I think it had more to do with the fact that this is day old news that even CNN Headline News did a story on before Slashdot posted the damn article...
Look at Borland -- some consultancy decided they should change their name to Inprise, and the name confusion never fully sorted itself out before they gave up on it. The sci/tech offspring of larger companies have lost respectable names and become things like Agilent, Lucent, and Imation. WHY?
This is Andersen Consulting finally getting what they deserve. Forget about the name people know and care about -- just put some buzzwords in a blender and create a new, vague, futuristic sounding name.
It's getting bad, too. Within a year after moving to Minneapolis, I got all my bills from companies with completely different names. US West is now Qwest, NSP is now Xcel energy, Paragon Cable is now Time Warner Cable, and Norwest Bank is now Wells Fargo. God forbid I also have Aerial^H^H^H^H^H^HVerizon wireless, too. My company also changed its name, but that was because it only made sense.
Speaking of getting what's deserved, the Giants are getting theirs today. It should have been the Vikings getting their asses kicked by Baltimore, not the Giants. Then again, I'm partial.
You are an elitist.
You have a stick up your ass:-)
Actually, I've got no problem with them reserving the right to weed out inappropriate names, but IMO their definition of inappropriateness is a bit too broad, particularly the part that says: "Common words and phrases that would not be found in the place and time setting of the game (e.g. Switchblade, Phaser, Toaster, Cannabis, Sloegin)" -- Jesus Christ (oops, you can't use either of those in a name, either), that's being a bit picky, innit?
Software is a tool no different than any other. Whatever you create with it (be it a spice rack or a character) is your own to dispense with. The tool is capital investment, and whatever you gain with it is your own. Adobe can't stop you from selling the works you created with Photoshop, and Microsoft doesn't charge for every application you develop.
This is simply Verant and/or Sony feeling that they should be the ever powerful Gods ruling over an idealistic fantasy world, right down to the name you may give your character. 13 rules for a game in general would be off putting enough for me, much less just for what you can call yourself.
Sega is motivated to license the technology and not lose money on every DC, be it their own or someone else's. Microsoft is motivated to make their product launch successful, and what better way to do that than to have ~100 titles from the outset? The biggest problem for any new console is the lack of games to play on them.
Sega is the only logical choice for MS anyway -- PS1 games are covered by Bleem!, there isn't a chance in hell that Sony will license PS2, and Nintendo formats are obviously much more expensive to accommodate than GD-ROM.
There have been two "Linux distributions for handhelds" stories in the past couple of days. One is called Pengachu, which sounds similar to Pikachu, and the other Pocket Linux, which could easily be confused to be "Pokelinux". WTF is going on?
I've worked at the tech support, admin, and programmer level, sometimes more than one of these at a few companies. If you have been on just one side, you can still relate. It seems rather clear to me: despite the similar skills and knowledge set of admins and support staff, the relationship between the two is never one of full cooperation.
Forget about getting ahold of the admins -- what you really want to do is get ahold of their bosses. The admins will resent you, but it is likely the only effective way to reach them (if someone here doesn't step forward).
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Oh, so you could make a superconductor out of common household items, eh?;-)
In my short 7 year work life, I've worked at McDonald's, and I've worked two different tech support jobs -- one at a rural ISP, another at a premium software company (among other factory/programming jobs), so I think I'm in a position to testify on the subject.
Tech support jobs were the only jobs I was ever AFRAID to go to. To this day, I can't answer MY OWN PHONE half the time, because I'm sitting there wondering who is at the other end of the line, what they want, and how I'm going to fix it. If you have a lot of nontechnical friends, you know what I'm talking about.
In front line tech support, most people learn out or burn out. The people who leave usually aren't cut out for it mentally, the rest of them turn into emotional wrecks like myself. Take a guess why there are so many damn stupid MCSE's?
I remember that superconductors were this big thing back in the 80's, some sort of revolution that meant more than being able to suspend bits of metal in the air over some stove burner looking thingy. Superconductors had been around longer than that, but there was some kind of renaissance at that time that made it cheaper and easier.
Anyway, it's two decades later, and I still don't have any damn superconductors. Who *does* have them, what are they doing with them, and when can I get my own superconductive nonferrous magnets?
Personally, I think it's a pride thing for the Russians at this point. They just want to have uptime bragging rights because they think they have the best, rock-stable system, nevermind all the known vulnerabilities and bugs.
