Never fear! Just tell your friends to pay me $150 and they can ask me as many questions as they want. Hell I already do it for free, I might as well get paid for doing it.
Same thing happened to me. I had no commerical experience. The only reason I got hired was because I had an open source project that proved I could do the job.
and what would have happened if Dell went all out putting Linux on the front page, only selling Linux machines no MS Windows and it was a failure? There's another ten years of "Linux Sucks" right there.
No. Dell did the right thing by slowly growing their Linux desktop market and now everyone is copying them.
Branding matters a lot.
It's the reason Microsoft runs it's Get the facts campaign against Linux. Having Linux associated with big brands that people have heard of increases your chance of people picking your product. It doesn't matter that Linux runs on the top 8 super computers of the world because people will make judgements based of how familiar they are with a product.
This is why Ubuntu is more popular then other distributions, because Mark S. has associated Ubuntu with larger brands. More people know about Ubuntu and are more likely to pick it compared to another distributions. A lot of people here on/. grumble about "Why Noobuntu, why not try X". Well now you know, if distribution X had better branding it would probably be more popular then Ubuntu.
Another branding example..
Have you noticed recently how "Windows Server" adverts keep popping up on websites such as top500.org, sourceforge, etc? Places that decision makers might see them, but also developers. Sourceforge in particular seems to have tons of Microsoft adverts that it is starting to put me off visiting that website at all.
Any code changes are licensed under the GPL, your state is welcome to make changes to their GPL'd code and keep it secret, that is if they can find which lines were edited. Otherwise they might be violating someone elses GPL'd code which would mean they lose their right to use that persons GPL code that was included with theirs rendering any of their newly acquired code useless.
Since a lot of upstream projects request that you assign over your copyright to the project's admin, actual code owned by Gentoo could not even exist.
Except it isn't a good point at all because all the developers work together anyway regardless of which actual distribution they are working on.
1) Developers of the different distros contribute all their changes back to upstream. It doesn't matter how many developers are working on which distribution because the fixes all end up back in the same place.
2) Not only this but the different distributions are all going in different directions and have different goals. When something is successful they'll borrow from each other.
3) Ubuntu's goal is to bring Linux to the masses. Debian's goal is to provide a libre operating system. There is no way you could put both developers of those groups together on a single distribution because they both have different goals, but it doesn't matter because they both share from each other and fix problems.
4) A bug in Ubuntu could be a bug in Debian which could be a bug in every distribution. What is most important though is upstream which is where all the changes take place. You seem to have made the mistake of thinking that every distribution has to code all the upstream fixes themselves when what actually happens is that they pull down the latest updates on all these projects and spend a lot of their time making sure everything in the distribution works. If it doesn't file a bug upstream and get it fixed. Hey, now it works on other distributions too!
5) So as you can see everything is co-operated on, even proprietary programs. While reading the uvc webcam driver mailing list yesterday a developer filed a bug in the Skype beta bug tracker as he found a problem with Skype's webcam implementation and even offered to co-operate with them on how to fix it.
but first they have to get permission from the city council, which takes three weeks, and then six weeks later after the work's finally done
..but first they have to get permission from the city council, which takes three weeks and then falls into negotiation because the church parish put in an automatic complaint about how this would effect the environment and beautification of the city. So it then goes up for debate for six weeks while you then to work on a convincing argument in a town meeting for digging up the roads to put down your power cables which 8 weeks later after everyone has had their say gets approved..
That's not an excuse, I'm not wasting tax so they can become an extension of Microsoft's sales dept!
They should be learning about IT! They should learn a little about different Operating Systems, maybe a bit of html, how to read a manual (very important for anything tech related), etc.
What do we currently have you might be asking? 1 year of learning that a monitor is an output and a keyboard is an input. The IT education in England is a joke.
IT education should start from primary school, it's far more important then some other subjects learned. If my 4 year old niece can navigate the BBC's kids section and play the flash games (I only visit her, no help from me) I'm sure that schools could teach much older kids in primary school.
BUT. Lets not kid ourselves, this is an education system that is having problems teach kids to READ. Yes, read. There are some children that go through a whole 10/11 years of education without being able to read and NO ONE NOTICES!!
several hundred to a few thousand light years, which could help greatly with the search for extraterrestrial life.
I'd hate to hear the conversation if the round trip for communications is over thousands of years..
Earth: Hi this is Bill from the planet Earth! Aliens: Hello Bill this is Zargo from Optimum Prime, what do you want? Earth: Hi, this is Ted. We'd like to know more about you! Aliens: What happened to Bill? Earth: Hi, this is Jane. Bill and Ted are Dead. Aliens: What?!
