I can't believe how people assume that the rise in traffic is related to their community and Web 2.0 and stuff like that.
People use MSN Messenger. Lots of people. They see an orange star right beside a contact's name. They click the star and they see a "presentation card" window, that hilights that new content that has been added to myspace account, more specifically pictures.
So you se that your female contact has new pictures posted and them usually include her female friends!
No male adolescent user can resist not going to see those pictures.
I bet 95% of mySpace traffic comes from clicks in MSN Messenger.
That Slashdotters miss this very important fact, I can't not understand.
About the other social network sites, like hi5, they seem to remind you to visit them very often, via email.
Although its ease of use and the need to convert files into WMA before synchronization might still be lacking behind the iPod in terms of user friendliness, it has everything that a phone should have.
I don't think I would like a mp3 player that makes me convert my collection to WMA.
In an (un)related note, I don't know why cell phone companies have to segment that way their markets. "If you like to listen to music, you will not need to use QuickOffice, se we better remove it". I really want a cellphone with 4GB of space that lets me install all the apps I have in my P900: HP48G emulator, ebook reader, MP3 player, the MetrO application, and so on. And a PDF viewer. And Quickoffice. The only missing thing to me is disc space. The P990 simply doesn't compare well with mp3 oriented phones in the space department.
The real separation between the poor and the rich will be computers.
The ones controlled by computers will be the poor. And the ones controlling the computers or the super-mind or the uber-logical-and-fair-computerized-government will be the rich.
Computers will not magically awake and have a mind on their own. But the poor doesn't need to know that.
The real resource is developers, not simply lines of code with a particular license. If the GCC project didn't existed then a BSDCC would have born and would have used probably the very same developers. Lines of code with any license but without developers are dead projects.
But GCC was there first and got the momentum. However what makes it useful is the developer community attached to it. If there were a better and faster compiler (almost any other compiler is faster) with a BSD license, it would surely gain enough developers to stop this compiler dependency.
However probably the only way to develop a fast and good C++ compiler fast enough is doing it in Lisp, and there seems to be too many purists both in lisp and in C++ camps.
But lisp is just the right language to make compilers and other code-transformation tools.
Shopping for a case in the last year has been painful. They are uglier everytime I see them.
I don't think manufacturers will make "vista only" boxes, but just nicer boxes than before, taking into account that a consumer will choose other box because it looks better, no matter what OS will be in it.
In my benchmarks, java is faster than C++ in method invocation, and in object instantiation with new (heap instantiation).
Method invocation is so fast in both languages than it contributes very little to running time.
Object instantiation however does, but then you can do stack instantiation of objects in C++ that is then much faster than Java. And you can overload new and delete operators in C++.
I believe a hacker doesn't target an OS, but a combination of OS/User.
WinXP/smart-user is not their target, and much less BSD/advanced-admin.
However Linux/naive-admin is sometimes their target and WinXP/clueless-user is a target so big that they can certainly avoid all the other targets that are more time consuming.
I believe there aren't any BSD/clueless-admin boxes out there.
The United States is the biggest user of metal landmines.
Lots of countries banned them, but not the USA because they used lots and lots of them in the line dividing the two Koreas.
The country with most landmines in the fields is Colombia, but the landmines there are done with coconuts and syringes, by the guerillas, not by any legal landmine maker.
Their email is borked. I won't use Mac email software, as I don't use Windows email software. Opera mail client wins hands down.
Their texts were borked when updating formats. Well, that happened to me when opening Wordperfect 5.1 docs in MS Word. I still believe that there are several msword features coded but never shown in their GUI as several features of WP51 were living happily in MSWord, but only if the docs where created with WP51 and the features used there. And now there is OO.org with its own lot of misfeatures.
Since long ago all my writings are in text format. In LaTeX if I need some formating. No upgrade or conversions needed.
And I still use Winamp for all my listening needs.
I do thanks their informative post (don't use propietary formats). I will not.
I can use Opera, LaTeX and all the good graphical mac apps and all the command line unix apps I would ever need. In the same desktop, not like I do now with gentoo inside a virtual machine.
I believe that blu-ray will win this battle, even if the PS3 has the most dramatic failure in consoles' history.
