The Kuang Grade Mark Eleven Penetration Program is the way to go. But you need a live person at the controls. Not a flatline, because Neuromancer knows his every move in advance.
Nah we had them when I worked for the state government here in Victoria, Australia. Petty cash may have been limited to 100 AUD or so. Normal purchase orders went to 50KAUD. Above that you had to go to competitive tender. All purchases had to be signed off by our manager but he was right there and understood the work.
But because we did a lot of tech stuff we had a lot of small purchases on the go. We fabricated our own cables to a point, and sent bigger jobs off to a small company who did that as their business.
There would have been a way (for us) but partly that was our management understood the biz. If management were non-technical it would have been harder.
For many projects out there $100 would be a lot of money. In many cases project web pages have "Donate" links which work through paypal. So I suggest you list a few OSS products you use. Take a couple of hundred dollars out of petty cash (call it software licensing) and donate it to those projects.
The OP can't do this. If you think state governments in the US have anything close to petty cash funds, you're probably mistaken. They're too ripe for abuse.
For many projects out there $100 would be a lot of money. In many cases project web pages have "Donate" links which work through paypal. So I suggest you list a few OSS products you use. Take a couple of hundred dollars out of petty cash (call it software licensing) and donate it to those projects.
When I was young my first car was a 1973 Holden Torana. It was this crap GM car from England. Then the torana blew up and I bought a 1972 Toyota Celica. I worked on both cars and the engineering in the toyota was vastly better.
As long as I live I will never buy another car from GM.
Where I live there are a lot of young guys who identify themselves either as a Ford Guy or a Holden Guy. Holden is GM here remember. But these people only identify with the big V6 and V8 cars from those makers. You can't sit outside your grandmothers house in East Brunswick tuning up your four cylinder Holden. That would be embarrassing. So if GM can't sell the Holden Commodore in this country they are screwed. Their small cars generally come from other car makers via badge engineering anyway.
But thats the thing about selling stuff. Your consumers can be 100% behind your old product. But then they all retire at about the same time and suddenly a solid market has evaporated. I said consumers kept buying the product. Past tense.
It might be a coming of age thing in an authoritarian government. A bit like the gangster who has to kill someone to prove themselves to the organisation. To be in the Chinese government you have to be Against Something. And you have to Stop Something.
Its a bit like that in the multinational company I work for. New managers prove their ability by Stopping Stuff or Starting Stuff. Not always for good reasons. But the reasons are less important than the strengthening of the "us and them" configuration.
I think that while the Chinese Government wants to have the Internet, they want it to be a simple "connect A to B" affair. Working that way it is easy to regulate.
They may have many problems with porn but one problem I can see is the anonymity it tends to involve. The large scale exchange of image files can lead to the creation of meta communication channels using stenography. The net result is that the social networks within the internet become harder to track and analyse.
I can understand why that would present problems for an authoritarian government.
The father of one of my sons friends asked me about filtered internet feeds and filtering software because he is separated from his wife and he needs to use it to bargain for custody. I wasn't really able to help but I made some suggestions and I assume he found a suitable system.
The people who want these systems can go and get them. There isn't really a need for them to be forced on to people.
I own an openmoko, which has some hardware limitations, but I like the fact that I control its configuration almost as far as I control the configuration of my laptops and servers.
If you don't want to be treated as a captive audience by your service provider then put your money down on a phone which gives you control.
I know its a cliche, but with Apple et al getting on the app store bandwagon, and google linking phones, the OS and advertising, the old GNU issues around Free software are becoming more real.
But the whole point about.com.au is that its name space follows the existing name spaces for businesses and companies in Australia. Australians are free to register elsewhere if they don't want to follow that rule.
auDA requires you have some right to the name, in this case they did, they registered the business name to go along with it. They have every right to the domain name under auDA's own policies.
smithm@michael:~$ whois stephenconroy.com.au Domain Name: stephenconroy.com.au Last Modified:17-Dec-2009 23:01:47 UTC Registrar ID:Domain Central Registrar Name: Domain Central Status:pendingDelete (Client requested policy delete)
Registrant:SAPIA PTY LTD Registrant ID: ABN 94140321240 Eligibility Type: Company
Registrant Contact ID: C032321-DC Registrant Contact Name: Domain Manager Registrant Contact Email: Visit whois.ausregistry.com.au for Web based WhoIs
Tech Contact ID: C032321-DC Tech Contact Name: Domain Manager Tech Contact Email: Visit whois.ausregistry.com.au for Web based WhoIs
Its not immediately clear to me how they qualified for this name.
Yeah but everything had to be hosted off the phone, which makes a big difference. As much as I dislike them I can see that web UI tools are improving all the time, much faster than other ways of creating UIs.
Seriously, I can do more with 1 kb of html in ten minutes than with Swing in an hour.
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Dunno. He described replacing a clutch and didn't discuss lifting the transmission out from under the car. Thats impressive to me.
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The Kuang Grade Mark Eleven Penetration Program is the way to go. But you need a live person at the controls. Not a flatline, because Neuromancer knows his every move in advance.
Nah we had them when I worked for the state government here in Victoria, Australia. Petty cash may have been limited to 100 AUD or so. Normal purchase orders went to 50KAUD. Above that you had to go to competitive tender. All purchases had to be signed off by our manager but he was right there and understood the work.
