Why? Imagine an employer (or landlord or borough/township/ward boss) demanding that you vote for the candidate you're told to, and that you bring the receipt to prove you did so. Or else you lose your job (or apartment or city job or benefits).
Your not serious are you? Sheesh...Lawyers would be all over your ficticious employer and would be shown no mercy. Most would take the case for a percentage of the settlement so income level of the opressed is a non-issue.
Disclaimer: This may only hold true in the U.S.A. where we are in abundant supply of above said lawyer types.
I totally agree. It appears that the author believes that if Company X gets caught in a GPL bust why can't they just buy their way out of it and move on?
I find it similar to a polluter who lets say is going to may $15 million dollars off a contract to dispose of waste but may end up violating a few pollution laws in the process. Well, fines for violating pollution laws may only total to $250K. From a business perspective they go for it.
I guess the author is crying that the punishment does not fit the crime. As the GPL is not a new thing and *they* must have known the rules I say screw em'.
Well...I would argue that the amendments are only meaningfull when they are stated in full. The first part making it very clear that the citizens have a right to privacy/security in their papers which is very much applicable as you stated:
"Please provide relevant laws for your so called 'right of privacy.'
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Why would anyone care about this stupid server OS? It clearly will never make it onto the desktop in any significant numbers, so who cares except for a few nasty multinational corporations and a few Unix-loving geeks.
Because we all know whoever makes it to the storied and fabled desktop awaits untold riches and power beyond your wildest belief.
Unpack the codecs archives and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer
will find them. The default directory is/usr/local/lib/codecs/ (it used to be/usr/local/lib/win32 in the past, this also works) but you can change that to
something else by using the '--with-codecsdir=DIR' option when you run
'./configure'.
And the author who refuses to read the README:
Then I was ready to download: I grabbed mplayer-1.0pre1 and the codecs I thought I needed plus a skin or two from the downloads page on the Mplayer site. I created an mplayer directory in my home directory, then used bunzip2 to decompress each of the downloads and then ran tar, which unpacked them and stowed them away in their own directories. For neatness, I created a separate tar directory and moved the tar files themselves there afterwards.
Then I entered the mplayer-1.0pre1 subdirectory tar had created and ran the configure script with the gui option:./configure --enable-gui. The script ran, but it complained about not having found a Win32 codecs directory, among a long list (more than 50 items) of other things.
I had downloaded the Win32 codecs, but they were needed in a directory I didn't have. No problem. I changed to su, created a/usr/local/lib/codecs directory, and moved the win32codecs directory there. Then I ran the configure script again. This time there was no complaint about missing Win32 codecs.
The fact that you enjoy what you are doing should not factor at all into how much you are getting paid.
Oh yeah...then why do garbage collectors get paid a pretty decent salary for general labor skills? Because if there is enough money it, regardless if it sucks people will do it.
That right...just because you have bills you should bear no moral responsibility for providing services for an entity as corrupt as SCO.
Should we feel sorry for all the poor "code monkeys" writing e-mail spam programs as well? Or how about the poor guy who writes auto dialing programs to pelt your house phone with spam? Hey man he needs a job too.
You accept the paycheck your name is on the product.
1. Find a spare hard drive.
2. Open compuer case.
3. Insert spare hard drive.
4. Install favaroite OS on spare hard drive.
5. Leave IT *approved* OS on *other* drive.
6. ????
7. Profit!
- I can't believe I just make a for profit post. I must leave now.
Well god dam...We have caught the Incredible Mr. Limpet.
As you implied you are not an expert. The bullet will not be slowed down signifigantl by air resistance. The bullet will stop once it meets the earth surface due to gravity attracting the two toghther. The force of 32 ft/sec^2 (g) is much greater than that of friction (f) of the fluid in which it is passing.
Please feel free to think before you hang your weak physics knowledge and snotty attitude out in front of a few million people.
How the hell can they predict what the universe is going to do in trillions of years, but I can't get an accurate weather forcast for the next 24 hours??
They also can predict you will die on average at age 76.9 years if born in 2000. (American born in 2000) but are not able to tell you within 10 seconds.
Good lord man...Are you fresh off a class warfare rally or just a lonely crusader for the downtrodden?
