The iPhone seems to be priced just about the same as most other smart phones and have the same contract requirements. There are cheaper smart phones but none that offer as good of a browser. I am waiting for the Pre myself but the price will be about the same. Sprints contract is cheaper and I have had no problems with Sprint as a carrier. I don't like AT&T because of the cost, I am not fond of Verizon because of cost and they tend to cripple phones, and TMobile doesn't offer 3 g in my area yet.
With an elementary school per neighborhood you could also use the school as center for the neighborhood. The playground becomes a park on the weekend. The library can have weekend activities for the children. The parents could be more involved.
Or a five or six year old child. I would assume that the child was in kindergarten or first grade since the poster implied the the child just started school.
"> You can never force people to contribute to FOSS. Yes you can. It's call GPL." Really? So what do users contribute that download Ubuntu and never give a cent of money, a moment of time, or a line of code? What about all the users that own G1 Phones that just use them to download free apps and make calls?
'Do you honestly think that without the GPL companies bother to hire people to contribute to Linux?" Probably not. But who says that the GPL is a bad thing. It is great. I am all for it. I have contributed code under it and released source to PD software before there was a GPL. It isn't the only solution and doesn't work for every thing.
"The way I see it is that software is approaching a zero sum game. There's more money to be made in selling services and supports and other ideas around software instead of COTS software like Windows."
Exactly how will you make money off a casual game? What about a FPS? Support? services? what support or services?
Where is the FOSS replaceable for SoildWorks? Photoshop "Gimp is good but not that good". Or even iMovie or Premiere?
The ideal program is intuitive and doesn't require support or services. I don't need support for Firefox or frankly for most software I use. Then how does writing the software get you support? You don't have to author a program to support it. If you are using support as profit center then why should you make the program easier to use? Too many ways for it to just not work. FOSS is great for some applications. It fails for a lot of others. I would love to be proven wrong but I don't see that happening. The best software requires a motivation it doesn't have to be money but when it isn't money software will often stop getting better.
I think that you and many other people are missing the real problem. Elementary school children can be as young as four at the start of kindergarten. Elementary schools are just too big these days!. One elementary school in my town has several thousand students. That is just insane. Schools should start small and grow in size. The elementary school should be in your neighborhood. The idea of shipping kindergarten kids like UPS packages to child warehouses is the problem. Of course to build more but smaller schools costs money.....
This is the problem with the FOSS model. The vast majority of the people only care about free as in beer. Heck even the majority of FOSS zelots on Slashdot contribute nothing to FOSS. They claim that they are supporters because they encourage other people to use FOSS. The problem with FOSS is people need to eat. They want to own a home and retire someday. To do that you must get paid. A good number of Kernel developers are getting paid by Red Hat, IBM, and Novell. Imagine that they are getting paid by companies that sell software and at in the case of IBM hardware. Firefox developers are getting paid by Google search. Yes Firefox makes money from... Advertising! OpenOffice developers are getting paid by Sun because Sun really hated Microsoft. Let us hope that keep up. You can never force people to contribute to FOSS. It will not happen and that is just that. What is worse is that they models of how one can make money with FOSS are limited to only a few types of software. Nobody will every pay for modifications and support for a casual game.
This is why FOSS will never be the only model for software development. It is also why Linux if it is every really going to do well on the desktop will need to have a way for people to sell software.
Well you hit the dirty little secert on the head. Craigslist is really killing a lot of newspapers. The free classified ads on Craigslist is taking a huge amount of revenue from newspapers.
"If it means an exemption to anti-trust laws (that were written before newspapers ended up in this situation) then so be it. A professional news media is too important to be left to die." What other industries are too important to let die and are you willing to grant an exemption from anti trust laws? Energy maybe?
I agree that journalism is important. I just don't think that granting them an exemption to anti trust is the way to go.
Well it would be cool of it detected when I connected to the USB and would sync automaticly. I really don't hate iTunes but I hate rebooting into windows to sync my ipod touch. Of course the other thing I really want is for it sync my calendar and contacts.
