First off, I think the series should now be watched in this order:
Ep. 4, A New Hope - Introduces you to the story, concepts, and characters. The best way to start the mythos, no doubt. Lucas did good using this as a starting point.
Ep. 1, The Phantom Menace - Goes back to the things Obi Wan Kenobi was talking about. You still think Luke's Father was a hero, and you see the similarities between them. The Jedi still seem wise, and the Sith evil, though it's apparent the Republic is on its last legs.
Ep. 2, Attack of the Clones - Further elaborates on the history. By now, a few people should be picking up clues, especially visual clues with the Clone Trooper armor and Anakin's revenge upon the sandpeople. Mysteries are no good unless you have some chance of deducing the truth. Things begin to get dark at this point.
Ep. 5, The Empire Strikes Back - To those with some deductive ability, Vader's interest in Luke is a further clue, especially "He's only a Boy. Obi Wan can no longer help him". Most newbies to the series haven't figured it out yet, though it's tugging in the back of their brains. When Vader finally tells him, probably 10 to 20 percent of the audience is going "I knew it!", but the rest are still going "Oh shit...". But after the revelation, it all makes sense. Otherwise, thee's still the possibility that Vader is simply lying to Luke. We're about to hit the low point with...
Ep. 3, Revenge of the Sith - Now that we know that Vader is Luke's father, we want to know "what the hell happened to cause the change?". We now fully grasp Palpatine's deceptions, how he got an Empire, and the buttons he was helping to push to get Anakin to the Dark Side. But we also lose some sympathy for the Jedi, for by now, it's not that we realize they're inept, but that they are, in their own way, as arrogant as the Sith, but their arrogance blinds them. We get the sense that the Old Republic really wasn't worth saving, but that the coming Empire will be worse (Alderaan, anyone?). But most important...the Luke and Leia revelation is a SUPRISE this way...when it's revealed in 6, it was done in a totally cheesy way. This is a far better way to spring another "Oh crap!" on people. We also have sympathy for Anakin/Vader, as we understand he's not a monolithic evil villain; we understand his reasonings, where he went wrong, and that through it all, he was trying to do right by those he loved, and that he was being used (by both sides). But we also see just how twisted he became. The Emporer makes much more sense at this point as well...all questions about him are answered.
Ep. 6 Return of the Jedi- The only remaining question at this point is now "Can Luke turn Vader back?". Also, we get more insight on the Jedi, especially the hippy-dippy "our own point of view" crap, that reveals that while why the old Jedi were more refined and powerful, Luke is a better man. He's more honest and straightforward, and is more in tune with the good side of the force, because he's not a moral relativist; and that's precisely what the old Jedi had become. They bent the rules whenever it suited them in the Clone Wars because, after all, they're the Jedi. In many ways, they had become as bad as the Sith. This is why they couldn't see the Sith coming, and it's why it's good the old Jedi Order was destroyed. Luke will rebuild it from the ground up, with a much more honest perspective. We also cheer when Vader is gone and Anakin is back; the prophecy if fulfilled. Anakin brings balance to the Force by killing the Emporer, and for the love of his son. It was a long, twisting, winding road, but it all makes sense now. The New Republic can start without the baggage of the corrupt Old Republic, and a new, BETTER Jedi can begin with Luke and Leia.
Now on to the parent comments...
You will never have the opportunity to relive the moment of truth at the end of Empire..
4) Being a slave isn't attractive. If you make it clear that you'll do anything for a woman, and grovel for her affection, you're going to end up attracting the wrong type of woman.
Actually, you won't end up with any women at all. Women like to be chased (not physically, gentlemen...lets not break any stalking laws here), but they don't like guys who want to date their own mothers, either. Women like strength in men, strength of character, strength of personality, and frankly, strength of body doesn't hurt either.
And just accept the fact that attractive women want attractive men. That's biology for you. Sorry. If your personality can overcome that, good for you, but most of us are programmed by God, Darwin, whoever, to chase the most physically attractive of the opposite sex. The so-called geek success stories here are successes because they have lots of cash, which frankly, goes a long long way toward attracting women.
