Now I save my time and money from electricity and noise and use a little netgear router with 50mbit wireless. I do all the things that you described and never have had an outage, and it's silent.
Why use a 130wat power supply when you can use a 12, and 0 noise. Only router I have owned that routinely craps out is a linksys, I wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole. My 2 netgear routers have worked flawlessly.
When is VoiceXML going to get features like advanced call control. Right now you have to use vendor bolt-on's such as CCXML or use vendor proprietary tags that are in no way cross vendor compatible.
I have tried many games vastly higher in graphic quality than DAoC and keep going back because DAoC is more fun to me.
Despite all the issues with lack of balance and uggly nerfs, I have found the game entertaining despite the lower quality of graphics compared to games such as SWG, COH, AC2, L2 or even Horizons (bleh).
I have tried all of them, but to me DAoC is just more fun.
I know there are a LOT people still playing AC1 and UO and LOVING it, and look how shitty those graphics are.
To me graphics is like the cover of a book, it gets you to open the first page.. but definately won't keep you reading it. An emersive world with an exciting and submersive gameplay and fun interaction and a real feeling of character growth and developmen is what makes a game fun for me. Not the number of poly's on a character.
As much as people love consoles, I just don't get off on them.
My hands hurt after using the controller for too long.
My tv is high def, but still isn't as nice as my computer screen.
the graphics just don't compare to what my computer can do.
I have more options for multiplayer online games, such as mogs , etc that i don't have with the console.
I don't have a keyboard with my console to communicate with (though, xbox live is a nice step in the right direction).
Also, i like going 'away' somewhere in my computer room to escape the madness for an hour or two to blow things up.
i guess it just comes down to culture or what your used to, i just can't see myself abandoning my windows games either to an xbox anytime in the near future, unless the landscape of the games change dramatically.
We have 2 main development offices, 1 in the US and one in Eastern Europe. We use TikiWiki for all of our document and information collaboration. we have tried various other solutions, but this seems to be the one that has sticked.
Not only has our team been using it, but various other departments in the organization have started using it too. We all share the same server, but have setup various ACL and sections that allow us to easily keep people out of what they shouldn't be in.
I have found that over 6 months of casual daily use, we have been able to create a HUGE amount of searchable and findable information. A lot of our operations procedures (ie. managing services, policies, etc) was created out of the documents that have been created and collected there.
It's a snap to setup and very easy to maintain, I definately would say that I hadn't tried TikiWiki soon enough in our development process.
By clicking the eula they just need to disclaim yourself as the 'owner' of the virtual property and indemnify anyone from suing, etc. that they hold all rights, etc.
A open source RAD evironment sounds like it could have a huge impact on the number of apps that could be rolled out.
Not so much for the enterprise market, but also for the 'shareware' class applications. Most of my Windows specific applications are programs that are from very small development houses or shareware products. (I love to support a small shareware author!) . I use open source when prudent, but I also love to use a nice simple tool that even if it costs $15-$20 bucks to a pay-pal account, is money well spent in my opinion. Maybe Linux will start to attract this development base with Mono.
Another question, I have a pro version of C# I picked up at staples last year. Anyone know how realistic is it for me to build an application in Windows using my copy of C# and compile it and run it on mono?
I love it how ignorant people think that the same group of people are working on everything gui related, from browsers to video drivers.
Geezus man, this guy probably has NOTHING to do with KDE or the XFree86 project. If he wants to sit and watch pr0n all day or write a 3D window manager, it's his damn business.
It always amazes me how people can have such a gimmee mentality.
I mean, come on.. anyone.. I mean anyone... who even considers using their products, and hasn't moved already to another platform, they need to get their heads examined.
I am sure their product resellers are -pissed- and have already been working to find other distribution contracts from companies such as Novell or RH. Honestly, I think that this is a simple stunt to try and bubble their stock a bit because of the reality of 0 value on the litigation business to shareholders.
I can't imagine that anyone of real talent would want to work for SCO at this point on the engineering side.
I agree 100%. I find that silly wizardry in code often points to a insecure person who feels that by dumping 10 lines of code into 1 line makes them more of a man, when in essense more self documenting code could of been expressed a little more clear in a couple more lines.
Perl seems like a nice language, but the fact they have conventions for things like $_ or @_ is a bit odd. Isn't that the sort of practice that drives any practical programmer nuts? I am a java and python programmer and the concept of perl seems quite odd.
