I've been trying to do this, and while I'm more productive, I still waste a considerable amount of time (though not as much as others). I can keep my composure for a period of time, but it is hard to keep good working habits.
So I get to sleep at a somewhat reasonable time, but I have almost no free time. But my C. S. capstone's almost over.
Well, hopefully the Royal Bank of Canada will have learned their lesson and stop dealing with BayStar. I see this move as a mark against BayStar. Before this, companies considering BayStar would have not had any big reason not to trust them. Now they have one.
Damn, you can't allow the word "fuck" into your post, but you make the entire content of it ridiculous as fuck.
The law is not being enforced like a Nazi law. It is wrong for them to do that, but it is much more in line with the hundreds of governments over the years that do not allow free speech, do irreasonable search and seizure, and consider the perpetrator guilty until proven innocent. There have been very few governments that are any where near the Nazis. The Nazis killed millions of innocent people, in case you've forgotten. And BTW, it's Holocaust Rememberence Week.
So I see you haven't a common knowledge education. Here's what I suggest: go to the bar and learn to say the word "fuck". Once you can get past that small injustice, you can see how small it is, and how much it pales in comparision to being ignorant of the Nazis and their massive assault on the Jews.
Okay, so BayStar made a bad investment. They are adults and they should face the consequences. They knew SCO was in a risky business from the outset. Microsoft giving them the tip did not force them to take it. It was their decision.
Why should SCO have to pay them back so quickly? The lawsuit was total BS right from the beginning. First making a false claim, and then raising it to $5B? It's more obvious that they are taking it to any length and not making rational business decisions.
But really, wasn't the lawsuit irresponsible right from the start? They didn't show any actual or empirical evidence of the copyright infringement. If BayStar was stupid enough to think that SCO would win, to invest in them, damn right, they should have to stick with it.
If they win against SCO, though, I won't be complaining. SCO is a dishonest company, and they deserve to be put out of business. It's a shame that a company (well, two companies, actually) that used to be innovative, and a good company to do business with, be run in to the ground by a bunch of litigous bastards.
I'll be graduating with Computer Science in December. I could graduate by taking a lot of classes during the summer, but I decided to hang around another semester, and try to start a business. This is partly because it is difficult to find jobs.
I'm going to try to start my business designing web pages for money. I realize it's a crowded market, but I am hoping my expertise will put me above the curve. While designing websites, I am going to work to develop my products. I am interested in creating productivity software, whether they be websites or desktop apps.
I think it will take quite a while to be able to do what I want to with applications, which is to make moving between your own computer and other computers more seamless. In the meantime, I will just have to hone my database skills.
If it doesn't work, I think potential employers will give me points for trying. If nothing else I will have more skills to put on my resume.
If you think your employers are cheapskates, I would steer clear of them. Using your full abilities, and getting paid less than what you deserve, is demoralizing. So is working for crummy, mean-spirited bosses in fucked-up corporations. I worked at Wal*Mart and Target for a while, and it royally sucked. I would have been better to have just stayed unemployed until I cold find a better job.
When I was a kid, if we were lucky enough to have a modem, we would have to wait a full minute for it to connect, and then another minute for each page of text, AND WE LIKED IT!
When I was a kid, the only game we had to play was pong, and we spent a hundred dollars on the game, and played it every day, rather than going outside, AND WE LIKED IT!
When I was a kid, we programmed using punched cards, and when there was a bug in our program, we had to throw away the punch card, and start a new one, AND WE LIKED IT!
When I was a kid, we were so poor, that we could not afford chicken breasts, or even thighs and legs, so we had to settle for chicken wings and necks, AND WE LIKED IT!
When I was a kid, we had to use assembly language, and keep our code down to 640 bytes of memory and 2 4-bit registers, but we learned a hell of a lot more about computers than you, AND WE LIKED IT!
When I was a kid, we were lucky if our girlfriends wore deodarant, let alone shave their legs, if we were even lucky enough to have a girlfriend, but that didn't matter, because WE LIKED IT!
I like to use virtualized computers for software development and testing. There are two questions I have before I will seriously consider this.
How much does it cost?
What will be the basic terms of the licensing?
VMWare pricing is a little steep. It is a fantastic product. I don't, however, use all of its features. One that provided the basic functionality, which is a fast, easy-to-use virtual machine at a fraction of the cost would be useful.
