One really anoying thing with PHP/MySQL Solutions is that there's so many of them. And a lot are so crappy it's unbelievable.
Here's my breakdown of systems worth mentioning and that I've worked with/administrated/looked into:
Typo3 - the scariest heap of PHP code ever. 7 years of historically grown code mess. Don't even think of looking at the current data model. The operating system of OSS CMSes, the first to sport a proper GUI and an own configuration language and heavy Ajax use in the backend (before it was called Ajax). Large community. Despite the mess it is, its performance requirements and it's notably difficult install process, it is a very powerfull, flexible, secure and stable system. Usefull extensions number in the thousands and it is one of the bridgeheads of OSS into the corporate world and powers a notable amout of large scale / high profile / heavy traffic websites. It's extremly popular in web agencies throughout the german speaking world (probably because it had a german backend from early on) and basically has allready grown beyond critical mass in Europe. Reddot regularly pee their pants when they hear 'Typo3'. The Webagencies using it as their prime tool are actually called Typo3 agencies sometimes. You can make a fair living as a Typo3 expert in Germany. There's a regular magazine on Typo3 (some articles in english as free PDF available: http://www.yeebase.com/home/ ) and 20+ german books about it.
If you want to dive into an OSS CMS for good it's not the worst choice. If T3 doesn't have it, you probably don't need it. However the learning curve is steep and it's a german-style overengineered monster, despite being initially built by a danish guy. You have been warned.
Note: The T5 team (a subgroup of the core T3 community) is currently rebuilding an entirely new architecture from scratch and plans to be finished with the new branch (Typo3 5.0) in about 2 years. Which actually keeps me interested in the project.
EZ Publish - same league as T3 yet smaller community. Backend less scary. Probably less features.
Joomla - descendant of Mambo, factually it's successor. My and many others favourite. The first turnkey OSS CMS that doesn't look like shit. Hence the raging success. Installation is a breeze. Considered a strong competitor to Typo3 in Germany, despite lacking a German backend. Which means a lot, because Typo3 owns Germany (see above). 1000+ Extensions and Plugins and many German books on it and a magazine aswell - which went broke after 3 issues though:-) .
PHP CMS - yes it's called that way. Very small, simple, no DB needed. My first. Not very big but good enough for small sites.
Drupal seems to much between the above and the Wordpress/b2evolution Blog-park to be of interest to me. I've heard alot about it, he community is very active and a lot of people in the T3 and Joomla Camp accept it as one of theirs. However, there's only so much systems you can look into before it get's pointless. Drupal may be worth a try aswell for those who are interested.
I know this isn't an Eve-Online questions, but still: I want 'Exalted Online'. I do not want another World of Warcraft. (WoW is pretty good at that all by itself)
I've allways imagined an Exalted MMORPG as a game that captures the Manga/Anime slant by turning melee combat into something simular or closer to a console combat game like Soul Blade with the charms simular to special moves player and character can learn together as they progress. I also think there generally is room for sophisitcated avatar combat movements and more diverse Avatar combat actions in MMORPGs and I also think an 'Exalted Online' would be the exact place for it. The structure of the Pen & Paper RPG and it's background allows for instancing in many places and a PvP stance which could make it more feasible for a studio to implement. Since you've gone together with White Wolf - a company I'm a fan of - I think this is a justified request: I want 'Exalted Online' and I would like it to capture the feel of the White Wolf RPG with unique and fitting aproaches to online gameplay. What are my chances?
Interested in Free Open Source High Quality Zero-Hassle Basic on Linux? Try Gambas. Honestly now, aside from a nice proof of concept I consider this VB to Mono thing somewhat pointless. There are better Tools for easy GUI RAD.
I'm a PHP developer (amongst other things) and am looking forward to this. Stuff like this can only be good. And if it helps to find new or forgotten bugs - all the better.
It would have 12 buttons, and make phone calls... and would be waterproof, have a huge freakin battery, and survive a fall from a low flying airplane. Why are no companies making the kind of cell phone I want?
Siemens M35i 12 Buttons?... 17 Buttons. (you'll hardly find any less) Waterproof?... Extremly spraywater resistant. Survives fall from low flying airplane?... Check. Huge freakin' battery?... Check.
Acer has a line of cheap Laptops with Linux preinstalled. It's Linpus Linux, some shoddy taiwanian industry distro, but the laptops are cheap and good enough for the ususal stuff. Ubuntu should be installlable without to much of a hassle.
For the last 2.5 years I've been anouncing every major release of Blender on/. (this is more of a minor one) and no one cared. Now it's posted before I even noticed that 2.43 is up - and I've checked every day the last 2 weeks. Now the site is overrun and I can't get my copy... Wonderfull. BTW: 1.) The new website (a new template for Typo3, their CMS, looks cool but it's way to wide and/or inflexible. 2.) Blender seriously rocks and is closing in on the big players in 3D quickly in terms of usability and featureset. Amonst the new ones: The integrated compositor now has alpha blending and pass rendering which has me ditching my video tools. No need for Final Cut Pro for Renders anymore.
