Anyone familiar with the phrase 'divide and conquer'? Thats what happening right now. Fragment the market. Spit out many *NIX variants that are different. Is this good? In the short term, perhaps. But it is this fragmentation that nearly killed *NIX 15 years ago.
Oh well. Another *NIX variant, this time, its a Linux distribution with a SCO kernel. Cute. Just don't touch FreeBSD.
Akers law: During a discussion where the merits of a particular viewpoint are being outlined, once a comparison to slavery is made, the person or persons making the comparison are immediately branded as communists and are dismissed as being 'semiliterate subversives'. This is commonly found in Pro GNU/FSF essays, or rebuttals to essays advocating closed source software.
I didn't know that Microsoft was offering specialized training in marketing.....
We believe we can save 20 to 30 percent with Linux on the desktop, but there's a difference between running Microsoft on the desktop and how we see customers running Linux. We people running Linux desktops managed by Volution, or running Windows on the desktop and accessing Linux through Tarantella.
But as the Internet becomes a more pervasive business model, Linux will become a thin client, or a customised client. We are moving away from monolithic clients to a desktop operating system that will be more customised to fit the business need.
Linux is not ready to be a general purpose desktop OS, due to its inherent complexity and lack of "stupid user" utilities and such, but to state that Linux will be relegated as a thin client, or as a client managed by Volution, stinks of FUD.
*sigh*
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Look 'em straight in the eye and say "This is how it is being set up, and you have no choice in the matter".
I don't mean to state the obvious here, but just because they request personal information, does not mean you have to be HONEST with your personal information.
Only fill out what is absolutely critical (like an email address). Be creative with the rest. I'm sure if enough do this, it'll totally screw up the statistical data they are compiling.
Not to defend Taco, but the fact that Rob has stuck it out this long, despite the constant attacks, says alot. Personally, I am sick of the lies and innuendo at my own little virtual world, and am seriously considering dropping it for the sake of my own sanity. I troll here because making insightful commentary is a complete waste of time. Moderation is based more on a persons irrational whims than the actual content of the reply being moderated.
Mind you, the implementation and promotion of the "anonymous coward" *does* generate alot more trouble than its worth. But hey, that's just me.
Hey Rob, I may be critical of some of your choices, and am of the opinion that your moderation system sucks ass, but at least you are up front. You made something to be proud of.
A Linux virus that fixes things, as opposed to the majority of virii (which are windoze based) that do damage.........
I'm sure there is something about this which can be used to express the advantages of open source, but I can't quite think of it right now. I'm too busy laughing my ass off.
Listen, if they are going to cheat, they will find a way. Freely available hacked vid drivers will only make it easier. What we *really* need is for the games to somehow poll the hardware driver list of every client that chooses to connect to a game server.
*sigh* But it doesnt really matter. Where there is a will, there is a way...........
The present invention provides a highly scalable architecture for a three-dimensional graphical, multi-user, interactive virtual world system. A plurality of users can interact in the three-dimensional, computer-generated graphical space where each user executes a client process to view a virtual world from the perspective of that user.
That describes ALL 3d multi player games, regardless of type.
The virtual world shows avatars representing the other users who are neighbors of the user viewing the virtual world.
Also known as skins.
In order that the view can be updated to reflect the motion of the remote user's avatars, motion information is transmitted to a central server which provides position updates to client processes for neighbors of the user at that client process. The client process also uses an environment database to determine which background objects to render as well as to limit the movement of the user's avatar.
Uhm, ok. Again, this describes any 3d multiplayer game, even DOOM.
You either try to gain market share in all areas at once (as Linux is doing), or you work on one industry at a time. FreeBSD serves as an excellent server platform due to its speed, and reliability. It only makes sense to take its strengths into the embedded arena, where speed and reliability are 2 crucial requirements.....
I was not trying to say that FreeBSD should concentrate on embedded devices ONLY, just that it was an excellent direction to go towards. It will increase the diversity of the OS, and ultimately, recognition.
In todays world, marketshare equates to mindshare.
To see a company specialising in embedded systems embrace BSD like this is incredibly good news. Why? Because no matter how many servers there are, there will be 1000 times more embedded devices. This is the current battleground, and I would love to see FreeBSD steal some major marketshare in this arena.......
