I see that FreeMind is based on the idea of card catalogue system which Robert Piersig describes in the book Lila. This is definately a program I'll try since the moment I read that book I wanted a digital version of it.
FYI in Lila Pirsig describes a system where he keeps his ideas in a card catalogue system similar to those used in libraries. There are different categories as well as meta categories which has "programs" such as "Reorganise this section" and such. It's really quite a facinating read.
I believe that is Latin and not Spanish per se. It exist in Swedish too, although it's fri vs gratis there. (And many other languages naturally.)
Naturally we can take this moment to conclude that Saphir-Worf is incorrect, since the lack of words haven't stopped the ideas of OSS from springing into the minds of people. (BTW IIRC gratis exist as a word in English as well, it's just not used all that much.)
I think it may be worth to point out that with a standard support contract you're not going to get much support in any case. Well, unless "reinstall" is a viable option.
There is this "I must have someone to blame" urge without understanding that unless you're a really important costumer they'll likely just play the blame game on you. And then the reinstall game. And then, if you're lucky, you'll get an affirmation that "Oh, perhaps that's our bad then."
You're probably trolling but anyways. BT and eDonkey are not the same thing. They are not designed to fullfill the same requirements so comparing them is pretty useless.
Besides it's my experience that eDonkey/Overnet are pretty much anti-open source. Naturally they (and all other developers of network apps such as DC) quickly discovered that OSS people are typically quite capable of reverse engineering network protocols.
My experience with eMule is that while there's a lot of stuff on there it's really slow. Out of a bunch of files I started I doubt I got even one completed even after a few days. After that I couldn't be bothered to wait longer, my main gripe was that I didn't get feedback on what the program was trying to do.
Bittorrent OTOH worked just fine until it was blocked by the school.
I always though it was a bit sad that Swarmcast didn't take off as quickly. It was out a year or so before Bittorrent, and it does some things better than BT. I'm not sure how the server side worked with SC though, that may have been why it didn't take off. (That it was more work to put up a SC server than a BT one that is.)
First off, I think their point was that it's futile to try to stop packages while on the internet. You have to get packages when it reaches the "ends" of the internet. Ie the users. Now you could also put it at the ISP, it would take a lot more power for them to do the work though (since they have to do it for everyone) so I doubt it would be a free service.
Besides you are not adding anything to the internet, you are adding stuff *at your end* of the internet (which the ISP is part of naturally).
I think you are misreading what the article say. They are not arguing that if you run IM over the internet then you must be able to interoperate with other IM programs.
They are saying (section 8.c):
Remember, though, that if you come up with a new agreement, for it to generate value as quickly as the Internet itself did, it needs to be open, unowned, and for everyone. That's exactly why Instant Messaging has failed to achieve its potential: The leading IM systems of today -- AOL's AIM and ICQ and Microsoft's MSN Messenger -- are private territories that may run on the Net, but they are not part of the Net.
Their point is that for IM to have the same global impact like email and WWW they need to use the same protocol independent on how the device connects to the internet. That way can use any IM program on any OS on any type of device (be it computer or mobile phone) to communicate with any other IM client.
Similarly they don't claim that the internet will actively prohibit censorship. The internet is so basic that you can't really stop information. It's like trying to make an island in the middle of the ocean by building a wall and shoveling out the water.
Wouldn't it be better to have the machines running from a network boot? You could use the HDD for installing programs temporarily and as a scratch disk. Reboot the machine and you have a fresh OS.
I can imagine that would be slightly more work with Windows, but still possible (since it may not be completely cooperative).
Another thing to consider is natually to try and anticipate the users needs so they don't need to install software. Or you could have a specific computer at the desk for installing software (which you would have clearly visable to the person working there). You could then make up your mind if you should wide the disk afterwards or keep it on there.
There is a point in this that it's easy to be blinded with science as "the absolute holder of truth" that you fail to recognize other things. But it should be pointed out that while science can't do anything when you can't observere a phenomena (meta-physical if you so will) it doesn't claim to either.
As I see it Science is a refinement of Philosophy which is a refinement of Religion. In that Science deals with things you can experiement with. Philosophy deals with answering big questions in Religion without resorting to "because it says so in the book" arguments. Religion was made to explain the world around us.
I don't quite see how you fit Politics into it all though. As I see it politics is simply a way to help people interact with each other. It doesn't really say anything about the world around us.
