i'll take an Aeron chair any day over that piece of rubbish. These "Alien Furniture Technology" guys seem to be taking ergonomic lesson's from 1960s space rocket interiors... hmmm. My back's hurting already.
Why look like some kind of in-joke from The Matrix when you could work in style coutesy of Eames and his genius pals [for a fraction of the price, I might add]?
And where exactly am I supposed to put the 800 page O'Reilly tome on Sendmail?
this is really good news. it was refreshing to read a press release that mentioned more than just 'cutting edge' this and 'industry leader' that -- SGI seem to have a healthy attitude towards Open Source and hopefully we'll begin to see Linux become a realistic environment for running up a 3D workstation or Non-linear digital video suite. Some of us more graphic types would like a little more to play with than the Gimp and Xview.
And I KNOW Bowie J. Poag gonna make some sweet Propaganda themes with a copy of Maya for Linux!
You've got a country full of people being bombed, and full of people shooting and raping other people just because they are of a different ethnicity...
you probably mean yugoslavia, but you could very well be talking about the US which leads to an even scarier concept...
all of this [as well as the persecution of many more minorities other than simply ethinicity-based] is going on in your own back yard.
It's interesting to see that whereas Sony's next generation playstation is spec'ed to the eyeballs, nintendo's offering is looking a little bit more 'current tech'.
Maybe Nintendo have realised that spending truckloads of cash on hardware doesn't really pay off if the game developer base isn't all there to support it. The console price wars must be hurting Nintendo [with their designer internals courtesy of the 'we don't get out of bed for less than $5K' SGI team] a lot more than Sony.
And in any case, at least those smug techno-eliteist Nintendo users are going to have to wait for their games to load [DVD -- hehe!] like the rest of us Playstation devotees...
I just want to know if anyone out there will ever need to buy another game after Quake 3 Arena is released?
so bill's scrambling for a piece of that war chest action? not a bad move... i wonder if he's taking a leaf out of howard hughes' book [who managed to score himself a pretty penny for that wonderful spruce goose and many many other less than effective flying contraptions].
all we need bill to do now is start buying up casinos [online gambling?] and wearing tissue boxes on his feet.
anyway,email clients [crappy as they are] i can handle, it's not going to really get scarey until bill starts talking embedded systems with these army guys....
hmmmm, a $120 million for lost revenues because they had to shut down their network for a few weeks?
just as well nokia don't make calculators!
i just hope nokia are as liberal with those monetary figures when they're the subject of massive lawsuits as consumers finally figure at they're lugging around a lump of carcenogenic gadgetry and that brain tumour they just got diagnosed with on the right side of their head ain't no coincidence.
Man, so many people are just writing "X product because it is good" -- hmmm, not so useful really.
Having coded HTML by hand for about 3 years, I was convinced by a friend to give Dreamweaver a shot. It blew me away because of the following reasons:
Stylesheet Support: Stylesheets are the way of the future [if you don't believe me, read this article]. With Dreamweaver you can create or edit stylesheets very simply. Rather than trawl through CSS specs, you have a GUI approach which enables you to see all the available attributes. Applying stylesheets is great -- a style palette enables you to highlight text/tables/images etc. and simply click the class you wish to apply.
Site Management: Dreamweaver is a great tool for editing existing sites. Once you've set up a definition [including ftp or filesystem details] you are presented with a tree of the website. Editing a page is as simple as a double clicking its icon. This will download the page as well as any 'dependancies' [images, stylesheets, etc]. You can also check in and out files if you have a number of developers working on the site.
Source Integrity: Dreamweaver does write very clean source. Sure, it makes a few mistakes you get empty paragraphs and similar chunks floating around, but there are built-in clean up tools which work really well. Keep in mind, with Dreamweaver while you can work totally in WYSIWYG, it's an advantage to know HTML. Switching back and forth between the source and WYSIWYG panes is ultimately the best way to write swell HTML.
