Unreal Tournament 2003 ships with the Maya Personal Learning Edition (high end 2D package, used by ILM f.e.) and the Unreal Editor which is a high end industry strength IDE for gaming enviroments. Not that UT runs on Linux and Windows alike, the editors though only on Windows. If you want to get into FPS level editing this is absolutely the first choice. Note that there are other games and other genres using the same engine.
BTW, your English is also better than most people's *English*.
Hey, thanks. As a former american citizen I would hope so.:-)
Yet, sometimes when I'm tired I write rubbish and some flamers come down on me like a pile of bricks on spelling and grammar. Ofter when I post something controverse.
It's so breathtaking just to watch it every time. Once a new market opens up, M$ is right there with some whitepaper some guy in the company came up with wile taking a dump. Something like 36 hours later you have an army of marketeers all over it, designing Logos and Brandnames ('Axapta' - expect to axept it!...or something) and acting so the ham that anyone not an expert on big software players way of bullshitting the customer just _must_ have the impression that M$ solutions are so much on top of things. It's really astounding just to watch this unfold. Ah, well, in five years from now, when - as usual - billions of customers have been ripped and - as usual - the first OSS developers get really pissed with the crap they have to fuss with on their dayjobs, we're gonna see the first OSS ERP RFID integrations popping up here and there. It's just like with classic ERP slowly being crept into by compiere and the very promising GNU Enterprise project - there is no way you can beat it in the end. Anyway, the smartass attitude that MS displays allthough they don't have any more clue than the rest is just amazing.
Imagine on of these or something of simular size with a 60 GB HDD, 2 Gig RAM, 300 Mhz Sysclock, 1280 resolution and OpenGL 2 hardware 3D acceleration with 128 RAM of texturespace. UT2k3 or T2 on the bus. When you get bored you fire up blender and start building some new mods. Cool.
Or something like this: "X is doing a LAN Party. I think I'll drop by and play a match or two." "You have to go home and get your box." "No, I got it right here in my jacketpocket":-)
I know this is being run as a 'classical' US copyright thing, but it emphasises my point in that U.S DMCA joke - as a prime example of legislative high-end bullshit - being a perfect tool for severe - as we germans call it - creative nonsense. Basically you can sue everybody and everything for using anything that you're involved in. Think of the copyrighted Haiku for spam filtering or now this. Which, mind you, actually by law IS a case, imho. Build a network for OSS projects, with a own protocol, copyright the stuff and add a modified GPL that forbids anyone who ever even thought of issueing a software patent to come nearer to it's code than 500 yards. As soon as Mickeysoft / RIAA or the likewise even twitches, sue them to chunky kibbles. Really, if you think about it, this DMCA bullshit - which as I understand, even has gotten US Judges and law experts thinking if that was such a good idea - it's a wonderfull hinge & crowbar for seriously harrasing any organisation (RIAA, etc.) that is a major pain in the butt for any honorable US citizen. I'd say it's time for you folks across the pond to use it to fight back. Maybe we europeans then won't have to go through the same hassle wilst our politicians are trying to pull the same braindead stunt. Mindlessly copying all US bullshit without even thinking twice. Instead of copying, for instance, US speedlimits or something else that would actually make sense.
Err, yeah, we'll how about that: A File gets a little bit corrupted and can't be used anymore. I have a little bit corrupted CD - it just won't boot anymore. And a corrupted kernel will panic on me. Would've you guessed? If this incident is a KO criteria for you, I'd suggest you reconsider your evaluation strategies. I'll bet my right arm that a corrupted ZopeDB File is easier to restore than a corrupted Outlook file. The other difference between them being that Outlook has a huge track record of being unstable in con to Zope. Anyway: 1st: Backup. 2nd: Don't blame a failure that could very easyly be a hardware issue on software without solid evidence. Be it with Zope of anything else. Exept those apps that have a track record of being unstable under professional use. Such as Access DB or something like that.
Please don't mod this down, I don't want to start a discussion, I'd just like to know.
...*and* aren't willing to read through some messy, redundant and unfinished third party code experiments...
I am *absolutely* positive that I wrote 'weedy' (as in 'weed') as the code isn't 'messy' but 'entangled'. 8-O Are there people editing comments for readability? I'm shure there's no 'bot substituting 'messy' for 'weedy'. Fact is, somebody or something edited my comment. That's fine, I'd just like to know who and how and if things like that happen here on/. Because I'm suprised and never knew. It's OK anyway. I like 'weedy' better, but I guess 'messy' is easier to understand.