They are higher but still well below the ultrasonic range. You would still have some pretty big resonate chambers to deal with. And anechoic coating will probably work better.
Which will not matter at all. Search sonar uses low to medium frequencies not ultrasonic ones. Also a large amount of the searching involves using passive sonar. Going active is kind of like using a spot light. Yea you can see but everybody can see you from an even greater distance.
Sugar CRM is free so it is worth trying. If you don't have a spare box to set it up on VurtualBox+Linux+Sugar it a free test system. For Linux distro tor run it on I would suggest CentOS or Ubuntu Server. To many people use Fedora or Ubuntu for stuff like this. The server distros have a much longer support life so you get the security updates without the hassle of doing a version update.
I guess you really didn't read it. If the US ever abused it's power then all that an other country would have to do is set up it's own version of ICANN and make their ISPs use it.
Of course they will not and this is really all a tempest in a tea pot. No country really wants to run it because they don't want the heat. As long as the US runs it they can blame everything on the US. Oh you don't like those websites? Well we can not stop them since the US runs it. In all there is no more reason for the US to give up control of ICANN than there is for France to give up control over the FIA.
She is your girlfriend... You are single. Single==not married. I know that the world now has shades of grey but if so then they are this. Single not married, not living with someone, not going to get married or live with some one soon. In a relationship.. Dating the same person for a while and only that person. In a long term relationship Living with someone. Married.
The stereotype for Slashdot is living in your parents basement. and scared of or tend to scare off members of the opposite sex.
Except that you may have been fooled. The site looks like a joke. The register address is a drop box at a UPS store in Kent Washington and if you want you can even find out the guys name with a little looking on whois
Of digging a bit more in Google could find out even more info but I will not go there. My guess is that it is a scam site. But boy did slashdot send him a lot of traffic.
well since a store usually means someplace that you can buy or sell stuff it doesn't apply. Repositories are not an app store it is as simple as that. I also think Linux needs and app store like the iTunes App store or Steam.
It would allow people to choose between buying an app or getting a free app. Reviews would help one choose which app is worth trying and which are not very good. It would also improve the variety of software available for Linux Desktops. It could provide a way for FOSS projects to get funding. There is no reason why they couldn't put the App in the store for say $1 as well as leaving it in the repositories for free. Heck there is nothing in the GPL that would keep you from charging for the binary and only offering the source for free download. Sure somebody will probably compile it and make a package but they may still make good money from the people that choose to pay for the binary. I see this as a win win. It will just take a distro to pony up and offer it.
And if the driver is for the network card how do you download it? What about if it is for the SATA controller? Or even the motherboard chipset? Sometimes you can not download the driver. But how you get the driver on the system isn't really the issue here.
You don't really understand Linux drivers. Even small kernel changes currently can break a driver. There is no way to create a binary driver and put it on a website or CD and besure that it will work with any given distro. It isn't just about RPMs and Debs but that is also an issue it is about a lack of a stable binary interface. Right now you can not write a driver and release a binary driver and know with any certainty that it will work with the next 2.6 kernel that comes out. Driver should work for every version of 2.6 that comes out. That is the real benfit to a stable binary interface. It is something that Windows does do well. XP drivers tend to work for all builds of XP. Many of them will work for Vista as well. Printers and Graphics cards are the big exceptions. As far as I know Vista drivers will work for Windows 7. That makes everybody but the OS developers life a lot simpler.
