Just a short question, when the next book review article comes along, is there going to still be the link to amazon.com to buy the book? Or is it going to be canged to a link to buy it from BN.com?
They had to know what the concquences were when they started. They knew that if they got caught they would get the death sentence. It's not like China just pulled the sentence out of it's ass.
So the one ratted out the other one and cut a deal? Happens all the time. They knew they couldn't get the one without the other' testimony.
I guess they thought that their lives were worth $87,000. I don't know about you, but stealing $87k from the China Gov't is not somethng to risk a life over. They thought differently.
In the earlier article my question was basicly "With Slink being out of date, and Potato having a flaky install, how does one do a fesh install of Debian now, and have all the recient packages (Xfree 3.3.5, 2.2.13, etc.)
Here's what I did, and thanks to the reply to my post that was helpful:
1) Installed Slink, with all the packages I wanted. (installed flawlessly, as it should)
2) Compiled my own kernel. I tried to do skip this step and alot of the Potato packages chocked because I wasn't running a 2.2.x kernel. SO I had to start over.
3) changed/etc/apt/sources.list to unstable
4) apt-get update udates your package database to the latest version that are in unstable.
5) apt-get install dist-upgrade upgraded all my packages that I installed with Slink. Updated packages included XFree86 3.3.5, Enlightenment DR16.3, Latest GNOME, etc. It failed to to update a couple packages, but they weren't needed and I just apt-get remove
6) Went though the set-up process. Uncluding XF86Setup, untar'ing my old home directory, etc.
That's about it. I have a full Debian distro with later stuff then I even had with RedHat 6.1 Apt-get served me so far when I didn't have libgnome-dev(compiled a couple gnome aps). Unstead of looking for RPMS like I did with RH, I just typed apt-get install libgnome-dev and waited a few minutes and had then already installed and read to go.
Been running fine for 4 days now, and it's great.
I encurage anyone thinking about Debian to give it a try. My only gripe is that I didn't install it months ago =)
I've been running linux for over 2 years(first distro was Slackware 3.2). After a while the libc5/glib2 thing was too much and I changed over to RedHat 5.2. Updated to RedHat 6 when that cam out and it was ok. Heard enough good stuff about Debian that I thought I've give it a try a couple months ago.
With Slink being SO out of date(based on a 2.0.x kernel for starters), that's not an option to install. I need stuff like XFree86 3.3.5 for my voodoo3, some programs need to be run on a 2.2.x kernel, etc. So I decided to just point to Potato and install from there. The Potato install scripts crashed on me 3 times in a row(yes I know it's "unstable") and I finally Just re-installed RedHat 6.1.
So my question. What do you say to someone that wants to use debian, but Slink is out of date, and Potato won't install? It possible to just install Slink and "apt-get dist update" and point to Potato after a successful Slink install? How does one do a freah install of Debian now, and have an up-to-date system(2.2.13, XFree86 3.3.5, etc.)?
Honestly, I'm not ever a big Q3 fan. I do play it once in a while, and I'll buy the linux version of Q3 just to show my support. Because in actually BUYING the software is how you really show your support.
If people that are going to wait a little while(read after christmas) to get the Win32 version, why not show some linux support and buy the linux version and download the Win32 binary?
Also, this hasn't be addressed I don't think, but is there going to be a linux distro bundled in with Q3 for linux? That may be a great selling point. People may go "Quake 3 for linux? I don't have linux...wait....there is a version of linux all set to play Q3 included? And if I don't like linux I can just download the Win32 binary to play in windows? Why NOT get it?"
What's $45 in the whole jist of things if it means that a good linux sales figure would mean other companies making games for linux? What if Looking Glass looks at Q3's sales figures, combines them with the e-mails asking for a linux port, and we see a boxed System Shock 2? Or seeing the great sales figures, EA Sports trys a Triple Play 2001 port to test the waters? All this because alot of slashdot readers and linux gamers put down a couple bucks for a game they will play for a long while.
One thing you have to remember is the difference between credits and classes.
I took a couple semesters off of my current school(University of Pittsburgh) and decided to take a couple community college classes in the mean time.
The community college advertised until they were blue in the face that their credits tranfer over to Pitt. They do. But their classes didn't.
I took a calculus course at the community college. So when I went back to Pitt, they said that they would take the credits BUT, you still have to take our calculus class because the class doesn't transfer over and you need it for the other math classes.
So, basicly, the class was useless. So even though I took a calculus class at the CC, and Pitt took the credits, I still had to take a calculus class because they didn't take the CLASS as the prereq. to get into Calc. 2
So, your best bet would be to go to where you want to finnish, and see what distance learning courses they take, and choose the best from them. You may even find out they may not take ANYTHING that wasn't learned in a classroom enviroment. Transfering credits and classes differs GREATLY from school to school.
I know that if I would have went to Pitt and got the full information BEFORE I went to the CC, I would have saved a couple hundred bucks and more then a few hours of work.
I've used a palm and plan on getting a Handspring before my classes start in the spring.
Now, if I want to type in a good amount of stuff in the library into it, why not have a keyboard when I could use it faster then the stylus? Could just carry it around in my backpack.
Now I don't have to use the keyboard if I dont' want to, I don't want to use it all the time. a Palm is not a laptop.
But, Don't go "this sucks because I don't need one" Some of use DO like and want a keyboard like this. And no one is forcing a gun to your head and going "use the keyboard and put it in your pocket" And it's not like the next PDA's will all have keyboards.
