Oh my GAWD! You mean I could lose almost $3.00 a year if I don't unplug my PS2?
But wait! Let's assume that it takes me 30 seconds to get off my lazy ass...
Install a PowerBar and flip the switch when you go to bed. (1 sec time spent turning off * 365 days)/60 seconds = 6.03minutes
5.15hr/60minutes =.085833333_
* 6.03 Minutes = 51 Cents.
Still save enough to $2.10 per Year. Plug your whole entertainment setup into this power bar and that savings increases by the # of appliances * their current leak.
But hey, maybe your redneck math and you are right, what can 1 geek do. Why should you be concerned that you are wasting a finite resource while you sleep, just because that finite resource will outlast your expected lifetime. I say fire up the fireplace and turn on the AC and go on vacation, don't forget to leave a ight on.
No copyright is about copy ( read Txt, Print ) and your rights to reproduce it.
Code I write is just as protected as your sprawling rant and vica versa. If you had but read the article, you would have found this nugget.
Copyright trigger
Lessig would like to see copyright reduced to 14 years, renewable to 28, as laid down by the 1710 Statute of Anne, the basis of all subsequent legislation in the UK and many countries. He also wants the emphasis on copying as the trigger for copyright to be removed. "In a digital age, copying is as natural as breathing" - every web page you view is technically a copy - "and the idea that the law should be invoked every time there's a trigger of copying is totally inefficient." He suggests a different approach: "[If] you're distributing something publicly for commercial purposes then that's the appropriate thing to be taxing with the copyright act."
More realistically, Lessig is trying to limit the damage that copyright extensions cause to culture by requiring people to register for them, rather than receiving them automatically. "The vast majority would never request the extension, and so most stuff would pass into the public domain and the cost of perpetually extending copyrights would disappear."
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The weird thing is that I made every dime of that money working with open source products. But until I was a Microsoft partner, nobody would talk to me. Then I went back to the same companies that turned me down, and the word "Microsoft" somehow meant I was more qualified to work on their LAMP stack applications. Sure, that's retarded. We all know that. But that's the way it happened.........Microsoft saved my ass. Open source just kicked it. Screw you people, I know who butters my bread.
No asshat, Screw You, LAMP is FLOSS, you work on it you get paid, period. Open Source pays your check. Microsoft just helped your marketing, If you were any good at marketing you wouldn't have to.
If you want to be paid, get a job. My job pays me to develop Open Source software, and maintain the closed stuff. New apps are Open because I get to choose.
Granted, if you want to write Open Source software in your mom's basement, you won't make very much.
After perusing your blog I could find no open source from you. Just rants about how its evil.
Show us where the free software touched you, Jimmy. Really you seem angry. Couldn't make any money, I see.
If your goal is to write,maintain, use, support a useful application (or device containing FOSS) open source is the only Ethical answer, However, if your goal is to make a boatload of cash you should probably not bother with software support. Because you didn't understand this you failed. Alot of people mistakenly thought there is a huge market out there to support FOSS but the truth is the market is in delivering the product the customer wants. e.g. Customer needs Web Server, hmmm 2000 to microsoft + hardware + Installation + Setup OR Hardware+Installation+Setup leaves a very hefty 2000 grand in my pocket or towards better/faster hardware. Plus I get the support contract which is rarely needed if at all. Customer is happy in both cases. You see.
Damn, I didn't even see that Don't Feed the Troll sign, Moving Along sir.
I will be, too. Everybody wins, but especially Nintendo."
Except for the ROM pirates. They are likely to see a crackdown on ROM distrobution.
Everybody wins, Especially the ROM "Pirates"
It wasn't that we didn't want to pay for our games, its that a metric ton of them were relegated to the scrap heap or were only released as a full AAA retail price collection (or worse "Updated", I'm looking at you Sega). The continued efforts of ROM pirates against what can only be described as a herculean legal effort by Nintendo. forced Nintendo to see the market. Took Waaaaay too long but the time is now. We just want to be able to play kid Icarus without rehooking up 10-15yr old equipment to our hdtv. Thank You, Yarrr! Not sure if I will now stop using my collection of games I own on my Linux Box, But i know I won't be actively searching for any more to fill out the 7 I'm missing from SNES or 20 from NES.
