Granted I don't know much about OSX. However -- with most *nix OS's that are posix complient -- should not only./configure;make;make install care about what the underlying OS is (as long as all the right libraries installed? (Or is there special reqs. for programs to be ported to OSX?? -- and if there is, then what good is it..)
Amen brother. After reading your post -- you will get my money long bfore the YAD - Yet Another Distro. You (and the rest of the "little guys" in the basement's with nothing more than beer money -- not millions) are the people that have made free *nix what it is today....These companies burning through millions and millions just to repaint an already solid fence, they make me sick. I wish I had every penny that went into that failed commercial memory hog of a failed file manager a couple of years ago to give to the guy who wrote emelfm in a weekend:) that would be poetic justice. All hail the little guy....thank you, and cheers.
make me appreciate the not for profit distros that much more. This community was built out of the love for software, not the love of the dollar. I remember when I "bought" my first version of Linux (Slackware in the back of one of Pat's books that I purchased to learn a little more about VI) I was able to download the next version without feeling guilty -- or that if I did not sign over my allowance -- the Patrick would go hungry and Linux would die. You know what people -- granted a little eye candy and a few extra memory sticks required things are not that much better today. The only thing different is that all these new guys code with dollar signs in their eyes and not a itch in their souls. Not once have I ever heard Linus ask for my dollar....yet he seems to be doing pretty good for himself. FOrgive me if I sound bitter....It has been a long day.
complexity in the number of buttons and hours of cut frame movie footage does nothing to add to the "fun" of gameplay. I dare say that many a more hour was spent guiding Harry through his 20 minutes of fame with the "plain" old Atari CX joystick than will ever be achieved on these new fangled thumb busters. If I want to watch a movie I will go to blockbuster.
That is true and a good example of an ROI. However if the system does not goes out the door complete. I have seen many traps of a "Phase 1" project out the door. And the next year or 2 is maintenence and "Phase 2", etc...Thus keeping the cost over the middle and end of the 5 years stays close to the first couple.
The issue is this: Upper management and end users only see the end product. I is either there or it is not. It works, or it does not. They look at that product as the end of the line for IT costs. It is out the door, gone gold -- end of story. What they don't see is the process behind the scenes that makes everything "appear" to be working as promised. It takes (surprise) people!!! Funny how an ROI on any given system may reduce 5 jobs of monkeys at the end of the line making $30K a year...However, to do it right will require (to do it right) 3 high end IT people and maybe a help desk jocky or two. And guess what -- that ROI that cut 5 jobs and $150K per year, take $200K and 3 or 4 people from IT to keep it going and maintained. Now roll forward a few years -- upper level management wonders why 7 or 8 percent of the companies investments are going into the IT "black box" costs. And now look what is happening -- they are starting to take the same chainsaw to the people who have made it possible to chainsaw through the monkeys the last 10 years.....Sad really.
This may be the end of the world coming on. Road Warrior was my introduction to all things good. I watch it at least once a week....(Mad Max about once a month -- and I throw thunderdome in every few months.) No other movie announcment could make me happier. Will we live to see it complete?
Oooh...Front page and FTP. My dad does not even run his own ISP -- and he only lets me use SSH & SCP. Plus he makes sure I upgrade bind all the time and that I drink my milk!
I have seen a few games with a date of 1999. Can't remeber the name, but I am sure they were from Brazil. (Plus a bunch of Pokemon games from 1999-2000).
Won't be long before people realize that yes -- gameplay does matter, cutscenes don't matter. Long live the retro scene!!
Sounded like a semi-fair deal to me. I broke out my credit card a cruised to their site. 15 searches for bands/artists that have been on my mind lately...Results = 1 album from 1 band. That is not very good coverage. If I wanted "hit and miss" availability for my tastes -- I could hang out at the cut-out bins or used CD isle. I think this is a step in the right direction -- but what they need to keep in mind is what made the P2P services so popular (other than the price) was the shear volume of music for EVERY taste.
The internet is a big enough place -- I can avoid (much like a pretty girl with a bad sexual disease) any site that is to ignorant to ensure that it functions with the latest versions of all major browsers.
If only 10% of the people used browsers other than IE -- could you imagine a storefront locking out that many "perspective" customers? (And if they do -- well then they are to ignorant to deserve survival.)
I read all 4 harry potters and all 3 lotr books on my palm (all during meetings -- looked like I was working)....and you can bet your ass as soon as harry potter 4 comes out -- I will break that palm outta storage and use it some more.
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So what if they are? It is no secret that they are not exactlly rolling around in money. (Hell, Cmdr. Taco is using POTS to connect to the internet from home -- poor chap can't evwn afford a T1....) I always thought one of the advantages of having my "little" website purchased by a sugar daddy (VA) would be making that call to the phone company to order that fat pipe into my crib....but alas -- bubbles burst. Fortunes twindle. And we are left picking up the breadcrumbs of a few cents from redirected book purchases -- and still the crowd boos.
