I was bored one night when I was on the road in San Franciso, and I noticed that the Mozilla first anniversary party was happening at the Sound Factory. It was fairly ho-hum, but there I witnessed EBN. It (they?) was awesome. Very cool and innovative.. I'll have to get a DVD of one of their performances...
The Northeast Corridor (particularly DC, Philly, NYC, and Boston) has extensive public regional transportation systems that rival those in Europe. Many people who work within at least 30 miles of each city take public transportation; the northeast US has the population density comparable to much of Europe. The rest of the country has fewer options, due to the distances involved, but they also have the benefit of planned road systems.
Their own maintenance has rocketed the cost well beyond 60% of installed cost per year.
This sounds like the result of the people making the decision not fully understanding the implications of forking, and how to manage that process intelligently. For example, if the team maintaining the fork tracked the mainline releases, the upgrade path would have been made much easier. That's assuming the code was open source in the first place; your post does not imply this. If the code was not open source, it would probably be much more difficult to track.
Because all of the man hours spent building up Gnome were spent on KDE (or K-Office, Konquerer, etc), the code would be much tighter, with greater functionality.
Of course, this assumes those hours that were spent on GNOME would have been spent on KDE. This is simply not the case.
Wow. Considering he probably got a lot of nasty emails from the zealot crowd, this is a well reasoned response. He laid out his review criteria, and how SA can be improved to fare better against its commercial competitors. Well done, and a good challenge for the committers of SA.
USians should urge their representatives to pass HR 3171, which would remove many of the more outrageous provisions of the "USA PATRIOT Act" and others:
(1) Benjamin Franklin stated: `Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.'.
(2) The First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were established to protect the civil rights and liberties of all Americans in perpetuity.
(3) Federal policies adopted since September 11, 2001, including provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law 107-56) and related executive orders, regulations, and actions threaten fundamental rights and liberties,...
why these were legal for non-emergency sale in the first place?
Becuase there is no reason for them to be made illegal. It should not be illegal to own one of these devices; it should, however, be illegal to tamper with the traffic signals. The difference is subtle but fundamental.
I guess your information is not very important since it can be wiped out by a power down or crash between the confirmation and the asynchronous background write.
Not if you use JMS. His code can emit a message within a transaction, commit it and immediately return. If the commit is successful, this means JMS is bound to deliver that message at some point in the future, no matter what the circumstance, even if the JMS server itself crashes.
You're naive if you believe apple didn't do any dirty cheap dealing with this one...
Offering discounts in compensation for marketing isn't "dirty cheap dealing", it's good business, particularly if the value of that marketing exceeds the discount amount.. Dell could have done the same...
This a most telling quote as most developers have never talked to an actual customer in their entire career.
"On-Site Customer" is one of the tenets of XP.. Of course, this isn't always practical, but having instant access to the customer is one of the things that makes XP work...
Add me to this list as well. I still have about 1mm of graphite embedded in my right palm, after I impaled myself on a pencil that got jammed under a drafting table in shop class about 15 years ago.
I don't think there's anything stopping an X server from doing per-window alpha blending, by simply letting the client know that it is never obscured. I'm not sure why none of the servrers do this, and application-based fake blending (like rxvt, konsole, and others) just looks stupid.
As for lower-level aplha blending, it may require a new extension, which is one of the nicer facilities of the X protocol.. The X Render extension may be enough.
I completely agree with what you're saying, Motherfucking. Personal responsibility, adherence to the Constitution, and a "hands-off" stance on social issues are the tenets of modern American libertarianism.
You may want to look into the Libertarian Party. While there are a lot of kooky people involved in the LP, there are a good number of them who are a lot more reasistic, and are trying to convince the American public that endless cycles of tax and spend, and government's regulation of the bedroom are not in their best interest.
Personally, I usually vote LP if the candidate "gets it", as you say, but I'll gladly cross party lines if the candidate has libertarian leanings.
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WORA brings with it a lot of costs but few benefits for Linux developers. When I write a Linux desktop application, I want it to work well on Linux, I don't care about whether it runs on Windows.
