I don't have a lot of exposure to the sales side of things. I'm an engineer and will work on support calls as needed. However, I can say that internally, I have not witnessed any sort of stigma against it. We've recommended open source solutions for customers as workarounds for issues and have used open source tools internally where appropriate. Everything I've seen suggests that it is viewed like anything else - a potential tool that our customers may or may not benefit from, if used correctly. We build many products on many variants of Linux (which can be viewed as supporting those customers who support and use open source software).
I admit that it sounds mighty idealistic, but at the same time, like many of the earlier posters, I wholly agree that it is quite possible to take a more neutral stance on the issue. It's not limited to only friends and enemies.
At the same time, I've been involved with discussions with legal ensuring that GPL'd code is not present in software products I am responsible for as a matter of protection of corporate interests.
While I appreciate being modded informative, I am amazed at the number of responses that are attacking my position.
Unfortunately, I am a horrible artist, and incapable of drawing one of those highly offensive ASCII masterpieces depicting the joke flying above my detractors heads.
There is a fundamental flaw here - your statement implies that the onus is on pedestrians and the locations they frequent to protect themselves (or, worse yet, on drivers to not hit pedestrians).
The truth of the matter is that it is the responsibility of automobile manufacturers to ensure that people not riding in cars are safe at all times.
Sir, I applaud your engineering genius. I must build a reactive armor airbag: the car, upon being assaulted by a pedestrian, cushions the pedestrian's impact...just as it throws him 30 feet into the air.
The summary indicates that it works well when applied to a vehicle not originally designed for pedestrian protection. They say this in conjunction with research indicating where a pedestrian's head will hit.
I'm sorry, but what cars are designed with pedestrian protection in mind in scenarios that would involve striking a pedestrian such that his head would hit my windshield?
Also, if I'm protecting the pedestrian, do I lose my entire field of view, and end up running down other pedestrians?
But I think we all still prefer the places where we can run around barefoot and completely naked.
Your comment seems to be implying that clothing is strictly based upon the climate. I'll see your postulate and raise. Therefore, you must be referring to any place that is climate controlled and relatively free of surface debris. This includes such disparate places as the African savannah and my local mall, the library, my office job, and the floor of the Senate.
I'm not sure where I was going, but I think that we all can agree that this country would probably be in a much better situation if our senators did more running around barefoot and naked.
He got to type? When they make me write code on a Palm Pilot, I was required to use the handwriting recognition. To this day, my handwriting looks like runic.
There's a part of me that wants to sympathize and just say "Holy crap..." in dumbstruck wonderment at how something like that can occur.
There's another part of me that just wants to one up you by claiming to work somewhere that they required me to personally kill a kitten before every check-in.
Excellent...that way, if the bus ever flipped over, one would still be able to read where it was going to know whether they needed to call a taxi or just keep waiting. Well done!
This is an opening for many, many excellent jokes. However, I refuse to stoop to that level. I will, however, stoop to the level of snickering and pointing.
The problem is the fact that when in Vault 87, Fawkes goes and gets the GECK for you. The radiation present in those tunnels is significantly higher than that present in the rotunda (and outside the Vault 87 entrance kills nearly instantly).
It's simply irritating to know that they make up a story about how it'll kill whomever enters, except that it doesn't. To have someone on hand who has already been exposed to quantitatively far worse and survived simply adds insult to injury...and then you die at the scripted moment.
If I had to die, at least kill me reasonably. The computer is damaged, and we know that activating the equipment is going to necessarily cause a massive explosion in the room...or something (at least something that Fawkes is going to rationally want to avoid).
I read the title of your post, and immediately thought - "But God didn't format the Bible himself, it was contracted out." My next thought was "Dear Lord...you should file a bug report."
I'd start with an open ended question:
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike...what do you do?"
I'd follow it up with a more direct problem solving question:
"I need to get all the primes less than 1000, and all I have are these punch-cards...go."
I'm not familiar with the term "Breath Test". In this case in particular, wouldn't a "Breast Test" be more useful? Unless of course they're specifically excluding necrophilia from their search criteria...
Intended purposes? You mean, paying transfer fees so that I can get my share of the $30mln that was left to me by my great grand-uncle (which is interesting, since I didn't even know I had one).
Admittedly, this is a bit offtopic, but when I read your post I imagined the conversation to go like this -
1: When were you born?
2: January, 1963.
1: What did you feel like when you heard that Kennedy was assassinated?
2: I wet myself many times that day.
2: Also, I cried...I was tired.
While I won't deny that 5 years ago I would have done the same thing, I try to, as much as possible, stay on the "right" side now. I'll grab a torrent for the purpose of trying the media out. If I enjoy it, I'll buy it. If not, I'll delete it.
