The timing of the spike in engagement looks like 1 month after release - so right when all the downloaded it once and never opened it again users started dropping out of the Monthly Active Users count.
So just before that, 40% of every user who ever even tried Pokemon Go once was still using it daily. That sounds like pretty good numbers to me! That metric will be a lot more meaningful once all the users who only tried it one day during peak hype are out of it. (even better would be a chart of daily active users as a percent of users who used the app two days in the past month)
The standard accelerometers in smartphones are not accurate enough for inertial navigation. You get a very high rate of drift. My guess would be the innovative part of this that isn't clearly explained in the article is just that they got better accuracy than previously achieved in a chip sized unit.
An economy doesn't "grow" in any sense unless outside wealth is coming in in some form.
Economies are positive sum, not zero sum. They can grow without any outside trade. Your description is incorrect. For example, your description would imply that it is impossible for the World Economy to grow, because there is not outside wealth coming in from aliens.
Now, perhaps you just used him as a source because you've checked his sources for that particular article and they are good - but if so, please don't use him as a reference. He blocks reading his articles without signing up for his site, and I'm sure not signing up for some quack's site just to try and tell if that one article is good.
Right around the time I downloaded the PDF linked from this article, my Windows XP machine decided that it needed to reboot. After rebooting I discovered that I had the twext.exe rootkit/trojan. (see description of what it does here)
I recommend you double check c:\windows\system32\ and see if you have a twext.exe, if you have the misfortune to be running windows. If it is there, you are infected.
Note: If you are infected, you will need to reboot to system recovery console and rename twext.exe. It still runs in safe mode and protects itself from removal.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The question is, how can we/could we have convince nations like China or Imperial Japan that the United States isn't as soft as we sometimes appear. I honestly believe that if China tried the above scenario, they would find the US responding with plenty of force and plenty of public support for war on the nation that foolishly attacked us. It'd be the 21st century's Pearl Harbor.
However, I'd rather they realize the foolishness of that approach ahead of time, and skip the millions of lost lives that would result.
I'm curious what you would need to open a terminal window for under regular Ubuntu but not Kubuntu. I just recently installed Ubuntu on a used laptop I bought, and I am very impressed. It is leaps and bounds above the usability of any previous Linux distro I have dealt with. I really haven't seen anything an ordinary user would do that you need to use the terminal for. They seem to have an amazing set of easy to use control panels for everything.
The funny thing is, installing Ubuntu and getting the built in wireless on the laptop to work was all a cinch. I didn't even have to use any of my linux/unix administration abilities to accomplish it. I still don't have Windows working right on the laptop, including the wireless not working. (I grabbed the wireless driver that was on the harddrive before I wiped it, but that was an XP version of the driver, and I only have a Windows 2000 license. I later installed the Windows 2000 driver, but now I seem to have two copies of wireless support installed, and can't figure out how to uninstall it even in safe mode.)
The source code is viewable in CVS on sourceforge. I see directories for both client and server code. The pieces of code I looked at are under GPL, and written in C++.
From reading their licensing page, it looks like they are making all the client and server code of the game GPL, but all the art, game rules, etc. that make it a particular world are under a special proprietary license. They have a very good argument for why they chose the licensing style they have, though myself I think they are perhaps over-paranoid of forks.
In summary, they make it easy to use their engine to create your own, entirely different game, but they don't allow you to create slight tweaks of their existing game. They also don't permit use of custom clients with their servers and content, as I read it.
I can tell you're not an (old school, at least) C programmer.:) This type of construct is quite common in C. The result of an assignment statement is the value that was assigned. (i.e. the value on the right side of the statement.)
What they're doing is looping through the list of free blocks, shifting everything up the list because they just used up a free block, until they find the record where the value of m_size is zero, which is being used as a marker for the end of the list.
I work for one of those unfortunate companies that are still using SCO OpenServer. I really hope the GCC team does not do something so petty as dropping support for SCO.
Being able to use GCC to compile such things as bash and GNU tar is the only thing that makes SCO liveable, and we are stuck on SCO for at least another 2 - 5 years.
Due to our legacy code base, it would be prohibitively costly to move off of SCO at this time, though we are working on purchasing new software that will allow us to get off of SCO, and have been since even before SCO went ballistic.
Actually, if you look at RAIDb-0, it is very close to this, maybe even identical. They show having different tables on different database servers. They also indicate that C-JDBC can be used without modifcations to the application. This would imply that if you get a JDBC driver for MSSQL, a JDBC for PostreSQL, and write your code using JDBC, you should be able to do the type of selects you are talking about.
There's only one problem with this... what if you don't want the best or most heavily marketed software on the whole net, you want the best Free Source Software[1] on the whole net? It's very hard to do a search for that. Searching for "free software" tends to find too much proprietary freeware. Searching for "open source" tends to exclude too many projects that use the term "Free Software". Searching for "GPL" excludes all the other free source licenses that would be just as useful.