If this report is true, and Apple is switching to x86 based CPUs, then it's the first nail in Power's coffin. Despite the marketing push, IBM doesn't sell nearly as many power boxes as intel boxes. And if Apple drops them, that'll radically cut down production at IBM chip fab plants. We may even see the day when IBM has to change cpu architectures for their big iron. I've often wondered if IBM simply wouldn't purchase a big chunk of Intel and move their mainframes to an Itanium family of chips. HP would support it just to get Itanium in wider use. And this would fit IBM's trend from a company that actually engineer products, to a services-mostly company, a transistion that seems to be well underway at IBM.
Oh, and Apple should have gone for the Athlon 64 instead...but Steve Jobs is such a label whore, he probably coudn't bring himself to do it.
Red Hat pissed a lot of people off by killing off their "junior" releases
Yup, me included. I was at one time a happy Red Hat 9.0 user (after having to find a new distro after Caldera was swallowed by SCO), but then they did their infamous "we're killing 8 and 9 off; never mind that they've been out less than a year" thing. I specifically went to Debian then because I knew that they wouldn't obsolete their distro in only 12 months time. Once I get it installed, damnit, I want to use it for a while, without the worry that I'll have to do a major upgrade in just a few months. That's one of the reasons I didn't choose Fedora. They've got a fairly agressive upgrade schedule, and they don't support older realeases.
I know this is a modified quake 1 engine, but still...those hardware requirements seem awful steep for this. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is based on the Quake III engine and requires a 600 mhz cpu, and it looks better than this game. I'm all for GPL'd first person shooters, but it looks like something went awry in the code for requirements to be that high. It's not Doom 3 territory, but considering that Linux runs on many older machines, you'd think they'd keep that in mind during the development process.
" Propriety software is a much better fit for Communism than Open Source."
That is such fucking bullshit. No one from Redmond or Cupertino or Palo Alto can throw you in a gulag if you don't use their software. They can make it hard to use with other software, but that's about it. Promote open source, but damn, that's SCO quality fud you're spewing there. You might as well go ahead and make Godwin's day by comparing them to the Nazis.
It's not arrogance when you actually are a brilliant and skilled creator in your field.
Speaking as one who has read comics since the early 70's, Alan Moore hasn't done work worth Jack Shit since Swamp Thing in the early 80's. The Watchmen is the most overrated comic/graphic novel of all time. And what you never hear is that he's pissed off DC too. The Watchmen were all based on the old Charlton Comics characters (Captain Atom, The Peacemaker, etc), which DC had just aquired when Moore was writing The Watchmen. The conclusion of the story would basically make some of those characters unusuable in the future, so Dick Giordano (editor in chief at the time at DC) withdrew permission to use them. Moore simply made thinly veiled copies of the characters (The Question = Rorschatz, for example). While Moore's fans trumpeted the series as the first comics that made the medium "serious" because of storytelling that involved the humanity of the heroes (including fear, doubt, guilt, etc), this is, to put it none too mildly, Bullshit. Moore was breaking no new ground here. Stan Lee basically built the modern Marvel Comics in the 60's on those themes. Peter Parker was nervous, shy, and vulnerable. The Thing hated himself. Tony Stark had a heart condition. For Moore's fans to claim he blazed this trail is disengenuous. Stan Lee, Doug Moench, and a host of others did it first, and mostly did it better.
Alan Moore has, for over 25 years, consistently produced the best work in comics.
Better than Chris Claremont's work with the X-Men, especially from 80 to 90? Are you high? All of Alan Moore's work put together isn't as good as the classic Days of Future Past storyline from Claremont and Byrne. Same for Just about any Wolfman/Perez story from the early 80's.
People of high standards and not a small bit of genius often tend to be a bit short-tempered when they feel disrespected.
Moore is just a plain pain in the ass. His talent has nothing to do with it, and that's exagerated as well. He used to be a good writer, but he's living off of his reputation. Quit pretending he's Shakespeare on the four color page.
