When I was a kid, the computer i programmed for (trs-80), was one of the first computer I ever saw. There were not that many programs for it. So it was easy to get excited about almost nothing.
Now all the kids have been exposed to all sort of technologies. They'll never get excited by very simple things like I have been. The thing to remember is that it will never be has rewarding has it was at the time for such simple things and no language is going to change that.
I was reading about all that and wondered.. XMPP is distributed, you can accept peoples, see there picture and status. For sure you can chat and create private rooms to share a chat. There is not much missing. Maybe a wall and pictures. So I typed "XMPP has social network" on google. I have tonnes of responses.
Maybe that's what google wave was trying to be. But google wave was too complicated. It offered too much and nobody except google had an implementation.
Any thoughts about this?
I found http://onesocialweb.org/. That is maybe what I was looking for.
for example, when turn by turn navigation came out for android, it was US only for a while. A hack existed to enable it in the rest of the world, but that was soon stopped by google. Only later did it get released for the rest of the world.
reading your post I thought that turn by turn was finaly working so I rushed to my G1.. but sadely I still have a "road not available" message. But the good news is that the hacked application (google maps brut) is still working like a charm.:-D
No reason I can think of, except to limit free speech/protest and give the government even more control over public policy (i.e. push their one true agenda).
Your imagination seems limited;-) I'll begin to say that I don't agree with the reason I'll give but it's easy to imagine it's the main point.
They want to be capable to trace illegal activities the best they can. Open access points are more anonymous. So illegal activities can't be tracked easily there. If somebody steal a bank through an open access point, it's easy to say that it could be made harder.
Where I mostly do not agree is what is considered illegal activity. It's probably to protect big copyright owners. And I don't think peoples not doing any money while sharing data should convinced of wrongdoing. But that's another matter.
* An android phone with SIPDroid shoud do the trick for number 1. * Number 2 is ok also with android. * No 3 is ok if you buy an used HTC G1 on ebay. They go for an average of 165$ right now. * 4 is also ok woth android.
Buy an used Android phone.. best bang for the buck!
Offer a solution. If you go to your boss's office and tell him he is a thief he's not going to be happy. But if you get in there and offer a free alternative it should be a good way of bringing things up.
Openoffice can do the job if everybody switch together. 7-zip is a good replacement for winzip. I'm pretty sure lot's of software has free (like in open source) alternative. Try, you'll see where it lead you.:-)
It's closed because the handset builders have to buy it and enter in a contract with Microsoft to offer it. For a programmer a good API will never be like having access to the source code. I know because I lived throught both.
It's like the 80s and the begining of windows all over again but for mobile devices. The question is what will be the OS that can use the most software. Right now there are: IPhone OS which is very closed. Windows mobile also very closed and not sexy. Android which is open and has lots of backing by lot's of different builders. Many other smaller options. Moblin look very open too but.. when it will show up, Android should already available from every cellular providers.
What is funny in that mobile war is the position of Apple. Pretty much like when the first Mac came by at the begining of the 80s. They have a great product. But they are too closed. So it's going to be everybody against them. They can't win. Dell, HTC, Lenovo, Motorola, Philips, Samsung, Sony Ericson (on the open side this time) , and many others already have android phones.
I predict that soon when you'll want to build a mobile application, it will have to run on Android first. That way it will be available to everybody. The rest will be second thought. Just like the market for computer right OS now with windows. But this time the winner will be the open platform because it's been early in the market and the manufacturer will simply find it easier then going for windows mobile.
Nice comment. Except for the part where you make the assumption that the ship is neutral with it's cargo. The article is talking about a ship that is neutral without it's cargo. Then it as rotors, just like an helicopter, for lifting the cargo. The rotors are compensating for the weight of the cargo. To go down, just slow the rotors. When you unload, the ship just stay there.
Well, that won't solve any performance issues. I'm an Ubuntu user. For me, it could change lot's of things. There are lot's of great java applications lying around. But in linux, they are often second class citizen. The reason is that the java envirenment can't but included simply with a distribution. You always have to go throught some hooplas. The reason it's not included is mostly because the jvm (java virtual machine) is not free in it's intelectual property. Now it just changed. So we can hope that some good java applications will have much better support soon in linux.
The funniest part of the "seeing over the traffic" rant is mostly that it is an ego trouble. What if the others also want to see over the traffic? They'll get a higher car? Then what?
You have to understand that getting a higner car to see the traffic has the effect that everybody around you sees less of the traffic.
I did not follow Pidgin development from that close. But I know of one thing that annoys me. No audio support. I used it back in the time of gaim. Already then, they said that they would not do it. Now they say that they broke UI and protocol handling so they can't do it easily. But we are in 2008. Peoples are demanding it since at least 2002.