I will however gladly pay the a reasonable moderate sum to Play them with my Wii.
I can't even believe a modern corporation is going to make me answer questions like "Where is our daughter?"with answers like "In her room playing with her Wii!" or "She's at Jimmys playing with his Wii". It is damn funny though.
That argument in an (WAY) oversimplified nutshell: You and four others are in a hot air balloon and the balloon begiuns to sink into a volcano (too much weight!). Some quick calulations reveal that if just one of you jumped overboard the rest would survive. Do you toss someone overboard? If so, how do you determine who? Destruction of the embryo to save other lives is akin, in this argument, to saying that you determine the person to toss overboard by evaluating their life and determining which one has the fewest friends and family who will miss them, or alternatively by which is least capable of fending off the forced toss.
Piece of cake. If I realize I could save the others, it probably me who's Jumping. Analogy kind of falls apart. Now, to fix your analogy there are 3 Humans and an unborn underdeveloped fetus in a sack on board I GREW it for Weighting the ballon down, see ya sandbag.
From the always accurate Wikipedia:
Current regulations prohibit federal funding for research into human cloning, which effectively prevents such research from occurring in public institutions and private institution such as universities which receive federal funding. However, there are currently no laws in the United States which ban cloning completely, and any such laws would raise difficult Constitutional questions similar to the issues raised by abortion.
Not sure, but my reading is: all Federal Funding can be pulled for institutions using cloning for stem cell research.
Kind of like no funding for Sexual Education if it isn't Abstinence only. They won't just fund the Abstinence portion.
Somebody please post the relevant text of the legislation, I can't seem to locate it.
That makes the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like a humanitarian mission.
Dude, Step back and reread that sentance. Nothing does that. Did it save lives American and Japanese, Maybe. Was it reprehensible Yes. Was it morrally justified. Debatable, You'd lose but you could argue it. Under no circumstances could you argue it from a humanitarian angle. Just Blackmail. Surrender or we will continue to wipe out more cities full of innocent civilians.
Wow, did you learn that in the Peace corps?
Almost speechless at the thought. I'm an american citizen, sometimes I look back at history and can see the justifications for the terrible evils governments impose on nations including their own. That does not mean I think they were "The Right Thing to do" and 60yrs later your revisionist history lesson sickens me.
They do learn quick but it may take a while. Back when my daughter was 18months she loved nothing more than sitting in my lap and playing (Appropriate) games with me. Amazing how quiet she was and how close we became. She's 9 now and I bet she would smoke you and me. She prefers Web Games on her machine.
Which brings up the next cautionary note. Playing on her own, She very quickly passed the point of the typical Learning Games. Went through all the reader rabbit and similar games faster than I could purchase them. She has to get a new computer (or Upgrade) every time her brothers do (17/18) to play the "Good" games her brothers are playing. Pretty strange to hear "Daddy, I need a faster CPU and GPU to be able to play Half-Life 2, oh yeah and some more RAM wouldn't hurt." coming from your 8 yr old little girl. But she can happily play the hell out of it on her TUXBox now. Thankfully she prefers web based anime MMOs this year. Except now I have to monitor her chats more than I used to. At least I don't have to get SLI for Oblivion for one of the kids.
The upshot to all this is there is a lan party on demand at my house 7 days a week. After a long days coding nothing quite says family like fragging your kids for 2 hrs after dinner. May I also take this time to recommend a few games. Warsow, OpenArena, Nexuiz and AlienArena for such purposes, 2 windows boxes 2 tuxboxes happily devastating each other.