The reason is not movies, even DVD is good enough for that. The huge capacity is meaningless in a movie, if human eyes can barely perceive the difference. We are a decade away from cheap HD TV sets. For other reasons is not better to have blu-ray in a console than HD-DVD or simply DVDs. The extra content is just more cut-scenes.
I see Blu-ray winning this battle by replacing DVD drives in computers. 25GB vs 14GB (single layer) is a big selling point for a computer writable medium. With Apple backing blu-ray we will see MacBooks with blu-ray/dvd/cd superdrives.
And with Apple Macbooks using blu-ray, all slashdots fanboys will declare the victory of blu-ray.
However, this means nothing for PS3. Without a big price cut, the PS3 will really lose.
Or even better, sell the PS3 at $1000, but include the HD TV set!
Don't create a movement to get people to abandon religion. That is just subversive.
Your statement just gives me a strong desire to become subversive, er, to create a movement to get people to abandon religion.
I believe the freedom of minds is as valid as the freedom of bodies. Dogmas just enslave minds.
In fact, I really wish there were lots of atheist humanistic movements, their whole purpose being to get people to abandon religion. The world would be a better place.
Are you one of those G.W.Bush types "if you are not with me you are against me"? Don't try to put words in my mouth that I didn't said. I'm not against freedom.
I said: "GPL3 is a very bad way to defend people against DRM". It means there a better ways. Like hurting them in the bottom line. Like singers and bands saying that they are not represented by the RIAA and that music should be unencumbered by DRM and other shit, as happened in Canada. If Stallman had any social skills he would had lead a singers and bands movement. That is a MUCH better way than bitching about it in the GPL.
However GPL is Stallman's license. He can do anything he wants with it.
BSD, MIT, Apache, wxWidgets (my favorite) and other licenses give in practical terms as much freedom as the GPL. In some senses a lot more. The GPL doesn't have a monopoly on freedom!
My point is: "These are important issues. But you can't fix all important issues inside a license."
Without GPL we would have a lot of free software licensed with BSD, MIT, Artistic and many more licenses. Linux would still be, just with a different license very probably a BSD one.
It is not as if the GNU movement started the open source thing, they only made open source a political campaign. I will even tell you what Linux would have been without GPL: there would be no KDE/Gnome division as that division started around the license. There would be a single API for application writers to use.
So I believe you're very wrong arguing that without GPL we would be limited to Windows XP.
However you're very right stating that RMS defends important rights that no one else seems to care about. And even if I thing that GPL3 is a very bad way to defend people against DRM, it's very important that RMS stands against DRM. It's like everything RMS cares about now, will be a very very serious issue in the future if we do nothing besides consuming our regular updates of software.
So he is right in principle, and we should get inspiration from him, but we better search other alternatives against DRM than GPL3. Yes, I do agree with Linus.
I believe that being mature simply means to accept the consequences of our acts.
Being mature doesn't have anything to do with being predictable, boring, let-me-read-my-diary old fart or being playful, childish, fun and sometimes impredictable and impulsive.
As long as I accept the consequences of my acts let me play all I can and enjoy simple things and not worry more than I have to.
Ha! I just found you even wash your teeth with Titanium dioxide!
Well, not really, toothpaste has more ingredients. But Titanium dioxide is used as the white pigment of choice in paints, paper and toothpaste. And in sunscreen it's used to protect your skin.
Titanium itself in pure, metallic form is very expensive, and is toxic to manufacture, agreed.
But this paper is made of nanowires of titanium dioxide. Titanium is found in nature in the form of rutile. The rutile mineral mainly consists of titanium dioxide, and it's the third most abundant mineral in earth, after iron and aluminium in their natural form.
I believe we can safely consider titanium dioxide (as opposed to pure titanium), as an almost unlimited resource, more abundant than forests and any form of living matter.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't believe how people assume that the rise in traffic is related to their community and Web 2.0 and stuff like that.
People use MSN Messenger. Lots of people. They see an orange star right beside a contact's name. They click the star and they see a "presentation card" window, that hilights that new content that has been added to myspace account, more specifically pictures.
So you se that your female contact has new pictures posted and them usually include her female friends!
No male adolescent user can resist not going to see those pictures.
I bet 95% of mySpace traffic comes from clicks in MSN Messenger.
That Slashdotters miss this very important fact, I can't not understand.