Years ago, business critics screamed that CEO salaries should reflect their performance. The better the performance, the better the salary. This came mainly from LIBERAL critics of business.
So business complied.
The very best made LOTS of money. Jack Welch was revolutionary in this area. Survival of the fittest. Look at your executives. Pay the good ones lavishly to keep your competitors from them, can the rest.
And now these same critics are screaming CEOs make too much! Make up your minds.
Actually, it doesn't matter what you think anymore. If we started mandating caps on CEO compensation, the inevitable result would be the flow of of said CEO's and other executives abroad, probably to Asia, where they'd pay a killing to get a Jack Welch or a Steve Balmer.
And then the investment cash would follow them there.
The following refrain from you guys, of course, would be "don't let CEOs leave the US! It's unfair that investors are following them!"
Europeans are overpaid, compared to any other market in the world, including Japan. And their lavish social system, popular as it is here in the red tides of slashdot, is killing the economies of those countries. IBM is simply being smart canning those overpriced jobs.
Thes people can frankly piss off, for all I care. Nothing bad was going on here. I've seen far skimpier outfits at the beach. FAR skimpier. And these women were basically playing characters from the games. The vast majority of them probably don't give a rats ass either, especially if the money is good.
Men are attracted to women. And people have been using this fact to sell things for years. Why is it a crime now? These critics need to get over themselves, stat.
Reduced spending does not mean IT has become a commodity. Counterintuitively, companies that spend less in order to get more from information technology will likely be the big winners.
Uhhh, sorry, but IT is now the very definition of commodity. Hardware, labor, and software are now so cheap and interchangeable that there's no other way to describe it. Rather than spend money on expensive RISC chips like pa-risc or Ultrasparc, you can now get cheap x86/64 chips with comparable or better performance for a fraction of the price, and from a wide variety of vendors. With the information revolution and the Internet, now you can get programmers from across the ocean for a 10th of what you'd pay an expierienced US coder. And software? Windows boxes are relatively inexpensive compared to what businesses used to pay for unix workstations, and now you've got cheap/no cost software on top of that.
Face it...IT has become the Wal Mart of business buying. It's cheap, it's everywhere, and for IT vendors to make money, they have to rely on huge volume because margins are so slim. Only companies like IBM are making real money from services, and some people think even that won't last forever. I read a stat that claimed IBM was losing $33 on every PC they made, which is why they sold that business.
Spending less while getting more isn't a new concept, as the author might think. Other business sectors have lived by the mantra for years. IT has just been forced to play that game too after the disastrous dot bomb. Welcome to the real world, IT, the world where life is hard and business is cutthroat. The dot com boom was a fantasyland that was doomed to failure, and it's never coming back.
Knowing this, isn't it getting a bit tiring to hear these execs say that not enough students are going into IT/CS? Surprise surprise...the grads we have now have to scrape for jobs compared to other highly skilled professions, and the current marketplace is hot for international outsourcing. Why are these people surprised that US students are going "no thanks"?
Linux might not be as good a fit as they think...
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While the "linux = commies" jokes are in abundance, ironically, Linux might not be so welcome as soon as the Cuban government sees that Linux promotes the free exchange of ideas. Wouldn't it be ironic if the socialism-in-a-kernel that is Linux ended up hurting the grip of a communist government?
Why SHOULD they make a version for Mac or Linux? All the Mac cultists will use Safari 'cause Steve says to, and judging by most of the comments here, most Linux users will give a knee-jerk "Why use anything other than Firefox?". I wouldn't waste time or money on a port either.
The Open Source community had better examine itself pretty hard on this. We complained for years about lack of corporate support, but once we make "our" version of something, not only do we discourage the use of corporate software, we condemn companies for even trying. Look at the number of posts assigning sinister motives for making the new browser. These companies have to be thinking "With friends like these, who needs Microsoft?".
1- How MUCH is it going to be? If it's over $300, it's not going to sell real fast. Hardcore guys will pay anything for it, but Mom and Dad won't pay that much for junior's box. Stretch out that PS2, son, or get a job.
