With OpenStreetMap, you can clone the maps (get dumps and install the software) and use them on your own servers. If you're serious about using maps on web sites, you either give Google a few bucks (with the special API for those who wants to pay) or you use your own servers. On the browser, you can install special libraries like leaflet to have pretty maps like Google.
I installed Firefox 7.0 recently because I needed a SQLite manager and it's available as an add-on. But I'll stay with Chrome for the moment to browse the web, it's fast, stable and has all the features I need.
The Arduino IDE can be used on Windows, Mac and Linux. If I want to try this Gadgeteer, I would have to install Windows and some kind of Visual Studio. The last time I installed Windows it took me a whole afternoon and I wasted a lot of time fixing all kind of problems and had to fight their serial number scheme (even when my copy was valid). I'll also say that this project will most likely be killed in less than a year so I don't know why I would waste my time with it.
Don't forget that with the new Objective-C 2.0, reference counting is a thing of the past thanks to auto-released objects, and properties which are automagically created for you.
Objective-C may not be the easiest OO language, but it sure is easier than ever (and I am an Android fan BTW).
Somehow related but is there an open-source, cross-platform adventure game engine scriptable with a language like Lua. I haven't found one yet and always wished I could write new adventures for Guybrush Threepwood (or create somethin else completely new ). Most of the existing projects are using closed-source win32-only engines which is disappointing. I could help such a project if there is one.
I've said this a thousand times. Android would be the perfect testbed for golang. It's statically typed, small, and its syntax is easy to learn and to use.
Thank you my good man for correcting this young fellow with such a high ID number. I'm not english at all and was very curious at your suggestion, but I knew that the internet would settle your disagreement once and for all, for it seems that "In American English go is sometimes followed directly by a bare infinitive" (source).
Thank you! I don't plan to be the next Hendrix, or make money out of it, but I will practice hard. Even though I've only been playing the guitar for a month, I already have a lot of fun (and my wife and her father both know the guitar well enough to help me, what more could I ask for?)
This is the part that makes me cringe. Music theory is mostly chords and scales glued together, a bit like software patents. I can't believe that copyright can still be used up to 70 years after an author's death.
Dear SACEM and record companies selling stuff in France,
Because of the HADOPI law and the way you treated your potential customers for the past years, because of the fact that I have to pay a "copyright" tax on every blank media I buy, and because I've been offered a guitar, I'm pissed off to the point I'll do something tangible in my life.
TV has already been replaced mostly by books, tabletop games, and a few YouTube videos every other week. As for music, I'm learning the guitar, I don't need you anymore, I won't give you my money anymore, it's over, I'll make my own music and entertain my family by myself.
Cool stuff like Courier (vaporware) or the Kin (dead project, cost 1 billion dollars).
I agree that Apple makes shiny products from existing technology, but at least I can use those.
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I blocked kdawson and idle already, it has not blocked the story in the RSS, I don't know about the front page though.
Or shut down forever. I have 20 years-old games that I still play. Can Blizzard swear on the US Constitution that their authentication servers will be available for free in 20 years? I don't think so.
a computer virus can be transmitted from an implanted computer to an external computer.
He infected "something" external to a computer, like floppies (during the 70s and 80s), USB keys and CD-Roms (90s and now), and even other computers on the internet. But it's in his own skin, therefore it must be new and scary.
In 20 years of driving, only the emergency vehicle one. I've never had any of those other situations
In 5 years of driving in the south of France, I've had this kind of situation happening at least once a week. This IBM patent would kill me if it was in my car.
Not really, but I find very funny that the Vatican is using “science and technology" to store its manuscripts, when at the same time they spit so much on this same science and technology.
You're lucky. I played for 5 minutes, tried to buy a "Building Minister" and when I clicked on Shop it told me that my session expired. The game was interesting but it's not free-to-play at all, and it has a few bugs to iron out.
I have a VPS at Gandi.net and it's a thousand times better than being hosted by a company that controls your web site. Gandi is the best according to me (for just one reason: I can prepay and they do not store my credit card number) but I've also heard good things about Slicehost, prgmr, and Linode.
Slashdot Mirror
http://news.ycombinator.com/ is what I registered on today. I also read the various programming subreddits.
With OpenStreetMap, you can clone the maps (get dumps and install the software) and use them on your own servers. If you're serious about using maps on web sites, you either give Google a few bucks (with the special API for those who wants to pay) or you use your own servers. On the browser, you can install special libraries like leaflet to have pretty maps like Google.