One problem is that for many device the manufacture can not put the driver on a CD and have much hope of it working. Linux refuses to implement a stable binary driver interface. From a companies point of view that is a huge problem. You can not put a driver on a say cd for Linux kernel 2.6 and have it work. Even if you make it FOSS. You could make it a source tar ball and maybe write a script that will compile it BUT then you have to hope that the user has the kernel files installed. Ah but you say that you can just release the specs and driver will show up. Well maybe but most complex FOSS drivers are written by the companies that produce the hardware and not by the community. They often help but the majority of the work is done by the vendor. Next you have support issues. How do you know if the device is failing and not the driver? Then you have timing issues. You have a supper cool new graphics card and you want Linux users to have chance to use it. Well the new driver has made it into the the distros kernels yet.... So what do you do? And are the problems if you can FOSS the driver. If your driver uses software that you can not release because you bought it then can not do a FOSS driver. You may have to spend a lot of money to write around the code and test it. Then you are right back to the same problems.
The reasons for a lack of a stable driver interface are IMHO contrived at best. Yes you may loose a tiny bit of speed. Security? Not if you design the interface well. Locked into Cruft? Yes that is an issue but nobody says you must keep the interface forever. Just keep it for.x revisons like 2.6 and if you need to change it change it for 2.7 or 2.8 The real reason is the desire to keep closed source drivers out of the Kernel. Which I can understand but has failed. NDIS wrapper and the nVidia and ATI binary drivers are proof of that.
ATI has been releasing the specs of their chips for a while now. Still no driver that is fully usable for the latest and greatest. You can not just release the specs and have the drivers show up. It takes a lot of work and effort.
Really cool! When did they add reviews? And where do I submit my app and how do set the price and collect the money? If you can not do that then it isn't a app store. Store means you buy and sell stuff for money. If not then it sure isn't an app store.
I think the key to both NetBeans and Eclipse is not to use the defualt install. Both tend to load in every plug in under the sun. Get just the base install then pick the plug ins you want.
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The iPhone seems to be priced just about the same as most other smart phones and have the same contract requirements.
There are cheaper smart phones but none that offer as good of a browser. I am waiting for the Pre myself but the price will be about the same. Sprints contract is cheaper and I have had no problems with Sprint as a carrier. I don't like AT&T because of the cost, I am not fond of Verizon because of cost and they tend to cripple phones, and TMobile doesn't offer 3 g in my area yet.
With an elementary school per neighborhood you could also use the school as center for the neighborhood. The playground becomes a park on the weekend. The library can have weekend activities for the children. The parents could be more involved.
I do agree but then we need to add sidewalks to the cost which is also a good thing.
Or a five or six year old child. I would assume that the child was in kindergarten or first grade since the poster implied the the child just started school.
Heck no but I can see the value of it for some businesses.
"> You can never force people to contribute to FOSS.
Yes you can. It's call GPL."
Really? So what do users contribute that download Ubuntu and never give a cent of money, a moment of time, or a line of code?
What about all the users that own G1 Phones that just use them to download free apps and make calls?
'Do you honestly think that without the GPL companies bother to hire people to contribute to Linux?"
Probably not. But who says that the GPL is a bad thing. It is great. I am all for it. I have contributed code under it and released source to PD software before there was a GPL.
It isn't the only solution and doesn't work for every thing.
"The way I see it is that software is approaching a zero sum game. There's more money to be made in selling services and supports and other ideas around software instead of COTS software like Windows."
Exactly how will you make money off a casual game? What about a FPS? Support? services? what support or services?
Where is the FOSS replaceable for SoildWorks? Photoshop "Gimp is good but not that good". Or even iMovie or Premiere?
The ideal program is intuitive and doesn't require support or services. I don't need support for Firefox or frankly for most software I use. Then how does writing the software get you support? You don't have to author a program to support it. If you are using support as profit center then why should you make the program easier to use?
Too many ways for it to just not work. FOSS is great for some applications. It fails for a lot of others. I would love to be proven wrong but I don't see that happening. The best software requires a motivation it doesn't have to be money but when it isn't money software will often stop getting better.
I think that you and many other people are missing the real problem. Elementary school children can be as young as four at the start of kindergarten. Elementary schools are just too big these days!.
One elementary school in my town has several thousand students. That is just insane.
Schools should start small and grow in size. The elementary school should be in your neighborhood. The idea of shipping kindergarten kids like UPS packages to child warehouses is the problem.
