My favorite story comes from my senior software engineering project. Our team of five programmers had been working for about a year on the project (we had been four for half the year, one of the team left the project after one semester). The day before the 'big demo' in Chicago, we work all evening, print off the 1000-page documentation bible, get it bound, and hop in a car for the 3 hour drive.
The elder statesman, I am driving along, feeling pretty happy about the whole thing. Then I hear a bit of a ruccus (sp?) in the back seat. I ask what is going on, and I hear, 'We are trying to fix the last few bugs, and the battery is running out on the laptop!'
So there we are, driving 75 or so, and my cohorts are actually adding features the night before the demo. We check into the hotel and I get some sleep. They, now with the laptop plugged into the wall, keep working all night. The presentation is early the next morning.
But everything went well. My team was awesome. I never had a doubt.
hell yes. this is one of the best things i have seen in WEEKS.
now all he needs to do is hook this up as a motorbike. then he'll have cold beer AND be able to cross town as a side-effect.
just don't mention the side-effects beer consumption can have upon someone driving a jet-engine-propelled bicycle across town.
i had a friend who had this nintendo pad for playing their track and field games. his parents got it for him because they thought it would make him excersize.
wrongo, he just sat down and used drumsticks to hit the pad instead of actually running on it.
javascript is still going to be included in the browser, just not a 'full java applet' vm. javascript is not java any more than an apple is an orange. so don't worry, you'll get to keep your rollovers and popup windows.
Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr. Raymond Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: That's bad. Okay. Alright, important safety tip, thanks Egon.
did you read my comment? where did i say they should GPL everything and give anything away? unless you are buying microsoft's crap about the GPL being a viral license, running Linux as your OS has exactly -what- to do with anything else the business may be doing or selling?
linux runs on IBM's S/390 mainframes, and i thought the problem in japan was not proprietary application software (Which they write in-house), but the proprietary hardware and server OS. if they are writing the app software in-house already, why isn't linux a good fit to fix the proprietary server OS problem?
if this isn't a situation literally screaming for linux adoption, i don't know what is. all it takes is a few talented hackers reverse-engineering these weird mainframes and boom, you are out of this proprietary lockup. why isn't this happening? are these mainframes so extremely weird and obscure? for goodness sakes, linux has been ported to video game consoles, ancient macs, and even worse things.
self-fulfilling prophecies are hard to escape. if someone labels you as having the symptoms of 'syndrome XYZ', more than likely you'll end up with syndrome XYZ.
I liked Dr. Sbaitso (original 'sound blaster' had this program). Basically it 'showed off' the text-to-speech stuff for the card, but it was a fun little psychologist program.
micheal, what movie were you watching? there were 0 (ZERO) aliens in this movie. (an absolutely great movie, in my opinion. of course not without its flaws, but ABSOLUTELY great.)
the thing i have been loving about slackware-current is the nice 2.4.5 kernels with reiserfs already built in. this means i could install a 2.4.5 kernel and all reiserfs-only on my machine and go from there. way to go pat! where's my 'order this CD' button? oh yeah, it's at store.slackware.com.
it has built in ethernet. give it an NFS server and watch it go. not to mention USB, which while it isn't fast it's fast enough for a giant drive full of MP3s, etc, which this box can use its processor power on to serve up, etc.
a good question to answer in these type of arguments is 'what constitutes the release' part of the GPL, since what these companies are really afraid of is having to 'give up' their source code, etc. The GPL mandates that the source code be available to those you distribute binaries to (aka release). Perhaps there needs to be a clarification of what constitutes this 'release'.
does a GPL webserver serving webpages mean you have released this GPL webserver to all its clients? NO! You have not distributed the binary for the webserver to anyone. You may keep all improvements to the webserver close to your black little hearts.
does an applet written under the GPL being used by a web client have to be released under the GPL? YES! The applet code is being distributed to the user, and thus they have the same rights as you did to the source code.
if a company extends some GPL operating system and uses it on all internal desktop, does it have to be released under the GPL? NO! They have not distributed the binary to anyone. (although this is a VERY fuzzy topic for me, in my mind this would mean their IT department has released this code to their users and they (the users) would have rights to the source.)
i think the webserver example is a good one for companies to look at. if company A likes GPL product B and uses it to make product C, they don't have to distribute a single line of code in C unless they are distributing the binary for product C.
at least... that's what i think:) i could just be spreading more misinformation, of course. and... IANAL, blah blah, etc, etc.
no onboard ethernet? perhaps you weren't reading very carefully...
