Spanish Facts and Stats
i was just doing a remark about the fact that A LOT of people speak spanish and therefore shoudn't be such a surprise the site have news on spanish too.
why always USA sound so innocent and in a minding-in-our-own-bussines attitude, when all the world know it better? American should read foreign newspapers, and really listen to the rest of the world.
I know that maybe it's RMS own "fault" (based on the journalist report of his almost dogmatic attitude about the "GNU/Linux" stuff).. BUT i really missed the oportunity to see both great leaders -or at least visionaries if you want to argue- on Wired cover.. i think RMS deserve it... just picture it: RMS and Tordavls on Wired Magazine with a cover that say "Leaders of the Free World".
have someone else try something like this:
1)A team of developers create, design and code the game, which is opensource. Lets call them The Founding Fathers
2)People who want to play, must pay a fee. This fee is to maintain the server, and pay the developers -as usual
3)After a period, comes election times. other developers step in, make their new propossal to the game and gammers vote.
4)So, this guys take the administration and improvement of the game on his hands, they rule the game and get paid for it trough the gammers fees.
5)GOTO 3..and you have a ever evolving game with democracy.
This is more about geek/developer involment on the game itself, not just the "rules" like ATITD "lawmaking", but actual improvements at code level to the game. Players should be able to choose what game do they want... trough some style of opensource license, gamers & coders who want to change the game itself may run as candidates for popular election, that way the game keeps improving or evolving in the way "citizens" want to. As in any world, citizens has responsabilities too. They must pay a fee, or taxes, to maintain servers, bandwitdh, etc and the developers/officials they elect to ensure quality. If you want to be commercial viable and bring some stabilty, maybe the so-called "founding fathers" could collect part of the "taxes"and with that manage the servers, mantain the framework on wich elected developers work on, market the game...etc.
For this to work, the game must be developed in a very modular way, enabling fast, dynamic and centralized changes on the way the game' world works.
i was more about geek/developer involment on the game itself. Not just the "rules" like ATITD "lawmaking", but actual improvements at code level to the game. Players should be able to choose what game do they want... trough opensource code, gamers & coders who want to change the game itself may run as candidates for popular election, that way the game keeps improving or evolving in the way "citizens" want to. As in any world, citizens has responsabilities too. They must pay a fee, or taxes, to maintain servers, bandwitdh, etc and the developers/officials they elect to ensure quality.
If you want to be commercial viable and bring some stabilty, maybe the so-called "founding fathers" could collect part of the "taxes"and with that manage the servers, mantain the framework on wich elected developers work on, market the game...etc.
my worst fear when Symantec bought SecurityFocus was the ability to exercise free of speech and free research on bugtraq... now it is just matter of time when corporate censorship begin to infect what can be said, research, discused or developed on the mailing list.
greetings, on the vein of opensource, have someone else try something like this: 1)A team of developers create, design and code the game, which is opensource. Lets call them The Founding Fathers 2)People who want to play, must pay a fee. This fee is to maintain the server, and pay the developers -as usual 3)After a period, comes election times. other developers step in, make their new propossal to the game and gammers vote. 4)So, this guys take the administration and improvement of the game on his hands, they rule the game and get paid for it trough the gammers fees. 5)GOTO 3... and you have a ever evolving game with democracy.
" America, real America is a place of freedom, of dreams and hopes, of caring for each other, of support for the less fortunate"
tell that to the 1k+ people -yes they are PEOPLE- on Guantanamo who hasn't be charge of anything and are inprision without rights whatsoever.
i'm been around linux since maybe 6 or 5 years, and have a PocketPC since 2. An Ipaq to be accurate.
The point on having linux on this kind of devices are several. As other have point out, one is to be able to say "you can ran linux on a toaster". ie, linux is flexible and powerful -as a tech platform ("you CAN do with linux whatever you want") and as a development model ("you MAY di with linux whatever you want").
Other point, is options. Monopolies lead nowhere, all slashdoter know this. I know, there is Palm, but seriously, Palm aren Pocket PCs, they are PDA, and i think there is a differece.
Finally, but not less important, people put linux on everything because they can.
Miself, i haven't move from Windows CE to Linux because there is a severe lack of sync tools. Even inside open source software. I still depend on Outlook because of that. I want to move all my things to Evolution but but i cant cause linux or not on my PocketPC i still can't sync.
"Here, software is not made by armies of "Microserfs" employed by a giant corporation, but by armies of volunteer programmers who "donate" their code to the *public domain*."
Here, software is not made by armies of "Microserfs" employed by a giant corporation, but by armies of volunteer programmers who "donate" their code to the *public domain.*
Space program have been always be about politics.
I'm not going to deny there is so interesting and neccesary scientifics needs about it, but mainly it's a politician's toy for the proud/imagination of american people. When people don't look at NASA, their budget start to shrink.
That is a clear evidence that there is no great quest for scientific truth.
That what i see...
Anyways, i think the old days of goverment dependecy of the space exploration will come to an end, and private companys will take it from there. Space race will detached itself from burocracy and popularity rates. THAT will be interesting.
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Spanish Facts and Stats
i was just doing a remark about the fact that A LOT of people speak spanish and therefore shoudn't be such a surprise the site have news on spanish too.
could be Cuba or could be that there is 332 million people talking spanish... 10 million more than english speakers.
4+Gb of opensource/free software on a single disc... why don't do a Linux DVD Live distro? ..just wondering.
