if you *really* want to help oss/linux, participate in getting more software done better. watch out for fanatic people from all sides. just pay attention, compare, analyze. there's lots of work to be done for OSS, no real time to be arguing over whose @#$%!*@# is bigger.
A tender for deployment, training of school staff and tech support was already awarded to a Linux company. This happened a month ago or so. They probably won't be able to train all of the staff by the end of the year, but there really isn't much else schools can do: there won't be any federal funding for schools, so it's really either Linux or pirated software.
pirated software will be the same price, admins for it will be cheaper and much easier to find. pirated becomes a bet, until perhaps someone decides to denounce, or some authority to shake down the place.
well, well, what would you know -- commercial software encourages government corruption! learn something new every day. i myself have experienced corruption with commercial software - police in developing countries shaking down cybercafes running non-legit, or undocumented, software. i would figure a good scammer could in fact shake down all kinds of companies, since lots of small businesses have no IT person, lots of mixed up software, lost receipts, lost documentation, cd's, etc etc.
A CD with Windows and another with ms-office costs about twice the same as one with Linux. Anyway, it's only the local cost of two blank media instead of one. The Linux admin, however, instead of the Windows one, is much more, and can't be obtained for anything near about ten cents... Whether anyone agrees or not, the media is about the actual cost in most places... just don't tell the lawyers.
Indeed; Chicago may be the US's most corrupt city.
Hmm I'd assume that would be DC or NYC, actually. Need to find some statistics to base my lies upon.
I'd vote for a law where anyone in any government position takes a vow of poverty basically, committing to living on strictly what the position's salary allows for, and having one's finances, accounts, etc, closely inspected. Perhaps including for some period after leaving office.
It's easy to secure everything. Put security checkpoints on every bridge, tunnel, road, port, airpot, intersection, everywhere. Have bio-id issued and tagged to everyone and everything who is circulating or communicating with any national device, entity or person. Require this bio-id of all interchanges of all kinds. It worked fairly well in the USSR, and they had only papers and radios. If that's not in your script for the future, well, otherwise, the other best option is to invest in education.
this domain name was making the implication that someone committed truly heinous acts, not just par-for-the-course political chicanery.
Regardless of who the target was, doesn't this cross a line that shouldn't be crossed?
"par for the course" politics - yep. injecting hot fuel into racial hatred in politics, on mass media, on a national level, in the most powerful and armed nation, in the middle of wars full of religious and ethnic problems. very innocent, fair political gaming. Glenn Beck calls President Barack Obama a 'racist'. And, nobody is accusing Glenn Beck of having raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.
I'm not going to go out of my way to defend Glenn Beck. As a conservative I generally find him to be embarrassing.
Even conservatives THEMSELVES say *on the record* they want nothing to do with Glenn Beck and turn their back on defending him! Do his very own friends think Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?
speaking of eating, some more options on how to reward OS programmers would be great. including financially, but there are lots of other forms of rewards. a website with comparative open source programmer rating = lines of code * achieved audience * published articles, perhaps.
yes, but i don't see why Linux distributions never come with these games installed, or even with a simple "install games" menu. sudo apt get quake3 tremulous openarena takes vastly longer to find than an XP cd and a friend that knows what to do with it. there are constant requests to reformat store-supplied linux boxes, with pity and pain, but that's what the client wants and is paying for...
PRT - Private Rapid Transit is old, has lots of different companies, solutions, implementations, and tests, and works great! The only problem as usual, is that it's too efficient - it doesn't waste and crash lots of cars and break lots of parts, require constant maintenance, insurance, fuel, roads, service stations, parking lots, resellers, etc, "generating" millions of jobs, and make lots of money for lots of companies. It just gets built once, requires only a few maint guys, and just works. So when we invent a new form of economy, not socialism or capitalism, maybe we'll have it. Till then, plod along at 35mph in a 120mph-capable steel box, surrounded by amateur drivers in their own private steel boxes, consuming 30% of the average salary and killing a couple users once in a while.
In a hundred more years, they'll do more math, and discover that efficiency will increase greatly with reducing friction, creating straight lines, predictable, computer-monitored and guided paths. They'll make steel roads, steel wheels. Flat, straight, and long, with soft curves. Perhaps with two parallel steel guides, perhaps with one overhead guide. They'll plot the locations of the guides and trains on maps and computers. They'll allow the the cars to simply lock onto one another, and travel as one big element. Most likely unlocking from each other to stop individually at their streetss, or stations, whatever. But none of this will be coordinated by a public group, much less a goverment, all will be privately owned and sold by public corporations, ten generations of mass-produced technologies, all built, bought, tested, crashed, and discarded, one by one, paid by you.
all this might get more attention and developers for osx open source alternatives, such as gnustep, Objective C, Darwin, bonjour, etc. More importantly, I think the advance of OSX and Ubuntu provide some important examples for Linux/Open Source. More usability gets more users. When you're programming, it's tempting, and easier, to say "users have to learn more", instead of "the interface is hard to use, true".
