Not only that but the relief from not having to drop miles of cat.5 or what ever flavour of network cabling all around the building beyond the backbone is both a time and cost saver + you don't get some ID10T from HSE bitching about the trailing cables everywhere...
Will decide to find some arguement that they've licenced the GUI (yes I mean GUI) and get customs to confiscate all other OSes that have any form of GUI..
But seriously yet again the consumer is going lose.
'branded players' -- more expensive but sometimes better quality...
'unbranded' -- cheaper and sometime shoddy.
Let the consumer decide - over time the shoddy players will become history, the cheap but good players will become brand names etc...
Score: Big Corp's 1; public 0; little corps -1
Agreed times are hard but hope looms...
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The Laid-off Techie
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· Score: 2, Informative
I agree times are hard (having got laid of by a biggish now smallish teleco equipment manufacturer) but managed to find a job before my contract ended.
In the UK at the moment there seems to be a shortage of real-time software engineers with a number of companies I know having a shortfall in that area.
However in the IT support, web development, etc. areas then I agree times are very hard and not really showing signs of recovery despite what our blinkered politicians try to say.
Yep. Look at the programes that simulate using maths the prey/predetor relationships.. with a predator > prey mix the predators won't survive as they will all be competing for too few resources.
As someone who is involved with a group of ex-engnieers with a large company now starting our own firm I wonder what VC's are thinking of when they remove control from the founders - as the only people who know our code and the direction its going in removing us would be rather futile - yes I know other ENGINEERS would understand our direction but that's not the point. Our company is our baby and yes my financial input isn't to anywhere near the VC level but my risks (IE no job,money or house) are just as bad - we're as determined as they are to see our company succeed.. and I'm sure this goes for other startups as well - LEAVE THE FOUNDERS IN PLACE if you want your ROI to be as good as promised.
Just thinking about potential uses... if the coating can be applied in a fashion that the coating only erodes AFTER being hit by the read laser... corporations or other groups such as Amnesty Int. could issue all offices with a stack of DVD's - on each DVD put large (say 16MB) random data files (ideally generated from a true random source such as background radio noise or leaky diodes) then each time something really confidential needs sending use the correct disk and file - the act of reading the file will cause to be zapped... the only part of the disk that needs to be permanent is the directory structure.
Is it just me or is this idea of woro (write once read once) abit Mission Impossibleish -- this DVD will self destruct in 1 day...
What would really help the Linux community in general is if the DoJ ruled that Microsoft should release either their full office suite for either GNOME/KDE (or both).OR. where forced to fully publish their file formats. That way we can keep our OS and app's such as WINE free of trying to keep up with Windows API's (the main reason alot of people I know won't switch to Linux isn't games or custom apps its office support) and also allows use of whichever office suite takes your fancy...
I was under the impression that with Office XP Microsoft where going to move towards using XML documents to store office doc's... did this happen (I've not had the guts to install Office XP yet as my windows box is flakey enough as it is)
Sad thing about that is in those days that laptop wasn't unreasonable and could cope with what software existed for businesses at the time (taking a guess at the age of the laptop etc)...
Where did we go wrong... the current level of feature bloat in Word etc will probably mean we'll all need computers with the power of the Enterprise's just to type a letter...
hiho...
Actually reading the review they say that the CF slot does support the IBM Microdrives... <OT> wonder if IBM remember the Sinclair Spectrum Microdrives?</OT>.
Looking at the device it does look rather nice and given it's underlying OS is Linux the potential for getting to do things its not designed for probably won't be too much effort.
Suggested use, tie it in with a RF locator and web based map of large campus style corporate headquaters and visitors (or employees) need never get lost again;>
Looks like the dreaded curse of/. has struck again. Chalk that site up as another victim.
Re:For what it's worth, I bought a Loki game today
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Last Word on Loki
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If to you software is a SERVICE with the result free for all to use how are software engineers, programmers, designers etc supposed to make a living?
Alot of software takes more time to write than people have spare time so doing it as a hobby (which I do do in addition to my job as an s.e) isn't practical all the time...
<grin>Remember programmers are people too...</grin>
Looks like (at first glance) that the W3C have taken a cop-out route... "yes we'll keep things royalty free (but only if we can't find a good reason to make them royalty charged)".
Why can't they take a stance and say that without exception patents registered by the w3c will become public domain property (by filling the patent it prevents any other group trying the same thing without the public interest)
A person who if you don't tip them when you leave the restraunt the next time you visit will spill soup all over you?
