You forgot one major thing: interns. They hire over 700 interns during the summer in Redmond alone. I was an intern there last summer and never saw any GPL code.
IMHO, people who think that MS steals GPL code are probably extreme anti-MS zealots.
So SBC, like Verizon, is concerned about the cost/hassle of complying with all the subpoenas it has been receiving.
I don't think that is the main reason. It is generally much cheaper to do an SQL query then hire a bunch of expensive lawyers.
I feel the primary reason SBC is putting up a fight is because they know that if RIAA succeeds in spreading fear of P2P apps, their broadband business will slow down or even die down. I personally feel that a lot of non-techie friends get broadband so that they can continue getting music and videos through the Internet. Why else would one spend 40+ US dollars if P2P isn't the reason? One can surf the web just as easily with 10 US dollars (over dialup). Yeah, a tab bit slower, but most sites still load up within 10-15 seconds on dialup. It's the time you save over big downloads like mp3, that makes it all worth it.
The CIA factbook is the biggest piece of shit. It's full of blatant mis-facts.
I know for a fact that india's average per capita income isn't anywhere around the $2,500 mark they report. It's closer to $500. Look here for proof.
I swear someone at CIA just makes up this shit when it comes time to turn in a report. "Fuck, I didn't do my job and research this, let me make up an appropriate value and report it."
Is this becoming a trademark CIA thing or what? Well, I think Bush would agree with me right about now.
I don't think so. You have one company as an example. And I am sure there tons of others that back up your opinion.
But, there are a lot of other companies that employ Americans to manage their assets in India. So, as I stated -- the original statement is BULLSHIT.
Here is how stupid your logic goes: One company subcontracts to India, but keeps management in India. Therefore, India doesnot allow Americans to work in India.
Also will be cheaper: anything labor related (plumber, electrician, etc), phone lines, mobile phone, electricity, vehicles: use the bus, get a motor scooter, a motorbike, or even a car (however, not american/european/japenese cars -- but cheap home grown or korean imports), clothing (way cheaper), night entertainment (beer, wine, etc), cable tv, movies, music. So, actually, anything and everything will be cheaper as long as you don't expect to use the "brand name" stuff that you are used to.
However, quality of life will be lower, quality of goods will be substandard, fewer consumer rights, larger beauracracies, vastly greater poverty, dirt, filth, street animals, etc. Relocating to India for software job would be bad for these reasons more than monetary ones.
wxWindows [wxwindows.org] is better than Qt because it uses native widgets on all platforms, not emulated native widgets like Qt
Hmm, wait, how does that make wxWindows a superior or even an alternate solution to Qt? Qt uses native Win32 API calls (on Windows) to paint everything (using GDI, etc)! Blech, it is just as fast as wxWindows, if not faster. It is more customizable as you can use various widget sets (all just as fast) or the default Qt-look.
Qt is a dream to work on w/ an awesome OO design unlike wx. They have a professional team behind it as the whole company's future depends on it. And please, it is definitely more mature, more widepsread, and very well supported, and gets the job done.
$1550 is a great price to pay for Qt to make professional closed-source applications.
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Maybe that wouldn't sell because there are a lot more cubicle victims in the population than bosses.
Yeah, but economies of scale can be made up with economies of another scale. Just price each book at $99.99, so only bosses can affod it. (If cubicle victims want it, they can look it up on kaaza;-)
After working there as an intern at Redmond last summer, I doubt you'd find anything. Wait, you would:
In the building I worked in, they had 3 big trucks taking away the trash daily. They have about 50 buildings in Redmond. So, lets say 150 trucks total. Let's say each truck holds (estimated at 40x20x12) 9600 cubic foot of trash. now, let's say only, 5% of your trash is documents, that is (= 9600 * 150 * 0.05) 72,000 cubic feet. now, lets say you snoop for a month (appox. 22 bussiness days), you would have to go thru 1,584,000 cubic square feet of haystack. so, you will spend (at $10,000 dollars per cubic square foot) $15,840,000,000 (16 billion dollars) to find some of microsoft deepest dirtiest secrets.
If you find anything besides the already leaked microsoft documents, it is the fact that you've come up with a better way to spend money then AOL (while buying Time Warner).
one million dollars pays for approximately 6 employees (various experience level) in Austin, Texas. This is counting: benefits, equipement ( office space,computer(s), printers, copiers, talbe n' chairs, etc.), utilities (electricity, phone, fax, water, garbage, etc). and maintainence (this are just the major things).
with 2 million over 2 years, you'll be able to emlploy 6 of those 50 people (in austin, tx). in mountain view, i wonder if they could employ 4 people with that kind of money. but, i will say 5, to help your case.
so, lay of 50 people. provide money to support 5. whoooptido. so mr. @mozilla.org, wake up and smell the "slow poison."
