1. It's - what ever Anti-YaST-FUD(TM) may say - very well organized. Even if you havn't got a DVD drive you won't get a stiff arm from changing CDs for a normal install. If you do have a DVD, you can use that all-on-one disk. (iirc that was SuSEs idea)
2. It's transparent! Again, that Anti-SuSE talk is nothing but FUD. They come great lengths to tell people what they do and change and why - much unlike lots of other people who tend to spread their apps across tons of directories and seem to have no sense for tidyness. The X-Window desaster has a nice remark on this somewhere in the middle. (Allthough it's not quite up to date:-) )
3. It has top-of-the-pops documentation. Half of my Linux-specific bookshelf are made up of those books that come with that heavy box. And they are the ones I go for the most, because they offer answers fast!
4. Since 7.2 you can update with a couple of mouseclicks. YOU (YaST Online Update) implements that buisnessmodel that Mickeysoft thries to achieve with XP, to the full extent. And for once, it makes sense to do a speedy update of of an app or system component inbetween. Even third partys are starting to make dowloads YOU compliant (nVidia for an instance).
5. Even though it IS transparent and easy to modify for expierienced users, it's extremly easy to handle for anybody who is used to a GUI based OS. I consider SuSE the most likely candidate to get Windozers to see the advantage fo using a modern and professional OS. (After all, they, along with E and Loki:-), got me to ditch Mickeysoft for good)
Just my observations, but I think they make some points. If you're considering to purchase a distro or have a friend who is, get SuSE, you'll like it.
Have you people tried Unreal Tournament yet?
I used to find FPS pointless, but UT realy got me into this gamegenre. The countless mods that come with it make it somewhat more interesting than Q3A. And it's cheaper than Q3A, just buy the Windoze Versoin and get the Linux installer. And the Hardware specs are lower too. Allthough that Tin Box actually IS quite cool...:-)
The German Government had even threatened the author with prison for trying to create commerical applications with it. Quite unlikely, thats certain. Unless it's a BND-internal (Bundesnachrichtendienst - Federal News Agency, sort of the german CIA) algorythm. And then no one would ever hear that they have something against their algorythm being published. He'd just get punished for telling their secrets. But I haven't heard of it, it's probalby just a rumor.
Or buys it to check the EULA to win a/. debate? LOL I don't get it. Don't we ALL agree that Mickeysoft in general and specially their EULAs just plain suck big time? Not to speak of Frontpain (rotfl...)
Blender is, amongst other, an official PS/PS2 developement tool, is one of the most sophisticated 3D Tools around and a yields serious realtime 'Oomph' - simular to Virtools NeMo (Halflife, anyone?), now also known as the o-so-brand-new Macromedia Shockwave3D (which is, in fact, the oldest Web 3D Technology around...so much for the marketing gibberish). Anyway, Blender is faster, easyer to use, is completely written with OpenGL and thus fitts on a floppy, has a Web Plugin, exports (amongst other) to Renderman / BMRT (for your cutscenes), uses Python as the internal realtime/rendercontrol programming language, runs on every OS apart from Mac (OS X Version coming this fall)... (*draw breath*) and it's freeware (as in beer). A slight drawback could be the steeper learning curve for anybody who isn't used to OOP - but that shouldn't be a problem for a/.ter, and the not yet available set of ready-to-release players/projectors for interactive Blender. There's are player for various plattforms (*nix, Windoze, MacOSX, PS2, etc.) coming up this year, so porting should be somewhat easyer than with other 3D IDEs. I'd definitly take a closer look at it - I consider it the best 3D package available. And that's not just because Maya costs 20.000$.
I don't know which President it was, but it was an american one during the race for space that said:"Our germans are better than their (the russian) germans" - meaning the german rocket scientists that were hastyly brought to the US after WW2 was over.
With all this "OUR tech is all so great" gibberish (honestly, I couldn't care less), it just plain completely ignores the fact that the US are great at marketing foreing tech much more than there good at designing their own. The U.S. makes a shitload of money that way. Not having to uphold the education system that's necesary for top quality personell. We all know that U.S. education is by far the worst in the world when compared to the actuall wealth of the U.S..
Examples for 'foreign' tech? "otto" combustion engine, diesel engine, Fax, mp3, liquid propellant rocket engines, etc, etc, These are all german tech, but I'm shure there is also some stuff that come from other cultures (such as the digit "zero", which is indian) and prove that what this "canadian newspaper" says is not quite so in the real world.
And for the great U.S.helping the world, how about these: Vietnam (Agent Orange, anyone?), Panama, United Fruit Company, Nigeria, Milosevitsh (heavyly supportet by the U.S when he was on his way to presidency!!!), Bikini islands, etc. etc.
