Can I hack the damn satellite and fry my neighbor with laser beams from space? Could I microwave the cats next door that seem to be in heat 365 days a frickin' year?
One screw up and instead of sending energy to power a few hundred houses they toast into a crispy crunchy mass. Yum...The future's so bright right now.
Listen I have been using Mozilla on and off since it began to be bundled with various distros.
When it first came out I swear the pages it could render came up as fast as anything I saw from even Opera but the program loaded really slowly. In other words, when it finally came up it was really fast unless it crashed.
Now, Mozilla can handle most any page Netscrape can handle and loads faster but the page rendering seems to be slower on regular html pages not nearly as fast as when it came out initially. I was impressed by the.94+ version I am using right now and use it for most of my work. However, I do wish the thing was quicker in rendering pages. Any thoughts on this? Is it just my perception of the program?
1. Someone needs a small easy to install database quick.
2. Sysadmin knows PostGres is superior but also knows that MySQL is dead easy to set-up quickly. He has set up MySQL before since someone told him how easy it was. He uses that.
3. People are so impressed in the organization that he got the thing up quickly they start suggesting MySQL for larger projects where it falls flat.
4. The organization gets turned off to Open-Source databases and chooses Oracle or DB2 instead totally bypassing PostGres which is sad.
In the end PostGres gets completely bypassed. Lots of people cut their teeth on MySQL so when someone needs a small database set up really quick they choose it. If more people used PostGres initially I think they would never look back. However, I understand immediately why MySQL is used so often.
Sorry you are wrong in this regard the US was very good at targetting civilians since the very beginning.
Loylists during the Revolutionary War were targetted in a very guerilla style Souther campaign of the war. During the Civil War the folks in the South were targets (Sherman's march to the Sea). During the Indian wars women and children were killed. Also, in WWII, plenty of innocents were wasted as others have noted.
It is a very recent idea really that war should not equal civilian casualties.
Best question by a linux reporter award goes to..
on
Tridge Speaks Out
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· Score: 4, Funny
From the interview:
AT: It depends how related it is. If Microsoft does a completely new protocol, it would make far more sense to have a second package. Whether I do that package or not depends on how stupid I feel at the time.
LM: How stupid do you feel right now?
BWAHAHAHA!!
" . . . (who recently jumped ship from Linuxcare to work at VA Linux Systems) . .."
I wanted his answer to be, " really stupid considering the companies I have worked for lately."
The reason for cutting the ads was the fact it almost doubled our bandwidth. Better that people see the site and use the numbers later to ellicit ads than to have the site down.
This I will reply to. It is unfair to say that the American media is not concerned about the loss of life in Palestine.
If you said the media is unconcerned about the loss of life in Africa or in Cambodia during the seventies for example I would have agreed.
However, not only does the media cover the Mid East crisis but they keep repeating with every casualty toll that the majority of casualties are from Palistinian.
Gosh as I watch television, it has hard not to be repulsed at watching kids in lebanon walking around with Palestinian flags celebrating the loss of life here.
It is hard to restrain the anger and the hate. Even though, I should and I will.
A very small radical group of thousands of people in Palestine, Iraq, Iran and other places are dancing in the streets on the symbolic backs of our dead.
Sure that makes me feel very moderate.
I understand you are pleading for Americans to make sure they know who is behind this.
The leaders of Mid-East want the US to buy their oil and other stuff so they want to appear moderate. The people themselves are looking very barbaric right now.
Great another site starts and ends all at once and a community of geeks living out the life of making servers and sites are supposed to all sit and weep for them?
Give me a break.
I would have entered some comment on the content of this online mag but I can't!!
Why? Like every other person so far has noted the site is 403. Please people. Talk about a record setting slashdotting. Nobody got to comment hardly on the content because the thing blew up on itself first.
Yeah, this really makes me feel sorry for the site or the content.
If you can't even do a web site or more importantly a web server correctly then do not even bother trying to make web magazine.
ISPs have their service agreements written in such a way that they can terminate service simply because they want to. I though/. had put out on more than one article pointing this out.
Sue them? Please you agreed to the silly terms of service when you came on.
Listen it sucks for the wrongfully screwed but what are you going to do? Go to the competition and set up your mp3/movie file server under a different provider of bandwidth.
ISPs are a dime a dozen until AOL/Time/Warner can shut all of them down.
