Well, it is also a dip of stress at work, as people have a few days off and most people stay home for the holidays anyway.
It is also that doctors have closed and there is no need to see a doctor so you can prove for your work you are sick (important in many European countries). Oh, but the Study is US only - Gee, go figure.
Google seems to have a profound inability to deal with color in their overall impressive graphs.
Why for example do we have green, yellow, red color coding in the lien chart, but in the interactive country map we do have different shades of blue?
Why do in Google Analytics colors in a pie chart change by rank and not by type. That means if search is this period the largest share, it is blue. If next period referrals are the largest share it is also blue and search becomes green. That is sooooo not user friendly. When do we get a Google Usability lab?
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
to fulfill your source code obligation. "Accompany", I think, indicates you only have to make that offer to the person you distribute the code to. No mention needing to make it publicly available.
However, you can not restrict the right of the party you give it too to distribute/publish it as they see fit (with in the license of the GPL).
You are also (potentially) wrong regarding only offering the code that is already under the GPL. As often mentioned the GPL is viral in nature. If you mix your code with GPL code that fulfills in its entirety the function of the program than you have to deliver all source code, the one that you licensed under the GPL and the code you wrote yourself.
That does not mean you need to license under GPL any application that interoperates with GPL code, such as an OS. But if you link your code with a GPL library, then you have to license your code under the GPL. Remember, GPL does not equal LGPL.
Don't know what you mean with "called an Eiffel" program. So hard to say what your obligations are.
One ting to keep in mind, the GPL does not require publishing the source on a website. It requires to offer it to the recipient of the distribution, attached with the right to redistribute under the same terms.
So Diebold's obligation is not to put it on a website for all public. They can deliver it on a CD or similar. But any of the counties and states that receive it, can re-publish it in any way they want.
I see that if you peer you are still monitoring the amount of traffic flowing back and forth, so no technical (cost) savings over payed routing over another network.
And charging each other costs that equal each other out is not such a big effort in the age of computers. But charging each other makes live easier and takes out any motivation to bend the rules in order to get an advantage.
What is the real benefit of "free" peering after all?
I know of a German Wine School (college level) that (used to ?) makes regular blind tastings with Champagne. The students, trained in wine tasting, are the testers. Regularly the expensive real champagnes do not fair at the top. And the cheap German "Sekt" does pretty well quite often.
Bank account numbers are a rather public commodity in Europe, where checks are a rather uncommon commodity. Payments are directions to my bank to send your bank money to deposit in your bank account (identified by your name and number).
Bring an old server and let them take it apart. Abstract concepts are something that a 4th grader will struggle with. But something to touch they'll never forget and they are not allowed to do at home.
You might have a look at http://kablink.org/ from the former SiteScape (now Novell). I'm not sure if their current open source offering includes the voice collaboration server. I think it used to. Also lots of collaboration tools, although id does not seem to include a collaborative white board in the FOSS version.
Register with GoDaddy and you'll get 100 E-Mail forwards thrown into your domain registration.
Now you can use your own e-mail address and use the server of your ISP or GMail, Yahoo, etc. Only make sure your outgoing mail is configured correctly to show your own domain as sender and probably or at least the Return To: field as such.
But then you can also go with GoogleApps and ignore the rest.
K<o> P.S.: What ever provider you use, make sure you keep the domain registration separate (no opportunity to hold it hostage) and that you backup regularly to some local media.
"A mortgage is a huge commitment. You're going to be paying it back for a long, long time" means it is scary, because you can't foresee the long, long future you are making a commitment to.
Also, this argument was countered by clever sales people, saying, well you are taking a 30 year mortgage, but you are staying only (on average) for 5-7 years in the house. So what do you care about the interest rate for longer than that time period (balloon loan?). So average people got lured by false argumentation to they overcame their fear.
Hmm, if I visit Google's site I'm free to [NOT] click on any ad I want? Where is the problem?
Ahh, the site makes good on the arbitrage. Users obviously find value by clicking on ads in Google's search results and clicking on the ads displayed on Sourcetools in the process, otherwise he would not make money on the arbitrage, to the tune of $150,000 a month. Can't be that big of a problem. He can proof that users find value in his offering.
May be he is good at sensing what keywords users type when they don't know the precise term they should be looking for. Why should Google be the better judge than its (and sourtools') users.