Point being. Everyone has a different reason for using something. Some of the uses could use a keyboard. So just because something is useluess for you, it's not useless for everyone.
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I think if you want to look at what consoles systems will sell, you have to look at little bit of history, and why the current systems are where they are. In cronological order......
1) Saturn - failed, why? Sega of America. Every good Japanese game that came out for Saturn never made it to the US. The old CEO of SOA is no longer there, and the Dreamcast will get it's Japapnese games that caused the Saturn to fail in the US(by the way, it's still somewhat stong in Japan)
2) the PSX - success, why? Timing Timing Timing. and don't forget Marketing Marketing Marketing. Sautrn is still waivering there, but people want something better. Sony comes along with a brilliant marketing campaign and gets all the people that wanted a "next-gen" system, but didn't like the Saturn. And don't forget that cd-r prices are comming down and copying doesn't seem so impracitcal. So Sony already has a decent market now thanks to Sega and our next company, Nintendo.
Ninendo 64 - surviving, why? Nintendo. Nintendo is always late with systems, and this time they were too late. Sony picked up loyal Nintendo fans because the 64 was so late. And lack of games didn't help sell may 64's either. With the goof-up of Nintendo, someone has to pick up the customers, and they went to the system with the games. Sony. And lets not forget the goof-up of using carts over cds so they could try and make more $$ in cart production.
Dreamcast - success - Due to Sony FUD, every videogame mag and site said it was doomed from the start. And so-so sales in Japan of the DC, and the failure of the Saturn didn't do much to change their minds. Before realease people had one thing on their minds..PSX2. The Dreamcast is breaking sales records beause it's delivering what the other promise "next-year" now. And at $200, it's not out of anyone's price range. And not to mention the US is getting the Japanese releases the Saturn ddn't get.
X-box - will fail, why? Because people want a console, not a computer. The people that don't have a computer they could upgrade to X-Box power for $300 or less, and want to play PC games is small. Too small. And that Microsoft can't make a good game to save it's life, and it you can't push out good titles for your own system, it will fail. And PC games don't really go well with consoles. Play Quake2 on the psx or 64? that anything close to what the PC is? Starcraft or C&C 2? And for those couple games that will be decent, people will just get thier PC port.
PSX2 - survive, but won't be another psx-like success. Sony is getting away from the "console" now. They want an "all-in-one" unit that plays games, dvds, cds, surfs the web, washes your dog, and clears your house. These kinda of things never really sell, and at the $400 price too far out in price, when the DC will be in full swing and probably at $99. Their saving grace maybe Squaresoft(FF7 sold ALOT of PSX units), but there are rumors that they be going DC(they dev for whatever sytem is big)
"Project Dolphin" - ??? - it's Nintendo, it will do at least as well as the N64 did now. There are always a huge group of people that will buy anything Nintendo. And Nintendo can bring out it's own good games to try and sell the system based on that and do well. Microsoft can't do the same. And at what's rumored to be a $99 pricetag, people will hold off on getting the $400 psx2 and see what turns out.
So my call is the DC will be here for years to come, the X-Box is doomed to fail(not only because of MS) PSX2 will probably do about what the N64 is now. and what Nintendo does is all up to them.
After reading the article, it seems that Creative will have two sets of driver for linux. They will have their official "binary-only" driver, and the Open Source(tm) driver.
This is a first. Where a company not only released their source for a driver, but are also making their only closed driver. Creative, and any other company, will see first-hand at what opening up source will do. Because they will have something to test it against with the binary-only driver that Creative is making.
In a couple months, Creative will realease their new binary-only driver and say "our driver does this, that, and the otherthing", and whoever is taking up the Open Source lead will go"our driver does all of that, is more stable at doing it, and has features that you never would have though of"
Let's hope that other companies see the light of what opening up drivers can do. Not only does it make for a better product, but I bet opening the drivers sold about a couple hundred thousand SB Live! cards to linux users that would have sooner pissed on the card yesterday then bought one due to linux support and drivers.
I almost safe to say that you can compare the color palm to the gbc.
When the gbc was first anounced people did they saem thing they are doing now. Going "WAAHH! what about battery life?" and "WAHH! We don't need color". And "WAHH!! what about the older games?"
Well, turns out that not only does the gc use only TWO batteries(as opposed to 4 on the orginal) they last ALOT longer then 4 on the orginal gbc.
About color. People thought "tetris only needs four colors of cabbage green". Well, also turns out that things really do look ALOT better in color. Even games that weren't ment to have color, using some of the default pallets.
And finally, about the applications. Some people thought that the GBC would split the gameboy market into color and non-color. Turns out that the vast majority of gbc games also work on a normal gb. A couple not all the way mind you(extra maze in Zelda dx is an example) but that's few and far between.
So I think very much will happen with the color Palms. Color will catch on nicely. Battery life will IMPROVE. And there will be nice backward b&w compatability with older aps, and new aps will run in a b&w mode much like most gbc titles do now.
I almost safe to say that you can compare the color palm to the gbc.
When the gbc was first anounced people did they saem thing they are doing now. Going "WAAHH! what about battery life?" and "WAHH! We don't need color". And "WAHH!! what about the older games?"
Well, turns out that not only does the gc use only TWO batteries(as opposed to 4 on the orginal) they last ALOT longer then 4 on the orginal gbc.
