Some farmer gives them the finger and flies a plane over everyone's crops randomly spreading the engineered seed. They may be able to prosecute him but I doubt they'd ever be able to weed out their seed from those crops.
It used to be that companies would engineer rice to grow in more dry conditions for 3rd world countries.. but I guess their greed forced them to stoop to this.
Took a bit but I managed to order 2 through the website. My wife demanded one immediately after I told her about it and we'll I want a stable Linux operating system that looks good.
Lets not argue the Merits of OSX vs Linux.. it's Linux enough for me and I'll probably dual load it with Yellowdog also for fun.
I also think I will eventually get a 3rd one to turn it into a media center if I can find a USB device that can record tv and everything.. this will be a lot of fun!
Imagine you had a patent on some cool feature but you dont have a OS to code it into. MicroSoft said no but maybe wanted to buy it.
However you are in the business of selling Linux and if they put it into the software you could market Linux and advertise your cool feature on the box.
Widgets powered by IBM.
I think this could catch on with companies getting exposure via the about button or a logo on the box they sell.
It was a interesting year. Horizons no long was vaporware yet has met little success. Several games came and went such as Rubies of Eventide as the eq knockoffs continue to meet difficulties garnering subscribers in the face of the MMO big 3 (EverQuest, World of Warcraft, and Star Wars Galaxies)
We saw Asian gaming hit US shores with Final Fantasy and Lineage but as with the Asian MMO culture these games resemble 1st gen MMO's at best in many aspects.
Turbine continued to drag players along with it's failed Asheron's Call 2 release. With monthly content patches mostly rebalances every month since launch only to produce a few decent patches before announcing a move to patches every 2 months. Effectively doubling the price per content push (PPCP). Doubt remains wether they can produce viable MMO's that will succeed even with big names like Dungeons and Dragons online and Middle Earth Online. The forgotten realms series supports EQ's success as much as the game itself. Middle Earth Online is late and with no Hobbit movie forthcoming as of yet there's little out there to rekindle the Lord of the Rings fever to the point that this game may succeed. I also do not see where DND online can succeed where Neverwinter Nights did not.
We also saw many successes such as World of Warcraft which is undoubtedly the best game of the year. SOE continued their fame with SWG with the jump to light speed expansion and EverQuest 2 all three of which will continue to dominate the MMO landscape in the US for the forseeable future and beyond with no apparent contender in sight.
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Of the clients that I know themis to be involved with currently only one is succeeding and questionably so. The facts are that Themis is a advisor to some of these garage mmo's and in 2 years time one has shut down and 2 have gone belly up either in development or shortly after launch. This is not bashing this is facts.
If mutable realms was a public company they would be in trouble for all the glowing announcements since the new year with "#1 download on FilePlanet", "68,000 Registered beta testers", and various other statements that considering what just happened is probably all a lie. The year 2000 is over and I bet whatever poor bastard dumped their money into that game is regretting it today.
Themis too. They just saw another revenue stream go up in smoke.
Themis and Mutable Realms
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Wish Cancelled
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· Score: 3, Informative
Once again it seems that Themis http://www.themis-group.com is involved with a failing or failed business.
Some of their happy partners include.
Anarchy Online Jumpgate Wish Saga of Ryzom
And several niche MMO's that have vanished over the years. And lets not forget their heavy influence at Turbine Entertainment and that peice of crap they call Asheron's Call 2 that refuses to die. (Note they were not involved in AC2 being crappy but one can wonder why it has not been axed yet).
Linux will succeed becuase you have many groups contributing to computing some free some not so free but it creates a economy around it of sorts.
Microsoft however cant stand for some reason to be the OS that great things are built on like Linux can and is being today. They try to take their OS and adapt and squeeze out what they consider competition. Then they take the products that other companies make to run on Windows such a Ad-Aware, Norton Antivirus, Lotus Notes and a myriad of other programs out there and try to build them into Windows. Netscape employeed people who designed, maintained, and supported their browser. Microsoft rolled out IE and tied it into their OS sparking a controversy that eventually landed it in court. Yes the consumer has suffered but what about those Netscape employees? Did Microsoft give them jobs making IE better and supporting it? Hardly those guys were muscled out of the marketplace. Now I'm sure they got jobs elsewhere but what and where are they doing things.
This can go for any number of companies that are threatened becuase Microsoft refuses to make windows as good and secure as it can be they only want to add the next cool feature into their OS.
