The problem is when you need version x and y of some development libraries. Sure--there is versioning on the sharable libraries, but unless you start creating REALLY ugly directories, there is only one/usr/include/ldap.h or something, and if there are API differences...well, like I said-it gets ugly.
While as you said, this may be an extreme example, I have always hated this, and I know a couple people that have been turned off from Linux/Unix/OSS because of this.
Wanna install application X, well the developer decided to use library y and z, plus created their own library which is now a seperate project with it's own odd dependincies, each with their own as well.
And by the way, if you are lucky you'll find the magic combo of library y, library z, and libray z+ which all work together with common library a version 5.2 - which you can't upgrade or app W won't work.
It makes DLL hell look simple - then again, the main difference is that 99% of the time if someone like the debian team or RedHat has done this dirty work, you as the end user just install the binary package and it all works...dll hell affects end users but shouldn't.
Myself - I've learned to slug through the above - my beef is trying to get some obscure library compiling on HP-UX - you can tell what developers have seen more than Linux and who hasn't:)
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT a GREAT game. I have never seen something as COOL as this game. Blah blah blah side story blah blah blah obscure inside reference blah blah blah worship aforementioned product.
It seems that most of his argumens (C90 vs Dat, wintel vs mac, vhs vs beta) were that if you are already the domininant product in a market place then of course you are gonna be chosen. And also because of this dominance of course prices will be lower.
Next up - what people like sells more than what people don't like.
Nope...something seperate than the Disney Sound System, though they worked about the same. I think somewhere at work in the "history" bin, I have one made by logitech as well.
But the AdLib was just FM Synthesis right? The SB actually added the waveout kinda stuff - samples and digital audio instead of just a cheap general midi.
Somewhere (unless I gave it away) I had a sound device that worked by hooking it up to the parallel port - it would let you play wav's or whatever to an audio connector on this little passthrough dongle device. Came with Dungeon Master - used a ton of CPU time though.
Depending on which one, it could be some proprietary interface, or it could be a SB with an IDE controller on the soundcard, which you could actually use as a third IDE controller in the system. 6 of those 200MB drives in those old computers was cool.
My first thought as to what you are buying is that Verisign has dealt with microsoft and netscape to make sure their root certificate is in the browser so you don't have to worry about users getting a popup.
What I would like to see (and never will because of profit) is for me to buy a SSL cert, have Verisign or whoever REALLY verify I am who I say I am. Then from my cert be able to generate as many as I need, and so on.
That way, say school.edu could buy a cert, then generate certs for www.school.edu, pop3s.school.edu, otherwww.school.edu, or even generate one for department.school.edu who could then generate one for www.department.school.edu
After all, aren't they supposed to be about a chain of verification up to the root cert?
That's my problem with the crap I get sent (work at a university) The DMCA says that they must provide (in written form - though we get e-mails) the info to indetify the person. Instead we get ip's and a timestamp, which may or may not match our time stamp.
Can these then be ignored cause they ain't kosher with the DMCA? Should the RIAA have to do the leg work to find out who they are (I agree - how?)
To quote myself last night talking to my wife:
"Holy shit...sci-fi channel is actually showing some sci-fi".
Yes...it really blows. They are either showing twilight zone/outer limits, Stargate SG-1, some cheezy "horror" stuff, or some thing like "Crossing over" or other semi-paranormal based talk show.
I can understand that producing something like Farscape takes a lot of money and they may not be able to sustain that. But why is it that they aren't running Star Trek:TNG, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, etc... stuff that would be cheap for them to get ahold of, and from comments I read all over the net, people pissed at sci-fi wish they'd run.
I will say that since TNN switched to TNN, I have watched it a LOT more (as in more than 0%). When nothing else is on and I want background noise, TNG works for me. Of course, turning the thing off works too.
So what? If I do stupid business practices, then why should I be bailed out because while I'm reaping profits on a successful venture, I'm losing most of them on 10 other stupid ventures.
Seems to me that I have a problem with choosing my ventures well. I fail to see why I should have government intervention to help me make up for my stupidity.
