Sure these devices are becoming more popular. But how many people go in to their office and sat at an iPad, or Android phone to work all day long. As far as comfortable way top use a computer all day long, the desktop is still way ahead of these touchscreen devices and will be for a while yet.
Yes, I think it was Steve Jobs comparing iPad to desktops saying "desktops are like trucks", meaning you use them for the heavy lifting but not for anything fun.
But this may change when productivity software catches the Touch paradigm. Remember when desktops were just for hobbyist use and the real work happened on terminal applications accessing mainframes?
I'd say, the concept of desktop as it was defined through 80s and 90s is beginning to die. Touch interfaces, actually well-working mobile devices and web services ("the cloud") are taking over more and more of the desktop's traditional role. More than a problem for the Linux desktop, I see this shift as a big opportunity as the importance of the traditional vendors like Microsoft is declining. Here are some ideas on what the "Linux desktop" ought to do: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/the_web_and_the_free_desktop/
Yeah, I know. I couldn't decipher much of Hungarian either. But in any case, with a bit of thought, and a bit of beer, the Hungarian I was talking with was able to do it.
The difference in race is only really marked when you compare the Hungarians to other Finno-Ugrians. As I point out in another comment, the Hungarians are so mixed genetically because they've lived in a crossroads between the Western European, Slavic and Turkic regions for so long. Their language reflects this, having virtually no similarities to other Finno-Ugrian languages anymore.
Actually, there are still some connections. I was amazed when a Hungarian guy in aKademy could effortlessly decipher the Finnish phrase "elÃvà kala ui veden alla."
An acre was defined basically as the area of land that a peasant with one ox can plough in a day, from dawn to dusk. (They worked long hours before the industrial revolution too.)
I've always wondered who was the genius who came up with the idea that agriculture would somehow be superior method to living as hunter-gatherer. Hunter-gatherers typically spend only two or three hours foraging for food, and the rest of the time singing and dancing.
Geolocation is a possible additional filter (think "local news" section of a newspaper), but I guess most people are interested in items from their field of interest regardless of the physical location where the post was made.
I made some experiments on a more open source version of the "secret sauce". It seems quite easy to determine relevance of posts using the various social news services out there.
At least Apache Software Foundation and the Midgard Project have a decision making process where specifications and major changes are voted about by all committers (i.e. stakeholders in the project).
There is a reason why I am feeling more and more inclined to see fewer movies each year (and this coming from a former movie addict). I want quality for my money
Have you tried seeing movies made outside the US? There is quite a bunch of great movies made in India, Korea, Hong Kong and Europe every year.
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I don't mind so much the fact that you can't have servlet-like objects which handle entire sections of your URLspace (as opposed to one URL -- how very un-spider-friendly. Most choke on a ? in a URL and rightly so)
We're building the Open Source TownPortal application for just this.
The idea with TownPortal is that a local community (say, town or county) can easily build and maintain their web site.
In addition, the TownPortal will also enable local small businesses, clubs and schools to run their web sites with simple but efficient CMS tools.
By default the sites of these organizations are hosted under the main TownPortal site, but they can also be easily shown under their own domains with their own layout. In this case the operator of the portal would probably provide this as an additional service.
To everyone else, sorry for the rant, but this article really is nonsense and insulting to everyone who works hard in the open source community on almost any project.
Did you even read the article? Sorry, wrong question on Slashdot.
Anyway, if you had read the article, you would have noticed that the people behind it and OSCOM are founders of several major Open Source CMS projects.
Actually, the article isn't even complaining about lack of adoption of standards in Open Source CMSs, it is a document outlining different ways to improve the situation in ways that make sense for developers of different CMS projects.
The Midgard application server could easily be used as a groupware server -- MySQL backend, Web Services interfaces, replication, etc.
It already has storage APIs for most of the groupware stuff -- contacts, group calendaring and hierarchical data storage ("topics and articles"), all which support additional metadata and file attachments. Some nice web interfaces already exist for the calendaring and contacts stuff.
Midgard provides a PHP API for managing all that data and is available under LGPL.
Since Exchange and Outlook 2000 are using WebDAV as their communications protocol, Ximian Connector is actually a WebDAV client.
I saw Greg Stein's WebDAV presentation in the Open Source CMS Conference. It seems that a lot of companies are actually switching for WebDAV as their primary communications protocol. Greg mentioned at least Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and Oracle. Good for interoperability.
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Sure these devices are becoming more popular. But how many people go in to their office and sat at an iPad, or Android phone to work all day long. As far as comfortable way top use a computer all day long, the desktop is still way ahead of these touchscreen devices and will be for a while yet.
Yes, I think it was Steve Jobs comparing iPad to desktops saying "desktops are like trucks", meaning you use them for the heavy lifting but not for anything fun. But this may change when productivity software catches the Touch paradigm. Remember when desktops were just for hobbyist use and the real work happened on terminal applications accessing mainframes?
You can also have MeeGo or Android running on the N900. And besides that, it is sweet to have a phone where you have root.