Surely if Aliens are 1 thousand light years away it would take 6 thousand years to have that conversation. Although we'd probably just spam them all of Earth's Knowledge which would piss off the aliens into believing our planet is full of spammers and destroy us...
All I see is the same retarded troll comments whenever the OLPC is mentioned..
- Donate food to the mud hut, living in faeces people, not laptops - Don't give them dinky laptops, they need 2 ghz beasts to play BF2. It's going to suck. - Waste of money . I should have the right to tell the government what to spend their money on. - It runs Linux, it's going to crash. These people need a serious OS like Windows XP.
None of these are insightful and repeating them in every article doesn't make your point more relevant.
Maybe for professionals in the printing industry, but for someone that needs to do image editing for computer graphics it works great.
To really use the GIMP UI though you need to be on Linux where you can "right click -> Always on top" a window. That helps to keep the tools window on the top so that your "image window" doesn't go over it.
I just don't think wasting CPU cycles on finding signals that are over 10 million years old is a good idea. By the time they receive a response from us their race could have been dead for millions of years. It's pointless.
The game scene has seen alot of innovation in resent years, now it's time for evolution, and developing high quality free development tools will allow hobbyists to deliver the next wave of innovation needed in a scene where you HAVE to secure a multimillion income for any idea to get developed.
This would benefit commerical game developers greatly as well as hobbyists.
Imagine if Havok, SpeedTree, etc were open source. I would guess that the development budget for Oblivion could have saved a few million dollars on licensing fees alone. Game developers need to realise this and start contributing in ways that programmers in other industries do with open source.
They'd see big savings, since most these companies are re-inventing the wheel. I would say that artwork is more important in games now anyway and these programs are getting more and more complex as more features are demanded by the public.
um, what? Ok, I guess linux should give up and let windows have the OS world, after all, what good is competition?
...and I am sure that is exactly what Microsoft think, but that's not my point now is it.
What you're saying is that it doesn't matter what Google has done for open source and free software, because they're making money off some of their products they haven't done enough. Instead of praising them for what they have done in an environment where they don't have to give anything back legally because they're not distributing any of it, you instead focus on the products they make money on and why they haven't given these away as free software to allow competitors to get a one up.
Just admit it, you won't be satisfied with Google's contributions until they have opened up everything and go bankrupt. They make money selling Gmail to businesses, along with their Office Apps, etc. They won't open source it, that's how they make money to fund SoCs, contribute code back to the kernel and other open source projects.
There's already at least three web based mail programs I can think off the top of my head that are free software, one that looks like Gmail with AJAX, etc. Why the hell do you care so much about Google's implementation?
since almost everyone uses Google by default and doesn't know or care that there is anything else.
That's right they don't care. So what is your point if they hold a monopoly over how much data they store on people that don't care they're storing that data? If you don't like it then avoid and move on, but you're in the minority. The majority of people that use Google's services don't care about Google "reading their email", etc.
I am not only directing this at you but...
When people such as yourself discuss these issues about Google, no other company is mentioned with regards to privacy issues. Meaning that Google is your one and only target. You hate/love Google, I don't care but could you be less bias about it?
So they have a lot of data, they probably have the most, but what have they done with that data compared to other companies? It's always about what they COULD do. They haven't done anything which could put their users in immediate danger. What about Yahoo? They got a guy sent to prison, but the hate for Google blinds discussions to anything happening outside of the Google spectrum. I'm not saying Yahoo is evil instead, it was just an example.
If someone is going to post more hate filled privacy snippets could you all at least discuss things that HAVE happened not things that COULD happen and more then one company.
That's all great yet you completely ignored my point. Why would they bother to create direct competitors with their services?
They give back source code for many different projects but it would be completely stupid to give away the source code to Gmail because they would loose more then they gain.
You need to stop looking at the advantages to yourself and look at what they get out of releasing code. It's their code they can do what they want with it.
The whole idea of a service over software model is that the source code can be given away, it's the service that makes the cash.
This boggles me. Yes it's the service that makes cash so why would they risk creating more companies offering the same service they are?
I don't understand what opening the source code has to do with providing software as a service as you just wrote.
"Software as a service" would be more akin with paying so much a year and getting free support, upgrades and bug fixes. You don't need to open source the code or distribute it for free to sell it as a service. I would describe what your are saying as an open source business model which differs slightly.
To what? Sell cheap laptops to enhance education? That's what they're doing so what's the problem?
It's not a donation, the countries it's being targeted at are buying these laptops. If anything it's an education scheme to improve a countries citizen's knowledge. It's going to take 10 maybe 15 years before we actually know if it worked of course.
The Third World doesn't need laptops. It needs rice and medicine.
Since they're the ones purchasing the laptops I don't think it is appropriate for you or me to tell them what they need.
