Free market economy eventually results in authoritarianism. Someone or a very small group of someones wind up with control of all the [food, oil, fresh water, electricity, etc.].
Umm, I think that's pretty much exactly how solar panels work. Light causes the electrons to move (read: energy transfer), which is used to create electricity.
Just for shiggles, I'll quote a fellow/.er. Pardon me for not knowing who the original author was:
Far be it from me to dispute the scientific belief that there is a magical dead jew on a stick who was his own father; who created the universe and will sometimes grant you wishes if you telepathically communicate with him to tell him how great he is.
The SIAA just bumped their maximum reward for reporting pirated software to $1 million. This action further raises the cost of doing business because it's really quite difficult to keep track of proof for all the licenses for everything in a huge corporation and businesses will have to be extra careful because one disgruntled employee who wants to make off with a million bucks could really hurt them. This may encourage the use of free software and likewise encourage business users to demand free software support on their machines. To get back on topic... if I'm buying my one laptop it's not so big, but if I'm buying 1500 laptops this year then $50/pop is substantial, plus I don't have to concern myself with keeping track of the licenses which is an additional savings.
I don't think that perception is entirely true. I think IT professionals are a bit more demanding than your average business folk. We want our beanbag chairs and our big salary, "because without us, you are nothing". I think the biggest problem business managers face is that their IT staff is at least as intelligent as they are. We're not easily culled by team building events or token raises. Business people are not used to dealing with employees with the level of awareness of 'the game' that IT employees seem to have. We see things like the quarterly PowerPoint which states productivity and revenues were up 10% while costs were down 3% and recognize that our paltry 3% raise is an insult.
AFAIK the GPL doesn't specify how the code must be delivered. I've heard stories of people printing out hundreds of thousands of lines of code on paper because their contracts required that the code be delivered and the customer really pissed off the consulting firm. The GPL does suggest that the code must be machine readable (OCR anyone?). I can punch card the code on sheets of solid platinum. That will represent a real cost.
I wonder what would happen if my company hired an independent contractor to perform source distribution for us. That independent contractor can charge $10 Billion per copy to my company. Since my cost is $10 Billion, that's the cost of me getting the source to you. Pay up.
Lots of google's projects are a success. Google Maps and GMail increases page loads which increases revenue. The value of that mind share alone is.. well, you've seen Google's stock. What you're concerned about is that Google only has one way of effectively monetizing their products (through advertising fees). Well I would argue that this is not an inherently better or worse way of monetizing products than vendor sales.
Let's face it, television and cable channels have no way of monetizing their products except through commercials (season DVDs aside). Those are industries which seem to be doing pretty well.
A lot of ISPs have packages where they handle purchasing and installing the certificate for you. Not to mention the fact that even if you do it yourself the certificate IS in fact install on their server. I see no reason they shouldn't be able to reroute your request.
VMWare is ideal for development on multiple platforms. On the same box I can run window, HP-UX, and RHEL. Then multiple developers can use the same piece of hardware as a development/build/test platform. For that matter we have different VMs for different builds of our software so that we can write patches to the previous versions very simply. The only thing they can't do is load test as effectively as if they had their own server. I'm sure there are people who use virtual machines in their production environment but I've never met them. I would assume (possibly incorrectly) it's mostly used in major operations.
Unfortunately the product doesn't have to actually cross the state border in order to affect inter-state commerce. At least that's the current legal standing based on Supreme Court rulings.
You see, the Department of Homeland Security is the 'People Person' of the national security industry. They take the top secret files from the FBI to the CIA. Usually their secretaries do it, but sometimes they do it personally. This is an important task so that the FBI doesn't have to deal with the CIA.
This is a poor analogy because Apple had 5 separate versions in 5 years where-as Microsoft only had one. Since the windows user did not have an option to 'stay current' beyond security updates (which are free with OSX) to compare them the OSX user needs to sit idle for 5 years without upgrading as well. In this instance, the Mac user only spends $130. More importantly the Mac user can update up to 5 machines in the home for only $200. The Windows user has to buy a license for each machine./linux user
With regard to digital media, making copies is tantamount to giving it away. What's interesting about this PARTICULAR form of 'distribution' is that he did not actively or passively copy the files such as exists in the p2p world. The person copying the file to their own drive is the only one making a copy.
Just over half a trillion dollars if you assume each year is $17 Billion. I realize each year's budget was different, but I have a hard time believing that it is over $2 Trillion. Since it was already brought up by the GP poster I'll also note that the true cost of the Iraq war is over $1 Trillion in estimated cost when you include the long term care for injured veterans. So... in 5 years of war on terror we've met or exceeded 30 years of space research budget. Note that the 5 year war budget does NOT include our 'normal' military spending. It only counts the extra which has been specifically allocated to the war.