About color. People thought "tetris only needs four colors of cabbage green". Well, also turns out that things really do look ALOT better in color. Even games that weren't ment to have color, using some of the default pallets.
And finally, about the applications. Some people thought that the GBC would split the gameboy market into color and non-color. Turns out that the vast majority of gbc games also work on a normal gbc. A couple not all the way mind you(extra maze in Zelda dx is an example) but that's few and far between.
So I think very much will happen with the color Palms. Color will catch on nicely. Battery life will IMPROVE. And there will be nice backward b&w compatability with older aps, and new aps will run in a b&W mode much like most gbc titles do now.
What I've always wondered was what they used to create the interfaces to the computers that they use in movies. It's never quite Windows, not quite E.
They show them getting e-mail, and it's always this big envelope out of a 3D mailbox and some sexy voice going "you have new e-mail from [someone's name]"
Or else they will show a command-line. and it's some big green letters. They type in a command on some big green dos/bash hybrid like "search Joe Blow" and everything about Joe Blow including his shoe size is printed out in 2 seconds.
I've always wondered what OS they used for the effect and what programs they used. Like I was told that the 3d file manager from "Jurassic Park" was a well known program(forget the name) for Irix(where does a 13 year old girl learn to use Irix I dunno) (^_^)
I've just seen some pretty slick interfaces over the years in movies, and never could fine similar windowmanagers, themes, or programs that quite matched it. Anyone know how it's done?
I'm getting really sick of these articles that say "linux is SO hard to install because I have to partition"
The only reason you have to repartition and everything else is because you run Windows on the machines in the first place.
Let's take the reverse. I Have a totally linux machine that has nothing but ext2 on it. Does that make Windows9x/NT "too hard to set up" because I have to repartition it for FAT or NTFS?
No it doesn't. that's why these people when they first install linux should do it on a harddirve that has nothing but freespace. Not try and jury-rig it on a some drive that's already FAT32 formatted and they have to resize it and reformat, etc.
Anthing about linux being harder to install becasue of re-partitioning is pure FUD, because it's not a linux problem, it's every OS'es problem. This includes ALL versions of Windows(even Win2k), linux, any just about anything else you can think of.
As "alternitive OS'es" become more popular, do you see a whole industry develop where it's not writing software, it's porting it?
Loki seems to be doing ok money-wise in porting games to linux. But there isn't really isn't anyone else(that I know of) that is doing it. Think it's possible that "porting" companies will start up and PAY the orginal company that wrote the program for porting/distribution rights? Where as then orginal company would make profit right then and there. Where as the may not port themselves due to time, money, or not even sure if there is a market.
And not just talking about porting to linux either. I'm an avid BeOS user, and I love using it. But the lack of good quality aps keeps me booting into something else for certain things. And most companies won't even port to something with the lype of linux, let alone BeOS.
"There are no OEMs that provide uptime guarantees for Linux, unlike Windows NT where Compaq, Data General, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Unisys provide 99.9 percent system-level uptime guarantees for Windows NT-based servers"
Yeah, of course they do, up 8 hours and a 30 second reboot. Up 8 hours and a 30 second reboot.
What I'd like to see it TIME BASED uptime guarantees. How many of the Dell's, Unisys's, would guarentee that WindowsNT will stay up for any length of time without a reboot?
Reminds me of a Stephen Wright quote I heard... "I saw a guy closing a 7-11. I said 'your sign says your open 24 hours' then the other guy said 'yeah, but not in a row'"
Take all post scores that each person has had. If they have an average post of 2 or higher(maybe 3 if the number of 2 is too big) and send them an e-mail asking them to moderate. They can moderate everyday, every article, whether they post to a story or not.
Like here would be the requirements to be asked to moderate:
1. have had a./ account for at least 6 months 2. have posted X amount of posts, with an average score of 2 or higher. 3. Have a valid e-mail contact.
This way, only people that would moderate are people that not only participate on a regular basis, but also have something worthwhile to say the majority of the time.
And it's strictly voluntary, people that meet the requirements are just sent an e-mail asking to be one. If they don't want to moderate, they don't have to, and it's not forced on them.
This way, moderation is put into the hands of the/. readers, but only the readers that really make any of the comments worth reading
From what I read of the response, it just gave Microsoft access, and they didn't give it out to third parties, including the gov't.
If I ran an NT server, I'd sure be happy that all the gooey goodness that is Mircosoft can go in and see if everything is ok, check on security updates, and get all the private information about my company so they can serve us better.
Ok, enough with the sarcasim (^_^), but this was just discovered and has been there since the begining. Makes you wonder all the stuff that's in NT that just hasn't been discovered yet.
Everyone can say anything they want about 3dfx, about glide, and how much the TNT2 is a better card.
All that matters is support, and right now if you run linux, your only REAL choice is a 3dfx. Gives you the nice/dev/3dfx, works flawlessly with q3, and everything else.
I'm the first to admit the TNT2 is a better card, but if the card is only "soft of" supported in mesa, X, etc, it's a moot point..Sit around and wait until it is? or get a 3dfx card, and enjoy what there is now?.
Linux world isn't like the Windows world, where you can simply compare hardware and get the best. You have to factor in the linux support as well. And what usually ends up happening is you end up with the 2nd or 3rd best, but with the 1st in linux support.
