No, I'm not under the erroneous assumption that open source projects are not for profit, etc. I am pointing out the flaw in your comment; that even open source projects must provide some benefit to the person working on it (whether money or shear satisfaction). And when that benefit fails to materialize it will be dropped. Look at your comment. If a maintainer of a project stops maintaining it (like EllisLab is about to do), just because a lot of people are using an open source product doesn't necessarily mean someone else will take it up. They will only do it if there is something in it for them, regardless of the currency. i.e. a profit.
So I have to ask the obvious, but why can't they just run a patch chord between the ends of the nerve fibres that are cut? The question is so obvious that I would be surprised if it hasn't already been tried, but I have never heard of it. Instead of using a device to provide the 'high level instructions', can't they just use some really fine conductor to join up the cut nerves from the brain, and allow our built in controller at the top of our spine to run (and feel) things. i.e. our brain. I'm curious why this wouldn't work, and what kind of trials may have been done in this regard.
I started watching and if it wasn't for Scotty's 'accent' I would have continued. But christ on a crutch, this guy's fake accent makes Doohan sound like a Scottish native.
If you pick an open source project with lots of users, that's not a problem: someone will pick up maintenance.
They'll only pick it up if there is a benefit to them doing so. Obviously EllisLab feels there are not enough benefits to 'owning' CodeIgniter. They don't want to put the time and money into it without it paying back some way. And it is obvious from the link that it isn't. I would bet you have seen a few open source projects that you used tools from die. Did you offer to start supporting any? Why? Not knowing the technology is not an answer. Not getting enough benefit out of learning a new technology, or from learning the code base, or from your free time being used up to start supporting it... That is the answer.
The bigger the project the more time, money, and sweat goes into it. The bigger it is, the less likely someone or some group will want to spend all their free time away from family, friends, downtime, to make something that others will benefit from without anything in return for themselves. This is the economics of life. You make a distinction between open and closed source that is complete bullshit. In both worlds people do stuff that is beneficial for them or leave it eventually (whether quickly or not).
Most open source projects end because people were not getting any benefit from the hours they put into it. Initially the benefit might have been fun or the dream of making money. After they spend enough time away from things that really matter without it helping to pay the bills, the project gets dropped. Large or small project it doesn't matter. CodeIgniter is obviously not paying the bills for EllisLab. Who says it will for anyone else?
Yeah and it's really cool standing in the aisle at the back of train, looking towards the front and watching it bend from the inside as you go from Union Station onto the University Ave or Yonge Street lines. Don't know why, but I like it.
People use what works best for them. Open Office an Libre Office are not the only alternate office products out there. There is that crap that people try to pawn of on other in Apple products (Pages I think), and Corel's kick at the can, and KDE's stuff, and likely a bunch of other commercial stuff. Even Microsoft's light version of office that they put on home computers, that no-one uses if they have to. And out of all of them MS Office, for better or worse, is the king. Everyone in software knows that if you make a new product for people to use at work, and it sucks, they will figure out how to do what they need to do using something else. The corollary is that if you give them something to use that works they will use it. People use MS Office and not other office software.
The point is, Microsoft has somehow hit on an office suite that people can use easily enough to do 99% of what people need in business and home. If Open Office and Libre Office want to compete, they need to make their suites match the ease of use level. They need to stop differentiating themselves so much from MS Office and figure out what it is that MS Office does that people like, then do it themselves.
I personally find OOo stuff and LO to be clunky. Clunkier than MS Office. No I don't like everything about MS Office, but I do like it better than any other product out there. And I've used a lot. Hell, I even wrote a third of many thousand line manual for operating a smelter using Wordstar... when it wasn't WSIWYG... i.e. you needed to embed control codes in your docs. Figure out what the market wants then make it. And don't be so friggin stuck on being different.
I was just thinking about the explanation of electrons on adjacent atoms spinning in the opposite direction.:) Interesting stuff, and I'm torn between being glad I don't have to bend my brain that much and sad because of the fact that I haven't used that kind of learning/thinking in so long I couldn't anyway. Glad to see it looks like someone with that kind of experience thinks there is progress to be had in super conductors. I think they are key to a peaceful future. They would help take oil out of the picture.
I'm hoping someone comes up with a power flush technique like with oil or transmission oil changes at Jiffy Lube. Step into a booth, plug in, five minutes later you're good to go another twenty four hours... or twenty three hours and fifty five minutes.