Even Pythons soft-typed language seems to squishy now, readable as it is. I am finding as I get more and more projects behind me, I appreciate the strict language structure of a language like java, and spend a little more time programming, but a LOT less time debugging.
Those are very intresting ideas. Most of which I agree with.
I would like to make a few observations I have made working in various countries.
Most people do like to go home at 5:30pm. Regardless of the country. In the Uk, I never saw people working late, even in the tech culture. I worked in a building with 3 other software companies, and i was actually surprised at the laxness and lack of REALLY long hours people tended to put in compared to what I was used to on the west coast.
Lots of western european countries have laws in place to protect smaller companies, such as retail stores. Try going shopping for a TV on a sunday afternoon in even a city like Zurich. in 2000, it was not really that possible. AFIK it's still the same in Germany.
We have 5 software engineers working for me on a project we are doing. This is the 3rd project we have taken (major) and the second company the guys have worked at together. They have no problems working weekends, nights mornings, whatever.
IMHO the hardest working people I have ever met are eastern europeans. Of course, keep this in mind, i have only worked with a few dozen in Bucharest Romania, Ukrain and Poland. (After doing offshore dev teams for almost 6 years, you stick with what you know). These guys run circles around most american or european groups I have worked with. They code because they are hungry and we pay them -very- well (pretty much a western salary), we don't treat them like cheap labor. I guess if i was working for the equivilant of 200k dollars per year, I would be working my ass off too.
Anyway, the point of what i am saying. Don't discredit or generalize a generation as a whole. I hear my friends in europe saying the same thing about the younger generations that live there. I have been saying the same thing about my 17 year old sister. Imagine what your grandparents where saying about the people growing up in the 70s.
There will always be hard working people that learn to capitalize on their situations and environment. They will learn to take advantage of their skills, and domiinate their areas of influence. I don't think history has disproven that only 3-5% of the population will succeede in that way. I doubt that much will change as time goes on, and there will always be people that are splashed with a cold blast of reality and rethink what their goals are.
As for brain drain out of the United States. i believe this if it's visa workers going home, but not americans. I believe that most that leave will be back before long. I actually, don't believe for a moment that a lot of people are leaving the country for jobs off shore. Having been working in europe as an american for about 5-6 years, it's hell. It's only gotten worst since 9/11 and the generalizations that people abroad make about americans in general.
I use thunderbird as my primary email client for imap. It seems to do quite well, most of the places I use it is on Windows. I still use the Mac Mail app on my mac.
The windows seem fine, I don't notice any slugishness , but I am on a reasonably spec'd high end machine. It also seems that the windows builds are a little more zippy for menu's. Not sure why that is, don't really care.
"for "real" programming, we have C and C++. Java really hasn't made much of an inroads (most of its penetration is with compsci students), C# has barely made any impact at all, and that seems to be limited by those developers who are tied to the Windows platform and need to generate next-gen windows apps. Perl's been around for a long time and, although arguably the ugliest damn language in common usage today, is invaluable for website programming. "
This blather goes to show how little you know what your talking about.
"Although cool 3d interfaces are nice and do create a more intuitive user interface, the reasons that ease-of-use is so low (even on the Mac) is the problems of system configuration and the mismatch between command-oriented input systems (both GUI and CLI) versus goal-oriented users."
Does the mac get around this using their netinfo tool? Maybe I am off base, but about everything you can do from the config screens can also be done through netinfo on the command line, and it's all funneling through 1 config system..
"It sounds to me like anywhere you think you want this, you would be better off with actual Python."
Unless you want access to any of the miriad of Java libraries that are available, such as JDBC drivers, XML parsers, SOAP tools and 3rd party components you may want to use unless you prefer to use something like Jython.
I have to work with other bits of code and systems all the time, and thats the main headache with using Python that I run into.
Python might be king of quick hacks, but for a large-scale project where bits of scripting code might be appropriate, this sounds like an excelent option where you would NOT be better off with python.
In article peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >adam@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes: >> I'm frustrated because I'm too cheap to buy a decent OS for my 386 and GNU OS >> isn't out yet and I have to run this silly little loader called MSDOS. > >Well, check out comp.os.minix. As the Arch-OS/2 fiend Peter Busser has informed >me, there's a 386 kernel called linux under development in Finland. You need >MINIX to bring it up, though.
Happily this isn't true any more (needing minix, that is). Linux/can/ be used without minix, but it's not a tool for a user yet. Hacker- material (ie I've got gcc, uemacs etc, but no real utils). Wait for Hurd if you want something real. It's fun hacking it, though (but I'm biased).
