Kinda. Parents would rather see them playing computer games than let them going out. At least you have less chance getting hurt from playing computer games.:) I cannot speak for most asians, but parents in general do not support their kids participating in sports or outgoing activities. I'm a Judo coach myself, and the major obstacle to the kids' judo development is their parents, whose want them studying at home instead.
I've been told of a story in Japan a completely naked Japanese boy was found falling unconscious in the middle of stinking junks of his locked room. Investigation revealed that his parents love his kid so much that they don't dare enter his child's room without his permission. Since he has no friend and he doesn't need to go out so he doesn't find any need to tidy up his room or even wear clothes. He fell into coma after 3 days straight of gaming without drink or eating.
(there are very few gaming cafes here in the US for example)
Because we usually don't have something called 'Parents' basement' here.:) We live with our parents in a very small apartment and kids like to go to internet cafe for online games so as to avoid their parents interference.
While US and UK etc. are running common law system.
This case is very unlikely to be used as a preceding case for common law system.
Save your champagne until someone actually win a simliar case in US, UK...:)
Well, to gamers in China, save your champagne as well. There's no 'preceding case' mechanism I can tell in China's statute law system. I think you'd better save it til YOU actually win a case.:)
A couple of years ago my friend who worked for Microsoft was explicitly told not to "look at" any GPL source code to avoid "unnecessary legal implication" in "GPL infringement", or something, in the process of software development.
Let's not get into any SCO jokes, what if some GPL works were copied to their core development, without a proper distribution license?
I wouldn't say management in MS would forbid their developers from merely looking at GPL source code nowaday, but I don't think they'd adopt any GPL works in their core. Just my opinion.
The success of OSS in its successful development models that can catch up with technology fast with or without commercial backup.
However, 'UNIX' is still a sexy name that is still a synonym of 'robust, reliable and scalable' to many hardcore tech admin/manager, but that's so far correct - UNIXWare is among the UNIX brand the very affordable one with reasonable robustness. However, I see they've little market positioning when other 'UNIX' rivals like Solaris are there.:)
How do I get myself out of this? I just want to watch my media files!
Stop downloading p0rns from untrustworthy p2p sources. They don't mean it when they put up a title like "Britney_Lesbian_Rape_Cum_Teen_Pee.AVI".
Hmm, I meant, when you say AVI it may not be really AVI. Yeah, right.:)
Or install Gentoo then emerge mplayer. Their default installation already included a lot of codec, free as well as proprietary ones. You just fire your mplayer on any file and it'll recognize it regardless of its extension. You should be all set.
What happens to the doctors who want to keep using Windows?
I don't know the doctor nowaday, but those years ago they'd only be interested in press what to get to A, enter what to get to B, etc.
They've no knowledge on the platform and they're just fine with the application that was designed for them. For the rest of the adventurous, they could find their way out. Say some found out games even I remove all the links from the desktop.:)
So it really doesn't matter. Unless they're required to work on an office suite, that'd be another story.
Better yet, write to SSC's sponsors how SSC uses their money on useless legal action fighting for something meant to be free and distributed with many major distro. Also, remind them of switching sponorship to LinuxGazette.net who can do more timely update, manage a faster/more stable server and write less ugly website, than SSC.
SSC is just telling the world that "I sucks in all aspect, but I've sponsor's money to sue you."
Can be found in the last paragraph of the article:
Apart from the technical differences between Eclipse and NetBeans, Sun had some concerns that Eclipse was dominated by IBM, Green said. In September, Eclipse set out to restructure its membership model to gain independence from IBM and established a board.
I still don't understand removable media such as DVDs.
It sounds like a COMP-101 question.:)
Removable harddisk is faster but not cheaper than removable media. A normal 2x 4.3GB DVD-R only costs at US$1, you can't really find this bargain for hd, in terms of MB/$. Also, removable hd is not really portable. Portability not only refers to its size, it's also refers to the ease of reading those media across different platforms. Even when you say iPod like devices(USB, flash, etc.) could be served as a movable storage, but carrying a large amount of data with these things is still very inconvenient.
I'd rather think of the comparison of DVD+-RW with traditional tapes media. DVD+-RW could really replace tapes in many cases(not all, though), and a tape driver is still very expensive, while the cheapest DVD+-RW drive could be lower than $200 per set nowaday.:)
... And at the same time, in a tight job market, I, a perl/c/java developer is being `forced' (financially in need) to learn.NET, and do the next project using that...
