I'm an inventor (of a game called the Culica) and this is the first success after 2 failures - each taking 3 years. We did not go bust performing those failures, instead we learned from them. The learning is the reward.
In science, failures should be published so that others may learn from them.
It's a new year - this could be a date-related bug.
Or it might be MS incompetence by a manager, as per Roz Ho and the Danger "cloud" data loss.
Who knows?
One lesson to derive is that Hotmail is essentially a "Cloud" service provided by Microsoft and Microsoft has hosed people's "Cloud" data.
Would you trust MS to keep your data safe? Governments are, apparently. Governments are trusting YOUR data to the MS "Cloud". How long will it be before the headline "Government apologises for "losing" your data"?
Happy Y2K+11
- Eadon
Precisely! Launch window opportunities aside, NASA is unable to function IMHO. The voyager space probes and their generation showed how to do it. Yet these days interplanetary exploration is slower than ever. Why? Possibly because of Parkinson's observation that bureaucracy will expand and work with it, and that committees become deeply inefficient if they contain more than 19 people. (and 8 people, but that's an aberration).
It is depressing that billions are sunk into funding banks, and from a NASA perspective, a pointless orbiting "space" station. Yet the real joy of space exploration, that of visiting the outer gas giants and their planets is neglected. We should be sending many probes to Jupiter, Saturn, Titan, Uranus and Neptune right now.
You are probably employed by an agency that MS uses to disperse abject BS. The sugar interface is not the real point. The point is that Linux allows the user to have access to the source code and a panoply of free software and utilities. It also gives you the ability to update that software at will. At zero cost. No EULAs etc. XP gives you nothing but MS crapware. The registry bloats. the updates cause bloat. Before long you are beseiged by malware and trojans.
The dishonesty of winning goodwill by espousing open source, only then to betray that honourable course, that is shameful.
Human behaviour is connected due to active observers. Natural behaviour is less so. This is a question of criticality. If you pour sand, then a pile forms that creates "avalanches" in an exponentially unpredictable fashion. Small avalanches occur more than large ones. both seem to be inherently random in their timing.
Disclaimer: As a Java developer that prefers Linux as the dev environment over Windows, I have a professional desire for Linux to become the platform of the future.
In my opinion this is an omen of things to come. This is another drip, if you will, on the forehead of Bill Gates, in what shall become a Chinese water torture of drips, that, to change analogies midstream, shall become acidic and corrode his continued domination of the world.
This event has elevated the visibility of Linux within at least one corporation, and ripples shall emanate from there.
Geeks that moan that this is not open source software should realise that this product complements, rather than replaces open source software. And without complements, open source itself shall not be as rich.
This idea is fascinating, it applies to open source what the brilliant, prolific mathematician Paul Erdos (of Erdos Number fame) used to do: offer rewards for proofs of problems he himself couldn't solve.
I think that the point that people are missing is that bounties will create contests, and there will be kudos to programmers that win. This is very exciting because, as someone pointed out before, this will motivate people to do the jobs that are important for, say, usability, but which people consider too difficult, too boring, too time consuming, too unrewarding, etc
Look on the bright side, if Microsoft bludgeons developers into removing "Windows" from their product name, the new product name will morph into something non-microsoft flavoured, i.e. to something more portable. It is ironic that such product names would be more portable to non-Windows operating systems. MS is using its lawyers to inadvertantly encourage apps to port to Linux or BSD!!!
And by annoying developers, who might now appreciate that the linux/BSD community are less likely to bully them, these developers may be more open minded about supporting Linux. So MS shoots itself in both of its fat fleshy feet.
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I'm an inventor (of a game called the Culica) and this is the first success after 2 failures - each taking 3 years. We did not go bust performing those failures, instead we learned from them. The learning is the reward. In science, failures should be published so that others may learn from them.
It's a new year - this could be a date-related bug. Or it might be MS incompetence by a manager, as per Roz Ho and the Danger "cloud" data loss. Who knows? One lesson to derive is that Hotmail is essentially a "Cloud" service provided by Microsoft and Microsoft has hosed people's "Cloud" data. Would you trust MS to keep your data safe? Governments are, apparently. Governments are trusting YOUR data to the MS "Cloud". How long will it be before the headline "Government apologises for "losing" your data"? Happy Y2K+11 - Eadon
He didn't get the year wrong in the way you suppose. He used 1984 as an anagram of 1948 - the time of the writing of the book.
Precisely! Launch window opportunities aside, NASA is unable to function IMHO. The voyager space probes and their generation showed how to do it. Yet these days interplanetary exploration is slower than ever. Why? Possibly because of Parkinson's observation that bureaucracy will expand and work with it, and that committees become deeply inefficient if they contain more than 19 people. (and 8 people, but that's an aberration). It is depressing that billions are sunk into funding banks, and from a NASA perspective, a pointless orbiting "space" station. Yet the real joy of space exploration, that of visiting the outer gas giants and their planets is neglected. We should be sending many probes to Jupiter, Saturn, Titan, Uranus and Neptune right now.
You are probably employed by an agency that MS uses to disperse abject BS. The sugar interface is not the real point. The point is that Linux allows the user to have access to the source code and a panoply of free software and utilities. It also gives you the ability to update that software at will. At zero cost. No EULAs etc. XP gives you nothing but MS crapware. The registry bloats. the updates cause bloat. Before long you are beseiged by malware and trojans. The dishonesty of winning goodwill by espousing open source, only then to betray that honourable course, that is shameful.
Human behaviour is connected due to active observers. Natural behaviour is less so. This is a question of criticality. If you pour sand, then a pile forms that creates "avalanches" in an exponentially unpredictable fashion. Small avalanches occur more than large ones. both seem to be inherently random in their timing.
Disclaimer: As a Java developer that prefers Linux as the dev environment over Windows, I have a professional desire for Linux to become the platform of the future. In my opinion this is an omen of things to come. This is another drip, if you will, on the forehead of Bill Gates, in what shall become a Chinese water torture of drips, that, to change analogies midstream, shall become acidic and corrode his continued domination of the world. This event has elevated the visibility of Linux within at least one corporation, and ripples shall emanate from there. Geeks that moan that this is not open source software should realise that this product complements, rather than replaces open source software. And without complements, open source itself shall not be as rich.
This idea is fascinating, it applies to open source what the brilliant, prolific mathematician Paul Erdos (of Erdos Number fame) used to do: offer rewards for proofs of problems he himself couldn't solve.
I think that the point that people are missing is that bounties will create contests, and there will be kudos to programmers that win. This is very exciting because, as someone pointed out before, this will motivate people to do the jobs that are important for, say, usability, but which people consider too difficult, too boring, too time consuming, too unrewarding, etc
- Eadon
Look on the bright side, if Microsoft bludgeons developers into removing "Windows" from their product name, the new product name will morph into something non-microsoft flavoured, i.e. to something more portable. It is ironic that such product names would be more portable to non-Windows operating systems. MS is using its lawyers to inadvertantly encourage apps to port to Linux or BSD!!!
And by annoying developers, who might now appreciate that the linux/BSD community are less likely to bully them, these developers may be more open minded about supporting Linux. So MS shoots itself in both of its fat fleshy feet.