...across all wings. Copyright infringement ist illeagal (thats clear) and germans believe in law and order - but german politicians are (knock on wood) still intelligent enough to recognize that existing laws are sufficient to enforce rights of intellectual ownership. And Linux (OSS) is cool and hip if your educated about computers and every german politician would rather give his right arm than admit that he don't no sh*t 'bout them. But don't ask me how many dead kids it takes 'till they establish a universal speed limit....'guess all countrys have their quirks. Aside from that:
There are attemps to establish some kind of DMCA rippoff here in the EU, but those are swimming upstream. As soon as someone gets something like that into Brussels it will (like everything else) be buried in tons of paperwork and exceptions. I goes something like so:
First: Netherlands see humans rights endangered and file a complaint/obligation imediately == 2 weeks of press, no effect. Second: Germans tinker the issue two and a half months, see human rights endangered, but wait, no, also corperate interests, but wait, no, also danger for equalified chances of education, but wait no, some media giant could go broke and we've got 10 zillion more unemployed, but wait, no...and so on.... == 2 years EU wide pause on the decision, 10 EU wide education/economy ministers meetings in 10 differen't nice little european towns, bill is blown up to 17 fileracks of paperwork and comes back to EU parlament when all seats were changed twice and the whole issue has to be discussed over again...
I love this continent:-).
Ditch America - embrace EU. I renunciated my american citizenship more than 10 years ago to get german citizenship and am getting happier every minute about it, reading all this DMCA stuff. And face it folks: People around the world don't give shit anymore if we've flown to the moon - they just eat more american junkfood. And you're not a McDonalds shareholder, are you? And the beer definitly IS better here:-).
SuSE releases a copmletely new Distribution every 3 Months! And in very high quality too. Solid box, a stack of Manuals, etc. No wonder they've run outta money. It's very irritating to just decide to buy that new distro that's in the shops right now and see a new one coming up 4 weeks later.
They should cut down on that and rely on their new YOU (Yast online Update - very cool) from now on.
From what I can tell SuSE is the best Distro around. Their Package is impressive, it comes as 7 CDs and an all-in-one DVD and has the best documentation you've ever seen with a distro. If they put more work and testing into each they could very well get around with a release twice a year.
#1 - CT: the reference for any computer magazine (probably even the best in the world)
#2 An overall and generally to US centric view of USAs Netizens (probably the Netizens are the least US-centric - that kinda gives me some unpleasant thoughts)
What's the big issue here? Open Source has all it needs for Web Service. It's the buisness people turning up with this Web Service Idea (note the current eLearning boom) and naturally they implement it in 'doze 'cause they wanna implement it with stuff they and their semi-salesmen/programmers are familiar with. In one year, when the OSS people need money again and join the parade, it's gonna all be OSS again. I'm working for a guy who said to me: "Make an eLearning Framework. Now." I checked the Mickeysoft prices, the current true state.NET is in (What a mess! More unorganized and beta than any OSS-Solution could ever be. ROTFL!) and said to him: Listen, I'll do it, but all with Open Source. It'll maybe take longer than Win2K/ASP/VBS, but you'll save 20K Euro and we'll have a Spinoff to sell for money when it's done. He liked that. The Dark Side is going all.NET, Conntent Syndication Systems and Web Service Solution packaging for moneymaking just to collect their next major asskick from OSS in 12 months the latest. Stay calm, we've got all the time in the world. That's why our code is so good. Haven't you noticed that OSS is later but better most of the time??? KDE/GNOME make sence for a year now - 'doze has been there for a long time. And now it's gonna wither and die. Billyboy has revenues to gather, or he'll go belly up. We write best code or we can't sleep well. That's two completely different things. All I'm saying here is: Let them hopp around, make a big stink and get tired - but don't let that irritate you.
1. Tribes 2 - Top of the pops intelligent Multiplayer Aktion. The last word in multiplayer gaming. Play a whole bunch of different Team and FFA Modes in a mixed indoor/outdoor enviroment. A massive arsenal of different special purpose weapons. Be a heavy mortar carrier and have the forward observers on your team mark the distant targets for you so you can >ouch!Or hopp into a freshly produced vehicle such as a flyer. Alone our as team with different tasks such as: Pilot, Rear Gunner, Bombdropper or turret gunopperator. Get this kick-ass game right now and enjoy intelligent gameplay across the globe via WAN or at home at your next LAN Session with up to 50(!!) players per match. Set up your own deticated server and have your locals join in. This sucker just plain rox!
