I made my "inner child" grow up and I feel much more balanced a person as a result. I can still be that nice sensitive guy, but I can also play the Machiavellian office politics with the best of them.
I'm not saying you shouldn't grow up, but my point is that you should never ever forget how to play. The two aren't mutually exclusive:)
Michael Ende's A Neverending Story, read the book. Really, you should.
I did, and it's one of the very, very rare times I think that the movie is better than the book. The first half is alright, but in the end when Bastian becomes all powerful, it's just awful. The book is so boring and so tedious, and Bastian lost all my sympathy. He became a self centered jerk. The only thing I liked about the book was the different colored text to let you know what world things were happening in.
The whole point of the book lies within the transformation of Bastian. The story is just an abstraction of how you must never let go of your imagination, nor lose the ability to play. That's my interpretation anyway.
Bastian does become a jerk, but he pays a price: He gradually loses the memories of his childhood, and therein he loses his inner child.
Unfortunately there are people who does just this as they get older. They are usually unhappy, self centered jerks.
Will it do the books justice? Maybe not, but I think it still might be good. The movies don't do much justice to The Lord of the Rings (I found LotR:TT to do more injustice than justice to the book) but they are still worth seeing, ain't they?
You make a good point, although I would argue that the LotR movies do the books justice to a much greater degree than most movie-to-book renditions I've seen.
I guess the fundamental difference is that LotR is a farly simple linear story, whereas the HHGTTG is largely non-linear, surreal, and sometimes comletely off the track;)
But as you say, it still might (and probably will) be good.
I'm fully aware that the guide started as a radio series in the first place... But I'm still not sure that radio, nor film, can do the books justice. The surreal whimsical quality is just very hard to convey.
For those who have seen the utterly horrible adaptation of Michael Ende's A Neverending Story, read the book. Really, you should.
I guess I'm just getting old and cynical or something, but I'm still quite sceptical they'll pull it off.
Why are the/. ed's posting all these stories for a product that will not be released until 2006?
How is Longhorn possibly relevant at this point in time?
Three years is a very short time in business. For large firms the thought of upgrading their network in three years time is just around the corner.
For example in the automotive industry things have been more or less settled for the last 50 years. The same basic ideas still apply.
Computing on the other hand is still in it's infancy. Right now the industry is reinventing itself at a pace which is very different from other established industries.
So for the majority of the future users of Longhorn, every industry including computing, 2006 is not that far off.
What are you trying to say? Why point out the obvious? This makes me think you're implying that the Linux community is full of zealots who can't take criticism, and therebefore giving the Linux community a bad name.
(That, of course, is completely false. Why do you think you're modded +5 Insightful, like many other similar posts?)
Don't jump the gun and generalize... I was mearly trying to point out something that the zealots wouldn't.
I may well have said something obvious, but it's better said than having a completely one sided comment tree;)
now, see, this is exactly what RMS doesn't want to see when GNU/Linux is mentioned.
RMS: "let's remember that MS can also do all things wrong, just as the GNU/Linux community can do all things right."
Let me get this straight... you post anonymously, make up a fake quote in another persons name. You really think you're blessed with the Jobsian Reality Distortion Field, don't you?
Frankly, the world in not black and white, and your credibility is quite limited.
It seems the signal to noise ratio of this discussion is terrible. People are bashing the site like there's no tomorrow, without taking into account what it's for.
This is a developer resource. Take this UI guide on the Sidebar. Excellent writing, and finally something which approaches what has made Apple keep the UI edge for all these years.
If an article was posted about the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines I suspect the crowd would be singing to quite a different tune.
Where is even the slightest bit of objectivity these days?
I realize the product isn't finished... and won't be for a long while (hint to/. editors)... but check out this comedy from the developer site.
It's a so-called 'guided tour of Longhorn', which consists of no actual imagery, but rather a gigantic step-list of things for you to click on in your Longhorn alpha, to make you go 'ooooh'.
Just brutal. I mean, if its really a 'bet-the-company' strategy, you'd think they'd splash out just a little cash for a Flash or non-ass-looking PPT prez... or even screenshots.... something other than this. Just looks really amateur.
Um... which of these options do you prefer:
1. Microsoft makes fake demos of things that don't exist yet. 2. Microsoft has the guts not to show what they don't have.
This is a developer site, not a marketing splash. Developers want information, not pretty presentions.
The fact that they are willing to give out information on a product which is years from being finished shows both courage and strategic integrity, if you ask me.
If you ask me it's a very Good Thing that Microsoft is making it possible to get developer insigt into Longhorn at this point. After all, the OS is not scheduled to be released for several years.
And before we start with the M$ bashing, let's remember that Microsoft can also do some things right, just as the Gnu/Linux community can do some things wrong...
Any wall a man can build can be torn down by another man... Is it really worth all the fuss?
Good point. I'll get rid of the password on my root account immediately.