... you remember? that thing called Quicktime that come bundled with a OS called OS X?
why always USA sound so innocent and in a minding-in-our-own-bussines attitude, when all the world know it better? American should read foreign newspapers, and really listen to the rest of the world.
No wonder about this.. SCO Group was label as a "buy" by Deutsche Bank analyst on October 15th.
I know that maybe it's RMS own "fault" (based on the journalist report of his almost dogmatic attitude about the "GNU/Linux" stuff).. BUT i really missed the oportunity to see both great leaders -or at least visionaries if you want to argue- on Wired cover.. i think RMS deserve it... just picture it:
RMS and Tordavls on Wired Magazine with a cover that say "Leaders of the Free World".
and what exactly Apple will put put inside XServe servers? of for that matter, i think IBM is using PPC970 (aka G5) as server cpu too, isn't?
have someone else try something like this: 1)A team of developers create, design and code the game, which is opensource. Lets call them The Founding Fathers 2)People who want to play, must pay a fee. This fee is to maintain the server, and pay the developers -as usual 3)After a period, comes election times. other developers step in, make their new propossal to the game and gammers vote. 4)So, this guys take the administration and improvement of the game on his hands, they rule the game and get paid for it trough the gammers fees. 5)GOTO 3 ..and you have a ever evolving game with democracy.
This is more about geek/developer involment on the game itself, not just the "rules" like ATITD "lawmaking", but actual improvements at code level to the game. Players should be able to choose what game do they want... trough some style of opensource license, gamers & coders who want to change the game itself may run as candidates for popular election, that way the game keeps improving or evolving in the way "citizens" want to. As in any world, citizens has responsabilities too. They must pay a fee, or taxes, to maintain servers, bandwitdh, etc and the developers/officials they elect to ensure quality. If you want to be commercial viable and bring some stabilty, maybe the so-called "founding fathers" could collect part of the "taxes"and with that manage the servers, mantain the framework on wich elected developers work on, market the game...etc.
For this to work, the game must be developed in a very modular way, enabling fast, dynamic and centralized changes on the way the game' world works.
i was more about geek/developer involment on the game itself. Not just the "rules" like ATITD "lawmaking", but actual improvements at code level to the game. Players should be able to choose what game do they want... trough opensource code, gamers & coders who want to change the game itself may run as candidates for popular election, that way the game keeps improving or evolving in the way "citizens" want to. As in any world, citizens has responsabilities too. They must pay a fee, or taxes, to maintain servers, bandwitdh, etc and the developers/officials they elect to ensure quality. If you want to be commercial viable and bring some stabilty, maybe the so-called "founding fathers" could collect part of the "taxes"and with that manage the servers, mantain the framework on wich elected developers work on, market the game...etc.
my worst fear when Symantec bought SecurityFocus was the ability to exercise free of speech and free research on bugtraq... now it is just matter of time when corporate censorship begin to infect what can be said, research, discused or developed on the mailing list.
greetings,
on the vein of opensource, have someone else try something like this:
1)A team of developers create, design and code the game, which is opensource. Lets call them The Founding Fathers
2)People who want to play, must pay a fee. This fee is to maintain the server, and pay the developers -as usual
3)After a period, comes election times. other developers step in, make their new propossal to the game and gammers vote.
4)So, this guys take the administration and improvement of the game on his hands, they rule the game and get paid for it trough the gammers fees.
5)GOTO 3... and you have a ever evolving game with democracy.
who are you? Robin Hood? take it easy...
does it run linux?
" America, real America is a place of freedom, of dreams and hopes, of caring for each other, of support for the less fortunate" tell that to the 1k+ people -yes they are PEOPLE- on Guantanamo who hasn't be charge of anything and are inprision without rights whatsoever.
i'm been around linux since maybe 6 or 5 years, and have a PocketPC since 2. An Ipaq to be accurate. The point on having linux on this kind of devices are several. As other have point out, one is to be able to say "you can ran linux on a toaster". ie, linux is flexible and powerful -as a tech platform ("you CAN do with linux whatever you want") and as a development model ("you MAY di with linux whatever you want"). Other point, is options. Monopolies lead nowhere, all slashdoter know this. I know, there is Palm, but seriously, Palm aren Pocket PCs, they are PDA, and i think there is a differece. Finally, but not less important, people put linux on everything because they can. Miself, i haven't move from Windows CE to Linux because there is a severe lack of sync tools. Even inside open source software. I still depend on Outlook because of that. I want to move all my things to Evolution but but i cant cause linux or not on my PocketPC i still can't sync.
"Here, software is not made by armies of "Microserfs" employed by a giant corporation, but by armies of volunteer programmers who "donate" their code to the *public domain*."
public domain != OpenSource/Free Software
i'm worry about people dont getting this.
Here, software is not made by armies of "Microserfs" employed by a giant corporation, but by armies of volunteer programmers who "donate" their code to the *public domain.*
public domain != OpenSource/Free Software
i'm worry about people dont getting this.
Space program have been always be about politics. I'm not going to deny there is so interesting and neccesary scientifics needs about it, but mainly it's a politician's toy for the proud/imagination of american people. When people don't look at NASA, their budget start to shrink. That is a clear evidence that there is no great quest for scientific truth. That what i see... Anyways, i think the old days of goverment dependecy of the space exploration will come to an end, and private companys will take it from there. Space race will detached itself from burocracy and popularity rates. THAT will be interesting.