/* the before mentioned comment was strictly a devil's advocate posting. Just wanted to see if you had the balls/knowledge to back it up. The irony is, most people who read/. are so scared to lose their jobs, they would (and do) do anything to keep their jobs, even if the end result would be people died. the whole "I'm just a programmer and I get paid, so why do I care" attitude is rather pervasive in the corporate world (not just IT.. see banking, financial markets, energy companies, etc). */
When the customer says "I want this, and I want it to run on windows", what are you going to do, say no? Lose the customer? I doubt YOU have any customers to deal with, especially with your "my way or the highway" attitude. Get back to being laid off, web monkey and tell your mom to stock up on some more cheetos.
Actually, the biggest consumer of foreign oil is NOT gas-guzzling automotives, but the plastics industry producing all those nice 20oz Coke bottles you (and I) throw out every day...
Maybe if someone worked really hard on producing profitable plastics recycling that worked...
My company's web-based time-sheet entry program for one (in regards to name one website that refuses to view correctly under firefox). In fact, it "crashes" when loading the javascript page and the presentation is, well, not expected. IE renders it just fine. Now, as an aside: Moz doesn't work (linux, windows, or mac os x), firefox doesn't work (it's just another moz, right?), safari doesn't work (os x), lynx (linux) doesn't, etc. Even IE under Mac doesn't work (classic or os x). Using Netscape 4.x on OS 9 in Classic mode on my ibook is the only way to record my time sheet information on the road. Talk about a bummer.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but doesn't it say he's appealing the ruling and that the appellate court said that the Judge did not meet the requirements for a final judgement and have sent the case back down to the same Judge? ???
yes, the judge made a ruling, but judge's rulings get overturned all the time. Talk to me when it gets to the Supreme Court, mkay?
I bought my Supermicro P6DBE prior to the flip-chip socket stuff was "en vogue" thinking "I can just buy new Slot 1 processors when they come out!". The fastest Slot 1 processors I can buy are 1 Ghz. So, here I am, "stuck" with dual PIII 750's, an AGP 2x slot (Ti4200 is what I use), and no real upgrade path worthwhile except to just buy a new mobo, RAM, etc. I did upgrade from dual Celeron 400's (used a slotket). Granted, this whole setup has lasted me something like 5 or 6 years, and, frankly, everything runs/works just fine on my machine. The only real improvement I think I can make is adding another half-gig of RAM to put me up to a full gig, but I rarely hit that barrier... But, like you, if I want SATA, USB 2.0, firewire, Gigabit ethernet, I might as well just buy a whole new mobo rather than try to piece together enough PCI cards and find slots for them all, and it'll probably be cheaper.:(
So, by all means, let's just cower in our houses and wait until the magical day that everyone lives in peace and harmony with one another. That'll never happen. As long as there's people around, there will always be disagreement. There will always be dissention and hatred for others and their ideas/ideals and there will always be people willing to die for those ideas/ideals. You are correct, the answer isn't more guns, but I don't see anything wrong with creating a strictly "no-fly" airspace around the structure encompassing several hundred square miles and the installlation of several anti-aircraft batteries (and anti-ship, too) to ensure the safety of the space bridge. If the space bridge falls, it'll fall into the ocean, where most likely it will create more "reef" habitat for the fish. Hooray for the fish in the long term.
Oh, I do the same thing. I have an OS X machine that automagically "logs" me on (only prompts for security updates and what not), which is, for a single user "secure" machine, about as fair and painless as it's going to get in this evil filled world. It also helps that I have a laptop (iBook), and frankly, no one is going to use it but me.
For my desktop, I use WinXP Pro and I've done something similar to you. I created a main account for myself with full admin rights and a secondary account for 'other people' to use. That account has been used exactly zero times in the past year or so.
I certainly don't do any code review, nor do I expect others to do it for me. I'm just saying multiple users is a bit of OVERKILL for most desktops, albeit a necessity for today's networked computing environment.
