Here is the solution. How about Microsoft provides it's competitors with the hooks and documentation they need to do the same integration Microsoft does?
I hear that a lot. It's okay when Linux does it, but not when Microsoft does it. KDE integrates its browser into the file manager, but that's okay. Microsoft does it, and they become the root of all evil. As for the independently written aspect, with the exception of IE, most of Microsoft's bundles (media player, MSN messenger) aren't integrated and non-removable. They're just as "optional" as your Linux components, except installed by default.
I guess what I'm asking is this: If it's okay for Linux to do it, stop bitching at Microsoft because they do it.
You can't compare the two. Microsoft is a closed system. They don't provide you the "hooks" you need for full integration. This provides them with a competitive advantage in ALL software written for their operating system that no company that produces Windows applications can hope to match. The only reason Microsoft DOESN'T integrate EVERYTHING is because they know it's unethical and that they'll get slapped in the buttocks for it.
On the Linux side, the code is all open. If there are no hooks for deeper integration, you can take the code and do whatever you want with it as long as you release your code as well. If KDE wants to integrate its browser with its file manager, fine! I can see the code, I know how it works, I can replicate it with my own file manager if I want.
That's the difference and thats why it's Ok for Linux to do it.
DSL Companies can use NAT technology on their subscribers too. I am NATed by my DSL company. My linux machine has no external IP address - only an internal. This really sucks, BTW. I can't host Quake games or serve up pr0n for my buddies.
I know some of you think you will ride the technological asymptote to immortality but at this moment there isn't a shred of real evidence that suggests anything other than that we are all gonna die in the very, very, very near term compared to the heat death/big crunch/infinite expansion/who cares of the universe. In the context of that kind of deep time any assumptions on what we will be, or our capabilities, are pure science fiction.
There also isn't a shred of real evidence that suggest we *will* all die in the very near term. The technology one society possesses is always "pure science fiction" to a less advanced civilization. Someone along the way has to dream up the ideas that evolve into usable technology.
Why must you be so close minded? I frequently had the same argument with a fellow classmate in college. He was a History major and had a complete lack of imagination. It's ignorant to say "we will never acheive this because...". We live in a universe of nearly infinite possibilities. Sure we have more immediate problems we need to deal with. Sure these problems will be extremely difficult to overcome. That being said, why should it stop me from looking past the immediate and focusing on what is beyond?
While it is good that the universe will not crunch back in on itself destroying everything, the neverending expansion of the universe is not good either. Eventually, the universe will be spread so thin that it will be nothing more than an inconsistent soup of matter. Stars and galaxies will burn out, with nothing left to generate new stars.
Eventually, all the light will die out, and leave the universe a cold, dark, and lonely place. Hopefully by this time we (whoever and whatever we are) will be able to generate a new universe, or escape to an alternate one.
This is a bad idea. I can't see how this wouldn't cause you an Repetive Stress Injury (RSI) to your neck. Especially if you have a large screen (21" +) monitor. You just don't screw with the nerves in your neck. It's not natural to move your head all around when you are looking at a computer screen. Do you do this when you are watching a movie? Do you do this when you are reading a book?
No. It's your EYES that move and THAT'S what needs to be tracked. Maybe a pair of reflective contact lenses? That would be too much trouble. Actually, the pupils are naturally reflective (hence red-eye in photographs). Could they key on those? That would seem most logical. The eyes are very good at tracking.
According to this article, mutant fungi has developed on Mir that is highly toxic and corrosive. You heard me, mutant fungi. Is it right for us to destroy Mir? By destroying Mir we are destroying a new life form. We are playing fungi-god.
There may be uses for this fungi. The next big pizza topping? It may have good hallucinogenic properties? (i.e. mutant "shrooms"). Good in a chef salad?
On a serious note, we should preserve some of it before it is burned up in reentry. It would allow us to study how organisms evolve in a completely isolated environment, and one that is free of predators. Apparently the fungi was really wreaking havoc on the station, destroying hosing and electrical components.
We're going to be spending a lot of time in space from now on, we need to know about this sort of phenomenon so we can take steps to stop it. The only way man will be able to economically live in space for long periods of time is in a symbiotic relationship with oxygen producing plant life. If that plant life mutates out of control we have a big problem.