Note: Uptime - the time since last reboot is explained in the FAQ Time in Days
Plotted Value No. samples Max Latest
Windows Server 2003 253 189.02 29.22
90-day Moving average 721 129.46 67.22
I've had several racing games that won't allow me to drive certain cars until I do something that requires more free time than I have.
Stab in the Dark, Probably NFSU2?
When it comes down to spending time with the kids, working, spending time with the wife, and playing games, the playing games is always going to come in last.
I have a system I'll share with you and all. Let your kids Grind through and unlock the cars while you are at work. They feel that sense of accomplishment you used to enjoy and you still get to rip up all the tracks in your favorite ride.
NOTE: Use generic Usernames or you will constantly hear Are you playing MY game. No I'm playing Driver's Game, Right now I'm the Driver, go play on "Your" Gamecube.
Planetismals, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetesimal
From the "experts" @ About.com
Planetesimals refers to a phase in the build-up process toward planet formation in a young solar system. Generally, the term is equated to "asteroid sized bodies" (0.5- 25 miles across) that coalesce or "accrete" to larger sized bodies, on the way to planetary objects.
This definition, of course, means that one would only find "planetesimals" in a young solar system still in the process of formation.
One would not find them in an already formed solar system such as we inhabit.
I'm almost sick of how good Google is at everything they try to do. Except I come to depend on it. Not this app particularly (Runs like a dog on my 400Mhz Windows workstation.), but most of their other products are lifesaving where was this before type Apps, Google Earth, Mail, Maps, ToolBar, SketchUp (New Favorite), and i think they also made a search engine, Wonder how its doing.
Having said all that, Let me just take this text to say, Thank You GoogleMeisters, Thank you.
I love this. From Wine mailing List. The Picasa for Linux team had a blast. It's not often you
get to pour resources into a vital open source project to help
ship a commercial application! We hope we get to do it again
sometime soon, and we hope the results are good enough to
encourage other companies to give Wine a try.
Let me echo a slightly paraphrased version of the above.
It is not often that the company you work for allows/pays you to pour resources into a vital open source project, but when it does happen it feels very satisfying to be paid to contribute to "the common good".
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Install a PowerBar and flip the switch when you go to bed. (1 sec time spent turning off * 365 days) /60 seconds = 6.03minutes
5.15hr/60minutes = .085833333_
* 6.03 Minutes = 51 Cents.
Still save enough to $2.10 per Year. Plug your whole entertainment setup into this power bar and that savings increases by the # of appliances * their current leak.
But hey, maybe your redneck math and you are right, what can 1 geek do. Why should you be concerned that you are wasting a finite resource while you sleep, just because that finite resource will outlast your expected lifetime. I say fire up the fireplace and turn on the AC and go on vacation, don't forget to leave a ight on.
They won't believe you.
Porn Strikes Back!
Although maybe burying it away from mankind could be seen as a charitable act.
Really, I mean who cares if its open source or free software. GNU/Linux or just Linux.
Pluto is a Planette. [TM], there problem solved. Pronounced the same so the teachers won't be wrong.
Code I write is just as protected as your sprawling rant and vica versa. If you had but read the article, you would have found this nugget.
Copyright trigger Lessig would like to see copyright reduced to 14 years, renewable to 28, as laid down by the 1710 Statute of Anne, the basis of all subsequent legislation in the UK and many countries. He also wants the emphasis on copying as the trigger for copyright to be removed. "In a digital age, copying is as natural as breathing" - every web page you view is technically a copy - "and the idea that the law should be invoked every time there's a trigger of copying is totally inefficient." He suggests a different approach: "[If] you're distributing something publicly for commercial purposes then that's the appropriate thing to be taxing with the copyright act."
More realistically, Lessig is trying to limit the damage that copyright extensions cause to culture by requiring people to register for them, rather than receiving them automatically. "The vast majority would never request the extension, and so most stuff would pass into the public domain and the cost of perpetually extending copyrights would disappear."
How are you not protected under this scheme?