I lack details here. But those guys sure don't seem to be listening to users.
User management and right management are two things that you'll almost always need. You can do it from scratch, it's not "that" complicated. But it always get more complicated with time. Let's say the user management:
* You need to have automatic email handling for registration. * If you need single sign on. * You may need gotcha. * Then latter you discover that you needs groups and the administration interfaces that goes with it. * You need all those to interact with the permission system that you did put in place. Checking the permission is a thing.. but you have to build the administration once again. * Bugs are found from time to time in all those places. Code maintenance begins to get complicated. * You have new developers joining in. You have to document all what you've done if you built it yourself. * etc.. etc..
Just the update capabilities of a site like Drupal are worth it. Most little structures don't want to ask a web developer to add or modify small content for your a web site. It help giving the content ownership to the content producer. Without it, every modifications has to go through IT, which is too complicated.. mostly if it is a small company. A CMS will keep the site updated easily.
If you don't want to invest time, just use an existing theme. If you want your own look, take the time to learn how to do it in Drupal. It's not much more difficult then doing it out of nothing. But When you are done, you don't have to take care of all the content management.
And if you need more functionalities, chances are that they are just a module away.
I was having a discussion not long ago with a colleague. I was proposing using Drupal has the framework for a web application. I've done it with a lot of success in other small projects.
He objected that it was too big for what we needed. At the end, he agreed that we needed a framework. So he proposed zend. I know that zend can be used with Drupal to make modules.
For me, building a Drupal module would make sense. The application is a big RSS aggregator. We could use drupal for user management, right management and others. But more importantly, we can use Drupal also has a framework. We can even use Zend over it.
What do you think about it? Would you base a web application that need user, right management and other standard web stuff on Drupal even if the core business of the application is not really supported by Drupal?
I would not accept having a brain surgery by somebody trained on wikipedia for sure. But I would not accept a brain surgery by anybody who has been trained by reading just one article from any book. Even if the book is recognized by the experts.
But, if I am to get a brain surgery, I will certainly go to wikipedia to have a basic understanding of what is going to happen to me. I'll also follow the links I get from there. And read whatever information I can get. It will make me capable of asking questions the next time I meet my doctor and certainly understand better what he will tell me.
I know some doctors prefer patients that do not ask questions. It just goes faster. But I think it is part of the doctor job to do what he can for the understanding of it's patient. They very very often do not. I think those doctors have a bad attitude, not their patients for asking questions.
I've been using linux exclusively has a desktop since the ends of the 90s. I keep earing that kind of point of view.
Well, if I want to run a game on ubuntu in a public library, it does not have to be installed on root secured directory. I can run it from a USB drive or the home directory. For now, the child are not doing it because they don't know. Not because the OS is better thought.
I kind of agree with them. This is a waste of memory and time for the huge majority of people. We are talking about a project which is already under attack for it's bad memory usage. I understand why they don't want to go that road. It, to the least, show that their can be other points of view and that you do not need to be that aggressive with them.
A web developer will probably not use "view source" very much anyway. Try firebug. That's the way to go if you really want to understand a page. You'll rarely need "view source" after that.
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for that kind of usage, you don't need a gps. Celle phone tracking would be enough. And it has been available for years. But I never really saw it being used.
The fact is that humans, even with all our pollution, can't put a dent in our planets ecosystem
Have you ever eard about the holocene extinction event? From wikipedia: A 1998 survey by the American Museum of Natural History found that 70% of biologists view the present era as part of a mass extinction event. Some, such E. O. Wilson of Harvard University, predict that man's destruction of the biosphere could cause the extinction of one-half of all species in the next 100 years. Research and conservation efforts, such as the IUCN's annual "Red List" of threatened species, all point to an ongoing period of enhanced extinction, though some offer much lower rates and hence longer time scales before the onset of catastrophic damage. The extinction of many megafauna near the end of the most recent ice age is also sometimes considered a part of the Holocene extinction event.
Well, 70% of biologists think that we are going thtought a massive extinction event and you say that humans can't put a dent in the ecosystem. With that, you get modded +5 Insightful..
We could at least say that your thinking is not shared by the science community, even if it seems to find echo on slashdot.
Freemind and related softwares are from far the best way to take notes that I have used. It is both fast and comprehansive while being very easy to learn.
That should make a notebook the perfect way to take notes in classe. Here at work, everybody use it during meetings. We can barely imagine how we lived without it.
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When I was a kid, the computer i programmed for (trs-80), was one of the first computer I ever saw. There were not that many programs for it. So it was easy to get excited about almost nothing.
