What about the last few 'supplemental budgetary requests' submitted for the benefit of the military? They add to the figures you've just placed by enough to put the military in first.
I listen to the Libertarians and Greens too. They're small but don't lie as much. I listen to them first, then move on to vote for a Democrat 'cause our system is.... inefficent. Yeah, that's the right word.
Err... Highest percentage of the problem is the military, not Social Security.... The military has a retirement program on top of just social security. Stop listening to the republican on your television please.
Err... isn't this list of problems rather.... Easy? I looked at them all and said, "yeah, I can think of a way to approach that. And in less than about ten minutes too." When I looked at the last Top Coder competition I thought about entering, I almost fainted from stupidity.
Completely unacceptable. Breaking one of the best RTS's ever made is just the dumbest thing I have ever heard of.
Noone's gonna read this, but that's completely out of line.
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Thus the manufacture of footwear-accessories out of infants has been halted until further notice. Should budgetary concerns regress, or Congress not be so meddlesome sometime in the future, production will resume. Until then, hunker down with what bootstraps you can find.
Customized software will always be a source of money for developers. Google's mainly OS based, but has a large team of them. Note how they share huge portions of the software they build.
As time goes by, more companies will adopt this model.
And, eventually, big companies like IBM who see Linux gaining market share and being better software as a moneymaker will pay for development teams. Professional ones. These style jobs are out there somewhere, it's just a matter of time before someone with enough clout says, "Gee, if we spent some money putting together a set of really good basic tools in Linux, we wouldn't have to pay Microsoft a damn dime ever again, and if we open sourced it, we could sell more hardware." PC manufacturers will follow the lead of what Apple has done, but with the twist of it not being hardware specific....
My bet was on IBM, but their internal politics seem to have screwed them on this. They would have had the extra benefit of already having in place the consulting apparatus for implementation in large companies as well as years of name-brand recognition. Too bad about that, really.
Anyways, OS requires a different business model, which actually eliminates the majority of basic software development, but it also has the ability to make computers much more useful.... If one of the big players threw their cards down right they could make a killing, but I don't see it happening in any of the companies I read about. I admit I'm not as well educated as I could be on this topic.
I have to put my two bits in. Fear and greed aren't the only motivators out there.
The thing about open source software that is so compelling and powerful is that a large percentage of the people who work on it are bright enough - like those you are arguing with - to make it. Basically no matter what. They know it, they're confident in it, and they want stuff that WORKS. So they build. Saying no innovation comes out of open source is simply not true - Apache is used pretty widely because it's so efficient. The reason you haven't seen open source innovation is because it's not the normal way of doing things, but even All-Powerful Microsoft has been forced to use open-source drivers. Because they're better.
Speaking of software design or development as a service industry is a good step, but if you look at it in the terms of service along the same lines as, say, advertisement, you will be more happy with what you see.
Think of it this way - open source is like everyone having a basic set of fonts or typesetting that can be used. Does the fact that these typesettings are free change the fact that people still want to know how to lay it all out and build weird cool new advertising? Only if the customers themselves are only interested in boring print ads. There will always be a market for boring print ads, but where work is enjoyable is in exciting pop-out drag-the-mind-in ads. And if you want to do that you'll have to be better at what you do, but you'll definitely be more effective when doing that if you don't have to draw individual letters unless you want to.
Well, I don't think the malicious people would be as hard to spot as you do. What I'm saying is that there will come a point where to actually produce enough storage data to cripple the system, you will need to either a: be mass producing data and storing it, or b: be maliciously pranking. If data storage comes to the point where tossing even three continuous days of full motion video at top quality at someone is negligible space (and this is a coming day, it seems) even on a massive scale, the only people doing 'too much' data storage on the system will be people who are TRYING to screw over the system. These people are easily isolated and removed. If they were to, for example, split their videos and whatever into a large number of component parts they would still need to use the same IP's to push the data forward, or do it in a large markable batch.... Any way you cut it, once people do things on this scale in a malicious way, you're probably going to notice.....
Additionally since Google's become the other 400-lb gorilla on the internet, who wants to mess with them?
Point taken. I'd retract but this place doesn't allow that.
I said it'd take a bunch of people smarter than me, and I meant it.