Also, I would want to be sure that the licensing is per-user, and you can install it on any number of host computers you like, provided only you use it. I would not want to have to pay for a separate copy to use under Windows or Linux, because sometimes I will be on my Windows box emulating Linux, and sometimes on my Linux box emulating windows. I myself might use them concurrently, but I will be the user.
Just two thoughts before giving this serious consideration as an alternative to VMWare.
Hey, fucktard. Glad you tried to argue your point. But the cases you mention above are different. First, in the credit card situation, until you purchase something with their credit card, it is not stealing. It is merely snooping.
Stealing a ride in the bus is also different. There is a limit to the number of people that can fit on the bus. You are "taking" space. Even if very little, you are making the bus heavier, and it costs more gas money. Copying music doesn't cost the makers ANYTHING, unless the people copying it were actually going to buy something. But most that were still will, and most that wouldn't have still won't. And even if that were the case most of the time, it is still not stealing. They are niether stealing money from their account nor stealing gas.
Ok, so it's per-seat. Is Visual C++ per seat, and what implications does this have for extreme programming?
Visual C++ is per seat. Extreme Programming is not alright. Extreme Programmers are pirates. They are an evil group of people who have figured out a way to get around our DRM. But it will not be tolerated. We are hard at work, finding a way to stop them, and force the people who leech off another user's terminal to pay up. Our current strategy is to make maximum font size in Windows 6 points. Then another person will not be able to read.
This will be a huge inconvenience for all of the people who don't engace in this dispicible practice. But all you pirates out there made us do it. I hope you're happy. And by the way, did I mention that what you are doing is stealing?
Sincerely,
The RIAA and MPAA etc want you to think like that, but the reality is that (as an example) of all the people downloading mp3s and not paying for them, there are huge numbers of people who, if they had no free of charge access to the music would not have bought most of it anyway. They are by far the majority IMO. It's in that majority of cases where nothing is "lost" by the copyright holder and so that's why its nothing like stealing.
Agreed. And I know a ton of people who are boycotting the music industry because of this. I knew maybe one or two people boycotting them before this PPP crackdown, DRM, and suing of 12yo's shit went down, but now I know several dozen, myself included. Also, their high album prices drive away a lot of customers.
On the murder comparison, I dont think thats stealing a life either. Its destroying one. If i were to do that to some music then by analogy nobody would have a copy of it any more including the copyright holders.
Fraud is as ridiculous a comparision as stealing, IMO, if not more so. Even if you can stretch the law to call it that, unless you're selling it, I don't imagine it holding up in court.
Clever, but I'm afraid you didn't do the math correctly. The post he was referring to was the parent, and the siblings he speaks of are the parent's siblings. The post he made is not a sibling of its parent. The sibling of its parent is of course the Aunt/Uncle post, and you cannot be your own uncle, in a normal family structure. So I'm glad what you think is not the way things are, or else we'd have an even more fucked-up society.
Take (the property of another) without right or permission.
They're not taking it, they're using it, fuckwit. Get a clue.
Taking something from someone means that the person whom it was taken from no longer has it. And I don't want to hear any weak arguments about "they stole my sales". It is not the same. This has already been discussed a hundred times.
My opinion is that Google is steering a little off course, perhaps partially to excite their IPO investors. I think they should stick to what they do best: search. Since that revolution (searching the web, images, and news so effortlessly) things haven't seemed as innovative or exciting.
You have to be joking. Having 1gb of mail is a huge difference. And they're talking about bringing a whole new paradigm of webmail - rather than delete, delete, delete, you retain your e-mail and search for it.
And it takes a lot of smarts to implement properly, to make it fast. I expect Google will be using their own distributed filesystem for it, just like they do with searches. So rather than have a single account on a single computer, they will have the load intelligently distributed across computers, and you will have your e-mail faster, and at less cost to both parties.
For you to talk about "innovative" and "exciting", you seem to just sit awestruck, but not really think about what is truly innovative about what's being done. This is an advancement in computing. Innovation and hype are not the same thing.
However, RMS has demonstrated throughout the course of his life that money is really not very important to him, and Free Software is. I think he'd only do it if doing it allowed him to use the money to support some principle that is even more important to him than Free Software. I don't know what that might be, although he has said that there are plenty of things that are more important.
No, I don't think that he would do this. He values integrity too much, to make this kind of a compromise.
Apparently you have never used Linux. Nor did you correctly quote my post. I said "bad software patent practices", not "bad software practices". How about the auto-hinting patent in fonts? Or their patent of a metal wastebasket? These are both things that should be adequately covered by copyright law.