For Java2ME a keyword is MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) which is what most phones have implemented. I know Nokia has quite a lot of material on getting started with Midp for their phones, and it's useable with other phones as well.
A problem is that in order to get any kind of good graphics you need to use vendor specific graphic routines. I still don't have a phone capable of doing Midp but when I get one I intend to play around with it some.
My current favourite coffee-milk mix is frappochino. Make a big batch of espresso and mix in about 1 tbl spoon of sugar per cup. Let that stand in the fridge for about a day (or until it's not hot anymore). Use a shaker and shake first only the coffee-sugar mix with ice until you get a nice crema, then shake with milk. Remove the ice as your pour it.
Great afternoon "drink" in the summers. Tastes a bit like milkshakes really.
Why the controller isn't a standard USB is not very strange at all. If it were people would try to plug everything into it and their helpdesk would be full of people wondering why their new printer didn't work with their XBox.
Besides, if you compare price flash is certainly not a valid replacement for HDD.
I think they forgot to mention that Mr Jackson was using a Apple(tm) Wireless Keyboard and Apple(tm) Wireless Mouse both using Bluetooth(tm) technology to enhance the editing experience. Naturally all mobile devices used Duracell(tm) bateries to go the extra mile. Mr Jackson transported the iPod (tm) in his Lee (tm) jeans.
Considering todays quality computer products it is sort of amazing that one of them happen to do what it was designed to do. Instead of using an iPod for this you can just get a standard stand alone HDD with USB/FW enclosure. That will save you quite a lot of money too.
So? It's the same as any USB mass storage device, it just uses FW as a hookup. Virtually any USB flash based MP3 player can be used as a storage device for non-audio data. Colour me unimpressed.
Which ever Mozilla you select browse around on the plug-in sections afterwards to really get it going. Mouse gestures / radial menues (an improvement on gestures IHMO) are available as plugins as an example.
A fun one I found is Moji which is an integrated Kanji dictionary. Select a Kanji on a Japanese page and you can have it instantly translated. (It's not very advanced right now though, but a good idea of what can be done.)
While travelling around the world, it seems that I see a lot of europeans who are trying to suck in some culture. [...]
And somehow Americans are seen as the ones who are not 'worldly'. We are the ones who are seen as 'insulated'.
While the rest of the world holds onto their culture, we have been absorbing all of them. [...] our culture is really an amalgamation of what the rest of the world has brought here.
I think a big portion of the ethnic diversity in the United States is more appearance than actualy difference. When I was in the US I got a lot of people who were proud of their European (or otherwise non-US) heritige. Typically they could track their family further back the generations than I can. The point is that while they had a non-US heritige they were first and foremost still very much Americans.
My point is that while you can stand on a street in a US city and point out how obviously ethnically diverse it is (since everyone looks different) the people you are looking at consider themselves to be Americans (although with a heritage they are proud of and honor). In a typical European city you may have more problems detecting who is from different cultures. But if you call all of them French just because you're in France you might get yourself beaten up.
In Sweden (abnd other European countries) a lot of the immigrants (about 10% of the population in Sweden) who are not here out of their own free will. They are here because they have fled from their own countries due to war or procecution (or both). I have a feeling many of them, while they like Sweden in many ways, still would prefer it if they could live in their homeland instead.
I'm just a stereotypical Swede, so I may be way off base though.;-)
That's not the problem he's talking about. The main point with generics is that if you have something like
List names;
then you don't know anything about what type to get out of that list. And if the coder had done something strange like put numerical references to a database with names in the list then you'll get a run-time error. If the list instead is
List names;
then you at least know something about what to expect from the List. (And you know that you have to hunt down documentation for it since it's not obvious what it does.)
I think getting your hands on the full specs for the internal micro-ops the CPU process is quite hard. Modern processors don't execute x86-87 instructions directly.
Though about Yoda and Dooku I never understood why Yoda was aiming at Dookus sword all the time. If would have made a lot more sense if he just chopped off Dooku's legs first. Bring Dooku down to his own level so to say.
First time I saw it (at the movies) I thought it was great. That was probably only becuase the other 2 hours of the movie was so mind numbingingly dull. (Sound of music but with even more pathetic dialogue.)
Unfortunately it's a lot easier to deflect a blow if the guy spins around first, you have a lot more time to react. Just try it yourself, a straight blow to the face is hard to deflect. If you do a 360' turn before it's a lot easier, and you can spend time pounding his back while it's turned.
If we're going to be realistic I guess we can't have light sabres or Jedi's in any case.
