Actually, in a way, the concept of orkut ist facist in itself. Creating artifical borders were there are none. I remeber running into orkut when it was just anounced. After reading what it all was about it came across to me as a very unsympathetic concept of a web community. Very much the kind you find in religious sects or, extremer, in facist communities. Artificially bordering a group of people and in unison with that, blurring the individuals in to one big group. We, the "orkuts", are something special.
I personally react extremely allergic to stuff like that, due to personal experiences with latent synthetic elitism in the past. Weak personalities (which racists and facists usually are) much easier see orkut as their chance to feel special for no true reason whatsoever.
Bottom line: Orkuts basic concept actually is an emotional and spiritual groundwork for facisim and thus flawed. Google would be best of shutting it down or dropping the concept of 'invitation only'.
I'm been working on a custom ERP system for 2 years now. Recently we went from flatfile to DB. Yes, you can have a flatfile ERP system, although the amount of maintanance modules does grow pretty fast.
We chose MySQL over Postgres and Firebird. Why?
One answer: 10 times the amount of available tools and resources.
Time to market is a fraction of what it would be with any other DB.
I started to chuckle when I read the headline, then I realised that I had a difficulty figuring out why I was laughing. Is it the fact that somebody who's professionally into computers states this or the fact that a MS guy saying this is considered news?
Even the mere fact that they keep repeating it is hilarious in itself and has it's own twist of humor. *grin*
This actually shows that MS Windows is worse off than I thought.
While it's not vey difficult for a minor to get access to a game like Doom 3 (usually via a pirate-, errm, terrorist-homicidal-maniac-copy), it's flat-out illegal to sell him the game or advertise it openly. The law is a good thing actually. Shure we've got 14 years olds playing Doom 3 here too, but it's common ground that these games aren't for kids and grown ups are forced to look at what their children buy if it's a game that only grown ups can legally purchase.
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Apple doesn't sell Hardware in the classical sense of term. Neither do they sell "Software" in the classical sense of term. They sell a sum of both which adds up to something else (bigger) than the mere sum of both because each is designed ith the other in mind. That's why no one would compare Apple and Dell, even though they sell a combination of both hard- and software aswell. It's only with this special combination of both that gives apple a severe edge over it's competition.
SuSE and Redhat/Fedora are good for starters - especially SuSE since they're the better all in one kit imho. Not only because SuSE comes with solid documentation. But in the end, SuSE and RH are just the Microsofts of the Linux world.
If you really want to use Linux professionally there (hardly) is no other choice than debian. All Linux people I know started of with SuSE and switched to debian once they were firm enough. Same with me. OS X isn't Linux, I know, but if a customer wants a box with that OSS solution and wants it fast, an Apple is my 1st choice. Buy, unpack, power up, 10 minutes of upgrading, finished. Can't beat that.
My recomendations: real (with available codec), quicktime (with available codec),
A special tip: Flash Streaming Video Format. Requires a special server, but it's the fastest streaming format I've seen in action. And it runs on all plattforms that Flash supports. So you've got Linux and Mac covered aswell. And this actually _is_ a good application for flash.
There is but one single lonesome professional Software studio who's officially supported Linux from the get-go and also advertised it. They've got one of the best multiplayer-games I've ever played, and yet still they don't get mentioned here. That's sad and shows how serious the Linux community are about good games on Linux. If you want a cool, up to date professional Linux compliant multiplayer game, do yourself and the developers a favour and check out Savage!. ...AND FUCKING BY IT! IT'S ONLY 19$ BY NOW FOR THE DL/KEYODE VERSION!
Steve Jobs hits often and rarely misses. This new stunt is so right on. Since the days he came back to apple and rescued the lot with his candy flavoured who-the-fuck-still-lets-his-users-adjust-a-screen macs he's been on the road to king of the common appliance computer. Everything a half-way tech savy computer user would think of as "gee, this would be nice to have", he comes up with it 2 years later and at least 5 years ahead of everybody else. OS X has fully matured, is solidly welded onto a 100% percent predictable hardware base, is based on 30 years of Unix OS experience with 10 years in the OSS training camp, is practically virus and exploit free and comes with all the goodies anybody would want with a computer an the ability to upgrade the one or other OSS speciality needed in 5 minutes flat. Bottom line: I couldn't have done any better, and probably wouldn't have (the meager 128 Megs are probably a teeth gritting compromise they had to swallow, to hone costs and margin-leak). As of today, I bet all my money on Apple and my pocket cash on OSS. This is the first industry strength 20 inch stainless steel nail in a long series of nails in the coffin of Microsoft and the weedy mess of proprietary x86 crappiness and it's shortcomings. Mark my word.
