Here's a bit of an explanation as to why it was complicated to me.. I started out coding on my C= 64, learned a little BASIC, gave it all up when I learned about girls, picked back up with VB3. and had gotten used to VB, when I decided I was brave enough to try linux again which meant learning (yes) c++ By the time I got to Java, it was a whole new world to me and quite frankly, I was lost. of course, this doesn't mean that I gave Java a fair shot. Only that I looked at it, tried, with my preformed mentality, to do something usefull with it, failed miserably and went back to what I knew and was comfortable with. Now, I may have to rethink my standing on it after reading your post, and a few more here. Hopefully you're right, I would love to be able to code efficiently with it.
Hardware designed to run Java seems to run it fine and with a huge amount of speed increase over normal pc hardware.. By that line of thought, all that needs to happen is for SUN to get with the hardware mfgs, spread around a little bonus money , and get them to better support java apps. Java's a little complicated to program in, I'll admit I tried it, didn't like it, but I'm a little cpp biased.
We're coming to a point to where the commercial software companies who release open source software are losing their asses. So what else can they do? Keep the good stuff closed.. do what ever they can to keep their heads above water.
ok I'm not an "information wants to be free" monkey, neither do I oppose the idea. But to what extent do we need (I)DRM? Understandably, commercial software vendors want to profit from their creations, and artists want to be paid for their art, but I think that this is going to reach much farther than that. I have seen how the 'net has changed in the last 8-10 years and I remember when it was the BBS ops protecting their own 'wares (which had an entirely different meaning back then) and through it all, not a lot has really changed except the technology behind it all. Big brother (whoever it may be in each particular case) wants to be assured that you only get your slice of the pie and not a part of his. It's only a matter of time before image recognition filters are in place and can monitor who is on your desktop background. It's always us [trying to keep them out of our business] against them [making us their business] and guess what! We always lose! How long until pirated software, mp3s pr0n etc just searches your
drive for a liscense, and self destructs when it doesn't find it? Anyway, I suppose I'm just ranting. </rant>
I recommend Mandrake 8 to everyone who asks me this same question... the latest version basically installs itself for you. Plus there's a long list of supported hardware,, and setting up my dvd player took five minutes and three dependencies.
My question is.... Have you ever posted bail before?? I for one ( and I have had quite a few opportunities) have NEVER ( as in not once) gotten a penny of my bail money back - showing up or not. What's more likely to happen is, the judge will set bail, Dimitry will either pay the amount in full or pay ten percent to a bonding agency, and they will have him released into their custody, (presuming the judge allows bail) and the judge will set a court date. Dimitry will go to court and go to jail and Adobe will do as much PR magic as they can to polish their user-unfriendly image. (translated to some shmuck at adobe will put ten bucks on DS's books)
One way to increase plot space is to forgo the traditional horizontal casket design and have yourself buried standing... thus increasing available space.
Hopefully this is a precursor to a world where people will realize the value of having the source code to the software they use and rely upon. Especially where security is a major concern.
Six months ago, my business partner/investor asked me to come up with a database to handle customer info, purchase history, estimated reorder dates, plus inventory, payroll, assemblies, etc... He wanted me to write something that would be accessible through a dial up server so he could check sales etc on a daily basis from wherever he was.
Today, he is able to access daily reports, print purchase orders and checks, etc from his laptop through a secure connection to the dsl connection at my office. All I did was run down to Office Depot and bought the multi-user version of Peachtree!
The point being, bosses are much less apt to care about how you do it as long as they get the desired results.
Jeez I'm soo damn tired of people crying because their free ride is over. (No this isn't a flame - or a troll attempt) Who cares how much the damn charge is, I'd be more than willing to pay for Napster.. up to a certain point of course, but hell they aren't MS I really dont see the price being over the top. You know, I see a lot of laziness on the net today. I'm not gonna give you that "I started out with my C=64.. blah blah.." story.. I only really have one point.. If you aren't contributing in some way to the developement and growth of at least one of the hundreds of projects that started out like napster, then you should be happy/excited to come up off a few bucks a month and CONTRIBUTE!
I have a little experience at this.. Keeping the trash out takes a lot of tedious work.. I usually have to set a day aside to dig through the ton of unrelated crap that my site collects. I started it as sort of a way to keep up with what I thought was cool and exciting as I learned more and more about linux. It ended up being yet another dreaded responsibility.
I dunno about you folks, but from what I see, the trend seems to be more along the lines of throw it away and come up with something entirely new and incompatible. It would be nice to see more people work to improve existing hard/software, but my floppy is still entirely too slow and the only improvements to it's capacity that I have seen is from 1.4 to 1.7. DVD being a perfect example.
Netzero is a free isp (for those of you who didn't know) and while you are using their dialup service a window opens up onscreen and stays on top until you disconnect. This window is not a browser window it doesn't popup from a webpage. It's an application window. And it displays rotating ads chosen by the ISP (netzero in this case) no matter what web(porn)site you are browsing.
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Here's a bit of an explanation as to why it was complicated to me.. I started out coding on my C= 64, learned a little BASIC, gave it all up when I learned about girls, picked back up with VB3. and had gotten used to VB, when I decided I was brave enough to try linux again which meant learning (yes) c++ By the time I got to Java, it was a whole new world to me and quite frankly, I was lost. of course, this doesn't mean that I gave Java a fair shot. Only that I looked at it, tried, with my preformed mentality, to do something usefull with it, failed miserably and went back to what I knew and was comfortable with. Now, I may have to rethink my standing on it after reading your post, and a few more here. Hopefully you're right, I would love to be able to code efficiently with it.
