Yeah, dude! I live in Portland, and for every July 4th, I drive across the bridge to Vancouver to buy illegal fireworks! Things that fly and are on fire! Vancouver rules!
You must bike pretty slow. If I hit a pedestrian, they'd be hurt pretty bad. They also aren't wearing a helmet (like me), so if they hit the pavment wrong they will die.
My bike got ruined before I moved out of Oregon in '98 (and now I'm back, god help you all). So I don't, anymore.:) But anyhow, where would you ever have an oppertunity to bicycle that fast where you would hit a pedestrian and kill them? Like I said in another reply, I'm not demanding 100% sidewalk usage:), but if you're in a situation where you're better off off of the road (you're in the city, there's no bike lane), why in god's name would you wanna hunch over and pretend you're in the Tour De France...?
Most of the bicyclsts that I think would be safer off the road aren't doing it for fun, in the general scheme of things. They're doing it to piss me off. Err, no, but they're usually being doing things like trying to get to work. People dilly-dallying about and riding as fast as they can in front of those public speedometer things and such probably aren't doing it in the city (or at least the "city" parts of the city). And if they are, that's probably the source of my problem.:) West side bikers and east side bikers crossing over... Ugh...
Well at least the law in Portland Oregon is that bikes are allowed to ride on the sidewalk
Then how come more bikers don't take advtange of that? The bias of the DMV manual?:) Whenever I'm driving in downtown Portland, I swear to god that half the time not hitting the bikers is like not opening your door (or hitting) the freaky motercycles in L.A. that can legally go in between cars in traffic (who the hell voted for that one?). Half the bikes don't even seem to look at you-- they seem to be owned by suicidal PSU students who've played one too many games of paperboy. Incidentally, when I'm walking down there, it's not much of an issue...
Just to clarify myself, I don't think that there are NEVER times that a bike should be on the road, but it is still a matter of common sense. If there's a sidewalk there, the road is very likely busy enough that everyone without a safety cage is safer off of it, whether that be on the sidewalk or the bike lane. And no, I really don't know where motorcycles fit in to what I just said, but at least in movies, if you hit a motorcycle, even if the person dies, they fly off with the motorcycle and seem to have the same fate.:) The bike riders just fly off their bikes and land head-first into a tree. Their neck may be broken, but their helmet has saved their brain so that they can be rebuilt into bionic tennis players or something...
Ugh... I hate that... I live in over in Oregon, and though I'm not quite sure if its THE LAW, it's at least THE RULE. Bike on road, person on sidewalk, which I've always thought was the most idiotic thing in the world...
Bike Vs. Car: Car wins, even with helmet, Bike Rider probably injured at best. Person driving car thus backs up over his mutilated carcass to finish the job, getting his anger out at the bike going slooowly on the shoulderless (but sidewalk-happy) road making him late for work.
Bike Vs. Person: Bike wins, pedestrian surprised and ticked, but probably okay. Will probably seek revenge, since the idiot on the bike probably did it on purpose.:) Person bonks BikeMan on the head lightly and goes on his merry way.
Soo.... when bikes are on the sidewalks, everybody lives! Regardless of what vehicle I might or might not be in, I'd rather get hit by a bicycle that can probably dodge me a hell of a lot easier (and is almost assuredly looking forward 95% of the time) than half a ton of steel death.
I wonder then what is the moral equivalence of the RIAA taking realized cash from people who do not download music?
Because my working parents loved me so very much (I just like being bitter, don't read much into this), they left me in a day care for most of the day instead of locking me in a room for nine or ten hours. At the day care, we all got in trouble "together". Everybody's childhood might have parts like this, but it only ever happened to me at the day care...
If somebody stole something, or said something they shouldn't say while we were all being noisy enought that the staff couldn't single out who needed to wash their mouth out with muriatic acid, they would group us all together at the tables, give us a brief moment for either the perpetrator to admit his crime or some jerk to snitch on him. After they get NOTHING, we all had to rest our heads on the table and say nothing.
