It's a long time since the Pacific Peso was worth that much. The New Zealand dollar is around the US$0.43 mark and GBP0.29. Great for me, since I live in.nz and earn in USD and GBP 8).
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Correction: Publicly owned companies have to operate in the best interests of key shareholders. More than once I've seen companies act in the interest of major minority shareholders and against the interests of others.
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I have a slightly different perspective on this. IMO, the main reason that VRML died was because the tools were pretty much Windows and IRIX only, at a time when most 'net content was created by Mac designers working with Unix (but not necessarily IRIX) people.
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Most likely MySQL was included because - as anyone who looks at the comments on any thread about any DB on/. - it has hordes of ravening fan, many of whome have swallowed a lot of nonsense about databases in general and MySQL in particular. Or, to put it more politely, MySQL has a lot of claims made about it, and it's interesting to see how it stacks up in testing, as well as more thorough comparisons.
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Having worked with IT I journalists, I can tell you that not only are virtually technology-illiterate - the episode that best illustrated this for me was when the brigtest one at a publication has intriguted by an ethernet hub, having never seen one before - but most of them are lousy reporters/journalists as well; they wouldn't last a week in a regular newsroom.
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Actually, what he's saying is that the company cars should be welded shut so that staff can't play with them. Which is still pretty stupid. I've had to make (documented) patches to kernels to get them running right.
Let's also not forget many proprietary Unices will allow you to reconfigure the kernel. And that many OSes will allow you at the source (VMS, Solaris, etc).
True story: at my last gig, one of the newspaper editors was famous for not following the rules. One manifestation of this was having a mate hot up his company car - bored, stroked, custom cams, the lot.
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My favorite conspiracy theory goes something like this: Eidos could fund LGS, OR leave them go hanging and snap up the same kickass properties for pennies. Consider that 10+ execs of Eidos went home with several, several hundred Gs this year - which could have kept LGS operating for months, at least.
A very reasonable sounding conspiracy theory, and not exactly unheard of. Eidos letting LGS go broke seems to have come up trumps for them - they now own the rights to the series.
Not juest for them: the great void of Ion Story, with whome Eidos seem to have an odd relationship, get propped up with a new title and staff cannibalised from LGS.
I wonder if any of Eidos' other dev houses are looking at other publishers?
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Because it costs money as well as time. Getting smutcraft/.-ed will cost me some bucks in bandwidth charges. If it got that popular *all the time*, I'd have to pull it or turn it into a business.
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shouldn't the differentiating factors be features, price, quality and not a small part of their UI....
Uh, the user interface, and hence user experience is part of the quality of their product. A key part, in fact.
Not that I think that Adobe are in the right. Yet another reason for those who apply for and approve stupid patents to be flayed and dipped into vats of lemon juice.
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An excellent point - and one that's often glossed over by the would-be robber barons of the information age, who hope that by treating intellectual property as an absolute right, rather than a socially convenient legal fiction.
Sadly, the growing profile of Abandonware will probably be its downfall - one need only see Microsoft's attitude displayed in the article.
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I don't think the nature of research is being questioned, but rather the way in which for-profit organisations are hoping to cash in on the distributed computing buzz without compensation for individuals who are donating their resources.
The model a lot of these companies are relying on is: you supply CPU for free because you're enthusiastic about the end result, and then spend your life savings on the cancer drugs the research lab developed and patented with your CPU time.
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Everyone uses web based email? Oh right, apart from the 600 people at my last workplace, the 50 at my current workplace, everyone I know who's likely to download Mozilla rather than go with whatever Windows ships with...
I think you need to broaden your experience a little.
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It ould be great if/. could wait for mirrors to sync before sending the hordes to crush sites for major announcements like this. I know restraint and responsibility might be asking a bit much, but all the same...
Either that, or mirror it yourselves.
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There seems to be a concerted move in most Western countries to use the development of a new medium to extend state and corporate power, and I don't see that changing any time soon. Especially not when one candidate for the US presidency has 95% percent of his running fund bought by 762 people, and his opponent has gone on the record as stating that government should filter information in case people make "bad decisions" without the help of government.
I think you'll find that people with these worldviews regard the freedoms afforded traditional media a terrible mistake that can be rectified with each successive generation of new media.
(ObOffTopic Prize: Guess which US presidential candidate is which!)
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Oh, that testing will explain why Dell shipped my outfit a bunch of DOA 2450s. Yeah, that rigourous testing certainly sorted out the SCSI cards flopping around loose inside, the dead processors and suchlike.
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Slashdot Mirror
It's a long time since the Pacific Peso was worth that much. The New Zealand dollar is around the US$0.43 mark and GBP0.29. Great for me, since I live in .nz and earn in USD and GBP 8).
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The Cold Fusion setup the Herald uses has been known to go down under the load of day-today browsing from New Zealand, never mind the weight of /.
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Molotov cocktails. Now *there's* an effective junkbuster.
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Actually, .NET is their way of surviving a split. .NET will make the OS division irrelevant if MicroSoft so deire.