Support the team. And thanks to them for yet another great Blender release. Can't wait to lay my hands on the 2.43 final.
Enforce one standard of encryption internal, for all employees and all clients that want to do email communication with the company. Bounce all messages that aren't encrypted. Voila! All Spam problems solved instantly.
Neat side effect: Your emails are safe and contract proof.
I'd build Fidonet 2.0 and found an online service. 99% of the Internet is crap. That includes 99% of the web and this near pointless service riddled with spam, called Email and 10 bazillion bittorrents with porn floating about plus countless Intraweb bw-hogs and VNC connections of Windows users that still can't do proper remoting as in *nix due to crappy ancient OS remoteing concepts.
On the other hand, imagine an entirely citizen driven international net like Fidonet with todays technology and a single standardized reader/browser/client/usernode. Just imagine taking Firefox 2.0 and turning it into a point programm for exatly that. I'd trade Email for encrypted crashing (direct depart to destiny node transfer of messages) of a modern equivalent of Fido messages in an instant! And best of all: no more botnets! Remember when the one or other rare wiseass spammed Fido? The community came down on them like a pile of bricks.
I tell you what: For us geeks the online experience could easyly increase would we be forced back into citizen driven landline networks. People would set up modern local BBSes, local direct connect gaming and appservers... In fact, I think the world would handle a fragmentation of the Inet pretty well. No more Browser Wars, unified client-server architecture, everyone pays true usage, instant revealing of spammers and blackhats, decentralization, etc.... Not to shabby, eh?
And, curiously enough, those who'd probably notice the least would be AOL users. LOL!
OSS losing its Halo? Couldn't care less. Bunjie keeps coming up with new Halos. IRRC Halo 3 is allready in the works.... Puns aside. WTF is this about? If IBM and Co. are making huge amounts of cash on OSS I'd say good for them and all of us. If I get Sun and IBM sending Netbeans and Eclipse into battle over who can build the best all-free IDE and they're making money on it I'd say we have a win-win-win situation here. And if it's just that opinion leaders such as OSS geeks tell their bosses to buy stuff from Sun and IBM because they rock - all the better.
Shrinkwrap software only business is over. People yearn for paradise which is a standardized operating system free and flexible enough to deal with any useage scenario. Currently it looks as if this is going to be some unix variant. The situation described in TFA emphasises exactly that: OSS will take over. Get with the programm.
"World of Warcraft" is the MMORPG. On the issue: Building a World of Warcraft successor is easy. Look at what they do, copy it and do it better. Improve the things that aren't good and add the things that are missing. Generally the japanese do this sort of things when it comes to electronics. It's the very same way people could build an iPod killer. It's just that somebody still hasn't built a single device that can compete with it on the most simple specs (large memory, video capability, ease of use, decent looks). Same goes for WoW. Look at the game. Play it. Aside from Monopoly sucktion it's advantages are very real and obvious. 1) Runs easily on older hardware without looking like crap. 2) Runs on Macs and plays nice with mac users. (potential universal opinion leaders when it comes to nice gaming and fun stuff) 3) Takes 90 seconds for the most ultimate n00b get into. 4) Slowly reveals it's complexity bit by bit without overwelming anybody at any point. 5) Has a powerleveling 'grind option', but not an omnipresent one. 6) Has an optional powerquesting stance. 7) Is beautyful and content laden enough for all who just like to run around and are not to interested in 5 or 6. 8) Has a super addictive end-game that even amplifies the underlying 'diabolo collectors habit' subnote of the entire career in conjunction with strong multiplay / competetive play. 9) Has subtle Humor made by the actuall builders, doesn't take itself so serious - important if your offering a full-time imersive VR. 10) Builds on a world that is not and doesn't have to be realistic or even plausible when considering distances between regions (this is why LotR online will fail. The Shire is 25 minutes away from Mordor - how weird is that?) 11) Dedicated company and team with sufficient cash and corporate strategy backing. Blizzard made a decision and came through with it all the way. No half-assed stuff. And, look, a miracle! They've got a game that works and people like! Unbelieveable!
... for a long time. Classic RDBMSes are crutches. A forced-upon neccesitiy we have to put up with for our app models to latch on to real world hardware and it's limitations. A historically grown mess with an overhead so huge it's insane. With a Database PL and 30+ dialects of it from back in the days when we flew to the moon using a slide-ruler as primary means of calculation. If what they claim is true, these guys are probably finally ditching the omnipresent redundant n-fold layers user and connection management in favour of a lean system that at last does away with the distinction of filesystem and database and data access layer. Imagine a persistance layer with no SQL, no extra user management, no extra connection layer, no filesystem under it and native object suport for any PL you wish to compile in. I tell you, finally ditching classic RDBMSes is *long* overdue, they're basically all the same ancient pile of rubble, from MySQL up to Oracle. If these guys are up to taking on this deed (or part of it) and they get finished when solid-state finally relieves our current super-slowpoking spinning metal disks on a broad scale we'll feel like being in heaven compared to the shit we still have to put up with today. I wish these guys all the best. They appear to have the skills to do it and the authority to emphasise that todays RDBMSes and their underlying concepts are a relic of the past. My 2 cents.