Sometimes I wonder if I learned anything that was valuable to me in the real world. At the time I attended my university ('95-'99), they had just started teaching C++ as the primary language.
I am a C++ developer now. My school was using a HORRIBLE book for advanced C++ (Data Structures & Other Objects Using C++, Michael Main). This book is really a C book masquerading as a C++ book. It teaches you linked lists using a non-OO link list toolkit. Why!!?!? The professors all praised the book, I can now look back and see it was substandard. Where was Code Complete? C++ Primer? Inside the C++ Object Model? Or even the Stroustrap book? All of these books have proven invaluable to me in my career and probably would have prepared me much better while I was in college.
I remember the last year I was at my school they made some changes to the program to bring it in line with an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recommendation. I believe this is the only hope we have for the robustness of CS programs across the board. A good association like ACM, needs to come up with a strong set of guidelines, that universities can adhere to. Why not suggest well known books in these guidelines?
Maxis and Peter Molyneux. A creative company and a creative genius. Think about it, Sim City, Sim City 2k, Sim City 3k, The Sims and Populous. That's quite a list of titles. I have lost countless hours in these games. Not sure about Black and White but it looks like it might find a niche.
EA has made some smart moves in nabbing up these smaller game companies (Maxis, Origin, etc.). Let's hope they do the right thing and let them keep doing what they do best without micromanaging them. Too many games have been screwed by the big corporation stepping in.
I still steam about Meridian 59 being destroyed by 3D0.
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Here is the solution. How about Microsoft provides it's competitors with the hooks and documentation they need to do the same integration Microsoft does?
I hear that a lot. It's okay when Linux does it, but not when Microsoft does it. KDE integrates its browser into the file manager, but that's okay. Microsoft does it, and they become the root of all evil. As for the independently written aspect, with the exception of IE, most of Microsoft's bundles (media player, MSN messenger) aren't integrated and non-removable. They're just as "optional" as your Linux components, except installed by default. I guess what I'm asking is this: If it's okay for Linux to do it, stop bitching at Microsoft because they do it.
You can't compare the two. Microsoft is a closed system. They don't provide you the "hooks" you need for full integration. This provides them with a competitive advantage in ALL software written for their operating system that no company that produces Windows applications can hope to match. The only reason Microsoft DOESN'T integrate EVERYTHING is because they know it's unethical and that they'll get slapped in the buttocks for it.
On the Linux side, the code is all open. If there are no hooks for deeper integration, you can take the code and do whatever you want with it as long as you release your code as well. If KDE wants to integrate its browser with its file manager, fine! I can see the code, I know how it works, I can replicate it with my own file manager if I want.
That's the difference and thats why it's Ok for Linux to do it.
The Pricess Bride
Actually numbnuts, his name is "Iñigo."
DSL Companies can use NAT technology on their subscribers too. I am NATed by my DSL company. My linux machine has no external IP address - only an internal. This really sucks, BTW. I can't host Quake games or serve up pr0n for my buddies.
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2001-03-19 15:11:25 Mir 2? (articles,news) (rejected)
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I know some of you think you will ride the technological asymptote to immortality but at this moment there isn't a shred of real evidence that suggests anything other than that we are all gonna die in the very, very, very near term compared to the heat death/big crunch/infinite expansion/who cares of the universe. In the context of that kind of deep time any assumptions on what we will be, or our capabilities, are pure science fiction.
There also isn't a shred of real evidence that suggest we *will* all die in the very near term. The technology one society possesses is always "pure science fiction" to a less advanced civilization. Someone along the way has to dream up the ideas that evolve into usable technology.
Why must you be so close minded? I frequently had the same argument with a fellow classmate in college. He was a History major and had a complete lack of imagination. It's ignorant to say "we will never acheive this because...". We live in a universe of nearly infinite possibilities. Sure we have more immediate problems we need to deal with. Sure these problems will be extremely difficult to overcome. That being said, why should it stop me from looking past the immediate and focusing on what is beyond?
That's the definition of short-sighted.
