Send me your bank account information, social security number, home address (or where ever your credit card bills go to), and your mother's maiden name. You'll have your money within 24 hours.
There's two types of comments below: "This looks great" and "This looks like shit/what the hell is going on?" 10 bucks says the great come from windows users and the shit/wtf comments comes from non windows users. Hypocricy at its finest. Years and years of M$ IS TEH SUXORS but this code is optimized and tested for the windows versions of all the browsers.
And to subtract more karma: I'm sure this site probably looks absolutely fucking great in IE on an XP box. I mean I bet it is the shit, a thousand times better than before. SO fucking fantastic, that the slashcoders are probably cracking open the champange congratulating themselves on a job well done. But, oh wait...I using the latest version of Firefox under linux. Isn't this site about open source? Maybe I should dig around to see if they incorporated any active-x...I surely must be missing something.
Slashcode is such a joke. Come on, pulling some text from a db and spitting it out to a web page IS NOT HARD! There is no reason for code to go live that is so broken as it is now. And before you blah blah blah me about whether or not I have done it, I have. I used to work for a porn site that got 10 times the visits this shit pile gets. Mod me troll, I could hardly give a shit. This just plain sucks. I mean the dupes, the grammar, the zonk "editorials", scuttlemonkey?? I had half a hope when they fired michael but, fucking christ.
Well, you have to strike a balance and it sounds like the above parties are negotiating on fairly equal ground. However, if sales is getting the lion's share of the cut, I think it is fair to require some minimum level of performance.
One other thing, when you group sales and marketing in this kind of situation, you are really setting yourself up for failure. Marketing is a notorious money sink and if you subtract all the costs involved (dev+sales+marketing) from total revenue, frugal developers could get screwed from over-zealous marketing spending. Marketing and sales might be spending 90% of the revenue and taking home 65% of the profit.
One problem developers might have with sales and marketing receiving such a large portion of the revenue, is that sales and marketing can take the "meh, this is too hard" attitude and not put too much effort into the sales process. They get a sale here and there and get 65% of the profit while the developers had to work their asses off to make a sellable product. When the structure goes from 65% of all profit to 0% unless they sell X dollars worth, then you have some guarantee that if sales wants to make money, they will actively sell your product. Once they hit X dollars in sales, they get Y% of the revenue. Hit a higher goal and they get a higher percentage. I have no real direect experience in sales but know several people who worked in sales for companies like VWR and BioRad where structures like this exist. At times, the sales teams would come to within.5% of their bottom line quota and get absolutely no commission. It's a real motivator. I'm not saying you should be that hard assed about it, but it does work.
I usually see a little box drawn on the disc with a sharpie. Next to the box, the word "copied" is written. If there is a check in the little box, well, you know it's been pirated.
that's a factor of about 30% off what I've seen for successfull films before.
Slap another 30% off it because it only cost $7,000. And you should definitely see it. Watch it about 3 or 4 times at least. Then hit the internet and look up some of the explanations of the movie, there is so much going on that you probably won't realize even after several viewings. After reading some of the explanations, it really weired me out. Very cool geek time travel movie.
I'm living paycheck to paycheck thanks to the Bush "soak the middle class" so-called tax cuts.
How, exactly, did the tax cuts push you to paycheck to paycheck? Because your statement implies that prior to the tax cuts, you weren't. Just interested is all. I might guess that you were making a shitload more money in the dotcom boom, but so were a lot of people who aren't now but that's not really an excuse and it certainly isn't Bush's fault. He came in on the bust and the start of a recession.
I remember when you didn't have to buy music from a store.
Well, I'm 34 and have been on the internet in some form or another since the early 80s. Copyright laws aren't new and I assume you are talking about taping to cassette. If, back in the seventies and eighties, you massed copied albums to tape and gave them away for free, you'd be breaking the law just the same. Even taping your friend's copy was copyright issue at the time. Other than that, I am not sure what you are talking about when you say you remember a time when you didn't have to buy music from a store.
Heh, I'll answer that post logged in. Sorry, but I can't take people who use clever alterations like windoze, micro$oft, etc seriously.
