This is such obvious PR crap from some firm, most likely cut-and-pasted from a press-release made to look like a news article. Medical companies put out press releases like this all of the time and shoot them to news organizations hoping that they will be published as 'news'.
Don't believe the hype until the drug actually hits the market.
Maybe so, but if you speak to Jack Valenti, he would tell you that the VHS is taking millions if not billions of dollars out of the pockets of Hollywood each year.
It might be that there is a way for multimedia companies could make a whole lot of money out of this, but it seems that no matter how much they make they do make they always see the glass as half full.
We were hiring a few programmers a few months ago and we got a whole lot of applicants fresh out of college. My boss wouldn't even look at them, as their resumes did not contain any practical programming experience.
If any of those guys had contributed to at least one free software project they would have had a job. Contributing to a project is a great way of getting your hands in a large project, gaining the experience of working with a team, and it produces code that an employer can look at.
If I was graduating from college right now and was having trouble getting a job I would definitly contribute to at least one free software project. Not only is it a great resume builder but it keeps you from getting rusty.
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This screenshot and this can be so cool if implemeted correctly.
Yea, I agree with this. We need to cooncentrate on what Linux does poorly than on what it does well, though. Windows is really catching up in stability, and they already have ease-of-use in the bag.
I am hoping for the day that I can configure my Linux desktop through a consistant user interface, encrypt files by right clicking on them and selecting 'encrypt' and have easy network transparency.
...like jelousy. Most of the people here are coming off like children. John Romero is one of the nicest, most down-to-earth people you could ever meet.
Yea, haha, the guy who made Daikatana is selling his modified Ferrari. woo-hoo. No reason to tear him apart, though.
That is all that we need - more laws to tell us how we can write software.
The whole idea of a market economy is to let the market decide what to do with poorly constructed products - and this is being handled by the market already. There is a very good reason why Microsoft does not have a strong handle on server products and why the company I work for prefers a much more expensive Unix solution.
Really, of anyone is going to trust their company infrastructure to a poorly architected product that is a decision that they make and that person will pay accordingly.
Copyright protections are NOT a bad thing in moderation - even the EFF agrees with giving a short period of time where companies or individuals can hold copyrights (14 years). Copyright has been extended so much that it might be a century before a product goes into public domain. Companies or individuals have monopilies over ideas for so long that it really kills any potential competition.
My god - what a fucking stupid name to give the app that checks if OSX is installed. Might as well have named it DoNotRemoveOrElseYouWillGetTheFullVersionFor19.99
Instead of sicking lawyers, Steve Jobs should be slapping the developer who named that app upside his thick head.
I think that you should think pretty hard before making any comparisons between a violent fanatic like OBL with a guy like RMS. That is like comparing Jimmy Swaggart and with Jim Jones because they both used religion to spread their messages.
I have disagreed with some of what Mosfet has said in the past, but I fell he is right on target with this critisism.
Yea, making a long, complicated path name is ridiculous and adds more complication - but the fact is that something should be done to clean up the mess that is the Linux file system.
Even 600 binary applications in one directory is stupid and overcomplicated, and setting up a system where in order to manage these binaries requires a package manager is a broken way of thinking.
I am sure that, with all of the minds connected to Free software we could come up something that is better and more manageable.
Having an optional download with an X-based installer with autodetection would be great.
Right now you can download Debian installs that support different filesystems - they just aren't the official installer. Just make it an alternate download option. Why not? The code is there, it has been tested, and making installtion easier for users that like graphical installs is just a good thing to do.
I don't know about that. Because the market has gotten so crappy I have signed up for a few projects. I need more on my resume that I can show potential employers if anything happens.
I don't know about you, but I am trying to cover my ass.
Wish I could tell you - you could have made a fortune on the company I work at. Yes, they are a major company, and they have made some bizarre decisions that have caused the stock to nosedive.
They are making the same decisions that the last company I work for did (a rather large oil company in Houston that starts with the letter 'E'). Hope they don't turn out the same way.
Actually, no, no, and they will be replacing the machines with new machines completely - machines they have yet to buy.
They are not planning on saving money any other way by the use of these machines. Yea, I don't understand at all.
It makes sense to the people in charge, obviously. I have also been told that they do not like Apache and that they want all applications ported to Java. I am in hell.
I am a developer who is in charge of around 5 Linux boxes at my company. We are a Unix house that has a Windows network and management has now told me that I need to take them down and replace them with Windows 2000 boxes due to the recession. Yea - bizarre logic, I know.
Sucks, because it will be the first time in around 6 months that I have had to even touch an of these boxes.
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hehe. So true.
I was at CompUSA the other day and they tried to sell me a warranty on a harddrive that already had a warranty.
Best Buy and all of the others pull this crap also.
I felt like I was buying a car.
This is such obvious PR crap from some firm, most likely cut-and-pasted from a press-release made to look like a news article. Medical companies put out press releases like this all of the time and shoot them to news organizations hoping that they will be published as 'news'.
Don't believe the hype until the drug actually hits the market.
