Assuming it even got written, no one would use it because for some applications you need a company backing the product -- uptime, reliability, support. And I doubt that open-source support firms like VA Linux can fill in ALL those gaps.
Don't forget the most important reason for having a company backing the product - you need to have someone to blame when something goes horribly wrong. I don't know anyone who is willing to take the personal responsibility for writing bad ATC code. I certainly can't afford the insurance, myself.
The fact that he left the company before it was shut down and that Napster is temporarily (?) out of commission makes it all the more shady that he waited to publish it now. It's not libelous - there is nothing that should have kept him from publishing it when he was still with Napster.
It looks to me like he is just trying to ride the wave of the current media hype. Aren't we all suckers for listening to him.
So where's my paper, and why haven't you seen it? Well, in case you didn't know, I'm one of the founding developers of Napster, and for several good reasons, including the sobering fact that I was one of the leaders of the main competitor, I did not release my material to the public.
Hmm, now that you've been shut down, suddenly it's OK to publish a laundry-list of flaws about the competition? Shady.
The NEAR team was actually planning on the orbiter crashing, so having it land with its camera face down was a much better outcome than expected. In fact, this story probably would not even have made the news if it had crashed - the team delayed the press release until they knew they had something good to report.
My girlfriend was a research assistant for the NEAR time all summer - she put together composite images of the asteroid. All the imaging for NEAR and in fact most of the other research is actually at done Cornell (see their article
here), not at Hopkins.
The orbiter was not designed as a lander at all. In fact, even the task of floating around the cylindrical rock was not a simple feat. Eros is rotating along two axes, making it very difficult to orbit close to the rock without being hit by the end-over-end rotation.
The fact that they were able to develop a surface map from the images and were able to land on this rock is a lot more impressive than it seems at first glance.
Then I guess neither Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure nor Wayne's World were Dumb Buddy movies? Both were really funny without any toilet humor or gross-out scenes.
I don't know about you, but Mike Myers dancing around in his underwear was just about gross enough for me.
Personal anecdote: I applied the same principles to my own web site, even though I didn't have to and my friends told me I was wasting my time because "nobody uses Lynx anymore." In the first week, I got 10 Lynx visitors.
f3e2 pumped his lynx stats with the use of <META> tags.
I've heard convincing arguments that Paramount uses Star Trek to pump up their earnings when times are tight. Every time they're hurting for money, they crank out another ST flick. The Paramount-Star Trek relationship seems to have worked out well so far for both of them. However, now that Roddenbery is gone (*sniff*), the whole series is going to go to hell in a handbasket. I've heard rumors that plans for the next ST involve releasing it on the exact same date as the next Star Wars movie. Last year, I would have called this an idiotic move, but since Lucas has insisted on writing the script, maybe this time ST can give it a run for its money.
Is it just me, or (with the exception of The Matrix), does everyone else think that SF flicks have been crap recently?
But doesn't Netscape hold developers to a higher standard than IE?
This is certainly true. But I don't hold very high standards when it comes to surfing pr0n, and I'd rather get *something* when I try to load the NP Naked page, than a blank white screen.
I could respond to this troll and say, 'Well, why don't you write one then, smartcakes?'.
But I won't.
However, I do think that it would be useful for the WC3 to put together the Ultimate Test HTML page, and maybe some screenshots to show how the whole thing would be rendered. That would certainly make it easier to bring your browser up to standards, then you could focus on developing the interesting things like smart caching algorithms, etc...
I'm always skeptical of/. article submissions that are two lines long. This article has nothing to do with 'why web browers suck, and what you can do about it'. The problems described in the article are not that common at all. Most are trivial! Who cares if my browser doesn't give me any visual clues that an anchor link is broken? I'm a smart kid, I can figure it out. I'm much more worried when Netscape can't even render tables correctly.
This article would have been much more useful with a table (sorry, Netscape users) of common browsers and which ones support good features and which don't.
From my understanding, this company is not selling a game. They are selling the infrastructure to a game architecture. This frees the developers from having to build the framework themselves.
We all understand that open-source MMO games are a Bad Idea. However, I think this company is doing a Good Thing by allowing small companies with a Good Idea for a MMO game to implement it without having to do all the hard work of building the infrastructure. The game software that is developed based on the open-source skeleton does not necessarily need to be open-source. This may go against the tenets of the OS movement, but I think that we would all be willing to make the exception in this case.
