The time (time = money) spent by a couple of guys in open source might as well be the equivalent of the price paid for commercial software.
But since they already got their software running, it's not a waste, but an investment. Sure, they might have bought the expensive solution - but here's where things get interesting: They not only GET their investment back, but thousands or millions of people get the benefit.
In other words, Open Source is creating riches. For the masses. Just because the riches aren't in dollars (but in software) doesn't mean they don't exist. In fact, these riches save time (time = money).
Which leads us back to the beginning: The more free time, the more of it people can invest into OSS. It's a virtuous circle.
But yet, just about every channel these days suffers from macro blocks at any given time. It's really damn annoying. Analog didn't suffer from this.
Fine, then, will you pay for the bandwidth used by normal analog TV's? Analog TV via satellite would be AWFULLY expensive.
And MPEG4 offers much more compression, which means that if the technicians include error correction (i.e. some redundancy in the data), the amount of noise can be handled fine.
I know, that's not probably happening, but consider this. Which one do you prefer, blocks or white noise every 2 frames whenever a plane (and it doesn't have to be an airbus) passes nearby?
The blocks may annoy you, but at least they don't make a screeching sound. (I HAD analog satellite, trust me, it was ANNOYING).
Digital is smart enough to say "hey, this data is bad, let's silence the audio for this one".
Noiseless signals via satellite are impossible, whether analog or digital.
The 555 seat, double deck Airbus A380 is the most ambitious civil aircraft program yet. When it enters service in March 2006, the A380 will be the world's largest airliner, easily eclipsing Boeing's 747.
Airbus first began studies on a very large 500 seat airliner in the early 1990s. The European manufacturer saw developing a competitor and successor to the Boeing 747 as a strategic play to end Boeing's dominance of the very large airliner market and round out Airbus' product line-up.
Airbus began engineering development work on such an aircraft, then designated the A3XX, in June 1994. Airbus studied numerous design configurations for the A3XX and gave serious consideration to a single deck aircraft which would have seated 12 abreast and twin vertical tails. However Airbus settled upon a twin deck configuration, largely because of the significantly lighter structure required.
Key design aims include the ability to use existing airport infrastructure with little modifications to the airports, and direct operating costs per seat 15-20% less than those for the 747-400. With 49% more floor space and only 35% more seating than the previous largest aircraft, Airbus is ensuring wider seats and aisles for more passenger comfort. Using the most advanced technologies, the A380 is also designed to have 10-15% more range, lower fuel burn and emissions, and less noise.
The A380 features an advanced version of the Airbus common two crew cockpit, with pull-out keyboards for the pilots, extensive use of composite materials such as GLARE (an aluminium/glass fibre composite), and four 302 to 374kN (68,000 to 84,000lb) class Rolls-Royce Trent 900 or Engine Alliance (General Electric/Pratt & Whitney) GP7200 turbofans now under development.
Several A380 models are planned: the basic aircraft is the 555 seat A380-800 (launch customer Emirates). The 590 ton MTOW 10,410km (5620nm) A380-800F freighter will be able to carry a 150 tonne payload and is due to enter service in 2008 (launch customer FedEx). Potential future models will include the shortened, 480 seat A380-700, and the stretched, 656 seat, A380-900.
Most of the marketing hype around Longhorn isn't how pretty it'll look, but how much a programmer can do with it. Remember the DB driven file system, for the searches and everything? And what about XAML?
To be sincere, I really DON'T KNOW what to expect from Longhorn. Anybody does?
For starters, he could make the fourth Indiana Jones movie that the fans have been waiting for years. And he doesn't have much time left, given Harrison Ford's age...
Take a look at SourceForge. The project was acquired by some company and abandoned.
Another company forked, and brought us GForge, which incorporates SVN and other improvements. Too bad GForge isn't used by the SourceForge site itself.
There'll be a boat next to him. Around the 5th km, he'll give up, and say: "Well, at least I tried". Then he'll become an Icon of "you never know until you try", and a whole marketing campaign will rise from this.
What's biotech got to do with this? Nanotubes are ANYTHING but organic. (OK they got carbon yeah, but you get the point).
Shouldn't/. add a "nanotech" topic, for once? And use a nanotube picture as the icon. There we could deal with nanotubes, nanotransistors, quantum dots, yadda yadda yadda.
Slashdot Mirror
Another idea regarding economics:
The time (time = money) spent by a couple of guys in open source might as well be the equivalent of the price paid for commercial software.
But since they already got their software running, it's not a waste, but an investment. Sure, they might have bought the expensive solution - but here's where things get interesting: They not only GET their investment back, but thousands or millions of people get the benefit.
In other words, Open Source is creating riches. For the masses. Just because the riches aren't in dollars (but in software) doesn't mean they don't exist. In fact, these riches save time (time = money).
Which leads us back to the beginning: The more free time, the more of it people can invest into OSS. It's a virtuous circle.
My dad often downloads stuff from the web and well... :-/ his box often gets filled with spyware.
I often recommend him Open Source because I know there's no spyware in them.
if he's so damn paranoid, what the hell is he using windows for?
Maybe because Linux is NOT desktop-ready yet?
This guy's a security professional, NOT a Linux guru.
Is he mentally ill? Let's just say he doesn't sound like the type of person I'd want to have a beer with.
:)
Don't worry, he'll be the designated driver.
I just hope it doesn't happen like this...
"Houston, we have a problem... the pathfinder is acting erratically."
(5 minutes later)
BUG REPORT: PathFinder acts erratically.
(2 days later)
Fixed in CVS.
(2 years later)
"The fixed version of the pathfinder will be launched this saturday."
(Next sunday)
"Oh sh**! There's a bug!"
