The best I've seen is jive software's Jive Forums. It used to be open source, but I'm pretty sure that now it's developer's source or something similar. If you pay the license fee you get access to the code. The guys who run this seem really good, both in their responses and usually their response time. They seem to have all the features you need, but might be a little on the expensive side, depending on what you're doing. Just my 2 cents.
"Why not just sell it all, Mr. and Mrs. CEO? Just ship the whole fucking thing FedEx to elsewhere Inc.? It's not like you'll notice the total collapse of the economy from inside your Navigator or your half-million dollar townhouse. Just fuck over all your neighbors and cash those options. Everything will be just fine in time for the next backyard block party."
Somehow this made me think of this (from good will hunting):
Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. But I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the NSA, and somebody puts a code on my desk, something no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cuz I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East, and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding. Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are saying, "Oh, send in the marines to secure the area", 'cuz they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, getting shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cuz they were pulling a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there taking shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cuz he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're taking their sweet time bringing the oil back, of course, maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, it ain't too long till he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is giving him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starving 'cuz every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're serving is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holding out for something better. I figure: fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President.
I agree completely that the speed limits in the US are too low, but I will have to disagree that the road conditions in the US are better than the Autobahn. There are enough little imperfections in the roads in the US that travelling at excessive speed could be really dangerous. Ever blow a tire at 120MPH? Germans are very serious about there driving and the autobahn here is almost always under repair or service to keep it in as near perfect condition as possible. That said, every time I go back to the US, it feels painfully slow to be going 70MPH instead of my usual 120...
That said, I already pay for NFL Sunday Ticket. The cost for a whole season is less than a pair of tickets, parking, overpriced food, beer, etc. for one game. I don't mind paying for something I enjoy. (Of course, going to a game is fun too, which is why I have season tickets as well...)
I agree with this completely. I don't mind paying for something I enjoy, but along the same lines, I have been really taken aback by the amount of advertising that I'm forced to sit through when going to the movie theater these days (especially here in Germany, sometimes it's almost 45 minutes of pre-game show). I figure with the hefty ticket price I pay, I should view less commercials not more, but over time price and advertising has increased.
I think they should offer an alternative cheap ticket where you have to sit through the commercials, and a 'normal' priced ticket where you watch just the movie (maybe include previews).
"Show me where they teach 8th graders multivariable calculus."
I had the fortunate experience of growing up in an area with a really good public education system. It was a small university town in the midwest that had well qualified teachers (some of whom had their PHDs) and one of our local policies was to allow students to advance at their own pace. It even went so far as to pay for classes at the University if no equivalent was offered at the high school. Now, it could be argued that some of these students advanced at their parents' pace, but I know at least 3 people in my graduating class that learned multi-variable calculus in 9th grade.
"another forum among the mobile carriers called Wireless Village, and those guys are driving not only an architecture that's very similar to the other two architectures, but also a separate set of protocols."
Does this strike anyone else as stupid? They want to have a wireless text chat protocol that could be supported, by what...phones? I mean the idea of chat as opposed to email is synchronous versus asynchronous communication. If I'm standing there with a phone in my hand want to discuss something synchronously I'm just going to give them a ring, and...gasp...talk.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the wireless text protocol, so there's probably something I'm missing here. Anybody care to elaborate....
A normal bulb is roughly 300 to 400 bucks, but if you think that the normal lifetime of the bulb is 2000 hours and put that in perspective it seems ok. If you watched one 2 hour DVD a night every day it'll last you almost 5 and a half years. 300 bucks ammortized over that time seems ok to me, and I'll probably want to upgrade at the end of it anyway...
How are you going to keep the autonomous cars on the lot. If I were an autonomous car, I sure as hell wouldn't sit around waiting for some pimply faced 16 year old to come around with daddy's cash and drive me off the lot.
"It needs the features of an enterprise database oh which there isn't an open source solution to."
SAP open sourced it's database SAPDB (formerly ADABAS) a while ago. If SAP, being one of the leading ERP vendors, can run on this open source platform, I'd say that there is an open source solution to an enterprise database.
"...then one could easily argue that anyone should be able to knock on my front door and demand to be allowed into my house to make their sales pitch..."
You make an interesting point, however, there's a leap in logic there. When your phone rings, it's the equivalent of knocking on the door. So, should knocking on your door be made illegal too?
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The best I've seen is jive software's Jive Forums. It used to be open source, but I'm pretty sure that now it's developer's source or something similar. If you pay the license fee you get access to the code. The guys who run this seem really good, both in their responses and usually their response time. They seem to have all the features you need, but might be a little on the expensive side, depending on what you're doing. Just my 2 cents.
