There is no need for security anyways. Information wants to be free and each hours that pass show it better. Knowledge about how to make a well ripped music album, dvd movie, about how to crack commercial application will always be freely and easily available on the net. The structure of "the scene" was usefull when the links between people was tough to maintain. Now a good network(internet) link is a really easy thing to have for every people wanting to download or produce downloadable material. The P2P networks are always going to get better and this makes topsites and such "private" networked organisation useless. It even permit the authorities to catch pirates easily. How much people you heard have been arrested for uploading some parts of a torrent? Centralising distribution is they key to get caught. The structure of "the scene" maybe help to keep standards a bit higher, I don't know how much. Nevertheless, everyone now can easily share stuff to everyone, the quality releases will re-surface anyway, whatever the group or site it could have been came from.
Why are group/scene leaders trying to make things free by working to help or do cracking/ripping products, and at the same time wants to protect/restrict the resulting releases by making "the scene" more private/secure? just elitism? I don't know.
If I personally was interested in this kind of data, I would work more on a good P2P protocol to insure my releases reach a broad userbase.
I know there is a part of hard work for some people in "the scene". But the majority of people involved in it today could be replaced by simple little scripts. Those would be much more efficient and you would not see them being proud for transfering files from one place to another.
More linux apps/lib adopting elektra would be a step forward in order to see more serious and funny games on linux.
More good and accepted standards can only be a good thing to everyone using or developing on a computer.
More good standards -> Better accessibility means -> More users -> More developpers -> More users -> Possibility of a game market on linux
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A high quality of life is required to do any deep research in anything. How an intelligent researcher will continue his work once he is dead because we did not know how to cure him of a cancer?
Why not wait quantum computers to make this job? For the moment the distribued project should be only used to calculate things urgent to people, as the whole processing power we have now is a joke if we compare to nextgen ways to design CPUs. Research for health is IMHO a priority for what we can do at the moment on earth.
Being a part of a system and being anonymous does not help the system to evolve. there is a difference between not asking for rewards and letting people know what information come from where/who.
seeing the brain as a complex software made of physical particles, there could be a way not to have the negative side of a temporary or long term of his modification. We just don't know it enough yet to modify it this way. But like you say, its true that every complexification of the matter have a price. It cost more energy. Currently the result of us trying to be better cost us not only energy but bad feelings and diverse health problems, because we dosent know enough well how to do it.
http://www.shirky.com Look at this site if you want to read some interesting essays.
"Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet
Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source"
You'll find essays about blogs.
The link come from the article itself.
I still don't know why this feature isnt used to make the web powerful for offering more links on the same web page: On the same page, a level of links should be increasable/decreasable. The default one would be the one we see currently on all the web sites. When going to the next level, the page would not reload at all but the browser would just show the links at different places on the page. These links would have been setted by the webmaster on ideas that require linking a sentence or a part of it, not just word. This way you can include as many level of idea/concept into the written text. A website like wikipedia would see this feature really useful I think.
It may drive to innovation only if the competition is there to make you do it! But today, as company grow enough to buy each other, the ultimate goal is not to innovate but to get more money. Once you have enough money and power to keep the cash flowing, you don't care about innovation. Capitalism may motivate people for short term things, but when it does for a long time run, everyone loose in this quest. Why not being motivated by the innovation itself?
huh, Most people that hates microsoft and likes F/OSS do it because of the way the softwares are written and shared. Open source == Scientifism. Propriatary code == Capitalism.
Having a brain may make you think about the one that could be the best to support for you and next generations.
Sure you can run it under other window managers, but most KDE users have never heard of lots of Gnome utils, and many Fluxbox users don't use those type of GUI utils anyway.
If all linux desktop user had to Ask Slashdot for this kind of question... Freshmeat.net exists and its platform and even license independent. If you visit slashdot enough to use the ask slashdot feature, it is weird that you don't know the existance of freshmeat.net or at least use it if you already know it.
Why not consolidate quality standards between major open desktop before continue working separately on each of them? I can understand KDE and GNOME developpers does not aim the same goal (else they would really work together) but at least, to make good things created on a side usable on the other in a decent and easy way, why not put some efforts in setting well understood and followable standards?
Why the hell should the browsers accept a messed-up page? Think about a C compiler who could be as error tolerant as a web browser is for the html. This would result as a huge ridiculous lost of performances, pure counter-optimization!
