... it's about the problem and the solution you want or need. For instance: Just now I'm working on a software agent that automates information retrieval and update via the web. It's a long row of subsequent tasks that have do be followed by the book in a very procedural manner. Meaning I would call the resulting Software a 'script' more than an actuall 'programm'. Now if some time later we move on to build a more general information agent 'engine' I'll do it in 'serious' OOP, separating the regex-runner, scancycler and whatnot in different classes. Easy done with the very same language as I'm using Python (yep, here Perl goes byebye...). Until then I just need a working system and anything more than JIT compiled Python in scriptstyle - as opposed to precompiled/frozen post-Python binary - would be a hideous bloat. Same if I would be using Java for just that. Bottom Line: To me anyone who, for whatever reasons, draws a line between 'scripters' and 'programmers' is a silly goof that really doesn't know what he's talking about. Oh, and btw.: OOP is also about working with a team. The extra OOP bloat is easyly outrun by the teamworks productivity gain. If the programm is overseable and done by one alone it could look very much more like a script and be just as good.
That's utter Bull. Pure and simple. Often I'm astonished at what rubbish a supposed geek site like/. posts on stuff that should lie within it's 'area of expertise'. Aside from the fact that this piece is offered by somebody infamous for pushing the envelope in crappy hardware, I seriously doubt that it beats all-time, all-star leading edge GFX hardware like, for instance, the FireGL 4 or the newest Wildcat. Gawd, I hate these n00by statements...
The Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook P is your ticket to ride. Small, laden with extra hardware (wlan f. example) and linux runs smooth. A friend of mine has debian woody up and running and even watches movies with it (cinema display too!!!) It has a transmeta and runs 16 hrs. (!!) in real life with the powerakku stuck in (which is better for typing too). You'll have to swallow your pride and purchase an oem winxp license with it's hdd though. But you can join the refund community and kick some ass too.:-) There's a solid Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook P fan community on the net and a subtacial amount of linux users among them. Have them tell you the best config and the newest model. And prepare to shed somehting like 2 grand for the extras (akkucells) and the best darn notebook on the planet.
I dunno, but RA looked kinda outdated to me, as allways the other RTS beyond C&C2 where. And now they come up with an RTS which looks uglier than Dark Reign 2 (~2 years old) and seems to render the pedestrians(infantry) as bitmaps(!!), and in bad animation quality too - as someone posted further down. And then there's that view-edge marker in the radar that looks so very much like the one from Myth/Myth2 that you can't deny it. It seems to me very much like a crappy redo of an once mediocre to ok series, as to milk the last $$$ out of the concept. No? As far as 'classic' 3D 2 opponent RTS goes, Dark Reign 2 still rulez, imho. Just played it again recently and it rocked as ever. Cool units, maps, top notch gfx and gameplay and solid multiplayer. And, let's not forget, Uncle Samedi kicks serious shit.:-)
The most important thing about an extra-priced all in one PC that looks cool is wether or not it is usable. What's with the keyboard? Sleek lookin'but what's with ergonomy? It folds nicely but can I type on it? The people at desingtechnica do know how to type, no? What's with the cinema screen? Is the whole thing nosy? That's a big bulk on the backside. Are there heatvents that have to be kept free? How much space does it actually use? It doesn't look like it fits into a corner easyly.Does it catch dust where I can't clean it properly? (That's important for a comp like *this*!)...And on and on and on.... All they're going into is Processing power. I do *not* by a box like this if im into the power game or if I want to run Unreal 2 in 1280 res. with all those grafics sliders pushed to the far right. In fact, *if* I buy a box like this I don't give a single shit 'bout those extra 5% of numbercrunching! I buy a box like this because it looks freakin' cool *and* is useable and doesn't waste space. Expecially people at a site that's called 'designtechnica' ought to know that! Bottom line: The prime example of a real crappy review. Not even worth the bit that came across from their server! I want my 10 minutes back...