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Correction: Publicly owned companies have to operate in the best interests of key shareholders. More than once I've seen companies act in the interest of major minority shareholders and against the interests of others.
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The latest version of IE and Outhouse for Solaris is actually quite tolerable, if the workstation of the guy opposite me is anything to go by.
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I have a slightly different perspective on this. IMO, the main reason that VRML died was because the tools were pretty much Windows and IRIX only, at a time when most 'net content was created by Mac designers working with Unix (but not necessarily IRIX) people.
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Most likely MySQL was included because - as anyone who looks at the comments on any thread about any DB on /. - it has hordes of ravening fan, many of whome have swallowed a lot of nonsense about databases in general and MySQL in particular. Or, to put it more politely, MySQL has a lot of claims made about it, and it's interesting to see how it stacks up in testing, as well as more thorough comparisons.
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7.0 is the stable release of Postgres, not the "bleeding edge" version. You get that from CVS.
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Ahh, it hasn't taken long for the MySQL wwenies to crawl out of the woodwork.>[?
PostgreSQL 7.0 is the current production release of PostgreSQL. Try getting your facts right.
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Having worked with IT I journalists, I can tell you that not only are virtually technology-illiterate - the episode that best illustrated this for me was when the brigtest one at a publication has intriguted by an ethernet hub, having never seen one before - but most of them are lousy reporters/journalists as well; they wouldn't last a week in a regular newsroom.
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Actually, what he's saying is that the company cars should be welded shut so that staff can't play with them. Which is still pretty stupid. I've had to make (documented) patches to kernels to get them running right.
Let's also not forget many proprietary Unices will allow you to reconfigure the kernel. And that many OSes will allow you at the source (VMS, Solaris, etc).
True story: at my last gig, one of the newspaper editors was famous for not following the rules. One manifestation of this was having a mate hot up his company car - bored, stroked, custom cams, the lot.
--
My name is Sue,
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A very reasonable sounding conspiracy theory, and not exactly unheard of. Eidos letting LGS go broke seems to have come up trumps for them - they now own the rights to the series.
Not juest for them: the great void of Ion Story, with whome Eidos seem to have an odd relationship, get propped up with a new title and staff cannibalised from LGS.
I wonder if any of Eidos' other dev houses are looking at other publishers?
--
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Because it costs money as well as time. Getting smutcraft /.-ed will cost me some bucks in bandwidth charges. If it got that popular *all the time*, I'd have to pull it or turn it into a business.
--
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Uh, the user interface, and hence user experience is part of the quality of their product. A key part, in fact.
Not that I think that Adobe are in the right. Yet another reason for those who apply for and approve stupid patents to be flayed and dipped into vats of lemon juice.
--
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An excellent point - and one that's often glossed over by the would-be robber barons of the information age, who hope that by treating intellectual property as an absolute right, rather than a socially convenient legal fiction.
Sadly, the growing profile of Abandonware will probably be its downfall - one need only see Microsoft's attitude displayed in the article.
--
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Now you gonna die!
I don't think the nature of research is being questioned, but rather the way in which for-profit organisations are hoping to cash in on the distributed computing buzz without compensation for individuals who are donating their resources.
The model a lot of these companies are relying on is: you supply CPU for free because you're enthusiastic about the end result, and then spend your life savings on the cancer drugs the research lab developed and patented with your CPU time.
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I'm sure there are lots of people who have installed 30 copies of Windows without ever buying a single copy, too...
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Everyone uses web based email? Oh right, apart from the 600 people at my last workplace, the 50 at my current workplace, everyone I know who's likely to download Mozilla rather than go with whatever Windows ships with...
I think you need to broaden your experience a little.
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Works fine here (M17, glibc 2.1.3). Hell, even rendering of HTML 4 quoting markup works.
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It ould be great if /. could wait for mirrors to sync before sending the hordes to crush sites for major announcements like this. I know restraint and responsibility might be asking a bit much, but all the same...
Either that, or mirror it yourselves.
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How many people have $1000 spare for electing a President? More to the point, 700-some times $100 does not equal a 95 million dollar war chest.
But a breakdown into ranges would indeed be useful.
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Trademark laws are use it or lose it. Copyright has no such restriction.
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And what will happen? Dumb down!
There seems to be a concerted move in most Western countries to use the development of a new medium to extend state and corporate power, and I don't see that changing any time soon. Especially not when one candidate for the US presidency has 95% percent of his running fund bought by 762 people, and his opponent has gone on the record as stating that government should filter information in case people make "bad decisions" without the help of government.
I think you'll find that people with these worldviews regard the freedoms afforded traditional media a terrible mistake that can be rectified with each successive generation of new media.
(ObOffTopic Prize: Guess which US presidential candidate is which!)
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Oh, that testing will explain why Dell shipped my outfit a bunch of DOA 2450s. Yeah, that rigourous testing certainly sorted out the SCSI cards flopping around loose inside, the dead processors and suchlike.
--
My name is Sue,
How do you do?
Now you gonna die!