2. Descent 3 - Don't get sick, sissyboy! 360 by 360 gutwrenching action. The third version of the classic 3D Shooter comes with tons of special effects, an intelligent plotlined singleplayer mission-serial and the brand new fusion engine that gives you fluent and seamless indoors and outdoor gameplay. Match witts with 'bots that sneak up on you whilst avoiding your line of sight, retreat when damaged to get help, hide and lay await for you and work in teams! D3 offeres the most sopisticated 3D Flightshooter AI available! Play LAN or WAN based multiplayersessions. Set up your own deticated server and rock the block. Come and pick up your major asskick with this alltime-allstar 1st rank Actionsmacker in a box.
3. Sid Meiser's Alpha Centauri + Crossfire Extension - The numder one "brains on" Simulation and Startegy Adventure. Your are not the Fragger-Fraggle type? Very well. Dive into deepest gameplay with this Sci-Fi Space-Epic. Enjoy hours and hours of exploration and build-up startegy gameplay of the finest. Play epic scale multiplayer sessions via LAN our WAN (Flatrate recommended:-) ). Get your special offer bundle of Sid Meier's Award-winning Alpha Centauri plus Crossfire Extension Pack now.
On a more personal note of a gamer: I just ditched Mickeysoft for good the other day and I can't live without games. UT and D3 probably will get boring some day. That's the right time to get myself T2, , Rune & Mindrover. If every Linuxfreak does that within the next few days they're gonna be outa dept in no time.
I'm a Multimedia Designer and just during the last 3 Weeks finally once and for all ditched Mickeysoft. I live in germany, so SuSE is kind of considered cream of the crop to me. I had trouble with 7.1 pro (more a.0 release), but 7.2 stands up to Win2k with out any problems. It comes with Tons of current stable Software releases, 7 CD's and 1 DVD. Which means no stiff arm from changing the CD's constantly if you've got a DVD-drive. Along come a stack of very good books on all kinds of subjects. 'Networking with SuSE Linux' being the new kid in the family. Tim Oreilly is probably starting to get grumpy about this. Until there's a Linux port, you'll have to run Macromedias Dreamteam with VMWare though. At least I will.:-) BTW: The worlds best Computer Magazin (the german CT of course;-)) ) just tested a bunch of current distros. Mandrake 8, RedHat 7.1 Deluxe and SuSE 7.2 Pro turned out best. Summing up all the minor flaws they favoured SuSE 7.2 Pro a little more over the other two. Also because of YOU (Yast Online Update - new gadget and good thing that) and the best documentation. German "Genauigkeit" I'd guess. Consider that germany has one of the - if not THE - highest amount of Linux users per capita. Also due to SuSEs Linux distros. Bottom Line: If I were a reseller, I'd give you a "money back" guarantee on this one.
Clifford Stoll caught that german hacker guy by printing out most of his sessions while he was online. Notes he made right on the printout. That stack of about 1200 Sheets of paper with handwritten remarks scattered here and there along with telco linetrackers as witnesses for the conections of some of the sessions reported on the hardcopys, was good enough for german authoroties to give him a major asskick and put him to jail.
Any evidence can be forged. Just not as easy as digital data. Basically it boils down to wether the stuff you've gathered all together makes a case or not. A judge will be willing to accept a digital data evidence as a coffinnail for the accused, if the "sujet" around it is fitting. But don't expect a stack of floppys without fingerprints or witnesses, alone to be treated as a main circumstancial evidence. A lot of this law stuff is very much a 'subjective judgement' thing though. Hence the word 'judge';-)
Here in Germany german is called "Deutsch". A little indication of the fact that Dutch and German are very much derived from the same lingual base. So is english.
In fact: If you can speak german and english you'll have no problems learning dutch ("Netherlandish").
If you find the language that suits you and your needs you'll find the IDE for it just after that.
I'd suggest Java. It's solid OOP without the difficulties of C++ (garbage collection and the like).
BTW: Kylix is somewhat unstable and slow. Steer clear! You can get Visual Age for Java for Linux from IBM for free if you sign up as a Linux-devloper. If you're so focused on non-GPL IDEs.
Once you know Java (with IDE or not) you'll learn everything else in no time.
"Encryption that everybody I send emails to can and will use"??? Even if they have no or don't use any common decryption software???
You'll have to make it then. A little Java or JavaScript programm that uses a simple repetetive-key algorithm should do just fine. It would have to work in the only-alphanum range and you would need to send each of your penpals a copy of it. They would copy and paste the cyphertext into the programm, enter the specific key you gave them to be able to read it. Anybody could and would use that. It would be plattformindependant too.
Just don't expect it to stand longer than 5 minutes against serious cryptoanalysis.
