If the "customers" of this free, open source project even remotely care, then $3,000 shouldn't be a problem for them at all.
An unlimeted license for Movable Type, which as I understand it is a similar system, goes for $100: at that rate only 30 users would be necessary to foot the bill.
But the point is that it isn't a product for sale, and they do not have or even need a "customer" relationship.
It is given away for free by volunteers, and they aren't required to donate their money too, just because they donated their time.
That would be like some hobo at a soup kitchen complaining that he had to walk a few miles to get his free meal instead of being driven by one of the volunteers.
We know quite a bit more than 'almost nothing' about the fundamental nature of the Universe thank you...
The sum total of all human knowledge is finite.
There is an infinite supply of things we don't know.
finite quantity / infinity = 0, or at least approachs 0.
We are therefore very, very stupid.
This was the most amusing and telling part of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
In one of the episodes, I think it was the pilot actually, Picard and Q are discussing the Qs' (Q's?) interest in Humanity.
Eventually Picard manages to ascertain that the Q, an omnipotent and omniscient group, is troubled by the progress of humanity, fearing that they will eventually catch up.
This is classical hubris: finite + finite = finite, finite * finite = finite, even finite ** finite = finite; it is only after infinite time that any finite process of learning would allow the learning of everything, which the Q supposedly already possess.
If this were the Greek Gods instead of the Q, Zeus would have done something very entertaining to Picard (permamently) and just laughed at the foolish mortal, thereby teaching the valuable lesson: don't be an egotistical bastard, or Zeus will spite thee.
I certainly hope that it is a complete fabrication.
They show photos of her home, state her full address, describe her car, give out her phone number and e-mail address, talk about her son and his wife, giving their address too!
My bad, I accidentally calculated based upon a 40-hour work DAY instead of a 40-hour work week.
$1,000 per month still sucks though, and that would be about minimum wage.
Personally, I'd code OSS stuff all the time if I could make at least a living wage from it. I'm surprised that RedHat or some other big OSS company hasn't started an organization to fund such development. Pay experienced OSS developers US$1000/month to crank out code and documentation. Probably a lot of the expert (kernel hackers, etc) developers can do better than that but for a lot of us that work on smaller projects and tools that'd be a good offer. It might not pay as well as our current jobs but we could do what we love and still pay our rent. I think my personal interest in edutainment and tools for making Linux easier to manage/use would probably be worth $1000/month easily.
I don't know where you live, but $1,000 per month is not a living wage anywhere in the United states. Assuming a 40 hour work week, that is only a little over $1 per hour, and you can make $6 per hour cooking burgers at McDonald's.
If the law is wrong, then change the law, this is not an excuse of being outlaw.
The United Nations is not the law. The United Nations is merely a diplomatic channel.
Of course there is civil desobedience, but it's only valid for a good cause, and when supported by a considerable portion of the citizens.
I am not a citizen of the United Nations, I am a citizen of the United States. If I disobey the United Nations, I am not commiting civil disobedience, I am merely ignoring the wishes of an organization which I have no need to be obedient to.
If UN doesn't represent a democracy then it should be changed, until then there's no reason to ignore its decisions.
The United Nations is not a democracy. If it were to be replaced with an international body with a democratic structure where each citizen of each member nation has an equal vote on their representatives, then it would be a democracy.
Such a change would be very nice, but I don't see it happening any time soon, and especially not to the United Nations. It would be a completely new body if it ever happened. We can ignore the United Nations' decisions specifically because their decisions are designed to be unenforceable from its founding, and I can because I make a habit of ignoring the decisions of political bodies which we have no say in.
I didn't vote in Kofi Annan, did you? A lot of people don't like George Bush, and voted against him, but a lot of people do like him, and voted for him. At least their opinions were counted.
Of course, it's US' Government interest to keep UN the way it is.
Certain elements of the United States' Government perhaps, but it is not in the general interest of the citizens of the United States, or anybody else for that matter (excepting of course the actual people working in the United Nations.)
