1. The www has been pruned. A million tiny/rediculous e-tailers have all chapter 11'ed. echeesegratersolutions.com is no more. Consumers' online shopping has become focused.
2. Juggernauts like Amazon.com have weathered the storm and can finally mark up their goods a bit. They got our attention with low prices and cheap delivery, taking enormous losses. Now we're used to Amazon-ing all our Christmas presents and don't mind paying a little extra for it.
Lots of corporate/management types have the negative impression of Linux as an OS that has no professional control over kernel development. It's seen as a souped-up hotrod modified in the garage that runs like a dream but could fall apart at any minute. Hell, even a lot of BSD people see it this way. If (*if*) a goal of the Linux community is to gain wider acceptance or be taken more seriously, one way to do that might be to give more than one person final say over the kernel.
Yeah, it's Linus' baby -- but once IBM is advertising your OS during the superbowl, it might be ok to expand the development structure a little bit.
To an outsider like me, it seems like RedHat has created a major role for itself as the most "mainstream" Linux distribution, the "big one", the vanilla flavor that corporations migrating from NT can trust. If they're bought by AOL, suddenly their role may diminish to being simply a weapon in AOL's armory, a tool to chip away at MS'/Windows' dominance in the industry. On the other end of the spectrum, they'll likely lose the trust and allegiance of lots of die-hard, anti-corporate Linux users. Non?
Is AC proposing defection because RedHat's role in the Linux community would be reduced to that of a pawn in the AOL/MS war? Is anyone privy to the politics going on here? What are AOL's motives?
How about some details? I've been trying to turn an old laptop into a portable linux musicox for some time now, with limited success. I've had my eye on the shuttle for months, thinking about putting a handle on it -- but the innards seemed insufficient. I would love some specs about what went inside the box.
You could always get one of the new iMacs. Apparently Steve Jobs is even anxious to organize them into a photo album for you.
But to answer your question: people probably don't demand it because photo management (digital or analog) isn't difficult and doesn't take up a lot of space -- relative to discs and tapes, anyway.
As this story illustrates, Romero thought he could hire anyone who might remotely fit into the company. He wasn't interested in building a successful business: he was interested in building a company that was fun go to every day. But despite his puerile, myopic goals, he was given an outrageous amount of resources.
In short, the existence of Ion Storm exemplifies the core philosophical flaws that led to the bursting of the "internet bubble." Companies like Eidos appropriated funds on the basis of hype rather than sound business ideas. By any objective standards, Eidos, John Romero and Ion Storm deserved to fail at every level.
xyame NES/GB/GBC emulator, running your favorite Pokemon ROM.
And by the way:
> tis-the-season-form-making-lists dept.
Tis-always-the-season-to-submit-anything-related-t o-videogames-if-you-want-it-posted-on-slashdot. For months now, video games get the cheap front page/. real estate that only anti-Microsoft stories used to receive. I'm not complaining -- but I do find myself rolling my eyes a bit when stories like this one make the cut...
On a site where 9999 out of 10000 submissions get rejected, I can understand submitters not double-checking their spelling every time. On the other hand,./ posts, what, 20 or so stories a day? Let the poster give it a once-over.
Even better, I heard there is "spell-checking" software in development somewhere. If it's GPL'ed, maybe Rob will stick it into the next slash release? This is just off the top of my head.
Ever since the original comic you penned yourself, the Tick has become progressively less "deadpan" and more "goofy." This in contrast to Arthur, whose live-action and cartoon incarnations seem fairly consistent with the comic books. How has your concept of the Tick's personality changed (if at all) having rendered him in three different media, and has it been influenced by the way other artists have depicted him in the spin-offs (Karma Tornado, etc) that you authorized?
Also -- do you object to the fact that my nickname on this website is derived from name of Tick villain "Multiple Santa"? And if so, what are you going to do about it, rich guy?
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I find the tone of this post to be part of a disturbing, if subtle, trend.
I know this isn't new ground to tread in these forums, but the respective tones of posts about Microsoft bugs and Linux bugs are worthy of change.
When there's an MS bug, the posts generally read something like... "User writes, "Here's a big surprise. There's a bug in IIS that lets any six year old root the box. Excuse me while I gasp in surprise. Exploits are here and here. Cnet has the whole story." It's amazing that people still rely on IIS... I wonder when people will stop making their software choices entirely based on FUD."
When there's a bug that eluded many major kernel revisions, the post reads: 'Apparently there's been a bug in the kernel for months that yields unauthorized remote access to root. Huh. Users of multi-user systems might want to patch this when they get a chance.' -- and it's on to the next story.
Disparities such as these, subtle as they are, affect Linux communities' credibility. It makes us look immature because we appear to apply a double standard. It's a chink in our armor we should patch ASAP.
