Did anyone read that and think of the Xbox360 and PS3?
I think Nintendo is ready for a nice comeback with the Wii. The graphics looked amazing when I looked at Galaxy Mario and Zelda twilight princess. I encourage those to google for the video's? I dont care if the specs aren't as nice as the ps3 or xbox360. The games look good enough and the price and the way its developed for everyone is going to be a huge appeal.
The games will return again after the developers will see more Wii than either the ps3 or xbox360.
Like the free Ipod mini scam here on slashdot and livejournal.com? Oh but its not a scam here is the pic of my Ipod! It was mentioned on cnn so its real and free!
Just give your 5 best friend's email address to the spammer and..., bla bla bla
Speaking of SCO jokes there were 2 I tried googling that I can not find. One was a parady of the "See johnny run" chidren's book with "See sco" and another a parody of the Nigerian scam letters claiming to be Darl McBride asking for money for a lawsuit agaisnt linux in exchange for some profits from the lawsuit.
both were pretty funny. Unless you actually mean real news.... forgot about that part.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Linux distribution versions. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a recent Linux distribution study.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO UNIX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time developers Simon Baldwin and Andrew Sharpe only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO UNIX project leader Darl states that there are 7000 users of SCO UNIX. How many users of OpenServer are there? Let's see. The number of SCO UNIX versus OpenServer posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 OpenServer users. SCO UNIX posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of OpenServer posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SCO UNIX. A recent article put SCO UNIX distribution at about 80 percent of the market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SCO UNIX users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of half-baked SCO lawsuits, abysmal sales and so on, many development companies is going out of business and will probably be taken over by another company who will sell another troubled product. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
Run this 6 or 7 times to totally wipe out any drive.
I remember reading this many years ago and its common knowledge there are some residual tracks still visible from a microscope from a single write. You need to write it several times to totally hide any imprint on what was once on the drive.
So why are scientists so certain abou certain dates of events that happened long ago like the killer astroid that wiped the dinosaurs 65 million bc?
I am not a fundie but there has to be a reliable way to date something. Otherwise scientists would not claim things like the age of the ducks in the article or any scientific paper.
No because the laywers are the ones filing the lawsuits and they look at them for financial gain.
To say its ok is to trust a lawyer in which no one in their right mind would. I can easily picture nintendo being sued for selling Zelda because the main character uses a sword and... gulp... slaughters enemies with it! Your honor I want a million bucks to teach that mean old nintendo for harming my child's mind yada yada yada.
Where do you draw the line?
If your a libertarian then you should oppose any government regulation. Especially one that is loosely interpretted and sponsored by those with financial gain. Its corruption.
The community should and does have the ability to pass ordinances if they wish but a guy not from Lousiana hoping to make some money by suing game makers should not write law.
Notice the language is very very vague in the bill? Anyone can have a different interpretation on what is decent. For that reason I imagine Jack Thomposn did this for financial gain as he will plan to open several offices in Louisana and sue every retailer in existance. The lawyers are also politicians in the state senate and their former employers are drooling for something like this.
Its disgusting.
Any bill with no direct interpretation should not even come to the floor yet pass as a law.
Well everyone loses and if I were John Carmack or some manager at Target I would pull all video games off the shelves for fear of lawsuits.
It will be impossible to buy any game online or off now if you live in Lousiana. Again the consumer loses.
The latest version has menu's that are much more organized and consice than KDE. Also some apps in KDE such as Kdevelop have poor menu UI issues and the fonts are lacking since kde 2.x.
I used to be a former KDe enthusiast but as of recently been switching to gnome. Ubuntu shows off gnome 2.12 which is the most UI and user friendly version to date.
Kde 4.0 will have a totally redone UI and menu system so this may change.
Also if you go to www.kde.org you will see a section called KDE for women with the cute dragon wearing makup and a dress.
Kde does have a much bigger color contrast so I wonder if that could make a difference?
I did tech support. I never use the internet at all unless its work related. I felt too paranoid all the time about my perception and handle time statistics when I am on the phone.
It seems teh lower your job the harder you work and the most that is expected of you. When I was an intern lan admin I went on slashdot all the time. Not excessively but every few hours I would check if I wasn't too busy with anything or waiting for a meeting or something.
If your a director then you can be on slashdot all day long as long as your work is done and meets expectations.