I had a teacher named Krwzyk in high school. He informed me that no, it wasn't pronounced 'crotch rot'. In fact it was pronounced Kraw-zik even though there was only a 'sometimes y' for a vowel in there. You don't need vowels to pronounce things as a word or name if it is accepted as a word or name. Sequel is fine and accepted by many people as a valid pronunciation for SQL except for those that may be dogmatic anal retentives. And in that case, go see a shrink, you have issues. Not saying you are, just in general.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, and I hate Windows 8 (like Windows 7). I use Windows 7 and Kubuntu (on virtual box and laptop for programming). I like PostgreSQL over MySQL and Oracle is pretty damned good if you are a rich motherfucker. That said, I think MS SQL Server is perhaps the best product Microsoft makes. It used standards compliant syntax in the mid 90s, supports most if not all SQL standards, works well up to quite large database size, has a ton of good features, well documented, etc. The biggest problem with it is that it only runs on Windows servers... and in my case, it isn't free as in beer. It is a good database system otherwise.
C not C++
char myChar;
You can argue that this is actually an integer. But under everything, all information is stored as some form of number. So if you really want to be anal or dogmatic or both, you can't any store data type only binary numbers (unless you have a quantum computer I guess).
I personally don't think cyber anything is as effective as face to face or in person presence. However where appropriate, sure they can fill a gap. Like when constantly sending employees to meetings all over the country/world is not practical. But if you have people doing that all the time you are doing something wrong... i.e. why are you locating team members or people who interact a lot in different cities?
Anyway, virtual conferences (and TFA is about a conference not a meeting) might end up being the only way people can afford to go to a conference (And even this will only last until organizers start financially raping people for virtual attendance too). Hell, from TFA this is the reason this conference went virtual in the first place. Most/many conferences seem to be treated as a money making event by the companies and institutions involved, and are too overpriced for the average person to attend. That is, unless the person makes a pile of money and has no other financial obligations (like family), or the company they work for pays for it. And as for the latter, most companies won't pay to send people to conferences (or not often, or only a lucky few). If your company sends you to them then bully for you, you are in a minority... the conference may be full of paid for attendees, but compared to the number of others out there who aren't attending because they can't afford to go, you are in a minority. I think given the choice, most people don't 'not attend' because they're not interested, it is because they can't afford the time off work and/or the cost of the conference and transportation there. Then as sad as it is, the virtual conference might be the only way to attend.
He/she is obviously a 'glass is half empty' kind of person, reading negativity into everything. On the bright said, the study said this could be a survival trait.
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That's blow hard, not blow-ted.
No, I'm not under the erroneous assumption that open source projects are not for profit, etc. I am pointing out the flaw in your comment; that even open source projects must provide some benefit to the person working on it (whether money or shear satisfaction). And when that benefit fails to materialize it will be dropped. Look at your comment. If a maintainer of a project stops maintaining it (like EllisLab is about to do), just because a lot of people are using an open source product doesn't necessarily mean someone else will take it up. They will only do it if there is something in it for them, regardless of the currency. i.e. a profit.
So I have to ask the obvious, but why can't they just run a patch chord between the ends of the nerve fibres that are cut? The question is so obvious that I would be surprised if it hasn't already been tried, but I have never heard of it. Instead of using a device to provide the 'high level instructions', can't they just use some really fine conductor to join up the cut nerves from the brain, and allow our built in controller at the top of our spine to run (and feel) things. i.e. our brain. I'm curious why this wouldn't work, and what kind of trials may have been done in this regard.
That, and a couple of bucks will get you a coffee. i.e. it doesn't matter who's son he is, it's a terrible even for a fake accent.
I started watching and if it wasn't for Scotty's 'accent' I would have continued. But christ on a crutch, this guy's fake accent makes Doohan sound like a Scottish native.
They'll only pick it up if there is a benefit to them doing so. Obviously EllisLab feels there are not enough benefits to 'owning' CodeIgniter. They don't want to put the time and money into it without it paying back some way. And it is obvious from the link that it isn't. I would bet you have seen a few open source projects that you used tools from die. Did you offer to start supporting any? Why? Not knowing the technology is not an answer. Not getting enough benefit out of learning a new technology, or from learning the code base, or from your free time being used up to start supporting it... That is the answer.
The bigger the project the more time, money, and sweat goes into it. The bigger it is, the less likely someone or some group will want to spend all their free time away from family, friends, downtime, to make something that others will benefit from without anything in return for themselves. This is the economics of life. You make a distinction between open and closed source that is complete bullshit. In both worlds people do stuff that is beneficial for them or leave it eventually (whether quickly or not).
Most open source projects end because people were not getting any benefit from the hours they put into it. Initially the benefit might have been fun or the dream of making money. After they spend enough time away from things that really matter without it helping to pay the bills, the project gets dropped. Large or small project it doesn't matter. CodeIgniter is obviously not paying the bills for EllisLab. Who says it will for anyone else?
Way to put a bullet in people's dreams.
Yeah and it's really cool standing in the aisle at the back of train, looking towards the front and watching it bend from the inside as you go from Union Station onto the University Ave or Yonge Street lines. Don't know why, but I like it.
