Not in networked games, at least. Trying to keep everyone's world in sync is hard enough as it is, without adding even more objects that need to appear in the same place for everyone.
Actually, I think this problem could be solved with a little bit of creative coding. You see, you don't really need to send the complete position of every object during the movement. You could just send the starting point of each object, and the amount of force applied to it, and let the PPU on each client computer work out the path that object will take.
You might want to send the end point or check because of course you don't wnat to trust the client, but I think so long as the physics are calculated the same way on every PPU (same results every time), the start point, force applied, and direction of that force, should be adequate.
In a paragraph headed "physical and written evidence", it says that a "declaration" dated 25 September 2002 had been found in the email draft folder, without specifying if this information had been provided by the California-based company. The access code could also have been provided by Li Yibing, who is suspected of having been a police informer in the case.
Has anyone stopped to think that Reporters without Borders might be blowing this out of proportion? I'm definitely against the previous Yahoo shenanigans, however, it's extremely likely that the informant just handed over his password to the Chinese government, who logged in on their own without any Yahoo knowledge. Of course, the way the chinese legal system works, we will probably never know if it was Yahoo that provided the information or the informant.
Hate to flog a dead horse, but you should ask your manager to look at VMware. I can do everything from home now. I had to add new CPUs to a few servers and I did it from home on a Saturday night. Anyway, good luck. I can sympathize because on the days I do work in the office, I find myself only having about 3-4 free hours of time a day.
You don't see that you've paid money for a copy of Windows, so in your mind, you've never had to pay for it before. Do you think that will somehow change? That people will suddenly start paying for something they never had to in the past?
The way I look at it, I've had to buy 3 or more copies of Windows and right now I'm only running a single one of them. If I decide to buy a brand new top of the line AlienWare PC, why shouldn't I be able to install my same old copy of Windows XP on it?
Microsoft will surely see revenue drop, but this is a good thing. This is the market correcting for the "MS Tax". The MS Tax was never fair. I've already bought a Windows license; I should be able to use it on my new PC instead of buying another one.
It's not like I sell my old PCs anyway. They get reformatted and I put Linux on them. I have a couple old Dell boxes with the Windows XP hologram logo on the side of the case that are running Linux right now. I paid for that license; shouldn't I be able to install it on my new AMD dual core system that I built myself?
The guy's not too stupid to figure out how to copy his aliases everywhere. He doesn't have permission to do so. That why both he and I both said so (including in the text you quoted).
If he has a user-level account on the box, then he has permission to do what I wrote. And if he doesn't have a user account on the box, then how would he login in the first place. None of the stuff I asked him to do requires root.
He has no power to install his favored command aliases on all of the machine he has to administrate. He wants to have an SSH client (that he can run on Windows to connect to the Linux machines) that will interpret what he types and substitute aliases so that he doesn't have to set up his favored commands every time he logs into a system.
This is a really easy problem to answer. Follow these steps in order:
1. Make a list of all the servers and put it in a text file. 2. Make your.bashrc in your home directory on one server contain all of the aliases that you want to be on all the servers. 3. Type this command (it works a lot better if you've setup ssh key authentication to all of your servers):
for server in `cat serverlist.txt`; do scp.bashrc $i:; done
What this does is simply iterate through your server list and copy your.bashrc (bash startup file) to every server that you log in to, in your home directory.
What is $5000 to SUNW? Say they send them to 100 reviewers (probably less since we tend to concentrate on a few popular sites) who basically help them get the word out. Sun losts $5mil.
I think you need to re-do your math. You really mean "Sun losts $500,000." Better yet, run a grammar check while you're at it...;-)
That means, that if FW800 is on the PCI bus, it almost completely saturates the entire bus ITSELF.
Not true. The bandwidth of a 33mhz./32 bit PCI bus is roughly ~128 MB per second. The bandwidth of a FW800 interface is roughly ~82 MB a second. That's not complete saturation, and we're talking about the lowliest PCI bus available.