Every few years I go into a descent frenzy with the most recent version. Once I had a serious Descent 2 streak that took several hours a day. After a few days of Descent 2 (it was Summer) I played something like 5 hours and then went scating in the dark. I nearly broke my neck approaching a lit subway staircase at full speed and actually atempting to dive into it. I got back into the real word 3 meters in front of the stairs. I also recall darkness phobia after long hours of Quake.
Dreamweaver is an impressive behemoth of a tool, no doubt whatsoever. Back in 1999/2000 it was the only possible way to edit and manage websites on a professional level. Dreamweavers wysiwyg power with the older browsers and it's HTML editing features are unmatched. The template engine completely abstracts changes to a website in your developement directory and automatically keeps track of anything you what across multiple documents. If DW doesn't crash and screw up your template dir that is - which does happen more often than you like. It's the best thing you can use... ...if you don't have a CMS. Which gets me right to the point: Sorry, but it's like five years since the early dot-bomb days where dynamic server side stuff was considered exotic and people got payed for klicking static websites together. You may haven't noticed, but the world has moved on. Therearesomethinglikefifteenbazillionopensourcecontentmanagementsystemsoutthere. One better than the next. Who the fuck needs DW nowadays? You don't want DW! DWs concepts are ancient by todays standards. The last time I used it was about 4 years ago in some project where the system team couldn't get their stuff together and set up a halfway decent JSP framework and we had to hack the webdocs by hand in record time. And my web productivity has tripled by now, since I exclusively use content management systems (as every body else does), and be it "only" to generate the html docs offline and publish the output to static webspace.
Honestly now: Ditch DW allready, it's nothing but a huge waste of time these days. Trust me, I make a living with this stuff. And take a look at one of the frameworks above. To save your time, I recommend checking out one of the following: Plone/Zope, Callisto CMS, Mambo, Typo3, Mason, Slashcode, or (forgot this one above) Xoops. Save yourself half to three quarters of webdev time in the long run. Oh, and welcome to 2005.;-)
Is there an army of displaced people living in refugee camps outside Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw or Milan?
Not to shed Israels politics in a nice light, but to answer your question:
No there is no army of displaced people outside of Berlin nor outside of New York City. In fact, the Nazis did a pretty good job at swiftly killing off or - in few rare cases - chasing away a mean seven digit number (something between 3.5 and 5.5 Million) of otherwise-would-be-displaced. As did the pioneers with native americans. But they took a century of time. The Nazi only needed a decade. Ponder that for a minute.
Latent middle east religious fanatisim on both sides aside, imagine a technologically sophisticated extreme religiously fanatic nazi-regime in the middle east today. You don't really think that they would've put up with this "hassle"? A few camps with furnaces and a nifty chemical would have a definite "Endloesung" completed by 2010. No more problems. Appropriately enough today Adolf Hitler is a big hero amongst arbian religous fanatics. As if he would wasted a second of considering an alternative to plowing the middle east or any other arabian nation of 'lower humans' under ASAP.... Heavens crickey I'm just considering what if the Nazis had actually won...
Lots if discussion going on about fragglemat. Toxic taxidermists tipptoe on people creating their own. As seen in Flippsonomatic De.li.ri.um. Flicker, flicker, *wink* *wink*. ITVTVTT-TV WTF? Future Now makes a point in being later than yesterday. No synonyms controll mac for macintoshes. Herarchy one-word-tagged content-types. Jojo-Joohohoho - The Blog! Notesdiscussion What-about-what? Mobsinjection? Folksoflippsonomy-Calegari? Taggletaggle (the federated social one)? Wonder, wonder, google, google. Makes me lazy, makes me hazy. Tag! You are it.
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I allways had the impression that slashdoters and the slashdot editors were stoned beatiks, but this guy obviously double dosed his morning share today.