I have used OSS nearly exclusively at both work and home for almost 5 years. (Hell, I am posting from a RHE3 WS rig at home which is identical to my work machine.) I also attend user's groups for a number of disciplines and am in a hiring capacity where I work. The minute I pick up the zealot vibe from someone, they get put on a mental blacklist. That clever replacement of $ for an s puts you on that list. Using 'luser' puts you on that list. Saying 'boooooooo patents' or 'booooooo microsoft' puts you on that list. I don't use "windoze" much but I don't automatically think everyone who uses 'micro$oft" products are "lusers". Bad mouthing the secretary who doesn't know better gets you on that list. Guess what? She's a secretary, not a fucking computer expert. If she was, she wouldn't be a goddamned secretary. Her life does not revolve around the box that sits under her desk.
Call me an anti-zealot zealot. Call me a hypocrite. I really don't care. But the minute you spew such clever words and phrases, well, I'll stop listening or maybe insult you back. And I certainly wouldn't hire you. As a matter of fact, I have a number of carefully crafted interview questions to draw out zealotry from both sides of the isle.
PS If you hate what you do, get another job. If you hate fixing family and friends computers, do what I do - say, "well, I use linux mostly, I'm not really the best person to ask about windows."
IBM has Open Source - just a business decision based on popularity.
IBM is heavily investing in life science. A lot of life science, especially at the university level, is using linux. I have been to a number of life science meetings/user groups/etc hosted all or in part by IBM. The minute a rep gets whiff that you are not a decision maker - a buyer, they turn tail on you, immediately. I have seen it happen a number of times (not to me, but I have seen a number of people outright snubbed right in the middle of conversations when they reveal something so horrid as they are a graduate student or post doc.) They don't give two shits about science and they make no bones about showing it. They just want to sell servers.
First, H&R Block == some joker running H&R Block's version of TurboTax for you. I went there once, it was a joke.
Second, TurboTax takes all the guesswork out of things. Every year I fill out a tax form by hand (and I still do for an LLC that I really should dissolve), I am never quite sure if I did everything right.
Third, TurboTax is up to date with all the latest tax laws including deductions that you might not know about. For example, last year and this year states with sales tax allowed you to deduct it from your taxes. You could take a standard deduction based on your income. I knew about it. What I didn't know, was that you could also deduct sales tax from materials bought for home improvement above and beyound the standard deduction. Just happens that I had hardwood floors installed ($5000 worth of red oak), rewired all my electrical ($1300 worth of supplies), plus did a couple of other projects that totaled about $1000 in supplies. That alone saved me 4-5 times the cost of the software.
Finally, my taxes are not simple yet I spend less than 1 hour preparing them. Am I subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax? Hell if I know, but TurboTax tells me with the press of a button. Don't know if you seen that form, but I hear it's a doozy. When I am done with TurboTax, it prints out something like 5 or 6 different forms, all neatly filled in, no math errors, no need to double check.
I don't have the time or inclination to figure out all that stuff. $35 and 1 hour and I am enjoying the rest of my day worry free, knowing a fat check is just a week or two away (or I will be writing a fat check on April 15th.)
I was in Hong Kong a while back. They have something called an Octopus card, which is a RFID card that you can charge with dollars money. It's mostly used for mass transit, but you can use it in many stores, phones, parking, etc. It was pretty slick - you'd scan it and the reader would tell you how much you had left on it.
The cool thing about it is you just add money to it as needed, it's not tied to any personal bank account or linked to you in any way. If you lose it, you are out of luck but even if someone could hijack your signal, the most you'd ever lose is what was on the card.
Thinking of it just now, Hong Kong is pretty damn high-tech. You'd think if it was so easy to capture RFID, there'd be signs say "Be sure to protect your card" or something. There were plenty of signs everywhere warning you of various laws and dangers. Everyone, and I mean everyone, has one of these Octopus cards in Hong Kong (well, I read 95% of them do because noone has cars.)
sorry, but there is no way I would trust linux tax software unless it was written by a company like Quicken.
Heh, that reminds me: I was at a Perl user's group meeting a few years back and that night 4 people presented projects they were working on. These two guys, I swear they reminded me of Zed and the other guy, the shop keeper, from Pulp Fiction, these guys were not your typical geeks. Anyway, they demostrated this 1040 tax form program they'd written in Perl. It was all broken, had about 1/20th of the functionallity needed for a 1040, and these guys just came off as total hicks. I could only sit there and think to myself, "You have got to be fucking kidding me." It was one of the weirdest things I have ever witnessed.