I agree with your last paragraph though...MS has the weight to move into and make a major impact on almost any business. Best thing is that in the 70's, Bill Gates was a big acid rock fan, so perhaps we'll see Microsoft Records coming out with the whole Hawkwind back catalog:)
I work for the state. Budget problems last year. Governer is deciding to
a) no raises for state employees
b) raise alchohol/cig taxes (doesn't affect me much)
c) raise property taxes
So I'm getting a double-whammy at least. For some reason, spending my money on something that is formula generated and over produced just doesn't seem to fit into my top 20 lists of things to do with my little bit left over.
But I'm sure it'll all get blamed on piracy and heaven knows what else.
Okay...so...assuming that this is supposed to be a funny reference to something, and a few people actually must have understood it because you are ranked at 5 for funny, I have just one question... Would you like some toast?
I agree they shouldn't be able to say you must include x.
However, from what I read earlier on in ths case it is not as simple. What I read was that MS had signed a contract with Sun that they would include Java and then backed out, so I guess this comes down to being the punishment for breach of contract, not just because Sun is whining.
While stuff like Boromir as a viking and Aragorn as a native american indian scout could scar you for life, in a lot of ways it was a lot more faithful to the books than the PJ works.
Funny thing is, you mention this on a tolkien newsgroup and they go nuts. They will go on about how it left out the old forest and Tom Bombadil - hey...so did PJ.
So they go on with the next best thing they can find, which is usually a dig about the animation styles. Or they will bitch about the Nazgul crying/screaming after they missed Frodo in Bree (oh wait..the PJ movie did the same thing.)
I still like it - though it is kinda hard to watch sometimes. Not as bad as the Return of the King movie.
You forgot about the mystic Allanon, who comes and goes with the party. But these, while obviously inspired by, stand alone well enough on their own - and after the first book are even more on their own.
The Iron Tower: The Dark Tide/Shadows of Doom/the Darkest Day by Dennis L. McKiernan
These books so closely parallel LotR it's not even funny - even having short people as part of the main story, a watcher in the water right before they go into some forgotten underworld, etc...
In his defense, he does say in the preface how he loves LotR and wrote these because he couldn't find any other epic fantasy like it. While they are decent books, he could have not copied it so closely.
I have an MS ergonomic/natural keyboard at home, and I have an Apple one for my mac as well.
The MS one is not as nice as the Model M's, but good enough.
The mac one scares me. When you split it (it is adjustable) the tgb and yhn keys, where the split occurs if I remember right, look like they are hanging over a ledge and that typing on them would cause them to fall right off.
A hookup to the bar's water supply - how else can it water down drinks and make even more profit.
Or like the bar across the street from my college - they used real cheap vodka to "water down" the other liquours. That way people still get drunk and buy more and they spend less on the booze.
On the downside - your whiskey sour tasted like vodka, but the place stayed full until they widened the road.
Of course, hard as it is to believe, just cause you have a domain doesn't mean you need to have a web site.
True...hard to find nowadays, but I'd hate to see someone using a domain name just for e-mail loosing in arbitration because "he didn't have a web site - obviously he was just squatting"
I remember years ago seeing something about how a bunch of college students did a prequel to Logans Run - called Logan One I think. They built sets, made costumes, even made their own little monorail car. Don't remember where I saw that, but it was some 5-10 minute blurb somewhere.
Also, there have been some halfway decent Dr. Who fanmovies made too.
Look at ifilm, atomfilms, etc... If you dig around, you can find some cool amateur films - some a little more well done (George Lucas in Love comes to mind).
Only problem is the massive amounts of storage/bandwidth required to host these things. Makes it kinda hard for you to easily just pop something of decent quality up there and still make it easy for people to see (ie...don't get bored after 25 minutes of trying to download it and move on)
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The problem is when you need version x and y of some development libraries. Sure--there is versioning on the sharable libraries, but unless you start creating REALLY ugly directories, there is only one /usr/include/ldap.h or something, and if there are API differences...well, like I said-it gets ugly.
Yup...still better than windows
While as you said, this may be an extreme example, I have always hated this, and I know a couple people that have been turned off from Linux/Unix/OSS because of this.
