LOL, this is a health issue. We don't want kids getting drunk and turning into alcoholics.
Yeah, I can just picture it now:
Billy: "Hey Bobby, wanna get drunk?"
Bobby: "Sure, Billy! But where are we going to get some alcohol? Sure we can fight in Iraq and kill people, but we need to be 21 to be allowed permission to drink certain beverages."
Billy: "Well, lucky for me I managed to get a credit card without them knowing I'm underage."
Bobby: "Cool! But won't stores check your ID?"
Billy: "Aha! You forgot about the internet. Tons of shops willing to sell you cases of wine."
Bobby: "Oh man, this is going to be great. Let's google for some wine sites."
Billy: "Okay, here's a good one. Lots of stuff in stock. How about a 2003 Pinot Noir?"
Bobby: "Naw, I heard that's a bad year. Now a 2004 Shiraz is just what the doctor ordered!"
Billy: "You fool! Only sissies drink Shiraz, and 2004 is much too recent to fully develop the subtle hints of oak that a good Shiraz requires. I say we go for a medium-bodied Cabernet Sauvignon, say... 2002 late season."
Bobby: "But all they have from 2002 is the leftover wines. Don't you read Wine Spectator? And those ones are decidedly missing out on the fruity overtones and smooth finish."
Billy: "Good point. Hm... how about something from the Napa Valley, I hear their 2001 Merlots are spectacular."
Bobby: "Excellent choice... so, want a case of it?"
Billy: "Yeah, might as well. We'll have some good leftovers for all those chicks we'll invite over! [chuckle]"
Bobby: "Okay, I'm just checking out... now standard shipping is 5-7 days, but for an extra $21.95, we can have two-day shipping fully insured."
Billy: "Do they do overnight?"
Bobby: "Apparently none of the couriers will take overnight shipments because it's so fragile."
Billy: "Okay, let's do the two-day shipping."
Bobby: "Done. Order has been placed, here's the confirmation number for UPS. Man, Wednesday night is going to be rocking!"
Billy: "Yeah man... I can't wait..."
Bobby: [stares at monitor blankly]
Billy: "So..."
Bobby: "Uh..."
Billy: "Hey, wanna sniff some glue? Then maybe neck a little?"
IDE type Hard drives have an area of space reserved for "reallocating" bad sectors. If your disk is really bad this area will fill up.
Right, and when it fills up, everything overflows and the loose bits sit on the bottom of the hard drive case... that's why you hear the grinding noise.
Same here. Rather than studying for high school finals, I spent a couple of weeks and wrote a BBS program in Turbo Pascal with messaging, support for doors, etc. I released it with source to a few local BBSes but it doesn't look like that got mirrored to anywhere else as I lost the source myself and haven't been able to find it since. Only one other BBS that I know of set it up and ran it. Ah, memories...
I read that as "and throw Poland in a couple of times", as a play on Bush's "Don't forget Poland!" line. But I suppose how you read it could work as well.
What I find interesting is that Vader is essentially the German word for father (vater, IIRC). So when they dubbed the movies into German, did they have to change Darth Vader's name?
Even if he has no social life whatsoever, he'll eventually be hit by the flu, medical emergencies, jury service selection waits (or depositions or a court case)
I agree with your post in general, but just a comment on the whole jury duty thing. I've been called a few times to show up for jury selection back when I ran a one man show and, while it would have been interesting, I wrote back explaining that in my business if I'm not there, there is no business. The result? A nice letter stating that I'm excused.
Agreed, until I saw someone above link to this one which I didn't see on the original site. That's definitely impressive as it seems to almost do better than a 45 degree angle.
I tried Darwin on Intel earlier this year on a 1 GHz Athlon and was amazed at how slow it was. Like, typing 'ls/' gave output at a rate of a couple lines per second. I'm not exaggerating, it was like what you get when you run 'ls' against a floppy. What kind of experience have others had?
Well, it took me 17 minutes to copy a 40MB file. 17 minutes!!! Netcraft even confirms it!;-)
That's nice to say... but there's still the question of who is paying this money. Normally a bounty is created when a specific person pledges $X. You can't just postulate that the bounty should increase.
The implication was that the company who started the project would increment the bounty as it would still be cheaper than hiring someone in-house. For community projects, it would likely be based on a pledge model as you state as either a straight $X for feature Y or perhaps the pledges weighting which features' bounties increment faster than others.