2- Will there be a Linux kit for this model, now that it has increased hardware specs? 256 mb seems a little low on the ram for that, but the PS2 kit got by with 32...
"Isn't that exactly what the KDE-developers said?? Sheesh!"
Not at all. While the KDE devs said that Apple was abiding by the terms of the license, they also said, and I quote:
"They do the very, very minimum required by LGPL."
So they never said that "no one should begrudge them for it". Far from it; when you read the post that started it all, you'll see there's lots of not-so-subtle hints about resentment towards Apple. A lot of this is because people on Slashdot seem to think that because Apple is using KDE code, there's a mutually beneficial relationship going on there. Not so:
"They made a conscious decision about not working with KDE developers. All I'm asking for is that all the clueless people stop talking about the cooperation between Safari/Konqueror developers and how great it is. There's absolutely nothing great about it. In fact "it" doesn't exist . Maybe for Apple - at the very least for their marketing people. Clear?"
So can we finally knock off the "Apple is a great supporter of open source" drivel? It looks like a lot of that support is one-way.
If you don't like OO, don't use it. As many have pointed out here, Sun basically bought it, and then gave it away for free. Apparently, that's not good enough for the revolutionary crowd here. It's a wonder any of these companies will work with us at all. With friends like these...
I got into Linux because I wanted Unix at home. Not to rape and pillage the unbelievers. If we're getting to a point where I have to live by the Purer Faith, so to speak, just to use software, I'll head to BSD land. Because while I think the open source method is very, very cool, and will revolutionize software (in truth, it already has), I'm getting tired of the militants lecturing me about what I choose to put on my computer. I didn't sign up for that.
This article was trollbait from the get-go. Considering the animosity towards people of faith here on slashdot, where any mention of religion or God is sure to bring out the worst in this crowd, this article was just asking for trouble. I think the editors wanted to have some fun at the expense of believers today, and so threw a piece of red meat to the crowd...
And the F-22 and F-35 programs have been around since the 80s, I doubt Cope India had anything to do with it - except maybe to scare some congressmen into paying for a few more of them, perhaps.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for telling the truth here. I'm as pro-military as you're going to get, but the F-22 is a clusterfuck that should have died a long time ago. I'm not real hopeful about the F-35 series either, though that program isn't going as badly. The rules of engagement in Cope India were slanted so our fighters couldn't use all of their assets. Does anyone really doubt that in real combat, US pilots would smoke just about any opponent in the world? Only Israel with their visual-directed python missles would give us fits.
The F-22 is useless without it's fire control system,and that's been in a perpetual state of damage control for years. In short, it's too complicated, and it doesn't work reliably. They just can't seem to get the software right. And we've only been working on this plane since, oh, 1989. Keep in mind that the F-14 and F-15 went from prototype to frontline service in just over two years time. The Raptor has been in a state of flux for 16 years now. And now the Air Force wants to syphon funds from other services because, of their own budget, they can only afford 270 of them.
A thousand thank you's for saying that. I get really tired of hearing the whining here about how Lucas is smashing their childhood memories. Wanna know the truth? If a New Hope came out today instead of 1977, Slashdot readers would mercilessly pan it as a piece of shit. Yes, the same ones that claim they loved it so much as children.
Some people just aren't happy unless they're bitching about something, and apparently a lot of them post on Slashdot.
There are other ways to conduct "information warfare" against the enemy, as we have probably done before. From the article:
One story widely reported, but never confirmed, described how a team of military ops was dropped into Serbia, and after cutting a wire leading to a major radar hub, planted a device that emitted phantom targets on Serb radar.
So it's a good bet these guys aren't just sitting at a desk playing nethack. Some of them are probably special-ops types with additional computer training. I can easily see operations where we'd drop in sabotage units via aircraft or submarines, and hose entire infrastructures by accessing them locally, just like the Serbian incident. Keep in mind that in modern air defense systems, often multiple units are connected in clusters, sometimes relying on just one radar dish per 3-5 missle units, all connected electronically. Hose the radar, and you've fucked the entire cluster. And while military communications networks usually aren't connected to the Internet on the battlefield, they ARE becoming more and more computer dependant. So it wouldn't be improbable to imagine some of these guys tracking down the right coax cables connected underground to a command and control bunker somewhere, then attaching a vampire tap to access the network.