Thing is, if you DID do pooling, there'd be a point where you would group people who were 'contributors' and generally the 'contributor' would probably become asymptotic to a certain point. Noone can produce beyond a certain level, except if they are uploading massive amounts of home-made video at astronomic quality. Thus if you were really going crazy you could do file-pooling and allocate a certain portion of your HD space to the pool, and then allow users so much space for personal use, and tell them how much they were using.... A file would qualify for pooling after, say, three or four users, and they could be grouped.... an incredibly interesting problem, actually, the management of the space. But I'd bet that if GOOG put their mind to it it could be done. Meaning, should they continue to go through step 1 of the underpants gnomes' process, (Profit) they will eventually solve it.
It boils down to text being negligible now, pictures of a certain size being negligible soon, and possibly video in
If it's feasible, it's eventually done, so I'd love to see it happen with a company that has the slogan 'don't do evil' before a company with the slogan, "WHERE'S MY MONEY," manages it.
Then you're being a jerk and don't deserve a G-mail account and know it. Why would you make a program like that and why do you imagine it wouldn't stand out like a monstrous zit looking to be popped with a white-hot needle?
It looks like they're going to make it 'infinite' and not just 2 GB.... That means they might be trying to do some sort of file pooling with big files and maybe a bit of filtering for stuff of this large size kind. This is theoretically possible, but it'd take years of engineering work to do, I'd bet. I hope google's got people smarter than I am working to put that together. After storing how a huge portion the data on the internet is sorted, they might be finding out that STORING all the data on the internet is easier than FINDING it......... And gmail could be a bid to try and do that.
All you easterners have made all the necessary bad jokes for the day by the time I have my bagel. Thereafter, we know what's been done horribly and have the chance to either a: realize we're no-talent hacks and not try the stupid jokes, or b: make the same joke a second time in the same way that wasn't funny the first either.
However I think the single biggest boon to Gimp would be if Adobe found a way to stop PhotoShop piracy, and chose to do so.
Adobe doesn't care about piracy that much, it's just education to them until someone gets a good job or black bottom line. Smart marketing ploy an old co-worker of mine told me about.... If you only pick on people with money that aren't paying their fair share, you're going to end up with more money in the end because eventually, people who like your software will buy it and use it, and if it's good software they will make money doing so.
In contrast to that, however, hard drive connectors (standard err.... tip of my tongue, built a computer last month... screw it) have not changed drastically from a user standpoint in at least 10 years. The storage and retrieval inside certainly has, though. CD's? A CD from 15 years ago will work just the same theoretically, if you've kept perfect care of it... Anyone know how CD's freeze?
Isn't it illegal in the US to sell electronics equipment without warranting it for a short period? I seem to remember seeing that somewhere, but can't remember where...
Not that I would EVER call something as cool as a PSP faulty, but the figure in the article of 1/2 their handhelds having pixels dark or light means SOMEONE decided to shave a few cents somewhere they shouldn't have.... And so the axe falls.
They could only find 18 singer-songwriters in Nashville that were desperate enough to talk / suck up to big-record-industry people that they'd go to DC? Sounds like a pretty weak group of people to me.
I don't hate musicians, or want them to starve, but I hate the slime they have to deal with now to distribute, and I want those people to starve. Twice.
I'm in favor of the entertainment industry having to undergo monstrously painful changes. From what I can see, many people are - the way it is currently designed is destructive to both society and art as a whole. What we hear and see being run by a bunch of profiteering luddites is completely unappealing to me.
Just thought I'd be one of fifty to present this argument in the next ten minutes.
"Criminals with enough money are businessmen" and
"Businessmen with enough money are criminals" are two different statements. I do not agree with both. HOWEVER, often the means of accumulating large sums of money are closer to crime than should be allowed. Skirting the rules of groups as a whole and "morality" is rewarded too often within the boundaries of our current social systems. I don't particularly believe in morality but i have to sleep with my own dreams, which means I'm not rich and slightly bitter that I'm smart enough to have bad ones when I do bad things.
Quit dragging me off topic with your 'karma to burn' self.
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What about the last few 'supplemental budgetary requests' submitted for the benefit of the military? They add to the figures you've just placed by enough to put the military in first.
I listen to the Libertarians and Greens too. They're small but don't lie as much. I listen to them first, then move on to vote for a Democrat 'cause our system is.... inefficent. Yeah, that's the right word.
Err... Highest percentage of the problem is the military, not Social Security.... The military has a retirement program on top of just social security. Stop listening to the republican on your television please.
