the t68m or sometimes just plain t68 did suck. It was slow, buggy, and generally unpleasant. They came out w/ v2 of the OS and called it t68i. That was much better. The t68i is a decent phone. the t68 is horse manure.
The _really_ crappy thing is that it was just a bios upgrade. apparently everywhere but the US you could get it flashed by the manufacturer, no problem (and, I think, no charge) No go here in the states though, they want you to buy a new phone. that just pissed me off. Release a crappy OS to get to market quick and make you buy a new phone to get the upgrade. fuck them
not that I am bitter......wait, check that, I am bitter..... fuckers
Bingo!!! we have a winner. I fully agree that the real goal to this war is the establish a large base or point of presence in teh area. Saddam and Iraq are convienent means to an end, not the end in and of itself
I saw a screening already. They come up w/ a fantastic new material to get around the heat and pressure to the external of the ship. "the actual name has 37 syllables, I've been calling it unobtanium"
i guess you have to let the art flow over you.
the movie was OK, tried to explain some of the science but assumed most of the audience would be looking for loud things rather than worry about thermodynamics. "the liquid core is like an engine, it only takes a small wrench to stop a big engine" sums it up pretty well.
i am not very familiar w/ the icmp choke. Couldn't the spammer just ignore them, or filter them at a fw level? If they did that wouldn't it get around this?
this isn't about blame. Yes the anti-spam measures are only done b/c of the spam. but there is a difference in whether the spam or the anti-spam measures cause the problem.
also, while the reverse lookups and such existed long before spam was a problem I would bet the VAST majority, 99%-type majority, are caused spam and anti spam tools.
i agree, though, that you should watch who you call full of shit. they guy did an interesting study and is providing his results. he sounds resonable to me.
Migrating to a new system (any system) w/o somebody who has done it a thousand times is just silly. You didn't have a sysadmin, why would you change your platform? You had a sysadmin set up your last platform and that was stable. you were able to keep it up from that point. that is VERY different from putting together a platform yourself and expecting it to Just work like the other one.
That being said...... I do agree w/ your point about people being more comfortable w/ win machines b/c they have them at home.
the rest of the movie was pretty poor but I was impressed w/ teh computer portrayal in "eraser". At one point the bad guys are tracking the good guys in a van. there is a shot of bad guy #1 typing at a non-english prompt in (you guessed it) non-english (i forget the plot, maybe russian). Any way, he types a command and gets an actual telnet prompt, which he logs into. I was impressed that they did that. Of course, we had to assume that the van had some sort of wireless network connection (long before 802.11 was popular) but hey we accepted some sort of super particle gun for the plot, a wireless network connection wasn't too much of a stretch.
One of the ideas is that every product sold will have an RF tag. supposedly in a couple of years the tags are going to be down to a penny or two. The tags id whatever you bring into your house and add it too the "house inventory". one thing that scared me was when she mentioned that the house could check your insurance policy and if you weren't covered by you current policy they could contact you to upsell. uhhh, obviously designed w/ the business rather than the customer in mind.
another thing about the door. the door is magnetically locked. you bio scan in and it lets you in. there was no keyhole that I saw. what happens when the power goes out? either you are locked in or the door is open. neither is acceptable.
the house was pretty cool though. it had a great digital art sculpture. some random piece of artfully bent plastic. when you get close it illuminates from inside with pictures and videos from your media library. if you see a picture you like, say your trip to greece, you touch the picture and then all the pictures are from that trip or media group. Tres chic. a great way to display all that digital media we have been collecting.
This just struck me a silly. If you didn't sound so serious I would think you were being facetious. The parent poster was complaining about no games on linux for the average, non tech, user. Your reply is: 1. Just connect a cartridge reader to your parallel port and 2. install the cartridge reader's driver. 3. Then insert your Game Pak into the cartridge reader and 4. "dump" it into a file on your hard disk
4 relatively technical steps. the first requiring extra hardware. this is EXACTLY the problem. yeah it probably isn't that hard and yeah there are probably 4 different HOWTOs but you have to have the time to dick around and the inclination to dig under the hood of the machine.
