What's happening is the Oil companies are buying up the new technology/new energy patents. The patents have a life of 10 years and what they do is sit on them and not do any research so there won't be any advancement. With the new enery patents locked up, other people have their hands tied. They have a room full of lawyers and people ever on the alert to patents that would threaten their livelihood and they use their money and influence to buy out new technology. As a PR note, they occasionally pull out a technology to highlight how they're "ever searching for new energy sources".
I'm sorry, but I'm a little tired of people crying that they can't find someone else' "open free software" to add to their planned multi-million dollar product. You are a developer, so please go develop it yourself or hire someone or contract some company to do it. I prefer to support those who have the guts to bring a product to being with their own sweat. Technology does not progress when you keep riding on the backs of others. If you can't do it, please find something else to do. I know, flames abound, but I am a developer, and I choose to stand by my own britches and I commend others who do the same.
I don't know if I'd trust Lloyd's of London for insurance with all the internal troubles they've had in recent news.
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I'd like to try out Oracle through their free development program, except their FTP server is totally inadequate(downloads at a whopping 4K/sec max.). As they say "if you can't show competence in your field of expertise, who am I to trust you?". Please Oracle, beef up your servers, the public is watching.
I think the thing that people don't understand is that programming is the only place(well okay, genetics is the same too) where your work must be perfect. You can inject typos in essays, we get the message. But you inject a mispelled command in a program => crash. I don't think everyday people understand this concept. You can't just do an allnighter, and get a "B". It must always be perfect.
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What's happening is the Oil companies are buying up the new technology/new energy patents. The patents have a life of 10 years and what they do is sit on them and not do any research so there won't be any advancement. With the new enery patents locked up, other people have their hands tied. They have a room full of lawyers and people ever on the alert to patents that would threaten their livelihood and they use their money and influence to buy out new technology. As a PR note, they occasionally pull out a technology to highlight how they're "ever searching for new energy sources".
I'm sorry, but I'm a little tired of people crying that they can't find someone else' "open free software" to add to their planned multi-million dollar product. You are a developer, so please go develop it yourself or hire someone or contract some company to do it. I prefer to support those who have the guts to bring a product to being with their own sweat. Technology does not progress when you keep riding on the backs of others. If you can't do it, please find something else to do. I know, flames abound, but I am a developer, and I choose to stand by my own britches and I commend others who do the same.
I don't know if I'd trust Lloyd's of London for insurance with all the internal troubles they've had in recent news.
I'd like to try out Oracle through their free development program, except their FTP server is totally inadequate(downloads at a whopping 4K/sec max.). As they say "if you can't show competence in your field of expertise, who am I to trust you?". Please Oracle, beef up your servers, the public is watching.
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I think the thing that people don't understand is that programming is the only place(well okay, genetics is the same too) where your work must be perfect. You can inject typos in essays, we get the message. But you inject a mispelled command in a program => crash. I don't think everyday people understand this concept. You can't just do an allnighter, and get a "B". It must always be perfect.