I have been using it for years. You can import most of your data from quicken. I'd recommend keeping both running while you try it because though you can export and get a convertor to convert your data back to QIF, you will lose some stuff. The interface is nowhere near as polished but it works. It has quite a few of the features the Quicken has. It can download stock prices, make reports, etc. The graphics are a little light.
Quicken to GNUcash was the last thing I changed before I ditched windows completely. One downside though, there is no TurboTax equivilent (sorry, but there is no way I would trust linux tax software unless it was written by a company like Quicken. Some tax laws are finalized near the end of the year and you really have to trust who you are dealing with.) So, anyway, good thing the wife has a laptop running XP because that is where I do our taxes. Hell, I'd have a windows box around forever if TurboTax never ports to linux. And every year, when I fill out my taxes, I go to their website, find their comment form and send them the following message: "Please make a linux version of Quicken and TurboTax. I'd buy it." I have sent that message for about 5 years. At one point I found a web page saying something like "we are evaluting the need for Quicken under linux" but I that was several years ago. And doesn't Microsoft own Intuit anyway?
Hello, Slashdot. I have a brain tumor and have decided that instead of going to a hospital, I'd try to operate on myself. I have the surgery part all worked out. I figure a hammer blow to my head and steak knife sterilize with hot water from the sink will do the trick. My question to Slashdot is two-fold: A. What open source life support systems are out there? and 2. Am I retarded?
Just suppose some unknown Finn comes up with a great operating system and wants to keep it out of coorporate hands and make it free to all. Can you think of a better way to pass it to the world at large? Oh, wait. Nevermind.
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Send me your bank account information, social security number, home address (or where ever your credit card bills go to), and your mother's maiden name. You'll have your money within 24 hours.
There's two types of comments below: "This looks great" and "This looks like shit/what the hell is going on?" 10 bucks says the great come from windows users and the shit/wtf comments comes from non windows users. Hypocricy at its finest. Years and years of M$ IS TEH SUXORS but this code is optimized and tested for the windows versions of all the browsers.
And to subtract more karma: I'm sure this site probably looks absolutely fucking great in IE on an XP box. I mean I bet it is the shit, a thousand times better than before. SO fucking fantastic, that the slashcoders are probably cracking open the champange congratulating themselves on a job well done. But, oh wait...I using the latest version of Firefox under linux. Isn't this site about open source? Maybe I should dig around to see if they incorporated any active-x...I surely must be missing something.
Slashcode is such a joke. Come on, pulling some text from a db and spitting it out to a web page IS NOT HARD! There is no reason for code to go live that is so broken as it is now. And before you blah blah blah me about whether or not I have done it, I have. I used to work for a porn site that got 10 times the visits this shit pile gets. Mod me troll, I could hardly give a shit. This just plain sucks. I mean the dupes, the grammar, the zonk "editorials", scuttlemonkey?? I had half a hope when they fired michael but, fucking christ.
Well, you have to strike a balance and it sounds like the above parties are negotiating on fairly equal ground. However, if sales is getting the lion's share of the cut, I think it is fair to require some minimum level of performance.
One other thing, when you group sales and marketing in this kind of situation, you are really setting yourself up for failure. Marketing is a notorious money sink and if you subtract all the costs involved (dev+sales+marketing) from total revenue, frugal developers could get screwed from over-zealous marketing spending. Marketing and sales might be spending 90% of the revenue and taking home 65% of the profit.
One problem developers might have with sales and marketing receiving such a large portion of the revenue, is that sales and marketing can take the "meh, this is too hard" attitude and not put too much effort into the sales process. They get a sale here and there and get 65% of the profit while the developers had to work their asses off to make a sellable product. When the structure goes from 65% of all profit to 0% unless they sell X dollars worth, then you have some guarantee that if sales wants to make money, they will actively sell your product. Once they hit X dollars in sales, they get Y% of the revenue. Hit a higher goal and they get a higher percentage. I have no real direect experience in sales but know several people who worked in sales for companies like VWR and BioRad where structures like this exist. At times, the sales teams would come to within .5% of their bottom line quota and get absolutely no commission. It's a real motivator. I'm not saying you should be that hard assed about it, but it does work.
