Also, in this case, he's right. No game studio will pay their programmers what it would cost to get them to write for that horrible bass-ackwards cell processor what it would take to use all of its power.
Clever. Save it for an actual dupe (you won't have to wait long). SCO has had two horrible defeats in two days over two different issues by two different judges.
That's a popular theory, but it smells dubious. So I tested it at one site - all the desktops had OpenOffice, Thunderbird, and Firefox on them when they were first installed, and not Outlook or MS Office, and IE was carefully disabled (if it had been a problem, we could have had Office installed later without any trouble).
That site has now been running for over a year.
Several of the users never even noticed that they weren't using MS-ware. None of them cared. There has been no need to install any other applications on any of the desktops.
(We're now planning to deploy Linux desktops at the next new site, and not waste any more money on Windows licenses)
On reflection, the flaw in the theory becomes obvious. Every version of Windows and Office behaves differently. Every Windows box behaves differently after it's been running for 12 months and is starting to get clogged up with worms and spyware. Users are used to computers that don't behave consistently. Why should they care about a version that's slightly different again? They really don't. Most users don't pay any attention to details.
I speculate that the people who moan about how free software "isn't ready" are just trying to justify a political position. My message to them: shut up and get on with your job. Windows and Office aren't ready either, but that's never stopped you before.
For home users, who cares? I don't.
I don't really have anything to add to this; I just wanted to read it again. It's awesome.
Absolutely correct. They just want it to go to trial on their counterclaims, and not on SCO's initial claims.
Based on TFA's news, it appears they got what they wished.
It's clear that IBM saw the SCO suit as a dangerous precedent, and wanted to use the opportunity to make a precedent of their own. Their dependence on Linux for their business required it.
This has always been part of the ongoing IBM vs. Microsoft battle, which began back in the days of the OS/2 split.
Good Lord, your comment can't be modded highly enough.
But remember who you're talking to: The whole basis for Peak Oil fervor comes from a lack of rigorous scientific procedures. You are talking to people who, for whatever reason, are not inclined to apply the scientific method to begin with. Otherwise, they'd be as skeptical of Peak Oil as these guys.
Because you, who presumably are not a geologist, know more than those who are?
The University of Texas' alumni newsletter had a wonderful article on Peak Oil where they got the opinions of two UT Geology professors and one Economics professor. The article pointed out some fascinating details, such as:
The typical oil find shoots oil out of the ground on built up pressure for quite a while.
After that, a pump is added to draw the loose oil out of the find.
Seventy years later, the pump will no longer draw oil out of the ground.
At this point, pressure and pumping have drawn only 30% of the total find's oil from the ground.
We already have the technology to draw more oil out of the ground, but...
...oil has to be worth, permanently, over $30 a barrel for that tech to be cost-effective.
No one actually believes oil prices will remain where they are, so no one is making that investment yet.
But don't take my understanding of the article as gospel truth. Read it yourself and see what people who actually have to get past the criticism of their peers to publish their findings have to say about Peak Oil.
The way I learned how to program in pretty much any language was by looking at other people's code, seeing how they did things, and duplicating those methods in my own. Eventually, I get good enough at a thing that I can come up with my own ideas, or that I remember how things are done without having to go look.
You're asked to clear a minefield... in an unshielded TIE Interceptor, while four TIE Advanceds "watch." If you survive clearing the minefield, the T/A's attack. "He's the Emperor's stool pigeon!"
You get to try and live long enough until the Emperor's cavalry arrives. Then, they ask you to race across the battlefield and inspect a shuttle approaching a Rebel cruiser and confirm that the Admiral is on board trying to defect. And blast it.
I am here to inform you that I will never, ever stoop to the level of promoting my employer or their interests in my blog. Why, it's as honest as the day is long, and I would never let my employer paying me affect my bias in any way.
It's all thanks to CD Baby. I can't say enough good things about them. I get $0.637 per $0.99 iTunes music store download, I get to name the price of my CD, and they pretty much do all of the rest of the work for $50. Yeah, it's a vanity label, but I wasn't expecting to hit the Billboard Top 50 or anything.
Although The Scotsman Unbound might have kind of potential as an offbeat pop hit. Maybe as a Dr. Demento submission.
You need to upload an image for last.fm.
