Auriferous is a pretty good remake of Lode Runner, complete with the level construction tools.My son and I started playing it and building levels (some good, some interesting) when he was four and he loves it.
Otherwise, I can second all the GCompris and TuxPaint recommendations. My son loves them.
Fog Creek is a small company. I run a website at a big museum. My group used to all eat together, and it was really valuable. Sometimes we'd have other people join us, etc. But my boss was concerned--with good reason--about how exclusive we looked, and asked us all to make sure we also ate regularly with lots of other people. That helped too, but the group's camaraderie definitely suffered. Once we quit having a regular lunch, we couldn't get it back part-time.
Brian Williams said, “It’s just nice to know that if we screw this place up badly enough there is some place we can all go.”
Tell NBC News how dumb and upsetting this comment is at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29104230/
Crash--a cautionary tale about our love of technology, and a science fiction novel written in the present, with no fictional technology, blew my mind and changed my life. A worthwhile read for anyone (it takes some guts sometimes), but especially for tech people. Give it a shot.
Whether you're an open source project or not, you're only obliged to support your users if you want to have them. If you're OK with not having users, you can probably choose not to support them.
Other people have said it in nicer ways, so mod me redundant, but this is one of the more uninformed posts I've seen here lately. Real certs do two things:
encrypt the transaction
prove you are who you say you are, to a reasonably good estimation.
The warnings are there for self-signed certs because self-signed certs don't do #2. Who cares about the encryption if it's not necessarily a company you trust?
I can imagine a not-for-profit CA that does #2, and maybe can charge less money than Verisign for it, and maybe that can be accepted by the browsers by default after enough time. But it would still cost some money because step #2 is not zero work. But the most important thing is that the browsers should not be pushing this forward--the browsers should wait until that CA is up, running, and proven before they do add it to their default list.
Everything works some of the time. This is not an obscure author, but an extremely famous one. Radiohead is an extremely famous band. I bet if we really surveyed how often giving away content helps sales, we'd see that it helps some people, and not others. If we could even compare to a control, which is unlikely.
The usual model for giving away content works like this:
1) I can't compete with the bigger brands in my area, so I'll give away what I have for free. 2) The quality of my work will establish me, and fame (eg user base) will lead to big things.
It worked for PHP, but you can't say it worked for PostgreSQL, which was based on something that was famous already. Ditto for Radiohead and Coelho. They're not a good model for most of us.
At Brooklyn Museum we developed an excellent kiosk plug in for Mozilla and Firefox. It's better than anything you can buy (which is why we developed it, and why Brooklyn Museum continues to update it). We used it for secure installations in galleries. It would be really easy to set up a browser-only computer with the settings you want, using this extension for Firefox:
Postings on Slashdot are moderated, so I think two points are relevant:
1) his posting was approved by CmdrTaco, so he's qualified because CmdrTaco liked the posting. We already know Taco is interested in this subject so this is no real surprise and it doesn't seem like friendship needs to be involved.
2) it's not his credentials that are important, but Taco's.
So your point doesn't really make sense here (although it would make sense if he posted the editorial to Wikipedia).
In college I lived in a cooperative house where 50 of us shared a big industrial kitchen. Todd, a guy I was friendly with, walked in with a hot dog wrapped in foil-backed paper. He said, I can put this in the microwave, right? And I'm thinking "Um, you never heated a hot dog in the microwave? That's what they're best at!" It did not occur to me that he meant, including the foil-backed paper. Who doesn't know you can't put foil in the microwave?
So he stuck it in there and pop! the paper explodes in flame. I yelled "what are you doing!?" and he said "you said it would be fine!"
I guess in a way this was my first experience in tech support: you can never be too clear.
Even very small mammals may eat the eggs of very large birds. In fact they often do.
The real issue here is that every species fills a niche. A mammal filling a niche means there will be no bird filling that niche. Nonetheless, it's kind of a dumb comment (not yours--I mean the original one you're referring to); one mammal species 16 mya will have less impact on bird evolution than many mammal species existing throughout time. 16 my is a lot of time for evolutionary changes to take place.
1) no check-in. I pre-paid with my credit card... my credit card should open the stinking door, and let me activate the elevator. Or at least work a machine that gets me the keycard. 2) While we're at it, maybe the machine can show me all the rooms available in my reservation class and let me pick the one I want, so I don't have to argue about it with the desk clerk. 3) automated tracking of expenses, on the hotel's web site, that I can get to over the in-room ethernet. Or make the stupid tv thing work more reliably, no matter how I reserved (hotels.com). 4) No check-out. Why, why, why do I have to check out of a hotel? It's on my credit-card... just charge me for what I owe.