I think that the article author is speaking of a more open-ended 3D FPS environment as opposed to one that is truly goal-less. However, considering the possibilities it may not be a totally useless goal.
The open-ended environment model has been tried in terms of cyber-haunts for people to run around in avatars and chat it up. Yet, there is the whole Snow Crash possibility of a true 3D internet multiverse model that could make gaming, interacting and trading files very interesting and with the spread of larger bandwidth options might actually breath some life into the wheezing sickness of the new economy.
Still, I believe the first step will have to be to establish open ended story driven 3D FPS style games like an expanded version of Half-Life with a professional writing staff from perhaps a traditional playwright or script writing background.
The immersive qualities of the FPS have been overshadowed by the twitch driven instant gratification qualities of the arena environment that has dominated its base. The story has a good point. They could be so much more.
Listen, the debate on whether Mac OS X should be considered a true Unix or *NIX variant is a interesting if somewhat silly discussion.
However, the article truly failed to say much of anything. It draws no conclusions in an almost bland newspaper fashion and then turns around and gives no meat to its story in terms of new or interesting information or quotes.
In the end, who cares? Most hard core geeks will not mess with the GUI centric Mac OS X especially since Apple will not and probably could not really focus on the server side of the business market.
Most Apple fans will not bother worrying about the command line and such use will happen only for that small group of Apple users that are true Apple scripting power users.
Whether or not the Mac OS X is considered an Unix is purely academic unless Apple releases a full x86 version and makes the damn thing free.
Yes, there a few zealots out there that hate every company that runs off proprietary code.
They should probably take a hint from Sun since they make most of their cash from hardware. After all, most MacOS folks would not download their OS, they would still buy the CD.
However, you can't forget the ridiculous look and feel copyrigth nonsense mail they sent to themes.org on a couple of their themes that were modeled after their venerable OS. That is enough to make most./'s nervous and suspicious.
There are two types of people who are suspicious or hate Apple.
1) You got the guys who are pissed off at the legal tactics pulled off on themes.org. I can't blame them I used those themes and nobody is going to mistake my linux box for a Mac. I can't really blame these folks. You think a company is getting cool releasing some of their source code to the world and think they might have a clue, then, -BLAM!- they let their lawyers pull that kind of bonehead play.
2) You got people who hate Apple because they hate everything that isn't linux and Open Source. Some go far as to just blindly hate everything that is big and corporate. They hate Intel so they use AMD. They hate Microsoft, which is just normal everyone hates Mickey$oft. They hate, hate, hate, hate...
BTW, they can't legally take their hardware but they could shut down the site through the courts if they ever got really ticked off of at the Mac OS modeled themes again.
Not all people are necessarily suspicious Apple's intentions. I think the company's leaders actually believe they are trying to do the right thing and make money at the same time.
while Marlyn Monroe sits with the undead corpse of the late President Kennedy sipping tea with the aliens. The government quickly intervened taking them all back to Area 51.
Maryln was quoted as saying "This tactics are wrong like Scientology or Cowboy Neal winning all those polls."
The Church of Scientology then kicked the shit out of her and Cowboy Neal and the undead corpse of the late President Kennedy screaming something like "We kick ass for Hubbard!"
Elvis, however, intervened taking them all out and quietly retiring back to travelling back to the backwoods and living in a trailer park.
That is overstated at the least. Listen, the japanese value conformance of the individual to the group's benefit, sure. Americans typically value individuality above the group's welfare. I just made two huge generalizations that are true.
However, there are plenty examples of japanese youths growing out of the shadows of their parents post-war generation that realize that with the current economic problems japan has they will not work for one company and conform to it their whole lives.
Do I want to turn Japanese, no. I like anime and sushi and would like to one day visit Japan on a vacation but I grew in an individaulistic society and that is where I will stay. To be interested in another culture does not necessarily mean that you have to reject your own. I have a problem with that.
Sometimes I see the otaku or the cafe beatnik dark clad eurotrash wannabe bashing america and praising whatever culture they tend to prefer. It is as if to recognize problems in ones own culture you had to reject it in the same breath and then choose another one. The culture I have grown up in is not anywhere near perfect but it is my own to live with or help to change if the need is there. Then I have to laugh because as many people have pointed there are difficulties with every culture and set of ideals.
Becoming Japanese, no. Wanting to look out and see the world through another culture's eyes to understand the people? Yeah, I can do that.
