Frankly there is one problem with bounties - the vast majority of them are very, very low when compared to what even an entry level programmer could earn putting in the same number of hours as would be needed to complete most of them.
I think you miss the point of bounties. They neither are an equivalent to hiring a contract worker, nor are they intended to. They are an incentive for people who do the work for fun, or to help someone who is hesitant to take on a project. In fact, if the bounties were any higher they might be understood as a replacement for the coding fun, which is IMO undesirable.
Well, pretty much the same, which is the reason why I would not buy a Windows PC from Walmart. Also, considering that Windows is far from being the default OS in the mobile domain, I think it's a fair complaint if the vendor is trying to force you into buying the OS with the device. In addition, it's a lot harder to install Linux on the OQO than it is on a normal desktop, if you read the instructions in the parent's URL. All this makes the device a lot less attractive.
Wow. I didn't know the oqo, it certainly is a lot prettier. If it ran Linux I might even have given it a go. Though the built in keyboard doesn't look very encouraging (usability wise).
Don't know, koders.com supports a lot more languages and also lets you narrow your search to specific licenses. The few extra lines of code just don't seem too do it, especially because such measures highly depend on the chosen method.
Teg is the one I currently use against the computer, but the network play never worked (the server list is always empty, even after pressing the "Update" button).
The basic idea is the same, but there are some differences
Actually, the rules 1) and 4) are the same as I knew them from the (German) "hardware" game.
The combination of #1 and #4 means that you can not just take out a whole continent in one turn, even with hundreds of armies.
Well, with luck you can. Example: Attack Egypt, move 3 in. Attack Madagascar, move 2 in. Attack Zaire, move one in. The same chain with Sahara -> Ethiopa -> South Africa. Granted, you have to be *really* lucky, but with Australia (Oceania) it's even easier.
I haven't tried jrisk though, but I may try it when it's shipped with Ubuntu.
I was always convinced that Evolution was mature enough for all users, until I actually tried to push it forward in out company.
We are already on IMAP, so it should not be a problem, I thought. Unfortunately, Evolution's IMAP backend does not even support overriding the IMAP root subdirectory (which is NOT the same as a namespace), and because our Windows-based Outlook clients do use this feature, that made a smooth migration impossible. Also, the IMAP backend author in GNOME's bugzilla regulary confused this with namespaces. At this point I stopped bothering to file bugs. The expierience was an embarrassment, and I sure won't try such a thing again.
There were also other problems, like Evolution popping up interesting IMAP error messages with text like "Error: Success." at least once every five minutes. Also, depending on which server we used, only one of the three IMAP backends included with Evolution would work. Or Evolution requiring to enter Emails seperated by "," with ";" triggering random weird errors. This was considered "not a bug", because the protocol RFC is specified that way. (WTF? Yes, the protocol is exposed up into the user interface.) Now try to educate all users never to use the ";". It is even worse because with some email client applications, when forwarding mails they copy the list of recipients into the mail body, seperated by ";". So users can not even c&p recipient lists anymore.
I also tried Thunderbird, but it randomly forgets the content of emails sometimes. It also often crashes and has no recovery.
In short, I agree with the article. For the regular home user it is very much good enough though.
With so much support behind an open document they had to do this. The choice was to either support ODF and give up control, or create their own open document format, keeping control over it.
Yeah, I would also like to see the security of the packages analyzed. I run Wordpress, and worked a bit on it's codebase to get it running. What I saw looks quite scary, security was apparently not much considered. For example, they have globals sprinkled all over the place, which makes checking such things real hard. (Also, if somebody has register_globals switched on, it gets *really* hairy.) Honestly, I don't expect much more from similar other products however.
While the article also rates the product in a category they call "Security and spam-blocking", all products, including Wordpress, are fairly highly rated (MovableType got only 3 out of five). Also, spam and security are barely related, which makes me question the value of that rating even more. I am aware that security can not be rated easily, but overall, the article does not make me too confident that they did any actual security checks.
You might want to RTFA. The problem is not about the funding or technical issues, it is about a webmaster who does not want to give up control:
The problem is that Frank won't do the work to bring it back up. There are no technical problems anymore, he's just sitting on it. Also, he won't give the project to anyone else to do it for him, I think because he wants to keep as much control on the website as possible.
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You spend months typing like a turtle.
Actually, in about one month you should be able to gain reasonable speed. I recently switched from a mouse-based editor (Anjuta) to vim and wrote a short review when I reached the break even.