BTW: I'm working on an uncrackable one-time-pad crypto programm also adressing the very same issue - only that it will require me to hand out true-random-snow-key CD-Rs too everyone that I wish to exchange cryptomail with. With the advantage that - unlike asymetric crypto (read: PGP) - it will be ABSOLUTELY uncrackable. Taking in account that it's meant for email only, a CD-R one-time-pad could last a lifetime - or a very long period of time at least.
Lot's of people recommend building a solid demo.
I would too. Not because I know the industry, but because there's a very good, fast and easy FREEWARE tool for 3D-games out there. It's from the dutch company NaN and called Blender. The second most popular professional 3D App that runs on Linux. (Maya's the first) Features a fully grown game engine with python script support (you can use c if you feel better with that, though). The only competitor to that I know is NeMo - the devtool that was used for Halflife/CounterStrike. And that costs LOTS of money.
Coming to that... you should make your entire game in blender. The independant player should be finished within the next 5 months. Then you can go ahead and publish it already. Or just use it as a playtesting previewer (playtesting is 90% of the good games (as seen with StarCraft)). After you've done some realization you still can switch to the unreal engine or whatever you fancy.
The bottom line is, that sophisticated 3D gameproduction will more and more become a task of the good old garage group of the eighties again. Alas. Good Luck and Happy Blending.
Yeah, shure, Wince is better....
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All the people I know using WinCE Penpads use it as an extra expensive 'mine is bigger' toy.
All Palm people I know are actually using theirs for usefull stuff. And for good too. And have ditched their FiloFaxes.
Don't mistake the Hardware for Software that consumes it.
Are you actually one of the guys who does/.???
Honestly, I can hardly believe it.
The extreme shortage of IT professionals in Germany led to a somewhat hyped political decision at the end of last year: A fast and unbureaucratic way for IT people to get a working permit. It was/is called the "green card". America and it's english (or at least what germans consider it to be) are a big deal in germany.
If you can find a german company that wishes to employ you - which is quite easy if your skills are good - you'll get a job including permit in no time. BTW, 'cellphone' is called 'handy' over here in germany (and only in germany - they think ist the american word for that). So don't look to bedazzled when they want your 'handy'-number. Just act as if you used that word for half your life. They'll feel much more cosmopolitan and confident with you around then. A big bonus on top of the one being an american IT professional anyway.:-))
The called it Workbook and the Name is Programm!
750 P3, 512 MB RAM, 32gig HD, Celsius GM3 GFX Module (Card) (ATI GFX-CPU)- 16 MB of additional frame buffer and Texture ram and JUST PLAIN ROX with OpenGL. Detachable Keyboard, DVD, 15" High End TFT Screen, etc, etc...
They built this thing for 3D Designers on a Trainride. Fastest Notebook out there.
It's yours for, you sitting?, 7500$.
You won't get smaller and faster than that.
Yugop
- my personal favorite. The only truly INTERACTIVE site I know.(check out the old stuff (archieves) too!!) Yugo Nakamura speaks the last word when it comes to design.
Gabocorp
-considered the reference of MM-rich websites by many designers. Too passive for my taste but the size/apperance ratio makes all those wannabe flashers cry...
Joecartoon
-I am a big fan of the british sort of humor (Monty Python and the sort), if you are too, youre gonna wet your pants at this site. Proves what all REAL designers know: simple but original does the trick. (Joe uses Flash 3!)
The Flashfilmfestival
-the cremé de la cremé of flashers pitch in their stuff each year to win their 'academy award' here.
Beware of eyeballs falling out!
Flashguru
- you'll find everything in Flashsites that's worth being mentioned right here. Get a box close to a backbone;-)) go siteseeing and have fun.
...and contributing to them is a Jedi's duty in the stand against the dark side. So kick aside the workarounds, praise Zeldman, quit the moaning and let's get our GPL Browser finished. Victory is at hand!
Take a look at the German constitution, before you jump to any conclusions.
The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany is one of the most sophisticated in the world. It defends personal liberty, freedom and human rights even more consequent than the american. (You could call that:"Third 'Reich' lesson learned.") That's why the authorities there get so twichty when anybody turns up, whose basic ideology is in direkt oposition to those rights and the constitution. Be it the Neonazis, CoS, or anybody else.
No ISP, be it german or not, would be so stupid to install such blockers. This thing is gonna disapear just as fast as "eMail-tax". IIRC Some weird idea that some guy came up with in german parliament a few years ago.
BTW: Prohibiting Child Porn and Nazi Propaganda (both which can only come to life through utter and absoute DENIAL of basic human rights) is not a restriction of personal freedom and liberty , but a protection and defense thereof.
There are quite an amount of europeans (not only germans) asking themselves whenever the mayority of americans will notice this.
