Er, stop me if I am wrong but after reading carefully the article, it appears that the proponents of this new wave are software virus companies. So my question is : "if there is no more danger for virus on the corporate systems by blocking people from download on the fast pipes, will these same virus companies be able to survive just by selling to individuals on their after hours home systems? Aren't they realizing that they are killing their golden goose?"
If your company starts adopting this policy, then it's one good reason for you to start working from 9am till 5pm every day. I don't think that they would prefer that to your current 14 hours that you regularely put on the job, even if your pcshows the slashdot web page every once in a while.
Philips CDI wasn't only getting bad support in Japan. It was getting bad support earth-wise.
But yes, I would have to agree, hopefully, they'll do just as bad as other tried against Japanese video game companies (3D0 is one good example.) Nothing against MS, it's just that I prefer Japanese style video games. So if MS was gonna kill Nintendo and bite Sony, I would feel terrible.
The oldest wheel found in archeological excavations was discovered in what was Mesopotamia and is believed to be over fifty-five hundred years old. This previous invention is regarded as having greatly influenced the inventors of the trackball made 50 years ago.
Message from SONY: "See ya at Tokyo game show, Microsoft;-)"
BTW, just came back from Japan last week. The XBox is doing very poorly over there. People are complaining about compat and quality issues over the system itself (DVD filing and over heating, noise, etc...) and the quality of the games in general. The video game press in Japan doesn't say good things neither about XBox. All you hear about is Sony new network and Game Cube awesome new titles.
Poor M$;-) At least they can make their way in the States. Did you say uncompetitive practices again? No...
Shareware can exists but the secret recipe is Quality of Service. I've got some shareware I have been using and buying from time to time. If I feel that the product is neat, but misses something I want, contact the author and then get an answer in a timely fashion with either explanation or some comments, then my next move is to buy the software. The last time I did that it was on Sunday at 8pm and the guy replied to me half an hour after I hit SEND. On the other hand, I found most of the time that the people behind the shareware I was using just unreliable. The kind of programmers who worked on some quick home project and didn't feel like finishing it, but still expect a ROI. It is this kind of people who are putting a bad image on the word "shareware". So, the end of the story is I guess, no pain, no gain.
I do my install only once in a while (usually when I get a new system, every two years.) So for me, it's not important if I spend 1, 2, 3 hours to get the bits and pieces moved from one medium to the other. Beside the install usually goes smoothly without me sitting in front of the machine (I start it before calling a friend and chatting for 3 hours.) The longest part is to download the iso images so what it is I would gain if it installed in half the time if the files are up to 20 hours to download?
Being flexible presents some advantage in the ad business as it becomes possible to send CD like junk mail. I (don't really) look forward to the days of getting Pre-approved credit card mail on this media. However, the format becomes quickly an inconvienience when you decide to keep and use the media. As an example, I remember when the DVD expert group was debating over as to protect the disc in the casing or not (like the Panasonic PD disk.) They decided not to, to the biggest regret of companies like Blockbuster who are irritating their customers by renting DVD with scratches and digs all over (I've got one of these DVDs with a cigarette burn in it!)
I really like the tape format, and I enjoy the mini disc (MD) style, allowing me to throw medium on the desk without caring if it will get scratched. The MD format is almost perfect for me. It's smaller than CDs and fit in backpacks. It's too bad that it hasn't become more popular with increase storage and broader adoption by computer manufacturers.
... that they forgot to put on the tablet, is a retractable can holder to attach a bottle of glassex or mr. clean (whatever your fav brand) and add a wiper (the mercedes benz style, single blade) to the tablet, in order to clean the screen every once in a while. I found myself using my iPaq without a stylus because I lost it on a trip. It's incredible how the screen gets greasy and dirty quickly. It becomes so murky that you end up obtaining an anti-aliasing blur effect.