'am working on a Web project fixing glitches in one of the crappiest Webapps I've ever seen. A obscure PHP Framework (SmartMVC) so crappy it's unbelievable. Aparently the guy who built it told the customer that 'it's a CMS' - which is total BS. It happend today. This proves once again that technical stuff that's so close to the enduser and yet so obscure as software and anything IT have that problem of 'opinion monopoly' or 'short-term opinion overhand'. People think Windows is a good OS - which it isn't - and that Outlook == E-Mail or at least Outlook == good mailer - which both is false. The think if Google doesn't list it it doesn't exist and if Google doesn't keep the site on top the webmaster did a mistake. Just look at you people struggle to get SEF URLs. Which is - in my opinion - stupid. It's up to the search engines to get their stuff in line. Me just has to see to it that im standards compliant.
Opinions spread fast in cyberspace, no mattter how far from reality they are. We - the IT freaks - have to deal with the problem. If an AV vendor says your software is malware and it isn't, then you have to be good enough to be able to convince your customers that Av-Vendor is wrong. If you are good enough in your field then you'll be able to display the competence needed to emphasise your judgement in most cases. Point in case: If Flash 8 on OS X compiles an utf8.as Source in such a way that Special Characters come out broken in the Flash Applet and I'm good and fast enough to pinpoint the problem with Adobemedia and a broken/buggy flash compiler with 1/2 an hour then my client trusts me more than Adobemedia or any other vendor on that judgement. If your an expert in comp-security and your clients know that, they'll trust you if you tell them that AV vendor is wrong in saying that your tool is malware.
Bottom line: This problem won't go away, as it is the nature of all things Interweb. Deal with it. Look for the mistake on your side but don't hesitate to name the one that is wrong. Like, for instance, when an AV-Vendor claims your Secscanner is malware.
... as long as my char has nice tits and a super-model body. And that doesn't even make me a sexist. Being a guy-that-almost-studied-fashion-design a famous phrase comes to mind: "We all dress the women we'd like to have - or, more precisely, would like to be." (from a male Designer... ' think it was YSL) You could very well easyly apply that to WoW: We all play the hot Night-Elf chick we'd like to have - or, more precisely, like to be in RL. In fact, coming to think about it, I'm playing my male Dwarf Priest only because he contrasts oh-so individually with all the Titty-Wonders running around on Khaz'Goroth:-) ....mmmmh... Now look what you've done... guess I'm gonna go online tonight and tweak the costume/armour of my sweet Hunter Gal a little more.... Oh yea Baby, I'm coming... *starts singing* >>World of Warcraft is a feeeeeeling... wo needs a social liiife... I'm going to log in... hop' on the griiii ii iiid...<<
Psst, Buddy! Applets != Java. Applets are dead. Java is not. Clear?
I say this as a Java developer of 11 years. (1996, baby!) Yet I am perfectly happy logging in and telling the world that Applets are dead. In fact, I can't wait for them to become a distant memory. They have done so much to tarnish the reputation of Java that it's not even funny. Java has found much better uses in a variety of other industries. It's time to let DHTML and AJAX mature into the role of rich web content.
[Info: I make a living building RIAs (Flash Appications, mostly - I wish Java would be up to the job as initially intended)]
No it's NOT time DHTML and Ajax to take over! Heaven forbid. It is, though, now that it is finally open sourced, after 10 years for some smart people to finally take control of Java and turn it into what it was intended for: The reference for all things RIA. Since nearly 10 years has Flash been the best thing we had for truly x-plattform RIAs with a penetration of far more than 90% install base. Dealing with the Java VM has been as pleasant and as interesting as grating fingernails and Sun didn't do *squat* to change that. Java still is the only existing, mature technology that has the potential to lead the way in RIAs. It is the only potential competitor to Flash (XUL Runner will take another half decade I presume) and now that it's OSS someone might just get it to step up. The Article, btw, mentions *this* as the primary reason why Java didn't take off and landed where it shurely does not belong: At the server side. The/. Meta article has it wrong (as ususal). The article though is correct. As it clearly says, Javas showstopper was the complete ignorance of all things multimedia. I nearly agree on all points - only I hope that Java finally arives where it was intended to land in the first place. Now that it's OSS Sun can't be a hindernace anymore. Add a usable vector engine, solid audio, video, streaming and GUI oriented developement options and maybe a VM that doesn't suck to install and Java is back on track. But then again, being that Java developers like you are happy where they are it could be that Flash will continue to lead the way for a very long time. If Adobe doesn't screw around to much they can hardly go wrong.
It's anoying engought that german politicians flat-out lie to the public and the public doesn't take notice even though the could easyly know better. Slashdot needn't do the same thing - especially on a topic that the nerd community should keep corrected.
