Bullshit. The cable in my area (nominally Adelphia) was also taxpayer funded via a series of bond issues which were backed by local governments.
Roughly 80% of the TV programming after 11 PM is paid programming, which we were told (as a community) might disappear for the then-small cost of a subscriber fee. Frankly I don't buy the BS anymore.
That said, I don't see much difference between this and the breakup of Ma Bell.
Speaking of which, I grew up with the "Heritage Press" collection (mid-to-late 1960's). I'm wondering whatever happened to them and I am looking for alternatives such as The Easton Press collection.
No, it's not in the budget at this time - more like a long-term (lifetime) project.
Hey I'm all in favor of cutting spam, phishing, etc. But don't ya just love how these lawmakers seem to think that passing some law will somehow magically change things? Hint: it won't.
Now let's get into jurdistiction and nationality/extradition, etc....
No, I don't think it's odd at all. Just ask (for example) IBM or Novell. Or RedHat for that matter.
Developers need to eat. They also need to pay for their home, car, kids, etc.
Companies like Google need relatively cheap access to bleeding-edge tech, and the PR value of a project like this doesn't hurt.
Anyway, last I checked "open source" is not mutually exclusive with "cash".
Ok. I'll live here in the US and compete for pennies on the dollar, just like your aforementioned corporations. I don't think I'll be able to purchase very much at that rate tho. Disclaimer: to this day I think that Nixon fucked up by letting the dollar float vs. gold. Otherwise he was tolerable.
"... lets keep that status quo and just take poor folks inner city land and blow it up for redevelopment. "
I have yet to see a party of any stripe which can even do that without spending more than the property is worth, and taxing likewise. And yeah, I remember when Nixon was OK.
Copying someone else's toy does indeed give both of you toys. It also means one less sale to the RIAA/MPAA, and they will view that as a loss (since they are the copyright holders, presumably). The friend who shares his files with you has lost nothing, and probably does not own the copyrights to the file(s). You can't lose what you never had.
"If it takes public embarassment to get these engineers to take problems seriously, then they're totally fucked."
No, the engineers are not totally fucked, just slightly fucked.
The real losers are the buying public, who buys their fucked product. The CxO's are a whole other ball of wax, IMHO.
AFAIK, the 2.6.8 kernels broke cd burning on all distros. I'm using a homebrew 2.6.11 on my FC3 box and its ok. Yast on debian would be a deam come true, IMHO.
Nobody is asking a commercial company to dismantle itself and hand itself over to open source.
All they are asking for is thoroughly documented API's. That does not require code.
And BTW what makes SW so special as compared to any other industry?
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Isn't it amazing how much attitude is reflected in engineering? Just IMHO, MS might have the brightest engineers etc. on the planet; but they'll be hobbled by the corporate attitude.
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html [blinkenlights.com]
I guess the world owes him a living. Notice the date on it.
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Bullshit. The cable in my area (nominally Adelphia) was also taxpayer funded via a series of bond issues which were backed by local governments. Roughly 80% of the TV programming after 11 PM is paid programming, which we were told (as a community) might disappear for the then-small cost of a subscriber fee. Frankly I don't buy the BS anymore. That said, I don't see much difference between this and the breakup of Ma Bell.
No, it's not in the budget at this time - more like a long-term (lifetime) project.
Hey I'm all in favor of cutting spam, phishing, etc. But don't ya just love how these lawmakers seem to think that passing some law will somehow magically change things? Hint: it won't. Now let's get into jurdistiction and nationality/extradition, etc....
No, I don't think it's odd at all. Just ask (for example) IBM or Novell. Or RedHat for that matter. Developers need to eat. They also need to pay for their home, car, kids, etc. Companies like Google need relatively cheap access to bleeding-edge tech, and the PR value of a project like this doesn't hurt. Anyway, last I checked "open source" is not mutually exclusive with "cash".
Never mind weapons. A couple hundred pounds of pissed-off guy should do it.
Ok. I'll live here in the US and compete for pennies on the dollar, just like your aforementioned corporations. I don't think I'll be able to purchase very much at that rate tho. Disclaimer: to this day I think that Nixon fucked up by letting the dollar float vs. gold. Otherwise he was tolerable.
"... lets keep that status quo and just take poor folks inner city land and blow it up for redevelopment. " I have yet to see a party of any stripe which can even do that without spending more than the property is worth, and taxing likewise. And yeah, I remember when Nixon was OK.
Copying someone else's toy does indeed give both of you toys. It also means one less sale to the RIAA/MPAA, and they will view that as a loss (since they are the copyright holders, presumably). The friend who shares his files with you has lost nothing, and probably does not own the copyrights to the file(s). You can't lose what you never had.
I wonder which financial services contract had "research purposes" in it? And what sort of "research" was being done?
"how to make a glass of yourself"
At least UNIX had testicles before MS was even thought of.
Things like DoubleClick are the sole reason why my /etc/hosts file is so large.
That's ok in my book, footman or not. And no, I don't have an iPod.
Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!
"If it takes public embarassment to get these engineers to take problems seriously, then they're totally fucked." No, the engineers are not totally fucked, just slightly fucked. The real losers are the buying public, who buys their fucked product. The CxO's are a whole other ball of wax, IMHO.
Yeah, but getting then to admit they did it to themselves is something else altogether, IMHO.
AFAIK, the 2.6.8 kernels broke cd burning on all distros. I'm using a homebrew 2.6.11 on my FC3 box and its ok. Yast on debian would be a deam come true, IMHO.
But is it edible? mmmmm, salad!
You do realize that you can nest RPM commands, no?
Nobody is asking a commercial company to dismantle itself and hand itself over to open source. All they are asking for is thoroughly documented API's. That does not require code. And BTW what makes SW so special as compared to any other industry?
He's going to work and making a living. Much like the rest of us.
I would say, as soon as the programming matters more than anything. Heck he's already got a few thousand good programmers, AFAICT.
Right. Flat Earth is ok as long as its profitable.
[re-post] Isn't it amazing how much attitude is reflected in engineering? Just IMHO, MS might have the brightest engineers etc. on the planet; but they'll be hobbled by the corporate attitude. http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine .html [blinkenlights.com]
I guess the world owes him a living. Notice the date on it.
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine .html
I guess the world owes him a living. Notice the date on it.