I know first-year-computer-people who haven't grasped the drag and drop metaphor in half a year while sitting in front of a mac.
Intuitive is relative!
Get used to the Homeworld 3D navigation (that best 2D mouse based I know) and in half a year YOU'll call it intuitive.
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1. It's - what ever Anti-YaST-FUD(TM) may say - very well organized. Even if you havn't got a DVD drive you won't get a stiff arm from changing CDs for a normal install. If you do have a DVD, you can use that all-on-one disk. (iirc that was SuSEs idea)
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:-), got me to ditch Mickeysoft for good)
2. It's transparent! Again, that Anti-SuSE talk is nothing but FUD. They come great lengths to tell people what they do and change and why - much unlike lots of other people who tend to spread their apps across tons of directories and seem to have no sense for tidyness. The X-Window desaster has a nice remark on this somewhere in the middle. (Allthough it's not quite up to date
3. It has top-of-the-pops documentation. Half of my Linux-specific bookshelf are made up of those books that come with that heavy box. And they are the ones I go for the most, because they offer answers fast!
4. Since 7.2 you can update with a couple of mouseclicks. YOU (YaST Online Update) implements that buisnessmodel that Mickeysoft thries to achieve with XP, to the full extent. And for once, it makes sense to do a speedy update of of an app or system component inbetween. Even third partys are starting to make dowloads YOU compliant (nVidia for an instance).
5. Even though it IS transparent and easy to modify for expierienced users, it's extremly easy to handle for anybody who is used to a GUI based OS. I consider SuSE the most likely candidate to get Windozers to see the advantage fo using a modern and professional OS. (After all, they, along with E and Loki
Just my observations, but I think they make some points. If you're considering to purchase a distro or have a friend who is, get SuSE, you'll like it.
Have you people tried Unreal Tournament yet? :-)
I used to find FPS pointless, but UT realy got me into this gamegenre. The countless mods that come with it make it somewhat more interesting than Q3A. And it's cheaper than Q3A, just buy the Windoze Versoin and get the Linux installer. And the Hardware specs are lower too. Allthough that Tin Box actually IS quite cool...
The German Government had even threatened the author with prison for trying to create commerical applications with it.
Quite unlikely, thats certain. Unless it's a BND-internal (Bundesnachrichtendienst - Federal News Agency, sort of the german CIA) algorythm. And then no one would ever hear that they have something against their algorythm being published. He'd just get punished for telling their secrets. But I haven't heard of it, it's probalby just a rumor.
Or buys it to check the EULA to win a /. debate? LOL
I don't get it. Don't we ALL agree that Mickeysoft in general and specially their EULAs just plain suck big time? Not to speak of Frontpain (rotfl...)
So what's the big issue here?
Blender is, amongst other, an official PS/PS2 developement tool, is one of the most sophisticated 3D Tools around and a yields serious realtime 'Oomph' - simular to Virtools NeMo (Halflife, anyone?), now also known as the o-so-brand-new Macromedia Shockwave3D (which is, in fact, the oldest Web 3D Technology around...so much for the marketing gibberish). Anyway, Blender is faster, easyer to use, is completely written with OpenGL and thus fitts on a floppy, has a Web Plugin, exports (amongst other) to Renderman / BMRT (for your cutscenes), uses Python as the internal realtime/rendercontrol programming language, runs on every OS apart from Mac (OS X Version coming this fall)... (*draw breath*) and it's freeware (as in beer). /.ter, and the not yet available set of ready-to-release players/projectors for interactive Blender. There's are player for various plattforms (*nix, Windoze, MacOSX, PS2, etc.) coming up this year, so porting should be somewhat easyer than with other 3D IDEs. I'd definitly take a closer look at it - I consider it the best 3D package available. And that's not just because Maya costs 20.000$.
A slight drawback could be the steeper learning curve for anybody who isn't used to OOP - but that shouldn't be a problem for a
I don't know which President it was, but it was an american one during the race for space that said:"Our germans are better than their (the russian) germans" - meaning the german rocket scientists that were hastyly brought to the US after WW2 was over.
With all this "OUR tech is all so great" gibberish (honestly, I couldn't care less), it just plain completely ignores the fact that the US are great at marketing foreing tech much more than there good at designing their own. The U.S. makes a shitload of money that way. Not having to uphold the education system that's necesary for top quality personell. We all know that U.S. education is by far the worst in the world when compared to the actuall wealth of the U.S..
Examples for 'foreign' tech? "otto" combustion engine, diesel engine, Fax, mp3, liquid propellant rocket engines, etc, etc,
These are all german tech, but I'm shure there is also some stuff that come from other cultures (such as the digit "zero", which is indian) and prove that what this "canadian newspaper" says is not quite so in the real world.
