I started writing games from the radioshack trs-80.
With python or something else you could easily do a text adventure game.
a bi-dimensional array of objects. each one a room.
I've had the (bad)luck to attend two HP presentations of their Virtual Desktop Infraestructure.
It made me sick.
After all we've learnt about sharing server resources for desktops from the people at LTSP, HP turn around and sell a setup where each user gets their own virtual OS. During the presentation they laughed at/looked down on linux and instead spoke abount XP and Vista.
But really, how many instances of Vista could you get up and running on each box? Not very many at all I think.
So, you've got this big mother f*cking cluster serving a Vista per user who in turn run the remote client on... a thin client? Maybe, but I'd bet most would be runnning a windows on their local PC too, you know, you just can't survive without multimedia and local devices in the office.
Add that to the HP and VMware licences you'd be paying.
And then add on the hardware costs. I can see why HP wants to sell the idea. One nice fat HP server / 5 users?. That's good business.
Environmental issues are not important to these people.
This fungus has been engineered in the states and released in the developing world.
Now those same companies that developed the fungus will come to the rescue with their engineered wheat.
I know slashdot is primarily a white boy middle class thing, but do please try to remember that you are not the only ones on the planet. Other cultures did this sort of thing too.
Imagine a compamy that, with time, moves everything over to web2.0 companies.
Imagine the web2.0 companies folding or getting traded on the market and closing down services.
Imagine just how pleased your boss will be with you that you taught him, way back in 2007, that inhouse resource were not susceptible to marketplace whims.
There's a real world out there and I don't know nearly enough of it to begin to compare the two licences so I'm not going to comment.
I just simply trust that the people who are working on the GPL know what they're doing because I am 100% sure that they have _my_ best interest at heart.
They have been proving that now for many years.
This is probably going to be quiet dificult to implement.
I mean, the local teacher is going to have to be really keen to get the kids using the laptop because it'll probably need quiet some convincing to get your average developing world farmer to even be bothered strapping his stock into this fandangled contraption set up beside the school.
perhaps the US should simply start a whitelist going and we can volunteer our personal information to be on it. 'Cause I just don't want to be in the bad books.
that looks like ah, its a cross between an industrial vacuum cleaner and a chrome piggy bank with martal
aids stuck all over its body...its really exciting...and when he sees it, he bursts into song...
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With python or something else you could easily do a text adventure game.
a bi-dimensional array of objects. each one a room.
good luck.
So I have to navigate through various menus to put the volume control widget back on my toolbar
What a waste of time, really.
DRM! You just sent his stock value flighing. Nothing like free publicity. Viva!
very good for your ESP.
It made me sick.
After all we've learnt about sharing server resources for desktops from the people at LTSP, HP turn around and sell a setup where each user gets their own virtual OS. During the presentation they laughed at/looked down on linux and instead spoke abount XP and Vista.
But really, how many instances of Vista could you get up and running on each box? Not very many at all I think.
So, you've got this big mother f*cking cluster serving a Vista per user who in turn run the remote client on ... a thin client? Maybe, but I'd bet most would be runnning a windows on their local PC too, you know, you just can't survive without multimedia and local devices in the office.
Add that to the HP and VMware licences you'd be paying.
And then add on the hardware costs. I can see why HP wants to sell the idea. One nice fat HP server / 5 users?. That's good business.
Environmental issues are not important to these people.
Now those same companies that developed the fungus will come to the rescue with their engineered wheat.
That's a good business plan.
Not that I'm a MS fan.
DNA structure can be patented. If that can be done, what do I really care about the rest?
If they don't want to burden their servers, maybe they could share the fixes between clients.
Yeah, but any old excuse is good enough for some Vista bashing. So why not use any old KDE headline to get on the 'KDE is doomed' bandwagon?
Hey! I'm an old fart too!! And Kino does just fine.
with freenx of course.
Yes! That sounds right.
I vote that the next Holer System discovered should be named after you.
That's not a solar system, so what do you call it, a blackhole system?
Why not give them a break?
The weight of the wish list is more like an Ubuntu six month upgrade.
When M$ graces us with version 7, it will be much more (o less), than these tweaks. This isn't Windows 7.
The thought of "downloadable procedures" turns me right on.
Just like those huge nuclear waste dumps, yet another place you dont want do go.
I've been thinking I had really get out of this profession. I'm so burnt out I can't even be bothered installing ubuntu. ;)
Thanks for your words. Now I know this isn't some sort of mid-life crisis. ;)
Imagine the web2.0 companies folding or getting traded on the market and closing down services.
Imagine just how pleased your boss will be with you that you taught him, way back in 2007, that inhouse resource were not susceptible to marketplace whims.
I just simply trust that the people who are working on the GPL know what they're doing because I am 100% sure that they have _my_ best interest at heart.
They have been proving that now for many years.
This is probably going to be quiet dificult to implement.
I mean, the local teacher is going to have to be really keen to get the kids using the laptop because it'll probably need quiet some convincing to get your average developing world farmer to even be bothered strapping his stock into this fandangled contraption set up beside the school.
perhaps the US should simply start a whitelist going and we can volunteer our personal information to be on it. 'Cause I just don't want to be in the bad books.
that looks like ah, its a cross between an industrial vacuum cleaner and a chrome piggy bank with martal aids stuck all over its body...its really exciting...and when he sees it, he bursts into song...
On one side of the balance put everything postive technology has bought us and on the other side put everything negative.
On the positive side you've probably got Medicine and on the other side you've got War Machines, Resource Raping Machines, Social Control Mecanisms.
Would we be better off living with a lot less technology? I think so.