I've recently started a new company, called Web Pages That... (http://www.webpagesthat.com
The premise is that we design Web pages that can do anything you want. Hence the ellipsis.
I think I'm going to go after Vincent Flanders' site WPTS because it dilutes my corporate image. I think that that domain should rightfully belong to me. Any lawyers in the house?
In some cases, you can't escape being the 'kid', because everyone knows you are still in college. You may be in that kind of situation. However, I graduated from Cornell in 2000, and I work for a consulting firm. Moving from project to project, clients aren't aware of this fact. Having grown a beard, I can pass for late twenties, early thirties, and get a lot more respect. However, I think you'll find that even if they _know_ you're still in college, if you _look_ like you're not, then you will still get more respect.
Of course, you should buy a beard trimmer. You won't get much respect looking like you live on the street, either.
Actually, the players agreed to low salaries in exchange for stock options. When the XFL takes off, McMahon takes it IPO and they all get rich.
The cheerleaders were allowed limited options as well, but they could only cash in if they agreed to accept the capital gains in one dollar bills stuffed in their g-strings. On live TV, of course.
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They do. Didn't you go into that room with the curtains?
What, you mean we don't get to interview him? This is just an article about some other interview with him? Hemos, you tricked us!
Don't forget the most important reason for having a company backing the product - you need to have someone to blame when something goes horribly wrong. I don't know anyone who is willing to take the personal responsibility for writing bad ATC code. I certainly can't afford the insurance, myself.
Who cares about security in the Windows Entertainment Pack? I just wanted to play Mah-Jongg...
Second base: ACK
Third base: SYN/ACK
Homerun: fsck
It looks to me like he is just trying to ride the wave of the current media hype. Aren't we all suckers for listening to him.
Hmm, now that you've been shut down, suddenly it's OK to publish a laundry-list of flaws about the competition? Shady.
My girlfriend was a research assistant for the NEAR time all summer - she put together composite images of the asteroid. All the imaging for NEAR and in fact most of the other research is actually at done Cornell (see their article here), not at Hopkins.
The orbiter was not designed as a lander at all. In fact, even the task of floating around the cylindrical rock was not a simple feat. Eros is rotating along two axes, making it very difficult to orbit close to the rock without being hit by the end-over-end rotation.
The fact that they were able to develop a surface map from the images and were able to land on this rock is a lot more impressive than it seems at first glance.
I don't know about you, but Mike Myers dancing around in his underwear was just about gross enough for me.
I think you've got this test wrong. The way I heard it was:
I think that's right.
f3e2 pumped his lynx stats with the use of <META> tags.
hot goatse.lynx, np lynx, naked lynx...
here's one
Is it just me, or (with the exception of The Matrix), does everyone else think that SF flicks have been crap recently?
I think the reason developers might choose to ignore this particular bug report is that it reads like a Rubick's Cube!
This is certainly true. But I don't hold very high standards when it comes to surfing pr0n, and I'd rather get *something* when I try to load the NP Naked page, than a blank white screen.
But I won't.
However, I do think that it would be useful for the WC3 to put together the Ultimate Test HTML page, and maybe some screenshots to show how the whole thing would be rendered. That would certainly make it easier to bring your browser up to standards, then you could focus on developing the interesting things like smart caching algorithms, etc...
This article would have been much more useful with a table (sorry, Netscape users) of common browsers and which ones support good features and which don't.
I can't wait to see the next generation of scr1p7 k1dd135 with this one. 1 0wn j00, p3t3r n0rth!
We all understand that open-source MMO games are a Bad Idea. However, I think this company is doing a Good Thing by allowing small companies with a Good Idea for a MMO game to implement it without having to do all the hard work of building the infrastructure. The game software that is developed based on the open-source skeleton does not necessarily need to be open-source. This may go against the tenets of the OS movement, but I think that we would all be willing to make the exception in this case.
The premise is that we design Web pages that can do anything you want. Hence the ellipsis.
I think I'm going to go after Vincent Flanders' site WPTS because it dilutes my corporate image. I think that that domain should rightfully belong to me. Any lawyers in the house?
Of course, you should buy a beard trimmer. You won't get much respect looking like you live on the street, either.
Ah hah! Now I know why I got bad grades in all my programming classes!
Exactly. Haven't any of you ever played SimCity?
The cheerleaders were allowed limited options as well, but they could only cash in if they agreed to accept the capital gains in one dollar bills stuffed in their g-strings. On live TV, of course.