Yeah, but I think the catch here is that state-provided Internet service is considered more of a utility than a newspaper. Texas will probably state that this is analagous to providing cable TV at rest areas, and the state would have the right to block the porn channels, right?
I think the courts will side with Texas on this one...
BTW, it's kinda a funny that whenever access to porn might be threatened, Slashdot kind of goes into a fit, eh?
First off, looking at how I was moderated, I think I've pissed off a bitter accounting nerd...
Secondly, as I posted, this sector of IT is outsourced to a consultant...I don't do a damn thing with it. However, I'll pass along your comments to him, though it would have helped had you not posted AC so I could have contacted you for particular references if our consultant tells me I'm nuts...
The parent was modded flamebait for being overly sarcastic, but there's a kernel of truth to what he said...it's a bit strange for Mac users to go ballistic about DRM on Tivo when Itunes probably has more DRM than any other commercial music service right now (Microsoft will surely take over here, but for right now, Apple is tops in the DRM department).
So the question stands...is it ok when Steve Jobs and Company push DRM for Apple products and services, and bad when others do it? Where I come from that's called Drinking the Koolaid; apparently on Slashdot though, that kind of hypocrisy is ok.
" Heck, forget certified, a lot of applications plain don't WORK under SP2."
...including Microsoft's own software. We use their Great Plains financial stuff, and SP2 kills it. Despite no mention in the Microsoft knowledge base about it, our MS/Great Plains consultant confirms the problem. We had to uninstall SP2 on the affected machines to get them working again.
"However, the movie has angered some online fans for appearing to contradict the basic tenets of the Doom storyline, with the action apparently not being set on Mars and the demons from hell of the games being replaced with humans sporting a mutagenic virus"
Fucking bastards....
The ONE MOVIE I WANT TO SEE ADAPTED, and they pull a lame-ass "Omega Man" on us. As George Carlin says, Fuck The Fucking Fuckers. I want Mars, and I want my Demons from Hell in the movie. I want Hell Knights and Arch Viles, Blob's and Spider Masterminds. I WANT A CYBERDEMON...Or it's not Doom.
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Now on to the parent comments...
4) Being a slave isn't attractive. If you make it clear that you'll do anything for a woman, and grovel for her affection, you're going to end up attracting the wrong type of woman.
Actually, you won't end up with any women at all. Women like to be chased (not physically, gentlemen...lets not break any stalking laws here), but they don't like guys who want to date their own mothers, either. Women like strength in men, strength of character, strength of personality, and frankly, strength of body doesn't hurt either.
And just accept the fact that attractive women want attractive men. That's biology for you. Sorry. If your personality can overcome that, good for you, but most of us are programmed by God, Darwin, whoever, to chase the most physically attractive of the opposite sex. The so-called geek success stories here are successes because they have lots of cash, which frankly, goes a long long way toward attracting women.
If this report is true, and Apple is switching to x86 based CPUs, then it's the first nail in Power's coffin. Despite the marketing push, IBM doesn't sell nearly as many power boxes as intel boxes. And if Apple drops them, that'll radically cut down production at IBM chip fab plants. We may even see the day when IBM has to change cpu architectures for their big iron. I've often wondered if IBM simply wouldn't purchase a big chunk of Intel and move their mainframes to an Itanium family of chips. HP would support it just to get Itanium in wider use. And this would fit IBM's trend from a company that actually engineer products, to a services-mostly company, a transistion that seems to be well underway at IBM.
Oh, and Apple should have gone for the Athlon 64 instead...but Steve Jobs is such a label whore, he probably coudn't bring himself to do it.
