So what? Solaris 8 never, ever worked right on any system I installed it on. Hardware support was less than minimal, and the ability to write drivers for the system, much less find any, was nil. Don't care, I have a slew of *BSD and Linux that I can run on this cheap, broken down hardware. Plus, amazing enough, the mention of no commercial *n?x on x86 hardware anymore keeps coming up. Why? What about QNX or hell, even Darwin?
I seem to recall you posting basically this exact same thing a few months ago... I'm not real sure, but I would say almost upfront, you cut'n'pasted most of that out of your old post.
Try reading the books then. Most of the people that I have talked to about the ending(some of which haven't read the books) agree that the ending was appropriate. Stop whining.
It has a lot to do with the fact that it is on a movie system, not a gaming system. Playstation 1 & 2 are both riddled with games hidden within movies. This mainly comes from the fascination with 3D realism and whatnot that game development shops have gotten into. It is a shame to see it happen, but perhaps there is hope with Nintendo's GameCube. They have always been a minimalist shop that believed that the game was the most important thing, and the stories/graphics were supportive to the whole, not the whole in and of itself. An exception to the rule: 'sports' games. For instance the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series is a great deal more entertaining than hitting the x button to get past all the movies/transition scenes. Really, is it worth our while to have to watch the hero in SoulReaver 2 open and close doors, or can he just open and close doors during game play? "More matter, less art" -- Gertrude to Hamlet
Call me naive, but I haven't had a single problem with my Enigma box dialing out with pppd... I don't recall ever seeing an update for it in the updates archive either.
Wrong sonny-jim. Re-read the post. I said one update SINCE October. I first started in October, therefore, the original download is not an update for me is it? I do believe in the project and the product. I do think it is a great idea, but I don't like paying for three months and getting one month's worth of updates(plus original package...I would pay for the first all on it's own). I am paying them for nothing effectivly. I am not their employer, I am a consumer ie: I don't pay their salary, the HR dept of the company does from what I, the consumer, pay.
I like Transgaming's product, winex, but I do have a problem with the subscription service. You would expect to be able to download a new version every month if you are paying a monthly fee. But you don't get that at all. They have only had one update since I signed on in October, and paid for three months. Ximian better have an update per month(at least) or it would not be worth it at all.
Doesn't this seem obviously flawed? Beside the fact that they could kill anyone/thing they wanted, just think of what would happen if they put a nuclear power plant on the moon... and then had a meltdown. All of the oceans on Earth would go nuts, and all of the folks who live in the Rockies and the Appalachians would have nice, poluted with dead people ocean-front property. Man, the foresight of these guys!
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Packaging it is not the problem. It is the system integration that is the problem... Think about your favorite distro of Linux. It includes tons of software to do just about anything you _can_ do with a computer. But, they don't tie say... Netscape into the kernel core so that you can't get rid of it if it sucks to no end(no comments please, it's just an example). Windows has this sort of thing in it, which is what the punishment should include: the separation of products into a set of packages that work together or separately.
Unfortunately, I work for the Government. They really don't care how much it costs. As a matter of fact, I was sitting in on a meeting recently that the basis of which was to figure out how to spend more money so that we would be allotted more money next fiscal year... ever wonder why taxes keep getting higher? But, for now, it is a job... being young and inexperianced sucks to no end...
Basically, it all comes down to management not taking computer security seriously. I have to deal with this sort of crap day in and day out. The folks up top decide that when something bad happens, it is my job to clean up the mess. When ever I make a suggestion, it promptly gets shot down with excuses like:"the users can't get used to that", or "that would be too much work on our part"... well, perhaps if they had to deal first hand with recovering data from virus ridden machines, they would be pitching a damn fit about it too!
That a site that doesn't want to be linked to without permission would write their page to be non-renderable in a browser that is not of their choice...IE. They have just bought into the "standard" set forward by a certain company that prides itself in setting "standards".
The reason we can't see the dark matter is due to the proliferation of soft light in the Universe, as was depicted in the X-files episode: Soft Light.;)
30%, while a lot, is still am minority. I'd like to see some numbers on unpatched IIS servers. As for casting the first stone... my servers stay patched, I'll say what I goddamned well want to.
Do you understand what the term de facto standard means? It is what the consumers buy the most of and use the most. It is not a matter of the software not being compatible. It is a matter of the consumers decideing(even if uneducated) to buy a particular product en masse. If you want Linux to succeed, pull out that wimpy wallet like I do, and put your money where your mouth is. You want to start a revolution, you have to fire some shots and you have to make some sacrifices. You may be incompatible with many at first, but some folks will follow you... eventually those folks will have their folks following. Get it? Force the issue. Don't be a whiny zealot. Be a mover and a shaker.
I'd pay for the thing if I could use it with GroupWise here where I work. They refuse to use the web interface...probably because they don't know how to run it without it much less with it. I just hate having the boss crawl up my tuckas because I didn't get his message... b/c he refused to send it via regular email. blech.
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I'll agree on the QNX mystery, but although Darwin is OSS, it is not FreeSoftware... hince I call it comercial software.