I've heard about that too. Microsoft is giving up.NET to software houses almost for free in order to increase its market share. They don't realize the price will skyrocket once the monopoly is achieved.
It might be too late for you, but in fact a lot of opensource effort has been made for commercial J2EE alternaitves. Take a look at Apache Struts, Hibernate, Velocity, Eclipse and Easy Struts, etc. As a matter of fact the most expensive (and almost non-repaceable part) is the EJB containers which is included in the most expensive J2EE component - Application Server. With all the opensource alternatives out there I think the cost J2EE deployment will be drastically lower in the very near future.
You can take a look of the example 'PetShop' reimplemented with MVC-based Struts here.
Only you've to get familar with the tools so as to recommend it to your boss with confident. That's what I've suggested to the friend I mentioned in the parent post.
I see this is a trend. A lot of people is moving away, if not moving to Linux, from Microsoft.
A friend of mine called last week asked me for my opinion on choosing J2EE and.NET. That really surpise me as he's working for a all MS s/w house, his entire team knows none other than MS's product, and he's a 100% Microsoft zealot. Turn out they were seriouly considering dropping MS deployment as "Microsoft Server is being too insecure".
I found it amusing: a company who work with Microsoft very closely all these years is being forced to switch, even when they must start from the beginning.
They block tcp ports for their benefit. Normally ISP would offer business plans which have not much difference from domestic plan except for fix ip(s), guarantee uptime and fewer restrictions on use.
E.g. My ISP is so flexible that it has incremental business plans for opening each smtp, http, ftp, etc. ports for a fee. The most expensive of all is unrestricted tcp services, which are normally needed by medium-to-large companies.
You might find the strategy being unfair to domestic users, but they've to differentiate their services from business plans which earn them huge profit.
May be your ISP would offer seperate plans for opening tcp ports. Granted you might have to pay premium, but that might be better than trying to circumvent their network against the TOC.
Now we've new category of stuffs to search for other than p0rns.:)
bloodninja: Ok baby, we got to hurry, I don't know how long I can keep it
ready for you.
j_gurli3: thats ok. ok i'm a japanese schoolgirl, what r u.
bloodninja: A Rhinocerus. Well, hung like one, thats for sure.
j_gurli3: haha, ok lets go.
j_gurli3: i put my hand through ur hair, and kiss u on the neck.
bloodninja: I stomp the ground, and snort, to alert you that you are in my
breeding territory.
j_gurli3: haha, ok, u know that turns me on.
j_gurli3: i start unbuttoning ur shirt.
bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't wear shirts.
j_gurli3: No, ur not really a Rhinocerus silly, it's just part of the game.
bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't play games. They f*cking charge your ass.
j_gurli3: stop, cmon be serious.
bloodninja: It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to
charge your ass.
bloodninja: I stomp my feet, the dust stirs around my tough skinned feet.
j_gurli3: thats it.
bloodninja: Nostrils flaring, I lower my head. My horn, like some phallic
symbol of my potent virility, is the last thing you see as skulls collide
and mine remains the victor. You are now a bloody red ragdoll suspended in
the air on my mighty horn.
bloodninja: Goddam am I hard now.
Only a few years late. Maybe Mozilla.org/Opera should patent the technology to make it hard for Bill 'embrace and extend' Gates to kill those XCam ads...."
Little OT, but I've been thinking, while we know that most opensource project of this kind will not take every single piece of their work to patent office because it'd only harm the community as a whole, but can we at least get some kind of prior art protection against hostile patent take-over activities?
Or is there any way to 'submit' something that'd be put into piror art database in USPTO? (provided that such a database exists and there's any intelligent living being in there at all)
Slashdot Mirror
MyDoom virus - $250M
:)
400 or less employees - $58,000
DDOS SCO - priceless
There's some news money can't buy. For everything else, there's Slashdot.
Is this a cultural thing
:) I cannot speak for most asians, but parents in general do not support their kids participating in sports or outgoing activities. I'm a Judo coach myself, and the major obstacle to the kids' judo development is their parents, whose want them studying at home instead.
:) We live with our parents in a very small apartment and kids like to go to internet cafe for online games so as to avoid their parents interference.
Kinda. Parents would rather see them playing computer games than let them going out. At least you have less chance getting hurt from playing computer games.
