They didn't even find that old civilization seed (in gold, iirc ?) where a man & a woman are sleeping !
Guess they were unlucky.... else we could have unlimited energy !! (and also maybe a war, who knows)
(hint: french book from Rene Barjavel, 'La nuit des temps' / rough translation 'the dawn of times')
As the AC wrote, if everything is fine, the need for source applies only to developers, right ?
Common people just don't care about it, and simply use the application.
On the other hand, didn't you sometimes feel some application has a weird interface, or strange things in it ? In that case, sure, having the source code is cool, IF you feel like first understanding how it works, and secondly taking the time to alter it the way you want it to work.
Oh, and also sometimes some features don't really need to be copied from closed software (spywares, for instance)...
...do we need all this flash & bell things in Explorer / whatever in the first place ? Sure it's nice to see tags of a file without opening, but is it really necessary ? Couldn't people live without it ?
As for the buffer overflows, that isn't exactly a new thing, you'd like people to take better attention on those sort of things...
Oh, and that's a trouble also because Explorer runs with high-level privileges, too (just can't help smacking ms, sorry), that this kind of exploits can be annoying...
Random thoughts...
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Got Sleep?
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...from my tired ('cause of inactivity) brain:
doesn't the body itself need to rest sometimes ?
what about the mind ? isn't sleep first a period of imagination & brainstorming, then something to relax the mind too ? could they 'emulate' that using drugs / TRM / you name it ?
isn't the very act of getting ready to sleep something enjoyable ? lie in bed, read some, then Zz. Of course for military & such it's not the same, but 'ordinary' people may just like that too much to go without sleep. And it makes for a nice cut in the day, too !
use DNA techniques to alter genes, sure, just need to devise a way to change all (relevant) cells of an adult, or else wait for the next generation
what about muscular tiredness ? suppose your drug / medicine / TRM makes you able to avoid sleeping, could you still do active like crazy for many many hours without needing to pause ?
Makes me wonder why for instance Lupin is in the Adult Swim (don't know the other 2 series, so can't judge).
From what i know Lupin is for everyone, children to adults... though for once a network promoting anime for adults, instead of thinking anime is for children, is a good thing ^_-
BTW i think Miyasaki worked on Lupin.
That sounds like a nice idea at first sight.
But i think the trouble is that this selection system will ultimately invite people not to think of the differences between the licences.
Fine, it's nice to select a license quickly, but people won't be able to understand why choose this license instead of another one, or the issues related to each type of licences....
People will prefer this selection method instead of balancing pros & cons (i admit it can sometimes be a real pain if you release a lot of projects), thus losing track of the differences between all the licences...
In that case, everyone involved in the phone listing, record keeping, and such, is a criminal. As pointed out in the article, the reporter mainly collected publicy available data.... I don't see how he can possibly be tagged as criminal for that...
TIA would even be worse, since it'd collect non-public data as well.
Just checked the viewer & the quote thingy.
Sounds fun, though i wonder how modem users will react to the bandwidth use.
Now i wonder if that'll really be that useful. The risk i see is to create 'closed' communities, ie sites that point mutually at each other, and Google will pick one & use the others' quotes, without seeking quotes from other sites.
Also how do they find quotes ? While indexing pages for search ? How do they determine which quotes will appear ? Based on commercial relations ?
I think the ultimate search tool will be able:
to reply concisely (ie like 10 really relevant matches) to a query, instead of spitting a zillion pages, with much redundancy (tried seeking something only to find 100 results pointing to the same message in a mailing list ?). Though maybe searching from more specialized sites is better in that case
to reply to questions like 'who is the 5th Physics Nobel Prize winner ?', but i think i'm dreaming, won't be that far (researchers are only saying they gonna succeed since 20+ years, after all)
I guess it depends on many different factors. You have to ask yourself (or make the managers ask themselves ^_-) at least those questions:
are there sensitive documents on the network, which shouldn't be readable by some users ? If yes, you'd better leave those passwords, since if you remove'em, anyone can log in as a manager & read that data. And forget those nifty Word / Access / whatever password protection, people need 10sec to find the password... The only way is to prevent users from reading files using groups access control & such, something easily defeated if no password...