Err, well, you've missed the mark a little. Here's my quick standard reply:
Zope is an open source Web Application Server, developed allmost exclusively in Python (some speed parts in C) with an integrated object relational database, aka ZopeDB and a web frontend with access to all interal components.
That pretty much summs it up for Zope.:-) Now for Plone:
Plone is a CMS and a content syndication system programmed for and with the Zope Appserver. These Zope Applications and 'addons' are very easy to develope and install on Zope (naturally, if you consider the description above) - think 'plugin' - and are called Zope 'products'.
So Plone it a 'tad' more than you're standard CMS, be it slashcode/e107/Nuke/whatever, since it can very easyly utilize the vast power of the underlying Zope and other products, like Webshops, syndication mechanisims or webcrawlers and data-mining bot's, just to mention a few. Zope actually severely blurrs the edge between database, application and frontend and leaves it completely to the developer where to draw the line between those components. Imagine an appserver where you can just drop of data for storage at whim without having to mess with DB abstraction layers, conectors and stuff, that comes with a full featured web interface where you can track and modify the inerts of your appserver either by custom coding (in whatever language you fancy that has conectors to Zope, Perl for instance) or by using the interface options and elements - which you can of course provide with your own extensions. That's what Zope and thus Zope/Plone is all about. That one can't exactly say what Plone is in standard terms actually shows the power of Zope. Basically it's whatever you make of it.
I've been dealing with Zope for quite some time now. What has been said here and in the interview about the weedy unfinished stuff and the (still) inconsistent documentation of Zope and it's Products ('Product' is a technical term in the Zope Appserver) is generally true. If you don't have a knack at OOP *and* aren't willing to read through some messy, redundant and unfinished third party code experiments you're gonna have some hard time getting going with it. Beyond that Zope is nothing less than the ultimate refrence for the way all server side stuff will be done in the future. Zope comes with a fully integrated object relational Database, runs with and on, what I call the fully GPLd equivalent to Java, Python and is an absolute breeze to develop with. Technology wise Zope makes BEA,.Net, SunONE and IBM WebSphere look like some IE plugin in beta stage. Shure it can be a serious slowpoke on standard PC's, but nevertheless have I and some people I work with bet on Zope. When Zope - 3.0 is going to take a big step - reaches maturity in terms of documentation and community standards for developing, computers will be fast enough to make Zope the tool of choice for any server side thing one can think of.
This is an extremely smart move on Oracles behalf, imho. One would think that moving to service orientation would be the way to go, with OSS critical mass just around the corner. But this proves that Oracle is thinking further, where OSes are only a commodity and clients networking capabilites count. By extending Mozilla with their stuff they're adding a feature to Oracle that others don't have (yet), despite the fact that Oracle DB probably has had these features for years. Clients for free, server service capable software for good ol' cash. This move will do two things for Oracle: It will establish their image as early adapters and full supporters of OSS *and* it will let them maintain their standard business model a little longer: selling bizarely priced DBs and other software stuff. Very smart indeed.
..to go into a codec discussion fit as I get from the posts here, so I'll add in an interessting tidbit: There are countless slashdotters here discussing WMV, Ogg, MP3, analog records, tape, magnetic wire and whatnot and which is superiour or not, I'm not gonna be the next fool to state that I have enough expertise in the field to give a judgement over audio quality. Only a few things: 1) The german CT - afaict on of the best computer magazines in the world - tested all formats a few years ago and - being a good IT magazine - they didn't have a winner but actually recomended Ogg amongst others. They also had a listening test marathon with sound engineers, editors and world class muscians attending. Sorry, but I actually trust the CT more than I trust any/.er. 2) I have exactly one (1!) CD in my collection where the manufacturers put additional audiotracks in a 'PC' codec onto it so one wouldn't have to go through the encoding hassle. And they used ogg. Why would they do that? Easy: Costs them exactly zilch to do it. And this is the reason I don't believe those who say Ogg is dead. It's like that Computer expert saying Linux will never be mainstream because there's no company behind it. As if that's the reason why people select other products. Free (beer, speech, etc.) and open will allways have the edge by being just that: free and open. Ogg won't go away anytime soon and could very well become standard once all non-computer based audio thingies leave the mainstream.
