On a related note, anyone have a link to that guy who hacked the airport and attached a Yeag directional antenna to get 11 Miles or something out of it?
1) Install Linux.
2) Learn it inside-out.
3) Get a CS (Computer Science) degree.
4) Enroll in co-op, that might start you in the sysadm dept.
5) Look for odd-jobs that have a lot to do with networking. (afterall, every UNIX that's worth admin' is networked)
As a senoir student in University and someone looking very serioudly at heading toward the gaming industry for a career, I'd love to work on a glue project for this and other problems in the video card industry.
Think about it... if you could make a 'glue'-like API for both these standards and many more problems like it, developers would probably be very interested, don't you think?
If you wanted, you could even go as far as supporting hardware-specific routine alternatives...
I know this has to have been attempted before, so can anyone tell me what happened? I mean, DirectX is MS controlled, OpenGL is controlled by a select group of leading tech companies, and Glide was very 3dF/x proprietary... all of these only lead consumers and game developers to one thing... a big choice when buying your VC and games/software for your VC/PC combination...
Are you joking??? I'd love to get my hands on such a kit...
The possibilites would be endless... anyone could try their hand @ game programming... HOOK ME UP!!!
I guess it's a common thing these days... I mean, by the looks of things, MS is backing away from it's invasion ever so slightly (the Java Support for XP, the removal of SmartTags, ETC). It does seem, though that they are getting a little reprieve from the courst and legal issues...
Do I smell a deal cast in words, of the behind-closed-doors genre?
OK, I know it's monday morning... but now I can be sure... I'm still dreaming... Now the only question to be resolved is... Am I in a nightmare???
I hope this one doesn't play-out by the numbers... it'd suck for Ximian..
I know @ my university, it is possible. There was issued raised against this a while ago. The old Univ. policy was that anything submitted for assigment/project/course material was considered intelilectual property of the univ.
This all changed last year as our university became the first university (supposedly) in North America to house the first "incubation" facility for UNDERGRAD students to start-up their own companies while still finishing their studies!
It's kinda neat... Maybe this should be another Ask/.... "Are University 'Incubation sites' a Good Idea?"
One of the biggest questions with Linux and it's introduction into the server/desktop market is the GUI interfaces that come with it. Now-a-days, it really doesn't matter what distro you run to any great degree. It just matters how it looks to the average person.
Since the onset of the GUI environment, OSs have changed entirely. Since Linux is more of a brute and rooted "hands-on" OS, one of the biggest struggles has been to make it 'look pretty'.
To many of the/. readers, this is less of an issue, but if Linux is to put a severe dent in the desktop market, it's a pretty important issue to be raised. To that end, several companies have started to produce desktop-environments designed to include the kitchen sink in GUIs and make the point-and-click users happy.
In your opinion, is there any apparent leader in this sector? Certainly, GNOME and KDE are two of the standards, but I refer more to compaines like XIMIAN (formerly HelixCode), XFCE, Enligtenment, AfterStep, WindowMaker, Blackbox, and so on...
Are any of these companies steering in the right direction for the end (desktop) user? Or are they simply following the trends and hopeing they end-up on top of a big pile of money?
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On a related note, anyone have a link to that guy who hacked the airport and attached a Yeag directional antenna to get 11 Miles or something out of it?
It was an Airbus a300...
26X people on board...
9 crew.
I hate relaying bad news.
not to be a jerk but, just one symbol for this:
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enough said.
1) Install Linux.
:-P
2) Learn it inside-out.
3) Get a CS (Computer Science) degree.
4) Enroll in co-op, that might start you in the sysadm dept.
5) Look for odd-jobs that have a lot to do with networking. (afterall, every UNIX that's worth admin' is networked)
Hope that helps
Here's the press release from transmeta.
Enjoy.
Yeah, among other things... the only secure IIS is an uninstalled IIS
You kiss it goodbye when you hear about C#... another beautiful mess brought to you by MS...
Loki should have it's own "topic" logo and area... it REALLY ranks up there for most /.'s...
