Rights? I think they are more like privileges. They revoked his privilege when they seized his laptop out of sheer ignorance, and restored it after admitting they were wrong, nothing new here;)
It's like George Carlin once said, rights aren't rights if they can be taken away from you at any time they wish.
Now I wonder what would've happened if he resisted the seizure and told them he's keeping his laptop and explained he didn't do anything wrong.
I do develop on Windows and linux simultaneously, it's not hard at all.
If you build a nice platform abstraction layer, the only part where the platform makes a difference in the code is that layer, everything else just uses the API you've built for it. There isn't much to abstract either, and most of the time its just forwarding to the corresponding system call.
My first thought is that your codebase wasn't planned enough to ease its development.
It's not the artists' fault if the RIAA wants to keep most of the profits for themselves, you don't see artists suing people for downloading their songs (unless they're called Metallica and are little money bitches), most of the time the artist is just glad people are enjoying their work.
I agree, I've done both a lot of shell scripts, web scripts and compiled languages programming; it all comes down to what your goal is, there's no perfect combination of languages for every scenario.
Personally I prefer having a core program written in a compiled language (C++, D), with a bundled library for scripting (LUA, Python) for I do mostly cross-platform programming these days.
However, when doing system admin tasks and automation, nothing beats shell scripts, it takes too much time to write and maintain compiled executables for simple tasks.
On a side note: I also recently found out about rdmd a few days ago, you might want to add that to your shell's arsenal;)
Well in my book, the idea of usefulness in a product is directed at the end-user, not at how much marketing hype and income it can generate.
Or else I'd be in the spam business instead of being a programmer, then again, maybe that's the reason I don't usually get along well with my managers;)
Pretty much, my view on the matter is that jobs and open source are two different beasts. You don't need a job to contribute to open source, and you don't need open source to get a job.
From my own personal experience, people who get jobs merely for the money it gets them tend to do only the bare minimum asked of them. While people in there for a desire of improving things usually give the best they have.
My point was that the former case is most often found in actual jobs while the later is most often found in open source development. Although there are paid jobs to develop open source and unemployed people who contribute to closed source projects, those cases are a minority.
I completely agree with you, I remember the days when people thought "with open source, will jobs suffer?".
In my opinion, the idea of a job is just putting a price upon certain tasks, not having a job doesn't mean you cannot do that task unless you despise it. But having one usually does add the mediocrity factor that you must produce more within less time and that gives us crappy products.
Judge Campbell has distinguished between the actual bits stored on the World of Warcraft disk (which he called the "literal elements" of the game) and the interface elements the user encounters as he's actually playing the game (which he dubbed "non-literal elements").
It's fun how after playing that game for a while I get called a "non-literal", good thing I stopped playing last year!
Yeah I agree with you on that, but I do believe the governments to be hiding a LOT from the public. It's a known fact that NASA deliberately alters images before releasing them. Take of the face and pyramids on Mars for example; the image quality of that zone kept degrading over time while their cameras kept improving.
Besides, with trillion of trillions of stars out there with much more planets around them, I find it easier to believe there is life out there than the fact that we're alone in this universe, especially since we're still a pretty young civilization compared to the average star ages.
In anyways I can't help myself but be interested in that stuff, if only to feed my imagination.
True, landing on the moon used to be good fantasy too, so was thinking the earth was flat and the center of the universe, so was believing humans to be masters of their own emotions.
I'm not an UFO believer, but I'm not a non-believer either, I like to sit in that comfortable "I don't know" area.
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Rights? I think they are more like privileges. They revoked his privilege when they seized his laptop out of sheer ignorance, and restored it after admitting they were wrong, nothing new here ;)
It's like George Carlin once said, rights aren't rights if they can be taken away from you at any time they wish.
Now I wonder what would've happened if he resisted the seizure and told them he's keeping his laptop and explained he didn't do anything wrong.
I wonder if they'll sell the refills that can work without buying the fancy hat.
I do develop on Windows and linux simultaneously, it's not hard at all.
If you build a nice platform abstraction layer, the only part where the platform makes a difference in the code is that layer, everything else just uses the API you've built for it. There isn't much to abstract either, and most of the time its just forwarding to the corresponding system call.