What I want is that the movies makes sense/in that universe/. In SW blasters are slow as molasses and you can make a sabre out of light, those are the rules. But you don't have to do stupid flips when you try to hit your opponent just because you can.
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I see that FreeMind is based on the idea of card catalogue system which Robert Piersig describes in the book Lila. This is definately a program I'll try since the moment I read that book I wanted a digital version of it.
FYI in Lila Pirsig describes a system where he keeps his ideas in a card catalogue system similar to those used in libraries. There are different categories as well as meta categories which has "programs" such as "Reorganise this section" and such. It's really quite a facinating read.
I believe that is Latin and not Spanish per se. It exist in Swedish too, although it's fri vs gratis there. (And many other languages naturally.)
Naturally we can take this moment to conclude that Saphir-Worf is incorrect, since the lack of words haven't stopped the ideas of OSS from springing into the minds of people. (BTW IIRC gratis exist as a word in English as well, it's just not used all that much.)
I think it may be worth to point out that with a standard support contract you're not going to get much support in any case. Well, unless "reinstall" is a viable option.
There is this "I must have someone to blame" urge without understanding that unless you're a really important costumer they'll likely just play the blame game on you. And then the reinstall game. And then, if you're lucky, you'll get an affirmation that "Oh, perhaps that's our bad then."
You're probably trolling but anyways. BT and eDonkey are not the same thing. They are not designed to fullfill the same requirements so comparing them is pretty useless.
Besides it's my experience that eDonkey/Overnet are pretty much anti-open source. Naturally they (and all other developers of network apps such as DC) quickly discovered that OSS people are typically quite capable of reverse engineering network protocols.
My experience with eMule is that while there's a lot of stuff on there it's really slow. Out of a bunch of files I started I doubt I got even one completed even after a few days. After that I couldn't be bothered to wait longer, my main gripe was that I didn't get feedback on what the program was trying to do.
Bittorrent OTOH worked just fine until it was blocked by the school.
I always though it was a bit sad that Swarmcast didn't take off as quickly. It was out a year or so before Bittorrent, and it does some things better than BT. I'm not sure how the server side worked with SC though, that may have been why it didn't take off. (That it was more work to put up a SC server than a BT one that is.)
So long as the trade off was enforced at all points, I think it would be honored by protocol developers. ;-)
Famous last words.
The reason why the internet is still useable is because there are so few mechanisms on the internet to abuse.
First off, I think their point was that it's futile to try to stop packages while on the internet. You have to get packages when it reaches the "ends" of the internet. Ie the users. Now you could also put it at the ISP, it would take a lot more power for them to do the work though (since they have to do it for everyone) so I doubt it would be a free service.
Besides you are not adding anything to the internet, you are adding stuff *at your end* of the internet (which the ISP is part of naturally).
They are saying (section 8.c):
Their point is that for IM to have the same global impact like email and WWW they need to use the same protocol independent on how the device connects to the internet. That way can use any IM program on any OS on any type of device (be it computer or mobile phone) to communicate with any other IM client.
Similarly they don't claim that the internet will actively prohibit censorship. The internet is so basic that you can't really stop information. It's like trying to make an island in the middle of the ocean by building a wall and shoveling out the water.
Wouldn't it be better to have the machines running from a network boot? You could use the HDD for installing programs temporarily and as a scratch disk. Reboot the machine and you have a fresh OS.
I can imagine that would be slightly more work with Windows, but still possible (since it may not be completely cooperative).
Another thing to consider is natually to try and anticipate the users needs so they don't need to install software. Or you could have a specific computer at the desk for installing software (which you would have clearly visable to the person working there). You could then make up your mind if you should wide the disk afterwards or keep it on there.
There is a point in this that it's easy to be blinded with science as "the absolute holder of truth" that you fail to recognize other things. But it should be pointed out that while science can't do anything when you can't observere a phenomena (meta-physical if you so will) it doesn't claim to either.
As I see it Science is a refinement of Philosophy which is a refinement of Religion. In that Science deals with things you can experiement with. Philosophy deals with answering big questions in Religion without resorting to "because it says so in the book" arguments. Religion was made to explain the world around us.
I don't quite see how you fit Politics into it all though. As I see it politics is simply a way to help people interact with each other. It doesn't really say anything about the world around us.
For Java2ME a keyword is MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) which is what most phones have implemented. I know Nokia has quite a lot of material on getting started with Midp for their phones, and it's useable with other phones as well.
