Hi!
Where can I find such an unemployed webdesigner/programmer to start a collab? I have an idea for a website and look for someone to collab on the international version.
TIA,
Andreas
Ok, it might sound a bit strange, but isn't the best way to test a security system, to have a group of people trying to compromise it? And since we are a OSS community and want to learn from each other, it should obviously be a Opensource virus, so distro vendors could make sure, that there system is safe from it...
Don't know. With some huge companies like IBM sitting on the other bench, this judge should better read up.
And I really hope, that the story will get the really important coverage. Not some tech mags, but some time in the prime time news, explaining the GPL to Joe Dumbfuck, and why SCO wants to take aways his freedom, too!
I don't think you can call those 10000 engine 'niche' engine. One way too reduce costs would be to distribute the processes of one engine on 10000 clients (a search engine as a grid). All those nodes would check some parts of the next and keep a distributed index of the entire web. I would call this horizontal distribution. This concept could be used to reduce costs (I think Google does this already with it's many cheap PCs). Another concept to make money would be a vertical scaling, where you basically put another search engine on top of a search engine. That could be such a niche search engine that uses the index of the first engine to search for specific things, like Jobs, houses to sell or anything else, that could be used to make money. Such a nice engine could then help to finance the first engine by sharing some of the made money (they could buy some sort of user license from the first engine).
That was the one point, I really didn't understand. Why not get some help? Try to find a partner? Hire someone? Sounds like you turned down a good chance. Other than that: great article!
Ciao,
Andreas
Look at the market, where the really interesting stuff is currently happening: J2ME! Yup, games for those little cellphone! Not the 3rd copy of the 2nd clone of the latest egoshooter, but some really new neat game concepts. And when you join some competition like the Vodafone challenge, you can even get worldwide advertising and marketing.
Ciao,
Andreas
PS: yeah, it's really, really, hard to find good graphic artists for games. On javagaming.org, We have already discussed to start a website just for this purpose. Where coders and artists can post some demos of their recent work and discuss ideas for new projects etc.
Thanks for your tip, but things are not very easy, especially when you are still in the development stage. I'm still looking for sponsorship to finish a project on UML modelling for PHP and databases, and haven't found a good partner yet.
I started at the SourceAgency, but it seems they don't want to talk to me. From there I went to Free-IT und now to Maguma.
I really miss the SourceXchange at the moment...:-(
On MIDP 2: I think there's a Mitac phone already available and I think Sony Ericsson announced a MIDP 2 update for the P800. But you are right, that it'll take a while, before MIDP 2 will be a accepted standard.
We already discussed the option of networking here and we were already contacted by someone, who proposed to extend Java-Chess to a client for a chess community like playchess.com . I like the idea a lot, so I looked a bit into the networking stuff. Sun proposes JXTA for networked on their site, and I think it's not a bad idea. Won't work on phones, though. But if we work with a central server, there could be several ways to connect to it, and it might handle the connection type completely transparent, so a chess player using a PC could be connect via JXTA and play a game with another player, who uses a cellphone and connects via WMA or HTTP. True P2P networking might be nice to start a local game via bluetooth, or so, but a central server might give you additional advantages, like a ranking list for community players etc.
So would you be interested in contributing to such a software?
I think, we have some goods ideas for games here, but lack a designer for a the graphics. Any folks with experience here? Or does anyone know a good place where to find one?
I'm from the Java-Chess opensource project, and one of our tasks is to port some of our software to J2ME. You can see some very early sources running in the screenshot, attached to this message: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/java-chess/message/3 10
I guess, the best way to transmit the moves would be WMA, but this won't be available until MIDP 2 is more popular.
BTW: any help is appreciated! Visit http://www.java-chess.de for more details.
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...maybe I could upgrade my Acer Aspire 1351LC BIOS then, so it contains the PST for the processor, that's actually in the notebook...
Hi! Where can I find such an unemployed webdesigner/programmer to start a collab? I have an idea for a website and look for someone to collab on the international version. TIA, Andreas
Ok, it might sound a bit strange, but isn't the best way to test a security system, to have a group of people trying to compromise it? And since we are a OSS community and want to learn from each other, it should obviously be a Opensource virus, so distro vendors could make sure, that there system is safe from it...
Don't know. With some huge companies like IBM sitting on the other bench, this judge should better read up. And I really hope, that the story will get the really important coverage. Not some tech mags, but some time in the prime time news, explaining the GPL to Joe Dumbfuck, and why SCO wants to take aways his freedom, too!
I don't think you can call those 10000 engine 'niche' engine. One way too reduce costs would be to distribute the processes of one engine on 10000 clients (a search engine as a grid). All those nodes would check some parts of the next and keep a distributed index of the entire web. I would call this horizontal distribution. This concept could be used to reduce costs (I think Google does this already with it's many cheap PCs). Another concept to make money would be a vertical scaling, where you basically put another search engine on top of a search engine. That could be such a niche search engine that uses the index of the first engine to search for specific things, like Jobs, houses to sell or anything else, that could be used to make money. Such a nice engine could then help to finance the first engine by sharing some of the made money (they could buy some sort of user license from the first engine).
That was the one point, I really didn't understand. Why not get some help? Try to find a partner? Hire someone? Sounds like you turned down a good chance. Other than that: great article! Ciao, Andreas
Look at the market, where the really interesting stuff is currently happening: J2ME! Yup, games for those little cellphone! Not the 3rd copy of the 2nd clone of the latest egoshooter, but some really new neat game concepts. And when you join some competition like the Vodafone challenge, you can even get worldwide advertising and marketing. Ciao, Andreas PS: yeah, it's really, really, hard to find good graphic artists for games. On javagaming.org, We have already discussed to start a website just for this purpose. Where coders and artists can post some demos of their recent work and discuss ideas for new projects etc.
Imagine a computer virus. that scans the users harddrive for sources (*.c, *.java etc) adds a GPL header to each file and mails it across the net...
Thanks for your tip, but things are not very easy, especially when you are still in the development stage. I'm still looking for sponsorship to finish a project on UML modelling for PHP and databases, and haven't found a good partner yet. I started at the SourceAgency, but it seems they don't want to talk to me. From there I went to Free-IT und now to Maguma. I really miss the SourceXchange at the moment... :-(
On MIDP 2: I think there's a Mitac phone already available and I think Sony Ericsson announced a MIDP 2 update for the P800. But you are right, that it'll take a while, before MIDP 2 will be a accepted standard.
We already discussed the option of networking here and we were already contacted by someone, who proposed to extend Java-Chess to a client for a chess community like playchess.com . I like the idea a lot, so I looked a bit into the networking stuff. Sun proposes JXTA for networked on their site, and I think it's not a bad idea. Won't work on phones, though. But if we work with a central server, there could be several ways to connect to it, and it might handle the connection type completely transparent, so a chess player using a PC could be connect via JXTA and play a game with another player, who uses a cellphone and connects via WMA or HTTP. True P2P networking might be nice to start a local game via bluetooth, or so, but a central server might give you additional advantages, like a ranking list for community players etc.
So would you be interested in contributing to such a software?
I think, we have some goods ideas for games here, but lack a designer for a the graphics. Any folks with experience here? Or does anyone know a good place where to find one?
TIA, Andreas
Hi!
3 10
I'm from the Java-Chess opensource project, and one of our tasks is to port some of our software to J2ME. You can see some very early sources running in the screenshot, attached to this message:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/java-chess/message/
I guess, the best way to transmit the moves would be WMA, but this won't be available until MIDP 2 is more popular.
BTW: any help is appreciated! Visit http://www.java-chess.de for more details.
Ciao, Andreas