Everyone's economy is in the crapper. Austin's unemployment rate isn't any worse than (say) Cambridge MA or San Francisco, from the statistics I've seen.
I certainly wouldn't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained as stupidity.
Given that a house in Austin will translate to a ratty apartment in California, I wonder how many grateful employees will opt to move, and how many will decide to go work for another game company in Austin...
Yeah, it's about time the FBI got involved in cleaning up the DDoS problem. Looks like there was at least plenty of circumstantial evidence that FooNet was harboring DDoS vandals and credit card scammers, so I don't have a problem with their suffering a few days of downtime while the situation is investigated. We're talking about people who destroy businesses and volunteer-run networks and rip off innocent bystanders to the tune of thousands of dollars each. I, for one, would like to see a few of them sent to prison.
"Trust" anti-odorant, also known as "Lavilin" in the USA.
Made by a company in Israel. Entirely natural ingredients, doesn't block pores. It's a white paste, and one application lasts for a week. (Yes, really.)
It's marketed at women, but I use it too 'cause I have sensitive skin.
I'm busy restoring color photos from the 1970s. Believe me, film is volatile too.
Sure, properly stored film can last decades. Properly storing color film, however, is not a trivial problem. Why do you think movies like Spartacus and Vertigo have to go through expensive digital restoration?
Funny, I'd say that VIA offers a fine alternative to nVidia for those that need hardware that actually works properly with Linux.
My VIA EPIA system hasn't crashed once, and I just eliminated the last binary-only proprietary driver (the sound driver) now that 2.6 has everything I need working properly in open source form. In fact, VIA made source code and documentation available to developers, and that work is now making its way into the kernel releases.
Is there any documentation of this alleged secret goal, or are you basing your argument on the load of crap invented after the fact by Jerry Pournelle?
I built a mini-ITX system in a cube case with a VIA C3 Nehemiah and a Seagate hard drive. Installed Gentoo, SlimServer, and daapd. Fire up iTunes anywhere on the network, click on the server icon found via Rendezvous, and there's all the music. I avoided the Shuttle systems because their fans are too noisy.
I wrote up the whole process including configuration. I finally got ALSA working this week, but I haven't updated the page with that info yet.
EA not supporting XBOX EVIL is nothing to do with market size; it's because Microsoft insisted that EA would have to turn over all its customer data to them, as well as host everything on Microsoft servers. The TCO pain of the latter was a disincentive, but it was the former that was the real dealbreaker.
If your company was dumb enough to build for a specific browser rather than following web standards, you can't always replace IE 5 with IE 6 and have your web sites still work.
For example, IE 6 removed support for some plugins, and now comes without support for Microsoft's broken Java 1.1.8 VM.
Has the Xbox been all you expected and wanted it to be?
Well, let's see... it's the last place "next-gen" console behind Game Cube and PS2 as far as US sales, it's being outsold by the PSOne in Japan, it's been hacked to make a cheap Linux server, EA have abandoned making any Xbox online sports games, and the Xbox division has lost Microsoft a ton of money. The console's list of killer titles is Halo and... er... that's it, and Halo isn't exclusive any more.
So yeah, that's exactly what I expected and wanted it to be--another Microsoft failure.
I've never understood why the FSF continue to put up with X being under a non-GPL license.
If we have to have an entire superfluous desktop environment project (GNOME) just to maintain the purity of everything being under the GPL, how come there's no GPL implementation of X?
Maybe Stallman uses a dumb terminal and screen.
Actually, he probably just uses a dumb terminal and a re-implementation of screen written in emacs lisp...
Actually, the "not displaying where meetings are" problem is nothing to do with WINE or Notes; it's because half of IBM uses a non-standard mail template with special fields for the information, and hence it isn't displayed to anyone using the standard Notes mail template.
They complained about the vertical screen format, but they missed a big issue with the thing: the screen is the size of a postage stamp. Half the size of a Game Boy Advance screen, if that.
Yeah, I had the same problem. Degree in Computer Science and I couldn't work out the damn interface to actually start a game, let alone get the web browser running. That was the point at which I knew it was doomed.
There is a lot of EU laws like this that get proposed and never are passed. Even fewer that ever get adopted by the individual countries.
You know, that's exactly what people told me when I was campaigning against GATT and the formation of the WTO.
It's also exactly what people said when the even-more-extreme EU version of the DMCA was passed.
Guess what? Both pieces of legislation were adopted wholesale by the UK government; one by a Conservative government, the other by the "opposing" Labour government.
There are always plenty of complacent fools who sit around and say "Oh, it's just some EU law, it'll never actually happen." They were wrong then, they're wrong now.
What I'd like to see is a way to, by simply double-clicking on the RPM, install it to the directory of my choice (e.g. have it bring up an installer similar to the ones commonly used in Windows).
So install Mandrake. Then you can just double-click RPMs and be lead through the install, just like Windows.
Well, just like Windows except it works even if you're not administrator, and you don't have to reboot...
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Both this bug and Y2K were caused by placing inappropriate range constraints on components of a calendar date.
Everyone's economy is in the crapper. Austin's unemployment rate isn't any worse than (say) Cambridge MA or San Francisco, from the statistics I've seen.
I certainly wouldn't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained as stupidity.