And for the great U.S.helping the world, how about these: Vietnam (Agent Orange, anyone?), Panama, United Fruit Company, Nigeria, Milosevitsh (heavyly supportet by the U.S when he was on his way to presidency!!!), Bikini islands, etc. etc.
Get real and give us a break, man!
...across all wings. Copyright infringement ist illeagal (thats clear) and germans believe in law and order - but german politicians are (knock on wood) still intelligent enough to recognize that existing laws are sufficient to enforce rights of intellectual ownership. And Linux (OSS) is cool and hip if your educated about computers and every german politician would rather give his right arm than admit that he don't no sh*t 'bout them.
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:-).
But don't ask me how many dead kids it takes 'till they establish a universal speed limit....'guess all countrys have their quirks.
Aside from that:
There are attemps to establish some kind of DMCA rippoff here in the EU, but those are swimming upstream. As soon as someone gets something like that into Brussels it will (like everything else) be buried in tons of paperwork and exceptions. I goes something like so:
First: Netherlands see humans rights endangered and file a complaint/obligation imediately == 2 weeks of press, no effect.
Second: Germans tinker the issue two and a half months, see human rights endangered, but wait, no, also corperate interests, but wait, no, also danger for equalified chances of education, but wait no, some media giant could go broke and we've got 10 zillion more unemployed, but wait, no...and so on.... == 2 years EU wide pause on the decision, 10 EU wide education/economy ministers meetings in 10 differen't nice little european towns, bill is blown up to 17 fileracks of paperwork and comes back to EU parlament when all seats were changed twice and the whole issue has to be discussed over again...
I love this continent
Ditch America - embrace EU. I renunciated my american citizenship more than 10 years ago to get german citizenship and am getting happier every minute about it, reading all this DMCA stuff. And face it folks: People around the world don't give shit anymore if we've flown to the moon - they just eat more american junkfood. And you're not a McDonalds shareholder, are you? And the beer definitly IS better here
SuSE releases a copmletely new Distribution every 3 Months! And in very high quality too. Solid box, a stack of Manuals, etc. No wonder they've run outta money. It's very irritating to just decide to buy that new distro that's in the shops right now and see a new one coming up 4 weeks later.
They should cut down on that and rely on their new YOU (Yast online Update - very cool) from now on.
From what I can tell SuSE is the best Distro around. Their Package is impressive, it comes as 7 CDs and an all-in-one DVD and has the best documentation you've ever seen with a distro. If they put more work and testing into each they could very well get around with a release twice a year.
You made 2 very solid points there:
#1 - CT: the reference for any computer magazine (probably even the best in the world)
#2 An overall and generally to US centric view of USAs Netizens (probably the Netizens are the least US-centric - that kinda gives me some unpleasant thoughts)
What's the big issue here? Open Source has all it needs for Web Service. It's the buisness people turning up with this Web Service Idea (note the current eLearning boom) and naturally they implement it in 'doze 'cause they wanna implement it with stuff they and their semi-salesmen/programmers are familiar with. In one year, when the OSS people need money again and join the parade, it's gonna all be OSS again. .NET is in (What a mess! More unorganized and beta than any OSS-Solution could ever be. ROTFL!) and said to him: Listen, I'll do it, but all with Open Source. It'll maybe take longer than Win2K /ASP/VBS, but you'll save 20K Euro and we'll have a Spinoff to sell for money when it's done. He liked that. .NET, Conntent Syndication Systems and Web Service Solution packaging for moneymaking just to collect their next major asskick from OSS in 12 months the latest. Stay calm, we've got all the time in the world. That's why our code is so good. Haven't you noticed that OSS is later but better most of the time??? KDE/GNOME make sence for a year now - 'doze has been there for a long time. And now it's gonna wither and die. Billyboy has revenues to gather, or he'll go belly up. We write best code or we can't sleep well. That's two completely different things.
I'm working for a guy who said to me: "Make an eLearning Framework. Now." I checked the Mickeysoft prices, the current true state
The Dark Side is going all
All I'm saying here is: Let them hopp around, make a big stink and get tired - but don't let that irritate you.
Game-Freaks Hitlist of Lokigames:
1. Tribes 2 - Top of the pops intelligent Multiplayer Aktion. The last word in multiplayer gaming.
Play a whole bunch of different Team and FFA Modes in a mixed indoor/outdoor enviroment. A massive arsenal of different special purpose weapons. Be a heavy mortar carrier and have the forward observers on your team mark the distant targets for you so you can >ouch!Or hopp into a freshly produced vehicle such as a flyer. Alone our as team with different tasks such as: Pilot, Rear Gunner, Bombdropper or turret gunopperator.
