First: Ignore the nay-sayers who say "Don't do it in C#"
An argument over the language it's programmed in will only make you lose time on what is truly important, the project itself.
Second: Ignore the nay-sayers who say it's too big of a project.
By the time they give you a full, thought-out reason why you can't do it, you'll be half-done.
Third: Do listen to people who have done it before.
Browse programming newsgroups, MMORPG newsgroups, hopefully one of the coders will connect and you'll be able to pick their brains.
Fourth: Don't get dragged into the open source/closed source fiasco.
You should be programming for just yourself, unless you have a team, then it's a free-for-all
Fifth: Cut yourself off from all human contact and work on it.
Stop showering, stop feeding the cat, forget the wife/kids/work. Finish it as soon as possible because I want to see what you're working on:)
Building an economy on the backs of parents..
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EverQuest and the UN
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· Score: 3, Funny
[Month 1]
Sure Johnnie, we can go pick up your copy of EQ after you clean your room...
[Month 2]
Johnnie, get off the Internet...I'm trying to phone your Aunt Bertha!
[Month 3]
Dinner time! Where is that blasted kid!??!
[Month 4]
Is that a new gameboy game? I see your paper route is finally starting to pay off..Or at least it's keeping you off that computer, we should have never got that high speed access
[Month 5]
What is this XBox thingie?
[Month 6]
Your teacher called...She asked for something called "Mythril Armor +4"..Crazy teachers
[Month 7]
Ok honey, this is getting a bit nuts...but we have to get you your own mailbox
[Month 8]
A new car? Just for US!? Thank you Johnnie! Don't worry about cleaning your room for a whole month!
...follows the all-mighty rule of the buck. Regardless of marketing, or monopolistic practices, or government intervention, the day Microsoft begins to really push it's own hardware locked into it's own software will be the day the current H/W retailers begin the anti-MS push. Besides, with current hardware at the current point it's at, there isn't a huge reason for a majority of users to change their systems, different OS or not. Microsoft is their own worst enemy remember; the more stable and secure they make the current version of Windows, the less likely their new OS will succeed.
full official version of Red Hat 7.2...$70. It's as easy to install as any version of Windows I've tried.
Yes, but will it run Office 2000? How about Outlook or Exchange or any of the applications that 95% of users currently use? That's the point I was trying to make, not that we can put Linux on it and keep it cheap.
Even a Windows office suite doesn't cost $150. You can get OpenOffice.org suite [openoffice.org] for only the cost of downloading 48 MB (three hours over a 56K modem).
Now try to send a document to someone using Office 2000 and see if they receive it (Of course, heh, this system didn't come with a modem, so technically downloading it isn't even an option;)(Doubly, it didn't come with a CDROM either, so the whole shebang is moot)
Don't overpay. Here's Norton AV 2002 for $20 [softwareoutlet.com]. Uhh, I'll just say I meant in Canadian funds so I don't embarass myself:)
Exactly my point! Now take the average non-linux user and give them this system with the promise of a "Low-cost high-end" PC and see what happens..
Software costs will double the resultant total.
It's almost cyclical in the computer industry. There was a time when software was the cheap piece of the computer system pie and IBM capitalized on this while software manufacturers did not. Will there come a time when another type or field of technology replaces software as the dominant pricing variance? Maybe when programming becomes so ubiquitous that any and all computer users can do it on their own...or complicated AI algorithms code on the fly according to usage, and the majority of the price of a system is dependant on how complex the AI you're purchasingi s
It's interesting to see how prices for hardware continually drops while software prices (Non-free as in beer software) maintain or increase in price. The total system cost for machine listed in the article is $399..Now, let's add Windows...$99, an office suite $150, anti-virus software, $59...We've almost immediately doubled the price of the machine by merely adding functionality. This is quite possibly why people accept paying extragavant prices for software; it's a trade-off..lower prices for hardware, higher prices for software = maintain status quo of computer system pricing.
