Myriad examples: the assholes with their 110dB subwoofer ripping through residential neighbourhoods at 2AM. The pissant little fuck who takes 30 items through the 10 items or less till. People who don't hold doors open when you both arrive at the same time. Dangerous fucking assholes running red lights. Ah, it's aggravating just thinking of all the examples.
Why wouldn't they do this? Companies have learned the hardway that open source projects will go forward depsite pretty much anything. I'm predicting that companies like Intuit and Adobe are going to eventually port their bread and butter products or risk losses in market share once the equivalent opensource apps get more mature (both the GIMP and GnuCash pretty much rock, but they aren't quite there yet).
Anyway, by embracing Mono and/or DotGNU, Microsoft is involved in some way. What their influence/contribution remains to be seen. Also, perhaps more importantly, this serves as the appearance of microsoft playing well with open source. What was that quote about perception being nine-tenths of reality...
So if one assumes that most people who are fans of the game go to see the movie, then yes, they are justified on makeing a big budget movie just for the fans of the game.
Run the numbers.....you're wrong.
Going by the above discussion, let's say Final Fantasy sold 6 million copies. Let's say the movie cost $115 million. Let's assume $10 average ticket price. Every fan would have to see the movie twice. Here's the catch, not all of your $10 goes to the movie, a lot of it goes to the movie theater (salaries, etc), only a portion goes to the production company. Even adding in merchandising (I haven't seen any yet -- McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell), you are still operating at a loss. They had better plan on a TON of people going to the movie that didn't play the game, or that everyone goes at least twice.
*lol*..:).. I don't think it's a/. thing. How many passionate/unbiased people do you know..;)
Fair enough.
What I forgot to mention is my belief that playing a game should not be a pre-req for understanding the movie. If that's the case, you have definetly limited yourself to the.0001% or.01% of the population that has played it. Most movies do a pretty bad job at this, probably one of the reasons girlfriends (non-playing types) and critics hate these movies. That and most of the movies are truly mind-numbingly stupid. I haven't
seen Tomb Raider, but I heard it fell into this category.
What I'm trying to say is he should be a bit more openminded.
As far as being open minded goes, that's kind of against the point of a review right? You're job is to tell the masses what YOU thought of the movie. I didn't read the whole review, but I could have sworn he talked about the movies few goodpoints as well? You're job as the reader is to figure out if the critic is a moron or not? I'll just leave it at that.:-)
As far as passion/biased'ness (??) goes, I like to think I'm a reasonable person; I'm willing to argue the strengths and weakness of my favorite things, sports cars down to linux and back again, while trying to maintain the other persons point of view. That definetly comes with age though, a few years ago I was an arrogant, snot-nosed, twenty-something kid who never could argue the other persons side; now I'm just arrogant.
As a side item, but somewhat related, has Slashdot even taken a formal poll to see what average readership age is? Or is that obvious by checking the comment section for the ratio of +5 informative to -1 Troll???
One of the first things you mention is that you haven't played the games. If you had you'd have had something to relate to.
Let the fans deside if it's bad - the film is made for them.
You take a very interesting point of view. Completely wrong in my opinion, but interesting.
How many final fantasy players do you think exist in the world? How many millions were spent on the making of the film? Only a complete moron makes a blockbuster movie for.0001% of the population as witnessed by the Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter debacle. What I do find interesting is that you imply that Jon (or anyone else) has no right to review the movie because they didn't play the game? That's crazy. Although I don't play the game (nor plan to see the movie -- it looks stupid -- graphics aside), I'd be interested in seeing an unbiased post from a game player, if any slasdot readers can be passionate about something and unbiased at the same time.
On the act locally front, I stopped buying new CDs when Napster went away, and I strongly urge everyone else to do the same.
Uhh, I haven't bought any new CD since napster started either. Let's face it, why would I pay for music when I can download it for free? Yes, it's probably illegal, no I don't really care. Yes, the artists are getting screwed. I'm simply being honest. Of course, I think that CD's are overpriced and underproduced anyway, so I'll join you in not buying any now as well. But, if and when Gnutella and Freenet get more mainstraim, I'll simply move to downloading.ogg files. My form of protest for paying $15-$20 for the 200-300 CD's I bought over the years.....