Yep. I've had it on my to-do list for a while now, but I haven't taken any time to promote the CD other than, well, occasionally making posts to Slashdot linking to the album.:)
You're right. Right now, in addition to plastic aluminum-reflective disk style, it's only available at the following electronic locations (date reflects when the distributor received it):
MusicNet December 9, 2005 MusicIsHere December 30, 2005 Apple iTunes February 19, 2006 MOD Systems April 24, 2006 MusicNow April 27, 2006 Arvato May 6, 2006 AudioLunchbox May 10, 2006 BuyMusic May 10, 2006 Chondo May 10, 2006 Bitmunk May 10, 2006 Choice Records May 10, 2006 Daiki May 10, 2006 Sony Connect May 12, 2006 Destra May 29, 2006 WrapFactory June 1, 2006 PlayIndies June 9, 2006 Rhapsody June 19, 2006 PayPlay June 19, 2006 Sonific June 29, 2006 MP3-Extension July 11, 2006 MSN Music July 14, 2006 Inprodicon July 20, 2006 Liquid Digital Media July 20, 2006 GreatIndieMusic July 20, 2006 iSound July 20, 2006 MPGreek August 5, 2006 MP3tunes September 21, 2006 Napster October 5, 2006 Tradebit October 6, 2006 Interia October 6, 2006 GroupieTunes October 14, 2006
His complaint was that the game was a marathon. He didn't seem to have any problem with its difficulty, just that he knew he'd never reach the end.
It's called having a job & kids.
I don't even buy games any more, except for once a while on the GameBoy -- the GBA's the only thing I can pick up and play for a quick bit while I'm taking a dump at work.
Suddenly wonders if he shouldn't have posted this as an Anonymous Coward
I had the exact same kind of education from the University of Texas that you had. I graduated, got a Master's degree, and made my way into the work world, where I've been full-time employed for seven years.
Working on embedded devices right now. Sometimes I'm doing web programming, sometimes I'm writing apps, sometimes I'm writing device driver stuff. We also have a PC app that I've worked on that communicates with the embedded devices -- a rich client. Because of my education, I'm able to move seamlessly from one to the other.
I never have to say, "I don't know how to do that." New language? No problem. New paradigm? Nothing I haven't seen before.
I can't understate how vital the education I got from UT's CS department has been. Because of the solid fundamental background I got in those courses, I can learn any language, develop on any system, and do it faster and better than guys who went to other schools.
If you want to learn programming languages, tools, techniques... that's fine. Like another poster said, go to a vocational school. You can learn these on your own time... and with the background from the CS education I received, it doesn't take that long.
If you want to be prepared for a long-term career, go get a university education.
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Also, in this case, he's right. No game studio will pay their programmers what it would cost to get them to write for that horrible bass-ackwards cell processor what it would take to use all of its power.
You're not buying in just one genre? All I see listed is a bunch of electronic crap.
Well, I'll be damned.
Clever. Save it for an actual dupe (you won't have to wait long). SCO has had two horrible defeats in two days over two different issues by two different judges.
As Pam Jones of Groklaw said, SCO is toast.
I don't really have anything to add to this; I just wanted to read it again. It's awesome.
Absolutely correct. They just want it to go to trial on their counterclaims, and not on SCO's initial claims.
Based on TFA's news, it appears they got what they wished.
It's clear that IBM saw the SCO suit as a dangerous precedent, and wanted to use the opportunity to make a precedent of their own. Their dependence on Linux for their business required it.
This has always been part of the ongoing IBM vs. Microsoft battle, which began back in the days of the OS/2 split.
^-- what he said.
Good Lord, your comment can't be modded highly enough.
But remember who you're talking to: The whole basis for Peak Oil fervor comes from a lack of rigorous scientific procedures. You are talking to people who, for whatever reason, are not inclined to apply the scientific method to begin with. Otherwise, they'd be as skeptical of Peak Oil as these guys.
The University of Texas' alumni newsletter had a wonderful article on Peak Oil where they got the opinions of two UT Geology professors and one Economics professor. The article pointed out some fascinating details, such as:
But don't take my understanding of the article as gospel truth. Read it yourself and see what people who actually have to get past the criticism of their peers to publish their findings have to say about Peak Oil.
Obviously, if we taste like pork, he should have used a white instead of Chianti.
That's awesome. How did she take the news when she found out?
The way I learned how to program in pretty much any language was by looking at other people's code, seeing how they did things, and duplicating those methods in my own. Eventually, I get good enough at a thing that I can come up with my own ideas, or that I remember how things are done without having to go look.
You're asked to clear a minefield... in an unshielded TIE Interceptor, while four TIE Advanceds "watch." If you survive clearing the minefield, the T/A's attack. "He's the Emperor's stool pigeon!"