On a typical drivers license, the following information is recorded:
Name
Date of Birth
Address (Presumably current)
Picture
Eye Colour
Hair Colour
Height
Weight
Sex
As the article specifically says "This wouldn't be so different that what's already in place". In fact, the article is pretty clear in regards to exactly what ramifications this will have for the ordinary citizen...None. The major concern was for the fact that non-governmental agencies would soon have access to your personal records, which is more than a little fear-mongering.
Congratulations on not thinking!
The article explicitly states the sales figures are for November 11 to December 8th, and the XBOX and Gamecube were launched AFTER this date.
It's hard to sell consoles that aren't launched yet.
Patch early, patch often...Unless you're Microsoft
Quickly scrolling down through the various posts, I see quite a few messages complaining about having to install this patch on multiple machines in the office now...Boo hoo!
Good grief, Microsoft's new slogan should be damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Not to be a nag, but a 'self-fulfilling prophecy' is a prediction made by the individual that eventually becomes true, due to the change in attitude of the individual to begin with.
You can't make a self-fulfilling prophecy about someone else;)
As unpopular as this may sound, you can 'play the blame game' as much as you want; but shoddy products, lack-lustre quality control, and broken promises most likely played a larger factor in this 'possibly' unsuccessful venture moreso than any commercial interference.
Of course, I take this article with a huge grain of salt. Products do get pushed back, yes, their stock is down 96% (Sounds familiar), sure, they've changed CEO's a couple times...it's called 'business'. AMD was once counted out too, remember
Not to Torvalds-bash, I respect the man as a great programmer, and the nucleus of a great system, but that had to be the worst interview I have ever seen. Yes, it's okay to be humble, it's okay not to know the answer, but that was by far, not interesting in the least.
You can't just answer 'I don't care' to 50% of the questions asked...There's a huge difference between not caring, and not having an opinion. Sure, he's not marketing driven, he said as much in the interview, he's only concerned about technical matters...Hoo hah, excellent..But we shouldn't try to pass this off as interesting.
I think the most interesting stuff came at the end "What's that shift going to be? Who knows. Maybe it will have nothing directly to do with computers at all, just using computers to create new life-forms or whatever.. Where the _excitement_ is not the tool, but what you can do with it."
and with that, you have to respect a man who's ignited countless flame wars with thousands of lines of code
What kind of hardware were the audio's running on? The majority of MP3 listeners aren't too concerned with audio quality as their systems aren't meant to put out high quality audio anyways (As mentioned in the article, headphones and computer systems are the main components of an average MP3 users playback system).
It is surprising, however, that Media Audio comes out on top...Not because it's a Microsoft product, but because anecdotally, I've always found it to be the worst player for my system...An intense resource hog as compared to other player/compression pairs. I guess one could say it's the more 'professional' of the three (Ogg, MP3, WMA)
"On MP3Pro, I could hear the valves closing on the clarinet and the bassoon," said Peter Hubscher, a rock guitarist. "I couldn't on Vorbis."
An interesting quote, how good were these recordings?
My parents, for the longest time, due to my burgeoning ego, impressed on me several rules for life that I follow to this day...even if my ego continues to grow;)
The rule that applies most here is EIR
Everyone Is Replacable
No matter how smart you are, how valuable you think you are, how good at your job you are, how much you can do, there will ALWAYS be someone standing right behind you, ready to take your place, and you should treat each opportunity you have as though the person behind you is going to jump in at any second.
Invariably, this philosophy led me to be overly concerned about my job security,never share information on projects, not work well with other potential competitors and despise middle management but supremely suck upper-management ass but I love my parents and I think their advice may come in handy for someone else:)
Recent discoveries have created a machine that creates tiny wormholes through spacetime to Earth in the past...Figuring out how to send people through without harming them, researchers have realized that this is not the greatest advancement in science, but rather in the study of history. A team of archaeologists are going to go back to the era of the city they are excavating to save their professor, who has managed to get stuck back in time....