Or, if we were snotched on, we had to hold buckets of water in each hand, with our arms out as far as we can for some obnoxious length of time.
"I need to order new Rubber for my Jack Bot sometime too."
Yeah, well, I just go to the drugstore for that. They have a decent selection, with all the usual favorites (lubricated, ribbed, steak-flavoured etc.). You can even get an additional product that I personally enjoy on a regular basis for all those nasty wounds--
"ManDelay - A Male Genital (Pinball) Densensitizer"
I'd say to play FF6 for the SNES (which is Final Fantasy III in the us release). Different people will tell you different things about which is the best (I think FF7 is, personally), but FF6 is probably the middle ground of the series.
1. There is no chronological order, so play in whatever order you feel. The only things that really connect the games in the series are elements that are in every game (certain creatures, certain music, the fact that the world is generally pretty muched @#$%ed).
2. a) Probably FF6 or FF7. If a fantasy setting is more important, FF4, FF5, or (maybe) FF6 would be a better choice.
2. b) FF6.
2. c) I won't touch that with a ten foot pole, but I can describe (some of) them. In FF1, you choose your characters, and are heavily restricted by their class. You buy magic. In FF4, the characters are chosen for you. In FF5, your characters can changes classes. In FF6, classes are irrelevant, and you can use equippable items that allow you to learn spells (espers). FF7 is similar to FF6, except how many items (called materia this time) can be equipped depends on your armor, and you have to have the item equipped to use the spell (you don't really learn it). FF8 is really weird, though not in a bad way. I just got up and don't really feel like describing it. Or trying to remember it. I'll move on.
2. d) If you just want to get through one really quick, I'd say to go for FF4. That goes by really quick. FF6 is niftier, though.
2. e) FF6 is the best looking SNES FF. I'm personally fond of FF7's graphics on the PSX, but I'm probably the only one. Don't listen to me at all.:)
3. FF8 doesn't have real-time rendering... But anyway, the worst one depends on what you like. If you want a more "interactive movie" sort of experience, I'd go for FF6, FF7, or FF8; leaning toward the former two. If you want gameplay, FF5 is probably the best. FF8 has a lot of potential in it's battle system, but it's so easy that it doesn't matter much. And FF1 will just piss you off (Tell John to attack Monster 2 and tell Jack to attack Monster 2; John kills Monster 2; Jack strikes at the empty air where Monster 2 was and whines at you: "Ineffective"; Sensless violence directed at the Nintendo Entertainment System ensues).:)
And despite how much praise you'll probably see it get, FF4 is the bastard son of a thousand maniacs. The gameplay is actually good, but (and I've only played the original--crappy--SNES transplation) the story sucks the big one, IMHO. I've seen a lot of FF fans say it was great, even story-wise, but they all seem to be in the catagory of people who can look at it nostaligcally. It's not a bad game, and if you want to get the gist of the series it's a must at some point, but probably not the best choice for trying to decide if you like Final Fantasy or not.
But the biggest problem, to me anyhow, with that is that you can't know what a group of files are. If you've got 700 files in C:\LIBS, you can't reasonably expect to know what any of the files are if you have to ask a flippin' package manager for every one. I'm not going to type DOSPKG/W 700 times to know what's on my system. At the same time, it's not necessarily important to know the specific function of every file, so lumping the libraries into directories that associate the file with the package is much cleaner.
The main problem is financial capital. First off, most companies lease their offices, and I'd expect, can't afford not to. Larger companies that own their campuses are less likely to try something so radical, unless there's a specific purpose to doing so (testing light sensitive products or something-- but why in an office setting?).
If the money is there, simply give your contractors that are either modifying or building your office building instructions not to include any windows.
More economically, you could try putting tin foil over the windows. If you put the foil on the inner panel on the inside and the foil on the outer panel on the outside, you can even open the window if you wish. If that defeats your purpose, put bars on the windows.