Red Hat pissed a lot of people off by killing off their "junior" releases
Yup, me included. I was at one time a happy Red Hat 9.0 user (after having to find a new distro after Caldera was swallowed by SCO), but then they did their infamous "we're killing 8 and 9 off; never mind that they've been out less than a year" thing. I specifically went to Debian then because I knew that they wouldn't obsolete their distro in only 12 months time. Once I get it installed, damnit, I want to use it for a while, without the worry that I'll have to do a major upgrade in just a few months. That's one of the reasons I didn't choose Fedora. They've got a fairly agressive upgrade schedule, and they don't support older realeases.
I know this is a modified quake 1 engine, but still...those hardware requirements seem awful steep for this. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is based on the Quake III engine and requires a 600 mhz cpu, and it looks better than this game. I'm all for GPL'd first person shooters, but it looks like something went awry in the code for requirements to be that high. It's not Doom 3 territory, but considering that Linux runs on many older machines, you'd think they'd keep that in mind during the development process.
" Propriety software is a much better fit for Communism than Open Source."
That is such fucking bullshit. No one from Redmond or Cupertino or Palo Alto can throw you in a gulag if you don't use their software. They can make it hard to use with other software, but that's about it. Promote open source, but damn, that's SCO quality fud you're spewing there. You might as well go ahead and make Godwin's day by comparing them to the Nazis.
Speaking as one who has read comics since the early 70's, Alan Moore hasn't done work worth Jack Shit since Swamp Thing in the early 80's. The Watchmen is the most overrated comic/graphic novel of all time. And what you never hear is that he's pissed off DC too. The Watchmen were all based on the old Charlton Comics characters (Captain Atom, The Peacemaker, etc), which DC had just aquired when Moore was writing The Watchmen. The conclusion of the story would basically make some of those characters unusuable in the future, so Dick Giordano (editor in chief at the time at DC) withdrew permission to use them. Moore simply made thinly veiled copies of the characters (The Question = Rorschatz, for example). While Moore's fans trumpeted the series as the first comics that made the medium "serious" because of storytelling that involved the humanity of the heroes (including fear, doubt, guilt, etc), this is, to put it none too mildly, Bullshit. Moore was breaking no new ground here. Stan Lee basically built the modern Marvel Comics in the 60's on those themes. Peter Parker was nervous, shy, and vulnerable. The Thing hated himself. Tony Stark had a heart condition. For Moore's fans to claim he blazed this trail is disengenuous. Stan Lee, Doug Moench, and a host of others did it first, and mostly did it better.
Better than Chris Claremont's work with the X-Men, especially from 80 to 90? Are you high? All of Alan Moore's work put together isn't as good as the classic Days of Future Past storyline from Claremont and Byrne. Same for Just about any Wolfman/Perez story from the early 80's.
Moore is just a plain pain in the ass. His talent has nothing to do with it, and that's exagerated as well. He used to be a good writer, but he's living off of his reputation. Quit pretending he's Shakespeare on the four color page.
Years ago, business critics screamed that CEO salaries should reflect their performance. The better the performance, the better the salary. This came mainly from LIBERAL critics of business.
So business complied.
The very best made LOTS of money. Jack Welch was revolutionary in this area. Survival of the fittest. Look at your executives. Pay the good ones lavishly to keep your competitors from them, can the rest.
And now these same critics are screaming CEOs make too much! Make up your minds.
Actually, it doesn't matter what you think anymore. If we started mandating caps on CEO compensation, the inevitable result would be the flow of of said CEO's and other executives abroad, probably to Asia, where they'd pay a killing to get a Jack Welch or a Steve Balmer.
And then the investment cash would follow them there.
The following refrain from you guys, of course, would be "don't let CEOs leave the US! It's unfair that investors are following them!"
Europeans are overpaid, compared to any other market in the world, including Japan. And their lavish social system, popular as it is here in the red tides of slashdot, is killing the economies of those countries. IBM is simply being smart canning those overpriced jobs.
Thes people can frankly piss off, for all I care. Nothing bad was going on here. I've seen far skimpier outfits at the beach. FAR skimpier. And these women were basically playing characters from the games. The vast majority of them probably don't give a rats ass either, especially if the money is good.