To - once again - get it freaking straight: Robert Steinhäuser didn't learn his killing skills from CounterStrike. He learned them during "Action Shooting" lessons (they are actually officially called that way in Germany!) with a pump gun in his german gun club (Schützenverein). The rounds with which he killed 15 people where rounds he legally possed by german law and by german law was enabled to legally obtain! With an american brand gun that is built for but one purpose: Killing/'Stoping' people. Which he also legally possesed due to being a member of a german gun club! If you ask me, handing out such a type of gun to a 16 year old hormone bundle is questionable to say the least.
But anyway and aside from that the bottom line is: If german officials talk about "Killergames" and banning them that's all fine and dandy, by if they don't talk about "Killer-Clubs (If FPS == Killerspiele THEN Schützenvereine == Killervereine!!!) before that, then they are nothing but self-ritious lying bigot bastards. The whole lot of them. It's about time the german geek/nerd/gamer community made itself heard on this. But when was the last time nerds got of their lazy asses and got political?... Exactly.
... Just checked. The terms are somewhat hazy but it appears you are more correct than me. Allthough I'd actually now translate it with "Fen Fire". I'd say all three terms overlap somehow.
I guess you could say that. Your sentence: "Asus A8R32-MVP with *** Socket AM2 ***? using DDR memory. And an FX 60? He obviously has a 939-system. How far can we trust this guy to have opinions on drivers and stuff?" - especially the first half - is the exact reason why I - and I consider myself a PC hardware expert - am fed up with BTO and self assembly PCs. Back in the day (only 3 years ago) you could say "AMD + Socket A" and know that your hardware would work.
Now, 5 additional sockets later (adding up to something around 13 (thirteen!) different PC CPU sockets!), even the AMD side of PC hardware is getting difficult to overlook for *everyone* but the most persistant hardware config freaks. I'm totally fed up with this mess and so super-happy that I started down the Mac OS X road just 2.5 years ago. Buy computer, unpack, plug in, switch on, works! That or some cheap ass PC notebook and Ubuntu Linux - anything else is just plain silly nowadays imho. And people say self-assembly is cheaper... Yeah shure.
Blender - just not enough market for another 3D app, which is why the commercial company sold it off to begin with. The nonstandard interface and workflow gets in the way and only enthusiasts really use it (like gimp, but with a much much smaller install base)
My gosh. Your list is more or less compliant to mine, but this is a complete bummer. Blender is one of the gallionfigures of the OSS movement and it's installed base is easyly 10 to 100 times larger that that of Gimp. If only Gimp were as easy to install as Blender. It competes with packages that are 50 times larges and cost upwards of 2000$. It's got a fully OpenGL accelerated GUI - which afaik no other programm has had that long - and has gotten recent feature additions that put it way ahead of competition in a lot of fields. Blender is the OSS application that is currently scaring the living piss out of the entire 3D industry and for good reasons too. You're entirely wrong on this one.
Yes. More free than in the US I'd actually say. There are some things that suck big time about germany, don't get me wrong. Bureaucracy is one of the things that come to mind. That's really bad over here. The weather is constantly so-so, meaning often rainy but without the british poetry associated with it. Another thing that is really depressing compared to other countries is the loads of post-WW2 architecture that is ugly and dominates lots of the cities. This goes on the Nazies account as they pissed everyone on the entire planet off which in turn had to bomb germany into chunky kibbles. Hence: Many a crappy architecture in many parts of town hereabouts. Another thing that really bugs me is the germans and their car crazyness. No matter how many children die in traffic each year, highway speed limit is of limits to everyone and any politician who suggests it automatically does a political harakiri. Germany spend 4,7 billion man-hours in traffic jams each year, but it doesn't stop them from clogging the streets in town with cars whatsoever.
On the upsides we still have above standard social wellfare - allthough that has gotten considerably worse with 'Hartz 4' it would be considered luxurious in the US and other countries. Contrary to popular opinion the germans can actually be very nice and well behaved folks and the general education leven is still pretty high which maintains a basic level of intelligence throughout the country. The 'show your teeth - keep smiling' attitude people know from the US is near to non-existant here and people in germany generally mean what they say. For most of the time anyway. A trait I've come to like. In social structures as in schools there is the ususal back-stabbing and such, but on a much more broader base of tolerance towards other opinions and ways of life. Even though poverty is increasing as we speak the level of wealth is still considerably high and life in germany can be very secure and pleasant. Germany in general respects and defends basic human rights - something like Guantanamo or Death Sentence would be unthinkable in todays germany - and deals relatively fair with it's citizens.
1st of all it's a dupe. Aprox. a year old I suspect. 2dn: Frameworks, standardised open source Application stacks and comprehensive documentation are what speed up coding and developement. Copy/Pasting foreign code rarely helps. 3rd: It's only for Java.
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One really anoying thing with PHP/MySQL Solutions is that there's so many of them. And a lot are so crappy it's unbelievable.
:-) .
