Take Algerians.. The French would do "rat hunts" and beat up Algerians back in the good ol' days of Algerian stability. 90% of the landowners were French. Or take Iraq, a suicide bomb happens then families, children to old people, stand in line as US soldiers hand out water and rations. You have no power but foreigners occupying the green zone always have power and clean water. Not quite tyranny (despite al jazeera being banned)but still, being occupied is humiliating and having your natural resources divied up by occupiers cuts into your pride.
I'm sure some people second guessed our decision to break from England after we fumbled but this fumbling was necessary to get on with our lives.
And barbarian europe is pretty democratic right now.
Algeria had the same problem along with Zimbabwe.. Kick out the evil oppressive jerks, get your freedom, but now you no longer have the experience to make things smooth.
In the end though, as Europe showed, the slaves eventually take the reigns and they do well.
If there is a lesson to be learned it is that freedom is more important than stability even if the stability is achieved under authoritarian means. There may be hiccups but I'm sure there are some smart people outside of the USA who can figure out this problem.
Not by any means, in fact I once worked at a competitors of theirs and seeing them in action as they shelled out $ only to go in for the crush.. was awe inspiring.
I always recognize genius, whether it benefits me or not. Believe me I probably hate them and their arrogant employees more than you.
Anyone could have then done what google did but they did not, they came from nowhere and did some really smart things and now google is a household name. And it wasn't marketing. The history of adsense is an interesting one, they've got some smart folks there. Google basically abused their competitors, gave them some cash for their publishers, leveraging advertisers from adwords, then eventually left their competitors in the dust.
*) ad sense. They had the wisdom to see that using applied technologies tech with internet advertisting could reap huge benfeits. Result? No serious competitor for contextual advertisting, yahoo is playin catch up, ad sonar is laughable. Now advertisers have an awesome medium thanks to google. *) scaling pagerank. They created a platform of cheap x86 boxes with a free OS(linux) where they have living blob of computers which they can easily maintain, just add a redundant node and forget about it. They allowed the masses to index the web and now google is a household name.
That, my friend, is innovation. Rolling out new OSes / office products with new bells and whistles is not innovation.
The economy is based primarily on subsistence or small-scale agriculture, which provides a living for 65% of the population, and online advertising thanks to sweaty nerds downloading free mp3s with WinMX and visiting the WinMX website which provides tribalfusion popups.
In general it seems slow compared to firefox, it's hard to pinpoint what exactly. I'll have to borrow from mac terminology and say "it isn't as snappy as opera" when it comes to complex DHTML.
These benchmarks show what I'm getting at, notice the slow javascript time for firefox on linux vs windows which is a bit better for some reason:
Right now you have menus which only appear in KDE and not gnome and other inconsistencies. The KDE control center is amazing. If someone switches from KDE to gnome, they'll be lost when customizing their desktop and navigating around.
I feel the same as you: diversity is good and both compete with eachother resulting in more choice for all of us, a sort of darwinian process. There is also the aspect of uniformity. If we are to appeal to the common joe shmoe who expects a uniform interface, then we should merge the two at some point. I hope KDE and gnome can fight it out then we can unify them at that point, creating one seperior open source GUI, one look and feel and write all our apps for that new beast.
Did you have that fancy software back when everyone used word perfect? The word processing craze got people hooked on the PC. After that we got more elaborate 'fancy' apps like the one you want.
And right now we have open office and it kicks serious ass. With version 2 of Open Office, it's becoming less apparant that you need Microsoft Office. Eventually it will smother MS Office and people will slowly switch to linux because as you said, it's all about the apps. The pieces are slowly coming together, give it time.
In fact, I think open office is as important as kde vs gnome, that is the killer app that will ultimately convince people. From there we need to merge kde and gnome.
Interesting that they use that from Kx, paul falstad, author of zsh, wrote the sleepcat replacement. Good to see they've used that in mx.
But a good portion of their engineering and QA is done in India, from the mta to the mss to the directory. The mobile side of things is outsourced to India and Ireland.
The support people you deal with are of course based in the US.
I used it at a couple ISPs myself and was impressed.
I really liked the distributed config.
I'm not sure why they didn't officially port it to linux / ditch oracle and its expensive license completely and instead use something like postgresql. These things would drive costs down. In that respect they were out of touch with their customers - now even sun is adopting linux. They seem to have missed the boat re: cheap x86 hardware and inexpensive DBs. I heard they outsourced a lot of stuff to India yet still the price tag is so high.
In any case, I also heard intermail hasn't changed much since the 90's, just more spam checking and other bells + whistles.