We (my company) have this router to use in our tests for VoIP in our wireless broadband product. I haven't actually set it up yet, but I thought that it wasn't free (the service) and required proprietary software. True?
I use GNOME, so I have no clue how or even why you'd want to use Gnucash with KDE. I'll restate my above fact so it's more clear: "If you are a GNOME user and are running a recent distro, installing Gnucash 1.6 is fairly trivial (although bandwidth may be required)."
Second, what you state was exactly what I said. They're are plenty of times I've wanted a particular feature added to something that I did myself. Stick the code (easily added via `patch`) on an ftp site or even sourceforge, email the devel list about what my feature is and why the project admin and I disagree with it's inclusion in the "official source" and then sit back and let nature take it's course. If you prefer a more proactive approach, fork the project source and run your own version.
Okay you're falling into possible dependency hype. If you use any of the more recent distributions of Suse, Debian, or RH, installing Gnucash 1.6 is trivial. In addition, the GNUcash developers are putting out a CD with everything on it (all libraries, etc).
Second, does it matter if your addition is accepted by the project leader in an open source product? Not in the least. Make your changes, make them available to everyone, and then sit back and let the masses decide.
You're making it sound more complex than it is, just to make a point.
You do have a choice. I just wish more people would realize that they don't have to put up with this sort of thing, and choose to eschew Microsoft.
While I agree with your principles, you're wrong in this case. Sometimes you don't have a choice. I'll give you my latest example. The company I'm working for is doing embedded development on the OSE operating system. Yep, no compilers for Linux. I sent a message the gcc-mailing list about cross-compilation with no response (which really surprised me!). Even then, I'd still have a binary with no way to simulate the code other than running on the chip which is a slow way to develop.
My choice is either develop under NT/2000 (until they are phased out) or look for a different job (they may make compilers/simulators for Solaris, but that's a different battle here).
At home I have a choice: GNUCash, loki for games, etc. But, like many people, I don't own the company I work at, nor am I in charge of calling the shots. If I want to maintain my employment, I really don't have a choice, because the apps make the OS; therfore I use the OS where the apps run. So, while I agree that A LOT of people don't have to put up with the nonsense, some of us kinda have to unless we want to be another one of the masses looking for a job.
They claim that the Koffice vector based drawing program Killustrator violates their trademark for Adobe Illustrator.
Am I dumb? This sounds like it implies a trademark violation on vector based drawing. According the to the letter and all the responses here, it's simply a naming trademark. We have so many stories like this being posted now a days, is it worth of a full post, rather than a Slashback? I would have been much more interested if Adobe had a copyright on vector based drawing. Along with everyone elses position: change the name and move on. Waste your time writing code, not fighting name infringements.
I'm assuming by 'local' shop, you do indeed mean local shop.:-)
I don't consider VA that high. They beat Dell's best quote for a simiarly configured 1U box. I don't know of any local vendors that will build a 1U box with similar configurations and guarantee it will run linux out of the box without me tweaking anything. For about 2K, I feel that the VA box was well worth it. If someone can give me a better price for the same system (a 1221), I'd love to hear about it
Okay, last time I was in Holland ('97, '98) you guys didn't have a great deal of migrating crustacean wildlife. Ever think about the average intelligence of a crab? They're actually pretty stupid dude. They have the basic survival instincts, that's about it. If you put up barriers so that they couldn't cross the roads, that's a different story (and therefore HAD to go through the tunnels). However, given a choice between a small tunnel and wide open road, the crabs are going to go through whatever is closest.
I'm not blaming anyone. I'm merely commenting that you were misinformed. Some (all??) roads do have passageways for crab migration. However, they haven't taken any steps to force the crabs to use them. Given that several million crabs DO make it successfully from the forest to the ocean, I agree, a million crab loss sucks, but since they aren't anywhere even close to being endangered, I'm not going to lose sleep over it; especially when it's a few thousand miles away.
That's completely untrue. Several solutions are in place.