Throw it on a PCI 66 mhz./64 bit interface with ~ 512MB a second of throughput, or even better yet, a PCI-X 133 mhz./64 bit interface with ~ 1GB a second of bandwidth and you're not even scratching the surface of your available PCI bandwidth.
So, the problem with Network neutrality is that it opens up the DSL and Cable providers up to competition for their other service, and that'a a big disincentive for them to roll it out.
You're an idiot. The telephone companies have been "common carriers" for over 100 years now. What do you think would happen if the telephone companies decided that they were going to start charging $0.25 a call if any business transaction were discussed on their lines? People would rightfully be up in arms. Yet that is the same thing they are trying to get away with on the internet side of their business. They're trying to sneak it in through legislation, and are spending millions of dollars lobbying and even advertising their corrupt legislation to the public.
I'm surprised you've actually bought their rhetoric, much less written an article about it.
This is all about the carriers wanting to have their cake and eat it too (remain common carrier neutral as far as liability goes, but get a cut for all the data that transits their lines).
No thanks, take your Telco industry astroturfing somewhere else.
Capitalism, believe it or not, isn't a form of government. It's an economic system. Economic systems, believe it or not, aren't forms of government. They just take over governments.
I know this, although grandparent poster doesn't seem to. Notice how I called it a "system", not a government. Capitalism is the economic system that the US is based on.
I find it somewhat ironic that Capitalism is the cancer of Democracy.... All forms of government fail because they all forget to factor in 1 key element. Human Nature.
Actually capitalism works simply because of human nature. Humans in a capitalist system realize that the potential to make a greater amount of money or collect a greater amount of resources than their fellow humans exists, and this motivates them to work harder and produce more. How does this not work?
Are you complaining about all the luxuries of modern life and technology that capitalism has brought you? Because I can pretty much guarantee you that the Internet would have never been created in a communist country. There's no real incentive in a communist country to invent anything because you can't make any money off of it. Why should someone invent a personal computer to better all humanity when they won't make a single penny of the sale of it. Capitalism exists to motivate us to work, simply through human nature.
You should read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand if you want to understand more about the true nature of collectivism and capitalism.
No, are you really that small minded that you think an insult qualifies as a rebuttal? Come up with a valid counter-point or I refuse to reply to your comments.
No they don't. The consumer electronics and computer indyustries are bigger than the media distribution companies. Not only that, but it's the media companies that will suffer if Microsoft doesn't support this shit, not Microsoft.
Size has nothing to do with it. If the media companies say "We refuse to allow you to access our content unless you do X and Y", then you either do X and Y, or break the DMCA and end up in jail. Sure the media companies will suffer, but do you think the stupid execs there have enough foresite to see this?
That's total crap. They've given in to the will of the content companies because they're sympathetic due to their own piracy issues, and because they need to play nice with the media companies for now if they want to embrace and extend them out of existance in the future. They care about everybody *but* the consumer.
This is simply a case where the consumer interest of "I'd like to watch HD content on my PC" aligns with the MS interest of "We'd like to sell you a new PC and new OS to watch that HD content on". It has nothing to do with MS worrying about piracy issues, or trying to become the media companies (fat chance).
If sufficient chaos ensues, perhaps this can be the issue that pulls HDCP requirements out of Windows. Without support from Microsoft (who has no real financial interest in HDCP), HDCP will probably fail in the marketplace.
The problem isn't with Microsoft, it's the content providers. Do you remember when Bill Gates was complaining loudly and vociferously about the restrictions on Blu-Ray media and sharing content among Windows PCs? The reason for that is that all of this crap is being foisted on us by the media companies. They don't want to let MS allow you to record unencrypted HD to your computer. So unfortunately MS and the rest of the PC industry has had to bend to their will or not allow HD content to be recorded or time-shifted on your PC.
