OK, so we've accounted for not more that.2 percent of the cost of a keyboard. Realistically this is much less because I've seen very few $10 keyboards.
Maybe we should also ask, where does the rest of the money go? I can't think of the last time I paid less than $1 for a keyboard. Even retail apparel margins aren't that good, perhaps some tech executives need to take a look at their cost structures...
Not for a web front end, but for a generic templating solution. In addition, I noticed the other day that Posiden by Gentleware http://www.gentleware.com/ uses velocity. I really like it because (as others have mentioned) you really can't do any programming with it (unless you really torture it). It allows a really clean separation of the display from the logic.
I don't understand the people who say it's difficult to use, from the template perspective all you do is put a dollar sign ($) and a bean name with a dot and then the field name (minus the get)... I.E. if your bean looks like this...
public class foo {
public String getBar()
}
then in your template to display the string returned by bar you'd just put $foo.bar
that's it, no or nonsense. There are a few conditionals #if #else...and a #foreach construct as well as the ability to set values also, but, the greatest thing about it is it's simplicity.
Well, that's my twenty cents.
The article (or one that it was linked to) was about requiring agencies to consider open source products if they are available. The fact that anybody cares about this sort of legislation is very telling.
To me, software is a tool and currently the state of affairs is much like going to work and not being able to use a free tool because the boss only wants Craftsman or Snap-on. In the real world, this legislation would be similar to saying "before paying money to someone for something, first see if it is available for free".
When put that way it seems like the legislation would be needless, but the problem is that software companies have 2 marketing/sales folks for every one developer. Most open source projects have zero marketing guys, and the only projects who have any would be corporate folks in a mixed model like redhat or mysql.
In summary (while typing on my windows98 machine) I think this sort of direction is important from the government. The most important thing about this is that the data be stored in a non-proprietary, open format that is well documented. I don't want to have to pay for (via taxes) a copy of microsoft exchange so that I can communicate with my legislative body via email when there are 20+ FREE products that can do the same thing for much less money.
Now we should get about 20 Microsoft ROI monkeys who will try and explain how microsoft product X is cheaper than product Y. Give it up, we all know that ROI stands for Really Optimistic Ignorance!
L8R
Actually, the drinking age is determined by the law where the base is located. That's why you can drink at 17 in Germany and it's still 21 in most, if not all, of the US.
You're assuming that all of the changes would be positive. The Bombardier beetle is a positive example (I Guess), but, it also makes sense if you assume that these rapid changes could cause mass Extinction. That could explain why dinosaurs don't exist anymore.
Of course it could also be used to explain why there is a missing link... The climate changed drastically and a rapid number of changes occurred that won't readily be in the fossil record because the rate of change was too fast.
Maybe, maybe not, I wasn't there, but I could believe it. The problem is, I couldn't read the article, don't know much about genetics, and not knowing how the research was done, they could have been trying to massage facts for a theory to reach the same conclusions. I.E. torture the facts until they say what we want.
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OK, so we've accounted for not more that .2 percent of the cost of a keyboard. Realistically this is much less because I've seen very few $10 keyboards.
Maybe we should also ask, where does the rest of the money go? I can't think of the last time I paid less than $1 for a keyboard. Even retail apparel margins aren't that good, perhaps some tech executives need to take a look at their cost structures...
Apache is actually still up, you just need to wait 60 seconds or click on the link...
I think it is a good thing that they are drawing visibility to this issue.
Remember this ? Personally, I wouldn't have to pay royalties every time I wrote a gif editor.... oh wait.
Well, then I wouldn't want to have to pay royalties if I wrote something that uses LZW compression, oh wait...
It seems very problematic to attempt to patent an IDEA, even though it seems to happen pretty often.
information wants to be free
I don't understand the people who say it's difficult to use, from the template perspective all you do is put a dollar sign ($) and a bean name with a dot and then the field name (minus the get)... I.E. if your bean looks like this... public class foo { public String getBar() } then in your template to display the string returned by bar you'd just put $foo.bar that's it, no or nonsense. There are a few conditionals #if #else...and a #foreach construct as well as the ability to set values also, but, the greatest thing about it is it's simplicity. Well, that's my twenty cents.
To me, software is a tool and currently the state of affairs is much like going to work and not being able to use a free tool because the boss only wants Craftsman or Snap-on. In the real world, this legislation would be similar to saying "before paying money to someone for something, first see if it is available for free".
When put that way it seems like the legislation would be needless, but the problem is that software companies have 2 marketing/sales folks for every one developer. Most open source projects have zero marketing guys, and the only projects who have any would be corporate folks in a mixed model like redhat or mysql.
In summary (while typing on my windows98 machine) I think this sort of direction is important from the government. The most important thing about this is that the data be stored in a non-proprietary, open format that is well documented. I don't want to have to pay for (via taxes) a copy of microsoft exchange so that I can communicate with my legislative body via email when there are 20+ FREE products that can do the same thing for much less money.
Now we should get about 20 Microsoft ROI monkeys who will try and explain how microsoft product X is cheaper than product Y. Give it up, we all know that ROI stands for Really Optimistic Ignorance! L8R
Actually, the drinking age is determined by the law where the base is located. That's why you can drink at 17 in Germany and it's still 21 in most, if not all, of the US.
Of course it could also be used to explain why there is a missing link... The climate changed drastically and a rapid number of changes occurred that won't readily be in the fossil record because the rate of change was too fast.
Maybe, maybe not, I wasn't there, but I could believe it. The problem is, I couldn't read the article, don't know much about genetics, and not knowing how the research was done, they could have been trying to massage facts for a theory to reach the same conclusions. I.E. torture the facts until they say what we want.