Would this edition be suitable for trying on Linux as my main desktop PC without comitting myself to partitioning and installing?
Yepp. Absolutely. If you're not a Linux guy and wan't to test Linux on the 'no-brainer' level of commercial distros without partitioning, I'd say this is your ticket to ride. For running wine or crossover office I recomend the current SuSE Pro distro plus the SuSE Wine rack (www.suse.com) - that's the easyiest setup you'll get for that.
PS courses won't help you any more than Gimp courses if your entrirely new to Pixelpic editing. Fetch a copy of "Grokking the Gimp" - a very good book that you can get at amazon or get for free as download. That's enough to get you started.
I know both and think PS 5.5 is 'easyiest' to use. Gimp bazillion windows that come with 1.2 and earlyier are a major downside and make the app allmost unusable without Fluxbox WM. 1.3 has tabbing and is quite good actually. I can say I get along with both. PS has really good features and filters that Gimp lacks but then again it costs something like 800 Euros (??) and GImp is free.
Rule of thumb: If you don't know if you need PS or if Gimp is enough, you probably don't need PS. What makes PS unique you won't learn in a course. Check out the web and some sites like www.deviantart.com.
Hypocrates said the universe is shaped like a pentacondodecaeder. Modern scientists believe that when you move out of one side of the universe you come in at the other and that the overall shape of this structure is more or less an endless set of mirrored pentacondodecaeders. People should check out the 'old' knowlege for interessting theories and insights, they are very much the same than those today. And might even offer deeper insights in where to look more closely. Rudolf Steiner (the founder of 'Anthroposohpy' - think "sophisticated semi-mystic goetheanisim"), for instance said, that physical laws change across distances in the physical universe, very much as gravity decreases when moving away from an object (planet) and other gravities 'take over'. Curiously enough, Steiner didn't have high end telescopes to _watch_ things at the edge of the universe moving faster than light - as we can do today. Neither did Hypocrates have the devices to measure the universe. Makes you think how far of from true insight modern materialistic sciences are...
Initial vapor ware hype from Mickeysoft that's supposed to keep people on edge waiting for M$ to come up with the latest and greatest of things to rule all others. What were your first thoughts about this? Personally I'm at the point were I counldn't care less. These M$-twitches into markets that are ruled by others for quite some time aren't gonna pull the trick anymore. M$ is about to lose it's de-facto software monopoly and there's nothing they can do about it. New hardware gadgets or not. Remember the tablet PC hype just a year ago? Yeah, right.
Say what you want, but these people have found a niche and deserve credit. Their CPUs are sufficient for most tasks and not seldom run three to four times as long as comparable CPUs with the same amount of power. They are the equivalent to the 'kaizend' motors in the late generation portable cassette players ('walkmen'), seriously optimized for a specific goal: to consume as much minimum power as possible. My friend has a Fujitsu Lifebook P with a 900 Mhz transmeta and it runs 16 hrs of the grid! And he even watches DVDs with it. Try that with a Pentium Mobile.
The cyberpunkization of global society is advancing into more and more areas of day-to-day life. It will either turn out to mega-capitalisim, where it then clearly shows that capitalisim is nothing but a disguised corporate socialisim, or it will slowly merge into a more shall I say 'spiritually aware' version of technocracy, where there is a general overall consensus about society structures of any sorts (think global currency, etc.). It's going to be quite very much like in the cyberpunk novels by Wiliam Gibson or Neal Stephenson, imho. Anyhow, a businessmodel that takes the future 'global village' (bad and wrong term, imho, but it the call is out...) and that which I call cyberpunization into account would have to focus on one thing primarily: Service orientation. It's that simple. In a technocratic world where you can get virtually anything in sufficent ammounts for ultra-competitive killer-prices, it's all about getting in touch with people and putting your own expertise in a certain field to work for others and making a buck from that. In fact, the business I'm trying to build right now (www.richdale.de) focuses on just exactly that. Trying to get a headstart into the OSS service business that is about to come on strong. With the information age just dawning - I seriously do believe we're still in the steam age of computing - I see no point in trying to make a buck by 'moving stuff' from A to B. Amazon, Ebay, DELL, IBM, Aldi, Walmart, etc. are much better at that than I and my friends can ever be. My 2 cents.
