1994. I used to go to the Univ. of Kansas computing center to play DOOM on the LAN, it usually was the shareware version, and all computers got wiped weekly anyway. I was too young to go to college but I didn't have a computer so I spent a bit of late nights there. Eventually got a copy of the registered version and there were many pick up games to be had. The hours spent designing levels on DoomCAD and playing ledges.wad, T2.wad, etc, was amazing.
One night I was in there alone playing single-player mode and a cop walks in, his mind was blown. He asked if we could watch and spent a couple hours watching me play and I taught him how to play.
I went from being barely able to learn how to install the game from disks to a sysadmin a few years later. DOOM was what kindled my interest in computing in general.
I know first hand many people that have been laid off and/or can't find work due to oil prices crashing. Anytime a major industry crashes you're going to have some adjustment periods. The industrial revolution put a lot of people out of work but over time people adapted, but there was some hard times for quite a number of people.
Great for water and energy conservation, and this technology can be moved into places that are difficult to grow produce. But if this really catches on, wonder what this will do to the industry as a whole, and the people put out of work.
Watched it live in elementary school, several adult faculty/staff sighed out exclamations in dirty words, which made a lot of the younger kids laugh at hearing this and initially getting scolded for what was perceived as laughter over the tragedy.
Apples and Oranges. As an Uber rider, you don't see your rating, you don't know who rated you what. Sure you can ask a driver what your rating is, but all ratings are not transparent, you have no log of what was rated.
"Mir is already packaged as an experimental option, along with an experimental Unity 8 desktop session."
Good God. The Ubuntu desktop always has been and always will be an experimental mess. I can't ever remember being more scared to reboot my workstation after a kernel update with the likely possibility of having restore my video driver and settings. My old 386 with 4 (!) mb ram, running twm has less issues.
Google tried to buy Friendster for $30 Million in 2003 and it was turned down. We all know what happened to Friendster not even 2 years later. At the end of the day you need to just use your better judgement and evaluate where you think the company is heading in the future. Although I fail to see how accepting a one billion offer on a company is a failure.
With all due respect I find this comment completely baseless. Consider the fact that Elizabeth Warren was responsible for its foundation.
Before I comment further, I must ask; is this a troll or are we not talking about the same thing?
She needs to go to http://cfpb.gov/ right away and report this. It'll come off her credit reports ~30 days or so later. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was setup for exactly this kind of thing.
Yes it's an android fuckup, for letting OEM's being able to do it in the first place.. the motorolla xoom was the honeycomb developer device, so it was the 'nexus' device in that time, and that's the one that I have and is having the problem..
By your logic it would be a Google fuckup for letting OEMs have full control of what they do with Android which has no technical bearing on merits of Android in itself. BTW, big props to Google for going in the other direction of Apple by letting OEMs do this - I seem to remember this worked out pretty well for MSFT.
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
not sure why this got modded down. Has anyone ever tried to setting up three monitors? I recently converted my workstation from Windows which worked quite well for gaming and multi-monitor support. On-board nvidia gpu had one monitor and the amd/ati pci card connected the other two. Can't do that under X. So now I'll have to buy another PCI card.
But wait, commercial drivers are buggy and Xscreensaver is a mess, I can't use text virtual consoles, but I use open source drivers which fixes that, steam wont run. Running Ubuntu? Having the fear of god every time a system update or reboot is not ideal, but about half the time something bad will happen. BSD? nothing is written for it. I've been running X in some form on some machine since the early 90s on a 386. For a while, the unix desktop was the way to go, but for years Windows or OS X is vastly superior in a desktop environment - you know, actual drivers exist.
Thank god for virtualbox at least.
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I concur,
I too, once was ambitious as this and had grand designs. Years later and I'm lucky if it's not another laptop in bed day.
time machine dude, it's what most of us did.
i remember reading /. that day and those articles / headlines are still in my memory. feels weird.
It's amazing that is just now becoming a thing. IoT devices and their piss-poor security/default passwords/etc have been out for a while.