The problem is, I don't know if I can see a real problem with this. I mean, by pushing the ability to have users easily be able to print photos online, they'll find that their revenue is increased, and Microsoft benefits from the 'tippage' from this usage. I would imagine that those companies that work with Microsoft would do better than those that don't...But then again, who is MS to dictate to other industries how competition is going to be handled...The companies pay for the convenience of Microsoft pushing users to their site. Who knows, only time will tell how succesful this is..For all we know, this could backfire horribly in MS's face when it comes time for the companies to pay their dues. I'm sure extortion, which is pretty similar to what Microsoft is doing, is illegal in at least SOME areas in the world;)
On the one hand, we have someone using his/her right to free speech, in parody no less, to the full extent of the protection of the constitution (in the US) and other laws for the rest of the world.
On the other hand, we have the deliberate misuse of a trademark name for the purposes of degradation and or maliciousness intent (Forwarding fordsucks.com to chevrolet.com or whatever that past issue was).
A lot of points of view will depend on the general outlook of the trademark process to begin with...Is a name really worth that much? If the product isn't good enough without the name attached to it, why is it being purchased?
But, we have the slippery slope with suing out of existence the *sucks.com domains...Who's next? The deliberate misspellings, the last names that are too close to corporate trademarks, the.org's vs the.com's. There really isn't any one solution...my best guess for this is to have a domain set aside specifically for JUST trademarked corporate names (.tm) If you access a.tm domain, you know it's a valid trademark for a valid product...play first come, first serve with the rest of the domains, you lose it, you sucks.com
You might also note the lack of focus groups looking over their shoulders telling them what it should be, bureaucrats telling them when it must be released and bean counters about how much they could spend doing it
You don't think that they didn't have IBM honcho's prodding them along constantly? They didn't have accountants telling them they were above the budget?...I mean, these things didn't just HAPPEN all of a sudden in our 'information age'...They started WAY back when programming first started...And the same rules that applied then, apply now...
Work hard, work smart, prepare for all of the blame and none of the glory
Is it just me or does your ex-boyfriend seem to come up a lot in your posts? Not the more recent ones, but at least 50% of the time, your ex, or one of your ex's is brought up to have done something in the past that affected your outlook on life...Which tells me you either suffer from advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage, or you still haven't gotten over the poor sod(s).
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First: Ignore the nay-sayers who say "Don't do it in C#"
:)
An argument over the language it's programmed in will only make you lose time on what is truly important, the project itself.
Second: Ignore the nay-sayers who say it's too big of a project.
By the time they give you a full, thought-out reason why you can't do it, you'll be half-done.
Third: Do listen to people who have done it before.
Browse programming newsgroups, MMORPG newsgroups, hopefully one of the coders will connect and you'll be able to pick their brains.
Fourth: Don't get dragged into the open source/closed source fiasco.
You should be programming for just yourself, unless you have a team, then it's a free-for-all
Fifth: Cut yourself off from all human contact and work on it.
Stop showering, stop feeding the cat, forget the wife/kids/work. Finish it as soon as possible because I want to see what you're working on
[Month 1]
Sure Johnnie, we can go pick up your copy of EQ after you clean your room...
[Month 2]
Johnnie, get off the Internet...I'm trying to phone your Aunt Bertha!
[Month 3]
Dinner time! Where is that blasted kid!??!
[Month 4]
Is that a new gameboy game? I see your paper route is finally starting to pay off..Or at least it's keeping you off that computer, we should have never got that high speed access
[Month 5]
What is this XBox thingie?
[Month 6]
Your teacher called...She asked for something called "Mythril Armor +4"..Crazy teachers
[Month 7]
Ok honey, this is getting a bit nuts...but we have to get you your own mailbox
[Month 8]
A new car? Just for US!? Thank you Johnnie! Don't worry about cleaning your room for a whole month!
- Documented Research and Development
- Resource Usage on R&D documented
- Professional Acceptance of Patent (Maybe a part of the USPO acts as a mentor program(?)