Get this kick-ass game right now and enjoy intelligent gameplay across the globe via WAN or at home at your next LAN Session with up to 50(!!) players per match. Set up your own deticated server and have your locals join in. This sucker just plain rox!
2. Descent 3 - Don't get sick, sissyboy!
360 by 360 gutwrenching action. The third version of the classic 3D Shooter comes with tons of special effects, an intelligent plotlined singleplayer mission-serial and the brand new fusion engine that gives you fluent and seamless indoors and outdoor gameplay.
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On a more personal note of a gamer: I just ditched Mickeysoft for good the other day and I can't live without games. UT and D3 probably will get boring some day. That's the right time to get myself T2, , Rune & Mindrover. If every Linuxfreak does that within the next few days they're gonna be outa dept in no time.
I'm a Multimedia Designer and just during the last 3 Weeks finally once and for all ditched Mickeysoft. I live in germany, so SuSE is kind of considered cream of the crop to me. I had trouble with 7.1 pro (more a .0 release), but 7.2 stands up to Win2k with out any problems. It comes with Tons of current stable Software releases, 7 CD's and 1 DVD. Which means no stiff arm from changing the CD's constantly if you've got a DVD-drive. Along come a stack of very good books on all kinds of subjects. 'Networking with SuSE Linux' being the new kid in the family. Tim Oreilly is probably starting to get grumpy about this. Until there's a Linux port, you'll have to run Macromedias Dreamteam with VMWare though. At least I will. :-) ;-)) ) just tested a bunch of current distros. Mandrake 8, RedHat 7.1 Deluxe and SuSE 7.2 Pro turned out best. Summing up all the minor flaws they favoured SuSE 7.2 Pro a little more over the other two. Also because of YOU (Yast Online Update - new gadget and good thing that) and the best documentation. German "Genauigkeit" I'd guess. Consider that germany has one of the - if not THE - highest amount of Linux users per capita. Also due to SuSEs Linux distros.
BTW: The worlds best Computer Magazin (the german CT of course
Bottom Line: If I were a reseller, I'd give you a "money back" guarantee on this one.
Clifford Stoll caught that german hacker guy by printing out most of his sessions while he was online. Notes he made right on the printout. That stack of about 1200 Sheets of paper with handwritten remarks scattered here and there along with telco linetrackers as witnesses for the conections of some of the sessions reported on the hardcopys, was good enough for german authoroties to give him a major asskick and put him to jail.
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Any evidence can be forged. Just not as easy as digital data. Basically it boils down to wether the stuff you've gathered all together makes a case or not. A judge will be willing to accept a digital data evidence as a coffinnail for the accused, if the "sujet" around it is fitting. But don't expect a stack of floppys without fingerprints or witnesses, alone to be treated as a main circumstancial evidence. A lot of this law stuff is very much a 'subjective judgement' thing though. Hence the word 'judge'
Here in Germany german is called "Deutsch". A little indication of the fact that Dutch and German are very much derived from the same lingual base. So is english.
In fact: If you can speak german and english you'll have no problems learning dutch ("Netherlandish").
If you find the language that suits you and your needs you'll find the IDE for it just after that.
I'd suggest Java. It's solid OOP without the difficulties of C++ (garbage collection and the like).
BTW: Kylix is somewhat unstable and slow. Steer clear! You can get Visual Age for Java for Linux from IBM for free if you sign up as a Linux-devloper. If you're so focused on non-GPL IDEs. Once you know Java (with IDE or not) you'll learn everything else in no time.
... now I peed in my pants. Whaaaaah!!! *sob*
BTW: You sound like the Mickeysoft commercial guy.
You're with them, aren't you? C'mon, confess!
"Encryption that everybody I send emails to can and will use"??? Even if they have no or don't use any common decryption software???
You'll have to make it then. A little Java or JavaScript programm that uses a simple repetetive-key algorithm should do just fine. It would have to work in the only-alphanum range and you would need to send each of your penpals a copy of it.
They would copy and paste the cyphertext into the programm, enter the specific key you gave them to be able to read it. Anybody could and would use that. It would be plattformindependant too.
Just don't expect it to stand longer than 5 minutes against serious cryptoanalysis.
BTW: I'm working on an uncrackable one-time-pad crypto programm also adressing the very same issue - only that it will require me to hand out true-random-snow-key CD-Rs too everyone that I wish to exchange cryptomail with. With the advantage that - unlike asymetric crypto (read: PGP) - it will be ABSOLUTELY uncrackable. Taking in account that it's meant for email only, a CD-R one-time-pad could last a lifetime - or a very long period of time at least.
