True, however, this isn't Microsoft, it's Redhat, and they're not a monopoly.
Redhat has competition in the OSS industry and it won't take much for anyone running Redhat to switch to Mandrake, Debian, Slackware, Suse or any of the other distros (not to mention the *BSDs)
Redhat knows that the people who run their OS are smart and more than often, open source advocates. It would be foolish to piss those people off.
And futher to your points, does Katz even realise that there's a world outside of the US? Yes, yes, the movies are made in the US, that's all well and good, but heros draped in American flags, believe it or not, tend to alienate and annoy audiences outside America.
Has anyone got the WORLDWIDE sales figures on Spiderman and AoTC? I'm sure Worldwide attendance to AoTC will be far more telling.
I'm not concerned if the director thinks the US is the greatest country on earth, I and hundred of millions of non-americans disagree and have had enough of patriotism being rammed down our throats by movie makers.
Get over yourselves - Katz AND you Hollywood movie makers - and realise that a majority of people who see your work are not of the American persuasion.
what boon would we receive from a small, self-contained dome on Mars that needs resupply every so often from Earth?
The same boon we received by sending humans to the moon - huge technological advances being made in short amounts of time. As a species, we need to do this. With one self sustained dome will come another, and another. It would be less of a giant leap and more of a 3 1/2 second Wright Flyer hop.
But there needs to be competition involved. The reason the Apollo missions were so successful is because you Americans were obsessed with beating the Russians. Perhaps a multi country backed privatised race?
Agreed. Now if only Nintendo would release an NES controller with the original Donkey Kong and other Game and Watch remakes built in.
Or, a similar system to this Atari deal, but with Commodore 64 titles built in. Oh to play Raid Over Moscow or the original ChopLifter 2 (I know, I can get an emulator to do it all, but it's just not the same... it feels hollow)
Enix has gone on record saying that DQ8 would be released on the most popular game console. Which at the moment looks like the PS2. As much as I'd love it to come out on the GC.
Furthermore, Enix will gear the release towards the Japanese market. Even if they decided not to go for the PS2, they'd look toward the GameCube (If Mario and Zelda GC take GC sales through thr roof for example), the XBox launch in Japan was a complete disaster.
I don't know what MS was trying to pull here. Nintendo makes money hand over fist. Add to this, that they'd be negotiating the purchase with Hiroshi Yamuchi, the iron fist immovable object at the head of Nintendo, and you've really got to wonder why they bothered.
Nintendo HAS ITS OWN MONOPOLY. It's called the Gameboy/Gameboy Advance and it owns 98% of the handheld gaming market worldwide. Pokemon had pulled in billions for Nintendo, and with the release of a GBA Pokemon in the next year, there's billions more just waiting in the wing.
And we're going to ignore completely broken PNG support in Netscape 4.x?
I try to ignore Netscape 4.x as much as I can. I just wish someone would write a "virus" that went around uninstalling Netscape 4 and installing Netscape 6 or Mozilla 1.0 (when it's released). I wonder what the reaction to that would be.....
Netscape 4 shouldn't even be around anymore, it's such a crappy browser. I fail to understand how anyone still puts up with it.
Thanks for correcting my speling and grammar BTW;)
As a webmaster and web designer, I see the wide spread adoption of SVG and PNG as far more important steps than a new JPEG.
SVG is the most fantastic vector based graphics format ever created. Not only is it fully scalable to what ever size you care to scale it to, but it's all done in XML, which means scripting graphics creation is nigh on basic.
Since SVG is basically text, the file sizes are tiny! Add to this the fact that svgz (gzipped svgs) are part of the svg standard, and you end up being able to create fully interactive vector based animations weighing in at less than 1K (try this -it's a perfect example of how cool SVG is)
As it stands now, SVG can only be viewed on IE and NS4 with a plug-in, but Mozilla supports it natively if you enable it;) It's a more important standard to propergate than JP2 IMHO.
On the PNG front: PNG is so much better than any other format for layout graphics on web pages. It's alpha tranparency and colour pallet is all you need (it runs circles around GIF). PNGs should be the internet standard for non vector graphics, but alas, IE does not render them properly (the colours get twisted and changed as far as I've experienced). If MS could stick to standards, it'd make the internet a whole lot better.
Anyway, in conclusion, JP2 may sound nice, but there are much more important formats out there that need to be adopted before JP2, which will not only cut down the transfer sizes of graphics, but make web development just that much easier for people like me.
I know I can't talk as far as spelling goes, and I know this is way off topic, but PLEASE! Then and than are different words. They do not mean the same thing.
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I'll agree it does look rather cool. Pity I've boycotted Sony products outright, though, due to these comments made by (at the time) Sony Pictures Entertainment US senior VP Steve Heckler.