See him then, see him now - Steve Jobs: Good artists copy, great artists steal . The Apple building flying the pirate flag. Sounds like Jobs, and much of Apple, was against patents and copyrights when he needed ideas, inspiration, creations, works. If you have any doubts, see "pirates of silicon valley". They all stole lots of stuff. Even in open source there are lots of "stolen" concepts, if not code. So far all is good. Enter The Law, rewarding/financing system, and social mores, in their current state, and let the problems begin... we need new ones.
Well I tried just being broke and doing very little freelance work for a while, which I kind of liked. I moved to Sao Paulo. I tried doing translating, which was OK too. I taught English, which I didn't really like too much. Now I opened a cybercafe. It's OK, but this branch of business is going away as Internet-access hardware is just appearing everywhere, so I need some additions to increase the income. I do sell coffee and cake and sweets. I'm starting to help kids put up videos, photos, websites. Perhaps I'll start doing pc tech stuff a little again, or teaching internet-use classes.
I had the same reaction - stupid news. Old technical problem with old solutions, but someone thought they had a "catchy headline". And conclusion. It allows for radicalizing - involves missiles, war, deaths, a lot of money, national pride, terrorism, religion, politics, corruption... sex lies and videotape. No big news, all the same, some engineers screw up, some people do wars and weapons, and some people die. If the same error was in a videogame, or in an Intel CPU or Excel spreadsheet calculation error, it would be boring. A thousand monkeys typing, last anyone checked, will not produce any decent code. Or politics.
solar themal energy is simple, low tech, and recovers much more energy. of course, it's heat, not electricity, that it generates. then again, the sun is mostly heat, already. students make them for science projects...
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if you *really* want to help oss/linux, participate in getting more software done better. watch out for fanatic people from all sides. just pay attention, compare, analyze. there's lots of work to be done for OSS, no real time to be arguing over whose @#$%!*@# is bigger.
A tender for deployment, training of school staff and tech support was already awarded to a Linux company. This happened a month ago or so. They probably won't be able to train all of the staff by the end of the year, but there really isn't much else schools can do: there won't be any federal funding for schools, so it's really either Linux or pirated software.
pirated software will be the same price, admins for it will be cheaper and much easier to find. pirated becomes a bet, until perhaps someone decides to denounce, or some authority to shake down the place.
well, well, what would you know -- commercial software encourages government corruption! learn something new every day. i myself have experienced corruption with commercial software - police in developing countries shaking down cybercafes running non-legit, or undocumented, software. i would figure a good scammer could in fact shake down all kinds of companies, since lots of small businesses have no IT person, lots of mixed up software, lost receipts, lost documentation, cd's, etc etc.
A CD with Windows and another with ms-office costs about twice the same as one with Linux. Anyway, it's only the local cost of two blank media instead of one. The Linux admin, however, instead of the Windows one, is much more, and can't be obtained for anything near about ten cents... Whether anyone agrees or not, the media is about the actual cost in most places... just don't tell the lawyers.
We have laser weapons for the government and overpriced laggard combustion engines in big shiny headache-generating boxes for the rest.
Indeed; Chicago may be the US's most corrupt city.
Hmm I'd assume that would be DC or NYC, actually. Need to find some statistics to base my lies upon. I'd vote for a law where anyone in any government position takes a vow of poverty basically, committing to living on strictly what the position's salary allows for, and having one's finances, accounts, etc, closely inspected. Perhaps including for some period after leaving office.
It's easy to secure everything. Put security checkpoints on every bridge, tunnel, road, port, airpot, intersection, everywhere. Have bio-id issued and tagged to everyone and everything who is circulating or communicating with any national device, entity or person. Require this bio-id of all interchanges of all kinds. It worked fairly well in the USSR, and they had only papers and radios. If that's not in your script for the future, well, otherwise, the other best option is to invest in education.
And if the company made, or is making, $$$ selling an open-source derived product? Without distributing source? What should be done?
this domain name was making the implication that someone committed truly heinous acts, not just par-for-the-course political chicanery.
Regardless of who the target was, doesn't this cross a line that shouldn't be crossed?
"par for the course" politics - yep. injecting hot fuel into racial hatred in politics, on mass media, on a national level, in the most powerful and armed nation, in the middle of wars full of religious and ethnic problems. very innocent, fair political gaming. Glenn Beck calls President Barack Obama a 'racist'. And, nobody is accusing Glenn Beck of having raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.