Of course to build more but smaller schools costs money.....
This is the problem with the FOSS model. The vast majority of the people only care about free as in beer. Heck even the majority of FOSS zelots on Slashdot contribute nothing to FOSS. They claim that they are supporters because they encourage other people to use FOSS. The problem with FOSS is people need to eat. They want to own a home and retire someday. To do that you must get paid.
A good number of Kernel developers are getting paid by Red Hat, IBM, and Novell. Imagine that they are getting paid by companies that sell software and at in the case of IBM hardware.
Firefox developers are getting paid by Google search. Yes Firefox makes money from... Advertising!
OpenOffice developers are getting paid by Sun because Sun really hated Microsoft. Let us hope that keep up.
You can never force people to contribute to FOSS. It will not happen and that is just that. What is worse is that they models of how one can make money with FOSS are limited to only a few types of software. Nobody will every pay for modifications and support for a casual game.
This is why FOSS will never be the only model for software development. It is also why Linux if it is every really going to do well on the desktop will need to have a way for people to sell software.
Well you hit the dirty little secert on the head. Craigslist is really killing a lot of newspapers.
The free classified ads on Craigslist is taking a huge amount of revenue from newspapers.
"If it means an exemption to anti-trust laws (that were written before newspapers ended up in this situation) then so be it. A professional news media is too important to be left to die."
What other industries are too important to let die and are you willing to grant an exemption from anti trust laws?
Energy maybe?
I agree that journalism is important. I just don't think that granting them an exemption to anti trust is the way to go.
Well it would be cool of it detected when I connected to the USB and would sync automaticly. I really don't hate iTunes but I hate rebooting into windows to sync my ipod touch.
Of course the other thing I really want is for it sync my calendar and contacts.
Will Amarok 1.4 work with the Pre?
I would love to have a Smart Phone that works well with Linux.
They are higher but still well below the ultrasonic range. You would still have some pretty big resonate chambers to deal with. And anechoic coating will probably work better.
Take on PC and put it on an unsecured internet connection and see what happens.
Or set up and FTP server with no security and wait.
Which will not matter at all.
Search sonar uses low to medium frequencies not ultrasonic ones.
Also a large amount of the searching involves using passive sonar. Going active is kind of like using a spot light. Yea you can see but everybody can see you from an even greater distance.
Sugar CRM is free so it is worth trying.
If you don't have a spare box to set it up on VurtualBox+Linux+Sugar it a free test system.
For Linux distro tor run it on I would suggest CentOS or Ubuntu Server. To many people use Fedora or Ubuntu for stuff like this. The server distros have a much longer support life so you get the security updates without the hassle of doing a version update.
Oh and Webmin makes linux pretty easy to admin.
I guess you really didn't read it. If the US ever abused it's power then all that an other country would have to do is set up it's own version of ICANN and make their ISPs use it.
Of course they will not and this is really all a tempest in a tea pot. No country really wants to run it because they don't want the heat. As long as the US runs it they can blame everything on the US.
Oh you don't like those websites? Well we can not stop them since the US runs it.
In all there is no more reason for the US to give up control of ICANN than there is for France to give up control over the FIA.
She is your girlfriend... You are single.
Single==not married.
I know that the world now has shades of grey but if so then they are this.
Single not married, not living with someone, not going to get married or live with some one soon.
In a relationship.. Dating the same person for a while and only that person.
In a long term relationship Living with someone.
Married.
The stereotype for Slashdot is living in your parents basement. and scared of or tend to scare off members of the opposite sex.
Except that you may have been fooled.
The site looks like a joke. The register address is a drop box at a UPS store in Kent Washington and if you want you can even find out the guys name with a little looking on whois
Yea and Godaddy says that the registers address is here.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=12932+SE+Kent-Kangley+Rd.++Kent+Washington+98030&sll=47.338823,-122.145996&sspn=10.915678,28.388672&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=47.358907,-122.168986&panoid=8YOIhb1P6K1CO1wqcNlNKw&cbp=12,324.39,,0,5
My guess it is a drop box at the UPS store.