Actually, for millions and millions of people, the C-64's, Amiga's, Atari ST's, MacOS, and Desktop PC's are where people learned the whole "trade" of "computing". A world that did not involve multiple users, security patches, etc. We were online and were wary of virii (from warez, of course), but we weren't worried that someone would come along and, uh, "reverse hack" our machines. You say that UNIX and VMS were what "really counted", I say horse pockey because most users never had access (and still don't). We learned our "admin" skills playing around with C64's. (In other words, we didn't learn ANY admin skills) Lots of bad habits cropped up and for many of us, those "bad habits" are still habits. Add to that that some of your precious "modernity" features, such as multiple users, are absolutely useless for many of us (I could add accounts for my cats, but I seriously doubt they would use them) that many of "you" take to be the holy-grail of a modern OS. Having to log into my own machine is rather stupid, IMO, as my home machine is at home, not at work where it makes more sense. Why are we pushing research/business paradigms into the HOME computing experience? I suppose it's cheaper to develop ONE OS rather than two, but it's still annoying.
Because we'd rather keep spending inordinate amounts of cash to fighting wars we cannot possibly "win" (drugs/terrorism), and we have starving people in our own country who keep having their jobs outsourced somewhere else, and because it's just not profitable in the traditional, monetary returns sense. Once someone figures out and actually implements low-cost launch solutions and someone else figures out how to do something like actually create manufacturing bases in orbit, in inter-plantetary space, and/or in the asteroid belt and shows it to be immensely profitable (billions, I tell ya, billions are in them thar rocks), then you'll see a push for space exploration that you've never seen the likes of. Look at what appears to be 90% of the payload going into space now: Communications satellites. How...exciting, right? (actually, the research that goes into building efficient, space-tolerant communications systems is a science into itself and is immensely valuable for any inter-planetary work we might ultimately undertake). But, there's profit in those satellites. Companies are raking in cash providing better services for their companies. Once someone can build a wafer fab in orbit (probably 99.9% automated with just a technician or two lifted on rotation to watch over things and do modular switchouts), and do it cheaper than the Malaysians, I'm pretty sure Intel and the others would jump right on board, eh?
However, with the short-term mentality most corporations have these days and the desire to immediately satiate stockholder desires, putting money into long-term investment (which is what orbit manufacture would require) will never happen, so it falls to the "public" sector to fund the development/launch of projects, which are constantly undermined by the need for military funding to fight wars for blood or oil or land or whatever it is we're fighting for
Exactly correct. For example, I've written various checks for various bills that are now out, I've deposited several out-of-state checks that must clear before they appear on my statement, and going to the ATM to get an account inquiry will show something different from what I *know* I have, because of my prudent entry into Quicken 2003 Basic. I used to use MS Money 97 (came free with a modem, I believe, of all things) which worked great. I lost the CD, went to Best Buy, saw Quicken for $30, bought it, and it's done a very good job. I still think Money 97 was a bit easier to comprehend initially (and never had to go very far with it for basic account housekeeping), but with Quicken I've started playing with the budget features and whatnot and generate nice, pretty graphs that tell me I'm spending too much.:P
I know someone put up some figures on how much it would take to continue to upgrade/maintain the Hubble (or put up a replacement). If I were a certain billionaire, this might be something to look into funding to really get some goodwill in the geek community...:P Of course, it's not like Billy boy has 40 million in cash laying around, but still..
Hell, if the Arab world wants to really get on the US's good side, they should fund some NASA project with their oil trillions instead of building more palaces..:)
Remember to check the alternatives, too. LWJGL has been around for quite awhile, has been used to make a commercial game, and is BSD-licensed for all your open source needs.
If all you need is a stripped down OpenGL library without all that messy swing and awt code and want to just get down and write some nifty console-style games, LWJGL could be the library for you.