Someone has asked if anyone in Europe has expierenced something like this. Employee rights in germany are (still) *very* advanced. It's even legally permited for women to lie about pregnacy when interviewed, to prevent discrimination. Mothers enjoy "Mutterschutz", where roughly the latter half of pregnacy and something like a year (??) after birth they need not come to work but also may not be layed off. Anything like this crap in germany would give a company a half a years worth of negative press the least. Allthough there is a special authourity that's allowed to pass on information about wether your in delayed dept or not. But *only* that information and it's only credit institutes that are allowed that inquirery.
"...this is just further proof of the lenghts corporations will go to in order to make more money. Theft, lies, deceit, are all perfectly acceptable business practices these days, especially in east Asia."
Yeah. Me too. Especially the east of Aisa. All under control by North Korea. And they've got weapons of mass destruction, too! I'm really glad we live in the States with such honorable and upright Companys like Microsoft and Exxon.
Obviously you're not a gamer. Response time for input devices is Teh s|_|XX0Rz via USB! Legacy may freak out and go haywire with ATX superdooper-powerwhatnotmanagement every odd week - it does with me, I allways have to turn off the comp, unplug the Keyboard plugin again and restart - but response time rulez. No fragging way can you get multiple keypress and mousemovement responses at the same time in that speed via USB. No, legacy is gonna be around for a loooong time until they come up with an alternative zero-delay "input bridge" of some sorts in the chipsets. Or some extra freakin fast active firewire Keyboard and Mouse combo or so.
Lots and lots of experimental custom and small series stuff, hideosly overrated, usefull in special enviroments and setups for specialized tasks with the topnotch experts at hand, yet totally useless and error prone in everyday life. Imagine a normal 'user' with one of those mechanical 'election counters' in 1900. A pointless mix. To me this robot thing nowadays seems just the same. Imho it will be another century until so called autonomous Robots will be standard fare and be able to do actuall usefull things like, let's say, the R2/D2 kind.
I'm not going to get it. And you shouldn't either.
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The Long-Awaited MOO!
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Master of Orion 3 is available for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP PCs.
Isn't Windows that MS OS? And isn't MS the company that does really bad and illegal stuff, undermining yours and my rights, bribing it's way around every law that apears in sight?
And so somebody get's the idea to release a "develop-strategy" game that for once does not require the latest in hardware accessing driver technology and it only runs on MS Windows[fill-in-random-iteration-here]?
You're mixing SF with Fantasy, but anyway, here's my list of printed asskickers:
SF / Cyberpunk / Post - Cyberpunk
Wiliam Gibson's Neuromancer Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, The Diamond Age)
Have you tried Philip K Dick? Not new, but still "the man"! Same goes for John Brunner...:-)
Fantasy Tolkien (of course) Guy Gavriel Kay (The Fionavar Tapestry; Tigana, A Song for Arbonne) My current Favorite: Raymond E. Feist (Magician (Riftwar 1), Silerthorn (Riftwar 2), Darkness at Sethanon (Riftwar 3), Prince of the Blood (Riftwar 4), The Kings Bukaneer, Daughter of the Empire (Daughter otE 1), Servant of the Empire (Daughter otE 2), Mistress of Empire (Daughter otE 3), Shadow of a Dark Queen. (Serpentwar Saga 1), Rise of a Merchant Prince (Serpentwar Saga 2), Rage of a Demon King (Serpentwar Saga 3), Shards of a Broken Crown (Serpentwar Saga 4), 1 Krondor - the Betrayal (Riftwar Legacy 1), 2 Krondor - the Assasins (Riftwar Legacy 2), 3 Krondor - Tear of the Gods (Riftwar Legacy 3), Honored Enemy (Legends of the Riftwar 1), Fairy Tale)
People, like friends of mine, seem to think that playing an FPS like UT2k3 eats up something like 16 hrs. a day, as opposed to the litte minesweeper inbetween. And only is something for superl33+ freaks. Wrong. When I feel like having a little break I fire it up and play 2 - 3 matches at most, all usually no longer than 15 minutes each. Actually playing an FPS like UT2k3 in CTF (capture the flag) mode can been either very difficult or boring, depending on the people you've got on the server. The only essential difference in 'gaming-nature' I see to a game like B-a-M or Tetris is the fact that it only is interresting as a goal-orientated multiplayer and that it has more controls than a n00b can grasp imediately. There is point though that games like ut2k3 in popular modes like CTF can be very frustrating when trying to reach a skilllevel that is able to compete with expierienced players. Coming in a public server as completely new to the game seems somewhat pointless if no one gives you some help and advice along the way. Sort of like competing with Kasparov in Speed-Chess. That's probably the most outstanding feature that keeps the occasional-gamer away from choosing FPS as their past-time. The need to compete not with brick-dropping algorythyms but with real people that can plot and plan ahead and are far more challenging (& fun) than any AI could ever be. But also has a higher 'entry' threshhold.