Hardware designed to run Java seems to run it fine and with a huge amount of speed increase over normal pc hardware.. By that line of thought, all that needs to happen is for SUN to get with the hardware mfgs, spread around a little bonus money , and get them to better support java apps. Java's a little complicated to program in, I'll admit I tried it, didn't like it, but I'm a little cpp biased.
Actually this is a remake of an older Slashdot article
Mine says the same thing... luckily neither my computer or my cable modem will physically be connected to anything outside of my premises!
Hey Hadlock.. I live in the Hulen area.. maybe you and I could beam our cable modems at each other and see who gets anything in between us!
We're coming to a point to where the commercial software companies who release open source software are losing their asses. So what else can they do? Keep the good stuff closed.. do what ever they can to keep their heads above water.
IGN has this article with more information, including a review, trailers, and some serious footage.
ok I'm not an "information wants to be free" monkey, neither do I oppose the idea. But to what extent do we need (I)DRM? Understandably, commercial software vendors want to profit from their creations, and artists want to be paid for their art, but I think that this is going to reach much farther than that. I have seen how the 'net has changed in the last 8-10 years and I remember when it was the BBS ops protecting their own 'wares (which had an entirely different meaning back then) and through it all, not a lot has really changed except the technology behind it all. Big brother (whoever it may be in each particular case) wants to be assured that you only get your slice of the pie and not a part of his. It's only a matter of time before image recognition filters are in place and can monitor who is on your desktop background. It's always us [trying to keep them out of our business] against them [making us their business] and guess what! We always lose! How long until pirated software, mp3s pr0n etc just searches your drive for a liscense, and self destructs when it doesn't find it? Anyway, I suppose I'm just ranting.
</rant>
I recommend Mandrake 8 to everyone who asks me this same question... the latest version basically installs itself for you. Plus there's a long list of supported hardware,, and setting up my dvd player took five minutes and three dependencies.
My question is.... Have you ever posted bail before?? I for one ( and I have had quite a few opportunities) have NEVER ( as in not once) gotten a penny of my bail money back - showing up or not. What's more likely to happen is, the judge will set bail, Dimitry will either pay the amount in full or pay ten percent to a bonding agency, and they will have him released into their custody, (presuming the judge allows bail) and the judge will set a court date. Dimitry will go to court and go to jail and Adobe will do as much PR magic as they can to polish their user-unfriendly image. (translated to some shmuck at adobe will put ten bucks on DS's books)
I posted this story two days ago and it was rejected.
Rejected again, that's okay I'm use to it, terminal loneliness.......(C.S. - PUTV)
One way to increase plot space is to forgo the traditional horizontal casket design and have yourself buried standing... thus increasing available space.
Hopefully this is a precursor to a world where people will realize the value of having the source code to the software they use and rely upon. Especially where security is a major concern.
Does that mean we can have a beowulf cluster of em?
Couldn't resist!
Six months ago, my business partner/investor asked me to come up with a database to handle customer info, purchase history, estimated reorder dates, plus inventory, payroll, assemblies, etc... He wanted me to write something that would be accessible through a dial up server so he could check sales etc on a daily basis from wherever he was.
Today, he is able to access daily reports, print purchase orders and checks, etc from his laptop through a secure connection to the dsl connection at my office. All I did was run down to Office Depot and bought the multi-user version of Peachtree!
The point being, bosses are much less apt to care about how you do it as long as they get the desired results.
First Nokia.. then Motorola .. and now TL? What IS the world coming to?
Jeez I'm soo damn tired of people crying because their free ride is over. (No this isn't a flame - or a troll attempt) Who cares how much the damn charge is, I'd be more than willing to pay for Napster.. up to a certain point of course, but hell they aren't MS I really dont see the price being over the top. You know, I see a lot of laziness on the net today. I'm not gonna give you that "I started out with my C=64.. blah blah.." story.. I only really have one point.. If you aren't contributing in some way to the developement and growth of at least one of the hundreds of projects that started out like napster, then you should be happy/excited to come up off a few bucks a month and CONTRIBUTE!
I have a little experience at this.. Keeping the trash out takes a lot of tedious work.. I usually have to set a day aside to dig through the ton of unrelated crap that my site collects. I started it as sort of a way to keep up with what I thought was cool and exciting as I learned more and more about linux. It ended up being yet another dreaded responsibility.
Now were gonna be bombarded with AOL infomercials.
I suppose, of someday trying desparately to remember what it was like when MS ruled the world.
I dunno about you folks, but from what I see, the trend seems to be more along the lines of throw it away and come up with something entirely new and incompatible. It would be nice to see more people work to improve existing hard/software, but my floppy is still entirely too slow and the only improvements to it's capacity that I have seen is from 1.4 to 1.7. DVD being a perfect example.
Mine would say Hey! You fish lipped it! (from cheech & chong) or something stupid besides. "Take me to the river..."
Where's OSCARFISH when we need some quick anecdotes?
I see lot's of useless uses for it.
the sex seems to be much better this year!
Netzero is a free isp (for those of you who didn't know) and while you are using their dialup service a window opens up onscreen and stays on top until you disconnect. This window is not a browser window it doesn't popup from a webpage. It's an application window. And it displays rotating ads chosen by the ISP (netzero in this case) no matter what web(porn)site you are browsing.
Counter on that page read 728 when i got to it.. let's see what it looks like in five or ten minutes