/me ducks
Well, not PayPal *exclusively*... In the past, I've had trouble with address verification because I wanted to have things shipped from online orders to work (where I am during the day) instead of home, where I'd never get it. My bank REFUSED to add another address to my card (although one rep told me he DID), which didn't help at all. Apparently, most online merchants are now required to do this by their card services. Maybe it cuts down on fraud a bit, but it certainly makes sending gifts difficult. PayPal does not have that stipulation, it has bailed me out once before, and I have never been defrauded using it.
PayPal probably shouldn't be the ONLY option for most transactions, especially for big ticket items and because of the extra steps, but then again, neither should the only shipping options be FedEx or UPS.
Ironically, most of the stuff I bought with PayPal from small shops came shipped via Priority Mail faster and cheaper than the shippers.
P.S.: This isn't the forum, but I have been at every extreme of satisfaction and displeasure with online merchants -- call it experience. I am extremely pissed off with Plycon (I won't give them the satisfaction of a link). My card failed AVS even after I changed addresses with the bank, and they were not at all the helpful, professional, or friendly people they are described as at Reseller Ratings. They have since gotten a PayPal account but I refuse to do business with them... YMMV.
I'm sorry, but there is NO FUCKING EXCUSE to allow telnet access, no matter how big/small/secure you are. Your server need not run more than SSH for shells and have sudo for useradd, etc.
Of course, both the ISP I used to work for and the ISP I use now have open telnet access, despite having SSH also...
I switched over to DVD more than a year ago. I have no real use for it, since I already have a DVD player, and no DVD-ROM's, but it does happen to be a fairly decent CD-ROM, and the Pioneers do have a cool slot load. It has brightened my life, at least somewhat.
I'm not entirely happy with the situation, though. First of all, it WOULD be nice to have certain options on DVD, e.g. MSDN, various Linux distros (AFAIK only SuSE does this). Second, there is a big performance gap between IDE and SCSI. I own the topline Pioneer of both varieties -- my first one was SCSI, I got it more than a year ago, and its 6x speed is STILL the fastest. A couple of months ago, I put an IDE model into a different machine, and it runs at 16x. It *is* faster. Lastly, I'm thinking that I'm not getting much of a deal. For the current price of a DVD-ROM drive, you could buy a CD-ROM drive and have enough money left over to tack on another 20GB to your hard drive, which will perform even faster. Things are better, but not as much as they could be.
Clearly, DVD isn't living up to its potential. The IDE/SCSI disparity may eventually be resolved, but unless it gets cheaper, hard drives are going to just mop the floor, and by that I mean it is cheaper and easier to install everything to disk, rather than occasionally swapping one DVD for another from a different set (or one of five from the same set regularly). I'm not going to try implying that hard drives are portable. Like everything else, DVD needs to be cheaper and more widespread. This is NOT something that its proponents can sell just by saying "it's better".
Going as far back as Red Hat 7.0, did it not seem like everyone was getting irritable about the absence of this or that from the stable branch? USB got backported to 2.2 not too long ago, and almost immediately after Wired announced 2.4 as vapour, the first 2.4 kernels started showing up.
Do you think there's a shortage of conspiracy theorists in the Linux community? In even a less paranoid eye, it does seem a BIT suspicious. Maybe it is getting somewhat political and personal -- who knows?
My dad used to be in the Rotary, but he got sick of it, both because of their beliefs and their substance. I sat in for a few meetings -- all they ever did was eat crappy lunches in hotel ballrooms, listened to crappy speakers, then introduced themselves if they were from a different charter and took the crappy banner that they get for being from somewhere else.
I was even born in Evanston and thought about going to Northwestern, but I just can't go back there knowing how many Rotarians I'll find.
Granted, these suckaz are big and probably guzzle power faster than all the boys on the University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity row put together can guzzle Schlitz, but...
Buying a server is like buying a puppy -- even if you get it for free, you've only begun to spend. You have to keep it healthy (store in cool, dry place), clean up after its messes (purge logfiles, kill stalled processes), and even if it's well behaved and independent, you need to make sure it gets fed if you're going to be away for long. You had NO power backup? Dead puppies make baby l33t j03 cry...
Just how many people out there NEED a Pentium? You can run lynx just fine with a 386, right? This is not communism, buddy -- you don't care about consumer need, you care about consumer WANT.
Do yourself a favor -- try a multimonitor display before you make such idiotic claims. Some people don't have $1000 in the bank to lay down on a single investment, and among those that do, most of them would find that fewer pixels spread across more displays are more effective. It allows them to make a REAL mental separation between each region of the screen, and quickly begin to organize and assign special tasks to each one.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.gbstation.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001436.ht ml
I think it had more to do with the fact that this is day old news that even CNN Headline News did a story on before Slashdot posted the damn article...