According to your journal here, you live in Brazil, which according to Wikipedia is a democratic republic. It is a very new government and I don't know how stable and honest or unstable and corrupted your government is, but you are a lot better off with the government of
Brazil than you are with the United Nations.
In the past when someone spent long hours implementing something in KHTML, they at least got a thank you from people using Konqueror.
Thank you!
If KDE hadn't gotten so good, my parents would still have to run Windows (I moved them over to FreeBSD with KDE over a year ago because they got hit by a big virus) and I would still probably be using Blackbox. It is nice to be in a graphical environment that looks better and works better than both Windows and OSX.
Yes it does, but a simple solution exists: generate hashes for each block of some size, say 1MB, to limit your losses, combined with public "good hash" repositories (several illegal meanings besides IP violation there) to check against. Then the worst they could do is not send you the credits.
(more likely than not it will be a military establishment; MoonWars 2034)
I think that is a much better line of reasoning, to a group of people with a much larger budget.
Orbital military observation posts, think spy satillite Plus!
Orbital manned interceptor fighters to shoot down the other guy's spy, communication, etc. satellites.
Orbital stations to service the interceptors, sort of the floating equivalent of an airfield, or a semi-stationary equivalent to a naval carrier.
Highly mobile orbital military stations (basically space stations that can easily alter their orbit) to attack any of the other guy's attempts to set up their own space stations, and protect the observation posts and interceptor service carriers.
Orbital bombardment stations: air force bombers can be shot down, spend all the stealth money instead on bombers that can't be shot down so easily.
Space will be the new "high ground" in the next real war, that is, the next one where our enemy could actually win.
While the shoes are ugly, that is more a matter of taste: maybe somebody would actually like them. What I have more of a problem with is an "anti-corporate" brand selling stuff. From here:
You are now the owner of a pair of blackspot sneakers. I hope you feel a real sense of empowerment as you slip them on and, like so many others before you, embark on a life charged up with social activism.
Apparently you get a "vote" in the company for every pair of shoes you buy, but do you get profit-sharing? Who is getting the money? This really does seem just like a really ironic way of marketing to the neo-communist middle-America teens.
If you think about this from a practical perspective this is actually necessary.
You can't expect the border patrol to be intimately familiar with every state's driver's license.
The only other viable option would be a uniform national identification card.
I think it would be good to allow people to enter with the license of the state they are entering though, since a border guard in say New York should know what a New York driver's license looks like, and then a lot of the people on day-trips to Canada wouldn't get hassled.
Joe Sixpack doesn't need to need to understand 32 versus 64 bit.
Even when I was a kid and didn't know jack about computers, I "knew" that the Sega Genesis was better than the NES, because the Genesis was 16 bit and the NES was only 8 bit. A same level of (almost absent) understanding is enough 64 = 2*32, therefore I want the 64 bit one.
Seriously, how long would it really take to patch together a GVB? I haven't used any version of Basic since the Apple II, so I don't really know, but I don't think it would be that much of a challenge. Are Lex and Yacc available on Windows? It would be really cool to see all of the crappy Windows apps written in a GPL programming language, which would of course be designed to support Linux too, therefore making all of the crappy Windows programs work on Windows, as long as the VB developers port their code over to this new GVB, which they wouldhave to since it would be the only game in town.
That is actually one of the weirdest road signs I have ever seen: On I-44 Eastbound on the way from Rolla (home of a good engineering school and not much else), there is a mileage sign saying St. Louis ??MI 100KM (can't remember how many miles, if I remembered my basic engineering stuff I could figure it out). That is the only time I have seen metric on a US road sign, only that one sign. It's still there.
I don't think anybody would actually register a.co.us just because people in Elbonia can't see their.com without pointing at a non-Elbonian DNS server.
And no, the Internet is not suggesting new kinds of economics, government, and especially not religion, just like the telephone didn't.
