There seems to be some assumption that "community" means "unpaid". Not at all. The Free Software community includes a whole lot of people who get paid to use software to meet the needs of employers. If meeting those needs involves improving bits of Free Software, the employer benefits from having those contributions integrated into the product.
I suspect that the provided statistic is true of a large number of *SUCESSFUL* open source projects, Apache and OpenOffice come to mind.
Plato came up with those ideas, not Heinlein. And the movie was a critique of Heinlein's cretinous ideas for social engineering. Maybe you could get that into your doctoral thesis.
Important observations, though I'd argue that the movie was more of a critique of mindless american jingoism and the worship of the action hero, much like Team America was.
Any balanced treatment of Heinlein's work would have to go into great detail about his ever-changing and occasionally dubious moral and political philosophy.
I contemplated attempting to explain those subtleties... but I just sighed deeply and hit submit instead. I think you explained it well. (Or at least better than I would have...)
You should only be allowed to vote if you pass a test with questions about political issues.
Absolutely. If you'd read the book, you'd know that the military in Starship Troopers had extensive and fairly balanced civic and political education. I don't agree with Heinlein about everything but, having read almost everything he's written, I'd definitely say he's worth reading.
Hmmm... it just occurred to me that I could probably write the first draft of doctoral dissertation on Heinlein's work without pausing to breath...
All right... all right... but apart from the computer and the space shuttle and the internet and atomic power and better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what has the government done for us?
Many things, but Slashdot, Ddiggs and the like seem to be doing pretty well, no?
Slashdot is not (very) politically sensitive. As soon as you have content that is and a mechanism that can be manipulated by individuals you will find you have attracted the attention of people like the government of China and their masses of individuals that they PAY to astroturf.
If each IP adress can give a mark to each web page based on if they think the result is relevant and useful enough, then that should filter the "problems". On the other side... bye bye anonymity!
If you can't take it all in at once, what's the big deal? Wouldn't Google earth have the largest 'photo' since it has an interactive view of the entire globe stitched together?
A 26 gigapixel image is cool for any computer geek / graphics nut / photographer.
I for one welcome our new, gigapixel image toting, overlords
Slashdot Mirror
There seems to be some assumption that "community" means "unpaid". Not at all. The Free Software community includes a whole lot of people who get paid to use software to meet the needs of employers. If meeting those needs involves improving bits of Free Software, the employer benefits from having those contributions integrated into the product.
I suspect that the provided statistic is true of a large number of *SUCESSFUL* open source projects, Apache and OpenOffice come to mind.
Well, it certainly explains why Linux is starting to suffer from severe bloat.
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...Now it's largely professional...
BS, I have worked with lots of professionals who are excellent devs and work to show off their best skills.
When did "excitement" become a proper noun?
The day after Enlightenment.
Slashdot: Rise of the Mutants
Windows users are in the dark and fucked.
You make that sound like a bad thing.
* /me adds "Defiantly Amusing" as a bullet point to his CV*
His IT 'business' targets delivering the lowest possible acceptable product and uses monopoly power to set the price.
You have an IT department that does not do this? Are you hiring?
Pro
Cons
Counter proposal: have you tried carpet bombing a small third world country today?
You forgot the sunscreen... never forget the sunscreen.
It was also a people that tricked a fortified enemy city with a giant horse as a gift with solders hidden inside.
Actually... the horse was made by Greeks, it fooled the Trojans. (Hence the phrase; "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts".)
No mod points when you need 'em, well said.
Only if you dual wield dual core processors...
I prefer to equip my quad core offhand and lay about me like a madman with a USB cable... but to each his own.
Where's the problem?
Probably the ulcer and chronic migraines.
Microsoft also wants to participate in Blu-ray development- I heard the next release will be capable of 2 GB.
But the SVG rendering will be awesome!
Plato came up with those ideas, not Heinlein. And the movie was a critique of Heinlein's cretinous ideas for social engineering. Maybe you could get that into your doctoral thesis.
Important observations, though I'd argue that the movie was more of a critique of mindless american jingoism and the worship of the action hero, much like Team America was.
Any balanced treatment of Heinlein's work would have to go into great detail about his ever-changing and occasionally dubious moral and political philosophy.
Whoa, the motion blur image with the birds and the mountain is nice, what game is that screenshot from??!!1
Reality 1.0, very popular MMO with billions of users. Excellent graphics but the developers have been very unresponsive to bug reports.
I contemplated attempting to explain those subtleties... but I just sighed deeply and hit submit instead. I think you explained it well. (Or at least better than I would have...)
You should only be allowed to vote if you pass a test with questions about political issues.
Absolutely. If you'd read the book, you'd know that the military in Starship Troopers had extensive and fairly balanced civic and political education. I don't agree with Heinlein about everything but, having read almost everything he's written, I'd definitely say he's worth reading.
Hmmm... it just occurred to me that I could probably write the first draft of doctoral dissertation on Heinlein's work without pausing to breath...
All right... all right... but apart from the computer and the space shuttle and the internet and atomic power and better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what has the government done for us?
Brought peace? Uh scratch that...
That feature is covered by the base "No chicks" edition 360.
One of the many features that the PS3 can match.
What about Kurdish fat people?
Or Armenians? We all know how tolerant and ethnically diverse Turkey is.
Many things, but Slashdot, Ddiggs and the like seem to be doing pretty well, no?
Slashdot is not (very) politically sensitive. As soon as you have content that is and a mechanism that can be manipulated by individuals you will find you have attracted the attention of people like the government of China and their masses of individuals that they PAY to astroturf.
If each IP adress can give a mark to each web page based on if they think the result is relevant and useful enough, then that should filter the "problems". On the other side... bye bye anonymity!
What could possibly go wrong?
When I was a kid, we were so poor we only had rock and paper.
You had rocks? We DREAMED of having rocks!
If you can't take it all in at once, what's the big deal? Wouldn't Google earth have the largest 'photo' since it has an interactive view of the entire globe stitched together?
A 26 gigapixel image is cool for any computer geek / graphics nut / photographer.
I for one welcome our new, gigapixel image toting, overlords