The point is that if you know what it is, and it interests you then read on. If you don't know what it is, and you're skimming anyways, then just skip it. What you're suggesting is to appeal to the lowest common denominator, which isn't what this site is for. Otherwise, we'll have Linux (an open-source operating system), Apache (either the foundation which contains numerous projects or the webserver project within the Apache foundation), MySQL (an open-source database server), and PHP (originally Personal Home Page, then the recursive acronym for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, a scripted language commonly used server-side in webpages). Some people might not know what 3M is, and I doubt they'd be enlightened to know that it stands for the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing company.
It gets to the point where everything is so dumbed down that the actual content is obscured by the feeble attempts to explain technology to those who don't know what it is.
After all of those constraints are in place, he further comes up with the idea that by making $4 per visitor (after COGS and conversion rates) "the site can pay $3.99 per click". Well, I guess if you really are hellbent on giving your profits away you could...
Actually, you could pay more and many sites do. It's called the lifetime value of a customer which, in the long run, could be hundreds of times the initial sale. Consider a site like e*trade which might give away double their profits on the first transaction. Odds are pretty good that you're not just going to buy stock and then forget about it. You're eventually going to sell the stock so they make profit there too. And odds are good that you're not just going to buy and sell one stock and move on to another brokerage. You'll keep using more of their services, and the value of you as a customer will eventually exceed the cost of acquisition.
Sorry, but I don't buy it. In fact, I bet in 10 years the bing WILL be gone. Voice response makes more sense than trying to count bings.
"You've arrived at the thirteenth floor." "U bent bij de dertiende verdieping aangekomen." "Vous êtes arrivé au treizième plancher." "Sie sind im dreizehnten Stock angekommen." "Siete arrivato al tredicesimo pavimento." "Você chegou no décimo terceiro assoalho." "Usted ha llegado el décimotercer piso."
Quite the tower of Babel there. I'd hate to be at an international conference.
I see people all the time who hit both the down and up buttons on an elevator, just to get the car to come faster.
And it does come faster. But the people who were going down (eg: to parking) now have an unexpected stop at the lobby to pick someone up who, mysteriously, doesn't get off the elevator with them. Then the elevator goes back up to the lobby and stops to pick up the person who pressed the up button. Of course, she's already on the elevator so it just waits there for nobody. In the end, everybody loses.
The only time I've seen that work is when there's an elevator and somebody is holding the door open to load up a bunch of crap without locking the elevator off. In that case, the system expects you'll be taking that elevator so pressing the button opposite to the direction that elevator is heading calls another one which, otherwise, wouldn't have responded.
The BSD license is like saying "food should be free" and then setting up one free food stand where folks can take all the food they want. I believe that it's very noble, admirable, and charitable to be sure. But it's unlikely to change the world. Rather it's most likely that a bunch of fat rich people will pull up with trucks, take all the food they can carry, and then go to the nearest market and resell it all.
No, it's like saying that good recipes should be free. Then you put up a webpage with all the good recipes you can find. People are free to download those recipes and open up a restaurant, and either tell people where they got it or hide where they got it. They can use the recipes personally to enjoy it themselves. Or they can feed the world's hungry with great tasting food. Either way, the original recipes are still there for anyone to use. You'll often find that people contribute back with new recipes and ways to improve existing recipes to make them better tasting still.
Your analogy, as the other poster pointed out, uses food (a limited resource) rather than information (an unlimited resource).
Because it's written by lawyers for lawyers, not for programmers. Gotta love the OpenBSD license. Excluding the warranty disclaimer and copyright notice, here's the entire text:
"Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies."
Way to go Taiwan! I expect many more Countries to move their Government IT infrastructures over to OSS in the year ahead.
Or maybe they're allocating the 25% savings to buying all Apple products.
I'm sure I am not the only one snickering at the irony at the comment about potential Fair Trade violation -- against MS, which is an Internationally convicted Monopolist. Which begs the question, are Taiwanese Lawmakers so stupid to make laws that prevent their Governemnt from having a real choice for purchases...
Real choice for purchases doesn't mean arbitrary blackballing a supplier. Real choice means putting out a tender to meet the needs of the government, and then letting the merits of each bid stand on its own.
Relax junior, this is not a Project Management problem.
Gee, thanks Pop.