Maybe so, but if you speak to Jack Valenti, he would tell you that the VHS is taking millions if not billions of dollars out of the pockets of Hollywood each year.
It might be that there is a way for multimedia companies could make a whole lot of money out of this, but it seems that no matter how much they make they do make they always see the glass as half full.
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man sigset on some systems
Loki made money off of selling propietary software, not OSS. So, this is not an example of your theory.
I would like to agree with you, because 99.9% of all sites I see designed with Flash are crap, but there are exceptions to everything.
We were hiring a few programmers a few months ago and we got a whole lot of applicants fresh out of college. My boss wouldn't even look at them, as their resumes did not contain any practical programming experience.
If any of those guys had contributed to at least one free software project they would have had a job. Contributing to a project is a great way of getting your hands in a large project, gaining the experience of working with a team, and it produces code that an employer can look at.
If I was graduating from college right now and was having trouble getting a job I would definitly contribute to at least one free software project. Not only is it a great resume builder but it keeps you from getting rusty.
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screenshot and this can be so cool if implemeted correctly.
Any other screenshots along this line?
Yea, I agree with this. We need to cooncentrate on what Linux does poorly than on what it does well, though. Windows is really catching up in stability, and they already have ease-of-use in the bag.
I am hoping for the day that I can configure my Linux desktop through a consistant user interface, encrypt files by right clicking on them and selecting 'encrypt' and have easy network transparency.
...like jelousy. Most of the people here are coming off like children. John Romero is one of the nicest, most down-to-earth people you could ever meet.
Yea, haha, the guy who made Daikatana is selling his modified Ferrari. woo-hoo. No reason to tear him apart, though.
That is all that we need - more laws to tell us how we can write software.
The whole idea of a market economy is to let the market decide what to do with poorly constructed products - and this is being handled by the market already. There is a very good reason why Microsoft does not have a strong handle on server products and why the company I work for prefers a much more expensive Unix solution.
Really, of anyone is going to trust their company infrastructure to a poorly architected product that is a decision that they make and that person will pay accordingly.
Come on, if this runs on Linux, it shouldn't be too hard to pull off the deb or rpm that runs their wine variant and run it on your RH or Debian box.
Unless they much with the filesystem or have some CheckForOSX-type script which in case will just require a few symbolic links.
Copyright protections are NOT a bad thing in moderation - even the EFF agrees with giving a short period of time where companies or individuals can hold copyrights (14 years). Copyright has been extended so much that it might be a century before a product goes into public domain. Companies or individuals have monopilies over ideas for so long that it really kills any potential competition.
Somebody also said that about your mother - I don't know who said it, but it is true!
My god - what a fucking stupid name to give the app that checks if OSX is installed. Might as well have named it DoNotRemoveOrElseYouWillGetTheFullVersionFor19.99
Instead of sicking lawyers, Steve Jobs should be slapping the developer who named that app upside his thick head.
I agree. It seems like being a Java developer requires not only knowledge of the language but knowing about 10,000 extra acronymns also.
How does bloated code define stability? Unless there is more robust error checking, bloated code tends to make a system less stable.
I think that you should think pretty hard before making any comparisons between a violent fanatic like OBL with a guy like RMS. That is like comparing Jimmy Swaggart and with Jim Jones because they both used religion to spread their messages.
I have disagreed with some of what Mosfet has said in the past, but I fell he is right on target with this critisism.
Yea, making a long, complicated path name is ridiculous and adds more complication - but the fact is that something should be done to clean up the mess that is the Linux file system.
Even 600 binary applications in one directory is stupid and overcomplicated, and setting up a system where in order to manage these binaries requires a package manager is a broken way of thinking.
I am sure that, with all of the minds connected to Free software we could come up something that is better and more manageable.
Having an optional download with an X-based installer with autodetection would be great.
Right now you can download Debian installs that support different filesystems - they just aren't the official installer. Just make it an alternate download option. Why not? The code is there, it has been tested, and making installtion easier for users that like graphical installs is just a good thing to do.
Well, KDE and GNOME use them for icons on most apps.
I don't know about that. Because the market has gotten so crappy I have signed up for a few projects. I need more on my resume that I can show potential employers if anything happens.
I don't know about you, but I am trying to cover my ass.
Wish I could tell you - you could have made a fortune on the company I work at. Yes, they are a major company, and they have made some bizarre decisions that have caused the stock to nosedive.
They are making the same decisions that the last company I work for did (a rather large oil company in Houston that starts with the letter 'E'). Hope they don't turn out the same way.
Actually, no, no, and they will be replacing the machines with new machines completely - machines they have yet to buy.
They are not planning on saving money any other way by the use of these machines. Yea, I don't understand at all.
It makes sense to the people in charge, obviously. I have also been told that they do not like Apache and that they want all applications ported to Java. I am in hell.
I am a developer who is in charge of around 5 Linux boxes at my company. We are a Unix house that has a Windows network and management has now told me that I need to take them down and replace them with Windows 2000 boxes due to the recession. Yea - bizarre logic, I know.
Sucks, because it will be the first time in around 6 months that I have had to even touch an of these boxes.