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Don't forget about Firefox OS! Imagine what impact H.264 would do there. Firefox OS and Tizen are the BigBets now, because TelCo's manufacturers don't like to rely on Google for delayed OS updates anymore. That's why these OS have a good chance of becoming as popular as android in a few years. But that's only valid, when Firefox OS and Tizen get their shit together and finally create a robust, independent, secure and most importantly not only beautiful, but usable user interface.

(Firefox does silent upgrades, just so you know. Luckily on Windows only.)

Anyone having luck talking to people through XMPP Audio/Video with an opensource client?

It's ironic that Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Yahoo, AOL, Google et al. use XMPP in one or the other proprietary form.

It's opensource, many awesome clients are available and yet people still choose possibly backdoored and definitely monitored and text-mined closed-source solutions. I don't understand why the usage of the open solutions is so low. Can someone explain?

Code examples: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/download/c--exn.pdf

Slides: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/download/c--exnslides.ps.gz

Audio: http://wino.eecs.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/nr-pldi00.rm

The Manual: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/extern/man2.pdf

The manual contains the specifications and a few code examples. It looks like it's easy to learn, but it's a little different than other languages.

Yeah, same here dude. My mom couldn't distinguish between Windows and Ubuntu and also has not seen any difference between Word and OpenOffice, except that she couldn't find the bulk letter function. She kept using it for years, luckily the most important thing to her, "The Browser" didn't change at all. Luckily Firefox is the same experience on every OS.

She was against every subtle change, so putting another OS on her machine was hard. She even resisted to use a much faster Computer, because she likes when things "just work" and really doesn't care what the name of the system is or about the specs of the system, as long as things can be done the "usual way" and she doesn't need to wait 5min. for things to happen. Her old computer was a 1GHZ, this one has 3.2GHZ and for her it's the same. To be honest, things aren't really getting faster for an average PC user, except when you install an SSD.

Hmm, what if both are right?

It could be a floating prison, filled with a giant data-center! The NSA+Google tie could mean that they both needed an interrogation free zone, one for torture, the other for stealing data. Both would benefit form letting prisoners generate the energy. They could even argue, that it's good for health to breath sea air and do regular "workout". Then they could offer the unused crunching power as an OSaaS – Overseas Sofware as a Service that is similar to AWS and Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Aside from that, isn't it illegal to systematically heat the water of the ocean with hot waste water?? Can't something be done against that?

Why are such prison ships even allowed to be built from tax-money, isn't it illegal?

Do you suggest to apply the Bayes' theorem to verify the result's validity? As compilers: TCC, LLVM Clang and GCC come into my mind.

People who believe in being able to buy social status are the ones perfectly fooled by advertisements! Someone can be butt ugly, poor and stupid, but still have the highest social status and popularity in most social environments. What makes one an attractor of popularity is demonstrating power, will and the ability to achieve what you want.

Who would be more popular?

A) A rich guy who thinks he can buy friends, by inviting everybody to an expensive cocktail to an exclusive restaurant?

B) A guy who own lots of expensive high-tech and luxury car + his own house?

C) A guy with charme and charisma, who can make anyone feel special, or have a fun time, even in the dirtiest place?

Choose yourself. I believe you all experienced A,B and C already. But I would rely on the scientific evidence that C) has a higher long term chance of staying an attractor of popularity. (I'm sorry, I couldn't put the references together, but hope you understand)

Side story: A weird guy in my old class possessed a bluetooth wireless headphones with integrated mp3 player in 2006, a 3000EUR laptop and all sorts of other very expensive gimmickry. That didn't make him cooler at all. People still didn't like him and it just made him more vulnerable to attacks of the some of the more primitive pupils.

If a dissident hacks into a government site or does something else like speaking out his opinion, will I get arrested for them, when I live in a neighbour country? Or even get arrested for their actions on hacking stuff? I mean the US and Europe both ban hacking and penalize it with more jail time than rape and in some cases even murder.

Not worth it for academia means, that academia deserves something better than a vendor lock-in, by some closed-source software. It deserves a medium that doesn't stand in it's way, but empowers students/professors, scientists and other people, instead of depowering them by centralizing all power to one login provider.

Academia is about innovation and sharing knowledge. A gatekeeper or a closed-source platform inevitably creates a bottleneck that slows innovation and knowledge sharing down. Furthermore, a social network as Academia requires a medium that adapts to it's need, not the other way around, therefore an optimal solution can only be opensource.

Sir, this article is perfect!

I'd say shamelessly copied from the much better article from here:

http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Viewing-the-Commit-His...