Eclipse is free, bugless and extremely scallable; That's enought for me.
Fair enough, but your decision came after trying out many differing IDEs. But to base your entire decision on nothing more than "Eclipse is free, so that's all the consideration that's necessary" is rather naive -- and that's the issue I was addressing. Maybe if you're a student on a tight budget, price is the only relevant factor. However, if you use it daily for work, the productivity differences between the various IDEs can easily justify any associated cost.
I can't really remember the last time I bought a game, because I don't need to for gameplay. And I haven't bought a new video card for 5 years. Because I don't need to for gameplay.
You're like the guy who goes around mentioning that he doesn't watch TV, only for you it's games.
You have a point, in that a game should stand or fall on its gameplay rather than how pretty it looks. No matter how much you dress up chess, if you don't enjoy the actual game you're not likely to find something like Battle Chess much more than a novelty. I guess there's a certain truth if one were to argue that any gameplay element that exists today can be replicated in text mode, but with richer visuals comes the ability to have all the tried & true gameplay presented in a way that is really engaging.
Take a look at the next Unreal engine. Many of these advanced features are already there. The demo video is quite incredible. There's also Project Offset which I'm eagerly awaiting as well.
"that's too much mental heavy lifting for the average, at least American, computer user"
How on earth can you come to the conclusion that American computer is stupid? The US drives the entire indistry and is home to MIT, Berkely, Stanford, Caltech, IBM, Apple, Micosoft, Sun, Oracle, and countless more.
Are you saying that MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, etc. is a fair representation of the average American computer user? I think those institutions would disagree that they admit only average people.
"I recall a company in the past that wouldn't sell you their software unless you purchased their hardware."
But your not so subtle implication is that somehow Apple's situation is the same as Microsoft's is a fundamental lack of brain matter for anyone who's posted on slashdot.
Strong words for someone who lacks the brain matter to see that it's not Microsoft the poster is referring to. Or did I miss the part where you were required to buy a Microsoft-brand computer system in order to get Windows?
I'd like to turn them into a hosts.txt file, resolve ALL of them to 127.0.0.1 and then put that file on my dad's computer.
I don't have a list of the top million sites, but I do know a few in the top 10. You can start by banning yahoo.com, google.com, and msn.com. Soon, your dad will be surfing only the bottom of the barrel on the internet.
The one major lesson we can take from their research is that we should probably not be using Windows.
Maybe we can all run OS X. When the built-in OS X Software Update utility needs to install a new security update, the user is prompted for the keychain password. When grandma wants to download a new recipe program, it too prompts for the password. So it must be safe, right? Well, now that the application has root access it can do a hell of a lot of damage to the system. Install all kinds of spy/adware, etc.
Even without root access, you can still do a lot of stuff on OS X for anyone malicious enough to target the system.
Not the map, if its a Valve created map. Even if its a custom map thats the same as a Valve map with custom ad textures. That map belongs to Valve. It's licensed for your use...
Right, of course it's Valve's map... what was I thinking. Not sure why I said it would be the server owner's.
No, is more like if I make an 'Indiana Jones and The Temptation of the Meatball Sub' poster, put it up in my local gaming cafe, and get money from the Subway next door becasue I'm driving business there. I fully expect to get sued by Lucasfilm.
No, that's not it. It's as if you get Subway to pay you for wearing a Subway t-shirt in Disneyland. Should Disney sue you because you're profiting from their theme park? You've paid to get in, and unless the conditions of the purchase of your admission pass state that you can't display another company's branding, there's nothing Disney can do. Now a better analogy might be erecting a billboard in Disneyland, but that would be placing commercial ads on *their* property. When you run a game server the server and map are *your* property, not Valve's.
It really does boil down to the license conditions and whether or not this constitutes a violation.
Slashdot Mirror
They would gladly do exactly what the current leader says, be it Clinton...
Do they have robotic cigars?
The point is that if you know what it is, and it interests you then read on. If you don't know what it is, and you're skimming anyways, then just skip it. What you're suggesting is to appeal to the lowest common denominator, which isn't what this site is for. Otherwise, we'll have Linux (an open-source operating system), Apache (either the foundation which contains numerous projects or the webserver project within the Apache foundation), MySQL (an open-source database server), and PHP (originally Personal Home Page, then the recursive acronym for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, a scripted language commonly used server-side in webpages). Some people might not know what 3M is, and I doubt they'd be enlightened to know that it stands for the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing company.
