Question : What about Debian ?
IDC : Deb..., what ? How much business do they make ? We don't know them... they don't have a market share, they don't exist cause they have no turnover...
Question : it's a free distribution, operated by volonteers.
IDC : It's free, and people contribute to it, but still one of the best solution... I don't understand what what are talking about !
I am a working stiff and have been at that level all my life. I do have a college degree in management with a minor in electronics, but I have been more technical in my job. I have always thought that there were two points of view. One, management is her to give me what I need to do my job. Two, you take a care of the company and the company takes care of you. Most manager put the company first and do not take care of their employess. Its is a balance, but I believe the managers job is to take care of thier workers. Training, support, resources and expect what can be done and not always push for more. Favoratisium will ruin it all and there is always a choosen one, if you can't treat everyone the same because someone it smarter or better or there life is there job and they work to live, then the team starts to breakdown. Like Billy Jean said fair is fair, how in a society, where the first rule is it's all about me, can anyone really work together?
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Posted by HedgeCore:
It's sad that the open-source spirit doesn't remain when it comes to business. Expensive certifications that essentially mean nothing take precedence over experience and knowhow...
Damn the man.
Would it be possible to modity a Freenet client so that it would refuse to accept and host certain files (filter file names for "rape", "porn", "fuck", "sex", etc.)?
I've always wondered why Maxis didn't try to create more cohesion between the game and the community. All the skinning and editing is being completely run via the web, and I'm surprised that Maxis didn't choose to gain tighter control over this or at least squeeze it into some sort of GUI. Couldn't they have made official "stores" and "malls" similar to those that exist on the web, and put them inside the game's interface so one wouldn't have to bother with a browser? They also could've used this to distribute the official free add-ons. In this way, they could have also eliminated the need to download, unzip, place in proper directories with any add-ons. The Sims seems to be cutesy and mainstream enough to have a user base that would not only tolerate but benefit from something like this. Not everyone knows how to use mods even when they're in neat little packages.
I've been going to the arcades for longer than I can remember. For the past several of those years, I've only gone for one reason... fighting games. Not just any fighting games, but 2d fighting games exclusively. Everyone seems to think that the arcades are dying because everyone can just buy the games for the consoles and have just as good a time with it without having to blow tons of money in an arcade. When it comes to fighting games, you couldn't be more wrong. Arcades are where you go for the competition. It's like trying to tell me that you enjoy playing Quake more against bots and maybe one friend that lugs his computer over than you do over the internet. The arcades are where you're gonna find people to match skills with. That's where you learn new strategies, new fighting styles, new traps and techniques. That's where you teach them to other people and make friends along the way. Playing at home with a couple friends every now and then just isn't the same. Especially when it comes to the controls. I don't consider playing SF games serious when you're playing on the consoles with those crappy little joypads. The only real way to play is in the arcade.
I'm sure this view is absurd to most people, but I'm actually devistated by this news. It means that from now on, I'll never be able to uncover the real depth of any fighting game because I'm forced to play against one or two friends on crappy controls. This means the death of one of my favorite pasttimes. And for all those people that think fighting games will live on after moving to the internet, please try to realize that they are built on reflexes. Latency goes against everything they stand for. Lighting fast reflexes and thinking are what these games are all about. 100ms is enough to lose any match, and ruin any fun.
If everyone at Microsoft died today and all their supprot, knowledge base, etc. was destroyed forever I'd bet that M$ Windoze would be on 50%+ of desktops for the next 20 years.
Is this really news?.NET is built on XML which is a world-wide standard like HTML. M$ would actually have to take steps in order to keep other OSes from being compatible with.NET, but it's not worth the effort. They know other OSes will figure it out regardless of what they do, so why not make it open? Good PR anyhow.
When you can go out and buy a game for your PlayStation or computer for $40 brand new and get hours and hours of fun out of it, the only reason for the arcade is the environment. The thing is, that environment has died off, everyone is off trying to perfect new skateboarding moves or other equally unproductive things, that are more fun than sitting in front of a screen wasting even $0.25 every 10 minutes. As a result the arcades have had to increase prices to $1.00 a game. Net result nobody new becomes interested in it. I would want to get into the arcade business about as much as I'd want to do an internet startup right about now.
On the other hand, I despise Arcade Games, most would run on my old Commodore64, the best would require my Pentium-120 with 1mb ISA Video Card. Now When I'm used to playing Half-Life or Quake3 on the Internet or LAN, what am I going to do. The atmosphere is the same as hosting a small LAN and ordering Pizza and soda from somewhere, and costs LESS! I can host an overnight LAN of 10 people for $30. I can spend 8 hours at an arcade and spend $80. What am I going to do?
