That's why they have resisted it for so long. Now it will just be one more thing where there are sneaky, annoying inconsistencies between distributions. Nothing will be "broken", but things will end up being implemented slighly differenty and some portability will be lost.
I guess it doesn't *have* to happen, but there seem to be more than enough people that want to take Java away from Sun that it's inevitable.
went out and laid down $300+ so that they could play Half-Life 2 when it came out? I know a few. I also know people who basically built new machines for Doom 3.
Sony will launch at $599 and sell out. And then there will be a shortage for a while, and then the top end console will be at the price point of the lower end one, and the lower end disappears. The controllers will have their Dual Shock back by then too. Everybody gets what they want. People get in on the bleeding edge, others get to feel good about saving $100 later.
And including FUD from SEGA America's president? Yeah, that's credible. Bill Gates said that Linux is dead too, so it must be true.
$600 is too much for a console? Says who? It's not too much for a PC-gaming rig by a long shot, so why is it suddenly too much for a console?
Sony is, get ready, charging you what the technology costs. How much does Microsoft subsididze your purchase of an Xbox? $150 or so? Which would put the cost of a 360 where exactly in comparison to a PS3? Compare the actual costs of the hardware without Microsoft dumping the Xbox specfically to hurt Sony and things are a lot closer. And for each one of you that buys an Xbox, just wait until you have not choice again... it will become the IE of consoles and hardware specific gaming consoles aren't the kind of thing that get put together with no capital in somebody's spare time.
And it isn't like Sony is even that great of a company (their products generally work, but their tech support sucks), but the price is completely reasonable in light of what you are getting. And when game development catches up so you can create and ad-hoc network of the PS3s in your house to play Gran Turismo 5 multiplayer you'll stop complaining.
If you configure two Precision 380 machines, one with Windows and one with RedHat, they come out to exactly the same price. So.... in one case you at least get an XP pro license if you need one, and in the other you just pissed away an extra $150 for nothing.
Buy the Windows one, download distro of choice, and go from there.
Apparently, and IANAL, this is not the issue *right now*. The problem is that the patent does exist, and NTP is actively trying to enforce it.
As I understand it, there is no way to challenge an already granted patent until the patent holder attempts to sue somebody for infringement. After that, the successful defense of the case may result in the patent being declared invalid (due to prior art, too broad of a scope, etc). But, you can't arbitrarily browse the USPTO web site and attempt to have a patent invalidated. You have to build an "infringing" device and then wait to be sued.
If you could challenge patents arbitrarily, I think either the FSF or the EFF (or something else with two Fs) would be looking for a lot more lawyers.
I'd recommend EverQuest (original) for you as a good place to start. All of this IMO, but:
There are some things which have become rediculously complex (navigation in the friggin' Bazzar (where players buy and sell items from each other)), but on the whole it is a pretty simple yet engrossing game.
Most of the hard-core raiding guild players left for EQ2 as new grounds to conquer, and while there are still some pretty annoying people you'll find them everywhere. The signal to noise ratio seems much better in EQ1 tho. There are still plenty of people, but they seem to stick around because they genuinely enjoy the game and the interaction. Most are incredibly helpful if you just ask because they want you to like the game as much as they do.
EverQuest is also pretty aptly named as well. It goes on and on and on and on... The biggest complaint I hear about WoW from returning EQ players (I don't know anything about Wow) is that there is a definitive "end" to the game. Once you finish it, there doesn't seem to be much more. This may not be true any more or may never have been, but I have heard it several times.
Stay away from Player vs Player (PvP) servers until you figure out the game and decide whether that is what you want. In most MMORPGs it is all Player vs Environment (PvE). PvP seems to attract roving gangs of 12 year-olds (or just those with a 12 year-old mentality) who will gleefully hang around and kill you for hours while you're busy trying to figure out how to handle your inventory or master a trade skill.
Dark Age of Camelot was also pretty cool last time I looked. Combat system is better than EQ1 (so good that it was completely ripped off for EQ2) but when I quit 2 years ago it was mostly because there weren't that many people to play with. It may be better now, and maybe somebody else will comment. The game progression is better than EQ1 too, since you move from a PvE game to a PvP scenario between realms.
and stop trying to steal ZFS for linux. Go out an actually innovate something on your own for once instead of jsut copying the efforts of others. Pretend that you actually had an *idea* rather than stealing somebody else's hard work for your own benefit.
