Yes, just started reading that book. (which I recommend if anyone wants a book to read) I've got about half way through and then I see this and it takes a minute for my mind to separate it from the book I'm reading and realise it was real...
>Newsflash: the.Net runtime is slower than current Java runtimes. In fact, on non-Windows platforms the.Net runtime doesn't even exist!
Uh - no it isn't. Have you actually tried both or are you just making this up?
So the service which updates your software needs to know what what software you've got. Big deal.
Come back to me when you've *any* evidence that microsoft are abusing this information in any way at all.
Hmm. The British goverment has already raised all the taxes it can get away without people noticing too much, and then it's raised taxes that people will notice as much as it thinks it can get away with.
"Global warming" seems to be something that goverments like to exagerate out of all proportion so that they can put vast extra taxes on energy that they wouldn't be able to get away with otherwise.
This is nothing but an excuse to further raise taxes. Bah.
At the moment I suspect most mod chips are sold so people can use copied games. A few are used to run linux and similar apps but not many. But while there is a legitimate reason for owning a mod chip it makes it much harder for microsoft to put pressure on people to stop selling them.
If the license linux to run on unmodifed hardware then owners will probably still buy games, but the mod chip market will reduce a lot which is what microsoft *really* need to happen.
I was going to write a long email ranting about but this but decided not to bother as nobody will use it anyway so it doesn't matter
Even I can have a site on ipv6
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How come slashdot don't have an IPv6 address. Even I can manage it. I have an ipv6 website at http://ipv6.jb99.co.uk/ (not that there is anything interesting on there)
I have a few machines at home and things like a tivo and a Zaurus that need IP addresses. Ideally they all should have proper routable IP addresses so the internet can be used as it is intended. Luckily my ISP (Andrews & Arnold) provide as many IP adresses for my ADSL as I want for no extra cost. But I'm still limited to 5 usable addresses.
But they also provide Ipv6 access to the internet and give you a range of addresses. But instead of five addresses I get a whole/64 range which is 2^64 usable addresses.
Anyway, if anyone in the UK wants ADSL and to use IPV6 I can recomment A&A as an ISP for this
My name has already gone so I couldn't have it even if I wanted it. There is no point having a variation of it either. I can't imagine how they expect this to succeed. There are far too many people with the same names, You need a proper hierarchy for this kind of thing.
>>> 2) a specific header entry should identify the email as unsolicited."
NO NO NO
There is no excuse for sending spam. I fail to see how marking it as junk makes it any better. So I can sort it from the mail I actually want?
NO. Just stop people sending me crap I don't want.
I've not had a floppy drive on any of the machines I put together myself for several years now. I have one somewhere which I could install if I ever needed to but the need has never arisen.
Basically any file small enough to fit on a floppy gets copied over a network or emailed these days.
As long as dell provide some way for people who actually want a floppy to get one this is no big deal. It's a good thing in fact.
Here's my scenario:
Microsoft reduce the price of windows by 60%. The 90% of linux users who use it only because they don't have to pay for it decide they may as well use windows. Sales of office increase
Frankly I doubt that very many people are so important that losing a single email is that important. And if it is then email is not the appropriate way to send the information as it's not 100% reliable anyway.
Five years ago this might have been a big deal. These days I just press the first letter of the name of who I want to call two or three times until there name comes up and then press dial... For returning calls I just press dial when their name comes up in the call log.
That covers 90% of all my calls.
For the rest it's no big deal.
Excellent book
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I read this book a while ago and rate it as one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's got intesting ideas, the characters are likeable (even if 4 of the characters are really the same person) and it's written in a style which makes it really easy to read.
I have to admit that the last 25% of the book doesn't quite match up to the promise shown by the start but as a good fun read it's an excellent book.
I'd like to read more books set in the same work and hope he's working on some more!
I agree with this totally.
The problem with the industry is that we have gone from an unsustainable boom to a big overreaction of a recession in the industry.
The economic downturn combined with the big loss of confidence people have in investing in technology after the.com fiasco have temporarily meant that spending on technology is way down. But it's a temporary thing and will go up again as there is still so much to do as the original poster says.
The communications industry has been particularly badly hit. It was bound to happen because it was relying on unrestricted growth of selling products to pay for itself. And then all of a sudden everyone had a mobile phone, and there was enough internet capacity... And this happened at the same time as a general downturn in the world economy, and many goverments chose that time to impose a huge tax on those industries in the form of license fees for third generation mobile phones.
