1) Call an IMPORTANT COMPANY MEETING 2) Talk at length about the difficult economic times we are in 3) Cite several examples of competitors that have gone udner. 4) Mention the troops dieing every day in Iraq 5) Go on and on about similar depressing topics 6) Express the difficulty of running a small business 7) Finally, announce that this year the accountant (a refugee from Arthur Anderson) has come up with some really amazing tricks and it is unlikely that you will need to fire anyone. 8) Allow everyone to return to their desks and keep up the good work so that no one will be let go next year. 9) If anyone complains, remind them to be greatful they have a job.
Somewhere, there's an open source developer who's just realized that his work is being used to the development of nuclear weapons. All jokes about derivative works aside, I think it's a good time to consider the implications of this.
Well that is one of many reasons why some people prefer a more restrictive license for their work. When you restrict your product and exchange it for Money, then the money is the universal medium of exchange, not the software. In the Open Source world, money buys beer, pizza and CPUs and is turned into software. The software is then the universal medium of exchange.
So the strongly ethical software developer may prefer to sell their work for amazingly large sums of money in order to guarantee its precise use. Someone who has a more general trust of humanity will be comfortable with an Open Source license.
Interesting philosophical point, but discussing the universe of licsensing schemes on Slashdot is like going to Vatican City to discuss the existence of god.
Uh, IBM makes the G5, or rather, the PPC970. I think they of all people would know whether or not the processor is suitable for the task at hand. Don't you agree?
By building the machine out of the CPUs they used, IBM demonstrates that as a company they prefer not to use the G5 at this moment. But they might turn around and use the G5 later.
Remember the IBM PS/2 line? The rest of the PC industry stuck with ISA architecture for a long time, nearly killing IBM.
Really? I always thought of Cousteau as someone who loved to be underwater making discoveries. I don't picture him as somebody sitting behind a computer screen doing work.
Back when I was the Pool Guy, I had to employ a similar tactic. You see, many customers require pool service. A large subset of these customers require "service" on "ports" that aren't usually associated with pools. As you can immagine, "servicing" these "requests" landed me in hot water on more than a few occasions.
One day it occured to me that I could simply change my standard contract to unconditionally allow me to preform any additional "service" the customer required. All at no charge.
The iTunes Music Store is useful to US Citizens who want Music but don't want to be sued by the RIAA.
Since there isn't a single legal system, or Recording Industry Association that represents the rest of the world, every other country must be dealt with individually.
Countries that operate very much like the United States and have strong Recording Industry Associations provide good markets either for iTMS or iTMS clones. At the opposite extreme are countries which don't respect intellectual property at all. For these nations, the iTMS is relevant only as iCandy. In the middle are a lot of countries that lie somewhere between these two extremes. Just determining where along the line a given country sits is a substantial job. Crafting a solution that fits their particular climate is relatively easy once that is done.
Starbucks coffee is far better than any drip coffee. But Starbucks can't hold a candle to the average Seattle cafe. And the average Seattle Latte is nothing compared to a Latte picked at random from New Orleans.
MetNet was a network of weather stations across Oregon. It may have existed as far back as 1991, but was definitely in operation in 1993, when I wrote some Perl scripts and did some web development for them.
We produced custom weather reports and delivered them via email and web.
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Just run the race in the new Iraq Territory. Bonus for any vehicle that finishes.
1) Call an IMPORTANT COMPANY MEETING
2) Talk at length about the difficult economic times we are in
3) Cite several examples of competitors that have gone udner.
4) Mention the troops dieing every day in Iraq
5) Go on and on about similar depressing topics
6) Express the difficulty of running a small business
7) Finally, announce that this year the accountant (a refugee from Arthur Anderson) has come up with some really amazing tricks and it is unlikely that you will need to fire anyone.
8) Allow everyone to return to their desks and keep up the good work so that no one will be let go next year.
9) If anyone complains, remind them to be greatful they have a job.
Why are computers still being used for simulating nuclear weapons tests?
Just wait until Quake XXXIV is released: global thermonuclear destruction!