Wow. Rarely has a post so long missed the point completely.
Sun doesn't give a flying fuck about your music or where you store your porn. Sun doesn't build computers for the average basement dweller who thinks that because they can install Apache they are a sysadmin. They build solid, scalable servers with an operating system degigned to take advantage of every aspect of the hardware it is running on.
They push the thin-client architecture into large enterprise models because it makes sense. Only 1 copy of an application on the network means only 1 place to upgrade it, and the guarentee that everybody is running the same version. Worrying about where to store your iPod crap doesn't even enter into the equation.
While that was very passionate, being able to hack the 360 to get Linux on it won't change anything. 99.9% of the people interested in streaming content don't care what they watch it on. They will buy the box that gives them what they want with the minimum amount of effort. It's why they buy Windows in the first place.
I'm sure that the whole project will be fun for the people who want to invest the time, but in the long run it will only help Microsoft learn how to lock down the hardware better. The time would be better spent building a serious, Linux-based gaming platform if you wanted the market penetration.
Wow. So she sucks, and is teaching you something worthless. Double Bonus!
Actually, I was 95% joking with the above but upon re-reading it does not seem to be nearly as funny in black and white as it was in my head. Lesson: Don't post after excessive Guinness.
1. Bring a geek is still not cool. Your best bet is to hang out with other geeks and try to be at least the coolest of the non-cool.
2. Enrollment in CS courses is down because there is no future in it. Everything you can learn in CS can be farmed out to some Indian tech worker for 1/10 th price of anybody in the US. They have all the theory and none of the experience, which is what today's company-on-the-go needs.
3. Girls aren't in technical fields because the educational interests in the US have been to neuter the school curriculum to make females feel more important. Instead of getting girls interested in science, it just means that Home Economics is worth more credit than AP Physics. This is important because girls suck at math and logic, but we need them to graduate for some reason.
When we first heard about this where I work we hopped on Symantec's site looking for an uninstaller (since we run Norton AV Corporate). All we found was a notice that Sony had threatend Symantec with legal action if they provided an un-installer since it was their (Sony's) position that this was neither a virus nor malware.
In the ensuing fallout, Symantec apparently has decided that they can provide an uninstaller but they do strongly advise using Sony's product (which generally uncloaks and does not cleanly uninstall).
Why the hell isn't this on the front page?!?!
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Sun releases a staggeringly cool file system, and nobody knows about it.
Only 25 comments too. Apparently there is a definite audience to cater to now rather than providing actual news. Mustn't frighten the linux weenies. *sigh*/. really sucks sometimes.
And that's great, but NAT also means that I don't have to re-number my entire network is I change ISPs.
As long as the IPv6 standard allows me to NAT if I want to, then it is a good thing. Otherwise, it is a pretty big headache. I thought that there was a battle still being fought between the IP "purists" who hate NAT, and the people who actually *do* things and want to keep it as an option.
That really has nothing to do with it at all. The major problem was, and still is, the ability to edit out advertising when you record and redistribute. I can't imagine that anybody gives a rat's ass about people distributing Will and Grace on the internet unless you edit out the Tampax commercials.
If the commercials were left in, this would be a complete non-issue as the advertizers (you know, the ones really paying for the shows) would be getting extra exposure.
Please... When has accuracy ever been important in a submission write up? They can't even stop the dupes, and you think they actually read the articles to fact check?
Linux has a huge independent development community and more huge companies than it is easy to count behind it, and nobody can keep up with the pace of development. The GPL is a very important factor. It's the only partnership that would keep it fair for the big guys and the little ones at the same time. What technical lead Solaris has is rapidly diminishing because they can not - and never will - keep up the development team that Linux and the GPL have spawned.
Exactly. Nobody can keep up with the development, at all. Every new kernel patch is a mixed bag of fixed bugs, new bugs, and old bugs resurfacing in different ways. That's what happens when you have 1000's of attention deficit coders around the world working on a project. They'll half-ass a solution together without any documentation before they are distracted by the next shiny object.
