Thanks for the advice. But I already have a "real job," and considering mine sounds significantly better than yours, maybe you should be taking advice instead of giving it out.
It's not a journalists job to know about developing software. That's what they hired you for.
When somebody hands you a project, it's your job as the programmer to say, "This project will take X months to complete; require these tools and resources, which cost $Y; and will delay the other project(s) I am working on. Do you still want me to start this project?" And if they say, "Well we need it in half that time for $0," it's your job to explain why that isn't reasonable.
Getting business connections and capital are two parts of starting a successful bank. Doing so demonstrates you're somewhat trustworthy and have some financial sense.
How will you convince people to trust you with their money otherwise? Once you're big enough you can go by reputation, but until then most people will want evidence that you're not just some scammer. The easiest way of doing that is to get capital and business connections...
I don't personally know anybody, but there are thousands of banks in the United States, so it must be possible to start one...
In fact, a quick web search turns up this news story about people starting their own banks. And little more searching turns up the FDIC site for bankers, which presumably has information and forms required for opening a bank.
As others have pointed out, the main difficulty would be establishing credibility. "Hey, I'm some guy, trust me with your savings," just isn't going to cut it.
I hike, camp and mountain bike a lot, and I've found tons of uses for Google Earth.
I'll use it for research before going out on a trip. It has a convenient "Ruler" tool that I use for rough estimates of trip distance. I also like using it to spot interesting terrain near where I'll be, that I might not have have noticed otherwise. It's even helpful for mundane stuff like finding areas that might have good camping sites.
When I get back home I'll use it, along with GPS Visualizer, to plot GPS tracks. It gives a better idea of the landscape than plotting over a topo map or plain satellite images.
It's also useful for identifying mountains and other landmarks that I see while out. I can always whip out a topo map and figure it out from that, but Google Earth is easier and more accurate because I can position the viewport to closely match what I saw.
FUD stands for "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt." The only person spreading FUD is the person claiming that cap and trade is 'socialism' without actually supporting his argument.
Cap and trade is direct government interference with the market to protect people from themselves and/or others. How is it anything but socialism? Meanwhile, your original claim that cap and trade is a free market solution to pollution directly contradicts the definition of a free market, yet you continue to insist it doesn't.
This means society collectively subsidizes the production of the good. Sounds a lot like socialism to me!
That doesn't change the fact that calling "cap and trade" a "free market solution" is a lie.
If you want to say "We need to resort to socialism to solve this problem," then say it. Don't spread FUD by claiming cap and trade is a free market solution to the problem when it isn't.
Say what you want about cap and trade, but you can't rightly call it "free market".
Government mandated interference, like "cap and trade," is the antithesis of free market principles. A free market, by definition, is one without government interference.
Cap and trade is called a "free market" solution by anti-capitalism folks, so that they can promote their agenda when it fails. Incorrectly labeling cap and trade as "free market" hides the fact that it's actually socialist government interference that's failing. When cap and trade fails, they can say, "Well look how much the free market sucks, cap and trade couldn't even solve pollution."
If it matters, and I would say it doesn't, I would guess the companies have exactly the same motivation as any other contributor. Specifically, they want a feature implemented which currently isn't.
The ability to modify software to fit your needs is the biggest benefit of using open source software. It's kinda silly to think companies wouldn't take advantage of it.
From my limited experience, the biggest problem with video editors on Linux is lack of stability. Cinelarra, LiVES, and Kdenlive crash so much they're not even usable. To make it worse, most of the crashes are random and unreproducible, so it's hard to submit helpful bug reports.
The way I see it, all OpenShot has to do is not crash every 10 minutes and it'll be light years ahead of the competition.
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100% incompetence.
I would bet all the money I have that 99.99% of these problems are caused by people not taking the time to learn the standard library of whatever programming language they're using. For some reason there's a gut instinct among programmers that they have to write all date processing code themselves. I can think of 4 separate occasions, off the top of my head, where I've replaced dozens of lines of sketchy, hand roled, date formatting code with a single call to strftime.
That may be true, but there's also borders.com, barnesandnoble.com, and a million other websites selling physical books, but only Amazon selling Kindle e-books.
I don't think Amazon's numbers can be used that way. There are thousands of places to buy physical books, but you pretty much have to buy Kindle e-books from Amazon.
