enneagram.
I made a move from country to country during dot com. I found that the best job for me at the time was not in Canada. I landed the job after two phone interviews and moved to a new country. It was a great experience. It was helpful to have a job lined up before moving because there are lots of things that come up in moving to a new country. I had to find a place to live, and I needed to make new friends and contacts in a new and different culture.
I moved from eastern Canada to western Canada and the work culture is different between east and west. Despite any hype to the contrary, I see many more opportunities in Quebec and Ontario than here in the west. I hear repeatedly that BC is looking to hire people in the "service" industry but, the companies are often not willing to pay much more than minimum wage. I've met people here from Australia and New Zealand who are shocked at the terrible pay because they could make much more back home and just about anywhere else in the world. Very capable people either get fed up and leave Canada, or they settle for some menial job.
I've seen companies here that hire people from Australia and New Zealand rather than recruiting locally. In my opinion, there are some excellent technology companies to work for in Vancouver. I am starting to see a few companies open up a little bit more in western Canada. I think that they are starting to realize they need to hire people in technology and they need to pay them a decent income.
The best thing would be to land the job you want before arriving in Canada, but being here in person is obviously going to help too. Make contact, apply, do phone interviews directly with Canadian companies from Australia. The right recruiter may be able to get you access more companies.
Obviously, Microsoft is a software company, they want to make money selling their software as they have in the past. And now, more and more I think that free and open source software obviously puts a wrench in their historical business plans and profits.
I hardly consider Microsoft's buy out of Novell a contribution towards open source software. Except for Microsoft, big companies, like IBM, are paying open source developers for their work. I think that adding monetary reward to open source projects has both pros and cons attached to it. The developers get the benefit of payment for their work. The big company may have other strategic schemes in mind like, perhaps only making their wares integrate with the open source software. For example, although the Linux kernel will work on a number of CPUs, it is still primarily targeted for the legacy and proprietary x86 processors. In my opinion, the Linux kernel would be better if it worked well on lots of cores, especially open cores such as massively parallel mini CPUs.
Speaking of abandoned open source projects, there is also a lot of dead code which is owned by companies in the name of intellectual property, and failed projects. Call it corporate abandon-ware. Corporate abandon-ware is not easily available to just any developer who feels like picking it up. On the other hand, abandoned source projects can be more easily revived if a developer feels inclined to do so, and we see this happen.
I do not own property, never mind a second property. This past summer, I lived outdoors, got free internet through wireless at the library and I've heard of another programmer living outdoors for years. For the winter I am housesitting. I've been taking care of the house as storms pass through and making sure the pipes don't burst and keeping an eye on things.
Great postings and comments on the plague of being "titles" such as developer, sysadmin, manager, tech, user, hacker, etc. and so on. Everything I've learned has been from other people I've communicated and worked with. What works?
Communication. Communication. Communication.
What doesn't work? Well, often a lot of this computer stuff does NOT work.
Who turned off ping? Huh? Why is the Novell32 software listed as a 16 bit application and why does it lock up the laptop when I unplug the network cable. I am installing Microsoft Windows NT Server on the laptop because Windows NT Workstation is missing a few things that I want to use. Domain? What the heck is a domain? And why should I care? I use peer to peer, haven't you ever heard of that? Not everyone runs "Microsoft network" yunno? I forgot to insert that 5 1/4" floppy last night so that the automated backup will run properly. RFCs? Lots of reading... It was useful to learn that we can separate Development - Testing (Alpha) - Beta (User testing) - Training - and Production. With lots of resources we can create separate networks/machines/etc and with limited resources we can still do the same all on that old 166MHz Linux box. And going further and running applications as separate non-root users. No I don't want to run that as root. No I don't want to do development with the root account. No I don't want the root password. SysAdmin is boring. Programming is fun but it's addictive and consumes more energy that it would taken to do the thing manually in the first place. Here is how I use grep: man grep; grep attempt; man grep again; grep attempt again; hmmm better ask someone how to use this grep thing again. You want to hard code that fixed length, sure, no problem boss, I won't ask any questions about this and my other programming friend mentioned something about job security. Outsourcing, sure I do outsourcing, please wire the money to my offshore account thank you. In house, sure I do in house programming and it's usually even done in a house! So let me get this straight, you guys put in delay loops randomly scattered throughout the source code and in exchange for paying a bit extra for the "Pro" version you will actually go back and remove all of those delay loops from your code, amazing. My favourite user programming language is HTML. I love those one liners (perls of wizdumb) that you can type on the command line, they do a lot in one line and I have no idea what any of it means. I've spent months researching, documenting, prototyping, putting out surveys, having meetings, creating elaborate clever applications and decided that we need to go surfing -- everyday.