Not that I have much love for M$, but if anything, they have been fighting the good fight in this case, trying to protect consumers rights to record and time-shift media on multiple PCs. (damn, I never thought I'd say "Microsoft" and "protect consumers rights" in the same sentence.... wtf is this world coming to?)
But in all honesty I have a very busy life and more often than not I don't have several hours at a time to sit down, try and find a good group, wait while everyone stocks up on regeants or whatever, debates where to hunt, and then goes there to do their thing. It just takes too long.
You should try Guild Wars. They actually implemented something called "Henchmen"... AI controlled characters that will group with you to help you complete quests on your own. It's great for those of us that don't have the time to find a group, and I've also found that the henchmen actually follow orders and don't do stupid things, like running in and aggroing a whole bunch of mobs and dragging them back to kill the rest of your group. Every mission and quest in Guild Wars can be completed with Henchmen, so if you wanted, you could play the game completely alone. Not that it would be as much fun as playing with other people, but you have that option if you want to, which is nice.
Now you don't even realize you just drove over a giant pothole at 40 mph.
Let me guess... you live in New York, don't you?
I once hit a pothole on an unlit section of I-95 heading towards CT that was in the center lane and I thought both of my front wheels almost fell off. Yes, it was that deep and wide and on a dark freeway when you hit it going 70 the frame of my car made a shuddering sound that I never want to hear again...
It was definitely an "oh-shit" moment... The roads around here bring new meaning to the words incompetent and corrupt government.
But the flaw in your argument, is that who decides who is a good musician? You could think one guy is great, while I say he sucks donkey balls.
Good musicians will naturally rise to the top of the download charts, and will be discovered. If anything the web has taught us that we don't need to depend on Billboard to find the good musicians.
That they will shell out $DOLLARS for one of these behemoths? So you can record the Superbowl and Desparate Housewives at the same time? So you can wire it into your home network, and have instant access to all of the DVDs and CDs that you bought and carefully ripped to your home terabyte SAN? Do people no longer read books, play Uno, or throw frisbee with their dogs? Go to neighborhood bars to watch sports games?
Are you so addicted to online media that you will shell out hundreds of $DOLLARS for a motherboard, hard drive, video card, monitor, keyboard, and mouse, along with tens of $DOLLARS monthly for an internet connection just to read Slashdot? What ever happened to buying a newspaper at the newspaper stand for $0.25?
Oh yeah, I forgot, you're just a luddite troll that has a beef against the media companies. I'll admit, the media companies can be evil and greedy, but hey, you don't like TV, don't watch it. Some of us actually watch one or two shows a week and don't want to have to catch them at a specific time.
Oh, and guess what? Your precious online media outlets are usually owned by the same corporate conglomerates that run the print, TV, radio, music, and movie businesses that you hate so much.
My prediction: If Apple goes to $ 1.99 for popular songs (read all but a small token number of the songs on the sight), allofmp3.com will begin to become an _enourmous_ hit (think Napster at its height).
This is the most insightful thing I've read in a while on any RIAA related issue. I've been using allofmp3 for a couple years now and I tell all my friends about. Sure, it might be a legal grey area, but the music industry has proven they are crooks and thieves with their lawsuits and at this point I'm kinda in a "Fight Club" type mood. These thugs and criminals need to be taken down at all costs, and if that means completely bankrupting their business model so that the real talented musicians can leave and make music on their own, so be it. The fact of the matter is that any good musician can now release their music directly to iTMS and cut out the middle-men (other than Apple of course). I'm all for this and the quicker we can get rid of these guys the better.
But the list of restricted countries hasn't changed for quite a while - it's the usual gang: Syria, North Korea, Sudan, etc.
Sure, because there's no possible way that any of those evil hackers and terrorists could get a copy without buying it from Symantec.... [snicker]
Yet another stupid law that only penalizes people that actually obey laws in the first place. Hackers will just download a copy off of BitTorrent and be done with it.
