Not the truth. I'm a fan of graphical MMORPGs, don't get me wrong, but the MUD I play is doing very well. Aardwolf (www.aardmud.org) currently has an average of about 500 people connected at all times and has been running (for free actually) for the past 7 years. That's a pretty impressive record, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. Even with MMORPGS around, there's something attractive still in text-based MUDs
which in my mind isnt' the biggest aspect of XP. Hanging on my office wall is a poster of the main practices of XP, so I'm using that for reference, and it seems to me that a lot of the practices fit.
Ways OSS and XP mesh very well: Simple Design, Refactoring, Continuous Integration, Collective Ownership, Small Releases, a Sustainable Pace, and Coding Standards. These are things that most successful OSS projects do, and they're pillars of XP.
However, OSS misses the others, like Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, and Customer tests. In my mind, the most important aspect of XP is Test Driven Development (not Pair Programming), which I have yet to see a single OSS project do.
XP isn't an all or nothing deal, it's a set of practices. Use the practices, and you'll write good software. I consider OSS development extreme because it follows several of the guidelines, and I think OSS development teams would gain a lot by implementing the rest of the practices. I also think this is a reason why OSS developers write such good software (now imagine what it would be like if we did Test Driven development...)
Uhmm, there's already a FFXI, I've been playing the beta for it for a few months now (and it's probably the best video game I've ever played, btw). FFXI has been out for a year and a half in Japan already (roughly), so what were they supposed to name this one, given it's ties to FFX? Final Fanatasy 10.5, Final Fantasy XII (that's already taken)?
Final Fantasy X-2 seems like the logical name to me.
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Did you read the wired story? They're making gem-quality diamonds for $5 a carat, that you can't tell from the mined counterparts. They're not talking about diamond dust used to coat saws here....
...is that they have no clue about how enterprise computing works. You can't just be like, "oooh, here's a problem, throw a linux box at it", that would never happen. Companies that are worth millions and billions in business every year move very carefully. Every piece must either work perfectly or have channels of responsibility, which in the case of 3rd party products (like Operating Systems) often falls back to the vendor.
Why doesn't Linux get deployed at the enterprise level (5000+ employees, not to mention 170,000 employees like the company I work at)? Because there are no support channels, and no, "ask the local LUG or post a message to a mail list" is not a valid support channel at that level.
UnitedLinux may be on the right path, why not support them for what they're trying to do, bring linux onto the enterprise stage, and not make up things like they're trying to take away your rights or make linux proprietary or some other nonsense. UnitedLinux, IMHO, is trying to innovate, they might get some things wrong here and there, but very few people have tried to bring Linux into the enterprise space and they deserve a little support just for trying that.
I think that there is a lot of MS "copying" going on in the Linux community. There are a very few number of people who actually come up with brand new ideas and try and flesh them out.
We (I couldn't do this personally) need to come up with some place where O.S. advocate/programmers/people can just offer ideas and brainstorm new stuff. Open Source Brainstorming would be so cool. Some place that could resemble a huge, online research center with thousands of "researchers" from around the world coming up with new and great ideas of our own. I know I've struggled with the question "What can I program/do that's original", and I'm not quite sure where to turn to get that question answered.
Windows-centric in their work, suggestions, implementations, and general focus. I'm led to believe that IBM has strong business ties with Microsoft.
Given the current "standoff" (if you will) between MSFT and Linux, where will IBM's loyalties lie in regards to making implementation suggestions to enterprise/corporation level customers? For example, will IBM Global Services people be educated in Linux as well as their current focus on Windows?
I guess the real meat of my question focuses on whether or not Linux will be a "back-burner" project for IBM while Windows solutions continue to be the focus, or will IBM use Linux as a real solution for enterprise customers?
I've been interning for Herman Miller and got to see Resolve up close and personal, and I must say that it's the most versitile office space that I've ever seen in my life. There are tons of configurations, and it's almost funny how many cool things you can do with it.
It seems that they're shooting for the $200 million to pay off a $119 million debt already. To quote Yahoo: "Transmeta has historically posted significant losses, and as of June 30 had an accumulated deficit of $119.4 million, according to the SEC filing."
I really don't think that companies should be filing for an IPO just to get out of debt, in fact I think that I'd be more comfortable investing in a company that has historically made some money, not lost it.
(I still love Transmeta though)
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Most of the time programming projects are short-lived individual efforts. Instead try making them work as teams, and have them employ some sort of development strategy, so that they learn good project management WHILE learning how to code. Give them vague catagories so that they can design and then code. I know that this makes for a longer project, but it will excercise more than just coding skills, and everyone needs more than just coding skills. --Sheeplet
So X is buggy, so it's slow and lacks features that would make it ideal. Perhaps the choice is to completely replace it with more efficient, smaller code. I completely agree with that.
The only catch is: Make it look good. I doubt very few people want to sacrifice the customization and beauty of X. I spend a lot of time getting my desktop to look great, to make people who use the boring Windoze GUI stare and wonder what I did to my computer.
People (including me) are visual, and I don't want to give up aesthetic quality I currently have in X in trade for a smaller code base.
But, hey. If we can make it look good, innovative and efficient, I'm all for it.