Structure: Dreamweaver provides a structural outline of each page at the bottom of the main window. The plots out the major elements in the page and allows you to select parent objects to the one you're currently editing. If you were editting a cell in a table you'll see a map going back to the overall table row, and then table itself. Editing properties is acheived through a main palette which will intelligently present the attributes available. The metaphor for Dreamweaver is very similar to that of Cosmo Worlds -- really the only tool you won't to be creating VRML worlds with.
There are a couple of negative points with the software however.
Dreamweaver -- like all WYSIWYG -- tries to appease you by building things as set in concrete as it can. For example you'll find it will tend to add widths to all your table cells. This can be a pain if you want flexible tables that will work with various screen resolutions. A bit of tidying in your text editor of choice may be required here.
The rendering has its own quirks and variances from other browsers. So something you've designed WYSIWYG in Dreamweaver may appear differently in both Navigator and Explorer -- doh! Let's hope Mozilla rally them and provide the rendering engine for Dreamweaver 3.0.
I haven't covered any of the DHTML and JavaSript-in-a-box features as I don't use them. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who does. Based on a little toying around, they seem very... er... verbose in their implementation.
Ultimately, Dreamweaver stands out for me as it definitely respects the developer who has a great deal of HTML knowledge and wants to maintain this control. If clean code, and fast development are you prime goals -- Dreamweaver is the one!
Benchmarks very very very rarely have anything to with anything apart from benchmarking.
i didn't say the benchmarks themselves would be affected by "dogma"-force. merely that the situation has escalated beyond science. whatever the results, the losing side will not accept them as valid. hence, the test's are useless as they won't prove anything that will be accepted as conclusive or at least they'll always be obscured by a cloud of intrigue.;)
as you should have seen in the first test -- the benchmark wasn't just a benchmark. biases, alterior motives, and foul play will always spice the situation when the stakes are as high as Linux vs Windows.
if linux performs better the HUGE microsoft press machine will be like "but look how much effort was required for the top linux geeks around, whereas joe lunchbox simply had to double-click his way through a couple of installs and he had Windows NT performing almost as well".
that is a best case scenario i reckon.
if linux doesn't perform as well it's bad bad press. hmmm, gotta think of some contigencies here... how about "Mindcraft optimised the AC power supply for Windows NT!" or "Mindcraft put all the Linux boxes down the hot end of the room".
hmmm, better give my bookie a call -- he'll be interested in this one. whaddya reckon the odds'd be?
what a showdown! and i thought kasparov vs. big blue was intense.
i really don't think that with the amount of dogma surrounding these benchmarks much good can really come out of the tests anymore. the amount of tweaking that'll be going on will remove these benchmarks from the realms on anything meaningful.
sure, i'd love to have Linus come install our web servers but that ain't gonna happen!;) oh well, hopefully projects like linuxtune will start spreading the word and provide a glimpse in getting the most outta one's setup for the average linux punter.
glibc2.1 seems to work fine for me! to back that up here's a post at 32bitsonline from one of the developers:
"CivCTP does run on glibc-2.1 systems out of the box. The only problem arises when trying to start a network game - the new glibc 2.1 dynamic loader doesn't properly load the network libraries, and you are not able to get to the network screen.
We will release a fix on our web site at http://www.lokigames.com/, along with the 1.1 patch, when it's ready.
For the record, glibc-2.1 was still in beta while we were developing the game. - Linux still lives on the edge of technology.:-)"
the 3 nanoseconds comment about porting to NT is pretty funny. But I can imagine how frustrating it would be to have Dr Watson make a house call 1 week and 6 days into an analysis!;)
seriously though, I ain't no Howard Hughes, but it seems bizzare to me that from a budget of $250 million they spend.05 of a percent on the analysis equipment! and they say they could probably spend the money saved on better quality sea-floor information... well duh! surely decent information to start with is kind of important.
i really think anyone looking to invest in these toys has a screw loose! 20 years ago the industry wasn't so completely switched on to merchandise. sure there were lunch boxes, socks and pillow cases, but it just doesn't compare to now.
a $20 action figure from a run of only a few hundred million... hmmm it'll probably be worth $21 dollars by the year 2050.
you're better off getting old slices of pizza bronzed and wall-mounted. beleive me, that's one hot cash cow...