Those at McDonalds obviously have to work continiously non stop.
Seems odd that those with the higher salaries and responsibilities should work the harder because they are getting paid more?
The problem is alot of CIO's are involved and they can circumvent any security standard or fraud policy he or she wants too. So in the end it doesn't matter if the CEO and CFO get smoked blowed up their ass so they dont know whats going on.
TO do this you need a mid level or CIO to accomplish this and take cuts on the transactions.
... ever made. After all Microsoft said so both in 1996 and 1999.
So until holes appear in either platform I think we can trust Microsoft when they say something is secure. After all I never heard of a single security hole in WindowsXP or IIS or any server product from MS. Have you?
I had to downgrade my driver for a MSQL Microsoft quality lab certified driver to prevent crashes and improve performancen when I upgraded my systems video card to a 6600 last fall.
I have very loud popping noises on my computers with sound blaster lives when I play midi's.
One of the benefits of java as it can scale nicely and it has nice multithreading libraries.
I am just a begineer with java programming but I am impressed that the top web servers run java servlets that seem to scale quite nicely. Something that cgi and lamp can't do that well.
I assumed the JVM can run on several processors so the problem wouldn't be hard on an smp system. I could be wrong since I am not a software engineer or experienced yet.
I think AMD is approaching the opposite angle by having several processors act as one in a giant core. I know they plan to introduce this in a later chip. That way the multithreading is done in hardware rather than in software on the OS. I think that is a great idea.
Azeurus and limewire/frostwire are just 2 I know of.
Yes its not as integrated into windows which sucks for business apps but the java api is next to none for creating graphics desktop and phone apps. For things like simple games and applets it kicks ass.
Java 1.5 has alot more precompiled byte code and dynamic class loading. Java 1.6 will include the java 3d api and use the systems native GPU fully for the effects.
Java only appears slow when it loads and the fact that its gui components are not multithreaded by default like most other languages when you implement gui functions. THis will be fixed with java 1.6 mustang for the lazy programmers who dont know how to do this.
No I am not one of those java fanatics but I used to hate it myself until I had a class in it last Spring. It was much more pleasant than c++ and I fell in love with javadocs.
I took java last spring for a MIS course and I was expecting the usual slow load times with things like netbeans. The class was taught with java 1.5 and I noticed it was fast. All the java applets just loaded including the java programs netbeans on my system.
Oddly I wondered why Azuerous and frostwire seemed to not be that slow anymore as well. I figured I just assumed java didn't suck as I thought it did.
Now I know why.
For the slashdotters reading this, I highly recommend upgrading to java 1.5 on your machine. You will certainly notice a speedup as I did.
That is because there are over 100,000 methods in the java api!
All those need to be dynamically compiled so the java applications can link to them. One of Java's best strength's is its api. You can look it up by going to www.java.sun.com and selecting javadocs?
I am sure perl or python would be even slower if it had that many api's to dynamically compile into bytecode.
Java is semi native and not %100 interpretted so it can be just as fast as C or close to it if the section of code is already compiled at runtime to the JavaVM that runs on your native processor. Perl or python are alot slower as more interpretation is used.
I want to learn it. I think the technology is alot like Java. It sucked in the 90's for anything besides simple chat apps but now with more ram and fast processors its not a big deal.
vrml should fly and be smooth with any decent graphics card. Hell google maps with 3d buildings turned on runs fine with my semi 3d intel integrated graphics chip on my laptop. The same should be true with my desktop with my geforce 6600.
WHat ever happened to the VRML virtual reality markup language that supports the 3d web apps?
I was just wondering about this last week. Sure back in 98 with no decent 3d cards it sucked balls and turned a might pentium into a trs-80 but the standard might be hot today with 3d cards and fast processors.
You dont need a 3d browser for these features if anyone actually kicks up the old standard again.
Slashdot Mirror
Did anyone read that and think of the Xbox360 and PS3?
I think Nintendo is ready for a nice comeback with the Wii. The graphics looked amazing when I looked at Galaxy Mario and Zelda twilight princess. I encourage those to google for the video's? I dont care if the specs aren't as nice as the ps3 or xbox360. The games look good enough and the price and the way its developed for everyone is going to be a huge appeal.
The games will return again after the developers will see more Wii than either the ps3 or xbox360.
Sounds like you need a server or workstation.
Can you setup SSH aka putty and just log remotely into a real machine for work?
