My first (dumb)phone was a Nokia 6110 in 1997 and my last a Nokia 6820 in 2005. My first PDA was a Palm Pilot 1000 in 1996 and my last, a Palm Tungsten T3 in 2005. I guess smartphones killed them both. Nokia didn't know how to make a proper PDA and Palm didn't know how to make a proper phone. Too bad they didn't cooperate back then.
I have to disagree on that one.
The Google Summer of Code is basically run by 5 people from the Open Source Programs Office. There's no one from HR involved.
Google has absolutely no control over who gets selected. The orgs alone choose their students. The only feedback that Google gets from the Summer of Code projects are two routinely hurriedly written reports from the orgs at mid-term and end of project.
Finally, of those that successfully complete the Summer of Code, less than 1% end up as Google interns and even less as full-time engineers.
Debian is welcoming students once again this year. I was a 2008 GSoC student at Debian and am returning this year to admin the GSoC program at Debian. I had a very exciting experience, participating in meetups with a lot of Debian developers all over Europe and I recommend you to apply at Debian to share this experience.
We have a huge range of project possibilities, from our famous packaging system (.deb ftw) to debian-specific developer tools and infrastructure (want to work on our multi-arch distributed build farm ?) or hardware support (because Debian runs everywhere, from tiny ARM devices to country-wide computing grids). We have you all covered.
Remember that Debian and its derivatives are the largest group of Linux distributions in the world. That's a huge community you'll be working with, and I should say, an amazing concentration of talent.
Hi, I'm the Aptitude-gtk applicant.
If you've used both Synaptic and Aptitude, you should have seen some differences:)
The dependency resolution is one point, but it's not only that. The whole navigation in Aptitude is just much more efficient. Ever used Synaptic in a mixed-distribution install ? Say you want to install another version of a package and it has some different dependencies. Good luck navigating them in Synaptic. It's really not designed with that in mind.
You can see the full application here and my development blog here.
I warmly welcome any input on my project!
You might be interested to learn that most of the national fiber network in this offer is privately built and owned, the rest being leased from the historical telco (last mile only). The historical telco company is now mostly private though.
Let's see what 29,99 can get you in France: 24mbit internet WIFI MIMO router/set-top box, 1gb webspace Telephone line fees included, you really have nothing else to pay Unlimited free national and international POTS phone 200 digital TV channels over DSL, HDTV and DVB-T compatible terminal included..
This one company litterally drove the prices down and the offerings up.. Now that the prices are low enough, everybody is catching up on triple-play. They also have other plans, like building a mesh of wifi hotspots using their set-top boxes to route free wireless VoIP calls. Free cell phones, just imagine that..
Mind you, even under the intense pressure that you westernian exercise on them as the final customer of cheap products, they all prefer working in factories than in the fields in the country.
I advise you seeing the 'Getting Rich' segment of the 'China Rises' documentary from the CBC. It might recall you what rural exodus was in Europe and America some decades ago. It's the same.
Natural law as opposed to positive law ? Good point.
But your example uses an act commonly considered as criminal (murder). It is even more dubious than the "why if the Dutch tried to help the Americans import drugs ?" argument.
Thank you for evoking the HK case. One thing you forgot is that the economic, cultural, education situation is much different there. A full fledged democracy is a stable system there. In China, it is not yet. Nobody in China will tell you that they wouldn't like democracy once the ideal conditions are realized. But most of them think that it is not the case yet and prefer to wait. Poor democracies always collapse. Even the USSR collapsed because the economic growth lagged behind the democratic modernization.
One huge difference is that the Microsoft tech support guys are paid to listen to your stupidities. You are a lot more patient and understanding when you're paid.
Why not just merge KDE and Gnome ? I understand that my statement looks like a troll's dream but it would not be such a bad situation. After all, Firefox is now the main F/OSS web browser with a large dominance among the F/OSS community. And it's not that bad. Why would it be so bad with desktop managers ? Please enlighten me. Thank you.
Everybody was whining because software companies underestimated the required specs of their software. Now that they provide more realistic specs at the risk of overestimating them, we're taking them litteraly ? On another side, take also in account that Vista will probably have a lifespan comparable to XP, something like 5-6 years. Every computer will be easily capable of running all the GUI eye-candy in the years following the release. It's a good idea to leave some room for improvement IMHO.
Seriously, who uses this ? Nowadays, people tend to go to subpages from Google and read snippets instead of going through the main page the way the author intended to. Imagine people copy-pasting code without even reading the project page!
Does this mean that in a few years we'll get the equivalent of SEO, search engine spamming in every program we can compile ? I don't want to see that. Nowadays, websites are made for Google.. Their existence is justified by their PageRank. I don't want SourceForge et al. to die the same death as Yahoo's old categories (did you notice that they completely disappeared ?).
These films are more horror/thrillers that happen to be set on Mars in my opinion. Nobody ever tried to make real hard SF films. KSR's trilogy is more of a social/political/economic utopia with an obsessive attention to scientific details. Maybe it doesn't appeal to a broad enough public. KSR's idea of economy here looks a little bit like communism after all;)
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Isn't this technology called a doctor?
My first (dumb)phone was a Nokia 6110 in 1997 and my last a Nokia 6820 in 2005. My first PDA was a Palm Pilot 1000 in 1996 and my last, a Palm Tungsten T3 in 2005.
I guess smartphones killed them both. Nokia didn't know how to make a proper PDA and Palm didn't know how to make a proper phone. Too bad they didn't cooperate back then.
Palm and Nokia: you will be remembered.
Am I the only one to notice that 2.2250738585072011e-308 is not very large?
Apparently, some journalists need a patch too.
My 2.2250738585072011e-308 cents.