"Why not just sell it all, Mr. and Mrs. CEO? Just ship the whole fucking thing FedEx to elsewhere Inc.? It's not like you'll notice the total collapse of the economy from inside your Navigator or your half-million dollar townhouse. Just fuck over all your neighbors and cash those options. Everything will be just fine in time for the next backyard block party."
Somehow this made me think of this (from good will hunting):
Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. But I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the NSA, and somebody puts a code on my desk, something no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cuz I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East, and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding. Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are saying, "Oh, send in the marines to secure the area", 'cuz they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, getting shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cuz they were pulling a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there taking shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cuz he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're taking their sweet time bringing the oil back, of course, maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, it ain't too long till he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is giving him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starving 'cuz every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're serving is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holding out for something better. I figure: fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President.
I agree completely that the speed limits in the US are too low, but I will have to disagree that the road conditions in the US are better than the Autobahn. There are enough little imperfections in the roads in the US that travelling at excessive speed could be really dangerous. Ever blow a tire at 120MPH? Germans are very serious about there driving and the autobahn here is almost always under repair or service to keep it in as near perfect condition as possible. That said, every time I go back to the US, it feels painfully slow to be going 70MPH instead of my usual 120...
I don't think charging him european prices will discourage everyone from going there...
buy more chairs...
Or they didn't want someone who hadn't experimented with drugs...
That said, I already pay for NFL Sunday Ticket. The cost for a whole season is less than a pair of tickets, parking, overpriced food, beer, etc. for one game. I don't mind paying for something I enjoy. (Of course, going to a game is fun too, which is why I have season tickets as well...)
I agree with this completely. I don't mind paying for something I enjoy, but along the same lines, I have been really taken aback by the amount of advertising that I'm forced to sit through when going to the movie theater these days (especially here in Germany, sometimes it's almost 45 minutes of pre-game show). I figure with the hefty ticket price I pay, I should view less commercials not more, but over time price and advertising has increased.
I think they should offer an alternative cheap ticket where you have to sit through the commercials, and a 'normal' priced ticket where you watch just the movie (maybe include previews).
"Show me where they teach 8th graders multivariable calculus."
I had the fortunate experience of growing up in an area with a really good public education system. It was a small university town in the midwest that had well qualified teachers (some of whom had their PHDs) and one of our local policies was to allow students to advance at their own pace. It even went so far as to pay for classes at the University if no equivalent was offered at the high school. Now, it could be argued that some of these students advanced at their parents' pace, but I know at least 3 people in my graduating class that learned multi-variable calculus in 9th grade.
Just my 2 cents...
I think it's "the angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat." Or so beavis would have us believe...
"5) Do something with the wife
6) Do something with the dog"
Let's hope these aren't the same things...
"another forum among the mobile carriers called Wireless Village, and those guys are driving not only an architecture that's very similar to the other two architectures, but also a separate set of protocols."
Does this strike anyone else as stupid? They want to have a wireless text chat protocol that could be supported, by what...phones? I mean the idea of chat as opposed to email is synchronous versus asynchronous communication. If I'm standing there with a phone in my hand want to discuss something synchronously I'm just going to give them a ring, and...gasp...talk. Disclaimer: I haven't read the wireless text protocol, so there's probably something I'm missing here. Anybody care to elaborate....
I think that would result in blindness due to a different cause...
A normal bulb is roughly 300 to 400 bucks, but if you think that the normal lifetime of the bulb is 2000 hours and put that in perspective it seems ok. If you watched one 2 hour DVD a night every day it'll last you almost 5 and a half years. 300 bucks ammortized over that time seems ok to me, and I'll probably want to upgrade at the end of it anyway...
How are you going to keep the autonomous cars on the lot. If I were an autonomous car, I sure as hell wouldn't sit around waiting for some pimply faced 16 year old to come around with daddy's cash and drive me off the lot.
"It needs the features of an enterprise database oh which there isn't an open source solution to." SAP open sourced it's database SAPDB (formerly ADABAS) a while ago. If SAP, being one of the leading ERP vendors, can run on this open source platform, I'd say that there is an open source solution to an enterprise database.
That's therapists, and this isn't double jeopardy. The maximum is 500.
"...then one could easily argue that anyone should be able to knock on my front door and demand to be allowed into my house to make their sales pitch..." You make an interesting point, however, there's a leap in logic there. When your phone rings, it's the equivalent of knocking on the door. So, should knocking on your door be made illegal too?
The article used the more appropriate term, luddite.