"More than half of the U.S. population, or 104 million adults, was online last year, the study found, compared with 88 million earlier in the year. Three-quarters of those between the ages of 18 and 29 have Internet access, with teenagers close behind, at 73 percent."
Sure, I'm a libertarian who believes in a very limited government...
O.K. you believe in limited government. I agree with you here.
...it only makes sense for the states to be able to tax us for the upkeep and maintainence of this valuable service.
Since when has the government been charged with the "upkeep and maintainence" of the Internet? And why as a supporter of limited government would you choose to take this responsiblity out of the private sector and hand it over to the government? It almost as if you are saying that because it is useful and we need it we are almost obliged to be taxed.
I personally believe that taxes do pay for public infrastructure. What is different about Internet based businesses is they require far less public infrastructure than a tradional brick and mortar outfit. A *tradional* computer store in the local mini-mall will require police to patrol/guard premises, firemen to respond, city inspectors to inspect, postman to deliever mail, etc. While an online retailer simply occupies a piece of digital space on a server. Granted where these servers are housed require public utilites but far less than on the scale of a brick and mortar outfit.
"Don't be ungrateful when given something.
By counting the teeth you can tell the age of a horse. Checking whether a present of a horse was old would be considered impolite."
This device was manufactured by Indians for Indians. It bafffles me how you can opine what a "poverty-stricken Indian farmer", I imagine you get this image from your National Geographic posters, or any other Indian *needs* for that matter. Maybe you should leave this issue to the locals.
"Some of us were let down by the Stanford research project that "sold out" and failed to give back to the community from which it was birthed originally"
You felt the need to put scare quotes around "sold out" but not the played out phrase "failed to give back to the community". What the hell is this supposed to mean?
Google is a "corporation" which I know from the cozy confines of acadamia seems unsettling but in reality they are not that bad. Bottom line is corporations create jobs which in capitilism "is a good thing" If you care to differ that capitalism itself is a "good thing" well of course that is a different topic.
Now we must look at what Google has done as a "corporation". (BTW found an interview I was thinking of as I typed through Google)
Changed the entire way accurate search results are displayed and stuck to it.
Did not mutate into a portal.
Has continued to provide and create jobs while most others were folding around them.
Please expand on giving back to the community near you? I for one would like the stop sign fixed down the road...and maybe even a better traffic pattern because it is kind of dangerous. Wake up. Google is "giving back to the community" by providing jobs and ensuring "bad" ideas like portals continue to fail in the market providing a better alternative.
"Oh, the ignorance....
Most == greater than 50%, right?
I have no more recent figures, but in 1998 in England, 78% of households had one or more cars. Go figure."
"In the United States, there are three vehicles for every four people. In Western Europe and Japan, there is typically one for every two people."Article
Also England != Europe. Maybe you should try to be a little less England-Centric in your thoughts
Keeping with the standard nationality disclaimers I am American as well. While I share some of your thoughts and insight (I own a Saab 900 SE Turbo and am an engineer) I sensed a lot of misplaced agression in your post. Sorry if that statement sounds lame but I did not know how else to put it.;)
A few points of your post that I found interesting:
"Make the car as cheaply as possible and sell it for as much as possible."
Well, this is actually the goal of every profit driven corporation and is not specific to the American auto industry.
"they had to buy another countries more competent automotive engineers"
I am fully confident that the U.S. has plenty of *competent* engineers. I believe it would be better stated that they were looking to hire engineers with specific skills and experince in that field. And since this sport has not traditionally been American it seems logical to hire people from outside the U.S.
I consider myself more American than you
This is just childish and discredits your argument.
I believe you fail to understand Amercians and cars. Cars have been and will always be a truly American experience. Since our country spans such a large geographical area and Amercians tend to like to travel the automoblie was a perfect fit. This is unlike Europe which has a relatively smaller land area, more dense population, and better developed public transit system.
Now with respect to quality of design. America has tradionally designed it's cars on the basic principle that every Joe Sixpack can afford a new automoblie. This philosophy dates back to the Model T where Ford made the car available to the working man verus solely to the upper class as in Europe. Europe still builds cars with the upper class in mind since most Europeans use public transit and don't own cars. Europeans also don't don't mind buying a used one either which is quite different than the Amercian mentality of a new car for all.