The Munchen (Munich) migration project sets of. Sideeffect: That SuSE guy I met last year asks me and my team to join and take care of some data migration and we make heavy loads of Euros as subcontractors to SuSE/Novell.:-)
All in all, Linux reaches critical mass in germany. More and more vendors and service providers start to recognize Linux as an OS. More and more PCs come without preinstalled Windows. Perhaps the first mass PCs come with Linux preinstalled.
Negative side effects: We see IT idiots and money-rakers hoping on the Linux bandwagon, trying to make a quick buck, tarnishing everyones image and spoiling the fun. The dickheads that should stay with M$ join Linux/OSS aswell.:-(
Cut the sugar first. Your symptoms indicate that your also addicted to sugar. (Especially that 'pain in the ass' part - know that myself) From what I understand you get you fix by drinking 'saturated sugar solutions' (Mountain Dew (eeeugh!) etc.) with added caffeine. I'd suggest you deal with that sugar first. When you can go for a week without sugar, caffein will be the easy part, I'd guess.
And don't drink the crappy coffee. Buy the fair trade stuff that passes the extra money straight to the bean farmers in south america. Three pluses: You get better coffee (the quality differences are substancial), the coffee farmers don't have to live in de-facto slavery and you pay a little more for your fix, so you'll probably cut down on it in the long run anyway.
Curiously enough, the imho most precise, educated and arrogant-bullshit-free predictions come from a woman. On second thought, maybe not that curious at all.
This has nothing to do with XFree developement. In fact the non-relation between XFree 'core team' and Xfree development was the actual reason to dispand.
I actually thought I was being funny and expected to be moderated that way. But moderating me and especially that post 'Insightful' takes the cake. I give up. And thus hereby offically anounce: Credit for the biggest 'Funny' goes to Mr. '+1 Insightfull' modder.:-)
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Unreal Tournament 2003 ships with the Maya Personal Learning Edition (high end 2D package, used by ILM f.e.) and the Unreal Editor which is a high end industry strength IDE for gaming enviroments.
Not that UT runs on Linux and Windows alike, the editors though only on Windows.
If you want to get into FPS level editing this is absolutely the first choice.
Note that there are other games and other genres using the same engine.
BTW, your English is also better than most people's *English*.
:-)
Hey, thanks.
As a former american citizen I would hope so.
Yet, sometimes when I'm tired I write rubbish and some flamers come down on me like a pile of bricks on spelling and grammar.
Ofter when I post something controverse.
It's so breathtaking just to watch it every time. ...or something) and acting so the ham that anyone not an expert on big software players way of bullshitting the customer just _must_ have the impression that M$ solutions are so much on top of things. It's really astounding just to watch this unfold.
Once a new market opens up, M$ is right there with some whitepaper some guy in the company came up with wile taking a dump. Something like 36 hours later you have an army of marketeers all over it, designing Logos and Brandnames ('Axapta' - expect to axept it!
Ah, well, in five years from now, when - as usual - billions of customers have been ripped and - as usual - the first OSS developers get really pissed with the crap they have to fuss with on their dayjobs, we're gonna see the first OSS ERP RFID integrations popping up here and there. It's just like with classic ERP slowly being crept into by compiere and the very promising GNU Enterprise project - there is no way you can beat it in the end.
Anyway, the smartass attitude that MS displays allthough they don't have any more clue than the rest is just amazing.
Imagine on of these or something of simular size with a 60 GB HDD, 2 Gig RAM, 300 Mhz Sysclock, 1280 resolution and OpenGL 2 hardware 3D acceleration with 128 RAM of texturespace.
:-)
UT2k3 or T2 on the bus. When you get bored you fire up blender and start building some new mods. Cool.
Or something like this:
"X is doing a LAN Party. I think I'll drop by and play a match or two."
"You have to go home and get your box."
"No, I got it right here in my jacketpocket"
I know this is being run as a 'classical' US copyright thing, but it emphasises my point in that U.S DMCA joke - as a prime example of legislative high-end bullshit - being a perfect tool for severe - as we germans call it - creative nonsense.
Basically you can sue everybody and everything for using anything that you're involved in. Think of the copyrighted Haiku for spam filtering or now this. Which, mind you, actually by law IS a case, imho.