Symantec, Mcaffee, Real, and many other companies employ many good people with ideas and not just the engineers and software hackers, there are secretaries, janitors, and guards that also are employeed and probably buy Windows. Once they lose their jobs becuase Microsoft muscled their company out of business then they probably wont be buying as many computer products anymore.
Thus Microsoft sits there and kills their own bottom lines.
Of course were all eventually damned in that robots and smart computers will replace our jobs. Just look at those poor bastards that are being replaced in the Toyota autoplants here soon. This will spread to all auto makers across the world and it will not stop there. Productivity increases due to these robots will put strain initally on supply lines becusae those humans cant keep up and then one company will pick up the slack by having robots do that portion of the work and other companies will have to do so to keep up.
From there it's basically a self feeding reaction that eventually will nullify every job we have or can move to in the next 50-100 years.
Interaction with a computer will evolve to the point that we think and the computer picks it up. It's plausable that our very thoughts could someday be tuned in much like you can pick up someone's bluetooth network from a short distance away which leads to major privacy concerns. However if we become closer and more intergrated into machines with enhancements it could very well be that we give up on privacy for the benefits of group mind (What one knows all know).
If you know anything about Linux and drivers you can enable the features on your DirectTvio.
Sorry I always forget the regular SA Tivo's have this enabled but DirectTV wont turn these features on for people. tivocommunity.com has plenty of links in the forums to enable features that are locked on DirectTivo's but they're not for the faint of heart.
I've noticed many times that Apache and Php will not play nicely with eachother when compiling them as static or dynamic objects.. it's always been hit or miss with versions and features to the point I went back to 1x apache.
* Object code for the entire suite of SwarmStream(TM) APIs, including WebRAID(TM), DirectCache(TM), Throttling, and THEX.
* Visualization tools to perform live inspections and demonstrations of what SwarmStream is doing during your application run time.
* One full license for WAN Transport(TM) Server (normally $2950), an HTTP server specifically designed provide advanced SwarmStream features such as self-healing downloads and automatic mirror discovery.
* One full day of developer training
* 20 hours of ongoing support
* One year of free upgrades for all of the above software.
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If you want easy linux support the Aircard 555 and the 5220 both work under linux.. there are many tutorials on the net... only issue is that you have to activate it on a windows machine.
You guys need to grab your balls and kick all of your state legislature's collective asses.
Are you not the state that levied a tax and paid Verizon 58 Billion dollars for a all fiber optic network and there is not one mile of fiber to anyone's homes in the state.
Now the come with your money and bitch that it would be unfair becuase cities that know they were ripped off were now forced to make their own provisions to provide network access to the general public.
That's okay your 58 billion went to installing the Fiber in my neighborhood in Texas and other neighborhoods in Florida, Ny, California. We were never taxed at all for it.
Next thing we'll see up there are toll roads that pay for road construction in other states.
As a part time investor just seeing that they're buying Alienware machines for the name only and seeing the total waste and high costs of playtime (Compare this to 1 dollar an hour in korea) I dont think it would profit.
Lets not to mention all the babysitting you will be forced to do with 300 potential customers of which a majority might be 13-17 year olds who are a exposive bunch whent hey get mad becuase they got beat.
With Brazil, Several Private groups, China, and India all now shooting for space it would hopefully put some pressure on our space spending which has dropped off considerably since the end of the cold war.
Perhaps if we convinced there was oil on the moon there would be more intrest but I belive the current compeition will help. It's bad enough our engineers are being squeezed out by cheap alternatives in other countries but losing out on our space program could have profound results elsewhere in our economy. We'll go from being a tech leader to a tech backwater. Were already there with our network infrastructure, were getting there with our engineering based workforces and high tech jobs going overseas.
Worse if you look at things you may notice that our society and economic structure may eventually destroy our country. With inflation on nearly everything it's becoming nearly impossible to compete with other countries. sure you can compare their living conditions vs ours but does everything here have to be so damned expensive? When I was born the average house sold for 55,000 dollars. Today you're lucky to see them in the 80's and the average is 250,000 where I live worse in some other areas. What justifies all that price jumping?
Worse is we have a president that went from a 5 trillion dollar surplus to hitting a 8 trillion dollar deficit. Where the hell did we spend all that money. IIRC those iraq spending bills were in the billions per year but looking at the deficit it's obvious that the money is going somewhere else unknown to the american public. Who are we paying and for what?
As high speed network connections become more commonplace the mobile public will gravitate towards the best platform to keep their information at their fingertips and not stored on their home pc's which for many are inaccessible from abroad.
