SF is the most important one for me, but it is not an information or reference site.
So here is my list: freshmeat, slashdot, linuxfr, gnu.org, java.net, osnews, jesuislibre.
Now let's not forget music: Jamendo.
Thank you very much for the answer. The fact that the results are put into the public domain is exactly what I wanted to hear. I could not find this information on the website but I probably just missed it. Thanks again.
Sounds cool. However, you better be alone in the room.
OTOH, I'm quite interested by the new 3D screen. That should really enhance your game experience. And it is available today.
Good review (part 1).
I haven't tested yet the MDV2006 but I hope they have fixed the main issue I had with the previous releases: Keyboard Navigation for the Control Center. Sometimes I had my mouse frozen (when switching to a USB mouse, when pluging it in another plug, back to a PS/2 one,...). No problem to launch the control center. But I never succeed to navigate in it using the keyboard.
Also, urpmi is easy to use but the repositories are not as good as Debian's one. Sometimes they are not updated or disappeared, sometimes I got missing dependencies warnings, other times alerts about the certificate. Except that, MDV is a good and easy-to-install Linux distribution.
The fact there is now a linux client is a good things. However, there is a few things that are not very clear. I scan quickly both grid.org and worldcommunitygrid.org.
1) Who can access the results?
2) What are the policies for the input and output?
3) Can any researcher use the results?
4) Is the client close-source?
The same way they do it today. There was forums, CMS,... If you mean your own server, the pages are just text files with specific escape sequences. There were some editors. To create content was easy, to publish it was easy too but expensive. You had to register to France Telecom. But in my previous post, I was mentioning BBS server. IIRW, some minitel modems accepted calls.
Let's see.... Go to an office supply store in San Francisco, buy some posterboard and a fat marker. Write up a sign that says "Down with Bush. Republicans are a bunch of morons." Put it on your car and drive around. See what happens.
I will be shooted by the first crazy guy I met.
Try the same thing in China, except have the sign say "Down with Hu Jintao. Communists are a bunch of morons." Put it on a car and drive around. See what happens.
I will be taken by the police and put into the first plane to Europe.
Anyway you misunderstood. I just said that the chinese gouvernment doesn't need your photo and your finger prints when you go there.
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I have no problem browsing my favorite sites once or twice a day, and enjoy doing so. What am I missing out on?
Nothing if you have only two or three favorite sites. But if you have fifty of them? Basicaly a RSS reader lets you see all the new entries of the blogs and websites you track. And you can quickly go the articles of interest. Now if you're a pure slashdoter (someone with no post outside), then it is not for you.
I think this article is still good. I especialy like:
"Two or three people invent a brilliant piece of software, and then, five years later, 1,000 people do a bad job of following up on their idea. History is littered with projects that follow this pattern: Windows, Unix, Java, Netscape Navigator."
However, Java did suck from the beginning (not the whole concept but the API, the JVM,...). That proves 1,000 people can't fix things.
Okay, so now you can complain at home. That's great, maybe not so enjoyable but at least you're still paid. Well, how many complaining days will have per year? Also, wouldn't be cheaper to have a national complaining day? So every one could complain at the same time.
My 2 cents;)
Same here. In fact, I also canceled a trip to a professional conference in S.F last summer. Didn't feel to be tracked (photograph, fingerprints,...). Better go to china, you just need a visa.
Right, cigarettes don't smell good. But You, US citizens, are quite lucky. You can just sail to Cuba to buy excellent cigars. Think different. Try a Romeo y Julieta Corona Cigar. And you will relax.
If Joe Sevenpack wants to release his new software under a license that says you can only use it if you have six fingers, he has a right to.
I agree. Every one is free to choose his license. And also to develop his own toolkit. Or become a licensee. After all, why do you expect to get something free when you're yourself selling something?
You still have software patents? How unlucky you are! BTW, nothing new. It has been done many times (and long time ago) but in general for a specific domain (music,...). Google is just introducing targeted search to their own system, which is a bit more global. Now burn the USPTO.
Yes, Google will tell you if there is cheaper somewhere else but it will also bring you customers if your offer is the cheapest. However this is not new: many services like that exist (Kelkoo), but they are limited to online shops. Google already has Froogle. The wave is reaching the mortar shops. Fine for me.
Your comparaison with the french minitel is not fair, IMHO. If the internet would look like the minitel, it would be:
1) Cheaper At that time, connections were charger per minute. The range for the minitel was between $0.05 and $2.00, the range for the internet started at $0.35. Addtionaly, the terminal was FREE.
2) More used There was millions of minitel users in France, and only tens of thousands of internet ones.
3) Faster Well, the minitel modem was only 1200-bps, while you could get a 9600-bps one for the internet. However, the route was direct and the pages much lighter. So the time-per-page was lower.
4) Styled The minitel was a character terminal, black and white. Colors and graphics were introduced later. Same for the web. But you could get some effects.
5) More organised The minitel had a single namespace (mainly 3615). Not a really good thing but definitively more organised and controled.
Finaly, the minitel could be connected to a PC (via serial). You could use it confortably from your PC or you could connect BBS. You could even host your own server. At that time, it was almost impossible on the internet.
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What kind of conclusions? Please be more explicit.
SF is the most important one for me, but it is not an information or reference site. So here is my list: freshmeat, slashdot, linuxfr, gnu.org, java.net, osnews, jesuislibre.