Here ya go BodhiCat.
http://www.aspyr.com/games.php/mac/complete/
http://www.aspyr.com/games.php/mac/ccg/
Frustrated in Florida I'm mac-less on the space-coast. Also Frustrated less. Coincedence?
The idea of triggering only on commercial distribution is a logical no brainer. Makes perfect sense therfore will never be passed in the U.S.
Keep up the good fight LL.
Here you go Panda don't be sad.
http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft%2Bbush%2B DOJ.&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rl s=org.mozilla:en-US:official
No asshat, Screw You, LAMP is FLOSS, you work on it you get paid, period. Open Source pays your check. Microsoft just helped your marketing, If you were any good at marketing you wouldn't have to.
If you want to be paid, get a job. My job pays me to develop Open Source software, and maintain the closed stuff. New apps are Open because I get to choose.
Granted, if you want to write Open Source software in your mom's basement, you won't make very much.
After perusing your blog I could find no open source from you. Just rants about how its evil.
Show us where the free software touched you, Jimmy. Really you seem angry. Couldn't make any money, I see.
If your goal is to write,maintain, use, support a useful application (or device containing FOSS) open source is the only Ethical answer, However, if your goal is to make a boatload of cash you should probably not bother with software support. Because you didn't understand this you failed. Alot of people mistakenly thought there is a huge market out there to support FOSS but the truth is the market is in delivering the product the customer wants. e.g. Customer needs Web Server, hmmm 2000 to microsoft + hardware + Installation + Setup OR Hardware+Installation+Setup leaves a very hefty 2000 grand in my pocket or towards better/faster hardware. Plus I get the support contract which is rarely needed if at all. Customer is happy in both cases. You see .
Damn, I didn't even see that Don't Feed the Troll sign, Moving Along sir.
Everybody wins, Especially the ROM "Pirates"
It wasn't that we didn't want to pay for our games, its that a metric ton of them were relegated to the scrap heap or were only released as a full AAA retail price collection (or worse "Updated", I'm looking at you Sega). The continued efforts of ROM pirates against what can only be described as a herculean legal effort by Nintendo. forced Nintendo to see the market. Took Waaaaay too long but the time is now. We just want to be able to play kid Icarus without rehooking up 10-15yr old equipment to our hdtv. Thank You, Yarrr! Not sure if I will now stop using my collection of games I own on my Linux Box, But i know I won't be actively searching for any more to fill out the 7 I'm missing from SNES or 20 from NES.
I will however gladly pay the a reasonable moderate sum to Play them with my Wii.
I can't even believe a modern corporation is going to make me answer questions like "Where is our daughter?"with answers like "In her room playing with her Wii!" or "She's at Jimmys playing with his Wii". It is damn funny though.
Lenova corporate accounts, hello.
Yeah, uh I was just about to place an order for next years sales force laptops and I came across this article...Is it this true?..
Yes sir, our company strategy is to support Microsoft Windows only.
Hmmm.. Our corporate Stratagy is to Bury Microsoft Windows, payback is a bitch. I guess we will be placing orders for fewer laptops this year.
How Fewer?
Hello
Hello
Piece of cake. If I realize I could save the others, it probably me who's Jumping. Analogy kind of falls apart. Now, to fix your analogy there are 3 Humans and an unborn underdeveloped fetus in a sack on board I GREW it for Weighting the ballon down, see ya sandbag.
From the always accurate Wikipedia:
Current regulations prohibit federal funding for research into human cloning, which effectively prevents such research from occurring in public institutions and private institution such as universities which receive federal funding. However, there are currently no laws in the United States which ban cloning completely, and any such laws would raise difficult Constitutional questions similar to the issues raised by abortion.
Not sure, but my reading is: all Federal Funding can be pulled for institutions using cloning for stem cell research.
Kind of like no funding for Sexual Education if it isn't Abstinence only. They won't just fund the Abstinence portion.
Somebody please post the relevant text of the legislation, I can't seem to locate it.
