and the company is in a position that would cause them to fail based upon one employee leaving, then they're in bigger trouble than just finding funding.
Go ahead and pursue the other offers. If the company survives, then great for your friends. If the company fails because you left, then it most likely wouldn't have lasted anyway.
That might be a defense to the RIAA and MPAA doing similar in the USA.
Have you ever bought a blank cassette tape or VHS tape in the US. Then guess what... part of your money went to the RIAA or MPAA. We *already* do this in the US. The only difference is that we're not taxing computer media, yet.
Wasn't it the government that assigned him those call letters when he got approved by the FCC in the first place. Couldn't he have just told QVC to go bug them instead, since he'd already been granted usage of those letters.
I think there's a very fine line between advocacy and close mindedness.
Having your personal favourite tools for a job is one thing, and can actually be beneficial. It's something you're familiar with and proficient in. Even if it's not quite the best tool for the job, the fact that you're fluent in it will make up for small advantages that a different tool may have.
However, once you cross the line of "having a favourite" to "having only one" tool for everything, you've hurt yourself. Keeping an open mind towards new tools is essential. You may not always like them, and even if they are slightly better for a job, your familiarity with the old standby could still make up the difference. But refusing to try something different at all is going to extremely limit you. Even being aware of other tools and looking at their merits honestly, will teach you new things and new ways of thinking about a problem. You may even learn new ways of using your favourite tool by seeing the strengths of a different one.
Why not use an open source project to help you gain experience?. If you feel like you may be overwhelmed, then start small. Do what Kohath suggests:
Find a project you care about, find a bug and fix it...
I think the key here is to not think on the scale of participating with major contributions, but to try and fix the odd bug or two. Find something on SourceForge that interests you, but which is small enough that you feel you can handle.
Once you've gained some experience working on minor fixes, you'll start to get the confidence you need to tackle larger projects. There's no need to try and jump right in over your head.
Start small and use the experience you gain to work your way up to more significant contributions, there's no reason why a beginner can't use Open Source to get their feet wet.
This is exactly why public blacklists never work. The entire system is based on the assumption that the data you're feeding into it is valid. However, in reality, you have no idea from who or where the data is coming from, nor do you have any way of telling how much of it has been tampered with other than basing it on the honor system. You can't assume that any of the data you receive is valid.
How do you figure the open source movement that is responsible for Linux is going bankrupt? Sure, maybe a reseller or two are having a rough time, but they have nothing to do with the OS other than putting it in a flashy box.
Since when do "winner" and "make money" have anything to do with each other? Is this a contest to see who can make the most cash, or to see who can make the better OS?
Face it Linux is not ready for prime time. Why, because I can't sit my mother in front of a Linux box and expect for her to learn it and like it.
You know, I've heard this argument a thousand times, and it's just silly. Just because the bottom of the computer literacy curve can't understand Linux does not make it a bad OS. I'm not your mother, and I use Linux almost exclusively. Unfortunately I had to learn something along the way, which most of the users who make the argument that "Linux isn't idiot proof" are unwilling to do.
Their goal should not be to make a product which everyone will switch to. Instead, they should be offering a *choice* for consumers. We desperately need anything to make it into the marketplace as a viable competitor to MS Office, even if it's just for the sake of the improvements MS will be forced to make to Office if they have some competition out there.
Oops, my fault. Should have read more carefully. I missed their distinction between workstation and desktop. Dell has sold single-CPU desktops, but not single-CPU workstations. I always associated them together.
Intel's promotion of a single-CPU workstation stands in contrast to the chip maker's previous promotions of dual-processor systems as the ideal workstation solution.
In fact, Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 1 supplier of workstations in the United States and a close Intel business partner, has never sold single-CPU-capable workstations.
Uh, does that sounds backwards to anybody else? Dell has never sold a single CPU workstation before.... really? Or has the article gotten workstation and server mixed up? If Intel is saying that they are now promoting single CPU servers and Dell has never before offered a single CPU server, the article makes a whole lot more sense.
Yeah, but the real question to have asked the filter software companies would have been "Why did your software block [list of sites]"? It'd be pretty interesting to hear them explain why their software censored these sites.