IMO, this is why WORA is good for open source. An application that is designed to run under Linux can run under Windows with much less pain than pretty much any other environment. Cross platform C[++]-based libraries, like Qt and wxWindows make you have to worry more about platform-specific idiosyncracies. The same can be said for Python/Tk.
WORA greatly expands the number of potential users and contributors for an open source project.
Java is just not a very convenient language to program in. For most needs, something like Python, Perl, PHP, or Ruby is simpler. And when those are not powerful enough, people just drop into C/C++ anyway.
For many needs, sure, Python, Perl, Ruby, or PHP may be more benificial (ie, lower development and maintenance costs). Java has the advantage of being pretty good at a lot of different things, as well as arguably having a larger developer base than the languges you mention.
C/C++ are generally considered system level languages- which is why the JVM, the Python bytecode runner, Perl, etc., are written in C/C++. I have done server-side Java work for some of the largest companies in the world, in many different industries (telco, entertainment, financial); for many of them, it would be foolish to write their applications in C/C++, because of the development and maintenance costs involved. The areas where C and C++ excel- raw performance and low-level device access- are rarely near the top of the priority list for corporate IT managers. Like open source developers, their priorities almost always revolve around service and cost. And this is where Java excels.
Having 1 language generating another - Ruby and Java - is the recipe for confusion and complexity.
Yep. Just take a look at C++: the "regular" language and templating language are very dissimilar, making it very difficult for someone to understand someone else's "clever" template.
Please remove your tinfoil hat. Companies already do this online. They know when you look at an item. When you put it in your "cart", if you take it out, etc. They do this to make sure there is no money "left on the table". In other words, if they see you looking at product A a lot, it can offer product B, which complements A, and offer a discount on the bundle. This benefits you (by getting a better price), and the retailer (by getting more cash).
Extending this to the real world, if you go to a store and grab product A off of the shelf, there can be a screen on the shelf that offers a discount. Even further, if the system knows who you are (say an RFID-based loyalty card), if can tailor the offer to you.
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I was bored one night when I was on the road in San Franciso, and I noticed that the Mozilla first anniversary party was happening at the Sound Factory. It was fairly ho-hum, but there I witnessed EBN. It (they?) was awesome. Very cool and innovative.. I'll have to get a DVD of one of their performances...
The passengers likely have much more experience operating baseball bats than with tasers or stun batons.
(Note, substitute "baseball bat" with "hockey stick", "cricket bat", etc., for you non USians.)
The Northeast Corridor (particularly DC, Philly, NYC, and Boston) has extensive public regional transportation systems that rival those in Europe. Many people who work within at least 30 miles of each city take public transportation; the northeast US has the population density comparable to much of Europe. The rest of the country has fewer options, due to the distances involved, but they also have the benefit of planned road systems.
Their own maintenance has rocketed the cost well beyond 60% of installed cost per year.
This sounds like the result of the people making the decision not fully understanding the implications of forking, and how to manage that process intelligently. For example, if the team maintaining the fork tracked the mainline releases, the upgrade path would have been made much easier. That's assuming the code was open source in the first place; your post does not imply this. If the code was not open source, it would probably be much more difficult to track.
Because all of the man hours spent building up Gnome were spent on KDE (or K-Office, Konquerer, etc), the code would be much tighter, with greater functionality.
Of course, this assumes those hours that were spent on GNOME would have been spent on KDE. This is simply not the case.
Wow. Considering he probably got a lot of nasty emails from the zealot crowd, this is a well reasoned response. He laid out his review criteria, and how SA can be improved to fare better against its commercial competitors. Well done, and a good challenge for the committers of SA.
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why these were legal for non-emergency sale in the first place?
Becuase there is no reason for them to be made illegal. It should not be illegal to own one of these devices; it should, however, be illegal to tamper with the traffic signals. The difference is subtle but fundamental.
hydrogen is the second-most abundant element in the universe.
Not according to Wikipedia.
(Note, see Helium.)
I guess your information is not very important since it can be wiped out by a power down or crash between the confirmation and the asynchronous background write.
Not if you use JMS. His code can emit a message within a transaction, commit it and immediately return. If the commit is successful, this means JMS is bound to deliver that message at some point in the future, no matter what the circumstance, even if the JMS server itself crashes.