I have about 2000 Mp3's on my computer that I ripped off of my CD's. I have the right to them...
Is this true? Does the RIAA allow us to make backup copies of our media? I was under the impression that making any copy of my audio CDs was verboten, whether onto eighth-inch tape, CD media, mp3, ogg, or whatever. If anyone has any apropos links to share on this matter, please share.
In the meantime, I propose a Backstreet Boys EULA.
This makes sense. The web has been wild for too long... the race-for-a-plot-of-land mentality surrounding domain registration couldn't last forever, and frankly has no place in a saner, more mature (read: less exciting) WWW. This is the next logical step, and a welcome one in my opinion.
The 'net mentality that turned whitehouse.com into a porn site is one whose time should end.
Anyone who's not getting excited about this has no imagination. Don't think of it as a PDA -- think of it as the first fully programmable watch! How many of you have seen the Casio filmwatches with little animations on them? As an animator I've always wanted to be able to program my own. Add bluetooth to the equation -- a hobbyist's dream. And a 1 GB Microdrive?... It sounds wonderful.
Yes it will be cumbersome to wear. But this is a step in the right direction for a toy that is long overdue in my opinion. Now it needs a motion sensor and digital camera...
People looking for serious tools like PDAs should look elsewhere.... in the meantime, I'll be writing the code for an animated avatar who tells me the time, waves at me when I have an email, and gets jostled when I move my wrist quickly (to be implemented when that motion sensor gets included). Insert Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas song... here.
"The battery heats up after about 15 minutes of conversation and runs out fairly quickly, in about an hour, compared to second generation phones which can last for hours, or even a whole day."
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1. The www has been pruned. A million tiny/rediculous e-tailers have all chapter 11'ed. echeesegratersolutions.com is no more. Consumers' online shopping has become focused.
2. Juggernauts like Amazon.com have weathered the storm and can finally mark up their goods a bit. They got our attention with low prices and cheap delivery, taking enormous losses. Now we're used to Amazon-ing all our Christmas presents and don't mind paying a little extra for it.
Lots of corporate/management types have the negative impression of Linux as an OS that has no professional control over kernel development. It's seen as a souped-up hotrod modified in the garage that runs like a dream but could fall apart at any minute. Hell, even a lot of BSD people see it this way. If (*if*) a goal of the Linux community is to gain wider acceptance or be taken more seriously, one way to do that might be to give more than one person final say over the kernel.
Yeah, it's Linus' baby -- but once IBM is advertising your OS during the superbowl, it might be ok to expand the development structure a little bit.
To an outsider like me, it seems like RedHat has created a major role for itself as the most "mainstream" Linux distribution, the "big one", the vanilla flavor that corporations migrating from NT can trust. If they're bought by AOL, suddenly their role may diminish to being simply a weapon in AOL's armory, a tool to chip away at MS'/Windows' dominance in the industry. On the other end of the spectrum, they'll likely lose the trust and allegiance of lots of die-hard, anti-corporate Linux users. Non?
Is AC proposing defection because RedHat's role in the Linux community would be reduced to that of a pawn in the AOL/MS war? Is anyone privy to the politics going on here? What are AOL's motives?
If you're going to mount your high horse and pick at the tiniest of grammatical nits, at least spell "grammar" correctly.
And what do you mean, "if it's an embedded OS, because a hard drive would defeat the purpose"? Systems with hard disks need OSes, too.
The specs say it requires Windows. What's the deal with linux support?
How about some details? I've been trying to turn an old laptop into a portable linux musicox for some time now, with limited success. I've had my eye on the shuttle for months, thinking about putting a handle on it -- but the innards seemed insufficient. I would love some specs about what went inside the box.
You could always get one of the new iMacs. Apparently Steve Jobs is even anxious to organize them into a photo album for you.
But to answer your question: people probably don't demand it because photo management (digital or analog) isn't difficult and doesn't take up a lot of space -- relative to discs and tapes, anyway.
Killcreek, Before and After. Or: how a woman can succeed in the gaming industry -- a story in pictures.
As this story illustrates, Romero thought he could hire anyone who might remotely fit into the company. He wasn't interested in building a successful business: he was interested in building a company that was fun go to every day. But despite his puerile, myopic goals, he was given an outrageous amount of resources.
In short, the existence of Ion Storm exemplifies the core philosophical flaws that led to the bursting of the "internet bubble." Companies like Eidos appropriated funds on the basis of hype rather than sound business ideas. By any objective standards, Eidos, John Romero and Ion Storm deserved to fail at every level.
xyame NES/GB/GBC emulator, running your favorite Pokemon ROM.
t o-videogames-if-you-want-it-posted-on-slashdot. For months now, video games get the cheap front page /. real estate that only anti-Microsoft stories used to receive. I'm not complaining -- but I do find myself rolling my eyes a bit when stories like this one make the cut...