My first thought is that your codebase wasn't planned enough to ease its development.
I can only agree with you; the more I advance in live the closer I get to hell.
Amen.
The music industry is NOT music, it's money. Music itself will always live on.
It's not the artists' fault if the RIAA wants to keep most of the profits for themselves, you don't see artists suing people for downloading their songs (unless they're called Metallica and are little money bitches), most of the time the artist is just glad people are enjoying their work.
I agree, I've done both a lot of shell scripts, web scripts and compiled languages programming; it all comes down to what your goal is, there's no perfect combination of languages for every scenario.
Personally I prefer having a core program written in a compiled language (C++, D), with a bundled library for scripting (LUA, Python) for I do mostly cross-platform programming these days.
However, when doing system admin tasks and automation, nothing beats shell scripts, it takes too much time to write and maintain compiled executables for simple tasks.
On a side note: I also recently found out about rdmd a few days ago, you might want to add that to your shell's arsenal ;)
No itunes either, I'm still using winamp!
Well in my book, the idea of usefulness in a product is directed at the end-user, not at how much marketing hype and income it can generate.
Or else I'd be in the spam business instead of being a programmer, then again, maybe that's the reason I don't usually get along well with my managers ;)
That's pretty neat, although I haven't installed quicktime on my computers for years.
I mean with youtube and etc everything is in flv now, I barely ever come across a .mov file anymore.
Pretty much, my view on the matter is that jobs and open source are two different beasts. You don't need a job to contribute to open source, and you don't need open source to get a job.
From my own personal experience, people who get jobs merely for the money it gets them tend to do only the bare minimum asked of them. While people in there for a desire of improving things usually give the best they have.
My point was that the former case is most often found in actual jobs while the later is most often found in open source development. Although there are paid jobs to develop open source and unemployed people who contribute to closed source projects, those cases are a minority.
Have you read my 2nd statement in my initial post?
Are you implying that that question has been resolved?
I may not have formulated my statement correctly, I meant I remember the days when that question was first raised.
.. how many of them are actually useful?
I completely agree with you, I remember the days when people thought "with open source, will jobs suffer?".
In my opinion, the idea of a job is just putting a price upon certain tasks, not having a job doesn't mean you cannot do that task unless you despise it. But having one usually does add the mediocrity factor that you must produce more within less time and that gives us crappy products.
It would seems to me people with ideas are always ahead of people copying ideas.
Long live the hot shots.
Hussein: Now I will kill you until you die from it!
Colonel: We'll settle this the old navy way; The first guy to die, LOSES!
Are you saying that this Windows can run on a computer without linux underneath it, at all ?
There, fixed that for you, I'll leave the rest up for you to research.
Too bad I don't have any mod points left, you deserve a +5 funny.
If both of them did it, then I'm imagining The Year of Linux on the Desktop finally coming to pass! =D
But then we'd get more than teachers saying linux is illegal.
I think he meant the in-game spamming more than the gold sellers themselves.
It's getting as bad as the spam folder in my gmail, with one small difference: there's no spam folder in WoW, only an easily bypassed filter.
Judge Campbell has distinguished between the actual bits stored on the World of Warcraft disk (which he called the "literal elements" of the game) and the interface elements the user encounters as he's actually playing the game (which he dubbed "non-literal elements").
It's fun how after playing that game for a while I get called a "non-literal", good thing I stopped playing last year!
Indeed, very impressive.
Now I can go back to using Gnome knowing it wont hog my CPU as much.
Yeah I agree with you on that, but I do believe the governments to be hiding a LOT from the public. It's a known fact that NASA deliberately alters images before releasing them. Take of the face and pyramids on Mars for example; the image quality of that zone kept degrading over time while their cameras kept improving.
Besides, with trillion of trillions of stars out there with much more planets around them, I find it easier to believe there is life out there than the fact that we're alone in this universe, especially since we're still a pretty young civilization compared to the average star ages.
In anyways I can't help myself but be interested in that stuff, if only to feed my imagination.
True, landing on the moon used to be good fantasy too, so was thinking the earth was flat and the center of the universe, so was believing humans to be masters of their own emotions.
I'm not an UFO believer, but I'm not a non-believer either, I like to sit in that comfortable "I don't know" area.
it's the pope-tube!