Winning money from google for oss dev only to pump the money into MS seems... well it conjures to my mind many adjectives worse than "traitor."
To me, your post conjures words like "knee jerk slashdot speak" and "OMFG!!1!!one!!!1! teh pr0prietary s0ftwarez R teh sux0r!!!! j00 diss my ide0logical movem3nt!1!"
What's the point of this, really? Why is Google suddenly so interested in fostering open source?
I'm somewhat cynical, but my take on it is that Google benefits immensely already from open source. Now, Google could spend money and hire developers, pay them a salary and benefits, and have them write code for various projects and then open source them. However, why spend all that money? It has been shown that there are tons of coders willing to work for basically nothing at all. Google then gets to reap the benefits of that work, and all it costs them is $4500 for a few months.
The multiplier effect is huge. Assuming that Google gets to approve of both the individuals and the projects they work on as a condition of receiving the money, Google is going to choose projects which are interesting to them. If those projects succeed, it could spawn dozens of developers who are willing to work on it for no pay at all. So if only 10% of those projects produce something of interest, it's the equivalent of $45,000 per project which likely isn't too far off from what they would pay for a single developer including wages, benefits, overhead, etc. But then that project lives on as other people pick up the codebase and work with it -- so Google benefits from this multiplier effect at no cost at all. Small upfront cost, long term benefits.
And why only students? More pliable to the idea of giving your work away?
Get 'em while they're young. As I said above, Google could go and hire a bunch of interns or full-time staff and pay them to develop various projects and hope that some work out. Or acquire a number of small startups which have alread written code and then open source that code. But they'd spend way more doing that than they would with this strategy. The old "follow the money" expression works very well here.
The whole "would you not have allowed X to be born" argument against abortion is somewhat of a fallacy: there's no way to tell in advance precisely what will become of a person in their lives, so if you want to create "geniuses", by the argument, you should spend your entire life having more children. So what if aborting a child has a 1/N chance of destroying a world-changing genius - having an additional child has that same 1/N chance of creating a new world-changing genius, so you better get started!
Or imagine if you could tell the future and you could see all the possibilities before they unfolded. Would you no longer use condoms during sex because you saw that each child you could have had would have made a profound impact upon peoples' lives? Ultimately, we can't predict the future so we make the best decisions with the information we have and the world moves on.
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I just installed OpenBSD 3.7 on Sunday. I have a 120GB SATA drive with an 80GB Windows partition. So I used OpenBSD's fdisk to allocate 20GB for OpenBSD *after* the Windows partition. I marked the wd0a partition (OpenBSD) as active, rebooted, and it worked just fine. I now need to figure out what boot manager I'm going to use, but that's a different story!:)
Btw, one little thing that the forum above has, and IMHO Slashdot is missing *badly*, is the ability to edit comments to add things you forgot (damn it).
Likely so that people couldn't change what they wrote after replies were written, but it would be good to have it eBay-style, so you'd see something like:
--- On May 31st, 2005 11:01 AM PST, nacturation added:
And to answer the grandparent post, it'll cool roughly 4.5 Han Solo's per minute, which is about.00125 Libraries of Congress, which is about.03 Volkswagon Bugs.
The real question though is how much does this thing weigh in elephants?
I'm a lefty as well, but I learned to use my right thumb which, as far as I know, is the classic method of typing anyway. How hard is is to smack a huge bar with your right thumb? Not like it requires any kind of precision control.
If they don't get any rights until they're 18, how will they know what to do with them when they get them? Give them responsibility when they're mature enough to handle it and still have time to learn from their mistakes.
Responsibilities != rights. Slaves can have many responsibilities, but no rights.
But they're not script kiddies either. What if you phoned up the admissions office and sweet talked someone there into letting you know whether or not you got accepted already. Would that be cause for a rejection letter? In effect, they knew what question to ask the webserver in order to get the answer.
In addition to the other posts, it is worthwhile to note that the subject of the sentence is never located within a prepositional phrase. "of the... applicants" is a prepositional phrase, where a preposition is "of", "on", "in", etc. So this should read "None... was able to explain", which still sounds rather odd even though it's correct.
Right, and just how many black holes can you have in 12 parsecs? If there were more than one, let alone a cluster, the gravity would be so strong they'd eat each other up. So that explanation is bogus. Face it, it's an error in the script. No amount of after-the-fact hand waving will fix it. Might as well get Lucas to edit the dialog to change it to something else. But just remember that Han shot first and Han definitely said 12 parsecs.
No doubt that was an after-the-fact explanation of why the script was wrong. In context, Kenobi asks if it's a fast ship, to which Han replies asking if he's never heard of the Millenium Falcon... and then gives the Kessel run quote followed by "She's fast enough for you, old man."
