Glen Cook wrote a series of books about the Dread Empire in the 80's. These were great books and i've been waiting for him to publish another in the series forever. This series even has a subplot about the Praxis conspiracy.
The solution to all slamming and telemarketting is to get caller-id. Whenever it doesn't show a call from number DONT ANSWER. If it's important they will leave a message. If not they should turn off the caller-id block if they expect you to answer.
This is actually incorrect. There is NO Director's cut to Dune. There are at least three version's of the movie but there are none which the director actually blessed as ok for release. All of them editting jobs done by the studio.
Also the credit for director goes to Alan Smithee. The concept of having Alan Smithee releasing a director's cut is truely ironic. Alan Smithee is a name that directors use when they do not want to be associated with the movie.
The Dune movie failed purely on bad directing. I believe it was directed by the same guy who did "Twin Peaks" and "Lost Highway", although his name escapes me....
Silly Rabbit!
The credits for Dune list the director as Alan Smithee. Alan Smithee is a psuedoname that directors use when the studio fucks them over. David Lynch, who has done some great movies including Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart, never actually completed Dune. After he ran over budget, the studio took his work and did what they liked with it. Imagine if the studio had done the editting on The Godfather or Titanic...
Metcalfe is wrong, but for different reason than many people have posted here.
First of all, Metcalfe is right in saying Cursoe could have been developed open-source and be sold near free. Yes the economics of hardware are different from the economics of software, but the differences talked about so far do not present an insurmountable barrier to open source hardware development.
Using open source takes IP and makes it into a commodity. It is a much together market, because nothing is given to you by right, you must work hard for each and every sale. In Cursoe's case, much of the propietary development is actually software. If it was open source you could have thousands of eyes trying to make the interpretations and optimizations better than any single company could. Also by open sourcing as much as possible of the chip, you could make it a standard. Had open source been choosen, Cursoe could have become an even bigger commercial event than Linux. Yes, you would still need a fab plant to actually produce this open source chip... but not to fix bugs with the emulation software.
Now, that part that Metcalfe asks and just doesn't seem to understand is "so why aren't we booing Crusoe down?". The answer is simple. We don't boo propietary software when it is actually innovative and there is no open source equivalent. Now suppose I came out with a new CPU chip tommorow. Suppose it was designed for to be compatible with other cpu's and it's behavior was programmable. Let's say it was inferior in terms of speed, power usage, and had a few bugs. Lets also say I also released a simulation program and all of the docs for it under something like the GPL. Such a chip could be produced for next to nothing in Taiwan and would scare Intel much more than AMD and Transmeta do combined. You see, eventually someone smart would see how to make the chip faster and better. It might take as long to catch up to Intel as Linux takes to catch Microsoft, but I would win just by changing the way the game is played.
The current implementation of SCSI is 160 Mb/Sec. SCSI is a multitasking i/o subsystem (simultaneous read/write), IDE is not. SCSI typically impedes CPU performance by 3%, while IDE typically impedes CPU performance by ~25%. For Starters.
This is correct, but it doesn't capture the whole picture. Only fools and zealots can argue that IDE Tech is as good as SCSI Tech. The advantages of SCSI are obvious. SCSI allows more disks, more cabling distance, much more bandwith, less cpu usage, and you could go on. The real question has always been who cares?
Technological superiority is a terrible to buy something. (Unless you're a nerd buying a gadget just to have it that is) When you make real purchases you buy whatever fits your needs and your budget the best. Any tech superiority you pay for but don't use is nothing more than Gold-Plating. A gold plated computer might look great, but unless that gold plating is used for something it's pretty dumb.
When people say that IDE Tech is catching up to SCSI tech, what they really mean is that IDE capability to satisfy thier needs is catching up to SCSI's ability to satisfy them. Personally I often wish I had bought SCSI so I could put more devices on a single controller. Then I look at the prices for certain SCSI HD's. I remember why I choose IDE in the first place, and I don't feel so bad.
Anti-Matter would has Anti-Time. Thus a particle of Anti Matter would appear to behave in reverse compared to the same particle in our same space. The tougher question is can we ever copy particles from Matter to Anti-Matter and back.
It is interesting to see a/. founder get flammed all to hell for acting like Bill Gates. He kinda asked for this time I think.
Personally I've programmed a long time. When programmers make statements to the effect of "it's too specialized for other people to look at" it means something. When you see programmers saying "if you ask for the code again I'll delay it more", there is a problem. I've seen this many times before and I think the other readers have as well.
This isn't really an open source vs closed source issue. This is really an attitude problem. People talk like this all the time, but when they do I make sure I don't have to work with them. Seriously, have you taken the time to wonder why people send all those flames? Or maybe that, God forbid, the flammers might have a point?