Western aid to the third world has done nothing but breed more people who cannot take care of themselves
The OLPC isn't a donation. The countries are purchasing these PCs. Western aid is off topic.
While remaining even more secretive and becoming even more of a monopoly than Microsoft on things that actually matter, like their search and advertising business, to say nothing of their total disregard for privacy.
I'd say that having control of my operating system matters a lot more then advertising on the web. I read your link and all I can say is that it's pure paranoia.
Google bashing about how they can see your every move is so stupid. A combination of not using Google search and No Script pretty much rules out them getting any data on you, unless you purposely use other Google products.
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Never fear! Just tell your friends to pay me $150 and they can ask me as many questions as they want. Hell I already do it for free, I might as well get paid for doing it.
Same thing happened to me. I had no commerical experience. The only reason I got hired was because I had an open source project that proved I could do the job.
and what would have happened if Dell went all out putting Linux on the front page, only selling Linux machines no MS Windows and it was a failure? There's another ten years of "Linux Sucks" right there.
/. grumble about "Why Noobuntu, why not try X". Well now you know, if distribution X had better branding it would probably be more popular then Ubuntu.
No. Dell did the right thing by slowly growing their Linux desktop market and now everyone is copying them.
Branding matters a lot.
It's the reason Microsoft runs it's Get the facts campaign against Linux. Having Linux associated with big brands that people have heard of increases your chance of people picking your product. It doesn't matter that Linux runs on the top 8 super computers of the world because people will make judgements based of how familiar they are with a product.
This is why Ubuntu is more popular then other distributions, because Mark S. has associated Ubuntu with larger brands. More people know about Ubuntu and are more likely to pick it compared to another distributions. A lot of people here on
Another branding example..
Have you noticed recently how "Windows Server" adverts keep popping up on websites such as top500.org, sourceforge, etc? Places that decision makers might see them, but also developers. Sourceforge in particular seems to have tons of Microsoft adverts that it is starting to put me off visiting that website at all.
That doesn't really make sense, even if Microsoft were making money on a Linux sale it's going to hurt them in the long term.
Any code changes are licensed under the GPL, your state is welcome to make changes to their GPL'd code and keep it secret, that is if they can find which lines were edited. Otherwise they might be violating someone elses GPL'd code which would mean they lose their right to use that persons GPL code that was included with theirs rendering any of their newly acquired code useless.
Since a lot of upstream projects request that you assign over your copyright to the project's admin, actual code owned by Gentoo could not even exist.
Except it isn't a good point at all because all the developers work together anyway regardless of which actual distribution they are working on.
1) Developers of the different distros contribute all their changes back to upstream. It doesn't matter how many developers are working on which distribution because the fixes all end up back in the same place.
2) Not only this but the different distributions are all going in different directions and have different goals. When something is successful they'll borrow from each other.
3) Ubuntu's goal is to bring Linux to the masses. Debian's goal is to provide a libre operating system. There is no way you could put both developers of those groups together on a single distribution because they both have different goals, but it doesn't matter because they both share from each other and fix problems.
4) A bug in Ubuntu could be a bug in Debian which could be a bug in every distribution. What is most important though is upstream which is where all the changes take place. You seem to have made the mistake of thinking that every distribution has to code all the upstream fixes themselves when what actually happens is that they pull down the latest updates on all these projects and spend a lot of their time making sure everything in the distribution works. If it doesn't file a bug upstream and get it fixed. Hey, now it works on other distributions too!
5) So as you can see everything is co-operated on, even proprietary programs. While reading the uvc webcam driver mailing list yesterday a developer filed a bug in the Skype beta bug tracker as he found a problem with Skype's webcam implementation and even offered to co-operate with them on how to fix it.
You mean like when they "borrowed" blueJ and then tried to patent it?
That's not an excuse, I'm not wasting tax so they can become an extension of Microsoft's sales dept!
They should be learning about IT! They should learn a little about different Operating Systems, maybe a bit of html, how to read a manual (very important for anything tech related), etc.
What do we currently have you might be asking? 1 year of learning that a monitor is an output and a keyboard is an input. The IT education in England is a joke.
IT education should start from primary school, it's far more important then some other subjects learned. If my 4 year old niece can navigate the BBC's kids section and play the flash games (I only visit her, no help from me) I'm sure that schools could teach much older kids in primary school.
BUT. Lets not kid ourselves, this is an education system that is having problems teach kids to READ. Yes, read. There are some children that go through a whole 10/11 years of education without being able to read and NO ONE NOTICES!!
From the report, only 20% of computers in the schools are even capable of running Vista and Office.
Trident Missile Program (5 nukes and a submarine).. 3.5 Billion Pounds (x2 for US Dollar)
Income support benefit for Immigrants... 3 Billion Pounds
Bitching about how much money we waste on Immigrants coming into our country? Priceless..
