You need to call Cingular. Assuming you don't have a PDA (aka a Blackberry, Treo or something like the Nokia E62) you can get the SmartPhone Connect Unlimited plan for $19.99 a month. Or, if you also want text messaging, you can get the MEdia Max 200 plan which is unlimited data plus 200 text messages for $19.99. If you do have a PDA, you can get an unlimited Blackberry Connect plan for $39.99. The 5mb plans only cost $9.99 these days.
Exactly, they choose this course. Their intent can be inferred from their action. Had their intent been to be compatible, they would have been compatible.
And you should note, I never said it's a problem for Sun or anyone else. I just think it's silly for people to go around thinking that Sun didn't write their license to say what it says on purpose. They might not have gone out of their way to be GPL incompatible, but they obviously did not intend for the CDDL to be compatible.
The very idea that the CDDL wasn't written to be incompatible with the GPL is disingenious. Sun had every opportunity to make it GPL compatible. They didn't. Obviously they didn't want it to be GPL compatible or it would have been. Or do you have some different logic that would explain how the CDDL was supposed to be GPL compatible but somehow it just isnt?
Isn't it kind of disingenious to assume that the incompatibility is a mistake? The GPL has been around for over a decade, it's well understood in the open source community. The CDDL has been around for a couple years. Sun had every opportunity to ensure that the CDDL and GPL were compatible, if they had wanted them to be. Obviously, since the result is that they are incompatible, they didn't want them to be. What logic could you use to come to a different result?
Actually it is a big deal because you can't be arrested in your own home without an arrest warrant. Cops can attempt to use deceit to get you to leave your home, but they can't physically drag you off your property. So the arrest, on it's face, was a violation of his rights.
One of the issues that we struggle with at SourceForge.net, and one that you are hitting on right now, is we are trying to serve two very different audiences with different needs. The first is the end user who is trying to find a project to meet their needs. The second is the developer who is looking for an interesting project to work on. For the former you are right, it doesn't make a tremendous amount of sense to return projects which have no file releases. For the latter, however, file releases or the lack there of may or may not be a motivating factor. So simply eliminating projects with no file releases isn't an option.
Regarding the relevance of the results, the search engine uses the project ranking generated by our stats system. Tuning how much the project's ranking affects the relevance of the search results is a tricky job, however, because if we weight it too heavily then we end up back where we were when you hated the search results; it's just the projects listed by descending activity. We have probably taken a strong look at tweaking this four or five times since the April launch. We have also received comments from several high ranking projects who are unhappy that their project is no longer the first or second project in the search results. I guess you could say that I have a lot of respect for the Google engineers working on their Page Rank algorithm.:)
Finally, the search term you used triggers a somewhat less then optimal path in the relevancy algorithm. The problem is that the term 'php' is just so commonly used on the site that it's difficult to make any relevancy decisions at all based on the information available to the search engine.
Thanks for the words of encouragement. We've been working really hard to make the site better and I'm glad that it's visible in the results. If you do happen to find something regarding search that screems out to you, feel free to email me. We really do listen to the feedback we get.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll admit, Moon Secure Antivirus might not be the best candidate for the first result, but the result set returned isn't that bad. ClamAV is the second result and it appears to me that several other results on the first page are pretty good. And in this case it looks like the differentiator was simply that Moon Secure AV has "antivirus" in their project description more often.
We are looking for ways to improve how we rank the relevancy of a project. Before your post I hadn't thought about using the registration date as a metric. Making projects listed on the site longer more relevant by a little bit isn't a bad idea and I may try playing with the tuning settings on my development machine to see what happens.
I do think saying we're making you jump through hoops is a little over the top, the results don't seem to me to be as bad as you're making them out to be. And the improved UI makes it easy for you to scan the results and reject them the way you did. But I certainly don't want to downplay your problems, so please keep providing feedback so we can continue to improve the site. The development team is very motivated to make the user experience on SourceForge.net as good as we possibly can.
