This is only true for big-name projects. Small opensource projects are probably less well supported than their small corperate counterparts. As a lone developer without the hardware and backing of a company I can't patch and identify issues as I would like. As to users giving you feed back. HA! The best I get is once in a while someone tells me that something crashes. I might die of shock if someone sent me fixed source code.
I am surprised Second Life still exists. After all if I am going to pay a monthly subscription I would much rather have something that gives me content (W.O.W.) than something that asks the community to produce its own. Second Life sounds like something that should have been an open souce / free / funded by donations project.
Sure in theory we should all contribute before criticizing. However this is not practical. Want to criticise MS, go work for them. You hate SCO, go work for them too. BSD not what you want, go fix it. In my opinion it is OK to criticize something that you aren't a part of, as long as you make reasonable points.
At first this seemed really awesome. However soon my optimism was squashed because first you must work on a project that has been listed by a sponsor. If you read through the lists these may be useful projects, but not exactly something you would have fun doing over the summer. Secondly existing open souce projects can't get funded, and I am not about to drop my existing project. Oh well.
but perhaps those who could barely stand could be better served with a simple reflex test (get the driver to push and hold one button, wait random amount of time, turn on a light, calculate how much time it takes the person to let go of that button and push a separate button, repeat 10 or 20 times, compute an average and compare it with that driver's norm).
Yeah it would be real fun to press some buttons 10-20 times every time I get in my car to go to work, to the store, so visit my friends. No wait. It wouldn't.
Ok I understand there are several benefits to this for extension writers. However, I seriously doubt that it will be used in many other places. After all who wants to write web pages that won't work properly in IE and Safari?
I'll testify to that. It has required serious dedication to continue working on polishing my project after the intial proof of concept was finished. Why? Because I don't have a large (really any) userbase supporting the project (ego boost). However maintaining the project has been a big benefit in its own right from the experiance of doing it. So I guess work is its own reward.
Quite honestly javascript is a very poor language. The reason it is used so much is that it is basically the only alternative to client side scripting without Java. I would be excited by a more robust replacement for javascript, but this just seems like taking a bad idea and running with it.
Yes, patents ARE a violation of google's do no evil policy, as it gives them a monopoly on the good search engine algorithems. When did a monopoly by google become ok? Isn't it the stance of most/.ers that algorithems should be open so that companies can compete at making the best product? That is not to say that there aren't other ways of designing a good search engine, but why support one companies attempts to cripple their opponents through legislation instead of competition?
I want money too, how do I get in on this. Sigh, if life were only so easy. You shouldn't have gone into open source with the idea of making money or becoming a business, but because you love working on that peice of software. Adding professional features doesn't require money, merely time and effort. If you are not willing to donate your own time and effort for free then why are you an open-source project?
What I'm missing here is if they use e.g. PHP Accelerator for their benchmarking. That's known to speed up PHP scripts a lot. Also, I wonder if interoperability here means backing away from the broken-protocols strategy?
I do not think this is the article that you think it is.
I love SF, except for its statistics system, which has been down for the majority of my project's life time. The new statistics system release has been delayed multiple time, kind like Longhorn.
What possibly possessed them to publish these results. No one in their right mind is going to believe 300% is an accurate figure under fair testing conditions.
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This is only true for big-name projects. Small opensource projects are probably less well supported than their small corperate counterparts. As a lone developer without the hardware and backing of a company I can't patch and identify issues as I would like. As to users giving you feed back. HA! The best I get is once in a while someone tells me that something crashes. I might die of shock if someone sent me fixed source code.
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Could someone please explain what that meant. In practical terms.
I am surprised Second Life still exists. After all if I am going to pay a monthly subscription I would much rather have something that gives me content (W.O.W.) than something that asks the community to produce its own. Second Life sounds like something that should have been an open souce / free / funded by donations project.
Sure in theory we should all contribute before criticizing. However this is not practical. Want to criticise MS, go work for them. You hate SCO, go work for them too. BSD not what you want, go fix it. In my opinion it is OK to criticize something that you aren't a part of, as long as you make reasonable points.
I demand a portable sink attached to my phone. Wouldn't make it that much bulkier either. And as another plus it wouldn't affect battery life.
At first this seemed really awesome. However soon my optimism was squashed because first you must work on a project that has been listed by a sponsor. If you read through the lists these may be useful projects, but not exactly something you would have fun doing over the summer. Secondly existing open souce projects can't get funded, and I am not about to drop my existing project. Oh well.
Yeah it would be real fun to press some buttons 10-20 times every time I get in my car to go to work, to the store, so visit my friends. No wait. It wouldn't.
Ok I understand there are several benefits to this for extension writers. However, I seriously doubt that it will be used in many other places. After all who wants to write web pages that won't work properly in IE and Safari?
Does anyone know how C3P0 lost his right leg, which is silver in the original films instead of gold. I expected him to lose it in episode 3.
I'll testify to that. It has required serious dedication to continue working on polishing my project after the intial proof of concept was finished. Why? Because I don't have a large (really any) userbase supporting the project (ego boost). However maintaining the project has been a big benefit in its own right from the experiance of doing it. So I guess work is its own reward.
Quite honestly javascript is a very poor language. The reason it is used so much is that it is basically the only alternative to client side scripting without Java. I would be excited by a more robust replacement for javascript, but this just seems like taking a bad idea and running with it.
wait, so them stoping people from illegally pirating their product is a bad thing??
The death penalty.
Open wireless nerworks wouldn't work because?
Does anyone know exactly what "Future Vision theme" is?
I'll offer $100 for a linux port of my OSS project. Shouldn't be too hard for the linux people in these parts right?
Yes, patents ARE a violation of google's do no evil policy, as it gives them a monopoly on the good search engine algorithems. When did a monopoly by google become ok? Isn't it the stance of most /.ers that algorithems should be open so that companies can compete at making the best product? That is not to say that there aren't other ways of designing a good search engine, but why support one companies attempts to cripple their opponents through legislation instead of competition?
I want money too, how do I get in on this. Sigh, if life were only so easy. You shouldn't have gone into open source with the idea of making money or becoming a business, but because you love working on that peice of software. Adding professional features doesn't require money, merely time and effort. If you are not willing to donate your own time and effort for free then why are you an open-source project?
What kind of gifts do you get for a super massive object? You don't want to make mom and dad angry, that is for sure.
I do not think this is the article that you think it is.
I love SF, except for its statistics system, which has been down for the majority of my project's life time. The new statistics system release has been delayed multiple time, kind like Longhorn.
I had forgotten how impressive small talk was, and still is. For more on the history of smalltalk you can go here
What possibly possessed them to publish these results. No one in their right mind is going to believe 300% is an accurate figure under fair testing conditions.