As funny as this might be, the analogies are pretty far fetched.
In other news, Ford has recently demanded that Microsoft stop using the name "Explorer"[...]
Ford is not a software company and their "Explorer" is a car, that's pretty remote from a web browser. However, Lindows is a competitor to the software Windows and that's a completely different story. Say you started a company called LApple that made computers similar to Apple's computers, don't you think Apple would have sent a couple of lawyers on a mission to sue for all they're worth?
The Washington Post piece is flawed. Besides the fact that it exaggerates the importance of "space domination", if transporting H3 from the moon would be "economically feasible" I would think NASA had tried to do that already.
Fusion isn't even plausible yet, the energy that you get out of it is (much) less than what you put in. I think the entire piece is way too far fetched and simplified.
You got it all wrong, you need to look at the context of the quote.
What he meant by that is that the deployment of web services is held up by security and reliability, this has nothing to do with performance. Everyone that has worked with web services know that web services are not up to date with security and reliability yet, but it is being worked on. And this is what is keeping web services from being used on a broader scale.
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Oh come on, we all know that the only reason you have for moving to the Netherlands and Amsterdam is because you want to visit the Coffee Shops and purchase grass legally.
It's a combination of the two, design + content, that makes a site sell and be credible.
A site which has no content but has a nice design is pretty worthless, and a site with a lot of content but no way of finding the information you need easily is just a way to scare off customers.
"Guy logs into website where you are given a free *job, after a while it says: Pay $100 with your VISA card within 2 minutes, otherwise the hand will squeeze extra tight."
I actually took a course in C# through my company, and even though i was late for the course, I didn't miss anything. Basically C# IS Java, but with a different naming convention.
Anyway, if you know Java already, you don't need a book on 600 pages to get to know C#, all you need is info located for free on the web, here for instance.
This looks like a major hoax. Drudge Report says it's a rumour but every big newssite seems to take it for real.
In fact, noone seems to have it, and those who claim they have it have fake files.
Many believe this rumour is actually spread by the RIAA and the MPAA, which is not too far fetched, imho. Especially considering that harsh quote from a "New York executive".
TheOneRing.net has a blurb of it, saying that they think it's a hoax as well.
Also, it is known for definate that once a game has started, additional players cannot join. This limitation is due mainly to DOOM 3's physics engine. Basically, there is so much physics data that would need to be synchronised, that if a player had to "catch up" with the physics data, it would probably be a lot of data to send, and since it's constantly changing data, it is likely that as the player recieves the data, it becomes invalid.
Oh come on, all the client needs to know is where the items are. What in the world would the DOOM3 engine have that the Q3A engine didnt have which allowed the client/server based games. All FPS related games today do client/server.
It is more likely that they do this because they want to get the game out as soon as possible; id software makes the real money on licensing their engine. Thus they don't have to spend precious time on creating a good multiplayer aspect, but can instead release an addon later (and maybe sell it for some extra $$$).
Going from client/server to Peer To Peer in online gaming is a serious setback, it's like going back to the old Doom days again. Not only is there the cheat aspect when everything is client based, but a player can't join a game that has already been started.
Final Fantasy tried to do everything in CGI, and it pretty much failed in the box office.
Although the CGI was pretty much top notch, it was the story that, IMHO, was the reason it failed miserably.
But seriously, even if the story would have been really good, it is pretty difficult to identify with characters that are either animated by hand, or animated by CGI. Movies are just simply better with real actors (when the actors don't suck). The kissing scene in Final Fantasy was so incredibly fake, for example.
If you went into a movie, however, that you didn't know had CGI characters from the start, it might have been a different experience, provided the CGI was able to fool the audience. But if an audience knew it was fake from the start, it would probably be a failure since noone would be able to take the characters seriously.
I wonder if hollywood has the guts to try something like Final Fantasy again, considering what a box office failure it was.
In this movie the space ships were similar to submarines in space, they actually used some kind of sonar which picked up sound. As the space ship, or space submarine if you will, tried to avoid confrontation with another ship it hid in an asteroid field, and everyone on board the ship was ordered to stay quiet and all machines were turned off so that the ship in pursuit wasn't able to pick up any sound from it.
I honestly don't see the big fuss here, converting a digital film to play on a 35mm projector can't be that hard, thus if hollywood would want to "impose" the use of digital projectors instead of the standard ones, wouldn't they have to support it financially in one way or another?
Let's face it, digital film is the future, it will come sooner or later, and above all, it will get cheaper. Not realizing this would be like comparing old magnetic tapes vs CDs.
Filming a movie digitally from the start is also a huge revolution for independent filmers and newbie filmartists: producing a movie will be immensely less expensive and editing a movie won't cost hundreds of thousands of dollars anymore; you could edit your film with great quality using your home computer. I know for a fact that people that make documentaries simply love this.