Normal standards? What normal standards? I guess the standards that the drones have when they think about tomorrow but fail to think about their freedom or what they will think of it ten years down the road. And sure, you can burn and rip, but not without a loss of quality (unless you're encoding into.wav, and who does that?)
I saw the subject, and thought, oh great, another pro-software patent comment. But then I looked at the content of the post, had a laugh, and thought "fair enough".
It is really hard to get non-geeky people to care about computer-related issues. It's hard to convince them that they're directly effected by it. But they are.
You speak as if Apple are saints. Quicktime is actually one of my favorite examples of malware. In the version I used, that is still installed on many school computers, it associates its ActiveX control and plug-in with.png's. Then you have a terribly scaled bitmap, that you can't get back to its normal size, without having the problem that you can't scroll to the areas that do not fit in the screen. It makes browsing some sites in their intended form impossible.
Plus Apple participates in the bad software patent practices that discourage freedom and innovation. And they claimed to support fair use, but turned their back on it with ITMS. They are not a nice company.
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You need some time management skills.
So I get to sleep at a somewhat reasonable time, but I have almost no free time. But my C. S. capstone's almost over.
If you watch the Red Green Show, you are most likely a nerd.
Well, hopefully the Royal Bank of Canada will have learned their lesson and stop dealing with BayStar. I see this move as a mark against BayStar. Before this, companies considering BayStar would have not had any big reason not to trust them. Now they have one.
The law is not being enforced like a Nazi law. It is wrong for them to do that, but it is much more in line with the hundreds of governments over the years that do not allow free speech, do irreasonable search and seizure, and consider the perpetrator guilty until proven innocent. There have been very few governments that are any where near the Nazis. The Nazis killed millions of innocent people, in case you've forgotten. And BTW, it's Holocaust Rememberence Week.
So I see you haven't a common knowledge education. Here's what I suggest: go to the bar and learn to say the word "fuck". Once you can get past that small injustice, you can see how small it is, and how much it pales in comparision to being ignorant of the Nazis and their massive assault on the Jews.
Why should SCO have to pay them back so quickly? The lawsuit was total BS right from the beginning. First making a false claim, and then raising it to $5B? It's more obvious that they are taking it to any length and not making rational business decisions.
But really, wasn't the lawsuit irresponsible right from the start? They didn't show any actual or empirical evidence of the copyright infringement. If BayStar was stupid enough to think that SCO would win, to invest in them, damn right, they should have to stick with it.
If they win against SCO, though, I won't be complaining. SCO is a dishonest company, and they deserve to be put out of business. It's a shame that a company (well, two companies, actually) that used to be innovative, and a good company to do business with, be run in to the ground by a bunch of litigous bastards.
Gotta love a good misspelling now and then.
I'm going to try to start my business designing web pages for money. I realize it's a crowded market, but I am hoping my expertise will put me above the curve. While designing websites, I am going to work to develop my products. I am interested in creating productivity software, whether they be websites or desktop apps.
I think it will take quite a while to be able to do what I want to with applications, which is to make moving between your own computer and other computers more seamless. In the meantime, I will just have to hone my database skills.
If it doesn't work, I think potential employers will give me points for trying. If nothing else I will have more skills to put on my resume.
If you think your employers are cheapskates, I would steer clear of them. Using your full abilities, and getting paid less than what you deserve, is demoralizing. So is working for crummy, mean-spirited bosses in fucked-up corporations. I worked at Wal*Mart and Target for a while, and it royally sucked. I would have been better to have just stayed unemployed until I cold find a better job.
I mean, really?
When I was a kid, the only game we had to play was pong, and we spent a hundred dollars on the game, and played it every day, rather than going outside, AND WE LIKED IT!
When I was a kid, we programmed using punched cards, and when there was a bug in our program, we had to throw away the punch card, and start a new one, AND WE LIKED IT!
When I was a kid, we were so poor, that we could not afford chicken breasts, or even thighs and legs, so we had to settle for chicken wings and necks, AND WE LIKED IT!
When I was a kid, we had to use assembly language, and keep our code down to 640 bytes of memory and 2 4-bit registers, but we learned a hell of a lot more about computers than you, AND WE LIKED IT!
When I was a kid, we were lucky if our girlfriends wore deodarant, let alone shave their legs, if we were even lucky enough to have a girlfriend, but that didn't matter, because WE LIKED IT!