But because we did a lot of tech stuff we had a lot of small purchases on the go. We fabricated our own cables to a point, and sent bigger jobs off to a small company who did that as their business.
There would have been a way (for us) but partly that was our management understood the biz. If management were non-technical it would have been harder.
Yep by far the best way to contribute to OSS from inside an organisation is to pay for something tangible. Support or media.
The OP can't do this. If you think state governments in the US have anything close to petty cash funds, you're probably mistaken. They're too ripe for abuse.
How do they buy pencils and books?
For many projects out there $100 would be a lot of money. In many cases project web pages have "Donate" links which work through paypal. So I suggest you list a few OSS products you use. Take a couple of hundred dollars out of petty cash (call it software licensing) and donate it to those projects.
When I was young my first car was a 1973 Holden Torana. It was this crap GM car from England. Then the torana blew up and I bought a 1972 Toyota Celica. I worked on both cars and the engineering in the toyota was vastly better.
As long as I live I will never buy another car from GM.
Where I live there are a lot of young guys who identify themselves either as a Ford Guy or a Holden Guy. Holden is GM here remember. But these people only identify with the big V6 and V8 cars from those makers. You can't sit outside your grandmothers house in East Brunswick tuning up your four cylinder Holden. That would be embarrassing. So if GM can't sell the Holden Commodore in this country they are screwed. Their small cars generally come from other car makers via badge engineering anyway.
But thats the thing about selling stuff. Your consumers can be 100% behind your old product. But then they all retire at about the same time and suddenly a solid market has evaporated. I said consumers kept buying the product. Past tense.
It might be a coming of age thing in an authoritarian government. A bit like the gangster who has to kill someone to prove themselves to the organisation. To be in the Chinese government you have to be Against Something. And you have to Stop Something.
Its a bit like that in the multinational company I work for. New managers prove their ability by Stopping Stuff or Starting Stuff. Not always for good reasons. But the reasons are less important than the strengthening of the "us and them" configuration.
I think that while the Chinese Government wants to have the Internet, they want it to be a simple "connect A to B" affair. Working that way it is easy to regulate.
They may have many problems with porn but one problem I can see is the anonymity it tends to involve. The large scale exchange of image files can lead to the creation of meta communication channels using stenography. The net result is that the social networks within the internet become harder to track and analyse.
I can understand why that would present problems for an authoritarian government.
The father of one of my sons friends asked me about filtered internet feeds and filtering software because he is separated from his wife and he needs to use it to bargain for custody. I wasn't really able to help but I made some suggestions and I assume he found a suitable system.
The people who want these systems can go and get them. There isn't really a need for them to be forced on to people.
Consumers kept buying them.
I own an openmoko, which has some hardware limitations, but I like the fact that I control its configuration almost as far as I control the configuration of my laptops and servers.
If you don't want to be treated as a captive audience by your service provider then put your money down on a phone which gives you control.
I know its a cliche, but with Apple et al getting on the app store bandwagon, and google linking phones, the OS and advertising, the old GNU issues around Free software are becoming more real.
Y3K? COBOL programmers could be very valuable.
The domain WAS registered using a registered business ABN. auDA pulled the domain for an undisclosed reason and it broke none of their rules.
Their business wasn't called "Stephen Conroy" so they are not entitled to that name.
But the whole point about .com.au is that its name space follows the existing name spaces for businesses and companies in Australia. Australians are free to register elsewhere if they don't want to follow that rule.
auDA requires you have some right to the name, in this case they did, they registered the business name to go along with it. They have every right to the domain name under auDA's own policies.
smithm@michael:~$ whois stephenconroy.com.au
Domain Name: stephenconroy.com.au
Last Modified:17-Dec-2009 23:01:47 UTC
Registrar ID:Domain Central
Registrar Name: Domain Central
Status:pendingDelete (Client requested policy delete)
Registrant:SAPIA PTY LTD
Registrant ID: ABN 94140321240
Eligibility Type: Company
Registrant Contact ID: C032321-DC
Registrant Contact Name: Domain Manager
Registrant Contact Email: Visit whois.ausregistry.com.au for Web based WhoIs
Tech Contact ID: C032321-DC
Tech Contact Name: Domain Manager
Tech Contact Email: Visit whois.ausregistry.com.au for Web based WhoIs
Its not immediately clear to me how they qualified for this name.
So why post as AC just here? Are you ashamed of your views?
All they need to do is register their symbols, images, etc as trademarks in every country of the world.
Even in Saudi Arabia, Israel and Iran? I wish them luck.
Well okay but where does this apply, other than in the Vatican?
I think its pretty obvious, actually.
After a couple of weeks alone at sea? That robot could be quite attractive.
HA !
Clearly our new laser-avoidance algorithms give us an advantage in the upcoming man vs. sharks-with-frikken-lasers war.
Actually I was hoping the robots would be on our side for once.
Yes. So?
Yeah but everything had to be hosted off the phone, which makes a big difference. As much as I dislike them I can see that web UI tools are improving all the time, much faster than other ways of creating UIs.
Seriously, I can do more with 1 kb of html in ten minutes than with Swing in an hour.
Dunno. He described replacing a clutch and didn't discuss lifting the transmission out from under the car. Thats impressive to me.