Do we consider Mac OS X programmers to be UNIX programmers?
as i type on this ibook some shells are open in other windows in Terminal.app. Yes, I consider myself a UNIX programmer and yes, I've written software for MacOS and Windows.
Lots of the gems in his book work. I like this one, it applies to life:
Don't just do something, stand there.
i started programming "UNIX" using QNX -- a "realtime" UNIX back in 1986. The cool tools in QNX were the C compiler (even though it was buggy at the time.) I've taken that UNIX experience, and knowledge (or lack thereof) and applied it later when writing software for DOS, MacOS, and Windows. There is something cool about writing a UNIXY "filter" in C that will run on Mac and Windows (oh and UNIX too.) And the rush of dragging a couple hundred very large files onto the application icon on MacOS to run the filter on all of them at once!
UNIX tools rant -- i still don't get the allure of grep, awk , sed and their likes. I often need to reread the rather long manual everytime I go to use grep. I just want to do a simple find and replace without all of the hiccups\"/.* of grep. ie. Don't use [a-z] use [[:alpha:]] instead blah blah blah. And these tools tend to work on lines of text when I want to do the "UNIXY" thing and work on the entire stream (blob, bag) of text. The other annoyance is that someone decided (that is a good idea) to truncate lines at 70-80 characters to fit their crappy shell/terminal program. Raymond makes mention of text editor "bobbles" I was fortunate enough to avoid the UNIX editors and use text editors on MacOS and Windows that didn't suffer from these problems. My current choice of text (and programming!) editor: TextEdit (MacOSX), WordPad (Windows) because like ed they are pretty much guaranteed to be installed already. I tried a few "bobbly" text editors on UNIX but they wouldn't be my preference. I once used VMS, briefly in college, and I would love to have that option of version control available in file systems that I use everyday. The most important thing to know about vi is how to quit: (open a shell, find vi's pid and kill it.) After reading all the praise of emacs, I went and fired it up, it seems to me that emacs could live on it's own, emacs is. emacs is the operating system that Stallman dreams of creating. because who needs an os anyways? i could limp along just fine with only a web browser -- but now i am sounding like those old-timers that could be just as happy using ed and nothing else.
\n rant and those pesky newlines: look for \n and accept all of these:
\l = linefeed = usually UNIX, linux, bsd, MacOSX \r\l = carriage return and linefeed (2 characters just to bloat) = Microsoft, IBM and other behemoths \r = carriage return = MacOS
Labelling me a "mac" enthusiast is not entirely accurate. For sure, I am an "apple ][" enthusiast.
%./asm -hv
Usage: asm [-bhlsv]
A 6502 assembler! Options: b=basic Output as an Applesoft BASIC program. h=help This usage message. l=list Long listing of each pass. s=Show Symbol table. v=Version information. asm version 0.0.1a1 by M
My Apple ][+ keyboard doesn't work:( So, I moved the motherboard into an old Apple ][+ clone case because the clone keyboard works. It meant rewiring (yes, wires!) into the 16 pin keyboard DIN socket. The clone keyboard gives me some extra keys and upper and lower case (woo-hoo!), but lacks that retro feel and nuances (annoyances) of the original Apple ][+ keyboard (upper case only and shift-M = ] shift-N = ^ and shift-P = @)
I took apart the Disk ][ (which means, oh oh, the warantee is void?) and did some maintenance on the spindle with some plumber's putty to keep the loose parts from shaking and some cleaning and oiling to let the drive spin better. Ran the disk speed utility (booting from a spare clone drive) to adjust drive speed. The old Disk ][ works like a charm.
I decided to back up all of those old Apple ][ DOS 3.3 5 1/4 inch disks to CD-ROM! Plugged in an old Apple Serial Interface card in one of the slots of the Apple ][+ and looked on the internet to find what to set the DIP switches to. Connected this through a mess of Macintosh serial cable, gender bender and NULL modem to a serial-to-USB interface plugged into a USB port on an iBook. Wrote a little C program on the iBook to recieve disk images over the serial port from the Apple ][+. Wrote a 6502 machine language program for the Apple ][+ to read disk tracks and sectors and send them over the serial port with a bit of compression. Got all this tested and working and then spent a lot of time inserting all of those old floppies (and flippies) one-at-a-time to be saved onto the iBook. Later, burned the entire collection onto a CD-ROM.
