When it comes to plausible, space exploration & sci-fi, I have been impressed with & influenced by the "Academy" series of books by Jack McDevitt (The Engines of God, DeepSix, Chindi, etc.). Of course he allows for the invention of faster-than-light travel, but other than that, McDevitt pays special attention to a future that is both plausible & fascinating... not easy to do. His stories are a little slow b/c he takes time to explain the technology and how the human race got to where it is. He also pays special attention to the field of xenoarchaeology. Look it up!
You're looking at this backwards. CloudStack IS already a very viable alternative. It was just acquired by Citrix for more than $200 million and is ahead of OpenStack in maturity and go-live users. But OpenStack has greater momentum from the developer & partner community. So the question is... will CloudStack merge with the OpenStack community as was implied when it was acquired by Citrix, or will it go it alone and pilfer the OpenStack codebase?
Note: OpenStack uses the very open Apache License, Version 2.0 while CloudStack is GPU GPL v3.
... many Indians from different regions speak English to each other in India.... Is this accurate or have I gotten a mistaken impression from my university classmates?
I believe you have a mistaken impression of Indians today, though you are likely to be correct in the long run
I've traveled through 6 major cities last year (Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune & Mumbai). For the most part, it seemed that the university educated spoke English, but I found that the masses did not. For example, the auto rickshaw drivers rarely spoke English. Hindi is by far the most popular language in the north-central (aka Hindi Heartland) region of India and so the masses don't need English. In the south there are many different languages and dialects, but the uneducated don't travel as much so they don't have much reason to learn English or Hindi for that matter. As Indians become more affluent, I'm sure they will learn a bridge language, but it may be Hindi, not always English.
Its just hearsay, but I've heard time & time again that young kids would rather play in large cardboard boxes, than the toys they came with. And at one point Walmart was selling boxes with dotted lines that showed where to cut them in order to make a cardboard box house.
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Just as the writers used Locke in the first 4 seasons to hint they would reveal the purpose of the island, I think they used the Man-in-Black in the last two seasons to warn us they coudn't pull it off.
For example, John Locke used to say things like "We were brought here for a purpose, for a reason, all of us." Maybe the writers meant that like the survivors, the show had a purpose too, and it would be explained to us in the end, We just had to have faith.
But perhaps they got in too deep and couldn't pull of the miracle. Perhaps the writers knew they were 'lost in the weeds' so to speak. And they used Man in Black to say, "Locke was wrong. He is a fool and he had no purpose", just like the show.
Regardless of any other premise, why should I accept your authority that God exists and Jesus is real? The existence of Jesus is rarely questioned. But as the videos below describe, Jesus may have been a composite of many son-of-god characters of his time and before. (each is 10 mins):
AWESOME!! If this were true, it'd be one of the best cover-ups, ever!! I can just hear the head engineer of the HBO crew threaten the others.... "If one of you snitches, your all dead!"
I just watched the diner scene... again. But to me, it looks like Tony was wearing the same shirt he walked in with. The black collar is hard to see, but you can just make it out under his jacket when he walks into the diner. Also, I'll admit the sequence of edits makes it seem like he sees himself at the table. But he clearly doesn't. Instead the editor just skipped the part of Tony walking to the diner table.
The customer doesn't know the employee is using a different website (intRAnet version) to *dispute* the customer's claim of a lower bestbuy.com (intERnet version) price. Therefore, when the customer complains that a higher price was charged at the checkout stand, the employee can show the customer that the prices were indeed the same. If they were actually different, then bestbuy is deceiving its customers.
95% is probably in the ballpark. Still, 5% is 2000 developers working on eBay's behalf (and their own of course), not bad.
re: unwiredbuyer, I have nothing to do with them. I just remember their name from the O'Reilly/eBay developer contest which was announced at ETech '06.
Yes, these are OUTSIDE developers who have downloaded the API docs. Some developers, like http://unwiredbuyer.com/, have even built useful buyer-oriented applications. There are a whole bunch of outside developers listed on the eBay website: http://solutions.ebay.com/
Video games, on the other hand, are carefully crafted to amuse the people playing them, with no thought given at all to spectator value.
I watch my friends play at game centers about as often as I play games myself. From my experience, watching the players manuever and outplay their opponent can be fun, if...
you know the players
the players know the game and play it well
the players are better than you so you can learn from them
there are multiple players who like to talk smack
an arial view of the game is incorporated into the view or you can watch multiple screens at once
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When it comes to plausible, space exploration & sci-fi, I have been impressed with & influenced by the "Academy" series of books by Jack McDevitt (The Engines of God, DeepSix, Chindi, etc.). Of course he allows for the invention of faster-than-light travel, but other than that, McDevitt pays special attention to a future that is both plausible & fascinating ... not easy to do. His stories are a little slow b/c he takes time to explain the technology and how the human race got to where it is. He also pays special attention to the field of xenoarchaeology. Look it up!