I'm an architect at SourceForge.net and I designed and implemented the search functionality that is currently running on the site. I take any complaints about the quality of the search results quite seriously. From I've seen, most of our users are quite happy with the latest revision of the search engine (launched in April of this year). However, if you could give me specific search terms that are returning poor results and some examples of what you think it should be returning I'd be happy to look into it to see if there is a bug in the search or statistics engines producing the poor results. My SF.net username is the same as my/. username, feel free to email me there.
A "private place" is normally defined as restrooms and changing rooms and the like. Those laws are to prevent people from setting up "surveillance" in the Victoria Secret fitting rooms. You have no expectation of unauthorized surveillance in someone else's home, however, so the law doesn't apply.
Congratulations, you just managed a nice long rant and didn't address one single point that I made. I didn't say Saddam was a nice guy, I said that he wasn't doing anything that was going to hurt us. Of course, by latching on to one small point and then arguing it in the most ineffective manner possible (really, pointing people at wikipedia articles?) you can pretend like you responded to every other point I made.
Fact still stands, we're less safe and less free today then we were even on 9/11.
But you've obviously consumed more than your fair share of cool aid, no need to respond anymore I understand that you're brainwashed beyond understanding why what's happening today is bad.
Ah yes. The old "Bush must be guilty because I don't like him" evidence.
How about the "Bush must be guilty because he's lied about everything so far"? Seriously, what hasn't he lied about? Hell, he lied the last time this NSA thing came up by saying it had nothing to do with calls originating and terminating in the U.S. Come up with a reason to believe anything he says.
Umm, you really don't seem to understand what you're talking about. Here, in the U.S.A. today you are "free" to protest in a "Free Speech Zone." Not for your safety but because people who are protesting "might as well be terrorists" in the words of the soon to be head of the C.I.A. In New York City the police are more likely to try and have an undercover join your group and try to start a problem so other NYPD can "protect you" by beating you with clubs and pepper spraying you.
That's what the policies we have going for us today (and had going for us during the Vietnam War) are doing. If you think that makes us free or safe then I've also got a very pretty bridge I can sell you cheap.
And you still haven't explained how invading a country which could do us no harm is keeping us free or safe. Or do you actually believe that Saddam was helping the "terrists" and that us creating all these new "terrists" there is keeping us safe here? Or perhaps you could explain how showing the world how ineffective our military is has helped keep us safer? How about this one, how has spending all that money on the military and not spending any of it at home kept the people of New Orleans safer? Do you think you're going to be any better off if it's a bomb in your home town instead of a hurricane? Hell, we say the hurrican coming weeks before it hit.
No, the only reasonable conclusion that is possible is not only are we much less safe today then we were even on 9/11, but that the policies we're living under is further diminishing both our safety and our freedom.
Right, because if we don't attack them there, they'll attack us here and take over the country. With that line of reasoning no wonder you can't differentiate between "freedom" and "safety". Though you may have just explained why people are willing to trade their freedom for the illusion of safety, they don't understand that they're different in the first place.
You're arguing about safety again. He's asking how it protects our freedom. You know, freedom not to be spied on by our own government?
Seems to me that not only are we less safe today (because not only have we been attacked, but we've show Iran and North Korea exactly how ineffective our military actually is) but we're less free.
Isn't the PS2 outselling the XBox 360 by an order of magnitude? Your claim that they "NEED" something like XBox live seems to be more of a fanboyish wish that people actually cared about XBox live (seriously not even XBox owners use it, what do they have 2 million subscribers total?) then it has any basis in reality. Unless Sony completely and utterly flops the PS3 then you might as well hunker down and prepare to be pissed off about how no one sees how wonderful the XBox and XBox live are for another 5 years.
Congratulations on not understanding the myth. The myth is you can split an arrow from end to end on command like Robin Hood did in the myth. They proved that it is effectively impossible. No matter how good you are, you're at the mercy of the grain of the wood of the arrow. So it is impossible to split an arrow from end to end on command.
The Mariott Marquis on Times Square has this system install installed. It's a massive pain in the ass.
