Japanese compaines, which are well known for their high quality (and TQM, etc), value their employees as assets to the company.
I have read somewhere that there actually are two types of Japanese companies. The big keiretsus (think Mitsubishi) where good students get employed and spend their whole life as safe sarariman, and the small contractors who try to survive around the keiretsus and offer no job security, not so good work conditions. The contractors are used as buffers by the keiretsus.
Of the four main reasons to do software (money, prestige, scratch to itch and fun) I see that Reed is not having the first two. Does he enjoy it so much? Does he need IPFiler so much? Why does he develop it? __
Strange to see the land that created Kama Sutra and sacred sex (I forgot the name of those temples with statues of people having sex) to become so afraid of porn. __
Squeak, the open source implementation of Smalltalk, comes with windows with scrollbars on the right. Also, there is a strange way to page up and down. It also has another number of unusual UI ideas. And they are difficult if you come from other environments! __
I know that OpenDoc is just one part of the WorkPlace Shell, but you have been able to download the source code for IBM's OpenDoc 1.2 (the version in Warp 4 is 1.1) for Win95, OS/2 and AIX since the jump to Java.
The license agreement stipulates that you only use the source code for debugging and education. Be wary about exploiting side effects that you discover in the source code, because the IBM OpenDoc team may change the code in future editions.
Has anyone actually used it in some other product? __
It's a pity that much of the open source software in OS/2 is ported from Unix. It uses forks that more expensive in OS/2 than in Unix. The right thing would be converting it to threads, but free OS/2 developers usually find better things to do with their time. __
Serenity Systems has been delaying the release date. I think they are too small to handle this full business profesionally. At least they sent a beta to those that prepaid. I wonder if the final quality and bug correction will be worth the price. __
Scott Kim is a puzzle designer. Some of the puzzles are computer based but some others need not to be.
Since 1990 I have been a full-time independent designer of visual puzzles and games for the web, computer games, magazines and toys. My puzzles are in the spirit of Tetris and M.C. Escher -- visually stimulating, thought provoking, broadly appealing, and highly original. I have created hundreds of puzzles for magazines, and thousands for computer games. I am especially interesting in daily, weekly and monthly puzzles for the web and portable devices.
What I don't do
Crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, trivia games, action games. I do design multi-player games, but single-player puzzles are my specialty.
Maybe it's not what you thought as a "game designer" but when technologies come and go, I think that people like Kim have a better chance to survive. __
Also, I'm noticing more and more German borrowing in the hacker world. Is it just me? If it's not, any speculation on why?
The Jargon File has something about Jewish (Ashkhenazi?) hackers, and there are some traditional terms there from German. Maybe.
But I don't see it apart from Slashdot stories. Maybe German-speaking editors?
And now that Altavista's owners are certifiably evil (having patented things like web crawlers), are there any other places we can go for translation needs?
Check translate.ru. I don't know if it's better but it translates to/from Russian as well. __
Apparently the brain "refreshes" consciousness every 10 milliseconds by sweeping a pulse of electricity over the brain. When you tinker with this, your consciousness seems to slow down, then collapse!
So is this overclocking or underclocking? And could it be done elsehow? __
I think it's in otherwise forgettable "The Artificial Kid" by Bruce Sterling that people who go into cryonics has to pay everything they own. So when they are revived, they are poor. If they want to be frozen again, they have to get rich again.
"Important information survives (usually). Trivial information gets lost. This is how it should be. There's no reason to preserve every bit of data for 'historical' reasons"
But the selection forces change, just as being big as a dinosaur was great in the Jurassic, but it wan't so great when the extinction came.
I've worked on research projects whose primary source was day-to-day accounting records of a small business running in Egypt during the 11th century.
Yes, but we don't need the records of every small business in every country in every century. Just some sampling will do. We lose information but it's a tradeoff for space and conservation work. The same about modern data. __
Slashdot Mirror
26 letters
You mean 26 uppercase and 26 lowercase.
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I just quit my Lineage habbit
It is one of the most hostile and unenjoyable games I have ever played in my life
This hostility leads to more racism than a Klu Klux Klan convention
NCsoft does not reply to emails.
The classes are limited and unenjoyable.
Fortunately you are now in Slashdot, which is so different.
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Japanese compaines, which are well known for their high quality (and TQM, etc), value their employees as assets to the company.