When I first started using linux, I had the same opinion alot do. It was "all this fragmention in the differnet distros, wms, etc. isn't good"
After you USE it for awhile, you see it's a strong point, not a weak one. It's not like Windows(not trying to bash it here), where using Win95 for anything but a desktop is like putting a round peg in a square hole. A linux distro can be centered around easy to use(redhat, caldera), very configurabe(debian, slack), or anything else. But at the core, it's still linux. Linux gives you the power to shave off the sides of the peg for a perfect fit.
Where linux DOES need a standard is on file locations. Like have a program that's follows the "linux standard" will use libraries in/usr/lib, install it's binary into/usr/bin, etc. You can talk to 10 different people, and they will tell you 10 different places to put things. Redhat will dump every binary in/usr/bin. People that compile like to put things in/usr/local/bin,/opt/bin, and other odd places I can't even think of.
I like to use both gnome and kde aps, I like to change my window manager every couple weeks. I don't like the fact when I go to compile something, it can't because of a library in a different place then where it's looking for.
So I guess that the fragmention is a two edged sword. But at least it's alot sharper on the good side. I think the sharper side helps shaving that peg (^_^)
AOL released their protocol under the assumntion that the more clients the better. AIM is just a marketing tool. They want people to use AIM, talk with others on AOL, and maybe the people they talk ot on AOL will convince them to get an AOL account. Not to mention the money they get frm the ads on their own client. So others making clients would be like free advertising for AOL.
Microsoft comes along and wants to get into the IM game. Why build your own network when you can steal one with a published protocol, 13+ million members, and dont' have to worry about a server? And while we're at it, lets use it to push hotmail, msn, and a slew of other things. AOL not wanting Mircosoft to use their servers to be used to push anything Microsft, changed the server.
To stop the above from happening again, they pulled the docs form the protocol. Maybe AOL should have put a clause in the license to stop companies from using the protocol to make clients to advertise other services other then AOL.
Now, AOL is in a position of "anti-opensource" becasue they pulled their docs. AOL screwed up there. You give Microsoft anything, they will pick it up and beat you with it. Microsoft, knowing from the start that their own sevice would never really catch on, releases their protocol. It's the same thing AOL did. Have others make clients and have free advertising. Someone makes a *nix client(and they will), that's more people that hotmail can be pushed on.
Execpt now, no one can do to them what they did to AOL. From the Terms of Service of MSN:
"The Service is provided to individuals only and for personal use only. You agree to use the Service only to send and receive personal messages. Any unauthorized commercial use of the Service, or the resale of its services, is expressly prohibited."
So, if and when AOL tired to intergrate MSN into AIM, Microsoft will go "tha'ts a comercial use, you can't do it" and then say that AOL did the exact same thing AOL complianed Microsoft did.
Mircosoft played this perectly. They are in a position to really want and need an open standard, at the same time, put AOL in a position where their only real choice is to keep their protocol under lock and key. Microsoft will get a standard, then embrace and extend it. By the time they ge to the embrace and extend part of their master plan, this Microsoft vs. AOL thing will be a distant memory
Those 12+ Million users of AIM didn't just come out of the sky. AOL Spent millions, if not billions of marketing to get people to use AOL/AIM.
AIM is a closed proprietary server. The only servers for AIM exist on AOL servers.
There are companies that spend a great deal of $$ to advertise on the AIM client.
Now Microsoft comes along. For free they want access to the 12+ million people that AOL has. They want to use AOL's customer base to promote hotmail(you need hotmail to use Microsoft Messanger), and to get thier foot into the mix by just hijacking the millions of AIM users.
All of the time, all Mircosoft did was code a client. All these people that are using it are using AOL's servers. It's wrong for AOL to go "Mircosoft is getting these ad dollars, while we have to have the increased load on our servers for free? We aren't putting up with this"? Maybe if AIM servers were all over the place like IRC, this wouldn't be a conern. But they aren't so it is.
Now AOL has to go to their advertisers and go "We now have 15 million useres, but now, even though it's our service and server, you can only reach 12 million of them" While now, Microsoft can go to the same people and go "Get our ad space and reach the whole 15 million, and it will cost you less"
So, to stop Microsoft, they changed thier own protocol so MS Messanger wouldn't work. AOL said "We spent billions to get this user base and to where we are now. We'll be damned if we are going to let Microsoft come in and take them for free."
This isn't like TiK, where it was a totally free program, that in the whole scheme of things not alot of people used. This is Microsoft. They will put this program on every install of Windows2000. It will be installed by default in the next version of IE. Wouldn't be surprised if in the next consumer Windows release, MS Messanger was "part of the OS"
So it's still ok for AOL to sit back and let this happen?
Intel wants out of the consumer chip business. They want to focus on server machines and turn to Xeon and then Merced and leave the consumer out of their hands.
These price cuts could just mean that they want to get rid of chips they already have, and other obligations.
May be true, maybe not. Makes for an interesting story never the less. (^_^)
What would be great is if new hardware vendors put a "Designed for Linux" or at least a "Works with Linux" logo on their packaging. That way, when someone goes to buy something off the shelf, they know it works right away.
I know if I went to buy a 3d card, NIC, etc, and I saw one with the penguin in the corner of the box, I'd get it.
Maybe it could replace those God awful "Designed for Windows" logos =)
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Just a short question, when the next book review article comes along, is there going to still be the link to amazon.com to buy the book? Or is it going to be canged to a link to buy it from BN.com?
They had to know what the concquences were when they started. They knew that if they got caught they would get the death sentence. It's not like China just pulled the sentence out of it's ass.
