this data wants to be free. by creating a charge for access to this data, studies of climate and the environment will be crippled. studies of power plant emissions, pulp and paper toxics emissions can be carried out without access to such data.
Taco: " caller, you're on the air--"
Caller: "In Soviet Russia, the Radio show calls you!"*click*
followed by the closing caller:
Taco: " caller, you're on the air--"
Caller: "I think that goatse has a face perfect for radio..."*click*
I dont think its a cause of it, but it does help level the playing field and lower the barrier to entry. Look at mySQL as an example, in the old days (like 10 years ago) if you pretty much had to own oracle licenses to be developing for it. This meant that you started out with fewer competitors in the marketplace. Now someone can get mysql for free and start banging out code to compete with you and your oracle solution. And since software is mostly about labour, you just can't be competitive even if your cost of tools also goes to zero because in the end, once you get going the labour cost is where most of the software cost is located.
Once they figure out that software purchased at retail is the same as Licensed or Leased they will have to decide what to do. Either start charging standard sales tax on the Licensed/Leased software or make all the retailers switch to the new tax rate for licensed/leased software. Either way its going to piss somebody off - either the retailers like best buy/staples etc.
I can see the state revenue agency going after licensed/leased software vendors for missing sales tax payments so easily.
wheres the source so I can start bugging the linksys engineers to patch the linux kernel in the wrt54g. maybe with this, i will actually get the throughput that was promised on the box....
Action! my first exposure to something C-like. It was cool because the cartridge was orange - unlike all the brown/black atari carts. I remember liking it because it was faster than atari basic, but yet didnt require reams and reamd and reams of code like macro assembler.
A shame that OSS never ported it to the 68k or the like.
Are you guys kidding? random like radio? the reason I stopped listening to the radio is because songs make the "A" bin where they would be in heavy rotation adn you would hear the song over and over again during an afternoon or evening set.
if you are going 100 mbit, get a good switch. I found how how large a hole my linksys was when our cable operator upgraded from 3 megabits to 12 megabits. when I called to bitch about the speed, I couldn't get more than 300 k/s on a download, the elightened tech said your router sux. So I set up a linux router and I'm getting great downloads and the lan speed went from about 3mb/s average to about 7mb/s when copying dvd rips around.
If I hadn't learned this I probably would have gone to GigE by now. That said when I move a lot of DVD rips around from one machine to another even 7mb/s isn't fast enough for some of us twitch freeks and gigE would be handy.
38lbs, dual floppies, 9" amber CGA, 256K! (yes I said K) and a keyboard that could double as a bludgeoning instrument... and a case that made it like a suitecase that you could put over your shoulder. Not for the feint of heart geek....
spelling and grammar, the intricate workings of the Astrolabe--the predecessor to the sextant.
If you are triangulating with such devices (Astrolabia?) does it demonstrate the areola boriallus inthe northern hemisphere, or the cornholio effect in the southern hemisphere?
I suspect this is a defensive mechanism on the part of Big Blue.
OSS has become an important part of their business. Now suppose they want to set up a funding mechanism to pay contributors. Now suppose someone had asked for or created a business process for that mechanism and was issued a patent on it. IBM would be a target for someone with deep pockets. "you paid OSS developers and you owe us huge money for using our process."
Would you rather have someone with a vested interest in paying OSS developers owning such a patent or someone who would benefit from having OSS developers not be paid for the life of the patent (10-20 years?)
I think its also an interesting sign that IBM is somehow trying to come up with some funding mechanisms for OSS other than what it puts into specialty organizations like OSDL (or wherever Linus is working).
Also a more uniform mechanism beyond shareware, tip jars, bounties and "tech support contracts" as funding mechanisms for furthered development would draw many of the closed source shops into the fold. A more uniform or alternate funding mechanism could make OSS happen at a faster rate.
I guess we now know what the guys who were layed off from SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND were up to in the interim. If its not the same group, they must have been to thier FX school.
This was a better reimagining than most of the sci-fi remakes out there
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this data wants to be free. by creating a charge for access to this data, studies of climate and the environment will be crippled. studies of power plant emissions, pulp and paper toxics emissions can be carried out without access to such data.
convergence is just a solution in search of a problem.....