The open source software and tons of articles online about sound generation and synthesis will give you enjoyable hours of reading and playing. All this material can be very intimidating for the new comer or uninitiated so I would recommend the book published about CSound which is for newbies and experienced people a source of plenty of material written by top experts in the field. And did I mention that it's all open source and running on many platforms?
The fact that Microsoft is a big adopter of standard english words for its software and defend against the use by others of these words as for a long time always irritated me.
You can't copyrigth an English word, but it seems that their armies of lawyers have come around this problem. Same for Explorer, Word, and a few others.
What makes their claim valid is that they always prepend the MS trademark in front of the other words. However, lately I have seen documents from the Beast where the simple Word followed by TM was just mentioned. I did a double jump when I saw that, because this is the end of the English language as we know it if they can argue about this in court.
It's written in all the study books I have been reading about. Most people will use their first name, the name of their pet or their birthdate in the password field. Only recently, you start to see smart software that refuses to accept this type of entries. What would be neat is a global password database where all the passwords that have been entered are stored as MD5, and each new password entered is checked agains the digest form to see if it matches, and if it does is refused. The dictionary words and common words should all be part of this database as a starter.
They use BOTH Sun servers and SGI Octane 2 (hint: google search "pixar sun" then "pixar sgi". My original post was not denying Pixar using SGI. It just mean that Pixar has now more reasons to move to Sun entirely (which is a shame because I still prefer IRIX over Solaris.)
Who is the sexiest hacker in the BSD/Linux community? On the male side, Eric Raymond, Dick Stallman, Linus Torvald, Alan Cox, they all look terribly ugly and unattractive. Robert Love is kinda cute. Who else really could win the prize? What about female side? I can't think of anyone...
I went from putting the sentence: "Paypal preferred" in my auctions on eBay when they used to offer a free service to individuals to the sentence: "I won't accept Paypal." And I know that I am not the only one out there moving away from these thieves. The fact that I get charged outrageous fees by these guys who lured me with there $5 coupon at the beginning is just intolerable. I understand the fact that they need to charge something to exist, but there are limits to what they can do. Unfortunately, refusing paypal puts the burden on the buyers who have to wait for their check to clear up or take the time to send a money order. What are the other companies I could use beside paypal for my auctions?
nuf said. Cowboy beebop cries for a movie Hollywood style. It's all americanized in there, and they can even put as much special effects as they usually like to do. Songs are great and the character names can be pronounced by all the average Joe Sixpack of the States who go to the movie on Sunday and usually are the people responsible for a box office movie success or not. There is enough material in there to cover much ground, as the movie following the episodes took after the hero died without having to reinvent a BS story of a twin brother or resurrection. Totally cool and awesome. So Hollywood, time to open your wallets and do the right thing. And call me if you need an actress, okay?
Lots of people out there can only recognize the cute penguin and don't give a dam about what's a kernel or if it's a monolythic kernel or not.
The Hurd has this bizarre logo that doesn't really appeal to non-techies and will have a hard time seducing the girl friends of the geeks around the world causing a slow adoption of the kernel by people without a partner.
If Hurd wants to succeed in Japan for example, where "kawaiiiii" (means: sooooo cute) is a way of life, I urge RMS to hire a designer and work on this mascot symbol ASAP. And promise me, no more flowchart diagram please!
-10 days with 30 minutes a day = 5 hours. 7 days, if used with music and screen off = 3.5 hours. Ok, do the maths. This thing will less than 2 continuous hours with music and screen on.
- MP3: I've given before. DRM means special app on windows to convert your MP3 to Sony homebrew format with copy protection. So it's not really MP3. First you need another OS to do the conversion with their crappy app (Jukebox if I remember correctly), next you can't transfer more than once and in one direction.
- Memory Stick: Ok: Sony still doesn't get it. The most expensive format per MB. I still refuse to go this route. What is the point of adopting this format over other proven and more economic ones?