Solaris, on the other hand, is a focused product with a definite vision. Unlike linux, that vision is to create a stable operating system first and foremost instead of packing in every whiz-bang feature that somebody can think of. How many configuration options are there to compile a 2.6 kernel at this point? "Support" for how many 100s of devices that you will never use?
Solaris has a few features at which the Linux folks look hungrily, and you know what happens when those folks like features. Linux gets them. These are the folks who replaced Bitkeeper in a month.
And I'm sure that linux people will get them eventually, but they will hit a wall when there is nobody left to get ideas from. They'll have to innovate on their own instead of the much eaiser "gee, I wish I had that" method and the hugely distributed development model will come to a screeching halt.
Oh yeah, they replaced BitKeeper in a month. With GIT. GIT sucks. It's almost a versioning file system (ClearCase MVFS anybody?), but infintely lamer and wasteful. Of course, Linus said that "disk is cheap" so there wasn't any real reason for him to try to build anything better. And that's linux in a nutshell. A half-assed implementation of somebody else's ideas.
Lastly, OpenOffice doesn't have the support that it needs simply because it was/is tied to Sun. And everybody in the Open Source (tm) community knows that Sun is evil because it isn't free and doesn't run well on crap hardware.
He may be a dick, but not because he wants to keep VoIP off his network. I want it off too. VoIP technology sucks ass, call quality generally sucks, and is pointless when you have the capability to e-mail already at your fingertips. (I have to deal with assholes who want to be able to FAX over a VoIP connection. How ass-backwards can you get?) Additionally, it interferes with my on-line gaming when you're using Skype to have phone sex with some transvestite that you met in an AOL chat room.
If it's important enough to hear somebody's voice, pick up the phone and stop being such a cheap ass.
IA still NAL, but I would think that allowing CNN to film in front of the presidential seal is, in fact, support and endorsement by the president. CNN is specifically permitted to use the seal where you or I would most likely not be allowed to film a fictional news report in front of it. CNN is actually at the Whitehouse, reporting (theorecitally) on things that go on there. The Onion is not. CNN intentionally films in front of the seal to give the impression that they can report accurately because they were there. While The Onion is satire, it would take a real lawyer to determine how satire extends to trademark law.
Allowing The Onion to use the seal leaves open the question of official support while hitting them with a C&D pretty much makes their stance clear.
IANAL. But, if they took down the ads and got rid of the registrations then it would not be a commercial venture. However, since they are using the articles to drive traffic to the ads and they are being paid for ad placement, it _is_ a commercial venture.
The redesign sucks anyway, I don't know who bothers reading it anymore.
He has no point except that he didn't select the right school. Want to go to a school because of it's reputation? Or because the professors are famous? Congrats, you failed the first test.
College, regardless of your course of study, is just like life. If you're lucky, you'll get back the same amount of effort that you put in. Most likely you'll get less, but expecting to be hand-held and spoon-fed for the rest of your life is contemptable. My thermodynamics prof was useless so we banded together as a group and learned it with help from an excellent TA and some helpful upperclassmen. The knowledge is there if you truly wish to seek it.
There isn't anything in this article except the whining of a failure with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
Utility grade computing is easy as hell if you have the money for it. Who are you kidding?
It's when you get the IT department squeezed into leasing crap copier/printers (for example) that the infrastructure starts to degrade. And you can only have 1, because 2 is a waste compared to flying sales-douches all over the country to wine and dine people who won't buy anything anyway. And suddenly all the execs need $5k Vaio laptops so they look good at meetings, but IT can't get $2000/year to send the backup tapes to offsite storage.
All that said, utility grade users would still be great compared to most of them.
RFID would be the way to go. I though that somebody (Mercedes, Lexus?) had one of their uber-expensive cars set up so that you carried an RFID chip in a credit card in your wallet. When you pulled up on the doorhandle it checked your ID and unlocked. Automatically locked when you got more than 20 feet away, and only had a push-button for a starter.
1. It's the easiest way to record something. Not as convenient/intelligent as DVR/Tivo, but damned easy.
2. It's cheap for both the VCR and the media.
And, if you have small kids they want to start watching the movie from where it stopped the last time, not from the beginning or the beginning of the DVD chapter.