1. The system expects each passenger to enter their floor number once. It uses this to figure out the demand for the various floors. But what do people do when they're impatient for an elevator? That's right, they push the button again. And they did that with this new system too causing it to think that there were 200 people who wanted the 10th floor.
2. It may work for low volume elevators, but not at the Mariott Marquis. At one point I had to wait nearly an hour (seriously, I think it was 45 or 50 minutes) to get an elevator. Why? Because it was just before show time and all the people going to Broadway shows were trying to leave too and the elevator system overloaded. This happened often enough that they had bellhops running the elevators they had yet to convert just to make sure that it was possible to get to your room.
3. Complete lack of feedback. You punch in your floor and it tells you what elevator number to use. And then you wait. And wait. With absolutely no feedback mechanism. You don't know what floor the elevator is on, if it's going up or coming down or broken down.
4. This isn't really a problem with the system, but a problem in general. People are really, really stupid. It was really funny the first few times I'd see someone jump into an elevator (not the one they were told to go to) and then look for the button to push. Oops, no buttons. This elevator system works completely differently from the way people are used to it working. Considering that most people can't figure out how to use a toilet if you move the flush handle do you really expect them to use this? And their inability to use it just causes people like me how did figure out to use it more trouble. Them plugging in their floor number 8000 times makes everything slower and eventually overloads the system. And then I get to wait 45 minutes for a damn elevator.
A friend of mine is an avid console gamer. So far, he's gone through 2 playstations, 3 PS2's and and Xbox.
So you've got a friend who abuses his consoles. That's certainly not representative. My release day PS2 is still working just fine.
Sony is betting the farm on a lot of market untested technologies, Specifically Bluray. Bluray doesn't nearly have the 5+ years of refinement that DVD has had, and I can bet that looking at a bluray disk funny let alone getting fingerprints or a scratch on the disk will make it very susceptible to read failure.
They did the same with the DVD drive in the PS2 in 2000. And this is a Sony technology we're talking about, it would be saying a lot more if they didn't trust Blu-ray enough to include it.
Speaking of Bluray, Yes 50GB is great, but show me a game that uses more than 8.5GB. The only one that comes to my mind is the Everquest series with every expansion they have. Even HL2 and Quake4/Doom III with their mind blowing graphics doesn't crack a single layer of a dual layer DVD, so my guess is that most of that storage will be used for "Sega CD" uses like audio and video, instead of just using the high powered graphics hardware to do the cut scenes for you. Simply put, the only reason they put Bluray in the PS3 is to stronghold the movie industry to make Bluray the High Dev Movie standard, and in doing so, Sony is risking the relibility of the hardware.
HL2 and Quake4/Doom III have next to do content. Of course they don't take up much space. Now go look at RPGs which actually do require a large amount of storage space for content. Several of the RPGs released in the past year have required multiple DVDs. StarOcean: Till the End of Time is, to the best of my knowledge, the first PS2 game released which required 2 DVDs.
As for the rest of your comment, blu-ray is a Sony technology. Why wouldn't they be using it?
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The person you were responding to got the myth wrong. They weren't testing whether it's possible to split an arrow perfectly, we know it's possible since people have done so. The myth was is it possible to do so on command. As in, someone says split the arrow and you go and split the arrow every time. They proved that splitting an arrow perfectly on command was impossible.
North Carolina teachers are employees of the state and there is no union. That's all public school teachers in every public school in the state of North Carolina.
That's not what they're measuring according to the article. They're measuring how much software should be sold per unit computer. So by me using Linux and the GIMP instead of Windows and Photoshop I count as two pirated pieces of software. They're wholesale making numbers up.
Software piracy isn't a loss of income to the programmer, it's a loss of potential income. That's like saying by choosing to use Linux instead of Windows I'm depriving incoming to the Windows programmers. I'm not, it was never an actual sale.
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So the proof that the Constitution is unambiguous is that you need to read some other documents in order to understand it?