I am an Indian, and I am not offended. But, I just feel sorry for you, because you seem to believe in your own illogical conslusions and jaw-dropping generalizations.
Maybe you just haven't worked with a good Indian programmer? I am sure there are plenty of bad ones. But, that could be said about any ethnicity/race.
This one's becoming another slashodot classic. It now joins the company of legendary posts relating to natalie portman's hot grits, beowulf clusters, the profit mechanism (including ???), goatse snoop links, etc.
Oh wow...a front-end web "developer." I don't ever remember using IE1. However, IE2 and IE3 were pure crap. They didn't even support HTML 3.2, let alone HTML 4.0. I remember them because I was in 9th grade back then, back in my front-end web "developer" days. Now, I have a learned a bit more since then, and gone on to do a tad more complicated things.
I definitely seeing stupid web pages that stated, "This site best seen with IE4+ and NS3+." Also, IE4 was the first IE that integrated with the OS.
IE4 (later revisions) didn't start to dominate till NS4 came out. I personally thought NS4 was a worse browser then NS3. It added many additional features, at a cost of stability. If they had take a bit more to fine tune the code, I bet Netscape wouldn't have choked out so fast.
yes, you do vote for someone because they support your viewpoints.
no, you don't vote for some because they support one of your viewpoints.
and, that was the point of my most. single-purpose PACs are crap. they corrupt politics. lots of money. lots of power. just one thing to worry about. they can turn lots of politicians into fiends.
for example, lets say a semi-moderate NRA supporter gets picked up for support by NRA. Now, with thousands (possibly, millions) of dollars coming your way from NRA, a politician might be "forced" to vote the way NRA wants. othe way it corrupts the democratic process is that NRA only needs to sponsor the minimum number of legistalors to make a difference (ie, support only 51 senators ). This way it can pick the ones that are the closest to it's agenda and the lowest cost and make sure that no laws are passed to the ban of assualt weapons, etc. This leaves them a lot of money to seletively target new candidates against anti-NRA incubents (one or two during each collection will suffuce, but with a *LOT* of monetary support)
PACs are killing politics and democracy in this country. if you vote for some one because he supports P2P, i pity your views on the real world.
i don't support any single purpose PACs: their focus is too narrow, their power undeniable. how is it that an organization like NRA has so much power? all based on their stand on gun policy? now, i don't support NRA, i gladly have the same views as The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (the anti-NRA org), but, I still won't support them because they are a single purpose PAC.
why are you spreading FUD, when you yourself admit the prof. was a unix zealot.
now, how in the *hell* is he a credible source of what microsoft does -- when he doesn't even care about them?
he is spreading FUD, and so are you. if you had read the report, (which i bet you didn't because your post has nothing relating to article) it has a link to slashdot for "operating system zealotry." now, this a prime example of that.
please, stop bashing microsoft without substantial proof. and if you have that, don't ingore the flaws of others who do the same (ie, just about everyone else in the commerical shrink-wrap software business).
you *seriosly* think that Sharman Networkds is that stupid? No one is that dumb. They must have sued knowing that they have no chance in hell. They just want free publicity.
Like the stunt they pulled with the "most downloaded program" in the history of the Internet. Blech. I think they just want to be the de facto P2P network before they start charging users for their services, or go "legit."
Note to Sharman Networks: if you charge a penny for your services, you will fail. Leechers don't pay. They don't the artists and the middlemen, why would they pay you -- a filthy spyware-based app maker?
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How much more time did you spend configuring the linux server over the windows server. Remember, you cost more money then shrinkwrap software.
And about the dev tools: Another post points out that not everyone needs it.
You forgot one major thing: interns. They hire over 700 interns during the summer in Redmond alone. I was an intern there last summer and never saw any GPL code.
IMHO, people who think that MS steals GPL code are probably extreme anti-MS zealots.
I don't think that is the main reason. It is generally much cheaper to do an SQL query then hire a bunch of expensive lawyers.