Then again, they probably just wouldn't have answered the question anyway.
Actually, if you read the article, the majority of it is talking about how INSECURE broadband connections are, and experts were quoted saying that everyone should be running a "personal firewall".
The DHCP remark was made by a DSL provider, NOT by EXCITE@HOME. The @HOME representative was quoted as saying that their techs take precautions during the installation such as "Disabling file sharing". They also say that people should take more precautions if they have "sensitive information" on their PC, not "private information", and that while Excite@home does not provide such software, they did say that they are willing to help a customer install and set it up to work with their service.
I'm not much of a fan of @HOME's tech support and security policies either(personally I run an ipchains firewall on my @HOME account), but the original poster made a pretty inaccurate review of the article and painted Excite as being more clueless than they actually were.
Don't be too quick to jump on the "bash @HOME's security advice" bandwagon based upon the posters comments. Read the quotes in the article for yourself first, the original poster was way off the mark.
Yes, but Carnivore is being developed for use by the FBI, not your local county police office. They're not going after "3-tooth Bubba" who just knocked off the corner 7-11. How many criminals that the FBI investigates do they really expect to send un-encrypted emails discussing their felonies.
Exactly, and given MS's past record with embrace and extend,.NET for linux will only work with MicroSoft's own new linux distribution. ".NET is not available for regular linux, you need to download our enhanced linux OS"
It's free until you switch over to it and come to depend on the.NET functionality, then they charge $100 for the upgrades.
Besides the fact that MS's opionion of their customers is pretty low (true or not) if they assume that installing an OS is beyond them, don't we pay for the MS OEM license whether or not we buy a naked PC? I remember hearing (albeit awhile ago) that MS charges the PC sellers a license fee for every machine they sell in order for them to have the right to pre-bundle Windows, regardless of whether or not they actually install Windows on every machine.
So even if you do purchase a "naked" PC and install linux, a chunk of your purchase price still goes to MS. (Monopoly? Of course not!)
From the MPAA's letter -- (2) linking any
Internet web site, either directly or
through a series of links, to any other
Internet web site containing DeCSS.
By this logic... isn't the entire web now illegal?
Everybody links to everything eventually "through a series of links". It's all a matter of how many links are in that series, which they don't specify.
Anyone want to take bets on when the MPAA issues a lawsuit against the world?
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Go ahead and pursue the other offers. If the company survives, then great for your friends. If the company fails because you left, then it most likely wouldn't have lasted anyway.
Have you ever bought a blank cassette tape or VHS tape in the US. Then guess what... part of your money went to the RIAA or MPAA. We *already* do this in the US. The only difference is that we're not taxing computer media, yet.
Wasn't it the government that assigned him those call letters when he got approved by the FCC in the first place. Couldn't he have just told QVC to go bug them instead, since he'd already been granted usage of those letters.
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Democratic party.... no votes
Republican party.... no votes
Bill Gates.......... 97,312,437
Every Win2K machine in the US automatically starts playing Hail_to_the_Chief.mp3
Having your personal favourite tools for a job is one thing, and can actually be beneficial. It's something you're familiar with and proficient in. Even if it's not quite the best tool for the job, the fact that you're fluent in it will make up for small advantages that a different tool may have.
However, once you cross the line of "having a favourite" to "having only one" tool for everything, you've hurt yourself. Keeping an open mind towards new tools is essential. You may not always like them, and even if they are slightly better for a job, your familiarity with the old standby could still make up the difference. But refusing to try something different at all is going to extremely limit you. Even being aware of other tools and looking at their merits honestly, will teach you new things and new ways of thinking about a problem. You may even learn new ways of using your favourite tool by seeing the strengths of a different one.
Find a project you care about, find a bug and fix it...
I think the key here is to not think on the scale of participating with major contributions, but to try and fix the odd bug or two. Find something on SourceForge that interests you, but which is small enough that you feel you can handle.
Once you've gained some experience working on minor fixes, you'll start to get the confidence you need to tackle larger projects. There's no need to try and jump right in over your head.