Several "passageways" under the roads were built for the crabs to safely cross. However, there are two factors contributing to the death of the crabs: 1) They're too stupid to use the passageways. 2) There are soooo many crabs, that they couldn't all fit in there anyways.
The inhabitants DO think about solutions, there just isn't a good one. They certainly aren't going to stop life as we know it on the island for a few million crabs, but they have made some allowances.
Oracle is expensive and charged on a per CPU (actually per Mhz) basis.
The last time I talked to an Oracle rep (this time last year), the pricing was per Mhz as you stated, but also with a CPU multiplier. One multiplier for running CISC, one for RISC.
So, the pricing equation was something like: # Mhz * # CPU * RISC|CISC = Next version of Sayonnara for Ellison to play with...
I'm pretty sure they went to some flat model pricing as they we're insane...
No, what actually sank the Titanic was a noticeable amount of carbon in the metal bolts. That, plus the unusually cold temperatures for that spring, lead to weakened bolts in the plates attached to the hull. When the brushed the iceberg, the bolts sheared and the metal plates fell away, thus causing the gaping hole. At no time did the iceberg ever puncture, tear a gash in, whichever, the Titanic.
Well, in efforts to show my support, I just ordered about 20K worth of servers from them. Probably won't make a difference on their bottom line, but it serves two good purposes: gets me linux servers (reasonably priced) so I can get my job done, and it makes me feel good by giving back to the Linux community. It's the same reason I acutally purchase copies of the RedHat OS's . I'm willing to support a good product with cash....
To be fully THX compliant involves everything from speakers, decoder, amps, all the way down to the wires. Yep, the wires must be THX certified. One of the specs is equal power across the front three channels (left, center, right). I don't think a power rating was specified (110 watts is sticking in my head for some reason though). It may also involve stereo rear channels as opposed to mono, but I could be getting my AC3/5.1 specs confused. Also, THX certification is a recurring yearly process conducted by someone from Skywalker sound, though they may contract it out now.
I believe that the next release of IIS (6.0??) will involve moving things into the XP kernel space, to emulate the speed of tux. Microsoft is slowly learning from us I guess.....
From the seawolf (RH 7.1) mailing list about five minutes ago...
"Edward S. Marshall" writes:
> An interesting question, though: can anyone with more information at hand
> than me say whether or not ABI compatibility was maintained between Red
> Hat's 2.96 and the final 3.0?
For C++, gcc 3.0 isn't compatible with our 2.96RH, 2.95.x, 2.8.x, egcs
or anything else. It's only compatible with itself.
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
Mod this up. On-line banking (checking, savings, credit card,401K) are the only things stopping me from giving up Quicken. When Gnu-Cash has the same functionality as Quicken, I'll make the switch.
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Oh, so you live in Silicon Valley too?
I don't know. I vistited a porn site in Windows XP and a wizard popped up offering to call a hooker....
Why wouldn't they do this? Companies have learned the hardway that open source projects will go forward depsite pretty much anything. I'm predicting that companies like Intuit and Adobe are going to eventually port their bread and butter products or risk losses in market share once the equivalent opensource apps get more mature (both the GIMP and GnuCash pretty much rock, but they aren't quite there yet).
Anyway, by embracing Mono and/or DotGNU, Microsoft is involved in some way. What their influence/contribution remains to be seen. Also, perhaps more importantly, this serves as the appearance of microsoft playing well with open source. What was that quote about perception being nine-tenths of reality...
Run the numbers.....you're wrong.
Going by the above discussion, let's say Final Fantasy sold 6 million copies. Let's say the movie cost $115 million. Let's assume $10 average ticket price. Every fan would have to see the movie twice. Here's the catch, not all of your $10 goes to the movie, a lot of it goes to the movie theater (salaries, etc), only a portion goes to the production company. Even adding in merchandising (I haven't seen any yet -- McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell), you are still operating at a loss. They had better plan on a TON of people going to the movie that didn't play the game, or that everyone goes at least twice.
Fair enough.