In the middle of all of this, I wrote a 6502 assembler in C just for the fun of it. And because I had always wanted to write a 6502 assembler.
Peripherals that are working: I have enough cards to fill all 8 slots of the Apple: a 16K RAM card, numerous parallel interface cards (and a Gemini Star printer), a Microsoft Z80 CP/M card, a Videx 80 colum card, one Apple serial interface card, a Mountain clock card (with 9Volt battery,) Disk ][ controller cards and floppy drives, and most interestingly an EPROM burner card but with absolutely no documentation or software on how to use it. And a joystick and two Apple paddles! All original Apple ][+ manuals.
My inventor friend has retro-fitted batteries onto his bicycle with a controller and charger and other gizmos. He is a hardcore redgreen dude that builds stuff that actually works! Next project, he is going to do the same to a car.
And don't forget those biodiesel vehicles. How many miles to the next fast-food place with a deep frier?
Driving in the Yukon this summer in a 92 Suzuki Sidekick. I did 600K on a tank of gas (10 imp. gallon tank.) I put a bit campstove fuel in at the end to make it another 20K to a gas station. Gas is $1/L way up north, the gas stations are few and far (really far) between and sometimes not open on Sunday. (Go get dude, yeah, dude has the key to the pump, oh no dude's gone fishing, oh forget it.)
1 km = 0.621 miles 1.609 Kilometrs (km) = 1 mile
1 L = 0.264 US gal US gallons(US gal) = 3.785 Litres
1 imp gal = 0.833 US gal Imperial gallons(Imp gal) 1.201 = US gallons
CDN $1 = 75 US cents
I was wondering why the mpg in some of the posts seemed low, but that's per US gallon. Much better.
<rant>
i remember your duelly elected president George w Bush (who I nhumbly support in his war for, I mean against, no wait you are either for or against, wait, no, we are against terrorism and for the war which somehow equates to peace, something like that, I'll have to switch on those informative us tv news channels to get it straight again with those live action hero figures and cards and such, ooh and oh so cool techy-military stuff) announced that the big 3 car companies would have the fuel efficiency technology available in about 4 years. Translation: we won't be havin us any US-made fuel efficient cars while Bush is president.
God bless him for killing all those terrorists (and breaking a few eggs) so we can have cheap gas for our gas guzzling SUVs.
</rant>
Blame Canada
This piece just sounds like a lot of FUD from corporate MIS-managers that are experiencing the fall of industry in general. This inevitable crash that we get to live in affects us all.
My response to all of the huge judgements about "immigrants" in the piece...
Every North American programmer I know is an immigrant or a descendent of immigrants. There are lots of artificial barriers in place to keep immigrants out of North America while we can travel freely anywhere in the world.
When I first posted this I saw a lot of boring words about laws and restrictions and stuff like that. Very soon after posting "You just don't get." I was reading more creative posts from a lot of people who do get it. So forgive me, you do get it.
And here is my rant about the economics.
Money: Add up all of the money that even a fraction of a neighbourhood currently spends on internet "service" over say a year and instead invest that into infrastructure = that's a heck of a lot of routers, switches and cat-5 cables. (Feel free to add in payments for phone and cable service because there is inexpensive hardware to do IP phone and video broadcasting.)
Time: that depends on what you like to do with your time. Some people, even in my community, tinker with these things and are happy to put the time into the maintenance. I would soon enough leave it alone and let it run as is which in my experience works too (Yes, there is such a thing as Zero-maintenance, old i386s running Linux for years!) People may choose to invest their time rather than up front money.
Incentive: I am only interested in using network hardware for free rather than paying for a subscription. That's free, no money.
It is a matter of choice to build and use free networks. This is much the same as:
open source (free) software
off the grid (free) power
Although, it makes economic sense for me to refrain from spending money on network subscriptions. You're right, this isn't for everyone, it takes a certain shift in the way of seeing things, especially money and time. Why do people create these things to be used for free?
I liked that Novell at one time a long time ago provided software for something called a file server and also if you wanted they had software for something called a print server. Now I see they are going to provide something called Linux. Sounds very interesting, please keep me posted on these innovative developments.