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Click on the link. Then click on the picture.
It takes you... back to slashdot? WTF?
Really, when I'm thinking to myself, "Gee, I have this picture so people can look at it. I wonder where it should link to?", slashdot really isn't the first thing that pops into my head, nor is it the 4167th.
Dunno about the "Java Developer's Perspective" (they'd probably want to play with Sun's regardless), but this is sort of annoying. Java stuff is generall the sort of thing that I try to avoid, that I turn off in Netscape REGARDLESS of the fact that it makes it more stable.:) Depending on what computer I'm at, I use IE too. Soooo....
In spite of that, sometimes I will need to use Java. I can't entirely get around it, and if I actually intended to use XP (I play with my machines a tad too much for anything to be worth that, honestly, though you never know...), this could get really annoying. I can see myself downloading the "Java Plug-In" once a month, and just not looking at stuff that I want to because I'm too lazy every-other (which, in the paranoid "MS must be trying to kill something off" sense, is what one would think MS is going for).
At the same time, I wouldn't mind Java going away on the internet...:) My stupid opinion...
Free Software has victims too. It's intent is to undermine the commercial software world, and put thousands of programmers out of work. What makes one kind of victimization OK and the other not?
Not to comment on either the viability of Free commercial software or my own opinion on things, you're missing the point. Stallman's point of view isn't against software being commercial, just against software not fitting in with his particular definition of free. If it's difficult/impossible to make money off of such software, it's incidental. In other words, Stallman simply thinks that non-free software is unethical. Thus, a programmer creating non-free code for a company is a link in a chain of wrongdoing. If preventing an entire industry from being immoral causes loss of jobs, then while it is too bad that such people are unemployed, it is both a fault of working for something that shouldn't be, as well as for the greater good.
To actually answer your question, Free Software's victims would be working for the bad guys, anyway. That's my understanding of it all, anyhow...
Not sure if it was Phillips, but it was Sony in tandem with some company that started with a "P" (Phillips, Pioneer, Panasonic? I'm guessing Pioneer, myself...), I think. I remember reading somewhere that Sony wanted smaller discs (think MD or those weird japanese single sizes that I think are used in cameras these days), and the other company wanted something more in line with LP's, and the current CD stanard was their compromize.
Really... Yes, Nautilus is GPL'd. Yay. Nobody defends Eazel's business plan. Gotcha. But why do we care (well, some of us don't and really seem to love the oppertunity to say, "I told you so" whether or not we actually did) about corporate sponsership?
I realize I'm not remotely intelligent on these matters, but here's my opinion:
The GPL is not a business model, and nobody makes money giving stuff away, so we instead have open-source-loving companies that want to make money doing X so that they can fund their bread and butter which makes absolutely no profit, which is GPL'd software Y. What the hell is that? If the point of a group is to develop Y and Y will not produce a profit, one shouldn't start a company.
Everybody seems to agree about the flaws of Eazel's business model, but that's not the point. What if they had come up with a (probably still somewhat flawed) business model that would at least have kept them going a bit longer? Wouldn't it make more sense for them to just focus on service X rather than product Y? Otherwise, the existance of the company is completely pointless.
I'm not arguing against any crusade for open-source, free-as-in-whatever-you-like software, but why is it at all important or convenient or desirable that there should be a company behind any given piece of free sotware? We always seem so happy when stuff like Eazel starts up-- "Wow! A Linux-related business! Cool!"... The flawed business model isn't so much of a problem as the fact that they had to think of one in the first place.
If you really want to do Y, but it won't make any money so you have to also do X which you will do to fund Y that will continue to not make any money, well, why did you want to start a company in the first place _EVEN_IF_ X's business model is sound. You then devote time and resources on something that really isn't in your interest, your heart isn't into it, and, well, wouldn't it be easier, safer, and honestly more fulfilling to just get a job somewhere else and work on Y in your spare time? You don't care much about what your employer does and you don't care much about X, really, so doing X just makes you have to think and plan more about things you really souldn't be overly concerned with.