Build a network for OSS projects, with a own protocol, copyright the stuff and add a modified GPL that forbids anyone who ever even thought of issueing a software patent to come nearer to it's code than 500 yards. As soon as Mickeysoft / RIAA or the likewise even twitches, sue them to chunky kibbles.
Really, if you think about it, this DMCA bullshit - which as I understand, even has gotten US Judges and law experts thinking if that was such a good idea - it's a wonderfull hinge & crowbar for seriously harrasing any organisation (RIAA, etc.) that is a major pain in the butt for any honorable US citizen.
I'd say it's time for you folks across the pond to use it to fight back. Maybe we europeans then won't have to go through the same hassle wilst our politicians are trying to pull the same braindead stunt. Mindlessly copying all US bullshit without even thinking twice. Instead of copying, for instance, US speedlimits or something else that would actually make sense.
Any /. geeks with basic poetry 'programming' skills here? I have a question:
:
How exactly does the haiku verse form go?
Like this?:
^_ ^_ _
_ _ _^^_ _
_ ^^_ ^_
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Additional info
Here the copyrighted Haiku - I believe the (tm) is part of it.
Winter into spring
brightly anticipated
like Habeas SWE (tm)
Err, yeah, we'll how about that: A File gets a little bit corrupted and can't be used anymore. I have a little bit corrupted CD - it just won't boot anymore. And a corrupted kernel will panic on me. Would've you guessed?
If this incident is a KO criteria for you, I'd suggest you reconsider your evaluation strategies.
I'll bet my right arm that a corrupted ZopeDB File is easier to restore than a corrupted Outlook file. The other difference between them being that Outlook has a huge track record of being unstable in con to Zope.
Anyway:
1st: Backup.
2nd: Don't blame a failure that could very easyly be a hardware issue on software without solid evidence. Be it with Zope of anything else. Exept those apps that have a track record of being unstable under professional use. Such as Access DB or something like that.
Please don't mod this down, I don't want to start a discussion, I'd just like to know.
...*and* aren't willing to read through some messy, redundant and unfinished third party code experiments...
/. Because I'm suprised and never knew.
I am *absolutely* positive that I wrote 'weedy' (as in 'weed') as the code isn't 'messy' but 'entangled'. 8-O
Are there people editing comments for readability? I'm shure there's no 'bot substituting 'messy' for 'weedy'.
Fact is, somebody or something edited my comment. That's fine, I'd just like to know who and how and if things like that happen here on
It's OK anyway. I like 'weedy' better, but I guess 'messy' is easier to understand.
Err, well, you've missed the mark a little.
:-)
Here's my quick standard reply:
Zope is an open source Web Application Server, developed allmost exclusively in Python (some speed parts in C) with an integrated object relational database, aka ZopeDB and a web frontend with access to all interal components.
That pretty much summs it up for Zope.
Now for Plone:
Plone is a CMS and a content syndication system programmed for and with the Zope Appserver. These Zope Applications and 'addons' are very easy to develope and install on Zope (naturally, if you consider the description above) - think 'plugin' - and are called Zope 'products'.
So Plone it a 'tad' more than you're standard CMS, be it slashcode/e107/Nuke/whatever, since it can very easyly utilize the vast power of the underlying Zope and other products, like Webshops, syndication mechanisims or webcrawlers and data-mining bot's, just to mention a few. Zope actually severely blurrs the edge between database, application and frontend and leaves it completely to the developer where to draw the line between those components.
Imagine an appserver where you can just drop of data for storage at whim without having to mess with DB abstraction layers, conectors and stuff, that comes with a full featured web interface where you can track and modify the inerts of your appserver either by custom coding (in whatever language you fancy that has conectors to Zope, Perl for instance) or by using the interface options and elements - which you can of course provide with your own extensions.
That's what Zope and thus Zope/Plone is all about.
That one can't exactly say what Plone is in standard terms actually shows the power of Zope. Basically it's whatever you make of it.
I've been dealing with Zope for quite some time now. What has been said here and in the interview about the weedy unfinished stuff and the (still) inconsistent documentation of Zope and it's Products ('Product' is a technical term in the Zope Appserver) is generally true. .Net, SunONE and IBM WebSphere look like some IE plugin in beta stage. Shure it can be a serious slowpoke on standard PC's, but nevertheless have I and some people I work with bet on Zope. When Zope - 3.0 is going to take a big step - reaches maturity in terms of documentation and community standards for developing, computers will be fast enough to make Zope the tool of choice for any server side thing one can think of.