People use what works best for them. Open Office an Libre Office are not the only alternate office products out there. There is that crap that people try to pawn of on other in Apple products (Pages I think), and Corel's kick at the can, and KDE's stuff, and likely a bunch of other commercial stuff. Even Microsoft's light version of office that they put on home computers, that no-one uses if they have to. And out of all of them MS Office, for better or worse, is the king. Everyone in software knows that if you make a new product for people to use at work, and it sucks, they will figure out how to do what they need to do using something else. The corollary is that if you give them something to use that works they will use it. People use MS Office and not other office software.
The point is, Microsoft has somehow hit on an office suite that people can use easily enough to do 99% of what people need in business and home. If Open Office and Libre Office want to compete, they need to make their suites match the ease of use level. They need to stop differentiating themselves so much from MS Office and figure out what it is that MS Office does that people like, then do it themselves.
I personally find OOo stuff and LO to be clunky. Clunkier than MS Office. No I don't like everything about MS Office, but I do like it better than any other product out there. And I've used a lot. Hell, I even wrote a third of many thousand line manual for operating a smelter using Wordstar... when it wasn't WSIWYG... i.e. you needed to embed control codes in your docs. Figure out what the market wants then make it. And don't be so friggin stuck on being different.
I was just thinking about the explanation of electrons on adjacent atoms spinning in the opposite direction. :) Interesting stuff, and I'm torn between being glad I don't have to bend my brain that much and sad because of the fact that I haven't used that kind of learning/thinking in so long I couldn't anyway. Glad to see it looks like someone with that kind of experience thinks there is progress to be had in super conductors. I think they are key to a peaceful future. They would help take oil out of the picture.
Used it a bit in the late 90s but not since. It was pretty decent. I was just thinking, I don't hear people talk about DB2 very much lately.
Don't talk about your mommas pussy like that.
All hail 4GL
They were complicated enough to make my head spin in opposite directions.
I'm hoping someone comes up with a power flush technique like with oil or transmission oil changes at Jiffy Lube. Step into a booth, plug in, five minutes later you're good to go another twenty four hours... or twenty three hours and fifty five minutes.
I had a teacher named Krwzyk in high school. He informed me that no, it wasn't pronounced 'crotch rot'. In fact it was pronounced Kraw-zik even though there was only a 'sometimes y' for a vowel in there. You don't need vowels to pronounce things as a word or name if it is accepted as a word or name. Sequel is fine and accepted by many people as a valid pronunciation for SQL except for those that may be dogmatic anal retentives. And in that case, go see a shrink, you have issues. Not saying you are, just in general.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, and I hate Windows 8 (like Windows 7). I use Windows 7 and Kubuntu (on virtual box and laptop for programming). I like PostgreSQL over MySQL and Oracle is pretty damned good if you are a rich motherfucker. That said, I think MS SQL Server is perhaps the best product Microsoft makes. It used standards compliant syntax in the mid 90s, supports most if not all SQL standards, works well up to quite large database size, has a ton of good features, well documented, etc. The biggest problem with it is that it only runs on Windows servers... and in my case, it isn't free as in beer. It is a good database system otherwise.
This is a double edged sword.
C not C++
char myChar;
You can argue that this is actually an integer. But under everything, all information is stored as some form of number. So if you really want to be anal or dogmatic or both, you can't any store data type only binary numbers (unless you have a quantum computer I guess).
I personally don't think cyber anything is as effective as face to face or in person presence. However where appropriate, sure they can fill a gap. Like when constantly sending employees to meetings all over the country/world is not practical. But if you have people doing that all the time you are doing something wrong... i.e. why are you locating team members or people who interact a lot in different cities?
Anyway, virtual conferences (and TFA is about a conference not a meeting) might end up being the only way people can afford to go to a conference (And even this will only last until organizers start financially raping people for virtual attendance too). Hell, from TFA this is the reason this conference went virtual in the first place. Most/many conferences seem to be treated as a money making event by the companies and institutions involved, and are too overpriced for the average person to attend. That is, unless the person makes a pile of money and has no other financial obligations (like family), or the company they work for pays for it. And as for the latter, most companies won't pay to send people to conferences (or not often, or only a lucky few). If your company sends you to them then bully for you, you are in a minority... the conference may be full of paid for attendees, but compared to the number of others out there who aren't attending because they can't afford to go, you are in a minority. I think given the choice, most people don't 'not attend' because they're not interested, it is because they can't afford the time off work and/or the cost of the conference and transportation there. Then as sad as it is, the virtual conference might be the only way to attend.
Not sure how this is a troll. Telling people the link looks like it could be interesting. I guess whoever it was doesn't speak English.
At first glance it looks like an interesting link.
Me? I just think the glass is too big. Get me a smaller glass and it will be full.
He/she is obviously a 'glass is half empty' kind of person, reading negativity into everything. On the bright said, the study said this could be a survival trait.