(I can check the weather online, therefore Jesus sucks? Huh?)
And yes, you do sound like a Wired columnist.
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The ass-hat actually is trying to get a spam degree.
Actually, very very few homes in America have Neilson boxes in them, the way the TV ratings are calculated (I think only a few thousand, but I don't know exact numbers). I have never met anybody personally who actually was part of Neilson's sample set. So for most of us, it doesn't matter what we do or don't watch.
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But the point is that it isn't a product for sale, and they do not have or even need a "customer" relationship. It is given away for free by volunteers, and they aren't required to donate their money too, just because they donated their time. That would be like some hobo at a soup kitchen complaining that he had to walk a few miles to get his free meal instead of being driven by one of the volunteers.
Consumers have the right and the duty to consume, northing more or less; unless you are in an economics class, the word you should use is "citizen."
The sum total of all human knowledge is finite.
There is an infinite supply of things we don't know.
finite quantity / infinity = 0, or at least approachs 0.
We are therefore very, very stupid.
This was the most amusing and telling part of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In one of the episodes, I think it was the pilot actually, Picard and Q are discussing the Qs' (Q's?) interest in Humanity. Eventually Picard manages to ascertain that the Q, an omnipotent and omniscient group, is troubled by the progress of humanity, fearing that they will eventually catch up. This is classical hubris: finite + finite = finite, finite * finite = finite, even finite ** finite = finite; it is only after infinite time that any finite process of learning would allow the learning of everything, which the Q supposedly already possess. If this were the Greek Gods instead of the Q, Zeus would have done something very entertaining to Picard (permamently) and just laughed at the foolish mortal, thereby teaching the valuable lesson: don't be an egotistical bastard, or Zeus will spite thee.
And it has finally gotten a decent editor too!
I certainly hope that it is a complete fabrication. They show photos of her home, state her full address, describe her car, give out her phone number and e-mail address, talk about her son and his wife, giving their address too!
The code documents itself, I swear!
My bad, I accidentally calculated based upon a 40-hour work DAY instead of a 40-hour work week. $1,000 per month still sucks though, and that would be about minimum wage.
I don't know where you live, but $1,000 per month is not a living wage anywhere in the United states. Assuming a 40 hour work week, that is only a little over $1 per hour, and you can make $6 per hour cooking burgers at McDonald's.
The United Nations is not the law. The United Nations is merely a diplomatic channel.
Of course there is civil desobedience, but it's only valid for a good cause, and when supported by a considerable portion of the citizens.
I am not a citizen of the United Nations, I am a citizen of the United States. If I disobey the United Nations, I am not commiting civil disobedience, I am merely ignoring the wishes of an organization which I have no need to be obedient to.
If UN doesn't represent a democracy then it should be changed, until then there's no reason to ignore its decisions.
The United Nations is not a democracy. If it were to be replaced with an international body with a democratic structure where each citizen of each member nation has an equal vote on their representatives, then it would be a democracy. Such a change would be very nice, but I don't see it happening any time soon, and especially not to the United Nations. It would be a completely new body if it ever happened. We can ignore the United Nations' decisions specifically because their decisions are designed to be unenforceable from its founding, and I can because I make a habit of ignoring the decisions of political bodies which we have no say in.
I didn't vote in Kofi Annan, did you? A lot of people don't like George Bush, and voted against him, but a lot of people do like him, and voted for him. At least their opinions were counted.
Of course, it's US' Government interest to keep UN the way it is.
Certain elements of the United States' Government perhaps, but it is not in the general interest of the citizens of the United States, or anybody else for that matter (excepting of course the actual people working in the United Nations.)
According to your journal here, you live in Brazil, which according to Wikipedia is a democratic republic. It is a very new government and I don't know how stable and honest or unstable and corrupted your government is, but you are a lot better off with the government of Brazil than you are with the United Nations.