I once needed a ChangeLog file, so I wrote this:

# create ChangeLog file out of git history

alias g.changelog="git --no-pager log --format=\"%ai %aN %n%n%x09* %s%d%n\" | sed \"s/\\ \/*/g\" > ChangeLog"

g.ch<TAB> completes it for me in zsh.

I'm on a similar path, but I decided to learn it through a MOOC. Why don't you also join a MOOC? I'm not sure where and how to do this atm, so suggestions to do this in Germany are welcome. I'll do a master's degree in a field of Maths with a MOOC.

Btw. we learned most of the stuff above in CompSci throughout the first three semesters. If you ask if it's worth the money: "To be honest, all I did was learn the "script" and "Wikipedia"." You can do better at home. In some cases I needed more info, when Wikipedia went mad about unnecessary "details".

I met some interesting guy when having a coffee outside, who showed me some stuff he develops at his company.. holy shit, it was unlike anything I had ever imagined that shipping container technology was close to.

He sold something like google-glass, connected to remotely controlled electronic lock-systems for shipping containers. Those also allowed to visually track where a container is and if the lock is open/closed etc. A guy could run around, check containers and unlock containers, all by done by looking through the glasses and talking through radio.

EDIT: 5) Credits, Honor, Job Offers & Opportunities to make $$$$$$$

@smokinn thank you for the great video! I didn't know that the onion had such quality talks. I personally use Mendeley, but only to obtain other people's Papers and sync my Bibtex fies.

@afandian NOT OPENSOURCE! Not worth it for academia.

Generally speaking, I really don't get what's good about those platforms. Can anyone try to explain why people keep using it for another thing than peer-pressure?? I mean you upload a damn pdf with some meta-data attached to it. What's so hard? Use XMPP/IRC or Usenet for the communication and you're set, I must be dumb. I don't see why there is a need for those "new social networks". When email/mailing-lists/irc/xmpp/usenet/forums etc. already exist.

hhahaha, this question is so ironic!! It's a Quantum Computer and it's not, at the same time. hahaha :)

hang on: I know that they proved that it's a quantum computer, so this article only criticizes the degree of it's Quantumcomputerness.

Simple answer. Star Trek like. NLP + AI + Data-Flow-Based Programming.

☛ "Computer make a sandwich, with extra cheese!"

    • 1:Computer analyses the command, reverse-engineers the receipe on an atomar/molecular level.

    • Femto-lasers a nanostructure to the replicator using computer models

    • 3D Prints synthetic biomimetic chemical protein and nano-textured (for color) carbohydrates

☛ "Computer make a new sandwich, this time more piquant!"

    • Computer this time tries to optimize the taste based on personal data and global taste data

    • GOTO: 1

--

Most of this can be done today already

wow that looks insanely close to what I remember from Terminator.

Compare yourself: http://imm.io/1iQis

If you're worried about title originality, why don't you write a scraper instead of asking for people to submit urls manually? Would be more efficient. But, If you care about real people posting stuff, then they should be allowed submit whatever they see appropriate. To mitigate the frustration, I think you could allow urls to be posted multiple times with a specific scientifically backed grace period of "n-hours" until no more duplicates are allowed. People can still up-vote the titles they like best and the winner takes all, making the other titles appear like collapsed sub-captions below the main-title. Hope you understand what I mean. This would solve two problems at once. A) Custom title's, no censorship. B) Valuable data about winning-titles, that can be used to train a stochastic model to predict the best titles. How you use the data from B) is up to you.

I mean people aren't stupid enough to change the Title of the "Higgs Boson" to "Bananas". Sorry, if this comes over wrong. I respect you and this is just critics on your software's policies.

"Tired of people stealing your content? Looking to make copying HTML text a huge pain for your users? Sick and tired of useful, well-made Python scripts?"

I can imply your message, but without saying it, it's not a message! You just offered a tool that some ass-hats can use to obfuscate their blog. However I don't fear this, because people know to avoid shit and avoided DRM too. Not because people care about privacy (see Facebook), but because people hate getting limited in their abilities on a free and living medium

wow, I didn't know that! That's really crazy.

That's not your fault, but if you have a bug in there and the ship sips, can they sue you?

Is the "James Kirk" part a joke, or is that the real name of Zumwalt's Captain? Sorry, if this looks blue-eyed, I can't tell that from sarcasm.

I don't know the exact measures, but does a D-Wave Quantum Computer fit into the EME? Here's a larger picture: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads/2013...

