Whoever chose this name screwed up big time. Trying to blame the Firebird db team for spamming doesn't elmiminate the basic problem here: one of the most important open source projects was forced to change a name of its products by a commercial company, and they resort to picking a name of an established, but less reputed, open source product. This is lame. I am surprised this isn't given a bigger voice on slashdot.
Why is it that every Ask Slashdot question there is some dude thinking they can be answered by querying google?
Have you at least tried to check the link you posted? Did you notice those results don't answer the original posters' request? Did you at least read the article or is this an automated reply to all "ask slashdot" articles?
Can the/. model be ported to topics other than tech news? What do you guys think about the failure of plastic.com? After 2 years, the site is essentially unknown to the general public and established media (unlike slashdot). I am doubting that this model of journalism can be successful when the readership is not so nerdish as in/. or kuro5hin (which has an even more complex method). I wish it weren't so but I think the facts seem to be speaking.
I think you're missing the point. This is not a manual for news publishing. This book is trying to describe and advocate a new way to make news (not books). The target readers are (I think) journalists, news makers, news corporatinons, and what he is trying to say to them is that they can't ignore the possibilities opened by new technologies (such as slashcode).
If you understand this, then you understand than a printed book is a legitimate outlet: this book needs to reach those who don't normally read stuff on the net.
It's not a bad idea. In antitrust law, bundling of products should be the exception, not the rule. It helps the consumer to know what they are buying, in this case the consumer is buying printer+ink, two separate products, and it's not clear on which the company is making profits.
Reading TBL's autobiography, I thought this idea of bundling the editor and the browser somewhat of a stretch.
I think he had in mind a world in which anybody could write and publish "annotations" to every web page (I think the old mosaic tried to support this). Right now there are several "server-side" applications that let you do this (blogs, wikis, etc...). Most people don't need or want an html editor, and with modern technology an html editor is mostly unnecessary for people to publish on the web.
You're saying a warranty on a $1k laptop costs about $250. Ignoring risk aversion, the warranty price would be fair if you had a 25% probability of completely breaking your laptop (1k*0.25=250), or 50%probability of $500 damage (0.5K*.5=250), and so on..
Factor in some risk aversion and you can somewhat lower those probabilities, but it seems to me that your assessment of the probabilities of breaking your stuff would have to be pretty high in order for the warranty to be worth its money. Or, your risk aversion should be pretty high.
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how about pushing it onto freenet how that it seems to be growing?
correct me if I am wrong but I don't think freenet stores entires files on one computer. As far as I understand, only small portions of a file will be stored, so even if your pc is searched, they'll find a list of unintelligible binaries.
Is this true? It seems a very important issue. Is there anybody from the Mozilla team that can clarify this issue or point out the relevant documentation?
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, a Futurist Italian writer (1876-1944) was inspired by the technology of it time (among other things). I am not sure whether you can find online anything translated in english but judging from the google search there seems to be a number of pages in english dedicated to his work and you can certainly find some books.
Ratings is the least interesting feature of imdb and a big failure. Focus on content. Also I didn't see any promise to keep the submitted comment "open" and "free". I don't want to contribute to another cddb fiasco.
Alternatively, you can use a decent text editor such as TextPad which lets you save your files in unix format, not to mentions other useful features for coders.
This interview is just moderately funny. Interviews are my favorite/. topic, but this sucks big time. I knew nothing about this guy and now I wish I hadn't spent time reading and typing this comment. Can somebody point out the best stuff written by this guy? Why is he famous? Thanks in advance.
You are missing the point, the court ruled that it was NOT a free market because distributors engaged in monopolistic collusive behavior. A free market needs the enforcement of a truly competitive environment in order to achieve economic efficiency
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would OGG work better then?
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Whoever chose this name screwed up big time. Trying to blame the Firebird db team for spamming doesn't elmiminate the basic problem here: one of the most important open source projects was forced to change a name of its products by a commercial company, and they resort to picking a name of an established, but less reputed, open source product. This is lame. I am surprised this isn't given a bigger voice on slashdot.
Is this post 2 years old? Dude, deja was bought by google and is now groups.google.com
Why is it that every Ask Slashdot question there is some dude thinking they can be answered by querying google?