- Special keyboard rotation and cool design: Here too, I've given in this trap already. If I need a keyboad, I get a laptop. Graffiti doesn't cut it for me. Cool factor: I already have an iBook and an iPaq. I'll still with that.
The Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA is way more powerful and appealing to me than this new Sony model.
PPA, the girl next door.
Hard to see the iMac inspiration in this one...
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Kinda like MS XP vx. OS X comparison. Apple is way better on the design side, but it's more expensive and will run less apps. Same deal for hw and sw.
Talking about the new iMac: has anyone noticed that the screen module tends to become lose from the arm attachment after some use. All the display models I've been playing with exhibit the problem. Could it be a flaw?
"...and it will be shipping for Mac OS X a month before being released for the PC."
This are great news!
PPA, the girl next door.
Unfair article to Linux but...
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... unfortunately it reflects what most people are going to think about the whole darn thing.
I've subscribed to the linuxppc list (debian) and have read from time to time, a post saying more or less: "thanks and so long for the fish. I am moving to OS X."
That usually comes from people who have installed Linux to look cool and brag about it ("Hey dude! I run Linux"). So it's not a real waste to have these people moving to OS X. These guys are the ones bitching about Linux without even moving the little finger and contribute to anything: "Sound doesn't work on my iBook. whathehell?!?" I mean, one doesn't have to be an expert to even write an HTML describing some experience and post it. But these people, just nothing, nada. Only bitching.
So it's not surprising that they are moving to OS X. After all, you get support and SJ is in charge of the UI, so nothing can be wrong. Of course, some of them come back and ask on the same linux list, where is the openoffice for OS X !!! Because as soon as they made the move to OS X, well, they realize the meaning of the word "Free" (not the meaning that Stallman would like you to understand though.) I am talking about what you get for your money. On OS X, iTune and iPhoto, and maybe AppleWorks depending of your inclinaison to deal with shitty software.
For me, it works a little bit differently. Now I am on OS X, using IE (yuk!) and surfing the web. iBook goes to sleep and wake, then Airport is useless. I need to force quit IE. What do I do? Call M$? No, because they probably won't care. I use Mail.app and bitch at the moronic design of this email. Who do I complain to? To SJ? No, he designed the whole stupid app.
I go to Linux, problem with Evolution. Go to IRC and chat with people. Problem resolved in 2 minutes watch in hand. Conclusion: Apple support sucks! Apple community=zero. Where is eWorld when you need it? Linux on the support side just rock. But you got to RTFM and use your brains. Something certainely that many people won't like to do.
That is what people were expecting when Apple announced that it would introduce a device that would revolutionize the world. And that is what people have done without waiting for Apple to keep us waiting for the next big thing. So I've been tired of waiting for Apple to respond to the need of their customers and I just got this. And I just love using it. It's funny that the developer web site shows only Mac OS 9 screenshots though... Stupid Steve! Go Steve!;-)
"When you use an interface for a given amount of time, your subconscious mind records its intricate UI elements, allowing you to focus on the task at hand rather than on navigating the interface. "
But Jef... Where is the fun? I use skins because: - they are beautiful - they make me feel like I am in a science fiction world - i don't care so much about productivity as my boss do.
In some degree, a CLI is a consistent UI that adheres to Jef's principles.
Even if Jef has studied on how to make me 69% more efficient doing my work on a computer, I still don't want a boring UI that is calibrated to squeeze as much juice as they can out of me.
Slashdot Mirror
Er, stop me if I am wrong but after reading carefully the article, it appears that the proponents of this new wave are software virus companies. So my question is : "if there is no more danger for virus on the corporate systems by blocking people from download on the fast pipes, will these same virus companies be able to survive just by selling to individuals on their after hours home systems? Aren't they realizing that they are killing their golden goose?"
If your company starts adopting this policy, then it's one good reason for you to start working from 9am till 5pm every day. I don't think that they would prefer that to your current 14 hours that you regularely put on the job, even if your pcshows the slashdot web page every once in a while.