You could be right. I bought an iBook a few months ago. As an addition to my two Linux boxen. For christmas I got a Apple wireless keyboard which I'm typing on just now. My one linux box I just borrowed away for a 10 day LAN party nearly without hesitation and my main Linux workstaion hasn't been on to often lately. Only to fetch mal and do some developement. My next box is going to be a Mac. In a nutshell: I need Mac hooch every 24 hours or else I go turkey. They probably perfume their hardware with some stuff that works subconsiously and gives you the need for touching it every so often.... wait, I'm getting the shakes...sooth it... Aaaah... pearl white keyboard, I need to stroke you softly just a little bit...
..my notion of Steve Jobs being a carefully observing computer geek / visionary and top-notch manager in unison. This is exactly what Apple has to do in order to expand into the gap that MS is leaving behind by slowly but shurely trickeling out of the corporate workplaces. A Sub-500$, low power computer that comes shrinkwrapped with OS X is all it takes to migrate even more people who hate MS (everybody exept gamers) to their plattform. Right now the only alternative for modern micro systems is to get some cool Mini ITX or XPC and spend 20 days trying to get Linux running on it satisfactory. With a move like this Apple would put it's foot down and make a clear statement for the 100% OSS-ready appliance market. As I said earlier, this is the next logical step needed to share he market between OSS and all-in-one-package providers. Which Apple essentially is. If this is going to happen, my next file-and-mail server is going to be a mac aswell.
That's all I can come up with right now. Note that some of these are dealt with by certain unix variants. Printing and pretty much everything else is a breeze on OS X for instance. Configuraion and installation with Debian Linux is very smooth and goes great length to keep those countless OSS utilities manageable. And Solaris 10 seems to have the one or other card up its sleve to deal with security risks that result in the allmighty root.
Coming to think of it: Can't we just have an OS with OS X ease of use, Debians installation system, Solaris 10 low-level features and Windows Vendor support? We'd all be set and 100% satisfied.
It's allways a refreshing thing to see...
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..-Hollywood Stars putting themselves below the result of their combined effort. With "Die Hard" for instance one gets the impression of a movie built all around Bruce Willis. With Pulp fiction on the other hand you get the impression that he was born to play in it. Could be very much the same with this one. And some other artists involved.
It's all in the headline. With a little flash programm you could easyly render actuall text-data mirrored. You could even build a mirrord mini GUI for the prompter.... Coming to think of it, that's actually a cool little OSS project there.
... I'd suggest you check out the open source rich media framework Xical for your e-learning needs. It's front line when it comes to dynamic rich-media e-learning applications (it's completely Flash based and GPLd) and is all you need on top of a self-made LMS. I recommend Zope/Plone/CMF for your own LMS. If your interessted in an open source based LMS you might want to ask the xical team (the mailaddress is on the.org website) - which I'm a part of - and we can get in contact. I work with various partners and each has their own LMS variant, yet all have in common that they are dirt cheap and front line. Naturaly as it's all open source people and OSS technology involved.
As of now I have no doubt whatsoever that Microsoft is excessively bribing the deciders in the european political open source and software patent discussion. Simple and flat out. Deciders that don't have the haziest of concepts of what software and open source is about get invited to sessions with "software-experts" on 100 percent MS payroll, taking all their crap for granted. And most certainly later on cut a deal on consulting or for holding a keynote or something other. The irish EU presidency saw the up to then most extreme case, with the president taking a 180 turn of the decision the EU-parlament had issued not longer than a half a year earlyer on software patents. We are about to see more of this. I very much welcome the EU officials looking into this and (hopefully) preparing appropriate measures of dealing with flat-out violations of law like this one.
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Actually, in a way, the concept of orkut ist facist in itself. Creating artifical borders were there are none. I remeber running into orkut when it was just anounced. After reading what it all was about it came across to me as a very unsympathetic concept of a web community. Very much the kind you find in religious sects or, extremer, in facist communities. Artificially bordering a group of people and in unison with that, blurring the individuals in to one big group. We, the "orkuts", are something special.
I personally react extremely allergic to stuff like that, due to personal experiences with latent synthetic elitism in the past. Weak personalities (which racists and facists usually are) much easier see orkut as their chance to feel special for no true reason whatsoever.