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That's why they have resisted it for so long. Now it will just be one more thing where there are sneaky, annoying inconsistencies between distributions. Nothing will be "broken", but things will end up being implemented slighly differenty and some portability will be lost.
I guess it doesn't *have* to happen, but there seem to be more than enough people that want to take Java away from Sun that it's inevitable.
went out and laid down $300+ so that they could play Half-Life 2 when it came out? I know a few. I also know people who basically built new machines for Doom 3.
Sony will launch at $599 and sell out. And then there will be a shortage for a while, and then the top end console will be at the price point of the lower end one, and the lower end disappears. The controllers will have their Dual Shock back by then too. Everybody gets what they want. People get in on the bleeding edge, others get to feel good about saving $100 later.
And including FUD from SEGA America's president? Yeah, that's credible. Bill Gates said that Linux is dead too, so it must be true.
$600 is too much for a console? Says who? It's not too much for a PC-gaming rig by a long shot, so why is it suddenly too much for a console?
Sony is, get ready, charging you what the technology costs. How much does Microsoft subsididze your purchase of an Xbox? $150 or so? Which would put the cost of a 360 where exactly in comparison to a PS3? Compare the actual costs of the hardware without Microsoft dumping the Xbox specfically to hurt Sony and things are a lot closer. And for each one of you that buys an Xbox, just wait until you have not choice again... it will become the IE of consoles and hardware specific gaming consoles aren't the kind of thing that get put together with no capital in somebody's spare time.
And it isn't like Sony is even that great of a company (their products generally work, but their tech support sucks), but the price is completely reasonable in light of what you are getting. And when game development catches up so you can create and ad-hoc network of the PS3s in your house to play Gran Turismo 5 multiplayer you'll stop complaining.
Yeah, but it's from Sun which means that it's evil and won't get a front page mention here.
If you configure two Precision 380 machines, one with Windows and one with RedHat, they come out to exactly the same price. So.... in one case you at least get an XP pro license if you need one, and in the other you just pissed away an extra $150 for nothing.
Buy the Windows one, download distro of choice, and go from there.
Apparently, and IANAL, this is not the issue *right now*. The problem is that the patent does exist, and NTP is actively trying to enforce it.
As I understand it, there is no way to challenge an already granted patent until the patent holder attempts to sue somebody for infringement. After that, the successful defense of the case may result in the patent being declared invalid (due to prior art, too broad of a scope, etc). But, you can't arbitrarily browse the USPTO web site and attempt to have a patent invalidated. You have to build an "infringing" device and then wait to be sued.
If you could challenge patents arbitrarily, I think either the FSF or the EFF (or something else with two Fs) would be looking for a lot more lawyers.
I'd recommend EverQuest (original) for you as a good place to start. All of this IMO, but:
There are some things which have become rediculously complex (navigation in the friggin' Bazzar (where players buy and sell items from each other)), but on the whole it is a pretty simple yet engrossing game.
Most of the hard-core raiding guild players left for EQ2 as new grounds to conquer, and while there are still some pretty annoying people you'll find them everywhere. The signal to noise ratio seems much better in EQ1 tho. There are still plenty of people, but they seem to stick around because they genuinely enjoy the game and the interaction. Most are incredibly helpful if you just ask because they want you to like the game as much as they do.
EverQuest is also pretty aptly named as well. It goes on and on and on and on... The biggest complaint I hear about WoW from returning EQ players (I don't know anything about Wow) is that there is a definitive "end" to the game. Once you finish it, there doesn't seem to be much more. This may not be true any more or may never have been, but I have heard it several times.
Stay away from Player vs Player (PvP) servers until you figure out the game and decide whether that is what you want. In most MMORPGs it is all Player vs Environment (PvE). PvP seems to attract roving gangs of 12 year-olds (or just those with a 12 year-old mentality) who will gleefully hang around and kill you for hours while you're busy trying to figure out how to handle your inventory or master a trade skill.
Dark Age of Camelot was also pretty cool last time I looked. Combat system is better than EQ1 (so good that it was completely ripped off for EQ2) but when I quit 2 years ago it was mostly because there weren't that many people to play with. It may be better now, and maybe somebody else will comment. The game progression is better than EQ1 too, since you move from a PvE game to a PvP scenario between realms.
and stop trying to steal ZFS for linux. Go out an actually innovate something on your own for once instead of jsut copying the efforts of others. Pretend that you actually had an *idea* rather than stealing somebody else's hard work for your own benefit.
