1. the corporate sponsors: companies like Red Hat, IBM, Canonical, etc. who sponsor coders to write code. They profit by reselling the hard work FOSS coders contribute.
2. the private contractors: companies you've never heard of who take open source software, use it to build their own codes in-house for analysis (think CFD, CAD, math models, etc.) and then sell the results. They never feed anything back into the ecosystem, they take your hard work, imrpove and use it, and sell derived results.
Both are technically legal, nothing wrong with either, but leave FOSS volunteers without anything in return, monetary or otherwise. They are making money. Why you or anyone else might work in the FOSS ecosystem? That's a personal decision you have to come to terms with. Find your own reason to be.
The point is, you have a bunch of different, independant projects under multiple licenses. Some not even documented - I have my own code I haven't released to the world. So how are "they" going to "shut me down"?
This is all crazy talk. OK, so they catch GNU Radio, and a few high profile projects like Athena, SoftRock's, SDR-IQ's, etc. but they have no way of catching the hundreds and thousands of individual experimenters. Do some searches for amateur radio + software defined radio and discover the community that's doing this stuff, together and alone. There's no way to just "shut down" these activities, the notion is just silly. That's my whole point. Tens of commercial projects, hundreds of hobby projects, thousands of practitioners. Many pieces of code and hardware that have never been documented outside of personal notes, no reason to suspect. Good luck.
I didn't say it couldn't. I just said there were other, active, cheap implementations with people actually doing it, right now. And pointed to an example. So if GNU Radio went away, who cares? There's 10+ other projects with hundreds of other people who would go right along without ever knowing the difference. They are building their own hardware and software from scratch. Kinda hard to stop.
The original article is pretty tame. Nowhere does "Rev. Richard Patrick is blaming violent video games and music for crimes that he say has affected 90% of his congregation in one way or another". Rather he answers the question "Have you been affected personally by the violence", in which he responds, "Not only has it affected me, but, I would say, 90 percent of the congregation has been affected in some way by violence or crime."
The closest he comes to bringing games to violence is when he answeres the question "How significant a problem do you believe violent video games and violent rap music is" with "It has a tremendous influence on young people and violence. That's basically all they see. Most of them try to emulate what they see, when in reality, the people they see don't even live in those communities. Some of the rappers they see on TV portraying crime don't live in the urban areas -- they live in the suburbs somewhere. It's all a facade."
Where I think, to a point, he's straight on. Note, he never says "games cause violence". Rather he says the same thing most parents will tell you about kids, and most computer scientists will tell you about comptuers - garbage in, garbage out. What you surround yourself with is what you become familiar with. And the sad part is, like he says, it's all a facade.
Please, RTFA before blowing it out of proportions.
Sure it does. People of the community have put on their own digital frequency bases, making a flexible IF covering whatever frequency range they are interested in. Some cover the entire HF spectrum. There is no set software distribution - there are maybe 10 or 20 different software projects in use out there. Many are free. Many on the mailing list are tinkerers. Some decode HDTV. Some do encryption. Yeah, I'd argue it's definitely in scope with GNU Radio, and it's probably got a bigger base. Not to mention the 5 or 10 other major SDR hardware projects that clock in at tens to under a few hundred dollars.
Except there's like, 100 projects not based on GNU Radio doing the exact same thing, many BSD licensed or completely unlicensed, free for the picking. So shutting down GNU Radio is of little consequence. (Not to mention the proposed hardware is expensive as hell whereas the hardware for other projects - like SoftRock - can be had for $10 receive onlyu, $30 transmit and receive.)
Yes, and when that 21 year old who is "just ignorant" about alcohol is reckless and kills or permanently maims someone, ultimately they have to pay the price for their actions.
Sometimes you have to man up for your mistakes. Why should society tolerate stupidity?
Its flavour of Linux will boot in 15 seconds compared to minutes for Windows
It's been years since **any** OS has taken minutes to boot up on modern hardware. My Vista notebook, XP x64 desktop, both are up and running in under 30 seconds. My quad-core RHEL box is in the same ballpark.
Sure, for a defined function. Technological progress is not a defined function. If it were, all these futurists would know the precise date, time to the second of the singularity, and they could just sit at home and beat off while they wait. But ask 10 of them, and you'll get 10 different answers. Perhaps more.