Bottom line:
Orkuts basic concept actually is an emotional and spiritual groundwork for facisim and thus flawed. Google would be best of shutting it down or dropping the concept of 'invitation only'.
I'm been working on a custom ERP system for 2 years now. Recently we went from flatfile to DB. Yes, you can have a flatfile ERP system, although the amount of maintanance modules does grow pretty fast.
We chose MySQL over Postgres and Firebird. Why?
One answer:
10 times the amount of available tools and resources.
Time to market is a fraction of what it would be with any other DB.
Otherwise I'd be using Firebird.
I started to chuckle when I read the headline, then I realised that I had a difficulty figuring out why I was laughing. Is it the fact that somebody who's professionally into computers states this or the fact that a MS guy saying this is considered news?
Even the mere fact that they keep repeating it is hilarious in itself and has it's own twist of humor. *grin*
This actually shows that MS Windows is worse off than I thought.
While it's not vey difficult for a minor to get access to a game like Doom 3 (usually via a pirate-, errm, terrorist-homicidal-maniac-copy), it's flat-out illegal to sell him the game or advertise it openly. The law is a good thing actually. Shure we've got 14 years olds playing Doom 3 here too, but it's common ground that these games aren't for kids and grown ups are forced to look at what their children buy if it's a game that only grown ups can legally purchase.
Apple doesn't sell Hardware in the classical sense of term. Neither do they sell "Software" in the classical sense of term. They sell a sum of both which adds up to something else (bigger) than the mere sum of both because each is designed ith the other in mind. That's why no one would compare Apple and Dell, even though they sell a combination of both hard- and software aswell.
It's only with this special combination of both that gives apple a severe edge over it's competition.
Cheap and good?
Debian.
Fast and good?
OS X.
SuSE and Redhat/Fedora are good for starters - especially SuSE since they're the better all in one kit imho. Not only because SuSE comes with solid documentation. But in the end, SuSE and RH are just the Microsofts of the Linux world.
If you really want to use Linux professionally there (hardly) is no other choice than debian. All Linux people I know started of with SuSE and switched to debian once they were firm enough. Same with me.
OS X isn't Linux, I know, but if a customer wants a box with that OSS solution and wants it fast, an Apple is my 1st choice. Buy, unpack, power up, 10 minutes of upgrading, finished. Can't beat that.
My 2 cents.
My recomendations:
real (with available codec),
quicktime (with available codec),
A special tip:
Flash Streaming Video Format.
Requires a special server, but it's the fastest streaming format I've seen in action. And it runs on all plattforms that Flash supports. So you've got Linux and Mac covered aswell. And this actually _is_ a good application for flash.
There is but one single lonesome professional Software studio who's officially supported Linux from the get-go and also advertised it. They've got one of the best multiplayer-games I've ever played, and yet still they don't get mentioned here. That's sad and shows how serious the Linux community are about good games on Linux. ...AND FUCKING BY IT! IT'S ONLY 19$ BY NOW FOR THE DL/KEYODE VERSION!
If you want a cool, up to date professional Linux compliant multiplayer game, do yourself and the developers a favour and check out Savage!.
I just realised how crappy the usual wordprocessing-templates are. :-)
K-Jokes in three, two, ...
Steve Jobs hits often and rarely misses. This new stunt is so right on. Since the days he came back to apple and rescued the lot with his candy flavoured who-the-fuck-still-lets-his-users-adjust-a-screen macs he's been on the road to king of the common appliance computer. Everything a half-way tech savy computer user would think of as "gee, this would be nice to have", he comes up with it 2 years later and at least 5 years ahead of everybody else. OS X has fully matured, is solidly welded onto a 100% percent predictable hardware base, is based on 30 years of Unix OS experience with 10 years in the OSS training camp, is practically virus and exploit free and comes with all the goodies anybody would want with a computer an the ability to upgrade the one or other OSS speciality needed in 5 minutes flat.
Bottom line:
I couldn't have done any better, and probably wouldn't have (the meager 128 Megs are probably a teeth gritting compromise they had to swallow, to hone costs and margin-leak).