I thought the parent poster made a great point. The non technical, idiot or not, doesn't want to fuck around w/ this kind of shit. I do, you do, but that is b/c the tech is a hobby and the process is as interesting to me as the final outcome.
You go on to talk about XP being single processor. Hardware these days has far outpaced software and the casual user really just doesn't need dual processors. Refering to the example in the parent post, he could have gotten a faster machine but what he was really interested in the functionality it was going to give him.
In alot of ways you can liken computers to cars. Cars have evolved to a point (in the last 15 years or so) that you don't really have to worry about what is under the hood. sure if you have specific needs (towing, racing) you are going to be very particular about it having 335 horsepower v8 or whatever. Overall though, the selling points thesed days (as evidenced by what the car commercials brag about) are other things. the toys. does it have a sun roof, does it have gps. the warrantee, etc... 30 years ago, if you had a car you needed to know some things about it. you had to be able to check your oil. that isn't the case anymore. Computing is still very much in the "need to change your oil" stage. Windows and possibly mac do the most user level coddling and try to avoid making you change your oil. linux, as much as I love it, makes you change your oil. Hell, as you point out in your post you have to rebuild your ##$%ng engine (recompile the kernel).
ahh I am just ranting now, i do like the granularity and control that linux gives me but most people don't want to deal w/ it any more than they want to replace the suspension on their car.
Process is part of documentation. SysAdmin isn't rocket science but it isn't sweeping floors either. There are many different technologies and you can't expect everybody to be an expert in all the technologies you are using. What if the guy that built the system is unreachable (vacation or no longer w/ the company) If that server needs to be rebuilt, not now but 5 minutes ago, then you dno't have time for somebody else to bang around and learn a new way of doing it. Let alone deal w/ any inconsistancies that arise b/c he did it differently this time.
A process isn't there to create extra work. A process is built to standardize and to take advantage of lessons learned. The ITIL (where we started this thread) isn't so much make sure your apache is in/var as much as a set of guidelines, written by many experts, taking advantage of years and years of experience. A good process is what you would come to yourself, eventually. First you document what you have. As things break and you learn, you retune your process. repeat. Eventually you would realize that some (not all) of the ideas presented in the ITIL are what you have evolved into because they make good sense. They are the common sense that comes from many years of experience that you can use when you don't have 20 years in the business. When I am looking at these type documents I use them to skip a couple of iterations in my process building.
A sys admin i respect at a company w/ the one of the highest uptimes on the network told me this. (i am paraphrasing) "we have good, smart people, but other companies do too. The real key to uptime is the processes you use"
I do see you point but I don't agree. In a shop w/ more than one sysadmin processes are a necessity. heck, even w/ only one you need them. How many people have set up something reasonable complex and not documented it. It runs w/o a hitch for a year or two and you have to build it again. you haven't thought about this in so long that you only have a dim recollection of how to do it. so you spend a couple of days relearning it. had you documented (had a process) you could have saved the second learning curve. That is just one example.
what about when you have dozens or more machines. everything needs to be done exactly the same. I can't get on each machine and spend time figuring out if the apache root is in/var/www or/home/www or/usr/local/apache or/random/dir. is named in/usr or/var? all should have been built w/ teh same process.
which version are we on? when you get to have some machines where uptime is really essential you can't necessarily upgrade all the machines at the same time. Did you upgrade this one yet? where is your configuration database? where is the process that keeps it updated?
If you are working w/ another company you have to have processes. Everything has to be documented so when I say build me a new web server, I know exactly which options are going to be set.