I feel the primary reason SBC is putting up a fight is because they know that if RIAA succeeds in spreading fear of P2P apps, their broadband business will slow down or even die down. I personally feel that a lot of non-techie friends get broadband so that they can continue getting music and videos through the Internet. Why else would one spend 40+ US dollars if P2P isn't the reason? One can surf the web just as easily with 10 US dollars (over dialup). Yeah, a tab bit slower, but most sites still load up within 10-15 seconds on dialup. It's the time you save over big downloads like mp3, that makes it all worth it.
The CIA factbook is the biggest piece of shit. It's full of blatant mis-facts.
I know for a fact that india's average per capita income isn't anywhere around the $2,500 mark they report. It's closer to $500. Look here for proof.
I swear someone at CIA just makes up this shit when it comes time to turn in a report. "Fuck, I didn't do my job and research this, let me make up an appropriate value and report it."
Is this becoming a trademark CIA thing or what? Well, I think Bush would agree with me right about now.
Ha! I am not angry at all. But you are right: I *am* semi-hostile and I am missing the point. However, that is mainly due to your spreading FUD.
And thanks, I'll try and have a nice life. And, maybe I'll try and order a side or perspective the next time I go to a restaurant...
Well, take care.
I don't think so. You have one company as an example. And I am sure there tons of others that back up your opinion.
But, there are a lot of other companies that employ Americans to manage their assets in India. So, as I stated -- the original statement is BULLSHIT.
Here is how stupid your logic goes: One company subcontracts to India, but keeps management in India. Therefore, India doesnot allow Americans to work in India.
See the blatant stupidity of that argument?
Utter and complete bull sh*t. The parent is not (5; Insightful). It is (-1; Flaimbait).
Who the fuck do you think manages the Indian employees on the American multinationals? The White, Republican, American managers.
Nope.
Also will be cheaper: anything labor related (plumber, electrician, etc), phone lines, mobile phone, electricity, vehicles: use the bus, get a motor scooter, a motorbike, or even a car (however, not american/european/japenese cars -- but cheap home grown or korean imports), clothing (way cheaper), night entertainment (beer, wine, etc), cable tv, movies, music. So, actually, anything and everything will be cheaper as long as you don't expect to use the "brand name" stuff that you are used to.
However, quality of life will be lower, quality of goods will be substandard, fewer consumer rights, larger beauracracies, vastly greater poverty, dirt, filth, street animals, etc. Relocating to India for software job would be bad for these reasons more than monetary ones.
Hmm, wait, how does that make wxWindows a superior or even an alternate solution to Qt? Qt uses native Win32 API calls (on Windows) to paint everything (using GDI, etc)! Blech, it is just as fast as wxWindows, if not faster. It is more customizable as you can use various widget sets (all just as fast) or the default Qt-look.
Qt is a dream to work on w/ an awesome OO design unlike wx. They have a professional team behind it as the whole company's future depends on it. And please, it is definitely more mature, more widepsread, and very well supported, and gets the job done.
$1550 is a great price to pay for Qt to make professional closed-source applications.
Because it needs to be run on multiple platforms.
Yeah, but economies of scale can be made up with economies of another scale. Just price each book at $99.99, so only bosses can affod it. (If cubicle victims want it, they can look it up on kaaza
After working there as an intern at Redmond last summer, I doubt you'd find anything. Wait, you would:
In the building I worked in, they had 3 big trucks taking away the trash daily. They have about 50 buildings in Redmond. So, lets say 150 trucks total. Let's say each truck holds (estimated at 40x20x12) 9600 cubic foot of trash. now, let's say only, 5% of your trash is documents, that is (= 9600 * 150 * 0.05) 72,000 cubic feet. now, lets say you snoop for a month (appox. 22 bussiness days), you would have to go thru 1,584,000 cubic square feet of haystack. so, you will spend (at $10,000 dollars per cubic square foot) $15,840,000,000 (16 billion dollars) to find some of microsoft deepest dirtiest secrets.
If you find anything besides the already leaked microsoft documents, it is the fact that you've come up with a better way to spend money then AOL (while buying Time Warner).
Umm, yes it is *slow* poison.
one million dollars pays for approximately 6 employees (various experience level) in Austin, Texas. This is counting: benefits, equipement ( office space,computer(s), printers, copiers, talbe n' chairs, etc.), utilities (electricity, phone, fax, water, garbage, etc). and maintainence (this are just the major things).
with 2 million over 2 years, you'll be able to emlploy 6 of those 50 people (in austin, tx). in mountain view, i wonder if they could employ 4 people with that kind of money. but, i will say 5, to help your case.
so, lay of 50 people. provide money to support 5. whoooptido. so mr. @mozilla.org, wake up and smell the "slow poison."
ohhhh, it's just good old sony style lawsuit.