I have to disagree on that one. The Google Summer of Code is basically run by 5 people from the Open Source Programs Office. There's no one from HR involved.
Google has absolutely no control over who gets selected. The orgs alone choose their students. The only feedback that Google gets from the Summer of Code projects are two routinely hurriedly written reports from the orgs at mid-term and end of project.
Finally, of those that successfully complete the Summer of Code, less than 1% end up as Google interns and even less as full-time engineers.
Debian is welcoming students once again this year. I was a 2008 GSoC student at Debian and am returning this year to admin the GSoC program at Debian. I had a very exciting experience, participating in meetups with a lot of Debian developers all over Europe and I recommend you to apply at Debian to share this experience.
We have a huge range of project possibilities, from our famous packaging system (.deb ftw) to debian-specific developer tools and infrastructure (want to work on our multi-arch distributed build farm ?) or hardware support (because Debian runs everywhere, from tiny ARM devices to country-wide computing grids). We have you all covered.
Remember that Debian and its derivatives are the largest group of Linux distributions in the world. That's a huge community you'll be working with, and I should say, an amazing concentration of talent.
If you are interested, visit: http://wiki.debian.org/gsoc, join us on IRC on: #debian-soc on irc.debian.org or follow us on twitter of identi.ca (DebianGSoC).
Also, see our mailing-list announcement for more pratical information.
Nasa imagery is public domain, as are all photographic works from the US government. See their statement. Wikipedia is very grateful for this.
Hi, I'm the Aptitude-gtk applicant. :) .
If you've used both Synaptic and Aptitude, you should have seen some differences
The dependency resolution is one point, but it's not only that. The whole navigation in Aptitude is just much more efficient. Ever used Synaptic in a mixed-distribution install ? Say you want to install another version of a package and it has some different dependencies. Good luck navigating them in Synaptic. It's really not designed with that in mind.
You can see the full application here and my development blog here
I warmly welcome any input on my project!
The sad part is that they will manage to hype it up as a real product again..
You might be interested by the recently launched european equivalent : Minatec.
Not mentionned to prevent slashvertisement probably. The company is Free Telecom (http://www.free.fr).
You might be interested to learn that most of the national fiber network in this offer is privately built and owned, the rest being leased from the historical telco (last mile only). The historical telco company is now mostly private though.
We're not in soviet Russia.
Let's see what 29,99 can get you in France:
24mbit internet
WIFI MIMO router/set-top box, 1gb webspace
Telephone line fees included, you really have nothing else to pay
Unlimited free national and international POTS phone
200 digital TV channels over DSL, HDTV and DVB-T compatible terminal included..
This one company litterally drove the prices down and the offerings up.. Now that the prices are low enough, everybody is catching up on triple-play. They also have other plans, like building a mesh of wifi hotspots using their set-top boxes to route free wireless VoIP calls. Free cell phones, just imagine that..
Mind you, even under the intense pressure that you westernian exercise on them as the final customer of cheap products, they all prefer working in factories than in the fields in the country.
I advise you seeing the 'Getting Rich' segment of the 'China Rises' documentary from the CBC.
It might recall you what rural exodus was in Europe and America some decades ago. It's the same.
Natural law as opposed to positive law ? Good point.
But your example uses an act commonly considered as criminal (murder). It is even more dubious than the "why if the Dutch tried to help the Americans import drugs ?" argument.
Thank you for evoking the HK case. One thing you forgot is that the economic, cultural, education situation is much different there. A full fledged democracy is a stable system there. In China, it is not yet. Nobody in China will tell you that they wouldn't like democracy once the ideal conditions are realized. But most of them think that it is not the case yet and prefer to wait.
Poor democracies always collapse. Even the USSR collapsed because the economic growth lagged behind the democratic modernization.
One huge difference is that the Microsoft tech support guys are paid to listen to your stupidities. You are a lot more patient and understanding when you're paid.
"Certified" ethical hacker sounds to me as bulletproof as Suk Imperial Conditioning..
The irony is that all these companies contract out (I could also include Apple here) to the same few manufacturers, all either in China or Taiwan..
Why not just merge KDE and Gnome ?
I understand that my statement looks like a troll's dream but it would not be such a bad situation.
After all, Firefox is now the main F/OSS web browser with a large dominance among the F/OSS community. And it's not that bad. Why would it be so bad with desktop managers ?
Please enlighten me. Thank you.
Everybody was whining because software companies underestimated the required specs of their software. Now that they provide more realistic specs at the risk of overestimating them, we're taking them litteraly ?
On another side, take also in account that Vista will probably have a lifespan comparable to XP, something like 5-6 years. Every computer will be easily capable of running all the GUI eye-candy in the years following the release. It's a good idea to leave some room for improvement IMHO.
The difference with industrial sheetfeed scanners is that this one actually fits in your pocket..
Seriously, who uses this ?
Nowadays, people tend to go to subpages from Google and read snippets instead of going through the main page the way the author intended to. Imagine people copy-pasting code without even reading the project page!
Does this mean that in a few years we'll get the equivalent of SEO, search engine spamming in every program we can compile ? I don't want to see that.
Nowadays, websites are made for Google.. Their existence is justified by their PageRank.
I don't want SourceForge et al. to die the same death as Yahoo's old categories (did you notice that they completely disappeared ?).
Bios flashing can be done live on Windows nowadays.
These films are more horror/thrillers that happen to be set on Mars in my opinion. Nobody ever tried to make real hard SF films. KSR's trilogy is more of a social/political/economic utopia with an obsessive attention to scientific details. Maybe it doesn't appeal to a broad enough public. KSR's idea of economy here looks a little bit like communism after all ;)
True, more than two hundred years. Three thick volumes.
I just can't understand how we got three (poor) Dune and no Mars Trilogy, miniseries or film.