I look at open source as the market correcting itself. Pressure had been building for years for bugs out there to be able to be fixed. Now, if you want to try to fix a bug in a product that you use, if it is open source, you can. Are you tired of being charged an arm and a leg for regular software that everyone needs or being forced to pay for upgrades that don't really have any new features that you can use (and be legal)? Well, the companies didn't do a good job of it in the past according to a lot of users, so open source is the answer that they are using. It may be always be a little behind proprietary software, but at least you won't fall all the way back into the stone ages if you don't want to be forced to pay for the latest thing.
One advantage of open source for programmers in my view is that they don't have to deal with the pressure and deadlines of releasing a few of these products as their lively hood. Tired of that manager who tries to squeeze you for productivity at the cost of clean code? Do you feel good about the quality of software your company produces at the end of the day? Without open source I think that companies would have been trying to reduce programmer salaries anyway, and you would be forced to give away your good code almost for free.
Just because we have open source, it does not mean that all programmers will be out of a job. People still have ideas for software every day and not everyone has the ability to build that software. I do think we need to make sure that open source developers continue to get paid.
But what if the terrorist attack was a staged operation to get the American people to build it's military force and go into other countries...
Then you might think 40 mil to build underground power grid might be a bit much.
Can't this be done with a $300 Windows machine? Are they trying to piss off as many small groups of people as they can in a general negative comment like this??
I saw something very interesting on TV a few years back. Some people designed a water pump that was powered by a bike or something. The farmers were buying it and singing it's praises to other farmers. They say not having to hoist buckets of water out of a well to water their plants increase their productivity many times over. They saved up to buy the pumps and were willing to do the physical work to make it run. There were even groups of Africans who were trained in welding so that they could make pumps for sale. So I would say that sometimes designing and building a tool for people and selling it to them is an honorable thing in my opinion.
Also it is interesting to see that this tool (OLPC) they are building is catching the attention of so many people especially the ones not even in their originally intended audience.
Another point that I have noticed, is that people answer the stupid question in the tag. So, if the question is not put there, the tags might be better used. Maybe we could test coming up with our own conversations close to the topic without a question as the GP noted.
This is my opinion, but the One Laptop Per Child Project is making a good fight. Soon we will have a full system that is Linux compatible down to the core of the hardware. I am continually amazed at the boundries that they are breaking. The project may not be totally open right now, but they are feeding back their improvements back to the open source community. One thing that is stronger in my view is the information sharing between the development groups.
I would set more people up with Linux, but I wonder if their printers are supported and I am not good enough to help them with that yet. Also, maybe with AMD buying ATI we can get some more graphic driver support.
Well, the dual cores kind of suck because they only have one math co processor. The cores have to share it, so you really don't get double the power for real math stuff.
I think this subject really pisses a lot of us off. Some posts seem to say that at least some international providers are getting it right. I feel that we need better customer rules. We should even use these rules to balance ISPs against each other and find out what plans are best for one another.
I used to max out my connection with bit-torrent, but now I hold uploads to 10k/s during the day because I know my ISP is too stupid to create real rules for everyone so we can all get the data we want.
If it was my business, the rules would be created to balance peoples needs with those of the business. It is foolish to 'oversell' your services and then be found not able to comply with your very open ended advertisments. As you gain customers, the back-end of the services need to be upgraded. To me, it looks like they expect all the new customers for broadband to be grandparents who would under-use the internet services so much that they would be throwing money into the ISPs pockets.
Seems like the ISP business is coming close to gambling. I don't think you can gamble when you are comming to utility status.
I would add that there are different types of sites out there that add to social networking, such as dating sites. When Slashdotters are ready to find that mate, you can do a search with your computer.
What about the chat groups who set up meets? Some people want to say that is bad because you are going to see strangers. (Kids don't try this at home)
I wonder what their assumptions of a full life are and how much computer use they allocate. I think you can always find a healthy and productive person who breaks that mold.
Yes friend, We all hoped they would do something better and deeper.
I think I read somewhere that an author needs to go on a journey and learn something, then they bring it back and put it in a story for the rest of us. It seems that they didn't do this.
I also heard that Kung-Fu fights themselves are supposed to tell their own stories, and I think Revolutions was missing one more fight for Neo, before the last fight, to show he was getting stronger.
Maybe the answer lies in that they didn't know how far they wanted to take the computer - world metaphor and it made the end suck.
I've also thought about the idea of 666 being the roman numberal equivilant ( DCLXVI ) as someone else posted.
We have to contend with Rev 13:13 as well. Where the beast performs great miracles, and causes fire to come down to earth in view of men. Also, this beast is the second one. The one before is the beast out of the Sea and before that we have the dragon. So you may want to call it the third beast.
All this stuff seems to be bringing us closer, but we are not quite there with this news story, IMHO.
Ok then, my church has about 150 person membership and about $4k donated a week. That should come to about $26 a week per person. (counting kids) That would come to about $1300 a year per person at my congregation.
It does seem interesting that Gates will hold on to so much of his fortune till he dies, then it will all be split.
I disagree with your idea. I give at least 2k to my church a year and I make less than your 50k example. (about 6%) This is possible because I give every week. It really does add up, just like a savings plan can.
Your post reminded me of some sound analyzing technology that is supposed to be able to tell if someone is lying. It is said to be pretty good, and being used in the telemarketing industry.
Another thing that I think everyone is missing is potential Advertisement software. You can get feedback on whether someone likes your adv or if they are not in the mood for commercials at the moment. (Turn off adv for a few hours and try again?)