:)
Wanna install application X, well the developer decided to use library y and z, plus created their own library which is now a seperate project with it's own odd dependincies, each with their own as well.
And by the way, if you are lucky you'll find the magic combo of library y, library z, and libray z+ which all work together with common library a version 5.2 - which you can't upgrade or app W won't work.
It makes DLL hell look simple - then again, the main difference is that 99% of the time if someone like the debian team or RedHat has done this dirty work, you as the end user just install the binary package and it all works...dll hell affects end users but shouldn't.
Myself - I've learned to slug through the above - my beef is trying to get some obscure library compiling on HP-UX - you can tell what developers have seen more than Linux and who hasn't
Daikatana rules all.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT a GREAT game. I have never seen something as COOL as this game. Blah blah blah side story blah blah blah obscure inside reference blah blah blah worship aforementioned product.
It seems that most of his argumens (C90 vs Dat, wintel vs mac, vhs vs beta) were that if you are already the domininant product in a market place then of course you are gonna be chosen. And also because of this dominance of course prices will be lower.
Next up - what people like sells more than what people don't like.
Nope...something seperate than the Disney Sound System, though they worked about the same. I think somewhere at work in the "history" bin, I have one made by logitech as well.
m /thumb/dm.jpg
I found this image of the Dungeon Master adapter
http://bioinfo.mshri.on.ca/people/feldman/vgmuseu
But the AdLib was just FM Synthesis right? The SB actually added the waveout kinda stuff - samples and digital audio instead of just a cheap general midi.
Somewhere (unless I gave it away) I had a sound device that worked by hooking it up to the parallel port - it would let you play wav's or whatever to an audio connector on this little passthrough dongle device. Came with Dungeon Master - used a ton of CPU time though.
Depending on which one, it could be some proprietary interface, or it could be a SB with an IDE controller on the soundcard, which you could actually use as a third IDE controller in the system. 6 of those 200MB drives in those old computers was cool.
In all of my moving around the net, I have never encountered an OpenNIC domain in the wild.
I know they are out there and people have stuff, but I have never seen a link to one, needed to send e-mail to one, etc...
But GM is just an abbreviation for General Motors, so I guess we're back to F winning :)
My first thought as to what you are buying is that Verisign has dealt with microsoft and netscape to make sure their root certificate is in the browser so you don't have to worry about users getting a popup.
What I would like to see (and never will because of profit) is for me to buy a SSL cert, have Verisign or whoever REALLY verify I am who I say I am. Then from my cert be able to generate as many as I need, and so on.
That way, say school.edu could buy a cert, then generate certs for www.school.edu, pop3s.school.edu, otherwww.school.edu, or even generate one for department.school.edu who could then generate one for www.department.school.edu
After all, aren't they supposed to be about a chain of verification up to the root cert?
That's my problem with the crap I get sent (work at a university) The DMCA says that they must provide (in written form - though we get e-mails) the info to indetify the person. Instead we get ip's and a timestamp, which may or may not match our time stamp.
Can these then be ignored cause they ain't kosher with the DMCA? Should the RIAA have to do the leg work to find out who they are (I agree - how?)
damn lawyers.
To quote myself last night talking to my wife:
"Holy shit...sci-fi channel is actually showing some sci-fi".
Yes...it really blows. They are either showing twilight zone/outer limits, Stargate SG-1, some cheezy "horror" stuff, or some thing like "Crossing over" or other semi-paranormal based talk show.
I can understand that producing something like Farscape takes a lot of money and they may not be able to sustain that. But why is it that they aren't running Star Trek:TNG, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, etc... stuff that would be cheap for them to get ahold of, and from comments I read all over the net, people pissed at sci-fi wish they'd run.
I will say that since TNN switched to TNN, I have watched it a LOT more (as in more than 0%). When nothing else is on and I want background noise, TNG works for me. Of course, turning the thing off works too.
So what? If I do stupid business practices, then why should I be bailed out because while I'm reaping profits on a successful venture, I'm losing most of them on 10 other stupid ventures.