Wow. Rarely has a post so long missed the point completely.
Sun doesn't give a flying fuck about your music or where you store your porn. Sun doesn't build computers for the average basement dweller who thinks that because they can install Apache they are a sysadmin. They build solid, scalable servers with an operating system degigned to take advantage of every aspect of the hardware it is running on.
They push the thin-client architecture into large enterprise models because it makes sense. Only 1 copy of an application on the network means only 1 place to upgrade it, and the guarentee that everybody is running the same version. Worrying about where to store your iPod crap doesn't even enter into the equation.
While that was very passionate, being able to hack the 360 to get Linux on it won't change anything. 99.9% of the people interested in streaming content don't care what they watch it on. They will buy the box that gives them what they want with the minimum amount of effort. It's why they buy Windows in the first place.
I'm sure that the whole project will be fun for the people who want to invest the time, but in the long run it will only help Microsoft learn how to lock down the hardware better. The time would be better spent building a serious, Linux-based gaming platform if you wanted the market penetration.
Wow. So she sucks, and is teaching you something worthless. Double Bonus!
:)
Actually, I was 95% joking with the above but upon re-reading it does not seem to be nearly as funny in black and white as it was in my head. Lesson: Don't post after excessive Guinness.
At least my Karma was low to start.
This isn't hard....
1. Bring a geek is still not cool. Your best bet is to hang out with other geeks and try to be at least the coolest of the non-cool.
2. Enrollment in CS courses is down because there is no future in it. Everything you can learn in CS can be farmed out to some Indian tech worker for 1/10 th price of anybody in the US. They have all the theory and none of the experience, which is what today's company-on-the-go needs.
3. Girls aren't in technical fields because the educational interests in the US have been to neuter the school curriculum to make females feel more important. Instead of getting girls interested in science, it just means that Home Economics is worth more credit than AP Physics. This is important because girls suck at math and logic, but we need them to graduate for some reason.
When we first heard about this where I work we hopped on Symantec's site looking for an uninstaller (since we run Norton AV Corporate). All we found was a notice that Sony had threatend Symantec with legal action if they provided an un-installer since it was their (Sony's) position that this was neither a virus nor malware.
In the ensuing fallout, Symantec apparently has decided that they can provide an uninstaller but they do strongly advise using Sony's product (which generally uncloaks and does not cleanly uninstall).
Sun releases a staggeringly cool file system, and nobody knows about it.
/. really sucks sometimes.
Only 25 comments too. Apparently there is a definite audience to cater to now rather than providing actual news. Mustn't frighten the linux weenies. *sigh*
And that's great, but NAT also means that I don't have to re-number my entire network is I change ISPs.
As long as the IPv6 standard allows me to NAT if I want to, then it is a good thing. Otherwise, it is a pretty big headache. I thought that there was a battle still being fought between the IP "purists" who hate NAT, and the people who actually *do* things and want to keep it as an option.
That really has nothing to do with it at all. The major problem was, and still is, the ability to edit out advertising when you record and redistribute. I can't imagine that anybody gives a rat's ass about people distributing Will and Grace on the internet unless you edit out the Tampax commercials.
If the commercials were left in, this would be a complete non-issue as the advertizers (you know, the ones really paying for the shows) would be getting extra exposure.
Please... When has accuracy ever been important in a submission write up? They can't even stop the dupes, and you think they actually read the articles to fact check?
Linux has a huge independent development community and more huge companies than it is easy to count behind it, and nobody can keep up with the pace of development. The GPL is a very important factor. It's the only partnership that would keep it fair for the big guys and the little ones at the same time. What technical lead Solaris has is rapidly diminishing because they can not - and never will - keep up the development team that Linux and the GPL have spawned.
Exactly. Nobody can keep up with the development, at all. Every new kernel patch is a mixed bag of fixed bugs, new bugs, and old bugs resurfacing in different ways. That's what happens when you have 1000's of attention deficit coders around the world working on a project. They'll half-ass a solution together without any documentation before they are distracted by the next shiny object.
