Well, it sounds like Slashdot has it's quota of citizens who are, as Peter Cook once wrote, "neutral, i.e. from a foreign country, and probably bearing a deep seated resentment towards a nation that once ruled three quarters of the world, and ruled it well".
Or you can put the $500 you saved on the stock market, and by the time you need to upgrade you can use the money you saved, along with any capital gains and dividends to buy, um, a packet of waffles.
Problem is that ego-boo works better with programmers showing off to programmers. Spanish speakers don't necessarily crave the praise of programmers, and too many programmers don't want to thank the technical writers.
Mozilla is kind of corporate, but may have ended up crappy abandonware it were not for Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross forking it (and all the wonderful bazaar of contributors adding spell checkers, pimped skins and other wonderful... crap). Forks only happen in open source. OpenOffice is the best open source office suite, and I personally like it better than MS office (yey for math type), but it's not that great.
If you want to talk about marque projects, lets stick to ones that blow the competition out of the water. SVN, emacs, git, gcc, Python, perl, Ruby, Apache, LaTex, OpenSSH, and so on are certainly good projects.
If you want consumer products, look at BitTorrent (which is no longer open, but there are forks). Look at RSS readers. Look at web forums and chat servers and that those DVD players that don't make you watch the stupid anti-piracy ads (as a way of thanking you for buying a real copy...).
In other words, if you don't have a git repo, you don't warrant support? Actually, I'm kind of sympathetic to that train of thought. Open source is driven by volunteers, not big centralized servers. Corporations certainly do their bit, but open source is about bazaars, not cathedrals.
*sigh* you beat me to it. It's sad how pretty much all of them were "the big huge nuclear laser device". Why not just include Dr Evil's "Giant Laser"? Dark Reign had the desiccator - a catalyst that destroyed all water on the planet. The Reality Dysfuntion had so many doomsday devices (the amok humans, the device, swarms of nukes, Lanton's stunts) I lost count (and I've only read the first book in the series). The Neverending Story had the Blight - that was cool. Jurassic Park had raptors (not strictly a doomsday device, but I think there someone at the NO IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Not having read the article I will take it on faith that this is clear evidence that these proteins prove that the Flying Spaghetti Monster had something to do with it. Because I can't see how these proteins can possibly support the self organization of intelligent life.
Yep, anyone who thinks that anything more complicated than a busy spinner (i.e. any program with a few mallocs) can't get a boost from a better OS hasn't done any empirical tests. Yes, the green bar may be at 100%, but that doesn't always mean that the CPU is crunching the tuples that you *want* it to crunch. It's not as important as thrashing the hard drive, but memory allocation (and other system calls) do frigging matter.
We don't even need a human secretary. Just an intelligent (Eliza level) voicemail agent. Record, playback, then get the caller to say whether their message was a gibbering mess (if so, rinse and repeat). That would strip away the unnecessary interaction, and encourage the caller to construct a message (rather than hoping that telepathy will kick in once the receiver is on the line). The agent then calls the receiver until the message gets though (which is more reliable than sms).
Yes, but you can run the compressor with a coal powered boiler, a windmill, a team of oxen, a dam, or a volcanic heat outlet. It's not the power or the efficiency that matters, it's the style with which you transform that energy. Steam-punk FTW!
It's not about technical capability. From reading the Australian, it seems to me that Telstra wants to win the contract but make it a monopoly, the other group (Optus, et al) want to slow Telstra down so their crappy old lines stay competitive for as long as possible, and the government wants Telstra (or the other guys) to build the network, then rent it to their competitors at a good rate. I bet that all the players have massive PR budgets, so the papers just re-print the fluff that the lobbyists wrote.
Oh god, this could really be exploited. Just set up a horde of customized clients to "block" the route you want to take... not that I would approve of such behavior
It doesn't surprise me that that Microsoft can't compete. Microsoft hates the web because they make all their money on desktop applications..doc and.xls lock-in is more important to Microsoft than the win32 API, because businesses use them and don't pirate (unlike gamers, who would pirate windows just to get directx). If everything happens on the web (i.e. companies start putting their work in html and csv format), then Office will go into a tailspin. Lots of companies make money on advertising, but not enough of the successful ones have made their ads a commodity (like google's adsense). It's just a matter of time, really.
