I think the best strategy is to disclose your previous salary if asked, with a correction that you should add about 10K to it. It's impossible to catch, and if you're caught you can always say that there was overtime. It does not sound good, but it works and keeps everybody happy. On the other hand your first shot should always be to try let them tell you the number - "I want to be payed whatever is budgeted for this position, it's the work that is important, not salary per se. If I like the job I will take it, if I don't - I will not, salary is not a driving factor for me"
the most glaring being 'war on drugs', that is not only violating freedoms, but costs a lot of human lifes, not to mention the prolifiration of narcotics, as a result of trivial market action (the cost of the drugs is inflated by the government effort to banish them, which make dealing them so profitable). A honorable mention would also be cryptography. What about the ban to receive certain radio frequncies, like cell phones, which are not encrypted in the first place because of the desire of CIA,NSA and FBI to be able to listen to cell phones at their leisure?
...free replacement for RealNetworks suite. Yes, it's better to have an Open and Free solution for Internet audio/video broadcasting, but it's not here yet. I personally started a company Linux Media Labs for manufacturing a hardware foundation for that - video capture/playback card with JPEG compression. I have the interfaces open and drivers under GPL. But I'm very glad that RealNetworks released the encoder, and I've bought it already. Since that allows to build the whole live video webcasting solution based on pure Linux, NOW!!!. Believe me, if comparable soltion would be implemented as free software users and providers would just jump on it - the complete suite from RealNetworks costs more then $5000, you don't need a lot of explanations why Free solution would be accepted, both from the freedom and $$$ viewpoint.
wouldn't it be nice to get that E2000 design under GPL and got a Free CPU that kickes ass in a same way as Linux does? I would feel much more like a free person then. But... it's not likely having Elbrus key people military industrial complex heritage. So, as long as it's not Free it's of not much interest really. Since I would agree that chances of Elbrus team pulling it in Russia is quite slim. If they come to the West for that they would be used and abused. Not by our community of course:-)... And we need to put more effort into Freedom CPU project.
You can visit our site at http://linuxmedialabs.com and even order a board that does video capture/playback with (de)compression.
I hate propriatory as much as any other Linux fan and it seems that MJPEG is a very good standard. It's patent clean, it can have very good quality. And the fact that compression ratio is not very high, i.e. you need about 10Gb for a movie would soon become a non-issue with storage capacity and network bandwidth becoming more and more affordable.
Also we have plans to bundle our board with MainActor software, so resonable video solution for Linux is not that far away, maybe in the May timeframe.
Board interfaces are fully open and drivers are under GPL. But more people need to get the board to get GNU process started. We are fully commited to providing video solutions for Linux and have plans for MPEG-1 and 2 board. Of course more support for video (real time) needs to get into Linux kernel and in fact into XFree.
When there is over 10 millions around, and they demand something that would be delivered, by us, or somebody else. That is the true nature of capitalism, not a particular license - be it GPL or not. In fact I'd rather call that Free Market.
It is bad, since they either by accident, by stupidity or on purpose did not base their work on pure GPL foundation. Now they are in trouble because of that. Well, GPL is best, pure copyrighted software is acceptable under certain circumstances, but playing the kind of games QT, BSD, KDE and others is bad. Let's be honest. There is enough of one Bill Gates as a master liar for the industry.
You're welcome to look at and if you want to support the notion of open hardware and want to have fun messing with registers and bits - order the darn board.
Well, however b.s. this patent is, if it's enforced that only benefits Free Software, since the whole idea is that you never pay for the piece of information, but rather for service, be it distribution or consulting. So, if I have a site for MP3 music which charges you just a monthly fee, that would not be covered by this patent. So, if music publishers are siding with this patent they are stupid...
People that use OSS, GNU and Linux are in complete control of what their system is sending over the Internet. Therefore it's not a problem for them.
Linux would actually benefit from such a move by Intel, since we can impose FUD tactics on Microsoft - anybody can look into Linux sources, would Bill Gates allow that for his sh*t?
I would like to write some soothing letter like that:
Fruits of good do not grow on the tree of evil. You've chosen to affiliate with Microsoft Evil Empire and now you whine. Well, I guess Larry Wall does not have these problems - I wonder why?
VB is a great idea - I admit. But Tcl/Tk is much better implementation of that idea. Since you live in the Gate's world, you probably don't know what Tcl/Tk is. Never mind. But just one final word - "Lust of money is root of all evil". So I think your sufferings are desrved.
Apart from the idea - Basic itself is a piece of shit language, after the age of 12 you should not use it. Your references to "financial" reasons just make me sick. People that sell their principles for money deserve hell even before they die.
I'm libertarian, and I believe in some resonable taxes (about 15%) and tight control on spending them, and one of the good things to spend on is research. Software is the special case. Even if you're 100% pro montaristic economy theories you still should understand that a legal model which encourages extreme monopolies is wrong. Well, maybe I'm not libertarian, I just like freedom. Patens and Copyright are used to limit freedom. Also, how extremist libertarian live with the fact that the only reason why Bill Gates exists is because of copyright law enforced by the Goverment (which should not exist). Who would be watching for copying that floppy then?
hardware (PC systems) from vendors that have a per-processor license with Microsfot. In other words from vendors that refuse to give a discount for the system without MS Windoze preinstalled.
Let's also support honest Linux hardware vendors - i.e. those that sell ONLY Linux preinstalled.
Disclaimer: I have a temptation to start such a business - the timing seems to be right.