If you're not going to post the source then don't. It's your source and your choice. However, make sure you check the righteous indignation at the door. You are among programmers who have been there and done that already. Whether it's Bill Gates or anyone else saying it, we are not fooled by this.
The problem here is that the script ender can not be executed!
I would fix it myself, but it's been release under an non open source license. When will these big companies learn that closed source just won't cut it anymore. I think we should boycott orsonscottcard.com until they start using the GPL.
Anyone out there want to start an ender work a-like script?
The story behind this is that they did go gold about the same time. Carmack said, "the retail stores were willing to take extra steps to get the windows version out faster". I think this means that retail stores/distributors must have thrown in some money to get the windows version out extra fast.
One thing about the pre depression stock market was that the rules were very different. You could loan ten times what you actually had and use the money to buy stocks. When a lot of people are doing this then the stock market is kept high, but no one can afford to lose even a tenth of what they had invested.
Nowdays stocks are inflated in large part because many people put retirement money into the market. If you are retiring in 20 yrs you can afford to lose this money. Heck, if the stock market goes down buy more more. If you are retiring any time soon then you need to be very careful.
From the DEC/Digital side, their Unix was not well accepted. The OEM mags were quoting that for every 10 users leaving VMS, only 2 stayed with Digital. (No one identified if it was DEC or its Unix as to why 80% left)
This is a mis-quote. VMS is not Unix. Like UNIX Vms is a time-slicing OS. Like Unix you can use POSIX complient code under VMS. But most other things are different.
I don't like the idea of banning IP's... I've seen it done before. It's too easy for innocent people to get locked out. If IP blocking must be done, then here are couple ideas
1) First try banning only AC's from the IP. Let people still post from the IP if they are using an account.
2) If the offender doesn't get the point and starts making multiple accounts, restrict posts form new accounts from that IP. That means that instead of getting a message saying "your IP is banned", you might get a message saying "you only have read permission for the first week".
3) As a last resort ban the IP for some period of time.
So we know there were a lot of Delphi users responding. I think the people looking for Delphi to be ported answered in a completely different way than people looking for C++. What if we could see what just the C++ people are looking for? Likewise I have to wonder, how would these results look if you only cared about the people willing to pay $100+ for the compiler? Kudos to inprise for releasing this survey, which does have actual value, for everyone to see. I just wish a little more analysis could be applied.
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These 1 paragram stories are useless.
Your posted item quoted about 25% of the actual article from PhysOrg.com.
I'm annoyed that I clicked on the link then found no more information than I started with.
Glen Cook wrote a series of books about the Dread Empire in the 80's. These were great books and i've been waiting for him to publish another in the series forever. This series even has a subplot about the Praxis conspiracy.
Did this author know about the previous series?
I wonder what it is like being slashdotted on Election day for a news site.
It's kind of zen..
The solution to all slamming and telemarketting is to get caller-id. Whenever it doesn't show a call from number DONT ANSWER. If it's important they will leave a message. If not they should turn off the caller-id block if they expect you to answer.
Using a watermark to track down the source of
a mp3 file is useful with pre-release material.
Often pre-release music gets stolen somehow and put online. I can use watermarks to tell me what stage of production they were ripped off at.
Ok, I stand corrected :)
Also the credit for director goes to Alan Smithee. The concept of having Alan Smithee releasing a director's cut is truely ironic. Alan Smithee is a name that directors use when they do not want to be associated with the movie.
Silly Rabbit!
The credits for Dune list the director as Alan Smithee. Alan Smithee is a psuedoname that directors use when the studio fucks them over. David Lynch, who has done some great movies including Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart, never actually completed Dune. After he ran over budget, the studio took his work and did what they liked with it. Imagine if the studio had done the editting on The Godfather or Titanic...
Metcalfe is wrong, but for different reason than many people have posted here.
First of all, Metcalfe is right in saying Cursoe could have been developed open-source and be sold near free. Yes the economics of hardware are different from the economics of software, but the differences talked about so far do not present an insurmountable barrier to open source hardware development.
Using open source takes IP and makes it into a commodity. It is a much together market, because nothing is given to you by right, you must work hard for each and every sale. In Cursoe's case, much of the propietary development is actually software. If it was open source you could have thousands of eyes trying to make the interpretations and optimizations better than any single company could. Also by open sourcing as much as possible of the chip, you could make it a standard. Had open source been choosen, Cursoe could have become an even bigger commercial event than Linux. Yes, you would still need a fab plant to actually produce this open source chip... but not to fix bugs with the emulation software.
