Pioneered my ass. It plainly said in the Netscape executable that the report-bugs-back-to-netscape technology was licensed from some other company. (This is to say nothing of the shitload of licensed technology in Netscape)
Welcome to the real world, where software engineering decisions involve deciding whether buying technology is a more soft effective idea than producing technology.
Wrong. While on company time you don't own your thoughts and you especially don't own what you write. If you create the world's most effective widget in your cubicle while you should be working on something else, guess what? Your employer owns the widget. Or at least that's the standard contract..
I work for a very large computer company and I know for a fact they don't block ssh. I think that if you go to the big computer companies they know their employees are very adept at these things. I could tunnel SSH through DNS if I needed to -- so why even bother getting in my way.
Also, I don't know how the we're-too-cool-for-IM crowd is doing things but in MY software team our internal IM client is very essential for development collaboration. Unless you live in your own little world never speaking to anyone it's a very major tool for tracking people down to ask questions/fix bugs/etc.
So I'm seeing a lot of "but anything is potentially addictive" posts. That's besides the point. If you are playing Everquest, you suck. You are almost certainly addicted. No, really. We're not joking here. You suck. Stop it. Give yourself a slap on the face, shower, and go outside.
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Clean out your slashdot account, you're fired.
Come on, not all MS products are shit. The production X-Box doesn't crash; or if it does it happens so rarely that the people who love to jump on MS whenever anything remotely bad happens to them would have been screaming about this like crazy.
You don't have to love them or their policies but you can't just make up facts because it's easier than thinking.
And I suppose you've come up with just such a set of problems and a methodology to judge them? Didn't think so.
Your complaint is common but poorly thought out one. Yes, in some magical theory land where CS professors frolic in a field of daises maybe this would work out great. Software elegance in a timed environment is a dumbass idea. The high pressure environment is completely at odds with slow,deliberate,well thought out designs. If you're timed the most appropriate situation is "get it to work at all costs".
Most often the people who raise this complaint are people who were kicked off a programming team or never qualified in the first place.
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Since most people reply to critique or disagree I just thought I'd throw in a hell yeah the US Military kicks ass
Viewsonic's got a 23.1" lcd for $3358 on pricewatch. Of course since it doesn't have apple's proprietary USB+DVI+Power plugs you also save $150 on not having to buy a converter to use with your PC.
Note: You can get the Apple 23" for $3,289 if you're a student.
You know those stupid "would you like to give $5 to the so-and-so party?" lines at the bottom of the 1040? Well, why not have a "would you like to give $5 to the send-a-man-to-mars fund?" I'll pretty much die before I give a dollar to a politician so he can put my name on a "sucker to call when I need more money" telemarketing list but I'll gladly give money to a cause that means something on a historical scale like this.
"monopolistic forms of terrorism"? What the fuck is that supposed to mean? What, did the "Windows freedom fighters" install XP on your machine while you were sleeping?
I'm not saying Microsoft is Mr Squeeky-clean or anything but your argument that they're "terrorists" flat out sucks.
Man, if you want to convince people, you don't go psycho. God, I can't stand those kind of friends. "What?! You're running Windows XP?! Let me lecture you for 15 minutes on why Microsoft is an evil, evil company and no product of theirs deserves to be judged on its merits but in my skewed biased way". Fuck off, I've got a life to live.
Seriously, people who go off into rants to their friends all the time are accomplishing nothing but making themselves look like losers. If anything, acting like that makes me want to disagree with you just so I don't have to be grouped with you in the slightest way. Antics like that are the stereotype of the slashdot crowd and make me very embarassed to admit I still read this site.
To summarize: don't buy the game if you don't want to. Tell your friends why. But don't get all uppity if you value having them as friends over them agreeing with everything you say.
First, you don't have 5 years experience. Unless you started working 9-to-5 at age 14. Part-time at 14, which I doubt you did, doesn't count. Running a few linux machines at your high school or at your house doesn't count.
Second, do you actually care whether or not this is age descrimination? I wouldn't. If someone is looking to get rid of you, the real problem is that someone is looking to get rid of you. You either resolve that or you get ready to get kicked out of the company. Get ready for the inevitable -- you are on the way out.
