Know what I'm tired of? I'm tired of developers taking criticism so damn personally and not seeing it for what it is when they really shouldn't. (not to sound harsh, but really enough of the silly "artiste" type rants). If you're getting a lot of heat and you can't take it, it's probably best to step back quietly.
I think one of the secrets of staying sane in Open Source is learning how to ignore people! Just ignore them, you're right, you have NO OBLIGATION TO THEM. You DON'T have to cater to everyone's silly little whim. Learn to use the D key when people are e-mailing you personally and not the support mailing lists and news groups like they should if they had 1/4 of a brain!
Man, if you can't ignore people you're in the wrong community. And if you're not writing the software for yourself... then what the hell are you doing?
Chris, thanks for all the hard work and all, but you'll hear no violins from me.
Not to bring up transmeta, but I would give up a lot of speed and power if I could get a device that lasted longer on the road. I wouldn't give up any storage space. The Palm's a great example, but even that only lasts 2 weeks tops on 2 AAA batteries. I'm talking like 2 months or longer.
Bluetooth enabled makes lots of sense. I'm glad to see digital imaging's finally hitting it's stride (that will help me in the long run). The web client and e-mail client make no sense though. Of all the things I'll be checking my hotmail account from, my Handycam is right at the bottom of the list. They could have saved themselves some development time by not putting that in there.
Although maybe the idea is that you can e-mail pictures and movies on the fly to people.
Microsoft is acting like a) their entire future is riding on this thing and b) it's the greatest thing since the condom.
People are going to find out pretty fast that it's a PC in dressup. Gimme a PS2 and some evil GTA3 action any day. I'll just go ahead and get a better video card for my existing PC...
Ok folks, here's the deal; It's not the fancy little GUI widgets that sell Windows solutions, it's the full color two page ads in "CXO Magazine", or some other publication. It's the paid fud, it's the sales calls, it's the brand name the CxO sees when they head out to Wal-Mart. It's the last 20 years of business computing history, NOT THE GADGETS.
The people that make the decisions to go Microsoft will almost never touch the systems they implement.
Tough cookies, but that's the real deal. Don't believe me? Go to a magazine store and pick up some financial glossies...
Reasonable enough I'd say. This seems to be working elsewhere. Anyway, look what happens when commercial entities get involved in government projects (read: the Internet). For good or bad, the Internet is everywhere now. I predict the same for space commerce. Space is pretty damn useful.
I seem to recall some Japanese researcher built an omni-directional type treadmill. I think you just basically walked on a surface of ball bearings.
Now THAT's cool. This is something, oddly enough, that I think is actually holding VR back in a lot of ways. How do we suspend disbelief if we're sitting in a chair? Our brain is telling us we should be having an adrenaline(sp?) fit because people are shooting at us, but our body's perfectly motionless, and isn't buying it...
How damn hard would it REALLY be to hook a cheap exercise bike to something like an optical mouse? I'd love to try it if I ever got the time. I always thought the only thing missing in 3D shooters was the stabbing lung and heart pain from running around at like 25MPH. I sorta miss it after playing sports in "real life".
that doesn't matter because they're going to break it all with XP. It's going to be the final straw I think.. give it a couple of years. While other operating systems mature and converge in an at least semi-standard way around practices that make sense (a gui but with the ability to really play with the guts) Microsoft insists on going in it's own management inspired direction.
And anyway Ballmer's a flake. Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers? I wonder how many people left that engagement converted from MS to, well, anything else!
Datacenters will be ripe for ghost stories in about 50 years... actually to speed up the process I've thought about installing an internal speaker into my co-lo that would scream at random intervals to freak out the DC staff....
AHAHAHAHHA!!!
He seems fairly unphased by his Star Trek hero/anti-hero status unlike previous Star Trek allumni, I think he has a good chance to do something other than conventions....
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Um yeah... Just for the people who copy and paste before reading through!
Developers should really, really work in a sandboxed enviorenment. I'm talking about a development network that is cut off from the rest of the internet. Development work is directly contrary to modern security philosophies. You have to make it work first for proof of concept, then figure out how to make it secure.
If the teachers don't have the means to teach the 7th graders won't have the means to learn. A laptop will get you pretty far, but not everybody just "learns" how to use a computer intuitively like many of us on this forum have.