How would you tell if someone pirated it?
I usually see a little box drawn on the disc with a sharpie. Next to the box, the word "copied" is written. If there is a check in the little box, well, you know it's been pirated.
Have you seen this (spoiler):
http://neuwanstein.fw.hu/primer_timeline.html
The movie didn't go nowhere, it went everywhere.
Primer cost $10,000 USD
that's a factor of about 30% off what I've seen for successfull films before.
Slap another 30% off it because it only cost $7,000. And you should definitely see it. Watch it about 3 or 4 times at least. Then hit the internet and look up some of the explanations of the movie, there is so much going on that you probably won't realize even after several viewings. After reading some of the explanations, it really weired me out. Very cool geek time travel movie.
I'm living paycheck to paycheck thanks to the Bush "soak the middle class" so-called tax cuts.
How, exactly, did the tax cuts push you to paycheck to paycheck? Because your statement implies that prior to the tax cuts, you weren't. Just interested is all. I might guess that you were making a shitload more money in the dotcom boom, but so were a lot of people who aren't now but that's not really an excuse and it certainly isn't Bush's fault. He came in on the bust and the start of a recession.
I remember when you didn't have to buy music from a store.
Well, I'm 34 and have been on the internet in some form or another since the early 80s. Copyright laws aren't new and I assume you are talking about taping to cassette. If, back in the seventies and eighties, you massed copied albums to tape and gave them away for free, you'd be breaking the law just the same. Even taping your friend's copy was copyright issue at the time. Other than that, I am not sure what you are talking about when you say you remember a time when you didn't have to buy music from a store.
I remember when it didn't used to be a crime to listen to music.
Yeah, often referred to as "the time before p2p was invented and you had to buy music from a store."
Heh, I'll answer that post logged in. Sorry, but I can't take people who use clever alterations like windoze, micro$oft, etc seriously.
I have used OSS nearly exclusively at both work and home for almost 5 years. (Hell, I am posting from a RHE3 WS rig at home which is identical to my work machine.) I also attend user's groups for a number of disciplines and am in a hiring capacity where I work. The minute I pick up the zealot vibe from someone, they get put on a mental blacklist. That clever replacement of $ for an s puts you on that list. Using 'luser' puts you on that list. Saying 'boooooooo patents' or 'booooooo microsoft' puts you on that list. I don't use "windoze" much but I don't automatically think everyone who uses 'micro$oft" products are "lusers". Bad mouthing the secretary who doesn't know better gets you on that list. Guess what? She's a secretary, not a fucking computer expert. If she was, she wouldn't be a goddamned secretary. Her life does not revolve around the box that sits under her desk.
Call me an anti-zealot zealot. Call me a hypocrite. I really don't care. But the minute you spew such clever words and phrases, well, I'll stop listening or maybe insult you back. And I certainly wouldn't hire you. As a matter of fact, I have a number of carefully crafted interview questions to draw out zealotry from both sides of the isle.
PS If you hate what you do, get another job. If you hate fixing family and friends computers, do what I do - say, "well, I use linux mostly, I'm not really the best person to ask about windows."
IBM has Open Source - just a business decision based on popularity.
IBM is heavily investing in life science. A lot of life science, especially at the university level, is using linux. I have been to a number of life science meetings/user groups/etc hosted all or in part by IBM. The minute a rep gets whiff that you are not a decision maker - a buyer, they turn tail on you, immediately. I have seen it happen a number of times (not to me, but I have seen a number of people outright snubbed right in the middle of conversations when they reveal something so horrid as they are a graduate student or post doc.) They don't give two shits about science and they make no bones about showing it. They just want to sell servers.
First, H&R Block == some joker running H&R Block's version of TurboTax for you. I went there once, it was a joke.
Second, TurboTax takes all the guesswork out of things. Every year I fill out a tax form by hand (and I still do for an LLC that I really should dissolve), I am never quite sure if I did everything right.
Third, TurboTax is up to date with all the latest tax laws including deductions that you might not know about. For example, last year and this year states with sales tax allowed you to deduct it from your taxes. You could take a standard deduction based on your income. I knew about it. What I didn't know, was that you could also deduct sales tax from materials bought for home improvement above and beyound the standard deduction. Just happens that I had hardwood floors installed ($5000 worth of red oak), rewired all my electrical ($1300 worth of supplies), plus did a couple of other projects that totaled about $1000 in supplies. That alone saved me 4-5 times the cost of the software.