So, without using SourceForge and its useless search engine, or Freshmeat and its barely better search engine, how do you propose finding that sort of thing?
1. Free Source Software, Free Software, Open Source Software, libertyware, etc. Pick your favorite term.
And how, may I ask, do you find out the project name in the first place?
I seem to recall that freshmeat has a very limited search engine, not allowing the use of boolean at all. (All searches inclusive or the words together, making it very hard to find anything specific.)
BTW - God loves you and longs for relationship with you. He doesn't call you to check your brain at the door, either. If you want to know more, please email me.
Then who asked you to check your brain at the door? Because if you hadn't, you'd realize that they can't email you when your email address isn't listed in your post or your user profile!
Oh wait... this is/. - silly me, I forgot I was reading a site known for posts that do not show signs of thought.
Having listened to the audio file of Linus Torvalds saying Linux, I have to disagree. He calls it Leenooks, not Lihnux. However, as a native speaker of American English, I don't feel the need to pronounce Linux the same way as a native speaker of Finnish. Lihnux vs. Lienux is as silly an argument as tomayto vs. tomahto.
Although I disagree with jcr (the grandparent post) on how much UI standardization is a good thing for Linux, I think it is wrong to state that standardization == monopoly and lack of standardization == choice. Standards are good to a point, like when making sure things work together (e.g. KDE and GNOME using the same API for things to appear in the "system tray"), and even having some UI standards would be really nice. (Like having a standard on whether the OK or Cancel button should be on the left, so people don't get confused moving between KDE and GNOME applications.) But, there is no reason to eliminate the differences between all the window managers our there just to make them all work in a standard way either, as long as the default ones on any desktop oriented distro are clear and easy to learn.
If you have experienced problems adding apps after the install rather than during it, then you need to use a better distribution. Either whatever distribution you used has a seriously messed up package system, or you just tried to grab random packages later on, rather than choosing ones from the same install media or the same distro as you had installed.
I have been using Debian for quite awhile now, and in fact have only installed it on each of my machines once. After that, not only was I able to install new software later without issues, but I was able to upgrade smoothly to newer releases of the distribution. (From version 2.1, to 2.2, to 3.0 now, without any re-installs.)
The GPL is far more enforceable than the click-through licenses, because rather than forbidding you to do something you are normally allowed to, it allows you to do something you are normally forbidden to do. So, if you are distributing GPLed software without agreeing to and obeying the GPL, then you are violating copyright law, as nothing besides the GPL is giving you the right to distribute that software.
So far, the GPL has never been tested in court, because every single violator backed down. No one has been foolish enough to try. Enforcing the GNU GPL by Eben Moglen, the general counsel of the FSF describes in detail what has been done to enforce it.
As someone who works at a company that has the misfortune of having well over a dozen servers running SCO OpenServer, I can say that SCO OpenServer is the most screwed up, difficult to work with flavor of unix I've ever had the misfortune to deal with. (I have worked as an administrator on SGI, Linux, SCO, Minix(if you can count that) and to a small extent SunOS. In addition, I have worked as a user on HPUX and Solaris.)
I hate to contradict this like this, but Windows can still have SSO in that case, if you install Cygwin. I can use ssh to connect to my Windows machine remotely, using authorized_keys for verification. I guess that's not out of the box though, so perhaps Windows still fails on SSO...
Yes, it will, as long as you set the environment variable or modify/etc/apt/apt.conf so it knows where your proxy is. I have used it at my current job through the squid proxy server here.
There is already a product available that lets you modify binaries of programs that use the IE ActiveX component so that they use the Mozilla ActiveX component instead. If a standardized way for replacing the component was created, it would be even easier to do this.
I don't know how he does it, but I normally calculate tips by taking the total shift right one digit (i.e. divided by ten) plus that number divided by two. (With division by two thankfully being pretty easy, since you can just divide each even digit by two, and for odd digits you just gotta put that extra half in the right place.) It does actually end up with more addition involved than division, not that I've ever thought of it as "adding to calculate a percentage".
How about freedomware? It goes along with the long tradition of terms such as shareware, freeware, etc. It contains the word freedom right in it, so it doesn't have the gratis connotation of free software. It is a little easier to say than either of the phrases mentioned.
According to the USPTO Trademark Electronic Search System, Toshiba once tried to trademark it for a global services network, but as of August 29, 2001 the trademark is abandoned. Maybe we should see if we can get the FSF or the OSI to snap up this trademark?