About the other social network sites, like hi5, they seem to remind you to visit them very often, via email.
AHA!
That's why they bought sysinternals!
Now everything makes sense.
I don't think I would like a mp3 player that makes me convert my collection to WMA.
In an (un)related note, I don't know why cell phone companies have to segment that way their markets. "If you like to listen to music, you will not need to use QuickOffice, se we better remove it". I really want a cellphone with 4GB of space that lets me install all the apps I have in my P900: HP48G emulator, ebook reader, MP3 player, the MetrO application, and so on. And a PDF viewer. And Quickoffice. The only missing thing to me is disc space. The P990 simply doesn't compare well with mp3 oriented phones in the space department.
No, this is the digital divide.
The real separation between the poor and the rich will be computers.
The ones controlled by computers will be the poor. And the ones controlling the computers or the super-mind or the uber-logical-and-fair-computerized-government will be the rich.
Computers will not magically awake and have a mind on their own. But the poor doesn't need to know that.
Well, not really, go programs tend to not be able to compete with average human players. We are still much better.
But Go surely is a more highbrow game than chess. More deep, more strategic, more subtle, more fun.
I still can't beat GNUGo but that's just me.
I do agree with you.
The real resource is developers, not simply lines of code with a particular license. If the GCC project didn't existed then a BSDCC would have born and would have used probably the very same developers. Lines of code with any license but without developers are dead projects.
But GCC was there first and got the momentum. However what makes it useful is the developer community attached to it. If there were a better and faster compiler (almost any other compiler is faster) with a BSD license, it would surely gain enough developers to stop this compiler dependency.
However probably the only way to develop a fast and good C++ compiler fast enough is doing it in Lisp, and there seems to be too many purists both in lisp and in C++ camps.
But lisp is just the right language to make compilers and other code-transformation tools.
No one of them is real, however I think this one is rather cool: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ensoph/108061392/
That's why they say:
"There is never a second chance for a good first impression"
And with women it is much worse! They will hate you forever no matter what a nice boy you are now.
Don't forget it, in your bussiness and personal life.
However, I welcome it.
Shopping for a case in the last year has been painful. They are uglier everytime I see them.
I don't think manufacturers will make "vista only" boxes, but just nicer boxes than before, taking into account that a consumer will choose other box because it looks better, no matter what OS will be in it.
Java can be faster in some things.
In my benchmarks, java is faster than C++ in method invocation, and in object instantiation with new (heap instantiation).
Method invocation is so fast in both languages than it contributes very little to running time.
Object instantiation however does, but then you can do stack instantiation of objects in C++ that is then much faster than Java. And you can overload new and delete operators in C++.
For everything else Java is slower.
An Opera user never has to close Opera.
At least I never do.
I believe a hacker doesn't target an OS, but a combination of OS/User.
WinXP/smart-user is not their target, and much less BSD/advanced-admin.
However Linux/naive-admin is sometimes their target and WinXP/clueless-user is a target so big that they can certainly avoid all the other targets that are more time consuming.
I believe there aren't any BSD/clueless-admin boxes out there.
You don't travel to many countries besides China. Or you simply don't care.
What the hell has to do haggling with capitalism or communism ?
There is haggling in a lot more countries than China, lots of them capitalists and with democracies. I happen to live in one of those.
It just seems that you don't travel outside your country (and neither your moderators).
The United States is the biggest user of metal landmines.
Lots of countries banned them, but not the USA because they used lots and lots of them in the line dividing the two Koreas.
The country with most landmines in the fields is Colombia, but the landmines there are done with coconuts and syringes, by the guerillas, not by any legal landmine maker.
And I regard their posts informative at least.
Their email is borked. I won't use Mac email software, as I don't use Windows email software. Opera mail client wins hands down.
Their texts were borked when updating formats. Well, that happened to me when opening Wordperfect 5.1 docs in MS Word. I still believe that there are several msword features coded but never shown in their GUI as several features of WP51 were living happily in MSWord, but only if the docs where created with WP51 and the features used there. And now there is OO.org with its own lot of misfeatures.
Since long ago all my writings are in text format. In LaTeX if I need some formating. No upgrade or conversions needed.
And I still use Winamp for all my listening needs.
I do thanks their informative post (don't use propietary formats). I will not.
