To follow the links down a few levels you find this. Which is the source code tree from one of the previous versions of Mac OS X. Is it just me, or is there a hell of a lot of GPLe'd software there? That said, how do they get around by not making osx oss? Just curious.
"I won't even get into the inaccuracies of the GPLv2 vs. GPLv3. Unlike the author, I realize I don't know enough about it to comment."
If the author doesn't know enough about the GPL to comment on it, how would it be possible to start talking about "inaccuracies" between different versions of it to begin with?
The things that qualify as news on the dot these days...
I used to work with RAC pretty extensively as both a buyer and a coder. I don't see what the problem is that's being discussed. It's a great service. I don't mind working with the site, or the people on it. Generally, I did find that as a buyer I got a lot of bids that didn't sound credible. Or bids from individuals trying to look like companies, who did that by re-packaging my RFP word per word in a corporate formatted word doc.
As a rule, it's been my experience that RAC is far better for smaller projects unless you have a support agreement with the coder. But you win some, you lose some. Out of the dozen or so projects listed with RAC during my period of working with them as a buyer, the service was outstanding on about nine of them, and I worked with people I grew comfortable with.
As far as the others, not everyone is a people person, and sometimes projects needed to be re-drafted and re-contracted. Can't really blame someone for my lack of foresight. But you can blame people when they're rude or completely obnoxious for no good reason. And that happened once that I can remember in my dealings with the site.
Being an American coder, I found it to be an extremely competitive market place. There were times when it seemed like everyone in the world was bidding on the projects I was most interested in working on for less than I could consider bidding. Didn't make much money at it, but I liked the way the site was organized, and most of the people that I met.
Just after the service started, my boss at the time found out about it and fired six of us in favor of the "per project gurus" on RAC. Two months later he tried to hire us back, so I imagine that it probably didn't go well. When I went back, I managed the process of working through RAC for him. So it's all relative.
It's a lesson in outsourcing. It can be great when it works. Or not when it doesn't. It's up to you.
The key is to work with people who communicate well from the beginning rather than the low ball bidders or incoherent spec writers. Oh, and keeping your project specs, and bid proposals short and simple.
If you're a coder, take the time to read and understand the spec. If it's unclear, ask for clarification before making a commitment to work on the project.
If you're a buyer, it's a good idea to read feedback and make sure that the coder understands exactly what it is that you want him to do. It also helps not to get too friendly with your RAC coders. After all, it is a business relationship, and it's easy to offend or get offended when conversations stray too much from the task at hand.
If I couldn't read, how would I post a flippant response to your flippant response?
Get over yourself. You know they have clinics for people who take themselves too seriously.
I hate to ask an obvious question, but what if I didn't want this feature? I mean, aside from telling Opera everything I decide to do online, which gives me the heebeejeebees, I don't see the value that comes from giving up my browsing privacy entirely like this. Opera has been benign until now, however who is to say that the list of sites you visited wouldn't end up in the hands of certain entities whom you would rather not have them. Department of Homeland Security comes to mind. Blah bla Military Commissions act s950v, blah bla conspiracy, blah bla, etc.
Besides, I sometimes enjoy visiting phishing sites and giving them mountains of fake information. It's fun, and something to do on weekends. It also means much more bunk data for the bad guys to sort through. My civic duty I always say.
Don't you think a simple warning based on known patterns or wording is enough?
It also has a lot to do with your e-mail client. I find that I behave differently in regard to organization when I use different e-mail programs. For example, my system in Lotus Notes is much less organized than Outlook. I organize Outlook differently than I organize Evolution. I organize Squirel Mail differently than I organize my Yahoo Mail. I'm sure Gmail would be different too if I ever found the need for an account.
Depends,
I don't think all of the arguments are pathetic, but most of them don't spring from the early landings either. As far as arguments go, arguing that the first moon tapes look like guys walking around normally when you play them fast is just funny. If you've ever played them fast, you would know that thesis doesn't apply to any of the early televised moon stuff. As for what happened later... I'm going to break with Slashdot protocol here and say I don't know. Governments lose things all the time. It's not because there's an organized conspiracy. They're just top heavy and disorganized. Just think, wouldn't it be great if all conspiracy theories could be explained away that way? "Sorry, the CIA did shoot Kennedy, but it was an accident, and the operation was poorly documented."
Did anyone else get the Captain Blood Spam? I actually enjoyed that one. I think it came with "REaL RoLeXx's for FREE" or something like that as an image attatchment.
The way these systems break things up, it's almost a sort of Dada poetry. It might be an interesting excercise to gather these e-mails and post them online. But this isn't a new thing. I've been getting e-mail like this for almost three years now.
I got one just the other day that took exerts from the latest Oracle press release. Not as funny, or as interesting. A few years back, I got one that took pieces of the latest SCO press releases and combined them with lyrics from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I much prefer Ubuntu Linux myself (anything post hedgehog will support damn near anything). PcBSD last I worked with it was pretty comparable to Ubuntu in almost every respect except for the piss poor driver support in PcBSD. It didn't support my chipset, my dvd writer, my dvd rom, my cdrom, my video card, my modem, my second hard drive, my tablet, my thumb drive, or even my monitor. So I posted to BSD message boards and all they could tell me was, "Yep, PC-BSD is still BSD, use standard hardware." Must be nice to live in that world.