The Vikes will be around next year, just like every other season. We'll get you next time, if you're even worth it next season.
/end Vikings posturing
Look at Borland -- some consultancy decided they should change their name to Inprise, and the name confusion never fully sorted itself out before they gave up on it. The sci/tech offspring of larger companies have lost respectable names and become things like Agilent, Lucent, and Imation. WHY?
This is Andersen Consulting finally getting what they deserve. Forget about the name people know and care about -- just put some buzzwords in a blender and create a new, vague, futuristic sounding name.
It's getting bad, too. Within a year after moving to Minneapolis, I got all my bills from companies with completely different names. US West is now Qwest, NSP is now Xcel energy, Paragon Cable is now Time Warner Cable, and Norwest Bank is now Wells Fargo. God forbid I also have Aerial^H^H^H^H^H^HVerizon wireless, too. My company also changed its name, but that was because it only made sense.
Speaking of getting what's deserved, the Giants are getting theirs today. It should have been the Vikings getting their asses kicked by Baltimore, not the Giants. Then again, I'm partial.
You are an elitist. :-)
You have a stick up your ass
Actually, I've got no problem with them reserving the right to weed out inappropriate names, but IMO their definition of inappropriateness is a bit too broad, particularly the part that says: "Common words and phrases that would not be found in the place and time setting of the game (e.g. Switchblade, Phaser, Toaster, Cannabis, Sloegin)" -- Jesus Christ (oops, you can't use either of those in a name, either), that's being a bit picky, innit?
This is simply Verant and/or Sony feeling that they should be the ever powerful Gods ruling over an idealistic fantasy world, right down to the name you may give your character. 13 rules for a game in general would be off putting enough for me, much less just for what you can call yourself.
Sega is motivated to license the technology and not lose money on every DC, be it their own or someone else's. Microsoft is motivated to make their product launch successful, and what better way to do that than to have ~100 titles from the outset? The biggest problem for any new console is the lack of games to play on them.
Sega is the only logical choice for MS anyway -- PS1 games are covered by Bleem!, there isn't a chance in hell that Sony will license PS2, and Nintendo formats are obviously much more expensive to accommodate than GD-ROM.
There have been two "Linux distributions for handhelds" stories in the past couple of days. One is called Pengachu, which sounds similar to Pikachu, and the other Pocket Linux, which could easily be confused to be "Pokelinux". WTF is going on?
Rob has been watching too much anime lately -- those goofy subtitles are rubbing off on his (already poor) English.
Now if Rob had gone to a proper *public* school, they wouldn't waste any time putting him in ESL...
I've worked at the tech support, admin, and programmer level, sometimes more than one of these at a few companies. If you have been on just one side, you can still relate. It seems rather clear to me: despite the similar skills and knowledge set of admins and support staff, the relationship between the two is never one of full cooperation.
Forget about getting ahold of the admins -- what you really want to do is get ahold of their bosses. The admins will resent you, but it is likely the only effective way to reach them (if someone here doesn't step forward).
Oh, so you could make a superconductor out of common household items, eh? ;-)
In my short 7 year work life, I've worked at McDonald's, and I've worked two different tech support jobs -- one at a rural ISP, another at a premium software company (among other factory/programming jobs), so I think I'm in a position to testify on the subject.
Tech support jobs were the only jobs I was ever AFRAID to go to. To this day, I can't answer MY OWN PHONE half the time, because I'm sitting there wondering who is at the other end of the line, what they want, and how I'm going to fix it. If you have a lot of nontechnical friends, you know what I'm talking about.
In front line tech support, most people learn out or burn out. The people who leave usually aren't cut out for it mentally, the rest of them turn into emotional wrecks like myself. Take a guess why there are so many damn stupid MCSE's?
I remember that superconductors were this big thing back in the 80's, some sort of revolution that meant more than being able to suspend bits of metal in the air over some stove burner looking thingy. Superconductors had been around longer than that, but there was some kind of renaissance at that time that made it cheaper and easier.
Anyway, it's two decades later, and I still don't have any damn superconductors. Who *does* have them, what are they doing with them, and when can I get my own superconductive nonferrous magnets?
Personally, I think it's a pride thing for the Russians at this point. They just want to have uptime bragging rights because they think they have the best, rock-stable system, nevermind all the known vulnerabilities and bugs.