It's not suprising that for a few years they don't have much money for new investment in technology. But they will in a year or two.
Also, I think that the job market was due for a major shakeup anyway. Perhaps 80 or 90 percent of the people working in development jobs were not particularly skilled. Most web designers, database administrators, network administrators etc. know how to work a particular product but are basically not the core of the industry. And there are many programmers out there who know a single product and think they are excellent programmers when in fact they have an outdated skill which can be replaced at any time. Many VB and java programmers fall into this trap where they confuse knowledge of a single product with a generally useful skill.
I think there are still excellent opertunities for perhaps the 20% of the development industry who can analyse customers requirements and come up with inovative solutions to their problems.
I think that what is happening is that many of the relatively unskilled jobs are disapearing and perhaps some are being done in cheaper countries but that real development jobs are safe and still a huge growth area. The problem is that in the confusion at the moment many people don't see the diference between people who know how to work a single product and those with real analysis/programming/development skills and they are all being caught up in the same economic downturn. But it will sort itsself out and those with real skills will be fine in a year or two.
Sounds like someone got bored of the game and decided because they didn't like it any more that nobody should and they were stupid too.
Why has this article even been posted? Many, Many people think it's a great game.
New domains are stupid because they'll either be ignored or else the same company will get all variations.
Better would be to enforce a rule that an individual/company/organisation can only have ONE domain name. That's why subdomains were invented
This may be a stupid question but does mono work on windows? Everything seems to imply it will but then the downloads section all seem to be for linux.
I'd be interested in having a play with it on windows as it's the only environment available to me most of the time.
An article that someone is going to build what will probably be a really useful wireless network on a scale that will actually make it useful and all that half the posters on here can do is whine that it won't be free.
Well of course it won't be. There is no such thing as free wireless internet access. Only access that somebody else is paying for. Either because they feel generous, or because they hope you'll spend your money on something else.
Will all the posters whining about this please go and build this free network that they are talking about. I expect it to be a great sucess once it's build and working.
There are always some people who would rather do a job once and then sit back and repeat the same task over and over again, happily getting paid for it until the retire.
I can't imagine anything more dull.
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Yes, just started reading that book. (which I recommend if anyone wants a book to read) I've got about half way through and then I see this and it takes a minute for my mind to separate it from the book I'm reading and realise it was real...
>Newsflash: the .Net runtime is slower than current Java runtimes. In fact, on non-Windows platforms the .Net runtime doesn't even exist!
Uh - no it isn't. Have you actually tried both or are you just making this up?
"Shop puts wrong price sticker on item" It's hardly news.
So the service which updates your software needs to know what what software you've got. Big deal. Come back to me when you've *any* evidence that microsoft are abusing this information in any way at all.
Hmm.
The British goverment has already raised all the taxes it can get away without people noticing too much, and then it's raised taxes that people will notice as much as it thinks it can get away with.
"Global warming" seems to be something that goverments like to exagerate out of all proportion so that they can put vast extra taxes on energy that they wouldn't be able to get away with otherwise.
This is nothing but an excuse to further raise taxes. Bah.
At the moment I suspect most mod chips are sold so people can use copied games. A few are used to run linux and similar apps but not many. But while there is a legitimate reason for owning a mod chip it makes it much harder for microsoft to put pressure on people to stop selling them. If the license linux to run on unmodifed hardware then owners will probably still buy games, but the mod chip market will reduce a lot which is what microsoft *really* need to happen.
I was going to write a long email ranting about but this but decided not to bother as nobody will use it anyway so it doesn't matter
How come slashdot don't have an IPv6 address. Even I can manage it. I have an ipv6 website at http://ipv6.jb99.co.uk/ (not that there is anything interesting on there)
I have a few machines at home and things like a tivo and a Zaurus that need IP addresses. Ideally they all should have proper routable IP addresses so the internet can be used as it is intended. Luckily my ISP (Andrews & Arnold) provide as many IP adresses for my ADSL as I want for no extra cost. But I'm still limited to 5 usable addresses. But they also provide Ipv6 access to the internet and give you a range of addresses. But instead of five addresses I get a whole /64 range which is 2^64 usable addresses.
Anyway, if anyone in the UK wants ADSL and to use IPV6 I can recomment A&A as an ISP for this
My name has already gone so I couldn't have it even if I wanted it. There is no point having a variation of it either. I can't imagine how they expect this to succeed. There are far too many people with the same names, You need a proper hierarchy for this kind of thing.