I would agree. I've had 2 ATI video cards fail (even a modern X800 pro 256 MB), and I swear I will never buy an ATI card again.
You know what's wierd? Ever since I bought an Nvidia card, I just installed the latest drivers and magically all of my 3d glitchiness went away. My games all play smooth as butter now and I never have wierd crashes like I've always had on ATI cards. Not really crashes so much as graphical glitches and such.
Anyway, I just want to say that Nvidia has always had trouble-free drivers, where ATI advertises that "Hey, our drivers are FINALLY halfway decent... y'all can come back now, y'hear!"
The public meeting ended, our board full of sardony. Gedankenexperiment? Genuinely useful methodology? Epater le bourgeois? Pisstake? Some and all of the above, probably. But a hell of a lot more interesting than the anodyne pap drafted by the rubbishers in the rest of the room.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say "Did you just make these words up?"
Numeeja? Gedankenexperiment? (ok, this one is actually a legitimate word) Epater le bourgeois? Pisstake? Anodyne (so is this one) Pap?
Seriously, I found your article interesting, but a bit too haughty for my taste. Do you honestly think using words that aren't even in the Oxford English dictionary makes you superior to the proles? Grow up a little bit. Those of us that have a decent command of the english language don't need to use mumbo-jumbo to prove our superiority to others.
The first problem is that Netscape probably didn'tadd much to their Directory Service towards the end, and it is unclear how much Fedora has had to put resources into code cleanups and bug fixes, as opposed to adding the capabilities it is going to need.
To really understand this move by Redhat, it has to be taken into context with last weeks news about Sun open sourcing their enterprise applications, one of which is iPlanet Directory Server. iPlanet Directory Server and Redhat's both forked from the same Netscape code base. The difference is that Sun has invested 3-4 years of heavy development time, improving features involving 4-way multi-master replication across WAN links and many other things. It seems like Redhat just dusted off the 5 year old-code, rewrote some of the encumbered bits, and released something that's probably equivelant to Netscape Directory Server 4.0. Sun is up to iPlanet Directory Server 5.2 and has been innovating.
I think this is a move by Redhat to counter the move Sun made last week in opening up their directory server product.
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Not in networked games, at least. Trying to keep everyone's world in sync is hard enough as it is, without adding even more objects that need to appear in the same place for everyone.
Actually, I think this problem could be solved with a little bit of creative coding. You see, you don't really need to send the complete position of every object during the movement. You could just send the starting point of each object, and the amount of force applied to it, and let the PPU on each client computer work out the path that object will take.
You might want to send the end point or check because of course you don't wnat to trust the client, but I think so long as the physics are calculated the same way on every PPU (same results every time), the start point, force applied, and direction of that force, should be adequate.
Has anyone stopped to think that Reporters without Borders might be blowing this out of proportion? I'm definitely against the previous Yahoo shenanigans, however, it's extremely likely that the informant just handed over his password to the Chinese government, who logged in on their own without any Yahoo knowledge. Of course, the way the chinese legal system works, we will probably never know if it was Yahoo that provided the information or the informant.
Hate to flog a dead horse, but you should ask your manager to look at VMware. I can do everything from home now. I had to add new CPUs to a few servers and I did it from home on a Saturday night. Anyway, good luck. I can sympathize because on the days I do work in the office, I find myself only having about 3-4 free hours of time a day.
You don't see that you've paid money for a copy of Windows, so in your mind, you've never had to pay for it before. Do you think that will somehow change? That people will suddenly start paying for something they never had to in the past?
The way I look at it, I've had to buy 3 or more copies of Windows and right now I'm only running a single one of them. If I decide to buy a brand new top of the line AlienWare PC, why shouldn't I be able to install my same old copy of Windows XP on it?
Microsoft will surely see revenue drop, but this is a good thing. This is the market correcting for the "MS Tax". The MS Tax was never fair. I've already bought a Windows license; I should be able to use it on my new PC instead of buying another one.