Err... isn't this list of problems rather.... Easy? I looked at them all and said, "yeah, I can think of a way to approach that. And in less than about ten minutes too." When I looked at the last Top Coder competition I thought about entering, I almost fainted from stupidity.
Meh. Did my reading, the guys at irrational games rebuilt freedom force to work.
Calling people dumb shits is not a nice thing to do, btw.
And, of course, more imported coders better than you are... Unfortunately, for the last ten years, it's been time to get into management.
Too bad that the management jobs are getting outsourced too.
Completely unacceptable. Breaking one of the best RTS's ever made is just the dumbest thing I have ever heard of.
Noone's gonna read this, but that's completely out of line.
Thus the manufacture of footwear-accessories out of infants has been halted until further notice. Should budgetary concerns regress, or Congress not be so meddlesome sometime in the future, production will resume. Until then, hunker down with what bootstraps you can find.
Customized software will always be a source of money for developers. Google's mainly OS based, but has a large team of them. Note how they share huge portions of the software they build.
As time goes by, more companies will adopt this model.
And, eventually, big companies like IBM who see Linux gaining market share and being better software as a moneymaker will pay for development teams. Professional ones. These style jobs are out there somewhere, it's just a matter of time before someone with enough clout says, "Gee, if we spent some money putting together a set of really good basic tools in Linux, we wouldn't have to pay Microsoft a damn dime ever again, and if we open sourced it, we could sell more hardware." PC manufacturers will follow the lead of what Apple has done, but with the twist of it not being hardware specific....
My bet was on IBM, but their internal politics seem to have screwed them on this. They would have had the extra benefit of already having in place the consulting apparatus for implementation in large companies as well as years of name-brand recognition. Too bad about that, really.
Anyways, OS requires a different business model, which actually eliminates the majority of basic software development, but it also has the ability to make computers much more useful.... If one of the big players threw their cards down right they could make a killing, but I don't see it happening in any of the companies I read about. I admit I'm not as well educated as I could be on this topic.
I have to put my two bits in. Fear and greed aren't the only motivators out there.
The thing about open source software that is so compelling and powerful is that a large percentage of the people who work on it are bright enough - like those you are arguing with - to make it. Basically no matter what. They know it, they're confident in it, and they want stuff that WORKS. So they build. Saying no innovation comes out of open source is simply not true - Apache is used pretty widely because it's so efficient. The reason you haven't seen open source innovation is because it's not the normal way of doing things, but even All-Powerful Microsoft has been forced to use open-source drivers. Because they're better.
Speaking of software design or development as a service industry is a good step, but if you look at it in the terms of service along the same lines as, say, advertisement, you will be more happy with what you see.
Think of it this way - open source is like everyone having a basic set of fonts or typesetting that can be used. Does the fact that these typesettings are free change the fact that people still want to know how to lay it all out and build weird cool new advertising? Only if the customers themselves are only interested in boring print ads. There will always be a market for boring print ads, but where work is enjoyable is in exciting pop-out drag-the-mind-in ads. And if you want to do that you'll have to be better at what you do, but you'll definitely be more effective when doing that if you don't have to draw individual letters unless you want to.
The honesty. Yeah. One day a year, they are honest and hammer their customer base with ads.
Is the slashdot community paying attention to this particular thread after all the jokes today?
Therefore there isn't really a short or a long answer, there's just a, "Is this a real story?"
Was it a virus involving spamming? Slashdot editors seem to have caught it somewhere in the last ten hours or so.
Well, I don't think the malicious people would be as hard to spot as you do. What I'm saying is that there will come a point where to actually produce enough storage data to cripple the system, you will need to either a: be mass producing data and storing it, or b: be maliciously pranking. If data storage comes to the point where tossing even three continuous days of full motion video at top quality at someone is negligible space (and this is a coming day, it seems) even on a massive scale, the only people doing 'too much' data storage on the system will be people who are TRYING to screw over the system. These people are easily isolated and removed. If they were to, for example, split their videos and whatever into a large number of component parts they would still need to use the same IP's to push the data forward, or do it in a large markable batch.... Any way you cut it, once people do things on this scale in a malicious way, you're probably going to notice..... Additionally since Google's become the other 400-lb gorilla on the internet, who wants to mess with them?
Point taken. I'd retract but this place doesn't allow that.
I said it'd take a bunch of people smarter than me, and I meant it.