In the last 10 years the focus of the country (the U.S. I mean) has changed to the point where his style and policies were REQUIRED for NASA to survive and progress. I personally praise him.
Hey, if you CAN'T EVEN PLAY THEM, they're totally proofed from copy. I think they should just start selling blank CDs with covers, then when you want the actual music you can download it off your HD where you probably already have it and burn it on to the blank CD you just purchased.
The RIAA will never change, ever. Remember when tapes first got easy to record on?
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I think one of the secrets of staying sane in Open Source is learning how to ignore people! Just ignore them, you're right, you have NO OBLIGATION TO THEM. You DON'T have to cater to everyone's silly little whim. Learn to use the D key when people are e-mailing you personally and not the support mailing lists and news groups like they should if they had 1/4 of a brain!
Man, if you can't ignore people you're in the wrong community. And if you're not writing the software for yourself... then what the hell are you doing?
Chris, thanks for all the hard work and all, but you'll hear no violins from me.
I'd like to see this come about.
Although maybe the idea is that you can e-mail pictures and movies on the fly to people.
Hmm, I have to stop thinking while I'm typing.
People are going to find out pretty fast that it's a PC in dressup. Gimme a PS2 and some evil GTA3 action any day. I'll just go ahead and get a better video card for my existing PC...
The people that make the decisions to go Microsoft will almost never touch the systems they implement.
Tough cookies, but that's the real deal. Don't believe me? Go to a magazine store and pick up some financial glossies...
I like to hold the misguided belief that NASA would be able to do pur science in paralell with commercial ventures... But probably not ;)
Reasonable enough I'd say. This seems to be working elsewhere. Anyway, look what happens when commercial entities get involved in government projects (read: the Internet). For good or bad, the Internet is everywhere now. I predict the same for space commerce. Space is pretty damn useful.
Now THAT's cool. This is something, oddly enough, that I think is actually holding VR back in a lot of ways. How do we suspend disbelief if we're sitting in a chair? Our brain is telling us we should be having an adrenaline(sp?) fit because people are shooting at us, but our body's perfectly motionless, and isn't buying it...
How damn hard would it REALLY be to hook a cheap exercise bike to something like an optical mouse? I'd love to try it if I ever got the time. I always thought the only thing missing in 3D shooters was the stabbing lung and heart pain from running around at like 25MPH. I sorta miss it after playing sports in "real life".
To state the obvious. I was really looking forward to a tiny, low power computing revolution.
And anyway Ballmer's a flake. Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers? I wonder how many people left that engagement converted from MS to, well, anything else!
Datacenters will be ripe for ghost stories in about 50 years... actually to speed up the process I've thought about installing an internal speaker into my co-lo that would scream at random intervals to freak out the DC staff....
AHAHAHAHHA!!!
Has anyone tried anything with foam or foam cones for excessive noise dampering? I can see that hindering airflow but not if done creatively.
Hi John, did the "antics" revolving around the DeCSS software name help or hurt your fight?
He seems fairly unphased by his Star Trek hero/anti-hero status unlike previous Star Trek allumni, I think he has a good chance to do something other than conventions....
Um yeah... Just for the people who copy and paste before reading through!
Although it's still too expensive as well. My portable MP3 player right now consists of a 10 year old walkman with a tape deck.
I think so. More patent officials means more patent rejections.
I'm starved for good sci-fi....
And I thought this was going to be a "more on" thread. I think the Open Monopoly needs more time in the light of day anyhow.
The ability to edit settings while NOT in an operating system... probably asking too much.
Developers should really, really work in a sandboxed enviorenment. I'm talking about a development network that is cut off from the rest of the internet. Development work is directly contrary to modern security philosophies. You have to make it work first for proof of concept, then figure out how to make it secure.
If the teachers don't have the means to teach the 7th graders won't have the means to learn. A laptop will get you pretty far, but not everybody just "learns" how to use a computer intuitively like many of us on this forum have.
In the last 10 years the focus of the country (the U.S. I mean) has changed to the point where his style and policies were REQUIRED for NASA to survive and progress. I personally praise him.
The RIAA will never change, ever. Remember when tapes first got easy to record on?