Now, that part that Metcalfe asks and just doesn't seem to understand is "so why aren't we booing Crusoe down?". The answer is simple. We don't boo propietary software when it is actually innovative and there is no open source equivalent. Now suppose I came out with a new CPU chip tommorow. Suppose it was designed for to be compatible with other cpu's and it's behavior was programmable. Let's say it was inferior in terms of speed, power usage, and had a few bugs. Lets also say I also released a simulation program and all of the docs for it under something like the GPL. Such a chip could be produced for next to nothing in Taiwan and would scare Intel much more than AMD and Transmeta do combined. You see, eventually someone smart would see how to make the chip faster and better. It might take as long to catch up to Intel as Linux takes to catch Microsoft, but I would win just by changing the way the game is played.
This is correct, but it doesn't capture the whole picture. Only fools and zealots can argue that IDE Tech is as good as SCSI Tech. The advantages of SCSI are obvious. SCSI allows more disks, more cabling distance, much more bandwith, less cpu usage, and you could go on. The real question has always been who cares?
Technological superiority is a terrible to buy something. (Unless you're a nerd buying a gadget just to have it that is) When you make real purchases you buy whatever fits your needs and your budget the best. Any tech superiority you pay for but don't use is nothing more than Gold-Plating. A gold plated computer might look great, but unless that gold plating is used for something it's pretty dumb.
When people say that IDE Tech is catching up to SCSI tech, what they really mean is that IDE capability to satisfy thier needs is catching up to SCSI's ability to satisfy them. Personally I often wish I had bought SCSI so I could put more devices on a single controller. Then I look at the prices for certain SCSI HD's. I remember why I choose IDE in the first place, and I don't feel so bad.
I also have an Anti-Grammer. I was testing it out on this post to make sure it worked, so there!
Anti-Matter would has Anti-Time. Thus a particle of Anti Matter would appear to behave in reverse compared to the same particle in our same space. The tougher question is can we ever copy particles from Matter to Anti-Matter and back.
It is interesting to see a /. founder get flammed all to hell for acting like Bill Gates. He kinda asked for this time I think.
Personally I've programmed a long time. When programmers make statements to the effect of "it's too specialized for other people to look at" it means something. When you see programmers saying "if you ask for the code again I'll delay it more", there is a problem. I've seen this many times before and I think the other readers have as well.
This isn't really an open source vs closed source issue. This is really an attitude problem. People talk like this all the time, but when they do I make sure I don't have to work with them. Seriously, have you taken the time to wonder why people send all those flames? Or maybe that, God forbid, the flammers might have a point?
If you're not going to post the source then don't. It's your source and your choice. However, make sure you check the righteous indignation at the door.
You are among programmers who have been there and done that already. Whether it's Bill Gates or anyone else saying it, we are not fooled by this.
The problem here is that the script ender can not be executed!
I would fix it myself, but it's been release under an non open source license. When will these big companies learn that closed source just won't cut it anymore. I think we should boycott orsonscottcard.com until they start using the GPL.
Anyone out there want to start an ender work a-like script?
The story behind this is that they did go gold about the same time. Carmack said, "the retail stores were willing to take extra steps to get the windows version out faster". I think this means that retail stores /distributors must have thrown in some money to get the windows version out extra fast.
One thing about the pre depression stock market was that the rules were very different. You could loan ten times what you actually had and use the money to buy stocks. When a lot of people are doing this then the stock market is kept high, but no one can afford to lose even a tenth of what they had invested.
Nowdays stocks are inflated in large part because many people put retirement money into the market. If you are retiring in 20 yrs you can afford to lose this money. Heck, if the stock market goes down buy more more. If you are retiring any time soon then you need to be very careful.
From the DEC/Digital side, their Unix was not well accepted. The OEM mags were quoting that for every 10 users leaving VMS, only 2 stayed with Digital. (No one identified if it was DEC or its Unix as to why 80% left)
This is a mis-quote. VMS is not Unix. Like UNIX Vms is a time-slicing OS. Like Unix you can use POSIX complient code under VMS. But most other things are different.
I don't like the idea of banning IP's... I've seen it done before. It's too easy for innocent people to get locked out. If IP blocking must be done, then here are couple ideas
1) First try banning only AC's from the IP. Let people still post from the IP if they are using an account.
2) If the offender doesn't get the point and starts making multiple accounts, restrict posts form new accounts from that IP. That means that instead of getting a message saying "your IP is banned", you might get a message saying "you only have read permission for the first week".
3) As a last resort ban the IP for some period of time.
All of a sudden everything is fast, but these are old articles.
So we know there were a lot of Delphi users responding. I think the people looking for Delphi to be ported answered in a completely different way than people looking for C++. What if we could see what just the C++ people are looking for? Likewise I have to wonder, how would these results look if you only cared about the people willing to pay $100+ for the compiler? Kudos to inprise for releasing this survey, which does have actual value, for everyone to see. I just wish a little more analysis could be applied.