I do have a problem with it because then it puts the government's nose into one more area that it shouldn't be in. How about instead we begin holding shareholders responsible for their CEO's actions? I mean, they are "owners" in the enterprise, right? If shareholders are legally as responsible for the actions as CEO's (well, we'd also need to tighten up laws that put more CEO's into Federal Pound-me-in-the-ass prison when they steal billions), don't you think they'd be more selective in the kind of people they put in charge? You know, people that aren't likely to land them in jail. Yes, it would completely shut down the stock exchange and investment in business as we know it today due to investor panic, but after an adjustment period, it would be back to normal. Money calls.
Build a roller coaster from space, to the earth... Slow ride up.. then massive whoosh on the way down with plenty of loops and turns and upside-down goodness! Imagine the tourism dollars that could go fund the lowly freight elevator next to it! And we could call it.. The.. Great Space Coaster! And hire a GNU named Gary! Or Richard...
Anecdotal, I know, but most homeschooled children who were homeschooled from the start are a bunch of pasty-white pansies who have no idea how to behave in a "social situation". However, this is greatly outweighed by the fact that they also seem to think of things in a different manner than their public schooled counterparts and are less likely to give a fuck about what's "cool." They're also quite able to get along fabulously on their own, tend to be more actively literate, and more able to think critically about current events and life decisions. In short, they're interesting to be around. I also find similar traits in kids who ran away from home at early ages and had to get their education "on the streets" rather than a regimented classroom. The street kids seem to be innundated with jaded thoughts about society (like cops, they see the bad of society 24/7), though, which can be a great hindrance to their "success". However, who said the current definition of "success" (SUV, house in the burbs, TV in every room) was the right one?:P
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How about the Iraqis themselves? Contrary to popular belief, Iraq isn't full of a bunch of ignorant camel-fuckers who "can't find reverse in a Soviet Tank" (my apologies to the Coen Bros). Iraq has a highly technical population who is more than capable of rebuilding their infrastructure (if only the assholes would quit blowing their shit up. US and "terrorist"). Another poster pointed out that Iraq has a large PhD population, which means that there are plenty of Iraqis out there with the know-how and wherewithal to lead their workers to rebuild. Right now, all of our rebuilding efforts go towards funding US corporations rather than fomenting an environment for Iraqis to create their own companies to be used for the rebuilding process. Imagine, giving money to IRAQI companies, who then become vested in the success of their new-found democracy (they make the good money, they'll be damned before some fundamentalist comes in to take it away). Iraqis become directly involved in the rebuilding of their country (funded partially from the US, but in actuality from oil revenues from their own oil fields, ideally), they form a new business class, and if they fuck up, the Iraqi people can't say "Those stupid AMericans don't care about us" when we can point to the Iraqi companies and say "We gave them $xxx and they've yet to get anything done, blame them!" etc etc. The US should provide a basic framework, but let the Iraqi PEOPLE get the business. Hey, besides, Iraqis work for MUCH cheaper than Americans, so we'd be better off "in-sourcing" the labor and brains in-country. Odd. American contractors are "the evil outsourced labor" in Iraq..
I've used Linux and the various GNU products, even some BSD based ones, and I'm sitting here, using Windows XP Pro. Why? XP Pro offers me an ease of use that Linux, even with KNOPPIX, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, and variants thereof (and I continually use new Linux distros every year or so) fail to provide. I've used Linux and I still prefer XP Pro. I've also got an OS X machine (an iBook), and if anything, it's shown me just how shitty Linux really is when it comes to its user interface and lack of "cohesive" environments. If anything, I prefer OS X, but lack of software keeps me on XP Pro for some instances, and yes, I still use Linux for my serving needs. But desktop? No thanks.
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/* the before mentioned comment was strictly a devil's advocate posting. Just wanted to see if you had the balls/knowledge to back it up. The irony is, most people who read /. are so scared to lose their jobs, they would (and do) do anything to keep their jobs, even if the end result would be people died. the whole "I'm just a programmer and I get paid, so why do I care" attitude is rather pervasive in the corporate world (not just IT.. see banking, financial markets, energy companies, etc). */
When the customer says "I want this, and I want it to run on windows", what are you going to do, say no? Lose the customer? I doubt YOU have any customers to deal with, especially with your "my way or the highway" attitude. Get back to being laid off, web monkey and tell your mom to stock up on some more cheetos.