Even looking at it exclusively from the perspective of "We programmers want to get paid to do this full time" (as opposed to "Companies: Good, Legitimate", or something), it really isn't any different than working on the project in one's spare time. One way or the other, you'd be really making money doing something other than your pet project. It comes out the same, the slight difference being, perhaps, the distribution of work. Get a few people to do the X and you yourself work exclusively on Y and that's fine (aside from the potential for the "screwing over your fellow man" factor).
So in short, I've rambled so much I've forgotten what I was talking about, except it has something to do with X. It takes too long to compile. Damn it to hell.
Yeah... it was one of those voice verified ones that got me into FidoNET. I was sort of curious what it was, I logged on to the BBS for one of the nodes, got confused, logged off and said, "To hell with it!".
An hour later, the SysOp called me, knowing nothing of my confusion, to let me know that he'd verified my account and set me up as a point. At first I was kinda' weirded out:), but I tried it and quite liked it..
Incidentally, is there an equivilent of textfiles.com for other sorts of BBS files? Twelve-hundred different versions of Renegade, VBBS, Telix, Telemate, Terminate, cute little shareware games of varying quality, silly image views somebody on the BBS made learning C, mod files, and so on and so forth?
What I need to find me is an old copy of "The GRIND", an old mod player with girls dancing to the beat. Maybe I can remake it as a visualization plugin for XMMS or WinAMP or something.:)
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Yeah, dude! I live in Portland, and for every July 4th, I drive across the bridge to Vancouver to buy illegal fireworks! Things that fly and are on fire! Vancouver rules!
I'd call that Chrono Trigger 2...
You must bike pretty slow. If I hit a pedestrian, they'd be hurt pretty bad. They also aren't wearing a helmet (like me), so if they hit the pavment wrong they will die.
:) But anyhow, where would you ever have an oppertunity to bicycle that fast where you would hit a pedestrian and kill them? Like I said in another reply, I'm not demanding 100% sidewalk usage :), but if you're in a situation where you're better off off of the road (you're in the city, there's no bike lane), why in god's name would you wanna hunch over and pretend you're in the Tour De France...?
:) West side bikers and east side bikers crossing over... Ugh...
My bike got ruined before I moved out of Oregon in '98 (and now I'm back, god help you all). So I don't, anymore.
Most of the bicyclsts that I think would be safer off the road aren't doing it for fun, in the general scheme of things. They're doing it to piss me off. Err, no, but they're usually being doing things like trying to get to work. People dilly-dallying about and riding as fast as they can in front of those public speedometer things and such probably aren't doing it in the city (or at least the "city" parts of the city). And if they are, that's probably the source of my problem.
Well at least the law in Portland Oregon is that bikes are allowed to ride on the sidewalk
:) Whenever I'm driving in downtown Portland, I swear to god that half the time not hitting the bikers is like not opening your door (or hitting) the freaky motercycles in L.A. that can legally go in between cars in traffic (who the hell voted for that one?). Half the bikes don't even seem to look at you-- they seem to be owned by suicidal PSU students who've played one too many games of paperboy. Incidentally, when I'm walking down there, it's not much of an issue...
:) The bike riders just fly off their bikes and land head-first into a tree. Their neck may be broken, but their helmet has saved their brain so that they can be rebuilt into bionic tennis players or something...
Then how come more bikers don't take advtange of that? The bias of the DMV manual?
Just to clarify myself, I don't think that there are NEVER times that a bike should be on the road, but it is still a matter of common sense. If there's a sidewalk there, the road is very likely busy enough that everyone without a safety cage is safer off of it, whether that be on the sidewalk or the bike lane. And no, I really don't know where motorcycles fit in to what I just said, but at least in movies, if you hit a motorcycle, even if the person dies, they fly off with the motorcycle and seem to have the same fate.