I can't beleive some of the stunts these lawyers and hollywood try to pull on the internet.
As if Lucas isn't going to sit back and watch the profits of the biggest grossing movie ever made in the history of cinema roll in. And they're now putting the squeeze on ISPs who arguably have no legal responsibility for this in any case!
I thing the internet/web has really aided in keeping and growing the community of Star Wars fans [the movies themselves were OK to i guess;)] and so god damned what if a few mp3s and dodgey quicktimes make their way around the internet?
As if we're not all going to line-up for too long, only to sit in front of a pack of 13 year olds with no idea crunching, spilling and guffawing the entire length of the movie to do it all again a few days later.
C'mon Lucas, embrace the chaos of the internet... You're already loaded anyhow, buddy!
i'm certainly no benchmark guru -- but if the goal here is to test the motherboards, why the heck do they need all this other completely cutting edge hardware in them [g400 graphics accelerator, USB2.0, SCSI 3]?
Sounds more like an Acer engineer fell asleep at his keyboard and had some kind of hardware-based wetdream.
possibly not the most convincing precedent but an important one nonetheless. indeed, passing-off through dodgey meta tags is bad news! it's hard enough to find what you're looking for on search engines as it is. on the websites i run i'm constantly surprised by the number of referals i get from the like of altavista and ask jeeves. especially considering the number of idiots with those 'websters-on-a-page' catch-alls.
there was an embarrasing situation for a major australian web developer [ Spike] when it was found that they had keywords in their meta tags for other competing design houses in the country. Ouch! Of course they blamed one of their "young and overly enthusiastic" web designers [who coincidentally had left the week before].
you want my prediction to the next trend in 'sneaky passing-off behaviour to nab hits away from your competitors'?
image names!
that's right. say i'm intel -- i'm going to call all my images "amd_####.gif" or "cyrix_####.gif". it'd take a while before anyone noticed!
OK, so maybe a little implausable. maybe i'm Microsoft and i'm going to call all my javascript variables "apple_####" and "java_####".
at work, our tektronix phaser 740 not only has an IP address but runs a webserver too! you can slam a four gig harddrive in the suckers for those really bad-ass postscript jobs -- but forget that -- i'm want use it to serve my MP3s...
hmmm a bronze statue is so terribly staid. how about burning an image of the guy on intel motherboards or something a little more 'with the times'. statues are so '1886'!
or seeing as he's such a big war hero, maybe we could get NATO to name a tactical strike after him -- "operation turing" has a nice ring to it.
i liked the quote: "It's got the university science buildings...on one side and its got all the gay bars on the other side, where apparently he spent most of his evenings."
sounds like a quite the lush! i wonder what he'd think of sexbots and teledildonics?
well that's excellent news. less asp errors and unresponsive servers by the day! i'm currently moving all my web projects across to linux. it's great -- they don't crash anymore.
unless of course someone rips all my pci cards out of the box and then reboots the box [all when i'm not looking] -- i guess "mad max" has some nice tips on how to deal with this sort of behaviour!
mp3/digital random access walkmans will replace tape walkmans and cd walkmans, internet or no.
it looks like samsung are going to lock this product into some kind of online service that they provide. bugger that. and bugger the rubbish like mp3.com -- i just want a better way to listen to my CDs!
are you on crack? what is it people have with the obsession of using cds as coasters. they're not absorbant and offer no grip either for the table below or the glass/cup above.
$5 for a beer coaster -- you're goddam crazy. spend the $1800 on a the no-bundle and go buy yourself a nice glass of german beer at you're local pub. i'm sure they won't mind you helping yourself to a few 'real' coasters.
If you've ever been to the south island of new zealand and seen a canterbury rugby [big bastards chase an oblong spheroid pigskin ball] supporter you'll know what i mean.
that maul dude is nothing compared to those guys -- they open beer bottles with their eye-sockets and drink more beer that yo mama!