Thing is, if you DID do pooling, there'd be a point where you would group people who were 'contributors' and generally the 'contributor' would probably become asymptotic to a certain point. Noone can produce beyond a certain level, except if they are uploading massive amounts of home-made video at astronomic quality. Thus if you were really going crazy you could do file-pooling and allocate a certain portion of your HD space to the pool, and then allow users so much space for personal use, and tell them how much they were using.... A file would qualify for pooling after, say, three or four users, and they could be grouped.... an incredibly interesting problem, actually, the management of the space. But I'd bet that if GOOG put their mind to it it could be done. Meaning, should they continue to go through step 1 of the underpants gnomes' process, (Profit) they will eventually solve it.
It boils down to text being negligible now, pictures of a certain size being negligible soon, and possibly video in
If it's feasible, it's eventually done, so I'd love to see it happen with a company that has the slogan 'don't do evil' before a company with the slogan, "WHERE'S MY MONEY," manages it.
Then you're being a jerk and don't deserve a G-mail account and know it. Why would you make a program like that and why do you imagine it wouldn't stand out like a monstrous zit looking to be popped with a white-hot needle?
It looks like they're going to make it 'infinite' and not just 2 GB.... That means they might be trying to do some sort of file pooling with big files and maybe a bit of filtering for stuff of this large size kind. This is theoretically possible, but it'd take years of engineering work to do, I'd bet. I hope google's got people smarter than I am working to put that together. After storing how a huge portion the data on the internet is sorted, they might be finding out that STORING all the data on the internet is easier than FINDING it......... And gmail could be a bid to try and do that.
I think it's below Greenland. Like, almost to Europe but not quite there? I think I might have passed through a few times.
All you easterners have made all the necessary bad jokes for the day by the time I have my bagel. Thereafter, we know what's been done horribly and have the chance to either a: realize we're no-talent hacks and not try the stupid jokes, or b: make the same joke a second time in the same way that wasn't funny the first either.
Ain't it great?
However I think the single biggest boon to Gimp would be if Adobe found a way to stop PhotoShop piracy, and chose to do so.
Adobe doesn't care about piracy that much, it's just education to them until someone gets a good job or black bottom line. Smart marketing ploy an old co-worker of mine told me about.... If you only pick on people with money that aren't paying their fair share, you're going to end up with more money in the end because eventually, people who like your software will buy it and use it, and if it's good software they will make money doing so.
Is it something easier to use I might understand and be able to install myself?
In contrast to that, however, hard drive connectors (standard err.... tip of my tongue, built a computer last month... screw it) have not changed drastically from a user standpoint in at least 10 years. The storage and retrieval inside certainly has, though. CD's? A CD from 15 years ago will work just the same theoretically, if you've kept perfect care of it... Anyone know how CD's freeze?
I'm all for breaking into the homes and bank accounts of people who sell music others make and are trying to sell. Do whatever you like.
But when creative content has no benefit to the original creator beyond usability, this is pathetically wrong.
If the music industry wasn't so messed over, I would think P2P sharing was a good thing.
Isn't it illegal in the US to sell electronics equipment without warranting it for a short period? I seem to remember seeing that somewhere, but can't remember where...
Not that I would EVER call something as cool as a PSP faulty, but the figure in the article of 1/2 their handhelds having pixels dark or light means SOMEONE decided to shave a few cents somewhere they shouldn't have.... And so the axe falls.
They could only find 18 singer-songwriters in Nashville that were desperate enough to talk / suck up to big-record-industry people that they'd go to DC? Sounds like a pretty weak group of people to me.
I don't hate musicians, or want them to starve, but I hate the slime they have to deal with now to distribute, and I want those people to starve. Twice.
I'm in favor of the entertainment industry having to undergo monstrously painful changes. From what I can see, many people are - the way it is currently designed is destructive to both society and art as a whole. What we hear and see being run by a bunch of profiteering luddites is completely unappealing to me.
Just thought I'd be one of fifty to present this argument in the next ten minutes.
Logic fails you.
"Criminals with enough money are businessmen" and
"Businessmen with enough money are criminals"
are two different statements. I do not agree with both. HOWEVER, often the means of accumulating large sums of money are closer to crime than should be allowed. Skirting the rules of groups as a whole and "morality" is rewarded too often within the boundaries of our current social systems. I don't particularly believe in morality but i have to sleep with my own dreams, which means I'm not rich and slightly bitter that I'm smart enough to have bad ones when I do bad things.
Quit dragging me off topic with your 'karma to burn' self.