Any company that decides they know what I should and should not have access to, will not have access to any of my cash;)
The next buzzword to look out for is "Marketecture". I serious, I've actually seen it used (can't remember where though, sorry for the lack of a link).
If only that were true, everyone would use Linux, *BSD, Atheos or any other of the multitude of opensource OSes. After all, you can't get cheaper than free (unless they pay you to take it away, which will never happen in this situation)
Educating a sales person about clicking on unknown.exe files? HA! You've obviously never tried talking tech to sales.
I've had many occasions where I've taken people aside and said, in a calm, friendly, non-IT kind of way, "Don't open files from people you don't know, don't run.exe files you get through e-mail and please check with IT before installing anything".
You'd think that'd be enough, but no. The attitude is "Doesn't apply to me!". Sales people, for the most part, ignore IT and do what they think is right anyway (even is it's completely wrong).
" While I agree that Admins need to keep on top of patches, Nimda can still spread even with patched servers. It self-propagates through Outlook "
If you're using Outlook, you deserve all you get.
I am the web orientated guy out of a two man IT server admin team. Frankly, I think time would be much better spent upgrading company policy and used programs such that a simple virus such as Nimda CANNOT propergate.
No, not everyone can move away from Windows, but you can't tell me anyone needs to use Outlook or Internet Explorer, or any of the other arse security-bug ridden apps MS releases.
Rather than paying for Microsoft's mistakes with employee moral and wasting IT's time, simply think before making any software purchasing decisions.
We have the ability to exterminate almost any species we take a dislike to.
Like Smallpox? Although we did keep a little in our back pockets for research and weapon development (c'mon Russia, what do you need 2 tons of the stuff for?), we did purposfully go out and make the smallpox virus effectively extinct (which is good).
By the same token, we may just have the chance to do the same to AIDS and Influenza in the near future.
What makes everyone so sure that cars are going to be the primary transportation method in the future?
Cars are, quite frankly, a dumb idea. Carting a ton or more of metal around to get usually one, but sometimes up to 4 people around is absurd. The vehicles use more energy to propel themselves than their cargo. Add to this the fact that most people can't even drive properly.
I hope we're all smart enough to live without traffic jams in the future. Who knows? Perhaps we'll have Segway Jams (yeah right) or people just won't need to travel as much, as often.
"Welcome to Raul's Wild Kingdom. Today, we is teaching poodles how to fly!"
"Are you ready Fifi? ONE, TWO, FLY!!!!!"
"YAP Yap yap yap.. splat"
"AW man!"
The somewhat immortal quote:
"Badgers!? BADGERS!? We don't need no stinking badgers!!"
I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on this point:
No, Sega has never had a problem with their hardware. Since Genisis, they've always been a step or two ahead of everyone else. Generally, it's their software that sucks, but it was a total lack of direction that brought the company down.
Sega makes some of the best, most innovative games out there, that's why they're getting on so well with Nintendo (both companies love making new styles of games, rather than pumping out sequels - which they also do)
The reason they went down is because they've always been a step or two ahead of everyone else. The reason the DC didn't do so well is because Sony rained on Sega's parade by announcing the PS2 just as the DC was about to be released, so people lost interest in Sega's new toy and fell into the Sony hype machine.
Sega make good games and always have, their problem was due to forking their hardware during the 16/32bit eras and loosing fans (and thus a huge market share) to Sony. Nintendo survived because they own Pokemon and the handheld market.
Though it would be unwise to tell my opinion of my managers, let's just say that most of them are morons^H^H^H^H^H^Hreally nice guys who pay me for doing nothing^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hworking extremely hard all day.
I run bnetd on one of the spare servers at work for our bi-weekly Starcraft games. It's a fantastic piece of software and it allows us (in IT) to have an IPX free network whilst still allowing for gaming (after hours of course ; ).
I hate to say it, but if I boycotted Blizzard, I'd have to boycott Nintendo as well, which is a real shame since I live and breath Starcraft and Gamecube.
On Blizzard, I was really looking forward to playing as the Night Elves in WCIII, but it looks like they'll be selling one less copy. And Nintendo, I must have spent a large percentage of my income over the last 15 years on their games, I'm a Nintendophile and I'm really close to boycotting them. It's sad really.
Yes, the whole "my desktop is liquid" look is trendy at the moment, but I think there definitely needs to be a super-sexy not-found-elsewhere none-ripoff default theme for both KDE and Gnome.
Just take a brose through something like the GUG galleries (
This for example) and imagine these works as entire themes.
In the same way that flashy graphics make people buy video games, KDE and Gnome need to attract the masses with sex appeal.
If the effect was to be more pronounced, such as a minute or two over the next few decades, then it's something to take notice of, but honestly, the earth's rotation is slowing by it's own accord anyway (can't spin at the same speed forever...).