If you have more than one sysadmin, i need to know that each machine is built the same way, has the same naming conventions etc. all of these are processes.
as you move to more than a couple machines you need processes to keep things in line.
it seems customers don'd mind all that much if their computer does not run Windows
well, they don't mind if it doesn't come with windows but i would guess that better than 9 out of 10 of them end up w/ windows on them. a few copies might even be legal (maybe)
When my dotcom lost our t3 we had to go colo. i used nyi.net for awhile. they were cheap but you got what you paid for. our price was relatively close to what their price configurator turned out. Our ceo did manage to work out a bit better deal. that was definitely a "Cheap" operation. it was basically what I would have if my buddies and i put up a colo facility. they were fully redunant in the network but the ac was just a big window ac. i had to add some scripts to my monitors to watch my cpu temp on my suns b/c they had no idea if the ac went out. I would call them and tell them to fix the ac. there was no security to speak of (cameras and pin access door). nobody around after 6 etc... Though on the plus side they didn't go down after sept 11th and they were only about 4 blocks away. the building ac was down but the network kept on humming (of course I had to turn off some machines b/c of heat and I didn't know how long it would last but i was still impressed)
anyway, before i left that company we moved our equipment to globix. we ended up w/ 2 full cabinets at globix w/ 2mb pipe for about $1500/mth. that was after MUCH bargaining. when we moved there I really realized how cheap nyi was. I no longer got network 'blips' on my monitors and everything just seemed better.
of course now, i have stepped up a bit. just for kicks.... our current setup is just under $1mil/year. That is just for one of our datacenters and we do content cacheing w/ a third party too. this is for full managed support w/ dedicated admins w/ HP. we run about 40 servers w/ a steady 30mb/s peaking up to 55. w/ the other datacenters and our content cacheing included we are peaking up to 160mb/s. sweeeeeeetttt!!!!!
costly, but we make more than we spend so it is all for the best. B)
I have the ps/2. I got baldur's gate dark alliance and my gf and I had alot of fun playing it together. I finally got her hooked on a game. great, something we can both enjoy. But I can't find any other good 2 player games. there are sports games and fighting games, neither of which appeal to her.
rpg style works, adventure style works.... I havent had any luck. am i just on the wrong platform? do some of teh other platforms have better options? After reading through some of the other posts the gamecube sounds pretty good (i LOVE zelda and metroid sounds good). Do they have any good 2 player games?
whether you like it or not anecdotal evidence is eye witness account of an incident. as opposed to say, emperical evidence, which would be held to a more rigorous definition (reproducability)
How can people complain about MS not giving enough information and also complain about them giving too much. good lord people! MSDN has ALOT of information, that is because MS has ALOT of things to have information about. True it is a bit difficult to find things sometimes but that is a function of size (and that they use their own shitty siteserver search ). Have you ever tried to use the IBM knowledge base. Everything is there, somewhere. It is impossible to find though.
Once you find the sections you are looking for in the MSDN they tend to be VERY useful. Bookmark 'em and stop bitching about MS giving to little info and turning around and bitching again about how there is to much info there.
They aren't streaming. The site is way sparse on details but from what I can see, you download their "Movielink Manager". The MM handles your movie downloads (resumes, etc). You download the full movie in whatever format they send it in and you have 3 days to watch it. Once you start it you have 24 hours to watch it as many times as you like. I don't know the quality but it will be much better than streaming.
The MM also "convieniently" removes movies files when your rental expires.
not quite, the original planet sent a ship full of their "useless" citizens (incl. telephone sanitizers) into space. that shipped crashed on earth and killed the local neanderthal population. Arthur Dent freaked out when he realized these people were our "forefathers".
Everybody on the original planet died from a disease passed on through contact w/ public phones (or similar, b/c they had no more sanitizers)
or rather, a science w/ too many variables to be accurate. Kinda like predicting the weather. If you had all the variables you could probably do it but there are just too many variables to be able to figure them all in.
Don't get me wrong, I am not against open source, but it doesn't make sense for alot of projects.
People are not "falling" for the TCO argument. It is what businesses care about. The accounting department doesn't care whether you use OS or not. They care about what it costs. Combine that w/ the customer (may be an internal employee), they don't care whether you use OS or not, they want a product that works.
If I am putting up a server for me, I use all OSS. The real reason for that is b/c I believe in the movement and would like to keep my skills in that area. Neither of these matter to my company. The idea for them is to deliver a quality product while spending as little money as possible. We will spend money, quality comes first, but the internet generation is over and we can't spend money w/o thinking like we used to. P&L sheets actually matter now, if you are going to stay afloat you have to look at what something costs the company in total, not the upfront costs.