PPA, the girl next door.
Philips CDI wasn't only getting bad support in Japan. It was getting bad support earth-wise.
But yes, I would have to agree, hopefully, they'll do just as bad as other tried against Japanese video game companies (3D0 is one good example.) Nothing against MS, it's just that I prefer Japanese style video games. So if MS was gonna kill Nintendo and bite Sony, I would feel terrible.
PPA, the girl next door.
The oldest wheel found in archeological excavations was discovered in what was Mesopotamia and is believed to be over fifty-five hundred years old. This previous invention is regarded as having greatly influenced the inventors of the trackball made 50 years ago.
PPA, the girl next door.
Message from SONY: "See ya at Tokyo game show, Microsoft ;-)"
;-) At least they can make their way in the States. Did you say uncompetitive practices again? No...
BTW, just came back from Japan last week. The XBox is doing very poorly over there. People are complaining about compat and quality issues over the system itself (DVD filing and over heating, noise, etc...) and the quality of the games in general. The video game press in Japan doesn't say good things neither about XBox. All you hear about is Sony new network and Game Cube awesome new titles.
Poor M$
PPA, the girl next door.
Shareware can exists but the secret recipe is Quality of Service. I've got some shareware I have been using and buying from time to time. If I feel that the product is neat, but misses something I want, contact the author and then get an answer in a timely fashion with either explanation or some comments, then my next move is to buy the software. The last time I did that it was on Sunday at 8pm and the guy replied to me half an hour after I hit SEND.
On the other hand, I found most of the time that the people behind the shareware I was using just unreliable. The kind of programmers who worked on some quick home project and didn't feel like finishing it, but still expect a ROI. It is this kind of people who are putting a bad image on the word "shareware". So, the end of the story is I guess, no pain, no gain.
PPA, the girl next door.
I do my install only once in a while (usually when I get a new system, every two years.)
So for me, it's not important if I spend 1, 2, 3 hours to get the bits and pieces moved from one medium to the other. Beside the install usually goes smoothly without me sitting in front of the machine (I start it before calling a friend and chatting for 3 hours.) The longest part is to download the iso images so what it is I would gain if it installed in half the time if the files are up to 20 hours to download?
What didn't you understand in my original post? I said "open source". I didn't mentioned a license type.
When you get the source code of the software readily downloadable, then it's called open source.
When you are limited to use the software source code with restrictions (or not) then this is licensing.
Just for you to know,
PPA, the girl next door.
Being flexible presents some advantage in the ad business as it becomes possible to send CD like junk mail. I (don't really) look forward to the days of getting Pre-approved credit card mail on this media. However, the format becomes quickly an inconvienience when you decide to keep and use the media. As an example, I remember when the DVD expert group was debating over as to protect the disc in the casing or not (like the Panasonic PD disk.) They decided not to, to the biggest regret of companies like Blockbuster who are irritating their customers by renting DVD with scratches and digs all over (I've got one of these DVDs with a cigarette burn in it!)
I really like the tape format, and I enjoy the mini disc (MD) style, allowing me to throw medium on the desk without caring if it will get scratched. The MD format is almost perfect for me. It's smaller than CDs and fit in backpacks. It's too bad that it hasn't become more popular with increase storage and broader adoption by computer manufacturers.
PPA, the girl next door.
... that they forgot to put on the tablet, is a retractable can holder to attach a bottle of glassex or mr. clean (whatever your fav brand) and add a wiper (the mercedes benz style, single blade) to the tablet, in order to clean the screen every once in a while. I found myself using my iPaq without a stylus because I lost it on a trip. It's incredible how the screen gets greasy and dirty quickly. It becomes so murky that you end up obtaining an anti-aliasing blur effect.
PPA, the girl next door.