They get their money for a decent product, and I keep my money when they try to swindle me with some crap.
Even for software that, in the past, I would have pirated, I'm finding myself finding ways to pay for now. It's more of a hassle to deal with keeping track of what stuff is actually mine, and what stuff I've had to crack or otherwise circumvent, than to just own the license myself.
I've heard this stated many times. However, it appears that the origin of this statement is lost. It just continues to be repeated, gaining credibility every time.
When I went to check this number, it appeared that the actual statistic is much lower.
My father used to watch hockey on a regular basis. I knew the Canadian anthem before I knew the US anthem. For that matter, I also knew God Save the Queen before I knew whatever other song has the same tune.
I had a business trip to Toronto last year, and when asked my favorite hockey team, I still had enough in my head to answer sensibly.
It is said that history is written by the victor. In a completely virtual world, where no one is ever truly destroyed, how is history impacted?
It looks like they are discussing recording the primary in-game events (they list the WoW plague outbreak and the death of Morpheus). This makes it sound like they really just want a nifty little wiki dedicated to each game. When they start talking about interactions between players, significance starts becoming very important. Are we talking statistics? Chat logs?
With real world history, we have the benefit of a (somewhat) objective viewpoint from which to determine how much the world has truly been impacted. With these games, and I say this carefully, who cares?
The statistics are important - how many people stopped playing after Morpheus died or the outbreak made them think the game was unfair. But do they represent history in a virtual world, where death is mutable and guilds form and die in weeks instead of years?
I think it's important that we determine what they are +5 of. Presumably, they are +5 perception.
However, it is also very reasonable that, as glasses are often said to make one look intelligent, that they are +5 Intelligence or even +5 Charisma (I like talking to people that look intelligent).
Personally, if I could get me some glasses of +5 stupid code comprehension, I'd take them. As it stands, the only drop I ever got from my optician was a glasses of +1 focus.
You would incur 1000 separate civil suits, each alleging the partial distribution of a copyrighted work.
Unable to go to each of the hearings, you would lose by default, and pay 1000*$3.50/1000 = $3.50...plus attorney's fees for 1000 separate lawsuits, totalling $3,000,003.50.
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I don't have a lot of exposure to the sales side of things. I'm an engineer and will work on support calls as needed. However, I can say that internally, I have not witnessed any sort of stigma against it. We've recommended open source solutions for customers as workarounds for issues and have used open source tools internally where appropriate. Everything I've seen suggests that it is viewed like anything else - a potential tool that our customers may or may not benefit from, if used correctly. We build many products on many variants of Linux (which can be viewed as supporting those customers who support and use open source software).
I admit that it sounds mighty idealistic, but at the same time, like many of the earlier posters, I wholly agree that it is quite possible to take a more neutral stance on the issue. It's not limited to only friends and enemies.
At the same time, I've been involved with discussions with legal ensuring that GPL'd code is not present in software products I am responsible for as a matter of protection of corporate interests.
While I appreciate being modded informative, I am amazed at the number of responses that are attacking my position.
Unfortunately, I am a horrible artist, and incapable of drawing one of those highly offensive ASCII masterpieces depicting the joke flying above my detractors heads.
There is a fundamental flaw here - your statement implies that the onus is on pedestrians and the locations they frequent to protect themselves (or, worse yet, on drivers to not hit pedestrians).
The truth of the matter is that it is the responsibility of automobile manufacturers to ensure that people not riding in cars are safe at all times.
Since an airbag isn't any of those things
Sir, I applaud your engineering genius. I must build a reactive armor airbag: the car, upon being assaulted by a pedestrian, cushions the pedestrian's impact...just as it throws him 30 feet into the air.
The summary indicates that it works well when applied to a vehicle not originally designed for pedestrian protection. They say this in conjunction with research indicating where a pedestrian's head will hit.
I'm sorry, but what cars are designed with pedestrian protection in mind in scenarios that would involve striking a pedestrian such that his head would hit my windshield?
Also, if I'm protecting the pedestrian, do I lose my entire field of view, and end up running down other pedestrians?
But I think we all still prefer the places where we can run around barefoot and completely naked.
Your comment seems to be implying that clothing is strictly based upon the climate. I'll see your postulate and raise. Therefore, you must be referring to any place that is climate controlled and relatively free of surface debris. This includes such disparate places as the African savannah and my local mall, the library, my office job, and the floor of the Senate.
I'm not sure where I was going, but I think that we all can agree that this country would probably be in a much better situation if our senators did more running around barefoot and naked.