I am an Indian, and I am not offended. But, I just feel sorry for you, because you seem to believe in your own illogical conslusions and jaw-dropping generalizations.
Maybe you just haven't worked with a good Indian programmer? I am sure there are plenty of bad ones. But, that could be said about any ethnicity/race.
an open note to riaa:
sorry to disappoint. i was on vacation. shutdown my kazaa shared folder. i am back now, you can expect the traffic to go back up.
(ms. rosen: i am just kidding. pleazzz don't sue me.)
wow! you a true old-skewl /.er.
I just vaguely remember those days. I never really read anything written by JonKatz, but remember those hate posts all over the damn place.
However, I have no idea about OGG THE OPENSOURCE CAVEMAN and meept. Must be before my time. Or they might not have been too big.
This one's becoming another slashodot classic. It now joins the company of legendary posts relating to natalie portman's hot grits, beowulf clusters, the profit mechanism (including ???), goatse snoop links, etc.
Oh wow...a front-end web "developer."
I don't ever remember using IE1. However, IE2 and IE3 were pure crap. They didn't even support HTML 3.2, let alone HTML 4.0. I remember them because I was in 9th grade back then, back in my front-end web "developer" days. Now, I have a learned a bit more since then, and gone on to do a tad more complicated things.
However, if you don't believe me, here is a link
I definitely seeing stupid web pages that stated, "This site best seen with IE4+ and NS3+." Also, IE4 was the first IE that integrated with the OS.
IE4 (later revisions) didn't start to dominate till NS4 came out. I personally thought NS4 was a worse browser then NS3. It added many additional features, at a cost of stability. If they had take a bit more to fine tune the code, I bet Netscape wouldn't have choked out so fast.
So, no...IE3 was no match for NS3.
yes, you do vote for someone because they support your viewpoints.
no, you don't vote for some because they support one of your viewpoints.
and, that was the point of my most. single-purpose PACs are crap. they corrupt politics. lots of money. lots of power. just one thing to worry about. they can turn lots of politicians into fiends.
for example, lets say a semi-moderate NRA supporter gets picked up for support by NRA. Now, with thousands (possibly, millions) of dollars coming your way from NRA, a politician might be "forced" to vote the way NRA wants. othe way it corrupts the democratic process is that NRA only needs to sponsor the minimum number of legistalors to make a difference (ie, support only 51 senators ). This way it can pick the ones that are the closest to it's agenda and the lowest cost and make sure that no laws are passed to the ban of assualt weapons, etc. This leaves them a lot of money to seletively target new candidates against anti-NRA incubents (one or two during each collection will suffuce, but with a *LOT* of monetary support)
oh well. PACs must die.
right on.
PACs are killing politics and democracy in this country. if you vote for some one because he supports P2P, i pity your views on the real world.
i don't support any single purpose PACs: their focus is too narrow, their power undeniable. how is it that an organization like NRA has so much power? all based on their stand on gun policy? now, i don't support NRA, i gladly have the same views as The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (the anti-NRA org), but, I still won't support them because they are a single purpose PAC.
all this a/c talk is fuckin' confusing.
i wonder if it is just some multiple personality slashdotter arguing with (him|her)self?
why are you spreading FUD, when you yourself admit the prof. was a unix zealot.
now, how in the *hell* is he a credible source of what microsoft does -- when he doesn't even care about them?
he is spreading FUD, and so are you. if you had read the report, (which i bet you didn't because your post has nothing relating to article) it has a link to slashdot for "operating system zealotry." now, this a prime example of that.
please, stop bashing microsoft without substantial proof. and if you have that, don't ingore the flaws of others who do the same (ie, just about everyone else in the commerical shrink-wrap software business).
I think so. I would never miss out on a chance to make out with MyBride.
come on guy.
you *seriosly* think that Sharman Networkds is that stupid? No one is that dumb. They must have sued knowing that they have no chance in hell. They just want free publicity.
Like the stunt they pulled with the "most downloaded program" in the history of the Internet. Blech. I think they just want to be the de facto P2P network before they start charging users for their services, or go "legit."
Note to Sharman Networks: if you charge a penny for your services, you will fail. Leechers don't pay. They don't the artists and the middlemen, why would they pay you -- a filthy spyware-based app maker?