Exactly... and how much have you paid back to OSS?
I, personally, have donated money. As a company, we provide some free tools that are of use to both our customers and many people in life sciences. When we have resources beyond barely surving, we will probably do more. At the very least, monetary support to projects we rely heavily on.
That said, every time I hear 'what have you done to contribute back' I can't help but think this: OSS advocates want OSS on every desktop. But if say, Linux grabbed a 15% marketshare on the desktop, do you expect all those people to contribute? The fact is, if OSS goes mainstream, mainstream is not going to care about OSS. They are going to care about lowercase free.
Or phosphor coat it for that matter? Tritium is a Hydrogen isotope.
You can disolve tritium in a phospor liquid. Tritium is usually used in compounds or molecules that have been 'tritiated'. Like tritiated water, tritiated thymidine, etc.
You just don't want to eat the stuff. With a half life of about 15 years, tritium will hang around in your body quite a while.
True, tritium has a half life of about 15 years (closer to 12 though.) However, when it comes to ingesting radioactive material, you need to be more concerned with the biological half-life. That is how fast the material will be excreted from you body. For tritium, it is just over 9 days. For tritium to harm you, you have too ingest a pretty large quantity. I know all about the stuff, I injected it into rats for years.
Blame [it on all the] open source/free software out there.
I work for a bioinformatics software company that would not have existed without open source. When you start on your own dime, you most likely cannot afford proprietary unix, databases, etc. My company, in existence for 4 years now, will owe a lot to open source if we survive.
Google knows everything huh? How about all of the Potential pages built dynamically as the rusult of DB queries?
Google groups knows damn near everything. I have been using it since it was Deja News and I have to say, I have learned more from it than the next top ten resources at my disposal combined. Type in the most specific keywords and 'Re' (this gives you reponses to questions) and you will get answers fast. Google groups is god.
If he wanted to that more completely, he could have gone about patenting his inventions and through that legal ownership making them freely available for all to use.
No kidding. It's almost always the 'assignee' who causes all the trouble, not the 'inventor'. Problem is, it's pretty damn expensive to get a patent, at least in the US.
I have seriously manhandled about 150 computers, ripping out the motherboards, making frankenstein boxes out of non-working boxes, hot swapping non hot-swappable hard disks, forcing fans onto cpus, pulling out running SCSI discs to get that gyroscopic effect because the disks are still spinning at 10K rpms. I must have had some luck though. Never once have I broken a machine.
P.S. Since I advocated the use LSD or shrooms, please note: Never, ever, ever, ever take it alone and if you have never taken it, take it with some one who has. If you don't follow those rules, you will have a bad time. Guaranteed.
I have some of the most vivid memories of what I was doing while I was spun on acid.
I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing but I certainly know that no matter what it was that I was saw, thought about, or did, LSD opened doors in my life that I would never have explored otherwise.
Absolutely. Everyone should take LSD at least once in their life. It really opens your eyes to things and I still have many insights into life that I think I might never had without it. I took it about 10-15 times (last time was more than 10 years ago.) I have never had a flashback, and only one 'bad trip' (which was terrible, but is really a product of the environment you expose yourself too while on it.) LSD has really been demonized but I think it is pretty harmless. If you really can't bring yourself to take LSD, try shrooms. You get the same affect but for a much shorter time.
I'd much rather trust a scientist, almost regardless of what type of scientist.
Being a scientist and working with scientists for the past 15 years, I can tell you there are many, many scientists that I would not want to run the country. Scientists very often live in the world of theory, not reality. And when you live in a theortical world, concepts which, in theory, are very sound, will never work in reality. Not to troll here, but a lot of scientists I know are Kucinich supporters. He has a lot of ideas that make a lot of sense, but in reality they just wouldn't work. I heard something once that I think is pretty true. It went something like, "I'd rather have 2000 average joes run the country rather than the smartest person alive."
Slashdot Mirror
When is wikipedia going to get google ads or some other form of text ads?
Hopefully, never.
Exactly... and how much have you paid back to OSS?
I, personally, have donated money. As a company, we provide some free tools that are of use to both our customers and many people in life sciences. When we have resources beyond barely surving, we will probably do more. At the very least, monetary support to projects we rely heavily on.
That said, every time I hear 'what have you done to contribute back' I can't help but think this: OSS advocates want OSS on every desktop. But if say, Linux grabbed a 15% marketshare on the desktop, do you expect all those people to contribute? The fact is, if OSS goes mainstream, mainstream is not going to care about OSS. They are going to care about lowercase free.
infringing on our rights as citizens
Downloading stuff is not a right. It's a privilege.