Until this problem is dealt with at the protocol level - it will remain a problem.
People just need to realize that the whole POP/SMTP non authenticated - forged friendly mail protocols that have become the UNBENDABLE standards are flawed and need to be changed.
Much the same way that Ford had to redesign the fuel tank locations on there economy cars thanks to the fireball friendly Pintos. When the Escorts came out -- they could not get away with saying -- "the fuel tank location and fuel system is the same as the Pinto, because it is our standard."
I have tried them all (mail readers) and I always find myself going back to pine. I keep a USB keychain drive with me that has a nice SSH client for every OS I may run across -- and I can get to my mail from anywhere. (and on a slow connection -- this is much better than those "heavy html" based mail reader "emulators" that you kids are using these days...)
I have about 1300 portable MP3 players. Each one of them has a feature that the other did not. My best advice -- rechargable batteries are your friends.
Watching a grainy, wobbly, bad sounding prerelease of a (soon to be) classic movie recorded with a camcorder is about as anticlimatic as losing your virginity to a farm animal. Get real -- this will hurt the movie industry about as bad as 16KB mp3 encoded from a tape of a new cd optained by placing a boom box in front of a speaker with a short in it will hurt the music industry. It will do nothing more than spoil a good experience for the consumer.
If anyone remembers how charitable Bill was before he was married (would not give a penny of his to a starving group of nuns) -- has to realize that it is his wife who has the kind heart.....Bill most likely grits his teeth as she peels of the checks.
My thoughts exactlly. (Manned) space travel and exploration has not followed anything even close to moore's law. I was a bit young at the time -- but I bet most people at the time thought that the moon landing was just the beginning of manned exploits into "space", not the climax.
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Granted I don't know much about OSX. However -- with most *nix OS's that are posix complient -- should not only ./configure;make;make install care about what the underlying OS is (as long as all the right libraries installed? (Or is there special reqs. for programs to be ported to OSX?? -- and if there is, then what good is it..)
Amen brother. After reading your post -- you will get my money long bfore the YAD - Yet Another Distro. You (and the rest of the "little guys" in the basement's with nothing more than beer money -- not millions) are the people that have made free *nix what it is today....These companies burning through millions and millions just to repaint an already solid fence, they make me sick. I wish I had every penny that went into that failed commercial memory hog of a failed file manager a couple of years ago to give to the guy who wrote emelfm in a weekend :) that would be poetic justice. All hail the little guy....thank you, and cheers.
make me appreciate the not for profit distros that much more. This community was built out of the love for software, not the love of the dollar. I remember when I "bought" my first version of Linux (Slackware in the back of one of Pat's books that I purchased to learn a little more about VI) I was able to download the next version without feeling guilty -- or that if I did not sign over my allowance -- the Patrick would go hungry and Linux would die. You know what people -- granted a little eye candy and a few extra memory sticks required things are not that much better today. The only thing different is that all these new guys code with dollar signs in their eyes and not a itch in their souls. Not once have I ever heard Linus ask for my dollar....yet he seems to be doing pretty good for himself. FOrgive me if I sound bitter....It has been a long day.
Damn kids these days....
complexity in the number of buttons and hours of cut frame movie footage does nothing to add to the "fun" of gameplay. I dare say that many a more hour was spent guiding Harry through his 20 minutes of fame with the "plain" old Atari CX joystick than will ever be achieved on these new fangled thumb busters. If I want to watch a movie I will go to blockbuster.
That is true and a good example of an ROI. However if the system does not goes out the door complete. I have seen many traps of a "Phase 1" project out the door. And the next year or 2 is maintenence and "Phase 2", etc...Thus keeping the cost over the middle and end of the 5 years stays close to the first couple.
The issue is this: Upper management and end users only see the end product. I is either there or it is not. It works, or it does not. They look at that product as the end of the line for IT costs. It is out the door, gone gold -- end of story. What they don't see is the process behind the scenes that makes everything "appear" to be working as promised. It takes (surprise) people!!! Funny how an ROI on any given system may reduce 5 jobs of monkeys at the end of the line making $30K a year...However, to do it right will require (to do it right) 3 high end IT people and maybe a help desk jocky or two. And guess what -- that ROI that cut 5 jobs and $150K per year, take $200K and 3 or 4 people from IT to keep it going and maintained. Now roll forward a few years -- upper level management wonders why 7 or 8 percent of the companies investments are going into the IT "black box" costs. And now look what is happening -- they are starting to take the same chainsaw to the people who have made it possible to chainsaw through the monkeys the last 10 years.....Sad really.