Don't stare blindly at the cost of the equipment or the replace equipment should anything break, because we all know how much the first CD player cost, or the first DVD player, or the first DVD recorder, or the first digital camera... I could go on and on, but I think you get my point.
If you check out the frontpage of L.A. Times you will see that "oracle" in that url doesn't mean that it is served by anything running on Oracle software.
For example:
A story about Jenin: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-0 50302jenin.story
A story about Nike: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-050302nike.st ory
But hey, they might be running Oracle databases in the background, who knows, but the url doesn't reveal it.
But after eight months without a job, the 37-year-old Raleigh, N.C., resident had burned through his 401(k) savings and was nearing the end of unemployment insurance.
How did that happen? $401k in 8 months? Am I missing something here?
Maybe he should try relocating to find a proper job.
It's really a shame that Jet Li has gone hollywood.
The chinese movies he has made are all, with few exceptions, excellent. The fighting is astonishing and Jet Li is truly one of the absolute best martial arts actors out there. Just watch Fist of Legend and you'll see. That movie made me into a Jet Li-fan, and the choreographer is the same who did choreography for The Matrix.
But the hollywood effect on Jet Li's movies is terrible. Firstly because Jet Li is taken out of his habitat; he only speaks little English, let him speak Chinese in the movies damnit. Secondly because the fighting scenes are created into some strange blur, and it's freakin' impossible to see anything! Jet Li is incredible, but the fighting scenes are made into some camera-frenzy. If you watch Fist of Legend there are lengthy fighting scenes that are so good you want to see them over and over again, provided you are a kung fu-fan of course, and it's actually possible to appreciate their skills.
The camera effects were necessary on actors in The Matrix, since they need them. Jet Li does not.
I read a number of posts in the "Petreley on Ximian and Mono" article, and the fears that people have on Microsoft's Passport service.
This is exactly the initiative that is needed, a Peer-to-Peer authentication service that no major company has exclusive rights on. I applaud the initiative and hope it turns out well.
Although the comments in the article like hippies creating the internet etc is totally absurd, as many posts before me pointed out, it does bring up an important point.
The internet today is slow, and it doesn't live up to the promise of being smart as in if a router goes down traffic is automatically routed elsewhere. Traffic from one point to another doesn't take the fastest way either; traffic goes where the routers have been configurated to let it go.
Anyone who knows if Cisco or anyone else has anything up their sleeves when it comes to "smarter" routers and stuff that actually considers this?
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... but I think the whole A.Hole joke was covered in the previous slashdot article about the legislation ;)
Does it come with nifty embedded serial numbers in all printed documents?
Spoiler? I have a spoiler for you. You will die alone.
The Washington Post piece is flawed. Besides the fact that it exaggerates the importance of "space domination", if transporting H3 from the moon would be "economically feasible" I would think NASA had tried to do that already.
Fusion isn't even plausible yet, the energy that you get out of it is (much) less than what you put in. I think the entire piece is way too far fetched and simplified.
You got it all wrong, you need to look at the context of the quote.
What he meant by that is that the deployment of web services is held up by security and reliability, this has nothing to do with performance. Everyone that has worked with web services know that web services are not up to date with security and reliability yet, but it is being worked on. And this is what is keeping web services from being used on a broader scale.
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Oh come on, we all know that the only reason you have for moving to the Netherlands and Amsterdam is because you want to visit the Coffee Shops and purchase grass legally.
Strange,
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I thought the warez group Drink Or Die already used Open Source software to distribute their stuff...
It's a combination of the two, design + content, that makes a site sell and be credible.
A site which has no content but has a nice design is pretty worthless, and a site with a lot of content but no way of finding the information you need easily is just a way to scare off customers.
Oh the possibilities for extortion:
"Guy logs into website where you are given a free *job, after a while it says: Pay $100 with your VISA card within 2 minutes, otherwise the hand will squeeze extra tight."
I actually took a course in C# through my company, and even though i was late for the course, I didn't miss anything. Basically C# IS Java, but with a different naming convention.
Anyway, if you know Java already, you don't need a book on 600 pages to get to know C#, all you need is info located for free on the web, here for instance.
This looks like a major hoax. Drudge Report says it's a rumour but every big newssite seems to take it for real.
In fact, noone seems to have it, and those who claim they have it have fake files.
Many believe this rumour is actually spread by the RIAA and the MPAA, which is not too far fetched, imho. Especially considering that harsh quote from a "New York executive".
TheOneRing.net has a blurb of it, saying that they think it's a hoax as well.
It is more likely that they do this because they want to get the game out as soon as possible; id software makes the real money on licensing their engine. Thus they don't have to spend precious time on creating a good multiplayer aspect, but can instead release an addon later (and maybe sell it for some extra $$$).