And the difference is HUGE. For our application we have 300+ servers being run by a team of 4 guys. all MS servers. we have 27 unix boxen that have a higher TCO than the MS farms. YMMV but that is what we have found for our situation. These are the numbers that matter on a business scale. We tech geeks like to have holy wars about which OS and which FPS and which progging lang is best... None of this matters on a larger scale. The implementation and the people are what determine what is "better", and that can change from project to project. (Actually, when you come down to it, it is the PROCESSES that make all the difference in the TCO.)
Everything people complain about closed source software is true on some levels but OSS has it's own problems and it isnt a black and white issue. There are ALOT of areas in which OSS can actually be more expensive than the alternatives. Despite the lack of licensing costs.
That is a very good idea. Make sure you do some checking on the guy you are hiring though. No offense to college kids (i was one once), but they aren't the most reliable people, especially in terms of long term plans.
Point by point 1. Be more stable and contain less bugs in the long run how can you say this w/ a straight face? For every "stable"-ish OSS project i can show you 500 that aren't. Not that this is any different from closed source. Shitty code is shitty code but it exists in both arenas.
2. Cost less in terms of licensing etc Given. Though, over the lifetime of the product this may not be a sizeable percentage of the cost.
3. Have projectable license costs. ie Nil. Whereas who knows how much Micro$oft will charge you in a couple of years. If you are doing a project of a decent size you can write this kind of stuff into the contract. As the poster said, the commercial vendors were willing to give him exact costs for support over the lifetime of the product. Alot of bean counters will prefer a fixed cost over an unknown cost that may or may not be cheaper. Remember, the license may be free but that doesn't make the product free.
4. Gain from *not* having to upgrade due to it no longer being supported. Proprietary software forces you to upgrade and infact is built into their model. If you don't buy they go bankrupt this is just wrong. OSS upgrades constantly. The jump from apache 1.3.6 to 1.3.9 (i hope, for their own sake, nobody jumped to anything inbetween) invalidated most of the modules. Alot of third party apps had to be rewritten so they would work w/ the new apache. sometimes it is the best idea to just chuck the old code and rewrite it better. happens w/ both schools of software.
5. Allows you to *gain* from quick bug fixes, security patches and the like Most reliable vendors will put out patches for security holes and bugs. If they aren't you should be buying the product. OSS may be quicker in this area.
IMHO, it comes down to man power and project size. If you are doing a large project w/ lots of people, the licensing costs are not that large of a cost, comparatively. When I was the sole admin for a smaller company and I only had to run 10 or 20 boxen, it was ok to use unsupported products. I had the time to dig into each one, rewrite code I didnt' like, etc... On larger projects though, I need the software to do what I think it is supposed to do. If it doesn't do that I call somebody else to make it do that so I can use it as teh tool it is supposed to be. I guess the differences is that instead of spending my time configure each software package, i need to be able to configure the application as a whole. Of course, I do have to dig into any software package I use, and sometimes OSS is quicker easier just based on my familiarity w/ it. But in general, I don't have the time necessary to devote to the ever evolving, day by day patching, OSS software. Of course, I am generalizing....
Not if there is no support. Very few OSS projects have real support. that is one of the things pointed out in the parent post, nobody will support it. That is fine if you are going to have a person dedicated to becoming an expert in the product but that costs alot of money.
some pay software is actually the best choice. Granted, not always... I am reminded of a time when a large publishing company I worked for was reluctant to use a whole set of Perl scripts we developed unless they could "buy" Perl. I told them to send a couple hundred bucks to larry but that didn't fly.
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the t68m or sometimes just plain t68 did suck. It was slow, buggy, and generally unpleasant. They came out w/ v2 of the OS and called it t68i. That was much better. The t68i is a decent phone. the t68 is horse manure.