(Just look at Windows versus any of the major Linux DEs. It's pretty obvious that Microsoft has UI experts and programmers who are paid to work with them, as opposed to "scratch your own itch" open source programmers. Nobody can, or should try to, force open source programmers to work on them, but there is a corresponding failure of usability inherent in such.)
At this stage, the key to OSS success is to convince developers and users that commercial additions to a given OSS project are very valuable for all.
Usability and (end user) documentation and tech support are vital for end users, but they are minor itches to scratch for (individual) programmers. Therefore they don't get done with the quality required.
Either commercial users will invest in those OSS projects they use and care for these aspects and get them added/fixed in the code base or commercial companies offer these versions (forks) on their own
Case in point, apps that are skinnable are very successful, i.e. Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Mozilla, while such that are not linger (did anybody say Gimp?)
the "reliable messaging system that works" exists and does not need to be closed.
It is called signed e-mail (PGP) and allows every recipient to filter on PGP signature, with the knowledge that the author can't falsify himself. New authors are assigned their trust by the signature chain that signed their signature (if I trust someone in their, I'm willing to read the e-mail).
But the powers to be don't want a system that is controlled by the end-users and not by the intermediates called mail servers and their spam filters.
And by the way it does not need to be closed, nor does it need to be commercial (self signed certificates are just fine, as they need to be countersigned by others.). The main obstacle is packaging it into a user interface that everybody can understand.
Slashdot Mirror
May be open source is bigger than GPL?
Well, it is also a dip of stress at work, as people have a few days off and most people stay home for the holidays anyway.
It is also that doctors have closed and there is no need to see a doctor so you can prove for your work you are sick (important in many European countries). Oh, but the Study is US only - Gee, go figure.
Google seems to have a profound inability to deal with color in their overall impressive graphs.
Why for example do we have green, yellow, red color coding in the lien chart, but in the interactive country map we do have different shades of blue?
Why do in Google Analytics colors in a pie chart change by rank and not by type. That means if search is this period the largest share, it is blue. If next period referrals are the largest share it is also blue and search becomes green. That is sooooo not user friendly. When do we get a Google Usability lab?
Some integration is already possible as is.
http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org/calc/topic/open-google-spreadsheet
http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org/calc/topic/download-and-open-google-spreadsheet
While this is a lengthy article it is definitely worth the read.
And yes I can confirm these signs are around I95 exits for years.
You are wrong here on both counts.
The GPL does state that you can
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
to fulfill your source code obligation. "Accompany", I think, indicates you only have to make that offer to the person you distribute the code to. No mention needing to make it publicly available.
However, you can not restrict the right of the party you give it too to distribute/publish it as they see fit (with in the license of the GPL).
You are also (potentially) wrong regarding only offering the code that is already under the GPL. As often mentioned the GPL is viral in nature. If you mix your code with GPL code that fulfills in its entirety the function of the program than you have to deliver all source code, the one that you licensed under the GPL and the code you wrote yourself.
That does not mean you need to license under GPL any application that interoperates with GPL code, such as an OS. But if you link your code with a GPL library, then you have to license your code under the GPL. Remember, GPL does not equal LGPL.
Don't know what you mean with "called an Eiffel" program. So hard to say what your obligations are.
One ting to keep in mind, the GPL does not require publishing the source on a website. It requires to offer it to the recipient of the distribution, attached with the right to redistribute under the same terms.
So Diebold's obligation is not to put it on a website for all public. They can deliver it on a CD or similar. But any of the counties and states that receive it, can re-publish it in any way they want.
What is really the benefit of "free" peering?
I see that if you peer you are still monitoring the amount of traffic flowing back and forth, so no technical (cost) savings over payed routing over another network.
And charging each other costs that equal each other out is not such a big effort in the age of computers. But charging each other makes live easier and takes out any motivation to bend the rules in order to get an advantage.
What is the real benefit of "free" peering after all?
There is definitely a spike in OpenOffice interest with this release. I see a 15% increase in traffice at Plan-B for OpenOffice.org
Also there was a race of Tweats announcing different servers where you could find the 3.0 final release before its official release.
Many of the Twitter comments referred to OS X capability.
survival = programming !!!
It's called marketing!