Google's email system is a good example of what thin clients should of been in the first place. The interface is slick, easy to use, and you can click from one function to another and it responds nearly as quick as a desktop based application. And this is over a 155k wireless connection. On my home FIOS system where I have 15mbit downloads it's faster than Thunderbird (Tunderbird however maintains my IMAP folders)
Regardless. Nx broke some ground with a network accessable desktop that ran Linux. No doubt that once it went Open source Google's engineers laid their hands on it and we may see something really productive.
Google rolls out a usbkey or firewirekey based product that keeps enough software to boot a network connection and windowing system to open a nx based desktop from any networked pc anywhere in the world. Yes then M$ should be worried becuase Google would of then presented the ultimate thin client that would be far cheaper per seat than any product currently produced so far. And if you think that the backend couldnt handle it you have to remember Google's search engine is ran by huge wharehouses of computers we hardly consider using for fileservers nowdays in one huge grid application.
Xp, Linux, Linspire, Mac all the systems in my house have had exceptional usage.. In fact the XP version on this laptop I'm writing from is just fine.. same session opened 5 days ago while travelling, suspended and resumed a few dozen times alread ram or disk does not make a diff.
Furthermore how the hell does this guy get a story like this posted on the front page of/.???
If it's that easy I've got a story about a little boy that used his finger to plug a dike I'd like posted.
AFAIK the only software yet to come on DVD so far are certain Linux distros. Reguardless that dvd drives can be bought for less than 20 dollars nowdays. Games typically can span 3-5 cd's and they still say they do not want to distribute on DVD. Course if they didnt have to pack a thick CD set they could put more copies of the same product on the shelf in a slimmed up packaging.
And with Blue-Ray coming out it wont make much of a difference if the distribution channels still stick with CDROM.
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Some farmer gives them the finger and flies a plane over everyone's crops randomly spreading the engineered seed. They may be able to prosecute him but I doubt they'd ever be able to weed out their seed from those crops.
It used to be that companies would engineer rice to grow in more dry conditions for 3rd world countries.. but I guess their greed forced them to stoop to this.
Took a bit but I managed to order 2 through the website. My wife demanded one immediately after I told her about it and we'll I want a stable Linux operating system that looks good.
Lets not argue the Merits of OSX vs Linux.. it's Linux enough for me and I'll probably dual load it with Yellowdog also for fun.
I also think I will eventually get a 3rd one to turn it into a media center if I can find a USB device that can record tv and everything.. this will be a lot of fun!
True I really dont know how the +4 really represents anything but anything is definately better than a normal zip code.
Imagine you had a patent on some cool feature but you dont have a OS to code it into. MicroSoft said no but maybe wanted to buy it.
However you are in the business of selling Linux and if they put it into the software you could market Linux and advertise your cool feature on the box.
Widgets powered by IBM.
I think this could catch on with companies getting exposure via the about button or a logo on the box they sell.
I have to apologise for modding you as flaimbait..
/. needs a way to see things in context or I just need to quit being lazy :)
I was browsing at 5 and saw that and was "How the hell did you get up here"
However my posting will fix your score..
I cant believe for a minute that that many zip codes are covered.. and yes one in that zip counts the entire zip.
How about breaking it down by zip+4 and that number would drop dramatically.
And what about Bush fixing the digital divide?
It was a interesting year. Horizons no long was vaporware yet has met little success. Several games came and went such as Rubies of Eventide as the eq knockoffs continue to meet difficulties garnering subscribers in the face of the MMO big 3 (EverQuest, World of Warcraft, and Star Wars Galaxies)
We saw Asian gaming hit US shores with Final Fantasy and Lineage but as with the Asian MMO culture these games resemble 1st gen MMO's at best in many aspects.
Turbine continued to drag players along with it's failed Asheron's Call 2 release. With monthly content patches mostly rebalances every month since launch only to produce a few decent patches before announcing a move to patches every 2 months. Effectively doubling the price per content push (PPCP). Doubt remains wether they can produce viable MMO's that will succeed even with big names like Dungeons and Dragons online and Middle Earth Online. The forgotten realms series supports EQ's success as much as the game itself. Middle Earth Online is late and with no Hobbit movie forthcoming as of yet there's little out there to rekindle the Lord of the Rings fever to the point that this game may succeed. I also do not see where DND online can succeed where Neverwinter Nights did not.
We also saw many successes such as World of Warcraft which is undoubtedly the best game of the year. SOE continued their fame with SWG with the jump to light speed expansion and EverQuest 2 all three of which will continue to dominate the MMO landscape in the US for the forseeable future and beyond with no apparent contender in sight.