Men are attracted to women. And people have been using this fact to sell things for years. Why is it a crime now? These critics need to get over themselves, stat.
Uhhh, sorry, but IT is now the very definition of commodity. Hardware, labor, and software are now so cheap and interchangeable that there's no other way to describe it. Rather than spend money on expensive RISC chips like pa-risc or Ultrasparc, you can now get cheap x86/64 chips with comparable or better performance for a fraction of the price, and from a wide variety of vendors. With the information revolution and the Internet, now you can get programmers from across the ocean for a 10th of what you'd pay an expierienced US coder. And software? Windows boxes are relatively inexpensive compared to what businesses used to pay for unix workstations, and now you've got cheap/no cost software on top of that.
Face it...IT has become the Wal Mart of business buying. It's cheap, it's everywhere, and for IT vendors to make money, they have to rely on huge volume because margins are so slim. Only companies like IBM are making real money from services, and some people think even that won't last forever. I read a stat that claimed IBM was losing $33 on every PC they made, which is why they sold that business.
Spending less while getting more isn't a new concept, as the author might think. Other business sectors have lived by the mantra for years. IT has just been forced to play that game too after the disastrous dot bomb. Welcome to the real world, IT, the world where life is hard and business is cutthroat. The dot com boom was a fantasyland that was doomed to failure, and it's never coming back.
Knowing this, isn't it getting a bit tiring to hear these execs say that not enough students are going into IT/CS? Surprise surprise...the grads we have now have to scrape for jobs compared to other highly skilled professions, and the current marketplace is hot for international outsourcing. Why are these people surprised that US students are going "no thanks"?
While the "linux = commies" jokes are in abundance, ironically, Linux might not be so welcome as soon as the Cuban government sees that Linux promotes the free exchange of ideas. Wouldn't it be ironic if the socialism-in-a-kernel that is Linux ended up hurting the grip of a communist government?
Why SHOULD they make a version for Mac or Linux? All the Mac cultists will use Safari 'cause Steve says to, and judging by most of the comments here, most Linux users will give a knee-jerk "Why use anything other than Firefox?". I wouldn't waste time or money on a port either.
The Open Source community had better examine itself pretty hard on this. We complained for years about lack of corporate support, but once we make "our" version of something, not only do we discourage the use of corporate software, we condemn companies for even trying. Look at the number of posts assigning sinister motives for making the new browser. These companies have to be thinking "With friends like these, who needs Microsoft?".
1- How MUCH is it going to be? If it's over $300, it's not going to sell real fast. Hardcore guys will pay anything for it, but Mom and Dad won't pay that much for junior's box. Stretch out that PS2, son, or get a job.
2- Will there be a Linux kit for this model, now that it has increased hardware specs? 256 mb seems a little low on the ram for that, but the PS2 kit got by with 32...
Not at all. While the KDE devs said that Apple was abiding by the terms of the license, they also said, and I quote:
So they never said that "no one should begrudge them for it". Far from it; when you read the post that started it all, you'll see there's lots of not-so-subtle hints about resentment towards Apple. A lot of this is because people on Slashdot seem to think that because Apple is using KDE code, there's a mutually beneficial relationship going on there. Not so:
So can we finally knock off the "Apple is a great supporter of open source" drivel? It looks like a lot of that support is one-way.
"Why? it's not an issue that needs addressing, or even thinking about."
Spoken like a true Apple Zombie. Don't talk or think about it, just do what Steve tells you.
If you don't like OO, don't use it. As many have pointed out here, Sun basically bought it, and then gave it away for free. Apparently, that's not good enough for the revolutionary crowd here. It's a wonder any of these companies will work with us at all. With friends like these...
I got into Linux because I wanted Unix at home. Not to rape and pillage the unbelievers. If we're getting to a point where I have to live by the Purer Faith, so to speak, just to use software, I'll head to BSD land. Because while I think the open source method is very, very cool, and will revolutionize software (in truth, it already has), I'm getting tired of the militants lecturing me about what I choose to put on my computer. I didn't sign up for that.