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What? Damn. So you mean I can't play guitar after all that guitar hero? Wow, next thing I'm going to find that Simmish isn't a real language! That's far scanning, man.
Sorry, it's hard to be sarcastic enough that people know you are not just one of the dumber denizens of slashdot.
Trolling aside, I do think that that edutainment, especially on innovative platforms like the Wii, has a big potential that will gradually come into play. But like video telephones and other things that computers should bloody well do, I expect it will take a while.
Mod parent up, for RTFA, and finding that God must be found by 31st Dec 2009. Note to self, take stake. Either side is better odds than anything on Wall Street!
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"Don't look for 'grown up' games"? Um, what about guitar hero? You mentioned learning piano; surely learning guitar would also be an intellectual pursuit.
How the hell is it Microsoft's fault? Microsoft didn't even know the internet existed, until Apple and Netscape forced them to play. They didn't think cgi existed until half a decade after Google looked like a threat. They don't believe that Web 2.0 exists, except for Ozzie's skunkworks efforts in Windows 7. OK, Web 2.0 was a bubble, but hey, they didn't know that either. Believe me, if it were up to Microsoft we would still be using 5 inch floppy disks and sneakers to transfer data.
Twitter is facebook status updates, but you don't have to "friend" people to listen to their "tweets". You just "follow" them, which means you don't have to show strange "followers" your other facebook details. It does one of the jobs of facebook (narcissistic status updates), without the others (messaging, contact details, internet dating, stalking, gatecrashing parties, and so on), and does it well.
Inexperienced sysadmins? Why do sysadmins need experience? Don't your sysadmins get formal and on the job training and career development? Oh, I crack me up.
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Well, it sounds like Slashdot has it's quota of citizens who are, as Peter Cook once wrote, "neutral, i.e. from a foreign country, and probably bearing a deep seated resentment towards a nation that once ruled three quarters of the world, and ruled it well".
Or you can put the $500 you saved on the stock market, and by the time you need to upgrade you can use the money you saved, along with any capital gains and dividends to buy, um, a packet of waffles.
Problem is that ego-boo works better with programmers showing off to programmers. Spanish speakers don't necessarily crave the praise of programmers, and too many programmers don't want to thank the technical writers.
Mozilla is kind of corporate, but may have ended up crappy abandonware it were not for Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross forking it (and all the wonderful bazaar of contributors adding spell checkers, pimped skins and other wonderful ... crap). Forks only happen in open source. OpenOffice is the best open source office suite, and I personally like it better than MS office (yey for math type), but it's not that great.
If you want to talk about marque projects, lets stick to ones that blow the competition out of the water. SVN, emacs, git, gcc, Python, perl, Ruby, Apache, LaTex, OpenSSH, and so on are certainly good projects.
If you want consumer products, look at BitTorrent (which is no longer open, but there are forks). Look at RSS readers. Look at web forums and chat servers and that those DVD players that don't make you watch the stupid anti-piracy ads (as a way of thanking you for buying a real copy...).
In other words, if you don't have a git repo, you don't warrant support? Actually, I'm kind of sympathetic to that train of thought. Open source is driven by volunteers, not big centralized servers. Corporations certainly do their bit, but open source is about bazaars, not cathedrals.
*sigh* you beat me to it. It's sad how pretty much all of them were "the big huge nuclear laser device". Why not just include Dr Evil's "Giant Laser"? Dark Reign had the desiccator - a catalyst that destroyed all water on the planet. The Reality Dysfuntion had so many doomsday devices (the amok humans, the device, swarms of nukes, Lanton's stunts) I lost count (and I've only read the first book in the series). The Neverending Story had the Blight - that was cool. Jurassic Park had raptors (not strictly a doomsday device, but I think there someone at the NO IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Not having read the article I will take it on faith that this is clear evidence that these proteins prove that the Flying Spaghetti Monster had something to do with it. Because I can't see how these proteins can possibly support the self organization of intelligent life.