I am a serious gamer and have been since DOS 5/Win3.1. Believe me setting up a Mystique 1 with Voodoo Grafics or trying to get DX[fill in random iteration here] makes *me* cringe. Setting up GL on Linux is a piece of cake compared to that. And it's predictable. It will allways work the same way.
Some people have posted on blowing things up with various mixtures. A Doctor (Demratologist) I once volunteered for had a large 1000mm whitelight laserscalpel in one of his operating rooms. You could shoot paper on fire or slice it into pieces from across the room. That was cool.
Im 32 years old and moved 24 times in my life, most of it as a child and teenager. I attended 5 different schools and lived in the states, germany, scotland and germany again. Along the way, as you can imagine, I grew somewhat emotionally independet of the judgement by academic authorities over me that at points I often came to disbelief at how so many people, especially in my homecountry germany, can take the system for granted. Only gradually are things changing to a more unconventional way of dealing with this. That's one of the rare things that are actually *good* to be copied from the US. Everything that article says is so very true. And there is still one thing I might want to add: The reason for going to a University should be that you want to learn, not that you want a degree. If you can't gain that amount of self esteem (spelling???) without a degree it's almost shure a degree isn't the right thing for you. That probably is more so when studying an art. If I where young again (gee I'm 32 now...:-) ) I'd be even more reckless. I'd pick the masters I've allways considered the best of trade, let's say for instance Frank Miller the comic artist, back a backpack travel to him, knock on his door and ask him to let me help him with anything I can offer for free and therefore let me look over his shoulder while he's drawing. For now I don't give a shit what papers or titles people have. They hardly mean zilch apart from showing their ability to walk the treadmill. What counts is what ones self is willing to do and what ones self considers a great achievement or a poor performance. It's difficult, requires honesty but in the long run get's you farther. I bet that's the common demoninator all the people we call 'originals' have.
- "sript kiddie" refers to someone with little or no maturity that uses an automated exploit scan program that makes hacks a matter of happenstance if anything else.
Wrong. 'Script Kiddie' refers to someone exceptionally more skillfull at programming, hacking, cracking and everything else that goes beyond VB DB Frontends than the average slashdotter, but also happens to be younger and is thus referred to as 'Script Kiddie' (disaproving frown) to cloak the fact that they are actually intelligent enough to have their computer do stuff they want it to do and that said average slashdotter doesn't know zilch about. While at the same time they're out in the club closing in on some cute girls.
M$ allways gets the message when their cornered. Same as back then with IE, to name a prominent example. That's because they've actually got a personality as CEO. Yes, say what you will, but Billyboy and Steve'O. they're personalities - have to give them that. They will finally put an effort to making their inhouse OS transparent for scripting, automation and chain processing and other usefull stuff like that. But I'm certain this time they're to late. A year and a half ago they could have bought RedHat and published a Linux distro and nobody would have even guessed that Linux isn't an M$ projekt and is available for free. But M$ chose to bitch about licenses and get people aware that there is something besides M$. They could have done this new OO shell and OS aproach thing, called that.Net and would have actually had something usefull to brag about. But now I don't think that M$ can pull the wagon around anymore. OSS alternatives to Mickeysoft are here and here to stay. And they will never go broke.
...are under the severe threat of starvation for the next harvest season within the next year in afrika. Those poor bastards are in what I would refer to as "deep shit". Us here debating on Inet are what I actually would refer to as "Pansies". And now I'm gonna have an XMas cookie to my lucky ass that just got laid off and still is alive.
It's as if you became a doctor and 2 years later no one had a liver anymore. They all upgraded to a new organ, about which you know nothing. All the learning about the liver you did and the exams you passed on it mean nothing.