Hence my claim, it's faith based as much as anything else.
I'd check your printer, or check that you aren't inserting the paper up side down. My wife uses Avery labels all the time with no problems in Word 2k3, we've been through 2 printers recently, a Lexmark 3-in-1 and an Epson. Neither had centering issues.
It's not just Ichann. It's several managers of several mutual/hedge funds, several of which tend to be quiet and not meddle in the affairs of boards and the like. They just want a steady ROI. But this was just too much. You might just find a significant enough coalition of major shareholders to oust the board.
And read my other post. Yahoo's stock price climaxed at $41 post-bubble, and has been sliding steadily downhill ever since. He can talk all day, but Yang hasn't shown he can turn the ship around until he's forced to. And at that, since Microsoft's offer is withdrawn, the price is still creeping downward. All talk, no game.
They peaked at $100 a share before the bubble popped. Fair enough. Steadily rose to $41 back in 2005. Nice. But now look at the trend - steady decline ever since. Clip off 2008 to remove Microsoft's influence and the trend is even more severe. Yahoo's stock price is dying. Jerry can flap his wings and talk till he passes out about raising the value of Yahoo, but he wasn't doing it for the three years up till now, why is it magically going to occcur now? Microsoft was their best shot at creating shareholder value.
The small shareholders, sure. But not the big ones, which comprise the majority of the people who are going to screw over Yang. You think Ichann, or any of the bank managers, mutual fund managers, hedge fund managers, etc. that have holdings in Yahoo are being run by people running to take out payday loans? Doubtful.
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You'd just have to strap a manakin to the roof... summer vacation FTW!
Two groups of people:
1. the corporate sponsors: companies like Red Hat, IBM, Canonical, etc. who sponsor coders to write code. They profit by reselling the hard work FOSS coders contribute.
2. the private contractors: companies you've never heard of who take open source software, use it to build their own codes in-house for analysis (think CFD, CAD, math models, etc.) and then sell the results. They never feed anything back into the ecosystem, they take your hard work, imrpove and use it, and sell derived results.
Both are technically legal, nothing wrong with either, but leave FOSS volunteers without anything in return, monetary or otherwise. They are making money. Why you or anyone else might work in the FOSS ecosystem? That's a personal decision you have to come to terms with. Find your own reason to be.
I've been using VSExpress since '05 for both c++ and c#, never had a popup in an application. You must be mistaken.
The point is, you have a bunch of different, independant projects under multiple licenses. Some not even documented - I have my own code I haven't released to the world. So how are "they" going to "shut me down"?
This is all crazy talk. OK, so they catch GNU Radio, and a few high profile projects like Athena, SoftRock's, SDR-IQ's, etc. but they have no way of catching the hundreds and thousands of individual experimenters. Do some searches for amateur radio + software defined radio and discover the community that's doing this stuff, together and alone. There's no way to just "shut down" these activities, the notion is just silly. That's my whole point. Tens of commercial projects, hundreds of hobby projects, thousands of practitioners. Many pieces of code and hardware that have never been documented outside of personal notes, no reason to suspect. Good luck.
I didn't say it couldn't. I just said there were other, active, cheap implementations with people actually doing it, right now. And pointed to an example. So if GNU Radio went away, who cares? There's 10+ other projects with hundreds of other people who would go right along without ever knowing the difference. They are building their own hardware and software from scratch. Kinda hard to stop.
The original article is pretty tame. Nowhere does "Rev. Richard Patrick is blaming violent video games and music for crimes that he say has affected 90% of his congregation in one way or another". Rather he answers the question "Have you been affected personally by the violence", in which he responds, "Not only has it affected me, but, I would say, 90 percent of the congregation has been affected in some way by violence or crime."
The closest he comes to bringing games to violence is when he answeres the question "How significant a problem do you believe violent video games and violent rap music is" with "It has a tremendous influence on young people and violence. That's basically all they see. Most of them try to emulate what they see, when in reality, the people they see don't even live in those communities. Some of the rappers they see on TV portraying crime don't live in the urban areas -- they live in the suburbs somewhere. It's all a facade."
Where I think, to a point, he's straight on. Note, he never says "games cause violence". Rather he says the same thing most parents will tell you about kids, and most computer scientists will tell you about comptuers - garbage in, garbage out. What you surround yourself with is what you become familiar with. And the sad part is, like he says, it's all a facade.