Here's my breakdown of systems worth mentioning and that I've worked with/administrated/looked into:
Typo3 - the scariest heap of PHP code ever. 7 years of historically grown code mess. Don't even think of looking at the current data model. The operating system of OSS CMSes, the first to sport a proper GUI and an own configuration language and heavy Ajax use in the backend (before it was called Ajax). Large community. Despite the mess it is, its performance requirements and it's notably difficult install process, it is a very powerfull, flexible, secure and stable system. Usefull extensions number in the thousands and it is one of the bridgeheads of OSS into the corporate world and powers a notable amout of large scale / high profile / heavy traffic websites. It's extremly popular in web agencies throughout the german speaking world (probably because it had a german backend from early on) and basically has allready grown beyond critical mass in Europe. Reddot regularly pee their pants when they hear 'Typo3'. The Webagencies using it as their prime tool are actually called Typo3 agencies sometimes. You can make a fair living as a Typo3 expert in Germany. There's a regular magazine on Typo3 (some articles in english as free PDF available: http://www.yeebase.com/home/ ) and 20+ german books about it.
If you want to dive into an OSS CMS for good it's not the worst choice. If T3 doesn't have it, you probably don't need it. However the learning curve is steep and it's a german-style overengineered monster, despite being initially built by a danish guy. You have been warned.
Note: The T5 team (a subgroup of the core T3 community) is currently rebuilding an entirely new architecture from scratch and plans to be finished with the new branch (Typo3 5.0) in about 2 years. Which actually keeps me interested in the project.
EZ Publish - same league as T3 yet smaller community. Backend less scary. Probably less features.
Joomla - descendant of Mambo, factually it's successor. My and many others favourite. The first turnkey OSS CMS that doesn't look like shit. Hence the raging success. Installation is a breeze. Considered a strong competitor to Typo3 in Germany, despite lacking a German backend. Which means a lot, because Typo3 owns Germany (see above). 1000+ Extensions and Plugins and many German books on it and a magazine aswell - which went broke after 3 issues though
PHP CMS - yes it's called that way. Very small, simple, no DB needed. My first. Not very big but good enough for small sites.
Drupal seems to much between the above and the Wordpress/b2evolution Blog-park to be of interest to me. I've heard alot about it, he community is very active and a lot of people in the T3 and Joomla Camp accept it as one of theirs. However, there's only so much systems you can look into before it get's pointless. Drupal may be worth a try aswell for those who are interested.
I know this isn't an Eve-Online questions, but still: I want 'Exalted Online'. I do not want another World of Warcraft. (WoW is pretty good at that all by itself)
I've allways imagined an Exalted MMORPG as a game that captures the Manga/Anime slant by turning melee combat into something simular or closer to a console combat game like Soul Blade with the charms simular to special moves player and character can learn together as they progress. I also think there generally is room for sophisitcated avatar combat movements and more diverse Avatar combat actions in MMORPGs and I also think an 'Exalted Online' would be the exact place for it. The structure of the Pen & Paper RPG and it's background allows for instancing in many places and a PvP stance which could make it more feasible for a studio to implement.
Since you've gone together with White Wolf - a company I'm a fan of - I think this is a justified request: I want 'Exalted Online' and I would like it to capture the feel of the White Wolf RPG with unique and fitting aproaches to online gameplay. What are my chances?
Thank you for your time.
Interested in Free Open Source High Quality Zero-Hassle Basic on Linux? Try Gambas. Honestly now, aside from a nice proof of concept I consider this VB to Mono thing somewhat pointless. There are better Tools for easy GUI RAD.
I'm a PHP developer (amongst other things) and am looking forward to this. Stuff like this can only be good. And if it helps to find new or forgotten bugs - all the better.
It would have 12 buttons, and make phone calls... and would be waterproof, have a huge freakin battery, and survive a fall from a low flying airplane. Why are no companies making the kind of cell phone I want?
... 17 Buttons. (you'll hardly find any less) ... Extremly spraywater resistant. ... Check. ... Check.
Siemens M35i
12 Buttons?
Waterproof?
Survives fall from low flying airplane?
Huge freakin' battery?
Acer has a line of cheap Laptops with Linux preinstalled. It's Linpus Linux, some shoddy taiwanian industry distro, but the laptops are cheap and good enough for the ususal stuff. Ubuntu should be installlable without to much of a hassle.
For the last 2.5 years I've been anouncing every major release of Blender on /. (this is more of a minor one) and no one cared. Now it's posted before I even noticed that 2.43 is up - and I've checked every day the last 2 weeks. Now the site is overrun and I can't get my copy. .. Wonderfull.
BTW:
1.) The new website (a new template for Typo3, their CMS, looks cool but it's way to wide and/or inflexible.
2.) Blender seriously rocks and is closing in on the big players in 3D quickly in terms of usability and featureset. Amonst the new ones: The integrated compositor now has alpha blending and pass rendering which has me ditching my video tools. No need for Final Cut Pro for Renders anymore.
Support the team. And thanks to them for yet another great Blender release. Can't wait to lay my hands on the 2.43 final.
