management always blames some rogue employee to save their asses; I never said this claim had any merit. this is unacceptable behavior and the law should hold them responsible.
I'm so tired of hearing the 'evil loner' excuse from companies. Make someone responsible. Fire their asses or have someone resign. Show the world this crap won't be tolerated. Instead what we get is this lame excuse that we're not to blame because of some rogue employee. When employees fail, it's management's responsibility.
Why not add a standard clause to all licenses that says if you can't be located by email (provided at the time of contribution) at any time within one month (or two or three), we have the right to change your license to anything else we damn well please (as long as it's less restrictive).
I'd give anything to have Spielberg direct with Lucas doing his thing in the background
Which is why you won't. Lucas must have clued in by now that he sucks at the whole writer/director gig. Spielberg would almost certainly produce a much better movie. Lucas knows this. If the next one were markedly better than the last two then it would cement Lucas' suck-assedness for all time. So Lucas figures he's better off doing it himself and hoping to get lucky. I mean, it's not like he could do any worse, right?
(day1) first 350 pages are a bit slow
(day2) starts to hot-up around pg. 525
(day3) pg. ~650, first application of this new learning
** there were a lot fewer pictures after this so now it's bathroom reading. i'm good 'til 2003 with this one.
XML was intended to be a simple and actually useful subset of SGML. and it was in the beginning. then we got namespaces and the long slide into overdesigned bloated academic hell began. the same thing has happened to everything XML touches. look at web services (shudders). or maybe it's just the W3C. all nice in theory but it's turned into a three-ringed circus for people with way too much time on their hands and brains too big to grasp the pragmatic, useful, elegant or simple aspects of technology implementations.
this has been said repeatedly. and it's always been proven wrong; just reading ANKOS is reassuring that there is plenty of open pastures ahead for the lone inventor. to be sure, though, the US "gubment" is sure working hard to make it come true.
if the government is going to hand out monopolies in the form of copyright and patents, then they should force the recipient of a monopoly to license the work in reasonable, equal and non-descriminatory terms. that would put an end to the corporate patent-swapping schemes since everyone would have to a) declare the value and b) all licensers would get that price. it would also make it possible for works to be disseminated/sold legally through any and all channels. it would put an end to the RIAA's stranglehold on content.
a victory for the cable modem industry since dsl will become increasingly less competetive (viva isdn). and hopefully this will spur even more interest in alternative routes like wireless.
in that case, we're getting overcharged massively... but i guess we knew that.
it's funny what monopolies can do. where i live, there is one cable provider and the basic package is $39.95. where my mom lives, there are *three* providers and the basic package (similar lineup) is $8.95 a month. i wonder which is closer to the true cost.
if the MPAA/RIAA has their way, these evil tools (and others) will be outlawed. if you buy a DVD player or VCR in 5 years, it will have two buttons: power and play.
hardware companies have developed this strange notion that they're going to make money off of software add-ons. that age has passed. time for Sun, Philips, etc to realise that. the only company that will profit directly from software in the long-run will me monopolies.
why not use the power from the wave station to drive a laser which in turn will heat a boiler that can be used to run a turbine which will generate electricity to separate hydrogen from the sea-water?
i love the efficiency of green power. because it's so free, we can waste a lot more.
and available source != Open Source. Open Source proponents have gone to great lengths to establish a set of critera for evaluating licenses against Open Source standards. those standards insure that licenses to not permit the removal of source from the community once it is made available. if "available" meant "open", then Windows is open. the source is available if you sign the right licenses... just like java.
my brother was using Starband through a Linux firewall I set up for him when Starband shut down his connection. they claimed that they detected "uncompressed" traffic across his uplink. this was because the Linux firewall was not running their proprietary Windows network driver. now he's had to replace the Linux firewall with a Windows firewall to regain access. pity. he's 40 miles from the nearest city and has no alternative for high-speed internet.
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thank you for making my point.
management always blames some rogue employee to save their asses; I never said this claim had any merit. this is unacceptable behavior and the law should hold them responsible.
I'm so tired of hearing the 'evil loner' excuse from companies. Make someone responsible. Fire their asses or have someone resign. Show the world this crap won't be tolerated. Instead what we get is this lame excuse that we're not to blame because of some rogue employee. When employees fail, it's management's responsibility.
you are not familiar with our current tax system. did you honestly think it was just about funding government?
and sourceforge badly needs money. fill in the blanks.
about $600 for the Sony's. not cheap.