Gah. For some reason I want to go to the corner store and buy a Mountain Dew and some Extreme Doritos. Damn you!
Actually, the biggest consumer of foreign oil is NOT gas-guzzling automotives, but the plastics industry producing all those nice 20oz Coke bottles you (and I) throw out every day...
Maybe if someone worked really hard on producing profitable plastics recycling that worked...
My company's web-based time-sheet entry program for one (in regards to name one website that refuses to view correctly under firefox). In fact, it "crashes" when loading the javascript page and the presentation is, well, not expected. IE renders it just fine. Now, as an aside: Moz doesn't work (linux, windows, or mac os x), firefox doesn't work (it's just another moz, right?), safari doesn't work (os x), lynx (linux) doesn't, etc. Even IE under Mac doesn't work (classic or os x). Using Netscape 4.x on OS 9 in Classic mode on my ibook is the only way to record my time sheet information on the road. Talk about a bummer.
Well, when your sentences consist of
How r u? y? a/s/l?
maybe it's not such a stretch....
Maybe I'm missing something here, but doesn't it say he's appealing the ruling and that the appellate court said that the Judge did not meet the requirements for a final judgement and have sent the case back down to the same Judge? ???
yes, the judge made a ruling, but judge's rulings get overturned all the time. Talk to me when it gets to the Supreme Court, mkay?
No shit.
:(
I bought my Supermicro P6DBE prior to the flip-chip socket stuff was "en vogue" thinking "I can just buy new Slot 1 processors when they come out!". The fastest Slot 1 processors I can buy are 1 Ghz. So, here I am, "stuck" with dual PIII 750's, an AGP 2x slot (Ti4200 is what I use), and no real upgrade path worthwhile except to just buy a new mobo, RAM, etc. I did upgrade from dual Celeron 400's (used a slotket). Granted, this whole setup has lasted me something like 5 or 6 years, and, frankly, everything runs/works just fine on my machine. The only real improvement I think I can make is adding another half-gig of RAM to put me up to a full gig, but I rarely hit that barrier... But, like you, if I want SATA, USB 2.0, firewire, Gigabit ethernet, I might as well just buy a whole new mobo rather than try to piece together enough PCI cards and find slots for them all, and it'll probably be cheaper.
Well, maybe he could've told her that that Penthouse was the only way to get Kilgore Trout story...
So, by all means, let's just cower in our houses and wait until the magical day that everyone lives in peace and harmony with one another. That'll never happen. As long as there's people around, there will always be disagreement. There will always be dissention and hatred for others and their ideas/ideals and there will always be people willing to die for those ideas/ideals. You are correct, the answer isn't more guns, but I don't see anything wrong with creating a strictly "no-fly" airspace around the structure encompassing several hundred square miles and the installlation of several anti-aircraft batteries (and anti-ship, too) to ensure the safety of the space bridge. If the space bridge falls, it'll fall into the ocean, where most likely it will create more "reef" habitat for the fish. Hooray for the fish in the long term.
Oh, I do the same thing. I have an OS X machine that automagically "logs" me on (only prompts for security updates and what not), which is, for a single user "secure" machine, about as fair and painless as it's going to get in this evil filled world. It also helps that I have a laptop (iBook), and frankly, no one is going to use it but me.
For my desktop, I use WinXP Pro and I've done something similar to you. I created a main account for myself with full admin rights and a secondary account for 'other people' to use. That account has been used exactly zero times in the past year or so.
I certainly don't do any code review, nor do I expect others to do it for me. I'm just saying multiple users is a bit of OVERKILL for most desktops, albeit a necessity for today's networked computing environment.
