Running user forums, bugfixing packages, and maintaining consistency are ungrateful jobs. I think many free software people somehow expected that society will recognise their efforts once the software gets mainstream. They see Mark Shuttleworth as the typical business guy who takes credit for all their work. But there is a need for sustainable business models in many areas of FOSS development. If you look at the job market, most of the jobs are dead-ends for FOSS. I.e. you will use whatever free software is there but you will not get the permission to contribute back. Canonical is one of very few companies where a software developer can get a job without legal harassment by copyrights and non-disclosure "agreements". I'm waiting for the day, where our biggest complaint is, that Canonical is helping customers migrate from Debian to Ubuntu. But at the moment there is bigger fish to fry.
I assume they have tonemapped each frame independently (one can do this with qtpfsgui for example). But the examples only show videos of relatively static scenes. I suspect that tonemapping frames independently won't be good enough any more if you have fast-changing scenes.
I had to delete backup partitions (and make a backup on another hard disk) to install GNU/Linux. Then I decided that I don't need the HP backup tools any more. The deinstaller of the HP backup tools removes GRUB from the MBR and puts back the Windows Bootloader.
It's not the purpose of a university to keep up with whatever happens to be the fashion of the day in IT industry. If you want to educate yourself about that you can watch product advertisments from Microsoft and IBM. Academia should focus on underlying concepts, theoretical computer science, and mathematics. At the core there are topics such as Turing completeness, computational complexity, Gödel's incompleteness theorem, algorithms, numerics, program verification, chomsky hierarchy, computer algebra, predicate logic, and the like.
However the IT industry (like the rest of the industry) is ruinously short sighted and extremely conservative when it comes to adopting/learning "new" technology which has been around for decades.
At the same time the German government mandates Vorratsdatenspeicherung (telecommunications data retention) and we would have internet censorship now if it wasn't for the federal constitutional court.
Innovation mostly happens where there is freedom to innovate. On the long-term what really matters is the developer mind share. GNU/Linux on the desktop has been better in terms of robustness, speed, and security since the beginning. With the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrFz7IxXppU it also looks better these days;)
I went to several bookstores in UK asking them for E-Book readers. But only WHSmith seemed to sell one and that only on their website (not available in stores). So I bought a Bookeen Cybook from Bookeen directly.
The problem is that companies always have difficulties reinventing themselves when it means cannibalising their current stream of revenue. I think the book stores should sell E-Book readers and they should have terminals where you can plug in your reader and download books. Either you pay per file or you pay a monthly subscription (similar as with Last.fm). Also the books should be DRM free. And they should all sell coffee, tea, and muffins.
Finally authors should think about the new medium. I remember reading a book where you have to make a decision every page or two and depending on your choice you continue reading on another page. It was great in a similar way as the Infocom adventures. But the problem was that a 100 page book would only give you storylines of 15 pages. But with an E-Book reader "storage" wouldn't be a problem and with the Internet authors could work together and generate huge interactive novels.
at the Olympus Mons restaurant. The evening program includes Marsian comedy, drinks, and strippers, and we offer the best view to watch Earth when the asteroid hits!
Yes. And furthermore somehow the journal rankings end up being done by those same publishers again. Open access journals often don't appear in their ranking tables at all. No ranking -> no rating -> no government funding.
Because Microsoft Windows is proprietary software. I.e. there's always a risk that an update breaks some software or driver and nobody has the source code to fix it.
You definitely want to show him/her an alternative to proprietary software. Microsoft Windows and all the computer games are basically big immutable pieces of software without any room for creativity. You need to give the kid free software and a programming language with a comfortable learning curve. Myself I started with Omicron Basic on Atari ST. Today I would recommend Ruby. And if you give the kid Linux with Compiz Fusion, he/she has something to show off to his/her friends.
Instead of pumping 140 billion US$ into the ailing economy of proprietary software development, one can save $1 trillion a year with open source. Proprietary software is highly repetitive and often the innovation already has been available as FOSS for many years.
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Running user forums, bugfixing packages, and maintaining consistency are ungrateful jobs. I think many free software people somehow expected that society will recognise their efforts once the software gets mainstream. They see Mark Shuttleworth as the typical business guy who takes credit for all their work.
But there is a need for sustainable business models in many areas of FOSS development. If you look at the job market, most of the jobs are dead-ends for FOSS. I.e. you will use whatever free software is there but you will not get the permission to contribute back. Canonical is one of very few companies where a software developer can get a job without legal harassment by copyrights and non-disclosure "agreements".
I'm waiting for the day, where our biggest complaint is, that Canonical is helping customers migrate from Debian to Ubuntu. But at the moment there is bigger fish to fry.