Ugh... I hate that... I live in over in Oregon, and though I'm not quite sure if its THE LAW, it's at least THE RULE. Bike on road, person on sidewalk, which I've always thought was the most idiotic thing in the world...
Bike Vs. Car: Car wins, even with helmet, Bike Rider probably injured at best. Person driving car thus backs up over his mutilated carcass to finish the job, getting his anger out at the bike going slooowly on the shoulderless (but sidewalk-happy) road making him late for work.
Bike Vs. Person: Bike wins, pedestrian surprised and ticked, but probably okay. Will probably seek revenge, since the idiot on the bike probably did it on purpose.
Soo.... when bikes are on the sidewalks, everybody lives! Regardless of what vehicle I might or might not be in, I'd rather get hit by a bicycle that can probably dodge me a hell of a lot easier (and is almost assuredly looking forward 95% of the time) than half a ton of steel death.
I wonder then what is the moral equivalence of the RIAA taking realized cash from people who do not download music?
Because my working parents loved me so very much (I just like being bitter, don't read much into this), they left me in a day care for most of the day instead of locking me in a room for nine or ten hours. At the day care, we all got in trouble "together". Everybody's childhood might have parts like this, but it only ever happened to me at the day care...
If somebody stole something, or said something they shouldn't say while we were all being noisy enought that the staff couldn't single out who needed to wash their mouth out with muriatic acid, they would group us all together at the tables, give us a brief moment for either the perpetrator to admit his crime or some jerk to snitch on him. After they get NOTHING, we all had to rest our heads on the table and say nothing.
Or, if we were snotched on, we had to hold buckets of water in each hand, with our arms out as far as we can for some obnoxious length of time.
The RIAA's thing is kinda' like that...
If you live in Oregon (or Washington, Alaska, and wherever else they've set up shops) you can go into your local Fred Meyer and grab one of these...
I love not shopping on-line! Cha-Ching!
"I need to order new Rubber for my Jack Bot sometime too."
Yeah, well, I just go to the drugstore for that. They have a decent selection, with all the usual favorites (lubricated, ribbed, steak-flavoured etc.). You can even get an additional product that I personally enjoy on a regular basis for all those nasty wounds--
"ManDelay - A Male Genital (Pinball) Densensitizer"
Sure...
I'd say to play FF6 for the SNES (which is Final Fantasy III in the us release). Different people will tell you different things about which is the best (I think FF7 is, personally), but FF6 is probably the middle ground of the series.
:)
:)
1. There is no chronological order, so play in whatever order you feel. The only things that really connect the games in the series are elements that are in every game (certain creatures, certain music, the fact that the world is generally pretty muched @#$%ed).
2. a) Probably FF6 or FF7. If a fantasy setting is more important, FF4, FF5, or (maybe) FF6 would be a better choice.
2. b) FF6.
2. c) I won't touch that with a ten foot pole, but I can describe (some of) them. In FF1, you choose your characters, and are heavily restricted by their class. You buy magic. In FF4, the characters are chosen for you. In FF5, your characters can changes classes. In FF6, classes are irrelevant, and you can use equippable items that allow you to learn spells (espers). FF7 is similar to FF6, except how many items (called materia this time) can be equipped depends on your armor, and you have to have the item equipped to use the spell (you don't really learn it). FF8 is really weird, though not in a bad way. I just got up and don't really feel like describing it. Or trying to remember it. I'll move on.
2. d) If you just want to get through one really quick, I'd say to go for FF4. That goes by really quick. FF6 is niftier, though.
2. e) FF6 is the best looking SNES FF. I'm personally fond of FF7's graphics on the PSX, but I'm probably the only one. Don't listen to me at all.
3. FF8 doesn't have real-time rendering... But anyway, the worst one depends on what you like. If you want a more "interactive movie" sort of experience, I'd go for FF6, FF7, or FF8; leaning toward the former two. If you want gameplay, FF5 is probably the best. FF8 has a lot of potential in it's battle system, but it's so easy that it doesn't matter much. And FF1 will just piss you off (Tell John to attack Monster 2 and tell Jack to attack Monster 2; John kills Monster 2; Jack strikes at the empty air where Monster 2 was and whines at you: "Ineffective"; Sensless violence directed at the Nintendo Entertainment System ensues).
