A better, networked package and patch management system. Better than YUM or APT, please.
Make ZFS a global filesystem, for free.
Incorporate clustering, for free.
Integrate virtualization and clustering, transparently, so you can add/remove whole systems from a cluster without any particular image being impacted badly. For example: you start with 3 servers running 5 virtual systems, one of them starts exhibiting syslog errors (say bad RAM) so you slap another system into the cluster and evacuate the bad server. All procs, sockets, etc. move seamlessly from the evacuated box to spread across the cluster according to utilization. Sort of what an "OpenmosiXen" would be. For free, of course.
Use GNU utilities, and any Solaris-specific junk (like ACL support) should be rolled into the standard GNU tool distros.
Take any good SPARC-specific bits out of your compilers and put them into GCC.
Fat binary support, so you can have x86 and SPARC (and any other future platform) in a single executable
Refactor every piece of the "Java Enterprise System", so that everything is integrated well and behaves according to standard Unix practices. Right now it is a hellscape of disjointed junk slammed together and slathered with Java logos.
Er there is something to keep track of your skills, EveMon.
Unless things have changed, I can't use this to make changes to learning, so for example if I work a 10H day and my skill completes 2H into the day do I have to f--king drive home and kick off another skill or lose 8H?
And while on the topic, why can't I just pick some advanced skill, wait 30 days, log back in and have it? It seems like artificial busywork to me to keep on having to login all the time if I have already gotten the necessary skillsofts and all it takes is time to complete the learn..
Don't do projects on a bloated market. Give us a true reason to try something new...make it new. Hack and slash has been done to death, give us sci-fi, horror, historical, etc. Work to push new ideas. Where is the great 'zombie' MMO? The alternate history MMO? Research and don't be afraid to try something new
Where is Gamma World/Fallout? Starcraft? Paranoia? Shadowrun?
BTW, World of the Dead would be completely tits.
And Mac OS X support please, Blizzard is ++ for that very reason..
The only game I can speak of from experience is EVE Online. They solved one half of the grind problem by using training rather than leveling. You train skills in realtime. Even if you don't have time to play the game for a week, the skills are still training in the background. So someone with a job and a college student who have been playing for three months will both have comprable skill levels but the college student will have more cash.
EVE loses because there's no "miniclient" that would let me keep track of non-3D stuff like training while at work. Ideally such a miniclient would be a web interface to stuff like inventory, training, anything you could do while just sitting in a station. But no, I have to fire up the whole 3D thing on my junky worktop and fight firewall rules and whatnot:/ (and I don't need this in WoW because skilling/XP isn't schedule-based...)
Also, no Mac OS X version.
Also, and this is the dealbreaker, no proper stick-jockey combat ala Elite.
... So what happens? Any research into "public health" drugs stalls and is left to government-sponsored science. You get X number of different boner pills and hair-growing salves. Wonder why this is already happening? And when Americans get sick and tired of subsidizing socialized medication abroad and demand the best world price for their medication (which is a law I would like to see: no drug company can charge more for a drug in the US than the lowest price for it charged anywhere else in the world), what next?
Alternately, keeping the formulations secret and not publishing any research results publically, killing research science.
Unintended consequences? You'll be choking on them!
I call triple-dog bullshit on any spokesdrone that claims there's a shortage of IT people in the US. There's only a shortage of people willing to put up with the bullshit of on-call, politics, idiots deciding on technology based on how hot the sales rep is or how heavy the lobster was at the sales lunch, etc. for how much the beancounters want to pay them..
Yes, we even use Solaris (and yes, it still sucks. 6 minutes to boot a combat system that soldier's lives' depend on is, how should I put it, a really *BAD* design).
NEVER turn the key to Diag mode.
(The last 880 I installed booted into diag mode for its initial poweron, took ~25 minutes:O....)
Is the CLI for Firebird as friendly as MySQL's? I've found most vendors' CLIs extremely unfriendly and limited compared to MySQL. Sort of like how Sun's unix utilities are largely crap compared to their GNU analogs.
Trying to show columns from table in Sybase? I'd rather stick a fork in my balls.
There is absolutely no excuse for waiting until the last minute to file.
You're wrong.