You need to call Cingular. Assuming you don't have a PDA (aka a Blackberry, Treo or something like the Nokia E62) you can get the SmartPhone Connect Unlimited plan for $19.99 a month. Or, if you also want text messaging, you can get the MEdia Max 200 plan which is unlimited data plus 200 text messages for $19.99. If you do have a PDA, you can get an unlimited Blackberry Connect plan for $39.99. The 5mb plans only cost $9.99 these days.
"It's also Sun's to not listen."
Exactly, they choose this course. Their intent can be inferred from their action. Had their intent been to be compatible, they would have been compatible.
And you should note, I never said it's a problem for Sun or anyone else. I just think it's silly for people to go around thinking that Sun didn't write their license to say what it says on purpose. They might not have gone out of their way to be GPL incompatible, but they obviously did not intend for the CDDL to be compatible.
The very idea that the CDDL wasn't written to be incompatible with the GPL is disingenious. Sun had every opportunity to make it GPL compatible. They didn't. Obviously they didn't want it to be GPL compatible or it would have been. Or do you have some different logic that would explain how the CDDL was supposed to be GPL compatible but somehow it just isnt?
Isn't it kind of disingenious to assume that the incompatibility is a mistake? The GPL has been around for over a decade, it's well understood in the open source community. The CDDL has been around for a couple years. Sun had every opportunity to ensure that the CDDL and GPL were compatible, if they had wanted them to be. Obviously, since the result is that they are incompatible, they didn't want them to be. What logic could you use to come to a different result?
Actually it is a big deal because you can't be arrested in your own home without an arrest warrant. Cops can attempt to use deceit to get you to leave your home, but they can't physically drag you off your property. So the arrest, on it's face, was a violation of his rights.
Hello again,
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One of the issues that we struggle with at SourceForge.net, and one that you are hitting on right now, is we are trying to serve two very different audiences with different needs. The first is the end user who is trying to find a project to meet their needs. The second is the developer who is looking for an interesting project to work on. For the former you are right, it doesn't make a tremendous amount of sense to return projects which have no file releases. For the latter, however, file releases or the lack there of may or may not be a motivating factor. So simply eliminating projects with no file releases isn't an option.
Regarding the relevance of the results, the search engine uses the project ranking generated by our stats system. Tuning how much the project's ranking affects the relevance of the search results is a tricky job, however, because if we weight it too heavily then we end up back where we were when you hated the search results; it's just the projects listed by descending activity. We have probably taken a strong look at tweaking this four or five times since the April launch. We have also received comments from several high ranking projects who are unhappy that their project is no longer the first or second project in the search results. I guess you could say that I have a lot of respect for the Google engineers working on their Page Rank algorithm.
Finally, the search term you used triggers a somewhat less then optimal path in the relevancy algorithm. The problem is that the term 'php' is just so commonly used on the site that it's difficult to make any relevancy decisions at all based on the information available to the search engine.
Thank you again for your kind words,
--Chris
Hi Reece,
Thanks for the words of encouragement. We've been working really hard to make the site better and I'm glad that it's visible in the results. If you do happen to find something regarding search that screems out to you, feel free to email me. We really do listen to the feedback we get.
Thanks again,
--Chris
Hi,
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll admit, Moon Secure Antivirus might not be the best candidate for the first result, but the result set returned isn't that bad. ClamAV is the second result and it appears to me that several other results on the first page are pretty good. And in this case it looks like the differentiator was simply that Moon Secure AV has "antivirus" in their project description more often.
We are looking for ways to improve how we rank the relevancy of a project. Before your post I hadn't thought about using the registration date as a metric. Making projects listed on the site longer more relevant by a little bit isn't a bad idea and I may try playing with the tuning settings on my development machine to see what happens.
I do think saying we're making you jump through hoops is a little over the top, the results don't seem to me to be as bad as you're making them out to be. And the improved UI makes it easy for you to scan the results and reject them the way you did. But I certainly don't want to downplay your problems, so please keep providing feedback so we can continue to improve the site. The development team is very motivated to make the user experience on SourceForge.net as good as we possibly can.
--Chris
Hello,
/. username, feel free to email me there.