Connectivity:
The MCP also has all the typical I/O connectivity and functionality you'd expect from a south bridge. These include two ATA/100 channels for hard drives, a hardware Ethernet 10/100 MAC and soft-modem support. The networking capability also supports HomePNA 2.0 (phone line networking). There's also the usual low-speed connections, including USB 1.1 support (two channels, for four ports), floppy disk support, PS/2 keyboard/mouse, and the legacy serial and parallel connections.
The one thing missing from the picture is Firewire. nVidia chose not to implement 1394 into the MCP, which is an unfortunate choice. Windows Me already has robust support for 1394, and Windows XP will have a stronger implemention of 1394. In addition to connectivity with consumer devices, 1394 can also be used for small local area networks.
Likewise, if everybody on your block has X-ray glasses that can see through your walls, you don't have an expectation that what takes place behind those walls is private, and thus it's not any greater of an intrusion for a policeman to look.
what if you live on a block of all friends who have agreed this is all find and good, but you don't want the cops looking in on you. i agree this is probably an extremely far-fetched case but in time such things will happen (especially for wireless networks, etc...)
basically this means that in the future, when everyone has thermal imaging glasses, you'd better expect most people to have really, really good insulation on their homes. imagine living in glass houses. what this means is that sure, if you have an open window, everyone can see in because eyes are in public use. if everyone could see infrared, we'd expect everyone to have nice thermal shields on their houses, just like now most people do not have clear walls.
excellent. this is the type of conversation i was trying to get at. you are right i think, that this is very addictive without being a true dependency. however for some people they are not as strong willed as you seem to be! i had many friends fail out of college because of their dependencies on the games!
taken from their website...
The following are minimum system requirements for Lineage.
- Window 95, 98, 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Pentium 75MHz or higher
- Main memory 16M or higher
- Video card supporting 640x480x16bpp
- Internet connection (modem or LAN)
Very cool to see a game which only requires Pentium 75 and 16MB memory!
my favorite quote from the article: "Reality is only a space in which he makes a small amount of necessary money for continuing the game."
this sounds exactly like heroin abuse to me. and (i add gratuitiously) this is not a flame, just trying to spark a little discussion. how addictive are games, and if games are legal, why aren't drugs?
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My favorite story comes from my senior software engineering project. Our team of five programmers had been working for about a year on the project (we had been four for half the year, one of the team left the project after one semester). The day before the 'big demo' in Chicago, we work all evening, print off the 1000-page documentation bible, get it bound, and hop in a car for the 3 hour drive. The elder statesman, I am driving along, feeling pretty happy about the whole thing. Then I hear a bit of a ruccus (sp?) in the back seat. I ask what is going on, and I hear, 'We are trying to fix the last few bugs, and the battery is running out on the laptop!' So there we are, driving 75 or so, and my cohorts are actually adding features the night before the demo. We check into the hotel and I get some sleep. They, now with the laptop plugged into the wall, keep working all night. The presentation is early the next morning. But everything went well. My team was awesome. I never had a doubt.
There is an essay on kuro5hin about a similar thing today.
hell yes. this is one of the best things i have seen in WEEKS. now all he needs to do is hook this up as a motorbike. then he'll have cold beer AND be able to cross town as a side-effect. just don't mention the side-effects beer consumption can have upon someone driving a jet-engine-propelled bicycle across town.
i had a friend who had this nintendo pad for playing their track and field games. his parents got it for him because they thought it would make him excersize. wrongo, he just sat down and used drumsticks to hit the pad instead of actually running on it.
all he/she really had to do was post a story to slashdot with a link in it.
javascript is still going to be included in the browser, just not a 'full java applet' vm. javascript is not java any more than an apple is an orange. so don't worry, you'll get to keep your rollovers and popup windows.
Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr. Raymond Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: That's bad. Okay. Alright, important safety tip, thanks Egon.