The _really_ crappy thing is that it was just a bios upgrade. apparently everywhere but the US you could get it flashed by the manufacturer, no problem (and, I think, no charge) No go here in the states though, they want you to buy a new phone. that just pissed me off. Release a crappy OS to get to market quick and make you buy a new phone to get the upgrade. fuck them
not that I am bitter......wait, check that, I am bitter..... fuckers
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Bingo!!! we have a winner. I fully agree that the real goal to this war is the establish a large base or point of presence in teh area. Saddam and Iraq are convienent means to an end, not the end in and of itself
I saw a screening already.
They come up w/ a fantastic new material to get around the heat and pressure to the external of the ship. "the actual name has 37 syllables, I've been calling it unobtanium"
i guess you have to let the art flow over you.
the movie was OK, tried to explain some of the science but assumed most of the audience would be looking for loud things rather than worry about thermodynamics. "the liquid core is like an engine, it only takes a small wrench to stop a big engine" sums it up pretty well.
ej
everywhere I am seeing wants me to reg or is slashdotted. any links that are working?
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ej
i am not very familiar w/ the icmp choke. Couldn't the spammer just ignore them, or filter them at a fw level? If they did that wouldn't it get around this?
this isn't about blame. Yes the anti-spam measures are only done b/c of the spam. but there is a difference in whether the spam or the anti-spam measures cause the problem.
also, while the reverse lookups and such existed long before spam was a problem I would bet the VAST majority, 99%-type majority, are caused spam and anti spam tools.
i agree, though, that you should watch who you call full of shit. they guy did an interesting study and is providing his results. he sounds resonable to me.
Migrating to a new system (any system) w/o somebody who has done it a thousand times is just silly. You didn't have a sysadmin, why would you change your platform? You had a sysadmin set up your last platform and that was stable. you were able to keep it up from that point. that is VERY different from putting together a platform yourself and expecting it to Just work like the other one.
That being said...... I do agree w/ your point about people being more comfortable w/ win machines b/c they have them at home.
I just think your expectations were unrealistic.
ej
the rest of the movie was pretty poor but I was impressed w/ teh computer portrayal in "eraser". At one point the bad guys are tracking the good guys in a van. there is a shot of bad guy #1 typing at a non-english prompt in (you guessed it) non-english (i forget the plot, maybe russian). Any way, he types a command and gets an actual telnet prompt, which he logs into. I was impressed that they did that. Of course, we had to assume that the van had some sort of wireless network connection (long before 802.11 was popular) but hey we accepted some sort of super particle gun for the plot, a wireless network connection wasn't too much of a stretch.
I've been there and it _was_ pretty cool.
Two things that I didn't see in the article.
One of the ideas is that every product sold will have an RF tag. supposedly in a couple of years the tags are going to be down to a penny or two. The tags id whatever you bring into your house and add it too the "house inventory". one thing that scared me was when she mentioned that the house could check your insurance policy and if you weren't covered by you current policy they could contact you to upsell. uhhh, obviously designed w/ the business rather than the customer in mind.
another thing about the door. the door is magnetically locked. you bio scan in and it lets you in. there was no keyhole that I saw. what happens when the power goes out? either you are locked in or the door is open. neither is acceptable.
the house was pretty cool though. it had a great digital art sculpture. some random piece of artfully bent plastic. when you get close it illuminates from inside with pictures and videos from your media library. if you see a picture you like, say your trip to greece, you touch the picture and then all the pictures are from that trip or media group. Tres chic. a great way to display all that digital media we have been collecting.
This just struck me a silly. If you didn't sound so serious I would think you were being facetious. The parent poster was complaining about no games on linux for the average, non tech, user. Your reply is:
1. Just connect a cartridge reader to your parallel port and
2. install the cartridge reader's driver.
3. Then insert your Game Pak into the cartridge reader and
4. "dump" it into a file on your hard disk
4 relatively technical steps. the first requiring extra hardware. this is EXACTLY the problem. yeah it probably isn't that hard and yeah there are probably 4 different HOWTOs but you have to have the time to dick around and the inclination to dig under the hood of the machine.
