Steve, I remember seeing at one point that you run a day camp or what not to help children get accustomed to using computers and what not. (I can't find any references to that at this point).
My question is this: Do you feel that operating systems such as Linux/*BSD are a viable option for teaching those children who have no previous experience with a computer? Certainly the cost factor would be a great motivation for choosing these over other operating systems. It seems to me that it is more difficult to train those who are set in one GUI than those who have no previous experience whatsoever. I really have an intrest in this kind of community service and felt that someone like you with experience (and albeit alot more money;>) could provide some insight and advice.
I'll agree with you on the coding part for Office. I had to do some integration with project and outlook and it was a breeze. Now on to the bad point.
It's this kind of scriptability that makes viruses like Melissa and whatnot possible. You have to weigh your choices very carefully. Do you want your browser to just be a browser or do you want the control given to websites by the browser that you see in IE? I don't WANT a web site to remove the use of the back button. Do you want your word proccesor to be just that or do you want it to be so intertwined with your email client that someone can write malicious vbscript,that was MEANT to be used in the word proccessor or spreadsheet app, that can clog your entire mailserver and plant a trojan on your PC?
I'll be the first to admit it's a dificult decision. What is that common ground between the minimalist and the bells/whistles people?
Luckily the area I live in here in Georgia has all of those things minus effecient public transportation.
Space: my apartment is right on the Chattahoochee river.
ADSL/cable: My complex can get both xDSL and cable modem. I currently run a 1.1MB sdsl line from covad.
Decent wages: hells yeah;) My 1500 sq ft apartment is 840/month and I make more than enough to cover.
A decent name: Roswell. Waht's more geek than that? hehe
Innovation: Atlanta has been growing since the Olympics.
On the public transportation tip it's somewhat negative. MARTA runs all over the city fairly well but In the Metro Atlanta counties like Gwinnett, they refuse marta because they feel it will bring in "undesirables and crime" (read: we don't like them folk cause they's different). The other side is that Cobb county decided they could make money by running their OWN mass transit system and link up with MARTA at a single point. This of course sucks and does not work. When I was without a car for a year, I had a two hour commute to the other side of the city JUST because I had to transfer from CCT (Cobb County Transit) to MARTA. Of course now I'm cool if I have to use public transportation because the bus stops at the front of my complex and is about 10 minutes to the train station.
I honestly don't think Jim Carrey himself wants to be considered more of a legend thant Kaufman. From what I understand from interviews and articles, Kaufman is one of Jim Carrey's idols.
While I'm all for *nix and what not there are ways to speed up exchange server reboots. I got thrust into the back office admin position as part of my normal tasks. I wrote a quicky lil' batch file that does a net stop on the exchange services and then reboots. It speeds things up considerably. Try it. There is however a certain order the services need to be shutdown in.
Thank you for this great link. I actually got a candidate that I hadn't heard of yet. A libertarian no less! My normal voting habits of republican came out as other options below the first. Great great tool
What amazes me is the forward thinking going on by Epic on this. I'm sure it is one person who has been pushing this but none the less. They didn't have to open ANYTHING up. Myself, I was just happy that it was available for linux at all. Kudos to all involved in making this an option much less a reality. And yes I realize that the engine itself isn't going to be opened (just yet;>).
This begs a deeper point. Notice that Brandon states: We don't have any plans to release the engine proper (certainly not until all our licensees games are finished)
I wonder if more companies will do something along these lines as id did. When a technology becomes aged in a certain sense, release the source to help further the game scene. Releasing source like this could foster an intrest in younger developers who might not have thought about development before. Didn't borland/inprise/nameofthemonth opensource an old IDE not to long ago?
Why the fuck does it matter? Use what works best for you. Hell use an MS product if it works best for you.
I have a question. Why in the hell does it matter which is more popular? They both kick ass in my opinion and I have one of each ehre at the office. I *personally* use linux as my desktop because I started with it before FreeBSD and feel much more comfortable with it. It wouldn't matter a rat's ass to me if I had to use a *BSD and couldn't use linux. You wanna know why? (I know you don't but I'm going to tell you anyway)...