:)
Seems to me that I have a problem with choosing my ventures well. I fail to see why I should have government intervention to help me make up for my stupidity.
I agree with your last paragraph though...MS has the weight to move into and make a major impact on almost any business. Best thing is that in the 70's, Bill Gates was a big acid rock fan, so perhaps we'll see Microsoft Records coming out with the whole Hawkwind back catalog
I work for the state. Budget problems last year. Governer is deciding to
a) no raises for state employees
b) raise alchohol/cig taxes (doesn't affect me much)
c) raise property taxes
So I'm getting a double-whammy at least. For some reason, spending my money on something that is formula generated and over produced just doesn't seem to fit into my top 20 lists of things to do with my little bit left over.
But I'm sure it'll all get blamed on piracy and heaven knows what else.
Okay...so...assuming that this is supposed to be a funny reference to something, and a few people actually must have understood it because you are ranked at 5 for funny, I have just one question...
Would you like some toast?
Hilarious show.
While true...that's not a bad thing
New != Better
Thanks for the clarification - don't know why it was modded a troll.
I agree they shouldn't be able to say you must include x.
However, from what I read earlier on in ths case it is not as simple. What I read was that MS had signed a contract with Sun that they would include Java and then backed out, so I guess this comes down to being the punishment for breach of contract, not just because Sun is whining.
While stuff like Boromir as a viking and Aragorn as a native american indian scout could scar you for life, in a lot of ways it was a lot more faithful to the books than the PJ works.
Funny thing is, you mention this on a tolkien newsgroup and they go nuts. They will go on about how it left out the old forest and Tom Bombadil - hey...so did PJ.
So they go on with the next best thing they can find, which is usually a dig about the animation styles. Or they will bitch about the Nazgul crying/screaming after they missed Frodo in Bree (oh wait..the PJ movie did the same thing.)
I still like it - though it is kinda hard to watch sometimes. Not as bad as the Return of the King movie.
You forgot about the mystic Allanon, who comes and goes with the party. But these, while obviously inspired by, stand alone well enough on their own - and after the first book are even more on their own.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/04514581
The Iron Tower: The Dark Tide/Shadows of Doom/the Darkest Day
by Dennis L. McKiernan
These books so closely parallel LotR it's not even funny - even having short people as part of the main story, a watcher in the water right before they go into some forgotten underworld, etc...
In his defense, he does say in the preface how he loves LotR and wrote these because he couldn't find any other epic fantasy like it. While they are decent books, he could have not copied it so closely.
I have an MS ergonomic/natural keyboard at home, and I have an Apple one for my mac as well.
The MS one is not as nice as the Model M's, but good enough.
The mac one scares me. When you split it (it is adjustable) the tgb and yhn keys, where the split occurs if I remember right, look like they are hanging over a ledge and that typing on them would cause them to fall right off.
A hookup to the bar's water supply - how else can it water down drinks and make even more profit.
Or like the bar across the street from my college - they used real cheap vodka to "water down" the other liquours. That way people still get drunk and buy more and they spend less on the booze.
On the downside - your whiskey sour tasted like vodka, but the place stayed full until they widened the road.
I went to altavista and type
+ozzy +osbourne -searchking
I am hurting their business.
Of course, hard as it is to believe, just cause you have a domain doesn't mean you need to have a web site.
True...hard to find nowadays, but I'd hate to see someone using a domain name just for e-mail loosing in arbitration because "he didn't have a web site - obviously he was just squatting"
I remember years ago seeing something about how a bunch of college students did a prequel to Logans Run - called Logan One I think. They built sets, made costumes, even made their own little monorail car. Don't remember where I saw that, but it was some 5-10 minute blurb somewhere.
Also, there have been some halfway decent Dr. Who fanmovies made too.
Look at ifilm, atomfilms, etc... If you dig around, you can find some cool amateur films - some a little more well done (George Lucas in Love comes to mind).
Only problem is the massive amounts of storage/bandwidth required to host these things. Makes it kinda hard for you to easily just pop something of decent quality up there and still make it easy for people to see (ie...don't get bored after 25 minutes of trying to download it and move on)