I've been told of a story in Japan a completely naked Japanese boy was found falling unconscious in the middle of stinking junks of his locked room. Investigation revealed that his parents love his kid so much that they don't dare enter his child's room without his permission. Since he has no friend and he doesn't need to go out so he doesn't find any need to tidy up his room or even wear clothes. He fell into coma after 3 days straight of gaming without drink or eating.
(there are very few gaming cafes here in the US for example)
Because we usually don't have something called 'Parents' basement' here.
How about a Linux solution? Mondo
China is running statute law system.
:)
:)
While US and UK etc. are running common law system.
This case is very unlikely to be used as a preceding case for common law system.
Save your champagne until someone actually win a simliar case in US, UK...
Well, to gamers in China, save your champagne as well. There's no 'preceding case' mechanism I can tell in China's statute law system. I think you'd better save it til YOU actually win a case.
bummer...
I'm a bit skeptic on the news.
A couple of years ago my friend who worked for Microsoft was explicitly told not to "look at" any GPL source code to avoid "unnecessary legal implication" in "GPL infringement", or something, in the process of software development.
Let's not get into any SCO jokes, what if some GPL works were copied to their core development, without a proper distribution license?
I wouldn't say management in MS would forbid their developers from merely looking at GPL source code nowaday, but I don't think they'd adopt any GPL works in their core. Just my opinion.
No exploits were mentioned.
...and no one bother....
any decent multiplayer games that an office of about 4-7 can play, preferably action.
How about mouse fight?
Where have we come as a nation, as culture when a P4 1.7Ghz is classified as a "not all that great" machine.
In my place they're military grade classified export embargo machines!
XML is meant to be interoperable.
How well does XAML achieve in this regard?
Easy, read his topic. It means to be a sarcasm. :)
:)
The success of OSS in its successful development models that can catch up with technology fast with or without commercial backup.
However, 'UNIX' is still a sexy name that is still a synonym of 'robust, reliable and scalable' to many hardcore tech admin/manager, but that's so far correct - UNIXWare is among the UNIX brand the very affordable one with reasonable robustness. However, I see they've little market positioning when other 'UNIX' rivals like Solaris are there.
How do I get myself out of this? I just want to watch my media files!
:)
Stop downloading p0rns from untrustworthy p2p sources. They don't mean it when they put up a title like "Britney_Lesbian_Rape_Cum_Teen_Pee.AVI".
Hmm, I meant, when you say AVI it may not be really AVI. Yeah, right.
Or install Gentoo then emerge mplayer. Their default installation already included a lot of codec, free as well as proprietary ones. You just fire your mplayer on any file and it'll recognize it regardless of its extension. You should be all set.
What happens to the doctors who want to keep using Windows?
:)
I don't know the doctor nowaday, but those years ago they'd only be interested in press what to get to A, enter what to get to B, etc.
They've no knowledge on the platform and they're just fine with the application that was designed for them. For the rest of the adventurous, they could find their way out. Say some found out games even I remove all the links from the desktop.
So it really doesn't matter. Unless they're required to work on an office suite, that'd be another story.
if I'd bought such a card I'd be quite annoyed if there wasn't decent support for it in the future.
:)
You mean you don't upgrade your video card once a year?!
Better yet, write to SSC's sponsors how SSC uses their money on useless legal action fighting for something meant to be free and distributed with many major distro. Also, remind them of switching sponorship to LinuxGazette.net who can do more timely update, manage a faster/more stable server and write less ugly website, than SSC.
SSC is just telling the world that "I sucks in all aspect, but I've sponsor's money to sue you."
*Proceed to patent plots that kills monsters, date girls, build stuffs, shoot planes and boom countries*
Can be found in the last paragraph of the article:
Apart from the technical differences between Eclipse and NetBeans, Sun had some concerns that Eclipse was dominated by IBM, Green said. In September, Eclipse set out to restructure its membership model to gain independence from IBM and established a board.
I still don't understand removable media such as DVDs.
:)
:)
It sounds like a COMP-101 question.
Removable harddisk is faster but not cheaper than removable media. A normal 2x 4.3GB DVD-R only costs at US$1, you can't really find this bargain for hd, in terms of MB/$. Also, removable hd is not really portable. Portability not only refers to its size, it's also refers to the ease of reading those media across different platforms. Even when you say iPod like devices(USB, flash, etc.) could be served as a movable storage, but carrying a large amount of data with these things is still very inconvenient.