/me ducks
PayPal probably shouldn't be the ONLY option for most transactions, especially for big ticket items and because of the extra steps, but then again, neither should the only shipping options be FedEx or UPS.
Ironically, most of the stuff I bought with PayPal from small shops came shipped via Priority Mail faster and cheaper than the shippers.
P.S.: This isn't the forum, but I have been at every extreme of satisfaction and displeasure with online merchants -- call it experience. I am extremely pissed off with Plycon (I won't give them the satisfaction of a link). My card failed AVS even after I changed addresses with the bank, and they were not at all the helpful, professional, or friendly people they are described as at Reseller Ratings. They have since gotten a PayPal account but I refuse to do business with them... YMMV.
I'm sorry, but there is NO FUCKING EXCUSE to allow telnet access, no matter how big/small/secure you are. Your server need not run more than SSH for shells and have sudo for useradd, etc.
Of course, both the ISP I used to work for and the ISP I use now have open telnet access, despite having SSH also...
I switched over to DVD more than a year ago. I have no real use for it, since I already have a DVD player, and no DVD-ROM's, but it does happen to be a fairly decent CD-ROM, and the Pioneers do have a cool slot load. It has brightened my life, at least somewhat.
I'm not entirely happy with the situation, though. First of all, it WOULD be nice to have certain options on DVD, e.g. MSDN, various Linux distros (AFAIK only SuSE does this). Second, there is a big performance gap between IDE and SCSI. I own the topline Pioneer of both varieties -- my first one was SCSI, I got it more than a year ago, and its 6x speed is STILL the fastest. A couple of months ago, I put an IDE model into a different machine, and it runs at 16x. It *is* faster. Lastly, I'm thinking that I'm not getting much of a deal. For the current price of a DVD-ROM drive, you could buy a CD-ROM drive and have enough money left over to tack on another 20GB to your hard drive, which will perform even faster. Things are better, but not as much as they could be.
Clearly, DVD isn't living up to its potential. The IDE/SCSI disparity may eventually be resolved, but unless it gets cheaper, hard drives are going to just mop the floor, and by that I mean it is cheaper and easier to install everything to disk, rather than occasionally swapping one DVD for another from a different set (or one of five from the same set regularly). I'm not going to try implying that hard drives are portable. Like everything else, DVD needs to be cheaper and more widespread. This is NOT something that its proponents can sell just by saying "it's better".
Going as far back as Red Hat 7.0, did it not seem like everyone was getting irritable about the absence of this or that from the stable branch? USB got backported to 2.2 not too long ago, and almost immediately after Wired announced 2.4 as vapour, the first 2.4 kernels started showing up.
Do you think there's a shortage of conspiracy theorists in the Linux community? In even a less paranoid eye, it does seem a BIT suspicious. Maybe it is getting somewhat political and personal -- who knows?
I was even born in Evanston and thought about going to Northwestern, but I just can't go back there knowing how many Rotarians I'll find.
Granted, these suckaz are big and probably guzzle power faster than all the boys on the University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity row put together can guzzle Schlitz, but...
Buying a server is like buying a puppy -- even if you get it for free, you've only begun to spend. You have to keep it healthy (store in cool, dry place), clean up after its messes (purge logfiles, kill stalled processes), and even if it's well behaved and independent, you need to make sure it gets fed if you're going to be away for long. You had NO power backup? Dead puppies make baby l33t j03 cry...
The /. submission page only defaults to your nick -- you can specify an alternate name if you like:
http://slashdot.org/submit.pl
How is this for an idea:
Anyone who attempted to make a comment RE: said article as if they had read it gets a bitchslap. Bye, bye +1 bonus...
Gun owners would sound so much more sane if fewer of them were the types that feel the need to prove it to the world...
This is truly a crazy, mixed up world. Trolling with hate is pretty damn low, and it isn't very funny. Are you Vlad or Archie? Want to know something else that is crazy? I'm going to link to Jack Chick, and this time it's not for laughs:a sp
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1000/1000_01.
Just how many people out there NEED a Pentium? You can run lynx just fine with a 386, right? This is not communism, buddy -- you don't care about consumer need, you care about consumer WANT.
Do yourself a favor -- try a multimonitor display before you make such idiotic claims. Some people don't have $1000 in the bank to lay down on a single investment, and among those that do, most of them would find that fewer pixels spread across more displays are more effective. It allows them to make a REAL mental separation between each region of the screen, and quickly begin to organize and assign special tasks to each one.