If you don't have a knack at OOP *and* aren't willing to read through some messy, redundant and unfinished third party code experiments you're gonna have some hard time getting going with it.
Beyond that Zope is nothing less than the ultimate refrence for the way all server side stuff will be done in the future. Zope comes with a fully integrated object relational Database, runs with and on, what I call the fully GPLd equivalent to Java, Python and is an absolute breeze to develop with.
Technology wise Zope makes BEA,
This is an extremely smart move on Oracles behalf, imho.
One would think that moving to service orientation would be the way to go, with OSS critical mass just around the corner.
But this proves that Oracle is thinking further, where OSes are only a commodity and clients networking capabilites count.
By extending Mozilla with their stuff they're adding a feature to Oracle that others don't have (yet), despite the fact that Oracle DB probably has had these features for years. Clients for free, server service capable software for good ol' cash. This move will do two things for Oracle: It will establish their image as early adapters and full supporters of OSS *and* it will let them maintain their standard business model a little longer: selling bizarely priced DBs and other software stuff.
Very smart indeed.
..to go into a codec discussion fit as I get from the posts here, so I'll add in an interessting tidbit: /.er.
There are countless slashdotters here discussing WMV, Ogg, MP3, analog records, tape, magnetic wire and whatnot and which is superiour or not, I'm not gonna be the next fool to state that I have enough expertise in the field to give a judgement over audio quality. Only a few things:
1) The german CT - afaict on of the best computer magazines in the world - tested all formats a few years ago and - being a good IT magazine - they didn't have a winner but actually recomended Ogg amongst others. They also had a listening test marathon with sound engineers, editors and world class muscians attending. Sorry, but I actually trust the CT more than I trust any
2) I have exactly one (1!) CD in my collection where the manufacturers put additional audiotracks in a 'PC' codec onto it so one wouldn't have to go through the encoding hassle. And they used ogg.
Why would they do that? Easy: Costs them exactly zilch to do it. And this is the reason I don't believe those who say Ogg is dead. It's like that Computer expert saying Linux will never be mainstream because there's no company behind it. As if that's the reason why people select other products.
Free (beer, speech, etc.) and open will allways have the edge by being just that: free and open. Ogg won't go away anytime soon and could very well become standard once all non-computer based audio thingies leave the mainstream.
Would this edition be suitable for trying on Linux as my main desktop PC without comitting myself to partitioning and installing?
Yepp. Absolutely. If you're not a Linux guy and wan't to test Linux on the 'no-brainer' level of commercial distros without partitioning, I'd say this is your ticket to ride.
For running wine or crossover office I recomend the current SuSE Pro distro plus the SuSE Wine rack (www.suse.com) - that's the easyiest setup you'll get for that.
PS courses won't help you any more than Gimp courses if your entrirely new to Pixelpic editing.
Fetch a copy of "Grokking the Gimp" - a very good book that you can get at amazon or get for free as download. That's enough to get you started.
I know both and think PS 5.5 is 'easyiest' to use. Gimp bazillion windows that come with 1.2 and earlyier are a major downside and make the app allmost unusable without Fluxbox WM.
1.3 has tabbing and is quite good actually. I can say I get along with both. PS has really good features and filters that Gimp lacks but then again it costs something like 800 Euros (??) and GImp is free.
Rule of thumb: If you don't know if you need PS or if Gimp is enough, you probably don't need PS.
What makes PS unique you won't learn in a course. Check out the web and some sites like www.deviantart.com.
Hypocrates said the universe is shaped like a pentacondodecaeder.
Modern scientists believe that when you move out of one side of the universe you come in at the other and that the overall shape of this structure is more or less an endless set of mirrored pentacondodecaeders.
People should check out the 'old' knowlege for interessting theories and insights, they are very much the same than those today. And might even offer deeper insights in where to look more closely. Rudolf Steiner (the founder of 'Anthroposohpy' - think "sophisticated semi-mystic goetheanisim"), for instance said, that physical laws change across distances in the physical universe, very much as gravity decreases when moving away from an object (planet) and other gravities 'take over'. Curiously enough, Steiner didn't have high end telescopes to _watch_ things at the edge of the universe moving faster than light - as we can do today. Neither did Hypocrates have the devices to measure the universe.
Makes you think how far of from true insight modern materialistic sciences are...
