Yeah, really. I've done work for NGO's that are using computers that are 8 to 10 years old in some cases. We are still using a system with a broken RAID controller (converted to software RAID, evms is awesome), pulled an old ISA NIC out of one mahine and put it in another, you know, whatever it takes to get another system.
Then you got people throwing out perfectly good systems because they don;t know how to use them. Some people really do have more money than brains.
hmmm... well if stories don't have flaws, then what's your explanation for things like director's cuts, special editions and reduxes of movies? isn't that an admission that there were mistakes in the originals?
Tolkien went back and changed the hobbit because it wouldn't fit with Lord of the Rings if he didn't. Writers aren't perfect, and what they put down on paper isn't sacred.
I remember in Don Quixote, his horse gets stolen, then in the next chapter he has the horse again then a few paragraphs later he's complaining about having to walk because a thief stole his horse. How the hell do you explain that, other than just by saying "Cervantes fucked up"?
Yeah exactly how I felt. Next on slashdot: "Hey I found this really funny joke! The punchline is: 'This wheel is driving me nuts!' Now click here for the set up...."
Ummm... well I was under the impression that Saruman did use gunpowder at helm's deep... Better example would be why didn't they get the eagles to fly Frodo to mount doom?
Anyway, it seems like you're protesting people having a good laugh at the expense of a campy movie. Isn't the whole point of making a campy movie is to make people laugh? I know I laughed when Leia says she knows the Imperials are being tracked. And then I saw this cartoon and I laughed even more (though it was too bad that they posted Han's line here, kinda spoiled the punchline).
And "what could explain that?" Well, a rushed and overworked scriptwriter made a mistake. Should have cut the part about the Millenium Falcon being tracked and just had a scene when they arrived at Yavin with someone saying "You've arrived just in time! Bothans have informed us that the Imperials know of the location of our base here and they're on their way now!".
But it doesn't really matter, it was just a flaw. All movies have them and some of us have accepted this and are able to laugh at them while still enoying the movie. Seems to me that you can't accept that the movie isn't perfect.
Have a laugh at it and don't be so sensitive. It's not like SW is a mentally challenged child that you have to leap to the defense of. George Lucas, on the other hand...
Well, she could have been remembering amidala. The force is strong with her, so maybe she could have the ability to remember her mother from when she was a newborn. Since Luke's abilities have more to do with more conventional Jedi powers maybe that is why he couldn't remember.
Or, yeah, she might have been talking about her stepmother.
Nah, the only thing from hidden fortress was the idea of telling the story from the POV of the lowest characters in the story. In Star Wars it was the Droids, in Hidden Fortress it was the two greedy peasants. The personalities of these characters are similar, constantly bickering and complaining.
Star Wars basically combines the general plot of Dune (desert planet, twin brother and sister, prescience), the swashbuckling action of Buck Rogers (Han Solo, X-Wing fighters, blasters), with a little bit of the samurai films thrown in (Swordsmen losing power to armies with guns).
Oh come on. I loved Star Wars, but I also found the video funny. Are you telling me that you take star wars so seriously that it upsets you when someone pokes a little fun at it.
And I also find it hard to believe that you never once saw that scene where princess leia says "They're tracking us that's the only explanation for the ease of our escape" and wonder why she wouldn't arrange a rendevous with a rebel ship to transfer R2D2 to. But the whole idea of the death star is pretty silly when you think about it. I realised that a long time ago, but I still enjoy the movie because its entertaining. And I'm sure the people who made that clip are fans of starwars too.
It's a movie dude, not a religion. You can make fun of it and still like it.
Yeah, well I haven't quite gotten around to reading the book yet. But I don't see why you can't like the book and the movie, just because they are different. Sort of like how I like both Bladerunner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Yeah the movie was pretty ridiculous at the time, but I don't think so anymore. Watch Starship Troopers the movie and then watch CNN or Fox News immediately afterwards. As ridiculous as that movie was, news media today is even more ridiculous.
