a good, open-source, alternative to skype. Otherwise, nobody is safe from the eavesdropping. Perhaps there's no skype for the iPhone because all the guys in Skype are busy looking at all that free porn they get.
Back in 1989 I was a programmer at CERN, the high energy physics research center near Geneva. At that time, one huge accelerator, the LEP, had been completed, and work was just starting up on the new Large Hadron Collider (the LHC). Coincidentally, the LHC was just turned on just a few days ago. Right now, there will be a lot of pressure as the results of many years of work are put to the test. But in 1989, there was a slight lull in the pressure between completion of the LEP and the start of work on the new LHC. It was during that lull that my boss, Mike Sendall, allowed me to work on a side project -- a global hypertext system I called the World Wide Web.
It took me a couple of months to put together the technology, to design HTTP and HTML and URLs, and build the first browser and server. But the technical design was only part of the work. There was an important social side of the design. The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. When a link is made, it is a person who makes the link. When a link is followed, it is a person who decides to follow it. Understanding and accounting for the social side of the Web was, and remains, a vital part of encouraging its growth.
For example, it took 18 months for my colleague Robert Cailliau and me to persuade the CERN directors not to charge royalties for use of the Web. Had we failed, the Web would not be here today.
Later on, in the early 1990s, a new threat arose when competing browser developers sought to divide the Web into incompatible islands. I was approached from all sides by people wanting to work together to preserve "One Web." The whole point of a hypertext link is that it can potentially link to anything out there. One Web is far more interesting and valuable than many small ones.
These science publishers are as evil or worse than the RIAA/MPAA with this paywall BS. To paraphrase, science is too important to be left to those that can pay 40 bucks per paper. I can't understand why Google, who wants to "organize the world's information", has not done anything to prevent the world's most valuable information from being inaccessible.
if Google takes a cut of only 5% of the price, compared to Apple's gargantuan bite of your work, and if Google does not restrict developers, ANDROID will rapidly surpass the iPhone. First, it should be easier to develop, as you can _talk_ about it, and exchange ideas on the web. Moreover, FUCK YOU APPLE for blocking us hard-working developers, and sucking it up to the Phone companies.
Does anyone wonder why there is no skype for the iPhone?
An implementation of export look and feel could dramatically change things:
Most Linux people spend a lot of time configuring their desktops, changing wallpapers, appearance settings, icons, metacity themes, compiz settings, skydomes, and god knows what else. Some people make their systems look like a mac, some make it look like vista, some make it look unique. I think it would be a significant leap if we could make a SINGLE (large) file container, with everything involved in the desktop settings, and send it to other users. The community could share beautifully tuned desktops, and we all could experiment with numerous desktops really rapidly. If we improve productivity in this arena, then everyone on windows would see amazing desktops, all changeable, and that's an important step towards solving bug#1. A large file could have all associated settings, parameters, needed files, and command sequences to configure the desktop in ONE click. Most newbies don't have the know how or the patience to learn how to really transform a desktop... we could give them a little instant gratification, as this is something that no mac or windows user can do.
Precisely why it must be easier to deal with. Linux isn't competing for the desktops of Dilbert Corporation. That's deeply entrenched with MS crapware. Linux is competing in 2 spaces: Tech savvy early adopters (some of whom also like the mac), and dirt-cheap laptops and desktops. Windows is being squeezed from the top (tech-savvy people who hate vista) and from below (the cheapest eee's).
I think the time has come for another Michael Dell out there to start designing Compiz-tuned boxes, with perhaps additional hardware. Someone that ONLY sells linux boxes, and perhaps offers support through Canonical. Below the trackpad, for instance, there could be a scrolling thing to rotate between desktops. I'm convinced that Compiz is the dealbreaker, the mover and shaker, the game-changer for Linux. I hope that an implementation of export look and feel will dramatically change things:
Consider this:
Most people spend a lot of time configuring their desktops, changing wallpapers, appearance settings, icons, metacity themes, compiz settings, skydomes, and god knows what else. Some people make their systems look like a mac, some make it look like vista, some make it look unique.
I think it would be a significant leap if we could make a SINGLE (large) file container, with everything involved in the desktop settings, and send it to other users. The community could share beautifully tuned desktops, and we all could experiment with numerous desktops really rapidly.
If we improve productivity in this arena, then everyone on windows would see amazing desktops, all changeable, and that's an important step towards solving bug#1.
A large file could have all associated settings, parameters, needed files, and command sequences to configure the desktop in ONE click. Most newbies don't have the know how or the patience to learn how to really transform a desktop... we could give them a little instant gratification, as this is something that no mac or windows user can do. And wouldn't it be cool to quickly check out if that awesome desktop fits your machine?
Each of those countries has different interests and viewpoints. Some (cuba, venezuela) are left (leaning to extremism). Brazil, on the other hand, has a large Linux community, and all top CS departments in here have people working on FOSS.
They always do, as there is a logic to that. First, some random country (Rome, Britain, US, etcetera) gets a bump in economic productivity (for any reason). That leads to (i) a growing list of interests in far-reaching places, and (ii) a growing military force to support those interests. Then the military force becomes so gangantually massive that it brings down the whole economy, and other nations can play catch up.
I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT AMERICA. Think of the British, or other empires, before modding me down.
if we're going to continue to see more and more blog posts represented as legitimate news articles can we please flag them in some way so I can just chose to ignore them?
GEOWORKS!!! That shit was awesome. Waay faster than windows, and had great looking productivity apps (though I can only remember the word processing one). You made my day with that one, old timer!
modded troll? well, that's life. What I mean is that, even if it opens in another process or thread, you cannot be sure (without the code) that the processes are truly sandboxed and won't interfere with one another.