Lot's of people recommend building a solid demo. I would too. Not because I know the industry, but because there's a very good, fast and easy FREEWARE tool for 3D-games out there.
It's from the dutch company NaN and called Blender. The second most popular professional 3D App that runs on Linux. (Maya's the first) Features a fully grown game engine with python script support (you can use c if you feel better with that, though).
The only competitor to that I know is NeMo - the devtool that was used for Halflife/CounterStrike. And that costs LOTS of money.
Coming to that... you should make your entire game in blender. The independant player should be finished within the next 5 months. Then you can go ahead and publish it already. Or just use it as a playtesting previewer (playtesting is 90% of the good games (as seen with StarCraft)). After you've done some realization you still can switch to the unreal engine or whatever you fancy.
The bottom line is, that sophisticated 3D gameproduction will more and more become a task of the good old garage group of the eighties again. Alas.
Good Luck and Happy Blending.
All the people I know using WinCE Penpads use it as an extra expensive 'mine is bigger' toy. All Palm people I know are actually using theirs for usefull stuff. And for good too. And have ditched their FiloFaxes.
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Honestly, I can hardly believe it.
Don't mistake the Hardware for Software that consumes it.
Are you actually one of the guys who does
The extreme shortage of IT professionals in Germany led to a somewhat hyped political decision at the end of last year: A fast and unbureaucratic way for IT people to get a working permit. It was/is called the "green card". America and it's english (or at least what germans consider it to be) are a big deal in germany. :-))
If you can find a german company that wishes to employ you - which is quite easy if your skills are good - you'll get a job including permit in no time.
BTW, 'cellphone' is called 'handy' over here in germany (and only in germany - they think ist the american word for that). So don't look to bedazzled when they want your 'handy'-number. Just act as if you used that word for half your life. They'll feel much more cosmopolitan and confident with you around then. A big bonus on top of the one being an american IT professional anyway.
The called it Workbook and the Name is Programm!
750 P3, 512 MB RAM, 32gig HD, Celsius GM3 GFX Module (Card) (ATI GFX-CPU)- 16 MB of additional frame buffer and Texture ram and JUST PLAIN ROX with OpenGL.
Detachable Keyboard, DVD, 15" High End TFT Screen, etc, etc...
They built this thing for 3D Designers on a Trainride. Fastest Notebook out there.
It's yours for, you sitting?, 7500$. You won't get smaller and faster than that.
..acording to Qbertino:
;-)) go siteseeing and have fun.
Yugop
- my personal favorite. The only truly INTERACTIVE site I know.(check out the old stuff (archieves) too!!) Yugo Nakamura speaks the last word when it comes to design.
Gabocorp
-considered the reference of MM-rich websites by many designers. Too passive for my taste but the size/apperance ratio makes all those wannabe flashers cry...
Joecartoon
-I am a big fan of the british sort of humor (Monty Python and the sort), if you are too, youre gonna wet your pants at this site. Proves what all REAL designers know: simple but original does the trick. (Joe uses Flash 3!)
The Flashfilmfestival
-the cremé de la cremé of flashers pitch in their stuff each year to win their 'academy award' here. Beware of eyeballs falling out!
Flashguru
- you'll find everything in Flashsites that's worth being mentioned right here. Get a box close to a backbone
...and contributing to them is a Jedi's duty in the stand against the dark side.
So kick aside the workarounds, praise Zeldman, quit the moaning and let's get our GPL Browser finished. Victory is at hand!
Take a look at the German constitution, before you jump to any conclusions.
The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany is one of the most sophisticated in the world. It defends personal liberty, freedom and human rights even more consequent than the american. (You could call that:"Third 'Reich' lesson learned.") That's why the authorities there get so twichty when anybody turns up, whose basic ideology is in direkt oposition to those rights and the constitution. Be it the Neonazis, CoS, or anybody else.
No ISP, be it german or not, would be so stupid to install such blockers. This thing is gonna disapear just as fast as "eMail-tax". IIRC Some weird idea that some guy came up with in german parliament a few years ago. BTW: Prohibiting Child Porn and Nazi Propaganda (both which can only come to life through utter and absoute DENIAL of basic human rights) is not a restriction of personal freedom and liberty , but a protection and defense thereof.
There are quite an amount of europeans (not only germans) asking themselves whenever the mayority of americans will notice this.
I know first-year-computer-people who haven't grasped the drag and drop metaphor in half a year while sitting in front of a mac. Intuitive is relative! Get used to the Homeworld 3D navigation (that best 2D mouse based I know) and in half a year YOU'll call it intuitive.