I'm not going to go out of my way to defend Glenn Beck. As a conservative I generally find him to be embarrassing.
Even conservatives THEMSELVES say *on the record* they want nothing to do with Glenn Beck and turn their back on defending him! Do his very own friends think Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?
lots of imitation = lots of flatter? Results 1 - 10 of about 52,600 for "Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990". (0.38 seconds)
speaking of eating, some more options on how to reward OS programmers would be great. including financially, but there are lots of other forms of rewards. a website with comparative open source programmer rating = lines of code * achieved audience * published articles, perhaps.
yes, but i don't see why Linux distributions never come with these games installed, or even with a simple "install games" menu. sudo apt get quake3 tremulous openarena takes vastly longer to find than an XP cd and a friend that knows what to do with it. there are constant requests to reformat store-supplied linux boxes, with pity and pain, but that's what the client wants and is paying for...
you are required to PAY!
egads!
PRT - Private Rapid Transit is old, has lots of different companies, solutions, implementations, and tests, and works great! The only problem as usual, is that it's too efficient - it doesn't waste and crash lots of cars and break lots of parts, require constant maintenance, insurance, fuel, roads, service stations, parking lots, resellers, etc, "generating" millions of jobs, and make lots of money for lots of companies. It just gets built once, requires only a few maint guys, and just works. So when we invent a new form of economy, not socialism or capitalism, maybe we'll have it. Till then, plod along at 35mph in a 120mph-capable steel box, surrounded by amateur drivers in their own private steel boxes, consuming 30% of the average salary and killing a couple users once in a while.
In a hundred more years, they'll do more math, and discover that efficiency will increase greatly with reducing friction, creating straight lines, predictable, computer-monitored and guided paths. They'll make steel roads, steel wheels. Flat, straight, and long, with soft curves. Perhaps with two parallel steel guides, perhaps with one overhead guide. They'll plot the locations of the guides and trains on maps and computers. They'll allow the the cars to simply lock onto one another, and travel as one big element. Most likely unlocking from each other to stop individually at their streetss, or stations, whatever. But none of this will be coordinated by a public group, much less a goverment, all will be privately owned and sold by public corporations, ten generations of mass-produced technologies, all built, bought, tested, crashed, and discarded, one by one, paid by you.
all this might get more attention and developers for osx open source alternatives, such as gnustep, Objective C, Darwin, bonjour, etc. More importantly, I think the advance of OSX and Ubuntu provide some important examples for Linux/Open Source. More usability gets more users. When you're programming, it's tempting, and easier, to say "users have to learn more", instead of "the interface is hard to use, true".
See him then, see him now - Steve Jobs: Good artists copy, great artists steal . The Apple building flying the pirate flag. Sounds like Jobs, and much of Apple, was against patents and copyrights when he needed ideas, inspiration, creations, works. If you have any doubts, see "pirates of silicon valley". They all stole lots of stuff. Even in open source there are lots of "stolen" concepts, if not code. So far all is good. Enter The Law, rewarding/financing system, and social mores, in their current state, and let the problems begin... we need new ones.
All fancy language to qualify as a research project, but the authors *really* just want a universalautowarezpatchercracker
Well I tried just being broke and doing very little freelance work for a while, which I kind of liked. I moved to Sao Paulo. I tried doing translating, which was OK too. I taught English, which I didn't really like too much. Now I opened a cybercafe. It's OK, but this branch of business is going away as Internet-access hardware is just appearing everywhere, so I need some additions to increase the income. I do sell coffee and cake and sweets. I'm starting to help kids put up videos, photos, websites. Perhaps I'll start doing pc tech stuff a little again, or teaching internet-use classes.
I had the same reaction - stupid news. Old technical problem with old solutions, but someone thought they had a "catchy headline". And conclusion. It allows for radicalizing - involves missiles, war, deaths, a lot of money, national pride, terrorism, religion, politics, corruption... sex lies and videotape. No big news, all the same, some engineers screw up, some people do wars and weapons, and some people die. If the same error was in a videogame, or in an Intel CPU or Excel spreadsheet calculation error, it would be boring. A thousand monkeys typing, last anyone checked, will not produce any decent code. Or politics.
never imagined the holocaust could provide so much humor
so Microsoft Federation Police Department is going to deploy these to look for WGA violations? good! now Joe User will BEG to get linux installed.
solar themal energy is simple, low tech, and recovers much more energy. of course, it's heat, not electricity, that it generates. then again, the sun is mostly heat, already. students make them for science projects...
therefore, ipv6 is bad for Verizon?