anyone using BNETD is well aware that they're using something that isn't Blizzard's. i really would like to see this go to trial though. it's always entertaining to see them law-yers sling BS all over the place.
maybe mcd's should be taking burger king to court for their new line of breakfast sandwitches i went to bk to get one and was almost fooled to thinking i was at a McD's (of course when i spilled the coffee on myself and didn't get blisters, I knew where i was).
a standard printed book value of time estimates for projects. the auto repair industry has standard estimates for certain repairs, why doesn't the software repair industry. i know they're worlds apart, but it sure would help out a little to be able to pull out a little book and say, well, you need a gui interface consisting of 15 screens to maintain 20MB of data, it's going to be 10,000 hours for developing, testing and documenting. if you want to cut the documentation, we can do that, but you're really slitting your throat there.
i definately agree that having controlled transportation through a long tunnel has many advantage, but..:
1. are you saying that exhaust fumes from the controlled transportation (CT) will not need to be exhausted or vented?
2/3. CT vehicles can also have accidents and mechanical problems. the frequency isn't as great, but the impact when it happens is devistating. when a plane headed for houston then on to Phoenix is grounded for repairs for 2 hours,lots of people are impacted.
i've taken a train acroos from canada to the US, and the customs isn't any easier than at the drive up window. when you arrive at customs with 300 other people arriveing at the same time, people have to wait. and the train doesn't re-leave untill all people are checked again.
yahoo is now charging 30$ a year for pop email access. how usefull is their service when you are forced to store the messages on their server? it's not long before they begin to charge for web storage space.
i would say chemical use in general can correlate directly to the customers interest in software/systems changes. in a support group, programming work is steady and dull. in a development environment, the work is sporadic and at the whim of the project sponsor. when they want a project completed, it has to be as cheep and quick as possible. when they need nothing, you're corporate over head.
the ati aiw 16mb 128 cards have been out for years (97-98 maybe). these cards handle 3d excleration very well. these run off the rage128 chipset. good chipset.
the radeon cards, specifically the aiw cards will most likely be excellent cards for maybe 4 years. after that if you need new video, you're probably going to want a new mobo, cpu, more ram, more/faster HDD, etc. to the point where building another box make sense.
how about having a separate box for tivo like functionality. what if that box could stream the video (archived or live) to other boxes in the network? that would rock.
i notice a tremendouns difference playing tuxracer when it's getting 200 fps and 500 fps. usually the 200 fps is because there's some massive compilation going on in the background and it's jumpy. 900 fps is smooth, and nice. real nice.
my appologies, i wasn't referring to coding, or capturing non naturally spoken language.
i'm not sure a pen would work for the hackers either. most hacker writing either resembles a doctor's writing, or is all upcase (must have been those damn cobol classes).
this could reduce those pesky west coast posts on a/. story such as the season opener of "Star Trek XP - above the stars and beyond." you know the kind:
"why are you posting a review of this series when i can't watch it for another 2 hours yet. you're spoiling my virginity"
now what if the Tech were the computer? as soon as Joe gave the acct number (assuming the Tech isn't from the TechXP suite), the Tech would "know" everything it had on hand about Joe. Hell, tech could even take a peek at Joe's box and respond:
T: Hey joe, i think you might want to uninstall that "TwinBlondeDancer" screen saver you recently installed, it seems to be corrupting your system memory.
i'm imagining a setting of a meeting room where a pc is transcribing all that's going on and can spit it out for everyone after the meeting. or a classroom where students can have not just notes taken but the entire lecture transcribed. of course there's probably DMCA implications in this use as oppose to audio tape/video tapes, but that's what you get when mickey mouse forks over some dough to them law-yer on the hill.
exactly! until the pen learns itself to write 60 wpm it's useless.
voice recognition software is where i see major strides coming from (that and a good education everywhere on correct phonetics). i've heard that most people talk at 100 wpm (though i'm positive i've clocked my wife rambling twice that speed)
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i think the "war" was started when:
1. RMS decided KDE's licensing issues were'nt sufficent enough for his GNU system. 2. the KDE group was unwilling to call it GNU/KDE.
whey you come out slinging mud like this some people can call it a war. they (gnu zelots) could have been more mature about it, saying they were going to make a different desktop environment based on different technologies (.NET), but no, they start it all off with license issue mud slinging "we don't like your license so we're going to build our own replacement". childish.
30 posts about how/. shouldn't have this until all the mirrors are updated.