While it is good that the universe will not crunch back in on itself destroying everything, the neverending expansion of the universe is not good either. Eventually, the universe will be spread so thin that it will be nothing more than an inconsistent soup of matter. Stars and galaxies will burn out, with nothing left to generate new stars.
Eventually, all the light will die out, and leave the universe a cold, dark, and lonely place. Hopefully by this time we (whoever and whatever we are) will be able to generate a new universe, or escape to an alternate one.
What's the difference? Suck toadballs!
All those people drowning in the north Atlantic?
Dude...
You are a karma whore!
Troll somewhere else Ernest.
This is a bad idea. I can't see how this wouldn't cause you an Repetive Stress Injury (RSI) to your neck. Especially if you have a large screen (21" +) monitor. You just don't screw with the nerves in your neck. It's not natural to move your head all around when you are looking at a computer screen. Do you do this when you are watching a movie? Do you do this when you are reading a book?
No. It's your EYES that move and THAT'S what needs to be tracked. Maybe a pair of reflective contact lenses? That would be too much trouble. Actually, the pupils are naturally reflective (hence red-eye in photographs). Could they key on those? That would seem most logical. The eyes are very good at tracking.
My paladin uses a ClawHammer in Diablo II.
If I had a mod point I would mod you into hell so you could be raped by the devil.
fuaymmf!
fu!
Her life ends quickly,
To a lonely and dark grave...
We'll miss you, old friend.
Now instead of "Pokemon Gold" and "Pokemon Silver" we can have "Pokemon Midnight Blue" and "Pokemon Burnt Sienna" and "Pokemon Baby Poo Green."
I can't wait! Pikachu! Bizatchu!
HAW! HAW!
According to this article, mutant fungi has developed on Mir that is highly toxic and corrosive. You heard me, mutant fungi. Is it right for us to destroy Mir? By destroying Mir we are destroying a new life form. We are playing fungi-god.
There may be uses for this fungi. The next big pizza topping? It may have good hallucinogenic properties? (i.e. mutant "shrooms"). Good in a chef salad?
On a serious note, we should preserve some of it before it is burned up in reentry. It would allow us to study how organisms evolve in a completely isolated environment, and one that is free of predators. Apparently the fungi was really wreaking havoc on the station, destroying hosing and electrical components.
We're going to be spending a lot of time in space from now on, we need to know about this sort of phenomenon so we can take steps to stop it. The only way man will be able to economically live in space for long periods of time is in a symbiotic relationship with oxygen producing plant life. If that plant life mutates out of control we have a big problem.
Sometimes I wonder if I learned anything that was valuable to me in the real world. At the time I attended my university ('95-'99), they had just started teaching C++ as the primary language.
I am a C++ developer now. My school was using a HORRIBLE book for advanced C++ (Data Structures & Other Objects Using C++, Michael Main). This book is really a C book masquerading as a C++ book. It teaches you linked lists using a non-OO link list toolkit. Why!!?!? The professors all praised the book, I can now look back and see it was substandard. Where was Code Complete? C++ Primer? Inside the C++ Object Model? Or even the Stroustrap book? All of these books have proven invaluable to me in my career and probably would have prepared me much better while I was in college.
I remember the last year I was at my school they made some changes to the program to bring it in line with an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recommendation. I believe this is the only hope we have for the robustness of CS programs across the board. A good association like ACM, needs to come up with a strong set of guidelines, that universities can adhere to. Why not suggest well known books in these guidelines?
Maxis and Peter Molyneux. A creative company and a creative genius. Think about it, Sim City, Sim City 2k, Sim City 3k, The Sims and Populous. That's quite a list of titles. I have lost countless hours in these games. Not sure about Black and White but it looks like it might find a niche.
EA has made some smart moves in nabbing up these smaller game companies (Maxis, Origin, etc.). Let's hope they do the right thing and let them keep doing what they do best without micromanaging them. Too many games have been screwed by the big corporation stepping in.
I still steam about Meridian 59 being destroyed by 3D0.
Come on! That was pretty funny. Admit it.
You know you laughed.
What a bunch of geeks!
Oh wait, I'm a geek.
Cool!