It's not like I sell my old PCs anyway. They get reformatted and I put Linux on them. I have a couple old Dell boxes with the Windows XP hologram logo on the side of the case that are running Linux right now. I paid for that license; shouldn't I be able to install it on my new AMD dual core system that I built myself?
The guy's not too stupid to figure out how to copy his aliases everywhere. He doesn't have permission to do so. That why both he and I both said so (including in the text you quoted).
If he has a user-level account on the box, then he has permission to do what I wrote. And if he doesn't have a user account on the box, then how would he login in the first place. None of the stuff I asked him to do requires root.
Whoops, I meant:
This is a really easy problem to answer. Follow these steps in order:
1. Make a list of all the servers and put it in a text file.
2. Make your
3. Type this command (it works a lot better if you've setup ssh key authentication to all of your servers):
What this does is simply iterate through your server list and copy your
Let me know if this helps.
What is $5000 to SUNW? Say they send them to 100 reviewers (probably less since we tend to concentrate on a few popular sites) who basically help them get the word out. Sun losts $5mil.
;-)
I think you need to re-do your math. You really mean "Sun losts $500,000." Better yet, run a grammar check while you're at it...
That means, that if FW800 is on the PCI bus, it almost completely saturates the entire bus ITSELF.
Not true. The bandwidth of a 33mhz./32 bit PCI bus is roughly ~128 MB per second. The bandwidth of a FW800 interface is roughly ~82 MB a second. That's not complete saturation, and we're talking about the lowliest PCI bus available.
Throw it on a PCI 66 mhz./64 bit interface with ~ 512MB a second of throughput, or even better yet, a PCI-X 133 mhz./64 bit interface with ~ 1GB a second of bandwidth and you're not even scratching the surface of your available PCI bandwidth.
So, the problem with Network neutrality is that it opens up the DSL and Cable providers up to competition for their other service, and that'a a big disincentive for them to roll it out.
You're an idiot. The telephone companies have been "common carriers" for over 100 years now. What do you think would happen if the telephone companies decided that they were going to start charging $0.25 a call if any business transaction were discussed on their lines? People would rightfully be up in arms. Yet that is the same thing they are trying to get away with on the internet side of their business. They're trying to sneak it in through legislation, and are spending millions of dollars lobbying and even advertising their corrupt legislation to the public.
I'm surprised you've actually bought their rhetoric, much less written an article about it.
This is all about the carriers wanting to have their cake and eat it too (remain common carrier neutral as far as liability goes, but get a cut for all the data that transits their lines).
No thanks, take your Telco industry astroturfing somewhere else.
Capitalism, believe it or not, isn't a form of government. It's an economic system. Economic systems, believe it or not, aren't forms of government. They just take over governments.
I know this, although grandparent poster doesn't seem to. Notice how I called it a "system", not a government. Capitalism is the economic system that the US is based on.
I find it somewhat ironic that Capitalism is the cancer of Democracy. ...
All forms of government fail because they all forget to factor in 1 key element. Human Nature.
Actually capitalism works simply because of human nature. Humans in a capitalist system realize that the potential to make a greater amount of money or collect a greater amount of resources than their fellow humans exists, and this motivates them to work harder and produce more. How does this not work?
Are you complaining about all the luxuries of modern life and technology that capitalism has brought you? Because I can pretty much guarantee you that the Internet would have never been created in a communist country. There's no real incentive in a communist country to invent anything because you can't make any money off of it. Why should someone invent a personal computer to better all humanity when they won't make a single penny of the sale of it. Capitalism exists to motivate us to work, simply through human nature.
You should read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand if you want to understand more about the true nature of collectivism and capitalism.
Are you really that small minded?
No, are you really that small minded that you think an insult qualifies as a rebuttal? Come up with a valid counter-point or I refuse to reply to your comments.