I work in an arcade, therefore, I suppose I have a right to speak on behalf of Capcom et al.
Capcom games are, for lack of a better english description, extremely god damned popular. We've got people who play Capcom as their crack. I don't understand why Capcom needs to close up, and I don't understand why people need to bash Capcom for making a merciless army of StreetFighter2 clones.
Sf2 was an extremely popular game, and now, the Marvel vs. Capcom series, with Megaman and Spiderman and Whateverdeeman is extremely popular as well. Most of these games cost about 50 cents to play, and most of them need to be repaired once or twice daily because of button mal-alignment (caused by too many people hitting on them too hard). I think its unfair to say that Capcom hasn't made a good game since SF2 - in a lot of ways, they've taken an old idea and morphed it into something quite different from SF2, but sort of reminiscent of its previous state. I like it. I play it a lot, on those free credit tokenie things.
Quick response to Capcom Games in General: I think Capcom made a few vital mistakes in its games, one being that the 'special moves' and stuff aren't easy enough to access. You have to have played the game a bajillion times to understand the combos and the complexities of it.
Hmmm...
I agree that stuff over the average isn't always compressible, but once in a while it is. Once is enough to invalidate the authors point that it's not compressible. Now you have me wondering why we are usually interested in the (usually) compressible stuff.
Because the fair use defense to infringement is something that must be proven by the defendant you need the testimony of that person to count on the defense. A contributory infringer,/., can avail itself of derivative fair use, but must have the facts to show the fair use. Fair use is NOT how much of the entire text was taken, which is but one factor, but really a test of what ends were to be served by the use. In some instances the entirety of a text can be fairly used if the ambition and probable effect of full qouting is not to destroy the value of the text to the copyright owner. This is not an objective test, its heavily subjective and situation dependent. A witness to give foundation to a fair use defense is essential then.
Of course it is pretty silly to try the dodge of/. just being a carrier as/. is a repository of content, so fair use defenses are crucial in a copyright dispute. Pick up your phone and ask it what you just said in the conversation you had this morning and there it sits buzzing at you. Carrier. Play back a dictation file of that conversation and you get information that has been fixed in a tangible way: content repository.
Lets see now.Solar collectors on car make hydrogen then hydrogen is fuel, that runs car. At night these solar cells can catch up on the inefficiencies of this system.
I gotta goe, the white jackets want me back....
You could also talk about rings where such as the integers mod 3 where 2+2=1. (the integers mod x can be thought of as the set of all possible remainders when you divide a positive integer by x. For example 7 mod 3 = 1.)
So maybe freedom should be the freedom to say 2+2=1:).
In my experience, the Japanese DTV standard is far superior to the American standard, mainly due, no doubt, to the many more years of expertise that the Japanese have with electronics in comparison to their American counterparts. Compared to the American DTV, the Japanese system is actually watchable and any flashing lights, fast-moving images, etc. doesn't turn to the picture into a pixellated mess.
It's also worth noting that Japanese DTV rerouters are linux-based, whereas American ones are m$-based. I think the choice is obvious.
The real pain is having to get a certificate for each server in a distributed server network. We're deploying dozens of servers which are supposed to all have server certs. Do the math and see how annoying that is. We're actually concidering deploying less servers just so we won't have to buy so many certs.
Way too expensive that's my input.
Are you sure they're not compressible? I'm just thinking of a trivial example like gzip.
Every algorythm can be expressed as an implementation of gzip and along with a string of 0's and 1's fed into it that unpacks into the original algorthm. If the two together are smaller than the original algorythm, then it is compressible. This obviously isn't always the case, but is certainly true some of the time.
I got pissed last week when I saw Notify CD didn't work in getting my CDs when it did work the week before. The original author stopped his development, but he had it able to be modified by anyone who wanted to mess with the source code. Some people have and they updated it to also hook into the FreeDB database. Here are sites to check for this version of Notify CD:
http://www.mamane.lu/notifycd/
http://hassard.net/
I already use the newer version, so I followed the directions and switched to FreeDB and am starting to build my personal CD database from scratch. I even submitted data on one disc that wasn't listed. Screw Gracenote and CDDB...get then new version of Notify CD and use FreeDB!