I'm an architect at SourceForge.net and I designed and implemented the search functionality that is currently running on the site. I take any complaints about the quality of the search results quite seriously. From I've seen, most of our users are quite happy with the latest revision of the search engine (launched in April of this year). However, if you could give me specific search terms that are returning poor results and some examples of what you think it should be returning I'd be happy to look into it to see if there is a bug in the search or statistics engines producing the poor results. My SF.net username is the same as my
Thanks,
--Chris
A "private place" is normally defined as restrooms and changing rooms and the like. Those laws are to prevent people from setting up "surveillance" in the Victoria Secret fitting rooms. You have no expectation of unauthorized surveillance in someone else's home, however, so the law doesn't apply.
Congratulations, you just managed a nice long rant and didn't address one single point that I made. I didn't say Saddam was a nice guy, I said that he wasn't doing anything that was going to hurt us. Of course, by latching on to one small point and then arguing it in the most ineffective manner possible (really, pointing people at wikipedia articles?) you can pretend like you responded to every other point I made.
Fact still stands, we're less safe and less free today then we were even on 9/11.
But you've obviously consumed more than your fair share of cool aid, no need to respond anymore I understand that you're brainwashed beyond understanding why what's happening today is bad.
Ah yes. The old "Bush must be guilty because I don't like him" evidence.
How about the "Bush must be guilty because he's lied about everything so far"? Seriously, what hasn't he lied about? Hell, he lied the last time this NSA thing came up by saying it had nothing to do with calls originating and terminating in the U.S. Come up with a reason to believe anything he says.
Umm, you really don't seem to understand what you're talking about. Here, in the U.S.A. today you are "free" to protest in a "Free Speech Zone." Not for your safety but because people who are protesting "might as well be terrorists" in the words of the soon to be head of the C.I.A. In New York City the police are more likely to try and have an undercover join your group and try to start a problem so other NYPD can "protect you" by beating you with clubs and pepper spraying you.
That's what the policies we have going for us today (and had going for us during the Vietnam War) are doing. If you think that makes us free or safe then I've also got a very pretty bridge I can sell you cheap.
And you still haven't explained how invading a country which could do us no harm is keeping us free or safe. Or do you actually believe that Saddam was helping the "terrists" and that us creating all these new "terrists" there is keeping us safe here? Or perhaps you could explain how showing the world how ineffective our military is has helped keep us safer? How about this one, how has spending all that money on the military and not spending any of it at home kept the people of New Orleans safer? Do you think you're going to be any better off if it's a bomb in your home town instead of a hurricane? Hell, we say the hurrican coming weeks before it hit.
No, the only reasonable conclusion that is possible is not only are we much less safe today then we were even on 9/11, but that the policies we're living under is further diminishing both our safety and our freedom.
Right, because if we don't attack them there, they'll attack us here and take over the country. With that line of reasoning no wonder you can't differentiate between "freedom" and "safety". Though you may have just explained why people are willing to trade their freedom for the illusion of safety, they don't understand that they're different in the first place.
You're arguing about safety again. He's asking how it protects our freedom. You know, freedom not to be spied on by our own government?
Seems to me that not only are we less safe today (because not only have we been attacked, but we've show Iran and North Korea exactly how ineffective our military actually is) but we're less free.
Isn't the PS2 outselling the XBox 360 by an order of magnitude? Your claim that they "NEED" something like XBox live seems to be more of a fanboyish wish that people actually cared about XBox live (seriously not even XBox owners use it, what do they have 2 million subscribers total?) then it has any basis in reality. Unless Sony completely and utterly flops the PS3 then you might as well hunker down and prepare to be pissed off about how no one sees how wonderful the XBox and XBox live are for another 5 years.
Congratulations on not understanding the myth. The myth is you can split an arrow from end to end on command like Robin Hood did in the myth. They proved that it is effectively impossible. No matter how good you are, you're at the mercy of the grain of the wood of the arrow. So it is impossible to split an arrow from end to end on command.
The Mariott Marquis on Times Square has this system install installed. It's a massive pain in the ass.