Slashdot Mirror
a good, open-source, alternative to skype. Otherwise, nobody is safe from the eavesdropping. Perhaps there's no skype for the iPhone because all the guys in Skype are busy looking at all that free porn they get.
Pentium bug.
Back in 1989 I was a programmer at CERN, the high energy physics research center near Geneva. At that time, one huge accelerator, the LEP, had been completed, and work was just starting up on the new Large Hadron Collider (the LHC). Coincidentally, the LHC was just turned on just a few days ago. Right now, there will be a lot of pressure as the results of many years of work are put to the test. But in 1989, there was a slight lull in the pressure between completion of the LEP and the start of work on the new LHC. It was during that lull that my boss, Mike Sendall, allowed me to work on a side project -- a global hypertext system I called the World Wide Web. It took me a couple of months to put together the technology, to design HTTP and HTML and URLs, and build the first browser and server. But the technical design was only part of the work. There was an important social side of the design. The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. When a link is made, it is a person who makes the link. When a link is followed, it is a person who decides to follow it. Understanding and accounting for the social side of the Web was, and remains, a vital part of encouraging its growth. For example, it took 18 months for my colleague Robert Cailliau and me to persuade the CERN directors not to charge royalties for use of the Web. Had we failed, the Web would not be here today. Later on, in the early 1990s, a new threat arose when competing browser developers sought to divide the Web into incompatible islands. I was approached from all sides by people wanting to work together to preserve "One Web." The whole point of a hypertext link is that it can potentially link to anything out there. One Web is far more interesting and valuable than many small ones.
The news is that this dude says he did the www, not Al Gore.
I am not crazy, for I AM NAPOLEON!!
These science publishers are as evil or worse than the RIAA/MPAA with this paywall BS. To paraphrase, science is too important to be left to those that can pay 40 bucks per paper. I can't understand why Google, who wants to "organize the world's information", has not done anything to prevent the world's most valuable information from being inaccessible.
Your answer, grasshopper, lies in gmail and gcalendar.
Does anyone wonder why there is no skype for the iPhone?
An implementation of export look and feel could dramatically change things: Most Linux people spend a lot of time configuring their desktops, changing wallpapers, appearance settings, icons, metacity themes, compiz settings, skydomes, and god knows what else. Some people make their systems look like a mac, some make it look like vista, some make it look unique. I think it would be a significant leap if we could make a SINGLE (large) file container, with everything involved in the desktop settings, and send it to other users. The community could share beautifully tuned desktops, and we all could experiment with numerous desktops really rapidly. If we improve productivity in this arena, then everyone on windows would see amazing desktops, all changeable, and that's an important step towards solving bug#1. A large file could have all associated settings, parameters, needed files, and command sequences to configure the desktop in ONE click. Most newbies don't have the know how or the patience to learn how to really transform a desktop... we could give them a little instant gratification, as this is something that no mac or windows user can do.
Precisely why it must be easier to deal with. Linux isn't competing for the desktops of Dilbert Corporation. That's deeply entrenched with MS crapware. Linux is competing in 2 spaces: Tech savvy early adopters (some of whom also like the mac), and dirt-cheap laptops and desktops. Windows is being squeezed from the top (tech-savvy people who hate vista) and from below (the cheapest eee's).
Consider this:
Most people spend a lot of time configuring their desktops, changing wallpapers, appearance settings, icons, metacity themes, compiz settings, skydomes, and god knows what else. Some people make their systems look like a mac, some make it look like vista, some make it look unique. I think it would be a significant leap if we could make a SINGLE (large) file container, with everything involved in the desktop settings, and send it to other users. The community could share beautifully tuned desktops, and we all could experiment with numerous desktops really rapidly. If we improve productivity in this arena, then everyone on windows would see amazing desktops, all changeable, and that's an important step towards solving bug#1. A large file could have all associated settings, parameters, needed files, and command sequences to configure the desktop in ONE click. Most newbies don't have the know how or the patience to learn how to really transform a desktop... we could give them a little instant gratification, as this is something that no mac or windows user can do. And wouldn't it be cool to quickly check out if that awesome desktop fits your machine?
How many people have pre-purchased it?
a site of moderate intelligence.
is offering to mirror the site, for free!
if your penis makes up only for 0.05 of your body, reducing it to 0.04, (making it 20% smaller) surely won't be much of a problem.
Then again it's no big surprise since the "newspapers" are looking more like tabloids every day.
RIGHT ON! The only one I still read is The Econ.
Each of those countries has different interests and viewpoints. Some (cuba, venezuela) are left (leaning to extremism). Brazil, on the other hand, has a large Linux community, and all top CS departments in here have people working on FOSS.
The greatest nation ever is self-destructing.
They always do, as there is a logic to that. First, some random country (Rome, Britain, US, etcetera) gets a bump in economic productivity (for any reason). That leads to (i) a growing list of interests in far-reaching places, and (ii) a growing military force to support those interests. Then the military force becomes so gangantually massive that it brings down the whole economy, and other nations can play catch up.
I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT AMERICA. Think of the British, or other empires, before modding me down.
Or better yet, read the book.
for once in my existence I'm proud to be Brazilian
Discuss!
I like turtles!
You can use Randy's Alice and teach OO programing really easily.
if we're going to continue to see more and more blog posts represented as legitimate news articles can we please flag them in some way so I can just chose to ignore them?
meaning... you only believe what you see on tv?
GEOWORKS!!! That shit was awesome. Waay faster than windows, and had great looking productivity apps (though I can only remember the word processing one). You made my day with that one, old timer!
On top or below? That's what she said, and I couldn't make up my mind; then she left.
modded troll? well, that's life. What I mean is that, even if it opens in another process or thread, you cannot be sure (without the code) that the processes are truly sandboxed and won't interfere with one another.