"Don't take this as me dissing him, but in all fairness, do you not think the engineers at Sony deserve a mention for their enginuity in making the PSX?"
Nope. If those particular engineers didn't exist, others would have invented something else cool and exciting. The success of PSX is based on engineering, marketing, and manufacturing. All of which combined gives you your immensely popular end product. All of which is directed by the top of the hierarchy, if not Morita (he was only an honorary position holder last I checked) then his successor. Successful companies are formed from the top down, not by talented engineers (see Microsoft(MSFT)), among others.
Chris
PS - besides, the PSX is not such an amazing technological achievement. PSX2 looks like it may be, however. Pretty good 3d action for your buck, though...
This is bullsh*t. It is because of Morita that the vision (and capital) to invent the fantastic home electronics we have today exists in a very advanced and modern form. Hands down. The man was brilliant, show him some respect.
Chris
PS - Sony laptops are phenomenal. How can one company continually turn out the coolest new stuff...one man's vision...
"Most well behaved applications use "installshield" which keeps track of all files installed and (at least in theory) lets people remove redundant applications very easily - they don't even have to know where the files are to remove them, they can just use the "add/remove applications" dialog."
Most well behaved Linux apps come (in binary form) as RPM's, Debian packages, etc. It tracks the install but actually works to remove or upgrade the software, rather than corrupting the registry or deleting shared files by mistake like installSh*t does. Someone should write a KDE/Gnome program that intercepts an RPM click and brings up a graphical install procedure...
I think all this shows is that human judges are confused as to the definition of "creative". If creative means "formulaic and based on what has already succeeded" then the computer wins. If creative really meant what it should, the ability to create something new, different, and effective, the computer would obviously lose. Pop culture has more or less destroyed the possibilty for any modern "creativity" to get the credit or recognition it deserves. No, I am not an artist or anything, in fact I feel bad for those with such talent, because of things like this.
"I'm in the same boat. If somebody can't get a PC running NT to stay up indefinately, they should be fired. Period. NT: Install, apply latest service pack, walk away. Any questions?"
Bullshit. I've had to reinstall NT 7 times on our server because it has a lot of applications on it, and if you install them in the wrong order. Blam! BSOD. Stuff like SQL Server 6.5 and Exchange...BackOrifice. Hard to believe they sell it all together, but its a ridiculous song and dance to get it all to work. How could the order of installation really be considered something a "competent" admin would know? Answer me this: Why does out ISS WWW service stop for no apparent reason every few days, with no event log entries or IIS log entries. Just stops. I'm sure I screwed up the installation cuz I'm incompetent, right...install NT4 option pack, reinstall SP4. Just like it says in the "mistake base".
"You need to look at what else you're running. A properly set up box (i have lots of them) doesn't behave that way. 98 is trash, i won't argue there, but NT is stable when set up correctly."
Linux doesn't crash when set up any way that it runs. This is the point that you Microsofties miss. Microsoft software is UNPREDICTABLE! Printers disappear, icons change colors, IE takes a dive when the machine is JUST SITTING THERE...What the f*ck??????????? Exchange disassociates mailboxes from NT accounts FOR NO REASON (don't touch our server ever, and these things constantly crop up), SQL server logins get "access denied"...try again 1 second later, your in..WTF???. How about VPN? Encryption? The VPN encryption in NT Server is completely circumventable. I have learned that MS takes continuous effort to maintain, and is hackable as hell. Our Linux box has been running flawlessly for 168 days since upgrading, and it does more work anyways. Micro$oft...What a bunch of a**holes.
"Look kids, I love animals. I have a house full of rescue animals. I also took the time to wander over there several times and talk to the trainer. This woman is simply passionate about those animals. They have a 1000 gallon swimming pool and a concrete house in her backyard. They seem to have better lodgings than many of my friends. The animals were just fine. They got regular breaks and tons of fish. "
1000 gallons? Where I grew up we had a people swimming pool that was 30,000 gals, and even that wouldn't seem large enough to keep a penguin happy. I agree, leave the animals out of the people events, they do not want to be there, I guarantee it. In fact, most people would not want to be there, free food or otherwise...maybe free beer...did they give the penguins beer?