Which is why the most valuable piece of land in 2050 will be the NYC municipal dump.
You won't think it's so funny when the bad guys steal your account by hacking off your "finger".
Yep, anyone who thinks that anything more complicated than a busy spinner (i.e. any program with a few mallocs) can't get a boost from a better OS hasn't done any empirical tests. Yes, the green bar may be at 100%, but that doesn't always mean that the CPU is crunching the tuples that you *want* it to crunch. It's not as important as thrashing the hard drive, but memory allocation (and other system calls) do frigging matter.
We don't even need a human secretary. Just an intelligent (Eliza level) voicemail agent. Record, playback, then get the caller to say whether their message was a gibbering mess (if so, rinse and repeat). That would strip away the unnecessary interaction, and encourage the caller to construct a message (rather than hoping that telepathy will kick in once the receiver is on the line). The agent then calls the receiver until the message gets though (which is more reliable than sms).
Which will be released as "Windows Mojave"?
Yes, but you can run the compressor with a coal powered boiler, a windmill, a team of oxen, a dam, or a volcanic heat outlet. It's not the power or the efficiency that matters, it's the style with which you transform that energy. Steam-punk FTW!
It's not about technical capability. From reading the Australian, it seems to me that Telstra wants to win the contract but make it a monopoly, the other group (Optus, et al) want to slow Telstra down so their crappy old lines stay competitive for as long as possible, and the government wants Telstra (or the other guys) to build the network, then rent it to their competitors at a good rate. I bet that all the players have massive PR budgets, so the papers just re-print the fluff that the lobbyists wrote.
Oh god, this could really be exploited. Just set up a horde of customized clients to "block" the route you want to take ... not that I would approve of such behavior
It doesn't surprise me that that Microsoft can't compete. Microsoft hates the web because they make all their money on desktop applications. .doc and .xls lock-in is more important to Microsoft than the win32 API, because businesses use them and don't pirate (unlike gamers, who would pirate windows just to get directx). If everything happens on the web (i.e. companies start putting their work in html and csv format), then Office will go into a tailspin. Lots of companies make money on advertising, but not enough of the successful ones have made their ads a commodity (like google's adsense). It's just a matter of time, really.
What? Damn. So you mean I can't play guitar after all that guitar hero? Wow, next thing I'm going to find that Simmish isn't a real language! That's far scanning, man.
Sorry, it's hard to be sarcastic enough that people know you are not just one of the dumber denizens of slashdot.
Trolling aside, I do think that that edutainment, especially on innovative platforms like the Wii, has a big potential that will gradually come into play. But like video telephones and other things that computers should bloody well do, I expect it will take a while.
Mod parent up, for RTFA, and finding that God must be found by 31st Dec 2009. Note to self, take stake. Either side is better odds than anything on Wall Street!
Why are you on /. honestly? Blind faith is the antithesis of being a nerd. Aside from trolling is there any purpose at all for you to be here?
You don't participate in many of the programming threads, do you?
mod -1: inconvenient truth.
"Don't look for 'grown up' games"? Um, what about guitar hero? You mentioned learning piano; surely learning guitar would also be an intellectual pursuit.
I seem to remember that King Tut's inner death-mask (under the opulent gold casing) was steel.
How the hell is it Microsoft's fault? Microsoft didn't even know the internet existed, until Apple and Netscape forced them to play. They didn't think cgi existed until half a decade after Google looked like a threat. They don't believe that Web 2.0 exists, except for Ozzie's skunkworks efforts in Windows 7. OK, Web 2.0 was a bubble, but hey, they didn't know that either. Believe me, if it were up to Microsoft we would still be using 5 inch floppy disks and sneakers to transfer data.
Twitter is facebook status updates, but you don't have to "friend" people to listen to their "tweets". You just "follow" them, which means you don't have to show strange "followers" your other facebook details. It does one of the jobs of facebook (narcissistic status updates), without the others (messaging, contact details, internet dating, stalking, gatecrashing parties, and so on), and does it well.
Inexperienced sysadmins? Why do sysadmins need experience? Don't your sysadmins get formal and on the job training and career development? Oh, I crack me up.