I thought the parent poster made a great point. The non technical, idiot or not, doesn't want to fuck around w/ this kind of shit. I do, you do, but that is b/c the tech is a hobby and the process is as interesting to me as the final outcome.
You go on to talk about XP being single processor. Hardware these days has far outpaced software and the casual user really just doesn't need dual processors. Refering to the example in the parent post, he could have gotten a faster machine but what he was really interested in the functionality it was going to give him.
In alot of ways you can liken computers to cars. Cars have evolved to a point (in the last 15 years or so) that you don't really have to worry about what is under the hood. sure if you have specific needs (towing, racing) you are going to be very particular about it having 335 horsepower v8 or whatever. Overall though, the selling points thesed days (as evidenced by what the car commercials brag about) are other things. the toys. does it have a sun roof, does it have gps. the warrantee, etc...
30 years ago, if you had a car you needed to know some things about it. you had to be able to check your oil. that isn't the case anymore. Computing is still very much in the "need to change your oil" stage. Windows and possibly mac do the most user level coddling and try to avoid making you change your oil. linux, as much as I love it, makes you change your oil. Hell, as you point out in your post you have to rebuild your ##$%ng engine (recompile the kernel).
ahh I am just ranting now, i do like the granularity and control that linux gives me but most people don't want to deal w/ it any more than they want to replace the suspension on their car.
Process is part of documentation. SysAdmin isn't rocket science but it isn't sweeping floors either. There are many different technologies and you can't expect everybody to be an expert in all the technologies you are using. What if the guy that built the system is unreachable (vacation or no longer w/ the company) If that server needs to be rebuilt, not now but 5 minutes ago, then you dno't have time for somebody else to bang around and learn a new way of doing it. Let alone deal w/ any inconsistancies that arise b/c he did it differently this time.
/var as much as a set of guidelines, written by many experts, taking advantage of years and years of experience. A good process is what you would come to yourself, eventually. First you document what you have. As things break and you learn, you retune your process. repeat. Eventually you would realize that some (not all) of the ideas presented in the ITIL are what you have evolved into because they make good sense. They are the common sense that comes from many years of experience that you can use when you don't have 20 years in the business. When I am looking at these type documents I use them to skip a couple of iterations in my process building.
A process isn't there to create extra work. A process is built to standardize and to take advantage of lessons learned. The ITIL (where we started this thread) isn't so much make sure your apache is in
A sys admin i respect at a company w/ the one of the highest uptimes on the network told me this. (i am paraphrasing) "we have good, smart people, but other companies do too. The real key to uptime is the processes you use"
I do see you point but I don't agree. In a shop w/ more than one sysadmin processes are a necessity. heck, even w/ only one you need them. How many people have set up something reasonable complex and not documented it. It runs w/o a hitch for a year or two and you have to build it again. you haven't thought about this in so long that you only have a dim recollection of how to do it. so you spend a couple of days relearning it. had you documented (had a process) you could have saved the second learning curve. That is just one example.
/var/www or /home/www or /usr/local/apache or /random/dir. is named in /usr or /var? all should have been built w/ teh same process.
what about when you have dozens or more machines. everything needs to be done exactly the same. I can't get on each machine and spend time figuring out if the apache root is in
which version are we on? when you get to have some machines where uptime is really essential you can't necessarily upgrade all the machines at the same time. Did you upgrade this one yet? where is your configuration database? where is the process that keeps it updated?
If you are working w/ another company you have to have processes. Everything has to be documented so when I say build me a new web server, I know exactly which options are going to be set.
If you have more than one sysadmin, i need to know that each machine is built the same way, has the same naming conventions etc. all of these are processes.
as you move to more than a couple machines you need processes to keep things in line.
it seems customers don'd mind all that much if their computer does not run Windows
well, they don't mind if it doesn't come with windows but i would guess that better than 9 out of 10 of them end up w/ windows on them. a few copies might even be legal (maybe)
Here is my 3 cents.