Enforce one standard of encryption internal, for all employees and all clients that want to do email communication with the company. Bounce all messages that aren't encrypted.
Voila!
All Spam problems solved instantly.
Neat side effect: Your emails are safe and contract proof.
I'd build Fidonet 2.0 and found an online service. 99% of the Internet is crap. That includes 99% of the web and this near pointless service riddled with spam, called Email and 10 bazillion bittorrents with porn floating about plus countless Intraweb bw-hogs and VNC connections of Windows users that still can't do proper remoting as in *nix due to crappy ancient OS remoteing concepts.
... In fact, I think the world would handle a fragmentation of the Inet pretty well. No more Browser Wars, unified client-server architecture, everyone pays true usage, instant revealing of spammers and blackhats, decentralization, etc. ... Not to shabby, eh?
On the other hand, imagine an entirely citizen driven international net like Fidonet with todays technology and a single standardized reader/browser/client/usernode. Just imagine taking Firefox 2.0 and turning it into a point programm for exatly that. I'd trade Email for encrypted crashing (direct depart to destiny node transfer of messages) of a modern equivalent of Fido messages in an instant! And best of all: no more botnets! Remember when the one or other rare wiseass spammed Fido? The community came down on them like a pile of bricks.
I tell you what: For us geeks the online experience could easyly increase would we be forced back into citizen driven landline networks. People would set up modern local BBSes, local direct connect gaming and appservers
And, curiously enough, those who'd probably notice the least would be AOL users. LOL!
OSS losing its Halo? Couldn't care less. Bunjie keeps coming up with new Halos. IRRC Halo 3 is allready in the works. ...
Puns aside. WTF is this about? If IBM and Co. are making huge amounts of cash on OSS I'd say good for them and all of us. If I get Sun and IBM sending Netbeans and Eclipse into battle over who can build the best all-free IDE and they're making money on it I'd say we have a win-win-win situation here. And if it's just that opinion leaders such as OSS geeks tell their bosses to buy stuff from Sun and IBM because they rock - all the better.
Shrinkwrap software only business is over. People yearn for paradise which is a standardized operating system free and flexible enough to deal with any useage scenario. Currently it looks as if this is going to be some unix variant. The situation described in TFA emphasises exactly that: OSS will take over. Get with the programm.
You know, that last line of yours was really convincing. Solid arguements, I must say.
"World of Warcraft" is the MMORPG.
On the issue:
Building a World of Warcraft successor is easy. Look at what they do, copy it and do it better. Improve the things that aren't good and add the things that are missing. Generally the japanese do this sort of things when it comes to electronics. It's the very same way people could build an iPod killer. It's just that somebody still hasn't built a single device that can compete with it on the most simple specs (large memory, video capability, ease of use, decent looks).
Same goes for WoW. Look at the game. Play it. Aside from Monopoly sucktion it's advantages are very real and obvious.
1) Runs easily on older hardware without looking like crap.
2) Runs on Macs and plays nice with mac users. (potential universal opinion leaders when it comes to nice gaming and fun stuff)
3) Takes 90 seconds for the most ultimate n00b get into.
4) Slowly reveals it's complexity bit by bit without overwelming anybody at any point.
5) Has a powerleveling 'grind option', but not an omnipresent one.
6) Has an optional powerquesting stance.
7) Is beautyful and content laden enough for all who just like to run around and are not to interested in 5 or 6.
8) Has a super addictive end-game that even amplifies the underlying 'diabolo collectors habit' subnote of the entire career in conjunction with strong multiplay / competetive play.
9) Has subtle Humor made by the actuall builders, doesn't take itself so serious - important if your offering a full-time imersive VR.
10) Builds on a world that is not and doesn't have to be realistic or even plausible when considering distances between regions (this is why LotR online will fail. The Shire is 25 minutes away from Mordor - how weird is that?)
11) Dedicated company and team with sufficient cash and corporate strategy backing. Blizzard made a decision and came through with it all the way. No half-assed stuff. And, look, a miracle! They've got a game that works and people like! Unbelieveable!
... for a long time.
Classic RDBMSes are crutches. A forced-upon neccesitiy we have to put up with for our app models to latch on to real world hardware and it's limitations. A historically grown mess with an overhead so huge it's insane. With a Database PL and 30+ dialects of it from back in the days when we flew to the moon using a slide-ruler as primary means of calculation.
If what they claim is true, these guys are probably finally ditching the omnipresent redundant n-fold layers user and connection management in favour of a lean system that at last does away with the distinction of filesystem and database and data access layer. Imagine a persistance layer with no SQL, no extra user management, no extra connection layer, no filesystem under it and native object suport for any PL you wish to compile in.
I tell you, finally ditching classic RDBMSes is *long* overdue, they're basically all the same ancient pile of rubble, from MySQL up to Oracle. If these guys are up to taking on this deed (or part of it) and they get finished when solid-state finally relieves our current super-slowpoking spinning metal disks on a broad scale we'll feel like being in heaven compared to the shit we still have to put up with today.