I think another interesting name coming out soon is the new Amway web-company. It's called Quixtar.com I guess that way they at least get a domain name that no one else has. Maybe that's a reason for some funky names too, because you know how many "normal" names are taken up already. -Chris Ten Harmsel
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Not the truth. I'm a fan of graphical MMORPGs, don't get me wrong, but the MUD I play is doing very well. Aardwolf (www.aardmud.org) currently has an average of about 500 people connected at all times and has been running (for free actually) for the past 7 years. That's a pretty impressive record, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. Even with MMORPGS around, there's something attractive still in text-based MUDs
which in my mind isnt' the biggest aspect of XP. Hanging on my office wall is a poster of the main practices of XP, so I'm using that for reference, and it seems to me that a lot of the practices fit.
Ways OSS and XP mesh very well: Simple Design, Refactoring, Continuous Integration, Collective Ownership, Small Releases, a Sustainable Pace, and Coding Standards. These are things that most successful OSS projects do, and they're pillars of XP.
However, OSS misses the others, like Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, and Customer tests. In my mind, the most important aspect of XP is Test Driven Development (not Pair Programming), which I have yet to see a single OSS project do.
XP isn't an all or nothing deal, it's a set of practices. Use the practices, and you'll write good software. I consider OSS development extreme because it follows several of the guidelines, and I think OSS development teams would gain a lot by implementing the rest of the practices. I also think this is a reason why OSS developers write such good software (now imagine what it would be like if we did Test Driven development...)
Uhmm, there's already a FFXI, I've been playing the beta for it for a few months now (and it's probably the best video game I've ever played, btw). FFXI has been out for a year and a half in Japan already (roughly), so what were they supposed to name this one, given it's ties to FFX? Final Fanatasy 10.5, Final Fantasy XII (that's already taken)? Final Fantasy X-2 seems like the logical name to me.
Did you read the wired story? They're making gem-quality diamonds for $5 a carat, that you can't tell from the mined counterparts. They're not talking about diamond dust used to coat saws here....
Doesn't the logo remind you of ChronoCross/Trigger? Strange....
Dont' forget the fact that Gnome is all in C and KDE is all in C++. The architecture difference alone is amazing.
What? Why bother with competitors? Along this logic, everyone should just use Microsoft....
...is that they have no clue about how enterprise computing works. You can't just be like, "oooh, here's a problem, throw a linux box at it", that would never happen. Companies that are worth millions and billions in business every year move very carefully. Every piece must either work perfectly or have channels of responsibility, which in the case of 3rd party products (like Operating Systems) often falls back to the vendor.
Why doesn't Linux get deployed at the enterprise level (5000+ employees, not to mention 170,000 employees like the company I work at)? Because there are no support channels, and no, "ask the local LUG or post a message to a mail list" is not a valid support channel at that level.
UnitedLinux may be on the right path, why not support them for what they're trying to do, bring linux onto the enterprise stage, and not make up things like they're trying to take away your rights or make linux proprietary or some other nonsense. UnitedLinux, IMHO, is trying to innovate, they might get some things wrong here and there, but very few people have tried to bring Linux into the enterprise space and they deserve a little support just for trying that.
-Chris
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I think that there is a lot of MS "copying" going on in the Linux community. There are a very few number of people who actually come up with brand new ideas and try and flesh them out.
We (I couldn't do this personally) need to come up with some place where O.S. advocate/programmers/people can just offer ideas and brainstorm new stuff. Open Source Brainstorming would be so cool. Some place that could resemble a huge, online research center with thousands of "researchers" from around the world coming up with new and great ideas of our own. I know I've struggled with the question "What can I program/do that's original", and I'm not quite sure where to turn to get that question answered.
Given the current "standoff" (if you will) between MSFT and Linux, where will IBM's loyalties lie in regards to making implementation suggestions to enterprise/corporation level customers? For example, will IBM Global Services people be educated in Linux as well as their current focus on Windows?
I guess the real meat of my question focuses on whether or not Linux will be a "back-burner" project for IBM while Windows solutions continue to be the focus, or will IBM use Linux as a real solution for enterprise customers?
I've been interning for Herman Miller and got to see Resolve up close and personal, and I must say that it's the most versitile office space that I've ever seen in my life. There are tons of configurations, and it's almost funny how many cool things you can do with it.
Wish I had some in my dorm room
It seems that they're shooting for the $200 million to pay off a $119 million debt already. To quote Yahoo: "Transmeta has historically posted significant losses, and as of June 30 had an accumulated deficit of $119.4 million, according to the SEC filing." I really don't think that companies should be filing for an IPO just to get out of debt, in fact I think that I'd be more comfortable investing in a company that has historically made some money, not lost it. (I still love Transmeta though) ==>Sheeplet
Most of the time programming projects are short-lived individual efforts. Instead try making them work as teams, and have them employ some sort of development strategy, so that they learn good project management WHILE learning how to code. Give them vague catagories so that they can design and then code. I know that this makes for a longer project, but it will excercise more than just coding skills, and everyone needs more than just coding skills. --Sheeplet
So X is buggy, so it's slow and lacks features that would make it ideal. Perhaps the choice is to completely replace it with more efficient, smaller code. I completely agree with that.
The only catch is: Make it look good. I doubt very few people want to sacrifice the customization and beauty of X. I spend a lot of time getting my desktop to look great, to make people who use the boring Windoze GUI stare and wonder what I did to my computer.
People (including me) are visual, and I don't want to give up aesthetic quality I currently have in X in trade for a smaller code base.
But, hey. If we can make it look good, innovative and efficient, I'm all for it.
I think another interesting name coming out soon is the new Amway web-company. It's called Quixtar.com I guess that way they at least get a domain name that no one else has. Maybe that's a reason for some funky names too, because you know how many "normal" names are taken up already. -Chris Ten Harmsel