Finally, my taxes are not simple yet I spend less than 1 hour preparing them. Am I subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax? Hell if I know, but TurboTax tells me with the press of a button. Don't know if you seen that form, but I hear it's a doozy. When I am done with TurboTax, it prints out something like 5 or 6 different forms, all neatly filled in, no math errors, no need to double check.
I don't have the time or inclination to figure out all that stuff. $35 and 1 hour and I am enjoying the rest of my day worry free, knowing a fat check is just a week or two away (or I will be writing a fat check on April 15th.)
I was in Hong Kong a while back. They have something called an Octopus card, which is a RFID card that you can charge with dollars money. It's mostly used for mass transit, but you can use it in many stores, phones, parking, etc. It was pretty slick - you'd scan it and the reader would tell you how much you had left on it.
The cool thing about it is you just add money to it as needed, it's not tied to any personal bank account or linked to you in any way. If you lose it, you are out of luck but even if someone could hijack your signal, the most you'd ever lose is what was on the card.
Thinking of it just now, Hong Kong is pretty damn high-tech. You'd think if it was so easy to capture RFID, there'd be signs say "Be sure to protect your card" or something. There were plenty of signs everywhere warning you of various laws and dangers. Everyone, and I mean everyone, has one of these Octopus cards in Hong Kong (well, I read 95% of them do because noone has cars.)
sorry, but there is no way I would trust linux tax software unless it was written by a company like Quicken.
Heh, that reminds me: I was at a Perl user's group meeting a few years back and that night 4 people presented projects they were working on. These two guys, I swear they reminded me of Zed and the other guy, the shop keeper, from Pulp Fiction, these guys were not your typical geeks. Anyway, they demostrated this 1040 tax form program they'd written in Perl. It was all broken, had about 1/20th of the functionallity needed for a 1040, and these guys just came off as total hicks. I could only sit there and think to myself, "You have got to be fucking kidding me." It was one of the weirdest things I have ever witnessed.
http://gnucash.org/en/screenshots.phtml
I have been using it for years. You can import most of your data from quicken. I'd recommend keeping both running while you try it because though you can export and get a convertor to convert your data back to QIF, you will lose some stuff. The interface is nowhere near as polished but it works. It has quite a few of the features the Quicken has. It can download stock prices, make reports, etc. The graphics are a little light.
Quicken to GNUcash was the last thing I changed before I ditched windows completely. One downside though, there is no TurboTax equivilent (sorry, but there is no way I would trust linux tax software unless it was written by a company like Quicken. Some tax laws are finalized near the end of the year and you really have to trust who you are dealing with.) So, anyway, good thing the wife has a laptop running XP because that is where I do our taxes. Hell, I'd have a windows box around forever if TurboTax never ports to linux. And every year, when I fill out my taxes, I go to their website, find their comment form and send them the following message: "Please make a linux version of Quicken and TurboTax. I'd buy it." I have sent that message for about 5 years. At one point I found a web page saying something like "we are evaluting the need for Quicken under linux" but I that was several years ago. And doesn't Microsoft own Intuit anyway?
Google shows ads for damn near everything.
e =off&c2coff=1&q=bsd&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&saf
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/
Hello, Slashdot. I have a brain tumor and have decided that instead of going to a hospital, I'd try to operate on myself. I have the surgery part all worked out. I figure a hammer blow to my head and steak knife sterilize with hot water from the sink will do the trick. My question to Slashdot is two-fold: A. What open source life support systems are out there? and 2. Am I retarded?
It has something to do with the sky being blue.
I'm almost 30 and I still use that justification when I leave my shit in a Wendy's parking lot after lunch.
You should be ashamed of yourself. Wendy's food is terrible.
Just suppose some unknown Finn comes up with a great operating system and wants to keep it out of coorporate hands and make it free to all. Can you think of a better way to pass it to the world at large? Oh, wait. Nevermind.
GP made reference to "subject to coorporate america" which to me means movies and music and things you have to pay for, not oppression by goverments.