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So what? Solaris 8 never, ever worked right on any system I installed it on. Hardware support was less than minimal, and the ability to write drivers for the system, much less find any, was nil. Don't care, I have a slew of *BSD and Linux that I can run on this cheap, broken down hardware. Plus, amazing enough, the mention of no commercial *n?x on x86 hardware anymore keeps coming up. Why? What about QNX or hell, even Darwin?
I seem to recall you posting basically this exact same thing a few months ago... I'm not real sure, but I would say almost upfront, you cut'n'pasted most of that out of your old post.
Try reading the books then. Most of the people that I have talked to about the ending(some of which haven't read the books) agree that the ending was appropriate. Stop whining.
Hehe, thanks. Been a long, long time.
It has a lot to do with the fact that it is on a movie system, not a gaming system. Playstation 1 & 2 are both riddled with games hidden within movies. This mainly comes from the fascination with 3D realism and whatnot that game development shops have gotten into. It is a shame to see it happen, but perhaps there is hope with Nintendo's GameCube. They have always been a minimalist shop that believed that the game was the most important thing, and the stories/graphics were supportive to the whole, not the whole in and of itself. An exception to the rule: 'sports' games. For instance the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series is a great deal more entertaining than hitting the x button to get past all the movies/transition scenes. Really, is it worth our while to have to watch the hero in SoulReaver 2 open and close doors, or can he just open and close doors during game play? "More matter, less art" -- Gertrude to Hamlet
Ahh, OK. That makes mucho sense to me. Thanks for the clarification!
Call me naive, but I haven't had a single problem with my Enigma box dialing out with pppd... I don't recall ever seeing an update for it in the updates archive either.
Wrong sonny-jim. Re-read the post. I said one update SINCE October. I first started in October, therefore, the original download is not an update for me is it? I do believe in the project and the product. I do think it is a great idea, but I don't like paying for three months and getting one month's worth of updates(plus original package...I would pay for the first all on it's own). I am paying them for nothing effectivly. I am not their employer, I am a consumer ie: I don't pay their salary, the HR dept of the company does from what I, the consumer, pay.
I like Transgaming's product, winex, but I do have a problem with the subscription service. You would expect to be able to download a new version every month if you are paying a monthly fee. But you don't get that at all. They have only had one update since I signed on in October, and paid for three months. Ximian better have an update per month(at least) or it would not be worth it at all.
Come on guys... we all know what is going on here. FFX!
Doesn't this seem obviously flawed? Beside the fact that they could kill anyone/thing they wanted, just think of what would happen if they put a nuclear power plant on the moon... and then had a meltdown. All of the oceans on Earth would go nuts, and all of the folks who live in the Rockies and the Appalachians would have nice, poluted with dead people ocean-front property. Man, the foresight of these guys!
I call it the "Alan Parson's Project".
Packaging it is not the problem. It is the system integration that is the problem... Think about your favorite distro of Linux. It includes tons of software to do just about anything you _can_ do with a computer. But, they don't tie say... Netscape into the kernel core so that you can't get rid of it if it sucks to no end(no comments please, it's just an example). Windows has this sort of thing in it, which is what the punishment should include: the separation of products into a set of packages that work together or separately.
Unfortunately, I work for the Government. They really don't care how much it costs. As a matter of fact, I was sitting in on a meeting recently that the basis of which was to figure out how to spend more money so that we would be allotted more money next fiscal year... ever wonder why taxes keep getting higher? But, for now, it is a job... being young and inexperianced sucks to no end...
Basically, it all comes down to management not taking computer security seriously. I have to deal with this sort of crap day in and day out. The folks up top decide that when something bad happens, it is my job to clean up the mess. When ever I make a suggestion, it promptly gets shot down with excuses like:"the users can't get used to that", or "that would be too much work on our part"... well, perhaps if they had to deal first hand with recovering data from virus ridden machines, they would be pitching a damn fit about it too!
That a site that doesn't want to be linked to without permission would write their page to be non-renderable in a browser that is not of their choice...IE. They have just bought into the "standard" set forward by a certain company that prides itself in setting "standards".
The reason we can't see the dark matter is due to the proliferation of soft light in the Universe, as was depicted in the X-files episode: Soft Light. ;)
NAFTA aside, I don't believe that any NorthAmerican country has made any claims as to having a unified curreny with it's neighbors... the EU has.
30%, while a lot, is still am minority. I'd like to see some numbers on unpatched IIS servers. As for casting the first stone... my servers stay patched, I'll say what I goddamned well want to.
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Do you understand what the term de facto standard means? It is what the consumers buy the most of and use the most. It is not a matter of the software not being compatible. It is a matter of the consumers decideing(even if uneducated) to buy a particular product en masse. If you want Linux to succeed, pull out that wimpy wallet like I do, and put your money where your mouth is. You want to start a revolution, you have to fire some shots and you have to make some sacrifices. You may be incompatible with many at first, but some folks will follow you... eventually those folks will have their folks following. Get it? Force the issue. Don't be a whiny zealot. Be a mover and a shaker.
There are several remote access programs for Win32...one that comes to mind is nimda.
I'd pay for the thing if I could use it with GroupWise here where I work. They refuse to use the web interface...probably because they don't know how to run it without it much less with it. I just hate having the boss crawl up my tuckas because I didn't get his message... b/c he refused to send it via regular email. blech.
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