My understanding is that Eclipse has plugins for development in other languages (particularly speaking of C/C++ here). Can anyone speak to how well those work if at all?
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I'm not clear on how the ISP could distinguish between encrypted data and any generic binary data.
Free market economy eventually results in authoritarianism. Someone or a very small group of someones wind up with control of all the [food, oil, fresh water, electricity, etc.].
That's funny, because what you're talking about is precisely the reason most people can't/won't use linux.
Umm, I think that's pretty much exactly how solar panels work. Light causes the electrons to move (read: energy transfer), which is used to create electricity.
By SIAA I meant SIIA or Software & Information Industry Association
The SIAA just bumped their maximum reward for reporting pirated software to $1 million. This action further raises the cost of doing business because it's really quite difficult to keep track of proof for all the licenses for everything in a huge corporation and businesses will have to be extra careful because one disgruntled employee who wants to make off with a million bucks could really hurt them. This may encourage the use of free software and likewise encourage business users to demand free software support on their machines. To get back on topic... if I'm buying my one laptop it's not so big, but if I'm buying 1500 laptops this year then $50/pop is substantial, plus I don't have to concern myself with keeping track of the licenses which is an additional savings.
AFAIK the GPL doesn't specify how the code must be delivered. I've heard stories of people printing out hundreds of thousands of lines of code on paper because their contracts required that the code be delivered and the customer really pissed off the consulting firm. The GPL does suggest that the code must be machine readable (OCR anyone?). I can punch card the code on sheets of solid platinum. That will represent a real cost.
I wonder what would happen if my company hired an independent contractor to perform source distribution for us. That independent contractor can charge $10 Billion per copy to my company. Since my cost is $10 Billion, that's the cost of me getting the source to you. Pay up.
I wouldn't, but only because I utilize virtualization quite a bit.
Lots of google's projects are a success. Google Maps and GMail increases page loads which increases revenue. The value of that mind share alone is.. well, you've seen Google's stock. What you're concerned about is that Google only has one way of effectively monetizing their products (through advertising fees). Well I would argue that this is not an inherently better or worse way of monetizing products than vendor sales.
Let's face it, television and cable channels have no way of monetizing their products except through commercials (season DVDs aside). Those are industries which seem to be doing pretty well.
A lot of ISPs have packages where they handle purchasing and installing the certificate for you. Not to mention the fact that even if you do it yourself the certificate IS in fact install on their server. I see no reason they shouldn't be able to reroute your request.
VMWare is ideal for development on multiple platforms. On the same box I can run window, HP-UX, and RHEL. Then multiple developers can use the same piece of hardware as a development/build/test platform. For that matter we have different VMs for different builds of our software so that we can write patches to the previous versions very simply. The only thing they can't do is load test as effectively as if they had their own server. I'm sure there are people who use virtual machines in their production environment but I've never met them. I would assume (possibly incorrectly) it's mostly used in major operations.
Unfortunately the product doesn't have to actually cross the state border in order to affect inter-state commerce. At least that's the current legal standing based on Supreme Court rulings.
You're not mistaken. I'm glad that some moderators saw fit to mod me insightful as well as funny, because that was the intent.
You see, the Department of Homeland Security is the 'People Person' of the national security industry. They take the top secret files from the FBI to the CIA. Usually their secretaries do it, but sometimes they do it personally. This is an important task so that the FBI doesn't have to deal with the CIA.
It's not about getting ubuntu to run on a box. In business, it's about getting vendor support.
This is a poor analogy because Apple had 5 separate versions in 5 years where-as Microsoft only had one. Since the windows user did not have an option to 'stay current' beyond security updates (which are free with OSX) to compare them the OSX user needs to sit idle for 5 years without upgrading as well. In this instance, the Mac user only spends $130. More importantly the Mac user can update up to 5 machines in the home for only $200. The Windows user has to buy a license for each machine. /linux user
I can't speak for the rest of those apps because I don't use them, but I can assure you that the javascript engine in firefox is pretty slow.
Just over half a trillion dollars if you assume each year is $17 Billion. I realize each year's budget was different, but I have a hard time believing that it is over $2 Trillion. Since it was already brought up by the GP poster I'll also note that the true cost of the Iraq war is over $1 Trillion in estimated cost when you include the long term care for injured veterans. So... in 5 years of war on terror we've met or exceeded 30 years of space research budget. Note that the 5 year war budget does NOT include our 'normal' military spending. It only counts the extra which has been specifically allocated to the war.
My understanding is that Eclipse has plugins for development in other languages (particularly speaking of C/C++ here). Can anyone speak to how well those work if at all?
If the sun exploded, you'd probably continue to get a tan for at least a few seconds after 8 minutes.
Primarily because it's currently the single leading cause of cancer and death in the United States. I totally see your point though.