I'd say, the concept of desktop as it was defined through 80s and 90s is beginning to die. Touch interfaces, actually well-working mobile devices and web services ("the cloud") are taking over more and more of the desktop's traditional role. More than a problem for the Linux desktop, I see this shift as a big opportunity as the importance of the traditional vendors like Microsoft is declining. Here are some ideas on what the "Linux desktop" ought to do: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/the_web_and_the_free_desktop/
Yeah, I know. I couldn't decipher much of Hungarian either. But in any case, with a bit of thought, and a bit of beer, the Hungarian I was talking with was able to do it.
The difference in race is only really marked when you compare the Hungarians to other Finno-Ugrians. As I point out in another comment, the Hungarians are so mixed genetically because they've lived in a crossroads between the Western European, Slavic and Turkic regions for so long. Their language reflects this, having virtually no similarities to other Finno-Ugrian languages anymore.
Actually, there are still some connections. I was amazed when a Hungarian guy in aKademy could effortlessly decipher the Finnish phrase "elÃvà kala ui veden alla."
I've always wondered who was the genius who came up with the idea that agriculture would somehow be superior method to living as hunter-gatherer. Hunter-gatherers typically spend only two or three hours foraging for food, and the rest of the time singing and dancing.
Geolocation is a possible additional filter (think "local news" section of a newspaper), but I guess most people are interested in items from their field of interest regardless of the physical location where the post was made.
I made some experiments on a more open source version of the "secret sauce". It seems quite easy to determine relevance of posts using the various social news services out there.
You might also want to check the new version of the application catalog: http://test.maemo.org/applications/.
At least Apache Software Foundation and the Midgard Project have a decision making process where specifications and major changes are voted about by all committers (i.e. stakeholders in the project).
Unfortunately OpenSourceCMS.com only showcases the lightweight CMSs, usually categorized under the low-end collaborative portals label.
Paul Everitt from Zope has a very good blog post about Open Source CMS positioning
In a few places it is now required by law that digital cameras (and cameraphones) have a shutter sound that can't be disabled.
Heavy-duty Open Source CMSs like Midgard handle their DB connections in the back end instead of in PHP (or some other scripting language.
As an example, Midgard's DB connections are opened once per each Apache process instance instead of once per connection.
Have you tried seeing movies made outside the US? There is quite a bunch of great movies made in India, Korea, Hong Kong and Europe every year.
I don't mind so much the fact that you can't have servlet-like objects which handle entire sections of your URLspace (as opposed to one URL -- how very un-spider-friendly. Most choke on a ? in a URL and rightly so)
Midgard will do this for you using the Active pages concept.
Oh, and BTW, what's an EGOE?
Egoe is what you get when you copy-paste part of the summary from the article's original authors.
If the store gets an email address and actually reads the email, that makes them much more accessible.
We're building the Open Source TownPortal application for just this.
The idea with TownPortal is that a local community (say, town or county) can easily build and maintain their web site.
In addition, the TownPortal will also enable local small businesses, clubs and schools to run their web sites with simple but efficient CMS tools.
By default the sites of these organizations are hosted under the main TownPortal site, but they can also be easily shown under their own domains with their own layout. In this case the operator of the portal would probably provide this as an additional service.
The OSCOM 3 conference is on May 28th-30th in Cambridge, MA.
To everyone else, sorry for the rant, but this article really is nonsense and insulting to everyone who works hard in the open source community on almost any project.
Did you even read the article? Sorry, wrong question on Slashdot.
Anyway, if you had read the article, you would have noticed that the people behind it and OSCOM are founders of several major Open Source CMS projects.
Actually, the article isn't even complaining about lack of adoption of standards in Open Source CMSs, it is a document outlining different ways to improve the situation in ways that make sense for developers of different CMS projects.
It seems that nukes really were the inspiration for the tag name: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/ICBM-ad dress.html
The GeoURL service seems to have a pseudo-standard for this. To geo-code your content add the following META tags to it:
<meta name="ICBM" content="XX.XXXXX, XX.XXXXX">
<meta name="DC.title" content="THE NAME OF YOUR SITE">
The ICBM meta-tag there is where you put the coordinates. More info.
Another similar service seems to be GeoTags
How about if they just have some limits on how many units they can produce each month?
The Midgard application server could easily be used as a groupware server -- MySQL backend, Web Services interfaces, replication, etc.
It already has storage APIs for most of the groupware stuff -- contacts, group calendaring and hierarchical data storage ("topics and articles"), all which support additional metadata and file attachments. Some nice web interfaces already exist for the calendaring and contacts stuff.
Midgard provides a PHP API for managing all that data and is available under LGPL.
/Bergie
Use the Galeon browser, and you'll have a nicely integrated version of Mozilla, with a native GTK interface.
Since Exchange and Outlook 2000 are using WebDAV as their communications protocol, Ximian Connector is actually a WebDAV client.
I saw Greg Stein's WebDAV presentation in the Open Source CMS Conference. It seems that a lot of companies are actually switching for WebDAV as their primary communications protocol. Greg mentioned at least Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and Oracle. Good for interoperability.