Your put a bulging, hot, Li-ion battery inside a pyrex container? Lucky it didn't explode and detonate your homemade grenade!
It wasn't really a container per se, there was no seal at all. It was actually two pyrex liquid measuring cups one cupped on top of the other. Neadless to say if there was a sudden compression of the air it would more likely flow through the gaps between the two dishes, and probably at the most knock the top one off. More than anything I was trying to shield my house from fire until the morning came around and I could dispose of it properly (neighbors garbage can:-P).
Let me just say that a Lithium-Ion battery can do some pretty nasty stuff. I had one out of my camera (a small Nikon digital) sitting on my bedside table next to my camera. One night I dropped it on the floor. I don't know what that did to it, but it started to bulge and become untouchably hot. I put it inside a pyrex container on the kitchen floor for the rest of the night in case it went poof. By morning it was fully discharged, but still had the bulge in it. I thought that thing was going to explode for sure, but luckily it didn't.
It uses Qt. Gives it that nice cross-platform property. Additionally Picasa was ported to linux using wine-libs not necessarily wine the program itself. The Linux Picasa does have some native dependencies such as libgphoto for direct access to cameras, and it integrates into your notification area in Gnome (and I believe KDE also [untested for me]). Also, they committed over 200 patches to the wine codebase which is great. Furtheremore, thank you Google!!! It works great on Gentoo with ATI 9600. I requested it a long time ago, and it was a long time coming but it works and looks great. googlegoodwill++
just use adodb.sourceforge.net for php. You get syntax like the following: $res = $db->Execute('select name,age from people where sex=? and city=?',array($sex,$city));
I am with you. Next step where to host? What to debate? Wiki? I despise bulletin boards as they are very non-informative. What should we call the site?
It is extremely difficult to effectively sell OSS software. True. Anything given away is difficult to sell. That is far away from meaning that OSS does not make money. You should refine your statement so as to specify what "model" you are talking about. There has been limited success with the sale and support of specific linux distros (but at the same time others have done exceedingly well in this arena). But software developers are software developers and administrators are administrators. You can hire someone to work with proprietary code and foot the whole bill, or hire somebody to work with an open source project and foot part of the bill but share with others. Independent software developers have existed for a long time now. OSS doesn't change that aspect at all. If anything it provides another avenue to consider. Additionally, businesses, mine included, benefit GREATLY off open source software. We would not operate nearly as efficiently if we were more dependant on proprietary software. By far open source software has provided us the most flexible, easiest to adapt, and cheapest to maintain solutions. Anyways, I guess I'm just trying to say: OSS can make you money using it, but making money off OSS sales itself is relegated to a select few monsters like the Red Hats and Novells. IMO
Hey you know you're right. Compared to the competition, open source is just a waste of time. Well, I mean as long as you ignore the gentle down slope of microsoft stock and rapid rise of red hat stock. I wish I would have invested in redhat earlier this year, I would have tripled my money. Additionally, you completely ignore the fact that open source is not so much a provided service, as much as a cooperative venture. Company's don't buy open source software like closed source software. If the company is smart, they buy into open source software: tack a couple devs onto some projects, and cooperatively guide the open source hand to render something useful for all involved, at a fraction of the cost of purchasing proprietary software or doing software development from scratch. I'm sorry but to say that open source software is an unproven model, is to underestimate the very meaning of open source software. That meaning is synergy. Not the buzzword, but an actual practical application of parrallel interests which exponentially accelerates the progress of software development, and diminishes the cost of software maintenance by a similar degree.
But at the same time looking for a bittorrent "community" with no illegal downloading is like finding a job to fit a tool. The approach to the problem is completely wrong. He should be showing that bittorrent is a tool. It is only a tool. It can be used for legal and illegal things. It just so happens that many illegal downloads' needs are fullfilled by this tool. He should be showing how it can be used any place where large frequently accessed files are in use to save bandwidth, since that is all it really does.
Web 2.0 is still in the annoying buzzword with no actual meaning phase. The next phases of Web 2.0 are: bickering over its meaning, widescale uninformed implementation, related budgetary over allocations, failure to live up to its promise, radical reduction in usage, and finally elminiation resulting with a very very small practical subset of the originally planned rollout. So yeah, in Google terms it is still Beta.
THIS JUST IN... Nintendo has announced a new controller shaped like the inside surface of a spindle torus. By grasping the object and applying directional thrust, you can control your game in all three dimensions, wirelessly. Additionally, the controller appears to be user sensitive, allowing the current holder to control the direction of the game in their favor. As an added feature, the controller detects compression and applies the equal and opposite amount of force feedback to the compressee to produce a degree of 3-dimensional acceleration through the air. The controller will cost $80 and can also operate independantly of the game console. All production of this controller are being outsourced to NERF.
You could even pay money to the authors. Often times they will work for you, or with you. No one is forcing anyone to use open source software. The authors make it available as a courtesy. If you feel like paying more for other software than go for it. If you feel like paying money to this project to get support for yourself, and additionally help out others in your situation then go for that. Money will get things done one way or another.
