Mozilla/Netscape 6 wasn't ready for mass adoption even if AOL wanted to switch their tens of millions of users away from IE really badly. AOL could've thrown some more resources at Mozilla/Netscape 6, but due to diminishing returns it probably wouldn't have been ready all that much earlier.
Let's see, Opera is open source and Andreessen joined Netscape early. The first is totally false, the second is of secondary importance. Andreessen co-wrote Mosaic. Guess IDG reporters don't remember that. What other stupid errors can you spot?
When I was in college what kept me down was not lack of stuff (though I had very little) but lack of knowledge. I was a real ignoramous. Perhaps there's a book or website along the lines of "Idiot's Guide To How Not To Be An Idiot In College And Life". Or give her a book on basic personal finance, one on basic health and one on healthy relationships. Perhaps better yet, think about the top three things you wish you'd known in college, and tell her. My top three: talk to your professors (some don't care, but some do, take advantage), don't undersell yourself or limit the scope of your opportunities (e.g., when looking for jobs, internships and student leadership roles) and lay off the snack foods and sodas (don't be a sugar junkie).
urlview could do that, but I don't know whether anyone has integrated it or similar with mozilla. It'd be cool if browsers optionally aggressively made links out of text that looks like a URL but isn't a href'd. These inferred links wouldn't even need to change the look of the page, e.g., they could be accessible via a contextual menu -- exactly how urlview works inside an xterm.
I'm impressed that you've shared 400k files. You must be sharing tiny files or have access to a huge amount of disk (well over a terabyte if your shared files' average size is similar to the average size of shared files (i.e., ~4 megabytes)).
The current Bitzi catalog/service is in preview mode. It'll be more comprehensive once we get past that stage.
While age-related diseases can strike anyone, people can do lots to "stay active, lucid and happy" and reduce their chances of and/or delay the onset of debilitating disease with no help from the medical establishment. Get regular physical and mental exercise, eat a healthful diet, maintain close relationships, etc. All highly pragmatic, well-known, cheap, and requiring no technology. IOW, healthspan extension can be done by anyone. Maximum lifespan extension requires scientific breakthroughs (calorie restriction may extend maximum lifespan a bit, but is probably beyond the ability of all but the most willful to practice effectively... I try to be one of the most willful:).
If the elderly population is increasing primarily because people 60+ years ago had more babies, then you'd expect the elderly population increase to level as the birth rate decreases, with a lag of many decades. AFAIK no elderly population projections are predicting such a levelling off, which says to me that demographers expect life expectancy at age 65 to continue to increase.
This page shows life expectancy at ages 65 and 85 increasing from 11.9 to 17.7 and 4.0 to 6.3 years in 1900 and 1997 respectively.
I suspect the life expectancy for people 60 today is significantly better than life expectancy for 60 year olds 20 years ago, otherwise we wouldn't be seeing an explosion of 65+ year olds (and 80+ and 100+). For there to really be "no cap" on life expectancy though, the maximum human lifespan needs to increase. AFAIK there are no documented cases of humans living much beyond 120. However, at only 3 months/year increase in life expectancy, we won't hit that barrier in this century. By that time (well before it) we'll have figured out how to significantly increase biological human lifespan. If you don't want to count on any such progress, calorie restriction seems to be the only current method we have of possibly extending maximum lifespan. At the other extreme, you could just wait for the singularity to obviate the need for biology.
A few categorization tools in development are using the MusicBrainz catalog. Bitzi (warning: I'm an interested party) is attempting to create an open metadata catalog for all content that can be encoded in files.
If you care about what the file says about its license you'd want to verify with an external source, e.g., a file metadata catalog.
I think it's an open question whether a "whitelist" or "blacklist" approach would be better for freedom. Whitelists could lead to basically everything being off-limits, as most files won't be marked. Blacklists could explicity take a huge amount of content out of play (if you care to abide by the list), though a huge amount would be left on the table by default . OTOH a whitelist scenario in which everything not whitelisted is not defacto blacklisted would leave things as they are and help a highlight a growing culture of freedom. Chances are we'll have dueling whitelists and blacklists, with most files remaining in the murky middle.
Overture is useful when you're looking to buy something. The top search
results on Overture will almost without fail be companies selling what
you're searching for. Google searches often don't have any associated
ads, and when they do, they always lack depth in comparison to Overture's
paid listings. I suspect this is because until recently Google didn't
have a pay-per-click pricing model.
When you're not looking for someone to sell you something there's
absolutely no reason to use Overture. Even Teoma will give you better
results.:-)
This isn't exactly what you asked for, but rather than looking for free material not so different from what industry has told us is entertainment, try something different. For example, visit a gallery or go to a live play or concert. Better yet, create your favorite art form(s) on your own or with friends (someone on/. or similar has a signature along the lines of "create more, consume less!" which I hearily agree with). My favorite: daydream.