Someone else called it Holoportation. I like the term but until they can get costs down its just a fun toy. This, however, has the potential of eliminating the need for business leaders to shuttle off to another city for a one day one shot meeting. This is one of the few neato toys that I have seen lately that has real true business potential.
1. Make a product a lot of people want and put it out for free on the web.
2. Package the same product in an easily installable format with loads of docs and a support plan.
3. Give great support.
4. Put together a serious training program and peddle it hard.
5. Make your corporate support a subscribition or contract program to ensure future cash flow and to show future investors that you have a future.
6. Keep overhead low. Cheap digs simple easy-to-navigate site and few employees full-time.
a) A couple of programmers.
b) A small but solid support staff.
c) A couple of trainers.
d) A syadmin/network admin guy with a junior.
e) Office Manager and a receptionist.
f) A small sales staff.
g) A leader with lots of charisma and the willingness to close the sale.
7. Design your program for the corporate backoffice aspects staying away from the dead e-commerce buzzwords for now.
8. Sell to your firms and then re-sale when necessary but don't base your profits from milking off of existing customers, keep selling. A year wihout new clients is a dead, wasted year.
I worked for a great small firm that designed closed software for lawyers (some of the pickiest customers ever).
They had one leader, no sysadmin/network guy (the lead programmers filled dual task), Office Manager, Receptionist, Support Manager/Corporate Trainer, two support people/part-time Q&A, 3 programmers, and one Q&A guy full-time. They made money. They have remained solvent.
The big rule. Don't get a big head. Don't expand too quick but keep a keen eye on improvement and natural expansion. Know your customers, what they want and what they need. Give it to them.
It is tough. Look at your self as a small business owner before you start seeing yourself as the next big thing. I have never seen my niche. That point where I felt I had an idea to sell where I felt comfortable enough to start my own company. I have seen a small software company survive without insane IPOs and huge falls.
I liked the Unixinsider site. Sure, it was not as good for me as reading Sysadmin every week. However, these sites like Unixinsider and unixreview are great reading for the beginning and middle level admins wanting to read articles from peers.
A lot of people are saying but these sites are in my opinion aimed more at the professional working on the big *nixes and the loss of this content is no good sign for the leagues of people working in environments that have not adopted BSD or linux on a complete scale.
Ok, I refrained from commenting on this right away. After all, what is the point because even bitter and all you are partially correct. The drug and medical companies do only care about profits; they are corporations it is all they know or ever will know. If they don't make the profits they are screwed and there is no real push from anyone for them to be both moral and profitable.
However, saving lives can mean money and sh*tloads of it. The trick is that many people with money would love to get back full function of limbs back because of these kinds of advances. Rich people with loads of cash and other corporations with health care plans that would demand coverage for the procedure.
If you don't live in America it still concerns you because a lot of American researchers and pharma companies come up with a lot of advances and will want money for it. The new procedures or drugs might no cost you much money but if there is no potential for profit the drugs will not get made just like you said. Yes, I understand that many pharma and medical researchers come from other places in the world so don't go there. I am just saying that many of the biggest and nastiest come from the USofA where in cash (not god) we trust.
To bypass money is simply not the American way. My country's government is based just as much on cash as the constitution and I understand that. It is not going to change because the majority of Americans dream about making fat checks and being the next millionare, billionare type. It is the way of the world here. If we are slaves it is to our own ambitions for prosperity and decadence.
If you think that most people (in the whole world not just America) really give a fat sh*t about all the folks in Africa dying of AIDS then you are fooling yourself. The only people that care are Africans and a few folks that have vision to realize the potential of that continent wasting in poverty. Most people in other parts of the world have more immediate concerns like keeping the roof above their head and their kids fed. It is only us rich folks in America and Europe get to be extra-special greedy and self-centered and get the luxury of wondering if they can keep a roof over their head, their kids fed and be rich at the same time.
You have to wonder how far how quick are we really going in terms of bio-engineered replacement parts for humans out there with real problems. Cartillage would be really great. A new major organ like a kidney for my really cool brother-in-law would be even better.
However, the real deal is when will the gee-whiz first break throughs eventually turn into real world results and are the projects being funded appropriately?
Those are questions that beg to be answered for the people living the problems.
I don't want to put down the results of the first real progress being shown in the field. I just sadly wonder how long will it take to start saving lives and is society as a whole supporting these efforts with enough resources?