Or the pile of junk in the corner of the office that makes alot of noise, has various people standing over it and muttering dire curse relating to bill gates and all in the computer industry (assuming os = Windows) or in the case of linux... now where did I leave that boot stone-slate as its so rarley needed...
I wonder if the trouble with modern RPG's (IE all eye-candy no meat) is down to the marketing types and people funding the development not understanding that part of the fun of rpg's is imagining what the world looks like etc and not having it rendered for you like a movie.
Look at the number of users who still play text-based mud's... I'm not saying though that we should go back to text but should get the game developers to go back to writing a decent plot and decent game-world then adding the flashy graphics - perhaps with some options to reduce the graphics level for those of us that remember the old days of the Hobbitt on a C64 with fondness (and that was a good RPG that didn't require tons of memory, blistering graphics and cpu -- oh and came on a tape... none of this multi-cd rubbish)
For web development work I tend to use my linux box as a server / html editing box and then use my windows box to view the pages in IE, Netscape and Mozilla.
I prefer doing as much work as possible from the command line because I tend to find the majority of GUI actions, while being more intuitive take longer to perform and swapping between mouse and keyboard when typing long tracts of text/code etc a pain in the ass.
At the risk of being burnt at the stake and getting a troll rating...
I like linux, I use it alot both for work and home use but I am getting tired of the chase for the desktop market. MS, like it or not it, are pretty secure on the desktop market. Where Linux scores is the server room and for that area I personally prefer reliablity, security etc over a fancy GUI front end.
GUI's are nice but not the end of the world.
(And yes I am bored, its late in the day and I've being trying to write requirements doc's all day, my coffee level is on overdrive...)
Just having a thought along the lines of copying data to memory is illegal copying and taking to the absurd extremes (or not so absurd for our crappy law system...)
1. I buy a game online which I have to download,
2. As I am downloading the game its contents are copied into memory in various caches and routers along the route,
3. what's the situation then....
Re:cost fo getting it into geo-stationary orbit
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(At this risk of losing most of my karma)
Given the time this task would consume we'd probably need to keep the cars and sell the wives/girlfriends.
Slashdot Mirror
Not only that but the relief from not having to drop miles of cat.5 or what ever flavour of network cabling all around the building beyond the backbone is both a time and cost saver + you don't get some ID10T from HSE bitching about the trailing cables everywhere...
Will decide to find some arguement that they've licenced the GUI (yes I mean GUI) and get customs to confiscate all other OSes that have any form of GUI..
But seriously yet again the consumer is going lose.
'branded players' -- more expensive but sometimes better quality...
'unbranded' -- cheaper and sometime shoddy.
Let the consumer decide - over time the shoddy players will become history, the cheap but good players will become brand names etc...
Score: Big Corp's 1; public 0; little corps -1
I agree times are hard (having got laid of by a biggish now smallish teleco equipment manufacturer) but managed to find a job before my contract ended.
In the UK at the moment there seems to be a shortage of real-time software engineers with a number of companies I know having a shortfall in that area.
However in the IT support, web development, etc. areas then I agree times are very hard and not really showing signs of recovery despite what our blinkered politicians try to say.
Yep. Look at the programes that simulate using maths the prey/predetor relationships.. with a predator > prey mix the predators won't survive as they will all be competing for too few resources.
As someone who is involved with a group of ex-engnieers with a large company now starting our own firm I wonder what VC's are thinking of when they remove control from the founders - as the only people who know our code and the direction its going in removing us would be rather futile - yes I know other ENGINEERS would understand our direction but that's not the point. Our company is our baby and yes my financial input isn't to anywhere near the VC level but my risks (IE no job,money or house) are just as bad - we're as determined as they are to see our company succeed.. and I'm sure this goes for other startups as well - LEAVE THE FOUNDERS IN PLACE if you want your ROI to be as good as promised.
Just thinking about potential uses... if the coating can be applied in a fashion that the coating only erodes AFTER being hit by the read laser... corporations or other groups such as Amnesty Int. could issue all offices with a stack of DVD's - on each DVD put large (say 16MB) random data files (ideally generated from a true random source such as background radio noise or leaky diodes) then each time something really confidential needs sending use the correct disk and file - the act of reading the file will cause to be zapped... the only part of the disk that needs to be permanent is the directory structure.
Is it just me or is this idea of woro (write once read once) abit Mission Impossibleish -- this DVD will self destruct in 1 day...
That's a bloody scary idea...
what about the usual install,curse,uninstall,reinstall cycle that windows forces you through even few months...
Yep, the infamous slashdot DoS occurs again.
Anyway thanks for grabbing it before the envitable happened.