Actually, for millions and millions of people, the C-64's, Amiga's, Atari ST's, MacOS, and Desktop PC's are where people learned the whole "trade" of "computing". A world that did not involve multiple users, security patches, etc. We were online and were wary of virii (from warez, of course), but we weren't worried that someone would come along and, uh, "reverse hack" our machines. You say that UNIX and VMS were what "really counted", I say horse pockey because most users never had access (and still don't). We learned our "admin" skills playing around with C64's. (In other words, we didn't learn ANY admin skills) Lots of bad habits cropped up and for many of us, those "bad habits" are still habits. Add to that that some of your precious "modernity" features, such as multiple users, are absolutely useless for many of us (I could add accounts for my cats, but I seriously doubt they would use them) that many of "you" take to be the holy-grail of a modern OS. Having to log into my own machine is rather stupid, IMO, as my home machine is at home, not at work where it makes more sense. Why are we pushing research/business paradigms into the HOME computing experience? I suppose it's cheaper to develop ONE OS rather than two, but it's still annoying.
Because we'd rather keep spending inordinate amounts of cash to fighting wars we cannot possibly "win" (drugs/terrorism), and we have starving people in our own country who keep having their jobs outsourced somewhere else, and because it's just not profitable in the traditional, monetary returns sense. Once someone figures out and actually implements low-cost launch solutions and someone else figures out how to do something like actually create manufacturing bases in orbit, in inter-plantetary space, and/or in the asteroid belt and shows it to be immensely profitable (billions, I tell ya, billions are in them thar rocks), then you'll see a push for space exploration that you've never seen the likes of. Look at what appears to be 90% of the payload going into space now: Communications satellites. How...exciting, right? (actually, the research that goes into building efficient, space-tolerant communications systems is a science into itself and is immensely valuable for any inter-planetary work we might ultimately undertake). But, there's profit in those satellites. Companies are raking in cash providing better services for their companies. Once someone can build a wafer fab in orbit (probably 99.9% automated with just a technician or two lifted on rotation to watch over things and do modular switchouts), and do it cheaper than the Malaysians, I'm pretty sure Intel and the others would jump right on board, eh?
However, with the short-term mentality most corporations have these days and the desire to immediately satiate stockholder desires, putting money into long-term investment (which is what orbit manufacture would require) will never happen, so it falls to the "public" sector to fund the development/launch of projects, which are constantly undermined by the need for military funding to fight wars for blood or oil or land or whatever it is we're fighting for
What's wrong with breakout, or the arkanoid family?
Exactly correct. For example, I've written various checks for various bills that are now out, I've deposited several out-of-state checks that must clear before they appear on my statement, and going to the ATM to get an account inquiry will show something different from what I *know* I have, because of my prudent entry into Quicken 2003 Basic. I used to use MS Money 97 (came free with a modem, I believe, of all things) which worked great. I lost the CD, went to Best Buy, saw Quicken for $30, bought it, and it's done a very good job. I still think Money 97 was a bit easier to comprehend initially (and never had to go very far with it for basic account housekeeping), but with Quicken I've started playing with the budget features and whatnot and generate nice, pretty graphs that tell me I'm spending too much. :P
I know someone put up some figures on how much it would take to continue to upgrade/maintain the Hubble (or put up a replacement). If I were a certain billionaire, this might be something to look into funding to really get some goodwill in the geek community... :P Of course, it's not like Billy boy has 40 million in cash laying around, but still..
:)
Hell, if the Arab world wants to really get on the US's good side, they should fund some NASA project with their oil trillions instead of building more palaces..
/* Moore is a yellow "journalist" */
I'm ASIAN you insensitive clod!
True enough, but always trying to plug for one of my favorite projects. hell, when did "relevance" ever factor into a /. posting? :)
Remember to check the alternatives, too. LWJGL has been around for quite awhile, has been used to make a commercial game, and is BSD-licensed for all your open source needs.