Yeah but this prana isn't produced by the sand worms, its grown by the dirty Tleilaxu. It's still important that we find Arrakis since its not prudent to depend on the Tleilaxu too much.
From what I've heard, IBM is extremely pissed about this and they ARE going for blood. It's one thing to sue IBM, but send letters to IBM's customers telling them to pay you $699? You aren't going to get off so easy.
don't mean to nitpick, but his mother wasn't cloned, the aliens (which were robots themselves) built a robot that looked and acted like his mother so that his programme could finish.
What you're describing is poor management. Too many employees per manager? well then promote some of those developers to "team lead" or whatever. What do they teach in these MBA classes, anyway? A person can manage 10 people optimally. More than 10 then they don't know what the hell is going on.
No work ethic? why should someone work hard for a company that's going to fire you as soon as the project is done? And now that the company is going to be spying on you, you're going to work harder? People will be loyal to a company if and only if the company is loyal to them. You set up a points system to measure production, all you're doing is making work into a game. Employees will spend all day gaming the system instead of actually working.
If your managers don't know what their employees are doing when they're at work, you've got poor management. There is no technological solution for poor management.
Yeah IBM at one time paid developers by the number of lines of code they wrote. This was right before they started taking huge losses. They don't do that anymore.
The problem is management's production IS measured by the number of spreadsheets, word documents, and power point presentations they produce. And so they think that more code == better product.
Well it would probably be better to combine it with the squid proxy cache or a similar system. What would happen is if a large number of people were accessing the same page, that page is cached as a static page so it takes the load off the database. This is how wikipedia does it.
Squid takes the load off the database, torrent takes the load off the bandwidth. combine the two systems and you get websites that are pretty much immune to the slashdot effect.
I think the only reasonably successful "new" religion that has arisen in recent times is the Latter Day Saints, and even that was over 150 years ago and it's only a variation of Christianity.
You're forgetting the best religion ever: Rastafarianism. Jah is very disappointed in you.
A hamburger isn't a PS3, dude. And you're arguing the meat is worth less than the price you pay for it, so how can that be predatory pricing? Cost of Hamburger > Price I pay = Not Predatory. Cost of PS3
Ok you used a poor example. Sometimes it may be difficult to tell the cost of an item. But this isn't one of those times.
Well it means a new company would have to make their console $100 cheaper and have it just as good as Sony and MS's products. Now there is always barriers to entry that naturally occur in industries like this (R&D costs, economies of scale that small companies can't get right away) then you add the need to be at least 25% more efficient than your already established competitors... well that's a little much.
Yeah, in the past, when the computer industry was new, there were less barriers to entry and therefore more opportunity. That's over now, true capitalism is dead now.
Also, the guy who waited a year when the 3rd Generation comes out will also wait a year after the 4th generation comes out. So he will be using the console for 4 years too (and will probably get the games cheaper on the 4th year).
The question is whether Firefox can remain competitive without that backing.
I'm sure companies that make all their money off the web *cough* google *cough* will invest in improving firefox. Even if most people still use IE, improvements in firefox eventually make their way into IE. The cathedral can't ignore the bazaar.
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Then you got people throwing out perfectly good systems because they don;t know how to use them. Some people really do have more money than brains.
So are you saying that a woman has to automatically accept everything that a man says?
Tolkien went back and changed the hobbit because it wouldn't fit with Lord of the Rings if he didn't. Writers aren't perfect, and what they put down on paper isn't sacred.
I remember in Don Quixote, his horse gets stolen, then in the next chapter he has the horse again then a few paragraphs later he's complaining about having to walk because a thief stole his horse. How the hell do you explain that, other than just by saying "Cervantes fucked up"?
Yeah exactly how I felt. Next on slashdot: "Hey I found this really funny joke! The punchline is: 'This wheel is driving me nuts!' Now click here for the set up...."
fucking racist!
Anyway, it seems like you're protesting people having a good laugh at the expense of a campy movie. Isn't the whole point of making a campy movie is to make people laugh? I know I laughed when Leia says she knows the Imperials are being tracked. And then I saw this cartoon and I laughed even more (though it was too bad that they posted Han's line here, kinda spoiled the punchline).