Looks like we have similar taste ;)
Just get an Apple TV and let Steve Jobs do the choices for you.
I assume they have tonemapped each frame independently (one can do this with qtpfsgui for example). But the examples only show videos of relatively static scenes. I suspect that tonemapping frames independently won't be good enough any more if you have fast-changing scenes.
I had to delete backup partitions (and make a backup on another hard disk) to install GNU/Linux. Then I decided that I don't need the HP backup tools any more. The deinstaller of the HP backup tools removes GRUB from the MBR and puts back the Windows Bootloader.
It's not the purpose of a university to keep up with whatever happens to be the fashion of the day in IT industry. If you want to educate yourself about that you can watch product advertisments from Microsoft and IBM. Academia should focus on underlying concepts, theoretical computer science, and mathematics. At the core there are topics such as Turing completeness, computational complexity, Gödel's incompleteness theorem, algorithms, numerics, program verification, chomsky hierarchy, computer algebra, predicate logic, and the like.
However the IT industry (like the rest of the industry) is ruinously short sighted and extremely conservative when it comes to adopting/learning "new" technology which has been around for decades.
Ok, I missed that one. The internet censorship was backed by both major parties though. And Jörg Tauss left the social democrats over this.
Well, I'm a bit off-topic now but I remember the news reporting findings of mineral resources in Afghanistan.
At the same time the German government mandates Vorratsdatenspeicherung (telecommunications data retention) and we would have internet censorship now if it wasn't for the federal constitutional court.
I hope you are not a judge.
The numbers of GNU/Linux on the desktop are still low. But in other areas it looks quite different. See for example
Innovation mostly happens where there is freedom to innovate. On the long-term what really matters is the developer mind share. GNU/Linux on the desktop has been better in terms of robustness, speed, and security since the beginning. With the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrFz7IxXppU it also looks better these days ;)
Thanks for the link. Interesting article.
LOL. Ok, I didn't spot that one.
I went to several bookstores in UK asking them for E-Book readers. But only WHSmith seemed to sell one and that only on their website (not available in stores). So I bought a Bookeen Cybook from Bookeen directly.
The problem is that companies always have difficulties reinventing themselves when it means cannibalising their current stream of revenue. I think the book stores should sell E-Book readers and they should have terminals where you can plug in your reader and download books. Either you pay per file or you pay a monthly subscription (similar as with Last.fm). Also the books should be DRM free. And they should all sell coffee, tea, and muffins.
Finally authors should think about the new medium. I remember reading a book where you have to make a decision every page or two and depending on your choice you continue reading on another page. It was great in a similar way as the Infocom adventures. But the problem was that a 100 page book would only give you storylines of 15 pages. But with an E-Book reader "storage" wouldn't be a problem and with the Internet authors could work together and generate huge interactive novels.
at the Olympus Mons restaurant. The evening program includes Marsian comedy, drinks, and strippers, and we offer the best view to watch Earth when the asteroid hits!
One locks people out.
One locks people in.
A simple link to whylinuxisbetter.net would have done the job (truth and all).
Yes. And furthermore somehow the journal rankings end up being done by those same publishers again. Open access journals often don't appear in their ranking tables at all. No ranking -> no rating -> no government funding.
A LAMP admin might cost more but he/she will have significantly higher productivity. So the cost per service is actually lower.
Or use Qt4-QtRuby.
require 'Qt4'
app = Qt::Application.new ARGV
button = Qt::PushButton.new '&Close Me'
Qt::Object.connect button, SIGNAL('clicked()'), button, SLOT( 'close()' )
button.show
app.exec
Because Microsoft Windows is proprietary software. I.e. there's always a risk that an update breaks some software or driver and nobody has the source code to fix it.
This describes a fault with you, and not with them. ...
If you don't like him, why don't you talk to the pretty woman instead?
Maybe the police will confiscate iPads at the next CeBIT (just as they usually do with Chinese brands) due to Apple violating Nokia patents ...
In normal times, evil would be fought by good. But in times like these, well. It should be fought by another kind of evil. - The Chronicles of Riddick
You definitely want to show him/her an alternative to proprietary software. Microsoft Windows and all the computer games are basically big immutable pieces of software without any room for creativity. You need to give the kid free software and a programming language with a comfortable learning curve. Myself I started with Omicron Basic on Atari ST. Today I would recommend Ruby.
And if you give the kid Linux with Compiz Fusion, he/she has something to show off to his/her friends.
Instead of pumping 140 billion US$ into the ailing economy of proprietary software development, one can save $1 trillion a year with open source. Proprietary software is highly repetitive and often the innovation already has been available as FOSS for many years.