Now all the kids have been exposed to all sort of technologies. They'll never get excited by very simple things like I have been. The thing to remember is that it will never be has rewarding has it was at the time for such simple things and no language is going to change that.
I was reading about all that and wondered.. XMPP is distributed, you can accept peoples, see there picture and status. For sure you can chat and create private rooms to share a chat. There is not much missing. Maybe a wall and pictures. So I typed "XMPP has social network" on google. I have tonnes of responses.
Maybe that's what google wave was trying to be. But google wave was too complicated. It offered too much and nobody except google had an implementation.
Any thoughts about this?
I found http://onesocialweb.org/. That is maybe what I was looking for.
I first read "They buy fiction".
Which was much more fun and probably very true also ;-)
for example, when turn by turn navigation came out for android, it was US only for a while. A hack existed to enable it in the rest of the world, but that was soon stopped by google. Only later did it get released for the rest of the world.
reading your post I thought that turn by turn was finaly working so I rushed to my G1.. but sadely I still have a "road not available" message. But the good news is that the hacked application (google maps brut) is still working like a charm. :-D
Photons have no mass. That's one of the things that define them. There is a nice article on wikipedia about it :-)
No reason I can think of, except to limit free speech/protest and give the government even more control over public policy (i.e. push their one true agenda).
Your imagination seems limited ;-) I'll begin to say that I don't agree with the reason I'll give but it's easy to imagine it's the main point.
They want to be capable to trace illegal activities the best they can. Open access points are more anonymous. So illegal activities can't be tracked easily there. If somebody steal a bank through an open access point, it's easy to say that it could be made harder.
Where I mostly do not agree is what is considered illegal activity. It's probably to protect big copyright owners. And I don't think peoples not doing any money while sharing data should convinced of wrongdoing. But that's another matter.
* An android phone with SIPDroid shoud do the trick for number 1.
* Number 2 is ok also with android.
* No 3 is ok if you buy an used HTC G1 on ebay. They go for an average of 165$ right now.
* 4 is also ok woth android.
Buy an used Android phone.. best bang for the buck!
Offer a solution. If you go to your boss's office and tell him he is a thief he's not going to be happy. But if you get in there and offer a free alternative it should be a good way of bringing things up.
Openoffice can do the job if everybody switch together. 7-zip is a good replacement for winzip. I'm pretty sure lot's of software has free (like in open source) alternative. Try, you'll see where it lead you. :-)
It's closed because the handset builders have to buy it and enter in a contract with Microsoft to offer it. For a programmer a good API will never be like having access to the source code. I know because I lived throught both.
It's like the 80s and the begining of windows all over again but for mobile devices. The question is what will be the OS that can use the most software. Right now there are: IPhone OS which is very closed. Windows mobile also very closed and not sexy. Android which is open and has lots of backing by lot's of different builders. Many other smaller options. Moblin look very open too but.. when it will show up, Android should already available from every cellular providers.
What is funny in that mobile war is the position of Apple. Pretty much like when the first Mac came by at the begining of the 80s. They have a great product. But they are too closed. So it's going to be everybody against them. They can't win. Dell, HTC, Lenovo, Motorola, Philips, Samsung, Sony Ericson (on the open side this time) , and many others already have android phones.
I predict that soon when you'll want to build a mobile application, it will have to run on Android first. That way it will be available to everybody. The rest will be second thought. Just like the market for computer right OS now with windows. But this time the winner will be the open platform because it's been early in the market and the manufacturer will simply find it easier then going for windows mobile.
Like everybody knows.. almost nobody use Microsoft OS.
Nice comment. Except for the part where you make the assumption that the ship is neutral with it's cargo. The article is talking about a ship that is neutral without it's cargo. Then it as rotors, just like an helicopter, for lifting the cargo. The rotors are compensating for the weight of the cargo. To go down, just slow the rotors. When you unload, the ship just stay there.
Try to read the article next time ;-)
Well, that won't solve any performance issues. I'm an Ubuntu user. For me, it could change lot's of things. There are lot's of great java applications lying around. But in linux, they are often second class citizen. The reason is that the java envirenment can't but included simply with a distribution. You always have to go throught some hooplas. The reason it's not included is mostly because the jvm (java virtual machine) is not free in it's intelectual property. Now it just changed. So we can hope that some good java applications will have much better support soon in linux.
So for me it's a great thing.
Quebec is in America.
The funniest part of the "seeing over the traffic" rant is mostly that it is an ego trouble. What if the others also want to see over the traffic? They'll get a higher car? Then what?
You have to understand that getting a higner car to see the traffic has the effect that everybody around you sees less of the traffic.
It harldy sounds like a solution to me.