So the one ratted out the other one and cut a deal? Happens all the time. They knew they couldn't get the one without the other' testimony.
I guess they thought that their lives were worth $87,000. I don't know about you, but stealing $87k from the China Gov't is not somethng to risk a life over. They thought differently.
In the earlier article my question was basicly "With Slink being out of date, and Potato having a flaky install, how does one do a fesh install of Debian now, and have all the recient packages (Xfree 3.3.5, 2.2.13, etc.)
/etc/apt/sources.list to unstable
Here's what I did, and thanks to the reply to my post that was helpful:
1) Installed Slink, with all the packages I wanted. (installed flawlessly, as it should)
2) Compiled my own kernel. I tried to do skip this step and alot of the Potato packages chocked because I wasn't running a 2.2.x kernel. SO I had to start over.
3) changed
4) apt-get update udates your package database to the latest version that are in unstable.
5) apt-get install dist-upgrade upgraded all my packages that I installed with Slink. Updated packages included XFree86 3.3.5, Enlightenment DR16.3, Latest GNOME, etc. It failed to to update a couple packages, but they weren't needed and I just apt-get remove
6) Went though the set-up process. Uncluding XF86Setup, untar'ing my old home directory, etc.
That's about it. I have a full Debian distro with later stuff then I even had with RedHat 6.1 Apt-get served me so far when I didn't have libgnome-dev(compiled a couple gnome aps). Unstead of looking for RPMS like I did with RH, I just typed apt-get install libgnome-dev and waited a few minutes and had then already installed and read to go.
Been running fine for 4 days now, and it's great.
I encurage anyone thinking about Debian to give it a try. My only gripe is that I didn't install it months ago =)
I've been running linux for over 2 years(first distro was Slackware 3.2). After a while the libc5/glib2 thing was too much and I changed over to RedHat 5.2. Updated to RedHat 6 when that cam out and it was ok. Heard enough good stuff about Debian that I thought I've give it a try a couple months ago.
With Slink being SO out of date(based on a 2.0.x kernel for starters), that's not an option to install. I need stuff like XFree86 3.3.5 for my voodoo3, some programs need to be run on a 2.2.x kernel, etc. So I decided to just point to Potato and install from there. The Potato install scripts crashed on me 3 times in a row(yes I know it's "unstable") and I finally Just re-installed RedHat 6.1.
So my question. What do you say to someone that wants to use debian, but Slink is out of date, and Potato won't install? It possible to just install Slink and "apt-get dist update" and point to Potato after a successful Slink install? How does one do a freah install of Debian now, and have an up-to-date system(2.2.13, XFree86 3.3.5, etc.)?
Honestly, I'm not ever a big Q3 fan. I do play it once in a while, and I'll buy the linux version of Q3 just to show my support. Because in actually BUYING the software is how you really show your support.
If people that are going to wait a little while(read after christmas) to get the Win32 version, why not show some linux support and buy the linux version and download the Win32 binary?
Also, this hasn't be addressed I don't think, but is there going to be a linux distro bundled in with Q3 for linux? That may be a great selling point. People may go "Quake 3 for linux? I don't have linux...wait....there is a version of linux all set to play Q3 included? And if I don't like linux I can just download the Win32 binary to play in windows? Why NOT get it?"
What's $45 in the whole jist of things if it means that a good linux sales figure would mean other companies making games for linux? What if Looking Glass looks at Q3's sales figures, combines them with the e-mails asking for a linux port, and we see a boxed System Shock 2? Or seeing the great sales figures, EA Sports trys a Triple Play 2001 port to test the waters? All this because alot of slashdot readers and linux gamers put down a couple bucks for a game they will play for a long while.
One thing you have to remember is the difference between credits and classes.
I took a couple semesters off of my current school(University of Pittsburgh) and decided to take a couple community college classes in the mean time.
The community college advertised until they were blue in the face that their credits tranfer over to Pitt. They do. But their classes didn't.
I took a calculus course at the community college. So when I went back to Pitt, they said that they would take the credits BUT, you still have to take our calculus class because the class doesn't transfer over and you need it for the other math classes.
So, basicly, the class was useless. So even though I took a calculus class at the CC, and Pitt took the credits, I still had to take a calculus class because they didn't take the CLASS as the prereq. to get into Calc. 2
So, your best bet would be to go to where you want to finnish, and see what distance learning courses they take, and choose the best from them. You may even find out they may not take ANYTHING that wasn't learned in a classroom enviroment. Transfering credits and classes differs GREATLY from school to school.
I know that if I would have went to Pitt and got the full information BEFORE I went to the CC, I would have saved a couple hundred bucks and more then a few hours of work.
I've used a palm and plan on getting a Handspring before my classes start in the spring.
Now, if I want to type in a good amount of stuff in the library into it, why not have a keyboard when I could use it faster then the stylus? Could just carry it around in my backpack.
Now I don't have to use the keyboard if I dont' want to, I don't want to use it all the time. a Palm is not a laptop.
But, Don't go "this sucks because I don't need one" Some of use DO like and want a keyboard like this. And no one is forcing a gun to your head and going "use the keyboard and put it in your pocket" And it's not like the next PDA's will all have keyboards.
Point being. Everyone has a different reason for using something. Some of the uses could use a keyboard. So just because something is useluess for you, it's not useless for everyone.
I think if you want to look at what consoles systems will sell, you have to look at little bit of history, and why the current systems are where they are. In cronological order......