I can get on and off a plane now without talking to a single desk agent. What's with hotels?
Yes, that's what I do with email, but IMAP works. There is no such thing for Calendar--I cannot access changes to my group calendar when I'm on the road with my treo, since I can't get calendar on the web (and there's no other way to get changes over the air).
Thanks. Regarding clients: one of my main difficulties with (all?) groupware systems with web front-ends is that there is no allowance for tiny browsers like Sidekicks, Palms, PocketPCs. I read on zimbra.com that one of your top projects is a plug-in for pocket Outlook; what about just making a web interface that works well on the tiny screens and feature-poor browsers that we have on/all/ handhelds?
I'm sick of synchronizing; I just want to get the same web site on my handheld that I can get on my laptop or desktop. So I can check my calendar & tasks when I get out of the subway by checking online. If any groupware app made that easy (and even the low-brow ones like phprojekt present difficulty for small screens), I would be so happy.
This is a trial baloon. If some other big ISPs decide to go along with this, I can see it happening. If nobody else goes along with it, they won't enforce it. No need to panic here.
If this were true, it would only be because you can buy Linux-installed PC's cheaper than Windows-installed PC's. So there should then be a much bigger market for easy-to-buy OS-less PC's. Right? an OS-less PC should cost even less (if only by a little) than Linux PC. That OS-less market doesn't exist; ergo Gartner is wrong.
(I know you can buy OS-less PC's, but we tend to make it a little bit hard. You know, you have to buy them in part from newegg or whatever. There is not a huge market for buying them all pre-packaged).
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Thanks you guys! When I was in 5th grade (1978), I spent a week in the hospital. They had this game there. Ever since I've had only foggy memories of it, and always wondered what it was. I thought of it as soon as I saw this story.
For those who haven't tried it, the fedora-list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-lis t) is a fantastic list, full of incredibly helpful, incredibly knowledgeable people. Alexander Dalloz stands out, but the whole list is fantastic. I learn something new every time I sit down to catch up with the messages.
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Auriferous is a pretty good remake of Lode Runner, complete with the level construction tools.My son and I started playing it and building levels (some good, some interesting) when he was four and he loves it.
Otherwise, I can second all the GCompris and TuxPaint recommendations. My son loves them.
It strikes me as more like Atari vs. Nintendo than MS vs. the world, or Oracle vs. Google.
I believe that estimate like I believe the RIAA's damage estimates.
Let me know when I can embed it in my brain.
Fog Creek is a small company. I run a website at a big museum. My group used to all eat together, and it was really valuable. Sometimes we'd have other people join us, etc. But my boss was concerned--with good reason--about how exclusive we looked, and asked us all to make sure we also ate regularly with lots of other people. That helped too, but the group's camaraderie definitely suffered. Once we quit having a regular lunch, we couldn't get it back part-time.
They didn't have to throw in some of their own billions? Bargain.
Would "compactifying dimensions" allow sub-ground states of Hydrogen, for example? Would fusion be easier to make happen inside a graphene nanotube?
Brian Williams said, “It’s just nice to know that if we screw this place up badly enough there is some place we can all go.” Tell NBC News how dumb and upsetting this comment is at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29104230/
Crash--a cautionary tale about our love of technology, and a science fiction novel written in the present, with no fictional technology, blew my mind and changed my life. A worthwhile read for anyone (it takes some guts sometimes), but especially for tech people. Give it a shot.
Whether you're an open source project or not, you're only obliged to support your users if you want to have them. If you're OK with not having users, you can probably choose not to support them.
Other people have said it in nicer ways, so mod me redundant, but this is one of the more uninformed posts I've seen here lately. Real certs do two things:
The warnings are there for self-signed certs because self-signed certs don't do #2. Who cares about the encryption if it's not necessarily a company you trust?
I can imagine a not-for-profit CA that does #2, and maybe can charge less money than Verisign for it, and maybe that can be accepted by the browsers by default after enough time. But it would still cost some money because step #2 is not zero work. But the most important thing is that the browsers should not be pushing this forward--the browsers should wait until that CA is up, running, and proven before they do add it to their default list.
Everything works some of the time. This is not an obscure author, but an extremely famous one. Radiohead is an extremely famous band. I bet if we really surveyed how often giving away content helps sales, we'd see that it helps some people, and not others. If we could even compare to a control, which is unlikely.
The usual model for giving away content works like this:
1) I can't compete with the bigger brands in my area, so I'll give away what I have for free.
2) The quality of my work will establish me, and fame (eg user base) will lead to big things.
It worked for PHP, but you can't say it worked for PostgreSQL, which was based on something that was famous already. Ditto for Radiohead and Coelho. They're not a good model for most of us.