That, and a constant, reliable source of funding for the FreeBSD project will ensure its dominance (flames anyone?) in the Open Source arena........
God damn, its feel good to be a FreeBSD zealot right now.:)
For Microsoft, we simply want to have a fair system to be compensated for the use of our software - much the same way other companies are compensated for the use of their products or services. It is sad that we have seen so much talk in the industry about devaluing the worth of software. Software is core to the computer experience. People create software and it is essential that we pay people for their valuable and creative work.
Nice try at ducking the question. And exactly how do you propose to get fairly compensated, when the end user and or administrator will have to invest even more time in monitoring and re-licensing YOUR product?!
Sorry, but when one calculates the per-user support costs, your OS will become prohibitively expensive to use. If you think Linux is a serious threat to your company right now, just wait until you try implementing this licensing scheme........
Until high speed internet access is defined as an essential service (as it is in Canada), the courts cannot force a bankrupt company to rupture even more money and turn the network back on.
Hmmmm. Yet another example of the dangers of de-regulation (or no regulation) of what is considered an essential service????? Haven't those silly Californians learned their lesson yet?
There, a steel UNIVAC control panel, bolted to a desktop and mounted with switches marked "gamma prime" and "overdrive," and flashing lights, sits near a mock-up of the company's latest mainframe workhorse, the ES7000, a powerful multi-processor network server that runs the Microsoft Windows operating system.
So, what you are trying to tell us, is that the companies latest mainframe doesn't run much faster than the original UNIVAC, right?
And what is so unattractive about a DB-25 connector? I understand that a DB-15 may be considered more appealing than a DB-25, but at least it isn't a DB-9!
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Anyone familiar with the phrase 'divide and conquer'? Thats what happening right now. Fragment the market. Spit out many *NIX variants that are different. Is this good? In the short term, perhaps. But it is this fragmentation that nearly killed *NIX 15 years ago.
Oh well. Another *NIX variant, this time, its a Linux distribution with a SCO kernel. Cute. Just don't touch FreeBSD.
Akers law: During a discussion where the merits of a particular viewpoint are being outlined, once a comparison to slavery is made, the person or persons making the comparison are immediately branded as communists and are dismissed as being 'semiliterate subversives'. This is commonly found in Pro GNU/FSF essays, or rebuttals to essays advocating closed source software.
I didn't know that Microsoft was offering specialized training in marketing.....
We believe we can save 20 to 30 percent with Linux on the desktop, but there's a difference between running Microsoft on the desktop and how we see customers running Linux. We people running Linux desktops managed by Volution, or running Windows on the desktop and accessing Linux through Tarantella. But as the Internet becomes a more pervasive business model, Linux will become a thin client, or a customised client. We are moving away from monolithic clients to a desktop operating system that will be more customised to fit the business need.
Linux is not ready to be a general purpose desktop OS, due to its inherent complexity and lack of "stupid user" utilities and such, but to state that Linux will be relegated as a thin client, or as a client managed by Volution, stinks of FUD.
*sigh*
Look 'em straight in the eye and say "This is how it is being set up, and you have no choice in the matter".
I don't mean to state the obvious here, but just because they request personal information, does not mean you have to be HONEST with your personal information.
Only fill out what is absolutely critical (like an email address). Be creative with the rest. I'm sure if enough do this, it'll totally screw up the statistical data they are compiling.
Not to defend Taco, but the fact that Rob has stuck it out this long, despite the constant attacks, says alot. Personally, I am sick of the lies and innuendo at my own little virtual world, and am seriously considering dropping it for the sake of my own sanity. I troll here because making insightful commentary is a complete waste of time. Moderation is based more on a persons irrational whims than the actual content of the reply being moderated.
Mind you, the implementation and promotion of the "anonymous coward" *does* generate alot more trouble than its worth. But hey, that's just me.
Hey Rob, I may be critical of some of your choices, and am of the opinion that your moderation system sucks ass, but at least you are up front. You made something to be proud of.
Now fix the fucking moderation. =P
A Linux virus that fixes things, as opposed to the majority of virii (which are windoze based) that do damage.........
I'm sure there is something about this which can be used to express the advantages of open source, but I can't quite think of it right now. I'm too busy laughing my ass off.
