Economics 101: Paying for something that your competitors get for free puts you at an economic disadvantage. Therefore, almost all companies will take open source software and not pay for it.
Letting the "something" go under puts you all at an economic disadvantage.
enough for a car, a vacation home and a friend, for example
Maybe the RIAA is finally starting to figure it out. Don't worry about people downloading the music, worry about what you're going to charge them for the medium they want to write it to. Start making money off of mp3 players, CD-Rs, etc.
I wonder if many people have used icws94 as a first language?
I used redcode for corewars.
(For those that have never heard of core wars: the basic idea is you write assembly programs that run in a virtual machine - whichever program has more threads running at the end of a time limit wins. I never got into it, but it looks like fun.)
Programmer writes gobs of Perl code and employer is scared to let anyone else touch it, thus ensuring Job Security (much like C++).
The guy I took over for in January tried that, or so it would seem. Didn't work for him. I pretty much replaced everything he ever wrote with two programs (as opposed to *checks* his twelve -- there's your nightmare).
As for the programs I replaced him^Whis stuff with, well, I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to walk into them off the street, but someone would be able to figure 'em out after not too long. There's even a decent amount of perlpod in there.
Programmer writes gobs of Perl code under employer instruction and so, goes rapidly insane trying to maintain his own nightmare.
Maintaining my own code is easy. Waking up before noon is hard.
In one episode (Stonecutters), Homer drives to work, then the camera pans out and there's a chain link fence between 742 Evergreen Ter. and the nuclear power planet.
If the recipient is using a text based email program theres no way in heck anything is going to track whether the mail was opened or read. If its an HTML reader like Outlook just pop a web beacon and let your server monitor it. If you can't figure out how to make this work yourself, you probably shouldn't be allowed to go spying on others anyway.
That's great and all, but what happened to the Disposition-Notification-To header? Personally, I'm inclined to respect peoples' privacy. Especially people I'm sending mail to.
Just FYI: I find that confronting them with a few ethereal packet dumps usually gets you to the second tier at least.
I actually got a PacBell DSL tier 2 tech support (*inhale*) to telnet into my box at work. I ttysnooped him, showed him that the [trace]route to one of their routers was hosed, and got him/them to fix it.
After a suitable period spent listening to soothing jazz
I hate that fscking music.
After listening to me, she responds by asking which modem I have. I describe it, and she immediately tells me that I have the wrong modem. I need the other model of modem. Unlikely...
Actually happened to me once. I neglected my bill for one day too many and my DSL got cut off; during reconnect, I did a speed upgrade (pah! it was still slow as shit). New modem wouldn't work. Solution: new modem. Shit you not.
Still wary, though, I decide not to mention that I have a Mac.
Blah! I told PacBell's DSL people I ran Linux. They gave me the "Linux support number". Guess what it was? REDHAT'S FUCKING CUSTOMER SUPPORT.
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Hey, that girl in the back is pretty cute.
Wtf are those things on the front of the girls' scooters? Baskets?
nobody A slashdot link to the Donations Page convinced me. 1-2 donations a week is TERRIBLE!
Well, guess we know what #2 is:
6) Profit!
(Holy shit, it's actually sort of funny this time!)
Were you trying to be funny?
Scrambled eggs with ramen. Plus tabasco, if you're bored.
Hot dogs work, too.
As for the programs I replaced him^Whis stuff with, well, I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to walk into them off the street, but someone would be able to figure 'em out after not too long. There's even a decent amount of perlpod in there. Maintaining my own code is easy. Waking up before noon is hard.
In one episode (Stonecutters), Homer drives to work, then the camera pans out and there's a chain link fence between 742 Evergreen Ter. and the nuclear power planet.
Hmm. Wonder if "123 Fake St." is listed.
You missed again, motherfsckers!
Particularly the front-side view.
And DIG that front panel.
Yeah, what he said.
/me goes back to elm, thank you very much.
Does this mean I can sue the RIAA for all those stolen mp3s on my systems?