the distinction you draw between HTML code and content
On a website, especially for a newspaper or a news feed, there is a distinction between the framework (code) and the content (articles). It's a good programming paradigm used not only on websites but often when building traditional programs. Make sense now?
or why you would do so when the alternative of doing things correctly from the beginning is so simple
Because maybe he doesn't have a magic time machine to go back and fix code written 1, 2, 5 or 10 years ago? Possibly code he did not write in the first place. And it really isn't that hard to separate code from content, which makes find-replace and regexp replacement straightforward, which you seem to have a hard time wrapping your head around.
odds are if your boss comes to you and asks you to work overtime this weekend when you already have a slope-side condo booked (nonrefundable), and he leans on you real hard - odds are you are NOT going to tell him "Sorry but I'm busy this weekend; I'll be on the ski slopes if you need me." Not going to happen.
There are two morals I can derive from this story.
1. I'd say no, unless I was getting paid overtime and needed the overtime. This is something you research on before you join a company and you know whether it is expected of you. I've never been asked to work overtime. The only time I've worked overtime is at my own request (end of the year, we had stuff to do, the carrot was voluntarily dangled and I bit), and for time and a half. And if they started, I'd find a different job. I consider myself highly employable and have multiple unsolicited job offers in the last year to back it up.
2. Never book a condo. Camping is always cheaper. Put the difference in a long-term investment in 30 years. I'm very frugal. You make the statement that there remains 90% of the house to be paid off... I could have that number much, much lower right now but instead I invest it in my retirement fund, stocks, etc. Granted the market is in a bit of a slump but overall it does much better than the low interest on my mortgage. If I really wanted to I could have 50% of it paid down in 5 years. But I'd rather have the financial freedom of that money sitting where I can get at it and use it however I choose.
I'm in a similar boat as you. I got my bachelors' 3 years ago, working on wrapping up the PhD now, been working for about 2.5 years now. But not in IT. In high school, I debated IT and engineering (you know, the mechanical-aerospace kind), and figured I could get into engineering and program on the side. I'm really glad I did, because it's really the best of both worlds - I spend about 10 hours a week programming for my job, but get a break from it to do other things. I have access to clusters and heavy computing resources but I don't have to micromanage them or fix them when they break. I think similar arguments about burning out apply here too, but like you said, personal hobbies are good.
Re:You've been working for 12 years, right?
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I have no idea what you are talking about. My only suggestion was, if he had been setting aside money over time then maybe he'd have the financial resources to consider his independant business venture. And if not, he should consider starting that savings now, while the money is good.
Raising a family while very young is the trap that lords and masters have laid into the path of the peasant since lords and masters have been around. See, once you have children, they have something they can use to keep you honest (read, subservient, read also, shackled). See, a man who accepts that all is transient, and family comes and goes as does youth and riches and poverty, will be hard to shackle down, or to enslave.
I'm 25. Been married for nearly 5 years. We had our first child when I was 22. Lived in this house for two years. And despite having two kids and a wife to keep me "subservient" or whatever you propose, we've paid down nearly 10% of our mortgage, and put about 25% of my net income per month away in savings and investments. It isn't hard to do if you are committed to it. Having kids early, getting married early, really isn't a strain if you are disciplined in money management. And if you aren't disciplined in money management, you'll blow it on loose women, cars, computers or beer as a single guy anyways.
You've been working for 12 years, right?
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So you have a nice little nest egg stashed away, right? Saving for retirement? Rainy day fund? How much reserves you got to start something on your own?
If you do, then start thinking about doing that right now while you have this well-paying job, and spend some of your evening hours developing a business plan, potential clientele, educating yourself.
If you don't, then you need to take a few years to build that nest egg up, to be responsible to your wife and kids.
Yup. I maintain and update FORTRAN code at work for aerodynamic heating. A friend of mine getting his PhD in CFD and wrote a new CFD code in FORTRAN, he's relatively young and they still churn out new FORTRAN where he works. People still write new FORTRAN all the time, it's just not the glitzy, open source, "look at me" FORTRAN, it tends to be more of the big iron and computational stuff.
1. Feds arm 12 year old boys with BB guns.
2. 12 year old boys think it's so cool, payment is unnecessary.
3. Boys shoot pidgeons...
4. ???
5. !N!@N$I!IOP@$!@#! NO CARRIER
Imagine an old Radeon or GeForce GPU built at 45nm or lower. Would that result in a 5-10 watts GPU that could still beat whatever intel is making?
Maybe, but nVidia will leapfrog ahead of you with better tech on that 45nm fab.