For example, I only buy books from Amazon if it's not in the local Borders and Barnes and Noble. The price is close enough to not matter, and I don't like to wait for shipping.
On the other hand, if I wanted to buy a Kindle e-book, I could only buy it from Amazon...
None of the things on your list require any kind of private information that wouldn't already be available in the government's own records.
In the context of the 4th amendment, gathering information about individuals is very much tied to limiting freedom, because the implication is that the information will be used to prosecute and/or punish them.
Okay, maybe I use it too much to see it, but what's complicated about Emacs? There are like a half dozen things to learn, then you can navigate through the entire thing and do just about anything.
In comparison, Visual Studio is a never-ending maze of menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes.
I'm sorry, but I can't imagine this happening. First, even the densest idiot realizes multiple people can have the same name. Unless you work for a literal retard, I don't think you'd have a problem.
And besides that, getting a DUI fucks up your life a lot more than getting your name posted to twitter. Little things like having your license revoked, getting thrown in jail, and spending a bunch of time in court. Again, unless you work for a retard, your driving into work should tip them off that it wasn't you.
Worst case scenario is your boss says "I see you got a DUI" (as if he's following that twitter account, lol), then you whip out your license and prove him wrong. Maybe a 30 second inconvenience.
How can people on Slashdot be so fucking dumb? If Comcast wanted to sell your name to the RIAA or MPAA, they already have all the information they need. Hell, they could hand over your credit card number, if they wanted to.
Yeah, Comcast sucks, but use your fucking brains, people.
It's not like they had a revenue stream before. Bandwidth is their only cost, and with a fraction of the traffic, their costs are going to plummet.
Besides, even if they go broke, they'll still be better off than if they had to pay a 5 million euro fine.
On a side note, where are all the "But I only use torrents for legal stuff" people? From the impression people like to give most of the time, only listing legal torrents should be a huge plus. LOL!
Won't this just push more people to bit-torrent? I'm not one to promote torrenting movies, but this seems pretty obvious - the only legal copies will be more expensive, and there will be DVD rips on the torrent sites because the movie is out for sale...
No, it's not unfortunate. When I give money to a corporation in exchange for a product, my expectations for the money I end there. I get the item I paid for, and they get the money. If they want to spend the money on hookers and blow, I don't give a shit. There's no expectation that they'll spend the money in any particular way. It's a completely voluntary transaction.
That's not the case with the government. The government isn't selling a product. Taxes aren't voluntary. There's an expectation that tax money will be spent in a way that benefits everybody. That's the only reason we allow the government to take the money from us in the first place.
When a corporation spends money foolishly you can shop somewhere else or quit or whatever. When the government does it you're just screwed.
Stop having so many wars... they're expensive! Iraq and Afghanistan, ~$150 billion a year. How many bullet train systems could you buy?
Not to justify the war in Iraq, but $150 billion a year isn't shit compared to the $2 trillion the government's spent on bailouts in the last year. Even going by the (likely biased) http://costofwar.com/, that's twice the amount spent on the entire Iraq and Afgahnistan wars. And that's just one year.
The point is, you can't just point out one thing and say, "It's because of that." The government's spending crazy amounts of money all over the place, on a TON of shit that it shouldn't be spending money on. I'm kinda surprised we keep voting in these morons. First Bush, now Obama. I'm almost scared to think about who's gonna be next.
Re:Do we need the anti-smoking jab
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Instead of that, how about making sure that smokers don't smoke when there are non-smokers nearby?
WTF do you people do? "Hey, look! A smoker! Let's go stand next to him!" Do you really encounter enough people smoking on a daily basis that you feel it's negatively impacting your health?
The majority of smokers I've known are always careful to ask before they light up. If you haven't found that to be the case, maybe your real problem is hanging around with assholes?
Smokers right to smoke should end where non-smokers lungs begin. Yes, that would mean banning smoking in public places.
Yes, and your right to talk should end where my ears begin. Maybe we can ban cell phones and conversation in public while we're at it.
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So, my new neighbours are heavy smokers. The prevailing winds blow their smoke straight into my house. Given your maxim that nobody should be able to tell anyone else how to live their life - so I can't dicate they give up smoking and they can't dictate I install air filters or a giant windbreak or move elsewhere - what solution does the wise prince propose that still lets my family have clean air?