What would really help the Linux community in general is if the DoJ ruled that Microsoft should release either their full office suite for either GNOME/KDE (or both) .OR. where forced to fully publish their file formats. That way we can keep our OS and app's such as WINE free of trying to keep up with Windows API's (the main reason alot of people I know won't switch to Linux isn't games or custom apps its office support) and also allows use of whichever office suite takes your fancy...
If it is a change that will protect the future of Wine but keeping in the spirit of open-source software then fair enough.
I was under the impression that with Office XP Microsoft where going to move towards using XML documents to store office doc's... did this happen (I've not had the guts to install Office XP yet as my windows box is flakey enough as it is)
With all different flavours of God(s) and Goddesses available to stick into your gap it could get rather crowded...
Sad thing about that is in those days that laptop wasn't unreasonable and could cope with what software existed for businesses at the time (taking a guess at the age of the laptop etc)...
Where did we go wrong... the current level of feature bloat in Word etc will probably mean we'll all need computers with the power of the Enterprise's just to type a letter...
hiho...
Actually reading the review they say that the CF slot does support the IBM Microdrives... <OT> wonder if IBM remember the Sinclair Spectrum Microdrives?</OT>.
;>
Looking at the device it does look rather nice and given it's underlying OS is Linux the potential for getting to do things its not designed for probably won't be too much effort.
Suggested use, tie it in with a RF locator and web based map of large campus style corporate headquaters and visitors (or employees) need never get lost again
Looks like the dreaded curse of /. has struck again. Chalk that site up as another victim.
If to you software is a SERVICE with the result free for all to use how are software engineers, programmers, designers etc supposed to make a living?
Alot of software takes more time to write than people have spare time so doing it as a hobby (which I do do in addition to my job as an s.e) isn't practical all the time...
<grin>Remember programmers are people too...</grin>
Looks like (at first glance) that the W3C have taken a cop-out route... "yes we'll keep things royalty free (but only if we can't find a good reason to make them royalty charged)".
Why can't they take a stance and say that without exception patents registered by the w3c will become public domain property (by filling the patent it prevents any other group trying the same thing without the public interest)
Cyborg_monkey
> what's a server?
A person who if you don't tip them when you leave the restraunt the next time you visit will spill soup all over you?
Or the pile of junk in the corner of the office that makes alot of noise, has various people standing over it and muttering dire curse relating to bill gates and all in the computer industry (assuming os = Windows) or in the case of linux... now where did I leave that boot stone-slate as its so rarley needed...
One of those in the garage will do nicely thank you...
Wonder how long until someone manages to skrimp enough money together to build a Beowulf cluster of them...
I wonder if the trouble with modern RPG's (IE all eye-candy no meat) is down to the marketing types and people funding the development not understanding that part of the fun of rpg's is imagining what the world looks like etc and not having it rendered for you like a movie.
Look at the number of users who still play text-based mud's... I'm not saying though that we should go back to text but should get the game developers to go back to writing a decent plot and decent game-world then adding the flashy graphics - perhaps with some options to reduce the graphics level for those of us that remember the old days of the Hobbitt on a C64 with fondness (and that was a good RPG that didn't require tons of memory, blistering graphics and cpu -- oh and came on a tape... none of this multi-cd rubbish)
I wouldn't call myself a conformist.
For web development work I tend to use my linux box as a server / html editing box and then use my windows box to view the pages in IE, Netscape and Mozilla.
I prefer doing as much work as possible from the command line because I tend to find the majority of GUI actions, while being more intuitive take longer to perform and swapping between mouse and keyboard when typing long tracts of text/code etc a pain in the ass.
At the risk of being burnt at the stake and getting a troll rating...
I like linux, I use it alot both for work and home use but I am getting tired of the chase for the desktop market. MS, like it or not it, are pretty secure on the desktop market. Where Linux scores is the server room and for that area I personally prefer reliablity, security etc over a fancy GUI front end.
GUI's are nice but not the end of the world.
(And yes I am bored, its late in the day and I've being trying to write requirements doc's all day, my coffee level is on overdrive...)
The DMCA had a rider that made such ephemeral copies explicitly lawful in the USA.
That's the problem...
What about the rest of the world...
Just having a thought along the lines of copying data to memory is illegal copying and taking to the absurd extremes (or not so absurd for our crappy law system...)
1. I buy a game online which I have to download,
2. As I am downloading the game its contents are copied into memory in various caches and routers along the route,
3. what's the situation then....
(At this risk of losing most of my karma)
Given the time this task would consume we'd probably need to keep the cars and sell the wives/girlfriends.