Linus "finger me for more info" Torvalds
(torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
--------- Hehe, I wonder if he is still waiting for Hurd to do something real.
What I do care about (and what you obviously didn't pay attention to) is what the rest of the public thinks about Linux. If the rest of the public sees us as a bunch of file-sharing, website DoSing, ignorant hippies who think everything should be free then it doesn't matter if SCO wins or loses any of these lawsuits. If they destroy the public perception of free-software and Linux (not that the over-zealot members of the free-software community doesn't do their own fair share of damage to our cause) then they and Microsoft and have won. Are you too ignorant to see that or do you just not care?
You make good comments, and definitely the public opinion of Linux is important in my eyes. But, I believe whats even more at risk here though, is the commons of intellectual property that the community has spent so many years building up. We all have billions of dollars worth of software, that we can license for FREE, as long as we uphold the license of which it distributed (the GPL).
If they manage to damage the movement and stifle the commons which things are built, they have truly beat us. If they manage to ruin our name in that IT budgets are cut back, the movement will continue and you personally wouldn't be effected one way or another.
Criminalizing the use of free and open source software is really what they are trying to do, from what I can see. Trying to put a TAX on the software with claims of tainted code. When I spend more and more time thinking about the situation, it scares the hell out of me the tactics that Mr. Balmers puppet Darl is using to stifle competition.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. --Mahatma Ghandi
Thats EXACTLY whats going on here. And they are putting up an epic fight on your and my freedoms to use the commons of software. It's software that effects us in many aspects of our life and people want it to be a utility, not commodity. I just can't believe how people take lightly the nature of whats really going on here.
Can someone explain clearly why someone who works a lot with python, why one might find it worth while to invest into learning about Ruby? Are they a bit redundant in languages or does one have merit as a tool that the other doesn't.
If it's basically different tool that does more or less the same thing, I probably should just stick with what I know. I just haven't heard one way or another if it's worth putting that tool on my belt or not.
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Now I save my time and money from electricity and noise and use a little netgear router with 50mbit wireless. I do all the things that you described and never have had an outage, and it's silent.
Why use a 130wat power supply when you can use a 12, and 0 noise. Only router I have owned that routinely craps out is a linksys, I wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole. My 2 netgear routers have worked flawlessly.
When is VoiceXML going to get features like advanced call control. Right now you have to use vendor bolt-on's such as CCXML or use vendor proprietary tags that are in no way cross vendor compatible.
I have tried many games vastly higher in graphic quality than DAoC and keep going back because DAoC is more fun to me.
Despite all the issues with lack of balance and uggly nerfs, I have found the game entertaining despite the lower quality of graphics compared to games such as SWG, COH, AC2, L2 or even Horizons (bleh).
I have tried all of them, but to me DAoC is just more fun.
I know there are a LOT people still playing AC1 and UO and LOVING it, and look how shitty those graphics are.
To me graphics is like the cover of a book, it gets you to open the first page.. but definately won't keep you reading it. An emersive world with an exciting and submersive gameplay and fun interaction and a real feeling of character growth and developmen is what makes a game fun for me. Not the number of poly's on a character.
Yup, my case is the same. I wasn't buying 4-5 games per year, but 1-2 games per month.
I have been subscribed to an online game for a while, and with exception of FarCry thats all I have spent my money on.
I figure that I have saved many hundreds of dollars.
As much as people love consoles, I just don't get off on them.
My hands hurt after using the controller for too long.
My tv is high def, but still isn't as nice as my computer screen.
the graphics just don't compare to what my computer can do.
I have more options for multiplayer online games, such as mogs , etc that i don't have with the console.
I don't have a keyboard with my console to communicate with (though, xbox live is a nice step in the right direction).
Also, i like going 'away' somewhere in my computer room to escape the madness for an hour or two to blow things up.
i guess it just comes down to culture or what your used to, i just can't see myself abandoning my windows games either to an xbox anytime in the near future, unless the landscape of the games change dramatically.
We have 2 main development offices, 1 in the US and one in Eastern Europe. We use TikiWiki for all of our document and information collaboration. we have tried various other solutions, but this seems to be the one that has sticked.
Not only has our team been using it, but various other departments in the organization have started using it too. We all share the same server, but have setup various ACL and sections that allow us to easily keep people out of what they shouldn't be in.
I have found that over 6 months of casual daily use, we have been able to create a HUGE amount of searchable and findable information. A lot of our operations procedures (ie. managing services, policies, etc) was created out of the documents that have been created and collected there.
