The main problems are that in 60 % of the cases, they fail. There is a rule, that 1 + 1 should be 3 after a year. It seems that if they fail, they merger again and nobody will see that they failed... ------------------------------
Well, Rob. I think we all would love to see you "DATING" (but keep us informed, ok?;).
But could somebody please tell us non-us-slashdotters who Heather Graham is? (Wasn't she mentioned on South Park as well???). ------------------------------
As I was in the Be-OS-developer-program since version 3 I can tell you that the main problems I had were with my hardware. One of those blo#?* components was always not supported. It changed a lot with version 4 but as I can see in the "supported-hardware-list" it still seems the same.
One big disadvantage of beos will be, that it is not under GPL or a similar license. Of course Be tries hard to make developers write device drivers but on a system thats a) commercial and b) not widely spread and c) not available in source-code I dont believe this will change in the near future.
Poor beos. It was a very nice system - and fast. But I want my netscape, emacs, railroad tycoon and all the KDE-stuff. Well at least with this "for-personal-use-free"-license there is a chance...
Try to use a pseudonym and use your name more as a trademark - companies also often use pseudonyms to try things out and "relaunch" them with their trademark if they succeed.
Anyway, live a good live, Bruce. ------------------------------
I seem to be in the excellent position of getting a (quite) good salary and every overtime hour paid (100% before 19.00, 150% until 20.00 and 200% between 20.00 and 6:00 and on weekends). We used to write down the arriving/leaving times but now we have a card and a terminal where this is done automaticly.
My boss now wants to change my slary into an "all-inclusive" one which has around 20 hours overtime included. Im not shure if I will accept this but in our company all-inclusive-workers are specially promoted (your salary raises faster and you get a bigger bonus if there is one...). Its the first step to approach the managing-league.
See Wired (should be 7.04) - the issue about Y2K. There is an article about several power outages in the US/Canada/Australia and what happend to the people living in affected areas.
Its much easier to speak of security issues a hacker has caused instead of bad design mistakes in M$ software on a foreign hardware.
Security issues can be solved but design mistakes speak of incompetent developers which could lead to the thought that M$ has incompetent programmers/developers in other departments as well which could make you think that all M$ software is crap (why do I have the feeling that there is a lot of truth in this...).
The most important thing is that Consoles dont run Windows (CE, 95, whatever). So at least their OS is supposed to be stable.
But not only the OS. Gamemakers have to test their software first (so no MS-"It-compiles!-Lets-ship-it"!) cause patching console-software is not possible. Its the same with cars. They would have to call all consoles back or send out millions of new game-cds to do the update.
What I really wonder is, when the first Playstation2-emulator will be available for Linux cause I heared that Linux should be the PS2-development-platform.
Please calm down. I think what the anonymous coward was trying to say was that "english is not the only language on earth". Although Slashdot is an "english-speaking-site";) So this would match for "If you dont speak french, spanish, chinese, mandarin, duch, whatever use Babelfish (your very personal translator)".
And yes, the majority on earth (including me) is very happy that Hitler did not win the WWII.
Peace, Gery
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Listen RNG,
every contry has its ways of dealing with problems in their society. There are on one side countries which you call "liberal", where governement thinks that bussiness regulates the problems itself (and you can be sued if people consume your products and then say "I didnt know that smoking causes cancer - nobody told me that I have to believe what's written on this cigarette-packs...") and on the other side where governement trust the self-responsibility of the people and just tries to regulate things where people cant help themselves by laws (privacy, spam, for ex.).
I cant see your "facist touch". From the consumers point of view, its better to have *SOME* things regulated...
I think that nobody can say which side is right (and I dont want to say the more liberal approach is wrong), it's just a thing of a persons culture, experience and his or her point of view.
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The main problems are that in 60 % of the cases, they fail. There is a rule, that 1 + 1 should be 3 after a year. It seems that if they fail, they merger again and nobody will see that they failed...
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But could somebody please tell us non-us-slashdotters who Heather Graham is? (Wasn't she mentioned on South Park as well???).
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One big disadvantage of beos will be, that it is not under GPL or a similar license. Of course Be tries hard to make developers write device drivers but on a system thats a) commercial and b) not widely spread and c) not available in source-code I dont believe this will change in the near future.
Poor beos. It was a very nice system - and fast. But I want my netscape, emacs, railroad tycoon and all the KDE-stuff. Well at least with this "for-personal-use-free"-license there is a chance...
Gery
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The higher you get, the harder you fall...
Try to use a pseudonym and use your name more as a trademark - companies also often use pseudonyms to try things out and "relaunch" them with their trademark if they succeed.
Anyway, live a good live, Bruce.
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I seem to be in the excellent position of getting a (quite) good salary and every overtime hour paid (100% before 19.00, 150% until 20.00 and 200% between 20.00 and 6:00 and on weekends). We used to write down the arriving/leaving times but now we have a card and a terminal where this is done automaticly.
My boss now wants to change my slary into an "all-inclusive" one which has around 20 hours overtime included. Im not shure if I will accept this but in our company all-inclusive-workers are specially promoted (your salary raises faster and you get a bigger bonus if there is one...). Its the first step to approach the managing-league.
Gery
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Pretty scary...
Gery
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Security issues can be solved but design mistakes speak of incompetent developers which could lead to the thought that M$ has incompetent programmers/developers in other departments as well which could make you think that all M$ software is crap (why do I have the feeling that there is a lot of truth in this...).
Gery
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But not only the OS. Gamemakers have to test their software first (so no MS-"It-compiles!-Lets-ship-it"!) cause patching console-software is not possible. Its the same with cars. They would have to call all consoles back or send out millions of new game-cds to do the update.
What I really wonder is, when the first Playstation2-emulator will be available for Linux cause I heared that Linux should be the PS2-development-platform.
We'll see...
Did you know that there is a video of a german band ("Die Ärzte") where Lara is playing a major role (beside the musicians)?
Go Lara, go!
Gery
And yes, the majority on earth (including me) is very happy that Hitler did not win the WWII.
Peace, Gery
every contry has its ways of dealing with problems in their society. There are on one side countries which you call "liberal", where governement thinks that bussiness regulates the problems itself (and you can be sued if people consume your products and then say "I didnt know that smoking causes cancer - nobody told me that I have to believe what's written on this cigarette-packs...") and on the other side where governement trust the self-responsibility of the people and just tries to regulate things where people cant help themselves by laws (privacy, spam, for ex.).
I cant see your "facist touch". From the consumers point of view, its better to have *SOME* things regulated...
I think that nobody can say which side is right (and I dont want to say the more liberal approach is wrong), it's just a thing of a persons culture, experience and his or her point of view.
Gery
K7 will definitly be my next CPU. But I think Ill be waiting until October so they can do a second stepping CPU and prices can drop.
Which boards are supported right now (is there an ASUS board?) and is there already a dual-K7-board?
Gery
What a happy day.
Hope Linux works with it. Does anybody know a release-date?
Gery