/year. That is just for one of our datacenters and we do content cacheing w/ a third party too. this is for full managed support w/ dedicated admins w/ HP. we run about 40 servers w/ a steady 30mb/s peaking up to 55. w/ the other datacenters and our content cacheing included we are peaking up to 160mb/s. sweeeeeeetttt!!!!!
When my dotcom lost our t3 we had to go colo. i used nyi.net for awhile. they were cheap but you got what you paid for. our price was relatively close to what their price configurator turned out. Our ceo did manage to work out a bit better deal. that was definitely a "Cheap" operation. it was basically what I would have if my buddies and i put up a colo facility. they were fully redunant in the network but the ac was just a big window ac. i had to add some scripts to my monitors to watch my cpu temp on my suns b/c they had no idea if the ac went out. I would call them and tell them to fix the ac. there was no security to speak of (cameras and pin access door). nobody around after 6 etc... Though on the plus side they didn't go down after sept 11th and they were only about 4 blocks away. the building ac was down but the network kept on humming (of course I had to turn off some machines b/c of heat and I didn't know how long it would last but i was still impressed)
anyway, before i left that company we moved our equipment to globix. we ended up w/ 2 full cabinets at globix w/ 2mb pipe for about $1500/mth. that was after MUCH bargaining. when we moved there I really realized how cheap nyi was. I no longer got network 'blips' on my monitors and everything just seemed better.
of course now, i have stepped up a bit. just for kicks....
our current setup is just under $1mil
costly, but we make more than we spend so it is all for the best. B)
Are there any good 2 player games?
I have the ps/2. I got baldur's gate dark alliance and my gf and I had alot of fun playing it together. I finally got her hooked on a game. great, something we can both enjoy. But I can't find any other good 2 player games. there are sports games and fighting games, neither of which appeal to her.
rpg style works, adventure style works.... I havent had any luck. am i just on the wrong platform? do some of teh other platforms have better options? After reading through some of the other posts the gamecube sounds pretty good (i LOVE zelda and metroid sounds good). Do they have any good 2 player games?
any ideas?
anecdote
n : short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
whether you like it or not anecdotal evidence is eye witness account of an incident. as opposed to say, emperical evidence, which would be held to a more rigorous definition (reproducability)
How can people complain about MS not giving enough information and also complain about them giving too much. good lord people! MSDN has ALOT of information, that is because MS has ALOT of things to have information about. True it is a bit difficult to find things sometimes but that is a function of size (and that they use their own shitty siteserver search ). Have you ever tried to use the IBM knowledge base. Everything is there, somewhere. It is impossible to find though.
Once you find the sections you are looking for in the MSDN they tend to be VERY useful. Bookmark 'em and stop bitching about MS giving to little info and turning around and bitching again about how there is to much info there.
They aren't streaming. The site is way sparse on details but from what I can see, you download their "Movielink Manager". The MM handles your movie downloads (resumes, etc). You download the full movie in whatever format they send it in and you have 3 days to watch it. Once you start it you have 24 hours to watch it as many times as you like. I don't know the quality but it will be much better than streaming.
The MM also "convieniently" removes movies files when your rental expires.
not quite, the original planet sent a ship full of their "useless" citizens (incl. telephone sanitizers) into space. that shipped crashed on earth and killed the local neanderthal population. Arthur Dent freaked out when he realized these people were our "forefathers".
Everybody on the original planet died from a disease passed on through contact w/ public phones (or similar, b/c they had no more sanitizers)
to the best of my recollection
If we just write one line of code a day each we'll have better OCR in no time.
#include
Ok, there is my line of code, everybody else, finish it up.
I can't wait to see this great new OCR.
or rather, a science w/ too many variables to be accurate. Kinda like predicting the weather. If you had all the variables you could probably do it but there are just too many variables to be able to figure them all in.
Don't get me wrong, I am not against open source, but it doesn't make sense for alot of projects.
People are not "falling" for the TCO argument. It is what businesses care about. The accounting department doesn't care whether you use OS or not. They care about what it costs. Combine that w/ the customer (may be an internal employee), they don't care whether you use OS or not, they want a product that works.