I am talking about multiple document interface (MDI) a component of the Windows GUI. And I am saying that when I last looked at Opera it used MDI which turned me off using it. Some people really like MDI, I do not.
Windows applications that use MDI run in a single window with the application's document windows constrained within that single application window. Excel still uses MDI. Internet Explorer does not use MDI.
Slashdot Mirror
tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "Finder" to quit
Electric cars have been lingering at the high point because no significant car has been rough to market. The Tesla and the Volt appear to be the firsts going there.
What about these?
MDI Enterprises S.A. - Air compressed cars
Electric Tiger Star Truck
Zenn Motor Company
Tata Motors
GM before the Volt
Zap Electric Cars
Global Electric Motors
Phoenix Motorcars
Dynasty Electric Cars
Nice Car Company
Reva
I could keep going but let me Google that for you.
We need to take the first steps if we are ever to migrate from oil to electric.
I agree.
To ensure that HAL pigeon-holes you by telling you that you have to choose, a special patent has been issued for this innovative new idea so that others don't take the idea and profit from it and deprive HAL from losing yet more money because you know that HAL doesn't have a lot of money, except to spend on these type of innovative new patents. The forced choice will be stored in an elaborate DB3 database where only one bit per customer will be used to save on costs of storage. The single bit will possibly store zero for plastic and one for paper, or perhaps the other way around. It may flip around in future versions.
A group of airline employees insist they are in earnest, and they are upset that neither their bosses nor the government will take them seriously.
A Paul Hellyer, former Canadian defence minister says be believes advanced technology from extraterrestrial civilizations offers the best hope to "save our planet" from the perils of climate change.
Although the primary base numbering system in machete is unary, base three has it's advantages, especially in flux between the numbers three and six. See the enneagram.
I made a move from country to country during dot com. I found that the best job for me at the time was not in Canada. I landed the job after two phone interviews and moved to a new country. It was a great experience. It was helpful to have a job lined up before moving because there are lots of things that come up in moving to a new country. I had to find a place to live, and I needed to make new friends and contacts in a new and different culture.
I moved from eastern Canada to western Canada and the work culture is different between east and west. Despite any hype to the contrary, I see many more opportunities in Quebec and Ontario than here in the west. I hear repeatedly that BC is looking to hire people in the "service" industry but, the companies are often not willing to pay much more than minimum wage. I've met people here from Australia and New Zealand who are shocked at the terrible pay because they could make much more back home and just about anywhere else in the world. Very capable people either get fed up and leave Canada, or they settle for some menial job.
I've seen companies here that hire people from Australia and New Zealand rather than recruiting locally. In my opinion, there are some excellent technology companies to work for in Vancouver. I am starting to see a few companies open up a little bit more in western Canada. I think that they are starting to realize they need to hire people in technology and they need to pay them a decent income.
The best thing would be to land the job you want before arriving in Canada, but being here in person is obviously going to help too. Make contact, apply, do phone interviews directly with Canadian companies from Australia. The right recruiter may be able to get you access more companies.
bonne chance
Obviously, Microsoft is a software company, they want to make money selling their software as they have in the past. And now, more and more I think that free and open source software obviously puts a wrench in their historical business plans and profits.
I hardly consider Microsoft's buy out of Novell a contribution towards open source software. Except for Microsoft, big companies, like IBM, are paying open source developers for their work. I think that adding monetary reward to open source projects has both pros and cons attached to it. The developers get the benefit of payment for their work. The big company may have other strategic schemes in mind like, perhaps only making their wares integrate with the open source software. For example, although the Linux kernel will work on a number of CPUs, it is still primarily targeted for the legacy and proprietary x86 processors. In my opinion, the Linux kernel would be better if it worked well on lots of cores, especially open cores such as massively parallel mini CPUs.
Speaking of abandoned open source projects, there is also a lot of dead code which is owned by companies in the name of intellectual property, and failed projects. Call it corporate abandon-ware. Corporate abandon-ware is not easily available to just any developer who feels like picking it up. On the other hand, abandoned source projects can be more easily revived if a developer feels inclined to do so, and we see this happen.
http://illegalinstruction.blogspot.com/2007/02/ice-queen-shatters.html
I do not own property, never mind a second property. This past summer, I lived outdoors, got free internet through wireless at the library and I've heard of another programmer living outdoors for years. For the winter I am housesitting. I've been taking care of the house as storms pass through and making sure the pipes don't burst and keeping an eye on things.