Initial vapor ware hype from Mickeysoft that's supposed to keep people on edge waiting for M$ to come up with the latest and greatest of things to rule all others.
What were your first thoughts about this?
Personally I'm at the point were I counldn't care less. These M$-twitches into markets that are ruled by others for quite some time aren't gonna pull the trick anymore. M$ is about to lose it's de-facto software monopoly and there's nothing they can do about it. New hardware gadgets or not. Remember the tablet PC hype just a year ago? Yeah, right.
Say what you want, but these people have found a niche and deserve credit.
Their CPUs are sufficient for most tasks and not seldom run three to four times as long as comparable CPUs with the same amount of power. They are the equivalent to the 'kaizend' motors in the late generation portable cassette players ('walkmen'), seriously optimized for a specific goal: to consume as much minimum power as possible.
My friend has a Fujitsu Lifebook P with a 900 Mhz transmeta and it runs 16 hrs of the grid! And he even watches DVDs with it. Try that with a Pentium Mobile.
The cyberpunkization of global society is advancing into more and more areas of day-to-day life.
It will either turn out to mega-capitalisim, where it then clearly shows that capitalisim is nothing but a disguised corporate socialisim, or it will slowly merge into a more shall I say 'spiritually aware' version of technocracy, where there is a general overall consensus about society structures of any sorts (think global currency, etc.). It's going to be quite very much like in the cyberpunk novels by Wiliam Gibson or Neal Stephenson, imho.
Anyhow, a businessmodel that takes the future 'global village' (bad and wrong term, imho, but it the call is out...) and that which I call cyberpunization into account would have to focus on one thing primarily: Service orientation.
It's that simple. In a technocratic world where you can get virtually anything in sufficent ammounts for ultra-competitive killer-prices, it's all about getting in touch with people and putting your own expertise in a certain field to work for others and making a buck from that. In fact, the business I'm trying to build right now (www.richdale.de) focuses on just exactly that. Trying to get a headstart into the OSS service business that is about to come on strong.
With the information age just dawning - I seriously do believe we're still in the steam age of computing - I see no point in trying to make a buck by 'moving stuff' from A to B. Amazon, Ebay, DELL, IBM, Aldi, Walmart, etc. are much better at that than I and my friends can ever be.
My 2 cents.
The Munchen (Munich) migration project sets of. :-)
:-(
Sideeffect: That SuSE guy I met last year asks me and my team to join and take care of some data migration and we make heavy loads of Euros as subcontractors to SuSE/Novell.
All in all, Linux reaches critical mass in germany. More and more vendors and service providers start to recognize Linux as an OS. More and more PCs come without preinstalled Windows. Perhaps the first mass PCs come with Linux preinstalled.
Negative side effects: We see IT idiots and money-rakers hoping on the Linux bandwagon, trying to make a quick buck, tarnishing everyones image and spoiling the fun. The dickheads that should stay with M$ join Linux/OSS aswell.
Cut the sugar first.
Your symptoms indicate that your also addicted to sugar. (Especially that 'pain in the ass' part - know that myself)
From what I understand you get you fix by drinking 'saturated sugar solutions' (Mountain Dew (eeeugh!) etc.) with added caffeine.
I'd suggest you deal with that sugar first. When you can go for a week without sugar, caffein will be the easy part, I'd guess.
And don't drink the crappy coffee. Buy the fair trade stuff that passes the extra money straight to the bean farmers in south america. Three pluses: You get better coffee (the quality differences are substancial), the coffee farmers don't have to live in de-facto slavery and you pay a little more for your fix, so you'll probably cut down on it in the long run anyway.
Curiously enough, the imho most precise, educated and arrogant-bullshit-free predictions come from a woman.
On second thought, maybe not that curious at all.
This has nothing to do with XFree developement. In fact the non-relation between XFree 'core team' and Xfree development was the actual reason to dispand.
I actually thought I was being funny and expected to be moderated that way. :-)
But moderating me and especially that post 'Insightful' takes the cake. I give up.
And thus hereby offically anounce: Credit for the biggest 'Funny' goes to Mr. '+1 Insightfull' modder.
Gee, that's a cool thing.
Only one question: Just who would want to install a dead OS?
BTW, I only provided these corrections because you requested them. IMHO, your English is good and understandable. I'm just trying to help :)
Hey, that's nice.
Well, thank you then!