Wait a second what about Half-Life? Listen it is an old game but I am personally VERY disappointed that other game companies did not take the hint and start creating FPS games with more depth and storyline treatments. Come on the idea of looking through the eyes of a character in a game and running in first person through an action sceneriao is wonderful.
I think the industry has hit a rut and I agree with that but the possibilities are endless. I think the comparison is close to Sci-Fi literature which has the most possibility of brilliant ideas but constantly gets mired down in crappy output from publishers wanting to make another space opera and the quick buck.
Yeah that is the ticket. Spelling in l33t style so you can look like a bonafide camping H@X04 llama.
Give me a break. Sweatshops are bad. The folks screaming that it is Stalinist to fight child labor forget the Lenin loving Mao fscks in China running so many sweatshops making everything from shirts to shoes. Sure, I see some stories and laugh because it is just blantant corporate bashing like f*ckedcompany.com from the opensource perspective. However, to bash corporations is not necessarily socialist.
You can hate commies, be ultra conservative, protectionist and want to keep the jobs at home. That is the Buchanan line which is very conservative. I am not a big fan but both liberals and conservatives bash corporations as they see fit.
Ok, maybe moronic was a bit harsh. I should be more sensitive.
Maybe part of it was the dub with the voices so high glasses in my apartment were breaking. However, it was still a kid's series.
The target audience was young teens. The J-pop included in the series was marginal at best. The plots, and villians were silly IMHO. I actually thought the main characters and general series ideas were kind of neat. I just did not like the series. I love anime, though, and I respect your opinion.
Yes, I did watch the series.
I knew I was going to catch hell for the Kenshin comments but I never understood the undying devotion some fans hold for a anime aimed so squarely at the kid audience. To hear some people talk about the series you would think that Jesus-freakin'-Christ himself dropped it from the heavens. Instead, the series is really good mainstream prime time kid's anime. Something for the munchkins to watch. Once again, it is just my opinion, my preference.
It seems sometimes that you cannot love anime without following blindly the opinions of the majority anime fans. I know that is not where you are coming from so I replied.
Slashdot Mirror
Can I hack the damn satellite and fry my neighbor with laser beams from space? Could I microwave the cats next door that seem to be in heat 365 days a frickin' year?
One screw up and instead of sending energy to power a few hundred houses they toast into a crispy crunchy mass. Yum...The future's so bright right now.
Listen I have been using Mozilla on and off since it began to be bundled with various distros.
.94+ version I am using right now and use it for most of my work. However, I do wish the thing was quicker in rendering pages. Any thoughts on this? Is it just my perception of the program?
When it first came out I swear the pages it could render came up as fast as anything I saw from even Opera but the program loaded really slowly. In other words, when it finally came up it was really fast unless it crashed.
Now, Mozilla can handle most any page Netscrape can handle and loads faster but the page rendering seems to be slower on regular html pages not nearly as fast as when it came out initially. I was impressed by the
It goes a little like this:
1. Someone needs a small easy to install database quick.
2. Sysadmin knows PostGres is superior but also knows that MySQL is dead easy to set-up quickly. He has set up MySQL before since someone told him how easy it was. He uses that.
3. People are so impressed in the organization that he got the thing up quickly they start suggesting MySQL for larger projects where it falls flat.
4. The organization gets turned off to Open-Source databases and chooses Oracle or DB2 instead totally bypassing PostGres which is sad.
In the end PostGres gets completely bypassed. Lots of people cut their teeth on MySQL so when someone needs a small database set up really quick they choose it. If more people used PostGres initially I think they would never look back. However, I understand immediately why MySQL is used so often.
Sorry you are wrong in this regard the US was very good at targetting civilians since the very beginning.
Loylists during the Revolutionary War were targetted in a very guerilla style Souther campaign of the war. During the Civil War the folks in the South were targets (Sherman's march to the Sea). During the Indian wars women and children were killed. Also, in WWII, plenty of innocents were wasted as others have noted.
It is a very recent idea really that war should not equal civilian casualties.
From the interview:
."
AT: It depends how related it is. If Microsoft does a completely new protocol, it would make far more sense to have a second package. Whether I do that package or not depends on how stupid I feel at the time.
LM: How stupid do you feel right now?
BWAHAHAHA!!
" . . . (who recently jumped ship from Linuxcare to work at VA Linux Systems) . .
I wanted his answer to be, " really stupid considering the companies I have worked for lately."
Nah, can't get that lucky.