To be honest with you I don't understand why people keep drooling over shaving off 5-10 watts in their computers. When you are paying 6-12 cents per kilowatt-hour. You'd have to run that sucker 100-200 to save a dime. Are you really gaming that hard, where those times add up? Don't tell me it's an environmentalist bent, you can save kilowatts by just air drying laundry or adjusting your thermostat or using CFL's, etc. Just doesn't make much sense unless you are grinding your computer 24/7 (and then you are saving *maybe* $4-8 in electricity. per year.).
I guess my point is, if a significant enough number of people are doing it, it's no longer a fringe network but becomes a backbone in and of itself, and the same thing happens over again. So why keep re-inventing the wheel only to abandon it when you should be addressing the perceived issue at hand?
so, you have to deal with the different ways of separating the open source from your own so that you're not legally obliged to distribute your own sources, etc.
I used to work for an engineering company, who provided consulting services. They used Fedora Core, the full GNU toolset, other open source tools, toolkits, packages, etc. Almost completely open source. But we never had to reveal source code that we tweaked, changed or derived because it was never distributed. It never left our computers, the only thing we distributed was engineering analysis.
This is the flip side of your example; there are people who **can** and do take GPL'd code and run with it, legally. They aren't selling software, they are selling results derived from software. One level of indirection but it keeps from exposing proprietary code.
They enter the story in the article. I answered your naive question.
And do you know whether those "illegal images" were photographs of minors or, say, Hentai images of non-existing minors (which is also illegal to possess)?
No, and it's not for me to know or find out. The authorities can handle it, now that Google handed the information over. If it's just drawings they should get away scott free, unless such is illegal in Brazil. I wouldn't know.
From the article, which you apparently didn't read while you were pontificating:
The US Internet giant delivered 3,261 files to a Brazilian senate commission looking into allegations that illegal images of minors were posted in restricted-access photo albums on the site.
The only reason I'm considering buying a Phenom (the real 4 core deal) is because I'm in the same boat as you, I have a x2-4200+. I can just swap out the processor and not have to worry about buying anything else, and really I don't **need** the horsepower, but I do play with multithreaded scientific programming.
If I were building a computer from scratch, it'd be a core 2 quad all the way.
The opposite of "open source" isn't "software for money", it's "reinventing the wheel".
Not all of us who write software re-invent the wheel. I've written several codes over the past few years, for work and for personal use, and all were unique, not done in either the open source or closed source realm, so far as I could tell. Because if they were, I would have purchased a license or used what was available. But not every corner of this world has been explored. For instance, my latest project is a CFD code, but it is a unique formulation that only a handful of people experiment with, and even fewer actually have working codes. Mine is the only one I know of that exists in C++, and can handle several unique problems that other CFD codes can not.
Well, among other things, NASA already has a pretty substantial presence in Second Life, so doing a NASA MMO is reinventing the wheel.
Had you actually read the RFI, the RFP, and maybe called the point of contact, you'd understand Second Life could not handle what they were looking for, that is, real physics.
I should try getting some other company to write and maintain a game of my design for me at their expense, with the excuse that they can advertise themselves in it. I bet that'll work so well!
Do note that the only deliverable is the game itself - maintaining, operating and updating the game are non-inclusive.
The point of the space act agreement is such that a company can develop technology for NASA, and at the same time monetize it for themselves. You own the code, not NASA. I don't like it in this case, but it's not as shitty as it seems. You can use it to develop a toolkit or platform and monetize it however you want with a non-NASA customer.
It is sad that they cut the budget from this. I submitted a RFI. I had some really good conversations with Mr. Laughlin and he **got** it. Unfortunately from what he was telling me, industry didn't (they were getting RFI responses from "the typical respondants" with "generic responses", etc.), and so I fear NASA is pre-emptively pulling the plug. But who knows. Someone craft enough could pull this off.
Should we even care about small time dreamers anymore?
Because essentially you are saying that only people with financial connections should have the protection a patent offers. You are saying patents should be tied to wealth, not ideas. I can't agree with that.
Better yet, simply implement a patent tax. It's intellectual "property" after all, so why not tax it?
As soon as you start taxing MMORPG's and website owners for their content. It is property after all. Why not tax it.
Well, after seeing it once (ok fine, 7x), I'm pretty careful what I click!
Fool me twice, shame on you.
Fool me thrice, shame on you.
Fool me four times, shame on you.
Fool me five times, shame on you.
Fool me six times, shame on you.
Fool me seven times, shame on you.
But dammit, fool me eight times, and shame on me!:)
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It sure does, because it separates the context under which ampersands appear. I don't think I can state it any more clearly than that.