Taco: " caller, you're on the air--" Caller: "In Soviet Russia, the Radio show calls you!"*click* followed by the closing caller: Taco: " caller, you're on the air--" Caller: "I think that goatse has a face perfect for radio..."*click*
another solution in search of a problem. i already got enough digital crap on my Bat Utility Belt...
So who is working on a mod-chip to make the MS player as useful my xbox+mod chip is in my home theater?
If "Birth of the Empire" was the winning name. I wonder what some of the losers were....
I dont think its a cause of it, but it does help level the playing field and lower the barrier to entry. Look at mySQL as an example, in the old days (like 10 years ago) if you pretty much had to own oracle licenses to be developing for it. This meant that you started out with fewer competitors in the marketplace. Now someone can get mysql for free and start banging out code to compete with you and your oracle solution. And since software is mostly about labour, you just can't be competitive even if your cost of tools also goes to zero because in the end, once you get going the labour cost is where most of the software cost is located.
I can see the state revenue agency going after licensed/leased software vendors for missing sales tax payments so easily.
wheres the source so I can start bugging the linksys engineers to patch the linux kernel in the wrt54g. maybe with this, i will actually get the throughput that was promised on the box....
Action! my first exposure to something C-like. It was cool because the cartridge was orange - unlike all the brown/black atari carts. I remember liking it because it was faster than atari basic, but yet didnt require reams and reamd and reams of code like macro assembler. A shame that OSS never ported it to the 68k or the like.
-=monkey --
there are 10 types of people in the world. those that understand binary and those that don't
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open source and GPL ta boot.
Are you guys kidding? random like radio? the reason I stopped listening to the radio is because songs make the "A" bin where they would be in heavy rotation adn you would hear the song over and over again during an afternoon or evening set.
imagine a beowulf cluster of micro turbines....
see:
www.percyschmeiser.com
if you are going 100 mbit, get a good switch. I found how how large a hole my linksys was when our cable operator upgraded from 3 megabits to 12 megabits. when I called to bitch about the speed, I couldn't get more than 300 k/s on a download, the elightened tech said your router sux. So I set up a linux router and I'm getting great downloads and the lan speed went from about 3mb/s average to about 7mb/s when copying dvd rips around. If I hadn't learned this I probably would have gone to GigE by now. That said when I move a lot of DVD rips around from one machine to another even 7mb/s isn't fast enough for some of us twitch freeks and gigE would be handy.
Thats no luggable! this, this is a luggable....
ELITE IBM LUGGABLE
38lbs, dual floppies, 9" amber CGA, 256K! (yes I said K) and a keyboard that could double as a bludgeoning instrument... and a case that made it like a suitecase that you could put over your shoulder. Not for the feint of heart geek....
IIRC, primordial AOL ran on GEOS for Intel...
I, for one, will welcome Alias' new overlords....
So what was the point of having an HD in the XBOX if MS is issuing its service packs through hardware ;)
If you are triangulating with such devices (Astrolabia?) does it demonstrate the areola boriallus inthe northern hemisphere, or the cornholio effect in the southern hemisphere?
How did this car not make the list???
OSS has become an important part of their business. Now suppose they want to set up a funding mechanism to pay contributors. Now suppose someone had asked for or created a business process for that mechanism and was issued a patent on it. IBM would be a target for someone with deep pockets. "you paid OSS developers and you owe us huge money for using our process."
Would you rather have someone with a vested interest in paying OSS developers owning such a patent or someone who would benefit from having OSS developers not be paid for the life of the patent (10-20 years?)
I think its also an interesting sign that IBM is somehow trying to come up with some funding mechanisms for OSS other than what it puts into specialty organizations like OSDL (or wherever Linus is working).
Also a more uniform mechanism beyond shareware, tip jars, bounties and "tech support contracts" as funding mechanisms for furthered development would draw many of the closed source shops into the fold. A more uniform or alternate funding mechanism could make OSS happen at a faster rate.
As I recall that sco claimed that MS licensed an interface and not the unix code. perhaps this is the interface that they licensed.
I guess we now know what the guys who were layed off from SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND were up to in the interim. If its not the same group, they must have been to thier FX school.
This was a better reimagining than most of the sci-fi remakes out there