I am perfectly comfortable with the concept of micro-evolution, evolution within a species can be demonstrated in a lab, or observed in the real world. Speciation or Macro-Evolution can not. I challenge ye, turn any given species into a significantly different species. "
Speciation? Would you believe that a dog is related to a wolf? A bonobo monkey contains 98% of our genetic make up and refelect that in many ways. The 2% deviation occurred probably 8 million years ago, are you expecting someone to synthesize that within your lifetime? Boy are creationists weird...Everything has an explanation in science, although we may not have found it yet. If you want to ask a question, ask *WHY* the big bang ocurred (another theory you hate). That, in my eyes, does not preclude the existence of a god. Like fish in an aquarium we could be...
"He (and most evolutionists) define science as to exclude out of hand any theory that includes or implies a belief in God. Thus, creationist arguments are a priori disallowed. Clever way to win an argument. "
Then why not explain all new and confounding scientific discoveries (nuclear fission?) with "God energy". Bringing magical forces into science defeats the purpose. Sheesh...
It seems to me that we need an orchestrated plan (with support from RH for OS, IBM for messaging, Apache/Zeus/Samba, etc. for example) for a "BackOrifice" style Linux deployment. With integrated adminstration tools for everything, smart installers, leaving out a lot of the linux toys (xv, etc.) which can be installed if needed. This would give enterprises a unified package to install, receive support from, and whatnot. Maybe VA could champion this. Seriously, Linux's greatest flaw is its "swiss army knife" design, which is NOT inherent, but is caused by the fact that everything is free. All this stuff should be options, and NOT included with the distro. That confuses people, and a simple setup for required features, like groupware, web serving, file serving, for example, should be available as a specific solution package. This is the beauty of linux, we can make distributions for each type of user, and if you want the full blown package, its there. (read RH 6.0). Make sense? That's why I like BackOrifice in theory. Too bad it can't run all of its components at the same time without dying a horrible blue screen death. I can't believe people even get NT to work on those huge SMP machines reliably when I can't get it to run a few server apps on one processor!
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"Don't take this as me dissing him, but in all fairness, do you not think the engineers at Sony deserve a mention for their enginuity in making the PSX?"
Nope. If those particular engineers didn't exist, others would have invented something else cool and exciting. The success of PSX is based on engineering, marketing, and manufacturing. All of which combined gives you your immensely popular end product. All of which is directed by the top of the hierarchy, if not Morita (he was only an honorary position holder last I checked) then his successor. Successful companies are formed from the top down, not by talented engineers (see Microsoft(MSFT)), among others.
Chris
PS - besides, the PSX is not such an amazing technological achievement. PSX2 looks like it may be, however. Pretty good 3d action for your buck, though...
This is bullsh*t. It is because of Morita that the vision (and capital) to invent the fantastic home electronics we have today exists in a very advanced and modern form. Hands down. The man was brilliant, show him some respect.
Chris
PS - Sony laptops are phenomenal. How can one company continually turn out the coolest new stuff...one man's vision...
"Most well behaved applications use "installshield" which keeps track of all files installed and (at least in theory) lets people remove redundant applications very easily - they don't even have to know where the files are to remove them, they can just use the "add/remove applications" dialog."
Most well behaved Linux apps come (in binary form) as RPM's, Debian packages, etc. It tracks the install but actually works to remove or upgrade the software, rather than corrupting the registry or deleting shared files by mistake like installSh*t does. Someone should write a KDE/Gnome program that intercepts an RPM click and brings up a graphical install procedure...
Chris
I think all this shows is that human judges are confused as to the definition of "creative". If creative means "formulaic and based on what has already succeeded" then the computer wins. If creative really meant what it should, the ability to create something new, different, and effective, the computer would obviously lose. Pop culture has more or less destroyed the possibilty for any modern "creativity" to get the credit or recognition it deserves. No, I am not an artist or anything, in fact I feel bad for those with such talent, because of things like this.
Chris
"daveo has onticied, after a few moments of translations, that the cgi is a 404-not-found. maybe panix has removed it due to the loads of /. effect?"
What's with this third person sh*t? Is this supposed to be cute? Like a saturday night live skit, only not funny are you.
"I'm in the same boat. If somebody can't get a PC running NT to stay up indefinately, they should be fired. Period. NT: Install, apply latest service pack, walk away. Any questions?"
