Not so much because it's an idiotic logo and a completely vapid motto, but that there are people at the top of SGI who think that this is a good idea... Terrible.
A moment of silence for the old (incredibly cool) logo, and the old SGI.
And geez, I always thought SGI to have a little more class than to make an obnoxious noisy useless opening screen on their web site...
You're right, Linux gets to the individual computer users without ESR. ESR is for the coporations. You say just like OSS become tested and true... the point is in the vast majority of the times, businessmen don't consider Linux as a real possibility. This is what ESR is about.
I don't think he has a problem with people debating the APSL with him... it's the "I think ESR was a little too eager" comment that is personal. I'd personally be offended by that. ESR is all for open discussion, but take a look at this message board. A large number of the messages ARE personal attacks...
I must agree wholeheartedly... it's amazing the extremes people can go to.
It's really kind of tragic to see how people in the Linux community, which is centered around one of man's greatest (imho) achievments of idealism, generousity and unselfishness, can often be so petty and quarrelsome (and nasty) - not just about this but many other issues as well.
Geez... You don't have to love everyone in the Linux/Unix/Open Source community, but you don't need to be so savage either. For a community centered around good ideals like free software and open code, there's alot of infighting, and often very nasty. I know ESR is not the only talented coder who has been turned off by all the bickering, this sort of nastiness drives alot of people away.
Heh, I should have thought of that... Makes sense of course, KFC, PizzaHut and Taco Bell are all under the same company. But why no www.ordertacobell.com?:~( would be great for LAN parties, heh...
What if the station wagon drives a mile in a minute and a half? Can you then say the bandwidth is 1,694 gigabits a second? We need a method to measure the bandwidth that does not change depending on how far we drive.
Can't agree with you more. I remember one night trying to figure out a way to purchase a Pizza with a credit card (failed underfortunately). Fortunately, things are getting better. A local company has started up deliver from many cool restaurants in the area. Plus there's a great cheap Chinese place right down the street from me that delivers AND takes a cc over the phone. Life is good... And, btw, this really cracked me up when I first saw it... www.orderkfc.com
I hate it when the media misrepresensts stories with titles like this. Makes it sound like some students at any normal school took a course and failed and want to sue.
It's a slighty different case when it's not a normal class but a certification class that prolly cost over a thousand dollars (often more) and they were assured it would be easy.
Now, I'm not saying they should win the case (or they should have sued at all), I agree that the school did the right thing, offering to take the course again. But get the facts straight.
This reminds me of the article spread through the media about the UltraHLE source... First everyone printed incorrect facts ("The authors released the full source code!") then they 'got mad' that someone was trying to play a trick when it was pointed out the it wasn't the author, it wasn't the full source, and he never claimed he was one of the authors or it was full source.
From what I've heard, he wants to make sure everyone has an equal chance of seeing it when it comes out. I wouldn't be suprised to see scalpers try to make some money on the first nights otherwise (I'd prolly pay them too:/).
This isn't new, btw - There has been mentions of the ticket polices on the Star Wars fan sites (like theforce.net) about it for a while now, at least 2-3 weeks ago.
To me, the coolest geek gadget is the old HP200LX Palmtop. It may not be as fast as newer ones, or have a color screen, but it does run DOS, letting your run TONS of software programs on it. It's also very easy to code for, there is a great collection of apps written for it, from CAD to web browsers. It's got great battery life (up to 30 hours, something WinCE battery hogs can't claim), comes with a PCMCIA slot for accessories as well as a serial port. Of course, it's got all your normal PIM utils in ROM as well as a stripped version of Quicken that you can use in conjunction with the full version. There are even 'after market' addons like a double speed crystal and RAM updates up to 64M. It's a real, real shame HP stopped making these and concentrated on WinCE like EVERYONE else (I wouldn't touch one of those if you paid me... my Mom has one and has sent it back for replacement 4 times).
No offense, but unless you have a firm grasp on exactly how this program works in its entiriety (sp)? I don't think you can say that it doesn't need kernel modules.
If you read the article all he says it how it'll be dead in a few years... OF COURSE it will. We'll all move to a better standard, like vqf, aac (both available now btw), mpeg 4, etc...
It's just a file format, as long as people are intrested in archiving music and trading it online it'll happen, mp3 or otherwise. Hell, there were even people with phat pipes who copied songs on.wav back in the day...
Don't forget about publishers. I'm sure they could make a multi-OS CD, but it would cost at least a bit more to produce, and the Windows publisher (I think it's Activision for Q3) might not be happy to pay more per box to include a Linux version.
This was discussed on Roger Ebert's web page a while ago. Just in case anyone cares, it was brought up that the Gap ad with the swing dancers doing the lindy hop did not use virtual camera, that was jen-ewe-ine SGI effects.
*sigh* Perhaps next time/. should follow up on things a bit more...
It is NOT the full source, it's the first release of one guy's effort of converting the asm to C++. It doesn't even compile.
He is also NOT a member of the development team in any way shape or form, it is not condoned in any way by the authors. This is what the releaser GrossiTheDog says:
I've decided to make my efforts of converting UltraHLE to C++ public. Note that this is NOT finished source code conversion or anything, this is just 5 minutes work of me playing around - many weeks of work are in store if this project is to be completed.
His page is here if you want to check out all he has to say about it. Next time, get the story right.
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Perl. Great for CGI and the CPAN library just kicks my ass all over the place.
On the contrary. Most of the posts are merely pointing out the fact that Microsoft sponsered it.
It is standard practice in evaluating reports to make note of the entity responsible for commisioning it in order to consider possible bias.