Next they'll be warning us that global warming and the release of carbon dioxide will delay the release of Mozilla 1.0 by 28 nano seconds and expect that someone will care.
I'm not saying this isn't interesting (as it is), but the way the article is worded, you'd think we were heading for an apocalypse.
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Redhat has competition in the OSS industry and it won't take much for anyone running Redhat to switch to Mandrake, Debian, Slackware, Suse or any of the other distros (not to mention the *BSDs)
Redhat knows that the people who run their OS are smart and more than often, open source advocates. It would be foolish to piss those people off.
And futher to your points, does Katz even realise that there's a world outside of the US? Yes, yes, the movies are made in the US, that's all well and good, but heros draped in American flags, believe it or not, tend to alienate and annoy audiences outside America.
Has anyone got the WORLDWIDE sales figures on Spiderman and AoTC? I'm sure Worldwide attendance to AoTC will be far more telling.
I'm not concerned if the director thinks the US is the greatest country on earth, I and hundred of millions of non-americans disagree and have had enough of patriotism being rammed down our throats by movie makers.
Get over yourselves - Katz AND you Hollywood movie makers - and realise that a majority of people who see your work are not of the American persuasion.
The same boon we received by sending humans to the moon - huge technological advances being made in short amounts of time. As a species, we need to do this. With one self sustained dome will come another, and another. It would be less of a giant leap and more of a 3 1/2 second Wright Flyer hop.
But there needs to be competition involved. The reason the Apollo missions were so successful is because you Americans were obsessed with beating the Russians. Perhaps a multi country backed privatised race?
Agreed. Now if only Nintendo would release an NES controller with the original Donkey Kong and other Game and Watch remakes built in.
Or, a similar system to this Atari deal, but with Commodore 64 titles built in. Oh to play Raid Over Moscow or the original ChopLifter 2 (I know, I can get an emulator to do it all, but it's just not the same... it feels hollow)
Furthermore, Enix will gear the release towards the Japanese market. Even if they decided not to go for the PS2, they'd look toward the GameCube (If Mario and Zelda GC take GC sales through thr roof for example), the XBox launch in Japan was a complete disaster.
Nintendo HAS ITS OWN MONOPOLY. It's called the Gameboy/Gameboy Advance and it owns 98% of the handheld gaming market worldwide. Pokemon had pulled in billions for Nintendo, and with the release of a GBA Pokemon in the next year, there's billions more just waiting in the wing.
Lyle Lanley: Mono means one and rail means rail, and so concludes our extensive three week course.
TV Voice: Actual institute may not match photo
Homer: Donuts, is there anything they can't do?
I could go on......
I try to ignore Netscape 4.x as much as I can. I just wish someone would write a "virus" that went around uninstalling Netscape 4 and installing Netscape 6 or Mozilla 1.0 (when it's released). I wonder what the reaction to that would be.....
Netscape 4 shouldn't even be around anymore, it's such a crappy browser. I fail to understand how anyone still puts up with it.
Thanks for correcting my speling and grammar BTW ;)
SVG is the most fantastic vector based graphics format ever created. Not only is it fully scalable to what ever size you care to scale it to, but it's all done in XML, which means scripting graphics creation is nigh on basic.
Since SVG is basically text, the file sizes are tiny! Add to this the fact that svgz (gzipped svgs) are part of the svg standard, and you end up being able to create fully interactive vector based animations weighing in at less than 1K (try this -it's a perfect example of how cool SVG is)
As it stands now, SVG can only be viewed on IE and NS4 with a plug-in, but Mozilla supports it natively if you enable it ;) It's a more important standard to propergate than JP2 IMHO.
On the PNG front: PNG is so much better than any other format for layout graphics on web pages. It's alpha tranparency and colour pallet is all you need (it runs circles around GIF). PNGs should be the internet standard for non vector graphics, but alas, IE does not render them properly (the colours get twisted and changed as far as I've experienced). If MS could stick to standards, it'd make the internet a whole lot better.
Anyway, in conclusion, JP2 may sound nice, but there are much more important formats out there that need to be adopted before JP2, which will not only cut down the transfer sizes of graphics, but make web development just that much easier for people like me.
I know I can't talk as far as spelling goes, and I know this is way off topic, but PLEASE! Then and than are different words. They do not mean the same thing.
Any company that decides they know what I should and should not have access to, will not have access to any of my cash ;)
I was expecting the next RH to be RH8.0 and for it to be released with Gnome 2.0 as the default desktop. Having an x.3 seems a bit wrong.....
Looks like I'll be spending a good deal of time DLing and testing this at work on Monday (Ah flatrate 100Mbit fibre connections, how sweet thou are).