Solaris, on the other hand, is a focused product with a definite vision. Unlike linux, that vision is to create a stable operating system first and foremost instead of packing in every whiz-bang feature that somebody can think of. How many configuration options are there to compile a 2.6 kernel at this point? "Support" for how many 100s of devices that you will never use?
Solaris has a few features at which the Linux folks look hungrily, and you know what happens when those folks like features. Linux gets them. These are the folks who replaced Bitkeeper in a month.
And I'm sure that linux people will get them eventually, but they will hit a wall when there is nobody left to get ideas from. They'll have to innovate on their own instead of the much eaiser "gee, I wish I had that" method and the hugely distributed development model will come to a screeching halt.
Oh yeah, they replaced BitKeeper in a month. With GIT. GIT sucks. It's almost a versioning file system (ClearCase MVFS anybody?), but infintely lamer and wasteful. Of course, Linus said that "disk is cheap" so there wasn't any real reason for him to try to build anything better. And that's linux in a nutshell. A half-assed implementation of somebody else's ideas.
Lastly, OpenOffice doesn't have the support that it needs simply because it was/is tied to Sun. And everybody in the Open Source (tm) community knows that Sun is evil because it isn't free and doesn't run well on crap hardware.
He may be a dick, but not because he wants to keep VoIP off his network. I want it off too. VoIP technology sucks ass, call quality generally sucks, and is pointless when you have the capability to e-mail already at your fingertips. (I have to deal with assholes who want to be able to FAX over a VoIP connection. How ass-backwards can you get?) Additionally, it interferes with my on-line gaming when you're using Skype to have phone sex with some transvestite that you met in an AOL chat room.
If it's important enough to hear somebody's voice, pick up the phone and stop being such a cheap ass.
IA still NAL, but I would think that allowing CNN to film in front of the presidential seal is, in fact, support and endorsement by the president. CNN is specifically permitted to use the seal where you or I would most likely not be allowed to film a fictional news report in front of it. CNN is actually at the Whitehouse, reporting (theorecitally) on things that go on there. The Onion is not. CNN intentionally films in front of the seal to give the impression that they can report accurately because they were there. While The Onion is satire, it would take a real lawyer to determine how satire extends to trademark law.
Allowing The Onion to use the seal leaves open the question of official support while hitting them with a C&D pretty much makes their stance clear.
IANAL. But, if they took down the ads and got rid of the registrations then it would not be a commercial venture. However, since they are using the articles to drive traffic to the ads and they are being paid for ad placement, it _is_ a commercial venture.
The redesign sucks anyway, I don't know who bothers reading it anymore.
He has no point except that he didn't select the right school. Want to go to a school because of it's reputation? Or because the professors are famous? Congrats, you failed the first test.
College, regardless of your course of study, is just like life. If you're lucky, you'll get back the same amount of effort that you put in. Most likely you'll get less, but expecting to be hand-held and spoon-fed for the rest of your life is contemptable. My thermodynamics prof was useless so we banded together as a group and learned it with help from an excellent TA and some helpful upperclassmen. The knowledge is there if you truly wish to seek it.
There isn't anything in this article except the whining of a failure with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
Utility grade computing is easy as hell if you have the money for it. Who are you kidding?
It's when you get the IT department squeezed into leasing crap copier/printers (for example) that the infrastructure starts to degrade. And you can only have 1, because 2 is a waste compared to flying sales-douches all over the country to wine and dine people who won't buy anything anyway. And suddenly all the execs need $5k Vaio laptops so they look good at meetings, but IT can't get $2000/year to send the backup tapes to offsite storage.
All that said, utility grade users would still be great compared to most of them.
RFID would be the way to go. I though that somebody (Mercedes, Lexus?) had one of their uber-expensive cars set up so that you carried an RFID chip in a credit card in your wallet. When you pulled up on the doorhandle it checked your ID and unlocked. Automatically locked when you got more than 20 feet away, and only had a push-button for a starter.
Or, it could have all been a dream.
1. It's the easiest way to record something. Not as convenient/intelligent as DVR/Tivo, but damned easy.
2. It's cheap for both the VCR and the media.
And, if you have small kids they want to start watching the movie from where it stopped the last time, not from the beginning or the beginning of the DVD chapter.