No they don't. The consumer electronics and computer indyustries are bigger than the media distribution companies. Not only that, but it's the media companies that will suffer if Microsoft doesn't support this shit, not Microsoft.
Size has nothing to do with it. If the media companies say "We refuse to allow you to access our content unless you do X and Y", then you either do X and Y, or break the DMCA and end up in jail. Sure the media companies will suffer, but do you think the stupid execs there have enough foresite to see this?
That's total crap. They've given in to the will of the content companies because they're sympathetic due to their own piracy issues, and because they need to play nice with the media companies for now if they want to embrace and extend them out of existance in the future. They care about everybody *but* the consumer.
This is simply a case where the consumer interest of "I'd like to watch HD content on my PC" aligns with the MS interest of "We'd like to sell you a new PC and new OS to watch that HD content on". It has nothing to do with MS worrying about piracy issues, or trying to become the media companies (fat chance).
If sufficient chaos ensues, perhaps this can be the issue that pulls HDCP requirements out of Windows. Without support from Microsoft (who has no real financial interest in HDCP), HDCP will probably fail in the marketplace.
The problem isn't with Microsoft, it's the content providers. Do you remember when Bill Gates was complaining loudly and vociferously about the restrictions on Blu-Ray media and sharing content among Windows PCs? The reason for that is that all of this crap is being foisted on us by the media companies. They don't want to let MS allow you to record unencrypted HD to your computer. So unfortunately MS and the rest of the PC industry has had to bend to their will or not allow HD content to be recorded or time-shifted on your PC.
Not that I have much love for M$, but if anything, they have been fighting the good fight in this case, trying to protect consumers rights to record and time-shift media on multiple PCs. (damn, I never thought I'd say "Microsoft" and "protect consumers rights" in the same sentence.... wtf is this world coming to?)
But in all honesty I have a very busy life and more often than not I don't have several hours at a time to sit down, try and find a good group, wait while everyone stocks up on regeants or whatever, debates where to hunt, and then goes there to do their thing. It just takes too long.
You should try Guild Wars. They actually implemented something called "Henchmen"... AI controlled characters that will group with you to help you complete quests on your own. It's great for those of us that don't have the time to find a group, and I've also found that the henchmen actually follow orders and don't do stupid things, like running in and aggroing a whole bunch of mobs and dragging them back to kill the rest of your group. Every mission and quest in Guild Wars can be completed with Henchmen, so if you wanted, you could play the game completely alone. Not that it would be as much fun as playing with other people, but you have that option if you want to, which is nice.
Now you don't even realize you just drove over a giant pothole at 40 mph.
Let me guess... you live in New York, don't you?
I once hit a pothole on an unlit section of I-95 heading towards CT that was in the center lane and I thought both of my front wheels almost fell off. Yes, it was that deep and wide and on a dark freeway when you hit it going 70 the frame of my car made a shuddering sound that I never want to hear again...
It was definitely an "oh-shit" moment... The roads around here bring new meaning to the words incompetent and corrupt government.
But the flaw in your argument, is that who decides who is a good musician? You could think one guy is great, while I say he sucks donkey balls.
Good musicians will naturally rise to the top of the download charts, and will be discovered. If anything the web has taught us that we don't need to depend on Billboard to find the good musicians.
That they will shell out $DOLLARS for one of these behemoths? So you can record the Superbowl and Desparate Housewives at the same time? So you can wire it into your home network, and have instant access to all of the DVDs and CDs that you bought and carefully ripped to your home terabyte SAN? Do people no longer read books, play Uno, or throw frisbee with their dogs? Go to neighborhood bars to watch sports games?
Are you so addicted to online media that you will shell out hundreds of $DOLLARS for a motherboard, hard drive, video card, monitor, keyboard, and mouse, along with tens of $DOLLARS monthly for an internet connection just to read Slashdot? What ever happened to buying a newspaper at the newspaper stand for $0.25?