An average iPod owner probably exceeds 30 mins per hour average usage.
By your calculations, Calvin Klein thong underwear for men will soon be more popular than cell phones because its users probably wear the underwear for upwards of 14 hours a day continuous!
Or taking it further, perhaps have it increment the bounty by $1 a day. Nobody's going to spend four hours coding for a $10 reward, but after another 3 months it's now a $100 reward. Someone still might not want to work on it, but eventually it'll fall within someone's target price where they consider it a decent amount and someone will grab it. The trick is to wait long enough that the amount gets up high, but not too high or else someone else will have jumped on it before you do.
Agreed. This whole people-work-for-free open source economy can only last for so long before the expenses of real life exceed the enjoyment of working on a project for nothing. So unless you have an ever-increasing source of free workers to meet the demands of the ever-increasing number of projects, supply and demand kicks. Even though the rates are atrocious, for some kid wanting to work on a project, would you rather make $50 or $0? Hopefully demand will vastly outstrip supply and we'll settle back at an equilibrium where the compensation is closer to market rates.
That reminds me of that Douglas Adams novel where the opening chapter is about a crime scene and it curiously describes the man sitting in the chair and a skipping record playing on the table. Of course, after much detail we find that the record skips every time it comes into contact with the man's severed head.
Manufacturers- if you're going to put out a press release, just call it a #@$!ing press release- and stop insulting our intelligence.
They do label it a press release. The not-so-reputable sites package it up and sell it to you as news. But don't blame Motorola, blame PhysOrg for not putting (Press Release) like Yahoo does, and blame Slashdot for accepting a company's PR spam.
Slashdot Mirror
Shouldn't this be from the slashdot-has-just-been-trolled department?
LOL, this is a health issue. We don't want kids getting drunk and turning into alcoholics.
Yeah, I can just picture it now:
Billy: "Hey Bobby, wanna get drunk?"
Bobby: "Sure, Billy! But where are we going to get some alcohol? Sure we can fight in Iraq and kill people, but we need to be 21 to be allowed permission to drink certain beverages."
Billy: "Well, lucky for me I managed to get a credit card without them knowing I'm underage."
Bobby: "Cool! But won't stores check your ID?"
Billy: "Aha! You forgot about the internet. Tons of shops willing to sell you cases of wine."
Bobby: "Oh man, this is going to be great. Let's google for some wine sites."
Billy: "Okay, here's a good one. Lots of stuff in stock. How about a 2003 Pinot Noir?"
Bobby: "Naw, I heard that's a bad year. Now a 2004 Shiraz is just what the doctor ordered!"
Billy: "You fool! Only sissies drink Shiraz, and 2004 is much too recent to fully develop the subtle hints of oak that a good Shiraz requires. I say we go for a medium-bodied Cabernet Sauvignon, say... 2002 late season."
Bobby: "But all they have from 2002 is the leftover wines. Don't you read Wine Spectator? And those ones are decidedly missing out on the fruity overtones and smooth finish."
Billy: "Good point. Hm... how about something from the Napa Valley, I hear their 2001 Merlots are spectacular."
Bobby: "Excellent choice... so, want a case of it?"
Billy: "Yeah, might as well. We'll have some good leftovers for all those chicks we'll invite over! [chuckle]"
Bobby: "Okay, I'm just checking out... now standard shipping is 5-7 days, but for an extra $21.95, we can have two-day shipping fully insured."
Billy: "Do they do overnight?"
Bobby: "Apparently none of the couriers will take overnight shipments because it's so fragile."
Billy: "Okay, let's do the two-day shipping."
Bobby: "Done. Order has been placed, here's the confirmation number for UPS. Man, Wednesday night is going to be rocking!"
Billy: "Yeah man... I can't wait..."
Bobby: [stares at monitor blankly]
Billy: "So..."
Bobby: "Uh..."
Billy: "Hey, wanna sniff some glue? Then maybe neck a little?"
Bobby: "Sure, I'll go get the stuff!"
IDE type Hard drives have an area of space reserved for "reallocating" bad sectors. If your disk is really bad this area will fill up.
Right, and when it fills up, everything overflows and the loose bits sit on the bottom of the hard drive case... that's why you hear the grinding noise.