You can't educate all people unless the media wants to. You'll hardly convince them. IMO pushing for national culture freedom laws is the most promising approach. In other words, culture needs to be published using open standards.
And there goes your theory. Are you are saying that removing culture from some users is an acceptable trade-off? You are essentially saying that "don't use this product if you don't like it" is the same as "don't have this culture if you don't like it".
When they DRM speech, will you also say "don't listen to that guy if you don't like the terms"?
The EFF should push for national culture freedom laws instead of being defensive all the time.
Hello, I am your digital shopping assistant! I saw that you were looking at some of our trousers - may I help you with that? I think you would like these, kind of like in that porn that you watched yesterday. Or these, maybe? The extra air might help you get rid of that fungus thing that I found in your medical record.
All nice points, but none of this is a reason/not to/ develop using portable technologies.
It's better to release a test version on one OS than maintain three test versions for three different operating systems. Give them time.
Give them time? Time to what, rewrite the whole application without using Win-API? The whole point is that by choosing M$-only technologies they *are* making decisions for the future.
I am just feeding the trolls, but anyway... sorry, but it is not my fault that the parent used arabic button order. In my country we read from left to right, which means that right is the correct position for "finish".
Wrong. Recent IOS releases still have the same problems, they are also quite catastrophic from a usability point of view in comparison with the IPv4 features.
3) Memory and CPU performance hasn't been a major issue with most routers in a long time, especially BGP routers.
This is always an issue, as memory costs money. The global routing table has just passed the RAM barrier a few months ago for many routers; most Cisco routers holding that table now require 512MB minimum route memory. (of course it also depends on what else the router has running, but as a general rule, the mark was hit.)
Either way, IPv6 means more memory and resource requirements, which in turn means a lot of investment with no return. That's why IPv6 will only come when it has become absolutely necessary. Which will take a few years still. So no, it is not "ready for prime time".
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Frankly there is one problem with bounties - the vast majority of them are very, very low when compared to what even an entry level programmer could earn putting in the same number of hours as would be needed to complete most of them.
I think you miss the point of bounties. They neither are an equivalent to hiring a contract worker, nor are they intended to. They are an incentive for people who do the work for fun, or to help someone who is hesitant to take on a project. In fact, if the bounties were any higher they might be understood as a replacement for the coding fun, which is IMO undesirable.
The discussion that you are having here is actually exactly the one Stallman discussed in one of his (IMO) best speeches, see here.
You are both right from different perspectives: Copyright is not necessarily unethical, but the way our laws implement it is.
Well, pretty much the same, which is the reason why I would not buy a Windows PC from Walmart. Also, considering that Windows is far from being the default OS in the mobile domain, I think it's a fair complaint if the vendor is trying to force you into buying the OS with the device.
In addition, it's a lot harder to install Linux on the OQO than it is on a normal desktop, if you read the instructions in the parent's URL. All this makes the device a lot less attractive.
Cool, but seriously, I would not want to pay for a Windows license only to have the additional work of replacing the software on the device.
Wow. I didn't know the oqo, it certainly is a lot prettier. If it ran Linux I might even have given it a go. Though the built in keyboard doesn't look very encouraging (usability wise).
Don't know, koders.com supports a lot more languages and also lets you narrow your search to specific licenses. The few extra lines of code just don't seem too do it, especially because such measures highly depend on the chosen method.
DRM support has been in the Linux kernel for years.
Teg is the one I currently use against the computer, but the network play never worked (the server list is always empty, even after pressing the "Update" button).
The basic idea is the same, but there are some differences
Actually, the rules 1) and 4) are the same as I knew them from the (German) "hardware" game.
The combination of #1 and #4 means that you can not just take out a whole continent in one turn, even with hundreds of armies.
Well, with luck you can. Example: Attack Egypt, move 3 in. Attack Madagascar, move 2 in. Attack Zaire, move one in. The same chain with Sahara -> Ethiopa -> South Africa. Granted, you have to be *really* lucky, but with Australia (Oceania) it's even easier.
I haven't tried jrisk though, but I may try it when it's shipped with Ubuntu.
Exactly, that's also why a matches stop burning immediately when you no longer rub them.
Does anyone know where you can play Risk online without Java/Flash/Plugins and without overzealous advertising?
I was always convinced that Evolution was mature enough for all users, until I actually tried to push it forward in out company.