As of today, I bet all my money on Apple and my pocket cash on OSS. This is the first industry strength 20 inch stainless steel nail in a long series of nails in the coffin of Microsoft and the weedy mess of proprietary x86 crappiness and it's shortcomings. Mark my word.
Every few years I go into a descent frenzy with the most recent version. Once I had a serious Descent 2 streak that took several hours a day. After a few days of Descent 2 (it was Summer) I played something like 5 hours and then went scating in the dark. I nearly broke my neck approaching a lit subway staircase at full speed and actually atempting to dive into it. I got back into the real word 3 meters in front of the stairs.
I also recall darkness phobia after long hours of Quake.
Know the problem. The trick is to allways have the right blocks comming. Then it no sweat and you can mindplay tetris until it goes away.
and it's undoubtedly the WORST piece of shit I've every used -- and I've used Microsoft Works!
Actually I thought MS Works was quite fine. But then again, that was Works 5 on DOS 5.0 back in '94.
Dreamweaver is an impressive behemoth of a tool, no doubt whatsoever. Back in 1999/2000 it was the only possible way to edit and manage websites on a professional level. Dreamweavers wysiwyg power with the older browsers and it's HTML editing features are unmatched. The template engine completely abstracts changes to a website in your developement directory and automatically keeps track of anything you what across multiple documents. If DW doesn't crash and screw up your template dir that is - which does happen more often than you like. It's the best thing you can use ... ...if you don't have a CMS.
;-)
Which gets me right to the point:
Sorry, but it's like five years since the early dot-bomb days where dynamic server side stuff was considered exotic and people got payed for klicking static websites together. You may haven't noticed, but the world has moved on. There are something like fifteen bazillion open source content management systems out there. One better than the next.
Who the fuck needs DW nowadays? You don't want DW! DWs concepts are ancient by todays standards. The last time I used it was about 4 years ago in some project where the system team couldn't get their stuff together and set up a halfway decent JSP framework and we had to hack the webdocs by hand in record time. And my web productivity has tripled by now, since I exclusively use content management systems (as every body else does), and be it "only" to generate the html docs offline and publish the output to static webspace.
Honestly now: Ditch DW allready, it's nothing but a huge waste of time these days. Trust me, I make a living with this stuff. And take a look at one of the frameworks above. To save your time, I recommend checking out one of the following: Plone/Zope, Callisto CMS, Mambo, Typo3, Mason, Slashcode, or (forgot this one above) Xoops. Save yourself half to three quarters of webdev time in the long run.
Oh, and welcome to 2005.
Did SCO allow him to modify their kernel?
Is there an army of displaced people living in refugee camps outside Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw or Milan?
... Heavens crickey I'm just considering what if the Nazis had actually won ...
Not to shed Israels politics in a nice light, but to answer your question:
No there is no army of displaced people outside of Berlin nor outside of New York City. In fact, the Nazis did a pretty good job at swiftly killing off or - in few rare cases - chasing away a mean seven digit number (something between 3.5 and 5.5 Million) of otherwise-would-be-displaced. As did the pioneers with native americans. But they took a century of time. The Nazi only needed a decade. Ponder that for a minute.
Latent middle east religious fanatisim on both sides aside, imagine a technologically sophisticated extreme religiously fanatic nazi-regime in the middle east today. You don't really think that they would've put up with this "hassle"? A few camps with furnaces and a nifty chemical would have a definite "Endloesung" completed by 2010. No more problems. Appropriately enough today Adolf Hitler is a big hero amongst arbian religous fanatics. As if he would wasted a second of considering an alternative to plowing the middle east or any other arabian nation of 'lower humans' under ASAP.
Lots if discussion going on about fragglemat. Toxic taxidermists tipptoe on people creating their own. As seen in Flippsonomatic De.li.ri.um.
Flicker, flicker, *wink* *wink*. ITVTVTT-TV WTF?
Future Now makes a point in being later than yesterday. No synonyms controll mac for macintoshes. Herarchy one-word-tagged content-types.
Jojo-Joohohoho - The Blog! Notesdiscussion What-about-what?
Mobsinjection? Folksoflippsonomy-Calegari?
Taggletaggle (the federated social one)?
Wonder, wonder, google, google.
Makes me lazy, makes me hazy.