This article was trollbait from the get-go. Considering the animosity towards people of faith here on slashdot, where any mention of religion or God is sure to bring out the worst in this crowd, this article was just asking for trouble. I think the editors wanted to have some fun at the expense of believers today, and so threw a piece of red meat to the crowd...
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for telling the truth here. I'm as pro-military as you're going to get, but the F-22 is a clusterfuck that should have died a long time ago. I'm not real hopeful about the F-35 series either, though that program isn't going as badly. The rules of engagement in Cope India were slanted so our fighters couldn't use all of their assets. Does anyone really doubt that in real combat, US pilots would smoke just about any opponent in the world? Only Israel with their visual-directed python missles would give us fits.
The F-22 is useless without it's fire control system,and that's been in a perpetual state of damage control for years. In short, it's too complicated, and it doesn't work reliably. They just can't seem to get the software right. And we've only been working on this plane since, oh, 1989. Keep in mind that the F-14 and F-15 went from prototype to frontline service in just over two years time. The Raptor has been in a state of flux for 16 years now. And now the Air Force wants to syphon funds from other services because, of their own budget, they can only afford 270 of them.
Kill it now and be done with it.
A thousand thank you's for saying that. I get really tired of hearing the whining here about how Lucas is smashing their childhood memories. Wanna know the truth? If a New Hope came out today instead of 1977, Slashdot readers would mercilessly pan it as a piece of shit. Yes, the same ones that claim they loved it so much as children.
Some people just aren't happy unless they're bitching about something, and apparently a lot of them post on Slashdot.
So it's a good bet these guys aren't just sitting at a desk playing nethack. Some of them are probably special-ops types with additional computer training. I can easily see operations where we'd drop in sabotage units via aircraft or submarines, and hose entire infrastructures by accessing them locally, just like the Serbian incident. Keep in mind that in modern air defense systems, often multiple units are connected in clusters, sometimes relying on just one radar dish per 3-5 missle units, all connected electronically. Hose the radar, and you've fucked the entire cluster. And while military communications networks usually aren't connected to the Internet on the battlefield, they ARE becoming more and more computer dependant. So it wouldn't be improbable to imagine some of these guys tracking down the right coax cables connected underground to a command and control bunker somewhere, then attaching a vampire tap to access the network.
Yeah, but I think the catch here is that state-provided Internet service is considered more of a utility than a newspaper. Texas will probably state that this is analagous to providing cable TV at rest areas, and the state would have the right to block the porn channels, right?
I think the courts will side with Texas on this one...
BTW, it's kinda a funny that whenever access to porn might be threatened, Slashdot kind of goes into a fit, eh?
First off, looking at how I was moderated, I think I've pissed off a bitter accounting nerd...
Secondly, as I posted, this sector of IT is outsourced to a consultant...I don't do a damn thing with it. However, I'll pass along your comments to him, though it would have helped had you not posted AC so I could have contacted you for particular references if our consultant tells me I'm nuts...
The parent was modded flamebait for being overly sarcastic, but there's a kernel of truth to what he said...it's a bit strange for Mac users to go ballistic about DRM on Tivo when Itunes probably has more DRM than any other commercial music service right now (Microsoft will surely take over here, but for right now, Apple is tops in the DRM department).
So the question stands...is it ok when Steve Jobs and Company push DRM for Apple products and services, and bad when others do it? Where I come from that's called Drinking the Koolaid; apparently on Slashdot though, that kind of hypocrisy is ok.
They always do...
"However, the movie has angered some online fans for appearing to contradict the basic tenets of the Doom storyline, with the action apparently not being set on Mars and the demons from hell of the games being replaced with humans sporting a mutagenic virus"
Fucking bastards....
The ONE MOVIE I WANT TO SEE ADAPTED, and they pull a lame-ass "Omega Man" on us. As George Carlin says, Fuck The Fucking Fuckers. I want Mars, and I want my Demons from Hell in the movie. I want Hell Knights and Arch Viles, Blob's and Spider Masterminds. I WANT A CYBERDEMON...Or it's not Doom.
Burn in Hell, Hollywood.