Somewhere, there's an open source developer who's just realized that his work is being used to the development of nuclear weapons. All jokes about derivative works aside, I think it's a good time to consider the implications of this.
Well that is one of many reasons why some people prefer a more restrictive license for their work. When you restrict your product and exchange it for Money, then the money is the universal medium of exchange, not the software. In the Open Source world, money buys beer, pizza and CPUs and is turned into software. The software is then the universal medium of exchange.
So the strongly ethical software developer may prefer to sell their work for amazingly large sums of money in order to guarantee its precise use. Someone who has a more general trust of humanity will be comfortable with an Open Source license.
Interesting philosophical point, but discussing the universe of licsensing schemes on Slashdot is like going to Vatican City to discuss the existence of god.
Uh, IBM makes the G5, or rather, the PPC970. I think they of all people would know whether or not the processor is suitable for the task at hand. Don't you agree?
By building the machine out of the CPUs they used, IBM demonstrates that as a company they prefer not to use the G5 at this moment. But they might turn around and use the G5 later.
Remember the IBM PS/2 line? The rest of the PC industry stuck with ISA architecture for a long time, nearly killing IBM.
No one knows everything.
Not only could you make a Beowulf out of it, but you could spread the nodes around the world using the ~80% of fiber that is currently dark.
If you thought Broadband was fast, wait until you see the applications this device enables.
Off the wheel, we have several sunken nuclear submarines, perhaps a dozen or so thermonuclear warheads and maybe even a hundred regular nukes.
Don't tell the script kiddies.
Really? I always thought of Cousteau as someone who loved to be underwater making discoveries. I don't picture him as somebody sitting behind a computer screen doing work.
I bet Stephen Hawking loves this!
the ink isn't good enough?
Back when I was the Pool Guy, I had to employ a similar tactic. You see, many customers require pool service. A large subset of these customers require "service" on "ports" that aren't usually associated with pools. As you can immagine, "servicing" these "requests" landed me in hot water on more than a few occasions.
One day it occured to me that I could simply change my standard contract to unconditionally allow me to preform any additional "service" the customer required. All at no charge.
Can I sue AOL for prior art?
Have the Sweedish scientists unlocked the mystery of their most famous fish?
Compiling a book of your assets back in the day is just like putting your family website together today. Only just a little bit different.
Let me know when they find a babelfish.
I'm getting one so I can print my agendas in stone tablets.
The iTunes Music Store is useful to US Citizens who want Music but don't want to be sued by the RIAA.
Since there isn't a single legal system, or Recording Industry Association that represents the rest of the world, every other country must be dealt with individually.
Countries that operate very much like the United States and have strong Recording Industry Associations provide good markets either for iTMS or iTMS clones. At the opposite extreme are countries which don't respect intellectual property at all. For these nations, the iTMS is relevant only as iCandy. In the middle are a lot of countries that lie somewhere between these two extremes. Just determining where along the line a given country sits is a substantial job. Crafting a solution that fits their particular climate is relatively easy once that is done.
Can I buy a put?
I, for one, welcome our new PayPal-iTunes overlords.
I welcome our new Robot Masters!
"The PDA is dead," says David Levin, the boss of Symbian, the leading maker of smartphone software.
Yeah, kind of like the US Federal Reserve predicting the future of the Euro!
There was a story about Talk Like a pirate day on the Airport Network edition of CNN.
I didn't ask the security people what they thought about this...
Starbucks coffee is far better than any drip coffee. But Starbucks can't hold a candle to the average Seattle cafe. And the average Seattle Latte is nothing compared to a Latte picked at random from New Orleans.
There was no room for creativity or real design
Real design is the ability to work within customer constraints while simultaneously expressing your individual creative spirit.
It's sad when a country uses its laws to try to force a company to do certain things.
What do you want a country to do with its laws, compose poetry?
It gets better. Type the first letters of "Muslim Al-Queda" (MAQ) into word, and change the font to Wingdings.
MetNet was a network of weather stations across Oregon. It may have existed as far back as 1991, but was definitely in operation in 1993, when I wrote some Perl scripts and did some web development for them.
/ /m etnet.geog.pdx.edu/
We produced custom weather reports and delivered them via email and web.
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