If you owe extra $$$, it pays to hold onto that money until the last possible moment. In theory, it's earning interest up until the IRS cashes the check.
In my case, it was just sheer procrastination and dread because I owed $$$ to 2 states + the fed.
Can CentOS be upgraded with a yum update using the newest version repository? I've tried doing upgrades using Fedora Core 5 to no avail, and FC6 didn't even offer an upgrade option when the installer saw my CentOS 4.4 partitions.
'Twould be nice to have a newer version of Evolution without having to go thru GNOME dependency hell... ('Twould be even nicer to have a Qt/KDE app that spoke Exchange at least as well as Evolution, hint hint...)
- Computers attached to HDTVs are becoming more and more common (not just game consoles, true computers). Scaling or interlacing has nasty effects on computer displays and all those thin horizontal/vertical lines and detailed fonts. 1080p gives a great display performance for Home Theater PCs.
- You are not always sitting 12-15' back from the TV. 1080p maintains the quality when you do venture closer to the set.
QFT+++
WoW is quite nice in 1080p, especially since I added a sound card that does realtime 5.1 DTS Connect..
I found their virtual server platform a bit unstable (unplanned outages happened every 2-3 weeks while I was a customer) and there were tons of changes to/etc files I would have to make..
Frankly, in a virtual host, I want to set it and forget it, except for security patches. If I have to update config files 2x a week because you're continuously tweaking the system, that's annoying.
Plus, if they're still charging $75/mo for a Redhat vserver, that's a bit rich.
I wonder if Apple is avoiding the "bread and butter" market (midtower formfactor with PCIe graphics card) because they fear having their support staff swamped with new users and switchers?
If Apple were to sell 5-10MM $699-$999 xMacs in their first year, could Applecare even hope to keep up?
How about well-paid full time permanent positions?
Of course, it's cheaper to hire overseas, so if US nationals can make more money or be happier at non-CS careers, WTF is there to attract them? The girls? The glamour? The machismo?
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Let me know when the guy on the grassy knoll is proved to be Arlene Specter.
Did he have a sexchange? I thought it was just cancer..
IIRC, AIX 5L is AIX that has a linux-like GCC environment?
That's a good start...
Stick this on the box:
"Requirements: XBox 360 with optional hard drive of 20GB or greater."
PROBLEM SOLVED, NOW STOP WHINGEING..
Er there is something to keep track of your skills, EveMon.
Unless things have changed, I can't use this to make changes to learning, so for example if I work a 10H day and my skill completes 2H into the day do I have to f--king drive home and kick off another skill or lose 8H?
And while on the topic, why can't I just pick some advanced skill, wait 30 days, log back in and have it? It seems like artificial busywork to me to keep on having to login all the time if I have already gotten the necessary skillsofts and all it takes is time to complete the learn..
Don't do projects on a bloated market. Give us a true reason to try something new...make it new. Hack and slash has been done to death, give us sci-fi, horror, historical, etc. Work to push new ideas. Where is the great 'zombie' MMO? The alternate history MMO? Research and don't be afraid to try something new
Where is Gamma World/Fallout? Starcraft? Paranoia? Shadowrun?
BTW, World of the Dead would be completely tits.
And Mac OS X support please, Blizzard is ++ for that very reason..
And then there is Lord of the Rings Online.
Mac OS X?
The only game I can speak of from experience is EVE Online. They solved one half of the grind problem by using training rather than leveling. You train skills in realtime. Even if you don't have time to play the game for a week, the skills are still training in the background. So someone with a job and a college student who have been playing for three months will both have comprable skill levels but the college student will have more cash.
:/ (and I don't need this in WoW because skilling/XP isn't schedule-based...)
EVE loses because there's no "miniclient" that would let me keep track of non-3D stuff like training while at work. Ideally such a miniclient would be a web interface to stuff like inventory, training, anything you could do while just sitting in a station. But no, I have to fire up the whole 3D thing on my junky worktop and fight firewall rules and whatnot
Also, no Mac OS X version.
Also, and this is the dealbreaker, no proper stick-jockey combat ala Elite.
(and don't ask about system gryphing...)