That's the exact reason I ditched MS Windows for good! I'm learning all about Linux/OSS from here on down since a year ago and I'll never go back. I won't take a Job where people won't listen to me when I talk about the OSS alternative solution to their problem is.
Figure this: I will never ever again have to learn another OS. Why should I waste my time and energy learning something about a patient that changes his liver and entire guts every odd year? He out to be ruled out by evolution very soon anyway. And that's the truth!
Xmas as we know it probably won't even exist!
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Christmas in 2050
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This futuroligist is nothing but yet another paid professional bullshitter. Given the way Xmas has evolved throughout christianities history and the way it's changing just now, Xmas most certainly won't be celebrated the way we do it today. It could also very well be that the larger part of animals with a spinal column have died out due to strange diseases and/or enviromental causes and that most people won't even consider eating meat anymore. Adding stuff about mindreaders and other crap doesn't make this statement any more interessting. How do these people make a living, I wonder?
1.) Drag and Drop and consistent fonts and clipboard aside, OSS Desktops are better, no need to copy a crappy one.
2.) In case you haven't noticed: noticable parts of the XP GUI elements are inspired by KDE! The Controlcenter for instance. And: XP is ugly and visually impractical (since I'm a designer myself I'd say my judgement counts)
3.)One the pure visual side Linux desktops rule! E is the reason so many designers and visually orientated people see great potential in Linux. Cloning XP will get the majority to think it's finally reached parity with Windows, why it actually has surpased it long ago. This will cast a bad light onto the OSS community, making the OSS artists look like a bunch of spineless goofs that have no own ideas. Which simply isn't true (fluxbox.sourceforge.net, enlightenment.org)
4.) Emulating a bad workspace management is a bad idea in general, especially when people think it's industry standard and desperatly need to be shown otherwise.
5.) This will strengthen M$ FUD about the OSS community being nothing but a bunch of sad and sorry rippers.
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You're sooo cool! May I be your friend?
... it's about the problem and the solution you want or need.
For instance:
Just now I'm working on a software agent that automates information retrieval and update via the web. It's a long row of subsequent tasks that have do be followed by the book in a very procedural manner. Meaning I would call the resulting Software a 'script' more than an actuall 'programm'.
Now if some time later we move on to build a more general information agent 'engine' I'll do it in 'serious' OOP, separating the regex-runner, scancycler and whatnot in different classes. Easy done with the very same language as I'm using Python (yep, here Perl goes byebye...).
Until then I just need a working system and anything more than JIT compiled Python in scriptstyle - as opposed to precompiled/frozen post-Python binary - would be a hideous bloat. Same if I would be using Java for just that.
Bottom Line:
To me anyone who, for whatever reasons, draws a line between 'scripters' and 'programmers' is a silly goof that really doesn't know what he's talking about.
Oh, and btw.: OOP is also about working with a team. The extra OOP bloat is easyly outrun by the teamworks productivity gain. If the programm is overseable and done by one alone it could look very much more like a script and be just as good.
That's utter Bull. Pure and simple. Often I'm astonished at what rubbish a supposed geek site like /. posts on stuff that should lie within it's 'area of expertise'.
Aside from the fact that this piece is offered by somebody infamous for pushing the envelope in crappy hardware, I seriously doubt that it beats all-time, all-star leading edge GFX hardware like, for instance, the FireGL 4 or the newest Wildcat.
Gawd, I hate these n00by statements...
The Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook P is your ticket to ride. Small, laden with extra hardware (wlan f. example) and linux runs smooth. A friend of mine has debian woody up and running and even watches movies with it (cinema display too!!!) :-)
It has a transmeta and runs 16 hrs. (!!) in real life with the powerakku stuck in (which is better for typing too).
You'll have to swallow your pride and purchase an oem winxp license with it's hdd though.
But you can join the refund community and kick some ass too.
There's a solid Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook P fan community on the net and a subtacial amount of linux users among them. Have them tell you the best config and the newest model.
And prepare to shed somehting like 2 grand for the extras (akkucells) and the best darn notebook on the planet.
