Bell Labs is long gone. Lucent bought it a while ago and it's pretty much dismantled for lack of immediate profitability. A problem with a lot of research these days. At least we have open source.
I will assume you are thinking of TSA. TSA is a part of Homeland Security but Homeland Security is not the TSA.
Here is the list: http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/
Note it is composed of the US Coast Guard, Secret Service, ICE, etc. -- all of whom have arrest powers and the authority to carry a firearm in work circumstances.
Inquisitive minds are a danger to profit these days. Unfortunately it seems more and more performed for ripping people off with pirated music and software and less so for how things work to innovate off of.
Besides, with all the patents for software - can one really innovate anyhow without planning for the lawsuit when it becomes a success?
I use Linux, Windows, and OS X. I have always found OS X to be the easiest of the three to use GUI-wise. Why is there such a following to a windows like interface? Go for better! 3-D, or maybe a new scheme all together. MS interfaces are just the most horrible things - stuff hidden in illogical places, five or six mouse clicks to do things... I can go on but perhaps others following will. There are other ways.
If you are selling your work, then I think you will want to create some kind of royalties payment schedule. (Make sure it is gross revenue of the product so they cannot play accounting games.)
Another option might be a consulting gig with them. The second time around with source code tends to be the better code eh? You may even be able to show of skills to show them you are worth keeping around for more than a few lines of code.
What I am saying is get paid for your future work on the code base.
If the code it's self is valuable, you should consider taking advantage of that value and this company might be the option to do that.
Repeatedly it has been chimed in the open source community that not everything has to be open source. There is value in pure functionality and paying for pure functionality is not a bad thing.
I have licensed my stuff in BSD often also. While GPL is the most freedom for the user, BSD is the most freedom for the developer.
Viruses, Trojans, and various injections are already playing heck with the financial systems and people's private monies.
Just think what can happen to the governance of a country when "data vandals" hit the information system of a major city. No property taxes for some - more for others. Arrest soccer moms and eliminate pedophiles from police lists.
There is enough bad data in there already (ever hear of a data audit for various government data?) (How about a grant for auditing voter registration lists - who is on there that is dead? A newly minted felon? Moved? Just how accurate is it?)
Just imagine how things will be when people realize one cannot trust the government to be right.
I have made money indirectly from open source. Basically I through it out there and some people picked it up. When they needed other projects worked on I was contacted.
Documentation is more important than code I can tell you that much. Installation documentation, user documentation and most importantly programmer documentation.
Explain that to Schwarzenegger in California who is about to release 20,000 criminals (light crimes evidently) because there is no money to keep them imprisoned.
Unfortunately I think this is how it will end up. When one chases people out of society they have no reason to be social. I plan on watching the statistics for listed sex offenders who become burglars, robbers, and murderers.
1. meat and other food inspections;
2. a system of laws and courts;
3. police and fire protection, disaster relief;
4. roads, water and other infrastructure;
5. basic education;
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1) Haven't been paying attention to the news with all the food poisoning, out-of-country dangerous foods, and recalls eh?
2) Two letters: O J
3) The fat cats always threaten the population with basics being effected. Meanwhile, the portion of the budget we don't see grows with the size of their offices and staffs. I have yet to see a city manager take a salary cap or reduction.
4) Tell that to Minnesota. Careful on the bridges.
5) Right now instead of using taxes, they are using private loans to pay those rising tuition rates.
We all rent from the government anyway. Try not paying your property taxes - you will find out who the landlord is real fast. Heck, they even tax the toilet paper you wipe your butt with around here.
But, we won't do anything until it finally all falls apart.
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Bell Labs is long gone. Lucent bought it a while ago and it's pretty much dismantled for lack of immediate profitability. A problem with a lot of research these days. At least we have open source.
Being smart and being educated are quite different. In order to be educated, one needs some smartness, but being smart does not mean one is educated.
I will assume you are thinking of TSA. TSA is a part of Homeland Security but Homeland Security is not the TSA.
Here is the list: http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/
Note it is composed of the US Coast Guard, Secret Service, ICE, etc. -- all of whom have arrest powers and the authority to carry a firearm in work circumstances.
It would be very entertaining to see a full uniform set of generals accept the prize, though I suppose Al Gore will step up to receive it.
Inquisitive minds are a danger to profit these days. Unfortunately it seems more and more performed for ripping people off with pirated music and software and less so for how things work to innovate off of.