How about you take the obvious not-so-attractive-short-term choice: quit the company, get some student loans, and go back to college. (I'm assuming you either dropped out or never went)
To me, it comes down to that simple question. I'm a once-linux-diehard who has come to realize that I have a lot more time for my life if I stop compiling utilities all day in linux and start just using IE and Outlook Express in Windows XP like Microsoft tells me to. I admit it, I've gone to the dark side:) And, so sue me, I feel really good about it.
Now, that being the case, I'm not about to give up the powers of perl, bash, wget, make, etc. And don't forget vi! I use these things about twice a week in Windows via cygwin. It's a major timesaver. And that's what computing is SUPPOSED to be about for the average joe..saving time so we can get back to our lives.
I say let's give people the opportunity to decide what for them is the the best way to do their work. I'm all about choice. I choose to use Windows and I choose to use cygwin just as freely as I could choose to use Linux and run win32 apps in WINE. Don't deny me these choices.
This is incorrect. I have a dreamcast that is brand new and it reads CDRs just fine. In fact, what the incorrect anonymous poster is referring to is about a year ago they all of a sudden changed something and all the self-booting CDRs needed to be changed to work with the new bios or whatever in the dreamcast. It was long ago resolved so there's no point in mentioning it anymore.
I think it's sort of a given in management at both companies that both are sinking ships..there's no reason for either to take on more weight. I haven't heard of either being even in the same continent as profitability and I doubt either's burn rate will get them there before a folding or acquisition. If anything, Ximian needs to get by on fewer employees, not more. A growth spurt will just put them in Eazel's position.
Sean: Well, I got bullied and it was really humiliating. I'm thinking about threatening violence tomorrow.
Dad: That's nice. Now go back upstairs and play everquest!
Something tells me the dad had a rude awakening that life wasn't jim-dandy for his son when all of this happened. Kids stick to vague comments like 'school sucked today' and 'just some guys at school being annoying' or something. Any parent who isn't looking won't see that his son is getting shit on with impunity.
I get a really bad vibe from Ximian sometimes. It's kind of a "we know what's good for you" vibe that feels exactly like what they portray as the vibe from Microsoft. Why do we have to wait to see what they've decided GNOME will look like while they complete it?
Why all the internal secret pulling together of software? How is that a free software community? It seems to me that their heart is in the closed-source business but something in their brains is switched to GPL-everything-no-matter-what mode. Make up your minds!
If you are easily amused I strongly suggest you waste your time at http://news.getschooled.com/
Seriously, we should thank for putting some pieces together with HTTP and HTML. It was the right idea at the right time. But it sure doesn't mean everything he thinks of is going to be just as successful.
I'm not happy with how much everything he seems to put his hands on is assumed to be the next big thing(tm). It's sort of like how the people who used to run Netscape (the original F*cked Company) seem to think they can turn any idea they come up with into a similarly 'successful' corporation.
Rob's torn between a bad interface and his neverending bias for Linux? I don't see much here to debate. If it's not as slick as the palm or WinCE or whatever, well, end of story. It's not as easy to use.
If I put a linux sticker on a block of wood, would you buy it?
So what you're saying is that since xbox won't compete in making boards for arcades, which we can assume from this article are on the way out, that they're fucked in Japan, which is not even close to the amount of revenue that the US and England create for video game companies?
Who cares?! Let the japanese be bigots. Microsoft will still make boatloads of money in the real cash cow market.
Iomega has a $50 rebate going on right now. Outpost.com has the Hipzip for a (pretty darn low price) $259. With Ogg Vorbis support coming soon and full official linux support right now, it's a pretty brainless purchase as far as I'm concerned.
BTW, $209 might sound like a lot, but the media for the HipZip is CHEAP. A 40 meg disk for it is $8; a 32 meg card for a Rio is like $80.
Why doesn't anyone EVER mention vmware when referring to methods of circumventing this technology? It seems pretty darn intuitive to me that once the data steam leaves vmware linux can have its way with it. There are plenty of loopback capture methods for linux.
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"Gets away with it"? Come on. Someone made a mistake in their team. Yell at MS and the next version will fix it. It happens.
I doubt there's a sinister plot in MS to mess up
people's emails. They've got to use these products too, you know.
Pioneered my ass. It plainly said in the Netscape executable that the report-bugs-back-to-netscape technology was licensed from some other company. (This is to say nothing of the shitload of licensed technology in Netscape)
Welcome to the real world, where software engineering decisions involve deciding whether buying technology is a more soft effective idea than producing technology.