Quantity, not quality
the distinction you draw between HTML code and content
On a website, especially for a newspaper or a news feed, there is a distinction between the framework (code) and the content (articles). It's a good programming paradigm used not only on websites but often when building traditional programs. Make sense now?
or why you would do so when the alternative of doing things correctly from the beginning is so simple
Because maybe he doesn't have a magic time machine to go back and fix code written 1, 2, 5 or 10 years ago? Possibly code he did not write in the first place. And it really isn't that hard to separate code from content, which makes find-replace and regexp replacement straightforward, which you seem to have a hard time wrapping your head around.
odds are if your boss comes to you and asks you to work overtime this weekend when you already have a slope-side condo booked (nonrefundable), and he leans on you real hard - odds are you are NOT going to tell him "Sorry but I'm busy this weekend; I'll be on the ski slopes if you need me." Not going to happen.
There are two morals I can derive from this story.
1. I'd say no, unless I was getting paid overtime and needed the overtime. This is something you research on before you join a company and you know whether it is expected of you. I've never been asked to work overtime. The only time I've worked overtime is at my own request (end of the year, we had stuff to do, the carrot was voluntarily dangled and I bit), and for time and a half. And if they started, I'd find a different job. I consider myself highly employable and have multiple unsolicited job offers in the last year to back it up.
2. Never book a condo. Camping is always cheaper. Put the difference in a long-term investment in 30 years. I'm very frugal. You make the statement that there remains 90% of the house to be paid off... I could have that number much, much lower right now but instead I invest it in my retirement fund, stocks, etc. Granted the market is in a bit of a slump but overall it does much better than the low interest on my mortgage. If I really wanted to I could have 50% of it paid down in 5 years. But I'd rather have the financial freedom of that money sitting where I can get at it and use it however I choose.
I'm in a similar boat as you. I got my bachelors' 3 years ago, working on wrapping up the PhD now, been working for about 2.5 years now. But not in IT. In high school, I debated IT and engineering (you know, the mechanical-aerospace kind), and figured I could get into engineering and program on the side. I'm really glad I did, because it's really the best of both worlds - I spend about 10 hours a week programming for my job, but get a break from it to do other things. I have access to clusters and heavy computing resources but I don't have to micromanage them or fix them when they break. I think similar arguments about burning out apply here too, but like you said, personal hobbies are good.
I have no idea what you are talking about. My only suggestion was, if he had been setting aside money over time then maybe he'd have the financial resources to consider his independant business venture. And if not, he should consider starting that savings now, while the money is good.
Raising a family while very young is the trap that lords and masters have laid into the path of the peasant since lords and masters have been around. See, once you have children, they have something they can use to keep you honest (read, subservient, read also, shackled). See, a man who accepts that all is transient, and family comes and goes as does youth and riches and poverty, will be hard to shackle down, or to enslave.
I'm 25. Been married for nearly 5 years. We had our first child when I was 22. Lived in this house for two years. And despite having two kids and a wife to keep me "subservient" or whatever you propose, we've paid down nearly 10% of our mortgage, and put about 25% of my net income per month away in savings and investments. It isn't hard to do if you are committed to it. Having kids early, getting married early, really isn't a strain if you are disciplined in money management. And if you aren't disciplined in money management, you'll blow it on loose women, cars, computers or beer as a single guy anyways.
So you have a nice little nest egg stashed away, right? Saving for retirement? Rainy day fund? How much reserves you got to start something on your own?
If you do, then start thinking about doing that right now while you have this well-paying job, and spend some of your evening hours developing a business plan, potential clientele, educating yourself.
If you don't, then you need to take a few years to build that nest egg up, to be responsible to your wife and kids.
Yup. I maintain and update FORTRAN code at work for aerodynamic heating. A friend of mine getting his PhD in CFD and wrote a new CFD code in FORTRAN, he's relatively young and they still churn out new FORTRAN where he works. People still write new FORTRAN all the time, it's just not the glitzy, open source, "look at me" FORTRAN, it tends to be more of the big iron and computational stuff.
But I tend to prefer c++.
And my beard is about 6" long, fwiw.
No, I think he meant,
one thing this OQO is not, is a macaroni salad
But midsentance he realized his craving for a macaroni salad was so intense, he had to get one.
1. Feds arm 12 year old boys with BB guns.
2. 12 year old boys think it's so cool, payment is unnecessary.
3. Boys shoot pidgeons...
4. ???
5. !N!@N$I!IOP@$!@#! NO CARRIER
Imagine an old Radeon or GeForce GPU built at 45nm or lower. Would that result in a 5-10 watts GPU that could still beat whatever intel is making?
Maybe, but nVidia will leapfrog ahead of you with better tech on that 45nm fab.
To be honest with you I don't understand why people keep drooling over shaving off 5-10 watts in their computers. When you are paying 6-12 cents per kilowatt-hour. You'd have to run that sucker 100-200 to save a dime. Are you really gaming that hard, where those times add up? Don't tell me it's an environmentalist bent, you can save kilowatts by just air drying laundry or adjusting your thermostat or using CFL's, etc. Just doesn't make much sense unless you are grinding your computer 24/7 (and then you are saving *maybe* $4-8 in electricity. per year.).