Besides, with all the patents for software - can one really innovate anyhow without planning for the lawsuit when it becomes a success?
I thought them was biking shorts!
I and the rest of slashdot thank you for the correction, no matter how rude and assuming of where I live.
Hate to break this news to you but Texas has more renewable energy than California. (http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/10/ec-r-completes-780-mw-roscoe-wind-farm) California is going third world in so many ways.
This can be an interesting listen:
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4230.html
I use Linux, Windows, and OS X. I have always found OS X to be the easiest of the three to use GUI-wise. Why is there such a following to a windows like interface? Go for better! 3-D, or maybe a new scheme all together. MS interfaces are just the most horrible things - stuff hidden in illogical places, five or six mouse clicks to do things... I can go on but perhaps others following will. There are other ways.
It's not code faster...
It's "Work Harder! Work Longer! Work Faster!"
(Especially effective if said in Japanese accent.)
If you are selling your work, then I think you will want to create some kind of royalties payment schedule. (Make sure it is gross revenue of the product so they cannot play accounting games.)
Another option might be a consulting gig with them. The second time around with source code tends to be the better code eh? You may even be able to show of skills to show them you are worth keeping around for more than a few lines of code.
What I am saying is get paid for your future work on the code base.
If the code it's self is valuable, you should consider taking advantage of that value and this company might be the option to do that.
Repeatedly it has been chimed in the open source community that not everything has to be open source. There is value in pure functionality and paying for pure functionality is not a bad thing.
I have licensed my stuff in BSD often also. While GPL is the most freedom for the user, BSD is the most freedom for the developer.
It was designed for the 1980's because it was a temporary worker visa. Not a path to citizenship nor a path to a green card.
Viruses, Trojans, and various injections are already playing heck with the financial systems and people's private monies.
Just think what can happen to the governance of a country when "data vandals" hit the information system of a major city. No property taxes for some - more for others. Arrest soccer moms and eliminate pedophiles from police lists.
There is enough bad data in there already (ever hear of a data audit for various government data?) (How about a grant for auditing voter registration lists - who is on there that is dead? A newly minted felon? Moved? Just how accurate is it?)
Just imagine how things will be when people realize one cannot trust the government to be right.
You mean like certain colleges scanning certain facepage entries?
If you are going to resell in-house changes it's best that is spelled out in any payment agreements.
There are a lot of podcasts on making money with open source here:
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/index.html
You may need to look around a little.
I have made money indirectly from open source. Basically I through it out there and some people picked it up. When they needed other projects worked on I was contacted.
Documentation is more important than code I can tell you that much. Installation documentation, user documentation and most importantly programmer documentation.
Explain that to Schwarzenegger in California who is about to release 20,000 criminals (light crimes evidently) because there is no money to keep them imprisoned.
Unfortunately I think this is how it will end up. When one chases people out of society they have no reason to be social. I plan on watching the statistics for listed sex offenders who become burglars, robbers, and murderers.
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SlashSlash sounds more serial killer oriented than perv oriented... :)
Due to worries about anthrax and such, postal mail takes a bit of time to get to the office.
Email - go see http://www.outsourcecongress.org/ if ya want the WHOLE office to hear about it.
Otherwise, doing a fax is the best thing it seems.
I make quick time and flash movies along with podcasts for the software I write.
Needless to say, it can take up some disk space.
Thanks for the tip on what NOT to buy!
1. meat and other food inspections;
2. a system of laws and courts;
3. police and fire protection, disaster relief;
4. roads, water and other infrastructure;
5. basic education;
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1) Haven't been paying attention to the news with all the food poisoning, out-of-country dangerous foods, and recalls eh?
2) Two letters: O J
3) The fat cats always threaten the population with basics being effected. Meanwhile, the portion of the budget we don't see grows with the size of their offices and staffs. I have yet to see a city manager take a salary cap or reduction.
4) Tell that to Minnesota. Careful on the bridges.
5) Right now instead of using taxes, they are using private loans to pay those rising tuition rates.
We all rent from the government anyway. Try not paying your property taxes - you will find out who the landlord is real fast. Heck, they even tax the toilet paper you wipe your butt with around here.
But, we won't do anything until it finally all falls apart.
Don't pay your taxes to starve the system?
They are already borrowing trillions of dollars they can't readily tax out of us now!