You miss my point. If 95% of the world's population wanted to 0wN your box you probably could do just as you suggested.
My point is simple, why build walls where everyone wants to walk? If the system tries to impose restrictions which seem pointless to mostly everyone we'll end up with a majority doing just what we didn't want them to do in the first place.
We regret that we cannot be more specific about some of these points or that we cannot give a necessarily clear idea about how and when they addressed. We do, however, encourage people who are concerned or have something to offer to contact us for discussion.
This smells fishy to me... almost sounds like the NSA shut them down;)
But seriously, can someone shed some light on the whole thing?
Don't ever try this: I mounted a hard drive cage for measuring without securing it with a screw... then I proceeded to do measurements from the front of the case. I pressed at the floppy drive without thinking, *WHOMP*, my precious drives took an instant trip to the bottom of the case. Fortunately there was no data loss, but don't try it;)
Intel and AMD may have the fastest processors, but I'm much more interrested in Via's small and cool (low temperature) processors... The possibilities just seem to grow with each generation:)
So because there's always some people who will steal software, companies might as well just give away free copies of their software? Also knowing full well that if they do offer a free version, people are just going to use that instead of a version that requires payment?
Let's say I'm a student. I wish to learn to use software X. With a limited budget I could never afford high end content creation software. If I can get it for free for non-commercial personal use I can learn the software.
Say I later start a company to do the stuff I've learned for profit. Would I risk committing a crime by using my personal use version? I think not.
Would I be inclined to buy the software I know and love? I think so.
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I made my "inner child" grow up and I feel much more balanced a person as a result. I can still be that nice sensitive guy, but I can also play the Machiavellian office politics with the best of them.
:)
I'm not saying you shouldn't grow up, but my point is that you should never ever forget how to play. The two aren't mutually exclusive
Michael Ende's A Neverending Story, read the book. Really, you should.
I did, and it's one of the very, very rare times I think that the movie is better than the book. The first half is alright, but in the end when Bastian becomes all powerful, it's just awful. The book is so boring and so tedious, and Bastian lost all my sympathy. He became a self centered jerk. The only thing I liked about the book was the different colored text to let you know what world things were happening in.
The whole point of the book lies within the transformation of Bastian. The story is just an abstraction of how you must never let go of your imagination, nor lose the ability to play. That's my interpretation anyway.
Bastian does become a jerk, but he pays a price: He gradually loses the memories of his childhood, and therein he loses his inner child.
Unfortunately there are people who does just this as they get older. They are usually unhappy, self centered jerks.
Just my 2 cents, anyway.
Will it do the books justice? Maybe not, but I think it still might be good. The movies don't do much justice to The Lord of the Rings (I found LotR:TT to do more injustice than justice to the book) but they are still worth seeing, ain't they?
;)
You make a good point, although I would argue that the LotR movies do the books justice to a much greater degree than most movie-to-book renditions I've seen.
I guess the fundamental difference is that LotR is a farly simple linear story, whereas the HHGTTG is largely non-linear, surreal, and sometimes comletely off the track
But as you say, it still might (and probably will) be good.
I'm fully aware that the guide started as a radio series in the first place... But I'm still not sure that radio, nor film, can do the books justice. The surreal whimsical quality is just very hard to convey.
For those who have seen the utterly horrible adaptation of Michael Ende's A Neverending Story, read the book. Really, you should.
I guess I'm just getting old and cynical or something, but I'm still quite sceptical they'll pull it off.
frankly, you are a fucking jerk off.
You may well be right, but I don't seem to find the need for such language, whereas you do.
Get real. Two or three years is an eternity in IT.
Get real. The IT industry is funded by pretty much every other industry. Everyone doesn't wish to upgrade all the time.
Why are the /. ed's posting all these stories for a product that will not be released until 2006?
How is Longhorn possibly relevant at this point in time?
Three years is a very short time in business. For large firms the thought of upgrading their network in three years time is just around the corner.
For example in the automotive industry things have been more or less settled for the last 50 years. The same basic ideas still apply.
Computing on the other hand is still in it's infancy. Right now the industry is reinventing itself at a pace which is very different from other established industries.
So for the majority of the future users of Longhorn, every industry including computing, 2006 is not that far off.
Where is even the slightest bit of objectivity these days?
;)
Objectivity? On Slashdot!?! Dude, I want some of what you're smoking!
In response to this and several similar comments...
I might be idealistic and unrealistic when hoping for at least a little objectivity here. But I'd take idealism over cynicism any day
The world will never be perfect, but unless we aspire to be more than what we are there's really no point in existing in the first place, is there?
Some may be content with just doing what they've always done, but the day I stop learning is the day I die.
What are you trying to say? Why point out the obvious? This makes me think you're implying that the Linux community is full of zealots who can't take criticism, and therebefore giving the Linux community a bad name.
;)
(That, of course, is completely false. Why do you think you're modded +5 Insightful, like many other similar posts?)
