I believe wikipedia's greatest strength is its ability to provide EVERYONE's opinion of what is important. It would seem to make more sense for wikipedia to develop a 'constellation' style of entry management. As opposed to a 'junior editor' deleting something they consider irrelevant, they should move that information further from the center of the 'constellation' to which it is attached. Then, people can go to the heart and see only the most pertinent and non-subjective information, but if they so desire, they can continue to learn the many viewpoints surrounding a topic by moving from the center of the constellation outwards.
We heard a lot about the 'HP Way' when being bought. I still don't really know what it is. Mostly I have just had to deal with signing into a bunch of new systems coupled with the complete inability of HP to build a decent remote solution for their own employees. This is compounded with a 'self-service' culture (HP Way?) that relies on a horribly splintered web portal.
However, my unit (essentially the entirety of my former company) is doing extremely well so it's gravy. Maybe in a few years I'll see the 'HP way'. I'm not gonna hold my breath.
As an employee of HP only because they bought my company, I can attest to the fact that HP is no longer a monolithic institution, but rather a bunch of components jammed up against each other operating largely autonomously.
It's what the stockholders want I guess, and will only become more prevalent as HP continues its pace of rapid acquisitions.
I have had Office 2003 work fine on Fedora core 6.
I cannot make it work on Fedora 7. No clue. It will start, then say it 'needs to be installed for the registered user' and will force-quit.
I have also noticed WINE in fedora playing better with Gnome than KDE. Using KDE breaks the securom crap in WINE and I can't start Warcraft 3. Gnome does not exhibit this problem.
I'm that old guy too... and I'm 23. Although I believe the overtime laws do need to be overhauled and current practice brought into line with reality, I think people on a personal level need to learn how to deal with these things better. I work in the data warehouse consulting industry, and they hire youngsters like us and take advantage of them, by putting them in environments where they are pressured to work extra hours etc. I do drugs, but it wasn't because of peer pressure. People need to be more independent thinkers and leaders, with greater self-confidence and a finer grained understanding of their own self worth - objective and subjective.
total linux annihilation?
more like totally off base
however, if linux doesn't achieve both of these goals, it can never be the 'year of the linux desktop' (TM)
I work as a database developer and spend a decent amount of time sitting around with a putty SSH open.
I like to play a windows port of Rogue at work. It looks little different than the command line terminal I have open most of the time anyways.
If the bandwidth costs are such a big deal, why not just set these downloads up as torrents? The companies could easily ride on the bandwidth provided by the unstoppable force of p2p pirates (barring changes in the way downstream bandwidth is sold to consumers by ISPs of course...)
Give them a Wii with the internet channel (opera browser).
Tain't gonna break, and I'm pretty sure if it did, someone would be responsible for fixing it other than you.
Any oboe player I've ever met (and I've met more than I care to know - they're always obnoxious people) has said that the reason the orchestra tunes to the oboe is because the oboe is shit for tuning, and if it's out of tune even a little bit from the orchestra (which is common) is sounds like complete ass because of its high register and distinctive timbre. So the orchestra attempts to make up for the oboe being an ancient-ass instrument that has almost no way to adjust the tuning beyond very slight adjustments.
Will Wright has said in an interview that The Sims was originally conceived as a Doll-house style game. The sims and the whole game surrounding them were added later, at the suggestion of others.
And no, I dont' know what interview that is. I probably read it on gamasutra.
I personally wouldn't pay for it, but if I were running a professional studio on Linux I'd definitely want (even if I didn't 'need' per se) an admin. If for nothing else than someone to blame when things aren't working. It's a lot easier to tell your customers that it's the IT guy's fault when you're not that IT guy.
I was running fedora 6 with planetccrma built on top of it on a 2.53 P4 with a gig of rambus ram and a Delta 1010 breakout box.
I had a stable config on that, but now...
I recently built a new machine (e6700, 8800 gts 640mb, 2 gig DDR-800) and attached the delta 1010 to it; I'm runing fedora 7 x86_64 with planetccrma built on top, but I now get segfaults from zynaddsubfx, so I've been tearing it apart lately. Also, I can't run at 24/96 for shit on my new machine, which I don't get, but whatever. I don't really like to mix/record at 24/96 anyways. I may end up going back to 32 bit for ease of use and configuration issues.
I mostly use Ardour and Hydrogen for my fun, along with various softsynths. I don't really need or want tools like Fruity Loops.
The part where audio in Linux makes me really happy is JACK. Being able to seamlessly route audio and midi signals like that is priceless. As far as cubase goes, I found it to be worse garbage than Cakewalk software.
6 months ago I made the choice to go with Linux for audio production (8 analog i/o DAW)
I did not make the switch because OSS was 'free', I made the switch because working with audio in Linux rules.
I have worked extensively with Windows DAWs as well as Mac DAWs. Windows sucks, Mac is little better, Linux is best.
However, I'm sick of being my own admin, despite the joys of total control. If I was running a professional studio on Linux, it would require that I always run outdated software simply to keep a stable configuration.
Linux DAWs still rule though.
I would say that blogs started when software interfaces that made it extremely easy for (non-technical-at-all-whatsoever) people to post serialized news were developed.
The actual content, purpose, etc, of a 'blog' has existed since the old BBSes as far as I'm concerned.