1) Saturn - failed, why? Sega of America. Every good Japanese game that came out for Saturn never made it to the US. The old CEO of SOA is no longer there, and the Dreamcast will get it's Japapnese games that caused the Saturn to fail in the US(by the way, it's still somewhat stong in Japan)
2) the PSX - success, why? Timing Timing Timing. and don't forget Marketing Marketing Marketing. Sautrn is still waivering there, but people want something better. Sony comes along with a brilliant marketing campaign and gets all the people that wanted a "next-gen" system, but didn't like the Saturn. And don't forget that cd-r prices are comming down and copying doesn't seem so impracitcal. So Sony already has a decent market now thanks to Sega and our next company, Nintendo.
Ninendo 64 - surviving, why? Nintendo. Nintendo is always late with systems, and this time they were too late. Sony picked up loyal Nintendo fans because the 64 was so late. And lack of games didn't help sell may 64's either. With the goof-up of Nintendo, someone has to pick up the customers, and they went to the system with the games. Sony. And lets not forget the goof-up of using carts over cds so they could try and make more $$ in cart production.
Dreamcast - success - Due to Sony FUD, every videogame mag and site said it was doomed from the start. And so-so sales in Japan of the DC, and the failure of the Saturn didn't do much to change their minds. Before realease people had one thing on their minds..PSX2. The Dreamcast is breaking sales records beause it's delivering what the other promise "next-year" now. And at $200, it's not out of anyone's price range. And not to mention the US is getting the Japanese releases the Saturn ddn't get.
X-box - will fail, why? Because people want a console, not a computer. The people that don't have a computer they could upgrade to X-Box power for $300 or less, and want to play PC games is small. Too small. And that Microsoft can't make a good game to save it's life, and it you can't push out good titles for your own system, it will fail. And PC games don't really go well with consoles. Play Quake2 on the psx or 64? that anything close to what the PC is? Starcraft or C&C 2? And for those couple games that will be decent, people will just get thier PC port.
PSX2 - survive, but won't be another psx-like success. Sony is getting away from the "console" now. They want an "all-in-one" unit that plays games, dvds, cds, surfs the web, washes your dog, and clears your house. These kinda of things never really sell, and at the $400 price too far out in price, when the DC will be in full swing and probably at $99. Their saving grace maybe Squaresoft(FF7 sold ALOT of PSX units), but there are rumors that they be going DC(they dev for whatever sytem is big)
"Project Dolphin" - ??? - it's Nintendo, it will do at least as well as the N64 did now. There are always a huge group of people that will buy anything Nintendo. And Nintendo can bring out it's own good games to try and sell the system based on that and do well. Microsoft can't do the same. And at what's rumored to be a $99 pricetag, people will hold off on getting the $400 psx2 and see what turns out.
So my call is the DC will be here for years to come, the X-Box is doomed to fail(not only because of MS) PSX2 will probably do about what the N64 is now. and what Nintendo does is all up to them.
After reading the article, it seems that Creative will have two sets of driver for linux. They will have their official "binary-only" driver, and the Open Source(tm) driver.
This is a first. Where a company not only released their source for a driver, but are also making their only closed driver. Creative, and any other company, will see first-hand at what opening up source will do. Because they will have something to test it against with the binary-only driver that Creative is making.
In a couple months, Creative will realease their new binary-only driver and say "our driver does this, that, and the otherthing", and whoever is taking up the Open Source lead will go"our driver does all of that, is more stable at doing it, and has features that you never would have though of"
Let's hope that other companies see the light of what opening up drivers can do. Not only does it make for a better product, but I bet opening the drivers sold about a couple hundred thousand SB Live! cards to linux users that would have sooner pissed on the card yesterday then bought one due to linux support and drivers.
I'm not going to paste the whole thing, but an interesting read is John Carmacks's .plan file where he bought an iBook
Give ya'll a reason to use that "finger" command =)
I almost safe to say that you can compare the color palm to the gbc.
When the gbc was first anounced people did they saem thing they are doing now. Going "WAAHH! what about battery life?" and "WAHH! We don't need color". And "WAHH!! what about the older games?"
Well, turns out that not only does the gc use only TWO batteries(as opposed to 4 on the orginal) they last ALOT longer then 4 on the orginal gbc.
About color. People thought "tetris only needs four colors of cabbage green". Well, also turns out that things really do look ALOT better in color. Even games that weren't ment to have color, using some of the default pallets.
And finally, about the applications. Some people thought that the GBC would split the gameboy market into color and non-color. Turns out that the vast majority of gbc games also work on a normal gb. A couple not all the way mind you(extra maze in Zelda dx is an example) but that's few and far between.
So I think very much will happen with the color Palms. Color will catch on nicely. Battery life will IMPROVE. And there will be nice backward b&w compatability with older aps, and new aps will run in a b&w mode much like most gbc titles do now.
I almost safe to say that you can compare the color palm to the gbc.
When the gbc was first anounced people did they saem thing they are doing now. Going "WAAHH! what about battery life?" and "WAHH! We don't need color". And "WAHH!! what about the older games?"
Well, turns out that not only does the gc use only TWO batteries(as opposed to 4 on the orginal) they last ALOT longer then 4 on the orginal gbc.
About color. People thought "tetris only needs four colors of cabbage green". Well, also turns out that things really do look ALOT better in color. Even games that weren't ment to have color, using some of the default pallets.