Of the clients that I know themis to be involved with currently only one is succeeding and questionably so. The facts are that Themis is a advisor to some of these garage mmo's and in 2 years time one has shut down and 2 have gone belly up either in development or shortly after launch. This is not bashing this is facts.
If mutable realms was a public company they would be in trouble for all the glowing announcements since the new year with "#1 download on FilePlanet", "68,000 Registered beta testers", and various other statements that considering what just happened is probably all a lie. The year 2000 is over and I bet whatever poor bastard dumped their money into that game is regretting it today.
Themis too. They just saw another revenue stream go up in smoke.
Once again it seems that Themis http://www.themis-group.com is involved with a failing or failed business.
Some of their happy partners include.
Anarchy Online
Jumpgate
Wish
Saga of Ryzom
And several niche MMO's that have vanished over the years. And lets not forget their heavy influence at Turbine Entertainment and that peice of crap they call Asheron's Call 2 that refuses to die. (Note they were not involved in AC2 being crappy but one can wonder why it has not been axed yet).
Linux will succeed becuase you have many groups contributing to computing some free some not so free but it creates a economy around it of sorts.
Microsoft however cant stand for some reason to be the OS that great things are built on like Linux can and is being today. They try to take their OS and adapt and squeeze out what they consider competition. Then they take the products that other companies make to run on Windows such a Ad-Aware, Norton Antivirus, Lotus Notes and a myriad of other programs out there and try to build them into Windows. Netscape employeed people who designed, maintained, and supported their browser. Microsoft rolled out IE and tied it into their OS sparking a controversy that eventually landed it in court. Yes the consumer has suffered but what about those Netscape employees? Did Microsoft give them jobs making IE better and supporting it? Hardly those guys were muscled out of the marketplace. Now I'm sure they got jobs elsewhere but what and where are they doing things.
This can go for any number of companies that are threatened becuase Microsoft refuses to make windows as good and secure as it can be they only want to add the next cool feature into their OS.
Symantec, Mcaffee, Real, and many other companies employ many good people with ideas and not just the engineers and software hackers, there are secretaries, janitors, and guards that also are employeed and probably buy Windows. Once they lose their jobs becuase Microsoft muscled their company out of business then they probably wont be buying as many computer products anymore.
Thus Microsoft sits there and kills their own bottom lines.
Of course were all eventually damned in that robots and smart computers will replace our jobs. Just look at those poor bastards that are being replaced in the Toyota autoplants here soon. This will spread to all auto makers across the world and it will not stop there. Productivity increases due to these robots will put strain initally on supply lines becusae those humans cant keep up and then one company will pick up the slack by having robots do that portion of the work and other companies will have to do so to keep up.
From there it's basically a self feeding reaction that eventually will nullify every job we have or can move to in the next 50-100 years.
Oh and governments would step up to help you?
Interaction with a computer will evolve to the point that we think and the computer picks it up. It's plausable that our very thoughts could someday be tuned in much like you can pick up someone's bluetooth network from a short distance away which leads to major privacy concerns. However if we become closer and more intergrated into machines with enhancements it could very well be that we give up on privacy for the benefits of group mind (What one knows all know).
That I would more likely steal a slice of pizza I may put your laptop somewhere else after being fooled by the damn box.
If you know anything about Linux and drivers you can enable the features on your DirectTvio.
Sorry I always forget the regular SA Tivo's have this enabled but DirectTV wont turn these features on for people.
tivocommunity.com has plenty of links in the forums to enable features that are locked on DirectTivo's but they're not for the faint of heart.
A giant Windows machine cluster that gets a virus.
Then maybe our governments would finally begin to pay attention to the matter.
Think it's time for a little white lie about a asteroid.
I've noticed many times that Apache and Php will not play nicely with eachother when compiling them as static or dynamic objects.. it's always been hit or miss with versions and features to the point I went back to 1x apache.
Dave, I want to speak to my lawyer.
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* Object code for the entire suite of SwarmStream(TM) APIs, including WebRAID(TM), DirectCache(TM), Throttling, and THEX.
* Visualization tools to perform live inspections and demonstrations of what SwarmStream is doing during your application run time.
* One full license for WAN Transport(TM) Server (normally $2950), an HTTP server specifically designed provide advanced SwarmStream features such as self-healing downloads and automatic mirror discovery.
* One full day of developer training
* 20 hours of ongoing support
* One year of free upgrades for all of the above software.