It's not that Linux is reinventing the wheel -- we're working on a new vehicle that doesn't need those annoying rubber things any more!
One of the great things about Linux is the opportunity it provides to do things better this time around. From a user interface perspective, Windows is pretty crap. Some of the innovations i've seen in window managers such as Enlightenment and WindowMaker -- multiple desktops, no start bar / apple menu, opaque windows, the customisation -- are really kick-ass -- are really heading in the right direction. And the day of the 3d desktop environment is looming, believe me -- you go to Siggraph and all anyone can talk about are better interfaces and input devices. And i'd hate to have 20 million lines of code on my hands when it comes to making this thing ship!
The guy has a point when he talks about lack of software but uses really bad examples:
"Web browsers" -- duh! ever heard of netscape?;
"e-mail engines" -- well yeah most email software on Linux looks like something a bank teller would be sitting behind 20 years ago, but I argue email running on the desktop is yesterdays breakfast, how many 100 million users was that at Hotmail?;)
"CD-ROM shoot'em-up games like Doom and Quake" -- what an idiot! Q3 is being launched simultaneously on Linux, Mac, and maybe Windows!!! I'm gonna bet my ass on this title being the biggest game ever made.
"personal finance packages" -- currently nine on offer at freshmeat. just none written by microsoft.
So Linux is fast and fluid. Windows is fosillizing. We just haven't seen the test of this... yet!
Is there an official line on when users should or should not upgrade their kernel?
With more an more Linux users with less experience -- some might have only known enough to fumble their way through a RedHat5.2 install -- there needs to be guidelines.
Is it a case of don't fix it if it ain't broke or are there new features to be reaped from newer kernels?
I think this must be an important area to be marketed in order to forge ahead with world domination!
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Why look like some kind of in-joke from The Matrix when you could work in style coutesy of Eames and his genius pals [for a fraction of the price, I might add]?
And where exactly am I supposed to put the 800 page O'Reilly tome on Sendmail?
this is really good news. it was refreshing to read a press release that mentioned more than just 'cutting edge' this and 'industry leader' that -- SGI seem to have a healthy attitude towards Open Source and hopefully we'll begin to see Linux become a realistic environment for running up a 3D workstation or Non-linear digital video suite. Some of us more graphic types would like a little more to play with than the Gimp and Xview.
And I KNOW Bowie J. Poag gonna make some sweet Propaganda themes with a copy of Maya for Linux!
you probably mean yugoslavia, but you could very well be talking about the US which leads to an even scarier concept...
all of this [as well as the persecution of many more minorities other than simply ethinicity-based] is going on in your own back yard.
think about it!
Maybe Nintendo have realised that spending truckloads of cash on hardware doesn't really pay off if the game developer base isn't all there to support it. The console price wars must be hurting Nintendo [with their designer internals courtesy of the 'we don't get out of bed for less than $5K' SGI team] a lot more than Sony.
And in any case, at least those smug techno-eliteist Nintendo users are going to have to wait for their games to load [DVD -- hehe!] like the rest of us Playstation devotees...
I just want to know if anyone out there will ever need to buy another game after Quake 3 Arena is released?
so bill's scrambling for a piece of that war chest action? not a bad move... i wonder if he's taking a leaf out of howard hughes' book [who managed to score himself a pretty penny for that wonderful spruce goose and many many other less than effective flying contraptions].
all we need bill to do now is start buying up casinos [online gambling?] and wearing tissue boxes on his feet.
anyway,email clients [crappy as they are] i can handle, it's not going to really get scarey until bill starts talking embedded systems with these army guys....
hmmmm, a $120 million for lost revenues because they had to shut down their network for a few weeks?
just as well nokia don't make calculators!
i just hope nokia are as liberal with those monetary figures when they're the subject of massive lawsuits as consumers finally figure at they're lugging around a lump of carcenogenic gadgetry and that brain tumour they just got diagnosed with on the right side of their head ain't no coincidence.