If you are not enough skilled to learn a language as simple as x(html) can be, then use any of the wysiwyg apps out there. This will at least generate valid markup.
Microsoft was usefull to bring personal computers into the home of everybody, but now it is fucking slowing down how the web and the computer technology could evoluate. We already know it, but IE and Frontpage is the worst thing happening these days to the default end users.
Well, should we expect end users to install linux themselves? When a linux desktop is gonna be a real strong alternative to windows, it will come pre-installed with sold computers.
And for the intuitive system, if the user knows he got a new kind of OS (not a microsoft product), its gonna be easy to understand how to use it if it look more like windows. Their intuition have been forged by microsoft windows and such... there is no choice to start where microsoft is leaving, the monopoly caused everyone to think in the windows way.
I just can't wait to see how will evolve a true F/OS desktop system with the majority of people using it, and much of them making it getting better every hour.
Looking at computers users now, in western coutries, I wonder if the people not using desktop computers (ms windows) will ever do. These ones are probaly relatively old compared to the younger who have been raised in a much more computer supported society.
Brand new average young users have no problem at all to explore enough the desktop computer and software in order to do what he wants. I think the culture now make this easy.
Young users can already figure out how to get things done if you present them an installed and ready to use KDE screen. But there is some lacks (which would be a long offtopic post) that show, compared to windows, that usability isnt good enough yet.
There is a market for the light-geeks who buy the "for dummies" books about everything (how to burn CDs, etc). But to get the majority on a diferant (free) OS you have to make it usable as easily as windows is now. After you can think selling these useless books to everyone who will want to buy them.
And for the ones who will cry about "linux should not try to copy windows!": Windows is a model of usability that the world currently know and use everyday. You must integrate many similar aspect of usability if you want people to switch to free os one day. And of course there is many good things in windows, thats not all bad. But being a closed source os simply make it as evolutive as a very little and simple blue painted plastic piece lost in a desert (a big desert).
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There is no need for security anyways. Information wants to be free and each hours that pass show it better.
Knowledge about how to make a well ripped music album, dvd movie, about how to crack commercial application will always be freely and easily available on the net.
The structure of "the scene" was usefull when the links between people was tough to maintain. Now a good network(internet) link is a really easy thing to have for every people wanting to download or produce downloadable material.
The P2P networks are always going to get better and this makes topsites and such "private" networked organisation useless. It even permit the authorities to catch pirates easily. How much people you heard have been arrested for uploading some parts of a torrent? Centralising distribution is they key to get caught.
The structure of "the scene" maybe help to keep standards a bit higher, I don't know how much. Nevertheless, everyone now can easily share stuff to everyone, the quality releases will re-surface anyway, whatever the group or site it could have been came from.
Why are group/scene leaders trying to make things free by working to help or do cracking/ripping products, and at the same time wants to protect/restrict the resulting releases by making "the scene" more private/secure? just elitism? I don't know.
If I personally was interested in this kind of data, I would work more on a good P2P protocol to insure my releases reach a broad userbase.
I know there is a part of hard work for some people in "the scene". But the majority of people involved in it today could be replaced by simple little scripts. Those would be much more efficient and you would not see them being proud for transfering files from one place to another.
and here is the FREE online version:h tml
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.
More linux apps/lib adopting elektra would be a step forward in order to see more serious and funny games on linux. More good and accepted standards can only be a good thing to everyone using or developing on a computer. More good standards -> Better accessibility means -> More users -> More developpers -> More users -> Possibility of a game market on linux
A high quality of life is required to do any deep research in anything.
How an intelligent researcher will continue his work once he is dead because we did not know how to cure him of a cancer?
Why not wait quantum computers to make this job? For the moment the distribued project should be only used to calculate things urgent to people, as the whole processing power we have now is a joke if we compare to nextgen ways to design CPUs. Research for health is IMHO a priority for what we can do at the moment on earth.
Being a part of a system and being anonymous does not help the system to evolve.
there is a difference between not asking for rewards and letting people know what information come from where/who.
and he post as an AC. troll.
seeing the brain as a complex software made of physical particles, there could be a way not to have the negative side of a temporary or long term of his modification. We just don't know it enough yet to modify it this way.
