next time he bad mouths you just say "i'm not taking shti from a nut case like you" and walk out on him. make sure you have recieved your pay up to that moment.
the bridge is in ashes already, you may as well strike back
take a look at all the core dev's on major OSS projects and their all are employeed full time to do it.
typically by larger companies who have a clue about what oss is, and not 2 bit sweat shops that are greedy, ignorant and totally blind to anything but penny pinching tactics
the way they have thought this up is obvious enough - what do FOSS advocates complain about the most? MS driving up and "fixing" software prices. so if you want to annoy someone the most you accuse them of the thing they hate the most.
their logic will go something like this "FOSS destroies businesses because no business can compete with free"
and if your a simplton this appears true. but business's compete on much more then price. Businesses will use whats best, not whats the cheapest, and they certainly don't give a toss about licenses.(something which will make RMS foam at the mouth i'm sure)
this is the simple hard fact of life. they can't stop someone giving something away. a similar, but not exactly accurate analogy would be to say selling 2nd hand cars is price fixing because they are cheaper then new ones.
bottom line - software businesses need to stop crying about competeition and get on with providing a product.
here any CEO that needs a fucking tissue i'll mail you a box of kelnex
the problem i think is so many people have read the book and have their own idea of how things will look, everyones will be different, which is why it's so hard to please everyone when you adapt a popular book to tv/movie
we are sick to fucking death of other peoples worm/spyware infested pc's bombarding us with spam and useless traffic, we are sick of supporting shit house apps like outlook, and we are sick of having a large chunk of our IT budgets WASTED on inferior software. This is a networked world, what other people do has a DIRECT effect on us.
that good enough for you?
your a retard.
1. cygwin is nothing like OSX, you moron
2. apple fanatics will always popup at every chance, it's nothing to do with slashdot. personally i think macs are way over priced designer yuppie shit.
3. yes sony is evil, and yes ps2 is inferior in every way i think of it.
4. not true, freebsd is far better.
5. i've never seen this bias before, now your just making shit up.
and a final point, most people on here obviously have a far better grasp of these matters then you, so stfu and back in your box.
it's clueless fucking managers who think they can do the same thing in a bunch of spread sheets that an experience IT software engineer does in a real database.
the classic hollywood ripped six pack look is impossible to maintain, or healthy to do so. people don't think of the stress and strain it puts on your body. people who aren't stressed and live comfortable lives and are happy live longer. i suspect content slightly over weight geek would definately live longer due to the low impact life they lead.
why the fuck does ths have anything to do with putting more women into CS? if people aren't going to do it of their own accord, then coercing them isn't the answer.
this kind of bullshit research really makes me angry. the gaming has nothing to do with it. if parents allowed their kids to get all wrapped up in flicking rubber bands the effect would be the same. this kind of FUD is designed to make todays poor parents feel absolved of responsibility for their crumbing parenting and its effect on thier children.
so yes, lets just blame computers! the same way we blamed TV and what ever was the fashion before that.
why the hell does ANY corperate body have ANY say in how a bill gets voted??
YOU vote this senators in, they represent YOU. corperate policy should have nothing to do with it.
i'd be pissed off, you alreayd pay for that data with your tax's, you should be allowed to access it, you paid for it after all.
too bad for private companies, they just have to learn to compete
for trying something different. hell i hope it works. without large corperate taxes to pay they can put that money back into hiring top noth developers and charge a fair rate for their quality services. hell i'd work for them. if the contract is right i'd sign it. if they treat me badly i just walk away (swim perhaps). if they got out of hand 500 -600 angry workers will be a force to be reckoned with. watch them hold to our demand as we start pushing pointy heads over board
i have a solution to the question posed by this IP lawyer - lets burn all IP lawyers at the stake, so they STFU and stop popping up with kind of drivel
mate, any site or application thats uses AX or FLASH for that matter, i refuse to use or visit.
the only way to get through to developers and companies that these technologies are NOT good, is to vote with your wallet and feet.
age of consent laws are a joke.face it, your little 13 yo daughter is mostly likely not a virgin.
having laws so far out of touch with the real world is dangerous
i've seen this bullshit.
exec's get baffled by some salesmans bullshit and they bring in a "consultant" who does moring then run nmap on your firewall and say "OMG LOOK!!! 25 and 80 are verunable to attack i can see them!!! pay $$$$$$ for doing this!!!!"
i'm suprised you even let them get that far, or took any attitude from them at all.
if my isp rang me and claimed i was doing something illegal i'd say who the fuck do you think you are? hang up the phone and the call one of the other 100's of isp's dieing for my $ and churn to them right away.
i'd then write a letter to the ombudsmen and file an offical complaint over harrasment.