This may be the end of the world coming on. Road Warrior was my introduction to all things good. I watch it at least once a week....(Mad Max about once a month -- and I throw thunderdome in every few months.) No other movie announcment could make me happier. Will we live to see it complete?
Damn...If I were using OS/2 I would feel lucky just to have a modern broweser at all.
Oooh...Front page and FTP. My dad does not even run his own ISP -- and he only lets me use SSH & SCP. Plus he makes sure I upgrade bind all the time and that I drink my milk!
I have seen a few games with a date of 1999. Can't remeber the name, but I am sure they were from Brazil. (Plus a bunch of Pokemon games from 1999-2000).
Won't be long before people realize that yes -- gameplay does matter, cutscenes don't matter. Long live the retro scene!!
Sounded like a semi-fair deal to me. I broke out my credit card a cruised to their site. 15 searches for bands/artists that have been on my mind lately...Results = 1 album from 1 band. That is not very good coverage. If I wanted "hit and miss" availability for my tastes -- I could hang out at the cut-out bins or used CD isle. I think this is a step in the right direction -- but what they need to keep in mind is what made the P2P services so popular (other than the price) was the shear volume of music for EVERY taste.
The internet is a big enough place -- I can avoid (much like a pretty girl with a bad sexual disease) any site that is to ignorant to ensure that it functions with the latest versions of all major browsers.
If only 10% of the people used browsers other than IE -- could you imagine a storefront locking out that many "perspective" customers? (And if they do -- well then they are to ignorant to deserve survival.)
I read all 4 harry potters and all 3 lotr books on my palm (all during meetings -- looked like I was working)....and you can bet your ass as soon as harry potter 4 comes out -- I will break that palm outta storage and use it some more.
So what if they are? It is no secret that they are not exactlly rolling around in money. (Hell, Cmdr. Taco is using POTS to connect to the internet from home -- poor chap can't evwn afford a T1....) I always thought one of the advantages of having my "little" website purchased by a sugar daddy (VA) would be making that call to the phone company to order that fat pipe into my crib....but alas -- bubbles burst. Fortunes twindle. And we are left picking up the breadcrumbs of a few cents from redirected book purchases -- and still the crowd boos.
Until this problem is dealt with at the protocol level - it will remain a problem.
People just need to realize that the whole POP/SMTP non authenticated - forged friendly mail protocols that have become the UNBENDABLE standards are flawed and need to be changed.
Much the same way that Ford had to redesign the fuel tank locations on there economy cars thanks to the fireball friendly Pintos. When the Escorts came out -- they could not get away with saying -- "the fuel tank location and fuel system is the same as the Pinto, because it is our standard."
I have tried them all (mail readers) and I always find myself going back to pine. I keep a USB keychain drive with me that has a nice SSH client for every OS I may run across -- and I can get to my mail from anywhere. (and on a slow connection -- this is much better than those "heavy html" based mail reader "emulators" that you kids are using these days...)
My 2GHz machine is nowhere near fast enough, even just running Konqueror and KMail.
Me and my trusty 300Mhz Celeron don't feel sorry for you.
P.S. -- If I won't be able to browse and read email with a 2Ghz -- then that is the last straw, I am going back to my C64.
Tablet PC's: "If a PDA can't cut it, you have enough money for a laptop but can't stand keyboards -- this is the platform for you."
I have about 1300 portable MP3 players. Each one of them has a feature that the other did not. My best advice -- rechargable batteries are your friends.
Watching a grainy, wobbly, bad sounding prerelease of a (soon to be) classic movie recorded with a camcorder is about as anticlimatic as losing your virginity to a farm animal. Get real -- this will hurt the movie industry about as bad as 16KB mp3 encoded from a tape of a new cd optained by placing a boom box in front of a speaker with a short in it will hurt the music industry. It will do nothing more than spoil a good experience for the consumer.
If anyone remembers how charitable Bill was before he was married (would not give a penny of his to a starving group of nuns) -- has to realize that it is his wife who has the kind heart.....Bill most likely grits his teeth as she peels of the checks.
My thoughts exactlly. (Manned) space travel and exploration has not followed anything even close to moore's law. I was a bit young at the time -- but I bet most people at the time thought that the moon landing was just the beginning of manned exploits into "space", not the climax.
I'm not buying one untill it supports the OGG format.
I don't know if I am just in a weird mood or not -- but that has to be the funniest post I have seen today.
How many statements like these before Bill and the gang in Redmond realize that they are "not alone" anymore.
CDL selected Linux because "it is an open source and open platform," said Dr. Cuong Do, CDL's chief executive officer.
Now I can get working on my dream Apache module called mod_3daccel