Because I have the source to all the applications I run. For those I don't, FreeBSD supports linux binaries. Why must obviously intelligent people getting into cock measuring contests about which one is better. Quite honestly "better" is all in the mind of the person at the helm of the computer itself.
So let's all get a fucking grip and put our dicks back in our pants and get over it.
Well since I asked this about YRO about a month ago and got an answer, I'll give you the answer I got. Someone mark this up so maybe someone will read it and not ask the question again?;)
The colors are indicators of a special section of slashdot. Notice the Sections menu along the left hand side of the screen? Try selecting a specific section and check the colors. My favorite is the Apache section. YRO is just plain fugly though.
Don't get your panties in a wad jsut yet. Stronghold is just a hardened apache. It's like adding SSL yourself but to the umteenth power. These guys know apache;)
No doubt. This is my biggest complaint with the current browsers. PNG support is horribly lacking. How hard is it to get PNG transparency right? I try to use all PNG's on my site but I hate having to add backgrounds to the images just because browsers can't handle the transparency.
How long have png's been around now? Why in HELL did we start using gifs when png's look so much better? My guess is people can't do without animated gifs. I'd at least like to think the one animated gif on my site is tasteful;)
I don't know much about anything in this field. In fact I know next to nothing but all of this backlash from the scientific community: is this normal or is it jelousy that he might be on to something that they wish they had found first. I also wonder if it could be related to the fact that he started a company with the idea? The way I understood the business aspect was that Cold Fusion was the pariah of the scientific world jsut because of the cooks in Utah. Can someone please give me a little insight into this?
As a side note, I loved the one proffessors description of the situation that if this were true "you could fuck with everything".
Magistrate Judge Pitman found that AOL was due $17,940 in hardware processing costs;
I find this rather low considering how long the spamming went on.
$24,625 in attorney's fees;
Again this is fine with me. Lawyers don't come cheap.
and $200,000 in punitive damages. Fine em out the ass is my preference.
but here is the one that gets me:
treble damages of $389,020 for lost advertising revenue
They actualled got payed because they couldn't send out their *OWN* spam? How did they calculate this amount. What advertising was lost? Is this based somehow on a combination of the others? Due to the fact they lost such and such amounts of money paying for the other stuff, they were not able to invest this into advertising? Can someone explain how this works?
Also does anyone know if the disclaimers that many people put on their websites stating to the effect of "any unsolicted email is considered to be submitted for proffing at 500 per email" or whatnot are legally valid and binding?
Actually this doesn't get much accomlished (emailing amazon). Right after I heard about the patent issue came up, I sent an email to them explaining in polite terms my reasoning for discontinuing business with them. A week later I got an email back form some custoemr service drone stating that, while they couldn't talk about the issue in detail due to legal ramifications, they insisted that it took all the man hours and money mentioned in their press release to develop this system of one click shopping. At that point I realized they were not going to budge and they didn't care what the *informed* consumer thought. They have a brand name internet prescence and that means alot.
Shop fatbrain and some of the smaller sites. You get better service anyways.
Check joker.com. If you order tons of domains, you can get a special account that verifies based on your pgp key (not sure if gpg keys work, they should though). Also they will bill you for your domains as opposed to normal registration which you pay up front. I just ordered two domains the other day from them for US ~70 and it was great. The records were done within 24 hours and I am a happy camper.
I found joker through a suggestion of a slashdot user. They're fast. They have an SSL encrypted process. (heLLO? network solutions?) Ignore the fact that they use poor english on the site (it IS their second language) and you'll be happy. The only issue pain was having to re-register my name servers and contact info with corenic since network solutions info isn't corenic registered but that was cool with me. When my other 5 domains expire next year, I'm rolling them over to joker.com. They're fast, simple and in short, they kick ass. Check em out.
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Steve,
;>) could provide some insight and advice.
I remember seeing at one point that you run a day camp or what not to help children get accustomed to using computers and what not. (I can't find any references to that at this point).
My question is this:
Do you feel that operating systems such as Linux/*BSD are a viable option for teaching those children who have no previous experience with a computer? Certainly the cost factor would be a great motivation for choosing these over other operating systems. It seems to me that it is more difficult to train those who are set in one GUI than those who have no previous experience whatsoever. I really have an intrest in this kind of community service and felt that someone like you with experience (and albeit alot more money
Actually David Lee Roth didn't write the song. It was areally bad cover of another tune. Had to interject ;)
I'll agree with you on the coding part for Office. I had to do some integration with project and outlook and it was a breeze. Now on to the bad point.