If its a unix or linux box you can even do X11 remote port forwarding if you want a desktop.
Manipulating mass pieces of data is unusual for a portable system designed to get powerpoint presentations and read email?
Like the free Ipod mini scam here on slashdot and livejournal.com? Oh but its not a scam here is the pic of my Ipod! It was mentioned on cnn so its real and free!
..., bla bla bla
Just give your 5 best friend's email address to the spammer and
Speaking of SCO jokes there were 2 I tried googling that I can not find. One was a parady of the "See johnny run" chidren's book with "See sco" and another a parody of the Nigerian scam letters claiming to be Darl McBride asking for money for a lawsuit agaisnt linux in exchange for some profits from the lawsuit.
both were pretty funny. Unless you actually mean real news.... forgot about that part.
It is official.
Netcraft confirms: SCO is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Linux distribution versions. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a recent Linux distribution study.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO UNIX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time developers Simon Baldwin and Andrew Sharpe only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO UNIX project leader Darl states that there are 7000 users of SCO UNIX. How many users of OpenServer are there? Let's see. The number of SCO UNIX versus OpenServer posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 OpenServer users. SCO UNIX posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of OpenServer posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SCO UNIX. A recent article put SCO UNIX distribution at about 80 percent of the market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SCO UNIX users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of half-baked SCO lawsuits, abysmal sales and so on, many development companies is going out of business and will probably be taken over by another company who will sell another troubled product. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
How was that?
dd = /dev/random of=dev/hda1
Run this 6 or 7 times to totally wipe out any drive.
I remember reading this many years ago and its common knowledge there are some residual tracks still visible from a microscope from a single write. You need to write it several times to totally hide any imprint on what was once on the drive.
So why are scientists so certain abou certain dates of events that happened long ago like the killer astroid that wiped the dinosaurs 65 million bc?
I am not a fundie but there has to be a reliable way to date something. Otherwise scientists would not claim things like the age of the ducks in the article or any scientific paper.
No because the laywers are the ones filing the lawsuits and they look at them for financial gain.
... gulp... slaughters enemies with it! Your honor I want a million bucks to teach that mean old nintendo for harming my child's mind yada yada yada.
To say its ok is to trust a lawyer in which no one in their right mind would. I can easily picture nintendo being sued for selling Zelda because the main character uses a sword and
Where do you draw the line?
If your a libertarian then you should oppose any government regulation. Especially one that is loosely interpretted and sponsored by those with financial gain. Its corruption.
The community should and does have the ability to pass ordinances if they wish but a guy not from Lousiana hoping to make some money by suing game makers should not write law.
Notice the language is very very vague in the bill? Anyone can have a different interpretation on what is decent. For that reason I imagine Jack Thomposn did this for financial gain as he will plan to open several offices in Louisana and sue every retailer in existance. The lawyers are also politicians in the state senate and their former employers are drooling for something like this.
Its disgusting.
Any bill with no direct interpretation should not even come to the floor yet pass as a law.
Well everyone loses and if I were John Carmack or some manager at Target I would pull all video games off the shelves for fear of lawsuits.
It will be impossible to buy any game online or off now if you live in Lousiana. Again the consumer loses.
The latest version has menu's that are much more organized and consice than KDE. Also some apps in KDE such as Kdevelop have poor menu UI issues and the fonts are lacking since kde 2.x.
I used to be a former KDe enthusiast but as of recently been switching to gnome. Ubuntu shows off gnome 2.12 which is the most UI and user friendly version to date.
Kde 4.0 will have a totally redone UI and menu system so this may change.
Also if you go to www.kde.org you will see a section called KDE for women with the cute dragon wearing makup and a dress.
Kde does have a much bigger color contrast so I wonder if that could make a difference?
How many titles are there for HD-DVD?
If its alot greater than 10 I think we may have a winner for the next standard.
.. and not stayed on slashdot all the time.
I did tech support. I never use the internet at all unless its work related. I felt too paranoid all the time about my perception and handle time statistics when I am on the phone.
It seems teh lower your job the harder you work and the most that is expected of you. When I was an intern lan admin I went on slashdot all the time. Not excessively but every few hours I would check if I wasn't too busy with anything or waiting for a meeting or something.
If your a director then you can be on slashdot all day long as long as your work is done and meets expectations.