Here's to hoping openwave goes bankrupt and open sources intermail.;)
I'm sure other commercial vendors have it but I do know that large companies like ATT et al use it to handle their email. It's a shrinkwrap product that does it all and then some but it's very pricy.
I'm sure you could hack together something to do this much like what google did. Might take some time but it's totally doable.
Getting mysql to use indexes is an art. Just try random things and eventually you'll get it right. I need to use postgres more but it seems like that's not a problem w/ postgres.
I eventually figured out that mysql doesn't perform well(ie has a hard time using indices) when joining 4 or more tables.
It took them 100 years but they spinned creationism into ID, in 100 years they'll come around. Evolution has always been evolution, their side twists and spins. The truth will always be right.
I believe it's because if you accept federal funding, any federal funding, you cannot use the funding in any small way for your embryonic stem cell research.. Ie lighting, counterspace, et al used for the federal research cannot also be shared for your embryonic stem cell research. It is not cost effective to have a separate unit just for embryonic stem cell research, hence private organisations in the USA now study embryonic stem cells in very limited numbers. Straight from Bush's mouth:
No federal funds will be used for: (1) the derivation or use of stem cell lines derived from newly destroyed embryos; (2) the creation of any human embryos for research purposes; or (3) the cloning of human embryos for any purpose.
Did the Development Team give warning of this action or seek compromise prior to publishing the Open Letter?
No, the notice was their first and only action.
Sad.. this could have been solved if they would have communicated to management, if things didn't happen then they could go public. As is they're just being self-absored primadonna attention whores, eliciting thousands of posts from people around the internet. This could have been solved if they weren't so full of themselves and knew how to communicate.
OTOH, management could have paid more attention to the developers regarding their thoughts on the appointment process. If they had just said what they are now telling everyone then this could have been solved.
It is sad this this has become so high profile. They're just airing their dirty laundry and it is not necessary.
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Take Algerians.. The French would do "rat hunts" and beat up Algerians back in the good ol' days of Algerian stability. 90% of the landowners were French. Or take Iraq, a suicide bomb happens then families, children to old people, stand in line as US soldiers hand out water and rations. You have no power but foreigners occupying the green zone always have power and clean water. Not quite tyranny (despite al jazeera being banned)but still, being occupied is humiliating and having your natural resources divied up by occupiers cuts into your pride.
I'm sure some people second guessed our decision to break from England after we fumbled but this fumbling was necessary to get on with our lives.
And barbarian europe is pretty democratic right now.
Algeria had the same problem along with Zimbabwe.. Kick out the evil oppressive jerks, get your freedom, but now you no longer have the experience to make things smooth.
In the end though, as Europe showed, the slaves eventually take the reigns and they do well.
If there is a lesson to be learned it is that freedom is more important than stability even if the stability is achieved under authoritarian means. There may be hiccups but I'm sure there are some smart people outside of the USA who can figure out this problem.
Here, read up on the GoogleFS and please link to where this was done beforehand, thanks in advance:
l ing+with+failure/2100-1032_3-5596811.html?tag=nefd .ac
http://news.com.com/Googles+secret+of+success+Dea
Not by any means, in fact I once worked at a competitors of theirs and seeing them in action as they shelled out $ only to go in for the crush.. was awe inspiring.
I always recognize genius, whether it benefits me or not. Believe me I probably hate them and their arrogant employees more than you.
Anyone could have then done what google did but they did not, they came from nowhere and did some really smart things and now google is a household name. And it wasn't marketing. The history of adsense is an interesting one, they've got some smart folks there. Google basically abused their competitors, gave them some cash for their publishers, leveraging advertisers from adwords, then eventually left their competitors in the dust.
*) ad sense. They had the wisdom to see that using applied technologies tech with internet advertisting could reap huge benfeits. Result? No serious competitor for contextual advertisting, yahoo is playin catch up, ad sonar is laughable. Now advertisers have an awesome medium thanks to google.
*) scaling pagerank. They created a platform of cheap x86 boxes with a free OS(linux) where they have living blob of computers which they can easily maintain, just add a redundant node and forget about it. They allowed the masses to index the web and now google is a household name.
That, my friend, is innovation. Rolling out new OSes / office products with new bells and whistles is not innovation.
Microsoft talks about innovation.
Google actually innovates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu
The economy is based primarily on subsistence or small-scale agriculture, which provides a living for 65% of the population, and online advertising thanks to sweaty nerds downloading free mp3s with WinMX and visiting the WinMX website which provides tribalfusion popups.
In general it seems slow compared to firefox, it's hard to pinpoint what exactly. I'll have to borrow from mac terminology and say "it isn't as snappy as opera" when it comes to complex DHTML.