If I am putting up a server for me, I use all OSS. The real reason for that is b/c I believe in the movement and would like to keep my skills in that area. Neither of these matter to my company. The idea for them is to deliver a quality product while spending as little money as possible. We will spend money, quality comes first, but the internet generation is over and we can't spend money w/o thinking like we used to. P&L sheets actually matter now, if you are going to stay afloat you have to look at what something costs the company in total, not the upfront costs.
And the difference is HUGE. For our application we have 300+ servers being run by a team of 4 guys. all MS servers. we have 27 unix boxen that have a higher TCO than the MS farms. YMMV but that is what we have found for our situation. These are the numbers that matter on a business scale. We tech geeks like to have holy wars about which OS and which FPS and which progging lang is best... None of this matters on a larger scale. The implementation and the people are what determine what is "better", and that can change from project to project. (Actually, when you come down to it, it is the PROCESSES that make all the difference in the TCO.)
Everything people complain about closed source software is true on some levels but OSS has it's own problems and it isnt a black and white issue. There are ALOT of areas in which OSS can actually be more expensive than the alternatives. Despite the lack of licensing costs.
That is a very good idea. Make sure you do some checking on the guy you are hiring though. No offense to college kids (i was one once), but they aren't the most reliable people, especially in terms of long term plans.
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ej
Point by point
1. Be more stable and contain less bugs in the long run
how can you say this w/ a straight face? For every "stable"-ish OSS project i can show you 500 that aren't. Not that this is any different from closed source. Shitty code is shitty code but it exists in both arenas.
2. Cost less in terms of licensing etc
Given. Though, over the lifetime of the product this may not be a sizeable percentage of the cost.
3. Have projectable license costs. ie Nil. Whereas who knows how much Micro$oft will charge you in a couple of years.
If you are doing a project of a decent size you can write this kind of stuff into the contract. As the poster said, the commercial vendors were willing to give him exact costs for support over the lifetime of the product. Alot of bean counters will prefer a fixed cost over an unknown cost that may or may not be cheaper. Remember, the license may be free but that doesn't make the product free.
4. Gain from *not* having to upgrade due to it no longer being supported. Proprietary software forces you to upgrade and infact is built into their model. If you don't buy they go bankrupt
this is just wrong. OSS upgrades constantly. The jump from apache 1.3.6 to 1.3.9 (i hope, for their own sake, nobody jumped to anything inbetween) invalidated most of the modules. Alot of third party apps had to be rewritten so they would work w/ the new apache. sometimes it is the best idea to just chuck the old code and rewrite it better. happens w/ both schools of software.
5. Allows you to *gain* from quick bug fixes, security patches and the like
Most reliable vendors will put out patches for security holes and bugs. If they aren't you should be buying the product. OSS may be quicker in this area.
IMHO, it comes down to man power and project size. If you are doing a large project w/ lots of people, the licensing costs are not that large of a cost, comparatively. When I was the sole admin for a smaller company and I only had to run 10 or 20 boxen, it was ok to use unsupported products. I had the time to dig into each one, rewrite code I didnt' like, etc... On larger projects though, I need the software to do what I think it is supposed to do. If it doesn't do that I call somebody else to make it do that so I can use it as teh tool it is supposed to be. I guess the differences is that instead of spending my time configure each software package, i need to be able to configure the application as a whole. Of course, I do have to dig into any software package I use, and sometimes OSS is quicker easier just based on my familiarity w/ it. But in general, I don't have the time necessary to devote to the ever evolving, day by day patching, OSS software. Of course, I am generalizing....
whatever
ej
Not if there is no support. Very few OSS projects have real support. that is one of the things pointed out in the parent post, nobody will support it. That is fine if you are going to have a person dedicated to becoming an expert in the product but that costs alot of money.
some pay software is actually the best choice. Granted, not always... I am reminded of a time when a large publishing company I worked for was reluctant to use a whole set of Perl scripts we developed unless they could "buy" Perl. I told them to send a couple hundred bucks to larry but that didn't fly.