Those at McDonalds obviously have to work continiously non stop.
Seems odd that those with the higher salaries and responsibilities should work the harder because they are getting paid more?
The problem is alot of CIO's are involved and they can circumvent any security standard or fraud policy he or she wants too. So in the end it doesn't matter if the CEO and CFO get smoked blowed up their ass so they dont know whats going on.
TO do this you need a mid level or CIO to accomplish this and take cuts on the transactions.
... ever made. After all Microsoft said so both in 1996 and 1999.
So until holes appear in either platform I think we can trust Microsoft when they say something is secure. After all I never heard of a single security hole in WindowsXP or IIS or any server product from MS. Have you?
Nvidia and creative labs have terrible drivers.
I had to downgrade my driver for a MSQL Microsoft quality lab certified driver to prevent crashes and improve performancen when I upgraded my systems video card to a 6600 last fall.
I have very loud popping noises on my computers with sound blaster lives when I play midi's.
More than likely apple would just stay proprietary rather than opensource and anger their investors who dont want their capital out on the street.
BSD is just more corporate friendly and corporations are required for IT to exist.
I wish it would install on my windowsXP box. :-(
One of the benefits of java as it can scale nicely and it has nice multithreading libraries.
I am just a begineer with java programming but I am impressed that the top web servers run java servlets that seem to scale quite nicely. Something that cgi and lamp can't do that well.
I assumed the JVM can run on several processors so the problem wouldn't be hard on an smp system. I could be wrong since I am not a software engineer or experienced yet.
I think AMD is approaching the opposite angle by having several processors act as one in a giant core. I know they plan to introduce this in a later chip. That way the multithreading is done in hardware rather than in software on the OS. I think that is a great idea.
There are some successfull java apps.
Azeurus and limewire/frostwire are just 2 I know of.
Yes its not as integrated into windows which sucks for business apps but the java api is next to none for creating graphics desktop and phone apps. For things like simple games and applets it kicks ass.
Java 1.5 has alot more precompiled byte code and dynamic class loading. Java 1.6 will include the java 3d api and use the systems native GPU fully for the effects.
Java only appears slow when it loads and the fact that its gui components are not multithreaded by default like most other languages when you implement gui functions. THis will be fixed with java 1.6 mustang for the lazy programmers who dont know how to do this.
No I am not one of those java fanatics but I used to hate it myself until I had a class in it last Spring. It was much more pleasant than c++ and I fell in love with javadocs.
I took java last spring for a MIS course and I was expecting the usual slow load times with things like netbeans. The class was taught with java 1.5 and I noticed it was fast. All the java applets just loaded including the java programs netbeans on my system.
Oddly I wondered why Azuerous and frostwire seemed to not be that slow anymore as well. I figured I just assumed java didn't suck as I thought it did.
Now I know why.
For the slashdotters reading this, I highly recommend upgrading to java 1.5 on your machine. You will certainly notice a speedup as I did.
That is because there are over 100,000 methods in the java api!
All those need to be dynamically compiled so the java applications can link to them. One of Java's best strength's is its api. You can look it up by going to www.java.sun.com and selecting javadocs?
I am sure perl or python would be even slower if it had that many api's to dynamically compile into bytecode.
Java is semi native and not %100 interpretted so it can be just as fast as C or close to it if the section of code is already compiled at runtime to the JavaVM that runs on your native processor. Perl or python are alot slower as more interpretation is used.
Do you know if any browsers still use VRML?
I want to learn it. I think the technology is alot like Java. It sucked in the 90's for anything besides simple chat apps but now with more ram and fast processors its not a big deal.
vrml should fly and be smooth with any decent graphics card. Hell google maps with 3d buildings turned on runs fine with my semi 3d intel integrated graphics chip on my laptop. The same should be true with my desktop with my geforce 6600.
WHat ever happened to the VRML virtual reality markup language that supports the 3d web apps?
I was just wondering about this last week. Sure back in 98 with no decent 3d cards it sucked balls and turned a might pentium into a trs-80 but the standard might be hot today with 3d cards and fast processors.
You dont need a 3d browser for these features if anyone actually kicks up the old standard again.
It happens.
AN old friend used to work someplace that had their servers come with SuSE standard edition(not enterprise). THey just wipe them and install Windows.
The OEm knows this and dont care. As long as they include an OS to make the MS contract they signed valid they dont care.