Not everyone that hates Microsoft is a Linux user. GROW UP!
Earth: Hi this is Bill from the planet Earth!
Aliens: Hello Bill this is Zargo from Optimum Prime, what do you want?
Earth: Hi, this is Ted. We'd like to know more about you!
Aliens: What happened to Bill?
Earth: Hi, this is Jane. Bill and Ted are Dead.
Aliens: What?!
Surely if Aliens are 1 thousand light years away it would take 6 thousand years to have that conversation. Although we'd probably just spam them all of Earth's Knowledge which would piss off the aliens into believing our planet is full of spammers and destroy us...
All I see is the same retarded troll comments whenever the OLPC is mentioned..
- Donate food to the mud hut, living in faeces people, not laptops
- Don't give them dinky laptops, they need 2 ghz beasts to play BF2. It's going to suck.
- Waste of money . I should have the right to tell the government what to spend their money on.
- It runs Linux, it's going to crash. These people need a serious OS like Windows XP.
None of these are insightful and repeating them in every article doesn't make your point more relevant.
To really use the GIMP UI though you need to be on Linux where you can "right click -> Always on top" a window. That helps to keep the tools window on the top so that your "image window" doesn't go over it.
Even with those points there isn't a need for a delay. If your game is less then 90% done then don't go around screaming that it'll be out by X.
The movie industry doesn't throw out a ton of advertising on a half finished film, but the games industry does this. I'm calling it naive.
I just don't think wasting CPU cycles on finding signals that are over 10 million years old is a good idea. By the time they receive a response from us their race could have been dead for millions of years. It's pointless.
Although you're probably going to get marked troll you're right.
The cancer and other medical projects your can donate your processing power to are far more important then a fruitless search for aliens.
Imagine if Havok, SpeedTree, etc were open source. I would guess that the development budget for Oblivion could have saved a few million dollars on licensing fees alone. Game developers need to realise this and start contributing in ways that programmers in other industries do with open source.
They'd see big savings, since most these companies are re-inventing the wheel. I would say that artwork is more important in games now anyway and these programs are getting more and more complex as more features are demanded by the public.
Crystal Space is also contributing funding towards the project.
It's written somewhere on the project page. Buried in a response to a comment.
What you're saying is that it doesn't matter what Google has done for open source and free software, because they're making money off some of their products they haven't done enough. Instead of praising them for what they have done in an environment where they don't have to give anything back legally because they're not distributing any of it, you instead focus on the products they make money on and why they haven't given these away as free software to allow competitors to get a one up.
Just admit it, you won't be satisfied with Google's contributions until they have opened up everything and go bankrupt. They make money selling Gmail to businesses, along with their Office Apps, etc. They won't open source it, that's how they make money to fund SoCs, contribute code back to the kernel and other open source projects.
There's already at least three web based mail programs I can think off the top of my head that are free software, one that looks like Gmail with AJAX, etc. Why the hell do you care so much about Google's implementation?
I am not only directing this at you but...
When people such as yourself discuss these issues about Google, no other company is mentioned with regards to privacy issues. Meaning that Google is your one and only target. You hate/love Google, I don't care but could you be less bias about it?
So they have a lot of data, they probably have the most, but what have they done with that data compared to other companies? It's always about what they COULD do. They haven't done anything which could put their users in immediate danger. What about Yahoo? They got a guy sent to prison, but the hate for Google blinds discussions to anything happening outside of the Google spectrum. I'm not saying Yahoo is evil instead, it was just an example.
If someone is going to post more hate filled privacy snippets could you all at least discuss things that HAVE happened not things that COULD happen and more then one company.
They give back source code for many different projects but it would be completely stupid to give away the source code to Gmail because they would loose more then they gain.
You need to stop looking at the advantages to yourself and look at what they get out of releasing code. It's their code they can do what they want with it.This boggles me. Yes it's the service that makes cash so why would they risk creating more companies offering the same service they are?
I don't understand what opening the source code has to do with providing software as a service as you just wrote.
"Software as a service" would be more akin with paying so much a year and getting free support, upgrades and bug fixes. You don't need to open source the code or distribute it for free to sell it as a service. I would describe what your are saying as an open source business model which differs slightly.
It's not a donation, the countries it's being targeted at are buying these laptops. If anything it's an education scheme to improve a countries citizen's knowledge. It's going to take 10 maybe 15 years before we actually know if it worked of course.Since they're the ones purchasing the laptops I don't think it is appropriate for you or me to tell them what they need.The OLPC isn't a donation. The countries are purchasing these PCs. Western aid is off topic.
Google bashing about how they can see your every move is so stupid. A combination of not using Google search and No Script pretty much rules out them getting any data on you, unless you purposely use other Google products.