It gets to the point where everything is so dumbed down that the actual content is obscured by the feeble attempts to explain technology to those who don't know what it is.
After all of those constraints are in place, he further comes up with the idea that by making $4 per visitor (after COGS and conversion rates) "the site can pay $3.99 per click". Well, I guess if you really are hellbent on giving your profits away you could...
Actually, you could pay more and many sites do. It's called the lifetime value of a customer which, in the long run, could be hundreds of times the initial sale. Consider a site like e*trade which might give away double their profits on the first transaction. Odds are pretty good that you're not just going to buy stock and then forget about it. You're eventually going to sell the stock so they make profit there too. And odds are good that you're not just going to buy and sell one stock and move on to another brokerage. You'll keep using more of their services, and the value of you as a customer will eventually exceed the cost of acquisition.
Try the first result. ;-)
http://www.google.com/search?q=gold+farming
Sorry, but I don't buy it. In fact, I bet in 10 years the bing WILL be gone. Voice response makes more sense than trying to count bings.
"You've arrived at the thirteenth floor."
"U bent bij de dertiende verdieping aangekomen."
"Vous êtes arrivé au treizième plancher."
"Sie sind im dreizehnten Stock angekommen."
"Siete arrivato al tredicesimo pavimento."
"Você chegou no décimo terceiro assoalho."
"Usted ha llegado el décimotercer piso."
Quite the tower of Babel there. I'd hate to be at an international conference.
I see people all the time who hit both the down and up buttons on an elevator, just to get the car to come faster.
And it does come faster. But the people who were going down (eg: to parking) now have an unexpected stop at the lobby to pick someone up who, mysteriously, doesn't get off the elevator with them. Then the elevator goes back up to the lobby and stops to pick up the person who pressed the up button. Of course, she's already on the elevator so it just waits there for nobody. In the end, everybody loses.
The only time I've seen that work is when there's an elevator and somebody is holding the door open to load up a bunch of crap without locking the elevator off. In that case, the system expects you'll be taking that elevator so pressing the button opposite to the direction that elevator is heading calls another one which, otherwise, wouldn't have responded.
And during the day you can use solar, right?
Sure, just stare at the sun for a couple of minutes and you're good to go!
The BSD license is like saying "food should be free" and then setting up one free food stand where folks can take all the food they want. I believe that it's very noble, admirable, and charitable to be sure. But it's unlikely to change the world. Rather it's most likely that a bunch of fat rich people will pull up with trucks, take all the food they can carry, and then go to the nearest market and resell it all.
No, it's like saying that good recipes should be free. Then you put up a webpage with all the good recipes you can find. People are free to download those recipes and open up a restaurant, and either tell people where they got it or hide where they got it. They can use the recipes personally to enjoy it themselves. Or they can feed the world's hungry with great tasting food. Either way, the original recipes are still there for anyone to use. You'll often find that people contribute back with new recipes and ways to improve existing recipes to make them better tasting still.
Your analogy, as the other poster pointed out, uses food (a limited resource) rather than information (an unlimited resource).
why is it so difficult to read?
Because it's written by lawyers for lawyers, not for programmers. Gotta love the OpenBSD license. Excluding the warranty disclaimer and copyright notice, here's the entire text:
"Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies."
I like my licenses without built-in ideologies.
Way to go Taiwan! I expect many more Countries to move their Government IT infrastructures over to OSS in the year ahead.
Or maybe they're allocating the 25% savings to buying all Apple products.
I'm sure I am not the only one snickering at the irony at the comment about potential Fair Trade violation -- against MS, which is an Internationally convicted Monopolist. Which begs the question, are Taiwanese Lawmakers so stupid to make laws that prevent their Governemnt from having a real choice for purchases...
Real choice for purchases doesn't mean arbitrary blackballing a supplier. Real choice means putting out a tender to meet the needs of the government, and then letting the merits of each bid stand on its own.
Relax junior, this is not a Project Management problem.
Gee, thanks Pop.
Eclipse is free, bugless and extremely scallable; That's enought for me.