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The timing of the spike in engagement looks like 1 month after release - so right when all the downloaded it once and never opened it again users started dropping out of the Monthly Active Users count. So just before that, 40% of every user who ever even tried Pokemon Go once was still using it daily. That sounds like pretty good numbers to me! That metric will be a lot more meaningful once all the users who only tried it one day during peak hype are out of it. (even better would be a chart of daily active users as a percent of users who used the app two days in the past month)
The standard accelerometers in smartphones are not accurate enough for inertial navigation. You get a very high rate of drift. My guess would be the innovative part of this that isn't clearly explained in the article is just that they got better accuracy than previously achieved in a chip sized unit.
Economies are positive sum, not zero sum. They can grow without any outside trade. Your description is incorrect. For example, your description would imply that it is impossible for the World Economy to grow, because there is not outside wealth coming in from aliens.
Here is a nice sum of positive, zero, and negative sum in the context of economics. http://www.conceptualmath.org/philo/econ_sum.html
Here is a more detailed example of positive-sum trade between 2 parties (Crusoe and Friday) on a desert island. http://ingrimayne.com/econ/International/Comparative.html
I encourage you to check your sources better. A quick Google shows that Dr. Mercola is not necessarily a reliable source. Specifically, he has been cited by the FDA for marketing multiple products with false claims.
Now, perhaps you just used him as a source because you've checked his sources for that particular article and they are good - but if so, please don't use him as a reference. He blocks reading his articles without signing up for his site, and I'm sure not signing up for some quack's site just to try and tell if that one article is good.
Right around the time I downloaded the PDF linked from this article, my Windows XP machine decided that it needed to reboot. After rebooting I discovered that I had the twext.exe rootkit/trojan. (see description of what it does here)
I recommend you double check c:\windows\system32\ and see if you have a twext.exe, if you have the misfortune to be running windows. If it is there, you are infected.
Note: If you are infected, you will need to reboot to system recovery console and rename twext.exe. It still runs in safe mode and protects itself from removal.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The question is, how can we/could we have convince nations like China or Imperial Japan that the United States isn't as soft as we sometimes appear. I honestly believe that if China tried the above scenario, they would find the US responding with plenty of force and plenty of public support for war on the nation that foolishly attacked us. It'd be the 21st century's Pearl Harbor.
However, I'd rather they realize the foolishness of that approach ahead of time, and skip the millions of lost lives that would result.
I'm curious what you would need to open a terminal window for under regular Ubuntu but not Kubuntu. I just recently installed Ubuntu on a used laptop I bought, and I am very impressed. It is leaps and bounds above the usability of any previous Linux distro I have dealt with. I really haven't seen anything an ordinary user would do that you need to use the terminal for. They seem to have an amazing set of easy to use control panels for everything.
The funny thing is, installing Ubuntu and getting the built in wireless on the laptop to work was all a cinch. I didn't even have to use any of my linux/unix administration abilities to accomplish it. I still don't have Windows working right on the laptop, including the wireless not working. (I grabbed the wireless driver that was on the harddrive before I wiped it, but that was an XP version of the driver, and I only have a Windows 2000 license. I later installed the Windows 2000 driver, but now I seem to have two copies of wireless support installed, and can't figure out how to uninstall it even in safe mode.)
You might want to try going to a sleep clinic, if you haven't already. I know they can diagnose things that impair sleep, such as sleep apnea.
Just a thought,
Kevin
The source code is viewable in CVS on sourceforge. I see directories for both client and server code. The pieces of code I looked at are under GPL, and written in C++.
From reading their licensing page, it looks like they are making all the client and server code of the game GPL, but all the art, game rules, etc. that make it a particular world are under a special proprietary license. They have a very good argument for why they chose the licensing style they have, though myself I think they are perhaps over-paranoid of forks.
In summary, they make it easy to use their engine to create your own, entirely different game, but they don't allow you to create slight tweaks of their existing game. They also don't permit use of custom clients with their servers and content, as I read it.
I can tell you're not an (old school, at least) C programmer. :) This type of construct is quite common in C. The result of an assignment statement is the value that was assigned. (i.e. the value on the right side of the statement.)
What they're doing is looping through the list of free blocks, shifting everything up the list because they just used up a free block, until they find the record where the value of m_size is zero, which is being used as a marker for the end of the list.
Hi all,
I work for one of those unfortunate companies that are still using SCO OpenServer. I really hope the GCC team does not do something so petty as dropping support for SCO.
Being able to use GCC to compile such things as bash and GNU tar is the only thing that makes SCO liveable, and we are stuck on SCO for at least another 2 - 5 years.
Due to our legacy code base, it would be prohibitively costly to move off of SCO at this time, though we are working on purchasing new software that will allow us to get off of SCO, and have been since even before SCO went ballistic.
Actually, if you look at RAIDb-0, it is very close to this, maybe even identical. They show having different tables on different database servers. They also indicate that C-JDBC can be used without modifcations to the application. This would imply that if you get a JDBC driver for MSSQL, a JDBC for PostreSQL, and write your code using JDBC, you should be able to do the type of selects you are talking about.