I know of a German Wine School (college level) that (used to ?) makes regular blind tastings with Champagne. The students, trained in wine tasting, are the testers. Regularly the expensive real champagnes do not fair at the top. And the cheap German "Sekt" does pretty well quite often.
That is not aging, that is giving it an oak flavor/taste.
American?
Bank account numbers are a rather public commodity in Europe, where checks are a rather uncommon commodity. Payments are directions to my bank to send your bank money to deposit in your bank account (identified by your name and number).
Bring an old server and let them take it apart. Abstract concepts are something that a 4th grader will struggle with. But something to touch they'll never forget and they are not allowed to do at home.
You might have a look at http://kablink.org/ from the former SiteScape (now Novell). I'm not sure if their current open source offering includes the voice collaboration server. I think it used to. Also lots of collaboration tools, although id does not seem to include a collaborative white board in the FOSS version.
Another option is Hushmail, which adds security (signature and encryption).
Register with GoDaddy and you'll get 100 E-Mail forwards thrown into your domain registration.
Now you can use your own e-mail address and use the server of your ISP or GMail, Yahoo, etc. Only make sure your outgoing mail is configured correctly to show your own domain as sender and probably or at least the Return To: field as such.
But then you can also go with GoogleApps and ignore the rest.
K<o>
P.S.: What ever provider you use, make sure you keep the domain registration separate (no opportunity to hold it hostage) and that you backup regularly to some local media.
On day one it is easy to have your own e-mail server. This changes once, you start maintaining the spam filter.
You are making the posters point:
"A mortgage is a huge commitment. You're going to be paying it back for a long, long time" means it is scary, because you can't foresee the long, long future you are making a commitment to.
Also, this argument was countered by clever sales people, saying, well you are taking a 30 year mortgage, but you are staying only (on average) for 5-7 years in the house. So what do you care about the interest rate for longer than that time period (balloon loan?). So average people got lured by false argumentation to they overcame their fear.
"US researchers quizzed players of the role-playing game EverQuest II"
To conclude from a random quiz of a single game anything about a much broader community "gamers" is a far stretch.
People you Trust and Slashdot commentators? That is an oxymoron.
Hmm, if I visit Google's site I'm free to [NOT] click on any ad I want? Where is the problem?
Ahh, the site makes good on the arbitrage. Users obviously find value by clicking on ads in Google's search results and clicking on the ads displayed on Sourcetools in the process, otherwise he would not make money on the arbitrage, to the tune of $150,000 a month. Can't be that big of a problem. He can proof that users find value in his offering.
May be he is good at sensing what keywords users type when they don't know the precise term they should be looking for. Why should Google be the better judge than its (and sourtools') users.
Great ideas in this browser, and I love the process separation (multi core runs great), stability and speed for Java Script.
But, I'm missing many features from Firefox that make live easier:
* Form memory
* Extensions
* Scriptability of the UI
* AdBlock
* Java Plugin
(Just look at Windows versus any of the major Linux DEs. It's pretty obvious that Microsoft has UI experts and programmers who are paid to work with them, as opposed to "scratch your own itch" open source programmers. Nobody can, or should try to, force open source programmers to work on them, but there is a corresponding failure of usability inherent in such.)
At this stage, the key to OSS success is to convince developers and users that commercial additions to a given OSS project are very valuable for all.
Usability and (end user) documentation and tech support are vital for end users, but they are minor itches to scratch for (individual) programmers. Therefore they don't get done with the quality required.
Either commercial users will invest in those OSS projects they use and care for these aspects and get them added/fixed in the code base or commercial companies offer these versions (forks) on their own
Case in point, apps that are skinnable are very successful, i.e. Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Mozilla, while such that are not linger (did anybody say Gimp?)
Aaron,
the "reliable messaging system that works" exists and does not need to be closed.
It is called signed e-mail (PGP) and allows every recipient to filter on PGP signature, with the knowledge that the author can't falsify himself. New authors are assigned their trust by the signature chain that signed their signature (if I trust someone in their, I'm willing to read the e-mail).
But the powers to be don't want a system that is controlled by the end-users and not by the intermediates called mail servers and their spam filters.
And by the way it does not need to be closed, nor does it need to be commercial (self signed certificates are just fine, as they need to be countersigned by others.). The main obstacle is packaging it into a user interface that everybody can understand.