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I think the best strategy is to disclose your previous salary if asked, with a correction that you should add about 10K to it. It's impossible to catch, and if you're caught you can always say that there was overtime. It does not sound good, but it works and keeps everybody happy. On the other hand your first shot should always be to try let them tell you the number - "I want to be payed whatever is budgeted for this position, it's the work that is important, not salary per se. If I like the job I will take it, if I don't - I will not, salary is not a driving factor for me"
the most glaring being 'war on drugs', that is not
only violating freedoms, but costs a lot of human
lifes, not to mention the prolifiration of
narcotics, as a result of trivial market action
(the cost of the drugs is inflated by the
government effort to banish them, which make
dealing them so profitable). A honorable mention
would also be cryptography. What about the ban
to receive certain radio frequncies, like cell
phones, which are not encrypted in the first place
because of the desire of CIA,NSA and FBI to be
able to listen to cell phones at their leisure?
...free replacement for RealNetworks suite. Yes, it's better to have an Open and Free solution for Internet audio/video broadcasting, but it's not here yet. I personally started a company Linux Media Labs for manufacturing a hardware foundation for that - video capture/playback card with JPEG compression. I have the interfaces open and drivers under GPL. But I'm very glad that RealNetworks released the encoder, and I've bought it already. Since that allows to build the whole live video webcasting solution based on pure Linux, NOW!!!. Believe me, if comparable soltion would be implemented as free software users and providers would just jump on it - the complete suite from RealNetworks costs more then $5000, you don't need a lot of explanations why Free solution would be accepted, both from the freedom and $$$ viewpoint.
wouldn't it be nice to get that E2000 design under GPL and got a Free CPU that kickes ass in a same way as Linux does? I would feel much more like a free person then. But... it's not likely having Elbrus key people military industrial complex heritage. So, as long as it's not Free it's of not much interest really. Since I would agree that chances of Elbrus team pulling it in Russia is quite slim. If they come to the West for that they would be used and abused. Not by our community of course :-) ... And we need to put more effort into Freedom CPU project.
You can visit our site at http://linuxmedialabs.com and even order a board that does video capture/playback with (de)compression.
I hate propriatory as much as any other Linux fan and it seems that MJPEG is a very good standard. It's patent clean, it can have very good quality. And the fact that compression ratio is not very high, i.e. you need about 10Gb for a movie would soon become a non-issue with storage capacity and network bandwidth becoming more and more affordable.
Also we have plans to bundle our board with MainActor software, so resonable video solution for Linux is not that far away, maybe in the May timeframe.
Board interfaces are fully open and drivers are under GPL. But more people need to get the board to get GNU process started. We are fully commited to providing video solutions for Linux and have plans for MPEG-1 and 2 board. Of course more support for video (real time) needs to get into Linux kernel and in fact into XFree.
When there is over 10 millions around, and they demand something that would be delivered, by us, or somebody else. That is the true nature of capitalism, not a particular license - be it GPL or not. In fact I'd rather call that Free Market.
Vassili Leonov vleo@linuxmedialabs.com
It is bad, since they either by accident, by stupidity or on purpose did not base their work on pure GPL foundation. Now they are in trouble because of that. Well, GPL is best, pure copyrighted software is acceptable under certain circumstances, but playing the kind of games QT, BSD, KDE and others is bad. Let's be honest. There is enough of one Bill Gates as a master liar for the industry.
We have fully open, with GPLed drivers, LML33 video capture card with hardware JPEG codec.
You're welcome to look at and if you want to support the notion of open hardware and want to
have fun messing with registers and bits - order the darn board.
Well, however b.s. this patent is, if it's
enforced that only benefits Free Software, since
the whole idea is that you never pay for the
piece of information, but rather for service,
be it distribution or consulting. So, if I have
a site for MP3 music which charges you just a
monthly fee, that would not be covered by this
patent. So, if music publishers are siding with
this patent they are stupid...
And I don't care too much about Winblows lusers.
People that use OSS, GNU and Linux are in
complete control of what their system is
sending over the Internet. Therefore it's not
a problem for them.
Linux would actually benefit from such a
move by Intel, since we can impose FUD tactics
on Microsoft - anybody can look into Linux
sources, would Bill Gates allow that for his
sh*t?
I would like to write some soothing letter like that:
Fruits of good do not grow on the tree of evil. You've chosen to affiliate with Microsoft Evil Empire and now you whine. Well, I guess Larry Wall does not have these problems - I wonder why?
VB is a great idea - I admit. But Tcl/Tk is much better implementation of that idea. Since you live in the Gate's world, you probably don't know what Tcl/Tk is. Never mind. But just one final word - "Lust of money is root of all evil". So I think your sufferings are desrved.
Apart from the idea - Basic itself is a piece of shit language, after the age of 12 you should not use it. Your references to "financial" reasons just make me sick. People that sell their principles for money deserve hell even before they die.
I'm libertarian, and I believe in some resonable
taxes (about 15%) and tight control on spending
them, and one of the good things to spend on
is research.
Software is the special case. Even if you're
100% pro montaristic economy theories you still
should understand that a legal model which
encourages extreme monopolies is wrong.
Well, maybe I'm not libertarian, I just like
freedom. Patens and Copyright are used to limit
freedom. Also, how extremist libertarian live
with the fact that the only reason why Bill
Gates exists is because of copyright law enforced
by the Goverment (which should not exist). Who
would be watching for copying that floppy then?
hardware (PC systems) from vendors that have a per-processor license with Microsfot. In other words from vendors that refuse to give a discount for the system without MS Windoze preinstalled.
Let's also support honest Linux hardware vendors - i.e. those that sell ONLY Linux preinstalled.
Disclaimer: I have a temptation to start such a business - the timing seems to be right.