1. The system expects each passenger to enter their floor number once. It uses this to figure out the demand for the various floors. But what do people do when they're impatient for an elevator? That's right, they push the button again. And they did that with this new system too causing it to think that there were 200 people who wanted the 10th floor.
2. It may work for low volume elevators, but not at the Mariott Marquis. At one point I had to wait nearly an hour (seriously, I think it was 45 or 50 minutes) to get an elevator. Why? Because it was just before show time and all the people going to Broadway shows were trying to leave too and the elevator system overloaded. This happened often enough that they had bellhops running the elevators they had yet to convert just to make sure that it was possible to get to your room.
3. Complete lack of feedback. You punch in your floor and it tells you what elevator number to use. And then you wait. And wait. With absolutely no feedback mechanism. You don't know what floor the elevator is on, if it's going up or coming down or broken down.
4. This isn't really a problem with the system, but a problem in general. People are really, really stupid. It was really funny the first few times I'd see someone jump into an elevator (not the one they were told to go to) and then look for the button to push. Oops, no buttons. This elevator system works completely differently from the way people are used to it working. Considering that most people can't figure out how to use a toilet if you move the flush handle do you really expect them to use this? And their inability to use it just causes people like me how did figure out to use it more trouble. Them plugging in their floor number 8000 times makes everything slower and eventually overloads the system. And then I get to wait 45 minutes for a damn elevator.
A friend of mine is an avid console gamer. So far, he's gone through 2 playstations, 3 PS2's and and Xbox.
So you've got a friend who abuses his consoles. That's certainly not representative. My release day PS2 is still working just fine.
Sony is betting the farm on a lot of market untested technologies, Specifically Bluray. Bluray doesn't nearly have the 5+ years of refinement that DVD has had, and I can bet that looking at a bluray disk funny let alone getting fingerprints or a scratch on the disk will make it very susceptible to read failure.
They did the same with the DVD drive in the PS2 in 2000. And this is a Sony technology we're talking about, it would be saying a lot more if they didn't trust Blu-ray enough to include it.
Speaking of Bluray, Yes 50GB is great, but show me a game that uses more than 8.5GB. The only one that comes to my mind is the Everquest series with every expansion they have. Even HL2 and Quake4/Doom III with their mind blowing graphics doesn't crack a single layer of a dual layer DVD, so my guess is that most of that storage will be used for "Sega CD" uses like audio and video, instead of just using the high powered graphics hardware to do the cut scenes for you. Simply put, the only reason they put Bluray in the PS3 is to stronghold the movie industry to make Bluray the High Dev Movie standard, and in doing so, Sony is risking the relibility of the hardware.
HL2 and Quake4/Doom III have next to do content. Of course they don't take up much space. Now go look at RPGs which actually do require a large amount of storage space for content. Several of the RPGs released in the past year have required multiple DVDs. StarOcean: Till the End of Time is, to the best of my knowledge, the first PS2 game released which required 2 DVDs.
As for the rest of your comment, blu-ray is a Sony technology. Why wouldn't they be using it?
The person you were responding to got the myth wrong. They weren't testing whether it's possible to split an arrow perfectly, we know it's possible since people have done so. The myth was is it possible to do so on command. As in, someone says split the arrow and you go and split the arrow every time. They proved that splitting an arrow perfectly on command was impossible.
North Carolina teachers are employees of the state and there is no union. That's all public school teachers in every public school in the state of North Carolina.
Versus Intel who hasn't done anything to help Linux out. Nor does Intel sell CPUs to Apple's competitors.
Glad we got those misunderstandings out of the way.
That's not what they're measuring according to the article. They're measuring how much software should be sold per unit computer. So by me using Linux and the GIMP instead of Windows and Photoshop I count as two pirated pieces of software. They're wholesale making numbers up.
Software piracy isn't a loss of income to the programmer, it's a loss of potential income. That's like saying by choosing to use Linux instead of Windows I'm depriving incoming to the Windows programmers. I'm not, it was never an actual sale.