I've been to Catholic mass probably 2000 times (nearly all in Illinois; perhaps practices are different elsewhere). One could contribute anonymously, but all regular parisioners had personalized contribution envelopes, with the expected contribution explicitly based on income. I found this strange, and remember asking my parents what business the priest had knowing their contribution or income. I didn't get a satisfactory answer to this or any other religious question. Per-adherent the contemporary Catholic church is less evil than Scientology, though I'd probably feel differently had I been raped by a priestly pedophile.
As countless others have pointed out, a modified core aimed at the embedded market isn't very newsworthy (at least not to people who only care about the "computer" (PC/laptop/workstation/server) market, which Hammer and Itanium target). Brings up an interesting question though: Many architectures have started primarily targeted at the "computer" market, failed to meet expectations there, and were retargeted at the embedded market, sometimes with great success. Will an embedded processor ever make the reverse transtion, into the "computer" market?
I said it is a work in progress. It partially implements APIs introduced in every major Java release (including 1.4) but doesn't fully implement all APIs for any release (perhaps not even 1.0). Check the status of package implementations on the status page or cvs. It's a free software project, people work on what they want to work on. Actually it has picked up some momentum recently with contributions from Red Hat, which is merging gcj library work with classpath.
"no one will use [JDK 1.5]" is obviously an overstatement, but the sentiment agrees with my intuition: Sun needs to make concessions to the open source community (which are in its own interest!) over the next year, or a free.net implementation will start driving java out of the niches it inhabits and could inhabit in the free software world. Long term that consigns Java to being this generation's COBOL.
Look at the bottom of the classpath page for a list of open source VMs that work with classpath (a free core (i.e., java.* and a few others) class library). All works in progress. I expect that mono and/or portable.net will quickly outpace free java projects. The JDK is a case where the availability of good enough gratis software has seriously hampered the momentum of libre competition. Netscape 4.x is another such case.
Didn't think of it before posting, but distrowatch indicates whether and what version each of a few dozen distros ship with (not just ALSA, dozens of packages). Yep, as two followups have indicated, SuSE and Mandrake have included ALSA for awhile. That's a good thing. Don't know why someone thought I was trolling, it was an honest (if lazy) question.
Not only that, but solve as little of the problem as possible. Someone else has probably already solved much of your problem and made available library/framework code that you can build on. The perfect language isn't if you have to re-invent every wheel with it. I do try to follow my own advice -- the availability of a partial solution for one of my problem domains is why I use Tcl a fair bit despite hating the language. OTOH if you want a language with cool features for the sake of coolness, I'd go with O'Caml.
From what I understand, EROS' key feature is not being built of "tiny reliable components" but fine-grained robust security known as the capability model. You can build a distributed system out of tiny reliable components, but it'd be nice if those components weren't burdended with bad security genes, so to speak.
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Mozilla/Netscape 6 wasn't ready for mass adoption even if AOL wanted to switch their tens of millions of users away from IE really badly. AOL could've thrown some more resources at Mozilla/Netscape 6, but due to diminishing returns it probably wouldn't have been ready all that much earlier.
Let's see, Opera is open source and Andreessen joined Netscape early. The first is totally false, the second is of secondary importance. Andreessen co-wrote Mosaic. Guess IDG reporters don't remember that. What other stupid errors can you spot?
F# looks cool, I've been meaning to learn O'Caml for awhile. But I really want to see E#.
When I was in college what kept me down was not lack of stuff (though I had very little) but lack of knowledge. I was a real ignoramous. Perhaps there's a book or website along the lines of "Idiot's Guide To How Not To Be An Idiot In College And Life". Or give her a book on basic personal finance, one on basic health and one on healthy relationships. Perhaps better yet, think about the top three things you wish you'd known in college, and tell her. My top three: talk to your professors (some don't care, but some do, take advantage), don't undersell yourself or limit the scope of your opportunities (e.g., when looking for jobs, internships and student leadership roles) and lay off the snack foods and sodas (don't be a sugar junkie).
urlview could do that, but I don't know whether anyone has integrated it or similar with mozilla. It'd be cool if browsers optionally aggressively made links out of text that looks like a URL but isn't a href'd. These inferred links wouldn't even need to change the look of the page, e.g., they could be accessible via a contextual menu -- exactly how urlview works inside an xterm.
The current Bitzi catalog/service is in preview mode. It'll be more comprehensive once we get past that stage.
[disclaimer: I work at Bitzi]
While age-related diseases can strike anyone, people can do lots to "stay active, lucid and happy" and reduce their chances of and/or delay the onset of debilitating disease with no help from the medical establishment. Get regular physical and mental exercise, eat a healthful diet, maintain close relationships, etc. All highly pragmatic, well-known, cheap, and requiring no technology. IOW, healthspan extension can be done by anyone. Maximum lifespan extension requires scientific breakthroughs (calorie restriction may extend maximum lifespan a bit, but is probably beyond the ability of all but the most willful to practice effectively ... I try to be one of the most willful :).