So we have two scenarios... George Lucas, who isn't an astrophysicist, writes a script with what he thinks are correct terms but they turn out to be incorrect and everybody agrees that not all movies are perfect. Or, Star Wars is *never* wrong, man... must... find... alternate explanation! Han, uh... *knew* that the info was wrong and did it to test them or something. Or maybe when talking about fast ships, you give an example about maneuverability, something which a space barge going in a straight line and plowing the asteroids out of the way could have bested.
The reason I replied to your message wasn't to comment on its level of eroticism, but rather to correct your assumption that you're looking at skeletons. As to whether or not you would whack off to it, well... whatever floats your boat.
But it is an X-Ray.......unless you get off on skeletons.........
RTFA. The scan is low-powered enough that it doesn't penetrate the skin. In other words, it penetrates everything but the skin so that the only thing you see is the person's skin. So, B&W nudie pictures it is.
Now which part of that page says that PayPal *is* a bank? All I see is things like "PayPal is an agent for an unaffiliated bank... money market funds are not FDIC insured... balances held in other currencies are not FDIC insured... FDIC pass-through insurance does not protect you against PayPal's insolvency..."
So if, for whatever reason, PayPal itself goes under, you're SOL.
I do have to give IBM credit for naming the processor after something that actually exists, rather than formulating a marketing driven non-word for their new product.
"Marketing words" are specifically chosen to be different because it's easier to enforce a trademark if it's unique. Hence, we don't have a type of fabric called Expand, it's Spandex... and so on.
I mean, what the hell is a Xeon anyway?
Same thing as what the hell a Slashdot is (dots which slash you?), or Microsoft (small and not very rough?), or PalmPilot (I won't go there!).
Ever play that game as a kid where you go around in a circle and you make a sentence by each kid adding one word? It's just like that, only with animation.
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Winning money from google for oss dev only to pump the money into MS seems... well it conjures to my mind many adjectives worse than "traitor."
To me, your post conjures words like "knee jerk slashdot speak" and "OMFG!!1!!one!!!1! teh pr0prietary s0ftwarez R teh sux0r!!!! j00 diss my ide0logical movem3nt!1!"
What's the point of this, really? Why is Google suddenly so interested in fostering open source?
I'm somewhat cynical, but my take on it is that Google benefits immensely already from open source. Now, Google could spend money and hire developers, pay them a salary and benefits, and have them write code for various projects and then open source them. However, why spend all that money? It has been shown that there are tons of coders willing to work for basically nothing at all. Google then gets to reap the benefits of that work, and all it costs them is $4500 for a few months.
The multiplier effect is huge. Assuming that Google gets to approve of both the individuals and the projects they work on as a condition of receiving the money, Google is going to choose projects which are interesting to them. If those projects succeed, it could spawn dozens of developers who are willing to work on it for no pay at all. So if only 10% of those projects produce something of interest, it's the equivalent of $45,000 per project which likely isn't too far off from what they would pay for a single developer including wages, benefits, overhead, etc. But then that project lives on as other people pick up the codebase and work with it -- so Google benefits from this multiplier effect at no cost at all. Small upfront cost, long term benefits.
And why only students? More pliable to the idea of giving your work away?
Get 'em while they're young. As I said above, Google could go and hire a bunch of interns or full-time staff and pay them to develop various projects and hope that some work out. Or acquire a number of small startups which have alread written code and then open source that code. But they'd spend way more doing that than they would with this strategy. The old "follow the money" expression works very well here.
The whole "would you not have allowed X to be born" argument against abortion is somewhat of a fallacy: there's no way to tell in advance precisely what will become of a person in their lives, so if you want to create "geniuses", by the argument, you should spend your entire life having more children. So what if aborting a child has a 1/N chance of destroying a world-changing genius - having an additional child has that same 1/N chance of creating a new world-changing genius, so you better get started!
Or imagine if you could tell the future and you could see all the possibilities before they unfolded. Would you no longer use condoms during sex because you saw that each child you could have had would have made a profound impact upon peoples' lives? Ultimately, we can't predict the future so we make the best decisions with the information we have and the world moves on.
I just installed OpenBSD 3.7 on Sunday. I have a 120GB SATA drive with an 80GB Windows partition. So I used OpenBSD's fdisk to allocate 20GB for OpenBSD *after* the Windows partition. I marked the wd0a partition (OpenBSD) as active, rebooted, and it worked just fine. I now need to figure out what boot manager I'm going to use, but that's a different story! :)
If you're still experiencing those kinds of issues, the cause is likely to do with an outdated BIOS or other hardware issue rather than a deficiency of OpenBSD.
Likely so that people couldn't change what they wrote after replies were written, but it would be good to have it eBay-style, so you'd see something like:So you could only add, not remove.