I have read somewhere that there actually are two types of Japanese companies. The big keiretsus (think Mitsubishi) where good students get employed and spend their whole life as safe sarariman, and the small contractors who try to survive around the keiretsus and offer no job security, not so good work conditions. The contractors are used as buffers by the keiretsus.
Is that vision right?
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Of the four main reasons to do software (money, prestige, scratch to itch and fun) I see that Reed is not having the first two. Does he enjoy it so much? Does he need IPFiler so much? Why does he develop it?
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How can Martian solid materials leave the planet and arrive to Earth?
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I can see it now, some geek going up to a girl to impress her with his falsified SETI numbers).
Somebody who believes in extraterrestrial intelligences can believe in SETI-impressionable girls.
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even the IMG tag wasn't in the initial design, which says something about what they intended the web for!
ASCII porn?
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Strange to see the land that created Kama Sutra and sacred sex (I forgot the name of those temples with statues of people having sex) to become so afraid of porn.
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Squeak, the open source implementation of Smalltalk, comes with windows with scrollbars on the right. Also, there is a strange way to page up and down. It also has another number of unusual UI ideas. And they are difficult if you come from other environments!
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feel free to ask the Mozilla team what they think about the OS/2 programmers they work with.
I'll rather ask of you. What do they think of them? Are there many of them?
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They are embryonic OpenSource coders!
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Oh well, at least it will kick-start biodiversity.
What would be a Ukrainian version of Godzilla?
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What about DeCSS code?
And there's the Drake Equation about the number of extraterrestrial civilizations. Quite transcendental, if not mathematical:
N = R* × fp × ne × fl × fi × fc × L
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Part of the fun of visiting Hong Kong was returning home with CDs containing copies of the latest applications. Is it still so?
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So that's why hot dogs went so popular in old New York. They were delivered by p-commerce.
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I know that OpenDoc is just one part of the WorkPlace Shell, but you have been able to download the source code for IBM's OpenDoc 1.2 (the version in Warp 4 is 1.1) for Win95, OS/2 and AIX since the jump to Java.
The license agreement stipulates that you only use the source code for debugging and education. Be wary about exploiting side effects that you discover in the source code, because the IBM OpenDoc team may change the code in future editions.
Has anyone actually used it in some other product?
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It's a pity that much of the open source software in OS/2 is ported from Unix. It uses forks that more expensive in OS/2 than in Unix. The right thing would be converting it to threads, but free OS/2 developers usually find better things to do with their time.
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Serenity Systems has been delaying the release date. I think they are too small to handle this full business profesionally. At least they sent a beta to those that prepaid. I wonder if the final quality and bug correction will be worth the price.
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Maybe it's not what you thought as a "game designer" but when technologies come and go, I think that people like Kim have a better chance to survive.
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Also, I'm noticing more and more German borrowing in the hacker world. Is it just me? If it's not, any speculation on why?
The Jargon File has something about Jewish (Ashkhenazi?) hackers, and there are some traditional terms there from German. Maybe.
But I don't see it apart from Slashdot stories. Maybe German-speaking editors?
And now that Altavista's owners are certifiably evil (having patented things like web crawlers), are there any other places we can go for translation needs?
Check translate.ru. I don't know if it's better but it translates to/from Russian as well.
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Apparently the brain "refreshes" consciousness every 10 milliseconds by sweeping a pulse of electricity over the brain. When you tinker with this, your consciousness seems to slow down, then collapse!
So is this overclocking or underclocking? And could it be done elsehow?
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I think it's in otherwise forgettable "The Artificial Kid" by Bruce Sterling that people who go into cryonics has to pay everything they own. So when they are revived, they are poor. If they want to be frozen again, they have to get rich again.
Or something.
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Does somebody know where "Red hat" got their name from?
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If even one of them has read this post, you're in good shape. If they both have, you're free.
Great! What if the aliens read this post? Now they will make us wear masks.
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"Important information survives (usually). Trivial information gets lost. This is how it should be. There's no reason to preserve every bit of data for 'historical' reasons"
But the selection forces change, just as being big as a dinosaur was great in the Jurassic, but it wan't so great when the extinction came.
I've worked on research projects whose primary source was day-to-day accounting records of a small business running in Egypt during the 11th century.
Yes, but we don't need the records of every small business in every country in every century. Just some sampling will do. We lose information but it's a tradeoff for space and conservation work. The same about modern data.
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