I wish these guys all the best. They appear to have the skills to do it and the authority to emphasise that todays RDBMSes and their underlying concepts are a relic of the past.
My 2 cents.
'am working on a Web project fixing glitches in one of the crappiest Webapps I've ever seen. A obscure PHP Framework (SmartMVC) so crappy it's unbelievable.
.as Source in such a way that Special Characters come out broken in the Flash Applet and I'm good and fast enough to pinpoint the problem with Adobemedia and a broken/buggy flash compiler with 1/2 an hour then my client trusts me more than Adobemedia or any other vendor on that judgement. If your an expert in comp-security and your clients know that, they'll trust you if you tell them that AV vendor is wrong in saying that your tool is malware.
Aparently the guy who built it told the customer that 'it's a CMS' - which is total BS. It happend today. This proves once again that technical stuff that's so close to the enduser and yet so obscure as software and anything IT have that problem of 'opinion monopoly' or 'short-term opinion overhand'.
People think Windows is a good OS - which it isn't - and that Outlook == E-Mail or at least Outlook == good mailer - which both is false. The think if Google doesn't list it it doesn't exist and if Google doesn't keep the site on top the webmaster did a mistake. Just look at you people struggle to get SEF URLs. Which is - in my opinion - stupid. It's up to the search engines to get their stuff in line. Me just has to see to it that im standards compliant.
Opinions spread fast in cyberspace, no mattter how far from reality they are. We - the IT freaks - have to deal with the problem. If an AV vendor says your software is malware and it isn't, then you have to be good enough to be able to convince your customers that Av-Vendor is wrong. If you are good enough in your field then you'll be able to display the competence needed to emphasise your judgement in most cases.
Point in case: If Flash 8 on OS X compiles an utf8
Bottom line:
This problem won't go away, as it is the nature of all things Interweb. Deal with it.
Look for the mistake on your side but don't hesitate to name the one that is wrong. Like, for instance, when an AV-Vendor claims your Secscanner is malware.
... as long as my char has nice tits and a super-model body. ... ' think it was YSL) :-) . ...mmmmh... Now look what you've done ... guess I'm gonna go online tonight and tweak the costume/armour of my sweet Hunter Gal a little more. ... Oh yea Baby, I'm coming ... ... wo needs a social liiife ... I'm going to log in ... hop' on the griiii ii iiid ... <<
And that doesn't even make me a sexist.
Being a guy-that-almost-studied-fashion-design a famous phrase comes to mind: "We all dress the women we'd like to have - or, more precisely, would like to be." (from a male Designer
You could very well easyly apply that to WoW:
We all play the hot Night-Elf chick we'd like to have - or, more precisely, like to be in RL.
In fact, coming to think about it, I'm playing my male Dwarf Priest only because he contrasts oh-so individually with all the Titty-Wonders running around on Khaz'Goroth
*starts singing*
>> World of Warcraft is a feeeeeeling
( http://youtube.com/watch?v=SpC3lZdk2HM )
Psst, Buddy! Applets != Java. Applets are dead. Java is not. Clear?
/. Meta article has it wrong (as ususal). The article though is correct. As it clearly says, Javas showstopper was the complete ignorance of all things multimedia.
I say this as a Java developer of 11 years. (1996, baby!) Yet I am perfectly happy logging in and telling the world that Applets are dead. In fact, I can't wait for them to become a distant memory. They have done so much to tarnish the reputation of Java that it's not even funny. Java has found much better uses in a variety of other industries. It's time to let DHTML and AJAX mature into the role of rich web content.
[Info: I make a living building RIAs (Flash Appications, mostly - I wish Java would be up to the job as initially intended)]
No it's NOT time DHTML and Ajax to take over! Heaven forbid. It is, though, now that it is finally open sourced, after 10 years for some smart people to finally take control of Java and turn it into what it was intended for: The reference for all things RIA. Since nearly 10 years has Flash been the best thing we had for truly x-plattform RIAs with a penetration of far more than 90% install base. Dealing with the Java VM has been as pleasant and as interesting as grating fingernails and Sun didn't do *squat* to change that. Java still is the only existing, mature technology that has the potential to lead the way in RIAs. It is the only potential competitor to Flash (XUL Runner will take another half decade I presume) and now that it's OSS someone might just get it to step up. The Article, btw, mentions *this* as the primary reason why Java didn't take off and landed where it shurely does not belong: At the server side. The
I nearly agree on all points - only I hope that Java finally arives where it was intended to land in the first place. Now that it's OSS Sun can't be a hindernace anymore. Add a usable vector engine, solid audio, video, streaming and GUI oriented developement options and maybe a VM that doesn't suck to install and Java is back on track.
But then again, being that Java developers like you are happy where they are it could be that Flash will continue to lead the way for a very long time. If Adobe doesn't screw around to much they can hardly go wrong.
It's anoying engought that german politicians flat-out lie to the public and the public doesn't take notice even though the could easyly know better. Slashdot needn't do the same thing - especially on a topic that the nerd community should keep corrected.