do you trust all your users ? again, removing passwords will enable anyone to log as anyone & create havoc w/o being able to find who did it, since the login won't help (maybe combination of which computer that was from & the time, but that may not be enough)
are your users sufficiently educated to know how to use computers ? Meaning, are they responsible enough to understand what no passwords will mean, and act smartly accordingly ?
study with your manager the security risk involved with having much data erased by someone who used a high-level account to trash many important files. Are your backups done often enough ? How long to recover everything ? Is it worth the spending of removing passwords ? (ok, that's a question you probably ask yourself often enough, but removing passwords will increase the risk of random file deletions IF users want to create havoc)
Where i work the security is pretty tight (comp locks after 5mins of inactivity, many things turned off, and so on). It's sometimes a pain in the ass, but at least they really take security into account...
Maybe the ideas he develop aren't earthshaking in themselves (rather more like trying to burst through an opened door ^_-), but at least it's nice to see those arguments in an ordered & clearly presented way !
As many here i sometimes grab stuff from the net, but when i really enjoy i usually buy...
Well, i guess that's the difference between theoritical stuff (HTML standard) and the practical implementation (browsers)...
Maybe also the time required for a feature to become standard HTML plays a role, think people are gonna wait some months to have a feature, when the browser (broken or anticipating the new standard) can make it already ?
Isn't that after all also how the Internet itself works usually ? ie people do something in different ways, usually without any standard, or extending one, then some mix of everything becomes 'the' new standard (RFCs & so on) ?
Actually, the article says they may have produced some, not that they did produce some...
The trouble with high-level physics is that theoritical models are actually built on clay... nothing is ever sure, there are always things you need to adjust, and such...
Imagine, you drive peacefully, suddenly realize you heading in for a bad collision.... you think 'at least i have that jacket' and at that time you have the battery warning light switching on !!!
...to play this game when RealLife (tm) has been up to version 5.6 since a few million years already ?
Sounds like another dot-com failure.....
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Goodbye, Liquid Audio?
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Apparently they haven't realized that we can find any music on the net...
There are so many streaming servers around that you can prolly find anything you wanna listen to.
More important, maybe consumers aren't ready to download music from the net. I mean, what percentage of people browsing will prefer to buy music from a company, then either listen to it online (meaning you hafta TURN ON the comp to listen to it !) or burn it, thus taking the time to burn the track (ok, not a long time, but still...)
I'd rather go to the nearest diskstore & buy some CDs that will have a nice cover...
Maybe they'll indeed port some of their software to Linux. But maybe they'll use some intermediary solution, like using Wine (or their own modified version) to run 'real' Windows software, or using some ported.NET stuff to compile for multi-platform...
The article doesn't mention how they plan to port. If (i don't know if it's the case or not) their software is developped in for instance C++ / MFC, or VB, it would prolly be easier to either port the core architecture to Linux, or use emulation... After all VB or C++ / MFC aren't really portable right now, except maybe on Mac
Well, those are probably common tips, but i may as well tell'em:
* as others suggested, depending on your licence type / source code release plans (or lack of), you can put a page on Sourceforge, or Savannah, or any other software directory out there.
* register the project on Freshmeat (or any other software directory out there), that may help too
* try to spread the word about your projects where your potential users are, ie right forums / news sites / mailing-lists, and such
* explain clearly from the start what licence you will have: freeware ? free / OS software ? what will be the policy for submitted patches ?
* also think of all your requirements: do you want CVS access ? mailing lists ? how much downloads do you expect ? depending on the answers, you may hop to Sourceforge / Savannah, or rent server space, or such
Sounds nice, but they aren't addressing the main trouble: the overuse of plastic everywhere !!