Not sure if you noticed, but WE are a country of Christian fanatics: "46% of Americans Believe in Creationism, Gallup Finds ..." http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/06/01/189220/in-america-46-of-people-hold-a-creationist-view-of-human-origins
You're looking at this backwards. CloudStack IS already a very viable alternative. It was just acquired by Citrix for more than $200 million and is ahead of OpenStack in maturity and go-live users. But OpenStack has greater momentum from the developer & partner community. So the question is ... will CloudStack merge with the OpenStack community as was implied when it was acquired by Citrix, or will it go it alone and pilfer the OpenStack codebase?
Note: OpenStack uses the very open Apache License, Version 2.0 while CloudStack is GPU GPL v3.
... many Indians from different regions speak English to each other in India. ... Is this accurate or have I gotten a mistaken impression from my university classmates?
I believe you have a mistaken impression of Indians today, though you are likely to be correct in the long run
I've traveled through 6 major cities last year (Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune & Mumbai). For the most part, it seemed that the university educated spoke English, but I found that the masses did not. For example, the auto rickshaw drivers rarely spoke English. Hindi is by far the most popular language in the north-central (aka Hindi Heartland) region of India and so the masses don't need English. In the south there are many different languages and dialects, but the uneducated don't travel as much so they don't have much reason to learn English or Hindi for that matter. As Indians become more affluent, I'm sure they will learn a bridge language, but it may be Hindi, not always English.
Its just hearsay, but I've heard time & time again that young kids would rather play in large cardboard boxes, than the toys they came with. And at one point Walmart was selling boxes with dotted lines that showed where to cut them in order to make a cardboard box house.
Just as the writers used Locke in the first 4 seasons to hint they would reveal the purpose of the island, I think they used the Man-in-Black in the last two seasons to warn us they coudn't pull it off. For example, John Locke used to say things like "We were brought here for a purpose, for a reason, all of us." Maybe the writers meant that like the survivors, the show had a purpose too, and it would be explained to us in the end, We just had to have faith. But perhaps they got in too deep and couldn't pull of the miracle. Perhaps the writers knew they were 'lost in the weeds' so to speak. And they used Man in Black to say, "Locke was wrong. He is a fool and he had no purpose", just like the show.
Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BNf-P_5u_Hw
Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qc-mrJf45Hg
Part 3: http://youtube.com/watch?v=IjAegPhQOUg
You mean it was an *oversight*
AWESOME!! If this were true, it'd be one of the best cover-ups, ever!! I can just hear the head engineer of the HBO crew threaten the others .... "If one of you snitches, your all dead!"
wow ... not!
... again. But to me, it looks like Tony was wearing the same shirt he walked in with. The black collar is hard to see, but you can just make it out under his jacket when he walks into the diner. Also, I'll admit the sequence of edits makes it seem like he sees himself at the table. But he clearly doesn't. Instead the editor just skipped the part of Tony walking to the diner table.
I just watched the diner scene
Move along. Nothing to see here.
The customer doesn't know the employee is using a different website (intRAnet version) to *dispute* the customer's claim of a lower bestbuy.com (intERnet version) price. Therefore, when the customer complains that a higher price was charged at the checkout stand, the employee can show the customer that the prices were indeed the same. If they were actually different, then bestbuy is deceiving its customers.
95% is probably in the ballpark. Still, 5% is 2000 developers working on eBay's behalf (and their own of course), not bad.
re: unwiredbuyer, I have nothing to do with them. I just remember their name from the O'Reilly/eBay developer contest which was announced at ETech '06.
Yes, these are OUTSIDE developers who have downloaded the API docs.
Some developers, like http://unwiredbuyer.com/, have even built useful buyer-oriented applications. There are a whole bunch of outside developers listed on the eBay website: http://solutions.ebay.com/
an impressive list of sellers?
... yet.
I see about 100 online stores. I'm not impressed
I watch my friends play at game centers about as often as I play games myself. From my experience, watching the players manuever and outplay their opponent can be fun, if
Don't believe me? Grab some friends and check out a game center yourself: http://www.igames.org/findcenter.asp
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PayPal DOES support OSS-Developers.
According to the PEAR Development mailing list, PayPal is in fact willing to push some changes back to the community. According to this Zend press release, PayPal paid Zend, to make improvements to PEAR::SOAP package 0.9.0.
So for all of you PHP 4 developers, you might just owe PayPal for your ability to make SOAP-based web service calls.
I suggest sending your co-workers a link to this thread.