Now let's not forget music: Jamendo.
Thank you very much for the answer. The fact that the results are put into the public domain is exactly what I wanted to hear. I could not find this information on the website but I probably just missed it. Thanks again.
Sounds cool. However, you better be alone in the room. OTOH, I'm quite interested by the new 3D screen. That should really enhance your game experience. And it is available today.
Good review (part 1). ...). No problem to launch the control center. But I never succeed to navigate in it using the keyboard.
I haven't tested yet the MDV2006 but I hope they have fixed the main issue I had with the previous releases: Keyboard Navigation for the Control Center. Sometimes I had my mouse frozen (when switching to a USB mouse, when pluging it in another plug, back to a PS/2 one,
Also, urpmi is easy to use but the repositories are not as good as Debian's one. Sometimes they are not updated or disappeared, sometimes I got missing dependencies warnings, other times alerts about the certificate. Except that, MDV is a good and easy-to-install Linux distribution.
The fact there is now a linux client is a good things. However, there is a few things that are not very clear. I scan quickly both grid.org and worldcommunitygrid.org.
1) Who can access the results?
2) What are the policies for the input and output?
3) Can any researcher use the results?
4) Is the client close-source?
Thanks
How did minitel users create content?
... If you mean your own server, the pages are just text files with specific escape sequences. There were some editors. To create content was easy, to publish it was easy too but expensive. You had to register to France Telecom. But in my previous post, I was mentioning BBS server. IIRW, some minitel modems accepted calls.
The same way they do it today. There was forums, CMS,
Are you serious?
No
Let's see.... Go to an office supply store in San Francisco, buy some posterboard and a fat marker. Write up a sign that says "Down with Bush. Republicans are a bunch of morons." Put it on your car and drive around. See what happens.
I will be shooted by the first crazy guy I met.
Try the same thing in China, except have the sign say "Down with Hu Jintao. Communists are a bunch of morons." Put it on a car and drive around. See what happens.
I will be taken by the police and put into the first plane to Europe.
Anyway you misunderstood. I just said that the chinese gouvernment doesn't need your photo and your finger prints when you go there.
I have no problem browsing my favorite sites once or twice a day, and enjoy doing so. What am I missing out on?
Nothing if you have only two or three favorite sites. But if you have fifty of them? Basicaly a RSS reader lets you see all the new entries of the blogs and websites you track. And you can quickly go the articles of interest. Now if you're a pure slashdoter (someone with no post outside), then it is not for you.
Great software. Pity it doesn't use Swing. But wait maybe it is the reason why it is great software.
I think this article is still good. I especialy like: ...). That proves 1,000 people can't fix things.
"Two or three people invent a brilliant piece of software, and then, five years later, 1,000 people do a bad job of following up on their idea. History is littered with projects that follow this pattern: Windows, Unix, Java, Netscape Navigator."
However, Java did suck from the beginning (not the whole concept but the API, the JVM,
Okay, so now you can complain at home. That's great, maybe not so enjoyable but at least you're still paid. Well, how many complaining days will have per year? Also, wouldn't be cheaper to have a national complaining day? So every one could complain at the same time. My 2 cents ;)
Same here. In fact, I also canceled a trip to a professional conference in S.F last summer. Didn't feel to be tracked (photograph, fingerprints, ...). Better go to china, you just need a visa.
Right, cigarettes don't smell good. But You, US citizens, are quite lucky. You can just sail to Cuba to buy excellent cigars. Think different. Try a Romeo y Julieta Corona Cigar. And you will relax.
If Joe Sevenpack wants to release his new software under a license that says you can only use it if you have six fingers, he has a right to.
I agree. Every one is free to choose his license. And also to develop his own toolkit. Or become a licensee. After all, why do you expect to get something free when you're yourself selling something?
You still have software patents? How unlucky you are! BTW, nothing new. It has been done many times (and long time ago) but in general for a specific domain (music, ...). Google is just introducing targeted search to their own system, which is a bit more global. Now burn the USPTO.
Yes, Google will tell you if there is cheaper somewhere else but it will also bring you customers if your offer is the cheapest. However this is not new: many services like that exist (Kelkoo), but they are limited to online shops. Google already has Froogle. The wave is reaching the mortar shops. Fine for me.
Come on! Why should I buy a full page when I'm interested only by a sentence or two? No, that won't work.
OW was a genius. And I'm quite sure that it would work today too.
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Your comparaison with the french minitel is not fair, IMHO. If the internet would look like the minitel, it would be:
1) Cheaper
At that time, connections were charger per minute. The range for the minitel was between $0.05 and $2.00, the range for the internet started at $0.35. Addtionaly, the terminal was FREE.
2) More used
There was millions of minitel users in France, and only tens of thousands of internet ones.
3) Faster
Well, the minitel modem was only 1200-bps, while you could get a 9600-bps one for the internet. However, the route was direct and the pages much lighter. So the time-per-page was lower.
4) Styled
The minitel was a character terminal, black and white. Colors and graphics were introduced later. Same for the web. But you could get some effects.
5) More organised
The minitel had a single namespace (mainly 3615). Not a really good thing but definitively more organised and controled.
Finaly, the minitel could be connected to a PC (via serial). You could use it confortably from your PC or you could connect BBS. You could even host your own server. At that time, it was almost impossible on the internet.
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