The reason for cutting the ads was the fact it almost doubled our bandwidth. Better that people see the site and use the numbers later to ellicit ads than to have the site down.
This I will reply to. It is unfair to say that the American media is not concerned about the loss of life in Palestine.
If you said the media is unconcerned about the loss of life in Africa or in Cambodia during the seventies for example I would have agreed.
However, not only does the media cover the Mid East crisis but they keep repeating with every casualty toll that the majority of casualties are from Palistinian.
Gosh as I watch television, it has hard not to be repulsed at watching kids in lebanon walking around with Palestinian flags celebrating the loss of life here.
It is hard to restrain the anger and the hate. Even though, I should and I will.
A very small radical group of thousands of people in Palestine, Iraq, Iran and other places are dancing in the streets on the symbolic backs of our dead.
Sure that makes me feel very moderate.
I understand you are pleading for Americans to make sure they know who is behind this.
The leaders of Mid-East want the US to buy their oil and other stuff so they want to appear moderate. The people themselves are looking very barbaric right now.
Great another site starts and ends all at once and a community of geeks living out the life of making servers and sites are supposed to all sit and weep for them?
Give me a break.
I would have entered some comment on the content of this online mag but I can't!!
Why? Like every other person so far has noted the site is 403. Please people. Talk about a record setting slashdotting. Nobody got to comment hardly on the content because the thing blew up on itself first.
Yeah, this really makes me feel sorry for the site or the content.
If you can't even do a web site or more importantly a web server correctly then do not even bother trying to make web magazine.
ISPs have their service agreements written in such a way that they can terminate service simply because they want to. I though /. had put out on more than one article pointing this out.
Sue them? Please you agreed to the silly terms of service when you came on.
Listen it sucks for the wrongfully screwed but what are you going to do? Go to the competition and set up your mp3/movie file server under a different provider of bandwidth.
ISPs are a dime a dozen until AOL/Time/Warner can shut all of them down.
Its harder to hit a moving target folks.
I think that the article author is speaking of a more open-ended 3D FPS environment as opposed to one that is truly goal-less. However, considering the possibilities it may not be a totally useless goal.
The open-ended environment model has been tried in terms of cyber-haunts for people to run around in avatars and chat it up. Yet, there is the whole Snow Crash possibility of a true 3D internet multiverse model that could make gaming, interacting and trading files very interesting and with the spread of larger bandwidth options might actually breath some life into the wheezing sickness of the new economy.
Still, I believe the first step will have to be to establish open ended story driven 3D FPS style games like an expanded version of Half-Life with a professional writing staff from perhaps a traditional playwright or script writing background.
The immersive qualities of the FPS have been overshadowed by the twitch driven instant gratification qualities of the arena environment that has dominated its base. The story has a good point. They could be so much more.
Listen, the debate on whether Mac OS X should be considered a true Unix or *NIX variant is a interesting if somewhat silly discussion.
However, the article truly failed to say much of anything. It draws no conclusions in an almost bland newspaper fashion and then turns around and gives no meat to its story in terms of new or interesting information or quotes.
In the end, who cares? Most hard core geeks will not mess with the GUI centric Mac OS X especially since Apple will not and probably could not really focus on the server side of the business market.
Most Apple fans will not bother worrying about the command line and such use will happen only for that small group of Apple users that are true Apple scripting power users.
Whether or not the Mac OS X is considered an Unix is purely academic unless Apple releases a full x86 version and makes the damn thing free.
Wrong. Its the same 4GB of bad grainy pics over and over again. Trust me. My palm is sore and my mouse is sticky.
Yuck!
Yes, there a few zealots out there that hate every company that runs off proprietary code.
./'s nervous and suspicious.
They should probably take a hint from Sun since they make most of their cash from hardware. After all, most MacOS folks would not download their OS, they would still buy the CD.
However, you can't forget the ridiculous look and feel copyrigth nonsense mail they sent to themes.org on a couple of their themes that were modeled after their venerable OS. That is enough to make most
There are two types of people who are suspicious or hate Apple.
1) You got the guys who are pissed off at the legal tactics pulled off on themes.org. I can't blame them I used those themes and nobody is going to mistake my linux box for a Mac. I can't really blame these folks. You think a company is getting cool releasing some of their source code to the world and think they might have a clue, then, -BLAM!- they let their lawyers pull that kind of bonehead play.