And "what could explain that?" Well, a rushed and overworked scriptwriter made a mistake. Should have cut the part about the Millenium Falcon being tracked and just had a scene when they arrived at Yavin with someone saying "You've arrived just in time! Bothans have informed us that the Imperials know of the location of our base here and they're on their way now!".
But it doesn't really matter, it was just a flaw. All movies have them and some of us have accepted this and are able to laugh at them while still enoying the movie. Seems to me that you can't accept that the movie isn't perfect.
Have a laugh at it and don't be so sensitive. It's not like SW is a mentally challenged child that you have to leap to the defense of. George Lucas, on the other hand...
Or, yeah, she might have been talking about her stepmother.
Star Wars basically combines the general plot of Dune (desert planet, twin brother and sister, prescience), the swashbuckling action of Buck Rogers (Han Solo, X-Wing fighters, blasters), with a little bit of the samurai films thrown in (Swordsmen losing power to armies with guns).
And I also find it hard to believe that you never once saw that scene where princess leia says "They're tracking us that's the only explanation for the ease of our escape" and wonder why she wouldn't arrange a rendevous with a rebel ship to transfer R2D2 to. But the whole idea of the death star is pretty silly when you think about it. I realised that a long time ago, but I still enjoy the movie because its entertaining. And I'm sure the people who made that clip are fans of starwars too.
It's a movie dude, not a religion. You can make fun of it and still like it.
Yeah the movie was pretty ridiculous at the time, but I don't think so anymore. Watch Starship Troopers the movie and then watch CNN or Fox News immediately afterwards. As ridiculous as that movie was, news media today is even more ridiculous.
http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1343
Yeah but this prana isn't produced by the sand worms, its grown by the dirty Tleilaxu. It's still important that we find Arrakis since its not prudent to depend on the Tleilaxu too much.
From what I've heard, IBM is extremely pissed about this and they ARE going for blood. It's one thing to sue IBM, but send letters to IBM's customers telling them to pay you $699? You aren't going to get off so easy.
don't mean to nitpick, but his mother wasn't cloned, the aliens (which were robots themselves) built a robot that looked and acted like his mother so that his programme could finish.
Yeah, but when lawyers do it, its called barratry.
Yeah but he's made a really big enemy. You don't think IBM has enough influence to get him investigated?
Would you like to know more?
No work ethic? why should someone work hard for a company that's going to fire you as soon as the project is done? And now that the company is going to be spying on you, you're going to work harder? People will be loyal to a company if and only if the company is loyal to them. You set up a points system to measure production, all you're doing is making work into a game. Employees will spend all day gaming the system instead of actually working.
If your managers don't know what their employees are doing when they're at work, you've got poor management. There is no technological solution for poor management.
The problem is management's production IS measured by the number of spreadsheets, word documents, and power point presentations they produce. And so they think that more code == better product.
Squid takes the load off the database, torrent takes the load off the bandwidth. combine the two systems and you get websites that are pretty much immune to the slashdot effect.
You're forgetting the best religion ever: Rastafarianism. Jah is very disappointed in you.
A hamburger isn't a PS3, dude. And you're arguing the meat is worth less than the price you pay for it, so how can that be predatory pricing? Cost of Hamburger > Price I pay = Not Predatory. Cost of PS3 Ok you used a poor example. Sometimes it may be difficult to tell the cost of an item. But this isn't one of those times.
Yeah, in the past, when the computer industry was new, there were less barriers to entry and therefore more opportunity. That's over now, true capitalism is dead now.
Also, the guy who waited a year when the 3rd Generation comes out will also wait a year after the 4th generation comes out. So he will be using the console for 4 years too (and will probably get the games cheaper on the 4th year).
I'm sure companies that make all their money off the web *cough* google *cough* will invest in improving firefox. Even if most people still use IE, improvements in firefox eventually make their way into IE. The cathedral can't ignore the bazaar.