Heh... I still remember going to a research center (CINVESTAV, Mexico) where my father was working and getting into Gopher...
I was about 10 years old back then, and it was an awesome place...
Then we got this Mosaic program, with a different structure. And so I discovered the WWW... and immediatly made my Geocities page (sunset strip... even though it had *nothing* to do with music) and started chatting randomly in WBS.
THose were the days... except that, instead of ads, we had the ubiqutous "this page is under construction" gifs...
What I miss more are the rings. They really helped you find intersting sites with similar information (nowadays of course, sites like del.icio.us help... unfortunately they are *heavily* biased towards some theme... and it gets more and more difficul to find technical stuff like, electronic circuits hobby pages and others)
The majority of Open Source projects have shitty, old or no documentation at all.
Sure, you can download the code and look at it, but it is time consuming and stupid.
Sure you can post a question to a forum or mailing list... nevertheless the majority of times I have done that (dokeos/chamilo, Ogre3D, codeigniter, firefox, openoffice, etc), I haven't got an answer.
Compare that to say MSDN, which is a great reference library for a closed source technology. That is mainly because the company behind it PAYS someone to maintain such documentation.
I administer 3 websites as a "part time". I contracted the hosting and bought the domain. I have been working on computers and programming since around 1988 and as such, I consider myself pretty "computer saavy" (e.e. I used to do cracks and keygens in my youth... ).
Nevertheless, about two weeks ago I've got a mail that seemed quite sincere telling me that certain company wanted to acquire domains similar to one of mines but with different TLD:
Dear Manager, This email is from China Domain Name registration service company, which is the domain name registration center in Shanghai, China. A formal application here dated on Oct. 18, 2010 from Wells inc requested " XXXXX " as their Internet Brand and China domain names. But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China ?
Well... it was after exchanging two emails with the bastards that I got it and googled for some background (they were very pushy suggesting me to buy the domains from them:-/)
No, we do not need to worry about Windows Software running on Linux.
We need to worry about GOOD Linux Software that does what Windows software do.
For the average computer user, current Linux software is clumsy, non-intuitive and unnecessarily cumbersome. In addition, it gets changed between even between each distribution "update".
Even taking Ubuntu as the "standard" Desktop Linux (it is the defacto Linux desktop standard, sorry SuSes, Fedoras, Mandrivas, etc). In one version, you have "beagle", in the next you have "tracker"; in one you have "Fspot", then "Shotwell"; I get familiar with Xsane and then it is replaced with "Simple Scan"... and so on and so forth.
And in addition, just when those apps are starting to get "stable"... they get changed once again.
I once had a program that allowed you to texture the windows in Workbench (each new window you opened would have a random texture in its borders). It was slow as ass, but it looked great.
Anyone remembers the program from Win3.1 which enabled animated icons and other stuff... IIRC the program icon was a rabbit coming out of a hat. Can anyone remember the name?
If your users have access to a web browser but lack the privileges to install a native client on machines that they use, then you have no choice but to write your application in a language that runs inside the web browser
Parent is saying that: 1. It is false that Microsoft spent millions of dollars in research to conceive the Kinect.
2. The Kinect system is not a groundbreaking product. In fact, all the bad things that Microsoft said about the Wii are still present in the Kinect (whichever they are).
3. In conclussion, Microsoft has spent at most 20 or 30 dollars in total, considering prior art.
En cuanto a los gringos que no saben hablar otro idioma y critican a los que no hablamos Inglés como primer idioma; chinguen a su madre y a ver si se culturizan un poco más... de verdad, hablar otra lengua no duele y les expande el panorama (y la cultura).
The company behind Youtube does not *need* to preserve all the videos that people upload to their website. For example, there are plenty of violent videos (from Mexican's cartels, interrogating and shooting guys in the head, or beheading them) that have been removed from Youtube; a lot of them are quite informative (and not violent at all) by the way.
As someone else said, there are still websites (e.g. liveleak) that focus on such kind of content. And the "freedom of speech" is only related to the freedom someone has against the government, and the freedom to use some company service.
For this reason, Youtube can choose whether to accept the requests from *whoever* (person, government, corporation) to take down some video. And nobody can do anything about it (except stop using Youtube, or use an alternative service)
The title of the Slashdot post says 33 developers. That's a lot of developers. This is an important clarification.
Aren't you mistaking developers for programmers. Granted, 32 of those guys who left do not write code for OpenOffice. Nevertheless they help developing the German version of the software by creating documentation or localization.