I hate to break it to you, but the United Nations isn't even close to being a democracy.
Thank you!
If KDE hadn't gotten so good, my parents would still have to run Windows (I moved them over to FreeBSD with KDE over a year ago because they got hit by a big virus) and I would still probably be using Blackbox. It is nice to be in a graphical environment that looks better and works better than both Windows and OSX.
That is probably for the best: AP articles read as if they were written by, and for, illiterates; much like Slashdot.
Yes it does, but a simple solution exists: generate hashes for each block of some size, say 1MB, to limit your losses, combined with public "good hash" repositories (several illegal meanings besides IP violation there) to check against. Then the worst they could do is not send you the credits.
I think that is a much better line of reasoning, to a group of people with a much larger budget.
- Orbital military observation posts, think spy satillite Plus!
- Orbital manned interceptor fighters to shoot down the other guy's spy, communication, etc. satellites.
- Orbital stations to service the interceptors, sort of the floating equivalent of an airfield, or a semi-stationary equivalent to a naval carrier.
- Highly mobile orbital military stations (basically space stations that can easily alter their orbit) to attack any of the other guy's attempts to set up their own space stations, and protect the observation posts and interceptor service carriers.
- Orbital bombardment stations: air force bombers can be shot down, spend all the stealth money instead on bombers that can't be shot down so easily.
Space will be the new "high ground" in the next real war, that is, the next one where our enemy could actually win.You are now the owner of a pair of blackspot sneakers. I hope you feel a real sense of empowerment as you slip them on and, like so many others before you, embark on a life charged up with social activism.
Apparently you get a "vote" in the company for every pair of shoes you buy, but do you get profit-sharing? Who is getting the money? This really does seem just like a really ironic way of marketing to the neo-communist middle-America teens.
Does Buy Nothing Day exclude your ugly shoes?
If you think about this from a practical perspective this is actually necessary. You can't expect the border patrol to be intimately familiar with every state's driver's license. The only other viable option would be a uniform national identification card.
I think it would be good to allow people to enter with the license of the state they are entering though, since a border guard in say New York should know what a New York driver's license looks like, and then a lot of the people on day-trips to Canada wouldn't get hassled.
Ha! Fat chance.
Joe Sixpack doesn't need to need to understand 32 versus 64 bit. Even when I was a kid and didn't know jack about computers, I "knew" that the Sega Genesis was better than the NES, because the Genesis was 16 bit and the NES was only 8 bit. A same level of (almost absent) understanding is enough 64 = 2*32, therefore I want the 64 bit one.
Seriously, how long would it really take to patch together a GVB? I haven't used any version of Basic since the Apple II, so I don't really know, but I don't think it would be that much of a challenge. Are Lex and Yacc available on Windows? It would be really cool to see all of the crappy Windows apps written in a GPL programming language, which would of course be designed to support Linux too, therefore making all of the crappy Windows programs work on Windows, as long as the VB developers port their code over to this new GVB, which they wouldhave to since it would be the only game in town.
That is actually one of the weirdest road signs I have ever seen: On I-44 Eastbound on the way from Rolla (home of a good engineering school and not much else), there is a mileage sign saying St. Louis ??MI 100KM (can't remember how many miles, if I remembered my basic engineering stuff I could figure it out). That is the only time I have seen metric on a US road sign, only that one sign. It's still there.
And no, the Internet is not suggesting new kinds of economics, government, and especially not religion, just like the telephone didn't. (I can check the weather online, therefore Jesus sucks? Huh?) And yes, you do sound like a Wired columnist.
Actually, very very few homes in America have Neilson boxes in them, the way the TV ratings are calculated (I think only a few thousand, but I don't know exact numbers). I have never met anybody personally who actually was part of Neilson's sample set. So for most of us, it doesn't matter what we do or don't watch.
I would be much more willing to accept that mice have souls than that humans do not; this would only change my viewpoints of the lesser mammals.