>>> 2) a specific header entry should identify the email as unsolicited." NO NO NO There is no excuse for sending spam. I fail to see how marking it as junk makes it any better. So I can sort it from the mail I actually want? NO. Just stop people sending me crap I don't want.
I've not had a floppy drive on any of the machines I put together myself for several years now. I have one somewhere which I could install if I ever needed to but the need has never arisen. Basically any file small enough to fit on a floppy gets copied over a network or emailed these days. As long as dell provide some way for people who actually want a floppy to get one this is no big deal. It's a good thing in fact.
Here's my scenario: Microsoft reduce the price of windows by 60%. The 90% of linux users who use it only because they don't have to pay for it decide they may as well use windows. Sales of office increase
Frankly I doubt that very many people are so important that losing a single email is that important. And if it is then email is not the appropriate way to send the information as it's not 100% reliable anyway.
Five years ago this might have been a big deal. These days I just press the first letter of the name of who I want to call two or three times until there name comes up and then press dial... For returning calls I just press dial when their name comes up in the call log. That covers 90% of all my calls. For the rest it's no big deal.
I read this book a while ago and rate it as one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's got intesting ideas, the characters are likeable (even if 4 of the characters are really the same person) and it's written in a style which makes it really easy to read. I have to admit that the last 25% of the book doesn't quite match up to the promise shown by the start but as a good fun read it's an excellent book. I'd like to read more books set in the same work and hope he's working on some more!
I don't believe this is true because if it is they will have committed a very serious criminal offence in many countries and will be going to prison.
I agree with this totally. The problem with the industry is that we have gone from an unsustainable boom to a big overreaction of a recession in the industry. The economic downturn combined with the big loss of confidence people have in investing in technology after the .com fiasco have temporarily meant that spending on technology is way down. But it's a temporary thing and will go up again as there is still so much to do as the original poster says.
The communications industry has been particularly badly hit. It was bound to happen because it was relying on unrestricted growth of selling products to pay for itself. And then all of a sudden everyone had a mobile phone, and there was enough internet capacity... And this happened at the same time as a general downturn in the world economy, and many goverments chose that time to impose a huge tax on those industries in the form of license fees for third generation mobile phones.
It's not suprising that for a few years they don't have much money for new investment in technology. But they will in a year or two.
Also, I think that the job market was due for a major shakeup anyway. Perhaps 80 or 90 percent of the people working in development jobs were not particularly skilled. Most web designers, database administrators, network administrators etc. know how to work a particular product but are basically not the core of the industry. And there are many programmers out there who know a single product and think they are excellent programmers when in fact they have an outdated skill which can be replaced at any time. Many VB and java programmers fall into this trap where they confuse knowledge of a single product with a generally useful skill.
I think there are still excellent opertunities for perhaps the 20% of the development industry who can analyse customers requirements and come up with inovative solutions to their problems.
I think that what is happening is that many of the relatively unskilled jobs are disapearing and perhaps some are being done in cheaper countries but that real development jobs are safe and still a huge growth area. The problem is that in the confusion at the moment many people don't see the diference between people who know how to work a single product and those with real analysis/programming/development skills and they are all being caught up in the same economic downturn. But it will sort itsself out and those with real skills will be fine in a year or two.
If you don't like the game THEN DON'T PLAY IT!! Duh.
Sounds like someone got bored of the game and decided because they didn't like it any more that nobody should and they were stupid too. Why has this article even been posted? Many, Many people think it's a great game.
New domains are stupid because they'll either be ignored or else the same company will get all variations. Better would be to enforce a rule that an individual/company/organisation can only have ONE domain name. That's why subdomains were invented
But what about building the source and running without .net ?
This may be a stupid question but does mono work on windows? Everything seems to imply it will but then the downloads section all seem to be for linux. I'd be interested in having a play with it on windows as it's the only environment available to me most of the time.
An article that someone is going to build what will probably be a really useful wireless network on a scale that will actually make it useful and all that half the posters on here can do is whine that it won't be free. Well of course it won't be. There is no such thing as free wireless internet access. Only access that somebody else is paying for. Either because they feel generous, or because they hope you'll spend your money on something else. Will all the posters whining about this please go and build this free network that they are talking about. I expect it to be a great sucess once it's build and working.
There are always some people who would rather do a job once and then sit back and repeat the same task over and over again, happily getting paid for it until the retire. I can't imagine anything more dull.