I appreciate your comments about "Unfettered access to the internet" I always wondered how this was done.
Thanks.
Great postings and comments on the plague of being "titles" such as developer, sysadmin, manager, tech, user, hacker, etc. and so on. Everything I've learned has been from other people I've communicated and worked with. What works?
Communication. Communication. Communication.What doesn't work? Well, often a lot of this computer stuff does NOT work.
Who turned off ping? Huh? Why is the Novell32 software listed as a 16 bit application and why does it lock up the laptop when I unplug the network cable. I am installing Microsoft Windows NT Server on the laptop because Windows NT Workstation is missing a few things that I want to use. Domain? What the heck is a domain? And why should I care? I use peer to peer, haven't you ever heard of that? Not everyone runs "Microsoft network" yunno? I forgot to insert that 5 1/4" floppy last night so that the automated backup will run properly. RFCs? Lots of reading... It was useful to learn that we can separate Development - Testing (Alpha) - Beta (User testing) - Training - and Production. With lots of resources we can create separate networks/machines/etc and with limited resources we can still do the same all on that old 166MHz Linux box. And going further and running applications as separate non-root users. No I don't want to run that as root. No I don't want to do development with the root account. No I don't want the root password. SysAdmin is boring. Programming is fun but it's addictive and consumes more energy that it would taken to do the thing manually in the first place. Here is how I use grep: man grep; grep attempt; man grep again; grep attempt again; hmmm better ask someone how to use this grep thing again. You want to hard code that fixed length, sure, no problem boss, I won't ask any questions about this and my other programming friend mentioned something about job security. Outsourcing, sure I do outsourcing, please wire the money to my offshore account thank you. In house, sure I do in house programming and it's usually even done in a house! So let me get this straight, you guys put in delay loops randomly scattered throughout the source code and in exchange for paying a bit extra for the "Pro" version you will actually go back and remove all of those delay loops from your code, amazing. My favourite user programming language is HTML. I love those one liners (perls of wizdumb) that you can type on the command line, they do a lot in one line and I have no idea what any of it means. I've spent months researching, documenting, prototyping, putting out surveys, having meetings, creating elaborate clever applications and decided that we need to go surfing -- everyday.
Do we consider Mac OS X programmers to be UNIX programmers?
as i type on this ibook some shells are open in other windows in Terminal.app. Yes, I consider myself a UNIX programmer and yes, I've written software for MacOS and Windows.
Lots of the gems in his book work. I like this one, it applies to life:
i started programming "UNIX" using QNX -- a "realtime" UNIX back in 1986. The cool tools in QNX were the C compiler (even though it was buggy at the time.) I've taken that UNIX experience, and knowledge (or lack thereof) and applied it later when writing software for DOS, MacOS, and Windows. There is something cool about writing a UNIXY "filter" in C that will run on Mac and Windows (oh and UNIX too.) And the rush of dragging a couple hundred very large files onto the application icon on MacOS to run the filter on all of them at once!
UNIX tools rant -- i still don't get the allure of grep, awk , sed and their likes. I often need to reread the rather long manual everytime I go to use grep. I just want to do a simple find and replace without all of the hiccups\"/.* of grep. ie. Don't use [a-z] use [[:alpha:]] instead blah blah blah. And these tools tend to work on lines of text when I want to do the "UNIXY" thing and work on the entire stream (blob, bag) of text. The other annoyance is that someone decided (that is a good idea) to truncate lines at 70-80 characters to fit their crappy shell/terminal program. Raymond makes mention of text editor "bobbles" I was fortunate enough to avoid the UNIX editors and use text editors on MacOS and Windows that didn't suffer from these problems. My current choice of text (and programming!) editor: TextEdit (MacOSX), WordPad (Windows) because like ed they are pretty much guaranteed to be installed already. I tried a few "bobbly" text editors on UNIX but they wouldn't be my preference. I once used VMS, briefly in college, and I would love to have that option of version control available in file systems that I use everyday. The most important thing to know about vi is how to quit: (open a shell, find vi's pid and kill it.) After reading all the praise of emacs, I went and fired it up, it seems to me that emacs could live on it's own, emacs is. emacs is the operating system that Stallman dreams of creating. because who needs an os anyways? i could limp along just fine with only a web browser -- but now i am sounding like those old-timers that could be just as happy using ed and nothing else.