Wrong. While on company time you don't own your thoughts and you especially don't own what you write. If you create the world's most effective widget in your cubicle while you should be working on something else, guess what? Your employer owns the widget. Or at least that's the standard contract..
I work for a very large computer company and I know for a fact they don't block ssh. I think that if you go to the big computer companies they know their employees are very adept at these things. I could tunnel SSH through DNS if I needed to -- so why even bother getting in my way.
Also, I don't know how the we're-too-cool-for-IM crowd is doing things but in MY software team our internal IM client is very essential for development collaboration. Unless you live in your own little world never speaking to anyone it's a very major tool for tracking people down to ask questions/fix bugs/etc.
So I'm seeing a lot of "but anything is potentially addictive" posts. That's besides the point. If you are playing Everquest, you suck. You are almost certainly addicted. No, really. We're not joking here. You suck. Stop it. Give yourself a slap on the face, shower, and go outside.
Clean out your slashdot account, you're fired.
Come on, not all MS products are shit. The production X-Box doesn't crash; or if it does it happens so rarely that the people who love to jump on MS whenever anything remotely bad happens to them would have been screaming about this like crazy.
You don't have to love them or their policies but you can't just make up facts because it's easier than thinking.
And I suppose you've come up with just such a set of problems and a methodology to judge them? Didn't think so.
Your complaint is common but poorly thought out one. Yes, in some magical theory land where CS professors frolic in a field of daises maybe this would work out great. Software elegance in a timed environment is a dumbass idea. The high pressure environment is completely at odds with slow,deliberate,well thought out designs. If you're timed the most appropriate situation is "get it to work at all costs".
Most often the people who raise this complaint are people who were kicked off a programming team or never qualified in the first place.
Since most people reply to critique or disagree I just thought I'd throw in a hell yeah the US Military kicks ass
Viewsonic's got a 23.1" lcd for $3358 on pricewatch. Of course since it doesn't have apple's proprietary USB+DVI+Power plugs you also
save $150 on not having to buy a converter to use
with your PC.
Note: You can get the Apple 23" for $3,289 if you're a student.
You know those stupid "would you like to give $5 to the so-and-so party?" lines at the bottom of the 1040? Well, why not have a "would you like to give $5 to the send-a-man-to-mars fund?" I'll pretty much die before I give a dollar to a politician so he can put my name on a "sucker to call when I need more money" telemarketing list but I'll gladly give money to a cause that means something on a historical scale like this.
"monopolistic forms of terrorism"? What the fuck is that supposed to mean? What, did the "Windows freedom fighters" install XP on your machine while you were sleeping?
I'm not saying Microsoft is Mr Squeeky-clean or anything but your argument that they're "terrorists" flat out sucks.
Man, if you want to convince people, you don't go psycho. God, I can't stand those kind of friends. "What?! You're running Windows XP?! Let me lecture you for 15 minutes on why Microsoft is an evil, evil company and no product of theirs deserves to be judged on its merits but in my skewed biased way". Fuck off, I've got a life to live.
Seriously, people who go off into rants to their friends all the time are accomplishing nothing but making themselves look like losers. If anything, acting like that makes me want to disagree with you just so I don't have to be grouped with you in the slightest way. Antics like that are the stereotype of the slashdot crowd and make me very embarassed to admit I still read this site.
To summarize: don't buy the game if you don't want to. Tell your friends why. But don't get all uppity if you value having them as friends over them agreeing with everything you say.
First, you don't have 5 years experience. Unless you started working 9-to-5 at age 14. Part-time at 14, which I doubt you did, doesn't count. Running a few linux machines at your high school or at your house doesn't count.
Second, do you actually care whether or not this is age descrimination? I wouldn't. If someone is looking to get rid of you, the real problem is that someone is looking to get rid of you. You either resolve that or you get ready to get kicked out of the company. Get ready for the inevitable -- you are on the way out.
How about you take the obvious not-so-attractive-short-term choice: quit the company, get some student loans, and go back to college. (I'm assuming you either dropped out or never went)
To me, it comes down to that simple question. I'm a once-linux-diehard who has come to realize that I have a lot more time for my life if I stop compiling utilities all day in linux and start just using IE and Outlook Express in Windows XP like Microsoft tells me to. I admit it, I've gone to the dark side :) And, so sue me, I feel really good about it.