I installed Firefox 7.0 recently because I needed a SQLite manager and it's available as an add-on. But I'll stay with Chrome for the moment to browse the web, it's fast, stable and has all the features I need.
The Arduino IDE can be used on Windows, Mac and Linux. If I want to try this Gadgeteer, I would have to install Windows and some kind of Visual Studio. The last time I installed Windows it took me a whole afternoon and I wasted a lot of time fixing all kind of problems and had to fight their serial number scheme (even when my copy was valid). I'll also say that this project will most likely be killed in less than a year so I don't know why I would waste my time with it.
It depends on his contract with the company. It's not "their code" automatically.
Android is now available on tablets, incredible isn't it?
Don't forget that with the new Objective-C 2.0, reference counting is a thing of the past thanks to auto-released objects, and properties which are automagically created for you. Objective-C may not be the easiest OO language, but it sure is easier than ever (and I am an Android fan BTW).
Somehow related but is there an open-source, cross-platform adventure game engine scriptable with a language like Lua. I haven't found one yet and always wished I could write new adventures for Guybrush Threepwood (or create somethin else completely new ). Most of the existing projects are using closed-source win32-only engines which is disappointing. I could help such a project if there is one.
I've said this a thousand times. Android would be the perfect testbed for golang. It's statically typed, small, and its syntax is easy to learn and to use.
Apple is actually merging both interfaces in Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) with the Launchpad. They want to converge the 2 experiences for some reasons.
Thank you my good man for correcting this young fellow with such a high ID number. I'm not english at all and was very curious at your suggestion, but I knew that the internet would settle your disagreement once and for all, for it seems that "In American English go is sometimes followed directly by a bare infinitive" (source).
No, I'm not drunk.
Same thing in Europe with the 12 or 24 month contract. My 29€ Android phone is available and affordable for most people, the iPhone is not.
Thank you! I don't plan to be the next Hendrix, or make money out of it, but I will practice hard. Even though I've only been playing the guitar for a month, I already have a lot of fun (and my wife and her father both know the guitar well enough to help me, what more could I ask for?)
This is the part that makes me cringe. Music theory is mostly chords and scales glued together, a bit like software patents. I can't believe that copyright can still be used up to 70 years after an author's death.
Dear SACEM and record companies selling stuff in France,
Because of the HADOPI law and the way you treated your potential customers for the past years, because of the fact that I have to pay a "copyright" tax on every blank media I buy, and because I've been offered a guitar, I'm pissed off to the point I'll do something tangible in my life.
TV has already been replaced mostly by books, tabletop games, and a few YouTube videos every other week. As for music, I'm learning the guitar, I don't need you anymore, I won't give you my money anymore, it's over, I'll make my own music and entertain my family by myself.
Also, fuck you...
Cool stuff like Courier (vaporware) or the Kin (dead project, cost 1 billion dollars). I agree that Apple makes shiny products from existing technology, but at least I can use those.
I blocked kdawson and idle already, it has not blocked the story in the RSS, I don't know about the front page though.
Or shut down forever. I have 20 years-old games that I still play. Can Blizzard swear on the US Constitution that their authentication servers will be available for free in 20 years? I don't think so.
a computer virus can be transmitted from an implanted computer to an external computer.
He infected "something" external to a computer, like floppies (during the 70s and 80s), USB keys and CD-Roms (90s and now), and even other computers on the internet. But it's in his own skin, therefore it must be new and scary.
In 5 years of driving in the south of France, I've had this kind of situation happening at least once a week. This IBM patent would kill me if it was in my car.
Not really, but I find very funny that the Vatican is using “science and technology" to store its manuscripts, when at the same time they spit so much on this same science and technology.
You're lucky. I played for 5 minutes, tried to buy a "Building Minister" and when I clicked on Shop it told me that my session expired. The game was interesting but it's not free-to-play at all, and it has a few bugs to iron out.
Oh noes, they only claimed their invention...whatever shall they do???
You call it an invention, I call it an algorithm.
I have a VPS at Gandi.net and it's a thousand times better than being hosted by a company that controls your web site. Gandi is the best according to me (for just one reason: I can prepay and they do not store my credit card number) but I've also heard good things about Slicehost, prgmr, and Linode.
Lang-8 is a good web site too, even though it's a bit slow. The downside is that it's text-only, no audio or video reviews.