It's a snap to setup and very easy to maintain, I definately would say that I hadn't tried TikiWiki soon enough in our development process.
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It changed my perspective in how I looked at the world. And eventually ended up buying a motorcycle of my own after reading it
By clicking the eula they just need to disclaim yourself as the 'owner' of the virtual property and indemnify anyone from suing, etc. that they hold all rights, etc.
A open source RAD evironment sounds like it could have a huge impact on the number of apps that could be rolled out.
Not so much for the enterprise market, but also for the 'shareware' class applications. Most of my Windows specific applications are programs that are from very small development houses or shareware products. (I love to support a small shareware author!) . I use open source when prudent, but I also love to use a nice simple tool that even if it costs $15-$20 bucks to a pay-pal account, is money well spent in my opinion. Maybe Linux will start to attract this development base with Mono.
Another question, I have a pro version of C# I picked up at staples last year. Anyone know how realistic is it for me to build an application in Windows using my copy of C# and compile it and run it on mono?
I love it how ignorant people think that the same group of people are working on everything gui related, from browsers to video drivers.
Geezus man, this guy probably has NOTHING to do with KDE or the XFree86 project. If he wants to sit and watch pr0n all day or write a 3D window manager, it's his damn business.
It always amazes me how people can have such a gimmee mentality.
I mean, come on.. anyone
I am sure their product resellers are -pissed- and have already been working to find other distribution contracts from companies such as Novell or RH. Honestly, I think that this is a simple stunt to try and bubble their stock a bit because of the reality of 0 value on the litigation business to shareholders.
I can't imagine that anyone of real talent would want to work for SCO at this point on the engineering side.
I agree 100%. I find that silly wizardry in code often points to a insecure person who feels that by dumping 10 lines of code into 1 line makes them more of a man, when in essense more self documenting code could of been expressed a little more clear in a couple more lines.
Perl seems like a nice language, but the fact they have conventions for things like $_ or @_ is a bit odd. Isn't that the sort of practice that drives any practical programmer nuts? I am a java and python programmer and the concept of perl seems quite odd.
Even Pythons soft-typed language seems to squishy now, readable as it is. I am finding as I get more and more projects behind me, I appreciate the strict language structure of a language like java, and spend a little more time programming, but a LOT less time debugging.
Cheers
That person is REALLY excited about HL2.
Maybe something as simple as an optimized video driver make the system feel faster than a major generation jump in CPU.
/driver in.
I installed a system for a friend, but running on integrated video (althlon 2200+) ran like crap until i tossed an nvida board
I just wonder if people who use gentoo know how to generally configure their system better?
Those are very intresting ideas. Most of which I agree with.
I would like to make a few observations I have made working in various countries.
Most people do like to go home at 5:30pm. Regardless of the country. In the Uk, I never saw people working late, even in the tech culture. I worked in a building with 3 other software companies, and i was actually surprised at the laxness and lack of REALLY long hours people tended to put in compared to what I was used to on the west coast.
Lots of western european countries have laws in place to protect smaller companies, such as retail stores. Try going shopping for a TV on a sunday afternoon in even a city like Zurich. in 2000, it was not really that possible. AFIK it's still the same in Germany.
We have 5 software engineers working for me on a project we are doing. This is the 3rd project we have taken (major) and the second company the guys have worked at together. They have no problems working weekends, nights mornings, whatever.
IMHO the hardest working people I have ever met are eastern europeans. Of course, keep this in mind, i have only worked with a few dozen in Bucharest Romania, Ukrain and Poland. (After doing offshore dev teams for almost 6 years, you stick with what you know). These guys run circles around most american or european groups I have worked with. They code because they are hungry and we pay them -very- well (pretty much a western salary), we don't treat them like cheap labor. I guess if i was working for the equivilant of 200k dollars per year, I would be working my ass off too.
Anyway, the point of what i am saying. Don't discredit or generalize a generation as a whole. I hear my friends in europe saying the same thing about the younger generations that live there. I have been saying the same thing about my 17 year old sister. Imagine what your grandparents where saying about the people growing up in the 70s.
There will always be hard working people that learn to capitalize on their situations and environment. They will learn to take advantage of their skills, and domiinate their areas of influence. I don't think history has disproven that only 3-5% of the population will succeede in that way. I doubt that much will change as time goes on, and there will always be people that are splashed with a cold blast of reality and rethink what their goals are.