You get to try and live long enough until the Emperor's cavalry arrives. Then, they ask you to race across the battlefield and inspect a shuttle approaching a Rebel cruiser and confirm that the Admiral is on board trying to defect. And blast it.
That was a pretty cool level in 1994.
I am here to inform you that I will never, ever stoop to the level of promoting my employer or their interests in my blog. Why, it's as honest as the day is long, and I would never let my employer paying me affect my bias in any way.
Ha! Talk about having your work cut out for you.
On the topic of range, I know that Kiyon in San Diego has already prototyped a UWB mesh system, so the range won't be a problem forever.
So somewhere between 2%-4% of the total number of covers made of it, then?
It's all thanks to CD Baby. I can't say enough good things about them. I get $0.637 per $0.99 iTunes music store download, I get to name the price of my CD, and they pretty much do all of the rest of the work for $50. Yeah, it's a vanity label, but I wasn't expecting to hit the Billboard Top 50 or anything.
Although The Scotsman Unbound might have kind of potential as an offbeat pop hit. Maybe as a Dr. Demento submission.
Yep. I've had it on my to-do list for a while now, but I haven't taken any time to promote the CD other than, well, occasionally making posts to Slashdot linking to the album.
You're right. Right now, in addition to plastic aluminum-reflective disk style, it's only available at the following electronic locations (date reflects when the distributor received it):
MusicNet December 9, 2005
MusicIsHere December 30, 2005
Apple iTunes February 19, 2006
MOD Systems April 24, 2006
MusicNow April 27, 2006
Arvato May 6, 2006
AudioLunchbox May 10, 2006
BuyMusic May 10, 2006
Chondo May 10, 2006
Bitmunk May 10, 2006
Choice Records May 10, 2006
Daiki May 10, 2006
Sony Connect May 12, 2006
Destra May 29, 2006
WrapFactory June 1, 2006
PlayIndies June 9, 2006
Rhapsody June 19, 2006
PayPlay June 19, 2006
Sonific June 29, 2006
MP3-Extension July 11, 2006
MSN Music July 14, 2006
Inprodicon July 20, 2006
Liquid Digital Media July 20, 2006
GreatIndieMusic July 20, 2006
iSound July 20, 2006
MPGreek August 5, 2006
MP3tunes September 21, 2006
Napster October 5, 2006
Tradebit October 6, 2006
Interia October 6, 2006
GroupieTunes October 14, 2006
Well, I'm not just an iTunes customer...
I'm also a seller.
Why yes, even in China do you have the freedom to exercise your chosen religion and speak when you want to!
You just might not have freedom afterwards...
His complaint was that the game was a marathon. He didn't seem to have any problem with its difficulty, just that he knew he'd never reach the end.
It's called having a job & kids.
I don't even buy games any more, except for once a while on the GameBoy -- the GBA's the only thing I can pick up and play for a quick bit while I'm taking a dump at work.
Suddenly wonders if he shouldn't have posted this as an Anonymous Coward
You know, I'm as cynical as the next guy, but there are people in the USA who hold elected office and actually believe in the principles of democracy.
This is not about Democrats or Republicans. It's about the security and future of the country.
I started in 1991, so we're pretty contemporary.
Hook 'em!
I had the exact same kind of education from the University of Texas that you had. I graduated, got a Master's degree, and made my way into the work world, where I've been full-time employed for seven years.
Working on embedded devices right now. Sometimes I'm doing web programming, sometimes I'm writing apps, sometimes I'm writing device driver stuff. We also have a PC app that I've worked on that communicates with the embedded devices -- a rich client. Because of my education, I'm able to move seamlessly from one to the other.
I never have to say, "I don't know how to do that." New language? No problem. New paradigm? Nothing I haven't seen before.
I can't understate how vital the education I got from UT's CS department has been. Because of the solid fundamental background I got in those courses, I can learn any language, develop on any system, and do it faster and better than guys who went to other schools.
If you want to learn programming languages, tools, techniques... that's fine. Like another poster said, go to a vocational school. You can learn these on your own time... and with the background from the CS education I received, it doesn't take that long.
If you want to be prepared for a long-term career, go get a university education.
Well, you're perfectly welcome to purchase my CD for just $2.38 more than the cost of the same thing with DRM and gain the benefits.
Or you can just use QTFairPlay and strip the DRM off once you've bought the iTunes version.
I don't care either way.
Enjoy the music!