,that was MEANT to be used in the word proccessor or spreadsheet app, that can clog your entire mailserver and plant a trojan on your PC?
It's this kind of scriptability that makes viruses like Melissa and whatnot possible. You have to weigh your choices very carefully. Do you want your browser to just be a browser or do you want the control given to websites by the browser that you see in IE? I don't WANT a web site to remove the use of the back button.
Do you want your word proccesor to be just that or do you want it to be so intertwined with your email client that someone can write malicious vbscript
I'll be the first to admit it's a dificult decision. What is that common ground between the minimalist and the bells/whistles people?
Luckily the area I live in here in Georgia has all of those things minus effecient public transportation.
;) My 1500 sq ft apartment is 840/month and I make more than enough to cover.
Space: my apartment is right on the Chattahoochee river.
ADSL/cable: My complex can get both xDSL and cable modem. I currently run a 1.1MB sdsl line from covad.
Decent wages: hells yeah
A decent name: Roswell. Waht's more geek than that? hehe
Innovation: Atlanta has been growing since the Olympics.
On the public transportation tip it's somewhat negative. MARTA runs all over the city fairly well but In the Metro Atlanta counties like Gwinnett, they refuse marta because they feel it will bring in "undesirables and crime" (read: we don't like them folk cause they's different). The other side is that Cobb county decided they could make money by running their OWN mass transit system and link up with MARTA at a single point. This of course sucks and does not work. When I was without a car for a year, I had a two hour commute to the other side of the city JUST because I had to transfer from CCT (Cobb County Transit) to MARTA. Of course now I'm cool if I have to use public transportation because the bus stops at the front of my complex and is about 10 minutes to the train station.
For some reason your post conjured up images of Red Dawn and the snowmobile scene in Die Hard 2. gi figure growing up on movies =P
I honestly don't think Jim Carrey himself wants to be considered more of a legend thant Kaufman. From what I understand from interviews and articles, Kaufman is one of Jim Carrey's idols.
While I'm all for *nix and what not there are ways to speed up exchange server reboots. I got thrust into the back office admin position as part of my normal tasks. I wrote a quicky lil' batch file that does a net stop on the exchange services and then reboots. It speeds things up considerably. Try it. There is however a certain order the services need to be shutdown in.
Now I want to see how long it takes NSI to get the domain info straightened out. Knowing them etoy.com will be back up sometime next july ;)
Thank you for this great link. I actually got a candidate that I hadn't heard of yet. A libertarian no less! My normal voting habits of republican came out as other options below the first. Great great tool
What amazes me is the forward thinking going on by Epic on this. I'm sure it is one person who has been pushing this but none the less. They didn't have to open ANYTHING up. Myself, I was just happy that it was available for linux at all. Kudos to all involved in making this an option much less a reality. And yes I realize that the engine itself isn't going to be opened (just yet ;>).
This begs a deeper point. Notice that Brandon states:
We don't
have any plans to release the engine proper (certainly not until
all our licensees games are finished)
I wonder if more companies will do something along these lines as id did. When a technology becomes aged in a certain sense, release the source to help further the game scene. Releasing source like this could foster an intrest in younger developers who might not have thought about development before. Didn't borland/inprise/nameofthemonth opensource an old IDE not to long ago?
Do what I did and mirror this site. Change the links under the local files section to point to your files and you're set.
At least lil bits'o'funny like this take time ;)
Of course if there is an engine to do this stuff automatically I want it =P
Linux this...
BSD this....
Why the fuck does it matter? Use what works best for you. Hell use an MS product if it works best for you.
I have a question. Why in the hell does it matter which is more popular? They both kick ass in my opinion and I have one of each ehre at the office. I *personally* use linux as my desktop because I started with it before FreeBSD and feel much more comfortable with it. It wouldn't matter a rat's ass to me if I had to use a *BSD and couldn't use linux. You wanna know why? (I know you don't but I'm going to tell you anyway)...
