Umm, yes. To say that it is the US movement that went global is indeed a bit US-centric. But, while the indignados movement is one of the strongest and a great inspiration for the rest of the world, Greece (May 2010), Tunisia (Oct 2010), Libya & Baharain (Feb 2011), Chile (May 2011), and probably a lot others I don't remember, started sooner. "World 2011 (201X?) protests" would be a better label by now.
My solution is to give each student a voucher, and to employ free market regarding education. Not public schools, only public funding of education.
Your solution is to fund for-profit schools with public monez? Why should my tax money go to the pockets of the owners of said schools? How would we ensure that schools address the non-didactical aspects that a "university" is supposed to-- like research & extension?
Embrace the CLI for everything, and use the absolute minimum GUI you need. There's a shit ton of tiling window managers out there for people who know what they want from a UI.
I agree. Specially for netbooks (which WMs like Unity were originially targeted at), there is nothing like a pixel-and-cpu-saving tiled/tabbed window manager. I personally use tritium, which has its shortcomings, but is a good starting point.
But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network.
I think the point of the refrain is not that you should shut up about the bugs or other failures of the software, but rather that, while you can point them out and even ask to have them fixed, you can't demand it. You get a voice, but not a vote, as of which issues are addressed and in what manner. Unless, of course, you supply code yourself.
What's the main resource drain in such a project? Would deleting (or exporting) the 8000 or so orphaned projects have kept BerliOS afloat in the first place?
The problem is, you can't know which side leads the subject to always tell the truth. Also, you are only allowed to make one question. Also, one of the 12 coins is either heavier or lighter than the others. And only two passengers fit in the boat at the same time. How do you know which path leads to heaven?
You are right, open source means "closed until we and our partners can sell/distribute it".
Oh -- open source exactly means that. If you don't release, you don't need to publish the source.
Are you certain of that? I was wondering just today: If I distribute to my partner P (and no-one else) the source and binary of an application A which links to a GPL'd 2+ library L, can L's copyright holder demand I provide them with the source? Or can only P do that?
What if I distribute (again to P) a modified version of library L?
That last part inspires sharp words from some of the TechCruch readers, because the GUI described is of an older version of Android wrapped so thickly in Amazon livery that it's hard to recognize.
Respecting a fine tradition, I didn't read TFA, but isn't the point of Android (a version of Linux wrapped so thickly in Google livery it's hard to recognize) to be hackeable & modifiable by any company, organization or individual? Why would someone object to this?
..._unless_ you restrict yourself to only use portable (3rd party) libraries. On the other hand, 99% of the Java libraries out there are already completely portable...
I suspect the number of portable C/C++ libraries exceeds the total number of Java libraries, though.
Qt alone, covers most of what the standard Java libs do, for example.
My Samsung phone came bundled with some gameloft demo crap and forces me to use Yahoo!. I don't know if Samsung is to blame or the service provider, though.
BTW, still haven't found out how to change the search engine.
Minerals containing REEs are quite common, actually (apatite, fluorite). They just are scattered homogeneously throughout the crust and rarely in concentrations worth mining. Economics hurdles, again, getting in the way of innovation:-/
Same here, with a Galaxy Ace-- still haven't figured out how to change the search engine in the default browser to something else. Didn't remember Yahoo was so bad.
My father is over 70, not a programmer by trade, and is still learning new languages (Lua & Python).
The issue, I think, is motivation. Despite all the criticism he has for every non-C++ language ("leave my memory be!"), he has fun learning them -- and applies them successfully to his research projects.
there used to be the magic loudness button that would render music listenable in noisy environments.
That button actually just bumped the basses a bit and was intended to be used when playing the music at low levels-- to compensate for the diminished auditory perception of basses at low levels. (see Fletcher-Munson curves)
Brick-wall limiting. Can you call that a technique if it isn't used to protect equipment (and ears)? It's more like they are abusing the (in principle soft, long-attack-time, look-ahead) compressor used in mastering and getting close to it.
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Thanks for the recommendation. Will have a look.
Check out Debtocracy, if you haven't, a crowd-produced Greek documentary about their (and tangentially, other) movements.
This. Not to mention Lybia, Baharain, Iceland, Tunisia, Chile, etc... (in no particular order).
Anyways. No demerit to the people of US. It's only a label, after all.
Umm, yes. To say that it is the US movement that went global is indeed a bit US-centric.
But, while the indignados movement is one of the strongest and a great inspiration for the rest of the world, Greece (May 2010), Tunisia (Oct 2010), Libya & Baharain (Feb 2011), Chile (May 2011), and probably a lot others I don't remember, started sooner. "World 2011 (201X?) protests" would be a better label by now.