I guess my point is, if a significant enough number of people are doing it, it's no longer a fringe network but becomes a backbone in and of itself, and the same thing happens over again. So why keep re-inventing the wheel only to abandon it when you should be addressing the perceived issue at hand?
Just food for thought.
We need to be more decentralized
Who is we?
so, you have to deal with the different ways of separating the open source from your own so that you're not legally obliged to distribute your own sources, etc.
I used to work for an engineering company, who provided consulting services. They used Fedora Core, the full GNU toolset, other open source tools, toolkits, packages, etc. Almost completely open source. But we never had to reveal source code that we tweaked, changed or derived because it was never distributed. It never left our computers, the only thing we distributed was engineering analysis.
This is the flip side of your example; there are people who **can** and do take GPL'd code and run with it, legally. They aren't selling software, they are selling results derived from software. One level of indirection but it keeps from exposing proprietary code.
I presume nothing. Your quote,
Where did pictures enter this story?
They enter the story in the article. I answered your naive question.
And do you know whether those "illegal images" were photographs of minors or, say, Hentai images of non-existing minors (which is also illegal to possess)?
No, and it's not for me to know or find out. The authorities can handle it, now that Google handed the information over. If it's just drawings they should get away scott free, unless such is illegal in Brazil. I wouldn't know.
Where did pictures enter this story?
From the article, which you apparently didn't read while you were pontificating:
The US Internet giant delivered 3,261 files to a Brazilian senate commission looking into allegations that illegal images of minors were posted in restricted-access photo albums on the site.
Are you allergic to sesame seeds?
Yes, I admit to watching that godawful movie. But Claire Forlani was the bomb in mallrats.
I mostly do scientific programming, heavy on the number crunching, light on the data transfer. I'll take the Core 2 Quad based on what I've seen.
The only reason I'm considering buying a Phenom (the real 4 core deal) is because I'm in the same boat as you, I have a x2-4200+. I can just swap out the processor and not have to worry about buying anything else, and really I don't **need** the horsepower, but I do play with multithreaded scientific programming.
If I were building a computer from scratch, it'd be a core 2 quad all the way.
antiquing?
Disco Stu only buys the genuine article. Oh yea, baby...
The opposite of "open source" isn't "software for money", it's "reinventing the wheel".
Not all of us who write software re-invent the wheel. I've written several codes over the past few years, for work and for personal use, and all were unique, not done in either the open source or closed source realm, so far as I could tell. Because if they were, I would have purchased a license or used what was available. But not every corner of this world has been explored. For instance, my latest project is a CFD code, but it is a unique formulation that only a handful of people experiment with, and even fewer actually have working codes. Mine is the only one I know of that exists in C++, and can handle several unique problems that other CFD codes can not.
Well, among other things, NASA already has a pretty substantial presence in Second Life, so doing a NASA MMO is reinventing the wheel.
Had you actually read the RFI, the RFP, and maybe called the point of contact, you'd understand Second Life could not handle what they were looking for, that is, real physics.
I should try getting some other company to write and maintain a game of my design for me at their expense, with the excuse that they can advertise themselves in it. I bet that'll work so well!
Do note that the only deliverable is the game itself - maintaining, operating and updating the game are non-inclusive.
The point of the space act agreement is such that a company can develop technology for NASA, and at the same time monetize it for themselves. You own the code, not NASA. I don't like it in this case, but it's not as shitty as it seems. You can use it to develop a toolkit or platform and monetize it however you want with a non-NASA customer.
It is sad that they cut the budget from this. I submitted a RFI. I had some really good conversations with Mr. Laughlin and he **got** it. Unfortunately from what he was telling me, industry didn't (they were getting RFI responses from "the typical respondants" with "generic responses", etc.), and so I fear NASA is pre-emptively pulling the plug. But who knows. Someone craft enough could pull this off.
Should we even care about small time dreamers anymore?
Because essentially you are saying that only people with financial connections should have the protection a patent offers. You are saying patents should be tied to wealth, not ideas. I can't agree with that.
Better yet, simply implement a patent tax. It's intellectual "property" after all, so why not tax it?
As soon as you start taxing MMORPG's and website owners for their content. It is property after all. Why not tax it.
Well, after seeing it once (ok fine, 7x), I'm pretty careful what I click!
:)
Fool me twice, shame on you.
Fool me thrice, shame on you.
Fool me four times, shame on you.
Fool me five times, shame on you.
Fool me six times, shame on you.
Fool me seven times, shame on you.
But dammit, fool me eight times, and shame on me!