What I forgot to mention is my belief that playing a game should not be a pre-req for understanding the movie. If that's the case, you have definetly limited yourself to the .0001% or .01% of the population that has played it. Most movies do a pretty bad job at this, probably one of the reasons girlfriends (non-playing types) and critics hate these movies. That and most of the movies are truly mind-numbingly stupid. I haven't
seen Tomb Raider, but I heard it fell into this category.
What I'm trying to say is he should be a bit more openminded.
As far as being open minded goes, that's kind of against the point of a review right? You're job is to tell the masses what YOU thought of the movie. I didn't read the whole review, but I could have sworn he talked about the movies few goodpoints as well? You're job as the reader is to figure out if the critic is a moron or not? I'll just leave it at that. :-)
As far as passion/biased'ness (??) goes, I like to think I'm a reasonable person; I'm willing to argue the strengths and weakness of my favorite things, sports cars down to linux and back again, while trying to maintain the other persons point of view. That definetly comes with age though, a few years ago I was an arrogant, snot-nosed, twenty-something kid who never could argue the other persons side; now I'm just arrogant.
As a side item, but somewhat related, has Slashdot even taken a formal poll to see what average readership age is? Or is that obvious by checking the comment section for the ratio of +5 informative to -1 Troll???
Let the fans deside if it's bad - the film is made for them.
You take a very interesting point of view. Completely wrong in my opinion, but interesting.
How many final fantasy players do you think exist in the world? How many millions were spent on the making of the film? Only a complete moron makes a blockbuster movie for .0001% of the population as witnessed by the Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter debacle. What I do find interesting is that you imply that Jon (or anyone else) has no right to review the movie because they didn't play the game? That's crazy. Although I don't play the game (nor plan to see the movie -- it looks stupid -- graphics aside), I'd be interested in seeing an unbiased post from a game player, if any slasdot readers can be passionate about something and unbiased at the same time.
Uhh, I haven't bought any new CD since napster started either. Let's face it, why would I pay for music when I can download it for free? Yes, it's probably illegal, no I don't really care. Yes, the artists are getting screwed. I'm simply being honest. Of course, I think that CD's are overpriced and underproduced anyway, so I'll join you in not buying any now as well. But, if and when Gnutella and Freenet get more mainstraim, I'll simply move to downloading .ogg files. My form of protest for paying $15-$20 for the 200-300 CD's I bought over the years.....
CNN-FN reported this earlier today...
We (my company) have this router to use in our tests for VoIP in our wireless broadband product. I haven't actually set it up yet, but I thought that it wasn't free (the service) and required proprietary software. True?
I use GNOME, so I have no clue how or even why you'd want to use Gnucash with KDE. I'll restate my above fact so it's more clear: "If you are a GNOME user and are running a recent distro, installing Gnucash 1.6 is fairly trivial (although bandwidth may be required)."
Second, what you state was exactly what I said. They're are plenty of times I've wanted a particular feature added to something that I did myself. Stick the code (easily added via `patch`) on an ftp site or even sourceforge, email the devel list about what my feature is and why the project admin and I disagree with it's inclusion in the "official source" and then sit back and let nature take it's course. If you prefer a more proactive approach, fork the project source and run your own version.
Second, does it matter if your addition is accepted by the project leader in an open source product? Not in the least. Make your changes, make them available to everyone, and then sit back and let the masses decide.
You're making it sound more complex than it is, just to make a point.
It already exists. The trick is getting it open sourced. We should leave Ximian to ensure that GNOME 2.0 ships on time.
While I agree with your principles, you're wrong in this case. Sometimes you don't have a choice. I'll give you my latest example. The company I'm working for is doing embedded development on the OSE operating system. Yep, no compilers for Linux. I sent a message the gcc-mailing list about cross-compilation with no response (which really surprised me!). Even then, I'd still have a binary with no way to simulate the code other than running on the chip which is a slow way to develop.
My choice is either develop under NT/2000 (until they are phased out) or look for a different job (they may make compilers/simulators for Solaris, but that's a different battle here).