Have you at least tried to check the link you posted? Did you notice those results don't answer the original posters' request? Did you at least read the article or is this an automated reply to all "ask slashdot" articles?
Can the /. model be ported to topics other than tech news? What do you guys think about the failure of plastic.com? After 2 years, the site is essentially unknown to the general public and established media (unlike slashdot). I am doubting that this model of journalism can be successful when the readership is not so nerdish as in /. or kuro5hin (which has an even more complex method). I wish it weren't so but I think the facts seem to be speaking.
/. crowd is missing a chance to be constructing. Most posts are complaining about the article and are entirely missing the point of the proposed book
PS on a side note, I think the
I think you're missing the point. This is not a manual for news publishing. This book is trying to describe and advocate a new way to make news (not books). The target readers are (I think) journalists, news makers, news corporatinons, and what he is trying to say to them is that they can't ignore the possibilities opened by new technologies (such as slashcode).
If you understand this, then you understand than a printed book is a legitimate outlet: this book needs to reach those who don't normally read stuff on the net.
It's not a bad idea. In antitrust law, bundling of products should be the exception, not the rule. It helps the consumer to know what they are buying, in this case the consumer is buying printer+ink, two separate products, and it's not clear on which the company is making profits.
I checked the mythtv screenshots and was blown away! Can somebody tell me what tivo has that mythtv doesn't?
I'm stil puzzled by the presence of "sys rq" "print scrn", "break", "scroll lk" buttons. Is there anybody using them?
Reading TBL's autobiography, I thought this idea of bundling the editor and the browser somewhat of a stretch.
I think he had in mind a world in which anybody could write and publish "annotations" to every web page (I think the old mosaic tried to support this). Right now there are several "server-side" applications that let you do this (blogs, wikis, etc...). Most people don't need or want an html editor, and with modern technology an html editor is mostly unnecessary for people to publish on the web.
html is not a language, dude
what is a vector in php? Just curious.
Re: your point #4 take this simple table with two columns:
s >
<sales>
day sales
1 32
2 23
3 22
And let's write it in xml
<dataset>
<row>
<day>
1
</day>
<sales>
32
</sales>
</row>
<row>
<day>
2
</day>
<sale
23
</sales>
</row>
<row>
<day>
3
</day>
22
</sales>
</row>
</table>
I think you can see the redundancy here. Both are text, no matter how you compress it the second will be larger
what? the date is manually entered? I can't believe it.
You're saying a warranty on a $1k laptop costs about $250. Ignoring risk aversion, the warranty price would be fair if you had a 25% probability of completely breaking your laptop (1k*0.25=250), or 50%probability of $500 damage (0.5K*.5=250), and so on..
Factor in some risk aversion and you can somewhat lower those probabilities, but it seems to me that your assessment of the probabilities of breaking your stuff would have to be pretty high in order for the warranty to be worth its money. Or, your risk aversion should be pretty high.
how about pushing it onto freenet how that it seems to be growing?
correct me if I am wrong but I don't think freenet stores entires files on one computer. As far as I understand, only small portions of a file will be stored, so even if your pc is searched, they'll find a list of unintelligible binaries.
Can you post which are the relevant bugs? It's funny that one of the biggest open source projects chooses documentation obscurity
Is this true? It seems a very important issue. Is there anybody from the Mozilla team that can clarify this issue or point out the relevant documentation?
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, a Futurist Italian writer (1876-1944) was inspired by the technology of it time (among other things). I am not sure whether you can find online anything translated in english but judging from the google search there seems to be a number of pages in english dedicated to his work and you can certainly find some books.
Ratings is the least interesting feature of imdb and a big failure. Focus on content. Also I didn't see any promise to keep the submitted comment "open" and "free". I don't want to contribute to another cddb fiasco.
Alternatively, you can use a decent text editor such as TextPad which lets you save your files in unix format, not to mentions other useful features for coders.
This interview is just moderately funny. Interviews are my favorite /. topic, but this sucks big time. I knew nothing about this guy and now I wish I hadn't spent time reading and typing this comment. Can somebody point out the best stuff written by this guy? Why is he famous?
Thanks in advance.
You are missing the point, the court ruled that it was NOT a free market because distributors engaged in monopolistic collusive behavior. A free market needs the enforcement of a truly competitive environment in order to achieve economic efficiency
He wrote the first web browser and server