This page shows life expectancy at ages 65 and 85 increasing from 11.9 to 17.7 and 4.0 to 6.3 years in 1900 and 1997 respectively.
One reason to look forward to an aging population: World Peace, Thanks To Old Men?
I suspect the life expectancy for people 60 today is significantly better than life expectancy for 60 year olds 20 years ago, otherwise we wouldn't be seeing an explosion of 65+ year olds (and 80+ and 100+). For there to really be "no cap" on life expectancy though, the maximum human lifespan needs to increase. AFAIK there are no documented cases of humans living much beyond 120. However, at only 3 months/year increase in life expectancy, we won't hit that barrier in this century. By that time (well before it) we'll have figured out how to significantly increase biological human lifespan. If you don't want to count on any such progress, calorie restriction seems to be the only current method we have of possibly extending maximum lifespan. At the other extreme, you could just wait for the singularity to obviate the need for biology.
Excellent! wget ...; rm *.mp3 !
The songs are cute though.
See related article/discussion on Advogato from a few days ago.
A few categorization tools in development are using the MusicBrainz catalog. Bitzi (warning: I'm an interested party) is attempting to create an open metadata catalog for all content that can be encoded in files.
I think it's an open question whether a "whitelist" or "blacklist" approach would be better for freedom. Whitelists could lead to basically everything being off-limits, as most files won't be marked. Blacklists could explicity take a huge amount of content out of play (if you care to abide by the list), though a huge amount would be left on the table by default . OTOH a whitelist scenario in which everything not whitelisted is not defacto blacklisted would leave things as they are and help a highlight a growing culture of freedom. Chances are we'll have dueling whitelists and blacklists, with most files remaining in the murky middle.
When you're not looking for someone to sell you something there's absolutely no reason to use Overture. Even Teoma will give you better results. :-)
Andy Oram at O'Reilly has some interesting thoughts along these lines: Stop the Copying, Start a Media Revolution.
If you occasionally need a bit of industry-sanctioned entertainment but don't want to fund their legal teams, get it at your local library.
I've been to Catholic mass probably 2000 times (nearly all in Illinois; perhaps practices are different elsewhere). One could contribute anonymously, but all regular parisioners had personalized contribution envelopes, with the expected contribution explicitly based on income. I found this strange, and remember asking my parents what business the priest had knowing their contribution or income. I didn't get a satisfactory answer to this or any other religious question. Per-adherent the contemporary Catholic church is less evil than Scientology, though I'd probably feel differently had I been raped by a priestly pedophile.
As countless others have pointed out, a modified core aimed at the embedded market isn't very newsworthy (at least not to people who only care about the "computer" (PC/laptop/workstation/server) market, which Hammer and Itanium target). Brings up an interesting question though: Many architectures have started primarily targeted at the "computer" market, failed to meet expectations there, and were retargeted at the embedded market, sometimes with great success. Will an embedded processor ever make the reverse transtion, into the "computer" market?
I said it is a work in progress. It partially implements APIs introduced in every major Java release (including 1.4) but doesn't fully implement all APIs for any release (perhaps not even 1.0). Check the status of package implementations on the status page or cvs. It's a free software project, people work on what they want to work on. Actually it has picked up some momentum recently with contributions from Red Hat, which is merging gcj library work with classpath.
"no one will use [JDK 1.5]" is obviously an overstatement, but the sentiment agrees with my intuition: Sun needs to make concessions to the open source community (which are in its own interest!) over the next year, or a free .net implementation will start driving java out of the niches it inhabits and could inhabit in the free software world. Long term that consigns Java to being this generation's COBOL.
Look at the bottom of the classpath page for a list of open source VMs that work with classpath (a free core (i.e., java.* and a few others) class library). All works in progress. I expect that mono and/or portable.net will quickly outpace free java projects. The JDK is a case where the availability of good enough gratis software has seriously hampered the momentum of libre competition. Netscape 4.x is another such case.
Didn't think of it before posting, but distrowatch indicates whether and what version each of a few dozen distros ship with (not just ALSA, dozens of packages). Yep, as two followups have indicated, SuSE and Mandrake have included ALSA for awhile. That's a good thing. Don't know why someone thought I was trolling, it was an honest (if lazy) question.
Si, no, plans? Anyone know? I hope they don't all wait for 2.6.
Not only that, but solve as little of the problem as possible. Someone else has probably already solved much of your problem and made available library/framework code that you can build on. The perfect language isn't if you have to re-invent every wheel with it. I do try to follow my own advice -- the availability of a partial solution for one of my problem domains is why I use Tcl a fair bit despite hating the language. OTOH if you want a language with cool features for the sake of coolness, I'd go with O'Caml.
From what I understand, EROS' key feature is not being built of "tiny reliable components" but fine-grained robust security known as the capability model. You can build a distributed system out of tiny reliable components, but it'd be nice if those components weren't burdended with bad security genes, so to speak.