Also, note that SDK's like Garage Games Torque engine (what made tribes2) is something you can get for a cheap $100 for a 1 seat license (vs another modern engine which will cost you around $250,000-$500,000). Why? One of the main reasons is what you are saying. The person gets experience with the engine, gets a job in the gaming industry, and which engine will he talk his employer on using (btw - the commerical version of the Torque engine is a ton)??
Second reason (if you wanted to know, and is slightly OT) is if independent developer(s) actually make a game on their own, the license state that you have to publish it through Garage Games.
I had an askSlashdot about licensing issues like this about a week or two ago...
Does it cover Weblogic community known hangups?
Like if you have a large enterprise application running (which is typical if you are running WebLogic), that hotdeploying more than twice tends to cause trouble.
And that its a wise idea to delete the temp directories between restarts, because weblogic likes to keep stuff in memory, regardless if the files/apps still exist?
Stuff like that cause many newbie Weblogic developers hours of confusion. I'd like so see it documented in some weblogic texts.
This is an interesting perdicament.
You see, open source does not compete with proprietary software.
On the other hand proprietary software does compete with open source.
Now, there is no reason to get up in arms. The best open source can do is to keep on what its doing. Make good software.
There is no point spending cash to fight against MS. Open source won't die, because, as you all know, its done for free on developers free time (with exceptions).
So, there is no fear of open source being ousted by MS. The best they can do is try to prevent companies from going the open source route. Now, does that truely harm open source?
Wow, that didn't make my point come across. Its still morning, gimmie a break.
What I meant to say is that the 5% is worthy of being on the google tech news search. It isn't necessarily "news" but still fits in with the other stories.
are gleaned from other news sites 95% of the time (the exceptions being book reviews, interviews, and Ask Slashdot). It's not like Slashdot is a source of original content
You just said slashdot is 95% links, so its not a source of original content.
So whats that other 5%??:-D
Of course there is (was) feature articles and askslashdot. These aren't necessarily "news" but would fit in a technology news site.
I don't like the entire idea of passport. I don't have the same password everywhere, and don't like the idea of having all my eggs in one basket. I have XP, therefore have a passport account, but I don't use it for anything.
Well, I think the real reason it was posted was: I hate Passport's integration with XP (although that might be because I hate XP). An Open Source single-sign on would be a real blessing.
Anything anti-MS is a good/. story, right?
An open source single sign-on won't solve the problem of a single sign-on.
The reason people hate passport isn't because its written by MS. Why don't people understand that?
Simple: Blind rage of MS.
Tunnel Vision can happen at both ends of the tunnel.
I wrote a bunch about it in my journal. Basically, its started off as a countdown timer on the blizzard site without any background (started at 10hours, I recall).
Each hour, during odd times, the clock flashed green for a second. People took down the time, noticed all numbers were between 0-25. They translated it to letters, then turned it around, and it made words that terran ghosts said when you clicked on them in starcraft ("Somebody call for an exterminator", etc...).
Each hour, the picture got more in focus.
Eventually, people started understanding that it had something to do with starcraft, so it moved to StarCraft2.com.
Now, everyone started looking at the 'fading in' picture, and trying to determine what it would be (there were two popular ideas, one was kerrigan, queen of the zerg, the other was a protoss-zerg hybrid).
Eventually, the time came up, found out it was a console shooter, and a million fans turned livid with the disappointment that SC2 still isn't even a thought at blizzard (yeah, they say they are gonna revisit it, but they've said that for YEARS).
It really puzzels me that Blizzard is putting it off. StarCraft is STILL one of the most popular online RTS's. Its not like they are still making money on SC anymore.
Why not just make a second one off the WC3 engine???
When I speak for censorship, especially in other countries without a constitution, I get the argument: "Some rights are universal".
What about the rights of these children? You know, the right not to be abused. The right not to be defiled. The right to have their pasts wiped away so they can try to live a regular life.
You people MAKE ME SICK.
Some things are worse than censorship. Prioritize.
could they be testing the waters for making things like switches and routers in the future? Lets hope not.
What is up with all the negative articles on MS Hardware?
Take a look at your mouse! Have you ever used an MS Joystick?
Sure, lots of you have complaints with MS's OS's. Some of you hate the whole "Major Corportation" thing.