The driver support was my one and only real issue with the system. If they've fixed it, I might even try it again.
Right on. It's good to see someone else being pro-active about the rights of the dead. We have a very pro dead administration here too. How else do you explain George Bush getting elected twice?
You know friend, there really is very little out there that is stopping you from starting your cell phone company. Lots of companies less intelligent than you are doing it now. If we were talking about the infrastructure twenty, or even ten years ago, you might be right. But these days there are simply just too many cell phone towers.
Most of these towers aren't owned by the big companies but rather the smaller ones that thought putting up towers would be profitable. Your opening comes in because running a cell is not as profitable as people expected it would be, and there are a lot of good deals on bandwidth out there if you take a few hours to research them.
The great thing about it that most people don't see is that your phones can run any number of data services over the same lines, and there's enough bandwidth on your side to do anything you want to do. But the bandwidth is still (at this point, I'm anticipating this will change in the near future) finite enough for you to charge and meter your customers by the byte, or even the kilobyte if you want to give them a real deal. It works in your favor as anything you're going to charge your customers is more than you're being charged for it.
In this scenario, your infrastructure cost and rental is about the cost of a house in the mid west. You can run your marketing entirely over your local cable channels or print ads in the newspaper if you wanted to, which costs next to nothing.
Then you find a supplier to sell you adequate phones in bulk (I would go straight to Korea, if I were you), open up a couple of stores. Then you're up and running (at least in your city or coverage area).
The whole project could be done with an SBA loan if you were smart about keeping your costs down. And with the rabid demand for data services out there, it wouldn't take you more than a couple of years to recoup. Within five years, you could buy someone else's operation, or sell out yourself and work on the next thing.
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To follow the links down a few levels you find this. Which is the source code tree from one of the previous versions of Mac OS X. Is it just me, or is there a hell of a lot of GPLe'd software there? That said, how do they get around by not making osx oss? Just curious.
It is the law.
But that doesn't make it any less absurd.
My favorite part:
"I won't even get into the inaccuracies of the GPLv2 vs. GPLv3. Unlike the author, I realize I don't know enough about it to comment."
If the author doesn't know enough about the GPL to comment on it, how would it be possible to start talking about "inaccuracies" between different versions of it to begin with?
The things that qualify as news on the dot these days...
I used to work with RAC pretty extensively as both a buyer and a coder. I don't see what the problem is that's being discussed. It's a great service. I don't mind working with the site, or the people on it. Generally, I did find that as a buyer I got a lot of bids that didn't sound credible. Or bids from individuals trying to look like companies, who did that by re-packaging my RFP word per word in a corporate formatted word doc.
As a rule, it's been my experience that RAC is far better for smaller projects unless you have a support agreement with the coder. But you win some, you lose some. Out of the dozen or so projects listed with RAC during my period of working with them as a buyer, the service was outstanding on about nine of them, and I worked with people I grew comfortable with.
As far as the others, not everyone is a people person, and sometimes projects needed to be re-drafted and re-contracted. Can't really blame someone for my lack of foresight. But you can blame people when they're rude or completely obnoxious for no good reason. And that happened once that I can remember in my dealings with the site.
Being an American coder, I found it to be an extremely competitive market place. There were times when it seemed like everyone in the world was bidding on the projects I was most interested in working on for less than I could consider bidding. Didn't make much money at it, but I liked the way the site was organized, and most of the people that I met.
Just after the service started, my boss at the time found out about it and fired six of us in favor of the "per project gurus" on RAC. Two months later he tried to hire us back, so I imagine that it probably didn't go well. When I went back, I managed the process of working through RAC for him. So it's all relative.
It's a lesson in outsourcing.
It can be great when it works. Or not when it doesn't.
It's up to you.
The key is to work with people who communicate well from the beginning rather than the low ball bidders or incoherent spec writers. Oh, and keeping your project specs, and bid proposals short and simple.
If you're a coder, take the time to read and understand the spec. If it's unclear, ask for clarification before making a commitment to work on the project.
If you're a buyer, it's a good idea to read feedback and make sure that the coder understands exactly what it is that you want him to do. It also helps not to get too friendly with your RAC coders. After all, it is a business relationship, and it's easy to offend or get offended when conversations stray too much from the task at hand.
Just some thoughts.
I wonder how long it will be before England and France who both have similar taxes on Television adopt something like this.
Why yes! But short of an application level firewall, how do you know that it's working?
If I couldn't read, how would I post a flippant response to your flippant response? Get over yourself. You know they have clinics for people who take themselves too seriously.
I do. I have absolutely no life.
I hate to ask an obvious question, but what if I didn't want this feature? I mean, aside from telling Opera everything I decide to do online, which gives me the heebeejeebees, I don't see the value that comes from giving up my browsing privacy entirely like this. Opera has been benign until now, however who is to say that the list of sites you visited wouldn't end up in the hands of certain entities whom you would rather not have them. Department of Homeland Security comes to mind. Blah bla Military Commissions act s950v, blah bla conspiracy, blah bla, etc.