The open source software and tons of articles online about sound generation and synthesis will give you enjoyable hours of reading and playing. All this material can be very intimidating for the new comer or uninitiated so I would recommend the book published about CSound which is for newbies and experienced people a source of plenty of material written by top experts in the field. And did I mention that it's all open source and running on many platforms?
PPA, the girl next door.
PPA, the girl next door.
The fact that Microsoft is a big adopter of standard english words for its software and defend against the use by others of these words as for a long time always irritated me.
You can't copyrigth an English word, but it seems that their armies of lawyers have come around this problem. Same for Explorer, Word, and a few others.
What makes their claim valid is that they always prepend the MS trademark in front of the other words. However, lately I have seen documents from the Beast where the simple Word followed by TM was just mentioned. I did a double jump when I saw that, because this is the end of the English language as we know it if they can argue about this in court.
PPA, the girl next door.
It's written in all the study books I have been reading about. Most people will use their first name, the name of their pet or their birthdate in the password field. Only recently, you start to see smart software that refuses to accept this type of entries. What would be neat is a global password database where all the passwords that have been entered are stored as MD5, and each new password entered is checked agains the digest form to see if it matches, and if it does is refused. The dictionary words and common words should all be part of this database as a starter.
PPA, the girl next door.
...and win my case? I receive about 3 ads for penis enlargement a day even if I am from the opposite sex.
PPA, the girl next door.
They use BOTH Sun servers and SGI Octane 2 (hint: google search "pixar sun" then "pixar sgi". My original post was not denying Pixar using SGI. It just mean that Pixar has now more reasons to move to Sun entirely (which is a shame because I still prefer IRIX over Solaris.)
PPA, the girl next door.
Who is the sexiest hacker in the BSD/Linux community? On the male side, Eric Raymond, Dick Stallman, Linus Torvald, Alan Cox, they all look terribly ugly and unattractive. Robert Love is kinda cute. Who else really could win the prize? What about female side? I can't think of anyone...
PPA, the girl next door.
Pixar is well known for using a farm of Sun rendering servers and workstations. This announcement is more nail in SGI coffin.
PPA, the girl next door.
I went from putting the sentence: "Paypal preferred" in my auctions on eBay when they used to offer a free service to individuals to the sentence: "I won't accept Paypal." And I know that I am not the only one out there moving away from these thieves. The fact that I get charged outrageous fees by these guys who lured me with there $5 coupon at the beginning is just intolerable. I understand the fact that they need to charge something to exist, but there are limits to what they can do.
Unfortunately, refusing paypal puts the burden on the buyers who have to wait for their check to clear up or take the time to send a money order. What are the other companies I could use beside paypal for my auctions?
PPA, the girl next door who says "Screw Paypal"
nuf said. Cowboy beebop cries for a movie Hollywood style. It's all americanized in there, and they can even put as much special effects as they usually like to do. Songs are great and the character names can be pronounced by all the average Joe Sixpack of the States who go to the movie on Sunday and usually are the people responsible for a box office movie success or not. There is enough material in there to cover much ground, as the movie following the episodes took after the hero died without having to reinvent a BS story of a twin brother or resurrection. Totally cool and awesome. So Hollywood, time to open your wallets and do the right thing. And call me if you need an actress, okay?
PPA, the girl next door.
Lots of people out there can only recognize the cute penguin and don't give a dam about what's a kernel or if it's a monolythic kernel or not.
The Hurd has this bizarre logo that doesn't really appeal to non-techies and will have a hard time seducing the girl friends of the geeks around the world causing a slow adoption of the kernel by people without a partner.
If Hurd wants to succeed in Japan for example, where "kawaiiiii" (means: sooooo cute) is a way of life, I urge RMS to hire a designer and work on this mascot symbol ASAP. And promise me, no more flowchart diagram please!
PPA, the girl next door.
First the battery life:
-10 days with 30 minutes a day = 5 hours. 7 days, if used with music and screen off = 3.5 hours. Ok, do the maths. This thing will less than 2 continuous hours with music and screen on.
