Is open source just a substitute for the lack of innovation in closed source software? All these applications that are open source are in fact stuff we all know how to implement, it's just a matter of time and effort. We have an operating system, a database, an office suite nothing really new, they were bound to get open sourced. It's quite amazing that these type of applications are still making money in their closed source incarnation after all this years.
But what about new stuff? Will someone with a really innovative idea open source it from the beginning? And even worse: will we notice?
I do admit that open source projects have features that commercial projects never bothered to implement (image dumps from video files in VideoLan comes to mind) but I struggle to find something completely new.
One of the problems I have with all these designs is that we are all reduced to a common denominator. A design that is most sucessfull with most people is suboptimal for each one of them.
I watched the movie without previously knowing there was a series as well. My impression was: nice effects, good plot, the director should be shot as he can't tell a story and ruined it all.
Besides, Google hasn't implemented Server-to-Server communication yet for reasons posted elseware in this very article; they don't want spam.
I don't buy this. Spam in Jabber is much more difficult to achieve (some people say it's impossible but they're probably wrong) and Jabber without server to server is not fully Jabber.
If this proves to be more than vapourware Intel could beat up AMD again just by volume. I have been trying to buy a cheap dual core Opteron 165 and no shop seems to stock it. I will not preorder as I know this involves a price premium plus if things go wrong it will take even longer to get it replaced.
If Intel starts mass producing these then people will just buy what's avalable.
Does anyone know what is the current status of Java on BSD today? Last time I looked there were no recent native ports, best you could do was run a Linux version of java. BSD makes a good argument that Java should be free as in freedom.
There is an opportunity for the open source community to create a VB compatible IDE that could compile applications for both to Windows and Linux.
It is a good commercial idea. But will any FOSS programmers bother implementing VB under Linux? On a more inflamatory note do we even want those VB programmers to develop for Linux?
I am not trying to start a flame war but could anybody explain why BeOS mattered at all? I did try it years ago but it did not recognize the network card in my laptop so I uninstalled it after maybe 15 minutes. If anything, it did tell me that the browser mattered to me more than the underlying operating system.
Sapphire which is basically a crystal of aluminium oxide has been synthetised almost 100 years ago and is commonly used nowadays. Some non-scratch watches use that instead of glass.
They can cure diabetes in rats, they can grow organs in rats, now they can increase the rat brain. Still it does not mean much to us, none of these works in humans yet. Rats are similar but not identical.
Yeah I know, in Soviet Russia communism was first tested on humans before being tested on rats.
Before it can be used any knowledge from any document must enter someone's mind. The spec in the mind its not the same as the one in the document. They might be similar but not identical.
The same applies for the person writing the spec: he is limited in what he can express and sometimes his perception of reality is wrong.
All this approximations add up and so often we look at a spec only to wonder if it has anything to do with reality. In the end what gets done has more to do with the general technical culture of the implementors than the exact wording of the spec.
I think that most of the specifications for protocols are actually documenting the way the code prototypes work rather than constitute the base these prototypes.
Slashdot seems to have an infinite source of false prophets. And the higher their qualifications are the worst prophecies they make. The Internet did no collapse as Metcalfe predicted and Tcl did not become the main language for Internet development like Greenspun told us in 1998.
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Please check your spelling before posting, you sound worse than Gobbels!
But what about new stuff? Will someone with a really innovative idea open source it from the beginning? And even worse: will we notice?
I do admit that open source projects have features that commercial projects never bothered to implement (image dumps from video files in VideoLan comes to mind) but I struggle to find something completely new.
One of the problems I have with all these designs is that we are all reduced to a common denominator. A design that is most sucessfull with most people is suboptimal for each one of them.
I watched the movie without previously knowing there was a series as well. My impression was: nice effects, good plot, the director should be shot as he can't tell a story and ruined it all.
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I don't buy this. Spam in Jabber is much more difficult to achieve (some people say it's impossible but they're probably wrong) and Jabber without server to server is not fully Jabber.
You missed a step here. You were supposed to install Ubuntu after spending a week compiling Gentoo.
Need to go now, the size of the transaction log of my Reiser file system needs tuning.
If Intel starts mass producing these then people will just buy what's avalable.
Bill Gates wrote something similar in The Road Ahead:
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
Sorry to break it to you boys but I know an algorithm that can do that in constant time: the factors of any prime number are 1 and the number itself.
Maybe a bit late to ask but can anyone indicate a good tutorial for writing Firefox extensions?
Does anyone know what is the current status of Java on BSD today? Last time I looked there were no recent native ports, best you could do was run a Linux version of java. BSD makes a good argument that Java should be free as in freedom.
There is an opportunity for the open source community to create a VB compatible IDE that could compile applications for both to Windows and Linux.
It is a good commercial idea. But will any FOSS programmers bother implementing VB under Linux? On a more inflamatory note do we even want those VB programmers to develop for Linux?
Unless Oracle puts together a better administration interface than the current bunch of tools people might actually learn to stay away from it.
Just when I was going to copy this and use it as a sig I read it again.
From the comment above I suspect he's been reading Slashot on a regular basis lately.
I am not trying to start a flame war but could anybody explain why BeOS mattered at all? I did try it years ago but it did not recognize the network card in my laptop so I uninstalled it after maybe 15 minutes. If anything, it did tell me that the browser mattered to me more than the underlying operating system.
Sapphire which is basically a crystal of aluminium oxide has been synthetised almost 100 years ago and is commonly used nowadays. Some non-scratch watches use that instead of glass.
Yeah I know, in Soviet Russia communism was first tested on humans before being tested on rats.
What about Eastern Ortodox, how do the USA Protestants consider them?
There will be an extra resume, not created by you but by Google. You can imagine the rest.
All this approximations add up and so often we look at a spec only to wonder if it has anything to do with reality. In the end what gets done has more to do with the general technical culture of the implementors than the exact wording of the spec.
I think that most of the specifications for protocols are actually documenting the way the code prototypes work rather than constitute the base these prototypes.
Now that would be quite a sight, an astronaut with balooning pants in space.
You can't have full copy protection until you get rid of the analog version. I wonder how long it will it be before the *AAs start burning books?
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