I did not follow Pidgin development from that close. But I know of one thing that annoys me. No audio support. I used it back in the time of gaim. Already then, they said that they would not do it. Now they say that they broke UI and protocol handling so they can't do it easily. But we are in 2008. Peoples are demanding it since at least 2002.
I lack details here. But those guys sure don't seem to be listening to users.
User management and right management are two things that you'll almost always need. You can do it from scratch, it's not "that" complicated. But it always get more complicated with time. Let's say the user management:
:-)
* You need to have automatic email handling for registration.
* If you need single sign on.
* You may need gotcha.
* Then latter you discover that you needs groups and the administration interfaces that goes with it.
* You need all those to interact with the permission system that you did put in place. Checking the permission is a thing.. but you have to build the administration once again.
* Bugs are found from time to time in all those places. Code maintenance begins to get complicated.
* You have new developers joining in. You have to document all what you've done if you built it yourself.
* etc.. etc..
And it's just user management
Just the update capabilities of a site like Drupal are worth it. Most little structures don't want to ask a web developer to add or modify small content for your a web site. It help giving the content ownership to the content producer. Without it, every modifications has to go through IT, which is too complicated.. mostly if it is a small company. A CMS will keep the site updated easily.
If you don't want to invest time, just use an existing theme. If you want your own look, take the time to learn how to do it in Drupal. It's not much more difficult then doing it out of nothing. But When you are done, you don't have to take care of all the content management.
And if you need more functionalities, chances are that they are just a module away.
Hi,
I was having a discussion not long ago with a colleague. I was proposing using Drupal has the framework for a web application. I've done it with a lot of success in other small projects.
He objected that it was too big for what we needed. At the end, he agreed that we needed a framework. So he proposed zend. I know that zend can be used with Drupal to make modules.
For me, building a Drupal module would make sense. The application is a big RSS aggregator. We could use drupal for user management, right management and others. But more importantly, we can use Drupal also has a framework. We can even use Zend over it.
What do you think about it? Would you base a web application that need user, right management and other standard web stuff on Drupal even if the core business of the application is not really supported by Drupal?
I would not accept having a brain surgery by somebody trained on wikipedia for sure. But I would not accept a brain surgery by anybody who has been trained by reading just one article from any book. Even if the book is recognized by the experts.
But, if I am to get a brain surgery, I will certainly go to wikipedia to have a basic understanding of what is going to happen to me. I'll also follow the links I get from there. And read whatever information I can get. It will make me capable of asking questions the next time I meet my doctor and certainly understand better what he will tell me.
I know some doctors prefer patients that do not ask questions. It just goes faster. But I think it is part of the doctor job to do what he can for the understanding of it's patient. They very very often do not. I think those doctors have a bad attitude, not their patients for asking questions.
I've been using linux exclusively has a desktop since the ends of the 90s. I keep earing that kind of point of view.
;-)
Well, if I want to run a game on ubuntu in a public library, it does not have to be installed on root secured directory. I can run it from a USB drive or the home directory. For now, the child are not doing it because they don't know. Not because the OS is better thought.
And I still use exclusively Ubuntu
I kind of agree with them. This is a waste of memory and time for the huge majority of people. We are talking about a project which is already under attack for it's bad memory usage. I understand why they don't want to go that road. It, to the least, show that their can be other points of view and that you do not need to be that aggressive with them.
A web developer will probably not use "view source" very much anyway. Try firebug. That's the way to go if you really want to understand a page. You'll rarely need "view source" after that.
for that kind of usage, you don't need a gps. Celle phone tracking would be enough. And it has been available for years. But I never really saw it being used.
The fact is that humans, even with all our pollution, can't put a dent in our planets ecosystem
Have you ever eard about the holocene extinction event? From wikipedia: A 1998 survey by the American Museum of Natural History found that 70% of biologists view the present era as part of a mass extinction event. Some, such E. O. Wilson of Harvard University, predict that man's destruction of the biosphere could cause the extinction of one-half of all species in the next 100 years. Research and conservation efforts, such as the IUCN's annual "Red List" of threatened species, all point to an ongoing period of enhanced extinction, though some offer much lower rates and hence longer time scales before the onset of catastrophic damage. The extinction of many megafauna near the end of the most recent ice age is also sometimes considered a part of the Holocene extinction event.
Well, 70% of biologists think that we are going thtought a massive extinction event and you say that humans can't put a dent in the ecosystem. With that, you get modded +5 Insightful..
We could at least say that your thinking is not shared by the science community, even if it seems to find echo on slashdot.
That should make a notebook the perfect way to take notes in classe. Here at work, everybody use it during meetings. We can barely imagine how we lived without it.