And despite how much praise you'll probably see it get, FF4 is the bastard son of a thousand maniacs. The gameplay is actually good, but (and I've only played the original--crappy--SNES transplation) the story sucks the big one, IMHO. I've seen a lot of FF fans say it was great, even story-wise, but they all seem to be in the catagory of people who can look at it nostaligcally. It's not a bad game, and if you want to get the gist of the series it's a must at some point, but probably not the best choice for trying to decide if you like Final Fantasy or not.
But the biggest problem, to me anyhow, with that is that you can't know what a group of files are. If you've got 700 files in C:\LIBS, you can't reasonably expect to know what any of the files are if you have to ask a flippin' package manager for every one. I'm not going to type DOSPKG /W 700 times to know what's on my system. At the same time, it's not necessarily important to know the specific function of every file, so lumping the libraries into directories that associate the file with the package is much cleaner.
A "dossier" solution is something like:
C:\LIBS\PACDISP>_
The main problem is financial capital. First off, most companies lease their offices, and I'd expect, can't afford not to. Larger companies that own their campuses are less likely to try something so radical, unless there's a specific purpose to doing so (testing light sensitive products or something-- but why in an office setting?).
If the money is there, simply give your contractors that are either modifying or building your office building instructions not to include any windows.
More economically, you could try putting tin foil over the windows. If you put the foil on the inner panel on the inside and the foil on the outer panel on the outside, you can even open the window if you wish. If that defeats your purpose, put bars on the windows.
Click on the link. Then click on the picture.
It takes you... back to slashdot? WTF?
Really, when I'm thinking to myself, "Gee, I have this picture so people can look at it. I wonder where it should link to?", slashdot really isn't the first thing that pops into my head, nor is it the 4167th.
Anyway...
Though you didn't, just think of how much you could've wanted to kick yourself if you got modded down for commenting on getting modded up. :)
I actually thought that the story was going to be about the Slashdot comment.
If you thought you've seen enough people bitching about the place before... heh...
Dunno about the "Java Developer's Perspective" (they'd probably want to play with Sun's regardless), but this is sort of annoying. Java stuff is generall the sort of thing that I try to avoid, that I turn off in Netscape REGARDLESS of the fact that it makes it more stable.
In spite of that, sometimes I will need to use Java. I can't entirely get around it, and if I actually intended to use XP (I play with my machines a tad too much for anything to be worth that, honestly, though you never know...), this could get really annoying. I can see myself downloading the "Java Plug-In" once a month, and just not looking at stuff that I want to because I'm too lazy every-other (which, in the paranoid "MS must be trying to kill something off" sense, is what one would think MS is going for).
At the same time, I wouldn't mind Java going away on the internet...
Actually, that's bugged me forever...
\.: BackSlashDot
/.: FrontSlashDot
"You said you wanted some space. Well, is this enough for you...?" - Pulp
<slashdot doesn't load>
"Hmm... let's try another site... how 'bout freshmeat...?"
<freshmeat doesn't load>
"@#$%^! Net's down..."
Let's all forget our differences, cease to argue all things, never talk to each other again and die off in a hole somewhere! Yeah!
Argument doesn't neccessarily mean pissing match...
Free Software has victims too. It's intent is to undermine the commercial software world, and put thousands of programmers out of work. What makes one kind of victimization OK and the other not?
Not to comment on either the viability of Free commercial software or my own opinion on things, you're missing the point. Stallman's point of view isn't against software being commercial, just against software not fitting in with his particular definition of free. If it's difficult/impossible to make money off of such software, it's incidental. In other words, Stallman simply thinks that non-free software is unethical. Thus, a programmer creating non-free code for a company is a link in a chain of wrongdoing. If preventing an entire industry from being immoral causes loss of jobs, then while it is too bad that such people are unemployed, it is both a fault of working for something that shouldn't be, as well as for the greater good.