Given that a house in Austin will translate to a ratty apartment in California, I wonder how many grateful employees will opt to move, and how many will decide to go work for another game company in Austin...
Yeah, it's about time the FBI got involved in cleaning up the DDoS problem. Looks like there was at least plenty of circumstantial evidence that FooNet was harboring DDoS vandals and credit card scammers, so I don't have a problem with their suffering a few days of downtime while the situation is investigated. We're talking about people who destroy businesses and volunteer-run networks and rip off innocent bystanders to the tune of thousands of dollars each. I, for one, would like to see a few of them sent to prison.
"Trust" anti-odorant, also known as "Lavilin" in the USA.
Made by a company in Israel. Entirely natural ingredients, doesn't block pores. It's a white paste, and one application lasts for a week. (Yes, really.)
It's marketed at women, but I use it too 'cause I have sensitive skin.
I'm busy restoring color photos from the 1970s. Believe me, film is volatile too.
Sure, properly stored film can last decades. Properly storing color film, however, is not a trivial problem. Why do you think movies like Spartacus and Vertigo have to go through expensive digital restoration?
It was also predicted that Firewire would die because Intel didn't support it.
What actually happened was that Intel had to give in and start supporting Firewire on their motherboards.
Funny, I'd say that VIA offers a fine alternative to nVidia for those that need hardware that actually works properly with Linux.
My VIA EPIA system hasn't crashed once, and I just eliminated the last binary-only proprietary driver (the sound driver) now that 2.6 has everything I need working properly in open source form. In fact, VIA made source code and documentation available to developers, and that work is now making its way into the kernel releases.
Is there any documentation of this alleged secret goal, or are you basing your argument on the load of crap invented after the fact by Jerry Pournelle?
I built a mini-ITX system in a cube case with a VIA C3 Nehemiah and a Seagate hard drive. Installed Gentoo, SlimServer, and daapd. Fire up iTunes anywhere on the network, click on the server icon found via Rendezvous, and there's all the music. I avoided the Shuttle systems because their fans are too noisy.
I wrote up the whole process including configuration. I finally got ALSA working this week, but I haven't updated the page with that info yet.
Loutish, drunken behavior is a serious problem on public transit. Just wait until they fit these devices on the buses...
EA not supporting XBOX EVIL is nothing to do with market size; it's because Microsoft insisted that EA would have to turn over all its customer data to them, as well as host everything on Microsoft servers. The TCO pain of the latter was a disincentive, but it was the former that was the real dealbreaker.
...but I don't know whether I'd rate that as funny, insightful, or a sad reflection on the industry I work in...
If your company was dumb enough to build for a specific browser rather than following web standards, you can't always replace IE 5 with IE 6 and have your web sites still work.
For example, IE 6 removed support for some plugins, and now comes without support for Microsoft's broken Java 1.1.8 VM.
Well, let's see... it's the last place "next-gen" console behind Game Cube and PS2 as far as US sales, it's being outsold by the PSOne in Japan, it's been hacked to make a cheap Linux server, EA have abandoned making any Xbox online sports games, and the Xbox division has lost Microsoft a ton of money. The console's list of killer titles is Halo and... er... that's it, and Halo isn't exclusive any more.
So yeah, that's exactly what I expected and wanted it to be--another Microsoft failure.
I've never understood why the FSF continue to put up with X being under a non-GPL license.
If we have to have an entire superfluous desktop environment project (GNOME) just to maintain the purity of everything being under the GPL, how come there's no GPL implementation of X?
Maybe Stallman uses a dumb terminal and screen.
Actually, he probably just uses a dumb terminal and a re-implementation of screen written in emacs lisp...
You should have removed "RedHat sucks" :-/
Actually, IBM isn't pushing one particular distribution. IBM threw its weight behind supporting UnitedLinux 1.0--i.e. RedHat, SuSE, Connectiva and... uh... SCO. Oh well.
Obviously the strategy will need to change soon, not least because UnitedLinux is deader than NetBSD, thanks to SCO.
Actually, the "not displaying where meetings are" problem is nothing to do with WINE or Notes; it's because half of IBM uses a non-standard mail template with special fields for the information, and hence it isn't displayed to anyone using the standard Notes mail template.
Or Circus Ponies Notebook, which I use.
They complained about the vertical screen format, but they missed a big issue with the thing: the screen is the size of a postage stamp. Half the size of a Game Boy Advance screen, if that.
Yeah, I had the same problem. Degree in Computer Science and I couldn't work out the damn interface to actually start a game, let alone get the web browser running. That was the point at which I knew it was doomed.
You know, that's exactly what people told me when I was campaigning against GATT and the formation of the WTO.
It's also exactly what people said when the even-more-extreme EU version of the DMCA was passed.
Guess what? Both pieces of legislation were adopted wholesale by the UK government; one by a Conservative government, the other by the "opposing" Labour government.
There are always plenty of complacent fools who sit around and say "Oh, it's just some EU law, it'll never actually happen." They were wrong then, they're wrong now.
(a) Those aren't the core rulebooks, they're just the d20 SRD.
(b) They're in RTF format with the tables all mangled, not very useful.
(c) rpgbooks.com just says "Nothing here right now".
So install Mandrake. Then you can just double-click RPMs and be lead through the install, just like Windows.
Well, just like Windows except it works even if you're not administrator, and you don't have to reboot...