Having coded HTML by hand for about 3 years, I was convinced by a friend to give Dreamweaver a shot. It blew me away because of the following reasons:
There are a couple of negative points with the software however.
I haven't covered any of the DHTML and JavaSript-in-a-box features as I don't use them. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who does. Based on a little toying around, they seem very... er... verbose in their implementation.
Ultimately, Dreamweaver stands out for me as it definitely respects the developer who has a great deal of HTML knowledge and wants to maintain this control. If clean code, and fast development are you prime goals -- Dreamweaver is the one!
i didn't say the benchmarks themselves would be affected by "dogma"-force. merely that the situation has escalated beyond science. whatever the results, the losing side will not accept them as valid. hence, the test's are useless as they won't prove anything that will be accepted as conclusive or at least they'll always be obscured by a cloud of intrigue. ;)
as you should have seen in the first test -- the benchmark wasn't just a benchmark. biases, alterior motives, and foul play will always spice the situation when the stakes are as high as Linux vs Windows.
this is a good point.
if linux performs better the HUGE microsoft press machine will be like "but look how much effort was required for the top linux geeks around, whereas joe lunchbox simply had to double-click his way through a couple of installs and he had Windows NT performing almost as well".
that is a best case scenario i reckon.
if linux doesn't perform as well it's bad bad press. hmmm, gotta think of some contigencies here... how about "Mindcraft optimised the AC power supply for Windows NT!" or "Mindcraft put
all the Linux boxes down the hot end of the room".
hmmm, better give my bookie a call -- he'll be interested in this one. whaddya reckon the odds'd be?
what a showdown! and i thought kasparov vs. big blue was intense.
;) oh well, hopefully projects like linuxtune will start spreading the word and provide a glimpse in getting the most outta one's setup for the average linux punter.
i really don't think that with the amount of dogma surrounding these benchmarks much good can really come out of the tests anymore. the amount of tweaking that'll be going on will remove these benchmarks from the realms on anything meaningful.
sure, i'd love to have Linus come install our web servers but that ain't gonna happen!
We will release a fix on our web site at http://www.lokigames.com/, along with the 1.1 patch, when it's ready.
For the record, glibc-2.1 was still in beta while we were developing the game. - Linux still lives on the edge of technology. :-)"
the 3 nanoseconds comment about porting to NT is pretty funny. But I can imagine how frustrating it would be to have Dr Watson make a house call 1 week and 6 days into an analysis! ;)
.05 of a percent on the analysis equipment! and they say they could probably spend the money saved on better quality sea-floor information... well duh! surely decent information to start with is kind of important.
seriously though, I ain't no Howard Hughes, but it seems bizzare to me that from a budget of $250 million they spend
Who's running that show, the Clampetts?
i really think anyone looking to invest in these toys has a screw loose! 20 years ago the industry wasn't so completely switched on to merchandise. sure there were lunch boxes, socks and pillow cases, but it just doesn't compare to now.
a $20 action figure from a run of only a few hundred million... hmmm it'll probably be worth $21 dollars by the year 2050.
you're better off getting old slices of pizza bronzed and wall-mounted. beleive me, that's one hot cash cow...
I can't beleive some of the stunts these lawyers and hollywood try to pull on the internet.
;)]
As if Lucas isn't going to sit back and watch the profits of the biggest grossing movie ever made in the history of cinema roll in. And they're now putting the squeeze on ISPs who arguably have no legal responsibility for this in any case!
I thing the internet/web has really aided in keeping and growing the community of Star Wars fans [the movies themselves were OK to i guess
and so god damned what if a few mp3s and dodgey quicktimes make their way around the internet?
As if we're not all going to line-up for too long, only to sit in front of a pack of 13 year olds with no idea crunching, spilling and guffawing the entire length of the movie to do it all again a few days later.
C'mon Lucas, embrace the chaos of the internet... You're already loaded anyhow, buddy!
i'm certainly no benchmark guru -- but if the goal here is to test the motherboards, why the heck do they need all this other completely cutting edge hardware in them [g400 graphics accelerator, USB2.0, SCSI 3]?
