XP has been shipped on a lot of homecomputers for quite some time now.
Linux support is definitely not expiremental it has been stable for ages! For crying out loud there are quad-boxes that've run Linux for ages!
All the companies I've worked with for the last 5-7 years have used NT4 and W2K on their desktops, with quite a few SMP setups...
Looking at Apple, they've gone outright for the SMP setups and a hefty percentage of their products now only ship SMP (look at the new G4 range).
No "GFX-house" would buy a single CPU Mac today, it's outright stupid!
If you're rendering videos a single-cpu setup would render your computer almost useless when rendering, while a dual would allow you to continue working on somethingelse while waiting... With the pricedifference so small, what do you think people choose?
But then again the gravity pull from the sun is MUCH weaker than the pull of the earth on objects on earth so I'd guess that the variations on earth would be easier to detect than those in space...
And the price of launching something into space would probably be so huge that it would be smart to test the setup on earth before launching it anyway;-)
How rubberhead do you want the OS to be ?
I guess the same amount of ppl would be up in arms if the next update of OSX didn't allow them to move system files...
Money comming in and money going out is two different things...
The bean-counters that count incomming beans has only learned how to do addition, while the once that do the salaries has learnt multiplication...
Who said it didn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world?
The statement is true and is perhaps a slight exaggeration, but nevertheless it's true...
In this capitalistic world with such tight margins as amazon & priceline operate within every sale counts. Especially on the web where the next store which has virtually the same prices and conditions is only a few clicks away, being online is essential to staying alive!
We've all worked for customers that believe it's the end of the world and reach for their lawyer-hotline as soon as a little snag is discovered in their o-so-great web-applic, but in the end many of these are also the ones to succede...
How many nubies do you think key in uk.co instead of co.uk...
Having amazon.uk.co and amazon.co.uk saves some grandmother with slight dementia from seeing hardcore russian schoolgirls instead of being able to look at book-reviews written by some phoney posing as Prince Charles (different story altogether google for it;-)
If the gameplay is good enough, gfx. can't break it!
Just look at all the commandline games still being played, for or all the good old x11-games..
I played xgammon just a couple of days ago!
But I kindof go along with your argument that for most games new games gfx usually breaks rather than improves upon whats there...
Then again if you can get ppl playing your game even with generic tiles it must be something worth playing!
Gfx is pushing out gameplay as a quality of todays games...
Widely used blacklists block people just based on circumstantial evidence, but if you find one and submit enough people to it... sooner or later it's going to be trouble for somebody;-) People rely too much on email to be a safe delivery-service...
Telemarketers are way better than getting spam, with telemarketers at least you get somebody to scream at that you're 100% guaranteed that somebody'll hear you...
Posting your last spam-complaint to slashdot only gives you a microscopic chance of the actual culprit reading the post...
No point in sending out spam, just submit them to a couple of blacklists that do poor checks and hope and way for it to propagate and create trouble;-)
Catchall-accounts is turning into a nightmare!
Just got hit by a moron who sent out spam with one of my customers domains as reply-to... and this poor little creature had set his catch-all-account to his primary email account...
I guess reading ~1020 mails (still counting) is a waste of time...
I guess you've never setup a geographically dispersed serverfarm...
It's usually smart to set up som filtering on incomming traffic, but there are reasons to keep external ports open...
I'd rather shoot the sysadmins who doesn't keep up with vendor-patches...
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Linux support is definitely not expiremental it has been stable for ages! For crying out loud there are quad-boxes that've run Linux for ages!
All the companies I've worked with for the last 5-7 years have used NT4 and W2K on their desktops, with quite a few SMP setups...
Looking at Apple, they've gone outright for the SMP setups and a hefty percentage of their products now only ship SMP (look at the new G4 range).
No "GFX-house" would buy a single CPU Mac today, it's outright stupid!
If you're rendering videos a single-cpu setup would render your computer almost useless when rendering, while a dual would allow you to continue working on somethingelse while waiting...
With the pricedifference so small, what do you think people choose?
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Linux
FreeBSD
NetBSD
and the list goes on... and these are definately consumer OSes...
And the price of launching something into space would probably be so huge that it would be smart to test the setup on earth before launching it anyway ;-)
Suddenly the creepy feeling I get when watching HAL take over in 2001 space odysees filled me....
Google == HAL ?
gvim exists for windows, and it's a native version... Works like charm no trouble to get it workin' either!
I guess this explains why 'the art of deception' sold 2.2M copies so fast...
What's wrong with good ole' (g)vim?
So now it's proven, Slashdot is the cause of all problems!
I guess the same amount of ppl would be up in arms if the next update of OSX didn't allow them to move system files...
Draw the line somewhere... pluuheease!
The bean-counters that count incomming beans has only learned how to do addition, while the once that do the salaries has learnt multiplication...
Who said it didn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world?
In this capitalistic world with such tight margins as amazon & priceline operate within every sale counts. Especially on the web where the next store which has virtually the same prices and conditions is only a few clicks away, being online is essential to staying alive!
We've all worked for customers that believe it's the end of the world and reach for their lawyer-hotline as soon as a little snag is discovered in their o-so-great web-applic, but in the end many of these are also the ones to succede...
Id guess that f.uk.co can gross some money ;-)
How many nubies do you think key in uk.co instead of co.uk... ;-)
Having amazon.uk.co and amazon.co.uk saves some grandmother with slight dementia from seeing hardcore russian schoolgirls instead of being able to look at book-reviews written by some phoney posing as Prince Charles (different story altogether google for it
Just look at all the commandline games still being played, for or all the good old x11-games..
I played xgammon just a couple of days ago!
But I kindof go along with your argument that for most games new games gfx usually breaks rather than improves upon whats there...
even more amazing
Then again if you can get ppl playing your game even with generic tiles it must be something worth playing!
Gfx is pushing out gameplay as a quality of todays games...
GlobalScape CuteFtp Pro 2.0 (payware) supports sftp just as good as ftp...
Widely used blacklists block people just based on circumstantial evidence, but if you find one and submit enough people to it... ;-)
sooner or later it's going to be trouble for somebody
People rely too much on email to be a safe delivery-service...
Telemarketers are way better than getting spam,
with telemarketers at least you get somebody to scream at that you're 100% guaranteed that somebody'll hear you...
Posting your last spam-complaint to slashdot only gives you a microscopic chance of the actual culprit reading the post...
No point in sending out spam, just submit them to a couple of blacklists that do poor checks and hope and way for it to propagate and create trouble ;-)
comes from a domain that doesn't resolve
comes from a domain that looks bogus
comes from a username that looks bogus
Hence if I don't know the guy that runs example.org, why not use his domain as reply-to.... (check that it falls through most spamchecks first ;-)
Just got hit by a moron who sent out spam with one of my customers domains as reply-to... and this poor little creature had set his catch-all-account to his primary email account...
I guess reading ~1020 mails (still counting) is a waste of time...
Then I guess your managers should read up on TCO - total cost of ownership...
Following the logic of the new IP laws the guy would still be alive.
Goes to show how much brainpower that goes into creating them...
It's usually smart to set up som filtering on incomming traffic, but there are reasons to keep external ports open...
I'd rather shoot the sysadmins who doesn't keep up with vendor-patches...