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It wasn't really a container per se, there was no seal at all. It was actually two pyrex liquid measuring cups one cupped on top of the other. Neadless to say if there was a sudden compression of the air it would more likely flow through the gaps between the two dishes, and probably at the most knock the top one off. More than anything I was trying to shield my house from fire until the morning came around and I could dispose of it properly (neighbors garbage can
Let me just say that a Lithium-Ion battery can do some pretty nasty stuff. I had one out of my camera (a small Nikon digital) sitting on my bedside table next to my camera. One night I dropped it on the floor. I don't know what that did to it, but it started to bulge and become untouchably hot. I put it inside a pyrex container on the kitchen floor for the rest of the night in case it went poof. By morning it was fully discharged, but still had the bulge in it. I thought that thing was going to explode for sure, but luckily it didn't.
Simpsons, what don't they cover.
Well, that and we have a gigantic corpus of training data to extrapolate from.
I stand corrected. I wrongly assumed that since they were using some native libs that they were using winelib.
It uses Qt. Gives it that nice cross-platform property. Additionally Picasa was ported to linux using wine-libs not necessarily wine the program itself. The Linux Picasa does have some native dependencies such as libgphoto for direct access to cameras, and it integrates into your notification area in Gnome (and I believe KDE also [untested for me]). Also, they committed over 200 patches to the wine codebase which is great. Furtheremore, thank you Google!!! It works great on Gentoo with ATI 9600. I requested it a long time ago, and it was a long time coming but it works and looks great. googlegoodwill++
Just install Linux on it, geez. Do you really have that many legacy apps that can't be run with the current version of wine?
Bridge it.
JNG
just use adodb.sourceforge.net for php. You get syntax like the following:
$res = $db->Execute('select name,age from people where sex=? and city=?',array($sex,$city));
I am with you. Next step where to host? What to debate? Wiki? I despise bulletin boards as they are very non-informative. What should we call the site?
He's having fun. Isn't that the whole point of games?
It is extremely difficult to effectively sell OSS software. True. Anything given away is difficult to sell. That is far away from meaning that OSS does not make money. You should refine your statement so as to specify what "model" you are talking about. There has been limited success with the sale and support of specific linux distros (but at the same time others have done exceedingly well in this arena). But software developers are software developers and administrators are administrators. You can hire someone to work with proprietary code and foot the whole bill, or hire somebody to work with an open source project and foot part of the bill but share with others. Independent software developers have existed for a long time now. OSS doesn't change that aspect at all. If anything it provides another avenue to consider. Additionally, businesses, mine included, benefit GREATLY off open source software. We would not operate nearly as efficiently if we were more dependant on proprietary software. By far open source software has provided us the most flexible, easiest to adapt, and cheapest to maintain solutions. Anyways, I guess I'm just trying to say: OSS can make you money using it, but making money off OSS sales itself is relegated to a select few monsters like the Red Hats and Novells. IMO
Hey you know you're right. Compared to the competition, open source is just a waste of time. Well, I mean as long as you ignore the gentle down slope of microsoft stock and rapid rise of red hat stock. I wish I would have invested in redhat earlier this year, I would have tripled my money. Additionally, you completely ignore the fact that open source is not so much a provided service, as much as a cooperative venture. Company's don't buy open source software like closed source software. If the company is smart, they buy into open source software: tack a couple devs onto some projects, and cooperatively guide the open source hand to render something useful for all involved, at a fraction of the cost of purchasing proprietary software or doing software development from scratch. I'm sorry but to say that open source software is an unproven model, is to underestimate the very meaning of open source software. That meaning is synergy. Not the buzzword, but an actual practical application of parrallel interests which exponentially accelerates the progress of software development, and diminishes the cost of software maintenance by a similar degree.
But at the same time looking for a bittorrent "community" with no illegal downloading is like finding a job to fit a tool. The approach to the problem is completely wrong. He should be showing that bittorrent is a tool. It is only a tool. It can be used for legal and illegal things. It just so happens that many illegal downloads' needs are fullfilled by this tool. He should be showing how it can be used any place where large frequently accessed files are in use to save bandwidth, since that is all it really does.
Or just install Xauth only on the server and forward to your desktop X11 connection with 'ssh -X'.
Web 2.0 is still in the annoying buzzword with no actual meaning phase. The next phases of Web 2.0 are: bickering over its meaning, widescale uninformed implementation, related budgetary over allocations, failure to live up to its promise, radical reduction in usage, and finally elminiation resulting with a very very small practical subset of the originally planned rollout. So yeah, in Google terms it is still Beta.
Wow, a first post flame. Surely, not on slashdot.
I can see a lot of people getting the shit beat out of them. "Hey dude whip out your Wii!"
Man I just made the exact same comment as you up above. I'm glad I'm not the only who finds this whole situation ironic.
THIS JUST IN...
Nintendo has announced a new controller shaped like the inside surface of a spindle torus. By grasping the object and applying directional thrust, you can control your game in all three dimensions, wirelessly. Additionally, the controller appears to be user sensitive, allowing the current holder to control the direction of the game in their favor. As an added feature, the controller detects compression and applies the equal and opposite amount of force feedback to the compressee to produce a degree of 3-dimensional acceleration through the air. The controller will cost $80 and can also operate independantly of the game console. All production of this controller are being outsourced to NERF.
Good idea automatically turn theft into attempted murders.
Man, mind telling me in what field in particular?
You could even pay money to the authors. Often times they will work for you, or with you. No one is forcing anyone to use open source software. The authors make it available as a courtesy. If you feel like paying more for other software than go for it. If you feel like paying money to this project to get support for yourself, and additionally help out others in your situation then go for that. Money will get things done one way or another.