Sounds more like an Acer engineer fell asleep at his keyboard and had some kind of hardware-based wetdream.
TravelMate indeed!
there was an embarrasing situation for a major australian web developer [ Spike] when it was found that they had keywords in their meta tags for other competing design houses in the country. Ouch! Of course they blamed one of their "young and overly enthusiastic" web designers [who coincidentally had left the week before].
you want my prediction to the next trend in 'sneaky passing-off behaviour to nab hits away from your competitors'?
image names!
that's right. say i'm intel -- i'm going to call all my images "amd_####.gif" or "cyrix_####.gif". it'd take a while before anyone noticed!
OK, so maybe a little implausable. maybe i'm Microsoft and i'm going to call all my javascript variables "apple_####" and "java_####".
i mean where do you draw the line on this one?
at work, our tektronix phaser 740 not only has an IP address but runs a webserver too! you can slam a four gig harddrive in the suckers for those really bad-ass postscript jobs -- but forget that -- i'm want use it to serve my MP3s...
let the Y2K nazis find that!
hmmm a bronze statue is so terribly staid. how about burning an image of the guy on intel motherboards or something a little more 'with the times'. statues are so '1886'!
or seeing as he's such a big war hero, maybe we could get NATO to name a tactical strike after him -- "operation turing" has a nice ring to it.
i liked the quote:
"It's got the university science buildings...on one side and its got all the gay bars on the other side, where apparently he spent most of his evenings."
sounds like a quite the lush! i wonder what he'd think of sexbots and teledildonics?
well that's excellent news. less asp errors and unresponsive servers by the day! i'm currently moving all my web projects across to linux. it's great -- they don't crash anymore.
unless of course someone rips all my pci cards out of the box and then reboots the box [all when i'm not looking] -- i guess "mad max" has some nice tips on how to deal with this sort of behaviour!
mp3/digital random access walkmans will replace
tape walkmans and cd walkmans, internet or no.
it looks like samsung are going to lock this product into some kind of online service that they provide. bugger that. and bugger the
rubbish like mp3.com -- i just want a better
way to listen to my CDs!
are you on crack? what is it people have with the obsession of using cds as coasters. they're not absorbant and offer no grip either for the table below or the glass/cup above.
$5 for a beer coaster -- you're goddam crazy. spend the $1800 on a the no-bundle and go buy yourself a nice glass of german beer at you're local pub. i'm sure they won't mind you helping yourself to a few 'real' coasters.
If you've ever been to the south island of new zealand and seen a canterbury rugby [big bastards chase an oblong spheroid pigskin ball] supporter you'll know what i mean.
that maul dude is nothing compared to those guys -- they open beer bottles with their eye-sockets and drink more beer that yo mama!
One of the great things about Linux is the opportunity it provides to do things better this time around. From a user interface perspective, Windows is pretty crap. Some of the innovations i've seen in window managers such as Enlightenment and WindowMaker -- multiple desktops, no start bar / apple menu, opaque windows, the customisation -- are really kick-ass -- are really heading in the right direction. And the day of the 3d desktop environment is looming, believe me -- you go to Siggraph and all anyone can talk about are better interfaces and input devices. And i'd hate to have 20 million lines of code on my hands when it comes to making this thing ship!
The guy has a point when he talks about lack of software but uses really bad examples:
So Linux is fast and fluid. Windows is fosillizing. We just haven't seen the test of this... yet!
Is there an official line on when users should or should not upgrade their kernel?
With more an more Linux users with less experience -- some might have only known enough to fumble their way through a RedHat5.2 install -- there needs to be guidelines.
Is it a case of don't fix it if it ain't broke or are there new features to be reaped from newer kernels?
I think this must be an important area to be marketed in order to forge ahead with world domination!
HDTV freaks me out -- it's too damn clean! looks kinda cheesy.
give me that filmic grainy look of a bad tv signal anyday!