We are already on IMAP, so it should not be a problem, I thought. Unfortunately, Evolution's IMAP backend does not even support overriding the IMAP root subdirectory (which is NOT the same as a namespace), and because our Windows-based Outlook clients do use this feature, that made a smooth migration impossible. Also, the IMAP backend author in GNOME's bugzilla regulary confused this with namespaces. At this point I stopped bothering to file bugs. The expierience was an embarrassment, and I sure won't try such a thing again.
There were also other problems, like Evolution popping up interesting IMAP error messages with text like "Error: Success." at least once every five minutes. Also, depending on which server we used, only one of the three IMAP backends included with Evolution would work.
Or Evolution requiring to enter Emails seperated by "," with ";" triggering random weird errors. This was considered "not a bug", because the protocol RFC is specified that way. (WTF? Yes, the protocol is exposed up into the user interface.) Now try to educate all users never to use the ";". It is even worse because with some email client applications, when forwarding mails they copy the list of recipients into the mail body, seperated by ";". So users can not even c&p recipient lists anymore.
I also tried Thunderbird, but it randomly forgets the content of emails sometimes. It also often crashes and has no recovery.
In short, I agree with the article. For the regular home user it is very much good enough though.
With so much support behind an open document they had to do this. The choice was to either support ODF and give up control, or create their own open document format, keeping control over it.
Yeah, I would also like to see the security of the packages analyzed. I run Wordpress, and worked a bit on it's codebase to get it running. What I saw looks quite scary, security was apparently not much considered. For example, they have globals sprinkled all over the place, which makes checking such things real hard. (Also, if somebody has register_globals switched on, it gets *really* hairy.)
Honestly, I don't expect much more from similar other products however.
While the article also rates the product in a category they call "Security and spam-blocking", all products, including Wordpress, are fairly highly rated (MovableType got only 3 out of five). Also, spam and security are barely related, which makes me question the value of that rating even more. I am aware that security can not be rated easily, but overall, the article does not make me too confident that they did any actual security checks.
let's learn how to block gravity waves on one side, and let the mass of the universe pull on the other side.
Right after we know they exist.
You spend months typing like a turtle.
Actually, in about one month you should be able to gain reasonable speed. I recently switched from a mouse-based editor (Anjuta) to vim and wrote a short review when I reached the break even.
Yeah, but only under Hurd :(.
You can't educate all people unless the media wants to. You'll hardly convince them.
IMO pushing for national culture freedom laws is the most promising approach. In other words, culture needs to be published using open standards.
buy the CD (assuming it isn't broken)
And there goes your theory. Are you are saying that removing culture from some users is an acceptable trade-off?
You are essentially saying that "don't use this product if you don't like it" is the same as "don't have this culture if you don't like it".
When they DRM speech, will you also say "don't listen to that guy if you don't like the terms"?
The EFF should push for national culture freedom laws instead of being defensive all the time.
Hello, I am your digital shopping assistant! I saw that you were looking at some of our trousers - may I help you with that? I think you would like these, kind of like in that porn that you watched yesterday. Or these, maybe? The extra air might help you get rid of that fungus thing that I found in your medical record.
Is it wrong to love a house trained drug dealer?
ripping CD's, DVD's
Has this apostrophe in plural words thing also something to do with you being a Linux user?
All nice points, but none of this is a reason /not to/ develop using portable technologies.
It's better to release a test version on one OS than maintain three test versions for three different operating systems. Give them time.
Give them time? Time to what, rewrite the whole application without using Win-API? The whole point is that by choosing M$-only technologies they *are* making decisions for the future.
You reversed the button order.
I am just feeding the trolls, but anyway... sorry, but it is not my fault that the parent used arabic button order. In my country we read from left to right, which means that right is the correct position for "finish".
1) You're thinking older Cisco equipment.
Wrong. Recent IOS releases still have the same problems, they are also quite catastrophic from a usability point of view in comparison with the IPv4 features.
3) Memory and CPU performance hasn't been a major issue with most routers in a long time, especially BGP routers.
This is always an issue, as memory costs money. The global routing table has just passed the RAM barrier a few months ago for many routers; most Cisco routers holding that table now require 512MB minimum route memory. (of course it also depends on what else the router has running, but as a general rule, the mark was hit.)
Either way, IPv6 means more memory and resource requirements, which in turn means a lot of investment with no return. That's why IPv6 will only come when it has become absolutely necessary. Which will take a few years still. So no, it is not "ready for prime time".