Add a ball-throwing mechanism and you can watch two robots playing with eachother. If we are very lucky, humans won't have to have fun at all, we have robots for that.
This has been discussed here years before. You can only reach full automation when robots are watching robots play.
The article makes lots of assuptions that are false to begin with. Not all open source projects are good quality. Not all the good ones get famous to atract lots of developers and grow. Actually Sourceforge is more of a source cemetery.
When people are paid for units of work rather than hours they will try to do anything to get themselves more productive. And number one step is lowering the quality as much as they can. I have seen this happen in real life.
The one thing that makes FOSS better is in my opinion the fact that in most cases you are working on something you are going to use yourself. You care about quality, maintenance and you will not try to cheat.
Science cannot contradict religion and religion cannot contradict science. The creator cannot be contradicted by its creation.
OTOH what we often get is people with limited knowledge claiming they see contradictions. I can only hope that one day such claims won't pass spam filters.
You've been modded 5 on Slashdot which means that at least for a few hours your posts will be read by people all over the planet. You might have been a nobody yesterday but you are no longer.
OTOH tomorrow is another day and you might get back to be your usual nobody.
The most sought after workers are those with Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish or Russian language skills and business or technical degrees.
I find it hard to belive that Indians are cheaper than programmers from Russia and Eastern Europe. Does anybody have more information about the actual price difference?
I took a quick look at the web page of the conference here. The first thing that meets the eye is that they ask for money in order to attend. Quite a lot really. The speakers are from IBM, Sun, Apache. Also there's no mention of freedom, only open source
Somehow I feel this is a corporate event trying to cash in on the free software movement. The director of the European BSA is among the speakers.
Could anyone that attended plase confirm or infirm that? Or even more important: did anyone attend?
Eratosthenes was actually calculating the distance to the sun. But because the sun is so far away its rays arrive almost parallel he ended up with the radius of the earth. So his result was mistaken, we know today that the resulting distance was the earth's radius but quite likely he never knew that.
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I get the feeling the debate is about which one of them put it there.
What about the webmail interface? Does a Gmail like FOSS solution exist?
This has been discussed here years before. You can only reach full automation when robots are watching robots play.
This world is really upside down.
When people are paid for units of work rather than hours they will try to do anything to get themselves more productive. And number one step is lowering the quality as much as they can. I have seen this happen in real life.
The one thing that makes FOSS better is in my opinion the fact that in most cases you are working on something you are going to use yourself. You care about quality, maintenance and you will not try to cheat.
Sadly if you came up with something original most likely somebody else would make a billion dollars.
FreeBSD existed long before Gentoo. Actually Gentoo is a FreeBSD wannabe distribution of Linux.
And that is good.
Now that's an easy answer: Clippy
If only all Linux applications were that simple to install.
Could you post a link to the Macchia glass ipods?
AFAIK aspera does not mean aspiration, it means roughness, difficulties.
Full implementation here
The point I am trying to make is that it is a feature that does not affect the ones who do not use it but is essential for others.
Science cannot contradict religion and religion cannot contradict science. The creator cannot be contradicted by its creation.
OTOH what we often get is people with limited knowledge claiming they see contradictions. I can only hope that one day such claims won't pass spam filters.
Your cat's got a blog? Maybe it would like to link to my dog's blog.
I'll believe that when I'll be able to buy a Dreambox running OS X.
You've been modded 5 on Slashdot which means that at least for a few hours your posts will be read by people all over the planet. You might have been a nobody yesterday but you are no longer.
OTOH tomorrow is another day and you might get back to be your usual nobody.
The most sought after workers are those with Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish or Russian language skills and business or technical degrees.
I find it hard to belive that Indians are cheaper than programmers from Russia and Eastern Europe. Does anybody have more information about the actual price difference?
Somehow I feel this is a corporate event trying to cash in on the free software movement. The director of the European BSA is among the speakers.
Could anyone that attended plase confirm or infirm that? Or even more important: did anyone attend?
The real problem is the communication protocol used with Exchange. If you get that sorted writing a replacement is not so difficult.
Eratosthenes was actually calculating the distance to the sun. But because the sun is so far away its rays arrive almost parallel he ended up with the radius of the earth. So his result was mistaken, we know today that the resulting distance was the earth's radius but quite likely he never knew that.
You must be thinking about Drunken Master I. The sequel was hardly any good.
The only blogs I ever read are located at cvs.sourgeforge.net. None of these guys seem to write there.
Given your obsession with German Scheisse video this can only be a good thing.
We'll just raise a clone army.