The next buzzword to look out for is "Marketecture". I serious, I've actually seen it used (can't remember where though, sorry for the lack of a link).
If only that were true, everyone would use Linux, *BSD, Atheos or any other of the multitude of opensource OSes. After all, you can't get cheaper than free (unless they pay you to take it away, which will never happen in this situation)
Educating a sales person about clicking on unknown .exe files? HA! You've obviously never tried talking tech to sales.
I've had many occasions where I've taken people aside and said, in a calm, friendly, non-IT kind of way, "Don't open files from people you don't know, don't run .exe files you get through e-mail and please check with IT before installing anything".
You'd think that'd be enough, but no. The attitude is "Doesn't apply to me!". Sales people, for the most part, ignore IT and do what they think is right anyway (even is it's completely wrong).
Well, at least at my company.
" While I agree that Admins need to keep on top of patches, Nimda can still spread even with patched servers. It self-propagates through Outlook "
If you're using Outlook, you deserve all you get.
I am the web orientated guy out of a two man IT server admin team. Frankly, I think time would be much better spent upgrading company policy and used programs such that a simple virus such as Nimda CANNOT propergate.
No, not everyone can move away from Windows, but you can't tell me anyone needs to use Outlook or Internet Explorer, or any of the other arse security-bug ridden apps MS releases.
Rather than paying for Microsoft's mistakes with employee moral and wasting IT's time, simply think before making any software purchasing decisions.
Like Smallpox? Although we did keep a little in our back pockets for research and weapon development (c'mon Russia, what do you need 2 tons of the stuff for?), we did purposfully go out and make the smallpox virus effectively extinct (which is good).
By the same token, we may just have the chance to do the same to AIDS and Influenza in the near future.
Cars are, quite frankly, a dumb idea. Carting a ton or more of metal around to get usually one, but sometimes up to 4 people around is absurd. The vehicles use more energy to propel themselves than their cargo. Add to this the fact that most people can't even drive properly.
I hope we're all smart enough to live without traffic jams in the future. Who knows? Perhaps we'll have Segway Jams (yeah right) or people just won't need to travel as much, as often.
Do those plans include the release of "Conan the Librarian - The Director's Cut"?
"Welcome to Raul's Wild Kingdom. Today, we is teaching poodles how to fly!"
"Are you ready Fifi? ONE, TWO, FLY!!!!!"
"YAP Yap yap yap.. splat"
"AW man!"
The somewhat immortal quote:
"Badgers!? BADGERS!? We don't need no stinking badgers!!"
No, Sega has never had a problem with their hardware. Since Genisis, they've always been a step or two ahead of everyone else. Generally, it's their software that sucks, but it was a total lack of direction that brought the company down.
Sega makes some of the best, most innovative games out there, that's why they're getting on so well with Nintendo (both companies love making new styles of games, rather than pumping out sequels - which they also do)
The reason they went down is because they've always been a step or two ahead of everyone else. The reason the DC didn't do so well is because Sony rained on Sega's parade by announcing the PS2 just as the DC was about to be released, so people lost interest in Sega's new toy and fell into the Sony hype machine.
Sega make good games and always have, their problem was due to forking their hardware during the 16/32bit eras and loosing fans (and thus a huge market share) to Sony. Nintendo survived because they own Pokemon and the handheld market.
God I hate them^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbless them.
I run bnetd on one of the spare servers at work for our bi-weekly Starcraft games. It's a fantastic piece of software and it allows us (in IT) to have an IPX free network whilst still allowing for gaming (after hours of course ; ).
I hate to say it, but if I boycotted Blizzard, I'd have to boycott Nintendo as well, which is a real shame since I live and breath Starcraft and Gamecube.
On Blizzard, I was really looking forward to playing as the Night Elves in WCIII, but it looks like they'll be selling one less copy. And Nintendo, I must have spent a large percentage of my income over the last 15 years on their games, I'm a Nintendophile and I'm really close to boycotting them. It's sad really.
None of this DMCA thing makes any sense.
Yes, the whole "my desktop is liquid" look is trendy at the moment, but I think there definitely needs to be a super-sexy not-found-elsewhere none-ripoff default theme for both KDE and Gnome.
Just take a brose through something like the GUG galleries ( This for example) and imagine these works as entire themes.
In the same way that flashy graphics make people buy video games, KDE and Gnome need to attract the masses with sex appeal.
If the effect was to be more pronounced, such as a minute or two over the next few decades, then it's something to take notice of, but honestly, the earth's rotation is slowing by it's own accord anyway (can't spin at the same speed forever...).
Next they'll be warning us that global warming and the release of carbon dioxide will delay the release of Mozilla 1.0 by 28 nano seconds and expect that someone will care.
I'm not saying this isn't interesting (as it is), but the way the article is worded, you'd think we were heading for an apocalypse.