He got to type? When they make me write code on a Palm Pilot, I was required to use the handwriting recognition. To this day, my handwriting looks like runic.
There's another part of me that just wants to one up you by claiming to work somewhere that they required me to personally kill a kitten before every check-in.
Excellent...that way, if the bus ever flipped over, one would still be able to read where it was going to know whether they needed to call a taxi or just keep waiting.
Well done!
This is an opening for many, many excellent jokes. However, I refuse to stoop to that level. I will, however, stoop to the level of snickering and pointing.
The problem is the fact that when in Vault 87, Fawkes goes and gets the GECK for you. The radiation present in those tunnels is significantly higher than that present in the rotunda (and outside the Vault 87 entrance kills nearly instantly). It's simply irritating to know that they make up a story about how it'll kill whomever enters, except that it doesn't. To have someone on hand who has already been exposed to quantitatively far worse and survived simply adds insult to injury...and then you die at the scripted moment. If I had to die, at least kill me reasonably. The computer is damaged, and we know that activating the equipment is going to necessarily cause a massive explosion in the room...or something (at least something that Fawkes is going to rationally want to avoid).
I read the title of your post, and immediately thought - "But God didn't format the Bible himself, it was contracted out." My next thought was "Dear Lord...you should file a bug report."
I'd start with an open ended question:
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike...what do you do?"
I'd follow it up with a more direct problem solving question:
"I need to get all the primes less than 1000, and all I have are these punch-cards...go."
I'm not familiar with the term "Breath Test". In this case in particular, wouldn't a "Breast Test" be more useful? Unless of course they're specifically excluding necrophilia from their search criteria...
Intended purposes? You mean, paying transfer fees so that I can get my share of the $30mln that was left to me by my great grand-uncle (which is interesting, since I didn't even know I had one).
Wow, there's nothing Google won't do for me.
Not a virus...a security system. No password, just hit the button hidden in the one place that no one wants to go.
On second thought...I need to go wash my mind out with bleach now.
Admittedly, this is a bit offtopic, but when I read your post I imagined the conversation to go like this -
1: When were you born?
2: January, 1963.
1: What did you feel like when you heard that Kennedy was assassinated?
2: I wet myself many times that day.
2: Also, I cried...I was tired.
While I won't deny that 5 years ago I would have done the same thing, I try to, as much as possible, stay on the "right" side now. I'll grab a torrent for the purpose of trying the media out. If I enjoy it, I'll buy it. If not, I'll delete it.
They get their money for a decent product, and I keep my money when they try to swindle me with some crap.
Even for software that, in the past, I would have pirated, I'm finding myself finding ways to pay for now. It's more of a hassle to deal with keeping track of what stuff is actually mine, and what stuff I've had to crack or otherwise circumvent, than to just own the license myself.
I've heard this stated many times. However, it appears that the origin of this statement is lost. It just continues to be repeated, gaining credibility every time.
When I went to check this number, it appeared that the actual statistic is much lower.
My father used to watch hockey on a regular basis. I knew the Canadian anthem before I knew the US anthem. For that matter, I also knew God Save the Queen before I knew whatever other song has the same tune.
I had a business trip to Toronto last year, and when asked my favorite hockey team, I still had enough in my head to answer sensibly.
All I could find was this article: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=229
It's related - it also discusses a man that they did the same thing to...he "vigorously protested" when they wanted to stop the experiment.
More importantly, if I succeed at first posting, but the "historians" come along and mod me down, does that mean I never really first posted?
It looks like they are discussing recording the primary in-game events (they list the WoW plague outbreak and the death of Morpheus). This makes it sound like they really just want a nifty little wiki dedicated to each game. When they start talking about interactions between players, significance starts becoming very important. Are we talking statistics? Chat logs?
With real world history, we have the benefit of a (somewhat) objective viewpoint from which to determine how much the world has truly been impacted. With these games, and I say this carefully, who cares?
The statistics are important - how many people stopped playing after Morpheus died or the outbreak made them think the game was unfair. But do they represent history in a virtual world, where death is mutable and guilds form and die in weeks instead of years?
However, it is also very reasonable that, as glasses are often said to make one look intelligent, that they are +5 Intelligence or even +5 Charisma (I like talking to people that look intelligent).
Personally, if I could get me some glasses of +5 stupid code comprehension, I'd take them. As it stands, the only drop I ever got from my optician was a glasses of +1 focus.
You would incur 1000 separate civil suits, each alleging the partial distribution of a copyrighted work.
Unable to go to each of the hearings, you would lose by default, and pay 1000*$3.50/1000 = $3.50...plus attorney's fees for 1000 separate lawsuits, totalling $3,000,003.50.