Because I have the source to all the applications I run. For those I don't, FreeBSD supports linux binaries.
Why must obviously intelligent people getting into cock measuring contests about which one is better. Quite honestly "better" is all in the mind of the person at the helm of the computer itself.
So let's all get a fucking grip and put our dicks back in our pants and get over it.
Well since I asked this about YRO about a month ago and got an answer, I'll give you the answer I got. Someone mark this up so maybe someone will read it and not ask the question again? ;)
The colors are indicators of a special section of slashdot. Notice the Sections menu along the left hand side of the screen?
Try selecting a specific section and check the colors. My favorite is the Apache section. YRO is just plain fugly though.
The red used here is a tie-in to the bsd colors
Don't get your panties in a wad jsut yet. Stronghold is just a hardened apache. It's like adding SSL yourself but to the umteenth power. These guys know apache ;)
No doubt.
;)
This is my biggest complaint with the current browsers. PNG support is horribly lacking. How hard is it to get PNG transparency right? I try to use all PNG's on my site but I hate having to add backgrounds to the images just because browsers can't handle the transparency.
How long have png's been around now? Why in HELL did we start using gifs when png's look so much better? My guess is people can't do without animated gifs. I'd at least like to think the one animated gif on my site is tasteful
Well that last bit puts it all in perspective.
;) They were fine for thier time.
Don't knock DG though
Well that last bit puts it all in perspective.
;) They were fine for thier time.
Don't knock DG though
I don't know much about anything in this field. In fact I know next to nothing but all of this backlash from the scientific community: is this normal or is it jelousy that he might be on to something that they wish they had found first. I also wonder if it could be related to the fact that he started a company with the idea? The way I understood the business aspect was that Cold Fusion was the pariah of the scientific world jsut because of the cooks in Utah. Can someone please give me a little insight into this?
As a side note, I loved the one proffessors description of the situation that if this were true "you could fuck with everything".
Magistrate Judge Pitman found that
AOL was due $17,940 in hardware processing costs;
I find this rather low considering how long the spamming went on.
$24,625 in attorney's fees;
Again this is fine with me. Lawyers don't come cheap.
and $200,000 in punitive damages.
Fine em out the ass is my preference.
but here is the one that gets me:
treble damages of $389,020 for lost advertising revenue
They actualled got payed because they couldn't send out their *OWN* spam?
How did they calculate this amount. What advertising was lost? Is this based somehow on a combination of the others? Due to the fact they lost such and such amounts of money paying for the other stuff, they were not able to invest this into advertising? Can someone explain how this works?
Also does anyone know if the disclaimers that many people put on their websites stating to the effect of "any unsolicted email is considered to be submitted for proffing at 500 per email" or whatnot are legally valid and binding?
Actually this doesn't get much accomlished (emailing amazon). Right after I heard about the patent issue came up, I sent an email to them explaining in polite terms my reasoning for discontinuing business with them. A week later I got an email back form some custoemr service drone stating that, while they couldn't talk about the issue in detail due to legal ramifications, they insisted that it took all the man hours and money mentioned in their press release to develop this system of one click shopping. At that point I realized they were not going to budge and they didn't care what the *informed* consumer thought. They have a brand name internet prescence and that means alot.
Shop fatbrain and some of the smaller sites. You get better service anyways.
Well. ..thanks to junkbuster , I didn't ;)
Check joker.com.
If you order tons of domains, you can get a special account that verifies based on your pgp key (not sure if gpg keys work, they should though). Also they will bill you for your domains as opposed to normal registration which you pay up front. I just ordered two domains the other day from them for US ~70 and it was great. The records were done within 24 hours and I am a happy camper.
I found joker through a suggestion of a slashdot user. They're fast. They have an SSL encrypted process. (heLLO? network solutions?) Ignore the fact that they use poor english on the site (it IS their second language) and you'll be happy. The only issue pain was having to re-register my name servers and contact info with corenic since network solutions info isn't corenic registered but that was cool with me. When my other 5 domains expire next year, I'm rolling them over to joker.com. They're fast, simple and in short, they kick ass.
Check em out.
Good point.
There's a freakin disclaimer on the napster website and when the client logs in. If disclaimers aren't any good anymore then what's the point?