Just do a little experiment: during a full week, do your shopping as usual, and pay attention to all plastic stuff you trash immediately after purchase. Figure you really needed how much of all that plastic ?
I'm pretty sure plastic use could be reduced drastically in certain fields, before even thinking of making it cheaper....
(sorry, no clue on how to reply privately to rock_climbing_guy)
Mind explaining why it isn't right ? Apart the fact that maybe it isn't the transliteration you're used to...
They need geography lessons !
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Earth as Art
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LOL, on the continent selection page, Greenland is part of EUROPE !!!!!
Yeah, i oversimplified, sorry.
Scientists could see what regions are stimulated by the ad. If some of those regions are also stimulated when the person experiments joy / sadness / whatever, then maybe (s)he's currently experiencing that feeling... so maybe the ad induces that feeling...
Would need to make many experiments to be sure, though;P
Depends on how you define 'short series'.
IIRC, the chapters can be read independently & take place at different periods in the first years of the Foundation... So in a way there are short stories, though they do make a coherent novel, indeed...
Slashdot Mirror
They didn't even find that old civilization seed (in gold, iirc ?) where a man & a woman are sleeping !
Guess they were unlucky.... else we could have unlimited energy !! (and also maybe a war, who knows)
(hint: french book from Rene Barjavel, 'La nuit des temps' / rough translation 'the dawn of times')
As the AC wrote, if everything is fine, the need for source applies only to developers, right ?
Common people just don't care about it, and simply use the application.
On the other hand, didn't you sometimes feel some application has a weird interface, or strange things in it ? In that case, sure, having the source code is cool, IF you feel like first understanding how it works, and secondly taking the time to alter it the way you want it to work.
Oh, and also sometimes some features don't really need to be copied from closed software (spywares, for instance)...
...do we need all this flash & bell things in Explorer / whatever in the first place ? Sure it's nice to see tags of a file without opening, but is it really necessary ? Couldn't people live without it ?
As for the buffer overflows, that isn't exactly a new thing, you'd like people to take better attention on those sort of things...
Oh, and that's a trouble also because Explorer runs with high-level privileges, too (just can't help smacking ms, sorry), that this kind of exploits can be annoying...
just my 2 cents of euro...
*goes back to sleep*
Makes me wonder why for instance Lupin is in the Adult Swim (don't know the other 2 series, so can't judge).
From what i know Lupin is for everyone, children to adults... though for once a network promoting anime for adults, instead of thinking anime is for children, is a good thing ^_-
BTW i think Miyasaki worked on Lupin.
That sounds like a nice idea at first sight.
But i think the trouble is that this selection system will ultimately invite people not to think of the differences between the licences.
Fine, it's nice to select a license quickly, but people won't be able to understand why choose this license instead of another one, or the issues related to each type of licences....
People will prefer this selection method instead of balancing pros & cons (i admit it can sometimes be a real pain if you release a lot of projects), thus losing track of the differences between all the licences...
In that case, everyone involved in the phone listing, record keeping, and such, is a criminal. As pointed out in the article, the reporter mainly collected publicy available data.... I don't see how he can possibly be tagged as criminal for that...
TIA would even be worse, since it'd collect non-public data as well.
Sounds fun, though i wonder how modem users will react to the bandwidth use.
Now i wonder if that'll really be that useful. The risk i see is to create 'closed' communities, ie sites that point mutually at each other, and Google will pick one & use the others' quotes, without seeking quotes from other sites.
Also how do they find quotes ? While indexing pages for search ? How do they determine which quotes will appear ? Based on commercial relations ?
I think the ultimate search tool will be able:
Where i work the security is pretty tight (comp locks after 5mins of inactivity, many things turned off, and so on). It's sometimes a pain in the ass, but at least they really take security into account...
AFAIK, no, but the mere fact that their ideas become part of HTML proves that the community liked them, no ?