\n rant and those pesky newlines: look for \n and accept all of these:
Labelling me a "mac" enthusiast is not entirely accurate. For sure, I am an "apple ][" enthusiast.
%My 1982 Apple ][+ is still running!
Okay, I admit i am just way too cheap to upgrade. US$129 to upgrade to 10.2.x no thanks.
Is it possible to compile the latest darwin kernel and use it with 10.1.5?
I see bomb boxesHOW TO view a web page in MacOSX without using a browser...
Open the application Terminal and type the following...
And don't forget those biodiesel vehicles. How many miles to the next fast-food place with a deep frier?
Driving in the Yukon this summer in a 92 Suzuki Sidekick. I did 600K on a tank of gas (10 imp. gallon tank.) I put a bit campstove fuel in at the end to make it another 20K to a gas station. Gas is $1/L way up north, the gas stations are few and far (really far) between and sometimes not open on Sunday. (Go get dude, yeah, dude has the key to the pump, oh no dude's gone fishing, oh forget it.)
I was wondering why the mpg in some of the posts seemed low, but that's per US gallon. Much better.<rant> i remember your duelly elected president George w Bush (who I nhumbly support in his war for, I mean against, no wait you are either for or against, wait, no, we are against terrorism and for the war which somehow equates to peace, something like that, I'll have to switch on those informative us tv news channels to get it straight again with those live action hero figures and cards and such, ooh and oh so cool techy-military stuff) announced that the big 3 car companies would have the fuel efficiency technology available in about 4 years. Translation: we won't be havin us any US-made fuel efficient cars while Bush is president.
God bless him for killing all those terrorists (and breaking a few eggs) so we can have cheap gas for our gas guzzling SUVs. </rant> Blame Canada
I am lucky I live in North America.
This piece just sounds like a lot of FUD from corporate MIS-managers that are experiencing the fall of industry in general. This inevitable crash that we get to live in affects us all.
My response to all of the huge judgements about "immigrants" in the piece...
Every North American programmer I know is an immigrant or a descendent of immigrants. There are lots of artificial barriers in place to keep immigrants out of North America while we can travel freely anywhere in the world.
I invite you to go live in India!
When I first posted this I saw a lot of boring words about laws and restrictions and stuff like that. Very soon after posting "You just don't get." I was reading more creative posts from a lot of people who do get it. So forgive me, you do get it.
And here is my rant about the economics.
Money: Add up all of the money that even a fraction of a neighbourhood currently spends on internet "service" over say a year and instead invest that into infrastructure = that's a heck of a lot of routers, switches and cat-5 cables. (Feel free to add in payments for phone and cable service because there is inexpensive hardware to do IP phone and video broadcasting.)
Time: that depends on what you like to do with your time. Some people, even in my community, tinker with these things and are happy to put the time into the maintenance. I would soon enough leave it alone and let it run as is which in my experience works too (Yes, there is such a thing as Zero-maintenance, old i386s running Linux for years!) People may choose to invest their time rather than up front money.
Incentive: I am only interested in using network hardware for free rather than paying for a subscription. That's free, no money.
It is a matter of choice to build and use free networks. This is much the same as:
Although, it makes economic sense for me to refrain from spending money on network subscriptions. You're right, this isn't for everyone, it takes a certain shift in the way of seeing things, especially money and time. Why do people create these things to be used for free?
we need to consider ideas like that just to maintain the freedoms we're supposedly guaranteed
Thank you. Okay, I think you do get it. And you are right it is a cool idea. I would let go of the "sadness" about paying money every month for what?
A "professional" graciously standing on the street corner.
These type of laws simply show the desperation of the cable/phone/isp mafia. Start running 10baseT around your neighbourhood. WE DON'T NEED TO PAY.
The internet is free.
I liked that Novell at one time a long time ago provided software for something called a file server and also if you wanted they had software for something called a print server. Now I see they are going to provide something called Linux. Sounds very interesting, please keep me posted on these innovative developments.
see these entries in my /var/log/httpd/access_log
Here's a web page I use to handle these exploit attempts
I don't know what tabbed browsing is.
> What are you talking about?I am talking about multiple document interface (MDI) a component of the Windows GUI. And I am saying that when I last looked at Opera it used MDI which turned me off using it. Some people really like MDI, I do not.
Windows applications that use MDI run in a single window with the application's document windows constrained within that single application window. Excel still uses MDI. Internet Explorer does not use MDI.