10 posts telling the above to get a clue
and people adding to the post list
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oh please! kde could have gotten the mirrors to sync yesterday morning before it was available for the general public. the release has been ready for a few days now.
i've been trying to get 3.0 for a few days, (wanted to try rc3, but it wasn't available anymore), and saw it on kde's servers last night, but only the rpms, no source. i saw source this morning, but had to be persistant to get the downloads (350 of 350 anonymous users). i checked the mirrors this morning and they were a day behind. i would like to see someone from kde come out and explain why there isn't some corrdination with the main mirrors (download.us.kde.org, etc) to get them the files before the public can get them.
the source code for both these products you mention are OPEN SOURCE. if you can show some of these time loops in the free version, we'd love to see it. i'm sure the developers of the software would love to see it as well.
are you saying when you were in the IT environment (business environment), you weren't a computer scientist? i agree the work doesn't always demand the most geekiest of scientific skills, but that's the nature of working in the business world. i believe it requires computer science skills nonetheless.
sure writing packages/procedures/tables/indexes all day isn't exactly scientific. but when the project is 2 weeks late, and the application performance needs to improve by 200%, a _little_ scientific thought needs to go into the process.
you're playing with fire when you say IT people aren't real computer scientists;). flames aside, having been employed in the IT industry for over 5 years, i'd have to say that most IT people are real computer scientists. the information system _users_ on the other hand are not.
it's not typically the computer scientists (IT professionals) who decide a shop is going to be a M$ shop, but rather a middle manager who knows that no one ever got fired for choosing M$. that manager also probably knows that the skills to work in and maintain the M$ environment typically are at a lower rate than that of the skills found in a UNIX shop. (compare a VB developer salary to a UNIX C/C++ engineer, hell, compare a M$ C++ engineer to a UNIX C++ engineer).
as i mentioned else where, unix is about scalibility and flexability. when an information system starts to push a sun box to the limits, there's nearly always a bigger, better sun box one waiting to migrate the system to.
i could care less if they want to claim responsibility for building the infrastructure for carrying the internet to every household in my city/county/state. i don't care who does it as long as it's done quickly and fair "service" is delivered to all w/i that region.
some argue that it's not for the good of the community. i say it's no more for the good of the community than it was to build the electricity or phone or water infrastructure. we're in the information age now, and we live off information.
interesting, i heard that album isn't going to be supported longer. i really hope your listeners have upgraed to the latest and greatest artistic talents being shown. the eariler albums were pretty scratchy, but the group recommends listening to the most recent tracks to get a more enjoyable eXPerience.
do you think AOL is interested in voyaging into the Linux/BSD market?
i think that market (from a home consumer perspective) is maybe 5% give or take a few. most of those users are more interested in getting cable modems and or DSL service, and would only use AOL as a last resort; after they've used up all their 60 day trials possible. i think they're smart to get off the reliance of M$, but don't think they're catering to the hacker crowd in the least. internet appliances perhaps.
the game manufactures work under a similar concept. develop quality games easily, quickly and to target the most common OS your games can run on.
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from the 14 page pdf fax document, paragraph 36:
"BNETD is a shorthand for BATTLE.NET DAEMON"
anyone using BNETD is well aware that they're using something that isn't Blizzard's. i really would like to see this go to trial though. it's always entertaining to see them law-yers sling BS all over the place.
maybe mcd's should be taking burger king to court for their new line of breakfast sandwitches i went to bk to get one and was almost fooled to thinking i was at a McD's (of course when i spilled the coffee on myself and didn't get blisters, I knew where i was).
a standard printed book value of time estimates for projects. the auto repair industry has standard estimates for certain repairs, why doesn't the software repair industry. i know they're worlds apart, but it sure would help out a little to be able to pull out a little book and say, well, you need a gui interface consisting of 15 screens to maintain 20MB of data, it's going to be 10,000 hours for developing, testing and documenting. if you want to cut the documentation, we can do that, but you're really slitting your throat there.
i definately agree that having controlled transportation through a long tunnel has many advantage, but..:
1. are you saying that exhaust fumes from the controlled transportation (CT) will not need to be exhausted or vented?
2/3. CT vehicles can also have accidents and mechanical problems. the frequency isn't as great, but the impact when it happens is devistating. when a plane headed for houston then on to Phoenix is grounded for repairs for 2 hours,lots of people are impacted.
i've taken a train acroos from canada to the US, and the customs isn't any easier than at the drive up window. when you arrive at customs with 300 other people arriveing at the same time, people have to wait. and the train doesn't re-leave untill all people are checked again.
yahoo is now charging 30$ a year for pop email access. how usefull is their service when you are forced to store the messages on their server? it's not long before they begin to charge for web storage space.
i would say chemical use in general can correlate directly to the customers interest in software/systems changes. in a support group, programming work is steady and dull. in a development environment, the work is sporadic and at the whim of the project sponsor. when they want a project completed, it has to be as cheep and quick as possible. when they need nothing, you're corporate over head.
the ati aiw 16mb 128 cards have been out for years (97-98 maybe). these cards handle 3d excleration very well. these run off the rage128 chipset. good chipset.
the radeon cards, specifically the aiw cards will most likely be excellent cards for maybe 4 years. after that if you need new video, you're probably going to want a new mobo, cpu, more ram, more/faster HDD, etc. to the point where building another box make sense.
how about having a separate box for tivo like functionality. what if that box could stream the video (archived or live) to other boxes in the network? that would rock.
i notice a tremendouns difference playing tuxracer when it's getting 200 fps and 500 fps. usually the 200 fps is because there's some massive compilation going on in the background and it's jumpy. 900 fps is smooth, and nice. real nice.
my appologies, i wasn't referring to coding, or capturing non naturally spoken language.
i'm not sure a pen would work for the hackers either. most hacker writing either resembles a doctor's writing, or is all upcase (must have been those damn cobol classes).