I'd rather think of the comparison of DVD+-RW with traditional tapes media. DVD+-RW could really replace tapes in many cases(not all, though), and a tape driver is still very expensive, while the cheapest DVD+-RW drive could be lower than $200 per set nowaday.
... And at the same time, in a tight job market, I, a perl/c/java developer is being `forced' (financially in need) to learn .NET, and do the next project using that...
.NET to software houses almost for free in order to increase its market share. They don't realize the price will skyrocket once the monopoly is achieved.
I've heard about that too. Microsoft is giving up
It might be too late for you, but in fact a lot of opensource effort has been made for commercial J2EE alternaitves. Take a look at Apache Struts, Hibernate, Velocity, Eclipse and Easy Struts, etc. As a matter of fact the most expensive (and almost non-repaceable part) is the EJB containers which is included in the most expensive J2EE component - Application Server. With all the opensource alternatives out there I think the cost J2EE deployment will be drastically lower in the very near future.
You can take a look of the example 'PetShop' reimplemented with MVC-based Struts here.
Only you've to get familar with the tools so as to recommend it to your boss with confident. That's what I've suggested to the friend I mentioned in the parent post.
I see this is a trend. A lot of people is moving away, if not moving to Linux, from Microsoft.
.NET. That really surpise me as he's working for a all MS s/w house, his entire team knows none other than MS's product, and he's a 100% Microsoft zealot. Turn out they were seriouly considering dropping MS deployment as "Microsoft Server is being too insecure".
A friend of mine called last week asked me for my opinion on choosing J2EE and
I found it amusing: a company who work with Microsoft very closely all these years is being forced to switch, even when they must start from the beginning.
Is that so...I'd be aware of it next time. :) Also s/TOC/TOS. One wouldn't have to worry about violating Table of Content would they? :D
They block tcp ports for their benefit. Normally ISP would offer business plans which have not much difference from domestic plan except for fix ip(s), guarantee uptime and fewer restrictions on use.
E.g. My ISP is so flexible that it has incremental business plans for opening each smtp, http, ftp, etc. ports for a fee. The most expensive of all is unrestricted tcp services, which are normally needed by medium-to-large companies.
You might find the strategy being unfair to domestic users, but they've to differentiate their services from business plans which earn them huge profit.
May be your ISP would offer seperate plans for opening tcp ports. Granted you might have to pay premium, but that might be better than trying to circumvent their network against the TOC.
Now we've new category of stuffs to search for other than p0rns. :)
bloodninja: Ok baby, we got to hurry, I don't know how long I can keep it ready for you.
j_gurli3: thats ok. ok i'm a japanese schoolgirl, what r u.
bloodninja: A Rhinocerus. Well, hung like one, thats for sure.
j_gurli3: haha, ok lets go.
j_gurli3: i put my hand through ur hair, and kiss u on the neck.
bloodninja: I stomp the ground, and snort, to alert you that you are in my breeding territory.
j_gurli3: haha, ok, u know that turns me on.
j_gurli3: i start unbuttoning ur shirt.
bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't wear shirts.
j_gurli3: No, ur not really a Rhinocerus silly, it's just part of the game.
bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't play games. They f*cking charge your ass.
j_gurli3: stop, cmon be serious.
bloodninja: It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your ass.
bloodninja: I stomp my feet, the dust stirs around my tough skinned feet.
j_gurli3: thats it.
bloodninja: Nostrils flaring, I lower my head. My horn, like some phallic symbol of my potent virility, is the last thing you see as skulls collide and mine remains the victor. You are now a bloody red ragdoll suspended in the air on my mighty horn.
bloodninja: Goddam am I hard now.
(Original post from bash.org
Only a few years late. Maybe Mozilla.org/Opera should patent the technology to make it hard for Bill 'embrace and extend' Gates to kill those XCam ads...."
Little OT, but I've been thinking, while we know that most opensource project of this kind will not take every single piece of their work to patent office because it'd only harm the community as a whole, but can we at least get some kind of prior art protection against hostile patent take-over activities?
Or is there any way to 'submit' something that'd be put into piror art database in USPTO? (provided that such a database exists and there's any intelligent living being in there at all)
Why funny? I'd like to see Zelda entering final.
:)
Of course, the World's standard is big boobs in tight.