A problem is that in order to get any kind of good graphics you need to use vendor specific graphic routines. I still don't have a phone capable of doing Midp but when I get one I intend to play around with it some.
My current favourite coffee-milk mix is frappochino. Make a big batch of espresso and mix in about 1 tbl spoon of sugar per cup. Let that stand in the fridge for about a day (or until it's not hot anymore). Use a shaker and shake first only the coffee-sugar mix with ice until you get a nice crema, then shake with milk. Remove the ice as your pour it.
Great afternoon "drink" in the summers. Tastes a bit like milkshakes really.
Why the controller isn't a standard USB is not very strange at all. If it were people would try to plug everything into it and their helpdesk would be full of people wondering why their new printer didn't work with their XBox.
Besides, if you compare price flash is certainly not a valid replacement for HDD.
I think they forgot to mention that Mr Jackson was using a Apple(tm) Wireless Keyboard and Apple(tm) Wireless Mouse both using Bluetooth(tm) technology to enhance the editing experience. Naturally all mobile devices used Duracell(tm) bateries to go the extra mile. Mr Jackson transported the iPod (tm) in his Lee (tm) jeans.
Considering todays quality computer products it is sort of amazing that one of them happen to do what it was designed to do. Instead of using an iPod for this you can just get a standard stand alone HDD with USB/FW enclosure. That will save you quite a lot of money too.
So? It's the same as any USB mass storage device, it just uses FW as a hookup. Virtually any USB flash based MP3 player can be used as a storage device for non-audio data. Colour me unimpressed.
Which ever Mozilla you select browse around on the plug-in sections afterwards to really get it going. Mouse gestures / radial menues (an improvement on gestures IHMO) are available as plugins as an example.
A fun one I found is Moji which is an integrated Kanji dictionary. Select a Kanji on a Japanese page and you can have it instantly translated. (It's not very advanced right now though, but a good idea of what can be done.)
I think a big portion of the ethnic diversity in the United States is more appearance than actualy difference. When I was in the US I got a lot of people who were proud of their European (or otherwise non-US) heritige. Typically they could track their family further back the generations than I can. The point is that while they had a non-US heritige they were first and foremost still very much Americans.
My point is that while you can stand on a street in a US city and point out how obviously ethnically diverse it is (since everyone looks different) the people you are looking at consider themselves to be Americans (although with a heritage they are proud of and honor). In a typical European city you may have more problems detecting who is from different cultures. But if you call all of them French just because you're in France you might get yourself beaten up.
In Sweden (abnd other European countries) a lot of the immigrants (about 10% of the population in Sweden) who are not here out of their own free will. They are here because they have fled from their own countries due to war or procecution (or both). I have a feeling many of them, while they like Sweden in many ways, still would prefer it if they could live in their homeland instead.
I'm just a stereotypical Swede, so I may be way off base though.
"You shall use preview, you shall use preview, you..."
The first example should read (as it does) List names;
The second example should read List<Integer> names;
That's not the problem he's talking about. The main point with generics is that if you have something like
List names;
then you don't know anything about what type to get out of that list. And if the coder had done something strange like put numerical references to a database with names in the list then you'll get a run-time error. If the list instead is
List names;
then you at least know something about what to expect from the List. (And you know that you have to hunt down documentation for it since it's not obvious what it does.)
I think getting your hands on the full specs for the internal micro-ops the CPU process is quite hard. Modern processors don't execute x86-87 instructions directly.
A personal favourite of mine from one of the Discworld books by Pratchett:
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day;
set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Though about Yoda and Dooku I never understood why Yoda was aiming at Dookus sword all the time. If would have made a lot more sense if he just chopped off Dooku's legs first. Bring Dooku down to his own level so to say.
First time I saw it (at the movies) I thought it was great. That was probably only becuase the other 2 hours of the movie was so mind numbingingly dull. (Sound of music but with even more pathetic dialogue.)
That's a nice idea.
Unfortunately it's a lot easier to deflect a blow if the guy spins around first, you have a lot more time to react. Just try it yourself, a straight blow to the face is hard to deflect. If you do a 360' turn before it's a lot easier, and you can spend time pounding his back while it's turned.
If we're going to be realistic I guess we can't have light sabres or Jedi's in any case.
/in that universe/. In SW blasters are slow as molasses and you can make a sabre out of light, those are the rules. But you don't have to do stupid flips when you try to hit your opponent just because you can.
What I want is that the movies makes sense