Tivo's here are running about $40 here. If I work on it for 8 hours to get it working, that's $5 an hour.
Well, that $5 per hour is tax and deduction free, so it really ends up being like $10 per hour (more than Wal-Mart). And if you find this kind of thing at all fun, then you just got 8 hours of entertainment *and* a working DVR.
Do you have a job that pays overtime? I don't; I'm salaried. So my company is not willing to pay me anything extra if I give them those 8 hours. And Wal-Mart doesn't want to hire me for a one-time 8-hour stint (damn), or let me pick exactly which hours I want to work. And even if they did agree to the above conditions, they would probably want more than 5 minutes notice as to which 8 hours I wanted to work. It looks like hobby-DVR time!
Or maybe because the entire idea of a 'release schedule' is going away (at least for the open source projects). If a team releases version X, and then 50 security updates over the following 24 months, when was the product really released? Would you say that it was released 51 times? At the very least, marketing-driven releases don't apply.
Not to fall into a "things were better in the old days" mode
Things have gotten worse. We took a network full of college students (geeky college students at that), and opened it up to grandmothers, pre-teens, and (the source of all spam:) businesspeople. Usenet got a lot more noise and very little more signal.*
* I'm not saying that we shouldn't have opened-up the Internet, just that that decision had some negative consequences in addition to its positive consequences.
You need to look for a better class of woman. And by better, I don't mean hotter, so much as smarter and nicer. Try libraries instead of singles bars, and try reading the books instead of going for a high pickup-line hit-count. This method might seem like it would take longer than the singles bar route, but no amount of time is longer than 'never'.
I nominate the parent post as official response to the people who created the ranking mentioned in the article.
I liked the response too, but you are treading on very dangerous ground by suggesting that/. have an 'official response'. After the flamewars have settled, nearly all of our 'official responses' are going to be something like "In Soviet Korea all YOUR grits-covered Natalie Portmans are belonged to old people."
Hmm because eventually, they will make the old format undreadable by the newest version
A more immediate problem is when one of your clients sends you a Word2K document that you can't open in Word '97. You have to find a machine with Word2K to do the conversion, or ask you client to please export their document in Word '97 format and re-send it.
You are either an idiot, or just love to peddle flamebait. A thirty-second search would have found several sources to tell you that the US is about 24% Catholic (other denominations, sorted by rank: 16% Baptist, 7% Methodist, 5% Lutheran, etc.) Catholic is the largest single denomination. If you want to lump all Protestants together, then Catholics are a minority. As for the 'lies of evolution[ism]', the Catholic church recently released statements condemning both Intelligent Design and Fundamentalism. Not only do Catholic schools teach evolution in their Biology classes, but the church has many priest-scientists who follow the scientific method and openly discuss evolution as the best theory that we currently have for speciation.
You see, he is justified in being 'proud' to be an American, because being born an American is God's way of rewarding 'superior' souls. And the truly amazing souls get born as Texans.
More importantly, Linksys didn't sell a $600 router, so they didn't lose any money when you made your Linksys router more powerful. Cisco does sell expensive routers (probably none quite as cheap as $600), so a re-flashed Linksys potentially costs them a lot of money.
So with this type of sharing, the 'rich' people can make everybody else rich too...Maybe it's just the change that frightens pro-IP people most
The problem with your analogy is that it's an analogy. You cross over from money-rich to IP-rich and you don't cross back. It's not that 'change frightens pro-IP people', the problem (from their point of view) is that a world in which IP can't be monopolized prevents a few people from concentrating money-wealth in their few hands.
Red Hat will never become as rich as Microsoft, even if Microsoft is forced into bankruptcy by OSS. Red Hat will not be able to abuse their customers the way that Microsoft has been able to, thanks to Microsoft's monopoly on their IP.
"distributing money" through taxes (in) and social and other support (out) is the very most un-effective way (LOT of money is "lost" and whole process tends to be very very expensive (lot of buerocracy))
That money isn't 'lost', it is given to someone. And the creation of the bureaucracy may not be an accident. Instead of paying someone a check to sit at home, you turn them into a bureaucrat who helps hand out the checks. When the people are going to get paid regardless of whether or not they work, and you don't create productive work for them, the 'efficiency' of your bureaucracy is moot. What's really sad is that those people couldn't be put to more productive work, like our depression-era CCC or PWA.
We have the whole state's rights thing to be concerned about. The question is whether it is constitutional under the Michigan State Constitution.
Thanks to the 14th Amendment, nearly every statement in the Consitution that restricts 'Congress' also restricts state and local legislatures and officials.
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Can't you transcode your h.264 into xvid? Even if it takes 2 hours to transcode 1 hour of footage, you wouldn't notice it.
Well, that $5 per hour is tax and deduction free, so it really ends up being like $10 per hour (more than Wal-Mart). And if you find this kind of thing at all fun, then you just got 8 hours of entertainment *and* a working DVR.