At home I have a choice: GNUCash, loki for games, etc. But, like many people, I don't own the company I work at, nor am I in charge of calling the shots. If I want to maintain my employment, I really don't have a choice, because the apps make the OS; therfore I use the OS where the apps run. So, while I agree that A LOT of people don't have to put up with the nonsense, some of us kinda have to unless we want to be another one of the masses looking for a job.
Am I dumb? This sounds like it implies a trademark violation on vector based drawing. According the to the letter and all the responses here, it's simply a naming trademark. We have so many stories like this being posted now a days, is it worth of a full post, rather than a Slashback? I would have been much more interested if Adobe had a copyright on vector based drawing. Along with everyone elses position: change the name and move on. Waste your time writing code, not fighting name infringements.
Now, if this is a true bug and occurs during Tribes or Civ, then I see the relevance. The fact that the kernel list had no response makes me suspect.
I don't consider VA that high. They beat Dell's best quote for a simiarly configured 1U box. I don't know of any local vendors that will build a 1U box with similar configurations and guarantee it will run linux out of the box without me tweaking anything. For about 2K, I feel that the VA box was well worth it. If someone can give me a better price for the same system (a 1221), I'd love to hear about it
I'm not blaming anyone. I'm merely commenting that you were misinformed. Some (all??) roads do have passageways for crab migration. However, they haven't taken any steps to force the crabs to use them. Given that several million crabs DO make it successfully from the forest to the ocean, I agree, a million crab loss sucks, but since they aren't anywhere even close to being endangered, I'm not going to lose sleep over it; especially when it's a few thousand miles away.
Several "passageways" under the roads were built for the crabs to safely cross. However, there are two factors contributing to the death of the crabs: 1) They're too stupid to use the passageways. 2) There are soooo many crabs, that they couldn't all fit in there anyways.
The inhabitants DO think about solutions, there just isn't a good one. They certainly aren't going to stop life as we know it on the island for a few million crabs, but they have made some allowances.
The last time I talked to an Oracle rep (this time last year), the pricing was per Mhz as you stated, but also with a CPU multiplier. One multiplier for running CISC, one for RISC.
So, the pricing equation was something like: # Mhz * # CPU * RISC|CISC = Next version of Sayonnara for Ellison to play with...
I'm pretty sure they went to some flat model pricing as they we're insane...
No, what actually sank the Titanic was a noticeable amount of carbon in the metal bolts. That, plus the unusually cold temperatures for that spring, lead to weakened bolts in the plates attached to the hull. When the brushed the iceberg, the bolts sheared and the metal plates fell away, thus causing the gaping hole. At no time did the iceberg ever puncture, tear a gash in, whichever, the Titanic.
Well, in efforts to show my support, I just ordered about 20K worth of servers from them. Probably won't make a difference on their bottom line, but it serves two good purposes: gets me linux servers (reasonably priced) so I can get my job done, and it makes me feel good by giving back to the Linux community. It's the same reason I acutally purchase copies of the RedHat OS's . I'm willing to support a good product with cash....
To be fully THX compliant involves everything from speakers, decoder, amps, all the way down to the wires. Yep, the wires must be THX certified. One of the specs is equal power across the front three channels (left, center, right). I don't think a power rating was specified (110 watts is sticking in my head for some reason though). It may also involve stereo rear channels as opposed to mono, but I could be getting my AC3/5.1 specs confused. Also, THX certification is a recurring yearly process conducted by someone from Skywalker sound, though they may contract it out now.
I believe that the next release of IIS (6.0??) will involve moving things into the XP kernel space, to emulate the speed of tux. Microsoft is slowly learning from us I guess.....
From the seawolf (RH 7.1) mailing list about five minutes ago... "Edward S. Marshall" writes: > An interesting question, though: can anyone with more information at hand > than me say whether or not ABI compatibility was maintained between Red > Hat's 2.96 and the final 3.0? For C++, gcc 3.0 isn't compatible with our 2.96RH, 2.95.x, 2.8.x, egcs or anything else. It's only compatible with itself. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.
Mod this up. On-line banking (checking, savings, credit card,401K) are the only things stopping me from giving up Quicken. When Gnu-Cash has the same functionality as Quicken, I'll make the switch.