As somebody who just lost a bunch of data due to faulty backup disks, I for one welcome this.
So, the solution of losing backup of data created with some applications is to change the applications you use and in addition trust all your data to a third party?
In that case I would go for something similar to DropBox and use it as an "offline" backup.
Retraining is oftentimes (almost always) not an option.
What they should have done is just leave the bidding open for everyone, and THEN select the one which is better for their needs (e.g., the one using the technology that aligns with theirs).
I don't know exactly how the decision takes place; but in my country, after all bids are taken "closed envelope" the person that pays (i.e. the government) gets to choose the one that is better for them (in terms of price and features).
You see... I am a software developer and Computer Scientist. For that reason I like a software company (and I would love to work on any of those).
However, I do not like advertising companies. I am no a marketer or whatnot. That's why I prefer MS to Google. Granted, right now MS is completely out of their way (shitty CEO) but as a company, I prefer a software company any time of the day.
Remember, MS is not here to profit *from your personal data and habits*, that other company *is*
Those of us who have been on the Internet since puberty have already mastered the art of one-handed input with a standard keyboard and mouse. With the proper motivation we can easily adapt this skill to a regular on-screen keyboard.
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Heh... I still remember going to a research center (CINVESTAV, Mexico) where my father was working and getting into Gopher...
I was about 10 years old back then, and it was an awesome place...
Then we got this Mosaic program, with a different structure. And so I discovered the WWW... and immediatly made my Geocities page (sunset strip... even though it had *nothing* to do with music) and started chatting randomly in WBS.
THose were the days... except that, instead of ads, we had the ubiqutous "this page is under construction" gifs...
What I miss more are the rings. They really helped you find intersting sites with similar information (nowadays of course, sites like del.icio.us help... unfortunately they are *heavily* biased towards some theme... and it gets more and more difficul to find technical stuff like, electronic circuits hobby pages and others)
Haha, that's the one... it brings me so many memories. Back when I was about 12... having moving icons, and tags was sooo cool...
Thanks
So... what would you suggest for a very small startup company that wants to setup a simple web site with PHP and simple database...
Last time I looked at the market, all the cheap'n'good' hosting providers were offering only MySQL database...
Bullshit.
The majority of Open Source projects have shitty, old or no documentation at all.
Sure, you can download the code and look at it, but it is time consuming and stupid.
Sure you can post a question to a forum or mailing list... nevertheless the majority of times I have done that (dokeos/chamilo, Ogre3D, codeigniter, firefox, openoffice, etc), I haven't got an answer.
Compare that to say MSDN, which is a great reference library for a closed source technology.
That is mainly because the company behind it PAYS someone to maintain such documentation.
No Shit.
I administer 3 websites as a "part time". I contracted the hosting and bought the domain. I have been working on computers and programming since around 1988 and as such, I consider myself pretty "computer saavy" (e.e. I used to do cracks and keygens in my youth... ).
Nevertheless, about two weeks ago I've got a mail that seemed quite sincere telling me that certain company wanted to acquire domains similar to one of mines but with different TLD:
Dear Manager,
This email is from China Domain Name registration service company, which is the domain name registration center in Shanghai, China. A formal application here dated on Oct. 18, 2010 from Wells inc requested " XXXXX " as their Internet Brand and China domain names. But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China ?
Well... it was after exchanging two emails with the bastards that I got it and googled for some background (they were very pushy suggesting me to buy the domains from them :-/)
After some time looking I found out it is a well known scam: http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chris/domain-name-scams?page=12
No, we do not need to worry about Windows Software running on Linux.
We need to worry about GOOD Linux Software that does what Windows software do.
For the average computer user, current Linux software is clumsy, non-intuitive and unnecessarily cumbersome. In addition, it gets changed between even between each distribution "update".
Even taking Ubuntu as the "standard" Desktop Linux (it is the defacto Linux desktop standard, sorry SuSes, Fedoras, Mandrivas, etc). In one version, you have "beagle", in the next you have "tracker"; in one you have "Fspot", then "Shotwell"; I get familiar with Xsane and then it is replaced with "Simple Scan" ... and so on and so forth.
And in addition, just when those apps are starting to get "stable"... they get changed once again.
What's next? Apple invented the keyboard? The mouse? The bit? Gimme a break.
Not only that, everybody knows they invented the MP3 player too ;-)
I once had a program that allowed you to texture the windows in Workbench (each new window you opened would have a random texture in its borders). It was slow as ass, but it looked great.