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next time he bad mouths you just say "i'm not taking shti from a nut case like you" and walk out on him. make sure you have recieved your pay up to that moment. the bridge is in ashes already, you may as well strike back
take a look at all the core dev's on major OSS projects and their all are employeed full time to do it. typically by larger companies who have a clue about what oss is, and not 2 bit sweat shops that are greedy, ignorant and totally blind to anything but penny pinching tactics
the way they have thought this up is obvious enough - what do FOSS advocates complain about the most? MS driving up and "fixing" software prices. so if you want to annoy someone the most you accuse them of the thing they hate the most. their logic will go something like this "FOSS destroies businesses because no business can compete with free" and if your a simplton this appears true. but business's compete on much more then price. Businesses will use whats best, not whats the cheapest, and they certainly don't give a toss about licenses.(something which will make RMS foam at the mouth i'm sure) this is the simple hard fact of life. they can't stop someone giving something away. a similar, but not exactly accurate analogy would be to say selling 2nd hand cars is price fixing because they are cheaper then new ones. bottom line - software businesses need to stop crying about competeition and get on with providing a product. here any CEO that needs a fucking tissue i'll mail you a box of kelnex
so now the USA thinks other countries don't get to make thier own laws?
the problem i think is so many people have read the book and have their own idea of how things will look, everyones will be different, which is why it's so hard to please everyone when you adapt a popular book to tv/movie
it's not suprising that the story previous to this is ms missing their earning predictions. Sorry but fuck em, they burnt their bridges.
i'm sick of shit FUD about gentoo being super fast. it's using the exact same programs as every other distro uses.
we are sick to fucking death of other peoples worm/spyware infested pc's bombarding us with spam and useless traffic, we are sick of supporting shit house apps like outlook, and we are sick of having a large chunk of our IT budgets WASTED on inferior software. This is a networked world, what other people do has a DIRECT effect on us. that good enough for you?
your a retard. 1. cygwin is nothing like OSX, you moron 2. apple fanatics will always popup at every chance, it's nothing to do with slashdot. personally i think macs are way over priced designer yuppie shit. 3. yes sony is evil, and yes ps2 is inferior in every way i think of it. 4. not true, freebsd is far better. 5. i've never seen this bias before, now your just making shit up. and a final point, most people on here obviously have a far better grasp of these matters then you, so stfu and back in your box.
the ipod carrying generation finaly has the wealth to make a difference
people get pissed off with donating to debian because they never make any releases.
it's clueless fucking managers who think they can do the same thing in a bunch of spread sheets that an experience IT software engineer does in a real database.
the classic hollywood ripped six pack look is impossible to maintain, or healthy to do so. people don't think of the stress and strain it puts on your body. people who aren't stressed and live comfortable lives and are happy live longer. i suspect content slightly over weight geek would definately live longer due to the low impact life they lead.
why the fuck does ths have anything to do with putting more women into CS? if people aren't going to do it of their own accord, then coercing them isn't the answer.
this kind of bullshit research really makes me angry. the gaming has nothing to do with it. if parents allowed their kids to get all wrapped up in flicking rubber bands the effect would be the same. this kind of FUD is designed to make todays poor parents feel absolved of responsibility for their crumbing parenting and its effect on thier children. so yes, lets just blame computers! the same way we blamed TV and what ever was the fashion before that.
why the hell does ANY corperate body have ANY say in how a bill gets voted?? YOU vote this senators in, they represent YOU. corperate policy should have nothing to do with it.
i'd be pissed off, you alreayd pay for that data with your tax's, you should be allowed to access it, you paid for it after all. too bad for private companies, they just have to learn to compete
for trying something different. hell i hope it works. without large corperate taxes to pay they can put that money back into hiring top noth developers and charge a fair rate for their quality services. hell i'd work for them. if the contract is right i'd sign it. if they treat me badly i just walk away (swim perhaps). if they got out of hand 500 -600 angry workers will be a force to be reckoned with. watch them hold to our demand as we start pushing pointy heads over board
i don't want numbskulls using linux, make it difficult, good. the less idiots out there setting up open relays and vunerable servers the better.
i have a solution to the question posed by this IP lawyer - lets burn all IP lawyers at the stake, so they STFU and stop popping up with kind of drivel
mate, any site or application thats uses AX or FLASH for that matter, i refuse to use or visit. the only way to get through to developers and companies that these technologies are NOT good, is to vote with your wallet and feet.
age of consent laws are a joke.face it, your little 13 yo daughter is mostly likely not a virgin. having laws so far out of touch with the real world is dangerous
this sounds more like authors of fonts being caught out, the GPL isn't the be all and end it. in a lot of cases it's nothing but a pain in the arse.
i've seen this bullshit. exec's get baffled by some salesmans bullshit and they bring in a "consultant" who does moring then run nmap on your firewall and say "OMG LOOK!!! 25 and 80 are verunable to attack i can see them!!! pay $$$$$$ for doing this!!!!"
i'm suprised you even let them get that far, or took any attitude from them at all. if my isp rang me and claimed i was doing something illegal i'd say who the fuck do you think you are? hang up the phone and the call one of the other 100's of isp's dieing for my $ and churn to them right away. i'd then write a letter to the ombudsmen and file an offical complaint over harrasment.