If all you need is a stripped down OpenGL library without all that messy swing and awt code and want to just get down and write some nifty console-style games, LWJGL could be the library for you.
I do have a problem with it because then it puts the government's nose into one more area that it shouldn't be in. How about instead we begin holding shareholders responsible for their CEO's actions? I mean, they are "owners" in the enterprise, right? If shareholders are legally as responsible for the actions as CEO's (well, we'd also need to tighten up laws that put more CEO's into Federal Pound-me-in-the-ass prison when they steal billions), don't you think they'd be more selective in the kind of people they put in charge? You know, people that aren't likely to land them in jail. Yes, it would completely shut down the stock exchange and investment in business as we know it today due to investor panic, but after an adjustment period, it would be back to normal. Money calls.
Build a roller coaster from space, to the earth... Slow ride up.. then massive whoosh on the way down with plenty of loops and turns and upside-down goodness! Imagine the tourism dollars that could go fund the lowly freight elevator next to it! And we could call it.. The.. Great Space Coaster! And hire a GNU named Gary! Or Richard...
But I digress...
Anecdotal, I know, but most homeschooled children who were homeschooled from the start are a bunch of pasty-white pansies who have no idea how to behave in a "social situation". However, this is greatly outweighed by the fact that they also seem to think of things in a different manner than their public schooled counterparts and are less likely to give a fuck about what's "cool." They're also quite able to get along fabulously on their own, tend to be more actively literate, and more able to think critically about current events and life decisions. In short, they're interesting to be around. I also find similar traits in kids who ran away from home at early ages and had to get their education "on the streets" rather than a regimented classroom. The street kids seem to be innundated with jaded thoughts about society (like cops, they see the bad of society 24/7), though, which can be a great hindrance to their "success". However, who said the current definition of "success" (SUV, house in the burbs, TV in every room) was the right one? :P
How about the Iraqis themselves? Contrary to popular belief, Iraq isn't full of a bunch of ignorant camel-fuckers who "can't find reverse in a Soviet Tank" (my apologies to the Coen Bros). Iraq has a highly technical population who is more than capable of rebuilding their infrastructure (if only the assholes would quit blowing their shit up. US and "terrorist"). Another poster pointed out that Iraq has a large PhD population, which means that there are plenty of Iraqis out there with the know-how and wherewithal to lead their workers to rebuild. Right now, all of our rebuilding efforts go towards funding US corporations rather than fomenting an environment for Iraqis to create their own companies to be used for the rebuilding process. Imagine, giving money to IRAQI companies, who then become vested in the success of their new-found democracy (they make the good money, they'll be damned before some fundamentalist comes in to take it away). Iraqis become directly involved in the rebuilding of their country (funded partially from the US, but in actuality from oil revenues from their own oil fields, ideally), they form a new business class, and if they fuck up, the Iraqi people can't say "Those stupid AMericans don't care about us" when we can point to the Iraqi companies and say "We gave them $xxx and they've yet to get anything done, blame them!" etc etc. The US should provide a basic framework, but let the Iraqi PEOPLE get the business. Hey, besides, Iraqis work for MUCH cheaper than Americans, so we'd be better off "in-sourcing" the labor and brains in-country. Odd. American contractors are "the evil outsourced labor" in Iraq..
Heck, around here you can get an escort service for about $125, so I hear, maybe that'd be more of an incentive.
Wrong.
I've used Linux and the various GNU products, even some BSD based ones, and I'm sitting here, using Windows XP Pro. Why? XP Pro offers me an ease of use that Linux, even with KNOPPIX, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, and variants thereof (and I continually use new Linux distros every year or so) fail to provide. I've used Linux and I still prefer XP Pro. I've also got an OS X machine (an iBook), and if anything, it's shown me just how shitty Linux really is when it comes to its user interface and lack of "cohesive" environments. If anything, I prefer OS X, but lack of software keeps me on XP Pro for some instances, and yes, I still use Linux for my serving needs. But desktop? No thanks.