Please, RTFA before blowing it out of proportions.
Sure it does. People of the community have put on their own digital frequency bases, making a flexible IF covering whatever frequency range they are interested in. Some cover the entire HF spectrum. There is no set software distribution - there are maybe 10 or 20 different software projects in use out there. Many are free. Many on the mailing list are tinkerers. Some decode HDTV. Some do encryption. Yeah, I'd argue it's definitely in scope with GNU Radio, and it's probably got a bigger base. Not to mention the 5 or 10 other major SDR hardware projects that clock in at tens to under a few hundred dollars.
Except there's like, 100 projects not based on GNU Radio doing the exact same thing, many BSD licensed or completely unlicensed, free for the picking. So shutting down GNU Radio is of little consequence. (Not to mention the proposed hardware is expensive as hell whereas the hardware for other projects - like SoftRock - can be had for $10 receive onlyu, $30 transmit and receive.)
I'm sorry, we only deal in imperial buttloads
Yes, and when that 21 year old who is "just ignorant" about alcohol is reckless and kills or permanently maims someone, ultimately they have to pay the price for their actions.
Sometimes you have to man up for your mistakes. Why should society tolerate stupidity?
I've heard about this, but wheres a good place to get a receiver from?
:)
Possible to get NFL games?
Same way we do it here in AL, USA. Scan card readers.
My Vista notebook is a $300 HP. Probably comparable. It does have a gig of RAM, however. The quad core was the RHEL box.
Not everyone likes Obama :)
Its flavour of Linux will boot in 15 seconds compared to minutes for Windows
It's been years since **any** OS has taken minutes to boot up on modern hardware. My Vista notebook, XP x64 desktop, both are up and running in under 30 seconds. My quad-core RHEL box is in the same ballpark.
Slashdot's got to be early on a few news articles to make up for being behind on so many.
;)
Oh wait, did I say a few?
Yeah, but no woman claims to be self replicating.
Sure, for a defined function. Technological progress is not a defined function. If it were, all these futurists would know the precise date, time to the second of the singularity, and they could just sit at home and beat off while they wait. But ask 10 of them, and you'll get 10 different answers. Perhaps more.
Hence my claim, it's faith based as much as anything else.
I'd check your printer, or check that you aren't inserting the paper up side down. My wife uses Avery labels all the time with no problems in Word 2k3, we've been through 2 printers recently, a Lexmark 3-in-1 and an Epson. Neither had centering issues.
WalMart here in the US generally has the price per unit marked.
:P
And yeah, I do carry my TI-89 with me, but I'm an Aerospace Engineer. Without that, my mechanical pencils and my ID card I'd be naked!
Think I'm past it but appreciate the offer man :) I have a C64 and a MC-10 rotting in the closet. But it was sorely missed at the time ...
$48k? Chump change. I remember back when the company I worked for at the time paid over six figures for a pimped out server back in the late 90's...
Follow the news, it's not that hard.
It's not just Ichann. It's several managers of several mutual/hedge funds, several of which tend to be quiet and not meddle in the affairs of boards and the like. They just want a steady ROI. But this was just too much. You might just find a significant enough coalition of major shareholders to oust the board.
And read my other post. Yahoo's stock price climaxed at $41 post-bubble, and has been sliding steadily downhill ever since. He can talk all day, but Yang hasn't shown he can turn the ship around until he's forced to. And at that, since Microsoft's offer is withdrawn, the price is still creeping downward. All talk, no game.
Look at their 10 year trend here.
They peaked at $100 a share before the bubble popped. Fair enough. Steadily rose to $41 back in 2005. Nice. But now look at the trend - steady decline ever since. Clip off 2008 to remove Microsoft's influence and the trend is even more severe. Yahoo's stock price is dying. Jerry can flap his wings and talk till he passes out about raising the value of Yahoo, but he wasn't doing it for the three years up till now, why is it magically going to occcur now? Microsoft was their best shot at creating shareholder value.
The small shareholders, sure. But not the big ones, which comprise the majority of the people who are going to screw over Yang. You think Ichann, or any of the bank managers, mutual fund managers, hedge fund managers, etc. that have holdings in Yahoo are being run by people running to take out payday loans? Doubtful.