Oh yeah, I forgot, you're just a luddite troll that has a beef against the media companies. I'll admit, the media companies can be evil and greedy, but hey, you don't like TV, don't watch it. Some of us actually watch one or two shows a week and don't want to have to catch them at a specific time.
Oh, and guess what? Your precious online media outlets are usually owned by the same corporate conglomerates that run the print, TV, radio, music, and movie businesses that you hate so much.
My prediction: If Apple goes to $ 1.99 for popular songs (read all but a small token number of the songs on the sight), allofmp3.com will begin to become an _enourmous_ hit (think Napster at its height).
This is the most insightful thing I've read in a while on any RIAA related issue. I've been using allofmp3 for a couple years now and I tell all my friends about. Sure, it might be a legal grey area, but the music industry has proven they are crooks and thieves with their lawsuits and at this point I'm kinda in a "Fight Club" type mood. These thugs and criminals need to be taken down at all costs, and if that means completely bankrupting their business model so that the real talented musicians can leave and make music on their own, so be it. The fact of the matter is that any good musician can now release their music directly to iTMS and cut out the middle-men (other than Apple of course). I'm all for this and the quicker we can get rid of these guys the better.
Second - Sweet Hog of Prague! Oracle 10g costs $24 grand Per CPU!?!?!?!?
Ouch, but yeah, it's probably AUS dollars, so that might explain the discrepancy.
But the list of restricted countries hasn't changed for quite a while - it's the usual gang: Syria, North Korea, Sudan, etc.
Sure, because there's no possible way that any of those evil hackers and terrorists could get a copy without buying it from Symantec.... [snicker]
Yet another stupid law that only penalizes people that actually obey laws in the first place. Hackers will just download a copy off of BitTorrent and be done with it.
Sounds to me like a broken videocard.
I would agree. I've had 2 ATI video cards fail (even a modern X800 pro 256 MB), and I swear I will never buy an ATI card again.
You know what's wierd? Ever since I bought an Nvidia card, I just installed the latest drivers and magically all of my 3d glitchiness went away. My games all play smooth as butter now and I never have wierd crashes like I've always had on ATI cards. Not really crashes so much as graphical glitches and such.
Anyway, I just want to say that Nvidia has always had trouble-free drivers, where ATI advertises that "Hey, our drivers are FINALLY halfway decent... y'all can come back now, y'hear!"
The public meeting ended, our board full of sardony. Gedankenexperiment? Genuinely useful methodology? Epater le bourgeois? Pisstake? Some and all of the above, probably. But a hell of a lot more interesting than the anodyne pap drafted by the rubbishers in the rest of the room.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say "Did you just make these words up?"
Numeeja? Gedankenexperiment? (ok, this one is actually a legitimate word) Epater le bourgeois? Pisstake? Anodyne (so is this one) Pap?
Seriously, I found your article interesting, but a bit too haughty for my taste. Do you honestly think using words that aren't even in the Oxford English dictionary makes you superior to the proles? Grow up a little bit. Those of us that have a decent command of the english language don't need to use mumbo-jumbo to prove our superiority to others.
Cheers.
The first problem is that Netscape probably didn'tadd much to their Directory Service towards the end, and it is unclear how much Fedora has had to put resources into code cleanups and bug fixes, as opposed to adding the capabilities it is going to need.
To really understand this move by Redhat, it has to be taken into context with last weeks news about Sun open sourcing their enterprise applications, one of which is iPlanet Directory Server. iPlanet Directory Server and Redhat's both forked from the same Netscape code base. The difference is that Sun has invested 3-4 years of heavy development time, improving features involving 4-way multi-master replication across WAN links and many other things. It seems like Redhat just dusted off the 5 year old-code, rewrote some of the encumbered bits, and released something that's probably equivelant to Netscape Directory Server 4.0. Sun is up to iPlanet Directory Server 5.2 and has been innovating.
I think this is a move by Redhat to counter the move Sun made last week in opening up their directory server product.