One of the most important factors to an Open Source project's success is the community around it. Piss off the community and the project will be forked. Bug reports, feature requests, forums and mailing lists will dry up or dissolve into flamewars while the forked project takes developer interest away and eventually becomes incompatible with the original.
I've been unable to create new calendars - from the Google Groups support list that particular feature is rather broken at the moment.
Still, assuming Google fixes this, this could easily make Chandler redundant.
The equations that govern the behaviour of nuclei and electrons are extremely complex and have currently only been solved for a handful of atoms interacting with each other. For this reason, the simulation mentioned in the article can only be an approximation to real life. The same restriction would apply to larger organisms, only much more so.
Yeah, because we all know how important getting 200 bonus points is to a convict when he's trying to escape. Otherwise, y'know, he might not be able to get his "cloak of invisibility".
But anything that is measured is measured by a person. And the measurement is subjective. What if you and I both measure the length of a table? We might both do the same measurement, but what if I have a defect in my brain that makes 9s look like 5s?
So while there might be objective facts, they all get filtered through our subjective brains.
No, he lives in that legal world where he has to judge the issue presented to him and nothing else. Someone's constitutional rights can't be violated if that person never had those rights guaranteed by the consitution in the first place.
...a general relationship between meeting load and the employee's level of fatigue and subjective workload was found
Maybe an employer who schedules a burdensome number of meetings is also likely to encourage a workplace that increases employees' fatigue. I don't see any proof of causation here.
That's because people use Tor to troll Slashdot. Makes me glad I have more than one IP on my ADSL line - I can use one for my Tor node and another for posting to Slashdot.
Like Digg, for example. Digg is cool because stories come from the community but it's crap because their community sucks.
If you enable this feature, create a new pseudo-editor called "Community" or somesuch and let people filter it like they can do with any other editor, if they choose. Make all the voted-in stories appear under this editor. If a reader wanted he could remove it entirely or even exclude everything else.
Give the Community editor five of the top-voted stories every day so it doesn't swamp the other editors. If it's successful, it would remove a lot of the incentive people have for visiting Digg rather than Slashdot.
We use Optiplex GX110 - 500MHz, 256MB RAM. They're cheap, really easy to get hold of second-hand and Linux runs fine on them. They're so cheap we just buy twice as many as we need and use the others for spares.
There's no direct connection to Linux itself - just that Linux serves as a good example of a popular, important GPL project. The summary makes that clear by mentioning that there are many other projects using software that is under the GPL.
Actually, they did investigate other power supplies. However, all the ones they tested actually fit neatly away out of sight. So they had to produce their own, freakishly large, one.
I think that this idea comes at the same time that other complementary ideas are being discussed. This include making certain pages static when they reach a certain level of quality. It may be that this printed version of Wikipedia will include only articles with the production-quality flag set.
Additionally, having a printed version of Wikipedia doesn't obviate its greatest advantage - information which is both free and Free.
People in developing countries are probably better able to pay for software than most of us realise - they're not all starving nomads in the savannah. However, what a developing country really doesn't need is for its economy, industry, government and workforce to be locked into a foreign company's software. RMS's "Free as in speech" argument is at least as applicable and probably even more so when it's applied to a country that doesn't yet have all the normal country-running mechanisms in place.
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Um. Yeah.... That's the entire point of Jabber. If you want to use an AOL account, use a jabber server that has an AIM transport. Same with Yahoo! and any of the others.
Actually, the whole point of Jabber is to be an open-source, well documented and extensible message transfer protocol. Server-side transports are there primarily to lower the barrier to entry.
Sounds like how Ankh Morpork runs - Vetinari legimised crime by creating the guilds but made them responsible for keeping crime to within agreed limits. Of course, he had leverage over the guild leaders to make them comply. Not sure what I'd have over some Russian kid who I've never met.
My wife, upon hearing of this, suggested that if something like this could happen maybe I haven't made enough trouble for Microsoft lately, and I'm slipping off their radar. She might have a point...
Come on, ESR is pretty much off everyone's radar at the moment and has been for some time. The problem is that he doesn't DO anything much - as opposed to RMS and Linus who are of continuing significance. Seriously, aside from posting about gun rights and racial IQ differences on his blog, what does ESR get up to these days that anyone really cares about?
Responsible vulnerability reporting doesn't necessarily mean telling everyone possible (including proof-of-concept exploit code) as soon as you discover a vulnerability. Some people allow the vendor/maintainer 30 days to make an appropriate response (e.g. investigating the vulnerability and making a commitment to fixing it) and a further 30 days on top of that to provide a fix before going public. Regardless of how long you think a vendor should be given, though, going public immediately makes me wonder if his priorities are personal gain rather than trying to improve the software's security.
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It looks like the Mac Business Unit alone is responsible for at least 1% out of Apple's 5% market share!