To actually answer your question, Free Software's victims would be working for the bad guys, anyway. That's my understanding of it all, anyhow...
SLS Linux? It's the de-facto standard of linux dists worldwide. Yeah.
Not sure if it was Phillips, but it was Sony in tandem with some company that started with a "P" (Phillips, Pioneer, Panasonic? I'm guessing Pioneer, myself...), I think. I remember reading somewhere that Sony wanted smaller discs (think MD or those weird japanese single sizes that I think are used in cameras these days), and the other company wanted something more in line with LP's, and the current CD stanard was their compromize.
1500% isn't a fraction at all. It's a percentage.
15/1?
Really... Yes, Nautilus is GPL'd. Yay. Nobody defends Eazel's business plan. Gotcha. But why do we care (well, some of us don't and really seem to love the oppertunity to say, "I told you so" whether or not we actually did) about corporate sponsership?
I realize I'm not remotely intelligent on these matters, but here's my opinion:
The GPL is not a business model, and nobody makes money giving stuff away, so we instead have open-source-loving companies that want to make money doing X so that they can fund their bread and butter which makes absolutely no profit, which is GPL'd software Y. What the hell is that? If the point of a group is to develop Y and Y will not produce a profit, one shouldn't start a company.
Everybody seems to agree about the flaws of Eazel's business model, but that's not the point. What if they had come up with a (probably still somewhat flawed) business model that would at least have kept them going a bit longer? Wouldn't it make more sense for them to just focus on service X rather than product Y? Otherwise, the existance of the company is completely pointless.
I'm not arguing against any crusade for open-source, free-as-in-whatever-you-like software, but why is it at all important or convenient or desirable that there should be a company behind any given piece of free sotware? We always seem so happy when stuff like Eazel starts up-- "Wow! A Linux-related business! Cool!"... The flawed business model isn't so much of a problem as the fact that they had to think of one in the first place.
If you really want to do Y, but it won't make any money so you have to also do X which you will do to fund Y that will continue to not make any money, well, why did you want to start a company in the first place _EVEN_IF_ X's business model is sound. You then devote time and resources on something that really isn't in your interest, your heart isn't into it, and, well, wouldn't it be easier, safer, and honestly more fulfilling to just get a job somewhere else and work on Y in your spare time? You don't care much about what your employer does and you don't care much about X, really, so doing X just makes you have to think and plan more about things you really souldn't be overly concerned with.
Even looking at it exclusively from the perspective of "We programmers want to get paid to do this full time" (as opposed to "Companies: Good, Legitimate", or something), it really isn't any different than working on the project in one's spare time. One way or the other, you'd be really making money doing something other than your pet project. It comes out the same, the slight difference being, perhaps, the distribution of work. Get a few people to do the X and you yourself work exclusively on Y and that's fine (aside from the potential for the "screwing over your fellow man" factor).
So in short, I've rambled so much I've forgotten what I was talking about, except it has something to do with X. It takes too long to compile. Damn it to hell.
Yeah... it was one of those voice verified ones that got me into FidoNET. I was sort of curious what it was, I logged on to the BBS for one of the nodes, got confused, logged off and said, "To hell with it!".
An hour later, the SysOp called me, knowing nothing of my confusion, to let me know that he'd verified my account and set me up as a point. At first I was kinda' weirded out
Incidentally, is there an equivilent of textfiles.com for other sorts of BBS files? Twelve-hundred different versions of Renegade, VBBS, Telix, Telemate, Terminate, cute little shareware games of varying quality, silly image views somebody on the BBS made learning C, mod files, and so on and so forth?
:)
What I need to find me is an old copy of "The GRIND", an old mod player with girls dancing to the beat. Maybe I can remake it as a visualization plugin for XMMS or WinAMP or something.
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