* Unlimited right to use and implement SwarmStream technology for testing, prototyping, demonstrations, or creation of reference designs or applications. Production deployment requires an additional Deployment License.
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If you want easy linux support the Aircard 555 and the 5220 both work under linux.. there are many tutorials on the net... only issue is that you have to activate it on a windows machine.
You guys need to grab your balls and kick all of your state legislature's collective asses.
Are you not the state that levied a tax and paid Verizon 58 Billion dollars for a all fiber optic network and there is not one mile of fiber to anyone's homes in the state.
Now the come with your money and bitch that it would be unfair becuase cities that know they were ripped off were now forced to make their own provisions to provide network access to the general public.
That's okay your 58 billion went to installing the Fiber in my neighborhood in Texas and other neighborhoods in Florida, Ny, California. We were never taxed at all for it.
Next thing we'll see up there are toll roads that pay for road construction in other states.
Sheesh
Okay Alienware = Expensive
Homebuilt = Cheaper
As a part time investor just seeing that they're buying Alienware machines for the name only and seeing the total waste and high costs of playtime (Compare this to 1 dollar an hour in korea) I dont think it would profit.
Lets not to mention all the babysitting you will be forced to do with 300 potential customers of which a majority might be 13-17 year olds who are a exposive bunch whent hey get mad becuase they got beat.
I doubt they make it.
With Brazil, Several Private groups, China, and India all now shooting for space it would hopefully put some pressure on our space spending which has dropped off considerably since the end of the cold war.
Perhaps if we convinced there was oil on the moon there would be more intrest but I belive the current compeition will help. It's bad enough our engineers are being squeezed out by cheap alternatives in other countries but losing out on our space program could have profound results elsewhere in our economy. We'll go from being a tech leader to a tech backwater. Were already there with our network infrastructure, were getting there with our engineering based workforces and high tech jobs going overseas.
Worse if you look at things you may notice that our society and economic structure may eventually destroy our country. With inflation on nearly everything it's becoming nearly impossible to compete with other countries. sure you can compare their living conditions vs ours but does everything here have to be so damned expensive? When I was born the average house sold for 55,000 dollars. Today you're lucky to see them in the 80's and the average is 250,000 where I live worse in some other areas. What justifies all that price jumping?
Worse is we have a president that went from a 5 trillion dollar surplus to hitting a 8 trillion dollar deficit. Where the hell did we spend all that money. IIRC those iraq spending bills were in the billions per year but looking at the deficit it's obvious that the money is going somewhere else unknown to the american public. Who are we paying and for what?
As high speed network connections become more commonplace the mobile public will gravitate towards the best platform to keep their information at their fingertips and not stored on their home pc's which for many are inaccessible from abroad.
Google's email system is a good example of what thin clients should of been in the first place. The interface is slick, easy to use, and you can click from one function to another and it responds nearly as quick as a desktop based application. And this is over a 155k wireless connection. On my home FIOS system where I have 15mbit downloads it's faster than Thunderbird (Tunderbird however maintains my IMAP folders)
Regardless. Nx broke some ground with a network accessable desktop that ran Linux. No doubt that once it went Open source Google's engineers laid their hands on it and we may see something really productive.
Google rolls out a usbkey or firewirekey based product that keeps enough software to boot a network connection and windowing system to open a nx based desktop from any networked pc anywhere in the world. Yes then M$ should be worried becuase Google would of then presented the ultimate thin client that would be far cheaper per seat than any product currently produced so far. And if you think that the backend couldnt handle it you have to remember Google's search engine is ran by huge wharehouses of computers we hardly consider using for fileservers nowdays in one huge grid application.
Xp, Linux, Linspire, Mac all the systems in my house have had exceptional usage.. In fact the XP version on this laptop I'm writing from is just fine.. same session opened 5 days ago while travelling, suspended and resumed a few dozen times alread ram or disk does not make a diff.
/.???
Furthermore how the hell does this guy get a story like this posted on the front page of
If it's that easy I've got a story about a little boy that used his finger to plug a dike I'd like posted.
AFAIK the only software yet to come on DVD so far are certain Linux distros. Reguardless that dvd drives can be bought for less than 20 dollars nowdays. Games typically can span 3-5 cd's and they still say they do not want to distribute on DVD. Course if they didnt have to pack a thick CD set they could put more copies of the same product on the shelf in a slimmed up packaging.
And with Blue-Ray coming out it wont make much of a difference if the distribution channels still stick with CDROM.