What do you call the likes of SQL Server(apart from half-arsed that is), Exchange Server, the fact that here in the UK two High street Banks run the cash machines on NT?? I'd call it two banks making poor choices...I really think Babar has a point here. I'm not sure I totally agree with the whole neo-luddite "computer's haven't really gained anyone anything" (which isn't a particularly accurate paraphrase anyway) sentiment. I think personal computers have made a number of things possible: desktop publishing and (more recently video). But these could also be shoehorned into "entertainment". But in terms of "buisness productivity" (hate that word), the gains are significantly less identifiable. Sure, vast sums have been poured into the tech industry, which I can really appreciate as a programmer, it pays my salary. In terms of "number of widgets sold" though, I'm not sure I really see the benefit
"'release buggy stuff and patch it' mentality that Netscape startend What makes you think Netscape started this lovely little trend? I'll wager this sort of thing started on the first day an unreasonable marketing guy walked down the hall to engineering. "Unreasonable marketing guy" does sound a little redundant redunant. If our marketriods stick one more "e" in front of something, I'm going to start bringing a chainsaw to work.
When first hearing of Diablo, did anyone else think, "Hey cool: Rogue with eye candy"?
Rogue wasn't the only game this's happened to either. There's a (commercial/pretty) XPilot knock-off floating around on the net somewhere. I forget its name. Cool though.
I know PostScript was originally developed by Warnock and [the other guy] as a resolution-independant graphics language.
We all know how well THAT turned out... Second largest software company in the world... (and yes, there's a fiarly wide gap between Adobe and Microsoft)
Any other earthshakers out there? (PS, ethernet, some foundation GUI work... what exactly DID they develope? IIRC, someone else developed the mouse)
I suspect that we are going to start seeing the need for embedded signatures in video and still photos - say, a hash code at the end of each frame, signed by the camera that created the video or photograph. Even that wouldn't be foolproof (I edit a video, then play it into a second camera which re-records it, and writes it's own signature onto it.) It would be a big step forward. ---
I'd think that part of that hash could include the proper date/time/camera serial number/GPS coordinates/direction of aim.
All this could be spoofed too, it would just be harder. Whatta pisser.
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What do you call the likes of SQL Server(apart from half-arsed that is), Exchange Server, the fact that here in the UK two High street Banks run the cash machines on NT?? I'd call it two banks making poor choices...I really think Babar has a point here. I'm not sure I totally agree with the whole neo-luddite "computer's haven't really gained anyone anything" (which isn't a particularly accurate paraphrase anyway) sentiment. I think personal computers have made a number of things possible: desktop publishing and (more recently video). But these could also be shoehorned into "entertainment". But in terms of "buisness productivity" (hate that word), the gains are significantly less identifiable. Sure, vast sums have been poured into the tech industry, which I can really appreciate as a programmer, it pays my salary. In terms of "number of widgets sold" though, I'm not sure I really see the benefit
"'release buggy stuff and patch it' mentality that Netscape startend What makes you think Netscape started this lovely little trend? I'll wager this sort of thing started on the first day an unreasonable marketing guy walked down the hall to engineering. "Unreasonable marketing guy" does sound a little redundant redunant. If our marketriods stick one more "e" in front of something, I'm going to start bringing a chainsaw to work.
Wet sticky globs of want. Yum.
When first hearing of Diablo, did anyone else think, "Hey cool: Rogue with eye candy"?
Rogue wasn't the only game this's happened to either. There's a (commercial/pretty) XPilot knock-off floating around on the net somewhere. I forget its name. Cool though.
I know PostScript was originally developed by Warnock and [the other guy] as a resolution-independant graphics language.
We all know how well THAT turned out... Second largest software company in the world... (and yes, there's a fiarly wide gap between Adobe and Microsoft)
Any other earthshakers out there? (PS, ethernet, some foundation GUI work... what exactly DID they develope? IIRC, someone else developed the mouse)
When a mosquito bites you, do you think:
"Aw, the poor thing's just trying to 'make a living'"?
or do you swat the irritating parasite.
That's all these people are, parasites. Sucking life from the media frenzy surrounding Linux. And they need to be swatted.
I suspect that we are going to start seeing the need for embedded signatures in video and still photos - say, a hash code at the end of each frame, signed by the camera that created the video or photograph. Even that wouldn't be foolproof (I edit a video, then play it into a second camera which re-records it, and writes it's own signature onto it.) It would be a big step forward.
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I'd think that part of that hash could include the proper date/time/camera serial number/GPS coordinates/direction of aim.
All this could be spoofed too, it would just be harder. Whatta pisser.
(this is not a yes/no question)
I guess this is a question for both of you:
How's life in meatspace?
Lets just lay all technical issues aside for a moment. I want to know Who You Are, as people, not webmasters.
We have a pretty good idea of the comings and goings of your professional lives, but what about your friends, family, and groupies? Mmmm... groupies.
I guess this is more of a request for a biography than any particular question, but don't let that put you off.
Oh, one other question: Any plans on visiting KLUG any time soon?
"a California judge has denied a restraining order for software that allows copying of DVDs."
Is that what it said? "Copying DVDs". That's crappy. So the first thing Joe Sixpack heard about was "the software for copying DVDs".
Not Good. Better than nothing, but still far from ideal.