this could reduce those pesky west coast posts on a /. story such as the season opener of "Star Trek XP - above the stars and beyond." you know the kind:
"why are you posting a review of this series when i can't watch it for another 2 hours yet. you're spoiling my virginity"
now what if the Tech were the computer? as soon as Joe gave the acct number (assuming the Tech isn't from the TechXP suite), the Tech would "know" everything it had on hand about Joe. Hell, tech could even take a peek at Joe's box and respond:
T: Hey joe, i think you might want to uninstall that "TwinBlondeDancer" screen saver you recently installed, it seems to be corrupting your system memory.
i'm imagining a setting of a meeting room where a pc is transcribing all that's going on and can spit it out for everyone after the meeting. or a classroom where students can have not just notes taken but the entire lecture transcribed. of course there's probably DMCA implications in this use as oppose to audio tape/video tapes, but that's what you get when mickey mouse forks over some dough to them law-yer on the hill.
except kde 3.0 is out and lots of busy athlon boxes are busy building the sources today (for the lucky ones who were able to get the sources :)
exactly! until the pen learns itself to write 60 wpm it's useless.
voice recognition software is where i see major strides coming from (that and a good education everywhere on correct phonetics). i've heard that most people talk at 100 wpm (though i'm positive i've clocked my wife rambling twice that speed)
i think the "war" was started when:
1. RMS decided KDE's licensing issues were'nt sufficent enough for his GNU system.
2. the KDE group was unwilling to call it GNU/KDE.
whey you come out slinging mud like this some people can call it a war. they (gnu zelots) could have been more mature about it, saying they were going to make a different desktop environment based on different technologies (.NET), but no, they start it all off with license issue mud slinging "we don't like your license so we're going to build our own replacement". childish.
30 posts about how /. shouldn't have this until all the mirrors are updated.
10 posts telling the above to get a clue
and people adding to the post list
oh please! kde could have gotten the mirrors to sync yesterday morning before it was available for the general public. the release has been ready for a few days now.
i've been trying to get 3.0 for a few days, (wanted to try rc3, but it wasn't available anymore), and saw it on kde's servers last night, but only the rpms, no source. i saw source this morning, but had to be persistant to get the downloads (350 of 350 anonymous users). i checked the mirrors this morning and they were a day behind. i would like to see someone from kde come out and explain why there isn't some corrdination with the main mirrors (download.us.kde.org, etc) to get them the files before the public can get them.
come back tomorrow.
22 more hours worth, according to my clock.
yep, you're paranoid!
the source code for both these products you mention are OPEN SOURCE. if you can show some of these time loops in the free version, we'd love to see it. i'm sure the developers of the software would love to see it as well.
are you saying when you were in the IT environment (business environment), you weren't a computer scientist? i agree the work doesn't always demand the most geekiest of scientific skills, but that's the nature of working in the business world. i believe it requires computer science skills nonetheless.
sure writing packages/procedures/tables/indexes all day isn't exactly scientific. but when the project is 2 weeks late, and the application performance needs to improve by 200%, a _little_ scientific thought needs to go into the process.
you're playing with fire when you say IT people aren't real computer scientists ;). flames aside, having been employed in the IT industry for over 5 years, i'd have to say that most IT people are real computer scientists. the information system _users_ on the other hand are not.
it's not typically the computer scientists (IT professionals) who decide a shop is going to be a M$ shop, but rather a middle manager who knows that no one ever got fired for choosing M$. that manager also probably knows that the skills to work in and maintain the M$ environment typically are at a lower rate than that of the skills found in a UNIX shop. (compare a VB developer salary to a UNIX C/C++ engineer, hell, compare a M$ C++ engineer to a UNIX C++ engineer).
as i mentioned else where, unix is about scalibility and flexability. when an information system starts to push a sun box to the limits, there's nearly always a bigger, better sun box one waiting to migrate the system to.
i could care less if they want to claim responsibility for building the infrastructure for carrying the internet to every household in my city/county/state. i don't care who does it as long as it's done quickly and fair "service" is delivered to all w/i that region.
some argue that it's not for the good of the community. i say it's no more for the good of the community than it was to build the electricity or phone or water infrastructure. we're in the information age now, and we live off information.
interesting, i heard that album isn't going to be supported longer. i really hope your listeners have upgraed to the latest and greatest artistic talents being shown. the eariler albums were pretty scratchy, but the group recommends listening to the most recent tracks to get a more enjoyable eXPerience.
do you think AOL is interested in voyaging into the Linux/BSD market?
i think that market (from a home consumer perspective) is maybe 5% give or take a few. most of those users are more interested in getting cable modems and or DSL service, and would only use AOL as a last resort; after they've used up all their 60 day trials possible. i think they're smart to get off the reliance of M$, but don't think they're catering to the hacker crowd in the least. internet appliances perhaps.
the game manufactures work under a similar concept. develop quality games easily, quickly and to target the most common OS your games can run on.
i don't see a conspiracy.
they (TW/AOL) want a solid browser (an alternative to IE).
they own a browser.
they pump money into their browser to get it finished.
seems like normal business to me.