Dude, Step back and reread that sentance. Nothing does that. Did it save lives American and Japanese, Maybe. Was it reprehensible Yes. Was it morrally justified. Debatable, You'd lose but you could argue it. Under no circumstances could you argue it from a humanitarian angle. Just Blackmail. Surrender or we will continue to wipe out more cities full of innocent civilians.
Wow, did you learn that in the Peace corps?
Almost speechless at the thought. I'm an american citizen, sometimes I look back at history and can see the justifications for the terrible evils governments impose on nations including their own. That does not mean I think they were "The Right Thing to do" and 60yrs later your revisionist history lesson sickens me.
I said almost speechless.
Which brings up the next cautionary note. Playing on her own, She very quickly passed the point of the typical Learning Games. Went through all the reader rabbit and similar games faster than I could purchase them. She has to get a new computer (or Upgrade) every time her brothers do (17/18) to play the "Good" games her brothers are playing. Pretty strange to hear "Daddy, I need a faster CPU and GPU to be able to play Half-Life 2, oh yeah and some more RAM wouldn't hurt." coming from your 8 yr old little girl. But she can happily play the hell out of it on her TUXBox now. Thankfully she prefers web based anime MMOs this year. Except now I have to monitor her chats more than I used to. At least I don't have to get SLI for Oblivion for one of the kids. The upshot to all this is there is a lan party on demand at my house 7 days a week. After a long days coding nothing quite says family like fragging your kids for 2 hrs after dinner. May I also take this time to recommend a few games. Warsow, OpenArena, Nexuiz and AlienArena for such purposes, 2 windows boxes 2 tuxboxes happily devastating each other.
Note: Uptime - the time since last reboot is explained in the FAQ Time in Days
Plotted Value No. samples Max Latest
Windows Server 2003 253 189.02 29.22
90-day Moving average 721 129.46 67.22
Source http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=microsoft .com
Max 189.02 days. Any more Questions?
Curiously, Spanked by SCO listed as Linux. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=https://w ww.sco.com
304 days currently
Stab in the Dark, Probably NFSU2?
When it comes down to spending time with the kids, working, spending time with the wife, and playing games, the playing games is always going to come in last.
I have a system I'll share with you and all. Let your kids Grind through and unlock the cars while you are at work. They feel that sense of accomplishment you used to enjoy and you still get to rip up all the tracks in your favorite ride.
NOTE: Use generic Usernames or you will constantly hear Are you playing MY game. No I'm playing Driver's Game, Right now I'm the Driver, go play on "Your" Gamecube.
From the "experts" @ About.com
Planetesimals refers to a phase in the build-up process toward planet formation in a young solar system. Generally, the term is equated to "asteroid sized bodies" (0.5- 25 miles across) that coalesce or "accrete" to larger sized bodies, on the way to planetary objects. This definition, of course, means that one would only find "planetesimals" in a young solar system still in the process of formation. One would not find them in an already formed solar system such as we inhabit.
Seems to fit the description.
Planetoids http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetoid
My personal favorite designation for tiny planet-like objects ..... Planettes. [TM]
Have you confirmed this with NetCraft?
Training for the Oympics, Baby!
Moe Ron.
Having said all that, Let me just take this text to say, Thank You GoogleMeisters, Thank you.
I love this. From Wine mailing List.
The Picasa for Linux team had a blast. It's not often you get to pour resources into a vital open source project to help ship a commercial application! We hope we get to do it again sometime soon, and we hope the results are good enough to encourage other companies to give Wine a try.
Let me echo a slightly paraphrased version of the above.
It is not often that the company you work for allows/pays you to pour resources into a vital open source project, but when it does happen it feels very satisfying to be paid to contribute to "the common good".
Can a non conglemeration small biz still break into the Ad Revenue Racket? Only If you partner up with one of these GIANTS of TECHNOLOGY.
Remember when it wasn't all about the advertising? Yeah me either.
Vote Quimby This message brought to you by special interest groups working to further thier own interests.
Their Charters.
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