Now, that being the case, I'm not about to give up the powers of perl, bash, wget, make, etc. And don't forget vi! I use these things about twice a week in Windows via cygwin. It's a major timesaver. And that's what computing is SUPPOSED to be about for the average joe..saving time so we can get back to our lives.
I say let's give people the opportunity to decide what for them is the the best way to do their work. I'm all about choice. I choose to use Windows and I choose to use cygwin just as freely as I could choose to use Linux and run win32 apps in WINE. Don't deny me these choices.
This is incorrect. I have a dreamcast that is brand new and it reads CDRs just fine. In fact, what the incorrect anonymous poster is referring to is about a year ago they all of a sudden changed something and all the self-booting CDRs needed to be changed to work with the new bios or whatever in the dreamcast. It was long ago resolved so there's no point in mentioning it anymore.
You're right! We can't have this!
Quick -- we need a solution!
Guaranteed to have nothing but mindless drivel, old-school slashdot styleee: http://news.getschooled.com/
(Complete with total editorial bias)
I think it's sort of a given in management at both companies that both are sinking ships..there's no reason for either to take on more weight. I haven't heard of either being even in the same continent as profitability and I doubt either's burn rate will get them there before a folding or acquisition. If anything, Ximian needs to get by on fewer employees, not more. A growth spurt will just put them in Eazel's position.
As always, if you're looking for mindless URL fun I suggest http://news.getschooled.com/
Come on. I doubt a typical day went like:
Dad: So Sean, how was your day at school?
Sean: Well, I got bullied and it was really humiliating. I'm thinking about threatening violence tomorrow.
Dad: That's nice. Now go back upstairs and play everquest!
Something tells me the dad had a rude awakening that life wasn't jim-dandy for his son when all of this happened. Kids stick to vague comments like 'school sucked today' and 'just some guys at school being annoying' or something. Any parent who isn't looking won't see that his son is getting shit on with impunity.
As always, if you need to waste your time, I suggest http://news.getschooled.com/.
I get a really bad vibe from Ximian sometimes. It's kind of a "we know what's good for you" vibe that feels exactly like what they portray as the vibe from Microsoft. Why do we have to wait to see what they've decided GNOME will look like while they complete it?
Why all the internal secret pulling together of software? How is that a free software community? It seems to me that their heart is in the closed-source business but something in their brains is switched to GPL-everything-no-matter-what mode. Make up your minds!
If you are easily amused I strongly suggest you waste your time at http://news.getschooled.com/
bmetz's law: The amount of people declaring Moore's law dead will double every 18 months.
Of course we all know that it has to end sometime but I'm willing to bet it will hold true for the duration of my lifetime (50-70 years).
Of course if you are easily amused I suggest you read news for the easily amused
Seriously, we should thank for putting some pieces together with HTTP and HTML. It was the right idea at the right time. But it sure doesn't mean everything he thinks of is going to be just as successful.
I'm not happy with how much everything he seems to put his hands on is assumed to be the next big thing(tm). It's sort of like how the people who used to run Netscape (the original F*cked Company) seem to think they can turn any idea they come up with into a similarly 'successful' corporation.
http://news.getschooled.com/ is for the easily amused
Rob's torn between a bad interface and his neverending bias for Linux? I don't see much here to debate. If it's not as slick as the palm or WinCE or whatever, well, end of story. It's not as easy to use.
If I put a linux sticker on a block of wood, would you buy it?
So what you're saying is that since xbox won't compete in making boards for arcades, which we can assume from this article are on the way out, that they're fucked in Japan, which is not even close to the amount of revenue that the US and England create for video game companies?
Who cares?! Let the japanese be bigots. Microsoft will still make boatloads of money in the real cash cow market.
Iomega has a $50 rebate going on right now. Outpost.com has the Hipzip for a (pretty darn low price) $259. With Ogg Vorbis support coming soon and full official linux support right now, it's a pretty brainless purchase as far as I'm concerned.
BTW, $209 might sound like a lot, but the media for the HipZip is CHEAP. A 40 meg disk for it is $8; a 32 meg card for a Rio is like $80.
Why doesn't anyone EVER mention vmware when referring to methods of circumventing this technology? It seems pretty darn intuitive to me that once the data steam leaves vmware linux can have its way with it. There are plenty of loopback capture methods for linux.