- Possible Prior Art and Explanations why it is not (I really like this one)
- Penalties for Obvious Patents
- Business Models and complex sociological functions unpatentable
- Physical patents require working model
- Web related patents with comparable real-life applications unpatentable (Amazon One-click)
And the list goes on and on...follows the all-mighty rule of the buck. Regardless of marketing, or monopolistic practices, or government intervention, the day Microsoft begins to really push it's own hardware locked into it's own software will be the day the current H/W retailers begin the anti-MS push. Besides, with current hardware at the current point it's at, there isn't a huge reason for a majority of users to change their systems, different OS or not. Microsoft is their own worst enemy remember; the more stable and secure they make the current version of Windows, the less likely their new OS will succeed.
full official version of Red Hat 7.2...$70. It's as easy to install as any version of Windows I've tried.
;)(Doubly, it didn't come with a CDROM either, so the whole shebang is moot)
:)
Yes, but will it run Office 2000? How about Outlook or Exchange or any of the applications that 95% of users currently use? That's the point I was trying to make, not that we can put Linux on it and keep it cheap.
Even a Windows office suite doesn't cost $150. You can get OpenOffice.org suite [openoffice.org] for only the cost of downloading 48 MB (three hours over a 56K modem).
Now try to send a document to someone using Office 2000 and see if they receive it (Of course, heh, this system didn't come with a modem, so technically downloading it isn't even an option
Don't overpay. Here's Norton AV 2002 for $20 [softwareoutlet.com].
Uhh, I'll just say I meant in Canadian funds so I don't embarass myself
Exactly my point! Now take the average non-linux user and give them this system with the promise of a "Low-cost high-end" PC and see what happens..
Software costs will double the resultant total.
It's almost cyclical in the computer industry. There was a time when software was the cheap piece of the computer system pie and IBM capitalized on this while software manufacturers did not. Will there come a time when another type or field of technology replaces software as the dominant pricing variance? Maybe when programming becomes so ubiquitous that any and all computer users can do it on their own...or complicated AI algorithms code on the fly according to usage, and the majority of the price of a system is dependant on how complex the AI you're purchasingi s
It's interesting to see how prices for hardware continually drops while software prices (Non-free as in beer software) maintain or increase in price. The total system cost for machine listed in the article is $399..Now, let's add Windows...$99, an office suite $150, anti-virus software, $59...We've almost immediately doubled the price of the machine by merely adding functionality. This is quite possibly why people accept paying extragavant prices for software; it's a trade-off..lower prices for hardware, higher prices for software = maintain status quo of computer system pricing.
- Name
- Date of Birth
- Address (Presumably current)
- Picture
- Eye Colour
- Hair Colour
- Height
- Weight
- Sex
As the article specifically says "This wouldn't be so different that what's already in place". In fact, the article is pretty clear in regards to exactly what ramifications this will have for the ordinary citizen...None. The major concern was for the fact that non-governmental agencies would soon have access to your personal records, which is more than a little fear-mongering.Congratulations on not thinking!
The article explicitly states the sales figures are for November 11 to December 8th, and the XBOX and Gamecube were launched AFTER this date.
It's hard to sell consoles that aren't launched yet.
Patch early, patch often...Unless you're Microsoft
Quickly scrolling down through the various posts, I see quite a few messages complaining about having to install this patch on multiple machines in the office now...Boo hoo!
Good grief, Microsoft's new slogan should be damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Not to be a nag, but a 'self-fulfilling prophecy' is a prediction made by the individual that eventually becomes true, due to the change in attitude of the individual to begin with.
;)
You can't make a self-fulfilling prophecy about someone else
As unpopular as this may sound, you can 'play the blame game' as much as you want; but shoddy products, lack-lustre quality control, and broken promises most likely played a larger factor in this 'possibly' unsuccessful venture moreso than any commercial interference.
Of course, I take this article with a huge grain of salt. Products do get pushed back, yes, their stock is down 96% (Sounds familiar), sure, they've changed CEO's a couple times...it's called 'business'. AMD was once counted out too, remember
What if...
;)
Microsoft Made Routers?
You're missing Linus' whole philosophy...
the _excitement_ is not the tool, but what you can do with it.