But, damnit, MS MAKES GOOD HARDWARE!
I've used MS Mice, and MS Sidewinders for YEARS and they still work GREAT!
You are adding a new environment to a test environment. First of all, how tested is the virtual network virtual machine?
What's the odds of a bug occuring in the virtual network and not the real network?
What's the odds of a bug NOT occuring in the virtual network and in the real network?
There is no clear-cut way to be absolutely sure...
A quick way is to print out the idea (or source) and mail it to yourself and never open it. You have a postmark date of when you had the idea, which can stand for prior art in court, IIRC.
1.) For the clarifications of others: honeypot (free wireless access point)
Do not confuse a honeypot with a honeynet (the network with little security to watch for breakins).
2.) Look at Juno web. They allow free (modem) web access, and make a profit off the banner ads across the top of the browser.
Makes you wonder what he'll be shooting for? A cheaper, compatible MS Word competitor?
And a word on hungarian notation. It makes me want to puke. Your variables should be named well enough that it shouldn't need extra letters to tell you the type.
Being strapped to thousands of pounds of liquid fuel that is to be lit, and propel me into space, on a vehicle paid to the lowest bidder, so I can sit around bored in zero-g for days isn't my idea of a good time.
Yeah, lotsa nerds want to go into space, but not me. I'd rather have the cash for my family than a trip.
And don't ever count out 'regular peoples' chances of going into space. Who knows what technology can occur tomorrow that will make it safe and cheap to go into space in say 10 years.
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Also, note that SDK's like Garage Games Torque engine (what made tribes2) is something you can get for a cheap $100 for a 1 seat license (vs another modern engine which will cost you around $250,000-$500,000).
Why? One of the main reasons is what you are saying. The person gets experience with the engine, gets a job in the gaming industry, and which engine will he talk his employer on using (btw - the commerical version of the Torque engine is a ton)??
Second reason (if you wanted to know, and is slightly OT) is if independent developer(s) actually make a game on their own, the license state that you have to publish it through Garage Games.
I had an askSlashdot about licensing issues like this about a week or two ago...
But this article points out something that makes the majority of slashdot users hate microsoft more!
Isn't that the point?
Does it cover Weblogic community known hangups?
Like if you have a large enterprise application running (which is typical if you are running WebLogic), that hotdeploying more than twice tends to cause trouble.
And that its a wise idea to delete the temp directories between restarts, because weblogic likes to keep stuff in memory, regardless if the files/apps still exist?
Stuff like that cause many newbie Weblogic developers hours of confusion. I'd like so see it documented in some weblogic texts.
This is an interesting perdicament.
You see, open source does not compete with proprietary software.
On the other hand proprietary software does compete with open source.
Now, there is no reason to get up in arms. The best open source can do is to keep on what its doing. Make good software.
There is no point spending cash to fight against MS. Open source won't die, because, as you all know, its done for free on developers free time (with exceptions).
So, there is no fear of open source being ousted by MS. The best they can do is try to prevent companies from going the open source route. Now, does that truely harm open source?
Wow, that didn't make my point come across. Its still morning, gimmie a break.
What I meant to say is that the 5% is worthy of being on the google tech news search. It isn't necessarily "news" but still fits in with the other stories.
are gleaned from other news sites 95% of the time (the exceptions being book reviews, interviews, and Ask Slashdot). It's not like Slashdot is a source of original content
:-D
You just said slashdot is 95% links, so its not a source of original content.
So whats that other 5%??
Of course there is (was) feature articles and askslashdot. These aren't necessarily "news" but would fit in a technology news site.
I don't like the entire idea of passport. I don't have the same password everywhere, and don't like the idea of having all my eggs in one basket. I have XP, therefore have a passport account, but I don't use it for anything.
Its quotes like that that make me think of this.
Can we mod the article -1, Presumputous?
/. story, right?
Well, I think the real reason it was posted was:
I hate Passport's integration with XP (although that might be because I hate XP). An Open Source single-sign on would be a real blessing.
Anything anti-MS is a good
An open source single sign-on won't solve the problem of a single sign-on.
The reason people hate passport isn't because its written by MS. Why don't people understand that?
Simple: Blind rage of MS.
Tunnel Vision can happen at both ends of the tunnel.