Maybe the ideas he develop aren't earthshaking in themselves (rather more like trying to burst through an opened door ^_-), but at least it's nice to see those arguments in an ordered & clearly presented way !
As many here i sometimes grab stuff from the net, but when i really enjoy i usually buy...
Well, i guess that's the difference between theoritical stuff (HTML standard) and the practical implementation (browsers)...
Maybe also the time required for a feature to become standard HTML plays a role, think people are gonna wait some months to have a feature, when the browser (broken or anticipating the new standard) can make it already ?
Isn't that after all also how the Internet itself works usually ? ie people do something in different ways, usually without any standard, or extending one, then some mix of everything becomes 'the' new standard (RFCs & so on) ?
Actually, the article says they may have produced some, not that they did produce some...
The trouble with high-level physics is that theoritical models are actually built on clay... nothing is ever sure, there are always things you need to adjust, and such...
Imagine, you drive peacefully, suddenly realize you heading in for a bad collision.... you think 'at least i have that jacket' and at that time you have the battery warning light switching on !!!
...to play this game when RealLife (tm) has been up to version 5.6 since a few million years already ?
Apparently they haven't realized that we can find any music on the net...
There are so many streaming servers around that you can prolly find anything you wanna listen to.
More important, maybe consumers aren't ready to download music from the net. I mean, what percentage of people browsing will prefer to buy music from a company, then either listen to it online (meaning you hafta TURN ON the comp to listen to it !) or burn it, thus taking the time to burn the track (ok, not a long time, but still...)
I'd rather go to the nearest diskstore & buy some CDs that will have a nice cover...
Maybe they'll indeed port some of their software to Linux. But maybe they'll use some intermediary solution, like using Wine (or their own modified version) to run 'real' Windows software, or using some ported .NET stuff to compile for multi-platform...
The article doesn't mention how they plan to port. If (i don't know if it's the case or not) their software is developped in for instance C++ / MFC, or VB, it would prolly be easier to either port the core architecture to Linux, or use emulation... After all VB or C++ / MFC aren't really portable right now, except maybe on Mac
Actually, it should be this
Hey, GPL'ing notepad would prolly reveal hidden Windows features / API they wanna keep for themselves !
Well, those are probably common tips, but i may as well tell'em:
* as others suggested, depending on your licence type / source code release plans (or lack of), you can put a page on Sourceforge, or Savannah, or any other software directory out there.
* register the project on Freshmeat (or any other software directory out there), that may help too
* try to spread the word about your projects where your potential users are, ie right forums / news sites / mailing-lists, and such
* explain clearly from the start what licence you will have: freeware ? free / OS software ? what will be the policy for submitted patches ?
* also think of all your requirements: do you want CVS access ? mailing lists ? how much downloads do you expect ? depending on the answers, you may hop to Sourceforge / Savannah, or rent server space, or such
As i said, prolly basic tips......
Sounds nice, but they aren't addressing the main trouble: the overuse of plastic everywhere !!
Just do a little experiment: during a full week, do your shopping as usual, and pay attention to all plastic stuff you trash immediately after purchase. Figure you really needed how much of all that plastic ?
I'm pretty sure plastic use could be reduced drastically in certain fields, before even thinking of making it cheaper....
(sorry, no clue on how to reply privately to rock_climbing_guy)
Mind explaining why it isn't right ? Apart the fact that maybe it isn't the transliteration you're used to...
LOL, on the continent selection page, Greenland is part of EUROPE !!!!!
Yeah, i oversimplified, sorry. ;P
Scientists could see what regions are stimulated by the ad. If some of those regions are also stimulated when the person experiments joy / sadness / whatever, then maybe (s)he's currently experiencing that feeling... so maybe the ad induces that feeling...
Would need to make many experiments to be sure, though
Depends on how you define 'short series'.
IIRC, the chapters can be read independently & take place at different periods in the first years of the Foundation... So in a way there are short stories, though they do make a coherent novel, indeed...