Listen, if they are going to cheat, they will find a way. Freely available hacked vid drivers will only make it easier. What we *really* need is for the games to somehow poll the hardware driver list of every client that chooses to connect to a game server.
*sigh* But it doesnt really matter. Where there is a will, there is a way...........
But it is patented
You would not want the Worlds.com Legal team after you, correct?
The present invention provides a highly scalable architecture for a three-dimensional graphical, multi-user, interactive virtual world system. A plurality of users can interact in the three-dimensional, computer-generated graphical space where each user executes a client process to view a virtual world from the perspective of that user.
That describes ALL 3d multi player games, regardless of type.
The virtual world shows avatars representing the other users who are neighbors of the user viewing the virtual world.
Also known as skins.
In order that the view can be updated to reflect the motion of the remote user's avatars, motion information is transmitted to a central server which provides position updates to client processes for neighbors of the user at that client process. The client process also uses an environment database to determine which background objects to render as well as to limit the movement of the user's avatar.
Uhm, ok. Again, this describes any 3d multiplayer game, even DOOM.
And the Journals would not dare admit that they withhold publishing the scientific papers online so they can maximize their profits.
that would be... wrong.
entertain me with java
Entertain me with geometrically flat women
Entertain me
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You forgot LINUXi
Entertain me with Eazel.
PIII/800+GeForce2+DiskOnChip=Cheap console.
You either try to gain market share in all areas at once (as Linux is doing), or you work on one industry at a time. FreeBSD serves as an excellent server platform due to its speed, and reliability. It only makes sense to take its strengths into the embedded arena, where speed and reliability are 2 crucial requirements.....
I was not trying to say that FreeBSD should concentrate on embedded devices ONLY, just that it was an excellent direction to go towards. It will increase the diversity of the OS, and ultimately, recognition.
In todays world, marketshare equates to mindshare.
To see a company specialising in embedded systems embrace BSD like this is incredibly good news. Why? Because no matter how many servers there are, there will be 1000 times more embedded devices. This is the current battleground, and I would love to see FreeBSD steal some major marketshare in this arena.......
:)
That, and a constant, reliable source of funding for the FreeBSD project will ensure its dominance (flames anyone?) in the Open Source arena........
God damn, its feel good to be a FreeBSD zealot right now.
For Microsoft, we simply want to have a fair system to be compensated for the use of our software - much the same way other companies are compensated for the use of their products or services. It is sad that we have seen so much talk in the industry about devaluing the worth of software. Software is core to the computer experience. People create software and it is essential that we pay people for their valuable and creative work.
Nice try at ducking the question. And exactly how do you propose to get fairly compensated, when the end user and or administrator will have to invest even more time in monitoring and re-licensing YOUR product?!
Sorry, but when one calculates the per-user support costs, your OS will become prohibitively expensive to use. If you think Linux is a serious threat to your company right now, just wait until you try implementing this licensing scheme........
Until high speed internet access is defined as an essential service (as it is in Canada), the courts cannot force a bankrupt company to rupture even more money and turn the network back on.
Hmmmm. Yet another example of the dangers of de-regulation (or no regulation) of what is considered an essential service????? Haven't those silly Californians learned their lesson yet?
There, a steel UNIVAC control panel, bolted to a desktop and mounted with switches marked "gamma prime" and "overdrive," and flashing lights, sits near a mock-up of the company's latest mainframe workhorse, the ES7000, a powerful multi-processor network server that runs the Microsoft Windows operating system.
So, what you are trying to tell us, is that the companies latest mainframe doesn't run much faster than the original UNIVAC, right?
And what is so unattractive about a DB-25 connector? I understand that a DB-15 may be considered more appealing than a DB-25, but at least it isn't a DB-9!
It was a joke. Read it as such.
Q: Excuse me sir, but do you have the time?
:)
A: Sure, one sec....
> Login: root
> Password: xxxxxxx
> Timex# date
> Fri Mar 23 14:37:59 PST 2001
> Timex#
A: Its Two Thirty seven PM.
I would give my left nut to do that in public. Must be the geek in me.
Duuuuuuuuh Ignore me. Forgot that X does just that. I need a fucking beer.