Start small and use the experience you gain to work your way up to more significant contributions, there's no reason why a beginner can't use Open Source to get their feet wet.
This is exactly why public blacklists never work. The entire system is based on the assumption that the data you're feeding into it is valid. However, in reality, you have no idea from who or where the data is coming from, nor do you have any way of telling how much of it has been tampered with other than basing it on the honor system. You can't assume that any of the data you receive is valid.
How do you figure the open source movement that is responsible for Linux is going bankrupt? Sure, maybe a reseller or two are having a rough time, but they have nothing to do with the OS other than putting it in a flashy box.
Since when do "winner" and "make money" have anything to do with each other? Is this a contest to see who can make the most cash, or to see who can make the better OS?
You know, I've heard this argument a thousand times, and it's just silly. Just because the bottom of the computer literacy curve can't understand Linux does not make it a bad OS. I'm not your mother, and I use Linux almost exclusively. Unfortunately I had to learn something along the way, which most of the users who make the argument that "Linux isn't idiot proof" are unwilling to do.
Their goal should not be to make a product which everyone will switch to. Instead, they should be offering a *choice* for consumers. We desperately need anything to make it into the marketplace as a viable competitor to MS Office, even if it's just for the sake of the improvements MS will be forced to make to Office if they have some competition out there.
Oops, my fault. Should have read more carefully. I missed their distinction between workstation and desktop. Dell has sold single-CPU desktops, but not single-CPU workstations. I always associated them together.
In fact, Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 1 supplier of workstations in the United States and a close Intel business partner, has never sold single-CPU-capable workstations.
Uh, does that sounds backwards to anybody else? Dell has never sold a single CPU workstation before.... really? Or has the article gotten workstation and server mixed up? If Intel is saying that they are now promoting single CPU servers and Dell has never before offered a single CPU server, the article makes a whole lot more sense.
"Why did your software block [list of sites]"?
It'd be pretty interesting to hear them explain why their software censored these sites.
Then again, they probably just wouldn't have answered the question anyway.
Nah, they'll just release the RuFDog instead of the CueCat.
The DHCP remark was made by a DSL provider, NOT by EXCITE@HOME. The @HOME representative was quoted as saying that their techs take precautions during the installation such as "Disabling file sharing". They also say that people should take more precautions if they have "sensitive information" on their PC, not "private information", and that while Excite@home does not provide such software, they did say that they are willing to help a customer install and set it up to work with their service.
I'm not much of a fan of @HOME's tech support and security policies either(personally I run an ipchains firewall on my @HOME account), but the original poster made a pretty inaccurate review of the article and painted Excite as being more clueless than they actually were.
Don't be too quick to jump on the "bash @HOME's security advice" bandwagon based upon the posters comments. Read the quotes in the article for yourself first, the original poster was way off the mark.
Yes, but Carnivore is being developed for use by the FBI, not your local county police office. They're not going after "3-tooth Bubba" who just knocked off the corner 7-11. How many criminals that the FBI investigates do they really expect to send un-encrypted emails discussing their felonies.
Exactly, and given MS's past record with embrace and extend, .NET for linux will only work with MicroSoft's own new linux distribution. ".NET is not available for regular linux, you need to download our enhanced linux OS"
It's free until you switch over to it and come to depend on the .NET functionality, then they charge $100 for the upgrades.
The secret to the seven of nine look is the RAID array she keeps tucked down the front of her uniform.
So even if you do purchase a "naked" PC and install linux, a chunk of your purchase price still goes to MS.
(Monopoly? Of course not!)
How many want to bet that the first real world use of this technology will be to insert viagra producing genes into porn stars?
While we recognize that an IQ is generally a good thing to have, as of this time we don't support it within out management staff.
2. Kaplan is incompetent, or has no respect for the law.
3. All of the above
(2) linking any Internet web site, either directly or through a series of links, to any other Internet web site containing DeCSS.
By this logic... isn't the entire web now illegal? Everybody links to everything eventually "through a series of links". It's all a matter of how many links are in that series, which they don't specify.
Anyone want to take bets on when the MPAA issues a lawsuit against the world?