(Next week)
"Houston, we have a problem."
They are already available with an antenna
In South America?
Think big, kiddo. The world is much more than just the U.S.
But yet, just about every channel these days suffers from macro blocks at any given time. It's really damn annoying. Analog didn't suffer from this.
Fine, then, will you pay for the bandwidth used by normal analog TV's? Analog TV via satellite would be AWFULLY expensive.
And MPEG4 offers much more compression, which means that if the technicians include error correction (i.e. some redundancy in the data), the amount of noise can be handled fine.
I know, that's not probably happening, but consider this. Which one do you prefer, blocks or white noise every 2 frames whenever a plane (and it doesn't have to be an airbus) passes nearby?
The blocks may annoy you, but at least they don't make a screeching sound. (I HAD analog satellite, trust me, it was ANNOYING).
Digital is smart enough to say "hey, this data is bad, let's silence the audio for this one".
Noiseless signals via satellite are impossible, whether analog or digital.
For those curious (and in case it gets /.'ed) :
The 555 seat, double deck Airbus A380 is the most ambitious civil aircraft program yet. When it enters service in March 2006, the A380 will be the world's largest airliner, easily eclipsing Boeing's 747.
Airbus first began studies on a very large 500 seat airliner in the early 1990s. The European manufacturer saw developing a competitor and successor to the Boeing 747 as a strategic play to end Boeing's dominance of the very large airliner market and round out Airbus' product line-up.
Airbus began engineering development work on such an aircraft, then designated the A3XX, in June 1994. Airbus studied numerous design configurations for the A3XX and gave serious consideration to a single deck aircraft which would have seated 12 abreast and twin vertical tails. However Airbus settled upon a twin deck configuration, largely because of the significantly lighter structure required.
Key design aims include the ability to use existing airport infrastructure with little modifications to the airports, and direct operating costs per seat 15-20% less than those for the 747-400. With 49% more floor space and only 35% more seating than the previous largest aircraft, Airbus is ensuring wider seats and aisles for more passenger comfort. Using the most advanced technologies, the A380 is also designed to have 10-15% more range, lower fuel burn and emissions, and less noise.
The A380 features an advanced version of the Airbus common two crew cockpit, with pull-out keyboards for the pilots, extensive use of composite materials such as GLARE (an aluminium/glass fibre composite), and four 302 to 374kN (68,000 to 84,000lb) class Rolls-Royce Trent 900 or Engine Alliance (General Electric/Pratt & Whitney) GP7200 turbofans now under development.
Several A380 models are planned: the basic aircraft is the 555 seat A380-800 (launch customer Emirates). The 590 ton MTOW 10,410km (5620nm) A380-800F freighter will be able to carry a 150 tonne payload and is due to enter service in 2008 (launch customer FedEx). Potential future models will include the shortened, 480 seat A380-700, and the stretched, 656 seat, A380-900.
Most of the marketing hype around Longhorn isn't how pretty it'll look, but how much a programmer can do with it. Remember the DB driven file system, for the searches and everything? And what about XAML?
To be sincere, I really DON'T KNOW what to expect from Longhorn. Anybody does?
For me, waiting for the next release and wondering if it's in there sucks.
Welcome to the world of closed-source crippleware.
Now I wish there was a software like Trillian but open source. Oh, and I tried GAIM, but the bugs and lack of features made me go back to trilly'.
Sucks, doesn't it?
For starters, he could make the fourth Indiana Jones movie that the fans have been waiting for years. And he doesn't have much time left, given Harrison Ford's age...
I just about spewed my lunch across my lovely dual monitors
:)
Was your lunch made with SPAM(TM) by any chance?
and a sign of how that solution to the problem is part of the problem.
Yeah, newbies being given crappy software.
Here in Mexico most mass-defaced webpages are because of a flaw in a bulletin board software.
:(
All because shared hosts aren't root-caged properly. Seriously, this needs to change. But how?
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=6 87783&forum_id=21304
Read, and behold.
Come on guys, how dare you post an article where the ONLY link was a page full of pictures? :-S It's been only 3 minutes and it's /.'ed already!
--
One link. Little bandwidth. Many pictures. ONE MILLION REQUESTS.
Slashdot: The movie.
Take a look at SourceForge. The project was acquired by some company and abandoned.
Another company forked, and brought us GForge, which incorporates SVN and other improvements. Too bad GForge isn't used by the SourceForge site itself.
Food for thought.
UK citizens are accustomed to participate more in society (in general) than US citizens are?
Because most mothers work now and refuse to stay home in a "denigrated role of the passive housewife"?
Does it like sushi?
:P <--- oops i meant to say ^^; (it's Japan we're talking about!)
Hmmm why not call it the "Otaku" bug?
Obe wan kenobi is rolling over in his grave.
What grave? He was disintegrated, remember? Oh, "obE wan"... nevermind. Who's obE wan, btw?
There'll be a boat next to him. Around the 5th km, he'll give up, and say: "Well, at least I tried". Then he'll become an Icon of "you never know until you try", and a whole marketing campaign will rise from this.
G4fhub1 <-- My acronym password taken from a famous sci-fi horror movie starring Sigourney Weaver.
Or how about this Charlemagne?
Lm4b7r47747bf75
Now that I think about it... isn't the real reason for poor passwords, the poor imagination of the users?
What's biotech got to do with this? Nanotubes are ANYTHING but organic. (OK they got carbon yeah, but you get the point).
/. add a "nanotech" topic, for once? And use a nanotube picture as the icon. There we could deal with nanotubes, nanotransistors, quantum dots, yadda yadda yadda.
Shouldn't
but the whole nanotube/buckyball thing started at Rice
As long as it's not transgenic - oh wait...