There is NO enemy
Not to Torvalds-bash, I respect the man as a great programmer, and the nucleus of a great system, but that had to be the worst interview I have ever seen. Yes, it's okay to be humble, it's okay not to know the answer, but that was by far, not interesting in the least.
You can't just answer 'I don't care' to 50% of the questions asked...There's a huge difference between not caring, and not having an opinion. Sure, he's not marketing driven, he said as much in the interview, he's only concerned about technical matters...Hoo hah, excellent..But we shouldn't try to pass this off as interesting.
I think the most interesting stuff came at the end
"What's that shift going to be? Who knows. Maybe it will have nothing directly to do with computers at all, just using computers to create new life-forms or whatever.. Where the _excitement_ is not the tool, but what you can do with it."
and with that, you have to respect a man who's ignited countless flame wars with thousands of lines of code
It is surprising, however, that Media Audio comes out on top...Not because it's a Microsoft product, but because anecdotally, I've always found it to be the worst player for my system...An intense resource hog as compared to other player/compression pairs. I guess one could say it's the more 'professional' of the three (Ogg, MP3, WMA)
"On MP3Pro, I could hear the valves closing on the clarinet and the bassoon," said Peter Hubscher, a rock guitarist. "I couldn't on Vorbis." An interesting quote, how good were these recordings?
The targetting systems are accurate enough to track a dove flying in front of home plate a la Randy Johnson
The rule that applies most here is EIR
Everyone Is Replacable
No matter how smart you are, how valuable you think you are, how good at your job you are, how much you can do, there will ALWAYS be someone standing right behind you, ready to take your place, and you should treat each opportunity you have as though the person behind you is going to jump in at any second.
Invariably, this philosophy led me to be overly concerned about my job security,never share information on projects, not work well with other potential competitors and despise middle management but supremely suck upper-management ass but I love my parents and I think their advice may come in handy for someone else :)
Oh wait..what about quantum computers?
The problem is, I don't know if I can see a real problem with this. I mean, by pushing the ability to have users easily be able to print photos online, they'll find that their revenue is increased, and Microsoft benefits from the 'tippage' from this usage. I would imagine that those companies that work with Microsoft would do better than those that don't...But then again, who is MS to dictate to other industries how competition is going to be handled...The companies pay for the convenience of Microsoft pushing users to their site. Who knows, only time will tell how succesful this is..For all we know, this could backfire horribly in MS's face when it comes time for the companies to pay their dues. I'm sure extortion, which is pretty similar to what Microsoft is doing, is illegal in at least SOME areas in the world ;)
I think it would be sufficient to say that the popularity of Quake, the original, really added a lot to the stagnating gaming industry 5 years ago
On the other hand, we have the deliberate misuse of a trademark name for the purposes of degradation and or maliciousness intent (Forwarding fordsucks.com to chevrolet.com or whatever that past issue was).
A lot of points of view will depend on the general outlook of the trademark process to begin with...Is a name really worth that much? If the product isn't good enough without the name attached to it, why is it being purchased?
But, we have the slippery slope with suing out of existence the *sucks.com domains...Who's next? The deliberate misspellings, the last names that are too close to corporate trademarks, the .org's vs the .com's. There really isn't any one solution...my best guess for this is to have a domain set aside specifically for JUST trademarked corporate names (.tm) If you access a .tm domain, you know it's a valid trademark for a valid product...play first come, first serve with the rest of the domains, you lose it, you sucks.com
You don't think that they didn't have IBM honcho's prodding them along constantly? They didn't have accountants telling them they were above the budget?...I mean, these things didn't just HAPPEN all of a sudden in our 'information age'...They started WAY back when programming first started...And the same rules that applied then, apply now...
Work hard, work smart, prepare for all of the blame and none of the glory
And then again, some of us just get lucky
Thanks
Is it just me or does your ex-boyfriend seem to come up a lot in your posts? Not the more recent ones, but at least 50% of the time, your ex, or one of your ex's is brought up to have done something in the past that affected your outlook on life...Which tells me you either suffer from advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage, or you still haven't gotten over the poor sod(s).