Yeah, with heavy use of mmv I got it running...Strange mix of "original" chunky graphics and modern, smooth graphics. However, I am still getting exceptions when I create a character, so the I have not yet completely got everything worked out.
Gotta go code now (finals week:| ), so I probably won't get it all together before someone else does.
I must say though, I am very happy to see this port. I still use DM as a design base for all of my games, especially the UI.
scott
sig? Nah, I feel fine, but thanks for asking
I'm not a computer guru by any stretch of the imagination, but the concept being laid out here seems like it might work well as a new sort of compression algorithm. i.e. One could theoretically(I suppose) encode entire files into one simple number. Whether that number would have to prime or not, I'm not sure. But it seems like a novel concept.
Of course, the fact that I'm still working my way through H.S. Math could indicate that I dont have the slightest clue what I'm talking about.
So, if I am way off base here, let me know, and I'll shut up.;-p
Well you know us Geek Girls get pretty lonely too and for a laugh (or say we say;)) sometimes we go to places like www.lovecity.com or similar and look for the adverts that 'stand out' Notably the ones that DON'T say things like have own house and car and would like to meet bubbly blonde! I would also advise checking out the female ads and go for the ones that DON'T say things like want man with own house and car. I reckon Geek girls like something a bit different and unusual and so if there is something 'different' about the ads i'd say your chances are increased!
Thats what i think anyway... or maybe this just applies to me?? !:)
I met my geek guy this way in fact he answered my ad that said something like...'i love dancing in stone circles in the moonlight' and his reply included an unusual scan of some abstract art work he'd painted and a reference to Jaffa Cakes... needless to say That was it! and so here we are together now.....;)
Good Luck
Melissa
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Posted by alci:
... they don't have a market share, they don't exist cause they have no turnover...
Question : it's a free distribution, operated by volonteers.
IDC : It's free, and people contribute to it, but still one of the best solution... I don't understand what what are talking about !
Question : What about Debian ? IDC : Deb..., what ? How much business do they make ? We don't know them
Posted by nachas:
Why not? I'd like to see RedHat alive and well 10 years from now and this is a small price to pay to make that happen.
Posted by hardway:
I am a working stiff and have been at that level all my life. I do have a college degree in management with a minor in electronics, but I have been more technical in my job. I have always thought that there were two points of view. One, management is her to give me what I need to do my job. Two, you take a care of the company and the company takes care of you. Most manager put the company first and do not take care of their employess. Its is a balance, but I believe the managers job is to take care of thier workers. Training, support, resources and expect what can be done and not always push for more. Favoratisium will ruin it all and there is always a choosen one, if you can't treat everyone the same because someone it smarter or better or there life is there job and they work to live, then the team starts to breakdown. Like Billy Jean said fair is fair, how in a society, where the first rule is it's all about me, can anyone really work together?
Posted by HedgeCore:
It's sad that the open-source spirit doesn't remain when it comes to business. Expensive certifications that essentially mean nothing take precedence over experience and knowhow... Damn the man.
Posted by VitSoft:
:(
MS monopoly growing now.
Do you accepting it ? ;)
No way, just darkness
Posted by damiam:
According to Time magazine from a few months ago, Canada doesn't have the same laws requiring that all toilets be low-flow.
Posted by damiam:
Would it be possible to modity a Freenet client so that it would refuse to accept and host certain files (filter file names for "rape", "porn", "fuck", "sex", etc.)?
Posted by HedgeCore:
I've always wondered why Maxis didn't try to create more cohesion between the game and the community. All the skinning and editing is being completely run via the web, and I'm surprised that Maxis didn't choose to gain tighter control over this or at least squeeze it into some sort of GUI. Couldn't they have made official "stores" and "malls" similar to those that exist on the web, and put them inside the game's interface so one wouldn't have to bother with a browser? They also could've used this to distribute the official free add-ons. In this way, they could have also eliminated the need to download, unzip, place in proper directories with any add-ons. The Sims seems to be cutesy and mainstream enough to have a user base that would not only tolerate but benefit from something like this. Not everyone knows how to use mods even when they're in neat little packages.