One of the most important factors to an Open Source project's success is the community around it. Piss off the community and the project will be forked. Bug reports, feature requests, forums and mailing lists will dry up or dissolve into flamewars while the forked project takes developer interest away and eventually becomes incompatible with the original.
I've been unable to create new calendars - from the Google Groups support list that particular feature is rather broken at the moment. Still, assuming Google fixes this, this could easily make Chandler redundant.
The equations that govern the behaviour of nuclei and electrons are extremely complex and have currently only been solved for a handful of atoms interacting with each other. For this reason, the simulation mentioned in the article can only be an approximation to real life. The same restriction would apply to larger organisms, only much more so.
Yeah, because we all know how important getting 200 bonus points is to a convict when he's trying to escape. Otherwise, y'know, he might not be able to get his "cloak of invisibility".
But anything that is measured is measured by a person. And the measurement is subjective. What if you and I both measure the length of a table? We might both do the same measurement, but what if I have a defect in my brain that makes 9s look like 5s? So while there might be objective facts, they all get filtered through our subjective brains.
Prize for proving that a product is insecure and poorly designed: the product itself!
GPL Java, for crying out loud.
No, he lives in that legal world where he has to judge the issue presented to him and nothing else. Someone's constitutional rights can't be violated if that person never had those rights guaranteed by the consitution in the first place.
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This is assuming Linus even likes the new GPL. As far as I can tell, he's not too sympathetic to RMS's values anyway.
Maybe an employer who schedules a burdensome number of meetings is also likely to encourage a workplace that increases employees' fatigue. I don't see any proof of causation here.
That's because people use Tor to troll Slashdot. Makes me glad I have more than one IP on my ADSL line - I can use one for my Tor node and another for posting to Slashdot.
Like Digg, for example. Digg is cool because stories come from the community but it's crap because their community sucks. If you enable this feature, create a new pseudo-editor called "Community" or somesuch and let people filter it like they can do with any other editor, if they choose. Make all the voted-in stories appear under this editor. If a reader wanted he could remove it entirely or even exclude everything else. Give the Community editor five of the top-voted stories every day so it doesn't swamp the other editors. If it's successful, it would remove a lot of the incentive people have for visiting Digg rather than Slashdot.
We use Optiplex GX110 - 500MHz, 256MB RAM. They're cheap, really easy to get hold of second-hand and Linux runs fine on them. They're so cheap we just buy twice as many as we need and use the others for spares.
There's no direct connection to Linux itself - just that Linux serves as a good example of a popular, important GPL project. The summary makes that clear by mentioning that there are many other projects using software that is under the GPL.
Actually, they did investigate other power supplies. However, all the ones they tested actually fit neatly away out of sight. So they had to produce their own, freakishly large, one.
Urge to license rising... Rising... receding... receding... rising... receding... gone...
I think that this idea comes at the same time that other complementary ideas are being discussed. This include making certain pages static when they reach a certain level of quality. It may be that this printed version of Wikipedia will include only articles with the production-quality flag set. Additionally, having a printed version of Wikipedia doesn't obviate its greatest advantage - information which is both free and Free.
People in developing countries are probably better able to pay for software than most of us realise - they're not all starving nomads in the savannah. However, what a developing country really doesn't need is for its economy, industry, government and workforce to be locked into a foreign company's software. RMS's "Free as in speech" argument is at least as applicable and probably even more so when it's applied to a country that doesn't yet have all the normal country-running mechanisms in place.
Um. Yeah.... That's the entire point of Jabber. If you want to use an AOL account, use a jabber server that has an AIM transport. Same with Yahoo! and any of the others.
Actually, the whole point of Jabber is to be an open-source, well documented and extensible message transfer protocol. Server-side transports are there primarily to lower the barrier to entry.
Sounds like how Ankh Morpork runs - Vetinari legimised crime by creating the guilds but made them responsible for keeping crime to within agreed limits. Of course, he had leverage over the guild leaders to make them comply. Not sure what I'd have over some Russian kid who I've never met.
My wife, upon hearing of this, suggested that if something like this could happen maybe I haven't made enough trouble for Microsoft lately, and I'm slipping off their radar. She might have a point...
Come on, ESR is pretty much off everyone's radar at the moment and has been for some time. The problem is that he doesn't DO anything much - as opposed to RMS and Linus who are of continuing significance. Seriously, aside from posting about gun rights and racial IQ differences on his blog, what does ESR get up to these days that anyone really cares about?
Responsible vulnerability reporting doesn't necessarily mean telling everyone possible (including proof-of-concept exploit code) as soon as you discover a vulnerability. Some people allow the vendor/maintainer 30 days to make an appropriate response (e.g. investigating the vulnerability and making a commitment to fixing it) and a further 30 days on top of that to provide a fix before going public. Regardless of how long you think a vendor should be given, though, going public immediately makes me wonder if his priorities are personal gain rather than trying to improve the software's security.
Palm split into PalmOne and PalmSource.