I dunno, but RA looked kinda outdated to me, as allways the other RTS beyond C&C2 where. And now they come up with an RTS which looks uglier than Dark Reign 2 (~2 years old) and seems to render the pedestrians(infantry) as bitmaps(!!), and in bad animation quality too - as someone posted further down. :-)
And then there's that view-edge marker in the radar that looks so very much like the one from Myth/Myth2 that you can't deny it.
It seems to me very much like a crappy redo of an once mediocre to ok series, as to milk the last $$$ out of the concept. No?
As far as 'classic' 3D 2 opponent RTS goes, Dark Reign 2 still rulez, imho. Just played it again recently and it rocked as ever. Cool units, maps, top notch gfx and gameplay and solid multiplayer. And, let's not forget, Uncle Samedi kicks serious shit.
The most important thing about an extra-priced all in one PC that looks cool is wether or not it is usable. What's with the keyboard? Sleek lookin'but what's with ergonomy? It folds nicely but can I type on it? The people at desingtechnica do know how to type, no? What's with the cinema screen? Is the whole thing nosy? That's a big bulk on the backside. Are there heatvents that have to be kept free? How much space does it actually use? It doesn't look like it fits into a corner easyly.Does it catch dust where I can't clean it properly? (That's important for a comp like *this*!)...And on and on and on....
All they're going into is Processing power. I do *not* by a box like this if im into the power game or if I want to run Unreal 2 in 1280 res. with all those grafics sliders pushed to the far right. In fact, *if* I buy a box like this I don't give a single shit 'bout those extra 5% of numbercrunching! I buy a box like this because it looks freakin' cool *and* is useable and doesn't waste space. Expecially people at a site that's called 'designtechnica' ought to know that !
Bottom line:
The prime example of a real crappy review. Not even worth the bit that came across from their server! I want my 10 minutes back...
Someone has asked if anyone in Europe has expierenced something like this.
Employee rights in germany are (still) *very* advanced. It's even legally permited for women to lie about pregnacy when interviewed, to prevent discrimination. Mothers enjoy "Mutterschutz", where roughly the latter half of pregnacy and something like a year (??) after birth they need not come to work but also may not be layed off.
Anything like this crap in germany would give a company a half a years worth of negative press the least. Allthough there is a special authourity that's allowed to pass on information about wether your in delayed dept or not. But *only* that information and it's only credit institutes that are allowed that inquirery.
"...this is just further proof of the lenghts corporations will go to in order to make more money. Theft, lies, deceit, are all perfectly acceptable business practices these days, especially in east Asia."
Yeah. Me too. Especially the east of Aisa. All under control by North Korea. And they've got weapons of mass destruction, too!
I'm really glad we live in the States with such honorable and upright Companys like Microsoft and Exxon.
Obviously you're not a gamer.
Response time for input devices is Teh s|_|XX0Rz via USB!
Legacy may freak out and go haywire with ATX superdooper-powerwhatnotmanagement every odd week - it does with me, I allways have to turn off the comp, unplug the Keyboard plugin again and restart - but response time rulez.
No fragging way can you get multiple keypress and mousemovement responses at the same time in that speed via USB.
No, legacy is gonna be around for a loooong time until they come up with an alternative zero-delay "input bridge" of some sorts in the chipsets. Or some extra freakin fast active firewire Keyboard and Mouse combo or so.
Lots and lots of experimental custom and small series stuff, hideosly overrated, usefull in special enviroments and setups for specialized tasks with the topnotch experts at hand, yet totally useless and error prone in everyday life.
Imagine a normal 'user' with one of those mechanical 'election counters' in 1900. A pointless mix.
To me this robot thing nowadays seems just the same. Imho it will be another century until so called autonomous Robots will be standard fare and be able to do actuall usefull things like, let's say, the R2/D2 kind.
Master of Orion 3 is available for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP PCs.
Isn't Windows that MS OS? And isn't MS the company that does really bad and illegal stuff, undermining yours and my rights, bribing it's way around every law that apears in sight?
And so somebody get's the idea to release a "develop-strategy" game that for once does not require the latest in hardware accessing driver technology and it only runs on MS Windows[fill-in-random-iteration-here]?
Byebye.