... Exactly.
To - once again - get it freaking straight:
Robert Steinhäuser didn't learn his killing skills from CounterStrike. He learned them during "Action Shooting" lessons (they are actually officially called that way in Germany!) with a pump gun in his german gun club (Schützenverein). The rounds with which he killed 15 people where rounds he legally possed by german law and by german law was enabled to legally obtain! With an american brand gun that is built for but one purpose: Killing/'Stoping' people. Which he also legally possesed due to being a member of a german gun club!
If you ask me, handing out such a type of gun to a 16 year old hormone bundle is questionable to say the least.
But anyway and aside from that the bottom line is:
If german officials talk about "Killergames" and banning them that's all fine and dandy, by if they don't talk about "Killer-Clubs (If FPS == Killerspiele THEN Schützenvereine == Killervereine!!!) before that, then they are nothing but self-ritious lying bigot bastards. The whole lot of them. It's about time the german geek/nerd/gamer community made itself heard on this. But when was the last time nerds got of their lazy asses and got political?
That link is hilariously funny. Great read and great laugh. And some nice insight on the topic.
... Just checked. The terms are somewhat hazy but it appears you are more correct than me. Allthough I'd actually now translate it with "Fen Fire". I'd say all three terms overlap somehow.
It's the German term for 'Sprite'.
I guess you could say that.
... Yeah shure.
Your sentence: "Asus A8R32-MVP with *** Socket AM2 ***? using DDR memory. And an FX 60? He obviously has a 939-system. How far can we trust this guy to have opinions on drivers and stuff?" - especially the first half - is the exact reason why I - and I consider myself a PC hardware expert - am fed up with BTO and self assembly PCs. Back in the day (only 3 years ago) you could say "AMD + Socket A" and know that your hardware would work.
Now, 5 additional sockets later (adding up to something around 13 (thirteen!) different PC CPU sockets!), even the AMD side of PC hardware is getting difficult to overlook for *everyone* but the most persistant hardware config freaks. I'm totally fed up with this mess and so super-happy that I started down the Mac OS X road just 2.5 years ago. Buy computer, unpack, plug in, switch on, works! That or some cheap ass PC notebook and Ubuntu Linux - anything else is just plain silly nowadays imho.
And people say self-assembly is cheaper
Blender - just not enough market for another 3D app, which is why the commercial company sold it off to begin with. The nonstandard interface and workflow gets in the way and only enthusiasts really use it (like gimp, but with a much much smaller install base)
My gosh. Your list is more or less compliant to mine, but this is a complete bummer. Blender is one of the gallionfigures of the OSS movement and it's installed base is easyly 10 to 100 times larger that that of Gimp. If only Gimp were as easy to install as Blender. It competes with packages that are 50 times larges and cost upwards of 2000$. It's got a fully OpenGL accelerated GUI - which afaik no other programm has had that long - and has gotten recent feature additions that put it way ahead of competition in a lot of fields. Blender is the OSS application that is currently scaring the living piss out of the entire 3D industry and for good reasons too. You're entirely wrong on this one.
Yes. More free than in the US I'd actually say. There are some things that suck big time about germany, don't get me wrong. Bureaucracy is one of the things that come to mind. That's really bad over here. The weather is constantly so-so, meaning often rainy but without the british poetry associated with it. Another thing that is really depressing compared to other countries is the loads of post-WW2 architecture that is ugly and dominates lots of the cities. This goes on the Nazies account as they pissed everyone on the entire planet off which in turn had to bomb germany into chunky kibbles. Hence: Many a crappy architecture in many parts of town hereabouts. Another thing that really bugs me is the germans and their car crazyness. No matter how many children die in traffic each year, highway speed limit is of limits to everyone and any politician who suggests it automatically does a political harakiri. Germany spend 4,7 billion man-hours in traffic jams each year, but it doesn't stop them from clogging the streets in town with cars whatsoever.
On the upsides we still have above standard social wellfare - allthough that has gotten considerably worse with 'Hartz 4' it would be considered luxurious in the US and other countries. Contrary to popular opinion the germans can actually be very nice and well behaved folks and the general education leven is still pretty high which maintains a basic level of intelligence throughout the country. The 'show your teeth - keep smiling' attitude people know from the US is near to non-existant here and people in germany generally mean what they say. For most of the time anyway. A trait I've come to like. In social structures as in schools there is the ususal back-stabbing and such, but on a much more broader base of tolerance towards other opinions and ways of life. Even though poverty is increasing as we speak the level of wealth is still considerably high and life in germany can be very secure and pleasant. Germany in general respects and defends basic human rights - something like Guantanamo or Death Sentence would be unthinkable in todays germany - and deals relatively fair with it's citizens.
This article is pointless. I want my 3 minutes back.
1st of all it's a dupe. Aprox. a year old I suspect.
2dn: Frameworks, standardised open source Application stacks and comprehensive documentation are what speed up coding and developement. Copy/Pasting foreign code rarely helps.
3rd: It's only for Java.