My solution is to give each student a voucher, and to employ free market regarding education. Not public schools, only public funding of education.
Your solution is to fund for-profit schools with public monez? Why should my tax money go to the pockets of the owners of said schools? How would we ensure that schools address the non-didactical aspects that a "university" is supposed to-- like research & extension?
Maybe start liking turtles. (remember Apple LOGO??)
Nope. I remember some logo-turtle-functional-programming-thing. But what does it have to do with Apple?
Embrace the CLI for everything, and use the absolute minimum GUI you need. There's a shit ton of tiling window managers out there for people who know what they want from a UI.
I agree. Specially for netbooks (which WMs like Unity were originially targeted at), there is nothing like a pixel-and-cpu-saving tiled/tabbed window manager. I personally use tritium, which has its shortcomings, but is a good starting point.
But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network.
Heh.
I think the point of the refrain is not that you should shut up about the bugs or other failures of the software, but rather that, while you can point them out and even ask to have them fixed, you can't demand it. You get a voice, but not a vote, as of which issues are addressed and in what manner. Unless, of course, you supply code yourself.
You decide if you do, if you don't, you don't.
Heh I just had this picture in my head of an Android Coffee shop that sells cheap coffee.
Were they serve only Java coffee. Almost Java anyways.
Problem is, according to that homepage, it is expected to last even less than BerliOS: 40 days.
What's the main resource drain in such a project? Would deleting (or exporting) the 8000 or so orphaned projects have kept BerliOS afloat in the first place?
1) Language-wise: In contrast to its competitors GTK and QT, it is based on C rather than C++.
a) How is that an advantage?
b) I believe GTK+ is written in C
Otherwise, seems like a good suggestion, as far as I can tell. (But I don't know a thing about distributed computing and that limbo/dis thing.)
Invade? Didn't you read TFS? Their oil production is declining!
The problem is, you can't know which side leads the subject to always tell the truth. Also, you are only allowed to make one question. Also, one of the 12 coins is either heavier or lighter than the others. And only two passengers fit in the boat at the same time.
How do you know which path leads to heaven?
You are right, open source means "closed until we and our partners can sell/distribute it".
Oh -- open source exactly means that. If you don't release, you don't need to publish the source.
Are you certain of that? I was wondering just today: If I distribute to my partner P (and no-one else) the source and binary of an application A which links to a GPL'd 2+ library L, can L's copyright holder demand I provide them with the source? Or can only P do that?
What if I distribute (again to P) a modified version of library L?
That last part inspires sharp words from some of the TechCruch readers, because the GUI described is of an older version of Android wrapped so thickly in Amazon livery that it's hard to recognize.
Respecting a fine tradition, I didn't read TFA, but isn't the point of Android (a version of Linux wrapped so thickly in Google livery it's hard to recognize) to be hackeable & modifiable by any company, organization or individual? Why would someone object to this?
but they do it with shift every day so it is easy to explain.
I am surprised at how many people use the caps lock key intstead.
Just X Windows defined the middle button for paste it does not make it right or the non plus ultra.
Just accept both... I, too, prefer the key combos, but sometimes the mouse middle button (or drag-and-drop) has its uses.
..._unless_ you restrict yourself to only use portable (3rd party) libraries. On the other hand, 99% of the Java libraries out there are already completely portable...
I suspect the number of portable C/C++ libraries exceeds the total number of Java libraries, though.
Qt alone, covers most of what the standard Java libs do, for example.
...crap they bundle, and forcing you to use Bing.
My Samsung phone came bundled with some gameloft demo crap and forces me to use Yahoo!. I don't know if Samsung is to blame or the service provider, though.
BTW, still haven't found out how to change the search engine.
Minerals containing REEs are quite common, actually (apatite, fluorite). They just are scattered homogeneously throughout the crust and rarely in concentrations worth mining. Economics hurdles, again, getting in the way of innovation :-/
Same here, with a Galaxy Ace-- still haven't figured out how to change the search engine in the default browser to something else. Didn't remember Yahoo was so bad.
My father is over 70, not a programmer by trade, and is still learning new languages (Lua & Python).
The issue, I think, is motivation. Despite all the criticism he has for every non-C++ language ("leave my memory be!"), he has fun learning them -- and applies them successfully to his research projects.
And Africa encompasses everything from Cape Town to Tanger.
there used to be the magic loudness button that would render music listenable in noisy environments.
That button actually just bumped the basses a bit and was intended to be used when playing the music at low levels-- to compensate for the diminished auditory perception of basses at low levels. (see Fletcher-Munson curves)
Brick-wall limiting. Can you call that a technique if it isn't used to protect equipment (and ears)? It's more like they are abusing the (in principle soft, long-attack-time, look-ahead) compressor used in mastering and getting close to it.