You're mixing SF with Fantasy, but anyway, here's my list of printed asskickers:
:-)
SF / Cyberpunk / Post - Cyberpunk
Wiliam Gibson's Neuromancer Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive)
Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, The Diamond Age)
Have you tried Philip K Dick? Not new, but still "the man"! Same goes for John Brunner...
Fantasy
Tolkien (of course)
Guy Gavriel Kay (The Fionavar Tapestry; Tigana, A Song for Arbonne)
My current Favorite:
Raymond E. Feist (Magician (Riftwar 1), Silerthorn (Riftwar 2), Darkness at Sethanon (Riftwar 3), Prince of the Blood (Riftwar 4), The Kings Bukaneer, Daughter of the Empire (Daughter otE 1), Servant of the Empire (Daughter otE 2), Mistress of Empire (Daughter otE 3), Shadow of a Dark Queen. (Serpentwar Saga 1), Rise of a Merchant Prince (Serpentwar Saga 2), Rage of a Demon King (Serpentwar Saga 3), Shards of a Broken Crown (Serpentwar Saga 4), 1 Krondor - the Betrayal (Riftwar Legacy 1), 2 Krondor - the Assasins (Riftwar Legacy 2), 3 Krondor - Tear of the Gods (Riftwar Legacy 3), Honored Enemy (Legends of the Riftwar 1), Fairy Tale)
That's a start no?
Ok, ok, hear me out.
People, like friends of mine, seem to think that playing an FPS like UT2k3 eats up something like 16 hrs. a day, as opposed to the litte minesweeper inbetween. And only is something for superl33+ freaks. Wrong.
When I feel like having a little break I fire it up and play 2 - 3 matches at most, all usually no longer than 15 minutes each.
Actually playing an FPS like UT2k3 in CTF (capture the flag) mode can been either very difficult or boring, depending on the people you've got on the server.
The only essential difference in 'gaming-nature' I see to a game like B-a-M or Tetris is the fact that it only is interresting as a goal-orientated multiplayer and that it has more controls than a n00b can grasp imediately.
There is point though that games like ut2k3 in popular modes like CTF can be very frustrating when trying to reach a skilllevel that is able to compete with expierienced players. Coming in a public server as completely new to the game seems somewhat pointless if no one gives you some help and advice along the way. Sort of like competing with Kasparov in Speed-Chess.
That's probably the most outstanding feature that keeps the occasional-gamer away from choosing FPS as their past-time.
The need to compete not with brick-dropping algorythyms but with real people that can plot and plan ahead and are far more challenging (& fun) than any AI could ever be. But also has a higher 'entry' threshhold.
I am a serious gamer and have been since DOS 5 /Win3.1. Believe me setting up a Mystique 1 with Voodoo Grafics or trying to get DX[fill in random iteration here] makes *me* cringe.
Setting up GL on Linux is a piece of cake compared to that. And it's predictable. It will allways work the same way.
These seem to be quite percise results for the american 'market' of PLs. For instance: No way would VB and ADA get such results in Europe
Breaking News:
The Sky is Blue and the Pope is katholic.
Some people have posted on blowing things up with various mixtures. A Doctor (Demratologist) I once volunteered for had a large 1000mm whitelight laserscalpel in one of his operating rooms. You could shoot paper on fire or slice it into pieces from across the room. That was cool.
Im 32 years old and moved 24 times in my life, most of it as a child and teenager. I attended 5 different schools and lived in the states, germany, scotland and germany again. Along the way, as you can imagine, I grew somewhat emotionally independet of the judgement by academic authorities over me that at points I often came to disbelief at how so many people, especially in my homecountry germany, can take the system for granted. Only gradually are things changing to a more unconventional way of dealing with this. That's one of the rare things that are actually *good* to be copied from the US.
Everything that article says is so very true.
And there is still one thing I might want to add:
The reason for going to a University should be that you want to learn, not that you want a degree. If you can't gain that amount of self esteem (spelling???) without a degree it's almost shure a degree isn't the right thing for you. That probably is more so when studying an art.
If I where young again (gee I'm 32 now...:-) ) I'd be even more reckless. I'd pick the masters I've allways considered the best of trade, let's say for instance Frank Miller the comic artist, back a backpack travel to him, knock on his door and ask him to let me help him with anything I can offer for free and therefore let me look over his shoulder while he's drawing. For now I don't give a shit what papers or titles people have. They hardly mean zilch apart from showing their ability to walk the treadmill.