Or phosphor coat it for that matter? Tritium is a Hydrogen isotope.
You can disolve tritium in a phospor liquid. Tritium is usually used in compounds or molecules that have been 'tritiated'. Like tritiated water, tritiated thymidine, etc.
You just don't want to eat the stuff. With a half life of about 15 years, tritium will hang around in your body quite a while.
True, tritium has a half life of about 15 years (closer to 12 though.) However, when it comes to ingesting radioactive material, you need to be more concerned with the biological half-life. That is how fast the material will be excreted from you body. For tritium, it is just over 9 days. For tritium to harm you, you have too ingest a pretty large quantity. I know all about the stuff, I injected it into rats for years.
Blame [it on all the] open source/free software out there.
I work for a bioinformatics software company that would not have existed without open source. When you start on your own dime, you most likely cannot afford proprietary unix, databases, etc. My company, in existence for 4 years now, will owe a lot to open source if we survive.
Once that happens, won't that mean about 75% of publicly traded companies will be gone since the dot com bust? A second round, I guess.
I hope the company I work for never goes public. I'd rather stay small and slightly profitable than get a whole bunch of money and blow it.
It comes with a ching chong mung and and four hong dong pongs!
Seriously though, what's with posting links to adverts that only about 3 people are going to be able to read?
I don't particularly like the original Star Trek
Let me guess....you use emacs, right?
Star Trek XI: Why didn't I save any of my money? KAHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
...it hertz.
Google knows everything huh? How about all of the Potential pages built dynamically as the rusult of DB queries?
Google groups knows damn near everything. I have been using it since it was Deja News and I have to say, I have learned more from it than the next top ten resources at my disposal combined. Type in the most specific keywords and 'Re' (this gives you reponses to questions) and you will get answers fast. Google groups is god.
"Network security hacks" - sounds like some setups I know of.
The distant past called....
It looks like the beginning of the end for the Redmond Gang.
Yes. If you use a geologic timescale.
If he wanted to that more completely, he could have gone about patenting his inventions and through that legal ownership making them freely available for all to use.
No kidding. It's almost always the 'assignee' who causes all the trouble, not the 'inventor'. Problem is, it's pretty damn expensive to get a patent, at least in the US.
Queue the Bush rhetoric....
What Starbucks are they looking at? The few times I've been in a Starbucks...
Anecdotes != data. I'm sure Starbucks has spent millions determining their demographics.
That's 0.00000001% of the Seattle locations.
But I think I'll watch the extended versions in the confort of my own home. Movie theaters don't have pause buttons.
I have seriously manhandled about 150 computers, ripping out the motherboards, making frankenstein boxes out of non-working boxes, hot swapping non hot-swappable hard disks, forcing fans onto cpus, pulling out running SCSI discs to get that gyroscopic effect because the disks are still spinning at 10K rpms. I must have had some luck though. Never once have I broken a machine.
P.S. Since I advocated the use LSD or shrooms, please note: Never, ever, ever, ever take it alone and if you have never taken it, take it with some one who has. If you don't follow those rules, you will have a bad time. Guaranteed.
I have some of the most vivid memories of what I was doing while I was spun on acid.
I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing but I certainly know that no matter what it was that I was saw, thought about, or did, LSD opened doors in my life that I would never have explored otherwise.
Absolutely. Everyone should take LSD at least once in their life. It really opens your eyes to things and I still have many insights into life that I think I might never had without it. I took it about 10-15 times (last time was more than 10 years ago.) I have never had a flashback, and only one 'bad trip' (which was terrible, but is really a product of the environment you expose yourself too while on it.) LSD has really been demonized but I think it is pretty harmless. If you really can't bring yourself to take LSD, try shrooms. You get the same affect but for a much shorter time.
So many memories.....erased.
I'd much rather trust a scientist, almost regardless of what type of scientist.
Being a scientist and working with scientists for the past 15 years, I can tell you there are many, many scientists that I would not want to run the country. Scientists very often live in the world of theory, not reality. And when you live in a theortical world, concepts which, in theory, are very sound, will never work in reality. Not to troll here, but a lot of scientists I know are Kucinich supporters. He has a lot of ideas that make a lot of sense, but in reality they just wouldn't work. I heard something once that I think is pretty true. It went something like, "I'd rather have 2000 average joes run the country rather than the smartest person alive."