There is a vi editor in the cygwin stuff.
did you read my comment? where did i say they should GPL everything and give anything away? unless you are buying microsoft's crap about the GPL being a viral license, running Linux as your OS has exactly -what- to do with anything else the business may be doing or selling?
linux runs on IBM's S/390 mainframes, and i thought the problem in japan was not proprietary application software (Which they write in-house), but the proprietary hardware and server OS. if they are writing the app software in-house already, why isn't linux a good fit to fix the proprietary server OS problem?
if this isn't a situation literally screaming for linux adoption, i don't know what is. all it takes is a few talented hackers reverse-engineering these weird mainframes and boom, you are out of this proprietary lockup. why isn't this happening? are these mainframes so extremely weird and obscure? for goodness sakes, linux has been ported to video game consoles, ancient macs, and even worse things.
self-fulfilling prophecies are hard to escape. if someone labels you as having the symptoms of 'syndrome XYZ', more than likely you'll end up with syndrome XYZ.
I liked Dr. Sbaitso (original 'sound blaster' had this program). Basically it 'showed off' the text-to-speech stuff for the card, but it was a fun little psychologist program.
micheal, what movie were you watching? there were 0 (ZERO) aliens in this movie. (an absolutely great movie, in my opinion. of course not without its flaws, but ABSOLUTELY great.)
the thing i have been loving about slackware-current is the nice 2.4.5 kernels with reiserfs already built in. this means i could install a 2.4.5 kernel and all reiserfs-only on my machine and go from there. way to go pat! where's my 'order this CD' button? oh yeah, it's at store.slackware.com.
it has built in ethernet. give it an NFS server and watch it go. not to mention USB, which while it isn't fast it's fast enough for a giant drive full of MP3s, etc, which this box can use its processor power on to serve up, etc.
a good question to answer in these type of arguments is 'what constitutes the release' part of the GPL, since what these companies are really afraid of is having to 'give up' their source code, etc. The GPL mandates that the source code be available to those you distribute binaries to (aka release). Perhaps there needs to be a clarification of what constitutes this 'release'. does a GPL webserver serving webpages mean you have released this GPL webserver to all its clients? NO! You have not distributed the binary for the webserver to anyone. You may keep all improvements to the webserver close to your black little hearts. does an applet written under the GPL being used by a web client have to be released under the GPL? YES! The applet code is being distributed to the user, and thus they have the same rights as you did to the source code. if a company extends some GPL operating system and uses it on all internal desktop, does it have to be released under the GPL? NO! They have not distributed the binary to anyone. (although this is a VERY fuzzy topic for me, in my mind this would mean their IT department has released this code to their users and they (the users) would have rights to the source.) i think the webserver example is a good one for companies to look at. if company A likes GPL product B and uses it to make product C, they don't have to distribute a single line of code in C unless they are distributing the binary for product C. at least... that's what i think :) i could just be spreading more misinformation, of course. and... IANAL, blah blah, etc, etc.
no onboard ethernet? perhaps you weren't reading very carefully... Connectivity: The MCP also has all the typical I/O connectivity and functionality you'd expect from a south bridge. These include two ATA/100 channels for hard drives, a hardware Ethernet 10/100 MAC and soft-modem support. The networking capability also supports HomePNA 2.0 (phone line networking). There's also the usual low-speed connections, including USB 1.1 support (two channels, for four ports), floppy disk support, PS/2 keyboard/mouse, and the legacy serial and parallel connections. The one thing missing from the picture is Firewire. nVidia chose not to implement 1394 into the MCP, which is an unfortunate choice. Windows Me already has robust support for 1394, and Windows XP will have a stronger implemention of 1394. In addition to connectivity with consumer devices, 1394 can also be used for small local area networks.
basically this means that in the future, when everyone has thermal imaging glasses, you'd better expect most people to have really, really good insulation on their homes. imagine living in glass houses. what this means is that sure, if you have an open window, everyone can see in because eyes are in public use. if everyone could see infrared, we'd expect everyone to have nice thermal shields on their houses, just like now most people do not have clear walls.
excellent. this is the type of conversation i was trying to get at. you are right i think, that this is very addictive without being a true dependency. however for some people they are not as strong willed as you seem to be! i had many friends fail out of college because of their dependencies on the games!
taken from their website... The following are minimum system requirements for Lineage. - Window 95, 98, 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 SP3 - Pentium 75MHz or higher - Main memory 16M or higher - Video card supporting 640x480x16bpp - Internet connection (modem or LAN) Very cool to see a game which only requires Pentium 75 and 16MB memory!
my favorite quote from the article: "Reality is only a space in which he makes a small amount of necessary money for continuing the game." this sounds exactly like heroin abuse to me. and (i add gratuitiously) this is not a flame, just trying to spark a little discussion. how addictive are games, and if games are legal, why aren't drugs?