So, you can think of a bunch of solutions, you just don't want to do any of them. And although you should be able to do whatever you want, your neighbor should obey your every command? That's what your saying, right?
Tolerating people who do things you don't like is part of living in society. If that's really so terrible you can always move out to the middle of nowhere where you won't have to deal with it
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The way Sun was being run they would have gone bankrupt and all the projects would have been lost anyway.
Your comment describes the situation perfectly. You want all the goodness, but you don't want to pay for it.
Butthurt much?
Thanks for the advice. But I already have a "real job," and considering mine sounds significantly better than yours, maybe you should be taking advice instead of giving it out.
IMO, that sounds like a fail on your part.
It's not a journalists job to know about developing software. That's what they hired you for.
When somebody hands you a project, it's your job as the programmer to say, "This project will take X months to complete; require these tools and resources, which cost $Y; and will delay the other project(s) I am working on. Do you still want me to start this project?" And if they say, "Well we need it in half that time for $0," it's your job to explain why that isn't reasonable.
Getting business connections and capital are two parts of starting a successful bank. Doing so demonstrates you're somewhat trustworthy and have some financial sense.
How will you convince people to trust you with their money otherwise? Once you're big enough you can go by reputation, but until then most people will want evidence that you're not just some scammer. The easiest way of doing that is to get capital and business connections...
I don't personally know anybody, but there are thousands of banks in the United States, so it must be possible to start one...
In fact, a quick web search turns up this news story about people starting their own banks. And little more searching turns up the FDIC site for bankers, which presumably has information and forms required for opening a bank.
As others have pointed out, the main difficulty would be establishing credibility. "Hey, I'm some guy, trust me with your savings," just isn't going to cut it.
I hike, camp and mountain bike a lot, and I've found tons of uses for Google Earth.
I'll use it for research before going out on a trip. It has a convenient "Ruler" tool that I use for rough estimates of trip distance. I also like using it to spot interesting terrain near where I'll be, that I might not have have noticed otherwise. It's even helpful for mundane stuff like finding areas that might have good camping sites.
When I get back home I'll use it, along with GPS Visualizer, to plot GPS tracks. It gives a better idea of the landscape than plotting over a topo map or plain satellite images.
It's also useful for identifying mountains and other landmarks that I see while out. I can always whip out a topo map and figure it out from that, but Google Earth is easier and more accurate because I can position the viewport to closely match what I saw.
Cap and trade is direct government interference with the market to protect people from themselves and/or others. How is it anything but socialism? Meanwhile, your original claim that cap and trade is a free market solution to pollution directly contradicts the definition of a free market, yet you continue to insist it doesn't.
That doesn't change the fact that calling "cap and trade" a "free market solution" is a lie.
If you want to say "We need to resort to socialism to solve this problem," then say it. Don't spread FUD by claiming cap and trade is a free market solution to the problem when it isn't.
Say what you want about cap and trade, but you can't rightly call it "free market".
Government mandated interference, like "cap and trade," is the antithesis of free market principles. A free market, by definition, is one without government interference.
Cap and trade is called a "free market" solution by anti-capitalism folks, so that they can promote their agenda when it fails. Incorrectly labeling cap and trade as "free market" hides the fact that it's actually socialist government interference that's failing. When cap and trade fails, they can say, "Well look how much the free market sucks, cap and trade couldn't even solve pollution."
If it matters, and I would say it doesn't, I would guess the companies have exactly the same motivation as any other contributor. Specifically, they want a feature implemented which currently isn't.
The ability to modify software to fit your needs is the biggest benefit of using open source software. It's kinda silly to think companies wouldn't take advantage of it.
From my limited experience, the biggest problem with video editors on Linux is lack of stability. Cinelarra, LiVES, and Kdenlive crash so much they're not even usable. To make it worse, most of the crashes are random and unreproducible, so it's hard to submit helpful bug reports.
The way I see it, all OpenShot has to do is not crash every 10 minutes and it'll be light years ahead of the competition.
100% incompetence.
I would bet all the money I have that 99.99% of these problems are caused by people not taking the time to learn the standard library of whatever programming language they're using. For some reason there's a gut instinct among programmers that they have to write all date processing code themselves. I can think of 4 separate occasions, off the top of my head, where I've replaced dozens of lines of sketchy, hand roled, date formatting code with a single call to strftime.