... So what happens? Any research into "public health" drugs stalls and is left to government-sponsored science. You get X number of different boner pills and hair-growing salves. Wonder why this is already happening? And when Americans get sick and tired of subsidizing socialized medication abroad and demand the best world price for their medication (which is a law I would like to see: no drug company can charge more for a drug in the US than the lowest price for it charged anywhere else in the world), what next?
Alternately, keeping the formulations secret and not publishing any research results publically, killing research science.
Unintended consequences? You'll be choking on them!
(and to complete that thought):
"... At the salaries companies want to pay."
I call triple-dog bullshit on any spokesdrone that claims there's a shortage of IT people in the US. There's only a shortage of people willing to put up with the bullshit of on-call, politics, idiots deciding on technology based on how hot the sales rep is or how heavy the lobster was at the sales lunch, etc. for how much the beancounters want to pay them..
Meh.
Yes, we even use Solaris (and yes, it still sucks. 6 minutes to boot a combat system that soldier's lives' depend on is, how should I put it, a really *BAD* design).
:O....)
NEVER turn the key to Diag mode.
(The last 880 I installed booted into diag mode for its initial poweron, took ~25 minutes
Is the CLI for Firebird as friendly as MySQL's? I've found most vendors' CLIs extremely unfriendly and limited compared to MySQL. Sort of like how Sun's unix utilities are largely crap compared to their GNU analogs.
Trying to show columns from table in Sybase? I'd rather stick a fork in my balls.
There is absolutely no excuse for waiting until the last minute to file.
You're wrong.
If you owe extra $$$, it pays to hold onto that money until the last possible moment. In theory, it's earning interest up until the IRS cashes the check.
In my case, it was just sheer procrastination and dread because I owed $$$ to 2 states + the fed.
Grrrr.
Like they did with OpenFirmware?
Death to BIOS.
Can CentOS be upgraded with a yum update using the newest version repository? I've tried doing upgrades using Fedora Core 5 to no avail, and FC6 didn't even offer an upgrade option when the installer saw my CentOS 4.4 partitions.
'Twould be nice to have a newer version of Evolution without having to go thru GNOME dependency hell... ('Twould be even nicer to have a Qt/KDE app that spoke Exchange at least as well as Evolution, hint hint...)
- Computers attached to HDTVs are becoming more and more common (not just game consoles, true computers). Scaling or interlacing has nasty effects on computer displays and all those thin horizontal/vertical lines and detailed fonts. 1080p gives a great display performance for Home Theater PCs.
- You are not always sitting 12-15' back from the TV. 1080p maintains the quality when you do venture closer to the set.
QFT+++
WoW is quite nice in 1080p, especially since I added a sound card that does realtime 5.1 DTS Connect..
I just hit the Tire Rack and could not find a single tire for the Prius that was Z- or better rated, let alone rated to 200mph.
Which tire is submitter referring to? Where would I find them in the stock Prius size (195/55-16) ?
I found their virtual server platform a bit unstable (unplanned outages happened every 2-3 weeks while I was a customer) and there were tons of changes to /etc files I would have to make..
Frankly, in a virtual host, I want to set it and forget it, except for security patches. If I have to update config files 2x a week because you're continuously tweaking the system, that's annoying.
Plus, if they're still charging $75/mo for a Redhat vserver, that's a bit rich.
I wonder if Apple is avoiding the "bread and butter" market (midtower formfactor with PCIe graphics card) because they fear having their support staff swamped with new users and switchers?
If Apple were to sell 5-10MM $699-$999 xMacs in their first year, could Applecare even hope to keep up?
... for Operation Nightmare Green...
ps: caps filter can suck a large phallus.
Wow, that's pretty impressive... What percentage rate will they be charging for sales tax in Delaware?
How about Alaska, Montana, New Hampshire or Oregon?
Better than Back Door Sluts 9?
Snape kills Dumbledore!
On my cable system, Discovery HD is encrypted. PBS is not.
I have yet to care....
(and who knows, with FiOS being installed in my 'hood, I'll be off Commiecast anon!)
Want to reverse the slide out of CS?
How about well-paid full time permanent positions?
Of course, it's cheaper to hire overseas, so if US nationals can make more money or be happier at non-CS careers, WTF is there to attract them? The girls? The glamour? The machismo?