In summary Amercian engineers are just producing what most Amercians want. Of course you understand when you produce anything cheap enough where anybody can afford it quaility will suffer. You get what you pay for. I know it feels better to bash America but look a little deeper before you vent.
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Why? Imagine an employer (or landlord or borough/township/ward boss) demanding that you vote for the candidate you're told to, and that you bring the receipt to prove you did so. Or else you lose your job (or apartment or city job or benefits).
Your not serious are you? Sheesh...Lawyers would be all over your ficticious employer and would be shown no mercy. Most would take the case for a percentage of the settlement so income level of the opressed is a non-issue.
Disclaimer: This may only hold true in the U.S.A. where we are in abundant supply of above said lawyer types.
I totally agree. It appears that the author believes that if Company X gets caught in a GPL bust why can't they just buy their way out of it and move on?
I find it similar to a polluter who lets say is going to may $15 million dollars off a contract to dispose of waste but may end up violating a few pollution laws in the process. Well, fines for violating pollution laws may only total to $250K. From a business perspective they go for it.
I guess the author is crying that the punishment does not fit the crime. As the GPL is not a new thing and *they* must have known the rules I say screw em'.
Sarcasm is useless literary tool here. :(
Well...I would argue that the amendments are only meaningfull when they are stated in full. The first part making it very clear that the citizens have a right to privacy/security in their papers which is very much applicable as you stated:
"Please provide relevant laws for your so called 'right of privacy.'
When quoting and amendment to the Constitution how about doing us a favor and quoting the whole thing.
Amendment IV
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Why would anyone care about this stupid server OS? It clearly will never make it onto the desktop in any significant numbers, so who cares except for a few nasty multinational corporations and a few Unix-loving geeks.
Because we all know whoever makes it to the storied and fabled desktop awaits untold riches and power beyond your wildest belief.
Agreed...
From the README:
And the author who refuses to read the README:
The fact that you enjoy what you are doing should not factor at all into how much you are getting paid.
Oh yeah...then why do garbage collectors get paid a pretty decent salary for general labor skills? Because if there is enough money it, regardless if it sucks people will do it.
Hey man...I got the joke. I think you are funny.
ROFL...This crowd can be just so eager to pounce on somebody for being *wrong* so they can be *right*.
If humor walked up behind them and stuck it's foot in their...nevermind.
Oh and Sherlock...
You may want to read a dictionary again. And again, until it sinks in.
That right...just because you have bills you should bear no moral responsibility for providing services for an entity as corrupt as SCO.
Should we feel sorry for all the poor "code monkeys" writing e-mail spam programs as well? Or how about the poor guy who writes auto dialing programs to pelt your house phone with spam? Hey man he needs a job too.
You accept the paycheck your name is on the product.
$example="You don't see Fords engineers going "but building a car is really complex, cut us some slack."
$void=slashdot_bs_test( $example );
function slashdot_bs_test ( $example ) {
if ( $example == "bs" ) {
$void=Fading Optimism - Engineers vent over cost pressures, 'whipsawing'
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1. Find a spare hard drive.
2. Open compuer case.
3. Insert spare hard drive.
4. Install favaroite OS on spare hard drive.
5. Leave IT *approved* OS on *other* drive.
6. ????
7. Profit!
- I can't believe I just make a for profit post. I must leave now.
Sheesh...There is so much political rancor going on around here who would have thought this article started off about the commisioning of a ship
Anywho...for those who may be interested I pulled these cool links from Northrop Grumman
Commisioning info
Nimitz class facts
Recent Sea Trial info
USS Reagan specific facts
BTW...I spent 4.5 years on IKE....IB!
Oh...and to keep with political theme here:
It may have had a dip today but check out what their stock has done since they started this patent mess in January 2003.
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Well god dam...We have caught the Incredible Mr. Limpet.
As you implied you are not an expert. The bullet will not be slowed down signifigantl by air resistance. The bullet will stop once it meets the earth surface due to gravity attracting the two toghther. The force of 32 ft/sec^2 (g) is much greater than that of friction (f) of the fluid in which it is passing.
Please feel free to think before you hang your weak physics knowledge and snotty attitude out in front of a few million people.
They also can predict you will die on average at age 76.9 years if born in 2000. (American born in 2000) but are not able to tell you within 10 seconds.
Good lord man...Are you fresh off a class warfare rally or just a lonely crusader for the downtrodden?