Or they needed very heavy shielding, for whatever reason? I'm curious why that is too, does someone know it?

The container design is heavily inspired from Google's Datacenters. This will continue happening and cannot be prevented, even a new license for the Kernel prohibiting a military use won't help. Because they can fork an "old kernel" and continue their secret development on it. It's better to know what the government is doing rather than just trusting on a "license". We've been shown often enough in the past and present that people can't blindly trust a Government's actions and ethics.

Do the containers shield against strong EM fields? Otherwise an enemy could detonate a mini em-/atom-bomb close to the target, in order to destroy their operative computer systems. Is that the reason for the heavy metal casing? In that case they probably also used Fiber cables with the lastest known modulation techniques to get (n-)Terabit/s per container. Maybe they even have radiation shielding [1] to protect from inner and outer radiation. This beast doesn't look like it solely runs on diesel, but on an atom-reactor.

Hmm do you mean ArchBang? Because CrunchBang is a Debian GNU/Linux distro. I wonder how Debian can be more up to date than Gentoo. Am I missing something?

Absolutely! I had success doing just that.

Can someone please explain me, who gave the company behind the PCI "licensing business model" the right to enforce their power? Heck they even do it internationally, no? How is that possible? How can I do the same, for say "alcohol safety", just as an example?

I have worked in a few occasions where companies failed to provide PCI compliance and still got licensed. In one company I helped to circumvent the need for compliance by outsourcing the payment processing.

You mean zram, right? I've been using that for months on Gentoo, it gave me about 10% speedup. Maybe you already have it available too, try:

     $ sudo modprobe zram

You could try out Sabayon Linux, it is basically a Gentoo with an installer and binary package manager. equo (rigo/apper for a GUI). The good thing is that it's backwards compatible to Gentoo's source based package manager "emerge" and a very easy to use.

What Linux/Unix distro you use is up to you though and I will not start a debate. I understand that it makes sense in the enterprise field to only use the most popular and stable OS, to benefit from the Community and Support.

However OSX and Linux Mint, Fedora and Sabayon are the most User Friendly Linuces that I know from my experience. And I've tried most of the stuff on DistroWatch and some that aren't even listed on DistroWatch.

No matter how you dislike Windows, it's still a very solid platform to develop Desktop or Web Applications. I am biased, because I don't like Microsoft, but that doesn't allow me to judge on the effectivity of their software. It does the job. The same, or better can be said about Mac OSX, Ubuntu, Sabayon, Arch Linux and Gentoo which are the most developer friendly environments you can get your hands on. Never force your top developer or sysadmin to use another Linux/Unix than he prefers! Really don't do that. It's like giving your Top-Employee an ugly haircut, he'll leave and not come back or loose effectivity.

Now in practice you might say, this is different and people have their tastes. Totally right and they have their right to like what they want!! But I introduced an entire development team consisting of about 20 people to Mac OSX and Ubuntu. They had the choice to choose their favorite development environment, but 50% of them switched to Ubuntu, 30% switched to Mac OSX and 20% stayed with Windows. The latter stayed with Windows, because it was too much hassle for them to port all projects and settings over. Even the most fanatic Windows user tried Ubuntu Linux out and was totally blown away after a week of trial.

This helped us to standardize development standards and deploy Ubuntu images to new employees so that they don't have to manually set things up, but can start working after only a few minutes of waiting.

At the time I arrived at the company, I had to use Windows although I requested using my favorite Linux distro. They simply had "no time", to allow me setting the machine up. The result: The Windows box I got was very instable and their ancient svn architecture (without development branch!! All changes were live and they had 500+ customers) continuously helped to crash the buggy Eclipse installation they gave me (weren't allowed to fix it myself).

That made the impression that I work slow, so the Boss sat next to me and stress-tested my ability to live-code what he braindumps into production within 10min while looking over my shoulder. They still use my work and yes, I could finally convert them partly to Git after some months. However I was moved to management and a slow OSX box. Don't get a wrong impression, I had to now work on many APIs, many Back-Ends and integrate our software. And additionally hang on the phone/headset talking with tech or ceo/sales while doing that. So after dealing with their customers and organizing things, I couldn't but quit the job. It was boring and I didn't learn new things, but were forced to use the slow or buggy machine even though I noticeably made things more effective internally. They basically used me as much as they were able to, making empty promises all way long. And to be honest, they weren't even able to do that correctly, they could've used me to do much more, but wanted me to focus only on core-value problems. Corporate culture in a Startup, I hate it! That's my experience, your mileage may vary.