Why not add a standard clause to all licenses that says if you can't be located by email (provided at the time of contribution) at any time within one month (or two or three), we have the right to change your license to anything else we damn well please (as long as it's less restrictive).
I'd give anything to have Spielberg direct with Lucas doing his thing in the background
Which is why you won't. Lucas must have clued in by now that he sucks at the whole writer/director gig. Spielberg would almost certainly produce a much better movie. Lucas knows this. If the next one were markedly better than the last two then it would cement Lucas' suck-assedness for all time. So Lucas figures he's better off doing it himself and hoping to get lucky. I mean, it's not like he could do any worse, right?
you are violating it by linking to their site in the story. what beautiful irony.
(day1) first 350 pages are a bit slow
(day2) starts to hot-up around pg. 525
(day3) pg. ~650, first application of this new learning
** there were a lot fewer pictures after this so now it's bathroom reading. i'm good 'til 2003 with this one.
doesn't this require a video card + monitor somewhere? the idea is to eliminate the physical server screen.
I'd like to save the state of an X session from one machine and transfer it to another.
XML was intended to be a simple and actually useful subset of SGML. and it was in the beginning. then we got namespaces and the long slide into overdesigned bloated academic hell began. the same thing has happened to everything XML touches. look at web services (shudders). or maybe it's just the W3C. all nice in theory but it's turned into a three-ringed circus for people with way too much time on their hands and brains too big to grasp the pragmatic, useful, elegant or simple aspects of technology implementations.
http://www.wifinder.com/ and this http://www.80211hotspots.com/
this has been said repeatedly. and it's always been proven wrong; just reading ANKOS is reassuring that there is plenty of open pastures ahead for the lone inventor. to be sure, though, the US "gubment" is sure working hard to make it come true.
if the government is going to hand out monopolies in the form of copyright and patents, then they should force the recipient of a monopoly to license the work in reasonable, equal and non-descriminatory terms. that would put an end to the corporate patent-swapping schemes since everyone would have to a) declare the value and b) all licensers would get that price. it would also make it possible for works to be disseminated/sold legally through any and all channels. it would put an end to the RIAA's stranglehold on content.
a victory for the cable modem industry since dsl will become increasingly less competetive (viva isdn). and hopefully this will spur even more interest in alternative routes like wireless.
in that case, we're getting overcharged massively... but i guess we knew that. it's funny what monopolies can do. where i live, there is one cable provider and the basic package is $39.95. where my mom lives, there are *three* providers and the basic package (similar lineup) is $8.95 a month. i wonder which is closer to the true cost.
if the MPAA/RIAA has their way, these evil tools (and others) will be outlawed. if you buy a DVD player or VCR in 5 years, it will have two buttons: power and play.
hardware companies have developed this strange notion that they're going to make money off of software add-ons. that age has passed. time for Sun, Philips, etc to realise that. the only company that will profit directly from software in the long-run will me monopolies.
hand me a monopoly and i can look pretty savvy as well. especially if the "gubment" doesn't have the balls to shut me down.
ms owes it's existence to a) ibm's stupidity + hubris and b) extremely unethical + underhanded + illegal use of monopolistic power (starting w/ DOS).
what's amazing about all of this is that none of these facts are in contention.
why not use the power from the wave station to drive a laser which in turn will heat a boiler that can be used to run a turbine which will generate electricity to separate hydrogen from the sea-water?
i love the efficiency of green power. because it's so free, we can waste a lot more.
and available source != Open Source. Open Source proponents have gone to great lengths to establish a set of critera for evaluating licenses against Open Source standards. those standards insure that licenses to not permit the removal of source from the community once it is made available. if "available" meant "open", then Windows is open. the source is available if you sign the right licenses... just like java.
my brother was using Starband through a Linux firewall I set up for him when Starband shut down his connection. they claimed that they detected "uncompressed" traffic across his uplink. this was because the Linux firewall was not running their proprietary Windows network driver. now he's had to replace the Linux firewall with a Windows firewall to regain access. pity. he's 40 miles from the nearest city and has no alternative for high-speed internet.