Offering discounts in compensation for marketing isn't "dirty cheap dealing", it's good business, particularly if the value of that marketing exceeds the discount amount.. Dell could have done the same...
This a most telling quote as most developers have never talked to an actual customer in their entire career.
"On-Site Customer" is one of the tenets of XP.. Of course, this isn't always practical, but having instant access to the customer is one of the things that makes XP work...
Add me to this list as well. I still have about 1mm of graphite embedded in my right palm, after I impaled myself on a pencil that got jammed under a drafting table in shop class about 15 years ago.
I don't think there's anything stopping an X server from doing per-window alpha blending, by simply letting the client know that it is never obscured. I'm not sure why none of the servrers do this, and application-based fake blending (like rxvt, konsole, and others) just looks stupid.
As for lower-level aplha blending, it may require a new extension, which is one of the nicer facilities of the X protocol.. The X Render extension may be enough.
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I completely agree with what you're saying, Motherfucking. Personal responsibility, adherence to the Constitution, and a "hands-off" stance on social issues are the tenets of modern American libertarianism.
You may want to look into the Libertarian Party. While there are a lot of kooky people involved in the LP, there are a good number of them who are a lot more reasistic, and are trying to convince the American public that endless cycles of tax and spend, and government's regulation of the bedroom are not in their best interest.
Personally, I usually vote LP if the candidate "gets it", as you say, but I'll gladly cross party lines if the candidate has libertarian leanings.
Take a look at the Cato Institute as well.
A quick search on the wiki showed no hits for the word 'report'.
Did you try clicking on "Find Page", and typing in "report" (sans-quotes) in the "Search by topic content" field? I found this pretty easily:
Creating Reports With Prevayler
I can't seem to find the machine in your second link. Would you mind pointing it out to me?
"more people share MP3s than voted for the President!"
:^)
Not exactly: 50,456,169 + 50,996,116 = 101,452,285, which is greater than 57 million..
IMO, this is why WORA is good for open source. An application that is designed to run under Linux can run under Windows with much less pain than pretty much any other environment. Cross platform C[++]-based libraries, like Qt and wxWindows make you have to worry more about platform-specific idiosyncracies. The same can be said for Python/Tk.
WORA greatly expands the number of potential users and contributors for an open source project.
Java is just not a very convenient language to program in. For most needs, something like Python, Perl, PHP, or Ruby is simpler. And when those are not powerful enough, people just drop into C/C++ anyway.
For many needs, sure, Python, Perl, Ruby, or PHP may be more benificial (ie, lower development and maintenance costs). Java has the advantage of being pretty good at a lot of different things, as well as arguably having a larger developer base than the languges you mention.
C/C++ are generally considered system level languages- which is why the JVM, the Python bytecode runner, Perl, etc., are written in C/C++. I have done server-side Java work for some of the largest companies in the world, in many different industries (telco, entertainment, financial); for many of them, it would be foolish to write their applications in C/C++, because of the development and maintenance costs involved. The areas where C and C++ excel- raw performance and low-level device access- are rarely near the top of the priority list for corporate IT managers. Like open source developers, their priorities almost always revolve around service and cost. And this is where Java excels.
Having 1 language generating another - Ruby and Java - is the recipe for confusion and complexity.
Yep. Just take a look at C++: the "regular" language and templating language are very dissimilar, making it very difficult for someone to understand someone else's "clever" template.
NPR said yesterday that Manilow still sells more concert tickets than 50 cent. Kids today...
Yeah, because you're probably a lot less likely to catch a bullet at the Manilow show...
Those savings will translate to higher stock value for shareholders
Become a shareholder, then.
Please remove your tinfoil hat. Companies already do this online. They know when you look at an item. When you put it in your "cart", if you take it out, etc. They do this to make sure there is no money "left on the table". In other words, if they see you looking at product A a lot, it can offer product B, which complements A, and offer a discount on the bundle. This benefits you (by getting a better price), and the retailer (by getting more cash).
Extending this to the real world, if you go to a store and grab product A off of the shelf, there can be a screen on the shelf that offers a discount. Even further, if the system knows who you are (say an RFID-based loyalty card), if can tailor the offer to you.