That may be true, but there's also borders.com, barnesandnoble.com, and a million other websites selling physical books, but only Amazon selling Kindle e-books.
I don't think Amazon's numbers can be used that way. There are thousands of places to buy physical books, but you pretty much have to buy Kindle e-books from Amazon.
For example, I only buy books from Amazon if it's not in the local Borders and Barnes and Noble. The price is close enough to not matter, and I don't like to wait for shipping.
On the other hand, if I wanted to buy a Kindle e-book, I could only buy it from Amazon...
None of the things on your list require any kind of private information that wouldn't already be available in the government's own records.
In the context of the 4th amendment, gathering information about individuals is very much tied to limiting freedom, because the implication is that the information will be used to prosecute and/or punish them.
Okay, maybe I use it too much to see it, but what's complicated about Emacs? There are like a half dozen things to learn, then you can navigate through the entire thing and do just about anything.
In comparison, Visual Studio is a never-ending maze of menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes.
I'm sorry, but I can't imagine this happening. First, even the densest idiot realizes multiple people can have the same name. Unless you work for a literal retard, I don't think you'd have a problem.
And besides that, getting a DUI fucks up your life a lot more than getting your name posted to twitter. Little things like having your license revoked, getting thrown in jail, and spending a bunch of time in court. Again, unless you work for a retard, your driving into work should tip them off that it wasn't you.
Worst case scenario is your boss says "I see you got a DUI" (as if he's following that twitter account, lol), then you whip out your license and prove him wrong. Maybe a 30 second inconvenience.
How can people on Slashdot be so fucking dumb? If Comcast wanted to sell your name to the RIAA or MPAA, they already have all the information they need. Hell, they could hand over your credit card number, if they wanted to.
Yeah, Comcast sucks, but use your fucking brains, people.
It's not like they had a revenue stream before. Bandwidth is their only cost, and with a fraction of the traffic, their costs are going to plummet.
Besides, even if they go broke, they'll still be better off than if they had to pay a 5 million euro fine.
On a side note, where are all the "But I only use torrents for legal stuff" people? From the impression people like to give most of the time, only listing legal torrents should be a huge plus. LOL!
Who cares? If he enjoys killing himself with cigarettes, it's his business. He's not hurting anybody but himself.
Why are some people so obsessed with controlling other people's lives?
Won't this just push more people to bit-torrent? I'm not one to promote torrenting movies, but this seems pretty obvious - the only legal copies will be more expensive, and there will be DVD rips on the torrent sites because the movie is out for sale...
No, it's not unfortunate. When I give money to a corporation in exchange for a product, my expectations for the money I end there. I get the item I paid for, and they get the money. If they want to spend the money on hookers and blow, I don't give a shit. There's no expectation that they'll spend the money in any particular way. It's a completely voluntary transaction.
That's not the case with the government. The government isn't selling a product. Taxes aren't voluntary. There's an expectation that tax money will be spent in a way that benefits everybody. That's the only reason we allow the government to take the money from us in the first place.
When a corporation spends money foolishly you can shop somewhere else or quit or whatever. When the government does it you're just screwed.
Not to justify the war in Iraq, but $150 billion a year isn't shit compared to the $2 trillion the government's spent on bailouts in the last year. Even going by the (likely biased) http://costofwar.com/, that's twice the amount spent on the entire Iraq and Afgahnistan wars. And that's just one year.
The point is, you can't just point out one thing and say, "It's because of that." The government's spending crazy amounts of money all over the place, on a TON of shit that it shouldn't be spending money on. I'm kinda surprised we keep voting in these morons. First Bush, now Obama. I'm almost scared to think about who's gonna be next.
WTF do you people do? "Hey, look! A smoker! Let's go stand next to him!" Do you really encounter enough people smoking on a daily basis that you feel it's negatively impacting your health?
The majority of smokers I've known are always careful to ask before they light up. If you haven't found that to be the case, maybe your real problem is hanging around with assholes?
Yes, and your right to talk should end where my ears begin. Maybe we can ban cell phones and conversation in public while we're at it.
So, you can think of a bunch of solutions, you just don't want to do any of them. And although you should be able to do whatever you want, your neighbor should obey your every command? That's what your saying, right?
Tolerating people who do things you don't like is part of living in society. If that's really so terrible you can always move out to the middle of nowhere where you won't have to deal with it