I wrote a bunch about it in my journal. Basically, its started off as a countdown timer on the blizzard site without any background (started at 10hours, I recall).
Each hour, during odd times, the clock flashed green for a second. People took down the time, noticed all numbers were between 0-25. They translated it to letters, then turned it around, and it made words that terran ghosts said when you clicked on them in starcraft ("Somebody call for an exterminator", etc...).
Each hour, the picture got more in focus.
Eventually, people started understanding that it had something to do with starcraft, so it moved to StarCraft2.com.
Now, everyone started looking at the 'fading in' picture, and trying to determine what it would be (there were two popular ideas, one was kerrigan, queen of the zerg, the other was a protoss-zerg hybrid).
Eventually, the time came up, found out it was a console shooter, and a million fans turned livid with the disappointment that SC2 still isn't even a thought at blizzard (yeah, they say they are gonna revisit it, but they've said that for YEARS).
It really puzzels me that Blizzard is putting it off. StarCraft is STILL one of the most popular online RTS's. Its not like they are still making money on SC anymore.
Why not just make a second one off the WC3 engine???
Sir Bors, go chop ee's 'ead off!
:-D
ARGH!!!
I'm surprised that you were the only one to catch that
When I speak for censorship, especially in other countries without a constitution, I get the argument: "Some rights are universal".
What about the rights of these children? You know, the right not to be abused. The right not to be defiled. The right to have their pasts wiped away so they can try to live a regular life.
You people MAKE ME SICK.
Some things are worse than censorship. Prioritize.
Design patterns with new technology (like EJBs and servlets) are trickier to envision, that is why books like these are valuable.
And my parents said I'd never amount to anything. Actually, I have nothing to say in this article :-P
could they be testing the waters for making things like switches and routers in the future? Lets hope not.
What is up with all the negative articles on MS Hardware?
Take a look at your mouse! Have you ever used an MS Joystick?
Sure, lots of you have complaints with MS's OS's. Some of you hate the whole "Major Corportation" thing.
But, damnit, MS MAKES GOOD HARDWARE!
I've used MS Mice, and MS Sidewinders for YEARS and they still work GREAT!
You are adding a new environment to a test environment. First of all, how tested is the virtual network virtual machine?
What's the odds of a bug occuring in the virtual network and not the real network?
What's the odds of a bug NOT occuring in the virtual network and in the real network?
There is no clear-cut way to be absolutely sure...
A quick way is to print out the idea (or source) and mail it to yourself and never open it. You have a postmark date of when you had the idea, which can stand for prior art in court, IIRC.
A notary signing it would help, too.
1.) For the clarifications of others:
honeypot (free wireless access point)
Do not confuse a honeypot with a honeynet (the network with little security to watch for breakins).
2.) Look at Juno web. They allow free (modem) web access, and make a profit off the banner ads across the top of the browser.
Makes you wonder what he'll be shooting for? A cheaper, compatible MS Word competitor?
And a word on hungarian notation. It makes me want to puke. Your variables should be named well enough that it shouldn't need extra letters to tell you the type.
I'd rather take the $38million in cash.
Being strapped to thousands of pounds of liquid fuel that is to be lit, and propel me into space, on a vehicle paid to the lowest bidder, so I can sit around bored in zero-g for days isn't my idea of a good time.
Yeah, lotsa nerds want to go into space, but not me. I'd rather have the cash for my family than a trip.
And don't ever count out 'regular peoples' chances of going into space. Who knows what technology can occur tomorrow that will make it safe and cheap to go into space in say 10 years.
...have the cash value, thanks.
s/wrong/illegal
sorry 'bout that.
You had a career all lined up, and probably enough income to pay for everything you wanted.
You were intelligent enough to know it was wrong, so was it worth it?
I have to agree with the your OS works, what's the problem and your a physics teacher, why is chosing an OS in your curriculum speeches.
I'd like to honestly ask the submitter why Linux is so important to his Physics ciriculum. I'm sure the system admin will ask the same question.
Now if you were a CS teacher, I'd see your point, but a physics professor? Sorry, chum. OS Theory isn't a physics thing.
I mean isn't that what video games teach us, open every door as soon as you find it!
You've never played a resident evil, or system shock 2, have you?
First, you clear out the area, ensure its secure, and always carry a big stick when opening up a newfound door.