But like you say, its true that every complexification of the matter have a price. It cost more energy. Currently the result of us trying to be better cost us not only energy but bad feelings and diverse health problems, because we dosent know enough well how to do it.
Who really needs to watch TV on a cellphone?
F/OSS needs more unified standards first! (like for packages).
Where are the canadian universities?
http://www.shirky.com
Look at this site if you want to read some interesting essays.
"Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet
Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source"
You'll find essays about blogs.
The link come from the article itself.
I still don't know why this feature isnt used to make the web powerful for offering more links on the same web page:
On the same page, a level of links should be increasable/decreasable. The default one would be the one we see currently on all the web sites.
When going to the next level, the page would not reload at all but the browser would just show the links at different places on the page. These links would have been setted by the webmaster on ideas that require linking a sentence or a part of it, not just word. This way you can include as many level of idea/concept into the written text. A website like wikipedia would see this feature really useful I think.
It may drive to innovation only if the competition is there to make you do it!
But today, as company grow enough to buy each other, the ultimate goal is not to innovate but to get more money.
Once you have enough money and power to keep the cash flowing, you don't care about innovation.
Capitalism may motivate people for short term things, but when it does for a long time run, everyone loose in this quest.
Why not being motivated by the innovation itself?
huh,
Most people that hates microsoft and likes F/OSS do it because of the way the softwares are written and shared.
Open source == Scientifism.
Propriatary code == Capitalism.
Having a brain may make you think about the one that could be the best to support for you and next generations.
I'd also like to know how much and in which ways it differs from wxWidgets
If all linux desktop user had to Ask Slashdot for this kind of question...
Freshmeat.net exists and its platform and even license independent. If you visit slashdot enough to use the ask slashdot feature, it is weird that you don't know the existance of freshmeat.net or at least use it if you already know it.
you are right,
not kde dependent!
lets do it QT dependent.
dont feed the trolls please (including this post as a part of the food)
Why not consolidate quality standards between major open desktop before continue working separately on each of them?
I can understand KDE and GNOME developpers does not aim the same goal (else they would really work together) but at least, to make good things created on a side usable on the other in a decent and easy way, why not put some efforts in setting well understood and followable standards?
You make the erratic tag and every tag in it, not displayed graphicaly, and display the parsing error at the top of the page.
Why the hell should the browsers accept a messed-up page?
Think about a C compiler who could be as error tolerant as a web browser is for the html. This would result as a huge ridiculous lost of performances, pure counter-optimization!
If you are not enough skilled to learn a language as simple as x(html) can be, then use any of the wysiwyg apps out there. This will at least generate valid markup.
Microsoft was usefull to bring personal computers into the home of everybody, but now it is fucking slowing down how the web and the computer technology could evoluate. We already know it, but IE and Frontpage is the worst thing happening these days to the default end users.
Well, should we expect end users to install linux themselves?
When a linux desktop is gonna be a real strong alternative to windows, it will come pre-installed with sold computers.
And for the intuitive system, if the user knows he got a new kind of OS (not a microsoft product), its gonna be easy to understand how to use it if it look more like windows. Their intuition have been forged by microsoft windows and such... there is no choice to start where microsoft is leaving, the monopoly caused everyone to think in the windows way.
I just can't wait to see how will evolve a true F/OS desktop system with the majority of people using it, and much of them making it getting better every hour.
Looking at computers users now, in western coutries, I wonder if the people not using desktop computers (ms windows) will ever do. These ones are probaly relatively old compared to the younger who have been raised in a much more computer supported society.
Brand new average young users have no problem at all to explore enough the desktop computer and software in order to do what he wants. I think the culture now make this easy.
Young users can already figure out how to get things done if you present them an installed and ready to use KDE screen. But there is some lacks (which would be a long offtopic post) that show, compared to windows, that usability isnt good enough yet.
There is a market for the light-geeks who buy the "for dummies" books about everything (how to burn CDs, etc). But to get the majority on a diferant (free) OS you have to make it usable as easily as windows is now. After you can think selling these useless books to everyone who will want to buy them.
And for the ones who will cry about "linux should not try to copy windows!":
Windows is a model of usability that the world currently know and use everyday.
You must integrate many similar aspect of usability if you want people to switch to free os one day.
And of course there is many good things in windows, thats not all bad. But being a closed source os simply make it as evolutive as a very little and simple blue painted plastic piece lost in a desert (a big desert).