Do you have a job that pays overtime? I don't; I'm salaried. So my company is not willing to pay me anything extra if I give them those 8 hours. And Wal-Mart doesn't want to hire me for a one-time 8-hour stint (damn), or let me pick exactly which hours I want to work. And even if they did agree to the above conditions, they would probably want more than 5 minutes notice as to which 8 hours I wanted to work. It looks like hobby-DVR time!
Or maybe because the entire idea of a 'release schedule' is going away (at least for the open source projects). If a team releases version X, and then 50 security updates over the following 24 months, when was the product really released? Would you say that it was released 51 times? At the very least, marketing-driven releases don't apply.
What kind of a comment is 'Oh,'?
Which thanks to recent health studies, can now be prosecuted as Attempted Murder.
Things have gotten worse. We took a network full of college students (geeky college students at that), and opened it up to grandmothers, pre-teens, and (the source of all spam:) businesspeople. Usenet got a lot more noise and very little more signal.*
* I'm not saying that we shouldn't have opened-up the Internet, just that that decision had some negative consequences in addition to its positive consequences.
It sounds like you're going for the one-man Village People Review. Are you sure you're not a metrosexual?
You need to look for a better class of woman. And by better, I don't mean hotter, so much as smarter and nicer. Try libraries instead of singles bars, and try reading the books instead of going for a high pickup-line hit-count. This method might seem like it would take longer than the singles bar route, but no amount of time is longer than 'never'.
I think that we've all known (and worked-for) men for whom 'the clothes make the man.' They tend to useless dicks unworthy of emulation.
I liked the response too, but you are treading on very dangerous ground by suggesting that /. have an 'official response'. After the flamewars have settled, nearly all of our 'official responses' are going to be something like "In Soviet Korea all YOUR grits-covered Natalie Portmans are belonged to old people."
A more immediate problem is when one of your clients sends you a Word2K document that you can't open in Word '97. You have to find a machine with Word2K to do the conversion, or ask you client to please export their document in Word '97 format and re-send it.
I OWN THE LICENSES once I purchase them? Does that mean that I can transfer my OEM OS license from one machine to another?
badly
That's just vicious FUD spread by Apple and Microsoft. X is no more likely to kill you than any other GUI technology.
For all their care and worry, bolted doors and locked-up locks, we'll all end up in safety, pushing daisies in the rocks. --The Prodigals
You are either an idiot, or just love to peddle flamebait. A thirty-second search would have found several sources to tell you that the US is about 24% Catholic (other denominations, sorted by rank: 16% Baptist, 7% Methodist, 5% Lutheran, etc.) Catholic is the largest single denomination. If you want to lump all Protestants together, then Catholics are a minority. As for the 'lies of evolution[ism]', the Catholic church recently released statements condemning both Intelligent Design and Fundamentalism. Not only do Catholic schools teach evolution in their Biology classes, but the church has many priest-scientists who follow the scientific method and openly discuss evolution as the best theory that we currently have for speciation.
You see, he is justified in being 'proud' to be an American, because being born an American is God's way of rewarding 'superior' souls. And the truly amazing souls get born as Texans.
I'm sorry, but your immune system was released under the GPL, and you must release any modifications.
Fine, you have the freedom to do so. You just don't have the freedom to not do so. :)
More importantly, Linksys didn't sell a $600 router, so they didn't lose any money when you made your Linksys router more powerful. Cisco does sell expensive routers (probably none quite as cheap as $600), so a re-flashed Linksys potentially costs them a lot of money.
No, one outcome is that spyware and EULA lose, the other outcome is that spyware and EULA win.
Scott Adams did it better. Dilbert didn't read the EULA which stated that by installing pkg X, he was agreeing to become Bill Gates' towel-boy.
The problem with your analogy is that it's an analogy. You cross over from money-rich to IP-rich and you don't cross back. It's not that 'change frightens pro-IP people', the problem (from their point of view) is that a world in which IP can't be monopolized prevents a few people from concentrating money-wealth in their few hands.
Red Hat will never become as rich as Microsoft, even if Microsoft is forced into bankruptcy by OSS. Red Hat will not be able to abuse their customers the way that Microsoft has been able to, thanks to Microsoft's monopoly on their IP.
That money isn't 'lost', it is given to someone. And the creation of the bureaucracy may not be an accident. Instead of paying someone a check to sit at home, you turn them into a bureaucrat who helps hand out the checks. When the people are going to get paid regardless of whether or not they work, and you don't create productive work for them, the 'efficiency' of your bureaucracy is moot. What's really sad is that those people couldn't be put to more productive work, like our depression-era CCC or PWA.
Thanks to the 14th Amendment, nearly every statement in the Consitution that restricts 'Congress' also restricts state and local legislatures and officials.