Slashdot Mirror
there is a facebook application that notifies you when you are de-friended by someone
even if increased rate of change = increased features
just sayin'
I believe wikipedia's greatest strength is its ability to provide EVERYONE's opinion of what is important. It would seem to make more sense for wikipedia to develop a 'constellation' style of entry management. As opposed to a 'junior editor' deleting something they consider irrelevant, they should move that information further from the center of the 'constellation' to which it is attached. Then, people can go to the heart and see only the most pertinent and non-subjective information, but if they so desire, they can continue to learn the many viewpoints surrounding a topic by moving from the center of the constellation outwards.
Just a thought.
However, my unit (essentially the entirety of my former company) is doing extremely well so it's gravy. Maybe in a few years I'll see the 'HP way'. I'm not gonna hold my breath.
As an employee of HP only because they bought my company, I can attest to the fact that HP is no longer a monolithic institution, but rather a bunch of components jammed up against each other operating largely autonomously.
It's what the stockholders want I guess, and will only become more prevalent as HP continues its pace of rapid acquisitions.
jesus christ freaking /. editors... spread the misinformation a little more please
I cannot make it work on Fedora 7. No clue. It will start, then say it 'needs to be installed for the registered user' and will force-quit.
I have also noticed WINE in fedora playing better with Gnome than KDE. Using KDE breaks the securom crap in WINE and I can't start Warcraft 3. Gnome does not exhibit this problem.
I'm that old guy too... and I'm 23. Although I believe the overtime laws do need to be overhauled and current practice brought into line with reality, I think people on a personal level need to learn how to deal with these things better. I work in the data warehouse consulting industry, and they hire youngsters like us and take advantage of them, by putting them in environments where they are pressured to work extra hours etc. I do drugs, but it wasn't because of peer pressure. People need to be more independent thinkers and leaders, with greater self-confidence and a finer grained understanding of their own self worth - objective and subjective.
total linux annihilation? more like totally off base however, if linux doesn't achieve both of these goals, it can never be the 'year of the linux desktop' (TM)
I work as a database developer and spend a decent amount of time sitting around with a putty SSH open. I like to play a windows port of Rogue at work. It looks little different than the command line terminal I have open most of the time anyways.
If the bandwidth costs are such a big deal, why not just set these downloads up as torrents? The companies could easily ride on the bandwidth provided by the unstoppable force of p2p pirates (barring changes in the way downstream bandwidth is sold to consumers by ISPs of course...)
Give them a Wii with the internet channel (opera browser). Tain't gonna break, and I'm pretty sure if it did, someone would be responsible for fixing it other than you.
Any oboe player I've ever met (and I've met more than I care to know - they're always obnoxious people) has said that the reason the orchestra tunes to the oboe is because the oboe is shit for tuning, and if it's out of tune even a little bit from the orchestra (which is common) is sounds like complete ass because of its high register and distinctive timbre. So the orchestra attempts to make up for the oboe being an ancient-ass instrument that has almost no way to adjust the tuning beyond very slight adjustments.
Will Wright has said in an interview that The Sims was originally conceived as a Doll-house style game. The sims and the whole game surrounding them were added later, at the suggestion of others. And no, I dont' know what interview that is. I probably read it on gamasutra.
I personally wouldn't pay for it, but if I were running a professional studio on Linux I'd definitely want (even if I didn't 'need' per se) an admin. If for nothing else than someone to blame when things aren't working. It's a lot easier to tell your customers that it's the IT guy's fault when you're not that IT guy.
I was running fedora 6 with planetccrma built on top of it on a 2.53 P4 with a gig of rambus ram and a Delta 1010 breakout box. I had a stable config on that, but now... I recently built a new machine (e6700, 8800 gts 640mb, 2 gig DDR-800) and attached the delta 1010 to it; I'm runing fedora 7 x86_64 with planetccrma built on top, but I now get segfaults from zynaddsubfx, so I've been tearing it apart lately. Also, I can't run at 24/96 for shit on my new machine, which I don't get, but whatever. I don't really like to mix/record at 24/96 anyways. I may end up going back to 32 bit for ease of use and configuration issues. I mostly use Ardour and Hydrogen for my fun, along with various softsynths. I don't really need or want tools like Fruity Loops. The part where audio in Linux makes me really happy is JACK. Being able to seamlessly route audio and midi signals like that is priceless. As far as cubase goes, I found it to be worse garbage than Cakewalk software.
6 months ago I made the choice to go with Linux for audio production (8 analog i/o DAW) I did not make the switch because OSS was 'free', I made the switch because working with audio in Linux rules. I have worked extensively with Windows DAWs as well as Mac DAWs. Windows sucks, Mac is little better, Linux is best. However, I'm sick of being my own admin, despite the joys of total control. If I was running a professional studio on Linux, it would require that I always run outdated software simply to keep a stable configuration. Linux DAWs still rule though.
Red to blue = good!
I would say that blogs started when software interfaces that made it extremely easy for (non-technical-at-all-whatsoever) people to post serialized news were developed. The actual content, purpose, etc, of a 'blog' has existed since the old BBSes as far as I'm concerned.
Is this going to make the royalty rates for internet radio higher than standard over-the-air radio royalty rates?