i never understood the whole free software thing. trust me i love it, (firefox, filezilla, xbmc, vlc, etc…) but i don’t get it.
let me explain. software developers are smart people. they have a talent, a skill, and in this world people with talents and skills get paid for them.
name me one other industry where talented people give away work for free. i dont see accountants lining up to do your taxes for free, doctors ready to treat you for free and professors willing to teach you for free. unfortunately that’s not how this world works, but developers don’t seem to care.
i understand all the benefits of sharing source code and innovating and improving with others around the globe. it’s truly amazing, case closed. but from the whole business perspective it doesn’t make sense. i guess some open source geeks just have good hearts and aren’t the most savvy business men / women… i mean if i can make a kick ass product like many of the open source ones out there, i’m gonna make money off it. daddy’s gotta eat.
its almost counter productive if you think about it… go to your software development job, work on a product, then go home and work on a free open source product in your spare time and give it away for free… ya know if you charged for your free product you might not have to go into the day job anymore and you could do what you love…
if someone can help me explain, please do… i’ve never been able to wrap my little brain around it.
mrsilver thought
i bet you didn’t know about this:
http://www.google.com/history/
login with your gmail account and then look at all your web searches over the last god knows how long
little scary right?
say you do a search for pipe bomb… who knows, maybe you want to see how easily that info is available to terrorists
thats tracked and think how they could use it against you if they wanted to
i mean that’s just one random example… there’s plenty more though
google is shady, they keep a lot of your info and most of the time regular users (say 95%) have no idea
when you have to opt out of something like remembering all of my web search history, they’ve gone too far… serious privacy violation
mrsilver thought
seriously though
wouldn’t you want to click a button called “fuck yeah”
how many times do you come across a button that says FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!
like never right???
well there might be a tempting subscribe button on the side of the screen
what a sneak
i hate theives
mrsilver thought
there should obviously be a page on youtube…
youtube news
like google news but all videos for the day in news
all the big headlines for the day
picture like clips from cnn, fox news, msnbc, etc…
whatever stuff is newsworthy for the day there is probably a video clip to go with it
a website where you create your own news channel
oh that sounds cool. interesting. click click click.
just watch and see on your own schedule
i wonder if this will be as interesting of an idea tomorrow…
WE SHALL SEE
mrsilver thought
just found this out:
yeah i know, wtf…
if i had known obviously i would have been putting in extra effort for things i digg
sorry guys, i’ll try to step it up
mrsilver thought
this is crazy
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4742147.ece
basically google news picked up an old story on united airlines filing bankrupcy in 2002. there was no date on the article so it thought it was new news, but it wasn’t. then there was a shit storm cause all their shareholders saw the story and started selling.
the stock went from $13 to $3 (1 billion change) in only a few hours. fuck. look at monday sept 8th.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:UAUA
i don’t think google is at fault (its a fucking algorithm) but this whole thing is kinda scary. who knows what other types of stories could be re-surfaced and have really bad consequences. tip of the iceshit. at least we know mccain didn’t sell his shares… he doesn’t use the internet.
mrsilver thought
i am so scared about this election. if these retards win we are screwed.
- 72 year old grandpa who’s never used the internet. he’s bush III.
- inexperienced lady who was the mayor of a town of 5,000 and governor of alaska for 2 years. that’s her creds? at least she’s hot
mrsilver thought