And by the way:
> tis-the-season-form-making-lists dept.
Tis-always-the-season-to-submit-anything-related-
I can't believe all the complaints I'm reading in these threads about something that's clearly "just a toy" being front page news on slashdot. Has everyone else been asleep while the Xbox, Gamecube, MAME Cabinets, Civ III and Freeciv, Handheld N64s, Loki Games, and Quake ported to the iPaq have made up at least half the stories here in the past few months?
Slashdot would lose half its traffic if it filtered out the Games and Id Software topics by default!
What are you talking about?
who's = who is or who has
you're = you are
it's = it is or it has
they're = they are
Am I loopy? Anyone who hasn't taken elementary school English shouldn't be part of this argument, non?
On a site where 9999 out of 10000 submissions get rejected, I can understand submitters not double-checking their spelling every time. On the other hand, ./ posts, what, 20 or so stories a day? Let the poster give it a once-over.
Even better, I heard there is "spell-checking" software in development somewhere. If it's GPL'ed, maybe Rob will stick it into the next slash release? This is just off the top of my head.
Ever since the original comic you penned yourself, the Tick has become progressively less "deadpan" and more "goofy." This in contrast to Arthur, whose live-action and cartoon incarnations seem fairly consistent with the comic books. How has your concept of the Tick's personality changed (if at all) having rendered him in three different media, and has it been influenced by the way other artists have depicted him in the spin-offs (Karma Tornado, etc) that you authorized?
Also -- do you object to the fact that my nickname on this website is derived from name of Tick villain "Multiple Santa"? And if so, what are you going to do about it, rich guy?
I find the tone of this post to be part of a disturbing, if subtle, trend.
I know this isn't new ground to tread in these forums, but the respective tones of posts about Microsoft bugs and Linux bugs are worthy of change.
When there's an MS bug, the posts generally read something like... "User writes, "Here's a big surprise. There's a bug in IIS that lets any six year old root the box. Excuse me while I gasp in surprise. Exploits are here and here. Cnet has the whole story." It's amazing that people still rely on IIS... I wonder when people will stop making their software choices entirely based on FUD."
When there's a bug that eluded many major kernel revisions, the post reads: 'Apparently there's been a bug in the kernel for months that yields unauthorized remote access to root. Huh. Users of multi-user systems might want to patch this when they get a chance.' -- and it's on to the next story.
Disparities such as these, subtle as they are, affect Linux communities' credibility. It makes us look immature because we appear to apply a double standard. It's a chink in our armor we should patch ASAP.
I have about 2000 Mp3's on my computer that I ripped off of my CD's. I have the right to them...
Is this true? Does the RIAA allow us to make backup copies of our media? I was under the impression that making any copy of my audio CDs was verboten, whether onto eighth-inch tape, CD media, mp3, ogg, or whatever. If anyone has any apropos links to share on this matter, please share.
In the meantime, I propose a Backstreet Boys EULA.
This makes sense. The web has been wild for too long... the race-for-a-plot-of-land mentality surrounding domain registration couldn't last forever, and frankly has no place in a saner, more mature (read: less exciting) WWW. This is the next logical step, and a welcome one in my opinion.
The 'net mentality that turned whitehouse.com into a porn site is one whose time should end.
...which I've been suffering with for years. Am I the only one who finds their offerings to be clunky, quirky, and inefficient?
Does the relative absence of a good, free LISP interpreter for Windows ever give you pause?
You're right, but I still should have realized it would be misinterpreted. Now I wish I had Karma to burn.
This watch will never encounter any traces of melanin on any wrist it ever touches.
Anyone who's not getting excited about this has no imagination. Don't think of it as a PDA -- think of it as the first fully programmable watch! How many of you have seen the Casio filmwatches with little animations on them? As an animator I've always wanted to be able to program my own. Add bluetooth to the equation -- a hobbyist's dream. And a 1 GB Microdrive? ... It sounds wonderful.
Yes it will be cumbersome to wear. But this is a step in the right direction for a toy that is long overdue in my opinion. Now it needs a motion sensor and digital camera...
People looking for serious tools like PDAs should look elsewhere.... in the meantime, I'll be writing the code for an animated avatar who tells me the time, waves at me when I have an email, and gets jostled when I move my wrist quickly (to be implemented when that motion sensor gets included). Insert Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas song... here.
1. "Shitburgers" don't really exist. Check it out.
2. "Faggot" is a derogatory term. Also, homophobia is not to be tolerated.
3. Boobies
"The battery heats up after about 15 minutes of conversation and runs out fairly quickly, in about an hour, compared to second generation phones which can last for hours, or even a whole day."