At Brooklyn Museum we developed an excellent kiosk plug in for Mozilla and Firefox. It's better than anything you can buy (which is why we developed it, and why Brooklyn Museum continues to update it). We used it for secure installations in galleries. It would be really easy to set up a browser-only computer with the settings you want, using this extension for Firefox:
http://www.mozdevgroup.com/clients/bm/
--Matt
Postings on Slashdot are moderated, so I think two points are relevant:
1) his posting was approved by CmdrTaco, so he's qualified because CmdrTaco liked the posting. We already know Taco is interested in this subject so this is no real surprise and it doesn't seem like friendship needs to be involved.
2) it's not his credentials that are important, but Taco's.
So your point doesn't really make sense here (although it would make sense if he posted the editorial to Wikipedia).
In college I lived in a cooperative house where 50 of us shared a big industrial kitchen. Todd, a guy I was friendly with, walked in with a hot dog wrapped in foil-backed paper. He said, I can put this in the microwave, right? And I'm thinking "Um, you never heated a hot dog in the microwave? That's what they're best at!" It did not occur to me that he meant, including the foil-backed paper. Who doesn't know you can't put foil in the microwave?
So he stuck it in there and pop! the paper explodes in flame. I yelled "what are you doing!?" and he said "you said it would be fine!"
I guess in a way this was my first experience in tech support: you can never be too clear.
Even very small mammals may eat the eggs of very large birds. In fact they often do.
The real issue here is that every species fills a niche. A mammal filling a niche means there will be no bird filling that niche. Nonetheless, it's kind of a dumb comment (not yours--I mean the original one you're referring to); one mammal species 16 mya will have less impact on bird evolution than many mammal species existing throughout time. 16 my is a lot of time for evolutionary changes to take place.
Samll mammals eat bird eggs.
How about:
... my credit card should open the stinking door, and let me activate the elevator. Or at least work a machine that gets me the keycard. ... just charge me for what I owe.
1) no check-in. I pre-paid with my credit card
2) While we're at it, maybe the machine can show me all the rooms available in my reservation class and let me pick the one I want, so I don't have to argue about it with the desk clerk.
3) automated tracking of expenses, on the hotel's web site, that I can get to over the in-room ethernet. Or make the stupid tv thing work more reliably, no matter how I reserved (hotels.com).
4) No check-out. Why, why, why do I have to check out of a hotel? It's on my credit-card
I can get on and off a plane now without talking to a single desk agent. What's with hotels?
Yes, that's what I do with email, but IMAP works. There is no such thing for Calendar--I cannot access changes to my group calendar when I'm on the road with my treo, since I can't get calendar on the web (and there's no other way to get changes over the air).
Thanks. Regarding clients: one of my main difficulties with (all?) groupware systems with web front-ends is that there is no allowance for tiny browsers like Sidekicks, Palms, PocketPCs. I read on zimbra.com that one of your top projects is a plug-in for pocket Outlook; what about just making a web interface that works well on the tiny screens and feature-poor browsers that we have on /all/ handhelds?
I'm sick of synchronizing; I just want to get the same web site on my handheld that I can get on my laptop or desktop. So I can check my calendar & tasks when I get out of the subway by checking online. If any groupware app made that easy (and even the low-brow ones like phprojekt present difficulty for small screens), I would be so happy.
Thanks,
Matt
What I want to know is, why doesn't CNN patch? Maybe there's a good reason, but I want to know what it is.
I know a guy who works at the NYTImes. Their laptops are a mess--users have admin control, etc. They get hit with everything.
This is a trial baloon. If some other big ISPs decide to go along with this, I can see it happening. If nobody else goes along with it, they won't enforce it. No need to panic here.
If this were true, it would only be because you can buy Linux-installed PC's cheaper than Windows-installed PC's. So there should then be a much bigger market for easy-to-buy OS-less PC's. Right? an OS-less PC should cost even less (if only by a little) than Linux PC. That OS-less market doesn't exist; ergo Gartner is wrong.
(I know you can buy OS-less PC's, but we tend to make it a little bit hard. You know, you have to buy them in part from newegg or whatever. There is not a huge market for buying them all pre-packaged).
Thanks you guys! When I was in 5th grade (1978), I spent a week in the hospital. They had this game there. Ever since I've had only foggy memories of it, and always wondered what it was. I thought of it as soon as I saw this story.
For those who haven't tried it, the fedora-list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-lis t) is a fantastic list, full of incredibly helpful, incredibly knowledgeable people. Alexander Dalloz stands out, but the whole list is fantastic. I learn something new every time I sit down to catch up with the messages.