Not so much because it's an idiotic logo and a completely vapid motto, but that there are people at the top of SGI who think that this is a good idea... Terrible.
A moment of silence for the old (incredibly cool) logo, and the old SGI.
And geez, I always thought SGI to have a little more class than to make an obnoxious noisy useless opening screen on their web site...
I am informed that the company responsible for shutting down Dave's Classics is Sony.
Sure it's federal. If it was written in one state and harmed a computer in another, that's federal.
You're right, Linux gets to the individual computer users without ESR. ESR is for the coporations. You say just like OSS become tested and true... the point is in the vast majority of the times, businessmen don't consider Linux as a real possibility. This is what ESR is about.
I don't think he has a problem with people debating the APSL with him... it's the "I think ESR was a little too eager" comment that is personal. I'd personally be offended by that. ESR is all for open discussion, but take a look at this message board. A large number of the messages ARE personal attacks...
I must agree wholeheartedly... it's amazing the extremes people can go to.
It's really kind of tragic to see how people in the Linux community, which is centered around one of man's greatest (imho) achievments of idealism, generousity and unselfishness, can often be so petty and quarrelsome (and nasty) - not just about this but many other issues as well.
Geez... You don't have to love everyone in the Linux/Unix/Open Source community, but you don't need to be so savage either. For a community centered around good ideals like free software and open code, there's alot of infighting, and often very nasty. I know ESR is not the only talented coder who has been turned off by all the bickering, this sort of nastiness drives alot of people away.
Heh, I should have thought of that... Makes sense of course, KFC, PizzaHut and Taco Bell are all under the same company. But why no www.ordertacobell.com? :~( would be great for LAN parties, heh...
I wouldn't say so. How many Unix variants have died off over the years and don't exist today...
What if the station wagon drives a mile in a minute and a half? Can you then say the bandwidth is 1,694 gigabits a second? We need a method to measure the bandwidth that does not change depending on how far we drive.
Can't agree with you more. I remember one night trying to figure out a way to purchase a Pizza with a credit card (failed underfortunately). Fortunately, things are getting better. A local company has started up deliver from many cool restaurants in the area. Plus there's a great cheap Chinese place right down the street from me that delivers AND takes a cc over the phone. Life is good...
And, btw, this really cracked me up when I first saw it...
www.orderkfc.com
I hate it when the media misrepresensts stories with titles like this. Makes it sound like some students at any normal school took a course and failed and want to sue.
It's a slighty different case when it's not a normal class but a certification class that prolly cost over a thousand dollars (often more) and they were assured it would be easy.
Now, I'm not saying they should win the case (or they should have sued at all), I agree that the school did the right thing, offering to take the course again. But get the facts straight.
This reminds me of the article spread through the media about the UltraHLE source... First everyone printed incorrect facts ("The authors released the full source code!") then they 'got mad' that someone was trying to play a trick when it was pointed out the it wasn't the author, it wasn't the full source, and he never claimed he was one of the authors or it was full source.
From what I've heard, he wants to make sure everyone has an equal chance of seeing it when it comes out. I wouldn't be suprised to see scalpers try to make some money on the first nights otherwise (I'd prolly pay them too :/).
This isn't new, btw - There has been mentions of the ticket polices on the Star Wars fan sites (like theforce.net) about it for a while now, at least 2-3 weeks ago.
To me, the coolest geek gadget is the old HP200LX Palmtop. It may not be as fast as newer ones, or have a color screen, but it does run DOS, letting your run TONS of software programs on it. It's also very easy to code for, there is a great collection of apps written for it, from CAD to web browsers. It's got great battery life (up to 30 hours, something WinCE battery hogs can't claim), comes with a PCMCIA slot for accessories as well as a serial port. Of course, it's got all your normal PIM utils in ROM as well as a stripped version of Quicken that you can use in conjunction with the full version. There are even 'after market' addons like a double speed crystal and RAM updates up to 64M. It's a real, real shame HP stopped making these and concentrated on WinCE like EVERYONE else (I wouldn't touch one of those if you paid me... my Mom has one and has sent it back for replacement 4 times).
No offense, but unless you have a firm grasp on exactly how this program works in its entiriety (sp)? I don't think you can say that it doesn't need kernel modules.
If you read the article all he says it how it'll be dead in a few years... OF COURSE it will. We'll all move to a better standard, like vqf, aac (both available now btw), mpeg 4, etc...
.wav back in the day...
It's just a file format, as long as people are intrested in archiving music and trading it online it'll happen, mp3 or otherwise. Hell, there were even people with phat pipes who copied songs on
You can't rent out a theater, LucasFilm won't let anyone do that. It was on theforce.net a bit ago.
1) Pop a disc into your drive
2) Query CDDB
3) Upload results to new database while playing disc.
I don't think this would be legal under the license, since it contacts another non-CDDB database.
Don't forget about publishers. I'm sure they could make a multi-OS CD, but it would cost at least a bit more to produce, and the Windows publisher (I think it's Activision for Q3) might not be happy to pay more per box to include a Linux version.
More likely if they get a bug report cc'd to 5 other people they'll assume one of the other people it was mailed to will get to it
This was discussed on Roger Ebert's web page a while ago. Just in case anyone cares, it was brought up that the Gap ad with the swing dancers doing the lindy hop did not use virtual camera, that was jen-ewe-ine SGI effects.
It is NOT the full source, it's the first release of one guy's effort of converting the asm to C++. It doesn't even compile.
He is also NOT a member of the development team in any way shape or form, it is not condoned in any way by the authors.
This is what the releaser GrossiTheDog says: His page is here if you want to check out all he has to say about it. Next time, get the story right.