... and the second word is three letters long, but I haven't determined whether it begins with an 'o' or a 'y'.
And to answer the grandparent post, it'll cool roughly 4.5 Han Solo's per minute, which is about .00125 Libraries of Congress, which is about .03 Volkswagon Bugs.
The real question though is how much does this thing weigh in elephants?
See, the Kessel run grazes what is affectionately called the Maw. It' a bunch of black holes next to eachother ripping time apart.
:)
And all these black holes are within 20 parsecs of each other? Uh-huh.
Make sense?
In a contrived, I'm-in-denial kind of way, yes.
I'm a lefty as well, but I learned to use my right thumb which, as far as I know, is the classic method of typing anyway. How hard is is to smack a huge bar with your right thumb? Not like it requires any kind of precision control.
If they don't get any rights until they're 18, how will they know what to do with them when they get them? Give them responsibility when they're mature enough to handle it and still have time to learn from their mistakes.
Responsibilities != rights. Slaves can have many responsibilities, but no rights.
Cool, thanks.
But they're not script kiddies either. What if you phoned up the admissions office and sweet talked someone there into letting you know whether or not you got accepted already. Would that be cause for a rejection letter? In effect, they knew what question to ask the webserver in order to get the answer.
In addition to the other posts, it is worthwhile to note that the subject of the sentence is never located within a prepositional phrase. "of the ... applicants" is a prepositional phrase, where a preposition is "of", "on", "in", etc. So this should read "None ... was able to explain", which still sounds rather odd even though it's correct.
Right, and just how many black holes can you have in 12 parsecs? If there were more than one, let alone a cluster, the gravity would be so strong they'd eat each other up. So that explanation is bogus. Face it, it's an error in the script. No amount of after-the-fact hand waving will fix it. Might as well get Lucas to edit the dialog to change it to something else. But just remember that Han shot first and Han definitely said 12 parsecs.
Or the age-old "negatory" -- btw, anyone know what two words this represents? Negative is one, what's the "-ory" part?
The two Z's would indicate that it's pronounced like "uh", not "yew".
Orafucked: Verb. When someone screws you over so bad that it feels like they raped your every orifice.
Isn't that when the Oracle database goes down and you're the DBA?
In other news, many smart people embrace all kinds of kooky religions... first, build the website... then, drink the koolaid.
Now, if only I could remember the power up sequence for the arcade version of Bubble Bobble..
LEFT, JUMP, LEFT, START, LEFT, FIRE, LEFT, START
"Power Up!"
No doubt that was an after-the-fact explanation of why the script was wrong. In context, Kenobi asks if it's a fast ship, to which Han replies asking if he's never heard of the Millenium Falcon... and then gives the Kessel run quote followed by "She's fast enough for you, old man."
So we have two scenarios... George Lucas, who isn't an astrophysicist, writes a script with what he thinks are correct terms but they turn out to be incorrect and everybody agrees that not all movies are perfect. Or, Star Wars is *never* wrong, man... must... find... alternate explanation! Han, uh... *knew* that the info was wrong and did it to test them or something. Or maybe when talking about fast ships, you give an example about maneuverability, something which a space barge going in a straight line and plowing the asteroids out of the way could have bested.
Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
The reason I replied to your message wasn't to comment on its level of eroticism, but rather to correct your assumption that you're looking at skeletons. As to whether or not you would whack off to it, well... whatever floats your boat.
But it is an X-Ray.......unless you get off on skeletons.........
RTFA. The scan is low-powered enough that it doesn't penetrate the skin. In other words, it penetrates everything but the skin so that the only thing you see is the person's skin. So, B&W nudie pictures it is.
Plus your complaint that paypal is not a bank is old data. Please consult their website and stop rehashing old rumors. http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/fdi c-outside
... money market funds are not FDIC insured ... balances held in other currencies are not FDIC insured ... FDIC pass-through insurance does not protect you against PayPal's insolvency ..."
Now which part of that page says that PayPal *is* a bank? All I see is things like "PayPal is an agent for an unaffiliated bank
So if, for whatever reason, PayPal itself goes under, you're SOL.
I do have to give IBM credit for naming the processor after something that actually exists, rather than formulating a marketing driven non-word for their new product.
"Marketing words" are specifically chosen to be different because it's easier to enforce a trademark if it's unique. Hence, we don't have a type of fabric called Expand, it's Spandex... and so on.
I mean, what the hell is a Xeon anyway?
Same thing as what the hell a Slashdot is (dots which slash you?), or Microsoft (small and not very rough?), or PalmPilot (I won't go there!).
Ever play that game as a kid where you go around in a circle and you make a sentence by each kid adding one word? It's just like that, only with animation.