Of digging a bit more in Google could find out even more info but I will not go there.
My guess is that it is a scam site. But boy did slashdot send him a lot of traffic.
well since a store usually means someplace that you can buy or sell stuff it doesn't apply. Repositories are not an app store it is as simple as that.
I also think Linux needs and app store like the iTunes App store or Steam.
It would allow people to choose between buying an app or getting a free app. Reviews would help one choose which app is worth trying and which are not very good.
It would also improve the variety of software available for Linux Desktops. It could provide a way for FOSS projects to get funding. There is no reason why they couldn't put the App in the store for say $1 as well as leaving it in the repositories for free. Heck there is nothing in the GPL that would keep you from charging for the binary and only offering the source for free download. Sure somebody will probably compile it and make a package but they may still make good money from the people that choose to pay for the binary.
I see this as a win win. It will just take a distro to pony up and offer it.
And if the driver is for the network card how do you download it? What about if it is for the SATA controller? Or even the motherboard chipset? Sometimes you can not download the driver. But how you get the driver on the system isn't really the issue here.
You don't really understand Linux drivers. Even small kernel changes currently can break a driver. There is no way to create a binary driver and put it on a website or CD and besure that it will work with any given distro.
It isn't just about RPMs and Debs but that is also an issue it is about a lack of a stable binary interface. Right now you can not write a driver and release a binary driver and know with any certainty that it will work with the next 2.6 kernel that comes out.
Driver should work for every version of 2.6 that comes out. That is the real benfit to a stable binary interface. It is something that Windows does do well. XP drivers tend to work for all builds of XP. Many of them will work for Vista as well. Printers and Graphics cards are the big exceptions. As far as I know Vista drivers will work for Windows 7. That makes everybody but the OS developers life a lot simpler.
One problem is that for many device the manufacture can not put the driver on a CD and have much hope of it working.
Linux refuses to implement a stable binary driver interface. From a companies point of view that is a huge problem.
You can not put a driver on a say cd for Linux kernel 2.6 and have it work. Even if you make it FOSS. You could make it a source tar ball and maybe write a script that will compile it BUT then you have to hope that the user has the kernel files installed.
Ah but you say that you can just release the specs and driver will show up. Well maybe but most complex FOSS drivers are written by the companies that produce the hardware and not by the community. They often help but the majority of the work is done by the vendor.
Next you have support issues. How do you know if the device is failing and not the driver?
Then you have timing issues. You have a supper cool new graphics card and you want Linux users to have chance to use it. Well the new driver has made it into the the distros kernels yet.... So what do you do?
And are the problems if you can FOSS the driver.
If your driver uses software that you can not release because you bought it then can not do a FOSS driver. You may have to spend a lot of money to write around the code and test it. Then you are right back to the same problems.
The reasons for a lack of a stable driver interface are IMHO contrived at best. Yes you may loose a tiny bit of speed. Security? Not if you design the interface well. Locked into Cruft? Yes that is an issue but nobody says you must keep the interface forever. Just keep it for .x revisons like 2.6 and if you need to change it change it for 2.7 or 2.8
The real reason is the desire to keep closed source drivers out of the Kernel. Which I can understand but has failed. NDIS wrapper and the nVidia and ATI binary drivers are proof of that.
ATI has been releasing the specs of their chips for a while now. Still no driver that is fully usable for the latest and greatest. You can not just release the specs and have the drivers show up. It takes a lot of work and effort.
Really cool!
When did they add reviews? And where do I submit my app and how do set the price and collect the money?
If you can not do that then it isn't a app store. Store means you buy and sell stuff for money.
If not then it sure isn't an app store.
I think the key to both NetBeans and Eclipse is not to use the defualt install.
Both tend to load in every plug in under the sun. Get just the base install then pick the plug ins you want.