1994. I used to go to the Univ. of Kansas computing center to play DOOM on the LAN, it usually was the shareware version, and all computers got wiped weekly anyway. I was too young to go to college but I didn't have a computer so I spent a bit of late nights there. Eventually got a copy of the registered version and there were many pick up games to be had. The hours spent designing levels on DoomCAD and playing ledges.wad, T2.wad, etc, was amazing. One night I was in there alone playing single-player mode and a cop walks in, his mind was blown. He asked if we could watch and spent a couple hours watching me play and I taught him how to play. I went from being barely able to learn how to install the game from disks to a sysadmin a few years later. DOOM was what kindled my interest in computing in general.
I know first hand many people that have been laid off and/or can't find work due to oil prices crashing. Anytime a major industry crashes you're going to have some adjustment periods. The industrial revolution put a lot of people out of work but over time people adapted, but there was some hard times for quite a number of people.
Great for water and energy conservation, and this technology can be moved into places that are difficult to grow produce. But if this really catches on, wonder what this will do to the industry as a whole, and the people put out of work.
Watched it live in elementary school, several adult faculty/staff sighed out exclamations in dirty words, which made a lot of the younger kids laugh at hearing this and initially getting scolded for what was perceived as laughter over the tragedy.
Thank you for this!
Congratulations! It only took a few minutes before someone already brought the ACA into this.
I guess I should've taken that $2k offer my 3 digit UID when I chance. It's been a fun 18 years or so, but the future of /. doesn't seem to bright.
Apples and Oranges. As an Uber rider, you don't see your rating, you don't know who rated you what. Sure you can ask a driver what your rating is, but all ratings are not transparent, you have no log of what was rated.
Been saying this as long as /. was around, few agreed but most argued.
What a waste of time.
"Mir is already packaged as an experimental option, along with an experimental Unity 8 desktop session." Good God. The Ubuntu desktop always has been and always will be an experimental mess. I can't ever remember being more scared to reboot my workstation after a kernel update with the likely possibility of having restore my video driver and settings. My old 386 with 4 (!) mb ram, running twm has less issues.
Google tried to buy Friendster for $30 Million in 2003 and it was turned down. We all know what happened to Friendster not even 2 years later. At the end of the day you need to just use your better judgement and evaluate where you think the company is heading in the future. Although I fail to see how accepting a one billion offer on a company is a failure.
With all due respect I find this comment completely baseless. Consider the fact that Elizabeth Warren was responsible for its foundation. Before I comment further, I must ask; is this a troll or are we not talking about the same thing?
She needs to go to http://cfpb.gov/ right away and report this. It'll come off her credit reports ~30 days or so later. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was setup for exactly this kind of thing.
I was intrigued by your .sig but the URL in it is returning 404.
Yes it's an android fuckup, for letting OEM's being able to do it in the first place.. the motorolla xoom was the honeycomb developer device, so it was the 'nexus' device in that time, and that's the one that I have and is having the problem..
By your logic it would be a Google fuckup for letting OEMs have full control of what they do with Android which has no technical bearing on merits of Android in itself. BTW, big props to Google for going in the other direction of Apple by letting OEMs do this - I seem to remember this worked out pretty well for MSFT.
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
Congratulations, you've achieved your goal of looking like Ars Technica. Can we go back to the design it was back in the 90s again?
not sure why this got modded down. Has anyone ever tried to setting up three monitors? I recently converted my workstation from Windows which worked quite well for gaming and multi-monitor support. On-board nvidia gpu had one monitor and the amd/ati pci card connected the other two. Can't do that under X. So now I'll have to buy another PCI card. But wait, commercial drivers are buggy and Xscreensaver is a mess, I can't use text virtual consoles, but I use open source drivers which fixes that, steam wont run. Running Ubuntu? Having the fear of god every time a system update or reboot is not ideal, but about half the time something bad will happen. BSD? nothing is written for it. I've been running X in some form on some machine since the early 90s on a 386. For a while, the unix desktop was the way to go, but for years Windows or OS X is vastly superior in a desktop environment - you know, actual drivers exist. Thank god for virtualbox at least.
The *nix desktop is still a p.o.s. since i've been around here.