VMWare pricing is a little steep. It is a fantastic product. I don't, however, use all of its features. One that provided the basic functionality, which is a fast, easy-to-use virtual machine at a fraction of the cost would be useful.
Also, I would want to be sure that the licensing is per-user, and you can install it on any number of host computers you like, provided only you use it. I would not want to have to pay for a separate copy to use under Windows or Linux, because sometimes I will be on my Windows box emulating Linux, and sometimes on my Linux box emulating windows. I myself might use them concurrently, but I will be the user.
Just two thoughts before giving this serious consideration as an alternative to VMWare.
This is the funniest post for this article. I was thinking, there's going to be a rush for user ids when this thing starts.
Stealing a ride in the bus is also different. There is a limit to the number of people that can fit on the bus. You are "taking" space. Even if very little, you are making the bus heavier, and it costs more gas money. Copying music doesn't cost the makers ANYTHING, unless the people copying it were actually going to buy something. But most that were still will, and most that wouldn't have still won't. And even if that were the case most of the time, it is still not stealing. They are niether stealing money from their account nor stealing gas.
Get a fucking clue man.
Visual C++ is per seat. Extreme Programming is not alright. Extreme Programmers are pirates. They are an evil group of people who have figured out a way to get around our DRM. But it will not be tolerated. We are hard at work, finding a way to stop them, and force the people who leech off another user's terminal to pay up. Our current strategy is to make maximum font size in Windows 6 points. Then another person will not be able to read.
This will be a huge inconvenience for all of the people who don't engace in this dispicible practice. But all you pirates out there made us do it. I hope you're happy. And by the way, did I mention that what you are doing is stealing? Sincerely,
Craig Mundie
Microsoft
Agreed. And I know a ton of people who are boycotting the music industry because of this. I knew maybe one or two people boycotting them before this PPP crackdown, DRM, and suing of 12yo's shit went down, but now I know several dozen, myself included. Also, their high album prices drive away a lot of customers.
On the murder comparison, I dont think thats stealing a life either. Its destroying one. If i were to do that to some music then by analogy nobody would have a copy of it any more including the copyright holders.
Just the fact that the grandparent poster invoked the murder comparision in what should be a civil matter makes his/her argument weak. Not too far from mentioning...something that would be sure to end this thread of discussion.
Fraud is as ridiculous a comparision as stealing, IMO, if not more so. Even if you can stretch the law to call it that, unless you're selling it, I don't imagine it holding up in court.
Clever, but I'm afraid you didn't do the math correctly. The post he was referring to was the parent, and the siblings he speaks of are the parent's siblings. The post he made is not a sibling of its parent. The sibling of its parent is of course the Aunt/Uncle post, and you cannot be your own uncle, in a normal family structure. So I'm glad what you think is not the way things are, or else we'd have an even more fucked-up society.
They're not taking it, they're using it, fuckwit. Get a clue.
Taking something from someone means that the person whom it was taken from no longer has it. And I don't want to hear any weak arguments about "they stole my sales". It is not the same. This has already been discussed a hundred times.
You have to be joking. Having 1gb of mail is a huge difference. And they're talking about bringing a whole new paradigm of webmail - rather than delete, delete, delete, you retain your e-mail and search for it.
And it takes a lot of smarts to implement properly, to make it fast. I expect Google will be using their own distributed filesystem for it, just like they do with searches. So rather than have a single account on a single computer, they will have the load intelligently distributed across computers, and you will have your e-mail faster, and at less cost to both parties.
For you to talk about "innovative" and "exciting", you seem to just sit awestruck, but not really think about what is truly innovative about what's being done. This is an advancement in computing. Innovation and hype are not the same thing.
That's exactly how I understood it. On a related note, if you try clicking on the red bubble you'll see - a dead link. Not very professional either.
No, I don't think that he would do this. He values integrity too much, to make this kind of a compromise.
Well said.
Normal standards? What normal standards? I guess the standards that the drones have when they think about tomorrow but fail to think about their freedom or what they will think of it ten years down the road. And sure, you can burn and rip, but not without a loss of quality (unless you're encoding into .wav, and who does that?)
It is really hard to get non-geeky people to care about computer-related issues. It's hard to convince them that they're directly effected by it. But they are.
Plus Apple participates in the bad software patent practices that discourage freedom and innovation. And they claimed to support fair use, but turned their back on it with ITMS. They are not a nice company.