And finally, about the applications. Some people thought that the GBC would split the gameboy market into color and non-color. Turns out that the vast majority of gbc games also work on a normal gbc. A couple not all the way mind you(extra maze in Zelda dx is an example) but that's few and far between.
So I think very much will happen with the color Palms. Color will catch on nicely. Battery life will IMPROVE. And there will be nice backward b&w compatability with older aps, and new aps will run in a b&W mode much like most gbc titles do now.
What I've always wondered was what they used to create the interfaces to the computers that they use in movies. It's never quite Windows, not quite E.
They show them getting e-mail, and it's always this big envelope out of a 3D mailbox and some sexy voice going "you have new e-mail from [someone's name]"
Or else they will show a command-line. and it's some big green letters. They type in a command on some big green dos/bash hybrid like "search Joe Blow" and everything about Joe Blow including his shoe size is printed out in 2 seconds.
I've always wondered what OS they used for the effect and what programs they used. Like I was told that the 3d file manager from "Jurassic Park" was a well known program(forget the name) for Irix(where does a 13 year old girl learn to use Irix I dunno) (^_^)
I've just seen some pretty slick interfaces over the years in movies, and never could fine similar windowmanagers, themes, or programs that quite matched it. Anyone know how it's done?
I'm getting really sick of these articles that say "linux is SO hard to install because I have to partition"
The only reason you have to repartition and everything else is because you run Windows on the machines in the first place.
Let's take the reverse. I Have a totally linux machine that has nothing but ext2 on it. Does that make Windows9x/NT "too hard to set up" because I have to repartition it for FAT or NTFS?
No it doesn't. that's why these people when they first install linux should do it on a harddirve that has nothing but freespace. Not try and jury-rig it on a some drive that's already FAT32 formatted and they have to resize it and reformat, etc.
Anthing about linux being harder to install becasue of re-partitioning is pure FUD, because it's not a linux problem, it's every OS'es problem. This includes ALL versions of Windows(even Win2k), linux, any just about anything else you can think of.
As "alternitive OS'es" become more popular, do you see a whole industry develop where it's not writing software, it's porting it?
Loki seems to be doing ok money-wise in porting games to linux. But there isn't really isn't anyone else(that I know of) that is doing it. Think it's possible that "porting" companies will start up and PAY the orginal company that wrote the program for porting/distribution rights? Where as then orginal company would make profit right then and there. Where as the may not port themselves due to time, money, or not even sure if there is a market.
And not just talking about porting to linux either. I'm an avid BeOS user, and I love using it. But the lack of good quality aps keeps me booting into something else for certain things. And most companies won't even port to something with the lype of linux, let alone BeOS.
"There are no OEMs that provide uptime guarantees for Linux, unlike Windows NT where Compaq, Data General, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Unisys provide 99.9 percent system-level uptime guarantees for Windows NT-based servers"
Yeah, of course they do, up 8 hours and a 30 second reboot. Up 8 hours and a 30 second reboot.
What I'd like to see it TIME BASED uptime guarantees. How many of the Dell's, Unisys's, would guarentee that WindowsNT will stay up for any length of time without a reboot?
Reminds me of a Stephen Wright quote I heard... "I saw a guy closing a 7-11. I said 'your sign says your open 24 hours' then the other guy said 'yeah, but not in a row'"
I recently built a dual celeron box(abit bp6, 366 clerons, etc.) and When I installed RedHat 6.0, it installed a SMP kernel by default.
Sometime during the installation, it sees if you have more then one CPU or not, and installs what kernel it needs to.
I just assumed that other distos had SMP default kernels too. Or is Red Hat 6.0 the only one?
Take all post scores that each person has had. If they have an average post of 2 or higher(maybe 3 if the number of 2 is too big) and send them an e-mail asking them to moderate. They can moderate everyday, every article, whether they post to a story or not.
./ account for at least 6 months
/. readers, but only the readers that really make any of the comments worth reading
Like here would be the requirements to be asked to moderate:
1. have had a
2. have posted X amount of posts, with an average score of 2 or higher.
3. Have a valid e-mail contact.
This way, only people that would moderate are people that not only participate on a regular basis, but also have something worthwhile to say the majority of the time.
And it's strictly voluntary, people that meet the requirements are just sent an e-mail asking to be one. If they don't want to moderate, they don't have to, and it's not forced on them.
This way, moderation is put into the hands of the
From what I read of the response, it just gave Microsoft access, and they didn't give it out to third parties, including the gov't.
If I ran an NT server, I'd sure be happy that all the gooey goodness that is Mircosoft can go in and see if everything is ok, check on security updates, and get all the private information about my company so they can serve us better.
Ok, enough with the sarcasim (^_^), but this was just discovered and has been there since the begining. Makes you wonder all the stuff that's in NT that just hasn't been discovered yet.
Everyone can say anything they want about 3dfx, about glide, and how much the TNT2 is a better card.
/dev/3dfx, works flawlessly with q3, and everything else.
All that matters is support, and right now if you run linux, your only REAL choice is a 3dfx. Gives you the nice
I'm the first to admit the TNT2 is a better card, but if the card is only "soft of" supported in mesa, X, etc, it's a moot point..Sit around and wait until it is? or get a 3dfx card, and enjoy what there is now?.
Linux world isn't like the Windows world, where you can simply compare hardware and get the best. You have to factor in the linux support as well. And what usually ends up happening is you end up with the 2nd or 3rd best, but with the 1st in linux support.