2) You got people who hate Apple because they hate everything that isn't linux and Open Source. Some go far as to just blindly hate everything that is big and corporate. They hate Intel so they use AMD. They hate Microsoft, which is just normal everyone hates Mickey$oft. They hate, hate, hate, hate...
BTW, they can't legally take their hardware but they could shut down the site through the courts if they ever got really ticked off of at the Mac OS modeled themes again.
Not all people are necessarily suspicious Apple's intentions. I think the company's leaders actually believe they are trying to do the right thing and make money at the same time.
while Marlyn Monroe sits with the undead corpse of the late President Kennedy sipping tea with the aliens. The government quickly intervened taking them all back to Area 51.
Maryln was quoted as saying "This tactics are wrong like Scientology or Cowboy Neal winning all those polls."
The Church of Scientology then kicked the shit out of her and Cowboy Neal and the undead corpse of the late President Kennedy screaming something like "We kick ass for Hubbard!"
Elvis, however, intervened taking them all out and quietly retiring back to travelling back to the backwoods and living in a trailer park.
The Alien lawsuit is still pending.
That is overstated at the least. Listen, the japanese value conformance of the individual to the group's benefit, sure. Americans typically value individuality above the group's welfare. I just made two huge generalizations that are true.
However, there are plenty examples of japanese youths growing out of the shadows of their parents post-war generation that realize that with the current economic problems japan has they will not work for one company and conform to it their whole lives.
Do I want to turn Japanese, no. I like anime and sushi and would like to one day visit Japan on a vacation but I grew in an individaulistic society and that is where I will stay. To be interested in another culture does not necessarily mean that you have to reject your own. I have a problem with that.
Sometimes I see the otaku or the cafe beatnik dark clad eurotrash wannabe bashing america and praising whatever culture they tend to prefer. It is as if to recognize problems in ones own culture you had to reject it in the same breath and then choose another one. The culture I have grown up in is not anywhere near perfect but it is my own to live with or help to change if the need is there. Then I have to laugh because as many people have pointed there are difficulties with every culture and set of ideals.
Becoming Japanese, no. Wanting to look out and see the world through another culture's eyes to understand the people? Yeah, I can do that.
Someone else called it Holoportation. I like the term but until they can get costs down its just a fun toy. This, however, has the potential of eliminating the need for business leaders to shuttle off to another city for a one day one shot meeting. This is one of the few neato toys that I have seen lately that has real true business potential.
1. Make a product a lot of people want and put it out for free on the web.
2. Package the same product in an easily installable format with loads of docs and a support plan.
3. Give great support.
4. Put together a serious training program and peddle it hard.
5. Make your corporate support a subscribition or contract program to ensure future cash flow and to show future investors that you have a future.
6. Keep overhead low. Cheap digs simple easy-to-navigate site and few employees full-time.
a) A couple of programmers.
b) A small but solid support staff.
c) A couple of trainers.
d) A syadmin/network admin guy with a junior.
e) Office Manager and a receptionist.
f) A small sales staff.
g) A leader with lots of charisma and the willingness to close the sale.
7. Design your program for the corporate backoffice aspects staying away from the dead e-commerce buzzwords for now.
8. Sell to your firms and then re-sale when necessary but don't base your profits from milking off of existing customers, keep selling. A year wihout new clients is a dead, wasted year.
I worked for a great small firm that designed closed software for lawyers (some of the pickiest customers ever).
They had one leader, no sysadmin/network guy (the lead programmers filled dual task), Office Manager, Receptionist, Support Manager/Corporate Trainer, two support people/part-time Q&A, 3 programmers, and one Q&A guy full-time. They made money. They have remained solvent.
The big rule. Don't get a big head. Don't expand too quick but keep a keen eye on improvement and natural expansion. Know your customers, what they want and what they need. Give it to them.
It is tough. Look at your self as a small business owner before you start seeing yourself as the next big thing. I have never seen my niche. That point where I felt I had an idea to sell where I felt comfortable enough to start my own company. I have seen a small software company survive without insane IPOs and huge falls.
It can be done.
I liked the Unixinsider site. Sure, it was not as good for me as reading Sysadmin every week. However, these sites like Unixinsider and unixreview are great reading for the beginning and middle level admins wanting to read articles from peers.
A lot of people are saying but these sites are in my opinion aimed more at the professional working on the big *nixes and the loss of this content is no good sign for the leagues of people working in environments that have not adopted BSD or linux on a complete scale.