"More than half of the U.S. population, or 104 million adults, was online last year, the study found, compared with 88 million earlier in the year. Three-quarters of those between the ages of 18 and 29 have Internet access, with teenagers close behind, at 73 percent."
Report: Digital Divide Continues To Shrink
Sure, I'm a libertarian who believes in a very limited government...
O.K. you believe in limited government. I agree with you here.
...it only makes sense for the states to be able to tax us for the upkeep and maintainence of this valuable service.
Since when has the government been charged with the "upkeep and maintainence" of the Internet? And why as a supporter of limited government would you choose to take this responsiblity out of the private sector and hand it over to the government? It almost as if you are saying that because it is useful and we need it we are almost obliged to be taxed.I personally believe that taxes do pay for public infrastructure. What is different about Internet based businesses is they require far less public infrastructure than a tradional brick and mortar outfit. A *tradional* computer store in the local mini-mall will require police to patrol/guard premises, firemen to respond, city inspectors to inspect, postman to deliever mail, etc. While an online retailer simply occupies a piece of digital space on a server. Granted where these servers are housed require public utilites but far less than on the scale of a brick and mortar outfit.
I don't want to look a gift, hoarse in the mouth,
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
"Don't be ungrateful when given something. By counting the teeth you can tell the age of a horse. Checking whether a present of a horse was old would be considered impolite."
This device was manufactured by Indians for Indians. It bafffles me how you can opine what a "poverty-stricken Indian farmer", I imagine you get this image from your National Geographic posters, or any other Indian *needs* for that matter. Maybe you should leave this issue to the locals.
and Clinton was first to get it
"Some of us were let down by the Stanford research project that "sold out" and failed to give back to the community from which it was birthed originally"
You felt the need to put scare quotes around "sold out" but not the played out phrase "failed to give back to the community". What the hell is this supposed to mean?
Google is a "corporation" which I know from the cozy confines of acadamia seems unsettling but in reality they are not that bad. Bottom line is corporations create jobs which in capitilism "is a good thing" If you care to differ that capitalism itself is a "good thing" well of course that is a different topic.
Now we must look at what Google has done as a "corporation". (BTW found an interview I was thinking of as I typed through Google)
Please expand on giving back to the community near you? I for one would like the stop sign fixed down the road...and maybe even a better traffic pattern because it is kind of dangerous. Wake up. Google is "giving back to the community" by providing jobs and ensuring "bad" ideas like portals continue to fail in the market providing a better alternative.
"Oh, the ignorance....
Most == greater than 50%, right?
I have no more recent figures, but in 1998 in England, 78% of households had one or more cars. Go figure."
Also England != Europe. Maybe you should try to be a little less England-Centric in your thoughts
Keeping with the standard nationality disclaimers I am American as well. While I share some of your thoughts and insight (I own a Saab 900 SE Turbo and am an engineer) I sensed a lot of misplaced agression in your post. Sorry if that statement sounds lame but I did not know how else to put it. ;)
A few points of your post that I found interesting:
Well, this is actually the goal of every profit driven corporation and is not specific to the American auto industry.
I am fully confident that the U.S. has plenty of *competent* engineers. I believe it would be better stated that they were looking to hire engineers with specific skills and experince in that field. And since this sport has not traditionally been American it seems logical to hire people from outside the U.S.
This is just childish and discredits your argument.
I believe you fail to understand Amercians and cars. Cars have been and will always be a truly American experience. Since our country spans such a large geographical area and Amercians tend to like to travel the automoblie was a perfect fit. This is unlike Europe which has a relatively smaller land area, more dense population, and better developed public transit system.
Now with respect to quality of design. America has tradionally designed it's cars on the basic principle that every Joe Sixpack can afford a new automoblie. This philosophy dates back to the Model T where Ford made the car available to the working man verus solely to the upper class as in Europe. Europe still builds cars with the upper class in mind since most Europeans use public transit and don't own cars. Europeans also don't don't mind buying a used one either which is quite different than the Amercian mentality of a new car for all.
In summary Amercian engineers are just producing what most Amercians want. Of course you understand when you produce anything cheap enough where anybody can afford it quaility will suffer. You get what you pay for. I know it feels better to bash America but look a little deeper before you vent.