When I first started using linux, I had the same opinion alot do. It was "all this fragmention in the differnet distros, wms, etc. isn't good"
/usr/lib, install it's binary into /usr/bin, etc. You can talk to 10 different people, and they will tell you 10 different places to put things. Redhat will dump every binary in /usr/bin. People that compile like to put things in /usr/local/bin, /opt/bin, and other odd places I can't even think of.
After you USE it for awhile, you see it's a strong point, not a weak one. It's not like Windows(not trying to bash it here), where using Win95 for anything but a desktop is like putting a round peg in a square hole. A linux distro can be centered around easy to use(redhat, caldera), very configurabe(debian, slack), or anything else. But at the core, it's still linux. Linux gives you the power to shave off the sides of the peg for a perfect fit.
Where linux DOES need a standard is on file locations. Like have a program that's follows the "linux standard" will use libraries in
I like to use both gnome and kde aps, I like to change my window manager every couple weeks. I don't like the fact when I go to compile something, it can't because of a library in a different place then where it's looking for.
So I guess that the fragmention is a two edged sword. But at least it's alot sharper on the good side. I think the sharper side helps shaving that peg (^_^)
AOL released their protocol under the assumntion that the more clients the better. AIM is just a marketing tool. They want people to use AIM, talk with others on AOL, and maybe the people they talk ot on AOL will convince them to get an AOL account. Not to mention the money they get frm the ads on their own client. So others making clients would be like free advertising for AOL.
Microsoft comes along and wants to get into the IM game. Why build your own network when you can steal one with a published protocol, 13+ million members, and dont' have to worry about a server? And while we're at it, lets use it to push hotmail, msn, and a slew of other things. AOL not wanting Mircosoft to use their servers to be used to push anything Microsft, changed the server.
To stop the above from happening again, they pulled the docs form the protocol. Maybe AOL should have put a clause in the license to stop companies from using the protocol to make clients to advertise other services other then AOL.
Now, AOL is in a position of "anti-opensource" becasue they pulled their docs. AOL screwed up there. You give Microsoft anything, they will pick it up and beat you with it. Microsoft, knowing from the start that their own sevice would never really catch on, releases their protocol. It's the same thing AOL did. Have others make clients and have free advertising. Someone makes a *nix client(and they will), that's more people that hotmail can be pushed on.
Execpt now, no one can do to them what they did to AOL. From the Terms of Service of MSN:
"The Service is provided to individuals only and for personal use only. You agree to use the Service only to send and receive personal messages. Any unauthorized commercial use of the Service, or the resale of its services, is expressly prohibited."
So, if and when AOL tired to intergrate MSN into AIM, Microsoft will go "tha'ts a comercial use, you can't do it" and then say that AOL did the exact same thing AOL complianed Microsoft did.
Mircosoft played this perectly. They are in a position to really want and need an open standard, at the same time, put AOL in a position where their only real choice is to keep their protocol under lock and key. Microsoft will get a standard, then embrace and extend it. By the time they ge to the embrace and extend part of their master plan, this Microsoft vs. AOL thing will be a distant memory
Microsoft will cheat to win, but they win.
Those 12+ Million users of AIM didn't just come out of the sky. AOL Spent millions, if not billions of marketing to get people to use AOL/AIM.
AIM is a closed proprietary server. The only servers for AIM exist on AOL servers.
There are companies that spend a great deal of $$ to advertise on the AIM client.
Now Microsoft comes along. For free they want access to the 12+ million people that AOL has. They want to use AOL's customer base to promote hotmail(you need hotmail to use Microsoft Messanger), and to get thier foot into the mix by just hijacking the millions of AIM users.
All of the time, all Mircosoft did was code a client. All these people that are using it are using AOL's servers. It's wrong for AOL to go "Mircosoft is getting these ad dollars, while we have to have the increased load on our servers for free? We aren't putting up with this"? Maybe if AIM servers were all over the place like IRC, this wouldn't be a conern. But they aren't so it is.
Now AOL has to go to their advertisers and go "We now have 15 million useres, but now, even though it's our service and server, you can only reach 12 million of them" While now, Microsoft can go to the same people and go "Get our ad space and reach the whole 15 million, and it will cost you less"
So, to stop Microsoft, they changed thier own protocol so MS Messanger wouldn't work. AOL said "We spent billions to get this user base and to where we are now. We'll be damned if we are going to let Microsoft come in and take them for free."
This isn't like TiK, where it was a totally free program, that in the whole scheme of things not alot of people used. This is Microsoft. They will put this program on every install of Windows2000. It will be installed by default in the next version of IE. Wouldn't be surprised if in the next consumer Windows release, MS Messanger was "part of the OS"
So it's still ok for AOL to sit back and let this happen?
What I've heard from a reliable little birdie:
Intel wants out of the consumer chip business. They want to focus on server machines and turn to Xeon and then Merced and leave the consumer out of their hands.
These price cuts could just mean that they want to get rid of chips they already have, and other obligations.
May be true, maybe not. Makes for an interesting story never the less. (^_^)
What would be great is if new hardware vendors put a "Designed for Linux" or at least a "Works with Linux" logo on their packaging. That way, when someone goes to buy something off the shelf, they know it works right away.
I know if I went to buy a 3d card, NIC, etc, and I saw one with the penguin in the corner of the box, I'd get it.
Maybe it could replace those God awful "Designed for Windows" logos =)