Ok, I refrained from commenting on this right away. After all, what is the point because even bitter and all you are partially correct. The drug and medical companies do only care about profits; they are corporations it is all they know or ever will know. If they don't make the profits they are screwed and there is no real push from anyone for them to be both moral and profitable.
However, saving lives can mean money and sh*tloads of it. The trick is that many people with money would love to get back full function of limbs back because of these kinds of advances. Rich people with loads of cash and other corporations with health care plans that would demand coverage for the procedure.
If you don't live in America it still concerns you because a lot of American researchers and pharma companies come up with a lot of advances and will want money for it. The new procedures or drugs might no cost you much money but if there is no potential for profit the drugs will not get made just like you said. Yes, I understand that many pharma and medical researchers come from other places in the world so don't go there. I am just saying that many of the biggest and nastiest come from the USofA where in cash (not god) we trust.
To bypass money is simply not the American way. My country's government is based just as much on cash as the constitution and I understand that. It is not going to change because the majority of Americans dream about making fat checks and being the next millionare, billionare type. It is the way of the world here. If we are slaves it is to our own ambitions for prosperity and decadence.
If you think that most people (in the whole world not just America) really give a fat sh*t about all the folks in Africa dying of AIDS then you are fooling yourself. The only people that care are Africans and a few folks that have vision to realize the potential of that continent wasting in poverty. Most people in other parts of the world have more immediate concerns like keeping the roof above their head and their kids fed. It is only us rich folks in America and Europe get to be extra-special greedy and self-centered and get the luxury of wondering if they can keep a roof over their head, their kids fed and be rich at the same time.
You have to wonder how far how quick are we really going in terms of bio-engineered replacement parts for humans out there with real problems. Cartillage would be really great. A new major organ like a kidney for my really cool brother-in-law would be even better.
However, the real deal is when will the gee-whiz first break throughs eventually turn into real world results and are the projects being funded appropriately?
Those are questions that beg to be answered for the people living the problems.
I don't want to put down the results of the first real progress being shown in the field. I just sadly wonder how long will it take to start saving lives and is society as a whole supporting these efforts with enough resources?
Wait a second what about Half-Life? Listen it is an old game but I am personally VERY disappointed that other game companies did not take the hint and start creating FPS games with more depth and storyline treatments. Come on the idea of looking through the eyes of a character in a game and running in first person through an action sceneriao is wonderful.
I think the industry has hit a rut and I agree with that but the possibilities are endless. I think the comparison is close to Sci-Fi literature which has the most possibility of brilliant ideas but constantly gets mired down in crappy output from publishers wanting to make another space opera and the quick buck.
Yeah that is the ticket. Spelling in l33t style so you can look like a bonafide camping H@X04 llama.
Give me a break. Sweatshops are bad. The folks screaming that it is Stalinist to fight child labor forget the Lenin loving Mao fscks in China running so many sweatshops making everything from shirts to shoes. Sure, I see some stories and laugh because it is just blantant corporate bashing like f*ckedcompany.com from the opensource perspective. However, to bash corporations is not necessarily socialist.
You can hate commies, be ultra conservative, protectionist and want to keep the jobs at home. That is the Buchanan line which is very conservative. I am not a big fan but both liberals and conservatives bash corporations as they see fit.
When it serves their purpose.
How much use in reality will plastic chips have?
I see people already saying that they will not replace standard CPUs but come on folks where will this have use?
Is this going to a brakthrough only to see the light of day in small battery driven devices or what?
The curious cowards and the tasteless trolls want to know.
Ok, maybe moronic was a bit harsh. I should be more sensitive.
Maybe part of it was the dub with the voices so high glasses in my apartment were breaking. However, it was still a kid's series.
The target audience was young teens. The J-pop included in the series was marginal at best. The plots, and villians were silly IMHO. I actually thought the main characters and general series ideas were kind of neat. I just did not like the series. I love anime, though, and I respect your opinion.
Yes, I did watch the series.
I knew I was going to catch hell for the Kenshin comments but I never understood the undying devotion some fans hold for a anime aimed so squarely at the kid audience. To hear some people talk about the series you would think that Jesus-freakin'-Christ himself dropped it from the heavens. Instead, the series is really good mainstream prime time kid's anime. Something for the munchkins to watch. Once again, it is just my opinion, my preference.
It seems sometimes that you cannot love anime without following blindly the opinions of the majority anime fans. I know that is not where you are coming from so I replied.