I can use Opera, LaTeX and all the good graphical mac apps and all the command line unix apps I would ever need. In the same desktop, not like I do now with gentoo inside a virtual machine.
I'm switching to a Mac.
I can even buy a PS3 and a couple of games for that money!
I believe that blu-ray will win this battle, even if the PS3 has the most dramatic failure in consoles' history.
The reason is not movies, even DVD is good enough for that. The huge capacity is meaningless in a movie, if human eyes can barely perceive the difference. We are a decade away from cheap HD TV sets. For other reasons is not better to have blu-ray in a console than HD-DVD or simply DVDs. The extra content is just more cut-scenes.
I see Blu-ray winning this battle by replacing DVD drives in computers. 25GB vs 14GB (single layer) is a big selling point for a computer writable medium. With Apple backing blu-ray we will see MacBooks with blu-ray/dvd/cd superdrives.
And with Apple Macbooks using blu-ray, all slashdots fanboys will declare the victory of blu-ray.
However, this means nothing for PS3. Without a big price cut, the PS3 will really lose.
Or even better, sell the PS3 at $1000, but include the HD TV set!
Don't create a movement to get people to abandon religion. That is just subversive.
Your statement just gives me a strong desire to become subversive, er, to create a movement to get people to abandon religion.
I believe the freedom of minds is as valid as the freedom of bodies. Dogmas just enslave minds.
In fact, I really wish there were lots of atheist humanistic movements, their whole purpose being to get people to abandon religion. The world would be a better place.
Are you one of those G.W.Bush types "if you are not with me you are against me"?
Don't try to put words in my mouth that I didn't said. I'm not against freedom.
I said: "GPL3 is a very bad way to defend people against DRM".
It means there a better ways. Like hurting them in the bottom line. Like singers and bands saying that they are not represented by the RIAA and that music should be unencumbered by DRM and other shit, as happened in Canada. If Stallman had any social skills he would had lead a singers and bands movement. That is a MUCH better way than bitching about it in the GPL.
However GPL is Stallman's license. He can do anything he wants with it.
BSD, MIT, Apache, wxWidgets (my favorite) and other licenses give in practical terms as much freedom as the GPL. In some senses a lot more. The GPL doesn't have a monopoly on freedom!
My point is: "These are important issues. But you can't fix all important issues inside a license."
Without GPL we would have a lot of free software licensed with BSD, MIT, Artistic and many more licenses. Linux would still be, just with a different license very probably a BSD one.
It is not as if the GNU movement started the open source thing, they only made open source a political campaign. I will even tell you what Linux would have been without GPL: there would be no KDE/Gnome division as that division started around the license. There would be a single API for application writers to use.
So I believe you're very wrong arguing that without GPL we would be limited to Windows XP.
However you're very right stating that RMS defends important rights that no one else seems to care about. And even if I thing that GPL3 is a very bad way to defend people against DRM, it's very important that RMS stands against DRM. It's like everything RMS cares about now, will be a very very serious issue in the future if we do nothing besides consuming our regular updates of software.
So he is right in principle, and we should get inspiration from him, but we better search other alternatives against DRM than GPL3. Yes, I do agree with Linus.
This is why I use Opera as my RSS reader.
It's just like e-mail. Searchable like gmail and fast like any desktop client.
And with tooltip notification of new rss feeds.
I believe that being mature simply means to accept the consequences of our acts.
Being mature doesn't have anything to do with being predictable, boring, let-me-read-my-diary old fart or being playful, childish, fun and sometimes impredictable and impulsive.
As long as I accept the consequences of my acts let me play all I can and enjoy simple things and not worry more than I have to.
Ha! I just found you even wash your teeth with Titanium dioxide!
Well, not really, toothpaste has more ingredients. But Titanium dioxide is used as the white pigment of choice in paints, paper and toothpaste. And in sunscreen it's used to protect your skin.
Titanium itself in pure, metallic form is very expensive, and is toxic to manufacture, agreed.
But this paper is made of nanowires of titanium dioxide. Titanium is found in nature in the form of rutile. The rutile mineral mainly consists of titanium dioxide, and it's the third most abundant mineral in earth, after iron and aluminium in their natural form.
I believe we can safely consider titanium dioxide (as opposed to pure titanium), as an almost unlimited resource, more abundant than forests and any form of living matter.