Don't jump the gun and generalize... I was mearly trying to point out something that the zealots wouldn't.
I may well have said something obvious, but it's better said than having a completely one sided comment tree
now, see, this is exactly what RMS doesn't want to see when GNU/Linux is mentioned.
RMS: "let's remember that MS can also do all things wrong, just as the GNU/Linux community can do all things right."
Let me get this straight... you post anonymously, make up a fake quote in another persons name. You really think you're blessed with the Jobsian Reality Distortion Field, don't you?
Frankly, the world in not black and white, and your credibility is quite limited.
It seems the signal to noise ratio of this discussion is terrible. People are bashing the site like there's no tomorrow, without taking into account what it's for.
This is a developer resource. Take this UI guide on the Sidebar. Excellent writing, and finally something which approaches what has made Apple keep the UI edge for all these years.
If an article was posted about the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines I suspect the crowd would be singing to quite a different tune.
Where is even the slightest bit of objectivity these days?
I realize the product isn't finished... and won't be for a long while (hint to /. editors)... but check out this comedy from the developer site.
It's a so-called 'guided tour of Longhorn', which consists of no actual imagery, but rather a gigantic step-list of things for you to click on in your Longhorn alpha, to make you go 'ooooh'.
Just brutal. I mean, if its really a 'bet-the-company' strategy, you'd think they'd splash out just a little cash for a Flash or non-ass-looking PPT prez... or even screenshots.... something other than this. Just looks really amateur.
Um... which of these options do you prefer:
1. Microsoft makes fake demos of things that don't exist yet.
2. Microsoft has the guts not to show what they don't have.
This is a developer site, not a marketing splash. Developers want information, not pretty presentions.
The fact that they are willing to give out information on a product which is years from being finished shows both courage and strategic integrity, if you ask me.
If you ask me it's a very Good Thing that Microsoft is making it possible to get developer insigt into Longhorn at this point. After all, the OS is not scheduled to be released for several years.
And before we start with the M$ bashing, let's remember that Microsoft can also do some things right, just as the Gnu/Linux community can do some things wrong...
My 2 cents, anyhow.
Any wall a man can build can be torn down by another man... Is it really worth all the fuss?
;)
Good point. I'll get rid of the password on my root account immediately.
You miss my point. If 95% of the world's population wanted to 0wN your box you probably could do just as you suggested.
My point is simple, why build walls where everyone wants to walk? If the system tries to impose restrictions which seem pointless to mostly everyone we'll end up with a majority doing just what we didn't want them to do in the first place.
If so, the system is flawed, or society
SPDIF (Sony Philips Digital InterFace) has a copyright bit which can be set for audio signals... has that been stopping people?
Any wall a man can build can be torn down by another man... Is it really worth all the fuss?
Thanks for the info :)
I'm quite familiar with the technology (I make music and have coded some DSP), but I didn't realize what all the fuss was about.
We regret that we cannot be more specific about some of these points or that we cannot give a necessarily clear idea about how and when they addressed. We do, however, encourage people who are concerned or have something to offer to contact us for discussion.
;)
This smells fishy to me... almost sounds like the NSA shut them down
But seriously, can someone shed some light on the whole thing?
I was just about to go to bed, and now I have to read the article... dammit!
Fanaticism is never a good thing, but none the less a fanatic is sometimes requres to drive something forward when no one else will.
In my oppinion RMS is a bit of a fanatic, but I'd still say the community needs him.
But claiming that zealots are terrorists, well, that's a bit fanatic, isn't it?
With ideas being thrown around for single-use, self-degrading DVD rentals this thing could make that horrible idea at least a bit more acceptable.
Don't ever try this: I mounted a hard drive cage for measuring without securing it with a screw... then I proceeded to do measurements from the front of the case. I pressed at the floppy drive without thinking, *WHOMP*, my precious drives took an instant trip to the bottom of the case. Fortunately there was no data loss, but don't try it ;)
axiom.dll sucks
:)
A direct attack on my person, targetting my homepage? Whoa, I'm becoming famous
Intel and AMD may have the fastest processors, but I'm much more interrested in Via's small and cool (low temperature) processors... The possibilities just seem to grow with each generation :)
The new Via Eden-N is especially interesting.
Now then... when will the music software industry start catching on?
Music industry to give music free to end users so that commercial users can buy it ?
I said the music software industry, as in software for creating music. The music itself has nothing to do with it.
So because there's always some people who will steal software, companies might as well just give away free copies of their software? Also knowing full well that if they do offer a free version, people are just going to use that instead of a version that requires payment?
Let's say I'm a student. I wish to learn to use software X. With a limited budget I could never afford high end content creation software. If I can get it for free for non-commercial personal use I can learn the software.
Say I later start a company to do the stuff I've learned for profit. Would I risk committing a crime by using my personal use version? I think not.
Would I be inclined to buy the software I know and love? I think so.