As for brain drain out of the United States. i believe this if it's visa workers going home, but not americans. I believe that most that leave will be back before long. I actually, don't believe for a moment that a lot of people are leaving the country for jobs off shore. Having been working in europe as an american for about 5-6 years, it's hell. It's only gotten worst since 9/11 and the generalizations that people abroad make about americans in general.
I am sure glad to be home.
I use thunderbird as my primary email client for imap. It seems to do quite well, most of the places I use it is on Windows. I still use the Mac Mail app on my mac.
The windows seem fine, I don't notice any slugishness , but I am on a reasonably spec'd high end machine. It also seems that the windows builds are a little more zippy for menu's. Not sure why that is, don't really care.
> Making the same amount of money with more people is not good.
But diversity is. IBM has broken into the services market, and various other markets microsoft could only dream of.
I would much rather have my revenue derive of various small points than very very few HUGE ones.
"for "real" programming, we have C and C++. Java really hasn't made much of an inroads (most of its penetration is with compsci students), C# has barely made any impact at all, and that seems to be limited by those developers who are tied to the Windows platform and need to generate next-gen windows apps. Perl's been around for a long time and, although arguably the ugliest damn language in common usage today, is invaluable for website programming. "
This blather goes to show how little you know what your talking about.
Puzzle Pirates must be the most stupid looking MMO I have seen since Sims Online.
"Although cool 3d interfaces are nice and do create a more intuitive user interface, the reasons that ease-of-use is so low (even on the Mac) is the problems of system configuration and the mismatch between command-oriented input systems (both GUI and CLI) versus goal-oriented users."
Does the mac get around this using their netinfo tool? Maybe I am off base, but about everything you can do from the config screens can also be done through netinfo on the command line, and it's all funneling through 1 config system..
I don't think they loose sync at all.
"It sounds to me like anywhere you think you want this, you would be better off with actual Python."
Unless you want access to any of the miriad of Java libraries that are available, such as JDBC drivers, XML parsers, SOAP tools and 3rd party components you may want to use unless you prefer to use something like Jython.
I have to work with other bits of code and systems all the time, and thats the main headache with using Python that I run into.
Python might be king of quick hacks, but for a large-scale project where bits of scripting code might be appropriate, this sounds like an excelent option where you would NOT be better off with python.
In article peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
/can/
>adam@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:
>> I'm frustrated because I'm too cheap to buy a decent OS for my 386 and GNU OS
>> isn't out yet and I have to run this silly little loader called MSDOS.
>
>Well, check out comp.os.minix. As the Arch-OS/2 fiend Peter Busser has informed
>me, there's a 386 kernel called linux under development in Finland. You need
>MINIX to bring it up, though.
Happily this isn't true any more (needing minix, that is). Linux
be used without minix, but it's not a tool for a user yet. Hacker-
material (ie I've got gcc, uemacs etc, but no real utils). Wait for
Hurd if you want something real. It's fun hacking it, though (but I'm
biased).
Linus "finger me for more info" Torvalds
(torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
---------
Hehe, I wonder if he is still waiting for Hurd to do something real.
You make good comments, and definitely the public opinion of Linux is important in my eyes. But, I believe whats even more at risk here though, is the commons of intellectual property that the community has spent so many years building up. We all have billions of dollars worth of software, that we can license for FREE, as long as we uphold the license of which it distributed (the GPL).
If they manage to damage the movement and stifle the commons which things are built, they have truly beat us. If they manage to ruin our name in that IT budgets are cut back, the movement will continue and you personally wouldn't be effected one way or another.
Criminalizing the use of free and open source software is really what they are trying to do, from what I can see. Trying to put a TAX on the software with claims of tainted code. When I spend more and more time thinking about the situation, it scares the hell out of me the tactics that Mr. Balmers puppet Darl is using to stifle competition.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. --Mahatma Ghandi
Thats EXACTLY whats going on here. And they are putting up an epic fight on your and my freedoms to use the commons of software. It's software that effects us in many aspects of our life and people want it to be a utility, not commodity. I just can't believe how people take lightly the nature of whats really going on here.
Can someone explain clearly why someone who works a lot with python, why one might find it worth while to invest into learning about Ruby? Are they a bit redundant in languages or does one have merit as a tool that the other doesn't.
If it's basically different tool that does more or less the same thing, I probably should just stick with what I know. I just haven't heard one way or another if it's worth putting that tool on my belt or not.
No kidding.
Racketeering is alive and well here in the good old USA, and frankly I am about fed up.
I have no idea what the fuck our legal system is doing even entertaining these crooks..