Going from client/server to Peer To Peer in online gaming is a serious setback, it's like going back to the old Doom days again. Not only is there the cheat aspect when everything is client based, but a player can't join a game that has already been started.
Final Fantasy tried to do everything in CGI, and it pretty much failed in the box office.
Although the CGI was pretty much top notch, it was the story that, IMHO, was the reason it failed miserably.
But seriously, even if the story would have been really good, it is pretty difficult to identify with characters that are either animated by hand, or animated by CGI. Movies are just simply better with real actors (when the actors don't suck). The kissing scene in Final Fantasy was so incredibly fake, for example.
If you went into a movie, however, that you didn't know had CGI characters from the start, it might have been a different experience, provided the CGI was able to fool the audience. But if an audience knew it was fake from the start, it would probably be a failure since noone would be able to take the characters seriously.
I wonder if hollywood has the guts to try something like Final Fantasy again, considering what a box office failure it was.
If the movies are correct, the martian bacteria will take over human subjects and create monsters out of them!
While reading this article I vividly remember the Wing Commander movie.
In this movie the space ships were similar to submarines in space, they actually used some kind of sonar which picked up sound. As the space ship, or space submarine if you will, tried to avoid confrontation with another ship it hid in an asteroid field, and everyone on board the ship was ordered to stay quiet and all machines were turned off so that the ship in pursuit wasn't able to pick up any sound from it.
I honestly don't see the big fuss here, converting a digital film to play on a 35mm projector can't be that hard, thus if hollywood would want to "impose" the use of digital projectors instead of the standard ones, wouldn't they have to support it financially in one way or another?
Let's face it, digital film is the future, it will come sooner or later, and above all, it will get cheaper. Not realizing this would be like comparing old magnetic tapes vs CDs.
Filming a movie digitally from the start is also a huge revolution for independent filmers and newbie filmartists: producing a movie will be immensely less expensive and editing a movie won't cost hundreds of thousands of dollars anymore; you could edit your film with great quality using your home computer. I know for a fact that people that make documentaries simply love this.
Don't stare blindly at the cost of the equipment or the replace equipment should anything break, because we all know how much the first CD player cost, or the first DVD player, or the first DVD recorder, or the first digital camera... I could go on and on, but I think you get my point.
If you check out the frontpage of L.A. Times you will see that "oracle" in that url doesn't mean that it is served by anything running on Oracle software.
0 50302jenin.storyt ory
For example:
A story about Jenin: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-
A story about Nike: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-050302nike.s
But hey, they might be running Oracle databases in the background, who knows, but the url doesn't reveal it.
Thanks for the bite ;)
Didn't know, since I don't live in the states. Thanks for clarifying, it sounded really strange.
But after eight months without a job, the 37-year-old Raleigh, N.C., resident had burned through his 401(k) savings and was nearing the end of unemployment insurance.
How did that happen? $401k in 8 months? Am I missing something here?
Maybe he should try relocating to find a proper job.
Jake and the Fatman?
It's really a shame that Jet Li has gone hollywood.
The chinese movies he has made are all, with few exceptions, excellent. The fighting is astonishing and Jet Li is truly one of the absolute best martial arts actors out there. Just watch Fist of Legend and you'll see. That movie made me into a Jet Li-fan, and the choreographer is the same who did choreography for The Matrix.
But the hollywood effect on Jet Li's movies is terrible. Firstly because Jet Li is taken out of his habitat; he only speaks little English, let him speak Chinese in the movies damnit. Secondly because the fighting scenes are created into some strange blur, and it's freakin' impossible to see anything! Jet Li is incredible, but the fighting scenes are made into some camera-frenzy. If you watch Fist of Legend there are lengthy fighting scenes that are so good you want to see them over and over again, provided you are a kung fu-fan of course, and it's actually possible to appreciate their skills.
The camera effects were necessary on actors in The Matrix, since they need them. Jet Li does not.
I read a number of posts in the "Petreley on Ximian and Mono" article, and the fears that people have on Microsoft's Passport service.
This is exactly the initiative that is needed, a Peer-to-Peer authentication service that no major company has exclusive rights on. I applaud the initiative and hope it turns out well.
Although the comments in the article like hippies creating the internet etc is totally absurd, as many posts before me pointed out, it does bring up an important point.
The internet today is slow, and it doesn't live up to the promise of being smart as in if a router goes down traffic is automatically routed elsewhere. Traffic from one point to another doesn't take the fastest way either; traffic goes where the routers have been configurated to let it go.
Anyone who knows if Cisco or anyone else has anything up their sleeves when it comes to "smarter" routers and stuff that actually considers this?