- MP3: I've given before. DRM means special app on windows to convert your MP3 to Sony homebrew format with copy protection. So it's not really MP3. First you need another OS to do the conversion with their crappy app (Jukebox if I remember correctly), next you can't transfer more than once and in one direction.
- Memory Stick: Ok: Sony still doesn't get it. The most expensive format per MB. I still refuse to go this route. What is the point of adopting this format over other proven and more economic ones?
- Special keyboard rotation and cool design: Here too, I've given in this trap already. If I need a keyboad, I get a laptop. Graffiti doesn't cut it for me. Cool factor: I already have an iBook and an iPaq. I'll still with that.
The Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA is way more powerful and appealing to me than this new Sony model.
PPA, the girl next door.
Kinda like MS XP vx. OS X comparison. Apple is way better on the design side, but it's more expensive and will run less apps. Same deal for hw and sw.
Talking about the new iMac: has anyone noticed that the screen module tends to become lose from the arm attachment after some use. All the display models I've been playing with exhibit the problem. Could it be a flaw?
PPA, the girl next door.
"...and it will be shipping for Mac OS X a month before being released for the PC."
This are great news!
PPA, the girl next door.
... unfortunately it reflects what most people are going to think about the whole darn thing.
I've subscribed to the linuxppc list (debian) and have read from time to time, a post saying more or less: "thanks and so long for the fish. I am moving to OS X."
That usually comes from people who have installed Linux to look cool and brag about it ("Hey dude! I run Linux"). So it's not a real waste to have these people moving to OS X. These guys are the ones bitching about Linux without even moving the little finger and contribute to anything: "Sound doesn't work on my iBook. whathehell?!?" I mean, one doesn't have to be an expert to even write an HTML describing some experience and post it. But these people, just nothing, nada. Only bitching.
So it's not surprising that they are moving to OS X. After all, you get support and SJ is in charge of the UI, so nothing can be wrong. Of course, some of them come back and ask on the same linux list, where is the openoffice for OS X !!! Because as soon as they made the move to OS X, well, they realize the meaning of the word "Free" (not the meaning that Stallman would like you to understand though.) I am talking about what you get for your money. On OS X, iTune and iPhoto, and maybe AppleWorks depending of your inclinaison to deal with shitty software.
For me, it works a little bit differently. Now I am on OS X, using IE (yuk!) and surfing the web. iBook goes to sleep and wake, then Airport is useless. I need to force quit IE. What do I do? Call M$? No, because they probably won't care. I use Mail.app and bitch at the moronic design of this email. Who do I complain to? To SJ? No, he designed the whole stupid app.
I go to Linux, problem with Evolution. Go to IRC and chat with people. Problem resolved in 2 minutes watch in hand. Conclusion: Apple support sucks! Apple community=zero. Where is eWorld when you need it? Linux on the support side just rock. But you got to RTFM and use your brains. Something certainely that many people won't like to do.
PPA, the girl next door.
That is what people were expecting when Apple announced that it would introduce a device that would revolutionize the world. And that is what people have done without waiting for Apple to keep us waiting for the next big thing. So I've been tired of waiting for Apple to respond to the need of their customers and I just got this. And I just love using it. It's funny that the developer web site shows only Mac OS 9 screenshots though... Stupid Steve! Go Steve! ;-)
PPA, the girl next door
"When you use an interface for a given amount of time, your subconscious mind records its intricate UI elements, allowing you to focus on the task at hand rather than on navigating the interface. "
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But Jef... Where is the fun? I use skins because
- they are beautiful
- they make me feel like I am in a science fiction world
- i don't care so much about productivity as my boss do.
In some degree, a CLI is a consistent UI that adheres to Jef's principles.
Even if Jef has studied on how to make me 69% more efficient doing my work on a computer, I still don't want a boring UI that is calibrated to squeeze as much juice as they can out of me.
PPA, the girl next door.