I think this is a great idea to keep an eye on.
And if this is a tax, it is a driving tax, not a "Hey, you own a car so pay more money just for owning a car tax" You can move, or select alternate routes if you don't want to "pay" this tax.
IMHO I would like to see the US try minimum wage for other countries with companies who outsourced jobs. When a company can hire me, or someone in a less developed country for only like $1 less than I make, then we will see what happens. That might put an end to the sweat shop overseas mentality.
The people who are worth it over there, will get the job and the money they deserve with witch they can improve their home country.
Another problem that I see, is that the products that we work to produce here in the US, who can offord them outside of the top few countries with the prices that are charged?
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One advantage of open source for programmers in my view is that they don't have to deal with the pressure and deadlines of releasing a few of these products as their lively hood. Tired of that manager who tries to squeeze you for productivity at the cost of clean code? Do you feel good about the quality of software your company produces at the end of the day? Without open source I think that companies would have been trying to reduce programmer salaries anyway, and you would be forced to give away your good code almost for free.
Just because we have open source, it does not mean that all programmers will be out of a job. People still have ideas for software every day and not everyone has the ability to build that software. I do think we need to make sure that open source developers continue to get paid.
Maybe it's just me, but I thought the summary explained why they think that.
This is great! My contract is about to run out and I am thinking about my options.
Don't worry. You only need 1.21 gigawatts.
I have a small project on sourceforge as well and I had a lot of problems learning the CVS system. The program Tourtoise CVS helped me a lot!
But what if the terrorist attack was a staged operation to get the American people to build it's military force and go into other countries... Then you might think 40 mil to build underground power grid might be a bit much.
Can't this be done with a $300 Windows machine? Are they trying to piss off as many small groups of people as they can in a general negative comment like this??
Also it is interesting to see that this tool (OLPC) they are building is catching the attention of so many people especially the ones not even in their originally intended audience.
Another point that I have noticed, is that people answer the stupid question in the tag. So, if the question is not put there, the tags might be better used. Maybe we could test coming up with our own conversations close to the topic without a question as the GP noted.
How about you make a robotic Penguin...and make sure that it can run Linux.
This is my opinion, but the One Laptop Per Child Project is making a good fight. Soon we will have a full system that is Linux compatible down to the core of the hardware. I am continually amazed at the boundries that they are breaking. The project may not be totally open right now, but they are feeding back their improvements back to the open source community. One thing that is stronger in my view is the information sharing between the development groups.
I would set more people up with Linux, but I wonder if their printers are supported and I am not good enough to help them with that yet. Also, maybe with AMD buying ATI we can get some more graphic driver support.
Just my $0.02 cents.
It might also be cool if we could merge the picture with our visible spectrum, or the image displayed on some cool goggles.
That was a real bummer for me.
I used to max out my connection with bit-torrent, but now I hold uploads to 10k/s during the day because I know my ISP is too stupid to create real rules for everyone so we can all get the data we want.
If it was my business, the rules would be created to balance peoples needs with those of the business. It is foolish to 'oversell' your services and then be found not able to comply with your very open ended advertisments. As you gain customers, the back-end of the services need to be upgraded. To me, it looks like they expect all the new customers for broadband to be grandparents who would under-use the internet services so much that they would be throwing money into the ISPs pockets.
Seems like the ISP business is coming close to gambling. I don't think you can gamble when you are comming to utility status.
What about the chat groups who set up meets? Some people want to say that is bad because you are going to see strangers. (Kids don't try this at home)
I wonder what their assumptions of a full life are and how much computer use they allocate. I think you can always find a healthy and productive person who breaks that mold.
I think I read somewhere that an author needs to go on a journey and learn something, then they bring it back and put it in a story for the rest of us. It seems that they didn't do this.
I also heard that Kung-Fu fights themselves are supposed to tell their own stories, and I think Revolutions was missing one more fight for Neo, before the last fight, to show he was getting stronger.
Maybe the answer lies in that they didn't know how far they wanted to take the computer - world metaphor and it made the end suck.
Well, it's just my two cents...
We have to contend with Rev 13:13 as well. Where the beast performs great miracles, and causes fire to come down to earth in view of men. Also, this beast is the second one. The one before is the beast out of the Sea and before that we have the dragon. So you may want to call it the third beast.
All this stuff seems to be bringing us closer, but we are not quite there with this news story, IMHO.
The third result for "global warming is true" was an article talking about why global warming is false... :-)
Just a thought.
It does seem interesting that Gates will hold on to so much of his fortune till he dies, then it will all be split.
I disagree with your idea. I give at least 2k to my church a year and I make less than your 50k example. (about 6%) This is possible because I give every week. It really does add up, just like a savings plan can.
Another thing that I think everyone is missing is potential Advertisement software. You can get feedback on whether someone likes your adv or if they are not in the mood for commercials at the moment. (Turn off adv for a few hours and try again?)
I think this is a great idea to keep an eye on. And if this is a tax, it is a driving tax, not a "Hey, you own a car so pay more money just for owning a car tax" You can move, or select alternate routes if you don't want to "pay" this tax.
IMHO I would like to see the US try minimum wage for other countries with companies who outsourced jobs. When a company can hire me, or someone in a less developed country for only like $1 less than I make, then we will see what happens. That might put an end to the sweat shop overseas mentality.
The people who are worth it over there, will get the job and the money they deserve with witch they can improve their home country.
Another problem that I see, is that the products that we work to produce here in the US, who can offord them outside of the top few countries with the prices that are charged?