Bullshit. I've had to reinstall NT 7 times on our server because it has a lot of applications on it, and if you install them in the wrong order. Blam! BSOD. Stuff like SQL Server 6.5 and Exchange...BackOrifice. Hard to believe they sell it all together, but its a ridiculous song and dance to get it all to work. How could the order of installation really be considered something a "competent" admin would know? Answer me this: Why does out ISS WWW service stop for no apparent reason every few days, with no event log entries or IIS log entries. Just stops. I'm sure I screwed up the installation cuz I'm incompetent, right...install NT4 option pack, reinstall SP4. Just like it says in the "mistake base".
Chris
"You need to look at what else you're running. A properly set up box (i have lots of them) doesn't behave that way. 98 is trash, i won't argue there, but NT is stable when set up correctly."
Linux doesn't crash when set up any way that it runs. This is the point that you Microsofties miss. Microsoft software is UNPREDICTABLE! Printers disappear, icons change colors, IE takes a dive when the machine is JUST SITTING THERE...What the f*ck??????????? Exchange disassociates mailboxes from NT accounts FOR NO REASON (don't touch our server ever, and these things constantly crop up), SQL server logins get "access denied"...try again 1 second later, your in..WTF???. How about VPN? Encryption? The VPN encryption in NT Server is completely circumventable. I have learned that MS takes continuous effort to maintain, and is hackable as hell. Our Linux box has been running flawlessly for 168 days since upgrading, and it does more work anyways. Micro$oft...What a bunch of a**holes.
Chris
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"sshhh....smell that?"
^^^
Ghostbusters, right? Best movie ever...
"Look kids, I love animals. I have a house full of rescue animals. I also took the time to wander over there several times and talk to the trainer. This woman is simply passionate about those animals. They have a 1000 gallon swimming pool and a concrete house in her backyard. They seem to have better lodgings than many of my friends. The animals were just fine. They got regular breaks and tons of fish. "
1000 gallons? Where I grew up we had a people swimming pool that was 30,000 gals, and even that wouldn't seem large enough to keep a penguin happy. I agree, leave the animals out of the people events, they do not want to be there, I guarantee it. In fact, most people would not want to be there, free food or otherwise...maybe free beer...did they give the penguins beer?
Chris
"The refute to that is:
Apply it.
I am perfectly comfortable with the concept of micro-evolution, evolution within a species can be demonstrated in a lab, or observed in the real world. Speciation or Macro-Evolution can not. I challenge ye, turn any given species into a significantly different species. "
Speciation? Would you believe that a dog is related to a wolf? A bonobo monkey contains 98% of our genetic make up and refelect that in many ways. The 2% deviation occurred probably 8 million years ago, are you expecting someone to synthesize that within your lifetime? Boy are creationists weird...Everything has an explanation in science, although we may not have found it yet. If you want to ask a question, ask *WHY* the big bang ocurred (another theory you hate). That, in my eyes, does not preclude the existence of a god. Like fish in an aquarium we could be...
Chris
"He (and most evolutionists) define science as to exclude out of hand any theory that includes or implies a belief in God. Thus, creationist arguments are a priori disallowed. Clever way to win an argument. "
Then why not explain all new and confounding scientific discoveries (nuclear fission?) with "God energy". Bringing magical forces into science defeats the purpose. Sheesh...
Chris
Drink till you drop. Life's too short, eh?
Its always funny till someone gets hurt. Then its just hilarious. --FNM
It seems to me that we need an orchestrated plan (with support from RH for OS, IBM for messaging, Apache/Zeus/Samba, etc. for example) for a "BackOrifice" style Linux deployment. With integrated adminstration tools for everything, smart installers, leaving out a lot of the linux toys (xv, etc.) which can be installed if needed. This would give enterprises a unified package to install, receive support from, and whatnot. Maybe VA could champion this. Seriously, Linux's greatest flaw is its "swiss army knife" design, which is NOT inherent, but is caused by the fact that everything is free. All this stuff should be options, and NOT included with the distro. That confuses people, and a simple setup for required features, like groupware, web serving, file serving, for example, should be available as a specific solution package. This is the beauty of linux, we can make distributions for each type of user, and if you want the full blown package, its there. (read RH 6.0). Make sense? That's why I like BackOrifice in theory. Too bad it can't run all of its components at the same time without dying a horrible blue screen death. I can't believe people even get NT to work on those huge SMP machines reliably when I can't get it to run a few server apps on one processor!
Chris