Same here. Rather than studying for high school finals, I spent a couple of weeks and wrote a BBS program in Turbo Pascal with messaging, support for doors, etc. I released it with source to a few local BBSes but it doesn't look like that got mirrored to anywhere else as I lost the source myself and haven't been able to find it since. Only one other BBS that I know of set it up and ran it. Ah, memories...
Do I have enough blood to boot Longhorn, or should I wait for the Service Pack?
Ever thought of having kids?
I read that as "and throw Poland in a couple of times", as a play on Bush's "Don't forget Poland!" line. But I suppose how you read it could work as well.
What I find interesting is that Vader is essentially the German word for father (vater, IIRC). So when they dubbed the movies into German, did they have to change Darth Vader's name?
... and a GPL'd stealth module for that?
Bah! Don't you know that security through obscurity is a lousy method of protection?
Good advice,
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Even if he has no social life whatsoever, he'll eventually be hit by the flu, medical emergencies, jury service selection waits (or depositions or a court case)
I agree with your post in general, but just a comment on the whole jury duty thing. I've been called a few times to show up for jury selection back when I ran a one man show and, while it would have been interesting, I wrote back explaining that in my business if I'm not there, there is no business. The result? A nice letter stating that I'm excused.
Agreed, until I saw someone above link to this one which I didn't see on the original site. That's definitely impressive as it seems to almost do better than a 45 degree angle.
That was supposed to be <aol>... argh.
I found it much funnier the wrong way. An AOL user wouldn't know the right way to do HTML tags anyway!
I like Isaac Asimov's word better -- nucleics. As featured in the Foundation series.
Maybe someday it will have wireless *and* more space than a Nomad.
Why the parent comment isn't +5 Funny is beyond me.
Lame.
Not to mention that they don't have wireless and carry less space than a Nomad.
I tried Darwin on Intel earlier this year on a 1 GHz Athlon and was amazed at how slow it was. Like, typing 'ls /' gave output at a rate of a couple lines per second. I'm not exaggerating, it was like what you get when you run 'ls' against a floppy. What kind of experience have others had?
;-)
Well, it took me 17 minutes to copy a 40MB file. 17 minutes!!! Netcraft even confirms it!
That's nice to say... but there's still the question of who is paying this money. Normally a bounty is created when a specific person pledges $X. You can't just postulate that the bounty should increase.
The implication was that the company who started the project would increment the bounty as it would still be cheaper than hiring someone in-house. For community projects, it would likely be based on a pledge model as you state as either a straight $X for feature Y or perhaps the pledges weighting which features' bounties increment faster than others.
An average iPod owner probably exceeds 30 mins per hour average usage.
By your calculations, Calvin Klein thong underwear for men will soon be more popular than cell phones because its users probably wear the underwear for upwards of 14 hours a day continuous!
Need to learn french so I can move to Canada.
Isn't that sort of like saying "Need to learn Spanish so I can move to the US"?
Is it just me, or does the interview read mostly like "Stop asking me dumb questions"?
Or taking it further, perhaps have it increment the bounty by $1 a day. Nobody's going to spend four hours coding for a $10 reward, but after another 3 months it's now a $100 reward. Someone still might not want to work on it, but eventually it'll fall within someone's target price where they consider it a decent amount and someone will grab it. The trick is to wait long enough that the amount gets up high, but not too high or else someone else will have jumped on it before you do.
Agreed. This whole people-work-for-free open source economy can only last for so long before the expenses of real life exceed the enjoyment of working on a project for nothing. So unless you have an ever-increasing source of free workers to meet the demands of the ever-increasing number of projects, supply and demand kicks. Even though the rates are atrocious, for some kid wanting to work on a project, would you rather make $50 or $0? Hopefully demand will vastly outstrip supply and we'll settle back at an equilibrium where the compensation is closer to market rates.
That reminds me of that Douglas Adams novel where the opening chapter is about a crime scene and it curiously describes the man sitting in the chair and a skipping record playing on the table. Of course, after much detail we find that the record skips every time it comes into contact with the man's severed head.
Manufacturers- if you're going to put out a press release, just call it a #@$!ing press release- and stop insulting our intelligence.
They do label it a press release. The not-so-reputable sites package it up and sell it to you as news. But don't blame Motorola, blame PhysOrg for not putting (Press Release) like Yahoo does, and blame Slashdot for accepting a company's PR spam.