Go beyond that level, and you can even get to the service side of things that suck... ie, @Home...
what will regulation do for that?, eh yeah... right!
ok.... just stop and think about this...
if you allow them caffeine, who's telling when they'll stop? I mean, right now the olympics only last two weeks, no?
insight is for those without vision or an imagination!
I believe that's case, point and match all in one.
Provided they don't screw it up, I don't care about the wait...
"Tell us your best demo war stories."
What? Are you kidding... have you heard of a type of institution called "university"..??
As a senoir student in University and someone looking very serioudly at heading toward the gaming industry for a career, I'd love to work on a glue project for this and other problems in the video card industry.
Think about it... if you could make a 'glue'-like API for both these standards and many more problems like it, developers would probably be very interested, don't you think?
If you wanted, you could even go as far as supporting hardware-specific routine alternatives...
I know this has to have been attempted before, so can anyone tell me what happened? I mean, DirectX is MS controlled, OpenGL is controlled by a select group of leading tech companies, and Glide was very 3dF/x proprietary... all of these only lead consumers and game developers to one thing... a big choice when buying your VC and games/software for your VC/PC combination...
I took a look at one of the docuemtns I got. I admit it...
Even though I had no idea who the guy was, I wanted to know so I could e-mail him back with some indication that I actually did recieve the file.
Maybe it was wrong, maybe it was right, but I 'd say he's thankful I did it, 'cause I wasn't even sure what the e-mail was about until I looked...
My 2 cents.
Are you joking??? I'd love to get my hands on such a kit...
The possibilites would be endless... anyone could try their hand @ game programming... HOOK ME UP!!!
I guess it's a common thing these days... I mean, by the looks of things, MS is backing away from it's invasion ever so slightly (the Java Support for XP, the removal of SmartTags, ETC). It does seem, though that they are getting a little reprieve from the courst and legal issues...
Do I smell a deal cast in words, of the behind-closed-doors genre?
Food For Thought...
That might be.... but can anyone tell me this? "What is the Matrix?"
ok, dememted joke... but, maybe they think Mono is short for Monopoly... what do you think?
So long as they don't get their hands into wine...
OK, I know it's monday morning... but now I can be sure... I'm still dreaming... Now the only question to be resolved is... Am I in a nightmare??? I hope this one doesn't play-out by the numbers... it'd suck for Ximian..
Don't you already have a nice tan from the glow of your monitor??? C'MON!! I thought you were a computer nerd!
I know @ my university, it is possible. There was issued raised against this a while ago. The old Univ. policy was that anything submitted for assigment/project/course material was considered intelilectual property of the univ.
This all changed last year as our university became the first university (supposedly) in North America to house the first "incubation" facility for UNDERGRAD students to start-up their own companies while still finishing their studies!
It's kinda neat... Maybe this should be another Ask /. ... "Are University 'Incubation sites' a Good Idea?"
One of the biggest questions with Linux and it's introduction into the server/desktop market is the GUI interfaces that come with it. Now-a-days, it really doesn't matter what distro you run to any great degree. It just matters how it looks to the average person.
Since the onset of the GUI environment, OSs have changed entirely. Since Linux is more of a brute and rooted "hands-on" OS, one of the biggest struggles has been to make it 'look pretty'.
To many of the /. readers, this is less of an issue, but if Linux is to put a severe dent in the desktop market, it's a pretty important issue to be raised. To that end, several companies have started to produce desktop-environments designed to include the kitchen sink in GUIs and make the point-and-click users happy.
In your opinion, is there any apparent leader in this sector? Certainly, GNOME and KDE are two of the standards, but I refer more to compaines like XIMIAN (formerly HelixCode), XFCE, Enligtenment, AfterStep, WindowMaker, Blackbox, and so on...
Are any of these companies steering in the right direction for the end (desktop) user? Or are they simply following the trends and hopeing they end-up on top of a big pile of money?
G.
sorry, maybe I should get in the habbit of using my tags more often....
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just pointing fact and poking fun... nothing more, nothing _less_...