Tag! You are it.
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I allways had the impression that slashdoters and the slashdot editors were stoned beatiks, but this guy obviously double dosed his morning share today.
You could be right.
I bought an iBook a few months ago. As an addition to my two Linux boxen. For christmas I got a Apple wireless keyboard which I'm typing on just now. My one linux box I just borrowed away for a 10 day LAN party nearly without hesitation and my main Linux workstaion hasn't been on to often lately. Only to fetch mal and do some developement. My next box is going to be a Mac.
In a nutshell: I need Mac hooch every 24 hours or else I go turkey.
They probably perfume their hardware with some stuff that works subconsiously and gives you the need for touching it every so often.... wait, I'm getting the shakes...sooth it...
Aaaah... pearl white keyboard, I need to stroke you softly just a little bit...
..my notion of Steve Jobs being a carefully observing computer geek / visionary and top-notch manager in unison.
This is exactly what Apple has to do in order to expand into the gap that MS is leaving behind by slowly but shurely trickeling out of the corporate workplaces. A Sub-500$, low power computer that comes shrinkwrapped with OS X is all it takes to migrate even more people who hate MS (everybody exept gamers) to their plattform. Right now the only alternative for modern micro systems is to get some cool Mini ITX or XPC and spend 20 days trying to get Linux running on it satisfactory.
With a move like this Apple would put it's foot down and make a clear statement for the 100% OSS-ready appliance market.
As I said earlier, this is the next logical step needed to share he market between OSS and all-in-one-package providers. Which Apple essentially is. If this is going to happen, my next file-and-mail server is going to be a mac aswell.
-the allmighty root (single largest security risk)
-ancient directory organization which doesn't take modern computer usage into account (more powerfull single workstations)
-bad historically grown naming ("home", "usr", "var", etc.) and incosequent File System Herarchy Standard
-crappy vendor support
-unix printing still sucks big time (see 'vendor support')
-grafics system and font handling
-inconsistent standards of configration
-histrically grown elitist utility naming (large anoyance)
That's all I can come up with right now. Note that some of these are dealt with by certain unix variants. Printing and pretty much everything else is a breeze on OS X for instance. Configuraion and installation with Debian Linux is very smooth and goes great length to keep those countless OSS utilities manageable. And Solaris 10 seems to have the one or other card up its sleve to deal with security risks that result in the allmighty root.
Coming to think of it: Can't we just have an OS with OS X ease of use, Debians installation system, Solaris 10 low-level features and Windows Vendor support? We'd all be set and 100% satisfied.
..-Hollywood Stars putting themselves below the result of their combined effort. With "Die Hard" for instance one gets the impression of a movie built all around Bruce Willis. With Pulp fiction on the other hand you get the impression that he was born to play in it. Could be very much the same with this one. And some other artists involved.
It's all in the headline. With a little flash programm you could easyly render actuall text-data mirrored. You could even build a mirrord mini GUI for the prompter. ...
Coming to think of it, that's actually a cool little OSS project there.
... I'd suggest you check out the open source rich media framework Xical for your e-learning needs. It's front line when it comes to dynamic rich-media e-learning applications (it's completely Flash based and GPLd) and is all you need on top of a self-made LMS. I recommend Zope/Plone/CMF for your own LMS. If your interessted in an open source based LMS you might want to ask the xical team (the mailaddress is on the .org website) - which I'm a part of - and we can get in contact. I work with various partners and each has their own LMS variant, yet all have in common that they are dirt cheap and front line. Naturaly as it's all open source people and OSS technology involved.
As of now I have no doubt whatsoever that Microsoft is excessively bribing the deciders in the european political open source and software patent discussion. Simple and flat out. Deciders that don't have the haziest of concepts of what software and open source is about get invited to sessions with "software-experts" on 100 percent MS payroll, taking all their crap for granted. And most certainly later on cut a deal on consulting or for holding a keynote or something other.
The irish EU presidency saw the up to then most extreme case, with the president taking a 180 turn of the decision the EU-parlament had issued not longer than a half a year earlyer on software patents.
We are about to see more of this.
I very much welcome the EU officials looking into this and (hopefully) preparing appropriate measures of dealing with flat-out violations of law like this one.