There's only one problem with this... what if you don't want the best or most heavily marketed software on the whole net, you want the best Free Source Software[1] on the whole net? It's very hard to do a search for that. Searching for "free software" tends to find too much proprietary freeware. Searching for "open source" tends to exclude too many projects that use the term "Free Software". Searching for "GPL" excludes all the other free source licenses that would be just as useful.
So, without using SourceForge and its useless search engine, or Freshmeat and its barely better search engine, how do you propose finding that sort of thing?
1. Free Source Software, Free Software, Open Source Software, libertyware, etc. Pick your favorite term.
And how, may I ask, do you find out the project name in the first place?
I seem to recall that freshmeat has a very limited search engine, not allowing the use of boolean at all. (All searches inclusive or the words together, making it very hard to find anything specific.)
Could you let me know when it is ready to go out as well?
Then who asked you to check your brain at the door? Because if you hadn't, you'd realize that they can't email you when your email address isn't listed in your post or your user profile!
Oh wait... this is /. - silly me, I forgot I was reading a site known for posts that do not show signs of thought.
Having listened to the audio file of Linus Torvalds saying Linux, I have to disagree. He calls it Leenooks, not Lihnux. However, as a native speaker of American English, I don't feel the need to pronounce Linux the same way as a native speaker of Finnish. Lihnux vs. Lienux is as silly an argument as tomayto vs. tomahto.
Although I disagree with jcr (the grandparent post) on how much UI standardization is a good thing for Linux, I think it is wrong to state that standardization == monopoly and lack of standardization == choice. Standards are good to a point, like when making sure things work together (e.g. KDE and GNOME using the same API for things to appear in the "system tray"), and even having some UI standards would be really nice. (Like having a standard on whether the OK or Cancel button should be on the left, so people don't get confused moving between KDE and GNOME applications.) But, there is no reason to eliminate the differences between all the window managers our there just to make them all work in a standard way either, as long as the default ones on any desktop oriented distro are clear and easy to learn.
If you have experienced problems adding apps after the install rather than during it, then you need to use a better distribution. Either whatever distribution you used has a seriously messed up package system, or you just tried to grab random packages later on, rather than choosing ones from the same install media or the same distro as you had installed.
I have been using Debian for quite awhile now, and in fact have only installed it on each of my machines once. After that, not only was I able to install new software later without issues, but I was able to upgrade smoothly to newer releases of the distribution. (From version 2.1, to 2.2, to 3.0 now, without any re-installs.)
The GPL is far more enforceable than the click-through licenses, because rather than forbidding you to do something you are normally allowed to, it allows you to do something you are normally forbidden to do. So, if you are distributing GPLed software without agreeing to and obeying the GPL, then you are violating copyright law, as nothing besides the GPL is giving you the right to distribute that software.
So far, the GPL has never been tested in court, because every single violator backed down. No one has been foolish enough to try. Enforcing the GNU GPL by Eben Moglen, the general counsel of the FSF describes in detail what has been done to enforce it.
As someone who works at a company that has the misfortune of having well over a dozen servers running SCO OpenServer, I can say that SCO OpenServer is the most screwed up, difficult to work with flavor of unix I've ever had the misfortune to deal with. (I have worked as an administrator on SGI, Linux, SCO, Minix(if you can count that) and to a small extent SunOS. In addition, I have worked as a user on HPUX and Solaris.)
I hate to contradict this like this, but Windows can still have SSO in that case, if you install Cygwin. I can use ssh to connect to my Windows machine remotely, using authorized_keys for verification. I guess that's not out of the box though, so perhaps Windows still fails on SSO...
Yes, it will, as long as you set the environment variable or modify /etc/apt/apt.conf so it knows where your proxy is. I have used it at my current job through the squid proxy server here.
There is already a product available that lets you modify binaries of programs that use the IE ActiveX component so that they use the Mozilla ActiveX component instead. If a standardized way for replacing the component was created, it would be even easier to do this.
I don't know how he does it, but I normally calculate tips by taking the total shift right one digit (i.e. divided by ten) plus that number divided by two. (With division by two thankfully being pretty easy, since you can just divide each even digit by two, and for odd digits you just gotta put that extra half in the right place.) It does actually end up with more addition involved than division, not that I've ever thought of it as "adding to calculate a percentage".
How about freedomware? It goes along with the long tradition of terms such as shareware, freeware, etc. It contains the word freedom right in it, so it doesn't have the gratis connotation of free software. It is a little easier to say than either of the phrases mentioned.
According to the USPTO Trademark Electronic Search System, Toshiba once tried to trademark it for a global services network, but as of August 29, 2001 the trademark is abandoned. Maybe we should see if we can get the FSF or the OSI to snap up this trademark?