Fair enough, but your decision came after trying out many differing IDEs. But to base your entire decision on nothing more than "Eclipse is free, so that's all the consideration that's necessary" is rather naive -- and that's the issue I was addressing. Maybe if you're a student on a tight budget, price is the only relevant factor. However, if you use it daily for work, the productivity differences between the various IDEs can easily justify any associated cost.
I can't really remember the last time I bought a game, because I don't need to for gameplay. And I haven't bought a new video card for 5 years. Because I don't need to for gameplay.
You're like the guy who goes around mentioning that he doesn't watch TV, only for you it's games.
You have a point, in that a game should stand or fall on its gameplay rather than how pretty it looks. No matter how much you dress up chess, if you don't enjoy the actual game you're not likely to find something like Battle Chess much more than a novelty. I guess there's a certain truth if one were to argue that any gameplay element that exists today can be replicated in text mode, but with richer visuals comes the ability to have all the tried & true gameplay presented in a way that is really engaging.
Take a look at the next Unreal engine. Many of these advanced features are already there. The demo video is quite incredible. There's also Project Offset which I'm eagerly awaiting as well.
Galaxies Floating on a Dark Matter Stream
So, the old lady was right... it's turtles all the way down.
"that's too much mental heavy lifting for the average, at least American, computer user"
How on earth can you come to the conclusion that American computer is stupid? The US drives the entire indistry and is home to MIT, Berkely, Stanford, Caltech, IBM, Apple, Micosoft, Sun, Oracle, and countless more.
Are you saying that MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, etc. is a fair representation of the average American computer user? I think those institutions would disagree that they admit only average people.
Strong words for someone who lacks the brain matter to see that it's not Microsoft the poster is referring to. Or did I miss the part where you were required to buy a Microsoft-brand computer system in order to get Windows?
It is always easier to imitate than to innovate.
.doc file.
Indeed. Now excuse me as I go fire up OpenOffice -- I need to create a
Eclipse == free
IntelliJ == NOT free
That's enough for me right there.
Is that how you make all your decisions?
No condoms == free
Using condoms == NOT free
Cost/benefits analysis... more than just a buzzword!
Drag and drop JSF is very important if you work in a shop that is constantly teatering towards ASP.NET
If they're still doing that, you might want to wean them off of ASP.NET.
I'd like to turn them into a hosts.txt file, resolve ALL of them to 127.0.0.1 and then put that file on my dad's computer.
I don't have a list of the top million sites, but I do know a few in the top 10. You can start by banning yahoo.com, google.com, and msn.com. Soon, your dad will be surfing only the bottom of the barrel on the internet.
Flipping through the pages, I found a few references to only Ivy Leavue Universities and overseas institutions (specifically Cambridge and Harvard).
Harvard moved overseas?
Did they test Slashdot? I hope they release a full report as I've been having a hard time finding the downloads section.
The one major lesson we can take from their research is that we should probably not be using Windows.
Maybe we can all run OS X. When the built-in OS X Software Update utility needs to install a new security update, the user is prompted for the keychain password. When grandma wants to download a new recipe program, it too prompts for the password. So it must be safe, right? Well, now that the application has root access it can do a hell of a lot of damage to the system. Install all kinds of spy/adware, etc.
Even without root access, you can still do a lot of stuff on OS X for anyone malicious enough to target the system.
Not the map, if its a Valve created map. Even if its a custom map thats the same as a Valve map with custom ad textures. That map belongs to Valve. It's licensed for your use...
Right, of course it's Valve's map... what was I thinking. Not sure why I said it would be the server owner's.
No, is more like if I make an 'Indiana Jones and The Temptation of the Meatball Sub' poster, put it up in my local gaming cafe, and get money from the Subway next door becasue I'm driving business there. I fully expect to get sued by Lucasfilm.
No, that's not it. It's as if you get Subway to pay you for wearing a Subway t-shirt in Disneyland. Should Disney sue you because you're profiting from their theme park? You've paid to get in, and unless the conditions of the purchase of your admission pass state that you can't display another company's branding, there's nothing Disney can do. Now a better analogy might be erecting a billboard in Disneyland, but that would be placing commercial ads on *their* property. When you run a game server the server and map are *your* property, not Valve's.
It really does boil down to the license conditions and whether or not this constitutes a violation.