What counts is what ones self is willing to do and what ones self considers a great achievement or a poor performance. It's difficult, requires honesty but in the long run get's you farther. I bet that's the common demoninator all the people we call 'originals' have.
- "sript kiddie" refers to someone with little or no maturity that uses an automated exploit scan program that makes hacks a matter of happenstance if anything else.
Wrong. 'Script Kiddie' refers to someone exceptionally more skillfull at programming, hacking, cracking and everything else that goes beyond VB DB Frontends than the average slashdotter, but also happens to be younger and is thus referred to as 'Script Kiddie' (disaproving frown) to cloak the fact that they are actually intelligent enough to have their computer do stuff they want it to do and that said average slashdotter doesn't know zilch about. While at the same time they're out in the club closing in on some cute girls.
M$ allways gets the message when their cornered. .Net and would have actually had something usefull to brag about.
Same as back then with IE, to name a prominent example. That's because they've actually got a personality as CEO. Yes, say what you will, but Billyboy and Steve'O. they're personalities - have to give them that. They will finally put an effort to making their inhouse OS transparent for scripting, automation and chain processing and other usefull stuff like that. But I'm certain this time they're to late.
A year and a half ago they could have bought RedHat and published a Linux distro and nobody would have even guessed that Linux isn't an M$ projekt and is available for free. But M$ chose to bitch about licenses and get people aware that there is something besides M$. They could have done this new OO shell and OS aproach thing, called that
But now I don't think that M$ can pull the wagon around anymore. OSS alternatives to Mickeysoft are here and here to stay. And they will never go broke.
...are under the severe threat of starvation for the next harvest season within the next year in afrika. Those poor bastards are in what I would refer to as "deep shit". Us here debating on Inet are what I actually would refer to as "Pansies".
And now I'm gonna have an XMas cookie to my lucky ass that just got laid off and still is alive.
It's as if you became a doctor and 2 years later no one had a liver anymore. They all upgraded to a new organ, about which you know nothing. All the learning about the liver you did and the exams you passed on it mean nothing.
That's the exact reason I ditched MS Windows for good! I'm learning all about Linux/OSS from here on down since a year ago and I'll never go back. I won't take a Job where people won't listen to me when I talk about the OSS alternative solution to their problem is.
Figure this:
I will never ever again have to learn another OS.
Why should I waste my time and energy learning something about a patient that changes his liver and entire guts every odd year? He out to be ruled out by evolution very soon anyway. And that's the truth!
Maybe because you weren't listening?
:-)
Just a guess.
This futuroligist is nothing but yet another paid professional bullshitter. Given the way Xmas has evolved throughout christianities history and the way it's changing just now, Xmas most certainly won't be celebrated the way we do it today.
It could also very well be that the larger part of animals with a spinal column have died out due to strange diseases and/or enviromental causes and that most people won't even consider eating meat anymore. Adding stuff about mindreaders and other crap doesn't make this statement any more interessting. How do these people make a living, I wonder?
This is a bad idea, for various reasons:
1.) Drag and Drop and consistent fonts and clipboard aside, OSS Desktops are better, no need to copy a crappy one.
2.) In case you haven't noticed: noticable parts of the XP GUI elements are inspired by KDE! The Controlcenter for instance.
And: XP is ugly and visually impractical (since I'm a designer myself I'd say my judgement counts)
3.)One the pure visual side Linux desktops rule! E is the reason so many designers and visually orientated people see great potential in Linux. Cloning XP will get the majority to think it's finally reached parity with Windows, why it actually has surpased it long ago.
This will cast a bad light onto the OSS community, making the OSS artists look like a bunch of spineless goofs that have no own ideas. Which simply isn't true (fluxbox.sourceforge.net, enlightenment.org)
4.) Emulating a bad workspace management is a bad idea in general, especially when people think it's industry standard and desperatly need to be shown otherwise.
5.) This will strengthen M$ FUD about the OSS community being nothing but a bunch of sad and sorry rippers.