These benchmarks show what I'm getting at, notice the slow javascript time for firefox on linux vs windows which is a bit better for some reason:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html
It's 100 times better than IE in almost every way, but when it comes to javascript, it's slow, esp. in comparison to Opera.
It would be great if they precompiled javascript or something.
err that's a planned feature, sorry
this GPL product claims it does:
http://www.roundcube.net/?p=about
Support for GPG/PGP encryption
in order to read your 14 character "buy viagra now" spam message.
Get in line, folks.
Right now you have menus which only appear in KDE and not gnome and other inconsistencies. The KDE control center is amazing. If someone switches from KDE to gnome, they'll be lost when customizing their desktop and navigating around.
I feel the same as you: diversity is good and both compete with eachother resulting in more choice for all of us, a sort of darwinian process. There is also the aspect of uniformity. If we are to appeal to the common joe shmoe who expects a uniform interface, then we should merge the two at some point. I hope KDE and gnome can fight it out then we can unify them at that point, creating one seperior open source GUI, one look and feel and write all our apps for that new beast.
Just a pipe dream of mine.
Did you have that fancy software back when everyone used word perfect? The word processing craze got people hooked on the PC. After that we got more elaborate 'fancy' apps like the one you want.
And right now we have open office and it kicks serious ass. With version 2 of Open Office, it's becoming less apparant that you need Microsoft Office. Eventually it will smother MS Office and people will slowly switch to linux because as you said, it's all about the apps. The pieces are slowly coming together, give it time.
In fact, I think open office is as important as kde vs gnome, that is the killer app that will ultimately convince people. From there we need to merge kde and gnome.
Interesting that they use that from Kx, paul falstad, author of zsh, wrote the sleepcat replacement. Good to see they've used that in mx.
But a good portion of their engineering and QA is done in India, from the mta to the mss to the directory. The mobile side of things is outsourced to India and Ireland.
The support people you deal with are of course based in the US.
I used it at a couple ISPs myself and was impressed.
;)
I really liked the distributed config.
I'm not sure why they didn't officially port it to linux / ditch oracle and its expensive license completely and instead use something like postgresql. These things would drive costs down. In that respect they were out of touch with their customers - now even sun is adopting linux. They seem to have missed the boat re: cheap x86 hardware and inexpensive DBs. I heard they outsourced a lot of stuff to India yet still the price tag is so high.
In any case, I also heard intermail hasn't changed much since the 90's, just more spam checking and other bells + whistles.
Here's to hoping openwave goes bankrupt and open sources intermail.
I'm sure other commercial vendors have it but I do know that large companies like ATT et al use it to handle their email. It's a shrinkwrap product that does it all and then some but it's very pricy.
I'm sure you could hack together something to do this much like what google did. Might take some time but it's totally doable.
Getting mysql to use indexes is an art. Just try random things and eventually you'll get it right. I need to use postgres more but it seems like that's not a problem w/ postgres.
I eventually figured out that mysql doesn't perform well(ie has a hard time using indices) when joining 4 or more tables.
It took them 100 years but they spinned creationism into ID, in 100 years they'll come around. Evolution has always been evolution, their side twists and spins. The truth will always be right.
he could have avoided this legal mess.
I believe it's because if you accept federal funding, any federal funding, you cannot use the funding in any small way for your embryonic stem cell research.. Ie lighting, counterspace, et al used for the federal research cannot also be shared for your embryonic stem cell research. It is not cost effective to have a separate unit just for embryonic stem cell research, hence private organisations in the USA now study embryonic stem cells in very limited numbers. Straight from Bush's mouth:
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No federal funds will be used for: (1) the derivation or use of stem cell lines derived from newly destroyed embryos; (2) the creation of any human embryos for research purposes; or (3) the cloning of human embryos for any purpose.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/2
flying-off-the-handle reactionary angry programmers:
Did the Development Team give warning of this action or seek compromise prior to publishing the Open Letter?
No, the notice was their first and only action.
Sad.. this could have been solved if they would have communicated to management, if things didn't happen then they could go public. As is they're just being self-absored primadonna attention whores, eliciting thousands of posts from people around the internet. This could have been solved if they weren't so full of themselves and knew how to communicate.
OTOH, management could have paid more attention to the developers regarding their thoughts on the appointment process. If they had just said what they are now telling everyone then this could have been solved.
It is sad this this has become so high profile. They're just airing their dirty laundry and it is not necessary.
It can diagnose hard to find application issues, bugs and performance problems.
You are probably correct: free fedex boxes
Using the DMCA is disgusting of course, I'm sure there are better ways to stop leeches like this punk.