Posted by mutex42:
I've been going to the arcades for longer than I can remember. For the past several of those years, I've only gone for one reason... fighting games. Not just any fighting games, but 2d fighting games exclusively. Everyone seems to think that the arcades are dying because everyone can just buy the games for the consoles and have just as good a time with it without having to blow tons of money in an arcade. When it comes to fighting games, you couldn't be more wrong. Arcades are where you go for the competition. It's like trying to tell me that you enjoy playing Quake more against bots and maybe one friend that lugs his computer over than you do over the internet. The arcades are where you're gonna find people to match skills with. That's where you learn new strategies, new fighting styles, new traps and techniques. That's where you teach them to other people and make friends along the way. Playing at home with a couple friends every now and then just isn't the same. Especially when it comes to the controls. I don't consider playing SF games serious when you're playing on the consoles with those crappy little joypads. The only real way to play is in the arcade. I'm sure this view is absurd to most people, but I'm actually devistated by this news. It means that from now on, I'll never be able to uncover the real depth of any fighting game because I'm forced to play against one or two friends on crappy controls. This means the death of one of my favorite pasttimes. And for all those people that think fighting games will live on after moving to the internet, please try to realize that they are built on reflexes. Latency goes against everything they stand for. Lighting fast reflexes and thinking are what these games are all about. 100ms is enough to lose any match, and ruin any fun.
honhon, you won't get a 1024 CPUs supercomputer for less, especially not one running MS WinDOS 2000 (maybe Windows3000...)
Don't forget that SGI's work concerns the supercomputers area, not home PCs...
Posted by ryanflynn:
.NET is built on XML which is a world-wide standard like HTML. M$ would actually have to take steps in order to keep other OSes from being compatible with .NET, but it's not worth the effort. They know other OSes will figure it out regardless of what they do, so why not make it open? Good PR anyhow.
If everyone at Microsoft died today and all their supprot, knowledge base, etc. was destroyed forever I'd bet that M$ Windoze would be on 50%+ of desktops for the next 20 years. Is this really news?
Posted by ryanflynn:
Aw jeez. I usually just skip any posts that use the word(?) 'axiomatic'
When you can go out and buy a game for your PlayStation or computer for $40 brand new and get hours and hours of fun out of it, the only reason for the arcade is the environment. The thing is, that environment has died off, everyone is off trying to perfect new skateboarding moves or other equally unproductive things, that are more fun than sitting in front of a screen wasting even $0.25 every 10 minutes. As a result the arcades have had to increase prices to $1.00 a game. Net result nobody new becomes interested in it. I would want to get into the arcade business about as much as I'd want to do an internet startup right about now.
On the other hand, I despise Arcade Games, most would run on my old Commodore64, the best would require my Pentium-120 with 1mb ISA Video Card. Now When I'm used to playing Half-Life or Quake3 on the Internet or LAN, what am I going to do. The atmosphere is the same as hosting a small LAN and ordering Pizza and soda from somewhere, and costs LESS! I can host an overnight LAN of 10 people for $30. I can spend 8 hours at an arcade and spend $80. What am I going to do?
Posted by Ieshan:
I work in an arcade, therefore, I suppose I have a right to speak on behalf of Capcom et al.
Capcom games are, for lack of a better english description, extremely god damned popular. We've got people who play Capcom as their crack. I don't understand why Capcom needs to close up, and I don't understand why people need to bash Capcom for making a merciless army of StreetFighter2 clones.
Sf2 was an extremely popular game, and now, the Marvel vs. Capcom series, with Megaman and Spiderman and Whateverdeeman is extremely popular as well. Most of these games cost about 50 cents to play, and most of them need to be repaired once or twice daily because of button mal-alignment (caused by too many people hitting on them too hard). I think its unfair to say that Capcom hasn't made a good game since SF2 - in a lot of ways, they've taken an old idea and morphed it into something quite different from SF2, but sort of reminiscent of its previous state. I like it. I play it a lot, on those free credit tokenie things.
Ieshan, Master of All Things Evil
Quick response to Capcom Games in General: I think Capcom made a few vital mistakes in its games, one being that the 'special moves' and stuff aren't easy enough to access. You have to have played the game a bajillion times to understand the combos and the complexities of it.
Posted by ahbbuddha:
Hmmm... I agree that stuff over the average isn't always compressible, but once in a while it is. Once is enough to invalidate the authors point that it's not compressible. Now you have me wondering why we are usually interested in the (usually) compressible stuff.
Posted by wonder mule:
/., can avail itself of derivative fair use, but must have the facts to show the fair use. Fair use is NOT how much of the entire text was taken, which is but one factor, but really a test of what ends were to be served by the use. In some instances the entirety of a text can be fairly used if the ambition and probable effect of full qouting is not to destroy the value of the text to the copyright owner. This is not an objective test, its heavily subjective and situation dependent. A witness to give foundation to a fair use defense is essential then.