Anyone remembers the program from Win3.1 which enabled animated icons and other stuff... IIRC the program icon was a rabbit coming out of a hat. Can anyone remember the name?
IIRC there was a similar porn movie called "pirates" which also had story... and another called Cleopatra, I've been told...
If your users have access to a web browser but lack the privileges to install a native client on machines that they use, then you have no choice but to write your application in a language that runs inside the web browser
You might want to learn about Portable Apps.
Ow man... you should go to Reddit instead.
It is really boring to see how in slashdot the only comments and snarky questions you will see will be to criticize the technology.
Ok let me give it a try:
Parent is saying that:
1. It is false that Microsoft spent millions of dollars in research to conceive the Kinect.
2. The Kinect system is not a groundbreaking product. In fact, all the bad things that Microsoft said about the Wii are still present in the Kinect (whichever they are).
3. In conclussion, Microsoft has spent at most 20 or 30 dollars in total, considering prior art.
En cuanto a los gringos que no saben hablar otro idioma y critican a los que no hablamos Inglés como primer idioma; chinguen a su madre y a ver si se culturizan un poco más... de verdad, hablar otra lengua no duele y les expande el panorama (y la cultura).
What expressive art tools are available that deemphasize precision work with your coordinated hand?
A: Grafitti.
I remember some time ago, Dave Mustaine (from Megadeth) had a hand injury which they said would prevent him from playing guitar...
Fortunately after a lot of recovery he came back to play (and is still good).
Thus, although I would recommend try to use the other hand, people should also not leave out the possibility of recovering.
Bah... it is easier than that.
The company behind Youtube does not *need* to preserve all the videos that people upload to their website. For example, there are plenty of violent videos (from Mexican's cartels, interrogating and shooting guys in the head, or beheading them) that have been removed from Youtube; a lot of them are quite informative (and not violent at all) by the way.
As someone else said, there are still websites (e.g. liveleak) that focus on such kind of content. And the "freedom of speech" is only related to the freedom someone has against the government, and the freedom to use some company service.
For this reason, Youtube can choose whether to accept the requests from *whoever* (person, government, corporation) to take down some video. And nobody can do anything about it (except stop using Youtube, or use an alternative service)
The title of the Slashdot post says 33 developers. That's a lot of developers. This is an important clarification.
Aren't you mistaking developers for programmers. Granted, 32 of those guys who left do not write code for OpenOffice. Nevertheless they help developing the German version of the software by creating documentation or localization.
LOL Jdownloader...
JDownloader is such a resource hog... it is awful.
I started using FreeRapid and never looked back.
Disclaimer: Freerapid is also in Java.
I love OpenOffice but the reality is that loading the complete "framework" takes a lot of resources time.
It would be good if they separated each component (Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress) into a self-contained app.
Try comparing that with the opening time for Excel 2003 under Wine?
Which one is faster?
As somebody who just lost a bunch of data due to faulty backup disks, I for one welcome this.
So, the solution of losing backup of data created with some applications is to change the applications you use and in addition trust all your data to a third party?
In that case I would go for something similar to DropBox and use it as an "offline" backup.
Agreed.
All the "benefits" of "the cloud" can be achieved using DropBox. With the addition of having your apps in your computer.
IIRC Mozilla Prism only allows to load web pages ("applications") in a seamless window (what a bunch of CEOspeak).
That is, it provides a browser window without any controls (only the frame and title window) that can be used to load specific web pages as "apps".
I use it to load a specific Office.live.com excel sheet for logging my daily activities.
No,
Retraining is oftentimes (almost always) not an option.
What they should have done is just leave the bidding open for everyone, and THEN select the one which is better for their needs (e.g., the one using the technology that aligns with theirs).
I don't know exactly how the decision takes place; but in my country, after all bids are taken "closed envelope" the person that pays (i.e. the government) gets to choose the one that is better for them (in terms of price and features).
You see... I am a software developer and Computer Scientist. For that reason I like a software company (and I would love to work on any of those).
However, I do not like advertising companies. I am no a marketer or whatnot. That's why I prefer MS to Google. Granted, right now MS is completely out of their way (shitty CEO) but as a company, I prefer a software company any time of the day.
Remember, MS is not here to profit *from your personal data and habits*, that other company *is*
Those of us who have been on the Internet since puberty have already mastered the art of one-handed input with a standard keyboard and mouse. With the proper motivation we can easily adapt this skill to a regular on-screen keyboard.
Ha! One hand Dvorak should be part of the curriculum of Comp101