Besides, I sometimes enjoy visiting phishing sites and giving them mountains of fake information.
It's fun, and something to do on weekends. It also means much more bunk data for the bad guys to sort through.
My civic duty I always say.
Don't you think a simple warning based on known patterns or wording is enough?
Reminds me a lot of the sort of world Hitler and Gerbils were proposing. Just goes to show, Eugenics is not dead, it's just funnier these days.
Caps can be useful, especially if you're designing logos. Why not abolish Scroll lock? Hmmmm?
It also has a lot to do with your e-mail client.
I find that I behave differently in regard to organization when I use different e-mail programs. For example, my system in Lotus Notes is much less organized than Outlook. I organize Outlook differently than I organize Evolution. I organize Squirel Mail differently than I organize my Yahoo Mail. I'm sure Gmail would be different too if I ever found the need for an account.
Depends, I don't think all of the arguments are pathetic, but most of them don't spring from the early landings either. As far as arguments go, arguing that the first moon tapes look like guys walking around normally when you play them fast is just funny. If you've ever played them fast, you would know that thesis doesn't apply to any of the early televised moon stuff. As for what happened later... I'm going to break with Slashdot protocol here and say I don't know. Governments lose things all the time. It's not because there's an organized conspiracy. They're just top heavy and disorganized. Just think, wouldn't it be great if all conspiracy theories could be explained away that way? "Sorry, the CIA did shoot Kennedy, but it was an accident, and the operation was poorly documented."
We're your friends. We're not like the others, man, really.
Did anyone else get the Captain Blood Spam?
I actually enjoyed that one. I think it came with "REaL RoLeXx's for FREE" or something like that as an image attatchment.
The way these systems break things up, it's almost a sort of Dada poetry. It might be an interesting excercise to gather these e-mails and post them online. But this isn't a new thing. I've been getting e-mail like this for almost three years now.
I got one just the other day that took exerts from the latest Oracle press release. Not as funny, or as interesting. A few years back, I got one that took pieces of the latest SCO press releases and combined them with lyrics from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I much prefer Ubuntu Linux myself (anything post hedgehog will support damn near anything). PcBSD last I worked with it was pretty comparable to Ubuntu in almost every respect except for the piss poor driver support in PcBSD. It didn't support my chipset, my dvd writer, my dvd rom, my cdrom, my video card, my modem, my second hard drive, my tablet, my thumb drive, or even my monitor. So I posted to BSD message boards and all they could tell me was, "Yep, PC-BSD is still BSD, use standard hardware." Must be nice to live in that world.
The driver support was my one and only real issue with the system. If they've fixed it, I might even try it again.
Right, but if the question is ruled as not relevent, it cannot be used as evidence. It has to be stricken.
Whatever man, this argument hurts my feelings.
I'm just going to go back to my hyperlinked help system now.
Right on.
It's good to see someone else being pro-active about the rights of the dead. We have a very pro dead administration here too. How else do you explain George Bush getting elected twice?
You know friend, there really is very little out there that is stopping you from starting your cell phone company. Lots of companies less intelligent than you are doing it now. If we were talking about the infrastructure twenty, or even ten years ago, you might be right. But these days there are simply just too many cell phone towers.
Most of these towers aren't owned by the big companies but rather the smaller ones that thought putting up towers would be profitable. Your opening comes in because running a cell is not as profitable as people expected it would be, and there are a lot of good deals on bandwidth out there if you take a few hours to research them.
The great thing about it that most people don't see is that your phones can run any number of data services over the same lines, and there's enough bandwidth on your side to do anything you want to do. But the bandwidth is still (at this point, I'm anticipating this will change in the near future) finite enough for you to charge and meter your customers by the byte, or even the kilobyte if you want to give them a real deal. It works in your favor as anything you're going to charge your customers is more than you're being charged for it.
In this scenario, your infrastructure cost and rental is about the cost of a house in the mid west. You can run your marketing entirely over your local cable channels or print ads in the newspaper if you wanted to, which costs next to nothing.
Then you find a supplier to sell you adequate phones in bulk (I would go straight to Korea, if I were you), open up a couple of stores. Then you're up and running (at least in your city or coverage area).
The whole project could be done with an SBA loan if you were smart about keeping your costs down. And with the rabid demand for data services out there, it wouldn't take you more than a couple of years to recoup. Within five years, you could buy someone else's operation, or sell out yourself and work on the next thing.
Since when does europe house 450 billion people?
Last I heard there were only 6 billion people on earth.
Why didn't they catch that before posting?
" Nope - nothing to do with the high holy days. This is for Passover, when corn syrup is not permitted."
Really depends on the tradition you're coming from. Jews from the eastern traditions have no issue with corn on passover. But the sugar sounds nice.
At least one of Gaimen's books made it to the list.
Or why not go with any one of the several others that are already out there? I've heard good things about Neo office.
God willing, I will be ignoring windows vista for much longer than that.