/. just being a carrier as /. is a repository of content, so fair use defenses are crucial in a copyright dispute. Pick up your phone and ask it what you just said in the conversation you had this morning and there it sits buzzing at you. Carrier. Play back a dictation file of that conversation and you get information that has been fixed in a tangible way: content repository.
Because the fair use defense to infringement is something that must be proven by the defendant you need the testimony of that person to count on the defense. A contributory infringer,
Of course it is pretty silly to try the dodge of
Posted by duke of W:
.Solar collectors on car make hydrogen then hydrogen is fuel, that runs car. At night these solar cells can catch up on the inefficiencies of this system.
I gotta goe, the white jackets want me back....
Lets see now
Posted by _LFTL_:
:).
You could also talk about rings where such as the integers mod 3 where 2+2=1. (the integers mod x can be thought of as the set of all possible remainders when you divide a positive integer by x. For example 7 mod 3 = 1.) So maybe freedom should be the freedom to say 2+2=1
Posted by torian:
In my experience, the Japanese DTV standard is far superior to the American standard, mainly due, no doubt, to the many more years of expertise that the Japanese have with electronics in comparison to their American counterparts. Compared to the American DTV, the Japanese system is actually watchable and any flashing lights, fast-moving images, etc. doesn't turn to the picture into a pixellated mess.
It's also worth noting that Japanese DTV rerouters are linux-based, whereas American ones are m$-based. I think the choice is obvious.
Posted by BigMal:
The real pain is having to get a certificate for each server in a distributed server network. We're deploying dozens of servers which are supposed to all have server certs. Do the math and see how annoying that is. We're actually concidering deploying less servers just so we won't have to buy so many certs. Way too expensive that's my input.
Posted by ahbbuddha:
Are you sure they're not compressible? I'm just thinking of a trivial example like gzip. Every algorythm can be expressed as an implementation of gzip and along with a string of 0's and 1's fed into it that unpacks into the original algorthm. If the two together are smaller than the original algorythm, then it is compressible. This obviously isn't always the case, but is certainly true some of the time.
Posted by TrashManX:
I got pissed last week when I saw Notify CD didn't work in getting my CDs when it did work the week before. The original author stopped his development, but he had it able to be modified by anyone who wanted to mess with the source code. Some people have and they updated it to also hook into the FreeDB database. Here are sites to check for this version of Notify CD: http://www.mamane.lu/notifycd/ http://hassard.net/ I already use the newer version, so I followed the directions and switched to FreeDB and am starting to build my personal CD database from scratch. I even submitted data on one disc that wasn't listed. Screw Gracenote and CDDB...get then new version of Notify CD and use FreeDB!
Posted by asscottb:
:| ), so I probably won't get it all together before someone else does.
I must say though, I am very happy to see this port. I still use DM as a design base for all of my games, especially the UI.
scott
sig? Nah, I feel fine, but thanks for asking
Yeah, with heavy use of mmv I got it running...Strange mix of "original" chunky graphics and modern, smooth graphics. However, I am still getting exceptions when I create a character, so the I have not yet completely got everything worked out. Gotta go code now (finals week
Posted by McDoobie:
;-p
I'm not a computer guru by any stretch of the imagination, but the concept being laid out here seems like it might work well as a new sort of compression algorithm. i.e. One could theoretically(I suppose) encode entire files into one simple number. Whether that number would have to prime or not, I'm not sure. But it seems like a novel concept.
Of course, the fact that I'm still working my way through H.S. Math could indicate that I dont have the slightest clue what I'm talking about.
So, if I am way off base here, let me know, and I'll shut up.
McDoobie
Posted by wisewoman:
:)
I met my geek guy this way in fact he answered my ad that said something like...'i love dancing in stone circles in the moonlight' and his reply included an unusual scan of some abstract art work he'd painted and a reference to Jaffa Cakes... needless to say That was it! and so here we are together now..... ;)
Good Luck
Melissa
Well you know us Geek Girls get pretty lonely too and for a laugh (or say we say;)) sometimes we go to places like www.lovecity.com or similar and look for the adverts that 'stand out' Notably the ones that DON'T say things like have own house and car and would like to meet bubbly blonde! I would also advise checking out the female ads and go for the ones that DON'T say things like want man with own house and car. I reckon Geek girls like something a bit different and unusual and so if there is something 'different' about the ads i'd say your chances are increased! Thats what i think anyway... or maybe this just applies to me?? !